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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-25
BIZ N. m. MACK


New records are the rule thEuOut
the live stock list and there Is moth.
ing in sight az present 20 change
the order OF exercises Heavy kosh-
er cattle are lowering around Slt
per cwt. and all grades OF year
lings. which had such a hard time
Of II during the FIRST half OF May.
have gained from 70 cents TO Sl.25
per cwt, from the regent low point
and bid fair TO go much higher now
that liquidation Ia about over and
pastures are good The cattle mar
ket IL gaining strength every day
and the beginning OF June will find
beef In the carcass higher than ever
before in the history OF the world.
The absence Of Texas cattle,
which have usually in the past been
available al this date. is complicat.
ing the killers problem and adding
greatly 10 beef values all along the
line The sudden decline in the
supply OF light cattle has sent Gus
toners, who demand cheap beef.
into the feeder alleys OF the big
markets and have made II very
hard for the feeder buyer 10 get his
cattle worth the money The cost
OF beef on the hoofs Is not indi-
Gated by quotations in live stock
markets for average weights We're
never before so light at this season
and dressing percentages never be
fore 20 low
one of the notable facts concern
ing the cattle trade OF the current
season is the wonderful profits made
by distillery feedsrs. II is claimed
that fully 20 per cent Of the distil-
lery cattle OF the country are still
on feed and doing extremely well.
Cattle weighing above 400 pounds
are always scare AZ this season and
wholesalers have few buyers on
their list that always want heavy
cattle They prefer cornfed ami
mails. but they will take distillery.
fed cattle when they cannot buy
anything else The demand for ~
males is unprecedented and values
are rising more rapidly IN this de
partment than in any other The
only COWS thai can be called slow
sale are the dairy dlscsrds that
show signs OF tubercular trouble
The extremely high prices At which
lambs are selling have had steady
ing influence over the market for
veal calves and taken with the re
cent sharp decline in calf receipts.
caused the market in this depart
ment TO recover much Of the bloom
which II had before the big spring
drive of dairy calves broke prices
from 2to 81 per cwt
Declining receipts. which suggest
absolute scarcity are sending prices
skyward in the sheep and lamb
market and advices from districts
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-25
Beet to Reach Worlds Top Price on June l.;
Sheep Going Skytuard; MeatleSs Days Coming

that usually produce Large numbers
~ early lambs are not reassuring
Wool lambs have sold IN Chicago
for $2O.50 per cwt Wool ewes
have sold for SIS and shorn ewes
as high as $3.50. Shorn wethers
touched sl4 per cwt Spring lambs
have been sold ar prices ranging
between SIT and t2i. according to
quality. The packing house contin.
gent usually looks 10 Kentucky and
lambs. but all reports from The
states mentioned seem 20 indicate
that this years crop viii be- 90 per
cent short Of average years. The
early market run OF western lambs
will hardly be in full swing this
year before Aug L. A few lambs
are coming from California and
Idaho but they are in poor condi
ton and do not look well with the
hide on Spectators sre~eager 10
contract lambs for fall delivery, but
growers are holding for higher
prices than the gamblers" are will
ing 20 pay The top so far for con
tract lambs Is s15 per cwt
With live hogs selling for ST. per
cwt In Buffalo, and only trine be
low that in Chicago, all kinds Of
pork products are booming When
bacon sells for 90 cents per pound
al retail and all other "pork-stun'
on a parity, the early advent Of
meatless days for the American
people is suggested. The average
quality Of the offerings IN the hog
yards Of the big nisrkets is de-
teriorating every day and the pre-
MUM that'Cph be secured for a
heavy lard hog. is increasing with
leaps and bounds. High corn prices
are sending thousands OF thrifty
little pigs into market and packers
are taking them under protest AZ
prices from So 10 81 per cwt. less
than they are paying for prime fat.
backs. The American farmer L.
suit Of his preoccupation with the
crops which the government has
urged him 10 grow. arrivals OF live
hogs have dropped to insignificant
proportions the country over The
recent average cost Of packers
droyes OF killing hogs has been the
highest In. trade history.
The sale Of growthy pigs. weigh
ing les sthan 100 pounds. Is a cap
ital crime At this time. especially In
view OF the acute shortage in all
kinds OF meat which is beginning
TO make itself felt in way that
suggests worldwide famine
Farmers who own tidy little pigs
Weighing from 50 10 90 pounds can
well afford 10 turn them ont on
grass and keep them growing until
new oats arc ready 10 feed with
the positive assurance that when
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-25
Mllos To Flat Rock

Milo semipros will go 10 Flat
Rock Sunday. 10 clash with the fast
representative team of that town.
Manager Alfred Coles will send
Hammond or Meisgades to the
mound, with Pepper Young handling
their shoots The following Milos
should be at No. $50 Fifteenth-st.,
Sunday at II o'clock sharp: Capt.
Becker. Young, Hammond. Lackaye,
Branek Grussey. w Coles, A. Coles.
Meisgades, and good shoTtstop.
For games address Wilfred Coles,
secretary. No. 536 Fifteenth.st Ow-
INK 10 the bad weather the games
scheduled al Wallaceburg were
called or
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-25
CHURCH ASKS
FOR DRY NATION
Episcopal Conference Here In
dOrses Prohibition As Con-
servatiOn Measure

"A church that Is sloppy In its
business methods IS sloppy spiritu
ally" r. G. Gilbert Of ST. Pauls
parish. told the delegates assembled
In Christ church Thursday, tor
the second day or the Epis
copal conference. Mr. Gilbert was
speaking in favor OF the conference
establishing a better system OF
church bookkeeping, that had been
recommended by the general con
veution.
The second morning session was
devoted wholly 90 betterments m
church business administration and
the election OF officers
To Bishop Williams The confer
ence delegated authority TO appoint
a committee that Will make sur
vey OF the reports and business Of
all parishes in the diocese.
Nationwide prohibition. not only
as safeguard TO soldiers and civ
illans. but also for the purpose Of
conserving the nations grain sup
ply, received the generous indorse.
ment OF the convention. following
the sermon by Bishop Williams ad-
vocating dry" nation The grain
that could be saved in this manner
would make 100000 loaves OF
bread a day. he said
Election 81 officers was completed
by the selection ~ the fullowlnr:
standing committee. Row W Wsrnc
Wilson. Trinity church, Rev Henry
Tatiock. St Andrew q, Ann Arbor
Rev " ~ 81 Fox ST John Gcorge
HArgreaNes - Johns, sidney Z Nil
Ter, Christ, George " Patterson, st
Andrew Nnn Arbor delegate 70
synod ~ midwest province, NrV
Henry Simpson Rev J. " lrngei-
". ST psufs. Flint Row Emil Mon
tanus 81 John 8. saginaw, Rev VII
liam r. Torrrurc. - Andrew br.
Mortimer Wilson Grace " Moclcl
land Brady. CHRIST. Frank y Wchcr.
St Johns. lanes Cossiett smith.
Christ. commission ON church sreht-
lecture Rev Moufanus, Eet ~. \.
Atkinson. ST Matthias Rev N T.
Simpson. George Harvor Grace FORT
Huron " O. Borsman 81 FauIs.
~ J. NJ Grvlls C4Uur- ~ thr Mos
siah All ~ tho trustees were re-
elected.
LansiuE was selected as tho place
for the lais convention,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-25
BASEBALL TO
SHINE JUNE )

CHICAGO. May %. Registration
day June ., viii be the occasion for
a patriotic demonstration Al all ma
jOr league baseball PARKS This was
decided on by the national commits
sion. which was in session here to.
day.
The commission recommended
that all home clubs engage hsndN on
that day to play patriotic music al
intervals during the games
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-25

they exceed l25 pounds IN weight
they will brine a. least 81 per cwt
more than they are now worth.
Hogs weighing less than 100 pounds
cannot be converted into the regu-
lar line Of pork products but must
be hunE in the freezing tempera-
tire until conditions will warrant
Offering them for sale
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-25

Rabhi Wise Of New York and 9th
ers OF prominence are 10 sneak in
Boston today a. celebration OF the
nnie,h anniversary of tho Free Re
ligious Association Of America.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
CITY WILL BUILD
OWN ICE PLANT

TWO HARBORS, Minn.-No long
err will the ice dealers here fatten on
the sufferings of the poor By next
summer, this city will have its own
ice plant, and will sell ice-pure ice
at that-at much lower prices than
have ever prevailed here.
1t was decided by the city council
to start the business. An ice house
was ordered built at once, and prep
arations are being made to serve the
people next summer.
The ice will be cut from the city
reservoir. AS the city's water supply
is secured from the best sources, and
precautions taken against contamina-
ton, it is certain that the ice will be
pure.
The Socialist administration here
last year made a strong fight against
dealers who were putting out impure
ice, found to be injurious to the public
health.
1t is expected that besides guarding
the health Of the citizens, the city ice
plant will help to raise revenues for
public improvements.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01

DENVER-Having voted to change
its name, the Western Federation of
Miners will be known henceforth as
the International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers. The change
in title was made in order to cover
more fully its jurisdiction and nom
inally to spread more fully it's charter
over the crafts and trades involved
in the industry of metal mining.
This organization has made impor-
tant history in the labor movement of
this country. 1t was organized in 1898,
has fought many battles on the eco
nomic field, and has pushed through
Legislative bodies many measurers
that have lightened the burdens of
men engaged in mines, mills and
smelters. 1t has placed eight hour
day laws upon the statute books of
Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, California
Missouri and British Columbia.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
UNCLESAM PAYS
MENLOW WAGES

BUFFALO, N. Y, - It's great to
work for free and glorious govern
ment, indeed. Take the Railway Mail
Service. Apparently our Washington
representatives., who carelessly voted
TO expend $500, 100000 under the mill
tary budget, forgot all about that
branch of the service, for all it can
afford to pay is $2.42 day.
Recently, a number of men were
needed, and those on the civil service
list were written to by F. L. Stickney,
chief clerk here, asking if they would
accept temporary jobs, lasting per-
haps half a month, at the regular
munificent compensation of $2.42 a
day.
1t is required of each of these en-
ployes to take out a $1,000 bond, the
premium on which is so cents, and to
pay the transportation to and from
The place to which he may be as
signed.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
DEBS RALLY

l have arranged with the Rip Saw
to hold fifteen Debs meetings in May,
1917, this tour to cover California,
Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Neva-
da, Idaho and Montana. If you can
furnish hall to seat 800 don't hesitate
about price, but communicate with
me at once. Let me know how many
red card members and how many So
cialist votes were cast in 1916 in a
radius of say 10 miles of place of
meeting. Write me at once and 1 will
come or write you fully. You can't
afford to miss this opportunity to
have a great Socialist rally. I go
with Debs and help to make the meet
ing a success.
Yours for the Revolution,
H. H. STALLARD.
Oakland, Calf, Gen. Del.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
BREEZY BITS
BREEZILY TOLD


WASHINGTON.-A campaign for
higher wages has been launched here
by the special public school teachers.
In only one city of the size of Wash
ington-New Orleans do such spec
ial teachers receive less pay than
here. The special teachers include
manual training, physical training
and sewing teachers,-
Some of the teachers. all of whom
had to take special training courses
before being eligible, receive only
$1,000, after being employed more
than fifteen years. New instructors
are getting as little ass65O a year.
-
NEW YORK-Investigation by the
Russell Sage Foundation reveals the
fact that present lava are inadequate
to save women workers in munition
factories from long hours and danger
Gus work. Citing The case of the
workers in the Remington Arms fac
tory in Bridgeport, Conn, the prob
ers report that women have been COM
PEELED to work az might, and long
hours. They are put to work near ex-
plosives in ways which often mean
accident, industrial poisoning or other
illness. The law forbidding women
to work at night is violated. 1t spec
flies women must not work after 10
p. M, but fixes no time when they
shall start in the rnprning. With the
rush in the munition, factories, women
workers on the day shift, it is pointed
out, were kept idle from 10 at night
until midnight, and then set to work
again. A test of the law, instituted
by factory inspection, resulted in a
decision upholding the employers, ow-
ing to the loose wording of the law.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
INJUNCTION Is
SOUGHT AGAINST
MINE WORKERS

Rivaling in interest the legal fight
made by the United Hatters Of Amer
lea in the famous Danbury case is an
other legal battle which the United
States Supreme Court will probably
dispose of in the next few weeks.
The case is that Of the United Mine
Workers and the American Flint
Glass Workers, who were made de-
PENDANTS in a litigation instituted by
the Hitchman Coal d Coke Company
and the Eagle Glass 4 Manufacturing
Company, of West Virginia. These
concerns seek permanent injunctions
against the two labor organizations
to prevent solicitation Of members
among their employees.
The companies compel each worker
they employ to sign a contract, pro-
vision of which forbids them from
joining q labor union. The union S
counsel contends that this clause is
IN restraint of trade by barring all
union workmen.
Several damage suits against min
ers in Pennsylvania, it is believed, will
be affected by the decision given in
this case by the Supreme court.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
WHAT A BRITISH
SOLDIER THINKS
ABOUT THE WAR

The following excerpts from let
ter written by British soldier now
in the trenches somewhere in France
which has just been received is in
dicative of what the cannon fodder"
the man who fights--thinks of the
war. Here is what he writes:
what | have chiefly felt about the
war is its vileness and its out-of- date
ness.
"War is simply Wholesale under
hand murder--it is essentially and on
principal, underhand-c until
the misery caused on one side is so
much in excess of the misery caused
on the other that an alteration in GER
tain national boundries is agreed to
and there cnsues the misery of peace
following extreme exhaustion.
"War, | think morally futile, be-
cause | do not believe at all in the
romantic view of it, i. e., in the good
qualities which it is supposed to breed.
at is true that it tests men, like
plague, shipwreck, famine, or any
other adversely, but in doing so it
does not make the good qualities that
come to light; it merely makes them
apparent.
mo man in his senses would ad-
vocate the occasional sinking of a
liner, or the incubation of disease,
in order to promote heroism and self
sacrifice, yet justification of war on
such ground is equally indefensible.
with regard to the wicked and
ugly waste caused by the war, | sup
pose nobody can quite realize it who
has not seen, as have, hundreds and
hundreds of corpses-our best stuff
most of them, our bravest and health
lest youth-lying unburied where they
fell, putrid and blackening. It's a
filthy sight. / have hated seeing it,
and it has made me more than ever
furious at the folly of war.
GAS for the war, l suppose nobody
out of bedlam dreams that there can
be any gain to anybody from it. On
the contrary, it must result for all a
great loss and years of suffering.
II forgot to say that shooting Ger
mans at reasonable distance feels
exactly like shooting pheasants. Also
that Tommy Atkins and Fritz have
no personal dislike for each other.
They would cross to each others lines
and fraternalize if it were possible.
1t happened last Christmas and during
January and will happen again unless
the authorities, as is possible, make
strenuous efforts to keep the game of
hate going"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
BIRTHDAY DONATIONS
SAYS UNIONS ARE
ONLY DEFENSE

Observation-Disclosures Commits
sioner of Labor jackson has come out
5quarely for the workers right to or
ganize into labor unions. He startled
members of the Chamber of Com
merce here at the Hotel Adelphia by
asserting:
Capital is organized. Now labor
is organizing as it's only weapon of
defense, and labor is learning its
strength and must be recognized. l
am not arguing merely in favor of
unions, | am speaking in favor of JUS
tice."
The meeting at which Jackson made
these statements had been called for
the purpose of considering a resolu-
ton for the appointment Of commit
tee of five to confer with labor lead
ers and employers Of labor to work
out mutually satisfactory plan of
settling labor disputes without resort
either to strikes or lockouts. The res
olution was laid over for subsequent
meeting.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
STRIKE MAY TIE
UP SUPPLY OF
WATER IN PHILLY

Observation-Disclosures the 900
employees of the city water depart
ment are granted the increase they
are fighting for at present, they may
go on strike, which would leave this
city waterless.
A committee of five, representing
the toilers in the entire department,
called on Mayor Smith and asked his
support of bill now before the city
council, which provides for raise in
wages to these workers. The mayor,
after being told that unless the de-
mands were forthcoming, strike was
almost certain to be called, pledged
himself to use his influence in secur-
ing the passage of the bill.
The increases asked are raise to
$1,000 a year for engineers now re-
ceiving $1,000; 81 900 for firemen now
getting $500; 5000 for coal passers
getting $720.
Laborers now receiving So ask for
$3.50, and those now compensated at
the latter wage, ask SO.
About 100 cleaners, sweepers and
laborers employed in the city hall have
asked raise from So day to $3.50,
claiming that the high cost of living
made it impossible to provide their
families even with bare necessities at
The present rates.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
UNFAIR LIST" OF
UNION IS HELD
Legally JUDGE

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-Import-
ant to labor organizations is the de-
cision handed down here by Circuit
Court Judge Mcdonald, holding it le-
gal for labor union to publish an
unfair list" even though a firm in
cluded in it is damaged by such pub
LEGATION.
A temporary injunction has been
secured by a jeweler, Ernest A.
Prange, against the Central Labor
Union here, and Editor Taylor of the
Observer. 1t was in that paper that
FRANCES name was published on an
unfair list.
In revoking the injunction, Judge
Mcdonald said that it was a funda-
mental right Of workers who conduct
ed strike or other industrial battle
against an employer to give publicity
to the fact that such an employer was
an enemy of organized labor.
He further stated that the law was
only violated when compulsion was
used to keep customers away from a
certain shop or store. The mere pub
LEGATION of a dealers name on the "un-
fair list, he said, was not sufficient
basis for suit by the employer,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
WHISKY MYSTERY
STILL UNSOLVED
Everett Sieuths Fail to Make
Public the Names of
Whisky Stealers

The 10 barrels Of whisky and 15
cases of bottle whisky that disappear
cd from Robbins warehouse sometime
between Nov. IA and Jan. 10 has not
yet been traced. ?
The whisky was confiscated at
Medowdale several months ago and
stored in the county Jail and then in
robbins warehouse. When Sheriff
Mccullough took up office on Jan. ~
ne received tip that the whisky hau
been stolen and after Investigation it
was found to be SO. Since then sleuths
nave supposedly working on the case
but no trace Of the whisky thieves
can be found, at least one is led to
DeiIeVe TINS to be the case since no
one has been arrested for the thefts.
The ~ barrels of whisky were tap
ped Of all their contents by means
Of an auger hole and syphons and
then refilled with water. Fifteen
cases of bottled whisky were found to
be missing from 81 that had been
stored.
1t always seems easy for the sleuths
to run down a common thief but when
it comes to running down somebody
who has pull in the community there
is a different story to tell. We have
not the least doubt in our mind but
that the guilty persons are in close
touch with the city and county au-
thorltIes and that the matter has been
hushed up. Birds of feather flock
together" and after the city's exper-
renee Of the past few months we are
satisfied that there is nothing too
contemplate for them to do.
The Law and Order League and
Good Templers ought to demand q
Grand Jury investigation into this af
far and place the guilty persons be-
mind the bars where they rightfully
belong.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-01
REBELLION IN
RUSSIA ALMOST
READY TOBREAK
Peasants Are Clamoring for the
Ending of War--Believes
All Nations Will Rebel

"The Russian people are demanding
peace, and unless they get it, there
will be a revolution.
4 come to bring the plea of the
Russian people to the American peo-
pie. 1t is plea for peace"
Ivan Chezal, student and teach
err of economies in the Royal Univer-
sity of Petrograd, so declared. He
arrived here on the Norwegian Amer
lean liner Bergensfjord to spread in
this country the gospel of peace on
behalf Of his suffering countrymen.
Revolution in the Air.
"The Russian people," he said, "are
tired of the constant bloodshed. They
look with sorrow upon the irretriev-
able loss of Russia's most gallant and
valuable sons, and then ask, When
and where is it going to end?' They
ask in holder tones, why must this
continue?"
Like the other tortured people of
Europe, they are craving for peace. If
peace does not come soon, the govern
ments of Europe will be dethroned in
a general upheaval.
There is no question about a revo-
luton in Russia. If it does not come
before the end of the war, it will GER
tainly come shortly afterwards. The
dormant soul of the Russian people is
awakening. They have been brought
from their isolated country districts
into the cities through the necessities
of the war, and they have learned.
1t is the new knowledge which will
prove dangerous for the Russian gov
eminent
''The people have secured greater
control in the Duma than they ever
expected to obtain for many years.
They will get still greater control.
An Industrial Problem
Before the war the average Rus
sian peasant was earning rs cents a
day. Now he is earning up to So a
day. This is because he has been
taken from the agricultural districts
into the cities to work in munition
factories.
when the war is over and the gov
eminent attempts to get these peas
ants back to PASTORAL pursuits, an
other grave difficulty will confront
the government. The peasants have
become fond of city life, and, more
over, will not be able to exist on the
scanty wages they earn on the farms"