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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-06

and basic rates, were arranged at con-
ferences between officials of the CON-
pany and representative OF the en-
ployes and followed numerous re-
quests, made by employees. that the
12-hour work shift be eliminated.
The immediate results, from the
standpoint of production per man hour
and OF labor cost per unit of output,
were satisfactory, and where condi-
tons have been comparable, it has
been evident that we have lost moth
ing either in producing cost or out
put by reason Of the change.
AT blast furnaces the labor cost
per ton, Immediately following the in
PRODUCTION Of the eight-hour day with
the increase of 10 per cent in wage
rates, increased slightly over one per
cent above former costs. At open
hearth furnaces 1t increased one and
one-half per cent; while at our roll
ing mills there was a substantial re-
duction in the labor cost per ton. -a-
Results Obtained. 80
Recent careful analysis Of operat-
ing results between various IL and
eight hour periods have been made
and show these results to be even
more satisfactory than we had realiz-
ed before. The trend Of production
per man hour, with unimportant ex.
eeptions, has been upward since the
adoption Of the eight hour day; and
In every department Of our steel man.
ufacturing operations, from blast fur
mace to the wire mill, our production
per man hour Is now greater than II
was when all Of these activities were
operating on the 12-hour shift. Com
pairing these results of the last few
months with periods of similar pro-
ductiOn when basic rates were 10 per
cent lower than current rates and the
working time ~ hours per day, we
find that almost without exception
our labor cost per ton is lower than
in the earlier periods.
No Labor Shortage.
Furthermore, whenever the uues-
tion Of change made in the length OF
the working day has come up for dis
cussion between officials and EN-.
ployes' Representatives. satisfaction
with the change has been expressed
by the employees. It is obvious, there
fore, that our change from a IL to
an eight hour day was practical and
has been successful.
"A factor Of added interest Is the
fact that with almost capacity opera
lions at our steel plant during the last
few months and employing over six
thousand men, we have experienced
no shortage Of labor. Our operating
officials have frequently expressed the
belief that this condition is due. in
large part at least. to adoption Of the
eight-hour shift.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-06

KeIso, Wash.-Guy Rathbun Post,
American Legion. closed a deal for
the former United States shipping
board ship Montezuma and she was
towed down the Columbia and into the
cowlitz river. overhauling Of the
boat, which is 2S5 feet long, win start
at once. Thirty staterOoms which are
completely furnished win be furnished
and rented as living rooms.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-06
arIlInh Laber Votss . RetaIn Rov

Brisish Labor Votes to Retain Royalty.
London.-The British labor party in
conference here, by an Overwhelming
majority, rejected a resolution advo-
eating abolition Of the British royal
family. The resolution sought to take
from the Feigniug house Of Windsor ell
rnyal DerQuisites.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-06
REDUCTION IN HOURS
REDUCES STEEL COST
STATES OFFICIAL
Cost Per Ton Lower Since the Short
er Work Day Was Adopted, Says
President Of Colorado Fuel q Iron
Company.

What a contrast between this state
ment made by the president of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company and the
report submitted to the board Of d.
rectors of the Steel Corporation by
Cary Gary claimed that the dis.
continuation OF the 12-hour day wouIO
raise the price Of steel and that there
was now a shortage of labor and that
it would be impossible to recruit
enough labor to put the industry on
three eight-hour shifts. Mr.. WelbOrn,
president Of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company has actually reduced the
work day from twelve to eight hours
per day and finds that the cost per
ton Of iron and steel has been reduced
by this change.
Mr.. Welborn honestly admits thai
he did not think that this was pos.
sible. For that reason many employ.
ers refuse to shorten hours of labor
because they believe that the CON-
modify produced will advance in price
and the demand be reduced. Organic.
ed labor has repeatedly tried to coun-
teract this belief and is gradually
convincing the larger employers OF
their error. The following statement
by Mr.. Welborn bears out labors' con.
tentiOn:
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-06
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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-06

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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-06
AUTOMOBILE RACES
AT COPALIS SUNDAY
All Visitors at the Beach May Enter

All Visitors at the Beach May Enter
/ Cars In the Races and Win Prizes.
Automobile races on the beaches OF
the Pacific! No, not on the Cali
fornia coast--but on Grays Harbor, at
Copalis beach. starting Sunday at
o'clock. Many owners of cars have
signified their intention Of entering
them in the races. The races are
open to everyone and every make from
flivver to an automobile. II you
consider your gas wagon speedy and
wish to test its speed over one Of
the finest courses In the world, nose
1t up to the tape next Sunday after
noon at Copalic beach.
The cars will make their start from
the Janet Carruthers, run to the jetty,
circle back to the Carruthers and
thence to Copalis. where the race viii
end, making a total course of 20 miles.
Roy F. Price, secretary Of the Co
pals Ocean Beach Club, and F. B.
Prante Of the Copalis garage, who is
also member Of the club, visited the
Harbor cities yesterday to announce
the first auto races on the beach this
season.
Extend Invitation.
C. e. Armantrout, president Of the
Washington State Automobile Asso-
citation, of Aberdeen, will attend the
races and assist in every way possible.
The beach at Copalis offers wonder
full drive way and Mr.. Price said that
il it were located in California it
would be used by thousands of cars.
A cordial invitation is extended to
the people Of Grays Harbor by the
Copalis Ocean Beach Club to bring
their dinner baskets and enjoy the
day on one Of the finest beaches and
witness the races. A number of fine
prizes have been contributed by bust
ness firms of Aberdeen and HOquiam
which will be given to the winners
OF the races. Rules will be formulated
to give all entries a fair opportunity
and should the day be favorable, it
is expected that large crowd will be
on hand to witness the event. The
event is in the nature of community
one for all of the cities and towns Of
Grays Harbor.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-06

"The change was made November
/, 1918. the hourly. tonnage and piece
rates being increased ten per cent
when the working shift was reduced
from ~ to eight hours. Our rate,
prior to November i. 1918, had always
been on the same basis as the steel
industry generally paid in the Ea.
The changes both in working no dIs
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09
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White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

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terminating Sept. 22), the
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
POET WRITES
LIFE STORY
D'AnnunZiO to Publish Three
Books About Himself

Rome, Oct. 1S-Gabriele dan
nunzio, poet, statesman and soldier,
has leased from the Italian govern
ment the Villa Falconieri,s and will
relinquish his present residence on
Lake Garda. He promises to publish
shortly two or three books, one of
which, about Ne and Myself" is
said to be photographed, audacious
and outspoken, even for these un-
reticent days. Another is called the
''Adventurer Without Adventures"
and yet another, "The Archangel of
ASIA" gives dAnnunzio's Impressions
of the East.
The Villa Falconieri is one of the
oldest and most romantic of the
lovely 18th century elias which were
laid out with so much taste and
charm by the xury-loving princes
of the Church as their summer resi-
dences near Rome. 1t was acquired
twelve years ago by the then emper.
or of Germany, who had it fittec
up as resting place for German
artists, literary men and Officers
wishing to winter in Romet During
the war it was confiseated by the
| Italian authorities. EB.
Like all these country houses O.
the Renaissance the grounds of the
! Villa Falconieri ATE full ofistatuary
beautiful trees, and formal, texquisit,
| fountains and waterfalls. There il
also romantic lake, surrounded b!
Expresses, which is said to be haunt
ed by the wrath of water-nymph
or perhaps by that of a young CIR
/ Of more modern days whose bod.
like that of another Ophelia, wa
found floating there, crowned an,
covered with flowers.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
Spreading Cheer 4.
Is Contribution
To Mankind

Muskegon Mich, Oct. 19.-Believ-
ing that the greatest service any
person can give to his fellow man is
that Of spreading cheer and happi-
ness. A. H. Allen, the largest pro-
Queer of gladioli in western Miehi-
gan, has consecrated his life to the
raising of flowers for free distribu-
ton to hospitals, charitable nstltu-
tions and public buildings in order
that he may extend his message of
human kindness to all who look up
his offerings.
r About Is years ago Mr.. Allen be-
came imbued with the idea of serv-
ing humanity. Always a lover of
flowers, he decided to use them as
his medium for showing his love for
others. E
The Allen farm has-i1 acres de-
voted to the culture of gladioli. Dur
ing the Towering season the tract
is riot of every color and color
| combination conceivable. In all
there are 81 varieties of this popu-
lar flower, each with it's distinctive
coloring and it's own characteristics.
Mr.. Allen. during the Towering
season, comes down town each day
with supply of blossoms, makes his
rounds, and leaves bouquets at the
hospitals and in other places where
he believes they will be appreciated
"The sight of flowers is the great
est tonic for persons who are i'll OF
discouraged that the world ever has
produced" Mr.. Allen said. Il have
proof that flowers do speak Ian.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK

So. st. Paul, Oct. 1S.-Cattle re-
ceipts 5000 Slow. generally weak
to % cents or more lower. Grass
.at steers largely $4.25 to $3.50.
with best westerns duotable on up
ito $3.50 or somewhat higher.
Grass-fat she stock largely $500 to
$3.50, with few young COWS and
heifers on up to $3.50 or $500.
Gamers and cutters largely $500
to $275. Bologna bulls mostly
So so to $500. Suckers and feed
ers quotable 1925 to $3.50. Bulk
selling $500 to $3.50.
Calves receipts 1900. Twenty
five to so cents lower. Best lights
largely $3.50 to 1915.
Hog receipts 1900. Mostly %
cents lower. Choice-sorted $50 to
around 100 pound averages to ship
pers $3.50. Bulk mixed lights and
butchers $6.75. Some 800 to 1926
pound butchers $3.50. Bulk pack
ing sows $500 to 500. Few
smooth kind higher. Around 1900
pigs here. Mostly early sales 2s
| cents or more lower.
Sheep receipts 1000. Mostly 2;
cents lower Bulk desirable ia
lambs SIPS. Culls largely $500
Sheep steady. Fleshy ewes to pack
ers $3.50 to $3.50. Two loads
choice 50-pound range feeding
lambs late Wednesday $3.50.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
Iowa Physician Makes
Startling Offer To
Catarrah sufferers
Found Treatment Which Healed His
Own Catarrh and Now Offers
to Send It Free To Sufferers
Anywhere

Davenport, Iowa.-Dr. w. Q. COT
fee. Suite 1920, St. James Hotel
Bldg, this city, one of the most
widely known physicians and sur
geons in the central west, announces.
that he found treatment which
completely healed him Of catarrah
in the head and nose, deafness and
head noises after many years of suf-
fering. He then gave the treatment
Ito number of other sufferers and
they state that they also were COM
pletely healed. The Doctor is $50
proud .1of his achievement and Nso
confident, that his treatment will
bring other sufferers the sarge free
dom it gave him, that he is offering
to send a 10 days supply, absolutely
free to any reader Of this paper who
writes him. DR.. Coffee has special
lied on eye, ear, nose and throat
diseases for more than thirty-fiye
years and is honored and respected
Iby countless thousands. II you suf-
i fer from nose, head or throat cat
arrh, catarrhal deafness or head
noises, send him your nan3e and adj
dress today. ADV.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18

a. governmental marketing agency
created. During the war, he said,
Northwest farmers responded nobly,
raising wheat at fixed price below
the price of supply and demand, to
feed the armies. Since the war this
increased production has continued,
he said, and a great surplus OF wheat
has resulted.
"Then, in order to MAKE the early
elimination of the surplus more GER
tain, there should be a definite and
aggressive campaign to increase the
number and, within reasonable limits,
the amount of diversified products
raised in each state" Governor Mes
tos said. wherever we succeed in
establishing we'll balanced diver
sification, where poultry and the gar
den are highly regarded, where a
large acreage Of tame grasses and
cultivated crops is maintained each
year, and sufficient number of
farm animals to consume these and
maintenance of the fertility OF the
soil, we will not only insure the iar-
! mer some paying products each year
but the resulting Improvement in
fertility of soil, in cleaner land, and
| better farming, will so increase the
I yield per acre as to make the wheat
still raised, even at present prices,
pay the cost of prouction. This de-
velopment must be speedcd and this
condition Of well balanced diversifi-
cation secured as soon as possible in
order to insure a satisfactory eco
nomic condition among our farmers
with its attendant industrial pros.
perity and economic stability"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
Powdered "Pharaoh" Wanted.

Powdered "PharaQh" was one OF
the sovereign remedies Of medic
val times. 1t cured wounds. 1t
was made into salves and balsams.
1t Was swallowed as physic. 1t
formed the basis of all the black
arts.
Othello's handkerchief owed its
magic power to dyes made from
mummified maidens' hearts. The
witches in Macbeth" gave potency
to their charmed brew by adding
powdered mummy. TO such an ex-
tent was tOmb-robbing carried on
even in ancient times that mum
mics of the great kings were taken
from their own tOmbs and hidden
away in secret places while proxies
were left in their stead.-DetrOit
News.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
SELL, WHEAT TO
CUT WAR DEBT
NESTOS URGES
(Continued from Page u

venting the American wheat grower
from receiving reasonable price
for the product he raises. In the
first place, he has raised more wheat
than the American public consumes.
the average amount of such surplus
for the past ten years being 1'o'-
600 900 bushels. This year that sur
plus is even larger, and the world
surplus is estimated at more IMAM
800, zoo, 900 bushels. He is therefore
constrained to sell this surplus IN
the markets of the world in compe-
tition with wheat raised in Canada,
India, Australia, the Argentine ana
Russia, where lands are cheaper, la
Dor costs lower, taxes less, and the
general standard of living in the
last four mentioned much below that
Of, the United StateE which situation
enables the foreign wheat raiser to
sell his wheat cheaper and thus to
establish the world price which the
American farmer is unable to meet
except by selling his product at less
7 that the cost Of production. In the
second place, he has been lacking a
strong and we'll financed marketing
organization that would make it pos
4 sible to put his Product on the mar
ket as needed, and has therefore
been largely constrained to dumI
the greater share of his wheat or
the market Immediately after thresh
ing; which practice has had ten
dency to bring prices down at thu
4 very time when the man who needed
: adequate returns the most was com
PEELED to sell"
Raise Big Surplus.
i In lettering marketing condition
the Governor urged support Of TIL
Farm Bureau Federation and Nation
al Wheat Growers, operative sale
plans. But ITO eliminate the surplu
aow on hand he said there should b
! IS slf16
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
M'KAIG LAND
BOUGHT IN
Farm Loan Department oi
Bank of North Dakota
Cannot Collect

Land on which Ray McKaig, form
erly an active leader in the Nonpar-
tisan League, obtained loans Of ST.
100 from the farm loan department
of the Bank of North Dakota, has
been surrendered into the hands of
the state. Mckaig left Morton coun-
ty. where the land was located, at
ter obtaining loans on the land and
failed to make the payments of
principal and interest necessary on
the land. He is now in Idaho.
There were two McKaig loans, one
for $4,000 and one for $4,000, accord
ng to the records of &. OlgiersOn,
head of the collection department of
the Bank of North Dakota, on 7l3
acres of land. Since McKaig made
no payments the land went to fore
closure and the state bought it in at
sheriff's sale to protect its inter
est in the loan the best it might,
Mr.. Olgierson said.
The state has "bought" 2,76O ad-
ditional acres of land through fore
closures on IL farm loans made un-
der the Nonpartsan League regime.
Payments being made on interest
and principal of farm loans now are
reported fairly satisfactory by the
bank officials. The interest collec-
tions amount to upwards of $2,7oO a
day, it is said. 1t is declared by
Mr.. Olgierson that interest payments
\ on lnapc made upder tho urpSenf nd
ministration are far better than un-
der the Nonpartisan league admins
tration, though exact comparative
! figures are not available.
The bank reported to the state
board of equalization that delin-
quences on Series "a" and "B'
leans, being loans made under the
former administration, totalled $319,
! 75l.80 on July l.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
Find Old Rum Bottles.

almost any Sunday u group of
men may be seen within a few feet
of upper Broadway industriOusly
digging and stirring in the earth
in search for Revolutionary relics.
The upper section Of Manhattan is
land is especially rich in such
relics, During the Revolution some
10000 British and Hessian troops
were encamped there from time to
time. r
The commonest relics Of the past
unearthed in these excavations are
pieces of black Bottles. These are
discovered by the bushel in scores
Of places. ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
The Honest Neiuhbor.

At dusk a 5nburbanite headed
sheepishly across to the next abode,
called out the occupant and said:
"NIr. WOmbat, l want to return your
lawn mower"
Wombat declined xtO take It,
whereupon the other man was much
perturbed.
II know I have kept it a long
time" he murmured. Pardon me
and let me return, it,"
To which Wombat responded: II
must be honest with you. l had
only one lawn mower and neigh
bors have already returned six"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18

guage of gladness. Every morning
when l come into Muskegon with an
aImful of levers strangers speak
to me CT tae st eot. After l have de-
livered the blossoms anu am empty
handed no one pays any attention to
me. 1t was The flowers that the
ss..agers spoke to before"
On the Allen farm this year are
10000 gladiol bulbs in blossom. The
growers is at work on several new
varieties, several years being requir-
ed to develop, new species.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
Stuck.

The lovers had been sitting out
on the porch until late In the eve
ming. The chill of the night had
forced them to seek warmer quar-
tiers. They went directly to the
parlor. Not knowing 1t, the young
man sat on a freshly-varnished
chair. When he announced his in
tention of going home, a troubled
look crept over his face.
"Ah, DEAR" whispered the girl,
"you can't tear yourself away from
mel"
mo" stammered the young man,
II can't tear myself away from
THIS COMPOUNDED chairW
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
BOUND OVER TO TRIAL

Hillsboro, N. d., Oct. 18.-A. J..
Emard Of Cummings has been bound.
over for trial at the next term Of
the> district court here following a
raid for liquor on his automobile
which he had locked in lumber
yard at Cummings, according to Of
ficials.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
Father Was a Hard Worker,

"What does your father do, little
girl2" asked the great lady.
"Oh, he works awful hard" re.
piled the little girl. HE works al
the custom house."
"Ah, yes" replied the lady, "the
last time that I returned from Eu
rope thought that his duties were
rather heavy"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
Christmas Dishes In india,

In native India the favorite
Christmas food is a gigantic plate
Of rice, which is handed round with
as many as a score of different cur
ries, of all Of which each guest Is
expected to partake. This disposed
Of, a dish Of rice cooked with al.
monds and colored yellow with sat.
from invariably follows
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-18
McHENRY FAIR SUCCESS

Velva, N. d., Oct. 18.-Despite had
roads and inclement weather, south
eW McHenry> cOunty's agricultural
fair, which came to close here Sat-
urday evening, was pronounced a
success. The splendid manner in
which the whole program was car
ried out is largely due to the work
done by the secretary, Raymond
Aune, director Of agriculture in the
Velva schools.