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The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
NEW MEXICO MILITIA OFFICER
DROWNED ON BATAVlER v.
OFF BRITISH COAST.
Mine SINKS STEAMER
STATE DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES
INQUIRY TO ASCERTAIN THE
CAUSE OF DISASTER.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, May 1S.-Sinking of
the Dutch steamer Batavier V. in the
North Sea was reported in State De-
partment dispatches from Consul Cen
eral Skinner at London. The captain
and twenty-four of the crew were
landed at Great Yarmouth.
Seven passengers, including two
Americans, three Dutch and two Rus
slams also were saved. Three Dutch
sailors and one American passenger,
Luigi Martini Mancini of Roswell, n.
M, were reported drowned. The con-
sui said first reports indicated the
vessel was sunk by a mine. Another
American on the Batavier V. was John
Joseph Kaleta of Brooklyn, n. Y. He
was rescued.
Samuel Howard Comstock of Santa
Monica, Calf, who was on the Bata-
vier V. made a report to the Amerl-
can embassy expressing the opinion
that the Batavier V. sunk as the re-
suit of striking mine. The embassy
will forward the report to Washing
ton. Through consular officials the
embassy is obtaining affidavits from
the ships officers.
London, May 1S.-The first week OF
the gigantic Austrian offensive move
ment along the Italian front has
brought with it developments calcu-
lated to cause the gravest alarm
among the entente allies.
Driven back along front of twen-
| ty-three miles between the Tonale
pass and the southern Tyrol, the Ital'
ians, fighting desperately to maintain
their positions, now are facing danger
of an enveloping movement with
Trentino as it's objective.
The Austrians have been successful
according to reports from the war Of
flee in Vienna, in a number of infant
ry attacks each preceded by intense
bombardments with heavy calibeI
siege guns In the last three days g.,
900 men, including 141 officers, thir
teen cannon, seventeen machine guns
and several lines Of entrenchments
have been captured by the aggress
ors.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20

To lessen the amount of metal used
in fire escapes Hungarian living in
Canada has patented one the chief
feature of which is a basket to be
lowered by ropes from a bracket fas-
tened to window frame.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20

The city of Jacksonville, ILL.,, was
named for a prominent colored preach
or, and is perhaps the largest commu.
nifty In the country named for Negro.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
Shippers Ask s15o,ooo Rate Rebates.

Reparation amounting to S15O,000
is being sought from the Union Pa
cific. the Colorado e Southern ana
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroads in petitions that recently
have been filed with the State Pub
lie Utilities Commission by coal ship
pers.. On the 18th three petitions
we're filed by the William e. Russell
Coal Company. Several of similar
nature were filed the previous week
The shippers allege overcharges In
the rates from the northern coal
fields to Denver.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20

German Mine Sinks Torpedo Boat.
Copenhagen.-A German torpedo
boat has been sunk by a German mine
off Falsterbo, Sweden.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20

Burma has 4,73O,S1O oxen, 1850
goats and 1,0S0,9S2 buffaloes.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
Collects s5,5s1 in Inheritance Taxes.

Leslie e. Hubbard, state inherit
ance tax appraiser, announced the
collection of S5,5S1 in inheritance
taxes. The collections were:
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20

the Christian spirit outlives race
prejudice.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-20

an era of unemployment, poverty
and starvation.
To prevent such state of affairs
it is a nations ambition to sell its
surplus commodities to foreign mar
kets. But all civilized nations are
confronted with the same curse of
prosperity. l mean the question of
how to dispose of their own surplus
es. The competition between ma
lions to reach the worlds markets is
so keen and bitter that often the
sword is resorted to as the only de-
Gliding factor.
GA plague on our teachers" re-
marked the famous English writer,
Israel Zangwill, in connection with
the present war. Really and truly
one plague is not enough for them.
Our professors of political economy
teach our young men that war is
blessing in disguise. For while the
war lasts the neutral nations are
able to dispose Of their overproduc-
ton to the warning nations at an
enormous profit, and when the war
is over the conquering nation is able
to dictate terms of peace and dom
mates the worlds market, where it
can dispose of its surplus wares, and
the conquered nation is also bene-
flied by the war, which destroyed
their surplus products and killed
many of their starving people, re-
duced competition among the re-
naming workers and so enabled
them to set the wheels of produc-
ton in motion again, until the same
process will be repeated again and
again. a
And so mankind travels in a cir
Gle, merrily chasing for profit, like a
mad dog chasing it's own tail Mean
while we are advised by our teach
ers to work our heads off to establish
at public expense merchant marine
and nurse it along until it will be
strong and profitable enough for pri-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-20
THE JEW WHO AIDED WASH

THE JEW WHO AIDED WASH
lNGTON.-Talk about suppressing
news. Back in the 1770's one of the
greatest wars that ever took place,
and one of the greatest wars that
ever will take place, was won by
Jew, nearly single-handed! Sounds
funny, doesn't it? Well, it's an hon-
est fact, just the same.
When Washington was fighting for
the freedom of a nation that is now
one of the biggest, richest and most
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-20
BUSINESS SUCCEEDS


TERRI Switchman's Wife will in
vestigate the growth of the B. of
RI/T. she will find that it ranks
among the older and more conserv-
ative orders of railroad organiza-
lions which have proved them built
on solid foundations.
In the old hnk-and-pin days a
handful of drink-crazed "dynamit-
ers,'' as they styled themselves, could
tie up freight yard for any cause
whatever, but that time is past Note
the increased pay and shorter hours
granted in the past few years and no
doubt there will be greater gains in
the near future, from present indica-
tons.
Who but Father Coffin compelled
the adoption of the automatic cou-
pier and air brake? What did the
Switchman's Mutual Aid or the
Switchman's Union of North Amer
lea accomplish any more than the
present orders, if as much, l would
like to ask? The buster and meth
DDS of the old-time switchman have
passed and there is an end to it, but
little by little the old-time organiza-
tons demand and receive their
dues, as is proven in the remarkable
gains they have made in the past
Ex-B. of r. T.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-20

will get jealous of our control of the
seas, why, then let us work our lives
away for preparedness. Do anything
to help the rich employers make
profit on what they squeeze out of
you as surplus production. - Day
Book Student.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

HANNIBAL, Mo.-In an address at
the dedicatory ceremonies of the new
trade union headquarters in this city,
President Wood of the state fedora
ton of labor said:
organized labor has cleaned out
thousands of sweat shops, made sani-
tary conditions for the workers to
live and work in. They have lessened
the fatality and bettered the condi
tion Of the tubercular, so prevalent
among workers of this and other ma
tions. Their safety appliances have
saved the lives of thousands of men,
The factory inspection law in almost
every state of the union, which is
doing so much toward bettering con-
ditions in the factories and shops of
the states. All these things have bet.
tered conditions of the entire citizen.
ship which comes under its influence.
Bettered it financially, physically and
Intellectually. Where they used to
work from 10. IL, Ia and 16 hours a
day, they now work eight and nine
and that has made it possible for
them to seek recreation, given them
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
MANY WORKERS HURT

HARRISBURG, Pa.-Injuries were
sustained by 13,027 workers in Penn.
sylvania industrial plants during the
first 16 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 sin
gle day. The highest daily record of
injured workmen was 1,190. During
the first 16 days of February go work
ers were killed.
This number does not include 27
fatalities in one mine catastrophe in
western Pennsylvania and several
other fatalities. Accident reports, re-
ceived at the bureau of statistics dur
ing February, show a marked increase
over January. During the month of
January 13,465 workers were injured,
including 129 killed.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
WERE WELCOMED

Letters are now coming from Eu-
rope which show that the Socialists
and workers generally enthusiastical-
ly welcomed the Ford peace party.
and that the real people were not as
cold and Indifferent to the visitors as
the newspaper correspondents, who
were sent abroad with Ford with in.
structions to ridicule the enterprise.
reported. In Stockholm, which city
is presided over by a Socialist mayor.
the largest peace mass meeting ever
held in Sweden took place and no
such enthusiastic demonstration ever
greeted foreign visitors. True, the
capitalistic statesmen and newspapers
the people"-knocked the Ford ex-
pedition. but they have selfish inter
ests to serve and cannot be expected
to do otherwise
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17

concepts of what constitutes stand.
ards of living"
After thorough Investigation, the
main or Manly report of the United
States Commission on Industrial Re-
lations, signed by Frank p. Walsh.
John B. Lennon, James O'Connell and
Austin B. Garretson, declared,
"The physical well-being, mental
development and recreationaI needs
Of every class of population demand
that under normal circumstances the
working day should not exceed eight
hours"
In a recent telegram to Carl Beck
of the Labor Centre Association. Jas.
O'Connell, president of the Metal
Trades Department of the A. p. of L.
and member Of the Committee on In
dustrial Relations, said:
There is neither energy. inclina.
tion nor opportunity for the man or
woman who works ten or twelve
hours per day. The worker only be-
comes a work machine. The dark.
ness under which he creeps to and
from his work hides his misery and
poverty from the world, and often
from himself; daylight and a chance
to see stir up discomfort necessary to
arouse action
THE demand for an eight-hour day"
declared Austin B. Garretson. presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Conductors, and member of the Com
mittee on Industrial Relations, "is
not only ethically but biologically and
socially well-founded, and, in connec-
ton with the movement of trains. is
the basic element of the widely her
aided motto, Safety First"
Out of the long work day and out
of low wages and unemployment and
the degrading conditions of life that
follow long hours of exacting and
exhausting work spring such undisci
plined riots of misery as the recent
one Of Youngstown, Ohio
In its demand for the efgbt-hour
work day, the organized American
labor movement is laying the essen.
-ial foundation to enduring economic
Justice and to the best citizenship for
he republic.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
TRANSFERS ORGANIZE

HOLYOKE, Mass. Teamsters in
this city have organized union and
affiliated to the Brotherhood of Team
sters. A wage scale has been sub
mitted to employers, which provides
for $3.50 a week for single drivers
$1450 for double drivers; $3.50 for
three-horse teams, and SIG and SIS
for chauffeurs. Nine hours shall con.
stitute a days work with Saturday
afternoon off without wage reductions
during the months of June, July and
August.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
DEMAND OF HOUR
THE 8-HOUR DAY

The organized labor movement of
America is rallying as one man to its
demand for an eight-hour working
day. Never before has this demand
been so insistent and so compelling.
Never before has labor had such mag
nificent opportunity to enforce by its
own efforts the application of
working day that gives the citizen
who works the time and opportunity
to become, in the words Of President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor, "a human being with intel,
lectual desires and cravings"
The Labor Center Association of
New York City has just recently Civ.
en- fine assistance to labor to express
and set before the American public
its righteous demands for the eight
hour day. All groups and organiza-
tions and agencies Of publicity that
recognize the rights of labor are Civ.
ing voice to the same compelling
demand.
The splendid work of Samuel Com
pers, voicing the organized labor
movement, has placed the eighthour
day on an impregnable rock of jus.
tice and righteousness. President
Gompers said:
"The individual who works eight
hours or less does aot each day ex-
hause his energy. He has time for
recuperation and something more.
His mind is more alert and active.
He is capable of more effective work.
He goes to and from work at a time
when well-dressed people are on the
streets. He really has time and op-
portunity for making comparisons
and forming desires. He has longer
time to stay at home, sees other
homes better furnished, and conse-
quently wants better home for him
self. He wants books, pictures, enter
tainment, friends. In short, he be-
comes a human being with intellec- |
tual desires and cravings. This
change makes him a more valuable
worker. Because his standard of liv-
ing has changed he demands higher
wages. Men and women will not con-
tinue Indefinitely to work for wages
that force them to live below their |
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
LABOR'S ACTIVITIES
CHEAP LIVING" CRY
OPPOSED BY EDITOR

BILLINGS, Mont.-Editor Buck OF
the Yellowstone Labor News believes
! workers should pay more attention
TO higher wages and less to the many
cheap living" movements abroad in
the land. He says:
About every so often we read about
= some one who has solved the problem
of cheap living and every capitalist
paper in the country gives the cheap
living fanatic oodles of space in
which to set forth, in much detail his
recipe for cheap living.
There is an object in this cheap
living agitation.
'The cheaper the workers can be
! induced to live the cheaper they will
be compelled to work.
The wages of the workers are, as
a general rule, regulated by the cost
of what is actually necessary to fur
nish the three things necessary to life,
lie, food, clothing and shelter.
''If the worker will consent to get
along with less food less clothing
and less shelter, thus making it pos.
sible for him to live on less wages,
I he will soon find that the employers
have taken advantage of his consent
to the lower standard and they will
compel him to also accept a lower
wage.
"The only exception to this rule is
, in the case of the organized workers.
Through their collective strength they
are able to demand higher wage
and as consequence enjoy a better
standard of living
THE workers should disregard en-
tirely all attempts to foist on them
the cheap living idea and devote
their attention to the question of how
to solve the problem, not of how to
live cheap but how to live we'll"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
ELECTRICIANS WIN STRIKE

BURLINGTON, Vt.-The Electrical
Workers Union has won % days
strike against the Burlington Light &
Power Company. An S-hour day, with
out wage reductions, has been Sc.
cured; time and one-half for over.
time; double time for Sundays and
holidays, and recognition of the union.
Organized labor is jubilant over the
outcome of this struggle as the COM
pany is affiliated with the American
Gas Company of Philadelphia, which
is spending large amounts of money
in developing the water power of this
state.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
LABOR INJURED BY LAW
COMPENSATION ACT WEAKENED

FRANKFORT, Ky.-The state sen.
ate has amended the proposed work
mems compensation act and friends
of this legislation declare that as it
now reads the measure has no effect
or value. The blow which crippled
the act strikes out the section which
removes the common law defenses of
contributory negligence, assumption
of risk and fellow servant relation
from any damage suit brought against
an employer who had decided not to
accept the provisions of the law.
With this section removed employers
will not avail themselves of the com.
pensation law, because there is no
inducement to do so. Advocates of
compensation show that the damage
suit attorney will flourish as of yore
If the section is not reinstated by the
house.
At the last session of the state leg.
islature a compensation law was
passed only to be declared unconsti-
tutional on the ground that it limited
the amount of damages in case of
death. The present opposition is but
a continuance of this struggle con.
Quoted by trade unionists.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
TEACHERS TO UNITE

NEW IORK.-Public school teach.
crs in this city are discussing organiza-
ion and affiliation with the American
Federation Ct Labor President Com
Ders has held conferences with teach.
CTS and principals who favor this
, movement. Sentiment for unioniza-
ton has increased because of threat
. ened REDUCTION of salaries and uncer.
tainty of positions following the eff
forts of local politicians to control
he public schools by securing the
passage of home rule" law by the
state legislature.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
TRANSFERS ELECT
BUSINESS AGENT

Brother F. G. Crosby was elected
union at their meeting last Tuesday.
400 per cent. organized" is the slo-
gan of Local No. 80. From the prog
ress made by this live organization
during the past six months, it looks
as though they intended to carry out
their 100 per cent ideal before the
present year ends.
3. Brother Crosby is an earnest and
enthusiastic worker in the cause of
labor, and there is no chance for any
guilty nan" to escape his eagle eye
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
DOESN II AFFECT S. & H.
SAYS FRASER
Supreme Court Ruling Causes Much
Interest Among Citizens

The United States supreme court
decision declaring the Washington
state law requiring a license of $4,000
from every firm using these stamps
caused much interest in Everett. The
outcome was regarded with satisfac-
tion or disappointment according as
those interested felt they were af-
fected by the ruling of the court
DOESN'T AFFECT S. & II.
w R. Fraser, local manager of the
Sperry e Hutchinson Trading Stamp
Company, said the decision wouldn't
affect his company. He said:
Whenever any legislation is passed
in which our company is interested it
is the policy of the company to com.
ply with the requirements of the law
rather than to fight it. This our com
pany did in this case.
"a tobacco company was directly
concerned in that case and it made
a motion for re-argument, so that the
litigation is not yet ended
However, whatever the outcome.
the S. & H. Company is not affected
by this law, because We pay cash for
stamps and do not come within the
scope of the law, We complied with
this law two years ago"
PROCEDURE IN CASE
1t will be several weeks before the
decision of the court will be applied
in Washington. The procedure calls
for 30 days in which application for
a rehearing may be made If at the
end of that time no application has
been filed or if one has been filed
and denied, an order will issue to the
court from which the appeal was
taken in line with the decision of the
supreme court
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
CRIME AGAINST LABOR

(From Committee on Industrial Rela.
tions, Washington, D. c.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. P. Walsh,
chairman of the Committee on Indus
trial Relations, recently made public
letter to Commissioner of Educa-
ton P. P. Claxton demanding a re-
pudiation by him of a pamphlet on
industrial education prepared by the
National Association of Manufacture
ers and distributed under government
authority by the Bureau of Education.
The letter follows:
Hon. P. P. Claxton,
Commissioner, Bureau of Education,
Department of Interior,
Washington, D. G.
Dear Sir
have at hand a copy of pamph-
let entitled, Report of the Commit
tee on Industrial Education, H. E.
Miles, Chairman of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers" At the
bottom of the cover are printed the
words: Reprinted for Distribution by
Bureau of Education, Washington, D.
c."
am reliably informed that the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
furnished you with thousands of
these pamphlets under an agreement,
on your part, to send them broadcast
throughout the country under the au-
thority of the United States govern
ment.
I cannot too strongly protest against
the action of a government official,
appointed and paid to promote the
education of the nations youth, in
thus giving recognition, sanction and
approval to an organization which
has been discredited in the minds of
all decent citizens who are familiar
with its record as a corrupting agen-
cy in public life and a champion of
the grossest and most shameful forms
of exploitation
At the very time when you were
engaged in spreading the propaganda
of this organization, it's official leg
islative representative, the notorious
j. A. Emery, was appearing before
committees of congress in opposition
to the Heating child labor bill, and
he there stated that, in attempting to
block legislation to keep children un-
der fourteen ou tof southern cotton
mills, he was acting for the board Of
directors of the association whose lit
erature you are distributing.
A report on the industrial educa-
ton of our children, published by
such an organization, would, to those
familiar with its records, carry as
much weight and no more than a re-
port on the moral welfare of Ameri- /
band of procurers.
Yet, by lending the government
stamp and approval to this document,
you have placed it in the hands of
thousands of men and women who
may be deceived by this misuse of
government authority, and whose
views on the greatest educational is
sue of the time may thus be uncon-
sciously perverted.
r;,
stants consideration, it should have
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
AGAINST scHooL-eoY LABOR

CHARLESTON, w. Va-Supterin,
tendent of Public Schools Laidley ia
vors a state law which will permit
children of poor parents to spend one.
half of each school day as wage earn
ers.
Trade unionists condemn the plan
and declare it means a backward step
The Central Labor Union has ap.
pointed committee TO devise meth
DDS to oppose the school mans theory