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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14
were baggage, dining and observation
cars, with well equipped buffet car.

No one could have imagined a more
enthusiastic crowd than that which de-
parted on the special and it is expect
ed that after they have been shown
thru the big factory, they will place
orders for between one and two mil
lion dollars worth of cars.
A big parade was held in the bust
ness district that afternoon, headed
by the Minot Auto Co.'s own band Of
twenty pieces, made up Of dealers
from this state and Montana. The
band was in excellent form and un-
doubtedly made hit on the trip.
The delegates were all CARRIED in
linen busters and carried canes. This
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
WAGE ASSIGNMENT OF CITY
EMPLOYEES RILES AUDITOR
ORDINANCE FoRBIDDING
CRAFT OF LOAN SHARKS.
Semi Pay Adopted Last Year
Has not Proven Sufficient to Keep
Men Free From Shylocks.

City Auditor James L. Markey is 60
ing to put a stop to loan sharks max
ing prey of city employees if Il way can
be found to do it. He has asked City
Attorney James A. Marsh for legal
opinion as to an ordnance that will pre-
vent such assignments Some former
city attorneys have held that an ordi-
nance fOrbidding assignments would be
depriving citizens Of their personal lib
critics, be an infringement OF the rights
of property and contrary to public
policy.
The last opinion on the subject was
given by 1. n. Stevens, former city at
torncy, who held, in response to a re-
quest for an opinion, that it would be
impossible to draw an ordnance prevent
ing wage assignments. Other city at
torneys have had different views.
The records in the office of the city
auditor show that already this month
ll2 city employees have assigned their
wages. With the opening of the spring
season and gradual addition to the force
of city employees, the number of wage
assignments is expected to increase at
a rapid rate. The assignments average
$50 month during the summer.
Auditor Markey holds to the view
that for city employees to assign wages
is a moral if not legal wrong. Last
year the Denver Trades and Labor As
sembly considered this matter and had
passed, with the assistance of Auditor
Markey and Commissioner of Property
otto f. Thum, an ordnance providing for
a semi monthly pay day in hope OF
overcoming the pernicous practice of as
signments. For q while the ordinance
had the desired effect, but the recent
growth in the number OF wage assign
ments to ) per cent month loan
sharks has CAUSED Auditor Markey to
take up the matter OF Il stringent law
prohibiting the evil
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
LAWSON CASEBR
In SUPREME COURT
Cites 227 Errors of the Judge
in Conduct of Case
Abstract Contains 920 Pages Of Printed
Testimony in Other Action Plead
ing for New Trial Of Official

Attorney Horace N Hawkins, chief
counsel for the United Mine Workers,
has filed an abstract of the record in
the trial of John r. Lawson with the
State Supreme Court, and decision in
the plea for new trial will no doubt
soon be handed down. The brief and alb
stract consists of 92O pages OF printed
testimony, and cites 227 errors in the
trial OF the case by Judge CRANKY Hill
yer in the District Court at Trinidad.
Lawson is now out on $4,000 bail
bond, signed by former United States
Senator Thomas NJ. Patterson and Yer
ner u. Reed, two of Colorado's most
prominent and wealthy citizens.
In farcical trial held in Trinidad dur
ing April and May of last year, Lawson
was convicted by picked coal operators
Jury OF having killed John Nimmo, a
mine guard deputy sheriff, man whom
had never even seen. Judge Hillyer was
specially appointed by Governor Carlson
to hear the cases against former strikers
and railroad them to the gallows or the
penitentiary. He overruled every point
of the defense and imposed upon Lawson
sentence of life Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary at Canon City. The
verdict and sentence We're so outrageous
ly unfair and so foreign to every sense of
justice, that the State Supreme Court
issued an order OF supersedeas, restrain
ing the court officers of Las Animas
county from carrying out the verdict,
and further ordered Lawson released ON
bonding pending hearing, on appeal of
his attorneys, for a new trial. The high
court also ruled that Judge Hillyer, thru
his unfairness and vicious methods OF
conducting this case, was disqualified
from hearing any further cases growing
out of the coal strike, and debarred him
acting as a judge to this extent.
Upon being released from the Trinidad
Jail, Lawson resumed his duties at head
quarters in Denver OF District 10, as ma
tional executive board member for Colo
RADIO OF the United Mine Workers OF
America. "A
There is no question that the State
Supreme Court Will order new trial OF
the case and John r. Lawson be com
pletely indicated before an impartial
Judge and jury when the case is again
heard.
Notwithstanding the strenuous perse.
cution OF union officials and former coal
mine strikers, by Governor Carlson, At
torney General Fred Farrar, the coal op-
orators and their hired high price legal
talent, not single man of the nearly
nations, has yet been strangled ON the
gallows nor had the doors OF the state
prison locked behind him.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
MEETING FOR DEFENSE PROGRAM.
Washington's Birthday, February 22, at
the City Auditorium.

\ great rally and mass meeting OF
Denver citizens Of every class will be
held at the City Auditorium next Tues
day evening, February %, Washington's
birthday anniversary. 1t will be under
auspices OF the Denver branch OF the
National Security League. for the pur-
pose OF preparing to defend this country
in case it should be embroilcd in the
world war.
There Will be no admission charge and
speakers OF national prominence will be
heard on this vital question. Innis and
the Municipal band Will furnish pa
triotic musical program. Laboring men,
their families and friends are especially
| invited to attend
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
COMMEND APPOINTMENT OF BRANDEIS.

Of
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
On of the latcnes- OF the hour the roll call
REPORTS OF DELEGATES.


Delegate Croskey reported that the Court House cafe 's Fifteenth street
cafe street,
tet,hay : been ~ audW
Prosr Lap
February Assembly
Dlegate
still pending will
be enth o he o
members in
Workers sS-t
the
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kmg 10 the
at February
of Bakery Workers
to n
ommitte a scale affiliate tie
made cracke
also tina
Interc the will
to Berkeley bakeries
Shields Moving Picture
in Cadw hall March,
the al
l..
endorsed for the
| STATEMENT.
of
|
Disbursements February slo27s
sse7so .
being the meeting p m
/ w r. WELSH, Secrctar
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
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D. Of
be /
Resolved BY the Denver Labor Assembly
of
a Al o The Supem Court.
Committee Rreations ecuohaman
of cuityIr
ten
preliminary he at
at
he security
REPORT ASSOCIATION
OF
the department and elected H. Mitchell of the Lhs
meetings be asked Assembly Report progressive
Special Committee Ieague-IHfcrrei
Homestead
mcmbc Of
o
reached Very replies
Old Homestead bakery n
starte RetOrr as pogcssi
following
A
ttc
Ways and Means OF Congress calling individual
y F. o N to
F. of in
of L. in to
United Workers. members o
cas
kt; filed California health
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i where they complied with Colorado
n a he be apo
to a
the Legislative Committee appointed take this
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
METAL WORKERS RAISE WAGES.

As result of long-contnued ncgotia.
tions between the st. Louis Metal
Trades Council and the Robinson Fire
Apparatus Manufacturing company,
wage increases of from 3 to Z cents an
hour and improved shop conditions have
been secured for machnists, black
smiths, sheet metal workers and metal
polshers. The agreement is for one
year.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
CRAMPS SHIP YARD RAISES WAGES

The Cramps, ship builders of Phila.
dclphia, have voluntarily raised wages
10 per cent. About 5000 employees ayc
affected. With this announcement cf,VS~,
another onc--that the A. +. of l.. M
trades department will inaugurate 'S
campaign for eight hours in the ship
yards along the Atlantic coast, and that
the first meeting was held in Philadcl-
phia recently.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
A HARD NUT"

The manager OF factory inquired
whether new man was progressing
with his work. The foreman, who had
not agreed very well with the man in
question, exclaimed:
Progressing! have taught him
everything ] know, and he is still an
ignorant fool. l."-Sacred Heart Review.
Beats them all. La Belle &c cigar !;
union made in Denver.=Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-19
OFFICIAL Denver MINUTES
Trades&LaborAssembly
MINUTES
MEETING OF FEBRUARY 10, 1916.

@ for % ,R a c s s 1 aO%stss W rec s that
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Organization Committee oage submitted following report
Labor Assembly Greeting.
s s s msi a ago beg ] @ to Sas a ta efo l %nd pGs be d to form
S: % Shoe sSsa ss 'SEe Ss'e"s
Made 5 G"5ns a @ the P % aa Shoe Ms a. s @ 9Rs %
% shops OF '' s7 % al ssf tst st & s % % s % ;Sss s % % Nh,
her. s to q: .s s $ SHOPS ss a =
ey ppeo % have
s 'ls = % @
Hs.r ns The ' sas s % demand H h @ %'1 Rs label the '" OF the repair shops
The ssS @ @ Rspt as CON- @ % csH 4%P sH s repair work.
s"t's se'H Hses eaa"Ss shop ,'i cA.ns.
last meeting Of Tie assembly
M @ stfGos S % e~ Of the fact that hat but few @ its members @ ePGys 1
organization materially by informing the secretary cdewoGd Gpn
stenoqraphers Book, going
% % laid o eT9 on % a work m @ es & of @ @ a and public % % tns % @ a @ @
&@6 3 from t s TO %f o an f the last % meeting S $ to d gno 5 @
n n employed % office % work % % So % % ] tn @ 5 $ the 1d nhton Of thn G
@ H mpa % % % % ] ] ooRps @ SS aSd o ff tA ] Eo f as
have sio attended ] on he @ se Bakery sS aSd Gsete ss Workers No
9 ss & been % ri tR ds @ hs s saS@ ;
NIB $ % @ 3l S
a with the possible exception , The The =
mp @ "a and due to % be hoped Gr s ID M BE & g1 s % Sa % u, ] 3 f May f t
, ] s, Of t %afss ca @ the "a Tss c, sna Ss
given consideration organized
would recommend that hat the Committee on organization be Instructed to- make
er faernaly 'Ia SUBMITTED r. HoAGE
trouble the Brewery Workers but could not induce Mr. coors
assist the Brewery Workers
rne e @ & SnTs % g @ D t' tht tG nm, have the n n m az anftd
a all violations
SCHOOL BOARD DEADLOCK
miee waited the Building Trades Council and succeeded in having Brother
called
" 1 % ] to % resolution % 1 usse @ the last meeting Of the Assembly by
persons using purpose
to pay Received and concnrred
submitted by the Musicians Union Tetoning
adopted
seconded that tho resolution be adopted read Carried
| ASSEMBLY.
standing commit
the following following is list n OF OF the the committees;
No
RIGGS Talors
THORNTON Bookbin
MCCARTHY Tobacco Strppers.
WEST. Laundry Workers
c0mPittsf p1,f'frp on AFaS As1,,TaiGn Ma;.i,n.
r. C. GREEN, Leather
n RSs s. hHWnrRsaS hoIlS sfs@SFraPnsFs aSE sF. No. qe
Committee = on Legislation
r. A. SHIELDS Moving Pfctureop
Committee tt c on Rsee1tions % and Lectures
POTTS Hndry wome
EDWARB EDWARB sdAEfSR H,EFS 1sessFss' ytsss s%p.
! FORREST. Painters.
0''iTass JolS sMMoN, NON United IAboers.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04

Oliver B. Hartman of New York has been designated as secretary to the American Embassy in Berlin.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04
DEMURRER TO ONE
 INDICTMENT SUSTAINED
In Case of German Consul Bopp at
 San Francisco.

San Francisco, March 3.-Judge Mau- rice T. Dooling, in the United States district court here today, sustained a demurrer to one of the indictments against Franz Bopp, German consul, and five others charging conspiracy to set on foot a military expedition to effect the destruction of British prop erty. A second indictment charging conspiracy to interfere with and de- strOy commerce between the United States and other countries, was not BOpp, those under indictment are Baron w. H. Won Schack, German con- sul; George Wilhelm VOn Brincken, attache to the consulate; Charles C. Crowley, detective employed by the consulate; Mrs. Margaret w Cornell, employed by Crowley, and J. H. Van KOOlberg. said to have been hired to carry out certain alleged bomb plots in Canada
 The court sustained the demurrer on
 the ground that there was nothing in
 the indictment apprising the defend ants of what they were accused of be- yOnd the general statement that they had "conSpired to set on foot a mili- tary expedition for the purpose of de- stroying ships belonging to Germany enemies, and blowing up bridges rail- roads and factories in Canada"
 The court declared further that the l indictment contained nothing to show ] that the activities in connection with i alleged bombing of bridges and fac i tories in Canada, constituted what l could be called a military expedition l and was not merely directed against i the individual owners of the property l destroyed and threatened.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04

of individuals but are directed at cor porattons themselves. Fifty-eight of the companies named are members of the Pennsylvania Brewers association while 42 are members of the United States Brewers association. The cor porauons in the first group are ac- cused Jointly of conspiracy entered in- to, 1t is alleged, on September 1912.
 unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly. fraudulently and feloniously'' to make contributions to political campaigns at which presidential and vice presiden- tial electors or reresentatives in congress were to be voted for.
 Little Said About Specific Offenses.
 Little is said regarding the specific offenses alleged under section eighty three of the federal penal code, the so-called federal corrupt practices act and section 37 of the same act. Under the section fines not exceeding S5.OOO in the first and S1O.OOO in the second may be assessed. There is also a pro- vision for the imprisonment of officers and directors of the corporation under both sections.
 The grand jury which has been in session six weeks was at once excused by Judge Thompson of the United tates district court.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04
1 FIVE MEN REPORTED 1 LOST IN BARGE WRECK
Off Scituate at Southern Entrance to
 Boston Harbor.

Boston, March 3.-Five men were re- ported lost tonight in the wreck of a barge off Scituate at the southern en- trance of this harbOr. A blizzard was raging and two other barges, part of a tow of three, were reported drifting ashore.
 Another barge, coal 1oden, like the first, was anchored just beyond the edge of the breakwater late tonight.
 The North Scituate life savers had boarded her, but found the crew un- willing to be taken off, when cries of distress came from the second barge as she went into the breakers. The life savers hurried towards her, but before they could near her the surf had apparently washed the crew overheard. One body was later picked up on the beach.
 The life savers reported they were unable to learn the identity of the barges. The hailing port '.Philadel- phia' was read across the stern of one and it was believed they were bound from a coal port for Boston.
 The tug disappeared in the snow and darkness soon after the two barges drifted ashore 4 third barge which the life savers thought formed part of the same tow also went out of sight but it was thought she may have weathered the storm, as there was no trace of her along the beach.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04
STRIKING SHIRT MAKERS
 CREATE DISTURBANCE
New York Police Compelled to Arrest
 Some of the RingIeaders.

New York, March 3.-The first se- riOus disorder which has marked the strike of shirtmakeIs in this city, be- gun two weeks ago, occurred today. Women strikers bOmbarded with bricks, stones and other missiles non union workers who were be6lg taken in automobiles to plants in the Will iamsburg section. The police were obliged to use force in queIling the disturbance and the alleged ringIead- CTS were arrested. Several of the strikebreakers were badly bruised.
 Mrs. J. Sargent Cram and other so- ciety women eEerted their influence today to restrain girl pockets from arguing with policemen. Mrs. Cram asserted that the strlkebreal1ers who are being used know little English and therefore do not understand the conditions surrounding the strike. The workers who are out demand higher wages and shorter hours
 Announcement was made late today by the executive committee of the In'- ternatiOnal Mercantile Tailors Pro teCtiye Association that the shops of it's members in thes city, 1000 of whose employees are on strike. will be opened with strikebreakers unless an agreement with the union is quickly reached.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04

estimated at S7O it is indicated by the foregoing despatch that upwards of 3.130 lives were lost.
 The loss of more than 5000 lives in the sinking of the French auxiliary cruiser Provence is the greatest ocean disaster of modern times. Up to the present the largest number of lives ever lost in one wreck was when the White Star liner Titanic struck an April 14, 1914, and sank with a loss of 1,545. The rescued numbered 743.
 The French ministry of marine had previously given out no statement as 10 the number of persons on the Pro- vence when she went down. The ves- sel however, when in the trans-At- lantic service, could carry 1860 per sons, including the crew, and it had been presumed that she was trans porting troops between ports not far distant apart and was carrying a number of men larger than her nor nal capacity.
 The official statement announcing the sinking of the Provence said:
 The French auxiliary cruiser Pro- vence II (so designated to distinguish her from the French battleship Pro- vence) engaged in transporting troops to Salonild, was sunk in the Mediter- ranean Feb. 26. Two hundred and ninety-siX survivors have been Melos by French and British patrol vessels summoned by wireless.
 "No signs of a submarine were mo- ticed either before or after the sink ing. La Provence was armed with cannon of 14 centimetres, two of 57 millimetres and four of 47 millime- tres.''
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04

Russian front. Along the line in the Alps and on the Isonzo river sector the Austrians and Italians continue their bombardments and attacks here and there by infantry. but without mate rially changing their positions.
 The Russians have captured the town of Bitlis in the Lake Van district of Turkish Armenia and elsewhere in the Caucasus region and in Persia are keeping up their vigorous offensive against the Ottoman forces.
 An official communication from the Turkish army headquarters says the east and west coast districts of Alden have come under Ottoman rule as the result of the submission of the tribes men. The Turks also report a defeat decently of the British near Dafuch, in the neighborhood of Alden, but the British official press bureau denies that an engagement took place there.
 The British have reoccupted Sidi Barani in western Egypt, which had been in the hands of Senussi tribes men, commanded by Turkish officers. The town was occupied without re- sistance.
 A German seaplane has been cap- tured in the North sea off the Belgian coast while returning from England. One of it's occupants had been drowned. The other was made prisoner. It is thought probable this craft is the one that bombarded the southeast coast of England Wednesday, night.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04

ply with some degree of regret, but him"
 5orah Call It Evasfve Action.
 Senator Borah, republican, arraigned the senate for what he characterized as it's evasive action He said Ne would rather have battleshtps sunk than have the honor of this senate compromised before the world.'
 On the other hand, Senator Kern, the majority leader. upheld the action, asserting that it would proclaim to all nations that the president, in ex-
 erCiSing his constitutional powers in the conduct of negotiations, spoke not for himself nor for his party but for all the people of his country who are prepared to back him with their lives in an insistence on Americans rights"
 Emphatically asserting that there
 could be no confusion of the senate
 action because of technical parlia- mentary entanglements. Senator Lodge, ranking republican member of the foreign relations committee, said the senate had gone on record as "op.- posing a warning to Americans and
 against interference with the execu- tive"
 Gore Changes Resolution. The action which effectually dis posed of the Gore resolution was com pleX- Senator Stone moved to bring the resolution before the senate and Senator Gore than obtained permts- sion to change his resolution. Retain ing the original preamble, he substi-
 tuted the resolution with the follow | ing:
 Resolved, that the sinking by a sub marine without notice or warning of an 1 armed merchant vessel of her public i enemy. resulting in the death of @ ] citizen of the United States would ! az~T rzr nd H7rFa | of war between the United States and ! the German empire"
 Substitute introduced. | Senator ATcCumbe-, a republican, im- ] r77edi4te'v introduced a substitute, sim ! liar to Senator Cores original resolu- 1 ton warning Americans of armed 1 ships, pending negotiations with for ] ternational law to meet the new con- | ditions of naval warfare. Resolution Tabled ! Senator James, one of the adminis- 1 tratiOn's leaders. then moved to table | all propOsals-the NcCumber resolu- | ton. the original and substitute res- | olutiOns offered by Senator Gore and | all amendments. The motion was car- | ried with 6S senators-47 democrats l and q republicanS-voing with the l administration and 12 republicans and | two democrats voting against It. The | democrats recorded in the negative
 were Senators Chamberlain and O'Gor- l man.
 1 After his substitute for the Gore
 resolution had been slaughtered in | the general motion to table, Senator ! AcCumber of North Dakota re-intro- | duced it as a new resolution. Inas-
 much as 1t contains a provision for | a warning to Americans to keep off l ships. discussion may arise again when | the senators get an opportunity to ! | republican leaders asserted, however, | that should it be called up it would be forced to the calendar where other
 business would effectually smother it.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04

Around the village of Douaumont, which is in the hands of the Germans, there is raging a battle of great in tensity. Having captured the village and extended thei rines west and south, the Germans were forced to give ground before vicious attacks of the French, who regained part of the terrain they had lost. The fighting here Is proceeding unabated.
 From the region of Malancourt, west of the Mouse, to the Woevre region, east of Verdun, the bombardmentS are violent, the Germans endeavoring to force their way closer to the fortress of Verdun and the French tenaciously striving to hold them back. Several assembling points of the Germans have been vigorously shelled by the French, especially in the vicinity of Beaumont.
 The Germans admit that in the re- zion Of Ypres the British recaptured the positions the Germans took from them Feb. If, but say that they were immediately driven out of most of them.
 The British, however, declare that they have consolidated most of these positions.
 There has been considerable artil- lery activity in the Argonne forest and in upper AIsace, an infantry engage nent in which elements of German trenches were taken by the French.
 Comparative quiet prevails on the
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04
BUFFALO PLANTS CLOSED
 BECAUSE OF STRIKES 5000 Others Laid Off When 1 300 Ma chinists Quit Work.

Buffalo, N. Y. March 3.-Additions to the ranks of the striking nachinists today resulted in the closing of the plants of the Ericsson Manufacturing company and the King Sewing Ma chine company, both firms laying off al hands when the machinists struck
 At the headqarters of the Interna- tfonal Association of Machinists it was claimed that about 1900 men had answered the strike call and that the total Of men idle was more than 5000. The former figure was disputed by the manufacturers, who placed the total at less than half the unions figures but it was conceded the number of idle men, due to strike or lockout, was at least 5000.
 Strikes also were called today al the Lake Erie Engineering company and the Snow Steam Pump Works where shop committees had been ne gotiating for a compromise on the mems demands for an eight hour day a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour and the closed shop.