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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
WINDOW GLASS WORK.
ERS SUFFER A DIVISION

Anderson, Ind. Jan. 7.-Windowt glass
workers Of Anderson, who for years
have remained faithful to the American
Window Glass company and the work
mems organization, the L. A. 300 are be-
ginning to break away from both: bodies
because, they:assert, they are forced, to
support themselves and families. They
are leaving the ranks Of the old L. A.
and going over to the new branch, wl1io
adopted for its name the Window Glass
Workers Association. Hundreds Of
window glass workers have been idle
since last March, waiting for the Amer
lean Window Glass company to start
the factories. Several Independent fac
tories are being built and operated in
the new gas belt of the state Of Kansas.
and there is an exodus Of window glas
workers TO- Coffeyville, the center Of
the window glass industry there. Some
of the old l.. A. men who are forced to
secede from their organization hint at
a probable move by the American VIM
dow Glass company to starve out the
old organization of workmen by keep
ing it's members idle until their orgauiza
ton goes to pieces. Because of its
losses in the last six months the old l..
A. is weakened ia serious extent.
while the Window Glass Workers :Asso-
citation has become strong and IS con-
trolling all factories outside of the
trust
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
FIGHT AGAINST: UNIONS
CAUSES THEAld1TO GROW.

Albany, n T., Jan. 7:-Despite the
fact that there have been alleged con-
centrated efforts to discourage trade
unionism, the New York State Depart
ment of Labor, in it's bulletin just is
sued for the quarter ending October 1,
reports a great increase in membership
and in unions established. The bulletin
says: At the end Of September the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics registered 2587
trade unions in this state, this bei1ig an
increase Of 225 over the number six
months previous. The total membership
was 3s5, 1876, an increase of 1854. New
York City gained 24,ae1, or 11.s per cent
in membership. The principal increases
were in the building and transports
trades, while the:sclothing trades lost
4.065 members" I
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
Los ANGELES TIMES
BEING HARD PRESSED
VERITABLE ToBoGGAN SLIDE IN
ADVERTISING PATRONAGE,
Organized labor's Fight Against The
Times Takes Away Its Local And
. Foreign Advertising Patronage. Aw-
full Slump in Holiday Patronage.
Foreign Advertisers Gradually Pass
ing Up Non-union Paper.

Los Angeles. Cal, Jan. 7.-(Special
correspondence.)- )-As everybody knows,
December is the best advertising month
In the year. and Los Angeles is one Of
the best advertising towns in the Uni
ted States, yet during the month just
closed the Los Angeles Times has lost,
in local advertising alone, 932 inches or
six pages and three columns, by actual
measurement, between Sunday, Decem-
ber 13 and Sunday, December 20, there
was falling off of $50 inches, or more
than three and one-half pages, notwith-
standing the fact that Dec. 20 was the
last Sunday before Christmas, which
should have been the best Sunday. in
the year for advertising.
In addition to the pronounced de-
<erease in the local advertising,' the fol-
lowing out-of-town advertisers have
withdrawn from the union-hating
Times, since Nov I, 1903.
"Gorham Silver Polish''-The Gorham
Co., Broadway & 10Th St., New York.
The Tarrant Co.-21 Jay St., New
York City.
Harper Bros.-Franklin Square,, New
York City.
Bon-Ami Co.-1oo Williams St.. New
York City.
Butterick Pub. Co.-New York City.
DR.. Brown Blood Cures-Arch St.,
Philadelphia.
The Curtis Publishing Co.-Philadel-
phia.
''Heiskelps Ointment Hall
loWay Co., 531 Commerce St., Philadel-
phia.
Carrara Paint Agency. 81 Carrara
Building, Cincinnati
"Calthos"-The Won Mohl Co., 346 B.
Cincinnati.
W. A. Noyes S47 Powers Block. Ro-
chester. N. Y.
D. Clark Anderson,5 543 Opera House
Building, Denver, Col.
"Electrus"-The Electrus Co, 974
Wood Building, Syracuse, N. Y.
Alice A. Berry, Troy, Ohio.
'Combination Oil Cure For Cancer"
The D. M. Bye Co., Dallas. Texas.
Wilson Ear Drum Co., 428 Todd Block
Louisville, Ky.
Lydia E. Pinkham Medical Co., Lynn,
Mass. a. .s.zzz. t.se <cs: q:
lnherIi Choke choIe emSdyr,
-Chamberlin & CO., Des Moines. U. 81
DR.. r. Shiffman,- Box $50, St. Paul,
MINI:
DR.. Derk P. Yonkerman, 1924 Shakes
peare Bldg, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Health Appliance Co., 6 O'Farrel St.,
San Francisco, Cal.
This beginning of the end has set in,
and it is now absolutely certain that
organized labor again will prove to tho
world that once it is forced into fight
there is no cessation until labor is ac-
corded its rights.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
FLINT GLASS WORKS
CLOSE TO FORCE PRICES

Cincinnati, O., Jan. IA decision has
been reached by the flint glass manu-
facturers to close all bottle factories
Monday for a period of four weeks in
order to curtail production and better
enable the trade to maintain prices.
The report of this decision has caused
CONSERVATION in glass circles, and par
ticularly among the workers, who had
presumed that their seasons work was
permanently settled and there would be
no cessation of the industry for the re-
mainder of the year. The agreement, it
is said, covers all the members of the
associated manufacturers, but, of
course, not the independents who will
continue their operations. Notices Of the
shut down will, it is said, be posted
some time during the week. Thousands
Of skilled workmen will be rendered
idle.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
cOMMERCIALISM ROBS;
.PHIEANTHROPHY EASES.

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. Tt has just
been announced at the Offices Of the
Carnegie Steel company that Andrew
Carnegie has set apart 100000, the in
terest upon which is to form perpetual
fund to relieve workmen injured in the
Carnegie plants and to aid the heirs Of
those killed while at work. Married men
will receive 81. daily while idle and
single men will get Is cents, while chill
dren under sixteen will receive 10 cents
daily. In case an employe is killed
while at work $500 will be given to his
family, while 500 will 90 to the family
of any child under sixteen who meets
death while at work.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
ENGLISH cQlrToN TRADE
IS>I4OsGNG HEAVILY.

London, Jan: 7.-ffAn annual review Of
the English cotton trade declares this
year has been the worst in the last de-
cade. Eigthy-two spinning concerns in
Lancashire lost $1so,ooo in the year, and
the trade must adop short time because
American cotton is As per cent above
the price at the same time last Decem-
ber. A mass meeting of Lancaster cot
ton men was hfad December % to
consider the situation. Many Of the
mills were stopped for ten days during
the holiday season.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
REDUCTIONS IN WAGES
STILL Being. ORDERED
NERAsElaPL,QN NEssQ Qls. nlG ssTEEk
] coRPoRATIoN 3 flEcIEn.
Coal And Iron comuanies Use the
Knife on Labor. r en- Per Cont Cut
for All Iron and. Steel Workers.
Other Important Cuts.

The theme Of the hour among en-
ployers is how much Of a reduction in
wages labor will stand without striking.
The United States Steel Corporation
notified all Of its employees in Duluth
last week Of a reduction in wages from
Sto Is per cent. Many of the more val
reduction and have resigned their posi-
tions. Some other reductions through
out the country, are as follows:
Semi-offcial information has been
given out in Pittsburg that a, general
reduction in wages is to be made at all
non-union iron and steel plants in the
country that will average about IL per
cent. Including the workmen who have
already had their wages cut and those
who will be reduced after the first of
the year it is estimated that the num-
ber Of iron and steel men affected in the
Pittsburg district, which includes Shar-
on, Youngstown, and the Valleys, will
reach fully $4,000. OF this number about
10000 are employed in. independent
plants.
The miners Of Tunnelton, HoWesvi1le
and Atlantic, in the Preston county
(W. Va.) field, have Joined the miners
of Irona, in the same> region, on a.
strike against the reduction of 10 cents
a ton, ordered by the operators. The
force Of the strike is being constantly
augmented, and the whole field of about
1000 miners is now tied up. The men
were only organized recently. The or
ganization has promised financial and
moral support, and long struggle is
looked for.
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg
Coal and Coke company of Altoona, Pa,
announced Dec. 81 a wage reduction in
it's Helvetia operations amounting to 10
per cent, to go into effect January i.
While the Helvetia miners are COM
paratively insignificant part Of the Buf-
falo, Rochester and Pittsburg COM
pany's workings, the reduction is con-
sidered prophetic of more sweeping
move by the company shortly. which
will cut the wages of no less than $4,000
men. -
The Sharon, Pa, plant Of the Ameri-
can foundries company, which has been
closed for the last two weeks pending
settlement of a wage scale for the
moulders, has resumed operations, an
agreement satisfactory to both sides
having been reached. It is understood
that the men accept a cut Of 10 per
cent effective from Dec. /,
Illinois manufacturers at Batavia,
Aurora, Elgin, St. Charles and Geneva
have organized. and have decided to, in
crease the hours from nine to ten The
manufacturers in the organization en-
ploy 10000 wage earners.* -
Continued reduction in. wages Of New
England cotton mill operatives have
now affected 5000 workers.. : -
1T is expected that there. will be
6o,oe0 nen in the national organization
Of Railroad Carmen by January 1.
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TIN AND STEEL WORKERS
AGREE TO REDUCTION.

Chicago, Jan. IA truce has been
arranged between the Inland Steel COM
pany of Indiana Harbor, Ind, and the
Amalgamated Association of Steel. Iron
and Tin Workers. Under the terms of
adjustment the workers are to accept
the 10 per cent reduction in wages until
the selling prices advance sufficiently to
warrant the company in restoring the
old schedule. The action Of the direc-
tors Of the firm in refusing to deal with
organized labor has been evoked. The
Amalgamated Association is to be
treated as union and it's members are
not to be Disseminated against.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
CRIPPLE CREEK PAPERS
SUBMIT TO CENSORSHIP

Denver, Jan. All newspapers pub
lished in the Cripple Creek district have
been warned under penalty of being
forced to cease publication not to per-
NIT the official statement Of the Mine
Workers Union to appear in any form
in the future. Since the inception of the
strike the statement has been published
daily by all papers in Cripple Creek and
Victor. The military authorities ,claim
that the staten pents are enirely too rad
ical for publication in a district under
40 martial, law. ! ]. The speWspapers .wilIsub-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
CARNEGIE steel, co.
HAS ITS OWN WAY.

Homestead, Pa. Jan. 7.-Notices are
to be posted in all of the mills of the
Carnegie Steel company this week an.
nouncing the wage rate that " i'll be Of
fered to the employees for the ensuing
year. The same notices are to be posted
in the works in other portions of the
district, and it is expected the Jones &
Laughlin Steel company will notify it's
men Of new conditions, practically SINH
lar. The Carnegie officers have declined
to make public what the new rates will
be. The formality of changing the wage
rate will be quite extensive, as each
man employed will be Obliged to make
q personal contract with the company.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
REMARKABLE GROWTH
OF ALL TRADE UNIONS
SOME STATISTICS ON THE MEM
BERSHlP OF ORGANIZED
LABOR

Tho Western Federation Of Miners 10
the Richest Labor Organization in
the World. Oyer 0ne-Half Million
Union Railroad Workingmen. A. r.
Of L. Will Reach Three Million
Mark This Year.
It is estimated that there are 10000
organized wage earners outside the jur-
isdiction Of the A. F. of L. President
Gompers claims that the Federatiop's
membership will reach the 5000, 900
mark before the close Of 1904. It is now
100000. Evidently he Is calculating on
merging the outsiders.
Members Of unions affiliated with the
American Federation Of Labor pay
yearly into their respective treasures
about $25, 600, 900, Of which immense sum
$2,000,000 is. expended on account Of
strikes and 22,00O, 900 for sick and death
and out-of-work benefits, insurance,
etc.
There are today 100000 day laborers
in this country. One and one-fourth
million belong to national trade unions,
another million to trade unions not yet
national in their scope and the remain-
der comprise the army of unorganized
labor.
The Western Miners Federation is
to the West what the A. F. of L.. is to
the country at large. The combined
membership is $4,000. Measured by
actual cash in the treasury it is the
wealthiest organization in the world.
The membership of the: various rail-
road organizations is given as not less
than 2s5,ooo. They are not affiliated
with the American Federation Of Labor.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
LAKE SEAMEN MEET TO
ARRANGE WAGE SCALE.

Chicago, Jan. IA general conference
Of representatives of the Lake seamen's s
Union will be held at the Chicago head
quarters Of the union on Monday. Re-
visions Of the constitution and the sea-
sons agreement with the vessel owners
will be considered. 1t is proposed to Or
ganlze the deck hands on coast, river
and sound steamers of the Atlantic
coast, the new association to be under
the jurisdiction of the Atlantic Coast
Seamen's Union, itself part Of the In
ternational Seamen's Union of America.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
STEEL WORKERS MEET
MONDAY TO CONFER,

Pittsburg, Jan. THE Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers have set Jan. II for the convention
of representatives Of sheet steel workers
who are to consider the removal of the
limit of output The independent
manufacturers have appealed to the
association at various times to have the
limit removed, or at least to allow more
tonnage to be turned out on eachh
turn, but the association refused to
grant the request.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
LAWRENCE 0. MURRAY .
GETS SOFT BERTH.

washington, D. c., Jan.7.-Lawrence
o. Murray of Chicago, has been chosen
as assistant secretary Of commerce and
labor. The selection was announced
yesterday by the president, who stated
that the office had been rendered to and
accepted by Mr.. Murray and that the
nomination would be sent to the senate
Immediately after the holiday recess.
The appointment is made on the person.
al recommendation Of Secretary. Cor
telyou, who has known Mr.. Murray for
a number Of years.
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Reflections of a Bachelor.

From the New York Press:
It is not living but marrying beyond
ones means that does the mischief.
Men go to the opera with their wives
just the way women listen to the
political arguments Of their husbands.
When girl thinks how queer it
would feel to wear tights she is
afraid, to look q two-year-old boy in
the face
The man to pick. out to appreciate
the joke you want to tell him is the
fellow who is waiting to borrow SIS
from you when you get through tell
ing it ~
vt makes a man feel awful cheap to
oxhome and find calling on his wife a
woman who refused 70 look at him ia
the street car.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09

Cripple Creek, Jan. 1.-THE cooper
ative stores of the miners union which
have played such havoc with the starv-
alton plan Of the Cripple Creek mine
ownrs and also with the pocketbooks
of the members of the Citizens all-
ance, arc to be suppressed by order Of
the arch scoundrels who are directing
military affairs in the interest of the
Mine Owners Association. The mill
tia thugs are also considering the ad-
visibility of establishing military
court for the purpose Of compelling the
strikers to either scap or leave the
camp. A lot of heroes who went to
Teller county to coerce their brother
workingmen to bow to the operators
terms or else get off the earth, were
brought back to Denver and dumped
on the street without money and with
out work. Many of them slept in the
street until the state got ready to pay
them for their execrable work, thus
they received a taste of what they tried
to give others.
The mine owners of Telluride have
succeeded, through aid given by the
state scab agency, otherwise known
as the office of the governor of Colo
rado, in getting a number of strike
breakers. Misrepresentation was used
and many of the men would be glad
to get away. At several mines the
militia are holding the scabs prisoners,
and this, too, regardless Of whether
they work or not.
The endeavor Of the mine owners
Is to make the imported men work out
the cost of bringing them from the
given them a job. Some Of those who
would have been glad to stay were un-
able to on account Of the high altitude.
Profuse bleeding at the nose was COM
mon among those who came from the
Joplin district. These men were hired
for surface work and are not miners
at all.
|: Governor Wells. of Utah, after hold
ing a conference with the president Of
the Utah Fuel company, gave out the
following remarkable statement:
1.-THE only way I see for the strike
to be settled is either for the strikers
their certificates, 90 back to work or
else leave the country" This official
announcement is accompanied by the
statement that the militia will ren1a
in the mining region for an indefinite
| period. Wells declared it to be his pur--
pose to protect every citizen of Utah.
This is the full measure s.of .capitalistic
l=protection to. the working class. we
must accept their rms | Sc getzoff the
IeaTth.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
WITNESS FOR MITCHELL

Roosevelt, PIatt and Morgan to be Sub.
poenad in Damage Suit.
Binghamton, N. Y, Jan'y 1T is
understood that President Roosevelt,
Senator T. G. Platt and J. P. Morgan
and other prominent men will be SUBJ
poenaed as witnesses for the trial Of
the action Of A. D. Wales of this city
against President John Mitchell to re-
cover 100000 for suggesting the plan
which MI. Wales claims was followed
in settling the big anthracite coal
strike year ago. The case is on the
calendar for the term of supreme
court to convene in this city next Mon
day.
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=" RESIST WAGE: CUTS
SAYS SAM. G0MPERS
INSISTS THAT POLICY OF WAGE
CUTTING is UNECONOMlC.
improved Machinery and Other I'M
provements Have Tendency For Low
ering Selling Price Of Commodities,
But This Should Not Interfere With
Fair Living Wages to Labor. It
Should Resist All Reductions.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 4.-When
thought Of the many wage reductions
being forced throughout the country, he
said:
I'm the report which 1 had the honor
to submit to the convention of the AM
erican Federation of Labor and in ad-
dresses elsewhere, have insisted that
the policy Of cutting wages, and thereby
curtailing the consuming power of the
masses, pursued by employers during
former periods of industrial depression,
was not only unwise and uneconomic
but simply accentuated the situation
and made a bad condition worse. Be-
cause Of this uosition I have come in for
severe criticism by the capitalist press
which, of course simply views the mat
ter superhcially and selhshly and would
have the folly repeated. They urge
that the law of supply and demand
must find a full, free, and untramme1ed
operation, and argue that when times
are good, wages rise; and when times
become bad, wages must fall; that en-
ployers must govern themselves Occord-
ing to the market price Of products, and
when that market falls wages must be
cut"
With constantly improved machinery
and the propelling force Of steam and
electricity, the tendency of the price of
an article will have a lower trend; but
this need not and should not interfere
with fair living wages to the wage
earners, for as a. matter of fact higher
wages always tend towards lessening
the cost of production. High wages is
the incentive of new machinery.
I have advised and shall continue to
advise our fellow workmen to resist re-
ductions in wages by every lawful
means within their power for as I have
said before, 'it is better to resist and
lose than not to resist at all"
Let workmen complacently accept
reductions in their wages and it will be
an invitation to repeat the reduction at
will. intensifying the depression and
provoking; an Industrial crises forcing
ssId0Nnsthe sworkers I'M the econoIn and
Iaea lsssssalal1 eakf.ll
poVert niseryy yy.s and idegredati tion.S Re
sistance or5 the part yof 2Ia6oar 70 reduc-
tion Of wages will CHECK this. to- great
degree and at least demonstrate to the
ignorant and short-sighted employers
that a course is exceedingly expensive
to them and; will prevent it's repetition.
I am confident that by reason of the
present organized status of the workers
in our country, we. have already pre-
vented an industrial depression from
becoming acute We can make this
fact doubly assured by still further or
ganizing and preparing to defend our
present standard of living and prevent
any attempt to force us to recede.
In the interest of the workers, aye. in
the interest of all our people, I urge
the employers generally not to force the
issue by attempting to reduce wages.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
STYLE NE GLOSSARY.
from the Philadelphia Press

From the Philadelphia Press
Mrs. Nurich-our daughter is to be
married tomorrow, and we want a
couple Of officers to- guard the presents.
Chief Of f.detectivest---Y.es,# madam I'll
send twoSSof my best plain-d dressed mem
" Mrs: *Nurich- That ill@.never do. We
want them to wear the ndsomestz un-.
forms they've. got = bis. is Sto. Be
swell Wedding
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An 4 ! t1n'lkind ! ln,putlat1on..

a:
All thai the man Tho. tried to- kill.
Max. NordallHW have Q. q prove,
Iinsanity hat fa-s.
mil ttilpIl
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( #Nof.tha: &an,a.s

sSs Men IN New or3t are forn1ingsa an
i-Smut.;I /; League 1te This has no con-
znectton= with -ss,moots Leasue..]
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Nearly as Frequent.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch:
Revolutions among the big flnanciers
are getting to be nearly as frequent as
among Central and South American re-
publics.
People like to see their names IN
prf but it suits them still better. to
i setts their faces in prt1
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
TYRANNY RE|GNS IN
MINES Of COLORADO
PUBLIC OFFICIALS STILL JOIN
WITH OPERATORS TO BREAK
THE UNIONS,

Scabs Held BY Bayonets at Telluride
to Work Out Transportation Cost.
Altitude Affecting New Mon. At
tempt to Suppress Cooperative
Stores. Want a Military Court. Tin
Soldiers Badly Treated by the State.
Governor Wells Says Utah Strikers
Must Give Up Union or Leave State.