davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
A Liberty Bond In Euery Workers Home

third Liberty loan subscription does not close until
May already given that the three billion dollar mini
greatly "A Liberty Bond Every
reality The third Liberty loan has
popular coming closer the people and
brought home Amer
bending only allied
the brutal and devastating
OF hordes.
Colorado have measured having
quota In fact before
subscription county Colorado will have
lover the top"
of Denver
large industrial plants business firms and
employees have reported subscrp
obtaining this gratifying result union labor teams
their Many thousands OF
during Liberty campaigns
had reached the
their duty do have purchased the
third Liberty loan Labor before since the
their patriotic duty only
for the fighting front and for the industries
Sam their savings order help win the
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
Herb George Is An ExpensiDe Infiction

George president of the socaled Denver
Employers suffered another attack of deirium
Colorado the there
otherwise this world would be
induced
shop him their
Herb had inserted the daily
the following malicious advertisement:
wANTED-MALE American mechanics who love
am Gompers We need
bcksmths, blemaker,
by STRIKE SLACKERS We do not
W. IS,
applyhe
such wall squad
AS 700 mahinists bolermaker black
smiths strike which will enable
families purchase food fuel clothing
These work basis
of made by board Prs
Wilson headed former President Taft for the employers
p Walsh employees This
IDENTIFY acting the advice of Herb George refused
This metal tradesen who quit work enforce
demand for living here left Denver employment
of these $50 week. this loss earning
Denver of $65o week. $3Ie8oo Five
hundred strike will leave unless
satisfactory this
will lose in earning capacity this least $oe2ooo So
will readily be that Herb George about
that inflicted upon any city.
Notwithstanding strike deprived of
opportunity of living they from their weekly
paid by their international Liberty
local unions subscribed ranging
$1,000 1t would be interesting Herb George
single Liberty bond
began There is visible evidence that he has.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27

To exact obedience from those situated be-
low by those situated above has been the result
of Kantian ethics, comfortable doctrine for
those in power, for the rich. The MARKHAM
doctrine is appeal to the poor, and like
everything distinctly German, makes for au-
thority. Its acceptance not only in Germany,
but in other countries, makes it important that
the errors therein be exposed.
Before one can understand how so many
people otherwise rational could accept such
peculiar doctrine, one must go back little
into history.
The invention of machinery propelled by
steam began in the latter part OF the eighteenth
century. Before that time the poverty and
hardships of labor could be easily accounted
for by the lack of wealth produced. With
every productive force exerted famine and
want could not be prevented. Production was
so limited that society was seldom but few
PAGES ahead of starvation. With the advent
of steam, it was believed that wealth produc-
ton could be increased so as to forever Danish
want. After seventy years of waiting, the
economists of the early '4os found the pro-
duetive power of labor had been increased
twenty-seven fold. The wages of labor dur
ing the same period had not increased at ALL
What could explain a situation SO startling,
an anomaly so monstrousP Many the
theories regarding it. Many were the plans
proposed to change this condition. The best
one was proposed by P. J. Proudhon a
bare outline was as follows: Labor produces
all wealth. In the process of production, there
is enacted unearned increase by the land
lord for the use OF the SOIL and by the capi-
<alist for the of his capital. The proper
tion that this tribute bears to the total product
determines the proportions of the product left
unsold. The excess of products waiting to be
sold equals the excess of labor waiting to be
employed. In other words, if 100 has been
produced and the purchasing power of labor
is but 95, the unsold goods must represent 5,
and as a result 5 out of every 100 workers
must be idle. This idle man in every
twenty competing with the other nineteen
who are employed is sufficient to keep wages
down to the bare cost of subsistence, no matter
how rich the country may be. The problem
is, how to employ this twentieth man. How
to keep him from competing with those en-
ployed.
One thing sure, he must be given per-
manent employment, and to do this labor's
wages must absorb the whole product The
unearned increase must disappear. Proudhon
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
MEN NOW FIGHTING IN TRENCHES WILL
COME BACK HOME FREED FROM SERFDOM

as Minnesota is concerned. had been a
"ghastly failure" Yet the Twin Cit
les, in which the trade union move
ment has most heartily lined up with
the organized farmers, have had no
trouble with mobs or disorder.
Will State Welcome Labor?
Question arises-will the state Off
cials refuse to welcome the A. F. of
l.. convention to st. Paul, as they re-
fused to welcome, and openly de-
nounced, the farmers who met with
the trade unionists to nominate their
state ticket for the June primaries
Will they try to prevent the hold
ing of the convention?
1t may very easily happen that
President Wilson will take steps to
bring the state officials TO more
reasonable and civil frame of mind
He approves the farmers movement,
and his sympathy with the labor strug-
gle needs no reinstatement.
No Report of Wage Board
No report has yet been made by
the railroad wage board, altho it had
expected to report three weeks ago
In the meanwhile the employees along
the lines are being enrolled in the
unions of shopmen and trackmen and
clerks in increasing numbers. The
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
JOHN BARLEYCORN'S DOOM Is NEAR
Editorial in Duluth Labor World.

John Barleycorn is fast climbing
on the water wagon with the rest
of US old tanks, by compulsion if not
from choice. He was handed several
severe wallops this week and in places
on his wasted carcass where he little
expected it.
Old John has gotten more out of
the traffic than any of us who played
the game with him. When we lost
he won. Now he is losing and the
whole nation is rejoicing in his down.
fall. He has few sympathizers out
side of his hackers, seconds and time
keepers, and even they will turn
against him when he takes the final
count and they discover how much
more satisfactory it is to ply their
energies in life-giving rather than in
death-dealing avocations.
Barleycorn is a versatile old rooster.
He has written comedies and trage-
dies, burlesques and melodramas, all
at the same time and with the same
pen dipped in the same concoction.
He has produced more monologue ar
lists than all other agencies on earth,
their incoherent, rambling soliloquies
resounding thru prison cells and in
sane wards of every cline. He has
made buns out of bankers, merchants
and professional men. He has taken
top-notch factory workers from their
machines, mechanics from their
benches, laborers from fields and
clerks from their desks, and sent them
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
German Socialism Jane. By s,onaon

reached the conclusion that this unearned in.
rested the monopoly OF land and
credit and with the land made free and credit
organized mutually the problem would be
solved thru freedom. This theory was gam
ing favor in France when Karl Marx, the
socialist writer, began his writing. Marx
claimed private ownership OF capital caised
the evils above mentioned and the present
system would fall of its own weight and the
remedy was for the state to conhscate all capi-
tai and to establish socialist state, and have
1t conduct, operate and manage all produc-
ton and distribution and therefore of neces-
sity regulate many activities which are
left to the free choice of the individual.
That an idea so thoroly in accord with the
sheepish German instinct of obedience should
have large following in Germany is natural,
but that even few people in England, France
and America should adopt socialism Made
in Germany"-is strange
The explanation is-the questions OF land
and money require thought and investigation,
so mutualism has Jagged whereas socialism
presents a quick solution for those who do not
want the bother OF thinking working out
condition which requires both thought
and effort
1t is much easier when difficult problem
presents itself to say, let the state solve it, than
to solve it yourself. Socialism appeals to the
slovenly thinker who theories about it just
the same it does to the incompetent worker
who wants state to take OF him, because
he wants to get rid OF the responsibility OF
doing it himself.
have contended for years that the authori-
tartan nature of socialism would manifest the
first time the socialists had an opportunity,
and enough it came In Germany the
socialist party, just before the war voted for
the great budget which made it possible
tor the kaiser to go to war. No one knew
better than they that there was nothing to
fear from the poor corrupt Russian empire
which had not recovered from the Japanese
war. And they knew there was no danger OF
invasion from the West. They voted for
aggressive war, thus lining themselves up
with imperialism, the worst form OF authority.
When America entered the war after three
years of imperialistic aggression against
smaller and more liberal states, the socialists
here took attitude against the war by
vote of ten to one. In Germany they voted
for invasive warfare, in America they voted
against defense warfare. This friendship for
authority and autocracy glaringly shown
in both instances must forever stamp them as
enemies OF freedom.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
Continued from Page one)

the national capital. Paul Scharren-
berg of the Seamen's Journal, San
Francisco, came here at the invitation
of the secretary of labor, to under
take confidential and important in
euiry which will benefit the workers
in war industries. r. ID. Cramer of
the Minneapolis Labor Review came
to present to the secretary of labor
the request of organized labor in the
Twin Cities for federal aid in safe
guarding their right to wear their
union buttons, when this right was
challenged by the Minnesota public
safety commission. Clint C. Houston
of The Denver Labor Bulletin stopped
over in Washington to consult Samuel
Gompers and other labor officials,
after having helped to win twenty
cities and towns in New York state
for the "drys" in the recent local
option campaign Houston brought
his story of "dry" Colorado to the
East, and talked to big audiences in
five cities; four of these voted out the
saloons.
Situation in Minnesota.
If the fiery denunciations of dis
loyalty" made by Judge McGee of
the Minnesota public safety commits
sion before Senator Chamberlain's
committee, yesterday, mean anything,
they mean that a very serious situa-
ton in the labor movement Of Mime
sofa must be faced by the A. f. of l..
convention when it meets in st. Paul
on the second Monday in June.
McGee says that either there must
be firing squads, created under mar
tial law, in Minnesota, to put down
sedition and disloyalty, or there is
danger that the citizens will take law
into their own hands. He denounces
not only the socialists, but the Non
partisan League, the farmers organi-
cations which last month met in joint
political convention with the delegates
of the trade unions of the state, and
nominated a state ticket to be voted
for in the primaries on June 10.
Hostile to the Farmers.
The A. F. of l.. convention will be
in st. Paul when those primaries are
held. Organized labor and the or
ganized farmers are making an at
tempt to defeat the old political
gangs in Minnesota, and McGee and
his public safety commission are hos
tile to them. In nearly score of
rural counties the holding Of any of
their political meetings has been for
hidden. In one instance a speaker
from the United States committee on
public information was refused per-
to come in and speak, on the
ground that application for permis-
sion was made thru the Nonpartisan
League. State authorities have be-
come incensed at the endorsements
given the nonpartisans and the trade
unionists by each of the spokesmen
Of President Wilson who have visited
in the past year, are now
determined to have their own way,
regardless. MCGEE said that the work
of the department Of justice, SO far
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27

emaciated in body and crushed in
spirit to the gates of hell, and gloated
over their ruin. He has turned pal
aces into novels as il by magic. He
has transformed happy cottages into
miserable huts with the mere waving
of his poisonous wand. Jealous of
the bloom and beauty of youth, he
has fiendishly plucked the blossoms
before their time, and looked on un-
concerned while the human plants
wasted and died. Like the man with
the withered arm, he has stood un-
moved at the widows and orphans he
has made. He has drowned cheers
with tears, turned joys into sorrows,
brought suffering where happiness
and prosperity dwelt, and cheated life
of its sweetness and fragrance.
This monster, whom men defend MS
some do his living prototype across
the Rhine, is now being called before
the bar of judgment to answer for his
multi-crimes. The South has tried
and convicted him. The West has
sent him to perdition with loud ac-
claim. The North has pronounced his
doom. 1t is left to the East to COM
plete the job and drive him from the
nation entirely. Massachusetts,, the
staid old conservative Bay state, has
spoken. All New England will rem
der the same verdict, as will the peo-
pie OF Minnesota next November.
Goodbye, John Barleycorn, we see
your finish. You are soon TO be num-
bered among the evils that were.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
CAMP AT Fl. T.LOGAN
CONTINUED from Page one)

Continued from Page One)
camp would be tributary to the Middle
West and West, and greatly reduce
fares and long rides for the soldiers.
Mass Meeting Is Planned.
The labor committee has written
Governor julius C. Gunter, asking
permission to present the matter to
the Colorado council of defense. Off
cials of the Denver Civic Associa-
tion were approached by Mr.. Kene-
han, who urged cooperation in the
movement.
Plans are under way for mass
timent for the proposed camp is to be
crystallized. The fact that -696 Colo
RADIO men are to be given training at
Fort Logan in the May 10 draft is
an indication that facilities are ideal,
the committee believes.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27

older union men are impatient for,
the wage award. in order that they
may feel secure in buying Liberty
loan bonds on payments. Those just
joining the unions are anxious TO buy
bonds and to make fair showing
during the war. It seems to be the
general opinion that every day the
war continues makes more impossi-
BILE the return of the roads to private
control
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
GET $4,000. 900 IN BACK PAY.
Rail Men to Benefit When McAdoo
Approves Wage Commission.

Seventy-five million dollars, il was
estimated in railway administration
way men of the country as back pay
when Directr General McAdoo ap-
proves the findings of the railway
wage commission.
This figure was based upon the gen.
orally conceded belief that the COM
mission will grant general increases
of 20 per cent 1t already has been
made known that any increase allowed
will be retroactive to January /.
Secretary McAdoo will make formal
announcement on his return to Wash
ington from the Liberty loan cam
paign.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27

And to add to all our other troubles,
remember that the spring poets are
just in the offing.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-10-12
WARWICK

Mrs. S. D. Wilson, of near town.
spent last week with Rev. J. W. Link
and wife. in Aceomac, Va.
We are glad to report that Mrs.
Almeda Moore, who has been sick with
the influenza, is able to be out.
MIR. and Mrs. Howard Philips. of
Wilmington, spent Sunday with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. P. King.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Price. of
Wilmington, were Sunday guests of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Price. Z
Mrs. William Vinyard is spending this
week with her sister, Mrs. Maxev
Bland. near Wilmington, who is on the
sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Vineyard. of
Carney's Point, N. j.. were week-e
guests of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mr; and Mrs. Guy johnson and
daughter, Sara Jane. of Chesapeake
City. are spending this week with her
mother, Mrs. V. L. Vinyard.H
We are glad to report that Mr..
Charles Stearns, who was hurt quite
painfully six weeks ago while painting
near Town Point, is able to be out.
The schools and churches were order
ed closed on Wednesday last by the Board
of Health, to help check the influenza
which is prevailing throughout the
country.
Mrs. Mary Lofland returned home
last week after an extended visit with
Philadelphia relatives. She was ac-
companied home by her daughter. Mrs.
D. S. Cannon and Miss Nan Davis. both
of Philadelphia.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-10-12
ODESSA

Mr.. Frank Valentine, of Chester.
visited relatives here last week.
Mr.. Frank Tucker, of Wilmington.
spent Sunday with relatives in town.
Mrs. Charles Bush and Mrs, Ballard
Lodge and son left this week for Macon
Ga
Mrs. Mary Shoule and Mrs. H. Morris
visited Wilmington friends one day last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ward afforded
the funeral OF their son Harry at Chester
last week.
Mr.. George Croft. of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
Eliza Croft.
Miss Helen Wallace. of Wilmington,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Wallace.
Mrs. G. L. Townsend has left to
spend the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. E. G. Cook, at Wilmington.
Misses Blanche West, Grace Nc
Laurey. Minnie Armstrong, and Naomi
Morgan are visiting their parents here.
closed by the order of the State Board
of Health owing to the epidemic of
Spanish Influenza.
have returned to their home in Viii
mington after spending the summer
with Mrs. M. r. Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Heller attended
the funeral Of their little nephew. son
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Yearsley at
Port Penn, on Saturday last.
The funeral of Joseph r. Heldmyer,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Heldmyer of
this town was held at his late home in
Mid0letown on Tuesday afternoon.
Interment at Drawers Cemetery.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-10-12
TOWNSEND

DIR. J. D. Niles and family are spend-
ing two weeks with his mother, in Penn
sylvania.
Mrs. Russell Townsend, of Blackbird.
spent the weekend with her sister.
Mrs. John W. Guessford
Mr.. Ray Lockerman, of Lewes. is
sick at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. B. G. Lockerman.
There have been 60 cases of the
Spanish Flu in town. We are glad to
report that they are all improving.
Mrs. Sallie Watts has returned home.
after spending sometime with her
friend, Mrs. Richard Brockson, at
Blackbird.
Mrs. George Slant was called to
Philadelphia to see her sister, Mrs.
Charles Larrimore, who is very low
with the influenza. Her daughter.
Norma. 16 years old, died last Sunday.
Deputy Great Sathem. Edward Shets-
Ter, Sr.. raised the following chiefs of
Mohawk Tribe, No. IS. on Thursday
evening: Profit, George w. Naylor:
Sachem. ]. w. Fennemore; Senior 80
amore. n: w. vanHon: Junior Sara.
more, William p. Wilson.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-10-12
SOME SUGGESTIONS

Ever and anon the Scribe hears valu-
able suggestions on the street. Here
are few recent ones. The other day
the wife of well-known gentleman on
West Main told how conductor. or
some train official, spoke rudely to a
soldier whose baggage was taking up
more than usual room; she thereupon
come to his defence, patriotically offer
ed to get another seat, etc.-the point
being her attempt to express her re
spec for the national livery, which we
all should 90 on every possible occasion.
Another lady ON West Main, whose
lingering ''in maiden meditation, fancy
free" has deprived some poor man of
home delights, and whose spicy tongue
reminds one of Rosallnd, makes the ex-
cellent suggestion that we civilians sa-
lutte the khaki every time we see it, as
expressing our appreciation of the
sublime sacrifice the wearer is about to
make that We may in peace and safety
enjoy all the blessings Of life.
Here's a third suggestion. Rev. p
L. Donaghay wishes some place might
be provided where our young men
guests FROM the sbell-loading plant may
resort evenings and amuse themselves.
For the moment. perhaps the best
thing they can do is to hold their curb
stone parties in the open where the
germicidal fresh air will keep them
from the influenza germs; but the grip
is not going to last much longer, and
later. when the thermometer gets way
down. haunting the streets will be i'm
possible.
Can't some good Samaritans offer
room with heat and light and few
papers. books, games, writing ma
terials, etc., to help these dolefulIy
homeless ones while away the tedium
Of the long winter nights? Come now.
We charitable ones, let's have bit of
charity right here at home.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-10-12
Hour To Be Given Back

The hour which dropped from the lives
of every man, woman and child in this
country at o'clock on the morning of
March 31st. laAt. will be handed back by
the United States Government at one
O'Clock on the morning of Sunday.
October 9th. next, when the ''dayIight
saving plan'' comes to its official end.
The plan has been q wonderful! success
in all sections of the country and there
are very few people who have not been
pleased with the change. There was at
first considerable objection to it. and
even after it became a legal actuality.
some persons kept two. clocks in their
homes. one set up an nour, and the other
giving the old or solar time But even
with these few objectors, the plan has
worked more successfully than even the
sponsors had hoped.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-10-12
OBITUARY
JOSEPH. B. HELDMYER

Cut down by the dread disease pneu-
monia, Joseph R. Heldmyer, one of
Middletown's young. energetic business
men departed this life at five o'clock on
Sunday morning. aged 80 years. With
everything to live for his death has
created feeling of sadness throughout
the community. Apparently enjoying
good health but few days before his
death, full of life, energetic and atten-
tive to his meat and produce business.
he was one of the solid men of our town.
He leaves beside his widow. Miss Elser
of Gloucester, N. j., two small children.
an aged father and mother, of Odessa,
two brothers, George and John. and
many warm friends to mourn his death.
To add to the sadness his wife was very
I'll With the influenza at the time of his
death, but we are informed she is now
''getting along nicely" under the care
Of q trained nurse. Funeral services
were held at his late residence, West
Main street, on Tuesday afternoon at
2 o'clock, DR.. F. H. Moore. of Forest
Presbyterian Church. having charge.
Interment being at Old Drawers ceme-
terry, near Odessa. The pall-bearers
were: e. NJ. Shslleross, J. G. Cleaver,
D. w. Steyens. Jas, T. Shallcross, J.
+. Lewis and J. r Carpenter. Jr,
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-10-12
Oysters Get Rest

The world war is giving oysters in the
Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries a
long-needed rest, because it has created
a labor shortage so serious that dredge
boats cannot be manned. Even if crews
were obtainab!e the high wages are be-
yond the purses of vessel owners.
Because of conditions which will
make dredging almost impossible dur
ing the present season, oysters will be,
as they now are. luxury this winter,
and, in fact, until the war ends and
labor conditions again become normal.
Such oysters as will be in the market
will comeSfrom Virginia and from the
tongers' beds in the tributaries Of the
bay. The industry will be still further
hampered by the new draft, which has
called to arms owLers and masters OF
vessels and their native crews.