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IaIifee thst is
trusts, Will be found On the packs &
II = should ever be tempted to buy 1
a box Of cigars for Christmas pre-
ent, even although the box should
pretty, he will be in no danger of beinS
poisoned, as it will bear a guarantee m
the shape of the blue label of the Ciga1
mekers' union sSss.ss
The young enthusiast who was build
ing a prospective union home stoppGd
to take breath, but in a moment con
tinued: when I send out our wedding
invitations, the printers label will
on the front page, and the minister
that performs the marriage ceremony
will have to be in sympathy with the4
trades union movement. If we can af-s
ford conveyance to carry us to-
church, I will insist on an automobile,
because I will be able to secure a driv-
er who is a member. the Automobile
Drivers union, and if we should be In:
a position to own a bicycle built for;
two my man will have to purchase one
bearing the label of the Bicycle Work
ers' union. [ do not patronize prison
made goods, and the broom I use must
bear the label of the Broommakers' un-ss
ion as a safe guard. When 1 buy
! package Of tacks to fasten my Carpet,
the package will bear the union label. "
Upon being asked if she considered
the Tackmakers' label a safeguard
against hitting her fingers with the
hammer she smiled and said. Il really
can't say. but this I do know-if Is
bought non-union tacks my consciences
would bother me so that I would cer-
tainly get nervous and surely bang my
fingers :..-..
Il don't intend to marry man that
drinks liquor" she proceeded, '.but
men are so deceitful that often YOU
don't get on to their little tricks until;
you have married. If should happen
to get a man that drinks. of course Is
won't like it. but if he must drink, I
will insist on his drinking beer that
has the label of the Brewers union on
the keg: Yes, sir I am a union girl,
and I come from Missouri too. You
can't fool me. I have to be shown, and
the only way you can convince me that
goods are made under union conditions
is to show me the union label"
The interviewer, despairing Of being
able to conceive information on the de-
sired subject, made preparations t05'
leave. but was promptly buttonholeds
and brought to task because he did not
wear. congress shoes. You ought tOsl
wear congress Shoes said the fair
advocate of union made goods. On ex-s
pressing a wish to be enlightened as to 4
why he should wear a style of shoes
that had ceased t1b popular she said
Because if people don't wear congress 4
shoes the Elastic Gore Weavers' union
will go out Of existence, and they haVea
sent an appeal asking all union people
to wear congress shoes and create de-
mand for them. I am wearing them
now and am persuading my friends to-
call for them when they buy shoes
from a union clerk. Chicago News.
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UNION TO | THE ! f. cor !
4 YOUNG WOMAN WHO ENTHUslAs.
TICALLY SUPPORTS THE LABEL.
When She Marries. Her HusbandA
q Must be 9 Union Man, and He andl i
Everythins I'm the House sIust
., Display Union Labels-It Will Be
Thorough Union House as a Res
suit Of a Happy Union. 81. Az

"Stitch, stitch, STITCH but not in pow:
erty and dirt, is the refrain of dittys
which might be sung daily by eight
girls in Chicago who have the distinc-
ton Of being members of the smallest
labor organization in the city. They
compose the membership. of the Ticks
Sewers union and are good union girls,
every one of them. The workshops in
which they ply their calling are models
of cleanliness. They work union hours
and are stanch supporters of the prin-sS
ciples of trades unionism.
The girls are engaged in. the business
of manufacturing mattresses, and, while
their organization is run independents
of the Mattress Workers union, which
is composed of men, their interests are
so closely connected that they work finss
perfect unison and contribute an equal
share of the exertion put forth in main4s
tanning union conditions. They are en-
thusiastic advocates of the union label
placed on all mattresses manufactureds
in union establishments and say 1t has
benefited them to such an extent thar
they are determined to buy no goods OF
any description that do not bear the
union label. - ... ssS;zzsSsssz:
Talking to a reporter one of them
said: - /. ss:sssssas
'The man I marry must be a good
unionist and have his card punched up.
to date. When we furnish the house
in which we will live, the furniture
must bear the label of the Woodwork-
ers' union, and our linen and bedclotf-:
ing will have to be adorned with the
label Of the Textile Workers orkan-s
ization; the stove he. starts up VIII
bear the labelsof the Nfolders' union
the coal he brings up from the celIars
will have been mined by union min
and hauled by union coal teamsteSs
the bread: pro ovided for breakfast lll
he ornamented WI tn the label sofs
sJo,lrney Bakers, .ulIii, 81 III Nv s1 1s
Segee WIN g 3
I 2 II,l|||||I
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The principal cities of Texas are M
and other employees Of the Southern
Telephone and Telegraph coampanysaI
They ask for Increased wages. shorte
hours, pay for overtime and better 90
|commoda tions i.
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fype of u
ffsalnae is now al most uni


III iss now ain, almost uni. II
Sversally Srecog gnized as disastrous
crime Il Z sSs5t, II # .,E71t:. t.iy;,cs,.S
The necessities Of our stock market
which rests on the backs of producers,
are various and Intricate. 1t is not un-
common for professional man to re-
ceive two letters per day from stock
brokers offering to double his money
without risk. These discuss foreign
wars and elections as matters entirely
within the legitimate control of the
big manipulators.
Military movements in the United
States now are entirely the result of
intrigues and stock jobbery America
isolated from the great fighting ma
tions is in no danger of the whirlwinds
of fury of foreign foes, as the Lodges
and Fryes and Platts and Quiggs and
| Griggses make believe.
It is too much to ask that the opposi-
ton to all this dignified and serious
| imposition and cruelty to stop talking.
20 Caesar. we are about to die
| Salute yOu!" was the gladiator's cry.
But such politeness is excessive.
Words, however, are poor, weak things
when men granted special privileges in
a republic ungratefully, insultingly,
abusively assume control. and. with
promises of prosperity unprecedented
if left in control, and threats Of Gala
nifty unbearable if expelled compel a
great people to destroy others.
| No nervous invectives; no weak, wild
acts are adequate. We must find out
the truth in all it's sickening detail and
tell it plainly one to another. We must
preach patiently, the enemy having
captured the chief priests Of our re-
ligion of the Prince of Peace, the gos-
pei of peace among ourselves in all our
organizations, knowing no enemy but
mankind.
The farmers as they learn the ma
ture of monopoly will become the nat
ural allies Of town laborers. Town
people learn of affairs more rapidly.
There are other allies. There are the
conservative students of history who
have been reused to oppose those in
power by the striking resemblance Of
these times to the times of the over
throw of republics. One Of these lately
showed his love for the republic by a
gift sof 81 900 to the New England Anti
Imperialist league. It is peculiarly ap-
propriate that the dWellers in Boston
should object strongly to the late re-
peal of the Declarations of Independ-
ence From A Kilby street have been
sent out 100000 pamphlets since Nov.
a. 1885, These pamphlets give the
uncensored facts about imperialism.
At the recent annual meeting a former
governor Of Massachusetts presided.
Strong men and women were there
with steady purpose to continue their
work, believing that the recent deci-
sion of the American people, made on
| a peryersion of facts, would be revers-
ed. Not all these anti-imperialists rad
ically favor the producers, but their
tendency lis without doubt away from
the bloodthirsty, who are the produ-
GERS enemy. The historian and essay
ist, Colonel Higginson who works
| with these people, wrote ten years ago
i Some day without a trumphets call
This news shall DER the world bt
blown: s. >l q E'.-' ii
THE heritage comes back to ALL =
The yriad b monarchs take theiI
Ella ormsby
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disappearance of the two former eco
nomic stages, is there any good reason
for believing that it is so bound up with
capitalism that the destruction of the
later involves it also? If plain deduc-
tons from history are of any value, we
should say not
The slave-holding class no doubt saw
in the passing away Of slavery the de-
structlOn of the church. But they were
mistaken. The land-owing classes, the
rulers in the feudal ages, we know as a
historical fact, took the same view.
They also were in error Mr.. Hanna
stands in the same position today as
the defender of capitalism. Is he as
certainly right as the others were cer-
tainly wrong? 1t looks as if the whole
matter rests upon the infallibility of
Hanna, a dogma which we think Will
hardly meet with the universal accept
ance, either from capitalists or Social
lists.
Turning the above the other way
round, it will be readily seen that the
Roman &atholic church proposes to
stay on earth, capitalism or no capi-
talism, and judging from the past the
belief is we'll warranted that it knows
how to do so. Like every other 1nsti-
tuition it has been used in the interests
of the ruling class at different economic
periods, but it was quick to see the in
evitable passing away of these different
ruling classes and adapt itself to the
succeeding economic stage. And that
is the reason that it exists today as an
important factor in human society. And
for that reason also it will drop Mr..
Hanna ami his class just as soon as the
necessity for doing so becomes appar-
ent.
In conclusion we would call the at
tention of our numerous Roman Catho-
lie readers to the highly honorable oc-
cupation which this brutal labor-skin-
ner maps out for the Christian churches
Of all denominations, their own includ-
ed 1t is essentially the same view
which this class invariably take in re-
gard to the religious institutions of the
day, and is in the main the reason why
they support them. The chief end of
religion" as they seeIit, is to perpetu-
ate the hell upon earth which capital
ism has brought into existence, and
the type of human being of which
Mamma is a fair representative, and this
avowal upon his part is merely a cor
roboration. of the oft-repeated declara-
tions of Social lists on the subject. That
Hanna, and the class he speaks for, will
be ultimate disappointed in their ex-
pectations we have little doubt, but it
is none the less valua BILE to know from
their own nout his upon Wha e they de-
pend for con tinuing g q ss: rule wage
aslaVery, and berry Of 81 Y tyVo orkers
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grammer school is the method of i'm
perialigts everywhere. The lords in
Boerlahd systematically burning the

Igranmer ScnOOl, Is the method Of inn
Inerialists everywhere. The 1ords IN
Boerlshd systematically h,,rning ITO
hnmessof noncombatants +,,r,;,e 49,
women and children n starvo 80
snrv .n1rs, Ms Enf American No,oao,,a.,
pratef,1llv turning loose tha;,. so1a;an.
npon 4 poor and primativo noon1o ~
mer allies. the camna;pn of s1oxaar
now begun r6sporoye that Cnho is ,,nat
- keen CONGRESS-, Z, s3,amn n,aare 49, - ..,;.,s @
unless she Yields ali Ia An,or;oon 49,
nonolists-a.ll This ia dona .h1, +ha ~
Nc =. American hi, iohorers ~ az ~ ~ e
ers Not one friend, of .hor ~, :. t,,;.
find of work -
~ :. o,, e. i !. .SI.l.,
.an4;sa an 49, ~ s.;s - the annual
or, n.,. a. master & said. As..,, anse .ne
1000 oxnor+ 70 - =, e.. "', w.,
,y; 49,, ~. -'o.A 'ie
.p 1a,I <1"".. .>ew ~ horh was
Ao72 eenee ,oeo 9 .,lo uieu POUNDS: ta IN fep-
80 a''s, Z 80. vas 20 cents
nu''u' - .pDu. unierence OF s%
eel,s, pel nuiuIeu .11lu pounds or prac-
:lea1,y : cen.s g pusl1el On On corn: Which
OF ,tnese Iates was !as' Z1right? y The 13h
cent ra,e was sYoiuntarilys S UNI made by the
rallioaosi ana - y taif <sto presume
tnat tney couia carry corn Ct that rate
ol ,ne ullteu 9eates gre" 2'zoo'ooo,o ooo
ousneis .oI corn = lsss' and, as the
:; T %: :s$:
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Thos. Fitchie, Commissioner of I'm
migration of New York, gives it as his
opinion in his annual report, that the
contract labor law has served to bar
out of this country the most desirable
class Of immigrants, and at the same
time made most dangerous enemy in
the labor market of those who arrived
almost penniless and were compelled
to accept employment at any price
they could get. Mr.. Fitchie says:
1T is my earnest conviction that since
the passage of the law a large proper
ton of the aliens deported as coming
in violation of the alien contract law
were of the very best class of aliens
coming here.
I further believe that their deporta-
ton was of no benefit to the American
workingman, and, in fact, worked to his
disadvantage, because he was lulled in
to belief of security when, in fact,
his principle danger was the alien COM
ing here without a cent or any means
of livelihood, who was compelled to
take what was offered him or starve,
and was his principle opponent and
most dangerous enemy in the labor
market.
Contract labor is one of the two prin-
ciple causes Of exclusion from landing
the other being that of persons likely
to become public charges from lack of
resources or from physical defects or
mere mental or physical inferiority."
This report, marking the close of the
first ten years of Federal control of
immigra ton, contains much of interest
to the laboring classes. It shows that
the total aliens arriving at the port of
New York for the year was 4OO,842.
Mr.. Fitchie submits tables showing
the illiteracy Of the races Of the people
I that arrived. The Portuguese and Ital-
ians rank about in the same order in
lilliteracy The figures show that the
greater. the illiteracy the smaller the
amount Of money per capita brought
In The English, French. aa1d 10 herman
people brought close to the same
[amount Of money per pita| this year;
Enamel bout $50 each. ss
t Gomn1ission chile, cont tinudIg,,
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GAME Of MolV0p0l 7
KEEP THE WORKERS DIVIDED AND
ROB THEM AT WILL. fH
Why Labor is Especially Interested
i in the Policies of the Government
Imperative Necessity for a Union
of Farmers and Town LabOrers.
Farmer and LabOrer Must Become
Allies Against Their Common Foe.

The people of different sections, oc-
cupations and races are unable to un-
derstand one another. Their suspicious
of one another prevent their uniting
against the common enemy, the monop-
olists. Any economic trouble in one
part fine country Is seized upon by
the enemy to scare the people else
where and unite them with himself.
This is why the forcible stretching Of
the flag (now used as a commercial
asset) overs more peoples still more
alien favors the public enemy, the mo-
nopolists, who "divide and conquer
The opportunities for exploitation
which these people, both willing and
unwilling subjects, Will furnish to the
enemy complicate the situation for
American laborers and farmers. Wheth-
er forced with fire and sword to be our
fellow subjects or willing peacefully to
toll for the enemy from one-fifth to
one-half the wages of the worst paid
American laborers, there seems no pos
sibility that American farmers and la
borers can long profit by their competi-
tion or by their subsection.
"A recently Te-electeQ Ille1HDer Oh the
Massachusetts, house. Mr.. Carey, some
times closed in address to his proleta-
rian constituents with the advice to
pull down if necessary the temples
they build, but might not occupy, in
volving all in blood and ruin. I'VE are
not for REFORM we are for revolution,'
is sometimes remarked among those
pale audiences. I'VE will fight behind
the barricades,' exclaimed a slender
little woman in the sitting atmosphere
of Boston poverty. The hard pressed
but patient New England farmer
among his cool fruit and Vegetables
educated by the bitter Boston Journal.
sent free, would not understand the
death dealing conditions which breed
impatience with the existing ord der. He
may thankfully heed the monopolistss
calls to pay for a larger and sstil u larger
standing army to sup ppress express iOna
Of discomfort which re- tSls.
preted and exaggerated
Old inheritance give psppl
disorde q ndency elin = -
strong - E
lists have N AZ =
|IIsliall lssIIsI
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FITCnlf IS OPPOSED
NEW YORK COMMISSIONER OPPOSES
CONTRACT LABOR Law. "

Says That 1T Keeps Out a Desirable
Class of Immigrants-Yet Is Not
Our Loss More Than Offset By the
Protection Afforded American L;,-
bor-ImmigratiOn Laws Are Not
Strong Enough to Protect Labor.
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INDUSTRIAL DESPoTiSM.

A few years ago protests against the
trusts. were met with the statement:
THE trusts will destroy themselves.
Monopoly of any industry will. tend to
raise, prices; and: when .prices1a rezraised
new capital will"be" invited into that in
dustry. and this competition: will re-
store matters to their normal coridi-
tion'': Has that been the case? Take
the Standard Oil G6mpany: Where IRE
the competitors that have entered the
field against that monopoly? Disap-;
peared within the maw Of the octopus
itself. They had no chance against the
unlimited "eanital Of the trusts; and
their stockholders either went broke or
were bought up by the Standard Oil
Company, II. they became too trouble-
some. Many Of these companies are
wild 'cat'sche,nes Hlaunrhed in order 70
be bought 'up'tby the trust. Asst has
been In the Gil industry, so has 1t been
In the sugar trust, and 50 will It con-
tinue to be in all other Industries. A
fifty mi}llon"dollarz conib&hy has been.
started 4hiPittsb,ifg to4hght The billion
dollar steel combine Either the PRO
motors are conducting a buhco Ea1ile
in order 70 begulie the public into buy
ting stock and sell but to Morgan &: co..
er~e@se they~aen't appreciate the game
they are going up. against.naNo matter
which, they will finally go the way of
oil trust competitors. And this comes
ab6ut because those who compose the
billion dollar trust also COMPOSE the
oils sugar, tobacco and other trusts shdj
the capital of the nation is within their
control. They dictate investment and
when they have a monopoly of one in
dustry they are not f66iish gHbtgfi to-
permit competition within: that .iIs1iis-,
try. That's why competition cannot
survive in industry. Ownership is con-
stantly concentrating into. fewer hands,
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PURE UNlONISM.

: We. Are Notified very often through
the daily press that local leaders in
many cities are disturbing element
electioneering for themselves for office; ;
to all appearance no difference which
party the nomination Tor office comes
from, as the principle gives rise to the
impression that the so-called local lead
ers are working the rank and file for
their own advancement The more the
necessity for leaders. who are not tied
up. with men or parties, thus leaving
the trade union peyement free from the
concentrating influence Of politics,
Pure and unselfish unionism admits
and permits any man in the movement
to accept nomination for office, but
prohibits POLITICAL Wire=ppllina.4 IN all its
varieties among the rank and file to aid
the election Of all such, as generally. the
election of suchat1en twhh4 neyeEfxAse
tricks to- procure their nominat ipn are
free and untrammeled,t to work for the
interest Of labor: after being. elected and
in all fairness more is expected from a
true bona flde laborite In office than one
that Is not connected with the move
ment. Such a course, if generally pur-
sued by the. whole body of organized
labor, will reflect credit and honor on
the cause, and will raise the rank and
file Of the toilers in the estiIilat ionr Of
the public and remove that feeling
whereby we are all charged as whole
of being in the movement for self aEi
grandizement. Thus will the scauseS Of
Of a generous public and It's leaders Be-
come a silent power in the business and
political centers Of the country, thereby
becoming leaders in fact as we'll as in
name. We are painfully aware that in
some localities the full power of the
leaders Is exercised for their own bene-
fit, all to the discontinue Of labor, and
III such localities the movement has re-
ceiver d hard blow, while we also read
that in many large cities the leaders
are unselhsh in the cause, consequently
the most Improvement is the order to-
day in these cities. The results cannot
help being 80, as no man can long
found gut. Pure unionism demands
pure actions, Upright and honest deal
ings 'ta self and comrades. The honor
must ccme- from others. A dual policy
leads to decay and disruption, but a
straightforward. course In the move
ment leads to a helthy growth of I'M
ions and rt1pfl! :: .:, !:
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4 Summing TRIP.
Miss Geolet and Her Friends visit
the Under Side 10 Paris.

Miss Geolet and Her Friend. visit
the Under Side 10 Paris.
Paris advices say that tive startling
experiences, which brought the trip I'd
an abrupt end, marked the Summing
expedition organized by Miss May Goe-
iet,, the New York heiress She deter
mined to see: the lowest level 81 the
slum world ana engaged several detec-
tlves as guides. Her companions were
Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. Ogden Armour
and several gentlemen, Including young:
Bradley Martini: :'-~ d i =:s7' ~
In a basement howell, they found :Jeean
Crave, the notorious anarchist, writing
his newest denunciations Of law and
order. He. WAS furious over the In
trtsion' :'.-.';
Get out, or iii shoot he shouted
Young Martin offered the man fifty
francs to soothe him., Grave turned on
the faultlessly attired swell and shout
ed: You can't patronize an ased
"orkingman who has reared ten child
REM A cub: like you, who has never
given serious thought to anything in
your life, cannot talk to a man: sBho
has written twenty volumes to enlixht-
en- his BRETHREN ~ ~: III. ,,rt:-
The next stopping place was IN I'M :
tidy place ina basement. An. old woman
lay dying Of consumption. Her dauRft-
er ... was J. at work ironing. --,,...
Let US get away from here" ex-
claimed Miss Goelet. 1T ' smells dread
fully. I don't see how the people stand
it," a." "'"Ao
=. The woman at the ironing board
turned Oh the heiress and befated her
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES gdtt. 1T to Stand III; she
said. I'VE don't want to be stared at
as IT we were wild animals, by sillv;
girls like you, who come with gend.
armes to. smile at our misery. Get out.
My mother has consumption. We ali
have consumption here. You NAV catch
it if you stay"
Tie !, party left ,hdrriediS, iii, i, + I the
slamrhing trip vas at all cid. .
Speaking ~ef her~.ex experience after:
wards, Miss Goelet said: II fear that
my trip trough the slums has saddened
me for the remainder of my life. I
never had any idea that there could
be such an extreme of human misery
7 wander whether we rich people have
1 right to eat these e4ttavakentl an.
hers and revel in luxurious houses,
when, with what'we waste everyday. a
hundred miserable creatures might be
prevented from suicide" -Ex.
For all =that, 1t will not be long before
Miss Geoiet's appetite will be fully re-
stored and the memory of the misery
witnessed on her Partisan Summing
trip will fade away like dew before the.
rising sun Her visit to tfilee Under side
Of Paris was dictated ~ curiosity; that
curiosity satished,; the Incident iii, be
considered closed 1T ieast as far al she
is concerned.