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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
CANADA SEIzES
WHEAT FOR ALLIES
Government Commanders Ap-
prOximataIy2O. 900, 00OBusheIs
WILL FIX TIE PRICE LATER
Total of 228,ooo,o0o to Be Taken
Over-Boats at Fort William and
Port Arthur Directed to Cease
Loading-Trade Surprised.

Ottawa, Ont.-The Canadian Gov
eminent has Communicated all high
grade wheat in elevators from Fort
William, on Lake Superior, to the At
lantic coast.
The action was taken under the
special war act by the Canadian Grain
Commission. The wheat seized was
of grades No. l hard and Nos. /, 2
and Northern. 1t was the property
of grain shippers and millers. That
taken is all which was in public ele.
vators at Fort William, Port Arthur,
Midland, Tifin, Port McNichol Col
lingwood, Goderich. Kingston, Port
Colborne, Prescott, Quebec, St. John,
Montreal and Halifax.
A revised estimate places the
amount at about 100000 bushels. A
considerable amount is the property of
American grain dealers.
While no official statement is forth.
coming. it is understood here that the
total Canadian wheat surplus for ex-
port estimated at 228,000.00O is to be
taken by the Allied Governments and
that the 100000 bushels for the
Italian Government is only the first
installmert
The matter Of buying the entire Can
adam crop outright is now the subject
of negotiations.
All boats loading at elevators for
Buffalo or Canadian lower lake ports
have been ordered to cease loading.
All railway companies which have
thousands of loaded cars in their
yards are not allowed to unload.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
GERMANY PROCLAIMS serbia WON
DIvERTS TROOPS TO WATCH RUMANIA
ANNOUNCE ROAD TO turkey OPEN
Force From Katchanik Marching South to Join Allies in
Macedonia -BuIgars Cease Attack on Monastir
to Meet New Enemy Army
BRITISH NAVAL AIRMAN CUTS CoAsrANrINoPLE LINE

SaIoniki dispatch to The London
Daily Chronicle).- Greater activity
than ever prevails here, chiefly on
the part of the British. The landing
of men is continuous. At late hour
at night a large detachment of Scot
fish troops came ashore and Saloniki
heard the Scottish bagpipes for the
first time. A large crowd watched the
men march through the streets.
The British are taking over por-
ton of the present French front.
French aviators carried out their
first raid from the French right to
Strumitza town. They dropped near
ly fifty bombs on the town and on
the troops encamped near by.
The Bulgars are still making no
impression on the Serb line before
Monastir.
1t is reported on reliable authority
that the Serbian army, recently stat
ed to be descending toward Uskab,
has changed it's line of retreat, and
now is proceeding in the direction of
Prilen, via Kachanik A junction of
the Serbs with the allied armies is
said to be expected near Prilep.
The Serbs have been forced to
abandon some guns in this march,
but the Allies are providing cannon
to take the place of those lost. This
movement should sensibly improve
the Serbian position generally.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
RUSSIA TO INVADE BULGARIA.

OO''N : - ~ y ~ - = ~ L1AnlHs
LondOn.-The Russian Emperor has
addressed a personal telegram to the
Berbian Premier. M. Pachitch. &C.
cording to Salonica dispatch
via Athens to the Daily Telegraph in
which he promised the appearance
within week in Bulgaria of Russian
trops. The Italian Government. ac-
cording to this dispatch, has also pro-
missed to send an expeditionary force
of 10000 men.
The Germans are beginning to evac-
uate Mitau, their forward base in this
Riga-Dvina region, said dispatches
from Petrograd and are preparing to
withdraw from the task of capturing
Riga and the Dvina line.
They are now fighting for better
line for winter Notifications and their
positions are said by the Russian mill
tary experts to be poorly adapted for
anything except temporary defense
operations, as the Russians threaten
the tanks of the several armies.
Heavy Japanese guns in great num-
Der are arriving daily at Odessa on the
Black Sea coast OF Russia, Berlin dis,
patches say.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02

London.-A daring night fight by
a British naval airman is announced
in the London Gazette. Flying fifty
miles inland from the Dedeaghatch
shore, Flight Commander Smyth-
Pigott reached Kuleh-Burgas, in the
Bulgarian territory recently coded to
Turkey, and in the moonlight drop
ped bombs on the great bridge Of the
Orient Trunk Line crossing the Ma
ritsa River into Turkey on the way
10 Constantinople, the only railway
connecting the Turkish capital with
Dedeaghatch, Adrianople, Sofia, and
the whole system of central European
railways.
In recognition Of this Commander
Smyth-Pigott has been appointed a
Companion of the Distinguished Ser
vice Order. He was able to locate
the bridge by the moonlight shining
on the river, and descended within
300 feet of it before releasing his
bombs. He was heavily fred on, and
in spite of trouble with the engine OF
his machine returned safely to the
base after a flight lasting four hours.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
GoscHEN's SON RELEASED.

Germans Show Consideration for
Former British Ambassador.
Berlin.-Out of consideration for
his father. Sir William Edward Gosch-
en-, former British Ambassador to
Germany, the Government has author.
lied the release of Lieutenant Gerard
Goschen, who was wounded and cap
tured in the early stage Of the war
in France.
Lieutenant Goschen was captured,
wounded, Immediately after Joining
his regiment
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
FoRGAN TO QUIT AS PRESIDENT.
Will Be Chairman of Board of Joint
Banks.

Chicago,-James B. Forgan will re-
sign as president of the First Ma
tional and Tru and Savings banks
of Chicago at the annual meetings,
and will become chairman of the
board of directors of both.
81 am sorry the news got out before
we We're ready" said Mr.. Forgan
in confirming the report, "as the
board of directors has not yet acted
in the matter"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
ARMY ELEVEN DEFEATS NAVY.

New York.-Playing upon a field
slippery with rain, and in q mist that
now and then thickened to a drizzle
which all but blotted out the teams
toward the end Of the last quarter, in
the presence of President Wilson and
Mrs. Gait, his fancee, the United
States Military Academy defeated the
Navy at the Polo Grounds, IA to 0.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02

For SALE-White Leghorn Cockrels,
single comb, at 81 each l Barbin red
turkey gobbler, one year old. This is
fine breeding bird. Apply or write to
John N. Michael, r. D., No, 2, Oakland,
Md. Adv.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
MORE PAPERS BAR FORD ADS
Ten British Publications Join Boy

colt Of Auto Manufacturer.
London.-Ten more publications
have announced a boycott of adver-
tisements of the Ford automobiles.
The Diapers Record, one of the lat
est to take this action, received an
advertisement from the Manchester
branch of the Ford agency and wrote
in reply asking whether Henry Ford
controlled the policy of that branch.
The manager replied in a sarcastic
vein, refusing the information
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
BRITISH CONSUL ARRESTED.
Held by Persians Who Believed Wal
Had Been Declared.

Had Been Declared.
Bushire, Persia.-W. 7. O'Connor,
British Consul General at Shiraz lin
the interior of Persia, about 115 miles
northeast of Bushire), and the other
members of the British colony there
were arrested recently at Shiraz and
taken to Borasjan, where they were
detained.
The women of the party, who have
been released, said the gendarmes de-
ceived the Persian Governor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-02
GREECE YIELDS TO ENTENTE.

Salonica (via PaTis) Prom a per-
son who is in a position to be fully in
formed on the situation it was learn.
ed that King Constantine has assured
General Kitchener, the British Score
tary for War, that he had never CON
sidered disarming or informing Entente
Allied troops who might take refuge
on Greek soil, though a number Of
Austrians, including several officers,
are now informed in Greece.
Earl Kitchener, during the confer
ence is reported to have declared that
England will have by next March
100000 soldiers under arms and viii
be in a position to arm and provision
100000 Russians, and that conse'
quently it would show great stupidity
to think the war could end otherwise
than in complete defeat for Germany
Respecting the friction which has
arisen between Greece and Great Brit
ain and the coerciye measures
which the British insist do not in any
sense constitute a blockade, it was
stated the King regards this situation
the result OF a misunderstanding and
easily remediable.
AS the statements Of the French
and British respecting serious con,
tinuation of the Balkan campaign
leave Greece in doubt on this point.
dt was said, there is no present posi-
binty either Of the decentralization or
withdrawal of the Greek troops from
Salonica.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
How WOrking-C|ass Representatives
in ChiCago's City Council Rendered
Aid to Striking Garm8nt Workers
naa4h knol af Exnloitor,c pxiua4a Axnaiae
Death KneII of ExpIoiter's Private Armies

the real significance of what they
were doing.
"The big question that we have be-
fore u.s." Kennedy told the city coun-
Gil, 'is whether the manufacturers
can use the city of Chicago to beat
the workers into submission"
And that is the real effect that the
vote of the city council will have on
the strike situation. The garment
manufacturers will soon wake up, and
when they do they will suddenly dis
cover that because there are two So
cialists in the Chicago city council,
therefore they cannot use the city
of Chicago to break the strike of the
garment workers.
In the meantime the council COM
mittee on schools, fire, police and civ
il service will not be permitted to
whitewash the Chicago police depart.
ment, however anxious its members
may be to do so. The council passed
an order, introduced by Alderman
Rodriguez, demanding that this COM
mittee submit a complete report OF
its investigation. Before it is all over
it is expected that the Chicago police
department, one the the best strike
breaking organizations in the coun-
try, will have been considerably chas-
tened, and it will adopt more humane
methods in handling strike situations.
OPEN MEETINGS TO PUBLIC
This all took place at the council
meeting held on the day that Mayor
Thompson, who became a presidential
possibility when he closed the saloons
on Sunday, returned from his trip to
the San Francisco exposition. Incl
dental to his return the galleries Of
the council chambers were again
jammed by Thompson boosters"
while the garment strikers and dele
gates of the Chicago Federation of
Labor, who had come to register their
protest, were denied admission. Even
the old party aldermen didn't like
this, and Alderman Kennedy's motion
to throw open the council meetings
to all-first come, first admitted
was passed without anyone, not even
Mayor Thompson, daring to object.
This is the situation as Chicago So
cialists open their campaign to send
more Socialists to the city council at
the election next spring.
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USES TO THE PUBLIC

is essentially emblem Of both
tice.
directs and concentrates public
certain
the medium through
of arbtramen between employer
geic community
Union Label League.
highest morality controls
to-~it mistress household
appeals establishes
contrary
weI-doing.
organizes the purchasing
labor against conditions morality
producer endanger weEbeng o
dollar
end than dollar saved the bargain
ain Hoe Vinces"
Workshop MILL
poVerty-Seatte Union
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WAGES: $500 A WEEK
HOURS: 6 AM. TO 7 PM

CHICAGO, H., November Girl
witnesses have testified t h t
they worked from 6 am. to pm.
in busy season and that in slack sea
sons make but SO per week. Five
cents a week is deducted for drink
in gwater and when girls are forced
to begin work at in the morning
they are not allowed to punch the
time clock until 7:30. Pay envelopes
Of several large firms were presented
as evidence, tending to show the av-
erage wages of girl garment workers
to be cents an hour,
Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated, states that 80 per cent
of the workers in the ready-made
clothing industry in Chicago are on
strike.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
MEANING OF INDUSTRIAL
DESPOTISM

On the part of the employer
the arbitrary acts which may be class
ed under this general head are:
Denial of the right to organize.
Refusal to consider the complaints
of workers.
Refusal to meet the authorized rep
resentative of workers.
Under modern industrial conditions
any one of these acts makes peaceful
negotiation and settlement impossible.
Without organization of the workers
their collective claims can not be con-
sidered without the right to appoint
such representatives as they choose,
workers are at the mercy of the en-
ployer's power to discharge and are
usually unequal to the task of pre-
senting and arguing their claims;
while the refusal to consider griev-
ances leaves only the alternative Of
the strike.
On the part of the workers, the pos
sibility of peaceful settlement may
be destroyed by refusal to discuss
claims, by internal dissensions which
render collective and definite action
looking to a settlement impossible.
and by the issuance of ultimate which
allow no time for consideration and
negotiation. In any one of these sit
uations the employer has only the
choice between tame submission or
absolute resistance to the demands Of
the workers.
Professional Strikebreakers
C. The immediate cause of violence
in connection with industrial disputes
is almost without exception the at
tempt to introduce strikebreakers to
take the place of the workers who
have struck or who are locked out
The entire problem Of policing indus
trial disputes grows out Of the prob
lem of the strikebreaker and the at
titude Of the State toward him.
All experience shows that if no at
tempt is made to operate the plant,
violence and disturbances requiring
the police are practically unknown,
whereas the attempt of strikebreakers
to reach the plant, particularly where
! strikers are enjoined or prevented
from using reasonable means to in
form them of the existence of the
strike and to use persuasive methods
to keep them from entering the plant,
is invariably accompanied by disor-
der and sometimes by active violence.
ATTITUDE OF STATE
The existing attitude of the courts
CONTINUED on Page -
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Is it for this through weary years
OF unrelentless toll and tears,
OF labor's grind, privation's ban
I saw him grow from child to man
For this: to be the sport Of money
kings,
The pawn of all their barterings;
For this: that he should groan and
bleed
To satiate the monsters greed,
To give another port or town
To one who wears q puppet crown,
To add another empty brag
Unto the fetch of a flag
For this: my treasure turned to chaff,
That men might rule or that kings
might laugh?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
Report of Industrial Relations
Committee on Causes Of Violence
In Industrial Strikes

cause of his control OF the Job or the
worker. Their use is more common
and more effective than any other
form of violence at the command of
the employer. The most powerful
weapon is the power of discharge,
which may be used indiscriminately
upon mere suspicion, which under GER
tain conditions may be almost as po-
tent, either in use or threat, as the
power of life and death. 1t is the
avowed policy Of many employers to
discharge any man who gives any
sign Of dissatisfaction on the theory
that he may become a trouble maker
or agitator.
The only corresponding weapon in
the hands of the workers is sabotage,
in the form either Of malicious de-
struction of property or of interfer-
ence with production. The field of
it's use is much more restricted in
practice than in theory and it's results
at best are negative and produce In
the employer only blind resentment
and undiscriminating hate. Sabotage
as a policy shows no signs of devel-
oping in American industry.
b. Equally productive Of an atti-
tude leading to violence is the denial
Of the use of peaceful methods of
adjusting grievances, or the creation
of a situation in which their use be-
comes impossible.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
USES OF union LABEL
TO The TRADE UNIONS

1t is nVunerabIe the injunction,
facilitates increasing
of organized
by making certain the recoon
ton of union
constituting the purchaser
the
1t agency cost bena
little t IS
o interest and common duty
of all
discharge
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
A Mothers Plea
BY Bert Ullad

Is it for this beneath my heart
I felt his quickened being start;
Is it for this my woman's breast
Knew all the raptures OF unrest;
Is it for this with bated breath
I challenge agony and death?-
For this: that on a battle plain
His blood should leave its crimson
stain;
That tattered flesh and staring eye
In hideous carnage there should lie;
That bones should bleach and vul-
lures feast
For this: that like a slaughtered beast
He should lie there unmurmuring,
A sightless, crushed and mangled
thing?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
LABEL LEAGUE NOTES

The League met in regular session
last Friday night and decided to have
a card party this evening, but owing
to the Trades Council Carnival the
committee has postponed it one week.
The League will meet this evening
in regular session.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
FUN is ON!
Nobody Home" "---Everybody
Taking in the Carnival


swing oIe
Loosen into the life
a
That's of the And bring HER
with hyoul
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suited and kicked into the street
when they resented these advances
and tried to continue with their work
Of peacefully picketing the struck
factories.
1t was sordid story the girls told,
with choking sobs and tears in their
eyes. There was not a loophole for
the city council committee to escape
through. 1t was face to face with
facts. 1t found an avenue of retreat,
however. 1t voted unanimously to
slug the sluggers, and incidentally
the clothing barons, by urging the
city council to abolish the employers
private army of Hessians.
BOSSES ARE INDIGNANT
The committee had an additional
reason for taking this position: The
garment manufacturers probably do
not yet realize that there are two So
cialists in the city council. There
fore, when the council committee re-
spectfully requested the garment
manufacturers to appear before them
and state their case, they stubbornly
refused to take any notice of the
council committee and expressed their
righteous indignation over the inter
ference of the city's aldermen in
their private affairs.
Of course the democratic and re-
publican aldermen felt they had been
insulted and so they decided to hit
back. They struck smashing blow
by urging the city council to revoke
all the certificates of appointment of
the special police on strike duty, by
ordering the police department to get
a record of all the special strike po-
lice, their former occupations and
criminal records, if any, the names of
the detective agencies that had fur
nished them, in addition to other
matters that the employers do not
like to have investigated.
REPUBLICAN TURNS FRIEND
OF LABOR"
The righteous wrath of the regular
council committee that had investi-
gated 'police brutality" was supple
mented by the increasing indignation
Of special committee headed by a
republican alderman from the same
ward represented by Socialist Alder
man Rodriguez, Chicago having two
aldermen from each ward. Rodri-
guez's brilliant record in the street
car strike had suddenly made "a
friend of labor" out of the republican
alderman with the result that he had
himself appointed chairman of a spe-
cial committee to investigate, and, il
possible, arbitrate the strike, This
special committee had been turned
down cold by the bosses, who refused
to discuss the strike with them at ALL
and it, too, reported to the city coun'
Gil that it had been insulted.
These were the moving factors, with
the Socialist aldermen in the back
ground, pulling the strings, that caus
ed the Chicago city council, by a
vote of 60 to 6, TO instruct the city's
mayor and chief of police to wipe out
the clothing barons' private army
after taking a census of its member
ship, which will make very interest
ing reading. The corporation hire
lings on the floor of the city council
tried to head off the breaking storm
but their protests were unceremoni
ously swept aside or almost unani'
mously voted down.
INTERPRETs ACTION TAKEN
While the city council was voting
to maintain its dignity in spite of the
clothing manufacturers, Socialist AL
derman Kennedy pointed out to them
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
USES TO THE EMPLOYER

o Advertising
It is advertising that nothing for
guarantees full returns
employer
insures stability principles
sound, enduring Interchangeable
saves time and talk in making sales 1t sells
deceves the purchaser.
signifies
we'll as the principle Of fair the employees
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Ut TAKES A HUNDRED MEN to
make an encampment, but one wom-
IN can make a home. ."-Robt. G. In
ersoll