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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27

remained on deck throughout the en-
gagement, and with telephoto lens
obtained some remarkable views Of
the exploding shells and their effect
upon the buildings. "A she'll is seen
to strike, then a cloud of smoke arises
When the veil is lifted the building
has become a heap of ruins, frequent
ly burning like a bonfire. The specta-
cular effect is heightened by an aero
plane dropping bombs from the clouds
Other noteworthy pictures show a
Turkish vessel under fire. First the
shells are seen splashing in the water
all around her. The fountains Of
spray get closer and closer as the
Russian gunners get the range.
Showers of shrapnel then break over
her and little later she settles
heavily in the water and sinks.
1t is not exaggeration to call these
pictures truly wonderful.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27

Anna Maley, who has been secured
by the local Socialists to speak at A.
o. U. w. hall on Tuesday evening
Feb. LIST, is a unique and striking
lgure in the public life OF america, a
sort of Joan of Arc of Socialism.
Starting in life amid the Ehardships
and privations of the middle west,
she has served in the Socialist cause
in nearly every capacity up to candi-
date for governor in the State of
Washington. wheer in 1912 she polled
10000 votes. When merely "a child of
four in a family of eleven, the house
which she lived was burned down
md the family moved into a log
sranary where they lived for eight
FeaSr. This was in Minnesota, way
back in the seventies. AT The age of
thirteen Miss Maley left the farm and
went to Minneapolis to work for
board" and go to school. BY the time
she was sixteen she had completed
hree years in the high school, earn
,ng her way meanwhile in five differ
emit families. At seventeen she was
teaching country school. Later she
returned to Minneapolis and learned
stenography In the course of her
struggles as working girl and wo-
man, though unusually successful, she
came upon the Socialist movement,
its thought and program and very
soon Joined the party.
For the last fifteen years or more
she has been one Of the most active
and effective of the Socialist pro-
pagandist. She is not only q speaker,
but an organizer. writer student and
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
CONGRESS TO RIGHT WRONG

Washington, Jan. 27.-In adding
100000 to the appropriation for the
pay of letter carriers, and stating in
explicit language that hereafter there
shall be- no salary distinction between
the collection and delivery carriers,
the house committee on post Offices
and post roads has paved the way for
the restoration fthe salaries of mail
collectors who were reduced from
81 200 to $1,00 when Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson decided to establish a
lower grade Of pay.
The committees action sustains
the position of officers of the A. F. of
L., who assisted the National Fedora
ton of Post Office Clerks in an agita-
ton against Postmaster General Bur
Ieson's rule. In a visit to the post
Office executive, the trade unionists
made this statement:
'tAt no time in the history of the
oldest employees in the postal service
has the lines been drawn more tight
ly Carriers are overwhelmed with
weighty parcels; clerks, under the
two division plan, are compelled to
study twice as much at home in learn
ing distribution schemes. From the
lowest substitute to the highest SUI
pervisory there is little. if any slack.
This attempt of the department to
drive men beyond the limit of their
endurance and deprive thereby other
men from an opportunity of securing
work, is not likely to aid in the re-
storation of prosperous business con-
ditions, neither will it make for a
qualified, loyal, capable corps of pos
tai workers."
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27

projection of his films to back it up.
It seemed that he had bee following
as a free lance one of the Russian
armies and thus had secured these
pictures. Despite his lack Of official
backing he had succeeded where 80
many others had failed chiefly be-
vanced age appealed to the sympa-
thies of the Russian armies and thus
secured these pictures. They had pro-
vided him with food and shelter thru
the long marches, and had equipped
him with clothing adapted to the Sc
we're cold weather. He had taken pic
lures until his stock of film gave out,
and then had managed to make his
way to France. He was paid hand
some price for his negatives, and left
Paris announcing his intention of go
ing back to the eastern front to Sc
cure others.
Shortly before Henry Ford charter,
ed his peace ship" he was invited to
see these pictures in New York, and
they made a very strong impression
upon him. How much they had to
do with the formation of his plans is,
of course, unknown, but that they
helped to give expression to his ideas
upon war is not to be doubted. The
horror of seeing human bodies lying
uncared for in the deep snow and
heaped by the hundreds at the edge
of the long trench dug to receive
them, is enough to make anyone a
peace advocate.
From a pictorial standpoint the
best scenes are those showing the
Russian fleet in action in the Black
Sea, bombarding the Turkish towns
along the shore. The camera man
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
WISCONSIN, unIoNlsTs

Milwaukee, Wis, Jan. 27.-At its
semi-annual session the executive
board of the Wisconsin state fedora
ton Of labor appropriated $1,000 for
the purpose of placing organizers in
the field for organization and affilia-
ton work to be carried on during
the 1eyt fivesmonths.
Label agitation circulars will also
be sent out. These will urge trade
.unionists to concentrate their energies
4awsrd Increasing the use of union
label products. Local organizers are
instructed to call meetings Of the rep
resentatives of the label trade unions
and organize a local label trades com
mittee. Deputy organizers are In
structed to give this subject snecial
attention IN al localities Visited.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
STREET RAILWAY MEN


Following are the officers Of Local
No. 10S, A. A. of s. & e. r. E. Of A.:
President, C. e. Bartlebaugh; vice
president, II. ]. Carroll; recording
secretary w. E. Nickerson; financial
secretary, R. H. Crumley; treasurer,
Chas. Sonnefeld; sentinel, Chas.
Vented; warden, julius Norteman;
conductor, ]. d. Moore; executive
board members, Island Barn, Edward
keenan,, w. L. Westhaver; City Rail-
way division. J. C. Stump, VIM.
Kessler: Elm Grove division R. L
Blake, Geo. Groves: MoundsvilIe divi-
sion. e. E. Sarlysle: Pan Handle divi-
sion. Martin Oates: delegates to. o.
v. T. & L A.. J.. N. Furbee. G. 3.
BaFtlebaugh. Edw. Kennon, II. J. Car
ROLL H. r. Bell, A. b. Crumley, II. L.
Ran. John Foster.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
OPPOSE STATE BOARDS RULING


Worcester, Mass, Jan. 27.-Union-
lists of this city resent the action of
the state board of Cancellation and
arbitration in issuing Certificates Of
normality'' to the Norton Grinding
company and the. Leland Clifford COM
pany,- whose machinist employees are
on strike.
The state law provides that where
a strike exists the employer, when ad-
vertising for workers, must state that
strike exists. The state board, how
ever, has power to exempt an employ
e rfrom this provision when it is
found, after an investigation, that
normal conditions prevail in the
plant.
The machinists have been striking
for better. working conditions, and
have maintained pickets at both these
places. The strikers insist that the
boards certificates were based solely
on information given by these con-
Germs. It is agreed that the plants
have full complement of workers
such as they are, and that when the
claim of normal conditions is made it
is based on outputs during the recent
dull times and not on the capacity
output which is possible today if in
competents and strikebreakers were
not employed.
Trade unionists declare that under
the boards order anti-union concerns
coul ddefeat every strike that was
ever started in this state by simply
loaning their non-unionists for one
month to each plant involved SO its
output could assume normal" proper
lions. With the exchanging of these
strikebreakers the purposes of the
law would be defeated and the struck
plants could use THE "no-strike" state
ment of state officials in their recruit
ing campaign for more strikebreakers.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS

Chattanooga, Tenn, Jan. 27.-The
Quarterly court of this county has or
dered an appropriation of $4,000 for
widows pensions, to become available
July l.. This is the maximum appro-
priatien in counties where juvenile
courts are held. The act was passed
by the last legislature and provides
for a pension of SO per month for
the eldest child-under Is and SIS ner
month for each additional child. Pen,
sions will be under the supervision
of Juvenile courts.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
LoNGSHoREMEN GAIN

Baltimore, Jan. 27.-A threatened
and better working conditions for
over 1000 longshoremen in this city.
Under the new agreement, both day
and night. worker swill receive in
.creases of 21a and III cents an hour;
time and one-half on legal holidays;
double time on Sundays, Christmas
Day, New Years and July 4.
So-cAled ''shylocking," heretofore
prevalent>among foremen, whereby
money was extorted from the men I'M
der various pretenses, will be abolish
ed and offenders severely penalized.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
news 0Ff1l
MOVIES
PAIHE's THE HORRORS OF

PATHE'S "THE HORRORS OF
WAR''-REMARKAeLE PICTURE
'rThe Horrors of War;" three real
picture which Pathe will release on
January 18th, well lives up to its title.
The scenes shown, most of them, diff
fer from the sort exhibited in the
various news weeklies and convey in
a most emphatic manner an idea as
to what war really means. All Of
them are remarkable, but some Of
them especially impress the observer,
among them the sinking of the Turk
ish vessels by the Russian fleet and
the bombardment of various villages
along the shore, the gathering of the
hundreds of dead from the battle
fields and their being dumped in
heaps at the edge of the burial
trenches by scores of carts.
1t is interesting to know the source
from which many of the pictures
came. There wandered into the Paris
offices of Pathe Freres month or
two ago an elderly individual in seedy
clothes, his sole baggage battered
camera case and camera, and few
rolls of films in can which had once
contained oil. The story he told was
SO unbelievable that it required the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
FEST WAGES az LAW

Boston, Jan. 27.-At the hearing be-
fore Supreme Court Judge DeCourcy
to compel laundry proprietors to pro-
duce books to prove they are paying
the minimum wage, attorneys for the
defense announced they would test
the legality of the Jaw creating the
state minimum wage commission.
Judge DeCourcy suggested that this
point be waived for the present, as
the United States supreme court is
considering the Oregon minimum
wage law.
Under the Massachusetts act the
decision of the wage commission is
not mandatory.
Little Rock, Ark, Jan. 27.-The de-
cision of the United States Supreme
court in the Oregon minimum wage
law case will have a bearing on the
minimum wage law passed by the last
state legislature. This law. provides
for a minimum wage of $1.25 foNex-
,perienced female workers and $1.00 a
day for female workers. having six
months experience. The law was de-
clared unconstitutional last summer
by Judge Little of the Fort Smith
circuit court and the state officials
have appealed.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27

Attorneys for Pugh raised the ones
ton that the jury might have hastilv
agreed on a verdict in order to gaf
away and enjoy the Saturday ba,f
holiday, which lis legal in this STATE
The supreme court declined to be .
party to this original attempt 10
thwart justice. -..l y
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
COOPERS' UNION

This is the list of officers elected
for 1916 by Local No ga, Coopers' In
ternational Union of North America:
A. Drum. president; F. M. Weidman,
vice president; Peter Kossuth treas
urer; NJ. C. RAIDER, financial and cor
responding secretary. The local
meets on the first Thursday in each
month at Notes Hall, on Eoff street.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27
SATURDAY VERDICT LEGAL

Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 27-The state
supreme court has refused to review
he lndings of a Cincinnati jury.
Which awarded a woman verdict for
$500 against W. H. Puge on a note.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-27

n VERY QUART OF MILK that is pro
duced for us is from clean, healthy
cows. We inspect our producing dair-
les often and demand the following require
ments: Clean, Healthy Cows, Healthy Milk
ers with Clean Hands, Sterlized Milk Pals,
Good Sanitary Milk Houses.
We furnish them sterilized milk cans
which they use in forwarding their milk to
our plant Each can on it's arrival is in :
spected and tested. When the milk is passed
on by us we Pasteurize and cool it, after this
we bottle and cap it by automatic machin-
cry. The result: A clean, rich, pure, safe
milk for the children and all the family.
Avoid using milk that
lis handled carelessly.
Telephone, we'll leave
you milk that's right.
UNITED DAIRY COMPANY
Wheeling. Bellaire.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-03-10

Fur fue we'll bred Jersey cattle. at,
Tend Frank HiIis sale March "A. 81.
miles west OF pherlatowa. near
Bllmyar's Mil. 80 10 q Is It q y
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-03-10

.lcaal canned Days: National can.
ire1 Music Day National Canned
Drama Day National Canned En-
r.1- Day
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-03-10

1e- t. der who visited his
iaugh Pr Ar Melvin Edwards has
returned 70 berkeley Springs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-16

latent value of the sounds back or Hat
,eras and elsewhere a. means OF
cheap transportation during peace has
never vet been realized; while through
them. in time Of war. military craft
can quickly and safely pass, ready to
assemble with despatch at any desired
rendezvous. They arc both a second
line Of defence as we'll as possible lanes
OF distribution for the products OF the
Southern States 70 the Chesapeake and
the bays south thereof.
The most casual student, with a
chart % our Atlantic coast in one mana
and map % the water facilities de-
vcloped in Germany during the past
twenty wears In the other. will at once
corne 10 tho conclusion that not only
doe. the safety Of Washington, Nor
folk. PHILADELPHIA, New York and hos
ION depend upon interior nsVigabie
lines Of communication. but that TINS
country, by improving them should
follow fhf fAhUpi' " H''~fN
coyple an economic betterment with
possible war protection.
Tho next question which faces US IS
What should be the sequence OF the
work essential 20 create this marine
,,epcbg The answer naturally follows
that the preparatory work OF tho past
should be finished, and in the chalmers
where attack II most 20 be reared.
These channels are. as general RUE
a. or near the points where foreign
strategiyts have decided that the first
attack upon the United States VIII
centre. They exist from the Chesa-
peekc % Portsmouth, y. II.
In i77G. Lord Howe sailed into bos-
Ton. Driven from there, he anchored
g., New York harbor. and thence the
English feet sailed up the Delaware
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-16

add Means Of Defence and Increase Internal Revenue Naval
Improving the Country s InracoastaI Waterways

During the past year the applicants
for our marine training schools have
outnumbered the capacity Of the
quarters provided Country boys are
anxious to leave the farm for sailors
life.
The above are but a few example,
showing that the time is ripe for a
renewal Of sea power and the develop
mcnt OF secondary lines OF defence as
feeders by water, TO enlarged ports
The two subjects cannot be divorced.
The question next arises What por-
ton of our intracoastal channels
should first demand our attention? u
timately all the existing chain Of
waters parallel TO the Atlantic must
be united, each link connecting i'm
portant marine centres. The present
demands upon our treasury will not.
however. permit to-day such large
outlay; even the vast resources Of q
rich country are unequal to meet such
heavy expenses. We must pass by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-16

and Gay Head. and from Provincctown
north1srd. give a means Of defence
comparable, in larger way. 10 the
barbed wire entanglements Of western
France. A Acct OF submarines, tor
pedo boat destroyers, converted yachts
and war equipped motor boats might At
least delay the enemy while the land
forces assemble, over the railroads par
allel 20 Long Island Sound, for the de-
fence of our populous eastern states.
We would therefore seem to have ar
rived 1t the conclusion that, from the
point Of view Of military preparedness,
the portion OF our coast from New
York 20 Boston should be the first 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-16
By J. w. MILLER
.,sIieut. Comd'r, u. s. N.

o. reversal Of the old adage, IN
=, Of peace prepare for war IS JUS
"a The United States may not be
-.,.s in actual warfare, yet, the
-, world to-day being 50 closely
H.. together, hostilitieo in Europe
-. Affected to an alarming extent
=. ,,esent and future destiny Of this
try. We on this side Of the At
-, are both bonehting and sufef-
18th the rest Of humanity. Whether
o.. ~. We may be driven into actual
.-s.,, IS still an open question. Al
..,,,. however. We are free from the
,.,.,-ia and rancor always existing
,..r,en belligcrcnts. We arc there
a.. IN a position 70 shape our policy
.,-,v. 20 perfect our means Of defence
~.,lv and to prepare tho way com
.,,,ially for a larger sphere Of action
~ influence looking toward sane re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-16
PART OF THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY.

those that can more or less safely
wait combining our attention 70 the
ones of immediate necessity.
Before discussing them it is well 70
note, first. that no nation is blest, as
We are, with such numerous deep har-
bors as those along our eastern shores.
These harbors are source Of CONNER
cial power, but Of defensive weakness.
Interior Communication between them
is especially needful in time OF war
They need little improvement, but even
that little should be done in the order
CT thei= value 20 -. country at large
from a military point Of view.
Second, there remain the unde
veloped OF partially improved channels
extending for 1000 miles along the
Atlantic shore, and defended by the
natural rampant OF land and beach ly-
ing between them and the ocean. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-16

and took Philadelphia Eventually
French ships and Washington drove
the British feet from our shores. In
the War Of 1912 there was no Wash
ington 10 lead the raw militia, and our
Capitol was burned. The lack Of quick
transportation both by land and water
was partially the cause of our re-
verses during the second war with
England In 1898 the report that the
Spanish feet was about to attack US
caused an exodus Of people as well as
money from our Eastern cities toward
the interior History, therefore, proves
that quick transportation and improved
coastal channels may spell victory in
stead Of defeat in the future.
1t may be admitted, however. that
both time and money prevent the in
provement Of the whole Of this chain
Of waterways. If so. let US at least
make a beginning on that portion
where a trivial outlay gives the quick
est results both for commerce and de-
fence. and enlarge the present routes
between Philadelphia and Boston.
New Jersey is about TO render its as
sistance b. bearing some Of the eX-
pcnse OF deepening the canal between
the Hudson and the Delaware.
The President has given his sanction
TO the improvement Of He'll Gate so
that capital" ships can use Long Is
land Sound for quick transit between
our principal navy ward and Newport.
Such an improvement will also enable
commercial vessels at all times and OF
all drafts 20 take advantage of the
double entrance and exit TO and from
New York Harbor. The neglect Of ere
ating this deeper channel at this criti-
cal moment amounts almost TO a mill
tary crime.
If our Treasury cannot al the moment
provide the funds for the New Jersey
canal. and the one connecting the Del
aware with the Chesapeake, then we
should begin al New York and work
eastward, for il is a well known fact
that our war colleges consider Sandy
Hook. Nsrragansett Bay and Province
town the most vulnerable localities.
A foe occupying any one OF them
could collect any indemnity which
might be desired from the richest por-
ton Of our country. Therefore the
crying need for instant action hes
along the locality from New York to
the eastward. The shoals dredged at
the western end Of Long Island Sound,
We have a deep marine trench extend
ing 70 the upper reaches OF Buzzard's
Bay.
We And there that private corpora
ton has dug a channel twenty-five feet
deep. and if this were dredged to an
additional depth Of fifteen feet our
marine trench from New York 20 Bos-
ton would be complete.
A few mines between Montauk Point
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-16

receive our attention. The inside route
Will then permit the shifting OF vessels
OF the largest draft from east 10 west
over a distance OF 254 miles instead OF
400 miles by the Nantucket route. where
they will face the dangers of the sea
and possible enemy.
This inside line will necessitate at
least one less capital" ship, as q
dresdnought stationed at New York
can reach Boston, through protected
channel, in a few hours. A dread
nought costs SIS, 900 900. which is about
what the expense Of the inner trench
would be-
Other savings can be made, in view
Of the present emergency, by allowing
certain ofshore projects to wait for
a year or two these contemplated pro-
jects amounting to about 100000.
The commercial necessity Of smooth.
shorter routes along our coast, in order
to avoid the dangers OF Hatteras and
Cape Cod, is OF even more importance
The loss OF life and property in those
storm ridden regions is about million
dollars per snnum. The coastwise com
merce should avoid especially the in
tricate Vineyard Haven route, where
fog and storm are constant and delays
20 shipping great
When the Eric Canal is finished. neat
year, the cruises OF its barges must
end at New York; the four millions Of
tons TO be carried by them cannot take
the outside passage. Whereas. through
the inner one, their voyages can be ex-
tended 70 Boston.
Vessels between Boston and the Pa
cific, via the Panama Canal, will also
save much time and danger if they can
take the route through Long Island
Sound, New York Harbor and Sandy
Hook.
1t IS not generally known that the
lowest estimate OF the above mentioned
combined coastwise tonnage is over
thirty millions per annum, being more
than that passing through the Suez
Canal.
It will therefore be seen that the
country, Il rightly informed, must ap-
precia,e and realize the necessity,
from a commercial point OF view,
alone, OF developing protected water
ways along the Atlantic coast in the
near future. and deepening the inside
line at the earliest possible moment.
For every reason, therefore, the
sooner the governments recent record
Of quick dredging at the Isthmus is
repeated on our northeastern coast the
better fc- economic efficiency and
preparedness
This completed. work upon the ship
canal through New Jersey and the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal should
speedily follow.
The question % improved waterways