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THfi " OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING.
W; C T. U. Should
Fcvor Deer
REFUSE TO V,
SUNDAY; M
American Biscuit Company Dis
charges ' Employes Because
: They Won't Break Sabbath.
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MANAGER WITTENBERG
v t DOES NOT DENY STORY
Declarea Plant Must Run Every Hour
Possible and Employes Must Re
port for Duty When Ordered to Do
; , So Many Discharged Are Poor,
' If. corporation discharge its em
' ployes whose -conscience win not allow
I ' " them to labor on the Sabbath day. whoa
r..' , ktwlMM 1 It? "-.;; -
This la tha question at issue between
'iom 19 lata employe of tha American
Biscuit oorapanr and Jiercnan Witten
berg manager of that concern.
"Oar business," la tha war tha ques-
tnn-ia anawared br Mr. Wittenberg.
' ' - Twenty-seven i women , and aeverel
' " boy and men wera discharged yesterday
' morning by tha American, yisoalt com-
' rsnv. whoaa factory is . locatad at
.Y Eleventh and Davis streets. Tha dis-
' charged workers, aoroa of whom ara ex
tremely poor, wera loua in tneir expres
sion of Indlsnatlon at tha acUon- of
tha company, but non was allowed to
;'Ttrn to hia place and they ara now of
i
necessity aeeklna- ' employment eise-
where. Tha fact that the tollers wera
" atvsn their walking papers for refusing
' ' .- to work on Sunday and for no other
reason Is admitted by Herman witten
terg, general manager of tha concern.
' Mr.- Wittenberg's account . 01 n ; uw
1 dent ts.aa follows: , ' '
. , what mnisuiiiig ears.
. " . "Wa generally work our , employes
' until t o'clock on Sunday and give them
eredit for a full day. For the piat few
weeks thla rule haa been In force. The
girls were always told to report on
. - Sunday morning, but my foreman would
. often arrive to find .only three or four
girls out of SO or 10 who ought to have
reported for duty In that department
On account- of tha -destruction of San
Francisco we ara under great need of
- getting out our goods faster. On Batur-
cey laat I want throuxhjhe factory and
gave -explicit - order thai the glrlf
hould report on Sunday. I told them
that If they .were not willing to help
us out they need not coma on Monday.
- "On Sunday all but SO or St wera
there. We quit work at noon and,
credited the employe- with a half a
day. I left word with tha foreman that
--If any of the absent ones cam Monday
not to let them go to work, but to have
-them wait until say arrival. .. j
' .Workers tMve Beaaona.
"When I arrived Monday morning I
found a crowd waiting for me. 1 ae-
eordingly-'went downih Una and asked
each one individually why aha had not
' shown up the previous day. One
. answered that her husband would not
v let her,: another replied -that - ahe be
longed to church and did not believe
In working op Sunday, another said her
mother and father would not let her
coma another said aha bad wanted to
' go to a picnic, another that ah believed
Sunday to be for pleasure, not for work,
and ao oh. When I bad questioned them
all I said to them; -Well, if those are
i your sentiments, you do not want to
. work for this company, so you would
better go to the office ancf get your;
money. " - .
.' Mr. Wittenberg declared that the
company doe not believe in doing busl
nea on Sunday, but that On account of
the stress of circumstances it was
t necessary to do so at this time.
'., Too Tired to Work."".
Former employe of Mr. Wittenberg's
company declare that the girls and also
' jiom women and boys did not report for
duty Sunday because they were com
pletely fagged out and not because they
wished to go to picnics.
- "Many of th . girl and boy should
not b allowed to grind their Uvea sway
In such a factory." said on ex -employe, 1
"Some of the girts do not appear to be
more than IS years old, or 14 at the
most. I do not know whether they hay
'. permits to work from th child labor
commission. ' I know, though, what tbey
ZTliav to do. "If en gets there before..?
1 o'clock in th morning he la put to
; work at once, and If h finishes lunch
ey. 12:46 ah must go back to work
-whan told to do so by the foreman.. The
company gets 'J mlnutes' extra work
- out of each empaaye dally but does not
pay him for It. Then the ; company
- worked both girls and boys' every niffht
in th week for som weeks and when
., th children were on the verge of a
. breakdown they were told that 'they
would hav to work only three nights
, week thereafter and Sundays, whea
told to do so. ' Thla waa too much tor
th young people who bad to stand over
.hot ovens all day long, and many of them
were unabl to stand the Strain on Sun
- day.
"Married men with families, who lost
'everything In the Ban Francisco Are,
- are paid only 11. JO a day. Full-grown
girls are started In at U.tO a week and
to make a decent livelihood they must
work overtime and Sundays." .
Mad from high
mU grad fleeted
'- winter wheat -
yi 7
mort law
-proosss,-
lUMssa ' .
and saads
absolutely
P by ,
eleetrle
treatment.
' T asoet
wrholasom'
'flour oath)
market. ..
CVM Per SackEvery Sack Jarantecd :
POSTLAHD OFFICE 531 LUMBER EXCHANGE
Fkeas Feclfle est.
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Bessie Tannehill, the Cbarming Prima
Company at the Heilig. Miu Tannehill Has Made a Most Decided Hit
.With Portland Theatre-Goerg by! Her Exquisite Singing and Her Chic
Manner. ..' .. .'. . . ' , ' . ', '
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HarrimanOrganltiny; Force of
One Thousand to Labor on
Railway Extensions.:-rt
COOS BAY ROAD WILL V
f" BE SCENE OF ACTIVITY
Right-of-Way Is Now Being Oearad
and Contracts for Construction Will
Be Let This Week by Chief En.
gineer Hood. - ' .
Efforts being 'put forth by Harrlman
representatives at.. Chicago to organise
a force of 1.000 men and bring them to
Oregon to work on railroad extensions
have proved partly, successful. , Several
hundred men will b secured, and ac
tivity on-construction work will b n-
ereased. The' Harrlman eompanlea have
an. immense amount of work to do this
year. Th most pressing Is th con
struction of ths Coo bay extension
front Drain. Right of way la being
cleared, and contracts will be let this
week by Chief Engineer Hood of the
Southern Facinc. ....
The work will probably be done by
Erickson . at Peterson, who have the
Riparla-Lewis ton grading ,. contracts.
They have established headquarters In
new offices in the Commonwealth build.
Ing and are permanently - locatad ' In
Portland. Their headquarters ware for
merly in San Francisco.. The Coos bay
extension has aroused more Interest In
Oregon than any ' other extension pro
posed by tn Hamman eompanlea" it
is conceded that thla road will open a
larger and richer country than any rail-
road xtension now under way. .; - -'
' District Xs Wealthy... '
, Coo and Curry counties, through
which the proposed Harrlman line is
surveyed, are enormously wealthy In
natural . resources. . Th railroad will
tap tha valleys of the Coqullle and the
Umpqua, as well- as th great basin sur
rounding coo nay proper. ,. This, is s
well watered country, with rich soil, s
salubrious climate, progressive people,
and everything but rail connections to
make It prosperous. . It has vast areas
of coal, timber and strong indications
of oil. There are thousands of acres
Grocer For
For over SO yean
the faoorlte
v Family, flour
Wlnaer of
medals and
diplomas st
Omaha, .
atvffale, -
Ohavlastoa,
Japan aad
tVewls aad
Clark Hxpo
attloas, - '
Balstoa Cos, Besides Maasffer.
ASTERfl-r.lEn-TO
IMKlIiOREGOIl
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Makes th'
whitest .
bread Sad '
finest oak ,
aad pastry. ,
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Donna With the Kendall Musical
that have never been trod by th foot
of the whit man. . -
I. J. B. MeClellan af Ohio, whn WHS s
visitor at Coos bay during th recent
farmers congress, ; waa In Portland yea
terdayr en rout to th east. - He sald
I believe Coo bay has a great future
and In proof of it X will place my son
there In business. We have purchased
the business of the Coo Bay Mail, th
daily paper at Marahfleld. andconaull
dated - with the Advertiser. We will
make a first-class little dally-paper for
me communuy. ir. leaver, Formerly
editor of the -Mail, retain his type
setting machine, press and ' printing
plant, and will do commercial printing.
We will put in a linotype, and otherwise
Improve the plant of the consolidated
dally. i : ;i . ;. . -, .-. r-
tooa bay la a country of wonderful
resources. .- Th young man who with
amall amount of capital and push lo-
sates there now will be rich In alx or
seven years. ' The conditions there fully
warrant this statement. There la but
on possible drawback the chanc for
Jealousies and bickering between the
neighboring cltloa. ., Th rur way to
make a great city at Coos bay In th
quickest possible tlm is for all th
towns on th peninsula to unite' under
on nam, and pull together," v
PART OF MONUMENT
FUND STILL REMAINS
After paying th costs of th erec
tion of th monument to th soldiers of
th - Second Oregon who fell in battle
In the Philippines th committee In
charr of th monument fund finds it
self with a balance of 11,1 J.4S--- on
hand. Tb committee recommends (hat
this sum b turned over to the mayor
of Portland as trustee, to b placed at
Interest and th re van u derived to be
used for th car and preservation of
th monument Th .. monument will
have to be cleaned every year, and th
committee believe th Income from th
trust fund will be ample for th pur
pose. ;.--',!.'. , ! . . i ' ' V.
. Tha total, amount contribute! for th
erection or tn monument - was fit
04.S. . Cltlsens and school children
Contributed 114.04 6 and th Woodman
of th World I1.1JI.v5. Interest on th
fund-amounted to ll,81t.0. Th monu
ment cost $14,aoalTho commute paid
Douglas Ttlden and E. 8. Coxhead of
Ban FranclscO $1,000 for . thq , design,
and Mr. . Tllden J5.000 for . th statu.
The granite work coat $8,000. ..inciden
tal expenae. th cost of a cement i walk
around th monument and th expense
of the dedicatory exercises on Memo
rial day amounted to $7ZZY . . .
GENERAL COMMITTEE
EXTENDS ITS THANKS
The general .' committee on Memorial
day exercises from th post of th
Grand Army of th Republic of th city
desire to extend thank to th generous
citizen ho contributed funds to meet
th axpenae of th . day's observance
that waa ao well attended; to Mrs. D. P.
Thompson for th donation of 10 car
riage for th us of disabled comrade;
to th Oregonlan, Telegram and Journal
for gratuitous notices; to William J.
Btandley, who gave th musle nn th
march: to the Veterans' double quartet
and Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Hamilton, for
muslo st' th cemetery to the Rev. F.
Burgett Short for hi address which
met a hearty rommendatioa; to Levi w.
Myers for his $bl poem; to th detach
meat O. ' N. (i. and- - bugler., and to
Colonel C. U. Gantenbeln. their com
manderand Jo-all and every one who
reaponded so heartily to any and every
teguest i mad 1 on behalf of ths-corn
mitte. that .contributed' to make th
service - fitting 'and commemorative, a
unanimous vote of thanks was given.
. T. I WIEOAND, Chairman. (
' D. i. HAYNE8, Becretary.
, ' i i s i s mails; - V
-ftl Banff Hot Springs.
Passengers 'going east via th Cana
dian Pacific have an opportunity to aee
Banff, th moat attractive mountain "r
sort on tha North American continent
Excursion tickets now on sale to eastern
points give yoir stopover at thla point,
a wall aa Glacier, Lakes In th Clouds,
Field and the wonderful Toho valley, all
of which are recognised by th traveling
public as being th greatest soenle at
tractions in th world. ; 1 , . -
Very 4ow excursion rates from Port
land to Banff Hot Springs and return.
Lea than 41 hours' rid from Portland.
For descriptive matter and fuH partic
ulars, call on or address F. R. Johnson,
F. P. A Portland. Oregon. . -.
Th ateal X a tat a Columns of Th
Journal at' la tart sting- f bayer aad
Miss Phoebe Cousins Speaks Plainly
, . and to the Point on Temperance, i :
Every day leems to bring us nearer
a sane, sensible and practical solution
of ' th temperance question In the
United Btatea More than on noted
apeaker and thinker have of late ahown,
a leaning to a practical rather, than a
theoretical effort to aid In th cause of
temperance, poe of th most noted
women of our . day and age la Miss
Phoebe Cousins, for a' quarter of a cen
tury th leader In th woman's suffrage
movement In th west. 'Hh' recently
aid: "There never will be a law to
compel prohibition, - and th aenslble
thing- for th Woman Christian Tem
perance Union to do I to aid in - the
substitution of mild, nourishing drinks
like beer, which aeldom produce drunk
enness." , ? y,''... ;
This broad assertion t. may , bring a
storm of criticism from .th fanatical
upon this devoted woman's head, but
In tha end tha : living -truth-ot he
word will ' prevail. ' Bhe la bom out
In her statement by statistic. It has
been .clearly shown that with- th In
creased us of malt beverage In this
country there ha been a -gorree pond
ing- decrease In intemperance. .
Recently a prominent army orBcer in
th met operated aanteene at three dif
ferent army posts at . which only bear
waa sold no alcoholic liquors whatever
were allowed. He made . th canteen
so acceptable to th soldier who found
beer satisfying their demands, that he
actually ran all th low divas-of th
aurrounding neighborhood out of busi
ness. . Tat It Sraa through th efforts
of tha W. C T. U. that th army can
teens were driven out. . Let us bop
th many noble women comprising th
W. C T. U. will be broad-minded enough
to raoegnla their mistake and Join Miss
Cousins and others -who are slnoerely
striving to stem th tide of intemper
ance by th substitution of mild, h arm
Is s beer for strong; drink. In this con
nection It might be wall to mention that
chemical analysis shows , Pabat Blue
Ribbon Bear, which Is perhaps th beat
known of all bottled beers, to contain
only a fraction over t per cant alcohol
as on eminent physician puts It, "Just
enough for a good tonic effect to the
stomach, while in food valu It Is far
superior on account of . the Pabat ex
clusive elgbt-day proceas of making
malt" - . - : " '.
CHABXBS KOHK CO. .
Mala 44M
. , Cevwer Third aad Pia
Pabat Blu Ribbon Beer '
WHBtV ORDERIHO ASKrOB PABST
DEATH AND DISEASE AMDNB
. COLLEGE GRADUATES
Two Members of Senior Class at
Northwestern Are Dead; and
. .. Twenty-Seven tlir ? v
(Joeraat tpeetal Bervtee.)
Chicago, June 12. Death and disease
have laid hands on th graduating fes
tivities of "tha, senior claaa of North-'
western university. Two members have
died within a short time, on la dying,
two others have been sent away with
nervous prostration and 87 ar severely
111. - ,.'.'-'.
Som of - th conspicuous Instances
of th misfortune of th senior class
of IS- parsons show: . V
Oliver a. Hubbard, prealdent of th
claaa died a ahort tlm ago with typhoid
fever; Mlas Emma Theodora Patten- oho
of th mast popular coed, and daughter
oil the acting president, died a weak
ago from blood-polsanlng; . R. Hojo, a
Japanese student, who won distinction
by completing a five-year - course " in
three year, la dying in the-hospital
with tuberculosis; Miss Lucy May Arm
strong has been ent to her hom In
Ottawa, -Canada, with nervous prostra
tion; Miss Edith -Hoag .has been Sent to
her horn In Des Moines with nervous
prostration. . . ' ; f
- Both coeds snd . men Students have
devoted themselves to their work . In
th last few months with such serious
ness that their health hea tailed., -
Xast month one Houiton firm shipped
zi carioaaa or cooperate and th email
mills near town shipped tt carloads of
Uumber. - .' : - . ,:' , X - . ,.
meatwisswn Mocker S
Here Is a Rocker special that will make the buying public sit up and think. It is in "massive "Mission design, just like cut ' Prom a St.
Louis house dosing out its business we secured 100 of these splendid Mission' Rockers at less than the wholesale price. " We art glad to give
our customers the benefit of this "great buy" and shall place them on sale tomorrow morning and for the remainder of the week at half their
.usual jrice.You will get a ''" ' 'Xr'y Zl- V''-'; ; ;f r-'"'' 'r T"v
... a lasviiiiiiiiiiitii - - p--.
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'!VC-v:iV"!'-- f-O''- ''rJ-'-'V
for; your SPRING SUITU you
good . ones
Suppose -you come in tomorrow and see. -
Or
mm 11
we are , selling at
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(f ) IVIIDDIUN (h
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'.FOR ONLY...:. ;aT
This is without doubt 'one of the greatest
Portland. For the remainder of this
100 of-theee-Weathered -Oak Rockers,-
vwhepe for $9, at the low price of . ........
W-4av-Chairs to-mstch thie Rocker at
sCf;rwA CAAI
JL.ciia7Q JiwU tvany $1.00 a Week
: - ' 'T'' 0EVURTZ SELLS
173-175 First S. :.
knew what;
Ithis, price.-
THIRD AND
OAK t
pedM
(A''
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Rocker specials ever offered In
week we offer
whlch-sellielae
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-only v; . . ,.f .00
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$1.00 Dom
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IT FOR LESS "
219-227 Yamhill
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seller silk.'