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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1917)
THE SEMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. W WekDtpetrdpphe strongest gales, km blgMor Mid load she tarel We manRshtpNaricOrnade her great with e thisjfs 5iaiwe pu inkjde We lptrphatdeade the freight, the jas olfhcEw id to rideU IF qT of .waerLe) rft do her gunslhlL oCi fadhewaresl fj Shjtfujtipf tljjorjfbf Me worKingei;':aricF thelcdl!6h9- flag Isfitjirsl Satiw kdr ogeliyijcai across the main . " S iodieKfp gfoen, and born of tha wofKegsrain I ' -' THfelodVptibr 3fcK, the grain Fdolbttiing gSchlr the qsrriai-tnesea muBjsn i '' - - . i i i . i wnoiaianosarfc trie women i&K goods or gfolel, whatever she taKes to sea, The The shop' THE bin They For they But he toner's toff farme Bjf her hold, whatever her cargobo. E made ready the thing to go Pfe soil or the forge's lusty blowl - est on land7on-tnajand tne Dims are corn) the toiler'sihandr-they must taKe their wheat and corrti e, and serv&ig a mighty need T . M . . 9 f I s place is serving tne wona maeeai Douglas Malloch Copyright 1917 ' " " ' ' Trade Union Success In Effort to Shorten the Hours of Labor of By SAMUEL GOMPERS. President American Federation Labor. LABOR Day brings to the workers of America the right to cheer and confidence In the trade union movement. There havo been tests and crises that have proved Its fundamental principles; there have been opportunities that have tested Its practical efficiency. Through them all the trade union movement has made sure progress and gained In confident vision for the future. Every national and International, every local union affiliated to the American Federation of Labor has made definite progress In securing for its members greater advantages in 'thoso things which are fundamental of betterment In nil relations of life. There has been great progress in se curing the eight-hour day or the short er workday. The meaning of the vic tories can be interpreted only In the light of full understanding of the meaning of the eight-hour day. The shorter workday is something moro thari an economic demand. It Is u de mand for opportunity for rest, recu peration and development; things which make'llfe more than mechanical drudgery. The workers whose whole periods ore short are essentially different from those who are so worn by toll that they have neither energy nor mind for other things in life. They become more energetic, more resourceful work era with keener mentality and greater TfcANK.A. VANDRLlP United States Has Well Been Designated Nation of Workers Mi producing power. It inevitably follows that the short-hour workers are the best paid workers. With every reduc tion In hours there Is always a corre sponding Increase In wages. Wherever demands for the shorter workday and higher wages have been presented und arged by organized workers during the last year they have met with success. Shortening the period of work lengthens the period of development, and for ull of the other activities that belong to the normul Individual. In creases In wages give the workers the means for taking advantage of the in creased opportunities of the shorter workday.' The workers of short hours and better wages become very differ ent citizens from those who are so ex hausted by the dally grind that they have neither the time nor the energy for thought or aspiration. These gains mean better homes, better food, better .clothing; time and opportunity for the cultivation of the best and the highest that Is possible to man. EN of labor came to America the Mayflower. A printer and a carpenter signed the Declaration of Independence. George Washington wns a surveyor at one time In his llfq. Lincoln worked as n day laborer. Andrew Johnson was n tailor. William Howard Taft, after leaving college, was n newspaper reporter at 0 a week. The United States Is a nation of workers. Labor day, consequently, is, not for any clnss but for Americans in mass. Frank A. Vanderllp, president of the National City bank, Is by trade a ma chinist. Ills father was an Illinois furmcr "a specialist In cows," the son explained. On the death of the father the family moved Into town. "I found employment," Mr. Vander llp said, "In a shop where wood work ing machinery was manufactured. I was sixteen and my wages were 70 cents a day. By and by I' got a lathe of my own. I would bo foreman some day, f was told, and earn $21 n week. I thought I could do better. So I learned stenography and later took up the study of bonds." William H. Cannlff, president of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis rail road, was a telegraph operator In Michigan whdh ho was seventeen. The attorney general in President Taft's cabinet, George W. WIckershara, also was a telegraph operator, as was Theo dore N. Vail, head of the Bell telephone Interests. A section hand In-1809, shoveling and tamping on the tracks, William C. Brown, then sixteen years old, fought his way upward until lie became presi dent of the New York Central lines. "My daily wages at the time?" he repeated. "Figure them out for your self. My envelope contained $27.50 at the end of the month whciuthe pay car came down the line." Ills suc cessor, Albert II. Smith, was a tall road laborer ns n young man. Judge Robert S. Lovett, president of the Union Pacific, dug stumps and cut brush on the right of way on a little line In Texas and drove a team of mules when the grndlng began. Ben jamin F. Yoakum operated a scraper In the Southwest on a road In its build ing, and became a brakeman when the road was put into operation. Organized Labor in Fight to Put End to Industrial Wastage By FRANK L. MORRISON, Secretary American' Federation of Labor. TT IS Impossible to record funda mental gains during tho past year I because of organized labor's nglta tlon or to Individualize probable gains during the year to come. Tho best we can do is to observe tenden ccs. Prominent among these is tho workers' seizure of the cry fpr "pre paredness" to emphasize a danger in Industry more deadly than battlefields. Government statistics show that SO,' 000 men are annually killed and 700,- 000 are annually Injured for a perfod of four weeks or over. It has been stated that every year there are over 3,000,000 cases of In-, dustrlnl Illness, caused mainly by long hours, low wages, dust, bad air, fumes, Emoke, poisonings and poor ventilation, and that through typhoid fever and malaria alone $000,000,000 is annually lost to this nation. Enough to equip the largest army" and navy In tho world, and then have n balance suffi cient to pay jtlie tuition of every boy now In college. A system of national preparedness that does not Include recognition' of tthls frightful and preventable wastago Is the preparedness urged by big busi ness. Another element among employers who talk of tho scarcity of labor does so to entice a sufficient number of IcJlo workers to their factory gates as a menace to those employed and who are Every day Is labor's- day. Every man worth while Is a laborer. Universal mocracy. labor Is the lever of de- liable to demand better conditions. These employers oppose restriction of Immigration because restriction will defeat their policy of having two or more men for every Job". Another tendency Is the growing op position to labor injunctions, which class labor power us property. Tho congress of the United States has voiced this opposition In amendments to the antitrust laws. Judicial inter pretations of the term "property" in the fourteenth amendment to the fed eral constitution are losing their force What was originally Intended to end slavery has been used to thwart the enactment of social legislation, but courts have failed to check tho swell ing tide of democracy. The trade union igoveraent is, con scious of the, part it has played In tho tendencies above referred to and this consciousness will be an Inspiration to creater effort during the coming yeur 1 -King Ferdinand of Roumunln reviewing a brigade of his reorganized forces, Working on if big torpedo lor "... ... ..... .... . ii , i.... i. m.. nn American battleship on one of the barges on witlcn tm projocuiex nro hhkciiiuicu. iov pnuiuKnnni ul Gon. William A. Munn. who will command the Forty-second division, soon to be sent to France. , SCENE DURING FOOD RIOTS IN AMSTERDAM Uiitth troops guarding the palace at Amsterdam during tho serious food rlotH that look plaeo theru and In many towns of Holland. , , BROTHERS DIVIDED BY THE WAR UNIVERSITY DEAN OF WOMEN' ngh the the These are two sons of Mine. Schumiiun-Hcluk, tho prima donna, who ure ting' itga!nst each other In the war. August, on the right, Is serving In German navy, and Henry, on tho leftf.has enlisted In tho nayal forces of United States. ' MOTHER, SHIP FOR SUBMARINES Dr. Aristlne P. Munn Recht, daugh ter of Dr. John T. Munn,, president of the United States Insurance company has been appointed first dean of wom en of New York university. Doctor Recht Is a graduate of Bryn Mnwr, 1000, and of John Hopkins, 1013. BAER IN "RUBE" MAKEUP tTA .' ''fill m ifher hhlp for German huIiiiiuiuk'i 1 ' TIiIh picture of .1, M. Uaer In "rubo" I makeup was circulated all over tho. . First district of North Dakota us u ciinipnlgii document for Mr. Bner'a race for congress.