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The labor world., 1919-09-20
CARPENTERS GAIN.

WILMINGTON, DEL, Sept. 1S.-In
the wage dispute between Carpenters
union No. 626 and employers, an ar
bitrator has ruled that rates shall be
80 cents an hour. Wages were 20
cents at the beginning Of the year and
the carpenters asked for IS cents. Ac-
ton was delayed and they struck
The contractors agreed to Is cents and
pledged themselves to arbitrate the
difference between these figures and
the carpenters demand
The labor world., 1919-09-20
RHODE ISLAND~STRIKE.

Rhode Island street car men, on
strike since July 1S. have not as yet
been able to break the deadlock.
Business men are demanding the op-
Grating of the cars and it is rumored
that state officials may call out the
state guard and run the cars with
strikebreakers. It is believed the
strikers will be offered IS cents an
hour. They were paid 4S cents an
hour before the strike.
The labor world., 1919-09-20

0and when congress is refusing the
legitimate requests of railway labor
for q full consideration of ITS own
proposals, is. a step calculated only
further to increase the difficulties
that confront the nation.
The Right to Strike,
The right to strike as the last. re-,
sort is inerained in the nature Of tie
American. workingman; he has liz
herited it from the Declaration Of
Independence, from the Cons+itu>
ton Of the United States, from every
tradition Of this free people, from
every achievement in the history az
our great nation. If he failed to
cherish his economic freedom, he
would no longer be true American.
10 attempt to put such a prohibitive
law into operation, therefore, would
be madness. No leadership in the
world could restrain the rank and file
or American labor under such an inn
position; the human factors called
forth would be beyond control.
What would be left a wofkingman.
under the provisions Of the Cumins
bill, above quoted? The final clause
OF the provision is an empty promise.
II TWO or more men quit work under
any excuse, it could be held that
they were interfering with interstate
commerce. The provision simply
means that under it men in the rail-
road employ would no longer be free
to quit their jobs; they would work
IN economic serfdom, subject to the
them did quit, they would be crimi-
nails, and the POLICE and the troops,
the courts and the jails can be used
against them.
Spell End of Unions.
A law such as this would spell the
end of labor organizations in America.
Is this the intent of the provisionl
Does congress, at the behest of the
alarmed business system, propose to
try to break up the organizations of
labor throughout the country? Is it
decided that the time has come to
make this final fight? These are ques-
tions which demand an answer. Every
,Workingman in the land is asking
them as he reads the newspapers. In
his heart he knows that to enact this
law would spell more than the death
of trade unfonism. It would spell the
birth of revolution.
This is not threat, but merely a.
statement of obvious fact. The real
threat comes from. the other side
against labor to remove from it's
hands the only weapon by means OF
which it has built u pand maintained
it sorganizations, and against the pub
lie, to throw the country into state
of confusion and violence. =: Labor.
alone, in this railroad crisis, has been
thinking of the public; it is only, la
bor's plan which holds the public in-
terest to be primary. All other plans
and proposals have. been dictated by
selfish motives This final. proposal
is cynically disregardful Of the public
welfare. -: =
: AS representatives of the fourteen
organizations comprising the Organ
lied Railway Employees Of America,
we beg congress most earnestly ito
consider this situation on the basis
Of its true values. We feel it to be
our duty as American citizens to lay
before the public still another phase
Of the question, which may have es-
capped the attention Of congress in the
pressure Of its labors, hut which,
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Appeal to A. F. of l..
1t is well-known fact that tho
policemen of the various cities of
the country have been appealing to-
the A. F. of l.. for permission to be-
come members through chartered
unions for several years past. Not
until the Atlantic City convention
was their appeals favorably acted on.
Since that date 81 applications for
charters have been received and fav-
orably acted on. These new unions
snow membership Of approximately
1890, and in some of the cities the
membership is 100 per cent.
Can it be that the attack on the
union in this city is for the purpose
>of discouraging and preventing the
further growth of policemen's unions
In such cities as have not yet taken
action? While the decision of the
commissioners of this city may not
nave sinister motive back of it,
there are apparently reasonable
grounds for reaching such a conclu-
sion.
Following the conference Of Pres
ers, announcement was made that the
order issued by Commissioner Brown
low would be rigidly ~enforced. Its
application made it imperative fSS
all members of the police force 5000
to have their designations in the
hands of the police department Off
Gals not later than midnight Sep
tember /, or consider themselves dis
missed, surrendering all their rights
in such beneficial features as had
resulted by long years of service on
the force.
Asked Help of Courts.
The announcement of that deter
mination following so quickly after
President Gompers' conference with
the commissioners, the officials of
the policemen's union determined to
seek redress through the courts and
had their attorneys prepare a re-
quest for preliminary injunction
f1i6t would restrain the enforcement
Of the commissioners order until
full hearing could be had.
The matter was presented to JUS
tice Ashley NJ. Gould, of the district
supreme court, who promptly issued
a preliminary Injunction returnable
September II, when full hearing
will be had and it will then be de-
termined whether the relief the po-
Hcemen ask for will be granted.
What Did We Fight For?
In his address to the commission
ers on behalf of the policemen, Pres
ident Gompers said in part:
/ ."Gentlemen, after all, what have
the people of the United States been
fxhting for? What have we been
T. fighting for? Why did we organize
this army Of four million men? Why
have we made sacrifices Of food and
life; given our money in the drives,
.paned our money for bonds, depriv-
ng ourselves Of many, many of the
hin4s that make up the comforts of
ife?, Why? is it that after we have
Fon victory against militarism and
- utocracy and imperialism we shall
ave the rights which were exercised
efore, taken from us? Autocracy
oes not merely exist in name, it ex-
It's as fact; it is a state Of mind;
=. is a. state of fact. If the working
eople Of the United States, police
en- included, had the right before
lie war to organize and to affiliate
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The labor world., 1919-09-20

APPLETON, Wis, Sept. 1S.-The
International Pulp company, employ
ing 500 men, has ordered hours re-
duced from 9 to per day and placed
the minimum wage at so cents an
hour.
The labor world., 1919-09-20

INR. MERCHANT-Has it occurred to
I've you that this paper goes into the
homes Of the best paid workingmen
lin Duluth and surrounding territory?
It IS carefully perused by every adult
member Of the household. There is
mo better advertising medium any
IWhere,
The labor world., 1919-09-20

MR. woRKINGMAN-This is your
y paper. = It publishes matter per-.
tanning to your life and welfare. It
wants and needs your support. It
cannot exist without it. Your cause
would be weak indeed without labor
paper to champion it. Become a reader
and subscriber. 49, ----.sl
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-05

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WANTED-GARAGES.

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and 18th sts NV: space for one car; washing I.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

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GOING ABROAD, will sell Weber baby grand
mahogany piano. Information may be obtained
bet. and 8 pm. tphone Cleve. S29) or piano
may be inspected at West Melrose st.. Chevy
Chase.
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the harbor to be of commanding i'm.
barkatiOn and rest camps outside of
the town.
They worked wonders in doing So,
and despite the manifest discomforts
of daily rains and perpetual mud
they have i'm P~ountaneZen provided q
halfway station between the battle
front and home which Is second to
none in the world. Pountanezen is
about seven or eight miles outside Of
the town itself. It's present capacity
is about 10000. Within three months
it will have been expanded to take
care Of 100000.
The embarkatiOn hospital at Ker-
huon, separated only a few hundred
yards from Pountanezen, will ulti.
mately have q capacity for caring for
1900 cases. 1t can now care for
between six and sever thousand. Both
plants are near completion. The plans
when finally worked out will provide
accommodations for three-1ifths of the
military establishment maintained by
the United States on European soil.
1t is Il gigantic task, this making a
new city for the care of both the sick
and well, but 1t Is one that the men
can accomplish under the most un
favorable circumstances.
AS it assumes the form of it's chief
Importance all European roads will
lead to Brest.
To Keep the Well Diverted.
The big thing, as the responsible
officials view it, is to provide the
healthy men with diversion to keep
them not only out of mischief but in
good spirits while waiting for trans
next door to death and constantly un.
der the thunder of great guns are
finding life at detention and intern
ment camps rather uninteresting. II
is the purpose of the officials respOn-
sible for their welfare to keep them
occupied so that they will not miss
the tumult Of war or brood too much
upon the delay Of getting home.
Up to date the chief occupation of
the 10000 men who are centered here
has been confined to speculation as to
dates of departure and taking a close
up view Of the few attractions Of
Brest.
Some idea Of the native entertain
ment is furnished by the fact that
there is only one moving picture show
i'm the town. Severe restrictions are
placed upon the ventures Of the
doughbOys in the night life Of the
ancient burg. The girls Of Brest are
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MADE OCCASION FOR FESTIVAL
Travellers in Northern Russia Fittingly
Celebrate the Crossing of the
Arctic Circle.

On the trains running northward
across north Russia, the crossing OF
the arctic circle is made the occasion
for a festival similar to that which
tourists used to enjoy on shipboard
when crossing the equator. The train
makes a stop Of several hours in the
midst of a snow-covered waste on the
shores Of the White sea. The passen.
gers stretch their legs and take a cor.
stitutional out Over the frozen surface
of the White sea, while a picnic din.
ner is being prepared.
The exact spot where the railroad
crosses the circle is probably not de-
termined with scientific accuracy, but
the men who built the railroad appar-
emily agreed on an approximate lQca-
ton, and this is marked with q suit
able inscription. At this point also
the railroad builders have left a slight.
gap, probably not more than a quarter
of an inch, between the rails, SO that.
as passengers often notice, "when the
train passes v e the circle there Is q
distinct jolt and JAR"
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not particularly attractive. Their
faces are not lacking in qualities Of
classical beauty, although their hands
and feet are not the sort that inspire
the sculptor or painter TO reproduce
them in mud, marble or on canvas.
The military police keep a pretty
sharp eye on the men In Ahaki, and
the penalties for infractions of army
law are pretty severe.
The doughboys make light of the
mud, their we'll shod feet squash into
1t, and their comfortable clothes re-
sist the penetration Of the mist that
floats over and around the Finisterre
peninsula. There is little or no dis
comfort from cold, because while
much further north than New York,
Brest catches the eastern end OF the
Gulf stream, and the temperature
rarely falls below 80 and most fire.
quently f%iuctuates between As and 80.
The men are well fed and comfort
ably housed. The mothers of some OF
them would probably raise their
hands in horror at one or two features
of their daily life, but the health re-
ports of the camp furnish substantial
proof that the precautions taken by
the government are working u much
more satisfactorily han the regimen
inspired by home influence.
The army and navy officials point
with pride to the fact that i'm one day
3 1900 American troops debarked at
Brest, and that during the next day
5000 were added to the total. This
means Uat an aggregation Of fighting
men One-half the size Of the mobile
army of the United States four years
ago was dumped into the mud at
Brest by a convoy OF the most i'm
pressive ships that ever sailed the
main-the Leviathan, Mount Wash
ington, President Grant, George
Washington, President Lincoln, La
France, Paris and the Lutetia.
Medical Regulations Rigid.
The medical regulations that prevail
in the chief American military de-
barkation port are most rigid. No
soldier is permitted to enter or leave
the camp without q thorough eXami-
nation and when he receives his ticket
to go aboard ship to go home he must
be 100 per cent physically.
Arriving by train from interior
points his clothing is taken from him
and is subjected to a process that
precludes the possibility of infection
- -A- r. -
new outfit and many other convent
ences that were not possible while
he a up near the fighting line.
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FEW AMERICANS
INPARIS PRISONS

Over and the men are chatting at their
inability to get home, it is probably
Il point in the army's favor that so
few have fallen into trouble in search
Of relaxation and amusement.
Also 1t must be remembered our
boys come from an unmilitary u
try and the discipline In this rigid
army is not yet old enough to have
placed a restraining impress on the
soldiers whose work in the trenches
Is over.
Almost all the prisoners trace their
trouble to being absent without leave.
Having overstayed leave or left their
outfit without leave, the boys fear to
go back, Absence without leave-"A.
w. thus leads charges rang
ing from murder down 10 forgery Of
passes.
Many of the prisoners have a mighty
good war record, sonae wearing wound
stripes, and several having battIed glo-
riously with one or another Of
the shock divisions that were ALWAYS
in the thick of things.
One tall, light-haired boy had run
away to Paris for a holiday after be-
ing IN a hospital several weeks and
unable to speak above a whisper, due
to being gassed in the Argonne. He
when sixteen, and has a rec
ORD any man might be proud of, but
he got tired Of restraint and now is
IN the gIoomiest prison he ever saw
because he became involved In the
use OF forged passes.
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ii. since that first night she had knelt
at Aunty Roses knee:
GOD bless my papa and mamma
and bring them safe home"
The faith that moves mountains was
in that prayer.
Carolyn May slept the sleep Of the
wearied If not of the carefree. The
| noises Of the street did not disturb
her, not even the passing of the fire.
department trucks some time after
midnight.
Nor did nearer sounds arouse her.
She had no knowledge of the fact
| that q procession of A. d. II. boys
and messengers from the railroad con
pany came to ring the bell Of the
Prices apartment. Later the j~anitor's
family was aroused, but the little lame
| boy thought it would be better for him
| to say nothing about having seen Car
| olyn May and Of having given her the
keys.
So when in the early morning a taxi
cab stopped at the street door and q
bushy-haired, troubled-looking man got
| out and helped q woman clad In brown
to the sidewalk the ~janitor had no
knowledge Of the fact that Carolyn
May and Prince were upstairs in the
apartment that had been so long
empty.
"And the Prices are away" said
| Uncle Joe in a troubled voice. "What
do you think of that, Mandy?"
"Oh, Joe! where could the dear child
have goneT'
81 haven't seen her." declared the
j~anitor. "But / can let you into the
fiat. There's been lots Of kilograms
to Mr.. Price In the highland they
weren't all yours. You're Carolyn
Mays uncle, amt you?" he asked Mr..
Stagg.
Uncle Joe acknowledged the rela-
tionship. Lets go upstairs" he said
to Amanda. snow that I'm here"
ooh, dear, Joe !" almost wept Aman-
da, could anything have happened to
her in this big city|
"Most anything, I s'pose," growled
Joseph Stagg, following close on the
janitor's heels.
The janitor's passkey grating in
the lock of the private hall door start
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ed something that zone Of them ex-
pectrl. A startling bark echoed in the
rooIls which were supposed to be
empty.
"Whatever is that?" gasped the JAM
itor.
'It's Prince! It's her dog =. shouted
Uncle Joe.
1.-THE child is here!" cried Amanda
Parlow, and she was the first to enter
the apartment.
Prince bounded wildly to meet her.
He leaped and parked. A cry sounded
from a room beyond. Miss Amanda
and Uncle Joe rushed in.
Sleepily, her face flushed, rubbing
her blue eyes wide open, Carolyn May
sat up in bed.
ooh, Uncle Joe! Oh, Miss Amanda 7"
she said. "I-I was just dreaming my
own papa and mamma had come home
and found me here"
"My dear! My dear!" sobbed Aman-
da Parlow, dropping to her knees be-
side the bed.
you're a great young one" growled
Uncle Joe, blowing his nose suspi-
ciOusly. you've nigh about scared
~ev'ybody to death. Your Aunty Rose
Is almost crazy"
"Oh-Im sorry" stammered Caro-
lyn May. "But-you-see- Uncle
Joe! You and Miss Amanda are go
ing to be happy now. Aunty Rose says
two is comp'ny.' SO you wouldn't
have room for me-"
"Bless me! !" gasped the hardware
dealer. "What do you know about
his child's feeling that way, Mandy?"
II am afraid we have been selfish,
the woman said, signing. Sand
that Is something hat Carolyn .Iay
has never been in Ter life!"
II dunno-I dunno" said Uncle Joe
ruefully and looking at the little,
flower-like face Of the child. "How
about Aunty Rose? How d'you s'pose
she feels about Hannah's Car'lyn run
ming aways"
"Oh!" CALCULATED the little girl.
ut may be that 'two's company and
three's a crowd but you and Aunty
Rose would be two NksSise. wOulLa"
you. Car'lyp NRy9"
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CHAPTER XIX.-Continued.

They ventured along their block.
The children all seemed strange to
Carolyn May. But people move SO fire.
Quently in Harlem that this was not
at all queer. She hoped to see Edna
or some other little girl with whom she
had gone to school. But not until she
reached the very house itself did any
body hail her.
ooh, Carolyn May! Is that you?"
A lame boy was looking through the
iron fence Of the areaway. He was
the janitor's son.
"Oh Johnny! I'm real glad to see
your cried the little girl. Then she
added more slowly. "We-we've come
home again-me and Prince"
"YOu've growed a lot, Carolyn May"
said the boy. my pop and MONS
away"
"ll go up into Edna's fiat, then"
the weary little girl sighed.
"The Prices have gone away, too.
They won't be back till tomorrow
sometime"
"Oh!" murnured Carolyn r1ay.
"But, say, / can get the keys to your
fiat. The waters turned on, too. Every
things all right up there, for Mrs.
Price she sweeps and dusts it all every
once In a while. Shall l get the keys?"
"Oh, = you will, pleased" returned
the relieved child.
The boy hobbled away, but soon re-
turned with the outer-door key and
the key to the apartment itself. Car
Olyn May took them and thanked him.
Then she gladly went in and climbed
the two flights to their floor.
She saw nobody and easily let her.
self into the fiat. 1t had been recently
aired and busted. Every piece of fur
niture stood just as she remembered 1t.
"Ok, princey, it's homer" she whis-
pered. "This Is our real, real home !
II loved 'em all at The Corners; but
1t wasn't like this there"
Prince perhaps agreed, but he was
too deeply interested in shutting at the
chased for his supper to reply.
"VVel, well, Prince" she said, t'you
shall have it at once"
Dropping the bag in the private hall,
she went into the kitchen and stood
on tiptoe to open the door Of the closet
above the dresser. Securing a plate,
she emptied the contents Of the paper
into it and set the plate down on the
HoOr.
In spreading ont the paper she saw
some big-tyDe headlines on the front
page:
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His Story Told to Beacon Reporter at
Quarantine.

-
Carolyn May read no further. 1t
did not particularly interest the little
girl. Besides, she was very tired
too tired to think of her own supper.
Had she read on, however, ever her
simple mind might have been startled
by the following paragraphs printed
below the heading Of this startling
story:
Their wonderful good fortune iniescap-
ing from the disaster that overlook the
steamer on which they travelled and
which was caught between the gunfire Of
a French battleship and two Of a Tur-
kish squadron can only be equaled by
the chance which followed. Naturally,
prepared to tell the details OF his re-
markable adventure in the columns Of
the Beacon at a later date.
The boat In which they left the sink
ing Dunraven was separated in the night
and fog from that Of the other refugees
and was carried by the current far, to
the south. In fact, they were enveloped
by fog until they landed upon a stretch
of deserted beach.
There was no town near, nor even an
e~ncamprnent OF Arabs. But soon after
their Decentralization and before the Of
fcer IN command could take means to
communicate with any civilized, or semi
civilized, place a party of int and
armed tribesmen swooped dow on the
castaways.
These people, being Mohammedans, and
having seen the battle the day before
between the French and the Turks, con-
sidered the castaways enemies and swept
them away with them into the desert to
a certain oasis, where for nearly eight
rnnpfhc Mr. Inhn TaUic Co marOp and his
wife and the other refugees from the
Dunraven were kept without being al
lowed to communicate with their friends.
Mr.. Cameron was on furlough from
his paper because Of i'll health. At the
beginning of his captivity he was in a
very bad way, indeed, 1t is said. But the
months In the hot. dry atmosphere or
the desert havs made a new man Of him.
and he personally cannot hold much ram
cor against the Mohammedan tribe that
held him a prisoner.
There was more Of the wOnderfu.
story, but the sleepy little girl had
given 1t no attention whatsoever.
Prince had eaten and lain down in his
familiar corner The little girl had
gone softly into her own room and
made up her bed as she had seen her
mother and Mrs. Price make 1t.
Then she turned on the water in
the bathtub and took q bath. 1t vas
delightful to have a real tub instead
IF the galvanized bucket they used at
Uncle JOe's.
She put on her nightgown at last.
melt and said her prayer, including
Apt patitSHn she had novcY eft sllt- OF