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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918.
ASK 8 HOUR DAY
POSTPONED TILL
AFTER WAR OVER
John O'Hern Admits in Inquiry
.Packers Are Getting Ready
Eventually to Put It
in Force.
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Chicago, Feb. 27. In concluding
hjs testimony jn the stork yards wage
arbitration today John E. O'Hern,
general superintendent for Armour
& Co., in response to questions by
Judge Samuel Alschuler, admitted
that the packers had for some time
been planning on buildings and equip
ment to meet the eight-hour day when
it arrives.
He said there undoubtedly was a
tendency toward a shorter working
day. He insisted, however, that the
change from a ten to an eight-hour
day should not be made at least until
after the war.
On the question of overtime, he
said the necessities of the packing in
dustry would always require a long
day at certain busy seasons. He be
lieved the amount to be paid for over
time should be determined by the
wage scale for the basic day.
The witness denied that the five big
Backers acted in concert in handling
labor questions and fixing wages.
He said that two-thirds of all the
live stock killed in the United States
tinder government inspection was
killed by the five big packers. The
waees oaid bv the independent pack
ers, he said, corresponded with those
paid by the big five.
He said three eight-hour shifts are
impracticable and that because of the
character of the packing business the
output under a plan of two eight
hour shifts instead of two ten-hour
neriods. as at oresent. the produc
tivity of the plants would be reduced
20 per cent He said that at present
by working day and night the packers
were unable tuny to meet tne de
mands of the government for food
products.
Lodge Denounces
, Price Fixing by
: Government
(Continued From Fata One.)
famine in a country which has more
coal than any in the world.
"What we needed was not a shut
ting down of industries, but a freight
embargo on all railroads. It (the fuel
administration poh'cy) is a striking
evidence of how much harm has been
done by paralyzing private interests
and undertaking to solve the difficul
ties by one bureau composed largely
of amateurs. ; ' r '
- Must Be Democrats.
"There was "-66, -need of the fuel
administration, , no , reason - why . it
should exist at all,' and the powers,
however amiable and patriotic the
purposes of i their." possessor, have
been employed to mike a bad situs
tion worse and do nothing but harm.
i he vital point ot the whole coal ait
uation was the railroad problem. '
Either Secretary Lane or Francis
S. ; Peabody, Senator. Lodge said,
should have charge of the coal situa
tion. Annulment by Secretary Baker
of the agreement Mr. Lane brought
ahnnt at fftnfrnf nf nnoratnra
dealers and consumers was criticised
by the senator. He also denounced
the conferring of vast powers upon
state fuel administrators.
"So far as I can learn", said Mr.
Lodge, "the only qualification of these
gentlemen it that they should be dem
ocrats." Liberty Motor Demonstration
Washington, Feb. 26. The first
public flight of an airplane equipped
with the Liberty motor will-be made
nere probably next week
Russ Capital to
Fall Easy Prey
To German Army
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(Continued From Paga One.)
ital. A great many Austnans are
there, too.
"The demeanor of the Germans
thus far has been exemplary. They
go about avoiding ceremony and the
officers, following the Kussian cus
torn, carry no swords. They speak
German in an undertone.
Lenine Changes Front
The Germans in Petrograd already
have organized to police the city, the
correspondent of the Morning fost
reports.
In several dispatches Nikolai Le
nine figures as the backbone of re
sistance to the Germans, although
originally he was responsible for
swaying the executive committee of
the soldiers' and workmen's delegates
in the uirection of concluding peace
on humiliating terms,
The Daily News correspondent
tells at great length a story of dif
ferences between Lenine and Trotzky
and the divergent tendencies among
the bolsheviki during the crucial dis
cussions of the last week. Other dis
patches indicate continuance of the
tension between these party sections
and say Trotzky refused to return to
Brest-Litovsk to sign the terms of
surrender to which Lenine's counsels
persuaded the executive committee
New Peace Delegation.
M. Tchitcherin, who recently was
held in prison in England for circu
lating seditious propaganda and is
now commissioner for foreign affairs,
and M. Zinovieflf, a close associate of
Lenine, are understood to be the chief
members of the new peace delega
tion.
According to a statement made in
the Reichstag by Baron von Dem
Bussche-Haddenhausen; German un
dersecretary for foreign affairs, they
must sign peace terms within three
days of their arrival at Brest-Litovsk
and the terms must be ratified within
two weeks. German and Austro
Hungarian delegates already have ar
rived at Brest-Litovsk.
GERMANY PLANS
TO DOMINATE ALL
CENTRAL EUROPE
(Continued From Pf Ona.)
Count Hertling, who is old and re
ligious; get up in the Reichstag and
declare that his heart bleeds for hu
manity and profess his sympathy
with President Wilson's appeal for
justice, forbearance and respect for
nation rights at the very time when
he is publicly engaged in one of the
most cynical and callous transactions
known to history," says the West
minster Gazette.
Chilled by Germany's Acts.
This newspaper says' it is obliged
to say to Von Hertling quite frankly
that the mind to peace among the
western . nations ''.'the . mind which
seeks peace on an abiding and hon
orable condition Is every day being
chilled and alienated by the disclos
ures of the real Germany in its deal
ings with Russia." , , '
"We see every one of the four prin
ciples defined by President Wilson to
which the German chancellor does lip
service." ; the Westminster Gazette
continues, "being trampled under
foot." . ,
The Globe says: "Von Hertling's
present duty is to supply the camou
flage behind which the real sovereign
power of Germany, the great general
staff, carries on its operations.
"It is Von Hertling's business to
entangle some, or all, of the allies in
negotiations as Von Kuehlmann (the
German foreign secretary) entangled
the deluded Russians, and then Von
Hindenburg and Ludendorff, the real
sovereign power, will settle the terms
and policv on the admirable prin
ciples of rBrest-Litovsk."
."The Evening Standard in an edi
torial treats the chancellor's address
as follows:
When the German chancellor
speaks peace, we know what kind of
peace he means. We have seen a
specimen ot it in tne case ot un
happy Russia."
is newspaper then parallels ex
cerpts from Von Hertling s speech and
the report of Samuel Gompers, pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, on the attitude of the Ameri
can working man as regards a confer
ence with German labor and adds:
"This clear vision of the American
people. labor included, sees that the
Jump from Bed
in Morning and
Drink HotWater
Tells why everyone should drink
hot water each morning
... before breakfast,
Why is man and woman, half the
time, feeling nervous, desnondent.
worried; some days headachy, dull
and unstrung; some days really in
capacitated by illness. f
ii we an would practice inside
bathing, what a gratifying chansra
would take place. Instead of thous
ands of half -sick, anaemic-lookiner
souls with pasty, muddy complexions
we snoum see crowds of happy,
healthy, rosy-cheeked neonl every
where. The reason Is that the human
system does not rid itself each day
of all the waste which it accumulates
under our -present mode of living.
For every ounce of food and drink
taken Into the system nearly an
ounce of waste material must be ear
ned out. else it ferments and forma
ptomaine-like poisons which are ab
sorbed into the blood. ,
Men and women, whether-sick or
well, are advised to drink each morn
ing before breakfast, a glass of real
hot water with a teaspoonf ul of lime,
stone whosphate in it, as a harmless
means or washing out of the stomach,
liver, kidneys and bowel-, th irMi.
?estible material, waste, sour bile and
toxins.
Millions of neonle who had their
turn at constipation, bilious attack..
acid stomach, nervous days and sleep-
lew mgnia nave oecome real cranks
about the morning inside bath. A
quarter pound of limestone phosphate
will not cost much at the drug store,
but is sufficient to . demonstrate to
anyone its cleansing, sweetening and
. ; P.,nf elact uPon the system.
only effect of a conference with the
German people in their present mood
will be a weakening of our moral case,
the enfeeblement of the national wills,
the discouragement of armies and the
embarrassment ot governments.
Revolution Will
Fight to Death in
Defense of Russia
(Continued From Paga One.)
to Petrograd increase the government
will remove to Moscow or any other
city of Russia.
"If Germany's plundering raid
should advance, the task of the gov
ernment would be to destroy the pos
sibility of a simultaneous catastrophic
decision by the Germans. They are
attempting to crush the authority of
the councils and are in search of it
on the routes leading to Petrograd.
"We will bar these routes by every
thing we can interpose as obstacles.
This at the moment is the principal
task of the heroic Petrograd proleta
riat and its revolutionary staff.
But at the same time we must act
in such a manner that the Oerman
generals may declare they recognize
the authority of the councils, not only
in retrograd, but throughout the
whole country, north, south and on
both sides of the Urals.
Councils to Stand Firm .
"Even if they think they can reach
Petrograd by a mere military prome
nade we will prove to them that they
will have to disperse themselves all
over Russia before they can reach and
crush the authority of the councils.
Will they have adequate forces to
carry out such a task if we defend our
selves heroically? No. They never
will have forces enough. Such an en
terprise inevitably will resolve itself
into an adventure and will fail. How
ever deeply they penetrate Russia,
then the more surely will they bring
about the outbreak of a revolution
in Germany. Patience and firmness
is necessary.
I he first symptoms of oanic cre
ated by the Germans' plundering have
become bygone events. The cowards
are in flight and have made room for
the brave who are rallying themselves
in hundreds and thousands for the de
fense of the socialist fatherland.
If peace with the revolution is not
the aim of the German imperialists
they, will see the revolution knows
how to defend itself."
PACKERS CONTROL
CHEESEINDDSTRY
Prices Fixed by Plymouth
Board, Which Decided
Such Things Before
Hand.
CANADIANS ARE
DIVIDED ON BID
TO NEBRASKAN
HEAD OF NASH CO.
VISITOR AT BIG
; OMAHA CLASSIC
(Continued From Pace One.)
Naslv quads at the rate of 10,000 per
year for the government for foreign
service. We now have signed con
tracts to deliver 6,700 trucks for gov
ernment use.
"We are still making trucks for
commercial use, although 80 per cent
ot our production goes to the gov
ernment Nash passenger cars . are
still being made, and if the reports
that I have received from the Omaha
show are any indication I'm afraid
our entire production will mostly be
taken nere. .
I am surprised at the showinsr be
ing made in the Omaha territory. I
ave watched its growth carefully
from the time when I first Jobbed ve
hicles to the John Deere Plow com
pany to the present time. I made the
statement several years ago that this
section would absorb great quantities
of passenger cars and trucks, but it
has exceeded all expectations. This
really the garden snot of the
world."
Veteran Stil Steps.
Mike Donovan, at 70. is still able
to hit and sidestep with the best of
them. The grand old man of the ring,
who for many years has been boxing
instructor ot the New York A. C, is
now teaching our soldiers how to
handle the mitts.
Chicago, Feb. 27. Details of cheese
making and selling and testimony that
the big packers really controlled the
cheese industry in Wisconsin marked
the opening hours today of the gov
ernment investigation into the pack
ing industry before the federal trade
commission.
Under questions from Francis T.
Heney, special counsel for the com
mission, operations of the Wisconsin
cheese market were presented. Henry
Krumrey, a farmer and cheese maker
of Plymouth, Wis., now president and
general manager of the Wisconsin
Cheese Producers' federation, testified
that it was generally conceded that
the big packers Armour & Co., Swift
& Co., Morris & Co.. Cudahv & Co.
and Wilson & Co. control the mar
keting of 75 per cent of the cheese
made in Sheboygan county, Wiscon
sin. Ihe witness said that Wisconsin
makes 60 per cent of all the cheese
in the country.
Krumrey said that the prices for
Wisconsin cheese were fixed on the
nymoutn cneese board, which was
under control of the Wisconsin
Cheese Dealers' association, which he
characterized as the "cheese com
bine."
The witness declared that the ses
sions of the cheese board were largely
a farce and resulted in the farmer get
ting low prices for cheese. In 1911,
he said, cneese was priced at 11 cents
a pound on the board, v which after
wards was sold for from 20 to 25
cents-
"This caused a loss of from $10,000
to $15,000 to the Wisconsin farmers,"
the witness said. "I am convinced
that the prices on the cheese board
were fixed in a secret session before
the board formally met''
Soldiers' Homo Note.
Grand Island. Feb. it. (Special.)
George C. Whitney, who haa a cottage on
the line, waa auprlaed last Saturday by the
choir or the homo chapel at Burkett, who
called on- him In celebration of his 78th
birthday anniversary , to Invite him to a
dinner, arranged In bis honor.
Mrs. Simmons, who resides on the outside,
was taken to the Bt Francis hospital in
Orand Inland yesterday for medical treat
ment Mrs. Blmmons haa been In poor health
(or some time.
Wlllard C. Bom of North Platte. Neb.,
lata of Company C, lid New York Infantry,
was admitted to full membership at Bur
kett on Saturday.
Toronto, Ont., Feb. 27. News
paper criticism of the propriety of
inviting W. J. Bryan to deliver an
address here tomorrow night at the
provincial prohibition convention was
answered today by the publication of
advertisements by the Dominion Alli
ance, an organization similar to the
Anti-Saloon league in the United
States, describing Mr. Bryan as a
"life-long prohibition campaigner,"
and asking that he be heard in the
spirit of Canadian fair play.
Opposition to Mr. Bryan grew out
of his alleged pacifist leaning and ut
terances. One of his newspaper critics
advised the public to stay away from
the meeting; another favored giving
him a chance to "express himself
wholeheartedly regarding Germany
and its deviltries" and judging him
by "a new confession of faith."
Tris Speaker Too Fr.:t
For Donovan's Repartee
During a Cleveland game at the
Polo grounds Tris Speaker came in
from the field to protest that the
Yankee pitcher was discoloring the
ball.
"Huh," remarked Manager Bill
Donovan of the Yankees, -sarcastic al
ly, "I heard that Cleveland had a new
manager.
"For New York's sake I am sorry
I cannot say the same about tha
Yankees, replied Speaker.
Federal Agents Raid
Alleged Religious Sect
New York, Feb. . 27-Agents of
the United States army intelligence
service raided the headquarters in
Brooklyn of the Pastor Russell
Foundation, a reputed religious or
ganization, late today and seized a
number of books and posters. The
literature was turned over to the
federal district attorney to deter
mine if it contained seditious
matter,
The raid was said to have been
made in connection with the arrest
recently of followers of the Russell
6ect in Toronto, Ont, where five
persons are on trial, charged with
publishing and circulating a book
called "The Finished Mystery," al
leged to be seditious.
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