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The labor world., 1898-01-29
Building Trades Council.

The council met Wednesday evening
and among the items of business acted
upon was the Endorsement Of the boycott
on the "A. j. Anderson Wood & Coal
company for the non-employmet of
union labor. There were some rather
heated remarks over the delay in taking
this action. it being claimed that the
carpenters fled their grievance over q
month ago. # +
Two requests from national headquar
ters were endorsed !, one a petition for
the defeat by congress of the anti.scalp-
ing law; the other, an effort to secure
legislation for the safety Of workingmen
employed on building. ~.
Secretary Heller announced that the
charter Of affiliation with the National
Building Trades Council would arrive
in few days. .*-s. K
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State of Minnesota, Supreme Court,
st. Paul, Jan uary q, 1898 Dear Capt.
Pressnell: I am in receipt Of your letter
asking about Mr.. w. NJ. Abrahamson of
your city. 1 know him we'll, having
made his acquaintance long before he
located in Duluth. He has always been
an enterprising citizen and Of good re-
pute among his neighbors. [ consider
him an honest, upright and deserving
man. His ability and general intelli-
gence ought not to be questioned,
.. >- Truly yours,
, -a-5 L. w. COLLINS.
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Boycott Settled.

The boycott on the Imperial Mill
company was declared off last night by
the trades assembly in consequence of
an agreement between the coopers'
union at the head of the lakes and the
Herzog Wired Hoop Company. The
demands of the union were conceded,
the price of making barrels being ad-
vanced one cent each, the employment
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Boycott Case.

: Judge Edson's impartiality and good
judgement in disposing of the Lyceum
boycott case was such as to commend
itself to all classes. He does not seem
to fear or favor but to be actuated solely
by a desire to Le just and considerate
of all classes and interests.
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TELEPHONE
FRANCHISE,
On November I, 1897, TrueI'
son Favored the Telephone :
.5..I-
Franchise. ".
He Stands Today Where h<
Did Thon "A Corporation
Tool. .. r.

Mayor Truelsen seeks to make polltl.
cal capital out Of Mitchell's vote for the
Prindle gas franchise. How about Mr.
Truelsen himself?
Mr.. Mitchell has pledged himself
through his platform to the policy Of
city ownership of city franchises. He
is "a man who has kept, and, therefore,
we are justified in believing that he will
keep his promises. The Prindle fran.
chise was granted in 1895, before the
sentiment for city ownership Of such
utilities had been developed, and when
the most practical men in the city be.
lieved that well-guarded franchises
were the only: way such utilities could
be obtained. Moreover, the franchise
provided for the payment by the COM
pany to the city of ten per cent, not Of
the net, but of the gross receipts. :
Now, what's Truelsen's record? He's
running on a platform that. like Mr..
Mitchell's, commits him to city owner.
ship. There, however, the similarity
ends. Mr.. Mitchell is practical man.
an honest man, man who means and
does what he says. Mr.. Truelsen is a
demagog, a corporation tool; platforms
are to him only means to get in on, and
his promi ises are not worth the graphite
consumed in writing them down short.
hand. Alongside of Mitchell's vote on
the Prindle franchise, with it's 10 per
cent gross receipt clause, stands up
Truelsen's slong distance telephone
record. ,&u IT,. 49,.
Nov. 1 is still less than three months
of. At that date the sentiment for city
ownership Of city utilities was practic-
ally as strong sand as well-known as
now. Mr.. Truelsen then, as now, was
committed in the most emphatic terms
to such policy. What is his record?
He endorsed and :exerted his influence
to grant the notorious Bell telephone
monopoly thirty-year franchise, and
the very best he could do for the city
was three per cent on the gross earnings
and not that much until the city should
have attained a population Of 100000.
A known tool of the franchise ring in
troduced the ordinance in the council,
and Alderman Richardson declared
that the ordinance was all right, for the
mayor had examined it and 1t had his m
qualified endorsement. ss.-s-- u ..
y Other city officials bear similar testi-
mony as to the mayors examination
and endorsement. Truelsen was party
to the scheme and no doubt was prom.
lsed his reward. And what was the
scheme? .s,
The local franchise which is owned
by the Bell company soon expires. and
it's owners want another thirty years
lease of plunder. Under false pretenses
the company came before the council
with local franchise deftly concealed
inside the long distance franchise.
Mayor Truelsen stood sponsor for this
steal, and with him stood list
of Doodle aldermen ready to earn their
divy in the carnival of corruption.
When the ordinance reached Assistant
City Attorney Rustgard, however, the
jig was up and it has not been heard
from since. More than that, the tracks
of the conspiratcrs were uncovered and
Henry Truelsen. who so bombastically
parades himself as foe to corporations,
caught red-handed in the act, stands
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Little Peppers.

"--F... - Little Peppers. III
The unfair committee will make a
warm crusade against the Morning
Leader and expect TO win out in a
short time. 81,
A large crowd attended the dance
given by the Brotherhood of Holders-on
at Maryland hall, Tuesday evening.
Packers and nailers' union will meet
in regular session next Sunday after.
noon at Agen hall.
The Trades and Labor Assembly will
publish a list of the merchants who ad-
vertise in the Superior Leader.
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pilloried before the people of Duluth as
desperate and shameless tool of the
very corporations he processes to hate.
SUPERIOR.

regular meeting in Union hall, Ham
mond block, Tuesday evening, Presiden
P. Weiss in the chair. After the read
ing of the minutes of8the previous meet
ing the credentials of Henry Stoudt
P. X. Smith and Henry Abraham, of th'
retail clerks union, were read and dele
gates obligated; also the credentials O
O. E. Lundlie and E. J. Meagher, dele
gates from Duluth Trades Assembly.
The state of trade as reported by the
different unions was as follows: Cigar
makers, absent; coopers, dull; packers
and nailers, dull; retail clerks, dull
boiler makers, progressing; tailors, fair
printers, dull; pioneer. fair; steamtitters
good, cooper machine workers, dull
holders on, dull; longshoremen, No. 81
dull; laundry workers, fai-; carpenters
dull; flour millers, absent; longshore-
mon, No. q, dull.
Communication from the American
Federation of Labor acknowledging re-.
ceipt of money for the striking engin.
GERS in England, and the Forum Pub.
fishing Co., were received and filed.
The unfair committee reported prog
ress in work against Armor Packing
Co., Gund Brewing Co., American Bis
cult Co. and the Superior Leader. A
list of the business men who advertise
in the Leader will be read to the assem-
bly, each meeting and their names pub
lished in the Union Label Advocate. The
committee also reported that the date Of
meeting had been changed to the second
and fourth Sundays Of the month at
2:30 p. m. %.g..-. l.tH "a.
The. report of the committeeEhaving
in charge the plumbing inspection reso-
luton was received and the committee
given further time to act in the matter
with the assistance of the legislative
committee. aa,, ii. . H..
The election IF officers resulted as
follows: President, P. T. ,Amley; vice
president, A. Lindberg; recording secre-
tary, P. Wless; financial secretary, P. K.
Smith; treasurer, A. Fighmuller; statis-
tician, J. o. Hall; sergeant alarms, F.
j. Dow; trustees, G. Q. Parker, P. J.
McKel zie, Hugh Mcdonald.
Il P. X. Smith, of the retail clerks, and
F. J. Dow, of the steamftters, were ap-
pointed members of the unfair commit
tee. liz .,. 3'a
Under the head of new business the
president announced the following COM
mittee appointments:
7 Legislative, McKeague; Hudson; or
ganization, Butler, Mcdonald, Calf,
Dow, Rafter; constitution, Lindberg,
Hall. Mcneil; press, Hall, Calf; Du-
luth delegates, Wiess, Hudson.
A list of East End business men and
others who patronize cheap Chinese
laundries was read to the assembly and
referred to the East End delegates.
The matter Of making arrangements
for having President Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, and
President Ratchford, of the United
Mine Workers, was referred to the dele
gates to Duluth. .5
Is. .,,,f,%55 +. BELL PEPPER.
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The Worm Was Up Late.

q
A father was lecturing his son on
the evil of staying out late at night
and rising late in the morning.
"You will never succeed, he said,
unless you mend your ways. Re-
member, the early bird catches the
worm.' ~.
"And what about the worm, fa-
therf" said the young man sneer-
ingly. Wasn't he rather foolish
in getting up SO earlyf'
my son, said the old man. ''that
worm hadn't been to bed at all He
was only getting home"
The young man coughed.-Pitts~
burg Chronicle.
Lets sees you married Darling
tons widow, didn't youS"'
yep"
"But you always said you'd never
marry a ready made wife. "
"Well, I found out afterward that
this one was made to order. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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LOCAL NOTES.

The West End clerks will hold al
open meeting at the Sloan block Thurs
day evening. President Nc Even OF tn
Trades Assembly will make an address
The iron moulders of Duluth ant
Superior together number about q
craftsmen and it is expected that they
will cor;ointly form union in thf
near future.
The stonemasons held meeting Sat
urday evening in krauses hall or
Fourth street. About thirty-tive crafts
men we're in attendance and a temper
ary organization was effected.
Duluth spreads over too much space
for a single Union in some of the crafts
to cover. An effort is on foot to gel
permission for a separate organization
for the West Duluth BARRIERS.
A meeting will be held next week IN
the Office of the Union Men Insurance
company, Palladio building, to organize
a union under the jurisdiction OF the
American Agents association.
The broommakers meet next Sunday
afternoon at the factory, corner 32nd
ave. west and 3rd street, to effect an
organization. President McEwen will
be on hand to discuss tho benefits OF
trades unions.
The Duluth local of the United Brew
cry Workers has extended its jurisdic'
ton to the city across the bay and as q
result seven new members, representing
two breweries, have been added to their
ranks.
The cuban cigarmakers employed by
the firm of Ron, Fernandez & Co., are
still out. The firm claims to pay the
same wages in vogue in New York and
Chicago, and the men claim that there
is difference of from 50 to 81 per
thousand.
Next Friday evening, February 4, the
Trades Assembly Economic club will
discuss, "Help Yourself, or Voluntary
Cooperation" The free silverites, the
single takers and the socialists have had
their innings and this time is the an
archists opportunity. -
State Organizer McEwen has been
devoting considerable spare time OF late
to looking up opportunities for new
unions with the result that there are
good prospects for large increase in
the Trades Assembly family. Among
those in sight are the stonemasons, up
town clerks, agents, broom makers,
West Duluth BARRIERS, blacksmiths,
bookbinders and bindery girls and the
iron moulders. ~,
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DAMNABLE SCHEME.
Why Some People Are Fighting
so Hard for True1.
Their Cry for Municipal Own.
ership an Outrageous
Fraud.

Under tho new charter tho
mayor of Duluth will bo vested
with tremendous political pow
er. He will not only control tho
appointment Of practically all
city officers without tho con.
sent of tho council, but he Will
have control of tho gas and
water plant and It's many om.
ployes.-Herald, Jan. 20, 1898.
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Mr.. Cobb called upon z. H. Austin
who said that the corporations extended
to the Socialist Labor Party the hand
Of fellowship, although bitterly oppos-
ing trades unionism and: the peoples
party. He advocated resistance to the
tendency Of industrial evolution, and
the labor saving methods of concentrat-
ed production; in the main his ideas Of
reform being typified by the statement
that 20 small mills would be better than
one big Imperial. He taffied the pure
and simplers, endorsed the union label
and closed with an appeal for the
peoples party.
Mr.. Thiel replied briefly. The pre-
vious speaker had evidently never read
single socialistic work, Schoepenhaur,
the author mentioned by Mr.. Austin,
being philosopher and not an economic
writer. Socialism did not curtail in
dividual activity, but merely permitted
it to follow more freely it's own inclina-
tions. The kind of individ dualism Mr..
Austin advocated we had hundred
years ago. and the greatest boast of our
generation is the distance we have
gotten away from it. Under socialism
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To Cure Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All Druggists refuna the money
if it fails to cure. Csc. s. /.
Evening star., 1898-08-11
RUSSIA OUTWITS ENGLAND
Cars Minister at Peking Upsets the British
Concessions
BalfOur Confesses That the Old ReIa-
tive Superiority Cannot he Main
tanned in the Empire.

The Peking correspondent of the London
Times says:
The Tsung Ii Yamen has given formal
assent to all the conditions imposed by the
Russian charge d'affaires, NJ. Pavloff. re-
garding the contract for the New-Chwang
railway extension loan. These conditions
are in direct conflict with the terms of the
signed contract, and are designed to block
the completion of the final contract.
m. Pavloff's conditions as to the New
Chwang railway are that the line should
not be mortgaged security, and that no
foreign control or interference should be
permitted even in case of a default. So far
as the Peking Han Kow contract is con-
cerned, separate agreement appoints as
arbitrator in any disputed question the
minister in Peking of the country having
the largest financial interest In It, This
gives the Russian minister absolute power"
The Times, commenting on the dispatch
OF its PekinG correspondent, says: m. Paw
loft has knocked the bottom out of the
British concessions. The news makes short
work of all Mr.. Balfours demonstrations
en- the subject of the open door,"
In the house of commons yesterday Sir
CharIes Dixie, advanced radical, opened an
attack upon the governments foreign
policy. Sir William Vernon Harcourt fol-
lowed in the same strain. The government
leader, MIR. Balfour, replying to the last
speaker, contended there was no evidence
OF preference having been given to foreign
manufacturers or traders in China, nor of
an intention to put up barriers against
British subjects.
1t was impossible, he said, to foresee
now the struggle for concessions would
end; but he saw no reason for the pessi-
mistic views entertained in some quarters
Regarding Shan-Tung, Mr.. Baifour said:
we must treat Germany as We expect
her to treat u.s.
saw no necessity for taking a pessimistic
view of the situation, and he would be sur
prised if the British concessionaires did not
get their full share.
Mr.. Balfour's speech appears to have
been intended as statement of the gov
ernment's policy in China, which the oppo-
siuon has been demanding before the close
OF parliament. He did not enter into de-
tails of the complications, and the drift of
his explanation was that the governments
critics expected impossbilities.
In the course of his remarks Mr.. Balfour
said IL could not be pretended that the
British empire alone, or in alliance with an
other empire, could prevent the legitimate
development of other commercial and mil
itary empires. Mr.. Balfour then said:
Though We may not anticipate main
tanning our cid relative superiority In
China, it is expected that the volume of
British trade will increase as rapidly in the
future as in the past. The question of
equal facilities of trade is distinct from the
question of concessions"
Evening star., 1898-08-11
DEWEY's LETTER OF THANKS.

Writes Representative Livingston of
Georgia Expressing His Gratitude.
Representative Livingston of Georgia has
received at Atlanta the following letter
from Admiral Dewey:
FLAGSHIP OLYMPIA, OFF CAVITE,
"PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, June II.
my Dear Sir: I have just learned from
the last papers that / am indebted to you
for the Introduction in the House of Rep
resentatives of the resolutions extending
to me the thanks of Congress for the naval
engagement of Manila bay, May l.
Il need hardly tell you that 1 am most
sincerely grateful to you as the author of
that resolution, bringing, as 1t does, the
highest honor that can come to an Amer
ican naval officer in his professional career.
But it is 4 great pleasure TO acknowledge
my debt of gratitude and to thank you in
unstfnted measure for the part you took in
obtaining for me that greatest distinction.
1T Is source of additional pleasure to
me, Vermonter, that the mover of the
resolution was not a man from the north,
but one from the far south. This is one
of the good signs of the times. In the hour
of danger there Is no south, no north, but
one united country. May we never hear of
sectionalsm again. There are no lines
draWn in the navy. / need not say it may
interest you to know that my flag lieuten-
ant, Lieut.. Brumby, is a Georgian by birth
and appointment
Again thanking you most cordially, re-
main very gratefully and sincerely.
GEORGE DEWEY"
Evening star., 1898-08-11
DEPARTMENT OF SANTIAGO.
Major General LavvtOn Assigned to
the Command


A department of the army to be known
as the Department of Santiago, has been
created, and Major General Lawton is as
signed to it's command. Brigadier General
Wood will continue in command in the city
of Santiago.
Brigadier Generals Leonard Wood and
Ezra p. Ewers, United States Volunteers,
will report to Major General Henry W.
Lawton, United States Volunteers, for duty
in the Department of Santiago.
The officers of the several staff depart
ments. now On duty with the general Off
GERS above named, are temporarily assign
ed to like duties at their respective head
quarters.
The assignment of General Lawton to the
command of the new department does not
AFFECT General Skaters command. The
entire 9TH Army Corps commanded by Shaf-
ter had been ordered to the United States
and General Shafter will return with it.
NO part of the troops constituting the 9TH
Corps, will be kept in Cuba. Quite natural
ly, as long as General Shafter remains al
Santiago, he will be in command of the
forces there. When he leaves he will turn
over the command to General Lawton. The
orders issued to Shafter and Lawton with
reference to the new department direct
them to agree as to the time when the
command shall be changed.
10 General Lawton will be assigned two
br1gadeS of infantry, which will constitute
the permanent garrison of Santiago city
and province. OF these brigades i've regi-
ments have been selected They are the
1st, ID Sd and 9TH Immunes, commanded,
respectively, by Colonels Richie, Hood, Ray
and Sargent, and the Sth Illinois, colored,
commanded by Colonel Marshall. 1t is not
unlikely that the Goth New York, COM
manded by Colonel Duffy, now at Fernan-
dina, Fla, may be selected as the 9Th Regi-
ment. Colonel Duffy has rendered the ser
vices of his regiment in the following teIe-
gram to General Corbin:
FERNANDINA, Fla, August 10, 1885,
Adjutant General. Washington D. c.:
Request that 69th New York Regiment
be sent to Santiago. Is needed to take
place of sick and wounded.
DUFFY, Commanding.
To this dispatch General Corbin sent the
following reply late last night:
Adjutant Generals Office,
Washington, August 10, 1S9S
Colonel Duffy, Commanding 69th New York
Volunteers, Fernandina, Fla:
Your telegram requesting that your regi-
ment be sent to Santiago has been received
The Secretary of War directs me to make
known his lively appreciation of this action
on your part and to say that the matter is
now under consideration.
{Signed) H. G. CORBIN,
Adtutant General
Evening star., 1898-08-11
BREAKING UP BIG CAMPS.
Orders Issued to Many of the VOlun
teer Regiments.

Orders Issued to Many of the VOlun-
teer Regiments.
The Secretary of War has ordered one di-
vision of the 1st Army Corps from Chatta-
nooga to Knoxville, Tenn, and another di-
vision of the same corps from Chicka-
mauga to Lexington. A division of
the 4th Corps, now at Tampa, has
been ordered to Huntsville, Ala. The ID
Division General Davis) of the I'd Army
Corps, now at Manassas, Va, has been or
dered to Mddletown, Pa The INSTABILITY
of marching the troops from Chickamanga
to Knoxville and Lexington is under con-
sideration.
The division ordered to Knoxville is the
Cd. and consists of the following regiments:
31st Michigan, 1st Georgia 9Th Ohio. I5Sth
Indiana, 1st West Virginia, I'd Ohio, 1st
Pennsylvania and 14th Minnesota.
The Sd Division, ordered to Lexington
consists of the 18th Minnesota, 9th Penn
sylvania, Sth Mississippi 21st Kansas 18th
New York, 9th Pennsylvania, I'd Missouri
and 1st New Hampshire
The troops of the 4th Corps, ordered from
Tampa to Huntsville, Ala, are the Sd Penn
sylvania, 157th Indiana, 5th Ohio, I'd New
York, 32d Michigan, 69th New York and
Sd Ohio.
The troops of the ID Corps, ordered from
Manassas to Middletown, Pa, are the 159th
Indiana, 32d Kansas, Sd New York, 9th
AHA, tll A1iSSOuil, IN 1iIilolS, Isl
Rhode Island, Sd Missouri and I'd Tennes-
see.
The 1st Ohio and the 5th United States
Cavalry are ordered from Tampa to Mon
tauk Point.
The 4th Kentucky, Colonel Colson, COM
manding, has been ordered from Lexington
to Jacksonville and attached to the 7th
Corps
The movement of these troops is in ac-
cordance with the plans of the War De-
partnent to break up the large camps and
spread the troops about the country.