* I Industrial' Unity li Strength The Official Organ of District No. 18, XJ„ M. W. of A. £j%jet Political Unity Is Victory No.38>tVol.Vlil. THE DISTRIOT LEDGER, PERNIE, B. 0., MAY 15,1915 Somewhat Belated, But Murder Will Out "At. In one of our recent Issues we re- ferrej to tha meeting of tbe stockholders of the Canadian Collieries Co. (Dunsmuirs) held In London, when it wna decided to postpone the payment of interest rather than have a foreclosure. At jthe time of the Island strike great stress -was laid upon the actions of the "foreign agitator" and the officials.of the U.-M. W. ot A. were most severely censured through the press. The article reproduced below froih the ..Mining, Engineering and Electrical Record sheds a flood of light upon the doings of a "foreign agitator" who was NOT a member pt the U. AI. W. ot A, It is regrettable that Information of this kind is,not forthcoming earlier so that the blame for, these troubles can be placed where they rightly belong. The effect of the Island trouble Ib still very much in evidence In the localities most immediately affected by the strained relations still existing between individuals in the community. •The mutual rancor which was engendered by this strike is disappearing very slowly, but we trust that this expose may have the result ot opening the eyes of many to the machinations which preceded and were the cause of the outbreak, and that hereafter, before passing judgment upon the workers, their minds will-revert back to memories of the doings of the inner circle of the Canadian Collieries Co. Limited. "The coal mining industry of British Columbia is reaping the whirlwind of frenzied finance. In 1910 there came along Sir William McKenzie and Sir Donald 'Mann, who bonded the Dunsmuir properties on Vancouver Island fof 1 ra^or,DOirwfieS_t5ey" were "wofEB" only about half the amount, and as a matter ot tact had just been under option to, and turned down by, the C. <P. It. on a. basis of $6,500,000, including property In-San -Francisco valued at about $1,000,000. McKenzie and Mann in turn unloaded the property on the British Investor on a capitalization stated in Skinner's Mining Manual to be $15,000,000 ln 50,000 7 per cent, cumulative preference,' $10,000,000 In lOO.ono common shares of $130 encb, and £2,054,800 5 per cent first wort- pase gold bon'* of £20, £103 nnd iC-hP'i each, which were of feral fer public subscription 1n London in May, 1910, at 95 per cent. Those sums total a capitalization of $35,000,000. Sir William McKenzie swore in the Supreme Court at Victoria that of that huge'capltallsatioon only $3,000,000 was to be provided as working capital. If so, Sir William McKenzie, Sir Donald iMann and their associates pocketted $21,000,000 on the transaction, less expenses. The company then catered on a policy which lias proved ruinous to tbe property and to the coal mining industry. It appointed W. L. Coulson, a Pennsylvania mine manager, to Uie charge of Its affairs. Mr. Coulson had also made the examination on which the property was purchased, A British or Canadian engineer was not good enough for them, although operating for British capital, and their even discharged or brought about the resignation of the engineers who hsd managed the properties successfully for years and knew e*tem thoroughly. There are no better coal mine opera* tors in the province than I. Matthews and T. Russell, the managers of tbe Cumberland and Extension mines, re* sportively, under Uie Dunsmuirs. Mr. Coulson, replaced them witb Peqntyl- vsnla msnagers, several of whon, oa arrival, taw failure in store for the concern and resigned alter a short term ot service. In aa attempt to earn Interest oo the bogus capitalisation, the prices for coal vers raised to Ui* C, I*. R. aad the public, with the result tliat the C. p. R. was driven to tbe use of Call* fornla ell ae fuel. Shipping and several Industrial concerns followed suit, till how California oil baa (Unplaced sbont TM-/NW tone of ooal a year on guard the mines for t-he benefit ot the little band of Eastern adventurers and frenzied financiers. The local managing director, A. D. McRae, of Vancouver, resigned ln disgust, and the resignation of W. L. Coulson, long predicted, soon followed. The English investors were appealed to -to abandon their claim to a sinking fund ln order to enable the $1,500,000 excess expenditure found to exist on *Mr. Coulson's resignation, to be financed, and the labor troubles were the convenient excuse. Now we find notices in the British financial papers to the effect that op account of war conditions meetings of these same unfortunate investors are called to extend all payments of interest and sinking fund for another five years. Tliis condition of things is a public scandal. The war has nothing to do with the company's financial predicament, and it Is a piece of rank hypocrisy that the patriotism of the .British Investor should be appealed -to under such conditions. It is time that an Investor investgated the matter for himself, punished Ihose responsible and took steps to recover the amount which he has lost through dishonest financing. A British capitalist of prominence informed us that when, the stocks and bonds in the Canadian "Collieries, Ltd., were offered in (London they were tied up with the bonds of the Canadian Northern Railway, guaranteed by the Government of British Columbia, and purchasers of theBe guaranteed bonds could only obtain them by taking along with them a proportion of the shares and bonds of the Canadian Collieries, Ltd. There has been no more Bcandalous lIaaiadal-tfM*sBot|(ffl^Sit-fisinada-than C. N. P. FOOTBALL LEAGUE A meeting of the above League was held in Michel on Saturday las:. The following representatives were present: George Smith, Coal Creek; E. Hooper, Fernie; J. E. Briscoe, .Michel; J. Cowan, 'Coleman and E. Morgan, Frank. Owing to the small number of clubs being able to run a. team this year, and.also on account of the'general depression, it was decided to play a series of games between the teams in Alberta, and a series of games between tho teams in B. C, and the winners cf each of these competitions'will meet on Saturday, July 3rd, In Michel to play a final game for the League Cup. It was decided to leave the disposition of .the 'Mutz and Crahan Cup for the consideration of the next meeting, which will be held in Michel, the same -date as the Final. The following rules were adopted to govern for the present session: "Tliat the matches be played under English Association Football Rules, excepting in the matter of Transfer of Players, it being understood and agreed that a player can only play for one club, it is also understood and agreed that all players shall have been resident in the Crow's Nest Pass one month prior to July 3rd, the date of the Final." Mr. J. E, Smith, Coal Creek, was elected President, Mr. W. S. Bosworth, Coleman, vice-president, and A. J. Carter, secretary. THE BAND* QUESTION CANADIAN CASUALTIES CITY COUNCIL this. The concern cannot possibly be made a financial success under present conditions, and instead of extending the payments, the bondholders should insist oh winding it up, eliminating the Watered capital, and placing the property under the management of an honest and capable British or Canadian colliery manager. The properties of the company are valuable within the limits of their coal reserves, probably worth about a sixth of. the present capitalization of the ■compnny. As lt ts, a valuable industry has been practically throttled, and in its throes lt has adversely affected all other companies engaged In coal mining. • The advent of -Mackenzie and IMann Into this industry In British Columhia has heen the worst blow experienced by the province financially, and the legitimate operator has had to suffer for It as well as the British investor, Now that an election ls coming on, It is to be hoped the people will take the opportunity of expressing their determination to put an end to the repetition of suoh disreputable methods of finance in British Columbia.—B. C, Mining and Engineering Record. Trt~TB*5_ontskIrEs~onhe city is unie" suppressed by the. police authorities. Tlie question Of allowing free use of room for the Fernle-Coal Creek .Brass Band was taken under consideration. , Alderman Barnes broached tbo.-cmes- tion of Sunday closing of the candy and Ice cream parlors. Nothing doing was the consensus of opinion. A regular meeting of the civic custodians was held in the municipal building last Thursday, with a full representation in attendance. J. W. Gray made request for certain concessions regarding the Steam Laundry and reecived an exoneration of one months' rent and the monthly rental placed at $25'per month until the end of the year. The manufacture of poisonous gases We believe that every mau, woman and child in Fernie enjoys music. That there is excellent talent in both of the local bands goes, without saying. If a community were large enough to support two or more bands it has a most stimulating influence, because of the rivalry created. This, unfortunately is^not practicable, in .Fernie therefore we hope the members of the two bands' will realize the importance of getting together, and by a harmonious amalgamation create a musical aggregation that will compare favorably with the best of the large cities. We hope there will be a good attendance at Sunday's meeting, a thorough discussion ensiie, and the upshot will be a unity of purpose effected pleasing to both performers and public. The following H a copy of letter addressed to the management of the Femie-Coal Creek Excelsior Band: Fernie, B. C„ May 13, 1915. The President and Committee, Femie- iCoal Creek Excelsior Band, Fernie. Gentlemen,— We would like to meet your body .at the City Hall on Sunday. 'May 16th, 1015, at 3 p.m., for the purpose of finding some means whereby the two local bands may be brought together in peace and harmony to further the ad vancement of music in this city and be of greater benefit to the public and the city. Yours truly, T. UPHILL, SAM GRAHAM, City, SHERWOOD HERCHMER, Fernie .Board of Trade. Col. J. MACKAY, Militia. DANIEL .MCDOUGALL, J. P. LOWE,, Fernie Atretic Association. E. K. STEWlRT, F. C. LAWE,] J. W. BENNETT, A. D. TRITES, J. L. GATES, Citizens and business men. It. J. BROWN, F. DESTABEJLLE, Musicians not connected with either band. A. D. OARRXP, ..... -•-'" fernie'City'Band; Among the names of the latest list of casualties we note the following names and believe they were units of the first contingent which left Fernie: Lance-Corporal Alex, Paisley Robertson, Kings Lynn, England, formerly of Hosmer. Wounded and missing. 8th Battalion. Pte. Hezekiah Arthur Bryant, of Tredegar, wounded. Pte. John Reid, Glasgow, wounded. Lance-Corporal Frank D. Townsend, London, gassed and wounded. A recruiting station ln charge of Capt. G. G. Moffatt has been opened in Wood Street next to the Calgary Cattle. Co's butcher shop for the purpose of furnishing tbe quota of men from the Fernie constituency to be incorporated in the Kootenay Boundary regiment, known officially as the ."Uii llat-allun. SOX! SOX! SOX! Settlement of Strike In Eastern Ohio We are pleased to announce that this lengthy und bitter struggle has at last reached a culmination, and whilst wo have not all the details of the new arrangement, a mutually satisfactory contract has been drawn up and duly ratified. eral that an agreement will be reached by Wednesday. Following the agreement between the scale committee and operators, a special convention of the sub-district will be held lo ratify the proposed contract. In ihe meantime everybody is waiting for the "band wagon" parade. Miners and Operators in Conference- Both Sides Hopeful That Long Strike is Nearing End COKATO 8CHOOL At last the outlook that the much needed educational facilities for the large number of children of school age in that vicinity is decidedly encouraging, as tho trustees have been informed by the Education Department that three hundred dollars lias been appropriated towards defraying the initial exponse of establishing this sorely needed Institution. Exports of coal and coke from Great Britain bave been prohibited. Mr. J. M. Humphrey, of Calgary, gave a very Interesting lecture on the resources or B, C. in the Methodist Church Tuesday evening. A good crowd wss ont to hear bim describe the beauties and wraith of tbe province and to see the 150 fin* pictures taken by himself which illustrate to well the mining, agricultural, lumbering and scenic possibilities of this vast province, Aa unusual feature of the lecture was the account or a talk given to tbe Fijian contingent now on the firing line In France. The erstwhile cannibals were much amused by hearing a little girl call after them ts they were leaving Vancouver, "Goodbye, aad be sure to eat plenty ot Germans" VICTORIA CONSTABLE TRIED TO KILL THE DEPUTY CHIEF Pulled Quo, But Trigger Failed to Hit the Cartridge VICTORIA. May 11.--Comtable J. Abbott, of the Victoria police force, ls under arrest on a charge of attempting to kill Thos. Palmer, the deputy chief f the force. Palmer had reprimanded Abbott for drinking and had ordered him to turn lu his uniform and go home, Abbott pulled his revolver and four times pulled the trigger. It luckily happened thst there was only one oartrldgo in bis «!x ahooter, and aot ono of the tour snaps of the trigger happened to touch thin cartridge. NO TRANSPORTATION FOR MECHANICS TO OLD COUNTRY When.word was sent from the Red Cross Headquarters that 50,000 pairs of so-rks were needed—each week—for the Canadian soldiers alone, the Society here in -Canada decided to hold a "-Sock Day." Unfortunately the word came too late for British Columbia to take part, so wo are to have a "Sock Day" of our own on Saturday, May 2:2nd. On this day every man, woman and child in Fernie will have an opportunity to give one, or as many pairs of socks as each one wishes, and it is to be hoped tbat the last great west- era province will be first in generosity. It is uot too much to expect that those wlvj stay at home will respond nobly to the appeal for the soldiers. Socks may be either hand knit or woven, which latter may be purchased at any of 'he store* and turned into the collectors, who will be- stationed at various points on May 22nd to receive them. Each donor will receive a Re'd Cross Tag tn exchange for the socks, The following donations were re "Cetved~tIrtsrwBelf .Miss S. Lancaster—2 pair soeks. Miss A. Lancaster—1 pair socks. IMrs. Wm. Lancaster—1 pair socks. A Friend—$2.00 iMrs. J, P. --McDonald—20 yards cotton for.baodagei. .•'-..., , ... ■Mrs. J. S. Irvine-—V-i dozen pillow cases, .Mrs. Corsan-—8 sheets. COLORADO PROBE IS ASKED Commission Besought to Look Miners' Grievances . Into By K. C. Adams, in U. M. W. Journal. CLEVELAND, Ohio— The scale com- mittee of Sub-district u, representing 13,000 Eastern Ohio striking miners who have been locked out for thirteen months are today conferring among themselves, considering the many propositions submitted by the operators as a result of-a week's joint conference. During the past week the miners' representatives and those of the operators have been meeting day and night in joint session—ironing out a concrete proposition which will make possible a change in the mining sys-j tern now in vogue to the end tbat. the J percentage of slack will be reduced with the adoption of the mine run system of weighing coal. Thc changes contemplated will consequently prove beneficial to both miner and operator. For years the "block mining" system has beeu followed in this field, while the Hocking and Cambridge fields have enjoyed a system far less productive of fine coal. Jltck Roan, state mine Inspector, is on the job in the role of "peacemaker," personally representing Governor Willie, who called the conference, Reconsideration of the Gallagher DENVER. May 14.—Au appeal lo the United Slates commission on industrial relations to investigate "the system of prosecution conducted in the courts* ot Southern Colorado against coal miners recently engaged In the strike" was contained in a letter sent tonight to Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the commission, by the executive hoard of the Colorado Federation of Labor. A cojfy of the letter was sent to the e- partment of justice. INTERNATIONAL COAL „ SELLING AT SIXTEEN p*-"-rWhieh-^eeko-wTTupegiythir"'nrfjre-]— International Coal and Coke, an erstwhile trading favorite, attracted interest this morning. Two thousand shares sold at- 16c, which is about tbe lowest recorded level at which tbe issue has sold on the local stock exchange, but sales Lave been made at below that in curb transactions of some weeks sirct!, and gradually this stock is doing better now.—Victoria Times. EXAMINATION FOR MINING COMPETENCY BLAIRMORE CUTS TIAOHIftt' SALARIES KNOX CHURCH, FERNIE Sunday, May t'i—11 a.m. "All Things Work for Goad"; 7.30 u-.m,, "The Av- | wage Man: Wbo Is Her 11.11 p.ra,| The Blairmore school board bas cut tbe sslaries of its teachers as follows: Principal, from fl,S0o to $1,100; first teacher, from 1930 to |S00; second teacher, from IWO to $760} third teacher fro* |«5« to tTM; fourth teacher, rrom Moo to'fftSO;; fifth teacher, from IDAO to t*5<>: janitor and truant offlctr, from 11,010 to 1900. Mike llrennan, or Coleman, whilst on ■ visit n» Ixntl* Moore, of Lethbridge, bad the misfortune to fall down the For several months past the press both of the U. S. and Canada have glveu great publicity to the f,reported dearth ot skilled mechanics in the Old Country, and persistently Intimated that as measure of relief to the unemployed problem the Canadian government authorities would aid skilled mo- ctmnics unable to find work to return to Great Britain, where their services were so badly needed for the purpose of rushing munitions of war. As an evidence of the small credence to be placed in these press reports, we append below copy of a letter addressed to Arthur W, .Morrison, ot Fornio, and would usk the labor papers to give It prominence and thus) save some of the workers from indulging in false hopes of obtaining employment: "Office of the Commissioner of Immigration, Winnipeg, May 7th, 11)15. "He neturn of Mechanics to Great Britain "Sir,—I have received your letter of the 28th ult., and In reply would Inform you that so far I nave received i no official notlflonflon that it Is the Intention of either the Canadian er British government to arrange for the re'.nrn of skilled artisans to the Old Country, and I am under the Impression that there Is no foundation for such reports as -have been publMei in the press of this country. 'Your obedient nervant, (Signed) "J. Bruce Walker, "Comml»«bt;*3*-." "Arthur W. Morrison, Pernie. It C." Tbe Pernio Annex tiehool grounds consisting of an entire block. Is more than at present required for playground, and a limited part thereof \* open to be cultivated by any energetic cltitens who so de*lr*». Por further particulars apply lo gtsfretary of School Board, fttimloy Ofcken. It. U Extracts from The Canadian Red Cross Society's Latest Instructions: iBrltlsh War Office has now request- ed that only socks and handkerchiefs be forwarded. Body-belts, scarves and helmets will not be nestled for many months to come. Socks a-e net-ded every hour of the day. run law, is being held up by Governor Willis in the Legislature, to await the outcome of the present conference. Thus tar the proceedings have been! harmonious in every particular, considering the strained relationship ot the past thirteen months. Little Information has been given the public of progress made, but every indication points to a sure settlement. When The conference adjourned over Sunday, to meet Monday, both Operators and miners were extremely optimistic over the final outcome. In fact, the prediction Js now gen- At a recent meeting of the Boy Scout Association the folowing resolution was passed: "That the Association will not bo responsible for debts Incurred by nny of tho scouts without tho sanction of the Finance Committee, which consists of Messrs. Fowler and -MaeDougall. And that no Hoy Scout be authorised to solicit money or sell tickets without tho sanction ot this committee," Damage to the extent of $200 was caused by a fire in the Nnpanee Hotol which was discovered about 3.30 on Wednesday morning. The fire originated from a fire-place In the hotel rotunda owing to insufficient thickness of the fire-place lining, which caused j arc not recolvlng Justice." Messrs. George O'Brien and Thos. Williams are conducting the examination for miners' certificates of competency iu the Government Rescue Station this week. There are only thirteen candidates, three for first or mine manager,' flv6* each Tor second und third, pit boss and fire boss respectively. The examination for second and third requires two days' session and three for the first. We will publish the names of the successful aspirants in tbe issue next following the announcement by the Department of Mines, Charges Judge Against Labor, Washington, D.C. Justice Would Subdue the Agitator is Lawyer's Advice to Probers WASHINGTON, May 11.—Difficulties of labor In the courts were discussed before the Federal Industrial Commission todny hy Stephen H, Gregory, a lawyer, of Chicago, 'who de- dared ihe complaint directed against the courts must bo looked into, because "It Is a serious matter for any large j clnsH of onr oItlien* to fool that thoy tho tlmbor? within tlio h.A to ignite and but for It being'promptly dlscov- COAL TONNAGE DISPLACED BY FUEL OIL In the mont hme of this paper we gavo tlio figures in gallons of the crude oil Imported for fuel In.tht- years ISHl and ItlH, but as thone ittatlstlcs are not as clearly grasped a* a tonnage ban!*, the following is the co:U quantities displaced: IM! 3.1,7 M ton*. I9U hUSiUt, lou*. have been much greater, Five Iocs! hoyg, who nr* now member* of the V, M. It. training at Pincher Creek, but who were vlnltlng friend* mid relative* of this city for a few days, returned to Pincher on Tuesday evening. Thi* hoys expect their unit will be moved to the new training camp at <'nls«ry about the 17th nf this month. Juttits Would Stop Agitation Mr. -Gregory said smiw of thc com ered the diimneo would undoubtedly Jjihlnts aplnst tl." toir'u ;iro«j from prejudiced Judges, whose derisions were affected by thoir natural antlpa thy for tlm violence t Urm terUln« In hor disputes. He discussed the use of the Injunction in strikes and condemned the summary punishment for contempt of court of men ohawd with offe»»e» which ontltlod tliem to a jury trial. "Tbm," h<* »:M<1. "bn* boon t% <ominiu Presentation Tin* Hlllcrest boys nerving In the J3tb r, M. It*, »t Pincher Creek, were the recipients of tt very handsome prelum donated hy the ladle-i of Hltlerest, and presented by Captain Davies, and take this opportunity of publicly thanking thom. The i»r»**f»tit consist- j od of sbtrfi, cock*, and otb-r very use j ful i,tf**'<nt* MlndtneM l.*;e this wtll '»!*.»>* ht-lji the bo>» to remember peregrination* jt ..«;,.1 C*t*ar.'.r>. in the (Hillcrest during thoir um m~* .** «<«•• ***** *«*« w*.,mmmmni moom. Mtmnny, ,.«. *»., wW (f Al**o*r*ft,*l b* hn<l v.*!,, 411,1 Hi."4- I'll) t-1 IJUJjvU'/illt'i)'. k Tll4,'JJ4'li4-,iH-l MViUv*. HiUMj, «,«'« ceHar Inflicting such Injuries as neees-J entirely free from stumps and soil ot n***** ■»,», -,:.**■*.-....•,« i. r...--*. V .."....'. mtdNMi H^,„it „„„ iui, iKiaicws * til plow ;>inl li-U'j't- ■». Injustice wblcjl has rankled ... *~"" ■ *"■" | iiroimtH of t!w*o mihleot 'o <•. nml jmi* «'l)l!«l «* rviuif t*h*'r K OOMEWC iCIENCE iTUOIEt ily so. The only ronl sgllstor If In*l- •tnd tht ri-iuiiwii uf uuum ,n . Bieps were take* to elaborately (*• «wk«* tbe pttftt ont ft-fstpsfts-n* tor a business wblch was pop becoming decadent—tho goose tbat Uld tbo widen «•*»• *mm uu»* **mm*m*m*t* *n* nt*****. Tte fM-IMOO ot tew eatttat waa spent, Md W per cent mm besides. Heavy steel cars wbleb ware too lew for tbe nine openings gad were wt eeoaottic to operate, were purchased fir lotto omnltflm, smf s hop Kino •PWmw wbwe w iww wt Dew t* mkp- mm, : A became aeeesaary to Had nonm op ' torn mm wbleb te feel tbe Bstfsh investors stm ffrtb*r, end n lnbor trouble, for wttei tberw inn weftber T!tt provincial trtuuury tuint ta ot dollars to employ specie} police to Prnynr neeilHf. Tbur*day, ti p.ai., ebolr pmettati, Yen are inortittty w- filed to worship with as. W, JT. Mtc- tlV.arrie. B.A., mllnster. bis be**. An operation wss performed but sltbougb still all ie his condition is deemed extremely critical. A mother's meeting will be held next Wednesday nt 3.3't p.m,. In tho ItaKcmoiit of the Knox Church, when the vublecl tar 4i»cu>w»toti Aiid demonstration are "The msbimr ot «»lnrt*. tnkes, and some rhubarb *,ver)<*>-u-4) ifceu'Ottie. l* justU j -vill »ut»du« th«f agitator," j tased on Unsound Principle ! Th< withe** said that under tho com- . mon la*.trade union* won- UW«l, and i I ctiM-M •♦'Mf 1*1* fflttriitrtrriit '-ho »,*.*,-i« dishes"!doctnlon nt*tn«t Ubnr In ib* T-wtitwir A. V. WmIUow, of the Fornle Hotel, I* putting tn 30 f«*t of cement *i4* *«ik an fito Vlornrlfl tvni'1 Kjrto of iii* property. t ,* ,. » ,, •,» * ** *■ r,i*i CHLOHINE OA» lt occurs in nature lo tbe cotnVne 1 state miy, chiefly with sodium se com non MIL It It a greenish-yellow gat 1* times ta-avlev tbaft *W, of suitocatt-Un ine subject, as we observed where tag, Irrltatlag odor, attacking tbe ves-1 ibe cwtttag bad been done the decern Ir tions are sedentary find lawn-mowing aad otber horticultural pursuits a most invillwatlng exercise. Heretofore we have regarded tbe dandelion as injurious to lawns, but ofte of Oor < Iti- seas evidently bas different opinions James tAwmter* m*m*t*r ot »bej Platbead Trading Co., Corbin. was a Fernie vlMtor Monday last. | Mr. Oeorge Kills, customs officer at Michel, who bas been on tbe sick list for severs! weeks, resumed bis official duties on Monday last. J, t. Mcintosh, ot P*rni*. nttpoVetl during bis colleague's sickness. pliaUMy orstM*)** and producing wben labeled la samelent «*aatftlaa ttyosp tomn ot pneumonia, Charity is but aa effort to eormt tbe evils earned by aa Uaperftet aoefai ayitUuk iUk* Um tout newer *tt pew- PPP H*Wi MWn WW! •! ^W MM PP ^» pells to cstrh tbe drip. tstion of the yellow newer bad been arest eedebwely avoided. Tbe world Is ia a conspiracy against tboughL Moet bare t» work eo tba? caaaot tblnk; others dissipate tai Mtow-M* en xttwy eannot tbtak; and aa«M pottf m otor aweertafntiee tbst they csaaot think. MJcboi Hetei lecMree Poll Licence We sre informed tbat Mr. K. Eotnr- brook, ftiio rec-ratl? took over tbe tmttbml Hotel, bee *mrnr*4 n till l-tywor liewaa* wbleb wmt into *ff**t on Tuesday lasL Tbere will bt a grand opening night with dance, date to be | announced later. A RATHER LENGTHY AODRItt Word -hflt fc-f.i-n rort-lfn-l 'iim. ,.f.,r.f Canadians taken prisoners at Lang*- morck tbst those desiring information about missing friends should «ddre»s their letters of Inquiry ut follows; Die Abteilung fur Krtegsgefangenefur sorg», Zentraikomitte des Deutsche Vereins vnm ro**n Kraut AtigoordMMnlMBs, Berlin. Print Albreobstrasse Obergoacbos*' Inlormstion tt requested regarding Oi* 'whrmhtmn et Joseph 3letiboti*f fttat b*tnf tmm nit* motitl" xgu w&ct; be waa working at Bellevue. lead replies to Mv* J. HeJpaib, MloVi»», or ta tbls oflfc#. Manor*' oa-ne to be twnt*»d, "not upon ntsmnnr tttoio nixoil from *!« T.'tMhmltt false legal theory, hut upon an un-S tragedy, but It I* feared th.it Mr Tho* **>iunl prli.t-jpio from tin? vt***«p*omt of \ lAmtwnmo and wife, of Mletiol, are sociology." ' | amonaitt th-* many wbo found n w.itery Hurl't-r it 'ht* rfjtv *ht* vf,-T?"T"'««!'i'" f--"i«?f> h-fsrd Tir A. J. McKcJwar, southern! f --■-— -■—- weretary of tho national child Isbor ■ IJugone Scharr, aha ,* ti-atpuMrily romnriMee, wbos&ld roMon mKltiOf th*jtn charge of tht- Oram! Union Hotot. south wen* "lh«- chlof opponoal* ofj Frank, motoivd In to Kernie on Wed- child labor roform legislation" I neaday lssf, Th* i ommisslon exix>ou tomorrow to —. «•*——■ * \.*,*t V.V.'.Um 1U,*.«..1, he*,! ..} ino; MfcTHOOIgT CHURCH, FERNIE Industrial Workers of the World -i ——— t-H>i>k*-»n.M->it Hem.**. Haoday, %tay tft?!-**!l »«■»., "Tho «__.„-_—...««.„«_.., | vain* of Hard Uss-wr; 7,*> p*»„, "Tk* Tb* c-MB-ont plant st tK*iraore,s Miasioaary Adf*s**." Th* KpsorlJi whioh hss beon working spS'-uttodtoaUy , I>a*«e aod prnyer meeting milt unite fur this weok with tbo fteptiit* aad Pmbyteriaift* In union Ernntellstl** *t*r*tt*e*. rtwHr $rni*urt> Friday lit 8 pm. Rat* of borne rooking Rsfirr- iiiy l.Mh. at 3 p.m. 0 M Pertajr, pes* nor tor *om<» time past, and by *o doing* Im on tb# means of elrcuUUn* a iittle U*4l imtn**r.n Ut tU<*i -*mi*. t* -»s|<*«te4 - to suspend operattoas tor aa ladefl-i nlto period ar fhe end of fh*» current week, ° *• h - ** ¥-_-;* ~ '■*' v I . ;,+ =~ • y.t, " n ** V- ■f->j' vt f V J\J,>~™ ■*." Vj",' - -/„;; , "O? t*"P ^ <* * FAGB T^O THE DISTRIOT LEDGER, FEBNI^B. C, MAY 15,1915 Socialism and War Some Probable Effects of the War I* II If* H -• I Is (: By Morris Hillquit El An event of such overwhelming magnitude as the present war cannot pass without leaving deep footprints, ip the history of the human race. -Tfoe war has suddenly suspended all accustomed pursuits and thoughts, all problems and struggles which have made,,up the economic, political, intellectual and moral life of Europe. * - It has created new conditions and advanced new notions and Ideals, a new spirit ancl new alignments; It has caused a violent break in the entire fabric of human civilization. Old Kurope lies shattered under the iron heel of the infuriated god of war. A new Kurope, a new .world will be created from the broken fragments after the war ■ is ■ over. What is this wew world likely to be? The question opens a wide and alluring field of speculation, but it would be futile to attempt a comprehensive answer at tliis time. The direct results of the war will largely depend on its duration and outcome, its ultimate effects may not be revealed until many years after this great world conflict will have passed into history., Hut while any detailed analysis of the effects of the war on human progress must be left to posterity, it is not beyond, the realm of the possible to forecast to-day in Bold and broad outlines some of the most immediate developments which are likely to follow the war. Particularly so if we choose for our starting point not the speculative* sphere of politics, but the *olid ground of economics. The main economic effects of the war may be foreseen with tolerable clearness, and in tlie long run economic conditions -will determine the general direction of the social, moral and political developments in the future as they have in the past, Tlie economic structure of modern Kurope is not likely to be destroyed as a result of the war, no matter how long the" war may last and what rav- a^os it .may inric, upon'.the imra-edrnte industrial processes. The ec.otiomlc power of the advanced nations of our time is not represented so much by Modern civilization is indestrueti-, just ment of forces and relations. ble because it js built on the solid basis of a universal, practically worldwide, industrial system. The civilizations of old Greece and Rome and the more ancient Asiatic civilizations perished because of their isolation from the rest of the world. They were; mere oases in the general wilderness of barbarian life, and ultimately succumbed to the physical forces of thoir inferior surroundings izations of England, Prance, Germany, Austria and even Russia are practically Identical. The difference between them is one of shades and degrees, but not of substance. TUiey are all based on modern capitalist economy. The war may change the physical map of Europe, It may shift geo-cfraphical boundaries and establish new national or political alignments, but it will not change the general mode of existence of the people or the nature of modern civilization. It will not even cause a very violent break in the fundamental economic life of any country, victor or vanquished. Stupendous as is the dally economic waste of the war when expressed in monetary values, the future of the involved nations is not threatened with complete economic paralysis. After all, the actual theatre of hostile operations is limited to comparatively small areas of the' European continent. The vast interior of Russia, the greater part of France and practically the entire territories of England, Germany and Austria proper remain untouched by the direct and physical ravages of warfare. In these sections of the belligerent countries agriculture and the most basic industries will be continued on a. somewhat crippled scale even during the war. The concluding of peace will not find tlieir population absolutely naked and starving. The dismantled factories, mills and shops will eventually be repaired. The wheels of industry will be set in motion again. Manufacture and commerce will revive, and with them wj]l revive all the conditions, features and results of the ante bell'im system of production: the greedy capitalists' race for profits, the exploitation of workers, the acute social problems in- dissoluhly connected witu the system One of the first results of this process will be the merging out ot pounjtless independent economic units. ' " The ?nvill laanuiacturer or merchant who has precariously managed to maintain himself against the superior vitality of his capitalist rival,'will in a number of cases find himself totally exhausted hy the war and unable to continue the unequal struggle. He But the civil- i will be absorbed by the large-scale producer or dealer, and sink to the level of a salaried employee or wage worker. Consolidation of industries aud concentration of capital will be the order of Uie day. Europe will vie with the United States in the development and extension of industrial and mercantile trusts. European capital will enter upou - the last lap of its race. And labor? European labor will face the greatest crisis in history during the period of Industrial readjustment following the war. In Germany, .France, Austria and Russia the vast majority of able-bodied workers have been taken from their shops, factories and other places of work, and sent to the front. Their jobs are not watting for them. Xew jobs will be created slowly. In the first period after the war each nation will be practically a nation of unemployed. The condition will, of as'Socialism'wi.li grow nationally it will reestablish its international ties. What is generally termed the Socialist International stands .for a complexity'of:ideas" and ^institutions, whose; main-elements may be summarized under the following heaaa:* 1. The iaentity of aims and methods of the Socialist parties of all countries. 2. The. practical cooperation of the Socialists and organized workers of all nations" iu' their every-day political and economic straggles. 3. Their" common faith in the eventual obliteration of national boundaries, their common ideal of a free federation of nations. 4. The concrete international or ganlzatlon of the Socialist movement represented by the International Socialist Bureau with headquarters in Brussels (now temporarily transferred to The Hague) and by periodical International Socialist conventions. None of these features is likely to be seriously Impaired as a result of the war. The Socialist program, must remain international in character, because it will continue to voice the same general demands all over the world, after the war as before the war—the abolition of .private ownership in the social Instruments of-wealth production and the reorganization of the industries on the basis of collective ownership and democratic administration. The Socialist policies <and methods of action must likewise remain International, for they always will be rooted in the economic and political struggles of I the working classes, j The practical International cooperation of the organized workers of Eu- course, be gradually relieved, but the j rope has always found a stronger ap chaiices are that the relief will be plication in their economic struggle^ slow and incomplete. It Is bound to than in their politics. This may be take a considerable time before nor-' readily accounted for. Political ac- mal conditions will be reestablished , tivity is by its nature circumscribed in the industries of Europe, and wide- j by the boundaries of the autonomous spread unemployment may continue, political unit, the country. Tlie re- even long after the reestablishment, stricted spheres of international poll- ~Tcauy, accumulates wealth in rare-shape* ■*»—P"-vave-eoiijp*ctitiv*e""industries "31107 of hoarded up consumable products, as hy their superior Instruments and methods of wealth production. It Is not the gold in the nation's vaults, nor even the harvested crops In its storehouses, nor its stock of clothing, fuel and other ready necessaries of life that make up Its true wealth, it Is rather its industrial system: the factories, mines and mills equipped with Improved machinery and organized on scientific principles; thc system of railroads, steamboats, telegraph and telephones; the use of steam and electricity and al the superior modern methods of production,, transportation uUtribution and exchange. Tlw accumulated commodities aro the leapt important item In the budget o( national wealth. If the entire stock of consumable goods in a cou.i- try as rid* as the United States wore ■'t-struyed hy ono sudden blow, U would prebably not take tbe nation mon, Until one year to repair tie waste. Tho 'machinery of work ts of vastly greater Importance In thc economy of modern national wealth than the accumulated products, hut It Is likewise not Ihe controltiiiK faotor. ln the normal process of production the life of tli<> average plant Is figured at about ten years. In every ten-years period tho physical foundation of our Industrial «ys|em ts completely replaced and rebuilt. Jt could undoubtedly bt* 'rumored in a much *boncr period If It should be suddenly and completely destroyed. Tho fctroiii-ttli of modem Induatry iloon uoi io*t .on -a phyaiCMl basis, ll Is centered In ma n'» mastery of tho natural force* and In the development and application of scientific methods In production and exchange. It Is thii great antiunion of modern sen- orations which constitutes the »ub- stanoo of human civilisation and this .lo-quUiiinn cannot bo annihilated hy sny tuiddt-n phyalesl rata»trophe, even if j' itii-Miiiies Ihe inaanlUidt- rtiid tlii lence of the present war. of normal conditions. The general process of industrial reorganiaatlon, will probably introduce more perfect \ types of machinery and other labor- saving devices and displace many thousands of workers, and besides, tics, diplomacy and wars, are as a rule wholly withdrawn from the control of the people, radically different in the field of modern economics. The principal industries of our time have assumed the workers returning- from the bat- international proportions, not merely tlefiehl will be greeted by hosts of in their general character, but in new competitors. One of the effects actual organization and practical op- of depleting the principal countries of eration. The great banking and in- Kurope of their male workers has dustrlal interests of the modern coun- been to press women into industry ttr' tries are closely allied In ownership, over great numbers, /Under the The modern market is a world market, lash of necessity the women of France Capitalism has long broken down all and Germany have invaded numerous', national harriers and tthe moneyed fields of industrial activity which interests have consolidated their be- of man more speedily and effectively than a million tloquent but -abstract sermons on/that subject. The great modern nations w"?re not pieced together from the scores of insignificant sovereignties through a suddenly awakened national patriotism but because bfr 'the centralization of the -growing industries and their demands for larger elbow room and markets. The .national territories and governments of Europe are in turn "becoming too narrow for the new international phase of industrial development, and just as sure as the numerous- European principalities, dukedoms and kingdoms of the middle of the last century gave way to the modern unified' nations, so will the latter make - room within a short period of time to some working form of a federation of European nations. The international ideal of Socialism will thus gain an ever stronger material foundation, and tor this ""reason ,an ever growing concrete expression. The soul o-f the Socialist International is thus bound to emerge from the ashes of the war strengthened and purified. Will the form survive? This , is .neither very- certain nor very* material. Unquestionably the wholly abnormal position in ' which the Socialists ot Europe find themselves In this fratricidal war is apt to cause some personal Irritation and bitterness among them. So far the Socialists engaged in the war have shown a most remarkable spirit of mutual understanding and forebear- ance. dt is impossible to predict what situation may be produced if the war should continue much longer. The sense of irritation may become acute, and on the other hand a new turn of the war may alienate the Socialists from their governments and bring them together in common opposition to the continuance of the war. It is also quite likely that the combatant Socialists will present a solid front as soon as peace negotiations will begin. In the latter event the present International Socialist Bureau may serve as the medium of renewed international Socialist unity, and the The situation is physical organization of the Socialist International may be fully rehabilitated. All theso are matters of speculation which the near future will solve. But what seems to me absolutely incontrovertible is that the Socialist movements of all countries will survive the war and retain their inherent international character, and that, sooner or later the impact and enthusiasm of the common struggle will infallibly unite them again. The' Socialist International may change its form, but international Socialism is Local Union Directory; Dist. 18jB «M,W. A GLADSTONE LOCAL No. 2314 Mset first and third Fridays, Miners' Hall. Fernie; second and fourth Fridays, Club gall, Coal Creek. Sick Benefit attached.—T. Uphill, Sec, Fernie, B. C. -UW^MMJMjLim^ MICHEL LOCAL No. 2334 Meet every Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock In Crahan's Hall. Stck Benefit Society attached.— R. Beard, secretary. PARK LOCAL ' • No. 1387 Meet every Sunday. Sick and Accident Benefit Society attached.—Michael, .Warren, Sec, Can- nore. Alti. HILLCRE3T LOCAL No. 105*8 Meet second and-fourth Sunday In month. Sick and Benefit Society attached.—Mack Stigler. COLEMAN LOCAL ,. No. 2633 - Meet every alternate Sunday at .2.30 p.m. tn the' Opera House, Coleman.—J. Johnston, Sec. « PASSBURG LOCAL No. 2352 Meet every second ahd fourth Sunday of each month at 2 p-m. tn Slovak HaU. Sick Benefit Society attached.—Thos. G. Harries, Sec, Passburg. Alta: ' . BURMIS LOCAL No'. 949 " Meet every second and fourth Sunday of each month' at 10 sum. ih School House. Burmis.-No Sick Society.—Thos. G, Jjtarrtea. See., Passburg, Alta. i MAPLE LEAF LOCAL 9 ' '-"-*■'NO. 2829" ""' ' Meet every' first and third Sunday of each month at 10 a,ro. In Union Hall. Maple. Leaf. No Sick Society.—ThoR. G, PAKft'burg, Alta. Harries, Sec, TTeretofoT-TliavFTieein^^ inter" exclusive domain of men, and it' national business pool. International has largely Increased theia numbers capital has in turn created an inter- In the occupations Into which they had | national labor market. In modern been admitted prior to the war. If, production the workers of all coun- the war continues long enough lt«' tries are pitted against one another conclusion will find the women well- almost in the same manner as tho trained and efficient In their new call-. workers of all countries are pitted Ings, They will need their work and ] against one another almost in the wages all the more that many of tliem : same manner as the workers of differ- wil 1 be deprived of their "male sup-) ent sections of the same country, and ports or have to support their male the competition between the workers relatives made jobless through the j of all nations Is largely Intensified by war. They will work for less pay; the constant stream* of migratory la- than the men and their employers will' bor. The organised worker engaged willingly retain them in preference \ In an advanced industry begins to find to their husbands and brothers. j it difficult to maintain labor standards Many of the soldier-workers, tens j on a natlonnl scale. Ordinary wisdom or perhaps hundreds of thousands, «nd economic foresight- Impel him to weapons or the workers for their ,wm retum trom Uie battlefield j organize Internationally as well as na- MtriiggieH against the evil effects of maimed nnd crippled, permanently in-J tlonally. It Is thus by no means mat -system. The labor unions, co- raimcltated for work. All working a mere accident that the last twenty operatives nnd Socialist parties of (timmet wH, probably exhaust their;years Imve wltneieed the birth and Kurope will no doubt be heavily Im- 1)tUc gav|ngg( particularly If tbe war; growth of numerbua International la- laats much longer. i bor tinlona. Thus the workers of Europe will j The war will not check the growing face a condition of unparalleled mis- j Internationalism of either capital or nnd destitution for ot least an j '^or. Hather »JU U etintulat* and appreciable period of time after the' accelerate the developments of both. war. Their old struggles for eco-j TO* *«»"* aubatance ot the war Is tha 1 nomie relief and social justice will be ■"«*<>" of International capitalism forced upon them aa soon as peace |8i against national boundaries and re. established. The general intoxicationj atrlctlons. All natlona engaged in thl* above all, the economic and political struggles of the workers. The war has suspended the Industrial class conflicts in Europe only in so far as it has Interrupted Industrial life. It has united the antagonistic classes only for the purpose of common national defense. This uniou will not outlive its object. With the cessation of the armed hostilities between the nations, the less ostentatious but more fundamental differences between the classes of each nation will reassert themselves. And just as the war will not obliterate the physical machinery of the modern Industrial system of Europe, so will It not destroy the physical paired by the war iu spirit and |»ower. Hut the general structure will remain, and like the system of the Industrial machinery It will he rebuilt und reanimated by the necefnlticR of;"'., the situation. It l» ante to predict that the organ- j Izations of the workers will bc moro effective after the' war and their TmperlshabTe.—Metropolitan. PREPARING WAY FOR IMMIGRATION INFLUX Salvation Army Official Begins a Tou** ef the Dominion struggles more Intense than ever be- fore. For while the industries of the belligerent countries will ultimately recuperate from the ravages of the *ar, thc process of recuperation Is bound to be painful. Between the termination ot the wnr and the resto- or war enthusiasm wtll be succeeded by the inevitable feeling of disillusionment and irritation. And these struggles will develop a wider scope and a mora Insistent and radical purpose because the workera will return war are fighting for. a place in the world market, even though the bulk of the fighters honestly Idealise the atrusile Into one of principle, Whatever tbo general economic effects of the war may be, It wilt almost cer- t-ilnly mml* In urenter IntornaMonal from th* battlefields with, «. twin ger „„.„„ . . , , , .clnlm* apon tho oroploylng classes j liberty of motion for Industrial capt ation of normal tronomtc and .oclalj^,,||w R0VPrnm#lt, aB/wUh lmwdeP|tal. jvlsion* of their Iromedlste social I The International of capital will .uii.!»;.uiu, liy* a period of udjuiti- ment'' of Indefinite length, a period of Htruirule and ttr»««, which wilt vitally afteet the position of capital and tho conditions of labor alike, for thn' i'apltallsta of Kurope the procen* of rehabilitating tbe Indua* trlet will be somewhat akin to the period of awakcmlng after an acute iwl t«n*-contlnwd Induttrlcil tie- l*r<-*»iou. it aill mean § reoraatiiita tion of planti and Industries, •• **ad MONTREAL, May 10.—With fore- thought of peace and on a mission vitally concerning the soldier when the war shall be over, Colonel Joseph Hammond, International representative of the Salvation Army, was In Montreal yesterday on tho beginning of a tour of the Dominion, which Is to last all summer, and to extend from coast to coaat. "Wo are looking ahead," Col. Hammond said, "and we want to have the job for the man. About the man for the job there will be no difficulty." The problem ot a tremendous Increase in the number of men wishing to emigrate, which is expected to arise as soon as peace shall be declared, Is now bolng faced, and Col. Hammond Ih one of the scouts, as it wero prospecting. He will see men in federal provincial and municipal authority in order to prepare the way for the Influx of Immigration, lie la following up the steps taken by Commtaelcner Lamb, head ot emigration department, who came to Canada In January. Karl Qrey it interested In the scheme and it Is hoped by tbe army to obtain a grant from the Imperial war fuad of $50,0<KI,000 to cope by meant or a ■ eoni»pew,tlve empire «rhe«,p with tt.# conditions of unemployment tbat nre looked for at the conclusion of the war. CARBONDALE LOCAL t-JO. 2227 Moet every alternate Sunday at 2.30 p.m. In the Opera House, Coleman.—J. Mitchell, Sec. Box 10S, Coleman. BANKHEAD LOCAL No. 29 Meet every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in ,*ho Bankhead Hall. Sick and Accident Benefit Fund attached.—Frank" Wheatley, Fin. Sec, Bankhead. Alta. COALHURST LOCAL No. 1189 meet every Sunday ln Miners' Hall, 3 p.m. No sick benefit. Secretary, P. Barringham; President, Duncan McNab. BEAVER CREEK LOCAL No. 481 Meet every first and third Sunday at Lyric HaU, 3pm —John Loughran, Sec LETHBRIDGE LOCAL No. 574 Meet every Tuesday evening at 7.30, in Miners'1 Hall, 12th Avenue North.—Robt. Peacock, Sec.-Troas., Box 24. • BELLEVUE LOCAL No. .431 Meet every Sunday at 2.30 p.m. in the Socialist Hall. -*- James Burke, Sec,, Box it,' Bellevue, Alta. ■ CORBIN LOCAL No. 2877 Meet every second Sunday at 2 o'clock in the Club HaU. Sick Benefit Society attached.—R. Garbett, sec, Corbin, B.C. GEORGETOWN LOCAL .No, 3020 Meet every Sunday afternoon,' 2.30, at Boarding1 House, Sick ahd Accident Fund attached.— Max Hutter. Sec. FRANK LOCAL No. 1263 Meet Sunday after each pay day, 3 o'clock, In Miners'. Hall. Sick Benefit Society attached. B. Morgan, Secretary. \eitt»\tf&t<i,xm,ri»iitiniMiGr*&i,Xf»*iTf THE CANADIAN BANK —e^GGMMERGE- HAS INSTALLED SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES. LODQB YOUR Wills, Title Deeds, Mortgages, Insurance Policies or other valuables in one of these boxes fOR rURTHER MTORMATION APPLY TO P. B. Fowler, Manager Fernie Branch Imperial Bank of Canada HfcAO OFFICE, TORONTO Capital Paid Up. .17,000,000 Reserve Fund ... .$7,000,000 PELEQ HOWLAND, teq„ Prtildsrt ELIAt ROGERS, Esq, Vlct-Pne. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Arrowhead, Athalmer, Chase, fcranbrook, Pernio, Golden, Invermere, Natal, Nelson, Revelstoke, Van couver, Victoria. SAVINQS DEPARTMENT Interest allowed on tfepotlta et e»rrent rate frem Sate af deaeeit. FBRMB BEANOH A.M. OWBVMafiiftr essas sp rights. j reunite the shattered International ofj (The above Information Is decided- The war hat produced many radical I l**>or. *»d aa the former grows the t ly Interesting. After the wer la over and startling aortal dtrelopmenU. bond* between tho latter will develop! we must expeet a large Influx of lm- I'ndcr the stress of natlonnl danger even greater cohesion and Integrity, j rolgranta, .We know well enough the individualistic system of national The International growth of eco-! now that the war ts on unemployment economy, oated oa prlrate ownertlilp wimle latereita will usher In the fed-j is rire everywhere. Thon !• ararjr of public nwonsltlea. has utterly col- j^mtlon of nations and the brotherhood reason to believe It would be ttlll Jl'WH!111 List of Locals District 18 v4*> rn**.i-a* c.;.. m tin ttt-* tm mi :r,: njf. $114 tit* ttm tm mt tm tm m t*m mt ..#.,iw. ■!,*» ,i\ y-SXiii)-',! ;, XWiJulu 4 J, ,\li4. tie* x*r Ctwuk i. ■Uttwitrntt. Iknttir L'rmk, vl* I'iacfcer, AUa. .., lamm Itnrfc#,, Hoi V.* H#H#vw».. AUa* ...... Wat. Archer, Hlalrnwrt. AIU f. (If Hafflee, Paeebnn, AHa MtkwMM, **.*»ys,«%**wt, Kma*»***m, m„m, Michael Warren. Canmore. AMa ....... J, JkuhMtea*. Coleman. Alu*. R. Otrbitt. Corbie, n.C. r SwsaMon. Chinook Mlnea, Comateree, Alt .Thoa MAtli. Pernio, A C. ttmrt Mormo, fntalr. Attn* Mack itigler, IliUeteet, Alta ,* 1! paifiarti, f*r»V ••». I.*»)>VW*h|#, Ut.t JftptSk tburtu&om, OoaJfetawt Alt*. .T. u. ffAnfaa. Paeebert, AKa. , FMduir4 ■Nttf-aw Miafcel. B. C Paa*ir*r«... T. O. H«nk«, Peeebwrg. AIU. ■m ii fc ■ mi ft mgm^,9^^tm^ ***lfefc<-Mk At** TvWOr..,, ,,,,,*,.,,,.,- *.■ w^tltmt^^m, toam*), AJtua. nmmrpmfeam, Cnnmmr* ., wnr Ittttp**, Hmtirt*tr*mn Brateae Mlaee ...... tWUnne Blairmore.... flurmie..,— C«n»or». ... Coleman Chinooh Mine* Pernie * Pnnlr. ... Hiltcfoet............ Ijfbp-rilgn IMbbrAoo OoUcrke Mapki Loaf - lapaed and haa yielded lo the tap-prior )»wlrtlUU< conception ef collective con- jiroi and om, T*e government of {Prance haa hy eiecntlre decree nttt-i I pantett xb* payment of rent fori an In* i i dpf'tilie tlw* Temporarily at lest! It ■ | ba* the* tnhen the lead from the ooa- ?ro! of the land own In* elatt and turn- , wl It bnvk to »h# people. The tier- I miu governm»n\lMit r)N|ii.UUIan«(t tha I entire food anpply of tbe country ead l nm uiiiietuKre tne um ot ntnitiWi- . n.i. It .l.UUU* 4,W 111.4*-*.»>...»«..» «I.V.i,4.>l>4 I j to ihelr Bf»d«. inauaetaWt titie* '*»! timo* %»*» tw«#Hf*f|*i ttrmpm- jhfftttre tytiem* ot inantHpal relief. } White tboip radical innovation! are In-1 ■.•*»«» *na>t m* <tmm.pwt*if * met * mon nmtn, Ike eoadltieae wM-dt bave led to tbelr mtrodeetloa wilt (arrive tbe war, and tba attaaMpt ta abrogate litem wilt ntrenmrily meet witb etraag IMpotar opposition Tbe practical op- entttm ot the** *m*nr*lt*r mmmm** will tare rnrrml to daapaetrete tbo 1rr>m*il1i*'* f*l*th1tf1T 'it ***b '?!■* mot*? j m-djoft] iooutntn in tite ItootnlAt pn*i I cram 1 I Tb* tooAAen* totmo of ewmoeale \ j oeewaatt-f, aepwlar eewtlmtat and ' jwwwirai *flnmwetfattaa arftt Drat ia- mrPublf ttftmrtttm to ttrmnpfbrnn tbm ..ita. Be mnbat. SutOmpt, «Sa Kotky Upaatala .(aatfeitM meimiet md lba BMteNet Tloate. Alherta. '''atianiiattoaa tn eaei eetta*t». Ai4 ! were* bad aot eo many gone to tbe ■ I front to earn a dollar by taking a ehance at being ihat to piece* rather] tbaa by tba elower practee of dying br | j lac*et. The baelaeee eewmen of ifcle; -Salvation Army labor toot eannot be > denied, Oa the religion* belleft ofj tblt body we bare nothing to aay, but' when tbelr agenta talk aboet elding in j hrlnaliif out more people when the! etack aa band la ae large that It can- ini ntnpoom ot. taeii m m II A A 88sm1864 Home Bank Canada Haad Of floe, Toronto Jamea Ituon, Ckaanl Manaftr Braacbai sad eonnactiooi thfbtt|bo«t Otasda Kvery Chartereil Hank waleom-m Iho depoaitor who oomee with a dollar o -o\mt a navipn acrount. terattse thr wealth ui the hank* and the credit «>f tho wmntrj^ deftenda largely upon thr thrift of lb* peoplr. »Manager 4.f. 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He ran arranw your rait not) attmuuklft hoolliut AVi>r ony lino >'o uwlah to travel rtieeply ami ^nwiity. - faaarafwr*train lor wain ttm loorm Fernie 1030. Paaaenfer from main Una arrivea 9JSOaw. Train daily except 8amley*. We mmnott with O.N.PJ.8L hnata, Great Northern and N'oHhern Paeir«e at Portland and San Fraoeieeo aad tke Fair. and FRRlfmT *mwnM« to all point*. ^Ao '^-m> ^mw^mm^mwjf -^H^mVtWwy mtw-'mtmtmmf iti \ mmm* *, mmmumm-m* mmmnmmpnmmmm v X THE DISTRICT LEDGER; FERNIE, B. C„ MAY 15,1915 FACIE TEHEE By Walter Llppmann With a world war going on, it seems 1 rather finicky to talk ahout violence in iabor disputes. When', the well-fed and fli-o educated, the devotees of week-end parties, and the guardians of law and order, use violence on the scale whioh it is now being used in Europe, what importance can there be in the little souffles that arise out of strikes? If it is justifiable to drench a continent in blood because Russia wants. Constantinople- or Austria wants Salonika, what sincere answer, what answer free from hypocrisy, is a •Kin to make to the workingmen who want so desperately to secure a living wage? Certainly the answer must be something more than a mumbling platitude about violence being against ike law. Certainly the loast that can be expected is an honest effort to analyze and understand. But tliat Is not the easy thii? to do. Indeed, people who know a greot deal about strikes often say that you cnn I-facty-cally never trust the accounts of f:u>m that you hear. This Is uot so mudi because newspapers deliberately lie, though, to state It mildly, they have been known to putv a certain amount of paint and powder on their stories. It Is because the most lm* portant truth, about a strike ls often not told till after it ls all over, or because the valuable truth is often difficult to recognize. ' -* I had the good luck in one of the recent big struggles to know the leader. He is a man regarded all over the ■ country as an advocate of violence. When he arrives at the scene of a strike, the police begin, to look abou* nervously and the newspapers lay in au extra supply of red ink. The public generally pictures him as a man who spends his whole time trying to lash workingmen into a tary, as a professional agitator bent on making aa much trouble as possible. But I happened one day to he talking with two or three of the younger strikers, and I learned that they dtd not love their leader very much. The leader was afraid of violence. "He's -an old stuff," said one of them. "A regular Civic Federation guy," added another. I asked the leader what this meant "Why, you see," he explained, "we've got a flno bunch of young radicals on our hands, and tley K_ant_*a_ataJEt_aQiastfeSagi—Pve-bees- steylng up nights holding their hands, ■ii and giving- thOm soothing syrup, and telling thein that if they want to ditch the strike, all they need, to do is to start something." This was not.in the' picture of the revolutionary laboi; leader as drawn several times a day in newspaper extras. "Isn't it your own fault?" I ashed. "Don't you threaten and shake your fist, and call the bosses wolves, and Mnt around at a sort of Trench Revolution?" He looked at me as one too young to be abroad without a chaperon. "Of course I do," he explained patiently. "I have to. It's good to throw the fear of God into this town, but that Isn't the .only reason- why I talk the way I d<x If I came along with a lot of soft-soap, how many days do you think I could keep this crowd together? I've got to go just far enough to make the reddest reds believe I'm honest and with them. Otherwise they'd start to run things themselves, and the Ud would blow up. As it is the only thing they shoot off is their mouth." • I learned a number of stranger things as time went on; for example, that tho revolutionary leader was quietly sending some very statesmanlike advice to the police, telling them what not to do lf^hey. wished to keep the crowd from breaking loose. He had been in scores of strikes, and he knew more about the problem of "outward order and dencency" than did tho old hack of a police commissioner, to whom strikers were simply wicked foreign devils, very much like the goblins whom he'd heard of in his childhood. I learned, too, of the agonies, the debates, the hurried committee (meetings, the telephoning, the sweaty arguments, In which my friend worked to keep the extreme militants from ruining the strike. He had seen violence Bast and West and he knew how disastrous it was. Disastrous to his own cause, mind you, for he had no other scruples and recognized no other law. This does not mean that there were not forms of violence wliich he regarded as necessary. ' lii said -quite frankly: "No strike of any importance was ever won in which something wasn't said to frighten the scab." There, of course, he went to the very heart of the question, to the Issues that must be analyzed and understood If strike violence is to be handled with some- thing-besfuerTBimirtie^ety^aia^ma- chine guns/ In order to win, the men have got to prevent the strike from being broken. This means that the non-unionist must be kept from working, and the importation of strike-breakers prevented. Now, the. non-unionists are not so serious a problem to the strikers. They live in the same community and have" to work with.the unionists, and if there is any justice in -the strike it is very difficult for them to keep on working. They are despised. But the real hate is reserved for the men brought in from the outside, imported to break the back of the struggle. They are t'he most terrible force the employer can mobilize, for they arouse a fear in the strikers that their jobs will be lost permanently. Imported scabs are regarded as heartless and mercenary creatures ready to steal other men's work. They are overwhelmingly the most important cause of violence, and a wise labor policy must be based on answers to the questions they raise. Those questions might be stated as follows: Are workers justified in trying to bargain collectively? If they are, how can they make their demands effective except by a strike or a threat of a strike? How can a strike be carried on If labor is brought in to fill the places of the strikers? Is an employer justified on grounds of social policy in using this weapon to break a strike? Has a striker what might be called a moral claim on .his job; some rights in it which cannot be taken away at any moment? I realize what answer many peoplo would make to these questions. They would say plainly that the employer is perfectly justified in dealing with a strike by any legal means he has; that strikers have forfeited their rights to the job; that the police must do every thing in its poflfer to protect strikebreakers, and that any other answer to these questiohs-is dangerousand silly sentimentalism. Perhaps they are right. They certainly have the law on. their side. But if this is t-he answer they propose to mak-} they mufct realize that it is equivalent to a declaration of war, and violence is the inevitable result. For the strikers believe that the law and the "rights" of the matter do not take into account the fact that the struggles of labor are for a new status in industry. The law, they say, is designed .to protect the old status. Its effect is to perpetuate the condition whereby the worker is merely the employer's hired man. He gets what he can get; the boss gives what he has to give. But just this way of looking at things is what the new labor movement challenges. Dimly, but persistently, it is beginning to insist that the workers in an industry are part of it, haive invested their lives in It, and are not to be treated as mere hirelings. , When the strike-breaker is Imported, it is like a slap in the face, a brutal assertion that labor Is just so much raw material to be used. The strikers fight, and they feel that their cause is just. It is a justice, to be sure, based on the future, a justice which derives its force from what industry ought to be, not what it is. For when businessis transformed into a cooperative deraooracy, these struggles today against the scab and* the strikebreaker will, I believe, be regarded by history in the same way as Americans look back upon the tar-and-feathers meted out to the Tories during the Revolution. They will be regarded as regrettable, but inevitable. In- "FRUIT SAL! The Natural Way to Health EXraRlENQEprovei that Health by Coaxing la better than Health by Forcing. A Mild Remedy U always superior to a Hazardous Force. Eno's '• Fruit Salt" prevents and relieves hy Natural Mean. all functional derangements of the Liver, Temporary Con. gestion arising from the use of alcoholic bever- ; ages. Errors in Diet, Biliousness, Sick Headache, etc It acts according to the quantity taken, either as a relieving agent or as a cooling and refreshing beverage, and gently stimulates without any weakening after-effects. Prtpartd only by J.CtMO,UL,"¥nulS»iX"tt*tk*,lmi*c Sold ball ths principal towasancl cities of Canada Agtai* tt* Cisite HmU t. UteUi 4 Ca.. LUtW. II MaCaal St.. T0K0NT0 evitable, because'when two radically different ways" of living conflict, good manners are rare. ,It is interesting to notice that when 'the .Federal troops* went into Colorado, th^> first thing they did.was to forbid -the importing of any more strikebreakers. They showed by this that they understood their task. They seized the real issue with which the statesmanship of labor will have to grapple. For in various ways, our state governments .have recognized already that strike-breaking is not unreservedly justifiable. Many state employment bureaus, for example, are compelled to tell men that a strike is inK progress before ihey offer them strike-breaking jobs. It is ideas like this which will have to be developed, if the state is to use any better weapon than the club to deal with labor violence. "The time may come, not so far off, whennthe state will refuse to allow strike-Breaking until after there has been a public hearing of the causes which made the strike. Such a hearing would give the strikers their chance to appeal to public opinion, aud public opinion, whenever it is aroused, is decisive. If opinion goes against the men, the police will have comparatively little trouble in preserving order; ir opinion is wl'th the men, strike-breaking is exceedingly^ difficult. This is the direction to be taken as regards public policy. But public opinion cannot rest there. It must Insist that refusal to deal with unions is arbitrary and barbarous; it must encourage every step by employers which tends to give the men collective- ly a greater share in the management of industry. For that "recognition," if it is genuine, is the only real substitute for violence, the only method by which the workers can make themselves heard in a civilized fashion. And finally, public opinion must become "wise," must begin to see that not. all the violence in a strike comes from the workers. Employers, not so infrequently, hire thugs and gunmen. I know personally several employers who, have done so. They have told me quite cynicaly that it was worth while to start trouble. A riot or a scuffle turned the public against the strikers. Arthur Woods, Police Commissioner In New York, said in a recent interview that the gunmen's gangs were so hard to stamp out largely because politicians used them on election day and employers used them In strikes. This very complicated business is complicated further by the existence of a group of militants in the labor movement who believe in violence as a means of propaganda. They say -that-vloleBt^-jrTibe^nirTvayTo'^ei' a hearing, the only way to Impress people with the seriousness ot a sit- I /1 uation. They pofbt out that the newspapers, for example, hardly notice a peaceful strike. Perhaps someone else can answer this point, I can't." I know that I never heard of the town — -r**' * of Carteret till there was shooting in ir. There are thousands of people ivfco never thought about labor until they were made to realize its power at Ljwrence, at Calumet, at Paterson, in \Yert Virginia and in Colorado. Xor did our comfortable population in Xew York show great interest in unemployment till the so-called I. W. W. proceeded to 'make trouble last winter;, nor did the churches rouse themselves till Frank Tannenbaum ■ appeared on the scene. It may be a coincidence, but I guess it was not. My friends arc, most of tliem."comfortable people, and I know they had the fright of their lives last winter. They prepared for this winter, never forgetting for a moment Tannenbaum and his group. And to bc quite honest , the more intelligent of them have been surprised and pained at the goo.! behavior of the unemployed these last months. Members of the Gary committee' have said many,, times in private: "It only the I. W, W. would do something, our committee might begin to move." They had no illusions about disorder. They knew that it means prejudice, hate, irrationality. They knew that great industrial problems can only be solved by clear-sighted intelligence in an ^atmosphere of sanity. But they knew, too, that Intelligence' is rather lazy; that the state is a sluggish beast, and that the gadfly Is a useful creature. .There are hidden crimes in this country which are never known about till somebody Is hurt. What we do not sets we easily forget. But in obscure mining gullies, in backward lumber camps, in distant hopfields, in deaf and dumb little towns, and in filthy tenements, there are crimes against human life so hideous that the one hope in them '.& the threat' of revolt. The tdieat that must be heard, th" muttering that breaks the dishonorable peace, the aii ger of men and women who will sub- mi- no Icnger; these outcries are stlli tho only forces whlc;i can draw attention tc -tht black cor.i«rs and the cesspools of cur civilization. The best In- tintloncfi^ among us go our own way, fu •getting, AHnd. Tlie more we be#c for quiet, the more we atk not io be disturbed, the more we havo justified the disturbance. Law and order.*to be sure; but what law and what order?—Metropolitan. CURE OPASTHMA Suffered Terribly for 15 Years Until Re Tried "Fruit-a-tives" ' D. A. WHITE. Es*. ax Wauaoj Avs., Toronto, Dec. 22nd. 1913. 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Beer and Porter Bottled Goods a Specialty / ., ■> -j \ fr The As an Advertising Medium is With- out Equal in the Crow's Nest Pass It reaches Earner and Spender. It appeals td them because it supports their cause. The workers own the paper and control its policy. All advertising oft a questionable nature is barred from its columns. Advertisers do not have to pay compliments, but we quote the following received from a very large firm in New Jersey, U. & We have looked through your paper with considerable care and interest We might'takc this opportunity to ex- j?rt?t C*2T a£££t&&M mm -u*a mat oiut om i enoerea to tar. We would also add that it In <m* «f th* cl*mif •* wecMJcs Hurt ux- have run across in some time. sssa \ * *-, ; e-1 "E FOUR THE DISTEICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C, MAY 15,1915, %% ' \ [■■*' l'i . h "• f1- .*■ ,*,. ?! . 3% ®i*iriri £&&zx Published every Thursday evening at itt, oflice, Pellatt Avenue, Fernie, B.C. Subscription; $1.00 per yesyr, for Dominion of Canada; $1.50 'per year elsewhere (in advance). An excellent advertising medium. Largest circulation in the District. Advertising rates on application. Up-to-date facilities for the execution of all kinds of book, job and solor work. Mail orders receive special attention. Address all communications to the District Ledger. > J. W. BENNETT, -Editor-Manager Telephone No. 48 Post Office Box No. 380 A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF "ECONOMIC DETERMINISM." HOW TO CURE THE UNEMPLOYMENT EVIL Ai-i'onlin<j?' to recently compiled statistics thero urc now over one hundred thousand met) under arms wearing the Maple Leaf badge. When the war broke out it was common talk, heard on all sides, "So many'meu going away to war "it will leave more work for,those left behind." * ■<>....•■ It has done nothing of the kind, but on the contrary, many of those left behind after tramping all over tlie country in search of a job have reached the conclusion that'tin* only means left for obtaining the necessary material to keep body and soul together is by donning the khaki. This may hot be very palatable to some of our ultra-patriots, and whilst we recognize there are other factors which have actuated, men to enlist for active service, this in nowise confutes the truth of the assertion made that stomach conscription has been a most potent recruiting sergeant.. Despite tlie loud beatiiig»of the tomtoms of th§ business element's publicity organs—the trade journals—ihe hard times bugaboo refuses to be exorcised. Almost .six months of the year 1915 have passed into history without any noticeable improvement in general conditions being consummated. Everywhere there is a constant diminution ofthe reserves and. with no visible signs of any immediate future accretions, the outlook for the remainder ot tho year is by no means reassuring. This may sound the dirge of the Knight of the \ Huel'ul Countenance, but to ignore actualities and; attempt to live in a fool's paradise will not help i matters one iota. Furthermore, we are at a loss! to suggest what effect ho measures cau-be adopted! The wriggling and squirming of the quack dQe-% tors of society would be laughable were it not for the tragedies enacted. l One set of charlatans advise thrift ^nd economy as a panacea for society's ailments, when as a matter of fact these virtues (!) are compulsorily inflicted upon the world's useful units. Socialists are often twitted, and often not without a show of reason, for using words that are not un- erstood by the rank and file. One of these phrases is "Economic determinism, "whioh in plain English means that generally speaking men's actions are determined or affected by the way they get their living. For instance, barbers would not advocate that all meu should cultivate Dundreary whiskers iuul long beards; butchers lhat everybody ought to become vegetarians; bakers that every woman should bake her own bread; coal owners that crude oil be the only fuel, and,so on all down the line. This week we received some extracts from "Industrial Canada." the official organ of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, and one of thsse emphasizes the point we wish to drive home, that economic determinism is plainly discernible all around to those who will give the subject a little more than a cursory examination. Owing to the effect that the fear of uncertainty of what the future has in store, based upon the evidences of daily happenings, the advocates of "Thrift." have many followers among those fortunate enough to hold a job. This has its influences upon the volume of business because of the large number of wage earners and salaried employees who are practising abstemiousness, in other worols, denyingthemselves of all save the absolute necessities. However, for the edification of our readers ke reproduce the excerpt, so that they may. study it for themselves: THE DUTY OF SPENDING Labor Conditions In Mexican Coal Mining TTTaTlnrnrnHnwnil-eT^^^ cause we have reached the conclusion that so long\, as the market is glutted with commodities it is un- j profitable to produce more. Here is the keystone j of the arch—Profit. And until this is replaced by i "Production for l.'se" all of the palliatives and iv-', forms will bc as feasible in effecting a permanent j cure as one lone jack rabbit would be in the ap- j peasement of the hunger of pack of timber wolves.; rnemployinent is chronic, not transitory,, its per-1 ceutage varying with the swinging oi" the commercial pendulum and, with the increasing productivity of the individual unit through the media of labor displacing machinery and the disappearance «f consumptive markets, this problem must become iiileij- nified as time rolls on. Whilst it may be regarded as foolish to borrow trouble, it is equally as unwise to play Mie ostrich when by calling attention to the source of it we may impel others to investigate*, and by ko doing hasten the application of the only remedy—the complete socialization of thc means of production, dis- Ujhiitiou and consumption. One of the causes of the present industrial depression is the short-sighted economy of those whose spending power has not been seriously curtailed. This fact is easily established by* the bank returns showing increases in deposits. Since thousands of manufacturers', wholesalers' and retailers' employees have been thrown out of work, or have had their wages reduced, it is evident that their bank accounts-must havo o, * either .-disappeared" or decreased. Cousequanh'y thc total savings bank deposits could only increase by substantial additions to the accounts of those whose incomes have escaped the general cut. Such persons are putting their surpluses into the banks instead of spending them. This means that they are going without clothe*. THE LU8ITANIA AND ITS LESSON When the lirnt report reached us of the xinkingj of thc LuMtunia we were dubious of its accuracy;| htier the jiew* that tt had been aecotnplished, lint! without km ot* life, we regarded it a* one of the; iortuiK'Nof war, but whim «Hln»ei|iieuU,v it developed j that this leviathan of tlw sfesis lind boon U*r\**-doed; without tin- slit»ht.'«t opportunity being afforded • lurnitnreViTmchinei^.iriTnn^iF'oTTTer aWTcTes- in tader to increase their savings, Tiie effect becomes apparent iu our imports entered for consumption as follows: year ending March 31st. 19R $070,000,000: yeur ending Mai-'-h :Ust, 1014. Alii{s.000,000;, year muling March :11st. V.)\.\ sH'w.OUO.OOO. These decreases in our purchases abroad indicate that there must be correspondingly great decreases in our purchases at home, It is true •that our borrowings from England have been seriously curtailed, but it is also true that they have been replaced to a certain extent by sales of bomb in the I'nited States, which, since the outbreak of war, have amounted to about $70.- 000,000. The people of Canada, after three years of great extravagance, have goue suddenly to the other extreme and have been friuhteued into a fit of rigid economy. The result has been a serious dscrease in manufactured output.' Tf overy man iti Canada determined to do without new neckties for a year, for example the effect would he never*? to. the tuiuiu torturers who make neckties. If those who have money would spend it within reasonable limits, our factories would be benefited to an almost incredible extent, employment would be furnished to many who need it and the return to prosperity would he hastened.-—Industrial Canada, Under the heading "Coal fining in .Mexico," Mr. E. O. Fost-er Brown on April 10th, 1915, presented a paper before the North of England Institute of 'Mining and Mechanical Engineers, lie described the chief coal basins and gave some details of the method of working practised, including the administration and particulars of the surface plant. Some excerpts may be of interest, as follows: Ownership and Royalty In Mexico, mineral substances are divided Into two classes, those that belong to ;Le nation and th03» that belong to the owner of the soil. Deposits which belong to the nation may be worked only by virtue of a Federal grant, whereas the deposits belonging to the owner of the soil may be worked freely without need of any Government grant Coal seams some under the latter category. Some of the coal miners are working their own freehold. The majority, however, have leases from the owner of the soil. The general form of these leases contains a period for exploring the property by boring or otherwise, and an option to take up a lease during, the exploration term. If the lease is .taken up, a royalty varying from 2^d. to -id. per ton of coal sold must be paid, although in a few cases the royalty is per ton of coal extracted, boiler coal being exempt. There is usually a separate royalty of from 4d to 4*^d. per ton on coke sold. A minimum output corresponding to a dead rent is provided for, and there are powers of determination at variable periods. Labor Mexican Jabor is mainly employed. When conditions are normal in tha. country, however,'there is a tendency to shortage. Several mines employ a considerable proportion of Japanese. Chinese were Imported at one mine ou a considerable scale, but gave poor results, and their metier in this coalfield appears to be confined almost wholly to hotel-keeping, of which tliey have practically a monopoly. The Mexicans, on the whole, make very fair coal miners under proper supervision. In \ihple workings they keep much tidier and cleaner places than the Japanese, who are very slovenly in this respect, - In taking out pillars, however, the Japanese produce will also be expensive to re-open. In a number of cases the owners or part- owners of the mines haive beea badly hit, ■'and the railway systems and rolling stock avaialble are largely dlsor-, ganized and'damaged. Apart from this, however, there will be no satisfactory outlet for other than a limited .production until the country settles down and the mine smelters resume work on a normal scale. In the writer's opinion the coalfield as a whole has great possibilities under a permanently settled government. Geographically, It Is inconveniently placed at the extreme north of the Republic, a long distance from a seaport, and with no outlet for Its products to the north, while on .the south the cost of railway carriage beyond a certain limit is the dominant factor. On the other hand, it is the only known coal field In the Republic which has been proved to justify development on a commercial scale. The native oil production, unless wholly and permanently deflected to export channels, is bound to figure as a constant menace to the coal market, and will affect the price if not the quantity sold. This feature, however, may. only seriously affect districts which produce non-coking coal, these being very limited. The excellent market under normal conditions for native coke should enable coking collieries employing modern washing and coking methods (and thereby, if necessary, throwing the minimum quantity of coal on the market), to do very wejl. It may even be found possible and desirable, as the country develops, to utilize the balance of tlie output, after extracting the coking coal, in generating electrical power at the mines and distributing the same at a high voltage aud over long-distance cables to the main consuming centres. The reserves of coal in the field at the normal rate are favorable for economic working. At the same time, the deeper winnings in the Sabinas Basin up to date indicate that firedamp occurs profusely in the seam in depth, and the cost per ton will increase in the. future in order to provide for more adequate ventilation and probably stone-dusting. The difficulties under which the field has labored in the past are, In the writer's opinion, more artificial than natural. instructive. If the writer were asked on the strength of his experience in this coalfield, what work he would allocate specially to individual members of a .technical staff drawn' from the three greatest coal-producing nations in- the world, his reply would-'lie -that it. possible Americans should have charge of underground tracks, British ot ventilation arrangements, and Germans of washing and coking plant. — The Science and Art of Mining. PRECAUTION WITH MEASLES better reSults. ..Miners in the metalliferous mines further south earn from ls. to ls. fid. per day, while a good hewer earns Trom Is. to Ts. per ay Jn this coalfield. Us proximity to the United States border, near which wages are always higher than in the Interior, to some extent explains this: but a further cause is the conflicting interests and varied nationalities controlling the different mines ln tho coalfield, a-jid the consequent Independent competition for labor whenever there Is a scarcity, which continually tends to raise the wage rate. The ultimate result Ib that It Is difficult to get more than four full days' work In the week out ot the men. and full benefit Ss not obtained from the limited labor available. The rate* of pay for thc mala clauses of work other than hewing ar* as follows: Surface workers per- day—Alechan. Ics, 3s. to fls,; carpenters, 4s. 6d. and Uny, engine-driven, 3s. Od. to r>s.;; stoker*, 3s. to 4s.; blacksmiths, 4s. Cd, and Ha.; laborer*, lit. to 3s. Cil. Underground worker-*, per <iuy.~ Overmett, Ss.; ventilation and gaamen, 5s. and 6s.: ropemen, it. fid. and &».; Itoadtnen, 3s. and Ss.; timbermen, f*n and fta: laborers, :is.; pumpmen, 2s. fid. The men uiul their families are The prevalence of measles in different parts of the town is evident by the notices tacked upon so many dwellings. Owing to ignorance of its highly infectious character, there are many who treat this complaint as of slight Importance and hy carelessness not only work lasting Injury upon their own children, but also menace the health' of others. We do most strongly urge upon parents the Importance of reporting all cases of this acute fever to the medical authorities. For the 'benefit of those, who do not know much about the symptoms of this complaint, w,lll state that the incubation period varies, but usually It is about 14 days, The child is ill at ease; there ls a slight fever; running eyes and nose, with headache and sometimes sickness at the stomach. There may appear a slight rash, but the true rash does not appear until about the fourth day, and with it the temperature goes up. The inside of the mouth will often furnish indications before the rash Is well developed. These are red spots on the inside of the cheeks, opposite the double teeth, with bluish white centres. One peculiarity of measles often lost sight,of is that they are catching BEFORE any rash appears, hence the importance of keeping children isolated in the early stages of the complaint. Inflammation of the throat, ears and lungs are common complications. Guard against bronchitis, because this disease is believed to be' particularly infectious, and sometimes leads to pneumonia of a bad type. It a child does develop bronchitis with measles it should be kept away from other chidren even if they have the measles. Affections of the ear are not uncommon and if neglected deafness is apt to follow. It Is because parents too frequently treat this complaint so lightly that the e'eath rate Is pften very high. Whenever a child shows symptoms of having contracted the complaint, the doctor should be called lu at once so that the necessary treatment can be given. The patient should be guarded from cold, -and kept In bed, room dark- ■fin*aJ_-n-a.rtJaUy_nr_ftiitlrfl)v T-nfoo-Hfi-n $i)iclats ''A vi REALLY DE{.|GHTF*UL -THE DAINTY MINT-COVERED 1 CANDY -COATED • CHEWING GUM Make a Corner Cosy Collect the Cushion Cover Coupons with every ©bulk Package MADE IN CANADA So far no selling price has been fixed. As in the case of other commodities, an understanding has existed between the merchants and the board in respect to the selling price. . The Chairman of the Prices of Goods Board (Air. Adamson, M. L. C.) ln speaking, on the subject on Thursday, said: "Ou March 31 tbe board recommended to* the Premier that tbe Federal authorities be urged, as early as possible, to regulate, the oversea shipment of butter, in view ot the evidence that the supplies In New- South Wales and Queensland had fallen considerably, and that stocks were so depleted that difficulty was experienced in obtaining enough for Victor- Ian consumption. Since tben the board has received from -the 'Necessary Commodities Control Commission ot Xew South Wales the following njj»s- sages: 'Our commission Intends to recommend as follows: First grade butter 124s. a cwt., second grade 114s., third grade l(Ms. Boxes are charged for in this State at 2s. a cwt This works out at prices equivalent to 126s„ HGs. and 106s. respectively."' Atter the message from the New South Wales commission had been received, the secretary of the board (Mr. Johnston) wrote to Mr. P. J.i Holden- sen, on behalf of the butter merchants, us follows: "With further reference to your letter, 1 have seen the chairman of the board (Mr. Adamson), and he desires nie to say that since the receipt of your letter he has received a telegram from the Necessary Commodities Commission of Xew South Wales, saying that they are recommending that the following prices be fixed for butter lit that State: First grade, 126s. a cwt; second grade, 116s.; third grade. 106s., all including boxes. In the face of these rates It looks as If the further advance which you propose to make, namely, to ls. 4d. a pound for first grade butter, will now not be necessary, as Mr. Adamson understands from your letter that you are delylng upon N'ew South Wales for your supplies." The wholesale prices fixed by the New South Wales commission work out at about ls. IVi a pound for first srade butter: ls. OVfcd. for second grade, and 11%d. for third grade, The wholesale mrlce now being charged for owners,, as already noted, complicated the labor problem. The selling price of the coal and coke, which might have been expected to suffer, due' to independent undercutting from the same cause, only did so to a limited extent, thanks maint>' to the existence of au Independent selling agency, which maintained the confidence and kept up the selling prices of the majority of the working collieries with considerable tact and ability. Wlille a number of the collieries made very satisfactory returns on the capital actually expended on developing and equipping tliem. they were almost all over-capitalized management at the collieries was often very good, but there was as a rule too much dual administrative control to enable one to take full advantage of It, while the variety ot nationalities employed in the administrations Individually and collectively did not tend to simplify matters, With regard to the general lay-out of th** collieries and their equipment, in the writer's opinion, considering the comparatively recent development ot coal mining tn Mexico, few mistakes were made. The system of working, while possibly not the best, wm itm* Is believed to be. possible for two weeks at least after thfc appearance of the rash. The skin peels la fine particles and warm baths help n get rid ot It. CONTROL OF COMMODITIES Price of Butter—Further Increase- Objection by Board A further Increase of Id, a pound In the wholesale price of butter Is contemplated by the merchants of Melbourne. On Wednesday an Increase of Id. a pound was made without the consent of the Prices ot Goods Board, The chief technical though It was subsequently recognised by the board that there was justification for thia action. Should the merchants adhere to their expressed intention of adding a further Id. a pound »o the price the board will take advantage of iu powers and determine the rate at which butter shall be sold first grade butter in Victoria is.Is. 357 a pound. "Freight expenses have to be added in Melbourne to butter brought from New South Wales or Queensland. Tlie beard is decidedly of opinion that no further increase ln the price of butter ln Victoria Is Justifiable. Should the morchEtnts persist In raising the price Id., the board will fix the price at ls. 3d. a pound.— Argus. Melbourne. "" Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury *n tnerrarr will nurcljr den-troy tiro ant** nf nnell _.." . 1*1*1}' demise 1U« wUule •/« vnterlRjr It tbruugb tne mucous mrui-vn, thieb Klid cooim-trl)' demise 1U« wUule «r«ti-iu whtn vnterlitjr It tbruugb tne mucous wrucvn, Bueta h.-tli'lii* •houltl litvi-f Ix* aarti t-xcn>t ou pr-Merlp- tliiii* ttnm reputable |)U>ii|i>Uu», *. the diuagt Miry will da t* ten Md iu tue ««xl you **au poi- Mini* from reputable iibytk'UiM, ** ill* diuagt Miry will da t* ten Md tw tue ««xl you **au pot* rtbty derive (rom tbem. lUll'-t CaUrrfc Cura. tuiimif«etU!-*Hl hjf F. -J. Chener ft Co.. Taledn, O., vutitiln* no mercury, and 1* taken Internally, artluc directly upua tbe tilmil and n)ucou» sur Sjcm ot Ihe nytem. In liuylnit Hall'* t'atatrh Cure be mire you set tlie Kfuutue. It I* tal en Internally and made In Ttiledo, Ohio, by V, I, I'hi'iii'y a IV, Teatlnuniali free. Bold l>y PmnrUti. Price, TSe. per bettl* Tak* Kill's Family riUa for cwftlpaUoa- \W iln imt i'ih'hII in-ii i I'm if «iiy KiiiwMioiis front In- MniiitfH-t'tmvrK' AiMoi'intion during tlie ,v«'iii's piuMoiwrs to t-Hi'iipe th*1 iiKonit'* or ilrowtiiiiy:. wt'|l!»i:t nml IIMI thnt t-eonotny should he pravUm'd jthese Houses <wt -anything: frem" KIR j *MuW t"^aW> **w^ *a**»i * *fe« UM th;-» 'Im* .-lima* of uiirV iufiiiuio* Iuul heen I 'iti wwnriiic ii|»pi»r«'i or otlif-r »rti»'lt«N of comfort, j to 4*30 each, according to their site, j *1**1 of l"o«'*)r whlch has since been pie and adapted to the labor available, housed by "the conwany In wooden or I wh,ch •»* h»d "° l"wlw' MWrlence adobe hous**. The former consist of of eoal mlntn*' A n"™ •elentltlc and Ughtly-btillt huts with plank sides, thorough examination of the coal and •blnfle roof, and brick chimney, of »*» »*»lc*] »nd cl,•m,c*, <*«•*»*•• one. two, or occasionally three rooms. tie'< pHor t0 ,h* «,*P*»<»*u'* of »**• iTb» better hou«M hare plank floors. I"»»" ,n trwttai and washing pUata, The rwivhi*d. Tlmt horror stud indi|rii»ti'»» «'«« cxprcuwd lliroiitflinut thc civiliafd world is not to he wuinler cl nt. itt fuel it Would have hcwi ntttotuidiiiff had it Im'mi otherwise. However, let th»t \wm, !<">«> pommdm the advantage that when Note thr fiillinir off of import* reeorded in l!IWl",",l,M ln n*,***tfc?r CM,!,f ma{T' , ... , ,. ,.,.,, - . i«t. be mow! botlily by trolley or rail ( compared wilh lhe figure* of U»H. «» iting to ta Mmw mMm tmp Th# a-rtf the stupendous sum of fMW.OOO.OOO. Thew* figure* hotni#t ar# c^micted of brlclit cut nre iiiipreiwive tttid upon cxHiniuiitioii show the out In auluiblf alupea from the adobe •oil and lun-drhd, tbe walla being expended on n»j>lacment» and modlflo* Hon* of the original deitgna. Tbe benefit* to be derived from coking were early appreciated; but, although coking at the majority of col- llerlea wot Initiated comparatively recently, bee-hive ovena only were In «tiha<«iu»»-ily piaatered. They are i n«» prtor to I»i0, and at leaat 99 per much more aolld ind weatber-prpof j cent, of theae allowed their waeteheat than the wooden howees, bwt font more j to tamp* Into the atmosphere deaplte to conatrtttt and are immovable. Of, the fart that coal capable of being ttm*, officiate* bo-Met, •tore, and tn- |r»nde»d market-able waa burnt under » f*w hundred fi-*t of Waldorf Hotel Mrs. S. Jennings, Prop, L. A. Mills, Manager EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PLAN CAFE OPEN DAY & NIGHT . Mttm a Ia Carte IV ruthleaa-Mlttiighter of noii-eoml«»t«iiU on th* troth of lhe old Kurd eh saying: "Mnny mickle* Limittfiii* wan ilamiMble. jm«k' n muekie.*' Hoiigldy §f»e«kiiig, iheiv mre Wli, ii iim u and womi'ii In conti- ctjuidly m im-eon j ten million inhaltitumtft in t'anudtt. divide ten into ed over the uniicewrtmry »*enfie«> in everyday life «»j one hundred *tml »ixty three nud we Imve « differ- I hev iuv over the cruel frtte meted rtllt to the p«*. j enee of *1fi.W> tt yonr tor egeh liihftldtant of 4he o.ntt,.r< on the !H-f»ted imiMtlmitie liner, there i Dominion, or even on the^lmaia of eight million the \ »»**+**"* *«• *'•» '*»■""* «*»*RKt-! >>•»»•« *'«»»«<. .. . ,- -u f ,1 '. - ,,.-* ;-*'%» •»-!• * '• ** ttt the tame tsvsttrUl. tbem. • v ill I... *o„,e hope Ior tm* todmg m.ihoim ,.| tin-, |*r e«|»iU it #.*0.3. ,. , m |fc#1 awrw |fc0 tm of ^^j ^ ,BtWUalion ol wort coke*v»»», ,,,Hh'* :ti!ia1iifariK ^ We Ihink thw in enough for one lea»on on eeouo. „„, wwiimaB ^^nt -monnt. tojaapfriemtntlnf and in torn* eaaaa re. It wnn m dastardly deed mai mml f.mlly executed, mie delct'iumUm, and any render who hn* followed cifl or tl", am! deduettoni from irng* plsrtn* be#-Mre ©vena, baa not In all And mi vi er* thr'kklgiait atirnwUi*,'* in th*- t'liiig-u llti* mHJi'Ii* through, will Imve no difficulty in un-' *» *** mule to p«r for tbla within a {eaten been an nnnoallfled enewaa. al- • •* * •-' » * it.* \- t**i* *\t,<9t*i>**9-i**(t 1*%* ittml ,tfr*te***\iixm what th#» nhwwe mean* hewnfter. •• -if.i,i *Vt- V.V, ;«!•,'* <i r-i lc nf *K»»*ll*1'''^ ' <\lid jw* «-*» tlif MOornrr*' ut timwi'iiU \u iht- tent*J *i Lo,!'*.. u „u April 30. W* Special Rate Boar j and Room by tbe weak or month MEAL TICKETS |6.00 flKiiuju^—i^|.IK Bf^m s^ymm ■at.M Mt li Opnrtt m JUmHui Hu Mtn $t JO It Bpvwti ■■NHMMNMHMI ess *sgs*sfsssm \nptbonh\o parted. tbongb In tha wrlter'a opinion tbt ... . * *%,.. ... I, ti- *..„*,* 9r.r.i*t* t«l ' * t . Itefnre Mm- iHitHr.?d? of th>»wnr Mrititin'* Vrttion- Amd *•* OMittr tW*'*! «1*"M xrm mlmutt tH'ttPt.tttyttlft "m rotifid figure*,. I'm! it-mayo horror* of Peru. And no were th* out- '.< X 1>**ttitt *ht *r.*,i**rt*1 ITfnxhii- rt*i S'»*r- com. r lalaml. And p* thrwifh the who!*- gamut where the ftaf of CapitaliMii flutter* to th* bract*. Tin■!.# i»ii-ii1«n1« are hut the lafitlmat* im»f«my of fomn»wt«lt*«»», «t tAMt war, with all ita ot- ttnnmnmifnln h *m\y nm off-*pftef, anil whitat the fl brml -4 thr w-iaMe to At end that human Iif** «hall ho r«tar«t-ftl »» mctnt »m\ vo)n»b\m, and i>«»* »* it ii ;.„l#T,*?*>i*i' -fV'#|*Mrt aM ^**t t*tm*Mh*r**** of all ,19, .,*,, ,*l.to* , 99..^...-^ I. :...■■.■,■: '■ ..• !, \,y,i r'nr 1i«1 ^> nirf *th* m-rianti-aWHr fit ner ymtttmitltwa <r**t uhtlv" cbMrjrtcr af birt!-figli' flfinfif*' tort-wen de'rtitn for tbe anal tbsn l«S »*t>a#r« toett perfonmineM Inrraau-MK.Itbo unaolubllltty of tba coal for tn-} I' lhe wnr ImU until nex 3!«reh it will be 0.*W,.!fWt^alitaararerrpemUir.oottiMailtorMw-ea robtnp. Tba ra4aTa«<wmtati <aaua«. „.w*li..» i„ «t*«..»„.«J* moA* In ljov.1 {rnm ** ,h* to«,*r <"*•' *«wir «• {«f tia «alfla« Aartd pwatta a iwl j * ■• " * •■■* ,.,., nttti, tti. (.fin-Mo *r*lt*-t* t,nii tirt*mi**1r • by-product retort-ovtBa ! Tb* tiaadard typa of boiler almoat) «xclitaiv«ly empieytt throtigboui ib«i (laid baa gttaa poor alfleiaacy aadj played a large part In lba enrrent to- \ pair* coat, aad altJier tba prM*at typa j of boiler protiited wu» water*oHen-( tne ptattta ar tb* adoption of a «Hf*r-' eat tyjM» *f batter would, 1» the writ- * afa optaloa. hav* twaa aa ImpnmH O'tettt, Tb* *ntt^oytmm et tailma n*Uo»- atltlaa to th* aitiataal adaalaiatratliMM s wmwiOnl vaaai tuniiar (MHinMf waaj *eorge. . Ho«»i*er objattk**. the tbmptt ttnm The oiler. *»t on the laat mentioned amount will ht j rwminrtmeat* tn tniaa ar* alwaya nltoot fCHiO.fXW.IMlO |M>r annum. , iHieked, wbtte on faaday ani faaat Hliould the war eontfaroc until na*art Mareh !he!**r* tt* bt«*r atattoM are readared tttuMtmt national del.ta of th* |>f*«eiil warrinf in- j ?££,£*JJ*"* h* ****** <* ** , . . , fl •_„ I*** fartaaat* lahaM- airwgntie * hart! and the diffe altwa mmy, we urgellcrejitu wiil reach the »tapewJoti» wiw of msenty |UftU#f ^ jmaj^jjua tocaltty, „t^ ,*u:. „it^f ir.>" »': '-■* )-"»v) *rt,rt' fftnrlUiWmt, .V.llaw. and the h»t*r*i« itawahf* thereonf iffwta «f t»w tttveMtfataaaai Oanarat toward a thoroafh vndcrataiidiag of th« foiuitaiit thre* billion dollar*. eooctaaiwna Thr *!»>xr ti-Ftrr* nr* remMh wrtlten and rradj n H ■•••»*»•* «fffe«it to tomm Uut tatuf they *iw!l maofar aathe fntttn- in ninnw-^ immmm %tmmt H Mmm fctt e.1 hmk* U> m vary much like—R-E-VO I>U-! **m 4mm* to Am mttom POM to ment Tli»V ; tmoto,. ohlfm Am *B«i*t gtowai warktan ■HiP/*f AT * WPAVVWtt mmm i5r&Va>AJU w XX Jima " & Sf JLJ^I LOCAIi PROPERTY WO.00 4-i^<*wdPU*l«ndHo«^lot«xl33.W«atrtml*. 1750.00 ft-nomd, plaatmd lois% tallO 1120, FaraU Aft. ***** iVwf ottntl mntf fmhrnea tm Ttmt $1100.00 fmnbAmmHmtm*MtmbAt***ww Baptist Cfciwh. Ttrwa: part cadi pay»«at; balance aa tail.* VMP.vO b*TWIMll AaWAttt nMMNMwWMMl AAAUA WiAbA mm ^ Taraa: part caab; balaaea at wait mAAtttm, JWb flA^^*^^. JitAA^mm^Jb m^^^^mimmpAbkXump apim yKAM^bmootmto A^^^j^^*^ iHHVH ITOtriPr TwW tBIteTOPt ptUfPailNP -Wl VWfOTlB AfBIIM. Will aril at thfa artaa ttt aasv taratt. I9H VOV PPmtPt jmmmmmp mmm mm^mf mmrp**^*-'**'*^-** mam LaCOUSO, Bluck3. VktortiAmuc. M ^ • Ai M±mkb9 M XI JB»J% M5.I AOIfff ffOK PtHNtt • ' mm*nm»m*€* A$ ttmH awWffWft'WH'1"W|miaaiii -. THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C, MAY 15,1915 ifAGE TI7W J* ^ / ♦ of The District ♦ ♦'♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ - ♦ ♦ COAL. CREEK NOTES ♦ ■COAL CREEK The mines were idle Friday of. last week and Wednesday of this week. The "shiveree* band turned out on Friday with all instruments tuned up concert pitch to give a welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McLeod who bave taken up their residence in Coyote St. The kiddies were regaled with candies aud Ice cream. Tom Trevenaux arrived back in camp Irom San Francisco, where he reports having had a good time. Dr. and Mrs. Workman and family left camp on Friday for-a vacation on the coast. The local leather chaserB will open tlie league season at Michel on* Saturday, where they are scheduled to piny Michel. We await developments, Tommy. The Infant daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. Manning, who met with a serious accident two weeks ago, has so far recovered as to be able to come home. The Rev. Jas. Stoodley leaves during the week-end to attend the B. €. conference of the Qfethodtst Church. In spite of the hard times prevailing, the Board of Management of the Club decided to carry on the annual children's sports to be held on .May 2 ltli. Committees were appointed to canvass the various districts and we are pleased to report a very generous response. Over $100 will be devoted for prizes. We hope to puubllsh a program next week. James Grundy has left camp and taken up his residence in Michel. J. Horrocks, of iMichel, bas taken his place on the electrical staff up here. Mr. and 'Mrs. Albert Bentham and family, accompanied by Mrs and Miss Harries, have left camp en route for England. AVe wish them a safe and pleasaht journey. Jimmy. Grahaip. ,of Corbin, was & visitor up bere on Monday. The announcement made last week re the offer of prizes for the best looking garden bas stimulated greater enthusiasm. The judges will have their work cut out, accordingly to efforts being put forward. The benefit concert and dance to be held under the auspices of the "Ama- teursr" oh June 9th, is now well advanced. Who Is "Mugzey"? Well, wait, and see. Tom Connors, the prospective Socialist candidate, addressed a large gathering of workers on the spare ground by the Club. The subject, "The Fa'llacy of Reform," was handled In a very creditable manner. The various points brought out meeting with the approval of the hearers. At the close of the address questions were called for. but evidently Tom had convinced the audience, for there was no response to his appeal, J. E. Smith, Coal Creek, occupied the position as chairman. Oporge Smith attende.1 the league meeting In Michel on Saturday lasr, rer-r«fienting Coal Creek Football Clul>. .Morrlay was arbor day up here. All rubbish and scrap li"*s been safely de-' posited. Efforts are being made to find out who tore the recruiting notice down from the Depot bulletin board. COLEMAN Church Notice Presbyterian Church—Tlie usual services will be held on Sunday evening, with solos, etc. Preacher, Walter Joyce. ■Methodist Church—Wednesday, 7.30 p.m.. Biblical discussion. Sunday, 2.30 p.m., Sunday school; 7 p.m. Prayer meeting; 7.30 Gospel service; subject, "The Judgment." , Questions invited. All welcome. ~v.v. Xeckie_Sh_oes -made in British Columbia ilen who wear JjECKIfl SHOES are positively assured of one tiling—tliey ftet more value for their money than in any othor shoe mnde. LECKIE SHOES are made for men who appreciate STYI^E. COMFORT and WEARING QUALITIES. Men who wear LECKIE SHOES never return to any imported lirand—the shoe is an assurance against that. Go to YOl'R dealer and ask to see the various styles of LECKIE SHOES. Try on a pair and note the ease and comfort combined in a stylish, well-built LECKIE SHOE. Leading Shoe dealers Sell LECKIE SHOES Be sure yon get them. "Built for Style, Wear and Comfort" Word was received in Coleman last Thursday morning about the death of W, A. Jones in Vancouver. iMr. Jones resided in Coleman a few years back, being coal inspector at the International Coal COo's mines. Deceased had been in por health for the past six months. -Ait .interesting and entertaining event took place in the Opera House on Saturday afternon when the delayed presentation to the soldlors belong, ing to Coleman wbo enlisted in tho 13th Mounted Rifles was made. Mayor 'MonJaon occupied the chair and was supported on the platform by ex-iMayors Cameron and Ouimette, Rev. -Mr. -.Murray, (Mr. O. E, S. Whiteside and Mr E. Disney. Short addresses were delivered by the mayor, Rev. Murray, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Ouimette, Interspersed with songs by Messrs. W. Haysom and G. Fairhurst and .Miss M. Malcolm, also selections by Prof. Pasta's Orchestra. At the close Mayor 'Morrison predicted rach soldier with -» wrist watch, n.entloning In the course of his remarks that the appreciation now being eliown them was nothing compared to what would be awaiting them when they came back from Berlin. Charlie Higgins replied suitably for the' soldiers. The singing of Ood Save the King by the audience concluded the afternoon's entertainment, which was thoroughly enjoyed by thoso present. W. S. Bosworth was elected Vice- President of the Crow's. Nest Pass Football Association at the League meeting in Michel on Saturday last. Alderman Lamb left on Tuesday.- morning for a two week's vacation with his family in Spokane. Coleman is an Ideal place to spend a holiday in at any time, but with the ridded attraction of the Unions' Sports and the Football Club's Dance ln the evening, those wishing to ge'e the most out of luelr holiday oi thc 21th May cannot do better than pay It a visit. Freddie Cox of this town issues a challenge to box any lad about 17 years.of age and weighing 105 lbs. Michel or Fernie preferred. A letter addressed to Fred Cox, Coleman, will receive a prompt reply. iniiniternatl6_n^~Coarcb.^~mines" worked two days last week and have got two days worked with little prospects of any more this week. McGillivray Mines were Idle all last week but have got three days worked this week so far. Automobiles owners around Blairmore and Frank are certainly finding it profitable since Prof. Pasta's Orchestra has heen engaged at tbe Opera House Picture Show. First class music and pictures are the attraction. The management are to be congratulated upon securing such a good drawing card. Prof. Pasta's Orchestra are holding a dance in the Opera House on Friday evening, Gentlemen. 50c, Dancing commences at 9 o'clock. Everybody welcome. BELLEVUE * <r Put Strength into the arms that toil and tones the workers' system for more efficient work Fernie Beer is a proper drink for temperate people that do all things with judicious moderation ■Methodist -Sunday school. The Sunday School teachers and members of the choir of the Method ist Church held their annual dinner on' .Thursday last A most enjoyable time being voted by al present. Mr. Joe iMcGough, who has been a long time resident of Belleuve, both as a worker and an official of this company, has sold out, and will endeavor to find a more prosperous place than what this is at the present time. Good luck to you, Joe. The elation that has been shown here over the torpedoing of the Lusltanla is wholly unwarranted. For by no stretch of imagination can it be termed "warfare," not oven by our bitterest enemies, and it will be a wise move on the part of some residents of this burg if a less open hostility is shown. Mr. Tom Phillips, after six montlis* enforced Idleness, has decldad on a vacation until conditions become normal here again. Messrs. George Watts and Lutber Goodwin have become members of the regimental band attached to the 12th Mounted Rifles stationed at Calgary. Anyone in doubt as to where to spend an enjoyable evening should attend the Workers' Hall, where pictures of the highest order are shown by proprietor *Legg. Joe (.Morrisey i .00 Dan Quigley 2.00 Tom Locke i. 00 John D. Keith 2.00 Italian Grocery 2.00 J. H. Watson 60 Isaac Whitefield 1.00 Bowie Restaurant l.OO I^ee Gow , 50 Robt. Gammon 2.00 James Hill i.oo Wm. McDonald 1.00 Ernest Buchanan 1.00 T. E. 'Skeith 1.00 Pete Welling 1.00 A Friend 5.00 Peter Hutchlngs l.OO Total cash $»5.10 Money spent in children's prizes*$53.55 Balance in hands of Rev. A. M. McLeod 1.55 155.10 'tlie amount left over will be used on tbe first holiday In Coalhurst. (Signed) Rev. A. M. McLeod. Ralph H. Chambers, Robt. Conners, Frank Barringham, Committee. COMMERCE Conditions in this camp se?m to ba going from bad to worse. The mines worked one day the latter pirt of April, and at this writing, the 10th, only one day's work has been given. Xo need to preach thrift and temperance around this locality, everybody has to practise it. The afternoon fire boss has been compelled to seek-pastures elsewhere. Business men around here have very long faces these days, Oh, you prosperity! The stork paid a long deferred visit to the home of iMr. and Mrs. J. Ferguson recently. 'Mother and baby girl doing well, and Jack all smiles. COALHURST The Salvation Army people of this town were visited by Major ami Mrs. Hay of Edmonton. The usual open air meeting* were held, followed by n service in the Methodist Church. A. J. Carter, aa travelling auditor, was ln town this week, A message was received on Saturday from Queenstown stating that Jimmy Boyle, Bellevue's only passenger on tbe Ill-fated Lusltanla was amongst the rescued. A number of onr soldier boyi were home for tbe week-end. It Is generally understood that tbls will be their last visit from Pincher. A number of then have volunteered to leave for the front Immediately, Vice-President Graham and Secretary Burke were Blairmore visitors on official business. Isaac Hutton. an old-timer In these parts, bid hts many friends good-bye on Sunday night. Ha has been accepted for the fitlth Regiment In Cal- larj, "Give "em the ne* step, lhe!" A large crowd assembled on the old foMbtll tlt'A to watch Use game between team* billed as the AH stars of llel le vue tt. So Stars tot Prank. A fairly good game was wttneeaetl. but Kmnb wer* lh* bettor side and won * itarlets erown by four goats \o till, Divine nertke was held In th* Xew The mine worked the first s'aif: in May nn the Uch witb a very reduce! staff of emiplayees. Mr. Swain and f:i*uily are aw\.y on a 1-en!tii trip o Creouwood', B. C. Stephen Bell left for his homestoad nt Giiil Lake last week. He says ho intends to come ba«)k in a few m-nth'. Mr. and Mrs, Robt. Hugh have had to postpone their Journey to England owing to the a'yamer's sailings being cancelled. Toiii Hatt'n and family accompatl- ed by Hiram Fife, left camp for Sprlnghlll, Nova Scotia. Mr, and Mrs. Frank Barrlngham and son, Oliver, were vlstors to Keya Lake a few days last Week. Bob Conners Is loklng for an agency peddling the new system of hatching and breaking in "young 'una." Joe Slmpklns blew in camp from Australia on Tuesday morning looking for a job. Looks like times must bo pretty bad that, don't It? Or ia it Joe'* fascinated with Sunny Alheru? Quite a bunch of the Wlgan Hurley- corners were up before "T. K," just lately for Indulging too freely. A temperance speaker addressed a meeting In the church on Wednesday evening. Privates Tom lilakey und T. J. Gordon, of Cardston Mountod Rifle*, were on furlough a few days, They suy they move to Calgary abortly Charile Phillips wat on a rest vacation to Lethbridge last week after a hitrd npclc dlairlnir pout, bol mi nnd fmif* In camp. Louis Fraser, of Pincher Creek Mounted Rifles, spent a few days In -camp renewing old acquaintances before leaving the district. Below Is the list of names who contributed to May Day Sport*: Donald MoNpII ♦ * GEORGETOWN NOTES ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦**♦♦♦♦♦ The mine worked three days last week. At the regular meeting on Friday night it -was decided to assist the three brothers who are waiting ou their cases being settled. Vincent James, an old tinier, started hero last week. He had been through al! the Western States and B. C. and reported them on the hog. Bro. Tom Rawlins, the blacksmith here, and Bro. David Darling, his helper, have joined the army in Calgary. We wish them all kinds of good luck. A house warming was given to H. Maliebone and T. Humphrey last week when a good time was spent. Mr. and .Mrs. Ashurst entertained their friends on Thursday- at a send off party, and on Friday Mrs. Ashurst left for Coleman, where she will spend the summer. OUR PEACE PROGRAM TU- Tfihr, V. Work ment of disputes between nations should be made by the international congress, or by its subcommittees. There is no need of a court for this purpose. I also disagree with the provision for an international police force. We should ask for all, we want. What we want is complete disarmament Perhaps we "cannot get complete disarmament. If so, that is no reasoiyn ^s*.world why we should not ask for it. The more we ask for the more we will get. We ought to know that by this time. The reason we have been getting anti-injunction laws, and anti-blacklist laws, and workmen's compensation laws, etc., is beoause we have been asking for^complete Socialism. If we had merely been asking for anti-injunction laws and anti-blacklist laws, and workmen's compensation laws, etc., we would not have got them. The thing to do is to ask for all we want, Then, If when we enter Into a conference, mutual concessions are necessary in order to get together, we will have more room for concessions. We will have more left after we make concessions. This, Itvseems to me, is an abun- ant reason why we should ask for complete disarmament. ■Nor' is it logical to say that this is a sort of an immediate demand program, and therefore we must ask for only that which we can reasonably hope to obtain, " In another part'of the program we have asked for complete Socialism. We have not only asked for complete Socialism in the preamble, but we have asked for it In thc detailed program itself. "Industrial democracy." What ls that but. Socialism? "Elimination of all unearned come." /•■■;' What is that but Socialism? "Socialization of the national sources, public utilities, and fundamental equipment of industry of the nations." What is that but Socialism? Each of these is a demand for complete Socialism. Therefore, since we are iu four places demanding complete Socialism, certainly we should not fail to demand all that we want in the way of disarmament. By way of addition to the program, I think that it ought to specifically provide, for calling all the nations of the world into the conference. At the present moment, no one can tell just how the peace is to bo brought about. Maybe.the United States will have a prominent part ln it, and maybe not. Maybe there will be one or more Socialists on the peace commission, and maybe not. Anyhow, it is for us to bring our Influence to bear, both directly and indirectly, to secure the adoption of our peace program. I suggest that we discuss it earnestly and reasonably and candidly, through the party press, until the National Committee meets. Then, let the National Committee, in the light of all this discussion, go over It carefully and put it into its final form, Then, no matter whether we agree with every line of it or not, let us stop arguing about It, and everyone of us get back of it and boost it for all we are worth. to re- Shilohh Cure stops coufiiw !^:{-ri?-S*Sw Speaking to one of our citizens this week who has made a tour of inspection of the various parcels of land which are to betthrown open for preemption on the ISth of May, he states that the descriptions given in tho government pamphlets are true so far as they go, but they are not sufficiently detailed and only a personal visit can enable one to form an accurate appreciation of the suitability of the various pieces. The parcels that are tillable represent but a very small percentage of the whole, and that by far the greater majority would maVe suitable gravel pits or rock quarries, and even some of those* where the goil Is good the cost of adequate Irrigation is no small item for consideration. After John Barleycorn is banished, if capitalism continues Sn the saddle, the claim will probably be made that the workers £an afford to take less wages, since they no longer drink. Be good to Drink • *** nm*4. Yourself it! J f.ft tint* For tbe edification of tbe Leaner reader*, would aay we are atill watch- lag ror that "Prosperity wan** to strike ns, to give the other Half of ns , i.i. *, *' Aontay last throughout Christendom Is rocogalstd as "Mother's Day." Tbe Rev. V. T. Cook, pastor of tht MothodlM Cboreh. held services appropriate to tbe occasion. Mr. Arthur wnilam*. as soloist, render**! "Mother O Ulae," ta bla oa-a Inimitable style, Th* rtmlnt mtWnt ot f«oe*J «3i will b* b#W on Snnd»> «t*t im the Alfred Mclnnes .. Wm. Maxwell ... Ullvra I'wrvls ,,.. Jot* Lynn I'aelflf Hotel Wong Wint ..... Walter tiftnuglilii . J. li". MHicrmo* l»r. <J. II. Hoft« ., Wing U-*t Finlay McDonald W-alter Admit .. Hugh Rvans .... (Janes Mclnnes . I i ten, outuit , i Italian! Cameron Suppose you live'! on a star o f •?.>•/ million miles from here. | Suppose, through the biggest tele- j scope, the earth looked like a speck. t'nder those circumstances do you think you would be worked up about the European war? Do you think you would consider it one of the greatest events that have ever occurred? That it is important I do not deny. That we should give It serious consideration I admit ■But I wonder If .our closeness to it does not causa us to exaggerate its Importance. I wonder if, a hundred yenrs from now, It will seem to have had the epoch making quality which It now seems to possess? Possibly It will, Possibly It will not, In any event, we want to take advantage of lt, as we take advantage, or should take advantage, of everything else that can be used for purposes of emancipation. •But? In doing so, It is quite sense.' Ins* to. use wild nnd frantic language, and to attack one another's viewpoint with bigoted nnd Intolerant acrimony. If this time Is really a crucial one for the Socialist movement then, for that very reason. It Is a time for composure. It Is a time for broad-minded and magnanimous forbearance from passionate denunciation, It is a time to thoughtfully and reasonably and considerately confer together, with the full understanding that all of us desire to do whatever l« bf**t fnr the rs'itim Taken as a whole, I consider the! Peace Program a maKnlficent doou-j ment, The statement of the lmme-| dlate causes of the war, and the statement of the fuiiilatiieiitiil c«u*e>t of ■ war, are eDp-pcittlly good. Also the) THE Bellevue Hotel COMMERCIAL HOUSE Best Accommodation In the Pats.— Up-to-Date — Every Convenience.- • Excellent Cuisine. SUITABLE FOR LADIES AND UENTLEMEN J. A. CALLAN, Prop. BELLEVUE, Alta. H. G. GOODEVE GO. ltd. The Complete House Furnishers of the Pass Hardware Furniture Wn will furniib your nous* from cellar to garret and at hot- torn prices. Call, write, phone or wire. All orders given prompt attention. If you are satisfied, tell ethers, if not satisfied, tell us. Coleman Alberta $1,110 1.00 5.00 2.00 1.00 S.OO 1.00 i.m .50 , 5.00 At) i.m . i.m , IM . 2.00 , i,WI , I.oo f ,have m m ax? Then you realize thi utter wettmess that rtm amMtlon, destroys appetite, and makes work a burden. Toreatorctb-ttttrvngthawlitaaiiiMtlMt is m -ttmentini, notbing has em «pu!e«t or eemymni with ffentt't Kimtlvinn, be* catuc its strength-stirt-atittng noumb- mawt lotlporntt. Am Mood toAtorihet* I cm.;**) iluuuh!^miUwIi»>it, ifclukiuuiuu. vide* tbarprH* th* appetite and rt-aurrs fhntness health In a natw-s!, permanent wny. If yen *tt rasi tUmm, Utr4, m mm*. Workers* Kali, at Ut pm* "ST^iM e%*xa*i* t**m aaamaamd »k.! •wnwrtw'-i rtr lack strength, get Scotfs Mr. Rl. Clrtstt* wa sasaawa the \fmmtpemtt*4ef, Msny<ir««**t*ww. retpemntWltt? of mpetbUtmtoot ta th# i nmt n imam* t««wa, tm stttu'nxt-'A'-. ii« ti our mipreme duty now On utnttt p»m of the detailed pro- j aim;*), Ulu'wl*-", I lielltjve »> nrt* i ll * iitsr-'-rtl, Th«M*e nn (fitly n few !m;n>r-; tsnt pyhiU on wh>h we diaagre«. j I Oi-tiii,,,' \*li',t llm iommllUm m *'. »< tv «f tu**»*' i«'*!•;#. | But I wanl, first of all. to dS*»ociiil*s»| i«j»«ti tioiii tii iim- mmi Hint* iii.t'lf j l»4Vrt*i*« .111.I <ll.ll ■> tlit-li illlllllll IIJKJIl i the jmiisrani and it* frawr* Their] *l'irlt I* not !ln> rliiht on<> ;i»4 c;i!irnit Ul'U.tf hou.l rc».uiii. <# I ilKmrt'i' >»l*h Hn* ii.i'i iiu'iit, lit j the preamble to the effect ihat «»|»1 i (41UM tutttiiattt} i«au* iu *.*t, j Hill ll iln*'* liwt jjirvtu j.;,) ,t*4«l tu ! io ton* a* capitalism eilata th*r«» I will be i1;itifii»r of war Bttt it in tm 4 -m*-.^ ^WMtC *t ui*u.,imu>iu. •*<■-. j lb* i-mablinhniHit ot tn fnternatlonsl f rongress. for capitalism to eslst for J se*sr# wlthmit war. i I dlsa-sw with V.i* prorWon In the ItJe'a 1*4 program for th* est abi Ish mem I of sn tn*f*i*nri»tf<vn*»l rnnrt s Wt* l*m* bad -rootigh -Pipe-Hene* with " ,1*i* um-i-ntiliin* itt it f »i f 9i\<* fli-n /*•■;' \ .* i*tium, U't u* tml Ua%* auy lm y- ?l*nit{i;»! -rou/t* whatsoever. Tt l» *■-.!. tlrely uaneceaaao* The program provided for ao l->U»n.,tiii.n,»i collar*-***, tbnn It -»» I***"1 '* ***i*%. T%* **"t.1*" F. M. THOMPSON Company . "Th« Quality Store" Groceries, Dry Goods, Crockery and Everything in Shoes See ut for the best in Men's Suits, Shirts & Shoes Our Spring Shipments of theic Ooodi are all to band and tbt uaortm«nt is complete witb the smartest goods and butt l-wmtM.* vetnm* Wt I*** **t***jm-dti*i ikm monk m C*r oi ftour and F«od Purity Flour 98lbs $4.00 nett Gold Seal 98lbs $3.60 nett Also Bran, Shorts. Crushed Corn, Whole Corn and Feed Oats Phone 25 Blairmore, Alta. Th© Store That SAVES You Money BsssrssessRssa ... r.h..,ii.i,ri..... in,*,..,,n 11 .m**m 19' f •s i If Togo SiX. THE DISTRICT LEDGER, PERNIE, E. C, MAY 15,1915 i '•I if it-■** "4 * ISP I II WBAT CAPITAL REALLY THINKS OF Continued From Last Week you if it comes to that. And that is the end. It is coming to a civil war, and we will fight. I am ready." In a certain great Seattle strike, the clergy and certain university ^pro- fessors spoke in behalf of the strikers, and air. Patterson paid his re- Bpects to them by declaring, "We have got to clean out these professors—we bave got to clean out the clergy. In plain language, the pulpit of this town is disgusting." Yet^thls man, even while still foaming from his denunciation of unions, admitted that the employers of the state of Washington were unionized, that the body affiliated with national employers 'organizations, and that a great purpose of theso state and national associations was the prevention of organization among employees. He denounced the union boycott while confessing that he had joined in sending out circulars asking a boycott on all firms employing union labor. He abused the unions for entering politics, while admitting that the employers' association showered the state with circulars at every election, asking voters to elect this man or to "snow- under" that man. Another equally pleasant and law- abiding person was Mr. Banfield, high official in the employers' association of Portland, Oregon, and yet a passionate foe to the organization of workers; According to iMr. Banfield, labor unions are entirely kept up by politicians who truckle to them for votes, and in support of this he cited the following remarkable Incident:, "I know a man today who is United States senator, and when he was sent for by an employer to come and see him, he did not have time and could not come, but a negro man, called Dollar BUI, wired him that he had five votes he could get but it would cost something. He waa down on the next train. That Is what is the matter, and that is what brings up the fight between organized labor and capital." He would not give thd name of the United States senator, however, and when asked whether he had communi- flat-Pll ih« ttrttyio. tn Iho nrnan/»nMng-at- torney, he said that he had not. This was the Banfield peroration: "I don't believe that any man has a moral right to sign away to part of the public that which belongs to all the public, the right of men under him to make their living.. I would not under any circumstances sign a contract to employ my labor through any channel unless a man held a gun over my head and compelled me to do it, and tben I would sign lt, but within ten minutes I would get a gun and kill him, and take it away from him before he got an opportunity to show It to anybody, because I would be so ashamed of It" To complete this phase of the record, it may be well to refer to the testimony of Mr. Ferguson, a wealthy employer of 'Paterson, New Jersey, who stated quite plainly tbat he favored the deportation of all agitators. In the case of "outsiders," he favored meeting them at tho train—"don't glvo tham a chance—simply aay, 'When the next train goes out, you go out on It." Asked If be did not consider this Illegal, this shining exponent of law and order replied: "Well, I would hardly say Illegal, because I believe that legal means are tho means taken by authorities. That is what we nre advocating. It was not that I would personally form a vigilance committee and go out and misuse these people, but I believe .the city authorities should take means perhaps beyond the technical legal point to get rid of them—the right and the power to go beyond the law." When he was questioned, however, how he would feel If he went to a town where the labor unions controlled, and was arrested the moment he stepped off the train, and robbed of every constitutional right, he had the grace'to admit that it "would probably" arouse his hitter resentment. Match the utterances of Patterson, Banfield and Ferguson with the utterances for. which workingmen have been sent to jail. A miner ln Colorado was sent to jail for a year for simply saying that he "hoped he would meet Judge Whitford in hell," yet Patterson is greeted with approval cheers when he blackguards the President, Congress and the entire clergy of Seattle. After this pleasant and profitable excursion into what may be termed the provinces, let us return to the New York hearing, and dig further into the capacities and industrial knowledge of the great overlords of business. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for instance, occupied three whole days in telling what he did and did not know about the 12,000 men who work for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in which he is the absolute and unquestioned power. An adulatory press has taken pains to make it appear that young Mr. Rockefeller handled himself with wonderful aplomb, parrying and thrusting with marvelous dexterity, evincing rare knowledge and great ability. Insomuch as he had been furnished a list of questions several weeks in advance, and was aided in preparing answers by' a force of secretaries, it might have been expected that he would answer with some degree of intelligence. As a matter of fact, however, he was only lifted out of the Morgan and Belmont dass by a greater skill in evasion. Not once did he give a simple or direct answer to a question, but twisted and turned like a rabbit In front of tho hounds. Onco -away-froBi-bis-set-list-ol-questionsi-^is- evlnced tbe same general ignorance of tho affairs ot the great corporation In wblch he was the controlling power. He bad not visited bis properties in Colorado for ten years nor bad he attended a directors' meeting during the same period. He did not know ln what counties his mines were, he could not approximate "within thousands" bow many men he employed, he knew nothing about their wages, housing conditions or labor, nor would he venture an opinion as to whether twelve hours a day In front of a blast furnace, seven days a week, might prove a hardship. He did not know that hts executive officials censored preachers and school teachers, that they maintained a blacklist, tbat gunmen were employed to run "agitators" out of the camps, that his company maintained saloons, hut provided no otber meeting places for the people, that two were killed In bis mines to ono ln other states, and that the company's control of the courts had prevented any damage suit from being filed In years. He was compelled to admit that "It ia the duty of every director to ascertain the conditions as far as he can, and if there are abuser, to right them," also lhat no director haa a moral right to set up the plea that be is "too busy" to perform the duties for which he Is elected. Vet he confessed that he had never acquainted -himself with the cafises of the great coal strike of 1903-04, and that not even to this day has he taken tbe trouble even to read the grievances of the 12,000 men who quit the mines on September 13, 1913. Nor had he read the testimony taken by the congressional committee in 1914, nor the proceedings of the Commission on Industrial Relations which examined witnesses in December, 1914. He did not know that his company had entered into a contract with the Baldwin-iFelts agency prior to the strike, that machine guns had been imported from West Virginia, that 326 desperadoes, hired two weeks before the strike, had been deputized by a sheriff who confessed on the stand that the men might have been "red- handed murderers for all he knew." He did not know that by the admission of his own president, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company had been violating statute laws for years, among tham the eight-hour law, the laws provided for semi-monthly payment >in cash, not script, and the law providing check weighmen so that miners should not be cheated out of five to eight hundred pounds on every car. He did not know that the sub-company operating the camp store paid 20 per cent a year on an Inflated capitalization, and that the prices charged at these stores were so high that the wretched miners were in the habit of smuggling trunks into town to bring back filled with food. Tills was discovered, and the rule was made that trunks could not be taken out except for "long visits." , < He did not know that Welborn and Bowers, the two officials to whom he looked for reports on labor conditions,- had never been known to visit a mine, he did not know tbat .the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was notorious for Its corrupt interest in Colorado politics, and when asked if he would vote to discharge an executive official caught spending money corruptly, he said that he would ".have to know the conditions." he admitted, would take years. He also admitted that ^Mackenzie King, che Canadian employed to conduct this "impartial, investigation," had written him in; August,.. 19J4, stating that the European war would bring hard times to the United Statqj}, and that resultant unemployment .would make workers so eager to hold their jobs e,t a living wage that the question of unionism would not cut much account. In which, he suavely opined, "lies a possible avenue of approach toward restoring normal conditions in Colorado." Men kept in subjection by the fear 6f starvation! And such a man, suggesting such a horrible policy, is pre-, sented to the country as one who will make a "fair" investigation of labor conditions! Let us now put this type of employer to one side, and consider representatives of another class, equally.definite in its autocratic attitude toward labor, but far more subtle in its large and profuse expressions of democratic good will. George W. Perkins, that pillar of the late Progressive party, that eminent thinker whose one idea is to put his giant intellect at the service of humanity, is a fine ekample. Mr. Perkins was enthusiastically ln fa-vor of unions. He loved the principle. But, alas, there were no "good" unions. Organized labor, as It is today, pursues its "objective from too much of a selfish point of view." It is all the time thinking of its own interests. So difefrent from the policies of the International Harvester Company and the United States Steel Corporation, two companies in which Mr. Perkins Is a director, and in the employ of which union men are not allowed. The workers lir the steel company, by the way, hold 10 per cent of the stock, yet Mr. Perkins admitted that they had not yet been given representation on the board of directors. Among other things he said: ** "I think the big difference oetween tbo employer of labor and labor is the feeling on the part of the employer that he cannot get fair treatment from h!s government; that the government is more inclined to give labor fair treatment, and more inclined to recognize labor and its right to organize than it is to recognize that principle in buf-.iness." Commissioner Garretson: Isn't it rather—well,at least entertaining—to find when for fifty centuries the master has made the law, that when within the century the man has assorted his right to a voice ln the enactment of laws, that the question of fairness is so often raised? Mr. Perkins did make one admission. emphatic in bis assertion that the workers must organize for proper protection, and; he thought the United States many years behind England and Germany in laws.for the welfare of the toilers. Labor, he said plainly, wanted "more of the comforts and necessaries of life, and more df the luxuries; and thoy are entitled to tbem and ought to get-them.." He felt that employers should recognize labor unions and deal with them, and, furthermore, be agreed with* Hfr. Perkins that the directors of a corporation are "absolutely responsible for" the management of the business, and for the condition of the laborers and everything that pertains, to tbe welfare of the business." What could be finer? Yet the grim fact remains that Jhe Guggenheim influences' fought the eight-hour law in Colorado from the first, and yflien it was passed finally with appHcafcltn to smelters, the smelter men were transferred to the payroll of a Guggenheim railroad in order to evade the law., •Few people have ever heard ef Edward J. Berwlnd, yet this Inconspicuous gentleman confessed to owning huge coal mines in Pennsylvania and West Virginia,'and to bolng a director tn,.the Erie, the Santa Fe, tha Interborough, the International Mercantile Marine, not to mention various banks, .steamship companies and other Industrial enterprises. He dld*not make It a.practice to visit the properties, he kp'ew nothing of the wages and hours in them, although he did know that in ,h!s coal companies they took the union scale of wages as the basis of their operations. He was bitterly opposed to unions, j however, feeling that the remedy for grievances should be found In legislation. When asked how an individual coal miner, for instance, could go about the business of getting a protective law adopted, he answered blithely, ".My dear sir, he has just as much access to the legislature as you and I have." To a long list of ques-. tione relating to social legislation he replied, "I have not given those questions any consideration at all." Mr. Jacob Schiff could not remember all the companies in wblch he was a director, nor could he tell of auy interest taken in the labor conditions of any country in which he was a director. He thought, however, that directors were responsible for proper labor conditions, and that in event of a threatened strike it was their duty to inform themselves of the facts in order to exercise supervision over the executive officials. >Mr. Schiff, like Mr Guggenheim, was resolute in his belief tbat labor had the right to organize, and should, but How Zam-Buk Cures Skin Diseases Assooa as applied, Zam-Buk penetrates right- to the very root of the disease and. kills the cause .thereof. The rich herbal'essence's then so stimti? late the cells below-thS surface that new, healthy tissue .is foraged, which, as it grows, forces ont tlie diseased tissue. Zam-Bokcures from the bottom ap.; . This is the j reason that sores., and -skin diseases cured by Zam-Bqk, do riot return'. . Zam-Buk'is entirely different from all Qther ointtaents; It d9.es not contain harsh minerals; or poisonous - coloring matter.- Nor does it contain coarse animal'fats, which, in a short time, go rancid,. Zam- Buk will keep indefinitely. . Many people have beencured oy Zam-Buk after haying-suffered years, and spent hundreds of dollars trying various remedies in vain. If yon suffer from any skin disease or injury, benefit by the experiences of others. Try Zam-Buk first. Don't trouble with useless remedies. Zam-Buk is unequalled for eczema, piles, pimples, cuts, burns, bruises, cold sores, frost bite's, chapped hands, and all skin diseases and injuries. We are so convinced that a trial of Zam-Buk will prove to you its superiority, that we will send you a FREE TRIAL box on receipt of this article, name of paper, and lc. stamp to pay return'postage. Address Zam- Buk Co., Toronto. All Druggists and Stores tell Zam-Bulc at JOc. box -VCI We Are ReadVtp;Scotch ott you* bill'any item^f I-amber not fpirad^ust"n\ we represented! There-- loJ no Hocus poc'us is y /thia Lumber Business .When you wast spruce we do not send you hemlock.-. When you buy first-class lumber we don't slip is * lot of culls, Those who buy once front us always coine again. Those who- have not yet mado our acquaintance are taking chances tbey wouldn't encounter if they bought their lumber here. KENNEDY & MANGAN f— Dealers In — ' % Lumber, Lath, 8hlngtea, Sash and Doors. 8PECJALTIES-- Mouldings, Turnings, Brackets, and Detail Work OFFICE AND YARD—McPherson awe. Opposite G.'N. Depot. P.O. Box 22, Phone 23, ,„ Jlo Ktk ,te^7 DicPrice's CAEAM There Is no alum in Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder. The names of ita inpTftriwwts printed rm tb$ label of every can,'show it to be made from Cream of Tartar, which comes from grapes. No alum baking powder or food oot* tabling alum it permitted to bt sold in many countnw. io nvuia aium ran uw label and tat only baking powder made -lit, „In_splie^}t-tbe-Gd!aina!-Igaorfinc€S- and indifferences, he was forced to admit thn( onJuly 27, 1914, President Walborn had written him as follow;-: "My health has never been better than during the past year, and I am hardly conscious of any strain. The know- ledge that we have your confidence and support makes everything easy." When asked if he had ever at any •time made the slightest Investigation to see whether this "support" was Justified, that ts, whether Welborn had treated the men fairly, he answered, "I have not had the opportunity." •■'/•■ What he did have the opportunity to do, however, was to hire the presB agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, one Ivy Lee, at 11,000 a month, for the purpose of writing and publishing bulletins to be scattered broadcast over the country for the purpose of "letting people know the truth." Ue wrote the bulletins ln Philadelphia, had them printed In Philadelphia, and then shipped tbem to Denver for mailing In order that people might think them written in Denver. On the stand he admitted that he had merely taken the Information furnished him by Welborn and that he had mado no effort to verify the truth of this Information, and that even when he wired Wei- horn that one notorious Ile should be corrected. Welborn still persisted In mailing the particular bulletin. Mr. Rockefeller was quite free In admitting the right of workers to organise, but under questioning, this dialogue vaulted; Mr. Rockefeller: I think the pro* pertly of thin fotintry ts being best conserved by large corablntlons in Industries. Chairman Walsh; Would or would not national organisation* of employees be necessary both rrom a logical and practical standpoint? A. There you are again getting into a technical question that I am sorry I hart not the Information with whlrh to answer. Q. At a cltlien, I ash yoa sttould not the representatives of aurh mrtrtn- Ixationa of empolyees he' permitted to rxiTclse their functions without later- for-tnt"* or restriction so long at they uso lawful means? A.*As a eitlxen It is • question which t bate never experienced. Wfc*« *ttN»* tit**** 1* It*******,*. *1 9* I Kerrr Port *em14 tab* a TM->t<wrt*m1 tn- f I tertet In the work and welfare «f mxotf I one of his ttfitto employees, scattered I ell over; tbt world, even while cdbdeet* Ing the business himself, Mr. ftoeke- I tellar tmawarmtt tmtim aerlrtmalr 1**1 the Ford company made money enough to afford detent tn*UMM for He tntn. tn twelve years tbe -Rockefellers have taken ovei IM0M0O out vt the Colorado Pool ami Imt Compear •• t return oft their l»re«UM«-L the eorpon* ii in Wa» a tturpNa ot ftVrtrt.Ww, aad ibe holdings feast tppmtated ■twtet ■ »i-u.w»).tnH» tn versa By way of Mttlaf evtrytbtftg right, aot srifrist -e*t every Mgleet, At. Rockefeller u>M hew the Rockefeller Foundation bad appropriated $1.000,. om tm ntoAyinp iotnurtnt wtttt. TMe | l^,^L-p,._*WJ.)r*_ho-rH_aLn_v,ftrvJ4un. damental cause of Industrial unrest. Q. Do you consider It necessary to the permanent success of a large Industrial organization, and to the welfare of the people engaged In It, when It becomes highly organized or centralized, that a definite and businesslike survey should be constantly kept, covering laboring conditions and the conditions ot the working people in the industry, which information should be kept, at a constant command and under the notice ot the management or directors of the corporation? / A. I "think It Is highly necessary, and I would go further than that and say it should be at the command df all public authorities, and there ought to be some law requiring the filing ot that, lust as there Is a law requiring the filing of a financial statement. Q. .From your experience as a director and manager of these large concerns, is It perfectly feasible to do so it one ls willing and desirous? A. Yes, tlr. I think it Is far more important thun to keop a constant 'Inspection of the machinery and the plant. If the machinery ot a plant Is worth Inspection and keeping In proper repair and proper condition, certainly the men are." Mr. Daniel Guggenheim, head of the smelter trust, could not tell off-hand how many employees were on hit payroll. Hut like Mr, Parkins, he had some splendid radical ideal. He wat ion was bitter against unions, and maintained a black-list.' He did not believe that any child under fourteen should be employed in labor of any kind, but he did not know tbat for years the Westerti Union used little boyB in tbe night messenger service and that out of contact with vice and crime, 60 per cent, of them were graduated into reformatories. 8urely, atter eliciting such testimony the Commission on Industrial Relations should not feel it necessary to make further investigation into the causes of industrial unrest On tho one hand directors, utterly Ignorant ot the human element In Industry, only Interested In dividends, and beneath them a set of hired underlings called "executive officials" whose jobs are dependent upon the production of dividends, and who, in view of inflated capitalisations, ean only earn these dividends by low wages and long hours. On the other hand the army ot tollers, working for an employer whose only visible representative ts « petty foreman, unable to protect themselves as individuals, and denied the right to organise under threat of discbarge and blacklisting.- Millions in men tnd money handed over to tome ton at t birthday gift— the destinies of thousands dependent upon a stock-market transaction! Aad yet there It wonder at "Industrial tinrest."--Pearson's Magazine. P. Carosella Wholesale Liquor Dealer Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Gents' Furnishings BAKER AVENUE BRANCH AT HOSMER, B.C. KING'S HOTEL Bar supplied with the best Wines Liquors and Cigars DINING BOOM IN CONNECTION W HILLS, • Prop Beware of Imitations Sold on the Merits of Minard s Liniment A. Macnell 8. Banwell MACNEIL & BANWELL Barristers, Solicitors, Notarise, Etc. Office*: Ground Floor, Bank oi Hamilton Building Fernie* B. C F. C. Lawe, Alex. I. Fisher LAWE 4 FISHER | ATTORNEYS Fernie, & C. \| Who is Your Printer? Try a Ledger Ad. DO you ever consider the importance of 00 the use of stationery that is in harmony yrith the nature of your business? In many cases your letterhead is considered as an index of your business character, hence the necessity of a good printer. If you want really high c.lftM<prifitiftg"tti* Irfnd we always produce-try us with your next order The District Ledger "QUALITY* PRINTERS Phone 48a :-: Fernie, B. C. l sfNV •'■*w*?fi* ~«^ -4*! li-wag-j^W yyy?:**^. * (Hi, j. .\ fti!*S'iSK»*B>lt*&Wl *f5**»*t!*^<,t!' THE DMTRIOT LE^EE, rFg£!P& $. 0„ JUAY15,19X5 Page SEVEN LIST OF PERSONS TO The list printed below contains the names of persons whose retention on the voters list has beep objected to. Should yowr name occur among those printed below, and you still be a bona fide resident in the district, a .note sent to the Registrar of Voters, Provincial Building, Feroie, stating that you jg,r$ still a resident should ensure your name being retained. No one has been struck off yet Notify the Registrar of Voters if your name has C i $>een objected to by error so as to reach him before Monday 17th inst. - 22, Allan, Alexander McDerni-id, Hosmer, fireboss. Ti Allen, George,.Fernie, lot 4, bk. 19, laborer. 26 Allen, Levi, Fernie Annex Extension, miner. 44 Amberman, Harold (Troop, iFernle, Oity "policeman. 65 , Angelucci, Nicobli, Coal Creek, miner. 70 Appleby, Charles, W. Fernie, miner. • 74 Arbuckle, John jr., Ooal Creek, miner. 78 Armstrong; Thomas, Coal Creek, laborer-- 79 Armstrong, John, Ooal Creek, miner. 87. Atherton, David, Coal Creek, House 181, iMotorman. 92 Atkinson, Jonathan, Coal Creek, House 119, miner. 3. Abraham William James, iMichel, teamster. . 87. Austin, Wesley John, Elko, chaffeur 77 Armstrong, Thaddeus G„ Elko. 10-1 Backus, Leslie, Fernie, real estate 105 Bafaro, Blnglo, Hosmer, miner. 125. Banister, J, E„ Coal Creek.' .130 Banylo, Steve, Hosmer, miner. 147 Barr, Hugh, Fernie, miner. 159 Bateman, J^ Hosmer, miner. 161 Bates, James, Bull River, hotelkeeper. 173 Beaton, Angus Stephen, Crow's Nest 176 Beaudlon, John Alfred, Hosmer, cook. 193 Bell, George Ingersoll B., Fernie, banker. 198 Bennett, William .Thomas, Coal Creek, machinist. 521 Birkeit, Harold, Coal Creek, Welsh camp, blacksmith. 228 Blrkett, Walter, Coal Creek, Welsh Camp, inlner. 272 Bracken, John, Fernie, Hanson Ave., miner. 2S4. BrewesMiobert Moore, Fernie, electrician. 591 Broley, James A., Fernie, lot 4, bk. 52, contractor. 2% Brooks, Harold,vHosmer. storekeeper. 323 Brownrigg, John, Hosmer, foreman. S38 Burns, Francis J„ Fernie lot 1, blk. 51, accountant. 339. Burns, Thomas, Fernie, Cox st., nlghtwatohman. 343 Butala, Charles, Fernie, Cox st, miner. 344 Butala John, Fernie, Cox st„ miner. 345 Butcher, Walter E., Fernie, Pellatt Ave, car Inspector 346 Butlln, James Wheeler, Hanbury, Jewell's mill, book keeper. Qa'± mtm,-U^jrfm,m 723 Bmbnd, John Ferdinand, Hosmer, laborer. 733 Erlckson, Alexander, Fernie, laborer. 714 Edwards, John, Michel House 74, engineer. 703 Easton,-David, lEiko, carpenter, 756 Fallows, Albert, Hosmer, miner. 765 Farr, Barnard, Fernie, Pellatt Ave., baker. 773. Fearson, George Davidson, Coal Creek, miner. 783 Ferguson, Harry, Fernie,~Central Hotel, bookman. 808 Fitzpa trick, John, Fernie, Central hotel, lumberjack. 809 Fltzpatrjck, Thomas John, Hoemer, fireboss. 818 Flowers, George Emerson, Ferule, clerk. 821 Fontain, Louis, Hosmer, teamstes 834 'Foster, Robert, Fernie, King's Hotel, miner. 841 Fox, Henry, Coal Creek, House 116, miner. S47v Fraser.David Sangster, Hosmer, bookkeeper. 855 Fuller, Hamilton, Brock, Hosmer, accountant. 846 Fraser, Alex., Natal, miner. 750 Fair, John, Elko, carpenter. S20 Folsy, Thomas, Elko, camp foreman. 822 Foote, William, Elko, farmer 805 Fisher, John Arnold, Crow's Nest, hpokkeeper. 814 Flewelllng, Robert, Crow's Nest, fireman. 817 Flowers, Ricardo, Crow's Nest, machinist. 866 Gallier, George, Fernie Annex, lot 4, bk. 84, miner. 872 Garrett, William Alfred, Ferule, Fire Hall. 883 Gaydes, Paul, Fernie, Baker Ave,, miner. 887 Gorgy, Joseph, Hosmer, miner. 901 G-llett, Charles, Fernie, Colclough Ave., miner. 911 Goodbout, Frederick, Waldo, mlllhand. 924. Goulet, John .Baptise, Hosmer, carpenter. 927 Gourlay, John, Coal Creek, miner. 928 Gourlay, Robert Stewart, Hosmer, machinist. 93u Granato, Vicenzo, Hosmer, miner, 936 Grant, Alexander, Malnstee, sawyer. 937 Grant, James, Malnstee, sawyer. 938 Grant, Alexander, Jafiray, sawyer. f 939 Grant, John Edward, Hosmer, blacksmith's helper. 940 Grant, John George, Hosmer, blacksmith. "w*emv*K7^"U"jT"wn"un'rw»Il^n 138 Barkhouse, Harry, Elko, lumberman. 310 Brown Isaac, Elko, engineer. 544 Begle, Henry^jCoal Creek, engineer. 292 Broaley, William Henry, Fernie, foreman. 2?ao Broajey, Robert WUsonL Fern-ie^-foreman. 335 Burke. John" Edmund, Crowds Nest, storekeeper. 123 Ball, William, Corbin, fireman. 232. Bookhout, Robert, Corbin, carpenter. 313 Brown David, Corbin, pitboss. 853 1-allard, W, R. Fernie. fire warden 36.". Campbell, Arthur Hell. Hosmer, Main St.. insurance agent 367 Campbell, John Henry, Hosmer, motorman. 389. Carrara, Frank, Fernie, Roma Hotel, mill laborer. 393 Carruthers, James, Fernie, Central hotel, mlllhand. 420 Champagne. Dafle, Fernie Waldorf hotel, bartender. 429 Chester, John, Coal Creek, House 194, miner. 430 ,,Ckoy, Joseph, Fernie, miner. 463 Coekshutt. William H. Hull river, wine clerk. tm Connor, John, Fernie. railway foreman. 433 <-onroy, James, Ferule, Pellatt Ave., miner. tm Cooper, John Llewellyn. Fernie. brtdgeman. 812 Cornett, Talbot Arthur, Hosmer, undertaker. r>14 Cornlnh, James, Fernie, laborer BI5 Cornish, James, Fernie, lumberjack. 817 Corrlgall, William, Hbsmer, laborer. tm Coutts, Alexander, Hosmer, miner. 540 Cox. Ernest Alfred, Hosmer. stationary engineer. 541 Crabb, George, Coal Creek, miner. 545 Craig, David, Fornle. Dalton Ave., miner. Mt Craig, John, Fernie, laundry manager. 547 Craig. William Harrier, Hoamer, engineer. m. Crawford, W41li*m, Weat Fernie. teamster. 6&I. Critcbton, Robert, Pernie, miner. t*U Critch, John. Fernie. laborer. W5 Critchley, Thomai. i*ernle Anne*, miner. 55? Crompten, William, Coel Creek. Welsh Oemp. miner. UTo Cunningham, John, Hosmer. carpenter. fX. tmhtu**, huwAu, atU-M, Winer. 401 Cochrane, John, Natal, Michel House 107, miner. 121 Chapman, (len. K„ Elko, bartender. 43:, ChiwU, Jamtt, Elko, lumberman. 491 Conrad, fltowell. Who, lumberman. ItT Collins, Arthur William, Waldo, pror. constable. tm vragle, Norman. Hanbury, engineer. tit <'hi I mow. Wm, Ctoo'n Nest, bartender. 41J, Cat©, Don A., Corbin, prospettor. mt tmriano, Pa-squale, Hoemer, miner. 5W Da ten, George, Ferale Anne*. »tsw. mt iPtitm Jswea, ceal Creek, linns* iti, miner, «:, tfcretler, Heetnr, FiHHe, laborer «ns ■■'tKre, Giovanni. Hoemer, laborer. Mf Dorento, (ilusew*. M-namer. miner, Wi Downing, I'lyeeen Grant, fwnlt, hotelman. m, Itrnnoal, Fernie, I*f*fM Hotel, drayman. ttr,i liroW;, Umpb, Hoamer, laborer. €71 Droitt. Joseph Inter. Hoemer, laborer. Ui Padliey, lobe, Cokaio. Intmti - mt IWitiior* Oawmei 1 titpt*e P*r*t* birr Amettmnm *f*1m pm f>ann. tPirVt, tAynm Uke. ewttnetwr. 1453 Mallard, Ulysses Joseph, Hosmer, lumberman. 1454 iMalbon, Daniel, West Fernie, miner. 1497 iMatthews, John, Hosmer, Royal Hotel, porter. 1510 'Maze, Alexander L., Fernie, miner. 1522 iMlchell, Dudley, Coal Creek, House 159,, timekeeper 1526 iMlddleton, iRobert, Hosmer, fireboss. 1530 Miller, George, Hosmer, miner. 1537 Miller, William, Hosmer, Royal hotel, engineer 1545 ■ .'Mills, Edwin, Fernie, Central Hotel, laborer. 1572 Monks, Adam, Fernie Annex, fireman. 1597 Morrison, John Alex., Hosmer, Royal hotel, teamster 1590 Morrison, John E., Fernie .merchant tailor. 1602 Mortiti, Crow's Nest^section foreman. 1635 Mutz, Albert, Ferjale, brewer. 1636 Myers, John, Coal Creek, French camp, miner. 1442 Maddlcks, J, A., Crow's Nest, locomotive fireman. 1577 Monfbbetti, Tony, /Michel, tracklayer. i 1581 Moores, Albert, Michel, miner. 1594 Morris, Lionel, iMichel. 1612 Muir, David, Elko, C. 'P. R. pumpman. Mitchell, Garfield Raymond, Fernie, bank clerk. Matthews, George Alfred, Crow's Nest, machinist, Musgrove', John Thomas, Hosmer, overman., Milne, Herbert W., Waldo, mill supt. 1511 Mazzanobile, Thomas, Ferine, shoemaker. 1529 Millar, Alexander, Hosmer, stableboss. .McAlpln, John, Coal Creek, house 298, fireboss. McCullum, Arthur Albert, Fernie, lumberjack. McDonald, Hugh James, Fernie, woodsman. McDonald, Hector, Hosmer, lampman. 1679 McDonald, -.Malcolm, Fernie, Central h., woodsman 1682 IMacdonald, William, Fernie, King's hotel, laborer. 1687 McDougall, Peter, Hosmer, teamster. 1714 Mcintosh, Finlay, Fernie, Queen's hotel, lumberman 1724 McKay, John James, Fernie, Central hotel laborer 1726 McKay,'Murdoch, Fernie, Central h., road foreman 1733 'McKee, John, Elko, bridge foreman. 1737 'McKee, Tliomas, Hosmer, miner. 1739 'McKelvle Alexander, Hosmer, miner. 1751 McLachlan, Andrew, Fernie, Napanee h.. bartender. 1557 1496 1634 1549 1642 1646 1668 1672 2053 Rankin, George, Hosmer, fire boss. 2109 Rlvero, James, Corbin, trapper. 2217 1:319 ■§41—(sraitr"WiiiiaTu^™FernTe7^aT^^ 945 Green, Sam, Fernie, Chlpman Ave., clerk. 955 Gregory Ernest George, Fernie, Central hotel, cook. 962 Griffin, Wm., Fernie, Morrison's camp, lumberman. 964 Griffith, Earl Hume, Fernie Lumber Co., teamster. 975 Grlgg, Robert, Fernie Annex, lot 3, bk. 93, machinist. '977 Grundy, Morgan, Fernlo, King Edward hotel, porter, 9S3 Guldo, Cannaro, Fernie, miner. 908 Gob, Giovanni. .Michel, miner. 970 Guerin. Villa, Spurwood, house 131, bush foreman. 900 Glle, L. D„ Elko, laborer. 902 Glllls, Angus, Elko, lumberman. , 963 Griffin, William James, Fernlo, teamster. 899 Gilchrist, Andrew, Fernie, Miner. 942 Graves, F. K., brow's Nest, laborer. 965 Griffith, Samuel, Crow's Nest, boiler maker. 989 Haigh, Thomas, West Fernie, miner. 998 Hall Stephen 'Motcalf, Coal Creek, House 168, minor, 999 Hall, Thomas W„ Coal Creek, house 110, miner. 1032 Hardie, George, Coal Creek, miner. 1019 Hart, Albert Edward, Fernie Annex, miner. 1066 Hayes, Wallace, Fernler Central hotel, laborer. 1072 Henbro w, Frank, Fernie Annex Extent, mine worker. 1080 Hewitt, Hosea, Coal Creek, house 117, bookkeeper USO Hurot, George Robert, Fernlo, Waldorf h., laborer. 1159 Hutton, Robert, Coal Creek, house 18$, Engine oiler. 1043 Harrison, .Tames, iMichel, miner, 1080 Henthorn, H. C, Natal, clerk. 1010 Hamilton, Christopher, Crow's Nest, sect, foreman 1097 Hilts, A., Crow's Nest, teamster. 1139 Hulmo. Wm., Hosmer, switchman. 1091 Hill, John B„ Corbin, timekeeper. 1110 Hbiisark, Edward, Waldo, laborer. 1120 Hoisaek, John, Waldo, mlllhand. 1167 Ibbertaon, George, Fernie, McPherson Ave., painter. 1177 Ireland, Wllllnm, Coat Creek, miner. lis; Ives Thomas, Fernie, pumpman, I ISO Irwin, James Lawson, Femle, teamster. ItfOK Johanson, Mlkel, lloiraer, miner. Wi Johnson. Hugh -lumen, Fernie, Central hotel, laborer 12&3 Joyce, Patrick, Pernio, Queen's Hotel, miner. 1212 Johnson, Alfred Raymond. Fernie. King Kdward hotel, clerk, 1225 Johnson. Robert Alei., Crew's Nest, cook. 1210 Kay, William II., Hoemer, fanman. W9 Kendall, Nicholas Forteaeee. Hosmer bk. manager. UU Kennedy, IVter Norman, Fernie, blacksmith. 1204 Knoiina, Joseph. Coal Creek, home i95» miner. ISM Knovles. lompb. Coal Creek, Vttttb tnmp, miner. IS22 Kattle Joseph, Hoemer. Royal hotel bartender. ISM King. Thomas, Kllto. enelneer ItM Klrkboff. Herman. Waldo setter, ISI1 Voteh, CbnAtm, Hoemer. miner. I'M Uf.k. ionepb. Itmntmer, miner. tttt Lefek, Winds, llttsmer, miner. mp hntlmm. mitp IK, Conl tStoob. Mtetman. »!•♦ t <M*t*h arnftr*-.! Itttatmn* ******* i Mnt l.ntrb. Una* llonmtr, miner T7TI McLe^T^mes^erberErTTraleTFlreHallTcierk. 1810 MoVelgb, Thomas George, Hanbury, Jewell's Mill, ddgerman, 1703 McGovern, James, Michel, miner. 1705 'McGovern, Pete, Michel, miner. 1754 McLaughlin, Laughlin, McGillivray, log**j:ng foreman iVSO iMcNell.'John, Natbl, miner. 1681 iMcDonald, Arthur, Elko, lumberman. 1738 McKee, Edward, Elko, lumberman. 1773 MoMahon, John, Elko, rancher. 1671 McDonald, Dan John, Fernie, lumberjack. 1712 .Mclnnes, Malcolm, Crow's Nest, lumberman, 1705 .McGovern, Peter, iMichel, miner. 1710 Mclnnes, Hugh, A., Crow's Nest, lumberman. 1803 McRae, Al. Frederick, Corbin, teamster. 1790 MoPhereori, Donald Cameron. Waldo. 1816 Nay, John, Hosmer, physician. 1823 Nellies, David, Hoamer. motorman. 1824 Nellies, tiobaatlan. Hosmer, miner. 1841 Newton, Frank, Hosmer. clerk. 1850 Noodle, Kmmanuel, Hosmer, teamster, i.,; Newson. William. Elko, lumberman. 1833 Newman, Albert, Corbin, laborer. U85 Orr, Andrew, Fernie, Northern hotel, clerk. 1800 Oakes. Wm., Michel, miner. 187* O'Keefp, Bylvpster V>„ Elko, clerk. 1887 Orr. Samuel Sloan, Fernie, laborer. 1*18 Psrrotta, 8»lvatore, Hosmer, laborer. 1932 Pearson, William, Galloway, lumberman. 1993 Pooler. Alfred Edward, Morrissey, woodman. Sooi Poulln, Riigene, r*ernle, Central Hotel, porter. 2001 Powers, Thomaa, Fernie, Central hotel, laborer. 2noi pratt, A. 0., Hoamer, teamster. 2009 Price Walter Douglas. Fernie, laborer. 2015 price, Walter, Hosmer, Royal hotel, miner. 2020 Purcell, Edmund. Hosmer, bullmaker. 1918 Pasta, Jewmlsb, Fernie. miner. i»2? Pearce. r'wnlt U.. Michel, leacher. 2011 Price. John, Michel, miner. ini'i i'riugta, Peter. Elko, teamster. 19*J Poaione, Cormene. Coel Creek, miner. 1920 Pat«rion, Th»». Cunningham. I'row'e Nest machinist l»|l l»arneil, atone H., Corbin, carpenter. Scott, John Willard, Hosmer, switchman. Scott, William, Hosmer, motorman. 2229 Serson, Peter, i-ernie, teamster. 2235 Shanks, John, Coal Creek, mine manager. 2236 Shapka, Harry, Hosmer, Main St., coal chute mgr. 2237 Sharp, David^Fernle Annex, miner. 2241 Shaw, Thomas J., Hosmer, overman. 2241 Shaw Thomas, .!., Hosmer, overman. 2249 Shingar, John, Fernie, Queen's Hotel, miner. 2252 Sherwood, Claude Robert, West Fernie, batcher. 2263 Silverwood, A. J., Fernie, miner. 2266 Singleton, Robert Clifton, Hosmer, hoistman. 2273 Simpson, John Thomas, Hosmer, lampman. 2293 Slade, Arthur, Coal Creek, house 162, stableman. 2314 Smith, John A., Hanbury, Jewell's mill, blacksmith. 2331 Southern, William, Fernie, Central Hotel, carpenter 2336 Spears Albert H„ Ferule, Fire Hall, teamster. 2341 Spencer, John \V„ Hosmer, foreman. 2354 Starr, Wallace, Fernie, miner. 2357 Stedman, George, Hosmer, proprietor. 2385 Stewart, Geo. Wilson, Fernie Dalton ave., hoistman. 2387 Stewart James, sr., Fernie, miner. 2389 Stewart, Robert, Fernie, teamster. 2390 Stewart, Robert Taylor, Corbin, mine manager. 2391 Stewart, Thos Wilson, Fernie, Dalton ave., hoistman 2404 Strong, Herbert James, Hosmer, lumberman. 2345 Sproule, William T„ Corbin, stable boss. 2386 Stewart, Jack, Corbin, teamster. 2403 Strong, John G„ -Sparwood, lumberman. 2244 Shenfield, William. Ellio, bartender. 2277 Sinclair, Robert Hamilton, Elko, accountant. 2295 -Slater, Thomas, Elko, lumberman. 2352 Stenhouse, John Bon., Elko, Merchants' bank, teller 2375 Stephenson, James A., Elko, lumberman. 2380 Stewart, James, Elko, C. P. R., police work. 2414 Sweet, Frank, Elko, rancher. J3^fi_^tasBail!1JackIjCQrbIn^.Uaaastsr*. Directory of Fraternal . Societies INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS Meets * every Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock In K. P. Hall. Noble Grand, J. Pearson Secretary, J. -McNicholas, ESTHER REBEKAH LODGE NO. 20 meets first and third Thursdays in month, at 8 p. m., in K. P. Hall. Noble Grand-—A, Biggs R. Sec—Sister Price ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS Meet at Aiello's Hall second and third Mondays ia each month. John »». Woods, Secretary. Fernie, Box 657, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Meet every Tuesday a* 7.30 p.m. in their own Hali. /lo- toria Avenue. C. C, J. Combe. K. of S„ D. J. Black. M. of F., Jas. Maddlson; LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Meets every Monday at 7:30 p. m., In K. of P. Hall. Dictator, J. Sweeney, Secretary, G. Moses. 140 Howland Ave. LOYAL TRUE BLUE ASSOCIATION Lady Terrace Lodge, No. 224, meets in Uie K. P. Hall 'se«>i 3 and lourth Friday of tach mom.li at 8 p. m. M*RS. I. HROOKS. W. M. •Miss Flora -McGuire, Sec. LOYAL ORANGEMEN Terrace Lodge 1713. Meet al the K, 1\ Hall first and thirt Friday evening of each month at 7.30. Visiting brethren cordially Invited. It" CRIOHTON. W. M. v. SKILLING, Rec. Sec. l«lt/»\T,"«\T--*\T,-MT*t;^^ 2190 Sentoro, Paul, Coal Creek, coal passer. 2202 Savoy, Charles Jaspar, Coal Creek, timekeeper. 2325 Sneddon, David, Crow's Nest, car repairer. 2335. Sparham, Samuel, Crow's Nest, laborer. 22*!2 Shaw, Wlllljun, Hosmer, mine manager. 2290 Stewart, Robert Taylor, Corbin, mine manager, 2355 Stearns, William -Thomas, Waldo, lumberman. 2117 Tail, James Hall, Fernie, Northern hotel, carpenter 2435 Terrls. Andrew, Fernie, .McPherson Ave., miner. 2436 Terrls, James, Fernie, McPherson Ave., miner. 2445 Tliomas, John, Fernie, lumberjack. 2l5o Thompson, Harry Gordon, Fernie. Victoria Ave., C. P. II. clerk. 2153 Thompson. Joseph Spreer, Fernie, Agent C. N. R. 2154 Thompson, Mllo, Fernie, King's Hotel, teamster. 245A Thompson, Joseph S., Ferule, clerk. 2463 Thorn, Benjamin Leimard. Hosmer, civil engineer. 2468 Tland, Domenico,..Morrissey, laborer. 2I7« Tiffin, Reuben Taylor, West Fernie, miner. 2514 Tyler, Joseph Aloyslus, Femle, clerk, 2425 Tnylor, John E., Natal, manager. 2442 Thomaa, Charles, Michel, miner. 2488 Tra vl*, Thomas, Mlchol, bouse 171, laborer. ttm Thomas, Wllllnm James, Klko, teamster. 2ir>2 Thompson, John Andrew, Elko, bridge supt. Thompson, Andrew, Elko, 247.", Todbtinter, Albert, Elko, laborer, 2176 Totlhunter, John aibtfon, Elko, carpenter. 2178 Todbunter. Stanley, Elko. 2.M6 Inoka, Mike, ..Michel, shack 411, miner. 2518 Vat-bon. Clair, Femle. Central Hotel, laborer. 2*>ai Valpola Kugene, Keml<». rtnperlal Hotel,' teamster. 2'»20 Valller, .lirry. Fernie. Pellatt Are., bartender. :."..'.(i WiilUi-K, ..Ilk*'. Ilm-uivr, miu«r, 2.*«2 Walsh. Harry Patrick, Femle, cvniml h, tenm*l*r •:;,n:> Walter, Samuel, !lo»mer, Camp *, barn boss. 2'.«7 Walton. William McNeil, Pt»rnle, Howland Ave.. clergyman. 2'itI \Vardro;>, James, Hotmer, miner. :*"l Waneaski. JoMpb, Fernie, (juet»n's hoiet, min«-r ;."i*ni Watson. Arthur James, Femle, contractor. 2-'i«* Watson. William, P«rnjf>, t'-inadian Itank of Cont mere*, thru, 2819 Whelan, Patrick Vln«»ni. Fernie, bote»k*«t*er. Win Wbelan. Thomaa Hugh, F«<ml#>, bot«»lk»«««t«er A Good Bargain in En amel Ware, See our window for prices tmt Qnln lit, Ke* Michel, miner. 2039 Quinn, JiMts, Alee., Corbin. miner. iOtP Qnlnn. .lames A.. Corbin, miner. 1 :■*:':, Whin, Ale<*., F<>rnl«>, Morrison'* eamp, tnmtwrmiib. •m* R»e, ItetM Henry, ffrnte, Ontml Hotel, brtk^m.'ii J 2«*2 Willi?*, Tom Harrison, Fertile, art ouisunt. »SS Itankln, (Iseriiw, Hosmer, fireboss. '*- ««*7 Whtoh, tP-tul. Hosmer. Wue«-u'» Hotel, laborer. mi Itnnkin, William, Hosmer, miner, j 3*?.-* Wilton, Jsnwi. F*r»|#, Italton Are., tnimr tmt W,i. Itm*, l"i?-%*3*. KlRg't 1I*'.«J, labont. , -"»***' '-ViUa-s. WU:;*-*. i'«-*', x'.**.*b. »*«•«« *>;, ttttrttman. f JOM Wli* Mttot ntebnti, tlmmrt. ilmhtt funter. \ «T« W«»etj. William. Pernk, miner. tW M<**rtMB, John Ales. Femle, \V»ldorf P., engineer. I -*'«♦ W«idh*»o»e, Altretl, Femle. printer. I Slfl Itotwrtsen, Wm. inmen Hiddell, Waldo, asibfami \ VAt WHab'. i*hrtst«f»»w t'oa! t*r**h. a<-rt*,ir,u*\. ) im RobMimn, .leif-i*.*Hotmer, tHieen'm Hut^l, •<»«r.i.t»*«r [ *">*>'» Wnff,«»r, Uobert f», VAlu,. Jij^ntti r.n«»>i HOW ABOUT Garden Tools lawn Hose Sprinklers Screen Doors & Windows? A Complete Line of Paints, Varnishes fit Kalsomines I "'I hi"! ,|———B J.D. PIL Hardware and Furniture 'Phone 17 FBRNIE SsOe ■■"■■••■ SUA Itobaon. Wa, HosB^r. tot 3, bk It ptmfofrjpb^r. Wait. Ilagh, Kike, mt Itnntton. lohn TlMnwe, Ctw« a Meet, ear mrpmtm, PM Hoaasehle. John. HHK-mi, Alta. miner. M t*«nd. John WOtoo, WeMo, «8erfc. •It lbrnn, William John, Bnynen tsbn, coniractor. TW Attttt. MM. fAtttt.t3otitnt Hotel, mbww. tl* IMnrnris, Vbmp, AbtAA. Intoter tm iMwnitnee, IM., MttPel. miner. tttt Ulonde. Victor. F*mi#, tmomtnr. tH* Lnotnomo, HM^OIiehei. mmm. U0& IJtoyA, fleorpn W.. Crews Neat, Hmbernmn. I MIS t.rttn Meemrttmr Punt** 0*wr*# S*.i tr******** mt tnih. Henry Andrew. Wsldo. medlrel prnrUthmer. | sill lllMwto, AU»eto. F«r*l*. tmbtmt, I Itt tPtto, Cmm*. WeMo, B|»nMi. I $m Ro»U»« 1. CWio. Cton'n Sem, <«r Imrrmne »*-•* ft«»» t*,Jb* ttfr-f Viri'i f'i'i...MI-.;i' ' »!7» n«tt*tt, W». Rdsm-H. Fertile. fan*tii**T. tl*7 Ryan, Aa<r»*. Femle. iemt*-rt»t**k mt Royte. VA, mtht*, be«M It. miner. Robert*. JSM#a. Klko. tner-etiant, "V|* -* *l*t : . ,, , , , , 11. i **..,.* . ,%,» » .,*-*„ $*tn i«ff«,"*auan. V,*i-l*-i,|s!ti5,. Anlwir, \i#*MA-t, i*i^ti,if.t. 2TSI Xmni, Chatter, Wernl*. Snpnne* hot*!, i»ort*r. Tiil Yate* Jo*i<j»h. MU-kel.huu-.t*. ?a, tu.it*.* ? ..».» .9nmat., .•*■*.", *..*». m#*n* Uitamir, *;.i* X**m*i*. Frank ImepP, fVrnle, >**»»r#r am am 0 __ This list is published by the Fernie Liberal Party, who desire it to be known that they do not wish to remove any legitimate voter from the list hence their reason for giving this publicity. Last November 238 persons were crossed off the list by the Conservatives BUT NOT A SINGLE NAME WAS FwM mppty tt fe-ttewrtnf tor no appetising meal te tfNete Unm. Poultry, Butter m* Bggs Try pir Ctn*ttrt#|t leee- efee fer mmorrowht brnno. tnnt C#U. OR PMOIft 6H|M| CitlU Cl. PHom M moot otrm FtRNlt. • e. 8*ULOM nkWNN tmplm, mmm a****. -"4 ban-it- ■■*. V - li s. I Page EIGHT THI! DISTRICT LEDGES, PEENIE.B. 0., MAT 15,1915 # 1 MS I *v >- US |& J'*.**-. Jt-Kf ItH' hy Si Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Department Women's Suits 22 Women's Suits on Sale for $9.50 In this lot are some very attractive styles. Materials arc serge, Bedford cord, gabardine and black silk moire. Regular prices from $18.50 to $35.00. Saturday Special $9.50 Women's Serge Dresses Serge Dresses, made in plain tailored styles, neatly trimmed with contrasting silk and lace; a nice range of colors: tan, navy, brown Belgian blue and black. Sizes, 16 to 44. Saturday Only $3.95 Children's Dresses, $1.00 Children's Wash Dresses in large assortment of styles and colors; in gingham, Indianhead and cambric; sizes 6 to 14 years.' Regular price from $1.50 to $2.25. * , Saturday Special $1.00 Boys'Wash Suits, 95c. Boys' Suits in made and striped materials, with contrasting collars and cuffs. Sizes '.i to 7 years. Saturday Special 95c. House Dresses Women's House Dresses in strong gingham, neatly piped with contrasting materials. Sizes 16 to 44. Saturday Special $1.25 Corset Covers, 65c. Women's Corset Covers, made in fine cotton, trimmed with lace and embroidery. Sizes, 34 to 44. Saturday Special 65c. Dry Good Dept. REMNANTS Marked down very Jow to assure a speedy clearance, ln the lot are serges, cashmeres, satin cloth, Panamas, ete. The lengths are very suitable for ladies' skirts, children's dresses, etc. Come early and get. your pick, because thoy won't last long. Hosiery Specials This is a special bargain. Ladies' and children's 'ribbed Hoso, extra "good quality and fast black; sizes 5 to .10. Pay Day Special 2 pair for 25c. Ladies' Summer Vests Extra fine even mesh; come botli in ribbed and plain; no sleeves and short sleeves. Pay Day Special .. 15c. New Wash Goods including crepes, ginghams, prints, etc., in all the newest weaves, designs and colorings. These are very suitable for ladies' and children's dresses, waists, ete. Pay Day Special 7 yards for $1.00 New Curtain Nets and Scrims We are now showing the biggest and best assortment of these goods ever seen in Fernie. For Pay, Saturday we are offering a special line of Curtain Nets. These are exceptionally good value. Extra strong net and pretty lace effects; 50 inch wide. Saturday Special 25c. yard Ribbon Special yiA inch Taffeta Ribbon in a big range of colors. Very suitable for millinery purposes; also for children's hair ties. Regular 30e. yard. Pay Day Special 20c. yard Men's Department ECONOMIC PRICES FOR PAY DAY A special purchase in men's Neckwear, including values up to 65c. each, will be on sale at 25c. This lot comprises plain silk poplins, knitted silk and a good variety of fancy silks in wide and nar. row shapes. See our Window. On Sale Saturday at 25c. each Children's Straw Hats Mexican Hats for children are on sale in our Men's Department at 15c each Invictus Shoes reflect manufacturing honesty, integrity and capability in every phase of their production from the tanning of the hide until the final stamp of approval is affixed in the form of the Invictus trademark. You know what the application of scientific principles must mean in sucfh an important item of dress as your footwear. Therefore, the next pair of Shoes you buy should be Invictus—and the next— Invictus, and so on. Silk Special 20 inch Chiffon Taffeta. Extra good quality; nice soft finish and will not cut. A big assortment of pretty pastel shades to select from. Makes up in effective waists, petticoats, etc. Regular 85e. 'yard. Pay Day Special 50c. yard Grocery Specials Sweet Biscuits, 2 lbs 25 Weston's Soda Biscuits, 2 lb. tin '., 25. Robin Hood Roiled Oats, 8 l'b. sack 40 Robin Hood Cream of "Wheat, 2 pkgs .25 Braid's Ideal Coffee, fresh ground, 2 lbs. 75 Cowan's Cocoa, 1 lb. tin 45 Canned Peaches, 2 lb. tins, 2 for .35 Seeded Rasins, per pkg 10 Oranges, large size, per dozen 40 Red Seal Jam, 5 lb. pail '. — •.... .50 C. & B. Jam, i lb. tin 60 Wagstaff's Plum Jam, 5 lb. tin 75 Wagstaff's Red Currant Jam, 5 lb. tin 75 Sherriff's Jelly Powder, 4 for 25 Wagstaff's Grape Juice, qts .50 Assorted Soft Drinks, per doz 90 Holbrook's Crystallized Lemonade Powder large size ?5 Holbrook's Malt Vinegar, qts ,.... 25 Colombo Olive Oil, y2 gal. ... .• .$1.35 Ivory Bar Soap, P bars 25 Lyle's English Syrup, 2 tin's 35 Special Blend Bulk Tea, per lb , 35 PROVISION DEPARTMENT Picnic Hams, per lb 14 Skinned Hams, per lb 16 Bacon, per lb • • -23 Roast Pork, per lb 30 Lunch Tongue, per lb .40 Premium Cooked Ham, per lb 40 Large Salt Herring, per lb .10 #. ^ ^ TRITES-WOOD COMPANY, Ltd Money Saving Prices -^ r 1* \ BRANCHES AT FERNIE, MICHEL, NATAL AND COAL CREEK AN ACT OF PATRIOTISM Victory at Home First Arnold Bennett, in London News and Leader Sixteen per cent, ot the people of tbls country—that is to say, about one person In every six—do not get enough to cat. or are not sufficiently clad, or have no proper shelter ot nights. It is not their fault. If they spent all their miserable earnings ln the most scientific way, their earnings would still not suffice to maintain them In detent condition according to the minimum standard laid down by experts like Seebolim itown- tree and the late Charles Booth. Ttt'tflti'-aevuii par cent, of tlio cbll- drt'ii In tho average town, and more than that in certain large Industrial towns, do not and cannot obtain suffi dent sustenance and shelter to keep ,^1,^' and imperil the Issue of the with their starving children. The astonishing thing ia not tbat this population shows so little patriotism, but that It shows so much. It can outdo in patriotism many wealthy skinflints and many respectable Christians who Joyously swindle the government on every day of the week. The actual insane condition of affairs cannot, ln practice, be altered in the midst of war. It must be endured. Out while we are enduring It, we with something to lose really have not the right to •vhl'.c and tu execrate because the martyrs of the eocial organism do not continual? enumerate our noble and beautiful spirit or sacrifice for the commonweal. .Sacrifice is a delightful novelty to us, but those others have been at it all the time. Th* Truth About Labor Hut what aliout those unpatriotic rascals on the Clyde and elsewhere, who earn god money, oversleep themselves, prefer swilling b«*er lo making tbem in health. These are not the Imtrwted sUtoutettts of the poverty- stricken; they are the disinterested and considered statements of members of the governing cl»*s, we still preserve the criminal and tasua) labor idiotic Institution ot wnr by going out on strike? It is almost hopeless to try to make any class above the working-class comprehend the psychology of the work- Further, |„B e\&Ut aBd cn-pecially the striker. " In this country to strike Is to commit a crime, and "striker," like "freethlnk- That 1s to sny, we still victimise a l #r/Ms a term of opprohrftim I wnn* large number of cltliens, saying to j der what heavy blows will be nece*- them, "When we want you lo work, 1 nty before the community can receive yen must work. When we don t, you mto tt, (hick noddle a few simple and yoar families can starve." Our rulers are so ignorant, tbe employing class is ao stupid, the whole nation is so apathetic, that this rendition of affairs is allowed to persist, and men grwat public authorities have not yet had the wit to percelv* that It docs not pay and never can pay. On the top of It all we hare the fact! to talk about patriotism to this population ot eatuala snd sweated guarantee that, if these rules are put in abeyance during the war, they shall be fully restored at tbe end of the war. The Government has given no such guarantee. It has said merely tbat it will "use its influence" to get them restored. The phrase is futile. 6, Tbe Government has pressed the unions to accept arbitration in all cases of dispute. Some unions have agreed. Others, and very important unions, have refused. What excuse Is there for this refusal? There l» this excuse, that the employing class is open to the suspicion that it wilt agree to arbitration only when arbitration suits it. At tbe very moment when Conservative papers are objurgating the 'Miners' Union for refusing arbitration, the Port of London Authority, under 1 Air .I Davenport, is refusing arbitration. How does this fact present itself to tbe mind ot the working man? The thing Is grotesque. Further, It Is beyond doubt that In the majority of cases of arbitration the men are not fairly represented on tbe tribunal. 7. There Is no complaint to make against the great majority of workers, who have worked their hardest. R. Ity sn Incomparable Ineptitude a section of the Labor Party, at one of its most important reunions, has been denied the right of free speech. For Good Treatment i and Prompt Service Come to the Nyal Store T i B S B i §1 HE well known Nyal Family Remedies and Toilet Articles will in future be sold in this district only at this store. ClKJltlKMi,-CliliWird NOTICt I own tm *er*t ot land near Marys-. a tilt, I*. 1,., MNUSMiS «** mmt* a itm* *m-*f. ■ t'i \;*A'm\. ;--.',,% ■ '\iiitiVr.ti".', ,<w' n*r***"m4*r mftlvstlwi mot boom ■nd tens; mootty t*mm4. Thia tnn4 c*» bn MtAUA W l*«tw. m \ ThU 1* n flrat olaon woek farm;, lO.im arm 00m vwtff» adjolalng. II •Pi** -. t-ta*. t*t*t* *n*,i* <tn*l*9t-* **t r*ft- ttf and broomt titoowr*. wko owwo? mot tommOmtitm tmt, either •* a part- mt or vlll Mil es mar trrmn. Ad 4ms P Lt ND, Wsrdwr, BC ttinms WAJifSD s» agents ror oar ttgk gtkAo VkfAm Writ* for low pmm t« Ttioa fumuets c?cu:rirfclell wmi „„„, ^ <* ^r^g truths about the psychology of labor As retard the inyeholoay of the ore sent palpitating question of munitions. I may put down a few truths: 1. The men. like the matters, are engaged on Ooternmont work, the mf-n nt*e that the master* are making money and therefor* thoy df *lr»- to make money alto. That Ihe iiHittcrs ar* making too much mono- Is wfflrlalljr proved by the t**T*t inti tbst Mr. Moytf tleurto bant t Sttcsoriralijr und^riattea tn pain a ! moasure limiting th* war-profit* off manufacturers. < 2. Men bave netef naitiet an»- Mitng Hii'itf'tiii from. I.li# masters extent by going on strike, or threaten- -e-atng to tto *o. It is m« wkspu ; m m*****: yvuctmli-uw, -ii** *****. u*«»ifr» arm equal} tan^oanllii* !*tTi •* ufrtW It mm! bm !rfi»#«ift»i-ir*ii j that always before the mon strike! thc t»MSt«ri lave xirui V } *. M**i ptwiit* tm** fiM* <Hta»a tbo war, tot reil wago* hove not rl**e On th* contrary, la many. If wM most, rose*, thoy hav* tall** Men who oarn titrs money bj otot- tlwt mm* than pay Ptr that omtmy ttt nrerttnln *n»f tota nf batiftb ptmm vttmmx, we __^ ^ : „ 1 ItOUtR fm fAUt-nv* mmm m { I Jsts, AettmoM 'At***, frt rtmte.'l Owea •kemtt. fte-ratt, B.C. [ m llWHi'Mi tttm* in* 11 MiiHiM'inil»Wita*tiisilMllll.«M 1 -n iiiiisini>*«tii*M>iiiiiMiiwri^| rooms rm, »irsT-rwxiA»4 w Dowtr. «, Tt** rate of tkknen* among mt*mt**r* ol *•**■? tn*e wmteti* tm m m ^1 m A Jtm t-^IAA m P^PP-^*mPl^i &bbAmWMO -Vttbtn ?.. I* tit pmtti, brntt *»Imi »**** xr* gn-nf unit ntfttmrf ntfot Th* ho*-* llllllt • COMMUNICATION To the Bditor. District Lodger, Dear ir,- -Heferrini to our letter published la your Issue of Mny 1st, we beg to enclose herewith list of names of persons to whose further mention on th* l<ocal Voters' List, notico of objection turn bono glvon, on tho ground that Ihey aw no longer resident*, l*#v- tns out tho** with r<>f*r*Bc*f to <*hom the objection has been withdrawn. As stated in our previous letter, no on* bnn jftt b«<Hi «trii«k of, nor will nny one bo at rack off .until th* holding of i«i* tiomtt m Movisto* **#*« on Moon*} | hi**', iiii. n\*i. it*. v*\* ,***-Uti,-M-£, liu.a.**.- of withdrawal ot the ohlection is be- S»f ftiww I* ifWMrjr **«#■ wIMw* mt* ttm4 n person ta still residing In the dl* trict. and in any other cate, where ut*»<u ,* -o «*!««««.* w» torn trnmiimi, n totter from the party tatemtod. or the least tittle of orlA*aca undlng to show that a poroea ts still rtotdlag In th* IMstriet will h« quit* avmrieat at tb* Coart of Rtvlstoa to far a* we nr* mnrerneti. tn mtwr* hi* r*f*nth>m 09 tho tttt, TtiHnbtnn: f*.w far ptfiffiirffi'm of *b* IM, WOatat Toaratnuy. DAVID I. WLAOR, Caa VtnAt Amot tMmS kimwHmt tf.fat of nowim lAjmttA to oW ho oa f**g* f of' IN* ItMM We have been selected by the Nyal Company Limited, the makers of these high quality preparations, as their local Exclusive Agent. And those distinguishing features of our store and service which caused our store to be selected by the Nyal Company for their Agency assure you of good service and treatment when you buy here. OUR IDEA OF BUSINESS goes farther than a mere handing over of articles in exchange for your money. But you are too busy with your affairs to have time to investigate for yourself the merits of ail the various things sold in a drug store, We, however, are handling these things every day and are daily talking with actual users of the preparations we sell so that we have a pretty accurate opinion of their good qual* ities and short comings. This information we gladly and disinterestedly place at your disposal because we want everything you buy here to satisfy you, We ar% interested in st>ing that you get that one thing in our stock that will best suit the particular use you have for it It is because of this actual knowledge of the superior quality of the Nyal Products that we accepted the Nyal Agency. We know that when we recom. meed a Nyal product It will not disapoint either you or us. We carry a fall stock of Nyal Preparations and well gladly aid you with any information that will guide you in getting the most suitable preparation for the particular use you have for it, If you are acquainted with any of the Nyal preparation* you, will know the aamft* mmmit fptt #T-r*#*iH*n»»*il mPfl*' fHntfKP W-rtfrf Nynf «frfiW**#« If trrxti fifw? fl<5« kou-uid ot 39 ya) Quality's ieJcphDac order wflJ bfjng^oii aay NyaJ preparation y^ say. Nyai's Tooth Paste or NyaTs Face Cream are two particular popular items with those who know Nyal Quality. iHEHHrararaMCa HAL STORES ARB HOOD STORES .MMM iViCJL/li/AW 3 BookStore FERNIE WBIU IT PATS TO DZA& Agent For Nyai's Family Remedies urnm"***
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Title | The District Ledger |
Publisher | Fernie, B.C. : J.W. Bennett |
Date Issued | 1915-05-15 |
Description | The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919. |
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Notes | Preceding Title: The Fernie Ledger Frequency: Weekly |
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