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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
TELEPHONE QUESTION ~
MAY COME TO A VOTE
Citizens Likely to File Petition Ask
ing That Matter BE Submitted
at Election.

Qualified voters Of the city who OBJ
ject to the increased of Zenith telephone
rates on a sliding scale may take
advantage of a provision in the city
charter and insist on the matter com
tion in Februar y.
The charter provides that before
taking effect the ordinance must be
published once a week for four con-
secutive weeks Within thirty days
after the completion of publication
per cent of the qualified voters of
the city as shown by the last election
may file a, petition asking that the
question be submitted to- a general
or special election called for the .pur-
pose.
AS the total vote cast at the last
city general election was s2se, but es
names; 3 per cent, will be required to
bring the question to a vote.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
LABOR UNIONS ARE
A GREAT BENEFIT.

AS Minister of Labor, feel that oc-
cupy the most important portfolio in
the Dominion Cabinet. Labor
unions are and will continue to be pro-
ductive of great benefits, but. there
can be no success unless: controlled by
moderation and Justice: Labor
and capital should not be hostile forces;
they should be allies. =. Labor un-
ionists, do your own thinking. =. . :.
Compulsion and coercion are antagon
istic to mans better and higher ma ture.
!. j.. .:.*I will never consent to absolute
coercive legislative measures. !. The
.laboring classes will work out the
salvationaof:c the ntry.-sir= William
Mulock, Minister of Labor Of Canada.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
ARTISTS TO FIGHT
LABOR UNIoNIsTs.
Do Not Like to Be Hindered in Their
Work BY Striking
laborers

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-Artists and
sculptors throughout the country are
preparing to make an organized fight
against the control which they assert
organized labor is trying to obtain
over the realm Of art.
The recent experience of Director
of Sculptors Bittern Of the St. Louis
exposition, with the plasterers' union
of that city. has brought the matter
to a focus. and a movement is now
under way to establish one or more
international organizations in all effort
to protect art workers from interfer-
cences by striking s. plasterers,. 3 house
her
tsI5s 51edpf frs3sst
stures WI efs g tie5 Art ttlde sseldpt
does: his part IN the: scheme 81 orrna-
~nlentation. : '".
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
=: MAY STOP ELIvERING:
Packing Companies considerins Doing
~ : Away With s Teams.

Packing Companies coneiderins Doing
49,. II :. Away With Teams.
Managers Of local branches Of the
big packing houses who were seen
yesterday stated that they had not
heard that the Wholesale meat. com
panfes were going to do: away with
their delivery wagons in Duluth as
was reported but they said that they
would not, be surprised to receive such
an@order any day. ssl :<s5 .5s* :: ::
The use ssof delivery wagons is be-
ing discontinued IN IN other Places said
r. "A Peers. g. the mmond cpmpa- :
ny, last evening : and IL shQuld dn,t be
surprised il Duluth were Htreate like
wise.::.*We have received no. word to
that effect, however .5: ==5s Il IN T..
ii II There are seven pa cl<ing houses in
the city and as eac employs from
three to Ave men driving teams nearly
two dosen. .men: nd that Inany.t teams
viii bet thrown out of employment.
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girls whose references have been y III
zVestigated, and who must behave, .5or
he barred forever from the privilege
intended for them, including COM
Portable club room, lectures and in
struction on practical Tines.
Both the mistresses and maids must
subscribe to certain rules and regula-
tions, presumably for their joint bene-
fit. The girls must be guaranteed their
regular day and evening off and must
pledge, among other things, to remain
at least one month where they are sent,
unless they should be discharged. For
those who remain for one year in places
obtained for them by the guild, there
will be various prizes which will be in
creased on succeeding anniversaries.
Among the patronesses of the guild will
be Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs. S. C. T.
Todd. The guild will make it's formal
start: on Oct. 25.
"This enterprise is wholly novel," :"
said Mrs. Healy, one of the officers.
"We. expect it to be far reaching and
to extend to every leading city in the
country. = There are grievances, of
course, on both sides. Two young wo-
men recently started out to investigate
and, had themselves enrolled at an in
telligence office. One of them saw q
woman who wished to employ her, who
said her flat was small and her girls
had to make their bed at night in the
bath tub and sleep there. At another
place she found she would be expected
to sleep on an ironing board suspended
between chairs in the kitchen"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
MEN SERVANTS IN. DEMAND.

I Large numbers Of German boys. and.
men are, finding. ready employment in
5Lond on as: house maid ds'',1 and Flor:
maids. - They are solving TO some Sex-i
tent the domestic servant problem. The
men servants draw the same wages,
work :tkice as. hard and do not. want
so many: concessions, as the women Of
their age-between7 19 and 80. They dol
washing and can turn their hands to-
work for. which women are#t totally un-
suited The bureau Whic started this!
enterpr lis doing s. roaring trade, and
several Others are being estab blished IN
compel tition.s Ss#
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
LABOR AND THE WISE GUY.

Written on the walls Of a cavern in
habited by tramps down on the banks
of the Chicago drainage canal near
California avenue the police recently
discovered several aphorisms from
vagabondia. One of them read: ANY
body can work for living, but it takes
a wise guy to live without work.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
PRESIDENT SHA Nc ~ lNTER. s:.s=
@sss:i ! u, -. IL e3FERED AT cRlPPLESC CREEK

y DENVER, Oct. g. Purest kind OF
bosh and bsolutel no thing to t.
said Governor Feabod Wit reference:
to eport#= tfa e he had been iVlsed
by Presid lent 4 oosevelt educe the
mil itary force. In ripple Creek The:
governor further AIRED Ina c he had
not inferred wi he estdent con
cerning the ituat IA #st he gold
camp where inens have been on
strike pastn two months and
stat troops are tl,n
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
Texas Neeroes " e. Cooperation. S.,

Sz The Texas Farmer s ssInprovement=s so-
ciety is cooperative body composed
Of 800 negro fartners owning 50, 900
acres Of land IS. 600 head Of horned cat
tie. and 900 horses and mules. Robert
L.. Smith who siss styled 8 the So ''TexaN
Booker " Washingtto ton. at it's head. 1T
srecent1y held seventh annus1 con-
Yention. he society IS Raging an ag-
gressive against the crop-
mort res en- troducing in1-
sproyed met talses rare
and1s
g. |l,ls 1sssiyls IS
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17

I la The Employer Association Of Chi
scago. after herring the report OF ex-
psrts regarding the cost of living III
reside. has ncluded that it has in
creased ~ per en- t nring the past
{ five years, and has decided that here
should BE a like Increase In the rate
z2of wages,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
POLITICAL MOVE RULED !.
FROM CHICAGO. .AsSEMBl'
ATTEMPT INDEPEND.
ENT ACTION.
President Immediately Declared the
Resolution Out Of Order. Iona
Debate Follows. Chair Is Upheld.
The Father Of the Move Makes
Strong Plea, and Shows Why Action
Should Be Taken.

Chicago, Oct. 15.-The following res
olution was introduced by James Bren-
mock of the Carpenters at the last meet
ing of the Chicago Federation of Labor:
"The present time seems to be the
best for inaugurating movement to
obtain for the toilers control of the
political forces of our city, country and
state i'll order to bring about such
changes in our organic state and local
laws as we'll as to give to the toiler
continuity Of employment, natural
wages and a decent consideration of his
rights by the elected representatives of
the people,"
In order to accomplish this end the
resolutions authorized the executive
board to expend $500 in advertising a
convention of lone delegate from each
loo citizens who shall sign the creden-
tials of the delegates representing them,
and no lawyer. officer or business agent
of any organization or society or any
person having job or employment
with the city, county, state or nation
who has held such job during the past
year shall be eligible
| President Schardt promptly ruled the
resolution out of order on the ground
! of no politics in the Federaton."
| Delegate Brennock then appealed
from the decision of the chair He
pointed out the fact that the 100000
workingmen Of Chicago could have any
thing they wanted if they stood to-
| gether at the polls, instead of dividing
their forces between the Republican
and Democratic parties, both pledged
to work in the interest Of. bosses. He
showed that the Trades unions in their
contests with the employers were con-
tinually finding the power Of the law
being used against them. In view Of
this fact is was surely more effective
to take possession of the law-making
=, power than to fight against it when
lin. in Tie hand of the enemy Political
The. onl ration
Mons
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL .
CUT OFF,: MANY :EMPLoYEs

CHICAGO: Oct. 1s:-The Southern
Pacific railroad is to follow. the ex-
ample .of the NeW York Central and
curtail expenses ~ LAY yfng OF & en- ]
.ployes. The Iar rri1nan linz. S. prepar-.
ing. accor riding to AN authorit
port justsrecsiVedsin sinsG Chicago tosreduce;
.itsaf force 100 men l1llnnedmtelyl
cuts
shaps sYt sse7a.BI IT,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
GET SHORTER HOURS.

READING, Pa, Oct. 1s:--The work
ing time of the seven hundred en-
ployes Of the Reading Railway -compa-
nys carshops was today reduced to
sixty hours per week. They have been
working Is hours a. week. -. ':$$3'**.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17

work now peri FORMED by the Electriea1
Workers, etc. t".:1:
But in this new deal we find the
General Secretary-Treasurers .sof the
Plumbers and Painters joining hands
with. the Presidents of Rricklayers,
Structural Iron Workers and recently
formed International Union of Hod-
carriers and Laborers in proposed
National Federation Of Building
Trades.
Just what actuated the General Sec
retary-Treasurer Of the Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers,
and International affiliated with the N.
B. T. c., in this action is not quite
clear, since the constitution of the
Brotherhood requires its local Unions
to affiliate with Building Trades Coun-
ellis, etc. Yet, in letter of September
10th, replying to a question from this
office, he states, that the proposed fed
GRAFTON is to be a kind Of an interna-
tiona1 alliance between National Ex-'
ecutive Officers only, of structural
trades only, with no connection what
ever with local Building Trades Coun-
ellis; that it is for the purpose of avoid
met in conference at Indianapolis in
September, "believe the time has come,
when National Building tradesmen
must do something to protect their in
terests from the interference Of central
bodies.
In another letter, September 18th, in
reply to one from this office asking if
he did not think the objects sought
could be gained by all building trades
organizations being nationally affiliat-
ed with the National Building Trades
Council, he replied that lit probably
could, but the men who have inaugural
ed this movement think differently and
what they want is National Fedora
tion of Building Trades WITHOUT any
Building Trades Councils, all work to
be done through the executive heads
of the Federation"
A recent. article that has. gone: the
rounds of:the labor press, credited
President Gubbins with saying that the
B. and M. 7, II. will absorb the Plas-
terers; Stone Cutters and Stone Masons.
He made similar statements to officials
Of the%National Building: Trades Coun-
Gil, using instead of ''absorb,". the
| words, whip them in line" -. :.
From these statements it would ap-
pear thar the :; object really is. to- m
augurate aT;system under which there
shall be established d. strong. govern.
ment": at headquarters, much after the
Alexander. Hamilton idea, under which
| the rank and file: shall have little ii
any,>voice in the conductEof affairs. IL
which they. are Interested: a monarch
1ica1 form OF government, from the tor
DOWN in eontradi iction* to- the Building
Trades Council plans, which is "a gov:
>ernments for, of and BY the people con
! .cerned therein, built from the ground
/ up. and in which the people who pay
| the tax are the soverigns Il: and law
making power. !. # i, =,z i a&:s+s s+
81 he aboVe D is wi hat we learn. Of THE
proposed "a tipna 5 Federation & 81
Building Trades, I, an vi tn the knowgl.
edge that.sth American people do no
favor= monarch hieal off govern
Iments do not believe that thesA Amesr,
lean blliIdlns apprpyt
form trades union governnen
zatb,ssolute
ssass
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
= IL &
presidteeif1l twas .sSistaffii1isslla1

he presid den q s.
good ma jority Thus ended another al
tempt to fornnsa fake. labor party IN
Chicago. It. did not even have the sup-
port of the GRAFTERs who might ex-
pect to get jobs in case such party
were successful or who might sell it out
to the Democrats or be bribed by the
Republicans to stay in the field. If
it were a real labor party it could only
act as a competitor to the Socialist
Party and of course weaken it. The
fact is that a majority of the Trades
unonists who understand the necessity
of labor party are already in the So
calist Party and are not wasting their
efforts in trying to get organized labor
to launch another Socialist Party
Neither are they so foolish as to at
tempt to commit any union to an en-
dorsement of the Socialist Party until
the sentiment Of the majority Of the
members will sustain such action.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17

The Humane .EducationaI
IsocIety recentI tered . prize of 200
Tor the best plan. for.. pre- venting strikes.
Eixhty-elRht plans been received
from yariosls .ok & f.#country ana
atheY yl1sof
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17

sso asT
ftSthe|ri git of conf er.rlIins nat lization
to; the federal cour e IT IS und derstood
that; the president will favor. a per1a-
nent commission to question the ap-
plicant for citizenship, papers, take
other testimony if necessary, and report
the result of the examination to the
Judge.
One Chicago judge is found to have
admitted 1900 foreigners to full citizen
Ship in one evening, an act which would
have been physically impossible unless
the oath were administered to the ap-
plicants in platoons, and the law pre-
suneds that the oath shall be admins
tered to- each Individual separately.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
STRIKE ls THREATENED.

80 ST.I.OUIS, Oct. Employees #of athe
.paIifie# Express I Co.. iii over the United.
ssfates..it is %uld erstopd are. demanding
AZ increares dc Ssr1eI cen SNa res e
1eaa Iii demand ftss With
xt,I htrseaN.5
E|'' fas.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
NATURALIZATION LAWS
AREBEING VIOLATED

Conditions May Result in Federal
Court. Alone Creating Citizens.
TACOMA. Wash.,: Oct. 13.-startling
violations. Of the new naturalization
laws at Chicago and elsewhere have
been brought to light by c. DC. Van
Dusen, a special agent: of the depart
ment of justice; who has, just COM
pleted trip of inspection across the
continent: -. ::s...ss- !.
Mr.. VanDusen; declaresz that the pro-
vision: of the new aW which prevents
anyone with I:anar hIsticI beliefs; ;:incli-
snatl1 or.t tend deneIzs bseontne1a
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
II ! e ,xlsplaiilned.

4 Easily plAined. S S
a IS trange. that after rea ching: the top
OF the ladder. he should s@fall 4 50 sud
denl
rhere=Was WON al the. ottom
OF
Seils shas come .ata nd are more
sVefconYtncedtlaa time has;
come hen h,ijl hnuId:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
!. STRIKE. .zls...pEcLAREp

i CANTON. q. O.,# Oct. . 13.-President
sharerof the Am1;algamated Assecia5 "a se as
eixth district conferred here today with
the managementy Of the. Stark Rolling
Mill company. 4 s. /. No agreement was
reached and q strike was ordered ef-
fectiVe tOinOrrOW.~@zs
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
.WAL .7FAl.l O. ON@INl

!, WALL zFALLs ON Ns5vvoRkMEN i
Il / OMAHA Neb.. Oct: 5: ss::-=Portions @of
the wall left standing at the Union
Pacific boile lershop fter last weeks
collapse fell today burying four work
men. hTee were seriously injured.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
- SaE =
GOMPFR RSAyY ANTS =
= BIG sTRl1KE 81 ENDED
Tells New Yorkzseui,dinp Trades Un:
ions to Negotiate With employers.
Advice Taken :. Condemnation Of
Course Followed by Strikers.

New" York. Oct. 15.-In a letter to
the building trades unions Of this city
and vicinity, made public tonight, Sam
uel Gompers Y president Of the Ameri-
can FederationSaof Labor, and James
Duncan; secretary, have Recommended
that the ~unionszzaeree to the plan of
arbitration Of the Employers associa-
ton. This action, which comes after
Mr.. Gonapers' @:investigation of the sit
uation in the city, is considered de-
feat: for the building i trades unions,
which have refused the plan of arbi-
tration. x<.f
1t is recommended that the unions
that have signed the agreement insist
upon the disbandmenfaof such orgain-
cations as have been instituted recently
as rivals to the previously existing un-
ions Of the trader
Recommends Leniency.
Mr.. Gompers also recommends that
the unions be lenIent with the members
of the rival organizations and afford
them an opportunity to join the union
ranks. The opinion says:
'In our opinion time and circumstan-
ces will demonstrate that agreements
with employers FIJI: the maintenance of
industrial peace and pursuit of the pol
icy of cancellations with every honorable
effort at arbitration of disputed points;
and yet maintaining the largest possible
limit of freedom::of action :of the upn-
ions, will tend tq. the establishment OF
more rightful relations between the
workmen and their employers and the
establishments of:A larger degree of in
dustrial tranquility than any coercive
policy of coiian1pulsory arbitration
whether enforced by commissions of en-
ployers or by the state"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
LABOR. F|GHHhG|'.LABQR
:" IN THE BUILDING. TRADES
SECRETARY STEINBlSs OBJECTS
= TO NEW LABOR FEDERATION. r
Scores President Gubbins Of the Brick.
layers International Union. Other
National Trades Officers are Cri.
tieized. Assures Workers That
National Building Trades Council
Is Here to Stay.

St. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 15.-secretry H.
W. Steinbiss Of the National Building
Trades Council is all wrought up over
the organization of the National FEEDER
alton Of Building Trades at Indian
apolis last week. When asked his opin-
ion about the new organization he said
in very warm terms:
1.-THE National Building Trades Coun-
Gil is in no wise connected with, nor
has any official knowledge Of, said
scheme.
AS to the need and feasibility of such
a movement and it's serious conse.
quences to Organized Labor, should it
be effected, we leave to the judgment
of the rank and file of the building
trades unions, whose servants we have
the honor of being.
As they seem to have no authority
from the Unions they represent, it ap-
pears that this so-called Convention
can at most be but conference of the
promoters with the object of devising
a. plan for the contemplated formation
of dual organization and seek to
have it ratified by. referendum vote Of
their local unions. Even the right of
such conference, for such purpose, by
the projenitors, without consent and
authority from their constituents may
be questioned.
For some years past there has been
a runnor afloat, that certain labor offic-
ials contemplated combination Of
actual structural organizations to
form into a prospective federation, alb
sorb kindred smaller organizations and
leave: the balance of building trades
to shape their own destiny as best they
could. 1t was said to be contemplated
to have the Stone Masons, Journeymen
Stone Cutters, Operative Plasterers,
Tile Layers, etc., absorbed by the B.
and M. I. u, the Lather's trade to- be
]: divided between the b. and M. I. u.
and the Bridge and. Structural Iron
Workers: the i latter also eonfiscating
all sstructilra 81 meta con
shsltaI
&
5abseft,8f clsidihs conduit
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17
A SERVANTS GUILD.
New York Movement in the interests
OF Both Mistress and Maid, =.

New York, Oct. 15.-several women
. Of wealth: and social prominence have
started q .s5 servant TIL
The Florence daily tribune., 1903-01-30
THE COMING CAMPAIGN

The political pot is beginning to
simmer in some quarters and several
propositions are being discussed by
the LEADERS" The Tribune has no
interest in the city campaign further
than to see able men elected to the
different offices OF these the office
of MAYOR is the most important
Mayor Macdonald hesitates to say he
will be candidate for re election,
bat The Tribune hopes he will decide
To make the race He has been All
efficient servant of the people, conser-
vative in everything and Jealous of
the city's interests We believe the
people appreciate these facts and that
they would stamp their approval with
their votes at the polls.
There is some talk that the coming
campaign will be conducted on strictly
party lines, and that the democrats
are already grooming II candidate for
mayor. In any event The Tribune
hopes to see the best men win.
The Florence daily tribune., 1903-01-30
READ ALL OF THIS.
You Never Know the Moment when
This Information May Prove
of Infinite Value.

1t is worth considerable to any
medicine. for if there is no occasion
to employ it, in the meantime, frail
humanity is subject to so many in
fiuences and unforeseen contingencies
guage the future. Know then, that
Doan's Ointment will cure any case of
hemorrhoids. commonly known as
piles, or any disease of the cuticle or
skin, generally termed eczema one
application convipced-a continua-
tion cures Read the proof:
7. ii. Thomas, attorney of 600 e.
Bennett Ave, Cripple Creek, says:
Ointment today AS did in the month
of June 1899. At that time | went
to drug store for box which / used
for itching hemorrloids. A few APP
"a short continuation of the treatment
cured me- There have been symp-
toms of "a recurrence since but few
applications of the remedy never fails
to bring positive relief. My opinion
of Doan's Ointment, then expressed,
is the same today MS it was when it
was first brought to my notice.
For sale by all dealers; price 80
cents per box. Foster Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y sol" agents for the u.
5. Remember the name Doan s.
and take no substitute. o d
The Florence daily tribune., 1903-01-30
Nav Equal Niagara.

Augusta, Me-, Jan. 30-The Bangor
board of trade has taken the initia-
tive in movement to utilize the i'm
river, aud company organized for
the purpose will soon be chartered
The plan of the promoters involves
the outlay of about $40, COO, 600 and it
rs expected that so, 600 to 100, 600 horse
power will be developed. or force
almost equal to Niagara.
The Florence daily tribune., 1903-01-30
Automobile Show.

London, Jan. 30-Automobile show
which preparations have been making
for long time past, opened auspi-
cionsly today IN the Crystal Palace
1t is an excellent exhibition of the
progress of the automobile industry
in this country. Nearly all the lead
ing British firms and a great majority
of the agents for foreign companies
are displaying the latest products of
their factories. Owing to the great
area available tor exhibition purposes,
the show is an exceptionally fine one
from spectacular point of view. as
well as interesting.
Turn over new leaf and purchase
O. a