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long and that you were wondering what was going in there?
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you to call and inspect their line of office equipment.
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BALTIMORE, Nov. 13.—Warning
that union labor will oppose with all
its power any attempt to put through
congress a compulsory arbitration
bill, as proposed by President Wilson,
was given out today when the execu
tive committee of the American Feder
ation of Labor, at the federation’s 36th
annual convention, read its report.
“The wage earners of the United
States,” said the report, “will oppose
any proposition to impose upon them
compulsory institutions which disguise
involuntary servitude. They hold that
the principle involved in voluntary in
stitutions is the key to personal and
industrial freedom and that this prin
ciple is of more importance to them
than any other consideration.
“The immediate problem involved is
a class problem but the principle in
volved in compulsory institutions,
even for a class in our republic, is of
concern to the whole republic, for we
■ know that the republic cannqt be main
tained part free and part slave.
“Involuntary and compulsory laborj
once enforced, even for a single hour
will not halt at its temporary enforce
ment but will go on and become per
manent.
“In human institutions when a
wrongful course has been pursued it
inevitably is held or driven on to its
logical conclusion of error. Then
there is no retrieving except by a con
vulsion brought about by a revolution.
“The human labor power which this
law compels wage-earners to give to
employers against their will is insep
arable from the body and the person
ality of the wage-earers. It is part of
the men and women themselves. They
cannot be forced to work for an em
ployer against their wills without re
ducing them to the legal condition of
slaves and transforming their minds
and spirits into those of slaves. No
more dangerous proposition has ever
been proposed than this compulsory
investigation measure.”
In conclusion the committee recom
mended that the convention take a
strong stand against it and “in favor
of the rpaintenance of institutions and
opportunities for freedom.”
Discussing the arbitration principle,
the committee viewed it as second in
importance on the general administra
tion program to the eight-hour day
principle.
“This effort to again subject wage
earners to involuntary servitude ha:
aroused the determined resistance 01
wage-earners generally,” it continued
“To their declarations against invol
untary servitude the proponents of the
legislation have replied that although
a strike would be made illegal undei
the proposed law and strikers crimin
als, yet individual workers were nol
deprived of the right to quit work.
The committee, taking up politics
urged woman’s suifrage, Porto Ricar
independence, government ownershij
of telegraph and telephone lines, £
national child labor law, a minimuir
wage law for the government, exten
sion of the eight-hour law. to all gov
ernment departments, exclusion froir
interstate commerce of convict laboi
products, preparedness, vocational
training as a means to preparedness
and a host of other planks designed tc
help the cause of labor.
During the year, the report stated
strikes cost the federation $2,708,789
Two hundred and sixty thousand peo
ple were involved in them. One thous
and one hundred and thirty-five
strikes were won; 183 were compro
mised, 305 are pending and 49 were
lost. The Federation gained nearly
218,‘000 members, and issued 2,700
cnariers to organizations joining it.
Death benefits paid totaled $2,264,310.
Sick benefits totaled $1,068,600.
Failure because of the war to ar
range an international meeting of
labor organizations was announced
with regret by the committee. Both
German and British leaders, it was
stated, frowned on the suggestion.
The committee commented on the
“transferring from federal to state
courts” injunction proceedings against
labor organizations. This was held
due to amendments to the anti-trust
act, which declare labor not a commod
ity.
A decision of the Massachusetts
court declaring unconstitutional a law
designed to prevent the issuance of in
junctions against labor organizations,
was attacked strenuously as “justify
ing the principle that labor or laboi
power is a commodity.”
“This unequivocal assertion of the
Massachusetts court,” it is declared
“is wholly dogmatic; the only -line of
argument that the judges condescend
to offer is the declaration of fellow
judges.”
The committee suggested it be em
powered to try to obtain the repeal of
the decision and to replace the old law
with one that will stand the test of
courts.
That there is concerted movement
in legal organizations toward the
“new freedom,” and awakening tc
new conditions, was stated. There is
a “growing understanding,” it was
said, “of the real- service just law
ought to perform for society, that it
ought to serve the best interests anti
welfare of the people—that humar
welfare is of greater significance to :i
nation than undeviating conformity t(
precedents.”
Discussing the work done by the
Canadian organizations, the commit
tee stated that a movement would be
started at the next session of parlia
ment for the repeal of the Canadiar
act that prevents strikes during in
vestigation. Enlistments in the Can
adian regiments overseas in the Euro
pean war have cost the organizations
22,000 members, and have created a
labor scarcity, it was said.
LEGAL BATTLE IS NOW
ON IN DISTRICT COURT
FAIRBANKS—The trial of the
case of the First National bank vs.
F. G. Noyes is on before Judge Chas.
E. Bunnell. And it promises to be a
legal battle from the start to the
finish. For the side of the plaintiff
in the proceedings is represented by
Attorneys John L. McGinn, A. R.
Heilig, and McGowan & Clark, the
defendant being represented by Fer
nand de Journel. And it also prom
ises to be a lengthy and very com
plicated case, by reason of the fact
that it involves the examination of
| numerous books containing accounts
of various descriptions. Twenty-four
books and groups of other documents
were offered by the plaintiff during
the court session last night for iden
tification purposes. They were iden
tified by Geo. Hutchinson, cashier of
the First National Bank, who was in
terested in the proceedings of the
bank during the various times refer
red to in the complaint,' or between
| the years 1907 and 1909.
Book doctoring, fund juggling and
I various other charges are named in
! the complaint, it being alleged that
i Mr. Noyes, as a director of the bank,
knew that such were going on.
i The national banking law of the
i United States prohibits the loaning
of more than certain amounts to any
one person or firm. It also prohibits
branch banks. And the complaint
! charges, in effect, that S. A. Bonni
i field bank, of Dome City, and the
Bank of Cleary, both established in
the early days of this camp, were
blanch banks of the First National.
It is alleged that the First National
bank lost the sum of $25,722.27 by a
general juggling of accounts when
the S. A. Bonnifield bank at Dome
went out of business. There are two
causes of action in relation to the
Cleary bank, involving the sums of
j $5,627.93 and $7,168.22 respectively.
The other causes of action are for
! money loaned to various persons con
| trary to the national banking law.
And it is alleged that by loaning J.
W. Corson an amount of money ex
ceeding the legal limit the bank lost
$5,100.—Ex.
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Courtesy and Quality Our Motto
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 1.—
Wealth is a handicap to the college
student and the poor boy has the ad
vantage, according to Dr. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford
university, in a statement today.
As a consequence of this belief Dr.
Wilbur decreed that beginning this
year autos may not be owned by stu
dents; that too frequent dances, the
purchase of expensive flowers for co
eds and similar luxuries will be ban
ned.
I Dr. Wilbur is so convinced he is
i righ about thjs that he has sent a cir
; cular letter to students' parents say
j ing students with too much money are
! not desired at the school, if they are
| inclined to spend their time in the pur
I suit of pleasure.
The letter urges parents to refrain
j from too liberal allowances and warns
| them that as the number of entrants
: this year is limited, those students
! who fail to show they are doing hon
| est work will not be permitted to re
i main.
| Stanford does not particularly seek
j poor boys and discourage the entrance
I of the wealthy, Dr. Wilbur explains,
but experience has shown that the
j poor boy has, on the whole made a
j better record, both as a student and
afterwards. His appeal, Dr. Wilbur
says, is an endeavor to save the
wealthy lad from his own particular
dangers.
“It takes time to run an automobile
I and it often leads to life off the cam
pus, to extravagance and much fool
ishness,” says the letter, adding:
“There is plenty to do in the way of
variety right at the university, with
its swimming pools, athletic fields,
gymnasiums, beautiful walks and the
like. There is no need to go to San
Francisco more than once or twice a
semester and this trip can be conveni
ently and cheaply made by train.
There is no need to supply money for
orchids, for dance parties or for taxi
hire.
“The student who cannot be content
to lead the clean, simple, industrious
life expected on the Stanford campus
| should go elsewhere. If you do not
feel our idea of student self govern
ment is right and if . you do not feel
that it expresses the right attitude to
ward alcohol, hazing, self control, pay
ment of debts and things of that sort,
it would be better to keep your son or
daughter at home, or send them else
where. It will save them the trouble
that is almost sure to come sometime
in a four-year course and will give the
university more time to develop those
who have the disposition to conform.”
Real estate is at the bedrock price
today in Anchorage, the leading city
in point of growth, prosperity, natu
ral resources and population. Call at
the office of the Anchorage Realty to
day and look over our list of proper
ties where you can double your money
in less than one year. Office 235 4th
Ave. Phone 40-R. Emard and
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See the Thanksgiving special ad
vertisement of Felix Brown & Co.,
this paper. 33
SCIENTISTS SHOW HOW THEY
FRUSTRATED WAR SHORTAGE
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—How raw
materials from the big forests of the
southern states and from other parts
of the country are saving the United
States from “war shortage” of dyes,
acids, pulps and other materials, is
being shown at the national conven
tion of American scientists which
began here today. The American
Chemical, American Electro-Chemi
cal, Engineering Society of Chemical
Industry, and other scientific societies
with thousands of scientists for mem
bers, are meeting under Hie leader
ship of President Dr. Charles W.
Herty of the American society.
"Our exhibits here today,” said Dr.
Herty /‘show that the big timber re
gions of the south are being devel
oped to supply alcohol, dyes, acids
and paper pulps on a gigantic scale.
We have depended on Europe for
much'of these things heretofore, but
the development of our own natural
resources is merely a matter of
chemical engineering.
I “One exhibit shows we saved our
| selves from a return to gas lighting,
when Germany cut off our supply of
potash for glass making, by substi
tuting soda, of which we have plenty.
“We are showing how our scientists
and inventors have not only equalled
but excelled the heretofore unrivaled
Germans in the manufacture of deli
cate lenses, also how American-made
porcelain has been improved and is
better now than the exquisite import
ed porcelains ever were.
“The technical Association of Pulp
and Paper Industry will consider a
plan here to relieve the paper short
age by using Florida palmetto roots,
wood wasted in California and many
other raw material supplies through
out the country, including certain
grasses in the west and southwest, in
paper-making.”
HOLD EXAMINATIONS FOR
LUMBER COMMISSIONERSHIPS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Notice
that examination of applicants for po
sitions on the United States Commis
sion which will tour Europe at the
close of the war to investigate Euro
pean lumber markets, will be held
throughout the United States one
week hence, was given today by the
1 department of commerce.
Of the 150 applicants who took the
! first examination but three qualified.
Five more are needed. The tour is be
! ing arranged by the commerce depart
i ment in conjunction with the lumber
: dealers with a view to extending the
foreign lumber trade of the United
States.
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