The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-27

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Holland 8 internal system OF. canals;
reduces the { cost q. Ztransporta alton. to:
a minimum; boa alk1ng the place Eof
railroads S in less favored localities in
this Srespec t..R * either the trainmen or
boatmen are organized they take pains
to conceal It. 81 Indeed this applies to.
most occupations. here, FOR wherever
I inquired either Of employers or work.
men as to: the number and strength Of
labor organizations ISwas met with de-
malls to the existence of any such as.
sociations IN their calltngs. The So.
ctalists, however, are doing propaganda;
work, and here a. in Germany it is.
probable that this takes the place of
the trade union as seen in Great Brit
ain and America. Still, there is no such
pressing necessity for. the socialist agi-
tation in Holland as there Is in Ger
many. The people are freer to employ
themselves, and are allowed greater
liberty Of opinion. When another big
slice Of the Zuyder Zee is reclaimed by
dykfng out the ocean. q protect which.
is being engineered by the government,
opportunity will be. given several more
thousand people to become farmers and
to- employ themselves, which is, after
all, a very satisfactory way of earning
ones living. There: are rich and poor
in Amsterdam and Holland, as else
where, but neither extremes are so
glaringly prominent as in London or
Paris. >;
QUAINT DUTCH COSTUMES.
The fishing island of Marker, in the
Zuyder Zee, a few hours by boat from
Amsterdam, is one OF the. show places
of Holland. Here everybody sticks to
the quaint Dutch:@ costumes, including
wooden shoes and picturesque head
gear-at least when boats loaded with
tourists make landing-but it is en-
tirely probable that the workers in
their fishing boats, always to be seen
on the horizon, are: dressed like ordi-
nary folk. It is the boast of the island
ers that they have but one tree, and
that only one horse has ever been per-
United to invade the spot. Living from
what the sea provides, the Markeners
spurn any occupation that is not con-
nected with seafaring life, yet I no.
ticed in their houses clocks from Ger
many, platters from France, cloth from
Great Britain, and furniture from
Grand Rapids, Mich, besides other
things the product Of workmen on the
mainland. After all, no community can
live to the best advantage within it,
self-not even the Markeners of the
zuyder Zee.
It is a mistake to suppose that all
Hollanders wear the costumes that
painters and photographers have made
SO. familiar. Only occasionally COM
munity is found sticking to what has
been discarded by most other people,
even In Holland. III the large cities
these peculiar dresses are almost as
scarse as arc<FIighland costumes in the
average American community. Ger
tainly the mechanics and artisans are
not dressed like the Dutch men and
women seen on; the vaudeville: stage.
It is fact, though that the wooden
shoe still persists. Iasaw laborers on
the streets and in: the fields dumping
along apparently unconscious that
there was any such thing thing for foot
wear as leather These shoes cannot
be very service o 81 the hard City
paXenen Of reason
why they are not q DIM rably adapted
to the wet soil 81 ascountry that Ger.
tainly never suffers from drouths.
AMSTERDAM IS. DIRTY. AND ILL