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Annual Picnic, Local No. 27, I. U. E. C., Rochester, at Grand View Beach, July 28, 1917.

ALBANY, N. Y.

To the Editor:

To our enlisted and drafted Brothers-Once again our great country has called to its sons to shoulder their guns to assist in bringing the mightiest struggle the world has ever seen to a glorious end.

Once again Uncle Sam has called his boys together from every corner of our land to uphold the grand old Amercan spirit of Freedom and Democracy, to help him fight against the despoilers of humanity and to down forever autocraaic hypocrisy, tyranny and serfdom. And you, my Brothers, even

should it be your fate, my Brothers, to sacrifice your life on the field of honor, we shall honor your memory and it shall be with us forever in a blessed immortality.

But our prayer to the Master of life shall be that you may all return to your beloved ones, to your friends and brothers.

Good bye, good luck and God speed. The honor roll of No. 35 consists of six enlisted brothers. President John E. Scott is in a naval training camp on Long Island. Brother Scott will be missed very much. He was a hard worker for the Local both as its presi

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Some of the members of Local No. 35, I. U. E. C., Albany

as you know that you may never see your country again or meet your beloved ones, even this has not prevented you from doing your duty, but you have responded cheerfully and manly to the calling voice as true Americans, God bless you!

But we, who circumstances prevent from following you, have also a duty to perform. It shall be our sacred duty to see that you and yours that are left behind shall not be wanting of anything; we shall work and give as we never did before, so that when the time comes we can also say that we have done our bit.

It is with a sad heart that we see you leave and we can only say, "God be with you till we meet again." But

dent and as delegate to the different bodies where he never failed to stand up for our rights. He always had the welfare of No. 35 first in mind. Brother Scott was presented with a soldier's comfy kit in appreciation of his good work.

Brothers McCarthy, Rodgers, S. Anderson and Haehl are in Camp at Spartanburg, S. C. Brothers McCarthy and Haehl are with the Engineers Train and both have been appointed as Sergeants. Brother Rodgers is with the well-known Troop B, of Albany, and Brother S. Anderson is with the Second Field Hospital Corps, with which he has seen service on the Mexican border.

Brother John Moorhead has been on

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guard duty for nearly a year, first in New York State, now somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Well, a few words about Labor Day. We had a very large and splendid parade and the sun was shining in all its glory and made everybody feel happy. No. 35 was as usual "Johnny on the spot," and we had every man available in line, even one of our soldier boys, Brother Haehl, who come up from New York to join us and had the distinction of being the only soldier in the parade.

Brother Bower took several good shots at us with his camera.

Some time ago No. 14 boasted of their smallest man, Brother Godfrey. Well, here is a picture of our biggest man, Brother Sweeny. Tell it to Sweeny.

Fraternally yours,

CHAS. F. NICHOLSEN,

Local No. 35.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

To the Editor:

All members are busy at the present time, although we have not many jobs for the near future.

Bro. B. Gower has resigned his position on the service force for the Otis and has joined the forces of the Elevator Service and Electric Company. Here is luck to Brother Gower.

Brother M. K. Griswold announced the arrival of an eight-pound boy at his home, of which he is very proud. Why shouldn't he be? The only newcomer to Local 42 in two years.

Bro. Emmer is still in Detroit and if he is having the time he was having when the writer saw him, there is no use expecting to have him work in Grand Rapids again. I think he must have got a job on the farm, because it looked as if he was sowing wild oats.

Bro. E. Prinz is installing two traction elevators at the Freedman-Spring Company.

Bro. Dan Driscoll is still installing gates in various buildings around town. Oh, he just loves gates.

No. 42 expects to take a few new

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MORE MINERS FREED. Denver.-Attorney General Hubbard has filed a confession of error in the State Supreme Court in the cases of Ben Richardson and David Robb, Fremont Couty miners, sentenced two years ago to three and five years in the pentitentiary on murder charges growing out of the miners' strike in Southern Colorado. The Attorney General says there is no evidence to show that the accused fired the fatal shot, and asks that the decision be reversed. The Presiding Judge is denounced by the Attorney General for "the utter impropriety and prejudicial character of his conduct and language."

WILL VISIT RUSSIA.

New York.-The executive committee of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, of which President Gompers is the head, decided, at a meeting in this city, to send a mission of about fifty representatives of trade unions to Russia to clear up any misunderstandings the workers of the new republic may have as to America's attitude in the war and to offset contrary propaganda of German interests. It is planned to pay the expenses of the mission by making a public appeal for funds.

A SUDDEN RISE.

Stooping down to wash his hands in a creek, the darkey couldn't, of course, observe the peculiar motions of a goat right behind him. When he scrambled out of the water and was asked how it happened, he answered: "I dunno zacktly. 'Peared as if de shore kinder histed an' frowed me."

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