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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-10-06
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PENNSYLVANIA STATISTICS.
Some Interesting Figures of Produce
tivity OF Labor III That state. i

tivity OF Labor In That state.
From the Industrial statistics Of the
state bureau Of Pennsylvania some in
teresting figures are cleaned Of the
workers productivity in that state in
1899. There were produced 6,542, ,998
gross tons Of pig iron,= the value of
which was about $1O0, ,O00. .000. Is, ,347
workmen We're employed on an average
to 95.18,. average. or $1.65 per day,
taking 300 working days for the year.
This embraced both skilled and :un-
skilled workers In the pig iron. industry
which means that many toilers re
ceived less than $1.65 per day for their
laborious: work 6,446, ,159 gross tons OF
steel were produced during the same
period, or go per cent OF the output of
the United States. 69,9S2 workers ac-
complished this feat, realizing in wages
therefore an average Of $3.50 Fer year,
or $1.S6 per day. The aggregate timed
production of the black plate works
and dipping works was 331, ,083 134
pounds. The number Of workmen EN-
fployed was 1852, at an average daily
wage: Of $2.36. The aggregate value Of
the tin and, terne products Of the 25
establishments Of the, state was $l2,-
$3.50: AL of :: which demonstrates
that the wage slaves OF the Keystone
state are not as far removed from the
poor house than are their exploiters
from Bankruptcy. The iron an steel
workers glory in the competitive sys-
tenn which permits them to create
abundance for their masters, while
they have, barely sufficient to keep
body and soul together.
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Brook so full of intelligence that the
cruel lesson of the trust system had
not been learned

Brook so full of intelligence that the
cruel lesson of the trust system had
not been learned. ,.
In the street we met a brown skinned
Hungarian woman whose husband
worked as a, baker. She was a clear
eyed, intelligent. woman, prematurely
aged by toll, barefooted and dressed in
the cheapest gingham.
YES" she said; lit costs a quarter
more to live than it did a year or a
year and a half ago. Everything is
dearer-meat, flour, coffee, sugar, tea,
tobacco, clothes, shoes, oil. My hus-
band gets no more wages than he did
when prices were low
Presently we were seated at the clean
table of a. veteran miner with his wife
and three daughters.
The whole trust question stripped of
It's mask was laid bare in few min
utes. All the statesmen and hair split
ting doctrinaries who served at the
shrine. of the. trust were answered in
that humble place.
Here" said the old miner, turning
to mis- wife, tell these gentlemen what
the trusts have done for US. and they
will tell the American people about it.
Give them the prices the trusts make
us pay for the necessaries of life. It's
about the same in the mining regions, l
suppose, as in the rest of the country.
Wages have not risen. We are
just able to live on our wages before,
but the trusts have lifted prices 80 high
that most of US have to eat less. l
could not live If my son and two Of my
daughters were not working. No mar
ried man with children can live on q
coal miners wages now unless his chill
dren work too"
The miners wife gave me list of
prices showing how the trusts have
raised the. cost of living.-James Creel-
man in New York. Journal.
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ALL Is. SERENE.
The Painters' Organination IL Grove
iuo- IN .

The Painters' Organixation 10 Crow
ing Rapidly. ...s.:.a-l
The Executive Board Of the United
Brotherhood :: of Painters Decorators
and Paperhangers met at Lafayette,
Ind, to discuss plans for the future
policy of the organization. Since the
recent amalgamation Of the two broth
erhoods the crafts have felt a renewed
spirit Of organization and number of
new local unions have been chartered,
while the old locals report great in:
creases in membership: The board
considered the question of placing. a
number Of district organizers in the
field and several important amend
ments to the constitution. -. .
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ass KE sM
I done int tentf fonallY fer
@charses chaairtissses against him, and have him
brought before the trial board, even
If his error is only a trivial one.
Say that. your president IL incapa BILE
.of presiding over.a litter of blind pups;
that your secretary can no more write
than snake can play on q cornet and
that his records are as inaccurate, as a
kangaroo: is ungraceful; that your
financial officers can no more figure
than: a turtle can waltz and that all
the others know as little Of their parti-
cular duties as q cat knows about sub.
marine loconlotion. :-* -, g
Tell everyone that tns union is going
to the demnition bow vows, and that
perhaps it is just as we'll as it never
did any GOOD anyhow. -: *.
{, Be sure and critize 1t and all Of the
officers in season and out of season,
but critize, them anyhow. j., c..; -.
i .f you are asked to.he1p. mend things,
say that you have other duties to at.
tend to. hence have no time to devote
to- the. interests of tine organization,
but h.. sure to 1in'! lime to crftize. ;
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Counterfefteed the Blue Label.

COunterfefteedt the Blue Label.
Aze Weisberg. of Chicago. manufac-
snrer. of scab cigars, which he put on
the market with a counterfeit blue la,
bel, came to grief arrested by u. -,
internal revenue officsrs, lie was buuE1
over to the federal grand jury under.
$3.50 bonds for using q union fsctory
number on his, scab cigars. He was
fined 800 by Judge Doyle tor co,:nrer-
fc.tiYg the Allied F:snttrs' label, AMI
finally Judge Everett fined him 500 for
covnterselting the ciga, makers lat...
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Convict Labor in MinnesOtn

Governor Lind thinks Minnesota cor-
victs can be employed with proa. t.:
the state and to tn: educational advan-
tase of the prisoners without en,c, .ng
into illegitimate competition with free
labor.
He has appointed commission
whose duty it will be to fully investi-
gate: the convict labor question and
submit to the next legislature a plan
which will not only provide for the
profitable employment Of convict labor,
but be satisfactory to the interests of
the state.
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Disa appeared with the Funds:

::A. black sheep in. the fold. John S,
Halillan Of Springfield proved himself
to be by disappearing with: :ss42. 40,
money collected and turned. over to
him to. defray the expenses of the La
Dor Day celebration. Thus the cause
of labor obliged to suffer by a victim
of this perverted system of exploita-
tton. Richard Bell. treasurer of the
Jerome, Arizona, - Miners. union also
vanished, and with him the funds of
the organization.
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Michigan Law Legal.

The supreme court Of Michigan has
just decided that the law creating a
state board of arbitrators and media
tors in constitutional. The decision
was the result of action brought by
the attorneys of Pingree & Smith, who
claimed that the act creating the board
was illegal.
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Reject important Amendment.

Reject Important Amendments.
All important amendments, to the
constitution Of the Amalgamated Wood
Workers Union have been defeated in.
the referendum vote. Which. is EVIL
dence that while it is. well to get d
popular expression of the membership
on laws governing their unions, it by
no means indicates that the interests
of the working class are really UNDER
stood. 80 j.:
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Chinese OrRanixe.

Chinese labor unions are said to ex-
ist in New York, Chicago, San. Fran
cisco and principal. cities along the
Pacific coast. In midst Of: the class
struggle the 'heathen" Chinee has
realized that through organization he
is able to resist oppression.
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TO AMALGAMATE WOOD WORKER
70 Prevent Contentious Of Jurisdic
ton in the Future.

To Prevent Contentious OF Jurtsdtc.
tiOn i'm the Future.
A committee Of the International
Wood Workers union are at the
convention OF the Brotherhood Of Car
penters at Scranton with the. view Of
effecting an agreement whereby con-
tentions OF jurisdiction can be prevent
ed in the future. = The only way to
overcome this .clashing Of interests is
to .amalgamate ali the workers In the
wood working Industries In one. inter-
national union. The nucleus Of such
organization exists in the Amalgamated
Society Of Carpenters and Joiners.
which has branches in every civilized
country Of / the world and s financial
system. that places the weakest union
on an equal basis with the strongest.
The strength of organized labor lies
In solidarity. and this Is never .foEnd
where trades are contending for supre-
macy.
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All luUuSIfldl CS6AOA udS sex 1n
which is likely to be far reaching IN its
consequences. During the so-called
industrial revival, the employers in-
sisted upon working overtime. Large
stocks Of, MANUFACTURED goods were
accumulated. Prices went up out Of all
proportion to wages and as result
big factories are being closed down
and reductions are being made in
wages. ..s.,,s.-, ..,.,.. ,z= s.s,e,.ss.
1t is estimated that at least one
man in every. six is now idle or. has
been obliged to accept reduction in
wages since September 1st as condi-
ton of employment. :. 49,. 5azss55 3.s%
The, American Federation, OF Labor
recognized this tendency when it is
sued the urgent call in July for care
full ana thorough organization all
along the line. s.#:
Workingmen know that the trusts
have not divided their profits with un-
organized labor. a. few skilled and
well-organized trades have compelled
slight advances, but these will be cut
off upon one excuse or another.
Trust prices are not going down. II
you are idle or your wages reduced,
you consume less, but for what you
buy you pay from 20 to 30 per cent ad-
vance over the prices of two years ago.
The miners strike brings to the front
all of these problems raised by the
rapid and unchecked growth Of trusts.
The industrial depression Is shown
! by the reports of trade journals. The
Carpenters Journal publishes list, Of
about Is places-including 1suchs cities
as Chicago-as being good places to
stay, away from because there is no
work. .s' e.a.s2, e..
1t : will very soon, be question
whether all the forces. of unionism
aided by proper legislation, win not
be necessary to curb the constantly
growing power Of trusts.
''Have You Been Loaned ~
The trusts and associations Of en-
ployers are using a. new form OF the
blacklist. 1t is especially prevalent in
New York and Chicago, but is report
ed from other sections Of the country
Each workman's record is carefully
kept. If he is dissatisfied and yolu1i-
tarily leaves his employment, he dnds
that he cannot obtain employment al
any of the shops controlled by the en-.
ployers association. g
If, however, he is q nice tractable
man and does not join a union or aal
for more wages or complain about Over
time, he is assured of more stead en-
ployment than his independent com:
rade. When: work gets slack in#his
own shop he will be loaned to some
other shop. He has nothing whatey
to say about his condtt iii ions al empty.
ment 81 when he shall ID returned q q
a. IS M Y u q
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K ~ aJamtes,town N =, Strike.

- >
Organized labor of Jamestown, Ny.
lis still keeping up the fight against
the Hall & Co. worsted mills Of that
city. The !, contest has been on five
months. and the workers are more
hopeful of winning out than ever.
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shoe worker. Union CROWNS

Shoe Workers Union Growing.
Boot and Shoe Workers organized
four new unions last month Strike, IN
Kutz & Co.'s shoe factory. San Fran
cisco. has been satisfactorily settled,
the firm reinstating the old hand and
adopting the union stamp for it's pro-
duct. :
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bet ot Hours hat the shop ~ pm. and
that they will make no more cigars
then than the union man makes Ia the
regulation eight-hour days work.
They forget that the ones who work
the full time will soon set the pace,
and that they will slow up the whole
force so that in short time the ones
who would work only eight or nine
hours out of the fourteen that the shop
is open will find that if they want to
hold their jobs they will have to do as
the majority do, that Is, work slow
and the full time that the factory is
open. This Is like the chap that be-
longs to the school Of thought that
breaches against all state made laws,
who rebels against all laws of re-
straint, and who is insane or foolish
enough to carry his theories in that
regard into the shop or economic field.
He forgets that under the present
means of production and distribution
that is it positively necessary for the
workers first to unite in unions and
secondly to have certain laws and rules
for the guidance of the Union, chief
among which Is the scale Of prices and
the regulation of the hours of labor.
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Funds for. the. Cixarmakers.

-. .>''.4 = 1SFT<.T@ ; = "''@'T"':
Funds are still coming for. the sup
port Of the striking cigarmakers of
New York. The obstinacy of the manu-
facturers is costing them many a pen:
ny, and tends to illustrate to what ex-
tent the wage slaves in this industry
have been robbed of the products Of
their labor.
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Help Tor IT.. With the trusts closing In
around the miners home from opposite
directions he must send his little ones
to slave in the mines or let them starve
Can the American people look un-
moved upon this unequal contest be-
tween multitude Of hard pressed min
ers and the trust system? Have sordid
influences so deadened and perverted
us that our sympathies will not quick
en- at the sight Of so much undeserved
and preventable suffering?
Is the cry of half million persons in
anguish and industrial bondage to be
answered by sneer or jest or a cheap
accusation that the proposed strike is
inspired by political motives?
Accompanied by Mr.. Davenport,
visited many of the mining settlements
in the neighborhood of Hazelton. Near
McAdoo is the gray huddle of crooked
shanties known as Old Honey Brook
The distant landscape is green and
pleasant to look at, and the fragrance
of the pines comes family over the
stark hills of coal refuse and the
gloomy chasms that surround the
Wretched place. Little rills of dirty
water trickle among the shanties, and
goats and geese wander here and there
in the sun scorched stretches of sprawl
ing streets. The shanties are old and
full of cracks and crannies. Yet they
are crowded with men, and women and
children.
We were in one of those dread thea
ters of want and death in which hu-
man greed, working through the trust
system, damns and denies the claims
OF civilization on American soil. We
were there to learn the truth and to tell
II. FROM house to house we went.
There was not a person in Old Honey
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process to its 600 well organized and
highly skilled employees. Starvation
was too much for these men the wives
and babies shared their suffering. They
accepted the reduction and went back
to work.
If the coal operators defeat the min
ers in this strike it will mean a con-
certed attack on wage workers by the
trusts.
Labor unons will be wiped out. Mill
tarism and starvation are the powerful
instruments which will be used to re-
duce you to a condition worse than
serfdom. : ~.,
Gompers on Anthracite Situation.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, has visited the
anthracite region within the last week.
He believes that the miners had no
alternative but to strike after the op-
orators refused arbitration.
He says that the anthracite miners
tried to learn the lesson of content
ment preached by their employers and
got worse conditions as reward.
Their wages have been cut down
and their cost of living increased" is
his summary of the causes of the strike
In speaking of the conditions under
which these miners live he says:
you who have never seen these
things have can no conception of the
wretched lives of these men. Not only
does the sun shine through their poor
hovels-owned by the company-but
the rain and snow and wind and sleet
comes through as WELL
Do you know that the miners'
wives and children are compelled to
deal at the company stores and pay any
price they choose to charge. The min
ers never hold a dollar of any sort in
their hands.
"The children are born in the COM
pany houses, brought into the world
by company doctors, when they die
they are buried-in the cemetery
owned by the company. -
TThe courts in which the men are
tried are owned by, the company-and
the very prisons in which the men are
confined are owned by the company. ..
Mr.. Gompers reviewed the strike: Of
~ in the bituminous coal fields. That
these men had obtained better condi-
tions for the last two years he said
was soley due to the 'exertions of the
| miners themselves, who made their de-
claration Of: independence, and not
| to any political party. -: -
The anthracite miners are much bet:
ter organized than were the bitumi-
nous miners, but the coal combine
considers its monopoly 50 complete
that it can afford to- do as it likes and
disregard public opinion. = ~, y,
In the natlre Of things, these striking
| miners have. no, reserve fund to carry
them through, 9. long strike. Their
brethren in the bituminous fields will
spend the last dollar from their
Treasury as If it were their own fight,
but organized labor and for that mat
liter. all citizens. viii be asked to help
these men in>their plucky fight against
/ the greed and selfishness Of this mon
ster trust. -%.. .I<4z 81 j
! Wage workerss with the memory of
4: Homestead. Hazelton s and Coeur
D,Alenes .still frAsh need no. argument
to realize that IL the coal trust Is not
! taught g lesson. It may be only short
time before the struggle against; =
I I've come
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Girls strike and Win.

Sixty girls employed in Wilson'S
woolen mills at Trenton, n. J., struck
to enforce the re-insta Of one Of
their number who had been victimtxed,
and gained their point. NJ 6. !.
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IS "
for emp
It sounds bit Ike slavery Is ana ID serf-
dom that q workman shall BE ENTIRELY
at the disposal Of his employers. but
the system in coming into vogue very
rapidly. = When. perfected the work
man will have neither Industrial, poll
tical nor civil rights left. -
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tAe IL 81 IL -
Z On llaok6 rotor 80 the
4 Thus=we see that the ate has paid.
managing salaries spf S26s 1881 TO do q!
shoe business of 500, ,ss6.1s. to enable
the state to receive $, 1920 for the la-
bor 1875 criminals, q $s.1s per year,
17h cents per week, s cents per day per
criminal. "a truly profitable business
for the commonwealth.
. It will thus be noticed that the:
grand. old commonwealth. so far
from being afraid Of socialistic ideas.
has itself engaged IN state production
for sale ct cost in defiance Of ordinary
competition. >...-. E.'. E...
Where shoes are sold with labor fig-
ured at cents per day the effect can
not be otherwise than damaging to
private business and to. free labor.
It is not the amount Of business (al-
the mischief, it. is the fact that such
goods. are used to break the. prices Of
shoes, which in turn causes reduction
In wages. followed by, pauperism, and
crime, with more inmates; Of criminal
institutions engaged Ia insane attempts
to save the taxpayers dollar, without
regard TO- the possible effect on the
standing of citizenship. ~, ~. ~
:. The fact that other states produce
convict shoes swe1ls the senoflnity of
the offense against legitimate J: shoe
business until 1T becomes an .eyil of
the greatest Importance. We shall re-
fer. to the system and results in other
states! from time to time, and hope to
convince at least q few people that
the Infamous prattice should be stop-
ped once and for all the time.
Georgia convicts, according to the
last convict laws OF the state, are sold
yearly by auction. The price. last year
ranged from $98 to $lo2 per head The
state feeds and clothes the convicts.
and II they should be hurt, the pur-
chaser can return them to the state, to
be taken care of on the convict farm.
According the governors statement.
go per- cent Of the, coal. brick, lumber.
and naval stores business is in the
hands Of convicts. e-:sss.ts
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Lad i b0I IN rs
SOME TIMELY FIGURES on PRISON
=. LABOR.
Prison Labor T., So Cheap That it
Has Had Ruinous Eject On Free
Labor-The Shoee Business In.
Many States Has Been Ruined By
:. Prison Competition-The state
Usually Loses In the End.

In the state Of Pennsylvani the con-
:victs are employed in various produc- i
tive industries. - - :t7a3
The labor is not let out by the con-
tract except in cane-seating and UNI
sbrellas industries, but. the state fur
nishes the capital, plant, machinery
and labor and then sells the goods
through an agent. - - -
The. following statement shows the
number employed IN the several de-
partments September 5, 1899.
Box, So; brush, 80; chair Gaming, 5s1;
cloth, 1853; clothing, :329; cotton waists.
%; curtains, 9; dairy, 2; flexible shoe
|soles, So; hand made, shoes, 81; harness,
So; hosiery, Is; laundry: :,26;: eleather-
board, Is; mat, 16; printing, U.s.; shirt.
g.; shoe, 384; shoe heel, S3;; stone cut
ting, 148; trunk, Is; umbrella, 80; weav-
ing, II; wood chair, 60. Total, 2412.
This statement covers the state pris-
on and all state and county correction
institutions. & &
The whole number of prisoners was
6ss1. :'s:s5s. : 80 ) ,*.::z>s ..:> j .
The total prisoners employed in pro-
ductive labor was 2412. Their average
earnings were, $37.11 per year.
This amounts to the munifcient sum
Of $o.n per week or $o.12 per day per
prisoner. t-:.r'.-, - ..5.zs.. 81
From this statement of earnings;it is
obvious that the goods must be sold
with. little regard for market price or
value. ri =. s.ts -.
The whole number Of inmates en-
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HmOthe Trust. J.

]: LaC Crosse. Wis. breweries are forming
as31 .1oo, ,ooo syndic1a largs nnmber