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INTERNATIONAL NOTES
The State Organizer and officers of a branch of the Farm-
ers’ Non-Partisan League that had just been organized at Tyler,
Texas, were lately taken out by a self-appointed committee of
prominent citizens, and, after having been roughly handled,
were ordered to get out of the county. Several members of the
league were then placed under arrest on charges of “disloyal-
ty,” but were released when they promised authorities that the
local organization would disband and attempt no further agi-
tation. Objection to the farmers’ activities were based on the
assumption that the organization is being used for the purpose
of spreading disloyal and seditious sentiment and arousing dis-
content among the more ignorant (?) classes of the American
people—the farmers!
Twelve Dresden members of the Independent Socialist
Party of Germany were lately convicted of high treason by the
Imperial Court of Leipsic and sentenced to penal servitude for
terms varying from eighteen months to eight years. They
were found guilty of distributing pamphlets last year advocat-
ing the overthrow of the German Imperial government and
helped to bring about the peace strikes of last summer.
Internationalism for children, or thinking in terms of the
world rather than those of immediate or national environments,
is the object of a new work that has been started by the Ameri-
can School Peace League.
The stockholders of Swift & Company have approved the
issuance of a $25,000,000.00 stock dividend, and of $25,000,-
000.00 additional stock at par to shareholders.
The Common Council of Mt. Vernon, New York, has for-
bidden the sale and distribution of all publications in German
and William Randolph Hearst’s New York City papers in their
community for the duration of the war. A penalty of impris-
onment for six months or a fine of $500.00 is provided for
breach of the ordinance.
That England is guilty in Ireland of all the crimes she al-
leges against the German Imperial government, is the state-
ment of Eamon de Valera, leader of the Sinn Fein movement
in Ireland.
By a vote of 236 to 185 the Lower House of the Prussian
Parliament has declined to substitute equal suffrage for the
plural voting system, notwithstanding the Emperor’s promise
to the people of equal suffrage made more than a year ago.
The National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage in
England was dissolved at a meeting held recently in Westmin-
ster. Miss Beatrice Chamberlain, in the course of her remarks
addressed to the members, said that they had not the slightest
doubt that they had been right all through, but the extraordi-
nary frivolous way in which the voting of woman suffrage had
been received, showed that they alone took it seriously. The
surplus funds of the League, amounting to several thousands
of pounds. were turned over to the Royal National Pension
Fund for Nurses.
Shall we have to have some society to protect us from the
thoughtlessness of our defense societies, asks a correspondent,
criticising the sending of a pamphlet, entitled “A Hymn of |’
Hate,” to the press of the country by the American Defense
Society ,in which the author insists that the American people
should be educated by the press to “hate sincerely” the Ger-
mans, “not merely as a proposition, but the German people
root and branch.” In support of his argument, our critical
friend reminds us of the counsel of Washington to his country-
men, to “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations;
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Lincoln gave to the people: “With malice toward none and
with charity for all. with firmness to do the right as God gives
us to see the right.”
Three anarchists were lately arrested in New York,
charged with plotting to overthrow the Government of the
United States. Many copies of an anarchistic paper were
found by the police in the building where the arrests were
made, and it is said that thousands of copies were ready for
distribufion. It is also alleged that something like a million
rifles had been imported from Essen, Germany, to be used by
Germans in America when the Kaiser's troops had “crossed
the English Channel.” :
Lieut. Torrey H. Webb left New York City at 11:30 a. m.
last Wednesday arriving in Philadelphia an hour later, in an
aeroplane carry 144 pounds of U. S. Mail. At Philadelphia
Lieut. J. C. Edgerton received the shipment and started for
Washington, D. C., arriving there at 2:50 p. m. The distance
from New York to Washington is 228 miles. 3 hours and 20
minutes being the time required to cover it. This was the first
regular aeroplane mail service established in the country.
To obtain closer co-operation with other labor bodies, the
convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at
Cleveland, Ohio, last week adopted by unanimous vote, a reso-
lution providing for the affiliation of their organizations with
the American Federation of Labor,
Miss Mary McArthur, one of the most prominent figures
in the labor movement in England, was adopted on Saturday
as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Stourbridge by
the Labor Party.. She is the first woman candidate to be
adopted by a political party as such, and all the men’s trade
unions in the district support her.
4 The Unionist Government of the Dominion of Canada has
announce. that it wil take over all railway lines operating in
the several p.ovinces and operate them as public utilities in
the public interest Remuneration will be provided for the
present owners of those roads which are now operated as pri-
vate lines.
A temporary injuiiction restraining members and officers
of the United Shoe Workeéis of America and of the Allied Shoe
Workers Union from participating in or encouraging strikes or
“ockouts in Lynn factories, was latel yissued by Judge Joseph
i “n jn the Superior Court, at Salem, Massachusetts, on
Ns the Lynn Shoe Manufacturers Association.
ickau, Saxony, irr a bye-election for the selection of
e Ab Zinn in the German Reichstag, the majority Social-
%t candidate won out. The district had been represented by a
member of the Independnt Socialist Party.
incere friends of President Wilson in Congress are
ye i ee tea over his attitude toward the problem
as prohibition. Despite all the efforts of opponents of the
2 traffic and in face of constant protests from every section
of the United States against the waste and abuse of foodstuffs
o the manufacture of brewery products, there is no indication
that yp President, who has full power over the whole busi-
ness, has decided to call a halt.
lorida, the Women’s Clu as purchased a com-
A ye which will be used by families of the
hoorhood to preserve their vegetables at a very small cost
Sab aly A dministrati has requisitioned
ited States Food ministration has or
941 he from Samuel Corrough, a farmer of Arkoe,
Nodaway County, Missouri, after he had been notified that the
” i must be put on market and the notice being ignored.
Er uout was seized and the barn placarded with an an-
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nouncement that the government had taken the grain, to be
shipped to the Allies.
After fighting the Commercial Telegraph Companies for
vears in an effort to gain recognition of their union, the ecom-
mercial telegraphers have just won their fight before the na-
tional war labor board, which ruled that ‘““American workers
have the right to organize aand join unions.” The companies
were asked to refrain from discharging employes for union af-
filiation and otherwise ‘“to abide by the principles laid down in
the president’s proclamation.”
For publicly urging workingmen to replace the English
Parliament by an organization paterned after the Soviets, or
People’s Councils, in his own country, John MacLean, Bolshe-
viki Consul in Glasgow, Scotland, was lately sentenced by the
Imperial High Court to serve five years imprisonment.
The Socialist administration in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
has established the eight hour day for the city’s police depart-
ment. : ’ :
James Madison Thompson, banker, was recently arrested
in Baltimore, Maryland, for failing to register under the state’s
compulsory work law.
Count Ilya Tolstoy, in a review of the Russian situation, is-
sued lately a burning indictment of the majority Socialists of
Germany, charging them with taking advantage of the freedom
of propaganda in Russia to enter the trenches and penetrate
into the interior of the Russian nation as heralds of a new inter-
national brotherhood, under those false banners having led a
nation to disaster with the “cry of love on their lips.”
In the May issue of The Social Builder, formerly The Rip
Saw, Eugene V. Debs comes out strong for a special convention
of the American Socialist Party to declare its attitude and poli-
cy toward the war in the light of the present critical situation.
“The war situation now ig radically different, as it affects the
Socialist party, from what it was a year ago, (when the St.
Louis platform was adopted,” says Debs. “The Russian revo-
lution has changed the face of Europe, and its possibilities, now
trembling in the balance, challenge the Socialist movement to
demonstrate its faith in and loyalty to the principles of inter-
national democracy.” That the Socialist Party will be equal
to the test, true to its convicions and steadfast in the support of
its principles, facing the situation unafraid, and, after due de-
liberation, declare its policy to the world, is the opinion.of this
veteran champion of the cause of the plain people everywhere,
in the closing sentences of the article referred to.
CO-OPERATION
“For the Common Good ”
Co-operation is defined in political economy as, ‘“The asso-
iation of a number of persons for their common benefit.” Co-
operation among the common people is essential to preserve
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In America, as in Germany, the plain people must come
together in associations for their common benefit, or suffer the
consequences resulting from a lack of such organizations. That
person who opposes co-operation by the common people, claim-
ing to be their representative and spokesman, whether his
title be kaiser, king or just plain mister, is not the representa-
tive of the common people, but a traitor to the plain people
everywhere,
Any person, anywhere, who is not at heart a traitor to
the plain people everywhere, is eligible to become a member
of the Commercial Co-operative Council and =a conditional
part owner of The Meyersdale Commercial. |
Join the Commercial Co-operative Council today and ar-
gue the question tomorrow—or the next day you meet a Com-
mercial reader who is not a member.
Fritz.
People enjoy kissing,
William Jennings Bryan us-
ually has his mouth open,
’TIS SAD, BUT—
The world is full of evils.
George Washington didn’t
practice cherry-tree pruning.
A Hoboken bach wouldn’t| Ninety-nine per cent of mar-
own a Rolls Royce. ried men are faithful,
The average man shies at| And so on. i
humor. Tel mos
Get our prices on job Werk.
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