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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
WHY M'LURIN HOLDS BACK,
From the Washington Star:

FROM the washington star:
There is no likelihood that Senator
McLaurin of South Carolina will again
write his resignation as a member of
the United States senate, no matter
what course is pursued by his COL
league, Senator Tillman, in order to
bring about this result. 1t is said that
such action would utterly destroy the
plan Of campaign which Mr.. McLaurin
has mapped out. The legislature
which meets in South Carolina next
month is the legislature which re-
elected Senator Tillman, and it is re-
garded as entirely under his control.
If the two South Carolina senators
were to seign today Mr.. Tillnan would
have a bed Of down, while Mr.. Nc
Laurin would have a bed Of rocks"
said a we'll informed South Carolinian.
Mr.. McLaurin's hope for reelection
is in q new legislature to be chosen be-
fore his successor is elected. 1t is said
he has always found his greatest sue
cess in politics before the primaries,
and that is the way he expects to con-
clude hts present fight for senatorial
supremacy in South Caroline He will
get before the people and make his
fight and then will abide by the deci-
sion. But there will be no resignation
while the legislature IL q Tillman or
ganization.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
SOCIETY REUNITED.

From the New York Evening Post:
For the first time since the division
Of the religious Society of Friends
members from all over the United
States, representing the three factions
Orthodox, Hicksites and Wilburites-
and meeting together, the occasion be-
ing the American Friends peace con-
ference, now being held in Philadelphia.
It may be peace gathering in more
than one sense. All the Quakers
agree on the subject of peace, whatever
be their differences on other subjects,
and there is hope that the Philadelphia
meeting may result in reunion Of the
factions.
The society came into existence in
1860, through the activity of George
Fox. In 1927 a breach occurred which
was more serious than those preceding
and had lasting effect. The opposing
parties, though remaining members of
the society, became known as Orthodox,
and Hicksites, to distinguish them.
During the decade between 1910 and
1850 division in the Orthodox party
resulted in still another branch, sep
arate, each faction maintaining it's own
schools and colleges. Swarthmore COL
lege and Friends Central school are
Hicksite institutions. Haverford COL
lege and Friends Select school are
maintained by the Orthodox branch.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
ACHINEsE BANQUET.
From the Leiaure F.

From the Leiaure Hour:
For the first course were handed
sugar cakes, cavatre, friend grasshop-
pers, dried fruits, and Ning-Po oysters.
Then followed. successfully, at short
intervals, ducks, pigeons, and peewits
eggs poached, swallows nests with
mashed eggs, fricasees of ginseng,
stewed surgeons gills, whales sinews
with sweet sauce, fresh-water tadpoles,
fried crab spawn, sparrows gizzards,
sleeps eyes stuffed with garlic, rad
ishes in milk favored with apricot ker-
nels. matelotes Of holithurias, bamboo
sprouts in syrup. and sweet salads.
The last course consisted of pine
apples from Singapore, earthnuts, salt
ed almonds, savory mangoes, the white,
f1eshy fruits of the long-yen, the pulpy
fruits of the litchee, chestnuts, and
preserved oranges from Canton. After
the dessert rice was served, which the
guests raised to their mouths with lit
tie chopsticks, according to the custom
Of their country. Three hours were
spent over the banquet. When it was
ended, and at the time when, according
to European usage, salvers Of rose
water are frequently handed round, the
waiting maids brought napkins stepped
In warm water, which all the company
rubbed over their faces apparently with
great satisfaction.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
The MAN BEHIND THE PICK.

There has been all kinds Of gush about
the man who is "behind"-
And the man behind the cannon has
been toasted, wined and dined;
There's the man behind the musket,
and the man behind the fence;
And the man behind the whiskers, and
the man behind his rents:
And the man behind the plow beam,
and the man behind the hoe:
And the man behind the ballot, and
the man behind the dough-;
And the man behind the counter, and
the man behind the bill;
And the man behind the pestle, and
the man behind the pill.
Up the rugged mountain side a thou
sand feet he takes his way,
Or as far into the darkness from the
cheering light Of day;
He is shut out from the sunlight, In
the glimmer Of the lamps;
He Is cut off from the sweet air In
the sickly fumes and damps;
He must toll In cramped positions; he
must take his life in hand.
For he works in deadly peril that but
few can understand.
But he does it all in silence, and he
seldom makes a kick,
Which Is why sing the praises Of
the man behind the pick.
He unlocks the bolted portals Of the
mountains to the stores
Hid in natures vast exchequer in he1
treasure-house Of ores.
He applies key dynamic, and thu
gates are backward rolled,
And the ancient rocks are riven tt
their secret heart Of gold.
Things Of comfort and Of beauty and Of
usefulness are mined
BY this brave and quiet worker-he'.
a friend Of Humankind;
Who, though trampled down and un'
derpaid. tolls on without a kick
SO 1 lift my hat In honor Of the mar
behind the pick.
Colorado Springs Gazette.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
"YE T0ASTS."

Bv Estelle Foreman
Drink with q will; I'LL up the glass;
Drink to the joys Of life that pass.
Fill 1t full Of mirth and love
For things below and things above;
Earth and heaven, friend and foe,
That all foes into friends may grow,
Drink with q will.
Here's to the mistletoe high in the air:
Here's to the maiden standing there
And the fellow brave enough to dare
Here's to the old year, drink. boys,
drink.
Here's to the days that have fled.
Old friends, old wine, old memories,
Drink to the joys that are dead.
Here's to the New Year stretching
ahead,
To the days that are blithecome and
gay:
May the joys Of the old and the joys
Of the new,
Its sorrows fade gently away.
To the Stars and the Stripes.
To the land Of our birth,
The American girl
The best things on earth.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
PARAFFIN A BEAUTY RESTORE

From the Literary Digest:
1t Is well known that Disagreement
caused by burns, wounds and like acct
dents have been wholly or partially re-
dressed by transplanting skin from an
other part OF the PERSONS own body or
from that Of another person. In view
OF the fact that the result is not always
q plastic success, interest attaches to
an account given by the Revue (Paris)
OF a method for the correction of this
and similar blemishes by NJ. de Ger
sunny. Beneath q collapsed nose, by
means Of hypodermic syringe, he in
PRODUCES two or three cubic centimeters
OF melted parafrin. The injected mass
raises and stretches the skin of the
nose, and as paraffin becomes solid at
a temperature Of 81 degrees c. (98 de-
grees F.)-that Is, at the temperature
Of the body-it is only necessary to
mold it into the desired shape before it
cools. The results are said to be very
satisfactory. Experiments made upon
animals tend to prove that the paraffin
Is not absorbed, but that it remains in
place, and that in every direction
around and across it is developed
web Of conjunctive tissue. When the
animal experimental upon is killed or
dies, there is thus found at the place
where the injection was made sort of
conjunctive network, the interstices Of
which are filled with the paraffin. The
formation of so characteristic tissue
permits the hope that the result of the
Gersuny method may be durable, and,
as a matter Of fact, In cases where
operations were performed so long ago
as two years there has been no reap
pearance Of the disbursement.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
THE EPITOME.

In single sentence, .Volney, the
great French policist sums up the es-
sential principles of. sound economies.
If this summary was made the test Of
all governmental and social measures,
the most grave problems Of the day
would absolutely cease to vex and OPP
press the people. It follows:
EVERY man who builds a house,
plants an orchard, or invents a ma
chine, or discovers a law of nature, or
does anything which tends to promote
human comfort or happiness, is a pub
lie benefactor; but any man who stands
between industry and the natural ele-
ments, to levy tribute upon labor or
to keep a foot Of land out of use is a
curse to his country and a despoiler OF
his fellowmen."
This is a. cardinal tenet of the trades
union, which stands for due reward to
honest toll and would punish through
taxation attempts to enrich ones self
through idleness and unproductivity.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
AVOID THE ALLIGATOR.

He was evidently from the country,
this little old German, and as his eyes
rested on the elevator, undoubtedly for
the first time, his sense of the ridic-
ulous was touched.
For a few minutes he stood in Won
der1nent and then, laughing softly to
himself, he stopped the first person he
CHANGED to see, who happened to be the
janitor, and fired this at him: wat
was dot leedle box ting vat walks peo-
pie oop der stairs stooden still?"
"Oh, that's the elevator" was the
answer.
"Oh, dat's vat idt is, is it? hat a
pocketbook made often der peel Of one
uf DOSE" He tride a ride, but didn't
like it. Then he said:
1 would told my wife nefer to. 60 in
NIT Won uf doz alligators ven der Walk
ing by hand vas goot."-N. Y. Post.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
ANTIQUITY OF STRIKES.
Labor Troubles in Egypt In Pre-
Christian Times.

Christian l1meS.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Labor strikes are of great antiquity,
although, owing to the different cond1-
tons Of labor, anciently they were on
somewhat different lines from those Of
the present day. AS an available start
ing point for such movements the case
'of the Hebrews in Egypt is given,
which the Egyptians tried to put down
by the imposition Of still heavier tasks.
Pre-Christian and medieval history
also contain many instances Of the
workman rebelling against what he
thought to be material wrong. The
guilds or old trade associations of Eng
land, which included both masters and
workmen, did something toward
smoothing the relations of labor and
capital These were suppressed by
Henry VIII, and, although revived in
succeeding reigns, were not as effective
as they had been.
ENGLAND appears to have been first
in establishing the trade union, as at
present known. Originally these COM
binations of workmen were more or
less prohibited there under severe pen
alties. The extensive Introduction OF
machinery toward the latter end of the
eighteenth century gave great inn
pulse to the trade-union principle, and
by 1920 most, if not all, of the lesisla-
ton against them had been wiped off
the statute books in England. The
efforts of the workman in France to
throw off the legal restraints against
his com bining with his fellows were less
successful, penalties being in force
against it as late as 1868. The trade
union idea in the English sense took
hold in Germany the same year.
The right to make protest or appeal
as a body was early claimed by the
workmen of America. The first record
ed strike in this country as result OF
such combination took place In 1741.
Where it occurred is not told, but Is
| thought to be at Boston. In this case
the leaders were tried for conspiracy.
The shoemakers Of this city brought
about the next big strike. 1t started in
1896 and lasted three years. The SAIL
ors Of Philadelphia struck for higher
wages in 1903. The leaders of 1t were
arrested and imprisoned. A New York
strike of 1909 by the shoemakers first
brought the word "scab" into use, and
printers strike in 1921 gave title to
the epithet rat" as applied to a non
union man. The women struck for the
first time In shoemakins strike at
Lynn. The strike failed. Rioting is
not mentioned as feature Of strikes
until 1848. This took place at Pitts
burg, and, while violent, was not ac-
companied by loss of life.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Az 1t II i'm Edinburgh, Scotland

Al 1t IL in Edinburgh, Scotland
The pride of the City.
One Of the best examples of NUM-
cipal ownership on record Is that OF
Edinburgh, Scotland, where the CITY
government controls practically all the
public utilities. So we'll pleased are
they with the system that it is a source
Of great pride to them.
This great city owns its street rail-
ways, water plant, street lighting, gas
works and many other public utilities.
So successful is the operation OF the
street railways that one can travel one
mile for one cent or three miles for
two cents.
One Of the great undertakings that
we might mention which has been
taken up by the municipality OF that
progressive city is that of condemn1ng
and purchasing filthy tenement dis
tricts which are infested with vice and
iniquity, and building, in the place OF
the old death-trap shells, comfortable
and clean buildings which are rented
out to poor people for small sum.
In the case Of a father or mother
left alone with small children where the
parent is obliged to work through the
day to support them, they are left with
a kind matron whose duty 1t Is to take
care Of them. Thus a comfortable
home is provided for thousands of poor
people at g. nominal sum and still the
city reaps a profit from the enterprise.
Another instance of the pride which
the people Of Edinburgh take In their
municipality is shown by the success
of their great fair. With their chances
Of success far inferior to those OF the
recent Pan-American exposition the
people took great interest in it's sue
cess and through their efforts the
municipality cleared the handsome sum
of 100000.
After all the granting Of a franchise
to private corporation is but giving
them the right to tax the people. Surely
the people of Europe are far more ad-
vanced in some ways than are we Of
this most enlightened country Of the
EARTH
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
DIED OF A BROKEN HEART:
Expired After Returning from Fun
eraI of Sons Child.

Expired After Returning from Fun
eral of Sons Child.
From the Cleveland Plaindealer:
Sorrow reigned in the home of Lewis
Collins at No. IA Shelbourne street on
Christmas.
On Monday a three-year-old son of
Mr.. Collins, who Is a clerk at the
American house, died at the Huron
street hospital. The funeral was ar
ranged for Christmas and to 1t came
the grandfather, Thomas H. Collins OF
Gypsum. The little child received the
undivided affection of the aged man
and his grief was violent when he en-
tered the house in which the childish
prattle of his favorite was stilled for
ever. When the time for the services
approached he became hysterical and
the paroxysms of grief could not be
stilled. When the solemn tones Of the
burial service arose and when the part
ing hymns were being rendered he be-
came more passive, only the long drawn
sobs showing that the fountain of tears
had run dry and that the aching heart
was still painfully alert to the loss.
When the grave was reached and the
grave his feelings overcame him and
the grief Of the loving grandfather be-
came most pitiful.
After the saddened family returned
to the home on Shelbourne street he
regained a portion of his composure.
He sat and talked in a low tone with
the family as they sat at dinner while
they tried to cover the ache in their
own hearts in order to comfort the old
man. Suddenly he stopped in the mid
die Of g. sentence, gasped, clasped his
hands and fell forward from his chair.
When his relatives had gathered him
from the floor the soul Of the grand
father had followed that Of the little
grandson into the realms where part
ings are unknown.
The verdict of the coroner pronounced
his death due to heart disease, induced
by excessive grief. "A broken heart"
is the Interpretation Of the technical
phraseology Of the verdict. Mr.. COL
Inns was g. years old. His remains
were taken to Gypsum yesterday for in
terment.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
UNITY OF PURPOSE.
Should He the Purpose Of Every
Trade Union.

Should He the Purpose Of Every
Trade Union.
Unity Of purpose should be the
watchword Of labor. Let us all resolve
to be as good as we can and as tolerant
of the rights and opinions of others as
we can without compromising our prin-
ciple. Let US fight fearlessly when it is
necessary, but to be broad and liberal
in our views and charitable to the
faults Of Others. There is enough for
us all to do to fight the common enemy
without pulling hair in our own ranks
except when it becomes necessary to
do so. The other side is organizing and
making hay while the sun shines. We
must keep the ranks intact and be able
to at all times meet them with a solid
front. The capitalists do not divide on
sectional lines nor on any other old
lines. They are looking for the best Of
it all the time and they do not care
where they are located. They do not
care whether the dollar comes from this
side or the other side Of the Rocky
Mountains or on which side Of Dixie's
line it rolls in from, so long as it rolls.
wan
same relative tactics as to sectional
lines. The men of labor in the east,
nor the south, nor the west, nor the
north have any right to flock by them
selves in a local or sectional organiza-
ton and if they do SO they are simply
playing into the hands of the employ
ers. The employers would be only too
glad to divide the labor organizations
up into sectional affairs then set us
to fighting and then reap the harvest
which they would do just as sure as the
sun rises in the east and sets IN the
west. The man or set Of men who will
lend their endeavors to a movement
that will divide the forces OF labor
along sectional lines or in any way
whether he or they do so honestly or
otherwise, are the agents Of discord and
will some day find their reward In
oblivion. Labor has struggled for
years to live down race and religious
prejudices and has made many sacr1-
fices of time, money and precious lives
to build the unions up to their present
high standard particularly in this re-
gard. The man who attempts to divide
them on sectional lines is-well-to say
the least, making an awful mistake and
one that he will live to regret.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES.
IAppropriate Gifts for Every Kind OF
O Wedding Celebration.

Appropriate Gifts for Every Kind OF
q Wedding Celebration.
We may flatter ourselves that we
have become much less superstitious
Than our grandsires and granddames,
but at the same time we must own
that we are far more "faddy" and
~finioking' than they, and that we
nave left their simplicity of life Tar
behind, and are in danger of overbur-
dening ourselves with all sorts of for
mality, which neither increase our en-
4oyment nor materially add to our COM
fort Fifty years ago, as now, we'd
ding was wedding-with difference
but the people who kept open house
then for several days and entertained
half the countryside would hold up
hands of horror at the thought OF re-
beating the festivities each anniversary
of the day which saw their nuptlal knot
tied, as some fond couples do nowadays.
The first anniversary Is the cotton
wedding, and friends who "asslsted' at
the original ceremony may repeat their
gifts If they choose, in this cheap ma
terial, and so add to the contents or
their friends napery chest. The second
.-paper-imposes tax on ones 1ngenu-
ity, for what can one send IN tnat
medium? A roll Of wallpaper saVors
too much Of practical joke, and II
everybody sent boxes of stationery the
couple would be supplied for the great
er part, if not all, Of their lives. II
''ny-rest" or a roll of shaving papers
Is too frivolous, then ones only plan is
to fall back on a nice book, or some
article of papier-mac che. 1t Is no diff
cult task to remember the third-the
leather wedding-for purses, handbags,
card cases, writing folios, and all man.
ner Of things suggest themselves, as
well as for the fifth-the wooden we'd
ding-which includes anything from
Dorridee "theevil' or cooking spoon to
a. sideboard and for the seventh, or
woollen, which calls for nothing more
valuable than a cosy shawl or hand
some pair Of new curtains, If ones
purse is deep and ones attachment
lasting. The tenth is the tin annivers-
ary, and beyond kitchen utensils what
can we give, unless we go to the length
of it are far from being ideal posses
sions to the careful housewife, but at
the twelfth, or silk wedding, we need
be at no loss, for anything from an
apron or a tea-cosy to dress length
of silk, stiff enough to stand alone, as
the saying goes, would be suitable: and
no doubt acceptable. The fifteenth, or
crystal, may be marked by presents
of flower glasses or epergnes; the
twentieth, or china, by vases, or orna-
ments, or new tea or dinner service;
the twenty fifth. or silver. by any arti-
Gle of plate; and the thirtieth, or pearl,
by jewelry set with gems, said to be-
token tears. The fortieth anniversary
IS the ruby and the fiftieth the golden,
and the seventy-fifth the diamond. and
surely on such occasions purses may
readily be filled with gold In honor OF
couples, who, despite modern assertions
as to the failure of marriage, have
jogged along comparatively happy and
healthy for so many years.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
OVERSHADOWS ALL.
Government by Injunction Ii the
Worst Form of Tyranny.

Worst Form of Tyranny.
junction overshadows all other issues
in it's application to labor in particular
and the people in general with the pos
sible exception of the Chinese exclusion
proposition. The illegal, unlawful, un-
fair and arbitrary use of the injunction
in trade disputes and the punishment
of alleged offenders for alleged con-
tempt Of court without a trial by jury
is judicial despotism which is just as
absolute and dangerous to the constitu-
tional rights and the liberties of our
people as would be the case if we had
an absolute monarchy--a king with the
power of a car. While the injunction
and it's abuse is now chiefly aimed at
the workers in trade disputes the people
regardless of calling cannot afford to
allow this dangerous practice to grow
up in this country. 1t is only step
from its application to the workers to
some one else and gradually If not
checked this form Of government will
become a fixture in the affairs and
lives of all the people of this country.
If the abuse of the injunction is allowed
to continue it will lead to a system Of
slavery and serfdom that will be more
CALLING than that of any previous age.
Injunction after injunction has been
issued SO often that 1t is now COM
mon occurrence tS find one that DELHI
erately robs one of all constitutional
rights and all semblance of liberty
Judge Wing, of Cleveland, and Judge
eager Of New Haven, recently issued
charlottesville former practically de-
nying the right of moral suasion in
trade disputes and the latter openly
denying this practice. Both were clear
ly contrary to the constitution and
every tenet of liberty's creed. Neither
can with safety be permitted to stand
without vigorous protest. The consti-
tuition, all laws and long usages guar
antee the right Of trial by jury. This
right is trampled under foot by these
judges who issue sweeping injunctions
robbing us of the right of lawful free
dom Of action and then punish us with
out trial by Jury for alleged contempt
of court. The injunctions are usually
bad enough but the punishment without
trial by jury is insufferable. Speaking
in the name of labor we can say that
we are always ready to stand trial by
jury for all of our acts, but we will
not tamely submit to this new form of
absolutism-this contempt of court rot.