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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Five men from Windham county who
will 20 to Fort Wright L. l., for full
military service will entrain from
Brattleboro Oct. "a, according to in
formation received this morning at the
Office of the local draft board.
Al meeting of the trustees of Bos-
ton university Oct. DR.. Frank +. Has
kins. son of Mr.. and Mrs Inland Has
kins of this place, was elected mem
Der of the faculty of the Boston Uni
versity School of Medicine as assistant
professor of Pharmacology.
News today from Joseph G. Estey,
who is i'll with influenza in the naval
training hospital in Cambridge, Mass,
is that he is very comfortable and has
a normal temperature If his temper
allure continues normal he may leave
the hospital tomorrow There are 80
young men i'll in the room with him.
Mrs. Lottic Morris Knight, 40,
wife of Ira H. Knight, died in her home
in New York Tuesday, after an illness
of over year with paralysis Mrs
knight, who formerly was resident
of Brattleboro, was a daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Morris She
leaves, besides her husband, three chill
dren, Howard Knight of New York
Lawrence knight, who is in the United
States army, and Irene Knight, whC
lived with her parents. The body viii
be brought to Brattleboro tomorrow fol
burial in the family lot in Prospect Hill
cemetery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Mary j. Wilson is i'll in her home
on Williams street.
Mrs. Patrick Clarity of Clark street
is recovering from an illness.
Mrs. Alice Pratt of Bellows Falls is
guest of Mrs. l.. L. Durham of Park
place.
Miss Maude Barrett is recovering
slowly from a two-weeks' illness with
influenza.
Mrs. Richard Davis, clerk in the
HuntreSs- Adams store, is i'll in her
home on Pine street.
Dr. Harry p. Greene is i'll with infuen-
"a in his home on Green street. Miss
Miller, nurse, is caring for him.
Miss Walsh, nurse, was called this
morning to Troy, n. Y, on account OF
the serious illness of her brother.
Mrs. Collier, wife of Lieut. Collier who
had been spending the summer al
SpofTord lake, returned to New York to
day.
| Mrs. Ronald Douglas and sister, Miss
| Alma l.. johnson, went today to Aver
Mass. to remain over Sunday at Camp
Devens.
Mrs. A. F. Schwemk, who had been il
several days, is improving. Her daugh
ter Miss Dorothy. who has been in quar-
antine with influenza, is out again.
Mrs. II. p Smith, mother of Mrs f
G. Starkey, who had been spending sew
eral weeks here with Mrs. Starkey. left
yesterday for her home in New York.
Miss Servia Patton and party of friends
| from Smith college, who had beer
spending 10 days in the Patton home il
Marlboro, returned today to Northamp
| ton.
DR.. and Mrs. f. L. Brown are i'll in
their home in Hinsdale and are being
cared for by trained nurse. Mrs. Brown
was Miss Flora Cattanach well-knowI
! trained nurse of this town.
X f. Mosher went today to Stoddard
| y. H.. to attend the funeral of his sister
Mrs. Edgar Baker Mrs. Bakers daugh
ter, seven years old died this morning o
influenza. Mr.. Baker and an Older
daughter died last week of the sam,
disease.
Lieut. Robert L. Fits came this morn
ing to spend few days at his home il
town Lieut. Fits is in the ordnance de
partment and has been stationed a
Camp Raritan, y. j., but is under orders
to report Monday morning at Washing
ton, ID. c.
Mrs Theodore Durham and tw,
i daughters and son of New York, VIII,
spent the summer at their home at Ba
Harbor, are at the upper Dutton farm
in Dummerston for two weeks. Mrs
Durham is daughter of Madame Bal
estier.
Private Daniel Brosnahan returne,
last night to Camp Devens, Aver, Mass
after visiting few days here wit
his mother Mrs. Katherine Brosnahar
Her sister, Miss Johanna Brosnahan
who had been visiting there, returnet
yesterday to her home in Springfield
! Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17
-@sRUY LIsERTY eoNps D.
The Value of Lead.

II have closed my Sunapee cottage for
the winter said young Claremont man
today. "and more than that. | have sold
my boat which ! have had for twelve
years past"
What did you get for it,"
Five dollars"
What did it cost your"
Il figure that it cost me right around
$50"
Then you must figure yourself Sc
out of pocket"
No. quite. You see the boat was lead
ballasted, and / sold the lead ballast sep
arately. There was 6JG pounds of it ant
] got ten cents pound 30 Tota
receipts, 5000. So | figure the boa
stood me in $40 for the twelve years
And | have had Il whole lot of fun Will
IT, too. -Claremont, ~ H.. Eagle
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17
JAMES M. GLEASON
DIES IN BOSTON
Native of Wardsboro, Who Presented
Town Hall to That Town-Treas-
urer of Life Insurance Co.

James NJ Gleason, 50, Of Boston,
treasurer of the John Hancock Mutual
Life Insurance company, with which
he had been connected about half a
century, native of Wardsboro and
giver of the new town hall dedicated
in that town in 1907, died at the Cop
ley Square hotel in Boston Tuesday
He was unmarried.
James Mcllen Gleason was born Oct 6,
1893, in Wardsboro, one of four sons of
Josiah and Susan Read (NIorzeI Gleason.
Ills ancestry in this country traces back
to 1852. when the pioneer Gleasons came
from England and settled in Charlestown
Mass, and follows along through gen
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17
-sy4BUY ITBrRTY BONDS l...-

The 30 or 80 year old fellows who have
been expressing regret that the age limit
prevented them from going into the army
are not looking as happy now as they
DID a short time ago.-New Orleans
States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17
81 BUY LIBERTY BONDS -

When Chicago woman was taken to
the hospital it was discovered that she
had 81 ,062 in bills sewed to the lining
of her clothing. If the bills were in small
denominations she must have worn more
clothes than the average woman.-Rut-
land News
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17

- BUY LIRERIY BONDS a
A tombstone marks the dividing line
between here and there.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17
Ks BUY IIBERTY BONDS ak+
Found

"Aha!" Missed the Pullman porter, Il
have found the secret of his BERTH" And
he took flask from under the passen-
gers pillow Cartoons Magazine
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17
e BUY LIBERTY BONDS &+
BIRTHS.
LIBERTY BONDS st.

In Wilmington. Oct ;, a son to Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Carpenter
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17

Movies are like porch hammocks;
they are more enjoyable in the dark.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-17
Sale Of War Savings
and Thrift Stamps
In Vermont to Oct.
5, 1918.
As Reported to the State Dis
tributor of War Savings
REDEEM YOUR WAR SAVINGS
PLEDGE! <S~

Towns and Cities Printed In Capitals
Have Already Exceeded Their
Quota in Maturity Value of Sales.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09

Prospect Of Army Contracts
Caused Packers to Increase
Meat Prices,

CHICAGO, Mar. z.-Further init
nations of profiteering on army con-
tracts were given by Francis j. Heney
special government counsel, at the
federal trade commissions packing
probe here Thursday,
Heney read a telegram said to have
been sent Feb. 6, 1918, by +. E. Will
helm of Cudahy & Co., to the Omaha
branch plant, stating that E. A.
Cudahy had ordered the price of
cheek beef raised from 121@ cents to
IL cents as there were prospects that
the food administration would revise
it's regulations to permit canning of
cheek, shank and bull meat.
That certain army order Twill be
ours at any price" was the claim in a
letter Heney read as coming from c..
e. Shepherd, vice-president of the
Cudahy company. Other letters
stated that the packers had been as
stirred army contracts would "be made
sufficiently attractive to produce the
entire amount needed, without risk to
themselves" stated Heney.
HeneS said the price of cheap meat
rose 33 Ia per cent when it became
possible to sell it to the government
Letters Heney read into the record
showed that the Cudahy Packing COM
rany pushed experiments in canning
beef cheek and shank meat, which
UP to that time had been considered
| by both American and British army
| officers as unfit for troop feeding pur-
poses. Formerly such meats were
| used principally for sausage.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
CANADALAb0R TO-
ASSIST SOLDIERS
Also Oppose Introduction Of
Coo|ie and Other Cheap
LABOR.

a VANCOUVER, B. c., Mar. THE
proceedings of the recent British
Columbia labor convention show that
the subjects of Canada have the same
problems as has labor in the United
States. It was enthusiastically de-
cided that labor must get into poll
tics and a great ovation vas given
the old time Socialist, J. H. Haw-
thorne- Waite, who has just been sent
to the Canadian parliament.
A committee was named to arrange
to meet returned soldiers, who had
fought and bled for their masters
and to devise ways of saving them
from selling lead pencils and shoe
strings on the corners, while at the
same time preventing their being used
by the capitalists to beat down the
standard of wages" as is already in
the thoughts of the employing GLASS;"
A strong resolution was passed against
industrial CONSUMPTION.
Says the British Columbia Fedora
ZIONIST: THE subject of coolie labor
from China, which has been agitating
the workers was another subject
which was discussed in a most thor
ough manner, before the convention
went on record as opposed to the i'm
portation of cheap labor of any de-
scription, oriental or otherwise. The
MI ore recent news in the daily press
of a suggestion for the importation OF
negro labor from Jamaica was not
overlooked, and was also subject
which came in for much criticism.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
- --.I3Ef 2" z 9
S49,112;,952 MADE BY
DUPONT IN LAST YEAR
DECLARED Low PROFIT

NEW YORK, Mar. 7.-Profits
for the last year of $40, III, 952, or
is per cent on the $24O, 900 900 cap
ital employed, as against LIZ per
cent on the $51 500, 900, of capital
prior to the war, were disclosed in
the annual report of E. I. Dupont
De Nemours & Co., issued to stock
holders. The profits for 1915, when
prices for military. powder were
much higher, were $50 ,O13,O19, the
report says:4. i s5 -. ~ ~
However, our low, rate of profit
is part explanation Of the fact E.
1. Dupont De Nemours & Co., is the
one corporation: In the United
States able to, offer its products to
the government at prices .substan-
TALLY lower than those spre- war
times, even though the c0st% Of raw
materials has increased much more
than 100 per cent, :, tue. report says.
Through reinVest1ento f wartime
profits, the report adds, the COM
pany has expanded, it's interests so
that directors believe that a. VOL
ume Of business has been insured
which will prevent IA return "of the
comparatively small transactions of
the years prior to 1914"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
ORGANIZED SHOP
EMPLOYEES SIGN
) new AGREEMENT C / ! /
Providing For Overtime to Expe-
dite Movement Of Troops
And Supplies.

f: WASHINGTON, Mar. Four
hundred thousand railroad, shop en-
ployes, acting through the A. F. of
l.. railway employees department,
have reached an agreement with Di-
rector General of Railroads McAdoo.
Because, of. the eeplorable condition
of railroad equipment Throughout the
country and the necessity for prom pt
movement of troops and supplies, the
shop men have! agreed, ;. during the
present emergency. to work a reason
able amount Of overtime, if necessary,
with present rates governing : over
time to prevail. This latter clause is
subject to the decision Of the railroad
wage commissions now considering
the question of wage increases for
these workers.
Age limits, physical examinations
and secret blacklists of the railroads
are abolished, and thorough un-
Outstanding on mo discrimination
because of union activity has been
reached. The latter condition has
been emphasized by Director McAdoo,
in an order issued Feb. FL last, in
which he says: mo discrimination
will be made in the employment, re-
tention or conditions of employm ent
of employees because of membership
or non-membership in labor organi.
zations."
Apprentices who have served three
years may be promoted to mechanics
and paid the going wage rate. If this
and overtime by mechanics, does not
relieve present conditions in the
shops, helpers will be prom oted, paid
mechanics wages and given an OPP
portunity to learn all branches Of the
trade. In this section the unions are
again recognized, for it is provided
that the duly authorized committee
men of each trade shall be consulted
and understandings arrived at in pro-
noting helpers and the ratio to be
promoted. This ratio shall not ex.
coed 20 per cent of the number OF
mechanics in any one trade in any
one shop.
The agreement protects the senior.
ity of all mechanics after the present
emergency has passed. Then, when a
reduction in the working force is
made, promoted helpers, in accord
ance with their seniority, shall be
set back first: then advanced appren-
tees, and no mechanic shall be laid
off until all such promoted helpers
and apprentices have been set back.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
WASHINGTON SOCIALISTS
WOULD HAVE People FIX
8.H0UR DAY FOR STATE

EVERETT, Wash, Mar. 7.-Peti-
tons to: submit the proposition of
legal eight-hour day to the voters of
the state of Washington are being
circulated by the Socialist party. If
the required number of signatures is
obtained, the secretary of state will
have to put on the ballot in November
Initiative Measure No. 80, IAN act
prohibiting employers from requiring
or permitting employees to work more
than hours in any day of "a hours,
or mere than <48 hours during any
week. of days, except that in agrf-
cultural labor an additional hours a
day may be allowed for work. un-
avoidably and necessarily incidental
to farm management; prescribing ex-
ira compensation for overtime; and
fixing penalty for the violation
thereof"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
BOARD TO SEIZE
:: y T. = F. >-:4; III s ~4. 1 ;,
H0U;SES,tL A. ! J. FOR
i f.~-F
:>,SHP J ! labor
Summer Resort Hotels to Be
Communicated ed! 70 .: Speed U
Building d.Vesse|s;

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7.-Before
proceeding with construction of hous-
ing for shipyard workers, the ship
ping board, it was announced Friday,
will commander all available empty
hotels, apartment houses and resi-
dences in cities near where ships are
being built. In this way it is ex-
rected to supply accommodations i'm
nlediately for thousands of workmen.
The $5o,000,o0o housing bill, signed
Friday by President Wilson, author
ICES the board to commander not
only houses and land but transporta-
>tion systems as we'll. 1t is entirely
likely that the land on which houses
are to be built will be Communicated
in most instances, to prevent specula-
tive sprices.
The shipping board already has
made a survey of housing facilities in
the neighborhood of ship plants and
is ready to take whatever is available
Immediately. Compensation will be
determined by the emergency fleet
corporations division of public serv-
ice under J. Rogers Flannery.
Ii A4lS HOUSES Inc DOarO
will go into the suburbs and to sum-
mer resorts where many houses and
hotels have been empty all winter.
Some houses available for accommo-
dating shipworkers have not been
used heretofore because the owners
have asked exorbitant prices.
| Houses commandeered will be held
| until the end of the war and then will
be turned back to their owners or
sold. The houses to be built will. be
either rented or sold to shipyard
workers.
1t is considered probable that a
number of electric railway systems
leading from cities to shipyards may
be taken over and some ferry and ex-
cursion boats also may be taken for
the purpose of establishing ferry lines
| to wards
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
SOLDIERS WILL FIND
BORROWING ON THEIR
BONDS HARD matter

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1.-The war
department has taken steps to check
the operations of loan sharks in the
vicinity of national army and ma
tional guard camps. Soldiers have
bought $90,000,00O worth of Liberty
bonds. OF this amount about $780,
100000 worth was sold on the month
ly installment plan.
The war departments attention
was called to the bond profiteering by
receipt of letters asking that bonds
be delivered to some other name than
that designated. In some cases let
tiers were received from loan sharks
inclosing checks for the balance of
soldiers bonds and asking that they
be delivered to them. -
These checks have been returned
to .senders, and the loan sharks will
pocket the loss of payments made to
soldiers unless they can recover from
the men. The new orders in pre-.
paration will forbid the transfer by.
any soldier. Of his equity in bond.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
SECURE 4S-HOUR WEEK.

NEW YORK, Mar. 1.-THE White
Goods Manufacturers association has
signed an agreement with organized
cutters. The 4S-hour week is estab-
lished and wages raised 81 week for
those receiving over $12, and 50 a
week for lOwer-Waged employees.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
as men is demanded.

as men is demanded.
All attempts to muzzle the public
press are condemned and it is de-
clared that "a declaration of war does
rot suspend the Constitution of the
United States and the unWarranted
, interference of military and other au-
thortties with the rights of indivi-
duals must. cease a. - ..>
1t is declared that TAT the close of
this war sound International stand
ards must be established on the basis
OF true democracy. Our economic or
CARNATIONS must be purged of privi-
[lege. Private monopolies must be
|-supplanted by public administration
OF credit, finance and natural re-
sources"
The paragraphs on which the war
rant primarily was based, follows:
'The contributory causes of the
present war are various; but above
the horrible slaughter loom the ugly
MEETINGS of an economic system based
upon exploitation. It is largely
convulsive effort on the part of the
adEoit rulers of warning nations for
! control of a constantly diminishing
market. Rival groups of monopolists
are playing deadly game for COM
mercial Supremacy
President Said Same Thing.
President Woodrow Wilson ex-
pressed almost the same sentiment in
different words in his speech before
the American Federation of Labor at
Buffalo on Nov. IL. The President
spoke in part as follows:
Germany had access to all the
markets of the world and every other
nation who traded in those markets
feared Germany because of her .effec-
tive and almost irresistible COMPETE
ton. She had place in the SUM-.
Her old industries opened
their eyes, and saw a new world and
went out for it's conquest +
But that did not satisfy the Ger
man government. All the while there
was lying behinQ it's thought in it's
dreams of the future a political COM
troll which would enable it in the lony
| run to dominate the labor and the in
dustry of the world. I sup
pose very few of you have thought
very much about the Berlin to- Bag
dad railway. The Berlin to-Bagdad
railway was constructed in order to
run the threat of force down the
| flank of the industrial undertakings
! of shalf a dozen other countries, so
that when German competition came
it would not be resisted too far, be-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
Third LIBERTY
LOAN APRIL 6
Announcement Made Early To
Give Opportunity For Prep
aratiQns.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7.-On April
6, the first anniversary of the United
States entry into the war, the third
a. campaign of three, or four weeks
In announcing the date Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo said the amount
of the loan, the interest rate and
| other features such as convertibility
Of bonds of previous issues, maturity
and terms of payment, are yet to be
determined, and that new legislation
will be necessary before plans can be
| completed.
The fact that the amount of the
loan is dependent on further legis-
lation indicates that it will be for
more than $3,6oo,000,000, the re-
mainder of authorized but unissued
bonds, and the fact that certificates
Of Indebtedness now being sold in
anticipation of the loan bear AZ per
cent affords some indication of the
interest rate.
How large the loan shall be depends
| largely, however, upon the fate of
the pending war finance bill carrying
an appropriation of half billion dol
lars.
Although Mr.. McAdoo made no spe-
cific announcement it is now taken for
| granted in official circles that there
will be but one more loan before June
80, the end of the fiscal year.
The statement concerning the date
of the campaign was made at this
time, Secretary McAdoo explained, to
give every community time to prepare
for the big bond sale and he strongly
| advocates a popular demonstration
| of patriotism on the day Of the open
| ing of the loan and the second year
| Of war.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-09
SMALL NUMBER
0FSTRIkES SHOWS
War SACRIFICES
Cost Of Living Advances Is Per
Cent, Wages increase Il
to 16 Per Cent.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1.-THE small
number Of strikes in the face Of the
failure of wages to keep pace with
the rising. cost; of living was pointed
to by Assistant Secretary of Labor
Post in a statement as proof that the
laboring men of the nation are willing
to make every sacrifice to see the war
through to a successful conclusion.
He cited the fact that the cost Of
food. increased rs per cent last year,
while wages rose about one-half or
two-thirds of that rate, and declared
it was remarkable there had not been
more strikes and labor disturbances.
Unless wages rise as fast as the
cost of living" Mr.. Post said, dds
putes are inevitable. I consider the
small number of actual strikes and
the general tendency Of wage earners
to submit their differences to: arbi-
tration as convincing proof that they
believe in the war and are willing to
make every sacrifice to make it a
success"
The skilled workers, Mr.. Post
added, had Jared even worse than the
unskilled laborers.
LAcept III the case OF potatoes, the
price offwhich decreased 16 per cent,
practically all articles of food showed
big increases in retail cost last Jan.
Is, as compared with prices the same
| day in 1917, reports to the depart
ment of labor show. The price of
cornmeal increased II per cent; ba-
con, 81 per cent; lard, SO per cent;
pork chops, "A per cent; ham, AZ per
cent; milk, IS per cent; hens, % per
cent; butter, rs per cent; eggs, %
per cent; bread, 10 per cent; sugar,
IL per cent and flour II per cent.