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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-28

Al her home III summer street yes
terday afternoon Mrs. Atkinson was
hostess to the members Of the Ladies
Society Of the r. Of L. +. and f. They
brought their knitting and sewing and
during the afternoon enjoyed several
games. The hostess served dainty re
freshments. The PECULIAR lodge session
is announced for next Wednesday after
noon.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-28
Woman's Devotion to Home.

Mrs. John c. Logan announces tn
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-28

Mrs. w II. Payne was elected presi-
dent of the Loyal Star Glass Of the
Christian church and Mrs. Herbert Nor
ton. vice president at the class meeting
held with Mrs. Shipley st her home. f31
East Sibley street. After the business
meeting musical program was render
ed and Mrs. Shipley assisted by Mrs.
Norton and Mrs. Fettit served dainty re-
frcshrnents. The next class party viii
be given at the home OF Mrs. Norton. 531
Murray street. on the evening OF March
gath
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-28

Mrs. Dallas Meredith entertained at a
Round Robin" party yesterday after
noon ait her home, 4o4 Hickory street.
Her guests were Mrs. Lee Wansmacher.
Mrs D. y. Shafer, Mrs. Lee Burnell OF
Indiana Harbor. Mrs. 4 p Meredith of
East Chicago and Mrs. T. NJ. Wilkison of
Hammond.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-28

Miss Hazel Hamer had the members
of the SO and So Club as her guests last
evenig a her home in Lewis street. The
time was spent with needle work and
music A prettily appointed luncheon
was served, there being covers for the
Misses Hazel Roseubaum. Clara Guse.
selma and Bertha Hugo, Mae and Frieda
Prange, Charlotte and Alma Hasten.
Sybu LaFrance aud Eva snX Hazel
EIamer.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-28

4 matinee recital VIII be given by the
children's department of the Hammond
Musical College al three o'clock Satur-
day in the recital hall Of tae school The
program will he given by pupils OF
Elisbeth Gilman Schultz. Georgia l.
Brewer and Alice BreIlatt Oltz.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
HIRE W0M|E|l||e N !: |. ]
MACH|N|! \! SHOPS
.. %R~E's =,
Eastern Roads Employ Them as
Section Workers and in Me. :
chanicat Departments.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-It is the be-
lief of railroad men that the employ
ment Of women for heavier sorts Of
work will be extended to greater
degree.
It was announced several days ago
that the New York Central railroad
was employing 100 women as section
workers. This was followed by the
statement that hundreds of women
are in railroad machine shops doing
tasks which it was once supposed
only men were fitted for.
Among the railroads which have
introduced women into the mechani-
cal departments are the Baltimore &
Ohio, Erie, New York Central, Min
neapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie,
Burlington, Northern Pacific, Union
Pacific, Oregon Short Line, and the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul. On
most of these roads the employment
of women is no longer an expert
ment.
In the machine shops women are
employed on engine lathes, boring
mills, pressing lathes and drill presses.
In several shops all partsf of loco
motives are painted by women and
women are employed on journal/box
work and in cleaning yards and shops.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
R|CAN
STRIKERS win
Tobacco Trust Loses Out in
sitter Fight Against island
Cigarmakers.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1o.-The
Porto Rican-American Tobacco COM
pany, a branch of the tobacco trust,
has been defeated by It's $1,000 men
and women strikers, one half of whom
are organized and affiliated to the
Cigar Makers international union.
F. c. Roberts, a member Of the Typo
graphical union Of this city, acted as
mediator, representing the federal de-
partment OF labor.
The strike started last September,
when the company refused to raise
wages. The settlement includes rec
ognition of shop committees and a
three-year agreement which can be
opened once a year, with 80 days
notice. Wage increases total $400,-
900. The strike was the most sue
cessfu1 ever waged, in Porto Rico,
and as an illustration; of changed con-
ditions, the rules and arbitration
methods which were ,agreed to are
posted throughout the island and are
signed by officers of the company
and the Cigar Makers union.
In the six months prior to the
strike, the company made profit
Of over $1,000,000. The linsular gov
ernnent lost 100000. in revenue be-
cause of the strike.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
IS GAINING STRENGTH IN
EASTERN LABOR CENTERS
Demands Of British Workers Are Finding Approval
in United States-Employes Manifesting
Preference for Government Operation.

WASHINGTON Jan. TO- British trade mionists have
national conference and
give the tong nation reorganzed
and improved social order, when this is DONE
The Amagamaed Society Engineers
part the shbuders and machns Of Great Britain voted
convention that there conscpd least all
another national conference the Labor party within few days.
Already the British has yielded Of the
British labor that the food supply distributed without
favor to rich or poor by food card system The rich will
food and better food than the WHILE but the deo
of freedom from hunger steadily Tightening its lines
all England
These the Atlantic have yet public echo
from the trade theme
deal Of discussion union meetings among
and There growing agitation in Eastern
ters for public operation markets. meat packing plants flour mills
Bakeries and FORTH The farmers the Northwest have
these things the years.
giving justice both the producer and the Now the East
chilled for lack Of coal and because of the lack
Of good food reasonable prices has taken the cry
Will anything be DONE nationally to cut the of food'
All signs point the nationang the packing industry
for thing
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
FEuDAL BOSSES
DECLARE THEY'LL
NOT ARb|TRATE
Western Paper Makers Stub
bornIy Resist Union Labor,
and VIII Run Things Alone. .

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 10.-Trade
unionists in this vicinity are using as
propaganda the report of the presi-
dents mediation commission on the
strike Of paper mill workers against
the Crown Willamette Paper COM
-pany, which acknowledged that wages
were too low Gin some instances"
but refused arbitration offers by the
governor of the state and the presi-
dents commission.
In answer to the company's claim
that the strike is over the commits
sion shows that the same conditions
that caused the strike still exist and
that probabilities of industrial dis
turbance have not been removed.
"Even though the company claims
to have established normal condi-
tions,," continues the commission, lit
still finds it necessary to maintain an
armed guard. Moreover this armed
guard consists of state officers, as the
commission is informed, in the pri-
vate pay of the company
"The source of the difficulty is that
the controlling influence of the COM
pany persist in labor policy which
refuses to make any concession in re-
sponse to demand collectively made
by employees even though such a de-
mand be just one. Protestations of
:. patriotism by the company have been
many and are doubtlessly sincere. It
is not question Of sincerity. It is
q matter of business attitude at
time when the business attitude con-
Germs the country.
I'm its present attitude the COM
pany is disregarding modern stand
ards Of industrial adjustment and is
to enlightened concep-
tions of patriotism by business men.
The guiding consideration of the COM
pany is an unchallenged control over
it's employees, leading to refusal to
rectify conceded evils or to discuss
possible existing Industrial malad-
justments for fear that such conces-
sion or such discussion may be
deemed yielding to the power of an
organization of employeY who are
urging an adjustment of such evils"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
AMPLE LABOR TO
MEET DEMANDS
Agriculture Department Officials
Plead for, Better Distribution
Of Farm LaborerS.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10.-There
is ample labor to meet war demands
on the farm if properly distributed
and efficiently employed, said E.. V.
Wilcox of the farm management bu-
reau, department of agriculture, in
an address in this city.
There are more than 100000 boys
in the United States between the ages
of 16 and 21 years, and a constantly
increasing number of women seeking
and obtaining employment on the
farm, either at outdoor work or as
helpers for farmers wives. This con-
stitutes a force which may be de-
pended upon to render efficient serv-
ice in the event of shortage of farm
help. -
"There are in the United States"
he continued, "more than 100000 re-
tired farmers who are not occupied
with any gainful occupation. Some
of these farmers are going back to
their farms to help out III the present
emergency, and others. will take up
the work when necessity demands it.
The fact that these farmers have re-
tired indicates for the: most part that
they have been successful in. tilling
the soil. Although many of them are
past middle age, yet they are capable
OF doing efficient service on the farms,
and the weight Of their experience
will aid greatly in the solution of
the labor problem" " .>,.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
few Immigrants
Land HERE NOW
Only Ten Come From Southern
Europe in October BETTER 7
Glass Enter Country.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1o.-During
last October 1858 immigrants were
admitted to this country, says the
federal bureau of immigration, in a
report just issued.
In October, 1916, the arrivals were
44,o62; on October, 1915, the number
was 31,215: in October, 1914, 45,241.
OF the arrivals last October, Italy
led with 1,241. The combined total
arrivals from Austria, Bulgaria, Ser
bia, Montenegro and Roumania, the
former source of cheap labor supply
for corporations in this country, was
10 immigrants. Before the war these
arrivals would run into the thou
sands.
OF the October, 1917, arrivals, s58
were listed as laborers, 270I as farm
laborers, and 1874 as farmers, New
York received 1,217 Of these arrivals:
Michigan, SAG; Massachusetts, 446;
Pennsylvania, 321, and California,
259. The states of Arkansas. Ken
lucky and Oklahoma received one
each; Alabama, Mississippi and South
Carolina, two each, and Georgia,
three. ,:>t.,.js = g. : :.... -. .. +'<'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
ALL RAILROAD T2KiERS
ASKING WAGE INCREASES
More Than Million Employees Outside of Four
. Brotherhoods Appealing to Director General
McAdoo for Consideration of Demands

WASHINGTON JAM 10-Ralroad employees other than those
comprising the four great broerood pressing for condera
ton Of their interests by Director General MAdoo Herberng
president of the Swtchmen union of North America Mr. Nc
Adoo for discussion of the demands Of the yard employees for sub
sana The broherhoods $780,
900 out Of railway workers. according to Mr. Heberng
Maintenance Of way employees largest railroad unions
recently the federal board mediation and Cancellation
call the attention of the director to their interests but because
the law limits the activities the board mediation disputes a
fectg employees the request turned to the de-
parment of labor.
The Order Railway Tegaphers has been making demands
increased and improved working conditions individual
throughout country The Swchmen the only
union besides the four roheroods which ever has presented de-
Pooling delivery facilities by mercantile establishments for
unloading freight being experimental with here determine
trucks and vehicles solve the terminal
congestion problem Director General McAdoo probably
will extend the plan throughout the country
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
SOUTH DISCOVERS
VALUE OF NEGRO
War AWakenS Dixie" to NeceS.
sity Of Giving B|ackman :
Square Deal.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-"If the
war has accomplished nothing else of
a constructive character, it has
awakened the south to the necessity
of giving the negro a square deal,"
said J. G.. Lemon of Savannah, Ca,
at the annual conference of the ma
tional association for the advance
ment Of colored people.
1--WE shall see less race discrinlina-
ton in the south hereafter" contin-
ued the speaker, because the migra-
ton Of negroes to northern industrial
plants-particularly munition factor
ies-has demonstrated to southerners
how dependent the south is on negro
labor. The south is now willing to
do almost anything within reason to
keep US there"
Mr.. Lemon said that one of the first
signs of new order of things is the
granting of a more equitable distribu-
ton of school funds, notably in Sa-
vannah.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
DEMANDS REPEAL
OF PICKET Law
Coast Workers will GO Before
Washington Legislature De-
termIned to Secure Rights.

TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 1Q:-organ-
lied labor will ask the state legislaE
ture to pass a law permitting picket
Ing. which has been denied by the
courts of this state. ~
I'VE contend that we, have the right
to tell the TRUTH" said Charles Perry
Taylor, secretary of the state fedora
ton of. labor IF factory employs
nonounionists, organized labor has a
constitutional right to tell any one of
this fact Some times conditions are
misrepresented BY the employer,
their wages and working conditions
being below the standard, resulting
in a strike. When a firm Of this char
acter calls for workers we want the
right to tell the truth about it,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
TREAT STRIKERS As
TRAITORS TO COUNTRY

! PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1O.-Pref.
Carl Kelsey of the university of Penn
sylvania worked himself into an awful
frenzy while discussing wartime
strikes before the American Histori-
cal association.
The learned gentleman was evil
1ently bidding for first-page space
n the daily press, for he declared:
The time is coming when we must
';reat strikers as traitors" - ~,.-..
"This must, however, afford no ex-'
';use for low wages or mistreatment
Iof workers. he said. He failed, how
aver, to give a substitute for strikes,
where low wages or "mistreatment''
prevail. ~.:; =:
Prof. Kelsey also favors :conscrip-
E1o1 OF labor. &s3f-5r, :, e. FsfgyzSS ~.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
CULTIVATE idle
Land after WAR
Congress to Take Steps to Put
Land in Hands Of Persons
Who viii Work Il.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The
question of creating, board Of ad-
ministration to develop practical STAN
dards for rural colonies and take
steps to get as much land as possible
in the hands of persons who will
cultivate it after the war, will be
considered by congress at this ses-
sion. A subcommittee of the senate
agricultural committee has arranged
for hearings on the Curtis bill, which
provides for colonization survey
and establishment of colonies for de-
pendent families Of soldiers and
others.
Those favoring the plan refer to
conditions in Denmark resulting from
steps taken after the war with Ger
many and in northern France after
the revolution. The land was placed
with those who would cultivate it
and they became great producing CEN
terS.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
C0MPERS DPL0RES THREATS TO IMPORT
COOLIES; WOULD MEAN RACE PROBLEM
BY SAMUEL GONIPERS.

Shortly after war was declared by the United
States against the imperial German government
conditions made the basis for an agitation
to suspend legislation limiting and regulating i'm
migration into this country. AS result of cond-
the United States had fallen from 1915, S,4So in the
making a decrease of 923,077.
AS a result of tremendous immigration into this
country, which was in a large measure induced by
steamship companies and by corporations who
wished to profit from foreign cheap labor. there
workers. A report published in Monthly Review by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics Of the Department
of Labor, October, 1915, shows that there was an
average of 2,177 900 persons idle, taking averages
during IL months in the year in normal times. The
months in which the European war was in progress
had largely reduced immigration, but has not, as
yet, taken up the slack However, the employers
of this country have never given any thought how
to make most efficient of workers or to plan
roll or the "army of unemployed.' They had al
ways trusted o'chance that there would be enough
seeking jobs whenever there occasion for en-
ploying additional workers. They had never organ
lied their work to conform to the needs and supply
of workers.. They had always expected workers to
conform to the needs and interests of EMPLOYERS
Labor had been considered as the uninportant part
OF production, to be either hired fired in pro-
cesses of production. "~:,~.1 :.
economies of their organization to the new situa-
tion which made workers more valuable and less
readily available. If three men were not waiting
for one job, they thought there was shortage The
only remedy that occurred to them was to open up
the Hoods gates OF immigration. They clamored for
the repeal of this 'protectiye legislation How:
ever: the Department Of Labor suspended the immi-
grafton law to permit the entrance Of Mexican
workers. and then an assault was made upon the
Chinese Exclusion Act. 80 >:
:, Steamship companies have offered to bring III.
thousands Of Chinese coolies. This movement now
finds congressional father in Senator Galiineer
OF New Hampshire, who introduced in the Senate
resolution to investigate the advsabiliy Of repea
ing or suspending the Chinese Exclusion Act The
advocates OF this course treating the whole cues
tlon as though it were q matter Of expedency only
iney ignore the fundamental principles upon which
the result of considered judgments and careful ia
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
UNCLE SAM PROTECTS
HEALTH OF SOLDIERS

TACOMA, WASH, JAM, 10.-Military
authorities at. Camp Lewis have or
dered soldiers not to patronize. any
restaurant, hotel, barber shop, ice
cream or soda water establishment,
unless same shall have certificate
of inspection. These: certificates will
be revocable whenever occasion de-
mands and the military police will
enforce the order. 1
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
LOCOMOTIVE HEAD : - :
= LIGHT LAW July

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The in
terstate commerce commission has
postponed from Jan. to July 1,
1918, the date, on which locomotives
must be equipped with higher power
head lights. Engines placed in SER
vice after that date must be supplied
with the new lights, and old engines
must be so equipped the first time
they are placed in the shop for gen
eral repairs after that date.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
ROAD QUITS PAYING
-. BONUS. TO- employees

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 10. The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
road announces that the semi-annual
10 per cent bonus to its unorganized
employees will be continued in the
form of straight salary increase,
payable monthly.
This concern is notoriously low
waged and paid the bonus only to it's
unorganized. Since the government
has taken over the control Of rail-
roads and guarantees dividends, the
Santa Fe receives a lot Of free adver-
tising without cost.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12

vestgation of conditions and tendencies covering
period of several decades
and diverse nationalities So strong and so rapid
has been the current of immigration that there has
not been opportunity for the amalgamation nor for
the assimilation of these conflicting elements into
nation with common language, ideals, standards of
living and customs America has been termed
SO rapid that the refining fire Of common experi
ence and endeavor has not yet melted away afflia-
tions to the Fatherland nor brought about a homo
deed, it is now but in the making. There exist
throughout the country particularly in large Cities
Russian settlements, Polish settlements, Lithuanian
settlements, etc., which really transplanted COL
onies from the old country little changed by
American life and experience. Before the war
broke out we began to realize that the number of
foreign immigrants within the United States had
passed the point at which they could be safely
simulated: For that reason immigration legislation
World experience has demonstrated that the
white race not assimilate races of other colors
The other alternative, amalgamation has results
that are repugnant to Americans. We already have
one race problem still unsettled.
There threatened another more serious problem
through coolie immigration. European immigrants
sooner or later become cooperatOrs with Americas
workers.: but; Chinese workers provoke conflict
between white and yellow standards Of life and
the white workers. The result Of the proposed
: policy would be, therefore, the Chinese colonies
and Chinese industries which spring up In this
country. To prevent this disaster the Chinese Ex-
clusion Act was adopted with which is associated
the gentleman's agreement which also restricts
Japanese workers The same conditions that made
advisable the adoption Of this legislation make in
advisable its repeal. -
]. With one urgent and unsolved race problem on
hands we can not afford to risk national exist
renee by inviting another this war for freedom
we can not afford to use methods that would de-
prive our workers of those things that gave life,
hope and opportunity. Americans must deal with
Americas problems Either they Will demonstrate
to cope with the situation for moral and mental
stamina or else they will confess inability defend
the cause OF democracy and freedom. The prob
lens OF the war demand brains and efficiency, not
stupidity and shirking. ssi5 sasssszs
II Unite to win the war! ~ stts$sS =
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
BRHISH.LARORl Endorses q.
t :::::WlSON'S PEACE PROGRAM

LONDON, Jan. 40.-Repre-
sentives of British labor. issued
a manifesto : Wednesday giving
whole hearted support to the
program presented in President
Wilson's speech Tuesday.
The manifesto says that "in
essential respects it. is SO, similar .
to that which the British labor
movement put forward that we,
need not discuss. any points Of
differences in detail.'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
EXTEND WAR, INSURANCE.

.WAlSH1NGToN, JAN. 10:----The new
war insurance system for. soldiers:
sailors and members of the nurses
corps has been extended to 1,1OO
Officers and empl Dyes Fof the federal
light house service. 81 $3.50 s1:@:t, .-...
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
ENGINEERS RAISE WAGES.

TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 10.-Steam
Engineers union No. sos, has secured
contracts with all wooden ship yards
ip this city. The Agreements are
based on the decision OF the labor
adjustment commission Of the United
States shipping board.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12

Anticipate ANOTHER
STRIKE OF PLANTATION
WORKERS IN PORTO RICO

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1O.-An-
other strike of the sugar planta-
the way, as the sugar trust refuses
to pay $3.50 a day to the farm
and factory labOrers. Wages now
range from IS cents to 81 n day.
Food costs are rising. Santiago
IElesias, head Of the Porto Riean'
labor movement and now a sena-
tor in the legislature, is getting
ready for the struggle of his long
and stormy career in that field,
to win the $1.5O wage.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
ILLINOIS ENGINEERS
UNANIMOUSLY lND0RSE
NATIONAL PROHIBITION

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. TO-
Without oppositlon, members of
the legislative, committee of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Engin-
GERS, representing $4,000 Illinois
locomotive engineers, in session
wide prohibition. A RESOLUTION
favOr&RGs the approval BY the Hi
n0is general assembly OF the pro-,
posed prohibition amendment to
the 'cOnst1tutiOn of the United
States was adopted unanimously.