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Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-05-07
Secures Contract For ~
Street Improvement

Local Contractor l.. w. Lovett has
been awarded the contract for making
Tarvia street Improvements in the
town of Smyrna, which will cost over
$4,000.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-05-07
Seniors From Wilmington
Schools Here Tomorrow

Tomorrow afternoon the Freshmen
at tn eWomen's College will entertain
the girls of the senior classes from
Friends School, Wilmington High
School, and the DUPONT School. A
unique form of entertainment is being
planned and refreshments will be
served.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-05-07
Continental Opens Baseball
Season Saturday

The baseball season will open for
the Del-Mar league on Saturday
when Continental will cross bats
with P.R.R. on the Delaware Ave
nue. grounds. The home club will
have strong team in the field and
will undoubtedly give the fans an
opportunity to see some fast, snap
py games this season.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-05-07
May Festival Next "Wednesday

A May Festival will be held on
the Women College campus by the
students for the benefit Of the Y.
w. C. A. Eaglesmere fund on We'd
nesday, June IA, from 7 to 9. Ice
cream and cake will be on sale.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-05-07
Boys Clear Tidy Sum At Bake

The boys who belong to the garden
club did valiant work on Saturday by
raising $4S.49 at the bake held in the
high school building. If an equal
amount of "pep" and enthusiasm is
put into the garden work it is safe to
predict record crops.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-05-07
Red Men To Celebrate
St. Tamina Day

Minnehaha Tribe, No. %, Imp.
p. r. NJ. will attend divine service
bt st. Thomas p. e. Church on Sun
Fay morning, May 11th, 1919. All
members of the Order are cordially
invited to attend. Meet at the Wig
yam, Opera House building, at 10
J CLOCK.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-05-07
Hiram Lodge To Have
Past Masters Night

Hiram Lodge, No. %, A. F. and A.
NJ, will celebrate a Past Masters
night on Monday evening, May u.
The evening will be IN charge of Past
Master Orlando K. Strahorn.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-05-07
OBITUARY
EDWARD L. CAGE

Edward Il. Cage, aged 21 years,
died at the home of his parents on
Cleveland Avenue on Saturday,
May B, of spinal trouble.
The funeral services were held
at the house on Tuesday afternoon
and interment made in Newark
cemetery.
Young Cage was employed as
signal man with the Pennsylvania
r. h. Co. and has been a sufferer
for some time.
FRANK p. JOHNSON
Frank p. johnson, age 40 years,
died Of tuberculosis at his home on
Cleveland Avenue ON Friday, May
second.
Funeral services were held at his
late home on Monday at 2 p. m. In
terment at Elkton cemetery.
Mr.. Johnson was a carpenter by
trade. He leaves wife and seven
children.
COLUMBUS c. BECK
Columbus C. Beck, aged 62 years,
died at his home on Chapel Street
on Sunday, May 4, of a complica-
tion Of diseases. Fuenral services
were held at his old home in Piney
Neck, Maryland, today. Interment
in the cemetery at that place.
He leaves a wife, two daughters,
Mrs. Walter Crouch and Mrs.
Stoneman, and one son Columbus
Beck, who is in the service over
seas.
GEORGE r. SHEPPARD
George r. Sheppard Of Marcus
Hook, died at the home of his par
eDtS near White Clay Greek Church
on Thursday, May /. Services were
held at the house on Monday at 2
p. m. and further service in River
view Chapel at 4.15 by four men,
bers Of the |. Q. O. F. Lodge Of
Chester, Pa, Of which he was a
member.
Thomas A. Mullin. a member OF
the order in Newark accompanied
the body to the cemetery.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
MORE H|GH-GRADE
AT HANNAPAH MINE

1t looks as though there is no end
to the number of big strikes at Han
napah. Another one was reported
when A. j.. Bovard brought in an
assay which went "a ounces in gold
and 1882 ounces of silver or a total
of $9S4.20. This sample was taken
at one point on a six-foot ledge and
practically at the surface on his Horn
silver group of claims. Mr.. Bovard
after whom the camp of Bovard was
named, must have had a bunch when
he named this group as the ledge is
all shoot with "hornsilver."
An old 75-foot shaft is within about
200 feet of this strike and it is safe
to predict that a turn will be made
for this property very soon to start
a cross-cut to this ledge.-[Tonopah
Bonanza.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
TOO MUCH DUST;
FALL0N MILL CLOSED

The Fallon alfalfa meal mill has
been closed down indefinitely. This
action was taken for a number of
reasons. The contract which the COM
pany had with a firm in Missouri for
their output expired the other day,
and this, together with the trouble
over the meal dust and the uncertainty
as to what action the council would
take in the matter. has led the COM
pany to suspend operations for the
time being. Representatives of the
company state that they are willing to
spend up to $4,000 to control the
trouble, as the waste of the fuel en-
tails a loss to them. but that they do
not know of anything which will OBJ
tain the desired result, and that they
do not want to go to the expense OF
installing some corrective which will
not be efective.-[Churchil Eagle.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
NEW PUMP TO BE INSTALLED
TO INCREASE WATER SUPPLY

Steps will be taken Immediately to
Improve the flow of water between
Tonopah and Rye Patch pumping sta
ton by installing a Cameron booster
pump to be situated at a point on the
main delivery line about two miles out
of Tonopah, where the water from
the pressure pumps at the wells will
be taken up and shot direct into the
reservoir ON the slopes of Mount
Oddie. The pump will be stationed
200 feet vertically below the reservoir
This installation, it is believed. will
bring the water supply up to the
quantity demanded by the increased
consumption. The work will be done
at once.-[Tonopah Bonanza.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
FRIEDMAN COUNTY LAWYERS
WERE NICE TO CALLAHAN

The district court convened at Love-
lock Monday for the first time in the
history of Pershing county, with Judge
]. A. Callahan presiding. Court was
held in the high school building.
Members of the bar of Pershing
county offered a resolution pledging
the attorneys to due observance OF
rules and ethics of the court and pro-
fession. The resolution was read by
r. NJ. Hardy. district attorney. The
first Ease to come before the court was
a civil action in which a demurrer was
sustained.
In the afternoon, two minors,
charged with burglary, were placed on
trial and entered pleas of guilty. They
we're sentenced to spend six months
in the state industrial school.-GReno
Gazette.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26

Tonopah. Divide districts organize
temporary chamber of commerce.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
Some Job.

For the first time in so years an
election is shortly to be held in the
London Guildhall for the post of "city
aleconner." The position carries a
good salary but apparently no particu-
lar duties. The "aleconner'' was orig
inally an officer who inspected and
tested any new brands of ale.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
"Kissar."

The kissar is one of the most an
Gent of Egyptian instruments. 1t is
found represented in monuments an
tedating the birth of Christ by 1000
years. 1t consists of a circular body
with a large triangular frame above,
from the cross-bar of which five strings
pass to the bottom of the frame. It
is tuned to the pentatonic scale.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
Unnecessary Risk.

Brother Philander." said I to our
head deacon the other day. don't you
believe a man can get to heaven with
out ever dropping a CEN into the con-
tribution box?" 81 suppose So" an
swered old Philander. land when you
are sick with typhoid fever or any
other disease you can doctor yourself.
You are taking the ehances."-Osborne
Farmer.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
GOLDFIELD HOUSE BURNED

The residence of Henry Heich-
mer at 400 South Franklin street
Goldfield, was totally destroyed by fire
last Sunday. The blaze is said to
have been caused by an electric iron
-[Goldfield Tribune.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-26
FIRST COUPLE TO BE UNITED
IN MARRIAGE IN PERSHING co.

The first wedding ceremony TO be
performed in Pershing county since
that county was officially created,
united Miss Nettie McGavery of Long
Beach, Cal, and Herbert Gilbert of
Sparks. The wedding took place on
Saturday at Lovelock. Rev. Fred Shell
don of the NJ. E. church officiating
Gazette.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28
Expensive Tiubers

Timbers measuring 7X12 and
Sx12 inches are cut down TO 5X9
inches and used as draw timbers.
Heavy timbers are reduced for
drawbacks and short draft timbers.
this operation cntailing a loss of
from one and a half to two inches
for each timber thus employed
Timbers three to five feet long,
which could be profitably used in
many ways, are sawed into stove
lengths, . complete loss to the cor
poration.
Questioned about this practice, a
worker who was engaged saving
timbers, replied: "These are my in
structions-th bosses must have
blocks to burn in their furnaces"
When employees in charge of the
timber yards were interrogated con-
cerning the great wastage in reduc-
ing timbers, they frankly declared
that it is being done "to beat the
Government.
These instances might be multi
piled dozen times without includ-
ing everything that is being done to
make railroad operation and main
tenance expensive for the Govern
ment.
On October II word came to the
Omaha shops that Government in
spectors were soon to make a visit
and orders were given to give the
departments a general overhauling.
Notwithstanding that laborers ade-
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28
MINERS ARE BITTER;
BEING V|CT|MIZED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Bitter-
ness on the part of the miners mark
ed the opening sessions of the wage
conference between them and the
coal operators, following the cancel
lation of the miners strike because
OF a Federal injunction judge. The
miners hurled verbal bricks at both
the Government and the coal own
ers. The latter were charged with
victimizing miners who offered to
return to work, and the Government
was charged with forgetting its
claim that it would treat both sides
alike.
Acting President Lewis Of the
Mine Workers, read a telegram from
Birmingham, Ala, miners, which
said:
1T seems to have been a con-
ocrted action among the mine op-
orators here to require men return
ing to work under their court or
der 10 give up their buttons and re-
nounce their union affiliations.
Acting President Lewis said that
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
tRockefeller's CONCERN is adopting
the same policy.
The miners Official declared
that in certain coal fields through
out the country a state of armed
terror is maintained. He mem
toned the Guyon Valley in West
Virginia, where guards armed with
Winchesters have usurped all au-
thority; in the Clinchfield field in
the same State. and in certain sec
tions of Pennsylvania, New Mexico
and Kentucky.
Il wonder il the great machinery
of the Government is to be turned
against the operators when thew
violate the law" asked Lewis.
Secretary of Labor Wilson. who
acted as chairman of the meeting
said that the Department of Justice
is investigating the claim of the
Alabama miners.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28
Waste in Labor Costs

The wages of laborers is as per
hour, while the wage of the men
who rendered this service is -
cents per hour.
Questioned about this practice of
delegating high-salaried men to do
the work of low-salaried laborers, a
worker replied: THE bosses en-
courage the laborers to loaf, because
they are Italians and know they
wont say anything if inquisitive
inspectors make inquiries"
This employee declared that gangs
of twenty and twenty-five men are
idle for hours at time, awaiting
instructions from their superiors.
The shops are on a ten-hour-day
basis, and every morning from a
half to an hour is wasted because it
is too dark to work.
eve wish the Government would
send inspectors out here who would
take the employees into their con-
fidence, instead of officials" re-
marked a worker, bolder than 9TH
ers. 1--WE could tell them some
thing that would open their eyes,
and they could see without much
seeking that everything we charge
is absolutely true.
But the voices Of these loyal,
faithful servants of the people do
not carry to Washington.
The incessant clamor of Wall
street for the recovery of it's privi-
.eges silences milder protests against
rascality.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28
EX-SUPT. WHORTON'S
SUIT AGAINST THE
NORWAY PACIFIC

Mr.. Wharton, formerly superin-
tendent of hull construction of the
Norway-Pacific Construction &
Drydock Company, has brought suit
against the company for money he
claims is due him. 1t is said that
part of the money sued for is for
wages due.
Mr.. Wharton has an agreement
the company made with him in
Washington, prior to his coming to
Everett.
Organized labor regretted Mr..
Wharton's leaving the yard, and
sympathize with him.
Men who have worked under him
know him to hold a record for the
highest efficiency in this country.
both in executive direction of work
and in the management of labor.
Mr.. Wharton is an American citi-
zen, and his friends feel that it is
to engage foreign ship
builders for American shipyards.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28

croached upon and further and fur
ther overstepped the bounds, not
only of fairness and truth, but de-
cency and Americanism itself. We
have even meekly witnessed your
unfair and reprehensible campaign
of falsehood and ruin, resulting in
the suppression of the last medium
of honest expression for our cause in
Seattle, not only denying our broth
ers the means of livelihood. but de-
nying us a far greater boon-the
American right of a free press.
so long as these things appeared
to be part of your unfair fight
against rganization-our organ
ization and others-we have been
able to endure them in the hope that
at last truth must prevail.
But there must be limit to all
things.
Ia thC BoSS nh ti Boi
r"rting to have been written and
paid for by one Selvin, but which
had as well have occupied the po-
sition in your paper usually taken
up by your editorial page, your ut
ter depravity as a newspaper, your
shameless disregard of the laws of
the land, your hatred of opposition,
your reckless policy of appeal to the
passions of the citizenry, reached
depths of malice and malignity hith-
erto unbelievable. 1t is nothing less
than excitation to violence, stark
and naked invitation to anarchy.
Therefore, Be 1t Resolved, by
the Whole Committee OF your Or
ganized Employees in meeting as
semb'nd, that if your business man
age. ct cannot demonstrate its ca
pacity and sagacity. if your edito-
rial directing heads must remain
blind to the thing they are bringing
us to; if together you cannot see
the abyss to which you are leading
us-all of us; if you have no more
love for our common country than
is manifested in your efforts to
plunge it into anarchy; then as 10y
al American citizens-many of us
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28

The above is a Photographic copy
of an employment slip issued from
the Loyal Legion" employment Of
flee at 73 Yesler Way, Seattle,
Wash.
This is only one of about AZ men
who had been shipped in to break
the strike at the Wisconsin Timber
Co., Stanwood, Wash. The employ
ees at the Wisconsin Timber Co. are
on strike to secure the reinstate-
ment of an ex-service man who was
discharged for taking a holiday on
Armistice Day.
Many people are of the opinion
that the Loyal Legion" is strictly
100%i American and that it is their
intention to work hand in hand
with the American Legion. This
picture was secured to show them
that they are mistaken. They real
ly tried to break a strike that had
been called to protect a member of
the American Legion, as the dis
charged eX-service man, together
with the other ex-service men in
Stanwood, had made application to
join the American Legion and had
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28

applied for an American Legion
charter. The only loyal part of the
Loyal Legion is that they are loyal
to the Boss"
The Lumber Barons have always
stated that they are opposed to
unions as they do not want the
closed shop. They are in favor of
the open shop; the right of a man
to join a union or not as he himself
wishes. Take a look at the upper
right hand corner 1t says 81 will
join Al These men when they
hired out had to promise that they
would join the AIS in order to get
the job. Does this look like the
open shop? These men to secure a
job had to promise to join the Al.
What do you real Americans think
ofan organization that forces man
to join the AL or starve? Even at
that, and as much as the men need
ed tho work, when they found the
true situation, they refused to act
as strike-breakers. The AL may
claim that they didn't know the
true situation or they would not
have shipped the men there. This
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28
TRADES
''CALL DOWN" P.-L.

The printing trades employed by
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer made
the following vigorous protest
against the outrageously libelous
and seditious editorial in the Busi-
ness Chronicle, reprinted in the P.-I.
as full page advertisement. which
excluded that paper from the mails.
The Seattle Union Record of the
Goth gives the news-read it:
Declaring they must find means
to protect themselves from the
stigma of having aided or abetted
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in
what they declare it's Campaign of
destruction" and shameless disre-
gard of the laws of the land,
workers in all mechanical depart
ments of that newspaper stopped
their work Tuesday, Nov. IS, at II
p. M, held joint chapel" meet
ing and unanimously adopted the
following resolutions and declara-
tions:
CAS- members OF the several trades
unions employed in the production
of your newspaper. the Seattle Post
IntelIigencer, we make the follow
ing representations:
1--WE have been patient under
Misrepresentation. faithful in the
face of slander, long suffering un-
der insult; we have upheld our
and produced your pa
per, even though in so doing we
were braiding the rope with which
you propose to hang us; day after
day we have put in type, stereo-
typed, printed and mailed calmny
after calumny, lie after lie, insult
after insult.
Little by little, as our patience
seemed to be unbounded, your edi-
torial and business policy has en-
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28

excuse will not carry very Iar, as
the following day five more men
were shipped to Stanwood from the
same Loyal Legion office. Also the
day the AZ men were shipped in the
great and only O'Malley was present
at the depot, but he didn't have a
word to say. Possibly if the Port
land office had written an article
for him he might have read it to all
of us, as he did at the Timberwork-
er VS.. AIS debate,
Take a look at the slip and note
that a condition of employment
was that there is no labor trouble
at Stanwood, Labor trouble, if any,
none. What do you think of
that? No labor trouble? No, not
very much. Men were out on strike
merely to secure justice for an ex-
service man. For a man who had
served % months in the L. S. Army,
is months of this time in France.
Then because he took a holiday with
the rest of the crew he was dis
charged. Some organization that
will hire men to break strike of
this kind.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28
SABOTAGE USED
TO D|SCREDIT
GOVT OWNERSHIP
Systematic Efforts to Preiu-
dice Public Mind Against
Government Operation of
Railroads.

Legislators scott when they are
urged to investigate allegations
that a systematic effort has been
made during the past two years to
discredit so-Called government own
ership of railroads and prejudice the
American public against any plan
of railway reorganization short of
the return OF the transportation
system to Wall Street.
Hundreds of thousands of railway
workers. in all sections of the coun-
try, who have been daily witnesses
of and frequently unwilling partici-
pants in a nationwide conspiracy
of sabotage, can recite circumstan-
tial stories of willful and wanton de-
struction of property and an orgy
of waste and mismanagement that
might influence even obdurate Con-
gressmen, could they be induced to
give attentive ear.
1t would require volumes to give
in detail the devious devices that
have been employed to increase op-
Grating costs. They range from de-
liberate padding of payrolls by the
creation of unnecessary official po-
sitions to the reckless destruction of
property.
Workmen employed in the Omaha
shops of the Union Pacific Railway
are cognizant OF what has been
transpiring during the reign of sa-
botage.
For more than two months the
steel workers employed there have
been unable to secure short rivets
from the sub-storehouses, of which
there are three, Notwithstanding
the general storehouse has ample
supplies. They are compelled to
take rivets five to eight inches long
and cut them off to two, two and a
half, and three inches in length, and
the unusued portion goes into the
scrap pile.
This same situation prevails as
respects other supplies. Because of
the inability of the workers to Sc
cure standard size timber bolts. they
are compelled to cut off several
inches, and the value of the mate
rial thus wasted equals the wages of /
eight or ten men every day.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28
IS INVOLUNTARY
SERWTUDE TO Be
FORCED UPON US?

An Associated Press dispatch dat
ed last Wednesday, Nov. 26, is the
latest sensation printed in the even
ing papers throughout the country.
The dispatch says:
Scores of coal miners who de-
clined to return to work were
rounded up by United States SOL
diers in Carneyville, Wyo., today
and placed on interurban cars for
removal to the county Jail in Sheri-
dan. All other miners in the town
were ordered by Major Warren
Dean. military commander in Nor
thern Wyoming, to return to work
this afternoon.
Accompanied by Sheriff Dolph
Thomas and four deputies, Major
Dean, with one machine gun plat
oon, one automatic rifle platoon,
and a platoon of riflemen. reached
Carneyville shortly before noon.
After taking 50 men at Carney
vile. Major Dean and his troops
went to Monarch, where miners
were told either to return to work
or submit to arrest. The miners
voted unanimously to work. The
troops Immediately left. At Car
NEVILLE United States Marshal Ed
ward Sevay authorized the arrests"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-11-28

Although the several combina-
tions OF capital have been aiming at
such a condition they intend to
force upon the workers of this
country, as evidenced by the anti
strike bills before Congress, notably
the Cummins and Esch bills, few
men thought they would so soon
force men to work under conditions
worse than chattel slavery. It is
unbelievable that any officer of the
army had the temerity to use the
men in his command for such
and in open violation of the
Constitution of the United States.
Many people in Europe look upon
Us as barbarians. Are we to prove
that their estimate of us is right?