DANBURY, CONN.-At the foreclosure by sale, which was entered into by the United States District Court of Connecticut by Judge Thomas in the Hatters' case on June 7, 1917, Sidney T. Hawley, former Sheriff of Fairfield County, was appointed to sell the homes. The number of homes to be sold is 141. A number of appraisers were appointed by the court to appraise the property with a final limit for their report to be made July 2. The sale will begin on July 16, 1917, at 10 A. M., in Danbury, and will continue at the rate of six or seven homes per day until August 9, when, in accordance with the schedule, all the

property will have been disposed of. The successful bidder for each piece of property must pay 25 per cent. of the purchase price at the time of the sale and the remaining 75 per cent. fifteen days after the order of the court approving the sale has been entered. The amount of the judgment was $252,000, but this sum has been drawing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. since October. 1912, and now amounts to over $300,000. Loewe, to whom the court awarded damages, has already taken $60,000 of the Hatters' money, which was deposited in the banks of Danbury and South Norwalk.

EVERYBODY IS ENJOINED. Omaha. The attempt of the Business Men's Association to destroy Omaha trade unionism has resulted in an unusual injunction by District Court Judge Leslie, who enjoins the Eusiness Men's Association and its individual members from punishing in any way any person no longer willing to aid the association. It is further ordered that these business men must not decline to "pay fair and reasonable wages."

The unionists are ordered to refrain from picketing, "or otherwise seeking to interfere with any individual whether he belongs to a union or not."

The court also orders that the cuestion of union or non-uicn shops, whether advocated or contended for or against by any of the defendants herein, shall be held in abeyance until the close of the present war, in which the United States Government is now engaged."

The injunction was issued on the re

quest of State's Attorney General Reed, who pleaded "military necessity."

CARPENTERS UNITING.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Deplorable conditions in the wood working industry have awakened union carpenters and millmen to the need for greater organization. This city of boasted "industrial freedom" pays a lower rate and works longer hours in this industry than any city in the State. Cutthroat competition between contractors has intensified the situation. The unionists have adopted a novel system in their campaign. They are making a job to-job convas for signatures of nonunionists who agree to pay a small initiation fee "with the understanding that 2,000 others will sign one of these applications and pledge themselves to do the same."

The system is proving successful as the non-unionists are impressed with the mass movement feature of this venture.

Washington. A dispatch from Petrograd, Russia, to the New York Times contains the following reference to James Duncan, First Vice-President of the American Federation of Labor, who was a member of the United States Commission to Russia:

James Duncan, labor member of the United States Commission to Russia, held the attention of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates for more than an hour while be explained how America had met its labor problems in the last decade, and begged the Russian delegates to benefit by the experience and mistakes of the United States. Organized workers of America, he said, might be of service to the working people of Russia in helping them to develop practical trade unions.

In connection with the munitions question in Russia he expressed the hope that the workingmen here would follow the example of America in introducing an urgency clause in their eight-hour legislation which, in time of war, would allow the operation of factories to their full capacity, so that the army might be adequately supplied with ammunition. He proposed a system of eight-hour shifts which, without imposing hardship on laborers, would increase the output to a point necessary for the successful conduct of the war.

"Soldiers at the front," Mr. Dun can said, "cannot be covered by an eight-hour day provision; war is not conducted that way. In giving the best possible service within twentyfour hours workingmen will be subjected to no greater hardship than soldiers in the trenches."

At one time the speaker was interrupted by a sailor who shouted that America was a nation of capitalists,

but he was promptly hooted down by the rest of the council. Except for this one incident, the delegates were sympathetic and attentive.

Replying to Mr. Duncan, President N. O. Tcheldse, of the council, said that if America agreed with Russia in its democratic aims, including a speedy conclusion of the war, as indicated by utterances of President Wilson that they were in full sympathy, he extended the heartiest greeting to the American delegate and would earnestly welcome America's assistance in the achievement of those aims. The Russian people President Tcheldse said, were in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war in order to bring about peace as soon as possible.

In conference with M. Skobeleff, Minister of Labor, before the meeting, Mr. Duncan discussed the interpretation of the Russian watchword. "reace without annexation."

"The Minister of Labor made it clear to me," Mr. Duncan told an Associated Press correspondent, "that Russian democracy means nothing by this phrase which we cannot heartily subscribe to. Before this phrase was defined it seemed to mean that Germany was to emerge from the war with impunity and without making reparation for the damage she had done. But the Russian delegates do not mean this at all. They believe that Germany should be compelled to restore and make full reparation for Belgium, and they are not opposed to the principle of indemnities. Their word 'contribution' refers exclusively to the kind of war levy imposed by Germany upon Brussels. There is no important difference between the aims of the Russian democracy and our own. both agree upon the conditions upon which peace can be determined."

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the proposition men that all created equal" have spread from land

tinent, until today all nations have flung themselves into battle for "a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Singularly inspired were the founders of this Fourth of July republic.

To men of ordinary minds, the fight which brought forth the new nation on the American continent may have appeared merely as a fight against British sovereignty. It may have looked to the small men of the day as a fight against taxation without representation merely. To many men of the day, no doubt, it appeared as an uprising of America against Europe.

But the new American nation was born not merely with the slogan of "America for Americans."

It was not dedicated to undying hos tility to Great Britain.

It did not go before the world as devoted merely to its border lines. In its national dedication it did not even limit itself to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Canadian and Mexican boundaries.

In its Declaration of Independence, the new nation dedicated itself not to material possessions, but to the ideal that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

And on this ideal was founded the whole structure of American government of the people, by the people and for the people.

And so the flag of this new nation, unlike the flag of any other nation, came to represent not far-flung battle lines, not dominions on which the sun never sets, not might of empire nor proud traditions. The new flag came to represent the ideal of human equality.

They sneered at this ideal at first and ridiculed it even long after the first thirteen States had won for themselves the right to apply this deal to a new form of government.