The day book. [volume], January 30, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 32

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GOMPERS AND OTHER UNION
MEN GO ON TRIAL
Indianapolis, Jan. 30. Samuel
Gompers and the executive council
of the American Federation of Labor
were placed on trial hefore the United
Mine Workers' convention. Duncan
McDonald, Socialist delegate of Illi
nois, charged that Gompers and the
executive council of the -A. P. of L.
were "booze" fighters, reactionary,
fossilized and dead. Gompers said it
was a lie and that eight of the eleven
members were total abstainers. He
said he himself "took a glass of beer
when the daVs work was over."
McDonald charged that the A. P. of
L. was in control of a machine and.
that Socialists were barred from
holding responsible, effective offices
in the organization.
Answering the charge of Charles
H. Moyer, president of the Western
Federation of Miners, that Gompers
and his associates failed properly to
co-operate toward the relief of the
Michigan copper strikers, Gompers
asserted that they had done all with
in, their power, but that the affiliated
unions could not afford to be assessed
specially for the Coppermine strikers.
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4 THe 'cqat fife
; GET THE HABIT!
By Jim Manee.
There are bushels of diseases
That we people all may get.
To them w.e all are subject,
If we haven't had them yet.
But there's one that has a welcome,
It may come when e'er it please.
We would all do well to catch it,
If smiling's a disease.
P.'S. Smile and the World smiles
with you sulk around and you're a
dern grouch.
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FLAKE GIRL IN A SCHOOL
Galesburg, III., Jan. 30. Julia
Flake, accused as an accessory of the
murder of her mother, Mrs. Robert
Higgins, and for which crime her
stepfather, Robert Higgins, is now in
jail at Aledo, was taken by Assistant
State's Attorney James A. Allen of
Aledo to the girl's state industrial
school at Geneva today. Her going
there was at her own request, as she
wished to be away from the city in
which Higgins is incarcerated and to
be where she was not constantly ask
ed about the crime.
Female Voice (on telephone) Is
that the hall porter? Well, I want
to know if you can give a message to
my husband. Hall porter I am sor
ry, madam, but your husband Is not
in' the club. Female Voice But I
have not told you my husband's name
yet Hall Porter Quite unnecessary,
madam. Nobody's husband is ever
here by any chance.
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By a city ordinance in Cincinnati,
baby carriages are required to carry
lights.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy and unsettled to
night and' Saturday; rising tempera
ture; lowest tonight about "25 de
grees; winds shifting to, southerly and
increasing Saturday. 'Temperature
Thursday Highest,- 59; lowest, 19,