The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-18
public through your paper what it is
that hurts the trade of Duluth.

Is it organized labor which wants
living wage for the wage-workers of
Duluth and who buy their food by the
pound and their raiment by the gar
ment on a cash basis at the dearest
price and the most profit to the store
keeper, or is it those grumbling and
gambling business men whose wives
go to St. Paul or Chicago for their
bonnets and children's clothing and
who themselves cannot see a hat that
is worth buying outside of New York
or Boston, or butter and eggs, nearer
than the farming community OIL Wis
consin or Southern Minnesota, with
out it must he obtainable on months
credit if bought in Duluth store.
Does organized labor hurt Duluth
by receiving only pay for labor per-
formed by actual service in some USE
full occupation, Or is it this organized
scheming class that walk around in
creased pants and shaves a living out
of organized labor, and still more, out
of unorgnized labor by swapping lots,
or paying some of Duluth's daughters
to bottle bogus Castoria at the NUM-
ticent pay of soc a day in some whole
sale drug factory.
Does organized labor hurt Duluth
by buying homes and making i'm
provements on Duluth property, or is
it this complaining class who live on
speculations, neither toll or spin
without it is at roulette) but who
have badgered our city council to
build sidewalks on country roads to
enhance the selling price of their out
side property for boom purposes, and
who, when asked to pay for their i'm
provements, advised their principals
eastern speculators) not to pay only
at rebate,and when refused this kind
of settlement carried their cases into
court at the expense of the taxpayers
who were honest enough to pay their
taxes, and who now turn on organized
labor, they well knowing that its men,
bers in their individual capacity de-
feated their attempt to foist their
henchmen on our county and city
offices where they could do the most
good for their patrons.
Does organized labor hurt Duluth
by trying to grow up it's families in
Duluth, or is it this unorganized labor
employed by organized capital in our
pineries, who receive time checks due
in Minneapolis next May for their pay
at about the rate of SIG per month,
which with their board averages about
$26 per month, and it not being
enough to keep family, they cash it
at a great sacrifice in Duluth and
which cash they generally spend IN
riotous living and with no real benefit
to Duluth, but great deal of worry
and anxiety to the families of organic
ed labor who, by their occupation are
compelled to live in the heart of the
city and help bear all the burden and
annoyance. Again, this So per thous-
and assisted lumber industry, through
this improvident and unorganized
class of underpaid labor entices to Du-
luth class undesirable people who
are more trouble than profit, by rea-
son of the above riotous living, which
increases our taxes and police ex-
penses, and endangers the public well
fare.
Does organized labor hurt Duluth
by encouraging the individual effort
of the citizen to get an honest living
for his family, or is it this combine
which hurts Duluth by starting up de-
rartment stores here some years ago,
with the avowed object of crowding
out the small individual store, and
with the result that if you want any
choice in making purchases you must
go to these department stores to be
waited on by late storekeeper, who
is now a poor salaried clerk, working
under the eye of foor-waiker, or
w:ited on by girl who earns enough
to keep herself dressed well enough to
hold her position, and whose father
probably earns her board by working
on the streets of Duluth as member
of organized labor, if she does not
earn it herself after business hours
at the expense of the city's morality.
Is it in Duluth's interest that or
ganized labor shall work s, or 10
hours for living wage on cash
basis or is it to Duluth's interest that
we should adopt the lumberman's
schedule for it's unorganized labor
which rises at 4 a. m. and returns to
camp at p. M, all for the grand
total of 81 per day, not enough to
keep a single man in Duluth and
which wage bars a family man from
going to the woods to keep his family
III Duluth or anywhere else