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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-12-08
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A determined effort is being made to
unionize the Novelty Advertising COM
panies at Coshocton, Ohio.
It is said that Dondon, Ont, has
fifty-two labor organizations with
membership Of about 1000.
The New Jersey Federation of Trades
and Labor unions have declared in IA
vor of a state printing office.
Siegel-CoOper COmpany's great de-
partment house, New York, the largest
in America, is union throughout
One hundred central labor unions
have affiliated with the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor during the past year.
Clerks unions of New York are agi-
| tating for the Introduction of the ten
hour day. At present all hours are the
rule.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
| ters will take a referendum vote on the
question of pensioning members over
sixty years of age.
| The New Albany, Ind, city council
| has adopted a resolution providing that
the union label shall be placed upon
all city printing.
| Street railway employees Of Terre
Haute secured an advance of one cent
an hour ana recognition of their union
| through arbitration.
j The industrial arbitration court OF
New Zealand recently decided that
female and male compositors must be
Il paid the same wages.
Il According to Labor Commissioner
Carroll D. Wright, there are $500 OO(
men who are willing and anxious t.
work OUT Of employment.
A servant girls union has been form.
ed in Water town, N. Y, on a basis Of
hours from a. m. to p. m, and $40(
and $500 per week as wages
The strike of the electrical worker!
} at Waco, Texas, against the South
( western and Independent telephone
} companies still continues.
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Bookkepcrs and accountants OF
minneapolis have organized.
Journeymen Brewers union have
over $4,000 in their treasury.
Twenty five laundries We're closed in
Chicago recently by the trust.
An allied building trades council
has been formed in Reading, Pa.
4 union of drivers OF newspapers wa
CONS has been formed in Chicago.
The convention of the Coopers union
was held in Boston on October Sth.
Youngstown painters union has is
sued cards advertising union shops.
The Home Builders League is finding
converts in many rural districts.
The cotton workers Of the City Of
Mexico have struck for higher wages:
Wood Carvers granted charters to I'M
ions in Toronto and Philadelphia.
The Brotherhood Of Painters and
Decorators claim a membership of over
$4,000.
The oil and gas we'll workers of
North Baltimore, Ohio boast a union
100 strong.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-12-08

Employees of flour mills at Toledo,
Ohio, have organized under a. +. Of
L.. charter.
Printers unions contributed $6,612.73
to support the Galveston flood sufferers
Of their craft.
Patternmakers Of Cincinnati have
been locked out for demanding an in
crease Of wages.
4 Women's Union Label League has
been organized at San Antonio, Texas.
Let's have one here.
Upholsters have secured the eight
hour day with a minimum wage of
$500 in San Francisco.
Cigarmakers' International union
now has a membership of over $4,000
and is growing, rapidly.
Patternmakers are requested to stay
! away from: Cincinnati, Louisville and
st. Louis. Trouble is on.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-12-08
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SAID BY G G! !! P
OPENING SESSION OF FEDERATION
OF LABOR. -,

Welcoming Addresses, Reports and
Appointments Of Committees Con-
sumed Most of the Time of Con-
vemti0n Ycnterlay-TOday Fedora
ton Will Get Down to business
In Real Earnest.
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years TO such an extent that almost
all Of the big ones have been taken
and eaten. But there are specimens
here from the Pacific coasts of Asia
which are Of enormous size. There.
is one preserved Japanese crab which
has a spread of IL feet with his
claws. That fellow could have taken
two men, in the water, and killed
them at once. So long as those fell
lows are in those waters, it is fair
to presume that the Japanese ladies
and gentlemen will not disport them
selves in the surf, az, hundreds of thou
sands of our people do at the famous
coast; resorts of this country.
In four gallon jar, tightly slowed
away, there is what is called a cocoa
nut crab. This fellow, with his
companions. was in the habit of going
ashore, climbing cocaoanut trees,
tearing off the outer husks with his
tremendous claws, then knocking in
the shell at one of the eyes, and
drinking the milk. Then it would
crush the shell and scoop out the
meat. It has a long pair of pinchers,
created manifestly for this very pur-
pose. The cocoanut crabs inhabit
the waters and islands of the Indian,
ocean. They pick the fibers of cocoa
nuts and make beds for themselves.
Almost all crabs are fighting an
iraals, ready for battle at all times,
and with all kinds of sea jewellers.
Pint The A~o II ol will 1%
fight if they can avoid it, and nature
has provided them with Quaker hab-
it's, SO that they can avoid trouble. One
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had to be added to the conveniences of
the hall and the seating capacity en-
larged to accommodate 10000 dele
gates and visitors. Desks and seats in
abundance. had to be rented, telegraph
instruments and telephones installed,
and provision made for 600 newspaper
correspondents and artists. In addi-
ton, Mr.. Wiswell is responsible for all
the funds collected for convention pur-
poses, including 100000 subscribed by
the city of Philadelphia.
A week or more before the conven-
ton assemblies, the sergeant-at-arms
has to be on hand to instruct deputies
in their respective duties. Upon his
aides will fall the responsibility of Sc
Letting the lesser employees, but should
any of them fail to perform their du-
ties the blame will be laid at the chiefs
door. To handle the crowds at Phil
adelphia will require two shifts of as
sistants, one for the day, 1.-The other for
the night sessions, the total number
forming good-sized army. There will
be 500 doorkeepers, 1900 assistant SER
geants-at-arms, 500 ushers, $50 pages,
200 messengers and 200 janitors and
housecleaners. The Philadelphia city
government will, in addition, furnish
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democratic convention, which is called.
to convene at kansas City, Mos July
4. The colonel is an experienced hand
at managing big gatherings, having
served al sergeant.at-arms for, NUM-
Der of state conventions and tor the
democratic convention of 1896. He be-
gan, his labors before February, and
had made considerable progress to-
ward getting the big construction halt
in order for the nations democracy
when the fire Of April destroyed the
building completely. For day or
two it looked as though the convention
would have to be held elsewhere, but.
with characteristics western enterprise.
the people ofLKansas City concluded to
rebuild the hall in bigger, better and
handsomer fashion, and assured Col.
Martin that it should be finished by
July 8. 1t will, of course, be impossi-
BILE to have the interior completed by
that time, but everything will be in ap.
ple-pie order for convention purposes.
The stage will have seating capacity
Of 1000, and on the arena floor will be
placed chairs for 5000 delegates, alter
mates. state committees and prom.
inent party men. On either side and in
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little more than 100000 people, fears
were entertained that it would be UNI
able to take care of the thousands of
visitors who usually follow national
conventions, but assurance has been
given to Col. Martin that no one need
60 without good food or comfortable
shelter. The local committee, some
|weeks ago, divided the city into - dis
tricts, and each of these districts is di.
vided into 20 parts; and for each of the
subdivisions precinct captain was ap-
pointed for the purpose of ascertaining
how many visitors could be enter
tanned by private families. The result
of this canvass demonstrated beyond
doubt the city's capacity for housing
and feeding more people than ever at
tended a national convention.
Inquiry among the select" of both
parties discloses that the country at
large will take a deeper interest in
the Kansas City convention than in
the. republican gathering at Phila.
delphia.
"The Philadelphia convention" said
a member of the republican nationa!
committee to the writer. twill be in
the nature of 2 ratification meeting.
President McKinley's. nomination is q
foregone conclusion, and the platform
has been constructed by the adminis-
tration's acts during the past three
years. Therefore the vice presidency
is all that is left for the delegates to
aoff1o or1 that will ~o< h. =.
task. The democrats. on the other
hand, will have two candidates for tho
presidential nomination. I'm of the
opinion that Col. Bryan Will be NOM
mated on the first ballot; still. Ad-
miral Dewey is an uncertain quantity.
Should he be backed openly by Nc
Lean, his Ohio brother-in-law, and the
Cleveland element from the Atlantic
coast states, a deadlock may result,
especially if the time-honored demo-
cratic two-thirds rule is not repealed.
Then, too, there promises to be some
fun over the platform. Trusts will be
made the keynote of the democratic
PLATFORM, and their regulation or ex-
tinction demanded in fiery language.
But the republicans will also advocate
control of capitalistic combinatio
and consequently the great issues be-
tween the parties will be the cur
rency and colonial questions. If there's
going to be any fun at all in this
years conventions, it, will be at
Kansas City, over the money plank.
I think, however, that unless Dewey
displays strength. of which there 10
not now any evidence, both conven-
lions will be social gatherings Of
some magnitude, and nothing more"
G. w. wEIPPIERT.
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CRABS ON TOAST.

specimen looks as though it was COW
cred with whitish moss, which is
something part animal and part vege-
table. Another kind is covered with
growing sponge, all but it's eyes and
the tips of it's claws. So covered, the
crab hi es in crevices where sponge
is growing, and he becomes as much
like the sponge as he can. There is
California crab who has a beautiful
snuff box beneath his body, for car
rying eggs. This box closes with a
snap, exactly like a manufactured
snuff box.
''The messmate" is little bit of a
crab which is usually found inside of
the shell of IN oyster. Epicures re-
gard these as great delicacies. The
men of knowledge who study these
and all other crabs say that the
"messmate" does not feed upon the
oyster, but simply makes its home in
the oysters shell, and eats a part of
whatever the oyster finds to eat: oy-
sters have been appropriately termed
by some good people as the "scaven-
gers of the sea-" and on that &C.
count they will not eat oysters. These
little "messmates" are similar scav-
engers.
Cows 'chew the cud" and are called
Illuminating animals. In one respect
crabs are like unto them. They have
ten legs, eight pairs of jaws, a heart
in the middle of the back, and teeth
in the stomach. With his Jaws the
crab catches and kills his food, and d.
gests it while chewing it in the stom-
ach. Originally crabs had tails, but
they have learned to dispense with
caudal appendages by evolutions
which have required centurines.
In order to keep pace with the de.
mand, thousands of men have for
many years made crab and lobster
catching regular business. Their
success has been so great that the
Atlantic coast has been dredged and
trapped almost to depletion. For the
past ~ years the fish commission has
been artificially Matching and plant
ing along the coast countless millions
of little fellows; and majority of
them are gobbled down by varieties
of fish having tastes as epicurean as
that of man. Besides, the little fell
lows are cannibal-like, and will kill
each other off, the stronger feeding
upon the weaker. It takes a year OF
two for young crabs to attain suffi.
Gent size and strength to defend
themselves or hide away from their
enemies. Hence the fish commission
is confronted with difficulties which
are disheartening.
The next time we indulge in soft
shell crabs on toast we will know
more about what we are eating; like
wise about deviled crabs and lob
| sters. SMITH D. FRY
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MINNESO TA NEWS,
Invested.

xnve8SOOs
The investment sof Z half million
dollars belonging to- the; permanent
school fund and received by the state.
from payment on land certificates and
land sales held by the state auditor
since Jan. 1, has just been completed
by the, state treasurer. The last $780,
600 was invested q few days ago ii
Virginia state bonds, bearing 2 per
cent interest for the first year and 3
per cent thereafter.
Some difficulty has been found, in
securing desirable investments for the
school fund, and as result with the
last investment made, as we'll as pre-
vious ones, it was necessary to pay a
premium on the bonds before they
could be purchased. In all, the state
has invested i'm United States bonds
and the Massachusetts, Alabama,
Delaware. Tennessee, Virginia, state
capital certificates and other miscel-
laneous bonds, over $1,000, o0o.; .
The various school funds also have
as an asset $6,2s0,o 03 due on land con-
tracts, that is, land sold to settlers on
time, bearing a good rate of interest,
making 9 n total of over $4,000, 900
owned by the permanent, general and
permanent university fund.- : "a. =
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rs NOT "A SINECUR}E].
What 1t Means to Manage a Big
49, Political Gathering. '
The Philadelphia and Kansas City
Conventions-Duties That Have
to BE Performed by the Ser
geaAt.at.Arms.
Especial Correspondence. j

AKING arrangements for big
wi political convention is not
child's play. 1t requires exec
utive ability of the highest order and
the exercise of unlimited patience an6
gracious courtesy. For these and other
reasons it is sometimes difficult for the
national committees of the two great
parties to find the right men to whom
may be safely intrusted the manage
ment of their conventions. The gener-
al impression that the chairman and
secretary of the national committee
are in charge of the convention is err
roneous. This duty devolves upon the
sergeant-at-arms, an. official who is
chosen by the national committee as
soon as the location of the convention
has been decided upon.
The sergeant-at-arms has sometimes
been called the general business man.
ager of convention, and the title is
not as exaggerated as it might seem.
He is responsible for the proper ar
rangement of the convention hall, pro-
vides accommodations for delegates
and distinguished visit ors, secures re-
duced fares for the public from rail
road and steamship companies, at
tends to the demands of the press, has
absolute control over admissions and
doors, to say nothing of the ticklish
privilege of appointing about $50 as
sistants out of an army of. perhaps
1000, the claims of each one of whom is
urged by some prominent politician.
His opportunities to make lifelong
enemies are quite as good as his
chances of making friends among the
leaders of his party.
The republican national convention
will meet in Philadelphia June 10. Date
and place were selected by the national
committee last December, and ever
since that time George N. Wiswell, OF
Milwaukee, Wis, who was appointed
sergeant-at-arms of the national com.
mittee, has devoted almost all of his
time to the work assigned to him, for
which he wilfreceive no compensation
except expenses actually incurred in
the performance of his duties.
AS soon as the local committee decid-
ed that the convention was to be held
in the Exposition building, Mr.. Wiswell
went to that city and consulted archi.
tects regarding the arrangement OF
the auditorium of the structure fo1
convention purposes. Committee rooms
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Of fact, it is not fish, is not red, and
does not walk backward at all. Crabs
and Holsters are green or dark brown.
Their skeletons are outside of them,
and their meat is so delicate and like
jelly that, if their shell is broken in
any part, it oozes out like thick mo-
lasses. They are not killed as other
animals or fishes are killed. They are
put into boiling hot water and killed
that way. When taken out of the wa
ter they are red on the outside, but
their meat becomes very firm and it
is white.
The ancestors of the crabs of the
present day are said to be the oldest
creatures in the world, particularly
the horseshoe crabs. They were
slightly modified trilobites, and the
specimens on exhibition here repre-
sent the most ancient family. on earth.
They existed long before man was
created, thousands upon thousands of
years before the creatures from whom
some; scientists have made bold to
say that mankind was evoluted. But
when they begin to talk of thousands
of centuries they are leaving the do
main of positive science, and are
trenching upon the domain Of philos-
ophy and theology; and into those
domains we will not follow them.
To describe all of the specimens on
exhibition. would be the work of a
lifetime; and to even make mention
of all of them, by their scientific
names, would FIJI several columns
without giving any description of
them whatever. The ancient horse
shoe. crabs were tremendous fellows,
almost as big as modern whales.
Those were the days of the titans of
the deep. The largest lobster found in
recent years weighed 10 pounds, and
its skeleton has been preserved. IT
is very ugly looking beast, and
would have been able to clasp .
mans body. in one 81 its claws and
crust, it in two. The claws Of the
average sized crab Of today are
sharp enough and strong enough to
bite OF your fingers. s ..| B
Along the Atlantic coast the bust.
ness Of catching crabs and Holsters
has increased during the past g
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II
POINTED PARAGRAPH.

Many a hopeless liar secretly re
spects the truth.
Truth crushed to earth will rise
.again-but it's different with eggs.
The bear is a furry animal, but the
the man who sells his skin is furrier.
A man always dislikes to hear the
man he detests praising mutual
friend. : -ass ..%|
i. A statistician says that some board
ing-house butter outranks all other
domestic products: -.
The acme of sociability is reached
by the candidate the day before the
election. ~ ,...I.. -,
II is useless to grasp an opportu-
nifty Il you are simply going to stand
still and try to hold ON to Chicago
! Daily News. f. u.s.
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News In Brief,

The bids for the construction of
Polk county's new court house, to be
erected in this city this summer, was
let today to the Gross Construction
Company, of La Crosse The building
will cost $54,696..I
The St. Paul agent Of the American
Tobacco Company says that single
shipment of seven carloads of cigar
cite tobacco is ON it's way to St. Paul.
1t will be distributed through the
Twin Cities and. the Dakotas.
Excellent work is being done by
Prof. Shaw, of the state agricultural
school, who is instructing classes .of
boys from the public schools in the
art of gardening.
The Minnesota Sunday School Asso-
citation, at it's final session in St. Paul.
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent. Lowell Z. Jepson, Minneapolis;
treasurer, Willard B. Glow, st. Paul;
directors to serve three years, H.. B.
Avery, Minneapolis; Ralph Powell. St.
Paul; John Bell, Minneapolis; Charles
N. Miller, Minneapolis; Mr.. Hawks,
Duluth.
Stanislaus Szudera, the S-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Szudera,
was drowned by jumping into the
Mississippi river at Winona from a
boat in which he was playing. The
body. was recovered within an hour.
The Italian 1aborers Employed by
the Northern Pacific have gone out on
strike, demanding more wages for
the hours they are obliged to work:
About six hundred are implicated in
the strike, sixty being employed near
the city. 1t is thought that the diff
ferenees will soon be settled.
Mathilda Peterson. the only girl in
the senior class at Manchester, has
been assigned the first honor the
valedictory grafton. The second hon
or and. salutatory Grafton was won by
Roy Smith. Of -Boyne City, Mich, and
the third honor. and honorary Grafton
by ]. Il. marlborough, of Park Rap
ids. @%*Fz# %:.@.@ f ~
Anton Nachtigall, one of the shop
foremen at the Wood HARVESTER
works, st. Paul, committed suicide by
shooting himself at his home.
Crookston is taking hold Of Il the
drainage project in great shape, and
the convention there on June 19s 10
likely to be big affair.
Winona will. have a street fair.Sep
tember 11-14. *. 81 Ess II ss. 81. rs
The Cloquet Lumber Company's min
has shut down for lack of logs. Only
one mill IS now in operation there.
The low stage Of water in northern
Minnesota is becoming serious.
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COL JOHN l. MARTIN.
(Sergeant-at-Arms of the Democratic Ma.
ti0nal COnvention.)

front of the stage will be the desks for
900 working newspaper men and ar
lists. For the other thousands who will
attend the convention great tiers o.
temporary seats will be built entirely
around the arena in circus fashion.
Col. Martin is confident that the new
hall will answer every reasonable re-
quirement and will be especially con-
venient as far as committee and retir-
ing rooms are concerned.
The headquarters of the democratic
national committee will be in the mag
nificent house of the Kansas City club,
non-partisan organization, which,
has placed all of its property and APP
purtenances at the disposal of Chair
man Jones and his colleagues. The
various candidates for the vice presi.
Dental nomination will have their
headquarters at the leading hotels.
Kansas City being municipality OF
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Her IDEAL

Ethel - Loowr quickly, dear! there
goes Matte straitlayce. = She mar
ried her ideal of a husband. ;.
May-I wonder what her ideal Of
husband is?Ii!5 ~ 9.s;fz:c
: Ethel-A man who will let her do
just as she pleases without letting her
know, that he knows he's letting her
do it.-Judge.
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District Delegates.
FIRST DISTRICT. r.
Convention meets at Lake City.


Convention meets at Lake City.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Delegates Fitzsimmons, Can
by;J j. X. Lankard, Redwood Falls.
Alternates-Judge ]. H. Quinn,
Fairmpnt; S. d. Bedford, Rushmore.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Delegates-E. A. Whitford, Dakota
county DR.. A. G. Stoddard, Renville:
Alternates-Dr. r. r. Storen, Sibley;
DIR. p. r.. Resiner, Waconia.
i. -; FOURTH DISTRICT.
Delegates-H. Fl. Barker, Cam
bridge; F. c. schiffman, st. Paul.
Alternates-Ben Knauft, St. Paul;
George Newberg, Kanabec county.
-...t FIFTH DISTRICT.
.@Delegates-Thomas H. Shevlin, S. E.
Olson, Minneapolis.
MISUNDERSTANDING H. G. Hicks, DR.
E. B. Tier, Minneapolis.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Delegates-A. F. Ferris, Brainerd;
DR.. j. j. Eklund, Duluth.
Alternates-T. A. Caswell, Anoka;
John A. Gutenberg, Pine county.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Delegates-Ray w. Jones, Frazee;
A., L. Melgaard, Argyle. j..
Alternates-H. Dykman, Brecken'
ridge; S. A. Thomas, Big Stone.