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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
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result of the protests and threat of a
renewed strike issued by the men
after the commission had rendered its
decision.
President Johnston of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinlsts, VINO
took leading part in the negotla.
tions. said today that the settlement
was "quite satisfactory and that 1t
provided that the employees might re
open the question of the wage rate IN
February. He presumed that some
further discussion would take place at
that time.
Congressman Nolan of San Fran,
cisco, chairman of the international
executive board of the Molders, was
one of the representatives of that
union in the conference. Commission
ers Hurley and Stevens represented
the Shipping Board.
Federal Insurance Plan
Unanimous favorable report was
given bv the House Committee on La
Dor. Yesterday, to Representative
Never London's Joint resolution which
provides for a Social Insurance Com
mission which shall report next De
cember on the advisability of the gov
ernment's establishing old age pen
sions, sickness insurance and unem-
ployment insurance for the wage
workers of this country. The com
mission would consist, as does the
Presidents Special Labor Commission,
of the Secretary of Labor, two repre-
sentatives of organized labor and two
employers. London believes that 1t
would be able to report by the time
the next session opens, and that its re
port would favor the immediate be-
ginning of payment of old age pen
sions to the "soldiers of industry"
He argues that the government
would do well to prepare, with some
form of unemployment insurance, to
| share the burdens of the Individual
worker when the war is over. and
when millions of men come back to
claim their old jobs. If these jobs are
| filled in the meanwhile with women,
someone will have to suffer before
the readjustment is completed. The
| government, which called these men
away from their jobs in the first
place. ought to help them to pay their
board and lodging until they can get
| back to work.
VIII Favor Federal Control.
President A. B. Garretson of the
Order of Railway Conductors, has told
| Jne PRESIDENT LnaI Jne railway Dfotii-
erhoods are perfectly willing to ac-
cept government control of railroads
if that plan is decided upon by the
administration.
That disposes of the reports that
the organized men on the trains would
try to prevent the transfer of author.
ity from the companies to the govern
ment.
CrOsser Colonization Bill.
Secretary of Labor Wilson, in his
annual report, again endorses the
Crosser Colonization bill. This meas.
ure proposes that the returned soldiers
and other workers who desire to carr
their living from the soil shall be as.
sisted to do so by the development Of
agricultural land projects and forest
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
A LESSON IN MANNERS.

This is the way the agent got a
lesson in manners. He called at bust
ness office and saw nobody but a pre-
possessing t o capable-appearing
young woman.
"Where's the boss?" he asked
abruptly.
"What is your business ?" she asked
politely.
"None of yours" he snapped. 81
got a proposition to lay before this
firm, and l want to talk to somebody
about it."
"And you would rather talk to n
gentleman
"Yes."
"Well," answered the lady, smiling
sweetlv, so would /. But it seems
that it's impossible for either one of
use to have our wish, so We'll have to
make the best of it. State your bust
ness, pleasew-!Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
BROKE THE ELIMINAToR.

Waiter, bring me two fried eggs.
some ham, a cup of coffee, and a roll" !"
said the first Commercial"
Bring me the same" said his
friend, "but eliminate the eggs"
Eyes sir"
In moment the waiter came hack.
leaned confidentially and penitently
over the table, and whispered:
eve 'ad a bad accident Just before
we opened this mornin'. sir, and the
'andle of the liminator got busted off.
viii you take yer heggs fried, same
as this ere gentleman ?"-Tit-Bits.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
SHOULD CONSCRIPT WEALTH.

Conscription of wealth was favored
by Charles A. Hinch, in an address be-
fore the Ohio State Bankers associa-
ton. "The government would be
right" he said, "in conscripting every
bit of capital in this country necessary
to win the war. When the govern
ment has the right to conscript young
men to the army, often requiring the
young man to give up his life, there is
no one who can deny its right to take
the property necessary to carry the
war to a successful conclusion"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
CITY BAKING IT'S OWN BREAD.

gun haking broad for the citv's insti-
tutions under the supervision of John
Conlon, member of the city council
Mayor Robert w. Speer, who was led
to begin city bakery because of the
high, prices now being charged for
breaA, has placed Conlon in direct
charge of the bakery. Conlon con
Quoted a large wholesale bakery in
Denver for several years, and he was
chosen by Mayor Speer because he
believed him to be one of the most
competent men in the city to conduct
a municipal experiment in local bread
prices.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
STAGGERING WASTE OF COAL.
Conservation of Fuel at Industrial
Plants Advised by Expert.

The assertion that 117,OO0,000 tons
of coal, worth $250,000,000, could be
saved by the United States every year
by efficient management of boiler
furnaces, was made by David Moffat
Myers in an address before the thirty
eighth annual convention of the Amer
lean Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Mr.. Myers, in pointing out the advan-
tage of saving fuel, declared that if
only half the amount wasted were
saved it would release a million
freight cars a year for other service
which are now employed in hauling
coal.
"As a means of far-reaching econ
omy," he said, "the government of the
United States should at this time ap-
ply intelligent and direct acting eff
forts to the conservation of fuel at the
industrial plants which are. RESPONSE
BILE for its greatest consumption. 1t
is unnecessary before body Of engi-
neers to show proof that coal is
wasted in vast quantities in the boiler
furnaces of our plants"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
SELF DENIAL is NECESSARY.

In urging the purchase of war GER
tificates Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo jars those people who imag-
inc the war will bring no change in
their happy-go-lucky method of liv-
ing. "The wide spread practice of
economy is absolutely vital to the
success of the war" says the cabinet
official. This war can not be financed
unless the American people immedi-
ately stop waste, practice self-denial,
economize in every possible direction
and lend the money they save thereby
to the government"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
ACCIDENTS IN OHIO INCREASE.

The Ohio industrial commission re-
ports that there were 1928 acci-
dents in Ohio this year, against 1867
900 the year before. The rush of work
has resulted in many applications
from employers for permission to get
around laws limiting the hours of fe-
male labor. These requests have been
especially numerous since the new
law, further restricting the employ
ment of female labor, went into eff
feet. These requests, the commission
says, have generally been denied.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
ADD ONE IYRE.

The wife of Methodist minister in
West Virginia has been married three
times. Her maiden name was Part
ridge, her first husband was named
Robins, her second husband Sparrow,
and the present Quail. There are two
young Robins, one Sparrow, and three
Quails in the family. One grandfather
was Swan and another a Jay, but
he's dead now and bird of Paradise.
They live on Hawk Avenue, Eagleville,
Canary Island, and the fellow who
wrote this is a Lvre and a member of
the family.-Valley Enterprise.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
WORTH THE COST OF THE WAR

/ suppose not many fortunate by
products can come out of war, but if
the United States can learn something
about saving out of this war it will be
worth the cost of the war; I mean the
literal cost of it in money and re-
sources. / suppose we have several
times over wasted what we are now
about to spend. We have not known
that there was any limit to our re-
sources; we are now finding out that
there may be if we are not careful
From President Wilson's speech to the
War-Savings Committee.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
LABOR'S WAR DECL CLARATI0N ON PEACE
Is AGAINST ANY PREMATURE PACT
Representation Wage Called Document
Combination Free Peoples in Com
mon Covenant" Ready for Fraterna Relations
when Victory is Achieved"

position peace made
magnificent the Committee International Re
adopted by the American Federation of Labor Buffalo
New York
In this declaration lays
should be
having the
emphasis laid
the for guarding against
should be read by every
widest possible circulation
belong This declaration will among
declarations produced by the labor relation
the
ead and his
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
Gloom Dispellcrs
BREAKING THE NEWS GENTLY.

Little Marie stood in the doorway,
one hand on the door knob. For a
moment she gazed at her mother, who
was preparing to go out.
Mother" she said, ''do you know
what l am going to give you for your
birthday when it comes ?"
"No, dear" answered the mother.
please tell me-"
"a nice hairpin tray with gold flow
ers on it all around" said the little
girl.
"But, my dear" exclaimed the
mother, Il have nice one like that
already"
'No, you haven't. mother" Marie
answered. Il have just dropped it on
the loor."-Chicago Herald.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
EVEN FIGURES GROW

Guest - Good gracious, waiter!
Nine and nine makes eighteen, not
nineteen!
Waiter-Ah, but monsieur must re-
member that everything has been
augmented by the war.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
BURIED.

as this land rich ?" asked the pros
pective purchaser, cautiously.
at certainly ought to be-" replied
the gentleman farmer. 81 have put
all the money l had into it."-Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
LONG ENOUGH.

"Hello, Bill, where'd you get the
dog? His legs are too short"
"Well, they reach the ground, don't
they?"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
.S15,O62.5O
Total
SOLDIER BOyS IN TRAINING

SOLDIER BOYS IN TRAINING
camps are devoting some of their
spare time to courting the MUSES..
One of the best jingles to reach The
Bulletin office was written by Gus
Shwink, at Camp Lewis, near Seattle,
and is as follows m
Some people were made to be soldiers
But the Irish were made to be cops;
Sauerkraut was made for the Ger
mans,
Spaghetti was made for the wops;
Fish were made to drink water.
Buns were made to drink booze;
Banks were made for money,
Money was made for Jews;
Everything was made for something
Most everything but n miser.
God made Wilson our President.
But who in hell made the Kaiser
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
1he 1heOptin1istic
Philosopher

prohibition, and to approve the ma
tional prohibition amendment. A let
ter reached The Bulletin editor this
week from Manager Jones outlining
the plan of campaign, and inviting
Editor Houston to visit that state for
the purpose of delivering a series of
addresses on how elimination of the
saloon evil in Colorado has benehted
the wage-earners of this state. The IN
vitation will probably be accepted: be-
cause The Bulletin and its publishers
have been pioneers in the movement
to divorce organized labor from the
liquor interests and show the way to
greater independence of the workers
by voting the saloons and the blackleg
proprietors out of business. Any
member of organized labor who knows
the vast improvement among Colorado
wage-earners and their families since
the saloon was forced to quit ought
to support state and national prohibi-
ton.
WILLIAM H. YOUNG, MANA
ger of the Pueblo Labor Temple,
writes that the fair and bazaar held
last week was grand success, net
ting the Temple association little
over a thousand dollars. Those Pu-
eDlO boys nave certainly ue4IloiioNt "'N'
the way for labor unions to acquire
home of their own. and it is defined by
the one word "UNITY." Manager
Young gives brief summary of the
association finances since the build
ing was acquired in August of this
year, and it is as follows:
Paid on purchase price. .... S6,OOO.OO
Cost of remodeling building. $4,000
Interest maid to date.. 562 so
Cash in bank $4,000
Total .... ..........S Sl5 5,O62.oo
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22

Nobody seems to be able to knock
the l. out of Villa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
AN AUTOMOBILE AGE

NNE of every six farmers in Penn
sylvania owns an automobile and
one of every 100 farmers a motor
truck, according to statistics compiled
by the Pennsylvania State Depart
ment of Agriculture. When the auto
mobile first appeared on the roads of
the State the farmers were its deadly
foes. 1t frightened their horses and
they didn't like it. Writers of those
days nevertheless prophesied that the
horse would be crowded out entirely
by the all-conquering gasoline bug
gy." They missed their guess. Every
farmer who can afford an automobile
has one, but horses bring higher prices
than ever. Perhaps the time may
come when alcohol will be used for
motor fuel and when the farmer will
turn part of his surplus corn and other
products into fuel for his car, instead
of feeding them to his horses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
Keeping Alive AbsurditY

Imagine that the President of the
United States had a son, that the son
was a graduate of West Point and an
officer of limited experience in the
army, that the country should enter
upon war-what would be said if the
Presidents son were placed at the
head of one of the great armies in time
of war. with numerous senior officers
under his command, and that some
hundreds of thousands of soldiers
should be sacrificed in the sons unsuc-
cessful enterprises?
What would Americans think of
having their sons driven to death un-
der a leadership founded on sonship
to the President?
Under the German system it is nee
essary. The crown prince, the heir to
the German throne, must be posed as
a military leader whether or not he
las the least fitness for it. The Ger
man people must be told that their
future ruler is a great soldier whether
he is or not and it is their business.
their duty to accept it as true whether
it is or not.
Yet the Germans are among the
most intelligent and informed of all
civilized peoples. Whatever the wars
event, it is inconceivabe that the fool
cry of the German imperial and mill
tary system will long last.-Columbia
Is. c. State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
Utilized Interned Germans

The hotel managers are among the
few--the very few-persons who are
pleased because the seamen who have
been on board the German vessels in
New York harbor, are now in prison
or being detained by the Federal Gov
ernment. For during the active din
ner season the idle seamen and the
chefs and stewards have been used
to good advantage in the hotels, and
incidentally have picked up tidy sums
themselves. The crews of the vessels
here number about q thousand. In
most instances they have acted as lex
ira help" in hotels. The chefs of the
vessels were in great demand, as they
are experts of high degree in their
particular profession, and the skilled
German stewards were paid premium
wages for bringing their crews of men
and serving dinners at big gatherings.
Some of the seamen still are working
az the different hotels, it is said, and
are saving money to carry home when
the war is over, although many C
them will not go back. Two years of
high wages and easy living conditions
in this country have taught them the
material advantages of the United
States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. C. A. Herricl. lead of Girard
College. has been elected head of the
national organization of men interest
ed i'm industrial education.
Oliver Rothert, prominent Al
toona businessman, has been elected
o-e of the vico- presidents of the State
CharNber of Commerce.
Senator Charles II. Kline, of Pitts
burgh. is suffering from a severe cold
and his throat is much affected.
e. M. Rine, the new general man
ager of the Lackawanna railroad. is
we'll known to many Harrisburgers.
w. P. f. Ferguson. Franklin citi-
zen. has written an editorial in tis
paper in which he calls on the older
men to volunteer for service If war
should come.
The Rev. DIR. John Doyle. vicar
general of the Altoona diocese, presid-
ed at the Johnstown patriotic mass
meeting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
i Absentee Voting
TPhiladelpEia Bulletin I


The measure which has been intro
duced at Harrisburg to provide q sys-
tenn of absentee voting is reasona bile
and desirable in its purpose, whether
or not it may command approval upon
a close examination of it's detail. 1t
is said that there are 10000 railroad
men in the State who are deprived of
their ballot by reason of their eni-
ployment away from home. But the
railroad men have plenty of company
in their misfortune. There are large
numbers of travelling men, and not
merely the statesmen, but travelling
crews of workers in a variety of in
dustries, who are as likely to be ION
the road" on election day as at any
other time, although presumably they
have as much interest in politics
and value their voting franchise as
greatly as any citizen.
Absentee voting. moreover, offers
no difficult problems for solution. a
voter who is necessarily TO be absent
from his division on election day
ought to be able to obtain his ballot
upon application under oath, in ad-
vance of the election, having it sent
to him by registered letter, so that,
having marked 1t, he could return 1t
in like manner to reach his division
voting place upon the day of election.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
Our Navy May Be First

[From the New York Times.
Already we have a navy to be reck-
oned with and every available ship it
has is being put in cor dition; our navy
may turn out to be. when it is COM
pleted. not the second, but the first in
the world. 1t is not surprising that
ablebodied men are now enlisting in
large numbers. There is chance of
service. When war threatens there is
no more talk of the competition of the
civil industries with the government
in the labor market. Delays and bad
policy In the past have left us not so
well prepared as we should be for the
crisis that may be impending, but the
manner in which at least one of the
Congressional committees has taken
steps to retrieve for past mistakes is
wholly admirable and encouraging.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
CANADA OUR EXAMPLE SAYS
ROOSEVELT
Spirit of Readiness and SelfSacrhce Should Be Ours
ex-President Declares
BY BRIGGS

which try mems souls. and which sift
out the strong and the worthy from
the weak and the unworthy. She
has stood the test. She has proved her
possession of those qualities that mark
the people of masterful ability, able
to shape their own destinies and to
hold their own in the rough world OF
actual life. Her sister common
wealths of the British empire over
Iseas-Australia, South Africa, New
shown a like farsigkt-
edness and proud capacity for serv-
ice for the common good, and have
borne themselves with similar hero
ism. The action of the Beers in South
Africa has been a most striking tri-
butte to the farsighted wisdom and
Justice of the Imperial Government.
But Canada is our neighbor on the
NORTH, and we are more familiar with
what she has done, and as the condi-
tons of her social, industrial and poll
teal life substantially resemble our
own, her example is of peculiar value
to us. - Theodore Roosevelt in the
March Metropolitan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Urges Embargo

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Stop exporting foodstuffs for thirty
days. Prices will decline more than
half. Tens of thousands of cars of grain,
meats, potatoes, etc, are on tracks
waiting for>export. Commanders them
at fair price so that our own people
may live and the poor working man not
starve.
In the last sixty days there have been
exported over S0,00O.0C0 bushels of
wheat, nearly 100000 bushels of corn.
200. 100000 pounds of meats, $500, 900
bushels of potatoes and other vege-
tables. The Custom House records
show this.
The rich man and the specu!ator buy
these foodstuffs, shipping them to Eu-
rope at an immense profit. 1t is sur
prising our Government should permit
such a thing.
Yours very truly,
A. r. CUMMINS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
44H fnlflmem of harmless happiness
is brogreSS.-R. w. CHAMBERS.
HOME RULE FOR HARRISBURG

{ NENAIOR BElDLEMAEN . feSOlu-
tion, having for its object home
rule in cities of the third class
in Pennsylvania, is by far ;he most pro-
gressive and most constructive piece
of legislation introduced during the
present session, at least so far as the
people of Harrisburg are concerned.
In all his legislative career the Dau-
phin county Senator never father ed a
measure more generally commendable
and certainly none with greater pos
sibilities for good. 1t is the biggest
step the State Legislature ever has
been asked to take for the improve
ment of municipal government in
Pennsylvania, and there can be little
doubt that it will come to vote of
the people in 1919.
Home rule would enable each of the
cities aud boroughs to select its own
type of government, instead of forcing
them to operate under State laws gen.
orally not fitted to meet their needs
and4esulting in financial loss and dis
satisfaction on the part of the taxpay-
ers. 1t would require each citizen to
study the fundamentals of his own
local government and the needs of his
home town. 1t would arouse new in
terest in public affairs and new enthu-
siasms among the people. 1t would
remove the responsibility of the form
of local government from the Legisla
ture and vest it in people of each COM
munity, where it belongs.
This right to frame its own charter
s-as Harrisburg would have under
such a home-rule provision as Sena-
tor Beidleman proposals not new.
1t is not an untried experiment. Nine
ty-two cities, with an aggregate popu-
lation of 100000, ranging from 100,-
900 down, have used it as a means of
lettering conditions and simplifying
their form of government. Everywhere
it has resulted in reforms and econo-
mics.
a less progressive political leader
than Senator Beidleman might have
thrown his influence against a home
rule amendment. Politicians in other
states have stood in its way in almost
every instance. Desire for political
control has prompted them to favor
the, old-fashioned legislature made
laws for city regulation. They have
fought home rule to the last ditch.
Senator Beidleman's position in
championing such law is in line with
his course of action ever since popular
selection placed him in the forefront
of the Republican organization in
Dauphin county. His influence has
been consistently on the side of int
provement of governmental conditions
in Dauphin county and the election of
honest, able men to fill county and
city offices. He is one of those who
believes that the political party is. the
servant of the people and that politi-
cal leadership can be successfully
maintained only by catering to the
needs and desires of the people
through whose franchise it has been
raised to power. His home-rule reso-
luton is an illustration of how he puts
his theories into practice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
Qualified to Judge

A man of so who had been a grum-
bier all his life and had long made a
practice of changing doctors on the
slightest provocation not long ago
called in a young physician who had
gained a considerable reputation, He
was telling the doctor what he thought
was the trouble with him. when the
doctor ventured to disagree with the
diagnosis.
II beg your pardon" said the pa
tient in naughty way, 'it isn't for
young doctor like you to disagree with
an experienced invalid like me-"
And he sought another physician
Philadelphia Public Ledger.