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New-York tribune., 1918-09-19

O'Clock this morning the troops Of
the Third and Fourth British armies
attacked with complete success on a
front of about sixteen miles, from
the neighborhood of Holmon to Gou-
zeaucourt. On the whole of this front
our troops, advancing in heavy storms
of rain, carried the enemy's positions
by assault.
Sweeping over the old British
trench systems of March, 1918. thew
reached and captured the outer de-
fences of the Hindcnburg line in
wide sectors.
On our right, divisions composed
of English and Scotch troops can't
ured Fresnoy- lc- Petit Berthaucourt
and Pontau, meeting with and over
coming strong hostile resistance. mar
tlcularly on the extreme right of
our attack
In the right centre two Australian
divisions captured the villages of LIE
Verguier and Vilcret.
Pushing forward with great deter
mination, they established them
selves in the old German advanced
positions west and southwest of
Bcllicourt, having penetrated the en-
emy's defcnces to a depth of three
miles.
In the left centre the 74th Yeo-
manry Division and other divisions
composed of east county and Lon
don troops captured Templux-lc-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-19
- - - '
British Fliers Again
Bomb Bruges Docks
Stop Raid ON Coast

LONDON. Sept. ls.British army
have dropped thirteen tons Of bombs
on the docks at Bruges and a German
airdrome in Belgium. says an official
statement from the Admiralty to- day.
In air fighting, eleven German air
planes were destroyed.
Five enemy seaplanes, which ap-
pronched the east coast Of England
we're driven off by four British ma
chimes. one enemy machine being
destroyed. The stntement reads:
During the last forty-cight hours
Royal Air Force contingents working
tons of bombs on the docks at Brugcs
and on the Maria Alter airdrome
Eleven enemy machines and kite bal
loon were destroyed and seven ma
chimes were driven down out of con-
troll. Four of our machines are miss
ing.
"A formation of five enemy sea
planes approaching the east coast was
met and engaged by two scaplanes and
two airplanes. One German machine
was destroyed, the others retiring east
ward"
Three hostile airplanes on a night
Do'ip plhE CHptu'tloH we're DTOuTnJ uOWn
inside the British lines last night, ac-
cording to the official statement on
aviation issued tonight. Fourteen en-
envy machines were destroyed alto
gether and five others driven down out
OF control. The statement follows:
after their heavy losses on the pre-
vlous day, enemy aircraft were less
active yesterday. The weather on the
British front was fine, with a strong
wind
"Our machines were at work all dav
carrying out reconnoissances and pho
Biography far behind the German lines
observing and reporting the effect of
our artillery fire and bombing enemy
airdromes, ammunition dumps and
other selected targets. Eleven hostile
machines were destroyed and five
others driven down out of control.
Ten of our machines are missing.
"At night we heavily bombed three
German ardromes. where squadrons
working in the battle area are located,
Three large hostile night bombing ma
chimes which came over our lines were
detected by our searchlights, attacked
from the air and brought down.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-19

Guerard, Ronssoy, Epehy and Peizi-
ere, also penetrating to great
Depth
North of Peizicre the 21st Division
attacked over the northern portion of
the sector defended by it with so
much gallantry on March 2l and 90.
Having captured its old front
trenches, together with the strong
point known as Vaucelette farm, and
beaten off hostile counter attack, it
pushed forward for more than mile
beyond this line, capturing several
hundred prisoners and German bat
terry complete, with it's teams, in the
course of its advance.
On the left Of our attack other Eng
lish and Welsh troops carried the re-
mander of the high ground south of
Gouzcaucourt, reaching the outskirts
OF Nillers Guislain and capturing
Gauche Wood
over SIX thousand prisoners and n
number OF guns have been captured
by our troops in the course of these
successful operations.
LONDON DAY-As result of
our operations yesterday on the
southern portion Of the battlefront
we gained possession of Holnon Vii
lage, with several prisoners.
This morning our troops attacked
northwest of st. Quentin.
Yesterday evening the enemy at
tackled at Moeuvrcs under cover of
heavy artillery barragc and pressed
our troops back to the western out
skirts of the village.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-19
The Great War-15O5th Day
Tribune Hit in Bogus Paper
I Huns Rain on Yanks From Sky

that tho Allied navy has lost 25 bat
tleships, 20 battle cruisers, As protected
cruisers. 1877 torpedo boat destroycrs,
81 submarines and rs auxiliary cruis-
crs during the four years Of war, or
greater number of craft than Ger
many's entire navy possessed before
the war. The U-boats arc given credit
for most Of these sinkings.
Another item announces that the
American Embassy at Bernc has
stopped issuing passports to Ameri-
cans in Switzerland and is refusing to
extend those expired, adding: every
thing points to the fact that Wilson
contemplates cntangling Switzerland
into the war"
Quotes San Francisco Paper
Under the caption "Ncws From
America" the newspaper says: "'Lct
us preserve democracy here while
fighting for it abroad Under the
above headline The San Francisco Ex-
aminer' printed remarkable edito-
rial. The article is very much to the
point and at the same time written in
thoroughly dignificd style. 1t should
be made known to every American sol
dier fighting in mud in the French
trenches"
"The Examiners" article thereafter
was printed in full.
The American officers are making no
effort to keep these aerial newspapers
from the doughboys. They obviously
have been written by some one in Ger
many who knows America, and are
clevery edited, but the least educated
doughboy would know their object i'm
mediately.
America in Europe" brazenly an
nounces under its headline that it is
paper published in the "interest of
the good fellowship of all the ma
tlons," and asks that all communica-
tions be addressed to the America in
Europe Company, Frankfort on Main,
Germany, Postoffice Box 55.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-19
British ana French
roops Start Driue
Ir, Storm, of Rain
(By The Associated Press)

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Sept. 1S.-The British troops
made powerful attack against the
German lines to the west and north
west of st. Quentin to-day, and most
important results were achieved. A
deep advance into the enemy territory
strengthened the already powerful grip
the British have on st. Quentin, one
of the most strongly fortified parts of
the Hindenburg line.
To the south the French cooperated in
what is likely to prove an operation Of
vast portent with respect to the Hin
denburg defensive position.
The zone involved in the British
movement lay, roughly, between Hol-
non. on the south, and Gouzeaucourt.
Within few hours Peiziere, Tenn
pleux-l le- Guerand, Epehy, Ronssoy and
Nilleret were behind the advanced Brit
ish forces. and bitter fighting was in
progress at many other points in the
forward zone. More than 5000 pris-
oners have already been sent back to
the cages.
The advance thus far record ed-in
some places more than two miles
means that the British have at numer-
Gus points gained the crest of the ridge
along which their old front line ran
prior TO the German offensive in March
and from their new positions were
looking down on the Hindenburg line in
the valley to the east.
That hard lighting would be encoun-
tered in this sector was a foregone
conclusion. The main enemy opposi-
tion came from machine guns and ar
t'llery. The counter barrage which the
Germans sent over in reply to the
British bombardment was much more
severe than the enemy had been able
to provide in the recent fighting, and,
as an additional new feature, the Ger
mans maintained heavy barrage over
the back areas with high velocity gun.
which had been concentrated for the
purpose.
The shellng OF the back areas during
a. dtCdCh Is W Uc cNpPClcO, Dut par
rage had seldom before been attempted.
and then without great success.
The German infantry surrendered
quite freely in places. In fact, in the
centre of the attack, where the Austria
hans were working, considerable num-
ber of graycoats deliberately charged
through the British barrage to give
themselves up.
On the north. Pcizierc and strongly
fortified sugar factory TO the northeast
were taken by storm after hard fight
ing Epehy proved a tough nut to
crack. Here the famous Alpine corps
had been brought up, and the German
army boasts no better troops than
these.
1t was futile to attempt frontal at
tack against this place. which was
fairly bristling with machine guns
The British. accordingly. worked about
1T to the north and south and squeezed
1T out. Ronssoy was carried by storm
and hundred prisoners were CLEANED
from the surviving garrison.
In the centre the Australians had to
fight for every inch of ground they
took, but they pushed steadily forward
until they reached the crest Of the
ridge. BY $3.50 o'clock the Australians
New-York tribune., 1918-09-19
BRITISH

LON DON NIGHD.-At $3.50
New-York tribune., 1918-09-19

Tignon road. The enemy tempor-
arily penetrated our lines but was
driven back by a counter thrust.
Enemy attacks directed against the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-19

remainder of this front failed before
our lines. There were minor recon
noitring engagements on the Lor-
raine front and in the Sundcau.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
ANTI-CONSPIRACY LAW
NOT LEGAL, SAYS COURT

OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 12.-The
state supreme court has ruled that
the Portland anti-conspiracy ordin-
ance is unconstitutional.
This ordinance, initiated by the
Portland Employees association, was
adopted by a referendum vote last
June. While the act is popularity
known as the anti-picketing law, in
effect it would outlaw every attempt
of the workers to improve their con-
dition.
In setting aside this ordinance
the court said:
can agreement not to have deal
ings with a person is involved in a
combination of working men, acting
in concert, to quit their employment
and such action constitutes a strike
That such is the Interpretation placed
upon the language of the act by the
defendant city, is manifest upon
reading the charging part of the
complaint in this case. The ques-
ton is: Can a municipality, in the
exercise of its police power, enact
legislation declaring the act of strik-
ing to be criminal?
at will not be disputed that
every workman has an absolute
right, in absence of a contract, to
quit his employment when he pleases
and that the employer has the re-
ciprocal right to discharge a work.
man in like manner. The fact that
a number of workmen exercise this
right in common cannot, we think,
make the act criminal.
"The act of quitting employment
in body cannot, in itself, involve
any question of public peace, health,
or safety, unless it be complicated
with some other problems as in
time of war, and in such emergency
the problem is shifted to the state
or to the federal government. In
this particular, then, the ordinance
IS unreasonable and void as against
public policy, as disclosed in legis
lation and decisions of both state
and federal courts"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
FORCES OF REFORM ARE GETTING
READY FOR COMING CAMPAIGN

cities make immediate Investigations
of conditions prevailing and of the
workings of the first aid law, and
submit them to the council for its
guidance in framing a revised first
aid law
The entire matter was referred to
committee consisting of Martin j.
Flyzik, of Seattle, labor member of
the State Medical Aid Board; Harry
Call of Bellingham, and H. Roy Har-
rison of Tacoma, vice presidents of
the federation, for further investi-
cation.
Asks Six Days for Women
Before adjourning subject to the
call of the chairman, the Executive
Council concurred in a resolution pre-
scented by Miss Alice Lord, financial
secretary of the Seattle Mattresses
union, asking that the Legislature be
requested to pass law establishing
six-day working week for women
and girls ''for the protection of the
health of nations womanhood."
The special session of the Execu-
tive Council began Sunday and was
devoted largely to discussion of pro-
posed labor legislation. Several sim
liar meetings of the Council are to
be held during the coming spring
and summer in preparation for the
fall political campaign.
The next annual convention of the
! State Federation of Labor will be
held in Bremerton next June, and the
council authorized a committee on
which Seattle trade unions are rep
resented to take up arrangements
for the convention with the Bremen
ton Central Labor Council.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
COAL SHORTAGE
Is CAUSED BY
CAR SHORTAGE

Lack Of coordination and ineffi-
cheney Of railroad management is
blamed by John L. Lewis, Vice
President Of the United Mine Work
ers of America for the coal shortage
in many parts of the country, caus-
ing suffering and loss to many in
dustries.
Mr. Lewis has been at great pains
compiling statistics on this subject:
The questionable sent out by Lewis
sought information of all idle days
due to car shortages from the 2,7O0
local unions comprising the interna-
tional body from December /, 1916,
to November /, 1917.
By figuring the basis averages for
all union coal fields for reported loss
Of production due to car shortages it
is estimated that the per capita pro-
ducing power of the 100000 union
miners was reduced approximately
82.7 tons per man employed, ag-
gregating a total loss of 36,760,715
tons.
Only rs per cent Of the member
ship reported, of which fully 5 per
cent could not secure accurate in
formation to make answer to the
QUESTIONABLE
If all the local unions reporting
whose membership had suffered idle
ness due to car shortages had main
tanned records, Mr.. Lewis believes
that the total loss for the union
fields alone would have exceeded
fifty million tons.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
UNFAIR LIST
BARRIER SHOPS

BARBER SHOPS
l. H. Turner, 1104 Hewitt; William
Whitaker, Lowell; Barnhart Shop,
Monroe; Independent, 11O7 Hewitt.
BUILDING LABORERS
Peter Jackson, L. Starke, Emil Nit
tersbach, E. Cloke, John Grant.
BUILDINGS
1917 Hewitt Avenue.
CARPENTERS
R. B. McAdams, Tyner, and N. E.
Butts.
ELECTRICIANS
F. r. Hare, Jack Shields, electrical
contractors; Globe Wall Paper Co.'S
electric department.
AUTOMOBILE co.
Everett Auto Co., the Garage
building and the owner, Jack Gard
ner.
FISH COMPANIES
San Juan Fish Co., Seattle.
IRON WORKS
Summer Iron Works.
MEAT MARKETS
Everett Avenue Meat Market,
Riverside; Carstens Meat Market,
2818 Colby; Quality Meat Market,
10Th and Broadway.
CONDENSED MILK
Libby, Mcneil & Libby, Packers
and Gamers; Carnation, Aster, Mt
Vernon and Washington brands.
PAINTERS
William Christensen, M. Koken,
Globe Co., l.. l.. Swartz, H. E. Main,
H. Patzrnans H. o. Johnson, R. J.
McGregor, j. {. Jensen, Carl Steen,
z. D. Garner, E. Drolet, c. A. Barr.
PLASTERS
A. C. Wright, A l. Knapp, Booth,
Tom Nygard, ". L. Porter.
PLUMBERS
C. r. Schweitzer, Otto Merz and
Globe Paper Co.'s plumbing depart
ment. ,.
STORES
E. J. Long, grocery store Nine
teenth and Virginia; Ridgway Gro
Gerry Co. and his building at 3406
Colby avenue.
Textile Fabrics
Scotch Woollen Mills Goods.
TRANSFERS
C. j. Witt, stna corner Colby and
Hewitt; C. A. Worth.
MISCELLANEOUS
C. W. Anguish, 3505 Lombard;
American Packing Co., Everett; Cal.
Smiley and son; Fitz Gerald.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
REASON is GIVEN
WHY MEAT is HIGH

Mr.. Hoover points out that corn
comprises, either directly or as feed
for animals, one-half of our food
supply. "For three months we have
been facing a shortage that practi-
cally amounted to a corn famine"
he said. He added that there were
100000 less hogs in this country
than last year, this condition being
due to the high price Of corn. The
corn crop of the current year is
larger than usual, and some relief
is promised for the near future. But
cheap corn cannot be produced on
two-hundred-dollar land. Land val
ues in the corn belt are enormously
inflated, and every bushel of corn,
every pound of meal, must pay heavy
tribute to these inflated values. The
rapid increase in land values has en-
couraged the buying of land as a
speculation and the Withholding of
land from use. Not only our heavily
Durdened industrial population, but
the whole world is suffering today
because this country permits land
owners to commit sabotage by with
holding natural resources from use
except on the payment of an out
rageous price by those able and
willing to use them. The failure to
tax the water out of these land
values at time when the Nation
needs enormous revenues, one hun
dred per cent production, and the
elimination of profiteering and high
prices, is one of two things. 1t is
either stupidity or cowardice in the
face of the power of those who
grow rich through the practice of
sabotage on huge scale, or the
threat of sabotage-The Public.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
PREDICT U. S. MINES

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12-In
urging the convention of the United
Mine Workers to realize that "the
old order of things will be changed, !"
the United Mine Workers Journal
says:
"On April l there is. every posi-.
bility and, in fact, strong possibility
that the United States government
will take over the coal output of the
nation under a pooling arrangement
and redistribute it as jobber, whole
saler and retailer at such a margin
profit as the investigations of the
fuel administration deem sufficient
to repay the expense of this govern
ment exercise. This control may ex-
tend to actual operation of the
mines"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
STANDARDIZATION

Much has been accomplished by
Standardization in the last decade or
two. not only in mechanics and
weights. measures, and what not,
but the great producer OF material
wealth has not yet been standardized
though forward steps have been
made in this direction.
Out of the heap Of bad things the
war has brought to the country may
be found a few good ones. Among
the good things that will come to the
people out of the smoke of war will
be a standardized work day. Pres
ident Samuel Gompers says:
THAT is what we are striving to
attain, and we may have an an
nouncement to make soon" Bro
Gompers calls the war "a human
crusade for justice and right"
1--WE are going to give everything
to our country" he said, "but we
don't intend to surrender our rights
for private profits. While we are
fighting kaiserism across the Allan
tic we must protect ourselves
against kaiserism among corpora
tions on this side. There is little
difference between abolutism in Ger
many and among corporations.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
,ther classes of the population.

other classes of the population.
at is this old Prussia which is
in the first place responsible for the
circumstances that we have so few
friends in the world, and i tbs the
Prussian junkers who are to blame
for the prolongation of the war.
"We shall continue the struggle
until this old Prussia lies in ruins
and a new Prussia, in which there
will no longer be lords and slaves,
nor exploiters and exploited, but
free men, rises in it's place.
"On that day the war will come
to an end automatically. For the
speedy coming of that day, therefore,
we must strive and struggle, and, if
it must be, fight as our soldiers are
fighting at the front, with instru-
ments of death and destruction and
amid the shedding of blood"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17

helps her to hold out against the
allies" the food administration says
in urging that the enemy's own
methods be turned against him"
There is a great surplus of pota-
toes in Washington for which there
is little demand at this time" says
E. F. Benson, state commissioner of
agriculture. "The crop can be put
to good use by every housewife in
the state"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
IRISH POTATOES ON EVERY
TABLE

The Irish potato on every table in
America every day in the year is the
object of campaign inaugurated by
the United States food administra-
ton. Grocers are asked to feature
a potato day" each week, selecting
whatever day is slack in deliveries
and making a special price.
"Germany's wise use of potatoes
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17

Capt. BILL" Mcdonald, the noted
Texas ranger who was stranger to
fear, passed away Tuesday. When
the government investigated the
brownsville raid" in which Capt.
Mcdonald acted as a peace officer, a
Texas congressman said of him
Bill Mcdonald is man who would
charge hell with bucket full of
water"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
GETTING TIRED
'TN VATERLAND"

The growing discomfort in Ger
many is gradually leaking through
the frontiers of Switzerland and Hol-
land Since the Presidents declar-
alton of Americas peace terms the
Zurich (Switzerland) Volksrecht
, Peoples Rights prints some inter-
esting stories.
The Volksrecht prints an interview
with Carl Radek, Swiss socialist
and delegate to the Stockholm con-
ference, who after an extended So
journ in Germany, returns to Swift
zerland and reports the following:
Hundreds of young men of mil
itary age revolted against conscrip-
ton in order to serve the revolu-
tionary movement. They organize
clubs and publish socialist period
icals in spite of the vigilance of the
police and the persecution they are
submitted TO.
"The dissatisfaction grows from
day to day. In Kiel the military
authorities had to employ machine
guns and artillery against the rebels.
In Hamburg the garrison refused to
fight the people, and cavalry had to
be summoned from Mecklenburg. In
Hanover the soldiers openly frater-
nized with the independent socialists.
The government is compelled to act
severely against mutiny and open
revolution.
"Among the rebels are many wom-
en-. In Thuringia, several women
were court-martialed."
In another article the same Zurich
daily qoutes the Berlin Vorwaerts
as follows:
"The German government soon
will see that it cannot achieve re-
suits unless it works for a peace
suitable to the wishes of the Ger
man people. The German people
will not fight five minutes for the
purpose to make Poland an Austrian
and Courland and Lithuania a Prus-
sian province"
With remarkable courage, Herr
Hirsch recently made a speech in
the reichstag, which was promptly
suppressed by the censor in Berlin.
Every Berlin newspaper to mention
even the fact that he spoke.
Hirsch, however, sent his speech
to the Solingen Arbeiterstimme, the
organ of the miners of that district,
and the substance of it is reproduced
as follows:
Destroy Prussianism"
Before we can arrive at any un-
Outstanding with our enemies that
are likely to lead to cessation Of
this horrible butchery the old Prussia
must be destroyed.
"What is this old Prussia ?" 1t is
state in which the classes who have
unjust assumed power over the
masses have ever most ruthiessly
exploited this power TO Cypress the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
MEAT CUTTERS ADVANCE

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 12.-
Meat Cutters Union No. 265 has
raised wages on an average of $3.50
a week and reduced the work day
two and one-half hours. This organ
ization is less than six months old.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17
PRINTERS RAISE WAGES

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Jan. 12.-
Typographical Union No. AZ has Sc
cured a three-year agreement, which
raises wages So to SO week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17

DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 12.-Butcher
and meat cutters of this city have
organized and affiliated with the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17

STOCKTON, Cal, Jan. 12.-The
Typographical Union has raised
wages so cents a day. The news
paper work day will be seven hours
and As minutes until next April,
when Is minutes will be taken off.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-17

Practice what you preach. Demand
the Union Label. Dundee Union
Tailors, 1716 witt.-Adv.