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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Leuion at Nekooss.

Nekoosa - The Nekoosa-Port Ed.
wards chapter Of the Wisconsin loyal.
ty legion, was organized with Henry
Il. Fitch as president and zoe charter
members.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Experienced.

ommander-"What makes you
think you can get through the enemy's
barbed wire entanglements safely7"
American Private-"Sir. I've pinned
up my wife's party dress many time
without getting a scratch. Judge.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Russ Dissolve Fourth puma.

reirograd, oct. %. Owing 10 The
elections for the constituent assembly
being decreed for November : 3 the
Russian provisional government Inns
ordered the dissolution Of the fourth
dunn
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
AGED Banker Dies.

Beloit Charles IL Avery died here
ut the age Of 80. He bad resided in
Beloit sixty-one years He was con.
neeted with the Hyde r. Britain banl
until ten years ago.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Red Cross Aids Back From Italy.

An Atlantic Port. Oct. 2I-Lieut.-
Col. G. r. Baker. chairman of the
American Red Cross commission TO
Italy. ana Mini 4. W. Huntington re-
turned here on nm American steam
ship.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Stop German Supplement.

Baraboo - The Weekly News here.
which has been issuing a supplement
in German to its subscribers each
week for years, has discontinued II. at
least for the period Of the war
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
q 600 Desert Kaiser Army.

washington, oct. 23.-More than
i2.OOO German deserters have found
refuge In Switzerland. according to the
Swiss paper Bund, official cables as
serted.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Would Give Bond to Kaiser

Racine r. The Racine Liberty Loan
committee will present a $50 bond to
Kaiser Wilhelm II he will come to Ra-
cine to get il.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
One Assessor for Racine

Racine Racine will have but one
assessor after next April If an ordi.
nance now being prepared by the city
attorney IL adopted
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Fox River MAYORS ORGANIZE

Mayors of the Fox river
valley organized permanently here.
They will sift the coal situation.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Plans SAVING In SchooIs.

GAINESVILLE Supt, Of Schools II. r..
Faust will institute a savings bank
system in all schools of the city. Co.
operation Of parents Is asked.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25

Women are pretty. but few OF them
are as beautiful as they think they
are.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25
Unklnd Comment.

81 am bent on this thing"
"Ah! I thought It was crooked"
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Unable 70 Read.

A large number OF Turkish women
are unable to read or write their own
iifilcult language.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

direct. Until that can be accomplished
and while competition for employment
is as sharp as has prevailed in late
years the adjustments committee of
the American Federation of Labor is
not going to find itself in the list of
the unemployed.
The political function of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor is not so
clearly defined as is its economic as
pect and activity. Since the Denver
convention it has declared I'VE are
partisan to a principle, and not to
party" Consequently, partisan poll
tics never get hearing on the floor
of the convention as such, but by in
direction quite a bit of political dis
cussion is indulged in at each general
gathering. These outbursts partake
usually of the nature of consideration
of some propositions that will carry
with its adoption departure from the
established practice of eschewing GER
tain policies, and frequently are tinged
with acrimony, condition not to be
avoided when ardent champions of
definite ideas meet to advocate or op-
pose a course of action. 1t is unfor-
tunate for the general cause of labor
that this acrimony has given rise to
personal animosity that is carried out
side of the convention, and prevents
tHe nedTIy cO-OpeTatlOn OF men VINO
might successfully work together for
the good of all, were it not for this
divergence of opinion. They reach a
point where they will not seek for
middle ground on which both can
stand, and by determined adherence
to dogma lose much of their use
fulness. | am not a compromiser,
but l cannot convince myself that the
whole should be permitted to suffer
because of differences as to non-es-
sentials. l am sure that no royal
road to happiness has yet been dis
covered, but l do believe the cause of
labor as whole would be greatly ben
Gifted, were less stress and emphasis
laid upon the necessity of doing things
in a certain way. We are always dis
covering new ways of doing things,
and labor must not lag.
AS to the future of the American
Federation of Labor, who can say what
it may accomplish?
May here quote from the report
had the honor of writing as chairman
of the committee on executive coun-
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

with visionary eyes to n goal Of human
happiness they were to attain. These
efforts had served their purpose, they
were useful in their way, and inso-
far as they have shown what can not
be done and what ways not TO tread,
they are still useful as examples from
experience for the guidance Of the or
ganizations of today in their efforts
to set forward the whole cause of
humanity thru the uplift of the produc-
ers of the world. That the American
Federation of Labor had come Mt the
imminent hour in the history Of the
trades union movement is dcmonstrat-
ed by the issue of events, and II has
magnificently realized its opportunity
as factor in the evolutionary develop
ment of mankind.
The American Federation Of Labor
is not stationary body, rigidly at
tached to any rock of tradition, but.
Continued on Page 6, this Section)
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

To get the proper perspective on
the American Federation of Labor, it
is necessary to comprehend the or
ganized labor movement of America
in some of its details. Trades unions
are modern institutions, for Industrial
ism as we know it is modern. 1t was
born when the Jim who lived in the
tea kettle was trapped and set to
work pushing a piston up and down in
a cylinder. Introduction of steam
driven machinery put an end to the
craft guilds of a past age just as it
sounded the knelf for the Independent
villages. With the concentration of
processes incident to the introduction
of machinery came the division and
subdivision of crafts, groups of spe-
cialists succeeding to the several parts
of one trade or calling, with a cor
responding confusion of interest, an
overlapping of claims, and a diver
gence on points that were vital to all
trades unions had already come to be
organized, early in the history of
modern industrialism, because of the
mutual needs of the workers. Some of
these craft unions attained to consid-
cradle strength, but jealously main
tained an autonomous existence. Prog
ress in other directions drove these
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
THE A. F. OF L.: ITS MISSION
By T. w. MCCULLOUGH
Member of Omaha Typographical Union.

organizations from their isolation and
compelled their association into larger
groups as national or international or
CARNATIONS. With the great revival
of industry that came in the late sew
enties, need for closer affiliation be-
tween these international groups were
made apparent by reason of the dis
advantage at which they found them
selves, facing a situation that found
trades unionism at a very low ebb
This impulse found its expression in
several important manifestations,
chief of which was the Knights of La
Dor, out of whose activities has come
much of the present day labor move
ment of North America.
The inherent weakness of the
Knights of Labor, and the one that
contributed most to its inefficiency as
the agency for the expression of the
aims and aspirations of the workers of
America was its failure to give proper
weight to the factor of trade auton-
omy. "An injury to one is the con-
cern of all'' was the broad platform
of the Knights, and mighty attrac
tive one it is in theory. Practice soon
found out that the shoemaker could
not negotiate bill of prices nor shop
conditions for the tailor, who preferred
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

the few shut the gates of mercy on
mankind" the American Federation of
Labor came into life as the united
expression of those of organized la
Dor who looked ahead to more ener-
getic and better directed effort than
seemed possible thru the agency of
any then existing means for the voic-
ing of any demand of the worker for
an improvement of his condition.
1t did not come into existence for the
purpose of antagonizing any body of
organized labor, but to join all in n
closer affiliation and a more united
body for participation in the struggle
that was inevitable, unless the work
ers of America were to allow them
selves to sink to a condition lower
than any serfdom or other form OF
slavery known to history. Along the
road behind it the way was strewn
with wrecks of organizations whose
founders and promoters had looked
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

ellis report at the Seattle convention,
and the language of which was in
dorsed and adopted by the convention
without a dissenting voice. l then
reported:
The American Federation of Labor
is body of progress. Its aims and
efforts are all in one direction-the
uplift of humanity in its broadest as
pect. Altho its most familiar mani
festation is along the lines of material
benefit for the toilers of America, or
ganized or unorganized, yet it has a
higher, nobler and broader concept
of its functions, its scope and its op-
portunities, and in its idealistic aspect
it presents to the critic and the histo-
rian a showing of achievement that
challenges the admiration of all, even
of those whose selfish and sinister in
terests have been exhibited in their
unreasoning opposition to the efforts
of this great association of bodies of
organized labor.
Born at time when the cause of
labor was trembling in the balance of
human history, when the future was
dark with ominous clouds and the
outlook for the toilers of the world
seemed never so hopeless; when the
conditions that governed the situation
of the worker were such as placed him
at the utmost disadvantage, at time
when the effect of tradition born of
ages of oppression and submergence
was manifest in the attitude of the
public mind, and educated and scien-
tific men were convinced of the abso-
lutte hopelessness of labor's condition;
when voluntary restriction of his own
numbers was still looked upon as the
only avenue thru which the worker
might escape from his sordid and
squalid surroundings; when the hide
Gus wage fund" theory was still ac-
cepted in its entirety, the abhorrent
Malthusian dogma was still persisted
in, and mankind was yet struggling
against the hindrances and the ham
pering influences of doctrines and be-
liefs that preserved for mans confu-
sion the hopeless and settled state of
human life that had for centuries
enveloped and smothered the hopes
and aspirations, the ambitions and
aims of those who dreamed of the
time to come when the destiny of man
might be realized, while to the many
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
u. S. lNDICTs EMERSON MEN
President and Others Charged With
Using Mails to Defraud
Certain Persons.

New York, June 6.-Charged with
using the mails In conspiracy to de-
fraud, four corporations, including the
Emerson Motors company, Inc, to-
gether with Ia individuals, including
President George Emerson, were in
dicted by the federal grand jury.
The indictment charges the defend
ants with conspiracy to defraud, by
the use Of the mails, certain persons
whom they induced to purchase stock
of the Emerson company, Delaware
corporation capitalized at $10,000,0O0,
"well knowing" so the indictment de-
cIares, 'that the stock had practically
no value"
In addition to the Emerson COM
pany, the G. r. Berry company, Inc,
Robert P. Matches & Co., Inc, and
III. B. Humphrey & Co., Inc, were In
dictpd.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
MESSAGE OF WAR HEAD
Baker Tells Young Men to Re-
i0ice at Chance.
Declares the Opportunity Is Without
ParaIIet in Our
History.

Washington, June 6.-The secretary
of war issued the following state
ment:
"The opportunity which was offered
on registration day to the young men
Of America is unparalleled in our his
tory. We are IN this war to save the
very fundamentals Of political and per
sonal lIhertg not only for ourselves,
u 5sa as5s u lesssss
Until i complete victory Is won for
these principles there can be no hold.
Ing back and no turning back. We shall
need all the energy and all the re-
sources at our command to be exerted,
not against the American people, nor
with Intolerance of personal or racial
character, but with resoIute determi-
nation to devote to the success of the
unselfish cause which we are defend
Ing all that we have to offer.
"For these young men the day
should be one of rejoicing for the
chance which comes to them, and one
of serious responsibility, because in
the Issue Is involved the very future
of democracy.
NEWTON D. BAKER,
Secretary of War;"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
AMERICANS SINK
GERMAN U-B0AT
MANY SHOTS ENCHANGED-SUB.
MARINE STANDS STERN END
UP A FEW SECONDS
After Emerging From Water, Message
Says-Ship Manned BY Crew of
American Marksmen.

Western Union Newspaper News Service
ngton.-American naval gum
ners on an armed American merchant
man are believed to have bagged a
German submarine. Official announces
ment to this effect was made at the.
State Department. The location 81 The
action between the merchant vessels
and the submarine, which sisted aIl
hour and a half, was not given Neither
was the name Of the American ship
1t was stated, however, that the ship
was not the Mongolia, regarding which
cable advices had been received. The
Mongolia, according to word from
England, ran into NEST" of subma-
rines and had long running fight with
two of them. The official announce
ment says the steamers final shot ZAP
parently struck the submarine, which
raised clear out of the water and stood
stern up for few seconds She then
disappeared"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
SPIRIT Of NATIONAL UNITY
Senate, Without Dissenting Voice,
Adjourns Until Friday in Honor
of Confederate Vterans.

Washington, June GA thrill Of pa
triotic feeling ran through the
United States senate when gray
clad Confederate veteran, with trem-
bling voice and tear-flled eyes, arose
In their midst and moved that the SEN
ate adjourn out Of respect to the
Southern soldiers holding their re-
union in the national capital.
1t was Senator Bankhead of Alabama
who served the full four years of the
Civil war. He was attired in the full
uniform of a Confederate private. AS
If to emphasize the spirit of national
unity while the nations youth is pledg-
ing itself to new service and sacrifice,
the senate adjourned until Friday with
out dissenting voice.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
SIGNAL TO The WORLD
President Says All Americas
Manhood viii Serve.
Tells Confederate Veterans Meaning Of
Great Registration of Young
Men for Service.
Washington, June 6.-"This is day
of renewal of that spirit that has made

Washington, June 6.-"This is day
of renewal of that spirit that has made
America great among the world Of ma
ttons, These solid lines Of young men
going to the places of registration
thtoughoat AZ Il
fss4 40 sasgs
manhood VIII serve and tEat he VINO
challenges the integrity Of the United
States challenges their united
strength
This was President Wilson's mes
sage to the United Veterans Of the
Confederacy, gathered here for the an
nual reunion.
"There comes a time when 1t is good
for q nation to realize she must sac
ritice," the president continued ''We
have come to war. We have prospered
and accumulated great wealth. We lay
all our wealth and spend our blood to
show it has been accumulated for the
service of mankind"
The president recalled the differ
ences between the North and South
that eliminated in the Civil war.
But this is a day of oblivion" he
said. "Some things we have thank
fully buried. One of these is the pass
ing of the separation. The differences
of principle are gone. This is an oc-
caslon for rededication of all the
United States. These are days of re-
ioicing because we see at last why
this great nation was kept undivided,
and we see the purpose which we were
meant to serve. Now we are to be an
instrument in the hands of God to see
that liberty is made secure for all
mankind.
Love of self-government and of lib
erty by both the North and the South
were the motives for the Civil war"
President Wilson said. "In the days
of our greatest division there was al
ways one passion for human liberty.
Will you not support me in the hope
that this passion is even stronger on
this day when young men are register
ing their names with the idea that in a
democracy the duty and privilege
to serve falls on all alike? There Is
something fine about the spirit of Vol
unteering, but bigger is the spirit of
obligation. No man who really under
stands the dignity of being a United
States citizen doubts for minute that
the congress has the right to call upon
him when it Will"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
BEvIER KY, HIT BY TWIsTER
kills Five and Injuries Twelve--Train
Barely Escapes BY Speeding
From Station.

Central City, Ky.-Five persons
were killed and twelve injured, two OF
them seriously, when cyclone swept
across the Blue Ridge on the outskirts
of Bevier, six miles from here. Prop
erty damage was estimated at $4,000.
The cyclone sideswiped Bevier and
only slightly damaged Drakesboro and
Cleaton, neighboring towns. Conductor
Tapscott moved Louisville and Nash
vile passenger train out of the sta
tion, and barely in time to escape the
tornado, and the passengers saw the
storm do it's work.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
British Rain Shells on Base;
Smash Second Foe in Run
ming Fight.
ENGLISH had NO CASUALTIES
Belgium Becomes Storm Center OF
Fighting in Attacks by Land, Sea
and Air-Airmen In Another
Drive Against Zeebrugge.

London, June 6.-Belgium has be-
come the storm center of fighting on
the western front. Attacks by land,
sea and air have been delivered
against the Germans in the new burst
Of fighting raging in that zone OF bat
tie.
In the Ypres sector the British de-
livered powerful raiding thrusts dur
Ing the night, capturing some prison
ers.
Early Tuesday morning British
fleet appeared off Ostend, on the Bel
GUM coast, and poured destructive
rain of shells upon the German mill
tary works. German shore batteries
replied and a combined land and sea
action developed.
British airmen have made another
sky drive against the great German
naval base at Zeebrugge and have also
bombarded with good results the Ger
man air base at st. Denis-Westrem,
near Bruges.
0SlCHu ElSdNIy oHChSo.
A British light cruiser and destroy
er flotilla sank one German destroyer,
the $40, and damaged another in an
engagement with six enemy destroyers
at long range, the admiralty reported.
Ostend was bombardea with good
results the admiralty declared Shore
batteries returned the British IRE, but
ffiefa wuts mU easaaiTfss Bh the Britt
ish ships and no damage done to the
attacking vessels.
"Vice Admiral at Dover reports that
the enemy naval base and workshops
at Ostend were heavily bombarded
early in the morning" the admiralty
statement said.
Commander Tyrwhitt reports early
in the morning light cruiser and de-
stroyers engaged six German destroy
ers at long range. One of the latter
was sunk and another damaged.
"Ostend was bombarded with good
results. The shore batteries returned
the fire, but we We're without damage.
The German destroyer sunk was the
$40. We had no casualties"
The German destroyer $50 was
built in 1912 and was of 800 tons dis
placement. 1t was capable of 1926
knots speed per hour, carried 73 men
and was classified as of the latest type
In such craft.
Ten French Craft Diver Toll.
Paris, June Con % occasions last
month French merchantmen came in
contact with submarines. Six vessels
escaped from torpedoes and IL from
gunfire. Eight torpedo attacks and
two attacks with guns resulted in the
sinking Of vessels.
Twelve engagements occurred in
May between French torpedo boats
and submarines. French hydroplanes
had IA fights with submarines, and
French patrol ships three such engage
ments.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
CONvICTS RIOT IN
JOLIET PRISON,
TROOPS CALLED
Several Buildings Set AbIaze in
Mutiny; Prisoners Fight
the Firemen.
five PERSONS ARE WOUNDED
Draft and New Rules Of Acting War
den Cause the Worst Outbreak
In the History of the State
institution.

Joliet, ILL.,, June 6.-In riot due
partly to registration for the army
draft and partly to curtailment of their
privileges, several hundred prisoners
In the Joliet state penitentiary set ire
to three buildings and put up such
battle to destroy the prison that they
had to be Quelled by soldiers.
With the 1850 prisoners in q tur-
moil, with fire raging in the rattan
works, the chapel and an unused build
ing, Archie Bowen, acting warden, ap-
pealed to Major Clinnin Of the First
Illinois infantry, encamped on the out
skirts of Joliet,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
KILLS MAN RESISTING DRAFT
Texas officers Shoot Member of Farm.
ere and Laborers' Protective AS
ISOLATION of America.

Fort Worth, Tex, June 6.-E. H.
Fulcher, a member of the Farmers
and Laborers Protective Association
Of America, who had hidden himself
In the woods, heavily armed, for the
announced purpose of resisting con-
scription, was shot and killed near
Midway by posse of officers from
Hood and Polo Pinto counties, it was
learned here.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
Auto Hit BY Traction Car.

Henderson, Ky.-Four high school
students were killed and two were per-
haps fatally injured when a Hender
son-Evansville traction car struck an
automobile in which the six were rid
ing. The accident happened three
miles north Of the city. The automo
bile was ground beneath the traction
car, which was running 80 miles an
hour. The car was in charge Of Mo
torman Hancock, who said he did not
see the automobile until he was with
in l6 ieet of the crossing. He applied
emergency brakes.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
FORM COUNCIL OF LITHUANIA
Germans Setting Up Government In
Conquered Russian Territory,
Says Berlin.

Berlin, June 6.-The following state
ment has been issued at official head
quarters in the east, under date of
May 30:
"The chief commander has approved
the formation Of confidential council
of Lithuania, composed of the most
prominent Lithuanians."
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
indians Obey Draft Law.

Ignacio, Colo.-All save IL of the Ute
Indians who refused to register under
the selective draft law came in and
submitted to registration. A posse
led by Sheriff John Alexander, went
in search of the IL. The men who sur
rendered believed that registration
meant they would have to go to France
to fight.
had been enjoying too much liberty.
They had an idea that they could drop
their work at any time and visit other
shops. issued an order stopping that
practice.
another bad practice was one that
allowed women not relatives of pris.
oners, to visit them. The effect was
bad. | stopped that. We had a tip
that the mutiny would come today and
We're prepared for It,
"The tragic part of the situation is
that many men who We're not in on
the mutiny must now suffer for the
misdeeds Of the leaders,"