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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-13
MOTHERS APPEAR
AGAINST PACKERS
Ready to Give Evidence Of
Long Hours Imposed by
Meat Concerns.

+ Chicago, Feb. L. Mothers with
babies In their arms. as well az girl
workers and mcn came from the stock
thfhH today to testify In the wage
controversy between the packers and
their employees before Federal Judge
Alschuler, recently appointed arbitcr
hy Secretary OF Labor Wilson.
Tho women had been called by the
tabor Unions to give evidence of the
long hours which the unions claim
prevail at the atockyards. Silently they
sat during tho day waiting until the
ih"n workers had told their stories
for their chance to take the witness
stand
Electrician Underpad.
", j.. barrett, an official Of tho
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
testified that electricians ut the pack
ing piaut, although organized received
only AZ cents m hour. while the scale
called for 78 cents IN hour. IN reply
10 u question aB to why he worked in
the yards for ~ cents when lie could
got " cents outside, u few blocks
ahhy hc said That he would have had
10 join another local Of the union which
would have cost him 500.
=. &. Traznr. superintendent Of the
Wilson n 90, plant, the next witness,
hid that the average wage paid the
men IA his plant Was y cents an hour
and that similar wage was paid in
Other pinIts. he explained that sew
nral y"nrs ago agreements had been
made by the packers 10 standnrlizc
ih" wngr8 paid for various types OF
work.
More 30 Years Ago.
J8cDb Mhur"r. u cooper and veteran
"mpinyc Of the s,pckyards, testified
that ih" packing houses were organ-
ized by the Knights Of Labor moro
than 20 Ec'lrs HEo and that during
iFSG III" men worked eight hours a
day aud were happy. He said that the
'eorprrs received s27J to 81 "A day then
pnd now receive 35k cents an hour
and Hprk ten hours. He represented
wages and working conditions as much
better in small, independent packing
plants. where the unions were organ
iZfH
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The Washington times., 1918-12-05
ACCIDENTS
+: INJURE 4 IN D. c.

= William Mertens, sixty-one years
old, of 63S East Capitol street, treas.
.urer OF the Mt. Vernon and Marshall
Hall Steamboat Company. was struck
by a street car of the Capital Trac-
ton Company at Seventh and H
Streets southwest last night. Mertens
was removed to Casualty Hospital
Suffering from decorations on the head
and body.
While crossing at Eighth street and
pennsylvania avenue last night, Paul
Haines, colored. twenty-eight years
old, was knocked down by an auto
mobile operated by II. E. Richmond,
Of Herndon, Va Haines suffered
slight injuries on the face and head,
and was removed to the Emergency
Hospital.
An automobile operated by c. w.
Murphy, 1908 1 street northwest, col
lided with an automobile operated
by W. B. Clemmens, of 612 L street
northwest, at Tenth and / streets
northwest, last night. James Graham,
of 921 / street northwest, who was
riding in Clemmens' machine, was
thrown out of the car by the i'm
pact Of the collision and injured about
the face and head
An ambulance OF the Emergency
Hospital was overturned last night
when 1t collided with an automobile
At Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
yania avenue northwest. The ambu-
lance was in charge of Willis San
sders, and was on its way to a repair
shop when the accident occurred.
= A street car of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company col
3ided at Sixth and G streets north
west last night with an automobile
truck operated by Samuel c. Wash
,ington, colored, thirty-seven years
Did, OF 1910 W street northwest
Washington was slightly injured on
the head and body and removed to
Casualty Hospital.
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY
WILL HOLD 2 "TAG DAYS"

The Christ Child Society is today
formulating plans for tag day" for
1000 children OF the poor in Washing
ton on Saturday and Sunday.
Sundays tagging will be conducted
outside Catholic churches. following
morning services
The funds raised by the Christ Child
Society will be devoted to the cause
OF making Christmas happy for those
who are in need
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
FLEET TO ATTEND.

Secretary Daniels has announced that
he win order three battleships. thirteen
submarine chascrs, and seven destroy
ers to Baltimore for the annual meet
ing Of the Southern Commercial Con-
gress. Rear Admiral Wiley ,Vlll be in
command Of the squadron. "a naval
pageant will be held Thursday, De-
cember T.
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

HOWARD S. RESIDE, president
Washington Gas Light Company
Certainly we will take them back.
At the present time we have allowed
quite a number Of men to return and
are ready to give positions to all
other employees of our company who
entered the service. We are waiting
for them to return to u.s."
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
DIN DITCH MARKET. Inc:

There are thirty-five former EN-
ployes Of the Old Dutch Markets
Inc, in the army, navy, or marine
corps All these will find their old
positions open for them when they
don olive drab for civilian garb. We
have been proud of these men while
they are in the service, and we Will
be proud to have them with us again
at the termination of hostilitie>.
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
URGES HIGHWAYS.

= Easiest possible resumption Of high
way construction under the Federal
road aid act is favored by President
Wilson, according to a letter to Secre-
4ary OF Agriculture Houston.
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

FRANK WAGNER, Chief Of District
Fire Department:
Preference will be given to return
ing men to our department who en-
tered the service. We will try to re-
instate every man who left US. We
are glad to have them back"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
RUPERT D. WEAVER, preslden

RUPERT D. WEAVER, president
Georgetown Gas Light Company:
Those employees OF the Georgetown
Gas Light Company who entered the
military or naval service of their
country during the war will be well
coined back into our employ after
the war"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

A. LISNER. Paiais Royal:
I'VE will take all the boys back' ana
are only too glad to do 1t.
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

welcome-every one. They left us
with that understanding"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
Hotels Await Them.

E. L. WESTON. manager. Raleigh
Hotel:
Every employee in good standing
who left us to enter the service will
be given his old position back on his
return from war. We are only too
glad to do it."
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
Policemen May Return.

MAJOR RAYMOND W. PULLMAN.
Superintendent OF Police:
81 have just obtained from the War
Department a release for any former
members OF the Police Department
from the army. They can be released
upon making application to me. At
present there are 100 vacant positions
in the Police Department. Every day
we are receiving applications and we
are trying to MI all vacancies.
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

OSnDeTB =.
1--WE are only too glad to take the
boys back Their positions are wait
ing for them"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
nepnrtment STORE. Hold John.

WILLIAM H. EVERETT, manager
of Woodward & Lothrop's:
Most assuredly we will take every
one of the boys back. We could do
no less"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

JAMES A. CAHILL, vice president Of
the Commercial National Bank;
I'VE will be proud to take back into
our employ those members OF the
clerical force of the Commercial Ma
tional Bank who have been fighting in
the army, or navy. There are twenty
employees OF our concern in the service"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
OLD Jobs READY
FOR D. c. SOLDIERS
CONTINUED from First Page)

their country in the army. or navy
return to civilian life. they will be as
sured OF first consideration in the mat
ter of employment"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

HAROLD H. LEVY. manager, Hecht
& Co.:
1--WE are going to insert advertise
ments in the papers, inviting soldier
employees back. We are glad to do
it,"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

COMMISSIONER LOUIS BROWN
Low, President of the Board OF Com
missioners OF the District:
I'VE will reinstate employees who
entered the service wherever possible
and will BE only too glad to do it."
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

S. HART, manager, Lansbursh &
Bro:
"All men who were in the army and
who want to come back with us are
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

W. NJ. BALDERsToN, manager, S.
Kann Sons & Co.:
ave have notified the families of
men from our store who entered the
service that their positions are open
to them on their return. We consider
it an honor to have them working for
us"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

P. 7. MORAN, vice president lincoln
National Bank:
81 think l may speak for all the
directors Of the Lincoln National
Bank in assuring those Of the employees
of the institution who have fought
during the war their positions when
they return"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

PARIS c. GORDON. assistant man.
ager, Lafayette Hotel:
EVERY employee of the Lafayette
who left us to the enter the service
will find his position on his return.
We have thought of doing nothing
but this"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

MARK DoBRIN, manager of Col
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

JOHN B. COCHRAN, president of
the Franklin National Bank:
1.-The Franklin National Bank Is
ready to take back into its employ
the eighteen members OF the clerical
force who enlisted during the war.
They will be most welcome, because we
know the service they have rendered
their country in the great crisis"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05
MANAGEMENT OF
WILLARD

MANAGEMENT OF WILLARD
HOTEL:
1--WE are only too glad to allow the
men who entered the service to re-
turn to their old position We FEEL
proud of the men who went to fight,
and we stand ready to receive and
welcome them"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

C. NJ. COLLINS. manager, Shorehan
Hotel:
"If our employees who entered thu
service were doing good work wher
they left us, we will be only too glaG
to take them back"
The Washington times., 1918-12-05

E. C. OWEN, manager. Powhatan
Hotel:
"Our employees who are in the serv-
ice know that their positions will be
ready for them on their return. We
told them we would be ready to take
them back as soon as the war was
over. This was the understanding,
and It will be carried out"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09
War Savings Stamps on Sale on the
Streets.

The sale of war savings stamps or
the streets was interrupted by the
epidemic of influenza, and for sever
al weeks there was no street sale
until last Tuesday. Mrs. Flaum
opened up her table again then, ana
made good sales. The chairman OF
war savings says that he hopes and
expects that all the tables will be go
ing again on Saturday, and fron!
then on regularly.
The year has but eight more weeks
to run, and Sumter county is s200,-
600 behind in purchases the amount
pledged, and that was not half OF
what was asked for. There will have
to be some very heavy buying for ths
remainder of the month for the peo-
pie to show that they are living UP
to their promises.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09
WAR WORK CAMPAIGN.
Chamber of Commerce Organization.
Working at High Pressure to Get
it Started.

The Sumter Chamber Of Commerce
resenlbled the advertising car OF
Ringing Brothers Circus during the
past week with thousands OF large
and medium sized, but beautiful and
artistic Autographs, hundreds CT
bundles of different kinds OF iitera-
ture, pledge cards, folders. and other
advertising matter for the big first
United War Work Campaign which
begins next Sunday afternoon at 8
o'clock at the Academy of Music in
this city, and throughout Sumter
county. Chairman Of the county
Campaign w. B. Upshur was on hand
with the smile thta won't come off,
and getting a lot OF motion out Of the
organization machinery.
A force of the boy scouts and be-
sides a number Of gentlemen and
local and visiting Y. NJ. c. a. secre-
taries were busily engaged asserting
the mass of advertising matter, while
Chamber Of Commerce stencgraphers
and the secretary were writing or
mimeographing, folding, and address
ing thousands of letters to be mailed
out to white and colcred citizens over
this county, making hundreds of cop
les OF committee lists and instruc-
tons, ant doing other necessary pre-
E1ninary work to get the machinery
in good running order for a success
full campaign. Many meetings were
held in the rooms Of the commercial:
organizations, two meetings going on
p, f.
ings and colored meetings conferring
with general chairman, city chair
man, township and school district
chairman and with hundreds Of sub
committees Of both races over the en-
tire county.
It looks like next weeks cam
paign is going to be the most spec
tacular yet democratic campaign
pulled off since the United States
started in to turn the trick of max
ing the kaiser quit his job and max
President Wilson's ideas OF admitting
that they are licked to g. frazzle.
Messrs. A. C. Phelps and E. I.
Reardon, the chairmen in charge Of
the colored section of The United
War Work campaign for Sumter
county, have put in O. very busy week
organizing the colored people OF the
county. Several meetings of town
ship chairnlen have been held, thou
sands Of circulars, Autographs. and
hundreds Of letters and many bundles
of United War Work Campaign liter
ature have been mailed out.
It is hoped that numbers of meet
ings at colore6 churches will be held
next Sunday and during next Week
Rev. A. J. Andrews, r. w. Westberry,
DR.. J. j. Stark, Rev. ]. ID. Davis, DR..
L. Bragg Anthony, Of Sumter have
manifested great interest in the per
lection Of the county organization
ard are working hard to have the en-
tire county thoroughly organized by
next Sunday.
The following township commit
+aoc have hee0 SO far named anC
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09
Red Cross Work.
Iadies.

TofThe Ladies:
Mrs w d. Boykin phoned me Mon
day morning and requested that !
Sonae arottnd to the work room to see
how many ladies were helping her,
and there was one. She says this has
been the condition for some time; in
fact even officers Of the respective
days, do not attend. She said they
have not as yet made up as much as
,GIe-third of the October allotment.
fully realize for the past three Or
four weeks that there has been a
great deal of influenza in Sumter,
many OF the ladies have been sick, and
"a greet many others nursing the sick,
and could not help with these surgi-
cal dressings, but I understand the
inAuenza is about over, and those who
Mere sick are about recovered, and
thoseswto are out ought to help with
this work.
&c the ladies' now slack up with this
work and do not continue the strug-
gle they will place themselves in the
same position as the Turks. Bu1gar-
5ians and Austrians who have fallen.
down on their job. The army needs
more surgical dressings now than it
has eysr needed, because the fighting
has been exceedingly severe since
the 18th Of July and on the Western
front It is still going on and there
are a great many wounded soldiers
Who need these dressings. Will the
ladies' Of Sumter fail at this critical
moment to do {, everything in their
power to furnish these surgical dress
itsgs as rapidly as possible, in order
that the lives Of cur wounded SOL
diers may be saved?
certainly hope and expect that
Mrs. Boykin on Friday morning and
every morning thereafter, as long as
there is work to do, will find the
.werk room full of ladies who are will
ling and anxious to help.
There will be a lecture to the Ia
dies who are interested in this work
at the surgical dressings room Thurs
day afternoon at $50 o'clock. which
meeting will be addressed by Mr.. Ba-
ker along the line of the necessity Of
this work.
d. Jennings.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09
u. Nj. C. A. SECRETARY
Mr.. j. Young Todd Has Taker
Charge Of Sumter Young Men:
Christian Association.

The announcement was made sew.
eral weeks ago that Mr.. J. Youn:
Todd had been elected Secretary Of
the Sumter Y. NJ c. A, and woult
enter upon the discharge of his du-
ties in the near future. Circum
stances prevented Mr.. Young coming
to Sumter as soon as then anticipat
ed, but he arrived several days ago
and is now in charge and energeti
caily at work trying to get things il
shape and to lay the foundation fo.
the winters programme. Mr.. Todc.
said today that it was too soon t.
make any announcements as to hi
plans, for he had not had time to be
come familiar with the local situatio:
and to arrive at an intelligent under
standing of the paramount needs o
the work in Sumter. He is however
.ecgetically at work and expects. tt
have definite programme arrang
ed in the near future.
Mr.. Todd brings to the work ir
Sumter the experience gained by sew.
en- years active connection with Y
". C. A. work in Chicago and De.
oMines, going into the War Work o,
the Association from the latter place
Since last January he has been sta
toned at Camp Jackson, except for
part Of the time he was detailed TO:
Y. NJ. c.. A. recruiting work for the
overseas service. Mr.. Todd is ma
tive of Abbeville county and attend
ed Erskin College and Clemson, and
having decided to go int
the Y. NJ C. A. work attended the Y
NJ. c. A college at Chicago. For
several years he was connected witt
the association work in Chicago and
then went to Des Moines, Iowa.
Mr.. Todd is married and his wife
and two children will come to Sum-
ter in the near future.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09

The following casualties are report
ed from South Carolina: Died OF Us
ease, Luther Butler, Manning; Johnnie
Walters, Davis Station; Henry Z
Brown, Camden; Leo K. Farrow.
Fountain Inn; VIM. McNeal, Kershaw;
John Montgomery, Greeleyvilie
Wounded severely: Augustus Hen
derson, Abbeville; Craig w. Rocko-
holt, Charleston; Arthur eager.
Laurens Wounded. degree undeter-
mined, Ben Oliver, Eutawville. Died
of wounds, Vernon Grant, Midway
Washington. Nov. THE follow
ing casualties are reported by the
commanding general of the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces:
Killed IN action Soo
Died Of wounds. l65
Died from accident and other
causes
Died from airplane accident. -.
Died Of disease :. PA
Wounded severely :. -. -. lis
/ Wounded, degree undetermined Iii
Wounded slightly . 1853
Missing in action :. 123
PRISONERS
Total 1889
The! casualties reported from South
Carolina are as follows:
Killed in action: John H. Griffin,
White Stone; James D. Evans, Bish-
opvi!le; Died of disease. Albert Thom-
as, Trenton; Orvil S. Williams. Stecd-
Sparks, Parksville: Ward e.
Knight. Lancaster; Abraham Fielder.
Rem bery: Archie l.. Joiner, Pelion:
| W.. McClary, Kingstree; Sterling
Moore. Greenville; Sam Reese. Corn
we'll. Missing in action, Louis Bol o
Charleston: Present for duty. pre-
viously reported missing, Claude S
Bagwe1l, Belton.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09

The books of registration are in bac
shape and something should be done
to correct the glaring errors that were
brought to light when citizens pre-
sented themselves at the polls today
to cast their ballots. AS a result o.
these errors a number of citizens were
deprived Of the privilege of voting,
For instance the following citizens
duly registered in Ward were not
allowed to vote during the few min
utes the writer was at the polls ).
C. Cooper-his name was entered on
the book as c.. c. Cooper; w. 4. Par
ker. entered as M. r. Parker; j. k-
White, name not on the book. The
managers stated that they had to re-
fuse to let Capt A. C. Phelps vote be-
cause his name was entered as a. Z.
Phillips All of these men produced
registration certificates bearing serlal
numbers and signed by all OF the su-
pervisors of registration, but the
names entered on the book with the
corresponding numbers did not cor
respond with the names and initials
on the certificates. How many more
errors Of a similar nature a thorough
checking of the books would show. II
is impossible to estimate. The grand
Jury or somebody--if there is any enc
with the authority-shou!d investigate
the books Of registration and see th2'
they are purged of these unexcusablt
errors.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09
Dark Corner News.

Dark Corner, Nov. 81 viii at
tempt to write another line for the
rWatchman and Southron this morn
ing. There is not much news in this
neck Of the woods. Only sickness.
The f1u has been with us for the last
three weeks and very few houses have
escaped it. But there has been but
one death anywhere near here. Mrs.
Dom Geddings, formerly OF this
place died near Pinewood last Sat
urdaY. She was daughter Of the
late Joe NJ. Ards of this corner. She
is survived by her husband. three
little girls, a mother, three sisters
and two brothers TO mourn her
death.
Farmers have been retarded in
the gathering of their crops on ac-
couat of so much sickness
Mr.. B1anding Ards had to shut
down his ginnery and grist mill on
account of the lu as he and all Of his
family and his ginners were down at
one time with it. All Of Joe John
stoa's family, consisting Of ten, have
been laid up with the flu. Some CT
them the second time, but all seem
to be a little better at this writing.
Old Hard Times has had it and is
yet suffering with it.
Mr.. Jack n. Ards, who moved from
here te Lena, Hampton County, last
winter, has moved back, and expects
30 live. at Elmhill, the old home Of
Dry Joe.
The Sunday school and prayer
meeting at Elwelrs Chapel has been
shut down, for the last four weeks
Hope it will be so it can open up next
Sunday.
- T saw that I and J. E. Johnston
were to manage the federal election
at Bloemhill today, but neither of US
was able to attend. I hated it that
I was not able as I have managed sc
Tong. But I guess I will never man
age any more elections at Bloomhlll
as will move into Privateer after
this year is out I expect. and VII
leave the Dark Corner forever.
Hard Times.