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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22
THE coal STRLK.E..

The great strike OF the anthracite
mine workers, who number ,l45,OOO
men, and the possibility OF this strike
extending to and involving the bitumi-:
nous mine workers, has an ugly, cast
to it. The strike bids fair to be- the
greatest in the history of labor diff
culties in this country At the con-
vention of the mine workers at Hazel
ton, Pa, last week it was voted to
make fight to the bitter end, the ma
jority for the. strike being I'LL out of
81 votes cast. It will be noted that a
large share of the mine workers are
for peace and resumption of work at,
the old basis, but the majority contend
it is an assault on the principle of Or
ganized labor, as we'll as an ignoring
of the petition of the mine workers..
and unless the mine operators and
workers can come together like broth
ers in a great Industrial warfare, there
is apt to be trouble of. a. very serious
nature. There was strike of the
mine workers in the same field in 1900
and an advance of ten per cent in wages
was granted. At that time Senator
Hanna went to Morgan and had heart
to-heart talk with the magnate, and
the demands of the miners were
granted. Mr.. Morgan is in Europe at
present and his Representatives do not
seem to be in evidence. At private
dinner to captains of industry at New
York right after the last national elec-
ton Senator Hanna was present and
was one of the speakers. What was
said at that meeting never appeared in
the daily press, but it is said that Sen
ator Hanna warned the great captains
that unless the working man partici-
pated to large extent in the increas-
ing prosperity of the times, there
would be an upheaval in social and in
dustrial life as to seriously affect pros
perity. Mr., Hanna says it is up to the
mine operators in the present strike.
J. p. Morgan and associated interests
practically control the business of the
anthracite coal fields. This is one
phase of industrial conditions. The
mine workers when they cease their
labors control the whole anthracite
coal fields. This is another phase: OF
modern industrial conditions. The peo-
pie of the country use the coal and
every strike means an additional bur-
den to coal consumers and this is an
other phase. The strikers and the con-
sumers are the losers, while the oper-
ators have every advantage. But
while there is one operators mouth to
feed during the strike there are thous-
ands OF poor, hungry ones, dependent
on the mine workers, who can only
hold out for a limited time, Labor
disputes on such gigantic scale which
involves so many interests throughout
the country should be settled by arbi-
Etration, and it should be compulsory on
both sides. Such spectacles in the in
dustrial world are travesty on JUS
| tice
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

and one is constant; Costa Rica, imme-
diately south, nine, Of which three are
active or quiescent; together with
twenty-one in Guatemala, Honduras
and and Columbia, Of which eight are
marked active or ,quiescent-making q
total OF sixty-six, OF which thirty.one
are put down on the active or quiescent
list, all within a radius OF something
like 400 miles of the proposed Nicarau-
guam canal route, and six at distance
OF, twenty to seventy-fve miles. "a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

EDITOR HUNTINGTON of the Win
dom Reporter writing from the south,
says that in speaking OF the decoration
services for the Confederate dead that
the southerners put more heart into
such services than do the people of the
north. He says it is all heart and very
little art. After witnessing decora-
tion services in the south he says he
never witnessed grander tribute paid
to fallen soldiery.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22
Il LABOR TOPIC.

AS the elements are more or less
disturbed at this time OF the year so
are the labor elements that go through
a settling down process, and an adjust
ment OF wage differences between en-
ployer and employee. Every year these
adjustments must be made to conform
to existing conditions and in the set
ting of them there are often some
very hard fought battles between labor
and capital. Not a year goes by but
what there are millions of dollars lost
by labor and by those who employ
labor, simply because these two mighty
forces cannot get together on COM
mon basis and arrange the matter of
wages. But it is not alone the wage
question that is engaging the atten-
ton of the labor world and causing
some uneasiness among those who en-
ploy labor. There is much more i'm
portant one to be adjusted, and it is
one that strikes at the very foundation
OF organized labor. This is the matter
of the right OF labor to organize and
treat with capital through the repre-
sentatives of labor. There is no ques-
ton but what employing capital would
in many cases like to see organizedala-
Dor defeated, but on the other hand if
differences could be satisfactorily ad-
justed between organized labor and
capital the employer could get along
much better with his labor under an
organized system than with labor that
was not organized. The history Of la
Dor and capital is blackened with the
marks of greediness, selfshness, dis
trust, and spirit OF unfairness. Pill
lage and riot have wrecked many an
industry, blotted out lives, made wild
ows and orphans, paralized trade and
caused the rich to cry out in their dis
tress, "blessed is nothing.' But as
years come and 60 the combating
forces are coming nearer and nearer
together and are learning that strikes
are the most destructible agents of So
ciety and have in the past proved very
poor arbiters. Capital in organizing
and forming itself into vast industrial
forces has been following the natural
laws Of trade and commerce, but the
same may be said of labor, which with
all its mistakes has demonstrated it's
ability to hold it's own and preserve it's
individuality, and if capital seeks at
this time to force labor to renounce the
business of it's cause and to treat with
the individual mall the management
of the great industrial enterprises of
the country it will make a great mis-
take and the end and the cost no man
can determine. e.,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22
GOVERNOR VAN SAINTS Over.zea1On!

GOVERNOR VAN SAINTS over.zealous
friends wanted an early convention
and long drawn out campaign, hence
the Republican State convention was
called for July 1st. The Democrats, in
order to help good thing along, have
went the Republicans one better and
called their convention for June 18th.
1t was very kind of the Democrats to
take the initiative.
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- RUM-1NA7loNs.

= = :
New York has a penny restaurant,
and it is said that it has an awful scent
to it. =, '..-~ ,~ .
The Finnish Lutherans of Mime
apolis are to build a church. We are
not informed when they will finish it.
Since the earthquake and volcanic
disturbances in the West Indies 18TH
milan canal stock has declined several
points. ~ y
New York dinners have been ad-'
vanced because of the present high
price of beef. This will not affect the
average western man.
An everyday State boiler inspector
had the audacity to flag the special
train OF Schwab, the iron magnate the
other day. Gracious, the inspector
should have seen stars and been given
stripes for such an act.
King Alfonso XIII of Spain who was
put on the throne last week with great
pomp and ceremony, now has troubles
of his own, and the anarchists have
plotted to remove him. If Alfonso
would only come over and settle down
in the potato belt on a ''forty" he would
find more pleasure in raising potatoes
than in sitting on the throne and brush
ing off dynamite bombs. Here the only
thing he would have to brush off would
be potato bugs. -
Editor Pease of the Anoka Union be-
means the fact that he can't play the
piano. He thus laments: IF 1 could
play on one, sufficiently good to master
most any popular piece, I wouldn't be-
grudge five hundred dollars. How
many delightful moments I could
spend bringing out music from a
piano." 1t is sad contemplation, in
deed, for bald-headed, smallpox-proof
editor in the eventide of life, and there
is pathos to be read between the lines.
''Music hath charms" What sweet
ending ola days weary work after all
of mans true nature has been calloused
by the assembling in rapid succession
of editorial, commonplace tattle of the
local column, an obituary, a wedding,
a birth, to say nothing of ':Vox Pop
uli," his cousins, his uncles and his
aunts-what sweet doze into the
land of Forgetmyself it would be if
man like: Pease or any veteran editor
who had served his country we'll could
seat himself at the keyboard and strike
the lost chord and awaken in land
of delightful melody with. it's soul
subduing and softening effects. But
such transformation cannot be pur-
chased in all cases by money. The
fellow who can get alongside of piano
and breathe out dream melodies would
make a mighty poor newspaper man,
and there you have it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

The Cuban republic was born on
May Goth and President Palma who
twenty-five years ago left Cuba in irons
returns to receive the highest honors
of the new republic. May new Cuba
live long and prosper.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22
Indies.

The packers say now that the oleo-
margarine bill has become law that
they will manufacture butter. That is
a big improvement over cleo, if the
butter proves to be good article.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

NILSSON, who six months ago was
chosen as Croker's successor, has re-
signed as leader of Tammany. He said
that he could not retain his self-respect
and hold his position, and will go back
to his old business Of ship building.
There is quite a difference between
holding onto tiger and making ships.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

ALEXANDER DoW1E, the ''Elijah IL"
of ''Zion," lacked sufficient divinity to
save his daughters life. The young
lady's hair caught fire from gas jet
and she died in agony, while Dowie
stood helpless and grief stricken like
any mortal man whatever his profes:
sion or his belief.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

AFTER all the Democrats will fire
the first gun in the State campaign.
Who would have}thought it?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

THE Philadelphia Record was sold
last week for the sum of So, $50, 900.
The Record has certainly made a rec
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

= The United States has shown great
generosity to the people in distress in
the devastated islands, of the West
Tn1ioc
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

IN the face of an impending calamity
it pays to be a coward. 4 =" - -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

New York has a penny restaurant,
and it is said that it has an awful scent
to it. =. ...-~ ',~
The Finnish Lutherans of Mime
apolis are to build a church. We are
not informed when they will finish it..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-05-22

Since the earthquake and volcanic
disturbances in the West Indies 18TH
milan canal stock has declined sever al
points. IS -
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The Southern Pacific people had told
the authorities IN Washington that the
sacks would be In Ogden I'm the alters
noon Of Nov. q. and they had to be
there, for II was a test Of the CONNER
cial prOwess Of the United States, and
Great Britain was the Judge
The best engine on the division was
saved for the run, and as soon as the
mailbags were tumbed into the cars on
Nov. 26 the special pulled out of the
station At o'clock the next afternoon
the mail was handed over to the Union
Pacific Railroad company, which had
been selected to carry It to omaha,
run Of 1910 miles
ON the afternoon Of Nov % the sacks
were thrown into a Burlington car and
IN fifteen minutes the fastest tain IN
that road had begun the four hundred
and ninety-one mle trip to Chicago,
who're II arrived shortly before 3 o'clock
on the morning Of Nov. g.
feven hours were necessary To cover
the 80 miles to liuffalo There tho ear
was switched on 10 the tracks ~ the
Now YORK Central and whIrled over The
REMAINING $40 mites 20 New York.
rra,liup there lust before I clcck IN
the morning Of Nov. 30,
TIL 35iC miles beNNanl Now York
and southampton are covered by the
ocean Rreyhounds In I've and a hair
days. This meant that the mail would
be on the British soil on the evening OF
Dec. T. The Great Northern railway
carried II over the ego miles TO London,
where VI was received before midnight,
IN less than thirty-one days from the
time II left Melbourne having Travelled
total distance OF 1856 miles.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08

from Europe, and their business runs
hlgh INTO the millions Of dollars. There
are twenty-five such hlaWres In Shang-
hol alone employing, all told, more than
LOOOO hands. There are some in Hang
choW, soochoW and at other places In
the SILK regions
Most Of these dlatures are owned
ana operated by Chinese. although Ave
at Shanghai have foreign managers. IL
was through the introduction of Mr..
RlNa, u French proprietor of one Of the
Shanghai establishments. that was
able to so through the Chinese nlaturo
at So0chow This fllature has a brick
building covering about i've acres IL
employs 800 hands, and its capital must
he at least half million dollars. The
Chinese heads OF the establishment who
took me through the hlature were tan.
p0rtlyl llne-loOking men, dressed In
silk brocades which would have made
line gowns for any White House recep.
ton They spoke English well and
We're thoroughly posted on the silk mar
Fkets OF the world. We first entered the
basement where a number OF English
steam engines were supplying the pow
err ana then mounted TO the second
floor, and were taken through n num-
Der of large rooms, filled with little
white balls covered with q soft, silky
tuzz Each bah was about as big as
the largest peanut. These were the coz
coons as they had come In from the
country They had been baked In ov-
ems, and the worms inside them were
cooked hard. picked up handful
ana shook them They felt like pea
NUTS and the little baked worms rat
tied like kernels inside the shells,
CHINESE FACTORY GIRLS.
Leaving this department we went In
TO the factory proper great room
which was hummIng like q cotton mill.
Il was BOO feet long aud rs feet wide.
and was filed with machinery. lni ZOO
women and girls were Keeling silk. They
were working at the machines, which
ran in rows from one end Of the room 10
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
San Francisco, Feb S.--In this city
IT is deemed altogether likely that the
British government when awarding
the contract that Is about to be made
for handling the mail to and from Aus
tralia will adopt an American route,
for two tests Of shipping Australian
| malls TO London eastward Via the
United States have shown the British
postal authorities that with American
methods in full working order 1866
miles can be covered IN from three to
Ave days less than British steamers
can make It sailing westward
The last contract made by the postal
authorities OF Great Britain for carry
ing Australian mails was for 2,l03,-
$40 and called for what is known as
the suea route, This has not proved as
satisfactory as desired, chiefly owing
| TO the frequency of storms In the In
dian ocean, Great delays are thus ex-
| perienced by steamers. and it some
| times takes forty days to make the
| trip between the colony and the moth
er country
Naturally the officials were anxious
TO learn If there were no more feasible
mail route, and the indications are that
they have found one by way Of this
city and New York
The story OF the last test Is an inter
esting one and is another proof Of the
supremacy Of American business meth
DDS, The start was made from Mel
bourne, Victoria, where the London
mail had been collected. II was loaded
on n Pacific liner on the morning Of
Nov 4 and was at once started for
sydney New South Wales, run or
5l6 miles, arriving there on the after
noon OF the next day. This was the
last Australian point touched by the
steamer, which at once cleared for
Auckland, IN the New Zealand islands,
! ,720 miles away arriving Nov o.,
Pango- pango POO miles away, IL
due north II was reached In three
days, the steamer touching there on
Nov, 49, The Samoan islands were left
behind on the same day, and seven
days later or on the morning OF Nov
20 the ship was at the docks of Homo
lulu, having covered 800 miles on the
ran from Pango- Pango.
There was no delay at the Hawaiian
Islands, and the same evening the
steamer started for San Francisco,
200 miles away Early on the morn
ing Of Nov, 20 the big liner passed
through the Golden Gate and up to a
Frisco dock, In a trce the mall was
tumbled into the United States mail
wagons and driven az top speed to the
Southern Pacific station. A special ex-
press and mail train had been made up
and was ready for the great dash
across the continent
Then began the most difficult part OF
the undertaking. Ogden was s3S miles
away, and II had been ordered that the
mail sacks should be there In twenty
six hours for delivery 10 the Union Pa
cifc railway, Now, the sowest stage OF
transconunental journey to or from
Frisco lies between Ogden and this city.
Speed IA a rare article on that stretch,
but this tiHe speed was imperative.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08

the other Some Of the women were
sitting at pans Of steamIng hot Vator
In which the silk coco0ns bubhod about
az though they were alive. while thin
threads Of fine white silk were pulled
from them by the moving reels above.
As | looked into the pans / could zee
the coCoOns dancing about In the steam
In blocks Of five, and that each woman
started a new thread, from time 10
time, by pulling a cObWeb strand from
each one OF five different cocoons and
twisting them into one, This was then
fastened 10 lhe reel so that the reel un-
wound the five cOcoOns at once, twisting
their threads together into one before
II was wound, Different numbers Of
strands are used to make the different
kinds Of silk thread. Five strands make
the finest thread The kind of thread
that we import for the United States
usually contains six, eight or ten
strands.
Before the cocoOus are unWound the
threads are o0sened by soaking the co..
coOns I'M hot water This Is done In
bowls IN front Of the reeIng machines,
the cOcOOns being stirred about with lit
tie brushes Of bamboo by Chinese girls
Of from eight 10 thirteen years of age.
When the threads become loosened they
can easily be picked up,
WORKING AT THREE CENTS A
DAY.
Some Of these little children work at
3 cents day and some Of the women
only get az much as cents Of our
money The best Of the Titles ones re-
CeiVe r. cents. and the highest paid WO-
man of the whole factory was getting
20 cents o. day This was for thirteen
hours and for seven days Of 'he week.
Notwithstanding these low wages
noticed that women and children APP
peared happy and we'll dressed. Many ot
the girls wore jowelry, and some Of the
prettlest hands that wound the cOCoons
about In the water had silver or gold
bracelets on the slinder wrists above
them
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and keeps on doing so until II has WOW
en- cocoon about It's body, This re-
aulrios tom two to five days, and at
the end It again goes to sleep.
In the province Of Chinkiang the
spinning Is done in what is known as
silk worm hills. These are bundles Of
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08
Weaving SILK.

The weaving, as done by the natives
outside the factories, is on machinery
Of the rudest description Everything
goes by hand, from ribbons to yelyets
and Hno brocades see women and
girls making ribbons In all the cities
on this region, and in some places find
them weaving satins and yelvcts At
Marking ! went through the imperial
looms which weave satins and velvets
Tor the emperor the empress dowager
and the court They make about ZOO, D..
600 pieces there every year on silks to
the value Of about S2,OO0,OOO. II Is inn
possible 10 buy the goods except In an
underhand way for all Of II Is supposed
to 80 To the imperial household, The
wages OF the Weayers are about 20
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08

In this water until the thread ends be-
come louSened, and then several Of
these ends are Joined together and the
cocoons reeled OF on rude reels worked
by pedals II one Of the threads breaks
II Is Joined together or replaced by am
Other IL requires considerable skin 10
do the reeling, for the thread when
completed must be Of equal thickness
and brightest A good reeler can make
about twenty.slX ounces Of fine silk In
Il day.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08
HERR KRUPP'S BIG INCOME.
Steel and Gun Manufacturer Stands at
Head Of Germany's Richest Men.
a.s2S persons In united states

eI'@N l'iopAn ~ buAlNh pAhlto
have Incomes OF ,.,,....... $4,000
John D. Rockefeller United
States, estimated income, . 2O,00O,OO
A dispatch from Berlin says the rich
est man in Germany Ia Herr Krupp.
According TO the income tax returns
he has an income OF between 2O,OeO, 900
ond l,OOe 900 marks 05 $50 ,OOG) year.
No one approaches him in wealth. He
stands In class alone The Identity
Of the second wenlthiest man in the
empire, who has a yearly Income OF
between 100000 and 5000, 900 marks
81 800, OOO), Is not quite clear, although
he Is supposed 10 be the coal master
Herr Won Thiele- Wincker The income
tax returns show sixty-hve incomes OF
more than 100000 marks $3.50, 900
year Ten OF these incomes are under
100000 marks and two are under A.
100000 marks and three are under g.
C0OoOo marks q year. The returns also
show 2,774 persons who have q yearly
income Of upward OF 100000 marks
(t25 00O),
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08

Among the Mulberry Trees-How SILK Worms
Are Reared--How Cocoons Are Raised ana
Sold - The Enormous Capital Required
Big Fiatures Run by Modern Machinery
Factory Girls Who Work for Three Cents
Day.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08

After this the silk worm takes no
more food and begins to spin from its
mouth, first fastening the thread to
a frame on which It Is placed It moves
Its head from one side to the other
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08

cents a day with rice The ribbons are
usually made on small looms by wo-
men and young girls who get about ID
cents a day and food There are In
an about 200 looms in the imperial es-
u olishment, from which were woven
during the year Of the emperors mar
rage 100000 worth Of goods.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08
GREAT MAIL ROUTE.

Advantages of Transamerican Line From Australia
The Story OF an Interesting Test Made to Compare
The Merits OF This With the Suez System Melbourne
To London in 1hirty-one Days.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08
cHlNAs MODERN SILK FAC
TORIES.

Within the past few years an enor-
nous amount has been invested here in
modern silk Natures devoted to reeling
the oocoons and making raw silk for
export These establishment have the
finest OF modern machinery, imported
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-08

straw placed on mats ON platforms
about as high as your WAIST The
worms crawl w on the straw and
fasten themselves to II and there spin
their cocoons About lVU worms are