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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
BROTHERS. KEEPER,
(From Fresno Republican,

(From Fresno Republican,
Whether we will or no, we are one
with the family of nations, and every
thing we do now has its international
aspect.
For instance, when Bisbee deported
the /. w. WIS or when San Franchises
alleged claw and order" forces showed
a fierceness of interest in the Mooney
trial that cast doubts on it's disinter-
estedness, the men behind these mani
festations of capitalistic class-con-
seriousness little thought that they
were jeopardizing the cause of democ-
racy in Russia, and contributing to the
anarchy which is going to cost Amer
lea forty billion dollars and hundreds
sof Thousands: of lives: Yet, literally,
without exaggeration or remoteness
of Influence, this is exactly what hap
pened.
After the car was deposed, 1T was
natural that Russia should look to
America, the great constitutional de-
mocracy, for example and guidance.
An American committee for the en-
couragement of democracy in Russia
was formed in New York, with some
OF the leading men in America in
cluded in it's membership. Its work
was abortive and soon came to naught
An American commission headed by
Elihu Root, was sent to Russia. Post
haste, ahead of it, went a volunteer
committee of Russian-American viol-
emit radicals, with the message that
America is not democracy and it's
leadership must not be trusted. If
these men had merely talked vague
generalities, they could have done
little harm. But they went with these
two specific instances-the lawless
/ mobbing of working people by the
business classes in Bisbee, and the
Vindictive misuse Of the courts by the
| organized business classes of San
Francisco-and with them they sue
ceeded very largely in vitiating the
| usefulness Of the Root mission. And
| then, the anchorage toward sound
! democracy in America being loosened,
F! these Identical persons, exported from
America, proceeded to lead the Boil
! sheviki uprising and to precipitate the
! chaos which now threatens Russia
and the world.
These men were not just, of course,
ESPECIALLY I'll IIe MOOuey case, WnlCn
! distinctly has two sides to it. In the
| Bisbee deportations they had a better
case, and they successfully drew the
analogy between Bisbee's lawless de-
| portations and Germany's technically
lawful though substantially inhuman
! deportations of Belgians. But the
point is that minor American wrong
actually jeopardized American leader
| ship at the crisis Of the life of the
world.
! And, continuously, American democ-
racy is going to be judged, not by JEFF
| fersonian eighteenth century stahd-
ards of equal votes, but by twentieth
century standards of economic free
dom. Every recrudescence in Amer
lea of the nineteenth-century assump-
ton of the right of the business class
to rule the other classes is going to
help convince the Notwithstanding
peoples that America is not a democ-
racy. If we make ourselves efficient
enough, we can fight, but unless we
make ourselves democrats we can
not lead. And in this we, have re-
| sponsibility not to ourselves, but to
| the world.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
HOW'D YOU LIKE TO Be
ACH|NESE COMP0SIT0R?

The CO rnpositor of "a Chinese news
paper is almost as important a per-
sonage as the editor, says an ex-
change. His acquaintanceship with
the language is just as great. The
American typesetter is obliged to be
familiar with 26 letters, ten figures
and a few signs and symbols, as peri
DDS, dollar marks, etc., but the Chin
csc compositor must be familiar with
1900 characters of this archaic lam
guage. Certain sounds Often\ stand
for several words, the difference often
vital to the intelligent presentation of
an idea depending on certain diacriti-
cal marks accompanying each word
There are thousands of these SYM
bo1s which, are engraved, each one rep
resenting type, but well-regulated
newspaper will require but 1900
characters; if others are needed they
are made in the office. A font of
type in the Chinese language requires
1900 spaces and in large and spa
cious racks each word, instead Of each
letter. as in the English, has place
for itself. There is also a peculiar
grouping or classification of symbols
into groups further to facilitate the
mental labors of the typesetters. Thus
in the immediate vicinity of the SYM
Dol for fish would be found the SYM
Dol for scales, net, fins, gills, etc. This
simplifies the labor, which in any
event must be so strenuous that it is
evident that the compositor's end of
the Chinese newspaper should, if per-
feet justice ruled, be the highest paid.
The compositor is a staid and digni-
fled individual, and as he slowly walks
from symbol to symbol. picking those
which he requires with provoking
calmness, the. American compositor
might we'll wonder when the work
would be complete, To set up the
limited type required for a four-page
daily paper the constant labors of
eight or nine skilled Chinese are re-
CURED for Il or IS hours. - r..
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
FAvoR|S HEALTH i
|NS 81 | !. c [. I:
WACE-E / / R.
New Jersey Legislative Commit
tee Says Health Of People
Must Be:ConSerVed.

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 5.-Uni-
versal health insurance for wage
earners as an immediate wartime ne
cessity for strengthening the vitality
Of this country's population is favored
in the Unanimous report of the off,
cial legislative commission Investigate
ing social insurance problems in New
Jersey, it has been announced by Gov
Walter E. Edge.
1.-THE stress of industry in war is
making increasing demands upon
physical endurance" states the report
signed by Senator Everett Colby of
Newark, chairman, DR.. Augustine
Elmendorf, John H. Adamson, and
Joseph NJ Alderman. "In our hour
Of necessity we have been shocked by
the high percentage Of, draft rejec-
tions on account of physical disability.
AS never before we need now to con-
serve, for present and future genera
tons, the health and physical vigor of
our people. Furthermore, it is the
duty of craftsmanship to look beyond
our immediate pressing needs to the
period of reconstruction at the close
Of the war. We cannot afford to dis
regard the protective legislative in
ducements already Offered to work.
men by our keenest commercial COM
petitors in Europe"
Several state organization are on
record for health insurance, including
the State Federation of Labor, the
New Jersey Woman Suffrage associa-
ton and the New Jersey Health Off
GERS association.
Relieve Economic Distress.
The commission is of the opinion
that health insurance gives great
promise both of relieving economic
distress due to sickness and of stimu-
lating preventive action. ITO achieve
these ends" the report says, "such a
measure adapted to New Jerseys
needs, should be based upon the fol-
lowing fundamental principles: Exist
ing health insurance agencies that are
conducted Oh an adequate basis at
actual cost should, with mutual man
agement, be utilized in the further de-
Velopment Of a comprehensive health
| insurance system. In order that the
! greater effectiveness and economy of
a universal system may be enjoyed
| health insurance should be made to
cover all regularly employed wage
gamers. Insurance should provide
medical care and health instruction
in order that it's work may be both
curative and preventive. To minimize
the financial distress attending sick
ness the system should provide a cash
benefit during temporary incapacity
for work. 1t should also provide ma
ternity care to meet the special needs
of working mothers. Health insurance
should be democratically supported
and managed by those directly con-
cerned, the state bearing as it's share
the cost of general administration as
it does in workmen's compensation.
The system should be under supervi-
sion of special bureau in the depart
ment of labor with competent medical
direction and in close cooperation
with existing public health agencies,
in order to place added emphasis
upon the extremely important prob
lem of sickness prevention"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
NEW u. S. NAVAL
ESTABLISHMENTS
Clanori',g for Labor; Me.
c1a11ics Are Asked to
Offer Services.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-For many
years there have been few additions
to the number of navy yards and sta
tons in the United States, but the
war has made necessary a consider
able increase in our facilities for con-
Quoting naval operations.
The naval. aircraft factory at Phila-
delphia, Pa, and the naval operat-
ing base at Hampton Roads, Va, have
recently been completed and are now
in full commission. In the course of
preparation are naval training sta
ton at Gulfport, Miss, and submarine
bases at New London, Conn.,, and
San Pedro, Cal. 1t will be noted that
these two submarine bases are so sit
uated as to add to the defenses of
both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
Located close to supplies of steel and
coal is the projectile plant at Charles
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
CHARGE Meat PACKERS
WITH EVASION OF LAW

EAST. ST. LOUIS. ILL.,, JAM 3.-As a
result of federal and state inspection
officials of Swift and company, meat
packers, are charged with evading
legislation which provides that pro-
ducts in cold storage shall be stamped.
The prosecution says: y
"Failure of packers to properly
stamp butter and eggs sold to grocers,
permits their sale as fresh products
for price above their real value"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
FARMS LOANS $29.824,OOO.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Loans az
gregating $29,S24,ooo have been made
to farmers by the IL federal land
banks in the six months since the
farm loan system has been in full
operation, according to the monthly
report of the federal farm loan
board.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
CAR MEN RAISE WAGES. :

!. = JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,, Jan. {. 33.-The
:Brotherhood of Railway Car Men has
secured a 10 per cent wage increase
and an agreement from the Florida
East Coast railroad, the. first since
the strike Of several years ago.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
We should work to make the Anne,

We should work to make the Ameri-.
can trade union movement more ef-
fective in national affairs to bring
about organization of the common life.
in broader lines so that great oppor-
tunity shall come into the life of every
human being.-American Federation
lit. = :
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16
TN , ENGLISH WOMEN DO
HEROIC WORK BELGIAN FRONT

London, April Correspond
ence of the Associated Press)-The
Baroness T'Serclaes and Miss Mairi
Chisholm, two English women who
have lived in a dugout on the Belgian
front for three and half wears, car
ing for the Belgian troops, and who
are known throughout the Belgian
army as the Good women of
Pervyse' have arrived in London, suf-
ferlng from the effects of gas at
tack on the Belgian front in the re-
cent fighting there. Both have been
seriously i'll, but are now sufficiently
recovered to be admitted to a con-
vaescent hospital here.
we were accustomed to lombard
ment," said the Baroness in an inter
vieW," and our dugout has been hit a
hundred times since we lived there.
But in this last attack the shelling
was more dreadful than we have ever
known.
1T was early one morning after a
nlght-long bOmbardment that we de-
cIded to venture out, knowing that
there would be many needing our
care. While we were dressing. |
heard a shell burst outside our dug
out, and Il moment later | found our
orderly lying on the floor of the cor
rider rushed up to see what | could
do for him when suddenly | felt as if
rope had been fastened around nv
neck.
81 could not breathe and was abb
solutely helpless. Mis- Chisholm too
was in agonies. My little dog Shot,
who had been with us for three years,
came up and looked at me with won
dering eyes, licked my hand and died.
l don't think | had ever before felt
that | actually hated my enemy, but
ever since my dog was gassed have
longed above all else to kill a Ger
man!
1T was only about half an hour be-
fore we were taken away in an am
buance. The ambulance was smash
ed by shell after quarter of a
mile and we were picked up again
and taken in big truck to base
hospital. We were there several days
before we were able to be moved to
London"
The two women of Pervyse" have
been the only women who have been
permitted to live and work at the
Begian front. Hundreds of volun-
teers, American and British, have
asked to be allowed to help them, but
the Belgian command would not even
allow a third woman at Pervyse.
In the early days they worked
single-handed, but a doctor, two
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16
custom.

custom.
Sixty days ago the land on which
the plant is being erected was a desc
late marsh, vast acreage of mud
through which wandered aimlessly a
sluggish river. Now it is a network
of railroad tracks with locomotives
running between great buildings of
steel, tile and glass.
What engineers here say is one of
the largest buildings in the world will
be used to house at one time score
of the little vessels. 1t is 1,7OO feet
long, 800 feet wide. The building
where the boats are to be assembled
is fully half mile from the Rouge
river. The launching basin adjoins
this building and thence a channel is
being excavated to the river.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16
FORD PLANT TO BUILD
MAMMOTH STATES
NAVY "EAGL e"
(By Associated Press)

Detroit. May 16.-Quantity produc-
ton is to be the watchword of the
great Ford shipbuilding yard which
is being erected here for the construc-
ton of the United States navy
Eagles" the little vessels which it is
hoped, will help rid the seas of Ger
man U-boats.
The assembling plan has been
greatly elaborated and will be applied
to the building of the Eagles" The
raw material will enter one end of the
plant to emerge at the other end a
completed fighting craft Each of the
little vessels will be passed along by
powerful machinery from one group
of workment to another and, as it
passes each group will add something
to the boat.
When the last rivet has been driven
in the steel hull, the boat will be
picked up bodily by powerful hy-
draulic life and deposited further
down the ways where skilled work
men will install the motor equipment.
Three ways have been constructed,
each to hold seven of the submarine
chasers. 1t is generally understood
that the plant will be able to put in
to the water one completed Eagle"
a day and some estimates have placed
the number as high as three for each
twenty-four hours.
There will be no champagne chris
tening nor elaborate launching cere-
monies. No efforts are being made
to give the boats any touch of arti-
ficia beauty, the sole effort being to
turn out with as great speed as pos
sibe an efficient weapon against Ger
man ruthlessness on the seas. Gov
ernment secrecy shrouds the major
details of construction.
"If these boats will hasten the end
of the frightful carnage and bring a
lasting peace, there will be no occa-
sion to worry over the COST" said
Henry Ford in discussing the project.
"This is your war and my war, and
although we did not make it, we must
see it through to successful con-
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16
BIG CHINESE TELEGRAPH LOAN

Toxic, April 2O.-(Correspondence
Iof the Associated Press)-Advices
from Peking report the conclusion of
a Chinese telegraph loan totalling
the equivalent of about $1O,OOO,OOO
for which negotiations had been GO
ing on between the Chinese govern
ment and the Japan-China Industrial
Bank. A part of the loan is said to
have been handed over to the Chinese
government.
The loan is said to be at 8 per cent
interest and the mortgage for it is
the revenue of telegraph business con-
Quoted by the Chinese government
estimated at about $2,5OO,OOO a year.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16
YET HOPE FOR AID
FROM RUSSIA

Darby, Pa, May 4.-(Correspond-
ence of the Associated Press)-First
Lieutenant j. A. Youngblood and
and Second Lieutenant Richard D..
Reese, of this town, who went to
Russia almost a year ago as part of
the Russian railway service detach-
ment of the United States Engineers,
and who have just returned to their
homes by way of Japan, both declared
they believe Russia will become again
an efficient aid to the Allies.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16

stretcher-bearers, and chauffeur
came to help them later in their lit
tie casualty station. The nearest
hospital is ten miles from Pervyse.
Their station was always open day
and night and for trivial ailments as
well as for serious wounds. Their
dugout was made of concrete, and had
an operating room, kitchen and a
small sleeping room.
The husband of the Baroness is a
Belgian army officer.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16
NEW CANDIDATES CARD

l hereby announce myself candi-
date for election to the office of
Township Commissioner for Union
Township, Union County, and pledge
myself to abide the result of the
Democratic primary.
j. w. NANCE.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16

With half a million American SOL
diers in France that official "some-
where" comes pretty near being
everywhere.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16

One way the Red Cross Has Taken Defeat the Kasers Game
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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-16
RED CROSS BOOSTER ADVERTISERS

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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-08-07
LOCAL ITEMS


Mr.. and Mrs. George Phillips,
George, jr., Miss Margaret Shattuck
and Fred Sauer made up motor par
ty which went up TO Mecosta Sunday
When the stamp solicitors called on
William Heidkam, an aged German
farmer residing near Deckerville, he
made a remark to the effect that it
would be better if the kaiser would
win the war and rule this country so
that man could get glass of beer
when he wanted it. Evidently that's
what some of the fellows who are
working for the return of the saloon
to Michigan think, too.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Chickering
have removed from Greenville to
Muskegon. They were formerly res
idents of this place. Mr.. Chickering
lived with his parents south and east
of this city and Mrs. Chickering who
was before her marriage, Miss Rena
Currie, living with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey Currie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Doris Church and Mr..
and Mrs. Clare Ford of Moseley were
Sunday callers of Mr.. and Mrs. j. b.
Bliss.
d. S. Shotwell and Mr.. and Mrs.
Clare Shotwell of Oakfield were call
ers of Mrs. Ralph Bedding at the hos
pital, also at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Bliss.
The Southwest Eureka Ladies' aid
will meet with Mrs. Jens Knudsen
Thursday, August Is. We expect to
sew in the afternoon and a picnic sup
per will be had later on. Ice cream
will also be served.
Mrs. +. ]. Kinsman and son Ralph
spent Friday with Mrs. M. Bidwell.
Mrs. Susan Krupp entertained the
following for dinner Monday: Mr..
and Mrs. Ed. Werner and son. Howard
of Cedar Springs, Theodore Blasen of
this city and Mrs. Cook of Grand
Rapids.
Miss Margaret Joiner of Alma is
spending a few weeks with her aunt,
Mrs. E. B. Lapham.
w. S. Lambertson and family are
spending the week at Wabasis lake.
Miss Helen Lapham has been the
guest of their daughter, Louise, for
few days.
at doesn't take long for Mi-o-na
stomach tablets to end Indigestion.
First dose relieves. Guaranteed by
Wortley & French.-Advertisement.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-08-07

The management of the Free fair
to be held in Ionia next week, plan
ming to make every day big day, and
with this end in view, propose to start
the fair off with an unusually attrac-
tive and interesting special program.
The first day, Wednesday, August
IA, has been designated "Fraternal
and Patriotic day"
Unusual preparations are being
made to make this a day no one in
Ionia county will want to miss. A big
patriotic parade is being arranged,
the same to be headed by the state
ed car or tank. In addition the Red
Cross workers of Ionia county in autos,
the Ionia city. units having already
agreed to appear in uniform and de-
sire to be joined by the workers of
every unit in the county. Autos will
be provided for ALL
In addition it is urged that all of
the following units arrange to par
ticipate in the parade: The War Pre-
paredness Board, War Savings Stamp
committee, G. A. r., ID. A. r.. Span
ish War Veterans, w. X. C. The Boy
Scouts of the county and other inter-
esting units will also be asked to join
to make this the greatest patriotic
parade Ionia county has ever seen.
In addition to these mentioned fea-
lures, evey patriotic citizen in Ionia
county is asked to decorate their cars
with flags at least and join in the
parade and spirit of the day.
The parade will form on Main
street at p. m. and be under the di-
recticn of competent marshals.
u. s. Senator William Alden Smith
and Governor A. Z. Sleeper will de-
liver patriotic addresses, Senator
Smith being recognized as one of the
country's greatest patriotic orators.
The large Chautauqua tent has been
provided for this event which is book
ed for 2 p. m. Wednesday. Don't
MISC it. The fraternal orders of the
county, too, are urged to come this
day. Excellent picnic accommoda-
tons are to be found on the grounds.
Make this day Of getting together to
boost both the patriotic and fraternal
spirit of the county and to celebate
what we have already donesalong these
lines.
The Free fair proper with its hun
dreds of other attractions will be in
full swing, making the day of unus-
ual interest.
Plan now to come on this, the first
day of the fair, Patriotic and Frater-
nal day.
Don't forget that you have to have
a sugar card with the rest of the fur
niture now a days.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-08-07
Honored Eastern Guest.

On Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 6, the
home of Mrs. S. w. Case was the
scene of a merry gathering in honor
of her sister, Mrs. Helen Trowbridge
of New York city, who is spending the
summer here, when in defiance of the
extreme heat dozen Of her friends
came as a surprise to help celebrate
her birthday. An event of the oc-
casion was large birthday cake bear
ing three candles, yellow, white and
green, typical of the past, present and
future. A short poem was read ex-
planning the yellow, which was for
golden sheaves garnered in the past;
the white for the fair present, and
green for the bright future. Loving
wishes were also extended Mrs. Trow-
bridge and original conundrums were
guessed. each one containing the name
of one of the guests and founded upon
some we'll known characteristic of
each. A bathing party at Baldwin
lake ended the evening for at least a
part of those present and all agreed
happy time had been spent. Those
present from out of the city were Mrs.
/. F. Donielson of Maple Rapids and
Miss Zada Wilson, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-08-07

No more will the people of the city
have occasion to have little fun
with Jocko, the monkey az the city
hall for Jocko turned up his toes and
gave up the ghost shortly after noon
Monday after a short and eventful
life in this city which was made up of
tormenting by the citizens and occas-
ional escapes and other thrilling incl
dents. Jocko was quite cur
iosity to many and he will be missed
by them and to others he was disliked
and was big nuisance and these peo-
pie were glad to hear Of his death. 1t
Is thought by some Of Jocko's friends
that some of his enemies might have
slipped him some poisoned food and
that this caused his untimely death.