7mm^ r OWNED, CONTROLLED, PUBLISHED BY DISTRIOT 18, U.M.W. of A. €th$tt V "V I'-i'iQ VOLUME 1, NO. 44 * ♦-»♦» »»^»» *■' ♦ HON GIDGEON ROBERTSON ♦ SHOULD EXPLAIN ♦ .(From El Paso (Texas) Her. aid, June 5) "A special train of 300 Jdexi cans and their families left here last night on the El Paso and Southwestern railroad for Chatham, Ontario, where they will be employed *in the beet lields during the summer. They were brought across the international bridge early yes. torday afternoon and left her^ in charge of Canadian oHl- cials." THE DISTRICT LEDGEF^ FERNIE, B. C, JUNE 13, 1919 =■/=? l< Printed By Union Labor ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦<►♦♦<*►♦♦♦ ♦ Another Step For One Biff Union Tho One Big Union conference at Calgary finished its sessions on Monday evening last after having drawn up a, constitution and elected tempor. ary ollicers for the preliminary work. The subject matter of the constitution will go before tho various organizations which have voted to withdraw from the so.called international organizations. A referendum! vote will be taken and arrangements made for a first annual convention, the election of officers, the choice of headquarters, etc. The official report of the conference has been sent to all locals. Very little publicity hash een given to the conference at Calgary for there were no speeches. Various commit, tees worked out the different details and coming before the body as a whole satisfactory readjustments were made •where necessary. Nearly 50,000 -workers were represented and although the conference was not widely heralded abroad it marks nevertheless another Important step forward. o No Denial That fate of Fernie of G. N. Manager Wilson Says "We May Ofien At Garwood' And That Means Government Should Act At Once/f Inte^sts of The Property Holders of Fernie Are To Be Protested. ' Will Government . Investigate ♦******+ ♦o^ '0^^^4**0^9^0**0-^*0- - **■■*■ - How About Grows' Nest Pass Titles IM> Smltlia tan demanded that seven Brest mine nwnln-g jmetn tn Oreat Uriutn, submit their tltlo deed* to thn property, tor aeratlny. Tbn Income of the M*r4*I* of Bate bat. bttn caMmai ni at over !99,: "Minister of Labor informs me that threat published in local paper cannot be correct as lie has positive evidence that company aro anxious to continue working mines." The minister of labor (T) knowitig the facts as he does, could easily measure the company's anxiety by the fraction nf a cent which would have kept the mines in operation. Hon, Gideon Robertson, however, eannot be expected to see anything except, through the glasses of tho corporations. The date of Dr. Bunnell's telegram shows how close k Gideon Robertson's connection with thc business end ofthe To The Hon, John Oliver, Premier of British Columbia: WHEREAS, W. R. Wilson, Esq,, general manager and second vice-president of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, in a statement in The Fernie Free Press asserts that "we may open at Sparwood," and WHEREAS, responsible officials of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. have made the statement that coal can be produced at Sparwood for a dollar a ton, and WHEREAS, machinery purchased for the safety and improvement of mines at Coal Creek has been kept idle at Coal Creek since its arrival many months ago and it is common knowledge that it is to be used in the n^w field and, WHEREAS, there are many other reasons to believe that it is the intention of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company to abandon the mines adjacent to Fernie as soon as such abandonment is practicable and WHEREAS, such abandonment would mean serious loss to the householders and property holders and also to holders of city bonds, besides the abandonment of an area containing millions of tons of coal which would be irretrievably lost to the province; THE UNDERSIGNED THEREFORE HUMBLY PETITION you as head of the government of the province of British Columbia to at once commence a thorough investigation which will lead to legislative guarantees that such abandonment will not be considered and which will also review the concessionary grants of the said company with a view of safeguarding the interests of the province. The above petition signed by several hundred property owners of Fernie, obtained after only two hours canvass, was forwarded this week to the premier of the province. In addition to the above the following facts were drawn to the attention of Hon. Mr Oliver: "The federal government's high cost of living commission Bet the minimum amount upon which a worker could live. "Your government instituted an eight-hour law and a certain number of workers were affected who had been working ten and eleven hours at the established minimum. "The operators took advantage of this law and when the men'a time was reduced their wages were also reduced below the said established minimum. The miners organization took the ground that under no conditions would they consent to a reduction of wage3 because they had been assured that it was not the intention of the Act that it should be used as a pretext for the reduction of wages, "A readjustment would not have added one-half cent p«r ton to the cost of production of coal." A telegram received froni Dr. Bonnell, M.l\. on Wednesday said thnt he had jiisl been to the Depart incut of Labor and found that Hon. Gideon Robertson hnd again gone to Winnipeg. Dr. Bonnell said he had talked lhe proposed abandonment of Conl Creek over with Deputy .Minister of Lnbor Ackland and that he was writing fully to Gladstone local regarding the matter. of these records are available. Below we print some comment from the Winnipeg Tribune in June, UlOfi: GAFFING THE GRAFTERS The claim* made hy The District Ledger regarding tho proposed abandonment of thc mines at Coal Cul are not denied by the Crow'a Nest Pn** Coal Company, either through their manager, Mr. Wilson, or their official organ, The Fernie Free Pre**. Mr. Wilson iay»: "WS MAY OPEN AT SPARWOOD." Tlie Free Press says: "XI they cannot operate successfully in one place they will try Another aad there is no law or reaaon to prevent tbem." Mr. Wilson know* that it is hia hope and hia intention to have o compnny J*, without doubt » |,i,>i„^, ,„„,,*,,r, a eoal operation proceeding at Hparwood that will eelipue anything I feel* that law* mo not ninth- tor iln control 1 .*.«• ■ .. e he big corporation which bus Fernie's clestiny in its grasp. Dr. Bomicll'x attention has been called to the fact that the extent of tbe l1je Winnipcg ^^^ 8Urs up thc Coal gubjMt with a r^ Hot Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company's "anxiety" to continue workitufi Poker the mines is measured by a fraction of a cent and he hns been advised j , _ tbnt if the (row's Neat Pass Coal Company has no «ii..|. .ini^r m-j ,, m, tUmmmt ,„„,„ „UMW. ft, ottflWa in r,.fc>.m, to ,,„,, ,flnt,B teiitions as Tho District Ledger has attributed to it there should be nO| invn„(| ,IV 1hi. iUwi,mwu* ,t( Viim,Ui ls ,{„„!«,,„„ „f pnWi, eonvie- objeetion to a review of their concession privileges and the securing lioH jn t!jis,„u,j{n Uuii MIt.,, ttjtfl (|i.|miiiiU Biiuui(i,)(, lpw|tM, ag th, on behalf of the people of Fernie inch legislative parantees as would l ,r| uf {y 1(|i,. ,UjiI lh, j(W,1,rH,,i|l uf „„.,„ ,,„, „„.„,„, m.„r jn. Insure business stability in thii community. I Ut ,tT'tVhUt \mu\H Reminding to "His Master's Voice" th litor of the Ferniej „.,v m-sU.r |tf ||j(. ,,,,,.,.,„,, M|. oHvil. ,U|(j J(Jj ^ ^ ()f Free Ire** nays: ^ ieoiir.se, in pointing out that il wot the t'ojiM-rvniivc Government '•The Crow's Nest Pass dnl Company i* a bu-dncw crieem.' lvhi.!. granted the vast «rcint «.f puM,*- lands, ri-luil'iu? immemr t\* If tbey ennnot operate siieei-.ssfully in oi.e place, they will try another j.,,^, „f , „„]. |„ r.(lhv lopatnes, ' am] there is im law or r««*ou t.i prevent them," 1 Tll„ !lhtlU. ,.x,r!(,.t'fro».. an editorial urtoAo puMmhed in the The companv k without d.„.t.i « l...-:...- ■ • Fm> , w ,(,„(.r,j,iV IM ,„„.„.„„„„ „„ *t i>r„,,t of tto- Mirpminir iciurflis I t. r *.(• h i>.i.»r t, Utb« owner of ln.eeosenm, Includlna the company ha* ever undertaken and by winch coal will be pm- i devil* na get in ,|,.|»t „r m |jiN»| miiN or iu inil for |„.jni? J(IM rjl)}j..,,j u!i> -li ni- :(.|,( i> Hcli real mines In Sottth WsIm, tt« j ,j|jm, „, „ t,mi ttf a (,i(,jrtr ., fo|, or pOTI||,|y iwlii Against that intcn la also chairman at ttie Cardiff rtatl I . , . , llon( tiniier Ihe nynleiri of btixineiM of today, no one ea!i utter a word way ■Poaifinnj' nail director ef the nhymncr Rallwar (Tompanyi Mil e««|»oii«i>.ji' the eniise nf tl ii ..I it lo.Mro-ss eot.eerii is not gruit tinder existifti* . it Hot only .ihn'i'i;** Ii ii u*i, I; i> t,I.,« bill tiee«'*i«,-ii'v a ii* eomlitioni. The| Mr. Wilson eannot be criticised for his endeavor lo produce coal at! H,^ "Vtlul r'-»rft"iWli,'r xur" «1»'" ^ «™>^ »« *ht*n\,l h*. t*r-iit-*1 i<<*,-|| that !i Where the everlastin a pc«»pl»«, ". »"" ':i,,3'■, ,u'" "'■"'•»' i Tin- |{»-it.-»t t'i.t.Il.lt. »..» .ueivv uu ntte mnirr I;**** ,^,,, Ui.,* v,,tit,.;,,, ,...,,, I» «» lhn» iaiW would be ' |».^ j,„Mi t !U.".I I>at1uiiin ukia nlmni ^JMi to phttX'th*: %hmthmmL ^Htn th^ nxx.iA'.i- ",,, t-\li.t,; i\„- o.iiar.tS He,«ith ior the t»»i«i»»*v*«» tt* " ' ntrea snd he ssW at the mnl mm j u mn ih(t nM ^i,,,,,,^ rtf t|m |'w Pre** which noon in organized j «*'!,,',» !»**»«». e\l. 1 lv infai Unit- I f I SV *'*tm> i>« i'j(u»»> ii maid* -!..-<• thi* I,,".. ,.f tu* i - . ■ , i i li. ' .»it-o»ii, ••! eWfv l':j" df.l! '■•►■f.tfe th* t-M'.Qi 9t9t,t-49t*t. u4.^4 9t' . 4 4*nii .1U UI ll f' If i I'-i'l It«tc iliH-k* ai Vatillft. 9,*i#9*t.,ti ■*-!/ ,i9*,*t,it,9 •i ■ ,i.' •< rJ . :■- H t-nm"-**.-' ,*.»•♦,» *1 i 1 * . * 1 lhe lowwt. potnihle mat. Tho nnlv l*mtont Tho Hintrxi*1 Itttiver mm\o, ,.,,„i t\,y% •. . ** * r , .. was against the ati-cmpls which tbe cwtapany are Susiiljuusly «ial;ii*i{ hi ,* *:tniiuiuiiti,x which ba* bf-cn Jimii :}' ''»rnt]it ;*'i«', rt:t« »V l,lti"lt'.* (|,.**;,iHII-'->"*f *•** '•« «•"* through the Ci-,t\x's. S,->t Vn* Lt, f. .1, ,\, -••i ( nlmhU.4 iVtt ' r::;'*-ra •1-MiiiMi ttmnaltf lhat it wnmld tttk* n wtlimr tan to earry Ws tftto fm-ti, 1 »»<»•*' »>■» »»»k *» «•»« *«*» »«m|uiiom». "Ktmtr mm*," said HmMlle iiHn^ tbm Tl along. *^>.—„. oocTone say tu hours a wiik it turricifNT Trwettm. Oni. Inn* 1 • , ■■ * ... .,...|*»t«ii tf**intt,9,,,tttily, and wc arc coiitblcnt a legal rcwpoii-vihiltty n% well to F««riiw« as n i-omniiinity. Thc etmr*raiou* granted tliat eompany ercateil the responsibility and it Will be found that there U both "law and mmum" In pn»vr*nt them abandoning Coal Creek with \tn miliionw ,*( n*:m of jJrjf lintoliclteil n*nl an thnt thox onn mnlto touro noire-r "ij ' ..; ; "u; . «p«l in Iht- natural rewtirees of BritUh Columbia whieh mtiu rr^f^tjerUn m objectim, to their inailvitv. Tlie averatre "kmin«« mm'\th„-,: „,.„.., , If the "itiMine«« men" of Fernie ere willing lo have the Crow*» Jitthi Vam* C*»aI Ce-iv.-,v.vn,v% ii'.t«ivt^nv.* tra,irrwd c.ul Tlu1 DUUv*. l*-*l '"l lhe no.*'. v.t!t(.tbl«' >l the Hitikt \;»i(|.lltl.- , tn on *■*-*- '""'im "> ">e.b*)*>..U «Ui'ki>r tbim f\t*r were dn-auo-.t pbyaiclan* have panned np me ff lwar; 0f Kernie tioea iwrt want In see the wine* at Coal Crtek abandoned., fUnc'* heathen < liinw wertta* w«*h as a lM^MibiMty anaUala f. , , .*.».. *...%. -n *. *. * * ■ * I eMe mni m rar na tboy tie em! ^* <0*t * htmrti ifcat Ihey wdl ** eatnamMxi, end hriotf j onttmm. Ast tbty nt* lorMtae * Intel I in thtt frame of miixi n veiy lame promise w aaiwfaetory. The SX^ oitm&A torttXion. aay*, "Wl WOl. leny under »f Lv P.--. ' I'.. !„ ,■■(■* . ".•!:? 'hill Itri »,!M* r.iilw;i; W.'l- tl... . *. ..■•..*r ''-,- Wlildi :].~ f«»r Unttsh iVhimbiji in llie IhillUhUtU llnils.. 1ml i,X Ml. W \* . H ,'VIeJoO'* -«n»M -tf-tMernor ..f *!.,* YiAf.: 1. ., *. ' > "t • •*■ I ,'.,.,,,. , i y. ._ ,ia. ■\tftt\tm-ini A't tlotl jN-rtMiiti'tf tin* .hl.itiioii*. -»j.-st|. In th*> wantiti... M«—i". t',.%, .Inftra ' ;",tl bifid* ll «|<'pO -,*.-r-**^«,,J_r-— rG PAGE TWO THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C„ JUNE IS, 1919 INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM IS AN EFFECT NOT A CAUSE "No, time for neutrality," says the ♦ Calgary Herald of May 29. Then it is every workers' business to get busy and it does not matter whether we he lagged One Big Union, or so many little unions, our sympathies are the same, our cause is the same. But The Calgary Herald is opposed to the present strike and believes, and the Minister of Labor declares, it is a movement designed to overturn the existing industrial system and that leaders in the One Big Union demonstration do not represent organized hCbor as a unit. _ Why is it that the Editor of the Calgary Herald and the .Minister of La. bor will not look the world square in the face, instead of lying around street diers are human and that they realize that the workers are their friends and brothers and that they too are out to live and not to starve. That human society has a right to live and enjoy the products of its labor. Yours MINER -o- MILL10N0UT0F WORK IN ENGLAND LOXDOX.—Ove--; a million persons are now out of work here, and of these 100,000 are in the cotton district. Very naturally, labor leaders kjiiI tni.iie unionsts everywhere'are de. mainline that fhe government should of brotherhood and freedom. For years I have thought of you as a dauntless explorer, going toward the dawn, and, like a humble adventurer, I have followed in the trail of your footsteps. From time to time the greetings that have made me very happy, and now I reach out my hand arid clasp yours through prison bars. "With heartfelt greetings, and with a firm faith that the cause for which you are now martyred shall be all the stronger because of your sacrifice and devotion, I am, "Yours for the revolution—may it come swiftly, like a .*tt of light sundering the dark." American's View of; The Russian Situation organize production and nationalize > industry, instead of giving uneniploy. I Petrograd a City Without Crime and ment doles. *^as No Police—Safer Than Paris It is pointed out that there is a! and Has No Women on the world shortage of necessary articles j Streets corners trying to rope part of the com.! while factories stand idle, that noth. j nv.mity whom they are pleased to class i'"fi h'is 1)een done to start the an-] L» FoUeue's .Magazine for May haa nounced schemes of housing,, town jtho following Jetter, which was a per. planning, a(forestration and intensive sonai coniinunieaiion, in its issue. Thc cultivation of the soil, and that the letter throws considerable light on the travelling public is being put to the situation in Petrograd today. The fore- as Leaders or Reds or Bolsheviks or any thing they think will stink in the nostrils of the readers of the so-called newspaper?, We read some lime ago through tlm Herald that they knew something of Unionism. That being so they must know by the vote.- ihat ara being taken throughout this- country and even other countries that sympathetic strikes are not brought about by a few leaders or agitators or Oue Hjg Union plotters. Then, where is the thoughtful workman who, would not vote in sympathy with the workers today? When we see the blundering. reek- Situation is Bad less, foolish methods adopted by the 1 pared with the apparent indifference government, the Minister of Labor and ; shown in Tiie Calgary Herald to meet a condi.! elections, lion which exists in every country at greatest inconvenience through want jword by the etlitoi. is sufficient to prove of transport facilities while thousands ;at loast that the wrlter la well liIl0wn of unemployed could be repairing roll. jami ,t0 be trusted. ing stock and manning extra trains nnd tubes, etc. Labor Scores in Local Elections All over the country hundreds of labor men and women have been placed on the county, district' and parish councils, and boards of guardians. This labor movement in our local gov. j [)oa eminent is unprecedented. If those wlio rail aimlessly against Bolshevism, tbey would see in this successful laibor campaign in local districts, as i compaign in local districts, as com. "The writer of this letter is a trained investigator, able, impartial aiid-truqt. worthy. 1 commend his statements to the confidence of our readers.— Kdilor." l!HlJ, tht- pre-. :iit time. If they think that by creating dis. cord or spending a little money in printing slimy stuff it will prevent In- mistrial Un'onism or O119 Drg Unionsni they are sadly mistaken For instance, a strike thrust upon District 18 with a membership of some. thing like 8,000, and according to Com. missioner Armstrong only five workmen involved. Here, Mr. Calgary Herald, "would you disrupt or die without ah effort or would ycu be sympathetic and fight to 1 he last ditch? The conditions that exist today are not brought about by Industrial tin. io-iism or One Big Unionism. But In. dustrial Unionism is brought about by conditions that exist,. the H.C.L. being the greatest factor in bringing the worker to a sense of his position, thereby compelling him t9 form a policy whereby he may be able to exist. Hence a One Big Industrial Union, even if Governments have to fall and the recent parliamentary real desire for the decen. tralization of government which is really the foundation of the Bolshev. 1st system. (Evelyn Sharp, of the London Herald.) ' HELEN KELLER WRITES OF CHEER TO DEBS NOTE (From the New Age, Buffalo, N.Y.) Forest Hill, X.Y., March 11. 1919. "To Eugene V. Debs: "Dear Comrade: Of course, the Supreme Court has sustained the decis. ion of the lower court in your case. To my mind, the decision has added another laurel to your wreath of vie tories. Once more you are going to i in opposition and would tentl to greatly feU'osrad, March Senator: 1 have been several weeks in Petrograd. 1 have met, Tchitcherin, Lit. vinov and most of the Important personages in the communist government of Petrograd. Briefly, my opinion of the Russian situation is as follows: In Petrograd 1 presume the present communist gov. urnment bus a majority of the working men obeying it but probably less than half of the total population are members of the communist party., How. ever, my conclusions are based on conversation with not only communists but also many opponents of the com. munist government, members of the aristocracy, business men and foreigners, and I am persuaded that, a large majority of the population of Petrograd if given a choice between the present government and the two alternatives, a counter revolution or foreign inter, vention, would without hesitation take the present government. Foreign intervention would unite the population systems have to change. No matter if a favored few have to be swept out of the way. Democracy will have to live, will in spite of all the forces that can he brought against it. If our children ot today suffer for want of mllk, we live in hope that tomorrow there will be enough and to spare. To think that in this age men have to light to live in a land flowing with milk and honey. According to the capitalist press, a land of immeasurable resources, un. measured, ujisurveyod and uncultivaL ed. Yet the people have not tbe wherewithal to live and are refused tho right of collective bargaining. it ia true that Citizens committees (strike brekkers) mny be able to disrupt and sidetrack the workers ln Winnipeg and other places for a while but thoy will never break the heart of Industrial Unionism In Winnipeg and Calgary. I ean apeak for the miners ot District 18; they have had some be. fore. The press boasts of how little we have in tho till for strlko purposes ret tbe same press would fain make tho returned Holdlern believe that wo ara little millionaires. Never mind, Mr.Ed itor, I was glad to note In your last Issue that even sol. prison for upholding the liberties of the people. "I write because my heart cries but and will not be still. I write because I want you to know that I should be proud if the Supreme Court convicted me of abhorring war, and doing all in itny power to oppose it. When I think of the millions who have suffered in patience. I want to fling myself against all brute powers that destroy the life and break the spirit of man. "In the persecution of our comrades there Is one satisfaction. Every trial of men like you, every 8e£"'.mce against them, tears away the veil that hides the face of the enemy. The dis- cuBsion and agitation that follow the trials define more sharply the position that must be taken before all men can live together in peace, happiness and security. "We were driven into the war for liberty, democracy and humanity. Be. hold what Is happening all over-the world today. ""Oh, where is the swift vengeance of Jehovah, that it does not fall upon the host of those who are marshalling machine guns against hunger-stricken people. It is the oom. placency ot madness to call such acts "preserving law and order." Law and order! What oceans ot blood and tears are shed In their name! I have come to loath traditions and Instltu, tions that take away the rights ot the poor and protect the wicked against judgement. , "The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fall to see that In revolutionary times like the present vital issues are settled, not by statutes decrees and authorities, but In spite of them. Like tho Olrondlns In Franco they imagine that force can check the onrush ot revolution. Thus they sow the wind, and unto them shall be the harvest of the whirlwind. "You, dear comrade. I have long lovod you because you are the apostle emphasize the present nationalist spirit. Revolution would result In chaos, There is nowhere a group of Russians in whom the people I have talked with have confidence. Kolehak, Denikin, Yudenvitch, Trepov, the des. picable hordes of Russia emigress who haunt the Grand hotel, Stockholm, the Socithans house, Helsingfors, the offices of the peace commission in Paris, and squabble among themselves as to how the Russian'situation shall be roIvbH; aii_equally fall to Arid..' many_ supporters in Petrograd. Those with whom I have talked recognize that an. other revolution, did it succeed in developing a strong government, would result in a white terror comparable with that of Finland. In Finland our consul has a record ot 12,500 execu. tions in some fifty districts out of something like 500 distrlots by the white guard. In Petrograd I have been repeatedly assured that the total red executions in Petrograd and 'Moscow and other cities was at a maximum 3,200. It may seem somewhat inconsistent ror the Russian bourgeoisie to oppose Allied intervention and at the same time to give whole-hearted support to the present government. Thty justify this attitude on the grounds that when the two great problems of food and peace are solved the whole popu. latlon can turn itself to assisting the present regime In developing a stable e Iti dent government. They point to the numerous changes which have already been Introduced by the present communist government, to the ac. knowledge that mistakes have been made, to the ease of scouring introduction of constructive Ideas under the present government In possibly a some- persuaded many of the thinking people with wBom I have talked to look to the present government in poslbly a some. Russia, At present, the situation is bad. Rus-, what modified form as the salvation of sia is straining every nerve to ra'se an army to oppose'the encircling White Guards. That the army is efficient, is demonstrated by the present location demonstrated by the present location of Soviet forces who have contended with the Russian White lluard supported by enormous sums of money, munitions and even sailors from tho Allies. Na. turally transportation is inelllcient; it was horrible in the las! year of the Czar'st*1(j'ginio, Absolute separation from tlj rest of the world combined with the*chaotic conditions which Russia has passed through since the 1917 revolution, plus the sabotage, which until recently was quite general among the intelligent classes,,including engineers, lias resulted in a decrease In rolling stock, The transportation of, the enormous, army which has been raised limits the number of cars which can be used for food. Tho cutting Off of Siberia, Finland, the Baltic provinces, and until reeenMy the Ukraine, lines of food transportation. Consequently there has been great suffering in Petrograd. Of the population of a million 200,000 are reported by the board of health .to'be*ill; 100,000 seri. ously ill in hospitals'or at home, and another 100,000 with swollen limbs still able to go to the food kitchens. However, the reports of people dying in the,streets are not true. What, ever food exists is fairly well distributed and there are food kitchens where anyone can get a fairly good dinner for 3.50 roubles. For money one cnn still obtain many of the luxuries'of life. The children, some 50.000 of whom have been provided with homes, are splcn. didly taken care of and except for -'be absence of m?lk have llt-le to contain of. In the nuhl'c schools free lunches are given the children and one sees in the faces of the younger generation little of the suffering which some of the older people have undergone and are undergoing. Food conditions have improved recently du° to the suspension of passenger traffic and the r-^.k. ing of Ukraine where food is plentiful. From GO to 100 carloads of food havr arrived in Petrograd each day sines February 18. Rome Sort of Recognition Pci-Vnna Ilia fi-)Hl*r, *'n pj/j-jhnt mi solution of the Russian problem iR in Petrograd. Today Petrpgrad is an orderly city; probably the only city of the world of its size without police. 1 was at the opera the other night. While there I was told there had been a robbery the previous night in which a man had lost 5,000 roubles, that this was the first robbery in several weeks. 1 feel personally that Petrograd is safer than Paf'is. At night there are automo- biles.s leighs and people ont he streets at twelve o'clock to a much greater ex. tent than was true in Paris when 1 was there in January. .Most Wonderful of all the great crowd of prostitutes has disappeared. I have seen not a disreputable woman since I went to Petrograd and foreigners who have been there for the last three months report the same. The policy of the present government has resulted in eliminating throughout Russia, I am told, this horrible outgrowth of modern icvilization. Begging Jjas decreased. I have ask. ed to be taken to the poorest parts of the city to see how the people in the slums live and both the communist and postponed until a nejj^govelfnment can bourgeoisie have held up their hands and said "but you fail to understand there ars no such places," There is poyerty but it is scattered and exists among those of the former poor or the former rich who have been unable to adapt themselves to the conditions which require everyone to do something. No More Executions Terrorism has ended. For months there have been no executions I am told and certainly people go to the theatre and church and out on the streets much as they would ih any city in the world, I am dragging this out much longer than I expected to and I want to add a fetf lines about the situation in Hels. ingfors, which seems to me to be worse by far than that In Russia. In Helsingfors we have an American consul who has taken a firm stand that the present government is not representa. tive and that recognition should be be formed. On the other hand representatives of tno food control, army officers? etc., are persuading Manner, heim that the United States government is back of him and that we as a people are absolutely opposed to the Socialists, of whom- Mannerheim has executed so many, and to the com. munist government across the boundary to the east. The Engli3h situation is the same. Part of the Englishmen are bringing pressure to bear on Gen. eral Yudenvitch with the help of Russians to invade Russia or the Finns to do likewise. Another group 6t Englishmen oppose this attitude and look favorably upon the Soviet government. All this is happening at the same time ihat the new parliament is meeting, with 80 Socialists out of 200 members. There is a power in Finland more important than that of the foreign oflice and the civil power, and that is the military government of which Mannerheim is the head. A Straight Tip .Advertisements in The District Ledger reach the people who are willing Und able to spend money. It will be your own fault if you don't get some of that money Ifyou 're interested, Get Busy. GUARD AGAINST FIRE. some sort, of recognition of the pve-^nt government with the establlshr.iei t ot economic relations and the se'idlug of every possible assistance to th 3 people. I liave been treated in a wonderful manner by the communist representatives, though they know that 1 am no Socialist. They have the warmest af., fection for America, believe in President Wilson, and are certain that we are coming to their assistance, and to. gether with our engineers, our food, our school -teachers, and our supplies they are going to develop In Russia a government which will emphasize the rights of the common people as no other government has, I am convinced of the necessity for us taking a step Immediately to ond the suffering of this wonderful people that I would be willing to stake all I have in con. verting every ninety out of every hundred American business men whom I could take to Petrograd for two weeks. It Is needless for me to tell you -that most of the stories that have come from Russia regarding atrocities, hor. rors, immortality, are manufactured In Vlborg, -Helslngfors or Stockholm. The horrible massacres planned for latt November were first learned of In Petrograd from tbe /Helsingfors papers. Tbat anybody could even for ,a moment believe in the nationalisation of women seems Impossible to anyone Onr Forest* Helnod to Win the "War. JOB PRINTI The District Ledger has one of the finest equipments in the Canadian West for the production of high class printing. We are prepared to supply on short notice, at reasonable prices, business stationery of every kind, books, catalogues, booklets, posters, invitations, programmes, circulars, labels, tags, cards and anything else th&t is printabel. We have a fine selection of papers and envelopes and will be pleased to submit samples and prices THE DISTRICT LEDGER P. O. Box 380 Plionc No* 9 rata*i#i,.&«=■■■. *.*■ am-Ja: * *»-^-wk-wj tv * 'mf»^ir*:mi%t*s»^m^^^fM^,«^'i.'f.',ii'. ***&,■,■. ■^■^, **u,j . * I ■> THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. 0., JUNE-13,1919 PAGE THREE ? Direetory ofO.M.W.ofA. DISTRICT 18 Headquarters, 316 Beveridge Building, Calgary, Alfa. \ President, P. M. Christophers, Vice-President, Alex McFegan, • Blairmore^ Alta. Secretary-Treasurer, Ed. Browne Brule, Alta. International Board Member, R. Livett District Board Members Frank Brindley, Fernie, B.C., Sub. Dist. No. 1 John Brooks, Bellevue, Alta. Sub. Dist. No. 2 Chas. Peacock, Lethbridge, Alta., -Sub. Dist. No. 3 Frank Wheatley, Bankhead, Sub. Dist. No. 4 John Kent, Wayne, Alta., Sub. Dist. No. 5 David Fraser, Brule, Alta., Sub. Dist. No. 6 A. Benson, Sub. Dist. No. 7 "Steve Begalli, District Organizer District Solicitor, H. Ostlund, Lethbridge,-Alta. Address Fernie, B. C. Michel, B. C. Corbin, B. C. Coleman, Alta. Carbondale, via Coleman Blairmore, Alta. Frank, Alta. Bellevue, Alta. Hillcrest, Alta. Lethbridge, Alta. Federal Mine, Lethbridge Coalhurst, Alta. Commerce, Diamond City, Alta. Taber, Alta. Bankhead, Alta Canmore, Alta. Nordegg, Alta. Wayne, Alta, Drumheller, Alta. Rosedale, Alta. Aerial, AJta. Drumheller, Alta. Drumheller, Alta.',. . . Monarch Mine, Alta. Yellowhead, Coalspur, Alta. Lovett, Alta. Oliphant Munson, via Coalspur Diamond City, Alta. Mountain Park, Alta. Mile 22, Coalspur, Alta. Pocahontas, Alta. Brule, Alta. . Humberstone Mine, Secretary Harry Martin Henry Beard • J. Glover John Johnston Dan Rogers Rod McDonald Evan Morgan John Brooks Frank Lote Charles Peacock Matt PetraB Percy Spencer Albert Zak Alex." McRoberts Frank Wheatley N. D. Thachuk James Bewsher John Kent John 0'Sullivan S. McNiveu I. Radocy A. Parker J. K. Adams Robert Parry J. P. Morris E. Lund Joseph Ormond 3760 4096 4084 K. McGillivray W. C. Stephens L. A. Williams Mack Stigler Box 488, Edmonton Ed. Eastham Will J. Keen W, J. Bourque Printer? THE District Ledger is prepared to receive orders for printing. It matters not whether you want a small card, a .large poster, a book or a booklet, letterheads, envelopes, statements, billheads, menu cards, programmes, tickets, labels, folders, circulars or anything that can be printed we are prepared to do your work. 0 o We are making a spec* ialty right now of business stationery, high class stock and class printing. high ujaBittaji.i|..*..a, The District-Ledger ••QUALITY" PRINTERS Phone 9 :•: Pernie, B. C I Appeal Editor Interviews Debs In The Prison (By E. Haldeman.Julius in the Appeal [martyrdom. Debs wants his freedom, to-Reason) but he wants it honorably. He wants Evansburgh, Alta. Cardiff, Alta. Twin City Mines, 9710-85th Ave., Strathcona ,„.;.. RobulJones _4!!8 Sturgeett-MinefNayaOi-Edmostott—HDrArThomar- 4119 Dawson Mine, Edmonton, Bo* 792 Thomas Coxon 4121 Clover Bar, Strathcona Elmer Burk 4184 Coal City, Taber • William Durham 27 Regal Collieries, Taber G. H. Davis Moundsville, W. Va. iMay 20.—Eugene V. Debs, this country's most con. spicuous political prisoner, is ready to serve his full ten years rather than compromise the principles that to him are more precious than life itself. 1 spent a number of hours with Debs and found him quite at home, feeling free of spirit because he is convinced that he has been true to his conscience. He talks with the same dram, atlc restraint that impressed me when 1 saw him in Terre Haute in 1916 „ at the time he was running for Congress and back in 1911 when 1 interviewed him in Chicago during his last Pr-vi-id •■" ,'al campaii 'nformation they deserve Debs is deeply grateful to the Appeal for the efforts it U making for him Debs made his "words of thanks ring deep. He gets the Appeal each week and sees that we are sparing neither space, time nor money in the flght to free him. I didn't have to tell Debs that the Appeal army is standing by him. His mail would be proof enough, if that were all. He gets books, magazines, flowers, cigars, sweets aud substantial "eats" from every section of the country. He appreciates this from the bottom of his heart. It brings happiness not only to him but to the sick in the hospital where he earns the board which the government provides. Cannot Answer All Letters I was in his room—thank Ood he isn't cooped up in a stifling cell. His room is of fair size, .with a bed that fetches rhapsodic carols of praise from Debs—he sleeps when be goes to bed. There ls a large window facing south —a window that is almost the full length of the room, commanding an excellent view of the interesting prison yard. The head of his bed Is at the right of the window, and to the left of to come out without shame.' Debs is not ashamed because he is in prison. He is there ior an idjia. And so long as that idea is'lofty instead of disgraceful, his days spent in prison are not black shameful days. 'When Debs speaks of those who want him in prison his eyes li Under the agreement he struck with the warden (whom I talked with and found to be a right nice fellow) Debs is to write nothing for publication, nor talk propaganda among the 900 prisoners. Debs obeys implicitly and is con- pettyTfyanniBrteing^enhttewTortB& purpose of terrorizing them. The Russians naturally complain at the ac. tion of the government, and tbe press in backing up the actions of the government, and point out that tbey are | law.abldlng citizens who were invited to come to Australia by Tory-Govern, ment Immigration agents from their The District Ledger believes that it deserves a wider measure of encouagement from the membership. There should be an immediate increase .. . ■' ■,'-. *** in circulation, not only because of the fact that the expenses are increasing and more sidered a model prisoner. He is liked! own country. Today the same govern by everybody—from the warden to the j ments do not want them, while the poor wretch who is to be executed oni; malicious lies spread about them make June 20. When I walked with Debs j it extremely difficult for them to ob- from theaaptain's office to Debs' room tain a living. In the hospital seotion, Debs was greeted by everyone in sight. And Debs returned the greetings with: "Howdy, (Bill." "Hello, Sam, feel bet. ter?" "Ho, there, Harry," "Oh, boy. Larry." Debs knows every man by hts At the annual conference of the Am. tralian Labor Party, held at Mel- boune (Victoria) on April 18.22, (lie following motions were carried: "That this conference strongly protests against the use of any forces to tlmt nome. and all call htm "Mister Interfere with the Interna! Rovt-rnnifint Debs," with qlow emphasis on tbe Mis- of Russia, objects to the Allied pol. ter. jlcy of starvation by blocked?, and "He's a brainy guy an' a good sport," urged the government to do all In Its was a guard's unsolicited testimonial power to allow the Kantian people to Debs loves them all. He considers , work out their own destinies, this penitentiary a university where! "That this conference protests he is privileged to take a course or {against (he treatment moled out to study In human nature, it Is at) a Mr. Peter Slmonoff (the Itussian con- wonderful experience to him. Possibly j •ul.general, who has bee.i gaoled) tho only drawback ls found In the un. * and othor Russian citizeni ln Au*- fortunate fact that he is away from j trails, nnd Instructs the labor oxocu. bis family, especially hit dear wife and j tlve to demand that Mr, Blmonnff and brother. This opinion is not mine; it's jthe Russian citizens doslriug to re I Debs'. ] The spirit of Debs is utterly un- i breakable. He could stay here his full | term and still he would not lose an lota of faith in the cause h<« pemonalisy i seems to symbolize. He bears no nwt. * ice, not even towards his enemies. Dobs told me the witnesses in his I turn to Russia by any route that will permit them to return to their native land, be at once permitted to do nn such agitation to bo followed by depu. tellon to the Prime -.Minister. "That this eanterence, rwognixlng that the Russian working-class revo. lut ion. In seeking to pstablith the com. trial repeated his statements with fair J mon ownership and workera* manage- : accuracy. He took the stand that he j ment of the collectively used means of j said what he was alleged to have said, j production, has the same object as the that he ft'It he had said the truth, and * international tabor Movement In gon- if that might constitute a violation of ,crni nnd thn Australian Ubor Movo. taw he would be ready to tak* hia I ji^nf fn pn.rt.lenin.r fv.prt>*vn«t Un *nr* tabode In a penitentiary. He could i nest hopo for the success of that revo. have quibbled; he could have pointed; im|0n and the npoedy and bloodless out Incon-MdU'nel-wi; he might have re. acrtimplishnujiit of that objoet In ever* Interpreted his own reported remarks,j country. It further declares that the but no, he refused to draw tine dlstlnc.; maM of t«*»tlmonr rrom dlalntereated , tions, he refUMtd to trim his sails,: ■nhtorvrr* shows that thn blame nf th* though he saw the doom of prison»ttmalan Mnodihed and famine munt ■ opening before his eyea. He has no be imputwl to: tn The terroritm, hatred for the witnesses, tke judge wlio corruption and InrarwirUv nf thn t'xar- sentenced htm, tbe Supreme Court, the ur r*tttm* against whl«*h «antt«ll*t prison officials, and thc powerful poll tieians who are keeping htm when* he Is Only on* thing hiirn and tankl**. A lying B-twujia-pr rtpmtt, ttartel tt *rovernm«ntK have never proinnted; <2> thn ruin and dlnordtr inrfnalna from th* trenl war, and 13» the tnn port hy armed Intervention nnd *tir ration hlorknde t*nd«>red ti„v tt>« M"** i Youngstown. Ohio, where bn mnde me •<*, rciriiwr" iwm>raeiit« whieh M«■* f of his "farwwHI addresses.'* credited n* iholr nWod* th« reitnraUon of «anl 2 klas with remark, like: Io hell with, talltm and rnrlstn 'tkt Bnprtmtn Vnmtt," "when I ao to Thu enmt*r*n** (writer pint-** iprtsen thew will k#a (i#n«ral Htrtfce,"|nn reontd tt« entlia«l««tl-r admlrati«K ete. Theee vatree atafawenta wet* nt ih* rmtnrt of tk* antMiillttarist i umm! aaainst U*t»» imt ttetet* he wna gftHaltfttft nf Hnmpo dnrtn*; lh* war, taken to prison. The Attorney f J«ueral who** aim* have h##n ntt viWy wis. ttitutt'tnl Uhmh' an* otmpnl Ittiih. Tlwy rffrtsent'di by tk* *a»WaM« ptt-tn ** money is needed but because more and more workers should be kept closely in touch with the ideas of the progressive forces of the movement. i We. appeal to all secretaries, or others interested to bring this matter to the attention of the membership at once. There ts scarcely a camp where more than twenty-five per cent of the membership has subscribed. A few camps have done very much better. Do it today or at your very first meeting. It is a part of your share in the big struggle that is now convulsing the whole world. We have not the time to write to individuals and trust that all interested will take this as a personal appeal. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE were asid. It nenmn, aa an extnne lot Australia A.9*99.91*. Wi**. «-.«*« ..it..19*19999. .M.-..9 , itn* tvtnttitrm*! kmim m*tiw-i*i I vl*,.,*. bt* nr* 1>t* n nod. .wtt— ■ee-aertene* atOI had etxwegh on- ,*»ui t*>«» *mnih*-**** m **«»'»l tcney tn **rnfgfif',n hfm np f*t ft ^^ lt IW ^** eeM«i» m ***mot m lent! a aWommt tfl trtrrei-titm. the tt. t1m t*dmr*d ort*** oom*d tm mmnt. trials ef Ihe Ae»ehitei Preen »*it t»1« the erne****** n*t**4 in *<**** bur* jwtott'ttn$tx*tmmnm tm Ms n^ ,j,» onl' tm* ham ******** or tepntt. tbo m** <**»-* *bn tomon**- bo*. wtth««t t*nbo ts Wt ttm to an* tor a „, etpUaatlon. paid «t a tr**l ftiM ptrton Te dem wmtt tmtfy nm ot- „ he*ot it* w»im«*M it******* ttt ih** mf***** et pmltwne* met n*tm, nn- '^ttuu IU wuuiwwij. UalHM.U4kU»tfctU h*ta already said, ta aot fnptmnot iimm9 M 4Metafwe all a«ttata« let Deha la on ttrwntd Aint bo It ont J th, o.W V, hat the shift hmnen fatted aeeklnt martrrtfom ff« told nn that. i» 4a M buMrwted. •otntmg i» toot* bbtwoomm tot *««• 9wm* ot tbo mm tottm* tm *+** tttottn thaa OelKieeate ottorto far wntbni nn moot ot tommy ymrn oa The District Ledger FERNIE B. Ct ' """" "" '"*—»—*--—■«.-.--«* ■■■-"- —••-t^^^nmmmmmmtim^ Honmtawd, aad dataa tkat the rempaw i half of the ■»*» o**4*d bebme ttm wot ■ *■*> lHtl» t* *%pett*n tmm thoir unit* ti tn better flasttetat r«nrtKtal aid OomtoOm totott* Vtf***wiMWh'ii, ^^7 "l"!^*0*^!"^ -''<■*?. ^ PAGE FOUR THE DISTRIOT LEDGER, PERNIE, B. C, JUNE 13, 1919 Owned, controlled and Published by District 18, United Mine Workers of America. Subscrip- Advertising rates on application, tion price $1.25 a year in advance. Thoroughly equipped for high- class job printing of every description. Phone No. 9 " P. 0. Box 380 C. P. R. PRESIDENT SAYS UNREST IS ONLY "MENTAL TROUBLE" The people of the, west who have come to realize that the U. IV H. is greater than the government must read with great interest the words ■that flow from the lips and pen of tlie head of that great corporation. When President Jieatty wa? in l'er- nie for a short time a few weeks ago it was not realized how mighty was his intellect and how keen his discern, mem; Other men,whom we have been ■considering "great" have been puzzled over the industrial unrest and have differed . in opinions as to its rauses. To President. Beatty it is no puzzle- Speaking to a Winnipeg re. porter on Saturday last President tteatty said with coiifklettee and direct- "This industrial unrest is nothing more than mental trouble due to the war." He declared that a bumper crop in the west would cure all th-e trouble. It is pleasant, indeed to liave the matter so easily disposed of. When next we go to buy a pair of shoes for the kiddie and find the shoe man asking six or seven or eight dollars for the shoes it is not going to bother tis iu the least for we will realize that it is "mental trouble due to tbe war" that makes the shoe man charge m much. When the grocery man tends in his bill we are not S'oitt.; to 'ooi a bit peeved for we will know he doesn't mean to put down such big lieures but is merely suffering from "mental trouble due to the war." if we have occasion to get a box of goods or furniture from Calgary or any other pdint on the C. P. R. we, are not going to complain of the bv.'S.x freight rate for we will know that there's nothing the matter with it only "mental trou. ble due to th* war." Ii ever we get on a C. P. R. train and at meal time go into the dining car and order a bowl of. soup and a tough steak wjthja few potatoes and a cup of coffee aqd then find a bill alongside our plate for two dollars and four bits we won't lee! tiie least unrestful for even dining .car men are suffering from "mental unrest due to the war." Canada owes a debt of gratitude to Inflated Capital Is Calling or Dividends, Dividends, Dividends s< A very significant item of news is going the rounds of the Canadian Press to the effect that Minister of Finance Thomas White will, soon resign his ■ position in the cabinet and take the better paying and more important job of managing the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Premier Sir Robert Borden does not anticipate remaining much longer at the helm. He,,too, is one of the important men in the banking world of today. The war has left Canada an • enormous debt and iu the country thero are train loads of paper "promises to pay." These promises can only be kept by the producers of real wealth acquiescing to conditions of*, "thrift," they have never before known. Already they are commencing to groan under the burden and the more rebellious are protesting. At all costs their protests must be suppressed either by skillful blind-folding or by force' of arms. A powerful daily press and news service i.s doing the blindfolding but it is not able to handle the situation alone so more stringent laws are to be passed and more rigid powers of repression constructed. A Glasgow, Scotland, paper of 'April 17th last has an account of banking conditions in thc old eountry which is not without its counterpart in Canada. It says: Watch the financiers. This should be a "cue for all militant Soc. ialists. Wc are apt to concern ourselves solely with the doings of the industrial capitalists, forgetting that in most cases "the piAver behind the throne" is that of the gentlemen of finance. AVitlrthe connivance of the Government, some amazing things have happened during thc last few years; things whieh have meant nothing more or less than the establishment of an international, money trust, placing into the hands of a group of cosmopolitan cambists the entire control of industry in this and other countries. The financier wields a weapon of practically unlimited power, able at will to create artificial money and bring into being fictitious capital. Of course, like aU such weapons, this power is one that possesses dangers for the users as well as the people it is used against, but the fact remaius that up to the present the financiers have wielded this weapon fairly successfully. There are. though, ominous signs of a financial crackup. If we examine the international financial situation we shall discover the important parts banks play in our industrial life, which is not generally appreciated by the majority of the workers. Prom the relatively unimportant role of being merely bullion dealers with facilities for safe deposit,.,they have become vital organs of. the capitalist system. With the wonderful development of credit they control for good or ill the whole mechanism of production. , concluded intimate working arrangements with a number of foreign and colonial banks, the British Bank of South America, .Ltd., the Banca Italiana di Sconto, the Irving National of New York aud others. The London City and Midland and the London County Westminster and Parr's each "combine an Iri^h bank, while the latter possesses a Preach subsidiary and branches in Spain. William Deacon's Bank have entered into a working arrangement with Anglo- South American Bank and the London and Brazilian Bank, while clearing banks are interested in the British Italian Corporation and the British Trade Corporation. And so the process of, amalgamation goes on. All this is going on at the surface and must be only a faint clue to the real trustification that is going on secretly in the conclaves of the world's financiers. ., : !. - . ' - ". "'-/'- . At present the money lords'hold the reins of power. Meanwhile the storm clouds are massing,on the capitalist horizon. The very foundations of property owning society are rocking. THE SYMPATHETIC STRIKE OP CANADA -raw uiuiiaiii. juuTH jJr*BSiueinr_*cnr-'iii*s~ Canadian Pacific Railway for having so effectively brushed aside the clouds that have been hovering over us so darkly. SECRET 8ERVICE ON TRAIL ONE BIG UNION OF A apecial to the Calgary Herald from Winnipeg shows how the combined Intelligences of the secret services of t^e United States and Canada have discovered that the One Hig Union is responsible for the Winnipeg strike and all the smaller disturbances. Considering the immense amount of money Canada Is expending' upon its secrot service better results should be expected. The worst troublo with our secret service in Canada is the fact that its men are sent out with Instructions as to what they are to dis. cover, They have direct instructions from their maulers that they must find 'Kcm-ethlng to stop tho One Big Unlou. They must not let such a trifling thing aa truth stand in the way of what they discover. Tliey Hhould have discovered tbnt there wan no One Hig Union at the (to- of th*" WI'i'iiii'K -strike ami that the commit too apiutiiiti d at the Cul- pnry writfrt'ii'>• w:tw twrt'ly !:>r the Am I My Brothers' Keeper (liy W. J. Curry in The Critic, Vancouver) "And the Lo^d said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother, and Cain said, I know not; am I my brother's keeper? And He said, The Blood of thy brother crieth unto me from the ground."— • Genesis. Today the blood of millions is crying from the battlefields of Europe and asking the world's rulers, What,.was it for whieh he fought and died? The sign of hope today is that in Canada and elsewhere thc survivors of those who fought the great war in Europe are enlisting with their comrades on the industrial fields, and in Winnipeg and Ottawa this alignment is bringing dismay to the masters and their political executives or governments. Today, as always, every contest of labor and capital has a moral and social significance^ Morality is based on relationship. Whichever side in the contest stands for justice and peace is moral, and vice versa. No Man Liveth to Himself The modern world is one'vast organism, with tingling nerves which convey pain or pleasure* or news, whether false or true, to its furthest part, with arteries and veins which convey the'stream of food or poison, life or death, to every portion of the throbbing whole. When our ''ministers of capital," our politicians, editors and pulpiteers who live by supporting tlie present system of property shed their crocodile tears over the hardships and suffering of the "innocent public." due to this sympathetic strike of "man struggling for life in the jungle of capitalism," it is enough to make one sick. | It is only our knowledge, past struggles and victories of our race, our Today, an important financial transaction is nothing more than a j faith iu the common people and in the forces of understanding and book-keeping operation performed by the banks, which may lend a revolt due to increasing stress, that enables us to take heart and see thousand ov a million pounds by merely crediting the borrower.with; through the lowering storm clouds of today into the blue sky and that sum on their books. The bulk of payments today are by means j sunshine of tomorrow.' For our opponents, to whom the overthrow of cheques'; the cheques being exchanged or "balanced" at the Bank-j 0f wage slavery seems ruin, there can only be darkness and despair, er's Clearing House, and the balances between the different banks; Their only hope is iu ignorance, and the iron heel of 'Maw and^r^ irajmr^niyrWtaTrTransiers ot easli^ TTunast rettirns*oljlIe London J der." Clearing House at the end of 1918 showed that the totM dealt with} The men and women who believe that the public have no respon- was over £21,000,000,000. Outside of this there is the sums dealt with 1 sibility and are in no way' to blame for our, social distress, are either by the country bankers, yet the totality of tangible money in this h\ hypocrites or are sorely in need of that knowledge that can only be about £500,000,000 of which about four hundred millions are paper—; acquired by the- ivouomie stress which this industrial conflict will money notes. At a very moderate estimate there is but one pound oi force upon them. real money behind every fifty pounds of money of account. To ..tolerate a system of property rights that breeds war and pov- Our Capitalists have been living in a fools' paradise during the erty |s bad enough, but for -state.sir.eji to defend this system with force, war. Even before the war, the development of credit had reached a m(\ to antagonize its only alternative, is a social crime the penalty of stage when a collapse might occur at the slightest dislocation. Only; whieh is to be driven out in disgrace by the people. by strong Government measures was a first-rate financial crisis avert- Wealth the Product of Vital Forces ed when the war's first alarums shook the capitalist fabric. Mori-j Today our ministers of capital, such as Senator Robertson, are toriums. suspended payments, issue of unlimited paper money; these Anxioua over the suffering of the innocent public through this "o.-i ada are fully aware of this strike-being a preliminary lining up of labor in what must be the climax of the class struggle. The workers, united with the returned men, may force an election and capture political power at any time they see fit. The Strike in B. C. There is no part of this continent where intelligent class consciousness is movo thoroughly developed than iu this province, and this is due to years of scientific propaganda, which is the only antidote of anarchy, n : With tihe returned men and police realizing, their class interests, the day is won for the people. With these forces of government on the side of the workers, the same fate which befell the autocracy of Russia and the junkers of Germany will end the reign of the capitalist class of Canada, and there seems no reason it should not be so bloodless and final as the overthrow of the Czar and the Kaiser. After that will begin the building of the industrial state, production for use and the abolition of poverty. *.',.. The seven points demanded by labor in B C. are in no sense revolutionary, but they indicate a technical move toward that end. A , clean jump from complete plutocracy to a working class dictatorship is not possible in'Canada, and although those in charge of the strike are after the earth and its fulness for the useful members of society, yet they are wise enough to know., how far, the returned man and the average worker are ready to go at this stage. Constitutional methods are sufficient for this country. The ballot backed by the ONE BIG- UNION must win when the time is ripe, and this time seems near at hand. ' The time is at hand when the economic bankruptcy of the present system will be acknowledged by practically all—when the great social crime will be known to be the exploitation of man by man. This strike is teaching us that none is independent, and tliat our interests demand co-operation for the common good. To that question of Cain's: "Am I my brother's keeper?" today the voices of millions of the workers echo around the world: "Yes, you arc. Do ypu keep him down; help him to rise." MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND GREATER THAN "KEPT" PRESS REPORTED were the things that saved the situation temporarily, but aggravated it permanently. A period of fictitious war prosperity set in. Government loans were floated and subscribed, while thousands of millions were borrowed from the financial magnates. These millions wore only arbitrary creation* of credit, having no real wealth behind them, and merely constituting claims on the future surplus value to be produced by future workers. And so wu havo come to the pass when uoi only have we an enormous national delit of 80,000 million pounds, riaiiiiiiiK iiiieivsl to tin- tune of 100 millions per yenr. but iln- total ejipital of Iln* 1'iipitalist elass probably trebled a constitutional" strike. Some of the upper elass are so mentally obtuse that they fail to see that labor of brains and muscle applied to natural resources produce all the essentials and luxuries of life, and that the relationship of the capitalist elass and the workers is that of master and slave. The fact is, that under this system every commodity used is stined with the tears and blood and sweat of the masses. Tite cottons and woollen* and silks whieh the upper classes drupe and protect thcinselvcH witli, is the unpaid wages of labor, lt is the According to the, London "Labor Leader"'of .May's, May Day celebrations in Great Britain and Ireland were held on an unprecedented scale. Glasgow, true to its reputation, had two hundred and fifty organizations in procession, and the Red Flags 'flamed over all. Over a hundred speeches were delivered from twenty-two platforms in the course of ninety minutes, and at 4 p.m. the'following resolution was acclaimed by the massed audiences: "That this meeting declares for the overthrow of the capitalist system of production for profit, and the establishment of a cooperative commonwealth based on "production for use; and further sends greetings to the European Soviet Republics in Europe and to the workers of the world. Also we protest against the arrest and deportation of foreign subjects without trial; further, we urge the withdrawal of all armies of occupation, and declare in favor of the 1st of May being observed as International Labor Day." —=Iii^MiBburg^k-^ands-playeil4ho-preeessioa"to=4he-meeting=-= ground where similar resolutions were enthusiastically passed as at tho Glasgow meeting. In many other places similar proceedings were the order of the day. London also had its processions and its meetings. Froni the report wc quote a description of one significant feature in the procession: "Here is a strange looking, plain white banner, bearing no de- vice but four large letters, S. S. A. U. "To the uninitiated the letters mean nothing at all. To those with inside knowledge they form, the most portentous element of the whole parade, an element not hitherto present in this or any other coun- try. "For the mystic letters ou the banner are the initials of the recently formed Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Union, formed of ex-service men and some still in the ranks, of which the guiding spirit is a Scotch ex-rittenmn, nnd whose fundamental article of faith » that under uo circumstances will they consent to be used agaiust follow trades unionists iu industrial disputes. Tho men are wearing their discharge budges alongside red ribbons and Socialist ©m- blems. "Bronzed and determined looking are these young men, who the blood-stained fields of Franco and Flanders, and purpose of til-kins '■'- ll»S" "» •*"' bow ■ . . itinnv unions worn ready to i|Ut:u-1 the j ''' "'*'■ antiquated met inula of the A. )•'. ot U t All this inflated capital ea ,,m1 unit, in mie itiR industrial timm. | (kjnh] „ou. ^u jH Vopi,,,ioUH ,„,,„. ,M! styled? U cannot unless the) tres. have fought on we haw Jito forces of thc men and fronten and children which are ground up j ,jn, JJ()W (lljjt0 r0iH^Vi nK they themaelvew put it, to Tight the Hun at oil quad-tin the mill* of Mammon. The swell clothing worn by our society *jl011H, • „j,^.)^ \H,m^ iutorproled, means they will stand no uousenae j dolls arc the playtime and laughter of the child-slaves of the eottou s out for dividends, dividends, »'^'- '*' •»»» ^'"'"''i'"^ i"'.i.,nA'ititiit mum.* u\*ucia ul[ Mli\ braving a lingering in auddeii dualh Iwiwiwu the lauater vUnn aux\ Tht tino itiK i nioii > capital, and by cntr.dlittg finance artili.eiaUy prolong the life of thc j minuter* of capital hold them down aud keep them blind ns to the This ly, and always millions of meu aud hoys aro^grouping in the mines| J^'j*,,^,. issued a second "order" to whieh, of eouwe. the press gave lavish publicity wi*; ii.ultlttHl" of i»<.|il.» i.li'1'n think Uir l« don* for th<»m hy o«her«, at t ft<*lr ■rontmttmt. The ilnr* Ulr I'nlon of labor ha* only th* worker* fmm whom io «tr»w awl only »fi«* thinWnir worker** from whom to **x|»»^-* noiivt* tttjiport Tli*. l"Mftri*-t l.wfei r •!*»«*"•» lh«» *•*■ rut m»r»*lr>#i of rnnnif* in prodnro ffw< pmot h»t ANV ONK IMHVIIM'AI. nr. I tito in ih*> «»n<* fN«r t'wion of l.»t*>r tn; ('•tool* I* *n «<|roe*!* of l»w Ur-Mik'.n-* j rvr t,* i-ttihi'.ri. tin *tit* ttttm*e bit** 'tt'- : Ofs* flit I'nlon of *t'«|»il»T U sn »p*i»! iziitlon of all worker*. That yot«» wium utven umi tu tuntxli lm* earriwii tt<«» the »eerct Horvlro ha* he^n ordered to I,.id nomo moatiM of ItllllnK Hip tin* Ciioti Itofnw It In rt-:iV'\- hont 'lm? tito* Hut I nion i« no; n came, it Ih nn nltect or «*»t»itH| ha- t,*tr*d nno wt ''"'w ■..„.„,„ loaime of their ulaverv of labor In KftlMfffoiiMi Th.- Uno lliu) rt>MU "'• «ause oi mur wawry. „«. ■„.#. *r I'nt™ of capital bm tho Rorornmmt. Whither this is poMiblo i* v«tv doubtful, but there in undoubted.I The swell ears driven by the upper elasses are the proiiuun oi Ptenn. tho t*er*i. **rtit* md an that | ]y ^ ^^ .^ t|wt ^^ jhc ,|j|||kcnt Aftf ,,ra w inj| u^fa,, j lht> ,|a*s w|,icb under eapiUliam ran never own ears or homes. They Mtitl the liiiuurial ixp.rU of vapihdium an* aiming their effort* in the work long hours without really living, for thone who live without diivetion of international eontroi. At home the direction towards; really working at useful labor. trustifleation is m«ii plainly from tho following lUt of lumiljwmtH The workers build palaees for the drones, and live in tenements. liuUh. j They u*e the |*»ore*t and leave the he«t for their exploiters. bitidnu City and Mhllam! ami Uttduu Joint Stoek Bank*, now I Yesterday I talked to « man who had served a term iu iail for ieiiMu and I'arrV \ order of ll»» elan* whieh live* on the ba«*ks of labor and makes ami en ilo^tln^-*!'^ Itarelay's. London and Mouth WWrn. I^ndon and l»rovinei»U foree. Ihe law*. tfifffv ib- rnin-htn^ rom-? fii'infc "trn I mm Hun-lav Y rt« T'V, *,.-T?tM»„i1...«-*« ( XalHiiwl I'ruvineial Vuim nt hnMn md HmilU'a, VV. md 4. Wm ... h,™;.:^^^ Hmtlfont nn,l imt^t linn* now VNtSo«,» l>*orio*.i*lh*i*l*l..l*ie*. n HovW m.d n vWent revolnlhm lo overthrow ««M»lil»l- km »«*.'!« tfi -,tt-<-i*m:-um ior p/r-aoi, *-„•. „„ ««.,l *.,i—**ot*\'*'Oi fri»« <*» mxwwr \inhnr r*xmrt*t ntter th* r*1xxnx*t\ Vtx*ixl U„ , .99*. ,»,.PW n# «mmt "ti bf* \ p,nuk 4j Ljvrrji.H.l ami Martin's IlauV, now Bank «f Liverjwol}had lim-d up wilh She alrSltew, eonlradMed Ihi*. and we are now \xi* Ven** ih*i »h!« rertdmitn* ran b*\ . \itr,^'# ? UimuM «li*t WSwitiSpK w«« mter m tm* tmm n»rim«e onA d»«i»r»ler »* 'itr-.--. .fSitt n't**! i..-&,.«4 :l* >■%• *Mifc« ■ t*i i ' ' ... ...,**,.*■ ■ntm* it -h* wtttwem *m only noli* I IJnion Hank of Maneliester and Kant Morley and Bradford Hank, now. nnlldlt on ih** \edn*irlnt fl.lrt md r*-\ ..„„,_. ,-„;.,.. ,u.u ,A* u.^^,,., i T»o» -Aemnntl of iho *<1r,k*r* x* in nr***rr* tb*» nrinriolt* of roll-^- nt all fmm the profiteer ami the mveating employer." In hvlund the eelebrnUoii of May 1 aa a general holiday was almost eomplele. though the military in ninny place* prevented meet- ings and proce«sions. Comment on this, however, was, iniid b»idM that mi the aetion of J. U. Thomas, general secretary of the National Union of Hailwaymen in emulating the Irish branches that they must nol <«ease work without the sanetion of their executive. ™- Thi* Strike is not JUvolutlonary l/Miily wpMt't* frottt llw "kept pruss" told im the sti'ikei's we«» I would warn thein that if they are determined, as stated, to *toii without authority from their executive, it may he that Ute Iriah Railway r.xeentlw will follow a like eourse and refuse to put tato operation the settlement agreed to with this union." Vet this Mr. Thomas was a delegate to lh« *oealled Socialist International Conf-renee at Heme. The same Mr. Thoma* whty aome month* ago, told the Kngllah railwaymen that if they did ■"* hogomlhe woidd retire and would not do au^ung mm for them, lie ia now in this nmntfy <<'«n«da), we k-lieve. \\ hat . the game? Corbin tii*>» by tbeir pnc^itt »*»t#e*. TM m^*»«.**r* ft ib** tty*t** %mtw tkat mt n iwolwtfon rtmld nm**t tfc^m t»**«ii |Mv*r. a»4 ptat.% '*■«>« wb*r* tMf b\0 in wttttO tor u lifter 9wtb •» ommt. lot lliey will t*'W with an the ran* etttt nttotebf lht-f pm**** »m| villi t&«r.r uvuv-v ib..', ■' 'V. ba U'*'*»v .Ulvt.-t reel* tn bring tm few «ntwH in th* bwp* ♦J»»l 'hov on** #>-»*.*»•*• »!V »»> nn-itn-f 9*-'tt fdlonrtb* and pnyinwt- it»p -isi-fTi ot ti* tefi»r» Thene amalgamatbiit are hut foi««bad»wiit§» of atill okott\ live bargaining, Imt Senator Hohert*e.n ami other miniatera of eapital union* Artimlly iher*» ar»* only lw« hig miereala in the hanking (tell un lhat when a union that ean ruin w formal it ia uneonatitu- world nutaifle of iln* Hank of Kngland. Th««w *r* lAnytU and the bm* j thmal, hemtm it »»eet»w<** a aympalhetie strike. For that tmnit the don lily mt*l Midland. Thene two ttmoerm ha*e nwefit Ihe re»t up O. II. IL i* an "anar«ht»t iwrtttutwn." From thi* deetak»n let it he into their maw. Lloyda haw acquired a wmtrolHug inlerwd in the I known that the O. It. lT. mutt be the eomet methyl for labor. Nahoual lUok of .s.oihn««l aiwl the Um*l*m and ttt ver VteU I tank J la tompanr witli • tawalnw ot t»* IHairlci iNtllcy conwUtiwi. John SOboono, of Coleman. Ike e*lter «af ti« True, a mmhination of lal»r that ean beat capital and iU fov.iWwrltt Udter bni tbn »mtmtn of Men Are Holding A Popular Fireho*™ Improves Holiday By Getting Wed BiUTlrtar. Ble BLAIBMOftLALBBftTA ht t-^mnntTr V""rtiirm n froYtfh"itl tin# JtfwwIiJrV*•»* **** '■»''lw fttiVm aaa mil fuleiuwiJH t«» ll» "^ *m "f**WW tiotthf 'o Hunk, hy IMr aiiialfiUMitiew «Hfc tht louden i*mot». dietatimkiii ot mpiul {0>mti ft ^"^ iU llffto t(tatltott rial have obtained an intetttt m t "t-,% nnd Vo. (Vrnne*), ond they have' There i« no doubt 1he men who represent orgauixed labor itt do- l^mms?. natnag* ot John Vlig» tttt Iboto wm of tkt ttrlke far Vino tt tme ot • i* pepnlnr bm* ef tha oomt nni behnn r»e»wtly ieaa wedded to o mott «•• tiiuaMe roanf hot* tnm tfclgarr. <>• pyt/fav nln/ht tb*r* 1* ttt b* n dnnt* fa tb* ttnm taiiata nt MM tion et work he will be tkt trtfcow }». f tt/***t\»HH9 .< ■'~r~*fyg?*- >*«rt!7Sttl THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FEENIE, B. C, *JV ;:oi3 PA£E FlVfi CROWS NEST PASS STEAL (Contiiiue(J trom page one) general public knew nothing of the transfer. ■ Laurier, ever faithful to his friends, Cox and Jaffray, and then as now, 'a; traitor to the people who trusted him, declined to disallow the British Columbia Government's notorious act! He assumed, a: lofty attitude, spoke of the sacreciness of Provincial Bights—those rights that he afterwards outraged to the last degree in his Autonomy Bills—and flatly declined to move a finger to protect the people of Canada from the most daring and colossal robbery that has ever been perpetrated. (Yet in the same session he disallowed another Act of the British Columbia Legislature—in which, however, his friends were not interested.) The Government, being "properly" worked, the people being held by the Government while Cox and Jaffray (masked) went through their pockets, disallowance being refused, the conspirators being safe, the highwaymen walked openly in the streets in the broad sunlight once more. Messrs. Cox, Jaffray, et. al., sold the railway charter, to the C. P. ft. for $85,000, cash—and received, to make good weight, another piece of property, which immediately passed into other hands. Cox and Jaffray retained the most valuable coal lauds when they disposed of the charter to the C. P. R. The railway company, hor- ever, applied to the Dominion Government for a cash subsidy. (Remember, the charter when originally granted carried with it hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coal lands, the most valuable of which Cox and Jaffray retained when passing the charter on to other hands.) A subsidy of $3,630,000 was granted—and the C. P. R., not possessing the magnificent itiipudeucc of the Cox-Jaffray ring, gave thc .Government 50,000 acres of land that had been transferred to it when it bought the charter. When the dust cleared away, the C. 1\ R. had the charter for the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, $3,630,000 cash subsidy from thc Dominion Government, and the enormously valuable lands that Cox and Jaffray had transferred when the subsidy was granted. The Dominion had 50,000 acres of coal lands that the C. P. R. had transfered when the subsidy was granted. Cox and Jaffray had*$85,000 cash, and coal lau(?s that they themselves, in their company's first statement, claimed to be worth $13,000,000. The Laurier Government had, among other possessions, the reputation "of being a set of traitors to* their country, the abettors of grafters and members of an infamous conspiracy. Hon. Clifford Sifton has th'e Free Press—formerly owned by the ■apr. ■■" \ „ . The Ottawa correspondent of the Free Press, iu a despatch to that paper shortly after all the deals had gone through, claimed on tho highest authority that the value of the 50,000 acres of coal lands that the Government had received from the C. P. R. was more ...than enough to pay off the entire national debt of Canada—at that date About $300,000,000. If this 50,000 acre block is worth $300,000,000, who can estimate the value' of. the' whole 3,500,000 acres originally given with the gha?ter4^fche-gt£tHlrat^Tr-W permit tne peoplelo" recover, though it was denounced* by Liberal members as having been obtained by fraud! It is quite impossible for any man to make an estimate. We ean, however,irom the reports of engineers, form some rough idea of the value of that part of the grab that was retained by Cox and Jaffray. A most competent engineer described these coal lands as inexhaustible, containing at the lowest estimates hundreds of millions of tons of coal—in other words, containing coal to the value of billions of dollars; coal that will he dug from thoso beds as long a* Iho human race exists on this continent; coal that is a necessity to the people, a necessity to life; coal that is their heritage—one of llie most valuable endowments of Providence. And thin is what has heen stolen from the Canadian peopl?, with the connivance of two "representative" Governments; this is tho theft that dooms the people of.the West to buy from a -little ring of grafters the fuel tliat is their oavu ; this is the deal that left the people of Alberta and Saskatchewan staring into the fact of shivering'death when this little ring played the autocratic tyrant with' its miners, turned a deaf ear to appeals made in the name of humanity ami refused to settle the strike that tied its' plunder'underground; this is the deal that will leave the people at-the mercy of this little ring until they arouse their sleeping manhood and take back by the surest means the invaluable heritage that has been stolen from theni with the criminal knowledge and consent of two corrupt Governments by a brace of„psalmsinging grafters that should be made to decorate a pillary. * This is the deal that stands as the most collossal and disgraceful that has ever been engineered in Canada. This is the deal that a part of the stakes in the game—the Free Press—ignores when it says: "The Minister of the Interior, Mr. Oliver, had an easy task, of course, in pointing out that it was the Conservative Government which granted vast areas of public lands, including immense deposits of coal, to railway companies!" Heaven knows, the Conservative Governments were bad enough, foolish enough, criminal enough—but no Government, Grit, Tory, Republican, Democratic br Socialist, was ever for a moment in the same class with a crew of pirates that bound the people of Canada hand and foot, and robbed them of billions in the everlasting infamous Crow's Nest Pass steal. AVe cannot, however, expect an honest confession from part of the "consideration" in that notorious transaction.—Winnipeg Tribune. Fight Against O. B. U. WOULD STOP SEDITIOUS PROPAGANDA Sweeping Amendments to the Criminal Code Proposed by Special Committee—Revolutionary Bodies to be Declared Unlawful- Members to be Liable to Imprisonment for not Less Than One Year or More Than Twenty Ottawa.—Some sweeping amendments to the criminal code are raised by the special committee of the house of commons on seditious propaganda. The committee proposes the insertion of a series of new sections in the code. , Associations purposing to bring about any governmental, industrial" or economic changes within Canada by the use of force are, it is raised, to be declared unlawful. Any property belonging to such an unlawful association may be seized and forfeited to the■ crown. * Any member of any such unlawful association is liable to imprisonment, for not less than one year and not more than twenty years. "In any prosecution under tins section," reads the act which the committee proposes shall be inserted in the criminal code, "if it be proved that the person charged has: - - ■; •, . ■- "attended meetings of an unlawful association, or,, spoken publicly in advocacy of an unlawful association, (From The Critic, Vancouver) Is it such a monstrous crime for workers to organize as One Big Union? ■ Iu the eyes of Borden, Flavelle and Russell: it is. In the eyes.of the C. P. R., tho Bank of Montreal and the Hudson's Bay Co.: it is. ■ In the eyes of provincial premiers: it is. What is the proposed League of Nations but one big union ? What is the league of railways on this continent, a league that regulates freight and passenger traffic? One big union. What is our banking system ,controlled by a half-dozen men 7 One big union. ■ What is our own fishing combine? j One big union. What -are our law, medical and dental associations? One big union. Every combination of big interest for the. restriction qf trade or for the purpose of making prices Is one big union. Our manufacturers' association is one big union. The principle has already been adopted by the big interests. Now they are confronted by a force of their own creation—One Big Union of all who toil for a living. They object. They demand that laws be passed preventing such combinations of-labor. They had expected to affect a line of cleavage between labor and returned men; but the' man who has been fighting can on longer be fooled. Ile has seen the '' eat." Only those men who have been parading around in the King's uniform for four years, either at home or in England, men who never intended to get into the firing line, are to be found today with the capitalist. They claini to be soldiers, but they were, and are, cowards. The whole fight is.against the One Big Union idea. The inspired press hastens to tell the people that it is an-organization of I. W. W., jpa0dne• p™££talJf m$^g*,^Sm "(b) or of Reds of Bolshevists Whereas the men who by their votes in their different unions have approved of the One Big Union, are not the radicaL*men who are in tlie foreground of every movement to bring relief to the masses. John Brown was a Bolshevist, yet his soul goes inarching on. Wendell Phillips, the Abolitionist, was a radical according to the views of the financial class and the churches of his day. It is no crime to be an advanced thinker, to be blazing the trail in the interest of humanity, whether the person be an I. W. W., a Socialist or a Bolshevist. Every cause for the amelioration of the condition of mankind has lrtid its men who liave sacrificed life aud everything dear to" them for a principle. Jesus was sacrificed for the same reason, and by the same class of oppressors that arc today endeavoring to hold the people in subjection : I^iteBiat4onal-Hiniens^lHri*e^tad^tlreir^ayss^he worW SYNOPSIS OF LAND ACT AMENDMENT Pre-emption now contlned to surveyed .arid* only Rcufiiis will I* granted covering only 'ai.-U suitable for agricultural purpos-M ird which in non-limber laud I'lirtnersliip pie-i-in|iUons abolished. uu! pariies of not more than four may Arrange for -adjacent preemptions, wit* joint rui'ideiit-ii, but e-.i-.-li making nece-j- -iary iinjiruvcmeiils on respective claims. i-'re-empior-, mi/st occupy claims for live years ami make improvements lo i-:i!uc of flu per ncre, iricludipg clea/lcj and cultivation of at least 5. acres, before receiving .Crown* Oraut. Where pre-emptor in occupation not ■hss than 3 years, and hits made propor- uo'-.aie improvements, he may, because of ill-health or other cause, he granted Intermediate;, certificate of improvement arid transfer his claim. Hee-mds without permanent residence may he issued-provided applicant make* improvements to extent of $300 per an- aurn ami records same oach year. Failure to nyake Improvements or record same will operate as forfeiture. Title, onnnot he obtained on these claims tm i.bpk than 5 years, with improvements of iif, per acre, Including S acres cleared and cultivated, and residence of at least 2 years. Pre-emptor holding Crown Orant roajr record another pre-emption, if he requires land in conjunction with hU farm, without actual occupation. provided statutory improvements made and residence maintained on Crown granted land Ufisurveyed areas, not exceeding 10 acres, may be leased as homesltes; title fj be obtained after fulfilling rest- detul.il and Improvement conditions. Kor grazing and industrial purpose*. areas exceeding 6<0 ncrr* may be leased hy one person or company. PRE-EMPTORS' FREE GRANTS ACT. The scope of this Act Is enlarged te IncUide all persons joining and serving with His Majesty's Forces. The tlm* within which the heirs or devisees of * deceased pre-emptor may apply for title under this Act is extended from one yoar from the death of such person, as formerly, until on* year after the conclusion of the preaent war. This privilege is also made retroactive. TOWNSITE PROPERTY ALLOTMENT ACT. IJ-ovision Is made for the grant to persons holding uncompleted Agreements to Purchase from the Crown of such proportion of the land, If divisible as the payments already made win cover in proportion to the sale price et the wholo parcel. Two or more persons holding such Agreements may group their interests and apply for a proportionate allotment jointly. If It ls not considered advisable to divide the len* covered hy an application for a proportionate allotment, an allotment of Ian* of equal value selected from avallabl* Crown lands In tho locality mar bf " ional th* Crown or to any municipality. The rights of persons to whom the purchaser from the Crown has agreed to ■ell are also protected. The decision of the Minister of Lands In respect to ths adjustment of a proportionate allotment ls final. The time for making appllca- tion for these allotments ts limited to the lst day of May, 1919. Any application made after this date will not be considered. These allotments apply to town lots and lands of the Crown soil »t public auction. For Information apply to any Previa* j|i\l Government Agent or to O. R. NADBN, Deputy Minister of Lands. VlctoruTs. a es -'(c) distributed literature of an unlawful association by circulation through the post offices or mails of Canada or otherwise. "It shall be presumed in the absence of proof to thc contrary that he is a member of such an unlawful association." The owner or lessee of a building who knowingly permits the meeting in it of an unlawful association, or committee thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not more than $5,000 or to imprisonment for not more than five years, or to both fino and imprisonment. Penalties of prison for not less than one year aud not more than 20 years are also provided in the caso o2 endeavors to circulate or to import literature through the post office as a means of accomplishing any governmental, industrial or economic change. niensHHri*e^iatt^tireir-^ayss-xnB-=TVTnTa^oxn~j move." The unions of yesterday did their work, and are now having,* to pass into oblivion. You can no more stem the tide of evolution than you can the tide of the sea. The defeat of Germany and Austria did not end as the governments expected, The nnm who accomplished this defeat were from the masses; they are now returned to fight corruption at home, to fight for a decent living, to fight for shorter hours of labor ami-more hours of pleasure; to fight for their children, that they may not have to boar the burdens of their fathers before thein; to fight'against child labor; to fight for a better education; to fight against a system that allows men and women who have spent many years in toil, going to tho poorhouse or living on charity; to fight against military rule and profiteers; to fight for honest elections. These are the things that count—nothing else does! 100 Printed $1.00 Postpaid No'letUu'-i-ilimild Ik*, mailed without iho return lulriitws to tht* wilder and one dollnr wo will print .your addr-nsx on one lumdi'c-il go-rxl cnvi'lojH'w uud soiiil tliem t<> you [Mist paid. Cash With The Order eij« flietrut £cb$et The District Ledger is compiling a list of names of those who are acting as strikebreakers in the present crisis. We already have the n^mes of a fewat Lethbridge, Coleman, Corbin, Lovett and Coal Creek. Anyone Sending information should give full name of the scab, his age, nationality and as much of his record as possible. If a photograph can be obtained be sure to send it. There are some restrictions against publishing the names of these men but there is no law against keeping a record which will be of value later on and will not be forgotten. -q»ty..r&- ■*%)&? -:*4;r-im.*_ ■*s«^j" PAGE SIX THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C, JUNE 13, 1919 What Led Up To Organization of One Big Union In Canada Writer In A New York Publication Gives An Interesting Historical Resume of Events Leading Up To Western Interprovincial Con- vention At Calgary Painting INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR by the day 43 BAKER AVE. Wm. Robsoft (By Gordon Grey in the "Nation"), The aim of progressive labor men and women in Canada who are voting for organization along industrial union lines and complet0 separation from the American Federation of Labor is "One Big IJnion." This radical action was not taken hastily. It is the outcome of years of dissatisfaction with the policies of those controlling the .American Federation of Labor and its affiliated organizations. The war has brought discontent to a head. The labor movement of Canada'tha-s certain charaetericties peculiar to itself, but is no more distinctive than the industrial development which it reflects. Canada is a nation within the British Empire; but industrially its progress is more like that of the United States. Its commercial organizations, its religious associations, and its newspapers follow those of its big neighbor. This imitation of the methods of the United States continues despite activities of an aggressive Canadian and British-born element which favors British customs. No one, however, should misunderstand the labor movement in Canada. It is far from nationalistic. In sections where feeling is most bitter against the American Federation of Labor it is intensely international. Less than ten years ago national unionism did exist in Canada, and it had a hold among Quebec's French-Canadians: more than one prelate addressed the faithful, giving warning against the" pitfalls of international unionism. Employers encouraged this nationalistic labor viewpoint and with their newspapers frequently condemned "foreign labor agitators" who came to Canada from the United States to offer advice during labor troubles. Most employers and newspapers have changed their views of labor unionism and now favor affiliation of employees with the American Federation of Labor. They recognize the ever-widening gulf between that organization and the labor movement of other continents. The more employers and politicians show their friendship for President Gompers and the Federation, the more do labor men condemn both. Resentment against the policies of the official family of the Federation is most noticeable in Canada's Pacific Coast prov- incfe, and, to a lesser extent in her prairie provinces. Class lines are more cleanly drawn in British Columbia, the last stopping-off place for native-born and British-born Canadians. These residents of JAMES WHITEHOUSE Teacher of Piano and Organ Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint, Transposition, Composition, Orchestration Workers 11 Unite Canada's Far West have an especial familiarity with the progress of events in Australia and New Zealand because Vancouver is the most important point of communication on this continent for Canada's two sister nations. Certain men, recognizing the failure of advanced social reforms in Australia and New Zealand, began years ago to spread clear-cut Marxian socialist doctrines in British Columbia. They have had a lasting effect on the situation. Formidable strikes of pow* crful western unions, independent of the American Federation of Labor, and the extensive development at one time of tho industrial workers of thc world in the Pacific Coast province, also sowed seed now ripening in the "One Big IJnion." Labor in Eastern ('anada, however, is not so radical. The nearer a Canadian city is to Washington, 1). ('., and Indianapolis, the two principal seats of politics within the American Federation of Labor, the more conservative its labor unions are likely to became. The residence in Ontario and Montreal of Canada's members of executive boards uiftl organizers of craft unions also contributes to tho "saner" labor viewpoint. This difference between eastern and western thought has been noticeable at annual conventions of the Dominion Trades and Labor (,'ongreiw, a legislative body of At:ierieai> Federation of Labor unions iu (.'anada within the scope of Federation matters. Tlio Congress, however, is more radical than the American Federation because a reform Socialist and Itiihav |wrty element iornn a "centre" or middle-of-the-road group which crosses swords with the (Jumpers or ultra-conservative labor faction. The deelanttion of war opened nn era in Canadian circles. Canada entered the struggle at its start; the United States did not. Kf* forts of Kraft-union otlieinls to keep the United States out of the war naturally made it impossible for officers in Canada to consult them on problems growing out id' tho struggle. Small strikes and even general strikts were numerous. The more tiny saw the power of the gttar.il ia up '.i.t ji.mt- did C.io.idaV uimoo men and women resort to it- and thin in detiaiue of union ofllt ial« who threatened Mympatlieiie ty. Even the Toronto industrial Banner, a labor paper favorable to President Gompers, craft-unionism, and minor reforms, and opposed to industrial unionism and other radical doctrines, attacked the Federation president, while western labor papers printed bitter denunciations of him. Feeling mounted against the politicians at Ottawa. Labor grew less conciliatory; general strikes on a scale unprecedented in North America became frequent and shook Canada to the very foundations. Government employees—the postal workers—went on stride from Montreal to the Pacific Coast, and in several large cities completely demoralizing the postal service. This hostility towards the Government showed itself at the annual convention of the Dominion Trades and Labor Congress held in Quebec in September. "Western delegates, who were not numerous because of the distance, clashed with pro-Government delegates, but their radical proposals were defeated. They decided, therefore, to hold a conference of western labor delegates in Hamilton, a city of Ontario chosen for the next convention, just prir to the Dominion meeting of the Congress next year. Gvernmental pressure and the signing of the armistice, however, led to a change in this plan. Hardly had the western delegates returned home before a series of extraordinary orders-in-council curtailing freedom of speech and press began to issue from the Government. Within three weeks more prohibitory orders were issued affecting labor than during the four years of war, and not evfen the cessation of fighting on the western front put a stop to the development. Socialist organizations were proclaimed illegal, socialist papers suppressed, and the importation of socialist literature if published by Charles H. Kerr & Co., of Chicago, was prohibited. Possession of Plato's Republic, if in the Kerr edition, was considered an offence punishable by five years' imprisonment or a $5,000 fine or both. Labor in Canada met this challenge. It backed the Socialist party, an illegal organization, when it held a mass meeting in Vancouver, at which the chairriian announced that he would sell Kerr's publications. Two orders-in-council were thereby broken at one time Labor unions, in defiance of their internationals, called general strikes to bring about the release of political prisoners. 0The Winnipeg -Trades-and—IrtbQr-GouncilV^ffierei^aper"inro^^ MONUMENTS Kootenay Granite and Monumental Co., Ltd. P. 0. Box 865 Nelson, B. C. The only Monumental Works In the Kootenays STAY AWAY FROM BRULE Men should stay away from Brule owing to lack of sleeping accommodation, hotel and' bunk houses being over-crowded. Notice will be given when things get righted. A. McFegan, Secretary Local Union No. 1064 LOGGERS and CAMP WORKERS THIS MEANS YOU \ JOIN THE ■ B. G. LOGGERS UNION 61 CORDOVA ST. W., VANCOUVER, B. C. DO IT NOW ONE BIG INDUSTRIAL UNION FOR ALL OAMP WORKERS Loggers of the Interior Country Take Notice The Loggers of the Coast Districts have formed an organization known as the B. C. Loggers' Union, industrial in its scope, comprising all workers in the lumber industry, and construction camps, affiliated with the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council and the B. C. Federation of Labor. We invite all Loggers in the interior to join hands with us in a united effort to better our conditions* which can only be0 done in this manner. ' Organizers are now on the road and will pay you a visit in the near future. ■ >' So get ready! For further information communicate with E. Winch, secretary-treasurer, 61 Cordova St. W. VANCOUVER, B. C. PHONE SEYMOUR 7856 Piano Tuning—If your piano needs tuning send a note to Box 498, Fernie and I will call and do the work for you at a reasonable cost.—~L. O. Sherman. H. OSTLUND Solicitor for District 18, U. M. W. of A. MacDonald Block. Lethbridge, Alta. COAL MINERS, ATTENTION $2.60 per month provides you agaiW any accident and every sickness, and pays $40.00 a month from the day you are laid up. '*...' Particulars from THE B. WINNETT INSURANCE AGENCIES, Bank of Hamilton Bldg. Fernie, B. C. Claims promptly adjusted from this office mmm page that it would refuse to obey certain orders of Canada's chief censor. It was the realization that there is power in might and that organization is the most efficient wayto use that power ieffec- tively that brought about the organization of "One Big Union." Labor saw the need for quick action. Unions of the prvince of Ontario from the head of the Great Lakes west, and of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, decided to holr an inter-provincial conference as soon as possible instead of waiting until September, and Calgary, Alberta, was selected as the convention eity. The British Columbia Federation of Labor also determined to hold its enventin in the same city—althugh it was outside its own province-—just before thc larger gathering. Australian labor's adoption of the "One Big Union" followed governmental oppressionf the spread of I. W. W. propaganda in Canada despite orders-in-council making it a criminal offence to advocate its principles or to circulate its literature; and the undisguised satisfaction with which various American Federation of Labor offi. eiala seemed to welcome the imprisonment of thc advocates of the "One Big Union" in tho United States, doubtless had something to do with the British Columbia convention's vote in fny>r of "One Big Union" and of secession from the American Federation of Labor, but sheer oppression did most. Tho inter-provincial conference also voted in favor of "One Big Union." It endorsed the Soviet form of admin- miration, condemned reform by legislation and the petitioning by labor delegations of politicians in legislative halls, demanded freedom of speech and press, und sent grctings to the Kussian Bolsheviki and to thc German Spartacana. This decision in favor of "One Big Union" of nil workera, it is believed by labor men, led to the Government's announcement of a commission to study the feasibility of a joint control of industry by capital and labor. FERNIE LODGE, KNIGHTS OP PYTHIAS, NO. 31 Will meet regularly •very Tuesday evening at S o'clock. Visiting members cordially welcome. W. Pennington, Alfred Baker, C. C. K. R. S. Dr. W. H. Pickering Dentist Bank of Hamilton Bldg.. Opposite Suddaby's Drug Store Phone 188 TOO MUCH FLOUR SUMMER WOOD Don't both«r with coal fleet •• thi daya grow warmir No. 1. Tamarack $3.00 ptr rlek Alto big ttoek of good ivmmir wood McOLAOIRY BROS. Phone No, 19 FernU NOTICE Reliable Used Autos I have several for sale, including Chevrolet, Dodge, McLaughlin, Chalmers -Brioes-asked-are-veryireasonauierandnt^ilrpay-yo^io~8»eTSS" before buying elsewhere Special Bargain in a Ford Five Passenger $250.00 Special Bargain in a Gray Dort .$825.00 Bc sure and look this up. Correspondence invited FRANK WADDINGTON AUCTIONEER Phones 770—469 S. O. E. Building, Tenth Street LETHBRIDOE, ALBERTA. Wanted Tenders For the whole of the lumber, ete., contained in the buildings of Queens Hotel, Hosmer, B. C, The buildings are large and contain a great quantity of tlrst-class material. Tenders must be received by Jimo the 15th. ELK VALLEY BREWING CO,, UMUBD NATAL, B.C. Htnker* with expulsion. I While Kurope Is clamoring for food, aeventy thouuand tons of Two and a half years paiwuil. and the r.iited States entered the) (« Allies, but it in reported that no flour will aeeeptanee by him and by other labor spokesmen or poxition* on var- |,e s|,jri,„,(j. Why thia diaerimlnation ggaintt Canadian flour! Is bun political eommiiwioit* and board*. Caifiidian worker* who paid; ,|IWV no .^^ j„ the jirltMi hie* for nny Canadian mamifaettired dues into international lii xxnr jijiij{»viiiiiiie i.i be « Inlin* nfit h, ,\o*\*\**,-'t*i*'",x* ot tin. tl,,*■■'• eminent. Tlie litter* «f Mie -.<■'! -c.it 'u OH.*i\*>-m the h-ij'gr.xt deletf.*!-' tion i'i Vmtntln.'**. h,*ntnry *»••» protect,. hnl tlwungh -pmKtl&irftlly ml! th-t-' DOCTOR WANTID a Tony Der ico Communicate At Once With NORTH AMERICAN COLLIERIES, LTD., 809 McLeod Building, Edmonton, Alta. m si PREDICTS BIO INCREASE UX ORAIH TOLD Sir Jamea Wilson Oirea Optimise Outlook ia InWrrttw with th**wtm1*tylil. Juii»ive fctateitiftit regarding 1% international wheat position, Hit .Uno), Wilton, iu mi Interview with U-mumliairi, declared tliat by Oe-; del«'sr«t«N» were voter*, tin Home of Commons refuted to reeeivo a tobcr 1, 1910, according to hhi eatimntea, Britain will havfl reaped a' (lopNlatioit «f two tnrnt-r* >*r to -mtmt tlvot *■■* wti\t,. it-..iivi.'1'.^v • * ttymonun ,k,>uu; kO*0,0()0 quarter*. And. although the toUl yield of wheat in Kranee, President lhn suppressed an ejaculation ot as- lonlsbineut The girl's beauty fairly took bis breath from him. But in- itantly■*, he recovered hts poise and lurned to Kovudoo. "Welir he said to the old chief. "Is she not both young and good ©okine?" asked Kovudoot "She is not old." replied Maibihn. "But, even so, she will be a burden. We did not come from tbe north after wives. Tbere are more than enough there for us." Meriem stood looking straight at tbe white men. She expected nothing from returning ror tier What delayed bim, though? When morning came again and the night bad brought no succoring Korak Merieni's fjnitb and loyalty were still unshaken, though misgivings began to assail her as to the safety of her friend. It seemed unbelievable that serious mishap could have overtaken ber wonderful Korak, who daily passed unscathed through ail the terrors of the jungle. Yet morning came, the morning meal was eaten, the camp broken, and the disreputable safari of the Swedes was- again on the move northward with still no sign of the rescue by Korak the girl momentarily expected. Ail that day they marched and the next and the nest Nor did Korak even so much as show himself to the patient little waiter moving, silent and stately, beside ber bard captors. It was on the fourth day that Meriem began deanitely to give up hope. Something bad happened to Korak. She knew it He would never come now, and these men would take her away. Presently tliey would kill her. She would never see her Korak again. On this day the Swedes rested, for they had marched rapidly and their men were tired. Maibihn and Jenssen had gone from camp to bunt, taking different directions. They had been gono~about an hour when the door of Meriem's tent was lifted and Malblhn entered. Bis look portended no good to the girt Out in the Jungle .lensscn bad brought down two bucks. His hunting had not carried bim far atield, nor was he prone to permit it to do so. He was suspicious of Maibihn. The very fact that his companion had refused to accompany him and elected instead to hunt alone in another direction would not, under ordinary circumstances, have seemed fraught with sinister suggestion, but Jenssen knew Maibihn well, and so. having secured meat, he turned immediately back toward camp, while his boys brought in his kill He had covered about half the return journey when a scream came faintly to his ears from the direction of camp. He halted to listen. It was repeated twice. Then silence. With a muttered curse Jenssen brpke Into a rapid run. What a fool Malblhn was, Indeed, thus to chance jeopardizing a fortune! Further away from camp than Jenssen and upon tlie opposite side an* otber heard Meriem's screams—a stranger who was not even aware of the proximity of white men other than himself, a hunter witb a handful of sleek, black warriors. He, too, listened intently ior a moment That tbe voice was that of a woman in distress he could not doubt, and so he also hastened at a run in the direction of the affrighted voice, but be was much farther away tban Jenssen, so that the latter reached tbe tent tSrefe —-—'-9-7. 7 -.-'■ -,.—^-~-:—- but this one is the worse, li my B.oraK were here he would kill him. I suppose you are like them, so you will not kill him." The stranger smiled. "He deserves killing," he said; "There is no doubt of that Once I should have killed him, bu| n°t now. I will see, though, that he does not bother you any more." He was holding Maibihn in a grasp the giant Swede could not break, though he struggled to do so, and be was holdjjig him as easily as Maibihn might have held a little child, yet Maibihn was a huge man, mightily thewed. The Swede began to rage and curse. He struck at his captor, only to be twisted about and held at arms' length. Then be shouted to his boys to come apd kill the stranger. In response a dozen strange blacks enteral the .tienK They, too. were powerful, clean limbed men, not at till like the mangy crew thot followed* the Swedes. "We have had enough foolishness." said the stranger to Maibihn "You deserve death, but I am uot tbe law. 1 know now wbo you are. I have heard of you before] Yoa uud your friend bear a most unsavory reputation. We do not want you iu our country. 1 shall let you go this time, but should you ever return I shall take the law into my own hands. Now. get out, and next time you see me remember who 1 am," and be spoke a uaine in the Swede's ear—a name that more effectually subdued the scoundrel than many beatings. Then be gave him a push that carried him bodily through the tent doorway, to. sprawl upon the turf beyond. "Now," he said, turning toward Meriem, "who has the key to this thing about your neck?" The girl pointed to Jenssen's body. "He carried it always," she said. The stranger searched the clothing on the corpse until be came upon the key. A moment more Meriem was free "Will you let me go back to my Korak?" she asked. "I will see thut you are returned to your people." the stranger replied. "Wbo are they, and where is their villager Oo hnd been eyeing ber strange, barbaric garmenture wondjrringly. From her speech she was evidently un Arab girl, but he hud uever before seen oue thus dollied. "Wbo tire your people? Who Is Ko rnk?" he usked again. "Korak! Why. Korak Is an ape. 1 have no oilier people. Korak aud I live In the jungle alone since Aht went to be king of the,apes." She had always thus pronounced Akut's name, for so It had sounded to her when first she came with Korak aud the ape. A questioning expression entered tbe ct ranger's eyes, He looked at the girl closely. "So Korak la an ane?" he.saliL-^mL^, .-li.-i.-i' uow, stood at liis side, Ceeka •liwlied in one slim, brown^laud. They talked together, tlie man wondering at the faltering Arabic of the Bid, but attributing it finally to her defective, mentality. Could be t'sre known that years had elapsed since she had used it until she was taken by the Swedes, he would uot have wondered that she had half forgotten it. There was yet another reason why the language of ■ the ■ sheik ■ had thus readily eluded ber, but of that reason she herself could uot have guessed the truth,auy better than could the man. He tried to persuade ber to return with him to bis "village." as he called it, or "douar" in Arabic, but she was insistent upon searching immediately for Korak. As a last resort be determined to take her with him by force/ rather than sacrifice ber life to the insane hallucination wliich haunted her. But, being a wise man, he determined to humor her lirst aud theu attempt to lead her as he would have her go. So when they took up their march It wa? in the direction of the south, though his own ranch lay almost due east. By degrees lie turned the direction of their way more and more eastward, and greatly was he pleased to note that the girl failed to discover that any change was being made. Little by tittle she became more trusting. At first she bud had but her intuition to guide her belief that this hig Tarmangani meant ber no harm, but as tbe days passed and she saw that his kindness and consideration never faltered she came to compare him with ber Korak and to be very fond of him, but never did ber loyalty to her ape man flag. On tbe fifth day thoy came suddenly upon a great plain, and from the edge of tho forest the girl saw in the distance fenced fields and many buildings. At the sight she drew back in astonish, ment "Whero are we?" she asked, pointing. "We Could not find Korak," replied the man, "and as our way led near my douar 1 have brought you here to wait and rest with my wife until my men can And your ape or he finds you. It Is better thus, little one. You will be safer with us and you will be happier." Meriem laughed. '-The Jungle." she said, "is my father aud my mother. I do not fear tbe Jungle. I love it. I should rather die than leave lt forever. But your douar is close beside the jungle., You have been good to me. I will do as you wish and remain here for awhile to wait the coming of my Korak." "Good!" said the man, and be led the way down toward the flower covered bungalow behind wblch lay the barns and outhouses of a well ordered African farm. Meriem walked on toward the bungalow, upon the porch of which a woman, dressed Ln white, wared a wel- eome toherreturninglord.—There-was tbrougn tne teary orancues ui uw~ trees. Korak was in the lead. Close beside tbe village they halted uutil the stragglers had closed up, Now utter silence reigued. T|ie king of the baboons was anxious to revenge himself dpon^Kovudoo, and so the band wus quickly organized. ' Korak, creeping stealthily, entered the tree that overhung the palisade. He glanced behind him. The pack was close upon bis heels. The time had come. He bad warned them continuously during the long march that no harm must befall the white woman ape who lay a prisoner within the village. AU others were their legitimate prey. Then, raising his face toward the sky, he gave voice to a single cry. It was the signal. in response 3,000 hairy bulls leaped, scrcuming and barking, into the village of the terrified blacks. Warriors poured from every hut. Mothers gathered their babies in their arms and fled toward the gates as they saw the horrid horde pouring into the village street Kovudoo marshaled hia fighting men about lilm und, leaping and. yelling to arouse their courage, offered a bristling, spear tipped front to the charging horde. Korak, as be bad led the march, led the charge. The blacks were struck with horror and dismay at tbe sight of this white skinned youth at the bead of a pack of hideous baboons. CHAPTER XI. For an Instant tbey held their j ■ , , . „ . „ . ' . „ .... .1, . I A Lion ana a Lamb. ground, hurling their spears ouce at i the advancing multitude. But before 7 ^pO Meriem. in Her new home, tbn they could fit arrows to their bows1 1 • ^J'a passed.quickly. A_t firstrtio tbey wavered, gave und turned lu terrified rout. Into their ranks, upou their backs, sinking strong fangs into He Wound His Trunk About tha Ape Man's Body. IUK-K UlUt- UUU Ul'USIIUlg II1C UICTI iTtrm ubout tbe tender eats of bis colossal chum with a leafy brauch tern by Tan tor from a uear by tree. And all the while Meriem was scarce a hundred miles away! the muscles of tbeir necks, sprang the baboons,' and first among them, most ferocious, most bloodthirsty, most terrible, wns Korak, tbo Killer. . At tho village gates, through which the blacks poured in panic, Korak left them to tbe tender mercies of bis allies and turned himself eagerly toward the but in which Meriem had been a prisoner. It wns empty. One after another was all anxiety to be off tato the jungle searching for her Korak. Bwana, as she Insisted upon calling ber benefactor, dissuaded her from Slaking the attempt ut once by dispatching a head man with a party of blacks to Kovudoo's village, witb instructions to learn from the old savage how he came into possession of the white girl and as much et her antecedents as might be culled from the black chieftain. Bwana particularly charged his bead man with the duty ef questioning Kovudoo relative to tbe the fllthy interiors revealed the same sjran?e cUf ttC.ter wl\T tL,e «" c",,ed la tho oat bath young and •ood .leg!" asked Kovudoo. Durteg IM palaver wbleb followod tboy retailed tbt goeslp of ibo Tillages thrwgb wbleb tboy tad paaaed, ttetlf • tag fo anbanga sucb oews aa lerodao pi—wtrt. Tbo palaver wu loot aod tiresome, at tbeso native coraioaat** always art to RoropMua Kovudoo mad* no weotloa of bis prtaooer. aad trom bit gewroos offers of golds* aad protects oremed aasiooe to aosoto Miaaoir of too speedy departure of bio guests. It wm Malblhn wbo, «oit* casoatly. ■ear lba titm et thHr talk. mentioned tbo left tlmt t-ho abet* war dmd. Kor* odea evinced briefest aod eorrotot*, -too *m oot know ttr oabad Mai* Mbat "Tbat lo ntranr* ft we* dnrtn* tbo loot mono. Ho felt fleas ble bona ***** ni** ut,***. »u-*»ikwu im a tm*. ion buret Ml *ut***u him. When Un nam eaten op tbo sfaelb wm oolto ■tnoA." Kevodee scratched Ua bead, lie wos meoh disappointed. Ke abaft sweat ao mnwtm trir tli* while »1H -I knew where there U a while girl," he «*M oots|*rt*itijr. "If ftm with to ims lm the may bo bad cheapi," MslMha nbraggi-d. "Wowiro trooWo enaagb, Korvden," bn said, "wltboet burdening oorselras witb aa eM, boo hen down **fi« hyena, aod a* for paytag , for oue Malbtlm snapfwd bis Japan I * *m» it yeeag," said tbatodoa. "bad ;. font Itmklnit." I tbt Hwrleo Isagbed. "Thoro aro ao ' fund ttnAlnt white enon tto ti* Jao- I ^A^ W9^9^*9M. *t a^U 9999^^9^9 &W*9t f-grp. txttrmitte, rain tttttHwen. iou ) iheotd ** smmhm** te trr to onto ton ■ ot eM frfee-**." ttorotm nprttmr tn ttt* fret f^jme," bO oaM "I erllt Shew yoo " WtfMhn aad Jem-men met to follow htaa. aad as tbey did se t totr oyee nttt, 1 -Helm* -eJewtt trmtetnt mn or u* tbom-they wttt to bar aa nodi mo* miss as tb* buck men. 8b* bated and bared ttaa all italblbn spake to btr la Arabia. "We at* Moods," be said. "Woold yoo like to have us Uke yoo away frem BUrnly tad dimly, aa tbeogh frma a gnat dlkaaca, recollecUoo ol Um aoo* luMllar toagoe returned to ber. "I sboold llko to go free," aie aald, •tad go back to Korak." -Too woald like to go witb asr per. *tod UAlbtha, -No," said Mortem. Malbtha turned to Kevodoo. "A* doae oot wt* to go with os," be said. •foo aro moo,m roturoed the black. "Oea job oat take ber bf torenT "It would ooly add to oor treeblae," replied the Swede, "No, Kotodo* we do aot wish ber, though, if yoa wbb teberidof ber, wewtHUkeberaway beoaose of oor friendship fer yea." New, Korodeo knew that bt hod ■ado a sale, Tbey wonted ber, lo be , eommnced to bargain, and la tbe ood I tbo persoo ef Meriem passed non tba 1 poseesslOB of tbe black chieftain lata j that of tbo two Iwodee la eowddoratloo ; of lis yard* of Aawrtkan, three empty braao eartridge shells and a ahtpy new Jetfckatf** from Now lore*?. And all bet Mortem woro More thaa pleased wttb the bargain. Korodeo stipelated hot a otagH eoo. dltloo, aad thai was tbat tbo Euro* psoas woro to Mare bis village aod tam the gtfl witb them aa oer|y tbe oott morning aa thry crmM get ttartoit After tb* sale be did not hesitate to explain ble leasees for thle doomed. Ro fold tlmm of the *dr*mnmn ttttmr* ' of tb* gtm oarage mate to raeeoo bar, i ac*d aviitftmiMi*! tbnt tbn ewmor thai get i ber oot of the ooaatrjr tbe owe likely uMEF ONHTO tO tetele pOKOMNMO Of hOT- Mortem waa agate beoad aod plaoei oodor goart, hot this tlmo la th* tent tit WW IHrOflMI ItKfhWi* t*1+*/1 tt* *•»• tiring to pen-mad* ber to accompany wittingly. II* t*M ber that Vbtf What the Swede found there roused no pity within bts calloused heart, only anger against his. fellow scoundrel. Meriem was fighting otr her attacker. Malblhn was showering blow* upon her. Jenssen, streaming foul corses upon bl* erstwhile friend, burst Into the tent Maibihn, Interrupted, dropped bla victim and turned to meet Jenssen's Infuriated charge- He whipped a revolver from his blpi, Jenssen, anticipating the lightning mor* of tb* other's bnnd, drew almoet simultaneously, and both men flrod at one*, Jenssen waa atill moving toward Malblhn at tho time, bnt at tbe Saab of the explosion be stopped. Bia ro> ▼olvor dropped from nerveless flagena For a moment b* staggtr*d drunk*a> ly. Deliberately Malblhn pot two mor* bnlleta Into bla Mend'* body at clone range. Bven Ib the midst of tbe eieitement aad btr terror Mortem fbnad herself wondering at tbe tenacity of Uf* whleb tb* hit man displayed. Bla *y*a wor* closed, hi* b*ad drooped forward upon bla breast, hi* banda boat limply before blm. Yet adll he ■toed there upon bia foot, though ho ro*l*d horribly. It waa aot natO th* third bullet had found Ita mark within hit body thtt b* longed forward upon bit face, Thoa Malbiha approached Mm aad, with aa •ath, kicked him Ttdeualy. Ttaa ho tomad ooe* mor* to Morlw. At th* same'instant th* flaps of th* ttot opened aOeotly and a tan whit* ■aa atooi la tho aperture.. Neither Meriem er Malbiha aaw tb* o«wcoa*e. Th* lattor'a back wat toward bia, whtt* hit body hid tb* stranger from Meriem's *y*s. Bt crossed tbe toot qolekty. otoe. ptag orer Jeaaseo's body. Tb* Ont intimation MtlMbn had waa a hwtf bead opoa bla tbooMtr. Be wheeled, to foe* eo otter ttraa- ger, a tall, black haired, gray eyed •tniaftr, clad la khtkl tad pith btl* Malbiha reached fer his gtm what, pray, are you?" "1 am Meriem, I also am an ape." "ITin," was the stranger's only oral roininent upon this startling announcement But wbat be thought might have beeu partially interpreted through the pitying light that entered bis eyes. He approached tbe girl and started to lay bis band upon ber forehead. She drew back witb a savage little growl A sulle touched bis lips. "Tou need not fear me." he said. "I aball not barm you. I only wish to 91scover if yon bare fever-lf yon are entirely well, tf you are we will set forth in search of Korak.*' more fear in tbe girl's eyes now tban there had been In the presence of strange men or savage beasts. She hesitated, turning an appealing glance toward tbe man. "That ts my wife." be said. "She will be glad to welcome you." The woman came down the path to meet them. Tbe man kissed her and, disheartening fact-Meriem was In nono of them. Tbat she bad not been taken by the blacks In their flight from the village Korak knew, for he had watched carefully for a glimpse of her among the fugitives. ..... . . . . .. ,. .. . To the mind of the apo man. know- *"** first,h'VW HV ratberdlethaagobacktotbeoUahoIk •'•»»" ho osaorai htr thet tbty weoM net take agsio, hot another bead bed bttm her lame om. *s t maftar nf ftrt, ltd inlrbrr ths* bit, a»«f h* ano tbo '■ win tr» mt* ir* ("•>■*>"■'•'■'• *v> h. ttay aay taftotiwi ef ae dolaf. , weamta loamd lo Uie grMiud *l tbo yttlutut mote, and I Him* ttwt i.«- diwi CHAPTER X, Korak's Venpoene*. BltrBM looked straight Into the keen gray eyes. She most bave found there an unquestionable assurance of the honorableness of their owner, for sbe permitted blm to lay bis palm opon her forehead and feel ber pulse. Apparently abe bad no fever. "How long bave you been nn ape J" asked tbe man.' "Since I was a little girl, many, many years ago, and Korak came and took me from my father, who was beating me. Since then I bate lived In Uie tree* with Korak ond Abt" "Where In the Jungle live* Korak r luked tbe stranger. Mortem pointed with a sweep of ber hand that took tn, generously, half the continent of Africa. "Could you Bod your way back to htmr "I do not koow," ah* replied, "but be wtll And bit way to me." "Tben I hav* * plan," aald the stranger. "I live but a few marches from tvert I aball take you hoiuv. nbcie my wife will look nfter you aud cart for you tittlt we can And Korak or Korak finds us. If we ronM find you here, bo can find yon at my vlllago Is It nol sor Mortem thought thai tt waa to. but sbe did not like th* Idea of not start Ing Immediately hark to inevt Korak. On the other tuiipl. tbe man bad no Intention of peruilttlnu this |wor, lu- sane child to wandtr further amid tlio danger* et tbe jungle. Whence ibo had mme or what »ln> had undergone be-could not guems. but lh«t bet Kursk and tbeir life among thr mmn naa Imt a flirmenl of a dlttor-dpi-wi mind In* Timid nnt doubt II* know tite }niif;l* well, nnd he knrw that men had llv««t altm* and tinSt-H fnotiit tb» Mvagn lic»*>t«i for .vrnrs, lull ,. frail ami uleuder glrlt No, it wa* llrtf fKWC*|lllC : Tttgeitm ihey went outakto. Mai ^ tt Tli« i Mrangrr a black* wert* -mnvrrwiti)! wilh ttma. Maibihn •t*tw«l »i a «ii»i«iiM-p. •mtirf *w4 ghmttimg Tbo otwnpfr ai>pn«ctiwl mi* of fit» 1 wrn men. ho f-flmMarMM. tbn ntttv thm nthtn**"****! ni»*"*it«»firl One nf Mrtll.lliit* lollouii, l'r< iMHishl het Inwn i*l Knvi«l«ik" It* MM. "Tlwl t* all llmi Ilil* ttdhm •he hurled Her Pace on tho losem ef Thl* Now Friend. turning toward Meriem, Introduced them, speaking In the Arab tongu* tb* girl understood. "This is Mortem, my dear," b* said, and told* tho story of tho Jungle waif •o far ta bf knew It Meriem saw tbat tb* woman was beautiful, fcbe aaw that aweetn*** and goodnoaa were stamped Indelibly upon ber countenance. Mbe no longer feared ber, and when her brief story had beea narrated and Hie woman mm* and put ber arms aimut her and kliaed her and ing as he did tbe proclivities of tbe savages, there wns but a single explanation—Meriem bad been killed and eaten. Witb the conviction that Meriem was dead, there surged through Korak's brain a wave of blood red rage against those be believed to be her murderers. In the distance he could bear the snarling of tbe baboons mixed with tbo screams of tbelr victims, and toward tbls be mado his way.* ■■ ^ *■• '„'*■: —^In'tbe'disttanc*irKoTua*W^sfiI~liW ering bis scattered tribesmen end taking account of injuries and losses. Hts people were panic stricken. Nothing could prevail upon tbem to remain longer In this country. They would not even return to tbe village tor their belongings. Instead tbey insisted upon continuing tbelr flight until they had put many miles between themselves and tbe stamping ground of the white demon whose hordes bad so bitterly attacked tbem. And thus It befell that Korak drove from their homes the ooly peoplo who might have aided blm In a aearcb for Meriem and cut off tbo only connecting link between blm and ber from whomsoever might come In -search of bim from tbn douar of tb* kindly Bwana wbo had befriended his Uttl* Juogl* •wettbeart It was a sour and lavage Korak wbo bid farewell to bis baboon allies opoa th* following morning. Tbey wlahad blm to accompany them, but tb* ap* man had no heart for society. Jnngl* llf* bad encouraged taciturnity la him. His sorrow bad deepened this to a sullen morotenea* that eoald not brook •ven tb* savag* compealoaablp of tbe (11 nitorsd baboon*. Brooding aad despondent, be took bla solitary way Into tb* deepest Jungle n* moved along tbe ground wbta be knew tbat Noma wae abroad aad hungry. Be took to the aame tr*** tbat harbored Sbeeta, tbo panther. Be coartad death la a bnndrad way* and a bttdrtd forma. Bla mind waa ever occupied witb reminiscences of Mart* by Bwana, took not only a deep interest in tbe little jungle waif beeaose of ber forlorn and friendless state, bnt grew to love her as well for her sonny disposition and natural charm ef temperament And Meriem, aimMeity impressed by Uke attributes In tbe gentle, culturwl woman, reciprocated the other's regard and affection. And ao the days flew by wMU Meriem waited the return of the bead man and his partji from the country fif^ovudoo»-They~v!?ers-shcrtdays,-fOf— em and tbe happy yeara tbat they had Be tealtMd now to the f«0 wbat abt! SSTSttt' iii*«!i!!! 2 tl *A mihl •*, M« Ttv. mtf #.*» ! P."1" '•** tM "tO palOU Of MT into them were crowded many honr* of insidious instruction of the unlettered child by tbe lonely woman. She commenced at once to teach tho girl English without forcing It opoa her as a task. She varied the Matrae- tion with lessons in sewing and deportment, nor once did she let Meriem gueas tbat It was not all play. Nor was this difficult, since tht girl waa avid to learn. Tben thero we*e pretty dresata to ho made to take tbe place of tbe single leopard skin, and In this ahe foaod tho child as responsive and entbosiastte aa any civilised miss of her acqoaiataaee A month passed beforo tbe bead maa returned, a month that bad transformed tbe savage, little, half naked Mam- ganl into a daintily frocked girl of at least outward civilization. Meriem had progressed rapidly with tht intricadto of tbn English language, for Bwaaa aad My Dear persistently Nfaa*d lo speak Arable from tb* tlm* tb*y had d*dd*d that Meriem must l**ia laf» llah, wblch bad boen a day or two aftar ber Introduction Into their borne. But, dodie a* Meriem w*t la thoa* Button, thar* was on* tblag that ah* Insisted oa during her eoUio stay wttli the kind white folk, aod Uut we* hav peraoooi freedom to make eiraataaa Into tbe Jungle, attired very mocb aa tbn bad boon whtn with Korak, wbta*** *r«r ab* eh***. Bwana aad My Datf got OMd la tlm* to finding bar •mpty aad to bar* ber tam tp »*t*f, flashed and radiaot, after a lomp through tb* tree* and JragM, Tho* It was that, dmpit* tb* • od boot* oho wore end tbe «**tahq th* tanned, auppK IttUo w"Z \ Jl^J*^^ 22IWlS bad meant to blm. Tb* sweet fact •»a.t.» .-ic **..,.Z...?.A~iiL-Z 1«**M*. nor did ber grace aad agfltty called her "poor Utile darling" aomo | KiIluL!!?\£?& ' taffor. ^^ thing mni.^l H. Uerlrm'a he.it. wlttawSy *** *""*" **• *•"* "•• ■•"•• Inaction soon threatened blm with 'Mortem lato a period of deopeodeocf, Kbe burtvil tier face on the booom of Ihis new friend. In wIkhm voke wa* i the mother tout* thai Mortem bad aot beard fur an many yeara ibal abe bad forgotten it* very rilMemo, Mho buried ber face on t'he klbdly liii.r tu her. • Unt# lift namm learn were allayed «lic went lu the oihh«H« etireino of t^>r» her to watt. Ho Por a Mig year Ut led hi* notary, would ««. be awnMnc*! li«>r. a* mn eo reomint life (kwnlaealty bo foil la bo coold find the nim-, and at ism M*- wlfh ,-tttui end hf« tribe, bunting with lieu contented It, *t'..l«- l.v inn wl«U*. tUiiii fur a day vr two, er be might liut It was tnotiit)-* uf«m' «im tea***! n * . * . * * And n:ii tn iitf jiitiKle tar away. Km**, «»wrefeil with «**«jim1*. tllff Willi cMtnl l»!«»«t. iiunilns with rnnf at*'l *tr<:***i** «. *,*»*»i «* wid. -mmiI »tr«-fiiftii retnroeo *w«nS lor* nnlil tbey tmmli travel te Iho bltt tmrntiy. where the behoona bad eome tn *.t»-r»i him ** n tmatm ot twir*e, Hut mmt et all waa 'if -*1])!' 'J',ki.i,,'-.k, ,,u*, v,,v,tt»*.i,i. *-iit** great gray Lattu-nh^ «f tt* ino$ln. •bo iU|terdr««o. MifraMi o* om ***** twttrpnt tbb'bHntweottoo to<**! butmmm ' (tpootb of ■ frtsot. lit ant sari r*mt ""Tbooo omo oro iskteo mo *w*.v frem »t ttaHo tot* that btmrnot tht prao- \ Km*? p*ntcd tbe glrL -llto «a* oaeoof KenlL »« ohe hater thtt It' would btvo mm** too Tn* ether, Nothing short of dtatt whom he baa juit titled, trted to *lep »*»■* TW* •*♦♦ Mb ttr* bout a****. t.*t Ttti'-o tot, «bw<» '■m! *e*o Tin-} »t'w1 iiuti',» t'S.-f-.n tlmt tlieir Imtir-K ki>H* fwrt IM m^»,i;-f nt. |l «*Ma<.| in- wrtl. tonm*. lu ISA it* -»f her *" -I win* ihflf i mfftit. bui a w* taw I* it'im* iiAu ttth twit td the faugh. U h fit ». If imt ffj fft,. ,)f,f .*„yK Jt*.i «i.»," *e|4i#*«t the mat-ttr. Tin' *u,fitter K-otafneil hi.ft MsRtlhn .1.. ti ** -il... it*} ,|,-jc,i«i»-I li,!.. lit- *, ■:,. i, 1, ,. ,f^{ :*,,'■ vt -:*, lit*. %.*fa*. «l«*n |l»e itail ot iin» e""»t iMihnwn* *f tbe ralve*. r**ttti. Inrerenfrtl atA Ile ') toil 'tft •* be lend uot enn the stoat i*i«e«, behind thein. and af »-»«! he ♦*te»t*w»k tad there wa» ono ulttamtf tn.ltot In %bt.\\H. *mixi*tii«t ot wJmii in- v,s,*t (err tt*i't*. Ho peiauadrtt th» ai i«» aM him la tbe terd et ttt* nerd, * so teg* t«*«m mnnng Mertem nnd a*t*e tO- lUi *** ¥Mrt'4 ," ",",SP * w^*"' big* of Norudao. colling t« mtttd bow b* h*4 taied llje-lr t.Uit Amd tm thry mme, upon ih* teonrnl dar. ta tlw vU- lego ef Kevedav It wt* mtfnftrr* mmm. thr' tttn-mt* *** «»/! in tbn OOM ef Ibe rr*i*t **omt**.ri**t *ot* hont Th* mtghty herd ttait-kd onmty o«w. Reofolb tbe ibnoMtwl** ot padded teet the tnmnt gave faith uo greater wood tboo rntttud lc*t r fc*»a j.i«*&n*t'e*i If the »mtrmmtd wraobieo ef e attoocor I bl-wo 11* »*«*,(»■•«} t r.>u*ai*H,a or va*,* tm %ttn<*alio*. *»l**(w*<->«#*r Atud ie Ummlt ibi* nnoitfttatM et do* itruvlU.u mt*. a* «i.«>.l* nw*l tOtttitv^* •t« ** n !*'■ n**t. lie rem* mtten K«>r*t <.» VtMiV)'-* *•',-.• ■i-tiuihii:' ..1 nim)t<*er uf KnelKti la«l»«". ond c#«il*> nm* t*n.t o»'«ej.f«ti Uy t**ar* tnviia* ti.»u i» n*< ml a i i.iiitii .,: imi'iing and tutdtitlt.ii. tilth tt:9te* M«-fwm **»•* ts» et|imiM7 WWtt tttmht ih.'«e •ttMitst-r* l«- like* Would itity 1* ■*♦ ti>'«* !•» to*r ** Nd llwaoo *i'»d My l»e*r. or «««».;*> ttoj tw like Hie other while M* **>»* l»*d tnoirw— «rne| **.,| re!e.itJ*'»»* Sly fear aaaarofl hot that iUry nil err* gv-wttefeft *0i '.'.,,;. .-... t,..,',\ ;,.'. '■' » i... kl,,»V, »«»M»ltV- ev»!r ai»1 l.«»rtr*lnle, ',- ■; '••',;.;, j,.yy, nil TLutn imi' u.ut is-t-t, ut-.d ia*-* o«m«i~lbO wire* «>f iV tw-. tttttet mm. Th* t.t'ihut-t tm-i,',::.*'-i nt the farty wo* t|..f, M«*n*..fi t'.itit'*\ m ywmt aoua „1 .,,*-;*!,-•-ji'■*. «»»({!*. he *r»r*ml «t> ItltBs* drlt* Mcifr-ueil' frae It tmt, **llra utrnc*- Mil, >•* 1'nltnr, w-t f>«K ),*•*•-■# fin. b.itl, and tlnvan *ttti*rk mil In it't* ptth r ft*iii',*\ wi-ri* 1* nrr* nn r« •"•• »■! -iri-.-.i-ii I.;-,*'-, v.luli «,»- mntft-d ttmt 1-t'i-r >*«-*m*--t -mn. t,:t,\ot and M»»twi tit Itll game yet played on ffie new grounds. The attendance was small, owing to tho chilly weather, but those who "♦ayed with the players were well rewarded for the discomfort they exper. ienced. ' Kastner was behind the pitcher. The line-up was as follows: Old Timers—Spenco. 2nd: B. Wil. I son. p; Liphardt, s. s: Quillman, 1st b; I Mclntyre. 3rd b; McLaren, r. f: fiat- jes, p: Dahl. I. f: Winters, c, f. j F. A. A. C.'s—R. Colton. p:-Wilson, i2m| b: Dragon, 1. f: C. Colton. p: An. jderson, 1st b: Dudley, s. s: Clover, c, jf; Maker, r. f: Sofkol, 3rd b. ,The F. A. A, C's went to bat. and | iu the first failed to score; It. Colton, Wilson and'C. Colton going out at I first. The Old Timers fared no better: Held over from last week Wednesday's Game lt will be noticed by the line-up for the game on Tuesday evening that the Hula Hula's were very materially helped by Old Timer pjlayers who vol. unteered to take the places of players who could not be present with tho regular Hula Hula boys. The game on Wednesday was a one. sided affair, so far as scores went but the score will show that the Old Timers made the big total in the third in. nings, when they brought home seven tallies. It was the first victory for the Old Timers, and the manner in which they played showed plainly the improvement in teaib work, There were more people in aiten. dance than upon any occasion except that drawn out b# the exhibition game when the band was out and the event well advertised. There were many automobiles on the ground and the benches were well filled. This is encouraging to tho players, and enjoyable to the spectators, and it is hoped that fhe sport will keep growing in interest. .. , . -..i Tho Hne.up on Wednesday evening 4 1 1 .1 1 4-T4|was. OLD TIMERS:—Spence, c; Lip- hard, ss; Quillman, p; Winters, cf; McLaren, rf; Austin, If; Oliver, 2nd; Parker 3rd; Bishop Wilson, lst. HULA HULA'S—E. McDougall, cf; Ricketts, 3rd; Palmer, 2nd; Biggs, ss; Costa, If; Hovan, c; E. Colton, 1st; Robertson, p; A. Dunlop.'rf. Umpire—Kastner. The Hula Hula's scored twice in the -first—and—preBBnte*-t*nB_Ord—TnHenT TRADES UNIONISTS OF CANADA STOP! READ! THINK! WHAT IS THE USE OF INCREASED WAGES If the Manufacturer, Wholesaler, and Retailer are to add to the.increased wage cost, their usual percentage of profit, and compel you to buy back the commodities you produce with with three scales of excess-Profit added? Protect Wage Values by organizing Co-operative distribution and ultimately Co-operative production of the merchandise for which your wages are exchanged. Mrs. E. Todd LADIES' FURNISHER Pernie British Columbia FERNIE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, LTD. Incorporated 1907 Seasonable Millinery in the Latest Styles from the Great Fashion Centers Coats, Capes, Suits, Gowns, Dresses, Whitewear, Hosiery, Fancy Work Materials, etc. Special attention to Mail Orders. ORPHEUM THE HOME OF GOOD PICTURES The United Church Rev. C E, Batzold, Pastor J. Whitehouse, Orsranist Services, Sunday, June 15,1919 11.30 a.m. "Purchased and Paid For*' 7.30 p.m. "Weighed and Wanting" 12.15 p.m. Sabbath School A Cordial Invitation to Strangres and Visitors -.'''''W-lUIMEiiT-WPR'S with a Koose egg. The Hula Hula's added another tal. ley In the second and gave the Old Timers a mate for their first goose egB. ,But in the third, the Old Timers returned one of tho eggs to their over, confident opponents and piled up seven runs to their credit in their hnlf nt the bat. The Hula Hula's made no more scores until the sixth when they made one, making It three-on their side of the talley sheet. Tho Old Timers added two In the fo?irth, and three in tho fifth, and the kids hesrnn to look serious, and added Iwo each In the seventh and eighth, The Old Timers drew n gooso rug In the sixth and mndo another tally COAL MINE FOR SALE A country coal mine in goqd location; seam 3 ft, 10 inches; good dry roof and dry mine; newly developed; also storage bin to hold sixty tons, and blacksmith shop with all necessary equipment. Por particulars apply to GEO. WM. HALLIDAY Box 185 DELIA, ALBERTA Saturday Matinee 2.30.' Saturday Nights First Show at 7 EXTRA SPECIAL EXTRA SPECIAL Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14 NAZIMOVA in "Eye for Eye" o A tremendous screen triumph exceeding in brilliance and power and beauty the previous successes of this star of stars on screen or stage. EDDIE POLO in "The Lure of The Circtts" Episode 2 o ■ ■ Monday and Tuesday, June 16 and 17 MARY MACLAREN ih "Creating Stairs" "Creaking Stairs" starts out very quietly, just sort of "eases you alonfc," till all of a sudden, you find yonrself right in the coils of the loveliest.creepitigest, thrillingest drama that ever sneaked up and caught you by the throat. "The Woman In Thc Web" chapter 7 One Reel Comedy Wednesday and Thursday, June 18 and 19 More Than A Motion Picture A Dramatic Classic with tbe Power and Charm of a Great Personality SIR JOHNSTON FORBES ROBERTSON in "Passing of The Third Floor Back" by Jerome K. Jerome Six Part "First National" Attraction COMING Anita Stewart in "Virtuous Wives Charlie Chaplin in "A Dog's Life" Spence struck out, Wilson pot IiIb bane j fn tho last half of the elRht. maklnp but Liphardt wns cnitRht trying to reach third.'while Quillman went out on a fly. In the first of the second. Anderson went to hit and scored; Dudley. (Hover and Hftker nil fanned the nlr and the s|d»* chnnaed to the Held. The Old Timers had no better luck: McLaren struck out, (Sates hit thc hall nnd eo> nwav, Imt Dnhl Htruck out and Winter* sent a nice fly ovor to Haker, Ii'.'uju-K SpoiK'c id the plate. in the fr.«» of lhe third, Sofkol ftruok out, R -f'olton followed buU and WlUon w;i* put nut at third. Th» Old Timers again failed to score. Srence itot to first. Wilson wont out at llrnt by n throw from Dudley; Liphardt 'sent a hall to Wllunn who held It, anil Oolllman struck out. lu th« Ant of the rutinh Dragon wss put out at lirst, <', Colton got u Rood Mt, hut was put out It) his attempt to steal home. Andemon went out at first, rutirinR lh*' f!dc. •Uernt»n\ cf th,- ;r» frliky and wtm pminht trying to fall"? t»» pa.n* nnttj»»,.j,| »„. hnm(, p}a|p mM Rftl %m j<>ii ,i mufl by th« pltoher. but wm al*o ;ni«lt! iu an effort (o utojl the plate which MclJiren had Ifft. Winters vent out ttt Br*', Ik sh« fir*t ttt tb*t» Bffh, Ibtdlcy *«>nt »■• h\t niut .vldi'd :mntlii>r nt-oro tut lll« V. A. A. V.'n, Drarun *ot lint on ball*; «b«» Wr»t time a batter not tsuch i rr*d'< fr"« Wll*nn, Haker *tni<» mit. It Ci.lton bunted tn Wilson, and wniton pot to flr*t, but l»ra*8on mrnek a total of lit to thn Hula Hula'B » The boyn falling to add to their side of tho score In tho ninth. Quillman was relieved in the Hlxih by HI«hop Wilson, who made hl» Hmt anpearanco with tho Old Timers In Ihp same and proved a Rood twlrlor. A. Dunlop rcllovcd RobliiFon during Iho last, (wo or throo Inninim, 'llie crowd seemed ploa*cd to soo tho Old Timers make such a good nhowlne In Iho Ramo and their Jlcldlnc has hf«n dwldodly improvw! with thc practice thov have had. They are Rood batters and Spence, who went behind the bat for the (Irst tlmo shows ability and Ihe two colt team* will have in practice and train ihwnstflvcs down lo n Rood hard con. d ll Ion If they wleh to trlve those Old Timer* all they want to do. It Is worth while boys! Oo after ♦hem and make them earn th*lr score*' It Is Rood sport. The score hy InnlnRS 1 • !t i n n r * ti tm Timers n o 7 2 3 o 1 ft x~n Hula Hulaa 21000122 ft-8 Tal musTcTand readings was rendered, after which refreshments were served in the usual manner in which the lad. les do such things, which is to say they were of the very best. Miss Hogan and Miss Liphardt favored tho audience with vocal solos and Miss Harper .and .Miss Ingram rendered piano solos. Miss Crocker gave a couplo of most enjoyable recitations, lii reply to a vory short address from the chairman, Uev. Batzold thanked iIk> people of the congrogt^tion for tho very evident good will manifested by so happy an occasion, expressing him. solf aa feeling that with such unity of spirit as waH manifested >y I Iio con urination that he should not fail in his work as pastor. Whist Drive.—On Tuesday, June 17th, tbo ladles of the Catholic church are holding a whist drive and danco at the Parish Hall. Prlr.es will bo given and lunch served. Cards commence at 8.30 p.m. sharp. Gentlemen 50e, Lad. les SSc. — -—o- PIPE THE CANON IN SUIT OP BOR. ROWED OVERALLS FERNIE NEWS Weddlnfl Announctmtnt—Ml*» ' 'ir® tanranter announces Ihe w wid 114 «f h*r -sister, Miss Harah lau«t*t«*r, lo Mr K tl. Ward, at three.Hiirtv or ♦be afternoon of Wednwainy, l«n«» tl.i» twii.ly-flfih. niiii',*- 11 Inn..'ivI *»itd ninHe-vn at the ITult«"4 Char b, Yerntr. tl, «*. Ottawa, June 9. -"If tuch a sltua. tion as tbat In Winnipeg should de. veiop in Ottawa, then I stand ready to don overalls and do by share to dellv. er »i<* from any such tyranny," said Rev. Canon Hnowdon. rector of Ht. t.:*>or(;iii'« ftiupi.-h, tn a v-^rmon up^n the labor question on Sunday morn. Ihr. He took as hia text the fifth v«.r*e of the ihird chapter *tt .MaUrhi, and had criticism for tbo labor ete. ment only when allowing itself to be controlled hy rash, unthinking demagoRtte* who faror HolshcvUm. U • PHONE WORKER! TO QUIT NEXT MONDAY TEN PER CENT DISCOUNT CASH SALE FOR 30 DAYS ONLY ,..«*. *ttt'n,.e am 10 tkira and was iwtl J* ■<♦ *r:* Inn^> t,u*%\ that *',»*.*-.»«*ii pi,<-». „\ 1 ,***t.t*itf. the piat.». Wllnion tot away la tint Ulphnrdi mmt np a ni-M« foul *f»d 3. II. drove*!, financial! s...k.. M9.i9 ■.• *. • , a terretnry, of tbe Klectneal Workew j A*«tbtr Injoysbte Tlma Preminnd- mkm ,t mm Bnnm„e*d that tke | Th- ladles of the t'afhnlfr Church ari ordi-ra were received from the Interna. hiding a Whist l»r*v«» snd Dance Tnc». tional b<*adqnsrter» at Mprtngnelil. j 'Jay*. ,/ti,u« !7l(li„ at t.lw Vnvinb H'tnlt. H«-. """"I"' 1 ftot;", jr**hmt nt* will be served a««l nr1f**l ku* a, vard.* etmmene* at M.M p.m l luff , 9tt.1t a*-" Ov .ita ***■*. is*.n nf »»,,» t>*-,,,fl,.r in I nut ley. Mit.ar<-n aent another to IMsiHe>r' '•.-,..ti■■„■ »:%# Imt-lv nmd 'nUit^l l**M «-rf>« ■..«« m* k*ttt0. 1 * 1 .- ^ . .... I j ta lfc# «*rcnth, Metlomcatl anotb'-f ianr-mt,. •"orlag si* tatlle* af l#f !btfow aasl *N»l»n**e*, **mm*4 tbm tP6nm. not T»nsm tm& t%n yt»1*41*1»* In tbm bin* et tbt* '<- ** tm ** Tmttf Monthly T«a—Tb*» regnlar monlhtf tea of the lA«1ot Aid of Ibe t'ullw! »„u *.,„ w» -t,***m **, ttm nmam to ••rack | Mrs. Mott and Mra. Daniels at the tnt* «« dWn «*nn an-4 tl, Colton. Tbft Old Tliwrs mt no further th»* jm#j WPM^ tnt, where Upence dlod, Wll»»«n »;r«