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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
WOULD TURN
TURKS LOOSE
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LONDON, Feb. Backed by
the combined might of Germany,
Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.
he Turks will be given free
hand in dealing with the Arme-
mans and Arabs after the war
il the central powers are success
ful--in the belief of Geo. II.
Roberts, laborite leader and Brit
ish war council member.
Roberts. in an interview today
declared he was convinced a secret
trea'y exists between Germany
and Turkey which includes such a
provision.
In this treaty the central pow
ers have agreed to do their ut
most in aiding Turkey to recover
her territory, maintain her as a
free state and permit the sultan to
retain the title of caliph.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
100000 Chinese
READY FOR ALLIES

Our potential strength Is un-
limited" he said. I'VE are will
ing to send as many men as our
allies ask" Chang said.
At present the entente is rely
ing upon China to protect allied
interests in Vladivostok. Hardin
and Manchuria, it was declared.
Upon Japan depends. to a great
extent, the part China will play
on the battle fields of France the
coming summer, Chinese officials
declared. Japan has transport IA
cilities sufficient to carry large
numbers of fighting men from
Shanghai to Canadian or Pacific
ports where the first lap of their
2,000-mile journey ends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
VIEWPOINTS so Different

DR.. Harper pointed out that
the bolsheviki strength today lies
In Trotzky having made their plat
form the all-Russian principle OF
mo annexations and no indemnl-
ties and the self-determination OF
peoples.
President Wilson's formula
for peace might be made 10 square
with this principle. which the
entire Russian nation favors." he
said, but In addition the bolshe-
wiki are working for an interna-
tional soctalistlc policy entirely
foreign to Americas present pro-
gram"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
LONGS REPLY

Long, replying to the attack on
him today, declared that "the pro-
ductlon OF airplane spruce is the
most collosal physical task ever
taken by lumbermen on the coast.
at is not ignorance which caus-
ed delay" he said. when the
government called for spruce we
had a strike in the woods and mus
mess was paralyzed. Despite this,
spruce production was increased
500 per cent"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
ACASSIZ SUED

A suit has been filed in the
superior court by the Fidelity
Trust Co. against G. Z. Lucian
Agassiz and Eva Agassiz for the
payment of two notes for $3.50
and SITS.
Agassiz, who is the British
vice consul In Tacoma, is at pres
ent out of the city. His apart
ment has been closed.
When Deputy Sheriff Peter
Stenso appeared. to serve the pa
pers he was informed that Agassiz
was very i'll in Victoria, B. G..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
KIDS BUNCO
is COPPERS
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ESSo
SEATTLE, Feb. Fifteen of
Seattle's finest" have been bun
coed by an eight-year-old girl and
a nine-year-old boy.
Friday, the two were observed
in the business section by a pa
trolman.
They went boldly up to him
and asked: did you find a
dime? We have lost our car
fare"
A substitute dime was forth,
coming, and the trick worked so
we'll it was tried On every officer
the youthful financiers met until
the coppers got together.
The money was invest ted in war
savings stamps.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
HERBERT HUNT
FUNERAL TODAY

The funeral OF Herbert Hunt
will be held at $3.50 Saturday
afternoon at the First Congrega-
tional church. Interment will be
in the Tacoma cemetery. The
funeral will he under the direc-
tion of the Buckley-King Co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
MONT. LEGISLATURE
SPECIAL SESSION

HELENA, Mont, Feb. Gov
ernor S. V. Stewart is expected
within "a hours to call a special
session of the Montana legisla-
ture, to amend the seed grain law,
pass a law to permit Montana sol
diers in France to vote on state
matters. provide funds for a state
constabulary and consider ratifi-
cation of a National prohibition
act.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
PRICES
50 PCT.
!: HIGHER
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WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. q
Its costing the American peo-
pie today just SO per cent more
to eat than it did in August, 1914,
when the great war broke out.
Retail prices on foodstuffs
most generally consumed in this
country showed the following in
creases on Dec. 81, 1917, over
August /, 1914, according to the
United States bureau of labor
statistics:
Potatoes, 60 per cent; flour
90 per cent; cornmeal, 1870 pei
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
File Love Notes

PITTSBURGH, Kas.. Feb. q
To prove that he did not marry to
escape military service, a local
draft registrant has filed with the
exemption board love letters, pur-
porting to show the intention of
the registrant and his wife to
marry before the passage of the
draft law.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
AWKWARD SQUAD AT
MEMBERSHIP RALLY

The CoIored Brigade Awkward
Squad will put on one of the lead
ing acts in the entertainment to
be given at the February CONNER
cial club membership rally Tues
day night. Music will be fur
nished by the 361st regimental
band.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
Major to Wed

HIIed FreSS eI.aseu NIre.1
NEW YORK, Feb. Maj.
Morris Hadley, son of the presi-
dent of Yale university and the
youngest major in the u. s. army.
is to we'd. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wood Bloodget of Grand Rapids
have announced the engagement
of their daughter, Katherine
Cummings Bloodget, to Maj. Had
lev
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
SOLDIERS CLUB
TO OPEN FEB. %

The new Tacoma Soldiers and
Sailors clubhouse on Pacific ave.
near 9th st. will be opened on
Washington's birthday, under the
management of the Tacoma War
Camp Community Service. The
dormitories on the third floor are
almost ready to be occupied.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02
TRENCHES RAIDED
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LONDON, Feb. liverpool
troops raided enemy trenches
OF Armentieres last
night. taking several prisoners.
Field Marshal Haig reported to-
day. An attempted enemy raid
north of Passchendaele was re-
pulsed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02

Estimated that there are 90
900 tons OF coal which can be re-
claimed from the Schuplkill river
between Schuylkill Haven and
Auburn, Pa.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02

Al-Mintar, or the watch tower,
still exists to the east of the town
of GAIA. 1t Is where Samson is
said to have carried the gates Of
tho city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-02

Each day Miss Louise Ford,
baggage woman at Verda New,
loads and unloads truckloads of
trunks.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
A Municipal PoWer Plant

period of reconstruction has commenced
the industries that have been
channeis
work for industrial purposes so that
PUBLIC WORKS must
of
would construction OF munich
pal Platte Canon The utilization OF our water
OF the crying needs OF
community We already the water produce the power
Thy this continue?
driven by this would generate
this with light and all power needed
other industrial
this has raised approximate
of this would build
station and the invested would
bring Liberty bonds plant OF
this generations and bond issue
purpose with the bonds running long would not be
pay for itself ,, 49,, 49,.
The Denver should
up They certainly should be interested
and they certainly interested IN the
ployment of returning soldiers.
way savings will make desirable Christmas
the idea because the is
savings
behind redeemng their pledges
glorious opportunity to make good promises and
good along.
chancellor of Germany harness
that will German people?
getting worried that hungry might
dsorderly. don't hungry
Fabulous wages usually fables.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
JOB FOR BILL KAISER.

A few days ago the mayor of Provi-
dence sent to the local office of the
United States employment service a
man who had been travelling all over
the city in search of a job and who
had not been able to find one for the
reason that, altho he was a naturalized
American citizen, he bore the objec-
tionable name of Kaiser" The man
went to the mayors office as last
resort, having been driven to despair
in his fruitless efforts to find employ
ment. Personally, he was a good type,
but his name led to his being rejected
without fair consideration.
Finally Mr.. Kaiser appeared where
he should have gone first-the United
States employment service office-and
presented a note from the mayor in
Producing him as an applicant for a
position.
He was placed that day.
Things move quickly nowadays, and
before long the employment service
may be called upon to place old Bill
Kaiser fired from his last job without
recommendation. If anyone could do
it, the service can.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
COMPENSATION FOR OCCIPATIONAL
DISEASES URGED FOR EMPLOYEES
Miss Van Keck the Federal Womans Finds Condition
Niagara Plants Devoid of the Elementary Safe
guards to Health and Unfit Places for Either
Men Women Work

mems compensation law of New York
state to occupational diseases.
In the approving comment which
has been aroused by the report on
this investigation, it is pointed out
that if Miss Van Kleeck's recommen-
dations are carried out by the enforc-
ing agencies, the man-in-industry
service will have performed func-
tion of which the first beneficiaries
will be chiefly men. The signing of the
armistice has removed the pressure
for extension of the employment of
women at Niagara, and even under
war conditions the twenty-one plants
covered by the investigation employed
more than 5000 men, with but 700
women.
The industries Investigated at Mag
ara Falls are among the big CONNER
cial enterprises of the country, which
during the war were turned over to
the manufacture of war material, such
as gases for chemical warfare, picric
acid for explosives, wheels for tanks,
carborundum products essential in the
machine industries, storage batteries,
graphite, electrodes and variety of
chemicals.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14

"Make your plants safe for the
workers-this will reduce your labor
turnover and increase your output,
and then you will not need to employ
women at night" Such in substance
is the reply of the woman-in-i industry
service of the United States depart
ment of labor to the employers in the
chemical industries at Niagara Falls,
N. Y, who asked the federal govern
ment for exemption from the New
York state law prohibiting night
work by women.
The report on this subject, just is
sued by Miss Mary Van Kleeck, di-
rector of the woman -in-industry serv-
ice, is the result of thoro investiga-
tion of the Niagara chemical industries
by joint committee of experts from
the federal and state labor depart
ments, the public health service, and
the war and navy departments. The
committee found that some of the
plants lack even elementary safe
guards to health, and are unfit places
for either men or women to work. AS
the fundamental, practical remedy for
this condition, Miss Van Kleeck urges
the immediate extension of the work
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
Bill Posters
by JOE TAGART.

Local No. so will hold its annual
election of officers on Sunday, Decem-
ber 10, 1918. All members of this To-
cal are urgently requested to postpone
all other engagements and attend this
meeting. Heretofore the vote of this
local has always been small, owing to
the fact that most of the members are
on the road continually. At our last
meeting a ruling was passed that will
make it possible for all members who
are either on the road or in the serv-
ice of Uncle Sam to vote by mail,
which should make the vote polled
at this election one Of the heaviest in
the history of the local.
William Dinan is home from Camp
John Wise on a furlough to visit his
mother who has been seriously i'll with
the Spanish influenza, but whom last
reports say is doing nicely.
l.. II. Burnham left us again Mon
day for Ogden, Utah. Bill has landed
a berth in the publicity department of
Golfers Weekly. This is a new ad-
venture for Bill, but he argues that if
you can make the natives believe that
a show is the greatest thing on earth,
why not newspaper? Bill is always
right. So we hope this adventure will
prove no exception to the rule.
FRANK Bagan left last week Tor
Trinidad. Frank has gone south to
whip commercial plant into shape.
Frank says he will be gone five days.
The world moves, so does Frank.
During the last week Local No. SO
lost one of it's close friends and asso-
ciates, Ben Palmer. Ben was sick only
short time, going home from work
complaining of a bad cold which soon
turned to Spanish influenza, and later
developed into pneumonia, from which
he died. While Ben was in no way
connected with our craft, being con-
ductor on the Tramway for years, dur
ing his spare moments he could always
be found at the bill shops with the
boys, and it seemed as tho he had be-
come one of us. Ben was well known
among agents and theatrical folks in
general. And in his passing away we
have all lost friend
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
GUST WOMEN CONDUCTORS.

The national war labor board has
asked the Cleveland Railway Company
to dismiss its women street car con-
ductors. Union street car employees
tied up the lines because the company
employed these women after the fed
eral department of labor had investi-
gated the claim that there was short
age of male labor in that city. The
records of the state free employment
bureau and the company's employment
bureau showed that instead of labor
shortage, the contrary was true.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
INDUSTRIAL STRIFE MAY FOLLOW
DISSOLUTION OF THE WAR BOARD

tries, and to take a part in the public
affairs of the republics that are aris-
ing there. immigration to the United
States is at low ebb, and will not
return to its pre-war level within the
next ten years, if at all. Great num-
bers of men who formerly worked in
town have made up their minds, while
in the army, to go to farming in order
to maintain the benefit they have
gained from an open air life. Once
the readjustment is made, there will
be no oversupply of men looking for
jobs.
But in the next four months there is
danger. That danger will be met only
when the returning soldiers and war
workers are formed into a national or
ganization, with local branches and
city central bodies, in close alliance
with the organized labor movement,
and standing for big constructive
program like "Labor's Fourteen
Points"
Make Congress Act.
Labor congressman have been hui
inflated, during the past two or three
years, at the lack of earnest support
given their Legislative demands by the
labor movement itself Anti-labor
members of Congress have sneered at
the idea that organized labor ever
stood by its own program and its own
candidates on election day. The time
has come when labor and the soldiers
and war workers may get together, in
the face of threatened unemployment
and industrial Prussianism, to make
Congress listen and persuade Congress
to act.
Possibly the first steps toward such
nationwide alliance may be taken
in Chicago, at the time of the national
labor conference to consider the
Mooney strike. Frank p Walsh is
touring the country to organize the
Mooney defense campaign. By the
time he goes to the Chicago conference
the attitude of the organized employ
ers toward awards of the war labor
board and toward keeping up the level
of wages will have been made clear.
If drive against labor's new stand
ards is indicated, then Walsh and the
labor delegates who meet him in Chi
cago may be expected to plan work
ing class defense in addition to the
Mooney defense.
All the efforts of certain anti-labor
interests in New York City to line up
the soldiers and sailors against the
organized labor forces failed, as soon
as the real purpose of the anti-red flag
agitation was discovered. The soldiers
are overwhelmingly pro-labor. They
know they must work for living.
They want good wages. They know
they are going to get high wages thru
organization. All they lack now is the
leadership of trade unionists among
them, to make their organization for
industrial democracy fact.
Meantime, watch Bethlehem.
Tho Copafo hoe vofad doup tho Me-
Kellar bill, providing old age pensions
for government employees in the civil
service, half the cost to be borne by
the government and half by the bene-
ficiaries. 1t adopted the Pomerene
amendment, requiring that the en-
ployes pay all the costs after the first
few years. British old age pensions
for government employees are paid at
| the cost of the government.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
A LETTER FROM
OVER THERE

(Note-The following letter was re-
ceived by Lew Thomas, member OF
Pressmen's Union No. 40. The writer,
BENJAMIN Balahan, is a member OF
Press Assistants Union No. IA of
Denver.)
Vichy, France, Nov. 10, 1918.
Dear Lew: Received your most
welcome letter long time ago, but
have been unable to answer sooner.
1t is a mighty hard job writing let
ters while up at the front, and still
harder job to mail what little we do
write, so / know you will excuse my
not writing. ! sure was glad TO hear
from you, also to know that everyone
is o. X. / often think of all of you
and sure wish ! was back again, feed
ing the old machine. / have had a
rough time, but we are near the finish.
Germany has until tomorrow to sign
the armistice and if she does we will
sure be a happy bunch of boys. / was
gassed about ten days ago and am
Just getting over the effects. / expect
to be as good as ever in a few weeks; /;
was in bed only few days. For a
while my throat and eyes gave me a
lot of trouble; could not talk above a
whisper until few days ago. Will
send you1a photo as soon as my eyes
get in shape.
have been here about eight days
and sure like it. This is great health
resort-a good deal like Colorado
Springs. All kinds of mineral waters,
parks in the heart of the city and
more hotels than / ever seen in one
place before; climate more mild than
Denver at this time of year. Those
patients who need a lot Of care are
sent to hospitals, others, like myself
are staying at the hotels; am getting
a taste Of the old life, and it sure
feels good, after living in the trenches
for months. had hard time getting
used to sleeping in a bed again. q
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
Cooks

The union voted against the promo
sition submitted by the Mooney do-
tense committee to boycott California
products, and all propositions for sym
pathetic strikes.
An amendment to the bylaws will
be submitted to the next meeting ex-
tending the length of time n mem
Der must belong to the union before
enjoying sick benefits TO six months.
Three months is now the time.
Next meeting will be Monday after
noon. All candidates and prospective
candidate for Office should be present.
as 1t is the appointed time for nomi-
nations.
Organizer Dick Croskey visited Lo-
cal No. 43 at Pueblo and assisted that
union in its work last week. He re-
ports good live bunch of boys and
girls are boosting things and making
good effective union in that city. He
viii leave for an extended trip over
the state after the holidays.
Richard M. Smith, who is at Camp
Funston, wants to be relieved from the
United States service now that the
war is over. Since joining the colors
he has had the misfortune to lose his
wife by the "flu" in Denver. She left
him little boy to look after. Efforts
will be made by the union to get his
discharge.
Eddie Bill is chef for the staff Off
GERS mess at Fort Crockett. Letters
from him state he is doing well and
satisfied.
Tom Earle is cook at Fort Funston
and from letters received appears to
be also anxious to return. There's not
enough excitement for these boys in
army life in times of peace.
Harvey Iepp is well again and
working after suffering a severe at
tack Of the "flu."
Charles Packer announces himself
as ne plus ultra, whatever that is.
John Hartwig's son, John Edward,
came nearly being a hero. He got as
far as the union depot to join the
army at Camp Macarthur, and was
then notified his very valuable serv-
ices were not needed by your Uncle
Samuel.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-14
lContinued from Pnr, one.l


soldiers will be common thruout the
land"
The employment service is under
taking a big campaign to find jobs
for the returned war workers and the
returned soldiers. But it is not de-
manding any particular standard of
wages or conditions with these jobs.
That is up to the men themselves, now
that the war is over. Also, it is up to
every worker who wants to maintain
or improve the wage level and the in
dustrial conditions, such as they are
today, in his own community and his
own industry. The answer is organi-
zation of the returning men for CO.
fense of the industrial standards set
by the national war labor board.
1t is true, Smyth says, that the
army has agreed to regulate the speed
of its rehabilitation $50 far as pos
sible" by the conditions of unemploy-
ment reported from each section of the
country, but even so, the employment
service and the various other agen-
cies that cooperate with it are not
able to create jobs for the men.
Too Few Jobs To Go Around.
''The great danger in the next four
months" he said today, sis that there
won't be enough jobs to go around;
that unemployment will come with at
tendant misery and social unrest at
time when anarchistic tendencies are
contagious"
Mr.. Smyth, who has had no expert
ence with the organized labor move
ment, seems to be worried rather be-
cause hungry men may be disorderly,
than because men may be hungry. His
appeal is to those who would suffer
from disorder, not to those who would
suffer from hunger. That is why he
speaks of standing on the defensive
against Bolshevism and anarchistic
tendencies.
Every spokesman of organized labor
who has discussed this rehabilitation
problem has served notice that Amer
lean labor is not in begging mood;
there must be no reduction of wages,
no Prussian raids upon the right of
the great mass of Americans to secur-
ity and self-respect in the conditions
of their employment. If that propo-
sition is to be challenged by the en-
ployers in the United States, organized
labor will move to its defense-be the
challenger the Bethlehem Steel corpor-
alton or all the industrial corpora
tions combined. 1t is very unfortu-
nate that labor mas not drawn up, OIL
cially and nationally, a program for
reconstruction in the industrial world:
AS matters stand, the program of
"Labor's Fourteen Points," endorsed
first by the Chicago Federation of La
Dor and now by the Illinois State Fed
Grafton of Labor as the program Of
the Independent labor party, must
serve for guide to what labor de-
mands in this crisis.
Want Cheap Labor.
AS the United States employment
service points out, there is no good
reason for employers to believe that
they will get cheaper labor by wait
ing until spring. Instead of that, the
coming of peace has determined hun
dreds of thousands of our foreign
born to go back to Europe to help re-
build and reorganize their native coun-