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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-02-22
SAM GOhIPERS SHOWS SCALES OF
JUSTICE ARE UNEVENLY BALANCED

three decision it sought to "outlaw"
the labor movement and to make
illegal constructive organization for
industrial justice and greater happi-
ness among wage earners.
In the past 20 years a transforma-
ton has come in the lives of the
coal miners-the agency through
which this was accomplished was
the organized labor movement. To
deny any group the use of that
agency is to forbid progress. To
deny workers the right of associated
action is to leave them with no pro-
lection against employers ignorance
or greed. Employers greed is no
creation of imagination. Read the
statement of one who has had ma
tional and worldwide opportunities
for information. In this address
to the congress December 2, Presi-
dent Wilson said "The law of sup
ply and demand, l am sorry to say,
has been replaced by the law of un-
restrained selfishness."
And yet the supreme court seeks
to revive an eighteenth century re-
striction upon the freedom of work.
ers at time when the atmosphere is
charged with new concepts of asso-
ciated effort, new ideals of human
justice in political as well as indus
trial relations. Pressure of thinking
to meet new, gigantic emergencies
has made concepts fluid preparatory
to precipitation in larger molds. At
such time the supreme court seeks
to superimpose conditions of the pre-
vious century and take from workers
that which makes freedom real.
This effort to victimize the coal
miners, through their representatives,
the officers of the United Mine Work
ers, comes when the government is
doing its utmost to meet an extraor-
binary emergency that is causing ter
rible suffering in civil life and is Sc
riously impending war plans.
The union miners have been doing
their level best to help the govern
ment. They have tried to prevent in
terruption of production by securing
agreement that would prevent dissat-
isfaction; they have purchased lib
erty bonds amounting to hundreds of
thousands of dollars; twenty thou
sand of their members are in the
military and naval fighting forces.
The United Mine Workers have Of
fered the republic their earnings,
their services in the mines, and their
lives.
Are not that loyalty and that re-
lationship of value to the government
at any time and particularly in the
present critical time?
Is there not just reason for trying
to encourage a cooperation so neces-
sary to maintain a basic industry :?
Would not proper understanding
and wise craftsmanship dictate an
industrial policy that would mobilize
good will behind national program
How can good will be maintained if
fundamental justice is denied and
bald, cruel injustice is imposed?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-02-22
By President Gompers in American
Federationist)

BY President Gompers IN American
Federationist)
On January the United States SUI
preme court, upon the motion of the
attorney general, continued to the
next term of court hearings in the
antitrust cases against the Inter
national Harvester Company of New
Jersey, United States Steel Corpora
ton, Eastman Kodak Company OF
New Jersey, Quarker Oaks Company
and the American Can Company.
On January IA the United States
Supreme Court ordered Frank j
Hayes, John L. Lewis, William Green,
John Moore, William Roy, Joe Kream-
er, d. w. Lewis, Pete Bartoric, Mike
Stefanski, Steve Kachinski and 9th
ers of the United Mine Workers of
America, to appear before it March
4, "to show cause why they should
not be adjudged guilty of a con-
tempt of this court and of Its au-
thority and punished accordingly
A most remarkable contrast.
Great corporations treated with le-
niency.
Drastic action against organizations
of workers.
Official reason assigned for the
policy toward trusts was based on
war emergency. That the govern
ment in time of stress may not
meet with competition from private
enterprises. in its financial operations
and the flotation of it's loans. In or
der to secure the cooperation of cap
ital the treasury department felt
constrained to urge that all private
financing on a large scale shall be
avoided as far as possible in order
that the government may absorb the
supply of new funds available for
investment in the United States dur
ing the period of the war.
This policy of the supreme court is
the result of complete failure to un-
derstand the fundamentals of win.
ming this war. Is it not generally
recognized that it is indispensable
for success to have the loyalty and
the support of those who work?
The government can eliminate OBJ.
streperous employers by comman.
deering their industries, but ever
then it can not dispense with work.
ers.
Through the channels of the labor
movement the principles involved If
the attack of German militarisn
upon world freedom have been pre-
scented to Americas workers, ant
labor has taken an intelligent, force
full stand behind the nations repre-
sentative, President Wilson.
Without the labor movemet Amer
ica's workers would have been the
helpless victims of alien propaganda
which has flooded the country, anc
would have been driven to anarchistit
methods. The governments funda
mental problem is then to retain the
loyal cooperation offered by labor
organizations.
The policy of the supreme court is
in direct opposition. By a six tc
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-02-22
Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, Sc

We have repair shop in connec-
ton with store and have an expert
repair man in charge of same. We
make speciality of repairing motor
cycles, bicycles. typewriters, cash
registers. guns and revolvers. We
also do lock, safe and key work. TEL
ephone and we will call for your
work and return same when repaired
at Arthur A. Baily's Sporting Goods
and Hardware Store Both Phones 7b
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-02-22
THAT'S AWFUL

"A German paper called legisla-
tor, member of the Reichstag, a
"Hungerfrei dehresolutionsmehre
Observation-Disclosures" Just suppose
someone attached that name to Bob
LaFollette. Well, there would be a
strange face in Hall right, all
right, mighty quick. THE Square
Deal.
That German editor is reminded
that dueling still goes in Deutsch-
land.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-02-22

The power Of the union label is
proved by its progress. The union
label signifies the application in in
industrial life of those rules which
every good citizen applies in indi-
vidual life cleanliness, morality,
honesty, chivalry toward women, and
care for the young.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
British City in Chicken Business.

from United States Consular Reports
IN view OF the great shortage and high
price OF fresh e the health committee
OF the city of Bradford established last
May a poultry farm which promises to be
a profitable enterprise. II ts said to be
the first municipal poultry farm in the
country. 1t is estimated that about 10000
eggs per annum are needed to meet the
demands of the medical institutions main.
tained by the municipality.
The farm is situated in the grounds of
the 'Bierley Hall sanatorium for consump-
tives. and covers some six acres. wei,
sheltered from the winds, thus forming a
good rearing ground for chickens. The
houses. 10 In number. for the birds are
built upon the latest and most approved
principles. There are about 800 birds on
the farm. the breeds being white Leg
norns. white Wyandottes. Rhode Island
reds. black Leghorns and Anconas.
With an estimate OF 16O eggs per annutn
for 500 hens-the Wyandottes and Leg
horns are Of Barron's strain. which has
a record OF 20 to 20 eggs per
production is believed will reach sO.OOo
eggs per annum.
The farm buildings Include i~ncubators.
food stores (where food is hoisted in by q
crane and runs down from the store by
galvanized iron shoots to each bin in the
mixing house below, and an 4 house
where there are nine tanks for the storage
OF 5000 eggs The preservatiye used is
water glass.
the initial outlay for the farm was
S.l64. The annual expenditures for rent.
wages. FOOD. repairs, gas, coal and other
eunurieS. including Depreciation for plant
10. per cent. are estimated at 81. 246. and
the income from eggs 10000 at 4 cents.
nov the actual price today 10 more
than double that, chickens. ekgx for set
tinss. n stock birds II figured at =. 1891.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
The Lady Of the Lath,.

q EIOul Tic S1NCltlUatl 11no8-StaH,
Women are gradually taking many yo-
cational places of men in this country
In restaurants It is a female voice that
your order in the raucous lar
o which Is the vocal cipher between
waiter and cook. The number OF travel
'iEg saleswomen who AVE taken the place
of "drummers'' serving their country IL
surprising. Already the elevator girl, the
postwoman and the female conductor
have become familiar figures in the news
Photographic. II not in the actual contact
Of our daily life. But the figures issued
by the British government rs to female
employment are none the less surprising.
Over 10000 women have undertaken
mems work since the beginning OF the
war. and of these 6N. 900 are engaged in
the manufacture OF munitions. win the
additional employment OF women reach
proporlonate figures in this country? The
answer to the question must, OF course,
depend on the duration OF the war. But
EnSland's great problem and our own. IL
% great m invasion Of our Industries BY
women occurs. - the disposition Of this
new form Of labor after peace comes. or
course. casualties will leave an oppor-
tunity for part Of this Amasonian indus.
trial army 20 remain intact: But the COM
petition with the other sex win be keen.
These female laborers have tasted . nev
Independence. They ave acquirsA tech.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
Germany Can Be Starved.

FROM fnySlcal culture.
The Germans, with their colossal mill
tary preparedness. failed miserably at one
point. They had soldiers and guns galore,
but they were short of fat. No provision
had been made in their domestic agricul-
vegetable fats. When importatfons were
shut off and the quantities of livestock
were reduced as Il matter of economizing
grain food. the Germans both industrially
and dietetically suffered acutely from fat
%privation. Their laboratory food scientists
had told the military authorities thai car
~bohydrates were dietetic equivalents of
fat. Through the means of most painful
experience the Germans FOUND out the sci
entiSts had been mistaken, and smuggling
fat into Germany today is as profitable as
shipping whisky to Alabama the week
before Christmas.
In America we have no such problem of
the shortage of fats. AS a byproducts of
our cotton industries we nave an annual
production of 150. 600. 900 gallons Of oil and
we have the soil and climate suitable for
the production OF other vegetable fats.
Among the most promising OF such fat
producing crops is the soy bean. The soy
bean Ia a sort of vegetable livestock. All
the arguments in favor of livestock apply
to this distinctive plant. Its growth en-
riches the soil by the extraction OF nitro
gen from the air, hence 1t is a source of an
actual gaining in soil fertility. The soy
bean in our southern states yields 30
bushels to the a~cre--one-thfrd of the prod
uct being oil and another third protein.
Both elements are excellent human foods
and it is only u question of learning how
to work them up into palatable form.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
Bismarck Stands Pat.

From the New York Evening Posi-.
The refusal of the governor of Norta
Dakota to help change the name of ;he
capital, on the ground that Bismarc has
been out of German; politics for some time
and had nothing to do with the present
trouble" is in Keeping with the spirit
which mas characterized that political Gems
ter from the beginning. The confidence
OF these westernerS is superb wrot.
Bryce in The American Commonwealth"
and he pointed his remark by an account
Of his visit to Bismarck upon the occasion
of the laying of the cornerstone OF tn"
capitol. Among the speeches, he noted.
was one in which it was proved that. as
Bismarck was the center OF Dakota Da-
kota was the center of the United States.
and the United States the center of tina
world, Bismarck was destined tn be thu
metropolitan hearth OF the worlds civil
lZatlon. What struck our British visitor
most forcibly. however, was the fact that
the spot chosen for the capitoI was not
in the city. nor even on the skirts of the
city: it was nearly a mile off. On the, tor,
OF ii hill in the brown and dusty prairie.
why here?" We asked. is it be
cause you mean to enclose the build
ing In a public park" 'By no means:
the capitol is intended to be in the
center of the city: it is in this direction
that the city is to grow"
Bismarck has been a generation i'm ac-
cumulatine a population of 5000. and can
hardly yet be termed the metropolitan
hearth of the worlds civilization, but who
Will deny that it's selfconfidence is worthy
of the doughty statesman whose name it
bears?
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
SHAVING AND CUTS.

rms article is founded upon the story
1T a man who cut his face in shaving
On Christmas day. The next day he
nad what was thought might be a
shitil boil AT the point of injury. Within
~ hours he had what was thought TO
ne erysipelas. He died the following
saturday night, four days later.
NrySipclaS is due to "A S~treptococcus
which is closely related 10 the pus
Strcptococclis and somewhat related to
'he pneumococcus. This strcptococcus
an I'VE on the dry surface of cloth
or in the meshes of a shaving brush. 1t
commonly enters the body thr ugh min
or breaks in the skin and extends along
toe lymphatics just below the surface.
The incubation period is three to scy-
m days. That is after the coccus gets
INTO the wound. Three days or more
aihtkse before it becomes adapted there
ana starts to spread TO the tissues
trouui the entrance point.
hrysipelas Is a fever. The fever, as
IS the case with most fevers, may start
Dith a chill and vomiting. 1t runs pret-
~ high, generally around 1o3. I'm - per
'ent OF the cases erysipelas starts on
the face or head.
The outstanding symptom OF erysipe-
ms IS eruption. The naine for the dis
Ease, which comes to us from the DAYS
Of legend and mystery. is ST. Anthony's
ire II looks like Il fire. and il feels
The part, The kin is a flaming red.
WITH long red fingers stretching out
l,ke scouts for an invading army. The
affected parts are very much swollen.
md the general n~eighborhood also
swclis.
For instance, in IN erysipelas of The
rae" the red wave marches across the
skin, causing great swelling of the in
vaded area. AT the same time there is
considerable swelling of head regions
not directly affected by the red wave
The ave can MAINLY o. tho rod ,-n .,P
progressing infection. but the patient
will tell you that the disease exists in
q belt some distance outside the red
boundary. Pain and tenderness outline
the disease better than does the red
ness.
Somewhere about the 10th day the
fever drops rather suddenly. and the
feuneSS begins to fade. When the dis
ease is located in the face and head de-
iirium Is liable to be a symptom.
In spite of the kinship between tie
streptococcus of erysipelas and that OF
pus erysipelas seldom causes assesses.
fus is said to form in only one-six-
teenth of the cases. Assesses throw |
doubt on the diagnosis. Edwards says
mat gangrene occurs only one in each
.oo cases. In spite of the kinship be-
tween the cocci OF the two diseases.
neumoni is a rare complication.
ErySipelas is not a very fatal disease |
ana should lie isolated and quarantined
Just as scarlet fever is. This is the
custom in places where there is a we'll
developed health department.
Eryslpelas is not a very fatal disease.
n mortality is less than 8 per cent.
When a person gets sick of the disease
me chances are 35 to / that he will re-
cover.
am very much disposed to think
mar the man in this case died from
not erysipe,as. as 1 will show
tomorrow.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
Treatina The Halifax. Blind,

VIC y dUNGC JVUFn6T.
Hopeful reports. were made :byiDr. Ed.
ward M. Van Cleve. managing director Of
she national committee for the prevention
or blindness. on the situation among the
bNnd IN Halifax. The blizzard of glass
that came with the explosion, he said. had
for Its victims nearly 100 persons who ar.
totally blind. as well as about 400 praties1t.
whose final recovery Of sight is doubtful.
many of whom are certain to be blind I'm
n eye. MFR. Van Cleve gave great credit
to the ~ specialists who hurried TO Hall.
taH. Declaring that their promptness re
suited in saving the sight of rna,J vic
tins. One surgeon removed II eyeballs I'm
one day. The work has now been ,svs-
tematized and with the approval OF the
government a clinic is to be es-
tablished for the care Of patients who
rave q chance to fully or partially re.
cover their sight. -
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
Spanking Hubby.

FROM the New York Herald.
No so long ago-but apparently long
enough in the opinion of one martyr-th,.
Herald published a letter in which the
forth. 1t was explained that the writer
had suffered with a husband of no i'm
portance for many years. but thai finally.
owing to a suggestion. she had decided to
place the struggling little coward across
her Knees OH occasion and use her own
judgment. Results: One heart side Jewel,
who neither smoked. drank, swore,
whistled nor spoke oul OF his turn. IL
appears that when this determined. wom-
ans letter reached Brooklyn. some UNI
identified won1;ll1. whose husbandi OBJ
NiouslN fears TO reveal her name. was i'm
pressed by 1t 1t may be that she never
helpmate from the floor and viewing him
from a new angle. but ii is apparent that
she began to consider il, and that at this
moment there ives in the borough of
brooklyn one husband who hides a great
and singing rebuke. The other day he
stood up at the mantal shelf in the mod
erniZed home and wrote. the following
brief note:
,To the Editor of the Herald: You
did wrong in publishing that article
about the New jersey wife who
spanked her husband. Such articles
Iillt wrong notions in women'S heads.
OF course. opposition from the seat of
fcctly obvious that an occasional suuawk
from a. d%inlinutive victim cannot hold the
great thrust back. The problem lies be-
fore every wife. clear but baggy. And the
time has come to strike i'm the right dire,-
ton.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21

Above-British forces inside gates
of Jerusalem, General Al!enby salut-
ing near center (1), a French officer
(2), and an Italian officer ~. Be-
low-General A'Ienhy entering Jaffa
gate.
The wrestling of Jerusalem from the
way of the Turk is one of the most
historic events in the history of Chris
tendon and these photographs, the first
to arrive showing the British in con-
troll. suggest u new and colorful chapter
in the history of the Christian faith.
The top photo depicts the entry of
The British forces into Jerusalem. Gen.
idmund III. III. Allenby. commander of
the forces, is saluting. Eehind him is
a French officer and still further back
an Italian officer.
The lower photo shows General AL
lenby er.ering Jerusalem through tho
Jaffa gate on foot. carrying out the
custom of the Crusaders. who, centur-
les before. delivered the Holy City
from the infidels.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
Genesis of the Torpedo.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
On the morning of January 10, 1778. men
pacing the decks of the British warships
lying in the Delaware below Philadelphia
saw a number of kegs floating down the
river in masses Of ice. A boat was
launched to pick them up. in the hope that
they might contain something of value.
Just as the boat was being swung loose
a strange thing happened. One of the
kegs, striking an ice cake. blew up with
water as high as the mastheats Of the
vessels.
AT once there was the widest excite
ment. Drums were beaten: troops on
shore We're hurried to the rivers edge.
Guns from the ships and from the shore
wer trained upon the kegs. The
aiding and fire of small arms gave the
impression that the 'rebels' were at
lacking the city. Two or three kegs. NIT
by cannon shot. blew up. For days the
firing continued.
Thus-in what is Historically known as
the battle of the kegs--did the trop.do
make its first appearance i'm warfare. Its
utilization was quoted by the British as
Illustrative of american devilishness."
The inventor Of the Internal continuance
was Captain Davi Bushnell. who manu-
featured the key torpedoes at Bordentown
N. j. He filled each key with Kerosene.
to ignite which there was a plunger that.
when struck. scraped a Mint on steel.
Fulton. the man who made the steam
boat. invented four kinds OF torpedoes.
and took them to France in 1912 with the
notion of selling them. But Napoleon re-
fused to buy them; he thought such i'm
struments of warfare unworthy of use by
q great nation. Great Britain, on the
saine ground, rejected them.
Colt. In 1s4S, invented the submarine tor.
pedo. He laid mines under water and ex-
ploded them with an electric spark from
a station OF shore.
During our civil war the rivers and hnr-
bors of the south were freely sown with
torpedoes-or mines. as we should call
them nowadays. Usually spherical. loaded
with sunpowder. floating "A few feet be-
low the surface and set off by percussion,
they destroyed. in the course OF that con-
flict. sever union %ironclads, II wooden
vessels Of war and q transport.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
Tho German "officers, Mess"

FTOm The. YOUTHS Companion.
Hugh Gibson. vino was secretary to the
American legation I'm Belgium when the
War broke out. can pack wit. humor and
irony into a single and still
keep 1t short. He visited "a Belgian house
that Some German officers had occupied
and later evacuated when their army re-
tired. over the door he writes. was
the inscription. Officers Mess 1t was
certainly the most complete mess thai 1
ever saw. Until then ] had regarded tho
expression, An officer and a gentleman
as redundant. I'no longer think So.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
Power of Public Opinion.
From c~appe Weekly.

From Cappers Weekly.
Congressman lost no time this session in repeating the exemption
they gave themselves from an income tax ON their ST, 800 salaries.
The repeating vote was 3OS to 1!
The people will accept this handsome apology in the proper
spirit, particularly as some of the congressman didn't know what
they we're voting for the first time.
The incident shows the great power Of public opinion when it is
really exerted. Many Of these congressman were willing to vote
a tax lodging special privilege, but were not willing to
bear the storm of criticism coming directly from the voters. The
people burned them up with their contempt and they couldn't stand it.
This demonstrates that a live and active public opinion can be
made to stop pork iobbery and even to make graft so dsgraceful
that dirty money will seem less desirable than clean fingers and an
unsmirched name.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-21
VOLUMES COULDN'T SAY
MORE.
Erom the Outlook

A curious side light on German
standards Of probity Is found in
a report Of the case OF Lieutenant
Spindler. who commanded the Ger
man ship Libal, which landed
Easement in Ireland and was cap
tured. Spindler gave up e. When
taken prisoner. saying It was all he
had. when his captor arked, On
your honor?' Spindler replied. NO.
no more. A search revealed q
e6 notes concealed in his clothing.
The attorney general asked him:
do you think in the circumstances
you wore entitled to give an I'M
truthful answer?" Lieutenant
Spindler replied: There may be
different points Of view-the point
OF view Of an English officer and
the point Of view Of q German
officer" Volumes could speak no
more.