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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13

8riten geben &crIuit 8l.
2onOon 12. Wloi. n Die 3eut'
IAen eroberten DDnnerItag glbeno in
ser @egen0 bon 8ermeIes britilAc
Sdiltengr1ben auf elmer 8ront bon
cttpa 500 garos; OoA Elm @eeen-gln-
griff Der britii6en Streitfr0ttc
bra6te oieielben pieoer in Den 8eiib
cines Gbeiles Der berloreneu Stel.
lung.
Dies miro in ser nohitebenoen
offioieaen 01ittbeililne oes britiiden
Observation-Disclosures gemeloet:
0@eitern 9[beno eelong es oem
5cinOe, na6 ciuem iebr beftigen
Reimbursement 500 Dor0s unierec
S9iitengrdben norooitlib bon Der.
meaes cin8unebmen.
g9ir mndten ieooh ndbreno Der
Oeo6t eincn @egenongriff, Der llnS
iuieOer in oen 9eiib zines SbeiIes
Ger Ocrlorcncn 8oiitionen iebte.
Sellte fam es nidt 5u neuen SSns
fonterie g[ftionen, 0oh es Ipielten iib
lcb6oftc 9lrtiGerie- glftionen ob.
@eiter noroli6, gesemiber Guin.
dp, 6oben mir Die feiuoli6en @oiitio.
nen boniboroirt.
sym llebrigen CAB eS MIR rnbeoell-
tenoe 9(rtiuerie- -0uelle ouf beridie.
oenen &bciIen Der 6ront, pornebm.
lid in Der @egeno bon SbieppoL
g3uuiIle ct. Gooit, @oiiines, Door
mc5celc, ct. Gloi uno oitli9 bon
Ypern."
Derfran5oiiid) G % Omit
tags 8eriht.
Goris, -. W}oi. Ser beuta
O2o9mittae auseege6ene onitli6e
sSroutbcridJt meIoet, Dab geIterngladt
5pei gcrIpbr Der Gellti6en sic am
TO- W2oi bon oen 8ran3oien eeuonl.
nenen 5telungen ain peItli6cn 9(b-
bang 0es Siieels vEooter @loun~
8uriid5uerobern our9 Oas 6euer DER
frau30iiiben 9lrtilerie pereitelt foiir.
Den.
S,ni 9lbidnitt oeS 9luocoitrt ggol.
oes lit oie glrtilerie t6dtig uno Die
geIdieBung in Dem 9e8irf bon Tous
olin1ont gour miro forteeiest
Ger 20 dliiiieloes arie-
geS
goris. -. 0lai. senator
@erenser ibreibt i'm ,,0lotiu. Ser
5hIiiiIel oes &rieges Iiegt in oern
geTb oes 9riep I6oles 5ipiideu
Weroun uuo Wlee. Set 9eqinn oes
S{rieges 1T 5rnufreidL nod Dem Der.
luIt oes griep 8boles, qe5piingen
eeiueien fait ieinen gan5en @iienbe.
bari aus GnglonO uno glnerifo 5u
6e5ieben, m6breuo 1euti4ldno mad
geIetiine oes san5en 8rieD Sbo.
les i'm Stanoe mar, ieiue idbrIidc
Giienproouftion Inn 2l.000,000 Tou.
nen 3n perme6reu Gies erfldrt oie
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13

lNOrtIetMna iiele 2. esllel
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13
glnOraus fir GOnDsntluodlc.

G6icngo. ~. Wlai. Die $50.
tells III Chicago BADEN bcreits alle
periiigbaren 3immer iiir Die mit 0ew
T. SUM begittnenoe @onpanhuode
Ueraeben mo mer nod feinc 8malcr
beiteIt bat nuiB iid5 in eincn 4rlpai
ballie einquartieren Sobn Mauana.
fer mar elmer Der Grlten. meIde iih
inn cine Nriuatpo1uune mia6eit
or bat ein Sous init 1a 3inueru
fir iidb nno ieine 9egleiter eeulietbet.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13
9m lIOa6(tn.
llusufrieOeu6eit In Sta.
lien.
---
sStalieniidJe Sruppen ba-
ben genteMtert.

RuuogebuHgeH gegen ben aouis Bic
tor emanuel unO gegen Sort.
iesuna oes arieges. 0ieOOIli-
ton IN ser SouptitoOt 9Sortl-
gals ousgebrodeu. = Eruppeu
rcbeaireu. 9lrlenaIe in grunO
seItedt. Waeiterei uuf boaan-
oii6eu ariegsi6iffeu.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13

bern mnr0eu bon lmierer 9lrtiaerie
sur 5Iudt getrieben
Sn oen @dNern pon Snyrna er
ibien elm feinoIider @}ouitor ua5e
Der Sniel aepiteu un0 er0iinaie
6euer. ltniere @otterieen arpioerieu
oas 6euer iino ser @onitpr muroe
aetrofieu; ieiu Sdornitein uno iciu
Wlalt mlrocu 5erit6rt. Gas iatnolide
Sdiff iteute oaralf oas 6euer Elm
rmo tu5r in Der 9fidtlng aui @1pii
lene 5uriid"
gS euu 5nei 0afieIbc tbuu.
(DrabtIos nab ea9ulue)
8erlin IL. Nlui. Cine bcl,.
tigc gInfiiuoigrug Der olIeberiee-
y}ahridten- 9lgentlir4 iagt.
Ser oiterreibiih-uuaariihe &ai
iagieroampfer oGubronuit~ iit pon
einem iein0Iiben llnterieebooi iH
gloriotiihen @leer torpeoirt luo per.
ientt pproen. Der Dampier mar
nidt ormirt uno mlroe obne ieoe 0Qr.
berige @ornung torpeoirt.~
(@ine @ariier 2epeihc bonn i0
9lai botte eemeloet ooB Gin iron3o.
liides llnterieeboot inl luterer
ooriatiihen W(eer einen fcinOlihen
Eransportoampfer perieufte ser init
ariegsmaterial 6eIa0en mar.
Der Gampfer o0ubroDnif" Bate
eincu &ouminbalt BON 423S Iomen
mo muroe I'M Sabre 1912 Ia 9lep.
cattle gebout. Gen lebten 9erid)tcn
nod befano Der Gampfer iid in aon
itoutinopcI)
gSur eine informclle
glnfroge.
@oibingtom 12. @lai.
Staats. Sefret1r 2onling tiin0igtr
6eute an Dab CT oen 9oti9after Ger
arb in Berlin ngewieieu babe. ia9
bel Der oeutiden 9tesierlnG iIber oie
Seitrafung 81 erfun0i9eu melde
Dem &ommonoanten oeS llnterlee
bootes 81 Ebeil gemoroen ipi pcl
Dies Den 0ampfer 0Suiiegr torpe.
0irte.
Sr. 2oniing betontc, oaB rs lid
niHt I'M cine forineIle glnfra9e An
Die oeuti6e 9Regiertmg banoele.
3 i'm nelter @oripon6 4 iia
LID gefnn0en
@aibington ~. 9loi
Der ndhltc Shritt Der Scr. 5taaten
il ben llnterbanoIungen nit Ben Gl-
tente.aaiirten biniihtlid ser 9e-
banolilng Oas nelitralen @auoels
miro fest ieoenfaus per8oaert per
ben ais cine 5oIge Der glote IeuiidI-
lono's, in pel1er Die oeuti1e slcaic
rung Der grmnrtuig qlus0rud gob
Dob Die omeritaniide 8egierlms ii
glubetraht Der uepen Grores en- oIc
oeutiden llnteriee6oot.aomman0au
ten nunHebr m9 oarauf befebea
weroe, oaB England Die Re8eln oes
iuteruotionaleH Hebts IN 9e5ug aiif
ben Sanoel 6eobohten ueroe
SIS puroe mItoritatip erfldrt. oaB
Die oeutide g}ote bic Situotipn eom.
pli8irter gemadt babe. Dena oa.
curh iei es Der omeritoniiden &eaie
rllng itnmoelih gentadt poroen aai
ibrem @erlaugen gegeHilber oea gll.
liirten ou beiteben, obue oen yum
idetn 5ii eripeden, ooB lie nit eincn
ioIden 8orgeben oen GiftaieR
Deltidlouo's folee.
MitgIie6er elmer 3eppc
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13
Oii6eu ariegsicbiffeu.
(2rabiIos na6 sabbiue3
@erlin y. Wtoi. n ole lleb

oll9en Trle9sl@lllen.
oDrabiIos na6 sobbiue)
y erl in, 10. Wtoi TIT Die lleber'
iee.glodridten.gl beri6tet;
uDie naoIuiide @olfs8eitune" Bat
aus 5ilberIaiiiaer 2ueae Die gtod-
ridt erbaIten ooB zines Der gtegi-
menter in oep @urraden in @iacen.
90, 0oro.Stalien gemelltert bot uno
DAB cine Brigade aus Soiiari Car
oinien an ser 6rout gemeutert bat.
g9eitere @erihte an ole genonnte
3eiting meloen oaB in gtcopel iid
cine Concentration geaen aonig
@ictor emanuel obipieIte iuo oaB
oos Bib oes aricgs Aeitators 81
cotti oerbrannt puroe.
9ei elmer 8obl in Dem bon Dem
SooioIoemotroten 6erri pertretcnen
0iitrift nobmen 5000 5rauen an eis
ner offentlideu aunbgebung Ebeil
uno riefen: 0@ir molen Elm iofor-
tiges @noe oes arieees." Die 9tili.
tdrbeb0roen botfen @8ilbe, Die OrO.
mne pieOer ber8uiteaen."
&cpoIution in Siiio6on2
lrraSHos ua6 eoesluco
9erlin, 10. Nlai. Cine &c.
peldc aus Giranaoa, SpanieH be.
iagt ooB in 2ilIobol cine 9lepoIution
orsgebroHen iein iol, Gs piro be.
ribtet Dab ole Gruppen gemeutert
baben ilno oaB Die glrienale in8rano
geiebt louroeu
(@ine orobtloie DepeIhe aus 9er-
lin bonn IA. 9lpril brohte Den BE.
ribt, ooB in mebreren porhigieiiibet
&robinocu Rebolten auseebroden
Ieien @s muroe ferner beribtet oaB
Die 2iIioboner @ar0e in Den Gurmos
9arraden geneutert babe, uno ooB
Worine. .&egimenter entianot poroen
ieien Inn Die @eutercr 8u interuer.
fen.
Snterne llnruben iino IN @ortt.
gol felt Der Hebollltion pelbe our
@iuiesuug ser Republit fiibrte, bdu-
fla borgefonmerl uno innerbolb Der
lesten poor @oden famen berldie.
Oene @eridte bon Sunger.ReUoIten
in 2iiiabon.)
Meuterci ouf boll1noi- l.
iden &riegsfdiffen.
q Iteroon, bio 2onoon 12.
I1oi gln @oro oreier boaGnoi-
ider arieesi6iffe in Supn IT. pie
Depelhcn bon 9atoDia an oen re.
leeraoi" beiogen, @lcilterei auseebro-
den. 0reibunoert @latroIen Derlie.
zen Die Sdiffe uno our68oeen bic
StroBen BON @eltebreoeiL einer Dor.
itoot gotobio's. Die SoIooteu Der
@arniiou nobmen ietb8ig W8euterer
gefonger peIde beitroft puroen.
Gin tiirfii6er grfolg
beriHt
aonitontinopeL ~. Nlai
(pia 2onoon). Ias tiirtiihe ariegs-
9ureou fiinoigte beiite an, oaB bic
rilliiihen 9ulppeiL ipelAe am s. Wlai
in ser @egeno oes Aerges Scope ait
ser goutoius.Eront geidIogen iuor-
Den lparen IN oitlider RiAtiine bon
oer iic9reiden tiirtiihen Eruppen
ucrfolet lplroen.
glohitebeno scr oolle @ortlatt oes
9eridtes
Dleiopotamiihe 6ront 1ie an
gemeine Sahlaee Bat lid niHt per.
dnoert. Gin feinoliHer gleroplon
iuuroe bon unieren Gononen getrof.
fen uno fiel, in 6lannen gebiilt,
binter oen SAiibengrdben oes 5eiu.
OeS bera6
aoutoius6rout. Gie feiuoliden
EriIpper peIde an s. I3ai ais il,
rem Steaungeu binaliseetrieben NOR.
orn paren ipuroen III oitliher Slid.
tuns oerfoIst Sic MAIDEN iett oen
Geriid in neuen Stellineen iniere
iiegreih pororingenoen 1ruppen
Stano 5i 6alten.
Goroanellen.Sront. SSiinf feiuo.
lide @abtidifie. ipelhe Den @erilid
rnahten, iih 1effe 8urnu 5u ud.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13

9ebarrlidfeit Scr Teutiden Dor Ser.
oim sic po1en Die SSeihlng ne6-
men Inn sic 6ralI5oien bon einen
9Ingriii ouf Mles ipirfiam ab5ubal.
ten
Ger senator lprid)t bon einem
4OertrauIicben Meuoraroum." mel.
DIES am Is. llai 1915 bon oeutIden
inouItriellen uno lanOiuirtbidoftIi.
den 8ereinigiingen an oen geihs.
fon5Ier bon 9etbmann Soapeg &c.
ridtet lpuroe uno Sen foIgenOen Sob
entbolten fol-:
o8enn iiH oie Glen. uno Sta6l,
Eroouftion ieit gliieuit 1914 nidt
perooppelt bate, piir0e cine Sort
fiibrung oes arieges unni0glid &c.
meien iein. Cie 9rieb.@egeuo pro.
ou5irt ieBt 60 bis 70 Bro5ent iuierer
Glen. uno Stabl @eipinnuns unO
penu oieie Eroouftion bebinoert iper.
oen ioate, iuiiroe Der aricg 10 gut
luie berloren iein."
81 Ganmung oesredtcnM no ~
llfers mar borbereitct
@oriS, i2. Wlai. gIilf Die BE
ritte, OoB p6breno eines geluilien
Stooiims Der 4Gmpie Dor @eroun
Elm fron5oiiIber General iih nit Der
9lbii6t ectragen babe, oie fron5oii
iben 1rrppen pom redten Olaosuier
5uriid8i5ieben ontuortet Der @roBe
fror3oiiihe @encroIitob:
09liemals 6ot iu6breno Der 4dn.
pie Dor @eloun oos Sberrommonoo
Sen @efe6l gum 9iiid5ug Der fran5o.
iii6en Truppeu auf oent rcdteu
O1oaSilfer gege6en. SIN @egentbeil
Bat am Nlorgen oes %. Sebrior @e.
neral Bangle oe GarD Die Truppen
ouf sem re6ten Wlaasnfer angcmie.
len icoen 8unft big gum slerberiten
81 bolten itno sic @arcle ollsgeee
Benz nglus6altenl"
PIN glbeuo oeS "a. 6ebruor bat
ser O6crcommonoircnoe ben gefe6I
gegeben ,oie Sront 5luiiheu Der
D9aas ino Ser @oepre @eeeno nit
allen 81 Gebote itebenoen 0littelu
5i 6olten."
QIliirte olIen @ries
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13
VI Iltirte 10 olIen y II e
6enlano iuin9en.


8erlim 10. W3oi. Giner 9lns
fiinoieiiue Der lleteriee.Olo6ridt
gloelttur 8ufolee boben oie @ntente.
Wed6te beidloIien faIls notbmenoig,
5ur @epolt 5u ereifen nm Die Ter
biiAen 9rnppen iiber griediiheS
Eerritoriim 5ur Solonifi6ro 81
tronsportireu 0ie eriediide gie.
gieritng lit onoererieits felt entihloi
len. ni6t iDre GrloubniB fir oieien
Sruppentronsport 5u geben.
Gic Gntentemdhte baben cs iiA
gum @orius senadt, @riedenIono
8u elmer Gutideiouns 5il 5iuinsen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
The Favored Sex

We are told-though we did not read
the news with our own eyes-that IN
Ohio two prizes have recently been Of
fered for efficiency in corn growing. one
to boy and one to girl. 1t appears
that the boys prize was larger than the
girls. though the conditions OF compe-
tition were the same.
The girls protested. We wonder what
answer they received.
Women in industry are told that men
support families on their earnings, but
women spend theirs in ribbons and
candy.
Women teachers are told that there Is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
"What Is Coming.

There can be no question that the
behavior of the great mass OF women
in Great Britain has not simply exceed
ed expectation but hope. And there can
be as little doubt that the suffrage ques-
ton. in spite of the self-advertising vio-
lence of its extravagant section, did con-
tribute very materially to build up the
confidence. the willingness to undertake
responsibility and face hardship that
has been so abundantly displayed by
every class of woman. AL every
sort of occupation they have been found
efficient beyond precedent and intelll-
gent beyond precedent. More
particularly in relation to intricate me-
chanical work is their record remark
able and unexpected. There is scarcely
a point where women, having been CIV
en- a chance, have not more than made
good. These women have won
the te."-From "What Is Coming
by H. c. Wells.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
Mutual Aid, Lectures and
Cooperative Buying

"At first the officers of the federation
worked without pay. They earned their
living at their respective trades and
gave their spare hours to the work of
the federation. A spirit of self-sacri
flee and devotion to the good of the
cause marked the days of the beginning
of the federation. | believe it has done
much good-this spirit of unselish eff
fort from the very beginning of the or
ganization.
yes, we publish our own organs
we have two monthly publications. The
one is called Labor and Industry and
the other Union Women Labor and
Industry has a circulation of $4,000
copies, and the publication for women
5000. Our educational department ar
ranges for public lectures at different
points all over the country; issues
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
Helping Those Who Live on
Rice and Pickles

eve had felt the need of labor organ
ization in Japan for some years. We
had one trouble in Japan in this mat
ter. Japan had number OF men among
The learned and scientific of the country
who knew a good deal of the labor con-
ditions and labor problems of Europe
and of America. They were among the
special students of labor problems in
the Occidental sense, pure and simple;
they were university lecturers. What
did they know of the thin rice Cruel and
pickles of our working people? What
did they know of the winter rain leak
ing through the matched roof on to
half-starving working men and women?
Nothing.
con the other hand, there were many
who knew the actual conditions of our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
Suzuki Mef Labor on
Its Lowest Level

"After working as a printer got a
job on the staff of the 'Asahi Shimbun'
of Toxic" he told me. 81 was what
you might call its labor editor. Writ
ing essays on labor problems after the
fashion Of a university professor did
not appeal to me- / wanted to dig into
the thing, make first hand study of
the conditions and problems as they
existed in Japan and report. | began
at the bottom / got myself into work
mans garb and went slumming-in an
entirely different sense from the Amer
lean tourists understanding of the
term. | went straight down to the
quarters where the lower class of. la
borers lived. | ate what they ate; I
slept in filth and an almost total lack
of bedding. 1t was not pretty work,
of course. That wasn't what | was
looking for. 1t was as enlightening as A
searchlight, bringing out in sharp re-
lief unspeakable things and much de-
spair and crime"
Here, then, is the leader of the or
gained labor of Japan in a couple of
paragraphs of his own do not see in
Suzuki Lincoln Steffens's Gene Debs:
The kindest, foolishest, most courage
Gus lover of man in the world" That
magic Of compelling personality which
unlocks the inner holy of holes of your
heart does not seem to aureole him.
Yet one can never tell. He is young
yet. And the present reporter is neith-
er prophet nor the son of one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
Possible Extracts from Il
.Japanese WhO'S-WhO

And who, pray. is this Suzuki BUM.
He is not old he is a mere youth-espe-
cially Judged by the bigneSs OF his self
chosen job-he was born i'm lSS5. He
came from a sound work-a-day stock;
his parents were farmers near the cas-
tie town of Sendai, and they reared him
on good, honest soil along with other
crops. But he is no Japanese Keir
Hardie: he did not learn his alphabet
over a smoked piece Of'Slatc and with
a pin. Neither is he a VIII Crooks:
he has never known a poOrhouse in his
life. Quite the contrary is true with
him. He is j. Ramsay Macdonald, in
fact. He is educated he is a university
man; he has taken the postgraduate
course in industrial labor problems, and
for two years at the Dai-Gakuin, in the
Imperial University of Tokio-than
which there is no higher institution Of
learning in the whole Of Japan to-day.
His school days have been one never
ending battlefield.
about the time | was going through
the middle school of Sendai," he told
me, my fathers business went TO
smash Ever since ! had to work for
my mouth and for my brain. | have
known the bitter blessing Of poverty
indeed, yes. | had to work my way
through school; and, though it was Bit
ter, it was healthy. ! glory in it, in
fact. For it was precisely those bitter
days which threw me into my life work.
The fiery trial of those days baptized
me into new faith. And | decided TO
devote my life to the cause of labor"
Suzuki got job as a clerk at
printing shop called Shoyeisha. 1t was
an ordinary print shop: it was owned
and operated by Mr.. Sakuma. Some
day historians will do the name of
Sakuma the honor that is due; he was
the father of the new labor movement
in Japan-not in words, neither upon
the platform nor through a book, but
in his own little shop. His is one Of
the oldest printing shops in Toxic. He
gathered number Of apprentices
about him, and he slept and ate as well
as worked with them. He was the first
employer who paid serious attention
to the working conditions of his men
in the modern sense, to their working
hours and to their social needs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17

In every battle that was ever fought
In war or industry or law or thought,
Men have received with wondering delight
The help their women gave them in the fight
But after war there is no other debt
That men it seems so easily forget.
Therefore fear the Englishman will say
In the old scornful, ante-bellum way:
Women arc kind and good, hardworkng,
too,
But women, voting-that would hardly do.
Besides they do not want the vote, one hears
And when they cry Eve do" he'll stop his
ears.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
COnundrum

We have heard so much lately about
this country being "overfeminized' that
we invite answers to the following
question:
II men voting alone for so mdny gen
erationS hare failed to masculintze th5
country, why should icomen, rot'ng
1cih men, and in a minority in the com
try, feminize it?
We have received the following an
swers:
/. Because w0men are so much more
feminine than men are masculine.
,. Because the indirect influence that
Comen Wield is so much more potent
than the Uote that the only 1cdy to
put men IN the ascendant again Is TO
gire Uomdn the rote, and this de-
Stroy her pOUer.
}. Mems mdSculinity is being mitlgdtcd
By the obligation to mother the state
as weH as TO father it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
SUZUKI, THE GOMPERS OF JAPAN

tracts and pamphlets almost continu-
ously for the education Of the laboring
class. We have our legal department
which looks after labor laws and labor
troubles. We have organized a mutual
aid society among the working people
of the unions, which attends TO the
needs of the members in times Of illness
and distress. Local unions have their
departments for cooperative buying OF
goods; they also have their employment
agency. Of course, our activities can
not for a moment be compared. in scope
and magnitude. with those of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor. We are
young-a four-year-old. But OF one
thing we are proud; we are growing like
a healthy thing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17

working people. their problems, their
shortcomings, their battles and their
few and far-between victories. But
those men were of the laboring class;
they had no education, no scientific
training, in facing and understanding
the life problems of the poor. They had
not the remotest idea of the interna-
tional activities of the labor organiZa-
lions of Europe and of America. The
mention of the American Federation of
Labor would have sounded to them
about as far away and vague as the
names of some of the NEUROLOGICAL gods
of their ancestors. Now, what Japan
wanted (what she needs today was a
number Of men who combined the
knowledge of university specialists on
Occidental labor conditions and prob
lens with the practical and personal
understanding of the life conditions of
the laboring men of Japan, their faults
and their dreams. And that combina-
ton was hard to find. There was no
such man when we gathered together in
the Unity Hall. We were merely fifteen
men with one dream, and the dream
was not in the fesh-a committee of
fifteen trying to give the working peo-
pie of Nippon a voice as an organized
whole.
How have we succeeded? Rather
satisfactorily - surprisingly so. You
see. we did not look for much. After
about year of more or less bitter
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leaders who have acted upon his sugges-
ton, think we have made the begin
ming of an important move"
80 it was an American missionary
who brought about the meeting of the
labor leaders Of the two countries?'
The unexpected and the dramatic in
the situation must have knotted my
features.
"Why. yes, largely" said Suzuki,
answering my surprise before the
worded query. 81 myself am a Chris
tian. belong to the Unitarian Church
in Japan. In fact, the organized labor
movement in Japan had its cradle under
the roof of the Christian Church. It
was in a gathering room of the church
we called Unity Hall that fifteen of us
met on the first day of August, 1912.
That was exactly two days after the
death of the Meiii Emperor. The
whole empire was stunned by the shock,
and | remember that even the little
meeting in the Unity Hall felt the gray
atmosphere of the nation in mourning.
That was the beginning Of the Japanese
Federation of Labor; only we christened
the organization by the historic name of
Laborers' Friendly Society," after the
British organization of century ago
Yu-ai Kai, in Japanese.
ut was more like a committee meet
ing" said Mr.. Suzuki, barking back to
that historic meeting in the Unity Hall,
rather than a general meeting of work
ingmen. The fifteen of us who gath
cred there that day represented all sorts
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Irrefutable Logic

The position of the three distin-
guished gentlemen who were scheduled
to speak at the Anti-Suffrage Conven-
ton, and who never appeared, is per-
fectly logical one.
The ants have always said that il
women deserted their domestic duties
for these public activities men would
have to stay at home.
And these gentlemen stayed at home.
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of trades-carpenters. iron workers,
matmakers and workers in lacquer. We
gathered there chiefly for the exchange
of ideas as to the possibility of an or
gained labor movement in Japan.
After that day we decided to hold
weekly meetings. And the meetings
were both instructive and interesting
But how did you happen to come to-
gether for the organization of the
union? What inspired the meeting?
Was it more or less accidental?"
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struggle we succeeded in bringing about
a union of the electrical workers, the
carpenters, the iron workers and the
matmakers. Out of this nucleus the
present federation came into being. To-
day we have twelve distinct unions
united into one national federation.
There are seventy local unions, and the
federation has total membership of
10000; it is growing at the rate of 5000
a month at the present time. 1t won't
be many years before we shall have
membership of 100000.