The Cordova Daily Times
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1917.
SOLVING LABOR TROUBLES.
Slowly but surely saner and more
business-like counsel in labor affairs
becomes manifest. This is evidenced
in the referendum vote taken late Sat
urday in Seattle on the question of full
and complete resumption of work at
the shipyards. The vote was a close
one, comparatively, but a majority
prevailed on the side of common sense
and the tremendous economic waste
produced by a strike is in a fair way
to be overcome.
Government mediators now at work
seeking to bring harmony out of the
turmoil in the northwest. For a time
it appeared that their journey to the
pacific coast was to be fruitless. Cool
er heads, however, have controlled and
this morning there wfil be a resump
tion of work, with every prospect that
satisfactory settlement will be reached
on all questions at issue.
The wage problem is a difficult one
of solution. The value of the dollar
the workingman receives is measured
only by what he can purchase with It.
Neither the worker nor the employer
can control that value. The appoint
ment of food and fuel and other ad
ministrators offers some hope of a so
lution of the wage problem. Out of
the activities of these administrators,
each in his respective field, may come
a price fixing machine that will stabi
lize food, fuel and clothing costs and
thus give the dollar a definite value.
When that has been aegoruplished,
there will be little or no treuble be
tween employes and employes
A living wage is an admitted ne
cessity. No business man lk so fool
ish as to believe that he can get maxi
mum production out of minimum paid
workers. No laborer is so foolish as
to go on making h possible for the
"grinding” employer to long remain a
competitor of the moni progressive,
more liberal one.
Wage conditions will adjust them
selves automatically,' once there has
been established a basis on which that
adjustment may be founded. Hours
of labor also. In time, will be deter
mined. For the present, however, when
the country is so sadly in need of
every ounce of energy that can
be marshalled, labor should be liberal
in its acceptance of proffered attempts
at adjustment.
There is a growing disposition on
the part of manufacturers, whether
they be ship builders or woolen goixds
makers, to meet laboring men half
way. it behooves the laborer to avail
himself of the hand of fellowship, no
matter how grudgingly proffered. Out
of the occasional meeting and ex
change of ideas and confidences can
m— —
come a friendship that may prove mu-1
tually beneficial. |
The selfish interests of one b<Kly
should not be permitted to jeopardize
the prosperity of all—particularly f
when a disposition is manifested to ac
cept the ruling of an adjustment
board.
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ALASKANS SMELL THE CENT.
Some are born with honors, and
some have honors thrust upon them,
and it now looks as though Alaska is
in for the latter.
With the advent of the war tax, the
three-cent letter postage, the one-cent
tax on movie admissions, and the in
crease tax on various commodities,
there is only one alternative left for
the postmaster, moving picture man
ager and the merchant. They will
have to import the gay and festive
copper penny in order to make change.
For a score of years Alaska haB
known nothing smaller In Uncle Sam's
coins than the five-cent piece, and
those from the interior recognize no
thing less than a two-bit piece, but all
this must fade away and pass into the
dim and- mls^- past. The copper cent
must come, and with it a realization of
the purchasing powers of a hundredth
part of a dollar.—Daily Alaskan.
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FEEDING THEM ON LIES.
From time to time a dispatch comes
telling of the kaiser having addressed
his soldiers, telling them how leave,
resourceful and courageous they are
for beating the enemy; and victory
cannot but crown their efforts; and
all kinds of trash. Hindenburg is also
fond of giving statements to the world
and his men. Recently he was report
ed to have said to the Catholic Peo
ple's Unions of Essen:
v.Wa, too, desire what the pope.de
att-es, namely ,iw® of^tw®
war. which was forced upon us. Our
enemies, however, are not willing. Our
enemies, however, will gradually come
to their senses. Therefore, we must
wait. Let us continue to be victorious
and hold our peace."
The last year weeks and months
have passed, bringing Germany a less
inviting prospect for victory, all of
which is realized by the leaders. But
with the hope of a drowning man, that
| something nfty turn up, they feed
their men on lies. It will go herd on
them—sometime.
As economical as the women may
be, judging from the present styles
seen in the fashion books in Cordova,
they must be figuring on getting' cold
this winter around the shoulders and
wrists and no other place.
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(By Associated Press)
BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN
FRANCE, Nov. I. — In a quaint old
place miles behind the battle line are
housed many interesting souvenirs of
the great war, curious relics from
world famous battle fields and illustra
tions of phases of daily Hfe In the
trenches. German trophies for the
most part. Many of these exhibits
are destined in due course to form
part of the National War Museum.
The o\d First Corps flag carried by
the heroic and ill-fated (lough at
Ypres, is one of the notable relics.
Here also one may see the carved
oak table from shelled Arras used by
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig at his
headquarters throughout the battle of
the Somme. There is the First Corps
headquarters flag, which he carried
in the Mons retreat, his first flag as
commander of the first army. There
are several other flags of great in
terest — of which one must not for
get to mention the first Tanks flag—
the first Portuguese flag in the
trenches, the first American flag to
fly in France after the American de
claration of war. j
There are German flags, too, as for
Instance, a large one unearthed in the
Hotel de Ville Perontie, another from
Beaumont Hamel.
After flags, which are symbols of
our army, come captured guns. But
there is only room here for the smaller
engines of war, such as trench mor
tars, minenwerfers and grenade throw
ers, with a few machine guns dam
aged in battle. There is a great un- J
gainly minenwerfer captured at Vimy I
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There are shown two German para
chutes. souvenirs of a brilliant bat'le
in the air and dozens of enemy rifles,
inscribed with the names of villages
In the Somme or Arras region where
hand to hand conflicts were waged.
German material is here in profusion. I
shells of every calibre, shell cases and
basket carriers, flammenwerfers,
bombs, axes, knives, pistols, wire cut
ters and a unique collection of trench
clubs, Including one with a flexible
handle and a heavy steel head, posi
tively devilish in its ingenuity.
ScfUtereil thru museum are
life-size mannequins attired in enemy
•aaiment. One affords a striking rep
resentation of a mediaeval warrior, I
even though he is clad only In the ;
steel armor and casque of A. D. 1917.
Over his shoulders he carriers a cross
bow, which discharged grenades in
the winter of 1914-15, while behind
him is a British catapult which saw
service at Neuve t'hapelle.
There are the German proclamations
on the walls, German prints depicting
our Roldiers, enemy maps captured on
the battlefields and sometimes stained
with blood, German officer’s note
books and sketch books. Nor can the
realistic models of the battlefields—
now no longer of direct military util
ity—fail to enchain attention from one
of Neuve t’hapelle to the latest minia
ture.
The collection is only a recent
undertaking—-when it comes to find a
resting place in London, it will bring
home, as thousands of pages of his
tory books could not, the ferocity and
the kindliness, the brutality and the
poetry, the hunior ufitt tragedy and all
those thousand little unremembered
acts which made up for millions of
Britons the daily life in the trenches j
and billets of France and Flanders. I
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BRITISH WORKING CLASSES
DISLIKE jPAPER MONEY
LONDON. Nov. 1- -According to Sir
Herbert Klliott of the Mint, the worji
ing classes dislike paper money.
“Their hands are unaccustomed to
[-handling the paper," ho said. "Their
pockets are not like our pockets and
the consequences are that directly the
notes are theirs, so l am informed,
they make a small purchase present- I
ing a pound or a ten shilling note to
be changed."
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FRANCE TO NATIONALIZE
THEIR HOTEL SYSTEM
PARIS, Nov. 1—a movement is on I
foot to nationalize the hotel system
in France. German hotel proprietors *
and waiters proved a menace to the :
country during the early stages of the 0
war. Parliament will be urged to
vote a law reserving the hotel indus
try in France for French citizens or j
citizens of the Allied countries.
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Cordova Mill & Lumber Co.
LONG AND SHORT MILL WOOD FOR SALE
Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough and
Dressed Lumber.
• Also Outside Lumber
We Have Succeeded the Arctic Lumber Company and
All Mail Orders Sl'ould be Addressed to Us.
Orders From up the Line Office and Mill Opposite
Promptly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phone 5
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$1,000,000.00
And More In Resources Is Now Possessed
by the Bank of Alaska System
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A Young Institution to be sure but conservative handling of
Funds and Considerate Treatment of Patrons is
producing what it’s organizers intended, I
“An Institution of Strength
and Character.” j
Bank of Alaska
Looking ahead to November 15th, 1942, can see the thrifty
citizens, children who now possess Liberty Bonds, arranging
redemption of their Bonds and receiving the accumulated
-interest. --
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Checking Accounts Savings Accounts
Time Deposits Traveler’s Checks
Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
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