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New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
U-Boat War Fails,
iirpitz to Blame, Says
Reichstag Member

LONDON, Feb. 9.--An article at
tacking the submarine warfare, which
was suppressed by the German censor
last October, has now been published
with the sanction of War Minister
Won Stein" (of Prussia), by the Kiel
"Zeitung." The article was written by
DR.. ,Struve, progressive member Of
the 'Reichstag. He declares that the
submarine war is a failure, and dis
cusses at considerable length "who
was responsible for the unrestricted
submarine warfare agitation and for
the statement that England could be
forced to her knees within six months"
DR.. Struve asserts, after quoting a
variety Of witnesses, that the whole
agitation was conducted and engi-
neered by Admiral Won Tirpitz after
the latter's retirement. The article
then attacks Won Tirpitz and the new
Fatherland party for "getting Ger
many into this ditliculty," and closes
with the assertion that the submarine
warfare might have been a success ex-
cept for the fact that Won Tirpitz, while
in Office, had neglected to build sub
marines in sufficient numbers to in
sure success.
"That was the reason" adds the
writer, "that unrestricted submarine
warfare was always opposed by Won
Capelle (Minister of the Navy and the
Imperial Chancellor (von Bethmann-
HollWegl."
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Socialists VIII Fight
Kate O'Hare's Sentence ;
Hope to Raise Funds

Pacifist activities are growing-also
coordinatirg.
Close upon the announcement OF a
convention designed to appoint peace
delegates for immediate dispatch
abroad comes word now from the So
cialist party headquarters that a giant
meeting for referendum purposes" is
to be held in this city at Carnegie Hall
on the evening of February 20.
According to announcements made at
the local Socialist headquarters yester-
day. this meeting is designed to crys-
taillze public sentiment for peace. ST.
multaneously it will '"naugurate a
campaign to aid Kate Richards O'Hare ),
Kate Received Five Years
Kate O'Hare is in trouble lust now.
Last July she was in Bowman. n d.
explaining to the townsmen there whv
the war should not go en-. The towns,
men n listened quietly for some time.
linen they decided that what Kate
needed was opportunity for further re-
search work on this topic. So thev
caused her to be arrested under the
espionage act for seditious utterances
In December her trial took place in
bismarck, and the court allowed that
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Gompers Using War to Advance
Union Labor, Writer Charge:
Vast Campaign to Win the Closed Shop Being Waged
Throughout the Country by American Federation,
Burton Hcndrick Declares

In "World's Work" for February
Burton j. Hendrck in the course Of
an elaborate analysis OF the prcsen
union labor situation under "The Lcao
ership of Samuel Gompers" comes t,
the conclusion that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor is engaged in vast
campaign to win the closed shop in this
country under the pressure Of war
exigencies. How closely the labor pro
gramme, as Mr.. Hendrick sees it, ties
WIN the recommendation of President
Wilson'S mediation commission is
shown in his summing up, which fol-
lows:
No Industrial Truce
"Clearly, therefore, according to the
highest authority on the labor side.
there is no industrial truce Each
trade union is the judge of the prn-
ciples which should prevail in it's ac-
ton. But has Mr.. Gompers any posi-
tive policy in the existing crisis? He
certainly has.
What are the terms upon which his
federation will cooperate in arming
and equipping our men, in building
ships and cantonments
"A few extracts from his recent writ
lngs-and these extracts could be ex-
tended acknowledgements the whole
thing plain
Cooperation of the workers can.
with justice only be asked when thai
movement (organized labor) is recog-
nIzed as the organism through which
all workers express their will. The
government must recognize and
deal with the organized labor move
ment IN all matters which concern
labor. 1t is the opportunity for
labor, conscious of the dignity of it's
service, assured Of the justice of its
cause, to demand the right to partici-
pate as distinct entity in national at
fairs.
"What government and employers
must recognize is that there is no
definite, tangible way to deal with un-
organized workers and that our sue
cess In winning the war depends upon
our ability to organize our men and
our resources. The only practical
policy is to lay upon the union labor
movement the responsibility for deal
ing with the labor side and then give it
an opportunity to make good Labor
organizations desire to enter into
agreements so that they can give loyal
service. The metal trades have offered
to furnish the government with neces-
sary workers for war contracts and to
arbitrate all differences without cessa-
tion of work.
"The fight for industrial freedom
goes on even in war time. The only
way, therefore, for the government to
enable the workers to be free to give
unreserved service is to protect them
py recognizing and maintaining trade
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Immediate Peace, Demand
OF American Sociali...
Proclamation to People by Pary's Executives, Ded..
War Has Threatened Political Freedom of u S-S,,.
Workers Must Have Voice in Conference

CHICAGO. Feb. 9.-In a proclamation
addressed to the people of the United
States to-day, the National Executive
Committee of the Socialist party de-
clared that two problems shoult row
engage the energy and ability of the
working class.
"First-An immediate and demo
cratic peace with full representation
of the working class at the peace con-
ference.
"Second-The reconstruction which
must Immediately follow upon the
close of hostilites."
The declaration of President Wilson
in favor of open covenants of peace
was approved and the making public OF
all existing treaties was demanded.
The proclamation also urged racial
independence for large and small ma
tions, freedom of the seas, neutraliza
tion Of the greater bodies OF water ant
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

the destruction oe fortresse. L..
threaten navigation. 1e
within few months" ths ,.
nation added, "the war has th,a...
the civil and political freedom - s''se
country. In violation of the con.4'. ~
ticn free assemblage has been d..;',
meetings have been dissolved -
speech has been encouraged. mnh
lence has been encouraged, and ~ ~
army Of paid secret service apsn,. -
Grating as detectives and spis. 2
been foisted upon us. Ffss' ~
at is Of special concern to n. !
our own country, which purports : 'aa'
fighting for democracy, should I. N
become democratic. At presen. s'sa
one of the least democrat. " =
countries" oil
The proclamation urged publ;.
ership of railroads, express. tels.'saas' WI
and telephone lines, steamssin II;spa Ispa
coal mines, metalliverous mines a .sss
ing houses, -four mills, the steal ;sae. Sas.'
tries. the oil industry and Of ali t.mas. sraas.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

union standards in government work
and contracts.
"These declarations certainly do not
picture the Mr.. Gompers who has be-
come familiar figure in the popular
mind since the outbreak of the war
They simply reveal once more the mill
tant fighter for unionizaton Of Ameri-
can industry, the fighter who will even
take advantage of this unexampled
calamity to advance his cause. The
editorials do not square with the state
ments which Mr.. Gompers has made in
private conversations. The explana-
ton furnished by his friends is that
these clarion calls for unionization are
merely polite.
"'He's in bad fix it is said. 'He is
really doing the best he can with the
material that he is working with. There
is not the slightest question about
Gompers's loyalty; there are large ele-
ments in his ranks, however, who CAM
not be persuaded to lay aside their old
differences for the period of the war.
Gompers has to hold these men in line,
and can only do it by talking th:s
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
"Unsinkable" Device
May Be Reason for
Confidence of Bake,

l'y The Associated IrcSsl
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Announce-
ment by Vice Chairman Saunders OF
the Naval Consulting Board that means
had been found to make troop ships
practically unsinkable lends new mean
ing to the air of confidence with which
both American and British naval au-
thorities are facing their task of clear
ing the seas of Uboats Recent state
ments by Admiral Jellicoe. formerly
First Sea Lord of the British Ad-
officials have indicated that a campai gn
has been mapped out and the instru
mentalities developed which are eN-
pected to curb, if not to eliminate, the
submarines entirely within the next
few months.
Discussion of the devices developed
is deplored by officials here. lnvesti-
cations and experiments have been
guarded closely. High officials have
been free to assert privately, however
their belief that the U-boats would be
checked sufficiently by early summer
to insure steady fof ow American
few incidents such as tht of the Tus-
cania to be anticipated.
Secretary Baker has insisted before
the Senate committee that 100000
American troops would be taken to
France and kept supplied during 1918
His replies to the questions as to where
the tonnage for the task was to come
from have indicted that there was some
information at hand whic.. he did not
care to disclose.
Without disclosing any of the new
implements that may have been devel-
oped to meet the submarine menace
navy officials have pointed out that all
of the lines of effort strted when the
United States entered the war are now
on the point of bearing fruit
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
British Labor
May End Dispute
Over Man Power
Engineers Claim for Elk.
emption Resented by
Other Unions

LONDON, Feb. "a private confer
ence Friday between Sir Auckland
Geddes, Minister of National Service,
and trSte union representatives with
reference to the governments man
power proposals failed to end the dis
pute about the position Of the engi-
neers, who have thus far refused to
submit to the act of Parliament, but
ELECTED a clear statement from the
other unions that the engineers were
not entitled to any exceptional treat
nent and that combing out scheme
must apply equally to all.
The Amalgamated Society of Engi-
neers refused to send delegates to the
conference. The labor leaders at the
conference, after rejecting the various
proposals, condemned the engineers for
their aloofness and resolved to invite
the amalgamated society to meet the
other unions in conference at which
the government would not be repre-
sented.
Individual memDers of the conference
say that Sir Auckland. and his govern
ment colleagues intervened as little as
possible with the proceedings. The
delgateS were asked to decide among
themselves whether the demand of the
engineers for separate consultation
with the government should be con-
ceded Or refused.
Several labor delegates are said to
have shown much resentment over the
attitude of the engineers and to have
demanded that an end be brought to
the situation by which young men are
enabled to join the engineers organiza-
tion for the purpose Of avoiding mill
tary service.
An invitation to fresh conference
ubeaaS wbosa atuds has gone To uns no
seems that the government has been
eliminated from the dispute, and that
If the engineers maintain their position
they will antagonize the other unions.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Padua Hit by Fifty Bomb.

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a diFp
matte dispatch from Rome to-day ssyE
"Particulars of the aerial staa
upon Padua discloses that the enssv
dropped! fifty bombs on the city, SIX
of which fell on the penitentiary saus.
ing great panic among the inmates and
resulting in casualties. A Aeuse Of
the fourteenth century, rare exsApls
of architectural beauty, was complete
ly demolished
'The Boito Opera House, which ysi
awarded the gold medal in a comneti'
ton for public building constructor
was badly damaged. Three hospitals
also were damaged, and an eiestr'
streetcar was destroyed A bomb va
dropped on the institution for tn
blind, demolishing part of the build
ing.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Free Energy Invention
To Get Federal 1est

WASHINGTON, Feb. 0.-The gov
ernment, after delay Of six months.
has consented to test the "free energy
generator" Of Garabed r. X. Giragos-
sian. the Boston Armenian.
President Wilson to-day signed the
measure, calling for demonstrations OF
the device, under government guaran-
tee, and the inventor is now arranging
with Secretary Lane for test before
a committee of five scientists, to be
selected by them in conference. In all
probability experts from the Massachu-
setts Institute Of Technology, Harvard
and Tufts, will be asked to witness the
demonstration.
Giragossian first exhibited a model
Of his generator in Washington last
fall, claiming that it would evolution
ize industry by generating heat, light
and power from the atmosphere. Sew
eral successful tests were made of the
machine, but none under government
supervision, although different mem
bers of Congress strongly urged the
government to give the device n trial.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Secretaries Baker and Will
SON Will Sound First Call
at Mass Meeting
Movement Nationwide
Menace of Paci6sts To Be An
swered by Democracy of
Working Men

With Secretary of War Newton d.
aaker and Secretary Of Labor Wilson
coming on from Washington to sound
the keynote, the great loyalty drive Of
he American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy will get under way tonight
With a monster mass meeting at the
cntury Theatre.
For week, in more than one hun
red cities from coast to coast, the
emonstration. which will engage Gov
rnors of states, representative labor
eaders and publiczspirited men from
II walks of life. will sound it's war
all to the working men of the United
states.
"Therc is a special significance" said
Robert Masel. director of the alliance,
last night. "in the appointment of a
National Labor Loyalty Week just now,
as we'll as a special need for it. The
insidious pacifist elements in this coun-
try have never slackened their efforts.
Latterly the agitation arising from the
publication of Russian peace formula
and efforts has given them fresh hope.
Most of their appeals are addressed
to Workingmen. and these poisonous
preachings must be met and put down
if the war is to be successfully prose-
cuted on its industrial side"
To Squclch Disloyalty
Mr. Maisel likewise mentioned the
Forthcoming paciiist conference. which
has been announced to take place in
this city on February 16. with the
avoWed purpose Of sending peace dele
gates abroad.
Last summer at Minneapolis, he
said, I'VE quashed just such an effort.
BY beginning our loyalty meetings this
week we intend to quash it again. The
American workingmen must take their
stand, and the line be clearly drawn
between loyalists and anti-patrots."
Besides Secretaries Baker and Will
son, Hugh Frayne, labor member of
the War Board and Eastern represent
ative Of the American Federation Of
Labor, will speak and will read loyalty
resolutions to be adopted by the meet
ing.
hiDDl otepHej >. w lSe, VI lnc L Iec
Synagogue will preside at the gather
ing, and DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia; Otto II. Kahn,
Francis Lynde Stetson and more than
three hundred other prominent men
and women will be on the platform.
Music will be furnished by the famous
Gland slip" band from, the U. S. S.
Recruit in Union Square.
nefnnce SOcfetv Aids
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce,
the National Civic Federation and the
New York Peace Society have all sent
invitations to their complete member
ship to attend this meeting, while the
American Defence Society will CO.
operate with the Alliance for Labor
and Democracy throughout the week
in the nationwide campaign.
Secretaries Baker and Wilson are
scheduled to reach New York at 6
o'clock this evening. They will be met
at the station by delegation of labor
and business men.
Mr.. Baker is expected to speak on
labor from the standpoint Of the War
Department, and Secretary Wilson to
elaborate and explain the big labor pro-
gramme now in process OF launching
from his department.
Ci1cling the country, the drive will
culminate in meetings at Cleveland
and Milwaukee on February II.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Pershing Sees Victory
If Line Holds Till Nav

If the French can hold their lines
until May l the Allies will bring Ger
many to her knees.
This is the prediction of no less an
authority than General Pershing, and
was relayed to those who attended, the
dinner of the University of Pennsyl-
vania Club, in Delmonico's last night,
by DR.. Allan MacRossie, of the ..cd
Cross, who has Just returned from
France. General Pershing said:
"lt the French line holds the Ger
mans back until April, OR May /, nv
predlction is that nothing can stop the
Allies from breaking through the Ger
man lines and bringing the Kaiser to
his knees"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Germany Takes Control
OF 4 American Firms
Steel Smelling and Shoe Con-
Germs Placed Under Gov
ernmeht Charoe

.>l lLoNDoN, Feb. 9.-According to the
mo eNoradeutsche Allgemeine zeitung"
under full government control rbou Thou
are the Crucible Steel Comnanv ~
America. the American Smeltinp &
Refining Company, the American Shoe
Stores and Stephen H. McFadden. aeent
Tor number of manufacturers. inc]nd. :.
lgg the Chesebrough Manufacturing
Company and Colgate & Co.
On January % the Singer SEWING
Machine Company and the firm of viii,
lam lam A. Derrick, both of Berlin, were
placed under government control.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
War Must End i'm 1918.
Says Gen. Won Liebert

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 9.-General Won
Llebert; writing in the ''Taeglische
Nundschau," of Berlin, praises the
achievements of German arms and
accomplishments of German generals
and then points out that the German
battle line in the West is now occs.
pied by the latest classes. He con-
cludes by saying:
Every German soldier now is GER
tain that an end must be made in 1913"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

partly to these evils and partly to an
unsound industrial structure, that we
must attribute industrial difficulties
which we have experienced during the
war. Sinister influences and extremist
doctrine may have availed themselves
OF these conditions; they certainly
!. have not created them
"In fact, the overwhelming mass of
! the iaboring population is in no sense
"isloyal. Before the war labor was. of
course, 1liled with pacific hopes shared
! by nearly the entire country But. like
! other portions of the citizenship. labor
has adjusted itself to the new facts
revealed by the European war. Its suf-
/ 'er,ng and its faith are the suffering
and the faith of the nation.
with the exception of the sacrifices
OF the men in the armed service. the
greatest sacrifices have come from
/ those at the lower rung of the indus
.fial ladder. Wage increases respond
). last to the needs of this class of labor
ana. their meagre returns are hardly
( adequate. IN view of the increased cost
a.. OF living. to maintain even their meagre
standard of life. 1t is upon them the
( war pressure has borne most severely.
Labor at heart is as devoted to the
, purposes of the government in the
} prosecution of this war as anv other
I part of society. If labor's enthusiasm
as less vocal, and its feelings here
and there tepid. we will find the ex-
J planation in some of the conditions of
the industrial environment in which
labor is placed and which in many in
stances is its nearest contact with the
activities Of the war.
TOO often there is a glaring incon-
sstency between our democratic pur-
poses in this war abroad and the auto
cratic conduct of some of those guild
ing industry at home. This inconsist-
ency is emphasized by such episodes
as the Bisbee deportations.
. personal bitterness and more in
tense industrial strife inevitably result
when the claim of loyalty is falsely re-
sorted to by employers and their sym
pathizers as means of defeating sim
cere claims for social justice, even
though such claims be asserted in time
of war.
$50 long as proiteering is not COM
prehensively prevented to the full ex-
tent that governmental action can pre-
vent it, just so long will sense of
inequality disturb the fullest devotion
of labor's contribution to the war"
While the unrest in the Pacific
Northwest lumber fields focuses on
the eight hour day. the commissit be-
heves the lumter operators themselves.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-10-11
% Years Ago.
Ffom the Press ot oct. n. !

| Born. in Athena. October Z, 1885,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Taylor. girl.
One thousand dollars is all that re-
mains to be subscribed to the PenCle-
ton woolen mills enterprise,
Billy Brown mails a letter to Athena
friends from London. England. He is
on his way to the South Africa gold
fields.
Miss Lille Fischer is now in the
confectionery business. She ylcan sabe
found on the north side of Main street.
The good roads movement is taking
place in all parts of Oregon. 1t should
be pushed in Umatilla county.
James Sharp, our typo, is on the
sick list this week. Homer Beathe.
of Weston, is holding dow nhis case. 4.
W. P Leach and family Ed. Taft
and Austin Foss are in Portland, WIS.,
itinG the exposition.
Nate Pinkerton get mixed up in a
runaway near Adams Tuesday. In the
melee he was thrown ovar the dash
bod and sustained severe bruises.
The crowded condition of Athena s
public schools makes it necessary for
the employment of another teacher.
The council at their meeting last
Monday night concluded to let the di-
lapidated crosswalks crest til spring" !"
This may be economy, but what if
broken limb or two be the result2
The Indian scare on Priarie creek
may possibly develop into serious strou
BILE. Should it do SO the blame will be
with those who are selling whiskey to
the indians.
The Thorn typesetting machine
which was purchased by the East
Oregonian was set up in the office of
that newspaper Wednesday. The
machine cost S9l00 and is expected to
do the work of four or five composit-
ors
The defense of Durrant so far has
been a failure. and the general belief
is that Durrant is guilty.
Johnny O'Harra. who lives on Pea
Ridge, has just gathered 80 acres of
beans. They yielded. $50 pounds to
the acre and are worth 3 to 3 ~ cents
per pound. That pays a little better
than raising wheat at 90 cents a
bushe].
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-10-11
OUR GREAT TASK
By Herbert Hoover.

II you could stand in the middle Of
Europe today and survey the land to
its borders, you would discover its
whole population of 100000 900 human
beings short of food. Millions Of peo-
pie in Poland, Finland, Serbia, Ar
menia and Russia are dying of starva-
tion and other millions are suffering
from too little food. Our Allies and
the neutrals are living on the barest
margins that will support life and
strength.
This, the most appalling and dread.
full thing that has come to humanity
since the dawn of civilization, is to
me the outstanding creation of Ger.
man militarism. The Germans them
selves are not the worst sufferers
They are extorting at the cannons
mouth the harvests and cattle of the
people they have oyerrun, leaving
them In desolation. II the war were
to cease tomorrow, the toll of actual
dead from starvation within the Ger
man lines would double or treble the
100000 or 100000 of men who have
been actually killed by Germany and
her allies in arms. The 100000 peo-
pie in occupied Belgium and Northern
France would have died of starvation
had it not been for us and the Allies.
We must build our food resources
to stand ready for any demands upon
us by the Allies It is of no purpose
to us to send millions of our best to
France If we fail to maintain the
strength OF their men, women and
children on our lines of communica-
tion. This United States is the last
reservoir of men, the last reservoir of
ships, the last reservoir of munitions
and the last reservoir of food upon
which the Allied world must depend
II Germany is to be defeated and II
we are to be free men.