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FIRST SECTION PAGES 1 TO 12. TWELFTH YEAR, NO. 211. iABOUT TWO THOUSAND 'MOLDERS IN DETRQITGOOUT IN SYMPATHETIC STRIKE Protest Against Police and Court Action in Case of Aluminum Workers STOVE PLANTS AFFECTED Belief General That Men Will Return to Work Within Few Days About 2.000 molders «n the various foundries of Detroit went out on a synu athetlc strike. Monday morning, as a protest against the attitude of the police and the courts toward the a!um<num and brass foundry strikers, who have been out since March. All the big stove factories are af fected by the Monday morning walk out as well as the Ideal Manufactur ing <”o., American Radiator Cos., Stan dard Foundry Cos., oMnarch Foundry, Hupp corporation and others. How long the sympathetic strike will last is a proble mon which neith er the men nor the officials of the companies could throw any light, though at some of the foundries the men were expected to return to work In a day or two. “The only strike authorized by the union 1 said Business Agent Martin Sh<*Manskl, Is that of the aluminum and brass molders. who quit -.work ‘last March. The sympathetic stride is si nply a move that the men have taken tnemselves without any action of toe union. Officially the union of ficers know nothing about it. Hut we l.ave heard that the men wanted to protest against the arbitrary actions of the police in dealing with tne strik ing molders and the conviction in the federal court last week for contempt of two strikers who were tfuilty of nothing worse than walking up and down the streets. “The police have ridden down strik ers under their horses and ihugs have been imported to beat up the strikers. Some of these thugs we have had fined in the recorder's court but in the esse of a core maker named Joss, whose arm is probably permanently as the result of an assault romtmffoa on Woodward-ave., the man charged with the assault was ae- j quitted.” ' . . ' The demands of the aluminum and ( brass molders who struck in March w ere for a nine hour day and a mini- : mum wage of $3.25. Ne»riy J** 0 J quit work and those in eight foundrus | are still out while 23 shops effected ( settlements with the men. j Several of the locals will hold meeV ; lngs Tuesday at which the sympa thetic strike will come up for conse cration. Among tha locals tnat ha\e already called meetings are No. 244. which embraces the Jobbing and machinery molders. and No. 409, the brass und aluminum n.olders In the Fairvlew and Atlas foundries ths men were all reported working, Monday morning. The 100 molders employed In the uJm foundry, held an informal med ia J when the shop were opened and \os#d to remain at work. In the plant ofUhe Fairvlew Foundry Cos., about 40# men remained at work. In the Michigan Stove works the men appeared as usual W’hen it was time to go to work. Monday morn ing, but soon left the shop. The im pression was general In the Michigan works that the strike would be of short duration and that the men might return to work after letting one day of Idleness mark their sympathy to# the aluminum and brass molders. The International Molders’ union hai about 4,000 members In Detroit, It Is estimated that more than naif of them were Idle Monday. UK? • Sit t* JB ISIII WfiPg i'wjiH&ra ' > W PRESIDENT WM. H. TAFT. "Women are welkin* for civic bet terment and their interest in affairs of the kind is constantly Increasing,” sold President Wnt, T. Taft. “I be lieve that woman suffrage will come eventually. "There is one fundamental princi ple that applies to the whole thing— unde* a represenlative form of gov ernment the Interests of any particu lar set of people arc more likely to be advaiu ed when represented by one of theJh s, *lves than by one of another clegs po matter how altruistic." fl Kristina >o fu«* sn® ■o feathers Th* i>l»in. ne«t kind thsl ■aeks right limM rHatla* C**.. IS lobe 1.-st. Th. Main 1498 or City 33SS WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE EDITION Detroit Simcs CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN DETROIT STREETS BRINGS APPEAL FOR FAIR PLAT Observer Who Witnesses Scores of Inhuman Acts Writes on Behalf of Dumb Brutes QUICK ACTION NEEDED Steps Should Be Taken to Pro tect Them in City Famed for Modern Ideas Stories of a poor sore-eyed, starved horse, kicked, beaten, with a chair rung, shovel handle, barrel-stave, or other things eqully suitable, had been told to me by numerous children and one morning, by chance. I happened upon an instance that simply nauseat ed me. I could not believe that such an animal could to driven through the streets of any city not inhabited by people, whose moral sense was brutalised by their adamantine selfish ness—but this was “Detroit the Beau tiful!” It Is utterly impossible to form a mental picture of this suffering dumb creature. 1 touch and handle horses In almost any condition of Influenza and cores, but, although, my heart bled for this poor thing, even I was afraid of contamination. As I stood, wondering and distressed, a mam came up, saying,” “ ‘lt's a ehame to keep that horse alive.’ “O! I'd get myself Into trouble; I’ve got to mind my own business, was the reply. I continues to my office, called for a motorcyclist and resumed my work. I heard that the man hod been to see the horse and had done nothing. I also called the superintendent of what I supposed was h humane society, but ther ewas noth lug doing. About three weeks afterward I was told that the horse was dead and sup posed that the officer had finally shot it, hut no—the owner’s own daughter told me that her father had killed it— not In mercy. They soon had another horse treat ing it in the same way. A city cannot expect its citizens to remain human In any attribute If It allows them to brutalize themselves and othera. From & third story window, I once saw a horse fastened to a tree, acting In a frantic manner. Feeling sur es what I should find, I ran down stairs and examining the horse took off the bridle to find a large piece of skin gone near from the temple. Upon examination, I found the pin of the buckle sharpened to a point and ex tending horizontally in the horse’s temple. Having called a cyclist, I awaited his coming but the driver appeared and, although told to malt for the officers, harnessed the horse and drove off. saving. "My boss will stand for anything I do." So he might, for there was no sign or mark of any kin.l to prove who his owner was. This horse’s back nil along the spine, was a mass of raw sores. Another Case. One sweltering afternoon in July, returning up Woodward-ave. from town suffering extreemly myself from the heat I came upon what checked my pity for myself, as I saw a coal wagon being unloaded. The two horses. rather the remain.} of horse-se were covered with sores, sweat, coal dust and flies! Their heads were hanging and their frame work exposed In every part, the welts of the whip even in that emaciated covering of bones! The driver, of course, was Impudent at first, but I stood there and with my handkerchief and a paper kept the flies off the poor thing while he work ed. He finally stiffened and told me that the barn boss had begged »hat he might shoot that horse, but the owner, a leading ooal and Ice man in the elty would not permit it. I had previously called on that owner to tell him of a case of abuse and his reply was, "Send your htisltand to the phone. »/e never pay any attention to what a wo man says about a horse. One Excavation. All through the bitter cold of last winter while working on excavations horses were lashod unmercifully, would fall and were laahed again; stumbled to their feet, pulled, strain ed; Ml again under the lash, stum bled and strained their feet again un der the lash from 7 o’clock,* or earlier, In the morning until dark. When the thaw came it would seem as though a relief might rome, but not so. Now it is a flood in a clay bed and the. poor things sink into the mire to their knees with every step again the everlasting whips is applied. One driver after another quits the work. Sick at heart, until finally a brutish southern Negro keeps to the work. Overseeing this business—and mind you they are his own horses—lx an old man who salutes a woman who, objects to his brutality in beating his horses, as "You old goat!” This kind of thing you must expect if you would aid the helpless. Yet this place is on Woodward-ave. and the sight was »witnessed for months by people who go uuce or twice a week to church and sing that most beautiful of hymns. "Abide With Me,” in wiilrh the greatest tribute paid the master is help of the help less It seems in Detroit as if It must be "God, help the helpless.” Whose business is this? Is Detroit to be forever disgraced by her lack of humane feeling, her disgraceful dog-pound and unspeakable horses 7 rntent Applications Alert by Hartbal A Barthel. >7 Con*res»-«t. west. Jnk Printing Dose Hlsht. TlSion Printing to., 16 John R-St. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1912. ■* "i'll ig#*i vV Koosewgit’a WBt Cur the rule of the people, and the equal suffrage movement, are fundamentally the same. Both aim to make our ideal of an American democracy, a real and not a sham ideal. The men of 1776 caught a vision of a stalo In which all men should be free and equal. Then they proceeded to erect a constitution which reoognized slavery, freed the slave, and held up to the nation, a reconsecrated Ideal of a governilitnt “of the poople, for the people, and by the people.” Then cams the great development of Industries. Women were forced into factory and store by the biting competition of the new era. Their sisters - cm MUST BUT PROPtRTT IF SUBWAVS ARE BUILT Not Enough Room in Streets 'For Underground Stations, Says Engineer McCormick "The city will have to buy some property in Woodward. Michigan and Gratiot-aves., if it decides to build subways in these streets,” savs City Engineer McCormick. “I cannot say how much land it will have to acquire or what it will cost, but underground stations will have to be built every three blocks and there is not enough room for that purpose in the streets. McCormick has made an ingenious device in preparation for the work of planning the subways. Several cross sections of streets have been drawn, showing the location of pipes building wrgiis and sidewalks. The engineer has a cross-examination of the tubes drawn to the same scale and on trans parent film. This film is laid over the plans showing the cross-sections of the streets and shows accurately just where the tubes could be located to best advantage. “Our engineers must survey every foot of earth in these streets and first draw plans showing the location of every pipe in the streets,” said Mc- Cormick. "In Woodward-ave., there is a perfect network of pipes and many of these will undoubtedly have .to be removed. But the first thing for us to determine is where to build the tubes to encouater the least number of pipes. In New York the subway* tubes in some places approeeh to within three feet of the surface of the ground.” In some places the tubes may have to be constructed Inside the wall line of the big office and store buildings. It is a question whether the cl*y can lay the tubes underneath private buildings without first * buying the right, In addition to buying bind for station purposes. •Aid. John Lodge and Engineer Mc- Cormick discussed the plans at a re cent conference, and Ixxlge will in troduce a resolution in the council, Tuesday night, directing the engineer to proceed to make the surveys. Mefnll psHm of Ikr Jethh faith fcnvr nrsistwil uinlrr fhr name **t the Jewish Hat *ll Jeweler*' associa tion. xml articles of Association were filed Saturday The object of the as aociatlon is to wfforth mutual protec tion to members. Improve social con ditions and to prevent the selling of Inferior goods. The Independent Russlsn-l'nllsh la tersflsnns Kerin, an organisation f*.rm-'«l to provide relief to distressed member*, visit the slog, VUiry the deao and ps> sick and funeral bene, flit, of no' mor.- than 1150, Med ar ticlas of association Saturday. The Right Rev. Chas. D. Williams. Bishop of Michigan, Champions Suffrage BISHOP CHAS. D. WILLIAMS “I believe in grunting the suffrage to women for many reasons, among them these: "First, as a matter of right their claim is unassailable. I believe the average woman la mentally aa cap able of casting the ballot as the aver age man and morally more capable. “Rerotid. in a military and militant civilization like that In the middle nges, the weapon) bearer waa the. nutnral voter and exclusive manhood suffrage wag reasonable. In an in dustrial* civilization like that of the j resent day. surely the broom wielder has an equal right with the weapon hearer. •"Third, men have been trained for many generations now to think al mo| exclusively in terms %)f dollars and cents and they naturally or ganize and administer government al most solely In the lntoresl of com merce and business. Hut anew day lias dawned u|»oii ur, and government is being realized as Hie organization of Ihe common wealth Wom>a have always been accustomed to think in terms of bunittu life and human well being. I think therefore their admis to the right of suffrage would help on the new efI~UT human rights and better sos ial organization which Is now come upon us.”’ Wolverine Tourists Arrive. The tourists of the Wolverine An , tomohile clii!t_Arrlv*4 in DOtrotT U-f -ntrhf after a 7n:t mile journey. Satur day and Sunday's weather was l*an | for the autos, making the going hard. The tour is u came here from Toltdo. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. m • v*, ■, In the home became more generally educated. To gether they awoke to the fact that women are "peo ple” in Unooina sense —not children, slaves, or dolls. Today they demand the ballot as the right of every normal adult in a true democracy, and it it Idle to tell a woman that the men will govern very nicely for her! Would you, Mr. Voter, cou sent to hand over to another, your right to govern yourself? If you believe in the rule of the people, you will vote in November to give woman the ballot; that she may jolu you in the fight for better working conditions, for yourselves and for your children. Two votes are better than one! ROTH SIRES STAND fIRM IN HOTEL WORKERS' STRIKE New York Managers Employ Non-Union Help; Strikers Spread Walkout NEW YORK. June 3.—Refusal of the hotel managers to arbitrate or even 10 meet a committee from tbu union, has nullified the efforts of the state commissioner of labor to settle the strike of the waiters in this city. The officials of the union Insisted today that the men would win. How ever, the hotel proprietors belicvo flier have the backbone of the strike broken. They had plenty of waiters -such as they were—on duty in their dining rooms and although the service was of the crudest, the patrons re trained from complaining. Os the 52,000 employes of all kind.* in 226 of the city’s hotels, It was ug r eed today that 8,000 are on strike. Few of the hotels are doing much business now, however, and tne hotel men say they can afford to keep fheir biggest dining rooms closed until Sep tember. It is now admitted that it will be a fight to the finish, and the union as a last weapon, today decided to call out all of their remaining member ship in downtown New York and pos sibly In Brooklyn. AGED MAN RUN DOWN BY AUTO AND KILLED Oscar Fisher. 83 years old. of No 838 Mugnolia-st., was run down, Sun day morning, at Porter-at. and V’ine wood-ave., bv an automobile driven by George Dempster, No. 396 Cavalry* a\e. Dempster picked up the badly injured man and rushed him to St. Mary’s hospital, when* Fisher UltJ, Sunday night. Dempster gave himself up to the police, and made a straight forward statement of the accident to Dete« • tive Downey, who allowed him to pn, to report If he is wanted later by the prosecutor. Fisher was riding a bicycle, and made a double turn In front of Demp ster's auto, which dodged him st the first turn, only to crash Into him when the bicyclist turned hack into the path of tbe Aufo. , " Coroner Burgess believes that Dempster cannot be blamed for the accident. MARKET OPENING NEW YORK. June 3 The stock market opened Irregular %lth prtr© changes about equally divided be twsen |tiu and louts QUESTION OF REBUILDING ,1101 AUTOMOBILE PLANT HAS KOI BEEN SETTLED Fred Postal Says it Will Be Decided By Officers *in Near Future LOSS IS OVER $300,000 Fireman is Killed While Fight ing Flames in Factory at Adrian "The question whether the Don automobile factory will be rebuilt will be settled by the company's officers very shortly/’ said Fred Postal, vice-president of the Lion Automobile Cos., Monday morning. "There would be some advant ages In establishing the factory in Detroit, but we have had no trouble in making shipment from Adrian, while Detroit shipper have had some trouble along this line. The whole matter, however, will be taken up and discussed thoroughly before a decision is reached." ADRIAN. Mich., May 3.—A mass of twisted ruins tells the story of the fire which destroyed the plant of the Lion Automobile Cos., early yesterday morning with a loss estimated at be tween $300,000 and $350,000, of which SIBO,OOO Is covered by Insurance. Christian Sohoen, 57 years old, cap tain of Hoee Company No. 3, was killed while fighting the flamed, and Leo Robb, an Adrian college student, was seriously injured. Both men were caught under a falling wall. The fire was discovered by W. C. Knapp, the watchman, at 12 o’clock, Saturday night. He turned in the alarm Immediately and the fire de partment was on the scene within seven minutes after the flame* wcro discovered. The firemen were handi capped by low water pressure, coupled with a breeze from the south. The plant was worth about $150,000 and the stock was valued at between $150,000 and $250,000. There were be tween 150 and 200 cars In the ware rooms In various stages of completion. 8. H. Humphrey, general manager of the company, was on the scene short ly after the fire started, and made frantic efforts to save some of the cars. His efforts were practically futile, however, owing to the rapid spread of the flames. The Lion company was formed In I 1909 by Adrian and Detroit people* who took over the patents of 0. H.i PloomHtrom, a Detroit Inventor, and organized a company to manufacture cars. Following are the officers of, the company: •Austin E. Morey, Detroit, president; Fred Postal, Detroit, vice-president; U E. Robertson, Adrian, secretary; W. H. Shierson. Adrian, treasurer. Besides these officers, Henry Bowsen, Elfred Ester and Thomas Newton rare directors. » President Morley. Fred Postal, Al fred Easter and Thomas E. Newton arrived in Adrian late Sunday- after noon and surveyed the ruins. FOURTH MAN ESCAPES FROM JACKSON PRISON JACKSON, Mich.. June 3.-—Chester Tibbetts, a burglar from Oakland county, escaped from Jackson prison at f o’clock this morning by scaling the north wall. This is the fourth man to escape within 24 hours. Tib betts w’orked In the engine room nights. He came here Sept. 15, 1911, for five to 15 years. He Is 50 years old. five feet, eight Inches high, weighs 146 pounds and has dark hair mixed with gray. ed to have worn overalls as he left his prison clothing In his room. From 8:30 p. m. tlnifl 4 a. m. there are no guaiJs on the prison walls. Tibbetts was considered a trusty and being rather an old man it was not thought no would attempt to escape. He titd a couple of pieces of scantling together and climbed to the top of the well and let himself down on the outside by means of a piece of hose he tied to one of the wall lamps. Officers are scouring the city and county for both Mllev, one of the prisoners who escaped Sunday, and Tibbetts, but have no trace at either. Mlk*y was sent up from Hillsdale county for robbing a postofflee. P ARM ELBE'S BODY TO RE BROUGHT TO ST. JOHNS ST. JOHNS. Mich., June 3.—The body of Phillip Pa tin© lee, who was killed while making a flight in his aeroplane at North Yakima. \Va«h.. will l*» brought back to this city for burial. Parmelee’s parents live here. Young Parmelee met Wilbur wrighr in the south while he was making nn endurance test for the Hoick Automo bile Cos. He took tip flying a short time later under the direction of the Wright brothers t A message received from North Yakima says J. Clifford Turpin, griet strlcken over the death of young Pannelee, his friend and flying part ner. has announced he fly no more • —■■ ■ ■ BREMEN, Germany, June 3 \l - Buchstaeter, one «»f the best known of the Gebnian aviators, and his passenger. Usst. St Hie. of the Ger man army, were kitted vewterday when their monoplane plunged to th» ground Just after starting on the northwest aviation circuit if 425 miles. nu-WM-nti- rmifs ' ns feather*. Tbs nllln. neat kind that looks light Times f*r»ntlaa Cw. li Jalus m.-«L PtL Main 1411 or City 1141 AFTERNOON-EDITION TIMES TODAY IS 1 PRODUCT OP LOCAL] SUFFRAGEJM j “Votes For Women” Boosters 1 Try Their Hand at News paper Making ALL DEPARTMENTS ARE UNDER THEIR CONTROL Women Editors Make Good From Start—Circulation in Charge of 300 Enthusiasts • Woman s wits, women's enterprise j and women's desire for the ballot are * responsible for the suffrage edition of The Detroit Times today. Our siste* collauoratora were on the job bright: and early, taking possession of the editorial department like veterans. .go* ing to work wkh the vim and en thusiasm of women determined to gain their object. How weli they suc ceeded m setting before masculine ! eyes their reasons for wanting to be enfranchised by the male electors, ' when the constitutional amendment is submitted, Nov. 5, speaks for Itself. They must assume whatever praise or criticism the readers may have to offer for their product after a careful reading of their arguments. "Con stant Reader" is the judge. When the regular city editor no> signed a "male being" to write a few. “sticks" about how the suffragists got out The Times, conscience dictates the confession that the sold "male being’s" impulse was to have a lot of fun >vlth the subject. Here were the women going to work like old news paper men. pntting in a full day oa the Job with due appreciation of tho Importance of their momentous task. He bad heard and read so much al leged' humor at the expense of tho suffragists that the suggestion of tho city editor to "give ’em s good sendi off" seemed like sn invitation to tell all ; f he f funny things he had ever heard about the suffragists. But his levity got no further. . He looked over to waore the managing editor of tho suffrage edition was putting •griegf* : things on paper—they don’t use tfjp wrlters—and he wss moved to do some serious reflecting himself. He recalled that the Jokesmjths ' have made so much f"n of the suf frage movement for so many years that at last they have made It a very grave proposition. 4 tew years ago whenever a woman got up and de manded the right to vote the newspa pers bandied it like a circus per formance; today the headline artists are informing us in display type, that "Another state votes for woman suf- * frag.," and “Woman suffrage is gain | ing ground." We are hearing less and less about the few strong-arm suf fragettes of dear old Lunnon, and more about the conquests of WOtPen within our own borders, whieh seem# to indicate to "male ea r th being,** as Mr. S-tyjack, of Mars, would say, that fCaatlaned aa Page Nla«> 4B ' m THEODORE ROOSEVELT— 1 be lieve In woman's rights,” declared former President Theodore RoossvUt. "I believe even more earnestly in thrf performance of duty by both men and women j for unless the average #>un and the average woman lire Ire* of duty, uot only our democracy .but civilization itself will perish. • | believe in woman's suffrage wherever women want It. * * • More over. I must say that, being a natural born democrat. I do like to asMjr.ie's with t*eopl*» who i>ossews every right that I possess. “In those western states It It a real pleasure to meet women* thor oughly womauiy women, who do every duty that any woman can do, and who also are not only in fact bui In theory on a level of full equality with men lam glad that the god, wian and brave mother should hat© the ballot. 1 am especially glad It it* pos session will add to the high dignity* of her position In Lhs eys* of pgaa."