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Evening star., 1917-01-11

Thaw was dead or dying.
Surrounded by Police.
According to Capt. Tate, Thaw's
whereabouts were learned early today
and the house was surrounded. When
detectives entered the place. accord
ing to Tate, they found that Thaw had
cut his wrists and throat.
Thaw, Tate says, asked that DR.. Ell
wood Kirby, a well known physician Of
this city, be sent for. When the doc
tor arrived he ordered Thaw removed
to st. Mary's Hospital. where DR.. Kirby
is hea1 physician.
Thaw Expected to Die.
st, Mary's Hospital is in the extreme
northeastern part of the city. several
miles from the house where he was
found.
CAPT. Tate later said he had been in
formed that Thaw was expected to die.
What Thaw cut himself with. Tate
said he did not know.
The house where Thaw was found is
within a short distance from the street
where Thaw was in an automobile acci-
dent last May. 1t was damage suit In
stituted against his mother. the owner
of the machine, that brought Thaw here
last Monday to defend the action.
Police Clue a Secret.
How the detectives learned that Thaw
was in West Philadelphia they do not
say. When they were asked by the New
York authorities to apprehend him on a
warrant charging him with assaulting
Frederick Gump. jr. Of Kansas City
they made a search and were convinced
that he had left the city.
Thaw Is Unconscious.
Lieut. Scanlon of the detective bu-
reau said that Thaw was found in the
house shortly before O. clock. Scanlon
said that he had learned that while
Thaw is unconscious he is expected te
live.
Surprise was expressed that Thaw
should be taken so far away When
there were nearly y,,aSa,n,ia d9zsn nosPnns Pn1ss
where he was found.
Detectiye headquarters were not ad-
yised in their early repJorts Wnetner
Thaw was taken to the nospital IN Al
automobile patrol or the doctors auto-
mobile.
Oliver Brewer Indicted.
NEW YORK, January IA third
Indictment in the Thaw case was hand
ed down today by the grand jury. The
defendant is oliver Brewer. who is un-
der arrest on a technical charge in
Philadelphia, and in whose possession
were found papers left with him py
Harry X. Thaw before Thaw and
George O'Byrnes. known as his body-
guard. were indicted here on charges
Of assault and kidnapping. brought by
Frederick Cump. jr.. of Kansas CITY,
Mo. The indictment today accuses
Brewer of conspiracy to kidnap.
Evidence placed before the grand
jury included the papers taken from
Brower, which were brought here by a
philadeiphia detective. Browers al
legged direct connection with the case Is
that after Thaw left New York sub
sequent to the whipping ne Is accused
of having inflicted upon Gump on
Christmas night browef ac.eo y.
York in the hope of finding Gump and
preventing him from telling his story
to the authorities.
Application will be made at once
to Albany for papers for Brower's ex-
tradition to this state. it was an
nounced.
Morrison Declared Spendthrift.
CHICAGO, January 11.-Edward w.
Morrison. aged eighty years, the mil
lionless millionaire" whose financial
affairs have been a subject of court
inquiry for several months. was ad-
Judged to be feeble-minded. distracted
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Morrison Declared Spendthrift.

CHICAGO. January 11.-Edward w.
Morrison, aged eighty years, the mil
lionless millionaire" whose financial
affairs have been a subject of court
inquiry for several months. was ad-
Judged to be feeble-minded, distracted
and a spendthrift this morning by a
jury in probate court.
Morrison is reputed to have been the
possessor at one time of a fortune of
$S,000.000.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
State Department Silent.

The utmost secrecy was maintaineA
at the State Department, but the inn
preston prevailed that. although the
entente has been perfectly clear in
stating its position, the door to peace
had not been utterly barred. In other
quarters it was pointed out that
whether President Wilson will take q
further step depends. not alone on the
actual terms of the note itself, but also
ON his personal estimate of the situa.
ton and confidential advices to him
from abroad
Evening star., 1917-01-11
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder to-
night: lowest temperature tonight
about I5 degrees, fresh northwest
winds.
Temperat for twenty-four hours
ending pm: Highest Sc, at pm.
YESTERDAY; lowest, &c. at pm. today.
Full report on page is.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
HARRY THAW TRIES
TOEND OWN LIFE
Cuts Wrists and Throat When
Philadelphia Police Sur
round House.
IS BELIEVED TO BE DYING

PHILADELPHIA. January hillary
K. Thaw cut his wrists and throat in
q private house on Walnut street west
Of Sind street here today and was taken
to st. Mary's Hospital, according to
Captain of Detectives Tate, who has
been searching for him.
Early reports did not indicate whether
Thaw was dead or dying.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
SUGGESTS PROBE
NIGHT WARRANT
HIGHER RATES

That an investigation of the rates
charged by the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph company might show that
they would have to be changed "to
meet increased cost of labor and ma
terial" is intimated by the public
service commission in a letter to O..
M. Moore of Hoquiam, after setting
forth that the commission has no
power to force service in time of
strike as it has no control over en-
ployes.
The communication, signed by
Chairman E. F. Blaine, is in reply
to a suggestion made in a petition
from Moore and 1913 others asking
the commission to compel the tele-
phone company to give service. In
the letter the petitioners said;
"We believe that the company
should pay its employees living
wage and that the present trouble
can be easily settled and good serv-
ice rendered if the linemen and
switchboard operators are fairly and
justly treated"
The commission in its letter said
it would like to hear further from
Moore and the other signers, and that
it would be glad to conduct an in
quiry into the entire situation if
the Hoquiam people desired.-State
Capitol Record.
Wonder if that commission ever
took into consideration the actual
physical value of the plant of pub
lie service corporation when fixing
rates?
What Commission Blaine says about
the fair treatment of linemen and
operators as predicate to the easy
settlement of the troubles between
them and the company is true.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16

This conference was called by the
Dutch Scandinavian Socialists and
also by those Russian Socialists rep
resented by the Council of Work
men and Soldiers.
The two bodies co-operated from
June until October. On October
18th and 10Th they issued separately
two programs of peace terms. These
two programs, as the following COM
parison will show, are identical on
most points. On the few remain
ing questions one or another of the
programs is silent. This need not
imply the slightest disagreement be-
tween the two.
1t is embarrassing for the pro-
German "internationalists' of Rus
sia to take a stand against Kerensky
and the pro-Russian Socialists on
certain questions, such as Finland.
So they have left it to the more NOR
bid pro-Germans like the Dutchman,
Troelstra, and the Dane, Stauning,
to demand the absolute separation
of Findland from Russia, the COM
pelling of the Austrian Slavs and
Italians to remain under the yoke
of the Kaiser of Austria, the restora-
tion of Armenia to Turkey (referred
to in the Russian plan under the
more pleasing word, autonomy, a
counterfeit and pro-German plebis-
cite in Alsace Lorraine, and the
German scheme of dividing Belgium
into two autonomous halves.
If the Workmen's and Soldiers
Council had advocated these aggres-
sively pro-German and brutally cyni-
cal schemes they would have the
opposition not only of the entire
Russian middle class (including the
poorest) but also of the overwhelm
ing majority of peasants $50 per cent
of Russia) and the minority of work
ingmen led by Zeretelli.
On the other hand it would look
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
MILL OWNERS DEFY U. s.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 81
The Southern California Mill Own
ers' association has notified the gov
ernment, through mediators connect
ed with the federal department of
labor, that it will, in effect, handle
it's own affairs and that the media
tors are "buttin' in" in strike
caused by higher wage demands.
In reply the mediators-Harris
Weinstock and Charles T. Connell-
forwarded sizzling letter to these
employers, whose executive commit
tee, the mediators say, takes this po-
sition:
"That the government has no bus
mess to butt into your private af-
fairs through unsolicited mediation.
"That you as employers propose to
increase wages only whenever the
conditions, in your judgment, war
rant such increase.
"That under no circumstances, eth
er now or hereafter, will you oper-
ate on an eight-hour day unless the
whole country adopts an eight-hour
basis"
Then the mediators say:
"If the government has the power
in these days of war, as matter of
national preservation, to fix prices
for your wares and mine; if it can
commander your plants and mine;
if it can put musket into the hands
of your sons and mine, if such sons
are physically fit, it certainly, in the
interest of national preservation, has
right to butt into your private af-
fairs and mine, through the medium
of mediation, when such mediation is
in the interest of industrial peace.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
THE Y. M. c. A.
WAR FUND DRIVE
A WALK-OVER

On Tuesday evening $763 more
than SO per cent of the allotment
to Everett ($14,000) was secured
There seems little doubt that the
allotment of $21 ,OOO for the Coua....a as
of Island and Snohomish will be
raised.
This money goes for the aid OF
our enlisted soldiers and sailors. 1t
will be used for entertainment OF
enlisted men in Camp in America
and those in the firing line in
France. 1t will be used to encourage
our soldiers and sailors-not so much
to cure them when they are sick
as to keep them from getting heart
sick and homesick.
Whoop her up!
We're in this war, do anything
and everything to win it.
The U. S. War appropriation this
year is over II Billions. The Y. M
C. A. asks for $35,000,000 to July
1, 1918, or 1-5 of l per cent-50 cents
each for soldiers of France, Russia,
Italy, Belgium, etc.-$1O each for
American boys with the collars
Let's All Do Super Bit Now.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
A. F. OF l.. MEMBERSHIP
HAS NEARLY REACHED
THREE MILLIONS
(From National Labor JournaD

(From National Labor JournaD
A letter from Secretary Morrison
to Robert w. Beattie, secretary of
the Iron City Central Trades Coun-
Gil, states:
81 know you will be glad to learn
that the membership of the National
Local Unions directly affiliated to
the American Federation of Labor
has materially increased during the
past fiscal year. We had an av-
erage membership of 2,072,702 for
the fiscal year which ended Septem-
ber 80, 1916, and an average men,
bership of 2,376,265 for the twelve
months of this fiscal year, ending
September 80, 1917 Notwithstand-
ing this fact, the membership for
September indicates that we have
now more than 2,500,000 from whom
we receive per capita tax, through the
National and Information Unions and
directly affiliated Local Unions. Last
year we had paid-up average men,
bership of 35,163 members in the
directly affiliated Local Unions, and
this year we have a paid up average
membership of 58,416 members for
the twelve months ending September
30,1917. Notwithstanding the num-
Der of Local Unions organized, there
are many crafts and callings that
have no National or International
organizations and that are poorly or
ganized. (Secretary Morrison speci-
fies a calling.) The American Fed
Grafton of Labor has started a spe-
cial campaign for the purpose of or
ganizing this calling. There is a
good spirit for organization existing
among nearly all these workers which
is augmented by the fact that the
increases in wages received have not
been sufficient to meet the increased
cost of the necessities of life."s Sec
retary Morrison then requests the
Organizer to take up the matter in
this city and form an organization,
if possible. He will endeavor to
comply with the request.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
CONVENTION OF
THE AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF
LABOR MEETS

The American Federation of La
bor met in Buffalo last Monday with
the largest representation ever.
This will be one of, if not the most,
important convention ever held by
the A. F. of l..
President Wilson addressed the
convention. This is the first time
a chief executive ever addressed a
convention of the American Fedora
ton.
He criticised the pacifists, saying
his heart was with them but his head
against them. He announced that
he would stand by labor if labor
would stand by him.
There is an optimistic feeling
among the delegates and this one
is expected to be a record-breaking
convention in the amount of business
transacted.
Labor demands to be heard when
the peace conference meets and de-
clares that the war must wipe out
the old idea that "the nation belongs
to the rulers"
Optimism over labor achievements
of labor in the war is tempered with
the suggestion that progress must
be based on human welfare and not
by taking advantage of the nations
necessities.
Freedom of expression is upheld
but those who use the freedom of the
press to undermine the nations free
institutions should be punished as
traitors.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
ARIZONA METAL MINERS
g. ORGANIZE ON HILL SIDE

WASHINGTON.-Denied hall by
Arizona copper operators, 5000 Mex
lean metal miners met at night on
the side of hill and pledged al
legiance to the American Federation
of Labor, is the stirring message
from Clifton, Arizona, John Murray
sends to President Gompers.
Murray is secretary of the Pan
American federation of labor confer
ence committee, which is uniting the
workers of Central and South Ameri-
ca with the workers of the North
American continent. By a practical
ly unanimous vote, he says, the 5000
miners, who are on strike at Clifton,
Morenci and Metcalf, favored affi-
liation with the Mill, Mine and Smell
ter Workers International union.
81 may say" continues Murray,
chat the existence of the conference
committee, with it's spirit of prac-
tical international fraternity, was a
large factor in bringing these 5000
Mexican miners into direct and cor
rect affiliation with the American
Federation of Labor. The necessity
of conforming to the principles and
rules of the labor movement of the
country in which the workers re-
side, irrespective of nationality, was
theme dwelt upon by the Mexican
speakers at these three most impress
sive assemblages. The debates were
lengthy at all three meetings-the
Metcalf meeting commenced at b and
ended at s o'clock at night, when the
final show of hands was taken by
flash light, as we were on an open
hill side, the companies refusing to
rent ground for hall. But the re-
suit of the vote was all the more
gratifying, showing that this united
action was taken with every mans
eyes wide open and proving that the
Mexican miners see the failure of
II. w. w. tactics and organization.
at is the belief of Mexican labor
leaders here that this action will
open the war for the organization of
the entire $4,000 Mexican miners in
Arizona in their international. Like
action will follow in New Mexico.
at should be remembered that
these three unions offered to go back
to work pending the arrival and de-
cision of the presidents commission,
but the copper companies refused
to employ the men unless they could
enforce the blacklist. The men
stayed out, and the mines are closed
down at the present writing"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
EXPERT TELLS WHAT
"PEACE" PLANS MEAN

1t is we'll for the world to keep
a keen eye on German peace prop
aganda, for Germany is very busy
at spreading this kind of camou-
flage. Just now there are two
peace programs that come under
this head One is the program
of the organizing committee of
the Stockholm conference; the
other is the program just issued
by the Russian Council of Work
men and Soldiers.
At the request of the American
Alliance for Labor and Democracy,
Mr.. William English Walling has
written an analysis of both pro-
grams for this newspaper. Mr..
Walling is an authority of note on
these questions and his analysis
may be accepted as exactly de-
scribing the situation.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
AN OREGON MILL
GIVES HALF A LOAF

Beginning yesterday the Smith
Lumber and Manufacturing Com
pany, of Marshfield, Ore, on Coos
Bay, reduced, voluntarily the work
day to 8 hours and made a small
increase in wages. About 600 men
are benefited, The company's log
ging camps will run only 9 hours
when they open in the spring.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16

White, "you can get it from the
record-it is all there"
"THERE ARE SOME THINGS
THAT ARE NOT IN THE REC
ORD" was Whites reply. 81 WANT
TO KNOW THESE THINGS AND
I HAVE SENT FURMAN TO THE
TRIAL AS A SPECTATOR"
"Well | don't want Furman in the
court at ALL said Ferrari.
White refused to withdraw Fur
man and the FRAME-UP chiefs
withdrew in high dudgeon.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16

The expressions employed have
been carefully selected in order that
they should be as plausible as possi-
bic and should sound democratic and
international. Several of these
phrases. therefore, need analysis.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
THE VEIL HAS BEEN TORN FROM
THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE

rather badly for the notorious Dutch
and Scandinavian agents Of the Ger
man Socialists (both wings of whom
are pro-Kaiser in regard to peace
terms) to advocate some of the most
aggressive of the Kaisers' demands.
1t was therefore left to the anarchist
and pro- German elements of the
Russian Socialists to demand ()
that the Entente pay the larger part
of the indemnities for damage done
to the Entente countries by the Ger
man armies, that the Suez and Pan
anna Canals be "neutralized," that all
the German colonies be restored and
that Persia and Greece be re-estab
lished-which means nothing, unless
that they be re-established under
German domination as before. All
these peace terms are at the expense
of England, France, Italy and Amer
ca and would cost Russia nothing.
This scheme of dividing the
responsibility for the program is
so cunningly contrived and SO
branded with the stamp of Ger
man governmental methods that
we cannot doubt it was contrived
by the German foreign Office
doubtless with the knowledge of
such agents as Troelstra and
Stauning, though without the
knowledge of the naive and ig-
norant Russian dupes-in ecstas-
les to be raised in Importance to
the level of their German So
cialist demi-gods, Haase, Kaut-
sky, Bernstein, and Ledebour.
The Russians demand plebiscites in
Italian and Balkan districts. The
Balkan plebiscites are unimportant.
Any little "independent" states that
might be set up would be utterly
crushed by the colossal power of the
Great Central European Empire
which would be made certain by
either of these peace schemes. The
Italian plebiscite is a counterfeit like
that proposed in Alsace-Lorralne.
Neither provides for the voting of
the vast Latin populations intention
ally driven out by half century of
Teutonic persecution.
Both schemes are even more flag
rantly pro-German in what they omit
than in what they say. Neither of
these pretended organizations of radi-
cal and revolutionary democrats has
a single word to say against the two
Kaisers, the Gar of Bulgaria or the
Sultan of Tuskey, nor utters single
word for democracy! Neither men
tions German intrigue and propagan-
da against a democracy, liberty in
every corner of the earth. Neither
refers to the announced plan of
the German Kaiser to secure his
military conquests by forcing an
early peace Not a word is spoken
of the need to defend the Russian
revolution from military autocracy.
Here is a comparison of the two
programs:
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
PLUCKY GIRLS GET
RAISE IN WAGES

SAPULPA, Okla - Plucky tele-
phone girls tied up the system of the
Southwestern Bell Telephone com
pany and forced that corporation
to establish a minimum wage of $40
a month instead of the former av-
erage rates of $5.10 and Sc week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
ELECTRICAL WORKERS
STAND PAT ON STRIKE

The third week of the telephone
strike Monday found the striking
operators and electricians of Seat
tie confident that the present tao
tics would be sufficient to force
break in the company's attitude
and cause a settlement.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
PRINTERS WAGES RAISED

After negotiating for some time
the printers of Gray's Harbor have
secured an increase in wages amount
ing to SOC per day for all classes of
work. R. P. Coburn, International
Representive from Portland, was on
the Harbor for several days and as
sisted in conducting the negotiations.
Labor Press.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16

Land Commissioner Clark V.
Savidge announces there will be an
other state land sale on the first
Tuesday in February. The sale would
take place on the first Tuesday in
January, but as that is a holiday it
was necessary to postpone the sale
to the first Tuesday in the follow
ing month.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16
SECRETARY WILSON
COMING TO SOUND

Secretary Wilson, during his visit
to Los Angeles expressed confidence
in speedy settlement of the strike.
He already has made plans for
proceeding to Portland, Seattle and
other Northwest cities to investi-
gate the shipping and lumber dis
turbances, although not to take part
in the shipping settlements which
are in the hands of another COM
mission.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16

The German Socialists have al
ways striven for democracy in their
feeble way; they probably have less
influence over the nation and the
government today than at any time
Continued on page four)
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16

Trunks, Ladies' Handbags. Leather
Goods and Repairing at Everett
Trunk Factory. 2s15 Rockefeller.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16

Smoke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
IOe Cigar.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-03-28

The manner in which Il turtle con
structs her nest is both Interesting
and suggestive, It being one of the
most expeditions operations ever per-
formed 10y that slow moving creature.
After selecting suitable spot she be-
gins digging out hole With her hind
legs By moving slowly in Il circle and
throwing the eXcavated sand in rim
all around it, When that is ab0ut
eighteen inches in depth and twelve
in circumference she drops her eggs
into it, pulls the rim of sand over
them and, rising on all four legs. lets
her body drop heavily Oh the covering
sand until she has made it as compact
as any part of the surrounding beach,
She then makes few false ecmoustra-
tons on the shore to miSlead inquisi-
tive enemies and haStens to the sea as
fast as she can travel.