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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
South Shilling Avenue
Will be Extended Soon

The county commissioners have
decided to extend South Shilling
avenue across the Blackfoot river
and connect with the state highway
SO it can be used while South Broad
way and the road below it is being
hard surfaced.
This decision was stimulated by
the fact that property owners had
donated the land on condition that
the road be built soon, and the
period of three years had passed and
the land owners proposed to with
draw their offer.
A steel bridge over the river will
be the main expense Of opening the
road now.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
THREE MEN OF OUR
COUNTY TALK CROPS
Pingree Man Says Crop
Conditions are Much
the Reverse
POOR PRODUCTION
Crops in South End

Col. M. A. Fugate of Aberdeen, in
discussing the crop situation says
there is considerable grain in the
southern part of the county that has
shriveled on account of the intense
heat. He says he has field of grain
that looked like it would yield, had
enough water to mature it, and yet
1t shiveled.
He thinks all of the. early wheat
suffered more or less from the hot
winds and he has hopes that the
later wheat may fair better Ey ma
tul ing when the weather is cooler.
He thinks that the next week Or two
is very critical time in the Develop
NJ mt of this years crop and will t-ll
ar important story regarding TIE
wealth of the county, as it is depend
ing on the crops Of this year.
North End Crop OUTLOOK
County Commissioner James
Christensen, who lives at Goshen, in
the northeast corner of Bingham
county, stated last Monday that the
carly wheat in his community had
suffered from the intense heat and
he had little hope that the later
wheat would be any better.
He said he considered the loss on
the beet crop is very heavy; as high
as rs per cent loss in many cases.
He says there are many fields in his
part of the county where the beets
are so poor a stand and have SO little
;,,,. .;ua ;n,, NJ not ttJr rifyr
that he would not take the fields as
a gift at the present time and COM
plete the irrigation and harvest.
MI. Christensen thinks the losses
on the dry farms are very heavy in
deed and the loss on the irrigated
farms are heavy from two causes
the lack of proper termination in the
spring and the lack of proper irriga-
ton thruout the season.
Disagrees With Townsman
Andrew Benson, county treasurer,
whose home is in Moreland, says the
crops are pretty good under the Dam
tin ditch, but that If a person will
go out along the Peoples ditch and
the Peoples highline he will find
heavy losses due to the lack of water
for irrigation.
Mr.. Benson thinks that the state
ment of his fellow townsman, Lewis
Robbins as published in Tuesdays
paper are only partly correct.
Leo Gushwa Talks
Leo Gushwa of Rose says the
crops under the Danskin Ditch are
the best of any and then they grade
pretty much according to the age OF
the water rights. In their commdn-
ity, he says they look the situation
over every time there is any water
for irrigation and make UP their
minds about how much eacn nan
IL ust sacrifice, ard each one offtrs
to give up some of his crops to The
drouth. That appeals to the sancro-
sity and fair play in the other mans
mind and they sacrifice all round
and do not have any hard words or
trouble about it, 1t is case o. each
man trying to be as unselfish as mis-
neighbors and keeping in mind the
fact that the other mans crDp is
| worth as much. as his own. He says
the loss on crops is already serious,
and that it will make people hard up
| for year. The new settlers. WHO
were already hardsup and struggling
to make ends meet will simply fall.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Around the Court House

Alfred Shaw was tried before a
jury Monday, on charge made against
him of. unlawfully using irrigating
water and pronounced not guilty.
In the police court, following COM
plants made by special motor
policeman, the following were fined
IS for exceeding the speed limit in
Blackfoot: Carr Beebe, w. E. Jones.
J. F. Hunter; and for riding with
bicycles on the sidewalks Of the city:
Roy Palmer, G.. c. Mcclellan, John
Mcintosh and T. G. Peterson.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Skips Ten Years;
Sees New Blackfoot

M. Gauchat of the Salt Lake
valley, who spent year near Black
foot ten years ago, stopped here on
his way home from business trip
to Montana. Mr.. Gauchet could
scarcely recognize Blackfoot as the
same place as of yore. He missed the
long hitching rail that used to serve
the farmers so well along the dirt
road by the railroad track that was
the main and only street here at that
time. sIt's surprising" said Mr..
Gauchat, what they can do to .
town in ten years. time"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Locating Moreland
Riverside Highway

At a meeting held at Moreland on
Wednesday evening, 1t was decided
to have the new bond road highway
extend directly south from the More
land depot thru the Bitton farm to
point west OF Riverside.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Grain Growers and
Threshermen's Meeting

On Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock
the grain growers and threshermen
of Bingham county will assemble on
the lawn by the city hall to fix the
scale of prices to be charged for
threshing for the season of 1919.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
ASYLUM DIRECTOR WAS HERE

Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Snyder and Mr..
and Mrs. H. ". Chandler Of Spring
field, spent Tuesday and overnight
in Blackfoot at the Eccles hotel.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
COOKED FOOD SALE

The ladies of the Baptist church
will hold cooked food sale at
Jorgensen's grocery store Saturday
afternoon.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
WHAT IS CAUSE
OF b0LSAEV|SM?!
Frank Morrison Ascribes Arbit:
rary Attitude Of Big
Employers.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-In answer
to request for literature or articles
to combat bolshevism among working
men," A. F. Of l.. Secretary Frank
Morrison made this reply:
1.-THE only literature or articles is
sued from this office is in advocacy
of the principles of trade unionism.
II believe that the principal cause
for social unrest in our country is the
attitude of conscienceless greed as
represented by certain large employers
of labor who refuse living wage,
insist on long hours and deny their
employees the right to join a lawful
organization in an effort to Improve
their working conditions.
Anti Union Attitude.
Nothing can develop a mob spirit
in this country quicker than the anti
union attitude Of the steel trust. for
instance. This corporation, through
it's control of small municipalities in
western Pennsylvania. has made free
assemblage impossible in these COM
munities by closing every hall to their
workers. The same principle is ap-
piled on the Minnesota iron range. in
the northwest lumber industry, and
other employers of labor who seem to
be guided in social questions by the
attitude Of so-called big business
"As force begets force the mob spir-
it of the employer is met by the mob
spirit Of the employe. The develop
ment Of this spirit is logical when it
is considered that because these work.
ers are not permitted to act collect
lively through trade unions they pos
sess no knowledge of the orderly de-
velopment or the value Of public opin-
ion as a, remedy for wrongs. This
public opinion can only be developed
through organization, agitation and
education, which the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor so insistently calls
forS'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
NEWDA|LYPAPER =.
IN MINNEAPOLIS
will Be Published By the Or
qanized Farmers and Work.
erS Of Minnesota.

With the filing of articles Of incor-
poration with the secretary of state
at st. Paul recently, announcement is
made that a daily newspaper will be
published in Minneapolis by the farm
ers and workingmen of Minnesota. =
The capital stock provided for is
$1,000,000, and the incor: orators are:
J. A.. Urness of Douglas county, a rep
resentative~ of the organized farmers
and leader of the farmer delegation
in the house of representatives; w.
w. Wilcox. farmer of Washington
county, who was recently unseated in
the state senate; Thomas Van Lear,
former mayor of Minneapolis and a
we'll known member of the Machin-
ists' union; Thomas v. Sullivan of St.
Paul, who has been active in labor
affairs; and H. E. CASTOR. prominent
newspaperman formerly in charge Of
the Nonpartisan league publications.
Will Represent the People.
The new organization will be known
as the Northwest Publishing company
and its aim is to secure the support
of those who believe in free and un-
bridled press. 1t is planned to publish
a paper which shall represent-not the
views of organized capital; not the
views Of a few with big advertising
appropriations to spend; not the views
of tricky politicians, intriguing with
business buccaneers to exploit the peo-
ple-but the views and the aspira-
tions Of the people themselves in their
private capacity as citizens. .
The men who have taken the lead
in forming this organization are rep
resentative.. Of the organized effort Of
the people to combat exploitation and
oppression, to purity government and
to promote social and economic JUS
tice. Z ~
Union labor men throughout the
state are expected to rally to the sup
port of the paper. especially those in
the Twin Cities.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
LABOR'S OPPOSITION To- 0J0R
CORPS BILL IS EXPLAINED
Secretary Lawson Of State Federation Addresses Meeting Of
Local Union 0tica|s-labor to Take Renewed Interest
inlegis|atVe Matters; Send Telegram to Legislators.
BY Henry Dworschak, Jr.

George W. LAWSON secretary of the State Federation of Labor,
addressed large meeting of presidents secretaries and legislative
mit of local and Proctor Tuesday night Rowe hall in
regard to labor legislation pending St. Paul AS result trades
unoni the Head of the Lakes better acquainted with the prob
lens confronting labor and will take renewed interest in the fight
defeat bills nmca the welfare of the workngman and TO have
adopted those which considered beneficial
Mr. Lawson legislative agent of the federation and therefore
qualified the of bills introduced The
meeting Tuesday night the the state official
The before the house this according
the speaker House File No. which provides for the
of military Minnesota be known the State Motor Corps
Mr. explained that would objection this bill by
organized labor providing the motor would be used only
tec the public interest emergencies such the forest fires
northern Minnesota and the tornado Tyler The supporters of the
bill claim this would be the function of the but it is pointed
by labor that the organize this military unit begun
before these oocaus occurred Therefore this claim of the
bills sponsors is refuted
Mr. stated that because of spuans of the proposed
legislation providing that members of the must automobiles
% would composed chiefly business The bill also
authority the should be enacted
lied labor would be the first feel its drastic effects it claimed
argument labor that the military establishment the
that the Home Guards have been used
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
PACKERS H0C:IT;
PROFITS P ]! !: | $ run RI n up J
Big Five" Mu|ct People 0ut OF
milIons-P II Financial
Scheme Revealed. - r

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Profits Of
the big five" meat packers jumped
from $22,1o8,o0o in 1914 to $685.
900 in 1917, according to Stuart
Chase, expert accountant for the fed
eral trade commission, testifying be-
fore the Senate agriculture committee.
The big f1ve'' are the Swift, Ar
mour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson
companies.
The witness said that neither he,
the commission nor the. packers them
selves really know the exact profits
because of the method of handling
subsidiary companies, the addition of
profits to capital expenditures, charg-
ing them to profit and loss. etc.
It was stated that under the rules
of the food administration the pack
ers were allowed to make per cent
profit in some departments. IL per cent
in others, Is in others and with no
limit in others, and that the packers
were permitted to transfer accounts
to shape departmental profits.
Salaries paid to officials of these
companies range from $125,ooo a year
down to $4,000 and $4,000, with
additional salaries for acting as Of
f1cials Of subsidiary companies.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
WOULD PRuSSIAN|zE'
the STATE OF. IDAHO

BOISE Idaho. Feb. 13.-The state
federation Of labor is opposing a bill
now pending in the legislature. which,
it is declared, would Prussianize the
state government. The governor would
be empowered to appoint and remove
every official and state employe at
will. State police officials would have
power to enforce all the penal and
regulatory laws Of the state. and would
have power similar to the sheriffs of
the counties. The uniorists call at
tention to this attempt TO establish a
state constabulary. - : T..
Advocates Of the bill say 1t will "con-
centrate the powers of the governor" "
To this claim the unionists agree. I'm
fact" say the unionists. '.it2 provides
for. a. concentration Of power: never
before. Witnessed in any government
on EARTH" = sS, ~, -.
!, In. the case of the, federal govern
.ment the president can appoint with
the approval Of the senate: but the
Idaho scheme makes the governor all
powerful. AKA @szs..>
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
AS CANDIDATES FOR CITY
COMMISSIONERS THIS Spring
ClyWde Conference Drafts Comprehensive Platform For Num-
cipa| Election; Representative Campaign Committee Will
Hold First Meeting Wednesday Night,

William F. Murna president of the local Federated
Labor Assembly, and James A. Farrell commissioner public works.
abors candidates for the two city commionhp be filed
the municipal election this spring. Both have their approval
the platform promulgated by labor, it is said.
This selection the elimination of of labor
delegates held last Sunday afternoon Owls hail.
by about 100 This conference called by committee Of the Trades
Assembly, of which w. j. butcher chairman The
as temporary chairman of the meeting
After the following officers eected
Gordon Nei chairman; E. Hammond Secretary
The initial
the proceedings of the conference
of Delegates Catn Lchte Mon Meaghe Shar and
named for this purpose
From the evident that there repre-
sented so-caed radical and those who styled
who maintain compromising attitude the political field The first
clash elements the seating delegates representing the
Metal Trades Council This however, settled by both side finally
voting to accept the credentials of the disputed degation,
The of labor participating in the municipal election
raised while few delegates stated their
manifest that the ponderan opinion favored active
labor candidates. By of three resolution adopted
providing that the conference request favorable labor
candidates for city and ndorse and
their campaigns.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
LABOR MEETING ND0RSES N)RNIAN and FARRELL,
STREET CAR ORDINANCE
IS GIVEN FIRST READING
By.G|FF Commissioners

At the meeting of the city COM
missioners Monday afternoon the
ordinance prepared by Mayor Mag
ney, to ascertain whether the vot-
ers favor the acquisitions by the city,
through condemnation proceedings
as provided by law, Of the local
street railway system,s was intro
duced and given its first reading.
1t is proposed to submit this
question at the municipal election
April 1, if the ordinance is adopt
ed. 1t is possible that the second
and third readings may be given
and. final action taken at the meet
ing Monday afternoon:
The ordinance provides that IL
the voters affirm taking over the
street railway system the city COM
missioners shall proceed with the
condemnation proceedings as out
lined by statute.
Under present plans of Mayor
Magney the voters would have an
other opportunity to express their
7oice> after an appraisal Of the street
car conpany's property is made.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
WAS G0NlPERS' NAME FORGED To >
CALL FOR SOCIALIST CONFERENCE

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-The facts concerning
intrigues practiced by Arthur Henderson, the
British Labor Party leader, in connection with
the Internatonalist Socialist and Labor Confer
ence scheduled for Berne, Switzerland have been
given to the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy by Louis Kopelin, who has just
turned from Europe.
Mr.. Kopelin arrived on the Adriatic. He spent
six months in England and France studying social
conditions. He is thoroughly conversant with the
socialist and labor movements of England and
the continent. Recently he secretary to the
Social Democratic League of America s delegation
to Europe, consisting of Charles Edward Russell,
William English Walling, DR.. Frank Bohn and
himself.
Hardly anybody in Europe, outside of Arthur
Henderson and his immediate followers, wants an
international socialist and labor conference" said
Mr. Kopelin "The whole conference idea is an
artificial one, scheme of Mr. Hendersons to re-
establish his leadership in the British Labor
Party. Mr.. Henderson is obsessed with the idea
of conference, partly because it cost him his
head as labor party leader, partly because the
failure of the Stockholm conference lost him his
portfolio in the Ministry, and partly because it
caused his reputation by the British people in
the last popular election.
'The arrival of Samuel Gompers in London
f.
Henderson. With the president of the American
Federation of Labor on the scene we were able
to prove, for the first time, what had long sus-
pected, namely, that the calling of the 1nterna-
tional Conference by Mr.. Henderson was done
without the authority of any international action
In short, we were able to prove that the name of
Mr.. Gompers attached to the Lausanne Confer
ence call was absolutely unauthorized. And the
conference call was issued from Mr.. Hendersons
office.
"Our suspicious of irregularity were first
aroused by the peculiar fact that there had not
been published in England anything in the way
of resolutions proceedings of the Inter Allied
Conference held in London last September, under
authority of which it said that the Lausanne
Conference was being called. Thus it was not
possible to compare notes.
Nov for the trickery: Mr.. Henderson told
us that the September Conference in London had
appointed a committee of four to call an Interna-
tional Socialist Labor Conference simultaneously
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
Lind RULES HOURS were
REDUCED, NOT WAGES

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Acting as
umpire for the national war labor
board in the case Of the International
Paper company versus it's employees,
John Lind, ex-governor Of Minnesota,
rules that previous award means an
eight-hour day for inside workers and
nine hours for outside workers with
no wage red'etions.
The umpire calls attention to the
refusal of the national war labor board
to recognize bonuses cor othef forms
of gratuities'' as constituting part of
the minimum wage scale that has been
adopted.
''Any bonus or gratuity paid by the
International Paper nompany or by
any other mill sha11ssbss wholly dis
regarded in the computation of the
arrears Of wages accruing to employees
under the award" rules the umpire.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15
OPPOSED TO FREE
LABOR BUREAUS
Private Employment Agents Hit
Hard By Governments
Mo-Protit System.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Private
labor agents and employment bureaus
throughout the country are trying to
put the United States employment SER
vice out Of business by having con-
gress refuse to appropriate the neces-
sary maintenance funds. The govern
ment has dealt hard blow to this
meanest of labor exploitation by it's
no-proft system of supplying labor.
The methods employed by the
agents is shown by a circular issued
throughout New York state by Cen
eral Secretary DAILY of the associated
state of New York.
Daily acknowledges that his execu-
tive committee and board of directors
have not passed on the question, and
then declares that "there is a very
general impression that the United
States employment service should not
be continued after the war necessity
ceases" He says the service has been
a failure, that to continue it would
be for the purpose of furnishing jobs
to organized labor's business agents
and social welfare folks" and that
business men should urge their sena-
tors and congressman to vote against
any appropriation. -. r.,-
New York State Director Kirchwey
of the employment service has pro-
tested to the president Of the manu-
facturers' association. He says it is
obvious why the private agents op-
pose the service
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-02-15

with the official Peace Conference. He said that
this committee consisted of Mr.. Henderson, rep
resenting England; Mr.. Gompers, representing
America; Emile Vandervelde, representing Bel
gium, and Albert Thomas, representing France.
For long time we had to take Mr.. Henderson's
word for it, because nobody thought OF looking
in the minutes, and the minutes were hard to find
anyway.
:'But the minutes show differently. The min
utes show the following:
"'Mr Henderson announced that the COM
mission had unanimously recommended that the
conference should appoint executive committee:
composed of two delegates from each country
represented. This committee should supervise
the execution of the resolutions of this inter-
Allied conference and organization of the subse-
uuent inter-Alled conferences. Mr.. Gompers
moved that as the United States more than
5000 miles away from England, France and Italy
the group selecting the committee should have the
power to name substitutes if the original ap-
pointees were unable to attend
"This shows that there never was a committee
of four appointed and furthermore that the Amer
leans never consented to Mr.. Henderson's scheme
for Conversations with Germans. Under the
above resolution Mr.. Gompers and Mr.. John P.
Frev were selected as American delegates to the
executive committee.
"The only genuine signature to the call for the
conference at Lausanne, now Berne, is that of
Mr. Henderson, Mr.. Gompers never consented
to the use of his name. Neither did M. Thomas
In the case of NJ Vandervelde it may be said that
he is the author of the original draft for the call
for an Inter-Allied Congress. When Mr. Hen
derson got hold Of this draft he altered it to in
clude enemies and ncutrals, thus transforming it
from an inter-Allied to an International Confer
cnce. Mr.. Vanderve'd dc never knew of the change
nor has he consented to it. And what is more sig
nifcant,s NOR WILL HE :ATTENDi THE IN
TERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. = = a.
when I left England on January FL the situa-
ton was considerably muddled. Henderson and
his associates, Messrs. Macdonald, Huysmann and
Longuet, were still intriguing. Exposed in their
conference plans, they were still trying to force
the issue by playing President Wilson against
Mr.. Gompers.: In this they have had consider
able support from French pac6sts and other pro-
Bolsheviks. 3. y: H..
Should the conference ever materializc can
promise you an interesting time" l. ..s 5-<@: