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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY MAY IS, 1U10
VOL. XLVII 2CO. 7
STRIKERS
WERE HERE
Havelock Delegation Was
Sent to Stir up Trouble
at Shops.
ORDERED A STRIKE BUT
NONE WOULD QUIT WORK
Reteurn for More Men and Citi
zens of Plattsmouth are
Aroused by Action
It seems to be time the respectable
itizc'ns of Plattsmouth were joining
with the Burlington Einoycos in
the city in doing away with the strike
clouds that have been hovering around
the shops the last two days in the form
of three Havelock strikers who were
sent down here to declare a strike, call
out the men and, in short, do all they
could to injure the shops at Platts
mouth. It is a fact. Three union lead
ers who are among the foremost pro
moters of the strike at Havelock ar
rived in town night before last and pro
ceeded to stir up the strike agitation
among the good Burlington men by
holding meetings, interviewing the
men on their way to and from work,
showing them accounts, which could
not be proven, of all the men being
out cast of the river, and lastly by
calling a strike of uic organized men
ut nine o'clock yescerdaay morning.
These men have no right to conic
into our city and attempt to stir up
strife and disorder among the men at
the shops who arc perfectly satisfied
with all the conditions of their work,
having no complaint to make on their
wages and hours and have the best
foremen and managers in the United
.States. The Havelock delegation
made strenuous efforts to formjan or
ganization here of the hundreds of
men who arc not union members in
order that they could call them out
and thereby help their cause in Have
lock. The strikers may be justified
in throwing down their tools at Have
lock, the News is not sufficiently in
formed of the conditions at that place
to make any statement in that regard
but it is certain that they are not
justified in coming to a town where the
best of relations exist between capital
and labor and trying to upset the har
monious feeling of the men, and the
citizens of Plattsmouth will not stand
for any such action .
Now what care the Havelock men
about the welfare of this city? What
benefitting results of a strike could they
possibly show for Plattsmouth? Where
would the condition of the
Plattsmouth employees in any way
be bettered by a sympathetic strike
for the pleasure of a bunch of dis
satisfied men down at Havelock?
Every man in employment here is
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contented and why should they be
asked to come out and not only in
jure themselves but the city as well
in order to make some of the shop.mcn
many miles away feel that they have
got things going their own way? It
is like the school boy who is not
able to fight his own battle an?! calls
all the other kids in the school out
in the street to help, with the result
that every lad in town gets a black eye
and swallows teeth before the trouble
is settled. The shop men of this place
have always had the best of treatment
and have never found it necessary to
organize in order to get a square deal
from their employers. If there was any
possibility of their getting better
treatment by uniting their forces,
they would have introduced the
union years ago. At present there
arc but three union men in the plant
and they are so perfectly satisfied
with the existing conditions they re
fuse to lay down their tools, as the
Havelock men ordered them to do
yesterday.
After the visiting delegation had
been in the city over night and had
made many attempts to stir up the
men by meetings and personal inter
views. After they had told the men
that every man was out east of the
river, which Mr. Baird showed by his
daily report to be untrue, the trio
of strikers ordered a strike on at the
Plattsmouth plant, to go into effect
yesterday morning at nine o'clock.
The visitors hung around the yard
gate with enticing persuasions for the
men at work after ten o'clock, but
not a man left his post and all day they
kept busy at their work without a
sign of quitting. They are satisfied
and the Plattsmouth people must see
that they are not aggravated by the
strikers who are trying to make a dis
astrous upheaval among the peace
ful workers and citizens of Plattsmouth
The visitors realized that it was a
hopeless task to get any results with
their small body of men and returned
to Havelock today to recruit their
forces and make another attempt
within a few days.
Now it is up to Plattsmouth citi
zens to sec 'that the dove of peace is
not scared from her roost on the
Burlington fence. The strike at Have
lock is really giving Plattsmouth an
other boost. The boiler work is grad
ually coming back to the city. On the
first of this week a large welding ma
chine was moved back to it's former
station in the shops after being located
a few years at Havelock. Mr. Baird
is working, under the instructions to
employ all the men he can use in that
department and he is certain that
much additional work will be brought
here from now on.
"This strike is teaeYmg the Burling
ton something" said .Superintendent
Baird this morning, "the company
will never put so many of its eggs in j
one basket again and I am confident
that Plattsmouth will regain much
of the boiler and machinist work that
she lost a few years ago." This is
good news for the ' city and things
to this effect have been heard for some
time, but coming from the high
authority of the shops, there can be
no doubt but what it is the absolute
truth. But in order to insure the
prosperity which is due to continue
in this city, Plattsmouth must make it
her business to sec that no foreign
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THE HOUSE
THE RAILROAD BILL
All Republican Members and a Few
Democrats Vote
PRESIDENT
TAFT
Clark Enters Into an Explanation of the Minority
Position and
WASHINGTON, May 10. With
out a single dissenting republican
vote the house today passed the rail
road bill, one of the chief measures
that President Taft wished enacted
at the presnt session of congress, by
a vote of 200 to 12G. Fourteen dem
ocrats joined the majority.
President Taft siiid tonight that he
was deeply gratified over the passage
of the measure. Referring to the clause
providing for the physical valuation
of railroads Mr. Taft pointed out that
that power practically now rests
with the interstate commerce Commis
sion and that the difficulty in carrying
out such a plan has already been found
in the enormous cost of the undertak
ing. When all the amendment adopted
by the house, while in committee of
the whole, had been agreed upon Mr.
Adamson of Georgia, democratic mem
ber of the minority oil the committee
reporting the bill, moved to recommit
to the committee wth instructions
that it be reported back with the com
merce court clause sttieken out. This
motion was defeated 157 to l7.
The bill makes many changes in the
existing law, that, if accepted by the
senate, will greatly affect interstate
commerce. The court of commerce
is created to adjudicate eases on apeal
from the interstate commerce com
mission. It is provided that this
court shall be organized by the jus
tices of the supreme court of the United
states, future appointments to mem
bership ou the court to be made by
them.
Stock and bond issues of railroads
are controlled by the bill. Under this
clause a railroad, before issueing any
additional stock- must obtain an or
der form the commission which must
among other things, fix the price at
which the securities of the road may be
sold. A similiar provision is carried
in respect to railroads which are or
ganized through the courts. A pro
vision is made that upon the re-organization
of a railroad through court
proceedings, stocks and bonds cannot
be issued for more than a fair value of
the property.
The long and short haul clause of
the measure provides that a railroad
cannot, without first gaining per
mission, charge more for a short than
for a long haul over the same line.
The interstate commerce commis
sion also is given authority whenever
a new rate is proposed, to suspend the
taking effect, of that rate for a period
of four months so that the commission
shall have an opportunity to consider
its reasonableness.
As amended the bill proposes to
bring the telephone and telegraph
companies under the control of the
parties, with no interests of her wel
fare at heart, come within her limits
and attempt to stir up a feeling of
dissatisfaction and strife among her
ranks of citizens who nre attending
strictly to their own business and ask
ing no one to assist them in doing so.
Let's see that these trouble makers
arc not allowed to settle in Plattsmouth
PASSES
for the Measure.
GREATLY PLEASED
is Happy.
interstate commerce commission. It
provides for the valuation of rail
road property as an aid to the commis
8ion in the consideration of railroad
rates.
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me oiii gives 10 tnc commission
authority over classifications, rcgu
lations and practices of railroads, its
authority at the present time being
limited to rates and matters affect
ing rates.
Under its terms a railroad company
must quote a treiglit rate accurately
upon demand of a shipper and the
shipper is given the right to route his
freight, whenever it passes over more
than one railroad. The commission
itself is authorized to establish through
routes by combining different rail
road systems at its discretion, where as
under the present law it cannot make
a new through rate if such a route is
already established.
Severe penalties arc provided against
shippers who through false claims
for damages or loss of property, ob
tain secret rebates.
Speaking of the bill as it passed the
house today Mr. Mann, chairman
of the committee on interstate and
foreign commerce, said:
Under the existing conditions,
through the non-observance of the
existing long and short haul clause, a
very large proportion of the freight
of the country is carried by the long
distance around instead of being car
ried by the more direct route. This
causes a much greater expense
to the railroad for transmutation
off reight than is necessary and it of
ten happens that two railroads each
will be carrying a large amount of
freight by the long distance between
two points, whereas if compelled to
cease doing that each would carry
the same amount of freight by tho
most direct route and be able to save
expense and reduce railroad rates,"
Champ Clark, leader of the demo
cratic minority, explaining the demo
cratic course in opposing the bill on
final vote, said:
"The democrats who voted against
the bill did so because they considered
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mat mere were more oau leatures
in the bill than there were gooif ones
When it was first brought into the
house, it was a railroad bill, pure and
simple. It was drawn in their interests.
Not a railroad lobbyist appeared
around the halls of congress in oppo
sition to this bill, which speaks more
eloquently than' many volumes coul
do that railroads were in favor of this
legislation. Every amendment adopt
ed in the house helped the bill, but
there were not enough of them. liar
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t lie court oi commerce leature and
sonic parts of sections 13, 14 and 15
been stricken out I would have votei
for the bill." .
Sokols Have Farewell Tarty.
The T. J. iSokols gave a jolly farewe
party last evening at their hall, for
Joseph Kohoutek ami family who
were to leave the city todav to make
their home in Denver. Mr. Kouhouu
is one 'of the old members of the or
ganization, having lived all his 1 if
in the city and for years having been a
prominent member of the Sokols.
It was with deep regret that his fel
low brothers bid him farewell last night
and wished him success in his new
field. He has been offered a good
position at Denver where ho will
work at his trade of blacksmithing,
which he learned at the Burlington
shops in this city. He was employed
by the railroad in that department
for many years but he lias been offered
a more promising proposition in the
western town.
The par.y last evening was largely
attended by the bokol members and
families who tripped the fantastic
on the fine floor until the roosters
crowed in the morning. At about
eleven o'clock the crowd was served
with tempting refreshments and the
entire session was a continual round of
pleasure with the exception of the
farewell words to Mr. Kohoutek and
family.
RAINS SOAK INTERIOR
OF OLD COUNTY .
JAIL
New Building Is Only Reasonable
Remedy for Shack Is Near
ly Beyond Repair.
Again the fact has been brought out
that Cass county must have a new jail
if they want the inmates of the place
alive long enough to give them a fair
trial. The last rain penetrated the
old roof as though it were asievc and
the water has run through the build
ing from the ceiling on the second
story to the floor of the basement.
It is holding the water in it's old brick
and wooden walls like a sponge and
it is a wonder that the people in
it's confinement have not died of! with
pneumonia already. The county com
missioners were out today trying to
locate a carpenter to repair the roof,
but they are as scarce as the dry Bpots
in the building itself. It will cost the
county about 8150 to make the old
shack shed water, but it is a poor in
vestment to spend ten cents on the
ruin, for what the county needs is
a new building. The most profitable
way to deal with the old structure
would be to put a stick of dynamite
under it and sell the pile of scrap to
the junk man. What's the use of
putting money into a structure that
rocks in every wind storm until the
jailer has to sleep in a hammock to
keep from being pitched to the floor,
and every time it rains tliey catch
enough soft water in the parlor jar
dinier to wash with for a weeks Let's
get a new jail.
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Large Showing of New Straw Hats Ready Now.
The Home of Hart SchalTner & Marx clothes
Manhattan Shirts Stetson Hats
WIN DEBATE
AT WAH00
Plattsmouth High School
Team Takes Contest
Last Night.
GIVES THE LOCAL TRIO
DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP
Miss Marie Douglass Named by
Judges as Best Speaker
at the Meet
(From Wednesday's DalyJ
The riattsmouth High nClioot'de
bating team camo home this morning
from Wahoo with flying coloraTiaving
won the debato at that city laqt night,
thereby giving tho district clfampi5u
ship over Wahoo, Fremont, South
Omaha, Weeping Water, Blair, Davis
City nnd aeward. The team were
awarded the contest by a decision of
two to one, receiving tho first adverso
vote of the season. It is a remarkablo
trio, consisting of Miss Lucilc Gass,
Mario Douglass and John Falter.
They are all talented speakers and their
work is far above the ordinary, which
is generally found in high schools.
In every debate of the year they have
clearly outclassed their opponents in
every phase of the game. Iulast
night's debate they met a team con
sisting of three young ladies, Misses
Mildred Pickett, Lolla Gilillan and
Elouise Gilchrist, who spoke, in the
order named above.. Tlikl'lattsmouth
speakers upheld the affirmative of the
question, "Resolved, thfiluboruniona
are, on the whole, benVfloial." They
opened with a strong analysis of the
question by Miss Gass, who's fine de
livery gave the Plattsmouth dele
gation confidence of success from tho
the start. The second speaker on the
affirmative was John Falter who
brought out some of the main argu
ments in a very satisfactory manner,
expressing many points of the question
which the negative were not ablo to
successfully tear down. Miss Doug
lass closed the main argument for the
visitors and proved with her skillful
delivery and sound logic many point9
Continued on page 8.
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E have sold more
suits so far this spring
than we had expected to.
Considerable more than we
sold during the same period
last spring.
This is evidence to us that
our methods are making good.
"Giving values," is our
"hobby," selling you a better
suit for $15 or $25 than you
can get for the same amount
elsewhere. Making sure of
your future business, by liv
ing up to our "Value giving"
reputation.
We just received a ship
ment of new tans and browns
from Hart Schaltner & Marx.
They're all-wool, perfectly
tailored young men's models.
We'll show you gladly.
h. s. &. M. SUITS
$20 to $30
OTHERS
$10
and upward
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