@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "5dc750e6-4570-4a6e-8f61-2c8d865f226e"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-07-26"@en, "1919-04-18"@en ; dcterms:description "The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/disledfer/items/1.0309038/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ :i 1J OWNED, CONTROLLED, PUBLISHED BY DISTRICT 18, U.M.W.of A. VOL. 1 NO. 36 FERNIE, B.C., APRIL 18, 1919 ^ ^ Printed by Union Labor THE FINEST DISPLAY OF Diamond Rings, Watches, Jewelry and Clocks Come in and see the Aladdin Oil Man- le Lamps, they give you the best light at the lowest cost There is nothing to equal the Brunswick Phonograph for the Summer. Come in and- hear them B. C. Loggers Union Is To Bring Cranbrook Ca '■Into Supreme Court *-.S FERNIE OPTICAL PARLORS INVESTMENT Put your money in an established business in your own town. » Sums as low as $25.00 will" give you a full share in the establishment. Eeople-are-gradually-realizing-that-by-united' action they can get what they want. Come in with the others and get what profit there is in the food business. Don't delay, it to-day. Do FERNIE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, LTD. * Incorporated 1907 Those who thought that the "run. niug out" of Organizer ..McKenzie from, the camp of tho Ross-Saskatoon Lumber Co., near Waldo and holding him up, taking his money and driving him out of Cranbrook would hold bade the work of organization anions the lumberjacks are much mistaken. It bun been a great boost for the Loggers Union which has done so much to improve conditions in the camps on the coast. That there is need,for improvement in the*camps around Cranbrook is evidenced by the following letter taken from a newspaper which cannot be accused of having any sympathy for the work, ers; the Vancouver Sun: Bditor, Sun: Sir,—Is there any provincial law in B.C. for the en. forcement ,of sanitary conditions in the lumber and construction camps of the interior? The condition of some of these camps through the interior qf, B.O. is most deplorable. The slave dens of the south in the early days were palaces in comparison to the conditions of these camps, A doctor never visits any of the camps unless he is compelled to, and when he does visit them all that he does is leave a little medicine and probably disinfect the camp. No sanitary inspectors nor policemen ever visit the camps in order to enforce the sanitary laws. During the plague of Spanish influ. enza men were lying in the camps by the score without seeing a doctor or getting any medicine, and the camps are stiH without medicine. During the plague people were be. ing prosecuted in towns and cities for not wearing masks and.neglecting to observe the regulations oi health; but the men in the ramps neither received care nor protection although the companies -collected —Wie^su^-4W^pep-tK©Btfe-ter-hosi7P- tal and medical attention and the poil tax of every man that was not a provincial taxpayer. All of the other provincial governments are taHing every means in their power either to .enforce the present sani. tary laws of health or passing laws to make them stricter and more effective. What is the matter with . houses as they are called, especially in wet or.snowy weather when the men have- to wear two or three pairs of socks each—it is a fine healthy place with all of those wet socks,'shirts and sweaters'hung tip to-dry and a red.bot stove urctil af. ter midnight and nb proper venti- lation. Xot oriefcof the camps has a decent place t'&& a man can wash his clothes or a|f\\ spt to keep them clean. If the salt1.tary laws are not strictly and prohuHly put in force the citizens of B.C. will be face to face with a ■plague worse than the tin as soon as miM and hot weather returns. The flu is not quite han- ised from our iniast, it may also brea.k out afresh any time. A far. mer would have more respect for , his stock than to keep them in some of the bu!ik.hou»t;, of this province; but both the companies and the government seem to Lhink that any den, of disease and flrh is good enough for ihe men in the bush and con. struction camps are steadily grow, ing from bad'to worse. y JOHN O'CQXNOR Cranbrook, B.C: From the head-qgarters of the B.C. Loggers' Union, iiV Cordova St., Vancouver, we learn that the end of the McKenzie episode at Cranbrook has not yet arrived, xhe loggers believe in the observance' »' law and order; in their own ranks they have had some difficulty with occasional mem. hers who in hot temper might advocate rash action and they have em. phathaMy protested against any policy of sabotage or any breaking of the law. ..McKcnxi^ observed the law in Cranbrook. A mob took it upon themselves to threaten him with vio. lent treatment if ae did not get out in two minutes. They-iilso compelled him to pay over to them money which k>gger8-ha<{-i»4i^l-ts-Mtn-t'or-eritiwncfr to the Loggers' liivion. As a body neither the rail\\v,i7' organizations nor tho Great War VetanuiB were responsible for this breaking of the law, but a few individuals va.re. One of these was L, Richardson, hu employee of the Cranbrook Herald and now secretary of the G.W.V.A, Vtem him McKenzie recfivptl a recpijn*"'- u lacsimilo of Calgary Trades And Labor Council Favor The One Big Union District 18 Officials Take Part in Discussion For and Against CALGARY B.VDORSBS. The Trades and Labor Councils of Calgary, Vancouver and Winnipeg have gone on record as endorsing the ONE BEG UNION. A few political job seekers in Edmonton managed to keep the trades and labor council of Edmonton from passing a similar res. olution and have also succeeded in getting the Edmonton newspapers out strongly against the ONE BIG UNION The mass of the workers in the Ed.' monton district, however, are for the new movement heart and soul. The vote of endorsation given by the Calgary trades and labor council followed a lively meeting in which the chief opponents of the ONE BIG UNION were Alex Ross, M.P.P., and International Board .Member Livett. In opposing the resolution (accord, ing to the Calgary Herald) "Livett stated that he was there to fight the One Big Union in its present form. He took that stand because instead of doing something in the. way of the upbuilding of industrial organization, they were simply going to cause dis. ruption. They were going to take u vote in the four western provinces on what they termed the O.B.U. One of the speakers had stated that the workers in Toronto were asking for a different form of organization. It should have been the duty of the Western Conference to have passed a resolu. tion .* favoring industrial unionism which could have been carried to the trades and labor council of Canada and endeavor to have one solid union on this side of the line. By adopting their present resolution instead of sol. idifyiufe the labor movement they would have nothing but distention in Fernie Solid Fop The One Big Union The miners of Fernie, members of Gladstone Local Union have taken thc vote on the ONE BIG UNION ballot. The two questions on which they voted ; ures being: to establish a six-hour wording dsy? The vote showed overwhelmiiqly in favor of both propositions, the fig- were as follows: Are you In favor of severing your af. fllations with your present Intimation, al Craft Union and becoming part of. One Big Industrial Organization of all j workers? Are you in favor of a general strike Total number votes cast, 583 Yes on Question No. 1, 533 Yes for 6 hours, 533 No on Question No. 1, 23 No on C hour day, 34, Eight Spoiled Ballots. the B.C. government? They don't j which appears lh.U.v, and also ob 8eeia; to. tftfiping anything in this respect at present, The time is J long past since the sanitary laws should have been enforced in all of the camps of B.C. and very strictly, too. Take .10 or 40 men sleeping in one of theae dens of filth or bunk- lO'iied tiin m-co' ■ (^evidence for the successful proBctiulroii' of a number cf others. McKeui'io'a statement Is: "If I break the laws of the land I am prepared to take the consequences If others break it they must be prepared likewise," a I |p!iIV&!im^ I NORTHERN HOTEL * INVITES VOUR PATRONAGE Alberta readers of The District Ledger will find it to their advantage when visiting Fernie to atop at the Northern. Tbey will find it coiy and howe-like. HIGH CLASS CAFE ALWAYS OPEN *-■ itxJV.-sAA' As A >• r jtSJ ' ^*^SZ7* ttrefrown hoiks, ue eontemieir~niar the "central committee" was an autocratic body, and those who did not vote in the referendum their votes would be counted in the affirmative. It would only he by having one solid body on the North American continent that they would be able to meet with success." Ed Browne, secretary of District 18 of the United Mine Workers of surprized to hear some of the state, ments that had h?en mad© at that meeting. They must not suppose for one moment that, the movement was goin; to stay in Western Canada. "I am prepared to tell you thlB," ho said, "that the minors ore going to carry the Q.-TJ.U. by a large majority; they are sick and tired of tho system of international unionism ae. it exists today," Continuing, .Mr. JJrowno stated that In ism the miners had a strlko, and received ST.'.OliO a week from tho in. ternational union to support them: but thoy also sont tho coal to beat iht ni, he added, amid laughter. An Hour A Bay Is Taken From Wages Of Returned Soldier At the Mines Here P Llcenie No. 104770 |! i High Glass Day and Night Cafe in Connection 1 1 European and American Rotei. Seo Us for Special Rate* | JO F|y 1 Phone 39 Private Booths § Fernie Sporting Notes HBHHflll Great Clearing Sale Garden Tools ! Th« IVj» **-Iftor h.'t« nm -rttviteii un,- ' l(n-i(.,ill iii'ini. from »hiv outsider iitvl ■ j would liiv-o iif)' much ii" Mnn.- n>ntitj( .»'. it |i.m. at the Uedn*t oftli*< AH thorn* ISli **•**■"<<*•* •*> "'"t'1"" ■*'< tnt,i,.*,11 in- s i i«*r *,l.i!%h il' !(*> Superintendent Caufield Refu^-ps to Dfams*T!ic Disregard of British Columbia's Eight Hour Law In anntii'T inini m (old of the treatment itlu-n tn returned wddierH mt the eo!i*t by the Creat Northern. It Im n signed Setter by a *n|>r. He- turned Mildler* tn l'Vrtil*i have been •!X|M<>, We .|(>|. n't. But we found, utter chicking up, that we wen.' nut only aa guul ith i>i,y Chinamen employed but that our! work was better und cleaner winn compared to lhe sloppy worl; don i by the company, because only a day or so after we were told by Mr. I'aquette that ou.- wages had been cut from 37 cents per hour, to 3L'. This was the last straw. We quit, and any returned man who wants to work under the same conditions is taking the position of making it impossible for the returned man to lie treated by the big corporations with respect. Wo havo done our duty to tbe Km. jiire. We have done our duty to Canada, and this* Is tho thanks that we get. Can you wonder, Mr. Editor, that we look with a doubtful eye on all the talk that is going around in regard to helping the returned man? Can you wonder why we are dlsgus. ted? When we stoop to work with Chinamen and -Swede woman—people who Htayert here mid made big money while we went to tlm war- you cannot say thut wo are not trying to solve the vexed question of what to do with tho idle men who have returned from the front, and when wc get the reception that wc did. 1 am guru thai you will sny thnt you cannot wonder at the unrest that is creeping into fhe eoiiiiiMiiiii.v, hihI cannot blame us if an,, linn**.' huppi'iin, To mu it appears that thc returned soldier in looked ou a« ii pariah a man who was n fool to do his bit at the front, and a man \\*,l;»i i« only ciipalibi of the lowest form of work there Ih in the coininun- it) u confrere ul Cliiiutuujti, Sweden and the other rlrf.rnff of Kurope. A. SMITH 4G.tC.ii*;, lute muh liattttUon lioniueord Uiwiuh. Vancouver, April, 7. I!)l!». Sudden Death qf District Organizer Steve Begalli CAI.fi M(\\\\ AptII IT Ht.-n.' It'Ctlli. ..ri-aiil/er for JHMriet is, r.M,\\V, of A, ill-nil at the Holy Croxn Hoopltnl, Cul, Kar?' at Hti o'clitc':. Intt nt-Kiil fullnw* Itijf .nn operation f'>r i":»H »t *.t m. t * * i ''"■-«-.'•■..- h» . I.r.- rr.,9,,1 tn **« th<.fa,.u'ia IwHnllon which w«n btin«r«hle men i wf)t „„„,. m ., rn!nf,., ,..r...i..bH- t., .,.^tiih«hom.tplat,; ,!;;;?:ti'm mT V" '"'" T.:\""""'"; „Mr|t'»'«.''«-f-!».t» »h..v..-i I, Lucrosie •<><»•»)< -inre hU r^itirn tterr-ntlv Uu*!,, *,rl*. r * |*** «*..*." ielRbl hour law Vt'-leh ttv j, •*..! t, '■^,;l(l; ,,,,{,,„ ...,.,.;. >ii;tl 1;a . ,„ , 1( M«nn*«i.r Tom kind of ullped n cog|>",'»r "««*• w**',, '"♦'» *'"'" >""1 W-Nit-.i... to Cie |i|frl-i c r la*t MnniU> and imnhciI up the Ijt** j !;,*>"* "*"'* <"Vs.wi>ni *nh lix*' »*ln r v.«.rk,', ■»,,*« tmerunui.tial <>r-p,tiy/.-r crniiii^ prei-Urt* T«w t.< hf.*,i Tn.il-eni oln«v«»rl th»« taw Tlio oiher tlmr A-,,,,„.„* xn„ vt, „.,. »„.,-„„.,.,... tii ii* tn Hii,, ua;» iii* ii.n i4ir urnl!f'" went lu n .«;;u ..*ui,ittil dl*\\Hi*t, '"" '-■■ ■ *. *'.** it-.ii.innt ttini n.iiltl r«-!ii!Mv jfi>i>r-t!*«* wi v- at"*! r!,*e to • •' ,;., y.nius-i a.* '.If*) . m t'urrxt in •'-: !•''! nl hi.» i,rg:»ii.*ii!■" ^ *r|-.h,:i>i !;■* b.nl •■', .-!t«lur<- and ".' l-tud'- lli' ll.i;; '., ».„|j()«'l' hi* WA* .nwiv*: *.\\l',:i for tiii) ti,- iiiiirti iii it ay «ti»i>wi bsu tiiiecr-»*<*.«.. A» an <»r«»i»l*t'f h«» i»*ii« r,»* »li» "*,'l *»•■ *•"' ••'.'» i ttith m pttrmt it*** In bit itcitih. SPADES. RAKP.S, HOSE and CULTIVATORS All at cut prices Tite Duthie CompAtty nn nnd «■« nrt* neMmt* U, unri Hie'unH! tht- nnve!t\\ wear*, off, ;mil Vm, City Impne »nd pet tho -ground* In we ean net down to tmnln*** again ahapi:. Bnufcnll • j»rn1e -*i d bm h(" j*.r»t**f--i »• :,"■ nn.* beetied. lie lank the m;t(ler up with; lliu nmttvtnt) **t (•imlntwlit; ",,.:,.m «u,I, the secretary went tn Coal Creisi: toj llitervhnv M|ni« Superintendent t'riu ! han!y will auy Utiitt tiAtttl ta. u^v *,w*»i TV» »lntd« *n> ihe ml*-*. la»j| down by the. .«■ ■*■— . .„ ,_,, rJkJx.C. bar* nlgmtd m 3. mtenr. Uapne. tbnm «tw already aft tuamajOtt th* ontt pay day tbere wtl! prob., onr", in.! o* nim*r ti--* >*■•■ if'.-ftM* ,- „;# \\t ,i..u.* ,u*.. L.i-,,4.-. +*.*\\ -*tUi»***U> u ** uu.,iU. .'*. --.th*;' . i".^-. , Iwmd nnd Mscagcr Vep Colt on h.i* ,i'iml t'rwk aud Mkbel iiii* *h*mld helmbom arw returned tolf'*^V,Jii'i^j bMtwnI an l»fl*M tbat b»n*« r**t fait a dandy l*n*xif> \\xh* bmr a day do?*** ttom torn \\ not nlm ha« a »««bi*r «f mm j burk |«tat*w*ii» ot »**«•« *« .-o^tM** tn Bfek from far the, oo^flci'f. Ml wn Manager »?*nf#» tri.ttmt nm bit bom iw»» I* »b# fr»w»4« Tm% l* a »i|iwd of «M timer bal! players y*«- \\pmtt*r tbnt *bmM tut- %mdii*d inu at t*nlay aturnott* aot by tbo iura mt It oni* aa It «r«»M b* far »*«!rr t.» mil la n rlertt thnt ih* eld*r bill pfujvr;; tm n pmd dlnmmd wh*ti th# gTOtmi!; Intend to mak* th* >«u<»«rr feitowa H unit • t«v*» at t«j» «t»*«Mf to nny tn fh* run- | nlng- Kvi»n Mr Sitildahy waa out an4 Mooptsot tmto ot tb* Itnla '»«»' tb* way b* bitted (Ml mU pill ntooot bnaaball tfib *M»t In a wlr* to tb*|(b« tot would do rradlt to boot* ma ftp editor aaytng tbat ihn unit ilula ttak*r. age In Wtllam*' pa> Mr. Canft-cM ab*Alti«*iy r*nfu-*'«l to di>*. * in** thn case. It it* said to be Mr William* tnteTttirm tn take ih« roi*tt**r* ap with tb«« C.W.V.A. and «he local M»> ""tlfii-ation of rh«» af*r*ptann union ii prwp»r«*l to act i.n a joint j A.M.U*. into (hn Initrd Min* UY.rk-?r« commltt*-!'. a* ttt*tit tn 1 »l M-ff nebf-m ™* **n"m ™^.2\\* 1».2\\'2L -tieoaotet ot the A.M.W, by Frank ,T Hav#., Amalim- matwl Mine Worfc«-r*, tttntt* |»nj, _",'',,, -,-. »..i«tr ih* hum i«!*>»■*' *.t and Hruthtr: \\v nam*. Mnt#rwmonal i-if-cti*l»* board of th* Nova Scotia Will Be District 26, U. M. W. of A. Thit following I* a copy of the offle of thi ■-.tVeti ttvrrrit'i -*.,■ Vton. n* No. tit. li glw* m* grfat pli»iu*iirc to wi»l- . tnm you Into itiir organiiation *ml to with for mr «#•»- m*mtt* r* In N'ora '.•'■* ,i\\ ,.* t lit, -tn t I it I not* yonr retttiwt to ban* Hoard -if. ■>*».. . p, - ; _i;* _ [)j-^iij,i»i Ut-wik titH\\i< it tt'iir at yar diHirifi m tb* !fm<» «h* rh»r?»>r» ate heitiK dlatrtbn* t-^d 5 rfgrt! \\tt adti»e Uiat both Of «h»»se genth'tit^n *i*s nigaged bt thl* tim*. bnt a* nom aa they ean too. t-miently do «o f *b*l) bono tlwm visit vtmr di*'tte* and .ddrwa* aererxl tQ44t. mg in '('Ur fit-Id. If bt all poaalM*. ft I'crtitfuty WiU uoi tSbtn im**.'*.*.-*** ♦»» '< -*S,**Xm th* gttnitatlon Into tail ineni*s>*r»bl;> In to ynnr Held mm* tlm* dar1n*g Um PArnlng rai>arStj of th* «*n a»d mi-\\mr nnion and dirwt*d tb# ltit*nta. y*ar tb*r dM aotM u r*dnn *at*r into, tional otbrtal* to faan* a dUtrtn rbar.; With all food *Ub*a, I rvawln. th* tleerta rmaapl1*d by tb* High r« t.r to >ov gritntinx ym fall dtatrtet PratenuUly yonra, td Mriitg Contntfaabm lantomonv Vowr dJ«trM wtll V^wswb* FRANK J. HAYHS. ftot. rag*. ■-"-•"• ' - ,-'■■ upi ■p "'"• *" i ^?S*"*k PAGE TWO THE DISTRICT LEDGER, PESNIB, B.C., APRIL 18, 1919 Russias' Representative In The Unit- ed States Negotiates For Opening Of Commercial Relations (Prom tlie International Relations Section of the Nation, New York, April 5) The documents printed below eompri.se (1) the letter of L.C.A.K. Martens. ofib-ial representative in the United States of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the .Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, dated at New York, March 18, which accompanied ihe submission of his credentials to the Secretary of State; aud (2) a Memorandum accompanying the letter. A. summary of the Memoranda m was handed to representatives of the press on March 2;\\ Mr. Mortens, by profession an engineer, was for several years the representative in this country of the Demidoft Iron and Steel Works in Russia. Mr. Nuorteva, the secretary of the Hureau established by Mr. Martens, was for some time the head of the Finnish Information Bureau at New York, and has also represented the interest.';, .-.f Die Russian Soviet Government. The temporary offices of the Hureau are at 299 Broadway, New York. Hon. Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. Sir; I have the honor to hand you herewith original credentials' of my appointment as representative of the Socialist Federated Soviet Republic of Russia in the United States, together with an English translation of the same. I have also the honor to.submit a Memorandum of .the present political and economic conditions of Soviet "Russia, based upon information supplied to me by my Government, and, furthermore, I enclose a translation of the Constitution of the Federated Sdviet Republic of Russia. Holding myself entirely at the disposal of the United States Government for any .additional information or for any conference, official or unofficial, I am, Sir, very respectfully yours, (signed) L. A. Martens, Representative in the United States. S. Nuorteva, ',*•'■ Secretary of the Bureau. MEMORANDUM The Rn*«ian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic was established on vr.e (it). ,}{ November. 1917, by a spontaneous uprising of the toil- inir mr.^'v of Russia. Its Government, the Council of the People's Cir..:..'a-ar«-. i* a 0 .vernment controlled by and responsible to a'l such n.eiub-er-**; of tli- population of Russia as are willing to perform rueful v..i!3;. ;ihy*5i.--al or mental. Those who, while not being unable lo xv-i/k -liberate?}' refuse to exercise their productive abilities, '■h't .=:-)-_': ■!'■'•'' on th* fruits of-the labor of the other people, arc elim- ins-^i irom j.ar;;-ipation in the control of my Government. as expressed by the Soviet Government. Only in sparsely populated outlying districts and in such of those districts where our opponents had access to foreign,military help, has it been possible for them to maintain any organization and to wrest from the control of Soviet Russia some territory. Today, after sixteen mouths of existence, the Russian Soviet Republic finds itself more securely established than at any previous time. During the current year the Soviet Government has been particularly successful in retaking vast territories wrested from its control during the preceding months. By February, 1919, the Soviet troops on the northern front had retaken the eity of Shenkursk and adjoining territory. On the eastern front they have lost Perm, but they have regained Pereufa, Ufa, Sterlitamak, Bellbey, Orenburg, and Uralsk. The railway connection with central Asia is at present in the hands of the,-Soviet Government. On the southern front they have taken the railway stations at Pavorino, Alexikovo, Polovaya, Kalatsk, and Begutehar, which have assured th'em^of a control over the railways of tliat region, while on the southeastern front the Ukrainian Soviet troops threaten the army of Kraanov from Ggansk in the rear. In the Ukraine the Soviet troops have acquired Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav, Poltava, Krementchug, Tehernigov, and" Obrutcli. In the Baltic provinces and in Lithuania the Soviet power has been extended to a great part of the territory,formerly occupied by Germans, with the large cities of Minsk, Vilria, Riga, Mitau, Dviusk, Windau, and others in the control of adherents of the Soviet. / These last-mentioned successses are largely due to the fact that, after the evacuation by the German armies of the territories wrested from Russia during the war, and by the peace treaty of Brest- Litovsk, which the soviet was forced to sign under duress, the workers in such territories everywhere are rising to support the ideals and the social order represented by the Soviet Republic. The resentment, against former ruling classes who did not hesitate at inviting foreign military help against their own people, has evinced itself* by an ever-increasing popular support of the Soviet Government, even among such people as at first were either hostile or indifferent to the Soviet rule. Men and women of literary, or technical training and of other intellectual accomplishments are now in great numbers rallying to the support of. the Soviet Government, and co-operate with it in all administrative branches. The peasantry of Russia, the great majority of whom from the very oat- set were supporting the workers' revolution, have become more consciously attached to our social system, realizing that in the support of the workers' republic lies the only guarantee for their rcr main ing in control of the land which they have wrested from their former oppressors. The economic isolatiou of Russia, which so far lias prevented -the Soviet Government from adequately supplying l'i. ~-'T ['>^t'Tir>on(Titions" those who" a re willipg"To"Tm"PToTtI? ii&iazE-or. 20 "i number at least 90 per cent of the adult population k :;<■ „--*?. controlled by the Soviets. All such people have Ml !>-> V-.'^A :'.j\\ .-iv:! rights. . " ' T" - Vim* of citizenship in Russia being industrial and economic jvi'i.-r "h.»n political, and the social system'bein?-of sneh a natural \\X' --, -ry person r-ngaged in useful social labor is bound to partial-[ :■«:•.- '.'. public affairs, tbe percentage of people directly participating! :r. ih* rr.rii''!i? of the working classes, the. abolition of the exploitation'of labor and the elimination thereby of class division creates a productive cemnnmity in which all able inhabitants are bound to becomo' useful workers who liave fall political rights. My'Governrnent thtn becomes the expression of fully one hundred per cent of ilia pe:i\\iu*. Tt should also be noted that political rights are granted in Ilussh to every inhabitant engaged in useful work! though ho be not a citizen of Russia but only temporarily working there, The ftussi.-m Socialist Federal Soviet Republic was rapidly nc- claimed by the vast majorily of tlio laboring peoplo throughout the former Empiric of Russia. H bus maintained itself in tbe face nf manifold pints and apposition on the purl, of smnll groups of the former ruling classes, who in many cases enlisted foreign help and who employed the most unscrupulous methods in their fight against the Soviet institution.-*. Yet nowhere in Russia eould such elements of their own accord organize any noticeable resistance to the popular will, Tne pMMHTOnrnTTOpreiTiirfrTiTttt^ causing hardship among the peasantry; yet the peasants generally do not place the blame for this.privation at the door of the Soviet Government well realizing that it is due to the,deliberate interference in the affairs of the Russian people by hostile groups, and that a remedy for this privation is not a weakening but a strengthening of thi* Soviet power. They fully realized—and their experience iu such ifi.--t:\\iK<« where counter-revolutionary forces tenf^oVarily sjiiceeed- <*.! ia overthrowing Soviet institutions clearly demonstrated it - that; an overthrow of the Soviet rule, if possible at all, would lead to the *-*r.iblU*3i8H'zU of "a tryamiieal, reactionary, bloody autocracy. The remarkable improvement in the internal situation of Soviet Russia appears from the negotiations which the members of tbe former Constituted Assembly have begun with the Soviet Government. Repr^entitives of the former Constituent Assembly, »s Tehernov, Rakitnikov. Sivatitzki, Vplski, Bourevoy. Tchernenkov, 'Autumn*. all of whom are also members of the Central Committee of the Social Revolutionary party, recently arrived in Moscow to participate in a conference' with the Soviet Government with the view of giving support to our Republic. This conference has led to an understand, ing whereby these well-known Social Revolutionists and former bit- tor opponents'have ceasetV their opposition nnd declared themselves with great emphasis against the Entente intervention in Russia. An improvement of the Soviet Government's relations with the elements formerly hostile to it in Russian society is also indicated by the change in the attitude of the Mensheviki, whose conference has likewise protested against the Entente intervention. Thc army of the Russian Soclnllst Federal Soviet Republic lots been successfully organized and numbers today over a million men. A^ystem of universal military training has been inaugerated which steadily supplies the army with reinforcements, with the view of creating a force numbering by the end of the current year three million men. The forces of the Government are led partly by officers of the former Russian armies who have proved their allegiance to the Soviet Government, and partly by,officers developed from tho. rank and file by the military educational institutions established by my Government. The Commissariat of War has been successful in establishing and maintaining a strict discipline within the ranks of the army—discipline not based od fear of punishment or on docile submission, but on the ardent conviction of the workers from whose ranks the army is recruited that it is their privilege as well as their duty to defend their social achievements against encroachments from any source. This same conviction of the necessity of the defence of our revolutionary achievements has made it possible for us, in spite of all economic obstacles, efficiently to organize the production of military supplies. The Soviet Government inherited a legacy of utter financial disruption created by four years of war arid a year of revolution. This state of affairs, and also the necessity of coordinating the financial system of Russia with the new industrial and economic system represented by my Government, necessitated a complete reorganization of the financial institutions on the basis of common property rights. This reorganization, which aims at exchanging the money system for a system representing labor value, js still in the state of formation; Regardless thereof the Soviet Government, in as far as financial relations with and obligations to other countries are concerned, is prepared to offer modes of financial transactions suitable for the financial systems of other countries. The period up till the establishment of the Soviet Government- also badly disrupted the machinery for production and distribution. The Soviet Government inaugerated a system of public control and ownership of industries. It has actually taken over many important, branches of industry, and has established the control of the Supreme Council of National Economy over all industries. Great handicaps have been faced because of the obstructionist methods of our oppon- al confusion unavoidably coincident with the gigantic reorganization of the industrial life. In spite of these great handicaps, various cuts, lack of raw material and machinery, and because of the gener- branches of industry have been reestablished, even ,w;ith an increase of productive efficiency. Many branches of industry, however, ial and lack of machinery. The needs of such industries offer a wide liave not so far been able to recuperate, because of lack of raw mater- field for business transactions with Russia by other countries., The state of railway communications at the outset of the Soviet regime, was very unsatisfactory, The demands, first of the demobilization of the old army and later of military operations against counter-revolutionary attacks, taxed the capacity of our railways and left little opportunity for reconstruction work in this field. The Soviet Government during the past year nevertheless has managed to build and complete the building of about 2,000 versts of new railways. It has also paid great attention to the construction of other,means*of communication, such as canals, roads, etc., and is at the present time planning work .along these lines on a large scale, which will also I offer great opportunities for foreign trade. The people of Russia, kept for hundreds of-years away from sources of popular education, have made it one of the main tasks of my Government to reorganize the school system with a view to the greatest possible achievements in tht field of "popular-education."" In this respect extensive work has been carried on throughout Russia during the past year. Tens of thousands of'new primary schools, vocational schools, workers' universities, and lecture courses, especially courses offering agricultural instruction, have been established and maintained at* great expense on the part of the Soviet Government, and the field of the educational activities has been extended to include the making of the treasures of the arts and sciences as easily accessible to the people as possible. All these efforts, incomplete as they still are, however, have given the Russian people sufficient evidence of the earnestness of the desire and of the ability of the Soviet Government to fill the needs of the population, and they lipve largely contributed to the abatement of opposition. Inasmuch as opposition has ceased in the form of nc 'ive resistance to the Soviet Government, it has become possible to assuage extraordinary measures such as censorship, martial law, etc. Much prejudice has heen created against the Soviet Government by this circulation of false reports about the nature of the institutions and the measures undertaken by Soviet Russia. One of the most frequent allegations hns been that the rule of the Soviets is ono of violence and murder. In this connection I want io call your attention to the following passages in the note sent to the President of the United States on tho 24th of December, 3918, hy Maxim Jntvin- off. on behalf of the Soviet Government in Russia. The chief aim of tho Soviets Is to secure for tho toiling (CONTINUKI) OX PAGE THREE x> OUR PROGRESS AND CAUSE OP POVERTY (By W. J. Curry in the Critic, Vancouver) One evidence of our progress is the fact that we are losing faith in scapegoats. Once it was "God's visitation" or the devil who caused disasters. Today even the ex-Kaiser is being discredited as the originator of the late war and social troubles except by certain "labor leaders" and defenders of plutocracy. Once it was believed that revolution and great events took place through the direct agency of great men. In the past there was some truth in this idea. Today we know these assertions are due to ignorance or else to hide the real cause of war and social distress, for if events can be attributed to the capitalistic system of production then the victims of these troubles would naturally say that the system must go, and this would be unprofitable for the class which benefits through their property rights. The truth is, however, there arc in reality no individuals responsible for the world's, present unrest and poverty. These are simply the growing pains of society's childhood, the inflammation and convulsions due to the processed' cutting our social teeth. Tho child is burning his fingers, falling dowhstairs or into the ditches by the roadside, and will learn by experience. Even if we ImVeJieen here many centuries, yet if we count time by pj-ogress, '' by heart beats, not by figures-oil'the dial," we are decidedly youthful. Our struggle tip from the jungle and the caves of bur ancestors has been extremely slow as compared with the swiftness of our pace during the l$st generation and with that course now before us. A few* years ago the late Alfred "Wallace showed us the marvellous discoveries and social changes along material lines of* the last fifty years,-and he clearly proved that more material progress was made in that period than in all tbe previous ages of man's existence. Those who can mnemher fifty 'years ago will realize the vast changes which have taken place in our modes of living, and working. The electric curs, the telephone, electric lights, wireless, the typewriter, tlie phonograph, player- jtiiuRis; iiro~mwi espsiFSmpsrsub^ marines and hundreds of important, inventions now in common use were half a century ago unheard of, and the "wise men" of that day laughed nt the idea of these tilings just as the wise ones of today laugh at the idea of universal peace and the abolition of poverty which the common people intend establishing. Less than half a century aga the com mon watch was not known, and otir great-grandfathers lighted fires by striking flint and steel together just as people did thousands of years ago. A century ago there wan not even gas light or kerosene oil, and yet science slu^ws that main has been on earth hundreds of thousands of years. This progress is due to increased understanding of our surroundings. The writer forty years ago was living in a Canadian settlement on the Atlantic Coast, and remembers seeing numerous old Hudson Uny lliiit-lock guns in use. The percussion cap was nlso used, hut thc breech-loader was unheard of. Think of the advances in tho art of scientific mass murder ami th* (Continued on Vnpn Thro*» $1,000 Victory Bond FOR THE ONE BIG UNION 1 HIB IS TO GIVB NOTIOB thrt nun thnm.ntd riders of The I)i«l,ri'(.«l, UMffrf cai h, Mtint tt (Jullar's worth of «ft a re io. lite ,,i-,*,•„„. *■;,,*.i,,,, nr tb.* fxvt? l*iri ttvuisi . QT n-x (. *\\r*x, .4,1. ,*-»,.«. .« ft* • 1 * »• », , I,' V 9 *»^, 4 * ,* . ' . ' * . i- i pf ■■ , i, ■* f , ■ , ,'.,, MllHilMY, Labor Tvmpta, Vnwmtver, Ji. <:,., ami tht? r«c«ijit il freof wiil be ackn»wkdg#d through The l)i$tri<$ U'dger in groups of one hundred !»> ^ivo expciw of letter wrising nml pfsiajri). u k i The ''other fellowr" etie willing lu si^eud autlioiio of dollars to kill out the One Big Union idea. We havfen't the millions but there nr. a 'ot r - ~i ~*i<**U "*ifrht ^it*" and the more ruPtl* r* v* ^mre f r * *»' ^i tf #*n %3m MtBm %#• V. H. Mtd'iley, Hetty. Ontrnf font- mittif, hfttmr Temp!,* Vancouver, ii. e. PuvmmU v.ort of TMT! OVR ?Sjn VXION, Yoa nwsit not tend mo an In- dUUui.1 rut.Spt hnl *.&u -Jtw.m.iu.ttf.o rcw!pt through Tho Ulttrtei Le4*«r. tnr.*th*r with th* nthcrtt et tho Imrtrlt ■ *, , . ,.n.,,..., • ». .. torj- nom! for th* oki nm tonb&' Y«mi tsothin't Unto aay worry fa to- turd tn paytw? th* Imprest tm mt *h"-ri* of th* homi. We nil *%pt*et lo rotten that. In 4b# e<*a#r*n trom "ti** other Mbm." Vour* for THK OKK H!0 VSIOS, Nam* .M-Jri-M fTS* K 'JBBBfc ' SLT.*srsSassttsasfc ■W**.i«**'-rt*T.s2tefe»~. .pm IA IS THE DISTRIOT LEDGER, PERNIE, B.C., APRIL 18, 1919 PAGE THREE RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN THE U. S. (CONTINUED STROM PAGE TWO) majority of Russian people economic liberty, without whieh political liberty is of no 'avail to them. Por eight months the Soviets endeavored to realize their aims by peaceful methods without resorting to violence, adhering to the abolition of capital punishment, which abolition had been part of their programme. It was only when their adversaries, the minority of, the Russian people, took to terroristic acts against popular members of the Government and invoked the help of foreign troops, that the laboring masses were driven to acts of exasperation and gave vent to their wrath and bitter feelings against their former oppressors. For Allied invasion of Russian territory not only compelled the Soviets against their own will to militarize the country anew, and to divert their energies and resources so necessary to the economic reconstruction of Russia, exhausted by four years of war, to the defence of the country, but also cut off the vital source of foodstuffs and. raw material, exposing the population to most terrible privation bordering on starvation. I wish to emphasize that the so-called red terror, wliich is so grossly exaggerated and misrepresented abroad, was not the direct outcome and result of Allied intervention. The Russian workers and peasants fail to understand liow foreign •ountries,. which never dreamed of interfering with Russian affairs when Czarist barbarism and militarism ruled -supreme,' *■;'„' and which even supported that regime, feel justified in intervening in Russia now when the working people themselves, after decades of strenuous struggling and countless sacrifices. succeeded in taking the power and destiny of their country into.their own hands, aiming at nothing but their own happiness and international brotherhood, constituting no menace to ether nations. In another passage of the same, note Mr. Litvinofi! states as follows': The best, means for the termination of violence iu'Russia would be to reach a settlement which would include the with- >■' rawal of all foreign troops froth Russia, aud the cessation of direct or indirect assistance to such-"groups in Russia as still indulge in futile hopes of nn armed revolt against the workers' Government, but who even themselves would not think of such a possibility if they oould not reckon on assistance from abroad. The great work of social reconstruction inaugurated by the Soviet Government as the executors of'the people's will has been hampered by the necessity of military defense against opponents,of .our Republic, and by the. economic isolation of Soviet Russia which has' been'ene of the weapons of their attacks; together with deliberate disrupting of our means of communication with important food centres, as well as destruction of food stores: and all this has greatly increased the sufferings of our people. By tremendous efforts and by efficient consolidation of all economic means at, its disposal, my Government has been able to stave off the worst features of this situation. The fact that economic disruption together with starvation and lack of all the bare necessities of life prevails ns poignantly, and wnro sn in_^imh-.pnri£.nf~!j4.fl_^orffler--R«Ssian-^ for some time in the hands of the opponents of our Republic and have contact with the outside world, clearly testifies that the Soviet rule is much more capable of insuring means of existence to the people than any pretenders to tho power in Russia. In view of all.the above-stated, I venture to say that the Soviet Government has given all such proofs of stability, permanence, popular support, and constructive ability as ever have been required from any Government in the world as a basis for political recognition and commercial intercourse. I am confident that the people outside of Russia are becoming as convinced as the Russian people themselves of the futility of efforts to overthrow tbe Soviet Government. Such efforts lead only to unnecessary bloodshed, and, if succcsssful in any part of Russia, lead to temporary establishment of bloody, monarchial autocracy which cannot maintain itself, and even the temporary existence of which will lead to bloodshed and misery. Fully realising that economic prosperity of the world at large including Soviet Russia, depends on uninterrupted interchange of products between various countries, and especially with the United States. The Soviet Government is prepared at once to buy from the United Statei vast amounts of finished products, on terms of payment fully satisfactory to parties concerned. My Government also desires to reach an agreement in respect to exports from Russia of raw material needed by other countries and of which considerable surpluses exist in Russia. In order to reestablish the economic integrity of Runia and to insure uninterrupted commercial relations, the Russian workers and peasants, as Mr, Litvinoff stated in the above-quoted note, "are prepared to po to any length of concession* as far as the real interests of other countries are concerned,*' of OUR PROGRESS AND THE CAUSE OF POVERTY (Continued from Page Two) manufacture of cripples and orphans that has taken place since that date, and then- realize our progress. The marks of the beast still upon us ■' We have... many' evidences that man it still in his infancy, and of the long, painful journey we have taken. We have with us still the rudiments of a hairy coat. We wore skins as clothing ages before we wore caps, and so we have considerable hair left on our pates while the remains of primitive body raiment are but rudimentary. It may conflict with the dignity*of our refined and aristocratic citizens, but any student of anatomy knows that the remnants of a cordal appendage or tail is still* with, us, and with them, also the now useless muscles with uhich our brute progenitors moved their ears to sense 'danger sounds, are to be found. We have the remains, of (our claws and 'fangs with which our pre-human fathers and mothers fought over their prey in the jungles a few million years ago. Millions of workers are now Ittisy making 'substitutes for our primitive clothing, and tens of I thousands of dentists are busy patching or making substitutes for the teeth whieh nature is now fast el.imina.tihg. through disease. Any useless organ or class must Greatest American Financial Authority Gives Serious Warning To Clients Directory of U.M.W.ofA. I ■A Hi i for the reaction and prevent it from being disastrous, but to stop it j --• lpos (2.) The industrial classes in many parts of the world are at the point of revolution. Insiders well know that the uprising of the \\® masses in Germany was a vital factor in ending the war, and the!is disturbances in that country are likely to become worse when peace ji When, our ancestors began to walk on their hind legs and to use a club their claws and fangs began to atrophy, and through our marvellous intellect and conquest of force and. matter we are now using weapons a million times destructive and deadly than those r,.s-2d by the fiercest, and most venomous beast's and reptiles'of the Balurian swamps.. Who will dare to affirm that we have not made progress ?-In four short years our Christian nations have slaughtered in the battle fields and killed off through famine and pestilence upward.of twenty million people, and wounded as many more, and the directors of these proud exploits are now celebrating: this glorious victory by wrangling over (Prom the Babson Statistical Organization February 25, 1919.) We are sitting on a keg of powder. It is well enough for prominent men to give out optimistic interviews, but such talk is largely for effect. The statistics which tliey give may be true, but they don't tell,the whole story. Fundamental economic conditions are bad and it is useless to deny it. We'1 should give many reasons for this statement, but shall only mention two basic reasons: (1.) This composite plot shows clearly that a period of trouble and depression is ahead. It cannot be sidetracked. We can prepare j M 11 is impossible, lii No of Local L'314 2334 terms are imposed. ^ know something of the terrible conditions iff 2877 in Russia,; hut little is being told us about the bad industrial condi-nl tions in Italy, France, Spain, Japan, Holland, and Great Britain In all these countries strikes are numerous. On account of jthe law ji of equal and opposite reaction, things are not as bad in America asjl in Europe. The idea, however, that these convulsions ean ' take ^h ' ■ ■ < < i ml place m Lurope without some reaction in America, is probably fool-li ish. The United States is destined, to. have great labor troubles im-!|j less employers immediately adopt different methods. These trou-!j| bles will start with the textile industry, the copper industry, or possibly the steel industry. The coal and electrical industries will also be affected. America may see the darkest period of its history in the coming days. What does this mean to clients? It means that business will be jolted, the earnings of the masses will be cut clown, and tlieir purchasing power will be greatly curtailed. As people cease to buy,l§j 'KAiii manufacturers will cease to produce, and manv workers who have lil '''!")'i . ■ ) IS* i il / not quit voluntarily, will be laid off for lack of orders. J' ^ The vicious cirelifwill again be in evidence. The prices of certain basic commodities, such as steel, copper and other metals, will continue to decline. There may not be such an extended decline in the manufactured goods, which so largely enter into the cost of living. Owing through interference with production through industrial unrest, the shortening of hours, and general inefficiency, prices of manufactured goods may for a while continue relatively high. During the past years, the influence of the farmers in this country has been mostly on the side of conservatism. When, however, the trade routes of the world are again freely opened. American farmers are going, to get a decided shock. Wheat will drop to a dollar a bushel, while corn and other cereals will fall correspondingly DISTRICT 18 Headquarters, 316 Beveridge Building, Calgary,* Alta. President, P. M. Christophers, Vice-President, Alex McFegan, Blairmore, Alta. Brule, Alta. Secretary-Treasurer, Ed. Browne International Board Member, R. Livett District Board Members Frank Brindley, Fernie, B.C., Sub. Dist. No. 1 John Brooks, Bellevue, Alta. Sub. Dist. No, 2 Chas. Peacock, Lethbridge, Alta., Sub. Dist. No. 3 John Kent,.Wayne, Alta., Sub. Dist. No. 5 David Fraser, Brule, Alta., Sub. Dist. No. 6 Steve Begalli, District Organizer District Solicitor, II. Ostlund, Lethbridge, Alta. 2633 21 as 1263 431 1058 574 11S5 li 1189 I 112G II 102 \\% 2!l* % 1387 f\\ 109S I !f»(S2 1 174«; || 2817 rai II it ■3 li •a .■2 1 i m Pi ,tiiiUjjrratorA'*HfUKi4^ than the tanner's expenses. This is going to make him ugly, and Socialism will appear mild compared with some of the propositions whieh farmers will be making a year or two from now. The farmers of the Western states will unite with the industrial workers of the Eastern cities in attempting most dangerous legislation. Our Mercantile and Labor Services are constantly advising clients how to shape their business to prepare for these startling events. Different lines of industry must use different methods of insurance. Those who recognize conditions and prepare an outlet for their people's desires may get by. Those who try to dam the flood will be washed away. Our government has said so much about democracy, that thc masses are now determined to have it, and to have it apply to industry as well as politics. Farsighted employers and merchants, instead of attempting to block the masses in their endeavors, will at once get busy to devise means whereby they can reach their goal without bloodshed and the destruction of property. A Word on the Building Situation. As above suggested, the coming industrial unrest must be prepared for and made less harmful. We endorse the Government's campaign for the stimulation of public works, the building of homes, and construction of all kinds. Reaction must eome, and the only hope in the situation is to give the masses as much help as possible, so that the reaction will not be so severe. Tbe building industry may become such n buffer. Construction work, both publio and private, should bc encouraged by ei*ery employer. It is a check to 15511 2!J4<), 324;) 2015 M840 2. i'ercv Speii".'!" Albert /.ak Ales. McRo'it'i-is Frank-Wheat ivy N. 1). Thachuk .lames Bcwsher John K-.-:it T. P. Thompson IIv. Smith Kmil'Usibelle \\. Parker J. K. Adams Robert Parry ,i. P. Mi.n-is H. Lund Joseph Orinond Tom Shannon Pete Tissino W. C. Stephens *L. A. Williams Mack Stigler Box 488, Edmonton Ed. Eastham Will J. Keen Chas, Taylor W, <•!. Bourrpio. X'va.* 'Stt'rntltaon't a quished Hun. Material progress exceeds know- ledge of Social Forces While the economic interests of "cs^" -«»«.wi.i u«,i« W»M» u.„ !««.»»-,« ««.«« u* u,c «„«- g thc ruling classes of* society are in line with the conquest of nature and improvements in the production of wealthy the same interests of the master class retards social evolution and the understanding of these economic forces, even by "prders in council," jails, etc, ^Ve are still individualistic in thought, although our mode of production and our relationship have become social. We havo social production and class appropriation of wealth, and this incompatability !k'twcen our ideas and our social relationship is the cause of tho world's present and increasing disorders, and labor agitators are effects rather than causes of this. For instance, John 1). Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Co. and its subsidiary interests control more than half the known oil fields of the world. These are natural resources and social necessities, mid what applies fo oi! product* ... ............ „ „ applies to coal and copper, food anarchy, Bolshevism, and lAWNV.ism in this country. Kvery client and clothing, transportation,! should une his influence with his local community, his representatives! bunks, ot*. Vet you cannot blame ] t0 ,}m Htate legislature and Congress to push public works with all! John J>. foi this. These methods Evansburgh,'Alta.' Cardiff. Alta. Twin City Miliar Robul Jones Sturgeon Mine, Edmonton John Jordan Dawson Mine. Edmonton, Box 792 Thomas Coxon Clover Bar, Strathcona Elmer Burk Coal City, Taber William Durham Regal Collieries, Taber G. II. Davis 1 IS r«jMBia»m^^ Workers ofthe possible speed. Clients also have an opportunity to perform per- course with the understanding that no agreements entered Into should impair the sovereignty of the Kussian people, as expressed by ^j^J^^ sonsl patriotic service hy building at this time. the Hussiaa Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. j methods of our ancestors. Thej I'riees wilMie lower later, but it is a good deal better to build On the part of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic;,,,,!,!;,. ,„„*?,, „,, „ff.„., <„ ,'»,.v,.W «.t,.w *m.\\ kad off u.Mi* h«™ l,Ia»» tar l»«Hdiiiff and who have suspended the «atnc countries for peaceful pursuit of opportunity, and it invites any j * '«" t ' mi amount "f high price?, should again a*k for bids. Client* xxhn *.rutioy aiid investigation of its conditions, whieh 1 feel sure w',^*^be,ft,c.?TO^Jfff^,thf rc j fn any wny contemplate building should nt leant have plant drawn Mind you. we are not pretending that now is the cheap time to suit of machinery prove that peace and prosperity in Ruitsia and elsewhere, in so far I a«t the prosperity of Russia affects other eountries, may be attained j In *!'»i< *>> »l»'^ "piiiNui »r pre.. ^.^ by the cessation of the present policy of noti-intereotiw with Soviet, j»™"'^^^ ,^lnj,*y^^\\ 1-Jitwdn, and by the establishment of material ami ititeileetual inter-: ^.^ ^ }J)} *"<.rdo'.« St, W. v.wmrvKK. ii c I'HoS'i; SKY Mont ""■•. f. lii' k* i.,rt 'ihutt'm it* how piepared (>• |«ur.h*.e in the American market grout *|itj»titities of the following commodities, commensurate with the need* of l&it,mi,t»nt peoplef railway supplies, africnltural in»pl«»- nicnts and ma.hin hides. hrMte-*. f«r«. tnmVr. grain, ptnti^um, wefaJs. and jwlncrals. Tbe' Wn*«isi!ii *U>m-ie-mm'Ni,l, im lh>? tv-fni 'fll S!ryu-d-*r kAmji nf-tvi*:*. with the tfnlte* ■» •■■•-mt' tto» pnr-l'.a^HK and ttu-retot-e , !.li.»- '.i.iiktu.itlitu' ir-mltieiw. Hn* i* «»*»'• fefttiw* of over-prndiietstui snd no-. , .liV-ijJAu.. ii*t „t. i'i .tt.Hi* t O t*l**'**,**,i \\nutl tl»eref«»iv Sl.c cflti^* of *»«**?al j ' nji*r*»*t -*ti*l *}-'«' r'*»i«-i» *»'f •''**" i ♦ ■*»*«'■"*** ■' .* m n pn»Te«t airsimr pr»verty ■- tn j 1|je IW!*«ltt llf plrfuSy,. Ill Ihi* pff»; What Is Happening- Abroad •J4t If YOO Win* *bn Ihf km "Th Wmi- nt i><),7n>i-i*tt in l-.ti*ti*;-> <* over, !»'•' *! real jkicj.iI conditions in lvnroj.% jhdI elwivhrre WU. V.'ol'kilttf el.*".* Il»ir*e»» imn «-vj'*er«s<»«t jUi ! i ^rc.it *, '„-*,* «.ii are not i*cnern2l,v t in ri'«.--itut;.i:,.ir\\ tlt'ltrft , %t . * i . .. ..„ i ,., ,*.*,.!■,, i uul c or ir-iii ejt Jin* t*lt* -.1 t-y-t 3£ JSON Dintinuer' on Page Four Freth ami Com*} Mt****,- va*. w.*..«..* t.i. ■ nnt* find \\irt*r':t-n «til *f* tbt* I'twll'' r,t Irtr, tf*n,ti-i*,1 »..:»' (*2<>O,000.00O) to cover tbe priee of initial purchase*. j To imttro ■ basis for emlifs for additional Russian purchases injtwt. which flic raster rl«»s would the United State*. I wggwt that detailed negotiations with "vj^jj,,^ "***• i% *h' ^ If we tl»e«* the eat»«•'« * I m wnpoirtwd by my «Io¥#mi«wit to negotiate for tbe speeily jibe ex Kai^r or Ihe *mtf IM- Communicate At Once Wiih NORTH AMERICAN COLLIERIES, LTD.. 90S McLeod Building, Ecir.cnten, Alia. ni *if ,#, y"*> It. ft'»fr"ew, Attt:*i . » * i fi. .* , *i * 4 j . h., , ■< k i-jisfcf : tc tf: t'"f.9 9 9'. 'ii ! «ll«ltlllf tml AmtTiea. and I ahall bt gl«d t» dfaewaa details at tbt mttitot ^ mU aj%r,||^| a*t*nm u proj^t sbtps. and men !%« rUItan aiwljri-llcve tie nebinx mn»vlc* Arkwright were f^ipon*iljle foriiMNrveaof naati VtmUl t)h#v ofportiaitf Bf"T—** ^WgjJJJ^jWH^ ii^MliSiii Subscribe to The District Ledger mi.- hn' Mtr-pfitmtmtHm. »«!em mnt •«•!«*♦ what has tmp d«w with th*tr t*m*mtJm*ywm*mk «»«i lW*»W»i«Mw. •< «*«. \\'ti it tbty or m* rmhl ... .,, *, ing bwMily a a*rri** trim tley lot* into the m»l «l«tant fntur* w* vh*lh ™ i^l*1* ***** Pfrmu-» ^.1..._t tlu t^wmmm «# ttitttrm Ia ^ , „l I W-..- *%.»* l^k^JI ft... .5... I !*"^ *nd BnSXC f»r XM-*~* Oftti tAfti * T -hi»*'* ,*>--l %t- !*n ■*. •<( faftua* 0.1**1 iVutmott**. ',h* is«»rl "* * mtw *tr- {•rinjr. tbtr* in tb* »nn «n«l hht* ***** ni n rtettrr itar. ip. inf.-lie*. lit*l asrahenirv unit a spirttnaf unfold- * itif nn the |t»ri of tbt a*******-* etftlav^d the torero ot mttm to r.t nil know tbat Ih hind th-* .l*n\\., '•'*' <*'i»H'*:>h j-.tX*,%UL l».if% "•?»;' E. PICK Sole Af ent for tbt ?m» for Letnbridge Brewery Products >,~*i *\\ »-«•.-.*,** \\y -,,,, •„ .;„, fn,)(. VET OUI FRICM ON ALI TRM PER ANCE DRIfiRf l,.j.*\\,* ., j'r..,.* I'^^j f„r Ij-Hitijrti E PtCK. "Tbt Bottle Ktog" • rtir Al> *AGE FOUR THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B.C., APRIL 18, 1919 NOVA SCOTIA MINERS AND THE ONE BIG UNION •In another column, there is a letter addressed to the members of District IS in regard to sending a man to Nova Scotia to offset the campaign that it is proposed to wage in that province against the principles of the OXE BIG UNION, Humberstone local at Ed. monton asks other locals to co-operate in the matter of expense. It is true that the international ot the United Mine Workers of America which recently made an agreement with the President of the big Dominion Steel corporation which also controls Nova Scotia coal, proposes to send in sevoral organizers among the miners of Cape Breton, Cumberland end Pictou. It will be interesting to follow the course these organizers will take and to listen to what they will say about the radical membership of District IS. They will do all that they can to prevent a junction of the forces of the miners east and west. Nova Scotia is not without its pro. ■gressives in the labor movement and there are no tinner believers in ONE UIG UNION than the heads of thb miners' organization in that province. Silby -Barrett, the president; Robert Baxter, the vice-president and James H. iMcLachlan, the secretary-treasurer all understand the futility Bf craft organization but are not yet fully aware of the workings of the Internationa! at Indianapolis--they are still laboring under a partial belief at least that President Hayes and his coterie in their trips to Washington and Europe consider lirst the desires of the work, ers and take no dictation from the big controlling Interests of governments and coal fields. The miners of District 18 have had a longer and more intimate acquaintance with Indiauap. olis and there is much that they could tell their Nova Scotian brethren. illuniberstono local's idea is good. We believe, also, that there are many locals of miners in Nova Scotia which would help carry part of the expense of a campaign of enllght. ment, a campaign which would lead to the solidifying of the forces of the miners of Canada. It seems a cruel fate that the per capita tax paid out by the rank and file should be used to pay the heavy expenses of international organizers to go into Nova Scotia and combat the real spirit of unionism. 0 . HOW CORPORATIONS RESPECT A PROVINCIAL LAW Over a year ago the legislature of Ilritish Columbia passed an eight- hour law. In order to give the employers" a chance to prepare and make any necessary deadjustments a year was given before the law was sup. posed to go into effect. On April lirst THREE OPPONENTS ln the District Ledger last week appeared three communications in opposition to the present movement for seceding from the so- called "international" unions and then forming ONE BIG UNION, Ope of the articles was writen by Frank Wheatley,'board member of District IS and also president of the Alberta Federation of Labor, it was a Avarning against the. "slippery politicians" -by whom, Mr. Wheatley claims, the "new move is dominated." A second article was by International Board Member Robert Livett avIio warned against the "autocratic dictatorship", of the central-committee and worried over there being no opportunity to call them to account: for "funds spent or ballots submitted," lie also saw in the movement "the efforts of certain individuals avIio seem determined to destroy our organization." A third article was by Dave Rees, vice-president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and also an international organizer for the U.M.W. of A. Mr. Rees believes iu "the maintenance of International Unions and an active campaign for the affiliation of as many international unions its possible into compacts such as we find existing with the "Triple Alliance' in Britain." Mr. Rees is also of the opinion that "it is good policy to have representatives of the working class of labor in parliament." lie is "not out to fight the ONE BIG UNION" but warns to "be careful lest: you should lose hold of the substance in reaching out for the shadow." ■ lt is not without a certain amount of trepidation that The District Ledger enters the lists to eoiuhat against the Big Three who occupied our front page hist week. It,,is not with any desire to be sarcastic that avc use,the term "Big Three." We realize that Messrs. Rees. Livett and Wheatley haA'e long been ranked as among the ablest iu the ranks of the coal miners of this country and all three of them liave held the confidence of the Avorkers and have for a number of years been called upon to take a most active part in labor affairs. It, Mas these three who attended the Trades and Labor Congress at Quebec Avhich met last September. It was these three who took part in the caucus of Western delegates whieh decided upon the calling of the Western Interprovincial Conference from which has sprung the O.B.U. .movement in Canada. Their words should not be without weight and, as we have already said, it is not without trepidation that Ave express absolute disagreement with their reasoning and their conclusions. ilr. Wheatley warns against the "slippery politicians" who. he claims, are dominating the present movement. The writer was present at the interprovincial conference and watched carefully the entire proceedings. In all our experience we never saw a more democratic .assemblage. There were a feAV of the old line politicians in the hall but the majority of those delegates had passed the stage where they could be fooled by the politician. A wide-open opportunity was given for the election Of the central committee and the fact that, only one ballot was needed showed that there was unanimity of feeling. It is true that some of those elected have been active in the..past, in the Socialist party and it is to them tbat Mr. Wheatloy refers as the"slippery politicians." It is "not our purpose to attack or defend individuals but Ave believe the personal connection the. members of the central committee have had with the labor cause winnMnt~eTMesrTTTvl^ than of-emolument. Take our assurance, Mr. Wheatley. politicians are not dominating the new movement. We know'where the politicians stand Avben real unionism gets under way. Mr. Wheatley speaks of the "rotten officialdom of our per capita fed international ollicers and their arch-traitor Gompers" and at lhe same time he opposes the procedure that has been taken to break away from such "rotten otliciaidoin" because "no plan of organization has been outlined for the guidance of anyone." We belieVe Mr. Wheatley is sincere and we ask him to consider this fact that the time is not yet here for the forming of the rogaiiization. All that is being done is the taking of a ballot to see how many others there are who, like Mr, Wheatley, have discovered that internationals are dominated by "rotten officialdom." If a sufficient number are ready to break away then, ami not till then, will the organization of the ONK BIG l'NIOX take plmc provisions bavin1-' already been made for an ■•er. have decided tlmt w«Rl'«j organization convention representing the different branches of hits.' cut and we have the present ! , *" * the ef gilt-hour law* become mtrmrrrt the'province* and.'immediately the big corporations commenced to exert every influence to make the law inef. fi'ft'.ve. Our readers must never forget that it is not among the workers the breakers of the'law on a big scale •run be found. There is a law which makes it an offence if » man is found with certain literature in his possession und the law is very often used to throw some poor worker into 'jail. There* arc scores of other petty Uiw» effective only on the workers. Thero comes it big law, a. 'law effecting the whole province and straightway the bis corporations set about breaking it with impunity." When the cighUiour law Was passed it unruly was not the Intention of the government that y,;irch for the day's v,or!c should be cut for the High t'ost. ot UvinE commission had fixed the point of exislfioe.. Thc corporation!***, however, must Mpectat te of no lens favored a corporation than tha t'row's Nest Pass Coal Company (holiItnK one of the greatest natural resources ut t'anada la lis grip) takliut front u returned soldier one hour n dnv reduction In wages, At tha next regular pay, on tho 2*ir*l Inst., a number of other returned nul. dim are to receive the name treat- IIJ'IU. We Have already commented upon what the uoWlera of Canada have done for th« Crown Sent Pass Coal Com. pany in aavlng trom the grasp of th" Hun horde* a property which two humlrwl million dollar* would not buy. We have also pointed out that the corporation offered to give an acre of land whlrh mat them two bits for the purpose of having aomo one else build t» mf the District ledger, lie must get over ihe idea that Knight and l*ritehard and Naylor and Johns and Midgely nre "slippery politician.*" or that they "puclwd" the convention to gat elected. They went in on a first ballot just as Wheatley did into the presidency of the Alberta Federation of Labor nnd the men who really put Wheatley in as President of tho Alberta Federation of Labor are etieh nnd every one of thein out for the ONK WO UNION. Come in, friend, the water'* fine. HOW CORPORATIONS TRIAT THI RITURNED SOLDI IRS Th* stories on our froni page in regard to tha treatment ot returned aot di*,r* by hi* corporations itvs* em** tat careful thought. Wa should not he inuty in blaming tha managers or tk* bu**** for tin j hold their Jobs ooty bntwm td their ability to grind profit out of worker* Ruslness Is bust Be***. The ■ managers and the ibosaea, a« n.itiviiii-,1.. hm. t.u*. regard for tte returned soldier** and an spree*!*- ittm nt -abat they have * «««'. labor. Here is what the Associated Press—which is controlled liy the big financial interests of AineHca—says about President Hayes' trip to'Kui'op'e in President Wilson's especial steamer, the George Washington: "NEW YORK. April 11.--Frank J. Hayes, president of tite United Mine Workers of America, and Robert Harlan, » member of the legislative board, sailed for France today on the George Washington. According to William Green, the purpose of their trip is to urge upon President Wilson the advisability of the United States finding a market abroad for at least a quarter of the conl'surplus of 100.000,000 tons'which has aediiuuliitod here since the signing of the armistice." It is passing strange thnt the Associated IVefcs which pridea itself on the .completeness and neuracy of its information should bave overlooked tilling that President Hayes nnd Robert Harlan were on tbe way to Europe to meet Sinillio, to help rehabilitate the World's Mining Congress and perchance to build a base for a glorious Internationale and hasten the day of a world for the workers. A glance backward at the Presidents of the U.M.W. of A. who have gone liefore shows that President Hayes is "well on to the job" nnd it will not be long before he enters into his reward. We surely have no objection to thc coal operators of tho United States using President Hayes (who ia always their pliant tool) fur the purpose of finding out how they ean best ent out Great Britain's coal markets. That in part of the great game of the present system. We do object, however, to International Organizer Rees trying to "put oue over" on the renders of the District Ledger by attempting to make them believe that President Hayes' visit waa for another ob- jeet than whnt it is. We have no doubt but what Hayes might meet Hmillie and that there will be talk of the reviving of thc World's Mining Congress. At a "four-flusher" Hayes ia hard to beat. Thc ONE BTO UNTOM movement ti tin expression of the worldwide feeling among the workera for definite aetion whieh will aeeonv plish something. They want future wars made impossible; they want poverty made no more possible; they want bigger and fuller live* and a system whereby the strong eannot oppress the weak. They have protested for yeara, they have resoluted. they have voted, they have struek and after it all they aee more poverty, more suffering, more slaughter. Their experiences have been eruel but gradually they have been Retting together for a world'* salvation. It is the maaa that is in movement and millions are taking part in that movement without realizing what it means. It is a movement that the fear* of Brothed Wheatley or Ihe warnings of Brother Iiivett, ur tie *Mig«»tU>r.* of Bret her XI*** ean neither swerve or cheek 20 Per Cent Off Regular Fixed Moderate Charges A BIG Discount when you consider the class of our high-grade American Dentistry. Its only-t^ie large volume of our practice which permits us to offer such a reduction for a while, and this reduction does not affect the irouelad guarantee which we give every patient. Should our work fall down at any time we will do it over again. But we are never called upon to do this because we put the right materials and the proper skill into our work af the start. 20 Per Cent. Off Our Regular Prices This Month DENTISTRY AS WE PRACTICE IT IS A GENTLE ART DRS. BRUNER, RICHARDS & NELSON Lethbridge Office: The Ott Block Calgary Office: 115a 8th Avenue East Edmonton Office: 3 Cristall Block and Chile, violent labor uprisings have recently occurred. Given below are some specific instances which serve to show the tread of the times. In England at least 250,000 workers of various trades have recently been on strike., These strikes are not over isolated disputes, but have as their base the fundamental principles of privileges which working classes are to receive henceforth. All of this occurred, notwithstanding the fact that only a portion of England's military forces has been demobilized! What-will be'the'situation when some 4,000,000 more men return to look for jobs? The strike at Belfast, Ireland, is a direct repudiation of Parliamentary action and is quite in sympathy with the Sinn Fein government recently elected. Reports from Italy indicate that an explosion may take place at any time. The labor leaders in Italy are catling for the abolition of monarchy and for a soviet government. The sudden return of the Italian delegate, Orlando, to Rome, because of the resignation of the Italian cabinet, is significant of '.serious trouble in Italy. When President Wilson recently conferred with tlie Vatican, he was after- ,wards.rebuked by the Italian workers for'refusing to address One of their labor conferences. They retaliated by darkening the city and cutting off transportation for two days. Here we see that the weaT "pon of direct action is being used in Italy. In Portugal tlie recent attempted overthrow of the republic by the monarchist party indicates" that the working classes of Portugal are demanding power and have broken with the present regime. Seeing this distention, the monarchists took the opportunity and attempted the restoration* of the Portuguese royalty. In Spain the working class and labor riots are frequent. While no recent reports have been received, there is bitter class feeling jn that country whieh mny burst out into llaino at any moment. In .Japan trouble is imminent, as is further indicated by the rapid withdrawal of Japanese troops front Russia, The rice riots of ji few months ago show the temper of the peoplo. who are beginning to revolt against the imperialistic designs of their leaders. At this moment the Allies are confronted with the very serious and pressing problem of demobilizing thoir armies. French labor groups are demanding that their members be immediately released from army service. British labor groups are alao persistently demanding the demobilization of the workers. tThe reason that this demand is not complied with is not because they need any longer fear the German army, bul because or the moro gtnuino fear of Bonding back these millions of soldiers to the homes, factories and workshops from which they were conscripted during the war, to find panic* and unemployment. On the other hand, to keep millions of soldiers resting on their arms with no immediate prospect of using them, tends to disrupt army discipline and precipitate mutiny. The longer thay remain resting on their arms, the worst thia situation become*. If thoy are released and sent back to civilian life and do not find conditions ami opportunities sneh aa all the promises of thc war guaranteed, then there is going to bo trouble on a scale such as wa havo never known before! People in the United States have little conception of what is really going on. The conditions whieh exist abroad may not be du* plicated here, but we cannot hope entirely to escape from the suffering whieh they produce. We cannot hope to have prosperity In America while there is revolution and anarchy in Kurope. t»N»& ■"■•.»>'-■' mJS. Vy!X!I5«ff*Si^t"»i^« ♦»* «fc« wn* »nrf «»* «"h ,h'' l"*** ««»«»»■«w»w lie mw M|o*r» f»al ooi im ototf boot ttm 11 hat there was a practically unanimous desire lo -vut !!•*»*■» tt*m* ihfj •f» HHn« ^'^^f^JJ^^^^oit.rnatioiiid and every time that he or international organiser* Ir ' •!».* e»»e home Br*t aa* gut ♦*»»» i vine nml Her* rm«i unytiniittt •*•*• *m? ******* *,-* ,.*,*,,.*,*.A.*j..-,y" ■'„;■ li*ip ia torn iniB»B*smiBiiis piw*» § * . . „ . . . TM ratafiM* toMtets bnt* s»a * musi W tm*«His for siieh conditions existing and when the rank ami *_., 'h * - - - ■>.*-. *_*. — ■ — -9-0 nt,*. bmtm, A -a *n*rfi I .. ^ . ta . * -, , a , „* «*••**•-***. Greatest American Finan* ciaI Authority Gives Serious Warning To Clients JAMBS WHIT1HOU1B Teacher of Plsao and Organ Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint Transposition, Composition, Orchestration Poultry WHITI WVANOOTTIt E*t* for tratrhlna from tastings of Sir* white, targe bone, fln«-tr nhaped Ht at from 12.00 to MOO per uStUns SatiftfaeUon soarantetil. e. attxtrr to* wi, onrom, t. e. ■AMID PLYMOUTH WOCKI Wm, Hobson great prowl** m tmmntt to i*m and. fi|n with thai Iwnly was severed if harmony is to J5^^1^i2luSI^rt|i?aI Mr Livett *-»n tie a**nr*d if he will read earcfolly thc prmved*{fo«re t*>nterri„e am roo\\\\y mow deeply coneera*! over the outcome btPim teo3 *Meli "*1'*w*r*y*Mtero Internmvrnetak wmKeretirr th»*» *m ''mxtu*xtxtict of tin. LaW and ■"•v-t.tJ^f f*,*}r*f,-'r*n^ ft* }t*m*, **»«•?>,"rl.ind, than !*»«*» is fteMMBU «f tie ••**•*» *• *' k Continued from Page Four form thttfflffhoiit all the Kuropcan nations. The statesmen st tbe »t mm i* ***** ttom tb* l«ft«t fttat** to sstfle t« tJapobo, t*m*v P tm tbn CUM. itttipM lift. ?<».',«'.«« I! r. *..**.. , imntlOl AMD KXTE&IOE by Ute day tt BAKER AVB TV-V.rtM-ft Wfl th In- Ptrr.l mill terond hen; flrst snd **emt pnllttf, ttmt, ■♦■court ami third coctetwi; etc. *KHM«i«atent.s st horn* taking «w»r the nsrnership snd! ""^mwtlT Tilt' lomtottotM 1 **^rF halloU ar.d prtirwwM* wmi»w. 'VW im** .\\*»* V*n. L;»*..tt Ua*t| cautrot of ^ruhv-tH^ $trih-x nn* rit* thi*nv$irint. Fn-^-aml IHl.twd, * VZitvlFIZtfio be m*d hy in* W| jnst returned from fndlanapofts prwrytm to immtotp his letter may! Vrnmm, Italy. *min. Parinwri snd Sweden. They all show sym-j *w»r,l*-*" ****** y...1—** ** **•***a^#i»afit fe* hhn wkm tbo term ntxtixrnitc diastorship*' f.ir it is ptoaw of econamie rather than politieal rcrolntions In Armntfaml '.*«* by tbm se* «■■■"■* H. OiTLQIfD {Solicitor for District lt,U.M W of A ItticDaaald Block Lstkhrtiln. Alts ROtl COMB HHODt ISLAND RIM j TtMfctss' stfsls. At tototo shew 1 wm bent H»!e neermt pmtltd, brat p*m ) not tmt dtmay tmt. Twe tnttnn mat ire 4eHsr» pot bttono. ALIX. AITKtH. »m t*e west rem«s, m. c mm9n CtMh IMI Unborn not Tbinfif ffdffrjr. p.m ner mtme Uoott wintmt tojen. Two Wott Up. bon rwtcertto tm nale.-iHto Torwrr, ttnatt Ave, We« ftvnbn mp*SWO*ir*Jtsu2?&$, THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B.C., APRIL 18, 1919 PAGEPIVB "7 The Six-Hour Day And Ihe Unemployed Problem CALGARY, April 17.—"Under no consideration will District IS stand for anything that will mean a reduc. tion in the standard of living of the miners of Fernie, Michel and Corbin," is the announcement the policy com. mittee has made to the Operators. The 'District was willing to make certain concessions but will not stand for the reduction of wages proposed by tlie en in that camp on Tuesday. There are at the present timeonly fifty-two members in the local at Corbin. .The vote showed forty-seven in favor of a severance from the International ami. iation and in favor of a general strike for the six.hour day. There were live recorded as "not voting." Not a single vote was cast against the 'ONE «IG UNION. In Kimberley the vote is being taken and will be announced on Saturday. The District Ledger is informed that To the District Ledger: In your last issue Dave Rees regr«Hs that, the Calgary conference did not outline a more progressive policy for the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. "Why should he have re- grets if the 230 delegates assembled were out to form a policy fo- the workers rather than for the Trades and Labor Congress? He also argues that no jus section of organization need hope to enforce the policy by itself. Another reason. why the delegates did uot lay down a policy for Dave Rees or the Trades and Labor Congress. One Big Union is not essential, to the labor movement s-iys Dave Hess. The western men decided to leave it to the rank aud file to provs whether a Big Union is essential at. the present time or not, and wer3 unanimous with the exception of y ■ f-aw -lien of the Farmllo. type that the days of ono (By James P. Thompson) When, the labor market is overstocked the bosses are very independent. Not needing us all, they simply pick us over. With age limits and weight limits to guide them, tfyey select from among us the ones they think will suit them best; then they give us a trial and if we don't work to suit them they fire us and hire somebody else. Conditions may be so vile that our health is being ruined and yet, if we kick about it, the boss will say: "Well, if you don't like it, you can get out. We ean get all the workers-we want." This is the condition all over the world today. We have overwork on the one hand, and no work at all on the other. Little children by the millions are being literally worked to death, while strong men and women tramp the streets looking in vain for work. The competition in the market causes us to Work cheap. The Jobs go to the men with the most hungry families. When we work cheap we are compelled to economize iu order to get along on our cheap wages and when we do this we lowor the standard pf living. This grinding-down process has been going on so long already that tpday millions of our class are not getting wages enough to keep them in normal condition. "Wliich means that they are dying by inches, fading away before our very eyes. Although labor can produce more wealth today hi less time than it ever could in the history of thc world, yet tho fact remains that millions of our class, overworked and underfed, are slaving their lives away, going down to the grave without ever having really lived at all. This condition is getting worse. Every improved method of production makes it possible to get a certain amount of wrork done with less workers. The number of unemployed is increasing all the- time. All this just suits the capitalist class because their aim is to force down wages and boost up profits. The interest of our class is just the opposite. We should aim to reduce the number of unemployed and boost up wages "until such time as we are able to abolish the wage system ( altogether. Problem of the Unemployed and the Answer A certain amount of*labor is necessary to do the work of the world, and the reason we have an unemployed army is because one part of our class does all the work and there is nothing left for the others to do. , c For example, let the four fingers and thumb on your hand represent'fire workers. Now suppose we have forty hours labor to be performed and we have the ten-hour day; will there be jobs enough for all five workers? No, therewould be jobs for only four, because four times ten is forty; but since five times eight is also forty, it is plain to see that if each worker would only work eight hours instead of ten, there would be jobs for all five. If four workers, by shortening the working,, day front ten to —Tglfifiit hours, furnish a joTrto uue «utser iiomrhiffarma ui L-iW-uuem,»" ployed, then four million workers, by shortening the working day from ten to eight hours, would furnish jobs to one million from the ranks of the unemployed. , The effect *on..the. unemployment of shortening the working day is even more far-reaching than the nbovo illustration shows. If. for instance, one* hundred men are working with shovels and they create a condition where, in order to get the work done, the boss would be compelled to hire twenty-five more workers, it would also require twenty-five more shovels. More weavers in a mill would mean more looms. Moro looms, more spindles, and so on down the lino. All this would mean more work for the metal and machinery workers, etc. If we shorten the working day the unemployed will dwindle down, competition in the labor market will become less; then those who nre working will be more independent. If they lose one job, it will be easier to get another one. Then tliey won't work so hard, and the wry fact that they don't work so hard will mean that they won't do so much work, which, in turn, would draw more workers from (lie ranks of the unemployed. Under such conditions, if the Iiosr should storm at them and tell them to get a move ou. instead of bowing over tho wheels of labor and taking the abuse, they would stop altogether and say to him ♦•Jf you don't like the way we are doing, you ean do it yourself." Ovorwork would stop. Think whnt that would mean to the awarminf mililona of our elans I Overwork shortens the worker*' live-; and makes their short livdn miserable. If wo shorten the workin« day. wc lengthen the workers* Uvea. Many workers today are afraid to eome to a union meeting for fear the bos* will find it out and they will lose their jobs. Many work so hard that they eome home at night exhausted phyaieally and mentally. Too tired to think. Too tired to sleep. Many of them will only find rest in death. Bhorten the working day and, like magic, all thia will ekaugc. Our iHtm will he more free and independent; a harder elaas to hold in slavery. Tod*y a large number of our claaa are heing driven blind hy be- ing eompelled to work in poor light. Many arc raining their lunp by working in poorly ventilated plaecs. Shorten the working day, th© working week, and the working vfior; then eonditions will improve. Death traps will diaappear. Aa competition in the labor market becomes leas, wages will go np Then onr elasa will have better elothea. They will have better , food. When they have better food they will have better Mood; they will feel better, their eyes will he brighter, their hraina clearer \\ they will live longer and Im happier while Ihey do live. The interett of the working class demands that we shorten th* working day! The. way to dn it is TO !W> IT! The way to get if. i* TO TAKK IT! W# efcmttit all unit* in OXK IHO UNION and haek up each other *t,rrtw»li tbl*b and thin **xm* what mav. UNTII* TIIK WtlRKKKMlahotit tb«*r* nt* no llw* tal4 d-swn tet t*«* ,|lw|w*ft-pw,.j»t*ww.««■»»..» h** ftsrt hfl^-<*;*u| *Vmtm, tm *m.t, m,,,,*. **, t«i** intttt. to go by. Well I think it wlllt^ f«rth*r \\b* r*«*«l*n»htp whlrh I nd. f jrje „f -».,*»»,> rfrlj mtiitt Jn ohki, the COAL MINERS, ATTENTION $2.60 per month provides you against any accident aud every sickness, and pays $40.00 a month from the day you are laid up. Particulars from THE B. WINNETT INSURANCE AGENCIES, Bank of Hamilton Bldg. .-., Fernie, B. C. Claims promptly adjusted from this office COAL MINE FOR SALE A country coal mine in good location; scam 3 ft. .10 inches; good dry roof and dry mine; newly developed; also storage ■bin to hold sixty tons, and blacksmith shop with .all nee'e-ssar'y equipment. For particulars apply to GEO. WM. HALLIDAY Box 185 DELIA, ALBERTA GRAND EASTER BALL $ IN AID OF THE ST, EUGENE HOSPITAL Auditorium Theatre,Cranbrook, B.C. EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 21,1919 The Event of The'Season SILVER GRILL FIVE-PIECE JAZZ ORCHESTRA Tickets:- $2.00 per person Refreshments Tickets may be had from L. P. Sullivan at The District Ledger Office, Fernie mm ballot any way they see lit, nr, he j 0f all tho Locals. ToTfie. Members orDislrict 18: It has been brought to* the notice of our Loc^l that thc capitalistic inter, esta are preparing to wage an.agr.es- sive campaign against the One Big Union movement in the coal fields. of Xova Scotia. They are ■evidently convinced tliat their eaae is hopeless in this district and are rallying their forces in the way of International Organizers, etc., and intend to concentrate in the above iieht. Realizing how Important it is to neutralize their poison gas by bavins; a capable speaker to present the case for the Ono Wig Union, we are pre. pared to help support such a person and feel sure that it is only nece»Hiiry to mention this to tho Local organizations in order to bring this to a sue. ceBKl'ul isKUe. Prompt action Is necessary for wi. hear that International officialdom ia conteiiiplatiUK u speedy removal of somo of their special representative.* from this district, their leaders realizing; the importance of preventing the uniting in a movement of the Ono tilg I'nlon of the coal miners of the whole Dominion. We are taking tho opportunity through the courtesy of the District U-duor of bringing thin to the notice THE VICIOUS CIRCLE-FLOUIt MILLS ARE FORCED CLOSE. THE ORDER FROM THE WHEAT EXPORT „ r*r\\. JP^T_T__prLT*j%^-iT_ TO _TLVny!mma.jn.Yr*.%..r JJAtliUlAHUHi}" Htatiit, personally 1 full to see an/ difference to that of any election tanen Iu District 18. I tako It that all unl m bodies will appoint their scruttnet.rs to conduct tlw voting and will tabulate tbe result, and when the central ex.. ecutive report* tbe ttnal result. I will have no doubt that tbere wilt bo n complete return showing the results Ing fund* of the varloua organisation* from all local union*. That tho mom. bers of the central committee ara uv. to propagate their Idsas le not eor. roct, became ti it not a fact, that r««. olutlonti from our own district fmr- vourod Industrial organisation, «o tbat any ot our money which goei from fundi really propagate! oar own ideas. It may he correctly said, that there may be a short period of disruption, bat! want to state, thtt if all of those wbo would oppose thn movement would only tahe their coat* oft and be prepared to meet the abuse of pre*s and capital, by encouraging If you are interested get your Local to communicate with tho Dumber, mono Local. Hox ISH. tolmontoii. at onco, mating wbat support you ure prepared to give and the man you recommend tor the position, 1 am, Fraternally yours, 8. OBNTAZSO President. Address all comunlcstions to Nox 48S. Wmonton. Alta. OlFFEaEKCE OF OPINION Uy J. Ij. -KuUedge, Editor "Canadian Uroeer." Tlie long expected and long hoped for orders for Hour for export, have not yet materialized, and the ■milling industry is faced again by the necessity tii closing their plants, indeed practically till th'e larger mills arc already closed, and will remain so. eating „|, j,os. sihlc pruiit-s at an enormous rate in general overhead charges, until further export orders'arc available. The order froni the Wheat Kxport Company that- was to imve amounted to 7:2,000 tons has air been handled, but iinf.n-ttinately this order fell considerably below this amount, and when distributed among the various exporting 'companies it wns hardly .sufficient to cause a ripple on the surface of thc milling industry, Here is a splendid example of the present system of Capitalittin. Warehouses arc full to overllrtwing with flour and thc mills are "forced lo close" while at lhe same time thousands of people iu Cau- ada are feeling the pinch of hunger and trying to deviso moans of procuring food, Any suggestion on our part of opening the doors <>f the warehouses nnd pneking plnnts and thus ensure to every man woman and child a plentiful supply of food \\Vouhl bring upon our heads a perfect avalanche of invectives. We would bc termed "An- urvhUt," "HolKhuviai," "Hooligan," "I.W.W.," "Ue^itictiouwU," etc., etc. No the means of life must he held for export to enanra to the owners abundant profits, and its they dose down the mills the army of unemployed will increase and more workers will he hungry, and the warehouses will rciiiaiti'overloaded. TORONTO 18 NERVOUS AS "REDS' LEAFLETS BOMBARD OITY WITH To lhe IWstrlct ledger:-- In looking over ihe United Mine Workers Journal tho other day—what for I don't know— I found Ihe follow. Ing letter: Tab«r Alts Kdltor, The Journal—I wlab to state that the United Mine Workers" Jour. nal bas any of the labor periodicals I ... „ . . H*»t Iwat hrll-1-vM.t sunt rr.Hikc*) In gl'• the workers daring tht great change, inft n,ft ^j «itnaUon, Ktatiatics of It that »»•* »'?,lt.,ttWI.ukl£!?I*liblIl kRa ul* T** fr,m *>,h#,r M**' •IM| i «li»'r» and workers, explaining the principles of that period of disruption would not bi« - m,,, „,^r |m,k1 a|mil MW „ gfjwl w<,rhevjsm and call- the thackien uf capita I ism In l»lM»r circle* a radical eleiuroi! im*, mnde iN apfwarainv. The mm* m inu* of the soldier**' ortritni*»te>n* In faith inatane*^ the elljfe tile fOflftfrVMliVf element* for •> , ■JinVft'uun-ot oflW'inU Vile» ur. v..*,M*»u*)U| tb« ■', „ ,. ii,. } .„,.,,, i.. «i*.* ., ,. *. ,.-*,*,«:.■• *,- *»., ...-. l ,',1,1.1! h t* T . OftftA? fROSFEOTS IN RUSSIA 17 CAPITALISTS ORT CON- TROL t. whole of the *n« jabewtilp h»vi»g btd ,|„ im^roaiMisl. And when we he«riaKH| i^, teterity ut tb« terurd, Ww eiperlence In union maters before\\ut tt,<,ir (n»lncerii). their arsomm. hm- to knu* the output, th*' tirulnbl. which I think Mr-Reoa will agree wHhiMa*j„iit *irik*.?#, in late or iu uu-n. t«t«*tt«^i, iU«er»«m nnd »».»t methyl* for me aiigwrs well for Its sumwi*. jm|,„, workers nnorganlml, their r. .liffnent u.rlc in ,i mine, toKeth.r I don'l ear* what Horn and Whea- ifaaal to allow organised dtotrtet* tftU„h l)w, „«***» tr,m t^ {,,^4.r ^m-.. *r,* lw, t I,. ,.,*, * -,■*:■.. I*. -. t •...,*,»*> * * I ll-tr-'r-r. Alt.**!**!**. ■»''»«<»* ■"*'«»» , ft,,, ... Tbow i*t**n to iw#nty omnia**?** kept in -*i»»>™,n lw i win** pstw-r » »m »»»«Bfc wbo »u.-im«Kt tbat coatttfencw uadstiuirm umi m u»**uti*s<* ■*,**•*: i**.*-**.*'.^. _#»a „* th« Mmim mvx owm- o **•■ ■mumm thinking *jMW|mn»i.-4ks -as well .per txatt, ifeeu s<* m-*1'*1 -ww** "» '"'(imih » mtv.ki* tnttt*ad *»t ** I*.. tbetetmre Ktrnm atsd WIsMtler h»v* «m* ' nnwInM^m f*is* nn rhmnp* mn l«»o ^^^(y reason to rate o**r it, Tfcejr wuttfthe workers In s moth wor*# predtca.t «. u awiH wait and nee and If th* wotbern in went. Knowing this to tt* ttne, ate] b*e-Tr*nn. I. I* 2*. i«»«* is ih* fowr wewt-erw nrmtttttmm hnaf ttm*"mmn*d *oi«Ht ittt* *w*m»»ffl «** *!l w*rk- * ewty, wetl It te own* ot their twneral ief* for th* W.M.t. * "»**••* ***^ ***" »* •*•" ***" <*"* MIN'KK I HY HK.UU- ' *m sll "hfat h*il.ww»t * and f«*t aw.1 Iflllcnwi, April 1. i»l*. Mkbel. BC. •»"***«*•* •• • t*-p tot th* c^piialut syst-cm. ' .Vnd so Uro I>a\\i» l*t Inter »le»! in )Si# »rBt>ui>i ml iitltaiuiaahl^ m-niS*: a , miner ran ptwdue* in • mcratti. IVr- ."As chairman and ii*^ h* l* af«« fi»f«T"-»»od i» ib* imaiiafinf direetor of lh* Kjrshtim group of proper!ira he produce*i*"4''""1 >^i *'- r **;!* t*,'aI *"" ui il* hss r»»i««d**r»l»l* knowWfe **i llkal e«>uoU> l****U Utfotv. *x*x*['*.:^ Is'****" !-*-!i*- "*' Till. (AJl'l'l.ll. ALL TIIL I.LAU. Al... TI.L h**'. -,, , t-Mt-mtn-t *»*hu>. i *>■**, • VKH. AM« THK MSV. ASM n\\K THIKI* OF Aid* THK liOl*l>f!***«» snias bf »r«» i*»n* snd ptmt.>%%!*& .P *.** «* ran get mr ttor,** at* t • , t I • t> • •• :**d i* *•*»•* t*i«*ri*t l^-t*#-r ahmi iht***s |^ %i-HKrt)* K»*i«« u* yr-ttUh a h-,% tml n vmml to hmata. -or tmr g^aik* »&,. mb*t*m h** tinm- [*rmi* U**m U* a t**m»it **t i«ra»u*'* i Mr. t'r^ahart ia alio lefeatrtnaii of thi Irtysh tVitrp«ratian l.t«i Ad that h« dtdryt **p*r.i tn g*« .1* |ABi{ wp,***i.vi,. th* kiM»«*t* ami latrr the ltolaheviki, one turua to find the raaaon* for, wm Mt WlMwl,^| ,^. f^wleW. rnllmm* m,t rtwr ***** TW* ' *■""'' \"""""'"' " "k k" ,!~—•-\""" - " - ' 'dietatorthip nf the pml*tariat" an.l i radical*** have n»aehed nunori'-tl propnrtoi<( tn ehal- ui.iit-tiiM'iiit ar*. ,,.. *, ,**. .. *.„ t lh. nil Mai *■-,;■' - v; s! tpJi* rn.»ii»s/jitM»n in its * ,** .,' .,**. *.. »,r. and the \\i'uly'i* rannot. iiti«f th* amount for hia halr*«l of the Soviet administraiion "Mr, !,e*H« Mr. L«ilie Uniuhart—Ilrittah financier—la hitterfy opposed to rwilslievitm and *ttffe*ta to the ftrittaher the new! of a "military | fjnjnhan is an oil and tninin* entineer" dniaUMnhip" in Kuaaia ii* iow i'«ni»id*rabl tfytro th* rrv.duiion. having spent tone tweaty.tw* T**™ thtn. Having: m-fb a hwfthy exp»*rtett*e tn the lain! of the f7*ar andt ?- '•*:: T-? y'f '.*-.■■ v.* \\-> •;■;*■ .-f A7 th«* actual fa«'t that it ha* a lU»U!teviM , , i . «•»,.»•*...../ .» ., .. » . t , .. .<■*■>* . ing dUtrthutt'-d a»6«*r»jf its workers Miar-c**. It \\% «o,» ati^tr*stive <*f the revolutton.iry efl|.-i*«n»'y of the pnblish- ftn iif lUdirinn t»s»|»'r«. *iri*id«t«'d dir*<'ttj' «nd*r tit* ttt**** of th«* Iter- man *«*n<'|n*r*or« S«» Toronto i* nervow*. ! ".inwmst,** i ■**** n it * then I'Jdt'tw" •■!"*• »'-;■«?•* f>» hJ»<|Wf.Mwf*.I«pfwsitt«nfoft'-ilieiator«»ip«iin«|»nii«.wn«i' ■wij,.,)rp0rat[1,u W%1, f!nu,,? afCcr tflc eomutcacCtu.'Ut uf tft rolYmw instead for military dietatonship. Um noaml »»a. king of the Kn«o-Aaiaii* Itank; ihe Rmm-AsMti The Londoa Daily Mail furaialwi iia with a few detail* whieh iforjioration; and the Koaso-fhnxlian Development f'orporation. •4> Ihf <-oiu»i* squared »lth hi* firMct-r-taan I ynt unla***.. I trad a im;-* .entil *Mtm-*h*>.r*i uti-mtt-t J*f«:i* a.a4 *ih- l*r»*t4*-.t.t tn h\\* jut-lf*'*** to th* «h-m>hoM**w *fi'1f,'lX *n l>». |i ihi- |.r„*.f %m m*4-« «>Sit ef th* *!•!«.*< a.;nl rbiMr»ft ml mmo *bo in th* *>-***r in >■>*».■»** HatiHat for t-heir ir;. at » *.*>.at? **i % AfMnt ten pet. fpd< %'AKW. iv, tsxx.mtiM tmm.m mmuul iimi MIMII ^^m^F^^mm mmmm PAGE SIX THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FEENIE, B.C., APRIL 18,1919 SYNOPSIS OP LAND ACT AMENDMENT Pre-emption -now confined to attraayi luiiis only. Records will be granted covering only land suitable for agricultural purpoaA* afed which in non-timber tarvfl. Partnership pre-eniptiona abolished, hut parties of not mora than tour may arrange for adjacent pre-emptions, with Jaint residence, but each making necessary improvements on respective clafir.-n. Pre-emptors mUBt occupy claims for the years and make improvements to value of $10 per acre, including cle&rlrg and cultivation of at least 5 acres, before receiving Crown Grant. Where pre-emptor in occupation not tetis than S years, and has made proportionate improvements, he may. because of ill-health or other cause, be granted Intermediate certificate of improvement Mid transfer his claim. Records without permanent residenc ■lay be Issued provided applicant make* improvements to extent, of $300 per annum and records same each year. Fail- i.trt to make Improvements or record game will operate aa forfeiture. Tltl* aannot be obtained on these claims li* less tlian 5 years, with improvements ol 110 per acre, including 5 acres cleared and cultivated,- and residence of ul least 2 years. Pre-emptor holding Crown Orant may recprd another pre-emption, If ne re- ?iulres land in conjunction with h'i» arm. without actual occupation, provided statutory improvements made and residence maintained on Crown gran tort Unsurvcved areas, not excee seres, mav ho leased as hom^'.tes title to be obtained lifter fulfilling res), dent Uii and improvement' conditions For grazing and industrial purposos. . areas exceeding 640 a-mis-may be ieus.Ml by one person or compnny. PRE-EMPTORS' FREE GRANTS ACT, Tlie scope of. this Act is enlarged, to "include all persons joining and s.,-rving with His Majesty's Forces. .The tilt:'.- . within which '.lie heirs, or devisei* «i** j cphnol-hnv ■iPnnfi deccRfii>d pre-emptor may apply Un I aUiooj-uoy MOUL.s, title under this Act Is extended from outs'year from the death of such person.' as formerly, until one year after tht coi!<-iu.-ion of the present, v.-it. Tlii- IB'lvilege is also made retroactive. TOWNSITE PROPERTY ALLOTMENT ACT. -j Provision is made i*<;r the grunt tc j persons holding nunconipleted Airree- : menu to l'uri.'Hase'-from the Crown t>t ■ such proportion of the land, if ,djv.*sil.-l*- as the payments a!n:;uly nvide ' u" i! ! cover in |H-op-.rtion to the'stnc price >*•' ' the whole* natve. T-vu or wort; per;>;^ ; 'holding tneh Agremvients muy isv„:}[ i tiieir intere.-t;- and apply fur a propor* ; tionate :il!oim«nt. jointly. K it it* m« | considered alvisabi-.; to div-'l« the Ii"t j coveri-d by an iipplieallon for a propor-* f tioi::ite allotment, an allotinetit of ior'.: of equal value selected from availabl- ! Crown iainl.-i in the locahty may !>i-„j jnade. These Rllotfi«mts a;— co-'iiiUona-.j upon payment of 'all taxes .hie *.'i* I Crown or to 'any mur.kapality..' T.i,* \\ rights of persons to. whom ' !:e p-ir- chaser from the Crown tins asreed ' to. j. »el] are also proteeted. The decision ".' i the Minister of Lands in iviiitt<'ly lower. Envelopes LEAGUE OP NATIONS IN THE LIME-LIGHT (Excerpts from the Nation) This alliance of victorious Governments, masquerading under tlie pretentious lying title of a league of nations, organized for sheer economic exploitation, has nowhere in its Constitution sincerity enough to make fitting one single inch of furtherance by aid of anv honorable means whatever. It should continue and end under no other than the auspices of its beginning." , If all the cost and sacrifice involved in a struggle to "make the world safe for democracy" have purchased nothing better than a rescript of old treaties, if it has not brought about the practical affirmation of a single essential democratic principle, we can not see any place for opportunism in judgment. Faith, under such circumstances, is not faith, but indolent, shirking credulity. What we have is a calm, arrogant, and ruthless formulation of a plan of world-dominion by the five conquering powers, a device for causing the exploitable territories of the earth to stand and deliver without the risk and cost of war. Stripped of its verbiage and a cant that is matched perhaps only in the Act of Algeciras, this is the sheer fact of Articles XVI-XJX inclusive. The Governments of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan are the league of nations; they are the executive council; they appoint the dummy directors; they paRs finally on the qualification of candidates; they nro, in short, an absolute and irresponsible oligarchy. So far from recognizing freedom of the seas, freedom of trade, disarmament, or self-determination, their collusion precludes these possibilities. Inter nations! commerce eannot bo carried on except at their pleasure, under their jurisdiction, and, it is surely by this time superflous to add, to their profit. Teleologicnlly considered, we aro offered an economic alliance wliich has as ite primary object, in general, the exploitation of "he propcrtyless dependent class the world over, and. as between nations, the exploitation of the vanquished by the victors, and,of weaker nations by the stronger. It is an organization of what Mr, Frederic C. Howe calls "financial imperialism" ruined to its high- ml possibility. I* contemplates only a political peace, and that a pax Ronsana. Of economic peace it gives no hint; cm the contrary* it contemplates the inauguration of unprecedented economic war WlASHINGTON, March 6.—tRaymond Robins of the American Red Cross mission in Russia, in a statement to committee today, laid the blame for the crumbling of the Russian military machine on the eastern , front upon the United States. He declared that had th'e United States responded to the message from the Soviet government of Rus. sia and aide "1 worked there months sincerely aud honestly with Kerenski, and I worked six months sincerely and hon. estly with Soviets," Robins said. "And now , when l come to tell you who have never been in Russia something of the truth, you tell me I'm n Bolshev. Ik." Forged Documents Tho Bolsheviki were the only party ln Russia to consistently oppose the 100 $100 Printed . Postpaid ^Ov £!ioL**t £t:b®£? Soviet authorities. "After the Cisecho-Slovaks got ln, I heard of plenty of disorder in Siber. la," ho continued dryly, adding that in his entire sojourn in Russia he had not come across half as much disorder as he could read about In a siuglo Issue of an American newspaper. How weakness and indecision on the part of the State Department and ridiculous propaganda falsehoods by the Creel bureau contributed more than any other factor to the RuBlan collapse and thereby cost thousands of Ameri. can lives, was dramatically revealed by Colonel Robins. He told of the general collapse of Russian morale with which Kerenski had t■**»•' ritf-Meil. A Mr Btcretary Local Vt,**-.f-. I'rtttni t iim»i No 108* A Straight Tip Advertisements in Tke District Ledger DOCTOR WARTR!> r*nrar*l* lf*fi m, m m ta* . * m ■* P -m J. r* n tfa t'r> ****f*r* £■' 99 99 f ** *9- IK ttt ***m* tt *. m v**# V 9, ,:tf ■ww eutr* Urtt-Uf ri.t aj» V-u qnirei tJi« *r*rvi<' Wnirmor*, Alt*., until fwtftw Mtiiw, Utnr mmm .m iho otmrn link BOB MeDOltALB, BUlraort, AIU. able to spend money* It wilt be your own jault if you donH get some of that money If you re interested, Get Bm$. ^P5S*iJ Three score years and ten is man's alloted span, Debs kas already passed through sixty-four years.of strenuous life and tke.imposition of if ten year sentence means that he, who loves freedom as > it is given to few to love it,'shall spend his declining years in a convict's cell unless the workers intervene. A general strike is the only reply to this latestaci pf bourgeoise tyranny. This sentence is a ble w struck iu the class struggle by the opposing'side and it must be replied to by the blow that the workers can make effective—the withdrawal if their ewionmie power. A one day strike, a half hour strike, even a live minute strike will be sufficient to-show that the. working class means business. The manifestation of class solidarity will ke enough to ensure success. Debs will have secured his greatest triumph if lie can inspire such solidarity and labor will have marcke/i forward many steps. • ■It may bo that behind this act of the Supreme Cou'i^l "there luks executive pardon for Debs but Debs can ■take'care of that. If tke workers of America allow the prison gates toclose for one day behind Debs then indeed they are sunk in lethargy. Monarchial England gave MacLean five years only to release him in nine mouths at the demand of the"-ivorkers, Imperial Germany gave Liebknecht fomr years and the workers burst open the prison gates before the tem.: was over, Democratic America decrees ten years to Debs, what do tke workers say" The constitutionality or the uneiustitutionality of the law matters not, what does matter is that the application if the law is a class act, an aet of aggression by the bourgeoise class against the working- class in the person of its best loved spokesman. Bourgeois dem*. eraey is a fiction for working class consumption. The law, the impartial law, the will of the people's representatives, is invoked fc> cover a bourgeoise offensive in the elass struggle. It, was so in tkt case of Moinev. in the case of JJnm-nnil^B^ha-wM^f^-tfriMtiwmA- nameless one.s, but in this ease it must be clear to even the dullest worker. Debs is punished for his love and loyaHy to his elass. tnv his devotion to the highest ideals of his brothers. Presidents and diplomat* may speak of liberty in ever so 'idealistic phrases but so long as Debs is imprisoned even the most gullible must'gee that their words are a sham and a mockery. Bourgeois demoeraey and idealism is itself tearing away the seales from the eyes of the workera and tlfis latest aet is its greatest folly. The workers must rely on themselves for their own salvation, the first step to the realization of their power lies open through this aet. Not only ean they free Debs and all liis fellows throughout tke country but in so acting they move to free themselves from industrial serfdom. The gage is thrown: Eugene V. Debs is to lie in jail for ten years Take-up the challenge workers of Ameriea, ht the general strike be your answer and let it be swift and sure! By unanimous vote the United States Supreme Court bas upheld the tea year sentence imposed on Eugene Debs by the Federal Court of Cleveland some months ngo. Tho decision has been hailed vrHIt unqualified delight by the bourgeois press, though a few, more vor- acitua than the rest, have cavilled at the fact that the constitntio»al- ity of the Espionage Aet, under which thousands of men and women are already lying in jail, waa not definitely established. Here nod there a word has been grudgingly inserted about Debs' persona! courage and integrity but unfailingly the writers have answered tthe call of their elass, or, to be more correct, the elass that employs the*. There is a faint pretense that the confirmation of the sentence was • matter of military necessity or national emergency, but even the moot brasen editorials hastily leave this phase of the subject, The elass conscious worker is, however, not decieved by aay twist that the cunning of newspaper practice or thc trickery of le*al where they immediately used them to j phraseology may employ. He recognizes thc verdict as nn aet of war InauKuralc the Sfnrrh drlvo which! iU . . , , , .. 4 _, , , . . *.*•»-. hrouRht them almost to the gates of|«" the working class, he knows that Debs is not sentenced for the Pnrts. , , ; pr^tMion of thc- country, in llie mumi that the twin is generally This Robins said, was only one In-1 .... .. '. ... L , , * *. .* stance of how a Ulundorfns policy to. j1'**"- '"N' *nf t,'«' protection of the present system of exploiUtira and robbery. Few if any have Iuul the temerity to hurt the slander of pro-Ocnnnimm ngninst Debs. The.case is clear cut, for hnlf a ccnfiiry ]l,*hn has fenrhtely chnmpioncd the cause of the workinjr class, the class to which he belongs and from which he acome'd' to rise. In.every crisis his voice, his pen and his powerful perxonslilv wij'Tbe i£«£S*oMho 'loS? «miM bnvt 3M»p»*fd and ils ittiposi»*tti h now confirmed, Jt i.s irnc that in it* broad aspect lhe Debs tune differs lint liltle fnnn the UutUHiutds «tf oilier* llin«iit.'biiil the w»nnlry, Kvery run- ! ton for ai«.r *«. y~ui).i» lii'iiariani' Ur- l ttt.vt.*.*,ll*tfv nf e-tu-ll nv-twuU-Hirn 11t*1 )»rr,v**\\ to nml ih* ituMmiM m mil ( »«»»*»» ■»-"»»♦". !*«•»»*. Nv his lemrtti of service, by his intellectual »•• iiww»r. and u.w ittwitifeii irtn.t a m#m- j tefrity, and above all by his limitless love, holds a unique positios. He ia the pulsing heart of the rebel waff* slave. He voices the ery of fhe child worker for sleep, nnd play ant! sunshine—fnr childhood; , tttt -.me.** in* 11imiiii Ntiiftinfrs oi the woman toiler for Innjthter. and love, and beanty—for womanhood: he voim the inarticulate demand of the slave man for leisure, and bread and home—for mnnbiod; ht voice the ery of humanity for economic freedom, for life. He f« thn soul if tht American Socialist movement and th'e Inspiration of every txtb*r efirwfan. worfcfnir etas* orjtttnfza!?fl*ft to tfc« oountry, and ttt* imprisonment is ■ raw flnnff it the feet of the workers. The impmonment of every member of oijr elssi is such a ffatft flnnr with patrician scirn in the path of tbe "rabble0 hut it is nol to h« expected that the workers have yet beeonte soflleiently edn- eot*«i to view It Sn tfcfc Iffffit, it thousand incidents diatroct their attention fiom the main "wot, Debs' eaae, however, h clearer ent. There ron bo bnt one answer to thit ssualt on the worker, we mast pick np the gtfre on the point of th* sword of out economic roi»h* nnd hurt it bnck wards Russia hy th<> ada'nl.riratlor,; had played Into Oerman hands j throuahout. Played Germany's Osme When KercnsUl came Into {tower, itnhtns sHd, tho rttiHsinn troopii were utterly «l<*k of lUhtlntf. hnUnr, al- | Thnnipnon, x*hn wns at thai Umc Bt jfl'o head of th«> l.'od f'ross work in i lUwl«, t'nnct'lv"'! ih« Ides of im»ti». -Simula Mirk among thc sold-lers i« '■h'-tv ihsiii thit Ity hohlli;' the front j >)<<■/ (■■o'tM *)tr >*r-rv<« ji>r. r,.viititt!.)'- (trcrn ofi-rittr*.!**,' by -Jinrmany. To tht* ♦ work t i-,!r>n«'t Thump-mri cnpir'buft'd ! II .wo.iwo mit ft hi* |)rlvaf*> jwr*«-. ■ This mutiny rwninif tmi, Hoblmt i < >b!'*(! m, H"wn *-f«rit':*t tn \\Vft*hlnK T ll: rpiily from the) viHlon affninst a -Socialist, I.W.W. or other class conscious worker is backed by thc same class tyranny, is an act of war by the capitalist* eutiutnt toe ttortie-rx. ttm in its more intimate phases the case As an instance of how the Oerman j>roj>fiKfi'nll'**!K in Hnstia had outwitted ib** A!liWn* r**ft-tr»d ti tbt* nt* r«t«rrrntf in whtrlf tne MoHNivtkl nre ; now een-trally held. This was what j thr '>rm*rm souaht, l^e *nW, fn order that they mixht hsve the whole ield free for ttelr own commercial exploitation afiwr th« wsr. He ssld that the Oermsns flnsneed in-* -nrMirtH snsrrhlat tvrisnfisttoRS , ., I.,,,.,, ,^ „r.|er t0 djicresjjt the Uoi. -hrt-vtvi with the Allies, ont told of ' i tri'Ut u" U'jtuImww'Uis , which loot place ia Moscow While he •'e- •• wh*eh the BtrtslMVlkl ■" ■* — «r»l brand new tnatbino I mm with the marks of th* Oerman ,».,.••»-« m -!,,»,„. the dntrno ot an IfflMfvhM ttob te Ssrstof, protUllna I tar the nstionslttafkm Af wmoon. to t*h*trt» mtwh jwtWtclty wss weemty (#f ttn. he ton. was very llhtly saother eismple nt soccessfu) Qermsa props- ti^f^mmmtT^*^:, i-^W^odl,y- lnid him upon his back across the altar, his head hanging over one edge, his legs over the apposite. Then they and the priest eases formed In two tines, with their little golden cups in readiness to cap- tare a share of the victim's life blood after the sucriinial knife bad accomplished its work. In the line of priests an altercation arose ns to who should have first place. A burly brute with all the refined intelligence of a gorilla stamped upon Ida bestial face was attempting to push a smaller muu to second pki-pe, but tbe susller oue appealed to the high priest- ona, wbo iu a cold, peremptory voice seat tbe larger to the extreme eud of the Hae. Tarzan could bear bim growl- lag and grumbling as he went slowly to the inferior station. Thea the priestess, standing abova ttm, bes&u reciting what Tarean took ta be un Invocation, the while sba atowly raised her thin, sharp kntfa .aloft It seemed ages to tbe ape-man jbafora ber arm ceased Its upward •pvacreaa and tbe knife baited bleb iabava hia unprotected breast ; Thea It started downward, slowly at 'feat, bat aa tbe incantation Increased ita rapidity, with greutcr speed. At tba and ot tha Una Tarzan could still hear tba gnunbllng of tbo disgruntled priest lba aian's voice rose louder and loader. A prtestesa near bim spoke In sharp af rebuke. Tba knife wjw quit* ta Tanan'a breast now, bat It hatted far an Instant ns tbe high priest* aaa ralacd ber eyes to shoot bor swift dU»totsart at the instigator et tbla aacriiegioua Interruption. Ttwr* waa a sudden commotion la the direction of tbe disputants, and Tarzan rolled bis bead ln tbelr dlroc- ttoo to tine to see the bnrly, brute oC a prioat leap upon tbe woman opposite Ua, dashing oot bar brains with a ala* gle Maw of hit heavy cudgel, Hia screams of rage were frightful aa ha dashed hither aod thither, dual* kw terrific blows with hia giant wcap* better versed in the school of savage warfare to which be had reverted, for Tarzan of the Apes closed with hitn. and they fell to the floor tearing and rending at one another like two bull apes, while tbe primitive priestess stood Battened against the wall, watching with wide, fear fascinated eyes the growling, snapping beasts at her feet. At last she saw the stranger close one migbty band upon the throat of bis antagonist and as be forced the brute-niau's bend fnr back ruin blow after blow upon the upturned face. A moment later be threw the still thing from bim. and, arising, shook himself like n great lion, lie placed a foot upon tho carcass before lilm unci raised his head to give the victory cry of hts kind, but as bis eyes foil upon the opening above him leading Into the temple of human sacrifice he thought better of bis Intended act. The girl, who had been half para lyzed by fear as the two men fought had just commenced to give thought to her probable fate now that, though released from the clutches of n nwlmnn. she bad fallen Into the bands of one whom bat a moment before she bad been upon the point of kllllug. She looked nbout for some means of escupo. Tbe black month of the diverging cor- rldor was near at hand, but as she turned to dart Into It the npe-uinn's eye* fell upon her and witb a quick leap ba was at her side and n restraining band waa laid upon ber arm. -Walt!" said Tarzan of tbe A pen. Id tha language of tbe tribe of Kerclmk, The girl looked at bim in astonishment -Who ara yoaf' she whispered, "wbo speaks tbo language of tbe first manf* "I aw Tttivau of the Apes," bo answered Id tho vernacular of tbe anthropoids. "What do you want of owl" sba continued. "For what purpose did you aav« ma from Thar **l could not sea a woman murdered?" It was a half (jiie*tlon tlint answered ber. "But what do yon intend to do with me nowT she continued "Nothing," he replied, -but you can do something with tue-ymi can lead ages borue tbeir ancient civilization—, it had sunk into the sea. "From that day dated the downfall oi my people. Disheartened-and. un-' happy, they soon hwnme a prey to the black hordes'of the north and the black hordes of the south One by one the cities were deserted or overcome. Tbe last remnnut was dually forced to take shelter within this mighty mountain fortress. Slowly we have dwindled Id power, in civilization, in intellect, tn numbers, until now we iuv no more than a small tribe of savage apes. "In fact, the apes live with us. and have for many ages. We mil t'hetn the first men-.we speak ihelr language unite as much as we do nur own: only IU the rituals of the temple do we make any attempt to retain our mother tongue, in time lt will be forgotten, and we will speak only the language of the apes; in time we will no longer banish those of our people who mate with apes, und so in time we shall descend to the very beasts from which ages ago our progenitors may have sprung." "But why are you more human than the others?" asked the man. "For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men. rt may be because only the lower types of men rcmalued here at the time of the great catastrophe, while the temples were filled with the noblest daughters of tbe race. My strain bas remained clearer than the rest be^ cause for countless ages my foremoth- ers were high priestesses. The sacred ■nfflifA itpgp-nnfla -f«ipi_i»M>th*ap_***ft_*^gMgh„r about reviving Thuran.* but it required the better part of half an hour liefore the Russian evinced sufficient symptoms of returning consciousness to open his eyes. By ttrfs time the boat was scraping gently upon the saudy bottom. Between the refreshing water that he had drunk and the stimulus of renewed hope, Clayton found strength to stagger through the shallow water to the shore witb a line made fast to the boat's bow. Tbls be fasteued to a small tree which grew at tbe top of a low bank. Next hexmanaged to stagger" and crawl toward the nearby jungle, where he had seen evidences of profusion of tropical fruit His former experience in the jungle with Tarzan of the Apes en «r sinking his yellow fangs into tha ' "" Tl ' f ** tft 'rw,"« *b*'« it had been waa dealing out desth snd deatructJaa J "Tri1**?, •" lfflM,,,lM" hn'1 to her votaries. Slowly ho crept to- ?h<"r W9y- ttmUttU lm wm '\""""J* '"**» ward her aud uow ho spoke, but thia i tl*»t* thst tbey wnntrl ttrul Tare-in of Ihe tima there fell open Tfirww'a surprised I ,A,*UT" ******* "»«' w»h » !""« *««w earn a language ha eoald ondmtandj I J? ** _ta»* a °»** '*** M*!«M" **■ nntn a language ttll* lift ***!* It*ltt *, th-rmtttt of e-mnloTtiic In att^mpHn-g to '' con veno with human b-rtnga-tho law t' guttural barking of tha tribe of gnat atitlrwpoAH-tih ew® m-Xbtt tonftat **y^A^^7.l :i**,H «''0,< Tsrutn tN-metmt VwiVi'V. * I tie trirl Mood looking nt him for n i„ MiiiwtuC nukkuv n\\et epwhe. ;*vn mre a U*iy mmtiului iu,in.' sin- wild "Vmt mnt* ■»«•«'j* -» m:-.m ::•*, I ter. Our husbands are chosen for us from the noblest in the laud. The mo^t perfect man mentally nnd phys- i icolly is selected te be the husband of the high priestess." "From what I saw of the gentlemen above," said Tifrzan, with a grin, "there should be little trouble lh cho **> '•» bar aathority. The brut, waa quit. »-*" ^ •"I**?™" ""V "/* cio*. now-ciaaplag with cUwllka |!'';.J f»'*•/««'"» "'«' «»;««- * v* banda meomtetrnr* bar mwI M\\^ ^ ",wf *«""• /"' *'""• Z ond of tba altar. Aa tba brat* j^H^t, l «..t*.i..>l iin.J.-;-mtHl mhy j«*i mine m\\ u-'.-ftf li. tht- tir-t iiWrr . i » lw"!' I -cunt"-' ,!(.■■'', i ■ i.iti*? r,in. n c tB« end of tha altar. Aa tba brat* 1 ktX'S'A pt*t T.irxiin t" clutch hi* vktfi* tbe apa-man gs va oat superhuma* ', t ■w-f.'-n -h ir th.* tb"ttga thttt ficM fcfnfc The - .Ten m'tti him toiling from tlw altar to tb* atone door on tha opiNMftt tide from itot on wbkb tha prfmtttf ntr>*d, hot m bt tpraRg te ht* fe*t tbt tbons* dropped from lit* rraad nrtPO* and nt th*- rms t„ rt-it,9i put you ; • detilb with wt i.hu O-t 4" ""- n .-■•'' I, I. ' i , , l' i* *. ,. .., . ....... •"tt»*»| ;,,t, lcj I»«»t»»*t*sr,| |l . |t-i*i<**ij(»(.,-* ,**> fill,I ll'll 'lllll | I ,A,t,l,\\ i.i,,ll,»- M.I, I*. t CHAPTER XXIII. Tb* Castaways. f.AYTON dreamed thai he was » ?., - . i . * * > ... .„ , ....... *«.♦». >,, *,<*»*-» dell-vUtiTul druit* mf Umb wntet. tilth a *t.irt be tv^timed «w srlooaneaa to Hod himself wet tltruugb by torrent* of rain that weie failing Into tbt -upon boat a^ui» Ui* UMy Mud hi* upturwd face, a heavy tropical •bower wm bentim t1t**n npwi them. lie optutd hi« eioutli «in,| drank. Prw- >t»tly he wa« so revluM n\\„\\ ntn-nsth Mted that he wss .enabVd tr he rafemmd bias- *' arlf trmo Tlmriin** pKnloafng body aad with rwwwed ttr ter-*telti«bnesM. buorlnliuem*, arrogance, cowardiw Twire had he utu) ('layton i-uine to btwHn Uvihim' ut Tbnrnn's st tltude toward the girl. 'I'he existence of the Mngllsliifian and bin Minn *ti« wnn une contlnuiil ni«tumure el tmrror. and yet they lived mt in ttotm or ultimate remUe June I'orler's thiMiehts nfli u re\\ftx**l to ber niltfi i"*|ii-ri.*ti-»• on thin miviig" ••mre Mt. i! Hh iiiiui. il.!«- {(.j,-*! »*i of that •ii.ii) i>,i*t ttiiv bnt with ibem ll",, ; !•'!.,. , ,,:.Ui hut ui-.l li .inti thiin «'U.|.-ii in*; the im .mi pniiti Umi tiflonl ni iti'l t.> ( tft t li>u nllh wt<- I »!,»• tittgbt ilil***. eipri ltd bui rt»r».«ii .4 titi ,\\|iet, b»-»'ti for ti »-ing!i tii-iniif >'ot*jfr«itti,4 bj thi- 'iriKti-i Mil! nu im In,; attitude ul M Tliunin. A m iiii titv uiiiex north of ttii'lr rude »*h«"ft>* l.i'** ,*..H,<.* I, Hi.il'l" ul *M\\t \\ * ll'liill.- , ll.-'ii; il.i llli." -,*..*),. 'f*l**'« *.S .l * : il y.iff of »!'■> ** ' ■ rt-tN-ff en, it** ■n.i 'lie * at»i«, in . Iii'i'v-M, ,1-trd tli w«a iiMijif, a few n»il->«% i* • rude l«ii «»«|< httr ■■ .*,. * ■■»•*. *•,*•• "rtljt* of the thn-.* Uult fli*iii Itt.* |,i.H AM ** trim, «iu< u t'Lttitm,., i*»Mi fmwi Ihi iillie )M»c:irtit»»l I'M-i-f tl »'l-.».*t'i »,-*» |ln-. tt/iij f..y.,-f) |,i * ■■•• titiiti,: ii,d in *,.*.*. iii,,ii jitii«,* » *■ nt„- ul llir li*i.ri«»ri» ,.j h|i,|.*«'|'i"«'« Itf«l ' i-i-l. Ill««ii», ttttij lliiHi^H *U't*t9-9,al l,\\ ">iiiii\\ t,Jt,J .»llj'Ji*J'lJ(il lll.li! flu- mti.mlt if tlii- »ni!,'-*«*r*>t>t*t* 'sitji't U,»< i-ii.i.'i'ti** •■•tiMl i.itf'i.»fuji» ..it |!»i-ir !,..-«' «-l :m- •»i* *\\ Htptu tta* ui.tia mint, tlie ****** X •> Wt-ri- tmti-litl I.f |tii" tH f*,- tn.tf thtt Ift.tii* t«mt tmtt Im-i-w fir-kml iij> a*»d i'-,.; a» !»„■*■ 9'.—?t-. -n-nty. ...f tin- -fri-v-t !.ii.n*,| t*** eii'M*liJi ;u■.->!*• .\\. .iff it*. "•' ■ ''!»*■-. ami itm«**a»»lt;>'!*,.». hi »i ,*| («<»•« ftneasl in tjt»d 'fe*i'iit»»ston** f«".f 111- Mf'H W:i« tve:'f ei(tli|it'«.tl Lir ty lu ail questions of .importance und iu all emergencies -'requiring cool und intelligent leadership. ■' "" . Could this well organized and comparatively secure party of castaways have seen the ragged, fear haunted trio a few miles south of them tbey would scarcely have recognized in them the formerly immaculate members of the little company that had laughed and played upon the Lady Alice. Clayton and M. Tim-run* were almost naked, so torn bud their elotbes been by tbe thorn hushes ami tangled vegetatiou of tbe matted Jungle through which they had been compelled to force their way iu search of their ever more dltilcult food supply. June I'orter had, of course, not been subjected to these stremiuus «'X|iedl- tions, but her apparel whin, nevertheless, In a sail state ut disrepair. Cluyton. lot luck of any better occupation, hud turcfotb saved the skin of every iitiimiii they had killed, Ity sti'i'ti'liln--' thiin ii|hiu the stems of treei iuul dillceiitij si-mpiiig thein, he liml himmi^i-ii to >nve ilii-iii lu u fair iiiinliilnii. nml now tun bis clothes were Hirwaieiitiig to cuter hiu united bean Uo longer, lie coiinm-iu'cd to IHsli lou a rude gartui-iu of thein, imung a sharp thorn fur tt needle and bits uf tough grotut aud animal teudoiis In lien of thread. The result when completed wns a •leevelwi garment which fell nearly to bis knees, biter Thurau also found It uecensury lo iou»triut u similar primitive garment, so that, with their bare J legs and heavily (warded rmtM, they looked not unlike relnearnntioos or two prehlstiirle pnitrenlbiM of the htumtn rare. Thurau acted llko ono Nearly two mouth* ol this stlstene* bud ps*sed wbeti llie lint great calum ity befell them. Thurau, down with an attack of jungle fever, lay lu tho nbeltor among the brunches of tlieir tree of refuge. Vlnjton had lieen llit« the Jungle a few hundred ysrils in icarch «f fowl A* lie rettirniHl Jnne Porter walked to mtt't lilm llehlul tlie man, cutmltig i.tu| crafty, crept nu ! old ami mangy Ji«>n fur tht*-* day** j hi« rtwcit'iit thew* nnd tdnew* timt ', pnired iu»ntlli ivi.t lur the la»li <•! t'i" vldllig bis ruteritiiiw N-lly with ment ' Al hiM he li.'iil f«»:< ■•'! e, if!. ,'• i;i.'ti-i| ■ 'i; I .,„„ ,*,,„. , ,»■,*; .**■.*.»»,«( ->/,,,. ft i;«i|i t««t i»,.« .t„*■!.**■', Hnl »»fi pura ... .■*» ri*!':>»"ii i>» r»'»!*«"Ml, stti'f •■it* *l .1 H-ufi- ?)HI| rt^'-rt, *l.;irili;j *»ltlt ..H.i-I i iiii'iti-ii.uii'i-!»l lt?». ijnitisi »(,.;Utf > r»-»pir" »■ ■ !-■<* »t-,.-ni I IriH'ili - n't-'t .*„.i*''*i;i- i,,.- -Irili, (*•• i<-fr.:.-i fliritltig , . , . .*,.,, ..i„*.l ;,,- I',' **-t -*.*. I»t- H H.» ""ill « HtMl i* i i -I ,'.. in-'i ■' * i..iii*iiiii,. : If lit* •■*.»» ■■;* •* ■i;| if i|i«. >n*.«* i t;i*-.r* t.i-i M-*i1 r t***:f*t.& ,..( »ji«*(l l,'( utile (.■«*•« e tfft ('it-* (!■■! .. tt. '. •„•, i, li,. t'.i » tn ■■ ni«» it miftii ••*»"* v\\„i-ii i*«"f#»i t*t. inr A I** tiav* ft-'fn- fit"- ' *>int«i1 fn.. , iv* .* ,*•"•».« *,,•.' ..- i- ■ *■ I,, et ' it-rath ftahtittc Ort•', i*-f* »*« tt'.i* f.ttf \\,i» III,* lint, ,*■;■■ ■ i i-t i* * .. f.it fi* CHAPTER XXIV. The Treasure Vaults of Opar. IT was quite dark before La, the high priestess, returned to tho Chamber of the Dead with food and drink foi" Tarzan. She bore no tight, feeling witb ber bands along the crumbling walls until she gained the chamber. Through the stone grating above a tropic moon served dimly to illuminate the interior. "They are furious." were her first huEnan" "woros. "wfvef—D*eiore™nan~ sacrifice escaped the altar. Already fifty have gono forth to track yon down. They bave searched the temple, ail save this single room." "Why do they fear p come herel" be asked. "It Is tbe Chamber ot the Dead. Hero the dead return to worship. See this ancient ultar? It is here that tho dead sacrifice the living If they find a victim here. That Is tbe reason onr people shun tbls chamber. Were one to enter be knows tbat the waiting dead would seize bim for tbeir sacrifice." "Butyourbonsked. "I am high priestess. I alone am safe from tbe dead. It ls I wbo at rare Intervals bring tbem a human sacrifice from the world above. I alone may enter hero ln safety. I had difficulty In eluding tbelr vigilance but uow In bringing you this morsel of food. To attempt to repeat tho thing dally would be the height of folly, Como. Lot us see bow far w« may go toward liberty beforo I must return," She ted him back to the chamber bo- neatb tbe altar room. Here ahe turned into ona ot tba sovoral corridors leading from it In the darkness Tartan could uot aaa which ona. ifor tan various sizes were ingeniously taio together witbout mortar to construct these ancient foundations. Tbe lirst time around tbe walls Tarzan thought be detected a strange phenomenon for a room with uo windows and but a single door. Again ne crept carefully aroundClose to the wall. No, tie could not be'mistaken'!' Ue paused Defore the ceuter ot the wall opposite the door. For a moment he stooQ quite . motionless, tben'be moved a few feet tu "one. side. Again he returned, ouly to move a few teet to the other side. There was no doubt ot it! A distinct draft of fresh air was blowing into tbe chamber through tbe interstices ot tbe masonry at that particular point—and nowhere else. Tarzan: tested several pieces of the granite which made up the wall at this spot and finally was.rewarded by finding one which lifted out readily. It I was about ten inches wide, with a face some 3 by 6 Inches showing within tba ebamber. One by one the ape-man lifted out similarly shaped stones. Tha wall at this point was constructed entirely, it seemed, of these almost perfect slabs. In a short time he bad removed some dozen, when he reached in to test tbe next layer of masonry. To bis surprise be felt nothing behlni the masonry be bad removed, as far at his long arm could reach. it wns a matter of but a few minutes to remove enough of the wall tt permit his body to pass through tbt aperture. Directly ahead of bim ht thought that be discerned a faint glow, scarcely more than a less Impenetrably darkness. Cautiously he moved forward on bands and knees nntil at about fifteen feet, or the, averajt thickness of the foundation walls, tbt fioor ended abruptly ln a sudden dropt As far out as be could reach be felt nothing, nor could he find tbe bottom of the black abyss that yawned betel* bim, though, clinging to the edge of the floor, he lowered his body Into tbt darkness to Its full length. Finally it occurred to him to look op* and there above him he saw through a round opening a tiny circular patch oC starry sky. Feeling up along the sldef of the shaft as far as he could reaclv the ape-man discovered tbat so muctt of the wail as be could feel converged toward the center of tbe shaft aa It rose. This fact precluded possibility of escape In thijt direction. . As he sat speculating on tha natnrt and uses of this strange passage and its terminal shaft tbe moon topped tbt opening above, letting a.flood of soft; silvery light into tbe shadowy ptaca. Instantly the nature of the abaft bo- came apparent to Tarzan, for far below him be saw the shimmering surface of water. He had como upon aa ancient well. But what was the purpose of tbe connection between tbt well and tbe dungeon In which he bad been hidden? As the moon crossed the opening ot the shaft its light flooded the wbolt iatedoiv-aad-tbea-^H^aii-aaw-wfectif— ' *Vtlt *.lt h« «■.** «•-..,, ,|r«'» I, ..-..-, ,. .. nnjht," n**> «.«t *stn tbey ratrte t« » i-ln-i-d >|.«.r Hen- t»w tiwttrd f,„*» f, *.. .>**:,., ..I ' ly ranie tin- -.iiiinil „t .-* >... ui UjIi «*■»{-* ■■ ttip acntiwt Mi.t-t.sii Tn,. *.'t...fr *.«ri]ftg tn ' nn »<"*ptJ!2 Xfifj,**... m;,» nt«.*> entered. "Vmi will tr* tafe fieri- until tomorrow tiiaht,"* *fs.» -wild Tti«"i» *ttt* *e»t net ttfid. eto-itaf th* dttftt. f«*-*t"i«rt It tirMnif »*■*.» tt*l*r«» Tama *i***i tt wat itt-tt as r.rfifnt*. \\t,1 »-V.*t. »i-« tiH,frt«wf t.'mi eould p*rr**H.rst# the ntter tttsc-kiieaa. ' f*fftf* iitttvc*! tnrxi-td ntittt bin lf„t*ll**ittf< UMitlt I'm* hr*t .j WltU. lifft, my iihmi}, ij,. tr.it.vti ir-mivl Um foUf W4li*t ttt ti»# «: iMtfllwf, ApintftMiy ii *»» »t«»«it twenty f**t **|m*»**.-, **tr i..*-^ ■**-**-* t.t * **i**-r*-t.*9, ifM* wnttm *d ttm* *trn iuj».nfy th»( nwtt- til i!.i' '..:i-ii*,.ti) «i . i.t,*.tr'f'ui.iit ititttm immmd Ptmh &*"** nt graaitt ot across from bim another opening ln tbt opposite wall. Be wondered If this might not be tbe mouth of a passage leading to possible escape. It wonld be worth Investigating at least and this be determined to do. Quickly returning to tbe w&ll be bad demolished to explore wbat lay beyond lt be carried the stones into the paa- sageway and replaced tbem from that side. Tbe deep deposits of dast which be had noticed upon tba blocks aa bt bad first removed them from tha wall bad convinced bim tbat otnn If tbt present occupants of the andeat pilt bad knowledge or this hidden passagt tbey had made no use of It for perbapa generations. The wall replaced. Tartan returned to tbe shaft, which was soma Alteon feet wide at this point To lean acraaa the intervening space was a small mat* ter to tbe ape-man, and a moment later be was proceeding along a narrow tunnol, moving cautiously for fear ot being precipitated Into another abaft such as be bad Just crossed. He had advanced some hnndred feet when he camo to a flight of steps lead* Ing downward Into tbe Sty gla a gtoota. Somo twenty feot below tha (aval toot ot tho tunnel recommenced, aad abort*' ly afterward bla progress waa stopped by a heavy wooden door, wblch wu secured by massive wooden bars upon tba side of Tartan's approach, Thbt fact suggested to tba ape-man that bt doubtless waa In a paasagaway leading to tbe outer world, for tba bolta, barring progress from tbt oppoaltt side, tended to substantiate tbla hypothesis unless it wort merely a ariaot to which It led. Along tbe topa of tha ban wtradaa* lay cm of dust, a (unlaw IndlcaQot tbat tha passage had lain lonrnaiiasd. As ha pushed the tnsmtve otwtaclt aside Its great hinges shrieked oot la weird protoat against this oascmstom* td disturbance For a moment Tsraaa paused to listen for any rmpuaaivt note which might indicate that the na- ususl night noise hsd alarm**! the In* mates of the temple, liut as be bfard nothing b» advanced beyond tha toop way. Carefully feeling nbwtt. h* tempi hiiuseif wiUiln a Urea cbnitttwr, slung jthe well* of wbleb and dowa tbt | length et the floor mrn* piled mnpf 't'*/»■' *.*r !;.^.,il '•..»...{* ...f an u64 th*mgb wit-min ahtfit* To tit* gruplng hands llie> f.'.t uut urUide double , litutjacis. ?"ht» Ingots wtmt . tii'mj'. nii'l but for tbe «-i>oruu»u« her «f them be wonld bar* tmeo puet- 'llve thst tlwy wet* guld. H'Vt tht ttinnebx of tba fahnlmis wealth thtm **■--***,u.- *n y-tuum* ut marni Wmott i....9t, I • ' ...... J ..* .,:-l'lii iin'-.'l aU..*. ; *.*...*',.-*. *J i.li.j y,-y lUvf tniwi in- *tt *ihh*> l*.**t-r n:*'t*.)t .\\t the tut fii't 'fi U,t' «fi.H!il*ef H* , d>-»«iit«-r«^! ainiiiier l>iirreil i|i»»r nnd tl»a Ifii.' ;t11 •'•o<";i.ht rtinl f.ifvoftee p'niitge- iu.\\ to .'i)«-m Itft'ilxl the *««' »b# i !»*«:iH;,» rm. *«tr.)Uiii i,* n *nt upeer. Mlltl it «'-■•" "-■• il'i'l' i-Vitj.-Ilt «••■ «t ifw*- i-in lfj.it ..<*,»! Un it I;td .,Jjv;tt|y ,.s,ter Dtailtt et li lw M;l -,t*i s iln .i('.!- fed ft tuif nn f, «,i«.-f tieiii «--r **ev f.': V:* '■«,*-1t*Ti t%rt* rtrtr, t-ot #• N» tittrrttled tl** HMtlinl tn t U -, a v,:4-l.'u t',u*t4e la it* »al»- nxenee tbey were tfe«dt««* Tbt OtrpO' m* ,*.,**e*i*t*). tu.ii aivau trfiMte t» Ottpn at li<^«e» be tr -\\ir>.i mir hi- «me te suit ie«>tifia tn>w»*ni f:..rM *»* -af -ttm* 'rVm %* t*0l**r life grow out of them, 1 Difficult undertakings are often the most Interesting,—a truth of the theory which regards Intense interests as the basis of achievement is th*3 statement that intense interest may be manifested in acconptisMag very difficult things. The most extreme examples .t this fact are those in which the di«eult activity is interesting largely beca*s» of its difficulty. The best ill«Htrations from school life are found 1« the interest with which some students attack difficult exercises in. geometry. An example from ordinary life is mountain climlbing. This is illnstra. ted not only by the activities ot pro- fessional. climbers, who, ga to the ends of the earth to scale the highest peaks, but also by some of the slimb. ing undertaken in the Alps (may we add Rockies) by amateurs simply in order to climb difllcilt maaa-'r-tas.' FERNIE LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, NO. 31 Will meet regularly every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Visiting members cordially welcome. W., Pennington, .Alfred Baker. C. C. K. R. S. ^W0 NOTICE ',:;.' Arbour Day Public notico is hereby glvea that Arbour Day for the year llli will he kept rn Wednesday, the 3«tM day ot April, when all business places will remain closed and all citi:w.M aii; re- iifecttd to clean up their lots. THOS. bPHAl, Mayer. aturday before Easter] The One Day of The Year That Is Bound To Be A Busy One EXCLUSIVE MODES. SUITS AND DRESSES MENS ATTIRE OF STRICTLY FASHIONABLE LINES IMIIHi-MJIM Fixings and MIX-INERT.-NO TWO HATS AtlKE, POSITIVELY LATEST DESIGNS FROM GREAT CENTRES Important Sale of Women's Coats for Easter 848 50 VALUES FOR $30.75 One «|(«iii litoili'U mily. Siimrt. Mimppy Ktyl-t'N, apecially priced for Easter tailing. The wdora nrv \\iivv. Siuiti. i)lh<, «»iv\\ - Full r.Higi- ol* nht-n in w*k'i*t tttun Women's New Suits and Coats We cordially jnviti: ymi to view mir klutwiui? of *■*, * '..,.,!%. jnw 1.1.1 ,ni.t Mii.u'U-; IJi-rtilji-tii-Wiiir, Tiii-i i« tht* *tor*« where thi* liifriietit im» :*■<• flif'S'lMIWil Mt tlif WKWl i»IOt|*'r»t<« pri'M'***, SUITS, COATS, DRESSES »ii««ii iii a.- m^.h East or Hats Mat-* that -,tri* musti- H'tn-tiiitl nt nrt»»«** »ur*i»r»«t- tntrty intt SMUr Btonstt~~Yon wtll aiir*ljr want one n* ttitm n« yon net' ihcxu •2.50 C-C A La Qracs Corsets •1.08 on Saturday M>*M» «utt*«bl# fi»r «h«- avrrng* figure Mwlm h weight and of gootl quality. nmmttpmmmpptm Linens ;i«! iii-tv Hijtt'-mxi, llomwljr-h-Ptl, f1."*0. Vim* Linen Squares for trny or Uxhh me. Filling Your Easter Qlovo Needs OLOVES of tiiMst Kill, t*iii«'. Silk. (.'Iiauiiiixctti'. *rit»» Mfuveut Myle for «v*«t*y ow-Nnlon t<» inoH ev«*ry woman** iIhu.ihiI. FRENCH KID OLOVES in IMmk. T»n mnl WJiiti- M'lf.cDMtft-wiinii iniiul*. I2..V) CAPE OLOVES, Tart onlyjitie IMimn Kntrli>h \\\\%'M!*.*.. l',h,i;**i -i'l IUI i-?:*, CHAM0ISETTE CLOVES, Whit.- *.r,v nw«„. S'iii'n*' K-«!1ht finish. .*»|.:;,"i mnl !1,."H» jwr |»«ir. SILK OLOVES, IH.-iHr Wbm- F.-rwn. lln*y. s.V niii! -*I.!?."», 'tt'uii.uup Silk Hose SPECIAL Itt eta. Fin** i|!iHlily Silk lhm\\ Li*l«» tup »?td r*t»-iiifiirwil f«*»*t. Mark. White only. Men's Wear Well taitftml modfU ot ftmtl quality w»ni«4« and itrytci; materia!* tbat will give tuHinfaition In th«- mmrrr and retain their appearance Suit* nt «»*e#|ttioiuiUy fin* fabtiai—•tailomi an 1 for Easter tiuished to perfection. Von il note tm* mwmt prmk' trimmintf** u««l in their m-ske tip. Mirg FULL DRESS SHIRTS MEN 8 WHITE KID OLOVES #1.(10 to #1,i.'« Easter Specials GROCERY DEPARTMENT We will h«v«* tm iHaplay Saturday mimi'intf a fwi» .dMJjk Wt -'■'***. I iiAli'*, I «.i«».A mitt, l#^**t-t*» l««*iii."», ml'** « *tl|»l»ly of ffi-»li nyrftrtUlf*. nml fruit, nn t'« l- U*wm- I^-ltwi'**, Spinaf-h. A*|»afas«i. {'attliilrtw^r, t 4'I*•»•>•. UUiiUiili. lUt**' ToiiMlm**, Uwiwnitft, *>» itiie***, llntf** Vrxitl, tie. Vrt-^h Itttpninl |Vannt«. jwr Ih *Si Mtartl -Atli*, |»«"*" IM .......,...........*.. .¥* t -*i*W P tn*. |>t-r to .•■*► Talwm Fan««y t*r«in« Chnrntat-n. lh M Wiliwtn'a lioaehiid* ..Vi Hjvftitl Mixed Candy, pi»r ll» W r r**0 Alter tnutter ikmtn, »•» .«*W Okanafan Wimc «ap Appl*«, ....... 21b for 25 do Baldwin Apple* per l»x 3.7«*» d*» Miwwnri I*fpfdn per box 40* Wa»hiiifton Homo Beauty —.... per hox i-V) »Vl!r,.n'.'iv nt-A^.-, H-tf. f'"" f-viI .SimJ (i*i»» uii* 2 Mt fm" I.iliby'n IVitr*, ] ll» tilt dn (ln'ffit'ti. I )b tin tin I'itti'apph'i*. 2 lit I'nt nihil' .Miy, lii «»/. jiu* , do do 4 w tin Hnl mmo t'lovt t* llniu'.v, .*» lb tin tJtn»Wi- I'tin* Mnftl* Syrnp. <|t*. I,<»»: pinlt* . i'"n>*-!» I'nwnijtu. "* M» , do t *arn*t*. rt Ib fur -A,:, T:'.r...\\'*.*a, y IU ,.....,* HKaMrftf^it Wititt- Sf.tl Point.»«*, \\iht W*. % It A* M ,\\w M At \\.m 2.1 r» ,.Vi .25 2 ■*»• PROVISION DEPARTMENT f'rciiiititii tfntii. *Vii'fA per lb 'U do <1h Imlf, or wliofc, pi'i* Ib ,.,,,,. ..'.I Premium Hamti. aliw»«l, rt*r lb 7ft iio ' drt pxei*e ... ttt t'tnmtry 1'xtr* Hawtn. pi»r lb 4S lH^nw* llaw«f,. per Ib St IVannt Itntler, bnlk fier lh W ttotv*' I'lill I*tn*k W. drti 4T» Small d« do dtx , M Smoked Kipperwd ITrrring, per Ib II Cooked iio liable Ffah — Salt Iferfing 2 lb for Jl no "la'k twd, per In .....,,.,..,....... ,*o The TRITES-WOODCo., Ltd. Branches at Fernie, Michel, Natal and Coat Creek ^r"""@en, "Preceding Title: The Fernie Ledger

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