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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
POWDER WORKERS.

Terre Haute, Ind, July 30-The ex-
ecutive board Of the United Powder and
High Explosive Workers of America
has thought it best to postpone it's
convention to a later date. 1t was con-
Guided that it would be best to post
pone it and put the $12.7OO it would
have cost into organizing work. The
union is in very fourishing condition,
having recently won two very diff
cult strikes, one Of four months sus-
pension and one Of one month. It was
a complete victory and an increase Of
wages amounting to 10 and Is per cent
with a reduction Of hours also.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
RAG PlCkERS' UNION
FORMED IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, July 31.-A rag pickers'
union has been formed here. There
were 200 persons present at the first
meeting third of whom were
women.
The Union will be a. branch of the
United Hebrew Trades, and it's head
quarters will be on the lower East Side.
Said the chairman: 1.-The work is not
attractive and we are poorly paid. We
are employed by contractors who allow
us only 81 and SO a week. It is our in
tention to demand $12 and $15."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
n; BISHOP :FALIIo VtstoNsUNIoNs.saA @=
He Says they mako Mistake il oppos-
inq National sGuards.

Springfield, ILL.,, July .3o.--The ex-
listing relations Of trade unions to the
national guard formed the keynote of
sermon delivered by Bishop Fallows
of Chicago to the men Of the Second
Regiment at Camp Lincoln.
In the opinion Of Bishop Fallows
the trade unions are making their
greatest mistake in offering opposition
to the national guard, which the speak
err looks upon as the salvation Of the
country. He expressed the belief that
the standing army will be increased
as the national guard decreases, and
that a large standing army is a men,
ace to the whole country and an ulcer
upon the body public.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
WORKS AT A LOOM
AT AGE OF EIGHTY EIGHT

At the age of four score years and
eight Theresa Hardsty of Madisonville,
n.y., is able to earn comfortable living
by weaving carpets of wool and cotton
upon loom upon which her mother
worked before the present owner Of the
machine was born. Naturally it is not
in the new arts or crafts she finds a
source of livlihood, but in old-fashioned
carpet weaving. Her first lesson at the
loom were taken seventy years ago
from her mother, who wove jeans, COW
trlid>, counterpanes ETC., for many of
the older families. Among her early pa
irons who Mrs Hardstey remembers,
are men long since dead and whose sons
aye, grand sons, are the men of to-day.
She uses in her work her mothers loom.
so she sits today at the same case. where,
the self-same treadles that were pressed
she sat three score and ten years ago;
so many years ago by the girl in her
teens are in the service of the octogen-
Hrian today. The loom, too, is old, older
by far than its owner, she estimating
it's probable age at $50 years, as it be-
longed to her grandmother who prob
ably had it made in Maryland before
coming to this State. 1t was brought to
kentucky on q hatboat in 1882 by Mrs.
IIardsty's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Shanks. Nor is the reel which Mrs
Hardsty uses in some part of her work
Of any recent manufacture, as it was
made in 1888.
Mrs Hardsty is of remarkable ply
sique, possessing now at SO the vigor
Of many woman of 50; nor does her
mind betray the passage of time more
than her body. Her girlhood was spent
in hard work, her married life Of eight
years in comparative ease and her wild
ow of sixty years in daily labor. She
says that in her early life she worked
both in the field and in the house, but
Of late years has depended on the loom
for a living. She weaves daily six or
seven yards, and on her eighty third
birthday Wove nine yards. For this she
gets 10 cents yard. She weaves humid
reds of yards yearly, remembering that
she wove in one year not long since LOO
yards.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
STRIkIN' gin THE LAW.
Tune-"Wearin' of the Green"
BY Ed. e. Shesgreen.

On, neighbor Beed! did you read
Your paper through to-day?
A jedge agin has tied by law
Free labor-by his say.
The laborin' man no more may strike.
Or even leave his place,
For should he, an injunction, sir,
Would slap him in the face.
I met with One-Eyed Choppy-Boy;
He looked the other way,
An told a friend, a Choppy. too.
The swells had right O. way:
An that they'd call the soldiers out
To shoot things in the jaw,
Should once the laborin' man be
caught
A strigin' gin the law.
On, many jedge has sold himself
For gleamtn' coins of greed,
An tramp1ed underneath his feet
The rights Of all men freed;
An often penned men in a pen
For instance, Idaho
An Jailed 'em up-an bound 'em
down,
g NO matter where they'd go.
~
When a jedge can crush ten thousand
men.
An ten a million more
With naught but bits of paper sir,
Bedecked with words galore,
IT'S time the laborin' man should
boot,
An shoot 'em in the jaw!
BY castin' ballots, paper, too
To kill this kind O. law.
Then since once more we're fast, my
boy,
An slavery comes in sight,
Let's grasp each others hand more
firm
An battle for the right;
An should injunctions heap as high
AS ancient mountain dome,
Well sing a song that sure will cheer
Our work. our humble home
So line up boldly solidly,
The Eighteenth chains to break!
Stand firm! Stand pat! Keep courage
up,
For wife an childer's sake,
An once more strike each mothers
An strike EN- on the jaw,
BY castin ballots-papers true
Agin the jedge-made law.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
CURB TO STRIKERS,

ALBANY, N. < Y, July s1.-At
meeting Of the executive board Of the
international Paper Workers, at which
representatives for the international
bodies of stationary engineers and
t1remen were present, it was agreed
that hereafter no strike should be de-
clared in any mill by the engineers
and firemen without first submitting
their grievances to joint executive
committee composed of international
officers from the three bodies.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
TRYING TO AVOID UNIONS,

In an endeavor to avoid labor unions
which have harrassed their business
during the recent years, W. B. Conkey
& Company are reported to be con-
templating moving their printing es-
tabl1shment from Hammond, Ind, to
Holland, Mich. Mr.: Conkey is cred
tied with saying he would build a.
branch plant at Holland. In order to
run a non-union: plant they moved
from Chicago to Hammond some years
ago. .s.s !. -:x=.@@>, !; j. :.x.. -:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
WESTERN UNION
GOES INTO COURT.

HELENA, July 31.-In the United
State court, Judge Knowles has granted
a temporary order restraining the vari-
GUS labor organizations Of Butte from
in any manner interfering with the
Western Union Telegraph Co. The
Western Union had not been doing
business in Butte, a stronghold of the
American Labor Union, for more than
a week. Both the A. r: of L. and the
A. L. U. are boycotting the Western
Union.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
GRANITE CUTTERS OUT.

MONTPELIER, VT, July 31.-Two
thousand granite cutters have been
locked out in Barre and Montpelier, VT.
because twenty-five granite cutters en-
ployed by two small firms in Barre
struck against the firms sub-letting the
contracts. The sub-letting of con-
tracts has interfered with the granite
cutters maintaining standard scale of
wages. The bosses have been combin-
ing for some time and it is thought that
this is the beginning of a movement to
smash the unions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
SERIOUS TROUBLE THREATENED

SERIOUS TROUBLE THREATENED
st. Joseph, Mo-, July 30.--A strike
has begun here which will result in a
fight between the labor unions and the
Employers Association and may be the
means of causing strike Of all the
Tabor unions cor1net With title sbuild-
ing industry. All the timers OF the
city struck because non union labor
was employed by a contracting carpen-
ter on one lob
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
WILL CONFER WITH EMPLOYERS.
Mousesmith'. and 1ridsemen's Union
of New York Consider Arbitration.

's'0V90otIT1Hti d111 0I 1S18011t0H9 Whit
of New York Consider Arbitration.
NEW YORK. July s1.-The House
smiths and Bridgemen's unions met
m nst night t. and md dseds& a{E Story
cofer with the employers to consider the
plan Of arbitration. Instead of comply
ing with the request of the employees
that the committee should consist of all
the officers of the union, the, meeting
decided after stormy session, which
was dominated by the faction led by
Sam" Parks, that the negotiations
should be entrusted to committee of
four walking delegates.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
MARY'S LAMB.

Mary had little lamb
And it's fleece was white as snow;
And every year she sold the wool,
For ready cash, you know.
AS children often do;
Then put them in the savings bank,
Where interests would accrue.
Then Mary raised up other lambs,
But not to send to school;
For do not get it in your head
That Mary was a fool.
Then Mary thought the matter DER,
And formed a plan so nice;
If others had no lambs to sheare
She'd get a better price.
Her uncle had a blooded dog,
"Protection" was his name;
And he would rather worry lambs
Than any other game.
So Mary teased her uncle Sam
To give the dog to her;
Till finally he did consent
To let her have the cur.
And then DER all the neighboring hills
They secuted many day,
Till all the lambs!except her own
Were driven far away. -.
And now the children Of the poor
Attend no Sunday school, ....'
Because they can't afford the clothes
Made out of Mary's wool; ...
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But Mary rides in a barouche, -
With diamonds in@her hair;
And rt,rnor has it she will soon. wed u
II "A tony millionaire. 81 5a::.' +.
Providence, r. si. N v.
FIR IS ii ATIoN L. K ~.
,apit al, I've Iundfed housand'
surrlus. ana
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
QUIET MEETING OF OWNERS.

Union Claims that Factories Fear Ma
chine Men if the Cabinet
Makers Win.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 31.-Owners of
Sash and door factories where no set
Elements have yet been made with cab
met makers are said to have met Sc
cretly yesterday.
1t was expected that they would be
much divided. Large firms, it is said,
who employ many machine hands and
but few cabinet makers, are for hold
ing out, while those who employ many
cabinet makers are strongly Inclined
to a settlement,
Union men say that the big factories
fear that the machine hands will follow
suit If the cabinet makers win, and that
there is the whole difficulty.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01

rye is known by many of Duluth's
best citizens to be high in quality, and
the vehy best for family use. Try it.
Sold at SOL West Superior street.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
GIRLS EXPENDITURES >..:: !.
MORE THAN INCOME
Soul Stirring Beauties Of Private Own.
ersh;p-Wages are Below Cost
Of Livinu,

SPOKANE, Wash, July 31.-The
Freeman Labor Journal publishes the
following conservative estimate for a
young woman in Spokane 1t is given
for the purpose of enabling the public to
Judge Of the telephone girls demand
for, behold my countrymen, we live in
country where it is necessary that
the public be shown that we are dying
or worse before we can get their per-
mission to live.
Room rent 81 per month. ........$ $500
Lunches, three per day at 15c
eacn, per year. 1890
Street car fare, 10 cents per day 31.3O
One good hat per year .......... . 500
Two street hats per year at $1.00
EACH. 80. :. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 200
One good dress per year.......... 1000
Six common dresses per year at
$l.O0 each ................. 500
Knit underwear, hosiery etc., per
year ...... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 500
Muslin underwear per year... 500
Shoes, two pairs per year at $3.50 500
Laundry, per week SOC. $500
One winter coat and one light
Jacket or wrap. 1900
Total for year.. 322.55
Salary for the year at $500 per
week .................... 5lz.Uo
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
WANT A 12-HOUR DAY.

WANT A 12-HOUR DAY.
READING, Pa, July 31.-The bar
tenders Of this place have adopted
new scale calling for twelve-hour
day. No trouble is anticipated over
the new scale.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01

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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.

Capital, Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars; Surplus, Five Hundred and
Fifty Thousand Dollars. Savings De-
partment. Books given. Interest paid.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-01
FIRsT Alto a 30 [. AN K 81

Capit 81. Five Iuntl red ,IhousaIds
polar surpl Five HIlnd ana
rhoiiS Iii 3.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

BY a recent ruling of the postoffice
department each rural mail carrier in
the United States win be required to
take careful census of his route and
copy the names in a book provided
for the purpose. Slips are prepared
for the carriers and these win be left
with the families to be filled out, each
slip to contain the names OF all parties
receiving mail at the house, even the
servants. In this manner the name of
every person along the routes win be
before the postmaster and he win have
no trouble forwarding mail. Married
ladies will be designated by their own
names instead of those of their hus-
bands.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08
snERlrFs SALE

Notice IN hereby given that the un-
underalgnrd. sheriff OF clhtaop county.
State of Oregon, has Aol1rd the chattels
hereinafter described. under and pur-
suant 10 notice In writing To hin
f,um the Columbia River Packers As
aoclatun. mortgage, requiring him 10
take poaRvssion ~ and sell the naii
chattels to satisfy tho sum OF $1,000
due said Packing Company from one
l.Oula Olsen mortsager, And II hp~
pcaring 10 nus that said Olsen did, on
the sard day Of March 1908 mortgage TO
the said Packing Company tho said
chatteA to secure said sums of money
aud the sum Is due and wholly unpaid
and by the terms uf said mortgage II
abe said sum should not hc paid when
due. the said Packing Company II
authorized TO take poHscasion OF ana
sell the sald chattcls upon giving one
weeks notice OF the time and place
" tho sale IN u newspaper OF general
circulation published In the county OF
Clntsnp and state of oregon, and out OF
the money arising from the sale. 20 re-
tam anu pay lUc nWouHt VI ealu 'h-
dcbtcdncas with interest and all charg-
es and expenses touching the sale,
Therefore have taken possession OF
the following described chattels dcs'
cribcd In aaid mortgage to"wit;
One Columbia river fish boat. spruce
hhilt. being 20 feet I inches long and
J feet ! inches In beam. together with
III" mast, sails, spars, anchor and all
gear belonging thereto complete,
.AlSu one gill net composed Of papers
Flnlayaon's twinc. t0-7i2 ply Si.s and
. mvh mesh, a mcahea deep. about 800
fathous on the lines together with all
lmeH cnrka and all appurtanets thereto
belonging
And | will on Tuesday, the sth day OF
September, 1908. ut the hour ot 10
o'clock IN the forenoon az the cannery
building of said Columbia River Pack
ers Association at Clifton IN the aaid
county OF Cln,Aop state OF Oregon, acll
the said 2hattela at public auction TO the
highest bidder FOR cash in hand at the
time OF sale,
THOS, LINVILLE.
sheriff OF clatsop County. Oregon
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08
SEMI WEEKLY.
EASTERN COMMENT ON FISH

The Fishing Gazette says; Red Alas
ka is cleaning up on spots at from
si.f7ls to si.2o. some are holding out
anywhere up to sl.25. A price on fu-
lures has not as yet been made by
controlling interests. 1t will be an
nounced through these columns as soon
as declared. We may add to this that
the popular hope OF si.i0 Is doomed
already. The market for Alaska king
fish has naturally strengthened, but
large holders on the coast report stocks
exhausted. We therefore find medium
red Alaska the most attractive fish at
prices quoted, and we doubt IL any sales
could be confirmed below IS cents +. o.
b New York. It is now definitely
known that the red Alaska pack is
shorter than expected. The extraor-
binary shortage in sockeye salmon has
influenced the Columbia river fish, and
as chinooks are now offering at lower
quotations than sockeyes. buyers are
being attracted to this product also.
An estimate of the total pack 1908
salmon at three millions and quarter
cases would seem to be considerably in
fiated from the fact that credit is Civ
en- to Alaska for production of nearly
two-thirds of the entire pack. This can
hardly be credited. but nevertheless it
is susmised than on this seasons pack
the estimate is very nearly correct"
The Seattle Trade Register says of
salmon; Not only is the sockeye pack
a failure, but the loss win be serious
one to the packers In the matter of
Chinese guarantees, which amounted to
just a little less than 100000 cases. 1t
is needless to point out what this means
The fact is that packers cannot afford
to sell at less than 81 rs to s.. .S5, if not
higher, and those buyers who have
been holding off to fill orders will be
strictly up against it. Those who have
placed orders subject to approval will
find that the United Kingdom will pay
high to get sockeyes, as the Fraser
river pack is short. To put it short.
salmon win be salmon this year and no
mistake, and buyers may confidently
neure On the market being kept pol
ished bare, because new markets will
demand more as well as those already
developed, and as an article of food sal
mon will have good can compared with
other meats which promise to rule
high"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

Through its Associated Press service
The Astorian is enabled to give to its
readers today the speech in full de-
bvered by President Roosevelt at SYRIA
cuse. New York, yesterday. The ad-
dress is not an effort toward literary
perfection. 1t was delivered upon the
occasion of Labor Day observance and
VIII be read with interest by the multi
tudes that took part in the celebration
Yesterday of this national holiday.
The speech sets forth the presidents
attitude toward capital and labor; ex-
presses his opinion on wealth and pow
erty; defines his ideas of good citizen
ship: bears his compliments to mother
hood and to the G. A. R. The presi-
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

Ordinary lard is excellent and very
soothing application for burns.
The girl of adorable curves is broad
in the chest and round in the neck,
with a full bust.
Drop-stitch stockings are straining
more eyes these days than the bright
sun.
When woman falls in love easily
she does not have enough bruises to
leave scar.
Nothing makes woman SO mad as
to have the wrong man hanging around
making love to her.
The unpleasant itching and singing
of mosquito bites is at once relieved
by the application of ammonia.
Don't fail to add drop or two of
vanilla favoring to pot of chocolate
1t is great improvement.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08
Read This Column
A Model Kitchen

Every Home Can Have One at Very
Small Cost.
You would be astonished II told the
prices that Foard \ Stokes Co, Is sell
ling its famous cooking stoves and
utensils at. A better assortment can
not be found In any store in the state,
We supply everythlng from a dust pan
to range at prices that VIII fit any
pocketbook. IL ia economy to have
your kitchen modern. Saves labor ex-
penses ana your health, Let us show
you what we can do to remodel your
home. We want at least a chance to
quote you our prices,
FoARp &sToKES co,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

Mrs. Leslie NJ, Shaw, wife of secre-
tary of the treasury. has always been
noted for her wit. 1t Is said Of her
that young man OF humorous bent
one day exclaimed in her presence:
What could be more dreadful for
wife after mendlng her husbands coat
to find in one of the pockets love
letter from another womanF" "Fortun-
ately." said Mrs. Shaw. that could
never happen. The woman would find
the letter first and then she would not
mend the coat"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

II you heat your knife slightly you
can cut hot bread or cake as smoothly
as IL 1t were cold.
Lillian Russell admits that she per-
spires. We are glad to say that she
has never as yet gone so far, however,
as to sweat.
A good woman can make what she
wishes Of a man; she can be his first
comrade, best friend and single sweet
heart.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

Walden Fawcett describes in the
September st. Nicholas the success Of
a savings bank experiment tried by a
Washington, d. c., public school.
success which is likely to set other
schools experimenting along the same
lines. This school saving-bank is con-
Quoted in every way just like a real
bank. The principal makes himself
responsible for the safekeeping Of the
funds and at the close of each days
business deposits the daily receipts in
one of the city's ordinary commercial
banking institutions. Pupils are tel
lers and bookkeepers, doing all the
work involved, and the children's PEN
nies foot up already to the amount of
two hundred dollars.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08
A LIFE SAVER

Many lives are annually destroyed by
diseases resulting from faulty plumbing
Be sure your plumbing is done by an
expert. and save annoyance and dan
ger. Gas and steam fitting. heating,
timing, etc. Fixtures In stock.
JOHN A. MONTGOMERY.
AIS Bond street. Phone 1881.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

dent also reafrms in this speech his
faith in the gold standard and endorses
the law establishing department of
commerce and labor and the law for the
the regulation of the great highways of
commerce.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

1t is reported from Salem that Farm
er James of the Oregon State Peni-
tentiary has rented a fine farm near
the Capital City for term of four
years. The superintendent should wait
to see if enough convicts will stay with
him to till the land before leasing for
so long a term.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

Office Constructing Quartcrmaster.
Astoria. Ore. August 25 leo3.-sealed
proposals. In tripiicate. win be received
at this office until 10 O'Clock n. m. Sep
tsmber 5, 1908. for the construction.
plumbing. heating and electric wiring
Of one field officers and one double set
of lleutenants quarters at Fort Stew
ems, Ore. United States reserves the
right 20 reject any or all proposals.
Plans can be seen and specifications
obtained at this office. and at the Office
Of Dlsbursing Quartermaster at Port.
land. Ore. and Seattle. Wash. Envel-
opes should be marked Proposals for
construction" and addressed TO Captain
Goodale. Quartermaater. Astoria. Ore.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-08

A Philadelphia judge was recently in
vited to deliver an address before the
graduating class of Southern law
school As he entered the commence
ment hall he read on the swinging door
the word Push That's q good text
for my speech" sc said to himself as
he related the story afterward. He be-
gan his remarks somathing like this:
Gentlemen of the Graduating Class;
As entered this beautiful hall word
met my eye which l wish you all to
take as motto in your professional
careers" Every one instinctively turned
to glance at the door, the orator among
the rest. There on the inside, in let
tells only too easily read, was the in
scription Pull" 1T was a clean give
away" said the judge later; I'D let
the cat out of the bag then and there,
and there wasn't a thing to do but TO
confess"