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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-27
Sugar Market

New York, May 26.-A more optimistic feeling prevailed in the local market for raw sugar and prices were 1sc higher for Cuban grades at 53sc cost and freight, equal to 6.99c for centrifugal and 5.62c for molasses. The trading which was only moderately active, seemed to be inspired by further inquiries for granulated from exporters as we'll as the more liberal withdrawals on old contract by domestic buyers, prompted by the favorable weather. The days business included 9OOO0 bags of Cubas for June shipment to operators at 5asc, cost and freight equal to 6.39c for centrifugal and 10000 bags of Cubas for July shipment to a retiner at 7-16c, cost and freight, equal to 645c for centrifugal. There were also sales of 1700 tons of San Domingo sugar to local refiner for June shipment at SAC, cost and freight. The market closed firm and there appeared to be no sugar offered under 51ac for prompt or nearby shipment, with buyers willing to pay 5ssc.
 In refined there was no change in prices, but business was a little more active in the way of withdrawals on old contract due to the more favorable weather, and there were further in- quiries from exporters. rumors placing their purchases at about 5000 tons for June shipment at $40 to 645c f. o. b., New York; Prices were listed on the basis of 7.65c to 7.75c for fine granulated
 In futures there was an active cover mg movement prompted by the firmness or the spot market and the continued demand for granulated from exporters Shorts were good buyers with trade in terests and commission houses also pur- chasing quite freely, closing prices show ing net gains of 6 to 21 points, July sofd from 5.45c to 5.4Sc, closing 5.46c; September, 5.47c to 5.51c, closing 5.49c; December, 5.0Sc to 5.10c, closing, 50Sc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-27
Metal Market

New York, May 26.-Copper quiet; cleo trolytic, nearby, nominal; August and later $2SOOa29. .25; iron steady and un- changed; metal exchange quotes tin steady; spot, $47d4S. At London spot copper, Gl21; futures, G120; electrolytic 9l4S; spot tin, G195 futures G193. The metal exchange quotes lead, $7.15@735. Spelter easy. East St. Louis deliver, 14Ac asked At London lead. eH 5s: spelter, G90.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-27
English Money

London, May 26.-Bar silver, "A S-lbd per ounce. Money, 4a4ls per cent Dis count rates: Short bills and three months, 43sG44 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-27

per cent; money steady; high, 21a per cent; low, ? per cent; ruling rate, 21s per cent: last loan, 21a per cent; closing bid, ? per cent; offered at 212 per cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-27
Naval Stores

Savannah, May 26.-Turpentine firm, 3Sc 12@1234c; sales, 14o; receipts, 514; ship ments. 173 stock, 9S44 Resin firm sales, 94S; receipts, 1903; shipments. 54s; stock, 57,952. Quote: A, B, &.35; c. D,
 $40; E, S4.5O; F, A.6O; G, $4.65; H. !, &75; K, $4.s0; M. A.S5 N $5; VIC, $5.tSs wv, $5.4O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-27
Live Stock

Chicago, May 26.-Hogs: Receipts, 21,- coo; market weak. Bulk, s9.6Od975; light s9 910Q9.75; mixed, s9.40@9.S5; heavy, $9SO6 9.S5; rough, $9.30d9.45; pigs, $7.25G91O
 Cattle: Receipts, 20O0; market weak Native beef cattle, $S.S0G1O.75; stockers and feeders, s615d9; cows and hefers, &.60Q9.75; calves, $8 25d1I 25.
 Sheep: Receipts, 12,OO0s market Weak Wethers, s7.30d93O; ewes s55od9.15 lambs, $S.4Oa12. .35
 Kansas City, May 26-Hogs: Receipts, O700; to 1Oc lower. Bulk, $9. 55a9. .75; ; heavy, $9.75d9.So; packers and butchers $9. 69ds.77; light, $945d970; pigs, $SS5a9. .25
 Cattle: Receipts, 800; market strong Prime fed steers, $10@10.4o; dressed beef steers, $S.40@9.60; southern s,eers, sSd9. 75; cows, s6aS.75 heifers, s7.75@1O; stockers and feeders, S.25@9; bulk, $6aS 25; calves, $6 5O@11.
 Sheep: Receipts, $500; market steady Lambs, $10@12; yearlings, $9@11; wethers, sS@9.50; ewes, s7.5009.25.
 St. Louis, May 26.-Hogs: Receipts, 7300 10c lower. Pigs and lights, S7.75@ 9SO; mived and butchers, $9.70@9.95; good heavy, $9.9O@9.95; bulk, s9.7O@99O
 Cattle: Receipts. 1900; market strong Native beef steers, $7.5o@1O50; yearling steers and heifers, $S.5oG1o; cows, $55O@ $50; stockers and feeders, $550MS. 50; Texas and Indian steers, $5.5OQ905; prime yearling steers and he::ers, $S.75d10. .25; cows and heifers, s5@S prime southern steers, $9d9,50; native calves, $6@11. 50.
 Sheep: Receipts, 1900; market steady. Wethers s7.75@9S5; lambs, s1Oa12 20; clipped ewes, $7.5O@s.25; clipped lambs, $9.15G1o75; spring lambs, $10@15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-27
Spinners' Takings
Liverpool Cotton

New York May 26,-(Special)- )-Today the feature of the market was the slow liouidation in July, which, fell to sharp discount below October and the differ ence promises to widen further. At the close Liverpool covered several thousand
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
GERMAN PRIME MINISTER
HAS FIRM BACKING
Hindenburg and Socialists Will Fight
in Reichstag for Mild Submarine
Warfare and Liberal Government
Policy.

BERL1N.-Supported by Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg and the majority
Of the German people, Chancellor Won
Bethmann Hollweg is expected to
weather the storm that will probably
break in the reichstag when that body
reconvenes September %.
The campaign for a resumption of
submarine warfare has been renewed
by the reichstag critics of Bethmann-
HOllWeg. The submarine advocates,
who have never been able to forgive
the chancellor for yielding to the
United States, are expected to make
trouble and some are already propos-
ing the formation of a coalition min
istry.
Three hundred Socialists met here
today in most important session pre-
ceding the reichstag gathering. The
Socialists, who supported the chancel-
lor during the submarine disputes, are
being urged by their leaders to forget
fractional differences and present a
solid front in view of the coming
crisis.
The attention Of the whole country
is centered on the Socialist meeting.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
BENSON FORCES THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS TO
PRINT SOCIALIST NEWS

lister and Leader, the great Republican
newspaper Of Iowa and also the chief
newspaper in that state served by the
Associated Press, was present. Ben
son called the attention of the audi
ence to the reporters presence, and
then told the reporter that if his editor
sent him there to get news he would
| give him some worth printing, after
which Benson launched into an at
tack upon militarism that the Regis
ter, the next morning, said was the
most scorching attack that had ever
been heard in Des Moines."
Benson asked the audience to watch
the Register the next morning and
see whether it was an honest news
paper or a crooked one.
"lf it prints what have said here
tonight" said Benson, you must give
it credit. If it does not, you who have
heard the charges have made tonight
against both the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties will know that the
Register does not want to print this
kind of news"
The next morning the Register con-
tanned two and a half column report
of the speech, displayed, on the first
page under big headlines.
At Ottumwa, Ia, the next night
Benson renewed his attack upon the
Associated Press, which the great
audience, like the Des Moins audi
ence, applauded to the echo, and Ben
son declared that he would yet pull
the lid" from the kettle of militarism
and let the American people, before
the end of the campaign, know the
facts about it.
At st. Louis, before an audience of
1000, he repeated the dose, pilloried
the Post Dispatch, an Associated
Press newspaper, as he had a few
nights before the Des Moins Regis
ter, with the result that the Post Dis
patch, on Sunday morning, published
a one-column report of his speech.
A. p. Agrees to Do Its Duty.
And at Staunton, ILL.,, where Benson
spoke to a packed house, he received
telegram announcing that, by direc-
ton of the New York office of the
Associated Press, his speeches, begin
ming with the Staunton one, would be
reported by the Associated Press.
Reasonable space is offered. Every
day, from now on, the Associated
Press will carry about 300 words from
Benson.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
(Benson, Everett, Oct. 8, 2 p.m.)
MOB EGGS SOCIALIST
SPEAKER IN HOBART

HOBART, Okla.-A Democratic
mob threw rotten eggs at Socialist
Representative T. H. McLemore, of
the Oklahoma legislature, when he got
the best of the argument while speak
ing on the subject of a challenge is
sued to the old party politicians, o. j.
Logan and R. r. Fitzgerald, who had
failed to appear. The egg-throwing
helped to swell the crowd, however,
and the thugs skunk away when they
noticed that they had made the Social
list more successful.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
COOKS AND WATERS
ASK 100000 DAMAGES

SAN FRANCISCO Suit for an
injunction and for 100000 damages
was filed in the Superior Court
against the Law and Order Committee
of the Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco by the Cooks and Walters
Union and allied organizations thro-
ugh Emil G.. Butcherer, the nominal
plaintiff.
Conspiracy Charged.
The complaint charges that the
Law and Order Committee formed a
conspiracy in violation of the Penal
Code ''to Mexicanize the laboring class
to conditioion of peonage and slav-
cry"
1t is charged that the Committee
"has entered into contracts of ar
engagements whereby said employers
obligate themselves not to hire or en-
ploy any person or persons belonging
to or associated with any Labor Union
organization"
Assault IIckeCS.
Another charge made in the COM
plant is that the Committee "has
hired and maintained an army of per-
sons who carry concealed weapons, in
violation of law, for the purpose of
performing the will of said conspir-
acy, and have employed persons as
assault pickets."
Million Dollar Fund.
The plaintiff asserts that the Com
mittee has amassed a fund of $1,OOO,-
900, which it threatens to use as a
war fund against the Unions.
Damages Demanded.
The paintiff asks that the members
of the Law and Order Committee be
restrained from doing any of these
acts set forth in his complaint, and
that the members Of the Unions he
represents be awarded damages to the
amount of 100000.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
CANDIDATES. ATTACK ON
UNFAIRNESS OF THE BIG
NEWS SERVICE COMPELS
1T TO REFORM.

ST. LOUIS-Allan l.. Benson, So
cialist candidate for President, has
brought down" the Associated Press,
This great news gathering and news
distributing agency, which furnishes
telegraphic news to more than 700
daily newspapers, sent out its first
report to the press of America of a
Benson meeting, and that report, writ
ten by Benson himself, unmasked the
provision struggled into the new army
law, under which the President, in
time of war, has the arbitrary power
to draft any and every American citi-
zen of military age into the army.
The surrender of the Associated
Press was no accident. Early last
week it began to get on Benson's
nerves when he saw daily Associated
Press reports, sometimes running up
to 800 words, of the Prohibition Pres
idential candidates meetings. At Des
Moines, Thursday night, before an
audience that filled the largest hall in
the city, Benson delivered terrific
broadside at the Associated Press.
Makes Comparison
He did not critic the news asso-
citation. He said he neither expected
or asked its favor. But he asked the
audience to draw its own conclusions
from the fact that while the Asso-
ciated Press gave the Prohibition
candidate reasonable space, it had not
given the Socialist Presidential candi-
date since he began his speaking cam
paign, the latter part of August,
single word.
Benson directed the attention of the
audience to the fact that while the
Prohibition party in 1912 polled but
POT 900, which was less than it polled
in 1892, the Socialist party polled 901,-
600, or more than twice it's vote for
1908.
He quoted these figures to prove to
the audience that, from a mere basis
Of news value based upon public in
terest, it was extremely significant
that the Associated Press ignored the
Socialist campaign, while giving the
Prohibition candidate the publicity to
which he is entitled
Storms Iowa Audience.
A reporter for the Des Moins Reg
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
SOCIALISTS GROW
IN JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICAN CITY HAS A
STRONG SOCIALIST ORGANIZA-
TION IN LAST POLL.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
In the school committee elections re-
Gently held in johannesburg, the So
cialists polled one-fifth of the total
vote.
The elected old party candidates re-
ceived from 3,575 to 1852 votes. The
Socialist candidates received the fol-
lowing votes: Bunting, $50; Ivon
Jones, 1852; Mrs. Barnet, Cpl, and
Clingman, 464.
According to The international, the
organ of the International Socialist
League of South Africa, the election
showed strong growth of Socialist
sentiment and a gain in Socialist or
ganization.
The labor vote was scattered, and
the Socialists alone had a clean slate.
Recent strikes gave the Socialists an
opportunity to prove the Socialist
party always fights labor's battles.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
A-POPPIN'
IN INDIANA!
Forces of Capitalism Unite Against Debs in Con-
gressional Campaign by Putting Big
Guns i'm the Field

two full pages being given over to him
This is specially significant in view
Of the fact that the name of Debs had
not previously appeared in this organ
of organized labor for about seven
teen years, namely, since he first came
out as a champion of Socialism. So
Sammy will have hard row to hoe,
even though his work be supplemented
by the appearance of Emma Goldman,
Peter Collins, Davy Goldstein, and
other tools of the ruling class.
Let US not close this amount of Cap
| italism's regulars" without mention
| ing the fact that the silver tongued,
gold-lined j. Ham. Lewis, of Chicago,
corporation attorney and United
States Senator will elocutionize in the
Fifth District, stirring the unthinking
with his florid eloquence and pink
whiskers. Senator Tom Taggart will
reinforce the verbosity of J. Ham.
and add to the festivities by his "tak-
ing ways" No doubt Bathouse John
and Hinky Dink will put in an appear
ance later, and there are several de-
serving Democrats over in Leaven-
worth who would be feminist Debs if
they weren't busy in the Jute Mill.
Meanwhile, the District is alive with
Socialist speakers and organizers,
with our Gene himself in the field,
eloquent, magnetic and convincing.
Full of his old time fire and virility,
Debs is holding from six to twelve
meetings daily, drawing out vast
crowds from far and near, some tray
cling many miles to hear and see "the
most universally loved man in Amer
lea, )" many who have not yet mastered
the Socialist philosophy and economics
are able at once to understand the
clear-cut, heart-stirring message of
Debs, who convinces as much by his
loving personality as by his lucid
argument. So we are not surprised to
hear of "Debs Clubs" springing up
over night with a membership of from
j IL to 200. 1T wifi be the high mission
of the Indiana movement to convert
all of these "Clubs" into Socialist
Locals before November 7th shall have
come and gone. 1t will be a great
task, but the comrades are approach
ing it joyously, confident of ultimate
success.
We regret to have to add that the
Campaign Committee is still hamper
ed in the work by lack of money suf-
ficient to cover the District in sys-
tematic manner. Two more automo-
biles with working crews, speakers
and literature distributors and organ
izers, are urgently needed at once!
Send contributions direct to comrade
L. R. Smyers, No. 2301 N 18th. St.,
our treasurer.
Comrades, the outlook for Debs'
eleition is brighter to-day than at any
time since the opening of the camp
aign, and little personal sacrifice on
the part of each Socialist in the coun-
try will make his success on Novem-
Der 7th absolutely certain.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
ENGLISH WOMEN
PAY LARGE PRICE
FOR PATRIOTISM
Industrial Accidents Have Not
Diminished, Inexperience
Being Held to Blame

Scared by molten metal, blinded by
steel shavingc Ma 9Th fingers
shipped off by machinery in munition
factories, English women and girls
are paying the price of patriotism as
well as their men at the front.
Industrial accidents have not dimin-
ished, despite the claim that women
are more careful than men. Their in
experience is believed to account for
many accidents. ,,
Think of Men at Front
Another explanation is that femi-
nine puddlers, machinists and lathe
hands BECOME preoccupied at their
work when their thoughts fit to the
men fighting in France, the ladle tips
or the belt slips off the roller, there's
a scream and another casualty goes
down on the growing list.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
JACKALS AND HYENAS
FEAST ON BODIES

Jackals and hyenas, creeping down
from the mountains along the Serbo-
Greek frontier, are feasting on the
bodies of Bulgarian and Serbian SOL
diers slain in fierce fighting northeast
of Lake Ostrovo.
Three hundred Bulgarian corpses
piled in a heap in one ravine, were
stripped of their flesh by jackals and
hyenas at night, and by thousands of
crows and vultures that lowered over
the fighting ground in the day time.
The dead Bulgarians had been moved
down in machine gun attack and lay
between the Serbian and Bulgarian
lines. When the Serbs advanced they
found only skeletons and bits of torn
uniforms.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
MEAT EXPORTS OF
UNITED STATES TO
EUROPE ENORMOUS
Allied Countries Buy Millions
of Pounds While American
Consumer Pays

NEW YORK.--The European war
is making a great inroad upon the
meat supply of the United States. A
compilation by the foreign trade de
partment of the National City bank
of New York shows that despite the
marked decrease in the number of
food animals of the country, the ex-
port of meats has trebled since the be-
ginning of the war and of beef alone
is 10 times as much as before the war.
This compilation shows that the ex-
ports of meats of all kinds which ag-
gregated 455,000,000 pounds in the
fiscal year 1914, the year Immediately
preceding the war, were 1856 900, 900
pounds in 1916 and 100000
pounds in 1916.
This increase Of 100 per cent in the
total meat exports in the first year of
the war and 200 per cent in the second
year, compared with the exports of
the year Immediately preceding the
war, is, however, trifling when com
pared with the increase in exports of
beef alone. The quantity of fresh beef
exported jumped from 100000
pounds in the fiscal year of 1914 to
170,000,000 pounds in 1915 and 231,-
100000 pounds in 1916. The fresh
beef exports of 1915 are SO times as
much as in 1914. In the two years
of the war the fresh beef exports have
been 20 times as much as in the two
years Immediately preceding the war.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
By Maynard Shipley
Associate Campaign Manager)

ASSOCIATE Campaign Manager)
That the master class of the United
States realize as well as do the Social
lists themselves that the election of
Eugene V. Debs to Congress from the
Fifth District of Indiana is not a LO-
CAL but a NATIONAL ISSUE, is
evidenced by the fact that they are
concentrating all their available forces
at this point, with view to the defeat
of this powerful champion of Labor's
rights. They see that the "Debs for
Congress" movement is beginning to
sweep the six counties of the District
like great moral wave. SO the local
politicians true to their class interests,
are calling upon all the "big guns"
and even upon the parasitic irritants
of microscopic diminutiveness, to come
into the District and do their every
best"
Despite his professed determination
to scorn the "elect-me" platform,
President Wilson has consented to
enter Debs' District in order to help
defeat real champion of the working
class. His honor Judge Hughes has
also accepted an invitation to enter
the field and do his "bit." Tom Mar
shall, wildly known as Vice-President
of the United States, is here already,
and the aristocratic Fairbanks who
was Vice-President himself once, is
to do some work here in the near fu-
ture. Authorizing class politics
makes strange bed-fellows. Arthur
E. Reimer, the lonely candidate for
President on the S. L. P. ticket, was
announced on the front page of the
capitalist press of Terre Haute, last
week, and did his "bit;" but his meet
ings were cold frost, failing to stir
up any strife between themselves and
the Socialist Party Members, and of
course no one else paid any attention
to him. So, if it was Wall Street
money that brought this celebrity 90
here, and his side-kick John Francis
of ILL.,, the plutes lost their money, for
once.
But this is not all.
AS might be expected, the capital
lists are bringing their good friend
Sammy Gompers into Debs' District,
hoping thereby to side-track the labor
vote from the working-class candi-
date. But Sammy will have an uphill
job of it this time, sure enough, as
unionists in all parts of the United
States are giving Comrade Debs both
moral and financial support. For ex-
ample, the strongest union in New
York, the Typographical, known as
the big Six" sent Debs their best
wishes accompanied by check for
twenty-five dollars. The Switchmens'
Union passed resolutions calling upon
all union men to support Debs in his
campaign for a seat in Congress.
Copies of these resolutions were, sent
by them to nearly every Onion in the
United States. Comrade Debs was
given special recognition in the Labor
Day issue of the "Terre Haute Union"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
FRIGHTFUL LABOR TOLL

The frightful mortality in Pennsyl-
vania industries continue. Figures for
the first eight months of the year
show total of 166,O84 accidents, a
daily average of $40. OF the total
accidents, 1882 were fatal. The mon
thly average for the first eight mon
tbs of the year is 1913 fatalities and
20,760 accidents of all kinds. The
many accidents of the year have led
to 1852 compensation cases being
entered in the state workmen's com
pensation, 1878 of these cases arising
from fatal accidents, and 47,974 from
non-fatal ones.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
SHINGLE WEAVERS
KEEP UP FIGHT
After Five Months Members of
Union More Determined Than
Ever to Get Restoration
of Wage Scale
By j. G. Brown, President.


The strike for the restoration of
the 1914 scale of wages has nearly
reached it's fifth month in duration.
This is remarkable in point of time
alone. What is of more Importance is
the determination of the men who
went on strike to keep up the fight
for another five months if necessary.
More even than that is the willing
ness of the men who are working to
continue to provide the sinews of war
for another five months, if it be re-
quired.
Our members, strikers and non
strikers, are more united, more deter
mined, more confident, more willing
to sacrifice today than ever before in
the history of an organization that
has known something about fighting.
The men who are keeping on the
picket line in Everett and Anacortes
are cheered on by the encouragement
that is being shown by the men who
are working; and the men who are
working are giving gladly, because
they feel the money they are sending
in is going to a good purpose, and
they are cheered by the devotion
shown by the strikers. 1t is a mutual
proposition, and while all would vel
come a settlement Of the contest on
any honorable basis, they are still
prepared to carry it on for an indefi-
mite period if necessary.