The St. Louis Republic., 1904-05-08

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. Senator Marcus A. Hanna, Janu- .
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. Samuel Gompers, January Il. q
q David Parry, January "a. .
q Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Pot O
| q ter. January 81. q
o General Harrison Gray Otis. Feb q
| q ruary Z. q
g Senator Beveridge, February IA. o
- John Mitchell. February 2I O
+ Sir Chentung Liang Cheng. Feb O
. ruary 2s Q
| q Secretary Cortelyou. March s. o
. Terrence V. Powderly, March Is. O
I . Frederick W. Job, March 20. q
. Carter H. Harrison, March q. O
. James O'Connell, April 3. O
o Secretary Wilson. April 10 o
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| 500, there are no iniuent:.I or active
women's unions. This aris-s partly be-
cause the inspectors of factories and shops
look with unremitting vieil-no after the
wages, overtime pay, holidays. OF the
women and girls. 50 that there is no
Moreover. probably the want Of cnhe-
sion in the sex when engaged in the indus
trial work of this country has effect here
as elsewhere. There are no women mem
bers of mems unions.
I'VE have no woman suffrage and our
feminine electors exert steady political in
fiuence in certain directions-such as tenn
perance-but their Industrial position does
not seem to need Interference.
Does eight hours increase drunken
'It would certainly be a slander on our
working classes Of any one accused them
of drunkenness There Is more drunken.
than in New Zealand in a year. To say
that an eight-hour day leads TO drunken
ness and loafing IL rubbish The overtired
-t,0 hos lrol en-, Low N- h. -rt,r>
Graves a stimulant"
"After eight hours of active and often
strenuous labor leisure is not loafing. and
the accusation sometimes comes with
very bad grace from people who are either
idlers themselves or engaged in predatory
industry.
enness, but gambling and devotion TO low
ideals. worship OF the race horse and
of the football.
working day than that of eight hours will
obtain for several years, but 1 hope that
as machinery takes the place Of sinew,
man who works 1t. plain living and high
thinking may help to very few hours
day having to be necessarily worked by
''Exertion on a loved and fancied line of
direction Is. OF course, under different con-
ditions. and time SO spent will never be
measured"
HOURS AND OLD AGE PENSIONS.
Docs not the eight-hour day encourage
extravaganceT'
AS to extravagance. the shorter work
ing day has had II anything beneficial
eff,ct in the direction of economy, II the
savings banks statistics be accepted es a
test Personally, I hate hearing thrift
preached to persons of low incomes.
Below a certain wage line every penny
saved is a sin against the workers fam
fly, depriving them of some necessity OF
LIFE. II is enough Of thrift for such one
to be insured. or in friendly society to
guard against sickness or accident or |
death
.!The working father or mother who has |
brought up family has, at the cos. OF |
thousand self-denials and deprivations.
performed a most valuable duty to the |
state. and should be provided for IN his |
or her old age by the state whose future
heavy taxation of those who have had |
better opportunities of acquiring money |
or property by shirkinE 1s,, the Responsiveness
in New Zealand, through our old-3ge
pensions. we partly meet our moral and |
national liabilities; but much more VIII yet
peoples IL they wish to make their ma |
lions in the future anything more than |
mixtures OF mongrel aliens.
Concerning your question as to the en-
ployment branch of the New Zealand La |
Dor Department. and whether such an Of |
nee would succeed In America ! consider
IL has been a success here and see no rea- |
son why it should not be useful In the |
States.
Since 1881 we have assisted 32.ss2 men.
and these had 70.77o dependents. so that |
3.152 persons have been benefited.
This does no. include the thousands |
who take advantage Of our information l
Offices all over the countryside figures |
given above are OF those who received &C.
tual assistance in railway and steamer |
fares. etc. in order to bring the work |
and the worker together
"Our clients receive no charity or none |
tary assistance: we only find hard work 1
for them. The expenses OF transit have to |
be refunded. and. contrary to the belief of /
the pessimist. they are refunded In the /
large majority of cases.
no better test OF the value Of the work /
so done can be given than>by the way the /
operatives and laboring classes stand hy /
US: II Is a dangerous experiment IN New
Zealand to abuse its Labor Department In /
public"
CHANCES FOR YOUNG MEN.
What does your Government offer to