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The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-07

you cast them into prison. Their on
ly crime was that they were Jews.
"Think for moment, Br. Bratiano;
l, an officer in the Roumanian army
my other brothers at the front
and our aged father, a veteran of
1877, in prison! How great is our
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-07
Fourteen

n ClOSc TcIlucIlHSs
"Piatro, May 18th, 1918.
"An open letter to Mr.. Jonel Bra
tiano, former Senator of the district
of Suceava, and former premier:
81 address you as a Roumanian cit
izen, and as an elector of the first
class College of the Senate and of
the House of Deputies. Also, ad-
dress you in the name of all the Rou-
manian Jewish citizens of the Dis
trict of Suceava who voted for you
as Senator of the district. 1t is these
whom your administration has found
necessary and proper to arrest on the
base, odious and insulting accusa-
ton that they were suspected Of
treason. In this way you showed
your appreciation; in this way you
regarded those who had honored you
and placed their confidence in you.
"They are in prison. AS their rep
resentative, and also as the repre-
sentative of all who have suffered
thru you, wish to say few words
to you.
81 do not wish to discuss your poll
cies which have ruined our beautiful
land. / shall leave that to Mes
sieurs Sterea and others. They will
disclose to the country and to the
world your black deeds. wish only
to consider the question of the Jews,
citizens and non-citizens, whom you
have thrown into prison-in return
for their having committed the folly
of having believed in you, and of hav-
ing entrusted their interest to you.
"You ought indeed recall, Mr.. Bra
tiano, the great admiration which
the country had for you-that not a
single district wished to elect you to
the Senate.
"You have surely not forgotten
that when the district of Botosani
also defeated you at the elections,
and you again lost out there, you
came to our district, begged US to
elect you, and we, to our shame let
it be said, did elect you.
ayes, Mr.. Bratiano, we did elect
you. With great satisfaction and
pleasure you accepted the Jewish
votes-at that time, you did not sus-
pect US of treason. The war has
changed you. Indifferent, heartless,
and like a tyrant, you stood by and
looked on and saw how your project,
at the order of that canaille, S. Pan
aitescu, chief of the National Securi-
ty, without mercy, arrested all the
Jewish citizens of Suceava-the same
ones who voted for you and made you
their representative in the Senate.
"How could you witness that? Why
was it done? We're they suspected
persons? Did they threaten the secur-
ity of Roumania? Here a section
was deleted by the censorship.
"You made no answer to all the
kilograms which we sent you. You
cold-bloodedly rejected all our re-
quests. Even the tears Of our wom-
en-, who were left without protection,
did not move you. You arrested the
Jews Of Foltisheni-rich, poor, citi-
zens, non-citizens, your electors-and
it was Jews only whom you arrested
unfortunate persons, against whom
there was raised the suspicion of be-
ing spies.
Leon Pineles, a wealthy Jew Of
Foltisheni-arrested on the clumsy
pretext that he was a 'suspect'-un-
able to endure his horrible situation
and treatment any longer, hung him
self in prison.
"0ne man who did take up our
n
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Don't Be Blinded!

In the opinion of "The Review"
a new weekly recently launched in
New York, "the fervor and beauty
of the Presidents address should
blind no one to it's romantic falsity."
And the writer goes on to say:
"Few of the quiet soldier dead at
Surcsnes would know themselves as
crusaders and gospellers OF perpetual
peace. Not one of them but would have
resented the implication that the poilu
who was fighting Immediately, and the
Tommy who was fighting eventually,
for his freside, represented q lower
order of ideality than his own. Their
thoughts were his. He knew the Hun
to be very powerful and terribly cruel.
He sensed correctly the possibility of
German victory and the chance of
there happening on our soil what had
befallen Belgium and Northern France.
HIS was no disinterested war against
war, but plain war against Kaiser
Bill He wanted victory and was will
ing to die for it. Had the average
American fighter known surely that
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Trying Industrial Democracy

ployer, Of the workers right to a
voice in the determination of mat
ters which are Of vital interest to
him, which lends the additional dig
nifty to his position which self-gov-
ernment invariably carries with it.
industrial democracy or consti
tutionalism in Industry" he said,
"was first explained to the workers,
A broad and fundamental set of
rules were adopted which were to
guide management and workers.
The four cornerstones of this busi-
ness edifice were justice, coopcra-
ton, economy and energy. It's cap
stone was service. This policy, as
the supreme law Of the establish
ment, has never failed to suggest a
solution when troublesome oues-
tions arise"
In proof Of the systems practica-
bility Mr.. David pointed out that
last winter, when almost everv
other silk mill in Paterson was
closed as the result of strike, the
David mill was not affected, but
maintained full production and was
kept in continuous operation as bv
members Of one contented and har-
monious family.
Explaining the operation of the
plan Mr.. David said the cabinet
consists Of the executive officers of
the company chosen by directors of
the corporation. 1t has the power
OF veto and may initiate wegisla-
ton" as we'll as make suggestions
to the senate and house.
Neither the senate nor house is
obligated to adopt the cabinets s
recommendations and when they do
they have the power to amend them
The cabinet, therefore, instead of
issuing orders, is merely q part of
the democratic control of the whole
plant.
The senate" explained Mr..
David, "is composed Of the foreman
and department heads. 1t may in
itiate legislation which, before 60
ing to the cabinet for approval,
must be accepted by the house.
The house is elected by secret
poto OF all the workers 1rb the~mill.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Just what response has been
made to this appeal would be diff
cult to say. From Seattle the re-
port comes that the response has
been gratifying" Against this Is
the statement of those who are
opposed to the plan that very few
unions have approved of it. Color
is lent to this latter claim by the
fact that in advance of the conven-
ton the radical element is predict
ing that the "steam roller" as they
term the administration forces in
the convention, will run over them.
The labor party programme will
have the support of some who in
the past have always stood with Mr..
Gompers, who, as is we'll known,
has opposed the formation of
labor party on the ground that labor
gets most by being in a position to
trade with either party. Trade
unionists, as a rule, divide on politi-
cal lines as freely as they do on
matters of religion, and the shrewd-
est in the movement are Of the
opinion that they will continue to
vote as Democrats or Republicans
were there one or several labor
parties.
1t has also been the experience
in some cities where labor has gone
into politics as such that the politi-
cal movement had little or no per-
manent value, while the effect on
the unions was to cause dissension
and wreck.
The real weakness in the labor
party movement in so far. as the
federation is concerned is expected
to develop in a lack of interest IN
it on the part of the individual
trade unionist. So long as the
man in the ranks does not wish it,
it is not thought likely those above
will favor it.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Did Our Soldiers Fight for
One Flag or Many?

abroad to fight we're thinking primarily
Of their own country. They knew that
if Germany was victorious over her
European enemies she would soon or
late turn ner attention to this country.
Some of them were probably think
ing about humanity as a whole. In
either case, what they were bent upon
was the prevention of another war like
this one.
eve think, also, that the Presidents
minor premise is correct. The league
of nations may not be the only way of
making peace durable, but it is the
most practicable instrument yet de-
vised to that end. 1t is now the league
Of nations or nothing.
"1f his premises are correct his con-
clusion that the league must be formed
and that America must interpose no
objection to its formation is, of course,
sound"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
"A MANUFACTURERS an d
N union labor leaders all
a over the United States

union labor leaders all
over the United States
are said to be watching
with interest and sympathy the ex-
pertinent in industrial democracy
which is now being conducted in
five cities - Fort Wayne, Ind.
Shelton, Conn; Cleveland, Ohio;
Paterson, N. j., and Brooklyn, N.
Y.-and which, it is believed by
some Of them, will scotch, if it does
not prevent, Bolshevism in industrial
centres where it is put into effect.
The originator Of the plan, John
Leitch, an efficiency engineer,
started it among 800 employees of a
Fort Wayne piano factory. It's
basis was the Constitution Of the
United States. The factory was
administered by a senate, a house
OF representatives and a cabinet
corresponding to the aids and ad
visers of the President. It's success
is said to have been immediate and
permanent. Yale University, the
National Council of Defence and
the National Association Of Manu-
facturers are said to be a few of
the bodies that are investigating
the merits Of the plan.
B. Edmund David, head of a silk
manufacturing corporation in Pat
erson, N. j., who was instrumental
in introducing the system in his
factory in that city about a year
ago, expressed recently the keenest
satisfaction at the results attained
and said he hoped, Ultimately, to
establish similar working conditions
in four other of his mills in York
Reading, Scranton and Beavertown
Penn. The Paterson manufacturer.
however, said the new system
should not be considered "pana-
cea" or adaptable to all kinds and
sizes OF industrial establishments.
"1ts outstanding feature" said
Mr.. David, "is the unprudvinu
Ssc0Enthon< On Nhe>part OF tho en-.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

one representative for every twenty
workers. The house meets weekly
on company time. Much of the
legislative work is done by COM
mlttees appointed by the presidents
OF the senate and house.
There is review board to which
a discharged worker may appeal his
case and a board Of appeals giving
each worker an opportunity for the
redress of grievances, real or fan
cied, at the hands of department
head"
Every two weeks "dividend" is
paid to each worker who has scored
a certain number of points in eff
cheney, economy, punctuality and
regularity of work.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
r. HE Reds broke out again Mon
Z day night in a new attempt to
terrorize America. Bombs

day night in a new attempt to
terrorize America Bombs
were planted in eight cities,
and two men and one woman were
killed, but all Of the intended victims
escaped. The list of outrages follows:
Home Of Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, in Washington, badly dam
aged by explosion, which killed one
man, believed to have been a Red
who was planting the dynamite. Mr..
Palmer and family in home, but un-
injured.
Home Of Judge Charles c. Mott, ir., 151
East Sixty-frst Street, wrecked. One
man, identified as William Bochner.
private watchman, who evidently
tried to seize bomb, blown to pieces.
Bombs thrown from motor car in
Philadelphia into rectory of Church
of Our Lady Of Victory and home Of
Louis Jagielky, a jewellcr. Woman
injured
Six Pittsburgh homes wrecked by two
internal machines. One house dam
aged was that Of Federal Judge w. P.
Thompson.
Powerful bomb exploded on second floor
Of homo Of Judge Albert F. Hayden,
in Boston. Judge Hayden recently
sentenced more than one hundred
May Day rioters
In Newtonvillc, Mass, bomb placed
against side Of house Of Representa-
tive Leland w. PowcrA who recently
advocated anti-Rcd law in Massa-
(, chuset
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

the home Of Attorney General Palmer
in Washington had been learned.
The police of this city are searching
for two women who were seen sitting
on the steps of Judge Motifs home
just before the explosion.
Inspector Faurot, of the bomb squad,
connects the present outrages with
the May Day bomb plot 1t is his
theory that the conspirators, failing
in their attempts through the mails,
have resorted to more direct action.
The Senate adopted the Susan B. An
thony suffrage amendment by a vote
of 56 to 25. Before it becomes ef-
fective the amendment must now be
ratified by the legislatures Of thirty
six states. If this is to be done be-
fore 1921 special sessions of MANY
state legislatures will be required "a
the law making bodies of only few
of the states will meet next year.
The sutfragists say they will begin
campaign for extra sessions and i'm
mediate ratification.
Senator'S Lodge, of Massachusetts,. and
Borah, of Idaho, told the Senate that
complete copies of the peace treaty
are in the hands Of several New
York financiers. At least four COM
plcte copies of the treaty are said to
be in this country Senator Hitch
cock, of Nebraska, ranking Demo-
cratic member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, introduced a
resolution in the Senate providing
Tor an Investigation of how copies of
inc treaty were secured by private
,drtaravk~s
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Secondary importance

But, argues "The Baltimore Sum-"
what we think or what "any group
or combination of tay-at-homes"
thinks, is of secondary Importance.
The important question is: What
do the men who actually fought
think is, practically speaking, the
primary thing? "If," the writer
says, "they are unitedly for the
league of nations, then the Senate
of the United States will ratify the
covenant, no matter what individual
Senators may say or do
Are they? 1t will be hard to as
certain, yet this paper is sure that
"some way must be found" Per-
haps, it suggests, "the recently
formed legion may be utilized for
this purpose. If the fighting men
vote aye, the estimable gentlemen
who inhabit the Upper House at
Washington will likewise cast their
votes in the affirmative"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Five inquiries into war expenditures
are planned by the House of Repre-
sentatives. The inquiries will be
into expenditures for aviation, ord
nance, camps and cantonments,
quartcrmaster supplies and expen-
ditures in foreign countries.
The Supreme Court sustained the
right Of the government to fix rail-
road and telegraph and telephone
rates under the war powers conferred
by Congress.
Postmaster General Burleson orderod
the telegraph and telephone lines
returned to their owners Thursday
night, and five minutes after he
learned of the order S. j. Konen-
kamp, international president of the
Commercial Telcgraphers' Union.
ordered general strike Of teleg
raphers in Florida, Alabama.
Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro-
lima, Mississippi, West Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Louisiana.
Llghty-three men were killed and fifty
others manned and injured by the
explosion of seven kegs of black
powder in the Baltimore tunnel of
the Delaware and Hudson Coal Com
pany in Wilkes-Barre, Penn.
Frank A. Nanderlip resigned as presi-
dent of the National City Bank and
James A. Stillman was elected to sue
coed him.
Columbia University resumed the COM
mencement exercises omitted last
year. and 1925 degrees we're CON
ferred on students Of the institu
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
The Week at Home

In Paterson, home Of Max Gold, silk
manufacturer, dynamited.
In Cleveland home of Mayor Harry l..
Davis, who suppressed May Day riot,
wrecked by bomb explosion.
Thousands of Department of Justice
agents, the Federal Secret Service
and the police Of the country united
IN search for the anarchist con-
spirators. Nineteen arrests were
made on Tuesday in various cities.
among those arrested being John
Johnson, an official of the Pittsburgh
|. W. w. organization, from whom the
police gained information that led to
the belief that the bomb plot had
been hatched in New York in the
headquarters of the Russian Reds, at
1873 East Fifteenth Street.
It was said in Washington that Will
liam J. Flynn, who is directing the
investigation for the Department of
Justice, believed the Headquarters
of the conspirators to be in New
York and would make this city the
starting point of his search.
The Pittsburgh police also arrested
E. ]. McGurty, who is suspected Of
aiding IN the manufacture or placing
of the bombs in Pittsburgh. Detcc-
tives said McGurty proudly admitted
being member of the |. w. W.
Captain Philip J. Barry, head Of the
Department Of Justice agents in Chi
cngo, said he believed the plot had
been hatched in that city. Phila-
delphia reported that tho name of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Con,pers

On Gompers personally it Is not
expected that there will be any at
, tack. The radicals would like to
displace. him if they could. They
doubt the possibility of doing so.
Therefore, as in recent conventions,
they will centre their efforts in at
tempts 20 reject the things that
Gompers stands for and if possible
tie his hands by putting through
definite declarations for things not
favored by the majority represented
by Gompers and of whom Gompers is
the symbol.
Not all Of the fighting, however,
is likely to be made by the radical
element The so-called conservatives
plan to do little of it themselves.
Before they are through it is quite
possible that some legislation will
be enacted that will definitely fix
the position of those radicals who
without warrant or other symbol Of
authority of the federation have in
the past elected to speak for the
federation.
The principal scheme which the
radicals bring to the convention is
the so-called Seattle plan for reor-
ganizing the federation. Briefly, this
calls for the organization of the fed
GRAFTON on industrial rather than
trade lines, provides for the substi-
tuition of twelve large unions for
the one hundred and twenty that
now make up the federation and
is but one step removed from the
lone big union" idea of the ultra
radicals. Next to that is the plan
for an American labor party.
The Seattle programme is the
child of those who conducted the re-
cent general strike fasco in that city.
1t has been in the making for nearly
year, in which time an immense
amount of money has been spent for
propaganda purposes.
The plan is best outlined in the
circular letter sent to all of the
unions in the country three months
ago from the Central Labor Council
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Another Contest Between
Radicals and Gompers

the welfare Of other unionists e. j.
same plant! VIC
PROPOSITION NO. s: IN .,
favorable action upon Proposition "
! shall the plans worked on. in ~.
conference be submitted to our ny
bership for ratification together ~,
any further suggestion from tn. .os
ference calculated to facilitate .As =.
Grafton of the proposed plans. and :.
no way conflicting with them. Ava
further be it
"RESOLVED, That all local un;.,.
in this community, having the ah;st~
be requested to communicate with ~,
local unions of their own crafts. M.
ing favorable action upon these ro,s
lutions, sufficient copies of which vii,
be furnished by this council. .na
further be it
RESOLVED, That each Cent,.,
Labor Council within the Jurisdiction
of the American Federation of Jaho-
be earnestly requested to duplicate II =
action Of this council in its own v,c;,l
ity.
Respectfully submitted,
SEATTLE CENTRAL LABOR I
COUNCIL, !
tSeal) Secretary. +
Central labor councils can assfss
very materially in bringing about these
necessary improvements In our orran;.
zation by first indorsing them and
then urging (by means Of communities
tion or a committee) that all local
unions within their jurisdiction indorse
them and request their respective in
ternationals to submit the propositions
to referendum of the membership.
Local unions can assist by immedi.
ately taking whatever action their con-
stitutions provide to have their inter.
nationals submit the propositions to Z
referendum of their entire member.
ship.
'Internationals can assist by prompt
ly submitting these propositions to q
referendum when called upon to do 90,
and in every way possible facilitating
matters in order that an expression
from the rank and file may be secured
at the earliest possible date, and by
so doing they will merit the deep ap-
probation of the membership.
Additional copies of this leaflet may
be secured by addressing James A.
Duncan, secretary, Central Labor Coun-
ell, Labor Temple, Seattle, Washing
ton"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
The Real Weakness

Other projects which will have
the support of the radical element
will be the demand that nation
wide strike, or, rather, a series OF
strikes, be declared in July to force
the freedom of Thomas j. Mooney
and his pal, Warren Billings.
1t is likely also that the conven-
ton will be called upon to indorse
mo beer no work" resolution.
On the peace treaty it is expected
that a wide range of opinion will
develop. The position Of the fed
Grafton on this will be outlined IN
the report of the executive council,
which will include in its exhibits the
reports of the delegates sent to tie
international labor conference IN
Paris.
The programme calls for two
weeks session. In other years the
work of the convention was done
in the second week, the first beng
devoted in the main to entertain
ments of one sort or ano.herS with
the more important leaders, other
than those whose presence was abso-
lutely necessary, remaining away
the first week, only handful OF
delegates attending the early ses-
sions. Now all this is changed.
With the radicals alert to seize any
opportunity that may be opened
most Of the delegates will De IN
their seats at every session and the
consron&iax, sxxsll I.o .saol xroric.. 4
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Plainly absurd

"The Providence Journal" con-
sidering this address, thinks it
would be "plainly absurd" to sup
pose that the A. E. F. went into
battle "self-consecrated to the four
teenth point" This paper questions
the propriety, "as a matter Of good
TASTE" of making "this solemn hour
the occasion Of spexh boosting
the league of nations plan" But the
language is more forceful when the
subject of the league itself is taken
up. We read
''ls it not an insult to the intell!-
gcnce-is it not monstrous--to assert,
as Mr.. Wilson in effect does, that this
strange thing, the so-called covenant of
the league of nations, has been hal
lowed by the blood Of our soldiers ?"
"The Chicago Tribune" agrees.
IF Mr.. Wilson had ever served at
the front in war he would not have
said that our soldiers died for a
cause not strictly their own, but for
the cause of humanity and man
kind" 1t is not true, this paper
points out, that soldiers are less
altruistic than civilians. Indeed,
ir the constant presence Of death
they reach a spiritual development
that the civilians perhaps do not
attain. But
"to believe in humanity and to choke
to death in poison gas or to die of
agonizing wounds for it are different.
Different to q degree that Mr.. Wilson
has never been in position to np-
preciate. The American infantry did
not charge through the German bar
rage to create mandatary in Armenia.
The artillery did not serve its guns
to the death in lethal gases to obtain
self determination for Fiume. The
trains did not pass over roads con-
stantly torn by shell fire, or tho
engineers bridge rivers in the face
of the enemy for any or all Of the
nations Of Europe. Our soldiers fought
and gave their lives for their own
country for their America that it
might live