GERMAN SOCIALISTS PROTEST
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min, ATiAHKAt MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1018.
NO. 2481.
PROFITS ON FLOUR RESTRICTED
ENORMOUS PROFITS OF
THE FOOD PIRATES
ARE CURBED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.—
The Food Admtnstrat.ion this morn
ing announced that drastic meas
ures would be immediately taken
by the Government to stop the food
pirates. They claim they have un
covered overwhelming evidence
showing that certain dealers in
foodstuffs had raised prices over
50 per cent since the 31st of last
December.
This is entirely out of all propor
tions to cost and that the food ad
ministration would institute crimi
nal proceedings against any whole
saler of flour charging more than
fifty to seventy cents a barrel over
cost, and against all retailers charg
ing more than eighty cents to two
j dollars and ten cents a barrel more
than cost. This ruling is made
after an extensive report by the De
partment of Labor which shows
conclusively that those who aro
shouting most at un-patriotism arc
really the ones who are attempting
to drive the assassins knife into th
vitals of our country. They shout
I stop thief and when people
stop to see what tho trouble is all
about the real thief makes oft with
the pickings. Many of the would
be patriots politicians and business
men who are today telling the
workers they must be more eco
nomical are not showing any ex
ample of iraugality themselves.
Their homes and ware houses are
well stocked with the finest in the
land. The Food Administration
announces that while at this time
they are placing a limit on the
flour meicharts profit only, but
that a limit will soon be placed on
all oilier foodstuffs ujrt as soon as
findings justify it.
Let rim estimate on /oar Job Work
SOCIALISTS PROTEST
ARREST OF DITTMAN
.LONDON, Feb. 3.—Swiss, Dutch
and Scandinavian sources today re
port the vast spread ot the general
strike (that greatest forrunner of
revolution) throughout the Central
Emipres. The police in all the
larger cities of the Empires arc
being reinforced by troops. In the
City of Berlin the Government has
ordered that the strikers either re
turn to work or face a firing squad
and many who still refused 10 re
trun were shot as an example.
The strikers at Spandau a city of
more than 100,000 population, at
tacked the police and a bloody riot
followed in which many were killed
and injured. Many factories and
the railroad stations were \entirely
destroyed. Spandau is a very
strongly fortified city about eight
miles from Berln. Here is the
Julius Tower containing, since 1874
the sum of $30,000,000 in coin for
immediate use in case of war, the
money being part of the indemnity
paid by France after the Franeo
Prussian War. The Socialists all
over the country are organizing
great demonstrations in protest
against the recert arrest of one of
the leading Socialist members of
the Rcischtagi, Herr Dittman. The
report coming from Amsterdam
confirm former reports of riots and
bloodshed in the city cf Berlin and
other scctiens of the German Km
pire.
Reasonable prices, an«l first class
workmanship at the Nome Tailoring
Company.
ENROLL RESERVE ARMY
OF SHIPYARD TOILERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.—
Thes government campaign to en
list reserve army of 250,000 ship
yard workers will start Monday
morning. The Department of Labor
under whose orders the work will
be carried on wishes to notify the
men in advance that it is not their
intention to have the men rush to
the ship yards. The yards are not
yet ready to put such a large force
to wdrk.
It is intended that the men sim
I ply register and they will be called
| for examination when needed. The
! Department at this time contem
} plates immediately putting into
operation a plan whereby it is in
tended to double the 3,000,000
tonnage plan which a few months
ago seemed to be entirely adequate.
With this vast increase in the mem
bers of shipyard employees the De
partment expects to be able to
turn out an additional tonnage of
0,000,000 tons to that already
T
contracted for. It Is held that
next year the need of ships, and
still more ships will !,e one of the
principal factors in determining as
to whether or net, this country has
the ability, and resources to fur
nish tho necessary supplies to her
Allies for the purpose of bringing
about a successful termination* of
the war.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. READ
THE WORKER.
CITIZENS KANSAS WANT
TERRIBLE TEDBY INTERNED
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 3.—The ci
tizens of this city will have the op
portunity this week of signing their
names to a petition to the I’resi- j
dent of the United States asking I
that Theodore Roosevelt, ex-Presi-'
dent of (he United States and bet
ter known as Terrible Teddy, be
interned for the period of (ho war.
I’eddy has brought down upon his
head tha condemnation ot' the peo
ple of Kantas City for his vitriolic
I -i V ujr J J -5. ^-V "V*
criticism of the War Department in
particular and the present Admi
nistration In general.
Because of frustrated ambitions
in the beginning of the war
twhereby he expected to be made a
ADDITIONAL RULES
FOOD PROCLAMATION
TO THE PUBLIC
Juneau, Alaska Feb. 1st,
Carl J. Lomen, Nome. 16.—S. R.
Taylor, Council, Mail Nome. 17.
M. F.' Luther, Teller, Mail Nome.
18. Elmer Rydeen, Candle, Mail
Nome.
Give widest publicity that Presi
1 dents proclamation this morning
| and additional food rules, require
j all persons, firms and corporations
j and associations who manufacture
! for sale, bread in any form, cake,
crackers, biscuits, pastry, or other
bakery products; excepting how
ever those already licensed and
those whose consumption of any
flour In manufacturing such pro
ducts, is in aggregate less than
three barrels a month procure li
cense forthwith from licensing di
vision food administration Wash-1
ington. Restaurants, hotels, clubs;
or other eating places who serve
bread of own baking are included
in this regulation. All persons,
firms, corporations, associations
engaged in importing or distribut
ing green coffee, to procure license
forthwith from same place. Begin
ning third instant bakers must use
at least five percent wheat substi
tutes in all bread and rolls. This
amount to be increased until Feb.
24th. they are using at least
twenty per cent substitutes. Milk
may be used in any form or quan
tity provided bread containing milk
is sold at same price as that in
which no milk is used. Such bread
nol to be sold or advertised as milk
broad. From Feb. 1st, to July 31,
>akers of crackers, biscuits, cakes,
iics, fried cake pastry > r sweet
yeast dcug'a goods are limited to
seventy per cent of wheat flour used
in corresponding period of last
year. Name Victory may be applied
to bread containing twenty percent
or more wheat flour substitutes and
to other bakery products if one
third or more substitutes. Bakery
products containing these per eent
ages may be sold for consumption
on wheatlcss days particularly in
public eating places. Full rules
and inslructicns to be mailed.
GINNISON.
(The above telegram was re
ceived by Carl J. Lomen, Divisiona
Federal Food Administrator, from
Territorial Federal Food Adminis
trator, Mr. R. A. Gunnison, and
was handed into the Industrial
Worker Office for publication. 1 —
Ed.
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FOOD RIOTS
VIENNA,
DEVELOP IN
MOB FIGHT POLICE
GENEVA, Feb. 3.—Food riots
ha\e today developed in Vienna
and other leading cities of Austria
Hungary. The mobs attacked the
police without waiting to be i hem
selves attacked, and after over
powering them immediately started
pillaging shops and stores and
business places in general. The
hunger of the people together with
entire lack of sympathy with the
government in its present state of
Prussian dominations is driving
them to utter despair. But the
Bolsheviki element are girding
(heir loins for the revolution which
they have ooen educating up to
since in 1S4S. When in Budapest'
the inspiring genius and whole
souled apostle Louis Kossuth said
to the aristocracy “with you and
through you it you wish it so, ’out
if need be against you”. In the re
volt of the Magyars in which they
drove the Austrians from their
country the ,«pirit of the Bolshe
viki was again shown only to be
trampled under toot of the oppres
sor. Austiia with the assistance
of the Romanoffs. But the spirit,
of the Bolshcviki never died and
it is this long suppressed spirit,
which is striking at the very heart
of Autocracy in Europe today.
They realize that there is no cause
to dio for, like their own cause.
The real cause of the proletariat.
Anything in Die !loe of Joh work
*t the Industrial Worker Office.
Satisfaction assured.
“ANTI- IDLENESS LAW”
USED AGAINST UNIONS
MADISON, W. Va., Feb. 3.—The
Weatt Virginia Legislature
at its last sesion, pas
sed a so-called “vagrancy
act/ under the pretext of aiding the
war by putting professional vag
rants to work. Under this act it is
unlawfull for any citizen of this
State between the ages of 16 and
60 to fail to work a certain num
ber of hours.
And now the inevitable has hap
pened—tho act is being used to
break strikc3.
Because miners employed by the
Monto Coal Company at Ottawa
were not permift°d *o nrespnt grip
vances to the management, they
supemle.l work, and the company
seized upon the vagrancy law to
drive them back to their employ
ment. Two miners and their sons
were arrested and the company
employed an attorney to assist the
county prosecutor.
At the trial it was shown that
one of the miners had secure.! em
ployment elsewhere and was arrest
ed while on his way to work. The
jury could not agree in this case
gor.aral and ect nothing but Prussia
raw moat) tie has never seemed
to forgive the present incumbent of
the White House. Some time ago
when Mr. Herbert Bigelow, pastor
of the Peoples Church in Cincinatti,
Ohio, was so inhumanly beaten by
the Blood-Brothers of the most de
based exponents of Prussian brutal
ity; a leading eastern paper said
that those boasts found inspiration
in Theodore Roosevelt and in the
acts of certain microcephalous offi
cials representing southern junker
ism.
Now Appears In the limelight a
Mr. K. V. Gedley, a rich lumber
man representing all that is re
spectable in Kansas City and says
that Terrible Teddy is the most ter
rible Prussian of them all.
and tho trial was transferred to
Madison at the request of tho com
pany, which claimed an impartial
jury could not be secured at
Clothier.
Coal companies lobbied for an
anti-strike law rt the last session
of the Legislature, but were defeat
ed by organized labor. Tho vag
rancy law is used for the same
purpose, while the companies
loudly proclaim that “we must win
this war that democracy may sur
vive.” _
DANCING SCHOOL.
At the Miners Home Club Hull,
Dancing ('lass every Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday, evening
from 8 P. M. to il P. M. Admis
sion to class $1.00. Private lessons
$1.00 per hour.
MHS. GKO WALDHEI.M, Teacher,
You’ll see It first In the Worker.