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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
DUMPS LONDON SLUMS
ON CANADIAN SOIL
LONDON SOCIETY TELLS NEWS
PAPERS OF ITS WORK.,
Cleaning out London Siums by Sending
the Children to Canada. Many
Thousand Of Them are Given Homes
on Farms and Elsewhere. A Branch
located at Winnipeg. An Industrial
Farm in Western Manitoba.

New York, Nov. DIR. Barnado,
head Of a London society has been
telling a newspaper correspondent Of
his work Of cleaning out the London
slumS of children and sending them
to Canada. He feels proud of the fact
that last year his society sent to Can
ada 6S4 boys and $50 girls-a total of
."f"--and that altogether 1874
children have been sent ebroad. I'VE
have four branch homes in Canada"
he says, where children are received
upon arrival. and whence they are
placed on farms and in homes, and
"n"ro. in case Of need. they can find
shelter and can appeal for advice or
assistance. We have branch al
Winnipeg, for the placing out of
Young boys, and an Industrial farm Of
1000 acres at Russell. Manitoba,
where AN average OF eighty full-grown
boys are employed and instructed in
farming. Young enligrants from our
homes in London who have Il desire
1o' farm life are sent there for in
stru'tion. and are required to spend
one year at Russell before they are
sent ont as farm hands among the
tAnAhiHns There is a great demand
Tor them. for. as you, know, farm la
hor is just scarce in Canada as it
is in the United States. and there are
ten applications for every boy we
have.
",Thr same is true Of our girls who
are trained for domestic servants.
th"y are sure Of finding the very best
ford. our little village, and when they
are old enough to be sent to Canada
thehN are sure OF finding the very best
Of homes with generous. Christian
people, who arc familiar with our
work. We could find home for ten
times as many as we are now send
ing, but in making up our emigration
parties we are always careful to select
young men and young women who
:s1c suited to Canadian farm life and
domestic Service.'
IT is problem Just how many of
these children "stay put Every
year thousands Of young Canadians
come to the United States. and it is
probable that this number is swelled
by these very children taken from the
slums OF London. Why should they
stay in Canada when the larger pos
sihilities. of the States. are at their.
very threShol ?,'t:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
MNPLS. FLOUR MILL
STRIKERS GET PAID
CHECK ARE HANDED OUT TO
MiLLWORkERS REMAINING
FAITHFUL TO UNION.
About Half Yet ldIe.-others Scattered
In Woods and Elsewhere-HeIp
Expected From Europe.

Minneapolis. Nov. 5.-Checks were
handed out to the strikers who have
remained faithful to the unions yes
terday afternoon at the meeting of the
flour mill employees unions in Union
Temple. The contributions have been
coming in somewhat better from other
trades unions since the last week, and
the men are getting checks for more
money.
Out of the 1850, men who walked.
out Eacen tlyysss reAksones l0s yet
ss III yInEs
o,:take care: The other 900 are scat
tered out in all directions. A few
Of them have returned to work at their
accustomed jobs, and the others have
busted themselves in obtaining other
employment.
A few have left Minneapolis and
gone to work in other flour mills
throughout the country. Some of
them have been shipped out of town
by the railroads, and will work with
the construction gangs; others yet are
teaming, or doing any laboring work
which they can find. a large party
went out INTO the WOODS saturday to
work for a numbering concern. They
were mostly flour leaders,
Acting President Kellington said
yesterday afternoon:
"Everything being considered, we
have little cause to complain The
other unions are standing by US, and
supporting us with money. Most of
our men have found work and we can
take care of the others without
trouble.
Thomas I. Kidd said all he had to
sa ybefore he left here, but we are
sure and know positively that the
| report which will be made at the meet
ing Of the Federation of Labor, will be
entirely in our favor. If they should
| grant us a boycott, it will undoubted-
| ly help us greatly. The trades un-
! ions are very strong in Europe, pos
sib1y stronger than here, and the
millers will find it difficult to dispose
! of their product there. as it is said
| they have contemplated doing in case
the boycott was too strong for them
Some time ago the strike of the Ma
{ tional Cash Register company here
was won by the union men on the
other side of the Atlantic refusing to
! handle the goods
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
LABOR AND BUILDING
DISCUSSED BY PRESS
ST. PAUL PAPER COMES TO THE
DEFENSE OF UNION LABOR,
Demands Of Labor not the Sole Cause
for the Raise In Prices in Building.
Trust Extorton Is Held Responsible
for the Main Advance. Labor Is
Always Made an Easy Scapegoat
by Its Enemies.

The ST. Paul Daily News in a recent
issue discusses the question of Labor
and Building in the following able
manner:
There is tendency to put the blame
for the general decline upon labor. The
exactions Of the unions are becoming
intolerable. it is said.
There may be some truth in it, No
doubt the demands Of the unions have
had material effect in making building
more difficult.
But it is impossible to class this as
the sole cause or even as the chief
one.
The fact that all building materials
are controlled by trusts and that pric-
es have been arbitrarily raised all
along the line calls for serious con-
sideration.
The fact is that the prices COM
planned of have been exorbitant for
several years:
The big percentage of increase in
the price Of electrical supplies is
wholly without warrant and was due
primarily to the formation of electrical
pools.
Prices of plumbing have been affect
ed in the same way. They are fixed
by a combine.
Contractors have had great deal
to complain about in the jump in the
cost of lumber. The same reason ap-
plies once more.
The truth is that many building
'plans had been abandoned before the
question of labor entered into the dis
cussion at all. simply because of the
high prices Of materials.
OF course labor is factor in the
production of supplies and it's demands
figure in the excuses for high prices,
but it has merely joined the process
sion Demands of labor for higher
pay in these trades came as a result
of the high prices and "a joint desire
to share in the prosperity, rather than
as a cause.
Prospective builders have come to
feel that the supply dealers are TAX
ing too great an advantage of the
prosperity cry and that waiting
policy is advisable.
Besides, it is possible that the busi-
nesgslpros speet txof the near future:is NOT
sue hssi4 ss al ST AZ invest
Ementss -: :sbnt1 dfns asS5t here have been
Fin the past: few years. Capital is In
Inundated and is taking no chances
Labor is always a convenient scape-
goat. Almost any industrial enter
prise in which labor is largely involv-
ed might pay at any time and despite
any adverse conditions if only labor
would consent to sacrifice it's share.
But labor must live. The universal
increase in cost of necessaries of life
compels labor to demand more pay
Demands for increase in wages may
be prompted less by greed than by
necessity. The greed lies elsewhere.
There is no question that labor has
many times made demands that are
| unjust But it Is not to be forgotten
that trusts have more often made un-
just extortions and that labor has
patiently borne not only injustice but
calamity.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
FLORENCE KELLY TELLS
STORY OF. CHILD LABOR
THE LITTLE. FACTORY CHlLDS
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
Mrs. Kelly Tells a Woman's Club Some
Stories Of Child Labor. One Little
Italian Girl Loses Her Metal Prayer
Engravings In the lcings of Cake
In Candy Factory. Had Children
Hide From Inspectors.

Chicago, Nov 5.-Florence Kelley. of
New York, secretary of the National
Consumers League, told the FEEDER
ated Women's Clubs Of Illinois some
startling truths the other day. NEARLY
every time 7 go to tea" she said, IT
shudder at the cakes or the plain bes-
cults. Shell I tell you why? 1 know
women prefer not to know but I'm go
ing to tell you. One little girl who
prepares the food you frequently like
with your tea had most unpleasant
trouble with her eyes but this not
prevent Grandmother from insisting
upon the girl being continued in en-
ployment. Her Grandmother said
whenthe girl protested, Pray, you
must pray and she gave her an Ital-
ian prayer carved in metal.
"The girls teacher and friend OF
Hull House was Miss Hamilton and
she was obliged to have three or four
new prayers made because the child
lost the others. Where did you lose
this one?' asked Miss Hamilton, you
must tell me or I cannot get you an
other In the icing for the cakes
was the response.
Every women in the hall is largely
clothed by the work of children. The
conditions of child labor in Illinois are
better than they have ever been, but
the clothes worn by Illinois women are
to great extent de outside of Illi-
nOis. where the laws are neither so
stringent nor SO rigidly enforced.
"1n recent years, the child has been
doing the work that for hundreds Of
years was done by women. Children
are preparing the food we eat at our
tables, while we are discussing their
wrongs"
Mrs. Kelly told a story which made
may Of her hearers VOW they never
would knowingly purchase the pro-
ducts of factories employing children
The story described the finding of an
exceedingly dirty boy, with mud on his
shoes, concealed in a sugar barrel in a
Chicago candy factory, while the State
inspector was searching the plant for
him. THAT is the sort of sugar we
get she said, when we turn over the
children"
ri. Kelly p1ored tlles: let. white
[sthe$s $saEItatorsshad dssucces eth 6
extent in: protecting the birds against
milliners, the passing of the real. bird
of decoration opened new field in
child labor, the manufacture of ar
tificial plumage.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
DEALING WITH
SPIES ON UNION

Washington, D. c., Nov. 5.-Union
machinists have adopted a new plan
Of dealing with spies within fheir
ranks, and it is national in it's scope
When a member becomes suspect
he is closely watched at his work, at
his home or boarding house or wherev-
er he may go. If he leaves one town
for another his name and photograph
are sent to the officers of the union
in the latter place. They are also
registered in the international head
quarters in Washington.
The suspect is then under constant
surveillance from fellow members.
If he is found to be guilty he is ex-.
PEELED. and notice is sent to all other
unions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
BREAKERS AHEAD Il:
FOR TRADE: UNIONS
THOMAS |. klpD's NOTE OF
WARMING
Urges the Increase; Of Dues and the
Creation of Gigantic Defense
Fund.

Washington, Nov: 5.-"There are
breakers ahead for the trade union
movement. We should play the fool
ish part of the ostrich were we to
close our eyes against fthe many signs
looming up here and there and every
where which confirm the threatening
danger"
This note of warming has ben sent
out to 10000 woodworkers in the I'm
tied States by Thomas r. Kidd, their
general secretary who is also vice
president Of the American Federation
of Labor.
Secretary Kidd believes that the
trade unions are not preparing for
the crisis that is coming and urges
that dues should be- doubled is neees
sary to create a :1gigantic defense
fund.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
STRIKE or BOILER
MAKERS AND HELPERS

Susuuehunna. Penn, Nov. 5.-The
strike of the Erie railroads union
hnilernlakers and their helpers in all
Of the shops on systems between New
The men let in the round houses Of
the various shops to do "hurry' repair
work. were called out by the union at
o'clock yesterday morning. Several
hundred men are involved. The Off
cialS of the company refuse to take
back the recently discharged men and
give tho entire force shorter hours and
The prospects that there will be a
labor fight to the finish.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
MERGER BRIEF rs Il. S.. +:.=z*5=z =. =5.*
j Fill Ed & WITH COURT

+. WASHINGTON Nov..s:: he attor-=
Zneys for the state Of =M Minnesot ota= today
filed q brief b IN he supreme court ss.n
support of the mot ion 1t advance the.
ease of the sta against the Y Northern
zSecuriti les com pan They 50 i. they
~ amt theSsM innesota case and R the fed.
geraI. aseSargued. bout the same time.I
and contend that the. not lee. .of IAN .zin-
Sfsntion defenda ants
tonpVe tod tsnli he casesis 50 uI-|
iisIsnt anss
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REFUSE TO ARBITRATE.
Los Angeles Packing Houses will Not
Meet Men.-Strike Breakers

LOS AngeleS, Cal, NOV 5.-(Specldl
e.)-Recently the Butch
er Workmens Union adopted nine
hour workday and asked the Council
of Labor for endorsement. The
Council withheld it's endorsement un-
til the butchers would agree to arbi-
trate in case of a refusal. To this the
butchers agreed. When the managers
of the packing-houses were waited
upon, they not only declined to arbi-
trate, but refused to meet their en-
ployes upon any proposition. AS
result a strike followed. and every
member of the union came out and are
Times is daily resorting to abuse and
Misrepresentation, with the hope of
prejudicing the public against the un-
ion. The Times has whipped the prop
rietors Of small meat markets into
acting as strike breakers, and many of
them worked all day Sunday at the
slaughter-h houses. There is a. probable
ity of general strike in Los Angeles
and a widespread industrial disturb
ance.
Union men and women everywhere
can render great assistance to organ
ized labor in Southern California by
rapping the infamous Times at every
opportunity. Let every reader of the
Labor World write one letter to- each
Of the following advertisers in the
Times.
:. Carrara Paint Agency, S11 Carrara
Building. Cincinnati, Ohio. :, .
"santal Middy"-E. Faugera. 26
North Williams St. New York, N. Y.
Royal Baking Powder Co.,: 100 Will
liams st., New York, N. Y. >. H.. ~
Philo-Hay specialties Co., Newark,
N. j. s.<=. :, ~. > 4 :>.,4**z { ~. H..
s.~"Castoria"-The %Centaur Co. ~
Murray St.. News*Y ork ~: ". Y s NJ .:s~+% <.
). .#"cuticura"'-Pott Drug e. & Chem
:ical Corporation, Boston, ass.sSe + .:..: p:
;. 5: Postum m"=--Postum Cereal CO., Bat
tie Greek, Mich. =s ! ss* s <: /sz*:: }s.=5= II
Lydia q. 4; p Pinlkham i Medicine Co.,
Lynn Mass. z.E E5
Scott 8 u u 81 Bow,le,
400 Pearl
sssS. rard ELI Ground Chocolate
ssGhirardelH San ncisco, Cal:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
PoRTERs AND SINNERS
ORGANIZE AN UNION.
Will Make a Fight Against the Five
Cent Shine. :

Will Make Fight Against the Five
Cent Shine. :,
The Porters and Shoe Sinners Union
No. 7047 was organized Thursday ev-
ening in Johnson's shop on First
Avenue west. William Porter was
elected president, Harry Pittman sec-
retary and Robert Johnson treasurer.
The union starts out with the best
class Of DortersHand shoe sinners III the
city as members. It expects to wage
a war against the five cents shine.
One : of the members said yesterday
that it was impossible to make q living
in charging five cents for a shine. Du-:
luth prices for.f GOD. rent and fuel were.
50 high that tha VAS absolut ely neces-8
.,sa 9 mai ke.a anized EFFORT To-
preserve the cent shine. TheSun-
Ion sselId delegates the Trades
sAssembIy
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
FREIGHT MEN STRIKE.
Walk-Out Of Burlington Employees at
St. Joseph Owing to Discharge
of Two Unioin Men,

ST. Joseph, Mo-, Nov 1.-THE Bur-
lington railway freight handlers
strunck here yesterday because two
union men who recently came here
from Kansas City were discharged be-
cause of Il breach Of discipline. Nom
union men Joined the union men in de-
manding their reinstatement. The dis
charged men were formerly in the en-
ploy Of the Burlington road at Kansas
City and recently went out on a strike.
Other men have been put to work in
place of the strikers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
HOW MATCHES SAVE TIME,

BeIOfe matches came into common
use the average workingman wasted
four days a year in kindling fires with
a Undertook. says George Jacob Holy
oake, in the Fortnightly Review.
When he was a boy, Mr.. Holyoake
says, all working people lived in dark
ness and gloom after .sundown. 1t was
impossible for a poor man to read a
newspaper or book, because he was
was kept at work from the first glim-
mer of dawn until the last ray of
light faded away at night.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
DO NOT 5.FAVo oRSzyA u I IANcE.

chicag Nov st i q Associated
Building Ira des Coinci Of Chicago
has refused to- accept charter from
the proposed Ma tIona lliance ~ Of
Building Trades, recent s. organized in;
indianapolis md. Chica go.organ-.ss
1zation nzsa ys{5i sees no. reason or.s55ac-
zceptihg charteI this quarter
until the organ ion Itself
received. a.c charter m 4 lie American.
sFederat lon ght.
eKatsdIto tinE
Anne ericam tio an
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NEW BUILDING TRADES,

The organization of the building
traed< of the United States and Cana
da effected at Indianapolis will be
known as the Structural Building
Trades Alliance Of America, and the
constitution provides for protection to
workmen and also to contractors and
investors.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
EIGHT-HoURD DAY
CONCEDED IN3CoLORADO

williamsburg, !. Col,, Nov. 5.-The
Ocean Wave coal mine operated here
notified their: men by posted notices
that they will establish bis. an eight-hour
day throughout the.$mine and on the
outside, and will payMthe same wages
they have been paying for ten: hours
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
SUIT IN TORT. FILED.

Chicago, Nov. 5.--Rand. McNal1y &
Co. has filed a suit in tort for 100000
damages against the Franklin Union,
Local No. 4, ssyFeeders, of Chicago.
The claim is based ON alleged losses
laid to the present troubles between
this and other publishing houses and
the pressmen. =, .zs.%.,
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SUSPENSION OF MEN
MAY CAUSE STRIKE

Tamauu;lh. Pa. Nov. 5.-.\S a result
of tho refusal of 1000 Of the mine
workers employed by the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation company to obey the
,'on,plny'S order and work on Mitchell
day Thursday they have been sus-
pended for two days.
This order has caused much indigna-
ton among the union men and there
is talk Of a strike. President Dettrey
OF District No. has been sent for
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
LABORERS ON STRIKE
AT WORLDS FAIR

ST. Louis. Mo-, Nov. 5.-Eight hum
dred laborers, members of the La
borers' Protective Union of American
Federation of Labor, have quit work
at the Worlds Fair in st. Louis, be-
cause the men claim the Exposition
Company has not complied with an
agreement made Sept. s. when the
question of employing non-union la
bOrers was settled.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
ELECTRIC LINE WtTHoUT RAILS.

= 111'o 4or11 - VI . WIZ ueCr<'
Westphalia, operated by a Dresden
firm; has an electric line without rails.
The trains consist of a 50-horse power
trolley Weighing: 22Stons: The line is
used for transporting lime from the
=quarry*sto the railway. station, dis
tance Of about one mile. ~ =
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MY! N.Y.. MITCHELL
:. Is --lA-D= MAN

Mitchell is an agitator and revolu-
ZIONIST against whose errors and So
phistries all loyal Americans should
be most solemnly warn ed chicago
Chronicle ,zs@: & sz S $50 s i:
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OLD AGE PENSIONS.

At a recent mass meeting Of en-
ployees Of the Northeastern railway,
Of gland. a resolution was .unani-
1n1f,,orusly: passed urging: that scheme:
q f#told age pension aproved by he;sen--ss
sploy q irect heSroa d,be
put IN operat tioraa $50 on 81 possip le.Sss.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
TEST CASE IN DENVER

: Denver, Nov "a suit was filed in
the Denver District Court recently,
having, for it's purpose establishment
OF the principle that labor; unions are
partne rships and lll that =slander commit
ted by a member makes. the Organize
ton itself liable for DANA ges. H. Il 4 8:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
BRIDGE WORKERS STRIKE.

New York, Nov. 5---The Interna-
tional Association of Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers ordered a strike
I'LL over the country. which went into
effect Saturday in all cities where the
members of the Iron League of the
Building Trades Employers associa ton
have contracts.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-07
IDLE I.ABoRERS -..*..|.=
II. RETURN TO WORK.

s= NIAGARA 5 FALLS, Ont. Nov;. i -. --.
I. All Vie skilled ia borers who were
forced to@quit. work on Tuesday by the.
strike of 800 1ab aborers, eturned Sto. work
today. in the three power. plants and
the strike is believed to- be broken
SOME s q. the ring gleaders Of the.
triking aborers have been arrested. &
( The. troops are still On guard but no
8 her trouble. is=expee
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TO IMPORT MlNERRs.

ttsbnrg, 81 OV.zs..s55 Il American and
.Britis .s shsz Col s.coal operators are
5aIleged.t y. be Nperfec citing plans to. S
portzlars nunnb 81 Y,lni Oh ,elch|
and Esnsli =leplaees
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BUTCHERS COMBINE
AND THE HERALD,
EVENING PAPERS MOTIVE 10
NEITHER PURE NOR UN.
SELFISH.

An Advertisement From the Retail
Butchers Would APpease its Wants.
Have Little Interest in the Welt are
Of the People. Abuse Members Of
the Council for Refusing to Take
Hasty Action. This Is Not In Keep.
ing With That Papers Usual Policy.
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bes1ues tHe "age7TduFdnces many
classes of workmen have been granted
extra pay for overtime. and holiday
work." said SecretaryF." w. Job.
more holidays havez:also been given
employees. While the. cost of living
has advanced less than Is per cent the
employers are willing..to grant little
higher percentage in.Wages.'
The tables show the immense ad-
vantage unions havessbeen to the work
ers. In the unorganized occupations
wages have Jagged behind the increase
in the cost Of living.
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COST. OFLIVING Is=. s:...z*z. .
.. at AND tIIl: GEES

ChiGa D, Nov lVfns the
Increased cost ofs.lfv v1f1a and advances
in wages since 1898 ave been pre- pared
by the Employ ers. association Of Chi
cago- and will be used in all confer
ences with workingnen who have
made demands. j.
According to the tables, the increase
in the cost Of livingSranges from liz
to Is per cent. The increase in wages
are:
Truck teamsters ....':..*.......3 80 to 40
Grocery wagon drivers ......20 to 30
Garment workers Q6;0oo in
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Newark,

sI.oo secures abor= World ffor