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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
AMERICAN ALLIANCE FOR LABOR
AND DEMOCRACY OPENS
COUNCIL TO OVERTHROW
"COPPERHEADISM
WILL SOLIDlY BACK UP
UNITED STATES IN WAR
Samuel Gompers, John Spargo and
Others to Be Prominent in Giving
Impetus to Movement Aimed to
Kill Off Any Sedition in Ranks
of Labor.

Minneapolis, Sept. 6.-Two elements
of American labor, the one aligned
with the Socialist party before that
organization took up an un-American
stand, and the other composed of trade
Vnionists who have always held aloof
from Socialism, are here to unite in
helping the government prosecute the
war successfully.
The American Alliance for Labor
and Democracy, which opens it's ses.
stems at the Auditorium, is the agen.
cy that is bringing the two elements
together for the common purpose
When the delegates, headed by Sam.
uel Gompers, grand old man of la.
bor," John Spargo, Socialist writer,
and others arrived, it became evident
that the conference here would make
history. The first thing to be done
will be to give impetus to move
ment which has for it's purpose the
overthrow of 'copperheadism" within
the ranks of labor.
May Mean New National Party.
From the meeting here of leaders
of the Socialists who left the party
because of the stand it took at the
st. Louis convention may even come
the organization of a new national
party. Such a course was indicated.
The aim of such party will be to
inaugurate sane Socialism, Social
ism, international in character. The
most intense sort of nationalism will
be resorted to to bring about the
aim.
Humanity can make no truce with
autocracy-that will be the keynote
of the meeting. There must be mo
stabbing of American soldiers in the
back" by the preaching of sedition
within the ranks of labor-that will
be a cardinal precept of the move
ment.
Governor Speaks.
Frank P. Walsh, of Kansas City,
chairman of the Industrial Relations
committee, will be the temporary
chairman, when the conference of
more than 200 accredited delegates is
called to order 1t is likely that he
will be chosen as permanent chair
man. Governor Burnquist and form
er Governor Lind will welcome the
conference to Minnesota. The letter
of President Wilson to Samuel Comp
ers praising the movement will be
read. In his keynote speech, Mr..
Walsh is expected to outline the aims
of the conference.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Reichstag to Talk Peace.

Amsterdam, Sept. 5.-According to
the most reliable authority the next
session of the German Reichstag will
be devoted exclusively to the question
OF peace. The majority has decided to
challenge the statement of the govern.
ment regarding it's minimum peace
program and it is said the govern
ment will yield with view to peace
negotiations before Christmas The
German government, according to this
authority, favors the plenipotentiaries
meeting either at The Hague, Berne or
Copenhagen, preferably The Hague.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
"0NWARD WITH GOD" KAISER
CRIES; LEOPOLD Is PRAISED
jects in Capture of Riga From
Russian Forces.

Amsterdam, Sept. 5.-Kaiser Will
helm exulted with his subjects in cap
ture of Riga from the Russians. Ber-
lin dispatches quoted this extract from
a message sent by him to the kais-
erin:
This is new milestone of Ger
man strength and unerring will for
victory May God help us further"
The kaiser also wired his congrat-
ulations to Prince Leopold, whose
troops took the Prussian city.
Your far-seeing leadership and
iron will for victory guaranteed this
fine success" he declared. Onward
with God.''
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Held for Murder After Girls Death.

Chicago, Sept. 5.-Gerald Shepard,
secretary of the Emergency league,
who was in the third floor of the ST..
Regis hotel from which Rae Wilson,
cabaret singer, leaped to her death one
night recently, has been held by the
police under charge of murder. Shep-
ard is alleged to have admitted to the
coroner that he and Miss Wilson quar-
relied bitterly few hours before her
death. Miss Wilson had been sepa-
rated from her husband, Fred Rolph,
of Los Angeles, commercial traveller,
more than year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
US.-Teufonic War News
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Ten thousand engineers, including A.
France, it was learned officially at
Washington. A far greater number will
follow these troops shortly. Details
of the dispatch of the engineer troops
will not be divulged.
The vanguard of Americas vast air
fleet has reached France. The first
of the armada of 1900 airplanes are
safely across the Atlantic, together
with well-trained aviatOrs to operate
them. This fact became known at
Washington.
Lord Robert Cecil, minister of block
ade of England indorsed President
Wilson's reply to the peace proposals
of Pope Benedict and said he was not
certain any further response would be
necessary.
Enlisted men of the National army,
National Guard and regular army will
be given every opportunity to fit them
selves for commissions, it was learned
ut Washington.
The possibility that Austria and
perhaps other allies of Germany may
soon declare war against the United
States because of the financial aid
given to Italy is recognized by admin
lstration officials at Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Junior Red Cross Launched.

Washington Sept. 5.-Launching of
Junior Red Cross, membership
which will be open to all school chill
dren of the United States, has ust been
announced by the American Red
Cross. 1t is hoped to assemble 22,OOO,-
900 children into body that mate
rally will assist in the work of the
main organization. The movement
was planned by DR.. H. N McCracken,
president Of Vassar, with the co-opera.
ton of manw educational authorities
Membership for one year will cost Is
cents.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
H. C.L. Hits Army Officers.

New York, Sept 4.-The cost of
army officers uniforms and equipment,
which has been rising steadily for
years, has taken such a decided jump
within the last six months that it will
cost most of the officers being grad
uated from training camps at least
two months of their salary to pur-
chase the necessaries of army life
when they enter upon their new ca
reers. While uniforms and equip
ment are furnished free to privates
and non-commissioned officers, COM
missioned officers must buy their own.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Students Usinq Standard Planes

Chanute Field, Rantoul, ILL.,, Sept s.
"A consignment of standard air
planes have been received at the Cha
mute aviation field and have been
placed IN use. All the other machines
IN use are the Curtiss make. In or
der to increase the hours of instruc-
ton night flying has been started and
VIII be continued at frequent inter
vals. Lieutenant Sanford and Lieu
tenant Smith, who have completed
thhir fiying instruction at Chanute and
who have been given commissions.
Eiil be stationed here.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
War Aid Announces Prizes,

Washington, Sept. 4.-The national
war aid has announced a prize essay
contest for children between the ages
of eight and 18 on the topic. why
America Entered the War;" The
prizes include $50 Liberty Loan Bond
and gold coins of $25, SIS and $40, re-
spectively. The only restriction is
that the contestant must be relative
not farther removed than third cousin
of some man serving his country in
the war. The writing of one cheer
full letter a month to service rela-
tive is one of the requirements.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Foreign

Vice Rector O'Hearn of the Ameri-
can college in Rome, formerly of Chi
cago, ILL.,, was named to succeed Mgr.
Kennedy as head of that institution.
Mgr. Kennedy's death a few days ago
OccasiOned universal sorrow in Rome.
In Vatican circles at Rome Pope
Benedict Is said to have signified his
intention of issuing a reply after re-
ceiving the responses of all the bellig-
erents to his peace proposals. 1t is
hoped gradually to make peace Ques-
ton of practical politics.
The Russian government, the men,
berS of which are in Moscow attending
the extraordinary national council,
have decided to restore the death pen
atty in the army Immediately, said a
dispatch from that city.
President Wilson's message to the
Russian conference at Moscow cleo
trified that assembly. His promise that
America would aid New Russia with
all moral and material power" was
greeted with thunderOus cheers.
The military CONSUMPTION bill for
the Dominion Of Canada became law
when it was signed by the governor
general at Toronto, Ont.
Germany is suffering from an almost
nationwide epidemic of dysentery.
This information came to the United
Press from source Of highest au.
thOrity in Berne.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07

With thousands of persons looking
on. 100 policemen fought battle In
Chicago with Edward Wheede, coun.
terfeiter, suspected of being a mem
Der of the bandit gang in the Winslow
iron foundry robbery. The battle
lasted for three hours. After three
detectives had been wounded the po-
lice captured Wheede.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
British Trade Unionists Meet.

London, Sept 5.-The forty-ninth
annual union congress has opened at
Blackpool with record attendance of
nearly 700 delegates, representing
more than 100000 workers. John
Hilyl, secretary of the boilermakers'
union, will preside. Many leading la
Dor leaders are in attendance, includ-
ing Arthur Henderson, former member
or the war cabinet, who, however, is
present merely as 'fraternal dele
gate" from the Parliamentary Labor
party. Two other delegates are Amer
leans, James Lord and John Golden.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
YANKEES ATTACKED BY IRISH

U. 6. Sailors in Cork Escape From
Neutrality-suspicious. InsuIted.
London, Sept. 5.-Attacks on Ameri-
can sailors are reported in a dispatch
from Cork. 1t is said that gangs of
young men paraded the streets and
set upon the Americans, who were
accompanied by young women.
One instance cited is that of two
Americans who were attacked on the
chief street of Cork, young woman
with them being insulted and having
her hat torn off, The correspondent
reports that the sailors did nothing
improper or contrary to good taste
to invite the attack, and, as far as
could be learned, did not retaliate.
They escaped on tramcar.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Asked to Investiuasa Fires.

Pierre, Sept. 5.-Seven. mysterious
fires within few days, four of them
in four days, in which structures and
prairies were burned, have startled the
residents in the country north of
Chance All the fires started without
any apparent cause, and each did con-
siderable damage. The people of that
section have called upon the state fire
marshal to come out and investigate
the situation and learn if possible the
cause of the fires, which are doing so
much damage to their buildings, stacks
and pastures.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
MINNESOTA EXPERIENCES
ITS FIRST EARTHQUAKE
Earth Tremors in Several Towns
Bring New Sensations to
Inhabitants.

Minneapolis, Sept. minnesota has
experienced its first earthquake.
Shocks that lasted for more than 20
seconds were reported at number of
north central towns along the North
ern Pacific line between st. Cloud, Lit
tie Falls, Brainerd and Staples, but
so far as could be learned no one was
injured. Damage caused by the quakes
was slight, for the most part being
confined to broken windows and
dishes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
"Everything" Expected From U.Boats.

"Everything" Expected From U-Boats.
Amsterdam, Sept. coincidence in
the effect of unrestricted submarine
warfare is expressed by Admiral Rein
hardt Scheer, commander of the Ger
man battle fleet, in an interview in
the Leipsic Tageblatt, the admiral de-
claring that he expected everything
from it. 1t would be a mistake to
name definite date, but l am fully
convinced that & the rate of the sink
ings continues, as at present, the day
must come when England will recog-
nize that the war does not pay and
will be glad to end it,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
shipyard Workers Strike Held Ur

Seattle, Sept 5.-There will be no
strike of $4,000 Seattle shipyard work
ers Wednesday as planned, pending a
conference in Washington between the
United States Shipping board and a
committee representing the Metal
Trade council. This is the announce
ment of A. F. Miller, secretary of the
council Miller said union officials
were doing all in their power to avert
disorganized strike and that despite
much muttering among the unskllled
workers in many of the plants he be-
lteved the danger Of strike was past.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
RUSSIAN GRAND DUKES
HELD FOR CONSPIRACY
Brother of Deposed Gar and Wife
Charged With counter-RevoIution-
airy Plot, Is Report.

Petrograd, Sept. 5. = Grand Duke
Michaelis Alexandrovitch, brother of
the former emperor, and his wife have
been placed under arrest in connection
with the counter-revolutionar plot re-
Gently unearthed. According to the
Den, Grand Duke mitri-Paulivitch
also has been arrested.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Portuuese Mutinies Renorted.

Portuguese Mutinies Reported.
Madrid, via London, Sept. 5.-Muti-
MES have broken out aboard some of
the Portuguese warships, according to
a message received by the British adj
miralty through the wireless press.
Many arrests have been made
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
MORE FOOD SHIPS NEEDED
Necessary If Belgians Are to Be Kept
Alive.

New York, Sept. 5.-The urgent need
of ships to supply food to the Belgian
and French people in the area occu-
pied by the Germans was emphasized
in a statement issued here by Prentiss
Gray, American director of the Bel
gian relief commission. Mr.. Gray as
serted that if these people are to be
kept alive during the coming winter,
the relief commission must be supplied
with 100000 tons of shipping, or about
AS steamers of average size"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
STATE FAIR BREAKS RECORD
Largest Opening Day Attendance in
institutions History.

Minneapolis, Sept. 5. = A record
breaking crowd-116,555 persons, to be
exact-attended the Minnesota State
Fair on the opening day. This was
2S,97S more than were present at last
years opening and biggest day. Be-
fore p. m. the days attendance had
broken the previous high record, that
OF Labor day, 1912, when 1OO,792 ad.
missions were recorded.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Personal

Judge Lockwood HOnore of the Cir
cult court of Chicago, brother of Mrs.
Potter Palmer and Mrs. Frederick
Dent Grant, died at his home, SO East
Cedar street He was tifty-twO years
old.
Mgr Thomas F. Kennedy, rector of
the American college in Rome, is dead
after long illness.
Lord Grey, former governor general
of Canada, died in London. He had
been i'll for months.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
MAYOR HANGED IN EFF|GY
WAR VETERANS "STRING UP"
clTY'S EXECUTIVE.
Mayor Is victim" of Grand Army Post
Members Who Stage Exhibition
in Heart of City.

Chicago, Sept. 6. = Mayor William
Hale Thompson was hanged in effigy
by members of the General Lloyd
Wheaton post, No. 40, Veterans of For.
eign Wars, in Grant Park. This is in
the heart of the city.
Thousands of pedestrians and auto
mobilists watched the hanging" and
made the city ring with their cheers
1t was one of the widest demonstra.
lions ever witnessed in Chicago.
City police were unable to interfere
because the park ground is out of
their jurisdiction.
Council Praises Governor.
Chicago's city council, sitting as a
committee of the whole, at the end
of a turbulent four-hour special ses-
sion, adopted resolution praising
Governor Frank o. Lowden for his
action in overriding Mayor Thompson
by refusing permission to the Peoples
Council for Democracy and Peace
Terms to meet in Illinois and urging
the states chief executive to prevent
any meeting in the future which may
be inimical to public safety or dis.
loyal or reasonable.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Washington

Persistent efforts of the state de-
| partment at Washington to obtain the
release from Belgium of two Ameri-
cans-C. G. Clayton of the Western
Electric company and Mr.. Whipple Of
the Bell Telephone cOmpany-have
been successful, according to a report
to the department from The Hague.
No street meetings under the au-
spices of the Peoples Council of Amer
lea for Democracy and Terms of Peace
Will be permitted in Washington, d. G..
The police department made this an
nOuncement.
In statement the Navy league an
nounced at Washington it's acceptance
of the report of the naval board on the
Mare island explosion and expresses
gave currency to an opinion that the
investigation was being hampered by
the navy department under the infiu-
ence of powerful labor interests.
Widows or other dependents Of
American soldiers and sailors are
given monthly compensations under
the soldiers and sailors insurance bill
reported to the house at Washington.
Japan is in the war to q finish and
will fight shoulder to shoulder with the
United States until the peace of the
world is secured, ViscOunt Ishii, head
of the Japanese mission, declared be-
fore the United States senate at Wash
ingtOn.
1t was announced at Washington
that the United States is to have the
strongest destroyer fleet in the world.
Under Old Glory these vessels, which
are held in many quarters to be the
doom of the submarines, will insure
the safety of the American merchant
marine.
The senate at Washington, by vote
of 80 to 20, defeated the finance COM
mittee's plan to raise 100000 by in
creasing the two-cent letter postage to
three cents.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07

Inc total or BRUSH casualties on
all fronts as reported to, London in
August, is 59,S11, divided as follows
Killed or died Of wounds: Officers,
1878; men, 1O,942; wounded or miss
ing: Officers, APP; men, 43,464.
Germany'S lOng-eXpected combined
land and sea drive on Riga is believed
to be near at hand. Forty Teuton air
planes descended upon the various
islands in the gulf, throwing bombs
promiscuously. Enemy torpedo boats
and submarines have been observed in
the vicinity of the coast in the Gulf
of Riga, an official announcement is
sued at Petrograd declared.
For five days italian and British
monitors have shelled the defenses at
Trieste necessarily, according to cables
received by high Italian officials at
Washington. On land, General Cador-
mas artillery is bombarding the Her
mazda, pouring a constant rain of
shells into the mountain fortress.
Word has been received at an At
lantic port indicating that the British
7,OOO-ton steamship Verdi has been
sunk by submarine with the loss of
six of its crew. The Verdi left here
for an English port on August II with
cargo, but no passengers. Its crew
numbered 112.
An increase in the number of British
vessels sunk by mines or submarines
is shown by the weekly admiralty
statement issued at London. Eighteen
vessels of more than 1900 tons were
sent to the bottom.
Reports are again current In London
that Japan may send an army to
France to assist in q mighty joint Of
fensive, Advices from Paris quoted
Senator Lucien hubert as saying that
Japan is keeping 100000 men under
arms.
Reports that strong Japanese forces
have been concentrated in Manchuria
are given currency in Bavaria by the
Neuete Nachrichten of Munich, which
also speculates on the possibility of
transporting such trops to the Rus
sian front.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
Domestic

The attempted shooting of a repre-
sentative of the department of justice
and an attack with an ak on Sheriff
Kelner near ManitowOc Wis, by a
man named Voss marked the first
trouble over the draft law in WiscOn-
sin.
Judge James E. Boyd of the. federal
court at Greensboro N. c., declared
the Keating-Owen child-labOr law I'M
constitutional. The government will
at once appeal the decision of Judge
Boyd holding the federal child-labor
law unconstitutional
In disappearing proposal by Rep
resentative ShOuse Of Kansas that all
men engaged in agricultural pursuits
last March be exempted from military
service, President Wilson wrote the
congressman that class exemption
would lead to many difficulties and
many heartburnings."
Twenty-Five thousand National
Guardsmen, the rainbow division of
the United States army, marched in
parade as 100000 New Workers gave
them farewell demonstration such as
this city had never seen.
Six members of the Peoples Peace
council who went to Hudson, Wis, to
make arrangements for holding a ma
tfonal pacifist convention, were placed
on truck by an angry crowd of 1000
citizens, escorted to the depot, and
placed on a train bound for Mime
apolis.
Twenty-seven men, the majority of
them alleged to be /. w. w. agitatOrs,
are in Jail at Spokane, Wash, on or
der OF Major wilkins. They were
taken from train as it arrived from
Troy, Mont, and are held as military
prisoners.
Thomas p. Flynn of Chicago was
elected president of the American
Federation of Catholic societies in the
annual convention of that organiza-
ton.
Two men were shot and killed at
Chicago by payroll bandits who de-
manded satchel of money belonging
TO the WinslOw Bros company. The
bandits escaped with 5000.
A contract for 1,O74,OOO gas masks
to equip the army has been awarded
to manufacturing company, of Phila-
delphia. The contract calls for an ex-
penditure of $1,502,0OO. The govern
ment will furnish the material.
Membership of the American Red
Cross has reached the 100000 mark
and is increasing at the rate of 25,OO0
to 100000 day, according TO q head
quarters announcement at Washing
ton.
Eyron Nelson, son OF Congressman
John NJ. Nelson OF Madison, Wis.,, is to
be arrested Somewhere in Canada" as
q Stacker. The warrant for the arrest
was issued by United States District
Attorney A. c. Wolfe. Nelson is work
ing on his fathers farm in the Cana
dian Northwest
Secretary Daniels, speaking at
Charleston, w. Va, at the breaking Of
ground for the government armor
plate and projectile, plant, declared
that America is fighting not only for
the democratic nations of the world
but is waging 'the battle of the people
of the German empire themselves"
Negroes of the BrazOs river valley
district are organizing for an uprising
against the whites, Representative J..
ID. Neill, who also is member of the
state council of defense, declared on
fhQ floor of the hO,lSa ot AuStin Tay
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07
European War. News

The total of British casualties on
all fronts as reported to, London in
August, is 59,S11, divided as follows:
Killed or died Of wounds: Officers,
1878; men, 1892; wounded or miss
ing: Officers, 4,122; men, 3,464.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07

Negroes of the Brazos river valley
district are organizing for an uprising
against the whites Representative J..
ID. Neill, who also is member of the
state council Of defense, declared on
the floor of the house at Austin, Tex.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07

Widows or other dependents OF
American soldiers and sailors are
given monthly compensations under
the soldiers and sailors insurance bill
reported to the house at Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07

Secretary Daniels, speaking at
Charleston, w. Va, at the breaking Of
ground for the government armor
plate and projectile, plant, declared
that America is fighting not only for
the democratic nations of the world
but is waging 'the battle of the people
of the German empire themselves"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07

The senate at Washington, by vote
of 80 to 20, defeated the finance com.
mittee's plan to raise $5O0O0,OOO by in.
creasing the two-cent letter postage to
three cents
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-07

Thomas p. Flynn of Chicago was
elected president of the American
Federation of Catholic societies in the
annual convention of that organiza-
ton.