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WINUIR MCE
First Leg of Transcontinental
Flight Finished—Return
May Be Abandoned.
TIME NOT YET GIVEN
Lieutenant Kiel First to Arrive at
Roosevelt Field, But Major Carl.
Spatz Credited at Probably
Made the Quicker Flight.
New York, Oct. 13.—Lleutennn
Belvln W. Muynard, the "flying pur
son," won the lirst coiist-to-const lef
of the army air race, it was announced
by officials of the American Flying
club, which assisted the uriny In the
conduct of the race.
His actual flying time for the 2,701
miles from Roosevelt field, Mineoln,
N. Y., to San Francisco, had not been
officially checked late Saturday night,
reports of the time he spent at the
Reno, Nev., control station having
failed to reach headquarters here, but
It was stated by flying officials that
they felt safe In announcing Lieuten
ant Muynard first in the flight across
the continent.
Kiel First at Roosevelt Field.
While Lieutenant Erall Kiel touched
the ground at Roosevelt field 20 sec
onds before Major Carl Spatz in the
dash from west to east, Major Spatz
was credited with second honors, hav
ing left San Francisco three minutes
behind Lieutenant Kiel.
Lieutenant Maynard's total elapsed
time was given unofficially as 75
hours, 47 minutes Major Spatz's as
83 hours and 41 minutes and Lieu
tenant Kiel's as 83 hours and 44
minutes.
Only the unofficial elapsed time
could be given, and the results of the
two divisions of the race, actual flying
time and handicap time, must await
the receipt of official rephrts.
Race May Be Over.
Despite announcement from the
nrmy air service at Washington that
the return trips of the planes would he
started October 20, it was intimated
at the American Flying club that the
race might not be continued and that
should it be, the route might be laid
out in easy stages through the south
In an effort to avoid the severe wea
ther encountered in the west.
EXTENDS FOOD CONTROL ACT
Bill Asked for by President Agreed
Upon by Senate and House.
Washington, Qct. 13.—Senate and
house on Saturday adopted the con
ference report on amendments extend
ing the food control act to include
clothing and food containers and pro
viding punishment for profiteering nnd
hoarding. The bill now goes to the
president, who asked for this legisla
tion ns a weapon against the high cost
of living.
Dispute over a senate resolution
aimed at extortionate rents In the
District of Columbia resulted In con
siderable degree in the passage of the
measure and the section finally was
cnrrled through the house under a
special rule, the conference report in
cluding it being adopted 208 to 8.
Hoarding nnd profiteering in. the act
are punishable by two years' impris
onment and $5,000 fine.
SLOW RECOVERY PREDICTED
President Wilson's Physicians Do Not
Expect Early Return to Duties.
Washington, Oct. 13.—Hope that
President Wilson soon might regain
his normnl health and resume fully
the duties of his office has been swept
away by his physicians, who have an
nounced It will be impossible for him
to leave his bed "for an extended
period."
The announcement, made after a
consnltation between Rear Admiral
Grayson, nnd three other physicians
aiding in the cas* said there had been
no interruption of the president's slow
Improvement but emphasized that he
still had a long road to travel before
he reached complete recovery.
Striken Claim Free Speech Denied.
Pittsburgh, Pn., Oct. 13.—Strike
leaders from the Industrial districts
•where the steel controversy Is being
waged, were given almost the entire
day Saturday by the senate Investi
gating committee in an attempt to
prove the assertion of J. G. Brown,
one of the union organizers, thnt "the
long arm of the steel trust has reached
Into the government of western Penn
sylvania to strangle the worklngnwn's
right of free speech and free assem
blage." Chairman Kenyon only Inter
rupted the long procession of striker
witnesses twice, once to call Mayor E.
V. Bascock, and later to hear E. M.
Scott, president of the Wheeling (W.
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New York Teamsters Threaten Strike.
New York, Oct 13.—Michael Cash
ael, president of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters,, on Satur
day notified the conference labor
board that a strike of 10,000 teamsters
would go Into effect'at once unless
demands made by the men last May
were Immediately g&nted. The de
mands have been before the wage ad
justment board of the railroad admin
istration as an important section ol
the union is represented by the Ameri
can Railway Express company.
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DR. STERLING RUFFIN
Dr. Sterling Ruffln, who Is one of
the consulting physicians In the presi
dent's illness, Is one of the best known
and most successful general prac
titioners in the pountry. He Is chiefly
known as a diagnostician, while the
others attending the president, except
Doctor Grayson, are specialists. Doc
tor Ruffln 1s Mrs. Wilson's family phy
sician.
UNDER MARTIAL LAW
Three Steel Strike Centers Con
.... trolled by Military.
General Wood Commands Troops at
Indiana Harbor, East Chicago
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unicago, vet. 8.—Quiet reigned
In the Chicago steel strike area
after a day of raids on the homes
of agitators in Gary where regular
army troops are in control. Indi
ana state troops enforced martial
law in East Chicago and Indiana
Harbor.
Chicago, Oct. 7.—Declaring of mar
tial law at Indiana Harbor and at
Bast Chicago, and the dispatching of
Federal troops to Gary, Ind., although
no violence had occurred since Satur
day, marked developments in the steel
strike situation in the Chicago district.
Acting under authority conferred
upon him by Governor Goodrich of
Indiana, Adjutant General Smith, In
command of 12 companies of Indiana
state troops on duty in the Indiana
strike zone, declared martial law in a
territory embracing the towns of In
diana Harbor and East Chicago and
extending for five miles in either di
rection from each of them.
The step .was taken. General Smith
said, "following indications of trouble"
and after consultation with the mayors
of the two towns. A detachment of
approximately 1,000 Federal troops
from Fort Sheridan, 111., under the
personal command of Major General
Leonard Wood, commander of the
Central department of the army, took
over control of the situation at Gary
following an appeal for aid to General
Wood from Governor Goodrich. Upon
arrival of the Federal troops the state
units which have been distributed
over the Indiana strike district were
withdrawn from Gary and concentrat
ed in Indiana Harbor and East Chi
cago.
State troops had been sent into the
district after rioting at Gary and In
diana Harbor.
FLOODING MINE TO STOP FIRE
Flames Raging in Deep Level of Fa
mous Black Hills 8haft.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 8.—The fire
in the famous Homestake mine, the
leading mine of the Black Hills and
one of the great gold producers of
the world, has assumed more serious
proportions. Steps now have been
taken to flood the mine for the pur
pose of extinguishing the fire, which
has been burning a number of days
and nights between the 700- and 800
foot levels of the mine.
FARGO RECEIVER IS REMOVED
High Court Decides Against Official In
Charge of Bank.
Bismarck, N. D., Oct. 8.—By virtue
of an order issue# by the supreme
court of North Dakota, the receiver
appointed by the banking board for
the closed Scandinavian-American
bank of Fargo, is removed, and the
Fargo institution Is placed under the
control of the state bank examiner,
and the banking board is restrained
from putting into effect invalidating
post dated checks as collateral.
Norway Adopts National Dry Act.
Christlania. Oct. 8.—National prohi
bition has been adopted in Norway by
the vote at a general plebiscite.
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Claims He Invented Tanks.
Minneapolis, Oct. 10.—A Minneapo
lis Inventor, William Pitt. ghrttuck,
2125 Girard avenue south, is to enter
a claim as the inventor of the
with the British commission now In
session to agree upon awards to in
ventors. Dispatches report that the
commission is now trying to agree on
who shall officially be recognised ai
-he Inventor of the war Mr.
ihattuck's claim, substantiated .with
locuments, .will be forwarded to' the
irltish board by the Civic Com
•aerce association.
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SHIPS OF ALLIES
READY AT RIGA
Decks Are Cleared for Action
Against Germans Attack
ing Town.
ENEMYlllS REPULSED
Army Led by General Von Der Goltz
8uffers 8anguinary Losses In Drive
Against Lettish Troopa—8tate
of Siege.
Copenhagen, Oct. 11.—British and
French warships in the harbor of Riga
havp cleared for action, according to
a dispatch from Riga to the Lettish
information bureau, on account of the
attack by German troops under the
command of General von Der Goltz
upon the Lettish krmy defending Riga.
German troops under General Von
Der Goltz, together with Russians un
der Colonel Avaloff-Bermondt, at
tacked the Letts 30 kilometers from
Riga and occupied Schlotsk, which is
outside the demarcation line, accord
ing to a report issued by the Lettish
bureau at Riga. The report adds that
the attack was repulsed with sanguin
ary losses.
Tanks, Airplanes Used.
The forces of General von Der Goltz
include imperial German troops with
tanks and airplanes, says the report,
which adds that the Germans attempt
ed to bomb Riga, but were repulsed.
The Letts claim that their losses were
small.
A state of siege has been proclaimed
at Riga as a precautionary measure.
Reserves are being formed among
those who are unable to go to the
front. Soldiers who were starting
toward the front were pelted with
flowers.
The Lettish bureau says the Ger
mans and Russians attacked on the
front of St. Olai, 300 kilometers from
Riga, and the. shore of the Gulf of
Riga and occupied the costal town of
Shlotsk and also attacked the coastal
town of Dubbelm, 30 kilometers from
Riga.
BALLOON IS FOUND IN LAKE
$500 Reward for News of Two Missing
Aeronauts.
St. Louis, Oct. 11.—The wreckage
of the balloon "Wichita," in which
Capt. Carl W. Dammann and Lieut.
Edward J. Verheyden, Jr., St. Louis
iana, left here in the National cham
pionship balloon race October 1, was
picked up October 4 in Lake Huron,
according to a telegram received by
officials of the race here. No trace of
the two balloonists was found, the
message said.
Major A. B. Lambert, an official of
the race, telegraphed that $500 reward
would be paid for information of the
two aeronauts, and -Capt. E. S. Cole
departed to direct a search.
WOULD MIGRATE TO AMERICA
10,000,000 Teutons Await Opportunity
to Leave Native Country.
Washington, Oct. 11.—Ten million
Germans and thousands of AustrianB
are ^waiting opportunity to leave
their native countries, according to
official diplomatic dispatches present
ed to the house Immigration commit
tee. The majority wish to come to
America with Argentina, Chile and
Peru as their second' choice.
The dispatches described the situa
tion in Vienna as "hopeless. It was
said that thousands were idle and un
rest general.
EMBARGO PUT ON CANE SUGAR
Eastern and Gulf Refiners Cannot Ship
to West.
New York, Oct. 11.—Eastern and
Gulf refiners. have been notified by
the United States Food administration
that effective October 15 and until fur
ther notice they are not to ship or
deliver sugar to any point west of
Pittsburgh and Buffalo and north and
west of the Ohio river. The order
was issued because of the scarcity ol
cane sugar.
ENFORCEMENT BILL PASSES
Dry Measure Now Awaits Signature
of President.
Washington, Oct. 11.—Enactment of
the prohibition enforcement bill was
completed by congress with the house
adopting the Conference report, al
ready agreed to by the senate, and
sending the measure to the President
for approval. u&a
BRITAIN RATIFIES TREATY
King George Dispatches Document to
Paris. Council.
London, Oct. li.—King George has
completed Great Britain's ratification
of the German peace treaty. The
document ratified by him has been disf
patched to Paris.
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Red Wing, Oct. 11.—Human bones
tied in a gunny sack and burled in a
sand bank of the Mississippi here,
furnished! Red Wing police with a mur
der mystery. Police say records show
no "disappearances" at the probable
time of the murder.
SIOUX COUNTY PIONEER
Mexican Rebel Seek* Amnesty.
Laredo, Tex., Oct. UXouls Cablil
lero, who has beeA in revolt
the Carranaa government in the state
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Taanllw, has asked for
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No more perfect example of our
changing industrial system exists in.
the world today than the example
afforded by developments in Great
Britain since the armistice was signed.
Here the solid murch of the masses
forward intdlli new industrial system
and the solid .drift of the ruling ele
ments backward toward extreme re
action, with resulting struggles and
clashes, reveaL themselves in such
bold, broad and simple outlines tkat
anyone may understand.
England is the Industrial horoscope
of the world today because England"
represents the most complete develop
ment of capitalism and Imperialism.
A peep into this horoscope Is, there
fore, a peep into the present and
future of the world. We win see the
same developments there in simple
outline that are1 taking place in Amer
ica and the same forces at work with
this difference: America has a large
agricultural population somewhat split
between reaction and progress, nnd no
one knovtte with certainty "how the bulk
of. this element will act and, liow much
It niny quicken or retard progress in
America. In England, more than In
any other country, the struggle is a
straight fight between propertyless
producers fefShnnd and brain, and non
producing property owners and their
retainers. Most of the land is owned
by a small, wealthy class of decadent
aristocrats.
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Before the war the British labor
movement was rapidly becoming tyigh
ly developed and progressive, It
manifested itself in three phases: the
trades union movement, the labor po
litical party and the co-operative
movement where labor, too, dominated:
The trades union movement was just
then beginning to understand that a
new system of Industry in which labor
must have a voice and vote was neces
sary, and thnt it must get this system
by legislation nnd the building up of
co-operatives. The political movement
of labor was beginning to understand
that its particular mission was to
bring about these democratic changes
by legislation that would make labor a
citizen nnd partner in industry. The
co-operatives were beginning to drift
nearer and nearer to the unions and
the political party, and imbibe their
alms and purposes.
During the war, British labor gave
all for England and the allied cause,
signing a truce with capital and agree-'
ing to suspend its struggle for self
betterment and emancipation until
after the war.
Big Business In the War.
The wealthy and the aristocratic
elements did not go nearly so far in
sacrificing their interests as labor. In
stead, they took advantage of the war
to perfect the most thorough organiza
tion of reactionary elements Great
Britain had ever known. Not only did
they lay the foundation for a gigantic
federation of owning and employing
interests, but they formed a partner
ship with the government, with the big
magnates as the senior members of the
firm, and they spent much time dur'ng
the war cettin£ ready to handle labor
after the war, and have it settle peace
fully and contentedly, If possible, in a
subservient position in the capitalistic
and Imperialistic system they had
planned.
Isaac Marcosson, special Investlga
tor and writfer for the Saturday Eve
ning Post, described the., marvelous
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(By Professor Ince, North Dakota
Agricultural College)
It is possible to make an excellent
quality of silage from alfalfa and
sweet clover. Professor Ince of the
North Dakota Agricultural college
gives the following suggestions: In
order to be more certain of the silage
keeping it is necessary to Insure com
plete exclusion, of air and the presence
of enough water for the fermentation
to proceed rapidly and completely
within a week or ten days. The plant
material should be. finely cut,
thoroughly packed and have a mois
ture content of about 75 per ccnt.
It is better to let the crop air-dry
in the field at least a day after cutting
and, sif necessary, to add water as it
goes into the silo. It has been found
that mixing corn or oa:t hay or some
limllar crop with the alfalfa in the pro
portion of one to ten will give a. silage
which is more palatable and of better
keeping qualities. Sometimes molas
ses in the proportion of one to twenty
of alfalfa will accomplish the same
desirable results.
The silo, therefore, can- be looked
npOn as a means of not only preserv
ing corn in a palatable nutritious form
but also other crops, which might be
lost for various reasons, as legume
hay which has been rained upon, and
crops where corn will not make a sat
isfactory growth, as sorghums in arid
districts,•' sunflowers in Northern re
gions and Russian thlBtles in case of
crop failures due to drouth.
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wanting a loan Is the chap who Is al:
ways offering to lend you mooej
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System Falls to Pieces.
This fine scheme did not work out
at all as planned, although the re
actionaries won the election right after
the armistice by an overwhelming ma
jority. The plans of the big interests
in which they' took advantage of la
bor's war truce, had not gone un
noticed and was riot forgiven. As
soon as the armistice was signed and
the stringent war regulations were
lifted, labor started in at once to re
cover the ground it had lost andf to
build up its system of industry.
Although it had lost the election in
that passionate and hysterical time
right after the war, electing only 60
members of parliament instead of the
200 it expected, forces, circumstances
and movements all began to woek In
its favor. The capitalist system was
so badly shattered by the war that It
worked like a broken down machine.
Grasping imperialism sitting in state
In Paris threw the world Into such a
turmoil of jealousy and fear and per
petrated so many injustices that the1
great allied armies were not demobil
ized as soon as expected. Even at
that the broken down industrial sys
tem could not provide places for a
third of the discharged soldiers. The
war workers, too, were demobilized
and spread over the land in vast
hungry hordes of unemployed. Prices
soared and suffering Increased. Wars
growing out of imperialistic intrigue
at Paris loaded intolerable burdens
upon an almost bankrupt nation. The
old government, the old Tuling class,
the old Industrial order, were demon
strating every day that they were In
competent to meet the new situation.
Labor Strikes Back.
Seven by-electlons showed that the
former supporters of the old order
were leaving the hosts of reaction and
swarming to the new peoples' move
ment like rats fleeing from a sinking
ship. From having only a fourth of
the people with them in the general
election, labor began to think it had
the majority behind it. Under such a
stimulus the labor movement grew and
expanded among the trades unions, in
the labor party and among the co
operatives as it had never expanded
before. While it was expanding bodily,
it was growing spiritually as never
before. It was Imbibing more pro
gressive and democratic ideas, •. Its
program .was daily becoming a clearer
exposition of Industrial democracy.
This growth was occurring in the
midst of a ghastly failure of the old
industrial system arid the movement
of the owners of the system backward
into the twilight of reaction. In the
midst of crushing prices and taxes,
unemployment, low vwges and im-
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FORESHADOW CHANCE OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM
Great Britain Typical Example of Recent Movement of Masses Forward and Ruling Classes
Backward—The Old Order and the New Seen in the
Two Opposing Camps.
system British b^business was build
ing in 1917. This system was to op
erate in league with the British gov
ernment all over the British iempire,
and the world through government
ministries and employers' and traders'
federations. The government was to
subsidize and partially regulate it. It
was to make British industry and
trade world-dominant. Into this sys
tem labor was to be fitted, if possible,
as a contented and' comfortable serv
ant and tool. iSvery precaution was
taken to prevent any possible up
heaval of labor after the war. De
mobilization was planned particularly
with the view of disarming most of
the worker-soldiers on foreign soil and
passing them directly to jobs in in
dustry.
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Allowed at National
Conference..
There aire only three representatives
of the farmers in the industrial peace
conference called by President Wilson
to confer on the high cost of living
and the labor problem., YThey represent
less than 5 per cent of those present*
or three out of 66. Labor has 22 rep
resentatives. Capital has-22 direct,
representatives and 20 trust magnates^
corporation owners, bankers and capi
talists. who are supposed to represent
the. public.
Out of the three farmers, one Was
selected against the. wishes of his own
organization. He is a confirmed, re
actionary and is on the side of 'big
business. He is J, N. Tittemore, presi
dent of the Equity. It, appears that
Tittemore received an Invitation
"select" a delegate to .represent thie
Equity. He selected himself. The
Equity national board met. later and
selected die secrefary-trefcsurer of the
organization, J. Weller Long, who a
pronounced progressive, they are now
contesting Tittemore's seat Their
protest has been thrown out of the
conference
C. H. Barrett, president of the Na
tional Fanners' union, one of the three
farmers present at the conference, has
protested against the. small represen
tation allowed the farmers, jle said:
"It cannot, be that anybody is so
blissfully Innocent as to bellevQ^ that
the Immense questions befoire thlM'coti
fereupe can be settled without the aid
of this farmer. And can anybody hon
estty suppose that It an agreement be-
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perlallstlc excesses, labor struck back
in a series of the greatest strikes ever
known in Great Britain. Out of this
great Industrial war emerged national
combination of labor like the triple
alliance demnriding the public owner
ship of the railroads, the mines, ship
ping and Industry in general. The
labor party came out clearly'for a co
operative commonwealth wherein the
industries, transportation and dlstribu
.tion would be owned publicly and op
erated co-operatively In the interests
of' ail the people. The labor party was
broadened to take In all producers,
whether they produced with their
heads or hands.
Three Movements in One.
it was then that occurred the big
gest event of all. The co-operatives,
the trade's unions and the labor party
were welded together Into one solid
system working for industrial democ
racy and the co-operative common
wealth. The trade union movement
with its 5,000,000 members and Its mil
lions of poTltlcail followers joined
hands with the co-operatives with a
membership of 4,000,000 in order to
dominate production, distribution and
consumption in Britain. This amalga
mation represents the greatest busi
ness combination to date in the history
of the world.' It dwarfs In power, if
not in funds, the gigantic combination
of British big business—the Federation
of British Industries—born during the
war and still growing.
Face to face stand these collossal
powers—the Old and the New. The
one a triple combination of the com
mon people fighting for universal co
operation and Industrial democracy.
The other a combination of the weal
thy and the powerful fighting for priv
ilege, class rule and the private own
ership and operation of Industry by
the privileged few.
The program of the common peoples'
movement is to build up co-operative
industries as fast as possible in the
form of complete links from producer
to-consumer. The unions have already
turned $10,000,000 over to' the co
operatives. While the co-operatives
are" building up new Industries, the po
litical party wilL use Its powers to win
elections and have the state take over
the old industries. While the co-op
eratives and political party are doing
these things, the unions are to exert
all possible pressure from the indus
tries to bring about the same program.
Against this three-fold movement of
the people will stand tl}e great com
bination of wealth and privilege des
perately determined to hold Its power
and privilege at all costs and now in
possession of the government and busy
welding together out of the territory
conquered by Britain in^the world war
'the iriost extensive- eiriplre the sun
ever shone on.
No one can foretell through what
phases the struggle will go. Only the
outcome is certain—for God Himself
has written in the stars that thte com
mon people shail inherit the earth.
tween capital and labor is reached in
which agriculture has no effective
voice, that agreement will be permit
ted to stand?"
Barrett, declares himself an advocate
of organized labor, and takes a shot at
the Gary attitude of industrial autoc
racy. Nevertheless he voices a sus
picion that the spokesmen of labor and
of capital may get together to ^tlame
th^1farmer as thie real profiteer. If
that charge Is .brought he warns the
conference, "You can't pass1 the buck
to him nor make him the gpat."
BIG GOVERNMENT MAN,,
COUNTY AGENT LEADER
North Dakota has .secured the
services of^"--H. B. Fuller of Washlng
ton,D. C., for state county agent
leader. Sir. Fuller has been with the
United States department of agricul
ture' forfsevcin years In the capacity of
advisor to the county agents in the 83
northern and western states. This
has taken him into all these states in
helping the county agents work out
the many difficult problems that come
up. In, this way, Mr. Fuller has bad
an exceptional opportunity for study
ing all phases of county agent work.
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Fuller was raised on a Michigan
farm, graduated from the Michigan
Agricultural* cffllege,^went back to the
farm b^t Was scoff called to Kansas
as- a county agent .His work was so
outstanding that the) United Stytea
department of agriculture sought his
servlpepu
.A: small to medium, sited, symmetri
cal shaped evergreen tree that: is na
tive to some of the drier soils of North
Dakota. It is excellent for orna
mental plantings and,fpr,low evergreen
hedges. The wood whldte is light but
very durable Is much iought after for
high grade Woodwork and Is very good
for general use around a farm being
especially prised for fence posts.
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At Final Grips.
It is estimated- that .the combined
membership of the triple workers'
movement is 7,000,000. That means
almost 7,000,000 fainilles—a great self
sufficient nation, in and of Itself.
Against it Is the gigantic federation of
employers and owners, with a com
bined capital,'already, of twenty bil
lion dollars and still growing In. num
bers and wealth.
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