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New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

with which to fight At the meet
ing in the Greenwich Village The
ater an organizing committee was
chosen comprising DR.. Emil Mayer,
of 40 West Forty-first Street
Charles Henry Meltzer, of 241 West
Twelfth Street; Clayton Hamilton
and Nina Wilcox Putnam. Thew
are to form committee of twenty.
which will lay out a program Of ac-
tion to be submitted to another
meeting to be held about January
15. DR.. Mayer is the chairman of
the present committee and Mr..
Meltzer is the secretary. They have
the duty of enrolling members, and
until the larger committee is formed
and a permanent treasurer is elect
ed DR.. Mayer is the custodian Of
the funds of the league.
For the Unorganized
The purpose of the PEOPLES
League is to help the unorganized
masses of America. It does not
want any one in it who is a men,
Der of labor union. 1t does not
want any one who comes under the
heading of capitalist or profiteer.
1t does not want large contribu-
tions from wealthy people to pay
its expenses. 1t wants as it's men,
bers bank clerks, lawyers. doctors,
stenographers, typists, salesgirls and
statesmen, writer's, farmers and farm
laborers, business and professional
men and women of all kinds and
descriptions and wage earners who
are not organized-every one whose
salary or earnings have remained
stationary or practically stationary
since 1914 and the price of whose
living has not remained stationary
These are the ones the PEOPLES
League wants as members, and that
they may keep their independence
OF thought and action and their SOL
ldarity Of organization it wants
them to pay their own expenses by
a contribution of 81 a wear each
for dues and not ask for the char
lty OR philanthropy of any wealthy
man or women to warp their iudo-
ment and influence their action. II
Is the purpose of the PEOPLES
League to exert the power Of the
American middle class.
One of the speakers at the meet
ing on December 13 said:
As understand the purpose Of
the Peoples League of America, it
is not that we should strike in our
particular professions, at least, not
lmmediately--that is not the pri-
mary lntent-but that we should
form a series of autonomous groups
that would be loosely federated into
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lists, nor vile profiteers, to organize,

lists, nor vile profiteers, to organize,
however loosely at first, into one
great league, which, when once
organized, will have the power to
enforce its purpose. We protest alike
against the attitude of that vanished
millionaire who said The public
be damned and the attitude of the
striking dock laborer who said the
other day The public can 90 : TO
hell at time when the public was
being held up for great part Of
the necessar;es of life which were
lying and rotting away on the ships.
We are the public, and we do not
intend to oe sent to hell to oblige
either millionaires or laborers."
What France Did
What are to be the means of ac-
ton of the Peoples League? Mr..
Meltzer suggested some of them.
"Agitate, agitate, agitate," he said.
"That is the way in which every
broad reform has been carried
through in England. Agitation has
been the means to the end. Here it
has been little bit neglected. Peo-
pie seem to have fallen into the
habit Of trusting everything to the
government, or to the local authori
ties, and trusting very little, indeed.
to themselves, to their own initia-
tive.
I'm France lately, when these
labor troubles came, and when all
the profiteering began, the people
were very much more miserable than
they are here to-day. They got to-
gether, they dug up the statistics.
they studied the economic questions
and they went around from, store
to store and they said: Look here
we know the cost of such an art;-
Gle Is so much, and why do YOU sell
1t at 100 per cent more? If you don't
stop 1t we are going to do something
to YOU They never had to do any,
chlng, because the storekeepers i'm
mediately put down the prices We
could do the same sort of thing here
Just as we'll as they did it there
and we would have to sacrifice only
llttle bit of our time and comfort
for the purpose.
we could advocate strenuouslv
the restriction by law of net profits
so that no storekceper should be al
lowed to make 100 per cent profit.
and we could boycott notorious Of
tenders. That is very practical
way of getting at these prohteer.,
these landlords who are ABUSING
their power and at great many
other people through whom we are
suffering. In small communitie. T
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
By Ralph Courtney

AN0AkA SOAA ClCy
London.
TIME middle classes in Eng
land have decided to resist
oppression. Monopolistic
capitalists above and or
ganized labor below will now have
to reckon with the sovietized middle
classes.
The middle classes have taken a
leaf from the extremists book. They
have decided to organize themselves
on soviet lines as the best method
OF defeating their enemies.
Captain Stanley Abbot, who was
induced to forsake party politics in
order to undertake the defense of
the British bourgeois, told The
Tribune that the Middle Class
Union had sprung almost spontane-
ously from the needs Of the day.
Since its Inauguration in March,
1918, thousands of members have
enrolled themselves in it's ranks. 1t
now has parliamentary group of
more than fifty members of the
upper and lower houses pledged to
press the objects of the union.
The grand council Of the union,
which sits in London, is now fed by
more than 140 branch soviets in the
leading towns Of England. Local
branches may spring up anywhere.
The rule is that as soon as local
branch has more than ESQ members
it receives Z warrant" from the
central body which entities it to
send a member to the grand council
in London. The grand council is
divided into management, Parlia-
mentary, organization, propaganda
and other committees.
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Peoples League to Aid
i. S. Unorganized Masses

TIME precept Of England's ex-
ample has borne fruit in
America, where an organ
lied resistance to oppres-
sion from above and below has been
set on foot.
A. few weeks ago a man from
Winnipeg visited New York, and
while here talked of the great strike
that sought to tie up his city and
take possession Of it's government.
1--WE plain citizens got tired Of
being held up as we were,'' ne sala,
"and we got together and counted
noses. The result was that we found
the plain citizens, the middle classes,
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believe social ostracism would be
very efficacious. though I do not
believe it would be practical in large
cities like New York"
A Going Concern

The Peoples League is already a
going concern, with several hundred
members, and the list is growing
daily. The number of persons who
have written to the organizing COM
nittee from all parts of the country
and from all walks of life is really
surprising. The flames seem likely
to follow at any moment the thin
column of smoke that is rising from
the compressed mass of the Ameri-
can middle classes.
ut took seventy-five years for the
labor unions to get where they are
to-day" said profteer, who shifted
at the idea that the middle classes
might rise in their might and smite
him hip, thigh and brogans. How
do you expect to get anywhere in our
lifetime?"
"Yes," replied the Peoples
Lacquer, "it may have taken them
that time. But they 1ave been
working seventy-fve years, perhaps,
to show us how to do this thing in
seventy-five days"
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Forbes Robertson, E. p. Hewitt, X.
C.; C. F. Higham, M. P; Colonel
J. r. Pretyman-N Newman, M. P, and
others.
The ideal which the union set be-
fore itself was:..
"To organize the middle classes
for collective action to protect their
interests"
During the last six months close
upon two hundred meetings were
held by the union and its branches
in various parts Of the country. On
behalf Of the union the taxation
committee gave evidence before the
royal commission on income tax to
the effect that, among other things:
(a) No further increase Of in
come tax should be levied on in
comes under $4,000 per annum.
(b) The income tax Of wage
earners, whether manual or cleri-
cal, should be collected weekly.
Other activities Of the union con-
sisted in obtaining the right of rep
resentation on local committees un-
der the profiteering act and the
promise of the next vacant seat on
the consumers council Of thirty.
which sits under the Ministry Of
Food.
Broke Railroad Strike
The first crisis which the Middle
Class Union successfully weathered
was the recent railway strike. 1t
was owing to the spirit among the
middle classes which the union aims
at Harvesting that the British pub
lie carried on until settlement was
reached.
In preparation for the next round
Of its fight against organized labor
a new department of the central So
Wet has been formed. Two gener-
ais, two rear admirals and three
lieutenant colonels have formed q
committee for the maintenance of
the essential public services in times
Of strikes and have under their care
a carefully compiled list Of the serv.
ices for which members Of the union
are suited and which they voluntee,
to perform in case Of necessity.
| There is no move which can be
taken by labor extremists that the
Committee for the maintenance OF
|
essential public services" is not pre-.
pared to counter.
| When the scavengers of Kensing.
ton and Paddington came out the
other day on lightning strike they
found themselves up against the or
| ganization Of the Middle Class
!! Union. Volunteers were immediate.
iy called out by the committee, and
/ the strike thus rendered ineffective
Nevertheless, the Middle Glass
Union declares that It is not strike
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
May Even Strike

Av1sSy 8SyN1A - A0O
The Middle Class Union, in pur-
suance Of its ends, will use the strike
weapon il necessary. Mr.. Kennedy
Jones, M. r, one Of the leading. en-
thusiasts Of the union, says:.
"On the day the middle classes
strike the despised bourgeois will
prove himself a more redoubtable
and efficient antagonist than the
Bolshevist. Not a shop, nor bank,
nor church, nor hospital, nor
dispensary, nor a theater, nor a
cinema would open. The whole
business and pleasure Of the coun-
try would stop. No Papal bull Of
excommunication in the Dark Ages
would have caused more complete
paralysis Of national life. This Is
carrying self-protection to its logi-
cal conclusion"
The Middle Class Union is enroll
ing every one from viscount to the
meanest member of the shop-keep-
ing or professional classes. Mr..
Kennedy Jones states:
"A peer with moderate income
may be 80 hard hit by unfair taxa
tion that he is practically unable to
live. A retired greengrocer may
be so overburdened by the state de-
mands on his hard earned savings,
combined with the shrinkage Of the
purchasing power Of money, that
he Is on the verge Of beggary.
"Both peer and retired green
grocer are Of the middle classes in
the unions political use Of the
phrase; without the union neithe,
has any to defend his cause.
This state Of affairs is so mani
festly unfair that one wonders how
it has continued so long. The reason
probably is that only just before the
war the political power labor has
gained through its unions was fully
realized. Unless this power be con.
fronted by other powers Of nearly
equal. Of greater strength, human
nature being what it il, it is bound
to b abused, The victims will bs
the weak, those unable to defcne
their rights.
Solution IL Organization
''It IL the denial of civil justice
rights and liberties by the dcnainan
class for the time being, it matters
not whether II be upper, middle Of
lower, that has led, and always vii
lead, TO revolutions and rehellions
Let all classss BE- strong, and thsrs
will b psaeA ia the land; goot
viii Aourishes where seif-rcspect
abounds. But 1T the present stage
u civilization, ~ society il eonsti.
tuted, there cannot be strength with.
out organization.
The elass or section Of the com.
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a national Federal group. organized

a national Federal group, organized
primarily for self-protection, in or
der that we may get a clear-cut ex-
preston of our immediate needs or
immediate expressions.
The chairman said:
can organization of this kind that
asks for justice must not be un-
just. One of the things that we
purpose to do is to have our con-
stitution so arranged that the
organization will not be part and
parcel Of any individuals property,
nor will any action be taken on be-
half of the association that has not
been passed upon by majority of
the officers and the counsel of the
association.
1--WE hope to have the league so
constituted that it will be like the
government Of the United States.
having national body and state
bodies, the national body having
the control Of affairs of national
import, the state bodies to take care
of their own affairs. The chair
man and officers of the state bodies
are to be members of the national
committee, together with the chair
man and officers Of the national
organization"
The Leagues Purpose
In explaining what the league in
tended to fight, Mr.. Meltzer said:
eve ask you to join hands with
Us in fighting tyranny and greed.
We are tired of reading of the suf
ferlngs OF stevedores who lunch at
Delmonico's. We are sick of the
lmpudent arguments of oppressive
pork packers. We can synpathize
with the coal miners and not be-
grudge anything they can make out
of their work as long as we don't
have to pay an unjust price for our
coal. We want very much to get
after those particular landlords who
have been so mercilcss to the poor.
Those landlords should be hunted
down like the sordid beasts thew
are, and there are means of punish
ing them which are legal, and which
we can get together on. We abhor
all those unnecessary middlemen.
1--WE believe that in this nation
there are forty or fifty millions, if
not more, Of unorganized citizens
who, just because they are not
organized, are the playthings of a
minority of about five millions, part
~ federated labor men and partly
capitalists OF middlemen who are
organized. Our hope is to induce
the intermediate millions, who are
neither hand workers nor capital.
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were fifteen to one as compared to
the strikers, and we didn't see why
fifteen men should be clubbed and
browbeaten and driven into doing
the will of one man. We turned to
and did the work that had to
be done and that the strikers re-
fused to do, and the strike was
broken. The middle classes can al
ways get their rights if they will
only act together and insist on hav-
ing their rights. The trouble is that
they lack organization"
The leaven worked in the minds of
those the man from Winnipeg
talked to.
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The Sheep and the Goats

"There are in America" they said,
something like five millions of or
ganized labor. BY liberal COM
putation one may say there are
something like a million in the CAPT.
talist class, and to these must be
added that greedy band Of profteers,
the middlemen and the conscience
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-04-23
NOTICE
THE PRIDE OF CALDWELL is
HER BEAUTIFUL HOMES.
NOTICE

Let us remove all weeds and rub
Dish and make our homes ideal dur
ing clean up week, beginning April
Be it Remembered. By every prop
erty owner and resident in the CITY
OF Caldwell. Idaho; That the law re-
quires that all rubbish, weeds, gras.
ses. bushes, brush, and over hang
ing branches of trees be removed and
kept removed and prevented from in
any manner obstructing any alley or
street and from in any manner be-
coming injurious or obnoxious to the
general health and comfort of the
people of this city.
And. in case the same be not re-
moved by the owner of the property
upon which the same may be situated
or growing before the following Mon
day. the 10th day of April, 1920, then
the said council OF the city of Cald-
well. are required and will cause the
same to be removed and the charges
therefore together with penalty OF
ten cents for each twenty feet acre
age, to be levied and assessed against
said property and collected as pro-
vided by law.
w. GRANT WARD.
pSc. Mavor
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-04-23
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY
LEASE OF REALTY SHOULD
NOT BE MADE,

In the Probate Court of Canyon
County. Idaho.
In the matter of the Guardianship
of Frank E. Seward "A minor.
Upon reading the petition of Ida M.
Mertz, guardian of the estate of Frank
E. Seward, a minor, for an order 10
lease certain farm lands belonging to
said minor:
1T IS ORDERED, That all per.
sons interested in said estate appear
before this court on Friday the 3Oth
day OF April, 1920. at ten o'clock a. M,
then and there to show cause why said
farm lands situate in Garden Valley,
Boise, county, Idaho, and commonly
known as the Bert Seward ranch,
should not be leased for a period of
three years from March LIST. 1920, on
shares as mentioned and described in
the petition, to which reference is
hereby made for particulars:
AND 1T is FURTHER ORDER.
ED. That notice of said hearing be
given by publishing a copy of this or
der in the Caldwell Tribune, for two
successive weeks, being two issues.
prior to said hearing.
Dated this 18th day of April. 1920
S. BEN DUNLAP,
$3.50 Probate Judge.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-04-23

posed irrigating system for irrigatinR
all of the lands within said District
in the manner as shown by the plans.
specifications, estimates and reports
prepared and adopted in the manner
provided by law and now on file, and
open to public inspection, in the Of
flee of the Secretary of the said IT.
rigation District and in the office of
the. state engineer of the state of
Idaho.
Further notice is hereby given that
the Board of Directors Of said Cald-
we'll Irrigation District BY order
duly made and entered at their reg
ular meeting adjourned to the 18th
day of April, 1920, designated the
whole of said Irrigation District as
one election precinct, and the voting
place thereof at the resident of ].
w. Mitchell. in Block 8. of Murray's
addition to Caldwell within said
District.
At said election the ballots shall be
printed. and the words Bonds Yes"
and Bonds No." or: words equival-
ent thereto.
The polls shall be open at eight
O'Clock a. M. and remain open until
seven o'clock p. m, of said day.
REGISTRATION.
No registration is required TO vote
at said election, but in lieu thereof
the judges of election shall REQUIRE
every elector to subscribe to an cleo
tors oath as a prerequisite to casting
his vote. and such oath shall be the
usual electors oath. with the follow
ing words added thereto, "And am
a resident within the boundaries OF
the Caldwell Irrigation District, and
am holder of land in said District.
Witness my hand and seal this nth
day of April, 1920.
J. L. ISENBERC.
ASS- VI ZSc Secretary
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-04-23
Items of Interest From
Surrounding Territory

est man and the prettiest girl Melted
neat sum Sally Axhandle, fictitiou
character supported by several boy
winning the cake Ice cream cone
were sold during the evening bring
ing in surprising amount of nickels
The net proceeds were about $50. Thi
| is to be used to help fence the park
Mr. Mayberry and Mr.. Moore o
Fargo attended the pie social Frida,
night.
Mrs. Alice Shelton and children o
Roswell spent the week end with
Mrs. Shelton's sister, Mrs. Clarenc,
Moler and family and attended the
pie social.
Word has been received by Wal
ter Aten that his parents have sold
their Nebraska home and are err
route to Idaho and may locate again
in Arena. Their many friends here
will be very glad to have them back
here
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mattson en-
tertained Saturday night in honor OF
the teachers, Miss Parke and Miss
Hctrick. About 50 friends were pres
cnt and very pleasant evening spent
at cards and dancing. Cake and cof-
fec were the refreshments served at
a late hour.
Rev. WEIGH preached here Sunday
to large audience. He was accom-
panied by some of the Roswell young
people.
A crowd of about twenty Arenaites
accompanied by Mrs. Peterson, Est
her Johnson, Myra Casey, Helen Usa-
del and Raymond Price of Parma
spent Sunday at Jump Creek.
At the school meeting Monday
night, w. F. Wright was reelected
school director for two years and
George Sweigert was elected in Chas.
Marston's place for three years.
The George Sweigert family spent
Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Will
Pollard in her new home in Roswell
Miss Una Moore. an Arena. girl.
who attends the Roswell school won
the spelling contest between Roswell
and Parma last week making a record
of 100 per cent. She will now COM
pete in county contest. She is the
Oldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ad
Moore.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-04-23
SPLENDID LANDS
AWAIT SETTLERS
CALDWELL MAN IS ENTHUS-
IASTIC OVER WONDERFUL
PROSPECTS HE FINDS.

During the month of October, Mr.
X. 5. Madden made trip to Nevada
to investigate lands under a govern.
ment project very similar to the Boise
Payette project. He found q projec,
with one hundred ninety-two thous-
and acres of land with storage wates
for its source Of supply, with cost OF
construction almost the same as our
project here. but with land selling one
fourth to one-half the price asked for
It around Caldwell under similar con
ditions. -
| The opportunities here looked 90
great that he made a second visit dur
ing the month of November, and in
January made a third visit and decid-
cd that it was worth while to open an
office at Fallon and get next to some
lands that were producing an equal
amount of grain or hay with our lands
here at much less price. Since his
first visit, perhaps sixty Caldwell men
have visited this project and the ma
lority OF them have made investments.
During the last week in February sew
en- farmers from the vicinity of Cald
well investigated the opportunities and
each OF them bought a tract of land.
1t seems to us that after seven farmers
would make it unanimous that their
judgment OUGHT to be worth some
thing to the balance of us here.
We believe it is worth your while to
investigate the conditions under this
project and can assure you that you
will find courteous treatment from our
representative in Fallon who is known
to practically every man. woman and
child in this country.
Drop in to the home office at Cald-
well and talk it over with us and get
some literature. We believe we have
the opportunity of life time.
NICHOI., HANNA & MADDEN,
ADV, Caldwell. Ida.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-04-23
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the Probate Court of Canyon
County, Idaho.
In the matter of the estate of Ad.
die J. DeMoss. deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the uu-
dersigned administrator of the estate
OF Addie J. DeMoss deceased, to the
creditors of and all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them with the necessary vou-
cheers, within four months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator, at the office of the
Probate Judge of Canyon County,
Idaho, in the court house at Caldwell
Canyon. County, Idaho. said place be-
ing designated as the place for trans.
action of business of said estate in the
County of Canyon. State of Idaho.
Dated April lst. 1920.
M. F. SMITH,
Administrator of the estate of Ad.
die J. DeMoss. deceased. 29-37c