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The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-04-06
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

given up to a program arranged by the
entertainment committee Of the
Bloomington union, and addresses were
made by Samuel Gompers of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor; A. T. Fin
nan, chairman of the executive board
of the National Letter Carriers asso-
citation, and Secretary John B. Lennon.
The Bloomington Trades Assembly en-
tertained the visitors at the Castle the
atre Wednesday evening, and the dele
gates were we'll provided for in the way
of entertainment.
The general secretary was instructed
ia submit three sick benefit PROPOSE
tions to a referendum vote, the first
calling for optional benefits, the second
compulsory, and the third no sick ben
ef1ts at all. Authority was given the
general executive board to levy assess
ments Of 25 cents a member on Feb. ]
and August 1 Of each year. In long
continued strikes, the executive board
will have power to levy not to exceed
so cents a member, the assessment to
be payable within thirty days by each
local. When a strike lasts less than
six weeks, the benefits are to be 81 a
day. and when more than six weeks
$3.50 day.
1t was unanimously voted to hold a
convention every four years, in Au-
gust, unless a general vote of the
membership be taken in the November
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
Superior EDUCATOR
REFUSES SOFT BERTH
Cannot Conscientiously Accept
Position as State Superin-
tendent of Schools.
Would Be Obliged to Get Into
Clutches of One of Two
Big Book Companies.

The following from the Social Dem
ooratic Herald, of Milwaukee, may be
of interest to our Duluth readers be-
cause of it's nearness to home and the
fact that the same conditions may pre-
vail in Minnesota:
An educator in Superior, Wisconsin,
whose name was being suggested for
the position of state superintendent Of
public instruction., has declined, claim
ing that after careful canvass of the
situation, "he had become convinced
that the contest will be practically one
'bteween the big book companies, and
that he does not care to be identified
with such a fight and to beground
between the upper and neither mill
stone." Here we have bright light
thrown on the auspices under which
education in this country is being car
ried on! The book trust companies
have network of organization all over
this country, while the Independent
book companies appear to be as ready
for crooked work as the trust compa-
nies. It is not forgotten that the inde-
pendent companies furnished the pres
ent superintendent of public instruction
in Wisconsin with campaign money and
that he took it and coolly asked,
Tweed-like, "Well. what of it?" These
warning book combines have some of
the leading educators in the country
under pay. They constantly bribe
school teachers and school government.
And there is no escaping this misera-
BILE situation, this pollution of the very
font of knowledge, save by the means
pointed out by our Social-Democrati
platforms: Let the people, through the
government, print their own school
books. ~~@n :.eess a. : i
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

WOrklngmen, business men, pOlitl-
cians students of municipal govern
ment, opponents of bond issues, advo-
Gates of reduced taxes, those desiring
to see Duluth a great manufacturing
city, in fact every one in Duluth, ought
to turn out Tuesday evening at the
Odd Fellows hall and hear Rev. Her.
bert S. Bigelow expound the princi-
pies of Single Tax. This worthy sue
cessor of Henry George, whose name
we revere and love, enjoys a national
reputation as an orator and exponent
of Single Tax. AS a preacher he ranks
high among the preachers of the gos-
pei. In the city of Cincinnati there is
a Congregational church of attractive
individuality and interesting and in
structive history, with a pastor emf
nently fitted for his place by rare ora
torical abilities and a spiritual devo-
ton refreshingly unconventional.
Over the outer door of this church
is the truly Christian legend, "Liber-
ty, Equality, Fraternity" Upon the
interior walls are Inscriptions such as
these: "Ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free.-Jesus;"
dI, lar DeyOIQ our kell, the eleIIlcu-
tai laws must hold their sway.-Henry
George" Hes true to God who's true
to man.-Lowell;" "Our country is the
world and our countrymen are man.
kind.-Garrison;" 'The God who gave
us life, gave us liberty.-Jefferson;"
"Those who deny freedom to others de-
serve it not themselves.-Linco
"Tllose who make private property of
the gift Of God pretend in vain to be
innocent. Pope Gregory the Great.
ss:I1Elat ,tlll theai
but stossdo Justly. fo love mercy ana 10
walk humbly with thy God?-Micah." !"
The preaching Of that devoted pas
tor and the history of his practically
religious church are in harmony with
the spirit of these inscriptions.
His Church for Human Rights.
Originating in the Abolition move
ment, this church was dedicated from
the beginning to the principle of equal
human rights.
Its founders were seceders from
Cincinnati Presbyterian church, the
pastor Of which had grossly offended
their Christian sensibilities by embark
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

proposed system shall be accepted shall
be presented to the voters on a sepa-
rate ballot, the form of which shall be
as follows:
SAMPLE BLALOT.)
Referendum Ballot.
Official Referendum Ballot to be used
at the General Election of 1906
Issued by order of the Legislature of
the State of Minnesota.
To County Clerk: In printing ballots
insert here the names of county.
township, or ward and precinct, and
legislative district.
To voter: To indicate your choice
place a cross (x) opposite the word
you wish to adopt.
Advisory Initiative and Advisory Ref.
erendum.
Shall the Legislature establish the
essential elements Of the Advisory In
itiative and Advisory Referendum sys-
TEN proposed in the statute providing
for this referendum vote?
c0..
A~Oss...s
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
TA|L0RS' CONVENTION
H0N0RS M|NNES0TAN
P. M. Wingren, of Minneapolis,
Presides Over Custom
Tailors' Meeting.
Amalgamation With Garment
Workers Proposed by Sec-
retary Lemon.

Bloomington, Ill.,, Feb. 23.-P, NJ,
Wingren, one of the Minnesota dele
gates to the convention of the Custom
Tailors' union in session here. was
elected chairman of the convention nv
reclamation on the first day. Accord
ing to the constitution of the tailors'
union there is no president. All of the
work between conventions is done by
the general secretary and an executive
board, and during conventions pre-
siding officer is chosen. The honor fall
ing upon Minnesota man has not oc-
Cured before.
The first day of the convention was
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
CLERGYMAN SEES GOOD
IN ORGANIZED LABOR
Washington's Most Eminent
Divine Has Words Of
Praise for Union Labor.
Tells of Result Of Labor's Eff.
fort in the South Against
Child Labor.

Washington, D. c.. Feb. 23.-Dr. Nc
Kim, pastor of the Church of the
Epiphany of this city, startled his
aristocratic congregation last Sunday
with an able review of the accomplish
ments of organized labor. After dis
cussing at length the causes which led
up to the organization of the workers,
he said:
"Consider what organized labor has
done to improve the condition Of the
working men. Seventy or eighty years
ago the condition of the laborers in
the factories was far worse than the
condition Of the slaves of the South.
1 have lived in the South, and know
that the material condition of the
slaves was better. In 1928, in many
Of the mills in this country, the women
and children had to go to work at 4:30
o'clock in the morning, and continue at
work fourteen or fifteen hours a day.
Labor organizations have done splen-
doid work, and I honor them. They
have been lifting up the masses of the
people, who are not contented any
more. Their ambition is aroused to be
men and women, and their song is:
Eight hours for work, eight hours for
sleep, and eight hours to do what we
will" I do not say whether in the
present condition of labor the eight
hour day is always attainable; but all
these things are to be judged by the
effect they have on manhood and wom-
anhood. They want some time to look
away from their work out on the
great world and to breathe the pure mir
of heaven; they want some time with
their families;. and, therefore, their
discomfort IL healfhvn
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
Interesting tory Of the Early
Life and Attainments Of
Minnesota $ Chief Executive.
His Loyalty to Mother and
Brothers and Sisters Graph
ically Told by a Friend.
His Candidacy for Governor
Incidents During the Cam
paign Which Brought Out
the True Character of the
Man-Boys Can Find Les
son in Life of Gov. Johnson.

The March issue of Success Magazine
contains an interesting life-story Of
Governor John A. Johnson, written by
w. B. Hennessy, one of the leading
newspaper men of st. Paul. It is a
splendid tribute to the chief executive
of our state, and as a close study Of
ed by anything save his own efforts, it
certainly ranks second to but few
tributes Of it's kind. We doubt if the
people Of America have ever had a
more inspiring true story placed be-
fore them. When Governor Johnson
was asked the secret of his achieve
ment, he replied, II just tried to make
good.'
Mr.. Hennessy, who was close to Gov
ernor Johnson in the recent campaign,
has gone into the Governors early life
at close range. He says
John A Johnsons father was a COM
mon drunkard,-the village drunkard
of st. Peter. The fact carries with it
no reproach to the governor His
mother, a sturdy, upright, God-fearing
woman, took in washing. Adversely in
the form of alcohol laid its hand on the
Johnson household while the future of
the present governor of Minnesota was
still foreseen only by the gods; the
bitterness of it was in the soul Of the
boy at an age when other youngsters
have no thuoght but for play. In his
case it made the boy father to a man
of whom state Is proud
Story Of His Ancestors.
The last generation of that branch
OF the somewhat numerous Johnson
family to which the governor belongs
was not exalted in the person Of Gustaf
Johnson, father of this boy who made
good.' Gustaf, born in Sweden of the
peasantry, was 4 strong, handed, hard
drinking blacksmith. In 1858, or there
abouts, he tried to divorce himself from
his habit of drinking by changing his
surroundings. He came to America to
find that environment has little in
tluence on appetite, and that the
whisky OF the Minnesota frontier was
as potent for evil as the alcohol punch
of his native land. He did strive for
time against temptation, and, during
rather protracted sober period, met
and married an immigrant girl from his
native country.
She was of type not uncommon
even now on the prairies of Minneso-
ia, where the fair-haired, ruddy-cheek-
ed daughters of Sweden, with forms
built to sustain labor in the field and
the dairy rather than to grace draw
ingroom, are still very numerous,
Caroline Carlson Hayden gave up the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

preceding decides otherwise. August
Dahlman of Cleveland, Charles E.
Johnson Of New York, and General
Secretary John B. Lennon were named
as committee to meet with represen-
tatives of the Garment Workers to ar
range terms of amalgamation. Resolu-
tions were adopted favoring making the
organization international. A PROPOSE
ton to elect president was almost
unanimously voted down. The gen.
eral secretary was voted an assistant.
who will travel in the interest of the
organization.
Delegates to the American Fedora
tion were elected as follows: Gustave
soderberg, Chicago; M. ]. Noonan.
Nashville, Tenn; Andrew Biggs. St.
Louis; and John B. Lennon, Blooming
ton, Ill. Buffalo, N. Y, was selected as
the place for holding the next conven-
tion, which will be held in August.
1909
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

hard life hired girl on a farm to be
the wife of Gustaf Johnson, a dispo-
maniac and to become the mother Of
a governor.
His Fathers Weakness.
Forty-five years ago was a very re-
mote period as time is reckoned in the
West. The spirit of the aboriginal
nomads was in the whites who invaded
the country, and it provoked Gustaf
johnson to unrest. He was sober at
that time, and it may have been some
thing else than simple unrest that
prompted him to move west. He was
a good workman, but unsatisfied with
purely rural life. He took his wife
to St. Peter. soon after their marriage,
built the tWo-room cottage in which
the future governor was born, opened
blacksmith shop, prospered for few
years. then took to drink, and there
after figured only as tremendous
and sometimes brutal handicap to his
wife and six children who were born
to them. Hhe shuffled his drunken
way about st. Peter: fer a time, then
disappeared, came back. became a
nuisance, and was eventually disposed
Of by the authorities His hopeless and
helpless drunkenness was recognized,
but there was no provision made. in
those rugged days, for the incarcera-
tion and treatment of inebriates. He
could not be allowed to remain a bur-
den on the struggling woman whose
efforts to take care Of her little brood
had attracted the attention Of the
townspeople. Therefore he was legally
declared pauper and sent to the
county almshouse, whence he issued at
times to get drunk and be returned,
and where he took an unconscionably
long time in doing that which he might
have done at once,-dying.
Hist Loyalty to His Family.
Speaking of the governors kindness
and sympathy during the darkest
hours Of his life, Mr. Hennessy ssays:--
When the elder johnson was separ-
ated from his family, for that familys
good, there were six children. How
they lived on the spare earnings Of
the boy is known only to- the bread
winner and his mother. The ordinary
expense of the household ate up ev-
erything. Then, when death came, as
it did three times during the minority
of the future governor, there were
heartbreaking times. Three of the
children, girls, died. Young Johnson
was tenderly devoted to his young
sisters. He devised little pleasurs for
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ures shall faver one of them, or if only
one measure is presented and it shall
receive majority, as herein defined,
there shall be incorporated an enacting
clause, If the measure is a bill, read
three 90 times and voted upon by yeas
and nays. If the successful measure
is not in detail, it shall be referred to
committee for the reporting of a bill
Which shall be considered with view
to It's expressing the will of the people,
and shall go to third reading
Sec 4. Where there are competing
measures and neither receives a major
1ty of the votes cast for and against
them cmajority" being used as de-
fined above), the one receiving the
highest vote shall be resubmitted by
itself If it receives more than one
third of the votes cast for and against
both bills. Voters may indicate second
choice, which shall be counted for a.
bill in case the first choice does not
receive a majority. If a measure re-
ceives a majority as herein defined.
there shall follow the procedure de-
scribed in section 3.
Sec. 2. The question of whether tha
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
CANADIAN WHEAT
IS NOT COMING

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 22.-Only 26
cars of Canadian wheat have been
brought into Minneapolis this month.
Nearly all of this wheat was purchased
i'll December and since then none has
been bought in the Winnipeg market
by local dealers. The strenuous ODpo-
sition aroused by the recent decision of
Attorney General Moody in regard to
mixing Canadian and American wheat
for grinding probably has good deal
to do with this decline in the Canadian
wheat trade.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
Noted Divine From Historic
"Abolition" Church Of Gin
cinnati Will Discuss the
Benefits of Single Tax at
Odd Fellows, Hall on Tuesday
Evening.
MIR. Bigelow's Life Has Been
One of Sacrifice for the Peo-
ple-t Obtain a. True Know
ledge of Economic Condi-
tions He Lives in the Slum
District.

ing upon pulpit defense of Negro
slavery on sccriptural grounds. This
occurred in 1881. The seceders chose a
courageous Abolitionist for their pas
tor, and under his ministrations their
religious society became famous, as
"the Vine Street church," for brave ex-
emplifications of the Christian princi-
pies Of liberty, fraternity and equal
ity.
Not only did it's early pastors preach
the right of the slave to freedom, un-
purchased and inalienable, but the
church building served as depot, and
the church officers as conductors, of
the underground railroad which,
stretching across Ohio, led on from
Kentucky slavery to Canadian liber-
first evangelical anti-slavery conven-
tion ever held in America was organ
lied.
The fidelity of the original pastor
was put to serious tests. He was os-
tracized professionally by the rest of
the Cincinnati clergy, and his family
as we'll as himself were brutally as
saulted upon the streets by pro-slavery
mobs. Lane Theological Seminary
tried in vain to have him dismissed
as "a disturber of the peace" When
he left this pastoral charge it was to
become president of Oberlin college.
His successors have been "disturbers'
like himself.
Advocates Economic Liberty.
In time the bitterness of the chattel
slavery conflict passed away. But it
was succeeded by the bittternesses of
the conflict over economic slavery in
the turmoils of which society is now
involved. This newer struggle for lib
erty, equality and fraternity, against
the powers of a. species of human slav-
cry subtler than the chattel form,
found in the pulpit Of the Vine street
church the brilliant and devoted min
lister who is still its pastor--Herbert
Seely Bigelow.
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the Vine street church 81 connection
with the American conflict over
economic slavery, have been very
like those of his first predecessor in
connection with. thee. American con-
flict over chatter slavery. No feature
Of that persecution has he escaped, ex-
cept mobbing on the streets; and in
some respects his experiences have
been more bitter than those of the
first pastor. whose example he has fol-
When 1igeiow Began Preaching.
Mr.. Bigelow was conventional min
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life 0f the member 't41s ben l15lSl j
from 81 years months and 20 days III.
1883 to Al years months and IL days.
in 1908, or an increase of just Is years
10 months and % days in Is years.
And a decrease Of ~ per cent. in
the number of those who die from the
great white plague. The latest govern
ment statistics place the number Of ci-
garmakers who die from pulmonary
trouble at 62 per cent. and places them
second in the list; that is, only one
other trade which has a larger per
cent than cigarmakers from this dis
ease. The government figures are
based upon both union and non-union,
and as our union per cent. is only "a.
and positively right. it follows that the
rate per cent. Of consumptives is much
greater than 81 per cent. among the
nOn-uniOnists.
Nom Unionists in Tenements are Vic
tins. "
Since the trade is about equally di-
vided between union and non-union,
and since the rate among union cigar
makesr is only "a per cent, it naturally
follows that the rate among non-union-
lists is just 76 per cent. These are alb
solute facts in so far as our own sta
tistics are concerned; of course, We
cannot vouch for the correctness of the
government statistics; however, the
presumption is that they are correct
or nearly so; in any event it is all we
have to go by. If anybody wants 4
stronger argument in favor of trade
unions let them stand up and be count
ed.
The foregoing splendid results and
difference in favor of the union was
caused by shorter hours, better santa
ry conditions. better treatment, more
independence, more self-respect, and
better wages, brought abont solely
through the unions.
The Labor World trusts that the good
work to stamp out tuberculosis, begun
by the cigarmakers and metal polish
ers, will be augmented by the efforts
of other organizations in this direc-S
ton,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
BIC LABOR UNIONS To
FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS
Metal Polishers and Brass
Workers Have Heavy Loss
From Dread Disease. .
Great White Plague Seems to
Have a Malicious Enmity
for Bread Winners.

The Labor World is pleased to note
the manner in which the labor press Is
beginning to discuss the question of
battling against tuberculosis, a dread
ful scourge, and yet a disease that
can be greatly minimized and probably
stamped out completely If proper sf-.
forts are made. s.
Among other laboring people, the
lives of metal polishers and BRASS
workers are greatly endangered by
consumption. The current number of
their official journal, printed in New
York, contains an excellent article re-
garding the disease. 1t is pointed out
that this enemy of mankind seems to
have malicious preference for the
bread-winner Of the family, probably
on account of Overwork and unhealthy
conditions Of employment. The journal
declares that consumption caused over
36 per cent of all deaths that occurred
among men between 20 and 30 years of
age in New York city in 1901. This was
larger number than was due to
pneumonia, accidents, heart disease.
typhoid fever and Bright's disease CON-.
bined. Among women of the same ages
consumption caused over one-third of
the deaths.
High Death Rate from Consumption.
It is quite likely that the metal pol
ishers and brass workers will inaugu-.
rate a vigorous campaign against tu-
berculosis. 1t is our belief that not on
ly strict enforcement of the blower laws
is required to minimize the disease in
those trades, but fewer hours will have
to be worked in the shops. Therefore, it
is highly important that the men en-
ployed in those crafts organize at once
and take steps to improve their mate
rial interests, the protection of their
health being by no means the least.
One of the greatest achievements of
the International Cigarmakers' union
and one that if it never did anything
else would forever rebound to its ever
lasting credit and glory, is the fact that
it has reduced the death rate of thoye
who die from pulmonary troubles from
81 per cent. to "a per cent, says the
Cigarmakers' Journal.
Cigarmakers' Great Battle. !
Since 1888, or two years and eight
months after the eight-hour law went
into effect, the death rate of those who
die from consumption has been reduced
from 81 per cent, To- II nex cen ~
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REPORT NOT COMPLETE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Commis-
sioner Garfield of the bureau of corpo-
rations has not yet completed his re-
port of the investigation. Of the beef
trust. Five important chapters of the
report practically have been finished,
but the detailed figures for the re-
mainder have not been obtained.