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Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-12-19
CONFERS WITH GERARD.

lEerlin, via London, Dec. 19.-Dd'
Won BethmanlHollweg, German impe'
rial chancellor today sent for Mr.
Gerard, the ambassador, and the two
held a conference concerning German
American relations. No statement
was obtainable, but the Ancona al
fair and the threatened reflection on
German-Amer erican relations which it
has been learned here is a matter o.
concern to high German authorities,
may possibly have furnished the oc-
casion for the conference. 1t was
learned only today that the text OF
the Ancona note, published here, on
which Austria!Hungarian newspapers
based their comment, is incomplete
regarding the status of the ship, this
having been omitted in transmission
and never reached Berlin. This error
in transmission not only accounts for
the tone of the German press COM
ments, but bears out Baron Buran's
contention Of the impropriety of bas-
ing a diplomatic policy on newspaper
comment.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-12-19

terror Of the state, contributing its
wealth of opportunity in education to
make this better state to live in.
The college is now fully standardized,
having been. placed in nsClass A. Of
accredited colleges.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-12-19
VAlIIE REcElVED

VALUE RECEIVED.
Do you always get value received
for your money? Perhaps not. We
would like to explain our plan to you
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-12-19
Princess Jue Quon Tai.

Princess Jue Quon Tai.
Princess Jue Quon Tai fled to-
America when her rich father tried
to make her marry a man she did
not love. She is now in New York,
aud is travelling without a chaper-,
one. She thinks the United States
q wonderland.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-12-19

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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-06-11
THE CALL
By ERNEST II. LIEBEL

By ERNEST II. LIEBEL
ITO arms! To arms!" the crowned
heads cry,
Your country needs you-do and
die"
What? Face the cannon? No not l.,
That's for the lowly, not the high,
l am the King!"
ITO aims! To alms," the merchants
cry,
Come feed the people lest they
die"
What? Stop the exports? Wheat
and rye,
And lose my profits? No; not |.
My gain is King!"
ITO arms! To arms" the workers
cry,
We'll take the country ere we die,
Cursed be your aims, while you deny,
The right to work for such as I,
For Man is King!"
Labor Clarion.
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week and it takes one of these women
twenty years to reach maximum of
$500.
The figures given by Howard B.
Woolston, director of the investiga-
ton, disclosed that out of a total of
104, 900 wage-earners investigated
one-eighth receive less than $500 a
week, one-third less than $500, two
thirds $1,000 or less, and only one
sixth $500 or more. These figures
were secured from the payrolls of $50
stores and factories throughout the
state.
Average earnings in these lines are
because of slack work and disability.
His testimony on this point was later
amplified by that of Irene Osgood
Andrews, of the American Association
for Labor Legislation, who declared
that out of 1908 women rateworkers
in the better candy factories of New
York City SO per cent had weekly
earnings averaging for a year less
than their given wage. In regard to
department stores, Mrs. Andrews
quoted one New York City establish
ment with an average payroll of $3.50
employees which added during the
year 1879 people and dropped TO-
1882.
OF 1900 women employees inter
viewed regarding residence, 65 per
cent were with their families, 10 per
cent with friends or relatives and only
is per cent were living Independently.
or 313 women living at home. "A per
cent turned all their wages into the
family stocking. Twenty-one per cent
paid board" OF from $500 to $500,
and only per cent could spend as
they chose. r,yqesN
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TACTICS FOR MILITANTS

Whenever a strike of any conse-
quence is in progress, the prostitute
press tells the public in big headlines
of how much the strikers are losing
in wages. Some workers really swal-
low this bunk and believe that they
lose money on strike. 1t is not so.
The workers have never lost a
strike and never will lose one. The
working class as a class have moth
ing to lose but their slavery. Every
strike against the boss is of benefit
to the working class; sometimes
more, sometimes less, all of which de-
ponds entirely upon the kind of tao
tics used. For instance, it would be
foolish for the ice wagon drivers to
strike in the winter, or for the coal
drivers to strike in the summer. The
proper time to strike is when the boss
needs you the worst; the less notice
you give the better for the strikers.
When a greedy boss or corporation
is put on the unfair list, don't be
satisfied with writing his name on a
piece of paper called the unfair list"
Use whatever tactics necessary to
force him to come to time, or go out
Of business. Different tactics can be
used in different trades and indus
tries; it is up to the militants to know
just what they want, and figure out
the tactics to be used. Then go to it.
In nearly every city there is an EN-
ployers' association, which exists only
for the purpose of fighting unionism.
While the employers thus exercise the
right to organize, they do not think
that the workers should have the same
right. 1t is therefore advisable for the
militant unionists to learn who are
the members of the Employers asso-
citation, and use the proper tactics to
put them out of business. 1t will do
them good.
In deciding what is right and what
is wrong, the only question that we
as workers should ask is: Are the
tactics we are going to use likely to
be successful?" The tactics that are
successful are the right tactics; the
tactics that do not benefit organized
labor are wrong. The workers are
being robbed of four-fifths of what
they produce every day that they
work. The only reason that the mast
er class are in position to keep on
robbing them is because they use any
tactics that are necessary to hold the
workers in mental and physical sub
lection. The workers might we'll pro-
fit by their masters example.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-06-11
COMPETITIVE SYSTEM SAPS
WOMANHOOD

There are about 100000 women
engaged in gainful occupations in the
United States" said Prof Edward A..
Ross, University of Wisconsin, in an
address before the Milwaukee Social
Economics club. This number is in
creasing much more rapidly than is
the general population. The reason
women in such great numbers are
coming into our shops is not because
they are impatient with the walls of
home, but because the factory has in
vaded the home and snatched out al
most every useful task that used to
be performed there.
ut is important to remember that
of this large number of women many
are young. About one-third of the
single women between Is and rs in
the country are engaged in occupa-
lions outside their homes; in the city
about so per cent, so that nearly half
of the single women in the country
| are at work.
During the time that they are out
earning money they are under condi-
tons not shaped by anybody who has
any interest in them. They go up
against the rivalry of employers for
profit They, who do not know what
protection is, must protect themselves.
"These women who are to become
wives and mothers in the future are
increasing in numbers at the same
time that the conditions under which
they work are becoming more taxing.
There is a certain natural pace one
can keep up. Force the pace and you
get WEAKNESS. Sewing machines that
in 1899 set 1920 stitches a minute
were in 1905 getting just twice that
number. Unless the working girl is
extraordinarily strong, working at a
rate dictated by machinery at high
speed, she is draining stamina and
vitality which should be saved to en-
able her TO meet successfully the
strains and burdens of wifehood and
motherhood.
Health and vitality are capital to
the laborer. Breaking them down is
waste; it is eating up capital What
ever human wreckage is created by
the excessive haste is not borne by
the industry that created it, but is
rolled onto the broad shoulders of So
ciety. The result is a progeny that
does not start in life with fair chance
Society can have the kind of woman
it wants. 1t can have race OF
strong women-but this cannot be
brought about by individual action
nor by appealing to the humanity OF
employers. Organized society ex
pressing itself in law is the only
remedy"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-06-11
CARRANZA FAIR TO LABOR
BY UNITED NEWS WRITER'S

NEW YORK, June 7-Representa-
tives of the Constitutionalist govern
ment in this city have just received
copies of a decree issued by First
Chief Carranza, in Vera Cruz, which
gives to the workers in the textile in
dustry in Mexico an increase of 35
and 40 per cent in wages. The decree
sets forth that whereas The consid-
cradle raise which articles of first
necessity have suffered in all the
cities of the republic. and especially in
industrial and manufacturing centers,
have correlatively raised the medium
cost of living of industrial and manu-
featuring workmen in such manner
that they cannot obtain in sufficient
quantities, with the days wages which
they are now awarded the articles
which they require to repair their
own forces and for the wants of their
families . and that several con-
tIdClOTS WHO nave EtCelNeu REQUESTS
from the workmen employed by them
for increase in wages have stated that
they would have no inconvenience in
granting same, within reasonable linn
its, if the measure was made extern
sive to all similar factories there
fore, have been pleased to decree the
following:
Article An increase of S5 per
cent in the daily wages paid out at the
present time to workers in the depart
ments and other dependencies of spin
ming mills and weaving factories of
cotton, wool. jute and agave fiber
which are now established in the re-
public, or which may hereafter be
established and an increase of 40 per
cent in the payments made in said
factories for needle work OF job work
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WAGES OF WOMEN
IN NEW YORK

Five thousand men and women in
four trades alone In New York state
are earning under $500 week;
Out of $4,000 women employees in
Industrial lines in New York City,
5000 received less than $3.50 week
during the busy season last year;
Fifty-three per cent of the women
In the large New York City depart.
ment stores earn less than $500 a
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What | must do is all that concerns
me, not what the people think-Em-
erson.
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WHAT WILL HAPPEN
IN COLORADO NOW?
(By United News Writers.)

10y united News Wr1terS.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., June q
Has the United States government.
through the commission on industrial
relations, officially given to the work
ers of Colorado the material with
which to fight back against Rockefel-
Ter on something like an even basis?
Those who watched through the
hearings here and noted the thorough
ness with which the Rockefeller ma
chinations in Colorado were laid bare
went away specializing about the
chances for indicting Rockefeller and
his Colorado officials on the same
basis that Lawson and almost a half
hundred other miners were indicted
on.
In these hearings the very last link
in the chain was laid bare. 1t was
shown, by Rockefeller's own cores.
pondence, that he was boss of the stu
alton every minute His letters to his
Colorado satellites said, whatever the
outcome, we are with you to the end
Meanwhile his Colorado officials
were writing to him boasting that the
big banks had banded together and
swung the Little cowboy governor"
so l.. M. Bowers called Ammons-
into line, that they had rounded up"
the editors of fourteen of the biggest
newspapers of the state and the scabs
were pouring in from the east and
south.
On top of this came the astounding
information that Bowers had inform.
ed Rockefeller, IN ADVANCE, that
Troop A, the infamous troop that mas
sacred Ludlow, was to be formed from
company men, mostly thugs and gun
men, to be paid by the mine owners,
but to operate under the guise of state
militia Here was the clincher. This
was the big evidence. The commits
sion has it in black and white and
it can't get away. Neither can the
Rockefeller outfit get away from it.
1t is therein the records for all
time, the browning infamy of the ma
tons most infamous chapter.
There are strong indications that
the miners will make use of the evil
dence brought out in this hearing and
that information will be filed in Colo
RADIO, on the strength of which it is
hoped that indictments for completely,
or some similar charge, may be OBJ
tanned.
1t is pointed out that Rockefeller
stands in exactly the same position as
the miners in the matter of respon-
sibility for violence. 1t never has
been claimed that Lawson knew that
there was to be violence, that he
counselled it or approved of it. In
fact, he is known to be opposed to
violence. sTRs
1t is not claimed that Rockefeller
actually ordered any one shot, or
roasted. But he approved the policies
which resulted in many deaths, it is
pointed out. He knew about the form
alton of the murderous Troop A and
he backed the Colorado operators to
the finish in everything.
The evidence brought out may shake
the nation to its roots before the last
echoes of it have died away Things
are laid bare to the last ditch here
1t was a great piece of work. newt
ably Colorado was the center of it all
And Colorado now has the opportunity
to clean her skirts.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN COLO
RADIO NOW?
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PASTOR RUSSELL
Everett Theatre. 7;45 p. M.
SATURDAY. JUNE 18th
The Message Of the Hour
1.-THE BATTLE OF ARMAoEDDoN"
All Welcome
SEATS FREE NO COLLECTION
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ITO be published for enforcement.

10 be puDllshed for enforcement.
"V. CARRANZA"
Better proof than this could not be
given that the present revolution in
Mexico carried on by the Constru-
tionalist government is social as well
as political and that organized labor
under the name of the Casa del Obrero
Mundial knew what it was about when
it entered into a contract with the
first chief to aid the Constituencies
cause. The Casa del Obrero Mundial
has sent its delegates into every city
under the jurisdiction of the Constitu-
tionalist government and is now &C
lively organizing the Mexican workers
in their various industries with the
public consent and assistance Of First
Chief Carranza.
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SOC CORSET COVERS SOC
$3.50 NIGHT GOWNS 85c

splendid values! These crepe and muslin gowns-nea
win round embroidery yoke neck and sleeves trimmed
lace edge or picot lace edge.
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a qualified voter. necessarily absent
or detained from his home on cleo
ton days, may cast his vote in what
ever county he may happen to be at
such time.
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TO ENFRANCHIsE VOTERS

AUSTIN, Tex, June 10.-On July "a
the citizens of this state will hold a
referendum election on house joint
resolution No, l which provides that
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Many a man now shouting ION to
Mexico Cityl" will conceal his assets
when the collector comes around for
the war taxes--New York Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-08
The Chemical Basis of War
BY Woods Hutchinson, A. M, M. ID.

BY Woods Hutchinson, A. M, M. ID.
War Is great teacher. though cruel
and costly one. We fight hard to earn
living or make q fortune. but We still
have link back to let out when we are
put to It to save our lives from battle.
murder and sudden death.
Doubtless the inventor OF navigation
was a breathless and bleeding fugitive
from a lost battle in the Stone age. who
put desperately our to sea on log. with
his spear for q paddle. with the ysips
OF his pursuers and perhaps shower
Of flint arrows and stone axes behind
him 20 keep his courage up to the stick
ing point.
Oar first knowledge of the working OF
iron and the temperinE OF steel was born
OF slaughter and baptized In blood. Our
early architecture and until the last few
hupdred years was overwhelmingly milf
tary, Forts. castles, palaces, walled
towns and even farm houses were built
for defense. Any old hole In the wall or
corner In their angles would do to live
in. Invention ran strongly toward cata-
pults and cannon. blunderbusses and
bombs. gunpowder and dynamite; be-
cause the kaisers and kings. barons and
bishops. who controlled all the money,
would pay far higher prices for engines
10 kill their enemies and suppress rebels
and heretics than for anything else.
/ II was a horribly wasteful and expen-
siVe school OF invention For the very
first thing which its discoveries were
used for was to destroy that increase and
density Of population and accumulation
OF wealth and resources which are thI
basis OF further invention and progress.
Indeed. the world has made more prog
ress In science and the conquest OF natur,
In the past hundred years OF compare
tive peace than In all the half m.llior
years preceding OF almost ineessant battI'
and slaughter.
but II Is idle to deny that It has beer
a powerful stimulant to inventtvenes:
Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-08
Tighten Labor with Smiles

mother Of invention" applies to art as
we'll as mechanics. The average artist,
whatever be his mode of expression, Is
inclined to be an idler and a dreamer.
II he were not spurred on by dire need.
he would dream wonderful things and
accomplish little. However you may
feel you are prostituting your art by
having to employ it as a pot-boier, re-
member you are keeping all your abili-
ties and activities alive and in use.
Though you may do five pieces of work
you do not care for, you may do a sixth
which is great That sixth you could
not have created except by being IN
constant practice.
You might have dreamed It for years
and continually prostponed the actual
labor necessary to its completion. But
because you were accustomed to create
as soon as an idea came to you, your
great work was executed
Necessity is a true friend to art 1t Is
ungrateful and ungenerous to berate II.
II you cannot achieve your best with
1t, you would never achieve Il without
1t. Once I'm a thousand times we may
encounter the artist who has genius and
activity and ambition enough to succeed
without the aid of necessity, but It is
rare indeed
Whether you are an artist or an ar
tisan or day labOrer. take a hopeful
wholesome outlook on your life and
labor and stop grumbling and whining
Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-08
Do You Know That

Scarlet flowers stand drought better
than any other.
1t has been found that the collarbone
is more frequently broken than any other
bone in the body.
trout egg takes from thirty-five to
sixty days to hatch. according to the
temperature of the water.
An analysis states that the starfish
contains nearly 8 per cent of nitrogen
and small quantity of phosphoric acid.
The seeds of the tobacco plant are 90
minute that, according to an estimate. a
thimbleful will furnish enough plants
for an acre.
An angry ostrich Is a great fighter. He
strikes out with his feet, and his legs be-
ing immensely strong he can kill a. man.
The butterfly. like the bat, invariably
goes to sleep head downwards on the
stem of the grass on which II rests. II
folds its wings to the utmost, and thus
protects its body from the cold.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-08

and resources. and Is so still. An inter
esting, most modern instance was fur
nished just the other day in the an
nouncement-first from Columbia, then
from New York university. then from
number OF other colleges-that the rush
of students anxious to study industrial
chemistry had simply swamped their
accommodations, In some cases the
classes were nearly double the size that
could possibly be accommodated In the
laboratories.
AS matter OF fact. humiliating as
the confession is to our national pride
we here in America are full quarter of
century behind the times in the matter
OF the full utilization In commerce and
industry and public life of chemistry In
particular and modern science in gem
eral. II It Is any consolation TO US. Eng
land and her colonies are almost as back
ward as compared with Germany and
Sweden and France and Austria
| But here Is the situation: Twenty years
ago the average successful manufac-
turer who was approached by graduate
chemist from one OF our scientific
schools and asked for a Job. to equip
a laborascry and put him In charge Of
Il at good salary, would have simtly
! stared I'm astonishment. What under
heaven could a pure chemist find to 10
| IN my business? And there are a good
many otherwise intelligent men OF af-
fairs who would react after that fashion
today. For more than twenty years oe-
fore that time no manufacturing estab-
lishments In Germany would have
dreamed OF starting in business without
from one to three laboratories with a
chemist and a couple OF assistants IN
each. and would no more have tho1gAt
OF trying to run without chemist than
without an engineer or a bookkeeper. Al
that time. where America had one chem
ist engaged in manufacturing work, and
England two, Germany had thirty.
But what do these high-prieed seien-
Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-08
If a Dead Star Hit the World

First, 1t may be run down by a dead
star" Astronomical collisions. once re-
garded as mere speculative possibilities.
are known 20 occur. and sometimes on a
stupendous scale The most reasonable
explanation that has been found for the
occasional appearance OF new stars is
that previously invisible bodies Of enor-
nous mass have come into violent col
lision in the depths Of space and, through
the transformation Of their klnetic energy
into heat. have been largely, II not
wholly. turned into incandescent gas and
vapors.
The evidence Is Overwhelming that CO
lestlal space contains great numbers OF
dark bodies which once. probably. glowed
rs stars. or Guns. and that they. like the
visible stars. such az our sun. are speed
Ing In various directions with veiocities
amounting to many miles. and sometimes
20 hundrers OF miles per second.
II such a mass should plunge into the
solar system the disastrous consequences
arc easy to forsee A body OF that kind
could not be seen until II had got near
enough to reveal itself by the sunlight
reflected from It's surface, and after
Il had reached that degree of proximity
NtltN n ltM NtaAr NnhAA NiNlHc -
blow would fall. Its mere passage through
the solar system, even II Il missed hitting
anything, would be disastrous.
Cool-headed persons might find some
distraction In watching It's approach and
calulating in advance the moment OF the
crisis. 1t might become visible with tele-
scopes when II is yet i5,OOo.O0.0Oo miles
distant. But II its speed only equalied
that OF tho sun, which Is not very fsat
travelling star. II would be upon us In
seventy-five years. and II II Travelled
with the speed OF the star 1880 Groom
bridge II would pounce upon us in about
five years after the astronomers had
caught their first view and warned the
world OF the danger.
Another way in which the earth. as
far as concerns life on its surface, might
come to a quick end Is through the con-
sequences OF It's internal cooling and
shrinkage The moon offers possible
warning here. Its entire surface is a vol
canlc wreck. Evidently there came a
time in It's history when the internal
forces broke up It's whole crust or over
flowed II with vast floods Of lava. II may
be that when q planet arrives nj GER
tain critical stage in its cooling the
shrinkage OF its crust produces tremen-
dous outbreak OF volcanic force and an
upwelling OF molten rock formed by en-
ormoug local pressures.
Changes OF this kind. due 10 gradually
increasing strain. are apt to be sudden
and catastrophal. II such a disaster
| should happen to the earth its inhabi-
tants would perish with their eyes fixed
upon q scene OF chaos as Wild and aw-
ful as any depletion Of the prophets OF
calamity.