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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
PAID 1000 PER CENT IN 3 MONTHS

PAID 1000 PER CENT IN 3 MONTHS
Some months ago the workers on
the New York Elevated railroad or
ganized union. They elected an able
and level-headed conductor as their
president and commenced to hold
meetings and prepare for a struggle
with the railroad company, which has
been noted for years as one Of the
most close-f1sted In the state.
The men paid in about $4,000 alto
gether in dues, only part of which
has been spent. Last week, after
threatening to strike and tie up the
whole system, they received an in
crease Of wages that will amount to
100000 a year. This advance in
wages equals two thousand per cent
on their investment of $4,000.
No trust, SO far as we know, ever de-
clared such a dividend as this. 1t is
enough to make Russell Sage Join a
trade union. The Standard Oil Com
pany in its palmiest days never made
record like this. It should also be
mentioned that besides the increase in
wages the men had their hours Of
labor reduced, and a number Of irri-
tating abuses were abolished.
The above is not as exceptional as 1t
appears at first sight. Some trade un-
ions have obtained results in even less
time and others have secured a larger
per capita result. When the amount
Of money gained by this increase of
wages Is figured as dividend on the
dues, the result Is in nearly every case
a surprising one.
The best investment that working
man makes is the money he pays into
the union treasury. 1t brings in big
ger percentage of profit than any gold
mine, and it is doubly profitable in
this particular--that it yields a. return
not only in money but In security and
self-respect that no other investment
could bring.
No Industrial organization requires
less capital than q trade union. A
few dollars apiece and a little COM
mon sense are all that the workers
need. The trouble is that most of the
unorganized trades can raise the mon
ey much easier than the sense, and the
latter cannot be bought; 1t must be
developed. y 2 :ss> ~ = ~ -: >
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
WAS PARTICULAR,

When an officer attempted to serve l.
warrant upon Herman sch1enoski, Of
Hazleton, p, the latter. read It care
fully and. in handling it back to the
officer, remarked: II want you and
'Donahue tthe: magistrate who issued
the warrant to understand that + am
q union man and will not accept serv-
ice on q warrant that does not bear The
union label" It is said that the officer
secured 4 warrant which, had; been
printed IN i union office before he ar 7.
rested Schlenoski. J: . =, ~. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
TOO MUCH ARBITRATION.
Chicago City Railway Bankrupts} Un.
ion by Continuous Arbitration
Proceedings.

A peculiar situation exists on the
lines of the Chicago City Railway Com
pany, and q strike is possibility as
matters look now. The company claims
that its agreement with it's employees
does not expire for several months,
while the men claim that it expired
June IL.
When the original agreement was
signed it stipulated that it was to re-
main in force until June II, one year
after the date Of signing. This agree
ment porvided that all disputes arising
under it should be submitted to arbitra-
ton. The question Of wages could not
be agreed upon between the company
and the union committee, and 1t went
to arbitration. It took the arbitration
company several weeks to arrive at a
decision, and the award provided that
1t was rendered. Another arbitration
board later took up another dispute,
and, after considering the matter for
months, gave decision also providing
that it should remain in force one year
from date, which would make it run
until next March.
d.: The officers Of the union declare that
no arbitration board had i right 10
extend the time stipulated In the oriRi-
nal agreement under which It was call
ed upon to act, and In that contention
they are upheld by their national rep
resentatives. Manager McCulloch says
he Is willing to let the matter 60 to ar
bftration, and permit another arbitra-
ton board to decide whether the former
arbitration boards exceeded their
authority.
The arbitration boards have already
bankrupted the union, as they cost in
the neighborhood Of 5000, and the men
are not too anxious to have another
board pass upon question that is plain
to them. They believe it is part of
Manager McCulloch's plan of breaking
up the union, to keep it financially
"broke" through arbitration proceed
tnEs.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

TIE I4ABC1R WORLD.


A few days ago New York friend, q
lawyer, volunteered to show me
through the courts Of the city. First,
we went to the great Court OF Special
Sessions, into the police court where
all DAY long, every day in the year,
there To a continual stream Of wretch
ed humanity passing before the police
Judges, then from one great court room
to another we passed until we had
visited more than q dozen. From this
Court OF Special Sessions we went over
to the City Hall Park and visited the
County Court, commonly known as the
Tweed court house. because Of the ap,
palling corruption Of the Tweed ring
In building it. 1t Is said that some
contractor connected with the Tweed
ring received $3.50 for a single door
knob, and they looked to me like the
most ordinary kind Of door knobs.
Here, az In the other court, there were
numerous judges holding sessions.
After we had gone from one court to
another for awhile tried to estimate
how many men in New York were oc-
cupied in looking after the evil doors.
First. In every court was a Judge, d
horde of lawyers, numberless bailiffs,
deputies. policemen, criers and what
not. In the bacq Of each court room
was q lot OF men who had been called
for jurors, then the witnesses pro and
con, and finally, IL we looked very
closely. almost lost among the lawyers,
bafliffs and Jurors. we discovered the
prisoner. The judge was properly awe
inspiring In his silken gown; the law
nh 4S~AS
with good tailors, the officers looked
snug and we'll fed. but the prisoner was
usually shabby, haunted and hungry
looking.
Sometimes the crime charged was
one thing and sometimes another, but
in every case 1t was directly caused by
our present system and had been COM
mitted against the law Of private prop
erty. In not one single instance Waa
a prisoner charged with committing a
single crime for which motive could
exist under just regime. When one
stops to compute the enormous cost in
wasted effort that must go to support
Judges, lawyers, officers and Jurors, to
build courts, jails and prisons, we can
reach but one conclusion and that is
that we are race Of ignorant fools to
endure system that makes such
things necessary.
Never since the beginning of time
has man taken one step in the forward
march of progress because he wished
or willed it. Tenaciously we have chung
to the traditions and customs Of the
past and have moved forward only
when evolution, that resistless force,
has carried us on. Long ages Of elav-
cry, serfdon and mechanical existence
have 80 bound the heart and brains Of
a woman to conventionalities that they
no doubt would be perfectly satisfied
to 60 on for all the untold ages that
are to come as mere slaves, serfs or
machines, but the evolutionary pro-
sress of the race1has created the neces-
| Bity Tor @ q new |ec economy, and q new
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
'READY=To FIGHT.
Chicago Federation 81 Labor vs.. En-
- ployers' Association.

ps0JeVe HD8Ocl3St0Hs
: chicago, June 25.-Last Sunday af-
ternoon, the Chicago Federation OF. La
Dor took steps to call aaconvention con-
ventton consisting OF one delegate from
each organization affiliated to prepare
a plan OF campaign to fight the open
opposition OF Mr.. Jobs Employers AS
ISOLATION to organized labor.
The Federation declared that unions
must keep to the letter and spirit of all
agreements II they wished the support
Of that body. but insisted that agree
ments should always be referred back
to the members for their approval be-
fore they take effect.
The Federation also called "open
shops" vicious and declared it would
stand for the idea Of refusing to work
with nom unionists.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
THEY KILLED THE IRISH LASS,


Kathleen sheehar, aged %, Of New
York City, killed herself because her
mates nimicked her brogue.
Kathleen was a slip of a girl who
came from the old sod recently and
brought her pretty brogue with her.
She broadened meat into "mate," and
rolled her "rs" with rich BURR
The girl had a tender heart, the mo-
bile temperament of her race, and was
very sensitive.
First finding employment at Dress
makers, she CHANGED to say something
about "worruck." There was litter
from the other girls. With unconscious
provincialism one of them said, "You
mean 'woyck.' don't your" When
Kathleen understood the girls were
poking fun at her she took it very
much to heart. The stress upon her
spirit grew until she left the place.
Then she found employment at a
drygoods shop. Laughter greeted all
her utterances there also and the teas
ing wounded her. She studied pro-
nunciation OF English at night, but her
labor was in vain. Her Limerick
tongue could not be twisted.
The girl fed from her Knockers to an
other shop where she endured similar
torments. Her face became sad and
she brooded much. One dsy she told
her relatives she had insured her life.
''Why?" they asked.
Il might die she said, with far
away look. "The money is for you.'
On Sunday the shrinking lass dressed
herself In her best clothes ana went TO
= park. where she stayed all day and
all night. She was debating the DID,
old question-"To be, or not to be?"
How it must have tortured her poor
brain and heart.
Monday morning at dawn she went
to a clump OF bushes and swallowed
carbolic acid. A policeman found her
writing on the ground. In the ambu-
lance on the way to the hospital she
Hasped:
'They'l niver make fun av me again."
And then she died.
No, no, 1assie, they'll never make fun
Of you again. Bitterly sorry are they
when it is too late.
You see there's more than one way to
kill poor girl.
And your brogue, Kathleen, will not
trouble you in the kinder land where
you have gone. They speak neither
English, nor Irish, nor dialects there.
There's only one language there-a
language too little used on earth:
It 10 the language OF universal love.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

1t was stated at the close OF May
Day that more than $4,000 men OF
various trades unions in Boston, Mass,
had been granted their. demands for
increased wages or shorter hours, or
both, and that there are now barely
1000 trade ufionists who have not
succeeded in securing the signatures
of their employers to their wage
scales.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

So extensive has the use OF cocaine
in British India become that the gov
eminent is seriously considering the
necessity OF establishing asyluns for
the exclusive treatment Of those at
flicted with the habit.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
A NATIONAL STREET RAILWAY.

A NATIONAL STREET RAILWAY.
Most people who oppose public own
ershtp OF steam and street railroads do
80 because Of belief that politics
would enter into the management and
that inefficient men would be en-
ployed.
Partisan influences and services, it
Is commended, would count for far more
in the distribution Of the high places
than experience and efficiency would.
BY the same argument, we might let
out to private contract the whole BUSH
ness OF governing. It can be argued
that syndicate would employ better
lawmakers, better Judges, better execu-
tive officers than the public does, with
it's political methods. II the argument
is good in the one case, why not in the
other?
Ample experience has shown that the
argument Is not good in either case.
The Chicago street railway situation
right now is an illustration. The Union
Traction company, organized, built up
and conducted by the customary syndi-
cate methods. had become 30 deeply
involved that stockholders called upon
United States court to take the COM
pany's affairs out OF the hands Of the
syndicate.
This court, presided over by Judge
Grosscup. has been running the road
for awhile. with the result that ex-
penses have been reduced at the rate
OF $4,000 a year and the service i'm
proved. The trained managers. the
men whose services are deemed 80
valuable that no government could af-
ford to pay their price. have very con.
vsniently been dispensed with. IT,
This Is but one instance. There have
been many others quite AZ satisfactory,
r 10 customary tor railroad companies.
when: they get In trouble, Ito depend
upon the government to help them out.
This ~ ,articularly true Ia case of
strikes. with B thfs phase 81 Govern
s.rnent operat ionisS,o roads the public u
psie3ss ~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

The department Of asriculture. ID
working INCREASINGLY to Impress upon
the minds OF American farmer. the
fact that $500 worth Of butter: removes t,,;
from the farm less fertility than I'VE
cents worth OF hay. IL; . II i. If >S. II:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

Peculiar thing is this ''civilized war
fare" Butchered bodies, broken limbs
and scattered entrailss and over all are
vultures swoopinsssdewn to add to the
slories Of war. Civiiization!.5 We are
In it up to our necks.y :.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
CLASH OVER JURISDICTION.

Chicago, June 25.---some $50 workers
on the First National Bank building,
were Idle last week. y The situation III
peculiar. The mortar, tile. and brick
carriers want to- build the scaffolds on
which they work. III. The carpenters de-:
clare that II ~ sthe Dir business Is build
then. The 81 men. say they are:
obliged risk their lives on the scak y
folds and they y,ailt 70 be:sure they are
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
: CAN'T GET. ARalT II

veholteale yattysiis ot1 sssisN z.of. chicau,o
.s.;z Nit osttInn 6 81, board. :
III Chtca9o. Jllns 15. lDisEnsted u; with
~ oppositioai.olf ttheif B e1np loyers to
13|a.ir.ninded.sar e ttls The
iRaee scale the who'll zwarehoau. Z
5nlsn sofs Chi Avsad scided q force
Al.
81 tpp
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

The supreme court Of Pennsylvania
has upheld General Gobin's ''Shoot to
kip order and the killing Of miner
by Guardsmen Wadsworth. and de-
clared that, at times, martial law was
necessary during the strike OF the an
thracite miners.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

Capitalism continues. to attempt the
marvellous feat Of running two trains
in opposite directions on the same
track without having collisions. I'M
practical Socialists say it can only be
done on two tracks. How absurd!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

All the big coal companies and many
Of the individual operators in the an
thraoite region will increase the wages
OF the foremen, mine bosses and 9TH
ers who stood by them during the
strike. The average increase will be
from 10 to Is per cent.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

':No prophet is without honor ex-
cept in his own country" An excep-
ton must be made in favor Of capt.
talism. Its profits are honored in all
countries, at home and abroad.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
Ar = POSTUM y c i
!: I Il s5@.++f WORKS. ,@a.ss:,* E.,

& Battle Creek, Mich, June 26.Battla
Creek has ,its first strike Sof 1s>s ta.1
brsAd cutters at the, Postum Cereal CON.
pany betnE III men object to Is
zcut 4 Khichs atc ompanisdSHth
al1atlon 8 machine to f4cllitate
stheir1s, VIII!
ShfSo aones TN famous tAad
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

The Introduction Of the Bertillion
system Of registering criminals has
resulted, in France, in the arrest and
incarceration OF 10000 criminals who
had hitherto managed to conceal their
identity, and, 50 far as known, not a
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

Good roads conventions are doubt
less good in their way, but the object
lesson Of a strip Of perfect road in
each county would. be more effective
than q hundred conventions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
roma Is received with scepticisn by
those who know the. presidents we'll. =

The man with the hoe no longer
engages our attention. The man with
the injunction Is IT, even though his
praises are not sung by the poets.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
MAIL WAGON DRIVERS.

Those OF Chicago Now Want an In.
crease in Wages.
Chicago, June 25.-Drivers of the
United States mail wagons in Chicago,
who are members of the Newspaper
Delivery and Mail Wagon Drivers I'm
ion, are paid $50 per month for double
wagons and SIS TOR single wagons and
the men work from eleven; to sixteen
hours each day. They want more pay,
and President Williams Of the union
says the contractors not only refuse all
demands. but decline to offer a counter
proposition or permit the demands to
be arbltrated. Over 100 drivers are
affected.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
MORTGAGE FORECIOs11RE SAFE
Default havinnr 49, o<A14I'

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES SALE,
Default having been made in ne
payment pay H;1d Of the sum Of one hundred
claim '1ye "a and d $1,000 Dollars: which is
gate OF this notice upon certain
M Mor1t ~ duly executed and delivered
P 81 manion e. e; Plummer and Annie 8.
L LOUIS Hnha ms VIE VIE: Mortgagors. to
the ,d 10Th day Of October. 1900, and with
di 14Gyy recorded re- IN the office 81 the Reg.
st: Louis. and State of Minnesota. on
o'clock A H. n BOX R' 1s soa Of n Mor rG;es
eeedtne p hay1 $50 hand and no aeto9 or pro
OF o!nerW1se; to recover the debt Sc
f fpaeoae by said Mortgage or any part
Now. therefore. notice ia hereby s;vu
en-. that by virtue Of the bower Of sale sale
contained in said MORTGAGE and puro
and provided. the said Mortgage viii
described in and conveyed BY said
Ml1ortEaEe. viz, The undivided one
third (Hnd 1-s) Of Lot eight (s} in
to Duluth. accordinF to the r aeaa,ied
plat thereof. being all the undivided
interest Of said MortRaRors in and ia
e e3taon lot an edTht E ct the date Of exc
LOUIS County and State Of Minnesota.
with the hereditaments and appurte-
n1 4s which sale will be made by
the Sher1n OF said st. Louis County
House, in the City of Duluth in said
County and State. on the 10th day Of
August, 1903: at 10 o'clock A. NJ. Of
tnat gay. ct public yendue. to tho
debt Of $105.55. and interest, and th4
taxes, II any, on said premises, and
Twenty-Five Dollars Attorneys fees,
In case Of foreclosure. and the dis
bursements allowed by law; subject
to redemption at any time within onS
year from the day Of sale, as provided
by law.
Dated June 25th. A. D. 1908.
- LOUIS HUBERT.
MortRagee
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

That full dinner pail can be trans
formed into the tin headgear Of Hap
py :Hooligan when the next era of
overproduction arrives.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

The only overproduction we would
fear Is the overproduction Of fools.
1t is because we have a surplus Of
these that we starve in the midst Of
plenty.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

It is a mistake to state that Edison
invented the photograph. Rockefeller
contributed Ito Chicago university be-
fore Edison's machine was heard of.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
J Y, sss.sf " Es7g 5
= DEATH rs SUSPICIOUS

.TS5 81. PAUL, y1nN S24.-MArfln JOhnSon wI,n
aDpeared At:s IAysrz Grows about i. week 4 Il
With sconsl derable money, q was found IN Is bari,
there today uneonscfous from INJURIES ana BE
died few hours later while being taken III,
South Paul, IS thought that he swas is.
bed andHmurdef 1e1efllE OF hls RIBS were
bro md - is that n maS= Kicked rs
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
CENTRAL MiAl<Es.sNEw. MOVE.

CHICAGO. y une- 2A@-Further enooralixation
IN the western passenger rate situation develop
ed today when ne Wisconsin Central announced
its: Intention ct making the. - rate now, in
eject between Chicago and st. Paul the basis
OF comHutin1s all5 excursion rates. The action
q the Wtston9ins Central viii have the eject
Of reducing AL excursion rates from st. Paul
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

One thing is true of all objections
to Socialism. All the. evils feared by
it's opponents already exist under
capitalism, SO we can't lose anything
by change.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

/: The workingnnen who an the shops
and factories sare only known ! u Oh TIM
books BY their mum er shoQld ayoid
Socialism. 1t destroy 81 avn duality..
and brings all down "a level.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27

SHIPPING RAILROAD MATERlAE.
II. Juno Times corresr,n.d.nt
4ahtiAaNeaI ~ lensate
;,ngt h. 1pr Il
po ti oeyonds Ashkabad ION the Trans- Pefxt.n
i g Is stated that many hundred toss
t Hb mat have been accumulated during
nj, ,;,! year north OF Meshed Persia, and tho
large orders on hand, nAVs
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
LOWELL TEXTILE STRIKE OFF.
Unanimous Action Taksn by Unions in
Textile cou1oij, :.

IoXell0 Council. -.
Lowell, Mass, June 23.-The Textile
council Sunday afternoon declared the
great strike In the Lowell mills at an
end. Every union affiliated with the
council was represented. The strike
began on March 30 and involved about
1900 operatives. The mills were shut
down until June /, when the agents
opened the gates and: the majority OF
the Operatives went back to work. The
strike has cost in wages about 81, 30o.-
900. and was a defeat for: the men,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-25
Another Tradition Gone.

There is a popular belief that the
negro knows how to handle a mule
better than a white man." said an
obaervant man, but this belief is
erroneous. am just from a sugar
plantation, where some young mules
are being trained for the work that
they have to do during the grinding
season, and l there observed that if
the overseer had not superintendcd
the training some Of the mules would
have been crippled. Now a planta-
ton is tho best place to judge a negro's
abilities in this respect, for there they
handle mules more thOn do any other
class OF negroes. If the mule balks
while a negro is handling him the
mule will receive a good beating, and
this makes matters worse, for the
more one beats a mule the worse he
generally gets. The animal becomes
s%toical, and it takes something more
than blows to stir him. Still, the
negro does not think Of anything but
this sort of punishment, provided he
alone has charge Of the mule. Some
time ago | came across a baking mule
and an Infatuated negro. The negro
had dismounted-for he had been rid
ing the mule-and with "a stout whip
handle was pour ding the mule for all
that his strength enabled him. If a
pebble or a small piece of rock is drop
ped into a mules ear the animal will
run at b%rcakneck speed. 1 thought of
this, and told the negro to get into
the saddle.
HE won't move, boss said the
negro, and he's been standing here
all mawnin' like he's dade.'
II secured a pebble and informed
the negro that if he would get on the
mule everything would go on we'll.
"'Taint no use to do nawthin' DO
mo-, an | dun glib him up he replied.
II finally succeeded in getting him
to remouut, and as he did so I dropped
the pebble in the mules ear. The
animal threw his head US simultan-
eously, then started away as if Next
can spurs were being punched into
his sides, while the negro held on
With much difficulty. All l could
hear was:
"'Wonder what da. white man
conc dis here m~uIe.'"-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.