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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
WHAT UNIONS DO FOR LABOR.
Increased Wages from SOC. to $3.50
per Day for Brick Layers.

Those whose knowledge Of labor
organizations is limited to what they
have read about strikes and graft
ers" frequently ask, What benefit
in the long run is the trade union to
the workingman?
AS we Judge tree by it's furits, SO
we may learn what trades unions can
and probably will do for the working
man by observing what they have
already accomplished. No one fam
iliar with the facts will deny that
unions have been the means Of in
creasing wages and have successfully
combatted attempted reductions
which would have gone unchanged
but for the unions.
AS one out OF many just as forci-
BILE illustrations that may be cited,
take the brick layers. In Its brick
layers worked fourteen hours for 50
cents; in 1850, twelve hours for
SITS; in 1904, eight hours for $3.50
from less than 4 cents an hour to
SO cents an hour. This union has
expended during the past thirteen
years for benevolent purposes ST.
100000.
Everybody ought to know that
through the influence Of trade unions
the length OF the workday has been
decreased in nearly every organized
industry from twelve and fourteen
hours to eight hours during the past
fifteen years. In some OF the most
important Industries the eight hour
workday has become the rule
throughout the entire country. In
rare instances only-even during the
recent era OF comparatively high wa
ges-has the rate OF wages been low
cred with the shortening Of the work.
day; frequently wages have gone up
at the same time that the hours went
down.
Had the trades unions done no
more than shorten the workday, they
would deserve the everlasting graft
tude, not only OF the workers them
selves, but OF every Christian man
and woman. The shorter workday
means employment for hands that
wuold otherwise be idle, and it
means that the workingman has
more time to devote to self-improve-
ment and to the performance of his
duties as a husband, father and a
citizen.
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FAC ENDS.

acknowledge is power" but money
has the call nowadays when it
comes to cha1ce between the two.
Man lives to work no less than he
works to live. Habitual idleness
leads to decay OF mind and body.
Don't look for trouble, look out
for it. "A mackerel sky and mares
tails make lofty ships carry low
sails
Scientific essays on poverty find
few readers among the poor. A
drowning man is not at all interest,"
ed in finding out how he got into the
water.
Organization and union of forces
means conservation OF strength and
survival; selfish individualism leads
to disintegration and ultimate ex-
t1nction.
The ''spoils system" is all right,
provided the spoils have been legi-
timately won. ITO the victor be-
longs the spoils.'' The trade union
which has spent time, energy, and
money in lettering the conditions OF
labor has perfect right to insist
that its own members shall be the
first beneficiaries Of the improved
conditions.-Coast Seamen's Jour-
nal.
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ranging for the amalgamation. This
election was held recently and the
motion was carried. The livery
drivers, however, with few excep-
tlons refused to vote. 1t is under
stood that President Shea will re-
yoke the charter OF both unions and
then call a meeting to form new UNI
ION OF cab andltVery drivers. -. -
Thirty rubber workers employed
by the Chicago Tire & Rubber Com
pany, 1923 West Kinzie street, struck
recently for higher wages. "a
Vaclav Kudrle OF Lyons was ar
rested in Chicago some time ago on
a charge of using counterfeit cigar
makers label. He was held in $500
bonds by Justice Richardson.
After trying in vain for five
months to decide upon an umpire to
decide certain issues between the
Blacksm1ths' Union and the Chicago
Metal Trades Association, it is be-
l1eved that a settlement will be
reached without referring the differ
ences to arbitration.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
STAND PAT FOR THE UNION.

No Workingman should allow the
present political noise to knock him
off his feet. The day after cleo
ton Industrial affairs will be pretty
much as they are now; and you, Mr..
Worker, will be dependent upon
yourself and your class to better
your conditions or to hold on to
what you have. Therefore, stick to
the union and get your fellow-work-
ers to do the same, demand the card
and label when you make purchases
and keep On reading and thinking.
Labor conditions will be made better
or worse by labor itself. There
should be no mistake made ON this
polnt-Cleveland COZ Citizen.
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CROAKERS AND KNOCKERS.

Founded on broad and humane
tartan principles, vast as man, hea-
ven, and earth combined, the trade
and labor union is compelled to &C
cept as members men and women Of
Unlike the church, the club or the
lodge, the union must accept all
corners who are knocking at it's
door, provided they can demonstrate
their ability to perform in an eff
cient manner the work claimed by
the organization.
The applicant is initiated and well
coined as a brother, and although
he may be veritable scOundrel, a
blackmailer, and traitor, he is en-
titled to just as much respect and
protection as the most conscientious
and oldest member.
Really, in many cases the new
made, loud-mOuthed brotherhood
booster is the very worst actor.
lie claims that brotherly love is
due him from all members, although
from heart to mouth he is running
over with hellish hatred to every
body who does not bow down and
confess to his cut-throat creed.
Being a thief, which means one
who takes that which does not be-
long to him, including character, he
can not help but accuse all honest
people OF grand larceny. Subsistine
on carrion as chief diet, it is the ma
ture of the cowardly beast to en-
courage murder. Look at this indi-
vidual and you behold the croake1
and the knocked. He comes to the
meetings late and irregularly; ne il
! usually full OF fry fumes, errati<
ideas, and nasty notions; his verd'
ant verbosity flows like wild and
muddy stream until he has succeeded
in disturbing the business OF the
| meeting. He attacks the officers and
finds fault with the work of the faith.
full committeeman.
Having relieved his storehouse OF
| it's surplus of ''brotherly love- he re.
tires before the meeting is over to the
! CurbstOne, where he delivers an i'm.
promptu 'oratlon" on the clique that
runs the union.
You can be grateful IT your unioI
| is not burdened with croakers anc
knockers, They are the worst. pes
the ira des- union NOV ement has Is
l#tQ4 T.: s=.. {
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PURCHASING POWER. OF WAGES,

Rarely a day passes but one may
read some newspaper article in which
the writer points with pride" to
that "lndubitable sign of national
prosperity" to-wit, the fact that the
increase in wages has kept ahead OF
the increase in the cost of living.
OF course every one knows that the
plain truth is not the long suit OF
a trust-subsidized newspaper. There
fore when statements like the fore
going appear on the editorial page
it is dollars to nothing the writer has
had his cue from certain sources.
It is no doubt true that in the
highly skilled and thoroughly or
ganized trades wages have kept
pace with the increase in the cost
Of living, but an overwhelming ma
jority OF the workers OF this coun-
try are unskilled or work at occu-
pations requiring but little training
or preparation. So great are the
numbers in this class that their
wages in the aggregate amount to
much more than the wages of the
skilled workers. Now, the cold,
hard fact OF the matter, supported
by incontrovertible statistics, is that
wages for unskilled labor are lower
today than five years ago and that
the cost of living has increased In
the meantime on an average 20 per
cent. That Is, the great bullk Of our
population is actually earning less
than formerly and paying more
than ever for what it consumes.
How does that fact gibe with the
statement that wages have kept
ahead OF the increase in the cost of
living? Apparently 1t is understood
by certain newspaper editors that
SO long as there isa grain OF truth
In their CONGRATULATIONS there Is no
need of any effort at differentiation.
Coast Seamen's journal.
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ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY.

From the FortntEhtly Review:
An Anglo-French treaty Of arbitra-
ton is entitled to it's place in history
as one Of the three greatest events in
the development Of international arb1-
tration.
The first was in the Alabama case.
In it two great countries submitted
question which involved the national.
honor Of, at any rate, one OF them, to
the adjudication OF a court mainly COM
posed Of foreigners. This was the first
time that an attempt was made to-
apply the methods Of domestic judica-.
ture on the same model at The Hague.
and the third is this new obligation en-
tered into by Great Britain and France
and which has been SO rapidly followed
by others, to submit all their differ
ences Of judicial order (the only cases
following domestic analogies, = withi1i
the jurisdiction OF a court OF law) 10.
this court at The Hague. ., sS4>s =. :. IT. Ssssa.
These three events stand out as laad-<
marks Of progress toward that ideai OF
paaeeahle uad1ustment. a. differences, In
the dealings Of nations with each other,
which has been the dream OF every en-.
Heightened man who ever thought on the
subject. The other varieties and Incl
dents of arbitration are secondary to-
:these three, which al one are In I'd irect.
ltp4#of descen on from, the her.zSs.=:
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a. MISIEADING~ FHRASE..

=. ~ :N1lS41flkAO1NCE &IEf1t4AaN. =.
The disciples OF David M. Parry,
the indianapolis Moses who has un-
oertaken to lead the manufacturers
OF America away from the influences
and the alleged tyranny OF unionism,
have invented the "closed shop"
phrase and are trying to put it into
the mouths OF trade union advo-
Gates. The term was invented to
mislead and has been made use Of
during the present year in partic-
ular, says the International Wood
worker. Union men contend there
is no closed shop unless it is the So
called open-ship, which Is or will he
closed to union men. There are
union shops but these union shops
are always open to workingmen who
are willing to cooperate with their
fellow workers for the general good
Of the masses.
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kEYES TAKES FALL OUT
OF COMMERCIAL CLUB
Quest ions Rtgh ofs; Club ctornlnitte
= 10 Exploit Public Service: ,
Corporations.
Holds That City Should Secure Right
From Legislature to Issue
Bonds.

Editor Labor World:
have been somewhat interested in
reading a communication from the
committee OF the Commercial Club,
published in your paper, on the sub
ject OF municipal lighting. I had
all along supposed that the CONNER
c1al Club was organized for the pur-
pose of forwarding the interests OF
the city, and OF the average citizen of
the city, and not as a mere vehicle
for exploiting certain propositions Of
a private nature, but no man can read
the report OF this committee without
being convinced in his own mind
that studied effort has been made
by somebody, perhaps not conscious
ly by the committee itself, to "edu-
CATE the people OF this good city to
the point where they will d1sbelieve in
municipal ownership, and continue to
ALLOW the city to be franchised in the
same way that Chicago, New York,
and Philadelphia have been, and now
are. 1t takes more than casual
study OF questions OF this character,
and from a standpoint other than
that OF temporary expediency to ar
rive at correct judgment, and when
this club becomes the champion of
special interests against the city it.
self, it has reached far outside the
| proper purpose OF it's existence. For
some four or five years this city
struggled to secure a municipal light
and water plant, and had finally sue
ceeded, and was proceeding along the
line to make that light, and water
plant complete by adding thereto the
| necessary element of electic lighting,
| and il I remember Alright, one city
| campaign was largely carried on
upon that basis, and some people
| were elected to office under written
pledges if l mistake not, to carry
out that project, but Notwithstanding
that they signally failed to do 80, and
the alleged but unfounded reason
| therefore was that no legislation
could be procured from the state fol
that purpose. The entire st. Louis
county delegation was then, as now
Republican, and IT. mistake not, and
my memory does not belle me, 1T Is
the custom of the legislative bodies
Of this state to concede to each
county delegation anything in the
line Of local legislation that 1t desires
But passing that point 1t may be
said without successful contradic'
ton, that the present gas, and wa
ter plant under municipal control hat
been y success 20 far as supplying the
city with pure and wholesome water
at reasonable rates. and supplying
! the city: with gas for heating, and
lighting purposes Is concerned. Nc
one who has lived In this city under
the two regimes OF private, and pub
lie ownership can doubt this fact bu1
In the report Of this committee there
IS eartain aaenGo: ana III 4rqm Wna
that the municipal plant Of this city
is failure, and an nj the end Sof this re-
port III TIA Toll owing strikin an{
remarka nQsiti III, u II X
i not attrac attentl Ion .perhap III
Ithef casual read er. butt having once
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19

involved too important to allow this
report to go unchallenged.
At later day I intend to take up
this matter more at length, and dis
cuss some matters in connection
herewith, which the committee ig-
nored. JOHN A. KEYES.
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THREATENS TO REVOKE
LIVERY DRIVERS CHARTER.
Refuse to Amalgamate With Cab
Drivers as President Shea
Ordered ::Hs>

Chicago teamstersaa are angry at an
alleged threat Of International Pres
ident G. p. Stea to. revoke the char
ter Of the Livery Drivers Union.
! Several days ago. Shea recommend
IA that the dFiYers unite With
he@eabHdriyers ana zheR called q meet
Ing vote ezzpu purpose ot at
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.
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SQUARING HIM.

SQUARING HIM. :
From the Cleveland Leader:
St. Petersburg, Oct. 25.-The czar
is anxious to make things easy for
the commander of the Baltic fleet.
'Perhaps,',' he said today, in an in
terview, perhaps he didn't know 1t
was loaded"
From the Kansas City Times:
A girl from the town of Bordeaux
Was wooed by fellow named Jeaux.
He asked her to wed,
Then softly she said: :: .''.~ >
"Oeaux neaux, you're too sleaux. don't
you gneaux." >~.- ., = =. ~
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Subscribe fer +tos labor World. 81 "a,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19

Suits which originally sold
up to 1880 are in this lot
and the styles are superior
to the styles you'll find in
the half price fakes. The
fakirs would say these we're
worth up to $4,000 and try
to get $25.00 to $500 for
them. We guarantee every
suit as represented and Of
fer you choice for 1880.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19

"A lot of misses suits, ages
10 to II years, pretty styles,
good colors and mixtures;
tailored as we'll as the grown
up frocks. The fake half
price stores will tell you
they are worth $500 and
offer to sell them to you at
about 5000. We tell you
truly the original prices
were $14.98 and we will close
them out at 1915.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-06-30
n office to Creditors

Estate of Kate Mclaughlin, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned admin.
istsator OF the estate of Kate Mclaughlin, deceased
to the creditors OF and all persons ba,ng claims
against the deceased exhibit them with the neees
sary vouchers within four months after the first
publication of this notice TO the said administrator
his place of business Hocky Bar in the county OF
Elmore.
ARTHUR GOLDEN,
Administrator Of the Estate of Kate Mclaughlin,
deceased.
Dated May 25. 1904.
WYAAN 6 WYMAN
Attorneys Tor Adrilnistrator
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man would put as much
his work as a pig puts into
len Ii scratches its back
board fence there would be
Tres in this world.
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benefit to all by consulting business
men in town who have signified
their wishes to hay. the streets
sprinkled and willingness to pay
therefor. Speaking with one of
these recently, the plan that the
city purchase the necessary outfit
and place it in charge of the street
supervisor, appeared to be the
most feasible This contemplated
the employment of that officer in
the dual capacity of supervisor and
sprinkler, his employment to be the
year around. No more money
would be thus expended, perhaps
not SO much, as at present is an
nually expended on street cleaning
alone, and the benefit derived i'm
measureably greater. It's worth
debating some evening when the
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-06-30

The hoboes have been for the
past few weeks trying to establish
q base in Mountain Home, but
without success. Sunday last one
of their number was apprehended
In the act of an offense so bestial
and utterly degraded that further
reference thereto is impossible. He
was arrested, but happily was later
driven from the city in preference
to being given a hearing, and will
never again intrude his hateful
presence here. Another became
gay with Marshal Tanner on
Monday afternoon and was tenn
porarily put out by that gentle.
mans good right arm, later being
compelled to leave this port. Many
others are beginning to understand
that this town does not intend to
harbor them and are impelled to
move along by the prompt and
vigorous measures of the marshal
The streets of Mountain Home
are still holding their own and a
little more in the matter of dust
When the people want the condi-
ton changed it will happen, and
not before. The city fathers might
take up the labor, being peculiarly
their province, and learn something
OF advantage to themselves and
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Notice of Forfeiture.

10 Charlie Ward.
You hereby notified that have expended
during the and 1908 hundred dollars IN labor
and improvements upon the High Ore lode situate
the headwaters of Caynse creek, three miles north
Of the Bonaparte mill in the Bear Creek
Mining District, County of Gilmore, state Of
Idaho, which the location certificate is found
of Elmore County. Idaho. In the office Of the
Recorder of said county, in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of section 1884 OF the Revised
Statutes of the United States and the amendments
thereto, approved January 22nd 1880, concerning
annual labor upon mining CLAIMS being the amonnt
required to hold said lode for the period ending
on the 3lst day of December, A. d. 1908.
And II within ninety DAYS from the personal
service of this notice. within ninety DAYS after the
publication thereof you fail refuse to contribute
your proportion of such expenditure as co.owner,
Your interest in the claim will become the prop.
erty Of the subscriber, your eo-osner, who has
made the required expenditure by the terms Of
said section,
ABE FREEMAN.
Boise. Idalo May 10. 1901
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-06-30

Fitch is going to Sicily for
BIS to rest, and says that he
wo new comedies completed
vacation" ends. Clyde is a
ywog Of industry.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-06-30
Notice of Attachment.

In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial Dis
rie Of the State Of Idaho In and for Gilmore County
The Great Western Beet Sugar Company corpora,
ton, plaintiff, vs.. The Elmore Irrigated Farms As
ISOLATION, corporation, defendant
Notice liz hereby given, that pursuant to the
statutes in such made and provided, writ of
attachment was issued out of the above named court
on the 10Th day OF june 1904, ii. the above entitled
against the property Of the above named de-
fendant. j. A. PURrILL,
Clerk Dist Court.
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Notice to Creditors.

Estate OF Samuel Banc, deceased:
Notice 10 hereby given by the undersigned, 7. p.
AXE, administrator, OF the estate Of Samuel Bane,
deceased to the creditors o and all persons having
with the necessary vouchers within four months after
the first publication OF this notice to the said admin
strator At the office OF t. NJ Wolfe attorney for adj
mnistrator, at Mountain Heme Idaho, In the county
Of Emore.
Dated June l3th 1904.
Ftp. AXE,
Administrator Of the estate OF Samuel Bane dc.
ceased.
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Sea Shore Excursion.
THURSDAY, JULY q, 1904,

THURSDAY, july IT IW4.
On the above date the o. 8. L. will run the Sea
Shore north OF Astoria. Tickets viii read for North
Beach and return, and will be honored for passage 10
any point aoD the beach, Rate from Mountain
Home $3.50 Tickets will DO sold for train No s OF
July 2Ist only, limited to continuous passage going
and ten days returning. The final limit on these
tickets will be extended ten days upon payment OF
one half the original cost by application to the o. H.
4 n General Passenger agent at Portland, For
further particulars call
Il. W. DUNN, Agent.
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Warrant Call.

peoals have at last been
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-06-30

! will pay presentation the following Elinore
County Warrants:
Current Expense Fund 1904 Warrants Nos. to
0 inclusive.
Road Fund 1908. Warrants No. 81, IS, 80, 10 and
Al.
Road Fund 1904, Warrants No. to s inclusive
L. z. AXE,
Treasurer Elmore Comfy Idaho
Mountain Home, Idaho, June ., 1904
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-06-30
Rates Fourth of July.
Order to Show Cause

In the matter Of the estate of Kate Mclaughlin,
deceased
Order appointing time and place for hearing petit.
ton for order OF sale OF personal property.
on reading and filing the petition OF Arthur b.
Golden, the administrator OF the estate OF Kate Me.
Laughin. deceased praying for an order sell the
whole of said estate. for the payment of certain
claims, the expenses of administration 1t is ordered
that all persons interested IN said estate appear be.
fore the undersigned the Judge OF the probate
in and for Elmore county. Idaho, at the court
of said court in the Village of Mountain Home, on
the 10Th day ofJuly, 1901 at 10 O'Clock a.
Then and there to show cause why such order
should not be MADE and it Is further ordered that
eebs Of this order be published in the Emofe Bull
letin, a newspaper published In Elmore county.
Dated May 18th, 1904
j. A. NICHOLSON
Probate Judge.
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State s. s. Convention.

For the Idaho State Sunday school Convention at
MOSCOW, idaho open rate OF $40 for the round
trip Is authorized from Mountain Home to Moscow
Tickets on sale June 10Th and Goth return limit to
june 26th. E. W. DUNN. Agent.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-06-30

5Sh degr
perature !
was 65 q
ington st.
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board has the time. and if it is
brought up, who can tell--some-
thing may come of it. Gentleman,
it's up to you.
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