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Denver labor bulletin., 1916-07-22
FIRST SOCIALIST BILL IS
REPORTED IN CONGRESS
MEYER LONDON SECURES FAVOR
ABLE ACTION BY COMMITTEE.
Measure Provides for Creation OF a Fed
eral Commission to Study and Re-
port Upon Unemployment.

The first Socialist measure ever to re
ceive the approval OF any committee OF
Congress was reported to the House last
week by its only Socialist member,
Meyer London, New York. This is more
than Victor Berger of Milwaukee was
able to accomplish during his two years
in Congress.
Under instructions from the commit
tee on labor. the New York representa-
tive presented to the House his ;oint res
olution calling for the study of and re-
port on the whole problem of unemploy-
ment and social insurance by govern
ment commission, and in the name of
the committee asked that it be passed
The resolution went on the House cal.
endar.
The measure, as amended in commit.
tee after exhaustive hearings, calls for
the creation of commission OF five,
two of whom be employers, two repre-.
sentatives of organized labor. with the
secretary of labor acting as the NTH
member and chairman. The secretary
can deputize subordinate from the de-
partment of labor to perform the Tou-
tine work of the commission.
The commission is instructed to report
one year from the date of appointment,
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-07-22

thru the President, to Congress. It's duty
i to inquire into the causes OF uneul-
ployment; to inquire into systems of IN
surance, voluntary and obligatory, CON
tributory or non-eontributory, now in
vogue to meet unemployment, invalidity
and sickness, and to what extent the
United States may aid by establishing
federal insurance system for the bene-
fit OF wage earners when in need by
reason of involuntary unemployment,
whether the unemployment be due to
lack OF work, disability arising by rea-
son OF sickness, or to impairment or de-
struction OF earning capacity because Of
old age
If it finds that federal system OF
social insurance is desirable, the com
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-07-22

Jeweier. optician.
DIAMONDS, WATCHES, ETC.
Watch and jewelry repairing. Eyes
tested and glasses fitted. Frames re-
paired and adjusted. My 20 years prae-
teal experience will convince you.
SEIPEL, JEwELER & oPTICIAN.
Phone Champa ss7. i744 welton st.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-07-22

In Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri,
bakers, building trades, foundrymen and
machinists, printers and railway en-
ployes got raises, one 10 per cent Mich
igan raise hitting $4,000. while in Mis-
souri, 81 per week was added to 10000
pay envelopes at one clip.
In Montana the building trades got n
Jump of 81 per day, and miners from
% cents up TO s. per day.
New Hampshire textile mills report
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-07-22
URGE woRKMEN'S CONVERSATION

The Chattanooga Central Labor Union
has appointed committee to interest
unionists OF this state in the question
of workmen's compensation and to have
such a measure included in the new con-
stitution or written into the statutes of
the state. 1t is proposed to invite a
member of the Ohio workmen's compen-
sation board to tour the state and ex-
plain the workings and benefits of the
Ohio compensation law.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-07-22
HACKETHAL BROS.
Undertakers.

Members of organized labor in Den
yer and vicinity are generally in
formed as to the courtesies and at
tention given by Hackethal Bros,
Undcrtakcrs, located at l45l Kala-
math st. Phone Main 365s. Theo-
dorc and George Hackothal compose
the firm, the latter being a member
of Denver Typographical Union. Their
office and parlors are open day and
night.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-07-22
ADJUSTMENTS
ADJUSTMENTS
.AkEE!SsDf

See That Brilliant Free Spectacle Show,
1.-THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT PELEE.r -
AT LAKESIDE.
Starting About $3.50 P. M.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY,
JULY ~ and %.
An added attraction which would cost
you so cents to 81 EXTRA in many
Eastern parks, but yours to enjoy at
Lakeside absolutely without charge ex-
cept the regular 10 cents gate admission.
DINE TONIGHT AT LAKESIDE CASINO
Excellent Meals, Moderate Prices.
SWIM AT NEW LAKESIDE BEACH.
Finest Equipment in the City.
PICNIC TODAY AT LAKESIDE PARK.
Plenty of Shade, ALI Conveniences.
DANCE TONIGHT AT LAKESIDE.
Finest Music and Floors in Denver.
ENJOY YOURSELF AT LAKESIDE.
"Denver's Million-Dolla Coney."
WHITE DRESS PARADE THURSDAY,
JULY 27, P. M.
Twenty-one handsome prizes. Any girl
under IS years may enter. Ask for entry
card at park, or fill out coupon in daily
papers and mail to Miss Naoma Alfrey
Lakeside.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-07-22

mission Is instructed to prepare and re-
port definite plans and regulations, with
the method of cooperation with exist
ing insurance systems.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09
United States, England and
Germany Each Have Diff
ferent Opinion.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-ln
/ triangular diplomatic struggle over
arming Of Observation-Disclosures the
United States, England and German
"a clear cut issue is gradually as
suming form. This, American officials
now believe, may be summed UP IN
the question: 'Is the new German
campaign against armed merchant
men a 'justifiable reprisar against
England"
Upon the American government 8
answer. officials declared today de-
pends not only. German-Amerlcan,
Anglo-American relations. but also
the future conduct of new German U
warfare
Although not formally presented by
Germany, this was the issue which
administration officials believe Will
nnally be presented. They asserted
Today that Germany has already IN
dicated her stand will be taken on
thls proposition The memorandum
delivered yesterday to Secretary Lam
sing by Ambassador Bernstorff. was
accepted today as the preliminary
overture to this end
This government today was IN the
position Of umpire in the dispute as
The final arbiter. Lengthy diplomatic
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09

AA(E

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
PARIS, March e.-Repeated and
heavy German attacks against the
village Of Bethincourt, eight miles
northwest Of Verdun, throughout last
night, were repuised, tho war Office
| reported this afternoon.
Two of the heaviest onstau9hts
were preceded by artillery fire lasting
several hours. The German advance
was stopped by a French curtain OF
fire from Goose Hill and Dead Man
Hin to the east.
"East Of the Meuse, around Vaux
Des Pite, the Intense artillery firing
continued throughout the night, 40.
companied by violent assaults" said
the war office. "The enemy, however
was unable to weaken tho efficacy OF
our artillery and was completely re-
pulsed.
"In the Woevre region intermItte nj
bombardment continued throughout
the night West OF Lepretre woods,
we took twenty prisoners. In the east
ern Argonne, In the region OF Mont
faucon and MontIIlIoIs, we continued
to lombard enemy communications"
The Germans attempted to swing
forward with their right wing on the
Forges-Bethlncourt front, west Of the
Meuse, planning to stralghten theIr
front before making a grand assault
on the Goose Hill and Dead Man Hill
positions. At the same time they
made frultless attempts, tho war office
reported, to dlsIodge the French from
the Corbeaux woods positions, south
east Of BethIncourt, recaptured by the
French yesterday.
In this region, the French arc con-
soIidating the reconquered works, It
was stated.
German troops entered the village
Of Vaux, southeast Of Fort Douau-
mont, but were completely driven out
by a counter attack, the war office re-
ported. Several strong attacks on
the Douaumont Vaux front were re-
pulsed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09
The High Cost of Gasoline
Sends Autos to the Garage

pleasure and business cars will go
into temporary retirement The eff.
fects of the increase have been felt
keenly even at Ardsiey garage where
blue book standing Is necessary to
obtain accomm odations. Wealthy
Fifth avenue car owners are buying
their gasoline at wayside stations to
save three cents a gallon, it was said
today, and a number have even given
up their motors for the time being.
Ten percent Of the middle class own
ers have put their machines away,
pending a decline in gasoline prices,
it was stated. According to the Stand
ard Oil Co. gasoline prices may go as
hign as thirty cents Wholesale even
tualIy. but no immediate increases
are planned. Many prospective buy
ers of pleasure cars are expected to
defer their purchases until the price
of gasoline recedes, according to lead
ing auto dealers today. The effects
of the increase would have been felt
in auto sales by now. 1t was said, but
for the unprecedented wave of orders
that came at he f,rst OF the year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09
Germans Keep Hammering
Away at the French De-
fenses About Verdun.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service J
LONDON, March 9. - French
trenches were smothered in storms
Of fire In q renewal of heavy German
artillery assaults on the whole cres-
cent shaped Verdun front, according
to latest dispatches from Paris today.
The cannonade became most violent
yesterday on both banks OF the Meuse.
Driven out of the Corbeaux woods
positions by vicious French counter
attacks the tuetons poured thousands
of shells in upon French positions
east Of Goose Hill and followed with
infantry attacks.
On the east bank Of the Meuse the
luM in infantry fighting was suddenly
broken.
After several hours bonlbardm ent,
the Germans drove the French from
the Hardaumont fortified position east
of Fort Douaumont in hand to hand
fighting.
The crown prince lost FIVE thousand
men in a twelve hour fight for pos
session Of Corbeaux forest, seven
miles northwest OF Verdun, Paris dis
patches reported After driving
wedge in the French front at this
roint he was caught under a heavy
cross fire from French batteries on
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09
PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE
IN SPITE OF GREAT LOSSES

Goose Hill to the west and Dead
evacuate all but the extreme eastern
part Of the forest.
Despite this reverse, the Germans
Ihave made important progress in the
past thirty-six hours in the new
drives upon Verdun from the north
west and southeast. Beginning with
an attack on the village of Forges,
they have swept forward to the &C.
compartment of roaring guns until
the strongly fortified Goose Hill and
Dead Man Hill positions northwest OF
Verdun are endangered.
The German war Office, minimizing
the Importance Of these operations,
declared In the latest official state
ment that the Germans attacked on
the west bank Of the Meuse with tho
sole object OF Strengthening their
front Paris dispatches, however. re-
port that the German artillery fire
almost equaled the terrific cannonade
around Douaumont. Paris believes
the crown prince will launch another
heavy attack from the northwest.
Sudden Smash.
[By Charles P. Stewart, United Press
Staff Correspondent
LONDON. March 9.-Breaking out
in a sudden smash against the French
center, German troops have captured
Fort De VauX, five miles northeast OF
Verdun, the village of Vaux and sd.
joining positions according to Off.
ctal Berlin dispatches this afternoon
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, March 9-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt docs not wish"
the presidential nomination and will
not consent" to having his name used
in any Of the coming state primaries.
He so declared today in a statement
made at Port Of Spain, Trinidad, B..
w. l.. and cabled by Henry L. Stod-
dard, Of the New York Evening Mail.
The statement makes it clear. how
ever, that despite his wishes the col
onel recognized that his services are
subject to draft in 4 crisis. The state
ment follows:
II am deeply sensible of the honor
conferred on me and Of the good will
shown me by the gentlemen who have
announced themselves as delegates to
be elected in my interest in the
Massac chusetts presidential primary.
Nevertheless, Il; must request and
now do request and insist, that my
name be not brought into the Massa-
chusetts primaries and / emphatfcally
decline to be a candidate In the pri-
maries of that or any other state.
Months ago / form ally notified the
authorities in Nebraska, Minnesota
and Michigan to this effect.
II do not wish the nomination.
II am not in the least interested in
the political fortunes either Of myself
or any other man.
II am Interested in awakening my
fellow countrymen to the need of fac
ing unpleasant facts. | am interested
in triumph of the great principles for
which with all my heart and soul l
have striven and shall continue to
strive.
Il will not enter into any fight for
the nomination and ! will not permit
any factionai fight to be made IN my
behalf Indeed / will go further and
say that it would be mistake to
nominate me unless the country has
in its mood something of the heroic
unless it feels not only devotion to
ideals, but the purpose measureably
to realize those ideals in action.
ut is for US Of today to grapple
with the tremendous national and in
ternationaI problems Of our own hour
In the spirit and with the ability
shown by those who upheld the hands
of Washington and Lincoln. Whether
we do or do not accomplish this feat
will largely depend on action taken
at the republican and progressive ma
tional conventions next June.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-Henry
Ford Is to be asked to use his brains
and money in solving the problem of
the high cost Of gasoline.
Representative Randall of Cali
fornia is preparing a letter to Ford,
asking him to test the so-called Ritt-
man process for the manufacture Of
gasoline. By this process, discover
ed by the United States bureau of
mines, it is said gasoline can be man.
uractured at much reduced cost If
no other way be found. Randall says
the government should manufacture
gasoline. He has introduced a resolu-
ton calling on the president to form
ulate the necessary legislation for
such plan.
Representative Steenerson of Min
nesota, who introduced resolution
some time ago, asking the attorney
general to inform the house Of repre-
sentatives why he has not prosecuted
the oil companies under the anti
trust laws, expects to speak On his
resolution In few day4
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09
Says Himself i'm Cable Message Declaring
Shat He Does Not Seek or Wish
- Office.
CRITICISM FOR PRESENT ADMINISTRATION
Many Things Can Happen Before June Con-
ventions and Pledges Should Not be
Given Now.

Nothing is to be hoped from the
present administration and the
struggles between the president and
his party leaders In congress are to-
day merely struggles as to whether
the nation shall see it's govern
mental representatives adopt an att-
tude of a little more or less hypoc-
risy and follow a policy Of slightly
greater or slightly less baseness-
"All they offer us is a choice be-
tween degrees of hypocrisy and de-
grees of infamy.
But disgust with the unmanly
failure of the present administration,
believe does not and I know ought
not to mean American people will
vote in spirit Of mere protest they
ought not to. and I believe they will
not, be content merely to change the
present administration for one equally
timid, equally vacillatfng. equa,ly
lacking III vision, In moral integrity
and in high resolve. They should de.
sire and I believe they do desire pub
lie servants and public policies signi.
flying more than adroit cleverness In
escaping action behind clouds of fine
words in refusal to face real internal
needs and in complete absorption of
every faculty in devising constantly
shifting hand-to-mouth and day-to-day
measures for escape from our interna-
tional duty by the abandonment of
our national honor-measures due to
sheer dread of various foreign pow
ers, tempered by sometimes har-
monizing and sometimes conflicting
dread OF various classes OF voters,
especially hyphenated voters at home.
II believe that in a crisis SO grave
it is impossible to too greatly mag
Nifty the needs Of the country or too
strongly dwell on the necessity of
minimizing and subordinatfng the de-
sires of individuals.
The delegates who go to Chicago
will have it In their power to deter
mine the character of the admins
tration which is to do or leave undone
the mighty tasks Of the next four
years. They should be the very best
men that can be found in our coun-
try, whose one great mission should
be to desire in uneQuivocal terms for
program Of cleanest, straightest ma
tional Americanism in deeds not less
than in words, and to choose as their
candidate a man who will not merely
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09
Germany Declares w ar
Against Her Today, MAX
ing Fourteen Govern
ments Involved.
VIOLATION OF TREATIES
Seizure of German Ships In Portu-
quese Ports, Resulted In Break
Between the Two
Countries.

! [United Press Leased Wire Servicel
BERLIN, March 9.-Germany today
declared war on Portugal and the
Portuguese government became the
fourteenth involved in the world con
flict.
An authorized statement was is
sued today outlining Germany's posi-
ton. 1t was pointed out that the seiz
ure of German ships by the Portuguese
naval authorities was in violation OF
treaties between Germany and Portu,
gal, providing that in the event of
such seizure, arrangements must first
be made for compensation.
The German minister at Lisbon to-
day notified the Portuguese govern
ment Of the declaration, handing tho
official document to the foreign min
lister with the remark:
The German government therefore
now considers herself from this date,
at war with Portugal" -..,
The German declaration was based
on the act Of Portugal in sefzing with
out previous notice, German merchant
men in Portuguese ports. This action,
Germany charged in a sharp note to
Portugal, violated existing treaties be-
tween Germany and Portugal and Of
fered evidence that Portugal Is a "vas-
sal of England"
To this note Portugal on March 4,
replied with a communication to the
German foreign office flatly declining
the German demands. 49,
The governments action occasioned
no great surprise. Portuguese and Ger
man troops had clashed earlier in the
war in the African possessions, Portu-
gal alleging that German troops had
invaded her territory.
Portugal later sent troops to aid the
British in operations against Germans
and in other ways openly displayed
her enimity for the central powers.
She was bound to England by treaty
pledging her to send ten thousand
troops to Englands assistance should
England be attacked.
The declaration Of war according to
an authorized statement from the for
eign office this afternoon, was made
necessary by illegal seizures Of Ger
man ships in Portuguese ports, which
was the sravest breach of neutrality
and of such treaties"
Germany has therefore been obliged
to surrender her former forebearing
attitude which she had maintained on
account of Portugars awkward posi-
ton with respect to England the
statement added.
1t is believed here that Austria
will take similar action, Austrian
ships having been seized by the Portu.
gal naval authorities.
In other quarters It has been limited
that another result will be Spain's en-
trance into the war on the side Of
Germany.
The German statement lists a long
series Of neutrality violations by
Portugal. The charges are:
That Portugal gave English troops
fCoDtiuuad on mage 2)
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09
THREE CORNERED STRUGGLE
OVER SUBMARINE QUESTION

exchanges were presaged. The state
department will consume some time
in studying the German memorandum
and appendices, 1t was indicated to-
day The whole question probably
will go before President Wilson and
his cabinet tom 1t appeared
probable this governments first &C
ton will be investigation Of alleged
secret British orders to her merchant
men to attack submarines. Officials
had ground for hope today that Ger
many will go slow in unwarned at
tacks upon merchantmen, pending
negotiations. In eHect nine days. the
new admiralty decree has not yet
brought forth an instance Of violation
of international law, according to Off
ciaI information here.
While diplomacy was simmering,
renewal of the fight in congress over
resolutions to warn Americans off
armed ships threatened. In the SEN
ate, the parliamentary situation open
ed the way for further debate and
possibly another vote on the McCum-
ber warning resolution.
Ambassador Bernstorff is not ex-
pected at the state department again
until the administration Is ready TO
reply to the last German memoran-
dunn. or unless a sudden crisis should
develop from the unwarned sinking
of an armed merchantmen.
clear Statement.
WASHINGTON, March "a state
meut making clear this government
nosition in the new international sub
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09
Band Of Rebels Made Attack on Town Acros.
Border, Burning Four Buildings and
Staying Eleven People.
FOUR j. S. SOLDIERS WERE SLAIN
Troops Chased Invaders Away After Killing a
Number of Them With Machine
Gun Fire.

lUnited Press Leased Wire Service
Ell PASO, Texas, March 9.-In Z
battle between Villista bandits ant
United States soldiers at Columbus
N. M, following the Mexicans' attacE
on the city at 4:30 a. m. today. three
American soldiers were killed anG
four wounded; four Columbus civilians
were killed and a number were wound
ed, and an unknown number Of the
bandits were killed.
This report was given the United
Press by Brigadier General j. P
Pershing, who received an official &C.
count Of the fighting from Colonel
Slocum, commanding officer at Colum.
bus
The dead Mexicans were strewn
about the streets of Columbus, &C,
cording to Slocum's latest account.
Four of the principal buildings OF
columbus were fired and DESTROYED by
the Mexicans. including the towns
hotel.
One woman was among the dead OF
Wounded civilians.
The United States troops after beat
ing the bandits off, pursued them
eouthward toward the Mexican border
Colonel Slocum reported. He did not
give the udIueS OIL any Ol I1lc hlllcU oS
Wounded American troops.
Slocum's report did not convey any
| |of the dramatic scenes which must
have accompanied the bandits at
tack on the city during the night. A
special message to the FL Paso and
Southwestern railways office declared
the Mexicans, reported to be person
|ally commanded by Francisco Villa,
|crept up on Columbus under cover of
darkness and set fire to the railway
|deDot and neighboring buildings.
United States troops with a ma
|chine gun beat the Mexicans off, ac-
|cording to the railroads advices. The
size Of the attacking party was not
stated, but Villa was recently reported
| to have been in the vicinity of Colum-
bus. with several hundred followers
and several American prisoners.
An El Paso and Southwestern extra
freight train was stopped six miles
east Of Columbus by an American
patrol of two soldiers and warned not
to enter Columbus on account Of the
fighting there. Conductor Jumley. Of
the extra freight, made this report to
the companv's office on arriving in
town after the battle was over.
Unconfirmed reports here declare
several guests in the hotel burned by
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-09

IT am told the district attorneys
throughout the country have been in
structed to be on the lookout for the
oil companies" says Steenerson. RE
Gently, | heard the district attorney
in Chicago is Investigating the prices
Of gasoline. l expect however, to
show that the Clayton act has destroy
ed the effectiveness of the Sherman
antitrust law and makes it impos-
sible for the department of justice to
break up the monopoly
Representative Britten Of illinois
proposes by a bill introduced-an ex-
port tax Of fifty cents a gallon on
easoiine This would require a con-
stttutional amendment.
AuJos are Not Run.
NEW YORK, March 9-With gaso-
line retailing q to 80 cents gallon,
New York motorists are storing their
cars or economizing on fuel, accord
ing to statements Of garage owners
today. If the wholesale price mounts
to forty cents a gallon as the motor
people believe It VIII, thousands OF