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The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS
MEANS MORE THAN GUNS

New York-The Washington corre-
spondent of the New York Tribune
quotes President Gompers as opposing
any plan to "federalize" the State militia
unless there is included a provision
against its further use in the suppression
OF strikes Another declaration by the
a. +. of l.. Executive is that "the burden
OF costs Tor increasing armament must
be distributed equally among all classes,
instead OF bearing most heavily on the
wage earners and consumers as hereto
fore"
he fact that we have chosen to call
our system OF government in the United
States republic" Mr.. Gompers said,
does not insure us either protection or
peace. Preparedness is an economic as
well as civic and military problem.
he principles of human welfare can
not be ignored i'll plans for national de
tense any more than they can be ignored
Ill industry or commerce. The safe
guarding of human rights and freedom
are OF fundamental Importance and are
correlated with national defense They
must not be sacrificed to any false con
cept of national defense.
TO what end will nation be saved
If the citizens are denied that which
gives life value and purpose? The pre-
paredness favored by labor must be
genuine. There must be no sham. no
pretense, no halfway measures. There
must be industrial, commercial, political
social, moral as well as military defense.
Citizen soldiery must be established and
extended. 1t must be democratically or
ganized, officered and controlled. We
must put an end to the present wasteful
and unfair administration of our mill
tary affairs.
TO say that we will leave the ad-
of such powers in the hands
of the privileged few is to surrender it
in advance. 1t can only be in the hands
OF the democracy of America. Wher-
ever the spirit of democracy is absent.
there the accompanying evil of militar-
ism fastens its deadly clutches upon free
dom and civic opportunity, just as con-
versely, where the spirit of democracy OBJ
tains, it is to the abolition of military
castles and the vicious dangers of mill
tarism.
Preparedness, democratic prepared
ness, must be against enemies at home
as well as enemies without Our borders.
1t must take i'll many factors. Labor
and the poor ought not to bear the bulk
of the burden-the cost of war at home
and the sacrifice of war at the front. =
President Gompcrs
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
PROFIT SHARING PLAN
WILL NOT SATISFY MEN

ashington.-During the As hours
strike of street car men in this city
officials OF the two companies expressed
great surprise that their employees did
not appreciate the so-caled profit-shar-
ing schemes and benefit associations that
were conducted for their benefit.
The employees position is well stated
in the following editorial in the Wash
nston Times, under the caption, Rights
Wanted, Not Brides: :"
The employees of the street railway
companies will not be satisfied for long
If they are bribed with benefits, allow
ances, profitsharing plans, and relief or
ganzations, into surrendering funda-
mental human rights.
''1t is reported that the officers of the
street car corporations are telling their
men that relief and profit sharing pro-
jects will be impossible if the men insist
on organizing and going ahead with the
independent conduct of their relations
with their employers. That sort of ar
gument will in the end fail The human
right of organizing, of negotiating CO.
operatively. of dealing as unity of hui
manity with a unit of money and man
agement, will have to be conceded.
ships, provinces, States, nations, in or
der more effectively to serve their in
dividual ends through united action.
They organize into corporations in or
der to pool their capital for more effec-
tive use 1t is too late in civilizations
processes for assumption that labor may
not organize where politics. society, cap
tal everything else, may do so.
,f all ,D1,t pf
to organize. Let them have their union.
1t will be good for them and for the
corporations and for the public.
Then treat with them, through the
union.
There would be as much sense in the
street railroad stockholders. as individ-
uals, trying to treat with the employees,
as for the employees, as individuals, try
ing to treat with the corporate entities
1t is neither fair nor possible. Moreover,
the effort to maintain such doctrine
smackS quite too much of the seven
teenth century This is the twentieth"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
PORTO RICO PRINTING OFFICE.

Washington-In letter to A. F. OF
L. Secretary Frank Morrison, Brigader
General Mcintyre, chief of the bureau
OF nsular affairs, says
This bureau favors the government
printing Office in Porto Rico and having
the work of the government and all OF
its bureaus done there, not only for the
reasons urged by your correspondents
in Porto Rico, but because our exper-
ience has been that we can produce in
such an office a much higher class OF
work than it is possible to have produced
in the ordinary printing offices, where
the amount OF printing is limited, as in
Porto Rico. We have found this the
case in the Philippine Islands and that as
result OF maintaining a government
printing office we have materially i'm
proved the standard of work in the COM
munity and have trained local printers
so that they could handle a much higher
class of work than was possible before
the establishment OF a government print
ing Office
Secretary Morrison presented General
Mcintyre with correspondence from San
Juan Typographical union relative to this
matter, and while the bureau chief ex-
presses his belief that all government
printing should be done by the Porto
Rican printing Office, he calls attention to
the insistence OF private printing Offices
for portion OF this work, and who use
their influence to this end
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
COLORADO MINERS ACQUITTED.

Denver, Colo.-Four members OF the
United Mine Workers union have been
declared not guilty OF murder by jury
III Judge Denison's court at Castle Rock.
Douglas county. The miners were
charged with killing Major Lester, and
their prosecution was directed BY State
Attorney General Farrar.
The verdict is blow to Colorado min
ing interests that have secured the in
dlctment of hundreds of former strikers.
These interests originally intended to
have the miners tried before Judge Hill
lyer. eX-coal company attorney, whose
appointment as a judge was made after
the last legislature created special court
district, The miners, however. blocked
this scheme by an order from the State
supreme court which debars Hillyer from
further consideration of these cases. and
the verdict at Castle Rock is the result
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
SHIP WORKERS STRIKE,

Seattle.-Striking boilermakers and
helpers employed by the Seattle Con-
struction and Dry Dock company are
making public the policy and practices
OF this antiunion concern. These work
ers struck for better working conditions
last December. A settlement was agreed
to but was later repudiated by President
Paterson of the company, and the ship
workers were forced to strike again.
The strikers are issuing a leaflet in
which they say:
Preparedness by J. V. Paterson and
preparedness as advocated by labor are
two very different things.
Labor believes that the best ground
work for preparedness is patriotic
stalwart citizenry brought about by i'm
proved working and living conditions
such as shorter worltday, giving more
time for mental development and recrea-
ton, and better pay with which to pro-
vide the necessities of decent life
AT Mr.. Paterson's plant the reverse is
the truth, and for this reason the boiler
makers, iron shipbuilders and helpers
are on strike.
MIR. Paterson is now trying to fill the
strikers places with many men who are
absolutely incompetent, rather than con-
cede their meager demands.
This brings about critical situation
Some time ago it was reported that the
Chilean government condemned two sub
marines built by this firm, which were
afterwards sold to the Canadian govern
ment, and as Mr.. Paterson himself said
under conditions in which no respecta-
bic firm would take part
'The U. S. submarine F-4, which was
built by this same firm on the cheap
basis, sank in Honolulu harbor carry
ing q of the bravest of souls to a watery
grave, and the investigation showed that
this was due to structural Weakness
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
MANY WORKERS HURT,

Harrisburg, Pa.-Injuries were sus-
tanned by 1907 workers in Pennsylvania
industrial plants during the first sixteen
days of February, an average of almost
1000 on every working day. Several
times during that period more than 1000
men were injured on a single day. The
highest daily reford of injured work.
men was 1,190. During the first sixteen
days Of February ninety-two workers
were killed.
This number does not include twenty
seven fatalities in one mine catastrophe
in Western Pennsylvania and several
other fatalities Accident reports, re-
ceived at the Bureau of Statistics during
February, show marked increase over
January. During the month of January
l3,465 workers were injured, including
l29 killed.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18

Shall with the latter's revolver: that
when he entered the room in the hos
pital Shall drew his revolver, but he
grabbed his wrist, wrenched the weapon
away and turned it upon Shall
81 contradicted that afterward." de-
clared Sullivan.
you used your own weapon, is the triie
story?" demanded Attorney Cogan. and
Sullivan replied:
Yes, sir"
Met Herbert Doty.
Under further cross-eXamination Sui
livan said he did not see Vincent Dotv
or Ieeters after he had followed Perry
into the hospital until he met them later
III a saloon. He said after the shooting
he ran down the hill and saw Herbert
Doty at garage. He said he did not
remember telling Doty what he had
done, and did not know whether or not
he knew of the killing, unless he had
heard the two shots fired.
Sullivan said he met Perry and told
him about having shot Shall They went
to saloon and entered the lavatorv to-
gether. Sullivan decided to get rid of
the revolver. He testified that he told
Perry;
I'm going to ditch this
Perry then said to me-" continued
Sullivan, Give it to me and I'll take
care OF it. SO | gave him the revolver
Following this testimony Sullivan ad-
mitted he had not told the truth when
he told the police he had lost the re-
volver out of his pocket while running
down the hill. He contradicted much of
his confession to the police, and ad-
mitted that it was not true, but declared
the evidence he had given on the stand
was the truth of the matter. The trial
will be resumed Friday.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
Lied in Confession To Police,
Admits Sulliuan, When
Being Cross Examined
Stories Concerning Revolver False He Declares-Sayer
OF Shall Testifies He Does Not Know Whether
Herbert Doty Kneuu of Murder.

Thursdays session of the trial of Her
bert Doty, charged with first-degree
murder in connection with the killing
of Frank Shall, nonunon painter, at
Christ Hospital annex December last.
was taken up largely with argument as
to the admissibilty of evidence the
State sought to present.
Gabriel Sullivan, who admitted that
he was the one who fired the shots that
killed Shall, and was brought to Cincin-
natl from the penitentiary, where he is
serving life sentence, was on the stand.
The State sought to question him as to
what was said and done by him, Herbert
Doty, Emery Teeters, Vincent Doty and
Edward Perry after they had fled from
the scene of the murder. The defense
denied the right to do this, but after a
lengthy argument, Judge Cosgrave ruled
that the State could offer evidence to
show consciousness of guilt that might
be manifested by the flight of the men,
and that this might be testified to up to
what took place in the Dayton hotel, to
which they went on the night of the
murder.
Why State Desired Evidence.
The State desired this evidence in an
effort to show that after the murder all
the men, save Vincent Doty, went to
saloon near Chester Park and waited
there until 8 o'clock that night when
they caught train and went to Dayton.
There, it is alleged, Herbert Doty gave
Sullivan $3 more, in addition to the So
he gave him on the morning of the muir
der.
When turned over to ATTORNEY
Thomas ]. Cogan, of counsel for the
defense, for cross-examination Sullivan
admitted that he had not told the truth
in his confession" to the police. Sui
lvan said he had told the police he shot
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
X. II. TELEGRAPHERS GAIN,

St. Louis, Mo.-President Perham, of
the Order of Railway Telegraphers, re-
ports that this organization has secured
revised schedules and wage scales on
the following railroads. Quebec, Mon
treal & Southern, Chesapeake & Ohio,
Bessemer & Lake Erie, Ann Arbor and
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton New wage
schedules have been secured on the
Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City and the
Toledo, st. Louis & Western. The latter
settlement was secured with the aid of
the United States Board of Mediation
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
NEW YORK TEACHERS TO UNITE

New York.-Pubic school teachers in
this city are discussing organization and
affiliation with the American Fedora
ton of Labor. President Gompers has
held conferences with teachers and prin-
cipals who favor this movement. Sen
timent for unionization has increased
because of threatened reduction or sala-
ries and uncertainty of positions follow
ing the efforts of local politicians to con-
troll the public schools by securing the
passage of a home rule law by the
State Legislature.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
STREET CAR MEN ORGANIZE.

San Antonio, Tex.-Street car men in
this city have organized. The manage
ment of the San Antonio Traction Com
pany assured Vice-President Ben Com
mons, of the Amalgamated Street Car
Mems Union, that it did not oppose or
ganization of its employees. The trade
union official says this is one of the few
instances of its kind in the history of
their International Union.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
NAVY YARD WORKERS UNITE.

Portsmouth, Va.-1'aking advantage
of the amended constitution of the A.
f. of l.. metal trades department., en-
ployes OF the navy yard at this place
have formed a metal trades council.
Twenty-Five trades and occupations, 100
per cent organized, are represented in
the new body.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
MACHINISTS STRIKE.

Franklin, Pa-Machinist employed
by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool company.
the Colburn Machine Tool company and
the Producers Supply company are on
strike. They are demanding wage in
creases and an eight-hour day.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
SECURE SUNDAY CLOSING LAW

Cheyenne, Wyo.-City commissioners
have passed Sunday closing ordinance,
The Retail Clerks union and other trade
union organizations were strong sup
porters of the measure.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
INCREASES FOR BOOKBINDERS

Saint Joseph, Mo.-Bookbinders' TIN
ion No. 179 has secured a one years
contract that carries wage increases and
better working conditions.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
LONGSHOREMEN RAISE WAGES.

Portland, Me-After short strike
employed on the docks of
the Crank Trunk railroad secured sub
stantial wage increases
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
MOLDERS RAISE WAGES.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa.-The Iron Mold
ers' union has raised wages from $3.50
to 1915 per day. Every shop in the city
but one has accepted these terms.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-18
LATHERS WANT INCREASE.

Newark, N. 1.-The Lathers' Union
has asked that wages be increased, to
take effect May 2.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

strong teeth tore OF generous por
ton. Then he rose and walked Off to
the corral.
Gerry sat on alone. Thoughts were
troubling him, too. What was he DO
ing here? Who was this Margarita
that had twined herself into his IRE!
Was it his life? And her little boy
bIack-haired, black-eyed, olive-tlnted-
he was his boy, too. He was Gerry
Lansing's son. No, not that-not Ger
ry Lansing's. Gerry Lansing belonged
to time that was far away, to hill
where white houses with green blinds
peered out from the darkness or
domed naples, from the long shadows
of appointing frs and from the caves
of fiaring elms, the wine-cups of heav-
en-. A sigh came quiyering through all
his body and escaped from his trem-
bling lips. II am alone" he breathed
to himself.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

IL date my birth from the day /
spent the last dollar and woke up.
worked Nothing was too small or too
big for me to handle. got something
to risk and then / risked 1t. ! risked
1t again and again. After ten years
could draw my check for thirty thous-
and plus interest and did. sent the
cheek to the little bank back home. l
waited two months for the answer and
then 1t came; my check torn across
and a short letter saying that the loss
had already been met by a bankers
surety association. / wrote the asso-
citation dozen letters and some or
them took some writing. In the last
| offered fourfold the theft. There had
been plenty of Bible in my bringing
up. They wrote back that 1t was no
use--that | could keep on climbing in
peace but it was their business to jail
me for fifteen years the first chance
they got and they'd do it the minute l
set foot where they could grab me.
THAT letter frightened me. be-
gan to realize that what I'd been work
ing for wasn't money, or honor, or
rehabilitation but just the right to go
back-the right to go back home.
Nobody had been harder on me
than my old man. For years nobody
In the house was allowed to say my
name and IL he saw a letter from me
he threw 1t in the fire, opened or I'M
! opened. But somehow 1t got to him
that had offered to pay fourfold and
that I'd been refused and that turned
him. 1t was the fourfold that did it
| the divine and sacred measure of JUS
| tice. He started to fight for me as
hard as he'd ever fought against. And
then he died and my old mother died.
Letters stopped. My brothers and sis
tiers were coming up in the world.
They couldn't afford to own thief
much less fight for him. So the letters
stopped.
Il spent money then. / built me a
house in Pernambuco that was won
der palace and | started in to forget.
But when you've been remembering
with all your might, the color of the
paper on the walls of home, the lay
of the wood-pile, of the sheds and the
tumbling barn and stables, the holes
in the fence, the friendly limbs of ap-
1 pie trees and the smell Of hay; when
you've been coddling bare memories
of simple things like those for fifteen
years, you can't turn around on your
inside self and forget.
There's flag the sight of which
makes my heart come up into my
throat and tears to my eyes. Yor
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
SYNOPSIS.
10

Alan Wayne Is sent away from Red Hill,
his home, by his uncle. J. r., as a moral
failure, Glenn drinks Alan's health on his
birthday. Judge Healey defends Alan In
hts business with his employers. Alan and
Alix, Gerry's wife, meet at sea, homeward
bound. and start a Irritation. At home.
Gerry. as he thinks. sees Alix and Alan
hloping, drops everything. and goes 10
Pernambuco, Alix leaves Alan on the
train and goes home. Gerry leaves Per-
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. On n
canoe trip he meets a native girl. The
Judge fails TO trace Gerry. A baby Is born
TO Alix. The native girl takes Gerry TO
the ruined plantation she is mistress Of.
Gerry Inarries her. At Maple house Col
linseford tells how he met Alan-"Ten
Per Cent Wayne"-building a bridge in
Africa. Collingeford meets Alix and her
baby and gives her announcement about
Gerry. Alan comes back to town but does
not 20 home. Gerry begins to improvs
Margarita's plantation and builds an ir-
rigating ditch. In Africa Alan reads
Clients letters and dreams OF home Ger
ny pastures Lieber's cattle during the
drought. baby comes 10 Margarita,
CoIlingeford meets Alix In the city and
finds her changed Alan meets Alix a. ",
and Glen. grown to beautiful womanhood
In the city and realizes that he has sold
his hirthright for a mess of pottage. Kemp
and Gerry become friends. They visit
Leber.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

think mean the Stars and Stripes,
but | don't. l mean the Blue Peter
that flies at the halyards of big ships
and says to everybody that takes the
trouble to look, we sail today Over
the tops of the houses I've seen that
flag blinking in the heavens like a bit
of deep blue sea married to a white
cloud and to me it always said, We
sail for home today I'd shut my eyes
or close the blinds but what was the
use of that? Night and day l could
hear the below of the great horns-a
blast for good-by and another for a
challenge to the sea-as the big boats
headed out for home.
Il couldn't stand it. came up here
And now, last night dreamed that
heard it in my sleep-up here. Gen
tlemen, man without a country is in
bad way but man without a home,
even if it's hovel-well-we all know
the old song" He paused to master
his voice. Then in whisper that they
just caught he added, Home is the
anchor of mans soul. l want to go
Home"
Lieber stopped talking. The reveal
ing silence had done its work. 1t had
brought them close-so close that he
had spoken lest they take his soul by
assault. He left them and went to his
own room. They saw he was an old
man, beyond the years he had dis
closed.
They did not speak. They were
nervous. Kemp made a cigarette,
pulled at it once or twice and then
threw it away, to roll another a mo-
ment later. His thoughts were wing
ing away to the fork of Big and Little
Creek where a three-room shack stood
in the shadow of the White mountains
of New Mexico. He had thought it
small, miserable, cramped. But out
here in the wilderness, thousands and
thousands of miles away, it came back
to his vision, glorified. swelling
came into his throat. He tried to
cough it up. But as long as he thought
of the mountain, the thickness stuck
in his throat. He took from his pocket
treasured cake of tobacco and with
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
HADN'T WORKED IN HIS CASE
Young Clerk Might Be Excused for
Not Thinking Very Highly of
Jones' Advice.

President John Grier Hibben of
Princeton was talking at luncheon
about preparedness.
Preparedness is our duty" he said.
IF we don't prepare we will find our
selves in fearful trouble. The man
who In these cyclonic times opposes
preparedness is apt to get the worst
of it, like Jones.
Jones, fat, steady-going clerk,
had worked for the same firm seven
teen years. A new hand, nervous
young fellow, complained to him one
day:
I've been here six months now,
and it's time had a raise
oh, keep your hair on said
Jones. I was here two years before
I got my first raise. Just plug away
patiently, my boy-thats the way to
get on. By the way, what is your
salary, anyhow
"'Only twenty dollars said the
younger man.
Holy smoke!' roared Jones. And
mine is fifteen"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

Good looks may catch a man, but
It takes good housekeeping to hold
him.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
Fly Poison Kills More Children
Than All Other Poisons Combined
For Safety's Sake, Use D9

Is there in your home, anywhere
within baby's reach, a saucer of
arsenic poisoned paper floating in
water, or a can with a sweetened
poisoned wick1
During 1915, 26 cases of fly poisoning
were reported from IL states; In 1914. 46
cases from IA states. Fly poison ki1h more
eAtla,e' than all other poiso,ss combined.
Yet fly poison still is left unguarded
except in the homes where mothers have
learned that the safe. sure, noa-poisonons.
enleient fly catcher and DESTROYER Is