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VOL. 11.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1918.
NO. 2489.
WOOLEN GOODS NEEDED IN JAPAN
REPRESENTATIVES
WAR PROFITEERS
LOBBYING; WASH.
WASHINGTON, Feb 12—Industrial
conscription bids (fair to soon become
a law. In ftuenctaJ representatives of
the war-profiteers are strenuously lob
bying In the halls of Congress. The
first real) gun of the campaign was
fired by the kept capitalistic press
in the national capital, which yester
day published editorial demands for
'labor in uniform” in the shipyards.
This idea is being talked of the offi
cial circles, and all the preliminary
agitation which marked the beginning
of the struggle for conscription and the
espionage act is now well under way.
One of the biggest lumbermen in
the country, now attached to the Coun
cil of National Defense, is posing along
the real! purpose of the organization
of the "forestry battalions," for which
1600 experienced foresters and tim
bering experts have just been selected
as officers. Is to take charge of the
lumbering operations in the west.
Draftees who have had experience in
the woods will fill throe regiments.
It has been supposed that their
services would be in France, where
vast amounts of timber were to be cut
in the mountains at the south for the
use of the armies at he front. Now
comes this report that the government
will send wholfe regiments to take the
place of the lumber jacks in Wash
ington and Oregon, who struck and
have tied up the supply of material
for the building of ships and aero
planes.
Reasonable pritm, and first class
workmanship at the Name Tailoring
''VUOPODV.
FROM WASHINGTON,
LONDON, ST. LOUIS
AND AMSTERDAM
WASHINGTON, D. C. Ki b. lS.
Mr. Gompers today requested that
the Commerce Committee appoint a
Commission 10 v'ji? all ship yards,
and it would be pr >.en to them
that It was the flagrant maladmini
stration of labor that was slowing
the work. He urged that a stand
ardization of wages as a necessary
war measure and strenously opposed
any importation of Chinese coolie
labor, declaring that there are
plenty of men here at the present
time to meet all demands.
BRITONS BAR
VISITORS
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 12.—
Discovery o 1 German plots at the
important naval base at Jamaica is
alleged to be the reason for a notice
from the British Embassey today
putting a bar against visitors from
the United States. From today all
persons not of British nationtlity
desiring to go to Jamaica will be re
quired to have their passports vised
by the British Consul at the port of
debarkation.
SIX MONTHS
RAISE GIVEN
Falls River Mass. Feb. 12
Begining February 15, 35,000 mill
operatives here will receive a wage
increase of 12 percent for a period
of six months.
Since a year ago last January
the wages of the empolyes have been
.raised 50.7 percent.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 12.— Mayor
Thompson of Chicago, today intro
duced a resolution before the Re
publican National Committee, ask
ing that body to go on record fav
oring a law for free speach during
the war. The resolution was re
fforcd to the committee on resolu
tions.
LONDON, Feb. 12.—Lloyd George
told the House of Commons today,
that an early peace was not in
sight. He said that tne war must
be continued until the terms laid
down by the Allies are accepted by
the Central Empire. George told
the Commoners that the government
was entirely sincere in its declara
tion to the Trade Unions and asked
their hearty cooperation in the pro
secution of the war.
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 12-The Kai
ser has been rushed to Spa, Bel
gium from the army Headquarters
suffering from a severe attack of
gastritus. The Emperor is in a
very weak condition.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. REAM
THE WORKER.
WILLARD AND DEMPSEY
FOR $1000,000 PURSE
CHICAGO. Feb. 12.—Jess Wil
lard heavy weight champion of the
world and Jack Dempsey of Utah,
today signed arcticles to meet In a
battle for the title and a purse of
$100,000 at Cheyenne, Wyoming
on July 4th. This Information was
given out by Jack Kerns, manager
for Dempsey.
(ik'f THE NEWS RIGHT. KBA. •
1HB WORKER.
THOUSANDS SHIPYARD
WORKERS ON STRIKE
SEATTLE, Feb. 12—Thousands of
shipyard workers went op strike here
today when refused double time for
working. This being Lincoln's Rirth
day.
The Skinner and Eddy Co., who have
had the least trouble of any of the
shipyard companies with their men
and who wilingly paid the double time
upon request of the committee from
tho workers are turning out ships in
the fastest time of any yard ulong the
coast.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12—The refusal
of five shipyard companies to pay
double time for Lincoln’s Birthday pro- j
cipltated a strike here today. About
ten thousand workers are out and
fifteen thousand more, employed in
other yards threaten to go out in
sympathy unless the demands are
granted)
TANIMURA SAYS
JAPAN NEEDS
MILLIONS SHEEP
SEATTLE, Feb 12—Reulremcnts of
the war having increased the demands
for woolen gods in Japan for beyond
the country’s ability to produce or im
port ra w material, I>r. Issa Tanimura
has Ibeen sent to this country by the
Japanese government to study the
sheep industry and obtain foundation
stock.
Dr. Tanimura arived in Seattle last
night. He is a graduate of Yale and
specialized in agriculture at Cornell
University. He is authorized by the
Japanese Government to moke even’
possible investigation and has a letter
of introduction to Win H Taft from
Viscount Tajira ,a classmate of the
former President of the United States
at Yale.
"Japan needs 10,000,000 sheep to sup
ply the demands of the country for
woolen goods and for food,” Dr Tani
mura said. "To meet the demand the
country has a possible total of about
3,000 wool sheep of various breeds.
S-fheep were first brought to Japan from
the United States forty years ago by
the deportment of the Imperial House
hold, the Kmperor's own property hold
ings. Decendants of that flock are
still maintained by thedepartment.
“The next importation wa sbyBaron
Taski, the "Rockerfeller of Japan”.
The third importation was a flock for
Marquis Matsuka, who is now Lord
Keeper of the Privy Seals. The De
partment of Agriculture has now taken
up the sheep question and we hope to
achieve greater results than could be
obtained by individual results.
I “I have experimented widely in the
production of grasses for stockfood.”
Mr. Wilson, former head of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
gave me twenty eight varieties of grass
seeds, all of which I have succeeded in
bringing to a high state of production in
Japan, Korea and Manchuria. We
have learned that we can provide the
feed and the war has taught us that,
we must produce the sheep. I hope to
see our hill lands, mow unproductive,
supporting hundreds of thousands of
sheep.'
Dr. Tanimura will be in Seattde a
few days and will then start on a tour
of the sheep raising sections of tho
United States.
Anything In the line of Jeh work
CONGENIAL FELLOW
HIKES WITH MAZUMA
NEWBERG. N. Y. Feb. 12—Samuel
Oakley Crawford, one of the cleverest
characters In criminal history, is dead
today folowing a stroke of heart fail
ure while gazing at his tenth wife.
Beter kWwn as "Rev. Arthur Worth
ington,” Crawford, who Is 72 years of
age,began his career of crime in 1868,
one year after he had graduated in
law from Columbia Unievrsity.
Up to the time heha d obtained the
pasturate of a church, he had posed
as lawyer, banker, political orator, lit
terateur, real estate operator, spirit
ualist, organizer, insurance agent.
Judge, captain, major, colonel, and
general in the regular army. Unitarian
minister .Mormon preacher, actor, pro
hibition lecturer and mcmiber of a long
list of religious cults.
Decamps With Wives’ Money
From the ten women he married he
obtained sums of money estimated in
the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Nearly all his wives were wealthy and
he invariably deserted them as soon as
he had obtained their confidence and
their money.
At one time he established a religi
ous cult In New England, but was soon
forced to flee. The same experience
awaited him at Tasmania. While in
Melbourne, Australia, he was jailed for
forgery and served ten years.
The end came when he was con
fronted by Mrs. Jennie A. Showaltcr of
Wilmington, Del., who Identified him
as the man she had married two years
before under the name of Charles
Graham Boone.
Two months later, she said, he de
camped with all her savings, $27,000.
W'hen she appeared before him in jail
he gazed at her for a moment and then
sank to the floor with a groan. Death
came before a physician could be sum
moned.
SENATOR VARDAMAN
AND GOMPERS REPLY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-Thc Com
merce Committee of the Senate, today
summoned Samuel Qompers, President
of the American Federation of Gabor,
to give his opinion to the reason for the
present shortage in labor.
The scarcity of men for the ship
building industry, is fast becoming a
very serious problem and the Commit
tee is trying to find the reason for this
hsortage.
It has been intimaied by some mem
1 bers of the Committee, that labor was
1 laying down on her war work and try
l ing to hinder preparations for Amrei
ca’s entrance on a largo scale. Mr.
Gompers vehemently protested that it
was not true and that such dastardly
insinuations could only come from
those corporations bent on war profi
teering.
Mr. Gompers maintained that the
workers, were doing- their whole share,
in bearing the heavy part of the bur
den forced on the country by the war.
Senator Janies K. Vardanian, of.,
Miss., indignantly protested against
any such charge against labor and
claimed that it was manifestly im
proper at this time to intimate in any
way that the workers were not doing
their whole duty by the country. He
strongly supported Gompers, in his
plea, for a more reasonable considera
tion, of the claims of labor.
Vardaman scored the scheming prof
iteering system now being tarried on
by some of our "patriotic’ capitalists.
e declared their actions were nothing
short of criminal' and that the country
would be greatly benefited, by the in
carceration of some of the plutocratic
"patriots” in the penitentiary. “If the
capitalists of the country would give,
as much, and as freely of their menus
to the prosecution of the war,’ said
Senator Vandaman, "as the working
people of the country then indeed could
we look forward to a sucessful termin
ation of the great world conflict.”
Senator Vandaman was right in warn
ing the pluts, that they cannot expect
to coin the life blood of the workers,
into dollars and cents without bringing
down upon their heads the wrath of the
nation.