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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
DEBS CONCLUDES ON
ELECTION RESULTS
Speaks Of the Coming Triumph
of Labor at the Polls Along
Glass Lines.
Holds that Democratic PartV is
Dying, and That the So
cialists Will Win.

The election just passed has drawn
special attention to Eugene V. Debs,
the labor leader, who as Socialist
candidate for president drew such
an enormously Increased vote all
over the country. His claim that
new alignment OF political parties
under which the capitalists interests
would find home in the Republican
ranks while the working class will
be represented by the Socialist party
is given added weight by the return
which show an overwhelming defeat
for the democrats. Since Debs is
now such prominent figure in the
public eye 1t may be timely to print
few extracts from an article re-
Gently published by him which shows
his attitude on the question Of Or
'ganized labor. He says:
"rhe history Of the last thirty
years OF trades unionism is filled
with stirring incident and supplies
abundant material for a good sized
volume. Organizations have risen
and fallen, battles have been fought
with varying results, every device
known to the ingenuity Of the rul-
ing class has been employed to check
the movement, but through it all
the trend has been steady toward a
more perfect organization and a
more comprehensive grasp OF it's
mighty mission. The strikes and
boycotts and lockouts which occur
red during this period, some OF them
accompanied by riots and other
forms OF violence, tell their own
tragic story OF the class struggle
which is shaking the foundations OF
society and will end only with the
complete overthrow Of the wage sys-
tenn and the freedom OF the working
class from every form Of slavery.
mo strike has ever been lost and
there can be no defeat for the labor
movement.
However disastrous the day OF
battle has been, it has been worth
Its price, and only the scars remain
to bear testimony that the movement
Is invlncible and that no mortal
wound can be Inflicted upon it.
What has the union done for the
worker? Far more than these brief
pages will allow us 10 place on rec
ord.
The union has from its inception
taught, however imperfectly, the fun
damental need at solidarity. 1t has
inspired hope in the breast OF the
defeated and despairing worker
Joining his hand with the hand :o1
his fellow worker and. bidding then
hit their bowed /. bodies ut rom s5sth
4. karth# and look q boye and eyond th,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
WAGES VS.. SALARIES.

:Whenever it is discovered that a
wage-worker gets a big wage plans
are soon laid to reduce it, and when
shall be done corporations soon make
it appear as great outrage that a
worker Should receive more than a
nominal wage, the: theory seeming
to be that working people ought to
be perfectly satisfied with a job. Let
us compare the highest wage paid
to those Indicated by the company in
it's statement, wherein it was claimed
some OF the workers got as high as
SIS per day.
. The New York Sun is authority for
the statement that Mr.. Rockefeller
received last year $4,000, 900. Four
teen thousand two" hundred men
working for $l5 per. day 800 days per
to, Mr.. Rockefeller: :, II 1T, be good
policy and good business principles
to reduce high wages, why not COM
naence where it would, amount to
:s6mething? - -, 49,:
4: seventy--one Thousand men work
ing at IS per. day for 800 days would
only receive a sum equal to Mr..
Seventy one thousand
men will represent; say, FOUR. people
each, or, a total sof; 384,OOO persons.
Strange there is only one favorite
place to make retrenchments, and
that. is on the wages of: the men who
produce the. wealth OF all. 1t may
be said the incomes are derived: from
anvestments lmea1ning,. investments 81
Of course .: It,: Il ..:. :. ::
6 :? How about. he men investing their
lives daily? by should the invest
sments Of !, n oney take such exalted
ran aver. the zinYestm ent:. 81 human
life ss
5ss#5*= yoW don AM 81 you# laborersg get
Jealous because Brother Rockete1ler
s.Is2getting zmuc 90 !.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP IN ST..
JOHN.

The City Council of st. John, New
Brunswick, may decide to purchase
the plant which provides. electric
lights for the west side Of the city
and run it as a civic enterprise. The
following statement shows the pres
ent expense: Cost of lighting north
end OF city from an electric light
station owned by the city, $40
light; cost of lighting east end OF
city by lights rented from the street
railway company, SIS light; cost OF
lighting west end by company which
is now proposed to buy. OUT $1oe 4
light.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
establish the working class re-
public ::
THE PULLMAN STOCKADE.

The managers Of the Pullman
works are celebrating the tenth an
niversary OF the 1894 strike in a
manner that would be quite worthy
of the late George Pullman-of u1l-
savory memory. Like so many other
industrial establishments owned and
operated by the real rulers of Ameri
ca, the great palace car plant has
fort. An iron fence eight feet high,
surmounted with needle-pointed
spikes, has been set up round the
works. and the gate through which
free American workingmen, who
vote the same ticket as Frank Low
den, must enter, are stationed two
armed sentries-&to remind the
workingmen OF the blessed privileges
they enjoy under triumphant in
dustrial despotism. Not only so, but
the men have been notified that it
they go back to work it must be with
the clear understanding that they
accept reduction in wages running
from 10 to 70 per cent. And that
isn't all; the men are informed that
the management will hereafter defy
trade-union organizations, and will
make no agreements with the labor
unions. ALI OF which must be very
interesting to the boys who are fac
ing hard winter, with price list
for everything they must consume
so high that the strictest economies
will have to be practiced in order to
live at all.
The Pullman program is in COM
plete accord with that adopted else
where by the managers of great in
dustridl concerns, and has as it's very
obvious purpose the absolute de-
struction of the trade organizations
1t is policy that is being more and
more adopted by the employing class
to ignore the COLLECTIVELY OF labor and
force the individual who has moth
ing but his labor power to sell to
dispose OF 1t on such terms as the
employers, irrespective of all other
interests, may dictate. 1t is a policy
that may for time succeed, because
OF the economic dependence OF work
as certainly work against the AFRO
giant employers and bring about their
discontinue as that light follows
darkness. II, as the Labor World
has frequently pointed out, the capt.
talistic organizations shall succeed in
destroying the organizations OF work
['ingmen. in their present form: then
some other form will follow with
absolute certainty; the new form
may be found. more threatening. to
capitalist class interests than the
present; the workers may take to
the ballot in unconqueraple, .. mum
bers. (and that is what they will do
IF they are wise) and, coming into
possession OF the. powers OF govern
ment, issue tnjunctions against their
present masters and give them a: re-
gime of law in the interests Of hu:
man beings, instead: OF what we are
now getting travesty OF lawn
behalf Of property And that's ct:
ter q Il, about the only Kind **ot work
ling class rganizat1on he capt. alists
i Tear: organiz Ion q workers
Ilconsci atin1I a
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19

600 or $4,000 OF such as you for
doing nothing, whre you dig 800 days
for what you get ii such as he and
the Steel Trust see fit to let you dig
at all.
Then there is our own "A. c."
who gets 10000 year for trying to
keep you in line with this order of
things. Sixty-six and two-th 9 men
are working at $3.50 de-. % pay
this $4,000 to a man vino is hired
to do nothing but keep workingmen
from coming to an agreement among
themselves to correct this henious in
justice. Do you not think it about
time to take a tumble to yourselves
and get into the Unions?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19

wealth, conscious; of their separation
from. :th1alz=wealthsthey create: COR
and conscious Of their power Through
governmental agency to right. their
own wrongs and own the civilization
their labor and sacrifice makes pos
sible. In the Pullman stockade there
is lesson for every workingman.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
A VICTORY.

Here is what Intelligent concentra-
ton OF the forces OF organized labor
can do. In Los Angeles, CAL, a re-
form candidate, backed by organized
labor, spending no money and aided
by none OF the professional politi-
clans, beat the two regular party
candidates by a plurality of $50 In
a total vote OF 1923. And Los
Angeles is the home of one OF the
strongest branches of Parry's Scab
Association of Manufacturers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
EAGLE CLOTHING AND Shoe HOUSE.
Electric Eagle Over Door

tribulations of the hour to the shin
ing heights of future achievement.
The union has fought the battles
OF the worker upon thousand fields
and, though defeated often, rallied
and charged again and again to
wrest from the enemy the laurels OF
victory.
1.-The union was the first to trace
In the outline the lesson above all
others the workingman needs to
learn, and that is the collective in
terest and welfare OF his class, in
which his own is indissOlubly bound,
and that no vital or permanent
change OF conditions is possible that
does not embrace his class as
whole.
The union has been moral stimu-
LUIS as we'll as material aid to the
worker. 1t has appealed to him to
develop his faculties and to think
for himself, to cultivate self-reliance
and learn to depend upon himself,
to have pride OF character and make
some effort to defend himself, to
sympathize with and support his fell
low workers and make their cause
his own.
although these things have as
yet been only vaguely and imperfect
ly accomplished, yet they started in
and have grown, with the union, and
to this extent the union has pro-
NOTED the class conscious solidarity
OF the working class"
After reviewing the Injustice that
the worker has suffered at the
hands OF the two great political par
ties and the judiciary Of state and
nation, Mr.. Debs continues:
1.-The trade union is not and can
not become political machine, nor
can it be used for political purposes.
They will insist upon working class
political action not only have no in
tention to convert the trade union
into political party, but they would
oppose any such attempt on the part
Of others.
1.-The trades union is an economic
organization with, distinct economic
functions and as such is a part, a
necessary movement. 1t has it's own
sphere Of activity, its own program
oAAA 40 40 O"A uS6I0l Wltulu lIS OWL
economic limitations.
But the labor movement has also
its political side, and the trades un-
ionist must be educated to realize its
Importance and to understand that
| the political side OF the: union must
be un1On1zed as we'll as the economic
| side, and that he is not in fact a
| union man at. all who, although q
member OF the economic side, is q
non-union1st on the political side
and while striking: for votes against
the working class:
| 1T, is of vital Importance to. the
| trades union that it's members be
class conscious. that they understand
the class struggle and their duty
as union men on the political field
so that in every move that. is made
they will have the goal in view and
while taking advantage of every op
portunity to secure concessions anc
enlarge their economic: advantage
| they will at the same time unite al
] the ballot box not only to- back Jul
the economic struggle OF the tradel
union, but to- final zazwrest he gov
I'ernment=5f from ear list contirol an
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
EDITOR WILL GET HIS MONEY.

EDITOR WILL GET HIS MONEY.
The noted case OF Editor McNelll
OF the Carthage IN. c. Blade
against the Durham and Charlotte
Railroad company for damages on
account of injuries sustained while
riding on an expired free pass Is at
last finally settled, judgment Tor
$4,000 damages: being effective. me
supreme court dismissed the motion
by the railroad company to a petit
ton to- rehear the appeal from the
second jury trial. The first jury
verdict was for $1,000: and the sec
ond $4,000, which is now to be col
lected.: ::.> =
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
32l West Superior St.
NOTICE.! NOTICE.!

seannual clearance sale this spring the talk Of
the entire county for MONTHS and intend make second
sale the talk Of the entire state by unheard of
bargains every department Of this big store Don't fail to read
will of town people to travel hundreds of
take advantage of the great bargains cong Shoes
pants furnishing goods and hats that the Eagle Clothing House
will offer during this great sale.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
START COOPERATIVE STORE.
Great Northern Employees Make New
Move to Whitefish.

Great Northern Employees Make new
Move to Whitefish. -
Employees OF the Great Northern
will establish a cooperative store at
Whitetish, Mont, which succeeds
Kalispell as division headquarters.
The men, according to the agree
ment, will contribute $50 each to-
wards purchasing stock and equip
ping the store, and the surplus re-
ceipts will be divided between the
shareholders. The undertaking is
being watched with much interest
by officials and railroad men
throughout the country.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19

Deposit. your: savings in First Ma
tional Bank Savings Department.
Open regular banking hours and sat
urday evenings from six to eight
o'clock.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19

hitch Lack mention here MrsG this
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19

Our second semiannua Clearance Sale will begin Saturday
morning. November 18TH 1904 You profit ose All the Suits
and Overcoats have reducedsome
onehrd regular and excellent clothing
YOU CAN MAKE NO INVESTMENT that will pay such hand
dividend to buy clothing during great
Clearance Sale IT'S GLORIOUS OPPORTUNITY Where can
you do as we'll? LOOK AT THESE PRICES. =
The colored American., 1904-06-11
A PLEASANT SMOKER.

The class of 1906, Howard University
Law Department, enjoyed themselves
in a very pleasant smoker, Monday
evening, 23rd inst, given at Mr.. J.
E. Fosters catering establishment,
1920 Twentieth street northwest. Mr.
w. w. Smith being toastmaster of the
evening.
Among the members of the class
present were the following: w. A.
Soders, F. E. Maple, T. J. Price, R. B.
H. Smith, w. w. Smith, S. J. William
son, George H Munroe, NJ. P. Oldham,
II. L. Thomas, n. H. TOOney, J. H.
Webb. H. G. Pinckett, w. R. Black
well. Chas H. Hill and James NJ. Will
liams.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

The coIored newspaper men are hay-
ing another inning. Mr.. Jerome B.
Peterson, manager of the New York
Age, has been appointed to a consul
shin in Venezuela, and Mr.. William
H. Terrell, Jr., assistant business man.
ager of The Colored American, has
been appointed to a good position un-
der the District Government.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

Mr.. c. L. Marshall, lately Of Farm
vile, Va, but a well known business
man of this city. has purchased coal
yard at Twelfth and R streets north
west. where he viii conduct a general
business, making a specially of ice,
wood, coal, coke and light fuel
The colored American., 1904-06-11

Editor Cooper, of THE CoLORED AMER
ICAN, has so many good things for his
readers that he seriously contemplates
making his a twelve-page, instead of
an eight-page paper. This shows that
THE CoLORED AMERICAN is not only
holding its own, but is doing more
The Star of Zion
The colored American., 1904-06-11
THE MONARCH OF NEGRO NEWS
PAPERS.

The ideal race newspaper. and pub
Ifshed at the Capital of the Nation,
Is THE COLORED AMERICAN. 1t is clean.
newsy, and ably and fearlessly edited.
It is the organ of no clique or faction.
but a fearless champion of the coIored
people everywhere. Its columns TEEN
with news of the day, rejecting the
best sentiments as we'll as the doings
and achievements of the race every
where. Read what the Negro press
says:
The colored American., 1904-06-11

TIE COLORED AMERICAN, of Washing
Ion, D. c., will shortly issue a twelve
page paper -seventy-twO col
omns Of reading matter. Under the
able management Of Editor Cooper it
has forged ahead till it earned the
name of Monarch of the Weeklies."
The Western Outlook.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That the Chief of Police has the
power to remove the Jim Crow" signs
on the trains that come into the Penn
sylvania Station and on the Alexan-
dria-Mt Vernon street car lines.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

The Greatest
ClairVOyant
and Fortune
Teller
THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN

THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN.
Unites separated, brings back the one
you love, helps quickly all in trouble.
Removes Evil Influences. Cures Mys-
terious Diseases. Gives luck and sue
cess. Send lock of hair, Date of birth
and II cents. Ask 8 questions and re-
ceiVe Horoscope and lucky Birthstone
by mail
GONZALES-236 Bergen st. Brooklyn,
New York.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That the trouble at the Metropolitan
baptist Church will soon come to an
end.
The colored American., 1904-06-11
1T IS RUMORED.

Ihat Prof. VIM. H H Hart will soon
become a benedict.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That DR.. Reyburn and John F.
Cook will be heard from" at the next
Republican National Convention, and
in Congress when it convenes.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That the Faculty of the Medical De-
partment OF Howard University is all
smiles
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That the election of DR.. E. W.
hampton as Financial Secretary of the
A NJ E. Church gave general satisfac-
ton to the whole church.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

The COLORED AMERICAN, a local heb
uomafal, published in the interest of
Tue colored people, came out in a new
UresS and with a beautiful heading
saturday,. 1t is one of the best news
papers in the country edited by col
"ed men; has a good circulation,
'ld carries a large line of live adver-
0'Lng'-Ihe Washington Post.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

pest StuJlLliCuIS do NCAI dS Iu0 UOl0SS
and achievements of the race every
where. Read what the Negro press
says:
THE COLORED AMERICAN is already a
great newspaper, printing forty-eight
columns each issue. 1t aims tC print
seventy-two columns. May it's friends
aid it to its reaIization.-The Whining
ton Record.
Mr.. Edward Cooper, manager of THE
COLoRED AMERICAN, Washington, D. c.,
is unquestionably the ablest aIl-round
newspaper manager of our race. if re-
suits are to settle the questfon.-The
Iel0 South.
THE COLORED AMERICAN IS, without
question, the greatest newspaper pub
lished by colored men; every coIored
editor should take off his hat to Mr..
Cooper.-Tae LeaUenlOorth Herald.
THE CoLoRED AMERICAN, of Washing
ton, D. c., comes every week, brim
full and running over with good
things; Brother Cooper is one of the
best newspaper men of the country
The Huntsville Journal.
HE COLORED AMERICAN, in a short
space Of three years, has gone to the
front at the Nations Capital. It's man
ager, r. E. Cooper, holds a unique
position in cOlOred journalism, being
the pioneer Of illustrated journalism.
-Er
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That the late local campaign created
sad havoc" among a number of local
politicians.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That District colored people will not
be represented on the committee to
entertain our PHILIPPINE visitors while
in this city next week.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

HE COLORED AMERICAN is without
r'uot one of the ablest journals pub
SUED by Afro-Americans. It is a Re
.1Oilcan paper, very free in its ex-
LESSONS, which makes it more popu-
even among those who deny the
suailty Of man" This paper is pub
rsned at Washington. where the de-
s' OF the lawmakers of the great
'puOIlc may be had pure and fresh,
a submitted to the people fer their
''OSal'-EAs Rock HiI3 Messenger.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

DeCOIne q benedict.
That the trouble at the MetroDolitan
Baptist Church will soon come to sn
end.
That the Faculty of the Medical De
partment of Howard University is all
smiles.
That the late local campaign created
sad havoc" among a number of local
politicians.
That a number of school teachers
will become matrons before the ides
of November.
That DR.. w A WarfieId, Surgeon-in-
Chief at Freedmen's Hospital, is Civ
ing general satisfaction.
That Mr.. Whitfield Mckinley wears
the same size hat and does not claim
the glory that belongs to him.
That the Mercantile and Cooperative
Investment Co, will soon spring
surprize on our Washington citizens.
That the Freedmen's Land and
Transportation Co. will soon have the
Jane Mosely'' running on the POtO-
mac.
That District colOred people will not
be represented on the committee to
entertain orr PhiIIininO visitors while
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That a number of school teachers
will become matTOns before the ides
Of November.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That the Mercantile and Cooperative
Investment Co, will soon spring
surprize on our Washington citizens.
The colored American., 1904-06-11

That DR.. w. A. WarieId,
Chief at Freedmen's Hospi
ing general satisfaction.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-28
WILL HONOR DRAFT
French Syndicate Paid Over
the S40,000,O00.
WILL DRAW ON UNCLE SAM
Deeds to Canal Are in Hands
of American Agents.

Washington April 27-The attorney gen
eral has received cablegrams from Messrs
Day and Russell. who went to Paris as
his representatives TO conduct the clos
ing negotiations for the Panama canal
property. to the effect that. the deeds of
the property, archives and all other pa
pers and documents which fill belong to
the United States to the tranefr have
already been turned over to them and
that the purchase price of sf0O00.090 has
been advanced to the canal company by
a Paris syndicate of bankers. Yhis Syn
dictate, it is understood, offered to pay
over the money with a view to expedit-
ing the contamination of the sale on the
assurance of the attorney general that
the draft of the syndicate on the United
States for the $4,000, 600 would be hon
ored on presentation at the treasury at
Washington.
At the time the money was paid over
to the canal company in Paris Major
Mark Brooks, of the engineer corps Of
the army, now in Colon. was authorized
to formally receive the property on the
fsthmus in the name of the United States.
Whether this transfer has actually been
made by the republic of Panama the de-
partment of justice has not been advised
but it is assured that it will be made
within a day or two. Messrs. Day and
Russell are expected to return to Wash
ington within the next ten days and will
bring with them title deeds of the canal
property.
Though sympathiZing with the efforts
of the European holders of Colombian
bonds to induce the new state of Panama
to assume some share of the foreign in-e
debtedness of Colombia, the state depart
ment has made no move in that matter
since the retirement from Washington of
NJ Bunau-Varilla. the Panamanian min
lister.
Before the latter left Washington Sec
rotary Hay took occasion to impress
upon him that the considerations of
equity should move Panama to an as
sumption of some part of the national
debt but the minister was not particu-
larly impressed and no effort was made
to bring pressure to bear upon the new
government The attempt TO delay the
payment of the $40 1900 to Panama by
presentation of the old Colon fire claims
probably will not receive the endorse
ment of the department.