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After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/disledfer/items/1.0308919/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ .'s --.■».'.--Kfr SSSJrA*."!^, ■SO.' % -,f,0 xA'A.x'j-^ ,""' 'X^'-'x-i?- :yS''-:-- '■' '"-aAiAy-^yvyA'-7f.l^.s"7-■'*■., ''I''''»l'^:''-J'' "™,ie*"" - *""I* -Sc'*^* i>'' "*'rf" - ''* , ^__^B_^_^_____A^______f ",fc >>* -V '■v f. - 'o Industrial Unity is "o^.^h. ; No;.13,vol.vn. ,/,,r>'V; * ■*■' - • ., . , '■• v - - *Nr The Official Organ"of Dwtrict No. 18, U. M. "W. of A. r SAVE THE HEADINGS OF HEADINGS OF Tflfl . QOIO THL5.-PAPEft~£w*».„ 1~ • iJtVlO .l^'-ftf/ft^ v" $1.00 a year %x ytavwmmt^ Local NOTICE A special mass meeting will.be held in the Grand Theatre, Pernio, on Sunday, Nov. 23rd, at 7 p.m. sharp. ~ . , o ^Business: To consider the advisability of placing on an assessment of 25c for one month for the purpose of swelling the Christmas Cheer fund of the - Island strikers' families. . -> ■ Other very important matters will also be. brought forward. Some of the District Officers and Organizer Carl Theodorovitch will be. in attendance. Meeting will commence at 7 p.m. prompt and' every member is specially requested to be there on time. AVVISO Domenica prossima nella sala dell'unione alle ore p.m. 7 vi sara un invito speciale per discutere una sopratarra di $0.25 per un rolo mese per aggiutare quei pori Fanciulli per le feste del Natale che tro- varisi in isciopero sulla Corta del Pacifico,.'e piu ancora, da discutere altri affari importanti. L'invito sara presietuto da tutti gli ufficiali del Distretto per questo son pregati tutti d'interveuire. OZNAM * , Mimoriandav seobecna shoudza bude sa odbivovat . v Grand Theatre, Fernie, v nedelu dna 23ho.No- vembra a 7 vecer zapociatek. , .. Obchod Roshodovat sa bude cibi bolo mozno dat prirasku po 25c za jeden mesac aby sa niohlo^'pod- vichnuif fond no Vianocmy, Stromcnk pre dietky tich Strajkujucih bratov na Vancouver — skom os- trove. ,r " ■■ -,'•/"" Inie.velmi dolezitie vecy budu vam ties predlo- zenie do povahi daktory Distrikny predstaveny.a Organizatory Karl Theodorovitch bude tam dbs? „tavemilsehodza-sa-zapacne-a-7-\\'ece3^ka8dy-udi-3e--'^- pitariy tam bit'na cas. ."' . V ,,",' '-'■.*' 7 ." . . . - , , , kc 4^000 Miners on ^ Strike in France (Special o District Ledger.) LENS, France, Nov. 20.—Forty-five thousand coal miners are on strike in the Pas de Calais basin. The miners demand.work day eight hours. Reinforcements of police and detachment of troops dispatched to district, notably Bethune, where serious trouble Is anticipated. The wbovo telegram has been transmitted to us Just as wo bo to preas by Soo.-Troag. A. J. Carter from Spokane, who Ib1 travelling, up from tho Coast, and is but n. further Indication of the universal discoMonl that prevails among the laboring olaflsos. Wo note tho usual reinforcements of pollco and military havo been dlapntchod to preserve tho maBtora'.Interest und hide, bnt tho mino workors of Franco have the peculiar knack of springing surprises upon tho government nnd fur- "thor nows will, no doubt, provo Interesting. Hosmer Amateur Athletic Association A billiard tournament has boon arranged to bo plnyod off in December. A sultablo prlzo list lias boon mado up and It is hopqd to'got tho tournament plnyod off iboforo Christmas, Tho coRt of ontry Ib 2fi cents nnd It Ib confined to momliorg only, .Prise list: Ust prize, valuo $13.00, given by Air. J, Morgan; Snd print, ono turkey, given hy tho Association; ,'lrd -prlzo, ono tur< Ifoy, given '.by tho Association; 4th prize, ono coekorol, glvon .by Mr. IT, Nrooke. Ono .box of olgnrs will bo given by Mr. Wllley for tho highest break during tho tournaniont, Joo Lafolc was charged boforo Jus- tlcos of tho Poaco flrown nnd .Hums with breaking quarantine! regulations to tho danger of tho public. Ho was flnod JG.OO und costs In tlio hopo that It may provo a warning, thoir honors intimating that any othor offenders will bo savoroly dnnlt with POLICE COURT NEWS "Ruddy" McBwaln got three months for vagruxioy. 0, Lnannllo wns chnrgnd with holding dog bolonging to J, Qomollo. T, iMnrnurn wnn fined *1«>nn nn n charge, tho particulars of which could J:X. L-w i.ij.il . * -.. . *. Strike not Settled and Men Remain Firm —Press Reports as to Desertion From Ranks Untrue There is no change ih the Island situation, and no further developments have oocurred as a result of Ackland's visit Rumor has been busy through the various press agencies, reporting that the men' are returning, to work. Such statements as these may be taken by our readers as absolutely without foundation and that .they should appear with such remarkahle persistency in this part of the country' need cause neither wonder nor alarm. Their object is to persuade mine workers in these parts that their -brothers at the Coast are fighting a losing .battle, and that what has happened there is.likely to happen here should occasion arise. You may search the whole press through, and rarely, if ever, find it stated that the workers are winning. It is not the policy of the press to publish anything, that may be to the interest of the workers. 'Mr. A. J. Carte"?; who has Jbeen at the Coast for the last two weeks in connection with certain litigation, sends us the following wire: "Situation on the Island unchanged. The men are standing solid. Nothing up to the present has developed in connection with Ackland's visit. There was a crowded meeting in the Athletic Hall on -Monday night and much enthusiasm prevailed on account of the presence of most of the men who had been released on bail. Kavanagh, of the B. C. Federation, .Pace, iMeikle, Irving and self had the floor after the regular business.—A. J. Carter." I. O. O. F. The three-linkers- had a visit from the 'Michel brothers on Wednesday last, when the first degree and team work was put on by the visiting .brethren. After the transaction of business an enjoyable time was spent and coffee, cake, cigars and songs were dispensed. " The brothers returned to Michel on the flier. THE FERNIE-COAL.CREEK "EXCELSIOR BAND The above newly-organized' band will -be giving a first-class vocal and instrumental concert at Coal Creek on December iO, proceeds to be devoted to defraying - expenses of/instruments,! etc. A r rtjy. -„*. ' ' The band has met with" considerable success ln its establishment,, and is composed of 'Rngllsh-speaking men, most of whom aro mine workers. Further particulars next'week. OUR COMPETITION •This week candidates will receive their numbers and next'week'we .will publish the standing of the candidates who are' requested to take .particular note of their numbers, as no names will bo published until prlzo list ls printed at tho end of tho contest. Bach candidato will *bo notified'by" mall of his or her number In. a day or two. If you have .not saved your headings, start this week. FIRE CAU8E8 NEARLY $1,000 DAMAGE, An alarm was rung ln from 'Box 17 shortly after 11 o'clock on Tuesday, whon tho house or Ralph Cnravetta was gutted, and. iMIko Rado's, ,noxt door, was badly scorchod, When tho brigade arrlvotl, about two minutes after thoy rocolved tho alarm, flames woro already pouring through Cara- votta's roof-tree, nnd. tho oaves of tho house next door hnd caught firo. TTio brlgado first turned their attention-- and thoir water—on to tho latter, and thon devoted their efforts to reducing tho original Mono. Tho flro wns caused, hy « coal oil lamp iijisottlng nnd catching flro. Cm- avotta places his loss at J800 and Rndo his nt jlfiO, both rovnrod by Insurance1, ♦ Gladstone Local Notes ;♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦«►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I would again draw the attention of the members o.f the above Local to questions-of vital interest that" have come up for discussion, questions that demand the attention of every intelligent unit' of the organization. It is lamentable to thin-k'that out of such_ la"Iin,ge"memUl!rsinp_"tTi^'I^ral^friceiis and mbm-hersHhat comprise the various committees should have to .bear thoo: "^risibilities .incident to such a Ian1 ••" Mil'za'tioh. The one great pi-in. -. qdnrlylng all' organizations in th*- iSi ver.'as well as'-the higher, anin' k-ingil'.- i;is, Is -tha1 x!Vniv[i>A.l .aid for ,*, .a pVo'sirvwlloiU 'Tfc'iS' principle' may express itself in various modes according to the'physical make-up and the existing environment. The. union movement in this Pass contains this principle, for it seeks' to protect tho unit In every way possible. , It is an organized force not only to maintain the standard of subsistence hy negotiating wage agreements, but stand's guard against the tyranny of petty ■bosses. Under tho very best agreement the conditions prevalent in the mining Industry are such that a large number of miners are continually beneath the suubslstence wage. Bumps, caves, excessive water, gas, bad track, Insufficient track, an inadequate and poor distribution of timber, are somo of tho chief evils that annoy and limit the wago earning capacity of the miner. These evils nro all remedial, nnd It ls onjy iby tho collective effort that wo can force tlie employers to recognize and adjust samo. Tho crowding of tho mino' train came up for discussion. We havo all read tho trtory of Uncle Tom's Cabin and wo have expressed Indignation ovor tho treatment meted out to our black brothers in that particular period of our history, Yes sir! tho history of slavery is n blnck pngo in tho great history of human progress..Ah, hut Is this blnck nightmare of human exploitation nt an end? A visit to tho mino train In Iho morning fit n.tiO a.m, will convince one otherwise. Mon aro packed together llko sardlnos In a box, Tho nlr is no foul thnt one could cut It with a knlfo (metuphorlcnllv speaking). Why should wo wonder and become amazed at the amount of sickness prevalent in the district? Are these coaches cleaned out every week? Has the superintendent instructed some one to paint them ? Are the coaches well lighted and ventilated? The answer can be given, without prejudice,' in the negative. , .Why should they, who produce the world's -motive power, be compelled .to endure such inhuman conditions? The question of an assessment of twenty-five cents per member came'uj^ ^or'aiscussionT^Th^iTSMsstnehtlsTor the support of our brothers at the Coast or Island strike.' None will deny that-the strike at the Coast is more to us in this district than any other district under the jurisdiction of the ,U. 'M. W. of A. Their win is our. win. Let them not fall through want of financial support. This question was finally deferred to a- special mass meetting next Sunday at the Grand Theatre. This meeting wilL.be one of the most important held by Gladstone Local' for tho past year. Let every member pledge himself to be in attendance. COLORADO STRIKE Wo are making arrangements to obtain the latest authentic news from this point, and trust next weok to give our readers a line on how events aro shaping in the strike zone there. SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES - FOR FIRE BOSS PAPER8 List of successful candidates at tho examination for third class certificates held at, Nanaimo, Cumberland, Morrltt and Fornlo, on October 28th, 1913: (Frank Copo, Cumberland, B. Ci Robert N. J-Iamllton, Nanaimo, 11. C; JoBoph W. Bateman, Hosmor, n, C; Hugh Penman, Merrltt, 13. C; Thomas McGuIro, Fornlo, li, C; Goorgo With- erlngton, Michel, II, C; Hugh Oshorno, Morrltt, -B, C; William I'l. Jonos, Cum- borlnnd, B. C; .loshua Norrls, Cumlior- land, H. C; David ..M. Francis, MlddloB- horo, B. f'.j Alfrod ICIrkham. Cumberland, II. C; John II. Vimglinn, Cumberland, 11. C; Richard II. Smith, Merrill, II. C. W 1 Our Competition Concert f The concert in connection with the distribution of prizes for our competition will take place in the Miner's Hall on Monday, December 22nd. On this occasion the prizes „to successful contestants for the Fernie, Hosmer; MirhH nnd Pnni Creek district wil! bc. distributed, while thc proceeds of thc concert twill. be haiided' over to thu Gladstone Local Secretary to provide cheer for the strikers' children on Vancouver Island. Wo have to record still another fatality tliis week, the victim this time being Joe Harrison, who was buried in a cave this morning at No. 1 East, room 12'diagonal. ■AVlien the body was recovered, (here wore no marks on it, and no bones were ibroken, and death must' have been due wholly to suffocation. The accident occurred about S o'clock and as far as could be learned, was caused by the breaking of bridge-sticks, this releasing a huge mass of coal which buried deceased .beneath it while lie was endeavoring to get away. Harrison, who resided with his brother nt Walter Joyce's house, came to this country from Durham, England. He returned to this camp from the Coast some few weeks ago after an absence of some 18 months, and was particularly well-known and respected at the Creek. ,He was only 26 years of age and unmarried.' ROPE BREAKS AND INJURES LAD The -breaking of a rope on the incline of B North caused painful injuries to Percy Jones, and a special train was requisitioned to remove him to the hospital at about 12.30 today. On arrival at the hospital, it was found that the upper part of his face was severely bruised, and although his injuries are not likely to prove serious, it was deemed advisable to detain him. It is coincident that Jones, who was injured in the "big snowslide last January, was, putting in his first shift since that disaster. For the past few months the lad had been employed, by the company "painting houses around the 'Creek. STEELPUNCH BREAKS ' —MAN INJURED Alox -Cameron, blacksmith, was injured by a flying piece of steel breaking off the punch with .which he was working and lodging in his cheek, .causing a nasty wound and necessitating his removal to the hospital. He was conveyed there on tho same train as Jones. - . WHEELS COME TO STANDSTILL ON SUNSET'LINES HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 15,—No dis- o_rder_has_ been reported '-early_tpcUiy among "the" 2500" skilled employes of tho operating department 'of the Southern Pacific lines be"tweeu J31 Paso and New Orleans, who went on strike last night. Aside from two-transcontinental trains said to be en route, reports indicated general suspension pf. traffic. -yr* y ,-:-'• ,'• Just before the' walkout went into ef- iect an offer ot government mediation was received at. union headquarters. The employes' leaders replied that tho only possible way to avoid a strike was for the railroad to meet the federated committee of the. four unions involved—the engineers, conductors, firemen and trainmen. Such a conference had been the main point of the railroad's objection during negotiations. The company today was said to ibe preparing to install strike .breakers with the aim of restoring passenger train service at least. Places for housing such employes are said t-j have been arranged at different points along the Sunsei lines. The employ6s' C7 complaints involve demands for reinstatement of many engineers and others declared to have been discharged in violation of contracts; alleged excessive imposition of demerit; assert many reports and other information are requested outside of company time and ask regulations of lay-overs away from home terminals. Schedule of Complaints Some of the more important grievances in the words of the grievance- committee are: "Complaint against Setters "of a harsh and threatening character from, subordinate officials. "Discontinuance of moving engines in trains under steam without engineers. "Request of englnemen that aU hoiler-heads and side-sheets he covered. "Request that'men'be allowed to re- .port for duty by telephone, "Protest against method of re-examination of men on eyesight, hearing and color perception. "Claim for $3.75 for firemen. ".Protest against the re-examination of conductors and engineers on train rules and mechanical re-examination of engineers." •The -question of wages is involved ' only in that It is claimed the construction of existing contracts by' the company curtails the rights of the men. DIAMOND CITY LOCAL A regular meeting of the -above Local was held last Sunday, when President J. 15. Smith, and International Board Member Rees were present. ' - —jMfiriv^^rievancos -v/ero discussed and suggestions made to overcome tho .troubles which beset our Local. .We • are confident, however,, that with the exercise of patience and' tact, these conditions will eventually be overcome, We were also.visited by tho Weights and 'Measures Inspector, who made his report oh tho condition of scales at tho Chinook Coal Co.'s mine, whi<& ' was quite satisfactory to all concerned. The Changing Times grn We want \\ every individual who claims any artistic \\JJ» abilities, vocal, instrumental or elocutionary to assist on ■■ this occasion and if you will drop us a note stating what you are prepared to do for this worthy object, shall esteem same a favor. Further announcement will be,made next week Mwimi!^i!&,Bm&^ Tho follqwlng is n digest of a paper given In the Aggressive League of the Methodist Church by 'Mr. A. Wright, reviewing part of an Interesting series of studies conducted by the League this autumn, - After tracing tho evolution of tho modern city and Its relation to tlio new nnd complex conditions created by modern induu-try and flnanco, Mr. Wright said: "Wo nro coming more and. moro to roalizo tho necessity of city planning. A fow. of the most Important factors to bo taken into £on- Bld-orntlon are a pure wator supply, facilities for tho disposal of sowngo, wide anil woll-kopt stroots, and convenient parks and public recreation grounds. Tho condition of our stroctB glvo ii very bud Impression to visitors with woods growing right in the con- tro of tlio town, A fow ynurH ago wo had n recreation ground near the centre nf Fornlo, but for some reason It was sold for building purposes. TIiIh, It niioms to mo, wns n mliitnko, ns no city am afford to .bo without u play- ground for tho young people, ,l'hy«- Ically our city In well favored, tlio HurroiuulingK could scarcely bo lm- proved upon, and I-Yrnlc could bo mndo ono of tho prottlost rit Ioh In tho Dominion. iThoro Ih only ono thing It liickH—public Hpliiti'il iiu.-ii, With tlm growth of our cities mnny Hcrloiw problems hnvn arisen, ono of tho elilnf being tin- condlilon of tho working clnHMiB. Thoro Ik n lnrgo proportion of workers who, If mnploy. mont roiiHOH, nro nlUur In immnilliitci want or nro In danger of becoming ho In n Hhort tlmo, Thero Ih no doubt tlmt en oh a!, the numnroiiH nioiUirn ho. lulloiiK of thiH problom noiitaliiH Homo ■piement of good, but, for the moat part thoy only touch tho mirfnee, thoy don't go de'up enough, thoy don't go lo tlio root of tho matter. Oroml, nvnrleo, HdfliilinoMH, nro re«pntiNlhlo for n grout doiil of tho oppression of the workers uiul until men -bnromo more lirnth-eHy thoso coiidltlonB nro llnbln to romiiln, although coihIIUoiih inny lm BomowhAl (imolloi'iiloil by the effortH ol tho many briiiidliOH of tiqclal reconstruction,, Social lirabloiiiK nre com pi lot toil by tho presence of so mnny mens nnd *;t....... , ■ ', '*'. ;■■', .. ,' , .,. I . 1*'l ■ I •'*•>tt'titr,-■■ ... ***".. if i* ,-•*..,.,,,,. .i,..**, Ib helnc done to f'-anndliinlze the. now confer*.* tho following Inciduhl will hIiovv, About a year ago iu a pralrlo eity ii TlusHltin .low, who eould speak vory llttlo KimllHh. joined th« Y. M, C, A. Ho beoimo ono of tho moHt pro- fleieiit students In Iho educational t iiicftl n Hill) ill il n-lH-r Ul I III- Ml I ri.il .i wince leaving hn cnld, "I came,with tho liosNlmlNin of HuhhIiiii Kiirnpo and tho spirit nroiiinl tho building cured me of my pe«nlmlHin, I rnrnn n -f<»w, nnd llioiiph f am n Few -wtIII. yot I him- no prejudice against flirlHtlnnltv, Y«ti hnv-n helped mo to lieeomn u Cnnndl- .ni." rn-wnirpnlnl hoim l!fn I* rexpniiHlhlc tn ,'i erp-if *nvfc.,.< f,-,.. *'i-r- 'if*"*tr-|-T|ttnfj,-« of (lie hnnip. Tin i. '■■' um to h-m'. been for n long tlmt* ai> Id™ held that cMMr.cn ahoiiM lm *•,■. >., :n.-l u<>\\ heard. Hilldron m»em to lm.' an ri mount of eneruv lUnproportloiinif ti» thoir slao nnd It I* f»r hotter to r*v«- them the opportunity of a logliiniiitf nutl-r-t for thoir onorgy than lo contlnunlly suppress that surplus vitality. Then whon tho children grow up thoy look for a wldor social scopo in tho homo but rarely do they get It. Thoy go elsewhere for society. Whero do they got lt? First thoy go to tho picture houso. Thoro Is nothing wrong in that, but to attend tho picture house continually Ib monotonous and the noxt placo is tho pool room and danco hall. Thoro is no primary evil In pool playing and, dancing. .Pool is a gamo of skill; dancing Is a perfectly legitimate form of rocreatlon. Tho ovll lies not In tho iimiisomcnl, but in Its conduct, From the pool room to tho bar room Ih n vory short step nnd tho bar room Is Iho frlond ot low Hfo and -crlmo 1n general. It in nil vory woll to say thoso things nro wrong, but whnt Is being dono lo remedy thoso social shortcomings? Public librarian, the Y, M. O, A. nnd Y, W. CA„ debuting clubH, gvmnnflltt, nud kindred societies aro doing good work, but thoir activities uro conflnod moBtly to tx ehiHs whoso needs nro not tho greatest. 'What )n needed In n Hoclal contro lu which all poruoim In tlir> community may kIi:ih> ulll<-», wImt.' rlcli'und poor, old and young, loiirnod and illltoralo, may commlngln without any feeling of restraint, and where oach poraon can tako an interest In ItH proper conduct; whom if anything Ih wpong oach will fool -co- rospoiiHlblo with all nthcra, nnd If everything In running mnoothly onch will feol it reflects credit on hlnmulf. I Hhould llko to mako a liiiKgoiitInn then, A pure iinelnl centre Ih much needed In Fornlo, I'orhiipH ti Y, IM. t, A, Ih out of Iho (pii!Htliiii--wn do not know no'tlio'toHt Iiiih novor bnnu mndo. Hut could not tliu churches of thin cily until! ,;f6ri'OH to provldo a siiltuililu pinco of rocrontlon nnd amiixomont, for tho peoplo of IIiIh town? If they cannot do It alone,, mirely with; tho aid of tho eity council ll would \\u< poBHlhlo, provldod tho nloctorfi plncn tho civic authority In the JiiiiiiIh of true men." « THE ISIS THEATRE •VI f *' i ..'{■' **..,. ,111,,., I. l.-t,l t, i,,,., ...,*.,« ,,... tiiil,/, program' over put on bv the ninnne-i«- mont ot llils llOIIWl HlllCli ItH HHtltll- llBliniout. I'rcgri'Hn Is the key sink, of IIiIh popular picture Iioiiho. and In splto of eouiiter nttrnctloriH. the crowds that hnvo filled tho thoatro nltthl aftor night justify tlm state- till III Dl IIM' III,Hi.IK" Illl-lll. 1.1 l.ll. till' hIiow Ih tho best always A apecliil -iroeJ feature, "Tho drath ivtoiin of India," will he rchii Hiiturday aMor- nnuii nnd -evening. Thn Ktory of IIiIh picture centre!* about it huge fliiior.'ild, "tho mim-il eye of HiliMliu," which j has been stolen hy ft band of coolie*. 'l.u- iiii'.n |.lii.-»l t.t.> H ,1 i lir.il1 \\l|N»ll till' I atone, and proclaims lhat Its potm-wnor "i'l .M.. Miii- ni, ni i,-it-.i -Hid r.'!.--r '.-,.! ■■!.- iini'"!. cihunli.v, llu- htoiu" Ih ! v<-> ii ij.,-. i in a ph'iiu.int manner. Thin ■ p'ltiir- i lull nf the ui\\v*i<, ' I'.rnided for life," in two • rn''.t. in i*i" It iln fammm feudire I piai i'Tr« // * ■ •■'-** j L ^.'ty**^'-,T>-*H"-«-«> _ ..■■■'.^■ifTsv* .u I •.$:' 'V V. "■'i:. *—^ife. .4.. --, A*1*; *. r .K vi V:'' '*■'-' I, av I ■t i ■£;. m '''% Si I- I* ■4'- Hi I I l'. te 145" I IP' 1 rt ft ■I p \\m ■ m ft N M lil' W t! fi \\- Iff I"" Iff K if M 11 w PAGE TWO THE DISTRICT;^5I)GER; FERNIE;- B.C., NOVEMBER i.»»'™w-wi**«wir»iTiTir^ BOUND TO WIN (By Joe Somers, Cambria, Wyo.) At the present time the miners of Colorado are fighting for their rights. Men and women,are camped in tents on hillsides. Those men and women are showing the right spirit. They Tare standing for human rights. If they will continue as they have begun they are bound to win. Kvery struggle that labor enters into is forced by some barbarous action of their employers. For eight weary years the coal miners of Colorado have been robbed. A man who worked in the coal fields of Colorado did not dare to call his soul his own. He belonged to the coal company. The operators of Southern Colorado figured that their temployes weie their chattel slaves, to be exploited as they saw fit. The Super' was lord of his .camp. If a man disputed it why, he had a guium'aii marshal run the man out of camp. Yes; the state law of Colorado gave the miner the right to have a checkweighman on the tipple. The operators say that a majority of the men could have had one if they wanted one. But, how could'they ever get a majority? • if a miner dared to say that his cars weighed light he was fired, and generally walked out of camp by the ex-convict who acted as marshal. The companies did not want a checkweighman on the tipple, .because they wanted to steal enough -coal from the miners to pay overhead charges. ■They boys could patronize any merchant they wanted to. But, if they wanted to work they had to buy from the "pluck me store",, run by the company. No coal company is satisfied to rob" their employes in their work alone. All companies start company stores in order not to let a guilty dollar escape, and in camps where the union is conspicuous by. its absence men are forced to buy in company stores at exorbitant prices. Not only were the miners of Colorado robbed of their coal, forced to buy, in "pluck .me stores," but they were not paid for dead 'work. The superintendent of a comp'any would even tell the voters how to-vote, and God help them if they did not vote to srait the company. Finally the patience of the men was worn out, so-they struck. Now" what happens when you catch a thief in the act of stealing? The thief denies that he ever stole, or that he tried to steal. The same thing happened in Southern Colorado. As soon as the men struck for justice the operators denied everything. Their employe's were satisfied; yet, ninety per cent walked out. Another thing that thieves do when tliey are caught is to try and intimidate their captors. Just so the Southern Colorado coal operators sent for guards to intimidate the strikers. And the reign of terror started. A word about Baldwin-Feltz guards. In order for a man to- be' a guard he has to have the soul of Judas Iscariot, the honor of Benedict Arnold, the fi- endishness of the devil and the greed of a pig. If he is'an ex-convict so much the better chance has he to get the job of being a guard. These animals know thnt they are hired to stir up trouble. That is what they are trying to do. .People can not go along a country road without being stopped by an armed guard. The mediator of the federal government was stopped from travelling on a .public road. Men were stopped from getting mail from United States post offices. Everything is being done to intimidate andeowe the strikers. Foul lies are being -circulated in prostituted newspapers in order to change public opinion. But it is no use. The public knows the greed of the C, F. & I. Everybody knows it is mostly state land that they are working, and as they pay a royalty on a tonnage basis people know why the coal companies refuse to give honest weight. If they gave honest weight to the miners they would have to pay the state bigger royalties, and that is something the y Jii-m ahd has also been a Socialist^"™ *> *. In a letter accompanying his report, Comrade Kirkpatrick says: "It is miy personal opinion that the greatest value of our administration here is the part that we -played in the labor strikes. It is all well and good to say that the duty0of the Mayor is to remain neutral in times of industrial warfare. ' iMy experience is that neutrality is impossible. Thero are -certain things tliaW_the finuiiloyers, want.done and that the strikers don't want done, and the "Mayor is forced to take sides. There is no middle ground. You must get on one side of the fence. We Socialists here have chosen to stay. on our own side, and "be with workers. "It' is my personal opinion that about nine-tenths of the strikes in the cities could (be won if the workers had control of the police authorities. And the police do not have to actually take any part in the fight, just simply allow a 'fair fight.' Labor strikes usually are not pink tea affairs, and the police need only to "preserve order as far as possible and protect the non- combatants, or the 'public,' as It is usually stated. "If the working,people could not think of any higher or bettor reason for the election of Socialists to nuuil- cljinl office than the prevention of tho uso of the (policemen's club on tliolr bonds in tlmo of strikes, thon that ono reason would be sufficient, and it would amply repay them for all tho tlmo, money and sacrifices that they may mako to got control of the municipalities," 'To illustrate wh-nt this Socialist.administration did in onsoB of strikes, we el to the following occurrences with (icliml results: Litsl. -May, whon about throo hundred omployds of tho Commonwealth Steel Foundry Htvuck for an Incroaso of wagos and shorter Iioui-h, tho foundry superintendent and general mnn- iigor mndo a hurried visit to tho Mayor's office, Thoy nskod for "pollco protection," which, In tho understanding of tho employers, usually moans, not only -protection of thoir Uvob and proporty, which aro seldom in danger, hut that thoy want to bo ".protected" nknlnst tho strikers doing picket duty and assembling nt tho mill or factory gntoB. iTho Socialist Mayor n-ssurod tho foundry officials thut pollco would ho furnished to fully protoct proporty, and, IT poBBlhlo, persons from "bodily Injury, nnd ho further iiBBiirod thorn that tho pollco would protect tho strikers In thoir right, to picket and peacefully iiBnomblo nt. any plnco In the city. No pollcomon'B clulm woro usod ngnliiBt tlio HtrlkorB, thoy did uot hjow- bunt or Inllmidnto thorn, nor woro tho pollco uhoiI to URslHt nnd encourage Htrlluibroiikoiu Tho foundry officials early say the new and unusual situation they were in, and in just four days of a complete tie-up of the plant, the strikers were granted an increase of wages amounting to 2% cents ail hour, shorter hours of labor, and the union was recognized and all of the strikers .re-employed. A similar proceeding, with similar results, occurred a short time later, when the niolder helpers of the American Steel Foundries went * out on strike and secured an increase in wages of 2% cents an hour. Following close on this, there was a strike for higher wages of about two hundred of tho day laborers at the big tin mill plant. They gathered aboul the mill .gates in large numbers, lind one of the mill -foremen one day sent in a ' call to police headquarters for police to put down a "riot." The po- Jipp-.rPRpniuled,.ani±JouncLaJarge_nanv to get away with, is usually Infinitely ■more shocked when he finds even an old-tfashioned red cent is being stolen from hi.m than -he is when he discovers his morals are undermined. He is confident of his ability to protect his morals and those of his family. He is even willing to run the risk of their being corrupted. B-ut he is strenuous in his insistence 'that his. money be protected by the government. > . In spite of all, and for the first time in our -municipal campaign experience, on the best platform we ever put forth, one that far transcends any of the alleged revolutionary programs that have previously been put forward by any party; we have Increased our vote. .We -go far beyond what Charles Edward Russell received as candidate for.,Governor last year, and^we did it in more unfavorable conditions.- ' . It is manifest, therefore; that, what we need to do is to go on and do more work. Slowly 'but irresistibly the Socialists are forging ahead. Nothing can stop "them naw, for they see the way to power, "---and they are evolving the means whereby they can achieve that power.—New York Call. publicly.^admltt^V'eyenV'.1 by 'journals}, .which, through* their: connections- and, circulation,;.haxe'be'en;used_as tools' to crush'the cause, of S)She. needy-and uphold the'claims of those who neither toil nor. spin, but\\alongc.with this ad-* mission there is the objectionable dictation or suggestion of the' kind of union that will meet with the masters' approval.'- "Surely in .vain the, Aet.is spread in the sight of any bird." -,, In a -general, way working men are, 'painfully -conscious of their educational limits, -but if in addition to the lack of opportunity the school masters and books have failed, tradition and experience haye'made their, impress.. When ih the past negotiations'have failed to adjust a' grievance and a strike "has followed, in almost every instance where the worker has 'been "defeated it has been chiefly through the lack of funds'and the existence of men who either from fear or. for favor have (betrayed their fellows and.the cause they were seeking to'establish,,and this very fact .is leading men'today to seek the strength' of .universal federation. IMuchhas been said in the -columns, of the press about the constitution of the United Mine Workers bf America, Its imaginary objectionable features have been delenlated and its leaders vilified, but from the infant to the man of hoary head it has opened its treaB-. ury and made reasonable provision for common necessities during the struggle. The' Interests of the workers, both ln prison and out of it, have been .the interest and concern of its, officials and their endeavors to prevent or alleviate suffering have proved them to bo men with human hearts blest with the common feelings of humanity. Oue vdry ' gratifying aspect of this strike is the solidarity of the miners. Persecution usually helps to spread the very cause which it seeks to destroy, and. the men and methods employed to crush the spirit of the strikers and torture their innocent dependents (in this instance) have unconsciously educated the* working population of Vancouver Island and given them an Impetus for service which we hope will eventually be'seen in the displacement of men of greed; graft and tyranny and the transformation of industrial, social and national life. . ' Yours truly, PRESS COMMITTEE, Local.2155, "U. M.'W. "of A. Nanaimo, B. C, Canada. : **.-*>-. Send yourRpw John Ha iiam 'SiitTThouMnd tttppen now tend u» theJi Raw.Fun. Wlyno«jou?..Wep»ykighMt ' pricu *nd cxpiew charges, charge Eft com- | raiuioa »nd tend money nmt it-j goods ue - received.- Millions of dollar* tre paid tr«p- '. pen each year. " Deal villi a reliable house. • We ate the largest itt om line m Canada. HALLAM'S TRAPPERS GUIDE French and English, A booV of 96 pages, fully illustrated. Came Laws revised to date—tells you how, when and where to trap, bait and traps to use, and .many other-valuable fseta concerning the Raw Ecr Industry, also our "Up-to-the- minute" fur quotations, a^nt' ABSOLUTELY FREE for the asking. Write to-day— .ddre.. JOHN HALLAM, Limited SftSSstV-TORONTO, AUSTRIAN PARTY ' MEMBERSHIP DECREASES (The roport of tha German section of the Austrian Socialist party lias just been issued, wliich shows a total of. 142,027 members, of whom 20,058 are women. 'Because of the great diversity ot races and languages in Austria, the party ls divided into language divisions Avith full harmony within their sphere. The German section is the largest, the membership being mainly in the principal industrial districts. The report shows a loss of 3,000 members since 1911. It is, thought this 'is chiefly due'to the Industrial depression arising out of -the .Balkan wars. A total of 120,000 young men Sunder 23 years of age, who should have entered the army, have emigrated from the country .during the past year. ■There is a law prohibiting, .women from belonging to any political organization, ibut a method of organizing them which the law cannot touch has been devised by the Socialists. The women have a paper which has a circulation of 27,000. COMMUNICATED FROM THE ISLAND. ISIS THEATRE BEST ALWAYS PICTURES CHANGED DAILY **W|lVW - -> ±4 The Death Stone of India Throo (Joi'KOOUH RuoIh. Tho story of this plcturo ccnlros about n luigo otnnrnld, tho Bncrod Wyo of Hud- dm, which han boon utolnn by n"hand of coolies. Tho high priest lays a curso upon tho atono ond pro- uini, wi.iiii ji^ ^ ^ ^* jb01 (11<| Affpr mnnv vpnra nti(J flftor rm,R)nR much calamity, tho stonn u"rp!urnoii In u'plmislng manner. -Thin picture Is full of tho mytulcism nnd occultism ol tno Urmia, a plcturo out of tho ordinary nnd ono worth wwlng. TWO REELS Special Monday "BRANDED FOR LIFE" B; the Itala Famous Feature Players TWO REELS I'.vi-ry program you mlw ftt Tho Ifllfl-you mlta Bomotlilng good. Six rcol» of |)Icture»wory nlRht, RUN HlflHT. A quantity of duality. I HWHfW', H IMltti ber of peaceful strikers standing about the mill gates. -They did not consider this a "riot" or a "near riot'.' and the strikers were not molested by the police. A company foreman was.heard to say, when he saw the strikers at the gate, "If we had them hunkies down in Madison (the town next to us with a good capitalist'Mayor),-they would-go back to work or the police would bust their damn heads." A few days later the strikers were granted the desired'increase. •La'st August the carpenters, machin. Ists and steamfittersnt the Corn Products Refinery (glucose), went out on strike and were allowed to do picket duty without police Interference. No strikebreakers wore able to get into the plant and in a few" days all of these men were granted 'the increase demanded, which was from 35 to 40 cents an hour, their union was recognized," tho wage scale ■ signed - and nil the men taken .buck without discrimination, And again: A strike of the telephone operators of the Boll Telephone Company wns started In St. Louis tho first of last .lune, when' somo of the girl operators wero discharged for belonging to the union. Tho strike spread to Oranllo City, whore,, thoro lp n branch oxchango of mat company, nnd tho local employes walked out on strike in nympathy with the St. Louis members of the union. A long and hit- tor fight ensued, Whilo tho St. Louis police woro-bolng used in ovory possible way to dofeat tho strikers, In Granite Oily the strikers wore permitted to .maintain such an effective pick- ot lino that tho local exchange was forced to close down and thq local manager Bought to mnko a aottlomont with tho strlkors, whilo In,St. Louis tho Holl officials oven refused to moot with a (lofhmtttoe of tho BtrlkorB. In othor respects tills Socialist administration has mndo moro or loss HticcoHsful 'attempts to fulfil Its plodg- oh, but ita notion in connoction with Uioho RtrlkoB Ib uiuiBiiully BuggpBtlve and has a unique valuo In tlio Socialist, cuuHi.',—Tho Party IJulldor. REAL ADVANCE It wiih woll dono nnd nil Invitation to moro work. LhhI. yonr .ChnrloH Kilwnrd HiibhoII, uh Oulmriiftlorlnl cmndliliitii, polled 20,**- <10i votflfl, "ThlB ynnr ns cnudlilato for Mayor hu rocolvwl over 32,000 votcn. LiiHt yonr ho fought undor tho moBt dlHiidviintngnouH conditions, TIiIh yonr tliey worn aggravated. In 1013 ovory .possible appeal was mndo to tho mechanic., to tho prpfon- Hionai mini nml tho IiubIiiohh miin to "piny wifH." Not oven In tlm groat ciimpiilgiiH of four and night yours ago worn llm nxpoHiiroi), bo-oiiIIoiI, of tx moro Htiirlllng nature. In thoso two (.-..:..- ;.'".'.-■ \\\\ ""I" ""tft," tlm rod IIfM .lWrlet,' brnRB choekfl, tho Ico Trust, In this ciunpiiimi it wui*. a \\UUwmI turn und tho appeal was on the wubIo of which Tnnvmiiny had beon guilty. Whilo priwloimly gruftlng figured largely, this tlmn It wns shown In a mm "but Impi'fBBlvo way how tho grafting IH IHllll'. l',Al'I,>l/Uu(1 *.viui\\i »t«, -ti. could think he hiiw, something that In- dlr-iited IiIh lining robbed. TduiH thu campaign rooolvod n material, not n "moral.r ImirIb. A mnn, whether working for a living txtn n factory cmployd, running u little bii»l- ne»B, ticlng a member of a iirofoB»lon, or llvini; nu liu'omo rtorlv'i'il fnnn tlm Invcntmrnt of thn monoy he managed fir*.. n»i. • ' 1. uv o:M tmiiU "o-the-"Euitor,—District-Eedgef! Sir,—So much has been" said and done in connection with the industrial strife in the.Nanaimo district that the wisdom 'of comment under existing circumstances may- well be questioned. But when we consider bur obligations to,the -past.the present and future, the highest claims must be responded to. Had the' population Sf Canada been large enough to work her natural resources of wealth, there would have been no need for her representatives to have gone beyond her own boundaries with thoir tempting baits to Induce Immigration, but because this was not so other,countries .have been flooded with agents and literature to present her apparent generous terms to tho unsuspecting worker, with the result that hundreds of families today are in the midst of undreamt-of conditions. Now, Sir, we contend that any government which nllowB advertising for this ■purpose should be hold responsible for the creation of conditions sufficiently favorable to mnko the highest- type of subject from n moral, social and intellectual standpoint, So far as, Individuals are concerned, -wo are uwaro that our conception a of life differ very much and yot the desire for .betterment throbs within iheibroastof every intelligent poi-Hon, Along with thlB native aspiration, environment and education are poworful factors ln the ■moulding of our Idens nnd when it is soon that a certain section or tho raco has, and doos, enjoy immense ndvan-' tngus abovo.the struggling majority and makes Iho moat determined of- fortB to solidify their position, Irrespective of ihe rights of tho -brother In ndvorslty, It Is no wonder thnt work- ing mon comlliiiio and look for flavloura amongst thoir own ranks. The efforts of concentrated, capitalism to.Biipprebs the progressive Btrlv- IngB ot tho mnsBOB Ib simply nntng- Ulug thoso who know Ub history and mission. Ab In the past, bo lu tho prosont, ovory stop In tho path of In- diiHtrliil nud Boclnl roform must bo fought for, No sooner Ib tho doctrine of htimnii rights declared thnn thobo who live on tho products of Ita violation nro up In nmiH against It. Illustrations nro common and up-to- duto to ahow how tho forco of government Ib used to execute judgment without mercy upon Kb advocator Kvciilu lu connection with this stnlko reinlnilH ono vory much of tho struggles nnd treatment of our fathoi-B for IniltiBlrlftl freedom through the medium of trailoB unionism, It Is true, In name roK'iioetH, wo nro In ndvnnco of tliolr curly conditions, hut It mny not bc too much to nay thoy paid tho price fpr tho luxuries wo enjoy In' tho way of flhortor hours nnd n higher rate of wagos, but whut has boon dono with Iho principle nnd systom for which thoy fought, Buffered and triumphed? Whoever expected that the flcon-CB of on-i'iM-i-M. i*ii\\ f.ln-M.. ».f>o-!"" i*"!* "mMld 1'P ro-ennctp.d under 'British fiile for thn a-cuvcry oi what, inun, in their in- Hftiir* rush for wealth, allowed to "lie fnken from thom? Esau's folly In boII- tug his birthright for a menu of pottngo tory. d'OBHOBBlons which Bhould have Iiiih oft buon mtieiitod lu human his- .ji-v.il m-m ,rtrji-u mui itniHiunm ub N'O'lmht's vineyard and handod down unsullied to the rightful heir havo been cnptiirod by the eovotoim and overreaching, nnd tlm Inhorltnnco of tho wronged ono hns boon made tho sporting ground or iho fortune hunter nnd oppressor. Aud horo the minors of Vaiii-ouvitr iHhind today nro contending wlHi tho powers that bo for the restitution of n ayntrm and thc operation uf n principle wliich will gimranteo them thnt degree or tirotectlon nnd Justice which they fori hom-stly -entitled to, The reasonableness of auch a demand Hhould bo apparent without nrgument, Th<» miners' right to organlie has b«<»*n McLean's Drug & Book Store) The Festive Season i^*. approaching J arid with it the demand for pre-y sents. We' are making a < special display this week?and we invite you to inspect our window and stock.. The very latest of authors will be found irt our stock of up-to-date fiction..;;"'. i WATCH OUR WINDOWS.'■: THEY WILL INTEREST YOU If you are wanting any jSqhool Books or | Stationery, look over our stock, Everything is there for the youngsters. Scribblers, Pencils, Erasers, Crayons, Drawing Sets, School Books. * . , l ■ McLean's* Drug & Book ===^^T======-- store==-= — I THE FERNIE PRESCRIPTION CHEMIST ft ■ i. jjjiMiiiriSIiMiH^^ Waltham Watches Our Prices are Right Compare thorn witli any catalog ; you will Hnd you can «avo monoy by buying at Liphardt'a, bosido having tho asuumnco that if anything goes wrong wo aro horo to mako it right. 7 Jewel Waltham Men's sire In nickel ease,.., 9B.50' 9) 1„.,,P| tx-lll. „... M.H.U „t-f l» nri t.f-A*. noM *»Mlfr» 9999 ifo rn 18 Jewel Waltham Men's size In 80 year oold filled ease 19.85 17 Jewsl Waltham Men's size in 20 year gold filled case 411.60 7 Jew«l Waltham Ladl«s' size In 25 year ca«« 912.00 » 16 Jewel A. C. Liphardt movement Ladles' alze In SO year ease $14.00 17 Jewel A. C. Liphardt movement Ladles' size In 126 year ease $16.00 17 Jewel A. C, Opnardt movement in acriid gold Hk case $24.00 Bracelet Watches In gold filled easts from .... 10.00 to $12.00 Bracelet Watches In Solid Oold eases from ... $26.00 to $36.00 A# vs* JL*1 tr oAJKU 1 JEWELLER and OPTICIAN w- !-.:■•." - - ■ mmy$A$* ^s*Si^wfStvi^^^^^Pi^M^^^mw^^^-' .*—*s*is«.1s.vjf;. THE DISTRICT- IfiDQEB;j-FEBNIE, B. C, NOVEMBER 22, 1913.' Af 0 :l^fg*!#$ G,**.. '« " , i .' a , ' - <*. \\ ■I^HH ^ \\ ^^..WW^^ "^^^m^m^tt^^ ^--^^H^^HE 4, ^^—^ ^^^^^ ^^^^*-^*-^ fc' By Inis H. Weed -*- -The following article appears in -" Pearson's ' Magazine :f or Deceni- 7-ber.. The management,claini that 7:.. owing' to. th"escconomical -mechan- . deal form> of production they are "able ,to' support' their magazine , solely by revenue obtained froni ,'tsale of-copies. ,. . '-1. \\ ' Whether -this is,so* or not, they ■•"haye certainly shown comhienda- ,ble courage,in attacking'the most ..;. powerful and insidious enemies of .the working cjass.' \\ ' Miss Weed is a brilliant young woman' w!ho can put into words tlie simple truth about the things I have made -a*' collection.' from the pressaqcounts of many strikes tho justice qfAv-hi-dil happen, to know, and I have, added to it "similar collections of others interested; in labor. A revieAv of some typical cases -shows, on which'side of the press scales the'^balance falls: • ;• ,.-; -y The- first -three' instances are from the collection made by Edwin AlsWorth Boss, Professor of Sociology in the "University of Wisconsin. • *. ; ,- In' a strike involving teamsters and department stores the mail or der houses did tlieir best to pro about the men, women and cliil- dren who work for,, a living, for many other'magazines. She knows the workers. She knows their troubles. She knows their masters. She knows their masters' servants. Here she has her first opportunity ' 'to 'tell the whole truth about the three principal servants of, the' kind of master wliich holds money holier than life' and health (somebody else's life and health, of cours.e)—A., hypocritical press, a timid "* church, a hostile court! . These are the three servants of greed which put,obstacles in the Way" of tlie millions of people who want something more than mere existence.- Here is the truth. No magazine that lives on advertising could print this kind of truth. But here it is—the .whole truth about your press,v your church, your courts, and their attitude toward people who work for a living. "Oh, God, our Father," prayed " Josephine Casey, voicing the cry ofthe troubled workers in a long drawn garment strike for a living wage: .'•:a "Oh, God, our Father, who art generous, who didst say 'ask arid ■ye shall receive,! we thy children humbly beseecli thee to grant"that we may. receive enough wages to clothe and feed our bodies, and just a little leisu're?- oh Dord, to, give, our, souls a chance to grow.' ■ •',' ''Our employer, who has plenty, has denied,our.' request;" He has . misused the law to help him crush -"'us, "but we appeal toJ3i£e'.Qur_G-od -_ and Father arid. - to thy, Laws, she sees". She has written articles j volte tlie strikers to violence by -i-—i -n - — ■- ' v" having the strike breakers drive a long line of wagons out of tlieir natural route past a' lot ou which ithe' strikers held their meetings. The police wore in readiness lo rush on .tlie scene. The Governor was' near, the telephone. The Strikers only folded their arms before this bait. The press refused to" print sworn testimony of this plot on tihe part of capital to discredit labor. During a strike1 of elevator men in tlie large stroes of this same city, the. business agent of the elevator starters' union was beaten to death in an alley behind a certain store by a "strong arm" man employed by the firm. This story, although it was supported by three- affidavits and given by lawyers of standing to three newspaper men, was never published-. 'In another strike when the men held their meetings on a vacant lot that had recently been enclosed by a new bill board the press distorted the truth by describing the bill board as a "stockade" behind which to defy authority. "The Telegraph Press' during the long, unsuccessful strike of the Kalam'azoo corset workers damned the movement in a variety of insidious ways. Worst of, all ths paper would not waken the public to the social service of these ,'girls who were fighting the- "great black plague against overwhelming odds, handicapped/as', they were -by .blanket injunctions that'forbade tbem lo do pretty much everything but ■ This'*'silence of the press does not contrast well with tlie courage of "Anna Beattie, a little Sunday School tea gli er, who Svas on strike. In "the teeth of a second injunction, she said, "I'ye no.more 'hesitancy in going on the picket.line and-warning those girls against the black plague than I'd have of ignoring a 'Keep' Off sign in a park where I saw. a. girl drowning." Take the attitude of the press during the five months' starvation staid made by 25,000 striking silk workers in Paterson, New Jersey. Most of'-the dailies seemed to desire only to discredit the strike. Quite aside from Whether the viarous, dailies disapprove tlie particular, labor organization in which the. workers enrolled, it would have beon fair of editors to note that this rallying to tho stan-. dard of tihe I. \\V, W. wa.j a reaction against tho failure of tho craft workers in tho American Federation of Labor to stand with thc'mnss of less skilled workors. Whilo itho police and hired thugs woro Arresting people in hordes, boating, clubbing, wounding unresisting mon, riding down crowds on -horseback, in tboir blind' fury dragging to jail pnss- crsby who lind nothing to do witli' I which "are stronger than the laws' ' made by'man." *. ' \\ " Oh/' Christ,"-Thou wk> didst . wait through the long night in,the Garden of Getliseni'ano'" for one of "thy-followers, who was to betray thee, who in agony for, us didst ' say to .thy disciple, 'Wilt thou not watch' one .hour with, me?' give , strength to thoso Who aire'now on picket duty, not to feel too bitterly when those who promised to . stand with us in otir struggles betray us.- .' "Oh, God, we pray theo, give to \\tho fathers and mothers of our strikers a chance to bring up tho'ir helpless little ones. "Thou who didst save Noah and his family, pnay'it please thee to save tho girls.now on strike from the wicked oity'.of Sodom. Oh help us to get a living wago. "Oh; Ijord, who, knowest tho sparrow's fall, wilt thou not help us to resist when the modern devil, who has chargo of our work, takes advantago of our poverty to lend us astray. Somotimos, oh Lord, it is hard. Hunger and cold are -torriblo things arid they mako lis wonk, Wo want to do right. Help us to bo strong. "Oh, God, we havo appealed to • tho ministers, wo have appealed to the public'and wc have appealed to the press. But if nil :-theso. fail us in our nood wo know that thou wilt not Jail us. "Grant that we may win this strike arid that Uio union may bo strong, so that wo may not nood (o cry often, Lord, 'deliver us from temptation.' "Wo risk this, Lord, for tlio sakos of tho little ohildron, holp- loss und suffering j for tlio girls wlio may somo day no mothers of .chjlrlron and for those girls who dislike sin, but aro forced into it through poverty. "Oh, Christ, who didst dio on tho cross, wo ask tjioo to forgive thoso wlio would crush us, for perhaps thoy do not know whnlt thoy nro doing. "All this wo ask In tho namo of tli* 1-v.vly ' crip cr.I **/'.> *uu. AMF.N." A hypocritical press, a timid church, a hostile court aro the throo usual obstacles to thoso industrial workers who have tlio imxxvujto fr» tXwtt*** ***9VC 0£ vfv< Whom do tho daily papers servo ? For ovor 20 years thoughtful pooplo hnvo boen pointing out that Dio ronl problems of our nation nro industrial rather than political. Does tho press "-put tho problems of labor squarely boforo ithe pnbllet protest voiced in.Italian bands playing softly, the music grieving/ Sobbing, yearning over their brother, one more tragic figure in the shrouded endless line forever added toby.the greed of men. In this town where the mill owners control absolutely the . police, the press and the courts, "The Paterson Press ".speaks-of this unprovoked murder as occurring "in a pitched battle." In a recent victorious garment strike of 200,000 garment workers in New York City, one found more recognition in the press of the justice of the workers' demands. "The World," "The Globe," and "The Times" gave relatively fair news. Still these and other great dailies told the public little of the unfairness of, police arid judges in dealing with the strikers. Most of the 100,000 workers in the women's garment industry are young girls making a heroic fight against long hours, irregular work, poor pay, high speeding, unsanitary shops, and competition with tenement house labor. For this the future * mothers were sworn at, clubbed, mauled, insulted, and "victimized with false testimony-by the police, the'hired thugs and "strong "arm" 'men Whom detective agencies draw from booze wrecks and the criminal class in the tenderloin. In desperation the Women's Trade Union League went before the Police Commissioner with typical cases of police .brutality, some, of which are given belo'w. "Case No. 4.—January 30,1913. Twelfth street and Fourth avenue. Three, girls followed a . strike breaker escorted by officer who said three different times, 'If you keep on following I'll shoot you.' When they, reached the strike breaker's house, 124 Tenth street, the officer pressed a pistol against the side of one of,the girls." ".Case- 7.—February 5, 1913; 5.30 p.m: Bickenfeld-and Strauss. West Broadway. Policeman 5204 arrested girl, then after arrest carried [her by neck and forced her to her. knees, and while on her knees, beat her with club." Hideous! But one finds little strike kept up and ten thousand dollars a week had to be raised to feed this a^iny, of-girls. Silence, there is no weapon more deadly. ."The Herald" ran the-strike news on such pages as 5, 7 and 9, while on .the front page one finds plenty of space given to burglary, divorce,' theft and gossip. Take 'the -issue of January 1st,. On the front page • are such ' titles" as "BROTHER ACCUSES SISTER IN WAR OVER COSTELLO ESTATE," "KISSES AND KILLS BRIDE AT MEETING OF/RECONCILIATION, '' ,MODERN BRIDE ASKS $10,000 INCOME " "BIG BATH TUB FOR MR TAFT." On page 5 we are told that "TIIE STRIKE JS NEAR, END EMPLOYERS ASSERT," and under that heading "Four Clothing Associations Unite to Maintain Open Shop, enthusiastic manufacturer calls it 'most important meeting ever held by man ufaeturers,' " Those daily papers which handle labor news as described in this article have burning editorials about their tireless watch over the people's interest. the strike and subjecting them to tho viloness of Paterson's filthy prison ponding trials complicated by tlio solf.jufltifying, false testimony of police nnd thugs, the hoadliucs of "Tlio Paterson Pross" educated its rondel's to boliovo that tlio strikers woro a violent, rio-tous inonaeo to ordinary safety. A typical bonding is "DIS*. ORDJWS MARK TODAY'S DO- INGS IN SILK STTITKK." Pro. bn-bly, but whoso? For pure travesty, can any daily outdo this heading,-"POLICE CALM PUTS STOP TO STRIKE TROUBLE"? Hero are tho stories of typical strike canes whioh show how the Ptcbs aldoa with tho employer re- gardloss of tho justico of his position, A hypocritical press, a timid church, a hostile court are the three obstacle! to those workers who have the courage to demand more return for their labor. Tako "Tho Paterson Press" -uvmiu-uia u)i iim iotiuwmg not ot Dm nbvusir'.iliil'.vuii ul Jaw and order. Hired detectives camo out of a saloon, flushed with drinking, bogan swinging thoir clubs right and loft and shooting at tho strlk- v.irt, uiu.v hiioi, mm tomm luwwiiil- ly Valentino Modestipo wlio had no connection with tho strike and was Rimply standing on tho porch of his house with ono of his children in his opus. Tho offoct of tlifl shn^k ifiMirly dmil.iM tlm trng- •ody iivthis lioiuoliold, for tho mur- doml man's wife nearly died from premature labor brought <»n by her lm«band's doath. ' Tho working peoplo of tlio city Hooked to Modestino's funornl. Thouawls followed his body lo (t!i« .grow?, marching silently, their Tiroresn;~ipr'tiiT^rft"^'llie^feRs even when matters are brought to 'such a dramatic issue. The only paper in which I found printed the cases was "The Daily People, ",a small organ of the Socialist Labor Party. Yet, when the police, in compliance with Mayor Gaynor's order lo close Healy's Restaurant after 1 o'clock, dragged out'bodily a few respectable diners, there was im uproar in all the papers about the lurufality of the police. Then, the shoe was on the other foot. In going over the files of "Tjie Sun," I find misleading headlines and no'_ account of caiises justifying the revolt of. the garment workers, no mention of police brutality, and-long silences during weeks of waiting and strain as thc '■ Of the papers, printed in English, only in "The Call" and "The Daily People" (both Socialist papers) did I find reproduced the same sense that I, as a spectator, gained of the growing world consciousness of labor as there marched -past 100,000 garment workers of all nations, Jews, Russians, Germans, Roumanians, Bulgarians, Lithuanians, Poles, Spaniards, Hungarians. Americans, .Assyrians. On the packed, sidewalks I saw here ancl there spectators paying no heed to the tears on their cheeks, so grippe'd were they by the grim slow tragedy of that endless line of the old, the young, the stunted and worn, their faces, many'of them, pinched by the underfeeding of a lifetime. The silence of the press in the face of such great human struggles-explains the rapid growth of over 200 radical papers, of "The Appeal, to Reason,'' with its more than 500.000 cireuiotion^jin^Jlu claily"*f V orwarts,' '^\\vith its more than 1.000,000 circulation. Many such papers die from too meagre "ad" columns, still they are the forerunners of a press that must be just as public us parks and playgrounds. 'Our dailies whose labor news 1 hanT been characterizing have burning editorials about their zealous tireless watch over thc interests of the people. ° They all tell about the wickedness of many in high places and of vigorous effort to elevate our politics and public morals. Why, then, do tlie dailies, Judas-like, betray the faith of the people, born of the Horace Greeley •tradition that the function of the press is the dissemination of truth about current affairs?" Edward !Alsworth%Ross has given us our best analysis of the apos- J tasy of the daily papers, which he shows' is caused by economic developments. " , Mr. Ross says that the importance to the daily press of advertising may be gauged by tlie fact that Whereas'-thirty years ago it paid 50 per cent of the expense of running a newspaper business, today it pays 60 to 90 per cent of the cost. This explains how-the- daily paper lias been able to swell in bulk from S to 16 pages, how the price of papers could be dropped from 3 cents to 1 cent. Also this shows why big advertisers enjoy such immunity from -attack liy (he press and such a power of censorship on the news. The fact, too, that a press plant is a paying property, something detachable to be1 bought and sold, inevitably subordinates it to other interests. Mr. Ross tells howson the desk of every editor and subeditor of a paper run by a capitalist promoter Avho eventually fell under prison sentence were found a list of sixteen corporations to be respected. They were spoken of in the office as "the sacred cows.'' To the apostasy of fhe-press should be added the strangle-hold of the0"A. P.," the "Associated Press," and< Mr. Hearst's news service on which thousands of dailies depend for"their general news. The fierce grip of these octopi is being illustrated by the struggle of Otto C. Lightner to run the only 1 cent paper in Cincinnati. John R. McLean has for years eon- trolled the news service of that city and compelled the citizens to pajr 5 cents for "The Cincinnati Enquirer." On the appearance of the clean, dignified "Cincinnati American" for 1 cent, he called the gods" to witness, financial gods you understand. Bing! ite news service was cut. The old editor, had the new one by the throat. But the townspeople, Avere awaker Even^wnen; without a line of wire service, the paper was forced from 10 to 4 pages, thc circulation remained Ithe—same. • t—. No sooner had the. cars begun running than news packages placed "on care to be taken to various points in the suburbs of tbe city were carried away. Their newsboys 'have been beaten and obstructed, tlieir carriers bought up or scared off their routes; but the comfortable as well as the poor continue to demand "The Cincinnati American." It is a good omen. Eventually the sleeping middle class in other cities may come, to see the apostasy of our present press as .clearly as do those increasing millions whose grim struggle with life is never told. Now, remember, wherever you live, the attitude of your press is the altitude of the press de-\\ scribed 'here. Remember that. The newspapers which tell you the truth when capital and labor conflict are mighty few and far between. ' 0-> Whom do the courts serve, capital or labor? As a result of sitting many hours in the courts where the poor get such short shrift, there often passes through my mind a symbolic picture very like this. \\ Before a row 6f judges, most of .„„.,,.„. Ui6hilxiiu'. cunuiry gar- them blind," pass two lines of la- ments to go with eighteenth cen- bor: to the right a thin line of! tury minds, minds that have tight- .1 ' ' ■*■» * across the .desert, sweeping over the prairies on his iron horse, passes out of the door of justice and I meet him on the street next day, head bent, peddling shoe-strings. That symbolic picture is based on fact. Our judges, like those in England, have blindly impeded the millions' of workers emerging into a consciousness of their right to demand justice. Workers, half a million a year, are sacrificed, body and blood, arms, legs, eyes, hands, a ghastly slaughter under the Moloch of legal precedent. To be sure,' Congress has stepped in and abrogated the harshness of this court rule for all employes engaged in interstate commerce, but that in no way helps "the case against the judges. Likewise some states have replaced ,( these court-made rules by statutes providing workmen's compensation, but all too frequently they are operated for the employer's benefit. What-, is $500 , for in: stanfcc, by Way of compensation for total disablement? How fitting it is that our highest judges should wear fusty gowns! Eighteenth century gar- •.fcv 1 The apostasy of the Press is largely due to the advertising which pays from 60 to 90 per cent of a daily paper's cost and to tbe strangle-hold of the "A-. P." " The power of the press to quicken tho public understanding of labor troubles is also woll illustrated by Mr. Lightner. At thc beginning of his daily, Cincinnati was in the throes of a righteous and violont street car strike. The,flam- ing editorials in "Tlie Cincinnati American" were wfyat carried the strikers to victory,. say thc men who have sworn to" "get" this daily. Together with John R. McLean they mean to kill the only 1-ecnt morning paper in tho Ohio valley. |3rasjaia,i5,5fa,s,Ma^^ 'aJBMfflHSIMMSJSISJMffllSm Fernie Industrial & Provident Co-operative SOCIETY, LIMITED Profit, Loss & Trading Account " Four Months Ending September 30th, 1913 Stock on hand Juno 1st Juno purchases July purchases August purchase*. September purchases .. TRADING ACCOUNT $ 7547:07 61)85.75 0755.54 7150.53 5680.08 •luno'snles ; jji 0771. -i!) JnIy "Hies 7000,05 Gross profit * 53G8..18 August sales September sales ••,••••* Stock on hand September 30th 07 8227/; 8712.12 7840.8i» ♦30452.1!) $30452.10 Exponso Account— Interest on Capital. 4 100.GO Stablo Maintonanco 220,711 Insurance written off 75.24 Plant depreciation .. 50.49 Furniluro aud fixture depreciation , 75.80 Audit foos 28.00 item, taiuiu'ies and tiuueiries ....... 3118.57 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT DiHWMintH en mod t » i t i * 41,280.25 Profit and Ions, net profit $3084.43 1004.00 Jf-oMtM'.J flross profit 53G8.18 $5(148.43 Prom the not profit the store will pay a 5 percent dividend on all purchases for the four months ending Sopt. 30th, to all having monies Invosted as Capital with thc society. WATCH THIS SPACE NEXT WEEK i* people coming singly, the 'maimed, the widowed, the halt and the blind, asking compensation for their sufferings—they are" very great; to the left a line of people passing'in groups, bearing union banners pointing to the futile appeals of that other endless line of beings half a million a year, only 10 per cent of whom ever receive even a niggardly compensation, and protesting the union right to stop that awful human sacrifice to industry. Policemen beat and club them as they march. Their leaders are torn from the group, tried, fined ancl swallowed, up in the prisons. Still the line inarches on with growing solidarity. In the thin line at the right each figure halts before the judge and makes an appeal. "See," says one man, holding up his arms from which his hands hang limply, "my hands are paralyzed -from—working—in-a—white- lead shopN J can never .work again. I am still young but my employer has "had my all." Can you not get him to help me? He did not safeguard my health." , "You did not have'to go-there to work," replies the blind judge sternly. . ' ' "But you misunderstand," continues the workman piteously. ".Very few industries aro safeguarded and there arc millions of use who must work." "You assumed the risk," stubbornly reiterated the judge, and dismisses the man. The judges who can sec protest, bul the blind ones—-there are more. of them— have their way. Another worker' takes thc poisoned man's place, a man whose sight is gone from an explosion, a widow with five young, children, hei' husband crushed while coupling cars, a man with his right arm mangled in a machine, a woman •whoso hair and Kcalp have been partly torn off by unguarded machinery, a girl who has tuberculosis from weaving prints dyed with indigo, a woman -scarred into a hideous wreck by a needless factory fire. "You assumed tlio risk," is tho monotonous verdict of tlio blind judges, Thou there hobbles up a youngish man, his left, log a stump, his right nrin gone, Uo hns been a responsible railway unginoor whoso train hns boon wmckod by faulty aeliyn on the pari nf tho engine. "-Han't the railway compnny help mu instead of! watering tho stook soma more?" he appeals, "Thoy'vo had my life." I. And our courts; how fitting it is that our judgos should woar fusty gowns—-thoy fit minds whioh havo shrunk to boliovo precedent ls justioe. "Why, my man, it's not the company's fault," replies the judge, "Tho hlniun rests on your follow servant, iho mechanic iu the shop who did not send the engine .out in perfect order." "I'l ill ,vutt tic Il'l* llluil'lhlUIK-i, interjm'-f-'; lb(.' ru^hit-i; <^*-.t;.w ruU- ly. "The iiiiichincry on that road is vory old. No mwlianii' civx mako it perfect." "Kvcn so, you assumed 111'1 *,.:..i. »» ened and shrunk under the theory that "law is based on certain principles or precedent that are eternal and immutable." Over their proceedings these judges keep the veil of "veneration for judicial mystery" by contempt of court proceedings. As a result they cut themselves off from salutary criticism and make the conditions for mental ossificatioii almost perfect. Not that there aren't some judges who come out of the process alive at the top. There are. They are the protesting rjiinority. To this mental - background of our United States judiciary, must, be added tlieir social and business background that makes them "habitually think in terms of the rich and powerful." While we sleep most, of our judges are appointed by "the interests." • By so doing the capitalists have built up a judicial oligarchy, with power Tho blind judgo lias him oitlii>r way. Tliero is a lifo lime bofoiv. tlio mon, children dependent on bim, yot tho railway has suddenly reduced him lo a cipher—worst', a burdnn, ]Hs fn,,o xynrla JiomMv for a moment. Thon ho hronkx down nnd xvoonn lil; tint '. - "STTcir as no European ruler can boast. , So it is that employers have lieen able to block the course bf justice to tlie working classes."' Our blind judges—they are blind, blinded'by the curse of precedent and -class — have- their minds fixed on two laws of the dead 7)ast, Back in 3837 an English workman dared to sue his master, the butcher, for sending him out-in an unsafe delivery cart tliat broke down and injured his leg. The everyday men on the jury listening to his story felt tha justice of complaint and awarded him in" hundred pounds., The judge was wroth and set this verdict aside. Prom' tliis decision has been welded two dreadful instruments, first, that a servant or employe must bc held, when he enters the employ of another, to have assumed the usual risks of snrih employment, and second, that thc master is not liable for damage to one servant or employe unused by tho negligence of a fellow servant or omploye. . To this 18th century mental background of our judiciary is added tboir social and business background which mado them think in torms of tho "rich," Thoso weapons lire in the hands nf judges who by their training und their sources of promotion in lifo vonio to bclii'vc the employer anatoinienlly different from other men. Their ninxim for tho om- ploycr might bc lhat of "William Haywood^, Um labor loader, "His heart is in his pocket book. Slick him there and ho will blued to denlli." So, with I heno two weapons thu courts have always pro- fecipd tho employer's vital 'centre. They lm vn saved untold wealth to the capitalist class and let them slmighler and pauperize half n million a yoa? of workmen, their wives and children. Our courts have used tlio due. trine of Unit ease, ns Mr. Hoc points out to "control and decide cases differing from it in their PlictH iik nnieh im the -wtmnlo lmt- cIiov'h curt. . , . tliffotx from the modern lee-panked refrigerator ear . . . ." Today the machine dominates the man instead of tho man's dominating iho machine, Onr jndtres fail If take into ne- count tlio fart of the inability of the worker to control his condition of safety, the accidents and di- HfitHc due to the speed maiiilallied, iiiiHimilarv shopH, ii11«t tlm fatigue fr-nin long hours1. Abovo nil, the ii.uiU ', . ''^.'* ;.'-J-J l.-J* * A,*.* '.'-*v?..**--.''-=£ >S"-> -«.,', -^-.-.xft -J*"-*^.*. >- *-. *-*... ^^:*|^/yi *-'-. .-< v*-..; -.^-C- *.--.* -~r-f. ---*. ::.j ^PAQEFOUBff?H^:5^ v- ■/.'^^CT! J>I re 94?9-.ll' '^ffg^- BlITB*-V.l»$?*rttf*TA vsmimstew. XHI»J.M,MMll(■ii\\u''lTOi'.Vji*W»tti .m]*_i*».*-Hf i^f...... r.i.i^jiiniw"n>*" ■■ !^Su£*iKag£^SEK$S^^&£a£( l»M'»-' Pi ii . !' M l'i The Daggers of Indigestion < You simply can't ho well—that Is, really well—if your digestion ia bad, fqr your very food may poison you unless it is digested. That is why indigestion (imperfect digestion) is the root causo of nearly all our minor ailments and of many serious ones too. Food should .nourish your body, and make .good the daily waste which never stops, but dt can't do that unless your stomach digests it. No wonder dyspeptic men and women are always weak and ailing—they're starved and often poisoned too. Starved, mind you, not for lack of food, but because they don't digest the food they eat. Poisoned, .not by eating bad food, but because stomachs are weak and their :PIS*MCffiaDQEB^^ ■——-—■ —"■ * " ' '- ■ _^ . -. J,* 'Av^:%i (Continuedyfrom Page Three) yAfx. ■' Yoa tUmniurv'-Ahaii-htHnrinailSitii: StivAaA *-*nli«t have passed clear, definite laws to protect labor. But only to. discover that j while'.,.we had been sleeping most" of our judges had been appointed by the interests. By so doing the capitalists have-built up a' judiciary "oligarchy with power' such as ■ no European ruler can boast. The employers bring a test case into court. If tliey lose through the jury "tlie interests" keep on appealing to higher and higher courts till they get the new bowels Inactive, and so the food they|ja° declared'unconstitutional eat ferments and gives.off poisonous gases which are carried by the blood stream to every part -of the body, it bocauso Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup possesses in a remarkable decree the power to tone, strengthen and regulate the action of tho digestive organs—the stomach, liver and bowels —that it is still, after forty years testing, tho best known and most ■successful remedy for indigestion, constipation, biliousness and tho many distressing ailments which aro traceable to a weak or disordered condition oC these 'important organs. Success breeds Imitators, and 'there are many so-called substitutes for Mother Selgels Curative Syrup, but none of them contain the combination of more than ten herbal extracts upon which the res- , torativo and ouratlve valuo of Motnrr , Seigel's Curative Syrup defends. u ' you suffer from indigestion, and wisn to give Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup a trial, bc sure you get the genuine ■article. . Price $1.00. Trial size 50c. For sale by McLEAN DRUG AND BOOK CO. FERNIE, B. C. 1.22 RIFLE Rifles J Shotguns Ammunition Only High. Grade _keptJn_sj.oj£k_S_a_ti_s^ factionjGuaranteed. J. D. QUAIL Hardware Furniture , [Fertile, B. C. Mr. Gilbert Roe, one .of New York's distinguished lawyers, has, in "Our. Judicial Oligarchy," outlined this steal of the legislative functions by our judges. First, they usurped the power to declare some statutes invalid because unconstitutional. Kine! Very useful to the interests ! And wc have slept through it! Then, illustrating the story of the camel about "jus' lemme get my nose in, jus' lemme get. my head in," till he took possession of the tent, the judges went still fur-, ther and declared "other statutes invalid merely because they disapproved the policy of such legislation." Fine! Still more useful to the interests! And we have slept throught it! ..Our judges took that old clause of the "Fourteenth Amendment" about not depriving any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, and worked it hard. This statute, meant to protect our most helpless class of workers, the negroes, was stretched to cover .every sort of trust and corporation, every sort of contact and practice. So interpreted, the judiciary have used this amendment to mow down crop after crop of labor laws enacted by the 'people in different states to compensate workmen for their injuries, to protect little children from exploitation, to shorten the horn's of labor, to provide sanitary shops, and to recognize the right of workmen to bargain collectively and to strike,effectively, i.e.. to picket. Meanwhile, the public, though it has heard the wails of small business men as they wore swallowed by the court protected trusts, does not realize that these -workers' in industry must organize to save iary with1 capital, and the, blind lengths they will go to protect' it. . During the woolen strike in Lawrence and the silk strike of 25,000 workers in Paterson, anarchy reigned under the f orin' „of law. For the inidividual striker, records Mr. R. W. Child, justice ran pretty much .like, this: . Case 1, Shaim and Futehi: . Officer—-''Coming, into court this morning with Officer Riley •these two men were in a, large crowd. Every time they would make a movement it"would excite tiie crowd. We ' gave them' a' chance to go home."' One of the defendants—"I was going along with six. other men. The policeman said: 'Get a move on.' T said:'Yes I will.'" Guilty, $10,00. "■ , ■ •' . - When the Lawrence strikers tried to send their starving children to be cared for by workers in New York City, the militia, the police and the court asserted their right to'prevent this. The workmen were subjected to a Cossacn orgy at° the railway station. In 1 he face of all constitutional rights the judge thundered his defiance: "If these people wish to send their children out of Lawrence, let them come here, let them prepare lists and obtain consent." Russia indeed! ' '. For sheer numbers arrested Paterson with its 1,000 arrests and 500 convictions outranks Lawrence. Employers had all the forces of law and order turned on labor. They got Patrick Quinlan, a Socialist speaker, condemned on trumped-up police evidence for "inciting to assault" and sentenced hint for from two to seven years of hard labor. 'Alexander Scott, the editor of a Socialist paper, tliey got sentenced to from 1 to 15 years of liard labor for "hostility and opposition to the government" because he' criticized the brutality of the police. This is most dangerous because thc decision, unless reversed in the court of appeals, will be used as a precedent to curb the right of free speech. We are waking up to the needless waste of life in, business; many States have new laws to protect labor; but this article shows how judges construe them. ing,'A even ;fostracism , from'"-the House Of ;Go.d,\\has been the usual reaction£pi ourv clergy toward strikers,';.. It-is'true that, through the Federationof' Churches, -certain Men; of God.begin innocently to espouse in- long range, button- ed-up-behind fashion ca few economic reforms such as the minimum wage, instigated .by employers as a spp.to ward off coming strides. Occasionally,- too, one hears of the Ministers' Alliance asking for arbitration ih" a strike. Here ancl there one' finds the independent man of vision in tbe pulpit with understanding, and,' above all-T courage to thunder from the altar, denouncing tho blindness and greed of the employer who never sees our human interests involved behind the pa/ment of dividends. But these instances are few and hard to find. 1 am speaking of the general attitude of ministers. Go among the workers themselves, and you will hear tale after tale of bitterness aud disillusion about the pastors with their frowns for church members who take part in strikes, their shortsighted talk about the rewards of honesty and industry, their damnable, body-destroying advice about contentment with one's lot because ofthe reward awaiting up in Heaven. And the Church; how far it is from real religion? It made a little Italian girl say: "I like I. W. ti. better than God. God be no talka for me like I.W.W." KING'S HOTEL Oar supplied with tho best Wines, Liquors and Cigar-fi j "- DINING ROOM IN CONNECTION W. MILLS, Prop THE 0. K. SHOE SHOP Fernie, B. C. Cash Prices Men'e Half Soles, nailed on 85c pair Men's Heelii nailed on 40o pair Women's Half 8olea, nailed on 60o pair Women's Heeli, nailed on 25c pair Women's Rubber Heels 50c pair Men's Rubber Heels.. 65c pair Tbo abovo fluuroH aro for vory focst work nntl material, Fluuro It out and boo If It won't pay you to patronise) tlio O, K, Shop. Wm. Thompson Proprietor in Mr. J. Cartlidge Teacher of Piano and Organ Specialist In Tuning & Pianola Works Apply for terns to BOX 538 or House No. 21, Wood St body and so~ul. Only, by solidarity can they win bodily joy and well being. Against their collective action the courts have a variety of. weapons in their arsenal. Labor organization they hamper with the charge of "conspiracy." Strikes they divide into two classes, lawful and unlawful "Strikes arc declared unlawful sometimes because of their object, sometimes because of the means employed." The decision depends largely on the caprice of the judge. From the way judges protect employers, they must think with a labor leader—"their hearts ore in their pockets, stick them there and they will bleed to death," Picketing may be judged "unlawful.1 ' When it is not, there arc other iWays of "beating Ihe gamo." Our judges do not hgo that the right to strike involves tho right to picket. They give a pound of flesh, but allow not one drop of blood., Now, tho strike is of no use to workmen if thoir jobs may bo taken at once by other workmen, It is absolutely necessary to explain to the now mon the conditions against which the strike is a protest, When tlio strike is in progress the employer watches for disorder. If necessary, ho may hire a thug to provoke lliu striker to violence, Then ho rush oh to tho court house nnd secures from the judge nn injunction ngalnst picketing, any vi- olntion of wliich enables tho judgo to sentence the leaders, often with* out a jury trial. (A pertinent inquiry of the lnbor organization at this point is, why not dopond on the criminal law in the ense of n strike ns in all cases, to punish any breach of the peace or othor violence T) In a state that hns followed the English precedent that peaceful picketing is legal, nnd Whoro the injunction has been done away with, tho employer Rots the sympathetic judgo to cripple the strlko by arresting pickets for "obstructing tho traffic," .calling "ocnb" nnd "•thnmc" or fnr ovon speaking lo atriko breakers, when thoy nro unwilling (ns n violation of tho law that gives passers-by on tho atreet.tho right to bc unmolested). Of courso strike break- otn need to bn argued with against tlieir will or they wouldn't bc "scabbing" on tho strikers. Speakers and rndical editors are jailed on thc grounds of "inciting riot" or going against the government.. Tlmn if tin* police, or "-4room nnn" men kill a striker or n Htl- yen tlm indue* Imvu ih*' Uliur leaders for "inciting to inniiMltiugh- trr." A review of some ic-i'iit legal proceedings ngalnst sirikcs illus- j trait1* the sympathy «i our judic- Is it any wonder" tbat after inonths7"Oi unjust-1 mpnsonment- awaiting trials on trumped-up charges the prison'door swings tq let. out men more determined than ever to create tlieir own system of justice ? Why is it, the judges cannot see they are fanning the very flames tliey try to stamp out? Such are thc blind lengths to which our judicial oligarchy lia^e travelled. They will continue on this road until either the people or the unions make it more expensive to kill n worker than to protect, him. As yet these judges will not brook criticism, but brook it they must as fast as the people wake up to the fact that these judges are legislators aud therefore no more sacred than members of Congress. Already tho public asks, nnd ono state has decided, that thc recall of judges is a social necessity. What indeed, oan you do with a judgo appointed for life by the "interests'-'? Whom does the church serve, capital or labor? It is significant of our times that Josephine Casey's prayer, published nnd republished nround the world, was not made in the pulpit of some dim church, its shadows warmed by the glow of stained glnss, its vaulted arches trombljng with fnint, sweetly troubled music. It was inevitable that this prayer for tho weltering millions should find birth In n dingy, crowded labor hull, abovo n shop in n downtown district, It, wns a hall whoso luird wnlls were hung with framed charters oT various union locnls, linkers', street enr workers', electricians', brloklny- ers', a boll tlint stood in tho din of traffic, tlm rumble of trucks, tho squeal of trolleys rounding corners, tlm lioarsc shouts of drivers, nnd the calls of newsboys. Kcligion, faith, docs great good in the world of men. But tlmt nian-niado institution, tho church, iu how fnr does It help tlio nrmy of industry to become "spiritually organised "f Ik the minister of your church following tho precepts of Jesus Christ—the precepts of religion? Or, is he kowtowing to tho expo. (Money of the richest members of your congregation! think that over. Think it over. Answer to that thing within yourself which you cannot deceive, to which you cannot lie. Religion and tho church have been lino grctucsi lac- tor for the world's good; but the church cnn do mnny limes more right now thnn it hns ever done if its ministers will only follow tho teachings of God's Son rather than accept, uucon8."fnindy, thc dl- rectlon of men who, having more money now than they can u:»c. yet sro willing nnd trying <«» amass greater piles, c*en nl the expense of the Ilws snd hcnlth of millions of human brings. Dittpprobtlion, miwind* rstantl- In proof, .take the following experiences of labor, they are typical of, thousands to" be heard if you will but take the trouble to inquire: During the strike in the Kalamazoo Corset Factory that manufactures the American Lady corset, where young girls have been making a heroic, long-drawn, starvation stand for a living wage and sanitary conditions in a shop where infectious venereal' disease was rife, one of the girls met ber pastor on. the street. He adjured her to' be patient and to try to think of her employer as a Christian. ' When one considered the heroism of the girl and the minister's blind.respect for the established order, of things, is it any wonder the girl was moved'to reply: "Oh, yes, I think ,,he's : a Christia"irall-Tightr-HeJd-feed-us- o'n five loaves and' two fishes if he-could!." ' • The pastor of the Dutch girls in this same, struggle warned his flock from the vpulpit: "It- is wrong to .join the union," and expelled one of the girls who had developed a beautiful spirit of leadership in the strike. The Catholic priest, under whose charge some of these-striking garment workers came, attempted to use the authority of his position to get them to go back into this unsanitary shop with its less thnn living wage for young girls. * . • It is true that the ■Ministers' Alliance, when appealed, to, waited upon the manufacturer. Upon his reply, "Nothing to arbitrate, gentlemen," thc clergy felt helpless. They decided "to advise tho press to, be accurate" with a naivete that causes one to smile.- The great service they might have performed of preaching from their pulpits on the moral issue of the strike, tliat, with one or .two exceptions, they wero not prepared.to do. In the Lawrence woolen strike tho clergy co-operatod with the town authorities and the manufacturers in a fight which has caus- ed the thinking peoplo of tlio nation to point the finger of scorn at them. . During the silk strike in Paterson a Man of God visited the pris- on crowded liko a rabbit-hutch with workors, Whon ho asked tho womon -if they would liko him to preach to them on Sundny thoy said shortly, n'o, if they had any. one thoy would sonil for Pastor Galloway, who wns on their side in tho strike. He looked at 7 young girls, 10 and 17 yenrs of nge, who hnd boon put in jail for no reason at all, ns was the fashion with tho Paterson authorities: "It's a shame lo soo nil you pretty girls in jail," ho re- marked, softening for a moment, "Wi'll, get ur out* then," wns their practical retort. "Thnt I cannot do." "No; but you cnn always go against us." "We must pray," was \\m reply. Did".;he ;sharey his vgopldv;.f6od that someone"sent' to'bimf jii^thO' prison h. "NoJ ^ That -isiwhat'y-our- leaders!.are'.like !'■*!'■%'.;'-,'--' : •"".'■'".' ';V.- "It'sVa-lie;" blazed one 'of ,'the girls. .''My. brother, was in prison w'rth him-.,- He sent nie,a post card on wliich lie wTote'thatTresea'had shared'.iiis-food with him,", y.y . '' Yes jiarid my-cousin, was' there, too,", flashed, another,, girl. "He told me "about it. -'Tresca shared his food with-six.'' /,;' ' ^ ..." _ \\ All of which does,riot tend to create an attitude of respect- fqr the church on the part of the strikers. . ' ' ■- , .,'"'.. ' - .' ' . ' '-J' '"' ' Is the minister of your church following the precepts of religion? Or is he kowtowing to the expediency of the richest members of your congregation?, All these' instances help us to understand why a little Italian girl of 15, working under the contract system and with an injured skull for which she-,has had no recompense, after telling how the priest scolded her at confession for presuming to strike, added thoughtfully: "I like I. W. Wi better than God. God he no talka for mo.like I. AV. W.'.'" She had much the air of saying: ."God is a very nice gentleman, but after ■all he's,a good deal of a Bystander." Is it any wonder that Theresa feels so when she, thc victim of a vicious system against which all her young strength and intelligence protests, meets only opposition on the part of the church? Leo Oppenheimer,' the paster of the richest Jewish church in New Jersey, lost his position when he stood against the silkmanufactur- ers in his congregation and urged the justice of their workers' demands. l - Most, ministers, do not care to run the risk of offending the conservative members of the church. Is it for this reason'that minister after minister has occupied the pulpit .in one of the richest Episcopal churches in New York City. and' not preached against the source of its revenues part of which were derived from the rental of buildings, Unsanitary, unfit for human habitation, and parts of them given over to -prostitution ? While congregations, through the force of cxistom, accept exhortation on the conventional evils of- "wine, woman and song," they still have the old American atti- tude,oLeverALmaiiJo_^imself,jind, that a man's business is his business. It hasn't dawned on them that a man's seemingly legitimate business may also be theirs if it is a,menace to the community. Thousands of earnest Christians do not see that when they wear clothing that has' the wages of prostitution) stitched into its very seams and button holes they are helping to recruit girls into the ranks of prostitution. In' the pearl-button strike' in Town, where the church women were in the'habit of getting cheap work from the button factory to do at 'tlieir meetings and thereby help meet the church expenses, these good womon did not see that they were "scabbing" on young girls who were fighting for tho conditions in which thoy might' also' lead decent, Christian lives. Whilo few ministers have the courage to,do this, fow havo the necessary understanding of our modern devil. Tho ministry; like some other professions, has boen so specialized and so isolated as to bo divorced from the industrial- problems of our time, practical contact with which gives social workers their deep conviction thnt people's general mornlity deporfds first of all on a living wago. - An obvious proof of tho church's failure to grasp tliis fact in time is that thc grout mass of workfolk have ttirncd from the church to unions and fraternal organizations. It is in tho labor organizations thoy find, au understanding of thoir problems, tho ugly facts of economic, lifo with which tliQy must contend to keep from being reduced to the beast. That is ono groat reason why tho incronso ■ in church membership each year lags further behind tho increase in population. That is why tho working pooplo worship the labor lenders. It is they, not tho ministers who are holping them to become "spiritually organized." That is why one finds such acts of devotion ns Kalamazoo witnessed when Josephine Casey, thc leader of the corset Rtrike, wns sentenced to prison for testing the legality of a wholesale in- 'gree^but v;^en>:3rou,r read vthe -facts in;the artiofej-^at1 other aij- 'swer is'tfiere? fVif J" ?$,&A-$:JyM-\\ -y';;- : -' AAA*~Ap,?•■■$: "Cy- X;\\' ^.To many it-intxst'.s'eem-a bolcVas-^ sertiori to, say;'thatfthe- cl'ergyjbf the country- .arertheiservaiitsv;of capital, the1 "moral support of Ahe nianufaeturers""and the capitalistic interests, yet wb'en'the-'experience of the working'peopleOwitli the. church, is taken-as evidence*;, what'■ other answer,-is Ihere ?- ,„ , .■„■ ■; . Much, is: wrong'in/th'e,'United States that should be-right.' .-,*;> „We have bad aperiod of "good- andrbadrriaari^.^agitation.-' "''Uncle Joo' is to'1 blame!"-- "Morgan is to blameK":''.'To the pillory with Rockefeller!" Biit the. fault is much .greater, than.that;''*'-''. A, Today we are attacking collective capital with, its Mulhalls.for seizing all our - institutions*,*'and through every avenue of publicity, the church, the,press, the judiciary, thfowing'dust in the eyes of the people. But the fault is much greater." • ' . ■ V_v ' We, the Sleepers, are to blame. ,We have to go through a-period of being pounded on the nose until we are made to realize our responsibility. Until "then"the churnA, tlie press and the .judiciary will be the potent servant's of Great Greed; ... ,Now must we be too slow in waking, for the longer we delay evolution, the longer we let the power of modern industry cripple and crush and kill, undereducale, underfeed "and fill with hate,the army of industry under\\: whose banners millions march, tlie wider revolution gapes. ' , . ft -.' "CAPITAL" APPEARS IN FINNISH ITho first Installation of Karl Marx's ^.Capital" has just appeared ln the Finnish language. Two years ago the Finnish 'parliament appropriated1 110.000 for the purpose of translating the book. ■Similar appropriations are frequent in Finland. The work is being published In Installments by "Tyom- ios," the Socialist paper of Helsing- fors, Finland. 'Are your hands chapped) cracked or sore ? Have, you " coid cracks " which'open and,bleed when the skin U' drawn tight?/, Have, yoV a cold sore, frost bite, "chilblains, or a ."raw" .place, which at times makes it agony f or * you to go about your, household duties ? If bo,-Zam-Buk will give you relief, and will heal the frost-damaged skin, 'Ahoic*- the sore places at night, Zam-Buk's rich" healing essences will sink into the.wounds," isnd the smarting, and will heal quickly, y [ Mrs. Yeilen,; of Portland; says: *■ "If» hands were so sore and cracked that it was agony-to1 put' them'.near water. When-. I did so they would smart and burn as if I hod scalded them. I seemed quite unable to get relief from anything I put on them until I tried Zam-Buk,' and lt succeeded when all else had failed. It closed the big eraoks, gave me ease, soothed the inflammation, and tn a very short time healed my hands." Zam-Bub aln> turet thafing, ratku, winter .... ,. 9... 9.^ ■ - ^i tcztma, piitt, *U(4ri,f$it*r*ng $ortt, $or* htmdi and btici; abtcttut, p*mvieit ring-warm, *tc. euti, burnt, bruiui, §cMt, Bprairu. OJ •(. druggitU and itora, cr pott fn* /rum ti\\* Zam> .Bui Co., Toronto. ■ Prico SCoa ban.' amBuk . Good manners are a sign of charity, towards your" fellow men, of diuty to- wards'your neighbors; and also a sign of self-respect... A. man who respects himself is always well mannered to others. - Local Union Directory, Dist, 18, U.M.W. A. ItflimJHUHUflUHUtMlUHUHUtM^ GLADSTONE LOCAL - , No. 2314 , '* Meet first and third Fridays,- Miners' Hall, Fernie; second and fourth Fridays, Club Hall, Qoal Creek. Sick Benefit attached..-, Ti Uphill, Sec. Fertile, B. .C. '■iV«ij,r iUoltfJ wilt at Dm girls. "I preyed for fourteen yenrs. Never agninl" Thmi the Man of God began to tell them of the inherent wl cited-, JII'KH 111 KlnKlHg. Ul pfOMSAUl-nJ against life ns they found it. "Your leader* nre wleked, dishonest people who nre getting rich while you »Uu*vo." •'Prove itt prove It!" "look at Trcw? Wfmrt h« vmn in jnil here he had t&Kn hit pock- Dt." Shiloh Th* inn*i\\. ttmttA' ^UI|-,I(VH tmftt9tttm.il })$,*. **4%ti*fa. After ibe doom of tho JnN btid closed on her the strikers, walking two abroast, marched down tho main ntreet to tho prison, three times round Its wall*, and stood *.. f!1i,.*i »..>,.iSS99&**l0*****l**^****9* „ LETHBRIDGE LOCAL No. 431 Meet ovory Wednesday ovonlng at 7.30 In Minors' Hal), 12th Avo- nuo North, tt. Moore,' fiec-Treas. BELLEVUE LOCAL No. 431 Moot ovory Sunday at 2.SO p.m. In tho Socialist Hall. Jamos Burko, Soo. Box SO, Dollovuo, Alta. BEAVER CREEK LOCAL No. 481 Moot overy Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m.*' John Loughran, Seo. ^^t^^j^4^F^I0*f^^**^J*****H** CORBIN LOCAL , No, 2877 Moot every socond Sunday at S o'clock In tho Club Hall, Sick Benefit Soclsty attached. " John Jones, Boo, Corbin, n, O, I 9 \\?mwixmmmmmMmm •i , i . f t .. T Grand Union Hotel COLEMAN, Alta. Best of Accommodation We cater to the workingman's trade j-**** umm tr. Ai UUHit. Yt.iin t,*.it*lt**9 4 ' •'/".•*"•"', Agents Wanted Reliable Real Estate Agents li 4n orory town anfl rlllac* In the Waal I tandl* «nly Orat claaa nwnay oaktaff vmtftlat and will lurnlih boat o* D*nk and Con»»*wW "A •rtmee? Can fnrnlah nam* of o?ar four hundwd aaUaflad «Uanla who hire mad* substantial profits from InrMttnemts In propertioi I sell to idem. Writ* ioAttj tor particular! and M«i»ra tha a*«»cy for your tar rllorjr. ROBT. A. GRANT, Financial Agent 1001, 1002 MeArthur Bldg. Wlnnlp#«, Man, Advertise in the "ledger1* and get results UtA-rV'f'. mstmr. ii'»V..:.*-'f m && if«. r . =.'-" AV&-&A'; -\\ ""'' - --..Ah'' ■-;;-,.-, ,•-< *.,:- *. ;,i*'rf;<-* 'Ay.- -.-_j,, . _ .,, '.i'Xi -, < ' *i *. V* - ■9 h. '7y^:^*Ax/^X]y^ff'A^yypx^AA77A'y--A, yx-y. ';',;;-M yX,£ X-i*'$,^A'y>AA''AA-xA "-.*• -N .•-■• -^ ■',- -."V. 1'--'' " — ■-- ' " 'IHE'DIBTB^^U&ai^TEXN^ B. C, NOVEMBER 22, 1913. *AGE FIVE ,;-->■ Established April J899 „ ; v/'..;; . JM^wfc^Miy WhoMcUe "diidyReiail rTobdCCOnist -•■ a BARBER SHOP, Baths7'and Shoe Shine BILLIARD ROOM and LUNCH COUNTER \\*L. Our Coffee is Good J Great Northern Train going South leaves Fernie ,9:53 a.m. daily except Sunday,,making direct connections at Kex- ford for the Vest'and with 'the ORIENTAL LIMITED East bouud, THE CRACK train of the North- "west.- i , ^ Train from the South arrives Fernie 7:30 p.m.,. makes'direct connections at Rexford from East and West. ^ -•, ' v ; Special round trip Canadian Holiday Fares to Atlantic Sea Ports in connection with Ocean tickets now in effect. * R. J. MALONEY Agent : : : Fernie, B. C. . "REAL ESTATE GOING UP?' a The.question Is asked. We answered:, "Look,around you and see. Investigation Discloses That Real Estate Prices Are Advancing. ... ..-, ... -. Are you alive, to the situation? If you are we" can show you a place you can make a Dig proiitrion..- - ~~~" ,As compared to later on. * Just Now, Houses Here Are , Dirt Cheap. M. A. XASirtNER AtEX BECK BLOCK, FERNIE/ B. C. the WALDORF Mrs. S. Jennings, Prop. L. A. Mills, Manager Excellent Cuisine — American and European Plan — Electric Light — Hot & Cold Water—Sample Rooms Phones—Special Rates by the month American Plan Rates $2.00 per Day WHY wore the FIRST PRIZE and the GOLD MEDAL at the Edmonton Exhibition awarded to SWIFT'S PREMIUM HAMS, BACON, ETC.? Bocauso thoy are THE BEST ON THE MARKET, that's why. Buy them all the time at THE 41 .-MARKET OO. 8AM GRAHAM, M«iU0ir PHONE 41 FOR SALE Four Pool Tables, almost New. Samuel May, maker Will sell separate if wanted for $200 on terms. APPLY TO Mrs. Agnes Queen's Hotel Gourlay Hosmer, B. C. IS SOCIALISM IMPOSSIBLE? '.That is'the,last word in many aii argument nowadays,-.especially when the subject is the soul-stirring, mind- gripping, .heart-shaking one of the -reordering of society and. the inauguration - of the ' co-operative commonwealth. Of course it is the opponent of Socialism' and the' barracker for Things as They Are who so "settles the hash" of "the silly Socialists- and the crack-ibrained theorists. . It is his conclusive rejoinder to tlie claims and ideals of the sociologists and humanitarians.' It Ib his decisive case for. the -perpetuation of the present system of society. Il clinches all his arguments in advocacy of Letting Things Alone and In opposition to the New Order that is to be. -, -' . •It, is so inlich easier to say that a thing is impossible than to "demonstrate Hs.JjmposstbIllty that tho man who rosorfs to this.- unsatisfactory method of settling Ihe matter bas either u bad case or his argument is v weak. But saying a thing is impossible docs not make it impossible. What, ho is looking for is' reasqnable and logical proof of the assertion, and until tliis is forthcoming he is not convinced. Very little is impossible; one might ulniost say that nothing is impossible. The annals of our own time are full of records of achievements which but a century ago—even half a century ago—would have ibeen regarded as beyond the -limit of possibility that a wise man will -pausd before declaring anything impossible. If we .were to assert that—assuming that same of the other planets are inhabited—within a century interplanetary communication would be ,an ■ accomplished fact, we should be greeted of a surety with a storm of "impossibles." But if a hundred years ago someone had stated that within a century every great nation of—the earth would be linked together by an endless wire, and that the news of the world would be flashed from, country to country in a moment, his statement -would have been regarded-as equally absurd. Truly, says ■ Harbert ' Kaufman: ''Time is constantly taming into reality our forefathers' wildest guesses." If less than half a century ago some oue Jiad .asserted that, within' twenty years we would be able to-communicate .with ships thousands of miles away on the open ocean, with nothing whatever but the mysterious and impalpable etilier to convey our message, he would have been regarded either as an original sorb of romancer or a hopeless lunatic . *But( wireless -telegraphy, like many anotliei of the 'marvels which science has revealed during recent years, is now becoming a mere commonplace and,attracts but little attention -■ It is often the case tliat a thing is pronounced impossible becau'se the person making the assertion either "does"not wish it-£o_bc~possible—or" desires otilier people to regard it as impossible. '' It is'in/this spirit that'anti-Socialists, declare Socialism—the most simple and. beneficent form of social organization, ever propounded—to toe "an impossible dream." Impossible! The' very word is relative and not absolute.' ,' • It -was simply impossible yesterday to do the things that we do with ease today. •,. , * - ,". And the very fact that we io them with" ease today proves that they were not really impossible yesterday. We can not do today what our chil- dren will do tomorrow. But the fact that our children will do these,things tomorrow shows that they are not absolutely but merely relatively impossible today. ■As Louis Lingg says in ','The Bomb." "The dreams of today are the realities of 'tomorrow." , "v Impossible! \\ Say not that anything is so! Leander would have considered it was impossible to have crossed the Hellespont in an aeroplane. iBut it wasn't. He didn't know how to do it, tha: was all! - ■>" Julius Caesar would have regarded it as impossible to flash his famou1; "Veni, vldivici" to the Spnale by wireless telegraphy, ' But is wasn't.' The only trouble was that he didn't know how! . Homer would have supposed that "it was impossible*to write the Iliad with a fountain pen, or to click off the Odyssey with a typewriter, Nero, never dreamed,, of driving down the Appian Way in a motor car. .iBut those.things were not impossibilities. • We have demonstrated, that. And, our children's" children will prove in like manner that the things that,seem to us grotesquely impossi-, ble are as simple as- simple can he. Tilings are ,never. impossible. The onlyyobstacle is our own pitiful ignorance or our own pitiful indolence. To the workers all things are possible. . - United as one they have only to say that,this or that shall be done, and it shall be done. , ~ They have only to declare that the- rule of gold shall cease, and it shall cease.' They have only to pronounce for the Golden Rule, and it shall prevail. Tliey have only .to decide upon the deposition of Mammon, and 'Man shall take his place upon the "throne of things." They have only to stand solidly and steadfastly for Socialism, and the "impossible, Utopian'-dream" is a .present reality.. The workers, we say! . They are, the masters of their fate, the captains of their soul. Impossible! 'Mark-ye'the words of the'Sage of Chelsea, grim and glorious Carlyle: '|The_"word 'impossible' does not ap- deparbment run on a -meter basis, charging so much a squirt?" ■ *: Socialists say it is wrong to allow" the few to own, the things needed by the many.- They say that the food" 'supply, the .machinery of production. aud distribution should belong to the people instead of the capitalists. Socialists say that the, public utilities should (be,run'for the use of the peotple/not to use the people. A water systenrshould be the property of the users, not of the capitalists. If you think it would 'be right for a capitalist to own the fire .department;-then you naturally believe it right for'a parasite to own the'things whereby the people must live. You instinctively believe in capitalism! And, as such, you can never see the beauties of the Socialist ideal. " - But— ■If...you should believe the people should own the fire department, and that the people should get the "benefit of it, then you are In line for the truths of the Socialist position, You are good material'for the Socialist to work on.,' , The Socialist wants ypu to put the principle of use, not profit, into the everyday things of life, lie wants you to help him wrest the public utilities and industries from the,hands of the capitalists and place them where they belong—with the .producers, with the. workers,, wilh the people, Who are you for? The workers or the shirkers? You may take your choice! M$:?* HAGUE PEACE AND REAL PEACE pear in the brave man's dictionary." Neither does it in the lexicon of the Socialist.—Maoriland Worker. A Bit of Socialism By Emanuel Julius I saw u little fire this morning around the corner.from whore I live. It wasn't much of a fire—much to tho regret of the youngsters of the neighborhood—and it didn't take more than twenty minutes for the firemen to extinguish tho kitchen blaze. But tho thing that impressed me about tho fire was: I, saw a numbor of comm'onplace' things that I hadn't given thought to in-the past because they wero bo ordinary, but they took on a, great deal of interest this morning. Let me explain myself. A young fellow of about 16 was tho first to see tlio blaze, He ran to an alarm box nnd sent ln a call,for the firemen. That, you irviiut confess, is very uninteresting and ordinary. Somo ton or fifteen blocks away a bell rang and registered tho whereabouts ot tho place from which the call had ibeen made. A numbor of firemen stopped playing cards, or playing tho piano, or reading tho Sunday supplement, or possibly the Western Comrado, or stopped nrguliiR on tho merits of tho Los Angeles baseball tonm—nt nny rato, thoy stopped doing what ever they woro doing and rusliod to tho flro mpparatiiK. You soo, I persist In donl- !ng In matters of an ordinary nnturo, A half minuto later tliey woro dashing down tlio Btroot, lu-mled for tho bcoiio of tho flro, Tt was nn Inspiring bcpup; how thoy flangod nnd rnitrwl nnd thundered I It wns lialr-nilHlng! Woll, UiIh Is ordinary, too, Suddenly thoy woro boforo tlio buriilns limine, Tlio fireman got busy with ho»o, wn* tor, ladders, liatqheta und what not. Somo got busy and carried out plocoH of furniture, Woll, to mako a commonplace affair qulto brief, thoy ox- tlngulflliod tlio bliuo. An officious- looking fireman''"■ took ' down somo names and iiddrosnos, irindo a number of notos In his roport *book-~nnd gavo tho word. So, with a clang, thoy woro off, A half hour later things were quiet agnlti. Tho neighbors scattered to thoir homos. Tho hlddlns hurrlml to school. Anil ponce rolgnod tm- proujc, I noticed that tho firemen didn't stop to ask nny questions wh-on thoy appeared on thu scone. Thoy didn't negotiate with tho owner of tho burning house, Thoy didn't placo a motor on tho wntor. Thoy didn't mil tor monoy to *pay for tho wear and tear t*t *\\t\\t\\ ttrti flrwVhfn-Mt** Vw-dM.'tliev demand cash to pny I'or tho conl ro- nuiretf to te;p tfus. .eiifcUw, n»u«i«*. .Vor did Ihey demand w to* tho wages thnt must be drawn toy tho doion or more fireman. Tliey didn't waste a .moment on anything except the t&uk of extinguishing that blaze. HO H VJKlttWIt lit ill At .1'. The1 firemen didn't havo anything In mind but tho duty of killing tlio blaze, protecting lifo and proporty. That's all tliey Boomed!Interested In. How strange! Thoy didn't nsk whether tho owner nf tho 1u,it!if* wim .i T?*»pii.h!lr,in it Democrat, a Hoclnlist or n Progr*-* j -*W«»! Thoy didn't Inquire tf tho hom<>! owiwr was a Catholic, a Jew nr a : Methodist. Thoy didn't ask whether Ledger Ads are Money Getters How strange! What a different scone'if the fire department wore owned by a "capitalist! First of all, the fire department, If owned by General Otis, let us'say, .would ..call up 'Dradstreet's to inquire concerning tho. credit" of the man whose-house waa afire. If 'Mr. Smith's rating didn't happen^ to be very good, they would settle Iback and Bay: '' "Oh, let the house hum! Smith's credit ain't good!" But, let us suppose Mr. Smith's credit to be O, K. With a rush tho firemen would bo off. Appearing on the scene, they would immediately place a meter on the fire plug and charge Mr. Smith so much, for oach gallon of wator .consumed. That would bo tho first thing. The next would be to weigh the coal,* «o that, Mr. Smith could pay for that Item. Then, he would be charged Just so much for wnnr and tear of .the flro n-iv- lmnituH, Also, tho length ot time consumed In oxttngulshlng tho flume would bo cnusldcrod in the bill, In addition, I might add, tho flromon would noL ho anxious to ontlnguish tho flnme too (illicitly, for by doing that tho charges would bo Bomowlint lowor. The larger tho flro nnd tho longer tho tlmo Herded would mnko tlio bill just so much larger. In other words, Mr, Smith's flro would bo nn opportunity to juiiUu profit. And, refit rwured, thc cupltnllst, .with his monopoly on tho flro dopnrtmont, would «co to It that ovory flro would bring him u neat roll of money. For tlmt would bo his business, That may sound ridiculous, donr reader, but It Is tlm nppllciitlou of tho present system to our activities of lifo, Wo mny hnvo oiir firo department In tho hands of the -poa-plo to sisrvo the people and not oxplolt thorn, Wo may havo a flro department run for uso und not for profit, but the fact remains thnt nlmost ovory other nvo- mio of lifo, (inil many nrn no Important ns tho fire department, nro run on n capltnllst IiiisIh, which monnn that tho needs and Joys shall bo made to >u needs of the people, their miseries and' Joy* shall bo mado to bring profit to tho capitalists, AVhen we would havn brand wo must pay toll to a capltnllst. , lie practically mays: "it vou enn't nav mon tho profit I want, then you can go hung youmelf. I'iij ...(., ii.1' .il..-1*.'1" That's cf'-niillflllH-m. He Iiiih « motor on the fond supply and ho knows your ra'ing in the llrndstrcot ot lifo, and If you can't pay him,.then your houso and life fan go to smltheinens. Instead ot mmilnir "n* iotn. supply for service snd use, wo run it for the profit of ii small class of parasites, who nre determined to grow; rich on thn tii'idH of tbo pooplo, A timftll rlnss owns our railroad-*, toleRniph*. mines, mills nnd factories, P,iy toll nr freeze, tmyn Iho ronl baron. Vay toll ir wnlV, nays the mltrond tWIKtlMi'. I'sy nu* ur go without, say ilift cup- man of row! moral «harac- \\ l«*ll*t», who have monopollTod tin- I JhitiCT that »r<* necfjed by All tlu? p.-o- By Jacob K. Novlns Imagine our Legislature to pass a law to stopomurders. by providing for certain weapons with which you can kill anybody. You may think such a thing is Impossible and absurd. Yet, Uie identi-' oal and of a worse nature has happened. . And what is more, it, came from a quarter we least expected it.- The International Peace Conference was called by-Nicholas II„ Czar of Russia, for "the maintenance-of General iPeace." ' A little later, Russia indulged in a deadly war with Japan. The United States, another organizer of the Peace Cause, waged war on Spain. The Italian King got on top of 'Turkey—for the sake of Christianity! 'But that is not so bad; we are used to su'ch things. But here is something that is humorous and sad at the same time: At the Hague Convention in 1907, after many learned dignitaries had delivered brilliant and glaring speeches on the glory, of peace, "seeking to mako the great idea of universal peace tiiumph over the elements of trouble and'discord," the following resolutions were adopted, among others: • "It*is expressly forbidden— ' To employ poison or poisoned weapons T=r- ■ , ' "To employ arms, projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary pain or suffering." Instead of finding the'fundamental causes of war and trying to destroy them, the International Peace Confer- -eite.e_made_la3ys_forjwaifl It is like stopping murder by limiting some ways of committing them,1 instead of removing the -c-auses that make murderers. •Wars have cost hillions'of lives and dollars in the past. While civilization advances, wars are ' becoming more savage, more brutal and horrible. War in the future will be .more horrible. Disease and suffering merge over the battlefield, while crises, heart, pangs, hunger,,privations and,-starvation do the work among the families at home. In dollars and cents, wars have cost enormously. The Crimean War in 1853 Was an expense of over $1,500,000.000. During the second half of tho .nineteenth century the European nations snent over $6,000,000,000 for wars. What has -been the expense in lives and dollars in the Civil War? In the Russo-Japanese War? The Spanish- American? 'The terrlblo weapon, disease, Is doing the work moro dondly than the bullet. In tho latest .Balkan affair, when Houmanla attacked Bulgaria, the struggle was bloodless. Not a shot was..flrod, "No poisoned weapons or arms, projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering" were iisod, Yot the war was not death, loss. Tho army returned "victorious," with a llBt. of dead from that terrible dlseiiBo, cholera, exceeding fi,000 of tho choico mon of Roumanln. Many moro ^ro more dond thvui nllve, You cannot koop the dovll from tho bjittleflold by any regulation! Wnr In all Its forms Is hell. In ordor to iiHioIIbIi hnll and hnvo ponoo, we must abolish wnr, Wo muRt abollBh wnr and not regulate it like prizefights. iWo muBt find the ftnuhimontnl onuses of war nnd kill tliom! Kill thorn ns wo hill tho gerniH In n degoiiorato system! ■ he wns a ter or a general roustabout. They Just smothered the flru. That was alt! J pi". And when ihey succr<>d«>d In slopping I Don't you sf><) how, rlilk-utou* this the fire, they went back' lo thflr llM-jarrant.-nifiit ot ulMt» UJ Jxm'i jou li.mi,, ' ■•■ ,. ''i ir If Louie. fi- *lmf!ir fo hnvfr-ir ■' f-r'" (3UE8TION& AND AN8WER8 Are Conditions Growing Worse? Q. Aro conditions for tho worker bettor or worse today limn a century nuo? A. This question Is not ossont-lnl to tho Soclnllst position. ..Conditions,mny bo .hotter than thoy wore, I presume thoy are, flut tluit Is not our contention as Socialists. v Wo contend tlint In proportion to tho tromondous Incroaso In ivoalth nnd tho Increase In tho -production of wealth, tho worhlngmnii Is not Improving his condition ns lm should. Wo contend that the capitalist cIubh Is n|>- proprlntlng by fnr tlio lowr -proportion of tho Innroas-ed advantages of modern civilization. Wo contend tlmt tho worker ls not. securing n Just shar-e of n reasonable proportion of tho In- erensed nrtvnntngna of modern Indun* try- Wo may admit that tho .worker Is bettor off thnn ho wns fifty or one bun- ■urwi >t' liinm;.--. i-f working people, and will lii**' i-J'. ■>'.-.''■•> "1 1'sbt nn tin* -M-ti'-i't l"n"" P-iii.!'"' COMPETITION We have pleasure this week in announcing prizes in connection with our competition. Only residents of the Camps named are eligible to participate for these prizes. Prizes for the other Camps will be Announced next week List of Prizes $20 Prize Splendidly Trimmed Hat supplied by Mrs. TODD. $25 Heater - Range Supplied by TRITES-WOOD CO. $10 Prize Supplied by FERNIE-FORT STEELE BREWERY. $12 Dressing Case Supplied by McLEAN DRUG STORE , ^ $6.00 Pair of Boots Supplied by MUIRHEAD & CO. Two $10 Hampers \\ of Christmas Cheer Supplied by F2RNIE CO-OPERATIVE Coleman & Carbondale $18,00 Power Washing Machine Given by H. G. GOODEVE CO., Bellevue, Hillcrest, Frank, Maple Leaf, Passburg $20.00 Suit Given by J. H, NAYLOR, Bellovue. $20.00 Order on Store (liven by T. M. BURNETT, Bollovuo. $16 Tea Set Given by A. I. BLAIS, Frank and Bollovuo. $15 Heater Given by STEPHEN T. HUMBLE, Bellevuo. $10 Prize Supplied by FRANK WINE & LIQUOR 00, NUMEROUS OTHER PRIZES NEXT WEEK. DON'T NEGLECT TO SEND IN YOUR HEAD- INGS. Thoso prizes will be displayed' in ibo various ■ustnbliHbodnients, "No. votes—Jusl, a ^il'l., For tbe residents of tlio abnvtiiwmtinued eiiinps only. Read Conditions Carefully WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO Sivvo nil lioiulhws.. V,iuAi luMidip' Imik n " (liferent mn«bor." To tbe person winding'hi tbe lugbest totalwbern iiumbor« are addi»d iogetber, wo award (ii'Htpriz^ in eaqb camp; to (lie person sendint! in second bwbest, second prize and ho on, To oxplaift; Thoro will bo some vory liiyh numbers, and it >yill Impossible for a person witb two headings, if tlio numbers nrG high enough, to beat tho man with two dozen headings. Tho prizes go to tin* person with tbo highest totnl when tho numbers on .their headings arc added together. 'wttt^t^mmtmmtmmMmmm^ttm-tmmmmmmmmtwtmmmmmmimmmmm i nm i mmmi^-timmmmmmmmmtmmtm^ammmm Prizes for other Camps next week w !■ j. * -~lm*$S^mi&--&^?9? . -^-t, '_-«* ,u ^^sfwHv^*^.^^^^? .^V-k**'*^"-.."*-^ PAGE SIX te THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B/iC, NOVEMBER1 Published every,, Saturday, morning jit" its office', Pellatt Avenue; Fernie, B. G. Subscription $1.00 per year in advance. An excellent' advertising medium. Largest circulation in the District. Advertising rates on application. Up-to-date facilities for the execution of all kinds of book, job arid color work. Mail orders receive special attention.* Address all communications to the District Ledger. F. H. NEWNHAM, Editor-Manager Telephone No. 48 Post Office Box No. 380 whether this is possible even for a 15c magazine. For a $1.00 per year newspaper, we know it is impossible. - ,',A . •■ ''Pearson's, like other magazines, has to live—rand make a profit—if its,shareholders and managers do not happen to he philanthropists. Just.as soo.n- as circulation fails titymake this profit, then the magazine must change its policy, or—die! It is inevitable under our present system. •" ; EQUALLY IGNORANT ECONOMICALLY (?) THE MAGAZINE OF TODAY In our early youth we well remember gazing on those old-fashioned magazines, printed with titles , in bold black, the covers equally interesting, "containing possibly some cut of a popular soap or cocoa company. The magazines to which we refer are such as uTemple Bar," "Chambers," "Argosy," etc., The writings contained in most of these magazines were varied. We had the heavy scientific or Parliamentarian writer, 'the satirist and the "Ouida" type with languid ladies and autocratic carls. , One by one these magazines died! In some cases . the publishers candidly admitted that tliey did not care to adopt the up-to-date methods of other magazines and preferred to drop out; others aped their competitors and lived,on, or were allowed to •died,and resurrected in a more "modern garb. " But in spite of denial, the change was always made to suit the POPULAK TASTE. This is an important fact that must never be lost sight of— TIIE MAGAZINES CHANGED, NOT BECAUSE • THEY WANTED TO, BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD TO. Possibly the editors and publishers will disagree and try to persuade you otherwise, but you' know that there was that irresistable force behind them —pushing and forcing them forward—the need of circulation—of popularity! That is the life of a v publication. By their change these magazines may have sacrificed popularity; but such was only temporary. • ■ • - In this week's .issue we publish an.article from "Pearson's Magazine;" entitled tlie "Three Ser- ■ , -vants of Greed." Tho author, Miss Weed, classes • . the three servants as "A Hypocritical Tress, a Tim- "T~""i(*-G'mrehra-Hostile"GoliW ^ ' The following from The Public: ' .' ■ .-"The first election in Italy under universal manhood suffrage has been held. Most of the new electors are said to be ignorant and superstitious. And these ignorant and superstitious .'elected al-' most the same kind of Parliament as was chosen ?.t the last election by the educated and non-superstitious. What is the moral? .Arc the ignorant and superstitious after all just as competent to voto rs the educated and "enlightened" classes? Or don't the educated really know any more about economic questions than thc ignorant?" Ignorant and superstitious! We have instances' here in B. C. where you can hit the worker over tho head witli a club, run him into a" pen and keep him there for three months on a ficticious charge; send him to jail for two years and then—well, we believe he does wake up! The last query in above cutting, viz., "Or don't the educated really know any more about economic questions than the ignorant?" may be answered in the affirmative—they do; and what is more to the point1 they persuade the "ignorant and superstitious"'to return them to power. This is where they display knowledge of what they .want and what will best suit them. Our mission is to convince the Avorker that only those of his class can study his interests, and although it take much to "beat it in"—it's getting there! Once convince the worker that an aggressive minority is necessary to attain a'working majority, then we shall have eliminated much of the apathy that at present prevails among those whom, we seek to arouse. COMMUNICATIONS Tovthe Editor/.Disrrict Ledger. y.Dear^jr.^Tyould y°u kindly insert ,in;ouryaluahle.paper one part of Pres. Smithy report" «>n compensation for miners for'time lost through""ftaving to .go home oh-different occasions bn account'of there'being no chute loader (paragraph-4)'?f= "That this particular grieyance;arose out of a previous one wherein' the- pit committee agreed ..with the'jnanagement that the men'in inside" places should load their own coal." -.This part, we emphatically refute; .--'■■• . On behalf of Coleman Local Union. I remain, yours in the struggle, '" J. JOHNSTONE, '; . ; Secretary. Coleman Local-Union, N No, 2633,,U. .M. W. of A., - ■■'Nov. 14th,- 1913.- • ■ (To avoid-any misunaerstandingon the part of those 'who read above but have iiot read the whole report, it is only fair.to state that while appearing in the president's report, it is a point claimed by Commissioner McNeill and was iu no wise assented to by the former, .May state that we certainly do not think it is the intention of Local to. accuse the President of acquiescence in this particular clause.—Ed.) COMMUNICATED • -".-.v.'-./ - ,-' ■ ;<-,- v-- - i -.-••■;-■-• •., r ■-> •':-', ■ • .. -v.-- ;•'.- " -,-:•-, A*X:~f*K ■,&r:i*-'t<<$.-:*: **:■ -■"-■■- -■'■-'"■■' r,v . ■ .''^.."V^'-^V^rrviyvUi*;^ ■: v""--- John.p'e Clar$':.. Chas.-'Spencer-' " A friend...-.".." 1.00 5.00 :. .:50 ■y. '^ohepted in Old-Michel by R. Oakes ana; J;--Newman: \\ • ;--■*•*>:.' .. .,, ,T,« Crahan, jr. .H.';"-'L6ckart v.' Alberta Provincial Executive Committee Socialist Party of Canada WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE? to those workers who have the courage lo demand more return for their labor. Classed by the hypercritical as sensational mon- gering, this magazine method of propaganda does more to enlighten the bourgeois© as to existing conditions than any other known method. "Pearson's Magazine"-claims to be different from other magazines,, and we must admit this is true, at least, in part, fpr they have discovered a growing demand for knowledge of conditions as ..they really are.^ The management of this magazine realize they liave to bring their magazine up-to-date and they are doing it. ' That such a venture requires a certain amount of courage and speculation is Admitted, but nevertheless it will accomplish its purpose. .It is' just as well, however, to liave a true conception of such tilings and that we do nol; delude ourselves with nny mawkish sentimentalities about "sacrificing advertising matter." This is something no paper can do and live—-without they are propnrod'lo live upon u purely circulation basis and we question v (Communicated) "We find Mr.-Sidney Buxton in England trying to administer his annual dose of chloroform to his constituents (his. annual election address), but his listeners, evidently mainly' working, men, didn't want his hardy annual and pressed him for an answer as to the apparent partiality of the government—Larkin being awarded seven months and Carson, who has been far more1 inflammatory and incendiary, allowed his freedom, to 'go as he pleases as long as he cares to. ... ■ —~- SiimiitaireoiTsly^ shoot off his usual, and although,he pretended lie •was prepared,'for anybody and everybody, yet we find the chairmen of both Mr. Sidney Buxton's meeting, and Mr. Bowser's, trying to incite the audience to sing "God save," etc., but in each case,, a popular song was preferred. Coincidental, strange, bnt true. "Wc'also find strikes in England, Canada, United States, South Africa, in fact where are there not strikes? What will the result be ? A possibly rude but great awakening. Reader, nsk yourself the question, Why the turmoil? Why tho strikes? Why the explosions % Why poverty? Why such conditions? Why? Why? AVhy? _ Ts it.because wo have production,for profit in- .slcnd of use? .If so, get ready to do your share to assist in changing present conditions. A call at the Socialist headquarters in the Miners' Null mny help you somewhat. Economic classes at o p.m. Sunday aflornoons; propaganda meetings Sunday evenings; rending room open every evening. Agitato! Organize! Educate!—EN AMT. The Editor, , District Ledger, Fernie, B. C. Dear Sir,—I desire to call your attention to ah enactment of the Second Session (1913) of the Alberta Legislature, entitled, "An Act respecting Commissioners to Administer Oaths," which repeals the Act of 1906. - As this act, affects a considerable number of persons holding commissions in the coal mining regions under the jurisdiction of District 18, it may he well to place ibefore the readers of the Ledger its chief points. - Section 2. The Lieutenant Govern-, or in Council may, by a commission of commissions under-his. hand and the seal of the Province, from time to time empower such and so many persons as he thinks fit and necessary to administer oaths and- take and receive affidavits .... within' this Province. Section 3. Every commission issued under Sestiou 2 of this Act shall expire on the second 31st'day'of December after date of issue of same and said commission may be cancelled by. order in council at any. time. Section 4. All commission's heretofore issued iby, the Lieutenant Governor in, Council for taking affidavits in the -Province shall expire on the 31st day of December, 1913. Hoping you will publish these facts, I am, . Yours .sincerely, ~- '• ■-.-.' 'BURT E. ANDERSON,. ' ', ' •- . 'Sec. P. O.- Box 1196,' . , Calgary, Alta., Nov. 14, 1913.' CHEER FOR THE CHILDREN M. MoKascell !, R. Stewart .... James ;Tirney ., JameslCa'ssidy . Percy Ward,.,'. Mrs. Gammage . C G.Taylor ... A. Stacey ...... John Daw • V., Brindac .... ■Wm, Robinson . Joe Travis V.,. B. Caufield :., i Joe Mason ...> T.Cunllffe .... John Heney .,. James Stewart * AV.'Whitehouse A friend ...... R. C. Weldon .. Joe Hassel ..., 13 ,....- . ■:$i.oo -. 2.00 .1.00 '-■f2.00 .,--•,1.00 - i:oo •/'l.OO ., l.OO 1.00 1.00 ' .50 1.00 •' 2.00 • i:oo 2.50 i.oo 2.00 '2.00 1.00 2,00 ' 2.00 5.00 2.00 2.00 in B*.Jwr*9i~ir't \\A- Collected on pay day-at the mines by J. -Marsh, J. fiercer, J. Newman, R. Baker and T. Facter: , > . $ 72.65 Total $158.40 •We wish to thank the business men of Old and New Michel, also the members of our Local union, for their kind donations towards this worthy cause, and we may assure them that our struggling fellow workers and .their little ones will appreciate their kindness very much. '*> ' It is one, of the noblest impulses in man to'try and help eliminate the sufferings of his fellow beings, and bring a little additional cheer into their homes; this, we feel you have done to the best of your ability. r Again, friends, we thank you for so nobly responding to our appeal. . Signed on behalf of Michel Local, No. 2334, U. M. W. of'A.- / . - H.'iELM'ER*.. , Secretary. TO CORRESPONDENTS It is an unwritten newspaper law (though an oft-printed one) that anonymous communications he ignored, whether personal or impersonal. This established custom is recognized .by the .Ledger, and while we appreciate auy items of interest, we must decline to.publish any item when the sender fails to sign his or her name and address. We do not publish names when sent in connection with news items,, or when correspondents do not wish publicity.—Ed. HOCKEY "To tlre'TDcliforTTDistricrLedger. Dear Sir,—A collection was taken up by,'Michel^Local union for the-purpose of buying some useful Christmas presents for the children of the striking miner's on Vancouver Island, hnd amounted to $158,40. Collected in Xew -Miehel by "Jnihes .Mercer and John Marsh: James Petrie ..'....; $ 2.00 Mrs, Whiting ■ ',. -i.oo Max .Baskin .- i>.oo Mrs. .Hayes , Ni .00 Geo. Fisher .;.....,.'..' 4.00 M. L. Taylor ." ]' oo Wm. Arslier ■', • i. 00 T. E, .Murphy l.OO ■M. Joyce ■...'..',. 1.00 A. Wood ,,,-,, .50 Frank Siwik .,,■,..>,, 1.00 J. Solglc * ,....*. l.OO ■Western Grocery '... 5.00 Pete Horntti'..' 5.00 Thos, Crahan ' ', io.OO J. iMarcluppi J. Johnston .., .Tou Wngiior .. G, B.'Stedman ■T, Zvlk IX Oris Lea Lem V. Storba Abort l'asalk . .50 1.00 ■1.00 1.00 .50 .25 !So .50 .50 ■ Who is there with the red, sporting 'Mood of youth in him, that does-not feel an involuntary quickening of his pulses to know that THE game, which to the outside world is identified' with Canada alone, is once more visible in :the near distance, coming along ihand- ih-hand wjjh King Frost. He who has never experienced " the 'Wild delight and .enthusiasm of the puck-chaser, or lfelt_the_thriU-oLpteasure-as-the-puckf ■driven at.a G0-mile gait,.comes into friendly contact with his shins, has •missed''more than half of the joy of ■living;1 It is even within the hounds of ■possibility that there.may he "'.,; . a man with soul so dead, who never- ■to' himself hath said, 'Ifll see the game!" hut he, poor fellow, is ij>ast hope, and should -'come no further •West .>than Brandon.' .*. Last winter tho Fernie "septette de- imonstrated their quality, and proved themselves superior to anything around .here, and had' It not been for Hie acutely cold spell experienced up North, \\vhtch apparently attacked the teams up there right in the feet; our iisxregation might have journeyed' to ■Winnipeg, However, thero are not very many chango* in this season's toam, and If random in Fernlo will only show tlio right spirit, nnd support tho tenim in ovory way in their power, thore is ho roason why that Eastern trip should not bo mndo, It is up to the sporting public of Fornle, for a tomm unsupport. Gtl ,., ',11,J01ie(1 unto> house ibullt-on Hiin.1.' it cannot Inst, nor havo the Incentive to go in nnd ,wln, We^wlsh tlio .local iboyu the best of luck, and if wi) can help thorn through tlio modlinn of our columns, contributions will he wolcomod. ■*. ..That the, fostive. season'is approaching, is amply, testlfied".by- the -increased, activity inlthestbres of ttihftown," The daily arrival of-Christmas -cheer: toys,.novcUi«s, etc., may De witnessed. ,ln any of. the stores, -while the displH'y- of seasonable gifts and Yuletide *. decorations give .that appeiranu-s, peculiar to Christmas,-; but familiar in' .every, .English-speaking , country the world over. • -■ - -'.,.■■. ,*, The Fernie storekeepers are certainly determined'to keep right lip-jto-date, and thus .hol'd in this town every possible patron, ..by stocking their windows with" enticing novelties at price's that compare more than" favoralbly with any of the mail order houses.'In fairness to the local tradesmen, it must be granted that their prices, having regard to transportation,- etc., bear favorable comparison with 'those of the larger cities. . ... The Trites-Wood Co., Ltd. ., ,v . The ITrites-;Wood Co. Is this week making, a special display, of tinware; toys, gents' furnishings, dry goods and Christmas specialties, while the curler will find-a selection of "stanes" to suit the most critical taste. Fresh- fruit groceries, hams, .bacon, etc., are' to'ibe found on° the'provision slde,- while their stock ot enamelware, crockery, etc., has .been augmented considerably for the -Christmas trade. In -the gents' furnishings department," special Christmas goods will be on display, while on the dry goods counters greeting ■ cards and all the-knick- knacks so dear to the feminine taste, are displayed. iThe children's palace on the first floor is replete with dolls and games of every description, the martial spinit predominant in most boys ibeing catered to in the. shape of .muskets 7and military accoutrements. .-,-,, . The furniture department has also received considerable attention and. those thinking of house furnishing or. of additional comforts should not fail to look over the splendid stock' of furniture, ranges, heaters, etc.' The McLean Drug and Book Co.'1 - ,»Mr. McLean has been busy unpacking a dazzling array of suitable Christ- ,mas gifts in the shape.of■-plated and gilded . ware, .handsome ■ spun 'brass vases and pots, fancy-stationery and toys. Quite a featurerhas been made of gents' dressing cases and.thoughtful "wifey" will find here just the gift to please "hubby." ' - / - ' A fine line of real bristle hair brushes, with . prices to suit- all, and cut glassware, form other gifts suitable for Christmastime.' - - J. D. Quail .A '., The usual fine selection1' of steel ranges, -heaters, washing - machines! wringers, cutlery,'plate, hardware, ri-' fles, guns and ammunition- may -be seen at tliis' store, and ythe thrifty■ should have no difficulty, in. malting a selection'of suitable gifts .'from this stock. ,"■... . ,, • , : W. F. Muirhead;'' •(The latest English last model in ladies'' shoes is certainly the most sensible and hygienic footwear- ever designed:. Built with a low .heel, straight' lace-and-invisible eyelets, this shoe possesses a chastity of design and finish quite1 foreign to the usual mbrtels. Suitable Christinas gifts in the--shane 'of siipp-e,rs"--for~both s'exes ;may, he found in1, a "variety of material and quality.- ■■-, . " , - A. C. Liphardt. ■' -■• A jeweller's store is 'the Mecca, of gift purchasers at' this season. Jewelry and .precious stones have for botlr donor and recipient a; fascination that Invariably leads ono, when seeking an idea for a gift, to thev window of.the local jeweller, Waltham, Howard? Hamilton, Elgitf, and fine Swiss movements with Kew Observatory ratings, rings, plate, clocks, cut glass, etc., all comprise a profusion of acceptable present's at prices to tempt all purses." Quite a novelty may be seen hero'tn a wondorfiil 400.day clock, which is priced nt $10.00. > ■„ ] . N.E. Suddaby Tho usual assortment of stationery, novelties in art calendars, personal greeting cards, fancy boxed noto and envelopes, with a splendid solectlon of gorgeous and most naturally tinted artificial flowora, give this store a pleas- ing' and.decoratlvo effect. . . •A spocial lino In'D'Ofsny's perfumes in .prettily docoratod cases haa boen Stocked hy Mr. Suddaby, and -those will provo very acceptable gifts. Tho show cases aro stocked with dainty, china sets -and souvenirs/ Kodaks, fiction, fountain pons, dollcl- pus iboxed candlos of a quality to satisfy tho most particular.. , ■:?:■<;, >?mr&iAK_a^sx»y.. a * y^AS fine selection of models''in Lfelf' V velour • and^llkVhafa- may he• seen iii '* this .up-to-date establishment, "together"- with a-profflslon\\of trimmings and fea-';' thersJuilaWeitor."Building Qie most", extravagant:., confection- in -millinery. .-'■■ •. The.,latest"Pajrts^antt5 Eastern mod- - els are shown, while of eostumesy furs ; and dry goods there is a selection cal-K culated^to.temptjthe ,most,:capicious ' feminine,taste.- •■ >' . -JXy.-A*-*- '- - i> 'V-'' yA7-7 •*• .CarbseIla;V:>'' \\- .*-.' ,-' - .'■ ; The liquor 'department ;of. this store '■' already shows-signs ofthe approach- ' ing fesUvef season.v-Orders aro .being received-, and executed - daily for the'' usual, choice proprietary-lines han- . died by Mr. Carosella, while in1 the- grocery department dried fruit and preserves are In increased demand. - SERGEANT AMBERMAN RESIGNS ; FROM,THE CITY POLICE FORCE \\ Sergeant ;H.'>T.lAmberman, .who, for the past three years,has been:connect-' ed, with the city; has resigned his position as sergeant; and intends to return to Nova Scotia on a visit to his parent^ ,' . • .' . , THO was engaged, .through Firo Chief. smart, of Calgary, aa driver to the fire- ' department of iFernie In May, 1910 ' and worked with Chief McDougall for ^ a year, resigning on account of cut- - in- wages. , _ 'He then joined the provincial -police," ; Being . stationed at Michel for six • ' months, left them and started in with - the city again as constable" under Chiefs Bone, Hall and Brown. He was promoted to sergeant's rank by. Chief Hall, which position he has held until his resignation a month ago. He wishes the citizens'of Fernie to accept his most hearty thanks for their kindness to him at all times, and to say that private reasons alone ' prevent him remaining with the many people he is honored to call friend. Tactful "and resourceful, Sergeant ' Amberman has handled • successfully , some very difficult cases, and: it Is '■ with considerable regret that we see \\ ' him leave us.. However,' what is our loss is somebody else's gain, and we ' wish him every success wherever, he ' may go on leaving Fernie. ' Classified Ads.-Cent a Word LOST—From Central School, Sti" Ber- : nard puppy, black and brown, white" ' on nose. Anyone finding please notify R. -M. Young; Coal Co. Reward. , ■' . , 118 YOUNG WOMAN desires permanent " --work .by the; day. Apply Mrs. A. . Turner,- General- Delivery; Fernie. :•:'.' ^ ;..' ■ . ■' . • -in ' FOR-SALE-AND AT STU*D-HP,mA^*>*qm^'^'^^^M****-i»*<. "■yj; -r r^ri. r^t3£li:.XX,..AX*W... - 1. . 4it-- :&v-n.:iji-7- ■ "\\ .1-99 ; v S^lC* --'V .;, ■■.'Ji.--- 2\\W*V Ai?'. <"7^X$&£* y*.*~» i >jjmE D^n^^&(^FERNIE, B. o'.t NpyEMB^22; 1913. i'..f. PAGE. SEVEN •(MiMiii.^TYTVfVVVV*'■ ■-t;y>'---v. "'■'■•" " '.'t;.--'- -•-■.-.". -• "A •" - " . "=*i. --'.«? ; '■■■ - "' ' ' ' ■ •:-:■"-, ■ ■'■'-■ ,. _==_. ,—= . jziZIIzy™*-*****"-"*****1^^ ■ * rj~X;—= ■- -_—-—_ ' ' ^*+*T**Vv**V»*»»yvV¥V¥¥¥¥*M*-*«¥¥¥¥T'i'YYTTrTT , ■ f £*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦'.«►♦ mittee'.are making plans for a Big skating season this winter. It is proB ♦ BELLEVUE NOTES ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ^ • We specialize in GROCERIES, and ; QUALITY is our LEADING ** - * *• \\ : EEATUEE \\ ' \\ ' i t~~ • - ' ' All our new goods have arrived, have been unpacked and placed on vour shelves.^ -We,are. ready to replenish the housewife's larder with everything of the best quality A California Orchard in Your Kitchen Having plenty of California Fruits handy in your kitchen is like haying a California Orchard at your finger ends Libbys Rose-Date Fruits, Royal Anne Cherries,,Apricots, Peaches, Pears Pineapples We handle the.following brands of Flour Royal Household, Robin Hood & Five Roses »st=]Hui«e^ Two Branches BELLEVUE, & HILLCREST, Alta. ________—■• ; _j_, ... See, Our Heading Competition A Challenge to Checker Players mere is-a checker player in Bellevue who would -Be pleased to meet any other player in District IS for the title of champion. All correspondence will he carefully attended to. Write Editor first instance. We should5 like to see a little more correspondence on this1 particular pastime, as it is possiBle we snail Be arranging a column for checker players containing • prohlems and games. Get busy and express your opinions—this is the season. ' Mr. Peter McGovern desires to thank his many friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in his re- cent Bereavement. The camp has Been ' visited twice this week by death, the first (Being Mrs. Graham, who has lately arrived in camp from the Old Country. Just after landing she was taken sick and had to 'he taken too the hospital for an operation, which-was performed Wednesday last. She never rallied, how- ever, and on Thursday died. iThe funeral took place at Blairmore on Friday. (All people of the camp wish to extend their sympathy to the Bereaved husBand and friends. ■ The,sad news was flashed, around camp on Friday that Miss Janet 'McGovern, second daughter of Mi. Peter iMcGovern; had passed away. De'ce'as- edhad Been sick for some four or five weeks and died from rheumatism of the heart. She was in her 15th year. ■Funeral took, place at Blairmore on Sunday, the weather Being anything But fine, But quite a large crowd 'of friends turned out tp pay. a last tribute of respect. "Much .sympathy is felt for the McGovern family in their sad Bereavement.' 'Mr. Dave Hutton, who has Been laid up with a Bad cold, is again aBle to Be at work. ■Mr. Fred Beale, an old timer in this camp, 'Blew . in, again on Thursday. Fred don't know'whether he will Be staying yet or not. If he does there will Be some .wrestling on the go shor- ly. Don't forget the Benefit concert in the Lyric Theatre on Nov, 25th. Tickets are only 50'cents. Don't miss this," it will he good; come, and Bring your friends as it's, for a good cause. . '' Saturday was pay day at the Bellevue, mines and the camp had quite a Busy appearance.,, The Boys ail kept up" their reputation for Being good. . Mr. tHarry White, who.has Been in camp for some . time, left slthis week for 'Passburg, where he has secured a position .'as fire .Boss. He* moved his family down there this week., Don't forget to save the headings of aBle that the reputation, which our football team let slip .this year will Be t recovered -By the'crack hockey team ,of the Pass-wearing the green and white. - 'Mr. and Mrs. Windsor, of the Union Bank, returned on Friday after an ex- tended^ vacation trip covering some months.^' '■ ' Dan Perry, of Hillcrest station, returned on Friday from a visit to Ontario. 'Mr. and Mrs. James Turner were Fernie visitors on Monday. ,- George Hutton ahd his sister, iMrs George Coupland, were Lethhrldge visl itors on Saturday. - The .Bellevue Brass Band are giv- ing a grand hall in the Workers' Hall on Friday night of this week. 1 A very pleasant social was held 'By the memBers of tBe Epworth League on Monday evening under the auspices of the social committee. -The event consisted of a splendid program of recitations' singing, etc., hy the memhers. -Miss Annie Kynaston, as convener of the social committee, deserves every credit for the success of the occasion. / , 'Mr. George Brown moved his family up from -Macleod this week. They will occupy the house vacated hy David Davidson. •The .Slavonians of Maple Leaf had a christening celebration dn Sunday and -Monday. ."•Call and see Naylor's new overcoats; they are just right; The .Bellevue Band will give a concert in the Lyric Theatre oh Sunday night. /The following is the program: March,- "Bold .Britons"; selection, Songs of Sentiment"; military patrol 'Advance and retreat"; cornet solo, You'll RememBer Me"; selection/ War Days"; fantasia. "Manriso." Have you visited Burnett's store? If' not, why not? Have you saved your headings? If not, why not?' Do you want a really serviceaBle overcoat? Try Naylor,, he bas got what you want. Heaters, l - ranges -, and hardware ? Sure, try HumBle, complete house furnisher. . Fresh groceries and the daintiest selection of crockery can .he seen and Bought at A. I. Blais, the Bellevue and Frank provision merchant. ~ - ♦ • Bellevue Local Union Notes ♦ J :■ '•' ;. , Oiiiia. & Glassware ti Watch this Space, our window See Special Announcement .next week (See our Heading; Competition on page 3) Stores at BELLEVUE & FRANK Alberta. _f "h a ina nflv_o « r_ ry-n *•_«»■»__. «<*_.*■ V* __ _«...i -W....-W—^wjj*.*-w.i*U—bci-ujj-c?- Ul-lUC 111 l£t!b, They may Be ■ seen at the different stores in camp: . 'Mr. Andrew Goodwin and wife were in Fernie the week end on business, returning on Monday night. ■Mrs. John. Hutton, who left here some three months ago on a visit to her home in Scotland, returned to camp again on Saturday night. She says there is no place like home "and is looking well after her trip. Mrs. A, Burcey was a Blairmore.vis- itor.ou Saturday. Mr. Fred J-Ioaly, of North Fork, wits in camp this week, the guest of -Mr. tloseph McGaugh, ■Two of tho boys, Noble 'McDonald and Fred Beal, went to Frank on Thursday last to sit in examination for firo Boss papers. Hope you are successful, 'Boys. ■Mr. John Thompson, who has.Been a resident of this camp for somo time, left hero this week for Edmonton, wlioro ho haa socured a position as engineer. 'Mrs. Geo. Brown, bf Maclood, was ln camp on Thursday visiting hor Bus- bund, who lind his foot Bjoke a fow days ago. Amateur night nt the/Lyric' wns quite n bucccss and the Building avos tnxnd, to its cnpaclty. A Big crowd look part* and thero wna Bomo real Rood fun for young rind old. Prizes woro awarded to tho following; Miss Florrlo Hallswonth and Robort Davidson, had lo split tho first prlzo Botwoon thorn; Master John Dtcken got second, nnd Miss Wlnnlfrod Dickon got third. Tlio boxing contest wns botwoon Mnstors Frank Burrows nnd Joo Newton, Joo Nowtdn secured first prize upon points. Tho flour eating contoBt furnlBhod a lot of fun, flrrit prlzo Bolng nwnrdod Master Goo. Knowles, (Mr. JftinnB Flshnr him nccopted a position nt No, 1 mino, Mr. Eiigono Poaraon, of .nurmls, Bpont Sunday with his parents In cnmp. Hob Levitt nnd Jack Hutton spoilt a woek nt. North Fork Bhoollnif. Mr. Kinsman, of Maplo Lonf, has bo- cured n poBltlon as flro 'boss In Conl Crook and hns movod IiIb family to Fornlo, Nov, ThoB. Herd Ib a now arrival from Enfflnnd, Mr. Hood will tako chargo of tho MothodlBt work at North Fork. Tcindorti aro nulled for thn oroctlon of tlio now illollovno rink. ITho com- Our meeting convened as usual with a very meagre attendance, probably owing to the weather; perhaps some had forgotten' that we were meeting eye_ryiweek._but-whntp.vpr-th-a. cause, "if those that were absent could realize the depressing effect a poor attendance has on those present I am sure they would make a more strenuous effort to; Be'present, Baving regard to the' fact that it is to their benefit to do so. ■ We had three communications of particular note, one bolng from headquarters, informing us of the unanimous desire of our membership to continue the present assessment until such" times as our .present labor wars are over. A reply from Pres. Smith stating that he had written John ,P. vVhlte concerning the last two findings of this District, and that he would' convene the executive board as soon as he had a reply, was received. , The third communication was a resolution from the Trades and Labor Congross calling on nil organized la'bor to register a pro- test against tlio Injustice that'is Being meted ou tp the striking miners of .Vancouver Island. The resolution received Uie endorsatlon of this Local. The remaining portion of the meeting was spent in listening to different committee reports and the paying of Bills. At our regular meeting noxt Sunday, Nov. 23rd, wo shall havo with us "Boh" Walker, of CumBerlnnd. All memBers kindly noto, ♦ ♦♦•-to*.*.**.*..*.*-*. ♦ ♦ ♦ FRANK NOTES ♦ =y Our Heading Contest on page f THE LYRIC THEATRE • Bellevue Aiid, Daily uhmna of motion t>i<'- inruti in « iinjj Unit )n : : : Now — Oloan — Oorafortablo If monoy could buy belter pMurea you woul.I mi, litem Jioro. : t < • . . , The Lyric Theatre Co. C.-W JOH»STf)sipt Manager Tho report thai waB circulated In tho 'pnpors Hint Mr: Brock, nftor his Inspection of old Turtle, pronounced It safe, has boen contradicted By him, ■Ho Btotes thut It Is as unsafe ns ovor, Tliolloliomlnn pooplo of Frank gave a dance ln BIoIb' Hall on Monday night, Tho Ilnll was well filled with couples who onjoyod themselves till SI o'clock In tho morning. Tho music was Huppllod By an'orchestra led nnd trained By V. Kotnn. "DoBay plvo" w«b also ln circulation, Mr. iW, J, McOownn, who has Boon on n trip to Nova Scotia and othor places In tlio East, returned to town on Sundny, Somo of tho old Binoltor machinery Ib Being removed and ia beltiR shipped to Grand Forka U. C. Tlio pollco linrrnckB woro moved nwny from Frnnlt last wonk. Wo woro too poaccnblo to support ix policeman, Tlio talk that Ib cauBliwoxcltonumt In town tlioHo dnya Ir tho iiowb of a HkiitliiR rink. Ln«t Sunday night a numBor of hookoy oiitliunlnnts Rather- nd nt tbo Sanatorium nnd decided that the proBpeets for a rink this yonr wore ns good an over, nnd as a result elected n fow offiwH.to act nn a nuc1cu» Tor a larjfor or«nnlzntlon. Mr. A, 1. IH»U, president, and Mr, J. Murray, Bocrotnry. A commlttoo wan alHo ap. ■jLjuiuu m iiuin. ia imi uki mnt and hoo if n Tir-v ..it,» .,( *n,p FinntrirliiJJi »-(..u3J suit Bettor, On TiHwday nlfjht the ox- ucutlvo mot, oh well m a largo num* »wr of other* Interested In tlio project, nnd nn nmount of business was traiiHactnd. iMr, ninln wn« In thn MiMr \\flrtr thn rtilnillr.n it'r^r, *■**-; * " roport of the commltteo was miolvad nnd In It they recommended that the old rink alto Bo tmed, tm It wiih larger and It would cost less to repair It thnn to *Biilld a new one. Tho roport wn« adopted. A committee of throe was appointed to provide tho neceuary m.ifr*rHl nnd put 'h* rink In elwpe for Ice. 1'hoii) appointed wero Moiar*. W. J. MeOownn. It. T-3. Hnrikln and a 111111k. It una movMl, aeeonded and carried, thnt Dr. McKay, hia family find hospital nur*es havo free admit- tnnco on tho lc* during skstlntr hf>»r» and ix pma to ull horkey Kamen; thit all (uembcra of the nsaoclmtlon. Il»-lr wive* and families, tho manager of Um Cu-Uuilnui., tkU \\iu\\\\, nad Hiifxi,*, be Rvanted freo akatlng en pleating ntKhts. Tbo tlianlfK of the iwaoclntlon ttere expressed for the generous offer of the Canadian "Coal Consolidated Co to the association. IThe rink is now iu 'Preparation and the committee is receiving very liberal support from every one. Over $100.00 is in' the hands oi the treasurer already. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦<#><#;<#. ♦ PASSBURG AND VICINITY ♦ ♦ By Observer . *+. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^J InaX* r!day eveuing- the "thunder the auspices of Mr. Nat Evans W. Pictor and J. Smith, and was a very successful event. The dance, al- ™sh1,n°t very widely advertised, was woll attended. The hall has booi engaged by the above mentioned'gen* so6 w!n.i °n lhe C°(nhlg winter month=. so we shall have the opportunity of enjoying some up-to-date dances duriutr the season AU dances in tbe future will be well advertised, well conducted and, we hope, well attended. The cheSstraWaS SU?plied ,by the IIadlem or- •The Observer, while hustling around during the time statements were toelne Issued, was greatly surprised at the kick some of the miners were making over the amount kept back at the ot fice to pay the checkers. The Observer is not in a .position to say whether there has Been some mistake made or not but there is one thing certain, vi?., if the miners here in Passburg are desirous of maintaining checkers to ook after .their interests they will nave to assess themselves more than they have, hitherto done, as all members who attend the meetings know the Local has had to support the checkers' fund, to the extent of ahout twelve or sixteen' dollars every time the latter, went around measuring •Now, if the miners here must have checkers, then surely they should bo prepared to pay them instead of rob"- omg the Local of its funds. The Passhurg Philharmonic Society held their concert here in the PresBy- tenan Church on Wednesday evening the 12th, and it was declared By all who attended to -Be strictly up-to-date The chair was occupied By the Rev! Mr. Stevenson. We are sorry to announce' that our old friends Jack Twig and Billy Blisset nave left us, and are now at Michel. AJthough Jack, and Billy were well liked here among the Boys, the wait- ress at times declared them to Be very annoying, especially Jack. Our old friend, Comrade O'Brien, ex-M. P., was here at Passhurg on Saturday last, and on Sunday at the Slav ok Hall delivered a speech that was very interesting to his audience: The suibject of his speech was the position -OL.t«n_SnoiQi;at_n„,.i.^_....i, .__ - -"——. *r.^.L.av-j.-ai ijr—wim-regard^D religion, a subject.that very often Becomes the source of heated discussions. .Comrade O'Brien -pointed out to his audience that "all workers should know themselves. They should do a little thinking, ■ as all men are tree to be,,what they chose—Atheist, 'Protestant, Catholic or otherwise. We find that among the capitalistic class, as with the Socialist, we have men differ in opinion with regards to religion, yet it Becomes very laughaBlo when one sees memBers of tho old political parties point out the strong objection that they have to tbo Socialist I arty Because some ot, its memBers may be Atheists or otherwise and opposed to religion. As Comrado O'Brien points out, thoy forget that capital was tho founder of Atheism. Of course we do not expect the old party politician to point theso things out to us, but it is strictly up to us, as a working class struggling for our ©mancipation, to educato ourselves to tlie end that whon the old -pnrty politicians como around at somo future dato putting up such lamo arguments to secure our votos, we can toll thorn that wo havo had enough of bucIi Bum dopo. Air, ami .Mrs, Taylor wore visitors bore to Pawsliurg last Wednesday and Boforo hmvjiir! tor home that night, had .the picture of taking In tbo cuncert, which they declared was a The alteration of tho outBldo tracks at thn mlnoH horo having Been completed, tbo haulage crew will now work a llttlo steadlor, The tipple boss at Maple Luiif mot with a sovero accident last weok ond. Wo trust thnt with good treatment ho will aoon bo iu good shape again, The mines at Maple Leaf aro work- Ing very stoady theso dayB. Watch put for the reign of prosperity that Ib honoring near, Thero being no work ou Tuesday last, nnd a nice full or snow on tho Ki-oimd, many a nlmrod slung bin gun and hiked for a door. Tho Observer behold uulto a fow returning homo and —O dear! They're aafe! There wns nn exchange of sontl- montH hot ween tho miners of Police flntB on wlint Bhould havo been pay Haturdny. It Booms that there was something wrong with tho transmission of tho money, or It should have boon here, according to reports from tho conl offlcw. liowovor, It did not Innd for tlio men to got pnid on tho 'Monday, mi tlm men .divided to hold meeting, which thoy did on Monday evening. After discussing tlio matter It .was d.joiiliHl—iio pay, no work, On I iiiisilny tlmy stayed at home, hut Hint night Iho roll nrrlved and tho hoys woro paid. The necessity for hiioIi action should lu* upiure-mt to nil after tho l-'rnnk Incident, l-'urthor, thn op- erntnrH hold I wo weeks' pny In hand nnd the men are rertalnly vnlltled to r*9r,t-t .,.,.* , i , when their waiscH »re not fnrthermit-ni' Aliur tlm decision given at Tabor last week,.. It Is 'lUfsniimable whether lliu men are not imtlMM in mmpenimtinn for waiting. In any nine, thin kind of business Ih getting loo prevalent nnd the eonipKnlen Hhould ink<" i-verv ■ore "-Mumm to get the pny nul l>y mw\\- fled dates, ■The in hum at Munnin nr« regaining tliolr output stondily. There nro now hetween fifty nnd hixly men working thero and It Is xald tliat everythltiK will ibo running nt It« tullotit rapacity In the near future. According to Informal 1<>» i'<<-.«lwUit>, tht*}' *\\Clf*-i lli'ilf.f H- ' •<,■;• *M,) SPECIAL THIS WEEK I We are showing an extra large range of special tailored overcoats. Workmanship and material guaranteed to be the best that the market can produce. With both shawl and military .collars prices from $15 00 $25 00 Watch This Space Next Week Bellevue Alta. =y Stephen T. Humble $15.00 Heater FREE ! We are giving a handsome heater to you free WATCH OUR WINDOW FOR Modern Furniture AND H ■ ■*4«ip> mm ««• mm 1*H0-F MAW m&P -Afe 4tt4WkdLtt *^0 Jfc V^ Look in at THE Bellevue Hardware Store BELLEVUE, Altn. (For further camp nevm •*. Klght) I'nisc Our Heading Contest on page 5 'A* ■iadttila ;■'■&•-¥'• kin ;-S'- iff I l'i \\t <:& «™ t. fl; vl ,(■$*■ s ■*»..- •3*>-^ ■a' 1' I m Iif: *.rs., .-.,; '.. rJ> . - • "-XV-j >-.-«.**;■>-. -?•' ..-.■: I*? M ' I ;t.-,"-'■ ., ihi.' 'Yr.* .'-■/.* •>5."-A ■ i <>-w-- -*Kf N&ws of ihe District Camps (Continued from Page 5) -, PASSBURG NOTES (Continued) much or them to work in, so they went home. Because these men were alive to the danger that existed In their place, and did what was right, according to the Coal Mines Regulation Act, they are no longer' required by the company, who tried to disguise their action as well as possible by sending the men to work in an abnormal place and making things as uncomfortable as possible for them. Then they fired them. However, our Local secretary, T. Harries, has taken the case up with ■ the company and if not. adjusted will be referred to the District: ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦'♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ *#- BEAVER MINES NOTES ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The mine here worked but' three davs last week and so far none this week, so that things are looking vory bad here - at present. Several miners have already left the camp, most of them finding work at Bellevue, and although any mail may bring *in sufficient orders to Btart the mine working full time again. ■Martin and Joe Polacik and Mike Pecula left Beaver on Tuesday for their homes-in Hungary. As they are all married, with their dependents in the land of tho "Hun," it is their intentions to return next spring with their wives and families. Watch Beaver grow next year. Being old hands and well respected miners, we wish them a safe and pleasant journey. Of course they had the' usual jollification on the eve of their departure, to which several English speaking friends were invited. The Sabbatarian conscience received a severe shock when one of our Church elders was seen peddling potatoes, cabbages, and other farm products amongst his customers' in the camp with his rig and team last Sunday. This individual Is a strict observer of the Lord's Day, lives on a homestead a'bout two miles from the camp, and apparently, like the absent-minded beggar, he lost count. He received a rude awakening, however, when a lady customer asked him hati he been to communion today, and on being assured that it was the day of rest he ' fled hom to hide his disgrace. ' To round up his wedding celebrations. -Mr. iTorpy gave a free dance in the Pioneer, Hall to his friends and . neighbors last Saturday evening. A strong contingent of friendly trippers from 'Pincher Creek and Burmis accepted the invite and about 45 couples flittered' around the spacious hall.Kto the lively strains of .the piano, manip- ■ ulated by Mrs. McVicar, until 2.30 next ' morning.- 'Mrs. .larrad put up a very nice,lunch and the entertainment was voted to be one of the best ever held - in Beaver" The week previous, when " he and his bride returned from their honeymoon, Mr. Torpy treated the ■^Qys^Q„a_goodjollificafion.,J.\\llh_an, ample supply of 'the cup that cheers. On that occasion some of Uie hoys sang like nightingales, whilst others shouted themselves hoarse wishing him ancl his spouse joy and happiness. •Hard hit. as the workmen in this camp have been recently, yet that they arc willing to share what little they have with a stranger in distress was proved last week.,. About two months ago a young man named Wm. Thompson, who camo with the harvest trip from the cast, was found on arriving 'TABER NOTES at this camp to be suffering from typhoid fever. He did not start -work and was not on.-the doctor's list, besides being friendless .aud destitute. He was sent .from here to Pincher Creek hospital, „*but when, apparently recovered from' the- fever, he "was turned out of that institution, The Mounted 'Police, to rid Pincher Creek of him, paid hte stage fare back.to Beaver, where a miner named M. Brown, who knew him, was employed. Unfortunately Mr. Brown, or "Burter," as he is popularly called, had only started and was scarcely earning sufficient to keep himself.' However, the Local took the matter up and a committee, consisting of Wm. Davies, Alex Thompson, Bob Stenhouse and Dave Thompson, was appointed. This committee succeeded in getting the invalid $16.00, besides a suit of underclothing which -Tom 'Moore, merchant, freely gave on learning he was badly in need of them. Although*Thompson has regained sufficient strength to walk without the aid of crutches, yet it will be a few weeks .before he will be ahle to find a purchaser for his labor power. He is still in the Hotel- de-Bunk and well catered for hy its genial proprietor, Charlie Heath. ♦ ♦ <&■ HILLCREST NOTES ♦ +■ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ air. Deo Thomas, driver boss in No. 2 mine, suffered a painful accident last week through being caught iby a trip of empty cars. He was ibadly bruised about the head. He was attended by Dr. Ross and is doing as well as can be expected. At a recent meeting of the Local union the matter of publishing local doings was ibrought up,for discussion. After giving the matter considerable attention the meeting decided not to publish anything' concerning union meetings. We wish to announce that Hillcrest is gradually ceasing' to be the ideal bachelor quarters. On Saturday, the 8th inst, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stretton was the scene of a pretty wedding, when their neice, Miss Ada Crosby, of Staffordshire, England,' ■became the bride of Mr. Chas. Evans, of this town. Only immediate friends were present during the ceremony, after which the ladies' tin can band,- of which iMrsn Reid is the master, visited the happy couple. iMr. Evans promptly responded. We all join in wishing them a long and happy life. " Saturday last was tag day in Hill- "crest. A large number of tags have been sold. The proceeds were in aid of the skating rink. With a few days' labor and the kind assistance of Jack Frost our rink will be completed. Dr. Allan Ross has let the contract to 'Mr. Jack Wheeler for the erection of the new hospital, His new residence, which has been under contrac- tinn but a few weeks, Js nearly com- A sad accident happened to-a machine runner named Lloyd on Tuesday afternoon, ■' A .piece of stone fell and broke his .hack, He lived until -Wednesday afternoon. The deceased man was' one of the early Mormon settlers in Taber, having been here about nine yea'rs. - , . "' On Thursday there will 'be a vote taken at the pit mouth to decide whether the sick fund shall he amalga^ mated ■with the Local. The reason for this is that'a great many- men. don't join' the fund, as it is run at present, and" consequently the funds are generally pretty low.'- By taking dues from each meitiber of the Local, it will ibe possible to have a fund to .meet any emergency.. Agreements have been signed up at the small mines in this district with the exception of Rock Springs. The men-have got the .best .possible conditions .under the circumstances without' a suspension of work. At Superior and White Ash collieries they have accepted ' the sceen coal basis. At present- the coal,, is being loaded with a two inch fork, the screen 'being three-quarter inch, nine foot long. At" White Ash the men got/ui increase on Uie brushing .price, which is, however, still below.the rate paid at the Canada West mine. The agreements are not, what we would like, but as the men employed at these mines accepted them, we have to be content. A large audience turned out on'Sunday night to hear "Bob" Walker on the Vancouver situation. Tlie Miners' aiall was packed, and it was noticeable that quite a few ladies we,re among the crowd. Vice President Graham acted as chairman and filled the ijosI- tion to the.satisfaction of everyone. On Tuesday night Js H. Fisher,' lectured in the open air;-:su!bject, "Revolution." As the night was pretty chilly not a very large audience gathered. Charlie O'Brien will -be in' town on Sunday to deliver an address. A good crowd is expected present to hear him,, especially,as the municipal elections are coming on, and there is talk of putting labor candidates in the field. 'The annual, ratepayers' meeting, as prescribed by the new • Towns. Act, takes place on Monday,. Nov.. 24th, at 8 p.m. 'This will he the'opportunity to get information regarding the financial affairs of the town. • It is to ■be hoped that the working men will turn out to hear thp,report of the men they elected to run their affairs. The -bylaw for the debentures for the extension of the water system was carried on 'Monday, only three votes being cast against it. Walter Hackett has quit -his job as fireman and started in the mine. 'Billy iMills has been laid off. for a few days with a sore hand., Tlie -Timelier boys and Ted Machin have gone.to Superior to work. **, pleted. Carl Johnson, who had his leg .badly burned in the mine a few weeks ago, is able to be around again. '. . /Maurice Campbell, of Fernie, is visiting in Hillcrest for the last couple of days. 'Bill Smith and John Hunter, of Coleman, moved to Hillcrest last week. Fred Raynor returned from the Bra- zeau a few weeks ago. He Is making Hillcrest his place of abode. 4>.^.^.^.^^<^^ ♦ ♦ *-+. •+> ♦ ♦ ' ♦ ♦ COLEMAN NOTES ♦ H.G.GoodeveCo. LIMITED SPECIAL $ 18.00 Power Washing Machine ABSOLDTELY FREE Watch this Space *+. .0. 99* ^ <&• ^ ♦ ♦ «► •*- ♦ ♦ ♦ ' A conference of .the various Co-op- -*fi-ntivn_5:*tnRip.t.ies_-ivas-_called_L_to_meet_ at Frank on Nov.-12th. Delegates from Lethbridge, Hillcrest, Frank,, Coleman and Fernie were nresent. A resolution was passed condemning the-attitude of Mr. Trowen, secretary of the Dominion Retnil 'Merchants' Association, in .decrying the Co-operative movement and thus attempting-to bring such societies Into- disrepute with the public generally, especially with the working .class; also In , his advising the Retail -Merchants' Association to combine to defeat the Co-operative movement and to retard thegfowth of what is necessarily n working class movement,- Several other resolutions were passed by tbe delegates present, 'before the conference adjourned, advising all working mon to join In making,the Co-operative . movement a success, C. 'M. O'Brien gave a very Interesting lecture in the "Coleman Opera Houso on Sunday night, Nov. 16, before a very good audience. After speaking for nbout two hours, Charlie wns awarded a hearty voto of thanks. ■Charlie starts out on a lecturing tour shortly, going ns far E-ast as Glace Bay,' afterwards visiting tho home of his parents, whom ho hns not,seen for wbout 12 years. Good luck, Charlie. A -collection was taken up on pay day last on behalf of■ Albert Vnsnleln, who got injured nbout six months ago In the pillars in York Creek. The amount collected was $119. An unusually high wind blow down tho Pass on Frldny night and Saturday doing consldernfolo damage to proporty in and around Coleman. About 100 ynrds of tho McGillivray Coal Com-' piiny's 'snow bIioiI covering tho track wns blown down. Richard Gnskol, whilo nt work In Pillar 138, York Crook, mot with an ncelrtont which cinisod him to hnvo night stitches In his head, Dick narrowly escaped with his life. Tho Colomnn Mercantile Company floRPd down for Rood todny. tho 18th. Coming ovonts cast thoir shadows boforo. pices' bf';tije" Ladies' Aid. Rev. Mr. Pearson occupied; the chair. The fol-. loyving/'artistes '>'contributed to the program • by vocal ^and instrumental pieces: ^Accompanist, Mr.VCharles Percy; recitatip'ns hyS Misses Joyce and Wilson'; songs 'by Messrs. McMillan,- .K. Sampson, W. Rd. -vuckey, J. Hewitt; sorigs by Mesdame's Larmont, Percy and Appletoy; violin solos by Mr. Josiah Hewitt;. duet, '.'Domestic Econ-„ omy," J. Hewitt'and-Mrs. Percy; dramatic recitals toy Mr.. Jessep Baugn assisted-by G. Findlayson; quartette pieces-rendered by Messrs. Renshaw,' Mongol, Roberts ,and - Pennan {Welsh Quartette Party). * The concert was voted one of the best ever held since the Church began. The committee de- 'sire to thank J. Hewitt for the splendid program-' arranged "and- all the artists who freely" gave their'services, and all wfto'lu any way helped to make the cbngert a success.' ■ , Mrs.' George Vickers was the holder -of the winning number for the Singer sewing machine drawn for up here ot Tuesday evening. ■ Congratulations. ' Good-byes and hand-shakes are the order of the day, as there is to.be quite an exodus of people from I camp this .week end bound for England. The names of the intending travellers are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. G. Vickers and family, bound for Whitehaven, Cumberland; John Burrows, for Lancashire; Billy Partridge and Tommy Hall,-for Durham; Jim McCartney, Pud Walker and Joe Graham (and wife may be) for Whitehaven, Cumberland. We' wish them all a pleasant journey and hope they enjoy the Christmas turkey. Jim Langdon left camp on -Monday- en route for .Cornwall, England, after an absence of 27 years. ■ Surely there w.lll he.some changes taken place in tliat. time. Some evil disposed person or persons spiked down-the B mine outside incline rope, causing a wreck, laying a shift off, and narrowly escaped causing serious injuries to" the outside haulage' hands. $100 offered for evidence leading to conviction. We hope the offender may be brought to book. - The shiveree band was out on Thursday morning serenading Mr. and Mrs. Robert Falrclough, who arrived in camp on Wednesday evening. We offer congratulations and extend- a hearty welcome to Mrs. Falrclough. Truly-far different from London, England. What say you? A gang of men are employed grading the south end of Victoria/Park with the intention of making a skating rink.' Owing to unforeseen circumstances, the proposed skating rink in front"of the.Club had to be abandoned. Miss Linda Hugall was removed to Fernie hospital on Saturday last suffering with appendicitis." The inclemency of the weather prevented a lot of Creekites taking advantage of the special train run for the show on "Wednesday,, night. There have been several slight accidents up here this week, butnothlng of a serious nature. Tom Yates, pf Michel, was visiting friends and acquaintances iip here on Monday., Glad to see. you; Tom. Mr.,Hosiah, Hewitt is" now doing'.his stunt in the timekeepers' office on the night turn:' Congratulations, old man. Mrs. (Maussett, of Coyote Street, was removed to hospital on' Friday lasWor We hope to see" - Everything in. connection'. with -the basket social in aid of the Island children is .practically,.arranged. -The-la-1 dies will.be there ia force with ba£ kets and;.it.remains for.;the men to make it,a ,success by attending and buying the same. . Don't forget the* date—Tuesday, Nov. 25th. ■-'• ,, . Alf. Rice left Monday night for a trip to the Old Country. • D. Rees, International Bo^ird Member, -was present at /Tuesday's meeting of the. Local, which was sparsely attended, and .reviewed the situation in the strike fields. . Call again, Dave, you can count on a bigger crowd next time. V '-,. '."• A dance took place in the ,Queen's •Monday. ;, ,,''•. The Kosleski compensation claim is to ibe finally disposed of, the company admitting the claim hut disputing its amount.' ' ^ . Bill Adams, Ted and Bill Partridge,' were Hosmer visitors Wednesday night. '. An enjoyable dance,- promoted by the lessee of the Opera House took >place Thursday; Fernie City Band Orchestra were In "attendance. | The Knights, of Pythias intend giving the annual - masquerade •, New Year's Eve. , Posters will give full particulars. ♦ ♦ ♦ MICHEL NOTES ♦ ♦ " ♦ ♦ '♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ . Appreciating tho fact that, the Church of England is again re-opened in Michel, the Rev. E. C, Curry, expresses his appreciation to the Anglican members who ' havo attended at the Methodist Church during his pastorate, and desires that the friendliest relntlons will continue to exist between both denominations. BLAIRMORE NOTES medical treatment; her around soon. • Mn iFlett, formerly teacher, at-the schools' up here', ig back again in camp "visiting old acquaintances. ' Mr, and -Jlrs. Coupe havo removed their residence to Fernie.' We'-understand that-the Femie-Cqal Creek Band intend giving a concert }n the Club Hall in tho very near future. Watch for further announcement. ' Tho Methodist Sunday School has arranged to hold their annual entertainment and Christmas tree on Monday evening, December 22nd. Preparations have been going on for some time to make this a very interesting occasion. At the meeting of the officials' of the •Coal Creek Methodist Church held a few evenings ago, finances were found to be In a flourishing condition. All obligations, had been met for the half year ending with October 31st. HOSMER NOTES We will Sumwh your Jjohkis from collar to gnrrd. nn*li*il rtl« nii*ikniuiJi| Mi Mtn,1.*.* •> i »•« •■ ■ - tell ua. ,.r,,.,t THE Coleman Hardware Store COLEMAN, Alta. + CORBIN NOTES ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Wn nro Horry to nnnounco thnt Mrs, Mntthow Bull Is sick In hod, hut hopo to henr of hor rocovory soon. MrH. Jones jcavo ix flno whist drlvo nt thc Wyo on Tnnnd>y nftornoon. Tho bur fixtures hnvo arrived this week for tlio Flnthoml Hotel, Tho smoker proved ft uroat success on Saturday evening last, everybody KettlnK a Kood tlmo. John Jones, tho notott wrostlor ln tho Push, gave n flno exhibition at the smoker but his opponent wns a llttlo too heavy. rrho trainmen gave a tlno danco on WAri-nAnrf-M' ovm-H-m-*" wnMi UrMtt tin to thn smalt hours of tho morning. Mr. 'Alu**;* *i*ii it. llttltlj^itl Lit*. hom- to ICI-ko for n week's hunting. (Mr*. TI. Mawey was a visitor to Michel this week. No. a mino ls only working morning shift at firoaont. i , , ,, IkOU l luffcUv Ita* iSk-)"-'- -f.'9*~i.' ***■ i- Union Hall on Saturday, Dee. 2nd. Como In crowdf, a» It'a for a good causo. Wo must thank the Fornle Ilrowery for their klndnou In Riving us two l«.gallon kega tree or t-hnrgc towards tho smoker, u , - Krnn-H Nwwioau Ia heljwr *'.\\\\ the I team during h. Huhbard'a absence. A fence on oach side of the sidewalk on iMain Street behind the Bank of Montreal would be of real benefit. Some one Is liable to w'alk overboard those winter nights at'a considerable risk of personal Injury. ..Hero's a chnnce for tho vigilant Mr. 13eckott to HllillO. Tlie Board of Trado Intend drawing the attention of tho Oroat. Northern Hallway Co. to tho chilly state of affairs ono Is up against wnltlng for tralnp. If tho waiting room was kept hen tod and open around train tlmo It would bo greatly appreciated hy tho travelling puhlie of Hosmor. Tho mombors of the Jlosmer Athlotlc Club, nfter much porsunfllon, turned up in sufflplont nnmhors to hold a mooting Friday night lust. The old officers, fearing dismissal, tender- mi their resignation en bloc' nnd a now outfit wns 'elected. It's to bo hoped thoy prove livo ones. Mr. Willy Is tho now president and H. Ilrooko fiocrotnry-tronsuror, The ropo on tho main Incline broko Friday lost, onuBlng a runaway of a dozen or so onrs of conl. Tho nowly1 Installed Hnyos Derail fallod to check their meteoric caroor, all kinds' of damage being dono before they finally Jumped tho troatle at tho foot or tho lnclino. Tho accident caused tho afternoon sliirt lo lay off. A Husslnn bnckhnnd In Xo, 0 wns caught hy ii full nf roof nnd got his nrm hadl'y mushed up. Tho Injury, which Is n pnlnttil one, caused his ro- movnl to tho hoRpl(iil,vwhoro ho Is progressing ns satisfactorily ns cnn ho oxpecled. It is refreshing to rend that Dowser was howled down at Vancouvor recently. If,nny of his outfit yonturo (llln Ml **!*>) II 4,U«I *" •"ewK" Dr. .Major, of Nelson, Is at 'present relieving Dr. Nay, who, accompanied by Mrs. Nay, hat gon* ea«l for a few weeks on business. rrho Nora Henderson Opera Co. woro nlnvlnr In llnsmcr Tiiftsdsv nnd Wednesday. Urge bonnes were present -both days, tho program giving ovcry satisfaction, Thn school Is clofod down for a fow ivnuks owing to an'l epidemic of measles. Tho Athlodc Club executive met Wwlnesdnv nlfrhf snd de-flded on a I pioKnim ulikl) It Is hoped will stlmu- | Into nn Interest In tho Club, A amok- **t U in lie Klvi-n iu IUm i**>**f fulini;. A hllllitr,!. tournament and whist drives nr*» to bn staged, further particulars of t*huii nil) ht given shortly We are pleased to see .that Miss Nora Lees is still heading the list of candidates ■ in the piano contest ,,by-a majority of 38,435 votes. Miss.Lees.is determined to win that piano. J. M. JPetters, supt. of the Rocky iMountain Cement .Co.,' returned from Medicine Hat on Thursday, where he had been attending to the business of the company. Mr. Wolstenholme, sr., was in town on Thursday looking .up some of his old-time friends. Mr. Wolstenholme, it might be remembered, was the1 first man to-put up a brick building in Lethbridge. Mrs. R. M. Brisco returned to Blairmore on Saturday. Mrs. Brisco has for several months been visiting her sister, at Chatham, Ontario. F. .Sick was a business" visitor to 'Blairmore this week." ' Frank Ciciarella has opened up a (boot, department in his ' store on' Victoria Street East. , - The dance 'given in-the Opera House -by Silvo Gris, the' new proprietor, on Friday night, was only fairly, well' attended, owing1 to such short notice being given. -' Mrsl W. ,M. .'Muncaster, who last "SuiTaay^IaTTlT^misT'o^^ injure her arm, is progressing most favorably. Fred Harris, who until lately was the cutter at the 41 Meat,Market, left for Calgary on' Monday, where he will reside in future. Mr. Harris, who was noted for his fine baritone voice," sang his favorite solo'in the-Central Bap-- tist jChurch' on Sunday night last. The smoker held' in tho Miners' Hall under the auspices of the Blairmore Hockey team, was a huge success and largely attended by all those interested in hockey. ''.. , 'Bert Shelton returned to Blairmore on- Friday last from Princeton, B. C. Bert will make an Indefinite stay in town looking up his numerous friends. Sid Sergeant has just unloaded a car of grain and green feed and Is now aWe to meet the increased demand for same. , The meeting of the shareholders of tho Blalrmoro Opera Houbo Co., which was held In W. A, .Beebe's office on Saturday night last, was largely attended and thc business transacted was. satisfactory to all, Saturday last was a busy day for tho storekoopors.-lt being payday at the cement works as well as tho mine. The new hospital, which Is bolng erected on the new townsite by Contractor Sinclair, Is almost complotod and we understand will bo opened some tlmo during December. Tho many friends of Jim Pndon will be plonsed to hear,.that ho Is woll on tho road to recovery after his'long Illness with appendicitis, and hopes to bo around In a few days, Sovoral Italians wero convicted nt Dollovuo on- Wednesday for being drunk and disorderly and, fined fl*fi oach, J. W. Grosham, of Blalrmoro, occupied the magistrate's chnlr, they had to struggle in their endeavor to.get the unfortunate, man out"o$ the cage.,' The men could not ..be kept back, and why this should»be is.-beU ycind comprehension, for if men will not act as men should, nobody else can make them do so. Take heed, boys; and remedy this'at once.; . The wife of Karl Theodorvitch, International Organizer;- underwent .a serious, operation* in Gait hospital last week. * From inquiries "we -learn she is ^progressing favorably. ,"" iBro. Karl has. spent an anxious week hahg*^ ing around.the city,waiting the result; as it was understood-it was. a life or death issue. -He is taking a month or two vacation until, she is restored to hea*\\Jh again. We wish her a speedy recovery.*, -,.'-•, - ■' V ,: Mr. and Mrs. David >Hoore's infant baby died Tuesday after' a short illness. Naturally their loss 'is severe, being their first and only child, and our sympathy is extended tb-them in their 'bereavement. Ernest Stanley, a stone cutter on the new 'Post Office, met with a serious accident which may prove fatal. He was working on the roof and" had just finished, it being -only" three minutes from quitting time, when he lost his balance and fell to the next floor, a distance ot 15 feet, falling on his head and fracturing his skull: He was at onco conveyed to the hospital,' where he lies in a precarious condition. , ' This morning (Wednesday) the men in No. 6 mine had no sooner-got inside to work when all work was called off and tho men ordered to top with the least possible delay. ^Excitement ran 'high for a time as to the cause of such haste. It seems one of the -main water pipes from'the river, which supplies the boilers, had burst, thereby cutting off tho water supply. . The haste was to get the" men "on top with whatever steam remained before the fan stopped. ■ ' . - 'President Smith and 1. B. M. Rees were' in the city" Monday of this week on lbuslness with the onion solicitor.'- How a, fire or blaze works ,on, the nervous system whilst compiling these notes.0 On looking through tho window I noticed in the direction of Mr.' •Paddy Cain's house, a huge blaze. I at once ran to the phone, called up the fire (brigade, and then to the fire, to find it originated in the back houses. The flames had got a fair hold, but calling on the family, who1 were not aware of it, we managed to put it out with buckets of water just as the ■brigade arrived. The cause was some ashes from the stove which, with, the high^wirid Mowing,'"had .kindled ,xx_7- Thetdamage done was slight.-'y .-'.'X- . RAblO-TELEGIJAPHY .. , ;,; •" . : AND SAFETY AT^SEA- . The fact that the- -burning'-'steamer . ■ yblturno Vas alble fo-summon to. its-, aid -by - radio, -messages' ho less than ; eleven "steamers gave additional broof pf- tho -priceless value of- this means- of ^communication in the saving of life at -sea. Not that any sach. further proof was • necefesary; for Marconi's great invention 'had already.*,'established its position as.one of .the most •■, merciful aids to the saying of human, life, in all the history, of' invention. '. It".was inevitable that radio-teleg-r raphy should hold a prominent part.-,, in the discissions of the International Conference on Safety at "Sea,-which is to foe. held in London on'November 12 of this, year; and we;,note that Secre- - tary ot Commerce Redfield's' commit- • tee on tliis subject has sent in a rec£ ommendation to the conference, which appears to -cover the subject comprehensively.- •■ ',.-, The. committee proposes, that effl;-A clent -apparatus for radio c'ommunlca-" ■ tion be required on all ships- ln'foreign trade which carry fifty persons or ■ more dpassongers or * crew, or -both, combined), pavlgating - the ocean be-, tween ports more than t20Q nautical - miles distant from one another; and thnt apparatus, to be deemed efficient," must,, transmit messagesi with sufficient power to be received1 by day over - sea, at a distance of at least 100 nautical -miles, by a ship equipped with apparatus equal to thnt of the transmit-', ting ship. It is further recommended that an auxiliary power < supply should be 'provided, independent of the vei-" sel's main electric power plant, which will enable the sending set for at least four hours to-send messages'over a distance of at least' 100.nautical miles by dayi ' '■ •" ■'' '" ,-. There is an echo of the Titanic disaster in the recommendation that two. first grade operators should !be requir--, ed on all such ships maintaining a' consfant service, also on all such ships carrying 100 or more passengers; that one first, grade and another first' or. second grade operator should be required on all other such" passenger shiips; and that one operator (first or second .grade) and one cargo operator or watcher -should be required on all other such cargo\\ boats.—Scientific American, .. "'1 The Misses Allen .« • . ' - ;" Dressmakers and Costumiers Ball Dresses a Speciality ■ v COLEMAN ALBERTA /? !* TTI sWCo; •The Quality Store" Just Unloaded ONE CARLOAD OF ' Okanagan Also one Carload of ,.- * Choice Winter Apples Consisting of 15 Varieties _j» : The pick of the Okanagan Valley. We expect a car of Ashcroft Potatoes in a few days See us before buying, The goods are No. 1 quality and the price is right. See that you get a few of the bargains at our Genuine Reduction Sale. We have a special line of crockery - sec window/ Phone 25 F. M. THOMPSON CO. Tho Store That Saves Vou Money Victoria St. Blairmore, Alta. Uthbrldfle Local Union Notes n fesv iJi.-mhnrK hnvo, unfortunately, ;drnp;ir-il nut n>ronHy, but It In to bft iConcert *l the PmbyUflan Church(hoiti-A "ini nlil nwrnr *ow* ot tfcf- ! Th'1 Chore*! v,i« ffllp^ tn m-frfi***: i»>nfh'»'<''i«'}i fh-»j» hitl it t^tf iwmtfi* in« Ott TuMflay h!rM. tho owaalon be-J oro -ml ;isa!ts become at-tlrr pnylnR Inir ttt-9 -foneort utrttt under th* ani-1 memlw-rit. Tho report of tho tollors ro tho ballot for tho fifty cont aBBMimont wns rcr-d nm! n-teooiitod. Thoro wuro twonty-sovon nppllcnntn for this woolc, It wns movod nntl hoc oiidod thnt nppIIcantR ho ro«ol\\eu and ohllKntod. -Ilro. It. Wnlkor, of Vancouvor, waH ln Attendance nnd nddroBaod tho moet. Iiib on hohulf of tho brothors now on Btrllco thoro, pointing out the Rrofm Injustice motod out oy tho courts of law to thoHo tnWriK nn notlvo pnrt In tho Btrlko. A roaolutlon rend hy Uro, Wnlkor -protesting HRalnat the sovero Bontoncos pnBBOd by tho'courti In Vancouvor on several of our brothers, wns ondorsod und carried unanimousA motion wiib put. tlmt IIiIh Locnl donnto tho Bum of fifteen dollars to On Hntufdny mnmlns; -last Fred Sin- hovtch, a scrapur tn No. t> uuiiu, iik-i with a painful accident by a fall of conl. llnlnit In a knofillnit poiltlon, he was entirely covered, and whon extricated It was found ono of his less was *brokon, besides noverdl other linilhUK. )\\0 'Mitt IhM-.tt Ml MftVI* ll'it,- pltal, where ho ls progressing ts favorably as could be expected. An Incldont In connection with thl3 nccldont Ib -worth commenting on, If lt would hnvo the desired effect. It Is only two weeks ago, In the Local doings, I reported the pit committee having taken up with tin' unu-.rtK"iin*i*< the wnr the men at this mine crowd aud crush KdUns: on am! off th*^ r.i Brisco's BLAIRMORE ALTA. mmimw-mwmes •i...-*--. ,.-'/ W ' "* rr*vt*Ap ft* i 9.\\ "■<*# ***** .*!$*<*. (>./-» 4*9— ,.44^jS^m9«99~9i *»«—, I '• ;#%iMiiiigi^^ -J-x-r*. *-=-V®*S .'.■.iv\\*,?tv I*1 .* . By Austin King,,'" ' A "<5t|ief Inspector'of Mines for the' H. C. A-\\A.-7 Frick Coal,Company. ...v r"' - ■" {-Aibstract of f.a. special JarticieMn The ;■■ News Standard', .Unloht'oyrij-Pa., Oc- '- ; tober,2,',1913, A -;*■■. > ■ lYears agothe,.president of- the H. C7 .''"Prick iCoke Company dictated a set of "'' .Tulea to'govern the operation^ mines ^and coke works; IS Following is Rule " No. 1: ";' ■ ^' >,"."' '?"■'•' -• '.'"'• "r-', * A- ' "Strict oom-pliance with the mining' ".: law of the State shall be the duty of ■- '.-every employ € at all times and "under -' all circumstances and - SAFETY-shall -be-theTORST'consideration of siiper- ".' iritendents, mine foremen and all others exercising authority or'directing ./operations in every department." a - ■ iHere>e find the origin of the motto Y-amd ' our ' subject, • namely, "Safety ,First.". . '„,-•-'-' //• Tjus'•motto- Is now seen on every hand in the offices, ^ on the stationery, and in and about the mine buildings of the company,'-whether above or ibelow ground. It waa later -adopted by the United States -Bureau of Mines. It adorned the top.of, every page of tho j ■program of the events carried out at tbe.'Bureau testing station; and r ln Forbes field, ■when President Taft honored the demonstration with his presence. 'On this occasion men were present from all the coal mining centres of the United States and Canada, and thus it became.known, to a greater or less extent, from Nova Scotia' to Mexico and from British1 Columbia to Alabama. ' „ *'. ■-.-'' i ■ ' What was the purpose ofHhe adoption of the-words, "Safety First;" as a wafcehvford or motto? The purpose was to put them in such a form and In such places as to arrest the attention of busy men and bring to their minds, as often as iposslble' while engaged at work, the necessity of avoiding danger ■ byt the prompt performance of the varl- * ous. duties required and the adoption •. of every safeguard In its progress. When dealing witli this question President Lynch,gave the warming that, '^Eternal vigilance is the price ot safety." This vigilance ls quickened when we are frequently, reminded'by the at- tractive and somewhat startling words, "Safety, Firsts and in this way officials and workmen have their slgnifl- canfee and' importance impressed on their minds. Are these words, some may ask, any- ■ thing more than "bosh," .'tbuncomlbe," or so much "hotalr," to use"a common expression?' That^depends very ..much on how persons regard them. If they do not'heed the warning'they are "foun- ', combe,"o'r "hot'air;'.''butthe president " of the.H., C. Frick, Coke Comspany 0 " deemed them of sufficient importance to place them before quality and cost , of product, and all know how viltal these are to every corporation. 'What is , the-meaning'of "Safety /First?" "Safety First," though having a sort of general-or common significance tb all, yet, for, each clasB.of of- „' - ficials and workmen, it-has a special meaning which varies according j;p the nature of.and. conditions surrounding theiwoTk'to be done.'..-:—^.Vl ••• ATSo the president it'means ..tbat, as far as he -Is alble,every provision' shall be. made to insure Jhe'safety of th© workmen.'no matter what the cost;7 to him it;means-inu-ch trouble.of mind when fatal or serious accidents happen —no matter"■ how.; (because,he.feels, and sometimes rightly, too, that every* thing that foresight could suggest has, not beeu done to prevent them. .. /To- the' general superintendent it" means anxious inquiry from "superintendents and other officials-Hhe scanning of reports daily regarding it, and the giving of many .orders regarding its strict observance notwithstanding the large Increase it often makes In the, cost.' V ■ ' mX •' ■ •, (To the engineer It means" well-considered lay-outs for mines with respect to ventilation, drainage, haulage, width of harrier pillars, and the design and installation of suitable machinery and safety appliances. . '*-'■- To the mine-Inspector, as its special guardian, it, means much .care and ■watchfulness, and oft-times the performance of dlsagreealble duties. To comply with its requirement he must do hiB duty without fear or favor, and, by advice, commendation or caution to officials and workmen, point out the (best way to attain the cherished result —the reduction of accidents to a minimum. ' ' . To the superintendent it means that he ..must provide supplies to insure safety in - all departments and make himself as familiar as practicable with the conditions that make for safety, 30 as to be able, if called upon by his subordinates, to advise how best to avoid accidents. He must have^ It distinctly understood by all that he is for safety -first," whether they have a 48 or a 96-hour charge, and that practices disregarding safety, Iby any one, will not be tolerated. He must be firm in his support of anything that adds to safety; but, like Davy Crockett, he must be sure hie is right Ibefore going* ahead. '- • ;•-] - ■' To-the mine foreman it means competent and reliable subordinates, the giving of clear-cut^and- unmistakable orders and directions where safety is concerned—no straddling of the question can be permitted; for never was it more true than in the case of safety that- "He that is not for it is against it". It means that he will not permit coal-dust to accumulate, nor will he permit' blasting- under unsafe conditions, even though output be reduced' In consequence; that he will not allow persons to work or jpass beneath unsafe places in roads, whether a car goes out that way or. not; that if he finds a man persistently negligent of his personal" safety,, he will discharge him,at once, evenr,if he is.short-handed; ihat he will note how work -is done hy the various .employes and at once check any tendency to. recklessness on their part. In a word,", he is for "safety first," last,and all,the .time. The fire boss,,rib-boss-and shot fir- er will be made; to feel that, while the faithful performance bf their duty is duly appreciated, the higher duty:-of conserving life and,limb.is still more appreciated by their superior, ' The .former will express his understanding of safety first iby- fencing off all placea found dangerous, though pit room 'is scarce; the second will not save laibbr toxprovide a'safe retreat in making"a fall, nor will he risk, nor permit a miner to, risk, injury to recover a few posts.-{.{The shot firer w-jll exemplify ,its meaning to him by refusing to fire any shot where injury is likely to'result, or which is -contrary to law and, safe practice. ;. To the miner it means that he will set that post or, cross-bar;" as may be required before loading the- car, though lt may not be ready for' the driver when he calls for it; and if in doubt'a't any time as to what to do to keep himself safe in' his working -place he will give' the side of safety the ibenefit of the doubt. The driver will show that he understands its' true meaning Iby not taking ,any forbidden risk in doing his work —he will not ride between cars or in front of trips when possible to avoid it, 'but instead, make use of the wide side,of the heading, which ls provided for hhe purpose of enabling him to keep control of his trip. To the1 chief mechanic and electrician it means that they will keep the machinery, apparatus and wiring in their charge in safe working condition; they will be sure that those they have placed In charge are sober"and reliable, and they will encourage them to report ^promptly anything that they may- notice that would lead tb danger. It means that when a fatal or serious accident happens it should be thoroughly investigated, so that the cause, If possible, may be known; and; having ascertained it such regulations,or devices, or -both, as are best calculated to prevent a recurrence should be promptly made or supplied and o-bed. ence to or use of them enforced as fai as practicable." Having briefly dwelt on a few of the Important phases of the meaning of "Safety First," maywe not ask: What would b'e the result if each one did his best to carry out its requirements? There can be but one answer—a veTy large reduction in number of fatal and serious injuries*. This indeed would prove that safety was the first consideration. Should it not be a labor of love, not a task; to accomplish this? or does the yellow streak rather than the spirit of the Good Samaritan predominate in us? . Where there's.a will there's a way, says anJ,old proverb.- Let us demonstrate that we have the will, and we will surely find the way. Forget not the cries and sobs of the -widow and orphan, nor the groans,and anguish of the injured,' tout a be up and' doing in this "matter; for' ' "The dTying of a single tear hath more Of honest worth than shedding - - seas of gore." —The "Coal and Coke Operator aad Fuel'Magazine. - • ■', . i.i',s:-!. •.•:.:,vlr.Vf~.r-' . --. .. At^theroadpead.^and before he was ^•ekdy-to.cljarge'It the miners working ;at:.the coar*Iace,: and a fireman who "had -been present, went gut, the former to have a meal and the latter to continue his ."inspection of his district. •They .were only 50 yards distant when the shot-exploded and, as they had ■neither-a warning shout of "fire" nor the-sound-of. the contractor walking "a^vay from- the shot, they- knew the charge had exploded prematurely. On returning;-they found the man -badly injured' and he died almost immediately. The: explosive was Stowmarket gelignite "and the charge was about %Jb.< ■ -From the "size of the drills and the'size of cartridges the charge ought to have gone'into the hole easily, but it is possible that some rubbish may have got into the hole, as it -was dipping-and under water. The temperature > alboveground on- the previous night was below freezing point, and as the > explosives were brought by the contractor from .'an outside magazine the .probability Ib that some of the gelignite was partly frozen and explod- ed on Ibeing, pushed home. A badly' bent copper cleaner was found clase iby the hole ofter the explosion. . The number pf accidents which are caused iby'frozen explosives during cold weather, is disappointing. Mr. Walker is surprised that both managers and workmen do not realize the danger that Is run toy the use of explosives containing nltro-glycerlne In this condition. Great care should be taken to see,that the explosive does not show any sign of hardness, as nitre-glycerine freezes at a temperature above 40 degrees Fahr. and often remains frozen despite a rise in the temperature,- ■for a considerable period. If .the explosive is at all hard, the risk of a p"A"*-?5S£l premature'.explosion ^occurring, as":in tMs\\Instance, is very great. .-.*.;': . . .Naked Lights and Explosives/ • A miner 'in a "fast" place in. the niaih. coal, we read In (Mr. Walker's report,' went .near to his open gunpowder, canister^, with his naked light in his cap and a spark fell amongst the powder, which exploded and burned him. The canister was open, as he had omitted, possibly through forgetfulness, to close it after,taking some gunpowder from it earlier in the day. He stated to some of the men, after the accident occurred," that he was going for some oil" for his lamp from a bottle, which he kept close to his canister, when the accident occurred., This appears to have been so, as his empty lamp attached to his cap \\yas found after the explosion lying near the' canister; there was no reason for- him to toe getting gunpowder at the time as he had no shot hole ready, and there were plenty of loose coals in his working place, He contravened the Explosives Order, Part 1 (1) (b) as he failed to keep the explosives in a secure canister. This kind of accident is far too frequent, 'Mr. Walker adds; it1 may be that constant use of explosives makes the workmen take less care than is necessary to prevent them, but he should have thought that a man's common sense would make him realize the foolishness of having a naked light anywhere near explosives. This does not, however, appear to be the case, for , the Inspectors find innumerable cases of miners not removing their lights from their caps when opening a canister containing explosives. The necessity of great rare ln this respect ls urged upon both officials and miners.—The Science and Art of Mining. [Is rapidly approaching when the workers will face their-capitalist masters in the final conflict .„ The landlord is the enemy of the employing capitalist; The employing -capitalist is the enemy of the working class. When- the working Glass fight the Jandlord, they are fighting the enemy of their enemy. 'When the landlord is conquered the' workers-will still be in slavery. When. the enemy of their enemy is defeated, the workers will then see their true enemy—if the Socialists have not previously educated them to the real condition of affairs, .and the workers have not abolished the profit system.—Cot-, ton's Weekly. t \\£- S, I -fC\\ x*Ai II 1 First in Railroads BY THADDEUS S. DAYTON POINTS FROM MINE INSPECTOR'S REPORT v D Accumulations of Coal Oust ,. *, One- of the most far-reaching provisions ln the Mines Acti * Mr. Wilson suggests ln his report for the Liver ipool Districts ia that requiringsteps to \\'be talt'ein to prevent accumulations ot coal dust. This1 has. npr1h to Imo t*i\\tm*T T>1ntos tourlcd in wot sHayey ground, Tho connections between thia rope and the ■earth plates had teen made by copper •wlro. lacings, and were subsequently found to be -loose and therefore defoot- Ive. One arm of an Blllson'e three- throw iwitch had shorted on to the frame thr»u*h a hard flbrr tiitw on which the knife blades were mounted, the earthing rope fused at a -corded pari near to which the man was standing with hie feet upon the rope and TiU arms resting upon the unarmored juble, and he received a shock which Fails of Roof Whilst it Ib unfortunately found no- coBsnry to prosecute workmen ln some InfitancoB In ordor to onforco the rulos, there aro other points ln connection with falls of roof which, Mr, Mottrnm explains In his report for Yorkshlro and NortWMidlnnd, have an important ■bOaWng on tho question and should not toe lost sight of. For Instance, tho specified distance apart which tho roof supports aro,to be set and advancod should bo reconsidered by the monane-' mont from tlmo to tlmo,, along with any) alteration in the character of tho roof In any part of the,mino, Any lossenlng of tho distance thnt may bo found nooossnry should not only bo -published in tho statutory notico posted tip at tho surfaco,- tout tho mon mon should Ibo thoroughly and porslst- ently Impressed by tho doputlos as to tho necessity for sotting such supports without delay, securely; and dlscroot- ly, (Tho "compulsory uso of bars sysJ temntlcally sot undor roofs known to contain "slips," would, Mr. Mottrnm ls convinced, prevent mnny accidents, It falls to toe recorded that, although 0,18-4,421 tons or 0.C3 por cont of tho output of ooal was producod during tho year In tho distriot by coal-cutting mn- -chinos, only one death oocurrod by fella at the coal face whoro machines were 4n use, and this spoaks volumes for the comparatively safe conditions producod whore the -conl faco Is kopt strahtht and moved regularly, and tho tlmlberlng It systematically done. With a view to securing tho attention of the minors to tho propping rules, a clear notice printed on linen has toon posted up just outside the |MIM^ tlUttttUt, .Hut*,*. Ml ■•MU'tU- -rtlff* -BllU«ton« Onfllftrv. This ultio should certainly bring homo to all workers what the requirements and responsibilities are. Safety Lamps Advocated in Rrnflnnil, wnmslona of fire damp o&usod eleven deaths and 74 persons were Injured during the year 1M2. The number of accidents under this head is too great, and, if adequate precautions were taken both by officials and workmen, is capable of much greater reduction. The requirements of Bee- Hon 32 11)-m of the Coal .Mines Act, 1011, which came Into force on July lst lust, that the whole of the seam in which an explosion of Inflammable gas occurs, causing any -personal Injury whatever, must be-worked with safety lamps, unless the Secretary of fltate :grant¥^irexemptron_to"'th"elr_Use7wlir result in time In a diminution of this class bf accident in Scotland. The use of safety lamps at present ls not popular either with, the owners or the persons employed, and every possible argument Is used against their use,'and, -in particular, that other classes of accidents, will be Increased. Having had' considerable experience in other districts and coalfields, Mr. Walker, in his annual report,'says he does not ■agree with this opinion, but thinks if every precaution is taken the explosions of gas will Ibe very greatly redu-c ed without any increase in other accidents, and he trusts that every one concerned will co-operate In obtaining this much to be desired result. He can understand both officials and workmen who have always been used to work with naked lights, thinking that with the'reduced light of safety lampB It Is likely there will be more accidents from falls of ground, and In connection with haulages, but) as a matter of fact, such is not the case If great caro'.Is taken In the supporting of the' roof and sides nnd the manipulation of hutches on inclines, nnd they do not remember thnt with portable electric lamps a Ibetter light' Ib obtained than with a -naked light,, It Is often urged thnt the weight of electric smfety- lamps Ir oxccsslva, -but Mr. Walker would point out that this should not prevent their bolng used, ns It Is prob- nhlo cxperionco gnlned from practical use will remedy this defect. The first achievements of American railroading are, in the greater number of cases, lost in the obscurity of tradition, and there have sprung up,a host of- interesting stories that go the rounds like Homeric tales. The honor of having created a record' or a custom that is now commonplace has had many claimants in nearly every instance, -i A' Take the first train to run a mile a minute. The Antelope, an engine on the Boston and' Maine Railroad, according to one of the, most -cherished of these legends, pulled the .fIrst train that made this record. Her run was between 'Boston and -.Lawrence, a distance of twenty-six.miles, and one day in 1848 she Is said -to have made -her last .fourteen miles in thirteen minutes. 'But it .is ju'st as earnestly upheld that Davy .Crockett of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad has this distinction. The Davy Crockett was the pride of the road in her day. It is said that her engineer, David Matthew, loved her better than he did his family. But she reached the pinnacle of her fame locally when," in 1832, sixteen ' years Ibefore the Antelope was heard of, ac-. cording to the other' story, she covered a fourteen-mile straightway level stretch between Albany and Schnec- tady, in thirteen minutes and made one stnn fnr water besides. A letter, wri:- VIA THE incursions Canadian December 1 stto 31 st Pacific Railway Return Limit 3 Months Stopovers East of Fort William First-class round trip fares from Fernie to TORONTO, HAMILTON, SARNIA, WINDSOR ' MONTREAL, OTTAWA, BELLEVILLE, KINGSTON ST. JOHN, MONCTON HALIFAX1 Trains leave Fernie 17.30 daily and at 9.29 daily except Sunday. Inquire regarding Sleeping Cars. $71.10 $76.10 $90.40 $94.55 Corresponding .fares from other points and to all stations in ONTARIO, QUEBEC AND MARITIME PROVINCES t) For booklet of information and full particulars, apply to any agent of the Canadian Paci- - flo railway. .*>1 . i- t'^l FIGHTS FOR PEOPLE IN DAYTON ed by tlmbor, Is one calling for the prompt nttontlon of tho owners nnd.. mnnngers. A moro thorough oxamina. and therein ^ ^ ^ ^^ of °p omyptUnttont« 3'thT£"n.» nnd)^^^'^^f1 "S'S.ffod^U1 tolfl •I"'.v-J- a «,«»» M,n.«,,M, nv„minn. nnd tho train was ditched. It took n tion Is roqulred thnn the ordlnnry weekly ono to ascertain*the condltl-pn of wood lining, often tt is decayod and -qulto Incapable or supporting the sides; sovornl rocont Instances hnvo occurred whoro tho timbering hns glv- on way duo to this cnuso, and It appears to Mr. Walker that In tho cases of all shnfts moro than 20 years old not lined with brick or stone, or -whoro tho nuturnl strnta show no defect, nde- quato moons should -bo taken either'by boring liolos through tt, or In other ways, to ascortaln tho condition of tho tlmbor. Tho Innpoetor draws thn nttontlon of ownors, ngonts, and mming. ers of rnlnos, whoro thoro nro old shafts lined with wood, to this mattor, and to urge upon them tho necessity of -satisfying thomsolvos that ndwiunto precautions aro taken, to prevent (ho sides of tho shafts collapsing owing to tho dofoctlvo condition of the tlirtbnr, In futuro, Tho whole of tho mon employed underground usually are raised or lowered ln thone shnfts, and n grcnt risk ts theroby run ot loss of life; tho purely economical side of the question, apart altogether from that of safety, tUIOUlU iMUtm ili<9 V ■*«■«<• IO- MiU t-ii«u the nlflrf-. of Wto nhnftfl nr* m-MntuWtrd In n safe condition as a collapse Is liable to causo a prolonged cessation of tbe drawing of mineral, and theroby Four First Class Pool & Billiard Tables REFRESHMENT BUFFET ATTACHED No fee charged to use Club, which is open to all. B. Rawson Manager pooplo woro klllod, bo runB tho tradition, to bring about tho testing of enr wheals by tapping thorn, Ronl tlmo saving In running trains did not bogln until 18B1. Charlos Mlnot, superintendent of tho Brio Railroad, was ono of thOBO glvon crod*- It of Inaugurating tolograph signals for tho handling ot trains. Ho wns In tho cab of ix pnssongor train ono dny, oh tho story goos. Thoro woro no double-truck railroads In those days, and trains hnd to Ho out on sidings nnd wait for tho train bound In tho opposlto dl roc tion to como along. However long tho delay, tho train on tho,siding waited. On thiH particular occasion Mlnot's train took Its siding. Tho oporntor at the llttlo roun try station strolled ovor, romarklng that the train In the opposite direction had got stalled on tho grndo somo fifty mllos down the lino, and that It would bo two or three hours bofore she could patch up her leaky flues and got -power enough to cllro'b tho hill. ,, M tM Mlnot was In a hurry, and he decld- -UU i*l **Jt*Hl*irty9t tmljtlt) .Uttr tltilr mmtmt. ,„tr \\n\\r\\ hi* wn« on would not wMt «t th« siding, but would proceed; for station agents to watch out for tbe other train and have It wait on the aiding nearest tho -Spot whoro they would meet, ."tho englnoor refused polntblank to take Two years ago Dayton, Ohio, elected two Socialist aldermen. One proved disloyal to the working class and was expelled from the Socialist party. The other was Charlos E. GelBler. \\ - ■During the two years Gelsler has acted as alderman he hns made ,tho following record: Secured an eight-hour day and a minimum wage of $2 a day for city em- ployos. Tried to Becure the establishment of public ibath houses; IMeasure was killed by old party aldermen.- lOppoaed n twenty-five year street car franchise which was given by tho council, i ■Attempted to have water motors installed in nil 'placBH uRlng city- water. Tried to secure municipal slaughter houso, 'Killed iby Board of Health nnd old party aldermen. Tried to Bocuro municipal garbage reduction plant which mot tho fato of similar things of benefit to tho peoplo, Opposed a thlrty-yonr frnnchlso to telephone nnd tolograph company, which roBultetl In the frnnchlso being reduced to ten yours. Introduced ordlnnnca to stnrt plans for tho erection of n municipal light, powor and heating plant. Klllod In commltteo.—Party Ilulldor. THE LABOR QUESTION In Oroat Britain Lloyd George Is attacking tho land monopoly. Ho points out how commorco Is hindered, countrysides depopulated, nnd workers housod In fthucks, bocauso of tho greed of tho landlords. In Toronto ft movomont hns boon InW tlatod to provide ohonp housos for tho working classes, In Montreal tho ounstlon or high rents Is ngltntlng tho pooplo, .Many onpllallHts complain and want tho routs for workers roducod. Tho question of rents and Iiouhos and choap living quarters for workers seems io bo Sonlatlstlo. liowovor, Lloyd (loorgo and tho Toronto phllan- thropists who nro building working class housos nro agonts ot cnpltullsm, not of Socialism. Karl Marx doclnrod that capitalism made all things In Its own likeness. The capitalist raodn of exploitation Is to put workers Into the mills of, pro- UUbil-JU, tt*!*** ****>"* — **-».** '- ' —O **tUv. nnd ttiVo us profit* nil thnt Is produced by tho workors above thoir living expanses. Capitalist robbery takes place In tho process of production. The landowner does not take pnrt -in "\\ HIGH CLASS Ladies' and Gent's =TAILORS= nnv %\\\\rh risk. savln-R that it waa I rnnttnllmt production. He simply char* Costumes 8c Suits to measure . . . Fit guaranteed . . Suits and Overcoats from $25.00 DeBurle & Birkbeck Next Calgary Meat Market P. O. Box 544 - Fernie, B. C. r against all railroad law and custom, Mlnot finally discharged him, put him ort the engine, and ran the train himself td tbo end of the division, keeping himself posted by tolograph at each atation. Kverythlng worked out Just aa he had planned and waa ao satisfactory that. ltr> nf onro Inananrnted a system of moving trains on topograph alg* nnls. Tho wny tho bell cord came into use is about aii interesting a railroad tradition as thero la. 'Nearly every one of iho older line* in ibe country os for tho uso of the J«'»d he «*m He takes toll ot the employing capital- ist who takes toll of tho woraing class. If the land quostlon Is n question bo- tween landowner and ci-aploylng capitalist, why do wo mo many working people cry out against tho land exactions? Why >lr» we sw th#m hall with iiedalm-tbe Woyd George land pro- ir*m In Rrltatn? Karl tMarx ban giv*n Hn> *w»*»*i. Throughout tho ni?<» tlw working class have fought one sot of ftplolu-rs only to -lie ridden by snoth-t-r »ei. The time tm -m** **v aw-vy*^ *m**0m» Insurance. Real Estate » and Loans Money to Loan on first class Business and Residential property i * ' > '■ -.x. If PAGE TEN .->■•- 'liAx^?Xc7x -, ' l'v,':"' . -_ 2-.,r '■*{*.'' J . *c u -■;: * -•- . •- ^fcy. Vv^^-i*#^-^"^i,j-'''-'' "■■ . N V .,.* ' *T*' • vv*t><;^,\\AJ"^*|\\ L ^4> rP^1i\\ JS- THE DISTRICT iiDGE^ PERili^ B. 0., NOVEMBER •i.-' 'I..' - - MB... V- ■-.m-j X: «f, ROYAL HO T E L FERNIE Bar Unexcelled All White. Help Everything Up-to-date Call in and see us once JOHN PODBIELANGIK, Prop. Advertise in the Ledger and get Results. We Are Ready to Scratch off your bill any item of lumber not found Just aa wo represented. There Is no hocus pocus in This Lumber Business When you vrsnt spruce we do not send you hemlock. • When you buy first-class lumber we don't slip in a lot of culls, Those who buy once from us always come again. Those who have not yet made our acquaintance are taking chances tbey wouldn't encounter if they bought their lumber here.. KENNEDY & MANGAN — Dealers In — Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash and Doors. SPECIALTIES—Mouldings, Turnings, Brackets, and Detail Work OFFICE AND YARD—McPherson ave. Opposite G. N. Depot. P.O. Box 22, Phone 23. WcmeWi] By Guy ifleslJhatJs',*all.;.-Was not the-', inventor, of .the wheelbarrow, who -Mt ,.. upon the simple and practical idea bf- - adjusting "a ■jyheel ibetween two piece*. ■* of wood," of much more value to mankind than all these inventors of lnstru- -i menisof war?. ,; ,. What remaifls of ancient- Greece? Books, marbles. ■ .Was Greece great ibo. cause-of its -wars, or -because.of the production of its peaceful genius? Did the invasion of, Greece by the Persians prevent it from falling Into a most de-' plorable, materialism? (Was lt the in-" vasion of the .barbarians.which saved and regenerated'Rome? Did Napoleon ' the First cause to continue the great,, intellectual movement which had ibeen initiated by the| philosophers .at the end of tho previous century?, • .-, „Now, since; the rulers arrogate to - themselves tho right of life and death over the peoples, is it any wonder that the peoples themselves sometimes- make use of the ■ same right' against the rulers? They defend thomslves and they "are right In'so doing. No ono has the right to govern another. The good of all should be the sole criterion: of rule. And tho ruler has the same duty to avoid a war as the captain of a*shlp hns to avoid shipwrecks. If any captain of a ship loses his ship through his own fault,-he Is condemned for" negligence' and incapacity. ■ Why should we ifot judge and condemn a ruler who -brings about a war? ' sA% i ^\\\\ J Woman Under Socialism WOMEN IN THE PAST A Victoria, B. C, Comrade asks: Under Socialism, what kind of reform will there be for Women? They are slaves of the slaves now. What will their lot be then? Please answer through Cotton's. -To understand the future .position of woman we must understand her present -position-and her past position, in the light of economic determinism. For 'woman's position is not what it was, nor is it what it will be. In the past woman was the plaything or drudge of man. Man ruled supreme. In the anarchy in Europe which followed the inroads of the Gothsil Vandals and Huns, in the rise of the Frankish 'and Germanic tribes from' wandering nomads to settled tillers, force was the arbiter of destinies. -The strong tribe with powerful swords robbed and pillaged the other tribes'. In such a condition woman was put in the background." She*became the prey and 'th"e'sp0"rL""or1;ae~,pciiWerfuii—TheHTword"" gave wealth, and woman did'not wield the sword. ■ Then the tribes became settled and pillage gave place to tillage. The warlike leaders .became dukes and nobles and owners of estates, counties, .kingdoms. 'The tillers of the soil became the serfs of the masters, and the women were the drudges on the estates. The men had no vote, no political power, and the women were Btill further degraded by being considered the inferior of man. Ideas die hard. The momentum of a system carries the Ideas of that system on .when the or- original impulse is dead. The weaker strength of the woman could not-very- well''be exploited in war. Therefore economic determinism shoved her to one side in a warlike age. But when wnr gave place to feudal security, the woman, while exploited and robbed along with tho serf, was still considered inferior. Such ideas still hold sway ln the heads of reactionary, archaic 'brains like those of Laurier and Borden and Roblin, Feudalism has given place to capitalism, and the status of woman has changed. The economic interests of the 'master' class Is freeing woman from hoing the slave of tho slave. ELECTORAL 8YSTEM ULA'ti, WtJHKLhtt I' \\i„ :t i V Tho pftt-uUnr flcetoral sysl-tm In niimhor of thlrd-rlaaK -el-1-etor* W»i>0. Thf voting must nil' bo dono at n few polling places fn tho contro of the city, whlrh rloso at S p.m. on tlm first dny's balloting, snd At '« ballotlnu, tho olp-ctlon -pxt-fwilnjc over thriv* Attyn. TIiIh makos it Impossible for mnny of Uiu v-iorniiiK mon to out thulr ballot. —i'arty Uulldor. ORGANIZE THE YOU NO ii Thoro should he n Yoiijia' I'coplcV Socialist Loagun in overy city In tlio nation. Young peoplo aro n vftliuutjlo addition to tho movcinont a» thoy possess tho energy and enthusiasm ho iio- ccssary to push our work in tho pro- por manner. Any locnl will he fully rcpttlil fnr nny i-ffnrt *»^pr»nrtpd fn rlifk direction. A ynuwf iioofilh'H d«i|Mirtnn>ji» h;n bmi <-K.nlt!l«ht'd ln th« nntloi.M of. flro of tho Socialist Party. Droit n letter today to J. A. Itocuis, m X. Mnrfcft Htrwtt, ChlesRO, and Instrtic- tlontk on how to orKaiiUu thn young p-f-nplo will lu* »pnt you. Women In the Present The feudal system tied the worker to tho soil. The capitalist Bystem frees tho worker from all 'bondage lu appear- unco, and gives him tho ai>paront right to do as ,110 pleases. But man has certain needs if ho wishes to livo. 'Tie must have food, clothing and uholter. Thn capitalists control tho food, clothing and shelter of the working claws, Thoy control tho places whore tho food, clothing and sholter of the workors nro producod. The workers therefore must go to the mnstor class to got these things. The masters drlvo a hard bargain. Thoy say, "Lmbor for uh long ns you cnn onch day and glvo uh nil tho wealth you produco nnd wo will give you enough food, clothing and sliollor to koop you alive whilo you nro working." This porpotuatcs slavory. Tho workors through huiigor must go to tho niiiHtor clans nnd soil thcmBolvos Into bondage) day hy day, wook by wook, iuul your by yoar, -Now tho nialo slave hns tho unhappy faculty of wanting a wlfo and chll- droii. iConso«|uotitly tlio master class havo to .pay thoir mnrriod holp moro thnn tliolr slngln hG-tp, A man whon ho tnltflft a job wants enough pay to mnrry on, If ho Is a married mnn, nnd has to provldo for his wlfo and cliU- dron, ho must hnvo enough pay to food, clothu nnd sholter his family. Tho Blavo must food his fomalo slavo whom ho calls wlfo. A woman, liowovor, whon sho sookr-i a jab, hns only horsolf to support. Bho Ionics forward to marrying somo man nnd having hint support her. So hor l-tni* I.i tani-orl tt**. Iltr, nlnr-trt llfr. f'Vf- | K-otsiwliat sho cnn livo on nlono, I ho Uio masters employ lemnio i ulavt-B. Tlif.Jr pay Is la an. Tlioro ls ! moro profit to tho ownors of cnpltnl. | 80 THM MASTBR CLA88 18 MAK- | INO WOMAN CBAfllO TO B13 TUB i SIjAVH OF THK SLAVE. I'roaehers i |iH(il;u hMUihl Ult-i lliiiiMUU fit 'ntilliiili In Industry. Old fashioned pooplo cry nloud that tho placo of the woman is In tho homo. Tho capitalist class rn- tcntlonsly tonr womon out of tlio homn. Tho capitalist class, being tho owners of tlio means of Hfo, can forco tho slavo class, tnnlo and fomalo, to do - thinr will, j Womon, therefore, ore replacing men Iu linluatrfM, Th^y work chttiv ] it than JHtn. And thoy support thorn- | HOlVCH. This ha» a twofold offo,mjw*-UUon among m«n for thc re maining jobs (becomes keener. The price is lowered. And men take the jolbs at the lesser- price, -because the women that would otherwise"'' have been their wives are now furnishing ■profit direct to the masters, and the ■men remain single. If is-easily to be seen how this benefits the capitalist ■class. Instead of employing and skinning one male' worker to whom they m-ust give enough wages to support .himself and a female slave and the children to come, the master has a female slave as well as a' male slave ■producing profits for him, and he has to_ pay the male slave a single man's wages only. ■ The capitalist i class, in their insane rush for profits, are breaking up homes liy the thousands. But -men are .men and women are women. The sexual desire is strong. Wherefore "men seek women outside the marriage -bond. -Houses of, prostitution are established, and sexual de- -sire-is-placed-on-thG-markst-for-sale.- This further reduces women's wages, for she can in many cases be hired for less than a living wage. She is supposed to make up the balance by selling herself to "her gentleman friends. Tins .pleases the capitalist class, for it makes the wages they pay to their female slaves .below the cost of living. ■Profits are enlarged to the joy of the master cla^s. Dividends rise and Borden and Laurier tell of our marvelous -prosperity. iBorden and -Laurier, Rotolin and McBride and Goulin and the 'other ■political henchmen of the capitalist dlass ■who make and maintain laws to ad- vance the interests of the private owners of capital are the chief producers of white slavers, while slaves, Immorality and sexual disease. The Future^ Woman According to Reformers, v ' Such are the conditions at present. If a change is not 'brought about, human society is headed for the scrap heap. Baribarism faces us again. Tho capltnllst reformers seo where wo are heading. , They see that prostitution taking the place of the mar- •rlhgo bond and the female slave being exploited In tho factory Instead of pro- serving the race by raising children, will causo society to disintegrate. The falling Wrth-rato is alarming the far- soelng capitalists, Tho "birth-rate declined flrBt in France (Franco always Booms to load tho world). Now tho birth-rate ln Gormnny and England and Ontario ond tho Unltod States has declined, Wherefore wo find tho cry going up to abolish Immorality, If the working class produco no moro ohlldron, tho slavoB of the future will not ho on tho market whon tho present BlavoB nro too old to work. In ancient Rome, the Roman nrmlos ■went forth to oomiuor, Thoy conquered Frankish tribes and Soythlans. Thoy brought Ihelr captives to Itomo to hn sold. Whon Sardinia was conquered so many Sardinian slaves woro thrown on tho slitvo mnrkot of Itomo that no ono would buy. Lifo bocanifi chonp In Homo and In the othor slavo markets. So chonp was it that the slaves woro klllod In tlio arenas. Thoy woro torn hy lions, trampled hy olophants, or klllod'fighting ono anothor. Ori this continent Ufa has boon chonp. Hordes of Immlsrants havo heen pouring Into Now York, .Montreal and othor industrial centres. As pagan Homo fed slavo lives to hoiiBts, ho Christian Amorlca and Canada havo fed lives to profits. If a mino Wow up nnd klllod a hundred slaves, if rook fell on them and crushed thorn or if thoy died -poisoned In tho slums ot Amwlcan nnd Canadian cities, what, mnttorad? .J'lonty mora came. Those Immigrants drained Europe T^IIV^NO 1**19 ItlfltiYt ?t\\r,4fl ..--Hl-i ll ?,,*ll*rr -hlrtli-rnto nnd Immonso emlKratlon. IWieruforo Austria forbids hor subjects to como to Canada. Wherefore Lloyd Ooorfro warns British slaves not to como to "-barren Connda." Ho witnts thorn to stay nt htimo whoro British labor Dklnnors can rob thorn. ■nm um hum ol Cniistta, Uiorolnro, lmvo to look to brooding their own slaves, They nro wnfclng. Thoy want conservation of tlio human race. Just as thn Southern planters hrod nogTO Hluvfs, ro tito Canadian capitalists want U) brood whlto slaves. This Is tho explanation of snrh pho- iiomcim ii« thi- appointment ot Judgo Choquet, or Montreal, ovor ft Juvenile court. Tli! -, hi tjiu i!fci>I,unulou of l\\U horrified cvjirohhlons wh«n young f Iris who havo ifono wrong como before him. Hf think-s It Is his morsl *finti- menls which at a aroused. Itea-lly It Is tho realization hy him that such con- d««t of vtr;, ;.^inB /rlrls will cat!** the wage slave class to fail his masters, ■that'makes him horrified, ' .Capitalist reformers" .like .Choquet are busy trying to remedy some of the worst evils of capitalism. They want women to be mothers. They want workers to have a living' wage. -They want slums abolished. All these they want so the workers will be stroner and 'better fit to produce surplus values for the master class: ' Women Under Socialism The lot of women under -Socialism will be far different. She will be free.. -Her equality with man will .be recognized. The workers will own' and run industry for themselves. -Plenty for all will -be assured. There .will he no slavery. " .-" ' Woman will he economically, free. She will not Ibe'robbed if she is a producer of wealth, And she will be provided' for liberally as a mother. 'Socialism means sex equality as well as economic liberty. If woman is economically ibound to mau, she ls not free. AVe must recognize the right of a woman to marry whom she will. W-e ■must recognize her' right to comfort and freedom from worry .while she is about to become a mother and during the infancy of her children. .Under Socialism 'woman will not be .the slave of any master,'nor of any- man. Production for use instead of production for profit will work a profound change in the status of woman. Prostitution will be swept away, Loveless marriages for a home will no longer exist. The double standard of morality will disappear. Woman will he the equal, the friend, the companion of man, free to choose her life mate or free to live single if she so desire.—Cotton's Weekly. OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE By J. A. Rogers, Jr, What future have you young men and womon of the working class who aro just entering ulion tho real work of Hfo? What pre juration, havo you for tlw (big work which lays boforo you? Though father, and perhaps mothor also, lubored nil his lifo piling up' wealth ao that the ohlldron ot othors might livo in mansions, you boys and girls of tho working class woro forced to livo tn the poorest of homes, SometlmoB tho plpcou -In which you llvod could hardly bo called1 homes, Whilo fftthor was grinding out dol- tarn for somo Idle capitalist to clotho his children In furs and silks, hts own llttlo onoB had linroly enough to cover thoir bodies, Whon father tolled from oarly morn till Into at night providing tho children with tho 'boat of foods tho stomachs of hts own children woro onipty. - iBocauso ho children of tho fow woro thus bolng supported,,hy father, you hnd to suffer, Bocauso you laoked tho propor homo surroundings, you hnd no plnco and no incontlvo to study. What you lonnidd you had to grasp w'nllo in school, TincnuHo you woro not properly clothed you lind to stay away from Hchool much of tho tlmo. riocauso your stomachs woro empty your (brain did not havo tlio strength nocossnry to stand tlio strain of study, You wore taken from school at-tho oarllcBt possible moment and sont Into tho -roln-OH, tho mills nntl tho factor!os to holp In securing ouough lo keep tho family imroly alive, But the -children of those whom hnd glvon tlm host pari of hiii lifo \\wi private nurses, governesses And tutors. Th«V worn eio-nt tn -prlvntn (hnnriH-nf schools and taught by the -host of Utvct'icio, Mimr Um. luui iintilimi tliolr preparatory training they cMer- od tho colleges and universities. They novor worried about whoro the noxt monl would como from and never folt tlio snow comliiK through tho bottom ui lu-ou tiuuut, >»ivj'.i iiisfii ft'CHiu titer)' opportunity to develop all thoir faculties, Thoy had tlio best of training. Do you think you wero glvon n fair start In entering life's raco with such a competitor? Do you think It right to enter n hundred yard dash nnd glvo >our opimnom. llfty yards lead? Why shouldn't you hnvo nil tho training nc-cc^sary to Kt) yu fur IIfc'»i work, Ju*i as tho (ihlldreu of tho capitalist now has? Why should you labor so that another may hsv« all tho i i <,, DAI- LAS One of the Best t.. G. J. ECKSTORM Prop; Lethbridge,. Alta. Passburg Hotel You're always welcome here Clean Rooms, Best of \\ Food and every attention THOS. DUNCAN Passburg Original /Only Genuine PAGE ELEVEN For otir ForeigrttBrothers Beware of5 Imitations _ JSold on the t*!c'K *•>■** Merits of wToccjucMRDstolB Minard s Liniment " Dry Coods, Groceris, Boots and Shoes Gents' Furnishings ) •■■ BAKER - AVENUE BRANCH AT HOSMER, B.C. % Liquor Go. Wholesale Dealers in Wines [uors CigArs Mail Orders receive prompt attention Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Go,, Ltd. Beer and Porter Bottled Goods a Specialty Large Airy Rooms & Good Board Ross & Mackay £» V COLORADU GROZI ,•'*-, t. ., GENERALNI STRAJK Vse organizirano delavstvo po'jde.y stavko, da prisili barone premoga do - " kapitulacije,1 Vojno stanje v stavko- .vnern okro^jg. , Denver, Colo.. 31. okt. — Fr. Hayes, •podpredsednlk United- Mine Workers of America, je isjavil tuuaj, da -bo raz- glaSen -splosnt Strajk po vseh industri- jah v driavi, ako se operatorji premo-' ga v ju?,nem Coloradu ne udajo in no privolijov sestanek z zastopniki 8000 premogarjev, ki so na strajku.,. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, koje lastnik je-milijai'der John D. Rockefeller, je do sedaj odklonila vsako besedo za dogovor in.zavrnila je celo ponudbe giivernerja Ammonsa, kateri je slmSal posredovati. .To je jasen dokaz, da hotie Rockefeller povsem unl<l pre- mogarsko organlzacljo v Coloradu. Guverner Amnions je 28. okt. pro- glasil vojno stanje v stavkarskem ok- roiju ln odredll mllico na lice mesta. Izjavil je tudi, da pojde sam tjekaj, kjer too na Celu m-lH5arjev sknbel za red, Dalje je guverner .obvestil opera- torje, da on nlkakor ne dovoli, da bl oni (operatorji) -izrabljali millco v svrho zaSiite Strajkolomcev. PovelJ-1 nlk milice, adjutant general -Chase Ima od guvernerja nalogo, da razoboro&l iprivatne strainlke, ozlroma najete huj- skarje, iu premogarje. kl so na sumu, da imajo oro2je. Trinidad, Colo., 1. nov. — Cela armada .miliearjev je dofoila povelje, da gro v Ludlow, .najveSjo kolonijo Strajkarjev v okroSju in'skusa razoroiltl privatne puSkarje in premogarje. Zastopniki stavkarjev in operatorjev so edini v tem, da oddajo oroBje, ako 'ho ■milica protl obema strankama posto- pala -enako. Premogarji so popolnoma zadovoljni s tern in razoroSenje In od- slovitev -prlvatnih puSkarjev je prva zmaga za unijo. - -V krvavih spopadih med -prlvatnimi puSkarji v slu2bi kraljev premoga In premogarji zadnjih \\par tednov je ibilo ubitih 18oseb In veliko' -ranjenih. Tako poroca kapitallstlSrio caaopisje in ko- liko je resriice na tem," se ne ve. Slove,nski_ delavci Sirom Amerike, cuvajte se, agentov, ki bi- Vas mord-a vabili v Colorado! iTamognji premogarji—-kakor rudarji v Micliiganu — Ibijejo knit--boj •za izbolsanje • svojih delovnih razmer in zmaga jim je za- gotovljena; ako vsi delavci drSijo xoke prop, od do-tiCnega okro2ja, Full supply of following for an appetizing meal to choose from. Beet Pork, Mutton Poultry, Butter and Eggs Try our Cambridge 8«us. ages for tomorrow's break* fait. CALL OR PHONE Calgary Cattle Co. Phone SO Wood 8treet FERNIE, B, C, THE FERNIE LUMBER CO. A. McDougall, Mgt Manufacturers of and Deal- •■ '■ ■' . / ers in all kindsof Roug-h and Dressed Lumber Send us your orders Livery, Feed and Sale Stables First class Hone** for Salo. Buya Horses on Commlalon t George Barton Phone 78 A "Lodger" adv. Is an Investment. List of Locals District 18 No, 20 4R1 431 MO 2827, 1387 2A33 1120 2178 2314 3203 3407 1058 mt 1180 8820, 2334 14 8362 URSO 102 Namo 8tic. and P, O, Addreaa " Banlchoad... ...,p. Whoutloy, IJanWiond, All'n, Tlnnvnr Prnntr t t n,,,.* *n . . . r* ■* n .. '• —-r*.o-'.*."i «-..n.i -wjc-n, ua i. lUbUk't, 4Hl«. ■UflllOVHO ,Tnmnn [invito, Tift* M, IXr-Wovno Altn lllttlrmorq. w. L. Wvanfl, Hlnlrmoro, Alta. Durmla.. .> t. G. Harriett, PiwBlwrg, Altn. , Carbondale , j. Mltcholl, Carlondalo, Coloman, Alta. Cnnmoro ..,.*, Michael War ron, Cnnmoro, Altn. Colomnn ,T, Jolinstono, Colomau, Alta. ,!„..!,,„ 9 -, „ --v. ...•.,.....■,.,,,,,, ,». jiju-.,, VUlUlIt, »>, *0, Chinook Mlnoa ,Tn». Hornet; Chinook, via Diamond City, A.Ita. Diamond City,...,.,, .1. E. Thornhlll, Diamond City, Lothbrldgo, Pernio Thos, Uphill, Pernio, D, C. P«"»l« Wvnn Morgan, Prank, Alta. Hosmor, W, Ilnldoratono, Mourner, 11/ C. iriltoraat ,....Jn8. Gorton, IflllorMt, Alta. Lnfhhrfdsro t., Xtoorc, 1731 fllxth Avenue, :»'. IjotlibrldBo. Lothbrldgo Colllaripa..Prank nnrrlnglmm, Coalliurit, Altn. .Maplo Lout T. «. Harries, Pttosburg. Alta. Mlfh6' H, rimer, Michel, B. C, Monarch Mine Wm. llynd, Klcnn V. b„ Taber, Altn. Paaaburs. ,,., T. G, Hnrrlea, Paaahurg, AJta. Hoyal VJow ,Ooo. Jordan, Royal Colllerlea, Lcthbrldse, Alta. Tabor, a. Pattonon, Taber, Alta. KRALJI BAKRA POD *,' PRITISKOM POPUScAJO Indlrektnlm potom obljubljajo osemur- ni delavnik in reform! ran je plaSllne , lestvibe. Po drugi strani pa napen- jajo zadnje strune, da bi z-nasiljem unicil! stavko. Na trgih zmanjkuje bakra. Calumet, Mich., 1. nov. — Carji,'bakra- so napeli za'-inje strune, da bi imi- 6111 stavko ;in ipometll unijo iz okrozja. Zavzell so taktiko mekslkanskega ti- rana Huerte, ki svoje nasprotnike eno- sta^'iio 'pome5e v je5o, tako da bo kmalu pol Meksike v jefiah. Zapiranje stavkarjev In njilio\\ih Zen ter simpa- tizantov je na dnevnem redu. "V zadnjih desetih dneh je bilo aretiranih okrog 250 stavkarjev in njihovih zen. Sa- ,ino v Allduezu in Hohawku je bilo zaprtih 206 stavkarjev. Seveda skoraj vsi aratiranci so tak-oj oprosceni — neka- terl.pod va'rs5<;ino — ker dokazati se jim ne more ni5 zloCinskega. Aretacijo vr§«-ve^Sidel Waddellove barabe in do- 'mafit defputlji, ki so zvesti hlapci kom- panlje in kakor krvni psi prezijo, kje In kako bl'se §e bolj odlikovali in pril- iznili svojim ibossom, 'Spri-tSo vseh teh .barbarskih poftetij se pa fitrajlcarji neomahljivo borijo dalje. Jutranje parade, obhodi in shodi se redno ponavljajo. In ravno -to je; kar skuSajo baroni bakra' zatreti. Pike- tiranje se vr§l kljub^sodni prepovedl in to daje povod kapltalistiCim -biri- Cem, da zapirajo delavce na deibelo. Druibe bl rade z In. i in z zvIjaCaml zanesle razdor med Strajkar- je. Calumet & Hecla Co., katera je najela lokalne trgovce, da opravljajo slu2bo pomirjevalnih agentov v-Skodo unije, obljublja osem >urno delo takoj ■po novem letu in reformiranje plafiilne lestvlce. KakSna.bo ta plafilla lest- vl-ca in lcollko je datl na slguronost teh obljulb, to je seveda drugo vpraSanje. Stavkarji seveda niso doblli nobenlh direktnlh ponud'b oddru^b, zato pa ne dajo dostl na te -ponudbe. Znacilno je, da je 'mogoCna C. & H. sedaj zadovol- jna z osemurhim delavnikom, ki je eno glavnih zahtev unijskih rudarjev. To se smatra kot del zmage za rudarje, kljub temu, da s© dru&be se neCejo po- dati v resno. razipravo z reprezentanti unije glede tega. Skebje dohajajo, kolikor jih morajo drufcbe nalovlti. Sedaj je znano, da iinaijo dru2be, zlastl Calumet & Hecla, glazn-o gnezdo za lov na skebe v Chica- gu. Jim McNaughton ima stotlne agentov v, Chicago, ki se klatijo po agenturah za dobavo dela in.po ulicah in-i§5ejo, kje morejo koga vjetl za skelbarljo. Zadnji teden sta peljala dva poselbna vlaka po Northwestern 2eleznici skebe v bakreno okroJje. Vlaka sta bila zastrazena po kompan- ijsklh ibara'bah kalcor da peljejo hudo- delce; na vsakih vratih vagona,-sta bila dva stra2nika oboro2ena do zdb in pa- zila, da ne bi skebje med potjo u§li, all da s© jim ne bi pribliSal kdo in- jih opozoril na stavko. Skebje -prihajajo tudi po drugih zeleznicah. ' Predzadn- ji petek jo vozil pose-bni vlak South Lake Shore Zeleznice dva vagona ske- ibov in ko je vlak dospel pod Quincy Hill blizo 'Houghton, zafiele so poka- ti puske iz zasede in streljanje se je nadaljevalo' skoraj tri Cetrt milje o.b zeleznici. NesreSe ni bilo nobene, le okna na vagonih so fblla vsa zdrobl- jena od krogel., "29. oktose je prifielo zasliganje devet- rih Hrvatov, k-i so obto2eni, da so sok- rivci umora-deputija Pollacka. UpatI je, da ibodo rudarji lahko dokazali svojo nedo!2nost, ker dokazi so, da je Pollack padel od krogle, katero je izstre- lil ipokojni MarlnlC, potem ko ga je Pollock smrtno ranil. Hullo, Glefkenweir! A.. Neil Lyons in the London Daily - ' Herald I was seated .with Dr. Brink—you have 'heard of Dr, Brink—in his Bov ingdon street,surgery, drinking iwine; or wines, when a series of ill-judged Interruptions proclaimed tbat somebody was standing on tlie front door step, be-low our window, and sought admission to the doctor'B surgery, "Never jnind," said Dr, Brink—(tout how unconscientious! How untypical! How umEngllsh! How unmedlcal!') —"Never mind. Let him T>ang again; Have another go at Palestine," You see, wo wero proving and- ex- ■perioivclng threo distinct kinds of inexpensive whito wine. Wo had opened flngona, respectively, of Australian Moselle,- Cnllfornlan Hock and Pales" tine Snu-torne. We were conducting a solemn and conscientious investigation. It was to be what tho motor car -manufacturers call "a test to destruction." With u-norrliiR Instinct I ha'd pinned my faith to the Palestine Sauteme, All tho fine emotions come from Pivlcstlno, Tint Dr, Brink, who was a sworn Progressive, hnd Rlveit his support to tho Cnllfornlan product. He began to talk nbout ciumls, I, on tho other hand, kept asking him questions nbout pork. Dr.'-Drink nt Inst bocamo wonry, nnd 'tho vlaltor on tho doorstop having begun to ahout, tho doctor 'begged mo to find thnt person nnd conduct nn Inquiry of first Instnnce, This I did. Tho visitor's mirno wns Taylor. Mr, Taylor's manner wns -hostile, and not vory cnlm. It appeared thnt Mr, Taylor wns n married mnn nnd that his con- 'fodornto In tho stnto of matrimony hnd. ontnn tinned rood and- wns now indls- poBod. IMr. Tnylor hnd accordingly imrtnlcon ot n'lcohpl—a filthy habit ■vrnetlBod iby porsons of Mr, -Taylor's low olnss—nnd hnd now como to de- -maud, with noise nnd menacoH, tho l-mmo(l,lalw nttondanco of Dr. Drink, .who was Ills wlfo's lognlly a-corcdltnd advisor In mnttorn of hygiene, Whon I oponod tho door, Mr. Tnylor wns gesticulating. Ho hold in his hand, nnd u'bova his head, a hiiiiiII, pink enrrt, which hn wn« flourishing In a milliner calculate^ to oxclto nt- tontlon. Ho wiih nlso ropontlng, with grim persistence, tho word "HoyI" Thn door lining opened to him, Mr. Taylor arrostod IiIh pink enrd In midnight, nnd, regarding mo flnrcoly, ho snid: "Ya'vo como, thon, yn ln«y beggar. Why didn't you como nl onco?" %*m*tt9m (.J***-, +t C* am«m its 99i -ft.*** t9 *f B L>uiiuu> a on iiiOii apuiu ; by Coughing \\ A dose of Mntliieu'a Syrup of Tar uiul Cod Liver Oil token before leaving for church will i . *^,M *,*,^sl...»« |^ cough. This preparation net* an a tonic na well «• a couuh cure and its une noon enable* the ayilem to throw olT all algus of cold. Keep it In the house— Urge UiUle ^c nt ail dealer*, ( ,f. I*. MATI1IFII TO., Pntp., Shrrbrookn, l*. l«MlH lull, tlMlHit *mg»* IW Imt tf, II fltttltrt I l'1-l.t I explained tbat I was otherwise ocj cupied at -the time. * "Ya was, iwas ya?"' retorted Mr. Taylor. - "That's a nice thing, that is, a man's wife dying, her, stomaon swelled to twice its natural size, and all the neighbors out, and a man -comes round to fetch ya, witb the -card in is 'and, all according to lor, and ya're 'Hother.wise hoccupied. Haw! Haw! Come out. The woman may bo dead be now." "I'll 'come -witb' -pleasure," I responded, "if you think I could be use'ful. But 'hadn't you much better have the doctor?" "Ain't you the doctor?" , ■For reply, I went to the foot of tho stairs and 'whistled, when Dr. Brink deseonded thorn. "Are you the doctor?" demanded Mr, Tnylor, .Dr. Brink admitted that he wns. "Thon, this is n nice thing," continued his visitor, A man's •wife dyln', hor stomach nil swolled up, Uio neighbors all out, and when yn'ro willed for, ya—" "What nddross?" snm the doctor, shortly, Tho visitor, thus abbreviated,' bo- enmo confused and thoughtful. Ho looked first nt tho doctor, then at your servant, then nt his hoots, nnd thou nt his llttlo pink card, ■At Inst, bo Hnld, In a volco that wns almost gentle: "I—I .think It's *Bay- liam street, doctor; HI Dayham street. Namo of Tnyloi\\" "Righto!1* exclaimed tho doctor. "I'll got -my boots on," Whilo ho wns getting them on, Mr, Tnylor went nwny. Tho doctor, having equipped himself and collected nn dm-otlc, thon took my nnm nnd wo walked to Daylinm utroot. Wo ox- amliicd Baylmm streot carefully, hut could discern no habitation numbered 111. Wo accordingly Instituted Inquiries, (Thoso, nt lust, rnwltod In tho (lis- covory that tho houso to which Mr, Tnylor referred wus No. 13. llut nobody iiiunod Tnylor now lived thoro, A man nnmod Tnylor hnd llvod there, Imt ho hnd removed In Juno nnd wna now bollovml to occupy n residence on thn othor Hlito of tho rlvor," "Undor thoBn olrcuniHtnncos," mild Dr. Hi'Jnk, "wo—" Hero I ivokn up. You see, I lind wrltton nil tho preceding letterpress In my sleep. It Isn't ofton thnt I 'perform nn net ho foolish ns tn work in my dinner hour: but thorn woro -extenuating clr- eumstnncoH In thiH enso. 1 hnd -boon rending the London owning imperii. In the Evening News 1 found the following report of nn nctunl Incident which hnd ecoiirrod in Ixmdon: l'i ti Si,ci inlin,] initiuiilo Ij-uliiivu IKK) this it wiiHt plnrn \\\\\\tt flr-ir-torf. In n moat difficult position. ,Tunt -horniisn you pny n few pence n weok you Imagine thnt n doctor In to be ordered nbout llko n dog nt nny moment of tho dny or night,' "Them- words wero annkein Inilnv H,v tho ■t-lcrkcnwell rwitfl-stnito to Fred Tnylor, Hnyhnm street, Cnmden Town, who wns Hiimmonod nt tho Instnnco of Dr. IHelinrd Htnrkey, Onkloy squnre, St. Pancrns, for using abusive InnKiingo. "Dr. fltnrkey'H itory wan that nt nililnle-hf on S»t)f«»mbor II ihi*ro wni a vlokiut knorkliiir at his door, nc- eompnnlr-d by shouting. "An»y>i-iiiiK thu dour himself h»< saw tho defendant in n drunken con- dltlen, Minuting and brnndlkhing n InquJrf-d. "'Whnt I* It all nbout?' the wttncnji card. '"Xov»r n-iliid -nliai it"* all about: you've,got',to.come with me,' saldthe^ man.' . ,.V."'' . •. " '■WTiere?' "the doctor asked. '■>■-.. • " "'Never mind where; you'vefgot to como at once,' th© man shouted. - - "The doctor did not, know him, but ultimately the defendant gave an address at Bayham street, where h© was told the man's iwife was dying. ■ ■ Wrong Address ."While-the.witness was putting his coat on Taylor departed. Dr. Starkey said he went to the address, but could find no one in the neighborhood requiring his services. "After he returned home the man ■came again, (bringing his wife. He said that as the doctor had not come he had had to drag her out of bed. "The doctor said he had been given a wrong address, and the man answered that he was a .' liar.' "Taylor would not 'let his wife enter the ihouse and continued to -be" abusive, so the witness went for the police. "Dr. Starkey mentioned that the wife was'on his insurance -panel list, ■but the address was .Drummond street, and the change had not been notified. The woman was at work next'morning, and was still at work. •'Mr. d'Byncourt (the magistrate)— I hope this Is an isolated case, "The doctor said he was afraid not, and added that the insurance work was so onerous that they had to "let such things slide. "The defendant now said he thought his wife >was dying, and became excited. ','Mr. W. T. Ricketts (for the complainant) said Dr. Starkey would be satisfied if the magistrate thought well to -bind the man over. "Mr. d'Eyncourt (to the prisoner— If the doctor, in • the most generous way, had not -put in a plea for you, I should -have made it a heavy .penalty. "The defendant was hound over to come up tor judgment if called upon." The foregoing "report" was,. I think, the last piece of news which I had read -before drinking the on© small glass of port which preceded my slumbers. And when I woke up, a sheet of foolscap lay. 'before me, containing the manuscript of the fragment of fiction with which this article opens. I have printed .this fragment iu its entirety. I may have invented it, and i may have invented it in my sleep; but it is nevertheless a truthful jire- sentation of the sort of thing whicn is always happening to 'my triend Dr. brink, the pan©l practitioner of Bov- ingdon street, E. And it is likewise a xrut'htul presentation of .the sort of sane behavior which Dr. iBrink adopts when this sort of-thing does happen. But Dr, Brink is evidently an exceptional iman of science. 1 have suspected it. Now I know it. He treats his panel ipatients as if they, were people^—ordinary, muddle- headed, sentimental, intoxicated, English .people. But Dr. Starkey, of Oakley square, St. iPancras, 'believes that "panel" patients belong to a separate order 'of humanity. -He -thinks that because they pay for their picric acid and water iby the week instead of by tbe quarter, they,,are necessarily, disentitled to the consideration and patience which" medical practitioners naturally extend to their credit customers. -He thinks that the complicated and clumsy 1'inancia^ relations) which (through ■^rio~iauiir-6r^the-ia"tter;~^xistT^tWe5n' himself and his "panel" patients establishes and justifies an abrupt.and brutal spiritual relationship. The Clerkenwell magistrate agrees- with Dr. Starkey. - *- Ii would like to address a few words of genial remonstrance to .-both these gentlemen. I .would like to remind Dr. Starkey that all nice men get excited when their wives get ill, - and that many nice men -get -drunk. Every doctor who aspires to drive' a really comfortable two-seater knows that you have to put up with an awful lot of cheek from patients. Patients are patients, and neither Dr. Starkey nor anybody else possesses the moral right -to distinguish between "panel" and "-private" joatients—certainly not when he voluntarily has sought the patronage of ibothN Dr. Starkey probably, nay, evidently, dislikes tho Insurance Act, as I do. But this does not Justify him lu taking money under the Insurance Act without fulfilling tho Obligations which tho acceptance of that -money Implies. The principal of theso obligations is to attend to patients—drunk and sober, qulot and argumentative alike. I would llko to say to tho Clorkon' woll magistral© thnt ho is a cad. In this respect ho does not differ remarkably from his colleagues, with ono or iwo honorable exceptions, -chief among whom Is Mr. Plewdon. If Mr. Plowden will allow mo to say no, I think thnt ho Is ono of the most satisfactory lOngllshmon now living, I cnn imnglno with whnt porfect good humor nnd good sense lhat gentleman would havo lectured both doctor nnd patient nnd sont -thorn ench homo to piny. "Just because you pay a fow ponce n wook, you Imnglno tlint n doctor Is to lm ordorod mboiit llko' n dog, nt nny hour of I ho dny or night." Of courso, tho .patient thinks thin, Kvery ipntlent thinks this, whothor ho pnys 1>y tho wook or owes by the year, Homo pntlents exhibit thlu boiler, nnd some pntlonts conceal It, Somo patients smirk nnd quote Scrlpturn, othor nation tn got excltod. Most pntlonts boro tho doctor. Just us most editors lioro tho Journalist. If Dr, Starkey'H pntlont hnd heen n portly nvorngo ndjuaior out of Ullllter street, Instead of nn oxIkiiouh troiiHiirs pwmHor.oiit of Clorkonwell, this Mok< leal Htlpondnry would almost certainly have*.. oxprnsHiMl himself In soothing terms respecting "tho unfortunate mis- understanding." .-Hn would have soon In the stout gimtleinnn of Ullllter Btroet a reflection of IiIh own frailty nnd 'pnsHlons. Hut .when ..ho Is confronted with n skinny follow out of a mows, ho .becomes nt onon'nffllctod with thnt utrnngn dimness of sight, that-utter failure of common uense nnd sympathy, which in the common vlco of all our mnglstrutus. A mn iititui. a uu Kituit iiiuiior uio rn«y thin'trs In eulUvpte Thi-.- invar! nbly earry with them n wiw ot Jim- tlee and decency. If I send this bitter old gentleman of CJtrkenwelf a bottle or 1**0 of my grandfather's port, will ho try to cultivate those grnens? BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CATARRH CONTAINING MERCURY na mercury will minlv ileaiAtjr tlio hpiiku of miif-ll mnl comj'lHi-ly iIki'iiiik" (lift wliolo ayau-m wli-n i-ritorliifr It tlirntwli tin- Ihiichiin biirfiic(-M. HiH-ll article* alinuld nr-n-r In- »""l r-xcf-nl nn prescription* from i'--tmiiit>li- jihyal- clan*. «a Uio dnmairi- tln-v will , r>„ c iMi.iii.. :■,..■■ .... .-.mi i, t,iU*ti (iiirriuitlv. }|i-it,u' .lli, illy m>nrl llm blood mul miirriMI- p.ifton. Predicts Affiliation of Co-operatives With Socialists , "I believe it only a question of a few years until the great co-operative movement of Great Qritain with its 3,000,000 members and ?10,000,000 of capital will accept the principles of Socialism and become affiliated with the international Socialist'movement by means of the National Labor party of Great Britain.". This was the prediction of Thomas Richardson, Socialist member of Parliament from Cumberland, England, at a meeting held yesterday afternoon in Pabst Colliseum, 110th street- and Fifth avenue. The meeting, which was attended by a good a/udience, considering the downpour of rain that started, just prior to the opening time, was beid by tho Harlem Forum, Socialist party. It was one of a series that are 'being held every Sunday at that hall. 'Richardson was introduced by J. Keir Hardie, Jr., who presided. Hardie made a short opening address after several musical selections had been given by Miss A. Gollomb. He de. clared he did not quite understand the situation as regards the Socialists in Britain. The Labor'party, ho asserted, is the party of the workers. "In it," he said, " are all the Independent Labor party men, the Fabian Society members and all the great trade unions of the country. Ninety- five per cent of the union leaders In Britain are Socialists and carry Socialist cards, so it ■win be realized that this (movement is well fixed in the old country. "The Independent Labor'party is the biggest and most influential party In Britain. The British Socialist party is, I think, about the same kind of organization as is the Socialist Labor party here. It must 'be rememoerea that the absence of the word 'Socialism', iu the name of the Independent Labor .party does not mean that it is not a Socialist party." In closing Hardie declared he would' leave the details of the British Labor party to the speaker following. He then presented Richardson, who was greeted enthusiastically. . The oldest Socialist organization' In Great Britain is tlie Fabian Society, he told the audience. From the educational point of view it has rendered great and signal service to the development of Social sentiment in the country, declared the speaker. "The Social Democratic party," he said, "has, although it is part o'f the Socialist party of the country, refused to affiliate with the unions or to even subscribe to political action. The British Socialist, party has continued to pursue what It calls its revolutionary policy and .to preach the class struggle, "I wish to state .that the -policies of the Independent • Laibor party have been vindicated by results. ' "I have read a saying, ''By their fruits ye shall know them,' and this, it, seems to me, can be applied to Sc cialism, "The Indenendenll-La'bor-^-patty—is. avowedly a Socialist organization. I want to make this -clear, for there are a number of people that confuse the Britisli Labor party witb the Independent Labor party. And there are many who question the Socialist principles of both." -•/'*. The fundamental object of the Independent Labor party in Britain, said Richardson,' is to achieve Socialism. At the time of the organization of tho party, a resolution was passed making the 'final o-bject of the party the collective ownership of the menns of production, distribution and exchange, he asserted. "Its immedlato'-end ls to further the cause of labor by means of laws. The Independent Labor party has a membership of 70,000, all duos paying, It has eight members in tho House of Commons. - "Wo havo foKind that wc get the fewest votes whore the workers aro starved and most brutally (rented. To roason with them, wo must first feed them, This requires Immediate Icgls. liitlon. Wo have poor laws, We liavo poorhousos, When tho workers want, relief from theso conditions Ihey havo to appear beforo u board composed of land proprietors and wealthy owners of estates. "in tlie last twelve yonrs there hns taken place lu Groat Britain what has been nothing less thnn a revolution ln spirit nnd tho ndmlnlMtrutlon of the ln\\v«, Things nro growing gradually better now and tho future looks pro- mining." Itlchnrdson closed by declaring lhat tho unionists of his country nro coin, ing very rapidly ovor to Sonlullsm und ho predicted tho samo Influx to the Soclnllst movomonl hore. Tho uudlcnre listened to his ndtlress with <"l0Be attention nnd nt tho close Chairman Hurdle Invited questions, Several won- asked und answered, relative to the conditions of the workers lu Kuropo. A collection was taken up that nutted a good sum nnd coiinltler- nblo lltornturo wns sold.—tn and Alberta, tha Yukon Turrltory, tliu North VVmi Territories, ond In a portion of Hie Provinco of Itrltlmh Columbia, may t>e IcftHed for a term uf tw«ntyAir«nt of th« dlmrlct In *filoli tli- rlKht* niipllnd for ore ultunt- •rt. r In «urv««/cil territory the Isnd thimt tio , •' , *; i -muit. or |«nnl NUl»(llvl<- '•■rrUury iim'trait aiVpWil" for'thAti'tie 'UI..-J i ,j it i.-.(.- wj/(.;j«,-,i iAiiifvH, Knob npllcnllnn mvift bo nceomitanled oy a/«e of »£, -which will \\m refunded If the rlKht* aiiplloi) for am not avAllahl*. but not uiberwlse. A royalty iliall he pah] on tlm iiH-rctmnlaiilii uulinii uf the mine at the rate of five c«nt« per ton, Tho -namon t Uio nilnr tt the rate or fin.on an sore, .^"r. 'UH ll.t.lH..all.il*. •M.lllW-itll.,11 •tiniilrt tie tnadp in iln- HrrrMnry of (In- department of thf lntrrlur, Ottawa, nr jo any Agent or Huh-Aitent of Oorolti. on lands, \\V, W. tlory. Deputy MlnlntfT **1 the Tnti-rln-, *'■■'*—Un«nt>iortsed puhU.-stlon „t thl* -uivertlNement will not t>« paid tnr. Southern H-O-X-E-L. BELLEVUE, ALBERTA Every convenience and attention . Meals that tasto liko mother used to cook Best in the Pass Jos. Grafton, Proprietor Why Rent? When you can own your own home? We have for sale Lots in town and Lots in subdivision in Coleman at all prices, We can suit your income, Call and sec us. Coleman Realty Co. AGIiNTS FOK Fire Insurance and Oliver Typewriters IF VOU DON'T Receive The Ledatr don't blame ua. Watch the date of the expiration ol the same label containing your ad> inn. .> i ^■t^n«yi-ni*^ne[in*qfi0«wi 1* A. " " -V*"i o. *'*,»*Bg\\wig^*«tr PAGE-TWELTHB" **>\\rt, V''*i.iyv»ff "*^*T3* f^.w^Hiis ,y?/n.rrta Wrcjw**»m m iMBW^fto^ittiBg^^^ 5>'T til II ■fl it ,1 tf 'iii si'X-'" ' !;"--' '" ■-' A'tK^iAy^^^^AKj!-. A^.yy-.\\A^ THE DISTRICT LEDQEU, FER3SIE, B. 0.,;; NOVEMBER f ' Vii^.a.,.- J- .'-< " .'^ -SI I1. *. -J. • - • ■ %^ ,- ,„ ;,-; ■ ., -- : . i '•;•,-.- • '--*■• - -7r%mt9x~\\S : '* "- .-V'-,>r „". - / -'^ * Of We have anticipated the needs of those wlio wish topurchaseXmas gifts for friends in farja>vay^ lands. 0ur^ Xmas Novelties, and Toys, has arrived. The storeis brilliant withl'itti'actiye, displays, thaf-ybff^ Suggestion s/fqi\\yoiir purchases.;; - - . • Only five weeks before Christmas, make your selections how. before the big Irtish^ begins^vhiie the assortment the best: We will hold any artical if small deposit is paid \\ Navy Serge tSUttS Hare economies are liekl out lo the man who buys now. Navy Serge Suits for $16.50. They represent tin's store's best effort to give its customers the best article it, can find for the money. Any man can see with his own eyes that the material' v-mployed is of fine quality, and the workman-' ship first class, These Suits are without dotibt- the4 best clothing investment for • any man whose Suit expenditure must be kept within the limit of $16.50 $16.50 Brace uf> sand be a Man BRACE UP AND BE A MAN—Only 25c'Pair Saturday \\ Men's Fine Suspenders, good webb and well finished,' with fine .leather ends to match. These'won't last long, so don't delay your purchase. , - "'""'■ v- „ / „, MEN'S SUSPENDER SETS • In fancy boxes containingBraces, Armband? and Garters to match, made from best silk w-ebb elastic, and finest quality trimmings,- make very desirable gifts. Priced at $1.00, $1,50, $2.00 and $2.50. CHRISTMAS NECKWEAR We have gathered together the choicest' novelties from the Eastern markets. All the advertised new ideas in Glen's Neckwear will'be on display in the Men's Department. Prices 50c to $2.50 each. GOOD VALUES FOR WORKINGMEN HEAVY TWEED TROUSERS These Trousers are made of materiaivthat isnvoven especially for rd wear, Untearable Tweed will outwear two pairs of the usual pairs Medium, weight, $3.00 pair and Heavy Men's Mocha Gloves Per i>air $1.00 Men's Moeba Gloves, with firie;wool lining, will be on sale Saturday at $1.00. 'We have prepared for a big \\ run on this Glove; it makes an exceptionally nice and ; practicable present for a man. :Mens Working Shirts All Wool Working Shirts in Navy, Fawn, Grey or JBrowiL "extra large' and well made. Priced at $1.25 hard kind sold for hard wear, weight $3.50 pair. SILK HANDKERCHIEFS Large pu^e silk hemstitched Handkerchiefs,- plain or with .initial. Special Saturday at 50c each.- , • , Souvenir kSilk Handkerchiefs, large size, at 50c each. TRITES-WOOD. WATCH FOR $15.00 AVe believe that this Watch,is without equal at the price. It is made specially for us, and has more improvements and more of the qualities a good Watch should have than any we know of at the price. It has a 15 jewel adjusted movement in 20 year gold-filled case and is fully guaranteed by us. ■,'",'. Mens Silk /■ Mufflers Fine knitted Silk ' Mufflers, with heavy silk fringe, in While,,- Grey, Maroon, Green, ■ Brown, Navy and Black, in sizes to sell at $1.'50; $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 and up. " Fine Wool Mufflers, with dome fasteners, all colors, at 50c, 65c, ■ 75c,- 85c and up to $1.50 each. Men9s S wedters ,,Men's Sweaters bought at special reduction, only 200 bf these -Jto sellj- cxtra heavy all wool _ Sweaters,' worth $2;00 and" $2.50 each. On sale- Saturday only at.... $1,00 each"' ' * i ' ' Special $1.00 Boy's Sweaters 75c to $1.75 Boys' All Wool Jerseys, buttoned on shoulder, in .Navy, Brown and Green, all sizes.' 75c each" to $1,^5 '' each. . • nuMtiviiit. cam L m#ma* •«.*» m.'x- _ 'neJlloria/ic/i dmit. OUNNVIUE. CAN. BUFFALO. N.Y. Tie Racks ■Here's an inexpensive-and very acceptable present for any man. Every man needs a Tie Rack. The one we illustrate here is both ornamental and useful, made from finest leather with best gilt or nickle . i> ...... trimmings. Special. -..,•*.- • .--> * „ ■ Mens Combinations Men's Fine Wool Combination Underwear, perfect, fitting, all.sizes 34-to 44. Special Saturday $3.00 suit-!- Special $3,00 A'.-. Seme Bargains in our Ladies' and Children's Department SPLENDID VALUES IN FINE FURS Everything that is fashionable in Furs of quality is on display at' this store. lies, Stoles, Coats & Muffs Never in our experience have we had a better selected stock and never such good values. Our prices to range from 15 to 25 per cent less than thc same quality furs can be bought elsewhere. Canadian Rat Coat, 48 inches long, lined .with soft silk, has shawl collar and four frog fastenings. Special .- $85.00 Genuine Mink Sets from $125,00 to $250,00. ' White Fox Sets, trimmed with heads and tails $125.00 Sable Sols from $75.00 to $175.00, Blind? Persian Lamb Sets .. $100.00 Wo carry Furs of nil descriptions and believe wo have everything imaginable from the cheapest to the best. PILLOW OASES-$1.00 per dozen Just purchased a special line of hemmed Pillow Cases in the regular pillow size. They are mnde from a good quality of Knglish Cotton, well finished and hemmed ready for use, Wook End Spocial ' p0r dozen $1.50 LADIES KID GLOVES Wo pany and recommend for serviuo Dent's Gloves, Thoy are all made from choice prime liimb skins, well sown mid finished with clasp fasteners or bullous; also have Paris points and stitched hacks. Por Pair $1,50 Dent's Cape Gloves $1,25 $1.00 SILK HOSE, 75c A very low price indeed for Silk Hose of this quality. They arc purse silk in black and colors and will give excellent satisfaction. Week End Special por pair 75p LADIES' HOLIDAY NECKWEAR T I 1 1 I V " tl 1 i -1 i • • * • ^ v *■ ' * • * ■ \\ t «* . -v»»*j#**v*>. *t**\\9 -'» ■* #*C * K.* t *(A*M <*>*. HHt % k H 4t.il* Hi tM -I A' vpiiv fnr Viny lnvini TVre rive '•*j-1 r--- nnd vriviilw- i-iwin^flj )ii please nil. There are hundreds of beautiful pieces to choose from for Christ iiuin at from 25c to $2.00 each. WOMEN'S VESTS AND DRAWERS, 60o Wnmoti'y Knit T'-Mfli'iivi.-iv in -itwulimit M'eiirlit i-.ttUm mini ivm.i1 miv tun-, iiimie with lii^'h nci-k und long jdeovi'H. '('lie Drawers vtniw hot li open and closed, Week End Special each 50c Shoe Department t , HOCKEY SHOES AND SKATES FOR ALL We have just received our season's stock of Hockey Shoes and Skates, and ore now ready to fit all feet and suit all tastes. ' AVe have received a large variety of Skating Shoes to choose from, in black and tan leathers. We invite you to inppeet our stock before purchasing. „ Ments Lightning Hitch Hockey Boots in black and tan at $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 a pair. Men's Extra Padded Hockey Shoe, black with tan trimming and ankle support attached, a good serviceable and dressy Shoe, at $4.50 pair. . AVo liave in our stock this season a Professional Hockey Boot, light but extra strongly supported, just the Shoe for tho heavy skater. This Shoo is made of fino French Kip and will last for years. .We supply a pair of fine rawhide Laces with each pair of those Shoes. Our Ladies' and Children's Hockey Shoes are neat and dressy. We have several lines to choose from, Ladies, sizes from 2V£ to 7. Boys, sizes from 1 to 5. Girls, sizes from 10 to 2. Wo early a lino of Ladies' Hockey Shoes with Skates attached. These Shoes give perfect satisfaction. W,o carry all lines of Skates, Springs, Bobs, Hockey and Tubes, iu all prices and quality. Child's Skates, from 50c to $1,00, Ladies' Skates, from $1,00 to $3.50. Men's Skates, from $1.00 to $6.00. Hockey Slicks, Sknte Screws and Straps. Cui'lorx, come in nnd inspect onr'specially mado Curling Hoots, These are warm and comfortable, folt tops, warmly lined, with rubbor sole and heel. Vou will initku a good swcop with a pair of thcNO Shoes on, Books Books Books We have 5,000 volumes'of the latest editions of thq best authors, all cloth bound. Price -.' '. $1.50 500 paper covered Novels^ all the popular titles such' as "Brewster's • Millions," "The Fatal Ruby;" etc. Price. '...'..15c . ,* We also carry "Boys' Own\\Annual," "Girls' Own ifym'ual," "Scout," etc! • ', •■'•*..• Visit our Book Department. We have hundreds of Booty to inter-" est botli old and young. , , " NOTEPAPER AND ENVELOPE SPECIAL Largo size Writing^Padrunruled,' of Turquoise Bond$Paper, very- fine and smooth, one hundred sheets to a pad. Saturday Special .each 25c Envelopes to match, 24 in package ; .per package 5ci English Linen Notopaper in correspondence size with envelopes to match. A grade of paper sold the world overnt 50c per lb for either envelopes or paper. ■ "' , Saturday Special -a - eaoh, per lb, 25o . Toys Toys Toys I | Our Tnv l>i.r,'ir-tim-rtt le iinn- ftnnti Ttiorp nre 1r\\X"s nf pvitv di«ti»rin- tion to fit all pocket liookR. Ail'tlio new iduas in nieejiaiiioil toy* arc shown here. We have toys to intercut All. Toyg from 5o to $10,00 each Saturday Specials Itidgway's Old Country Tea regular 50c. Harrington Hall Coffee.. .'■ regular 50c Mocha & Java Coffee, fresh ground 2 lbs. for Okanagan Onions 10 lbs, for Okanagan Carrots ' , 10 lbs. for Okanagan Huets 10 llw. for Okanagan Turnips 18 lbs. for Okanagnu Cabbage. iw IJ'- Okanagan Tomatoes *. 2 lb. tin Okanagan Poaches 2 lb. tin Mrs. Stewart's Liquid Blue 2 bottles Limn Beans ,...; 3 H>h. for National Soda Biscuits 2 lb. tin National Sweet Biscuit* 2 lb. tin Evaporated Peaches 2 lbs. for Cape Cod Cranberries 2 lbs. for Now Pack Salt Herring 2 lbs, for Prairie Prido Flour OH Hi. sack Largo English Walnuts por lb. Canada First Pork ami Beans, family sizo 2 for Old Dutch ClimiiBor « tins PATENT MEDICINE SPECIALS Mennon's Talcum Powder ( 2 tins Lyman's Talcum Powder, largo tin onob Gin Villa r vavbo\\ FrnWuHvM - P«* box White Pino Tnr Cough Syrup * bottle* Witch Unxcl Cream pur builto Horlick's Malted Milk pall suo llorlick'it Malted Milk l^gc size Znmbuk , per box IWetmm Wild por box lied Cross Spearmint Own • Hot Water Bottles *^- .35 .35 .85 .25 .25 .25 .25 .02 \\10 ,15 .20 .25 .25 .20 .20 .25 .25 2.00 .20 .20 .20 .30 ,20 .40 .30 ,'tiO .40 .SO .35 .20 ..A pm-KM-H .ix> 91.20, $1.60 $1.76 Mazda Electric Lamps 26 nnd 40 watts, 110 volts .46 Money Saving Prices V TRITES-WOOD COMPANY, Ltd. BRANCHES AT FERNIE, MICHEL, NATAL AND COAL CREEK Thc Store of Quality a ■i \\ -1 \\ J :-3M»|SV -^LJftjjs.".*"""@en, "Preceding Title: The Fernie Ledger

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