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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
CHILD MARTYRS. OF BUSINESS.

Look at the signs on the Rochester
factories, Small boys, small girls,
wanted - said Mrs. Mabel Kennon,
when speaking before the Rochester
Lyceum.
IA Rochester inspector says he can
find work for $50 little boys and $50
little girls every day, at times when it
is hard to find work for one man."
said Mrs. Kennon.
"As long as child labor continues
every intelligent wage workers will
refuse to be the parent. of a large fam
lily. A factory workers wife said to
me recently IF we had children they
would have to go to work in the fac
troy very likely. We working people
offer, up our children to commerce just
as surely as the mother: of India sacri-
ficed their children TO the sheathen
gods. ,.sz .@ !: s. .s. s.es=*s r.. : !:
Mrs. Kennon5. shold remember that
there is the difference between. the
mothers OF Rochester and the mothers
Of India-the Rochester mothers can
at least prevent the younger children
from being if1ced by compelling the
Rochester tory tnspecto do
their duty
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
BuNC0. GAME CHARGED
TO APPEAL TO REASON
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC HERALD
TELLS HOW WORKERS
ARE BLED.
Former Writer on Popular Paper Tells
That Editor Wayland~ Is Fattening
on His Schemes. Printers Work
For the Poorest Wages. Editor Liv-
ing In Palace and Keeps Coiored
Coachman. --

Milwaukee, Feb. 18.-The Socialist
Democratic Herald ~of this city, which
is strongly supported by, Eugene V.
Debs, publishes the very interesting
statement from a fellow socialist in
relation to the character of the Appeal
to Reason, one Of the most widely cir
culated Socialist papers in the world:
"Comrade Charles l.. Breckon, FORM
erly of the Chicago Socialist, and un-
til recently of the Appeal to Reason,
has written a long signed letter to
the Seattle Socialist. in which he
charges that the money made by The
Appeals from : the activity and sacri-
fices of its '''arrny'' goes into private
pockets and that some members of the
army have practically impoverished
themselves in trying to keep in the
winning stretch Of some Of the papers
contests. He claims that the union
recently formed in: the office In order
to raise wages up to the. living point,
has been practically: broken down by
Kicker +and Wayland, and that small
wages are still paid, although not as
bad as formerly, when, he alleges, the
wages paid the, majority Of the en-
ployees was.$3 a week..
Socialist Charles L.. Breckon also
says that the: editorNof. the Appeal To
Reason lives in a splendid house, keeps
a colored coachman, drives span and
owns business blocks, all made out of
the Socialist *swork kers.F*2&: .s1c:,> s.:'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
PAINT MANUFACTURERS
TRY NEW METHOD.

Chicago, Feb. 18.-Elimination Of busi-
ness agents and other union officers in
deliberation between employer and en-
ploye for the readjustment of wages,
1t is claimed, has averted a general
strike an lockout of 1900 members Of
the Paint Workers union in Chicago.
Instead of dealing with the labor lead
ers the proprietors Of the paint fac
troies of the city-members of the Ma
tional Paint Manufacturers" Associa-
t1on-submitted their case to juries of
Twelve actual workingmen from each
shop. tentative agreement practic-
ally satisfactory to both sides has been
submitted to the Manufacturers Asso-
citation by the union, based upon reports
made by the various shop committees.
The agreement, with few minor
changes, it is said, will be accepted by
the employers, to whom it leaves the
open shop and the question of set
Ting the wage scale.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20

Chicago, Feb. 18.-The first of a
series of Sunday evening lectures on
IF Had My Life to Live Over' was
given last night in the St. James M.
e. Church by the pastor, DR.. Camden
M. Coburn, who said in part:
I'VE have not our iives to live over.
We pass this. way but once, which is
all the more reason that we should
scan critically our pathway and take
warning by our mistakes. The reason
We have not lived better is not be-
cause we have not known better Some
think the Bible discourages our looking
back over life. They say Did not Lots
wife look back to her sorrow?' But
it would be a good deal better for some
people I know to- look back and be
turned. into a pillar of salt than to
remain as they are now.
Il have this letter from John Mitchell
president Of the United Mine Workers
of America, who writes: If I had my
life to live over I should, so far as I
know, enter the same sphere of activ-
lty in which I am now engaged;
would live in about the same manner
as that in which I have lived, except
that I should devote a greater part
of my time to self-culture and should
work harder for the cause which + rep
resent. In other words, I should try
to accomplish more for the working
people and should endeavor to make
myself more worthy their confidence
and respect"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
| UNION LABOR FIGHTS
FOR FREE THOUGHT
CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR
RAISES MONEY TO CARRY
Case Against John Turner to Supreme
Court Every Man Entitled to His
Opinion. Turner Was Arrested Be-
cause He Believed That No Govern
nent Was Better Than Our Present
Government. Principle of Freedom
OF Thought at Stake.

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb 18.-Chicago labor
and reform organizations will petition
Congress to repeal a part Of the i'm
migration law, and they will also raise
a fund to carry to the Supreme Court
the case Of John Turner, the English
subject now imprisoned on Ellis Island
on the charge of being an anarchist.
Several judges and prominent at
torneys have already signed a petition,
which was Endorsed yesterday at a
meeting at Bricklayers' Hall held un-
der the auspices Of the Federation Of
Labor. John Fitzpatrick presided.
This meeting is to maintain the
old American doctrine that, no matter
what a mans opinions are, he shall be
free from arrest" declared Louis F.
Post, the first speaker.
John Turner, an English subject,
has been cast into a cage on Ellis
Island on warrant sworn out by Sec
retary Cortelyou of the Department of
Commerce and Labor. Turner believes
that we would have better state Of
affairs if we had no government. While
I do not agree with him, believe he
is entitled to his opinion.
Turner does not believe in war. He,
like the Quaker, is man Of peace.
The law under which he is held cap
tive like a wild beast would prevent
Tolstoi to land in this country-that
is, if the same officials dared to en-
force the law as they did against
Turner.
william Jennings Bryan visited
Tolstoi recently in his Russian home.
If he invited Tolstoi to visit him in this
country, the great Russian could un-
der the law be sent to prison.
Newspapers published in the inter-
est of their owners financial schemes
call everybody an anarchist who diff
fers from them in opinion. Everything
organized in this country to put down
high priced graft is called anarchistic.'
The petition indorsed is signed by
Judges M. F. Tuely, E. O. Brown, E.
T. Dunno, Philip Stein, Thomas G.
Windes, Corporation Counsel Edgar B
Tolman and Thomas w. Hoyne.
1t declares. that Turner was arrested
under warrant sworn out by men,
ber of the PRESIDENTS Cabinet who is
not judicial officer for "disbelieving
in organized government" that sucf
law is at variance with the principles
upon which this country is founded
sand hpi1l d#hea reneale
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
STEEL TRUST WILL WAGE
WAR ON EMPLOYEES

Pittsburg, Feb. 18.-It is known
among employees of the United States
Steel Corporation that with the ending
of the scale year June 80 next the con-
Germ will refuse in the future to deal
with organized labor.
This plan has received the indorse-
ment Of the steel corporation directors
H. C. F'rick, who has assumed control
since the absence Of Charles M.
Schwab and Mr.. Morgan, is credited
with the plan.
The present year has been selected
because Of the continued dullness in
the domestic steel trade Preparations
for the fight have been going on since
the beginning of the year. Wherever
1t is possible for the steel corporate
to make material and stock to be sup
piled to the market during the fight
against unionism it is being done.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
FIGURES COST OF LIVING.

According to the statistics of the De-
partment Of Labor, which got its
figures from 2,567 families with an
average income of $827.19, and an aver
age expenditure of s76S.54, the cost Of
living in 1902, when it was highest, was
16.1 per cent more than in 1896, when it
was lowest. Average wages have in
creased that 16.1 per cent; in soma
cases by more. The Employers Asso-
ciation of Chicago, estimates that the
cost Of living increased by 1853 per cent.
from 1898 to 1903. Various newspapers
and independent observers have ,gues-
sed a much higher increase of cost,
even more than double.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Senator Platt of New York has re-
ported favorable the bill regulating
leaves Of absence Of employees of the
Government Printing office. The bill
gives the employees who receive an
nual salaries leaves of thirty days
each, exclusive of Sundays, thus put
ting them on the same fotting as en-
ployes in other departments of the
Government. A letter was read from
the Public Printer saying that the ad-
be about $5O, 900 a year.
The situation in the strike of the
rubber workers at Trenton, N. j., re-
mains practically the same, both sides
claiming to be making gains and that
victory is certain. The men say the
manufacturers are aware of the fact
that they intend to remain out until
the demands are acceded to, and the
bosses make statements to the effect
that the strike is over, so far as they
are concerned.
general reduction of wages went
into effect recently at the Midvale
Steel Works Of Philadelphia, affecting
$500 employees. The decrease is graded
according to the wages received and
ranges from five to thirty-five cents
a day. The congested labor market
an doverproduction are said to have
caused the reduction.
Employers of 80 per cent. of the coal
hoisting engineers Of Boston, Mass,
and vicinity, have signed the new
wage scale and agreement, which in
creases the wages Of hosting engin-
GERS $3.50 a week and trolley and cable
engineers 81 a week. The other prices
are indentical with the old agreement.
$500 miners employed by the Els
worth Coal Co., in Washington county,
Pa, have gone on strike because the
company reduced wages about 13 cents
a ton below the established mining
rate. Today organizers of the United
Mine Workers Of America. visited the
mining villages and organized the mill
ers who have been non-uniOn.
The strike Of 1,500 coal miners en-
plOyed in the ore mines Of the Ellis
worth Coal Co., Ellsworth, Pa, is still
being waged with vigor. Forty evic-
tion notices were served yesterday by
the company upon strikers occupying
tenements owned by the company. The
coal company officials are severe in
their criticism of the strikers, and the
latter are holding mass meetings and
organized parades. -
A wage and working agreement for
1904 has been agreed on by the COM
mittee Of. the aMster Teamsters' Asso-
citation and Team Drivers Union No.
3d. and all possibility of a strike of the
5000 truckmen and drivers of that un-
ion is ended. ~, -
The Packing Trades Council will
notify the $4,000 members Of it's affili-
ated unions to refuse to patronfze drug
stores in which the union card Of the
Drug Clerks Association ! is mot ex-
hibited. :... ,. %s,*.... =
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
NON -UN|0N|ST MINERS
SHOOT At EACH OTHER
THREE TELLURIDE STRIKE.
BREAKERS ENGAGE IN
DEADLY COMBAT,
Sample Of Law Breaking Element in
Colorado Mines. Peabody's I'm.
ported Serfs Settle Dispute With
Guns. Guns Carried to Shoot Union
Men are Turned on Each Other.
Many Crimes Committed in This
Way.

Telluride, Colo, Feb. 1S.-In a quar-
rel between non-union miners at the
Bullion company, this afternoon three
men were shot, and riot was narrow
ly averted.
The wounded are:
Edward Jackson, a guard, shot in
the knee.
c. Spalding, miner, shot in abdomen.
August Pretty, shot in leg.
The trouble started in the tunnel
about o'clock between August and
George Pretty, brothers, and c. spal-
ding over some powder. All of the
men were armed and challenges were
exchanged. Spalding threatened TO
shoot the Pretty brothers if they made
any hostile move toward him, and it
was finally agreed that the matter
would be fought out when the shift
was over at $3.50 o'clock.
When the men left the tunnel and
entered the store at the portal Of the
big bore all three drew their revolvers
and in less time than it takes to tell
it a general fusilade had begun. A.
dozen or more shots were fired three
which took effect.
Edward Jackson stepped between
the men while the bullets were flying
about to act as peacemaker and was
shot in the knee and seriously wound
ed. Then the Pretty brothers rushed
toward Spalding and began beating
him over the head with their revolvers,
1nflicting serious scalp wounds. Spald-
ing fired at August Pretty, striking
him in the leg. In the breakaway a
bullet from gun held by one Of the
Pretty brothers struck Spalding in the
abdomen, but glanced off.
BY this time other guards and min
ers came pouring into the store and
separated the belligerents, took their
guns away and placed them under ar
rest. All three will be brought to Tel
luride tomorrow and lodged in Jail.
Spalding is about As years old. Moth
ing is known Of his antecedents. The
Pretty brothers came here about three
weeks ago from Black HaWck. They
are young men.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
COOKS AND WALTERS SPEND
MUCH STRIKE MONEY!

Cincinnati, Feb. 1S.-Few interna-
tional unions expended more money for
strikes during the last year than the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees In
ternational Alliance and Bartenders'
League. The semi-annual report is
sued shows that as result expenses
from May 1 to October 81 were $4,74332
more than the income. But in spite of
this the national treasury shows a
balance Of $26,276.98.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
LAB0H1Ih| h|Al6||C|TY 1 \
= :.c'0NTR||l U|l|!IciAR d. Il LINES
MANY PEorLE=eA GATHER IN CHI.
. cAeo> 70 START MOVEMENT.
Municipal Ownership Receive. an I'm.
pstus in tho Windy City. Organized
Labor@,in tn Van Of Thought.
Printers Union Starts With Con.
tribution for Agitation Of Public
!; Ownership Of Street. Car Lines.

Chicago, :Ill.4,,=..Feb. 18.-Immediate
Municipal ownership: was indorsed ant
plans for It's /, consuinmation were
adopted at a 1neeting held under thu
auspices of the legislative committee
OF the Chicago Federation Of Labor al
Bricklayers' Hall last night.
The connittee5s plan which wat
submitted TO the meeting was unani.
mously adopted.
During~the discussioin which follow.
ed the speakers brought out these
facts:
That immediate municipal owner.
ship could be accomplished
That the traction companies can be
compelled to ave the people bette,
strest car transportation.
That the ettys police powers are
broad enough 70 compel the franchise
holders to- rive; the public:
Warm cars.
Hygienic cars.
More cars. IL
That the present conditions are due
to the lethargys Of the people.
That the Aldermen Of the respective
wards should be held. Responsible fo,
the street accommodation, or rathe,
their lack. by their constituents.
Board Of. Hsa1th Can, Aot.
"The Board: Of Health can compel
the street car campanies to disinfect
the cars. Every year the street cars
of Chicago are killing more people
than were killed before the fire. From
these cars many OF the people carry
home the seeds Of pneumonia. In the
morning they arise sick and at nigh
they die. -
THE Health Department can compe
the street car companies to properly
heat the cars. Our Alderman should
be held responsible*for the service and
should be given to understand that the
workingnen are entitled to go to work
and ride home from work in comfort
able heated cars. The way to obtain
better transportation is to take the
street car question -sout of politics and
the way to. take it!:eut of politics is te
accomplish immediate municipal own
ership." ;@S:
Federation to: Form Fund,
Resolutions passed tby Chicago Typo
graphical Union No! 49, offering $1,000
toward the !fund:i In support of the
municipal / ownership movement We're
|read .ana. .tas haXs. !..ls ths Eedean1a=
Endorsed: 5jplaf1 J. was al lsos so adopted
asking fora voluh taryi contribution OF
not less than 11cents per: capita from
organizations affiliated with the Fed
Grafton.
The plan suggested by the LAgisla-
tive Committee, and which will be
presented at the meeting of the FEEDER
alton next Sunday, is in the form of a
petition to the Mayor and the, City
Council that the Mueller law author.
izing cities to own and. operate street
railways shall be adopted April s
1904. The petition also asks that
pending settlement Of: the questions
the Council shall grant no franchises
shall compel immediate Improvement
of the service, and asks the establish
ment Of a street railway department in
charge of a traction expert.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
BOSTON JOB PRINTERS
ARE ON STRIKE.

Boston, Feb 1S.-A strike of the 900
book and job printers Of Boston, Cam
bridge, and vicinity was begun recent
ly. A committee Of the Typographical
Union visited the offices Of the prin-
ters, presented the new wage scale as
an ultimatum, and as fast as a refusal
was received the men went out. The
demand of the employees is for an IN
crease over the present rate Of five
cents for every thousand ems, one dol
lar week for hand compositors, and
three dollar a week for machine oper-
ators. +s-si
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20

MI
convention OF the American Fedora
tion of Labor in this city in November,
a. Socialist report was circulated
through the labor papers of the coun-
try, which charged that President
Gompers and John Mitchell were
guests of the Exchange Club, boy
cotted institution.
Recent developments have shown
that the report was a fabrication, and
was malictously sent out from this
city. David Goldstein, a member of
the Cigarmakers union Of this city took
the pains to investigate. He first COR
responded with the secretary of the
Cooks and Walters union, and asser-
tanned that the Exchange club was not
"notoriously unfair. A boycott has
never been placed on the club, and
there never has been any necessity
for one. Fully two thirds of employees
Of the club are members of the union.
In commenting upon the matter Mr..
Goldstein says:
'Exaggeration, falsehood and vii
LITIGATION are the means by which So
cialists attract and mislead the weak
unwarry and the non-discriminating
enthusiast: while at the same time
they demonstrate their fallacies tt
those who have the moral quality with
which to discern the irrational of their
doctrines and tactics.
Since the defeat of the Socialist re-
solutions at the Boston convention of
the American Federation Of Labor the
Socialist leaders have especially direct
ed their animus against Samuel Com
pers and John Mitchell, hoping there
by to destroy the confidence Of tire
membership in the integrity Of their Of
ficials; while from without with the
use Of the American Labor Union as a
battering ram they are trying to de-
stroy the trade union movement it.
self.
Being a member of the Boston Eco
nomic Club, under whose auspicdn
Samuel Gompers twice addressed the
citizens Of Boston and who dined John
Mitchell at the Exchange Club during
the days of the convention, it gives me
pleasure to refute the calumny circu-
lated about them by these enemies OF
the trade union movement
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
STATE FEDERATION OF
MICHIGAN WANTS LEGISLATION
Secretary Issues Circular to Unions to
Work for Labor Legislation.

Secretary Issues Circular to Unions to
Work for Labor Legislation.
Port Huron, Feb. 18.-Patrick ]. Nc
Cormick, secretary of the Michigan
Federation Of Labor, has issued a CIR
cular to affiliated locals in regard to
labor legislation-pro and con--which
is more than likely to come before the
next session of the Michigan legisla-
ture. The circular states that the Fed
GRAFTON will endeavor to have the fol-
lowing laws enacted, and that with
united action on the part of local un-
ion they have to succeed:
A BILL to protest the electrical
workers:
Licensing Of steam engineers;
Inspection Of steam boilers;
To provide work for the convicts of
this state will not come in competition
with free labor.
The circular closes with a plea for
activity in behalf of the initiative and
referendum.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
WAGE REIMBURSEMENT,

Of Johnstown recently received notice
of a readjustment of wages, to go in
to effect on the fifteenth of this
month The basis of each mans pay
is esta blished by an agreement between
himself an dthe head of the depart
ment in which he is employed. The
readjustment affects every class of en-
ploye, and the general basis will be
that prevailing before the last adjust
d,ent July l, 1902. Over 10000 men are
: affected. -. F.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
cooPERs QUIT AT LOW WAGES

Chicago, Feb. 18.-Union coopers are
on strike against all the shops control
led by the Manufacturers Association
because demands for increased wages
were refused. Increases Of 10 per cent.
for all day work, with a decrease In
hours from nine to eight, were asked.
The union and the employers held a
big meeting Sunday and the union
sent an ultimatum demanding an
answer before Tuesday night.
The employers asked delay until Sun
day.. but: the union officers, hearing
that lockout was to be ordered Satur-
day night, called strike of the COOP
ers. There are 1000 union coopers in
Chicago, but those employed in the
breweries. and in the Stock Yards are
not, affected.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20

A decision in, favor of affiliatine
with the Structural Trades Alliance
has been reached by the general ex-
evcutfve board Of the United Brother
hood Of Carpenters and Joiners at In
dianapolis, Ind. The report in favor
of such afftliat tions will be submitted
to the rious. locals !. Of the brother
hood for referend vote |.s5s:=5
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20

The financial reports presented at
the. convention of the Bricklayers and
=Masons' Internal tional union at =.Tren-
ton, n. !, showed q balance In the
local treasures Of $279, ,52s and Ia the
general treasury Of 5=.#s|
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
JOHN MITCHELL TELLS
SOME THING ABOUT WORK
SAYS If HE HAD LIFE OVER HE
WOULD FOLLOW SAME
COURSE.

Would Enter the Same Sphere Of Act
witty. Would Devote More Time to
Self Culture. Would Try:to ;Ao-
liAhzs
-: People, and Would Attempt to Make
Himself More Worthy of: Their
Confidence.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20

The building situation in; Pittsburg,
Pa, is rapidly clearing The ,orna-
mental iron workers and !. housesmiths
and employers have agreed on a new
scale. The men will receive the same
rate Of. wages =as Iast. year. and decided
not to obey any sympat thy strike. or
.ders.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20

Japan has 10000 organized wage
workers. MI i 4z. u: - Z 4 ! .35%x III.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20
.C0MPERS AND MITCHELL
PUT IN FALSE LIGHT
SOME SOCIALISTS CIRCULATED
FALSE STORY ABOUT THEM
IN BOSTON,.

Said That They Mere Guests at a
6oycotted Hotel. Boston Cigar
makers Nails the Lie. Outrageous
Attempt Of Dishonest Socialist Poll. +.
tieians to 6esmireh the Good Names
Of President eompers and John
:. Mitchell.t'l {: ..:..~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-20

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