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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-12-06
0riqainlized Movement

The coal dealers of Lansing, Mich,
have formed a combination and adopt
ed the following iron clad rules to gov-
ern the exploiters in the transaction or
business: Cd Maintain uniform
rate for the price of coal. (2) Refuse
to sell any coal on credit. 90 Refuse
to sell for cash to any person who in
previous years has failed to pay bills
in full to any member OF the combine.
Denying a man the right to purchase
coal because he may be in debt, cou-
pied with chills during the winter, will
hasten the construction Of the co-ope-
rative commonwealth.
Some Of the independent iron and
steel manufacturers are forming big
trust and securing control Of mines OF
ore in Michigan and Minnesota. There
will probably be a battle with Morgan's
combine for a short period, and then
one grand combine.
The amalgamated painters, who op-
pose the brotherhood in New York,
Philadelphia and Washington, claim
10000 members. They are likely to
have a rocky road to travel in the
near future.
Youngstown, O., is flooded with
counterfeit cigar label goods, and un-
ions are going after the dealers who
handle the unfair articles.
Bakers in Hamilton, Ont, succeeded
in securing shorter day of ten hours
without st liking or reduction of scale.
Motormen and conductors in Schen-
ectady. N. Y, demanded 25 cents per
hour, and compromised on 221A cents.
Unskilled labor in Coshocton, O., gets
$1.75 per day where organized; where
unorganized, $1.25 is the rate.
Federal laborers in Salem, Ore, Sc
cured $1.75 per day, an advance Of rs
cents over previous scale.
Street railway employees in Altoona,
Fa.. had no trouble in securing a de-
mand for wages.
None bul Jnion labor will hereafter
be employed on or in public buildings
in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Union Label Committee at Ithaca,
N. T., is increasing sale Of union goods
SO per cent.
Cigarmakers Of Orange. N. J., gained
an increase OF 50 cents to 81 per thou
sand.
City laborers in Taunton, Mass, were
granted nine hour day and 20 cents per
hour.
Stage employees in st. 1'au1 got an ad-
vance Of rs to so cents day.
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ths d Isaiss 8 zkh5id h 81 RI 1f ti'e ' wives, ia
sisters ana .rnothers Of union men will
use their influence the cause will take
more rapid strides than ever before in
it's history. We do not mean that they
shall take the stump, join the unions
or do anything unwomanly. They
have in their hands a weapon that is
more effective and many Of them are
using it. It is this: Buy Union Goods!
Always call for goods made by union
men. The, ladies do most of the buy
ing, and If they will for one week ask
to be served by union clerks, insist
that her shoes shall bear the leather
workers. label, that the broom makers
label is on the broom she buys, that the
shirt waist she admires at the dry
goods store has the shirt waist work.
ers' label upon it, that her laundry
work goes to a union laundry, that the
paper she reads bears the union label,
that the dray that delivers goods at her
home is driven by a union tea1nster,
we say that If she will do this one week
there would be wonders accomplished.
If in one day half a dozen ladies call
for union made shoes at a store where
they sell scab shoes, and walk out
without buying that merchant would
not sleep until he had ordered goods
made by our brothers of the shoe
workers. II a grocer lost half a dozen
sales of brooms on account Of having
scab-made brooms he would have a
hot foot after union broons. If a
driver got turned down a few times
for not being union man he would
soon square himself by becoming one,
and If a clerk loses few sales be-
cause the ladies prefer member Of
the union he would soon take a tum-
BILE or his employer would take one for
him.
Unionism is the only salvation of
men in these days and the women Of
the union mans family can do more
than he can to make it popular.
Always call for union made goods
end if they havn't got them go where
they do keep them. They will have
them the next time you call, never
fear.
This is not mere sentiment, 1t is
business. Scab goods are made in un-
healthy sweatshops by people who
are paid starvation wages. Every ar
ticle you buy made under such condi-
tions makes you a party to the in
fanny. Union made goods, goods bear
ing the union label are made under
the best conditions, in clean, healthful
shops by men and women who were
paid decent wages for making them.
If it were not so the label would not
be there. The label is a guarantee that
these conditions have been fulfilled.
Enlist the ladies in the campaign
and scab factories of all kinds will go
to the wall because they will not man.
ufacture the goods unless you buy
them. In their places will arise union
shops where those who work will re-
ceive honest pay for honest work. II
the ladies will do this for the cause
it is as good as won.
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LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.

mo man can go back thirty years
and examine into labor conditions then
existing without coming to the conclu-
sion that outside of Christianity noth-
ing has ever been so great a blessing
tions.
t'Non-union men are themselves to-
day receiving higher wages than It
would have been possible for them
to receive had it not been for the fight
waged by labor organizations.
IF the employers were not organ
ized into great trusts it might be pos
sible for laboring men to receive just
treatment without labor unions.
But with the giant combinations
which today control the great factor
les, furnaces and mines and trans
portation companies Of today, the mass
of laboring men would be forced into
absolute serfdom inside Of ten years If
labor unions did not come to their
rescue.
1.-THE old days when the employer
and the employee lived in the same
friendly and social relations, are gone.
Now the employer may be made up of
ten or score or hundred thousand
men scattered all over the country,
who never see the men at work in
their factories and are utterly removed
from all sympathetic and personal
touch.
There is nothing in the world that
would allay the suspicion and unrest
In the industrial world today 80 much
as for employers everywhere to frank
ly recognize labor unions."-Rev. L. A.
Banks.
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Since most evils nowadays are being
traced to microbes, there is opportunity
here for some alert scientist to con-
fer, an inestimable benefit upon man.
kind by locating the 1estiferous mi
crobe that causes this peculiar malady,
or mania, and teaching the application
of the proper antitaxin.
It is impossible, under these condi-
tions, that shopping should be done
satisfactorily.
It is impossible for any woman to
make as wise choice Of goods in the
midst Of the jam and hubbub Of the
late afternoon as she might have done
in the quiet that pervaded an hour or
two earlier.
1t is impossible that the salesgirl,
with a dozen impatient women chas-
ing her, should be able to show goods
to the buyers best advantage.
And the senseless custom of stOrming
the stores in crowds makes the work
of the salespeople unspeakably hard.
1t is hard enough at best, but the
evening rush and tumble, coming af-
ter they have been all day upon their
feet, must be to them worse than a
hideous nightmare.
During the whole morning and in the
earlier part Of the afternoon the stores
are uncrowded. That is the wise wo-
mans opportunity.
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, The small, bankers Of the country are
beginning to show symptoms Of rebel
lion against the City National Bank of
New York, which is controlled by the
Standard Oil Company, being granted
the privilege by congress Of establishing
branch banks all over the country. At
the recent convention of bankers in
New Orleans the little fellows made a
big fuss, hut it did not count for much.
The small banker sees in the projected
scheme OF the Rockefellers, Morgans
and .5Vanderbilts cyclone that will
sweep the lightweight usurer from the
arena Of skinning. The small banker,
in his arraignment of the great octo-
pus, is not actuated by any philan-
thropic motives, but is mad and in
furiated because his chance to skin is
drawing to a close. Under the CON-
petittve system it is skin or be skinned.
The United Cloth, Hat and Cap Max
ers Of North America, through it's Ma
tional Executive Board and by resolu-
tions duly forwarded by the affiliated
locals and referendum vote, instructed
the delegate to the A. T.. of l.. conven-
tion, Maurice Mikol, to vote for politi-
cal action on the line OF socialism.
Golden Rule" Jones, of Toledo, is
going to establish. .a:eo-Dperative colo
ny near the foregoing: city. 1t has been
his dream for years, but whether it will
be successful is another question.
Leather workers in Springfield, Mo-,
were notified of cut and all quit Next
day the bosses told them they took it
back and they returned to work.
There is plan on foot in Milwaukee
to erect a labor temple and to the Ma
chinists' union goes the credit for the
move.
Brewery workers In Pottsville, Pa,
had half an hour dropped from each
day without strike, and no reduction in
wages.
All organized labor in Drakesboro,
KY, works 8 hours; unorganized labor
plugs for 10 hours and less wages.
Mattressmakers in Hamilton, O.,
gained a ,33 per cent increase since Or
ganizing. and all are employed.
J., Brick and, stone >Smasons in Oswego,
!. Mich, went after 1aine-hour day and
resse sssof pay, and landed both.
!. and. laborers in Cohoes, N.
7EsWereeiyen sas raise. Of SO cents to
s$ $1sgH#t he days wages.
'st. council ofs Oh Altoona, Pa, has or
Idersd all city printing to have the un-
4ion ssilon. s:llLb sllalLbelsson hereafter.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-12-06
WAGES OF WORKING WOMEN,
They VIII be Higher When the Wo-
men Demand It,

According to an official report, a
summary Of interviews with 1000
working women shows the average cost
Of living to be 1924 per week and the
average wages $4.S3 per week.
The sociologist is yet to arise who
can tell how this can be true.
1t looks like a condition worse than
slavery, for slaves are given their rull
living for their labor, and these work.
ing women are not.
On it's face it looks impossible But
the statistics stand. The condition
exists.
No doubt many classed as working
women receive partial support from
husband, parents or children. Thus the
seeming paradox disappears.
But the fact reamins that working
women's wages are dangerously close
to their cost Of living. The woman who
is alone and has no other means of
support than the pay for her honest
work walks through life on thin ice.
Hers is a hard, cherries and almost
hopeless lot.
Every humane heart goes out in pity
to her, and every honest hand may be
ready to help her, but, unfortunately,
little can be done except by charity,
and cltrity, while of help sometimes
to the individual, Is no remedy for the
condition. The remedy can be sup
piled only by the women themselves.
Women are chiefly responsible for
their own wage conditions. Woman
is no longer a homekeeper exclusively.
She eagerly embraces q rcareer," a
mission" a "fad," or chooses to do
and drudge and dree in order to make
herself self-supporting: and the num-
ber Of women who push themselves
into these pursuits is so great that
the competition cuts down compensa-
tion to the cost Of living, and often
below it.
Any reform in the matter Of wo-
mems wages, to be effective, must be-
gin with the women employees them
selves. They must learn, first, to be
worth more money; second. to effect
lively demand it, and, third, not to
overcrowd the market.
Until these things are learned, wo-
men employees will continue to receive
sympathy, but can receive no real help,
because there is none that can be given.
They must organize.
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SHOPPING IN CROWDS.

Why women who can command thein
own time and consult their conYen-S
ience choose to do THAR shopping slat
in the: afternoon, when the stores. are.
crowded and the clerks overrun, ana:
then proceed home at an hour Mhet
the cars4are loaded down with sthe IS
miessof work people. one of D
solvahle feminine fystsri ies.s
It seems to oman natures
IL olnale III colnfe ertableS;
49, 81 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-12-06

+ am prompted to write about John
Powers, of the Nineteenth Ward Of Chi
cago, because he is type Of that poll
tical power in every great city against
which the reformers are forever rail-
ing and never succeeding. All Ques-
tions Of party politics and ideal civic
government aside, "Jawn" Powers, and
hundreds Of city legislators like him
in various parts Of the country. remain
proofs positive Of the goodness of So
called bad men; indisputable evidences
Of the fatuous stupidity OF political VI
tuperation in campaigns, and enduring
examples Of the value Of the purely
personal equation in the final question
Of "bossing'' ward.
"Jawn" Powers name figures in every
local campaign as "a gray wolf; the
municipal voters league, the independ-
ent, as we'll as the Republican, news
papers, the pulpit, the prohobitionists,
the sociologists, the philanthropists, the
reform influences of every class, get
into full hue and cry after "Jawn"
every time there is city election. They
call him boodler, pot-house politician,
shark, oorruptionist panderer, CRATER,
bum, and pretty near every other abus-
i've epithet that can be worked into the
vituperative vocabulary OF righteous
indignation. He lives in tough ward
one of the toughest in Chicago-from
the reformer's point of view. He keeps
g. saloon, and it is said that he takes
fees from rich constituents who need
potential lobbying around the city hall.
II has hean limited that he has made
money" in his seat in the council, but
nobody has yet summoned courage to
make the accusation openly. Hints,
slurs, sneers, personal criticism, and an
nonymous arraignments have been
showered upon and fired at him from
every point Of virtuous compass.
Much money has been expended to
organize the opposition. Canvasses Of
the Nineteenth Ward have shown that
1t is about equally divided between Re-
publican independent voters and Demo-
Gratis. "Jawn'' is a Democrat. The
reformers have selected irreproachable
men to pit against this old, gray wolf.
They have hired orators, brass bands,
challengers, newspapers and even quasi
public institutions to wage relentless
war upon the object of their unanimous
condemna ton. He never becomes
either excited or enraged at this hos
tility. His campaigns are always con-
Quoted in q mild, orderly ana consid-
crate way. He never abuses his op.
ponents, nor takes the least percepuble
notice OF their invectives. He spends
very little money as compared with
snissst
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4Chicago Statesman

will stand for so much-no more-ln the
Nineteenth. If they prove incorriglble,
If they continue to torment the police
and prove their ingratitude by habitual
law-breaking. cJawn" will rid the
ward and the city of them more effec-
lively and more promptly than a judi
cial "hours to leave town.
No great crime is committed in his
neighborhood without his quick and po-
tential cooperation with the law.
"Jawn' does not regard as "crime," in
spite Of the expert definitions of the
ultra-conservative reform element. If
a poor woman comes to him and asks
that her boy be gotten out Of Jail, Pow
crs will not say, "Ill see about it, or
'call the day after tomorrow" he will
put on his coat and have the boy re-
leased at once.
He had paid the funeral expenses Of
dead prostitutes whom he never saw
species Of benefaction, by the way, in
which he has no competition among
either reformers, church folks or civic
purlsts. The people who fight him
during his campaigns, come to him on
the day after his election and solicit
him for aid, in influence or money, for
this or that philanthropic work, for this
or that church, some times for the very
organizations which waged the battle
against him. And he gives freely with
out asking any questions, without re
criminations, without a. grudge spoken
Or nursed in silent rancor. At Christ
mas time, every family in the ward
To oiC+-
key with "Jawn" Powers compliments.
He asks no man what party he belongs
to, how he votes, or what he thinks.
He doesn't care. Go into his ward and
ask any Italian laborer 'just over
whether he is Democrat or a Republi-
can. and the man cannot answer. But
ask him what he thinks Of "Jawn"
Powers and he will say:
"Oh, Jonna Power, he all right
John Powers, In person, seems to give
the lie to the worst that can be said OF
Of him. He is quiet. well-groomed.
dark-eyed, slender man of fifty His
family is the one topic upon which he
will not permit a single spatter of poll
tical or public mud to fall. His FAM
lily is the sum and crown of his fidelity,
his affection, his prudence, his ambition,
and his generosity. He keeps it as the
apple of his eye, and lavishes upon it's
members the best that is in him, the
best that is in any man. During one
of the campaigns waged most cruelty
and vainly against him, the reporter
assigned by one Of the. Chicago papers
to make itShot for = lawn, a, q happened to
tF1ena of {. TIE Y {. sgsps Iasx- ss
III have to roast TIE Tie DIT of YOU,
Jawn," said the reporter, land 1 just
want you to remember that it's the pa
per and not me that's crucifying you."
"All right, my boy!" laughed Powers,
sail in! Give me unshirted hell, but
be careful not to drag my family or
any one Of it's members in. That's
what I won't stand. Not from any
man or men on Gods earth"
If there are any men like "Jawn''
Powers in st. Louis politics, perhaps
| this study Of an humble, but undefeat-
ed Chicago Alderman, may help the
wise and good to understand chow not
to beat them. John H. Raftery, in st.
Louis Mirror
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shine for less than cents or polish
less than 10 cents.

shine for less than cents or polish
less than 10 cents.
chicago s. Milwaukee railroad
has' ararte ed its nIaShfil liEfs -pfatf1caHy.
all they asked for III the way OF In
creased wages. Among those affect
ed are several hundred men at the
West Milwaukee shops, who will now
receive wages averaging 30 cents an
hour, an increase of % cents a day.
The street railway company con-
trolling all lines in Springfield, ILL.,, no.
titled all it's men in the car service OF
an increase Of / cent an hour. The
raise dates from Aug. IS and means
$40O additional per month in the pay
roll. The average has been from 12
to II cents an hour.
There was rioting among strikers at
Candida, little town near Foggia, in
Southern Italy. When the strikers re-
fused to disperse for the town authori-
ties troops were called out and ordered
to fire. Three strikers were killed and
many wounded.
Sam Law is the first Chinaman to
have his name enrolled on the men,
bership list Of labor union. He is
an expressman, and sought out one
of the officials of the Expressmen's
Union to put in an application for
membership. The request has been
granted, and Sam has been received
into the Express Wagon Drivers Un-
ion. He is proud Of his membership
card and omits no opportunity to dis
play 1t.
10 a. m.-Stock Clerks. Order Clerks
and Errand Boys Union organized.
II a. m.-Strike called.
That was the record Of new or
ganization among the employees Of the
Chicago Mercantile company, whole
sale milliners, 1874 Wabash avenue, a
few days ago.
Demands for an increase of wages
of per week and so cents for supper
money, instead Of IS cents, were re-
fused by the company.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, it is stated, will, on Jan. 1
next, make formal demand for an
increase Of wages. Tha Brotherhood,
it is said, is not affiliated in it's fight
with the Western Federation of Gen.
eral Committees, composed of railroad
conductors and brakemen.
Radical changes in the state law of
Illinois prohibiting child labor will be
demanded by the Chicago Federation
Of Labor and the Federated Women's
Clubs Of Illinois.
The Industrial committee Of the lat
ter prepared the bill a few days ago
and Miss Jane Adams oil Hull House
explained the amendments proposed.
They are:
/. No child under 16 years of age
will be permitted to work at night.
e. Besides affidavit showing that
he is over IA years of age, each child
umst be provided with Il certificate as
to age obtained from school records to
corroborate the affidavit.
3 An educational test.
The Federation agreed to make the
proposed amendments one of the claus
es in it's legislative demands.
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GENERAL NOTES.

The Wisconsin Central has voluntar-
lily advanced the wages Of all shop men
from 10 to 80 cents 2 day, making pay
for skilled mechanics 1920 a day.
/ Bootblacks Of Greater New York
have formed q union Of 5000 members
and Will hsht free shines and infant
labor. y 8 ne plledsed to glvt no
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-12-06
Uncle Sam Unappreciative.

From the Toronto Mail and Empire:
Uncle Sam has refused to take for
nothing the band Of Doukhobors that
Canada secured at so much trouble
and expense. Evidently the United
States lacks a statesman OF Mr.. Sit
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-12-06

Here's late story anena Christian
Science. A Boston mother said to her
little daughter: ..
III you had my faith; darning, you
would have no toothache." - ...r-.. .
The child replied: -. .< ,:4s.-..&
81 well, mother, II you had my tooth
ache, you wouln'ts have any. faith. - ---
Boston Herald.
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Ohio stu Leads.

From 49,. ---,-" York Telegram:
"'~e world can pause a moment in
the mad rush for fame and fortune and
take of Its hat to the grand old state
Of Ohio, which has just produced a
'.'~.,;p tWenty-six inches In circumfer-
l. < : oe5$a s,ss ana weig ching eleven and one
ha1f polasd6 Sssiss Is s<ss i!.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-06-13
Married. !

Nina Christina Olson OF Littl.
Fa ''s, and Edward Strand OF Evpletk,
we're married Tuesday evening, at
he home Of b. Fl. Peterson on til e
West side, BY Rev. VIC. A WaIlar
OF TIE Congregational church. Many
friends y ere present. +
The bride wore cream elk null and
carried pink roses. She WAS at.
tended BY Miss Carrie Grind, who
wore white, and M'ss Hannah An der
on IN green Ns*srs. Char lea and
sNtls Peterson were eroomsmen.
A wedding banquet vas yer we'd q,
the houss, and i dance followed. at
Germans hall. .5.s.
The Young people are veil and
! tavorsllY known, and . multitude
Of irsvent wishes Tor shelr velfars
will 90 With them to their fature
home 6 .Eyslsth. ....s -, s:.s.s.....:7=
Axsl Andsrs $ and Margars, And.
s-son. both Of Fl. nsburR. were mar.
ried 81 J6stics Sheldon Saturday.
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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-06-13
SUMMONS.
STATE or MINNESOTA.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. S.
COUNTY OF MORRISON. } ~, ~-@:..< XII
,s>Dis,rict Court,sev-nth Judi, iaI District.
i, G. Monk, Plaintiff, g.
Joshua &. Spencer, Abbie r. Monk. and
q lso all parties or persons u oknow:. cla I'M
ing any right, title. estate. lien or Interest
in.the real estate described in the COIN.
nlaint herein, Defendants. !
The state of Minnesota to the above
named DEFENDANTS: .s.z~l q.
You and each Of YOU are hereby SUM,
noned and required to answer the com,
plair1t in this action, which has been filed
with the clerk of said couft, and to serve
! a copy of your answer to the satd, corr
plant 81, the subscriber at his office IN
the city Of Little Falls. said conuty q
MORRISON. within twenty days after the
elusive Of the day IF such notice, and !
Won fail TO- answer the said complain
within he time afore. aid. the plaintiff y
th;. action will apply to the court for tn
| relief demanded in the complaint togethe
! with the costs and disbursements Of thi
| action. ,.oo s.E y e. =;
D'e =, 80 : =. '.' r. ". LYON,
= plaintiffs Attorney, Little Falls, MINI