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Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported to the
health department In the last twenty four hours
Rebekah +. Lyman. SO years, 1913 21st street
northwest.
Katie Perskin. 81 years. 1889 II street north
west.
Wade Harley, 90 years. 312 Maryland avenue
northeast.
Bridget o'Brien. &C years. TT sth street
northeast.
John G. Daley. 81 years, United States Sol
diers' Home Hospital
Marie c. Parker. "a years. sibley Hospital.
Emelne l.. Morse. so years. 1921 Massachu-
sets avenue northwest.
John d. Prodigy. 10 years. Providence Hospital
Thaddeus Bean, II years. 1870 18th street
northwest
Sophie h. Haase. 81 years, 1921 10th street
northwest
Catherine E. Brooks. year. 33471a NJ street
northwest
Bernard J. Andrews. ) months. COS d street
southeast.
Joseph Campbell. 1 day. 1889 II street north
west.
Catherine Franklin. 81 years. Tuberculosis Hos
pital.
Alice c. Mundy. Al years. e12 Brewers court
northeast.
Hattie Brown. so years. 1908 Half street
southwest
Edward Allison. months. As G street south
west.
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BRITISH MEAT PRICES SOAR.
Radical Increases in Retail Trade
Compared With 1914

Radical increases in retail meat
prices in England are shown in an of
fetal statement received here today
Comparing prices of this year with
those for 1914. the first year of the
war, chilled beef has increased 1872 per
cent and ordinary beef 131 per cent
while frozen beef has been taken off
the market entirely.
Mutton has increased 112 per cent
chilled mutton 147 per cent. and frozen
mutton IA per cent. The increase in
the price Of pork is 81 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30
D. C. Men Found Qualified,

Adjutant General Mccain today an
nounced a long list of candidates who
were found qualified at the examina-
ton held in April. 1917, for provisional
appointment as second lieutenants in
the Army. The list includes the names
Of the following residents of this city:
Harry Chapman Gilbert of 11O1 cath
street northwest, assigned to the cav
airy; John Cleary herman of 419 NJ
street northwest, to infantry: Welcott
Paige Hayes of United States eeologi-
cal survey. to cavalry; Russell Mckee
Harrington of United States geological
SURVEY to cavalry
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Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued to the fol-
lowing:
Robert II. Spindle and Lillian Wheeler. both
of ,Spottsylvania county, Va.
Irwin a. Chapman of Richmond. Va, and
Dorothy r. Fitchett of Waveriy, Va.
of Baltimore. Md.
Jack A. Wilmer of Akron. Ohio. and Lillian
Golfer of this city
Delmer q. Wright and Evelyn Thornton.
koener l.. Camp of Hoboken, n. j.. and Ruth
c. Beachy of Roanoke, Va.
Edward Tfllman and Lenora AggaIns.
Jennings Dean and Cleo Thompson, both of
Hunter, Va.
Charles Venny and Eleanora Lucas
Hughie P. Landes of Mount Scion. Va, and
Mary s. Goode Of Mount Crawford, Va.
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Palmer. has never sought public ONCE.
Unlike Mr.. Palmer. however. he has
never identified himself with any fac
ton in the party. Mr.. Palmer has al
ways been q strong organisation man.
The election supervisors have an
nounced the appointment of registra-
ton officers. and next week will name
the judges and clerks of the primary
election to be held September IL.
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Births Reported.

The following births have been reported to tn
health department in the last twenty -four hours
Jesse NJ: and Nellie p. Tyson girl
Sam and Mary Sher, girl.
John J. and Laura A. Ssbins. boy.
John NJ and Edna f. Sabotka. girl.
James NJ. and Margaret X. Presgrnves, boy.
Duncan c. and Pauline Mcpherson. boy.
Henry F. W. and Rose c. Meyer, girl.
Charles and Carrie Lckner. boy.
Amos r. and Florence &. Ebersole, boy.
William X. and Rosa NJ Carroll. girl.
Dockery {. and Eloy T. Bradley. girl.
Edward +. and Mary Applehaum. girl.
William X. and Bessie Johnson. girl.
William L. and Deborah J. Gibson, boy.
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Senator ]. c. w. Beckham Of Ken
lucky and Mrs. Beckham. accompanied
by their daughter. Miss Louise Beckham.
left Washington Saturday to spend some
days at Virginia Beach. Mr.. w. B.
Knifkern of Louisville. the brother-in-
law of Senator Beckham, who has been
their guest for some days, accompanied
them.
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Missing from home and place OF en-
ployment for nearly two weeks. the body
OF A. Warfeld Rieman. a member OF
Troop A. Maryland National Guard, was
found in the woods about a quarter OF a
mile from the Old Pimlico road. A pistol
lay by his side.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

Mrs. Claude f. Allen and Master Ar
thur and Misses Eden and Claudia AL
len are visiting the home of Mrs. AL
lens parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Bowen, Flint Hill, Va
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

! Mrs. G. H. Stagg of 1919 Fairmont
street. this city. is spending the week
end at Ocean View and Virginia Beach,
Va. the guest Of Miss Minnie johnson
! of Norfolk Va.
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Lovitzky. Mr.. John Sookine and MIR. d.
Dimitry-Pertnoff, all Of the Russian
embassy. are at Atlantic City, stopping
at the Hotel Traymore. Capt. and Mrs.
Burtin of the British embassy also are
there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

Justice and Mrs. Charles II. Robb are
spending the summer at Falmouth.
Mass.
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Miss Elizabeth Duerst left Saturday
for Piney Point. Md. to spend her va
cation. She will be the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. f. E. Court. who have a cot
tage there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

Baron Moncheur, head of the Belgian
mission, went to Baltimore this morning
to visit Cardinal Gibbons He will return
later in the day and tonight will be the
guest Of honor at dinner which Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Hoover are giving
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

Rev. Thomas S. Lee is at the Hotel
ST. Charles. Atlantic City.
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studied the British methods. with .
view to their adoption by tho Amert-
can Y. NJ c. A. forces.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Shuey have
sent out invitations for the marriage
of their daughter, Dorothy, to Mr..
Christopher Smith, at high noon Thurs
day. August 16. at st. Matthew's
Church, Washington.
A breakfast will Immediately follow
the ceremony at Rauscher's.
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DIR. Paul Ritter, the returning Swiss
minister, and Nine. Ritter will sail
from New York on Thursday for the
formers new post at The Hague. DR..
Carl Paul Hubscher, secretary Of the
legation. will be charge d'affaires for
Switzerland until the arrival of the
new minister. DIR. Hans Sulzer. who is
en- route and will reach here within a
few weeks.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Ughet, Mr.. Vladimir
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Mr.. Georges Godfrey and Claude
Loinglois. attaches of the French high
commission at Washington. who are
with Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Joerrissen at
White Sulphur Springs. were guests at
the Casino yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

Representative George w. Fairchild
of New York. who has been at the
Marlborough lenheim. at Atlantic
City. for a week. returned to the cap
ital today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

Dr. j. Albert Chatard of Baltimore
has received his commission as captain
in the Medical Reserve Corps and is
now stationed at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga.
as a member of the examining board
for tuberculosis He expects to be
there for several months. Mrs. Chatard
and their children will go to Chelsea.
N. j., In August for the remainder Of
the summer, where Mrs. Chatard's
mother, Mrs. Thomas A. Whelan, has
cottage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

Justice and Mrs. George f. Downey
have given up their apartment at the
Kenesaw and are occupying the resi-
dence Of Capt. Rushmore, 1872 18th
street, which they have leased for a
year.
Capt. and Mrs. A. C. Downey are
with them.
Justice and Mrs Downey, accompal
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14

guards. It should provide that labor
must be represented upon every pub
TIC board, of whatever nature, automa-
tically.
How To Ameliorate Conditions.
In recent article I made bold to
offer seven suggestions for ameliorat-
ing industrial conditions in the United
States and looking toward the strens-
thening Of democracy in the republic.
They may be useful in d suggestive
capacity. They will, at least, arouse
thought and criticism. Seriatim, they
are:
l. That the supreme courts of the
United States and Of the several states
should at once abdicate the autocratic
powers they usurp of declaring laws
passed by the Representatives of the
people to be null and void.
2. That a general amnesty be de-
clared liberating all prisoners Of in
dustrial wars now confined in tails
and penitentiaries of the nation. The
number of these is appalling and near
~ all were imprisoned on trumped-up
charges following industrial conflicts.
;. That thereafter no man shall
have been held to have lost his liberty
Or property unless NJ questions Of
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
ARRA|G|V PRESENT
INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM
Speakers Deplore Shifting of
Labor and Monotony Of
Work.

GEORGE SCHOOL, Pa, July H.
The continual shifting of labor from
one place to another was termed "the
industrial st. Vitus dance" by Robert
g. ~Clothier, OF Philade1phia in dis
cussion of the labor problem at the
Friends summer school.
This shifting, the speaker said,
which was costly to the employer, was
largely due to preventable causes
which he enumerated as low wages,
long hours, fear Of discharge, petty
intustices, disagreeable working con-
ditions and for the failure of the en-
ployer to treat the worker as hu-
man being.
This, the speaker urged, was the re-
suit of the drifting apart of the en-
ployer and employe since the days Of
the apprentice who lived directly with
the employer. He declared for shorter
hours, saying that the output of
shorter hours was in the main greater
than in longer hours.
In an arraignment of the present
industrial system DR.. Jesse H. Holmes
declared against the monotony to the
emp1oye because of machine-run and
speeding-up processes which increase
the strain. He cited breaker boys in
coal fields and girls employed in silk
mills and in canning establishments
whose labor, while increasing effi-
cheney from business standpoint, was
deadly to the people from a social
standpoint. The monotonous perform
ance, in his opinion led to vfcio,ls
amusements and destroyed ingenuity
and real art-deadened the creative
sense The making Of cheap things
made cheap men and women, was his
ultimatum, in a plea that the worker
be given more leisure for seh-develop-
ment.
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and these the victims, usually of the
insidious conspiracies against their
freedom Of thought and action. New
Russia should strive to adjust its
government at the start so as to ELI
inmate and make impossible those
features which have proved a menace
to American freedom. The flavor of
equality must never perish; equality
of opportunity in life; equality in the
profits of human effort.
What Russia Should Do.
New Russia should not permit life
tenures in office, judicial or other
wise. Its first national charter should
abolish and make impossible forever
all form of privilege. 1t should see
that the peasants get the access to the
land which they desire. 1t should
own every means Of transportation,
communication and intelligence, leav-
ing to private initiative only those
channels which are not necessary to
the comfort and convenience of all.
1t should carefully supervise profits:
1t should. not allow corporations to
have charters beyond actual invest
ments, nor stockholders in business
corporations to escape the full re-
,sponsibility for every condition which
SURROUNDS the husinsss or industry in
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which they are engaged. It's constitu-
ton should provide that no man
should be deprived Of life, liberty or
property except through the finding
of jury composed of men and women
drawn from the entire citizenry. It
should deny its Judges the right of
punishment for alleged contempts of
court committed out of its presence.
or the disobedience of court orders,
except after trial by a jury so consti-
tuted. It should make the passage
of laws by the national congress or
the assemblies of minor political divi-
sions final and not subject to the re-
view of any court. It should incor-
porate woman's suffrage in it's con-
stitution. 1t should exercise to the
full it's police power to conserve the
health and well-being of present and
future generations. 1t should limit
the wealth Of any idividual to a sum
which would give him ample comfort
and luxury, and nothing more. It
should provide for home rule to the
absolute limit. It should allow all men
and women to have and bear arms for
their own protection and should pro-
hibit private: corporations and persons
from hiring zunmen and armed
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14

a readjustment of our national thought
to the sane and hopeful view that the
Well-being and happiness Of all the
people is the momentous thing in ma
tional government, and not the SUPER
ficial and hollow prosperity Of few
of us.
The hope of America lies not alone
in the splendid struggle Of the pro-
ducing masses for justice, but also in
the valiant and self-sacrificing spirit
OF the thousands who see clearly the
menace to the republic and who, hav-
ing Independent means of living in
many instances, yet are working
against an order of things which in
sures them wealth and comforts de-
MED to the countless majority.
throughout our land there are hum
dreds of intelligent and forceful labor
leaders, students of government and
so-called radicals, possessed of vision
and courage, who are turning into the
light their personal abilities and for
tunes to stem the tide of privilege
which threatens to engulf our beloved
republic. They work for that ideal
through which democracy shall en-
dure, and labor, the source! of all
wealth, shall reap the harvest which
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
DRAFT LEGISLATION
FOR COMPENSATION
Labor Committee Will Present
Bills Providing For Soldiersa
Dependents. =

WASHINGTON, July 12.-While
refusing to deal with committees of
organized labor as to purely labor
matters, the Council of National De-
fense is ready to discuss the payment
OF accident compensation to injured
soldiers and sailors from the working
class. 1t has called upon the labor
committee to r. it legislation for is
purpose, to be presented to congress.
The committee has named Judge
Julian w. Mack of New York CITY for
the work.
Judge Mack will within a few
weeks draw up bills covering three
pcints-the payment of compensation
to the injured soldier and sailor: the
payment of pensions to his widow and
orphans If he is killed, and the nav
lent OF separation allowances to his
"11e and other dependents while he is
away IN the service. Separation al
4o"ances are to be deducted from his
own pay when that is practicable. and
from government funds when the SOL
dler's pay is not sufficient for the
purpose. Payment of compensation
Tor the death of the breadwinner in
the war will take the pla e of a pen
sion, and will probably be settled
quickly. These ,hings have been ar
ranged in that way in England, dur
ing the present war, as one of the
amends made for the early bad treat
hlent Of the organized labor move
ment by governr. r.ental big-wigs.
Lloyd George has developed this sys-
tenn of caring for the soldiers fami-
lies, to a high point of efficie1- y. But
1t Is not taken by tie British working
men as settling the question of man.
agement of labor conditions in the
war shops They lot REPRESENTATION
there, just the same.
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IL SOWS.
New Russia should heed these plain
lessons, America paved the way for a
world democracy. It was the full
fillment of a glorious dream, dreamed
by forceful and resolute men intent
upon newer dispensation that should
bring the greatest measure of peace
and happiness to all Of the people: a
flaming torch in the darkness of auto
cratic misrule. American democracy
has not entirely fulfilled it's prophecy,
But it has helped tighten a world
darkened by cruelty and Injustice.
Let the men and women of New Rus
sia join the hopeful souls of our own
country who vision nations encom-
passed by truth and everlasting JUS
t1ce and humanity between man and
man. and trim the wick which viii,
make brighter world fast falling into
the darkness of greed and callous sell
fishness.
New Russia has learned the lesson
that life is governed at its springs and
not at its flood. Where democracy
has miscarried in America it has been
subtle and unknown to all except the
thoughtful and discerning So far it
has aroused but comparatively few
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14

fact in his case shall have been con-
sidered by jury Of his peers demo-
cratically selected from among all the
people in the district in which the
trial is held.
4. That laws should be enacted
making it criminal offense to dis
charge workers because they belong
to or join labor organizations.
S. That the Federal Trade Com
mission shall declare any corporation
or manufacturing concern% guilty. Of
unfair competition in trade unless it
has contractual relations with organ
izations of its workers democratically
selected along the lines Of present
labor unions and with which con-
tracts governing wages. hours and
working conditions are made.
6. That no person be allowed to
work more than eight hours q day,
six days a week, or<wages. ~
Z. That the tariff commission
withdraw the benefits Of the tariff
from any articles manufactured by
firms which do not have cpntractual
relations with their employees. will,
organizations Of nnioniso sor other labor
organizations In which hours, wages
ana working conditions 4rs. .stipulated.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
MILLION WOMEN
TAKE MEMS JOBS
English Statistics Show They
Have Replaced 933, 900 Males
Since War Began.

Washington, July 12.-Ti,e extent
to which women have replaced men
In Industry in Great Britain during
the war, the operations which they
are required to perform in factories
and other lines Of endeavolt periods
OF employment, arrangements for
rest and meals, and the physical con-
ditions of women workers, together
with a discussion of matters affecting
the employment of juveniles, includ-
ing hours of labor and supervision of
health and welfare are set forth in
a. bulletin recently issued by the
United States Department of Labor.
It is estimated that since the war
began and down to October, 1916,
988,500 women had been drawn into
the various governmental, industrial
and commercial activities, and that
In October, 1916, $4,000 women had
directly replaced men in industry.
Many of these women are performing
operations never before considered
possible for them to do.
In seeking to conserve the health
and thus promote the efficiency of
trese workers the health OF munition
WI hOAS IcttCu21 con =
clusion that long hours, particularly
at night, are perhaps the chief factors
N fatigue and that in the interest of
output and health they should be re-
stricted. There should be suita BILE
rauses for rest during the working
period and adequate cessation from
work at each week end in addition to
periodic holidays.
The system of three shifts of eight
hours each appears to yield better
results than one shift of 13 to II
hours or two shifts of - hours each.
Well managed industrial canteens,
facilities for rest at night and a high
standard OF sanitary conditions are
essential, for "cleanliness and good
order contribute to increased output
as we'll as to the discipline and NOR
ale of the factory"
During 1914 the number Of WON'T II
who obtained employment in other
districts through the employment ex-
changes was 32,9SS: in 1915, 53,396;
in 1916, 10000; indicating the in
creasing mobility of women's labor
due to war conditions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
CANNOT OUTLAW
PRIVATE AGENCIES
Supreme Court Declares Wash.
ington Law Unconstitutional.
Brandeis Dissents,

WASHINGTON, July 12.-The su-
preme court has held unconstitutional
a law of the state of Washington max
Ing it unlawful for private employ
ment agencies to charge fees to work.
men. ITO grasp the full gravity of this
decision" says the New Republic,
the social background Of the law must
be visualized. 1t is sketched with de-
tailed thoroughness in Mr.. Justice
Brandeis' dissenting opinion. The pri-
vate employment agency has for years
been recognized as one Of the sore
points of irritation in the industrial
machine. 1t preys on the ignorant
and the unskilled, exacting it's tribute
when the stress of unemployment
renders them defense1ess 1t charges
eXtortionate fees ana performs serv-
ices which are often illusory. The
evidence produced by Mr.. Justice
Brandeis' opinion is overwhelmingly
that they are subject to the grossest
frauds and dishonesties. Workmen
are sent on long trips to jobs which
prove to be non-existent. Collusive ar
rangements with employers are fire.
quent by which workmen are en-
ployed for a few days and then dis
charged, so that the agency can find
them new jobs and exact new tributes.
The employment agency thrives on
the dislocation of labor and on casual
employment, and is as much inter-
ested in creating unemployment as in
alleviating it. For all this there was
the most ample evidence.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
JOINT MEET|NCAT
ASHLAND NEXT WEEK
Of State. Federation of Labor
and Trade Union League of
Wisconsin.

ASHLAND, Wis, July 12.-Much
interest is being shown in the coming
joint meeting of the State Federation
of Labor and Trade Union League of
Wisconsin here next week.
Instead Of lessening the attend
ance at the sessions, the war should
cause it to be greater" A. J. Kull,
secretary of the Central Labor coun-
Gil, said. Interest in the labor situa-
ton over all the country has reached
a high point. The convention will
prove of much Importance and ques-
tions of statewide concern are ex-
pected to be taken up"
Nearly $50 delegates have made
known their intention to be present.
The st. Agnes hall will be made
the scene of the meetings.
The program so far arranged pro-
vides for a large street parade, boat
rides among the Apostle Islands on
the steamer Skater" auto rides and
banquet.