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The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21
RockefeIer's Plan Declared a Poor. lLSOhdOn

he controls, the non-union member
ship in that organization will be COM
posed chiefly, not of men who did not
want to join the union, but of those
who were afraid to join it. Plainly,
therefore, Mr.. Rockefeller could take
his choice between having practically
all the miners join the present union
or inducing them to join the more
democratic organization which he
has proposed. He has chosen the lat
ter plan, which will be the more diff
cult of the two, since an entirely new
organization proposed and controlled
will leave the men less power than the
old-style union.
"But the criticism that ought to be
made of Mr.. Rockefeller is not against
his plan, but against his lack of frank
ness. Like any employer he wants
the reins OF control in his own hands.
An employer must often make esti-
mates long time ahead, and the
balance between profit and loss mSY
often be upset by an unforeseen labor
disturbance. 1t would be more con-
venient if labor could be bought and
sold like so much coal. But the day
when this was possible is past. Sta
biiity must be secured by going for
ward, not by going backward. Labor
must be conceded a real power in in
dustry, not the fictitious power Of a
supervised organization.
"The trouble with Mr.. Rocefeller's
proposed bargain is that it isn't quite
honorable. 1t doesn't recognize the
true situation, and it commits the
commercial crime OF offering sub
stitute in place of the genuine article.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21
WORKO OF MICROSCOPE
Little instrument Has Been Wonder in Field
Of Science

Great things have small beginnings.
A spectacle maker, Jan Leippersheim
by name, living in Holland, invented
crude magnifying glass in 1908. An
ton Won Leuwenhoek, born in Delft,
this day 1852, improved this clumsy
toy and evolved compound micro
scope which has become the most
valuable sanitary tool yet devised by
man. That first microscope was as
far removed from the high-powered
instrument of today as is the modern
typical American from the original
caveman. Yet by this faulty means,
Leuwenhoek, naturalist, physician and
botanist, discovered certain minute
bodies which he called little animals. .
He made drawings fthese and today
we know them for those useful friends
and malignant enemies of man-bac-
terra.
We spend our days surrounded by
another world, a living world of
countless billions, invisible to the nak-
ed eye, silent, tireless, destroying the
living, consuming the, dead, useful in
the science and arts, yet often follow
ed by train of sickness, suffering and
death A curious paradox this, yet
bacteria are at once the greatest
friends and the fercest foes of every
living thing. Not animals, as Leuwen-
hoek thought, but vegetables, bac-
eria consist of two classes, those
which prey on living things and those
which reduce to their original min
erals, fluids and gases, every dead
thing which they attack. They are of
various shapes, round like marbles or
straight like little sticks. They grow
in clusters, chains, and in pairs. They
are ubiquitous. The dusty air, the
earth and its waters. the interior of
animals and plants all contain them
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21
PLEASANT SURPRISE
Members Of the Trades Council Have Unexpected
Blowout at Last Meeting

knocking on the door and there en-
tered a number of ladies laden with
baskets of good things for the inner
man. The members were taken COM
pletely by surprise, but soon entered
into the joyous spirit of the occasion.
The tables were quickly arranged and
spread most bounteously with sand
wiches, pies, cakes, salads, pickles and
other epicurean dainties, and the ladies
showed they had overlooked nothing
for from nearby cafe came steaming
hot coffee just at the appropriate time.
There was a merry time, with every
one in happy mood and not until mid
night did the gathering breakup. The
surprise was voted complete success
and the ladies urgently requested to
give frequent encores. And here
also was a pointer for the standing
committee on entertainment, which
has been negligent of its duties.
The ladies to whom the council was
indebted for this rare treat were
Mesdames P. o. Anderson, F. P. Me-
Daniel, P. H. Spangenberg, G. A.
Worden and T. A. Allen, wives of
members and Miss Beulah Anderson.
With this impromptu banquet the
meeting adjourned having been the
most enjoyable gathering of the coun-
ell for the year.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21
SAVING LIFE GOOD BUSINESS

Philadelphia-"To improve the con-
dition of workers is not philanthrophy,
it is mater of good business" said
DR.. Roger M. Griswold in an address
in this city.
"The time is past when the cheapest
thing in the world is human life, as the
old saying went" he stated. yet few
of us realize the enormous losses caus-
ed every year by i'll health in workers
and by accidents.
"If the time lost on account of pre-
ventable sickness and accidents would
be converted into money and applied
to the payment of the expenses of the
United States government, we could
do away with all forms of taxation
excepting those upon imports"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21
Marcus Day on Woman Suffrage

Those who oppose woman's suf-
frage dare not go into the question
fundamentally without assuming that
the female is inferior. One of his
contentious after another will inevi-
tably lead right o an assumption or
denial of this point. In case he as
sumes male superiority of intellect he
must then prove It'll In attempting to
prove his thesis he must then cite ex-
amples Of male wisdom.
The most conspicuous example at
present is Europe. Here is a bright
object lesson in male wisdom and
foresight. Europe spends several
generations preparing for war, fights,
suffers and then commences again to
prepare on a grander scale. The men
who bear the burden of fighting, the
common soldier, gets, nothing any
way you look at it. No matter who
wins he is loser He loves his wife,
mother, children and near relatives
better than any outsider, yet he will
foolishly lay down his life for the
most selfish and cruel of monarchs--
a man most likely that would not
make sacrifice. Women have moth
ing to say about government in these
countries now butchering each other
men are the law makers there. Is
their rule the acme of wisdom?
L1ardl,, There ,,,nst he something
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21

New York-After a trial that lasted
two weeks, FIVE officers and members
of the International Ladies' Garment
= Workers union were declared not
guilty of murder. Secretary-Treasurer
Morris Sigman was one of the defend
ants. The case of two other members
did not go to the jury, as the prose-
cution asked that these workers be
dismissed. The jury's verdict marks
the complete collapse of an attack
against the garment workers union.
Last spring the employers abrogat-
ed an agreement with this union and
announced that no more contracts
would be signed by them. This was
followed by the arrest of seven active
workers on the charge of murder.
The union replied to these assaults
in a vigorous manner. At one of the
largest protest meetings held in this
city, President Gompers gave this an
swer to the employers policy.
"You cannot destroy unions by
breaking agreements. We favor con-
tracts, but do not depend upon them to
live. In the fight for freedom we are
going to stand shoulder to shoulder
not for war, but for peace. Any as
sault on our ranks or on the meanest
among us, will find US ready to fight
to maintain the lives of the toilers OF
our country"
While preparing to defend their fell
low workers, the unionists strength
ened their lines to meet the employ
ers' Reputation of q contract. This
activity resulted in the employers
agreeing to arbitrate the question
which resulted in wage increases and
declaration by the arbiters that some
system must be devised whereby
claims of workers that they are un'
Justly discharged may be considered
The board expressed the following
views on the employers theory tha
"every man has the right to run hi
own business.
mo human being is wise enough t'
be able to trust his sole judgment il
decisions that affect the welfare o
others; he needs to be protected, an'
if he is truly wise, will welcome pro
lection against the errors to which h
is liable in common with his kind, a
well as against the inspirations 0
passions and selhshness. For thi
reason a tribunal of some kind is nee
essary, in case either of the parties t
this covenant believes itself to be just
~ aggrieved."
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21

they have overlooked.
There is not man who makes love
to woman who denies that she is
his equal-in most cases he worships
her as an angel, according to his ex-
pressed language, at least. Why
should not the woman hold him to a
pledge to support woman suffrage
when he declares his love. If he re-
fuses, then pass him up for some one
who win. Women will get the vote
when they demand it and not until
then, but it may be they will be help
ed along considerably by the fact that
men have made such mess of things
in most places where voting has been
left entirely to them that they will
call in women to help straighten out
difficulties they cannot fathom alone.
Whatever else may be said of all
present governments it cannot be said
they are good ones. There is not in
the world to-day a just government
and men have made all of them Give
the women an equal chance in the
making of laws and there will be inn
provement or at least no deterioration
toward the bad. Had women had the
law-making privileges eqaully with
men there would have been no war
because the brute is always upper
most in majority of men no matter
what his pretentioHs.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21

The Boise Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil held a most enthusiastic and en-
joyable meeting Wednesday evening
in their hall in the Soma block. There
was a, good attendance of members,
F. P, McDapiels being absent on &C
count of severe attack of rheuma-
tism.
Mr.. Cation presented for tentative
consideration a latter of great inn
portance. and which will be discussed
in detail at future meetings, but the
time is not sufficiently ripe for its
public consideration.
A report was received from Poca-
tello that c. q. Young, national organ
izer of the American Federation of
Labor, had succeeded in organizing a
trades and labor council in that city
and the charter had been applied for.
Conditions in that city were reported
most favorable and the council was
organized with much enthusiasm.
In the future and until April the
council will meet at 7:30 o'clock.
Nine new members were reported
as joining the local union of the Street
Railway workers at a recent meeting
and only few of the employees in
service are now non-union.
Just as adjournment was being an
nounced there came a peremptory
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21
FAVOR sEAMENs Jaw


Santa Rosa-In speech before the
California state federation of labor
convention Congressman Kent made
this declaration:
II will never stand for the repeal Of
the seaman's act. II may be neces-
sary for us to have a merchant marine.
but / would rather see the American
flag fooating over raft out in the
ocean than TO have a merchant mar
inc of great magnitude where the men
employed are treated like slaves.
"The seamen's act protects sailors
against peonage, slavery and abuse
and affords greater safety for those
who travel the seas"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21
10 VOTE ON coMPENsATIoN

Philadelphia-The voters of this
state will vote on a constitutional
amendment at the coming election
which provides for compulsory COM
pensation. The present law. effective
January /, is optional and may be re-
jected at will BY employers if they
prefer a lawsuit to paying injured
workers.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21
WHAT ELSE COULD THEY Dol

Denver-Ofhcials of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company announce
hat their employees have adopted the
Rockefeller union" scheme. The vote
was 2, 253 for and 4o3 against.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-10-21

San Francisco-Mr. Rockefeller's
plan commits the commercial crime
of offering a substitute in place of
the genuine article" is the verdict of
The Bulletin in an editorial on the
latest union" financed and controlled
by the worlds richest young man.
The Bulletin sees clearly the diff
ference between a labor union con-
rolled by workers and one controlled
by employers, and presents the case
in the following manner
"What does John d. Rockefeller
mean when he promises his Colorado
miners a system of labor organization
more democratic than unionism?
Our plan," he answers, "takes in all
men, irrespective of whether they join
union or not Unionism benefits one
group, not all the workmen. Our
thought has been to devise something
absolutely democratic--something that
will take in. all workmen whether
they belong to the union or not"
"The man who voluntarily refuses
to ioin with his fellow-worlCmen in an
association for the common benefit is
either selfish or short-sighted or in
curabIy and abnormaliy Individual
istic. and he is too scarce TO be a
problem. There is not an important
labor organization in the country
which would not be glad to take its
chances with opposition from work
Iingmen if only there were no opposi-
ton from employers.
$50, if Mr.. Rockefeller forms la
Dor organization which includes all
the miners in the companies which
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LAWSON RELEASED ON BAIL
Denver-The Colorado state su-
preme court has admitted John R
Lawson to bail in the sum of $55.000
Later the court will consider Lawson''
appeal for a new trial. Several weeks
ago the corut issued an order DELAY
ing further proceedings in this cas'
until the evidence could be reviewed
At the same time Judge Hillyer wal
debarred from further consideration
of pending cases against other miners
Lawson has been in jail at Trinida'
since he was convicted and sentence'
to life Imprisonment in Judge Hiiiyer'
court for the alleged killing of Johi
Nimmo, strike deputy, October 2s
1913.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-07-02
RIOTING AGAIN IN ATLANTA
Military Protection Is Given sIaton
When He Retires From Office
of Governor.

Atlanta, Ga.-A battery of artillery,
battalion of infantry and a troop Of
cavalry stood guard June 26 at the
country home of John M. Slaton, who
retired at noon from the office Of gov
ernor Of Georgia. All was quiet during
the early evening. and there seemed to
be no indications of further demon
STATIONS by persons who disapproved
the former governors action in COM
muting the death sentence Of Leo M.
Frank.
Down town, where the streets were
patrolled by double watch Of police,
conditions seemed to be normal, the
usual Saturday night crowd being
swelled only by the few inauguration
visitors still in the city. All the near
beer saloons remained closed by po-
lice orders throughout the day and
evening, and every preeaution was
taken to prevent trouble.
During the Inauguration ceremonies
at the capitol there were several tense
moments. When Gov. Slaton APP
preached the new governor to deliver
into his hands the grand seal of the
state, few Kisses were heard from the
crowded gallery. President G. Ogden
Persons of the state senate raped
sharply with his gavel The Kisses
continued, and Gov. Slaton paused,
President Persons raped again and
the kissing ceased. He warned the
spectators that unless they were in or
der the galleries would be cleared.
Leaving the capitol the crowd then
surged In on the former governor and
had to be held back by the militia.
Kisses and shouts greeted his ears.
The police claim that an oathbound
organization has been formed, with
ramifications in every Georgia coun-
ty, whose purpose Is to get Slaton and
Frank. 1t is alleged that the organ
ization had its beginning at mid
night meeting of citizens at the grave
Of Mary Phagan in the Marietta GEM
etery. The police say the organiza-
ton is called the Knights Of Mary
Phagan and is sworn never to be dis
solved while Slaton and Frank are
living.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-07-02
WITNESSES SAY THAW SANE
Statement Made on Stand by Federal
Commission Members That Exam
ined Him In New Hampshire.

New York.-Harry X. Thaw was de-
scribed as sane and rational by two
members of the federal commission
appointed by the United States court
in New Hampshire to determine
whether he should be allowed his lib
erty under bail during extradition pro
ceedings to bring him back from that
state to New York. They were Gen.
Frank s. streeter OF Concord, chair
man of the commission, and DR.. Chas.
P. Bancroft. superintendent of the New
Hampshire State Hospital for the In
sane.
DR.. Bancroft, testifying as an ex-
pert alienist, said he had examined
Thaw over a period Of three weeks and
had tested his mental condition "for
reaction from every possible angle"
He said that the commission had gone
over in detail with Thaw all the cir
cumstances of his life and had omit
ted no topic which might bring to the
surface the delusion from which the
state alleges Thaw was suffering at
the time he shot Stanford White and
still is--that he was "divinely appoint
ed the protector of American girl
hood"
I'VE found him perfectly sane and
RATIONAL" said DR.. Bancroft. He said
on crosse-xamination that true para
noiac, such as the state charges Thaw
to be, might for time submerge his
delusion so as to defy the tests of the
most expert alienists, but did not think
that this could be done for more than
two or three months. 1t was bound
to appear after while.
The witness said he had not given
"a great deal of weight to testimony
in previous Thaw proceedings before
him to the effect that various of the
Thaw relatives had the faint OF in
sanity.
The plan to examine President
Emeritus Charles w Eliot Of Harvard,
to find out why Thaw was expelled
from that institution in 1892. has been
abandoned, the state announced. as
DR.. Eliot had written that he could not
remember any Of the circumstances in
the case.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-07-02
DAVIDSON COUNTY GRAND JURY
TAKES ACTION ON STOLEN
BOOKS CASE.
LYLE ANDREWS SUSPENDED
City Commissioners Headed by Howse
Suspend Indicted Official and Elect
Park Marshal to the Vacant
Position.
Nashville.


The grand jury of Davidson county
on June 26 returned indictments on
three separate charges against City
Commissioner Lyle Andrews, Comp.
troller Miles Burns and Assistant
Treasurer Johnson B. West. Capiases
were issued and Andrews and Burns
were re-arrested under the indictments.
Each gave bond in the sum of $4,000.
West has not been apprehended. The
first indictment against the three Of
fcials charges them with larceny OF
public records, accessory before the
fact and receiving stolen goods.
The second indictment charges them
with conspiring together and of felo-
niously and corruptly stealing and TAX
ing away books and papers belonging
to the city of Nashville and as acces.
sorry before the fact. The third indict
ment charges them with unlawfully
and feloniously taking and destroying
valuable public records with intent to
injure and defraud and accessory be-
fore the fact.
Mayor H. e. Howse is named as the
prosecutor
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-07-02
Victim Of AutomobIIs Accident.

Jackson.-Zack Williams, an elderly
Gibson county farmer, was killed on
June rs, when an automobile In which
he was riding skidded and left the
road. falling over a five-foot embank.
ment in front of the Vantrees home,
three miles north of Jackson.
B. A. Barnett, who was driving the
car, Will Hudson. proprietor of the
Humboldt Wagon Factory; Jim Cook,
farmer, and H. H. Warmath, dairy
man, were more or less injured, but
not seriously.
The men were on their way to Jack.
son to attend the meeting Of Gibson
and 0bion county farmers at the West
Tennessee Agricultural Experiment
Station when the accident occurred.
Mr.. Williams was ~ years old, and
It is believed the shock of the accident
was responsible for his death more
than the injuries, which consisted o.
broken ribs and internal injuries.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-07-02
Andrews Is Suspended.

AS result Of charges brought re.
Gently against City Commissioner Lyle
Andrews in connection with the disap-
pearance of city revenue books and the
alleged misappropriation of municipal
funds, Andrews was suspended by May
or Howse and the other members Of
the city commission at meeting held
June 2S.
Park Marshall was unanimously
elected to succeed Andrews on recon!
mendation of the committee of bank
presidents, under whose supervision
the audit of the city's books is being
conducted.
The vote of the commission to sus-
pend the commissioner was unani-
nous, with the exception of Andrews,
who did not vote.
Andrews denied the right Of the city
commissioners to suspend him, and it
is reported that he will make fight
to retain his position.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-07-02
AUsTRo.oERMAN FORCES CON.
TINUE PUSH ALL ALONG $50
MILE FRONT.
DRIVE AGAINST RAILROAD
kalser's Troops Seem Bent on Giving
Further Punishment to the Cars
Men Before Turning to
West Line

London.-Driven back over their
own frontier north of Lemberg and
forced to cross the River Gnila Lipa,
In Southeast Galicia, the Russian ar
mics continue to retreat before the
Austro. Germans along a front Of ap.
proximately $50 miles.
Berlin records progress in virtually
the entire southeastern theater, al
though violent fighting still is in prog
ress beyond the Gnila Lipa, which
Joins the Dniester at Halicz.
Having forced a passage of this
stream Gen. Won Linsingen's army is
presumably astride the railway run
ming from Halicz to Lemberg and
Stanislau, and now doubtless aiming
at the line which runs from Lemberg
to Odessa through Tarnopol.
1t seems evident that Germany is
bent on further punishment for the
Russians before relaxing the intensity
of her Galician campaign, but, with the
Russians across the frontier, the Ger
mans will have to rely almost solely on
road transport and their dvance win be
slower.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-07-02
vandaIs Take Revenge on Dead.

Etowah.-News has reached here
that vandals opened the grave of Bus
ter Duggan, who was shot from am.
bush at his home in the mountains here
last summer, and set fire to the re-
mains. After the grave was opened
kerosene was poured over the coffin
and the body was burned. The grave
is in the Conasauga Cemetery, about
two miles from here.
Duggan, in his lifetime, was a noted
moonshiner and had been implicated In
a number of killings. He had been
tried for murder and acquitted, and at
the time of his death was said to have
been fugitive from justice on a muir
der charge.