davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

Trains No. and ~ were delayed
somewhat Tuesday morning by the
derallment of freight car near Nil
lkens CROSSING
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

--t...a Ak OF The Fee Baptist
..- w. Meet with Mrs. Elme,
.4-. IA -~ison avenue. Thurs
'-~gnon March I.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03
AUGUSTALOCALS

Il. Z Hartman and Rcy Giles Of
Readtield were business callers Tuesday
IL This ciTv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

Spencer Packard of Portsmouth. n
Il. WIS the guest Of friends IN this
CITY Tuesdav
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

The Ladies Aid uf The I-andoipE
NJ Z. cnurcn VIII meet Al III" cnar-.,
vesf,-y on Thurstiuy afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

Friends II Mrs. Frances Tarney
hincaid W. ,ea'a- 80 l1ar q The
critical Illness II her infant son II
me home III Garliner
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

II. ". Williams Of lewiston WIS :
business visitor n this CITY Tuesday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

Regular meeting Of Gardiner huge
No 8. I .. Q. p. Thursduy evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

+ Consider ]. Canrer's reason for
making his low price sale Read
4 the ad for facts
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

-.s AXE. Anne left Tuesday for
lbs. =. resumc her occupa :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

M Goodwin left "Wednesday on 4
business trip 10 New York
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

F, Ripley ief- Tuesday ror
i friends IN Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

e ITS. arthur Lapnau ware
81" TUESDAY. called ily che
3. ia1rer's sister.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

NJ. and Mrs Norman FleIrlNG 70
turned Monday from their wedding
toUr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

john Alden Of DikInont VIZ calling
on Gardiner friends MOnday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

u. 4. aaraden Of BAH WIS a"iaito,
in his CITY Tuesda-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

-lvde C0rtIe OF Lawrence, Mass. Is
VISITING his father. Samuel Corrle n
MS CITY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

Mrs Albert X. Smith u HaIloweH
WIS arnongt The out-ot-tow.l visitors in
Gardiner Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03
stated

Stated Communication Of ksnne-
bee Lodge No. ). r and A. NJ. We'd
nesday evening. March 5. n 80 r.
A. " ORR n tht II. NJ. Decree
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

Or-lE Mulhern II Augusta mas az
cepted employmen. with The Arnerl-
IAN Glue %. Of Inns cry
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

The Art ClEb viii meet Thurssia =
evening with Mrs Georgia James
Main avenue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

came Warden Richard J. Upton Of
augusta was IN the city Tuesday or
f, official business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

lodge Is reported as con-
IFS nome bv Illness. .
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

A-s. James IT ellison were
Bangor. Tuesdav ....
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03
LOCAL NOTICE

VIII shower snow from roofs in Ea,-
lowell. C-eo. =. Choata spring St.
nlch tior~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-03

II. spear Was among the
+ "o'.!unu. Tuesdu.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

Soviet the following
(r) 2
the Red denobized for labor
Labor Office
closed lack of fuel
workuen
Instead
produced
The Only existing enterprises
The a in
industry
to m
THE
exclusive those
r.,
Wages the Connissarst of
Labor for August September, rs,
The the saiayo skilled
than the in cos of living"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

were only 5,2O4. (Economlscheskaya jim,
No 40, 1919
1.-THE glass industry is ruined. Only a
fifth of the existing enterprises arc working
and these with difficulty. Production has
sunk by more than 1000 per cent Confer
ence of Glass Workers. February. 1919
Metal Industries Hardest Hit.
But the repercussion OF Russian affairs
has been felt above all in the metal indus
try. The number of workers employed
therein fell from $4,000 I'm January. 1917.
to $4,000 on October /. 1918 ('Economisches-
kaya jim No. 49, March 49, In other words,
the decrease amounts to 500 per cent.
In drawing up their general budget the
Soviet press states that the number OF
workers employed in industry exclusive Of
those on railways Tin Soviet Russia. that Is
% administrative areas) had decreased by
2,4O2000 men up to January T. 1919 ("Sever-
maya kommuna.D But production fell much
more.
For the greater number OF the branches
& Russian industry the decrease i'm produc-
ton may be estimated at 400-500 per cent.
(Extract from the report Of the Supreme
Council Of Popular Economy March 1879 "
After this general account of the indus
trial conditions in Russia" continues the In
ternational Labor Office report ct seems
useless to reproduce other evidence regard
ing particular enterprises, for II follows al .
rectly from what has been said that the
situation has but grown worse during 1918
and 1919 This fact is incontestable. il is adj
mitted from all sides. II is only on its his
'Lrical and economic Interpretation that
there Is a difference Of opinion. Is it ma
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
Rays From a Strange Light.

From the chapter on 'srhe Material Re-
suits of Industrial Naturalization" here are
n few OF the Illuminating rays from what
Mr.. Thomas calls "a strange light: they are
projected precisely as they were reflected
i'm the report of the researches of Mr.
Thomas and his associates:
"On January /, 1917. there were in Petro-
grad and the surrounding district 343 900
workers employed in large scale industry
and $4,000 In small scale industry. The in
quiry of the Commissariat of Labor dealt
with 96 enterprises with 292662 workers
that is to say 9S.5 per cent. of all the work.
ers In large scale industry. or 775 per cent
OF the total number of workers Between
January, 1917. and October. 1918. Of the 14O
enterprises which replied to the inquiry a.
stopped working. The decline has been par
tcularly great in the metal industry (from
"a the number OF factories fell to 4O).
THE greatest decrease i'm the number OF
workers took place on May 1, 1918 calling
almost to third
Between May 1, 1917, and October I, 1918
the decrease In the various branches of in
dustry is shown in the following table:
The number of workers fell by:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

"In the administrative area OF Novgorod
1872 large enterprises. or three quarters OF
the total number, are not working for want
of raw materials. (Severnaya Kommuna, No.
37) The Bolshevik, Anissimof, states that
the industry Of the district of Olonetz is
ruined OF 81 large enterprises only 6 are
working. Congress of Northern District
Councils of Popular Economy, March, 1879
1.-The sugar industry of Great Russia is
passing through painful time. Instead of
the 100000 pools of sugar, normal In 1917.
only 1,542,900 pools were produced. But,
worse STILL is the decrease in head of cattle
in the sugar producing districts. Instead Of
1922 head counted in 1917. in 1919 there
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

true that at times there have been attempts
at general strike of the trade unions in
protest against the domination of the Peo-
pies Commissaries? And is 1t not also true
that at the very moment when the Peoples
operatives could exist outside the regular
Russian Cooperators, founders of those or
tacks on their liberty of cooperation? What
is the truth of the matter? Or rather, where
lies its reality?
light is thrown over the domain of ideas and
Facts of the Russian revolution by the sim
pie grouping OF some fragmentary notes in
The Material Results of Naturalization
Spontaneous organization of workers con-
troll; instructive efforts toward the immedi-
ate appropriation of the means of produce
ton scarcely to be distinguished from the
mass seizure advocated by some Theorists
then organization, regulation through the
unions; safeguarding of the means Of pro-
duction by a policy of State naturalization
whicc is opposed to these instructive efforts;
the opposition of collective interests, opposi-
ton from the central state organization to
the idea of the factory for its workers the
mine for the miners, the railways for the
railway men: gradual creation of regular
administrative organizations: in all these
phases of few years--a few months-there
is an entire history. VIII the first inuuirers
be able even to outline it? And yet. for the
future welfare OF other countries IL is essen
tial that it should be known"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

us that, according to the figures of the
Statistical Section, of the total number of
go industrial enterprises existing in 1917 in
Petrograd and district 246 have shut down.
The number of workers discharged is $4,000
SIS of the enterprises completely shut down
belong to the metal industry.
I'VE now come to description, richer in
data this time. of the conditions of industry
in Russia given by Sokoloff In his Les boil
chevstis JUICES par eux-memes' Opp. 44-4O.
He bases his facts on a series of numbers of
various Russian papers for March and April,
1919, the originals of which we have not been
able to obtain
However, in spite of naturalization
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

tionaliZation solely which is the cause of the
destruction of Russian industry? Does state
ownership of industry lead to it's ruin. Or.
IN the contrary, is the downfall of Russian
industry due to transitory causes of his
toric. psychological and economic kind?"
The Productivity Slumps.
Taking up next Productivity of the
Worker" the report cites official Russian
Gata from 46 textile factories. comparing
suits in 1917 and 1918. 1t appears that, In
spite Of an increase of 1875 per cent. in the
number of workers in that period, production
has fallen seriously. In three thread fac
tories of the Neva a comparison of 1916 con-
ditons with those of 1919 showed that, while
the cost of thread was thirty times greater
han before. production had become six
times less. Nine Russian locomotive build
ing works turned out In 1918 only 1871 loco
motives, instead of $50 as in 1917. The
Putlov works completed only seven locomo-
tives in 1918.
Trud the official organ of the trades
unions of Petrograd, said in its issue Of
August 2S, 1919:
1T is of the utmost Importance to use 10
the full our resources, for the productivity
of the worker has fallen to nothing
"The fall of the productivity of work is
shown by the following instances, taken
from the report of the Special Commission
(January, 1879: In the Moscow railway
workshops the number OF workmen in 1916
was 1872; in 1917. 1.179; in 1918. 1,772, viz.
it has increased by so per cent. The number
of workmen's off days and holidays is ever
growing, making in 1916, 6 per cent. in 1917.
IL per cent, and in 1918. 1916 per cent. To
each railway car which had left the work o.
shop there was estimated as having been
employed in making it in 1915 0.44 men; in
1917. 1872; I'm 1918. 41.5.
THE fall of the labor productivity I'm the
colieries is as follows: The normal amount
Of work of one man per month is $50 pools :;
in 1916 II was GA pools. in 1917 448 pools,
and in 1918 II fell to 242 pools The value OF
articles manufactured by one workman per
day ESTIMATED at eight hour day and the
prices counted on the standard of 1870 was
as follows: In 1916 100 per cent; in 1917 IS
per cent; i'm 1918 40 per cent. Similar events
are noted In the textile, cotton cloth and other
branches of industry AS result, national
lied industry gave after the first half OF
1919 a deficit of 5000 million rubles. l. e.. 44.5
per cent. of its budget (11 billions of rubles)
and the railways billions deficit out OF the
> billions of its budget"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
Utopian Dream Fades Away.

The Soviet Government started out with
a compulsory eight hour day and six day
week for workmen. From time 10 time,
however wireless official messages have i'm
dicated the collapse in Russia of this utopian
dream, which most trades unions In other
countries already have realized, and extern
sions OF working periods under stress Of ne
cessity. The report devotes an interesting
chapter to this evolution. the conclusion Of
which is:
IT therefore, may believe these mes
sages. which evidently come from official
sources. the length OF the working day is
st.ii in principle eight hours, but tenn
purary measure 90 overcome the crisis an
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

(perhaps even thanks to it). Russian indus
try is doing the Russian state great harm.
1.-The tobacco industry is going through
an acute crisis. For one month the Petro-
grad factories showed deficit OF 1000, 900
rubles. Conference of tobacco workers,
April "a, 1919. See Tzuestia. No. s9).
According to the figures of the printing
trade section eighteen nationallzed printing
works i'm Petrograd suffered for the year
1919 a deficit Of about 13,S0O,000 rubles.
CPravda, No. los Of May H. 1870.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
Soviet Subsidies.

The Soviet government Is subsdizing the
nationalized industries heavily. BY itself alone
the metal section of the Supreme Council
of Public Economy, during one single month
(January) paid to various metal works the
sum of 1,167295000 rubles (Economches-
kaya jim No. 500. The central organization
of the copper industry (Centralomied) has
received into it's Golfers 1,193,990 900 rubies
Ubid). The central organization which con-
trolls the textile factories tCentrotextile) re-
ceived $500, 100000 rubes as subsidies for
the nationalized textile factories. CEcono-
mIcheskaya jim No 43, 1879
In spite of this support production fell
off greatly as a result factories closed down
en- masse for lack of fuel and raw materials
"All the textile factories in Petrograd,
nineteen In number. are closed. About 30 900
workmen are idle. cSevernaya Kommuna
No 10s. May. 1879
1.-The number of industrial enterprises
i'm Moscow fell from the 6S1 which existed i'm
1917 to 17S on March l. 1912 (Economisch-
eskaya jim, No. 81 Report of the Moscow
Council of Popular Economy
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
The New Autocrats.

Lenine and Trotzky have followed the
naturalization Of industry with its logical
sequence-the militarization of labor. Free
labor, if such thing ever existed In Russia
is now only a memory The Soviet rulers
are the new autocrats. Trotzky, addressing
the Central Revolutionary Executive Com
mittee last February, said:
THE Soviet Republic will not allow itself
20 be affected by the grievances of those
who are plunged in liberal and bourgeois
prejudices; liberty Of the labor Of the eN-
ploiter is the ruin of the state. Tha basis
VI the Socalistic state is universal labJr. n
is time to put this principle into practice"
At the Third Congress of the Econon,'
Council, late in January. 1920, Lenine De-
picted the cruel situation then confrontnr
the Soviet Republic "on the one hand
famine. cold and typhus and on the other
said he. "the extraordinary will Of the work
ing and peasant masses.
TO cope with this situation he contin
ued, 1--WE have created labor armies; we can
not demobilize our army and we cannot cor
fine ourselves 20 the old capitalistic method
of fighting against misery and famin,
There are perhaps still some social revolu
tonGries or Mensheviks, those belatcd de-
tenders OF capitalism who will speak of th'
liberty of labor az the moment when
must wage war against capitalism; they do
not understand that this is the old capta
istc lie about illusory freedom"
Just as the sacred right to work is m4o,
compulsory so the laborer's cherished righ,
t. strike is forbidden him under Soviet rule
In Russia. decree of the Council Of TIE
Peoples Commissaries OF June IS 1918.
declared that every stoppage OF work anC
all strikes will be an act OF treason to the
proletarian revolution"
As late as August 1919, Lovat Frazer,
correspondent of the London Daily MAJ.
wrote according TO one citation. Of the re-
port under review:
'1n Soviet Russia the workers have not
the right 10 strike. Strikes are punishable
with death The Commissaries decide when
ard how one has 20 work. Change Of local
ity is forbidden except by a special permit
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
Soviet Code of Compulsory Labor


unemployed person has right to refuse
he task assigned to him by the Department
OF Labor Distribution and at the wage fixed
therefor What would union labor partisans
in this country or Great Britain, so tenacious
of their right to strike or to take a vaca-
ton at WILL think of this particular pro-
vision of the Code of Labor Laws of free
Soviet Russia?
Private individuals who have violated
the rules of labor distribution subject
to penalties imposed upon them by the local
Collegium of the Department of Labor Dis
trbution in the form of fine of not less
than 800 roubles deprivation of liberty
for not less than a week. Soviet establish
of labor distribution are guilty of official
crime"
Despite the compulsory labor ideal, the
Russian Commissary of Labor reported in
June 1918 that the number of unemployed
persons was in excess of 300. 900. The Boil
shevis.s devised an elaborate system Of
relief funds for the unemployed, the former
employing classes, of course, being mulcted
for the maintenance of the fund. A. Anikst,
chief OF the Labor Market section of the
Commissariat of Labor is quoted as having
made in one of his official bulletins a naive
explanation Of the non-acceptance of regular
employment. The unemployed" says the
chief of section. receive to rubles and
meals; seeing that they can earn secretly
rs rubles more, there is no reason why they
should take work paid at 13 to Is rubles a
day."
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
Lenine's Promises Fail Miserably, Pro
ductivity Slumping, Compulsory
Work Resulting and Militariza-
ton of Labor Following

production and transport at present raging
in Russia the working day is prolonged to
ten hours and the weekly rest on Sunday is
now done away with"
Under the head of Wages" (Which in
Sgv3ot Russia are determined by the STATED
the report cites a bulletin of the Commits
Earisi Of Labor for August September 1918,
showing these facts:
The average increase in the salary of
skilled metal worker is five times less than
-he increase in cost of living
'Pstrograd Region.-(a) The daily wage
of iaborers has increased from rubles in
1sl7 10 - rubles in 1918. The real salary
expressed in calories of the food ration has
decreased by 2SS per cent. calculating ac-
cording to uncontrolled prices, and 156 per
cent according to controlled prices.
~(b) The average salary of the Petrograd
working man increased from 26.7 rubles per
month in 1914 to ESQ rubles in 1918. The
price Of food increased from III rubles per
month to 900 rubles 6or married mani and
SOILS (unmarried) during the same period
"(c) If We suppose the salary in the be-
ginning of 1918 to be 100, food expenses will
lie 322 for the married man and 215 for the
unmarried.
"(d) The inquiry as to the workngman's
budget by the Labor Section at Petrograd
SHOWS that on June l. 1918, the expenses of
a workingmans family We're lis rubles per
head and the salaries rubes per head,
l. e., deficit of 95 per cent The increase
in prices of foodstuffs from June / to Sep
tamber 1, 1918, is 40 per cent. controlled
prices and so per cent. in the open market
hence further deficit.
after this period" says the report, there
is no documentary information Whatsoever
and it is impossible at the present moment
to form an idea as to the actual quantity OF
necessities a workman can buy with the
minimum wage"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-09-29
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-09-29
(iets=It''
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SatiSfaction Guaranteed With This
Corn Remover.

Common sense tD!l3 my Doiy that the
wDy 70 cure ~ corn Is 10 remove II. cap
Gnu .0Nt-bNnish II nMtirely.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-09-29

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corns fut every kind Of corn surrcndor5
90 90 g5.It,n the national corn remover.
IT takes weeks or months togrOw corn.
IS tnk"S Just q few seconds 70 stop us
main with two or three drops ot'GctS-l :"
nnich ~ is ioCSenS so you cnn pcel 1T right
off without the Yeast twinGe or hurt and
it Ia gone!
'Gets-it," tho never falling, guaran-
iced. money back corn remover, rosts but
81 lawrence & 90, Chicago.
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aS ae worlds best corn remedy b
f.a3tDn~ D'ug 10. and rItuam'r Dr@'
store.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-24
WATER AND SEWER EXTENSION

Sealed proposals will be received by
the Mayor and Board of Trustees OF
the City of New Iberia, La, at the
Mayors Office, until 3 P. NJ, July
9th, 1920, for Water and Sewer Elk
tensions.
The work will consist Of practically
the following:
Sewer Extension, Center Street.
| standard man-hole
"a 8" 6" a" YES
sos lineal feet Of 8" T. C. pipe
600 lineal feet of 4" T. C. pipe
Sewer Extension, Iberia Street.
5 standard man-holes
/ flush tank
so, SKA" Y's
14OO lineal feet 8" T. C. pipe.
1900 lineal feet a" T. c. pipe.
Contractor to furnish all material
and put in place complete as per spe-
cifications on file in City Clerks Of
fee.
Water Main Extension on Center
from Main to Madison.
1900 lineal feet 6" class &c" cas-
iron pipe
2, g. gate valves ~
2 Bourbon hydrants
4, 8x6 ''T'
1, 6x6 "T"
/, 6x4 1T
800 feet 4" water main on South
end Of Center from Dale to City Ii
NIT, to connect with present 6" main
| reducer from to will be re
quired.
2, 4" "Tees.
Water Extension on Iberia Street
l hydrant
2, A" tees
l, 6 to A" reducer
800 feet class &C" cast iron pipe
All pipe and fittings to be class &c
Contractor will be required to fur
nish best quality Of material as call
ed for in bid, complete the work il
every respect in accordance witt
plans and specifications on file a
City Hall. Bidders will be required
to deposit with bid, certified checl
for $4,000 made payable to tn
Trustee Of Finance as guarantee o
good faith. All unsuccessful bidder
will have their certified checks return
ed within five days. The City re
serves the right to reject any or al
bids.
A bond shall be given for FIT.
(5O) per cent. Of the contract pric
for satisfactory execution of same.
(Signed)
H. S. Sealy, Mayor.