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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
GENERAL IiABOR NEWS

. '.,4s+t;
.The Ean A a |lelof street rail-.
LASTED now tor= about q months: ~
-. The Restaurant proprietors ~:of San
Francisco are son~ strike for~the recog-
milton Of! their association, and the
cooks, walters, and G;dishwashers, vege-
table cleaners, ETC.; refuse to recognize
it.
Box manufacturers and union box
makers are considering: a new scale. The
union asked for an advance Of rs cents
a day. The. employers refused and
asked the union to postpone the matter
for ninety days. -:
Chandelier makers have Withdrawn
their propositions for an eight hour day
with nine hours pay: They have sub
mitted instead a request for a 10 per
cent increase in wages, the work day to
remain at nine hours. The new schedule
is being considered : by the employers.
About 1000 men will be benefited.
The plate window: glass workers Of
the country received cash Christmas
presents. from. the organizations OF
which they are members. Fully $4,000
was distributed. "
Five Of the largest mills of Home
stead, Pa.) Steel Works commenced
operations this. week with a double
| turn of men at work: The squirt in the
work affects about 1000 men,.
/ -Four thousand steel mill laborers al
South Chicago, employees of the Illinois
Steel company, were laid off last Thurs
day. Thirteen hundred employees of the
slab. open hearth and slate mills: have
already been discharged.
Albany, N. Y. is the only city in the
United States that has union of gas
meter workers. Gas Meter Union No. ]
| was organized there June q, 1902 anC
now has membership of nearly one
hundred.
| The average daily wage of the en-
ployes of Grand Rapids, Mich, is STA
according to the annual report of the
Michigan Bureau Of Labor This
amount is slightly in excess Of the
average of a year ago.
Girls to the number of 1000 employed
in the manufacture of petticoats, il
| New York City have formed unior
and demand a general increase il
wages.
A strike of 300 girls of Haze1ton, Pa.
employed in the Duplain Silk mill re
suited in riot.
A general building trades strike il
| threatened in Patterson, n. J.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
RAILROAD LABOR

The Baltimore and Ohio RAILROAD
company at Chicago, ILL.,, has officially
announced that the hours of the 800
men in its employ shall be nine instead
Of ten, per day: This action, it is stated
was taken in order to give employment
to all OF it's working men, instead Of
Diminishing such a number as would be
necessary to meet the present require
ments.
At Lancaster, Pa, a new railroad
brotherhood has been. chartered, the
Brotherhood of Railroad Track,nen of
America, which was organized recently:
The employees Of the Union Railroad
company of Pittsburg, with the excep-
ton Of trainmen, have been notified of
a ten per cent reduction in wages, to
take place on January /.
Cook county, ILL.,, has eight local un-
ions Of railway clerks, with a member
ship of nearly 10000.
There are 5000 employees at the Pull
man car company plant at Pullman, ILL.,.
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49, "A
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i6} His tie poilnlnbt a Right to work " ~
~ -><:~' @ How; When and Where He Pleases?? I 4:
Isv FRANK X. FOsTE R, in the Federationist

acting legally, and yet be pursuing a /.
policy which Is seriously harmful to the
interests of other work1nen. -
To say that the non-unionist has the
moral right to work how, where and
where he pleases is, Of course, the same
thing as saying that he has the moral
right, if he pleases, entirely apart from
extenuating circumstances, to become
strike breaker, an active agent working
against his fellow-craftsmen, a traitor
to his elias and kind.
The Standard Dictionary gives the
primary definition of moral as per-
tanning to the practice, conduct and
spirit of men towards God, themselves,
and their fellowmen,, with reference to
right and wrong ="
In simple phrase, then, those acts
| which are right are moral: those acts
which are wrong are immoral. A man
| can have no moral right to commit a
| wrong act.
1t is not necessary for the purpose OF
! this argument to assume that all strikes
are morally justified some at least are.
! John Stuart Mill said that "a strike is
wrong when it is foolish" and there are
and will be foolish and untimely strikes.
But our opponents claim that the nom
unionist is performing a moral act as
a strike breaker, in any and all strikes
For all practical purposes in civilized
lands we hold that the test Of the Col
den Rule furnishes a sufficient accurate
measurement Of the morality OF any
present day code of action. If the code
! does not meet the test, it is not moral,
no matter if it be legal.
| How does the act Of the strike-break-
! err square with the sublime injunction:
| do unto others as you would have
| them do unto your BY what tortuous
logic can it be asserted that the man
who, from a selfish personal interest,
seeks to profit by the industrial difficult
ties of his fellow-men, is acting in &C.
cordance with the Golden Rule?
There are sometimes, but rarely, ex-
| tenuating circumstances undeN which
tn strike-breaker acts. He may be
| driven by 'want-but this seldom hap
| pens, for, at least when labor is organ
lied, those who are in real need are pro-
! vided with the ncssitis of life from the
union funds. He may, sometimes, be
actuated by feeling of friendship fol-
an employer. But the strike breaker
pure and simple, tile 'non-union mar
who embraces the opportunity of taking
jobs which his fel1ow-craftsmen have
forsaken on principle, is actuated by nc
such motive, but by :unadulterated sci
fishness. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09

Now that hard times seem. to be ap-
preaching, another effort is. being made
to find cures for the tramp and beggar
evils. A Philadelphia committee is at
work, and soon there will be conven-
ton to discuss the problems.
Mayor William c. Maybury, of De.
\troit, Mich, recently told of the work
being done in his city. He said:
1t occurred to me that these cripples
might be made self-sustaining by get
ting for each, one employment as he Or
she could do. I thought our manufac-
turers and merchants would be inter-
.ested in the scheme, and letters were
addressed to them asking them to state
what persons Of the crippled class they
could employ, and the nature Of the,
work to, be assigned to each one. AS
a result of this. inquiry most of the
merchants and manufacturers appeal.
ed to. sent back encouraging. responses.
stating that they would be glad to give
work to crippled persons, and indicat-
ing the nature of the work to be done.
With this encouraging support, we
set about corraling cripples standing
upon the street corners, and we invited
all crippled persons, whether selling
, upon the street corners or not, to come
to the office of the mayor and select
the particular employment which they
were fitted to do. AS a result there is
! no more. begging in our streets, and
! every crippled person who has appealed
| for work has been offered it, and to-
/ day they are self-supporting.
Raymond Robbins, the well-known
Chicago settlement worker, denies that
the majority of tramps are foreigners.
He, says:
1T is the American boy, forced to
! believe that if he is not making big
money at bis work that he is not in the
swim, who gets discouraged and takes
to roaming around and eventually be-
comes the tramp. The best school Of
crime in the world is the street. That
is were tramps are manufactured, and
that is where the work must be be-
gun to rid the country of the evil in
the FUTURE"
Captain Taylor, of the Philadelphia
Department, of Public Safety, says:
EASY conveyance is the principal
means of making tramps. That and
the reading Of. common novels does
more to- make tramps Of boys:than any:
thing else. Almost every boy arrested
in this city, when searched at the
police station, is found to have cheap
book in his possession
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
COURTS AND LAWS.

This week in Cincinnati the first legal
proceedings were brought before the
Superior court to test the right of
trades unions to discipline members in
arrears for dues. The Contractors Is
ISOLATION applied for an INJUNCTION to
restrain the Plumbers Union from cal =
ling out men for any such purposes or
for ordering strikers for any discipln-
airy purposes, when there is no disagree
nent with the employers Or violations
Of contracts. The Contractors .associa
ton and the Master Plumbers Associa-
ton decid ed last week to bring suits for
damages for criminal prosecution, and
for a restraining order.
The Chicago grand jury has voted
nine indictments against members Of
the Street Car, MEMS union. The charge
is riot ,=Hconspiracy, malicious mischief
and unlawful assembly and are based
On scenes of violence attending the OPP
Grafton of cars on the lines Of the Chi
cago Railway company during: the re-
cent strikes - ~>~'~e' *" 49,:
az; bill for national arbitration trib-
una1 will be introduced in congress by
sena tofhCu1lom@ Of illinois,. + i. 2~~::.
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Has IlOn-uniOnist the moral right TO
work chow, when, and where he pleas
esq" The right to individual freedom
of action in the greatest number of
ways is perhaps the most precious pro-
duct of civilization. In the degree that
this freedom is assured and individual
initiative permitted, social progress is
stimulated. In brief, the entire advance
of the masses from serfdon and teuaal
bondage to the sovereign citizenship OF
our own time has been through the in
crease of the liberty Of the individual
in matters political, theological, and
economical.
In maintaining the negative propo-
sition in the question under discussion,
it must not be assumed, therefore, that
trade unionists seek to curtail the alb
solute. legal rights of men to work how,
when, and where they please. Whatso-
ever unduly coercive measures irrespon-
ponsible and injudicious men have
sometimes resorted to in times of in
dustrial trouble, trade unions are pre-
pared to grant and respect the legal
ity Of the acts of non-unionlsts III
breaking that commandment III the la
Dor. decalogue which says: 'Thou shalt
not steaI-thy neighbours job
Indeed the contention of the trade un-
ionist himself is, that he has the legal
right to seel his labor how, when and
where he pleases, for this carries with
1t the legal right to refuse to sell his la
Dor excepting under conditions ap-
proved of by him. Thus tilt should be
be assumed that the individual work.
man has legally, no choice in the dispo-
sition of his labor, an involuntary serVl-
tude would be established, which would
effectively debarr the union man from
refusing to work with so-called unfair
men-a point upon which a great deal
of public criticism has been expended.
But the question under discussion is
not a legal but moral one-a question
| not of legal rights but of moral duties
A man may do many harmful and un-
lust actions and still de within the law
! The Shylock who forecloses a mortgage
or evicts a widow and orphans from
| their little home is within the law. The
merchant who bankrupts smaller
competitor by underselling him, is with
| in the law. The trust which freezes ou1
| the smaller dealer is within the law
! The magnate who CONTROLS the oil mar
ket and raises the price of the poo,
| mans light, is within the law. Humid.
reds of instances are familiar to us al
which conclusively prove that the legal
ity and justice are by no means synon'
! ymous terms Hence it is apparen
| that an Individual wage-earner may bt
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09
FOREIGN LABOR NEWS

- i ''..r = ~. = ~ :
A new law relating to child labor
goes into effect in Germany January.
1904. It forbids the employment :of :c11il-
dren in such work as electro plating,
painting, lead or tin1:toys, lead zinc, tin
and brass found ing or working, bronze
ing, metal grinding :of polishing, file:
cutting, etc. = t.~<:@55 ). :<>: = -:
Less than al decade aago trade Union
ism was almost unknown in aJapa q; to-
day.the littlescountry has SOC, 900 organ
lied: workers. 3.. :; A. s1 .:a !: ;:
Notice was post d4racently at Midland
(E'ng.) sRailWayi%sWorlks that. full: time:
would be-resur1e d: Thousand men
are affecte 3: M. 5@ =.F: J:
2 MI At San Juan, Porto "a leo, the cigar-
ma ers' strilke BID spread ding:
;hslndred mud
NOR recent factoItekI
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-09

A boycott was declared lately by the
shoemakers of Bogota refusing to re-
pair in any way shoes Of American
Manufacture, having become alarmed
at their cheapness and they hold they
are, getting on the market of Colombia,
S. A.
No employer or employe is allowed to
appear in court in a labor case in New
South Wales unless he belongs to a reg
istered industrial union. It is illegal to
employ free. labor when union labor is
available.z4 ~: J, :,:::1.s ,A>>*> 49,
; Coal miners inIEVNales4hape suffered a
+ reduction. OFFS IS per cent in*:Wages, dating
from Dec. L.. the Cancellation board hav=
ing decided against the men,. : :
Spanish iron miners may strike again
as they are dissatisfied with the terms
Of the settlement that ended the recent
strike.
In. Western Australia, out Of. a total
population of .214,805, 20,476 men are en-
gagged in the gold mining industry.
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MANAGER WANTED.

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MANAGER WANTED

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DETROIT FINDS WORK
/: For. many: CRIPP|LEE!S
MADE SELF SUS7AlN:
ING BY MEANS OF EN-:
PLOYMENT.

crippIes corraIled Standing Upon
Street Corners, and are Invited to
Visit Mayors Office. They Were
Given Choice Of Employment Offer
ed t. Them. No More Beggars On
Detroit Streets.
The independent., 1904-03-31
SEED POTATOES.

Our genuine Red River
Ely. Ohio Potatoes (grown
last year near Fargo, N.
d., are now in. They are
beauties, smooth, regular
in shape, solid, free from
scab and of a beautiful
reddish color. These are
earlier than native grown
and will yield from J more
to twice as much. Per bu.
$1.45;10. .bu. lots $1.40 bu.
The independent., 1904-03-31

auadrupled while their salaries and
wages remain the same. by the end
of next summer the common pcolse
viii be In debt aud have n hard win-
ter to face with all business al n
atandatlll al II always happens after
the close of ono Of thcae monster ex-
hihltlona.
The independent., 1904-03-31

There have been foods which. ac-
cordlng To the reports made exceed-
ed anything ever known before IN
Michigan. Indiana and Ohio. while "a
Missouri and Arkansas there have
The independent., 1904-03-31

The common people III ST. Louis
were Wild to have a Worlds fair. hut
they are just beginning to hnd ous
That II means their ruin. House rect.
meals at restaurants and every cor-
cclyablc thlnE that goes 10 make up
the coat of living has doubled aud
The independent., 1904-03-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK
weekly Resume ofthe Really News by the Editor

SV0O0&4&09&OSS
# what the papers say is true, the
imperialists have adopted the old lno-
ian ring method of exhibition. In the
old DAYS when the traders and agents
had everything their own way, to i'm
press congress with the horrid savag-
ery and stolid ignorance Of the Ameri-
can Indian, they would every now ana
then take a delegation OF Indians
down to Washington. They would
declare that their exhibit consisted OF
head chiefs of different bands and
tribes and put them up to be looked
at. The public was led to believe
that these were the leading and most
intelligent Indians to be found on the
plains. when the fact was that the
reservations had been searched and
the most worthless scamps that could
be found had been selected. There
is to be an exhibition OF Filipinos at
ST. Louis. The specimens that have
arrived to represent that nation are
from the dregs Of the savage mountain
tribes. The people will be told.
"There are the people that the anti
imperialists wanted to be entrusted
with the government OF those ISL
ands." The wealthy, educated, Chris
tian people of the Philippines-th
university graduates, the bankers,
merchants and great agriculturalists
will not be at ST. Louis.
1t seems that our subjects" in the
Philippines are to have government
railroads, although the citizens Of
the u. s. are not allowed to have
them. A bill has been introduced into
congress by the advice of Secretary
Taft and ex-Secretary Root allowing
the Philippine government to con-
struct railroads and operate or lease
them.
A court is one of the best paying in
vestment that corporation can own.
In Cleveland court injunction makes
the people pay scent fare, when the
corporation would get cents with
out it. Another court injunction
makes the people pay rs cents thou
sand more for gas than they would il
the corporation was not In good favor
with the judges No money spent by
q corporation gives greater returns
than that invested in courts.
In defending Chinese slavery il
South Africa, H. M. Thompson, {
member of the house of commons
said: Every argument against thu
employment of Chinese can be used
and has been used against the employ
ment of machinery" In the eyes o
an imperialistic plutocrat, laborel
and a machine stand on exactly tn
same ground. A laborer is machine
which should be used to produc,
wealth for the rich.
A New York subscriber writes tha
with Hearst for the democratic presi
Dental candidate the republican wouit
carry the state by 100000 majority.
In 1892 there was one divorce TO
every ten marriages in the state o
Vermont. In the New England state
in the same year there were 1851 di
vorces. The plutocratic papers dow
that way have a great deal to sa,
about Dakota divorces, but the stats
tics show that the New Englan
The independent., 1904-03-31
SWEET POTATOES.

Sweet Potatoes are scarce
this year. We have, how.
ever, secured a car of very
fine stock from our old
grower at Muscatine, Ia.
These mike more sprouts
and better onesthan cheap
er potatoes. Our stock will
be in about April 4th.
Send your order in.
Yellow Jersey and Nansemonds. 4Oc
per peck; s1.50 per bu.; $3.50 Dbl.
Red Jersey, Ey. Golden, So. Queen,
Coo per peck, $500 per bu., 81. 80 per bbl.
49 So. 10th. Lincoln. Nob.
The independent., 1904-03-31

Lincoln court. The court had ordered
four children belonging to poor wo-
man to be sent to the Home for the
Friendless. The woman was heart
broken and said. "Notody will hire
me, so | can't make much money. It's
hard work to support four children
when | can't get washing and scrub
bing to do, because people don't want
me-"
In a speech which Mr.. Bryan deliv-
cred in New Haven, Conn.,, last week
he deprecated the prevalence in this
country of training boys and young
men in the arts of warfare. The only
warfare that man ought to wage, said
he, is the warfare against evil in a.,
its forms. Out west lot of men who
have called themselves Bryan demo-
Gratis are "woopjng it up" for Hearst
as candidate for president who is the
most radical advocate for big armies
and navies in the United States.
Thirteen negroes have been lynched
(lynching in these days means death
to the victim) in Arkansas county,
Arkansas. No effort whatever is be-
ing made to punish the lynchers. 1t
seems that anarchy is on the increase
all over the country and at the rate
it has been advancing the last few
months we will soon have no gov
ernment at all.
Bishop Hartzell of the Methodist
church is an advocate of Chinese
coolie slavery in South Africa. That
is in accordance with his often ex-
pressed imperialistic ideas. The be.
ginning of the fight against slavery in
this country was in the Methodist
church when bishop was tried who
married woman who owned slaves
There has been a great change ii
Methodism since those days.
| Some time ago the plutocratic pc
pers of the east were rejoicing over
the fact that tie ezar of Russia has
abolished the press censorship, bI
not one of them has noticed the fac
that there has been military censor
ship of the press established out il
Colorado. For some time a press cen
sOrship has been maintained at Tel
luride, in San Miguel county, and /;
censorship has lust been established a
Trinidad, in Las Anlmas county
Nothing is permitted to be sent from
those points by telegraph or telephon,
until it has been passed upon and ap
proved by censor appointed by Mill
tary authority. The Independent ven
lures to say that if such a thing ha,
been attempted in this country fort.
years ago, protest would have beef
heard from every village and hamle
in the land, but Imperialism has mad
such rapid advances that 1t passes al
most without comment. The judge
of Colorado seem to be a set OF abjec
towards. They submit 10 insults an
defiance from tie militia. There ar
neither courts nor law In Colorado. |
is not even despotsm. 1t is straigh
anarchy.
The Hearst papers claim that tn
man OF millions and uasavory recor
will get G62 OF the 722 delegates o
South Dakota and that probably Ii
will have the whole olttit. Populis
papers have often called attention /
the power OF money The great Hears
gold mines lie In that state.
The Chicago papers say that ther
have been an enormous increase |
the rent OF dwelling houses and iiaI
In that city Louis y. Pest lives thel
The independent., 1904-03-31

DIR. William Anderson, director OF
the Yale gymnasium, says that OF the
20 United States soldiers who had
been detailed to submit themselves to
special diet at Yale, two had de-
serted and the other 18 were sick. lie
also said that % per cent of the fresh
men of the university were suffering
from indigestion.
The independent., 1904-03-31

The Chicago papers say that there
have been an enormous increase In
the rent OF dwelling houses and fats
In that city Louis r. Pest lives there
aud he should make some remarks ON
that subject.
The independent., 1904-03-31

The Hearst papers claim that the
man OF millions and uasavory record
will get 662 OF the 722 delegates oil
South Dakota and that probably hc
will have the whole olttit. Populist
papers have often called attention To
the power OF money. The great Hearst
gold mines lie In that state.
The independent., 1904-03-31

Andrew Carnegie recently gave out
an interview in which he said: Il
favor government ownership of pub
lie utilities, though l don't think it
advisable at present in the United
States, but have little doubt that the
time when government and municipal
ownership of the railroads, telegraphs
and telephones and all such things
will be universal"
The independent., 1904-03-31

Senator Dietrich wouldn't 20 10 trial,
but plead that although the acts com
planned OF occurred while ne was
drawing the salary of a United states
senator. he was not sworn In aud he
escaped, hut Senator burton went 60
trial and was convicted on Ave counts
OF the indictment. He VIII appeal
Ills conviction renders him liable To n
fine OF $4,000 and two years lmprls-
onment