New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 5

UOMPERS OUTLINES PROGRAM OF LABOR "Will Prevent Tndustrial Leaders From Oppressing Masses New York, last t at the Century theater at a La- the Dec. —Speaking Victory of in winning the war. president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, asserted that working people of the United States will resist and make any sacrifice which may be necessary to prevent the industrial baron riding on horse- back over the masses of the people.” This statement received with epplause by the audience of trades unionists, for it came after an attack Willilam H. Barr of the National ¥ounders' association, who said sev- eral weeks ago that the war level w i not be maintained by pri- industry in peace times. Mr. meeting for labor’s share Jubilee celebrating Samuel Gompers, bor purpose was on was classed by the speaker with | actionaries” and the “Bour- After recounting the sacrifices labor in the war, Mr. Gom- ‘What the devil does Mr. type think we have rcrifices in the war boas. made pers asked, Barr and h all th under the for Labor Edward was held Alliance Charles speaker. he meeting auspices of the and Democracy Russell was anofher man was ., Wagner. executive committee and the Italian which recently arriv try. Mr al times o Once him what the case of Thomas J rentence of death life imprisonment several days ago. Mr. Gompers replied that he did not know what he was going to do for Mooney and added: “But I ve HOW MRS, BOYD AVOIDED AN OPERATION Canton, Ohio.—‘‘I suffered from a female trouble which caused me much suffering, and two doctors decided that I would have to go through an operation before I could get well. of the labor d in delegation this coun- Gompers was interrupted sev- toward the close of his ad a young woman asked he was going to do about Mooney, whose he ““ My mother, who ' bad been helved by Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, advised me to try it before sub- mitting to an opera- tion. ltrelievedme from my troubles 80 I can do my house work without any Cifficulty. I advice any woman who is afflicted with female troubles to give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound a trial and it will do as much for them.””—Mrs. MARIS BoyD, 1421 5th St., N, E., Canton, Ohio. 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Tonight at KEENEY’S “the Tho | State Senator Robert | On the platform was the | alliaaco | was commuted to | | ture to say that I have dons a hun- | dred thousand times more than vou have, miss.” To a man in the shouted - something about the freedom Gomwpers retorted “I am for Ireland by of Ireland, not by the Irishmen of America.” | by another interruption, the labor | leader suggested that if any questioners had any desire 1o speak “let him hire a hall and talk there.” In his address Mr. Gompers assert- cd that at the time when it was not certain whether the people of tho | country would be united in the it was the organized labor movement gallery unintelligiblo of Ireland, the Irishmen professional Later nettled which called into council the repre- sentatives of labor in America and de- termined what the attitude of lator { would be in the cvent of peace or war. Labor has kept faith, l:e added. n my judgment, we are in zraver danger now than at any time duving the war,” he continued. *Peuce con- | ferences are not always dominated by the spirit of freedom and justice and { democracy, and it has occurred that a | people which have secured in their own country an element of freedom, | a degree of freedom, was forced or { vielded voluntarily these rights at the | peace table drawing up a peace | treaty. [, “T call vour attention to this fact, that in the United States when a | treaty has been negotiated with an- other country or other countries and that treaty is ratified by ihc senate of the United States, it becomes the supreme law and any law upon the statute books in conflict wita the terms of the treaty is wiped off the statute books and becomes nil. The working people of the United States have struggled hard, have made many sacrifices, have been misrepresented and maligned and thelr motives im- mugned and their honor questioned, but, fighting true to the line, we have secured in the United States of Amer- ica from our federal government and from our state governments and mu- nicipalities rights written into the | law. ,"'Tt might as well be understood that | in fighting political autocracy we do not want and won't consent t» have an industrial autocracy take its place. All the Bolsheviki are not in the | ranks of labor. “I know of no more dangerous ut- terance made during this entire war, | dangerous to the very safety and peace and progress of our people and { of our republic, than was uttered by Mr. Barr about two weeks age. It was said of the French Bourbons that they never forgot anything, and that they never learncd anything. And it | it true of this type of men in Amer- | fca. Industrially they want to iive in e year 19158-1919, but mentally t}. are living in the sixteenth century. They have in mind they are mas- ters of all they survey, that it is the position of baron and serf—of master ard servant. Well, tnat may o some- | where, but it doesn’t go here. Here we propose to make the conditions of Dfe such that every woman shali he 1 queen and every man a soverelgn. “Well, you know it is the old quack medicine which the old school of po- litical economist ys prescribed for the body industrial whenever there | was any grave question, aad question of importan industry, cammerce, finance—cut wages, cut wages, cut wages as a remedy for industrial stagnatian. | If what I have said has wny point, it is its application now. What the devil does Mr. Barr and his type think we have made all theso sacrifices for? “All the delegates from the coun- (ries sitting at the peace table and devising the terms of the treaty, are not prompted by the highest spirit of freedom and justice and demaocracy. We have helped to make this fight, we have helped to bring about this vetory, and while we are fighting for treedom and justice over there we are soing to maiatain the freedom and the justice and the rights of the masses of the people over there. The time has gone by when tha warking people of America can again be put in the shackles, that the labor | of human beings is a commodity or 1 article of commerce. We have now upon the statute books the priaciple in law and in fact that the labor of a human being is not a commodity, is not an article of commerce, and that. s well as being laborers or workers, we are human, with the same rights of sovereignty before the law a wel) as to lead our everyday lives. A pria- viple of this character is now too sa- cred to be bartered away to the re- ‘ctionaries who may desire ta stem the tide of democracy 'the world over. “We have secured the freedom of the seeamen, right of the seamen to own themselves when their ships are in safe harbor. Oppressed labor where flies is abolished and we are not go- permit any coterie of men to away the freedom we have ined after so many years. “Already the reactionaries are at work. There are some people who will never learn anything. There are some people whom a lessan, objective or otherwise, is of no account among them are the and the Bourbons whom T have bee: | maligning."” i RUSSTAD TURN TABLES. Ride Home While Half Million Ger- mans Have to Walk. Paris, Dec. (Havas)—German troops which have been occupying Russian territory are returning to Germany under great difficulty, ac- cording to a dispatch from Copen- hagen. One detachment of 1,500 men marching from Lodz, seventy-five miles southwest of Warsaw, were at- tacked by the Poles, and only suc- ceeded in reaching the German bor- der after undergoing severe hard- ships. 4s being forced to narch homeward through snow and rain. The men cannot use the railreads, because the Russians returning tc their own coun- try have taken ove- all the rolling stock. The Germans are pillaging as they pass through villages, the in- habitants taking flight as the sol- diers approach, who Mr. of tha | war, | of the American Federation of Labor the flag of the United States]| , and | reactionaries, | The German army of 500,000 men ' i NEW BRIT\IN Fight to Win/Y The Nation demands strong men—strong women and robust children, isdom suggests that every proper means of safeguard- ing the vital forces and building up of resistance, be utilized. SCOTTS EMULSION | affords definite help to those who are “fighting to win” against the inroads of weakness. Soott’s, abundant in tonic- . nuirient properties, builds up | the body by Nature’s metheds. ! Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N.J. | 18-14 HAISER NOW TRIES *PASSING THE BUCK' Says Betbmann and Jagow ¢ . Schemed While He Was Away | 2 (Associated showing Copenhagen, Dec. Press.)—Further revelatio that the ex-kaiser is seeking to es- tor bringing on in an article cape responsibility the war are contained | by Dr. Georg Wegener appearing in ! the Cologne Gazette recounting conversation which the writer had with the emperor just before he fled. In this interview the kaiser attempted to shift the blame for the world con- fiict on the shoulders of Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, former im- perial chancellor, and Gottlieb von Jagow, former minister of foreign af- fairs. “Against my will they sent me to Norway,” William is quoted as hav- ing said. “I did not wish to under- take the voyage, because the gravity of the situation after the murder of | | Archduke Francis Ferdinand was | clear at first sight. But the chan- cellor said to me “‘Your Majesty must take thiy voyage in order to maintain peace. If your Majesty remains here it un- doubtedly means war, and the world will lay to your charge responsibility for this war.’ “Well, I then undertook the voyage. | During all this time I received no re- ports from my government concern- ing current events. I only learned from Norwegian newspapers of what was occurring in the world, and in this way I learned of the Russian mobilization measures “But when I heard that the British fleet had put to sea, I returned of my own accord. They had nearly caught me. On my orders, German ships re- turned at once to the security of Norwegian harbor: Later, it would not have been possible for them to do so.” | The emperor then mentioned decla- rations of General W. A. Soukhom- linoff, Russian minister of war, dur- ing the investigations which occurred afterward, which he later altered to the statement that he had not ordered real mobilization, but only readines: for mobilization. The emperor, how- ever, insisted on the correctness of the first declaration, according to which the Czar had been caused by the Kaiser to recall his order for mobiliza- tion. He declared that General Nicholas Januschkevitch, chief of the Russian imperial general staff, de- ceived the Czar, and the order was carried out in spite of him. This mo- bilization, the Kaiser would have it, was the final reason for the war. The Russian war party at the court, the Kaliser continued, had al- ready, in the spring of 1914, com- pelled the Czar to make preparations for war. From this time Siberian regiments were gradually drawn west- ward. They were told that maneu- vers were the reason for, these move- ments, and thus they marched on tni the Volga river, and further westward until they were provided with loaded cartridges and told that they were now going to fight in earnest. “In fact,” said the Kaiser, “Russian troops were already over our fron- tier before war was declared.” CASTORIA For Infants and Children in Use For Over 30 Years 1EP LIOKIG YOUIG Signature ur It’s Easy—If You Know Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets “The secret of keeping young is to feel | young — to do this you must watch your | liver and bowels — there’s no need of having a sallow complexion — dark rings under your eyes — pimples — a bilious | look in your face — dull eyes with no | sparkle. ~ Your doctor will tell you ninety | ! a per cent of all sickness comes from in- active bowels and liver, Dr. Edwards, a well-known physician | in Ohio, perfected a vegetable com- pound mixed with olive oil to act on ' the liver and bowels, which he gave to | his patients for 3ea:s. | Dr, Edwards® Olive Tablets, the substi- tute for calomel, are gentle in their action | et always effective. They bring about | uoyancy wi enjoye everme. by w%ltnF up mge{imanddw- ! b{’ofl :ifi know Dr, Edwards’ Olive Tab- | lets by their ofive color, 10c and 25¢c per (bo& All druggists, AT AN ~la i , MONLCAY McCallum’s C‘Onyx79 “Holeproof” 5’0day:r HIN HOSIERY (N DEGHE IBEREOSIOIS - " ~ People of etc. Child. e e e ——— s o A1y New Britain vicinity have learned that Damon’s is just as good a place to buy Hosiery as it is to buy Shoes, Slippers, We have Hosiery for man, woman or Hosiery from All the Best Makers Can Be Found in This Stock Beautiful Christmas boxes with every purchase. Buckles that come Direct from the Importers. Women’s Warm Lined Comfy Slippers, new designs. Misses’ and Chi dren’s Felt Slippers, with kitten’s head design. Men’s Slippers, the comfy kind that wi.l keep him home nights. Shoes. Strictly speaking, | O Shop DAVISON PREDICTS | WORLD WIDE WANT American Red Cross Head Re-, turns From European Trip New York there will be such distress in world this winter that it cannot be met by volunteer organizations and that goveranments must bear the chief burden, was made today by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the wa coun- cil of the American Red Cr who has Jjust returned from a three months' trip to Kurope. Mr. Davison inspected the Red Cross activities in England, France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. “That there will be an cry of humani from all over the world, no one can doubt,”” said Mr. “The needs of France, Bel- gium, Italy, Russia and the Balkaas will not terminate with declaration af peace. A hard winter is ahead. Exposure and the hardships of war and the dislocated industrial conditions of the world have pro- duced hunger, want and disease. “Politically the outlook for a aew and better world is bright, but the econamic conditions are There Wwill be such distress in the world that it cannot be met by Vol- untary organizations. Governments themselves must bear den, and 1 am confldent that co-op- eration between the governments may be relied upon in an endeavor to meet -this wholesale work of relief which will be needed. “In addition to this, SUNRAY MILL WHITE Y. MADE TN - SPRINGFIELD *: PAINT AND CHEMICAL CO. the appealing there will, RACKLIFFE BROS. CO. New Britain Distributor Dec. 1.—Prediction that | the formai | That boy will appreciate a pair of Storm BOOTH'S BLOCK NEW BRITAIM. however, be the necessity and oppor- | tunity for supplementary work whicn Red Cross organizations throus-out the world can do, should de, and | must do. Certainly the women ot America, working through the Ked | Cross chapters, and the women in| other countries able to do similar | work, will find their hearts dictating | more than their hands can do. 1 hope no woman will think of relax- ing actlvity, her endeeavor to meet | the calls for supplies of whatever character as issued from Red Cross | headquarters at Washington until a | comprehensive and definite program | may be worked out. i “Whatever plans may be developed | by sovernments, whatever calls may | be made upon the Red Cro: zations of the world to supplement | the work of the governments, it is| clear that the American Red Cross must be kept strong and efficient, that it may do its share in full measure. “As the world now finds itself, the people of America are in a position to do the most, the people of Amer- ica are looked to for the most, and, in my opinion, the people of Americs owe the most to suffering humanity. “As far as can now be foreseen, there will be no further occasion for campaigns for Red Cross funds. Dur- ing the week before Christmas there is to be a roll call, giving every citi- zen an opportunity to register as a member of the volunteer humanitar- ian agency for the American people, which is recognized throughout the world as the American Red Cross. ominous. ' the chief bur- | This membership involves no commit- beyond the payment of one dal- American Red Mr. .mmarizing the Cross work In foreign countries, Davison said: “More than people subscribed Red Cross within months, a total aggregating $313,- 000,00 in money, and contributed manufactured goods of an estimated { value of approximately $44,000,000. | _“Atter rather extensive journevs in ! England, Belgium, France, Switzer- land and Italy, T can report to the American people that wherever our troops have been fighting, the Ameri- can Red Cross has been with them, conveying to them In spirit, word, act and fact the benefits of our or- ganization, whose efficient work has been made possible by the volunteer service of the people of America. “A large American Red Cross foree is working with our troops in England and a yet Jarger force in France, where a personnel of 18 in Juyne, 1917, has developed into an organiza. | tion of more than 7,000 men and wo- f men. Our other commissions, though | smaller, are equally effective in their various flelds of operations. “In short, our American battalions, 47,600,000 American to the Amercan a period of 11 s organi- | ic 1 wherever they may be, are receiving | the Crown of Italy, and King Albert devoted service from American Red Cross.” Mr. Davison quoted among others the following statements of American and other military officers and of gov- ernment officials abroad to show what the American Red Cross has done for armies and nations in the theater of war: By General Pershing, Commander- in-Chief of the American Expedition- ary Forces:—"“I want every man, woman and child who has contribut- ed even a dime in money or an hour of work to the Red Cross to under- stand that such contribution has helped to meet the needs of our coun- try’s soldiers. The value of the serv- is beyond computation.” By Ireland, Chief Surgeon of the American Expeditionary Forces:i— “The efficiency of the American Red Cross organization has been a con- stant source of surprise and satisfac- tion to me and to the members of my staff. Always ready, always willing, immiediately, and effectively respond- ing to every call, they have rendered an essential service to our men the value of which can never fully be known."” General Biddle, in command of the American land forces in Great Brit- ain:—*“Everywhere the Red Cross is giving the best that can be given or asked for. We in the Army all feel a gratitude to the Red Cross which it is hard for me to express in words.” Vice Admiral Sims, in command of the American Naval Forces in Brit- ish waters:—“When our men are sick or wounded we need quick action unhampered and free. That is where the Red Cross comes to the front. Dis- asters like the ‘Otranto’ show how valuable is its work. When an emer- gency lurns up, we sometimes have not the facilities, sometimes not the legal authority to do all that we ought to do. The Red Cross man can make a law as quick as you can write a check. The Red Cross is - present to help in time of trou- Marshal Petain, Commander-in- Chief of the French armies:—“When the story o. this war is written there will be 1o more brilliant chapter than that of the American Red Cross in France. Nothing has contributed more to the morale of my soldiers and to the people of France than the work of that organization. Some day | 1 shall go to America for the express purpose of acknowledging to their | members and to the American peos | ple the debt of gratitude we owe.” Mr, Dovison adds: “When Presldent Poincare decorat- ed me with the Commander’s Cross of the National Onder of the Legion of | Honor, and King Victor Emmanuel | with the Order ef Gwand Officer of ' of Belgium with the Cross of Com- mander of the Order of Leopold, each the highest distinction that can be conferred on a civilian, I was in each instance directed to express to the American people the appreciation of the government represented by its officers and its people, and to let our American people kncw how much the great work done by the American Red Cross has meant to the countries which were conferring the distino- tion. “In listening to such tributes, which have been multiplied all over France and Italy, I have always wished that the millions of members of workers of American Red Cross were with me to hear what the offi- clals were saying and hear the spon- taneous applause with which their ut- terances were greeted by the people whom they represented. These tri- butes were meant for the entire Red Cross membership “In such univcrsal testimony is the answer as to whether or not the en~ deavor of the American people through the American Red Cross in this war crisis has been successful.” Ex-Pres. Tatt, Fox's theater, Dec. 16, —advt. WAR IN THE AIR. Chilean Populace Hold Patriotic Dem-~ onstration Against Peru. Santiago, Chile, Dec. 2.—A great patriotic demonstration, directed against Peru, was held here Satur- day and continued until midnight. It was the largest ever seen in Santiago, and includes almost the entire popula- tion between the ages of 16 and 60 Resolutions to be sent to the Na- tional Government, demanding the in- corporation into Chile of Tacna and Arica and on immediate increase in the army and navy, were everywhere greeted with cheers. A feature of the demonstration was the presence of the veterans of ‘79, who captured these provinces from Peru, The ucwspapers comment on the fact that hundreds of small Argentine flags were carried in the procession. Ex-Pres. Taft, Fox's theater, Dec. 16. —advt, TOMMIES CROSS BORDER, London, Dec. 2~—~Genersl Plumer's advanced troops yesterday crossed the German {rontier between Beho and Pupen, and advanced toward the Rhine, the war office announced last night. By evening the troops had reached the general line of Hurg, Reuland, Bullingen and Montjole