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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

N AYONNE, N. j., with all its varied
II industries, is dominated by
Standard Oil. The heavy, acrid
smoke of the refneries hangs over it like
nall. and to the southwark the great
tanks. chimneys and buildings of the
Standard Oil plant and the works
Of half a dozen allied corporations-the
Tidewater Oil, Texas Oil, Vacuum Oil,
BERGEN Point Chemical. etc.-loom like
smoking city above the other factories
of Constable Hook, and the terrible
slums where the workmen live.
The Mayor of Bayonne, Mr.. Pierre r.
Garven, is the Standard Oil attorney for
Hudson County. When questioned his
inpartiality during the strike, he told
me how, during former term as Mayor,
he had increased the tax assessment
against the Standard Oil Company's
property by some 100000. 1t was at
fer this that the company engaged him
as attorney, and now the officials OF the
Tax Department who make the ap-
praisals of Bayonne property are Mayor
Garven's political associates.
At the outbreak of the strike substan-
tally the entire police force of Bayonne
was withdrawn from the city and sent
down to Constable Hook to guard the
oil works; until even the citizens pro-
tested at the burglaries and hold-ups
which ensued in the unpatroled streets.
And when special policemen" were
sworn in, it was the purchasing agent
for the Tidewater Oil Company who
ordered their uniforms in New York.
For the first time in an American IN
dustrial dispute the police officials an
nounced that their object was "to break
the strike" And from the first night,
when a hundred officers, armed with
riot guns and repeating rifles, marched
down to the Hook to demonstrate the
futility of striking" to the workmen, the
object of the Bayonne city authorities
was to drive the strikers back to work
an every way the police knew" The
Standard Oil Company announced
through Mr.. George Fl. Hennessey, sup
erintendent of the Bayonne plant, that
il had absolute faith in the authorities
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

referred to, be it noted, was that OF
going back to work under the hideous
conditions that had driven them to
strike.
There is a similarity in all these
Rockefeller strikes, which springs from
the similarity of Rockefeller Industrial
ism everywhere. In Bayonne, as IN
Colorado three years ago, l find that
the policy of the company has
been to keep the great mass of laborers
ignorant and disunited and every mans
hand against them. Among the I'M
skilled workmen. Americans and Eng
disappearing men have been replaced
by Polaks, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Rus
sian Jews, Italians-and their racial and
religious antipathies given full play.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

(whose average working life is ten
years. the paraffine workers (who are
poisoned and frozen by their jobs);
the barrel factory hands (whose lungs
are rotted by the wood dust); the
chemical workers (who inevitably get
consumption from the acid fumes they
must breathe). AS for the lawyers,
their graft is peculiar. When Polak
or Slovak gets locked up on "disor-
derby" charge, the police telephone one
of these regular lawyers, who comes
to the jail and explains to the pris-
oner that he has committed serious
offence, and strips his bank-roll" to
get him out. In one case one of these
lawyers got 1925 from Slovak to get
him out of Jail after he had been ar
rested on charge of drunkenness!
Between Nineteenth Street and
Twenty-ffth, and from Avenue e to
the tip of Constable Hook, is the
dwelling place of these people. They
live packed in ramshackle tenements,
many of them wooden, in three and
four-room flats, for which they pay
outrageous rents. Often a man, wife,
six children and nine 'boarders" will
live in three rooms-the "boarders"
working in three different shifts, one
rising from his filthy pile of rags to go
to work just when the other comes in
worn out from his shift. There are no
sanitary arrangements whatever in
most Of these places, except COM
mon shed in the back yard; water is
procured from a nearby common pump.
The best fiat l saw in the Hook itself
had four rooms, common toilet in the
hall, one cold water tap IN the parlor-
and cost $50 month.
These driven cattle, unable to speak
English, unable even to communicate
with each other, forced to the last des-
perate remedy by hopeless debt and
slowly Tightening starvation, went on
strike. They were forbidden by the
police to hold meetings, except to say
whether or not they would return to
work. Their leaders-such as they
were-were not allowed to address
them. On Saturday, October Ia, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

Americans fight to uphold the Standard
Oil Company when it does the same
thing to the immigrants, driven to blind
desperation at last. The public will re-
member that the Colorado strikers were
also the men who had been brought in
by the mining companies to fill the
places of English-speaking workers at
lower wages.
It was the common laborers, the
hunkies, who struck, following the walk
out of several hundred men in the
paraffine department-the pressfnen.
The final demands of more than 1000
men were:
1. Increase in wages in all departments
except the stI-cleaning department.; 80 per
cent increase to men making less than So
a day, and 20 per cent to men making SO
day or more.
g. An eight-hcm day to be the basis
throughout.
q Fairness to be exercised in discharging
men; no man to be discharged without Just
cause.
A. Humane and decent treatment By fore
men and supe,lors instead OF the brutal
kicking and punching we no1C receive
S. Ttcenty minutes time for lunch an the
press department.
Let us consider these demands mo-
ment. The last four explain themselves,
even the extraordinary request for an
eight-hour day, which is supposed to Oe
already operative at the plant; for it Will
be remembered that the Colorado miners
also demanded the eight-hour day, IN
spite of the fact that it was guaranteed
them by law. But in the face OF the
Standard Oil Companys statement that
wages have been increased % per cent
in the last year, the wage demands
ought to be explained.
Last years strike, resulting in the
death of six people, all strikers or by
ISLANDERS, ended in the grant Of IL per
cent raise in wages and the eight-hour
dav. During the period of industrial
unrest last spring the company again
raised the wages 10 per cent. Unskilled
labor now gets 1920 day, and it is with
unskilled labor that we are concerned
in this strike-the provision concern
ing the SO and over men applying NAM
ly to the pressmen, who get more.
Think of it! After % per cent wage
increases the average Standard Oil lab
orer gets 1920 a day-and ne only got
that after striking or threatening to
strike. 1920 day makes little more
than 5000 a year-and The New York
Tribune of October % points out the
fact that these SEQ men ,oork only
fine months ont Of the year. Last
voor when the cost of living was over
% per cent lower than it is now, the
Irr;ted States Government Bureau VI
publc Health stated that $500 year
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

skilled workmen-the white men," as
they call themselves; no chunky" can
belong to "white" organization. The
skilled workers opposed the strike, and
would have gone to work had they
dared. The townspeople speak of these
dangerous foreigners" and treat them
as if they were animals. Even the po-
lice have a personal antipathy toward
the "hunkies."
The reason for this universal dislike
is a tribute to the diplomacy of the
Standard Oil Company and the stupidity
of the American working class. |
talked with a German-American me-
chanic.
''Why have no sympathy with these
men?" he said. ut is because they are
scabs. You know it is the law that we
must be paid time and half for over
time work. Well, sometimes the fore
man comes around and says: If you
want to work overtime without extra
pay, we'll stay open couple of hours
more; but if you want time and halt
we can't afford it, and must shut down.
Now we won't work overtime for
straight time-but these damned hunk
les, they say All right And that makes
the eight-hour day a joke" He thought
for a minute. "And then they take
away white mems jobs. Now, take for
example pipe-ftter, working in the
yards. Before last years strike he got
$3.50 a day, and they'd put in Polak
as pipe-ftter's helper at S1.54 day. 1t
is easy to learn pipe-ftting; so pretty
soon the pipe-ftter would get fired and
the PoIak got his place, with his wages
raised to S1.89 day.
That's why we don't like the
hunkies."
AS for the police, great illumination
burst on me while | was talking with
Inspector Dan Cady, known as Flight
ing DAN" who was so efficient in last
wears strike that he was held for the
grand jury on the charge of killing
a striker. Cady was telling me what
vicious. violent class of men these
"hunkies" we're, when he suddenly
burst out:
"The whole quits Of the business is,
those damned foreigners came here and
took away white mems jobs. My father
and the fathers of many officers on the
force used to work in the Standard OIL,
wears ago. It was the hunkies that
was brought in to scab on them, and
took their places"
What irony! Because the Standard
Oil Company starved out Americans and
filled their places with ignorant immi-
Grants lust landed from Europe, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

other much higher, for the hunky,
who must buy on the instalment plan.
The casual visitor to this section gets
the impression that every other door
is a saloon, and the intermediate entry
a lawyers office. The saloon profits
from the terrible exhausting and de-
pleting work of the still-cleaners
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

strike committee attempted to circulate
handful printed in English, Polish
and Italian, which read:
'To the Workers of Standard Oil Co.
FELLOW WORKERS.
"The Strike Is On.
wait your committees decision,
Continued on PGge Str.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

~ AYONNE, N. j., with all its varied
X industries, is dominated by
Standard Oil. The heavy, acrid
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-03-23

United States. 1t is carried in stock
and sold as a novelty by most seeds
men. 1t has been tested by many ex-
pertinent stations and has never been
found to yield as we'll as good varie-
ties Of common durum wheat. From
our present knowledge, it is not rec
commended fer growing anywhere in
the United States.
Those offering the seed claims that
it does very well on dry land and also
under irrigation if not watered too
much. They state that Polish farm
ers in Montana claim that this wheat
yields.from IS to $50 bushels per acre
and makes the very best of flour and
hog feed.
These statements are directly con
trary to the experience of the depart
ment and several State experiment
stations. They are also contrary te
the experience Of many farmers who
have written to the department at one
time and another.
The accumulated evidence regarding
this wheat does not indicate that i
has any value that will in any wa.
justify the charge of 81 a pound TO:
the seed, and farmers are advised no
to be misled by the glowing statement
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POLISH WHEAT.
Exploited in West-Not Recommend
ed for Growing Anywhere in the
United States.

The department recently has been
Informed that Polish wheat is being
offered for sale in Montana at the ex-
orbitant price of 81 per pound. Pol
ish wheat is a variety more closely
related to the durum wheats than to
the common wheats. The head is 8
to 6 inches long and one-half to three
quarters of an inch wide, usually f1ex-
|ible instead of stiff. The chaff is very
long, and thin and papery. The kerr
nels are larger than those of durum
wheat and about twice as long as those
of ordinry varieties of common wheat.
Like those Of durum wheat, the ker-
nels are finty and of amber color.
A few years ago this wheat was
exploited III Idaho under the mislead-
ing name "Corn wheat" 1t has also
been exploited at different times as
Jerusalem rye "Giant rye" etc.
This wheat is grown to a slight ex-
tent in southeastern Europe, but never
has been commercially grown in the
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-03-23
regarding yields and value which have
been made concerning this variety.
POISON PRAIRIE DOGS.

The most effective method Of exter-
minating prairie dogs is by poisoning,
according to results of experiments
conducted by the Nebraska Expert
ment station. The work began early
in the early fall OF winter can be eff
ectively continued in the spring up to
the time green food becomes available.
The most practical formula suggest
ed by the Experiment station is one
composed Of one ounce of powdered
strychnia sulfate OF s>rychnine aka
loid, one-half teacup of laundry or
gloss starch, and one %teaspoonful Of
saccharine in one quart of boiling
water. Dissolve the strychnine,
starch and saccharine in the boiling
water. Pour the solution over twelve
quarts of grain, preferably wheat,
which is held in a tight, clean vessel,
such as a galvanized iron tub. Stir
the mixture very thoroughly until
every grain receives a thoro coating.
Then spread the grain out to dry. The
cost of such treatment is approximate
ly five to eight cents an acre.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-03-23

Last Thursday afternoon the Wo-
mems Club of this city perfected an
organization. The meeting was held
at the home of Mrs. D. L. Stewart. A
constitution and bylaws were adopted
and the following officers were elected:
for the coming year: President, Mrs.
E. o. Dilling; Vice Pres, Mrs. c. w.
Kelly; Secretary, Mrs. G. E. West;
Treasurer, Mrs. D. L. Stewart. It is
is expected taht meetings will be held
once a month at the homes of men,
hers.
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Mike Dohoney had the misfortune
to be mixed up in a runaway accident
the latter part of the week and got
badly bruised up. However he is able
to be out again, much to the satisfac-
ton of his many friends.
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Ben Tekip of Grand Forks, repre-
sentative for the L. c. Smith type
writer company, was in the city this
week. Mr.. Tekip has accepted the
position formerly held by T. C. Tom
linson.
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Last Saturday evening the Elks
lodge of this city held a regular meet
ing and a class of six were initiated
into the mysteries of the order. AZ
ter the work was finished there was a
fine lunch and some vaudeville at
fractions put on by talent from the
Grand opera house. A large number
from outside were in attendance.
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Carmie Thompson left Monday for
Sanish this state where he has ac-
cepted a position with a lumber firm.
He is a fine young man and there is
no question but what he will make
good in his new position.
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y Nels A. Myrv,ic rt Of Highland town
ship was business visitor in the city
monday. He was here to attend a
meeting Of the non-partisan league.
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voMts,;; " " =: Keith. Of Gallo and Mrs:
,Dr: Lihdner Of Munich were shoppers.
aid visitors IN the city; Wednesday and
Thursday of last week. ~ ~
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Doc Craft made one of his usual
visits to our Office this week and
handed us a sample Of "Uzum'' a Land
soap, which can be used with or with
out water. Doc is selling this prepar-
alton and is meeting with big trade.
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On Wednesday, March Goth, Ed.
Burke will sell at his farm 9 miles east
of Garske rs head of brood mares and
draft geldings, ranging from 3 to 8
years, and weighing from 1900 to 100
pounds. (1t)
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Mr.. and Mrs VIM. D. Miller of Web
ster, recently returned from Texas and
Hot Springs, Ark, where they enjoyed
a couple Of months outing.
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26 head of fancy draft horses will be
sold at auction at the Ed Burke farm,
9 miles east of Garske, on Wednesday,
March 10Th. (1t.)
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Banker E. r. Swarthout of the
First National bank of Hampden was
a business visitor in the city Monday.
He reports everything H. Haznpden
moving along nicely.
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Vincent Fenelon, who is attending
the Agricultural college at Fargo,
came up and spent a few days with
his parents, MI. and Mrs. Eugene Fen
elon.
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Mrs. w. E. Keith of Gallo and Mrs.
DR.. Lindner of Munich were shoppers
and visitors in the city Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
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R. E. Rognas, Of Rolla, was a visi-
tor in the city the first of the week.
Mr.. Rognas is one Of the proprietors
of the New York Cash Store at this
place.
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Anon the outside visitors in the city
Monday were Dirk Hulst, A Wander
Heiden and Leonard Scharf of Cato
township.
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Miss Sybil Baker came up from the
University to spend the week end with
her parents.
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A full car load of elegant furniture
and furnishings for the new Elks home
arrived the latter part of the week
and as soon as the building is in shape
it will be installed.
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Harry Sparks of Southam was Wis
iting his parents in the city the early
part of he week.
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Frank Frye, manager of the Lon
nevick-H ~endrickson Implement house
at Webster, was an over Sunday Wis
itor in the city.
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Mr.. and Mrse W. II %KpuhAef and Mr.
and Mrs. Geo Aixeg&9fS outhham,swere
visitors in the. city FhursdaY evening
last Z. IT v u ai '..Me ii;
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Attorney T. w. Morrissey of Ed
more, was attending to legal matters
here Monday.
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OF LOCAL INTEREST

Ole J. Morseth of Overland township
attended the non-partisan meeting
here Monday.
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Mrs. Tom Montgomery Of Dickinson,
is visiting at the home of her brother
C. j. B. Turner in this city.
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Vic Rasmussen ooff.,Grand Forks was
attending to business matters in the
city this week.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-03-23

Andrew Nelson of Minneapolis, has
located in Devils Lake and has opened
up an establishment for the upholster-
ing and repairing all kinds of furni-
ture. He is an experienced man in his
line and there is no reason why he can
not build up a nice business here.
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Mrs. E. E. Fifer and Miss Anna
Henley of Southam were visiting re-
latives in the city this week.
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Mrs. John Stewart of Fox Lake
was visiting relatives in this city this
week.
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Casper Bye of Crary was in attend
ance at the n~on-partisan league meet
ing Monday.
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The funeral &c Mrs. Frank Rutten,
ST., who recently passed away at Mi
not, was held from St. Joseph's Cath
olic church in this city and the remains
were laid at rest beside her husband in
the cemetery near the Rutten church
in Ontario township.
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MI. Sparks and son Wendell tran
sacted business at Southam on We'd
nesday.
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N. i. Brennan and son James have
gone to Chicago, to. consult a special
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-03-23

/; Mrs James. Henley ,left;;. Monday. for
eastern Canada for an extended visit.
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DIV. Brennan is ,transacting bust.
ness in Minneapolis. : .:,,s

James Cregaf and Harold Adams
left Monday evening for Minot..
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A delegation of jamestown Masons
consisting of Messrs Steele Halstad
and Feton, were here the first of the
week inspecting the new Masonic tenn
pie which is about to be opened here.
Jamestown Masons are about to erect
a temple and they were here to get a
few pointers, as this temple is recog-
niezd as the finest building of its size
and kind in the whole Northwest.
c. ]. Kelly, who has conducted a
most successful mercantile business in
the Locke Block for the past year, has
decided to put in a first-class grocery
store here. The firm will be Kelly &
Redmond, and will be in charge of Mr..
Glen Redmond, who has been n OF
Mr.. Kelly's faithful clerks for some
time past. This firm will do a cash
business, making no deliveries and
will compete with all catalog houses.
The au ton sales are still going on at
Kelly's store and he expects to clean
up the balance of his stock before the
end of the month. Watch for an
nouncements of this new grocery'frm.