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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and solicitors
in Topeka and all near by towns, 81 per
day, experience unnecessary, over is
years old only apply; travelling. agents,
S65 to $91 per month. paid weekly; ex-
penses advanced; ladies or gentlemen;
large mfg: house. Manager will call. Ad-
dress G. E. De Pew, Transient, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13

Toliver Bird, the janitor for the
supreme court. says that counting his
brothers, nephews and brothers-in-law
there are nineteen votes in his family
and they are all for Roosevelt. He
wants to know if any Republican can
come up with a better story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13

| Governor Crawford has contributed
500 check to Chairman Stubs cam.
paign fund.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13

WANTED-S carpenters Monday a. m. 81
w. 4th st. Lundgren & Carlson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13
WANTEp-AGENTs.

WANTED-AGENTS
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SIS MONTH and expenses, no experience
needed. position permanent, self-seller.
Pease Mfg. Co., box 1853, Cincinnati, o.
800 FOR $4.00-Agents and dealers wanted
for new make chewing gum, foreign
postase sealitI,. e itlis LutuIe
Sherborne, % S. Sd ST., Philadelphia, Pa
fumes; our plan wins: large profits;
terms reasonable. LETTER e. Co., St
Louis, Mo
MEN and women without experience are
easily earning s. daily selling Smiths
electro linimeTlt. greatest pain killer in
the world. Send CSC in stamps for agents
outfit Charles D. Smith Chemical Co., 145
Erie ST., Chicago.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
MINE OWNERS ARE NOW .
ANXIOUS TO ARb|TRATE
SUBMITTED TO JUDGE ::
GRAY. =
Mine Owners Continue to Violate De-:
cision Of Coal Strike Commission.
They Back Down and Offer to Sub.
nit Case to Noted Jurist. Many
Thousand Men Would Be Affected in.
CAGE of Strike. Il

W1LKESBARRE, Pa, Aug. 1.-THE
coal operators who refused to enforce
the check weighing boss decision OF
Umpire Wright and caused a strike or
dered affecting $4,000 mine workers ia
this district, backed down yesterday
and offered to submit the point at issue
to Judge Gray Of Delaware, who was
chairman of the Strike Commissions.
They asked the miners to consent to
that, but the latter asked for a weeks
time to consider the proposition before
giving an answer -
The operators admitted that they did
not object to the appointment of check
docking and check weighing bosses in
the collieries where a majority of the
men desired them, but they did object
to all the miners being required to
share in paying these bosses their.
wages. This is the point it is proposed
to submit to Judge Gray and is some
what in line, with a similar suggestion
recently made by the miners leaders,.
The grievance OF Coke Brothers g
Co.'s workers which threatened an inn.
mediate strike of the $500 employed, did
not take long to adjust, the board.
agreeing that the suspended men
should be reinstated and that they.
should receive half pay for the time
lost .5.E#
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
'WEAVERS ASK AID IN
FIGHT At FALL RIVER
SEND CIRCULAR TO UNION LABOR
THROUGHOUT THE COUN-
TRY,
Textile Workers Issue an Appeal for
financial Support in Their Struggle
Against Further Reduction in Pay
Scale. Voluntary Assessments Are
Made by the Spinners Of Rhode Is
land. Ten Per Cent Cut.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., August IL
President Golden and General secre-
tary Hebbert of the United Textile
workers Of America, who are conduct
ing the gigantic strike at Fall River.
sent out yesterday a circular which
reads in part as follows:
AS no doubt by this time YOU are
We'll aware your brother and sister
workers in Fail River are engaged In a
just fight for living wage after manv
enoroachments had been made upon
them from time to time and after suh.
mlttlng to ten per cent reduction sev-
eral months ago, they are again con-
1ronted with a reduction of 1871 per
cent in wages.
They decided to strike against sucb
cruel and unJustifiable treatment and
nave succeeded in completely closing up
every mill that proposed to reduce
wages: There are about $4,000 opera
tlves involved in this strike and about
1'ooo Of them members of our national
body. ''4o1
After carefully CONSIDERING the mo+-
Ter we nave decided to make an appeal
TO members instead of placing an as:
sessment on them, as we are entitled
TO 90 according to the constitntion
Ihe splnners of Rhode Island have Wi:
unfairly assessed themselves 81 each to
oe PAID weekly, to aid the Strikers
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. lit was
falsely asserted by some Of the daily
papers that the troubles in Colorado
were due to workingnen Of foreign
birth, when all knew that 80 per cent
of the miners were rative born Am
ericans. But the oppressors Of labor
know what effect can be produced by
making the charge that the people they
are roboing and abusing are only "for-
eigners.''
The troubles in that state are, how
ever, due to a foreign element, though
the boot is on the other foot, as the
Republican Of this city shows. Says
this paper:
Colorado Springs, Colo is the Am
erican residence for wealthy English
capitalists, who have mining interests
throughout the gold and silver state
For a number of years wealthy and
aristrocratic Colorado Springs has
gone under the name Of Little Lon
don Shortly after the gold strike in
what is known as the Cripple Creek
district was made, English capital got
control Of the wealth underlying that
district. The world is familiar with
that districts vast resources of-wealth
1.-The same Little London influence,
mine operators backed by a despotic
governor, is believed to be responsible
fer the deadly warfare, the reign of
anarchy now existing In Teller co1n-
ty.''
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13

would not attempt to pass Judgment
on the technical questions at ISSUE
but that he would continue his visits
this week.
The wealthy employing packer and
the imported strike breaker both were
condemned in the pulpit discussion Of
the strike.
1T is a palpable violation Of these
principles" said the Bishop, after urg-
ing the Golden Rule, ION the part Of
the employers, who have been amass-
ing millions through the toll of their
fellow men, to pay men having wives,
mothers and children to support an
average of IS and 81 week."
In declaring himself an advocate of
trades unionism the clergyman urged
that the organized labor man does not
infringe On the constitutional rights Of
his non union brother, but he added:
"Uniontsm Is the very salvation of
labor. Perish every effort to destroy
it. The non-unionist Is reaping the
the benefit Of the sacrifices and Iabors
of his union brethren. and he ought to
recognize the sacredness Of his ob1iga-
ton to them"
=: Bishop Fallows urged his belief that
aitS #tsSAt he. ds1ty inisterss mors
and their problems, ana J to investigate
and take an active hand in such af-
fairs. He said In part:
Miss Jane Addams, In a recent In
tervtew, is reported as giving an opin-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
TRADES UN|ON|sM WILL
Be TAUGHT IN VARSITY
UNION PRINTER WILL ExPOUND
DOCTRINES OF LABOR.
John r. Commons, Professor Of Eco
nomies, Engaged by Wisconsin Uni
versity. Is Strong Advocate Of
Trades Unionism and Holds a Card
In the Typographical Union. Good
Change in College Education.

John r. Commons, professor of eco
nomics and secretary of the Concilia
ton Committee Of the New York Civic
Federation, has sold his New York res
1dence and will leave for the University
of Wisconsin to teach trades unionism.
He will begin with a summer course
on the immediate trades union ques-
tions of the day-the open shop, the
union label. ETC.
He has arranged with a number of
labor leaders to supplement him in his
course, His work will be chiefly with
post-graduates who have already mas
tered the principles of economics. At
the end of the summer course Professor
Commons will get a leave of absence
for three years. This travelling pro-
fessorship extended to him by the re-
gents Of the University of Wisconsin
will give him a chance to visit all parts
of the Countrywide South, West and
Pacific slope, as we'll as the mountain
regions-in order to collect facts about
trades-uniOns. ~
These facts will in the future also
be used in a book cn trades -unionism
and industrial democracy, which is
planned by him and Professor Richard
T. Ely.
At the end Of three years he will re-
turn to teach trades unionism 1T will
not be-" he says, ''in the spirit of the
zoologist, who isolates his bugs. sticks
them on a pin, then studies them with
a microscope. I will endeavor to teach
trades-unionism from the stand point
Of new democracy, which it is shap-
ing in part. I will try to portray to
my students the intellectual, moral and
spiritual forces which actuate the
trades-unionists of this country
Professor Commons is by no means
disheartened by the recent growth Of
the employers association. ''These
associations" he says, "are of two
kinds-the smashing associations and
the negotiating. associations The fu-
ture belongs to the latter" -.
Speaking Of the future OF the unions,
he believes the unionists ought to: be
given a, chance, to work out their prob
lens in their. own way. II they do not
succeed: they: are sure to 60 into poll
tics sooner or later as they did insNew
Zealand. They will then rush through
the sort OF legislation which has 50
x
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
COSTS A. CENTS.
TO BUTCHER STEER

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Homer c. Call.
secretary Of the executive board of the
Amalgamated Nj eat Cutters and Butch
er Workmens' association. issued a long
statement today in defense Of the un-
ions strike against the packers The
first part Of It was devoted to a recital
of events leading to the formation of
the Butchers unions in Chicago in 1900.
According to the statement the pack
ers are now trying to reduce the wages
of common laborers. who form sixty
per cent Of :. the union membership,
from 1871 cents an hour to-: the old
rate Of Is cents. The average weekly
wage, the statement says, is: about
$3.50 a week. These figures, It is as
serted, are complied from reports from
every killing room in the country. The
statement also says: !. :5 r:
These reports show that the average
cost sof labor for killing and dressing
q bullock, from the yard TO the cool
Ing. room, ii u cents The average
bullock weighs 100 pounds. The labor
cost e but six one -hundred dths=of . cent
par pound. .s. F T
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
TOBACCO Trust MEN INDICTED
by MASSACHUSETTS, GRAND jury
NEW ENGLAND BEGINS WAR
AGAINST MODERN tTYRANTS

1T Is a strange coincidence that
In Boston the first step was taken
In the struggle to throw off the
yoke from King George III. 1t
was In Boston that Wendell Phil
lips first began his crusade
against chattel slavery, and now
1T is in Boston where an effort is
being made to destroy the power
Of the modern tyrant, the Amer1-
- Tobacco Company.
This marks the beginning of a
bitter labor contest which is to be
WaEcd against the trust through
out the state by the Independent
Manufacturers' League. Orxun-
lied labor will join with the league,
and victory is expected.
The trust is charged with com.
mtttfng many overt acts against
laws of the state. Law was passed
preventing trust from compelliue
jObbers to deal In their tobacco
only. Same thing is practiced in
Minnesota, but NO organization fs
sufficiently wide awake to secure
the passage Of a law to prevent
this unbusiness like and malicious
practice.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
Venerable Clergymen Investi-
gates Strike and Finds That
the Union Employees Have
Been Suffering Many Wage
Wrongs-Call Packers to
Strict Account for Their Ac-
tion.
Finds That Laborers Secure an
Average Wage Of S. and 81
Per Week - Women and
Children Forced to Work
Beside the Husband and
Father to Keep Wolf from
the Door.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, August 11.-"Live
and let live
Preaching to this practical text,
Bishop Samuel Fallows, in the pulpit
Of the st. Paul's Reformed Episcopal
Church, Sunday pleaded the cause Of
the strikers.
lie spoke from personal exhaustive
investigation, for during the past. week
the Bishop delved incognito into the
heart of the stockyards and penetrated
into the recesses of the strikers hum
bic homes.
BrotherIy Love His Keynote.
Brotherly love was the keynote Of
his remarkable discourse, and he called
upon the employers to embrace the op-
portunity still open of giving their
workingmen a chance to live decently
The Bishop deplored conditions that
compelled the employment of wives,
who ought to be at home, and of child
ren, who ought to be in school, calling
them ungodly and unmanly.
THE employer must live" declared
the eloquent divine, with his hands ex-
tended dramatically, "but he must LET
live, or be untrue to God and man.
I found the laborers were receiving
an average Of from s5 to 81 a week.
said he. women and children were
forced to work beside the husband and
father to keep the wolf from the door.
BY working full time, which they were
unable to do. the. .laborers could make
but So or 5 9a-week.
Conditions Radically Wrong.
=. These conditions are es<s:s:rt radically adj
.xEgaz Ths. ssnaRleXsEs shelaIa Day
s sfd
have a home worthy of the iname.'' :: =
Bishop Fallow said that from broth
erly love and in defense Of the Ameri-
can home the condition of the stock
yards worker should be improved. He
said that from his investigation he
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
How THEY DIVIDE up

In suit brought BY the Guerney5
Foundry Co. against the Toiler. q labor.
paper of Toronto, one of the company,s.
witnesses was compelled to admit that.
they made profit OF SIS. to- $50 daysz
from teh labor Of each molder em-
ployed. And the molders received 81.
a day. The evidence is valuable a..
showing that if q molder got all the.
wealth he produced he would receive
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year. No won-s
der such manufacturers can afford to
spend vast sums in fighting organized.
labor's demands for shorter hours and
higher. ages.-Saginaw Exponent. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
DENVER VARSITY MAN
OUSTED BY PEAaon~

DENVER, Colo, Aug. 11.-Because
or his views on the enforcement Of tho
laws by Governor Peabody, Professor
Joseph Reed, one Of the most widely,
read and prominent historians in tha
west has been expelled from the I'M
versity Of Denver.
Ever since the labor troubles in
Colorado began Professor Reed has
watched every move. carefully and has
engaged in a thorough study Of the
conditions and the laws on the subject.
I'VE are going back rather than ad :
vancing in the race Of civilization" ia
the conclusion reached by the profes-
sor. The action Of Governor Pea
body, not only in one. but TN several
instances, takes us back to the time sof
the stuarts. when the divine rights. of
kings was recognized" 80; = ==*:53.1*
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
Continued ON page six.
CHARGE MEN ARE HELD
AGAINST THEIR WILL
ITALIANS ARE WRATHY OVER
HOLDING OF MEN IN
VOLUNTARY.
Countrymen VIII Sock Release Of 800
italian Strike Breakers Who Claim
They Cannot Get Outside of Stock
AIDES. Induced to Enter Yards With
Promises Of Good Pay and Then Are
Held as Prisoners.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, August 11.-Througi,
Vincent Naselli. 2eo State street, 300
Italian strike breakers in Armour's s
plant will demand release on writs of
habeas CORPUS.
Naselli's attention to the plight of his
cOuntrymen was gained from three
Italians who escaped yesterday from
the yards by jumping on train when
not observed. They are Nick Mann
mono, Joe Citalli and Louis Citalli.
The three hundred men arrived last
Tuesday from New York. where they
had landed the week before from Italy
I'VE were told that we would be paid
$2.15 per day." said Mammono. when
we arrived at the Armour plant we
learned there was a strike in progress.
We objected to staying in the plant,
but the police and foreman refused to
let us leave.
None of us did any work for three
days and half. We worked two days
and were paid $1.25 per day.Last night
we watched our chance and rode out Of
the yards on a freight train. Every
one of our fellow countrymen is desir-
GUS of leaving the yards, and we have
appealed to Vincent Naselli to aid
them.
when We We're hired in New York
we were told that our fare would be
paid back to that city II we did not
like the work. When We told them we
wanted to quit and, asked for return
to New York we were laughed at."
Il will hold a conference with Presi-
dent Donnelly,~ said Mr.. Naselli, "and
arrange for habeas corpus proceedings
to compel j. Ogden Armour to bring
my countrymen into court. They do
not want to be strike breakers, but are
compelled to remain at work.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
BISHOP FAlLOWS COMES TO AID
OF STRIKING BUTCHER WORkMEN
SOME TOUCHING QUOTATIONS
FROM SERMON OF BISHOP.

When the mother and the chill
dren must work side by side with
the husband and father to keep the
wolf from the door something is
radically wrong.
1t In the DEVILS political economy
to buy human flesh and blood In
the lowest labor market and sell
its products In the highest de-
mand market.
There are many ways to end
this controversy. More brOtherly
love In the hearts of these men
(the packers) for one another
would long ago have brought
about q settlement.
Let the WOrkingmnn live. Pay
him enough to have home
worthy Of the name.
1 found the laborers were re-
cefvfnE an average of Is and ~
per week. This Is not a living
wage.
The employer must live, but he
must let live or be untrue to God
and man.
Unlon1sm Ia the very salvation
Of labor. Perish every effort to
destroy 1t. The non-uniOn1st In
reapi1E benefit of the sacrifices
and labOrs Of his union brethren.
and he ought to recognize the
sacrednesA Of his obNbation to
them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13

Boston, August 11-For the first
time IN the history of this state. three
men, the representatives Of the tobac-
co trusts in New England, are indicted
by grand jury for violation Of the
Massachusetts, statute to regulate
trade within the state,
Lloyd Mayhem Of New York citv.
formerly of Boston, and New England
manager Of the Continental Tobacco
company, Gideon d. Clifford Of Brook
line, New England manager of the
American Tobacco company, and Abe
Strauss of Cambridge. sales agent for
the American Tobacco company, were
at the superior criminal session to
plead to series Of counts found
against them at the recent session of
the Plymouth couny grand jury.
The men were summoned to appear
at court, but failed to do so. Officers
tried to locate them in Boston, but
without success, as the men had left
town and gone to New York. Capiases
were issued for the arrest of the men,
and with their counsel, Junius Parker
|of New York, they appeared and
pleaded not guilty.
..... Asked for Continuance. ~
Lawyer RarkerSSd desirs sd to. have Dis
drawn lp, but the district attorney
declined, saying that the statement as
drawn by the lawyer was not in ac-
cordance with the evidence which had
been submitted to the grand jury
Lawyer Parker then found it necessary
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13
BLACKLIST IS AIDED
BY A KEY CARO- SYSTEM
EMPLOYERS Assoc CIATION
STOOPS TO DlsGRACEFUL
METHODS.
Secretary Job Evolves Nefariou.
Scheme to Prevent Every Prominent
Union Man and Agitator from Se-
curing Employment. Blacklist Will
Be Extended to Those Who Do Not
Vote to Suit the Employer.

CHICAGO, August 11.-In line with
the blacklist method, or key card sys-
tenn Of the Metal Trades Association of
Chicago, as already described in these
columns, F. w. Job, an attorney in the
employ (at fabulous salary) of the
Allied Employers Association of this
city, has evolved a nefarious scheme
to prevent every prominent union man
and agitator from obtaining employ
ment
The scheme is best told in the words
Of men on the ground. The following
Is taken from Chicago paper:
According to Chicago labor officials
the new employment agency opened by
F. W. Job & Co., at 1926 Dearborn street,
contemplates the most gigantic black
list of working men ever conceived.
l.. w. Straube, secretary of the AL
lied Printing Trades Council, declares
that the blacklist will not only prevent
organized working people from secur-
ing employment, but, with connecting
agencies in all the cities of the country,
will make it impossible for anyone to
escape Its effects.
He also asserts that the blacklist will
be extended to those who do not vote
to suit the employers associations and
alliances.
There are already a number of these
agencies in different Cities" said Secre-
tary Straube. I'm a short time at least
100 of the largest cities will have SINH
lar agencies. All applicants for work
will be required to give a full history of
their lives and their age. and the color
Of their hair and eyes will be. kept on
record and, If necessary. the Bertillion
system Of Identification will be intro
duced to prevent officials being de-
ceived by working people.
"None of the members of the en-
ployers' associations will employ a
workman who cannot produce a.: char
acter' from those agencies. If strikes
are called in one city, the agencies in
all other cities will be drawn upon for
strike breakers"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-13

DENVER, Aug. 1.-THE jury in the
case Of Foster Milburn, charged with
completely in the Sun and Moon ex-
ploston, brought in a verdict Of not
guilty last week Thursday afternoon,
a. Central City, Colorado. The jury
was cut but a few minutes over an
hour. The arguments were completed
a Little before three o'clock. AS soon
AS the verdict acquitting Milburn was
announced, a number Of those in the
court room pressed forward and shook
his hand. The Judge Immediately dis
charged him. While the acquitting of
Milburn ends all of the Sun and Moon
dynamiting cases.
After the jury had retired at three
O'clock District Attorney Thurman
arose and addressing Judge De France.
stated that he desired to nolle the
cases against Ralph Sanborn, Frank
Napoli and Joe Carbonetti.
On July % Of last year an explosion
occurred which destroyed the trans
former house Of the Sun and Moo 4
mine.. situated in ellison gulch, netlr
Idaho Springs. The next day some
fourteen Miners union men were de-
ported from town by the Citizens AL
liace while several others were arrest
ed and taken to Georgetown. This
series of troubles was the termination
of a strike which had occurred at the
Sun and Moon mine the February pre-
ceding. and followed by a labor strike
between the Citizens Alliance and the
Miners Union.
l December last John e. Chandler,
Foster M1lburn, Ralph Sanborn. Frank
Napoli and Joseph Carbeneiit were
tried at Georgetown on the charge OF
conspiracy to blow up the Sun and
Moon, and after a trial lasting several
weeks and costing some $4,000 they
We're acquitted.
On June % last John E. Chandler.
who has been secretary treasurer of
the Idaho Springs union was brought
to trial and after trial lasting seven
days he was. acquitted.
The verdict in the Milburn case thus
concludes a long trial. and q very ex-
= pensixe- one saandzG,lean
Creek counties. The result o1Hthe thai
is vindfcation Of the western Fed
Grafton of Miners, as in these cases
the Citizens Alliance and mine own
ers, who virtually represented the pro-
secution attempted to show that the
Federation was implicated in the dy-
namiting.