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Preparations to Mobilize All
Union Forces in Contest With
.Capital
EMPLOYERS ALSO TO
COPE WITH PROBLEM
Big Fund Raised To Defend Eight
Hour Legislation
Reported
(United Press.)
Washington, Nov. 21.—No deci­
sion has been made by the rail­
way brotherhoods whether they
will strike if the Adamson Eight
Hour law fails to meet with their
demands when applied by the
Railroads.
President Stone, head of the
engineers, declared last week
that a strike would foliow if the
men did not get a real eight-hour
day. This reversal is perplexing
labor leaders and rail heads.
It is considered certain that the
brotherhoods will be content to
await a constitutional decision of
the Adamson law. In speaking be­
fore the American Federation of
Labor, in session at Baltimore,
the brotherhood chiefs maintained
absolute silence on this phase.
By BASIL M."MANLY.
Haliimnre, Mil.. Nov. 21.—The most
Important aspect, of I he convention of
the American Federation of Lbor, now
in session, is the almost universal con­
viction, not yet. openly expressed, that
the grcatesi struggle in history be­
tween capital and labor is now impend­
ing!
Delegates from all part's of Hie conn
try, ranging in.views and temperament
from staid old conservatives to bellig­
erent young "reds," unite in this belief,
which they base upon considerations
detailed below.
It. is probable that this conviction
will And clear expression when the re­
presentatives of* the railroad brother­
hoods appear before the convention
this week, and that as an outcome de
finite preparations will be made for
mobilizing all the forces of labor in
case the conflict should prove unavoid­
able.
As (he chief basis for their appre­
hensions, the most far-seeing labor
leaders look behind the action of the
railroad executives in lining up to
nullify the Adamson act to the consoli
dation of all the traditional foes of or­
ganized labor in the National Indus­
trial Conference Board, now holding
its first meeting at the Hotel Astor,
New York.
Since the Mulhall scandals, they
point out, the bitterest of these anti­
union organizations—the National As­
sociation of Manufacturers and the Na­
tional Council for Industrial Defense—
have been practically in retirement,
confining their public activities to such
matters as scientific management, ac­
cident prevention, and welfare work,
in the hope that the public would for­
get the disclosures of .Vlulhall and the
lobby investigating committee.
Their emergence into the open, with
a new name and a new set of officers,
is regarded as the sure omen of im­
pending industrial war.
While the names of the officers of
this new organization of foes of union
labor have not hitherto been promi­
nent. trade union officials say. all the
familiar names, associated with the
hardest fought labor battles of the
past, appear among the list of dele­
gates making up the Industrial Con­
ference Board—John Kirby, Jr.. James
A. Emery, Walter Drew. William H.
Barr, Charles Cheney and John P.
Wood.
Consolidation.
Never before has there been so gen­
eral a consolidation of the anti-union
forces of the country as is claimed for
the new organization. Hitherto, em­
ployers in each line or industry have
been content to perfect their own or­
ganization, with only such a loose gen­
eral confederation of interest as was
represented by the National Associa­
tion of Manufacturers, whose activi­
ties were primarily confined to the
field of opposing such labor legislation
as the Clayton act and the child labor
law.
Now, according to unofficial an­
nouncements, all these separate in­
dustrial associations have been weld­
ed together into one organization, in­
cluding the National Founders' asso­
ciation, the National Metal Trades as­
sociation, the National Erectors' asso­
ciation. the National Association of
Cotton Manufacturers, the American
Cotton Manufacturers' association, the
National Association of Wool Manufac­
turers, the Silk Association of Amer­
ica, the United Typothetae, the Ameri­
can Pulp and Paper association, and
the Rubber Club of America.
It is claimed by the promoters of
this consolidation of employers that
the establishment® represented in its
membership have eight billion dollars
capital and employ six million people.
This is discounted by the labor repre
sentatves.
MEXICAN TELEGRAPHERS
LEAVE THEIR KEYS
Laredo, Tex.. Nov. 21.—All railway
telegraphers in northeTn Mexico will
•walk out af 6 o'clock this evening,
paralyzing t"he transportation facili­
ties.
Hotii to Get
Fat on
Cents a Day
(United Preu).
Chicago, Nov. 21.—Twelve men and
women on Health Commissioner Rob­
ertson's diet squad tpday were to start
a two weeks' demonstration on "how
to get fat on 40 cents a day."
All ate heavily of chicken, turkey
and roast beef yesterday in anticipa­
tion of the struggle. Thus stuffed,
they marched to the health commis­
sioner's office at city hall today and
were told the test would not start un­
til Wednesday. Robertson said it was
not fair to start the test in this man­
ner. The squad will be under Dr. Rob­
ertson's observation today and tomor­
row and each person will be weighed
daily. Strict rules will govern the diet­
ing which is intended to show Chi­
cago house
wyes how to hand the
knock-out tgf'llie H. C. L.
NTO
COURT
Superintendent Taylor Must Show
Cause Why He Turned Down
Course
CERMAN INSTITUTION
ASKS RECOGNITION
Sullivan and Sullivan, Mnndan attor­
neys, today secured from Judge Nues
sle an order to show cause why he did
not approve of the course of the C.er
man-Evangelical parochial school at.
Expansion, thus permitting parents to
send their children there without,
breaking tile compulsory educational
laws.
This Is the culmination of a school
row that has been going on in Mercer
county for some time. The German
Evangelical synod lias a parochial
school near Expansion, but County
Superintendent of Schools Thomas re­
fuses to^ approve its curriculum and
parents sending their children to this
school have been arrested under the
compulsory act.
Several of those arrested are to be
tried at Stanton this week.
When Mr. Thomas refused to ap­
prove the course of study, State Super­
intendent Taylor was appealed to. lie
upheld Mr. Thomas. Yesterday Sulli­
van and Sullivan applied to the court
for a writ of certiorari, but the court
refused to take original jurisdiction
and suggested that the lower court be
applied to for relief.
The order Judge Nuessle granted to­
day is made returnable Nov. 27 at Bis­
marck.
NOTHING OFFICIAL HEARD
HERE AS TO WIRE CHANGE
Believed Railroad Contracts With
Northern Pacific and Others
Will Continue
Nothing of an official tenor hag
reached railroad heads of the North­
ern Pacific here as to the current re­
ports that if no agreement is reached
hy the first of the year with the West­
ern T'nion that the Northern Pacific
will install an independent service
with other railroads.
Officials admitted that they had
heard rumors to this effect, but were
of the opinion that an" agreement
would be effected. The railroads
which would install a system of their
own, if negotiations failed, are the
Northern Pacific, the Great Northern,
the Chicago & Northwestern, the Chi
cago-Burlington & Quincy and the
Great Western.
EXCHANGE SUSPENDS
WHEN COTTON SOARS
London, Nov. 20.—Increase of half a
penny in American cotton caused a
temporary suspension of the Manches­
ter exchange,
Coming as a surprise to all but the
most intimate friends of the contract­
ing parties, there was announced to­
day the marriage of Sam Clark of Bis­
marck. publisher of Jim .Tani .leins,
and widely known as a writer and
traveler, and Miss Claire Adelaide
Johnson, a popular young society wo­
man of rand Forks.
The rites were performed at llj
o'clock this morning, at Chicago,
whither Sam Clark went last. week,
and where he was joined yesterday
by his bride-to-be and a wedding par­
ty from the Forks. From Chicago,
Mr. and Mrs. Clark will proceed to
New York, where he will superin­
tend the making of several moving
picture film plays from Jim Jam Jems
stories.
War Zone Honeymoon.
Mr. Clark has made application for
passports for himself and bride to the
All Men at the Front Eager to
Clash With Teutonic Ad­
versaries
"FAIR SCRAP" AND THE
"BEST MAN" WON
Prussians Often Blow Themselves
Up in Order to Destroy Their
Captors
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.
(Copyright, 1916, by the United Press)
With the Canadian forces on the
Somme, Nov. 20.—This is the story ol'
the storming of Regina trench, as told
by a sergeant in a Canadian infantry
regiment who was one of the stor
mers. With a slight scalp wound from
a sniper's bullet, which had torn a
huge hole in the steel hlmet which he
was still wearing and another wound
in his shoulder from a shrapnel bul­
let, he was "evacuating" himself to a
dressing station, when I encountered
him. It was on the morning after the
Canadians had ousted the Germans
form their stretch of trench.
Light of Wounds.
Mud from the toes of his hip boots
to his very eyes and with a streak of
blood on one side of his face, the ser­
geant nevertheless made light of his
wounds. He smiled as he responded
to questions.
'Twas a good fair scrap and the
best man won," he explained, speaking
with a typical Irish-American accent
interlarded with American slang. 'We
got the tip at 10 o'clock Friday night
that something would be dono about
midnight. Everybody was tickled be­
cause we'd been hankering to get al
that Regina trench for the past two
weeks.
"Our artillery hit it up better and
better and we could see by the bril­
liant moonlight that it was doing big
damage to Fritz in the trenches a few
hundred yards in front of us. At mid­
night, our artillery formed a barrage
50 yards in front of us—and our first
wave went over the parapet, of our
trenches like a machine.
Hold Them Back.
"Not a son hobbled. My hardest job
was keeping my men from advancing
too fast and getting under our own
shell fire. Also it was pretty hard to
the waves of men straight on account
of the craters and shell holes of var­
ious depths of mud.
"But when we got within 50 yards
of Regina trench we formed a pretty
straight line. About this time the Ger­
mans started their barrage fire too, but
they did little damage, the .fire mostly
going over our heads. As soon as our
barrage lifted off Regina yards and
settled 60 yards back, we stormed
through.
Like Rabbits.
"The Boehes scrapped pretty well
It seemed strange that anybody could
have been left alive after all the shell
ing they'd, had, but they ran out of
dug outs like rabbits and we had to
use our bayonets.
"We cleaned out our trenches in a
very few seconds, taking prisoners
Three in one section were inclined to
be troublesome. We told 'em they'd
better attend to their knitting and be
quiet or else we'd be obliged to finish
'em. Two behaved. But oi\e kept
jumping about, feeling in the shadows
thrown by the full moon, evidently
looking for something. We repeated
our order to stop. He didn't obey.
Well, only two of the three prisoners
taken in that corner of the trench re­
mained. for we remembered a fort­
night ago, a German officer, who after
surrendering, suddenly threw a hand
grenade at one of our officers, blowing
the face off and inflicting wounds from
which he died. The Prussians fre­
quently blew themselves up with their
captors. Other prisoners were both
guards and Saxons.
Respect Red Cross.
"There were several counter at­
tacks after we'd"gotten in the tfench—
mostly down the trench, which was
perpendicular, but we bombed them
(Continued from Page Four.)
Sam Clark Weds Grand
Forks Girl In Chicago
Plan War Zone Honeymoon
.belligerent, countries of Europe, and
if it. is possible to make arrange­
ments, they, will sail early next
month for the war zone, where tliey
will remain until spring. They prob­
ably will be joined in June by Gover­
nor Hanna and party, the governor
announcing today that he hopes to so
arrange his affairs as to permit of a
second visit to the warring nations.
In the event that passports are not
procurable, Mr. and Mrs. Clark will
go south for the winter, returning in
March to Bismarck, where they plan
to make their home.
Among Bismarck peopple who were
,guests at the wedding was C. H.
Croekard, a partner with Mr. Clark in
the Jim Jam Jems Publishing com­
pany.
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THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 281 ASSOCIATED PRESS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1916 UNITED PRESS FIVE CENT8
Encircling Entire Rumanian Army
American Steamer Siberia Caught
On Treacherous Sands of
Goddwjn
LIFE SAVERS BATTLE
WITH STOftjMt IN NIGHT
By Daylight Only Fifty Passen­
gers Had Been Res
cued
(United Press).
ALL SAVED.
London—Bulletin-^Nov. 21.—
Life savers at Deal station saved
all aboard the Sibe/ia.
London, Nov. 21.—Passengers and
crew on the American steamer. Si­
beria are threatened as the ship
pounds furiously, fast aground on the
treacherous Goodwin sands. Alter 24
hours of battling in the teeth of a ter­
rific storm, life savers succeeded in
taking 50 persons who had abandoned
the distressed vessel and taken to tho
life boat.
The nature of the sands and the
high sea threatens to prevent the res­
cue of all the passengers.
It was late yesterday before the pre­
dicament of the ship was discovered.
Life savers battled all night and ap­
proached near enough to pick up 40.
Later ten more were snatched from
watery graves.
HUGHES STILL
mils
WE in
Wilson's California Plurality Es
timated at 3,516 From Late
Returns
NO CONCESSION YET
FROM O. O. P. CHIEF
(United Press).
San Francisco, Nov. 21.—The Repub
lican state committee upon official re­
turns from fifty counties and unofficial
from eight others, estimate that Wil
son's plurality in this state will be
3,516. They do not expect that the
electoral vote will be split.
HUGHES STILL SILENT.
New York, Nov. 21.—Chairman Wil
cox of the Republican national com­
mittee said that no telegram conced­
ing Wilson's election or congratula­
tions from Charles Evans Hughes had
yet been sent.
BELGIANS
IUST
HELP GERMANY
UK THE WAR
(United Press)
London, Nov. 21.—Germany is turn­
ing a deaf epr to the protests from
Holland about the deportation of the
Belgians to assist in the factories and
other Industries of Germany and con­
quered territory.
The imperial empire has an elabor­
ate plan for the rehabilitation of con
quered territory, especially Poland
Men now engaged in industrial life,
chiefly in ammunition plants, are to
be relieved and their places taken bv
Belgians so that Germany can in­
crease her lines on ail the fronts.
Despite protests, the deportation of
the Belgian workingmen continue.
There are heart wrending scenes as
the men are loaded into cars and rush
ed over the Belgian line.
TO CONFER WITH
BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS
Washington. Nov. 2n.—President
rWilson will confer with the four
brotherhood leaders at the White
House this afternoon.
«8
TICKET SALES SHOW
CORRESPONDING GAINS
Ticket sales for Ahe month of
November at the Northern Paei
fic station increased 3,000 in num.
ber over the corresponding period
last year. The increase in Octo
ber over the same time last year
was 4,000 and for September 6,000
The amount of sales runs on an
average of from $22,000 to $28,000
a month. During the first six
months in the year 51,000 tickets
were told. Throughout October
and November there is always a
dull spell in traveling circles
which increases in leaps and
bounds as the holidays speed in.
EHG SMS PUNS
Feeder Will Carry Company Into
Rich Agricultural Region in
I Slope
TOWN RECENTLY DEFEATED
FOR COUNTY SEAT BOOSTED
Thriving Inland Community Ex­
pected to Boom as Result of
Extension
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 21.—H. E'. Far
ling,, vice president of the Milwaukee
line, on his return here yesterday
from the east, officially announced the
completion of plans for building a
feeder extension in North Dakota
next year from New England to Ami
don, to cost $750,000.
This extension will put the Milwau­
kee into a rich new grain tonnage
territory already developed.
Farling spent several days in tour­
ing the farming sections of North
Dakota and Montana. He says farm­
ers in these districts, due to the high
prices of wheat, are enjoying the
greatest prosperity of their history.
High wheat prices the past two years
have resulted in the fall plowing of
a greater acreage than since the be­
ginning of the war.
Aic.kinson bids fair to become a
big railroad center of western North
Dakota, as a result of the initiative
of the farmers and business men in
promoting three independent projects,
preliminary surveys for which have
already been completed, or are now
under way.
The three lines are:
Dickinson to Now Fngland to Mott.
Dickinson to liiernvan.
Dickinson to a point 40 miles north­
west.
The Equity Engineering company
of Fargo is the contracting company
for the handling of each of the three
surveys.
Dickinson is in the heart of a big
district that, is not adequately sup­
plied by railroads, and the business
men there determined to take the in­
itiative in pulling the city on the
map.
Since the people have shown so
much interest in the proposition, it
has been reported that the Northern
Pacific had become interested in a
plan for an extension south from.
Dickinson. Another plan credits the
N. P. with ibeing interested in an
extension of the Mandan-Mott line
to Marmarth, newly selected county
seat of Slope county.
Still another southwestern railroad
project is the proposed extension of
the Milwaukee line from New Kng
land to Amidon.
In northwestern North Dakota, the
Wildrose line will be opened for oper­
ation this week.
The Wildrose extension runs from
Wildrose to Grenora, and rails have
been laid the entire distance.
All along the extension, there has
been intense activity in building pro­
jects, with the result that the line
opens up with real business prospects
right off the jump.
Big celebrations are planned in the
several towns.
«8
YOUNGSTER SHOULD BE 4
A REAL POLITICIAN
(Tribune Special Service.)
Sanborn, N. D., Nov. 21.— 4
On election day in Sanborn a 4
son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
F. B. Hughes. The odd fea- 4
4 tures of this birth lie in the
facts that the father's name is
4 Hughes and the mother's maid
4 en name was Wilson, and that 4
4 the birth occurred on the day
4 that Hughes and Wilson con- 4
4 tended for the presidency of
4 the United States. 4
(Associated Press).
Chicago, Nov. 21.—Practically all of
the bars in the down-town district, of
Chicago today boosted the price of
beer by serving it in glasses two-thirds
the size of those used heretofore.
No longer will the schooner sail
across the bar in exchange for a nick­
el. Insead a tiny vessel will ferry a
mere skiffload of suds to the parched
shore just below the beetling mus­
tache. For beer is going up before it
goes down, according to local brewers.
NEXT SPRINC
GLASS MAY BE NEXT
BOSS OF TREASURY!
This Virginia
congressman is
aid to bo
slated for tho
job of secretary
of the.treasury,
succeeding W
McAdoo, the
president's son-
in-law.
SCHOOL
HAS LEAD OF
UY 8000
If Construction of Law is Correct
Proposition Has Carried by
Safe Margin
BOOTLEGGER BILL IS
TO BECOME A LAW
Willi only fourteen counties missing,
the vote so far favors the establish­
ment of another normal school at
Dickinson. The Slope counties re­
sponded nobly and gave the normal a
large vote. Institutional counties were
not so enthusiastic, although some of
them in which educational istitutions
are located did fairly well.
8,000 Ahead.
The vote so far as it i3 tabulated
with fourteen counties missing is 38,
108 for the establishment of the nor­
mal as against 30,044 opposed. Sever­
al of the counties to be heard from offi­
cially will favor the project, so there
seems to be no question of the matter
receiving a -.ajority vote. It ntiw de­
pends upon the majority demanded
under the law. Competent attorneys
insist that all that is necessary is a
majority of those voting on the pro
position and others contend that it
takes a majority of those voting at the
election.
Win Victory.
Prohibition forces have been suc­
cessful in saving the bootlegger law
from repeal. There were 27,636 votes
cast for repeal and 33,794 votes to up­
hold the act. Returns are missing
still from fourteen counties but this
will not change the result.
The farmers have voted to sustain
the repeal of the mill levy for terminal
elevators. They were evidently con­
fused, believing that an affirmative
vote would knock the repeal act out.'
There were 33,143 votes for the repeal
as against 31,640.
Sentiment is closely divided on the
proposition of another insane asylum.
With fourteen counties missing the
vote stands: For the asylum 30,673
and aganst 30.714. The complete re­
turns can easily overcome the lead of
the opposition vote.
Within the next few days the com­
plete vote will be in on the amend­
ments.
REMINGTON CALLED TO
SERVE ON U. S. JURY
P. C. Remington, president of the
City National bank, was subpoenaed
late yesterday as a juror for the fed­
eral term of court now in session at
Fargo. He left last evening on No. 2.
Many of the jurors sitting on the
Kittel and the Improvement cases,
which were long drawn out affairs,
asked the court to be dismissed.
Their request was granted ahd a new
venire called.
Dry States Can Jeer
But Wet Ones Must Pay
More For Their Beer
Alas for the patrons of Mike's beer
tunnel, where they served it in gold­
fish globes! Either the globes will
have to be sold to the aquariums or
Mike will have to charge six cents a
throw. For soon five cents will buy
only a sort of demi-beer served in a
glass better suited to an after-dinner
portion of kuemmel.
The brewers say they simply cannot
afford to serve teamsters'-size beers
any more unless they get more than a
nickel for them. The good old days
when you wondered whether the bar­
tender expected you to take a swim or
a drink are passing.
"If this thing keeps on," said Mike,
proprietor of the aforementioned beer
tunnel, today, "the brewers can sell
their trucks and deliver the goods in
those nifty little runabouts the jewel­
ers use."
Home Edition
RUSSIA TRIES
TO TAKE HMO
Pressure So Intense That Entire!
Army Is Now En
dangered M!
MACKENSEN MAY TAKE
FALKENHAYN'S PLAC1)
Million Men Sweeping Around
Rear of Little Balkan
Army I
Ml '\rJ2Ell
REFUSES TO OBEY
(United Press)
London, Nov. 21.—News
dispatch from Athens says
that Greece will refuse de­
mands of Allies, that all cen­
tral powers diplomats leave
the Greek capital at once. Al­
lies may force them to leave
before tomorrow.
Berlin, "Nov. 21.—Oaivoa.
was occupied by (ierman
troops at noon today. j'
(United Press).
London, Nov. 21.—Russia, in an at­
tempt to relieve the tremendous pres­
sure caused by Falkenhayne's drive on
the Wallachian frontier, began an of­
fensive today along the front from Con
stanza to Cernaroda.
The Roumanian army is in the great­
est danger of being outflanked. Rou«
manians are being forced 'back down
the valley of Jiul and meanwhile Falk
enhayn, with a million men, is sweep­
ing around their rear. It seems almost
certain that the Roumanians must
evacuate the western part of their
country in order to save their army.
Dispatches from Bucharest stata
that Falkehayn is to be recalled and
that Mackensen will succeed him ia
the final' phases of a campaign that
has for its object the reduction of Rou
ipania in .the same relentless manner
hfi
Serbia.
Roumanians Retirer
Roumanians have retired td Filiash
under strong Teutonic offensive. Ger­
man infantry ki now before Ceraivoa
and sweeping forward against the Rou­
manians.
On the Somme front, the British
raided enemy trenches at Goncourt*
Rocklincourt and Ypres with success
Canadian troops advanced along 600
yards to a depth of 1,0K yards.
Given Lion's Share.
The Serbians are given the lion's
share of honor by the morning papers
in discusing the fall of Monastir. The
capture of Hill 1212 by the Serbians
and their rapid advance to Hill 137S.
threatening the Bulgarian's only ave­
nue of retreat along the Prilep road,
is considered the main factor in forc­
ing the hasty evacuation of the city.
Military opinion insists that the AN
lies must now advance toward Prilep*
using Monastir as a base, and front,
there to Negotin on the Vardar. Front
the latter town they claim that tha
Bulgarian positions east of the Cerna
could be outflanked and the frontier
passes opened to the Allied forces
which are now engaged northwest of
Saloniki. The fall of Monastir is con­
sidered as clearly showing the super­
iority of the Allies over the German
Bulgar forces in view of the formid­
able defenses which had been creat­
ed around the city.
To Free Lithunia.
Germany is about to follow up her
declaration of Polish independence
with a similar announcement regard­
ing Lithunia, according to dispatcher
from Switzerland to the morning news­
papers.
The dispatches say that the new
state will probably receive Prince Bit
el Friedrich, second son of the emper­
or, as its sovereign and will form a
state of the German emp.ire with
similar status to that of Bavaria or
Saxony. As in the case of Poland, tho
dispatches add, a Lithunia trmy to
fight under Field Marshal von Hinden
burg will be formed. It is estimated
that Lithunia could raise 150,000 men,
CHillS
CUNT raunns CISC
Taken Under Advisement AM
Arguments for the Defense
Yesterday
The supreme court now has th§
Crant S. You mans damage suit
against Governor L. B. Hanna, Secre­
tary of State Thomas Hall, former
Attorney General Andrew Miller andj
other members of a former stato
banking board, under advisement.
The case was argued for the defenss
yesterday afternoon by Deputy Attor­
ney General Francis J. Murphy and
Attorney John E. Greene of Minot,
Congressman James Manahan was ex*
pected to appear for the plaintiff, hut
he did not arrive, and Youmans' casfl(
was submitted on a brief.
Youmans' a prominent Ward conn*
ty financier, was proprietor of a hanIC
which the state banking board closed.
Jle protested the action and filed suit
in the Ward county district court td
recover damages from the individual
members, aggregating $250,000. Ik*
district court held for the defendants*
and Youmans then appealed to the su­
preme court.