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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31
HALF MILLION ON STRIKE GREAT LABOR UpHEAvAl

London, Jan, 30.-Nearly 5Oo, 900 per-
sons already are on strike in Berlin
and the number is being added 10 hour
j., the Exchange Telegraph CORES
pendent at Copenhagen telegraph I'M
der Tuesdays date. The movement is
being extended to the provincial towns
The Berlin correspondent of the Poll
tillen of Copenhagen reports that the
strikers have formed Workmen $
Council of 500 with an Action com
mission Of 10 men and q woman in
luding Hugo Haase. the Independent
Socialist leader, and Phillip Schneide-
mann, the majority socialist leader
Other Members of Commission
The other members Of the commission
are George Ledebour and lillian Dit
mann, independent socialists. and
FREDERICK Ebert and Herr Braun, ma
jority socialists, the dispatch adds.
The commission, it is stated, asked
Herr Wallraf, the minister of the in
terror to grant permission for the hold
ing of meetings. Tier Wallraf, it is
added, declared that he would not ne
gotiate with the workmen, but would
receive socialist members of Parlia :
ment Herr Schedmann Herr Haase
and two workmen went to the minister
4 Nd !, q
action Of the commission. demanding
unanimously that the negotiations take
place in the presence Of the workmen
The results of Herr Wallraff's delb-
erations are not yet known the dispatch
adds, but it quotes the Loyal Anzieger
as stating that important negotiations
are occurring between him and Gen.
! Won Stein, the Prussian minister OF
! war.
I All the workmen in the Kiel ship
yards and in the Vulcan works at
Hamburg and thousands Of miners in
the Rheinisn Westphalian districts
struck on Monday. according to the
Berliner Nossische Zeitung.
UItimatum to Government
! Zurich. Jan. 30-The Socialist paper
Norwaerts announces that the Berlin
strikers have now become more numer.
ols and threatening. They have ad-
dressed to the government an ultima
tum, Of which the following are the
principal demands:
\ tirSt-Accelerated conclusion Of g
general peace without indemnities OIL
anncXationS.
Second-Participation Of Workmens
delegates of all the countries in the
peace pour parlers.
! NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the food sit
uation by better distribution.
. Fourth immediate abolition Of tic
state of siege and restoration of the
right Of public meetings, suspended by
tie military authorities.
| Fifth-Ahoiition Of authorization OF
war factories.
/ Immediate release of all poll
teal prisoners.
Seventh Fundamental democra tia
ton Of state institutions
I Eighth--The institution of equal cleo
! oral suffrage by direct secret ballot.
! Berlin Tries to Suppress News
) A semi official dispatch from Berlin
/ forwarded by Reuters Amsterdam cor
: respondent, says that there is no news
! of n serious strike movement in any
/ part Of Germany except i'll Berlin. In
! the Ruhr district particularly. work is
/ reported to he in full swing in all fac
; tories
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31

TRANSFORMING in interest even the
.Austrians on the Northern Italian bat
Tie front is the political and economic
situation i'll Germany.
Here. apparently. u large part of the
country is III the throcs OF a great la
Dor uphpaval, duc 10 Ciis> abstraction by
the working class; $ over the progress
Of the peace negotiations and over in
telnal politica! conditions generally.
Throughout tho country thousands up
on thousands Of the working classes
both men and Women-haNc struck and
many o. the Sredt manufactures and
industries are affected.
In Borlin alone nearly malt Il million
persons aIc reported on strike ana
houflE those who have quit work ule
receiving iein1orcement& Likewise in
hlei, the great shipyard center, at the
Hamburg Iron Works and in the Kh,n
iSh NeStphallan mine region workers
have thrown down their tools and left
their jobs.
Socialist Leaders in Control
Leaders of the Socialists tbolh of the
INDEPENDENT and the ma jUrity fracriou,4
-eNiuentiI are in control OF the move
mchI ana Tor their pains d number Of
me independents have been ordered
imprisoned. Hugo Iaasc of the Indie
pehdenfs and Phillip Scheidcmaun.
me majority Socialist leader in In.
i'elchstag are heading their respectiy.
followers
AuNlces received by way Of Switzcr-
laho are that the Socialists have deliy-
cfcu an uitimatum to the government
demanding the conclusion Of Il geucr-
al peace without indcmnities OF annex
atlons, participation by the workme,, in
peace discussions. amelioration of the
1000 situation, the right of public as
scmbly, the release Of all political mis-
oners and the introduction of equal
electorals formed by direct secret bal
lot.
News concerning internal conditions
IN Austria still remains Scant. owing
TO the strict censorship. The latest in :
formation received from Vienna is that
there has been great confagratiOn in
the grain warehouses there and that
revolutionaries are suspected of hay
ing started il.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31
LARGE PART OF KAISERS COUNTRY IN THROES
!0F LABOR UPAEAvAL OF STUPENDOUS SIZE
due TO DISSATISFACTION OF WORKING Glasses
HALF MILLION ON STRIKE IN BERLIN ALONE
THOUSANDS OUT IN SHIPYARDS AND MINES

Leaders Of Socialists in Control Of Movement -
Have Delivered Ultimatum to Government
Demanding Conclusion Of General Peace
Without Indemnities or Annexation - Great
Conhagration in Grain Warehouses at Vienna
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31
PROSECUTE four IN
new BRUNSWICK
RAILROAD SCANDAL

st John. y. B., Jan 3v.--W. T. Jones.
attorney for the government of New
brunswick ANNOUNCED today at d SEES
sion Of the commission Investigating
disposal II certain funds alleged 10
have been pad by contractors OF the
Valley Railway tor political purposes.
that four Of The five men involved
would II" prosecuted for conspiracy
Former Premier involved
}. is. fleming. fotin"r premier #
New brunswick, VINO is alleged 10 have
cVnNrr,"d Slr".1'Q 20 lis own us, Will
head of thr SOY crninCnt, viii he asked
10 return til" money. according TO TN
prosecutor. Should ne fail to do so. lie
gel STEPS for its recovery Will be instl-
tutcd. u WAS asserted.
Mr.. lone declared chat W. t. Men
nant. ThumaS NaS!e and Messrs. Nc
Donald and Lindsay. the latter. mem
hors Of the Nova Scotia CONSTRUCTION
60. W"nld tie charged With conSpIra :
~ to 'rrCpHr' fal-c tenders and secure
fan themselves enormous profits. Ten
amt. III" alleged lritdi. man be-
iWc'.G The Fleming administration ana
ILc CONSERVATION cunp"ny.. is accused
Of h:lNi!ts. accepted $l33,oh0. part Of
which. il is charged W"nl to he cleo
ton cnmrui4n fund Of the Fiomin-,
government. \a2lo X \ lumber me.
chant.
Duty t. Prosecute
In an adir-s to The commission At
t"rncv Jones sald
Il am 1uthori2cG ~ Premier F"ste;
10 say that he consdt rs ii the duty "f
tho government and 50 long as hc is
py' rll"i II Will be tho Gut% Of the GnE-
( eminent 70 prosecute the person who
commits y crime against the peopt" of
This province, no matter how high 4
place that person may be in and ire
apectiNe of his political atililation.
THE time has come 10 pu; a sop ~
the prar:ic" of having middle 1ntn N
contracts and Of attempting to brih'
members Of tho Legislature or in other
ways seeking to prejudice the interests
of the people
Commissioner Stevens said he would
present his report TO the government
rs soon as possible.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31
Lives Lost in Encounter
in Suburbs of
City of Berlin
lSOME TROOPS
REFUSE TO FIRE
Censor Suspends Papers-Strike
Situation in Germany Goes
Worse with Actual Bl00dshed
in Encounters Outside German
Capital

London, Jan. 31.-A dispatch TO the
Daily Express from Geneva reports
that there have been clashes between
soldiers and strikers in the suburbs of
Berlin in which lives were lost. The
dispatch adds that the troops in some
instances refused to fire on strikers.
Continued on Page ACoI. g.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31
THE WEATHER
INCREASING cLCUDiNESS

Forecast: increasing cloudiness on
Thursday. local SHOWS at night or Fri
day
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31

Be Thrifty

If you have second hand article
OF value which you no longer use
be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS il in the
Journal and get the cash out Of 1t.
A Classitio / ad will turn the trick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31
TIT DAi: C.cu1y
All Weafhers

,aassifed advertising works all the
-. fair weather or ioul. II yol
~ t1sh want adj can do
-, ,ou s.t the want al TO work
.s ,hat tasE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31
Berlin Tries to Suppress News

A semi-ofticial dispatch from Berlin,
forwarded by Reuters Amsterdam cor
respondent, says that there is no news
of n serious strike movement in any
part Of Germany except i'll Berlin. In
the Ruhr district particularly. work is
reported to he in full swing in all fac
tories
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

young 1ather was man with money and
heart and no desire to engage in philanthropy
just because of its reflected gory-there are a
lew men like that in this country, and now we
know that at least one Of them resides in New
York. So he went home and thought the whole
thing over, and that same night he telephoned
the specialist and named sum of money that
he thought he could spare from his income
every year.
Il know it isn't enough to cover everything"
ne said, "but do you think you could use it to
make start at some kind of real maternity
service for the women in the neighborhood of
your hospital?"
That was how the Outdoor Obstetrical De-
partment of the New York Nursery and Child's
Hospital had it's beginning in it's present FORM
The district included in this service extends
from Twenty fourth to 104th Street, from
Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River, and covers
the notorious black. belt-"Hell's Kitchen
with its famous "most crowded blocks in tho
world" one of which is supposed to house H.
600 people.
Treated as People-Not Cases
The social element in the work is necessarily
almost as important as the medical, and the
first step taken was the securing of cooperation
from settlement houses in the neighborhood, the
workers in which maintain more personal re-
lation to the women than hospital can have
Their mission is to advise an expectant mother
to call at the hospital for advice instead of ap-
plying to a midwife, going to physician of
Indifferent skill, or what most often hap
pens-changing her mind every little while
about what to do until it is too late to do any,
thing at all.
When she calls at the hospital she enters a
door leading into clinic where no cases are
considered except those similar to her own, and
there is met by social worker-one who speaks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

minor children if her husband has never lived
with her in Rhode Island.
But the New Citizen would advise mothers
if they care anything for their children to
avoid being born or acquiring a residence in
Wisconsin or West Virginia.
In Wisconsin the right of custody and
guardianship goes preferably to the father
and at his death to the mother, but only so
long as she remains unmarried. And Chapter
66 of the West Virginia Code provides that
mo married woman can be appointed guar
dian for minor children, and the marriage Of
female guardian terminates her trust"
10 the lay mind this seems to indicate that
married woman with children has no con-
troll over her children long as their father
her husband, lives. After his death. she may
keep them only if he has appointed her their
guardian, and even then only so long as she
does not marry again.
If the minor has guardian appointed by
deceased father, such guardian has
full authority regardless of the mother
The father can appoint guardian for his
minor child or children though the mother
be living. And the father, by the mere virtue
of being the father, while he lives is deemed
by the law of West Virginia the proper guar
dian and custodian of the child or children Of
his marriage, while the mother, if, under GER
tain circumstances, given the guardianship
and custody of the child, must be a person fit
for the trust" ("The Law and the Woman")
Thus the only type of woman who has an un-
questionable right over her child is the un-
married mother of illegitimate offspring.
Judge Henry Mel, Of Illinois, was the first
person to conceive the idea of giving public
funds direct to INDECENT mothers for the sup
port of their children instead of to public
institutions for the support Of these same
children. 1t has been estimated that 76 per
cent of the money supplied to institutions is
expended in spending the other "a per cent.
Besides, to repeat the slogan of the Nursery
and Child's Hospital, "every child needs
mothering."
So Illinois passed the first mothers pension
law in 1911: Since then twenty-five other
states including New York, have adopted SIM
liar measures. In this state it is limited to the
children Of citizens. Michigan is the only
state that extends It to il1egitimate children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

TIME laws affecting minors, their protec-
ton and guardianship vary greatly
among the states. About half the
states accord equal rights to both mother and
father in the custody and guardianship of
legitimate children. The other half give prac-
tically unqualified preference to the father
regardless Of his fitness for the task In Cali
fornia equal rights were granted to both
parents at the first session of the Legislature
after the extension Of suffrage to women.
section too was added to the Civil Code making
the father as we'll as the mother liable for the
support of illegitimate children, but although
a guardian for legitimate child may be ap-
pointed by the father in his will with the
written consent of the mother, only the
mother Of an illegtimate child has this right
in California.
Georgia employers especially prohibited
from inflicting corporal punishment on minors,
from selling, giving away or hiring out for
rope or wire walking, or gymnastic, acrobatic
or indecent exhibition, any child under twelve
years of age.
Kansas has in its statutes a law which
seems most extraordinary: AS it works out, it
makes mans second wife and the children
of his second wife the direct heirs of the first
wife, utterly neglecting to provide that the
children of the first wife may inherit from
their mothers estate in case of her death, I'm
less the husband himself decides that they
shall. Lila Day Monroe, woman lawyer, is
quoted by Rose Falls Bres, in "The Law and
the Woman" as saying that she has not yet
found case where he had decided in favor
OF the children against the second wife
The same writer goes on to mention that
the father in Louisiana is given the prefer
ence IN guardianship of children to such an
extent that upon his death the preference is
extended to the paternal grandfather as
against the maternal grandfather. She cites
the case OF grandmother who had had charge
OF child from its birth, coincident with the
death OF her daughter, the child's mother.
When its father died two years later the
paternal grandfather, an old man, brought
suit for the custody Of the grandson he had
never seen, not because Of anything to ind-
cate that the baby would profit by the change,
but because an unmarried daughter living
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

it, and eventually, perhaps, adaptive parents,
in case its family cannot support it, Just
now the Nursery and Chids Hospital is
cooperating with the Prison Association in
the case of a mother, baby and three
other children left dependent by a SEN
tence of six months in Jail for the father, who
had been convicted of non-support. 1t is plac-
ing foundlings in comfortable homes, supplying
wet nurses keeping families together, relieving
starvation, fighting drink, neglect and cruelty
and since the declaration of war it has
opened it's doors as we'll to the Red Cross for
the in childbirth of the wives of men of
our armies, the care Of these mems sick chill
dren and placing them in foster homes when
necessary, and the care of wounded or sick
nurses.
We hear much about the "Second Line of
Defence" these days. AS matter of fact we
use such troop of phrases, whether we
understand what they mean or not, that
it is impossible to eat a meal or play a
game of checkers without going cover the
top" or using "camoufage." But the most
overworked of them all is the "Second
Line of Defence" 1t has been applied
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

her own language if she is foreigner-who
talks with her and introduces her to the physi-
clan who will make the examination. And this
physician, by the way, is the same one who will
continue to care for her until her baby is born
and we'll started on it's pursuit of liberty and
happiness-just as if she were his private
patient.
Before she leaves she is given a card which
entities her to medical service when needed. and
an appointment is made for her next visit to
the hospital.
But during the interval she is not forgotten
for in the care of such cases it is essential to
learn what problems the home environment
presents and what effect they will have upon
the mothers health and peace of mind, and
through them upon her child. Is it possible for
her to buy the nourishing food she needs? If
so, does she know where to get and how to
cook 1t! Is she overworked, ill-treated, in
desperate poverty, or one Of those pitt
ful unmarried mothers who need much more
tact and care and understanding than
all the rest put together? All these
things the visitor from the social service de-
partment must learn and always she must
preach and teach the doctrine of pure air and
cleanliness and nourishing food, and be ready
to help in all sorts of practical ways, even to
the forming of sewing circles to make baby
clothes.
The Nursery and Child's Hospital Follows
Through
II the patient fails to keep an appointment
she is reminded by personal letter. Eighty
per cent of tho women will respond to this, but
when one of them does not the note is promptly
followed by visit from one of the social work
ers-usually a trained nurse. Often it is found
that sudden illness has kept the patient away;
and five lives were saved in one week not long
ago because the visitor from the hospital was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
City-S State
N alton
From the Woman Suffrage Party Weekly Bulletin

From the Woman Suffrage Party Weekly Bulletin
CITY:
Ten thousand women are to form a women's
police reserve, in accordance with the plan of
Special Deputy Rodman Wanamaker. Their
orders are: ITO carry on the auxiliary Red
Gross work now being done by the auxiliaries
attached to the different precincts; to discover
irregular and unlawful conditions and report
same to the Department.; to teach Americana
cation and civic duty, and aid in the Ameri-
canization of the alien element of the popula-
ton; to detect and report cases of disloyalty
and sedltlon, and set an example Of usefulness
and patriotic devotion"
1T IS announced that twelve women are to
serve on the force as regular police officers at
salary of $1,000, under the supervision of
Fifth Deputy Commissioner Ellen O'Grady.
:, Alderman Calman (Socialist), presented to
the Board of Aldermen a resolution to make
the old courthouse site into community gar
den This was referred to the COMMITTEES on
General Welfare.
This site, which is situated just north of
the Municipal Building was ACQUIRED for the
city by condemnation proceedings authorized
IN FEBRUARY, 1872 at original expense of
$l2,O00,00O. 1t has been the theme of count
less political wrangles ever since, and sugges-
lions Tor It's use have ranged all the way from
plan for making a parade ground Of it to-
the erection of model tenements and the pres
en-! scneme OF community garden. 1t is
GAINED that no monumental building ever can
be put up on this site because it has bot
tom OF ooze or quicksand. Estimates of the
cost to the city of maintaining this unsued
ground range from $1,000 to $4,000 a day.
without return.)
Bellevue Hospital makes the plea that its
budget is inadequate and asks the Board of
Estimate for $238,55O.
STATE:
The Governor has signed the Cowee bill. As
sembly Intro. FOB, providing for the issuance of
summer vacation permits enabling minors of
from fourteen to sixteen years to be EMPLOYED
during July and August in mercantile estab-
lishments.
Among the bills which have been vetoed are
the wellington bill, repeating the plea of in
SANITY Sam as defence for crime; the Walters
Dill, classifying state employees among those
engaged in hazardous occupations; the Nc.
Laughlin bill, permitting the payment bv in
stalments Of fines for intoxication; the Martin
bill appointing commission to investigate
rural schools; the Meyer bill, making comnui.
sorry the school attendance of illiterar-. ~,
tween sixteen and twenty-cne
NATION:
The Senate has agreed to the appronrra...
o6ts60 0oo, 900 forthe housing of wSr purksrs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

receive. He was told about ignorant midwives
Indifferent, underpaid physicians, crowded elm
les, where prospective mothers must sit long.
tlresome hours among sufferers from almost any
disease under the sun, to receive hurried, care
less advice from inexperienced students who
know little and perhaps care less whether the
home surroundings are such that the instruc-
tons can be carried out.
Few Doctors and No Money
This seemed inexcusable till he learned that
it is almost impossible to induce young physi-
clans to remain at this work any longer than is
necessary to complete their medical course, be-
cause they are not paid for it, and-a man
must live. And he was told how much money
it cost to keep the clinics going, and that since
the war began one hospital after another
is being forced to close its doors because
there are so many demands now on peoples
generosity-so many more exciting demands
than that which is made by the poor and help
less at their very doors-that money for home
welfare is cut off at time when the economic
pressure on those of little wealth is making it
more necessary than ever before.
Now, the employer of the little dead baby's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Hoe Is Accomplished by the Maternity the Nv York Nursery
and ChiGS Hosbuu

show stillbirth occurring for every four
living births in the city.
But, said the employer, his wife had babies,
and his wife's friends were always having ba-
bies; he had thought there was no more risk
about it nowadays than there was in crossing
Fifth Avenue at Forty-second Street! Why,
the very obstetrician he was talking to had had
only two stillborn babies and one maternal
death in the $50 cases of his private practice.
And then he learned that it is the deaths
among the poor that bring the death rate up
to where it is; he shown the difference be-
tween the way the women of his class are taken
care of and the care the women of the poor