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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
ACADEMY
FOOTBALL
SCHEDULE
Opening Game On Saturday
With Spaulding Seminary
at Barre

At last the foot ball schedule has
been decided upon and to tell it
straight, the boys are out for blood.
A meeting was called of all the Foot
Ball men in school, Tuesday night
after school in Chapel, and much to
the surprise of all it was announced
that Captain Max Gilfillan, former
student, and Foot Ball star of the
Academy, had generously offered to
assist Mr.. Craig in whipping the ma
terial into shape for the first game of
the season with Spaulding Seminary
lat Barre.
Max said that in all his Foot Ball
experience at the Academy he had
never seen such promising squad on
the field. He dwelt further on the
qualities centered in the good athlete
brains, speed, weight and above all
quits or in milder terms nerve. He
went on the supposition that the
brains had already been acquired, the
speed could be acquired, the weight
was acquired and if the nerve hadn't
already been, it would be before the
season was over. And as in former
years there was such Il thing as the
championship. But we are getting
ahead of our story.
Well, to make everything seem
real, about thirty reported to the
Campus and participated in the snap
piest practice of the year.
The teams as lined up tonight were
as follows: First team, Warden at
quarterback, was strongly -supportei l..
Lanpher and May at halfback and
Ashton at full. On the line Osgood
at center, Lyster and Barrett, guards;
Maurice and Daniels at tackle and
Bowen and Shores at end. Opposing
them were: Noyle, Harvey, Hamilton,
Pierce, Faye, Bailey, and Brown on
the line and Silsby, Hunter, Daniels
and Gilfllan in the backfield. @
Manager Warden reports the foxa
lowing schedule for the season.
October A, Spaulding Seminary at
Barre.
October II, Montpelier Seminary at
Montpelier.
October 1S, Spaulding Seminary at
st. Johnsbury.
October 25, Littleton at st. Johns
bury.
November 1, Lyndon Institute at
Lyndonville.
November 8, Lyndon Institute at
st. Johnsbury.
November Is, Littleton at Littleton.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01

Cincinnati hotels groaned today un-
der the weight of baseball enthusiasm.
They were the cauldron' in which dia-
mond discussion from the four cor
ners of the country seethed.
Both Manager Gleason of the
White Sox and Manager Moran of the
Reds gave voice to their confidence
that their teams would be returned
not only winners of the first game,
but of the entire series, and each paid
compliments to the other by stating
that they knew that, they had fight
on their hands.
Pres. Herman of the Cincinnati
club, when asked for prediction of
the series, smiled and said:
81 have been busy trying to keep
some 10000 fans from being sore be-
cause they can't be placed where
there is only room for about $4,000.
l will tell you better after the series
is over"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01

are: c. H. Bryan, owner and opera
tor of the automobile, and John May,
both of Coaticook, Que, and DIR.
Pierre Guertin and Andrew Beaulieu
of North Stratford, N. H. Several
gallons of whiskey were confscated.
At a hearing before U. S. Commits
sioner Walter H .Cleary at Newport
Tuesday afternoon, the two New
Hampshire men were held in $500 bail
and the Canadians were released after
they proved they were not accom-
plices in the smuggling of liquor. The
car was confscated by the govern
ment, however.
Flanders and Belknap arrested OS-
car A. Dupont and A. Nedeau of Ber-
lin, N H., and seized many gallons
of liquor last Friday. The men are
out under $1,000 bail.
Mr.. Flanders was % years old and
unmarried. He had been here only
few months and had been with the
Vermont Hardware Company of
Burlington before coming to this viii
lage. He was good athlete and was
the catcher on the Island Pond team.
He is a Fletcher boysand leaves two
brothers, Edward G. Flanders, a
farmer, and deputy sheriff, and Her
bert r. Flanders.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
SENTENCED FOR
STEALING AUTO

MONTPELIER, Oct. Fired and
Robert Sweeney in Montpelier City
court were sentenced to states
prison for minimum of two
wears and maximum of three
years for burglary and fined $125
each for larceny. These penalties
were suspended and the young men
placed on probation. They plead
guilty to the charges. Their arrest
occurred in Providence, r. l., week
ago They are the young men who
stole the automobile of w. d. Walk
Ell of this city.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
CEREMONIAL

Charles (. Grossarth of Burlington,
Potentate of Mt. Sinai Temple, A. A.
o. N. M. S., has called ceremonial
sessionBat Montpelier, Friday, Oct. 3.
The business session is scheduled for
5 O'clock the banquet at $50, the
band concert and patrol drill at 7.30
and the ceremonial at 8 O'Clock.
Fifty candidates are wanted for the
ceremonial. A number of st. Johns
bury Shriners are planning to attend.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
(Bv Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Oct. denying
that the United States Steel corpora
ton had mistreated it's men, as charg-
ed by union leaders, Chairman Gary
told the Senate committee investigat-
ing the steel strike that in his opinion
there was no basic industry which
paid higher wages than the United
States Steel Company.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
HUNG HIMSELF
IN BLAIR'S
BARN AT BEEBE
David Smith Committed
Suicide Tuesday
Afternoon

NEWPORT, Oct. David
Smith, resident of Bcebe across the
Vermont line, committed suicide at
3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon by hang
ing himself in Allie Blair's barn. MI.
Smith used step ladder to throw a
rope over the rafters of the barn and
then kicked the step ladder and died
when the rope frightened. The body
was found soon after the tragedy
and death undoubtedly occurred as
soon as the deed was done.
Mr.. Smith was 83 years old and
had made his home for many years
with Allie Blair at Beebe, P. @.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
Ralph B. Flanders Is Found Dead
At His Home At
Island Pond

ISLAND POND, Oct 1-As result of his efficiency
in rounding up the smuggers that have crossed the line
Ralph B. Flanders dead having been shot through the
heart with his revolver. The report that he was
murdered practically unwarranted, and it is be-
ieved that death accidental. His death occurred
Tuesday morning shortly after he had returned to his
party of four men in an automobile which contained
traband WhiSkev.>
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
j. s. CUSTOMS INSPECTOR ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
LATE NEWS BULLETIN
(By Associated Press)

FIUME, Italy, Oct. Normal
conditions have been restored at Spa
late where street fighting has occur
red between Italians and Croatians.
The feeling between the two races is
bitter however. D'Anunzio's army in
this city now numbers $4,000 officers
and men according to information
from official sources. There are con-
slant additions to this force from de-
serters who have left their. units
along the armistice line.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
(By Associated Press)

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1-Witl
shipyard workers on a strike at Ia
coma and ordes for a walk-out eff
fective at all other important build
ing centers on the Pacific coast, the
union officials have expressed the
opinion that the government action
in Washington Tuesday had come too
late to prevent at least a temporary
'tie-up of all the yards working on
government ships.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 1-(By
wireless on board the George Wash
ington) )-The George Washington at
8 o'clock this morning was 200 miles
east off Sandy Hook and has on
board the King and Queen of Bel
gium. 1t is expected that the vessel
will dock Thursday morning.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-01
(By Associated Press(

LONDON Oct While the dele
gates of the transport federation
were assembling to decide whether
100000 workers they represented
should go out in sympathy with
striking railroad men, the govern
announced a continued improvement
ment's official report on the situation
in actual conditions.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
AGREEMENT AT PORT ARTHUR
AmlcabIe Wage Arrangement Made There May Be of Far-Reaching Im-
 portance at Other Points.

An agreement carrying the highest rate of pay of any signed contract south of the Mason and Dixon line has been entered into by shops doing ma- rine work in Port Arthur, Tex, and members of International Association of Machinists, Port Arthur Local, No. 823, according to an announcement made by Charles H. Poe of Houston, or ganizeraef International Association of Machinists
 According to MT. Poe the agreement took effect March 1, and will remain in force one year. The stipulations, MT. Poe said, call for an eight-hour day, with double pay for overtime. The terms of the agreement, MT. Poe said, provide for 871a cents an hour for jour- neymen and 621z cents for specialists. MT. Poe said the right was included in the agreement to submit questions of grievances to a committee of en- ployees. He said no discrimination would be practiced toward union mem bers, according to the agreement.
 MT. Poe said the Port Arthur award would have no effect at present on the situation in Houston. Results of great importance, he said, might grow out of the liberal policy adopted by the Port Arthur shops.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
PREDICTS SHORTAGE
 OF LABOR IN U. s.
Fear That Prices Are to Recede Rapidly Is Cause of Hesitancy
 Among Large Business Men.

New York, April Predicting that there would be a shortage of labor throughout the country as business ac- tivity becomes fully renewed, J. Harry Tregoe, secretary-treasurer of the Ma tional Association of Credit Men, said he had called upon the 2800OO commer- cia1 houses that are members of the organization to do everything possible to accelerate a return to normal con- ditions.
 MT. Tregoe said that the council on credit defense of the association, which is composed of representative financial leaders in various sections of the coun- try, feels that despite reports to the contrary there is no overplus of labor and that there should be no fear of such if labor is properly distributed.
 The council on credit defense is agreed that one main cause of the hesi- tancy that characterizes business today is the fear that prices are to reCede sharply" said MT. Tregoe. We feel that we are not to witness a great de- cline in prices, for high prices accom- pany and largely find their reason i'll the increase of the purchasing medium and low prices follow through the defa- ton of the purchasing medium. Now, the purchasing medium is likely to con- t1nue high for some time to come, and therefore sharp recessions are most un- likely"
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
GERMAN GAS MASK.
Sent by Private Cucurello, Who
 Is In Italy.

Luigi MartorilIi, the barber at l74 York street, may be able to run mu- scum in time in addition to tonsorial parlor if his brother-in-1aw continues to send him curios from the batt1efelds. As previously reported in The Connec- t:cut Labor Press, James M. Cucurello is connected with the Fourth Heavy Artillery Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, A. E. F., and he has been in the army for seven months. Until recently he was on the French border salvagIng war material and a short time ago he sent MT. Martorili German helmet. Be fore he left France for Italy he sent an additional collection and it IS now on view 1n the show window of the barber shop on York street.
 The principal exhibit is German gas mask, the kind that looks like the head protectors of the deep sea divers. It is made of leather, with fur trimmings, with ctntainer for compressed air. There is also a German shelf, Cne- pounder, and few other small articles. The soldier $ now in Italy but he does not write what he is doing there so Mr. Martori1I expects some Austrian or or Turkish war trophies i'll the next mail as 1t is supposed the pri- vate $ doing salvage work On the ltal- ian battlefe1ds.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
NOT LIKE OTHER ENEMIES,
Bolshevism Must Be Met With Something Besides Barbed Wire.
(From Le Temps of Paris. )

The Russian patriots, of course, and also the patriots of all the nations which encircle Russia; above all others the patriots of Poland. The peril is greatest i'll Poland; it is there that the Allies can produce the maximum result with the minimum. effort.
 The peril is pressing one. One of the first messages signed by Brock dorff- -Rantzau (Foreign Minister of the German revolutionary gOvernment) was sent to Warsaw. The secretary explains that the Ukrainians are interfering with the retreat of the German troops and that troops are no longer under the con- trol of their officers. TheR, these pre- texts enumerated, he goes to the kernel of the matter. The German govern ment,' he writes to the Polish authori- ties, "begs you to consent immediately to the crossing of the Polish territory by German troops, and to aid their jour ney i'll every possible manner. Should the contrary come to pass, this govern ment cannot prevent hundreds of thous ands of German soldiers opening for themselves a way home into Germany through Poland" While this threat ap- peared i'll the southeast of Poland, the Bolsheviki have announced that Soviet has been formed at Wilma and that the assembly decided to address greeting to the central executive com mittee of the Soviets of Russia, to the Red army, to the commissioners coun- Gil and to the Congress of German Soviets. But this even is not the whole story, German troops which have not been demobilized are concentrating (ac- cording to ven Hindenburg's directions) round Posen.
 The armistice was signed on the 11th of November. What of the status of Dantzig? Polish troops are military instrument ready for the hands of the Allies; Poard is a base for the political policy of the Allies why are we waiting?
 The more the Allies delay in occupy ing eastern Europe, the costlier will be the solution of eastern problems There was a time when the Russian question could have been solved with 10000 men. If we allow all OUT various units of force in the East to perish, what will be the cost of recognizing Russia? And if Russia is not re-organ- ized what will peace be worth?
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
HIGHER WACES;
 SEYMOUR DAY
United Mine Workers of America Present Their Demands in
 Concrete Form.
HAVE FULL OFFICIAL BACKING
Whole Power of the Order Will Be Used to Enforce Changes @onsid- cred Commensurate With the
 Times-Other Labor News.

Demands for a six-hour work day, five days week, a substantial increase on all existing tonnage, day work, yardage, dead work prices and govern ment ownership of mines are made by the United Mine Workers of America, Immediately following the signing of peace. Principles around which these demands are based were adopted by the policy committee of the mine workers in session at Indianapolis upon the recommendation of President Frank J. Hayes, who declared the shorter work day and five days a week was offered as a solution to the unem- ployment problem and other existing situations.
 All recommendations were cOncurred in by the subcommittee of the general policy committee in it's report to the full committee. The committee recon mended that the full power and infiu- ence of the United Mine Workers be used to attain the end of the six-hour day and tive-day week.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19

If the man behind the mahogany doesn't display the button of the Bar tenders union play safe-patronize the fellow who shows his co1ors.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
PROMINENT MEN TO
 ADDRESS MEETING
Needle Trades Unions in New York to Have Big Meeting to
 Fight Bolshevism and I. w. W.

New York, April IA mass meeting of American labor men will be held in this city April 19 to make plain that Bo1shevism ard kindred red eyed theories have no part in the program of trade uniOniSm.
 Although the place at which the meeting is to be held has not yet been selected plans are we'll under way to make the meeting a vigorous expression of the Americanism of the labor move ment. The mass meeting is being ar ranged particularly by American lead CTS of the New York needle trades unions, which are affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Meas the unions those members who advo- cate syndicalism or favor the overthrow of the present government. The l. w. w. workme1l's councils will come in for unfavorable discussion also.
 Such men as Theodore Roosevelt, jr., United States Senators Calder and Wadsworth, Samuel Gompers, Hugh Frayne and Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor: Frank lin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior ; Wilson, Secretary of Labor; Major Gen. John F. O'Ryan, Brig.-Gen. Corne- Illus Vanderbilt, Col. William Hayward and Dr. George w. Kirchway, Federal Director of employment in New York some of these will speak.
 Those arranging the meeting are John F. Pierce, formerly vice-president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Isadore Epstein, financial secre- tary of the American Benevolent Asso- ciation; Samuel Martin and Jesse s. Greenberger.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
DIRECT SETTLEMENT
 IN CONVERSATIONS
New York Report Shows How This Law Works to Disadvant-
 age of Workers There.

A preliminary report scoring in strong terms the operation of the amendment permitting direct settle ments between employees and employers under the workmen's compensation law has been filed with Governor Smith of New York. Several cases were cited ln which the investigator found that 1n- justice was done to the employee as result of effecting a direct settlement for injuries received In each case ad- ditional compensation was awarded by the commission on a rehearlng. The commissioner reports that the conditions are SO shocking as to require immediate remedial legislation. Of 1000 cases where direct settlements were effected during last October, 349 cases in which the injuries were serious were selected for further examination. The commits sioner says: More than one-ha1f of the cases proved to be underpald III sums ranging from small amounts to 5000. Some of the conditions dis closed are almost unbelievable" Here is one case cited:
 Joseph Martin of 29o East 148th street (claim No. 3OO8O8) was struck by a train on August 31, 1918, while in the employ of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, receiving severe 1n- juries to his right arm and a possible fracture of his skull. The Interborough paid him $9432 under direct settlement. Subsequently it gave him $48 as so called charity The commission at the rehear- ing last week awarded him additional compensation in the sum of $1,1OO."
 D After citing several other cases in which the commissioner alleges injus- tice was done to the claimant the re- port continues:
 "Of the 1000 cases which I ex- amined by October, 1918, attending physicians reports were missing in 7l4 and most of those filed were misleading as to the character of the injury.
 "I have no hesitation in reporting that the amendment to the compensa- ton law authorizing direct settlements is a total failure. In the, great ma jority of cases it is an absolute i'm possibility for the commission to deter mine whether the report of the agree ment is in accordance with the provis- ions of the act"
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

About 10000 Greeks are employed in the New England textile mills.
 Agrarian strikes are spreading in az ricultural districts of Argentina, Buenos Aires.
 Labor unions in the United States have a total membership of over B. OOO,OOO
 Public school teachers in Camden, N. J., have been granted 20 per cent in- crease in pay.
 Agricultural workers in the north ern counties of England are agitating for a 47-hour week.
 Teamsters, chauffeurs, retail clerks and textile workers in Long Beach, Cal, have organized.
 Fire fighters in Macon, Ga., have formed a union with the idea of hav- ing their wages increased.
 An unconditional increase of $50 a year in salary has been given teachers at Decatur, H., with further increase later.
 Argentine newspaper men have formed a union. They will apply for membership in the Graphic Arts fed eration, which is directing strikes or printers in several cities.
 Employers of machinists at Madison, Wis, have been ordered to establish the eight-hour day in all plants with a minimum wage of 40 cents per hour for men and 35 cents an hour for women.
 w. F. Parkin of Lindsay, Can, in three years, in spare hours, and es- pecially in the evening, made by hand 175,5OO shell box handles, double spliced each way, out of one-half-inch tarred manila.
 As an example of the flow of labor between this country and India, it may be stated that in the five years 1913 to 1917, there were imported into this country 343,118 Indian laborers with free passages, while 97,246 others, comprising traders, merchants, etc., came at their own expense.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
TELEPHONE OPERATORS
 READY TO STRIKE

From Washington comes word that the organized telephone operators have voted to strike i'll protest against the administration of DirectC r-G neral Bur eson Returns from the srrikc vote oho"td an overwhelming ma1crlty Jn favor of the strike.
 The date the strike will be fixed by the executive board of the Interna- tional Brotherhood, which meantime is taking referendum as to the amount of per capita tax to be levied upon its 35,0OO members to support the strike It IS expected that fund of more than $6OO,OOO will be raised immediately.
 Trouble in the wire administration the government took control, according to Mr. Purcell, because of Mir. Burle- sons attitude toward the organized em- p1oyees. In spite of President Wilson's s proclamation recognizing the right of all workers to organize and to bargain col lectively, MT. Burleson has denied the telephone workers that right hy refus- in meet their committees, and in some instances where the telephone corrl- panies themselves were willing to deal with the union, MT. Burleson has pre- vented their doing so. This kind of thing happened in Boston, it is stated. In St. Paul, he locked out 1,200 union empoyees who had reached an agree ment with the company Repeated in stances are cited wEere telephone oper- atu:s have been dismissed because they joined the union, and a delegation from Buffalo, went to Washington for con- sultat1on with the international officers of the Brotherhood with reference to their discharge on this ground On the Pacific Coast where an agreement was reached in 1917 through the Presidents Mediation Commission, guaranteeing to either party the right to reopen the negotiations before its expiration this right has been denied by Mr. Burleson.