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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department Of the interior, U. 8.
land office at Blackfoot, Idaho. Nov.
8, 1919. ~
Notice is hereby given that
Stephen N. Bennett, Of Shelley, Ida,
who on June /, 1915 made home
stead entry serial No. 024378
for lot 1, Ell NWA, WY
NEA, VIZ SEX, NEA SEX, sec
ton 10, township 4 south,
range IL east, Boise meridian,
has fled notice Of intention to make
three-year proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
register and receiver, U. s. land Of
five, at Blackfoot, Idaho, on the
seventeenth day Of December, 1919.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Joseph Beasley of Idaho Falls, Idaho,
Evan Peterson of Shelley, Ida, Fred
Monk of Shelley, Idaho, B. B. Rey-
nolds of Henry, Idaho.
J. T. CARRUTH,
adv. 1851 Register.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS
NOVEMBER IT, 1919
SIT ATE on IDAHO


County of Bingham, IS:
The board Of county commissioners
Of Bingham county assembled at their
office on this day in regular adjourned
November g., the chairman, R. G.. Bills,
M. A. Fugate and James Christensen
members, and Ruth F. billiard, deputy
auditor, being present, when the fol-
lowing matters came on for considera-
In the Matter Of Accepting Sealed Bids
for the Construction Of a Warehouse
Mt BlackfOOt, Idaho.
In the above entitled matter, due and
proper notice having heretofore been
that the board of county commission
ers of Bingham county, Idaho, to ac-
cept sealed bids for the construction
of warehouse at Blackfoot,- Idaho.
having arrived, the board at this time
indicated their desire to open and con-
Ehereupon, the following BIDS were
filed with the clerk Of said board:
James A. Cameron, $12,422.00, with
duly certified check attached in the
sum of $621.0O.
Pelky Brother Construction Co., $12,-
$500, with a check attached not duly
certified.
Thereupon the board took the mat
ter under advisement and will render
a decision as to their determination
In connection with this matter at ten
o'clock on November IS, 1919.
In the Matter Of Giving Due and
Proper Notice of Accepting Sealed
Bids for the Construction of n Ware
house for Bingham County Mt Aber-
deem, Idaho.
In the above entitled matter, it is
hereby ordered that due and proper
notice be given of the intention of the
board Of county commissioners of
Bingham county to accept sealed bids
for the construction of warehouse
at Aberdeen, Idaho, upon the lots
heretofore purchased by Bingham
county. The conditions Of this notice
to be that certified check in the
sum Of 5 per cent of the amount bid
will be attached to each bid and that
the commissioners reserve the right to
reject any and all bids.
In the Matter of Allowing Claims
Against the bonded Roads Account.
In the above entitled matter, the fol-
lowing claims against the bonded
roads fund Of Bingham county having
been filed subsequent to the meeting
Of the board on November Sd, 1919, the
same were this day examined, audited
and approved: ~
/. Claims beginning No. 1871 and clos
Ing No. 1858, paid by warrants begin
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Notice is hereby given that at 10
A. M, on the 9th day of January,
1920, at Blackfoot, County of Bing-
ham, State of Idaho, before Lorenzo
R. Thomas, Notary Public, proof will
be submitted Of the completion of
works for the diversion of 9.6 cubic
feet per second of the waters of Mud
Lake, in accordance with the terms
and conditions of certain permit
heretofore issued by the State Engi-
neer of the State of Idaho.
l.. The name of the person or cor
poration holding said permit is Rose
l.. Hyde and George E. Hyde.
2. The postoffice address of such
person or principal place of business
of such corporation is Provo, County
of Utah, State of Utah.
8. The number of such Permit is
1882, and the date set for the COM
pletion of such work is
4. Said water is to be used for
irrigation purposes.
5. Said works of diversion will be
fully completed on the date set for
such completion, and the amount of
water which said works are capable
of conducting to the place of intend
ed use, in accordance with the plans
accompanying the application for
such permit, is 9.6 cubic feet per
second.
6. The amount of lands for which
said water is available is 480 acres,
particularly described as follows:
nv section 80, SEA section 20,
township north, range IS east,
B. M.
w. G. SWENDSEN,
Commissioner of Reclamation.
adv. 22-4f
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the interior, U. s.
land office at Blackfoot, Idaho,
November l, 1919.
Notice is hereby given that Van O.
Fullmer, of Pocatello, Idaho, who
on October IA, 1915, made home
stead entry, serial No. 022734, for
Sh NEA, SEX section 81; SWA
NWA, NWA SWA, section 80,
township south, range Al east,
Boise meridian, has filed notice Of
intention to make three-year proof,
to establish claim to the land above
described, before register and re-
ceiver, U. s. land office at Blackfoot,
Idaho, on the twelfth day of Deem
Der, 1919.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Alonzo S. Fullmer, Mrs. 8. E.
Roundy, Latham Alfred, Lawrence
M. Thomas all Of Blackfoot, Idaho.
J. T. CARRUTH,
adv. 1851 Register.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT

The Riverside Ditch Company. q
corporation, principal place Of bust.
ness. Blackfoot, Idaho:
Notice 10 hereby given, that ut 1
meeting Of the Board Of Directors
OF tho above named Company, held
on Saturday, the 4th day OF October,
1919, assessment No. rs, Of 800
per share was levied on the capital
stock Of this Company. which Ii now
due and payable to J. g. Bond, 1t
Blackfoot, Idaho. :
ANY stock on which this assess
ment remains unpaid On Monday, the
18th day OF December. 1919, will be
delinquent, and will be advertised
for sale according to law.
J. G. BOND, Secretary.
The Riversid Ditch Company.
Dated Nov. IL. 1919. ,.adv.-18-5t
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT

The Parsons Ditch company, a cor
poration, principal place of business
Blackfoot. Idaho:
Notice is hereby given, that at
meeting of the board Of directors of
the above named company, held on
Wednesday, the twelfth day of No
vember, 1919, Riverside, Idaho, an
assessment of so cents per share was
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-12

levied on the. capital stock .of this
company. which ID now due and pay
able to Mrs. LaRocQus ct Blackfoot.
r. 2, Idaho. -. sls
Any stock ON which this a8se0s-
ment remains unpaid ON the fifteenth
day Of December. 1919. will be de-
linquent, and will be advertised for
sale according to law.
MARTHA LaROCQUE.
~ Secretary.
I. The Parsons Ditch company.
Dated November 13, 1919. .
1852 adv. 1851
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
Present Laws Inadequate

The report says. "The history of
the packers growth is interviewer
with illegal combinations, rebates,
and with undisclosed control of
corporations" and urges the i'm
portance of full publicity of corpor-
ate ownership for all industries. 1t
admits, AS to devices for such
control, there does not exist ade-
quate law. In its absence unfair
competition may run its course to
the goal Of monopoly and accom-
plish the ruin of competitors with
out the secret ownership being sus-
pected and consequently without
complaint to the Commission or in
vestigation of facts. The compel
itor is in jeopardy so long as he
has not the knowledge of true own
ership and the public is entitled TO
such knowledge.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
THE ONE BIG UNION

The referendum on the o. B. U.
is being sent out to the different
Unions of the State by the State
Federation of Labor, and it is high
ly important at this time that both
sides of the question be given full
consideration before any action is
taken. There is no question that
will affect the life of our labor
movement as much as this one, and
for that reason it is not only i'm
portant but highly necessary that
every member of organized labor
vote on the question.
The forces behind the o. B. u.
have very Systematically presented
their side of the question, and have
seemingly been able to secure un-
limited publicity, while the oppo-
sition to it has hardly been heard
from. The following letter from a
former official of the United Mine
Workers of Canada, and a former
proponent of the o. B. u, is there
fore exceedingly interesting
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
PROF|TEER|NC
YET CONTINUES
The July Typographical Journal

The July Typographical Journal
says:
What most of us have main
| tanned all along, that the chief
cause of industrial unrest is the
immense profits eXacted by those in
position to monopolize or corner"
the necessities of life, is borne out
in a recent statement made by Basil
M. Manly, joint chairman with for
mer President Taft, of the National
War Labor Board. Mr.. Manly made
a study of the earnings of eighty
two representative American cor
porations, a record of whose prof
it's is available, for each year from
1911 through 1918. This is a list
of all the corporations whose earn
ings covering this entire period
were available to Mr.. Manly. A
compilation of those figures shows
that the same eighty-two corpora
tions which, in pre-war years, had
an average net income of 1926, ,000,-
900, had net incomes in 1916
amounting to more than a billion
dollars, in 1917 to $975,OO0, 900,
and in 1918 of 1886, 100000. This
is after the deduction of every dol
lar of State and Federal taxes and
the deduction of every conceivable
charge which these companies could
devise for reducing and concealing
their apparent profits.
Manly is convinced, as a result OF
his study, that the actual profits,
even after the payment of taxes IN
1917 and 1918 were just as great
as in 1916, the difference being ac-
counted for by the fact that in 1917
and 1918 these corporations set up
all kinds of excessive reserves for
depreciation, amortization, ana
other unspecified and fanciful con-
tingencies for the purpose of evad-
ing taxation and concealing their
excessive earnings from the public
and the tax collector.
But even taking the figures as
they stand, we find that those
eighty-two corporations earned, net,
SO in 1916 and 1917 for every dol
lar which they earned in the pre-
war period and over 81 in 1918 for
every dollar earned in the pre-War
period. This is profiteering with
vengeance and the profiteers may
we'll tremble lest the people may
avenge themselves for this shame
lss exploitation during period OF
the nations greatest necessity.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
THE BE[L|NCHAM
T|MBERWORKERS

The Bellingham Timberworkers
have adopted new scale and there
is every reason to believe it will be
accepted by the employers. At their
meeting Saturday night they re-
ceived visiting delegation from
Anacortes, who gave an encourag-
ing report of the progress made
there.
The delegates reported that the
cement plant was fully organized
and the shop stewards on the job
and the men very we'll satisfied with
the attitude of the manager, Mr..
Crabbe, toward the union. One
other plant at Anacortes is fully or
ganized and the delegates had some
interesting tales to tell of the do
ings of the Four LIS. In addition
to the planst already organized, the
delegation reported letters being re-
ceived from the management of
other concerns suggesting organiza-
tion forthwith.
The Bellingham Journal has this
to say of the new wage scale:
The wage paid to the men in the
timber industry has long been
known to be inadequate. 1t has
been said that these men were the
worst paid of any class Of workers
in the country. We agree with the
statement, and it. is a well-known
fact that men working in the local
mills have always been the last to
get a raise and the very first to
suffer a cut when the opportunity
presented itself. Now there is
movement on foot to increase the
pay of these workers. We think it
is the duty of all organized workers
to get behind these men and help
them get just compensation for
their labor. At least they are en-
titled to a decent living wage,
which they never have been given
since the timber industry was
founded in this part of the country.
With the coming of the A. F. of
L., the workers were treated with
more respect, but the question of
wages has been a long time coming
to the front without any effect ex-
c ,pt in case of skilled workers, as the
shingleweavers, and filers, etc. The
main body of the workers was al
ways left out in the cold to get
along as best they could, with just
as little in the way of pay as the
boss could get away with. Now,
however, it is quite different. The
Timberworkers' Union is in the
field and is out to do business in a
business-like way.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
The Packers Long Reach

In other words, the Federal Trade
Commission makes it clear that
both producers and consumers are
in the dark and helpless since the
packers methods are hidden. We
have it on good authority that the
children of evil hate the light. This
striking picture of the packers
shows that the Big Five jointly or
separately WELD controlling inter
est in 574 companies, minority in
terest in Sc others and undeter-
mined interest in Ga total of 1872
companies-and that they produce
or deal in some 775 commodities,
largely food products" In addi-
tion TO meat foods, this report
shows that the packers produce or
deal in fresh meats and banjo
strings, leather and cotton seed oil,
and states:
They have interests large enough
to be a dominating influence in
most Of the services connected with
the production and distribution of
animal foods and their Sy-produets.
and are reaching out for control,
not only of substitutes of animal
food, but of substitutes for other
lines into which the integration of
their business has led them"
The Big Five are Interested in
banks from which their competitor
packing houses borrow money. in
companies supplying machinery,
ice, salt, materials, boxes, etc, to
themselves and their competitors;
they are the principal dealers on the
provisions exchanges, where future
prices in standard cured animal
products are determined. They
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25

attic job scale when it is signed up,
about the first of September. Are
negotiating a new newspaper scale.
The Streetcarmen called on in
vitation at the company's offices
and discussed their demanded raise
of 121ac per hour with the man
ager. The meeting was a regular
smoker. The question of the 12 12c
raise will await the settlement of
the Seattle scale.
The ongshoremen initiated four
teen applicants and deferred vote on
Federation referendums. The l. L.
A. membership will take a referen-
dunn vote on uniform scale for all
Puget Sound ports.
The Engineers had a pretty good
meeting with one initiation. They
ask housewives to demand the la
bel.
The Retail Clerks reported that
their agreements with the proprie-
tors were printed and they would
soon be signed up. They thanked
the Painters for assistance in or
ganization.
The Shingleweavers are progress
ing. The soc raise granted the
Timberworkers applies to all time
workers in the shingle mills.
The Millwrights had an excep-
tionally good meeting and installed
new officers.
A protest was made against the
appointment of Ina p. Williams as
a member of the Triple Alliance
Executive Committee as a repre-
sentative of the labor group. The
matter of Inas record will be aired
some.
A protest against the admission
of a Tribune reporter caused con-
siderable discussion. The reporter
was finally admitted. What caused
the objection to the admission of
reporters was the fact that on many
occasions the papers have printed
labor news incorrectly, sometimes
giving the opposite meaning to
what was intended. Some labor
men do not like to be asked for news
and find themselves misquoted
when they see the news in print.
After discussing several topics of
interest to labor, the Council ad
journed.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
COOKS AND WATERS
WENATCHEE UNION

Harry Wood, organizer for the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees
International Alliance, returned the
first of this week from Wenatchee,
where he organized Cooks and
Walters local. Harry says many
tradesmen in Wenatchee carry cards
from their locals in Tacoma, Seattle
and other towns.
The Cooks and Walters made a
good start and indications are for a
strong and permanent union of the
Culinary Trades in Wenatchee.
There are only two firms in the
town who failed to sign agreements,
namely, the Shishcoff Cafe and Paul
sons Cafe. Ere long these two may
see the error of their way.
Go at 'em, Harry. You can put
more of 'em in right.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
THRIFT STAMPS
TO STAY WITH US
PERMANENTLY

WASHINGTON, July 21.-Sale of
Thrift Stamps, which at 25 cents
each, provided $956,023,121 toward
financing the war, will be contin-
ued permanently by the Treasury,
Secretary Glass announced. lie in
formed the National Educational
Association, which recently recon-
mended that Government obliga-
tions be made available to small in
vestors in peace time by continuing
the sale of stamps, that the penny
saving issues would be a regular
part of the Governments financing
hereafter.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
BIG )" PACKERS
TO CONTROL FOOD

WASHINGTON, July 19.-In a
report to the President the Federal
Trade Commission gives warning
that the "big five packers are
headed toward the complete dom
ination of the nations food supply,
and of the by-products industries
linked Herewith. The big five
are Swift. Armour, Wilson, Morris
and Cudahy.
"An approaching packer domina-
ton of all important foods in this
country and an international con
troll of meat products with foreign
companies seems a certainty unless
fundamental action is taken to pre-
vent it," says the report, which de-
clares that the history of the pack
ers' grown is interviewer with il
legal combinations, rebates and un-
disclosed control of corporations.
The packers control jointly or sep
arately 1872 companies, which pro
duce or deal in some 775 commodi-
ties. These commodities not only
include food products, but range
from the leather industry to banjo
strings, curled hair, pepsin, ferti-
lizer, soap and glue.
A vast and intricate system of
distribution includes control of pri-
vate refrigerator cars and cold
storage houses that permits of the
handling on a large scale of poul-
try, eggs, cheese, butter, rice, break
fast foods, canned vegetables, soda
fountain supplies and other lines.
In some instances the packers are
interested in companies contracting
for the disposal of garbage in large
cities.
1t is shown that the packers have
control of or interest in public util-
tiles in public utilities corporations
in Sioux City, Kansas City, South
st. Paul, Chicago, Fort Worth,
Portland, Ore, Hill City, Mimi,
South St. Joseph, Mo, and South
San Francisco.
Control of grain and elevator
companies, tea-importing compan-
les, fruit companies, cattle loan
companies and stock yard compan-
les are other interests that attract
these packers.
The report offers no hope to
those who would boycott the pack
ers by using meat substitutes, as 1t
is shown that the packers are now
invading that field. Swift is the
largest single butter distributor in
the country and that corporation
owns creameries in II states. The
big five" jointly handle half OF the
country's poultry, eggs end cheese
and are entering the fish canning
field. Armour is declared to be the
greatest rice merchant in the
world"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
POSTAL CLERKS
ARE ORGANIZED

Postal employees of Everett met
in the Labor Temple Thursday aft
ernoon, the 18th, and organized un-
der the National Federation of Pos
tai Employees, a union affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor through the Everett Central
Labor Council. The officers in the
new organization are: President,
]. A. Snow; Vice-President, }. {.
O'Connor; Secretary-Tre G..
w. Hirsehorn. The local chapter has
received its charter from the a. f.
of l.. and will be represented at the
next regular Central Labor Council
meeting.
The new organization includes
only postal clerks, the carriers be-
ing already members of the A. r.
of l.. It's purpose, stated Presl-
dent Snow, looks to an increase OF
wages paid postal clerks, 1t being
asserted by Mr. Snow that present
wages are far lower than that of
clerks in private industry; the
adoption of the 44-hour week ana
the improvement of the postal
service.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
Mr.. Armour and Mr.. Brand

The Commission reports that Mr..
J. Ogden Armour is also promi-
nent factor in the American Inter-
national Corporation, with its ship-
ping and shipbuilding interests and
its minority stock in the United
Fruit Company. Farmers will re-
member that Mr.. Charles J. Brand.
who was director of the Bureau Of
Markets in the Department of Ag-
riculture, was extremely friendly to
the packers and was regarded by
them as well able to state their
point Of view. Mr.. Brand has re-
Gently resigned from the Depart-
ment Of Agriculture to take an inn
portant executive position with the
United Fruit Company, in whose
affairs Mr. J. Ogden Armour is a.
prominent factor.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
WAR WITH MEXICO
WOULD Be WRONG

NEW YORK, July 22.-Before
sailing for Europe, President Com
pers issued the following statement
relating to Mexico
"To my mind, it would be the
gravest wrong which could be in
flicted upon the people of the
United States as well as upon the
people of Mexico if the jingo spirit
which now seems to be in the course
of manufacture should drive us into
anything like a conflict with the
people of Mexico.
The President, with his asso-
ciates, has negotiated a treaty of
peace and in it is established the
Covenant for the League of Ma
tions. One of the highest purposes
is the settlement of international
disputes by peaceful means and we
cannot consistently advocate such
high principles in our dealing with
the European nations as provided
in the Covenant and then rush into
an armed conflict with Mexico.
There is not a rule of conduct
of man and of nations that can be
followed in all instances in pursu-
ing one course with a group of ma
tions or single nation and an op-
posite course with any other ma
tion.
THE American people have had
enough of war. We entered ii from
highest motives and with altruistic
purposes to attain international
peace and Justice; the overthrow of
autocracy and militarism. For that
struggle we made many sacrifices
and are proud of them as well as of
our achievements in the war just
and l am firmly persuaded
that we are not going to war with
Mexico, particularly in the interests
of the special interests"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-25
The Packers and Wall Street

"The big packer" states the res
port, has secured affiliation
through stock ownership. represen-
tation on directorates, and in other
ways, with numerous banks and
trust companies, Messrs. Armour,
Swift, Morris and Wilson are direc-
tors in banks affiliated closely with
those who are strong at the sources
of credit in the United States. Being
thus allied with the powerful inter-
ests at the sources of credit, the
packers power is great, not only
for financing their own national
and international operations, but
for affecting, for good or for i'll, the
credit of cattle producers and of
competitors or customers in any
line"
Not until the close Of 1917 did
Cudahy go into the tanning busi-
ness, but four others of the Big Five
produced in 1917, A per cent of the
country's total output of sheep and
lamb shoe stock; As per cent of
strap leather; 81 per cent of belt
ing; % per cent of sole leather, and
13 per cent of finished splits.