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ONLY PAPER, in the CITY, of more than 3.500. Poples, and has the bigest circulation of any and all other papers, in the City, combine!. Vol. 9 KREBS. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, August 2(th. 1920. Number 28 7k V IMMENSE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT ARE LAID UPON AMERICAN LABOR Thomas Alva Edison. "Labor tiny novor had a profoundor significance than iitlnrlios to It In tho present join Tho world still quar rels. Hut at tho hottom of all dif ferences roinalns the fundamental fact that tho world cannot ho i oc on struct p( without work, and 'hat tho work annot ho dono wltlintit workers. I' o r h a ps thoso two words, 'work ers' and 'labor ers,' no or stood nearer together. It Is predicted by more than one of recent coniinontators that grades of productive work will never again be so widely separated as they have been In the past. The war doubt loss has done much to pnne tho es sential dignity of all labor of all real work. And one of the otten astonish ing fentuies of the inbdr situation is the inlliionce now proved to hao been exerted by women in industry. That Influence may frequently have been exaggerated so sensational a depar ture was hound to result in exaggera tive predictions -but tho fact remains that labor Justice no longer has a sex dividing line as it once had. Woman is no longer solely the figure that waits at home for the fruits of man labor. She herself is in the fray, and her presence creates issues which will not only In many enses complicate la bor problems but will add to them something which very shrewd men in sist will work to the advantage of la bor and or society in the end. ' Thomas A. Edison Is not the only man with a vision who has recently spoken in cheerful prophecy concern ing labor In America. Mr. Edison has been called a conservative. Other men of more radical view are not less con fident of nthance, and Labor dn Ibis year acquires a high significance us an occasion for confident, constructive, rallying crle. yhat the comim: year may bring forth as to the vexed mat ter of "Industrial democracy" no one may now surely foretell, but even the most reticent or reactionary of ob servers have seemed ready to believe that extraordinary changes may occur. Instances of broadly conceived experi ments are alieady giving occasion for eager speculation. Hut aside from the vital and fnf reachlng quest Ion of organization or co-operation, the answers to which are not without presumption to he pre dicted, the outstanding fact of the hour is the world's growing recogni tion of labor's relationship to all that Is implied bj the significant word Re construction. Readjustment might he a word of equal significance:. It has been said again and again in varying ways that labor must reconstruct the world, and In th.it reconstruction, lie cause the United States must play so important a part, American labor must assume immense responsibilities. .CURRENT 1 '! EVENTS! OKLAHOMA! p .w-r..l-tlTrlrrnl17n-) , , in,.IBni mn mm ,, RS IN CONVENTION ! BETTER : ! HIGHWAYS ; i I FEDERAL ROAD BUILDING AID FARME Governor Opens Three Day Oklahoma Farmers' Union Meet. Oklahoma City.-r-More than 200 farmers from all parts of the state filled the houso ol ropioseutativos hull at the capltol when the fourth an nual convention of the Oklahoma Fanners' union was called to order by John A. Simpson, president. Governor Robertson welcomed tho fannets to the capltol for their three day conference, declaring the building to belong to them. Jiotter rural schools throughout the ru al districts and aid of the fanners in bringing that about was tho chief message of the governor in his ad (licss. The goal of the state should be a piactical higli "school education loi ovpiy child in Oklahoma, without the necessity of his leaving home, tho governor declared. Highway Construction Hampered by Transportation Difficulties and Lack of Material. In addition to $10,000,000 for forest road construction, congress lias made available to .Inly 1, 11)20, the sum of $27.",0OO.0O0 for federal aid roads. Of this sum S17.j.00O,0Ov was available up to and Including June 'M, lil'JO. Of this amount the states had made appli cation covering S1.7l.)tt.oi0 as of April ISO. This federal aid Is to apply MINERS FORGET GRUDGE Meet and Shake Hands in Office of Justice of Peace. TULSA CABMAN IS CLUBBED Labor's First Striving for 'Place in the Sun' Was Mainly Political Early manifestations of the labor feeling in the United Stales were po litical. In 1S20 a woikingmen's ticket was placed In nomination In New York. This political movement spread Into Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and contributed to the formation of the Loco Foco party which played an important part In the politics of that period. Political organization hastened organization for trade purposes and In lSSIl the General Trades union of the city of New York elected Its presi dent to congress. In 1SIJ2 the New England Association of Farmers, Me chanics and Workingnien was organ ized in Roston. The three most Im portant labor organizations which np poured before the Civil war were or ganized in IS 15: The New Effgland "Vyorklngmen's association, the New England Protective union and the In- , dustrlal Congress of the United States. All three organizations waned In the early '50s, and from that time until the end of the Civil war many trades unions of the narrower kind were formed. During this period many trade union leaders character ized the trade union as exclusive and warmly advocated the formation of broader organizations which would elevate the masses by other means than tho strike and tho regulation of apprenticeship. In 1S00 their efforts resulted In tho formation of the Na tional Luhor union, which attempted to found a Labor Reform party and died ill 3870 "of tho disease known as politics." The work laid down by the National Labor union fell into the hands of tho Knights of Labor, formed in Decem ber, 1S09, by lenders of a dissolved local union of garment cutters In Philadelphia. Until 1SS2 the nnmo and purpose o the order were kept secret. In 1880 it became Involved In the Missouri Pacific strike. Its mem bership then numbered 700,000. There after, split by Internal dissensions, and woakened by strikes, Its member ship nnd Influence declined. In 1914 It had less than 100,000 members. The American Federation of Labor orig inated in an nttempt to found a gen oral organization of American work ingtnon distinct from the Knights of Labor on a trade union basis. A pre liminary convention was called by the Knights of Industry and tho Amalga mated Labor union tho latter com posed largely of secoders from the Knights of Labor and met In Terre Ilnute, Intl., August 2, 18S1. Tho first otllclal convention met at Pittsburgh, Pa., In November, 1SS1. The Anierl can Federation of Labor bns prac tically taken the place of Its former rival, the Knights of Labor, the organi zation which was all-powerful some twenty-five years aco. ' Labor .Organization in America Can Be Traced to Movement in 1803 Victim Shot After Begging for Mercy and Is Left on Ground. Tulsa.-r-HoTnor WTda, taxi driver, was clubbed ovSr tho head ftom be hind at a lenolytolnt on tho Re,d Fork-Tulsa road by one of a party ol two men and a woman who had en gaged his car and when lie threw up i his hands and begged for mercy was 1 shot in the stomach. One of the men then jumped to the driver's seat and diove tho car off leaving Nida groan ing upon the ground. I No trace bus been found of his as sailants. Okmulgee police have been asked to keen a lookout lor a high poweied automobile containing two ll 11 McAlcstor. Aftor engaging In a pis tol duel In which each principal dl locted about six shots at each other, at Ridgoway mine No. 10 of tho Rock Island Coal company near Ilartshorne, according to witnesses, 13111 Halle and M. Hefford mot in tho ofllco of tho Ilartshoino Justice of the peace, shook hands and declarod themselves good friends. Neither man was injured, The alleged encounter occurred on tho street of tho little mining camp. Tho trouble is alleged to have started because Hefford claimed that Ilailo had caused him to lose his job in tho mine. ifailo and Hefford were placed un der arrest when their ammunition wr y exhausted. Both declined to prosecute and they weio dismissed In tho jus tice's court. THEY KNEW COMBINATION Only Few Knew the Combination, So Think It Easy to Ascertain Guilt, t Miami Secret service agents from Muskogee are at Bornlco working on. the Bern ice bank robbery case. More than $1,000 wjis taken from the hank at Bernico by some one who knew the combination. Entrance to the bank was gained through a rear window The vault was opened and 11 money in sight pocketed lind a number of Liberty bonds stolen from private boxea. The bank was robbed also several years ago. INSPECTOR WAS IN HUGO Surface I reatment of Macadam Road With Bituminous Material and Stone Chips. -, Warnings Issued For All Business Houses to Clean Up. Organizations among American la borers began in 1S03, when the .ship carpenters and ca Users, of New York and Boston organized. The tailors of New York formed a union the same year, and 1S0IJ i.lso witnessed the first Industrial strike in America, when the New York sallois refused to work. Before that, howeer, there had liven ,non aiul a woman, one ol whom shot labor disturbances among the bakers the ownei' oi lhe ca1' iu Tulsa, too:c of New York and the boot nnd shoe 110 him the car and drove away, rankers of Philadelphia. It was dur- Tho police bore were told that the lug tho sailors' strike of 1S0J5, the , "' lacker's" victim probably will die. Massachusetts shipbuilders' strike of TvZFZ IXrSS.BOLL WORMS AT KENDRICK "scab" w ere first used. From local ' " unions, the organization of labor pro- Farmers Report Damage Being Done Money for Good Roads. Thirty-seven states In this country have authorized the expenditure of $(i:r,01H,729 for good roads In tho next Ave years. Cash for Lincoln Highway. An allotment of $12,000,000 has been made for Improvements to the Lincoln highway. '" "' "V Hugo. Warnings h'avef boon Issued In Hugo by R. E. Burke, representa tive of the state health department at Oklahoma City, that he will inspect o ery hotel, rooming house, cafe, alley way and business house In Hugo, and j If he does not find things tho way they should bo ho will close them up. Highways Destroyed by War. More than 25,000 miles of highways were destroyed in France during ttie world war. INDIANS GET BIG PAYMENT I Indians at Pawhuska Are Allotted $1,000 Per Capita. grossed until In 1S50 the first Inter national labor union, that of the prlnt ( rs. was launched. Tho first "martyrs to It ado union ism" were thrown Into jail at Tol puddle. Dorsetshire, Eng., 77 years ago. They were James and George Lovelace. Thomas Stanfleld, .lames Brjue. Tho first throe men were By Wet Weather. Kendilck. Damp, cloudy weather which lias prevailed hero the past ten days is said to have been favorable for the development of cotton boll worms. Farmers report that worms are working in practically all fields, Wesleyon preachers, who worked as '"" """" """' -,,, , , , ,,.,.. .,,, damage already has been done. "Million Dollar" Band For Muskogee. , Muskoge The "Million Dollar" band will make its appearance at Muskogee al the Oklahoma Free State fair in October. Harold Ufichman, director, took the present organization of all American soloists and musicians to France, where Genoral Hunter Liggett declared its presence was "worth a million dollars to the American army." The name stuck to the band when it returned. Tn Xtrllll aim faitrn Inillono unnnlirml ( $2,229,000 when a payment of $1,000 por capita was made through the Indian office bore. This payment is a part of tho $18,000,000 which will bo distributed among members of the Osago nation this year. on week days aim gospel on Sundays. If cool weather continues tho cotton farm laborers nriMchetl the T1...IP fmnrisnninent was duo to their yield wil bo far below normal, farm attempt to form a union of farm la- ors think. Cotton throughout this sec borers to protest against a proposed tion is from two to throe weeks later reduction In wages from seven shlll- than usual. lugs to six shillings less than ?1.50j a week. Tho landlords were all-pow- OTTAWA PflllMTY RFPnillUT erful in Dorsetshire, and tho "con- UMAWA L-UUNIT KtL-UUI, I 8pirators" wuro arrested, stripped, shorn of their hair and cast Into Jail Outcome of Election Contest Not to anil eventually sentenced to seven Be Waited For. years' Inprlsonment. The first demand of labor unions Miami Rather than await tho out foi an eight-hour day was mado at como of the present election contest it convention held in Baltimore, Au- instituted by E. E. Shipley against gust 21, 1SSG. Tills congress also Mrs. Ella Noff, the Ottawa comity marked the first attempt to organlzo a J oloclion board likely will open ballot national federation of the various hoxes anil rocount tho .votes next trade unions, national and Interna- week. This announcement was made tional, then existing in the United by L. D. Jaies, sociotary of tho States nnd Canada. One hundred del- hoaid, following a visit to Oklahoma egates were present, representing city Monday, wlyvro ho conferred about GO organizations. The demand with the state eloctlon board and offi for the eight-hour day was but an In- clals in the attoiney general's office. cldent in tho sessions of the congress, but at succeeding gatherings It as- Muskogee Bridge Tender Die3. mimed great Importance and became Muskogeo. For the second time the leading plank of organized la- within two years, a bridge tender at bor's platform. The second convention iue Frisco biidge between Muskogee was held In Chicago in 1807. The Na- nn, port Gibson has dropped dead, tional Labor union, after meetings ln,v. J. Adams, G8 years old, Is tho Boston, Philadelphia and Columbus, I nsuno 0r the latest victim, while John went out of existence In 187-1. but at Footo inot the same fate two years an International congress held at ng0 Rochester In that year the movement i Auto Accident Postpones Hearing, was revhed under other names. Sev- Muskogee An auto accident near i eral organizations divided the nllegl-! broken Arrow prevented Mr and Mrs. 1 unco of organized labor, but in 18U ' R L Stephen of Tulsa from appear the Federation of Organized Trades JnR beforo mited States Com in is- ' and Labor I nlotis of the United States Blonor r m Mountcastle on charges i nnd Canada was launched, and out of possession of liquor. Stephens sus of this has grown the powerful Amer- llimeti three broken ribs, while others lean Federation of Labor. ja the car escaped without serious la- Duncan Schools Filled. Duncan. Contracts for sufficient touchers for city schools have been closed by the board of education. Slight Increasos In pay have been given. The schools will open the mid dle of September with thirty-six teach-rs. , Eight Towns Combine to Make One Tulsu Eight towns on tho Inter urban between Tulsa and Sand 'Springs are planning to incorporate nc n fl pcLnl'ico ,H, Tlmti .1ut. n population of more than 1,000. A pe til Ion is now being ciiculated to get 35 per cent of the voters signed to piegent to Governor Robertson, asking iur ti aiieumi uiuuiiuii. It will be tho first time In In, his tory of the state thai a town lias ap plied to incorporate as a first-class city at the beginning. j Miami Guard Assembles for Trip. Miami. Twonty-fivo members of Company K, Oklahoma national guard, assembled at tho armory to prepare (or entrainment for Fort Sill. Choctaw County Fair to Be Large. Hugo That tho 1920 Choctaw coun ty fair will eclipse any previous years is the belief of men behind the annua exhibit who are now completing plans for the event. The huge crop in prospect, coupled with the notable piospority of the farmers and live stock men of the county, will be largo ly responsible for this, they believe. Muckogee to Have Joint Club Meet. Muskogeo Joint moolings ovory month ot tho chamber of conmiorco and various civic clubs are being worked out hero by civic loadors to bring about closer co-operation among tho organizations. Muckogee Has Community Drive. Muskogee Women of Muskogeo, under tho leadership of the Women's Noond'iy club, are making a aa for funds to finance community service woik for a year. They expect to raise ?5,uc0 by dollar subscilptlons ANOTHER STILL IS FOUND Tishomingo Man First Escapes But Later Surrenders To Sheriff. Tishomingo. John Cunningham, sheriff and two deputies raided a big wild-cat still last week which is said lo have boon operating hero for somo time. Tho still was uncovered in tho gardon near the house of S. J. Dish-' room, . who lives two miles east of Tishomingo near Sandy Creek. About 3ixty gallons of beer and tuanfall quan tity of corn whisky wore found. Dish loom, at first escaped, but later sur rendered to Cunningham. Train Service Hard Hit ( Fiodorick. Train service in south west Oklahoma is virtually shot to piccos foi the time bohig owing to heavy rains the last forty-eight hours. Kingfisher Mep Refused Smokes. Kingfisher. Because of high prices tir "smokes" in Kingfisher, county ) clals lononiinated at the primary, lgreed to launch a smokeless cam paign. Official! have notified the men that they must provide themselves with tho necessary "smokes" at all public gatherings. This has met with the approval of Kingfishers' suffrag lata.