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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22
Bridgeport Passes Its ]. Allotment

The warmth or Br1dgeportS gen. erous response to the appeal of the American Red Cross today sent the money mercury beyond the s290.000 mark. fixed on the thermometers that have been indicating the growth of the fund during the week. The days receipts amounted to over $42,00O and with, subscriptions that were ,receiv- ed between yesterday noon and today the grand total was sent to $201, ,630.
 Features of the campaign, today were many and had an interesting bearing on the campaign. A race be- tween Team No. 21, John c. Stanley, captain, which collected $14,128 and Team No. 24,, Samuel s. Hawley, captain, which collected se,350, result ed in the former winning a wager of $250 which was added to the team re- ceipts
 The following large contributions were reported:
 Bridgeport Police, Sick Bene-
 fit Asso. ....... $1,000 Bridgeport Lodge of Elks. 1000 Crane Valve Co. ....... 5000 Electric Cable Company. .... 1000 J. Percy Bartram ..... 5000 D. M. Read Go. ......... 2,00o American Graphophone Go. .. 2 500 +Gennecticut National Bank .. 1000 Eastern Malleab1e Iron Go. ... 2,5O0 Whiting Mfg. Co., 1000 MT. and Mrs. Hobart Wheeler 500 Wheeler & Arnold ... 500 Bridgeport Metal Goods Co. .. 400 The Bridgeport School children are taking a collection, the proceeds of which will be added to the Red Cross fund. Elias Howe, IT,, Post, G. A. R., presented $75, and to. this was added $25 by the commander, Henry J. Seeley. A parade to celebrate the passing of the $200.000 marx was started at the Stratfield immediately after the Luncheon. There was much enthusi- | asm displayed and hopes were ex- pressed that another $5O,00O would be added before the campaign closed.
 J. Percy Barnum's $5,0OO contribu- tion was made today when it appear ed that tabulated contributions were close to the s200,0O0 and his sub- scription added, would pass the amount.
 The following is the summary of today's receipts:
 | Division A, s14.749; Division B,
 $3s,023.5o; Citizens Committee, $19,- | 400; Newtown. $500; Trumbull, s136. | It was announced this afternoon
 that members of the Bridgeport police
 department had voted to donate one
 per cent of their pay for a year to the Red Cross. The amount will be about 1 $s.o0o.
 | A workman named Draco, employ
 ed in an East Side factory. pledged s1
 8. week of his wages for a year.
 Walter B. L1aslhar, who is paying all
 of the expenses of the Red Cross cam ] paign in Bridgeport, was so elated and pleased with the action of the Bridge | port Police Sick Benefit association's
 action in voting s1.0O0 for the Red Cross fund, that he immediately drew a check of s2,0o0 which he forwarded
 to the treasurer of the fund. (Continued on Page 10.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22
THE WEATHER.

Connecticut: Probably fair tonight nnd Saturday; not much change in tefn0UeAfufe; gentle variable winds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22
GRACE ID BE ALLOWED REGISTRATION EvADERS
 UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY

United States District Attorney Spellacy An nounces Extension of Time for Those Who Failed to Appear for Recording June 5-City Clerks Office Has Registered 12O-Federal Warrants Being Prepared for Persistent Dodgers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22

After the murder Draggs gagged Harriet Ladue. a niece of the Ladue brothers. aged 1s,z placed her in the bottom of wagon and drove to Potsdam, 10 miles away, where he surrendered The girl, who had wit
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22

It was reported several days ago that the Cederic, a freighter of 1,12s tons, which left New York May 2s for Liverpool had been sunk, but the New York representatives of the line said they had no official advices.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22
No German Captives
 on British Steamer

An Atlantic Port, June 22-The British vice consul here disclosed to- day that there was no truth in the re- port that a British steamer arriving here had aboard prisoners from a Ger man raider sunk or captured at sea. The steamer, he said, had only her crew aboard.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22

Washington, June 22-Reports of a British steamer arriving in an At lantic coast port with prisoners from German raider, sunk or captured at sea, were declared. by navy depart ment officials today to be without foundation. They had conferred by telephone with naval officers at the port in which the steamer arrived and were assured that while a British ves- sel had come into the harbor, they were unable to find any truth in the report that she carried prisoners from a German raider.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-22
THIRTEEN LOST IN
 SINKING OF CEDRIC

London June 22-The sinking of the Norwegian steamer Cederic is report ed in a Central News dispatch from Copenhagen, which credits the am nouncement to the Norwegian foreign office! The captain and 12 men are said to be missing.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
Carolina Judge Rules Against Children

E. Boyd of the Western district of North
Keaing national child labor bill
This be expected from judicial trib
mill district where the lives of
years sacrificed the greedy mill
Keatng bill enacted reach just this class of
enjoined the United States district
enforcing the of
national does extend
will taken the United
where final opinion expected uphold
make apply North Carolina does to other
utterly ridiculous appears for minor judge to
has the O. K of OF the abes
who weighed
foolish this judge feel when his decision is
reversed, certain to be the
The time has when petty judges should cease this practice
should be let the highest
tribunal the United States court-declare it
rights of family rights and other
these minor judges for their decisions but
apparently fail interpret the of the law They
give the that they in sympathy with the efforts
condition
OF mankind.
recall the ruling by the the
by judge in the Adamson layvthe
Did this show that knew what they
dong2 different in the child labor
law.
national child labor law
that application of the Keatng Owen
change regulations the employment
that Congressman
Heating ploted this thru the
Senator Owen of Oklahoma both coming of the
Western
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
BRAZIL'S GREAT RIVER

alluring accounts of their explorations
in the same region, it was not until
1867 that the river was opened to free
navigation.
at is gratifying to reflect that prob
ably more than to any outside inf1u-
ence, it was due to the publication of
the report of an expedition undertaken
in 1851 by William Lewis Herndon, a
lieutenant in the United States navy,
and to the explorations of Louis Agas-
siZ, that the interest was aroused
which finally brought this about. Lieu.
tenant Herndon, like Orellana, started
from Lima, and Drawing the passes of
the Andes, entered the Amazon from
one of its western affluents and made
the journey in a canoe, with only
Peruvian guide and a few Indian row.
ers, all the way to its mouth. Pro-
fessor AgassiZ, whose explorations
were begun fifteen years later, started
from Belem and travelled in a steam
boat, such as it was, accompanied by
his wife and a corps of scientists, and
was given every assistance possible by
the Emperor Dom Pedro, who took a
lively interest in the expedition.
More than forty years of progress
Dom Pedro decreed that the river
should be open to international trade,
yet all these wonders may still be seen
there--the vast expanses of water, the
shore lines varied by lofty bluffs and
low plains of sand, rugged rocks and
dense masses of foliage, the river
surface dotted by islands large and
small-the magnificent forests still
crowding to the banks and teeming
with all the exuberant life and bril-
liant hues of the tropics-giant sum
aumeras, their crests towering high
barked trunks and limbs standing out
in striking relief from the masses of
green; tall cocoanut palms, tufted at
the top with fan-shaped leaves cut
into ribbons and bedecked with creamy
blossoms; slender, graceful assai
palms, tall and clean-stemmed like the
cocoanuts, but with fluffy, feathery
crowns; wine palms from which the
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15

Being interviewed by representa-
tive of the New York Tribune a few
days ago as to efforts being made to
thoroly Americanize the labor move
ment and to protect it from treason
able and un-American influences, Pres
ident Gompers had this to say:
"Since the beginning of the war
Germany has been trying to capture
the labor movement. The testimony
of Captain Won Rintelen in his trial
and since shows conclusively some of
the efforts made by the German gov
ernment to betray the American labor
movement into the service of Germany.
And his activity was only part of the
greater scheme of Germany's repre-
sentatives to suborn the American la
Dor movement in the interest of Ger
many against the allies and to in
volve our republic into unneutral acts
, in favor of Germany and against the
allies.
/ There is not the slightest doubt in
my mind that since the United States
has entered the war the same infiu-
ences have been at work under an
other cloak and a bit more adroitly.
"Of course, we have natural paci-
fists in America, but the Socialist
party is not pacifist. 1t is pro-German
and anti-American. AS it is anti
patriotic, it cares. nothing for the
freedom and democracy enjoyed under
our republic and stigmatiZes it as be-
ing worse than even the conditions
I which existed in Russia under the rule
of the cZars.
''The Socialist party for more than
thirty years has undertaken to dom
mate and control the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. and when it failed
! to make the Federation a tail to the
Socialist political party kite 1t under
took to bring about its undoing. That
party was sure to oppose every act OF
our Federation to achieve any given
object in the interest of the whole
people. 1t denounced the trade union
movement and its achievements for
3 labor, for, as its leaders reasoned, il
/ the trade union movement could bring
about improvements of the toilers' lot
this would be a clear refutation of the
Socialist party doctrine. which is that
the conditions of the workers will be-
come worse as time goes on and that
cataclysm will result and bring about
realization of their day dreams, or,
more properly speaking, their night
mares.
when the Socialist party was un-
able to subjugate the American trade
union movement it undertook to defeat
its purposes, and, failing in that, be-
gan to set up rival organizations and
encourage secession movements in the
ranks of the unions. There has not
been a secession movement from any
one of our unions which the Socialist
party did not organize and support.
at organized the so-called Western
Labor Union, then the American Labor
Union, the Socialist Trade and Labor
Alliance, and its latest is the piratical
Industrial Workers of the World. We
know now what exists of the latter.
All of the former have gone by the
| board. The American Federation of
Labor now has, after all these efforts
to destroy it, paid up membership Of
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
FEDERAL OPERATION OF INDUSTRIES
IS GAINING FAVOR AT WASHINGTON
CONTINUED From Page one)

and Mr. Carry of Chicago, represent
ing the employers. Vice-Chairman
Stevens of the shipping board was
also there.
The dispute involves about 900
men, all of them union members. 1t
was because these men had taken n
vote to strike, and were to have gone
out on August 14th, that the "labor
treaty" covering all work in shipyards
during the war, was hastened to sig
nature by the Shipping Board. The
members of the national adjustment
board for this industry realize, and the
heads of the international unions also
believe, that the extension of the
field of agreements between organized
labor and the government during the
war will depend on how well the board
can dispose of this big case.
Determine Rate of Pay.
No immediate decision is expected
The board is informally meeting to
hear the side of the crafts in the
yards. 1t will also hear the side of
the employers. 1t will then hear from
the Shipping Board as to the public
interest involved. After some dis
and try to reach a decision as to what
conditions and what rates of pay shall
be maintained in the industry.
Similar hearings have been given
the representatives of the 1900
strikers and their former employers
in the shipyards along the New York
waterfront, and the ship filters and
riveters from a shipyard at Whining
ton, Del, who have been on a strike
for three weeks past. Decisions have
not yet been made.
Lake Carriers Peeved.
Once more the Lake Carriers Asso-
citation has given an unfavorable re-
ply to the request of the Departments
of Labor and of Commerce that they
reach settlement with the organized
seamen and licensed officers on the
lakes. At conference held here on
September 9th, President Livingston
of the Lake Carriers, and Harvey
Goulden, their attorney, insisted that
they would mot permit any strangers
to come aboard their vessels" and that
they "oppose collective bargaining"
The governments plea that they
edo their bit" to increase the nations
supply of trained scamen ready to go
upon the vessels now building for the
emergency fleet, was met by the claim
that they could furnish union men
from their present supply. If neces-
sary.
This seems to close the door of
hope for any change Of heart on the
policy Of the lake carriers, who are
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15

dominated by the United States Steel
Corporation. Federal mediators are
looking for possible developments to-
ward strike.
Mexicans File Protest.
Appeal has been made to the labor
department by the secretary of the
Pan American Federation of Labor
committee, for inquiry into the depor-
tation of twenty-five Mexican labor
ers from California to Mexico on
August 27, because they were sus-
pected Of being labor agitators. They
had been imported to work in the beet
fields only, and their employers are
reported to have shipped them back
like so many cattle, at the whim of
these anti-union employers.
Secretary of Labor Wilson is be-
ginning his annual struggle to get
sufficient money to develop the bureaus
of his department to meet immediate
needs. He is having his usual i'll
luck with Chairman Fitzgerald Of the
house committee on appropriations
The report of the hearings given by
the committee. during the summer. to
the heads of departments asking for
items in the big appropriation bill
that is now before the house has just
been made public. 1t shows that Sec
retary Wilson is asking for $750,000
for national employment service, and
$15O,000 for commissioners of con-
ciliation.
Work of Conciliators.
The work of the concilators during
the past year has been remarkably
effective. 1t is to be credited with the
settlement, on terms satisfactory to
the men, of scores of important dis
putes. One in central Pennsylvania.
involving 10000 coal miners, and one
in Alabama, involving 10000 coal
miners, may be credited chiefly to the
secretary. as direct spokesman for
this conciliation service. There was
also settled the dispute of 10000
shopmen with the southeastern rail
ways, and the strike in the fishing
industry at Gloucester, Mass. These
are but few of the prominent ones.
Whether the employment service
will be given sufficient funds this year
is doubtful. Labor is scarce now, and
your average congressman will argue
that it is useless to spend money on
hunting jobs for men when employers
are fairly ready to kidnap them to get
them to work Later, when labor il
plenty, they will argue that the gov
ernment cant make work"
Secretary Wilson admitted, in July,
that his conciliation commissioners
had been unable to settle the troubles
in. Butte and in Arizona, but he was
still hopeful that they might succeed.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
Why l. WV. Haue Not Troubled Colorado

fortunately w. w. disturb
date due largely the campaign conducted by The
American of Labor This
leading official few days and is of
of labor
file of labor and the
public generally.
days ago W. w. Offices in Denver raided
by Deputy United States marsha proved be veritabe
in The
berhp discovered be than hundred Colorado
paid the of dues other
field agents" of W. w. have Den
something,
drifters from Bbee Ariz The
sad the editor wse
pulled off Leadvile He advised OF Colorado
evidently heeded for nothing further
developed.
proud of achievement for good
quoted above
good labor the city the
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
PRO GERMAN SOCIALISTS FAIL TO
LIRE UNION LABOR TO DISLOYALTY
Gonpers Federation Labor Tells Me-"
York Tribune of Germ Spies Working Within
Have Endeavored to Disrupt the Labor Move
ment and Spread Un-American Pleas

$500 900. This does not include the
railroad brotherhoods. which, tho un-
affiliated, are with our organization in
policy.
Nothing that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has ever done has so
incensed the Socialist party as when,
on May -, the executive officers of
nearly all the national trade unions of
America met in Washington and de-
clared the policy of American labor in
peace and in war. That policy re-
quires that the rights, liberties and
standards of American workers shall
be maintained; but we pledge our
whole-hearted support to the people
and government of the United States
in prosecuting the war, so that the
common cause might be brought to a
triumphant issue. That pledge was
and is offensive to Germany and to the
Socialist party"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
OMAHA STRIKE is SETTLED.
Federal Mediator Negotiates Agree
ment With 5000 Packers.

The most extensive strike in the
packing house industries in the his
tory of South Omaha was settled sat
isfactorily Tuesday thru the efforts of
Frederick l.. Feick, government med
iator, and the men returned to work
Wednesday morning.
The terms of settlement were signed
by the representatives of the packing
companies. by a committee of strikers
and by Mediator Feick. and after
wards ratified by unanimous vote of
mass meeting, attended by most of the
5000 men and women who have been
on a strike.
All employees are TO receive an nd-
vance of 2R cents an hour in wages;
all strikers are to be reinstated with
out discrimination; the employees are
to be permitted TO organize unions;
packing house managers agree TO meet
committees Of their employees 10 nd
just grievances; hiring for each plant
is to be done by one man.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
Labor a Determining Factor in World War

On another we publish letter written by President
Wilson Labor Day. addressed Samuel Gompers,
Minneapolis of the Alliance
for Democracy In it the president takes occasion
his highest for the loyalty and patriotic
by the American labor and its members
declares shall be lowering OF living standards
among the workers during the
In of few traitors boring from within the ranks OF
organized working people standing
mighty phalanx behind the president his determination that
democracy liberty shall be planted thruout the world
America the worlds melting pot and be said to their
of those who have this
proving loyal
country adoption doing their duty Amer
ican citizens ungrudgingy
the United States England and in France labor is
occupying shaping the future destiny the
industries, boards of advisors
exercising wonderful influence which will be determining
victory liberty democracy of the
people, which
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15

flowers hang in long, crimson tassels,
studded with berries of bright green; /;
jupati palms with plume-like leaves
forty to fifty feet long that start near
the base of the trunk and curve up
ward on all sides in the form of a
vase; the familiar fan palm, and a
legion of others.
"And there are rubber trees, which
resemble in that region our northern
ash; stately castanhas, the trees on
which the Brazil nuts grow, and ca
caos, that look like our cherry trees,
only they give us chocolate and cocoa
beans instead and have blossoms of a
saffron tint; mahoganies, rosewoods,
and satinwoods, and great sheaves of
whispering bamboo; myriads of ferns
and exquisitely tinted orchids, acacias,
scarlet passion flowers, begonias yell
low and blue-fowers innumerable in
the widest profusion. Not little ones
like our violets hiding modestly among
the mosses and grass, but big bios
SONS growing luxuriantly on bushes
and upon the parasite vines that twine
about the trunks of the trees and hang
in festoons from their branches, until
the whole river border seems ablaZe
with their vivid lights; and there are
still the monkeys and beautiful but
terflies and humming birds, and the
parrots, macaws, herons, egrets, tou-
cans, and countless other gorgeously
feathered birds, and the Indian viii
lagos, too, in the midst of their orange
and banana groves or huddled near the
beaches where the turtles breed.
"Only now all these may be seen
from the decks of ocean liners, or, if
one starts from Belem or Iquitos,
from river steamers as safe and as
comfortably equipped as most of those
in our northern waters. Now the al
ligators, and snakes and tigers have
been driven far from the beaten
tracks.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15

From now on there are eagles and
other eagles in Europe.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15

The first of the important seaports
of Brazil that are accessible from New
York is Belem, the capital of the state
of Para. 1t ranks as fifth in size, but
to the tourist it is of surprising inter
est because it is situated on the Para
river, the southern or commercial
mouth of the Amazon, that mightiest
and most majestic of all the rivers of
the world" writes Harry Weston Van
Dyke in his Through South America"
Imagine! a river more than three
thousand four hundred miles long,
with it's source in the Peruvian Andes,
sixteen thousand feet above the level
of the sea-a river which with its vast
tributaries, many of them from thou
sand to two thousand miles in length,
drains territory of two million three
hundred thousand square miles, two
thirds as large as our United States,
and so rich in indigenous resources,
and so fertile, that Won Humboldt said
of it that it is here that one day will
concentrate the civilization of the
globe; river that is mile and half
wide at Tabatinga, the last Brazilian
port to the west, and gradually broad
ems on its way to the sea until it at
tains width Of a hundred and fifty
miles at its northern mouth alone, and
discharges into the Atlantic a volume
of water more than four times as
great as the outpoui of the Mississippi
"a river that is navigable, that is now
actually being navigated by ocean
liners, for two thousand miles, clear
across Brazil to Iquitos in the from
tier of Peru.
"Yet, altho as early as 1541 Fran
cisco de Orellana, one of Pizarro's lit
tie band of conquerors, who had
crossed thp Andes in uupst of the fa bu-
lous country of FL Dorado, and having
traversed the whole course of the
country thru Brazil with few COM
panions in canoe, had made his way
back to Spain and told amazing stories
of the wealth of the region he had dis
covered, and altho a century later the
astronomer La Condamine, and still
later Baron Won Humboldt, Castelnau,
and others had successfully published
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
Wealth Must Submit to War CONSUMPTION

Singing criticism being directed at the heads of corporations
in who combating the
ment expoers
government only food, fuel
portation essentials plants
mou scale operate them if
Commenting York World edi-
toay ought continually American
business that they playing with dynamite when
swollen profits. The country will
and whether the wishes to adopt drastic
would compelled drastic
Labor has submitted and doing its patriotic
the firing line providing supplies the
submit conscription if Amer
is opushth o a successful issue.