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The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10
NONPARTlSANS WILL DROP
FIGHT on new JUSTICES
Report Given Out In Helena Says That
Efforts Will BE .centered on
Primary Law Attack

Helena.-Announcem of the plan
to invoke the referendum in an effort
to repeal the law increasing the men,
bership of the state supreme court
from three to five members, passed at
the recent special legislative session.
has been announced here following the
visit Of Alfred Budden of Great Falls,
political manager of the Nonpartisan
league in Montana. The league will,
however, attempt to hold up operation
of the bill amending the primary law
and repeating the presidential prefer.
ence primary. Petitions asking ref
erendum on these acts of the special
session are said to be In preparation.
The measure will be initiated by the
league, acting with labor organizations
Of the state, it has been announced.
One of these is a wOrkmen's cOmpen.
sation law. making radical increases in
the weekly payments provided in the
present law. and another is a corpora.
ton income tax, graduated. It Is said,
up to five per cent for the larger com.
panies.
Nonpartisan league senators and
representatives made a spirited fight
against the judgeship and primary
amendment bills ut the special session.
but they were rejected by large mo.
jorities. The objection to the primary
amendment Is said to be that it takes
away the ''Open" primary and requires
the voter to declare his political affili.
alton before he is permitted to vote.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10

Despite the confident assertions of
Fitzpatrick. Foster and other union
iea'iers, the developments of the week
In the steel strike went to strengthen
the belief that the battle will be won
BY the employers. The mills at Gary
kept increasing their production until
1t was said to have reached so per cent
of the normal, and many other plants
in that district, including South Chi
cueO, reported that their workers We're
returning. The Indiana Steel COM
iany at Gary, for instance, was oper-
a,ing on Thursday with about 5000
men. or half the usual force. and the
Mark Manufacturing company, employ
ing between 5000 and 1900 men, was
preparing to reopen its plant with a
large force. The strikers still out in
that area were growing restless as they
saw their fellow workers returning by
the thousands, and feared they would
lose their places permanently.
. In the Pittsburgh region there was
rot much change in the situation. At
tile opening of the week the strike
against the Bethlehem company. the
largest Independent steel concern in
the country. began, but it was far from
successful. A few Of the company's
departments in it's various plants were
closed. but most of them were oper.
ating as usual, though with somewhat
reduced forces. The Pennsylvania
state police had the situation well in
hand and violence was quickly sup.
pressed.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10
,22 STUDENTS REGISTERED
At THE STATE UNlvERSlTv

Missoula.-The office of the state
university at Aliss0ula now shows
100 students registered. This Is by
far the largest enrolment the In.
stitution has ever known. and It IL
expected this will be increased to
AO before the end of the present
quarter.
OF the total enrolment there were
100 new men and 176 new women.
and Of the former students registered
there We're lS9 men aud 1913 women.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10

Judge Gary. appearing before the
senate committee on labor, made it
clear that there is no hope Of arbitra-
ton or other amicable settlement of
the strike, for the United States Steel
corporation intends to fight the unions
to finish. He said the issue is the
open shop against the closed shop. in
volving the right of employers to hire
whom they please; that the closed
shop Is immoral, meaning decreased
production. higher prices and national
decay; that the Steel corporation will
never recognize the unions or contract
with them. and that it will never deal
with union leaders as such. He de
clared the corporation does not object
to its employees organizing, and is will
ing ut all times to grant them hearings
concerning grievances. He told of the
wages paid the employees and what
the corporation has done in the way
Of housing them. The average wages.
excluding administration and selling
forces. have advanced from $2.SS on
July l. 1914. to 1927 on July l. 1919.
Judge Gary was followed on the
stand by William z. Foster. who is
considered by many as the real leader
Of the strike.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10

employers to grant 44-hour week ef-
fective at once and weekly wage In.
crease Of $14. A large number Of week.
" and monthly magazines suspended
publication to join the lockout. The
international unions have denounced
the strike and outlawed the strikers.
and the employers announced their
plants would remained closed until
they could be operated with forces
composed entirely of members of the
international unions.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10

Engineer Sidney Sherwood WIS
killed and two tiremen badly hurt
when a light engine and Il passenger
train on the Rammini branch of the
Northern Pacific colli,led headon near
Helena. \ score of passengers were
injured, none seriously.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10

l.. l.. Woods. pioneer guide for
hunters. calls attention to the modi-
iica1ion of the law pertaining 10 hunt
ing of elk made by the Sixteenth leg
stature. The season for elk opens this
ear an October u. instead Of Oc,o.
ser !, us in previous years.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10
Show Faith In state.

Sale OF 1.l6S acres or state lands
for $1S5,347.S3 at Great Falls has con-
WINGED Sidney Miller. register of state
lands, and his deputy, George b.
Hopkins, that Montanans know best
whether this is farming state and
that they are willing to back their
affirmative belief with ther money.
Every acre Of the great area sold was
bought by a resident Of this state.
Spirited competition was shown
when several of the more desirable
tracts were offered. One tract of 100
acres was sold so acres at time.
One so brought $4O.25 and the other
$685., an average of 1915 for the
quarter section. The general average
for the whole sale was $1,000. All Of
the land sold was non.irrigated farm.
ing or grazing land.
4 + +
Corporations Subject to Inquiry.
Probe of the financial condition of
corporations existing under Montana
laws will he undertaken at once by
II. Dean Miller of the state treas
UTeG SluAA " uCNCAW "u0SuCg
these corporations are the owners
Of solvent credits, stocks or securi-
ties In outside corporations, that have
not been assessed. This action was
ordered by the state board of equali.
cation Mt the suggestion Of Attorney
General s. c. Ford. The Anaconda
Copper Mining company in particular,
It is said. has, has been directed ia
show cause why 1t should not be as
sessed on alleged holdings of stock.
To investigate School overerowdine
Investigation of all state institu.
ttons. and especially the state schools
to determine for itself the truth IN
regard to reports that they are crowd.
ed, rs the state hoard Of health had
heen informed. was ordered carried
out Immediately Mt the semi-apnual
meeting Of the board.
Secretary COgswell was instructed
to make the Investigation and. II nee
essary. to employ an architect to as
sist. and to uMke written report 4:
the board
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10

Another labor dispute that will be
felt by the entire country is centered
in New York. A simultaneous lockout
and strike took place In some $50 print
ing and publishing plants which put
out virtually all the trade publications
and magazines issued in that city and
a large percentage Of the hooks. Ten
thousand members of local printing
'rasles unions were thrown out of work.
rhe action followed the refusal of the
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10
Steel Mills Resuming Production
and Strikers Losing Ground
Every Day.
GARY SAYS NO COMPROMISE
Tells Senate Committee Corporation
viii Never Deal With Unions
Lockout and Strike Of Printers
In New York-War Over
Fiume 10 Imminent.
BY EDWARD W. PIckARD.

President Wilson is every sick
man. according to his physician. Rear
Admiral Grayson. After a consultation
with Drs. Dercum of Philadelphia and
Ruflin and Stitt of Washington, it was
announced that absolute rest was es-
sential for some time. 1t was reported
that an operation of some sort would
be performed.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-10
ACCIDENT BOARD
HAS 5000 RECORD
COMPENSATION ACT ADMINS.
TERED MORE ECONOMICALLY
THAN IN OTHER STATES
NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY
State 0oard Of equalization Orders
Probe Of Financial Condition Of
Generations Existing Under
Montana Laws

Helena.--Favorable comment on the
economy practiced in the administra.
ton Of the Montana wOrkmen's COM
pensation law by Chairman A. r.
Spriggs and his associates of the state
industrial accident board has been
made throughout the state upon the
appearance of the fourth annual re.
,ort Of the board. a 488.page booklet
which includes, besides statistics, a
reproduction Of the text Of the laws
administered by the board. The fact
that these economies have been &C.
complished In connection with treat
ment 10 satisfactory to all that not one
Of the boards $4,000 cases has been
taken into court on appeal also IL
declared remarkable. No other simi-
lar board has approached this record.
The administration Of the compen.
sation act in this state for the past
four years has cost less than one
years administration In the majority
of the other compensation states. The
actual cost Of administering and d.
recting the law In this state Is about
$4,000 per year, while in our neigh
boring state of Nevada, which has
less than one.fourth the compensation
business that Montana has, the cost
reaches about $35, 600 year. In Ore.
gon, where the work Is comparatively
the same as in this state, the cost Is
$4,000, while In the state Of Wash
ington it runs up to $125,000 year.
During the four years that the law
has been in operation the state has
paid in compensation more than
$2,50O,O 900, which has gone to 26.121 In.
jured workmen, out of which 6SS rep
resented fatal accidents, 600 perma.
nently partially disabled. 6.A93 re-
ceived disability compensation and
1858 returned to work within the
two weeks waiting period, and there
fore, received only the hospital and
medical attention provided by the act.
During the four years. 1854 en-
ployers applied for admission under
the law. bringing with them $4,000
employees. representing yearly pay
roll of over $9O.OO0.O0O. Ninety-seven
per cent of the employees of the state
engaged in hazardous occupations are
under the law.
Under the safety provisions of the
law all operating quartz and coal
mines and plants of all kinds using
machinery have been inspected for the
purpose of providing where necessary
for the installation Of protective safe
ty devices designed to prevent acct
dents. This has resulted in a marked
decrease in accidents.
Approximately $1,000 questions OF
cases have been passed upon by the
board without single appeal having
been perfected to the courts from the
rulings made. This is a record with
out parallel in the 43 states operating
under compensation law. In all othel
states numerous appeals have beer
taken to the courts from the finding.
or rulings of the administrative bOart
or commission.
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The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
AMERICAN RED CROSS
OPENS BIG HOSPITAL
IN RUSSIAN CITY

OMSk, Siberia. - To meet all
emergency in hospital work for
wounded Russians of the army fight
ing the Bolsheviki, the American
Red Cross has opened one of its
biggest hospitals at Cheliabinsk.
The opening of heavy fighting on
the Ufa front brought many wound
ed soldiers to the already burdened
Russian military hospitals. The Red
Cross sent to Cheliabinsk DIR. Henry
W. Newman.
Cheliabinsk promises to be an I'M
portant station for American Red
Cross work this summer, as if is
expected that the fighting will be
heavy in the district
fronting it.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16

while the after-war working out of
relative values of everything from
labor to land is in process, are quite
as naturally apt to shoulder one
another, and to do it with a newly
irritable sort of class consciousness.
Capital and labor are each apt to
try to make out that it is the great
loser or sufferer from the war and
the after-war conditions; and there
are many different kinds of capital
and labor.
Could there be any more fertile
germ-culture for Bolshevism and
such noxious growths than this after
war neurasthenia? A host of con-
verts or victims are now suscepti-
Bile. They look only at the price
of butter or of shoes or what-not.
They cannot or care not to know
about underlying causes, or to de-
tect specious fallacies.
Gradually the world will work
out of this convalescent nervous
ness-as reconstruction abroad and
prosperity here supplant a conse-
Grafton to destruction. But, mean
while, the only specifics for certain
symptoms will be patience and pa
tient education.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
WARNING.

Any boys found in my boat or
tampering with it in any way will
be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law. ALBERT FORTIER.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
WRANGELL SENTIMENT.

Wrangell was glad to welcome
our Governor and the first lady of
Alaska, says a recent issue of the
Wrangell Sentinel. Their coming
to US was an honor which we deep
ly appreciate; but few of US were
prepared to have them walk into
our hearts and affections as they
did. They are such big people that
they made US forget their high po-
sition, and by their friendliness and
simplicity of bearing we came quick
ly to feel that they were just home
folks whose visit we were enjoying
immensely. When the time came to
go, they left a town full of friends
behind them who will always re-
member them with pleasure and af-
lection and whose best wishes for
their happiness and welfare will
ever reach out after them.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commissiou
NOTICE

Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south Of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
building, Alaskan Engineering COM
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be-
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot Of
A street on Wednesdays and Satur-
days at p. m.
On and after july 18th the freigh.
on the North side of the river at
Camp AIS dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Friday of each week,
leaving at 7 a. m, until further
notice.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16

Nenana-The Gateway to Mckinley
National Park.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
M'SMART COMES
BACK FROM WAR
BADLY WOUNDED

Every oldtimer of Fairbanks and
Dawson knows Tom McSmart, who
came North in the very early days
as boy, took part in nearly every
stampede, and was long identified,
more or less closely, with the pro-
motion of various forms of enter
tainment for oldtimers, ranging from
high-class musicales to fstic encoun.
tiers in the squared circle. He
helped in the publication of Fair
banks first daily newspaper, paint
ed some of the signs which were
ordered in haste after the big Fair
banks fire, beat the drums in an
early-day band, sold ribbons in a
ladies' furnishings store, and oper-
ated gasboat on the Cinema slough
He could do anything. and did al
most everything.
His last venture was soldering
He went overseas during the early
stages of the war, being among the
first to reach France from the west
ern shores of the Atlantic, and he
fought through to the closing days
of the great conflict, being com
PEELED, toward the end of the war,
to retire from the firing line be-
cause of injuries received during a
particularly vicious gas attack in
the Paaschendaele sector
AS soon as he was able to leave
the hospital overseas, Tom returned
TO California, in which state he
was when the war started. He was
advised to seek warm climate. But
even California did not furnish the
necessary warmth to heal his gas
filled lungs, and in his last letter
to friends in Alaska he stated that
he was about to leave for Arizona
His lungs, he said, contained 21
perforations, caused by gas inhala-
tons, but the doctors had been un-
able to find any trace of tubercu-
Ilosis.
Tom says his shoulders are also
pretty badly done up, the result of
packing his equipment during the
several years he fought with the
British forces. He is taking osteo-
pathic treatments for them, but says
it will be quite while before he
will be himself again
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
RECOVERY.

The world is going through emo
tionally just now a very natural
pathological process-that of start
ing to get well, says the Boston
News Bureau. Therefore it is very
touchy, grumpy, irritable and nerv,
Gus. 1t knows the climax is past
that its own status is changing, and
Will change yet some more; but i.
doesn't know how or how fast. and
it doesn't precisely know what il
wants or where it is at Hence
the case of jumpy nerves.
1t is obvious to countries. ir
classes, in communities and families
and persons. Each is disposed tc
argue, and to fear lest in the new
adjustment somebody else will "pu;
one over" Things are in fiux; and
the self-preservation impulse ha:
been transformed from a nationa
or allied military expression to g
much split up civilian concern owe.
a problematical future.
The international wrangle that il
involves is made manifest in Paris
With the best will in the world
there cannot help being much fenc.
ing there as to prospective nationa
rewards or recompense, assets o,
liabilities, and touchy nerves MAKE
it harder to compose some of the
difficult realignments that the new
map of the Old World presents
The nerves of our vanquished foes
are evident every day in genuine a:
well as feigned protestations.
The returned soldiers in every
land present complex case. Thei,
absorption into civilian life-from
their own point of view or that OF
the civilians who absorb them-is
not an easily automatic process.
Each will have to get newly focused
to the other; and there will inev-
itably be many Establishments and
readjustments imposed on those who
have come back from the abnormal
life of the battlefield. If they show
restlessness or dissatisfaction for a
while, they cannot be harshly
blamed.
Glasses within the community,
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16

large bond issue authorized, and a
board named to go ahead with the
plan should it be deemed the only
means of relief. This proves that
if the present lines do not take
care of the people of the North,
they will find a way out of the
difficulty.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
COAST SHIPS NEEDED.

Interior Yukon and Alaska are
suffering inconvenience this season
from the inadequacy of steamship
service along the Alaskan coast
declares the Dawson News. Com
mercial and mining bodies and 9TH
er organizations and concerns in the
North can do a helpful thing in
these matters by now calling atten-
ton to the situation Improved con-
ditions should be provided before
another season.
Many passengers arriving in Daw-
son this season report having been
delayed in Seattle or Vancouver at
heavy expense for days while await
ing opportunities to get berths. Some
have had to wait over several boats,
and some men travelling alone even
tually have had to take second-class
accommodations in order to get
through al all
The development of the tours:
traffic up the coast has resulted in
berths on ships of all lines being
engaged far ahead. Many of the
big liners have their bookings COM
pieted months before the season
opens. The consequence is that the
people who claim the Northland as
their home and who go out and
come in when their business ar
engagements will permit find them
selves greatly Inconvenience and
hampered by want Of accommoda-
tons. Tourists are largely of the
class who have time to spare and
can plan far ahead for their exact
dates. The people who are devoted
to the development of the North
find their movements often restrict
ed to the completion of bushes;
matters Therefore, if the coast
steamers sell most of their space,
the Northerners find what is left
insufficient, and some are crowded
out and delayed or become discour-
aged and do not travel at all
The tourist trade is much appre-
ciated by the North, and the people
of this region are glad to see it de-
velop, and will do all in their power
to encourage the development. At
the same time the coast steamship
lines should remember that it is the
permanent population of the North
which produces the big freight traf-
fc for their lines both going and
coming, and that a resident of the
North travels many times, compared
to the tourist who travels once, and
that far more consideration is due
those who remain and open the
land and make it permanent prop
osition, than to the transient
While due allowance is given for
the fact that the period of read
justment following the war has af-
fected the supply and distribu-i ION
of ships, the fact remains that the
usual volume of Northern travellers
aside from the tourists should be
amply accommodated by the lines
hopeful of holding their patronage.
In the rush for bookings for the
sightseeing season the coast lines
will make mistake if they fail also
to provide fully for the requirements
of the sourdoughs The Alaska leg
islature last winter found the Am
erican coast steamship lines so in
adequate and their mail contract
rates so high that the legislature
took steps to establish government
steamship line for the entire coast.
An initial sum was voted and a
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
AIRPLANE MAKERS USE
X-RAYS TO TEST WOOD

LONDON.-Airplane manufacture
ers are now calling science to their
aid in making their machines safe.
All wood used in construction in
some of the most important plants
Is being first subjected to X-ray
tests. In one instance the radio
graph of fine silver spruce plank
showed certain light and dark spots.
When the plank was split open it
was found to be honeycombed by
beetle borings.
Henana-Ths Gateway to Mckinley
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16

FOR SALE - Showcase, 5k feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16

FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut
wood. Five dollars per cord;
good timber. A. G.. Vachon, Taa-
ana. k8-l6
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-16
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