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The Montana nonpartisan. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1918-192?, 1919-06-14

per week are now asking $16.50.
Ali other kitchen help with the
exception of cooks to receive
$16.50 per week.
It is our belief that we are en-
titled to the same wages that
other members of our craft have
been receiving for the past year
in every restaurant in this city.
We ask the public if the small
restaurant-man can afford to
pay our scale, "why can't the
large hotels?" Furthermore,
our members working in the res
taurants work eight hours
straight while those working in
hotels work split shifts conse-
quently they have to work Ia
hours to get in eight. Imagine
yourself dear reader, with 9TH
ers dependent on you, trying to
maintain yourself on $3.50 per
week. We are asking only what
we think is fair and we are sure
that no fair minded person will
dispute our claim.
In regard to the living condi-
tions in one of the hotels in par
ticular, the room provided for the
help is unsanitary and if the
Health Department functioned
along right lines, it would not be
tolerated. Imagine eight cots
with the same namber of men
sleeping in basement with prac-
tically no ventilation. Imagine
what this means with absolutely
no privacy. 1t tends to debase
man and place him on par with
a beast.
The managers Of those hotels
inform us "They are not in
business for profit" Their
statement is partly correct, they
are in business to create good
fat jobs for political henchmen.
We have the moral support Of ev-
cry fair mined citizen in this
community, and still the chosen
few contend they will not pay a
living wage to men and women
who toll long weary hours in or.
der that some may glut mad
inordinate lust for gain.
We wish to inform the workers
to stay away from these hotels,
pay no attention to their Turing
inducements, give them a wide
berth, pay no attention to the
voice of their vicious press; heed
not the rantings of their paid
hirelings. This is your fight as
much as ours, help US to win.
With best wishes,
Local 1O1,
Great Falls, Montana.
The Montana nonpartisan. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1918-192?, 1919-06-14

statement from week to week of
your aims and activities. Will
you advise me as to the means of
securing such data and of keep
ing fully informed. Rest assured
that I will do my part to see
that proper understanding Of
these things is given to organized
labor.
II am also to furnish an article
for special edition on the fol-
lowing subject: 'Nonpartisan
Political Action by Farmers and
Wage Earners.'' Data which will
help me to do this effectively
will be greatly appreciated.
"With best wishes for your
continued success, | remain,
w. e. KENT,
'Secretary Metal Trades Council
The Montana nonpartisan. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1918-192?, 1919-06-14
STRIKE HOTELS
FOR LIVING
WAGES
Cooks and Walters
Statement of
Facts

Wage disputes and labor troubles
are agitating the world at the pres
ent moment and Montana is no more
exempt than any other portion of this
troubled globe. The two principal
hotels of the Electric City are tied
up with a strike of the Cooks, Wait
ers and other help, settlement has
not yet been reached.
The matter is simple enough and a
little less obstinacy on the part Of
the management would have resulted
in a peaceful adjustment. The Nom
partisan finding that all sorts of ru-
mors were being circulated as to the
exorbitant demands of strikers and
knowing Of old that most of this
sort of story is manufactured for
public consumption by the Kept
Press has taken the trouble to ascer-
tain the facts in the case and here
with publishes a statement from the
strike committee, which is true
in all essentials and contains the ex-
act demands the Cooks and Walters
are making.
TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE
Great Falls, Montana
June 8, 1919.
Your special attention is called
to some of the facts in regard to
the strike now in effect in this
city between the Park and Rain
bow hotels, and the hotel and RES
taurant employees union. In an
effort which began about the
first of May of this year and
lasted until the first of June, our
local used every honorable means
at our disposal to try and make
the management of the two ho-
tells raise the wages of the
maids from $3.50 per week to
$3.50 per week. Mattresses
who formerly received STATS
The Montana nonpartisan. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1918-192?, 1919-06-14

~eA~*~SSSAA~A1
of the draft and one Of the
most active agents Of the Ger
man Imperial Government,
etc.-also Socialist, in fact
the general formula kept set
up, at that time by the cop
per press for the besmirch-
ing Of decent people was
trotted out in full and the
name of Freemount made a
stencil in the noses of people
who are still innocent enough
to believe the kept press,
and there is no doubt had
the affair occurred today the
victim would have been
found in possession Of letters
from Lenine and Trotsky.
Well, they had to apologize
and pay, and it is only proper
that they should, but it would
be much better if the people of
this nation would wake up and
discover soon, that the kept press
is their most bitter enemy and one
of the most powerful tools of the
great corporations, that the So
called news is almost without ex-
ception a tissue of lies and that
whoever the press attacks is gen.
orally the best Of fellows and
good human being to boot, almost
if not always, seeking to advance
the interests Of the fewetaoinaoi
the interests of the mass against
the interests of the few.
Thomas Topping made his apol-
ogy and in order that it may have
the widest publicity, also as a sam
pie Of what the gang will do to
get any man they don't like or
who is against them politically,
we publish it herewith:
con the evening of the 23rd of
March, 1918, !, the undersigned,
Thomas Topping, accompanied
by Jere j. Murphy, and R. w.
Thomas, in the city of Butte,
Mont, took Harrison J. Free
bourn from his home in the city
of Butte, Mont, about the hour Of
II 80 O'Clock at night and took
him to the city jail at city Of
Butte, Mont, and therein kept
and imprisoned him up to and in
Guiding the 25th day of March,
1918; the taking and imprison-
ment of the said Harrison J. Free
bourn as aforesaid was unlawful
and wrongful, but was done mis-
takenly, and in the doing Of the
same the said Jcrc j. Murphy act
ed at my request and upon my or
dcrs in so far as his part was con-
ccrneC. I hereby confess that we
wronged the said f'reebourn and
wish to state to the public that |
now on behalf of myself, and
those who accompanied me at my
request upon my orders desire to
undo as far as possible the said
wrong and to place the said Free
bourn in a correct and rightful
position ia the eyes of the public,
and ask the public, if the said
public has any suspicion against
or toward the said Freebourn on
account of the said Imprisonment
to put aside the said suspicion as
umfounded, as he is young man
Of high integrity and entitled to
the respect of his fellow citizens.
"This statement is made and
published as a part consideration
for the dismissal by the said Free
bourn Of an action for false I'M
prisonment against myself, Jere
J. Murphy and R. w. Thomas.
"Dated this 9th day Of June,
1919.
THOMAS TOPPING.
Joseph jackson, witness.
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MADE MANIAC
DOTHELOYA[TY
LEAGUE WORK
Deputy Sheriff who
Tried to Arrest MIR.
Krogman, Insane
Especial Correspondent


An echo of the Krogman affair in
Custer County last spring when q
mob of cowboys headed by a deputy
sheriff tried in vain to drive the
League man from the territory,
comes with the publication in an OBJ
scure corner of Miles City paper
that the deputy sheriff. who was one
of the principal agents of the 10y
atty League in those parts has been
judged insane and sent to Warm
Springs.
Says the Miles City American Of
May 20.
Ernest r. Leihy, former ran
cher of Kingsley, Mont, was COM
mitted to the insane asylum at
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The story is a typical one and
brings to mind all the foul and
disgusting things written and
said about men and women in
public life during the war per-
iod and at this time. Freebourn
was an employee at the Pittsmont,
an accountant and trusted
worker, having the confidence of
all who knew him and generally
respected, when one fine night
he was seized by Thomas Topp-
ing, Chief of Police Murphy and
R. w. Thomas and flung into Jail
without q warrant being issued
or charges being filed.
The Same Old Reason.
This act Of tyranny, altho COM
mon amongst those whom brutal
police officers and gun-men feel
are incapable Of resistance, was
visited upon the wrong person il
appears, for as soon as Freebourn
got out Of Jail, he started suit
against these pillars of the cop
per law, for unlawful imprison-
ment, and demanded the sum of
$4,000 as recompense for the
misery and slander visited upon
him. In this suit he included the
Butte Miner because it had i'm
mediately responded to the call
Of the gang by rushing into print
with a most scurrilous and dis
gushing account of the affair.
The charges were absolute
ly untrue, the Imprisonment
the act of men who looked
upon, used, and still use the
public jails as their own tor
ture chamber and who as
usual, used the war excite
ment for the infliction of
private revenges and the pro-
curing of private gain. The
method never varies, it is al
ways the same, just as they
have done in the Townley,
Gilbert, Mills, McGlynn,
and Fisher cases, and as they
have used the law and mis-
misused their power in q
thousand other affairs. Back
of it all was the same motive
which lies behind all the
prosecutions and persecu-
tions Of men during the war,
under the espionage and
and special acts-an econom-
ic one. Someone had some
job to gain, some plunder he
wished to retain, some eco
nomic privilege he wanted
to become possessor Of, or
some extra profit he desired
to keep from the public gaze,
and so bombardcd those who
stood in the way of such gain
or who sought to hold down
the making of profit to pre-
war basis, or to eliminate
profit altogether, with horri-
BILE stander, false arrest, or
arrest upon trumped-up char
ges, Imprisonment for long
periods without the chance of
release and in some eases
violent death. In this ease,
we are informed-it was the
| job held by Freemount coup
led with the fact that he had
! assisted two neutral Sweeds
to scape the tolls of the draft
which the board has thrown
round them, and which they
knew and everybody knew
the board no right to do. For
this act Freemount was
called pro-German, resister
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COPPER GANG D|SG0RGE MONEY
AND MAKE AN AbJECT APOLOGY
FOR LIBEL AND FAKE ARREST
Butte Miner and Copper Patriots Brought to
Time by Determined Man.

$4500 and public apology given the space and
style the sander which compelled the restitution pun
shment Harrison Freebourn inflicted upon the
Miner and three time patriots who arrested
into Jail unawfly and without warrant and opinion
understood have it that aho the thing very satisfactory the
punishment not heavy thousands dollars
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MAKE RESTITUTION FOR ISLANDER

Any person sigA
ure at one election, OF
exceeding five hundred
and Imprisonment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20
Rotary Club Members
Discuss Home Rule Law

The memory of St. Patrick was
honored and reviled by members
of the Rotary club, VINO spoke in
a humorous strain at the regular
weekly meeting at the Fontenelle
hotel. The gathering was presided
over by Jim Allan, of the York
Allan Ice Machine company, who
also was chairman of the commit
tee which arranged the program.
The subject for discussion was
announced as "For and Against Ire
land" Lists of speakers were al
lowed one minute each, and assigned
to each side of the subject. John
w. WEIGH was in the midst of max
ing a dramatic and imprisoned dec
laration to the effect that Ireland
had no more right to freedom than
Belgium of any other country
which was oppressed in bondage,
when he was reminded of the fact
that his time had expired. The
Rev. T. ]. Mackay was talking about
the Irish never enjoying peace I'M
less they were fighting, and his time
INIT was up.
The Rotarians all wore green hats
and green flags on their coats in
respect for the OCCASION. Chairman
Allan expatiated on the harp as the
Irish emblem. Its a pretty good
emblem all right" he commented.
but the durn thing is always out of
tune, and it costs too much to keep
it going"
The gathering adjourned follow
ing unanimous pledge of friend
ship to the land of song and tears"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20

No Overtime for Pat.
Reilly-"Pat was drowned yesterday"
itzpatrick-"Couldn't he SWIM"
Reilly-"Yes. but he was a union man.
He swan for eight hours and then quit"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20
Friends Give Webster
BANQUET on Birthday

When John Lee Webster took
the role of honored guest at stag
dinner at the Omaha club Tuesday
night, the occasion being his I'D
birthday. he experienced the myster-
les of Prometheus. With William F.
Gurley acting as POSTMASTER and
Mr.. Webster's closest friends sur
rounding him, he was the object of
considerable Demosthenean ora
tory. AS a gift, his friends presented
him with a plaster bust. the exact
likeness of himself. Part of the
evening was taken up by Mr.. Web
ster's untiring efforts to discover
the finale of a huge hat-box that
telescoped through nearly so others.
At the bottom he found a beautiful
scarf pin set with diamond and
emerald.
Among the speakers at the stag
dinrfn were: Judge w. D. McHugh,
.sn and DoA. Brogan, Emmett FINLEY,
.no,ns Au q Bluffs, Judge w. A. Red
,n ens'% Dishes or Norris A. Brown ard
automobile. thur c. Wakelyy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20
On the Screen TOday

RIALTO-ETHEL CLAYTON and ELL
LOTT In MAGGIE PEPPER"
sUN-GEoRGE WALSH in NEVER
SAY QUIT"
STRANDED. w. GRIFFITH'S "RO-
NANCE OF HAPPY VALLEY"
THUNDERSTORM PHILLIPS in
THE HEART OF HUMANITY"
MUSE-BESSIE LOVE In CAROLYN
OF THE CORNERS"
EMPRESS--GLADYS LESLIE In
MISS DULCIE OF DIXIE"
BOUI.EVARD-33d and Leavenworth
e. X. LINCOLN in LAFAYETTE
WE COME"
LOTHROP-24th and Lothrop-HEN-
RY B. wALTHALL in "A STILL
SMALL VOICE."
APOLLO-2sth and Leavenwprth--
PAULINE FREDERICK in "A
DAUGHTER OF THE OLD
SOUTH"
GRAND-16th and Binney-DOR-
OTHY DALTON in THE MATING
OF MARCELLA."
Pathe News.
SUBURBAN--24th and Ames--J.
WARREN KERRIGAN in THE
DRIFTERS."
HAMILTON-4Oth and Hamilton
BESSIE BARRISCALE in MAID Of
THE STORM"
ORPHEUM-South Side, cath and M
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG in
CHEATING CHEATERS."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20
LOCAL SCOUTS TO
MAKE BONF|RES
AT PEACE FETE.
In AffiIiation With Millions
Of Others, Local Youths
to Spread Fiery
Peace Word.

In affiliation with thousands Of
Boy Scout troops throughout the
United States, Omaha troops under
the direction of G. M. Hoyt, Scout
executive, will make bonhres on
the highest hill-tops about Omaha
in celebration of the signing of peace
and the 10th anniversary of the
founding Of the Boy Scout move
ment, if plans for the countrywide
celebration are fulfilled.
The movement began in England,
and is fostered by Gen. Sir R. S.
Baden British chief scout,
who is planning to have the scouts
of the whole world in action on the
celebration. Mr.. Hoyt of the Oma-
ha council will get in touch with the
national headquarters at New York
in regard to the idea. In connection
with local celebrations that are be-
ing worked out by the troops, the
countrywide program of Jam
borees" will also be represented
here, according to Mr.. Hoyt.
The celebrations will take place in
summer, the exact date to be decid-
ed upon at national headquarters.
Already, the various scout organiza-
tons in other parts of the country
have been informed of the proposal
and urged to lose no time in putting
in hand the necessary preparations.
1t is likely that Omaha troops will
make expeditions about the city, to
find out which are the best hilltops
or spots visible to each other as
sites for the bonfres. In several
localities, this work has already been
carried out and the sites have been
marked on maps. Each troop is
asked to obtain leave to use its site,
and to collect with its trek-cart the
necessary material for the bonfire,
much of which. it is hoped will be
given in kind BY neighbors.
"The idea is good one, and will
be worked out by Omaha scout
troops as soon as | get in touch with
national officers" Mr.. Hoyt said.
Omaha boy scouts are enthusiastic
over the proposal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20

Jane Novak, who played the lead
ing feminine role in 1.-THE Eyes of
the World" is playing opposite
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20
A Dreadful Mistake.

Look here, / bought bottle of your
hair restorer last night and all its done
is to raise these big bumps on my head"
my gracious" said the beauty doctor.
1--WE must have sold you a bottle Of
bust developer by mistake"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20
CLOTHES NEEDED
NOW, OMAHA RED
CROSS ASSERTS
Local Woman Says Even More
Than Food Europe's Des.
titute Millions Need
Clothing.

Food and clothes! Just the bare
necessities for keeping the fame of
life burning in the human body. That
is the appeal of more than 100000
people in northern France, Belgium,
Serbia, Roumania, Montenegro,
Palestine, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland,
Albania, Italy and Greece.
OF food they have little, but by
their own efforts And the help of
various relief agencies they have so
far been able to obtain sufficient
nourishment to sustain life. But Of
clothes they have practically none.
The head of the family wears cast
off soldiers tunic, pair of trousers
patched in half a dozen places
with plain burlap; the mothers
costume consists of trousers in many
instances. or a skirt made from
pieces of cast-off garments, and in
nine cases out of ten, mans shirt.
And so the Omaha Red Cross is
conducting an old clothes campaign.
From Sunday until March 80, the
cast-off garments of America will be
gathered up and sent direct to the
suffering countries overseas.
Shoes, Too, Needed Badly.
1t is not only dresses and suits
that are needed Leather shoes are
very scarce and underclothes lux
ury. The children go about CARRIED
in a Heterogeneous collection of
cloth that could not be graced with
the name of clothes. Socks and
stockings are articles that have be-
come practically unknown as a
clothing necessity in these regions"
said Mrs. Lucien Stephens in dis
cussing the local drive today.
"Men, women and children Of all
ages raise their voices In the cry.
They are refugees-the people who
were unfortunate enough to have
settled in the regions of Europe
which were overrun by the invading
army of Germans. They were no
more to blame for their misfor-
tunes than the comfortable citizens
of Kansas or Pennsylvania. Yet
they have suffered untold miseries
in this world upheaval.
w Hcu tHcy WCiC ullNCh lioAA
their homes before the oacoming
German hordes they took with them
only the clothes they had on their
backs. In returning to their homes
many wear these same clothes, worn
by months and even years of weary
wandering.
with the armistce their
thoughts and ambitions have turned
toward the places they once knew
as home. They have followed the
irresistible call of their hearts and
have come back. They find nothing
but desolation and ruin.
"All over that immense waste of
territory known as the devastated
and liberated areas, they can be
found living in dugouts that served
as she'll shelters for the contending
armies, in rudely constructed shacks
and dark cellars.
"Their need is tragic"
What's to be done? The people
Of Omaha, laborers, mechanics, pro-
fessional men, all. have good an
swer. Suits, coats, shirts, under
wear, socks, shoes that the individ-
ial has decided to discard, will give
much better service on the shiver-
ing and exposed backs of the I'M
fortunate millions of Europe than
as dust cloths or in the family rag
bao
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20
THEAT1E:RS
FEATURE Of unusual inter

A FEATURE of unusual inter
| ~ est in the new bill opening
at the Empress today is that
two former screen stars will appear
on the stage. Stan Laurel was fea-
tured with Charley Chaplin when
that famous English pantomimist
first came to America in Fred Ke-
mos Might in an English Music
Hail." Later he accepted an offer
made him by the Pathe people, APP
pearing in Il Waring comedies of
which mo Place Like Jail" "Just
Rambling" do You Love Your
Wife," "Rest Cure" and "Hoot
Mon" have been released. The
vehicle in which Mra Laurel is ap-
pearing at the Empress, was con-
cocted by himself during his appear
ance as screen star. and he advises
it cannot be explained, but he
vouches for its entertaining quail
ties. The other screen star who
will appear in Robert Millikin, who
has successfully appeared with the
famous Keystone players in some
of their best known screen COM
edies. In his present act, Mr.. Mil
likin sings both modern songs and
parodies of them, tells lot of time
ly Jokes and line of bright enter
tanning talk that has his audiences
following him with laughing appre-
citation. tt.
"A Naughty Bride" about which
not much is said by the advance
man, starts its weekend engagement
at the Boyd theater this evenig. 1t
is said to contain certain elements
of novelty and surprise that justify
the title.
Meet Allen Holubar--one of the
very few rivals of d. w. Griffith as
producer of film spectacles. Pic
ture critics who have seen "The
Heart of Humanity" the new null
tiple-reel drama of love and war at
the Brandeis theater are enthusiastic
in their praise of the young direct
or who has executed a masterpiece
in what is declared to be one of
the most engrossing film features
yet produced. Before directing
Dorothy Phillips in this latest Of the
Universal luminary's pictures, Holt
bar made THE Talk of the Town"
with Miss Phillips and also enacted
the leading role in Twenty Thou
san Leagues Under the Sea-" Holu-
bar is still in the latter span of
twenties and with the enthusiasm of
every youth outstrip everyone.
THE Heart of Humanity" is show
ing at the Brandeis twice daily all
week.
Lavishly staged and enlivened
with jazz music, the kaleidoscope of
dance. color and song offered by Lu-
ellie Cavenagh is the stellar attrac-
ton this week at the Orpheum. She
is capably assisted by the instru-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20
TIASHEU zrom FIIMI AND
PHOTO PLAY. OFFERINGS. FOR. TODAY.

Rupert Julian in his new super-pho-
toplay, The Fire Fingers" now be-
ing made from William ]. Neidig' S
Saturday Evening Post story.
Director Allen Holubar is casting
about for suitable starring vehicle
for Dorothy Phillips to succeed
The Heart of Humanity" the null
tiple reel Universal production that
is having a tremendous run all over
the country. At present the star is
recuperating from an attack of the
influenza as we'll as from the effects
of strenuous trip east.
To make a elephant, a five
months-old human baby and an
orang -outang synchronize their
movements for the camera is the task
Director William Campbell has at
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20

Lavishly staged and enlivened
with jazz music, the kaleidoscope of
dance. color and song offered by Lu-
ellie Cavenagh is the stellar attrac-
ton this week at the Orpheum. She
is capably assisted by the instru-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-20

Universal City in making spec
taculariy funny animal comedy soon
to be released.
Smiling" Billy Mason of Christie
comedy fame has just finished play.
ing opposite Edith Roberts i'll her
new Universal production, "A Taste
of Life" made under Jack billions
direction.
ALFRED Allen, UniversaPs veteran
character actor, will have an impor'
tant role in The Great White Dark.
ness" the tentative title Of Monroe
Salisbury's newest starring vehicls
i'll course of production under the
directorial guidance of Paul Powell