01 BIG UNION
THREATENSTO
DIVIDE LABOR
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug. 21 (by
Associated Press).—A conflict is in
progress here between Union labor
men over the question whether the
American Federation of Labor, the
Dominion Labor Congress or “one
big union” shall control labor organ
izations in Winnipeg. The struggle
is the outcome of the general strike
which took place here in May and
June, involving labor and capital
throughout the Dominion.
A short time ago the Winnipeg
Trades and Labor Council voted to
join “one big union” by a vote said
to be 8,841 to 705.
As a result of this action, the Do
minion Labor Congress cancelled the
charter of the Winnipeg Trades and
Labor Council and announced that an
effort would be made to form a new
council in Winnipeg to include the
local organizations opposed to the
“one big union” plan. Among the
organizations which rejected this idea
of having “one big union” were the
railroad brotherhoods and the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
Some Canadian newspapers assert
that the split in the labor ranks was
precipitated by the alien element and
say that the “one big union” organ
ized at Calgary demanded that the
government release all “political
prisoners” interned during the war.
Federal ministers have charged that
a heavy percentage of the “one big
union” membership was compoed of
aliens.
Ernest Robinson, secretary of the
Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council,
has announced that the “one big
union” will immediately supply char
ters to the local unions to take the
place of those revoked by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. Winnipeg
labor leaders supporting the “one big
union” have promised to support the
movement to organize similar unions
in every city in the Dominion.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES
DURING GREAT WAR
The war department is still issu
ing casualty lists, and the latest gives
the following figures:
Total number of casualties to
date:
Killed in action (including
382 at sea) . 34,4*1
Died from wounds . 13,941
Died from disease . 23,568
Died from accident and other
causes . 5.260
Wounded in action (over 85
per cent returned to duty) 214,158
Missing in action (not in
cluding prisoners released
and returned) . 222
Total* to date . 291,620
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QUEER NAME
IN RECORDS OF
WAR BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Paris Green helped
win the war. So did Little Kittie
Karr and a Dinner Bell. All of them
were in the army, according to file
cards in the bureau of war insurance.
Green lives in Huntington, W. Va.,
Little Kittie Karr makes his home in
Norfolk, Va., and Dinner Bell Page
was rung into the service from Urick,
Mo. Some others who appear in the
bureau’s files are:
Asad Experience Wilson, of Van
Hook, N. D.; Mih Gosh, of Chicago;
Green Horn, of Statesboro, Ga.; Vel
vet Couch, of Brinkley, Ark.; Will
Swindle, of Center, Texas; Slaughter
Bugg, of Oscar Tarbin, La., and E.
Pluribus Brown of Perry Ga.
Chocolate Candy Clark, Owen
Money, Willie Darling, Great Britton
Turner, Wiley Fox Hunter, Green
Berry Anderson, Youstus Horrible
Riner, George Sleeps From House,
I-Iandsom Pleasant Ayres, Green Hue
Jackson, Lloyd George Parliament,
Grief Grimes, Precious Eugene Grant,
Free Office Graves, Huckleberry
Shell, Isaac Didnot Butcher and Fine
German also are listed.
The broad-jump record in names
goes to a resident of Salmon, Idaho,
who hurdles five before he reaches
the tape. He is Harry Adolph Thom
as Richard Eugene Bullock, and the
clerks in the bureau are tempted to
disturb Mr. Bullock’s continuity by
punctuating him.
The clerks have found 49 ways of
spelling Aloysius and 18 ways of
! spelling Ignatz. There were 53,000
Johnsons; 51,000 Smiths and 18,500
Walkers in the service. Forty-seven
thousand Williamses were with the
colors. There were 51 Jose Rodri
guezs in the 374th Infantry.
Abraham Lincolns, George Wash
ingtons, Robert E. Lees and William
Jenningses were in the service by
the hundreds. Napoleon Bonaparte,
or rather a dozen of him, fought for
the United States. General Grant,
General Wellington and General Jack
son also helped beat the Germans.
Quite a few Virgin Marys were in the
army, too. These latter were large
ly men of Latin descent. Orange
Cobb of Nolina, N. C., and his son,
Lemon Cobb, were in the service.
GERMAN NAVY REMNANT
DOING USEFUL SERVICE
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN GERMANY, July 27 (Correspon
dence of Associated Press).—The
Germans have organized two flotillas
of torpedo boats since the armistice
and these constitute virtually all the
warships left in active service in
the German navy, according to in
formation received here.
One of these flotillas is described
in Mittschiffs, a German naval peri
odical which has reached the Ameri
can headquarters, as the Iron Torpe
do Boat Flotilla. It consists of
twelve torpedo boats, which, the pe
riodical says, have been engaged in
maintaining order on the western
coast of Germany.
Some of the vessels -of the flotilla
Cardinal Mereier, archbishop of
Malines and primate of Belgium, the
heroic prelate whose fame is now
world wide, is to visit the United
States in the fall. ,It is now stated
that he will land at New York in Sep
tember and will stay six weeks. Two
cities to be visited are Chicago and
Baltimore. Says Cardinal Mereier. ■
“This will be my first trip across
the Atlantic, but to me it seems that
I am going to visit old friends. If it
had not been for American foodstuffs
the United States army would upon
arrival have found in Belgium only
bones of starved women, children and
old men, a monument to the cruelty of
an enemy of God and man. Belgians
have much to thank the American peo
ple for, and I view it as an honor that
I am to have the opportunity to thank
America in person for all.”
Belgium’s martyrdom made known
to uie worm two neroic ngures: rang
Albert and Cardinal Merrier. During all of Belgium’s martyrdom at the hands
of Germany the impressive figure of Cardinal Merrier stood out as that of the
spirit of Belgium herself.
It was the spirit which might be struck to the earth physically, but which
spiritually remained forever unawed and undaunted by even the most cruel and
inhuman of the representatives of Germany.
have been used on several occasions
for police work in the port of Ham
burg, doing duty guarding allied food
shipments to the Czecho-Slovaks and
similar work during periods of dis
order. The flotilla has its head
quarters at Wilhelmshaven. A land
ing corps of about 360 men is dis
tributed among the twelve boats,
each of which has a platoon of thirty
commanded by a naval lieutenant.
The clothing and arms of members
of this landing corps are the same
as in the infantry.
The other group of vessels called
the flotilla is supposed to be doing
similar duty on the Baltic coast near
the Russian boundary, with head
quarters in Koenigsberg. The boats
are armed with machine guns, and in
some casse with 3.7 centimeter guns
as well. The flotilla was organized
for operation in connection with the
East Prussian Freiwillige corps, and
was until a few weeks ago subject
to the commander of the northern
army.
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