THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918.
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PACKERS BOYCOTT UNION
WORKERS. DECLARES BUTCHER
Witnes In Wage Hearing Says Men Are Supplanted With
Women Who Are Paid Smaller Money;
Negroes Brought From South to
Work In Plants.
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, Feb. 15. Timothy A. McCreash of Kansas City,
an organizer for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' and Butchers'
union suice June and previously employed by the large packers
in various cities, criticised the stock yards firms for their oppo
sition to organized labor and described conditions he had found
in the plants in testifying today before Federal Judge Samuel
Alschuler in the wage arbitration.
URGES 8-HOUR DAY. 0
He urged the adoption of tn eight-
hour working day and equal pay for
men and women performing the same
' service.
The witness said he had been a
packing house butcher for 23 years
but since 1904 the packers had re
fused to give him4 steady employment
because of his activity in the labor
movement ' '
He said hundreds of union men had
been similarly discriminated against.
He said he had organized the skilled
workers in the packing plants at Kan
sas Gty, Kan., Sioux City la., Den
ver and St. Joseph, Mo., but declared
that-the packers had declined to deal
with union officials.
Supplant Men With Women.
The witness said that in the past
two years the packers in Sioux City
and Kansas City, Kan., had supplant
ed men with women m hundreds of
positions. The women employed in
most instances, he said, are negroes
nd are receiving 20 to 22 cents an
houj while the men who formerly
did the work received 26 and llYt
cents an hour. The women he said
were employed as meat trimmers and
in certain sections of the killing de
partment He ridiculed the welfare
work done in the packing plants.
He said the packers did not give
their employes a raise in wages from
the strike in 1904 until 1916. Since
then three increases were allowed but
increase Jn the cost of living had
more than offset them, he claimed.
In 1904 the butchers had a rule, he
said, that the skinning of 15 carcasses
constituted a day's work. Now he
declared, packers required their men
to skin 20 to 25 carsasses a day. He
considered the skinning of 15 animals
a fair day's work. -
Empty Pail Makers.
I To get more work out of the men
the packers have a system of employ
ing a few pace makers, or rushers as
they are called in each department,
who do more work than the, others
to speed tip the gang," said the
witness. "They receive a few dollars
more a week than the rest When
the war started, and the packers were
prohibited from getting men from
central Europe, they went south and
started bringing negroes dp north to
work in their plants," t
William Z. Foster, an organizer for
the American Federation of Labor,
testified that the most of the mem
bers of the stock yards plants who had
joined the labor unions were foreign
born and unable to speak English.
He said the negroes and others who
spoke English declined to join the
union in large numbers.
Half a dozen employes of the
Chicago packers testified to working
conditions and wages and saidt that
men with large families were unable
to live decently on the wages paid.
The hearing may continue longer
than at first planned as. Judge Alsc
huler announced today that he wanted
to hear all the testimony either side
has to offer.
Judge Alschuler accompanied by
two representatives from each side
will visit the stock yards tomorrow
to familiarize himself with artual con
ditions. x
Third State Bank of
Wood Lake in Liquidation
Lincoln, Feb. 15. (Special.) The
Third State bank of Wood Lake, a
little town in Cherry county, has gone
into voluntary liquidation, according
to a notice received by the state bank
ing board today.1
The town has a population of about
300 and has three banks. The bank
, was incorporated a few years ago with
a capital of $15,000 with J. C Apple
gate and L. R. Applegate president
and cashier. respectively. There is no
apprehension on the part of the state
banking board that there will be any
difficulty in the bank going out of
business as the assets are listed at
$87,894 while the deposits are $66,000.
Most of the assets are good. An
inspector will be sent to look over
the situation. n.
Health of Soldiers in
Camps Show Improvement
Washington, Feb. 15. Continued
improvement,. in health conditions at
all army camps and cantonments is
noted in the War deoartment sum
mary for the week ending February
8, made public tonight.
The hospital admission rate de
creased from the preceding week,
while the death rate, although slight
ly higher than the preceding week,
was well below the average for the
last two months.
Mumps and pneumonia continue to
decrease, while scarlet fever and men
ingitis showed slight increases.
Latest "Movies" to
Regale Sammies
New York. Feb. 15. The motion
picture films of many producers
are to be placed at the govern
ment's disposal for the benefit of
the soldiers and sailors in serv
ice at home and abroad.
This announcement was made
here today by P. A. Powers, who
has been appointed by the War
department chairman of a com
mittee, representing the motion
picture industry,- which will co
operate with Raymond B. Fosdick,
chairman of the committee on
training camp activities of the
War and Navy departments.
The latest and best photo plays
of all the principal companies will
be shown at the various camps and
training stations, Mr. Powers said.
With him on the picture industry
committee are D. W. Griffith,
Adolph Zukor, T. A. Berst, William
Fox, George Kleine, Samuel Gold
fish and others. '
GERMANS HAIL
WILSON'S SPEECH
AS- PEACE MOVE
Teuton Press Says President
Makes Honest Endeavor To
ward War's End; Not True
of Lloyd George.
(Br Associated PrMi.)
Amsterdam, Feb. 15. Of the Ger
man newspapers the Berlin Tageblatt,
the Vossische Zeitung, Vorwaerts, the
Lokal Anzeiger, the Frankfurter Zei
tung, the Kolrfische Zeitung and the
Weser Zeitung of Bremen, have printed
President Wilson's address in full.
The Kolnische Volks Zeitung, the
Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung and
the Dusseldorf Nachrichten have
printed abridged versions.
The Kolnische Volks Zeitung ad
dresses to President Wislon a wordy
editorial longer than the summary of
his speech which it prints. The edi
torial admits that the president shows
an honest endeavor toward peace, but
it regrets it is not a just peace.
The Frankfurter Zeitung says:
Not Warlike Speech.
"President Wilson's latest speech is
not a warlike speech. It is more than
its predecessors, namely, a speech
striving to work in the interests of
peace. The sole purpose of its warlike
phrases is to emphasize the strength
of unconquered America and add
weight to its voice in the concert of
nations.
"The principles summed up by
President Wilson under four heads
are so vague that hardly any power
need oppose them, but the speeches of
Lloyd George and Asquith have re
vealed anew that the entente itself
is still unable to find the courage
for a peace by a compromise agree
ment The view of the understanding
expressed by President Wilson is
shared bj the Reichstag majority,
which would today be still stronger
in its attitude if not only President
Wilson but the other entente states
men would also show their practical
readiness for such a peace.
"If Mr. Wilson is able to bring his
influence to bear in this direction he
should do so immediately. The less
time lost in ending this terrible war,
the justification for which is long
since out of date, the better it will
be for the present and future generations."
YOUNG CAPTAIN1 TO COM
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; News Notes of Capital
j (From SUff Correspondent.)
i Lincoln, reb. 15. (Special.) CsrUflcstes
' have Just been Issued to 49 nurses by the
j state nurae't examining board at the atate
hoiiae. Over one-half of tnese have made
' application for Bed Crow sorvlcs.
I Application coming to the stats bureau
; of labor for experienced single men to work
on the farina of the atate exceed the sup-
ply of men needed to flit the demand. The
,i bureau appears to have plenty of married
men. but most of the demand just now
appears ts be for those who are not tn
i Joying the blessing of donnublal conju
! gality.
! Company H and the headquarters com
pany, of the late lamented Seventh, regi
ment, the Lincoln contingent of that or
ganisation, flnda Itself with ISSe.SO surplus
funds derived mostly from the lectures of
i . Sergeant Hanley. It has been decided to
. send the , money to Camp Pnnston to help
j equip the Nebraska building, preferably for
' the purchase of a motion picture machine
it on la needed.
Governor Neville today received word from
: fete agents at Grand Island that a large
amount of boose bad been aeised. Another
message from vBenksImao road: "Ten per
sons arrested for drinking, gambling and
having liquor unlawfully tn their possession.
7 jTepnty Bhertn cooper was on el the party,
' Case set lor February is."
SAMMIES AID
P0ILUSINBIG
TEUTON RAID
(By Associated Press.)
Grand Headquarters of the
French Army in France, Feb. IS.:
The American artillery took a
brilliant part in an important
French raid yesterday between Ta
hure and the Butte Du Mesnil, in
the Champagne; participating in
the preliminary bombardment and
the ensuing barrage fire while the
operation was being successfully
executed.
The assaulting troops brought
back 160 prisoners and they es
tablished themselves in, German
positions to a depth of three
quarters of a mile along a front
of nearly a mile.
The task of the assaulting forces
was to attack and take a German
salient dipping into the French po
sition. It was a difficult operation
owing to the nature of the ground
which formed a basin-like depres
sion, into which the Germans
could pour the fire of their con
centrated guns on the surrounding
heights.
The artillery preparation lasted
six hours. At 4:15 in the afternoon
the order was given to the in
fantry units to go over the top.
With the help of the courageous
grenadiers these positions were
stormed and destroyed and their
occupant were either killed or
captured. By 5:15 o'clock rockets
announced that all the objectives
bad been gained.
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UNITED PARTY BACK
OF CHAIRMAN HAYS
Republican Leaders Confer
With New Leader En Route
Home From Meeting at
St. Louis.
Captain Norman S. Winskill will
take, command of one of the new
merchant ships now being built for
Uncle Sam at an Atlantic shipyard.
Captain Winskill, who is only 27 years
old, has the honor 6f Being the young
est captain on the Atlantic ocean. He
has been following the sea since he
was knee high and has worked his
way through the various grades from
mess boy to captain.
LookinK for work? Turn to the
Help Wanted Columns now. You
will find hundreds of positions listed
there.
(By Associated Press.)
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. IS. Mem
bers of the republican national com
mittee stopped for a few hours to
day while returning from the conven
tion at St. Louis for a conference with
Will H. Hays, new chairman of the
committee. ,
They were John T. King of Con
necticut, A. T. Hert of Kentucky and
James A. Hemenway of Indiana. Sena
tor Penrose of "Pennsylvania passed
through late this afternoon and was
joined by Mr. King.
Chairman Hays today received hun
dreds of telegrams of congratulation
from all parts of the country. Among
them was one from Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, which read:
"Your election means more to the
country and theepublican party than
anything else at this time could have
meant"
. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
also sent a telegram of congratula
tions. At a luncheon today, attended-by
the national committeemen, Governor
Goodrich and otHer state republican
leaders, Chairman Hays expressed his
gratitude for the help of his friends
at St Louis and reiterated his de
termination to deal on the same terms
with all representatives of his party.
He declared that he did not believe
the national organization should sup
port any candidate for the presidential
nomination.
Brie) City News
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Have Boot Print It Nsw Beacon Presa.
Lighting Fixtures. Burgess-Granden.
Acreage In City, 1450 Up Get a
garden quick. Doug. 2947.
Robt. C. Druesedow & Co., stocks
and bonds and local securities, 860
Omaha Nat. Bank "Blig.
Lectures On Belgium Madam 1 De
Hahn lectured Thursday night at the
Lincoln school on .conditions in Bel
gium. Thrift Is the spur prudence works
In youth for prosperity in age. Ne
braska Savings & Loan Ass'n shows
the way. 211 S. 18th St
Brotherhood to ' Entertain The
Methodist brotherhood of Benson will
give a "Father and Son" banquet at
7:30 tonight in the church basement.
Woodrough to Kansas City Fed
eral Judge Woodrough will preside in
federal court at Kansas City, Mo., next
week, and the following week at Min
neapolis. Have Your Automobile radiators
filled with Ar-Ra-Wa at Blblers gar
age, 1116 Dodge or Bain Bros., 2622
North Sixteenth street; no more harm
ful to metal than water and will
not freeze 60 degrefcs below zero.
State Bank of Omaha, corner Six
teenth and Harney streets, pays 4 per
cent on time deposits; 3 per cent
on savings accounts. All deposits in
this bank are protected by the de
positors' guarantee fund of the state
of Nebraska. Adv
The War Tax Service bureau will
help you solve your income tax prob
lems, and prepare your return upon
which you are assessed. You may he
entitled to exemptions and deductions
of which you are not aware. 805 Oma
ha National Bank Bldg., Tyler 320.
Hammond to Lecture The Trav
elers' Protective association, Post A,
Omaha, will hear Ross L. Hammond
of Fremont Saturday night at the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce in his
lecture on conditions on the "French
front, which he visited some months
ago in company with a congressional
committee.
Fine flreph.ee goods at Sunderlands.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
Urge Convict Labor
To Improve Highways
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. IS. The ex
ecutive committee of the American
Association of State Highway offi
cials met here today to discuss a
program of road building and
maintenanc 'as a means of assist
ing in the successful prosecution
of the war.
Director General McAdoo
promised the railroad administra
tion would co-operate by transport
ing as promptly as possible ma
terials for construction of national
highways, designated by the Agri
cultural department as of military
or economic necessity.
A joint resolution, pending in
the house, authorizing the secretary
of war to employ interned prison
ers as agricultural laborers or on
public highways, was approved by
the highway officials, who said the
problem of labor for road work
will virtually be solved if the gov
ernment authorizes the employ
ment of convict labor.
Kennedy Urges Consumers to
Store Coal During Summer
Store coal in the summer time!
Doubtless a great -many domestic
consumers have been making up their
minds to take precautions not to be
caught short of fuel next winter, but
John L. Kennedy, state fuel admin
istrator for Nebraska, was first to
give the slogan actual voice.
With the fuel administrators of
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas
and Oklahoma, Mr. Kennedy sent a
telegram to Federal Fuel Adminis
trator Garfield recommending the
summer shipment and storage of coal
for next season, so that consumers
may have at least half of next win
ter's supply on hand by September
1. It is urged in favor of this agita
tion that it would be sure to keep the
mines in operation duringthc summer
LUMBER YARD
BURNS; BLAST
BEFORE BLAZE
Fire partially destroyed the tnlH
house and sheds of the Farmers Lum
ber company, Twenty-fourth street
and the Belt line, last night
Definite estimate of the loss could
not be obtained, but officials of the
company stated that it would be
heavy, as large quantities of hardwood
flooring were stored in the sheds, and
would be a total loss.
George Lindsey, 2418 Sahler street,
who discovered the fire and turned in
thf alarm, asserted the blaze was ore
ceded by a loud explosion, following
which a shatt ot name leaped irom
the roof.
Official of the. romDanv were at a
loss to account for the explosion and
their only theory was that tne turnace
in the basement had became over
heated. The building is a one-story
frame structure and extends for more
than a block immediately behind the
office.
Bessie Welty of Gresham
Marries Dr. John- L. Limn
Miss Bessie Welty xf Gresham,
Neb., was married to Dr. John L.
Limn at the home of the officiating
minister, Dr. A. F. Ernst of the Lowe
Avenue Presbyterian church, at 6
o'clock Thursday night.
Airs. Limn was graduated from the
Methodist hospital school for nurses
in this city. Dr. Limn is a member
o: the medical reserve corps and ex
pects to be called for service within
a few days. .
Dr. Limn resides with his sister,
VJro Jo Limn, 'at 408 North Thirty
ninth street.
and it would put the burden of
transportation on the railroads at a
time when they are the best able to
bear it.
End-off-the-Season Sale
Is an invitation to every man and young man to purchase
while we are offering our entire stock of Winter Wearing
. Apparel, consisting of
Heavy and Medium Weight Suits and Overcoats
Trousers, Work and Dress Shirts, SweatersShoes; Hats
At a Reduction Off Former Prices of From
25 TO 50 PER CENT
Think of the Saving! You'll be Money Ahead if You
BUY NOW FOR NEXT WINTER
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MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS
$12.50-$13.50 Values now
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$22.50 Values now
$15 and $16.50 Values now I $18 and $20.00 Values now
$ SO $ S)
$25.00 Values now $30.00 Values now
$ ? SO $ (p)SO.
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Men's Furnishings
With prices ever on the increase, and the end appar
ently not in sight, you shonld buy those extra
SHIRTS, UNDERWEAR AND
NIGHT GOWNS
you need while prices like the following are being made
Men's Shirts Guaranteed fast
colors, laundered cuffs, shirts
that we have been selling for
$1.00; next year's prlce'no doubt
will be $1.50, at our f f
End-of,-the - Season fl rii
Sale to be had for...
Men's Cotton Bibbed Union
Suits In medium and heavy
weights, our regular $1.50 val
ues, next year you'll see these
same suits selling for $2.50; at
our End-of-the-Sea- fC
son Sale Price, Mrta
yours, at
50c Neckwear now Only
Or 3 Ties for 1.00.' This is the time
when you should lay in your Ties for the
entire year at this price.
$1.25 - mJ M
II wmMffl3tta Price
I CLOTMING COMPACT
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Men's Sight Shirts Made extra
large; our regular $1.50 values.
This is our call at , r(
our End-of-the-Sea-son
Sale Price of.... ''K
Men's $2.50 Flannel Shirts In
grays, blues and stripes, as well
as tans. End-of-the-Seaaon
Sale
Price, only
Men's Negligee Shirts Our reg
ular $1.50 values, come in all
sizes and in many beautiful pat
terns. nor offered
at our End-of-the- M rC
Season Sale Price.... v w
Greater Now are the
Values in TROUSERS
Tou can get double the wear of yourclothes with an
Extra Pair of Trousers. Nowhere can you find values the
equal of these.
How's This Men's Working Pants, made t 4
of good, heavy materials, values up to $2.50, I A
End-of-the-Season Sale Price r JL
Here's Another Men's Fancy Worsted Trousers
suiiame ior Dotn areas aud work
substantially tailored. Values up to $3.50;
End-of-the-Season Sale Price
Men's Cashmere and Worsted Trousers there are
upwarua 01 aw pairs in tnis group
vaiues up to fi.ttv; Ena-01-the-Season
Sale Price
$1.98
iers there are
$2.48
Fancy Worsted, Woo! and Serge Trousers many ais-
viucl ana muiviuuai
'to $5.50;
patterns values
End-of-the-Season Sale
$2.98
Men's Serge and Fancy Worsted Trousers These are dis-
uacuy a aress pani an sizes ana tney
are from our stock of regular $7.00 to $7.50
values; End-of-the-Season Sale Price..
$3.48
$2.98, $3.48, $4.48
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Boys' Suits and Overcoats
Think what little money it 'requires at this sale
to keep your boy well clothed. There are suits
here in all wanted materials and in any number
of styles all well tailored suits that will eive
the lads splendid wear.
Bring him to the store tomorrow and let us fit
him to a sew suit and coat.
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