.■p*lf*S-^55*"Kl***A fn#*ffc-«nw&A ii.a- V».—-v*rtS—Krl i-rutraur-*-«-u^aLi'U luavtunv—-via' that they have secured the Gaumont talking pictures, and they will be shown tonight (Friday) and Saturday. These pictures are, without doubt, the ■last word In the moving picture world, and the people of Fernie will have an 'opportunity of hearing some of the greatest comedians and vaudeville artists* of the day. . - - " r. From hundreds of records and subjects of the world's greatest vaudeville stars was chosen one, the greatest singing comedian, Harry Lauder,' to head the bill that is to be shown at the Orpheum, along with other well known artists. Fernie has not the good fortune of having this world famous comedian appear before them so this opportunity Is doubly fortunate, first ln hearing and seeing the talking moving pictures, and secondly in being entertained by that inimitable entertainer, who has appeared many times before the royalty of the world. Harry Lauder receives the nifty little sum of -11,000 per day for his services. This unusual treat will be offered as the feature on the program tonight and Saturday at the Orpheum, ming" there. The entry cars weigh 1.6S0 pounds. Men had to shovel on ^ji.Average three tons into each of these cars and -then push the car and dump it. They pushed it in forty times a day, two of them, an average of twenty apiece, to earn an average of $2.20 each they were i>aid for doing the work! -President Moyer said the average life -of a copper miner in that couatry is seven years. Tbe average trammer could not stand it three years until he was on the scrap heap. The company owns the houses. What few are not owned by them are built -l>y miners on leased ground. They won't sell any ground. The understanding is that the men lease the ground as employees of the company, and the minute they cease to be employees the ■company has a right to turn them out, There are some features of this thing that are too dirty to describe. I may, however, give you an indication of what conditions are. Knowing there was no power there but the power of the 'boss himself—and tbey have some of the worst 'petty tyrants that ever hnd a human form, some of the lowest most debased beasts ia that capacity that are on tbe top bf this earth. If you go there they whisper it about—they don't advertise such things. But I dont charge all of thein with doing these things, -but some of them did. They went so far that where a man's wife or daughter appealed to one of those things and- that man would not. agree to have them submit the man and his family would be driven out of that country. Those are the things those men were enduring. Because of tbe nature of the rock, that mining ought to be the safest mining in the world. Instead they have slaughtered and mangled more -men in the operation of those mines than in any other mining industry in the world. Those are tlie conditions, and when men. could bear them no longer they got together and sen! "a written communication to the representatives of the company. AH they said to begin with was: "We have the ownetehlp of .those mines as a real. some grievances that we believe -investment $1,250,000. -should be adjusted and we would ll&e In that forty-two years on the basis.to, hav» >'ou me^- m ia conference to of that $1,250,000 investment they have '\a™ them up, give us a hearing and paid themselves In dividends $121.050,--1 let ***** to settle them." The repre- 000. Their own reports show that in 'aentatlves of the company said: "No. addition to that they arc paving them-'if >'ou ,wa:nt to ^ >" thl* «ot*r»r selves $340,000 a year salaries. The ! country you go back to work in those ^y^-^^-j^mini^nejm^w^aUTryouTrar-Ir uties as presl-j J™, *»*]""? what 5"e SI**11/' *?' ■ ■■ - - ■■ lout!" (And the men decided to dp-the only thing that was left for them to do, and that was to quit work, and by JUDGMENT IN CULSHAW CASE Making thamelsss •aeriflet of Rights of Mlntrt and Welfare of Publis to Eaigsnelss ef Oroup ef Financial Adventurers—Resolution Will be Submitted Tomorrow. VICTORIA, fob. J.-On Wednesday Mr. J. Place will more a resolution of want of oonfldence tn tht government on account of tht policy of procrsstin- atlon In dealing with the mine troubles on Vantouvar Island. No doubt an attempt will be made to rule the motion out ot ender, as was done when Wr. Parker William* moved lor nn In- vtattoUon Into tlio conditions In tbe coal mining area, bnt It to Tory probable that this tin* the opposition wtH not be tricked by tbt spoaktr asking tho bouse to approve his ruling Instead of asking whether the resolution Is In order, but will Insist on th* mtU-bsrt voting on tbt question of tho premier and his ministers some definite expression of opinion in tho matter ot labor difficulties and should the steam roller bt applied In this oaae, as .with IMr. Williams, tht matter will again toe brought up Indirectly when the question of supply ls being argued next weak. Mr. Place todny asked Hon. W, J, Dowser bow many tntn wart arrtatsd In connection with the strike disorders at Extension, LadyamHh, Nahal- mo, Cuirtberiand nnd South Wellington. Mr, Dowser replied: Extensbn, fifty arrested, thirty-seven committed for trial, twelve charges withdrawn and ont dlsmusasd; Ladysmith. seventy-three arretted, fifty-five committed for trial, twtlvt withdrawn and tli hoys released on good behavior; Nanaimo, tevautysix arrested, rifty-tlx committed for trial, slghtesn charges withdrawn and two charges dismiss- oA* Oo**th Wnl-ttt-i-wtAW ftontt.o ti*ont** Mi>. W***Hi mtolMttftn resdsi led, tan committed for trial and two Before Martin, Galliher and McPhillips, J.J.a. Culshaw (plaintiff), respondent vs, Crow'* Nest Pass Coal Co. (defendant) appellant .Master and Servant, Workmen's Compensation, Fan Miii. Death from Snowslide, Accident arising out of Employ mont. ''Where u workman Is by reason ot his employment exposed to tht risk of injury from snowslides, greater then that common to people living in tht same locality or the ordinary normal risk, then tht extra danger to which tht workman Is exposed Is something arising out of bis employment and on his death, front a snow- slide his dependents ara entitled to compensation, An "acoidsnt" lt an unlooked-for nUtbsp, or an untoward event, which is not axpeotsd or designed." (Fenton v. Thornley (1SW3) A.G. 403, approved.) On au application by plaintiff under the Workmen's Compensation Act for compensation for ths dtatb of htr bus- hand In a tnowalid*. Thompson, co. ct J., dismissed tbt application (4 WAV. R. IUI) on tbt ground that tbt aoci- dent was caused by a snowsUde occasioned hy abnormal conditions of waa- titer. The plaintiff appealed and Murphy. ). (4 W.W.R. 1340) remitted tbt att.tr. *S »Vf_ -*,*,*^»»Hj,li*v „*1»1, .. ■>»,*_ >t . to And for the" idaYntttf."' Prim ' this i find be where he was, and tbat was not necessary or usual for other not so employed. I would dismiss the appeal, McPhillips, J.a.—Thia ia an appeal coming before us from Murphy, J„ who, upon a case submitted by thc Isoroed arbitrator (Thompsons, co. ct. J.), held (4 W.W.R. 1340) that even nm,„ with the finding of fact that tbt snow- ""*- slide at Coal Creek which caused the n n death of Joseph Culshaw wss caused by abnormal conditions ot weather, the applicants, tbe widow and Intent daughter of tbe deceased employe**, being dependants, are entitled to be allowed compensation under tbe Work- awn's Compensation Act, 1902, snd tbe learned Judge remitted the case to tbe arbitrator to proceed thereon in ac cordance /witb such decision, In aii claims for compensation the question to bt answered must always the arbitrator's finding* (4 WAVJl. 1337) before us, and we have therein this language:— "Was the shelter In which the man stood and where he had a perfect tight to be at the time In tho course of hia employment, so situated that persons standing therein ran a -peculiar risk from snowslides? I would hold if the matter were before me for a final hearing, that persons within tbe shelter ran no special risk from an ordinary snowslide: and that the aceident was caused by abnormal weather conditions, and F would therefor* dismiss tho application following Warner v. Couchman and Mitchtnson v. Day may therefore be assumed, per haps, that we have sufficient before us to determine this appeal. U|ion careful perusal of Warner v, Couchman (1011) 1 K.». 351, K0 LJ. K.B. 526, and the decision tn the same cast in the House of Lords (1912) 81 LJJtn. 45, it will be seen that that case went wholly upon the fact that thu man was not specially affected by the severity or tbt weather by reason of his employment; and IMurphy. J., In his Judgment properly <1t»tlngulth«t-* 'Wbtrssst for a period of over sixteen inoatfet • strike or lockout bss existed In Um mine* oa Vancouver Island, and whereas, the said strike or lookout •withdrawn. SENTENCES OH RIOTER! SUSPENDED hns caused and Is causing greve in and wberaas, tbe said labor (rouble has been, and continues to be. the occasion of very large expenditures of public money, and whereas, the said 'I ii« .Wm th« tukruwtai inturv onn at '* trom iho facts of this cane, and the Mjf SwffWtfH TthJ I""*! Judge draw, attention to this emirse oi tho amofovmentf I important consideration, that tbe l4»ni ^^^n ot^SSJhaa no Jurlsdlc- Chancellor v%& ssa what wss Ute fiotnt of view with which manager getsTHO.TOO performing nominal duties dent, vice 'president, members of the (board of directors and secretary, for possibly holding two or three meetings a year, those meetings not lasting over two or three hours, and a clerk doing the work, the rest of them ^et something like $200,000 a year. They have reinvested of their dividends $76.- 000,000, making in aU dividends they have taken, in addition to paying themselves the highest wages men were ever paid for doing nothing, $195,050,000 on that investment, and the property today la valued at something like $1,000,000,000. All told, after paying themselves these fabulous salaries, the mett who own the stock, on an investment of $1,250,000 own today $1,195,060,000. These men who have made all this wealth, or who own It now, live in 'Brookmte, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, in the finest homes that money can buy; tbey have never been in Michigan to see those -mines. The closest acquaintance the most of them have with the mines at all has been with looking at photographs of the mines ond reading of them In the papers And men who, by their labor, created nil this wealth, up to the 23rd day of lam July, were working in those mines, four bf them over S.0O0 feet deep. Just Imagine 8,000 feet straight down, the drlfta 3,000 feet stratght in, working on the level and lift plan, 200 feet between levels. Sometimes the men would lie down $.000 feet and In 3,000 feet more and up 200 feet in a little entry, and the worst of It nil no pretense made to furnish one single breath of air at the face of the working place. Men wtorked ln those places who only wore a cap and a pair of shoes. They had to have th* caps on which to wear their lamps and they had to havr> th* tho** to protwt th«»lr f#*t It was so hot that even when they were sitting down, not working at all. the sweat streamed from tlwm thni*n to "'*V - In lh* locality -not so employ*^, tf.'.."s It out of tb* principle enunclsted In the rases dt*d to us on b*haif of th* appedsnts. In order for Culshaw to p*rform his work It waa nwvwuary for bim to Ine iun court tn Armstrong v. Ht. Hugtme Mining Co. HMhi U lijC.il. a»5, T WJLR. 374. (Hunter. *X and Irving snd Morrison, J.J.) defined what the arbitrators must do in stating a oa**. Morilaon J. (who d*llvor-*«d the jtMMUIHMH. ut -mu withi **• »t,V„lw,, ***■ p, SS8, •aid:-— "The proper course In stating a cat* I* for lilm to find, not only that de- :cpfl**d m«t hi« d*nth by awld-wit, i whilst In iln* employment of the de- i fendunt, ii* li« bas dono. but to na fur- i ih*r and find »# a fact (a) wliether or , lit). '..I.l. .It .'.',<„', rllljil' *.'.*'. i.f ikt'.kl 'ft ith* ttnirtt*' ot that employment; (b) th-,. il,,, ,»..•*••»>( di fl u--i|o r-'in*v fi- on* jruili,*-' of ni-rlmi* «nd wilful mlwonduM or «*rtotis n«'g!wt, and thnn allow or dU;iUow -rom-p^nsatlon as th* «as* I Wt have no specific finding in tbe i n'.nif.. nf* covering (bi. but we have ■k fU*94,t, vJ.^t',.. .,* <*|<»|*«Vi*.--*... k.*ft.w,»» .... thin kind. He said: 'll 1* true thnt when we deal with the effect of natural Ottusss uttucuiiK «i wmuMwuW; (Continued on page two) MACLMOl). Alta., Feb. ll.—The m- quittal of th* prison*?, and lh* nr r*»t of two of tb«? *itn- traordlnarily «*n*»tl0na$ mm trtwi by .ftidg* Wnli.il !u thi* Pupr***^ CVur: b*re today. Chaigvu *nu Mtnimittin^ .ih*l a', iMniKing **» commit offc-nfw* <*) gross ImmurHli'y .milii* *h* ;i»'M«ii what their booka may show-^hat thei^ Um ^n* Hypim. of Hellers*. An- tor el*v«rti tioum unm." Tbey mud* a -ronuaft (every tbr«»* months aud th*y didn't I know *i»si the conirstm rw*m«. "tito mch as severe weather, we are company told tbem at tbn i«iwi of threo ■d and bound to rwi«id*r whe-'mrnitbn how mwh tlu'y had «Mrni«d. jploymentor wat* m< n-ly a coitseqtuwe! find out. And if th* pit Un** dl«t.k<- s of ixartMUtont MiWiiUi-r ... ;U> :',.,..'.*. ':'.,.%: '.'.,.>-. and Ibmndary Socialist p..*.. .•*,'-, ,i, tf ' i''... li-ctura on ■HocUHi.m .ji t;i«' ^ociaJl-xt Hall on Sunday. V**h '•", «h*n all nr* invited to auwid. ("ontraiJ< lioodsin is an abtft ap-rak-fr. ar-d «♦■!* '-mrti bearing. vour buity a h«ndr*d d-olldr* ^nd It you objwtinl y-mi ani voiir fmiliy **r<- fhwwn out nt \onr hi.'m* an-l i(rhm' v.-.'**- > " *t' ii"i- .' |th* morld i>.r i-|.j l> 'h"'r ;» *<, * isnd tb*y jwitd for 'h*m *r*rr mmtth jit th*y w»t»t*d !•» 9tA*. there »'. .*',i. I l*u«hlnf *«• doiif Th*v **tl I? "*mtif ,.jt .,,,. ,..,(*..* .,,«,Mr.•» iVi-* !'• W.V.*-' •>■» If h** wn* hflot mud* tb* vk-thn. ef a fimme-vp, and no pisntible wa» b!* u3i. *u *%n,*U4*x ui t'h-uo*' .«*».! *,) toi* act tui-r**. that In tlu- tuuumltig up hts '-, rd-'iltt i li-a-iif'l th* Juc. it, USiliU In 4 ,k.*i.4.tk ttm* tr. 9tt,**i kU k*4ft*'. i*t **v**-*fc» * ii Tht. .<,!<5'ri««' thn,uehout w*n «f •* llirir,- tir 'j'ok rrwlfilig llfttlllf. Mm. Il-i.ini' i-ta'Hn: iltm l»oba* < «lt«t sit h- r i.t>i»if. --Hid u.i«-.tW'iH»!is In r »;|ili i ! ti ft- -k.il.i-l- tw- -v-ld r; tn.-t* tintHl. •a lil!,- i»;th '*.," tninr lit-* .-OVtffd tow » I * H» r hu**«.ir. I Mik«" Hyi'ifi'1. fttwi .» * * * ■ • :. .: .', .i '.,- .*' '.';■ itii-t) ; „» ;';.»• %t) limn. l»it th*ir *»M.*i-.t**.> b« !«»•>! u , i.vtM-AtiViit ng ij*uirr. iwiii •«.?■<• »; r, »-.") itiT p*r]nry whi*< !■■■ '• f. ' •'..- (tiWP iWj"-**1t*V ; 33c; PAGE TWO THE DISTRICT LEDGER, PERNIE, B. C, PEBRUABY H;19H. .UAxfci 1% iyi4. •; -..•;-;'•'.;-'--. •-'!; •^3ix/-'"-'--" "^AAsA*-'"*- sp AAsXr}X-.;'^i:yrXA-^'A^:"A:..X}sy :. A :- Directory of Fraternal Societies INDEPENDENT ORDER OP ODD FELLOWS Meets every Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in K. P. Hall. Noble Grand, H. E. Barnes. Secretary, J. B. Mciklejohn. ANCIENT ORDER OP FORESTERS Meet at Alello's Hall second and third Mondays in each month. John M. Woods, Secretary. Fernie, Box 657. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS u .'■ ■ :■ * Meet every Tueaday at 7.30 p.m. in their own Hall, Victoria Avenue. C. C, A. Bunch. K. of S., D. J. Black. M. of F„ Jas. Madison. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Meet every Monday at 8 p.m. in K. of P. Hall. Dictator, T. Uphill. Secretary, G. Moses. !f22S25S52SESJS John H. Walker's Address on the Copper Strike in Michigan Continued from Page One RING'S HOTEL Bar supplied witli the best Wines, Lit] hoi's and Cigar? DINING RO(nr IN CONN NOTION W. MILLS, Prop OR. JOHN BARBER, DENTIST Office: Above Bleasdell's Drug Store Phone 121 Residence: 21 Victoria Avenue FERNIE B. C. ALEXANDER MACNEIL Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, etc. Offices: Eckstein Building, Fernie. B.C. F. C. taws Alex. I. Fishst LAW& A FISHER ATTORNEYS Fernie, B. C. PEACE IS NOT YET An Eastern organ of privilege scolds radicals who "continue to hack and hew the corporations after they have accepted terms of surrender." It • watits "peace," The -corporations surrendering? What have they surrendered? None of their profits on watered capitalisation. Very few of the millions they have wrung by extortion from mana- cled labor and helpless consumers. .Mary Jones, washerwoman, is at ill paying forfeit tribute on food, clothing and shelter, and wondering bow under beaven she can make ends meet Labor In Colorado, labor In Michigan, labor in West, Virginia, is still on the rack, "JVacw?" Vou don't me much peace Jn Calumet, do you? Privilege can't »ave Itself liy crocodile tears. It's a case uow of spare is settled; everybody is back at work; production of ore is normal, and -the only .fraction there is being created by outside agitators." Next morning the same thing occurred in the .local papers and the-Chicago papers as well. I said to myself: "If I didn't know the tactics of those people I would take it for granted the strike was over and it would not be necessary for me to go." But I knew their tactics, and I went up there to the copper country. Over 15,000 people attended the first meeting I held, artd no more determined body of men and women ever •went on strike than they were. Nobody ever appeared to more thoroughly understand what they had to meet ani* be more determined to meet it than they were, and the outrages I have cited aro the reasons why the women seem to take a more active interest in the struggle than the men themselves, if that were possible. Those companies had every detail and every .phase of life entirely arranged for and under thei» control. Even the churches are built on the company's ground on the same kind of leases as the miners' homes. The only difference is that they say in the lease tbey can have the ground to use for church purposes as long as it is used for church purposes only—and to those mines under the conditions enty-three children ana twelve grown they worked before they came out on strike. ' And- then, feeling that they could not -usir the militia publicly, to the extent that -they would want to use them, .they imported thugs into the copper country. You will notice in the records there were 5,000 less militiamen and -military in our country last year than the year previous, notwithstanding they made a greater effort to get them last year than in any previous year. They knew if a lot of them would be used ln such a way -publicly that all the people of the nation w'ould turn against tbem and weaken the military forces so that no good men at all would serve ia them. Then they imported thugs. They sent to Del 'Mahone's strike breaking agency in New York City and got 1,200 of the pick of the slums and the tenderloin district to come up there and preserve the peace of the copper country. At least 100 of them are proven murderers and a majority have served time for almost every crime in the calendar. That is the kind of men the authorities imported into .Michigan to preserve the peace and uphold the law! And what the militia failed to do .. . . . , . . , these gunmen, these bandits, these rf ^T^h^wSL^A^'SSlh8 ™an-killers and murderers, attempted are One of the bishops of the Meth- t-0 do_ ,rhey shot tw* men who £ere odlst church, in order to make clear that the copper barons -must be good men, in a public declaration Jn their own convention announced that they must .be good men because they guar- anteed, practically, the salaries of every minister and priest that was up there! They control the banks and through them the small business men; between their control of their credit and their control of their patronage they can crush any of them and drive them out of the country any time they like. As a result every element up there is on the side of the copper mine owners and against the men. Let me give you a statement of what the .political situation is, Big Jim MoXaughton Is the boss of the Republican .party in those counties, and the chairman of the Democratic party had to get consent from the boss of the Republican .party before he could hold a job as chairman of the opposite party! They have it arranged in detail; they know just how to play on men's prejudices and their sense of ■patriotism, their race feeling, their nationality .feeling and their religious feeling. The manager of the company is a Scotchman—he ought Lo have been born a hundred years ago, and if he had we could have dealt with him in Uie 'only way he understands that militiamen came up there to keep tbe peace, when there wasn't any evidence of disorder. Tbe mllltla camped on the com- They snot two men who were sitting down eating their supper. There was not a gun in the house or a thing that could be classed as an instrument of war or a weapon. One poor devil was shot with a big 45-buL- let through bis stomach, and died there. A boy seventeen years old ran out of the dining room and -started up the stairs. One of these officers of the law saw him and thought it would be anlce way to get a record for himself and murdered the -poor boj*. The boy fell back in his father's arms. Two men are in the hospital now from that same shooting. And a little woman, with a six-monthb-old baby In her arms, ran to the kitchen and got behind the stove, with her three little children clustering around her, and one big brute poked a gun in,sand the pewder from the revolver s.hot burned the baby's dress, and the bullet went through its clothing That ls the sort of thing that was done to those people. The State's attorney—who without question is -on the other side—said it was the most uncalled for, cold-blooded and cowardly murder he ever knew anything of. Notwithstanding that, the eight men who did It disappeared, and the sheriff disappeared. 'He stayed away for a week, and after they had arranged for a second degree murder charge to be lodged against them the sheriff brought' the men back. Their bond was fixed at $10,- 000 the copper company went on their ■bond and the sheriff turned around and hired the murderers again, giving them their stars, and they have been__Qii _guard with their guns__and_ clubs as peace officers ever since. (Men were shot ln the back, women and children were insulted and outraged and beaten up. And then they atfopted the same tactics they did with out people in West Virginia—they killed three of their own scabs to make it appears the miners had dOne lt, in order to create public sentiment against them. The miners got hold of the facta, and you .will notice the investigation was promptly hushed up. They took a flag from a little girl in a parade. Rather than disgrace the fag by allowing one of those murder- *>ra to get It the little girl held onto It, and one of the brutes shot her. A part of her head was shot off. And then, to cap It all, on Christmas Day, when the -people had been out on strike almost six months, when they were ln dire straits, ths little tots who bad heard about Santa Claus .wondered ir he was going to come to see them, and the women and children and the officials of tbe union went around and solicited money so they could have a little Christmas hox; some or them were to get a sack of candy and nn apple, some of them iwlrs of sftcond-band shoes or mufflers. They were enjoying themselves around the Christmaa*tree. I don't nny that they deHberoMy went ont and murdered those children, but Just as «ure a* I am On this platform Jim people died as a result of it, If the miners had done that to the families of. the people on the other side we would be wiped off the earth. They understand what it would mean if the facts were brought out; they knew the people would rise up and ■they started to suppress the evidence. They arrested all the local officers and all the active men, they arrested all the sympathizers and people connected with friendly newspapers and put them in jail without bail so they could do nothing. And, knowing that President Moyer, if allowed to stay, would take it up, they figured they would have to get him away. They broke into his room, beat him into insensibility—and he charitably says he doesn't think they shot to murder him! Charlie always was kind of charitable, but by heavens, if I had to voice my honest convictions, I would have to swear they did try to murder him. After President Moyer was beaten workers to the necessity of really getting themselves informed so-that they' can understand this .problem correctly. I would like to see every union man a subscriber to his own journal, a subscriber for the local paper, for -the national labor organ, and read such literature as will enable him^to see and understand thoroughly. There i one other thing I want to point out: Ninety-nine per cent of all the -men and women who are in our labor organizations are working for a living. If there is a mistake in the policy of the officials of the union they are not gaining anything by it; they are losing whatever it means in the loss of progress to them. If there ia a dishonest official in one of those organizations the members are paying the bills; ,they are -paying the cost, and in either case if you can get to tbem nvitb the truth they .will change it mighty quick. And it will not help to go on the, outside throwing bricks. Don't go on the outside; stay in; don't let them put you on the outside. Whenever you go out you weaken your own cause; you discredit your own statement; and- the crooks on the Inside don't fall to take advantage of it. Stay on the inside; preach the truth to tbe rank and file, and in the long run—It will not be -long—we will get them to see things as they, really are and they will act' in the right direction. It will be the shortest way. If even a small amount of funds can be provided those men will be able into Insensibility, after they had shot ttLm?J™\!!^LYfclle«,th,S inve8tiga; 1,1-m i« tur. ».„_!.._a , __....!.. *...„-9 'tion is on, and farther if necessary. I him in the back—and I saw the -bullet hole and saw the doctors locate it— they dragged him and the auditor of that organization out on the street, kicked and beat them for a mile through the public highways, put them on the train, bought two tickets for Milwaukee, and sent the bill for the tickets to the office of the sheriff of that -county. Then when the small committee, -fearing he might die on that train and they might be held responsible .for it, tried to ge a way out of it—they sent for a physician. They got one, and he sent his bill to the sheriff of that county. I want to ask you if beating up men; if deporting them; if attempted murder had been practiced by us, and an organizer sent the bill to the International office, is there anything in our country that would have saved our International officials under those circumstances? But the men who did this haven't even ■been arrested or indicted! And I say to you, friends, I hope we don't have to settle our troubles in that way in the 'future. I believe they can be settled In another way—a peaceful, orderly way—on the basis of reason; but if they won't allow us to settle them in that way, I tell you I want to quit dealing with the scabs who get ?5.00 a day—they can get a thousand'of them to take their places. If we «ranot settle our troubles in any other way, what we ought to do is to go to the root of the matter and get the man who really is responsible. I am not gbing to advocate that; I will do what I can to prevent It, It they will give us a chance to do it. and I hope nobody, on the strength of any statement of mine, will take that action; but I tell you frankly that if some ipoor man or woman, driven to desperation,,mentally unbalanced for the moment because of suffering and jth-fl _-mii ffd*m» nf tri Aiids maybe a father or a mother or a child, were to go down to Brookliue, Mass., nnd take Jim McNaughton and his satellites and wreak vengeance on them, I could not tind it in my heart, to condemn.' They did this on Christmas Eve, and aftemvards they took up a subscription among themselvos to bury -the murdered .men. women* and children. And when they offered their bloody -money to the mothers and fathers or these children—these -people with their hands dripping with the life blood of those children—the fathers and mothers said: "We will bury them." To ths everlasting credit of those striking .men and their wives and children, they said: "No. we don't want your bloody money; you can't give us n penny. We -will be under no obligations to you; all we want ls what Is right, and we are going to do the best we can to get It." Now they are on strike. It Is one ot the coldest 8tates in the Union, and possibly tlie counties tbat are the worst in that part of the country are the three counties where the copper mines are located. Those men and women with their dead are still fighting this battle on. They are our dead Just as much as they are theirs. Their Uvea wpro tnkon in the fight for our causc» Juat as much ss theirs. If they lose we lose, and If they win we win.! believe that $100,000 from outside sources will enable those people to take every precaution to protect themselves and bring out the truth in this investigation and get the best results that can be gotten from it. I -believe if the trouble is not settled lt will enf able them, with their other resources, to fight until summer time comes again. And if that is done they can fight on until winter time comes again. I believe this means so much to the labor movement it will be a shame if some means is not found to enable them to do it. I am not going to suggest even how it can be done. I know we have our own burdens that are bearing heavy, but if that fight in the copper mines is won, the new spirit that 'Will be" put in those men and in the labor movement will mean a great deal more than a few dollars in the treasury if you have to fight next spring. And if that fight is lost it will mean more as a deterrent influence upon us than the few dollars would mean in our treasury that would be necessary to put it on the right kind of basis. And I do hope, along with President iMoyer, that some means may be found to .meet this situation and enable those people to make that fight. I have been In fights pretty much nil my life. There are four generations of coal miners 011 both sides of ■my own familv. And that is enough for anyone who knows anythtng about the coal mining industry to realize that life has been pretty much of a fight, and I don't know any one who ever went into a battle that made a better .fight than those people are making in Michigan, and, if there is an£ cause in the world that Is more important than another, it Ib that one. I hope something will be done to enable them to win that victory. ___ A1thwigh_r^m~PrestnOTt^r~tire~ii^ llnois State Federation, of Labor. T am a miner yet, and as long as I live there won't he a time I am needed tbat you cannot get all I am and all I mean in any kind of way that is necessary. Build uu our movement; strengthen it; avoid mistakes! A mistake now mitfit cost more than one we might make at any other time. Get alt that is possible. Cod knows you cannot iret all you are entitled to while this system lasts; but don't overreach yourself and let the other fellow put you at a disadvantage. Don't make a mistake at all. If lt is possible to avoid it. Stick together, ir you will do tliat, and If you will educate yourselves, you will succeed. If the bunch that Is In this hall will take up this question and agitate and go back to the mining districts and take it up -with the other workers, und the mliies. ands:MeNsughton told his paid murderers l know tbat the copper companies "ha rodwid Vnol lth?teb-v2l vSS wr*nr *venln* >on could se« thefcrew. ho go out and break up that meeting; have paid agents tor the iama type as ine roo um spoil me job-New \0rH „ry wagon imM ,wlth tt,0 mm of fth© word was passed to them, and the!the ono that came from West Virginia courage that sort of soldier needs be- j only way they could do It was to bar-j that Mt the hall the Other day. busy Call Wlllle—Pa, what Is tho bono nf contention? PaHTIm Jiwtjouf, my mn. There Is no clans of iu flag of our country, the j fl-*K fur whkh hundreds and thousands! of ih«« t»e«i nn and womwt in ihei day* gun* by have died, un4*r thst, fist whose sentiments reprei-mf that I tH'rg *t> tb*m »b«* w«iM «*t tttmtnt ' All drug mor*-* m>U SALIVA, nnd It is gusinnteed to grow hair or mon-ry tuck, The tlm« to take car*> of your bslr In wb-j-n >«>i hsv#> hnlr to Ink* I'ttr** ot. U your hair I* getting thin, gradually fulling tmt. It cannot lw long b«>fort» ihe s|*ol appear*. The gfwstaat remedy ta *top the b*'r fe-xa ?»'lteg l» *AI.IVA. »h* . ,,. tlnm* Amotienn Hair tirwwr, flt»t I «v»»rf r#d-bIooded man or woman In I dli-rtnwd tn Knglanf SALIVA fur^o'ir nation »o 41* tor wh*t it motrm, • «!»*#*« i»ourl*hmiMit to the htlr roots j ui»• Hwt.*fN« *ot*» 1 »*.r**«» «-#s^*- It* \tlf*il-?t*i n« ■mUHtwwi'i**!' •tats unif«w s posittv*» gasnimee t*»st ths* *tmf, TSwy «tni what they k run* Iftiniirutt. «top falling iutir nitd, itmiii to **r m-it-nM-a* An it Th** iw»» f«»f ht..' '•bat*. A targ* bottle coats Sit. Tbe itbey Mt lost as tft# coat miners did In * ww-1 "MAOVA*' «n **ery bottl-e. At i l*tt: they wild !h#>' would ttmmor \ t**999,.-'-9-W9i %wot ¥-10000 - -4!* »c**t ## '«■> fe#;s tfXt -th** *«» !»**-"S fleet upon any who disagrees with me I Prsmstursly Old honestly, but don't allow these paid I —-—■ Judanes to Influence yon. j Nulling will ao quickly and surely A congressional Investigation haa' rob a woman of ber charm as gray and been ordered. I believe there will be j faded hair, snd nothing la ao easily a ralr Investigation. If there Is and fprevetitnbfi**'. tiie irmh is brought out Were are as A io-tt application* of Hay's Hair number »f those mine owners or their Health will restore tray hair to Its men who will bang, and n number of I nstur-tt color and Imturtance It Is not them will go to tbe penitentiary for a d>*. It is s tonic thst stimulates long sentences. If those men snd women who sre on strike tan be fed 'and eartd for and enabled to stay there and testify In those cases and flrht the battle through, there Is no m«»*tlon In my mind but sn agreement 1 „ I win ho resehed tbat will settle that | fslla to do this. i trouble snd allow them to he rwog-1 ||.«0, SOc. 23c Get It st onr stora, j nlrcd as union men, Tbe othf>r side, gold and recommended hy McLean's and Invigorates tbe scalp snd hair root* to tlw proper performance of their function*, thereby bringing back tbe original color of tbe balr. It cures dandruff. Vcsir money will be refunded If It Stephen T. Humble For Skates, Hockey Sticks, Heaters Ranges, Furniture, Stationery etc BELLEVUE Alberta V.ntnwntnmtwM iMtfctf t UV ZaB-Bik to tat fir lum'i lmf,i.:lii *%ii ills ifwuUttf ]nk*im«; It Is herbgl—no poisonous tmitcmt tutoring. It te gntlstptte--prevents ,..,«.. «<»■»»* Swt-»*»e tit-*!.*,,*, *%-,/, wrong wny. It Is soothing—ends pain quickly. It heals every time. Jost it good for gfot.iv up*. Jfottf «f all sfor#t and draffiM*. Vuntouk , I itelieve, will be driven to do this to < *»v-*» ihemneWe* from the -sentiment of ■the .twerlesn pwpte •«*« tttriKigtk no* »o»* tt** ta tfc-* yt:mr>. ThotI* 1* om «r*»i danger to tfto tmto. proiiwrtty tnd jfflpfnm;' on* crra: ttangur to the oarif* aeulement m a tmt tt**i* ni all law trenMaa. .'»M tk«t m lba dmofaat ■»•. tftt Ml* -'.ifTtw-nli «*!■»•*•* wttHiftl HU »Wd th* ■*»■»* |iW*»» ; <«t*Mf*t«<« tm tk« otior iMt.*' Tfco ""'••••"••.n fr. "■^'jA- te,.u,M,..j..«A. t&H^ :-- • -*• - «• IBE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B, C, FEBRUARY 14, 1914. PAGE THREE Local Union Directory, Dist. 18,U.M.W.A GLADSTONE LOCAL No. 2314 Meet first and third Fridays, Miners' Hall, Fernie; second and fourth Fridays, Club Hall, Coal Creek. Sick Benefit attached. T. Uphill, Sec .Fernie, B. C HOSMER LOCAL No. 2497 'Meet every Tuesday evening in the Athletic Hall' at 7.30. Sick Benefit Society in connection.-, W. Balderstone, Sec. Box 63, Hosmer, B. C. MICHEL LOCAL No. 2334 Meet every Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Crahan's Hall. Sick Benefit Sociaty attached. H. Elmer, Sec. PARK LOCAL No. 1387 Meet every Sunday, Sick apJ Accidcai Benefit Society attaci.- cd. Michael Warren, Sec. Canmore, Alta. HILLCRE8T LOCAL No. 1058 Meet second and fourth Sunday in month. Sick and Benefit Society attached. J. Gorton, Sec CARBONDALE LOCAL No. 2227 Meet every alternate Sunday .at 2,30 p.m. In the' Opera House, Coleman. J. Mitchell, Sec. Box 105, Coleman. *^**^^*^*^%****9*l*^***SS***l*l*09***. BANKHEAD LOCAL No. 29 Meet every Tuesday evening at 7 'o'clock ln the Bankhead Hall. Sick and Accident Benefit Fund attached. Frank Wheatley, Fin. Sec Bankhead, Alta. COALHURST LOCAL No. 1189 < Meet every Sunday afternoon In Miners' Hall, 2.30. Frank Barrlngham, Sec Box 112. Coalhurst P. O. BEAVER CREEK LOCAL No. 481 Meet every Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. John Loughran, Sec. COLEMAN LOCAL No. 2683 ' Meet every alternate Sunday at 2,30 p.m. .In the Opera House, Coleman. J. Johnstone, Sec PASSBURG LOCAL No. 2352 l}eet every second and fourth Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. in Slovak Hall. 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 a.m. in School House, Burmis. No Sick Society. Thos. G. Harries. Sec Passburg, Alta. ' i M*°LE LEAF LOCAL No. 2829 Meet every first and third Sunday of each month **. -10 a.m- > Union Hall, Maple Leaf. No Sick Society. Thos, G. Harris*, Sec. Passburg, Alta. LETHBRIDGE LOCAL No. 431 Meet every Wednesday evening at 7.30.ln Miners' Hall, 12th Avenue North. Zj. Moore, Sec-Treas. BELLEVUE LOCAL No. 431 Meet every Sunday at 2.30 p.m. In -the Socialist Hall. James Burke. Sec Box 36, Bellevue. Alta. LOCAL No. 3026 Max Hutter, Secretary. Georgetown, Canmore, Alta CORBIN LOCAL No. 2877 Meet every second Sunday at 2 o'clock in the Club Hall. Sick Benefit Society attached. John Jones, Sec. Corbin, B. C GEORGETOWN LOCAL UNION No. 3026 Meet every Sunday afternoon, 2.30, at Boarding House. Sick and ..Accident Fund attached. Max Hutter, Secretary. Union. Labor and ■*+*'kirkick'kkAkkkk'k'k'k'k********kkrtt****^ * * 1 * * * * 1 * * * LIFE & LIBERTY MESSAGE NO. 50 ( BV ERHKST UHTERHAMH v Things You See Advertised in the Big Magazines. Organized labor is here to stay. The filerchants and . Manufacturers' Association, the National Manufacturers? Association, the Allied Snobocracy ifroni the Mayflower to the Hog-and- Hojniny brand, -will have to make tiie most bf this treasonable fact. Organized laJbor will not only stay but will grow in numbers, in-telliglence and power. This is more than can be said truthfully of the Amalgamated Union Smashers. The aforesaid parties ia opposition to union labor may as well assimilate so much knowledge at one tlm©. 'Business roughnecks and bum revolutionists of the direct action pattern generally agree that organized labor in its present form has never stood together, never accomplished anything -for the working class, never will last through the storms of the .prevailing business system. The Inference to toe transmitted by this amazing agreement ibetiw-een sworn enemies Is that organized labor in its present form has never learned anything from experience and will remain an Illiterate in political economy till the last gasp of man. M Cosrof Union Smashing A union wrecker quoting experience beats the devil quoting scripture. Experience might have taught the 'business roughnecks that union smashing is not a paying profession in the long run*. There is little or no profit in -it It costs more to maintain a union smashing organization, a labor-hating lobby, a labor -bailing army -of Pinker- tons, sluggers and spies, a labor betraying gang of Congressmen, Senators and IoarI politicians, a lalbor -sentencing corps ot judges, a laibor selling crowd of labor leaders, than to pay decent wages, observe decent hours, act more like a man and -less like a d-og. Yet experience proves that the -business roughneck will rather spend millions on such union smashing methods than hundreds on decent wages and humane treatment of union labor. Experience also proves that the very .worst that union smashing can do to 'organized labor is to break one union and build up a stronger one, harder and more expensive to break than the first one. And when the second union has been broken, a third one will take its place that cannot be broken at all, but will break the union smashers. This might be called the vest pocket guide for union smashers. We offer it free of charge. How the Unions Have Grown Experience proves, furthermore, that organized- labor has accomplished more for itself and its class by .peaceful and levelheaded methods than by roughneck alarums and 'contortions. Yet the modern roughneck does not know it. He carries the chip of the pure and simple revolutionist on his shoulder and dares everybody to be THIS store is headquarters. You will always find here everything you would expect to find in a similar store—and many things more. We specialize on articles of genuine merit Article! arc have tested and tried ourselves and we can recommend and indorse. You vrOl find hero all of the good—the best-die pick— of the standard household articles advertised in magazines. WeaddourownguManteetothatofthemanuftcturer's. events have also shown that strikes will come where there is no labor organization, and these unorganized strikes generally create the beginnings of new labor unions. These new labor unions finally drift into the great labor federations and become solid .with them-, oven if at first they were organized as rival unions. Solidarity Comes Slowly Chattel slavery and carpetbag government retarded the rise of union labor in'the Southern States. But today the colored people join the unions and learn the new way of doing things by longhead methods. With the growth of manufacturing in the South union labor will also grow. It will become more and more difficult to hurl colored and white workers against one another" for -the benefit of business men. So long as much of th-3 energy' of laibor unions was spent in petty jurisdiction fights, It'was easy to sow dis- njptl-pn in the labor movement. Today the jurldslction troubles are gradually eliminated, the industrial form of organization) solidifies the ranks of labor, the -useless petty officials are struck off the list, the rank and file democratizes its unions and takes away -the opportunity for labor leaders to use their union as a -personal asset in 'business men's quarrels, It becomes harder -for old party heelers to •bertay .the unious, the rank and file turn toward Socialism and learn to keep a tight string on their officials. Politics in the Union At ithe same time the sentiment of 'organized^laibbr is turning from strikes to politics. Instead of fighting each other at tbe ballot box under the slogan of "No -politics ln the union," the rank and file unite and rally to the Idea of "Nqne-ibut working class (politics in the union." Working class politics in the long run means Socialist poMtica. V A consistent labor legislation would make the -labor unions almost Impregnable against labor smashing intrigues . Thousands ot union laborers realize every year that they cannot expect such legislation on from old jparty politicians, so long as organized labor, instead of uniting in the Socialist party, divides its ranks between -B mM WHH| OmVI. -M^MB .'************9.'**9m -f. >OT^^^^| -■ *t**99. m. in *j . .**w Wt m m eoaWttt ttatyw w« ta *%ta4 wkk tta CMSifrr NBA Mop thtt wn tm warn tm in four born-* on two Jtp'okL UbknMtn^mifknnifmt^m^nMjm' Jf« Ds QUAII#f r«rnie* B.C. business system works at all points to compensate the business men tor any loss sustained- by any one of them. Thoy must be passed and enforced together. The best way to put them would be as clauses into the same law, or bill, so that -they must all be passed or rejected together. In order to make them properly effective, Congress must pass sufficient appropriations to carry them through and warn the United- States Supreme Court to keep its hands off them. These laws. If enacted and enforced by- Congress In interstate commenrce, and by every individual State In Intrastate commerce and Industry, will make scabbing impossible, because everybody will be employed. This will abolish the blanket stiff, the strike breaking Immigrant, the labor- hating loafer. It will make "Impossible the betrayal of the union by any walking delegate. It will unite organized labor politically for working class legislation. Where Socialist Political Action ts Required But—you might as well expect the 'business polltl-dans to abolish the system that f-w>ds them as to Ifope that the Inauguration of the Republic--It they will pass this combination of laws which ls close by th* wind of the old parties with about elgiht points of leeway toward Socialism. Here and there, realizing where their ship was actually drifting, the leaders have squarred off before the wind and steered straight for the Socialist paityk In other places tlie leaders are still tacking back and forth, or backing and filling in the effort to land a political job and scuttle the union. But to a keen observer there are 'broad indications on all sides of a repld conversion ln 'the ranks of organized laibor to Socialist politics. And this is coming about, not so much through the clever arguments of the Socialists, as through the zealous efforts of old party statesmen and through the eloquent -language of business roughneck*. tAn International federation of organized labor in all business countries of the world l« well under way. Tho Inevitable companion of this growing Internationalism of organized labor ls tlie International Socialist party. It will become THE PARTY for organized labor all ovor the world, as It ls now In Germany. iT-he unions and THE party will win together.--New York Call. was easy to drive union members-westward and Import foreign scab* who, nt a rule, neither organized nor voted In the first generation. Nowadays the last corners of thetlobe are scoured for Illiterate and easy scaba. the open West ia settled, and the next generation of union members will neither jump into the ocean nor be compelled to face an overwhelming borde ot unsophisticated foreign scabs. In tiie next generation even the Hindoos, Chinese, Japs and Koreans will hear about modem labor unions and Socialism. There will be little om ln importing them as strikebreakers, then, and few will want to Immigrate •libit* left to thtlr o'fftir devices. The present generation of American {business roughnsck* is on ths list of ito beaMipon tho old parties Is"to send without the very strongest compulsion from bdow. It ls true that this combination of laws represents the very least that organized labor can demand to make labor conditions humane under the pretumt business system. If it were not for that big HUT this legislation would have been passed long ago. It was no*, imsied, nor even any single one of these laws, because business politicians ara not ths uncompromising servants of all the people regardless of clauses. This combination will never be advocated, still less passed and enforced, by any (dd party of lu own accord. It must be forced upon Ci-u.1 *i*4 ,4*.iu'.*r ui W*. tain. Tuu THE UNION LABEL At the Seattle convention of tho Union Label Departinf nt, a resolution was uannlmously adopted, Uio substance of which was that the very best means for advertising the union label is by advertising it in the newspapers, including ihe daily, weekly and monthly labor puiierx and official organs of labor organizations. After years of vxperience and thoughtful consideration we are convinced tbat the very best remits can be obtained by advertising ln ths newspapers, U'hil<> m«ny of our locals perhaps cannot afford to adver- t,!«f> in tho dft.tly -\v.i\if.r*. Itnwi»vi»r wo £? way 'to bfiVsuecesW WW*l!» "K.*!!ll!^1 "l!^ wmmmm mmm Canadian Pacific TO * FROM EUROPE tho Soori-to-Wu. aud ths u«xt guttttra- tion bf captains of industry will have a hard tim# following in the steps of their union smashing forbears. Thero will tat bardor things to tackle; ror instance, tbe question of preventing tbelr own methods from wracking themselves, aad tbo question of getting around ths laws without violating thstn and working Into ths hands of ths Socialist party. And finally even obsylng the laws will work Into tho hands of ths Socialists. Tlio Entrants tf Socialism tn tbo osriy days of union smashing the workm had ftw or no polltl-^al rights Today w* ara nearer to a popular fovernnent than *v*r. a»d th* rising generation ef labor union- Ms sra -training tn ntm the Aortslist ttOctaiiklK into Hi* jiuliiii' offices. Tht Boomerang When tho American Federation of Labor was organized in 18M, the Republican Conaraos passed the Sherman Ami Trust Uw. It was clearly underitood that thia law was aimed against business men wbo violated tbo rules of tho profit came, not against labor unions. Today n Homo- cratlo Congress, protending to protect tho Isbor union*. \%nt,**n » law to th« effort that a certain turn of mon*? appropriated for trust prosecutions shall mt h* Msod against isbor unions, a I*.*MMM*7**S.k P?t**U*l«.!, t.!-UU.i*J I.J tlit votra of orjrsn-ttH tshnr. -stgna th* bill • ith th« rtrtm-trk. that ti-n; eo.irt.tcr.: has plenty of other funds available to pmtecot* offendfri from ih*» ranks of vortlse, and as extensively as possible, :in the labor papers iii your vicinity. The labor paper denrrves our support, and in thia particular Instance it is to our advantage to idv*> it. VVs are fully persuaded that an tid' In a isbor poper is worth a tmrral of novelties of all kind*, with th* posalblo exception of calendsrs. and we bold that adv-mllslng In labor poix*ra to be vastly superior to oven calendars. Stomach Heal h or no cost to you Wry likfly nthom hm* advltfd yo« i'o nw H«***»!J !»y*j»."p*iit Tnhlotn, ht* mum ttoorwi of p«opl« In this community teUev* ttaitaa t«* b* th* tmtt i*e*»t«4y j Over nisdf* for !Jy«p*pi»la and India***-} psttr •»• Ht-rtr wmjm tm ih* political > Qrma\z<.{] iahor ascalnt? th* Trust M« tiolA kmotomt th* ft-tM-faltai nartv ftil t i-j _..*.* i.t^.. 1-.9JL-.*. •»• i* (all -, W1MTBR MAMM Wnm Mtttpasl trtwt* *i, JMw tKf** BUM?*? Jjt p"tiw It AH. It I'tv* HMttas 1 van91 Wraii. ttfflc*; Ito J#l»r; n« ttassfrrj »» h»W *tf*ntm UixuriotH irC A««w«M»>«l*lien, .Klsgant £"«*•§■., - ■ ■ Wmpttwrnm. . Kttt*llmt a«**pp»**stl«ii '" 'Apt, ' I .1st. IS wmt t Haiti* -Orrttfti-tra ... rintwtm'unit l» tMs nt* i«otit**eomt*t*oo. The Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation UMITKD. •« MMMMM*. «M*atMHl A.lCamiL.C*yTteWJl|itt :: MOT 9IKM IA11 HA* ,**» «*>*«**••«■«>• **m*i *««**«* «**«.««* *w ■ ut%newwt» mt ttt*. |«M«*t**wl«» ■*»«« IM!-**" | ******* i9tmt .* *•> ••<•*. «*. ..*....*. .v«, .»•* . 'lW*4l toor* tttfthhfAtlir tno* *0 *ho «n-' , ,1 **-,,. ev,rn;.,„ *,» T^i'i- 1** i.\i,t,9* o-tiift. **•„ V*ci"»- -«*'ti« .♦»««••- too m**** nf ' Irtaltst patty for action, lint ain-ra\ h^o*o*A *»v *M m*r twHItSHans. *)Wo bar* tw mit?** imtn m xnom that < ittBioa smashing fa Ineffective ta th* Pstttionitra Is Ptrtilo i*«* urg# yam t» >r> u.tm st our ri.fc. ■\ %m<$ am., thw MMwaas urm pmrn mi' wot* band In bind with th* Socialist party, until ths anion tnaasb-sra and -»h#4r >»4 twt or Vtttto lit h» nm •» *u tmw mm. m ****** <•*• •»>' inntm*nrtrt*n ii r«*r»v *r» for go** at OfeanriftH SkW I** !«**Wd f*r mm*'It -IW -Mm't fe*-';* ,,'*'*» *■>*■? mm'', tmt or xh* other of th# abmo laws for at jyoo a rant. If t*h*y don't do all that! Irast no* generation. Tbey have you wsnt tb#m to d<»-If th*y rfon't I r*.<*r(*r *. '-' twi •«•!»*♦ Xitrt- ***'ti thoto. {tro** nfo *t "•nt *"'tf *.-p, ' ••* h*"h>*h . or if they w«w otbsrwiiw! fontsliang lvp*i<« m-,4 Itismuth, t*n, HOtitiJ. th*-- old party po!Hl«:litBt for-iof tin* gr-va?*--*- «!:ii'-H\«" ;«l-"* Umvu . tm ki ai«pr«»pri«te fuads far iho.t on- )to ttsdlcsi **X-m*, Am .mk*:*!** th*. ii;* ; tttttowt tst. Atwl now ct*» bosteMMa j flamed wt-omsr-h Ui^un. X»i* l» tin* ****■■ i mt-n'x !ot»M-Mi sr* to h* ahoMftfttd. and (rratlon oi m**tA *«**■ orw-ii-tt-'l itmr «.-.an no Umip-r i-tpwt Amm i,t* !w* '•* -..ui iuovi'. [tmac remedy m»-',- *«- Vltirt*tis|oBlf at tmt M*vro Thr.» *»ir* j>. :.** ' 'tn o**t^to mrnnm**^ ♦■»w»r »«•*» em«»t«w* It.***, s. r. >*•**«■,«,>.. tutto***.., mm m* mum*. th*|vi««ia Avtmw. r-«>, «* <*• rhfik h»«art- i ■' I ' *. * * t .*» i ;»''->s*Sb!*« for l.. .-u>rts • 35125 HERE IS A SQUARE DEAL and peaceful security as well. With a policy in our oM line company, you can go off on your vacation or visit tho ends of the earth and< you know you're secure. The best in FIRE INSURANCE ia always cfreapesf. and especially eo when it doesn't cost higher. Dont dei.ay about that renewal or about that extra insurance you want but come right in ait once and have it attended to. M. A. KASTNER SOLE AGENT FOR FERNIE ALEX BECK BLOCK, FERNIE, B. C. :a HIGH CLASS Ladies' and Gent's =TAILORS= SUITS MADE to MEASURE FROM $35.00 I DeBurle & Birkbeck Next Calgary Meat Market P. O. Box 544 - Fernie, B.C. j C. E. LYONS Insurance, Real Estate and Loans Money to Loan on first class Business and Residential property COLD WEATHER Is the time for those heat producing breakfast 1 r » tUUUd Quaker Oats Robin Hood Oats Oatmeal (fine or coarse) Cornm-fa! Corn Flake Puffed Rice Cream of Wheat Shredded wheat Grapf» nnt« Etc. Etc. ALWAYS FRESH •toM-itetro Ont bfrn I MnMfamt*. A. I. BLAIS - Grocer Frank, Alta- *#*?* Bellevue, Alta. v \\ •* - <-t< 'Pgft&tfi S.-tf!$^&y^%> jt, mmm ^Mmw:* PAGE FOUR THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. 0., FEBRUARY 14, 1914. ® I eljc lisirirf £cti0er ® Published every Saturday morning at, its office, Pellatt Avenue, Fernie, B. C. Subscription $1.00 per year 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 color work. Mail orders receive special attention. Address all communications to the District Ledger. F. H. NEWNHAM, Editor-Manager. Telephone No. 48 Post Office Box No. 380 THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION go to hell itself than go back to those mines under the conditions they worked before they came out on strike." Men know nothing about the terrors of hell, but they do know these mines. They know the abject servitude arid peonage under which they have worked—they know what to expect if they go back. Hell has been described by Dante, but his description, vivid and blood-curdling that it is, does not compare with Walker's description of those mines and the condition of the miners. We can do no better than jise Walkers' own words:—r"Just imagine, 8,000 feet straight down, the drifts 3,000 feet straight in, working on the level and lift plan, 200 feet between levels. Sometimes the men would be down 8,000 feet and in .'i,000 feet more arid up 200 feet in a little entry, and the worst of all no pretense made to furnish one single breath of air at the face of the working place. Men worked in those places who only wore a cap and a pair of shoes. They had to have the caps on which to wear their lamps and they had to The eleventh annual convention nf District 18. j have the shoes to protect their feet. It was so hot which 1-omiHonco.s on Monday next at Lethbridge. i thai even when they were sitting down, not work- promises to he one of the inosl important j ing at all, the sweat streamed from them the same in the. history of the District, and the delegates will j as though they were in the vapor room of,a turk- be called upon, not only to consider many amend-,' ish bath. No air, working two shifts, using dyna- inents to the constitution ami grievances, but will mite aud shooting four times a day. You men who also have to consider many matters of importance; have swallowed powder smoke understand what it connected with the situation both within the Dis-! means when you are working in a place with no air, trict and the organization generally. It is no duty; shooting four times a day, with the fumes left lo of ours to dilate upon the work that lays before - die there, and you eating them, and for this the the convention. There is not the slightest doubt' men were paid on an average of $2.00 a day." The but that the delegates selected from the various j rentier must read this for himself to thoroughly un- eamps have been chosen not merely from an appro-! derstand and grasp what the conditions in the eop- ciation of their popularity, but because of their j per country are. where the men women and ehil- kuown and tried ability to represent aiid express j dren of the mine workers have suffered and are the wishes of the ranlc and file. There will be. and I differing; the brutal, cold-blooded murders that must be for that matter, much discussion and a I have been done: that horrible disaster that resulted variety of opinions, but this is only as it should be. I in the dealh of seventy-three children and twelve for it i.s only by tempering each motion and sugges- ■ grown people, and finally the beating into insensi- tion with fhe fire of a conscientious and thorough | bility and shooting in the back of President Moyer. argument, that any advancement and decision can I All these things, the reader will find depicted as be arrived at. District IS has conducted ten very -vividly and as realistic as never before. John successful conventions, and there is not the slight-1 Walker may not be an orator: he may not be a est doubt that the membership can place every con-' literary genius, but he has given us a picture which fidence in the ability of those selected to represent. makes the blood boil in the veins of every toiler them for this convention. HOSMER N9TES We aro very sorry to hear of tne death of the infant son of iMr. and Mrs. Sloggett. We all sympathize with you in your sad bereavement Born—iTo Mr. and Mrs. J. R-edpath, on -the 6th inst., a daughter. Jim doesn't show any noticeable exuberance.. A -concert in aid of the Presbyterian -Church will ibe given in Hesmer Opera R'ouse, Friday, February 20th. The entertainment will include musical items, a farcical comedy under the direction of Jlr. Kendall," moving pictures, a-nd supper. Cost of admission is 50 cents. The ladies of the Church look for a good attendance. The Athletic Club are to give a basket'social and dance on a date to :be announced later. The object is to obtain funds for financing the football team. Those present on the station 'platform .Monday morning saw an exciting pugilistic -encounter .between two .well, known Hostq-erites. Bob seems to have .reaped all the honors out of the and decent-minded man as he calls upon liis Deity. How long! how long!" Read this speech; let every word sink deep into v our heart; learn the lesson, for you may be next, ! .md the sympathy that you are giving so generously In another portion of this issue will be found ai to the copper miners may, and will be, banded yen verbatim report of John II. Walker's i'President : some day. "I ask for bread and ye gave me a JOHN WALKER DESCRIBES CONDITION IN CALUMET . Illinois State Federation of Labor) address to the delegates at the International convention. It is. without doubt, one of the most comprehensive aud descriptive Word pictures of the nrrpnt strik-ft-fliLfluq copper miners in the Calumet-IIeela region of Mich- i igun ever given. We have rend many reports of the situation and conditions existing there, but nothing so graphic and vivid as this. Dealing with -.s 'illiam Balderstone, and if the business element of ts Hosmer showed as much publicity ability every aspect of tlie situation, from the time of thej \Villiam has done, they would not lie scratching amalgamation of the copper interests in Houghton, i around at present for a newspaper. Wc should like get an easy job and sji2f>0.00 a Antonagou and Keweenaw counties, ami traced the \ to w somebody company through its forty-two years of existence. I month for a few years and might enter into com- he carries the reader away with his description of ;;,-tition with the fortunate individual ourselves, tin* conditions existing in ihe mines, and of the' If the business element of Hosmer are so desirous workers and their families. He reviews at length ! of publicity, why not do a little advertising in the the actions of the governor, the attorney and thej Ledger? It would certainly cost much less than manager of the company, and the sheriff of tlie county, while the militia men he quotes in the following language :-- "f sny to you that under no flag iu the world in $250.00 a month, and might be the means of securing for them a little of that business which at present finds its way into the mail order houses. Last time we combed this town for business (at 9.30 a. its history, not even excepting the black flag witli j m.) quite a number of the establishments were closes skull and erossbones, wns there ever a more vi- ed or the proprietors resting, while the only Imsi- eious burieh of degenerates and Judases gathered nes* secured was from the Co-operative Store and together than were in Michigan as militiamen at |$1.00 as subscription from a prominent tradesman! that time." And what of the men who were fight-'- William may consider himself permanently eu- uig against these conditions? Walker tells us:- I gaged as publicity agent for the Ledger, nnd IIos- "Ihe jiiei) foughl, they fell just as the coal miners j mer might do worse than seenre his co-operation as did iu 1897; they snid they would sooner die nnd j publicity commissioner. THE FERNIE COOPERATIVE The Pernie To-operative Society haa Jmrt Issued another balance sheet for the quarter ending December III, !!• ill. Th© Htore has earned u very mibstamlal jirofit aud five per emit divluBnd 'Will be imld to ttharoholdora, »-M»*-. :i cor.f!(Jt-'.".vW-t sua* niV. W^Ui* mi to Hmj rwerve aoenunt. The Koeioiy hu« had n mo*t *'.ion, smothered tea.rn of Waldo 19 yet ascertained whether It was i*rllH duc!ln« placeat'"matting:—1 lb.. 5c; huge, blaels jack or hockey, We hear|ll>a„ ik". 3 lb#„ "e; 4 tba., 8e; 5 ltw„ that it is the intention of the Fernie I Hxv, 6 lbs., 12c: T lbs., lie: 8 lbs.. I«c; •bunch to Journey on Sunday to E!koM» lbs., 18c; 10 lbs., 20c; 11 lbs., 22c. nnd content fr*r honor* In thnt c'tv I Any |M»t office ^wyond twenty mll«C | day evening next, 16th inst, to' com- -menco at 8 o'clock sharp. Tickets tor admittance 25c. Members' lady friends free. Non-members ■wishing to >bring lady friends will -have to purchase tickets. Tickets can now T>e hod from R. Billsborough. Dont forget the date. The lantern lecture given toy Dr. White, -superintendent of omissions, in the Methodist Church was (airly well patronized. One of the residents has 'been the victim of a (practical joke -this week, dn which the telephone was supposed to have played an important part. Say, BilCtoo ' ***** w!th guns evC- The> m , , . * . ^ . „_ ..I*.!**- -.— — - S3 tJl 9.. 9. \*, 9 ± 99, -.-*** »** 9-rl of ambulance work is certainly an asset. There is a goodMnstance in the 13 level case. Tbe icra! K. P.'s ar? to celebrate the 30th anniversary of tbe founding of their order on February 19th. A public ritualistic service will be staged by Bros. Fortier, White, Cole and Smith. Could Billy Bow-wow-ser, in his extreme regard for the municipalities and other electoral districts, not find some means of adding the duty of dog catcher to some government official or. other? Probably Harry Brown will take this matter up at the first favorable opportunity, as we sure havo some voluptuous canines round this burg. There was a picture that no artist oould -paint put upon the boards here on Monday morning as a fat little "feller" was chasing one of our members of society round the coal chutes' and onto the station. "Vy don't you -pay? "Vy don't you pay?" I wonder if "one round Williams," of pugilistic fame, made his getaway? Charles Marlatt is now engaged dissecting the coal in the assayer's department of the natural resources. -Hon. W. R. Ross, better known as "Ea'.lot Box .Bill," who never worked and never will, is making rapid headway to earn a new.title. .We hav-f been reading Dutch history and thinl- Rill's-- title should be William the Silent, so far as the present session of the legislature Is concerned. Bill hasn't even given a little toot about prosperity or a White B. C. We have a,very dear friend who oc- •eupi-e5^-i?ti'uus-i)05itioii"i3iraTiion Kop" reported the road fine, but returned empty handed. Better luck next time, boys. (Mrs. James Ireland, of Coyote St.. left camp-on Thursday en route for the land o' cakes and thistles. We wish her a plqasant journey. Mrs. Shanks was removed to bos- Classified Ads,--Cent a Word GTTOD IROXERS WANTED—Wanted at once at the Fernie Steam Laundry.. Only experienced' hands need apply. 145 FOR SALE—Splendid R. C. Rhode Is- land Red-Cockerels, ?2.75 each; also R. C. Rhode Island Eggs for batching, $2.75 per setting, 12 chicks guaranteed; laying records, cani't be beat for this Western climate. Apply Jos. Stephenson, Box 61, Coleman. 144 ORPHEUM HIGH CLASS PHOTO PLAYS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT WELL HEATED AND VENTILATED FRIDAY and SATURDAY Europe's Latest Marvel: THE WORLD FAMOUS Gaumont Talking Pictures Shown with the regular programme of silent pictures. Complete change of programmme each night SELECTIONS FROM HARRY LAUDER and other celebrated stars FOR SALE—7 roomed bouse, lower end of Chipman Ave. For terms apply at District Ledger. 140 WATER ACT TAKE XOTICE that B. C. Hydraulic i-r»u .M.u uu-, Power Company will apply -to the th* intermediate (in c«nt») on parc*l» mailed in the .1 i wlT«.;J:„!:'province of Alberta ftddrewod to any toi. We havo not;pogt offlce wltWn twenty, wile*, In- GET A LITTLE INFORMATION Tlm following communication* need . „ . . , ., , , • .. illtfln cnmmfM from «», but people de T»ttb»criU«r*' thl* wt«k, ought to be the m«um of Inducing many *m.t ktrou* of taking up life insurance will. If ;?.<'> tuk*? the troublo lo Investigate, find enough agents of solidly tmtn'n** llshwl offices In F*frnle to ri»k t«*o or three httndr-wl thousand on their IIvms. but wi'nhin the province of Alberta:-- [Oeoriro IWby I lb., loe; 2 lbs.. I4r: :i lb*., isc; i ,"»!». TS'.". .'. ib«.. ?««", « H)k. Wr; 7 lb»„ !34c; S lbs., 38c; 9 llw., 4!?e; 10 llw., 4«c;il lbs., Mk\ I Any post office In Saiifiitdwwam or DdLlih Columbia; — I ib., lite; : lb*., Wc; 3'»>«.. 2ac: 4 lb«., 2N<>; ,', |b»., 34c; fi lbs,, 40c; 7 lb»4 l»c; 8 lbs.. 52c; i* lb*., r.Rc; 10 lbs., «4c; 11 lb*., 70c. Any |»st office In Manitoba:—I lb., 18c: 2 lbs.. 20c; i Ibk.. :>>r: I lbs., :!«<•; !i lbs.. 44c; e lb*., :•:•(•; 7 lb»„ IJOe; H lnvt'Rt- «rato jtlnce tlifir Kavings In the fund ,of the -sect***}*. Next week we bojte to publish tho balance sheet complete. On Monday, l-Vbnittry 27th, tho nn- nu»| mi'Oiing of shareholder* will take j • 'n^nn Awlrfpnt & Clnarantw Corpoiv If,'' ,?*f: a Jb*'* '**'' u' "'"•' We; " ptac^ «.mI I, i. h«p,,l „ this mating | tttlon. Ud.. Vancouver H. O. t' Any ,>o*t nttkn te 0«atlo:-l lb.. i>««r 8lr»:~ ISe; 2 lbs.. Ui", S lbs., nie; 4 lbs.. 44-e: !R# Western Ufe* AeeMwnt flompny |6 ion., r»4«*: 1 »».. «lc; 7 lb«., 74c; H Rowing to sour tvinmuniratton ..f t|W, h-U, it iuiu, hit:, lu tint., |l.«4; II !"»'{i !«;»♦,. 11;** Above ti.tnifii com»w;jy !'m-' I'"- ...,,. shu, n,*n grants a temporary "r*™\.,*l*\JTj£U%t^ i, ,i._ „,., j mM ».L-l _._» Xttm xtroxinonn. --1 m., izc; ziua« 34c; |,1 lbs,, :!llt; 4 IIm., 4Sc; T, lb*., «*Tk-; d to di'vlsr m.'.x.i- iiH-uiu «*f iu.iv.i«liijj tht* capital of the wclety and Uweiby ! ho lii h ;M»*lilflii to laiitich t,nt in ttthor lines. THE Itlt THEATRE > until the 31st doy of Msrr-h nest. Y f *nr>»» tto •»••»♦ -,*tntt' •**,,, ■ tnmowi motion pietur» dan-rtne lesson, t »i>K'B iutiita<-» im- uimo. utr*f> trot: a«J VJ*»n»ii«» iii'siutiim waits. Tbt»t ^*f Sir;— %A,e>r,%fo h.trr.tmpU-'.o lm tbr** tnool*. Tho' I* tro*\*y to ymir opor*%' tfixory In ro. immmturn art Wallw* McCuteh««»n! *»«» to the Westwn Life and Accl- nnd Mis* loan Rswyer, xh* ■*o*n*nl\nt\\*^ht Insursn-rc Cotnivany of Denvwr, . r **. ** ■ rr- t. t t* .. * . . * ' <* i. lit ti *i, nut- **.-i9 .1 i , ,...,. ^ ,,.,.,, .. danciujt t^chi'rs io the beat p*o'A* of! W*ttl>gd In IMO und<12 *hows Th«^ ffttturi» for , « *T«i* l*p*a ammmMr* to f2n.»7«. nnd llwWII- fit* and '• j-h -.-»- ".« r' |* >.-.'> y-ii -*!tl I*. •.- «hv "h» On \V*eirat|vptv *nii!l or- ■ < -i-it i'hiTvj! v ,'-n- "IMg cilrat '•'. nl li»* Hut Yuu- nv*-r !bs., Tic; S lbs.. Dtk; it lbs.. )\M; 10 ?•*,. t1.2«M 11 Ibt., fl.W, T»w< maximum ttetyos on any par* wl -abttM tsM mtto*onlor), 1st. Sybil Knrnpy; 2nd, John Korinan; ;ird, James Whalley. B claas, 1st, Jim Peach: 2nd, Gladjrt 8hawj 3rd, Margaret Wylie, O class. 1st, Dorothy Malo; Snd, Rosarlo Gratia to; 3rd. CharlMi Milo. Notice of Application for the Approval of Works MAtlNEE SATURDAY 2 to 5.30 p. m. NIGHT SHOWS 6.30 to 11 p. m. Admission 25c -St 15c ORPHEUM ORCHESTRA EJEMEISISfi^^ approval of the plans of the works to J be ■coueiruoied for the utilization of j the-water from Elk River Creek, which the applicant is, by Water License Xo. 1554, authorized to take, store, and I . m —. „ -,.. ,S____1 The plans and particulars required!© by subsection 11) of section 7'j of the ■'» "Water Act" as amended have been filed with the Comptroller of Water Rights at Victoria and with the Water Recorder at Fernie. Objections to the application may be filed with the Comptroller of Water RIrMs, Parliament . Buildings, Victoria. Dated at Vancouver, D, C, this 20th day of January, 1914. B. C. HYDRAUWC POWER COMPANY Per Haffner & Wurtele, Engineers, 141 Agent of the Applicant. TO BE LET OR SOLD 320 acres In Sunny Al berta 8| 8ec. 7, Twp 9, Range 1, West of 8th Meridian. Fenced and SO acres broken. Apply to J. W. Bennett Box 48, Fernie GROWS NEST BUSINESS COLLEGE AND ACADEMY OF LANGUAGES DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES COURSES Arithmetic Bookkeeping Shorthand and Typewriting English Branches French German Italian Spanish English for Foreigners Special attention paid to out of town Students In matter of board, discipline etc Sensible reduotlon to all who enroll before Feb. 15. Mark with a X the course desired and mall to J. W. BENNETT, Principal JriJBicriJiKt bviush coiitmpta write for full particulars Wo nre norry to lay that the young- t*»x child of .Mr. Midnith i» vory »lck. tat we hope for • tpeedy recovery. Johnny K»dhini, Wm. Retl luvlng taken over the portion tta ut^lutwr. Curly the trapper ii upending * few dnyi in CorWn, Wn ur** pleaaed to wtate that Joe Krkoflky and "Tony 8mli.li*. who have iMxtn off work for the la it month, have MOTHERS th hi»r pir«>nt». 'nro **t *,- KHUl'- hu: rifi-u" j *»•( '.?•• :;.' r*i>** **. I ' nti iitti, iA ■and «■ '.i-i'. t A ft Ti'ti" thou- -it a"!<mtiimt mi Sim*. th !•■►!«• !<•«' i *<*•*• ** ff'-yog \n fow<- W. \iH i.ii!«..%W r>f lti-mr'tig -V.ttor to il**** *oii »o fnrm yo*ir own w^nrtti- . ;, f;- (*' r.t ■*.* ' " ' -. I. . fc (. ,, *, ft) tt,l* r r**r .-jfnt .»..•■ iii ih<- in »•' r<-**ii.T;i> V-m.. 'fV f!ii,. imi iifiti"! 1 Till', h'P'yTATi'M; «'r hollttay w j HniM-rlnt-ndcnt Oratum It coding Jd* «jfe m-j f«»»il> ui ih« C«a»t for n f** wetdu. J VSimion of offki*™ tt-m t*k« pl*c« ... * m*»t ttuu on HtMlay wmek Vt-h. n, at 3 i».m. Aii menbara nm jv. *.. tj Matin*.*.. | T1i« iKiyal Order of 5too»c, Ferti'r I '■'*: Hti- **T*-*t.v'vg SX «nH»d ttOfM ••■ ' - "■ "i- K* »». hall for Mon- ISIS THEATRE ALWAYS SpeelsU for Saturd«y Matinee and Bvettlns Ttt* Great Sensational "Pilot" feature The Streets of New York A PARTS 3 A very fine dramatic film containing a great fire and rescue scene. ! Special W«4a*sdmy MifV-sUotis. iatofesUttt ud Fdnfatkiml FMhuw w^^mm -r -ffivwwf •*i^*^p» «wfHn w^*^tn w^wwti^^f^n^^w^mw -v --.^^wi^pw m Big Game Hunting1 in the North Pole Ice Fields TWO EEEIS Tilt** '•V|'f »««?».. Xp~ttr Tlie intrtruriorx an? Wall.ni» MeCiitchtron and Miaa .loan Hnwyer, tht* **mnthm of tho Now York* Themrc Rm»f <*«rdon nnd I>ano- intr itwebor* Ut tho "4fM> " Thoy ohnnr* #2S for « ninfle Iwwn in any one of tha above *\ntifitt hnf y*m frt al! ihrn* hfro for the pri** «f ndfninaktn whifh. tm noonmil «f Hio Ifrntt «'X|h-i»jm« of thia pi«'tur«>, will \t* 2.V. 8PFOIAL MATIlfBE AT 390 ^gggtygij-^jL wkjjgjlftMm ,',> ,-i -".--fSK ,-.*N-.-j - -j -AS.;•*».: ". j I '- THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C, FEBRUARY 14, 1914. PAGE FITS ^X-jrx. ■♦♦♦.♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ■♦' ♦ •*- BELLEVUE NOTES ' ♦ ♦ " - t ft****.********-* Marriage At Cerro De Pasco, Peru, S. A., on November 27, John Henry Brownrigg, late of Bellevue, Alta., eldest son of Mr.- and Mrs.'J. Brovrarigg, of Hcte- ■mer, iB. C, to Gladys, youngest daughter of the date Captain Griffith-Griffin, of the British army, India," and \Mrs. Griffith-Griffin, of New York. Mr. W. R. Foster, late of Bellevue, Alta.,-acted as groomsman and -the bridesmaids were -Miss Ella Emmerson (also late of Bellevue) and Miss Margaret Vogel, all of Cerro De Pasco'. The pages were Master Audi Brown and Cyril Adams, a nephew of the .bride. The honeymoon was spent in Lima and the happy pair were the recipients of many handsome and -costly presents. Mr. John AJanbee, John R. McLeod ahd Fred Padgett were at Cowley as delegates from. Bellevue Order of Orangemen oh Thursday last. The hockey match between the Bellevue colliery office and the office staff of Blairmore played one of the host hockey matches seen here this season. The game was a fast one and the Bellevue boys -were the winners to the tuno of 4-3. The teams meet again some time next week at Blairmore, when a good game is expected.: Tom Burnett went to .Macleod on business on Thursday. Saturday was pay day at the min-es hece, but as there is a large proportion of rhe men idle,things were quiot. William Ohappel, jr.; left camp Monday evening for Macleod, where he will 'be tor a couple of days attending court. Nerval Baptie, the fancy skater of the world, gave an exhibition in the local rink on Saturday evening. Some of the clerks in Bellevue and vicinity are contemplating looking for a charter from the Clerks' Retail Association. Tom Bradley was a visitor at Macleod this iweek on business. The plotures at the.Lyric on Sunday evening were,good and the music was furnished by tlie six-piece orchestra. (The Believue hockey team met the Blairmore team Monday in the first of a series of matches for the purse of S1O0. The game was a fast one from start to finish, both teams .patting up some good hockey. The first r two perio&a ware without genre, hut Correspondence A circular from Secretary Bellamy, of the Alberta Federation of iLaibar, stating the slow hut sure growth of that organisation, was very much ap- morning, when everybody retired perfectly -satisfied. A large number of Passburg people took in the grand bail at Hillcrest oh iMonday evening, including Mr. and predated iby the Local, as tne are yet Mis. Rowell, Miss Bell and Miss Den- waiting the r-eptfrt of our laat delegate to the convention', which was held at the "Hat." A letter was also read from Solicitor Palmer informing ns that one of our members' compensation cases will be -tried at Macleod next month. The secretary was instructed to give the solicitor all the necessary data. Reports of Committees The Pitt Committee reported that at this particular time it was impossible for the quality of the house coal to -be improved, but would, etc. The Census Committee reported that they had met on three different occasions and had discussed pro ana con the situation as It existed in Bellevue, and recommended the following to the Local: That the secretary write both the District and International officers, stating our case clearly, and to apply ior exoneration for all those who were idle for the whole month of January. And further that he write the District for relief to be sent in by the 17th day of February. These recommendations were agreed to. The secretary was instructed also to compile a census of the size of the various, families. nis. •The stork was seen hovoring on Monday' at Burmis and visited the home of Mr. Tom Sloan and left behind a .bouncing baiby >boy. Mother and child doing fine and Sloan all smiles/ iMr. H. Cameron, of Beaver Dam, Burmis, has obtained a contract to supply the city with one thousand tons of ice. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ LETHBRIDGE NOTES ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 3 mine resumed work on Sat- last after being idle for ten when the last period opened it was with a dash and Blairmore made two goals in quick time. The Bellevue boys seemed to put some steam in the play and succeeded in scoring two goals in the last few minutes. This made the game a tie. The boys are to play the next g-ame at Blairmor* seme time this week. Mr, Sam Paton pulled up stakes on Saturday and left for pastures new. ■■ Don't forget, the date of the hockey dance. Monday, Feb. 16, in the Work- era* Hall. Tho government bridge and building gang have arrived and commenced to install the new bridge between Hillcrest and Bellevue. (Mrs. Robert Evans ig, Iiiid up with Xo. unlay dayrf. The new system of welding was a failure, it ls Bald, owing to the awkward position of broken wheel, which ultimate'}- had to be fixed by the blacksmith, ft was a costiy experiment, especially for the men -working there. (The report of the Old Country football games every Saturday in the Her- . „ „ , ., aid, especially the cup ties, is creating Acting ou the suggestion of one of consjderai,ie excitement on the Xorth the Ledger scribes re the reporting of gMe of the traek; so uuch so that at the conditions of the different camps |a meeting held last tfeek a good num- from week to week, would say that the ,ber turaed out and fomed an n. condition of this camp is not as bad ; izatUm which( by the enthuslasm as it was last week at this time, as a j shown> has the hearty support of the few more have been given work, but; resi(3ents on thI£ gWs of the track we still have 20 per cent of our mem- • The deilth occurred of F. Emmileo. •bershlp idle. a]l Italian, on Saturday, at Chinook. The Pit Committee were instructed , The ,)0(Jy wa„ br0UgUt ,n t0 Kettenbv's t'o -take up with the superintendent a j parlors> from whicb ptace the tme^\ case of discrimination against one of; took p]ace Tuesday afternoon. The the brakemen In Xo. 1 mine. i exce]ient turn-out of his own countrv- Then followed the paying of bills,! men was a tribllte t0 lhe esteem ln selecting of Measuring Committee, \ which he was ,held The corteee was Xo. 2 mine,-,and providing the sinews (headed ,by the city band> foUa;.ed tty of yar for our delegate to the con- about 20 covered caches. The reversion, j majIls were fir8t, taken to the Roman ) Catholic Church and then to the Catholic cemetery. on Monday night, which proved a huge -suocess. . An exhibition game of hockey was played at Bellevue between that team and iBiairmore on Monday night, which, -after a hard struggle, resulted in a draw 2-2. A replay will >be played one night next week on the Blairmore .rink. The hall which is being fixed up iby D. A. Sinclair, over the Blairmore Hardware Co.'s store, is completed. The electrical fittings, which are being put in 'by Olie OJson, of the Cement Works, will be completed this ■week. Ling Dong, a Chinese resident of Blairmore, has opened up a. large restaurant in the store lately occupied -by the Pioneer Furnishing Co., on Victoria Street The Bellevue intermediates visited Blairmore on Tuesday night and engaged the intenmediate hockey team, of this town in a smart game, which] resulted in an easy win for tha Blair- ! more kids. The score was 5 to 1, Sllvo Grls, manager of the local j Opera House,' paid a business visit to j Cranbrook this week. I Mr. James Miliar, principal of the Camrose normal school, has been appointed toy the -provincial government to take charge of technical education in this district. Mr. 'Millar .will enter his new duties about the first of March. A big temperance rally was held in the Opera House on Sunday night, at was superintendent at. Corbin about two years ago. William (McKeowen is back in town from his trip to Toronto, having visited Ms parents. William looks all the better for his trip. Bill Savage is back in town this week. The cold snap wasn't as good as it was cracked up to be. Bill is suffering a little from the effects of the frost, but hopes to be alright in a few days. The final for the billiard tournament will he in next week's issue. it came to 'our notico in the columns last week that it would 'be best to insert In the notes how the camps are John -Ferguson is laid up with an attack of pleurisy at present. Hop© to see you around soon, Jack. S. Trono, watch maker and jeweler, of Blairmore, has started business in Coleman. There died with startling suddenness this morning (Wednesday, the Hth), about five o'clock, Mr. P. Pi- soney, butcher, of Coleman.' IMr. Pi- soney has not been enjoying the best of health for some time, bi/t no one expeoted the end would come so sudden. 'Mr. Pisoney was of a very quiet disposition, taking no active part in tha town's affairs. He leaves a widow and five children to mourn his loss. G. Faleoner .was a guest at the Cole- the 11th, working. We may say Michel is working steadily, 'but there are lots of men j.man Hotel on Wednesday out of work here—'men who are en-1 from Vancouver. titled to work who have been laid off —no places, but we are informed there will be room for a good few men after a while. Xat Evans has blown in here this week. .Nothing doing down the line. Mr. Joe James and Katie McKegin took a trip to Edson, returning reduced in numbers—two became one. Bv- erybody's doing it; get a move on, Ross. Why is it that all our young people g to Edson or Edmonton to get the knot tied when we have a J. P. with us that can do the trick? Are they afraid that it might end with twenty- five and costs? The return match of cribbage played by the Punch Bow! Club versus the Workmen's Independent Club "ended with another victory for the W. I. C. The mining school conducted by the heads of the different departments is making good progress, and the ; teachers deserve much credit for the ! manner in which ilipy have carried it ■C. Maclean was also a sue.it in the . Coleman on Wednesday, the 11th, i ug' from Lethbridge Xow, boys, spring will soon be here A. Veitch was a Coleman visitor !aild *e shou!d f ** t0«flher «fd from Calgary and put up in the Colo-1"«? *hat..c?_n.!!e.f!o"':.!ow"r,,s ge,ttln8 ♦ ♦ ♦ Michel Local Union Notes ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Regular meeting held at 2 p.m., John Marsh, vice president, occupying the chair. After- the usual Order of business, the secretary read out the grievances for the week, which -were satisfactorily -dealt with. The Sick Committee's report was 'which F. C. Atkins, of Lethbridge, de- the next order of business and that iivered an interesting and rousing [also met the approval of the meeting, speech, the outepme of which was tlie j The quarterly statement of the Disorganizing of a branch of the Inde- j trict was read out by the secretary, pendent Order of Good Templars In ; The outstanding loans of various ho- • These pictures hold the world's record | Blairmore. The organization ceremony j cais were discussed, which it -was ex-if<>r continuous exhibition, having a took iplace in the Miners' Hall on | plained would "come up for discussion | run of a year at the Lyceum in Xew Tuesday night, and upward of twenty-j at the convention. 'York City aud the Holboru Empire, ; man. j J On Sunday night, the ir,th, the; * Knights of Pythias will assemble at' j the Eagle's Hall for Church parade, at I 6.30, to c'ommemorate the fiftieth an- i niversary of the Order. All true J knights will endeavor to turn out to : make the parade as large as possible, j When in Coleman don't forget to ! visit the Coleman. First class wines j and liquors and first class table. Mr.> G. Downing, manager. ! Coming to Coleman, on February ; 23rd (don't forget the date), the Rainey moving pictures. These are \ the most thrilling and most exciting,I pictures ever shown in Coleman.', a hall. It is up to yon. (Continued on paso four) ^♦^.-^♦^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦: ♦ PASSBURG AND VICINITY ♦ ♦ By Observer ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ <►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The Inhabitants of Passburg have decided at last -to petition the C. P. R. to place an agent here. Whether the petition will leave Passburg or nofwe are not in a position to say. Experience ah-nya _tJMfMinpaln h»V" fx'Piv- four names 'were entered on the charter application form. .Mr. Atkins was unable to attend the meeting-on Tuesday, but fortunately Mr. J. C. English, chaplain to the Grand Lodge at Edmonton, was in the vicinity and was secured to perform the duties of organizer. It was decided to call the lodge the Victory Lodge of Blairmore of the I. 0. G. T.( and will meet every .Friday in the Miners' Hall on Victoria Street. A roller skating carnival will be held -by the management of the local Opera House on Tuesday night, Feb. 17, and they are doing everything fo make the affair a success. Prizes whether there were or not. but wiU be a*"** «« »»8t dressed person, the best comic dress and to the one wearing the best mask. R. Ashcroft, a miner in Xo. 6 mine, ;had his foot badly crushed last week ]by a piece of rock falling on it. He was taken to the Gait hospital, where ;Dr. Church put the X rays on it to ascertain if there were any bones broken. The doctor did not let Bob j know ' he says he knows there is, as he i could feel' them before it began to ed very little attention ln the past, and we are impressed that this one will' be gl^en the same knock out blow also. The mines around here are still idle and no one seems to have any idea when they will start ,up again. Burmis Colliery worked one day iast week; ■ swelFso much. Bob seems to be ra- , ther unfortunate,! as it is not long since he resumed work after being off work six weeks by having the same foot crushed in a similar manner. Hard lines. Bob, but we hope to see London, England. Tlie popular manager of the Coleman Opera House, i .lack Johnston, has spared no pains I to secure these marvelous pictures. I so don't forget the date. Feb. 'Jllrd. +. + + + + + + + + + 4. + + ♦ ♦ ♦ Carbondale Local Union Notes ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«►♦♦ We want the members of our Local Union to notice that all members working three shifts will have his Union dues stopped. The motion was passed at the last Union meeting. Those who are not in favor of it kindly attend the meetings; it will give those who usually attend a great deal more satisfaction and business may ^ieet with better results. Hermon Elmer, secretary, boards the passenger on Saturday night en route for Lethbridge to prepare for! the convention. John Newman was | Mr- Kid, of Edmonton, representing appointed secretary pro tem. during |thp Edmonton Capital,, was in town the absence of secretary. | this week. The Finance Committee have been i -Son':>' <•'<> see so many of our single rather lacking in their duty, -but pleas-1 »»en getting laid off. Better take a ed to say most of them have put in ! hint, boys, and not let it happen again. annearance this week. The LocaLi Dejinje _^j^taat_Ma^uttidyL-jaLj^k- ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ POCAHONTAS NOTES ♦ ♦ By "Gip the Blood" ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Realty Co. INSURANCE AGENTS Now is tlio time for protection you around again soon. j The regular meeting was held on A fracas occurred in Xo. 6 wash j February 8. the vice president In the Maple .Leaf and Passburg looking on. iholIseon Monday morning, when Mike j chair. The minutes of the-previous Odr. ami Mrs. James Thomson, of and Saxa ^ernachuk'blazed (Mike Pin- meeting were read and adopted. Tho the Columbia Hotel. Elko, B. C„ are u* witl1 a piece ot PslllnK on the head j correspondence, which was of a very kindly instructed the secretary to notify them, -which they promptly responded to except one. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ -* COLEMAN NOTES -**+- ♦ **♦.<> + •-»*** + +.* On Saturday, pny day, the 7th, a collection was taken up on behalf of uests at the Passburg ' Hotel" this nnd -shoulders. The tvix> brothers were) slight nature, was read and passed j Harry Wheatcroft. who, it will be re taken ln charge by the':Mounted Po- Howe. of Frank, was down !,ce"and before Inspector Lindsay on week. th« Pakaburg Hotet. ; each and ^costs. We aro sorry to learn that Mr. Tom \ An accUtant occurred to a driver in niiM-.-u was conveyed to the Sana- \N<> 6 mint °» MondaJ" *oren«°n ** tori im «*"»« «fr«t««*i<* «•♦■»->* have withdrawn and with the members who quit when they Joined In with the eity are now getting together with the object of having their own mln*rs' band again. Robert Held pulled out on last Friday's local for his old home, Glasgow. Scotland. Rob says there Is no place like home ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ■LAIRMORt NOTIt ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ A grand billiard tournament is tak- j »*l ■ Wg hoowtag boy. Mother and Ing place in l-o-ekharfa pool room..!«*«W are boih well, Keen Interest was shown by the Ml* \ *'r T. W. ffcivls. manaa«r of the chel hoys afw the handicap had I "hating Unit, is at prewnt rnufinM in started on Monday last. The follow- jthe Miners' Hospital with an attack ing sre the winners of th** first round !of IMiwnonia. Ulwt reports an- at pnmmtt Andy Mltch#li, A. Knill. I »«•»« hin» *ut of »» datt*w On go-turday. »h# Ttli. Vruiik Ituylon was brought t»efore A. M, Morrlwn. J i',. an a (Uarge of beins wnotxt»*tu Hoti4. *h*rm <»*» , ■»»» t»»t»e »*»»» « «»v um> *«• amusrs , 5and, providing ihat conditions will rw, who ^rocfjlined the various teats as stow a amali qusatlty ot gasoline. T., *Bf ******* _ , tmt tn normal. ! wonderful " 'ft.it* ^w«,irt»wWwlr* « »* McR#«»* »*v*« t**»** ; A grand eonewn, smoker Md dunce. | J. W. fireshsm left on 8mdey lastiumn retnntinir abevt mMnltht from «**«** "•kw *B4 «H»H«to». of l^th- which was held In UamhlU's. Holir« j for ftpoksne. where he w«| sw^r as 1 OM Michel, d!#i»r. w«•*-..*,**-.* ■■ r* tjachttorm proved s httfe success and j V. tt.. nrhich Is being besnf there a tery enjoy*M* Urns wss spent' Th* nUlnnorw hock#y clwb Jourr.^y Thos* whs were concert and also program war* Mr. -occupied tb* chair tb* lengthy protram pn>vii«S*« tor a King * mourn* I' ihere; ll. m. 1-hfcld. of tb« Keystone tv was • ll'tle champagn* mi th* table; i m*nt Co.. who ar* rtmwtnieitfny a 591 F. H. Thompson Co. •^Tlic Quality Store' We Realize the Hard Times and Trust the Following Prices will Help Some t**mtAi*n§ wmmmtm intend* boMtac aton Thursday nlgbt last. .luit^ma.-iJi' lv*,'.J 4,*.v iim A.ii» **i J»«- . *,*,(;« *m **vtt«a*«tf-flj •«f. **, for ih* nhl*. manner they worhed to! 0» XmU? Risbt about o ovtock, ftttlnnwMi tho tit*, whkh -otherwJwe^w^^lw'heM^Jinivray Cro*V Cos! n&i twottn*4 ttt her ho4 »*si«.sfJ b*' Ilr i'****b * IM Ubmiik, -mh-hi »«»i»-«f«-i, ,imr» WiH-'tttin Hams, song; Xat Evans, song; Nod town !«« wmh. WcKWnsm. song; U*w*l>n Kvsas. ■ "Vt:* Rowry.* t Wo hrtjio *t* -»••-*" to*'-r *h IAIW end Ivy h*f by B4**f,1 e. nm*. son* «*:?»«# pmrimwd *t tfti- local fljK-m \*t liowvgs, r. J. Tho*M«, t Horn** mt Monday night and mn* »!'■ son*: J* H««*Ii.*, «w»f T. v-turnm. In**nn*4 hy • >schf4 h*tm** ■»»-! n♦■»")• mnn" lltib Iwim, sobs* After ps-rtsk-fbodv d*c!ar*»f it if* he fM ho** ^r imt "t rf-frv-fhmefl's th* ftonr ws* ir-ycr pr-ffortaed la maimers*. |ei»ai*d and dancing comm«u»»l, ■#m-\ Hwrnrnl mtpl** tnm Wnlrmorf at- l.'-itulHir until tli>« -f'-trly Itenrs ot th*« *««!i 1 ih** hix>k« and 'Mi*.* ■ht.fo.r-f .-.sir hemiAtnil If* !» nr^s*. Mr stjd Mr*, t.^n.. 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Kt****rt ** «»h*i** ut* tb* f«*}tm« nf ttfpfrtntcTiifwt nf ih"- Mlfhol mJi...- l\o Is weil kfe*»*a Ui ib* 1*.*** jt.-l .Qmrrv m** # Iha't forpt oar 5 *p.c* discount far Cash on all Groceries All Heavy Rubbers St Winter Clothing At Cost Price ^m^9mmmmmmm»mmmm4t999999m^m9,mrmm9m9^mmmmm9^9mm-9999^99mmmm9mmmmmm4m49mmmmm T. M. THOMPSON CO. iHH motif, TMAT8AVE8 VOO MOKEY Phone 25 Victoria St. Blairmore, Alta. W % iiTi. v., *.*%'< ■r.'^f •& .- •if f ,^-T>:» -Nm. t-.-i's.'*'- .J. , ;S6Vh*1 -.-r*-r l ii PAGE SIX THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C, FEBRUARY 14, 1914. j? .-»- yxM s- " < An $$^*$\'t* -r. i if t'-a-irV1-'0 AxXX7 The Ladies in this Town are Simply Going Wild over Harmony Hair Beautifier. And no wonder, because to make the hair lustrous, soft and silky we believe there's nothing else— and we sell about all the various hair preparations made—that anywhere near comes up to Harmony Hair Beautifier. Ask any one of the many women in this town who use it— she'll tell you she "loves" it. Just look at her hair, and you'll come to us and get some yourself. HARM HAIR BEAUTIFIER Is just what its name implies.—Just to make the hair glossy, lustrous, more beautiful.—-Just to make it easier to dress, and more natural to fall easily and gracefully into the wavy lines and folds of the coiffure. It leaves a delightful fresh and cool effect, nnd a lingering, delicate perfume. Will not change or darken the color. Contains no oil; therefore doesn't leave the hair sticky or stringy. Simply sprinkle a little on your hair each time before brushing it. But first, make sure that your hair and scalp are clean, hy tiding Harmony Shampoo —A liquid shampoo to keep the hair clean, soft, smooth and beautiful. It gives an instantaneous, rich, foaming lather, penetrating to every part of the hair and scalp. It is washed off just as quickly, the entire operation,taking only a few moments. It leaves no lumps or stickiness.—Just a refreshing sense of cool, sweet cleanliness.—Just a dainty, pleasant and dean fragrance. —Boith in odd-shaped ornamental bottles, with sprinkler tops. Harmony Hair Beautifier. $1.00. Harmony Shampoo, 50c. Both are guaranteed to please you, or your money back. These Stage Beauties Endorse Them There is no dass of women who know better how to discriminate in the use of things to make them more beautiful than actresses. Among the many celebrated stage beauties who use and enthusiastically praise both Harmony Hair Beautifier and Harmony Shampoo are: ETHEL BARRYMORE Star In "Tante," Empire Theater, New York. ELSIE FERGUSON Star in "A 8tnwte Wotaio," Lyceum, New York. LOUISE DRESSER Star in "Potash and Perlmutter," G. M. Cohan Theater, New York. LAURETTE TAYLOR Star in "Pet o' My Heart," Cort Theater, New York. NATALIE ALT Star in "Adele," Loncaera Theater, New York. ROSE COGHLAN sstar in "fine Feathers," now touring the United States. Sold only at the more than 7000 Stores. Ours is the Store In this Town N. E. Suddaby, Druggist FERNIE, B. C. Tke Rexall Store •« plant aad discharge his -workers. But the (principle .was tbe same. Th© -potentiality for production, for (production greater than the market could absorb, 'was there as before, but as it could- oot Ibe used, the effect -was exactly the same upon the workers as if the'great ans^ss of surplus products which appearedi in all former crises, had actually been produced. The *po- teatiaMtyi far reproducing was there, ■but no prospective profit in -sight to iwarrant the -industrial . capitalist in 'permitting goods to be produced1. The financial capitalist waa the first to see this—he was looking' primarily after his own -profit—and by declining to loan his capital in a market that he saw clearly would be glutted, compelled the industrial - capitalist to shut down. This he was impelled to do, as we have eeen.'by the inherent, laws of capitalist production itself. - To violate them would mean bankruptcy anti ruin for himself, and would prevent the coming of the industrial depression uKtaiately, though it -might at most delay it for a short time. Socialist Explanation Still Holds But does this change warrant the assertion that the theory of accumulating in-disposable surplus .as the basic cause of industrial depressions must ibe abandoned? Not at all. As a matter of fact, the surplus- product is there under another form. Instead of ibeing incorporated visibly in the form of a vast mass of directly consumable commodities, It now takes oa -the appearance of a mass of surplus means of production; -surplus railroad's, mills, mines, factories and plants of all kinds. Every factory with a padlock and a shut-down notice on its gates was, in 1907, a surplus factory—surplus means of production; every "dead" locomotive engine and idle box car told the same story; every particle ot the Idle means of production -testified to the same Indisputable fact. ■For the past twenty years, 'perhaps the largest part of the labor power expended by the workers has been, expended upon bringing into existence, not directly consumable commodities, but means of production—material (or producing -these commodities. The entire productive plant of the nation has (been tbuilt and rebuilt again during that time. Vast masses of old machinery of production have ibeen scrapped*, and again and again new machinery of far greater productive power has taken its place. Again and again this process has been repeated*, iu fact, it may -be said to be continuous process. The majority of workers found employment in producing this 'means of production; the minority only were employed- in producing commodities for direct consumption. With this vast mass of improved machinery and means of production, we were, as the capitalist press Informed us, to conquer the onarkets of the world, and visions of commercial 'bliss rose before tbe gaze of the great capitalist as he dreamed bf world commercial supremacy. But he didn't capture the markets of the -world. The "world*" meaning by that term other capitalist communities, had no intention ot being captured. They were out, in fact, to capture, also. Thej', too, .built ever new and1 improved means of production as our capitalists -did, and with the same Utopian object In view. And wheu the production of this vast mass "of .means of production^ had_reactoed_a Can tite Capitalist Create or Avert Industrial Crises? * BY JOSHUA WAKHOPE tfMMMMM*My*yv¥¥¥*syMyM**MMMMM*y*yMy*yMy (Continued from last we&) The All-8eelng World Financier This simply means tbat the great financier -must be as familiar as possible 'With the condition of the markets both present and prospective. If he sees no sufficient market ahead for the goods which his would-be debtor Intends producing, he will not loan. Ant! the fact is today that the great financial capitalist, tbe Rockefeller, •Mbrgan or Rothschild, has a far more accurate outlook upon the market, iboth present and prospective, than tbe industrial capitalist wbo desires to •borrow from him. It Is his special business to know, or else he cannot Invest his capital with reasonable safety, lie get* the most reliable Information from the most capable hired experts, His keen financial eye scons the entire world market and every. tiling connected therewith. He .must and does make himself acquainted (with the financial and political outlook everywhere. lie Is the first capitalist who hns hn«| forced upon him tho necessity of understanding world politics, the first -capitalist who must become, whether or no, u world politt- •dan. His business interests Imperatively demand it. It is for this reason thtt we find Monrnii hobnobbing with Kaisers and Csam aud Pope* nnd such '*» them latJMtSiulb. Tht.'jj all right, -but when the market failed* as it was ukhmu-ly bound to. tlie In- 'htfttr.ttl u«pr«'*»ion would have arrived just tho same, and not b«tog able to imy back the loans, the financial cnnllalittts. the Morgan*, would hsve got their property anyhow. In a busl- n«ss M*om they would simply have to take tt. We do not blame the small orwlltors when they divide the debtor's entate among them when he cannot pay. Why should we Warn* th« big ones? The condition Is exactly the same In 'both esses. Financial Attraction ef Gravitation api'tirent, great power which the trust magnate and world financier wields in consequence nas no effect whatever in preventing the crisis, It simply changes the form to some extent, but the effects remain exactly the same. The crisis has the two main effect* of still farther concentrating capital by crushing out the weaker capitalists and starving—and thereby educating—masses of workingmen through unemployment. reftaaimeTOilte stage and was Ibeing prepared to go full'blast in producing it was found that the market showed signs of saturation, that, in short, there -was no way of distributing that enormous prospective surplus at a profit. The competitive .wage system would not permit it. Then -there was nothing tor it hut to stop—and stop means the -industrial depression, The results to the 'worker and to the small capitalist, however, are absolutely the same—unemployment and starvation for the one, ruin and bankruptcy for the other, while the process of centralization of capital, proceeding at mich times at an ever more rapid rate, throws into the lap of the great financial capitalist—our hypothetical Morgan—the means of production ot his smaller brethren, who are not able to use it, because the financier on whom they depend for capital forbears loaning, knowing that tbe world market, saturated to the point of glut, cannot possibly absorb the new volume of products which the manufacturer Intends to throw into it, When the prospect of profits fades away, the Industry stops, as industry, under capitalist conditions, la conducted primarily for profits, and win not be conducted without it. Surplus Means of Production There is, then, overproduction, principally In the -means of produotion. The Socialist theory of the surplus was never confined to masses of directly consumable commodities, or means of subsistence alone. R Involves the machinery for producing these commodities likewise, The reader may note that Bagels, nearly forty years ago, In writing of the crisis, saw this, and distinctly Included means of productions M a part. If not tlie principal part, of the stuipltu which torn perfhious; and tbe trust proves this (by shutting up such plants the inartamt it gets bold of them, That is .what ie called "destroying competition." In short, the trust Is the sign' of the industrial .maturity of a capitalist com-. munity*. just -as the appearance of tbe beard on tho face of the youth -is a sign tihat he is evolving into manhood; The machinery of ^production has- 'been about completed*, and the next step,Is to utilize it for- the benefit of -all, which, of course, will involve Socialism for Ms fullest realization. But we can see this pantioalar tendency already glimpsed in the capitalist mind*, by the "state Socialist", schemes of Roosevelt, the suggestions of government control of tbe trusts from Gory and others, and' the maundering of Perkins -about profit sharing as the solution of tbe problem ot labor and capital. Deductions and Conclusions And now. we are in a position to condense the general conclusions arrived- at from the foregoing examination. In, direct refutation of the theory of "artificial" crises, they may -be thus stated: Modern industrial crises are natural, not artificial. They are the result of overproduction, but this term must be understood in its widest application, aB It has been, treated In the foregoing observations. Capitalism is Ibeing strangled by the vast productive forces it has created., and every Industrial depression draws the noose tighter around its neck. No capitalist, group of capitalists or all capitalists combined, can avert industrial depression, and conversely, no capitalist, group, of capitalists or all capitalists combined, can creat It The power of the capitalist in this matter is -altogether Illusory. The basic cause of tbe industrial crisis lies in the sphere of production, not ln that of circulation. The "financial panic" has no necessary vital connection with tbo industrial depression. It may be -mitigated or perhaps obviated by currency reforms and the improvement of ibonik- -ing systems, -but even so, this will have no effect whatever ln averting or creating industrial depression. No joggling with money or credit can prevent industrlail crises. If there Is any benefit from the money legislation now under consideration by Congress, it .will benefit,the financial caipitalists, preferably) the'big ones. It will not 'benefit the industrial capitalists, nor the workers, and it may be doubtful if lt will 'benefit any class ln particular, though it is an at- -tempt to safeguard the 'financial capitalist. But the mere faot that amy capitalist group tries to protect itself, is no certain evidence that it will succeed in so doing. Why the Delusion Persists A few words may be in order here as to the general reasons for the persistence of -this delusion regarding the •power ot the capitalist to avert or create industrial depression. That it arises primarily from -the general individualistic mode of thought'which ls the mental reflex and necessary accompaniment of tho existence of capitalist conditions, may be •token as indisputable. The "man in the street" has his thinking ready made for him. It saves, trouble, ami at the same time -he has no difficulty ln pereuadlng himself that these apin !.«.,., ••^e-4>esbH5»-hiS'Q, says," he concludes, -must be will own them lndMdiull) la no other alternative. Meaning ef ths Process And what is all this process but the process of concentration—the negation of private property for the vast majority of ths people, the natural «lec- tion of capitalism, the survival of ths fittest under the system? And at the same time these sre the factors In economic evolution which are driving ths world toward Socialism, ss re- m-orselessly nnd resist l*#tly as the rising of the sun tomorrow morning Is brought about by the rotation of the earth The one thing thai differentiate, j^^ rhokw «•**«•■*'<*■• the present, eriels from former ones, ( ,.n* whflf# n^^m-jm 0f t!w wpi. tallat mode of production breaks down willingly lend mu<4» l»r««»r mnm for „ the ssnw puri*Mie io Germany. Franco as a matter of fact, (Morgan, using j To attrUmt* theas tremendous so- or England or th* VtniimA Statws, a* that name for big financial rapitaltat Hal forms aol-riy to the desire of th* *r ;*a.mi»1 «eaer.*U}. aimplj cannot !»W le-ilTidaa! capitalist to grab the Tins fs« lr*»n WHnc* Oy to th<» mtmne'. There ly dsslrona of this Object. If is inher- world'TWtrtret. nml ftsnstng Its r«parity' lo rin rie-H tor thftn to wwe jiatili-s. ent In fhe vi-ry system itself, and tho tn absorb future volume* of eommodl-! « the *pi**wuiUM.'« of the trust In industry, ts ths absense of the scowmulated wrplus in the material Conn ot conswnabts commodities that cannot be disposed of at » profit. This mass of surplus wss vUibie on every hand In 1»93, and hardly noticeable in 1007. The former condition was due to the -blind -competition of tbe manufacturers before ths trust ers. Kach ono of thom went on manufacturing snd piling up goods In ths hope that they could somehow, somewhere, ho profitably disponed of. Tht capacity of the world market for absorbing these products eoold not sasHy be gauged by thsm, tbo point of satur atlen cctttht not be determined, snd so | blind -"onviHU'j.oa natarslty ranitod In blind production, and the people •tsrved white the goods were actually In sight, aU producod sad mdy Cor •rortsnmptton. not they eould not got th«n, thnt Is to a*r, t.h» worlrer could not -boy back his surplus product, snd under tho pressure of the productive fok'ces, Its own creation. It Is no longer able to turn aH this mnnn of moans of production Into capital. They lie fallow, and for that vory reason tho industrial reserve army mast also Uo fallow, M««ns of production, means of aubsistonoe, available laborers, oil tho elements of production and general wealth ort present io abandonee, But abundance becomes the source of distress and want."—■Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, Those am Um condition* of the crisis, and tt is -easily evident thst wo may multiply tho greatness of oar hypothetical Morgan without adding ono lot* to his ability to cbangs thoss general conditions, Inside the sphor* of capitalist production ho Is grest snd powerful, bat he oan only work within the system Itwlf. and fas bound by ti. He «annot change it fundamentally. The s)wteni I* greater tlMwi he. iUt BHS^^ 1*9,, *»,A ,i99l*ttr,t **:- ^\^R6t-**effery- toody •about the right kind of thinking. And when the topic of industrial depression is on the .board, 'what can be simpler than to put the responsibility, for It all on (Morgan, or, If a personality Is objected to, upon some in-definite thing that "everybody" again- calls "the money power", lt ie the easiest way. Just as the ancient Hebrews got rid- of tlieir «ins by loading them upon a "scapegoat" and turning him into the wilderness to die under his burden, so we manufacture a scapegoat and call dt Morgan, and let It go at that. But the simile ends right there. Morgan doesn't wander into tbe desert and die of hunger. Wo do that when we lose our joba. He lsnt really tho goat We are, 'because wo think llko goats—or sheep. And unlike the ancient Israelites, we don't escape punishment for our sins—of ignorance —toy loading thom upon Morgan or his associate capitalist scapegoats of "the money power," But how Is it that Socialists fall, or partially tell, for this delusion? Partly for the somo reason, and partly because of the disinclination to moke nn effort at clear thinking. 'Many of us, in common with the bulk of our follows, use words and terms In the loosest possible manner without, ever making -an attempt to work out a concrete and exact meaning for them. Loose Talking snd Clssr Thinking An ailustration may be given by referring back to the Idea examined In this essay, tho assumption thst the financial capitalist ls In somo undefined way morally obligated to lend Ms capital to tho manufacturer ao that tho latter may "conduct Industry." as If that were tbe being, end. atai and object of the financier; that whew ho declines so to lend, ho Is "depriving" tho other follow—of something he never had, In liko manner the coitf- moh "ibronfi.de" observation that Mor- - , gai "precipitated" the panic is to'999 out bf l;00O exactly, the same thing, as saying he "created" it, which is about . as correct -as declaring that -because a- man* threw a stone, he .therefore must - have called dt into existence and assembled the substance composing it. To "■hasten, accelerate, bring on, or precipitate," all carry the idea of ere- aition -with slovenly thinlaersi. -And when suoh -careless substitution is made and accepted, bow few stop to carry the assumption to its logical conclusion and perceive that it arrives at a cul de 6ac—a reductio ad abaur- dum? That to -ascribe power to -thp caipitalists to create or avert industrial crises is in. reality tantamount to the abandonment -of Socialism aud the repudiation, of Socialist reasoning? lUiat the two things -cannot exist side by l?ide, tout exclude each other a,nd aTO mutually destructive? The cultivation of the habit of clear thinkingi, the practice of investigating and examining as carefully as 'possible the terms, .words and phrases which we constantly hear repeated in reference to economic subjects is imperative for Socialists, and still more im- PeiMutl-ve when iwe come to use them ourselves to construct an argument, furnish a proof, or. refute some current capitalistic fallacy. *.*' A Final Summary Let us. however, bring this essay to a close by once again reciting and summarizing our findings and conclusions. The great financial capitalist whoqi" we haive typified in "Morgan" meae- . ures the capacity of the world market more accurately than the industrial capitalist, and is better able to gauge .what it can absorb In the imimediiate future, In the way of commodities, at a -profit. But ihe does not -dominate the world market except negatively, (He cannot widen It so as to make lt sufficient to absorb all the commodi- . ties that can 'be produced by the in>- -creasing productive forces. He cannot change the competitive wage system*. Before the system -as a .whole he is as powerless as the little capitalist whose possessions he confiscates, and if he iwere a -million times as powerful as now, .he could not chango the conditions of -the problem—which is to keep capitalism going by making tbe world market absorb at a profit all the commodities that can 'be cast into it by. millions of -workers who only receive a part—it matters net whether it is on&fifth, or two-fifths, or three- fifths—of the value they creata Morgan cannot work miracles-, and miracle working power would be necessary to solve that problem. If he could stop industrial depression, which is the cause, and not the effect, of financial panics, be would be quite as capable of compressing a gallon of .water into a quart pot But the age of miracles is 'past—if it ever existed. The capitalist can neither stop nor start Industrial depressions. They do not arise in the sphere ot circulation, but in that of 'production, and a*U the tinkering with ibanydng methods and eumemcy reforms will have absolutely no more effect ok them than the Turkish custom of tiring muskets at the moon has in preventing the eclipse from stealing over its face, or the paipal bull in chasing the comet out of the' 'hmvena AH thn in«;tnat —»""■■? most powerful capitalist can do when these phenomena occur Is to grab, and that, from the very nature of the conditions, he must do. And when the -final grab Ib consummated, the stage of the world is then thoroughly prepared for the entrance of Socialism — New York Call. 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This being was called God, and he" had commissioned the Great Ones and their servants, the priests*, to be his earthly representatives, audi gave them his- full sanction to deoicLe "What was good and what was bad lor his "children." And whosoever refused to listen to the wisdom of the priests should burn forever In a mythical pla#e called Hell. Another class was called "lawyers," whose duty lt was to teach the dignity and majesty of the rules laid down -by the giants. Of course, these rules considered only, tbe welfare of the rulers. If a worker applied for redress against a giant, citing one of these rules as a basis for his plea, the clever lawyer so -befogged its meaning with high sounding phrases and technicalities that he was able to interpret It as he chose—and -tlie worker went home with his wrongs only intensified (if, indeed, he was not put in jail so that he could not go home at -all). But the lawyer told-his brothers, the same as the priest had done, that these rules were for the good of all; that the Mighty . Ones knew better what was for the greater good of the many than the many themselves could ever know; and, *th-#t whoever disobeyed one of these laws should suffer its fullest penalty. Later on there grew up another force to serve the masters—the -most potent one of all. > Its name was "the Press." By means of tbe press all men knew what., the priests threatened, -what happened to those who disobeyed the laws; knew, also, direct firom the giants-tBemselves, what their will and their,wishes were in all matters. ■And last in the list of trained servi- tors comes the great class of teachers. These taught the priests to pray, the lawyers to make proper laws and interpret vthem -as they were meant to be interpreted, and the servants of ithe press to set before the people in the most convincing form the will of the Great Ones. Now, this ■ change in the size and power of the /workers had taken place so slowly that the workers still looked upon themselves as -pygmies. But all the time they kept on growing—learn; Ing more and seeing clearer every day. At first they felt only a vague rebellious sense of discontent, of something incongruous and ridiculous in the existing state of affairs. This feeling spread and became more bitter, but still.they did not know how they could so about it to make a change. Their brains had for too many centuries been befogged by a mist of lying legal, moral and religious traditions., ■For a long time, however, there had existed a small but ever increasing .priests. They told their 'brother band of men called Socialists, who Once upon TopsyJTurvy, there lived' a race of people who were only four feet tali. It was a mighty race—in numbers. Its people swarmed tiiick over the •land as ants over an ant hill. These myriads of pygmies were ruled by a .band of giants who were terrible taskmasters. They forced the little people to do aU the work in the fields aad in the -towns; to fight their battles for them, build their cities, sail their fleets—to do all the countless tasks that had to be performed in order that they might grow powerful and rich and> idle. They even chose the iwdsest of the -dwarfs to do their thinking for them. Now all this time the dwarfs so feared the dubs and the mighty strength of the Great Ones that they seldom rebelled excepting when some Jong series ol injustices drove them into 'blind fits of anger that only earned them punishment that was more -cruel and hardships .more gall- ling. They bowed their heads before their mighty masters, addressed them humbly, delivered up to them without question all the fruits, of their labors of mind and .body; and in gratitude received in return just enough to clothe and feed -them so that their race might not die-out. / But after the pygmies had been iu slavery for many generations, all their hard work of brain and muscle begau to have its effect on them, and they 'began to grow stronger and larger. Generation by generation they increased In stature and power till at last the time came when they were ten feet tall. At the same time, inaction, much feeding and little thinking had caused the giants to shrink in height and in 'power, until at last the time caing when they were only four feet talU as the pygmies once had been. But in the case of the giants, what they lost in height, they gained in diameter, till their shape became as near spherical as it is possible for the human shape to be. They lost their size, their shape, their mental vigor. They even lost their power to enjoy the good .things tbey bad so easily gained. Of course, you .will say. "Now that ■the ipyigraies have become giants and the giants have become puff-balls, the troubles of the former are at an end. iThey will surely come into their own and eradicate the poisonous growth that hinders their own best development." That shows that you have never Awelt in the land of Topsy-Turvy and do not understand the laws and cus- j toms of that marvelous country. I I have told you already that in the j days when the puff-balls were giants ! they had trained certain of the dwarfs to think for them. There were several types of these thinking dwarfs. Members of one class were called presumed to think for themselves and in their own interests. They saw clearly how unjust and silly it was for a small body of human monstrosities to own the world, while the real giants, the rightful rulers, tolled and sufferedi and starved. ' They had .worked quietly for years, telling all -who were wise enough and sufficiently oppressed to listen, that it was nearly morning—time to wake up and see tne truth in the broad daylight of common sense and right. As the spirit of unrest became more and more universal, the voice of tbe Socialist grew louder and .bolder, ringing the changes on the story of the oppression of those iwho were apparently weak because they did not know their strength by those who seemed strong because ot the artificial system which protected them and hid their weakness. And at last, one day, the workers awoke and saw the truth. They saw what -poor things their masters were; they saw that the work of the world ■was done by them, the workers; that they could do their work just as well, and much better if they were allowed to manage for themselves -without depending upon an Idle puff-ball, descendant of a giant though the puff- ball might be, to frighten them and drive them with lies and threats, They saw, too, that with the passing of the master class, .would pass also all the burdens of misery and poverty and degradation they had existed under for so many hundreds of years—that they would at last get what was rightfully theirs and begin to live in real earnest When they really saw all these facts clearly, they straightened their bent backs, throw back their heads and laughed—a mighty laugh that rang through all the lands and down through all'the ages. They laughed at themselves -because of the blind confiding fools they had been; they -laughed at the "masters" because of the helpless .weaklings they had become; and they laughed for pure joy because of the good that was to be theirs. Then they set to work—they made use of all the tools the "masters" had hitherto used against them —the press, the government, education, organization, In short, they took the world for themselves. All the "masters" who were strong enough to survive under the new condition (a condition which forced them-—so (little fitted for real work—to -earn their own Jiving) again -became giants, after many generations of tofl and right living wrought a change in them. Thus did a mighty race come into its own. Thus were a divided people united into one harmonious and useful class; thus did sanity and peace and plenty come into a distraught earth. Thus did the Land of Topsy-Turvy become the Land of Right Side V\i.-~ Xew York Call. Bald at 26. Fine hair at 55. I POSITIVELY Cure all hair and scalp DISEASES. Prevent BALDNESS and premature grayness. GROW ladles' and children's hair rapidly. I TAKE NO DOUBTFUL cases and positively cure all I do take. Hair can be fully restored on all heads that stih show fine hair or fuzz to prove that the roots or UAPILLIARY glands are not dead. I HAVE A PERFECT svstem of HOME TREATMENT for out-of-the- GITY people who cannot come to me for personal treatment. WRITE TODAY for Question Blank and PARTICULARS. Enclose stamp and mention this paper. MY PRICES are reasonable My cures are POSITIVE and PERMANENT. PROF. GEO. A. GARLOW Tho World's Most Scientific Hair and Scalp Specialist Room 1, Weldon Block, WINNIPEG, MAN. Southern HOTEL BELLEVUE, ALBERTA Everv * " . convenience and attention Meals that-taste like mother used to cook Best in the Pass Jos. Grafton, Proprietor % xwm . xxsjAi\ ',- .si-- *?-l \f ,-.'«?*. I ' ft "-'J'" lvl si' -"V-HI '* v$| Mail Orders receive prompt attention THE FERNIE LUMBER CO. A. McDougall, Mgt Manufacturers of and Dealers in Wl kinds of Rough and Dressed Lumber Send us your orders CULSHAW VS, G.N.P.G. COMPANY JUDGMENT (Continued from -page four) Full supply *t following for an sppotltlns m-Ml to chooM from. Beef, Pork, Mutton Poultry, Butter and Eggs Try our Cowbrldot ••«- agto for tomorrows brook- foot CAUL OH PHONI Galeiiy Cattle Co. FDMlM Wootfttrot* riftMit, t. c. of the severity of the weather to which ipettrons in the locality, and whether eo employed or not, were equally Viable. If it is the latter it does 'not arise out of the employment,' •because the man Is not specially affected .by the severity of the weather by reason of hds employment." It is worthy of notice that tbe learned arbitrator in this case has fallen Info the error referred to by the Lord Chancellor In the Warner case, supra, that is, he deals with the subject matter of the Inquiry as being one of "accident," At p. 46 the I*ord Chancellor has thia to say:— "I Trfll only say tbia further to be perfectly ttrtct and aoqwate—tt ls somewhat lax to speak of thia statute a a though it referred to an accident, 1 am perfectly conscious that I myself, as well aa others, have fallen 4nto that lapsus linguae, but at times it may be apt fo confute one's Idea of what ia enacted in thia particular Act of Parliament, Tlw Act of Parliament does not apeak of an accident; 4t speaks of an Injury by accident aria- Ins: out of and In the course of the employment." Here we bave a man working for a colliery cuiupuuy lu a mountainous country: he was a fan man at the Cost Creek workings, and near -by was a built shelter for the protection of the workmen In cold weather; It Is not the case of a workman engaged In his work being affected by the sever ity of weather, only in the carrying -tn at W* wovto, ■-•" ivU ■•.".w wortrnv-ftv would be In a locality where workmen , would be engaged at various pursuits. Tlm simailou I-i- rv is «jultrd Loreburn, i.e., In Ismay Imrle & Co. v. Williamson (1008) A.C. 437. 77 L.J.P.C. 107, 24 T.L.lt.. at p. 881, referring to the Fenton case, said:— "In the caBe of Fenton v. Thorley (19 The Times L.R. 684; 1903 A.C. 443) the meaning of the word accident was very closely scrutinized. That case stands as a conclusive authority, and I would not depart from It if I could, nor need I repeat what was there said." Turning to tbe learned arbitrator's findings, and considering bla language "that the accident was -caused by abnormal weather conditiona," It follows that from this point of vl-aar nlone It was an unlooked-for mishap, and untoward event which waa not expected or designed, and quite within the definition as given by Ixtrd Maenaghteti. In my opinion the workman met with the Inlury by accident arising out of Rud in the course of the em* p'ovment, and the Act, In my opinion, plainly covers all Injuries by accidents Incidental to thc xppclnl employment. Her** the -workmnn wn* engaged at a particular nlace In a most Important work—be was a fan man; n ihelter was provided: there was the risk of snowslide; they were perils that might be looked for; oii*> occurred—In fact he so met his death. It follows that this is a proper -vua-it for condensation. I sm thprcfo»"f> of outtilfin thru th'« .'••himjuI -nboubl be (llsni!#s«i< end tlwtt tho statH c«s« bc niii.m-mI to the leirned arbitrator, with a direction to ■ !i!m t9 a■*.<■» ruin il»- -am-utiiit of iIm-h We Are Ready to Scratch off your bill any item of lumber not found just as we represented. There Is no hocus pocus in This Lumber Business When you yini spruce we do not send you hemlock. When you buy first-class lumber we don't slip in a lot of culls. Those who buy once from us always come again. Those who have not yet made our acquaintance are taking chances they wouldn't encounter if they bought their lumber here. , KENNEDY & MANGAN — Dealers In —• Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash and Doors. SPECIALTIES—Mouldings, Turnings, Brackets, and Detail Work OFFICE AND YARD—McPherson ave. —Op"posii«rQrW^1>epotr~1s:OrBoTrMr Phone 23, Steam Heated Throughout Electric Lighted THE KING EDWARD HOTEL J. L. GATES, Proprietor Fernie, B. C. The Leading Commercial Hotel of the City Rates $2.50 per day With Private Bath $3.00 Pire Proof Sample Rooms tn Connection Imperial Bank of Canada HfcAD OFFICE, TORONTO Capital Authcrlnd .. $10,000,000 Capital Paid Up 6.925,000 Rtssrvs and Undlvld- Total Asseta 72,000400 •d Profits 8,100,000 D. R. WILKIE, President HON. ROBT JAFPRAY, Vlee-Praa. BRANCHES M RRITI8H COLUMBIA Arrowhead. Cranbrook* Farnlt, Goldtn, Kamloops, Michel, Nelson,.. Revelatokfl, Vancouver and Victoria HAVING* DEPARTMENT li.ttrsst sllowsd sn deposits at errant rate from dais ni deposit FKRNIE BRANCH A. M. OWf N, Manager A "Ltdgtr" adv. It an Invtttmtnt. waa employ* I by wrtain *f h'.s n%Ax, A inf/U.4. dtntJt to in.u« weekly large sums of) Appeal dismissed. money from hia employer*' office to! : HBpgSW smsB-m mmmmmmmm mmmt List of Locals District 18 iP tin. 111 431 3tf» »t« tm- IKT lit* £11! IMS Z0"t Wt r»~,i IIM 2t?» l« Hnmn bnn. and P. O. Ainraw <««...*« AMI JM.OV,..,. ,,.-**0$, *»*t**t tOtOtl. <%H*. . Tat-lli^' J*", YA'it-M-lhj, JJU.vJt.v-;Mi.-.', ,i.L*, Ifcav-ei Crpi-ii......,.., j. ijcmghttu. tktnvtr i*re«k, %h Pln-tknr, Altn, 7 ..Mm** n»tk*„ thn M,, ntflevn*,, All**. ..... W. c. Cbrta-toplw**, Itialntwra, Alta. T. Ct. Han-tea. Passbitrt, Alt*. ..... Mi-rtsaml Wtrrw. ttannarv, Alta. ...... J. Johnston. Coleman. Alta. ..... J. Jones. Certain. D. C. ..... Jaa. Horn*, f%itoeok. vt* INaawnd City, AN*. Thoa. irpblll, F«rai#. K C. B»»ii Monom. Frank. Attn. W. I.U14**ih b> uu tor U.i- ikayiu-Miu of tbo wanes ol the coliWrs. Whilst ha waa tltun employed he waa robbed and morderHt in the train, lib widow applied for compensation; it was hold tbat thi' murdw was aa "*wltlent" within thi* m-Htnlnn of The Workmen's Compensation Ael. V,iW, and that It arose not only "In the tonrn* of but .„ ....„ ...... also "out or th* ••mifWivment. Iiirs waa In a sheltered position as far aa mnrb as the «l»ty of «arrylti« the . . anowalidiMi tr*r» imo*rn*tl, that iHmom-j. 9*mn »tt!»j*cte«t the mthhr to!""^'!-"** »**<*• we inow or tints *.*- <•.»■» waa not at a point where an ordinary s?h# op**ini ri»k of twtnf r»W» endorsees Heists om#» *»t* saowaiida would mxur, and that be ! murdered, which was «i««t««iu«?iitb In- i t-Jntwialott. Thm remarkable aum-ia tit (Ihaaksl wnrtdtr** It to be In a*»•*»»<-* '« |th*r« under ordinary elrrHBistaneea. i compensation iand ibaMt waa n***r *unMot*4l aa » t*ot*n» IMrty wr. In »h*- Vi»tw*t Unngerons point la wiard »« mm* A-n**, i« UKJ. at n, st, said •l-Jdes.** "The rsae of Andr^wa v. K.illdwoMh It la tb#r*Mfor» e*W**»4 th*x ih* w»»k- Ind-mMrtal (*orMy ilA**tt 2 Kit :t? j mau was within the hortton of dnn*-T; :•. i.j.K.11. .'to. Is *ti i injuria nt author- Ifrwii* s«owa|.Uh>a Mt. the |.M»liit, w|i»r» hj- on this point*. Any ma, mav !j« I employed, and areh wt-rc It^an^xtra-, *tr«rk by l!*bi«!n* and In min* -dr i*irtm-fitiHft* rmtwlred W* <0'***noo at »-M» «« ot*"*tori**t*tfo< tt it****** *%** \imim, st i*t**ntw mnn » *>*>•* rit wtt normal nit.. «i# or*in, ■'■»*ps»r to. n-htoh «ti** mtn- St etpoiMNl tt t<»fRethlnc arislnt ont ot hi* #nH»!«»*m<*»t. Thwa a workman i djtuner. How, list*, tmt* it he miv** . I fttHf i^mtontMl that thtt ta »«* a e»*#; j-tor ro»pf««stlo*f la It not InfMrv - ih-ere iminty rwwltint in tio»'hi ',* ac- i<-!«l*'»« *rUlii« out o4 »»•! in tho ftmrn* *h i*-: 121, a dwlsion of the court of appeal.. cmtm* ot hi* \hm I r.* the lesmed arWtrator'a p, SS. aald: ■ -*lew. I »»uM rail nttnotlon In pir'S-f- 'i»i th* <«- fntar to ih* iangn-f* of Rneklry. t.i- -nl fiit*-?.-.»■ \'X'i t.-t.K H * tt'. ,* 42T,. »t»*1r Wc *■* >', Au .*'.*',-'■ '■ •••• *TTi# .-■ '■ <- arialoit out of «h# *mntnfn»*nt. "Thl* fn •*»' 'to**** por*fM.tl lnjwrf tfm-is.'jfi*.':- Ts.-- •otimintt tmt t*t »V otopltmn*rit To -i ■*-"? vtntko*** Vh* ««i>t'4» -al th* A** tno ta pet*AMii inytr* ""«* GIVE THAT PUHY CHILD i THIS GUARANTEE!) REMEDY if your «hild is under ««Ittht. IMtless , aijlna, liable to g«t sieh «»wt>ll}. it r.wd* ;a ni*d;r|ii«» to btilltf Its *«'t*tht and !*tnnrh For this parpa»«» tinn li fj,,*, '»)..,» ;*, ,-;v*'*'a1»,* it *tni,ii..**> ■ • .» toit# llm Rt»rv***(i. »-nr|i h tho hlm*-l ttnt't t»rtt'**t in th" ttti'tf*-* #y»*'-!ii !|j«- crcftfih. weir.!i« »n,t hi*«ith'b*tr.Hlna •tlfjSiiinc-*-* t! n«>>'-d* .%■»<*. 1« t'.oom fi'! thia *i»h»MH in)«Hr>c fr.o **tii,*aMi V.i tike, but kV'U In*' m»*: s*f»sittre t-Vimsttii 1* <*»-»i-.-ilt«-«i tht* nth+r *h-»»*^ '• -*.»>•• '• ,* > -1 ..<.**-.•,■* or n-ito.v-s'wnitifiK «in»««i ahtrh »«' tt*t*tuX* iritpeti ;«> KXtiPti, iiir.t «*fni»ir**i». THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE 8IR EDMWTO WALKER, C,V.O,I.I-l», ft.C.U Pft.M*»t ALEXANDER MINH JOHN AIRI> Cwntral Managrr ,\«.l«i«ft« tkiwral Manager CAPITAI., $15,000,000 KKST, $12,500,000 BANKING BY MAIL Accounts may bc oftndi at every torch ai Thc Canadian Bank of Comm-me t<» bt* uperalttl by mail, anJ will receive Ihe tame cartful attention as is given to al! otlwr department* of the Bank's business. Mtmey nwy bi* deposited *»r withdrawn ln this way a* aatlsfactoritly as by a personal visit la the litnk. n*n l S • .«arw m*o*.■*.»* wewr »»*«<•« !.-»!. hi iItM»!R*« »'!(!.' * ,.t**ti mmltiiwo* *n« tt.fi til* ttt-nt ** !. in th«* asm* en**, af of f*a*r<»f»*,r K»*!i*HN»rin» v I/III-ton and Iwn .. t i'.fil, i 11. Jnatlr* Clwk iM it I* «S!i****"* ft* getftt* ot thf w-fakft-Mt* »!-4 mil' !*a , «p 10 |?« naturat ptn-ui,: > -,*t '■»»*' I,- ttlti-r ■' -.-;•■*.• *. • .* * **'- • » •icAWti »#,i**c If.t f..»«**■ ».».!■ . '->**ii \ ;oar *.t,V-i Ui* i< *•'< "'-' ,t»«»j> maitclt*-*. ant *,.,k* .**• : ti%«-l>. atrona. ■»« ;* *.i. * (■>•'■ < "ton. *pir*.M 'hil-lr. ■. -.-,:* -\ ■- ".'.nr* to hats. i-.,'.i,,- '.*,- * *., , s&d 0*1 >o*»r «*•■'.. ,* * "-..** V. ; *a»*t yan to u*» ■:> •"»-:' ',«.» .9 *,** ,!,*.«(> * ;**> > *' m i*:? .lie- fnltl-* ***( ,..,-*, .... ■it rHH-an f ii?,,.- ,*tll' ' tin || THE W± |% c°^r.-1854 HomeBank^Canada 4 it i ■ft i, .*"' s**^ 4- », ' rhs**.o waa fti*n."" ,:* ■ -t «f*» *«•"') p *,■'■ ■■*,■' * ~ ,..,...,» |» f*,f, %ft ft*i-t ,,,'tn t,» !».. tkm vt'titi «ft ►'#••».;<»• » ,..*... .. % <• «-»•» tt I, I K »t ,. ; ■ ■■'• h. *.'•»*.!*!'*•» Ht J, :>**. * .i.:, -»9*y fe**,. h M*fkts •*••»--*■■« ■%-. 's*y m* ii *t* \ tstxn -avtnc* J-'IVwit'i of % (nil <■ .**mp«MiiMl ♦rst«rt,-»! at TORONTO j»«f« M**0«l l MACDONALD, Manogci Vi.,, .*.- -:- ftUHlt ft. C t""*-*"nj»' " - PAGE EIGHT -U^MM^MMflM 9 --.i|.-*.ii»..**«J.v^*|-*.,~i..- ..■l■»»J■.J^-^«■^«■- ■ I. ii, «■««■ |l il! I li | Illl »Mllm.i IIM.H »m.*«i nn i il. Mil '**VS*~t$-. *X:r, Viv y!?SH^"ViH'ffii&.^y&F *■&&***& " II "I ....... ..*... — - .,-,■■ — ^.~—_-^ **—*-.. ... 71 , A*. J , \., FRICT LEDGER.-FBRNra B 0.. FEBRUARY 14 101* f>: »Bpi»*«f-v--l ■ t- ^ —jmw ■■■■■wjm^i»-i* I THK DISITEIOT IJBDGER, FERNIE, B. C„ FEBRUARY Wl»l -»» r"? fr «•^.*'^,J,'" *-^ ' - AX'* .;***'-* n ■ -94. ..*, r Attractive Pay % Values at the Big Store ■ • v. ^jN order to make room for Spring and Summer Clothing we will clear our present stock of high class ZOttl Century Clothing. It is seldom we place garments of this high class on tlie Special Pay Day List. If you intend buying a Suit for Spring you will find in this sale a great money saving opportunity. Pay Day Values in Odd lines of Glen's Working Boots, in low and high cut, black and tan leathers, at exceptionally low prices for Saturday and Monday. Men's Tan Blucher Boot, 8 inch tops, plain toe; a good comfortable working Boot, at $3.90 pair Men's Black High Cut Boots. 10 inch top, wiflh toe caps, heavy double soles, buckles on tops. Special $4.60 pair Men's Low Tan Blucher Boots, heavy soles and good strong tops; a splendid shifting Boot. Special $3.75 pair' Men's Black | Grain Blucher pit Boot, a serviceable and roomy Boot for working in. Special $2.00 pair Men's Black Pit Boot, nailed, a heavy and serviceable digger's boot. Special $3.15 pair Men's Black Chrome Blucher Shoe, a good easy fitting Shoe for knockabout weaK Special $3.00 pair Odd lines of Men's Fine Shoes in Geo. A. Slater and Just Wright makes at very interesting prices. Regular $5.50 to $6.50 values at $3,50, $4.00 and $4.50 pair These Shoes comprise all the different leathers in black and tan and are worth your inspection. =A=Few=Sp66ials=fo^Satup■...■ , -. .: '» A* .-'•*' .*> 2: %i> ..'■ '*> <7: * «>. "-.',, ■ ':A'Wi\UYA '7f>,':' '■■Y*' **' S.'A' - • ' ■{ ■* x -x • *#-' * ■% t•■■.-,- i '.y ,**?,, ;' *-'}/*>, aX \ V» :.■* • ,„■ ., y»'{++ '■; ■ AV,W$M$*m?7-s "■^&*^Bxt^A*, '■ 'A.r, ** '•.*/', f-t-f. * y,,.yf '>;. ;•)-. ,Ay . « ' ■-.' (**■ » :•*- #vi x-'V fa '.*•: «,. \X" Small Htm* and Mats in the most popular sizes nml hI price* lhat y«ni simply ennnot bent. All the ♦tfsj-jpis nnd t. New Cloth Dresses at $6,50 New Serge and Panama Dresses, neatly trimmed with white collar and cuff} colors, Black, Navy or Copenhagen Blue; all sizes. Special Saturday $6.60 Ladles' Suits 14 only Tailored Suits, made in serge* and novelty cloths. Every Suit is up to the minute in «rtyle snd durable. Good range of siies. Pay Day Only $9.90 Our Siiriiip: WHlipa^rH are more beautiful than ever thin year, Dont rorff«t to Look sat Tb«m. Pay Day Prica. $4.05 each Special Order Clothing; We wish .to announce that samples of the new fabrics for Spring, and portfolio of advanced styles for men who want to be up to the minute, are on display in our Clothing Department. We guarantee a perfect fit. This means we do not want you to feel you take any chance ordering from us. We take all4responsibility. The fit will be perfect and the workmanship faultless. We are agents for— THE 20th CENTURY CLOTHING 00/ . WM. H. LEISHMAN & CO. "JSam COPPLEY, NOYES & RANDALL. NEW SPRING SHIRTS Sweaters Men's Pullover Sweaters, in Navy Blue only; all sizes ; pure wool. Wegular $1.50. Special for Pay Day 95c each ~vi nur men^s (■oat Sweaters will be sold at big reduction Satur- iAv. Pay Day Specials Molasses Snap Biscuits 2 lbs. .25 Family Mixed Biscuits per lb. .15 Robort«on?s Cream Chocolates per lb. .35 Robertson's Cream Chocolates ...,.,. 1 hox .35 Robertson's Mixed'Candy 2 lbs. .25 Braid's Best Coffee 2 lbs. .85 Lowney's Ooeoa ty lb. tin .20 Heh« Tomato Catsup pints .25 Peacfhea 2 lb. tin .15 King Edward Sardine* 2 tins .25 Robin Hood Plour 08 lb. sack 3.10 Red SealJam 5 lb, pail .50 Empire Ham per lb, .22 Empire Ba«on perlb, .22 Finnan Haddie 2 lbs. .25 Shamrock Matches 2 packet* ,85 Queen Quality Mixed Pickles 20 oc. .25 White Rose Toilet Soap 7 bars .25 Haby '• Own Toilet Soap per hox .28 Hpeeial Blend Bulk Tf- V,,.. 0 ,..* ««* • ••■' I "-*••- - **v X-xtiicn Ml*. I'Wi m Lyman'a Beef Iron and Wine .40 White Pine Cough Syrop 2 bottles ,25 -fJiu Pills 40 Lyman's Talcum Powder 2 tins .36 Tooth Brushes regular Mo, for ,20 | Money Sav- \ TRITES-WOOD COMPANY, Ltd. BRANCHES AT FERNIE, MICHEL, NATAL AND COAL CREEK Thc Store of Quality :.;-*mmm^mmmpi^.mim. 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