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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
RAMSEY COUNTY bElINGERFNT HOLDS
UP PUBLIC OWNERSHIP LIGHTING Bill.

people, and when they got through
with him he did not have a word to
say, but he still arbitrarily refused to
withdraw his objection to the bill. He
was told that the 100000 Limitation
on the bill put both st. Paul and Min
neapolis out of the game. They could
not build plant in either city for less
that four times that amount. This lim-
itation made the matter exclusively q
Duluth measure. This being true he had
no business to butt" In on our bill.
He was further told that the right to
issue the bonds was dependent upon
the vote of the people, but then as an
inconsistent Democrat he held that the
people could not be depended upon.
It then became so clear to the Duluth
people that this member of the legis-
lature had been seen by some interested
parties, that all efforts to change his
opinion by moral suasion would be
unsuccessful.
How Bill May Fail.
The bill may become a law in spite
of this objection. The fact is that there
are several hundred bills pending be-
fore the legislature, and there is but
L"O "cShS lC1t ~ pass SACAl'
but one hundred of them will become
law. To make the Duluth bill sure it
is the object of it's friends to pass it
under suspension of the rules. One OBJ
lection from a member of the legis-
lature ould prevent this. So it gan
readily be seen why so much time Was
spent with this one member of the
legislature.
After it was fully discovered that the
Ramsey county member was trifling
with the Duluth citizens one of the
most conservative of the number who
had watched the developments with
the utmost care gave vent to an opin-
ion which seemed to express the
thoughts of every member of the local
delegation He said:-"It looks to me
as If there was something rotten in
Denmark"
Here was a bill of a purely local
nature. st. Paul was not or could not
be affected by it's passage. 1t was ap-
parently being unanimously supported
by the Duluth members Of the legis-
lature. 1t was unanimously endorsed
by the Minneapolis delegation. 1t is
receiving the support Of all but one
member of the Ramsey county delega-
ton, and this one member, an attor-
ney, with no interest whatever in the
bill, has the audacity to destroy the
hopes and wants Of the ma ajority of the
people Of this city.
Why This "Buttino" In?
Why this Quitting" in? What is
the motive? Why this desire to please
the Special interests involved? Why
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Duluth Declaration of Citizens
Given Marble Heart by Ger
tain Members Of Ramsey De-
legation Who But" Into
Local Legislation.
Queer Attitude Of Disinterest-
ed st. Paul Attorney Who,
Driven to Bay for Logical
Reason, Arbitrarily Prevents
Passage of Duluth Enabling
Act.

this fear Of granting the people of
Duluth the right to determine their
own affairs? Have we not the right
to ask these leading questions? Ia
there not good reason to question the
motive Of the disinterested person who
will take this position?
Members of our own legislative de-
legation ought to see to it, that RAM
sey county members keep their hands
of less Importance to all the people
they are in the habit of getting any
thing they want Of a local nature.
Why should they permit outside in
reference in this bit of legislation?
The Labor World wishes to sound
this voice of warning. If politicians
can not see it there are others that
can. The country at large Is standing
on A0e threshold of great moral wave.
Tuesdays election in Chicago indi-
Gates that when the question is proper
ly before the people they know how
to act. The affect of that election will
be far reaching. The issues en1anating
from it's result are now in process of
incubation in every city In this land.
The candid municipal ownership
advocates Of Duluth have already been
stirred on to greater activity, and be-
fore the next legislative campaign is
on popular sentiment in favor Of a
"hands off legislative policy for all
municipalities in this state will be on
in earnest. 1t will know no party, and
recognize no clique or the personality
oF 1ofo fho States
Senate. The member Of the present
Legislature who does not tote square
on the proposition as 1t Is put before
him at this time will have to go some
to earn a seat in the next legislature.
The campaign is now beginning, and
an appeal is about to be made to every
municipal, ownership advocate in the
county Of st. Louis.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Opposition to Duluth Electric
Lighting Bill Comes From
Strange Source-St. Paul
Legislator Takes Up Cudgel
for Local Private Interests.
Representative Citizens Con-
vince Most of tho Members
of the Righteousness Of
Their Position This May
Yet Save Bill From Death
in House.

Duluth's municipal ownership bill is
hanging in the balance. After pas
sing through the senate without word
OF protest, one man has been able to
hang it up in the house, and he a
"buttinsky" whose city is not affected,
and who can furnish no valid reason
why he should oppose a measure which
is to be Of so much value to the people
Of this city.
Monday evening a number Of good
and true citizens of Duluth visited st.
Paul for the purpose Of meeting with
the Ramsey county delegation, who it
was reported were inclined to oppose
the Duluth electric lighting bill. In
this company Of citizens were George
Spencer, l.. B. Manley, John Jenswold,
Frank Crassweller, Alderman Haven,
Bert Fesler, T. T. Hudson and w. E.
McEwen. When at the Capitol they
tried to hold session with the Ram
sey county delegation. Every member
Of the delegation was interviewed, and
most Of them seemed in favor of meet
ing, but one or two objected. These
queer acting ones promised the Duluth
citizens that if they would remain over
another day they would listen to what
they had to say, but as most Of us had
our private business to attend to we
were unable to do so. Much indigna-
tion was expressed because of the lack
of courtesy shown by the Ramsey
county people.
BiIiiquent Bourbon Democrat.
Finally the Duluth men button holed
each and every member, explaining
%io
to the apparent satisfaction OF the
Ramsey county members. Ten of the
eleven members promised that they
would vote for the Endorsement of the
bill. One Of them, however-a DEM
ocrat too of the Bourbon stripe-has
stubbornly refused to be convinced that
the bill is right. Every argument that
he advanced was met by the Duluth
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
? PUBLIC ri. UTILITY IUEl
CROWS IN MANY CITIES
Use Of Money Defeats Bond
Issue for Municipal Water
Works at Oakland.
Some British Towns That
Lead in Municipal Own
ership Idea.

We are informed that the bond issue
for a municipal water works In Oak
land, Cal, was defeated through the
corrupt use Of money. It. is said that
some person connected with a water
company distributed $4,000 during the
week preceding the election, and on
election day voters were sent to certain
polling places in droyes, and IS was
paid for each vote. The Oakland grand
jury will learn what was done with
the money the water company OF that
city gave it's president for some un-
known purpose.
Oakland may now join with San
Francisco and secure an inexhaustable
supply of pure water from the Tou-
lumne headwaters in the Sierra Neva-
da mountains. The application Of San
Francisco for the use of this source
Of supply is now being considered by
President Roosevelt He directed an
official of the Geological Survey to in
vestigate the matter, and it has been
reported to him that the grounds upon
which Secretary Hitchcock refused to
grant this right to San Francisco
that the creation of a large lake or
reservoir in the uninhabitable region
of the Sierras would mar the natural
beauty Of the scenery"-has no merit.
that it will not mar the scenery"
Strange rumors have reached San
Francisco of the influence of a St.
Louis firm Of attorneys with the office
Of the Secretary of the Interior at
Washington; and the people Of this
city rejoice that this matter has been
taken in hand by President Roosevelt.
Undoubtedly he will see that San Fran
cisco Is granted this right.
The most eloquent testimony In favor
of municipal ownership of street rail-
ways in any city is the record of
deaths caused by street railway acci-
dents, compared with the deaths from
the same causes by municipal railways.
In San Francisco, during 1904, forty
persons died from such accidents, or
one In 5000 of our population. During
1903, there were SO deaths, or one in
every 10000 of the population. We give
the record of the municipal tramways
in Great Britain. First-of the cities,
with population, in whiun there are no
deaths from tramway accidents. Ash
ton-under-Lyne, $4,000; Burton-on-
Trent $4,000; Brighton, 123,6ss; Ipswich,
66,871; Kirkcaldy, $4,000; Nelson, 32,s16;
Bonrnemouth,, 50 ooo; Farnworth. 21,ooo;
Chester, 81, 500; Darwen; 10000; Oldham,
1s7,413: RIochdale. ss,3o1; Rotterdam,
$1,000: Warrington, 84,60o; Birkenhead,
111.2o9: Bury, 5s;02s. second-of the
cities and proportion Of deaths to pop
ulation:s Leeds in $4,000; Noting
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
PLAIN TALK.
The Miners Magazine Pays lts Res
spects to a Times Adver.
tiser.

Los Angeles, Cal, April &C. w.
Post not only advertises in the Los An
geles Times. but has advertised in other
papers Dragging about his "indepen-.
dence." Like other. union-haters, Post
has much to say about manhood"
1.-The constitution 1.-The flag" etc. And
now here is what the Miners Magazine
says of the independent Mr.. Post:
&C. w. Post, of Battle Greek, Mich,
the manufacturer Of a worthless scab
product, as substitute for coffee, has
recently ben convicted of wife-beatin9.
Post likewise runs a literary bureau
that pours forth TRADES against labor
organizations, and is one Of the pillars
of the Parry organization. His wife Sc
cured divorce from this cowardly ana
pusillanimous reptile that Kisses venom
against unionism. The women Of the
country who admire a wife-beater
should now extend their patronage to
of the brute who committed assault
upon the wife Of his BOSOM
Besides Post. there are only a few
out-of-town advertisers who patronize
the unfair Los Angeles Times, among
which are the following: "Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo.
N. T.; 'Dr. williams Pink Pills." DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady.
NY; "Duffy's Malt Whiskey,'> Duffy's
Malt Whiskey Co., Rochester, N. T.;
"Appollinaris," j" The United Agency Co.,
SOS Fifth Ave-, New York; Coca-Cola
Co.,, Atlanta. Ca; Hostetter Bitters.
Water and First streets, Pittsburg. Pa
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08

tn 13I = f no II ~ ~,
Glasgow, [ III 40 200; YPorrtsmo outll;: I'm
$500; Bradford, l in I2s,0oo: Blackpooi,
average in nineteen years, in 10000;
Hudderf1eld, in 1850; Lancaster,
in 20,164; Newport, L in 67,595; Walla-
sey, l in 14,500; Aberdeen, in 102,S0o;
Bolton, in S5,541; Dover, 1 in 2o,S5o;
Wolverhamton, 1 in 94,187; Southport,
l in 24,0O0. In most OF these English
cities the streets and roads are very
narrow, and the risk of accident much
greater than in this city. But these
municipal roads are constructed in the
best possible manner. GroOved rails
are used throughout, and the pave
ment is always kept in first class con-
dition. The cars are equipped with
tenders that actually save human life.
Their tenders always act. The brakes
are of the best, every car having an
electric or pneumatic brake, as well
as an emergency hand brake. The en-
tire equipment is examined by an Off
Ger Of the government before it is per-
mitted to be operated.
London now owns it's water supply.
The Municipal Journal and Engineer
for March gives an account of the
award of the London Court Of Arbi-
tration, which has been examining into
the value of the properties of the Lon
don water companies for over a year.
The eight companies presented claims
to the amount of $247, ,695, $50, and the
Court awarded them $14s, ,712,266. The
properties Of the staines Reservoirs
Joint Committee having. total loan
capital of $6,568, ,813, were also taken
over. After paying operating expenses,
interest and all other charges, the city
will have profit on the first years
working of $46O,000. The first attempt
by London to acquire its water supply
was the Introduction in Parliament Of
a government bill to control the COM
panies in, 1851. The unceasing efforts
of London finally resulted in the crea-
ton of the Court of Arbitration in 1902
consisting of Sir Edward Fry, president
Sir Hugh Owen and Sir J. Wolfe Barry,
whose labors have resulted so success
fullv
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
LABOR IN CANADA.

Representatives of the Dominion
Coal Company of Sydney, N. S., and
the Provincial Workmen's Association
have signed three years agreement
covering wages and working rules.
The question of labor defense
fund is again engaging the attention
of the Toronto, Canada, District Labor
Council.
The Canadian Manufacturers AS
sociation have issued a circular in re-
gard to the associations excursion to
England next June. The entertain
ment in London will be under the d.
rect supervision Of the chamber of
commerce, and trips will be arranged
to the different Industrial centers in
England and Scotland.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
STANDARD OIL CO.
ASKS FOR PEACE
Declares Corporation Is Friend
of the State and Not
Its Enemy.
Seems as if State Had the
Great Octopus On Its
Knees for Mercy.

Topeka, Kan. April GA. J. Eddy OF
Chicago, general counsel of the Stand
ard OIL company Of Indiana, was here
to confer with Governor Hoch about
the Kansas situation. He told the gov
tion of Furnishing Kansas on account Of
adverse legislation. He said that some
mistakes had ben made by local Off
Gals Of the company which doubtless
were responsible for the creation Of a
hostile public opinion.
I'VE want time to show that the sen-
timent is unjust" Mr.. Eddy said.
THE Standard is the friend Of Kansas,
not the enemy
Mr.. Eddy submitted to the governor
a voluminous document to show that in
the last thirteen months the company
had reduced the price of refined oil
in Kansas 81 per cent. His data also
showed that the company had reduced
the price Of crude oil because the supply
exceeded the demand.
Mr.. Eddy specially urged that no ac-
ton be started to place the Prairie Oil
and Gas company, the Standards Kan
sas company, in the hands of receiver
until after the hearing of the custer
suit commenced by the attorney gener-
al. According to Mr.. Eddy, the trial
ofof the custer suit will show that the
Standard is a much abused corporation.
Governor Hoch made no promises.
THE administration" he said, will
do that which is best for the state and
the producers.
the custer case. Mr.. Eddy said the
Standards local attorney would file an
answer in few days. Mr.. Eddy's
visit leads the state officials to believe
that the Standard is not pleased with
the result of the fight to date, and Is
taking steps to effe@ compromise.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
ROOSEVELT GIVES JOB
TO COLORADO'S TYRANT
Gen. Sherman Bell, the Cow
ardly Ruffian, Appointed
Government Agent.
Will Do Special Service for
United States and AS
phalt Trust.

Washington, D. c., April 5.-When
the fierce struggle between organized
labor and the mine owners, backed by
the Parryites, Peabody and Bell, ragged
y In olorade mont ths $50. hun
Sclarsd tliat neither II Republican
party or Mr.. Roosevelt sympathized
with the brutal Russian methods that
were practiced against the honest
working people of that state. Rut no
sooner did teh party machine seat Pea
body as governor when Roosevelt also
shows his hand by appointing Adju-
tant General Sherman NJ. Bell, the
cowardly rufrian who built bull-pens
and herded together men, women and
children in true Russian style, as a
special agent to Venezuela to look after
American interests In that country. A
Denver dispatch quotes Bell as admit
tin gthat he has the offer under con-
sideration, but will not make a flna]
decision until after April II, when. his
term of office expires. We have al
ready seen how Roosevelt protected
Miller, the traitor to the bookbinders
IN the government pIlulAA6 OAAlCo S"oc'
how he appointed Paul Morton, the
union-smasher of the Santa Fe railway
(the only road on the boycott list OF
the A. F. & L., as secretary of the
navy, although Morton is a self-con-
fessed law-breaker; how he promoted
Quarles, the repudiated open shop Sen
ator Of wisconsin, to United States
judgeship, and how he emasculateds the
anti-injunction bill that labor has been
unanimous in demanding, but for all
that there will still be some cuckoos
who will vociferously declare that
Roosevelt Is great workingmap' &
friend because now and then he will
deign to receive and, s,aa.le: upon q labor
delegation like the trHapolitician> that
he is. In view Of his recent record
Mr.. Roosevelt can very consistently {ap-
point the Hon. David M. Parry, the
colleague of Morton, Quarles and Bell
to almost any responsible position and
there are those In labor's ranks who
will maintain eloquent silence or apply
liberal doses Of whitewash and : de-
nounce their fellows who dare to ques-
ton the public acts Of the great man
"the peer of Lincoln"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Philadelphia Carpenters Sign Agree.
Ment,

The Master Carpenters and Build
ers Co., of Phila delphia. has entered
into yearly agreement with the AS
sociated Carpenters of Philadelphia,
1000 men, by which the workmen are
guaranteed a minimum rate of 40 cents
an hour, a working day Of eight hours,
and Saturday half holiday between
May and October 1. Double time Is
to be paid for Sunday, Independence
dany and Christmas day. - =:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08

Preachers Seated as Fraternal DEL
egates.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
established the precedent Of admitting
clergymen as fraternal delegates, and
this is being followed by the central
bodies Of other cities.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Servant Girls Form a Union.

Servant Girls Form a Union.
Girs and housewives Of Boston have
organized a union and applied to the
A. F. Of l.. for charter. The MEM
bership Of the union is now 200, and l.
200 Back Bay families have promised
to support it. The members are going
to erect home for aged and i'll DOM
estics.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
strict,v Union Throuahout.

Boston, Mass, Horseshoers' Union
has received a communication from the
Master Horseshoers Conference Com
mittee, urging that the 1905 conditions
be employment of none but union men
and granting Of union wages and con-
ditions." The employers desire the
union to waive Its demand that the
.union label stamp be on all horseshoea.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Cooperative Building Society.

Members of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and >Joiners in Wilkes
barre, who have been on strike against
the open shop policy Of the contractors
for some time, have started CO.
operative society Papers of irscorpor-
alton have been secured from the state.
and the strikers hope to attend to the
greater part of the building business
without the aid Of the contractors.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
The Eight Hour Monument.

The first monument to trades union
Ism was erected recently in Melbourne,
Australia 1t is called the "Eight-Hour
Monument" as it Is commemoration
Of the eight-hour system which was
begun in Australia forty eight years
ago. The monument is a tall marble
pillar, surmounted on an oblong block
holding globe, and three large figure
eights are engraved.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Structural Iron Workers Fixed.

Structural Iron Workers Fixed.
All agreements of the structural iron
workers in the country are signed for
the year, with the exception Of the
architectural iron workers of Boston
and Pittsburg, and the labor outlook
for the summer in that industry is
good. No trouble anticipated.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Machinists and Metal Workers
Amaloanate.

The amalgamation of the member
ship of the International Association
IF Machinists and the International
Association of Metal Mechanics will
become effective November l. The
name Of the new organization will be
the National Association of Machtn-
lists. The two organizations will have
g. combined membership Of 100000.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Central Labor Council Rebels.

The Central. Labor Council of Gin
cinnati rejected the ultimatum Of the
A. F. Of L., commanding them to REIN
state Stationary Engineers Union No.
18, which was expelled three years ago
during the brewery. workers. lockout.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
Rockford Carpenters' New Scale.

The Carpenters Union of Rockford,
ILL.,, notified the contractors that April
the new scale adopted by that organ
ization would become reflective. The
new scale calls for minimum wage
of 80 cents per hour, 9 hours per day
with an s-hour day on Saturday with
full pay.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
A New Auditorium For Denve

A New Auditorium For Denver.
At the last regular meeting the
Building Trades Council Of Denver
discussed the proposed auditorium and
appointed a committee of five to act
with a like committee from the Trades
Assembly in boosting the movement.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-08
irst Woman Admitted to Union
Printers' Home.

The application of Mrs. Nellie v.
Wilson for admission into the Childs-
Drexel International Union Printers
home at Colorado Springs. Col, on the
strength Of her membership in the
union, has been approved by the board
of trustees, and she will shortly ar
rive. She is the first woman ever ad-
.nitted to the home.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-02-09
MORE BECOME MACCABEES
Glass Initiated Last Evening at Odd
Fellows Hall.

Island City Hive No. $40, Ladies of
the Maccabees, initiated a large class
of candidates last evening at Odd Eel
lows hall. The ceremonies were con
Quoted under the direction of Deputy
Grant Commander Mrs. Cora Nichols
of Chicago. Mrs Nichols has been in
Rock Island for some time in the in
terests of the order, and has succeed
ed in increasing the membership OF
the Island City Hive from 40 to over
100, placing the hive second in the or
der in Illinois. and among the leading
lodges of this city. At the close of the
Initiation ceremonies, Mrs. Ella God
frey, in behalf of the hive. presented
Mrs. Nichols with a beautiful signet
brooch in appreciation of her work in
this city. Mrs. Nichols has gained a
wide popularity in this city. and heI
ability as an officer is widely recog
nized. The best wishes of her friend.
in this city will follow her in her work
in other parts of the state.