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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-09-03
Are you ready? Forward! march,"
When Grand Marshal FreshneY gives

Are you ready? Forward! march,"
When Grand Marshal Freshney gives
this command at $3.50 a. M, Monday,
the Labor Day celebration will have
commenced in earnest. The Labor
Day co1nrnittee held several meetings
during the week, and tonight full and
complete arrangements will be had.
This committee has been the best that
the labor organizations of Duluth have
had for some time. It has been an in
dustrlous. hard working and conscien-
tious committee. At every meeting,
! and there have been many of them
! held during the past six weeks, there
was a fuu attendance Of committee
men Each one accepted the responai-
b1lities entrusted to htm with perfect
satisfaction. Nothing can mar the
success Of the day excepting bad
weather., and it is sincerely hoped that
the weather man can be kept tn good
humor for this Labor Day at least
Greater interest In the celebration Of
the. day has been shown this. .yeaxS than
ever before.s II we do not miss our
guess. it will be the finest celebration
ever had. Every union, except The
bricklayers, It is said, will turn out.
By some uninteutional error tho brick
layers were not officially invited to
participate in the parade, and for some
reason best known to the members of
the union they voted at q recent meet
ing not to march on Labor Day. The
union does not affiliate with any of
the central bodies, which fact, no
doubt, accounts for the deltcacy OF the
matter The I4ah0r Tlav n<un NIT too ic
very much Put out over the matter
because it was fully intended to send
an invitation to every sez11aalance Of q
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LABOR DAY At BRAlNERD
TO ECkiPeE FonMER'EvENTS

Brainerd, Mfnn-, Sept, 1-Thirty-one
trade unions with 2,5oo men will be the
order for Labor Day at Bra4nerd. It
will be the greatest Labor Day celebra-
tion ever held here, and there have
been some good ones.
At Industrial park picnic will be held
under the auspices Of the trade and
labor, assembly. The speaker OF the
day will .be. John P. Gardiner a gradu-
ate OF the Brainerd shops, and now q
special factory inspector under Labor
Commissioner VConneu.
Over $1,000 in cash prtzes will be given
away at the games and sports The
industrial parade will be typical Of the
4n1 anuf turing and mercantile recourc-
% Of Brainerd. A base ball game be-
tween .Brainerd and Aitkin will be a
feature, as will also be hose race by
three companies of the fire depart
ment IN the evening. The celebration
will close with dance in the evening.
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EUGENE Y. DFbS REPLIES TO
CLEVELAND 0NA. r. u. STRIKE
DEBS ON CLEVELAND
SYNOPSIS OF REPLY

In the July fssue Of MeClue's
Magazine ex-pxesident Cleveland
has IN article On ~The Govern
'ment IN the Chicago Strike In
18o1." Nh Debs was asked By the
pubaishers to reply, which he did,
hat in the opinion Of Mcclure the
reply lacked "sobexness," and
hence was returned to MI. Debs.
The Labor papers Of the country.
are pubIfshlnG the reply. which Ii
being read with doep interest by
all cl2Sses Of people. Dehe strong
y aE1aag1a Grower Cleveland,
char1an1 that ho used the Federal
Government to fRDtheR the inter-
est of the railroads, and that he h
attempting 10 fnsten n crlmsnal
stigma upon all Of the railroad
wen who weFe engsgod In that
memorable 4t1ug8le. Mr. Debs
sooolustvely proves that President
Cleveland made NO Investigations
Of TIE real oondltfons In Chicago;
th11 ho octo4 nssxe1y Up4a the
Recommendation Ct ro1lFoad COM
pany's atto12ey, and that he vio-
lated the constitution Of the Unit
ed ptates.
Oobs rev3sws the report Of tho
st141Ee pommiss4oa and hy their re-
p01t shows that the eovern1nent
acted unvv1ue4y.
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compel the company to execute certain
agreements with three different unions
The agreements were identical, and the
follows:
'The party Of the first part hereby
agrees to employ none but members
of aforesaid organization or those who
cary the regular working card OF the
said organizations, provided tho vari-
GUS crafts will, furnish such competent
help as may be required by the party
Of the first part within "a hours after
notification" So
This article, the court SAYS was un-
lawful and opposed to public policy,
The attempt to compel the company
to execute 1t was an unlawful: attempt.
The purpose Of the strike was unlaw-
full.
Let Us humbly thank this court for
stopping here. 1t might have added
that the strike itself, called for an un-
lawful purpose, was unlawful; a con-
spiracy to comit an unlawful act. We
are surprised at the courts lack of
courage. 1t Is just as reasonable and
to declare the purpose of the strike H.
legal. The newspapers which praised
the splendid opinion did not sec this
or they would have rejoiced In the dis
covery of Simple method Of prohib-
iting and suppressing all strikes for the
union shop"
, The enemies of the union shop can.
not destroy the right Of union men tc
refuse to work with non-union men,.
If these lawyers and Judges had the
courage Of their prsjudices they would
deny the right to strike, the riehtz:o1
labor to work or not to work, and the
right OF free contract for the supply
of labor. :: -~$*
AS long as we have the, right tt
choose our associates and the right t
quit work without giving any reasor
the fight on the open shop Is fut1le.4s*S az
Organized labor has the right it<
make it's own terms, and It's terms ID
clude, whenever that is expedient o,
possible, the open shop. specious ant
foolish decisions cannot do us an,
! harm.-Amertcan Federationist., -:
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G0MPERS RIPS OPEN
SHOP DEC|G|0N APART
Claims Illinois Court Decision
Was Subse1vient to Dicta-
tion Of Parryites.
While Ruling Is Of Vast I'm
portance Court Was Mud
died in Deciding.

Plutocrat lawyers and agents Of Sc
cret societies of anti-union employers,
that is. of employers who want tho
right of combination for themselves
while denying it to labor, have been
keenly desirous, In fact, absolutely de-
termined, to obtain from some subserv-
lent court of high jurisdiction a deci-
sion holding the union shop to be an
unlawful and criminal institution, and
contracts between employers and or
ganized employees void and contrary to
public policy. At last they have sue
ceeded.
They have secured decision after
their own heart. from the Appellate
Court of Cook county, Illinois. The
opinion was written by a Judge who is
popular and respected, and from whom
better sense and knowledge Of local
principles might have been expected.
But so shallow. arbitrary and unin-
telligent is the opinion that even the
leading Chicago newspaper, the Trib-
une, conservative as 1t Is, could not
stomach it. We shall show that the
opinion, so far as it deals with the
closed shop question, is impertinent
and gratutious, and that the court went
out of it's way to deal with a matter
that was not properly before it.
The question was that strikers had
been sentenced to Jail for contempt OF
court, the contempt consisting of alleg-
ed violation OF an injunction against
picketing and various other things " I
The facts In this case; are for. the
time being unimportant,s and the .ques.
ton Of contempt does not now concern
ns. What we want to:potnt QUITS thai
the court had nothing to do with ltht
cause of the strike, or with the kind ot
contract which led the court to expires,
It's opinion Of the "closed shop, :" the
right Of the non-union men to. =: work NgorAt
with the union men and tort h. srhe
purpose Of the strike. seenns, Was. c
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ENGINEERS WHO WEAR
SPECTACLEs MUST CO
Erie Railroad Orders All
Zone Eyed" Engineers
to Quit.
Panic Reigns In the Cabs
of Most of the
Locomotives. ~

Slowly but surely the age limit Is be-
ing reduced on most of the railroads or
the United States. The newest order is
from the Erie railroad where all en-
gineers who wear glasses must leave
the service. There is no further need
for them. >S
No matter how much they earn. no
matter whether their eye sight became
affected In the service they are to make
room for younger men. >:*
Capitalism has no use for labor anv
longer than it can use It. Under chattel
slavery. a. home was provided for the
aged slaves, and even for the younger
ones, but under our system Of ware
slavery no regard is shown for those
who have grown old in the service.
The following press report will no
doubt be startling to some very con-
servative people: Z.
New York, Aug. A.-Panic reigns IN
the cabs Of Erie locomotives. An
spectacled engineers must resign, ac-
cording to mandate Of the company.
Not that the Erie objects to the
glasses In themselves, as the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Company OBJ
5ected to conductors with whiskers, but
because glasses are = a confession of.
weak eyes ..E.*=.=z1s5.. .:...*=1s5 -. ~
IT they stick to this order said one
Of the bespectacled engineers yestE-
day. "they Will lose some Of their best
engineers. Every one has q weak op--
tic. The strain Of looking ont Of the
left side Of a. cab when the train IS
moving fast Is tremendous and makes
nearly all engineers one-eyed... = 5S= ....zz
Some Of the engineers forced to resign
have been made conductors, and it is
understood that all B Will BE . taken
care Of -
order was issued q. month ago.
Every engineer mus have two GOOD
leyea says.
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Gets JAIL SENTENCE
FOR RADICAL SPEECH
Street Speaker Says President
Is as Autocratic ais a
King.
Did He Tell the Truth, Do Not
Recent Occurrences Bear
Him Out.
G. +. 9ehuler,
Electrician.

In the Chicago Tribune there ap-
peared an article which states that a
man down in New York was sentenc-
ed to three months in the .w:orkhouse
by a police judge for making an In.
cendiary speech. This Is what the
man said, according to the newspaper,
and which Is the truth: THAT this
government is as oppressive to the
worklngman as any. government l n
Europe, and that the president was as
autocratic as any king or emperor,
and that the workinzmen. were shot
down by militia sent out by the gov
ernment.''
Now is there anything in the above
statement that Is not the truth? And
for this little bit OF free speech the
recipient was awarded a three
mopths' term In the workhouse.
We don't have to go back very far
to verify this mans utterances. Take,
for instance. the Colordo strike: Was
the militia sent there for the purpose
Of giving those striking miners pro-
lection? Were they sent there to pro-
tect the lives and homes Of the poo
pie? No! most decidedly, no! They
were sent there for the protection OF
a few mine owners. They were in the
absolute pay and control Of; the mine
owners. There Is not one instance
where they protected the miners OF
their families. But what they did do
was this: They drove these families
mind you. without any cause whatever
-forcibly from their homes into the
most damnable place on the face Of
this earth-the Colorado Bull PEN
place not fit for a hog to live in, reek-
! Ing with vernnin and guarded over by q
lot of blood-thirsty criminals The,
| were forcibly taken from their homes
I for no reason whatever. And from this
| damiable place they were deported te
a barren country where there was
neither shelter nor food This IL wha,
was done in this free American re.
| public. Of ours: and was done by thu
Same: party to which Theodore Roose:
| welt is affiliated: And did he ever
| make so much azs a protest? ?? No Ant
/. yet: this is not an oppressive govern.
| mont to: the working . i RI: s
The gentleman was II tight when Ii,
|Ea1d that this government :is oppres.
sive to It's workingna
De. wonderful free. country. this IL =o
sohrg land OF the free Is,
Icareful which way your freedom runs
COMRADE,s.
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TRUSTS ARE PLANNING
TO G0bbLE UP JAPAN
Noted German Economist In
sists That American Finan-
ciers Are at Work.
Select Group Is Attempting to
Make the Yellow Men CON-
mercial Dependents.

VIENNA, Sept. 1.-Professor Singer,
editor OF Die Zeit, announces a remark
able article for his next ISSUE, 1t is
entitled "American Supremacy in the
Pacific and the War" The noted trav-
eler, Dr. Pistor, author of Through
Siberia to the Pacific" maintains in
this article that, mo matter which
power is the ultimate victor in the pres
.ent war, Uncle Sam will be the real
gamer"
The author says that a, group of
American :financiers,. trust magnates
and bankers have been trying for
three years Ito foist money upon Japan
ON condition. that Uncle Sam be granted
a commercial monopoly" .-...
Before the war their proposals
proved unacceptable" says the writer,
but whatever the outcome of the pres
ent war may be Japan will not be in a
position to rid herself Of her-American
financial friends afterward."
The author, who knows both Japan
and Russia thoroughly, is convinced that
the island kingdom will "bleed herself
to DEATH that heaping victory upon
victory, she will exhaust both her blood
resources and those of her treasury.
AZ a consequence, her conmercial in
dependence, must be sacrificed and the
American trust magnates will surely
have their way. :
This. then. will. be the, trust of
trusts" says DR.. Pistor.. Fifty millions
Of yellow men and women ~absolutely at
the mercy Of those* cold -blooded yam
KEGS: AT the same time the. United
States, as a great power, viii be able
to dictate. in the tar: east by the fol-
lowing combination: She already owns
an excellent base in the Samoa group
namely the harborE Of Pango- -Pango:
Also the Philippines and Hawaii add
to this a commercial monopoly in ia.
pan, such as the American. trust will
know, how Ito. organize and maintain
and Washington s. paramount influence
IN all other. economic affairs OF :stht
yellow: man, and you have a position
Of strength. both: marati line; fIna11cia
and economical. that cannot be beaten
But Uncle Sam triumph. Will, be
complete Ind, "A fact unpreceden
when the. Panama canal is finished. Al
that moment tho United states \: be:
fcomess 4thes commercial dictator ot Thu
whole east. ana ever yone sremember.
that ne az, 4 and navy capa:
Ible ,of nnaintai lining by,S tic sword what
the pen .''zi
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: TIL ybns ndanfnt
Big LABOR day CELEBRATION
ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED
General Information "
About Big Procession.

The Labor Day procession will
form an foll0wss
FiHst DfviHdOn, right flank ON
First Street At Fifth avenue West.
Second Division, right resting ON
Fourth avenue West, between
First and Second streets.
Third Division, right reStin1 ON
Third avenue West, between
First and Second streets.
Fourth Division, Are department,
floats and displays resting On
Second avenue We8t.
The parade will move east on
First street to Third avenue east,
down Third avenue to Superior
street, thence west on Superior
street to Eighth avenue West,
thence countermarch to Fifth ave.
nue. West to Steamer Nowsb0y,
whero all vbc desire may take
the carly trip to zenith Park.
1t would look much nicer II all
Of the unions would march four
abreast. While 1T would shorten
up. the parade 1t would give a bet-
ter appearance, which counts for
everything In 4 street parade.
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ECONOMIC EFFECT OF
LOWERING OF WAGES
No Instance Recorded Where
The Reduction Of Wages
Promoted Progress.
Welfare of Nation Depends on
Good and Living Wages
For Labor.

Commenting on recent editorial in
the New York Journal of Commerce on
the Economic Effect of High Wages"
in which the Journal held that Ameri-
cain wages are too high and that they
should be lowered, Gunton's Magazine
says in part:
It Is doubtful if even the Journal
of wages in all industries In this coun-
try would increase domestic consump-
ton of PRODUCTS, but it argues. that it
would increase the capacity Of Ameri~
can manufacturers to sell abroad. Now,
is that what this country wants? Is
that conducive to permanent prosper
ity? Is it: conducive, In the long run,
to industrial development? If tits, the
world has not. vet given an il1ustrat ton
OF the fact. That is an economic hy
pothesis that has never been demon
strated. :..' -:
It is undoubtedly true that il Ameri-
can wages could be lowered 80 per cent
our manufacturers could undersell for
etgners in their own markets, but that
could be only temporary. Suppose that
by lowering wages We could increase
our output 25 per cent and supplant
the English manufacturers in the Eng
ltsh market. Would the English people
consume more manufactured products
because tnelr laDOrerS were all thrown
out Of work or their factories either
closed or: running at a loss? Surely not.
One OF: two things would logically fol-
low-either that the English wakes
would be .correspondingly lowered to
meet our competition or else their la
borers, would be thrown into idleness
and we. should supply the goods. II
their wages Were lowered to meet our
competition, that would be q positive
injury to the welfare, comfort and civ
| ilization OF England.
If this were done and we furnished
the goods, the laborers> would either
have to remain in idleness or en1ierate
to this country to find, work The re-
| suit of that would simply be the trans
| ferring Of English manufa ctures to this
country and having the work OF both
! countries done, at a lower wage rate
t The net result would be an injury ia
| the >laboring classes Of both England
/ and this country and a correspondence
dtminution in the aggregate consurnp-
tion. + The consumption, Of the ware
classes III both countries 10 a very seri.
Eousst Item In sthe general market. / II
that u lesaened the whole market Ii
] permanently restricted: :;
! It follows therefore, that any I'm
crease sof 81 foreign market by. lowering
I wages here could not result sins any, per.
nanent benefit to- anybody. It would sbe
IL Injury 70 theta borre1rs here sto the a.
/ tent lthat would Increase foreiEr
Il Conf o. s 4 1905 20 81.
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The Reply Was Written for
MoClure's Magazine by Re-
quest but tho Manuscript
Was Refused Because it Did
; Not Lack aoberness."
Debs Relieves the Great Body
y: of Railroad Men Involved in
:, Memorable Strike From the
Criminal Stigma Fastened
>+ on Them by Cleveland.

>: In the July issue Of McCure's n1aga-
sine ex-Prsstdent Cleveland has an
article on the Government in the Chi
oago strike in 1904" That there may
be no n1istahe about the meaning Of
government" In this connection 1t
should be understood that Mr.. Cleve-
land has rsfssenoe to the federal gov
ern11ont Of which he was the executive
head at the TINA Of the strike In ques-
eon and not to- the stA4e 0ovvz1ll1asnt
ct nlnois or the n1uz,&opa1 government
.of Chicago, both. Of which were over
ridden; and net a. deflanne by tho a.
,eo9tfEa authorfty erzfusosd by the mtli-
~tary: power Of tho federal government
under tho administration OF MF. Cle~e-
hnd.~
It is certain that Of his own know
iled9es ex-Presf5ent Cleveland knows
nothing Of the strike he discusses; that
the sv1denos upon which hs acted Of
tlolal.y ana upon which ho now bases
hts conclusion waa e0 parte obtained
wholly from tho railroad interests and
those who repFeses1ted Or wsre con-
troE3ed by these interests, and It is not
strange, thers8ors, that he tails into q
series OF ertoss. AZ may be proved be-
yond doubt by ,stezence to. the "Report
on the chicaxo etrile by the United
States Strike Coanmtssfon'' Of his own
eppe,ntment,
+ maes no Personal Investigation;
When thu 5at CHI lil.ld
oonal iiavesttl4ioa Mo- ** IS. : :
J Did he grant both stdes hearing2 Z
II dtd not,
- I aver that he received evsry particle
of his information from tho capitalist
s1d@ that he wss proinpted to aot by
the capitalist side, that his official
course was determined wholly, .aboo-
lute1y by and in the interests Of the
capitalist side and that no more
thought or consideration was given to
the hundreds Of thousands OF working
men whose lives and whose wives and
babies were at stake Than r. they had
been 10 many swine or sheep ON the
way TO- the shanhlas.
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PUBLIC WEDDING At BIG
49, LABOR DAY CELEBRATION

Los Angeles, CAL. Sept THE feat
ure OF the Labor Day celebration here
will be a public wedding on the picnic
grounds. Two prominent union. mem
bers will be. Joined in holy bonds by a
local prelate. This Is a novel attrao-
tion for Labor Day ptcntcs. and will no
doubt be- the means Of bringing an ex-
xepttonally:* large crowd. .>.>
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LARoR,s SOLE. cAPITAL.

The sole capital of the worktngnan
ts his. labor This capital he has a
perfect right to combine With like
capital s'of others II he please, Just as
his employer can and does combine
his capital with others. He has q
right to contract to supply all the labor
used. On = Job Just the same assanother
man has the ri hit TO: contract sto supply
ALI the bricks used "a the same Job
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Committee Finally Meets and
Announces that With Fair
Weather Monday Will Be
the Greatest Day Ever Held
in Duluth.
There Will be 1900 Union
Men and Women in Line, and
Most Of Them With Their
Families Will Spend the Day
at Zenith Park.

labor union. Even the Brotherhood OF
locomotive engineers were asked to
participate
AN unfortunate error occurred in the
printing Of the official program. The
Butchers union was omitted in the
parade on account Of a typographical
oversight. The union will march at the
end of tl1e first division.
The following is the order Of divis-
ions In the procession:
Platoon Of police.
Chief Marshal Thomas G. Freshney.
Assistant chief marshal, Ole Gustav
Larson.
First Division.
LaBrosses band
First deputy marshal, C. J. Nc
Dowell
Delegates to Federated Trades az
sembly.
Delegates to Building Trades council.
Speaker and president Of Trades
assembly.
Bakers.
Stationary F1remen. :~'
Typographical. ~
Machinists., .JS:E
Al6dE1llilA6IS.
Printing pressmen. u;
Retail clerks. sa-i
Sheet metal workers.
Leather workers. = J..
Brewery workers.: ~ ss'
Steam ssngtneerx,: +. "a i;As5sEs Assf : 3 :.
sSszA s sHs. = = i
-Boiler makers r@s ~ =: ~: ~. tt.szsE.s
Butcharf.s - X :.
<: Second Division. ,<.::: -:
Paul's Band. ~ - -"
George Skinner, marshal. :,
Carpenters.
Cooks and walters.
Longshoremen.
Third Division.
Flaaten's band.
George Walters. marshal
Lumber pliers.
Theatrical stage employees.
Steam filters. '
Plasters.
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KEEP MIND.

union label movement Is :, the
best =schenne ofyco- operat lion vet devils
ed. Keep Il iasrnind sEl IL 81 7: :
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he angry man sloyenick woman
are= abQut the ssraIne both get wise
COO. Sc -
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-30
CUMMiNS STRIKES HARD.
Body Blow for Blythe, Who Is Leading
the Opposition to Him.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Jan. 30.-A Wash
ington special quotes Governor Cum
minis of Iowa, as saying on the eve of
his departure for Iowa, after confer
ences' with the president and the Iowa
delegation:
Il have noticed that some effort is
being made to induce people to believe
that what l am doing and saying will
injure the president. The effort is not
in good faith and cannot succeed. l
have been the presidents friend many
years, and still am, and l am III full
sympathy with his policies. l think l
can be trusted as fully and confidently
as the leaders who bear SO close rela :
tons 10 the Northern Securities COM
pany--
This reference to J. w Blythe. gem
eral solicitor of the burlington road,
leader of ths4 opposition TO Cummlns |l
Iowa is tht= first direct allusinl by the
governor to the interest of this cer-
| parsttion in the Iowa fight.