The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1918, Page 2

DESTRUCTION WROUGHT IN HOP FIELDS OF CALIFORNIA DISCLOSED IN 1. W. W. TRIAL Chicago, Ill, May 2 — In side history of the ruin wrought by, the Industrial Workers of the World in the hop fields and fruit or- chards of California fby the practice of sabotage several years ago in an effort to“ obtain the release from pris on of Richard Ford and Herman Suhy,; members of the organization convicted: on a charge of murder and oa to. life imprisonment, was “today, at the trial of 112 In. dustrial! Workers of the World lead- ers: The kovernment attorneys read a number of letters written by Chas L, Lambert of Sacramento California, , Secretary of the hop pickers’ defense . Inuch,ag.the governmeni! did 19 ae in domestic. ; committee in 191, and later elected a member of the general executive board of the Industrial Workers of thé World. He was one of ‘the lead- ers who’ directed ‘ the unsuccessfut fight conducted, by the organization in California’ in the hope that the gov- ernor might be influenced to pardon Ford and Suhr from prison, , According to, lambert ‘the Industrial orkers of the World campaign of sa- botage resulted in the destruction of property valued at $10,000,000 annual- ly Yor several years. - In a, bulletin issued in 1916 Lambert told of how Industrial Workers of the World members have overturned a big gold dredge owned iby the ‘Natomas Gold) Mining company and. added it would cost $75,000 to. put it right again. In another bulletin the. Indps- trial Workers of the World ‘leaders ARR eee eeOeeaeeeeeeeeeresoovrverweleeeeeeeereeeer f said California had paid a big price for the railroading of Ford‘and Suhr and ‘by the time the organization through paying off ithe ‘state ee stick of blues.” He referred to a riot in the hop fields near Wheatland and remarked he did not understand how the boys got away without leav- ing some in the hospital. ‘The news- papers are trying to make the pubite believe this is the work of German spies,” wrote Lambert in describing the destruction of property ‘by the In. dustrial Workers of the World, “bur they will know what it is before we get through with them.” In a letter written’ to G. J. Bourg, another defendant in the present trial, Lambert told of property in Califor- nia valued at $2,000,000 heipg destroy- ed by fire, and added: “This does not seem to have woke them up yet, but if they get-enough of it they will wake up and, get a move on them soon.” He concludes: this letter (by telling of the: killing ‘of sheriff Meadows of Imperial valley. “They finally got our old friend Sheriff Meadows: of Imperial valley,’ wrote. Lambert. “This rat ‘has dodged everything successfully for the last five years from poison to bullets, but finally he fell and died after four hours ofterrible agony. from poison- ing of some kind. ‘This is the skunk who used to sell, the rebels, men and women, to the Mexican government and take them over the line and shoot 'them. eH lived five years too long NORTH DAKOTA RANKS SECOND. IN ‘LOWEST PER CAPITA COST OF DRAFT Oklahoma Only State That Rendered Uncle Sam, Selective Service at Smaller Ex; wealths } n, interesting article appearing in a recent issue of “Young People, ma Baptist periodical published in Phila- delphia, shiows that (North Dakota ranked second. in. low cost of. selecting soldieds winder the first draft. Okla- hora, with a cost of $1.57 for each map. selecicd, {3 the, Jowest in the North Dakoia’s cost, is surrounding commonwealths much higher cos(s—Minnesota, $4; South Dakota, Wyoming, $5.96, and Montana, $3.77. Oklahoma and,North. Dakota are the only states in :the union with costs under $2 per, capita, ‘while Idaho, Connecticut, Loufsiana and New Jersey are the only other states with costs under $3, In high. cost: of. selection little Dele. ware Jeads the. nation, with $19 char- ge afor each man selected for service, The District of Columbia, where there must have been an abundance of help turna, in, a cost of, $9,02 nor, selected me and: Rhode Island id. $13. ‘records ‘of the ddjutinf Ben- eral’’show the cost 6f © ting “in 1914 ibe $24.48 per cap i 195, $1914, and from July, 1916, 10 April 1917)! $28.95, while the average’ cost per lor the whole natiom under the Peat service system was $5. Reckults ing prior to the passage’ of the’ Civil’ war draft’ law. of 1863 cost $34.01 per man. Thereafter the cost was $9.48 per capita. The article from “Young People” follows:” Statistics of- the first draft, com- piled ‘in’ the: ofice of the: provist mar- shal general, show, that the cost of the draft per mam accepted for service £ ’ se—Other Common- uch ‘Higher: bs ori wa o's was five dollars, Of this sum, $4.93 represents’ the expense of the’ draft boards, and state adjutant general’s offices, ad seven cents the overhead expense of ‘the provist marshal gen This per capita cost of raising an, army under the Selective’ Service Act compares very favorably with the. cost of recrulaing by voluntary enlistment The records of the’ adjutant general show that the per capjta cost ‘of re- cruiting in the year 1914 was $24.48; in 1915, $19.14; in the first nine months of: the fiscal year 1917—July, 1916, to April, 1917,’ inclusive—$28.95.' To make the comparison ‘fair’ to the ré- cruiting system; the expense of travel paid between ‘recruiting station and recruiting depot, the cost of, subsist- ence prior to acceptance at the. lat- ter, the expenses at general recruit: ing. depots ‘and. the‘ cost’ of clothing, ! "hi should*be-deducted.: But, with due al-‘ tt lowance for these items, the marked economy of the; selective aotvice. sys- tem fs. apparént. ‘ ‘A comparison, with the cost of rais- ing the ‘army’ for.’the Civil: War’ is, alko , strikingly. favorable. . Prior to the. enactment, of the Draft’ Law of 1863, the cost of-recruiting Was $34.01 wixeBusequent to the’ passage ‘act, the cdst was ‘about’ $9.48 “man. But only a small proportion of the men produced: after the enact- ment of the’ law. ‘weré drafted. It is impOssible to ascertain the cost per drafted, man as ‘against: the: cost ‘per: volunteer., It is’'clear, however, es- pecially if. the lower money value of those. days is considered, that’ the per capita’ cost.'of drafting men’ for the Avercz Cost U.S. #422 look “like a dirty white chip in a] an*Austrian bomb, ¥ ae Civil War was far cost of, the — first present. law. The remarkably good showing under the present law “fs due in a large measure to the patriotic and self-4 higher than the call draft boards, Thousands of these men, regardless of. personal and bu- siness interests, worked day after day, throughout the hot months of the simmer, without any remunerej ion whatever. This was a part of their contribution, to the war. ‘ In, several states the cost ranged | widely, In Oklahoma it Was only $1.57; in ‘Deleware, $19, ‘This does not necessarily mean however, that the boards in states showing a high cost were extravagant, A large part of the expense were proportionate to the-number. of registrants in-a-given ared; that is, aboard; having five or a thousand registrants necesgarily ets trem larger expenses than a board Ing’ tive or’ six’ hundred regis- nts, no matter how many men were. Pealled or werd certified. Similarly, the expense of calling men’ for *phy- sical examjnations.and for hearing on claims was a large item regardless of the total number of men ultimately certified;" for example, in a board hav- ing thirty per cent aliens, the expense of calling them-and passing upon their claims ‘Was a nécessary expense, al- though none of the aliens might be certified; thus, two boards which cer- tified for service three hundred men apiece, might have called five hin- dred’ ‘men, respectively, in order’ to produce the same mS -of' certi- fied men. The chart shows the coat by statég, of every man ‘accepted by the boards and’ Bank to cantonments,~ —Reprinted by Courtesy of “Young People.” IRISH PRO-GERMAN PLOTS TRACED TO UNITED STATES Washington, May 22,—Disclosures| and. it is. ieaders: and German agents to preci- pitdte in’ Ireland. was followed by an- aouncement that government agents itave uncovered similar German intri- gué with’ other nationalist groups in| che" United: States. German’ money, it was said, was ance ‘agitation between ne- Lithuanians and’ others nee (3 ‘ining, alled’ “appressed national- list grievatices a anti Germanic’ 3 cases, ‘this propaganda has been ¢ar- ried, on by. Aniéricans uifiliated with thea Broups. jr many months United States coretum ent agents have ‘been insiae he 9) anol of the Irish in this ooun- ry’ Who plotted’ armed insurrection f Trish*citizens against British rule, ive dsicovered conclusive evi- hat German money and pron: fd stimulated’ the conspira- @ means of diverting the Brit: es a ish government from it’s war task in the in- France. Direet action 1 sto; ‘rigue was not thought adv pire, bat the Von. a on oe ir Brite) > re Josures yesterday that the government’ has gathered evidence inthis country of conspiracies. between Irish Sinn Fein i wWhich for years liave had: ‘na: informa, “was ‘tarned pver. “in esentatives a friendly. settlement, with Great Brit- and, it is understood. that the retent arpet of & number, of Irish Sinn Feip; leaders Was prompted partly by evi dence. of. Cerman-Irish plots: discaver- edinthis. Guintry. Full details of the, evidence Avere persons still are under surveillance. Some announcement ofthe reasons for pected ‘soon either Washington. The Irish radicals in their. corres- pondence referred frequently to the promise of German aid in an uprising, which was to ve called for this month or next, when the Germans had e~- pected to reach the channel ports in their big drive. The Germans then were to, send arms and ammunition, | and. possible troops to the Irish coast to participate in the rebellion. Many-of the Irish plans were so rad. ical government’ agents felt safe: for long in permitting the scheming to continue in the hope of detecting oth- ers involved. Wants. “Friendly Settlement.” Dublin, May, 22—John: Dillion, the Nationalist leader in an interview with the, Associated. Press | correspondent: 4 today emphasized to diverge between his party and the Sinn Fein, whose policy he declared to. be “wrong and foolish and ‘bound to end in disaster.” Mr. Dillion ‘said he still beliéved in not made public because a number of |- arrest. of the Trish agitators is’ ex-/ in’ London or} ain, he adhered to the declaration of the late John E. Redmond, made at the /outbreak of the ‘war, that: the “cause of the allies is the cause of freedom,” / In an appeal to the American peo- ple Dr. Dillon said that the Siu financial resources. fram. New York, and he urgently asked all thos ‘ot \Irish blood in the United States to support his party as against the Siti Fein. DENY “PLOT. ‘Dublin, May 22.—The government {het is still’ spreading in the she ol ‘arresting other, persens: believed to be connected with the a}leged German plot. A number of suspected persons are being searched, some venicles ix the vicifily ‘of the city are ‘eing stopped and the occupants are sub- igcted to examination. . “The press comment. on last night's manifesto of protest issued by the mansion house anticoncription con: ference indicates an all round reluct- ance to take a definite stand. in.the preset situation until more is known of the government’s evidence regard: ing the alleged German plot:. All par- ties are marking time, awaiting, de. velopments. The Unionists presume that the gov. ernment’s — evidence must be vary strong, while the Nationalist press shows some skenticism as to the’real- ity of a plot. Phe Sinn Fein has no. daily. newspaper. It's half, dozen lit- tle papers, known in Dublin as “The Mosquito press,” appear weekly or Thursday, but at the Sinn Fein heac- quarters there were emphatic denial# today, of the existence oRany Germap ~ sacrificing attitude of members of the |’ Fin_had been supplied_with unttmited | under, the): others, American hed a carrying some of the wounded to. the International shospital.* 7 y ev; War Savings Stamps BISMARCK —<$<$—- You Can Enroll at This MODEL OFFICE PRACTICE school under ‘guarantee of a sat- isfactory pasition as: soon “as competent or your tuition re- . funded. Send for particulars, When. you know more about this college and. what it has done for hundreds of the most successful business men and women, you'll attend. Write — G. M.. LANGDM, Pres., \ Bismarck, N. D. _ { tertainment and aoe ‘Wednesday \ evening, «May is. The proceeds net- TO HOLDERS OF ted thte society nearly $90, clear above all expenses. 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