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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-04
IL

FOR SALE-TWo beds, bed touches,
%one-burner gasoline stove and kit.
chen ware. Nielsen's Millinery
y " S-4-3t
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WANTED-To buy, a barn. Phone
714L. + 8-3.6t
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WANTED-Messenger boy. Apply
Western Union. Il
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FOR SAlE-One hand.pOWer and n
water power washing machine. Will
sell cheap. Inquire 307 Seventh st.
So. Phone 355. 8.3-3t
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ROOMS o RENT

FOR RENT-Modern furnished rooms
at 422 Fourth st. Mrs. A. N. Les.
lie 8-1.5t
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-22

Germany. The negotiations have been
long drawn out because Mr. Mea gsler
and his companion will not accept a
! la me compromise but insist on full
compensation or release of the CON
signments in which the bacon may
still remain sound
Che same informant of the presi-
dent gave me to understand that he
had not Vet played his last trump,
namely the refusal TO export meat to
England in any circumstance. He
that Is to say. the above named two
Strengthening houses, controlled the
Argentine market. At present they
are paraiyzed here also by the action
Of the British admiralty. for the lat
ter has commandeered most OF the
English freight ships intended to
transport meat from Argentina II
England stood face to face with the
danger of not being able to get any
meat from the United States or AR
gentina. she would soon give in
What will Immediately result here
from England's making cotton contra
band il Is hard to say. The anger of
those interested in cotton will be
enormously increased; on the other
hand. the fear Of threatened contisca-
ton may make tffe leaders OF the cot
ton trust so yielding that they may
against their better judgment agree
to the sale of the greater part at
present simply en- bloc to England.
who would he in position in future
10 control the whole cotton market
and on peace being declared. to force
on the whole world fantastic prices
for this essential raw material.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-22

lConttaued from First Page)
branch council, and agrees that the
present ward lines and the present
membership OF council shall remain
but il agrees that there are many good
points IN the associations plan, which
may be Incorporated in the ordinance
which is to be adopted and forwarded
TO Council
Two Amendments Presented
At the beginning last night. Wynd-
ham X. Meredith. on behalf of the
Civic Association. presented two
amendments to the original plan as
submitted by that body One was TO
add a paragraph under the head Of
Franchises. which provides that any
franchise ordinance. or measure
granting special privileges to corpora
tons or others. shall be first passed
upon by the Mayor and the heads
of departments and the efficiency
board. and the same shall report back
to Council with such recommended
tons az they shall think proper. The
Council shall not act upon such re-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-22

concentrations for two weeks, and
such ordinances shall become opera
tive thirty days after having been
passed by Council
Another amendment to the pro-
posed plan OF the association pro-
Nides that the law governing elections
be amended so that in municipal pri-
mares for Mayor, there shall be a
prescribed preferential ballot, whereby
the voter may declare his first, sec
ond and other choices. or else there
may be double primary. whereby
the choice OF Mayor may not be by a
plurality. but by a jority.
These amendments, as we'll as other
sections of the proposed plan. will
I be considered at future meetings of
the committee.
Following Mr. Meredith Council
man Pollock introduced his resolution
70 limit the considerations of the COM
mittee TO changes In the charter
rather than 70 the consideration of
a new form of government
He said II would be utterly i'm
possible TO get into shape IA charter
providing for a change In form of
government In time for the coming
Legislature. 1t was shown by City
Attorney Pollard that the charter
might be amended. without reference
u the people. anu that slch acuon by
the committee might be In readiness
for presentation to the Legislature
Citizen Members of the Committee
McAdams twho appeared for the first
time) Pollard, Bemiss and Waller
stein- agreed thar IL would be best TO
go Into the amendment TO the charter
rather than TO enter into the effort to
change the form OF government.
When II was shown that ethe com
mittee was unanimously leaLing to
amendments the Civic Association
members present realized that their
proposed plan had no more show than
a SNOWFALL IN Cuba.
After this had been decided upon,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-22
the question as to representation in
Council was presented
Council Looks Good 10 Him

/
| Mr.. Christian suggested that Council
rs 1t stood looked pretty good to him
Mr.. Pollock thought there should be
more wards, say six, with Two alder
men and three councilmen from each.
That would decrease the present mem
! bership BY but two but IL would limit
! he territory in which a candidate
would have To canvass, and ID would
result in better men coming to the
/ front.
| Mr.. Fuller said that there were eight
wards two or thre years age when
/ the city was much smaller than II
! now is, and then he asked MIR Pollock
/ IL he didn't think the present repre-
sentation in Council was as good II
not better, than that when there were
more wards
Mr.. Pollock simply lauehted and Mr..
| Jones from the chair. said he could sac
no reason for charging the number
OF wards. The people hardly knew
now where they lived the wards had
! been changed so often in the past few
years 49,
The result was that the committee
stands committed TO the hicameral
council the present ward lines and
the present membership. and II also
commits Itself to an amendment TO the
charter, rather than change in the
| form OF government
The civic Association loses the Are.
round. while the advocates Of con.
,nuation OF the present form of gov
eminent with few changes got frSt
blood.
The entire committee was present
including Chairman Jones Aldermen
Adams. Christian, Powers and Fuller;
Couneilmen Peters Radcliffe Haddon.
Citizens semlss. wailerstein, Meredith,
Pollard and McAdams
The committee adjourned about nstd-
night TO meet again on Thursday night,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-22
PAPERS CARRIED

Il L
ett IttV Uattttt5kU
tt7nNHoe0 FROM F1i% fese
----------~---- -----------~--
site having promoted oar interests
out here IN such 7ealoas and sue
cessiH' manner
Letters written hv Captain Won
i'@Ee5H 'Nr German aIh}aty ataThe
g. Washington. the report Of the theft
o. A8f Albert papers, which later
Tsfe punished with The Bridgeport
- '@tffff'a ~ TIRE t'71rrt7a~" Is
M NffgHj @frePltue patents. and
s@srtsS N" P9-SfofotN q mpinf
on me Norwegian government The
'ot2ai y nich - wing here useless
These ldt"ttc Yankees.
eapA4N Won Fapru BAYS Ms respects
- iheSs idtotif ankees IN letter
te BIS wife ~ watch ne says that "'t
t~en2S qaits GNetF thar We shalt meet
aga r soo0 and NAT the Smiling Of
- Al iA'4f ma wei t'r he Ii s.
s(ras but expressing the hope that
FRs DANCE VII blow over Fe refers
e ~" German victories on he east
w 3oni ara sdds y always sat "a
THESE 20 ot!F Yankees They better hold
the2T TONGUES rs better 10 look ~
a. mrs hero3sm full - admiration.
-af trends - ne army are quite dif
f~FeHf in thiS way
foi4o"
tue Nrchi2atd Documents.
Document 7. \ memorandum signed
oN SNalp Eoh FapeG. military AT
IAene ~ 80" German en oassY At Wash
.nefnn. @nd ~ captain Won Fapeu :
1&H6WfittnE Us contains - note pre-
xentee ia The state Department be the
German am es ssa dor on lune IA IA
%niSa a legged attempts on the part
OF me German government 70 par
chase arms and ammunition plants 1T
'he nHed STATES are denied The
mater ~ described A. a deliberate
eToft 70 "inhF9lt he German govern
neni with the United States and To in
faenc@ public opinion hN alleging
virtual tbresf On The part OF Ger
ranH
Document cipher dispatch from
tapfasn Won tapea To the general stan
IN Berlin,
Document \ letter from Ambas-
saoar van BeTnstprn 10 Secretary Ian
sing dated EsdaFhurst. August g. IN
which the a nhassa dor Ak plains the
cure or che lett@rs alleged 30 have
been stolen ''n iterr Aibou and
MADE puhllf tsr he World.
DorumenT letter from 4 III ba ~
sader Dumha to Archibald. reading,
My dear Mr. Archibald ! am sending
you few letters, making use Of your
have them forwarded by orr legation
Al The Hague or he embassy 81 Der
lin. Please express ny com pIIme nts
70 Hohen}oe Jagok snd All friends ~
This letter IL In English
Letters of Introduction.
Document a letter from Anbas-
sador Non Bernstorn 20 Archibald
dated ceda August 10 and
transmitting three letters OF introdne-
ton. 1t reads
DR. AR Archibald | send Won here-
With The three letters ~ Introduction
which YOU asked for and hope they
may he Of use 10 YOU 4 heard with
pleasure OF your wish once more to
return to Germany and Austria after
having prom oted oitr Interests out here
In such a zea Ions aud Succession man
ner
The three letters of lntrodusttop re
ferred Ia are
First an open letter IA The German
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-22

"SecoHd1y the writer Of these lines
would begin labor novel TO that
spaper. much on the lines OF SIN
eisirs celebrated story This might
b~ published In Other local Hungarian
SloSak and German newspapers Also
here We arrive at The point that
turalfy Ne shall also require other
newspapers, American and Magyr The
Sepszava we ord of the Peopie" viii
undoubtedly he comuelied willingly or
unwfiiiaei% TO follow the movement
initiated by Freedom. for il is pleas
ihs he entire Hungarian element in
America and is an ahsoiut-is patriotic
act 20 which that open journal the
Neps1svs. could not adopt hostile at
nind- OF course 1t would be another
question as 10 What extent and what
energy and devotion that newxpaner-
would adhere 10 this course of action
whhoui regard 20 Other Influences lust
So IL IL objectionable 10 what extent
ntAet Local Iataiotlr- pa f.sr@-aa .,ia- se-
fhere II great reason why in splu az
their patriotism Amefies Hungarian
papers hitherto nave shruuk from
.afilstikg saeh action. rhsir position
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-22
These Gdi.sic Yankees.

CapIaln Won Pspeu pavS his respects
= hsSe tdtogie Yankees IN letter
- BIS wife. in watch he says that 81
gems qaits Gae}y tha' We shalt meet
aea soon ara fhst the sinking Of
re Aar}st4r ma well t~ the last
srras but expressing the hope that
Tae danger vii blow over He refers
- ths German victories ou she east
e. sFont ard adds Il always sat "a
these % of!c Yankees thee better hold
tHe8r tongues. It's better 10 look At
a. hrs hereism fBii II admiration.
M friends "a the army are quite diff
f@Eenf in this WAY
Iae Important paris of he doseiet
frttr-n
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19
EFFICIENCY-WHAT DOES IT
MEAN?
A Query For the Laboring Man to
Answer

We are hearing nowadays whole
lot on the subject of deficiency"
Let us illustrate.
A certain employer Of labor eX-
planned as follows: Il will pay SIS
a week to the typesetter who can set
up $4,000 ems a day. | will pay $13
a week to the man who will set 1000
ems per day, and SO a week to the
man who will set 5000 ems per day.
The question was put up to him:
What do you expect to accomplish
by this arrangement"
He answered, You see, the $40
man vii. work to catch up with the
SIS man and the $l3 man will hustle
to catch up with the SIS man."
How about the SIS man? Oh, we'll,
he is doing all that is humanity pos
sible anyhow-nobody could exceed
his limit"
Thus we see "efficiency' means rid
ing the laboring man with spur and
whip
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19
TRIBUTE TO HARDIE

May | say in passing just word
of tribute to the memory OF one who
was a great figure in the Information
al movement, and to whom the seem
ing collapse of the International move
ment brought death. / refer to Com
rade Keir Hardie. | suppose there is
nothing I value more in this life than
the memory of fairly close friend.
ship with Keir Hardie. No man more
traduced, no man more maligned. yet
no man more faithful to the working
class ideal, no man has kept his faith
more untarnished, and there was no
price this world could offer that could
buy Keir Hardie. His memory, | hope
will ever be kept green, at least on
the part of labor. as one who ever
marched breast forward with his face
to the foe fighting the cause of labor
and those who struggle and toll
Let us remember the war in which
we are particularly engaged. Our foe
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19
THE UNION LABEL

It disarms opposition and conquers
prejudice.
I, commands the respect and pro
lection OF the courts and state.
1t is invulnerable to the injunction,
the lockouts and the blacklist
1t supercedes the boycott by con-
cenuating the purchasing power up
on union products
1t facilitates organization by in
creasing the demand for the products
of organized workers.
1t constitutes recognition of the
union by making certain the recogni-
ton of the union products
II protects the trade union against
attack by constituting the purchaser
the real employer
1t makes the strike unnecessary by
making compliance with union con
ditions an advantage in business
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19
LETTER OF THANKS

Everett, Nov 18th. 1915.
Dear Mr. Mills
! wish you would kindly thank all
the boys for their kindness to me dur
ing my campaign I was somewhat
disappointed at the results, yet the
showing made was very gratifying,
especially when We consider that this
was my first attempt in politics and
so many false impressions to over
come | played the game square and
have nothing to regret only the fail
ure to get the office / hope TO get
better acquainted with you all, and
even though | never enter politics
again you will always find me in sym
pathy with unionism first, last and all
the time Again thanking you. and
assuring you that at any time ] can
ever be Of any assistance to the union
men OF this city you have only to
command me
Fraternally yours,
C. f. STURGEON.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19

During the first two weeks of No
yember inheritance tax collections of
the state tax commission have ex-
ceeded $4,000 being i'm excess of the
total collections for an entire month
for more than two years, while es.
cheat collections also have been large.
This is taken as another indication of
revival of business and easier finan-
cial conditions, as many estates find
it more advantageous, when money is
scarce, to allow the per cent. delin.
quency tax to accrue than to make
prompt settlement
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19
A LIE NAILED

| want to make it emphatically clear
that whatever may be the causes
that may sunder us for the moment
the British working men, like the
working men of all countries, have no
quarrel with their fellow working
men, for the same forces operate in
America as operate in the old coun-
try: it is necessary that some con-
tradiction at least be given to the
various false reports that know have
been circulated in your midst. The
people who will traduce and attack
the name and the cause of labor know
no geographical boundaries, no racial
separation; they are to be found in
America England Germany - the
whole world over. So when l hear
that you have had reports about
drunken workmen, so drunken they
would not go on with their work, l
tell you most emphatically there was
never greater lie forged on the dew
lis anvil than that, When they charg-
ed us with that the labor people said:
Very we'll, if drink stands in the way,
let the nation take over the drink, "
but they did not rise to the challenge;
the vested interests were too power
full
The delay of munitions. None have
spent themselves more, none have Civ
en- more of their help than the work
ing men, When mistakes are made
by diplomats and by politicians an
excuse must be found somewhere You
can fill the rest for yourselves.
Now the two strikes. will only
refer to them, because my colleague
and myself have arranged to divide
our address. He will deal more par
ticularly with questions arising from
the war. The strikes that have been
waged over in the old country during
the period of war, have arisen out of
the very highest and Hottest ideas of
patriotism They have been waged
by men, not for selfish interests, but
| by men who have said: IF our coun-
! try is in danger we will serve, but
we are not going to work that more
bloated profits shall be made out OF
the needs and necessities of our
time" And the result has been that
the government had to step in and
take control and limit the profit made
| by the profit-mongers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19

organized capital-knows nothing of
sentiment, knows nothing of geo.
graphical or racial division, although
they do know sufficient to use all of
us as a means of dividing the work
ers when it suits themselves. But we
need to be alive to see that under no
circumstances and under no condi-
tons shall we allow them to play us
one against the other any longer. How
long before the workers of the world
realize that between them there is no
difference? We are all of one flesh
and blood; we are all striving for the
same ends, the same ideals and the
same aspirations are ours. Shall it
not be that we shall sweep aside
those who would seek to divide us,
that we shall
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Which in sleep have fallen on you
Shake to earth your chains like dew,
Ye are many, they are few"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19

it must not be left to the politicians,
it must not be left to the diplomats;
labor must be there, labor must de-
mand it's place in all the deliberations,
in all that shall be done, to see if we
cannot find way whereby such folly
and such wickedness shall be impos-
sible in the days to come America,
yours is the place to help, to guide, to
lead that way if you will. We appeal
to you
Now my message, my greeting to
you, | bring to conclusion. Let me
tell you that over on the other side
we cannot hear from some of the
countries-but no doubt in those other
countries there are men who are sad
dened and sickened at heart, who real
iZe they are in for a terrible business
that must be gone through, but who
are longing to return to the ways of
peace and the ways of concord and
the ways of comradeship, that again
we will gather in our international
gatherings and take part and lot in
molding the destinies of men and ma.
tions; that the lessons we are learn.
ing, aye, that we have learned, shall
bite deep into our hearts and our
consciences and we will say: 'Never
again shall this thing be possible.
never again shall civilization, human.
ity, our International, be outraged by
such a spectacle as this" And who
shall say the poet was wrong who
sang:
A deep equality of aim postponing
There shall come from out this noise
OF strife and groaning
A broader and juster Brotherhood;
All selfish seeking to the general good
There shall come a time when each
shall to another
Be as Christ would have him be
Brother unto Brother.
There shall come time when Broth.
erhood grows stronger
Than the narrow bands which now
contract the world,
When the cannons roar and the trum.
pets blare no longer.
The ironclads rust, the battle flags
are furled;
When the bars Of speech, OF creed
and race which sever
Shall be fused in one humanity for.
ever.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19
VOICES NEED OF INTERNA-
TIONAL SOLIDARITY

During the Wednesdays session of
the Convention of the A. f. of H., Bro.
&c. G. Ammon, fraternal delegate from
the British Trades Union Congress, a
member of the Postal Clerks of Great
Britain, was introduced. Brother Am
mon said, in part.
Mr.. Chairman, Comrades and Friends:
1t is with peculiar pleasure this
year. above all years, that as a repre-
sentative of the British Trades Union
Congress | bring you greetings from
your brothers across the sea. | want
at the outset, to express my apprecia-
ton of the hospitality and the kind
ness and the many things | have seen
and learned during the few days |
have been on your shores. Coming
from a little island of some account,
one marvels at the distances one can
travel in your land. | have looked up
on what to me are the wonder cities
of Denver and Salt Lake-reared, as
it seemed to me, in the midst of des-
erts: and upon this city in which we
are now gathered, but a few short
years ago wiped away by terrible
catastrophe and now risen phoenix
like from it's ashes more brilliant and
beautiful than ever before. AS l re-
cite this am reminded that, after all,
great as these wonders are, without
the skilled hand and brain of labor
they would never be. The laborer of
this land and all lands is the man and
the woman who rears society, who
will ultimately mold society, and in
whose hands and in whose lap is the
destiny of the whole world.
Since I have been on your shores
have heard it remarked that you did
not expect there would be a represen-
tative from Great Britain this year
venture to say, sir, that never before
in the history of the whole of organ
lied labor was it more necessary that
one country to another. At this time
when nations are at war and ambas-
sailors of all nations are in the courts
Of neutral countries, why should it be
different in regard to labor? For my
part, I see no reason why representa-
tives of the working men from Ger
many and Austria and France and all
the countries, should not be gathered
on this platform in neutral territory
today
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-19
FOUR MILLIONS STRONG

Perhaps you would like to get some
further idea of the strength of trade
unionism in Great Britain. A day or
two before | left | received the latest
government report of those organiza-
tions which register under the
Trade Union Act. 1t is not compul-
sorry to register, but it gives certain
assurances and safeguards, and many
OF these 655 made returns. They rep
resented a total of 100000 1t is
safe to say there are at least 100000
organized trade unionists on the 9th
er side, roughly speaking, one-tenth of
the whole population The trade
unions funds increased by some $4,-
100000 during the year. The total
funds amount to $32,000,000 The in,
come~for the year amounted to $685.
100000 The expenditure for unem-
ployment amounted to $4,000 600; dis,
putes, $2,300,000; sick and accident,
$3,500,000; miscellaneous, $2,500,000.
So far the trade unions are fair
ly well fixed and we'll established and
believe me, they are needed for in
years to come there will be a trial
and testing of organized labor in all
countries as we'll as our own which
will put their funds and their organ
izations to the severest test.
Now, while this war is going on
when the whole world seems to have
run mad, it is we'll that we gather to
gether in conventions of thoughtful
men and women to give attention to
the other questions and the other
problems which are as vital and which
are more enduring even than the most
devastating war The unending war
between capital and labor still goes
on and it will be well not to lose
sight of it. If anything is necessary
! l will appeal to you, my comrades
that although for a time we are sund
cred, we shall not allow by any means
that the light of the international
shall go out; we must keep alive the
International if we would keep alive
ON,