The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-24
JOHN BURNS IS FORCED
TO WEAR COURT CUSTOM
Great English Labor Leader and Leg
islatOr Compelled To Do the
Gold Lace.
Character Sketches of Prominent La
Dor Representatives in Brit
ish House,

ish House.
London, England. March a.
Especial Correspondence John
Burns has made an appeal to be al
lowed to wear the ordinary garb of
an English gentleman when he ap-
pears at court as president of the
local government board. Inexorable
etiquette, however, stands in the way,
as it has been decreed that John will
have to fall in with custom on such
occasions and don the conventional
levee attire. Candidly I find it diff
cult to picture the democratic person
OF the Tribune of Battersea adorned
with gold lace. However, let us not
forget that it is the man and not his
clothes that count, and that after all
sword knots do not blunt steel. AS
"Punch" put it pictorially the other
week, John Burns can put off his
levee coat as we'll as any other, ano
we know that all the gold lace in
Christendom will not make him sur
vile courtier.
Prophecy and Labor.
Mr.. Keir Hardie when he accepted
the leadership of the labor party
undertook terrible responsibilities.
"Prophetic TRUTH which is edited
by Rev. N. Baxter, has an article this
week entitled 1865 to be the world
wide labor party mark which shall be
imprinted on the forehead and the
right hand of all people about 1927
to 1881" 1t is contended that the
18th and 18th chapters of REVEAL
tions foretell the rise of the anti
Christ, whose name is revealed to
be Napoleon" and who will lead the
labor party. This mighty monarch
will then," we are told, ''be the DEM
ocratic emperor of the ten nations
geographically constituting Caesars
original Roman Empire, Britain,
France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece,
Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and the United
States" Talk of thinking imperial
ly! Joseph and the Kaiser William
arn't in it,
A Policy of Thorough.
AAu ILLS 1uOllLcu l0dOCI u luS
Socialists, Red Republicans, Demo
Gratis, and all who constitute the Ia
Dor party throughout the world, will
carry out a policy of thorough in no
mistake.
He will make a religion of So
cialism, with himself as it's god, and
cathedrals and sanctfonaries now
used for the Christian religion will
then resound with hymns and ora
tons in praise Of Socialism and it's
god-Napoleon. All who refuse tt
worship the image or to receive the
mark 666 are to. be beheaded &C.
cording to revelations xiii and xiv
began to, think that the only hope
Of the world was in the rise of a
Brutus, but even this learn on read
ing further on, will be absolutely
useless, for Napoleon" when ASSN.
ated after the manner of this kind
is restored to life and goes on his ty-
rannical way rejoicing. l am afraid
all we can de if we wish to sleep o.
nights is not to believe the prophet
Joseph's Happy Land.
l have been reading speech de-
livered in the German Reichstag the
other day by Herr Hue, a Socialist
deputy, on the condition of the work.
ers in the German iron trade. The
speaker is himself an iron worker
and is therefore we'll acquainted with
the subject in the zinc mines, he tells
us, Sunday rest is entirely unknown,
and in most of the iron and steel
works no pause is allowed for meals.
the men having to gobble down their
food as best they can as they are at
tending to their duties. There are
$500 women employed at Excessive
ly hard work" in German iron works,
rolling-mills and zinc works, and
day. No fewer than 1853 of these
many of them work 16 and II hours
female workers are girls under IA
years of age. The wages paid to the
men, who in many cases work IL
hours day, range from e43 to &67
per annum, while the women who
are employed in the silesian rolling
mills earn yearly the sum of 16 S..
Wages and Food.
One interesting and significant fact
mentioned by Herr Hue is that,
whereas wages have increased by just
e3 per anum during the last thirty
years, meat in the same time has
risen in price from I'd to lid and
13d per pound. The effect of these
conditions on the health of the work
men is very noticeable. At Krupp's
where it must be borne in mind that
the conditions are infinitely better
than in most of the other works in
Germany, the cases of illness among
the workmen showed in 1904 a per-
centage of 70.71. No one likes to
make political capital out of the
sufferings of his fellow creatures.
but when l remember the picture
painted by Mr.. Chamberlain of Ger
many, as an Industrial happy land I