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ANOTHER CHANCE.

Uncle Sam is offering a second issue

Elevator Constructor
Constructor of Liberty Loan Bonds for sale.

Published Monthly at Perry Building

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These bonds pay 4 per cent. interest. They are therefore a first-class investment from a purely financial point of view.

But they are much more than a financial investment.

Every $100 of Liberty Loan Bonds will buy $100 worth of ammunition for our soldiers and sailors, or as much as it would cost the Kaiser $250 to get.

Every $100 of Liberty Loan Bonds will buy $100 worth of food for our soldiers and sailors, or as much as it would cost the Kaiser $300 to get.

Every $100 of Liberty Loan Bonds will buy $100 worth of warm clothing for our soldiers and sailors, or as much as it would cost the Kaiser $180 to get. Every $100 of Liberty Loan Bonds will buy $100 worth of battleships, or as much as it would cost the Kaiser $160 to get.

Every $100 of Liberty Loan Bonds therefore, when matched against present prices and scarcity of material in Germany, will bring the war at least $150 nearer the end.

And then these wonderful bonds will be returned to the patriotic investors not only at full face cash value, but with a profit of 4 per cent., 1 per cent. more than any bank can afford to pay, which at full maturity of the bonds means that for every $100 lent to Uncle Sam, he will pay back $220.

The second issue of the Liberty Loan Bonds is therefore another great chance that neither the patriotic nor the thrifty American can afford to miss.

Nearly every local affiliated with the International Union of Elevator Constructors subscribed to the first Liberty Loan, some local unions subscribing for $3,000 worth. In almost every local the greater number of the members purchased Liberty Bonds individually.

To ascertain the exent to which

railroad employes of foreign birth subscribed to the first Liberty Loan, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company made an investigation on the lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie. The result of this inquiry shows that out of a total of 160,127 employes in all departments, 25,827 were born in foreign countries. There were among all the employes, both native and foreign born, 52,782 subscriptions, totaling more than $3,400,000.

Nearly one in three of the foreignborn employes was found to have been a Liberty Bond purchaser. The exact number of subscribers of alien birth was 8,146, or almost 32 per cent. of the total foreign born. This was within 2 per cent. of the proportion of employes of American birth who subscribed.

The inquiry also brought out that there are in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad men of forty-two different nationalities, besides nativeborn Americans; and members of thirty alien races were included among the buyers of Liberty Bonds.

The Italian race furnished the largest number of foreign-born employes on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the number being 8,365, or virtually one-third of all the alien-born. Thirty-two per cent. of the Italians, or a total of 2,725 employes, bought Liberty Bonds.

Employes of Irish birth were found to number 3,139, of whom 1,299, or 43 per cent. subscribed to the Liberty Loan. English-born employes numbered 1,875, and 663 of them, or 36 per cent., were subscribers. Out of 2,466 men of Russian and Polish birth, 790, or 36 per cent., invested in the Liberty Loan.

UNIONIZE CITY WORKERS. Boston.-Plans to unionize all city employes are being arranged by local unionists. A mass meeting will be held on Sunday, November 4, in the largest hall that can be secured, to devise ways and means to interest all municipal workers.

NO LABOR SHORTAGE. Portland, Ore.-The Central Labor Union denies that there is a labor shortage in this city, and says that the approaching winter season will cause many who have been working in the harvest and logging industries to drift into industrial centers to seek winter employment. It is stated that wages in this district range as low as $1.50 a day and that "there has been no demand for skilled workers, which has not been met, regardless of the fact that many of the best tradesmen in different lines have been drawn to other points by more attractive wages and better working conditions."

WAITERS ENJOINED.

Memphis, Tenn.-An injunction has been issued against striking waiters who demanded a minimum wage of $14 for a week of seven days, 11 hours а day. Several restaurants have signed this scale, while others have pronounced it "unreasonable" and have rushed to the court for protection. These concerns object to being classified as unfair.

STRIKEBREAKERS CHEATED. San Francisco, Cal.-"We're cheated!" cried a bunch of Washington, D. C., strikebreakers in the office of State Labor Commissioner McLaughlin.

The strikebreakers who were sent to Washington, D. C., to break the streetcar strike last March, and were later shipped out to San Francisco to break the strike there on lines belonging to the same corporation, now have a grouch on, and have filed a complaint with State Labor Commissioner, charging that the company cheated them in their pay. It seems that these strikebreakers were to be given $5.00 per day, but were later paid off at a rate of $2.00. It looks like a case of the pot calling the kettle black, six of one and half a dozen of the other, no difference between the two.

GOD ALMIGHTY HATES A QUITTER

"God Almighty hates a quitter!" said Tom Reed, of Maine. The nation roared applause from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the lakes to the gulf, for the virile vigor of this rough expression of manhood. The sentiment is one of perennial value.

But what makes the man who does not know when he is defeated and fights to the finish, be the finish his or his opponents', asks the Spokane (Wash.) Review. Is it not character; and is not character at bottom only the moral equivalent of stalwart backbone?

The quitter fails and falls because he lacks the force of character, the strength of will which sees possibilities beyond capacities and regards obstacles as opportunities, discouragements as incentives. The fight which is worth attempting at all is the fight which deserves to be fought through. "It's dogged as does it," as when Hoeman said to Sayres: "Now, Tummy, lad, 'tis thou or I!" and won the last round and match.

There was character. It may not have been ideal character. It certainly was not character in its highest expression. But it was the sum of the man's whole personality. All the power of him, all the pith and punch of invincible determination went into the winning of his fight. The bulldog shows the same strength of will when he lets himsef be choked or cut to pieces rather than let go his grip on the other dog's jugular.

It is this readiness to be killed, if need be, if one cannot best one's adversary, which wins the battle of life for men and the wars of nations for their existence. Such a readiness is a form of character and the product, whether awares or unawares, of a fight to achieve character. It is the reaction of the spirit to the long working life and circumstances upon the raw and plastic ore of human nature.

Make money, then, and do so honorably. Get understanding-for the sake of social service as well as your own

growth. Win power over men through right methods of approach and appeal. But with all your getting and gains achieve character above all.

Nothing can take the place of character. It knows no substitute. Cleverness, cunning and shrewdness are paper money. Character is the gold which alone gives them value. Pierpont Morgan rated character above collateral as security for loans and credit. Character is the best of all assetss.

STEEL STRIKERS FIRM. Pittsburgh, Pa. About 5,000 employes of the Jones & Laughlin steel plants are standing firm for the eighthour day and a 25 per cent. wage increase. Several representatives of the American Federation of Labor are assisting these workers who are being rapidly organized.

A large percentage of the Jones & Laughlin contracts are for Government work, but this concern is blind to the Federal eight-hour law, which their workers are striking to enforce.

When the strike was called the United States Steel Corporation (the trust) hurriedly announced a 10 per cent. wage increase and many independent concerns are taking similar action in the hope that their employes will not become inoculated with the shorter work day germ.

STRIKES IN KANSAS CITY. Kansas City, Mo.-Low wages has caused an epidemic of strikes among unorganized workers in this city, and they are flocking to the trade union movement so fast that the street car men adjourned their last meeting in the labor temple to make room for an organization meeting.

Over 1,000 freight house employes are on strike against 13 railroads, and 400 organized teamsters struck in sympathy. The Baker's Union is assisting strikers at several large plants. Boxmakers to the number of about 1,500 are still on strike.

"IF."

By Rudyard Kikling.

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting, too:

If you can wait and not be tired by

waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

If you can dream

and not make dreams your master;

If you can think-and make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Dis

aster

And treat those two impostors just the same:

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life

to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-andtoss

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they

are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And-which is more-you'll be a
Man, my son!

-From Rewards and Faires.

ANOTHER LINCOLN STORY. Some one once called on President Lincoln during the war to suggest some change of command for General B——, who did not seem to do well as a commander anywhere. "Well," said Mr. Lincoln, "that's so. General B- doesn't fit well anywhere. He reminds me of an experience I once had with a piece of iron I found while at work in the woods. I thought it would make a good axe-head, and took it to a blacksmith. 'Yes,' said he, 'it'll make a good axe.' So he put it into the fire, made it red hot and pounded away on it on his anvil. After hammering it a good while, he stopped and said, 'No, it won't make an axe, but I tell you, it'll make a mighty good clevis.' So I told him to make a clevis out of it. Then he heated it again, and again pounded away at it a great while, and then stopped and looked at it and said, 'No, it won't make a clevis neither. But,' said he, holding it red hot in his pincers over his tub of water, 'I'll tell you what it will make. It will make a blame' good fizzle.' And here he dropped it into the tub-and it fizzled."

"Mike." "Phat?"

BY CONTRAST.

"I was just thinkin'. After we get out of the trenches an' back home again how nice and peaceful that old boiler factory will sound to us."-Detroit Free Press.

CITIZENSHIP DENIED STRIKING

FOREIGNER

Seattle.-Judge John S. Jurey has denied citizenship papers to Conrad Strom, a Swede, who is one of several thousand ship carpenters who have suspended work to assist timber workers in securing the eight-hour day. The court said that a man so devoid of patriotism as to strike at this time is not deserving of citizenship. The lumber barons have refused the eighthour day despite requests of the state and federal governments and the state council of defense.

In a public statement issued by interested unionists, Judge Jurey's ruling is objected to and his uncalled for comment is declared an insult to the organized workers.

"Not only have the lumber interests refused to heed the pleas of the Government in the present crisis," it it stated, "but they have taken advantage of the extremity of both the Government and the private interests to more than double the price of the material so essential in the construction of ships and buildings.

"Not only has the lumber trust failed to fill the orders placed with it, but nearly as many men are now idle from this cause as from the strike itself. Work for the Government is hampered even now in the Bremerton Navy Yard, is threatened with entire suspension on the Government railroad in Alaska, and in local yards all are handicapped by lack of building material, not to speak of the blow that has been dealt to local building construction in the city itself.

"Judge Jurey fails to see the high motive that actuated the strike. What had the striker to win by the successful outcome of the strike? Nothing except that other workers whom he never knew might have justice. It is the application of the broadest spirit of brotherhood. Men of this type are the sort of men that America ought to welcome to citizenship with open

arms.

"In conclusion, we ask the public to

realize the strong provocation that caused the unions to take the stand they have; we ask our fair employers to be mindful of the baneful influences of the lumber trust in opposing all advanced conditions for labor, and we ask that all influences unite with the workers in ending once and for all the domination of an inhuman and unpatriotic class of employers."

"CAN'T-STRIKE" PLAN URGED BY EMPLOYERS.

Washington. - Organized employers inform the Council of National Defense they are "interested in the abolishment of strikes," and suggest that their latest plan be submitted by the council to the trade union movement.

It is the old system-ask all and give nothing, with their pet schemecompulsory arbitration-carefully kept in the background, for the time being.

The proposal was submitted to the Council of National Defense by a national industrial conference board of 150 members, representing 16 manufacturing associations.

The employers favor no modification of present safety or health standards during the war period except upon recommendation of the Council of National Defense. Wages shall be the standard prevailing locally at the beginning of the war except where it has been "demonstrated" that increases are necessary to meet higher living costs. This clause would indicate that some employers have their doubts about old General High Cost of Living.

Hours are not to be changed except on the word of the Council of National Defense when "it it necessary to meet the requirements of the Government." All union shop agitation is to be tabooed under the new system. The employers refer to the union shop as "closed shop."

A board consisting of representative employers, employes and the Government will be created, and this board is to be given sweeping authority"With full power to create all machin

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