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The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20
LABOR UNION MEN
TAKE OVER STORE

During the tendency of the lockout
the Equity held a state convention in
Great Falls. The secretary of the Com
mercial club approached some of the
Equity men and told them that unless
the farmers would withdraw their sup
port from the labor men, the two big
gest hotels in Great Falls would close
down during the convention and refuse
to accommodate any of the delegates.
But the farmers declared that most Of
them couldn't afford to stop at the big
hotels and pay SO or so for a room with
a bath, anyhow, and for the hotels to
go ahead and close down, if they felt
like 1T. AS matter of fact they didn't
close down.
This is about all there is to say, ex-
cept that the labor men took over the
farmers store, applying the sa500 as
hrst payment, and are still operating
1t. A number of union mechanics who
started cooperative garage during
the lockout, are still operating this, too.
The Great Falls incident is just a
step in the right direction. The farm
ers and laboring men of Montana
haven't started, to any considerable
extent to cooperate in politics yet.
But they are going to do this very
thing at the next election. And, just
as nothing could stop the two of them,
working together, in Great Falls, so
nothing can stop the two organizations,
working together, in the whole state
OF Montana next year.
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20

plotting Montana farmers for years.
The farmers have always had sincere
and probably well taken grievances
against these elevators. The. question
of these grievances can not be gone
into here-it is mentioned just to show
that this big corporation was recog-
niZed as unfriendly to the farmers, just
as many of the big milling corpora
tions have been, especially where the
farmers have proposed to go into the
milling business for themselves and
save some of the profits for themselves
and the consumers.
But the Royal Milling company has
not only been unfrendly to the farm
ers; it has been unfriendly to the labor
ing men as well. Last winter at Great
Falls the mill employees started to or
ganize for their own protection. They
weren't asking better pay or shorter
hours at this time; all they asked was
the right to have their organization.
And this right the Royal Milling COM
pany denied them. Men were dis
charged as fast as they joined the union
and as the only means left to them to
insist upon their rights, the employees
declared a strike.
Other labor organizations in Great
Falls sympathized with the mill work.
ers. To emphasize their disapproval
of the action of the milling company in
refusing to let their men organize, the
clerks union, which had men in prac-
tically all the retail stores, served
notice that they would refuse to handle
an unfair flour such as the Rex brand.
The owners Of the retail stores at
first seemed inclined to back up the
stand Of their clerks The sympathies
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20

morning of the lockout, this man ap-
peared at the farmers store with his
bill, and demanded that it be paid by
1880 o'clock that morning, or he would
close the store
Here is where the laboring men
come in again. The managers of the
store called up a number of labor lead
ers and told them of the persecution
being visited upon the farmers because
they had been fair to the laboring men.
Seven labor men got together imme-
diately and went to one friendly bank
in Great Falls, signed notes for $500
each and had the $500 ready to meet
the payment at 1880 a. m.
This isn't all of the story. A lot more
might be written about the troubles Of
the farmers store in getting flour from
other mills in Montana to meet the
demands of the people of Great Falls.
The store had a carload of flour in the
railroad yards from a fair" MILL but
the railroad, on one pretext and
another, tried to keep the store from
getting hold of it, and succeeded in de-
laying the delivery for many hours,
until the aid. of the friendly bank was
secured, and when this institution
laid down" on the railroad, the flour
was delivered.
There is just this much more to be
said. Pretty much of everybody flock
ed to the farmers store to get thir
flour and meats and other provisions.
At the end of two days the other
stores gave up the fight and opened
their doors, hiring back their clerks.
The other employers held out little
longer but after awhile they gave in,
hired back their employees, generally at
increased wages. The flour mill en-
ployes won their strike also.
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20
FARMERS CREDITOR
DEMANDED MONEY

Did I say every store was closed?
Well, there was one exception, but no
one thought much about that On a
side street was little store that had
been started by handful of farmers,
to help them dispose of their own prod
ucts direct to the consumer. They call
ed it the Equity market. 1t had been
started with meager finances and had
been struggling to maintain an exist
ence
The farmers store didn't close. Resi-
dents of Great Falls, thunderstruck by
finding their regular trading places
with locked doors, started to flock to
the farmers store for their supplies
But the enemies of the farmers and
laboring men were not through The
farmers store had creditor to whom
it owned $500. This man had said
previously that the store could take
some weeks or months to meet this
obligation. But at o'clock on the
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20

stores-machine shops and garages,
for instance-had been asked for better
wages by their men, also. The en-
ployers' association decided that these
employers should also join in the lock-
out-should fire all their employees,
also, and force their patrons to go
without service. By this method, they
thought, they could bring the public,
which was clamoring for a fair deal to
the working men, Ito their Senses"
The employers determined to shove
what they wanted down the throats of
the public and make them say that
they liked it.
And so, one day last spring, every
store in Great Falls was closed. Scores
of other business houses were closed,
too, and their employees informed curt
ly that they were fired, but this story
deals only with the stores.
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20
CRACKED THE WHIP
OVER MERCHANTS

But here was where the mill COM
pany cracked the whip over the store
proprietors. A meeting was held with
the wholesalers of Great Falls, who
handled the Rex flour. 1t is natural
to suppose that with Rex flour made in
Great Falls, with no necessity for ship
ping Montana wheat to Minneapolis to
be milled and then shipping the flour
back to Great Falls, that the Rex flour
could be sold for a lower price than
the Minneapolis flours. AS matter Of
fact, it had been held at approximately
the same price. This meant, of course,
larger profits for the millers and larger
these profits going to the wholesalers
The company pointed out to the whole
salers that if the local stores refused
to handle the Rex flour the whole
salers wouldn't be able to make such
big profits in handling foreign flours.
But whatever happened in this confer
ence between the mill company and the
wholesalers, there is no doubt about
the result.
The wholesalers served notice on the
retailers that they would not be sup
piled with any flour but Rex flour.
And because the patrons of the store
wouldn't buy anything else, the en-
ployers' association, controlled by the
mill, the big smelter and the whole
Salers determined on this course of
action:
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20

flour would be punished by being fired,
wholesale, and the people of Great
Falls, who wanted to use flour made
under fair conditions, would be punish
ed by being starved into submission.
Owners of other businesses than
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20
\ Biz Mill and a Little Store
Some Farmers Working Men Who Stood Pat
Won Big Victory for the People Against the Expoters

Of the residents of Great Falls were
strongly with the striking mill work.
ers, and most of the patrons of the
stores were demanding some other
flour than the Rex brand.
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20
MILL UNFRIENDlY
TO ALL WORKERS

At Great Falls, Montana, is located
the Royal flour mill. It is often
spoken of as the Rex mill, as that is
the name of the brand of flour that it
puts out. The Royal mill is a SUBJ
sidiary of the Washburn- Crosby Mill
ing company of Minnesota. The mill
is supplied by the Rocky Mountain
Elevator company's line of elevators
a line of elevators that has been ex-
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20

Inc farmers want nlSh prices
and the laboring men want low prices"
Did you ever have this hoary headed
old misstatement pulled on you? They
get it off, the enemies of the farmer
and the laboring man, about every so
often, just as they used to get off that
other one:
you can't organize the farmers"
Probably the two of them got on the
ark together. Anyway, they've been
travelling together ever since
1t doesn't need much argument to
show that the interests of workers in
the country and workers in the city
are the same; that both want the mid
dleman, who takes unjust toll from
both the producer and consumer elimi-
mated. 1t doesn't need much argument
either, to show that the men who say
Farmers and laboring men can't work
together now are the same ones who
used to say you can't organize the
farmers" or that the reason they are
saying it is to try to keep the farmers
and laborers from working together,
just as they tried to keep the farmers
from organizing. But this article does
not propose to go into these arguments.
This is just a story of one instance
in Montana where the farmers and
laboring men DID work together.
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20
BY e. B. RUSSELL

l ARMERS and laboring men
can't work together, in poll
tics or in any other way.
Their interests are different.
The farners want hiph nrinac
The nonpartisan leader., 1917-09-20
WOULD FORCE PUBLIC
TO EMPLOYERS VIEWS

A lockout would be declared. The
stores would all be closed. The clerks
who had refused to handle the unfair
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
HORNS5Y PLAYS SOME
STORY BOOK BASEBALL

ST LOUIS. June Roger
Eornshy achieved wednesday tho
ambition % all ball players he
went 20 bat with the bases full
and knocked he ball out ~ ihe
lot Doak and Smith had singled.
Gonzales and Jack Smith had
walked. Doak being forced across
he plate Then the Texas boy
strelled 20 the plate and picked
one OF Nehrs choicest offerings
for a home run. inst ike Tho
story book TELLS abou
This dve-run lead wasn't
enough for ire Cardinals Both
Doak and Ames were very feeble.
and the Cards had 20 make three
more runs 70 nose our the
Braves. Who scored six tsllies In
he eighth % add 20 the one they
snaRged Ii the sixth
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
James Likely 10 OPP
pose Star South
paw

BOSTON. June e Tho Tigers
will face Dutch Leonard today That
is something ora toush assignment
During ,he last three years. th.s
soathpaw bias batued Detroit In ntne
Eames eight az which De- has won
Probably bo Is ,hr hardest man in
me league Tor rlse to claw Man
aver JsnhiUe va-nN certain This
morning whom Dee would send
against leonard james and Gun
u.nEhlm are Being considered Ehm
ke i,nt due before FRIDAY and 30
lapt and Mitchell should not be
worked before saturday
James usually pitches good bail
in HostoQ He seldom wins his
games. uut hts bea.lnss iu tn's Town
usaally ave SO @ or % 4 affairs
Those can't be> held against him
That sort OF Hng.nS is worth a bet
nny dag Leonard may nos oe So
formidable as he has been go ether
series Roth he ana RGfh>baye been
roughly tan3ied recently EFpdenfly
,hoy haye boon oyerworked Both
were mau'el hard lasf waok Roth
aid1t regain DIS form Maybe Leon
ard VIII
The Tigers won a mighty sweet
entor fw tne Red Sox Ve3nes-
cas- Daaes Was the hero 60, ,he
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
STAKE RACE is
CARDED TODAY
2:13 PAGERS 10 Battle for First
$1,000 Purse of
Season

MONROE Mich June THE
frs. $1,000 stake Of The Michigan
short ship season was 20 be raced
for at Monroe this afternoon some
dozen or dtteen = i5 PAGERS are eA-
pected 20 start Racing Vas seAea
uied 20 start at $3.50 o'clock. and Us
addition 90 The big race. . 20 lrct
and 2,l2 pace we're carded
BY waiting until late In ne after
noon f. was possible 70 stage two
races "Wednesday. despite The heavl
rains of he night and morning
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
A Real American

TTNHEsE days when it take o' q gall 70 cal gg9a me @
than Two generations ae ha. cone eaf
merely interesting diversion ara ,e i'p,
traitors athletic entertaners rather man persons -
bepr
can well afford spare from loading their lsse' win kaiser
hound yfp Tor JACK
There's BAH player and and success should pc
tinglng inspiration Yankee lad who hops into trench over
there"
Jack coonnbs Right he is one y he four
he league
he big sho"
to
tOcroh known
In the Athletics and o oy Pine
OF
In the fall Of ted against Rub Marquad In
world Chrsy Mathewson DAYS before
his
II physically impossible Tor
altogether
and Captain Davis begged him
The
good hitter Coombs drove out a
for him This injury necessated an operation
the After
the old strain back Aer winter Of rest
typhoid put him hs back When
recovered he took trip with his CLUB but could DO no
pitching his home Maine one day ne swung bat for
felt something h back give That night he had
called After diagnosed ma
BILE a typhoid
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
Hub Leonard Will Try to
Stop Tiger Onslaught To-day

game He made three runs plenty
eN hlanklng tbe Bosoneers n mas
teriy t1rh|on nefcn lively. the Tir
ers were egcat team The first
inning saved them on o1ense They
SHARED no hits. seven bases ON balls.
tvo passed balls and % wild plech.
all Well scattered thru The game Ey
ccpt Tor the Grst round they could
do nothing Wifh their chances IN
ono inning they eot TWO hits and
three walks anddidnt score l.N
rspl for pauss and thc nsppy work
of thc 01,d Detroit didn't look
auy more formidable than It bas
most OF tho pring Sul pauss came
,h-r and t.E came was won one
decision over uoston or Chicago iust
uov WORTH two captured from amy
other club
nau eave only two basos on
hti- nnl allowed only six hits. only
one BOSTON athlete reached third
base and hut three foemcn achieved
second Ia an these Instances two
were Cut
The game was over after Che first
Aalf ~ thc arsl inning Douio Bush
started thc contest with something
% which he Is specializing this year
Ho doubled 10 lclt Young tried 20
sarriaoc and hunted "a ay 20 Ruth
Cobb singled and scored Bush Then
KS oIe second Veach walked ana
bofa the runners advanced q base
ou passed ball Hoffman sent
Stopper over tho river fov Hy and
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
Down and out-and Up Again.

HRoM unt early 1914 Coorubs lay
90
until Of 1914 dared be- discard BIS braces
x
Mack him his unconra release The next ng Isck sign
ed
Is and lost eight gsea better average
many games defeated e club
tripped him.
hasn't q
IS a
famo and
&
He physically ho
hs
s a o
league"
a %
three and Doc Fou'r e
kno OF pitching
a OF he
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
OUTLOOK FOR
DEV0NSHIRE
VERY BRIGHT

From the manner in which house
are being shipped into Windsor for
the ntxt DevonsDirc meeting
which viii begin satuda Amer
lean horsemcn do not Gear lba, h
Canadian ban on racing VIII 600 .u.a
effect very soon Hundreds
steeds have teen sent io Devon
shire during The past low week.
and several prize carloads AFRO r
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
You Are Welcome. Honus

IE%HEY ten Wagner coming bacs to oasea @
IN Duc soon 70
years bali have t-naned The od elo" | s-.
N his Joints ready 20 qIl af
basernan thru another generatoh Nobo1 seems
his that Barney
and hurt the old fellows that HoHus cared o Tla
Runor IreEfuss did the
made the nuhman being penoned ot-er o
aha
hfnse neve anything JIG
fratw
national commission WEDNESDAY lI FaU axe
Finding OF to resist desire 70 con
and 20 which owe ai possess ana
national commission 20 sant ms reI3 o
that 'ltn ny ei- '--u
because an PLAYERS Wo no nor @
automatically suspended
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07
Our George Would Be Wonder Every Day Were the Sixth June


There WAS some Gur pIcuing
by lamo ducks m the American
league "Wednesday pamout hasn't
been doing vey wol for Wash
ington. hut b'ankod Ch.Caso and
ict IKE White Sos down With four
hifs Ous lambeth HASN'T had a
good year witch Cleveland but he
held fhe Ynnka to one run and
TWO hits George Dauts has had
d bad spring tut DEE bu out the
Rcd SoV-au0 Was u.chUd Tor only
ave hits
just - strike balance. the
brownies U1i Nhletlcs pun on
? tiugr.us matS .n which the
Machmcn eot runs ana ~ hits
and the joUetos scored six q
runs and lo blows
The Detroit times., 1917-06-07

Tex Coyfngton. who us~d 60 pasl
fifue with thr urns1n rs. 81 wnlioptn 4
his way 60 fame with 400 battina
uurk in the southern league.
The midland journal., 1917-08-03
The Chinese "Flve Kinos."

The Five Kings" is the name of the
sacred book in which is incorporated
the religion of the Chinese as well as a
great number Of other peoples Of the
orient. The doctrine is complex sys-
tenn Of moral, social, political and reli-
gious teaching built up by Confucius
on the ancient Chinese traditions, and.
although its author lived more than
Ave centuries before the birth of Christ,
1t is still perpetuated as the state reli-
gion Of the Chinese down to the pres
ent day. Confucianism is a religion
without positive revelation, with a
minimum of dogmatic teaching, whose
popular worship is centered in Offer
ings to the dead, in which the notion
Of duty is extended beyond the sphere
Of morals proper SO as to embrace al
most every detail Of daily life.
The midland journal., 1917-08-03
Now Eneland's Charms.

II have summered the New England
ers and wintered them; they wear y
says Rollin Lynde Hartt in the Cen
tury. II have fought with them and
made it up. l have tried Montana
Paris, too-and been willing to return.
Nowhere am freer. One can spend
little or much, dress as he chooses,
know whom he will, devour beans or
spurn them, dig potatoes, clans or
Greek roots, and be "a man for a that
among friends somewhat slow to take
hold, but incapable Of letting go. AS
warm hearted as the Montanians, they
are as liberal; at moments have come
near saying, The further east you go
the further west you get love the
west. | love the south. Accident, not
choice. brought me to New England
In her own quaint phrase, like here"
The midland journal., 1917-08-03

Near Cape Horn, In the islands OF
TERRA del FueSo, live the most curious
people In all South America. 1t rains
or SHOWS OF sleets nearly every day,
and yet they look on their country as
the finest In the world. They wear
hardly any clothing and seem not to
feel cold Because he saw fires on the
shore the explorer Magellan, the first
European that rounded the Horn, called
the island ''the land Of fire. which is
almost the worst name he could have
chosen. Their hutS are made of bent
boughs and covered with grass and
give only the poorest shelter The folk
are vain, too, wearing necklaces of the
teeth Of fishes or seals and painting
patterns on their bodies. Among them
some colors have novel meaning.
White is the sign of war and red OF
peace. They are great mimics and Will
initiate voice and gesture perfectly.
The midland journal., 1917-08-03
SNOW CAPPED ARAFAT.
Il ovoroohs the Lands of the "czar,
the Sultan and the SHAH"

IL ovcrloo.s the Lands of the "czar
the Sultan and the SHAH"
Great Ararat, which shoulders its
way some 1900 feet up into the AR
mepian sky and looks down OH the
lands OF the 'czar, the sultan and the
shah,' although so truly the rallying
point, as it were, for the Armenian
people, Is quite unknown to the native
Armenian by this name.
The people who actually dwell with
in sight Of it's great snow capped dome,
who look out toward it over the plain
from Elivan. sCme thirty miles away
to the north. or from the frontier
mountain slopes away to the south call
it by variety of names. If they are
Armenians they call it "Massis;" If
Turks, "Aghri Dagh," and If Persians,
"Koh-i-Nuh' or the Mountain Of
Noah"
There are really, of course, two
mountains, or, rather there is one vast
mass out of which rise two peaks,
their bases conhuent Mt height Of
$500 feet, their SUBMITS about seven
miles apart
Little Arnrat, upon whose slopes 1t Is
that the territories Of the three king
doms actually meet, is some 1000 feet
lower than its big brother, but none
the less, with its 12,S40 feet, it is none
so little. "-Argonaut.
The midland journal., 1917-08-03
Odd aaoaraphicaI Division.

The range of the Blue Ridge noun
tains In Pennsylvania is divided by q
river every twenty-seven miles, as fol
lows: From the Susquehanna to the
gwatara, twenty-seven miles; from the
gwatara to the Schuylkill, twenty-sey-
en- miles; from the Schuylkill to the
Lehigh, twenty-seven miles; from the
Lehigh to the Delaware, twenty-seven
miles. At the next twenty-seyen miles
Is a hollow of New Jersey, IN which
nestles a lake known as Culver's pond.
The midland journal., 1917-08-03
Handicapped by His Name.

The handicap of poets name was
illustrated In the case Of Mr.. William
Wordsworth, who was the eldest sur
viving grandson Of the poet. Mr..
Wordsworth was a great scholar and
a poet himself Of high distinction. A
volume of his sonnets was issued pri
vately some years ago. On account
of the similarity Of his name with that
Of his grandfather, he always refused
to publish any Of his poetical writings.
though pressed to do 50 by the people
of such high authority as Matthew Ar
mold, who described one of his sonnets
as the finest in the English language
Montreal Star.
The midland journal., 1917-08-03
USING i MEDICINE DRoPPER.
The More SIantins II Is Held the Big
ger the Drops Will Be.

ger the Drops Will Be.
When using medicine dropper it Is
important to use it correctly, especial
ly If measuring out drops Of some
powerful medicine like strychnine,
morphine or arsenic, for drops vary
widely in their size.
DR.. R. 2. Garrow Of London recently
reported to the Lancet the results Of
some experiments he had made with
a medicine dropper and simple solu-
ton. He measured the solution very
carefully and then took 1t all up into q
medicine dropper, from which he turn
ed it, drop by drop, holding the drop
per at different angles and counting
the drops as they fell.
With the dropper held vertically (at
an angle Of 90 degrees with the hori-
zontaD its contents made 100 drops.
Held at aR angle of 80 degrees its con-
tents made eighty-two drops; at 20 de-
grees they made sixty-eight drops, at
10 degrees they made sixty drops, and
held horizontal they made only forty
eight drops.
In other words, the drops become
progressively larger as the dropper Is
moved from the vertical position. A
drop from dropper held at an angle
Of so degrees is one-quarter larger than
normal; thus, If the nurse has to give
sixteen drops and holds the dropper
slanting she Is really giving twenty.
And the more slanting the dropper tNe
bigger the drops.
The midland journal., 1917-08-03
! Message From The Red Cross.

Mrs. Belmont Tiffany has written
for the August issue of Harper's
Bazaar very interesting article on
"a Message from the Red Cross to
the Women of America She
especially mentions the part that
women of society are taking in this
great work, and also tells or the or
5anization's rapid growth. since the
war began in 1914.
Mrs. Tiffany explains very clearly
the different functions of the Red
Cross; for instance, this is what she
says about the Department of Civ
ilian Relief
Perhaps it is not generally
known by persons not familiar with
the work that the Red Cross has a
Department of Civilian Relief, with
which the Department of Military
Relief coordinates and cooperates.
In other words, the Red Cross is re-
sponsible for relief of all kinds for
our own army and navy and is char
tered to take care not only of the
The midland journal., 1917-08-03
PhllInnina Fruits,

There have been found in the Philip
pines two fruits entirely unknown te
Europe and even to America. One OF
these is the durian, which grows on q
lofty tree somewhat. resembling an
elm, Is about as large as a cocoanut
has a shiny shell and contains q
creamy pulp which combines some Of
the flavors of delicious custard with
those of fine cheese. American sol
diers in the Philippines have dubbed
the DURAN the vegetable limburger."
The other rare fruit is the mangosteen
but the exquisitely favored liquid II
contains has not yet been successfully
preserved k0r shipping abroad.