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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-30
TROUBLE AT DANCE.

Ashley, N. D., JAM 29.-As result
Of some trouble at country dance a
few miles south Of town, some of the
officials have had extra work this
week. In Justice Bodman's court,
Christian klipfel and his brother,
Johann, were held to the district
court in bonds of $500 each on a
: charge of assault with dangerous
weapon with intent to do great bod
lily harm. Another brother, Jacob
Klipfel, and Gottlieb Sperie will be
tried on assault and battery charges
before Justice Bodman. Fred Klipfel,
a cousin of the other Klipfel boys
named, is the complaining witness in
both cases.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-30
FRANK WITNESS
AGAIN ON Stand
James Conley Supports Affidavit
in Denial That He Admitted
Murder Of Girl.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 29.-James Con-
ley, the final witness for the state in
the trial of Dan I.ehon and G. G. Ted
der, who represented the Burns De-
tective agency, and Arthur Thurman,
a locaf lawyer, on the charges Of sub
ordination of perjury in the Frank
murder case, testified today he meyer
told another negro he killed the. grI
in the factory where Mary Pagan s
body was found. His testimony was
in support Of statement by Rever.
end Ragsdae that such an affidavit
reflecting on Conley was false and
that he he'd been paid $500 for signing
it.
Testified Against Frank.
Conley, who was the chief witness
against Frank at the trial in 1913,
and who was subsequently convicted
as an accessory, occupied the stand
only a short time, and was crOss-ex-
amined.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-30
Stone Wins
ukvA Xlvyy
DAMAGE SUIT
Northern Pacific Must Pay Dam
ages and Accrued Interest.

Frederick w. Stone who was injur.
ed at the Northern Pacific crossing
more than a year ago will. receive
damages awarded him in the district
court. The supreme court today up.
held the Judgment of $5,26S awarded
in the lower court. Stone was cross
ing the tracks near the Marshall Oil
Co., when an engine hit his automo-
bile wrecking it and injuring him.
The syllabus follows: s..
Frederick W. Stone, Plaintiff and Re-
spOndent, VS..
Northern Pacific Railway Company, a
corporation, ct AL, Defendants and
Appellants.
Appeal from judgment of $685.,
damages and costs, recovery for
personal injuries to plaintiff arising
out of collision of an automobile
driven by plaintiff and a passenger
train of the defendant company oper-
ated by co-defendants. employees.
Defendants contend that plaintiff was
guilty Of contributory negligence pre-
Guiding his recovery, in failing to OBJ
serve the oncoming train and avoid
collision, under the proof that he had
opportunity to observe the train while
he was yet from tWenty-three to tWen-
ty-seven feet from the track and ap-
preaching it. 'Sle jury may have
found from the evidence; that freight
cars on two Of the four tracks at the
crossing on Third street in Bismarck
at the time obstructed plaintiffs view
of the main line track in the direction
from which the train was approach
ing; twenty mile per hour wind was
blowing. carrying the roar of the
train away from plaintiff; the day
and the crossing were dusty; the
train was running at speed of thirty
miles per hour to within sixty or
ninety feet Of the crossing, when the
emergency brakes were applied.
Held: Under all the circumstances
the question of contributory negli-
gence was for the jury and plaintiff
is not guilty of contributory negli-
gence as matter of law.
GU Sufficient foundation was laid
in the testimony of witness Davies to
permit of his estimate of the speed
vi lllC u dlu az lIC llllC VI LAC SVAAA-
sion. ... s.. sH
ca 1t was not error to admit in
evidence speed ordinance Of the
City of Bismarck, as sufficient foun-
dation had been laid. 81 ;.
(4 1t was not error to deny ad-
mission in evidence of photograph
of portion only of the crossing, tax
en- from some distance to the side of
the main line track, and perhaps a
misleading view of the situation.
(SyiIabus by the Court.)
From a judgment of the District
Court of Berleign County, Nuessle, j.,
defendants appeal.
Affirmed. Opinion of the Court by
Goss, J.
F. H. Register and George NJ. Reg
lister, of Bismarck and S. E. Ellis
worth, of jamestown, Attorneys for
Plaintiff and Respondent
Watson & Young and E. T.. Conmy,
If Fargo, Attorneys for Appellants.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-30
WOMEN ADVISED TO
TACKLE policemen
Mrs. Lucy Parsons in Bloody
Speech to Army of Chicago .
Unemployed.

Chicago, Jan. 29.-Addressing un-
employed men and women who pro-
posed to make another attempt to pa
rade next Sunday, Mrs. Lucy Par
sons, widow of one of the men hanged
as result of the Haymarket riot, ad-
vised them last night to arm them
selves and be prepared to resist the
police.
The twenty-one men and women az
rested in the streets in front Of Hull
house, social settlement, week ago
Sunday, were to appear for trial to-
day on charges of unlawful assem-
blage and melting a riot.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-30
foreign commerce
DROPPED IN 1914
Decrease Due Largely to Euro
pean War as Is Shown in
Exports.

Washington, Jan. 29.-Foreign com
merce aggregatiIg three billion, nine
hundred and two million dollars in
value was conducted by Americans
during 1914, compared with four ana
quarter billion in 1913, according to
department statistics. The decrease
is due largely to the European war,
and was almost wholly il exports,
Which were $""70.000.00O less, while
imports dropped $3,339333.33333 The eA-
ports amounted to billion one hun
dred and thirteen million, and the i'm
ports to billion. seven hundred and
ninety million, making visible the
balance of trade in favor of the Unit
ed States of three hundred twenty
four and a third million, against six
hundred, ni1etytwo and half nil
lion in 1913.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-30
BIG ATTENDANCE
At annual Meeting
North Dakota Live Stock Associ-
alton Will Hold Boards at
Grand Forks.

Grand Forks, N. d., Jan. 29.-Ad-
vance reports by the officers in
charge CT the annual meeting of the
North Dakota Live Stock associatiol
to be held in Fargo Feb. and ), indi
cate splendid attendance from all
parts of the state A splendid pro
gram has been prepared. the two
days meeting to offer banquet as a
fitting Wind-uD.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-30

tCOnllnueu un fhxe Two
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
Denounce Lawson Verdict

Chicago.-Ths is what the Chicago
Tribune thinks Of the Lawson verdict:
Labor war is so conduct i in Colo
RADIO that tie opinion mist prevail else
where that the struggle for better work
ing conditions is determined by lawless
power exercised in the name of the state.
We admit that popular opinion fire
quently jumps from false premises to
unjust conclusions. but there has been
no defense made of the capital:stic me-
thods employed in Colorado which corl1
make any impression Upon opinion.
The conviction of John Laws m for
murder and the sentence of life in
prisonment imposed upon him will I'M
press the puhlc as a miscarriage OF jus
tice and will cause wonder that power
can twist so lawlessly the instrument
of law to its purpose 1t is Oh
noxiovs to is to think that the courts
can be dele from their tr'ie pur-
pose, an it is aihorrent to think that ii
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
"JAILS AS BAD BUSINESS

San Francisco-Under the above cap
ton the Evening Bulletin makes the fol-
lowing interesting comment;
The superintendent of the Oakland
municipal woodward has turned in re-
port showing that it is cheaper to give
unemployed laborers a chance to earn
their meals than it is to arrest them for
vagrancy and give them their meals for
nothing. He proves his assertion in dol
lars and cents. The principle involved
could be proven in terms of money in
terms of justice and in terms Of social
welfare for every Jail and every prison
in the United States. The community
would be better off probably, if at leas;
three-fourths of all the men now regu-
larly sent to jails and prisons were
given fair chance to earn living OF
side"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
$1,000 BLIND IN UNITED STATES

Washington.-There are $1,000 blind
persons in the United States, according
to figures issued by the federal census
department. This is ratio of G2.3 to
ever 100000 of population. The report
states that blindness has, apparently, de-
creased markedly among the younger
classes of American population in the
last fifty years that blindness is far
more prevalent among men than among
women; that it is more prevalent among
Indians and colored people than among
native whites; and that approximately
one-half the blind reported in 1910 were
sixty years of age or over.
In the United States blindness is most
prevalent in New Mexico and Nevada
in which states the ratio of the blind to
total population in 1910 were 1893 to
100000 and 1855 to 100000 respectively.
The high ratios for these states are due
to the fact that Indians, among whom
trachoma is of frequent occurrence in
those sections of the country, constitute
relatively large elements in their popu-
lation.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
NEW LAW GREATLY
REDUCES CHILD LABOR

Philadelphia The monthly bulletin
of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers AS
sociation predicts that more than 81 per
cent of the child labor of this state will
be eliminated because of the new child
labor law, passed by the recent legisla-
ture. The paper canvassed 1000 manu-
facturers. The main reason for the dis
missals is the clause in the new law
which requires eight hours of education
each week The records of the depart
ment of labor and industry at Harris
burg show that 1850 minors are en-
ploye1 in Pennsylvania and according
to the association, GRECO of them will be
legislated out of employment on Janu-
ary /. Including stores and Offices the
bulletin predicts that 5OOCO children
will be affected.
These figures will be increased to 75,-
900, says the report, because of laws
regulating street trades. The manufac-
turers opposed the law and now they
make this mournful comment: Indus
trious and often needy families through
out the state will have lost $11 ,oo0,O0C
a wear
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
CANADIAN WORKERS TO
CONFER.

Ottawa. Ontaro-Oficers of the
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
have issued call for the thirty-frst an
nual convention, to be held in Van
couver, British Columbia, starting Mon
day, September 20
Among the subjects scheduled for at
tention are:
The conditions arising from unem-
ployment in the industrial centers in
Canada.
Dominion and provincial legislation
affecting labor interests.
Enforcement of the misrepresentation
and monetary clauses Of the immigration
laws all the year round
The proposed eight-hour labor bill.
Workmens compensation acts in vari-
Gus provinces.
Amendments to the industrial disputes
and investigation act.
Fortnightly payment of wages on all
railways.
Proposed amendments to Dominion
elections act, including (a) abolition OF
the 5000 deposit now eXacted; % the
making election day public holiday
Old age pensions and all the issues
that are Herewith connected.
The Trades and Labor Congress Is
formed by delegates representing unions
affiliated to the American Federation OF
Labor. Its function is remedial legisla-
ton in the interests OF Dominion ot
Canada workers.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
Australian Laborers Show
What Unions Accomplish

Wellington. New Zealand, Australia
The marine cooks and stewards asked
the state arbitration court to order that
their wages be increased, claiming that
the ship companies had practically main
tained the same rates for forty years.
The unions representative made this
plea to the board
These workers at all times relied up
on the arbitration court to right their
grievances, and had not like other sec
tons of seamen, relied upon other me-
thods in the past Yet the other sec
tions had obtained recognition of the
principles and conditions of labor which
the ship owners had disputed with them,
The demands of the iiremen and sailors
for regulation of hands and preference
were granted Immediately they followed
the strike method, and the engineers in
the same way received an eight-hour
day but the stewards and cooks were
refused ten-hour day. Many of their
claims were identical with those gained
under the strike method
The above indictment of adjusting
wages by law and creating in the minds
of workers the impression that public
officials will assist them, has not passed
unnoticed by unionists in this city, and
one correspondent to the Maoriand
Worker writes:
There is a whole volume of educa-
ton in that statement. 1t demonstrates
that after all the arbitration court is of
most service to those Unions whose or
ganizaton is so well advanced that they
would be able to secure all the advan-
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
ORGANIZE CASUALTY COMPANY

Philadelphia.-The new state compen-
sation law is effective the first of next
year and manufacturers are preparing
for this event by organizing casralty
insurance company.
Thomas S. Dando, who favors tie
plan, says that employers in this coun-
try last year paid to casualty companies
more than $31 1,OO0.O0o in premiums.
while the losses paid by the companies
amounted to $500 900. Unionists point
to these figures as the reason why oppo-
sition is shown against workmen's com
pensation legislation
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
CAR MEN INCREASE WAGES
Chicago Arbitration Board Makes
Notable Decision.
UNIONS MAXIMUM Is GRANTED
Vigorous Trades Union Methods
Forced Companies to Accept Ar
bitratiOn-New Rates Highest in
the World.

Chicago.-Street car men won a
sweeping victory when the arbitration
board, last week. rendered their decision
III the controversy that caused the strike
of June l3. The new rates are the high
est in the world, and create new stand
ards for street car employees.
Under the award the men are given
an increase in wages all along the line
For the first year of a two-year contract
all men will receive an increase of 3
cents an hour up to the employees who
have been in service of the company
four years. Men who have been in the
service hve year are given an increase
of cents. For the second year of the
contract all who have been in the service
of the company less than five years are
given an increase of 1 cents. Those in
the fifth year of service are given an
increase of ) cents, making their wages
36 cents an hour, the maximum demand
ed by the union.
! Wages of barn employees shall be
$40 per day first year $2.10 second
year. and $3 third year Car cleaners
Janltors and other men working in and
around stations shall be paid $40 the
first year and $40 per day thereafter
Men operating night cars shall receive
$3 per night for eight hours or less
Night work shall not exceed eight hours
and nine hours is the maximum for Sun.
day work. Reduction of force shall be
made according to seniority.
In commenting on the award one 10
cal newspaper said: The men who
stand on the financial side of the line ii
traction affairs were shocked at the big
victory won by the men.
The arbitration board consisted OF
Mayor Thompson, States Attorne!
Hoyne. and Attorney James NJ. Shee
an. The latter represented the com
panies and he refused to sign the re
port. Mr.. Sheean served as arbitrato
for the western railroads in the recen
wage dispute with engineers and fire
+ merL The verdict of that board wa
most unsatisfactory to these workers.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
Drying Rnisins.

Where there is enough autumnal sun
shine and heat raisins may be dried on
the vines. Sometimes the growers
partly cut the stalks before the grapes
are quite ripe. This stops the flow OF
sap The usual way is to cut off the
clusters and spread them in the sun
for several days. They must be pro
tected from rain. They may be dried
in heated room, but the product /,
inferior. In some parts OF Spain md
France the clusters are dipped INTO
boiling water or strong potash lye,
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
THE PUSHCART MAN.

When the candy butcher comes
Youthful soldiers beat their drums,
Trustfu little gutter snipeS
Toot their JOY on childish pipes.
Narrow is their world and hard,
One end hits the boulevard
And the other has in view
Cheerful Wylie avenue.
There are all day suckers here;
Lollvpops OF childhood dear;
Peppermints and chocolate creams:
Ali the sweet things OF our dreams.
Babies. bless their little heart!
Eve with awe this glass topped cart
He himself, It's understood,
Is possessed OF all things good.
And this fairy prince! Is he
Glad compound OF pride and glee:
All, not so! Methinks he irowned
As he passed the JOY around!
That he wears a shabby coat
is a thing OF little note;
But it hurts me much to view
A shabby disposition too!
Childish ignorance may see
Heaven where his cart may be,
Put his voice is dreary knell.
Does he know his goods too well;
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
ZINC TRUST CUTS HUGE MELON.

Newark, N AT a special meeting
of the stockholders of the New Jersey
Zinc Company the proposal of the board
of directors to increase the capital stock
from $lOOOOO00 to 100000 was APP
proved 1t is stated that the $25 5,0Oo,o ,oOo
new capital will be distributed to the
stockholders in the form of $50 per
cent stock dividend. Thus far this year
the directors have ordered disbursed $40
in extra dividends, $40 of which was
paid in January last and $50 was paid
on July Is
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
LOAN RATES ONLY $50 PER
CENT.

Chicago.-While hearing the bank
rrptcy case of worker earning $l4 a
week. Federal Judge Lands discovered
that the interest rates of Chicago loan
aoents is now only 4s0 per cent year.
He found that on loans of S. for a
month. 50, or 40 per cent interest, is
charged The court was assured that
this rate is much cheaper than formerly,
The workers wages had been assigned
until 1919 Judge Lands ruled that the
loan shark was entitled to 81 on claim
of $l5.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
NONUNION MINERS STRIKE.

Pinevlle, Ky.-Eight hundred miners
employed by the Continental Coal Com
pany are on strike for a 10 per cent
wage crease. These mines have operated
on the non-union basis, but the first
thing the workers did after walking out
was to hold mass meeting at the court
house and make application to join the
Mine Workers Union.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
CREAMERY WORKERS GAIN.

Boston.-The Creamery Workers Un-
ion has raiseI wages from 81 to So a
week and nearly 80 new members have
joined this local. Numerous conferences
were held with employers but the work
ers failed to secure conce ssions. A strike
resulted and after tie plants were CON-
pletely tied up three hours the employers
were wiling to settle
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31

can re done without effective protest
from the people of am American state
There is a disinclination to allow
such an opinion OF an American state or
OF its courts to take form, but when it
gets confirmation from the very defense
made by Rockefeller employees and by
yorng Rockefeller himself. being exam
ined by the federal industrial commits
sion, it is bound to be potent.
Colorado must be acutely terrorized
by fear OF radicalism to submit to dis
tortion of its orderly processes by men
who confess that they hold to theories
which even if wisely and benevolently
applied would drive the men subjected
to them to rebellion
Chicago.-The Chicago Journal says
that the Lawson case rs an offense
against every principle OF American jrr-
ispruderce' and that the Nation should
not rest Until 1T has overturned the in
dcfensibe conviction.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
RAILROADS VIOLATE LAW.

Des Moines, Iowa. - Officers of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen have asked
State officials to start legal proceedings
against the following railroads Mime
apolis & St. Louis; Chicago, milwaukee,
& St. Paul; Chicago & Northwestern
and the Great Western. 1t is charged
that the first three do not use standard
cabooses on freight trains and that the
latter road violates the headlight law
passed in 1907.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
A R:Te One.

Tie man who can figure ort when to
choose the deed which will mean a
feather in his hat and when to choose
that which will mean feather in his
nest is a mathematician. a philosopher
and a utilitarian.-Judge.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31

ably much greater advantages. if there
were no court at all. The lesson that all
this teaches is that according to our
economic strength shall we win indus
trial concessions
Building Laborers' Union has been
awarded penny an hour increase in
wages by the state arbitration court,
which notifies employers in other parts
of this state that the increase only ap-
plies to Wellington. The board refuses
to order that members of the union
be given preference when employers hire
building laborers, as these workers
struck iii 1913 during the consideration
of ain award.
"ln doing So, the board says, they
violated the fundamental purpose of the
industrial Cancellation and arbitration
act, which is the prevention of strikes
They have, therefore. forfeited any legi-
innate claim to preference, and the rsua
preference clause has been omitted from
the award
The preference clause. which under
the law the board may waive. is intend
ed to induce unions to accept the pro
visions of the concilaton act and hav,
their wages. hours, and working condi
tions set by law.
The building laborers struck in 1911
in sympathy with unionists who wer,
locked out by the shipping interests. ant
these workers are now called upon t,
pay the penalty.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
She Quit.

Mr. StyleS-Who were you speaking
to so sharply just now:
Mrs Stylos-The cook.
Did she sit I'D and take notice.
mo: she stood ND and gave notice.
Workers Statesman.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31
STATE TEXT BOOKS.

Sacramento, Col.-State officials say
California has saved $257 900 in one year
by printing its own school text books,
which is one-half the cost charged by
eastern manufacturers.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-07-31

This soitcns the skin, helps drying and
gives a glossy appearance. In Asia Mi
nor hot water on which swims a laver
OF olive oil is used.-New York Sun.