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Officer Charlton crippled. Auto wreck. Sanders under arrest. New York. Augustus Dillon, West Point cadet, held up liner Kaiser Wll helm II three minutes while getting tnree last kisses from fiancee, Eva Mountrey. Atlantic City, N. J. Membership or American Federation of Labor dur ing June, 1913, 2,026,716 as com' pared with 1,703,749 in June. 1912. Nashville, Tenn. Ceo. M. Parrish, seriously shot while alone in hotel room with wife, still unconscious and unable to explain how shooting oc curred. Wife says he did it himself. , London. Mafe suffragette with black cross on his shirt front nearly busted up Melba in Romeo et Juliette at. Covent Garden by standing in front of royal box and staring stead ily at King Georve V. New York. Mayor Caynor asked ragged little street urchin to ride In his auto and was told to go jchase himself. London. Queen Mary is getting so fat she Is taking up golf. Berlin. War office has ordered try-out at coming manoeuvres of "water shoe," a device to make pos sible walking on water. Washington. Mrs. Nina Lane Mc Bride, daughter of Sen. Lane of Ore gone, will stump Pennsylvania for Socialists next month. Kankakee, III. Clam fishers re covered body of Fred Dumas, drown ed by capsizing of his boat Denver. Deputy sheriffs took In money at Buffalo Bill's wild west show here last night Attachment asked by U. S. Lithographing & Printing Co., Chicago, who claim ?66,000. So Asquith has appointed Bob Bridges poet laureate, eh? Poet laureating is a snap. All you have to do is to wait till the king dies and then sing something about how he was an essential but isn't going to be missed much because his succes sor is such an angeL J SOCIAL INSURANCE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF LABOR Editor Day Book: Beginning June 6 there was held in the Red Room of the LaSalle Hotel a conference to discuss a topic in which working men and Socialists should be vitality interested. This group of men constituted the First American Conference on Social Insurance, and was held under the auspices of the American Associa tion for Labor Legislation. It has a great significance! It means that capitalism feels that the time is ripe in America to follow the example of Germany and England and throw a few sops in tie form of social legislation to the working class. Who were these men to whom the framing of measures, which were In every sense of the word strictly working class measures, intrusted? Working men? No! Carpenters, plumbers, mechanics, teamsters, fac tory employes? No! They were college professors, cler icals in the employ of charity organ izations, ditto of the various Insur ance associatlons--tbere was a law yer and various heads of various de partments of several institutions, but working men were all employed in hunting Jobs or the like, for I saw none of them there. Yet this thing vitally concerned them! A number of measures were discussed In which two of the parties to the contract were represented the third (the members of which constitute the largest majority) did not know this was. going on, let alone have a voice irrlt These measures, when they are made up into bills ready to be voted upon, will attempt to establish some form of insurance against sickness, accidents, old age, death and even unemployment. The triangle is made by the par ticipating parties, i: e., the state, the industry, the employe, each to share one-third of the financial burden ea-