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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-26
GARMENT WORKERS CO
ON STRIKE IN CHICAGO
$4,000 Men and Women In
Clothing Trade of Windy
City on Strike.
Two Employers Are Arrested
on Warrants Charging
Assault.

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 24.-Nearly $4,000
men and girls employed in the special
order clothing trade struck yesterday
and before night two employers had
been arrested and charged with as
sault.
Forty-three houses, including thir-
teen branches, are affected. The al
legged causes leading up to the strike
as given out by the union officials are:
Discharge of union members and
placing nonunionists in their positions.
AN ultimatum from the National
Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers
Association that all union agreements
should be cancelled.
When this was refused the employ
ers held meeting of their employees
and informed them that thereafter the
factories would be run on the open
shop plan.
The union officials said they returned
an answer that, as the employers had
signed agreements, none of which run
out before March 1 next, the employees
demanded a guarantee that the con-
tracts would be respected until their
expiration. The employers, it is
charged, then notified their respective
employees that the union would no lon
ger be recognized.
While one Of the bushelmen on strike
at E. V. Price & Co.'S was leaving the
factory he was assaulted and badly in
]ured. Warrants We're sworn out for
the arrest of E. V. Price and E. Tyner
and they gave $500 bonds at the Har-
rlson Street police station.
Shortly afterward John Johnson, a
union picket, was dubbed by a police
man who had ordered him to move
away. Johnson did not move fast
enough, and the clubbing followed.
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ogy. Rogers looked at me. I thought
he gasped. He rushed-Whether he
pushed or pulled me, or we both slid,
or how we got there I don't know, but
in an instant after had said He has
no bonds we were in one of a number
Of by - glass-lidded pens he calls
waiting rooms, but which the clerks
have dubbed visitors sweatboxes.' He
put both hands on my shoulders and
yelled, fairly yelled, Say that again. 7
did not get it,
'That which followed had all the
power of the unexpected for me. In
after years I became on rather play
full terms with these extraordinary
bursts of wrath to which Henry H.
Rogers occasionally gives way, and
which sweep through the system ,
shrine like tornado; but this was my
first experience, and it was a shock
and a revelation.
Calls Addieks a Liar.
What do you meang he finally
shrieked. 'I-mean,. Mr.. Rogers, to tell
you that Mr.. sAddicks has just proved
to me that he has no bonds; that he lis
a. liar, and Nv e. =: = z:5. \: NH: =
With=a wealth. .of epigram1na atic1cor11
ment Lawson thentS tells
turned Boston *tos save athe3kd-
|ssa s,sSs s. R1sRsIi YlssgaY
lack
*Then:a W|*ene1ny 8 app cared the
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CASES ARE DISMISSED
THOSE OF FoRTY-THREE MEN
CHARGED WITH COMPLETELY
In Independence Depot EpIosion and
Victor Riot Of June 6-SimiIar
Charges Against Seventeen Men Re-
main.

Cripple Creek, COL, Nov. 24.-Dis-
trict Attorney Trowbridge yesterday
dismissed the cases of forty three men
who had been charged with compile
ity in the Independence depot explo-
sion and the Victor riot of June last
Two of the men had been in Jail five
months. The others were out on
bonds.
There remain similar charges against
seventeen men, including Charles H,
Meyer, president. and William D. Hay
wood, secretary-treasurer of the West
ern Federation Of Miners, but it is
doubtful whether these cases will ever
be tried.
Since the election about fifty men,
who had been deported, have returned
to the district and have not been mol
ested.
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ORGANIZED LABOR To
DRAFT CITY CHARTER
Chicago Federation of Labor
Appoints Committee of Fiji
ty to Do Work.
Novel Procedure Introduced
by Labor Organizations of
the Windy City,

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 24-The Chicago
labor organizations can be depended
upon to do anything that is new and
novel. Their latest move is to draft
new city charter for the great city
OF Chicago and urge it's adoption by
the state legislature in place of the one
being prepared by the charter commit
tee composed of representatives of the
CIVIC Federation and a number OF
businesss mems social clubs.
The Federation of Labor at it's meet
ing yesterday appointed a COMMITTEES
Of fifty to draw up the charter.
Lack Of confidence in the original
charter committee was given as the
reason for the action.
What Delegates Ask For.
Among the points to be covered by
the committee as recommended by
delegates who engaged in the discus
sion were:
The eight hour day for all employees
Of the city.
Chicago to construct all public works
that the corruption practiced under the
contract system be eliminated.
The initiative and referendum and
imperative mandate.
Election of the Board of Education
by the people.
The right of the city to own and
operate its street railways, gas and
other public utilities.
Resolutions had been presented ~
the Carriage and Wagon Workers
Union providing that the federation
should demand fifty representatives or
the old charter committee.
Secretary E. N. Nockels opposed the
resolution, declaring that the fedora.
ton should appoint it's own committee
and go before the legislature with q
charter bill that would be acceptable
to the whole people and not a few
privileged interests.
Hearst Papers Praised.
Delegate Quinn said that in 81,
months the laboring, classes would be
sorry they voted for the charte,
amendment at the last election.
'Only last. week. he said, "the act
ing mayor Of Chicago informed com
mittee that all Chicago would gain b,
the new charter would be higher taxes
and the right. to increase the bonded
=indeb btedness.: With the exception I: 8,
the Hearst HEe papers ii the dailies iii TIL
city aTe51ns the combine TOT forcesa dis.
repntab bic hart pom the people
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FURNITURE DRIVERS
WIN THE UNION SHOP
Chicago Emplores Association
Repudiate Action Of Sec
retary Job.
Union Secures Closed Shop and
a Contract Until May 1,
1906,

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov 24.-Chicago will
not be tied up by an industrial war
that will injure the holiday trade in
order to carry out the alleged policy
of F. w. Job to crush the unions OF
teamsters.
The Wholesale Furniture Manufac-
| turers' association made an agreement
yesterday with the striking furniture
drivers and the latter will return to
work tomorrow morning.
Secretary Job Of the Employers AS
socatton was not present at the meet
ing, the employers having repudiated
his policy and taken into their own
hands the settlement Of the strike.
Basis Of Settlement.
The settlement was a great victory
Tor the teamsters, as they gained these
| important points:
signed contract until May /, 1906,
Closed shop, the employers agreeing
that in the employment Of drivers the
members of the union will be given
the preference.
The union may place stewards in all
barns Of the employers
These threee issues, on the advice of
Secretary Job, had been refused by the
Wholesale Furniture Manufacturers
Association. This caused a strike of
the teamsters employed by eleven
members Of the association.
President G. H. Hill Of the associa-
ton returned to the city in time to at
tend meeting Of the association Fri
day. During the discussion Secretary
Job was removed from his position as
director Of the policy Of the employers,
and a committee, headed by President
Hill, was appointed to make peace with
the drivers. This was completed late
yesterday.
At its conclusion President Hill in
formed the union officials that the
employers were in favor of making an
agreement, and that hereafter they
would transact their own business with
the union and not delegate them to an
outsider who hati-ae conception of the
labor problem
Greatest Victory Ever Won.
The decision is the greatest victory
ever won by the teamsters," said A. J.
Reed, secretary of the Furniture Driv-
erssands slIs "a Helpers Union, 1T: not only
seAmlna tess4J lob
saisputes..sSb giVes assurance That the
teanasters will not have to strike in the
future for a signed contract.
Business men will also hail this
victory as insuring peace for them. The
teamsters are considered the most
conservativecssla l1orSS$s@: ganization in
existance. :1.heyssS Ssdik ssffiake no unreason-
able demands and only ask for what
is fair
Secretary Job left his office earlv
yesterday saying he was going to a
football game.
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Startling Facts Are Revealed
of How a Great Bribery Syn
dicate Operated from Rooms
in a Boston Hotel Headed by
II. M. Whitney.

field, another tool of Rogers, Lawson
calls him. This was Henry M. Whit
ney, one Of. the best known men in
Boston, whom he refers to as "the pres
ent president of Boston's Chamber of
Commerce. and brother of the sys-
TENS most Machiavellian votary, the
late William c. Whitney.
whitney, the new Richmond in the
field, announced that he had come into
possession of patented device through
which it became possible to turn the
low grade sulphuric coal of Nova
Scotia into coke without sacrificing BIZ
products or Illuminating gas. s-~
Blocks Witneys Scheme.
my inquiries revealed that Whit
ney's alleged control Of the Legislature
was not exaggerated. So the next day
l went personally before the Legis-
lature and agreed to pay the State of
Massachusetts, $1,00000O for the charter
Whitney had applied for, and offered
to give bonds to do all the things Whit
ney would give bond to do on receipt
Of it.
This proposition made a pause. It
started the public and set the Whit
ney forces agape. The state could not
under the law accept a million dollars
| nor any other sum for it's charter, but
| on the other hand it was the quickest
, acting horse-sense producer that could
possibly have been brought to bear.
That night I had call from MI. Whit
ney and his attorney, George Towle"
After some maneuvering it was
agreed that Lawson should withdraw
his offer from the Legislature and II
mutually advantageous deal was fixed
up.
Threatens to Override Governor.
How is it possible I asked FOR
you to get this valuable charter from
| the Legislature, particularly with such
strong and honest man as Roger
Wolcott in the Governors chair?'
George Towle answered: Mr.. Whit
ney will absolutely guarantee to de-
liver all those goods, even if it is nee
essary to override the Governor in get
ting them"
L. It tested the scheme in all its phases
I%and#I: do not hesitate to say:
The Massachusetts Legislature is
lsbol1Eh sold Ssa gare sallsages and
naaH IllaEVes... llat
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labor crushers. The dope" story
above quoted does not in the least af-
feet Lew, and assure the aforesaid
marauders, should they again try a
throw at him he will be in at the fin
ish.
Mr.. Charles Lyons has been men,
ber of the executive board of the W.
F.. Of M, and law-abiding resident for
years Of Colorado City, bearing. up
to date a clean family escutcheon
Mr.. Fl. L. Sanger resides in Colorado
Springs, and has been employed for
some time during the past few: years
at Colorado. City. His i main crime
seems to be that. he is a strong adher-
Aentz to ira des uni SIN, and q member
#of the Bartende 1lnior
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BUTCHERS MAY GO ON
ANOTHER STRIKE:

CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-Trouble is
brewing again at the stockyards be-
tween the butchers and the employ
ers. Today the hfty-four butchers
employed by the Hammond Packing
company ceased work because OF
alleged discrimination against union
workmen by the employers.
It was announced tonight by the
officials of the butcher workmen's s
union that" unless a. satisfactory set
tlement of the: difficulty is reached
at once the members of the organ
ization employed in tie other pack
ing plants in Chicago will be ordered
on strike. -, =: "s:
f, According to the officers of the
union, the same grievances exist in
other plants. ~: Ees .r*
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He Tells Graphic Story of the
Buying and Selling Of the
Members of the Massachus-
etts Legislature Like $50
Many Sausage and Fish,

Boston, Mass, Nov. 24-"It was
about time some one told the truth
about the Legislature. I did not care
particularly for the job, nor did I
shrink from it when it became neces-
sarv tor me to do it. There was no
personal feeling in the attack. It was
simply one of the interesting incidents
of the story
Thomas W. Lawson. in a most
astounding broadside. has brought to
climax his repeated charges of dis
honesty and bribery against the kings
or finance. His latest accusations are
made without the mincing of words.
He tells of the buying and selling OF
the Massachusetts, Legislature like so
many sausages and fish"
In graphic manner he pictures the
scenes incidental to the plotting in one
incident where ]. w. Edward Addicks
used him in bold attempt to colby
swlndle H. II. Rogers of the Standard
on Company out of $1,50o, ,O0O He calls
Addlcks a master trickster," a "mor-
al IDIOT and "a liar and worse.' He
quotes Rogers denouncing Addicks as
dog"
The startling fact are revealed bv
Lawson Of how a great bribery svndi-
cate headed by H. M. Whitney, oper-
ated from rooms in the Parker House,
Boston, where the legislators were TAX
en- and bought, and how lists of the
prices Of various legislators were kept
and now Whitney's chief operator oc-
caslonally read his bribery memoranda
to the legislators to keep them from
getting proud"
His Interview With Rogers:
or his interview with Rogers when
he told him Addicks had no bonds Mr..
Lawson says:
L was at 26 Broadway by 10 o'clock
the same morning. Mr.. Rogers was in
MS main private office. His secretary
was with him. He was full of busi-
ness and I thought, pre-occupied. AS
l entered, and before word of greet
ing passed. he gave me one of those
Keen. appraising glances that seemed
to pierce into the innermost interstices
Of my soul.
Well" was all he said. l.:
Your estimate Of Addieks was a "a cor
Hezfas 10. hon dss,,sIaaaid.R Riytl,e
Him. as desper.
ate and certainly in no mood for 3apol-
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SOCIALISTS TO RAISE
BIG CAMPAIGN FUND

Chicago, Nov. 24.-Encouraged BY
the large vote polled in the recent elec-
ton, the socialist part has determined
to spread it's propaganda and to seek
recruits from the ranks OF the repub-.'
lican and democratic - parties: As
soon as the spellbinders have recuper-
dated they will again be pressed into.
service in the campaign for converts
which is to be, waged. continuously.
In order to raise sufficient funds to.
carry on the campaign Of education,
those who voted the ticket this year
and also the new converts; will be asked
to pay 10 cents a month IN dues.
When the; campaign sos opens:
the party leaders hope to have 81. .0Oo,-.
900 with which to make the fight.
With the big fund hoped for the so-
cialists say that they. will not be ham
pered E by poverty IL the next presi 8
Dental campaign and will far exceed
the, record vote of last election day.
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LAWSON STILL SHOOTS bR0ADSlDE
SHOTS AT STANDARD OIL COMPANY
LAWSON BRINGS TO CLIMAX
CHARGES OF DISHONESTY.

Thomas w. Lawson, In most as
tonlshinx broadside, has brought
> to a climax his repeated charges
Of dishonesty and bribery against
3 the kings of finance. His latest
> accusatiOns are made without the
mincing Of words.
He tells of the selling and buy
3 ing of the Massachusetts legisla-
ture like SO many "sausaxes and
3 fish,
> He calls Addicks a "Master
> tr1ckster," a "mOral idiot" and
> a ':liar and worse.' Rogers at one
> time, he declares, denounced Ad-
> dicks as a "d0E.''
3 He unhesitatingly says: ",f1e
largest, wea1thiest and most prom
3 tnent corporations i'm New England
> whose affairs are conducted by
. our most representative citizens
3 habitually corrupt the Massachus-
3 etts legislature and the men of
. wealth among them who would
> enter protest against the iniquity
> would be looked upon as a "class
> anarchist"
> 'New England" he declares,
3 s'needs a Folk to expose the rot
> tenness of Massachusetts politics."
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JUDGE PROTECTS UNION LAREL.

JUDGE PROTECTS UNION LABEL.
An argument was recently heard by
Judge swope Of Gettysburg, Pa, for
new trial for NC. Meads Of Red
Lion, convicted on: the -25th Of August
for displaying and selling 5000 cigars
bearing q counterfeit union label.
+ Judge Swope overruled the motion
for a new trial, after which Meads
was given. a. sentence I OF twenty
months in jail, with costs Of prosecu-
tion. .~ ts:xz3 = i "a: ;;> ~
81 The judge in imposing the sentence
said. he: considered 1T q low offense, a
very mean Of fense, az. tense. that
Great injures + housands of people,
|rQbbins hem heir jjust efforts and
reward d
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MINERS SUSPECT GUARD
KILLER NONUNION MAN
Produce Evidence to Show no Union
Man Fired Shot.

MAN FIRED Snot.
Carbondale, ILL.,, Nov. 24.-Sensation-
al charges are brought by the miners
in the matter of the killing of the Aus
trian in the ambuscade of a train con-
veying a contingent of nonunion men
for work in the Letter colliery at Zieg-
ler.> They declare the bullet was fired
from a Krag g-Jorgeson rifle, and that
no miner in the strike possesses such
a gun, and they intimate that some of
the guards are armed with such
weapons.
The miners say the attack was eth
er a mistake Or was perpetrated with
intent to precipitate a further riot
and secure the services Of the Nation
al Guard, which would relieve Letter
of the great expense of keeping up
an armed guard to protect his prop
erty.
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Only the Hearst papers stand between
the people and fraud" 7 =
Secretary Nockels' suggested that
the federation fs ss;5t51m asS;5ot51mmittee of
its own to draw up charter indepen-
dent of the old charter committee,
was adopted unanimously.
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= The" contract for the construction :of
the government sbuil ling :for the Lewis
and Clark centennial exposition 6 at
Portland Ore:, has beer. Il awarded 81 to
Bennet 81 o Prland for m $225,582.
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The Cigarmakers' Union was the
first organization, to: advocate an eight
hour day. This tliiitan succeeded in
establishing it on May l, 1886, and it
has been in force constantly ever since.
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Exclusive of agricultural workers
there are over 100000 laboring mer
IN the United States. Over 100000
Of the number are members of labor
rganizations.
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Judge Frank M. Owens issued an
injunction last week against the men,
bers of the: Leadville Mining District
association, restraining them from
proceeding further to compel miners
to forsake the Western Federation Of
Miners and to take; out association
cards in order to retain their posi-
tions in the mines OF the: camp. N ear
ly 1000. cards had been issued by the
association when their work was in
terrupted. n s$z :=sz sz>s; : z:s,
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INJUNCTIONS,

Judge Patton, at Kittaning, Pa.
has handed down an opinion in the
Injunction proceedings of the Ford
China Co. versus J. T. Duffy, presi-
dent of the National Brotherhood OF
Operative Potters, Local Union No. So
of Ford City, and Others, asking that
the defendants be rstrained from in
stimidating persons who desired to
work for the company and that the
company be protected In its efforts to
start it's works. The court dissolved
the injunction against Presiden
Duffy and the local union for insult
ficient evidence and continued the
process against 10 others named in
the petition. .-.
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LABOR NOTES.

One thousand school teachers Of
Pittsburg have organized to demand an
Increase of wages
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The labor movement must be kept
pure or it will prove curse instead Of
a blessing to the workers. If a limb
OF the human body becomes diseased it
must either be cured or amputated. If
a labor union falls under the influence
of bad men it must be liberated or it
will, to some extent, cause great DAM
age to the whole movement.
Unorganized labor means poverty,
and poverty breeds crime. Christian-
ity and organized labor are both seek
ing to elevate mankind. One seeks to
save his soul in the next world; the
other strives to save his home and
create happy family relations in this
world and thus make it easier for him
to walk in the path that leads to life
eternal.
The Master Builders Association of
Montclair, and vicinity, has imposed q
fine Of 5000 upon the arm of Carlson
Brothers, carpenters, for violating the
open shop policy Of the association in
d1scharging their non-union hands,
numbering Is, and substituting union
men. The firm, it is said. will refuse
to pay the fine, and in the event of
the association refusing to recognize
them as members, will make test case
in the courts to determine the validity
of the associations action.
The following letter from James M.
Lynch, president Of the International
Typographical Union, will prove of in
terest to many readers of the Labor
World. The sixth proposition referr-
ing to the letter below was one adopted
at the annual convention in st. Louis
last August, and carries with it's adop-
tion a demand for universal eight
hour day after January, 1905. The
letter says:
The result OF the vote on the sixth
proposition (the' eight-hour PROPOSE
tion). is as follows: For, 10,4S3:
against, 1898, This gives majority
for the proposition of 14,0s5.
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Continued on page four.
Arizona republican., 1904-11-23
The Contest Between Steam and
 Electricity.

The successful tests of a new cleo tric locomotive on the New York Cen tral railroad last week, in which a speed of seventy miles an hour was easily maintained on a trial track four miles in length, immediately led to predictions that the steam locomotive would soon be condemned to the scrap heap. The electric engine, it was claimed, will easily pull a passenger train at the rate of one hundred miles an hour, and if 1t is found practicable to use the third rail principle on sur7 face roads, there seems to be no req son why the electric locomotive will not displace the locomotive of today within few years on many railroads. There are to be sure, many factors in the problem of displacing steam with electricity on the railroads of the coun- try; one of them is the cost of the new equipment. But as the American people will have the best at any cost. the element of expense may be disI e. garded. An important question is that of power. In many parts of the coun- try the great expense of generatin power and transmitting it through d third rail would be so much in excess of the present cost of steam power that the change would not be possible.