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The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-19
HAS NO REPORT OF THE
SINKING OF THE SK0RI.

st. Petersburg. March 1S.-The ad-
miralty has no confirmation of the re-
ported loss of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Skori off Port Arthur.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-19
Appreysa aIlIa crew., nlIIs.

Baltimore, March is.-oOy Warheid
has approved the two s0-calied Jim
Crow bills relating 10 railroad and
steamboat travel Do the state, and the
act vii 50 into effect,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-19
Quiet at Port Arthur.

Port Arthur, Thursday March H.
Last night and to-day passed quietly.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-19
ANNOUNCEMENT WAS
A THEATRICAL ONE.

How the New Orleans Exchange Re-
ceived the News.
New orleans. March is.-fhs an
nouneement Of the failure Of Daniel j.
suliy. the cotton king" Of New York
created the greatest panic ever seen
on the floor OF the New Orleans Cot
ton Exchange. Prices melted away
until they were % ana $40 g bale over
Continued On Flfth Page.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06
FOREIGN LABOR NEWS

The Government Of Cape Colony de-
sires, owing to the, present condition of
trade In: The. Colony and throughout
South Africa, that immediate steps
Should be taken to discourage the 60
ing to South Africa of persons with
out ample means or prospect OF imme-
date employment. Numbers Of skilled
artisans and others have been thrown
out of work and fresh arrivals accen-
tuate the difficulties Of the labor mar
ket.
Nearly every district in New Zealand
again reports that the building trades
continue very busy, carpenters, plum
bers, painters, etc., getting full time
and the highest wages in Australia.
The numerous other industries are also
In flourinshing state, and prosperity
reigns supreme throughout that Labor
governed country, says the Workers of
Brisbane, Australia.
The President of Normandy Spin-
ners' Syndicate cabled to the Lanca-
shire (Eng.) Federation that So per
cent of the spindlers in Normandy are
stopping day per week, and adding
that this will continue until the end
Of March.
The industrial situation in the Phil.
lppines will be relieved by deportins
the unemployed to this country at the
Governments expense.
Lynn, Mass, X. Of l.. sho cutters
nave voted an assessment weekly for
the benefit of the St. Louis cutters who
are fighting the Boot and Shoe Work
ers Union in that city.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

Mother JONES'" that dauntless wo-
man who braves corporation hate and
the ISLANDERS that flow from purchased
pens, has forwarded a check of $500
in aid of the brave soldiers in the ranks
OF organized labor in Colorado, who
are waging conflict for the triumph
Of Justice. This check which was for
Warded to secretary-Treasurer Hay-
wood, demonstrates that Mother"
Jones knows no craft lines, and that
her heart beats in sympathy for every
man ana woman who are making a
brave struggle to throw off the yoke
of corporation domination. The name
OF Mother Jones will live in the
hearts Of men, when her calumniators
shall be forgotten-when the slab that
marks their unhallowed graves shall
nave crumbled into dust.-Miners'
Journal. -.~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

The farmers in some sections of Co.
dorado have gone on strike. This is
not joke. but an absolute fact. In
several portions Of the state where the
raising Of sugar beets is the chief in
dustry the farmers have formed asso-
Citations or unions for the purpose of
lettering their conditions. They have
made their demands to the sugar man
ufacturers the same as any other un-
ion makes its demands. They have
said that they must have more money
or they will raise no more beets. It
will now be in order for Governor
Peabody to send his soldiers into the
beet fields and compel the man with
the hoe to get busy.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06
RAILROAD LABOR

The street railway strikers of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, have received the first
consignment OF automobiles with
which they will compete with the
Street Car Co. The. strikers intend to
operate twelve automobiles, each hold
Ing sixteen passengers along the rail-
way lines, charging five cents fare and
giving transfers.
The 1900 telegraphers employed by
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have
demanded shorter hours and an in
crease in wages. -
AT a meeting held at Toledo, O., by
the national Officers of the National
Railway Clerks Association and Order
OF Railway Clerks Of America, the
combining Of these two organizations
was effected. The combined member
ship will include from $4,000 to 10000
railroad clerks of the United States,
Canada and Mexico. >.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

1t is a horrible thing to think that
the coal, the bright fire that warns US
represents the wornout lives OF unfor-
tunate beings put to work almost as
mere babies on the coal breakers. It
Is SAD TO think that the shirt you wear
may have come from "a factory =in
which= children with tired eyes: tired
backs and exhausted nervous sytems
work until they can literally 4 work
ana ana stand Ell 40 longer. 1t lis extraordia-
II that in this coun where Is crime inc
"a violence optra Ees mi opinioln. "a
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should it not be made "a, criminal Of
tense to capitalize properties 1T many
times their value and then sell for hon
est money dishonest stock that rep
resents nothing but. water? Why
should our laws not inflict striped suits
upon men that put their names to "
ing statements which deceive investors
as to the quality Of the goods they are
bying?
The death of Wright has drawn wide
attention to his life. That life will not
have been wasted If it shall enforce
upon the people Of this country the
need for legislation such as that which
brought this interruptions Spectator
to justice in England. We have plenty
Of Wrights here. They are powerful
financially and politically. They pile
UP millions as Wrights piled them up,
until he encountered misfortune, but
they are in no peril of arriving, as he
did, in the prisoners dock. Their i'm
danger to the public and disgrace to
our laW-making bodies.
The full measure of our inferiority to
England in the Matter of dealing with
gamblers on the grand scale, with
promoters of speculative trusts, is
brought home to everybody by the
statement of this plain truth:
Had Wright done in the United
States what he did in London the law
never would have touched him.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

The flag Of the United States in it.
self does not amount to great deal
but taken for what it represents it be-
comes of tremendous Importance. So
it is with the union label. In most
cases it may be a small affair, but
when you consider what it stands for
what condition it represents, what hap
piness and comforts it secures, what
miresy and headache it relieves, what
impudence and arrogance it checks.
what bright ray OF hope it gives to the
toilers-then you will realize that it is
Of the highest importance; that it rep
resents honesty and fair dealing, and
is the agent of love and liberty, friend
of right and a foe of wrong.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06
Laws AGAINST wRrGH1vs

The conviction Of Whitaker Wright
Tor playing the game of company nronou
oter IN the usual way has made a deem
impression on both sides of the Allan
TIC. The difference between Wright and
a few American financiers is only that
luck went against him. The judgement
OF most people is that Whitaker WRIGHT
richly deserved to go to Jail.
When the last statement of Wrisht,s
Globe Company was made there an
peared among the assets 81. DOC. 00O that
had he had borrowed from another Of
his companies to make showing. r
was paid back the next day to the lend
Ing company, having served its mr.
pose. The English call this dishonest
Juggling window drsessing." Is the
art unknown in the United States? Has
anybody passed from La Selle street
TO Joliet or from Wall street to Sing
Sing fro practicing it?
For this shifting about of the money
OF MS companies in order to give the
public a misleading impression Of their
condition, Judge Bigham was particu-
1arly severe upon Wright. But was his
window dressing" of a different mora,
complexion from the false PROSPECTUS
OF the shipbuilding Trust, for exam
pie?
prominent New York lawyer, COM
mentlng upon the case of the departed
king OF finance" says that III the
rules OF law that were applied to
Wright were enforced here there would
i be a far greater safety for investors.
out some men prominent in that com
munity would feel'very uncomfortable %
Why shold we not have suchslaws fol:
tho protection sot investors I WIN YIN,
Tf -SE2F
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06
BLOW At UNIONS At BIG PLANT

Chicago. Feb. 4.-Sixteen unions
whose $500 members are employed by
the Allis-Chalmers Company have
been notified that after! the expira-
ton OF the present agreements no
more will be made.
The action Is said to be the forerun-
ner OF many other concerns refusing
to make agreements with unions.
All the company's~ agreements expire
at the same time-May L. The notices
were signed by General .superipten-
dent Netdemeyer; No 1ntimation> OF
what policy the company: intends to
r S@Ao "e@5 &5AVS1I
AT a conference held yesterday In
the headquarters Of the Carpenters
Union none of the .officialssof the :un-
Ions affected could explain the action
o q. the company. The agreem ents now
3dn. force were made IT'D ssnIrnmeer.sot
Tleo3 sfterIj a1 strik lastinE nearllyAia
year.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

Gov. Peabody of Colorado has been
nominated for the, highest office in the
land. The New York Sun, which, ex-
cepting the Los Angeles Times. is the
staunchest union hating newspaper In
the land, says that only the fact OF
Peabody's residence in the far West
prevents him from being d formidable
rival Of Teddy and Mark Hanna before
the nxet Republican convention. The
Manufacturers Review of Baltimore
official organ CT. the Parrysites, goes
further and demands that Peabody be
nominated for the Presidency next
year, on union smashing platform.
'Rah for Peabody and Parry, the pea
nut politicians.
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Labor Notes Of Interest.

Six hundred members of the National
Union of United Brewery Workers in
P1ttsburg, (Pa.) have been given an
increase in wages averaging 10 per
cent. The new scale submitted called
for cents an hour increase for all
Worknen. It Is signed for three years.
A convention will be held in Mil
waukee February to form a Janitors
International Union. The trades
.eligable are: Flat .janitors,; mattresses,
office janitors and window washers,
elevator conductors and starters an4
watchmen. Eight Chicago unions will
be represented.
The lockout that have existed in the
building trades of Paterson, N. j., fol
the last month has been declared off
and the 1,500 men who have been kept
out of employment through it's opera
lions have returned to work.
A demand for an increase of wages
and shorter hours made by Lynn
Mass, Team Drivers union to the Goa
Dealers Association has been submit.
ted to the State Board of Arbitration
for settlement.
The Kewanee, ILL.,, Trades and Labor
Assembly las lIldUS arrangements IOl
six lectures on the labor question by
Professor Jerome H. Raymond of thu
University Of Chicago.
President Gompers has requested the
officers of the unholsterers and mat.
tress makers to hold a. conference tt
decide upon the question of jurisdic.
ton. When this is done charter will
be issued to the Mattress Makers In
ternational Union.
Idle glass workers of Marion, Ind.
will hereafter receive benefit each Of
$40 per week during idleness.
The determination of the window
glass workers in the moutain distric
of Pennsylvania to insist on the Phila
de1phia wage agreement is likely t.
bring about a general suspension of al
of the factories in that district for tn,
remainder Of the present year.
Striking typefounders who desire tt
return to work for the American Typ.
Company or Barnhart Bros. & Spindle
must renounce the union and sign ar
individual contract. The strike wa!
declared off several weeks ago by tn.
international officers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06
MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT.


Samuel Gompers in the Federationist
offers the following very interesting
criticism of the Minnesota Supreme
Court in the recent decision on Boy
colts:
1.-THE newspapers have been discuss
ing an important labor decision Of the
Supreme Court of Minnesota. While,
as we shall show, the decision contains
much that should be commended to the
plutocratic lawyers and newspapers,
its treatment of boycotting is inconsis-
tent and unreasonab bic. It sustains a
clause Of an injunction prohibiting boy
cotting of number Of establishments
upon the ground that an agreement to
boycott is an unlawful conspiracy. The
court in some mysterious way reaches
the conclusion that intimidation,
coercion, and threats of injury are e.
sential elements Of boycott.
What does the court mean by this?
There are all kinds of intimidation,
coercion, and threats Of injury. It is
unlawful to coerce by violence, or to
threaten injury through violence But
the boycotter who threatens nothing
save boycotting, who "coerce" or 'in-
timidates" by warning people that if
they do this or that he will abstain
from dealing with them, occupies a
position similar to that Of the peace
able striker who "coerces'' by threaten
ing to quit his place. II this kind of
coercion is lawful, so must be the
| kind resorted to by the peaceable boy
cotter. The Minnesota Supreme Court
did not stop to consider the meaning
of the words it was using. 1t was i'm
posed upon by their sound.
Peaceable boycotting, the publication
and circulation of truthful unfair lists,
is not the only weapon Of which the
Parryized employers would rob labor
by trickery and legal legerdemain.
| They are also trying to abolish the
right to moral suasion. In time they
may convince themselves that collec-
tive strike action is criminal. At this
stage of the game they content them
selves with denying the right to third
parties to strike This effort has failed
so far; but few defeats do not dis
courage the hedless enemies of labor.
! The Supreme Court of Minnesota.
following the highest court of New
York, has decided that unions, being
lawful organizations, may not only adj
wise their members to strike, but NAV
by peaceful means persuade non-nem-
Der to join the strikes, and as a means
to that end may refuse to allow union
members to work in places where nom
union labor is employed. This is a.
severe blow to Parryism and it's legal
Juggling. 1t destroys two-thirds of the
edifice which the hypocritica1 cham
pions of claw and order" have built up.
1t is lawful for workmen to refuse
to work with non-union men.
1t is lawful to say to an employer that
he must choose between his non-union
men and the organized employees,
1t is lawful to persuade any number
OF men to join free men who have ex-
erclsed their right to quit work. Let
the pettifoggers note all this
Mother JONES'" that dauntless wo-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06
A COLLEGE PRESIDENT AND
STANDARD OIL.

DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews, president
of the Nebraska State University, in
defending the acceptance by that insti-
tuition Of gifts from Mr.. John D. Rookie
Teller goes the quite unnecessary length
of seeming to Justify the methods by
which the Standard Oil Company has
frozen out rivals. These methods mer-
ely illustrate, he suggests, the opera
ton of the law of the survival of the
fittest.
That is a dangerous position to take
DANGEROUS both morally and polite
ally.
AS we'll hold that, in the struggle of
honest men to protect themselves
against thieves that are after their be-
longings, the rightful final test of the
ownership of the property in issue is
possession-that if the thieves manage
to get it, it is justly theirs.
The moral validity of the law Of the
survival of the fittest depends alto
gether upon the answer to this plain
question:
The fittest Of what?
If the fitness consist in superior abil-
ity to dodge and break the law, to
conspre with railroad companies for
the payment of secret rebates, and to
force rivals to the wall by all manner
of crooked means, then the fitness is
simply that Of the criminal.
Honest competition is one thing, dis
honest competition quite another. Those
that succeed by the practice of illegal
and wicked means have precisely the
same claim upon respect as have men
that win an election by stuffing the
ballot box, and no other.
The lesson Of the Standard Oil Com
pany's gigantic success is not that we
should placidly accept it as the in
evitable result of the environment, and
therefore to be condoned, If not ap-
the environment that made it possible
and the duty is mandatory upon all
patriotic men to do what in them lies
to bring about an environment in which
such a success could not be achieved
an environment which shall give US
honest men and not rogues as the fittest
to survive
In order to find reasons for accept
ing money from Mr.. Rockefeller in aid
of the cause of education, there is nc
need at all to mix whitewash for the
Standard Oil Company Mr.. Rookie
teller has the money, no matter how
ne got it. If the better part of his
nature prompts him to make a good use
OF some Of his wealth. put no straw ir
his way, but take his gifts and give
him credit for his generosity. A Mr.
Rockefeller that gives millions te
churches and colleges is manifestlv 2
superior human being to a Mr.. Rookie
Teller that should hang on with bott
hands to all his dollars.
President Andrews is to be pardone3
Tor his anxiety to get money for hi!
college, but he should, as an instructo,
OF and exemplar to youth, be carefu
TO Keep his moral thinking straight.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06
BfI|u,tal I Z allied.
Chicago Iiverymen Did Not Refus<
to Bur,Y the Dead:
By Samuel Gompers.

1alsehood. This seems to be the case
on the matter in question. The clip
pings referred to. it is needles to say,
are from the Chicago Chronicle, a pa
Per which Is so bitterly antagonistic
! to labor unions that it is not at all
particular about facts. On the same
morning that the mis-statement refer
red to was published the Tribune and
the Inter Ocean both had a copy of a
proclamation, issued by Albert Young,
declaring cessation Of hostilities in
the livery drivers strike for ten days.
In that proclamation every striker was
ordered to return to work and help
bury the dead regardless of wages.
Now for the actual facts in the case.
w. D. Moone, a liveryman, received a
telephone message that a serious fire
had taken place down town, and re-
questing him to send all his available
carriages at once. He sent his fore
man to a saloon where the strikers
were accustomed to spend their time
in the vicinity of the barns. The fore
man told the men Of the message and
asked them If they would man the car
riages. Not a word was said about
anyone being killed, according to the
statement Of Mr.. Moone himself. In
fact, at that time he did not know
that anyone had been killed; neither
did the strikers; nor but few Of the
people Of Chicago, for the reason that
1t was but a short time after the fire
broke out, and the full import of the
disaster was not known even to the
police and firemen.
Furthermore, the foreman, when
asking the men to return to work, did
SO with laugh, thereby implying that
he himself did not take the request
seriously. There was a strike on at the
time, and the men quite naturally re-
fused to man the carriages until they
were more fully informed. When they
did learn the extent of the disaster, an
hour or two later, as already stated
the men at once returned to work
leaving the question Of wages and
other points In dispute out of consider
alton entirely. So much for that lie
Very truly yours,
LUKE GRANT.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

fused tos obey the cali. One Or the barn;
bosses may have scalleds upon the men
and they may have refused, but as soon
as they learned the extent Of the dis
aster every one Of them went to work
The first report of this fire that reach
ed me stated that; four, or five: had
been killed; the next report that came
In was that forty or fifty had been
killed; the appalling extent of the dis
aster was not known for at least an
hour after it's occurrence. Be that as
1t may, the fact still remains that the
livery drivers Immediately suspended
all hostilities and promptly returned
to work and remained at work until
this morning, January IA. The en-
ployers have seized upon every act of
the individual members, be it ever so
small and insignificant, and magnified
it to the fullest extent. It is true that
the men had out pickets, but the I'M
ion did not sanction any interference
with hearses. AS a matter Of fact,
the team owners were unable or I'M
willing to supply herases for reasons
stated later on. While it was an un-
fortunate affair even at best, I hold
the employers were more at fault than
in the burying of the dead was con-
cerned.
Mark we'll the following: AS soon as
this strike or lockout was originally
started the union offered to furnish
drivers absolutely free Of charge for
the purpose Of driving the hearses to
bury the dead. The union would not
permit the men to scab it for that
purpose, but offered to furnish drivers
absolutely free. This proposition was
rejected by the livery owners, owing,
it is claimed, to the fact that the own
ers had fine of five hundred ($500)
dollars on any member Of it's (union)
association who would send out a I'M
ion driver for any purpose during the
continuance of the lockout or strike.
This is a fact that can not be disputed,
and should be known to everyone.
Permit me to suggest that it would
be advisable to communicate this i'm
portant fact to Mr.. Bartlett.
intend to state the facts in the COM
ing issue of the Cigarmakers' Journal.
Yours fraternally,
G.. w. PERKINS,
Int. Pres, Cigarmakers' Union
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

When you here man declare he is
in sympathy with organized labor and
believes his employees should organize,
just look a little further and see IL he
condemns the objects sought at by
trades unionism. If he does so, be-
ware of him, for he either has an ak to
grind or don't know what he is talk
ing about,
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the point Of slynching, ana where some
petty slip fiji morals .or in commercial
integrity ruins a man forever, there IL
no national revolt against the most
actrocious crime Of all-the wholesale
murder OF children for the sake Of a
little profit: - T..
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

Every union man should remember
htsi: That only one thing can make
public opinion hostile to his union, and
that one thing is ignorant, careless
corrupt, radical or INSCRIPTIONS leader
ship. The standing Of the union dep
ends on the character of it's officers and
leaders.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06

Try S. I. Levin's xxx Columbian
1892 rye. It is the very best that can
be had for family and medicinal pur-
poses. At the old stand. sol West Su-
perior street.