Sword of Truth (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 25, 1913 Page: 4 of 4
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Measure Introduced in Congress
Means Great Reform.
WOULD MAKE FOR EQUALITY
Manufacturer* Claim Variation l Too
Great in Different Statea—Would, of
Courae, Require Constitutional
Amendment to Become
Effective.
Washington— An amendment to the
constitution which, vsheu ratified by
two-thirds of the states, would glv«
congress the power to make uuiforui
the hours of labor throughout the
United States, is proposed in a reso-
lution Introduced in the house by
Representative Curley of Massacliu-
setts. Representative Curley contends
that the difference In the hours of la-
bor In many states, varying from
flfty-four hours a week In Massachu-
setts to slxty-sU hours in the southern
states, results In an "unwarranted dis-
crimination" In favor of the manufac-
turers located in states where the
long hours prevail. It was for the
purpose of eliminating this discrimina-
tion that the resolution was offered.
Seattle, Wash. A peculiar situation
has developed in the labor world In
this city The next convention of the
American Federation of Labor is to
be held here. Recently the charter
of the American Federation of Labor
to the Central I.abor Council was ta-
ken away by a federation organizer.
What effect this may have 011 the
.holding of the convention, provided
the charter is not given back to the
council, or another council is not
organized by the American Federation
of Labor, is not known.
Budapest. Hungary - Statistics Is-
sued by the printers' union show that
In Hungary there are 1.195 printeries
In 387 places. These printeries em-
ploy 5.612'J compositors, 1.233 machine
minders and printers, sxi helpers,
forty feeders and 2,207 females and
1,874 apprentices. The average week-
ly wage of printers was in 1 12, 17.
as against 86.70 In the, previous year;
helpers. 4; females. |2X"
Indianapolis —"No matter what the
outcome of the injunction suit against
the iron molders' union may be it will
have no effect on picketing b9 the
machinst union in the strikes the
union has on," said William I'tieger,
business agent for the machinists.
Mr. Pfleger said the state courts have
held that picketing conducted law-
fully can not be stopped
New Haven, Conn.—A settlement of
the wage controversy between the.
members of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Telegraphers and the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad has
been reached. The 1.485 men in this
4lepartment at the service will get a
wage increase of about seven per
CMt.
Detroit. Mich—Since the workmen's
compensation and employers' liability
act went into effect, a little more than
six months ago, the average number
of fatal accidents to employes of per-
sons, firms, partnerships and corpora-
tions In Michigan has decreased from
two a day to three every two days.
Pittsburgh At the beginning of the
current year, the total aasets of the
Glass Bottle Hlowers' association were
$190,735, as follows: Government
bonds, $100,001), premium on bonds,
$14,000; balance in various funds,
$62,418, and balance in death benefit
fund. $14,319
Ottawa. Canada.- Canadian labor
unions demand an amendment to the
workshops and factories act lo Pro"
vide for the effectual prohibition of
the employment of children under
fourteen >ears of age under any cir-
cumstances or conditions
Memphis. Tenn. The Tennessee
legislature has paged a compulsory ed-
ucation bill, and also a measure cre-
ating a state department of work-
shops and factory inspection and pro-
viding for the appointment of a chief
Inspector.
Boston The new compensation law
of Massachusetts gives the dependents
of a workman meeting death at his
employment 50 per cent of his wages
for 300 weeks. The mini mum weekly
paymant is $4; the maximum, $10.
New York. The number of conse-
cutive hours of work for employes on
steam, surface, electric, subway and
elevated rallroadB is reduced from
twenty-four lo sixteen by a bill lnlrt>-
duced in the legislature.
Washington.-The number of acci-
dents to employes In factories has
been greatly reduced In the last few
years by the aduptlou of proper safe-
ty precautious and mechaulcal appll
auces.
Boston.—Boston union p i:iters, dec-
orators and paperhaugers will not ask
for a wage Increase this year. The
referendum vote on the proposition
to do so was overwhelmingly against.
Syracuse. N. Y.—Another labor tem-
ple project Is talked of. The seventy-
five local unions are expected to sub-
scribe for stock, of which there will
be an- Issue of 10,000 shares at $10 a
share
Sioux Falls, 8. D. -The city council
has passed an ordinance requiring
ail plumbers to be Inspected, and as
• result a strong organization of
plumbers has been formed.
Bound Brook, N. Y.— Since organlsa
tlon carpenters here have raised their
~™"" Ms from two dollars for a ten-hour
to 1$ $0 for eight hours, the P*-
ten. years.
Cleveland—The first Important step
by Cleveland labor men toward the
adoption of/a universe! card was taken
w hen 4O0 Amion me« were urged by
AmericaniFederation of Labor speak
era of national prominence to help the
movement. J. F. O'Ctonnell, third vice
president (of the A. F. of L., ^nd na-
tional president -of the metal trades
department deliver**! the main ad-
dress. '"Strikes. blacklisting and boy-
cotting will become a thing of the
past," he declared, "when the laboring
men will see the advantage of joining
their union and remaining affiliated
with it. Thomas<Flynu. general organ-
iser of the A F. of L. urged the union
meu to ostracize the non-uulou work-
ers as far as possible because the lat-
ter help to drag down wages.
Charleston. W. Va.—Governor Hat-
field announced that the great coal
miners' strike In the Paint Creek
and Cabin district is ended. He is-
sued a statement for the United Press,
setting forth the terms of his peace
proposal, which proved successful
They were: The operators concede
to the miners the right to select a
check weighman A ulne-hour day Is
conceded to the miners. No discrimina-
tion to be made against any miner.
The operators grant a semi-monthly
pay
HrusseU, Belgium. — Competent
economists reckon the money loss
caused by the recent strike for equal
suffrage at $20,000,000. This, the So-
cialist leaders declare, has been well
lost If the country has thereby won
equal suffrage The strike has ended
in most of the Industrial towns of
the provinces. A good many miners
refused to descend the coal pits, but
it was believed that very soon even
these insurgents against the orders
of the national Socialist congress
would obey.
Shaiuokin, Pa.—Contrary to expec-
tations there was no strike of Read-
ing mine emphoyes in this region to
compel men to' beloufe to the union
and wear buttons or else quit the
mines. The *.(>00 Mineral company
men and Individual operators' em
ployes on strike continued in un-
broken ranks, and at meetings deter
mined to remain away from work all
summer. uuless they thoroughly
unionize the operations.
Chicago.—After being idle nearly
tv.o months, the 8.000 striking paint-
ers \.ent back to work. A conference
between committees representing the
men and contractors w ill meet and ap-
point au arbitration board The mat
ter of wages has been settled, the con-
tractors agreeing to pay 6i> cents an
hour for the first year and 70 cents
the second year.
Washington«-The organizing cam-
paign of the American Federation of
Labor is adding members, and it is
confidently expected that the predic-
tion made last fall that a prodigious
growth would be made In the coining
year will be realized and the mem-
bership roll permanently fixed beyond
the X,000.000 mark.
lafayette, Ind—Arrangements are
being uiade for the third annual meet
ing of the State Building Trades
council here. Ma> 22-24. According
to the reports received the organiza-
tion is in better condition that it has
ever been before. There are no
itrlkes, except in Indianapolis.
Indianapolis -The referendum vote
to decide whether officers of the In
teruational Association of Bridge and
Structual Iron Workers will be elected
by referendum in the future will be
taken. If the members decide to elect
by referendum no more conventions
will be held.
Cardiff, Wales. -Lord St. Aitfwyn.
the independent chairman of th<
South Wales coal conciliation board,
has refused the owuers' application
for a decrease of one and one quarter
per cent and the men's application for
and increase of two and one half per
cent
t bicago -The name of the Interna-
tional Union Steam Engineer has
bet ti changed to international Union
of H^am and Operative Engineers,
and that body has purchased a house
in this city in which the headquarters
are to be Installed
Ixmdon. England. -The tailoring
trade board of Great Britain has fixed
obligator? rates for male and female
workers employed on ready-made gar
ineuts at six and one-half cents per
hour for women and twelve for men'
i.os Angeles, Cal.—A great organl/a
tlon campaign Is scheduled for Lot
Angeles, to be conducted by men as
signed by the various International*
for the purpose of thoroughly reorgan
lzing tbe city of Los Angeles
Detroit, Mich.—International Broth-
erhood of Maintenance of Way Em-
ployes has purchased two buildings
for headquarters here. One building
will house the printing plant the other
the business office of the union.
Minneapolis, Minn. Directors of
the United Baking company, a coop
eratlve bakery started about a year
ago by the baker unions, report that
the affairs of the company are now In
excellent coudltion
Paris. France. There Is a growing
solidarity among women wage-earners
In France, and there Is every reason
to believe that the average wages paid
will be materially increased during
1913
l'dlnburgh. Scotland A lockout ef
3.000 printers in Scotland, which the
employers threatened, was prevented
In the last moment. The parties have
decided to discuss the present de-
maud* further.
Toronto, Canada. -Tbere were thir-
ty fatal accidents, causlug the deaths
of thirty-two men last year Id and
about the mines of Ontario regulated
by the mlniug act of Ontario
Indianapolis - Indianapolis' tulidlng
trades council has entered into nego-
tiations that will result eventually In
securing for organized labor lo that
cit£ tha lung-desired home
RUSSIAN JOAN OF ARC
By BE38IE R. HOOVER.
Dmitri Pretzoff had been notified
that he must serve in the czar's army
This news came like a thunderbolt
to his mother, Anna Pretzoff, who is
my distant kinswoman and who has
cared for me ever since the awful
night at Priblov ten years ago, when
my parents were both killed.
It seemed as If Dmitri could not be
■pared, for his mother's little holding
had to be cared for; and Anna Pret-
zoff and myself could never do all tlio
work, though I was twenty years old
and strong for a girl.
The day came when Dmitri was to
go; but like a stroke out of a clear
sky. a strange sickness fell upon him
that very morning as he started on
his way to Svelk, where the recruit-
ing officer was stationed.
Dmitri was very sick, so sick that
he seemed near death. Of course he
could not go to Svelk that day, but
that only put off his going a little
longer.
Then a quick resolve came to me.
and with it a daring plan, that though
I was only a peasant girl, I formed in
a moment's tjme.
Fired with an unreasoning zeal of
adventure, I slipped up to the loft
where Dmitri's best clothes lay ready
for him on a cot. I hastily put them
on, and they were a good fit, for I
was about his height, and large and
strong for a girl. Then I quickly
clipped my hair In the fashion of the
peasant men, and went down stairs.
Calling Anna Pretzoff into the kitch-
en. I told her of my determination to
take Dmitri's place, march away with
the troops, and when there was no
longer any fear of them coming back
for Dmitri, I would explnln all and
come home.
At the 'recruiting station all went
as it should, and I was 3oon marcli-
tng. shoulder to shoulder between two
stalwart peasant soldiers, who took
my presence as a matter of course.
Ou the third day my ndme was
called as we stopped for dinner beside
a little stream. .
"Dmitri Pretzoff, a letter." I had
almost forgotten my new name.
The letter bad been written by kins-
woman, and said that I must come
home at once, for Dmitri was dead.
Dead! Dmitri, my old playmate;
the man I was going to marry some-
time! I had not thought that Dmitri
would die.
The old scenes and the familiar
faces that had faded so quickly from
my careless mind, that the strange
events of the last three days had
■eemod to obliterate, cam* back, and
I was homesick with a dull, physical
pain. After all, I was only a woman,
and Dmitri had been more to me than
.1 had been conscious of. I must go
home aud care for his mother.
That night I got a permit to visit
the commanding officer's tent. Hei
was alone and I told my errand
briefly.
"I am a girl." I said. "I took the
place of Dmitri Pretzoff, who was
too sick to come—now he Is dead
May I go back and take care of his
mother?"
The officer was astonished, then
nonplussed, and above all he wan dis-
pleased to think that Buch a trick had
been played.
"Did you do this /or love of coun-
try?" he questioned.
"No^-1 answered, "I went to seek
adventure," then I hung my head, for
the part that I was playing did not
seem so heroic as It had at home;
all of a sudden I saw that I was
really an impostor.
But I was a woman, very tired,
almost sick, and the officer had com
passion on me, for he wrote a parr
and gave me money enough to get
back home on.
And aonie way the papers got hold
of the story aud dilated on it as pa
pers will, and It went all over the
world that I was a second "Joan of
Arc." when I waa only a foolish and
ignorant girl.
I started home, still in my uniform,
with my knapsack strapped across my
shoulders and the precious pass Blgued
by the commanding officer, in my
pocket.
Leaving the train at the little sta-
tion at Svell^ I tramped disconsolate-
ly through tbe fields towards my kins-
woman's holding.
A peasant was working in the field,
a strong young fellow 1 could tell
by the lusty strokes of his mattock.
It must be Jan Covens. I thought,
helping because of Dmitri's death.
"Ho, Jan," I called, glad to speak
to one of my own people again.
But It was not Jan that turned
toward me at the sound of my voice—
It was Dmitri. Then I supposed that
I must be dellrloua from overstrain,
and that the man I uv before me
was only a phantom.
But no. It waa Dmitri, who welcomed
me back as one from tbe dead; for
hla mother had never told him of my
taking his place, but had led him to
believe that I had wandered av.ay, no
one knew where.
Not till long after Dmitri and I were
married, did Anna Pretzoff tell me
the whole truth about the strange
sickness of her son When the day
had come for him to join the army she
drugged him with tea made from a
poisonous herb. He drank this liquid
during the morning meal, and shortly
after became Insensible, l^ater she
bad written that he was dead think-
ing that the news would brlug me
home.
(Copyright by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
After fortune has smiled ot a man
he can afford to laugh and grow Cat.
Xhl oqn (innr]?' our stock must he reduced, and we are going
doll to ^jyt, you the benefit of extremely low prices right now when
the season is just practically beginning for this class of merchandise. One lot figured and
striped l^awns and Batistes, priced 15c to 25c.
Harvc^l Itiiruain Price
Fancy Cotton Suitings: tans !ind *'oy°' '*e*ss°
Harvest lliirguiu Price 1 lc
Embroideries and Laces: !^vl^:r;kKm'>roWffl'ics'inclMd"
' II iirvenl ISnruaiii Price OC
LADIES' OXFORDS
One hundred p ir. $1.50 up to $4. Sizes 3, 3] nd 4
Harvest Hargain I'ricc
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Hardware and Groceries
W<- haw'nt sii 'i-• to enumerate th<- barr.iiris v-i-hnv< in these departments,
but we keep iust a little irr the lead in price-making on these goods.
VVheti you read this you may not need anv binder twine, but we have sold over
10,(MX) pounds, at $lu.50 per hondrc 1. Phone us if you have'nt bought.
ENTINEL HARDWARE
& MERCANTILE CO.
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ORIENT TO BE SOLD.
Those Who Put up Money to
Build Will bfe given Time-
to Protect Themselves
Kansas City Star, June 18.
The Kansas City, Mexico
Orient railway will be sold to the
highest bidder, according to plans
now under way. A new compa-
ny to buy the railway has been
in process of organization some
time. .Judge Pollock, of the
Kansas federal court, sitting in
Kansas City, Kansas, is expect-
ed to set a date this week for the
sale of the road.
The road is now in the hands
of receivers.
The entering of a decree does I
does not mean that the road is to'
be sold immediately. A stipula-
tion is to provide "that the day of!
sale is not to l>e fixed until the I
reorganization committee repre-j
senting New York ami London
capitalists and bankers are ready I
to purchase it.
Judge Pollock was positive fn
his statement that the people who
invested about eleven million
dollars in the stock of the three
construction companies that built
the Orient were to be protected
in administering the receiver-
ship. The bonds issued aggre-
gate about twenty-four million
dollars. The bonds are amply
protected within themselves, he
said.
Representatives of the stock-
holders and bondholders report-
ed that they had reached an
agreement by which to got the
millions of dollars necessary to
finish the enterprise and put the
road on a sound basis of opera-
tion.
The application for receiver-
ship was made March 7, 1012,
before Jud^e Pollock. He ap-
pointed M. L. Turner, J. O. Da-
vidson and Edward Dickinson
receivers for all the. road's prop-
erties except those in Texas.
Separate receivers were appoint-
ed for that state.
The J. W. GRAVES CO.
Lumber, Sash, Doors, Paints,
Oil, Coal, Posts, Lime, Etc.
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