The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1918, Page 8

LABOR LEADER THINKS EIGHT gaged in this work are not the kind we find among farm labor, I would be ‘opposed to proceeding with this work if the price were to be much higher than we have paid for work already done, but I am convinced the Ford Co. will be willing to take the Job at very little, if any advance.” Mr, Keenan: also urged that the work be done this spring if possible, and City Engineer Atkinson was directed to confer with the paving company on the subject. HOPE T0 PASS RATLWAY BILL WITHNO DELAY Administration Leaders Believe Plans Will Insure Passage This Week HOUR DAY SURE Predicts Better Conditions Will Be Forced on Packers by Government ARMOUR SEEMS AGREEABLE President of Big Meat Concern Expresses His Views on Witness Stand Chicago, Ill, Feb. 19.—J, gden Ar- mour, president of Armour & Co., and Victor A. Olander, secretary and treas- urer of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, vice president of the Interna- tional Seamen’s union, and member of the Illinois state council of defense, were the principal witnesses heard yesterday in the stockyards wage ar- bitration proccedings. Mr. Armour denied that the five big packing companies own the various stockyards or that they have a com- bination agreement in the purchasing of livestock. In discussing the labor question he said he favored equal pay for women performing the same work as men and understood that this plan was already followed by Armour & Co. He said he believed in the jus- tice of the demand that men should rest on Sunday, Christmas and other holidays, and agreed with the repre- sentatives of organized labor that when it is necessary for employes to work on these days they should be allowed additional compensation. The Eight Hour Day “The packers may be nearer the adoption of the eight-hour day than they think,” said Victor A. Olander. “The war department is broadly inter- preting the federal statute requiring Debate Continues eight-hour work days on all military) Debate on the bill continued yester- contracts with time and a half where|day with Sen. Pomerene of Ohio and overtime is necessary to speed up pro-| Senator Watson of Indiana, both mem- duction and if the packers have gov-| bers of the interstate commerce com- ernment contracts—and I believe they| mittee, speaking in its support. Both have—the government may insist up-| urged liberal treatment for the rail- on an eight-hour day in their plants.| roads while under government con- “In this great world’s war the coun-| trol, the latter declaring this course tries with the strongest labor organi-| preferable to having eighteen billion zations and which deal with these| dollars worth of property plunged into bodies in a spirit of justice, are mak-| litigation. The Indiana senator op- ing the best showing. In Russia prior| posed government ownership of rail- to the revolution labor organizations| roads and the indefinite extension of were prohibited, and we all know what| government control, and urged the happened there. In Italy where the| senate to accept the committee’s pro- labor movement is comparatively | posal to limit the duration of govern- weak, the government met with de-| ment control to eighteen months after feat in battle,” Mr. Olander said. the war ends. He said the adoption of the shorter} Senator Pomerene declared that the day by the packers would prove a| present bill was a war measure and good business investment, patriotic| for that reason, no effort should be and a humane act. made in it to correct the evils of the Attorney Walsh introduced docu-| transportation system. mentary evidence showing that the Ar-|_ Senator Johnson of California, will mour Grain company paid stationary | discuss the bill today, dealing with fireman 43 cents an hour while .the| the question of government owner- same class of labor in Armour & Co.’s| ship. packing plant received 27 to 34 cents a eae an hour. FIRST OBSTACLE Nelson Morris, chairman of the TO TRIAL OF L W. W. IS REMOVED Washington, Feb. 19,—-Plans were made yesterday which the adminis- tration leaders believe will insure pas- sage of the railroad bill this week. Under an informal agreement to be submitted to the senate today for ratification, debate will be limited to five-minute speeches beginning at 2 p. m. Thursday and it is understood that a final vote can be reached be- fore adjournment that day. This agreement followed the read- ing of a letter to Chairman Smith of the interstate commerce committee from Director General McAdoo urg- ing the necessity for prompt action in the matter and declaring that every day’s delay was interfering with the prosecution of the war. Chairman Smith’ proposed the program infor- mally after his proposal to fix 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon as the time to begin voting had been blocked by an objection from Senator Poin- dexter. The latter said he did not de- sire to delay action, but wanted to leave the way open for discussion of any amendments that might be of- fered, ,board of directors of Morris % Co. will be the first witness called tomor- Tow. Rounenouse Crew The women of the United States of volunteering for men’s work. Daily we read of their entrance into hitherto closed lines of labor. New conductors; smartly uniformed gir! elevator operators; nattily clad the- ater ushers, and trim businesslike | postgirls. | Because of the much smaller popu lation of Canada and its earlier er- trance into the war, its women wer» long since called upon to do the sent men’s work. They have beco: an accepted feature, attracting |'+ or no attention today. It is not uniform that has lured the Cana girls into “doing their bit.” It he- been the desire to help. Many o the positions filled by women acros; the border have no attractive fee tures. It is duty—plain duty—that keeps the women in them. In ante-war days the Halifax; CONSERVATION BILL CONFERS WIDE POWERS Control of Manufacture and Dis are in the first flush of enthusiasm | d York City is becoming accustomed! been filled for more than a year by to khaki garbed women street cai | girls. CoLece ore GATHERING \ APPLES ¥ {Hotel dining room was manned by left, long experienced serving*men. With the exception. of three men barred by age and physical disabil- ity, this corps of workers has gone to the front. The vacancies have you and handled your bags. They have reiessed cabin boys for military service. To care for a boatload of passengers on a rough trip is no in- viting task, yet these girls do it—: and what is more, do it cheerfully. Soon after the outbreak of war, the Canadian Pacific Railway began training women to fill positions made vacant by enlistments. There were many such vacancies. Today they % total nearly niae thousand. At first 'so toiled in the fields.| women were considered only for cf- have conned overalls | fice work and it was not long before they were to be found in offices all along the lina. Then came the call for car cleaners, The women re- erop of ajsponded. Engine wipers were need- and inei-!ed. Again the women stepped up to ion that, do the work. Every time a new-call ds developed the women were ready for it. On November 14th a new fashion in ticke: sellers was put out at boats the past! Moose Jav when Miss Jean Ellis du witl recal) the| took ‘her place atthe ticket window. black - gowned, . white- No doubt this fasaion will be widely copied ot both sides of the line, 230 MILLIONS HORE FOR NAVY ASKED CONGRESS Secretary Daniels. Advises, Legis i Nothing attractive or ro- mentie about this work. but. some- body must do it and Nova Scotia’s ‘enghters have not been found want- mm: re courteous aproned young women .who served ing to advices here today. The ground glass was said to have been contained in a box hidden in the sack. The mill was closed ponding investigation, Fed- eral authorities are’ inyestigating tie case, but it was said here that no ac- tion had been taken...” CIVIL WAR VET FOUND TOO OLD FOR TRENCHES | | south. Lo ves een adn win MORE WHEAT IS NEEDED TO WIN THE GREAT WAR Increased Production of Cereals and Pork Urged by Agricul- tural Department FARM LABOR PROBLEM UP Believed Deferred Classification Will Take Care of Neces- sary Supply ‘Washington, D,.C., Feb, 19.—Plant- ing of an increased acreage to spring wheat and the production of an in- creased supply of other food products and of livestock, espécially. hogs, is recommended in a supplementary food. by the department of agriculture it re emphasizes and amplifies the program. for 1918 issued by the department Jast August and later suggestions regard- ing. increase pork production and in- creased production of foodstuffs in the “Notwithstanding an incregged pro- duction of staple crops in the United States in 1917, there is no need. for more food,” the statement says. “Tak: ing into account our own needs, the needs of the nations associated with us in the war. and the needs of frtend- ly neutral nations our best efforts will be required to provide enough food in 1918. Whether the war continues o1 not, the demands of this country, be cause of the increasing population and the needs of Europe wilf be great. WHEAT AND:HOGS: © . “Chief emphasis should be given tc the production of the great staple food products, with special stress on wheat and hogs, the leading war foods,. I is believed that the necessary produc. tion can be secured through tlife use of the best known farm methods, but it may de necessary to a small extent to sacrifice certain of the less impor tant farm crops temporarily in the in- terests of others which rank highest in importance as food for man.” The south is urged to provide food for its own people and feed for its livestock and then to plant as much cotton as can well be cultivated and harvested. To raisers of hogs and beef animals the world need for meat: and fats is made clear. Farmers are wa production program issued yesterday [ tained for making or circulating of false statements, y With this wording the memorial passed the house and went to the sen- ate. In that body, which is strongly republican, the memorial was amend ed and the specific information con- veyed to congress that “successful prosécution has -not ‘been maintained in the federal district of Montana.” ‘Without.a dissenting-vote.the house. concurred late last evening in this amendment, LOW SCORES MARK BOWLING CONGRESS 2in Knights Doing Nothing Start- ing at Ciancy Cincinnati, Feb. :19.—Small scores vere the rule at the eighteenth annual ‘ournament.of the American Bowling songress here yesterday. Harris and Walker, local. men, «went into first place in the doubles on the first aft- ernoon shift with a score of 1,175. This supplanted. Hoffeld gnd Geisting, also toca] men, by one pin, On the last shift of doubles’ Ernstschwender aud ‘Becklenburg rolled into third place, thereby, ousting the Cleveland pair, Wismer and Tomasch, In the singles ‘no change occurred among the leaders except that FE. Scheming of Cincinnatt, rolted 601 and went’ into third position. \R.. Michacl- son, with 628, and A: Hilton, with 620, are the leaders in this:event. REDS WIPE OUT POLISH. LEGION 3ix Hundred Men Reported Anni- hilated #t Minsk : Petrograd, Saturday, Feb. 9— Counter revolutionary Polish le.. gions were defeated by the Bol-. ‘sheviki at Minsk on February ‘6¢ the Polish forces suffering heavy: casualties, according.to a digBatch to the semi-official news bureau: ’ dated at Minsk on February 7, One detachment cf 600 Poles was annihilated, according to. the dispatch, 30LELY AMERICANS ON MINE-PLANTERS ' Aliens to Be Bxciuded From Vital ‘Work by Baker - Washington, Heb. 19.—Secretary. Ba- ver, yesterday asked congress * for legislation to make only American cjti- ‘ens. eligible for employment on sub- ‘nayine' mine planters.’ Because of the urged to join with .the.men gn the ranges in providing sheep whose wool is needed to equip soldiers. “FARM LABOR PROBLEM Discussing the farm labor problem, the program says that while the labor situation still presents difficulties, the farmers.succeeded in overcoming them last. year, and that, with better organi- zation’ and ,especially with deferred classification of skilled farm labor, the difficulties again can be surmounted. The department states that it will continue to assist farmers in, every feasible way to secure and safeguard their seed supplies and to prevent loss of foodstuffs: from insect: pests and diseases of plants and animals. sonfidedtial nature of. the work, Mr. Baker, said he desires to reorganize the. service, putting it completely ‘un- jer military control with the person- nel: entirely. American: :: No More Weak Kidueya, Backache,. i Dear Readers: — Just lately, T am told arid I beg to inform ‘others th: the ‘famous ‘Dr. Pierce of whose med- icines-and. Surgical Institution in Buf- falo, New Seth we have heard - for years, has added to his popularity by years dg. aa the American . peopl Antric, . ‘This Pigieeietion: is adapt Judge Landis Overrules Demurrer siintion. of Food Bint Private. J. W. Boucher, Who lators Program Must Be SEDITION NOT Freendene from. ‘disor pee = PETITIONERS to Blanket Indictment of Made Positive inane By aa Further Expanded ©. ' SAY sidneys and bed ler, ‘such as backache, Wobblies — se ee ea POUNDED: fon of the Keinerstatlantrston of the Reais) HOUSEWIVES ARE EXCEPTED oled From France TO BUILD MANY SMALL SHIPS MONTANA MEN | bladder, scalding “urine and” urinar ; Chicago, Ill, Feb. 19.—Preliminary . — 1 troubles. The physicians and °special- of the Industrial Work f th "i . sapenhs e J. W. Boucher 0: ie , A ‘t |} < oroughly tes! s - ani F \Q | World, either in jail bare or at liberty authority for the control of the manu-| Canadian railway battalion, has Greater Part of: Amount Required | “¢8!# P ibility of have been with etre accord successful in ; under’ bond, were removed when| ture and distribution of foodstufts| ‘been'sent tome from France be- to Go Into Vessels Under Stating Impossibility 0: eradicating these troubles, and in most HH Federal Judge Landis overruled a de-| 20d of public cating houses would bo| ¢ause he is “too old to fight.” He i % Convicting There cases absolutely curing the. diseased . SaaS! murrer to the blanket indictment ob-|conferred upon the president Ly the| Is 73 and fogght in the American Cruiser Size ng ery ee endian die - 2 o a ill ¢ 2 og | civil wa the + thi PD ES Sere ean, oth , : : 8 Edward G. Patterson and Others onet some time ago by the govern Ce ast ries dee ose Michigan volihitesrs. Pee ae Washington, D.C, Feb, 19—Con-| Helena, Mont., ne: Le eee gists here awn) Eales anaged 49, pre Say We Are Paying Too Under the ruling this bill, under| mittee. Boucher faced the German lines | gress was asked by Secretary Daniels Lae Lapa geMoatann inet Pa aad around this cality. which the I. W. W. are charged with| | Blanket authority asked for by Food|" for eight months and endured all yesterday for $230,077,152 to furthor it has been impossible to obtaia suc- ‘ A Finw Brurvez. Much for Juice conspiracy, holds good and permits Ditstrict Attorney Clyne to ask the; naming of a day for trial. The court, | however, held that the government must specify allegations act of vio- lence or the fomenting of strikes or utterances held to be revolutionary in character. S. DAKOTA HUN HELD PRO-GERMAN Edward Reitz of Aberdeen Bound Over to U. S. Court MORE PAVING IS WANTED Representing, they set forth, 20 per cent of the qualified electors of Bis- marck, Edward G. Patterson and 179 others last evening presented the city commission a petition praying that it bring to the attention of the state! railway commissions charges made that the Hughes Electric Co. rates for electricity for light, heat and power, “are excessive and exorbitant;” and the ‘further claim that the voltage sup- plied Bismarck consumers by this company is 10 per cent below normal, and that the light is only 60 to 75 per cent what it should be. The petitioners also contend that while the meter rate for heat in Bis- marck is on a par with that in other cities, because of high moisture con- tent, or the high amount of heat which condenses into water or the low amount of heat: in the steam fed into the company’s heat mains, the actual cost of heat to the consumer is ex- cessive. BRENNAN FOR PETITIONERS Assistant Attorney General Daniel V. Brenan represented the petitioners explaining that he acted in the ab- sence of Ed S. Allen, prevented by ill- ness from apearing before the com- mission. The commission directed that the petitioners and the Hughes Electric Co. be given a public hearing at the next weekly meeting of the city board, Monday evening, February 25. WANT MORE PAVING “This paving is the best thing Bis- marck has ever done. It has done gaore to favorably advertise our city than any other one thing. It is the one big thing that is making Bismarck talked sbout in the twin cities and elsewhere,” said 0. ‘N. Dunham of Aberdeen, C. D,, Feb. 19.—Edward Reitz, arrested here Saturday charged with violating the espionage act, was held to the United States district court for trial at a hearing before a United States commissioner here yes- terday. Reitz is charged with making “pro-German utterances.” He is said to have stopped his sub- scription to an Aberdeen paper last week on the ground that it printed too many English Nes. Reitz was born in the United States of German parentage and has a son in the draft- ed army. SPECIAL BOARD TO LOOK INTO BOATS Careful Investigation of ‘‘Non. sinkables’’ Ordered Washington, Feb. 19.—Secretary| Daniels announced yesterday the an- pointment of a special boafd of offi- cers headed by Rear Admiral A. G. ‘Winterhalter to study the whole ques- tion of non-sinkable ships with espe- cial reference to the construction in- stalled on board the former Austrian steamer, Lucia, in an effort to make her torpedo proof. This construction fs described as consisting of a series Administrator Hoover was withheld, the committee deciding to confine ‘the measure to the features emphasized by Mr: Hoover at committee hearings as absolutely essential in the food conservation program. A minority re- port is expected, To Conserve Wheat Ey controlling manufacture, the food administratin would be able tc enforce any rules it might make for conserving wheat and other essential foodstuffs by the use of substitutes. Control of distribution would enable the adminstration to relieve possible shortages in any section by shipping food from other parts of the country, | In the hearings before the commit: tee, Mr. Hoover said it was not de sired to attempt general rationing, but that rigid control of public eating eating houses was necessary to avoid waste and also to stimulate conserva tion in the home, many housewives having complained of waste in hotels and restaurants. Housewives and farmers are not af- fected by’ the measure. LEAGUE IN SOUTH DAKOTA POLITICS Organization Votes to Put State Ticket in Field Sioux Falls. S. D., Feb, 19.—At a conference of leaders of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan league here ‘Sunday attended by A, C. Townley, national President of the organization, it was decided to enter the South Dakota primary race next May, according to information here today. Candidates of the league for state and congres- sional offices, it was decided, will run on an independent ticket in the No- vember elections. MENNONITE MILL GRINDING GLASS of “buoyancy boxes.” wo ba include Captain 0, * r, naval constructors Robert ‘Stocker Establishment at Sioux Falls Closed by Officers - Sioux Falls, 8, D., Feb. 19.—Authori- the hardships, ‘Then his age was discovered and he was discharged. King George heard of the case, and anxious ‘to 'sec> the “oldest man in khaki”, summoned him to Buckingham palace,-where in a special audience the ‘king praised him for his courage and determi- nation. : Boucher arrived here yesterday on his way to his: Home: in Gan- anoque, Ont. TESTIMONY_ IN. . DAKOTA FLOOD 'CASE ALL IN Taking of Evidence.in South Da. kota Suit Against Mizne- | -mesota in March St. Paul, Min expand the navy’s great building. pro gram, provide for more ordnance and ammunition, cover additional pay for an expansion of the marine corps from 30,000 to 50,000 men, and meet other expenses not contemplated in this year’s naval appropriation bill. Of the total $100,000,000 is for addi- tional construction and to speed up construction now under way, Mr, Dan- iels said most of this amount would be spent for vessels “smaller than cruisers” and explained that the un- parallelled rapidity with which some yards were turning out detsroyers had made it possible to place more con- “racts for these boats than had, been thought possible. About a dozen new contracts already have been placed, half of the number going to the Mare island. navy. yard, which ‘recently aunched a destroyer complete. four nenths after, her, keel was laid. Some of the money will be spent for Feb: 19,+Taking 0‘ age suit Of North Dakota against Min | ing built by Henry Ford’ in ‘his De- nesota was completed yesterday at the | troit plant. capitol. “The evidence will be trans. ¢ ie Ae. mitted to the United -States. supreme GOPHER’ SHERIFF OUTWITSLEAGUE court when it:is prepared by Commis- sioner W. B. Douglas,iformerly attor- * : ad, he astien BO a Puts Lid on Meeting sfeld in Spite of Orders ney general: . : Hefrings to take testimony in simi: Blue Earth, Minn., Feb. 19.—An al- tempt to defy orders issued last Fri- lar, suit brought by South Dakota fay by County Attorney Henry J. against Minnesota will‘ begin in March’ Frundt that no meetings of the Pat and probably will take place at pointe |- conveniently. located in the western. partisan league be permitted in Farl- | ‘vault county, was. frustrated’ bj part of the state. Both cases are Deputy Sheriff Fred Yost ‘when he based on a contention that the state ic)’ diable for damages for alleged flooding stopped a league rally at Walters, Two hundred farmers had’ gathered to hear of Dakota lands by. Minnesota: drain Joseph Gilbert, manager of the league, age systems, ‘ecently sentenced. to’ serve three AUSTRIANS WILL; nonths in Jackson county fail. = NOT AGAIN FACE: RUSSIAN TROOPS “Adetria-Hungary event of military. , the Gi necessary, Le testimony {n the $1,000,000 flood dam:| more: of the “chaser destroyers” be-| cessful prosecutions: in the federal court of Montana of persons charged with circulating false statements, ar- guments, and reports against the Unit- ed States and of belittleing and ridi- ciling the armed forces of the United States, and asked to pass further leg- islation that these traitor’ and near- traitors may not escape punishment in the future. This memorial, passed by both houses today calls specific. attention to the fact that “under the present laws of the United States, successful prosecutions of persons has not been maintained in the federal district of Montana for the making and circulat- ing of false statements and reports.” Originally’ the memorial read “‘suc- cessful prosecutions cannot be main- thousand employes are fficiency of 67 ye organization in these Speedways of Communication The million and a half miles of. wire in the : Western Union System are the speedways of communication open day and: nigh’ assisting the direction of t business of a migh' hty times of stress. ‘WELL-KNOWN MONTANA - WOMAN SPEAKS. Missoula, Mont.—“After my baby came Iwas in a — Z very serious con- : dition, My. attend- ing doctor was un- [if abic to give me anything that would -build ge up. I only weighed Lif Bounds, Final- 3 ly I'got a bottle of Dr. ‘Pierce’s Fa- i) H vorite'Prescription Mi and after taking it I felt so mi ter that I took five more bottles. weigh 170 pounds ahd am in fect fh "Mas, Fazp Lone, 614 N. 3rd ont, tone ey it. J trained peed work of