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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
Lack of Federal and State In
spection Renders Public
Helpless.

Of the hands Of tho federal Official. The
shipper may then dispose OF his
animals as "stocksrs." to be sent to
any part Of the state for feeding pur-
poses to thus carry disease to the
healthy animals the live stock sani-
tary board 10 trying to maintain on
Minnesota FERNS. Or, tho ownet may
part with his diseased cattle for
abattoir. where the meat IL sold to
the local butchers, these condemned
animals selling at ofvalue figures in
competition with home-fed stock,
demoralize tho market for Minnesota
farmers as well as endanger the health
Of consumers
In thirteen months nearly 1900
animals have been condemned at Min
nesota abattoirs under federal inspec-
tion. BY law, these animals could not
be shipped out Of the state, dead or
alive. But they could have been sold
within the state for ''stockers," or
could have been slaughtered Gas many
of them doubtless were) for Minne-
sofa consumption.
Meat Inspector's Work.
-
attached to the department Of health
for years. It is the duty Of this
official to inspect meat markets, both
wholesale and retail, commission
houses. slaughterhouses, storage Gants
and meat wagons, and every other
place where meats are carried for
storage or sale. He must visit these
places at frequent intervals and not
only examine the premises carefully.
but also all the food products kept
for sale.
Those premises must be kept clean
and In sanitary condition. The
meats must be in a healthy condition,
free from disease, decay and danger
Gus or deleterious preservat1ves He
has tho authority to order the owners
to place their promises in q sanitary
condition and In tho event OF refusal
to prosecute the offender for mis-
demeanor. He further has the author
ity to condemn such articles al in his
opinion are unfit for food and to direct
the owner to remove or DESTROY the
objectionable provisions in such a.
manner as he may direct. Failure to
comply with his orders makesv the
offender liable to. prosecution. The
maximum penalty Is a me Of 3i3o1 or
Imprisonment in tn workhouse for
ninety days.
The ordinances prohibit absolutely
the sale Of the meat Of any animal
which has died from disease or by
accident 1t is also forbidden to s1ll
the flesh of calves, pigs or lambs
lac
so-called stripped beef" Moreover,
1t is the duty Of every citizen having
knowledge of the sale of diseasetl,
decayed or unwholesome meats to re-
port tho fact to the department of
health with full particulars.
The meat inspection branch of the
health department work is believed
to be in satisfactory state.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
UNION LABOR ALWAYS
HAS many PROBLEMS
Every Phase Of Workingman's
Question Presented to-
Unions, .
Some Labor Problem Points
Presented in Condensed
Form for Students.

Space permits but few points on the
numerous problems included under our.
subject, for the industrial age" is a
series Of problems. These complica-
tions are the inevitable result Of prog
ress, and it is the business Of this gen
Grafton to solve the problems as they
accumulate.
The labor press and labor organiza-
tions are bending all the powers Of
intelligent determination to a right de-
velopment Of the industrial crisis.
Boiled down and condensed, the la
Dor problem is a question of money.
All classes and conditions are Interest,"
cd in this question. It is the important
problem with many how to acquire
enough money to meet the demands Of
a comfortable livelyhood. With others
the chief problem Is how to increase
profits, cut down wages and still keep
competent employees. r.
There are two parties to every con-
tract, and both parties must learn the
process and solution before a correct
result Of conclusions can be obtained
to the problem.
Whatever is worth doing at all IS
worth doing WELL" If you are a me-
chanic, be a f1rst-c1ass one and don't
be Jack leg" If you are a capital
ist. be good one. It may mean to be
a f1rst-class capitalist you must organ
ize in the interests Of monopoly. You
must fight the labor unions hard and
never be inconsistent by any undue
11berality toward those whom you hire.
Though there are mo pockets in a
shroud," grasp all the money you can,
regardless of human need BE true to
your creed. If your path lies among
the mountains, climb. If In the low
lands of sorrow and misfortune neces-
sity sternly bids you to earn bread
by the sweat of your brow, act well
your part in the worlds work.
Be a sober. decent, union man. Be
patient and courageous and ever true
to principle. If none were down, there
would be no necessity for uplifting hu-
manity. If all men were equally en-
dowed mentally and it were possible
for all to enjoy a reasonable comfort
and prosperity, avarice would not have
created the Industrial problem, but as
progress Is responsible for conditions,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
.B|CELOW ON COMMON
RIGHTS OF PROPERTY
Our Age Is Hungry for a More
Wholesome Life-Great Trans
Formation in Thought.
To Utopia There Is No Shorter
Way than Justice-Some Old
Thoughts Modernized.

Cincinnati, Ohio, June 10.-Rev
Herbert s. Bigelow always has some.
thing new to say. In his church last
week he spoke on the Rights of Com.
mon Property" as follows:
William Morris sings of time when
''all mine and all thine shall be ours,
and no more shall any man crave for
riches that serve for nothing but to
fetter friend for a slave"
For many that time has already
come. We decry the materialism of
the age. But the cruel contrasts of
our society would go unchallenged If
the age were not already hungry for q
more wholesome life.
The vast majority are modest in
their own ambitions and wish their
neighbors WE'LL Commerce has her
carmagnole and the froth1ng dancers
drop at the feet of their dollar idol.
But not all, not even the majority are
eager to get rich by their brothers
poverty. The vast boards of monopoly
are conspicuous. But we do not see
the unselfishness of the millions who
remember pity as we'll as property
rights and whose humanity softens the
mine" and the thine"
The Need Of the Age.
That reformer has wrong point of
view who assumes that this is selfish
age and one which unduly exalts its
property rights. This age does not
need the gospel of communism. Unre.
Quilted labor is already generous to q
fault and men who are themselves
Dinched with pOverty are huildino
churches and hospitals and feeding the
poor.
Sordidness is not the besetting sin
of this age. There is no lack of char.
ity. Men need q clearer conception OF
their, property rights and a more In.
telligent insistence upon them. Our
society suffers more from neglect OF
property rights than 1t does from the
self-aggrandizement Of men. Zs5.
a sermon might be preached from
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
Mine. COMPANY STORES
AND IMPORTED LABOR.
Mine Owners Association of
Cripple Creek Now Prepar-
ing to Discharge Scabs.
Fellows Who Helped to Deport
Union Men to Be Dismissed
By Mi me Bosses.
BY GEORGE H. SHOAF.
taft Correspondent Appeal to Reason.

Denver, Colo, June IL Just re-
turned from my trip to the Cripple
Creek district this morning. Conditions
commercially in that community are
really worse than were pictured in this
weeks Appeal. The howls from the
business men are loud and long. On
every street corner groups of men
gather and discuss the situation and
outlook. In the restaurant CONVERSE
tionalists openly threw off the mask
and spoke their mind. They cannot
sell their possessions and they have no
place to which they can go. They are
barred from all other western mining
camps-and they dislike to return east
and take chances with the unemployed.
Where I stayed at highland changed
rooming houses every night-the men
about the stove talked hard times,
cursed their luck and admitted their
folly in helping the Mine Owners asso-s
citation drive the Western Federation
from the district.
But worse is to come. The Mine
Owners association is going to Intro
duce company stores and compel their
employees to accept scrip instead Of
cash. and exchange their wages for
products sold and handled by the COM
pany stores. This will effectually drive
all the remaining merchants out OF the
district. You can now quickly SEQ why
the business men are registering such
almighty kicks. =. .zssEzs ss9S
!. And that is not all! District Attor-
ney c. G. HamNn has just returned
from Europe and Italy. After the In
PRODUCTION Of the company stores the
Mine Owners association have it on
their program to cut wages In the
mines one-half and increase the hours
OF labor from eight to ten. II the pres
ent force Of scabs object to this pro-
gram, cheap labor from italy and
Greece win be imported and thrown
into the district Arrangements to im-
port this cheap labor have been made,
and Hamltn is able to start the Inn
migration movement from southern
Italy at q moments notice,
The scab miners IN the district real
Ire the inevitable. and they are bowling
even louder than the busin sss men.
They will be up against It worse than
the merchants. They can work. Ia no
other western mining camp, and tho
only thing left for them to do is to go
into the coal mines, stay where they
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
Ia TOILETTE IS GOOD
FRIEND OF WORK|NCMEN
Secures Passage of Employers
Liability Measure in U.
S. Senate.
Wisconsin s Statesman Gets in
One day What Labor Work
ed Twenty Years For.

Washington, June 10.-Senator La
Toilette won his first great victory in
the senate yesterday when he secured
the passage of the employers liability
bill. For twenty-one years organized
labor, headed by the great brother
hoods OF railroad employees, has been
hght1n gtO get this measure into the
statutes, and by hook or crook the
railroads have always headed it. of,
Sometimes 1t would be sent to one
com1ttee, sometimes to another. The
committee first getting 1t would con-
slider 1t as long as it could find ex-
cuses for holding it, and then ask that
1t be turned over to another commit
tee. In both houses this has been the
game, and year after year, congress
after congress, 1t has been filibuster
ed out OF its chance for q vote.
The bill has at last passed both
houses, and must go to conference.
1t provides that interstate carrying
companies shall be liable for the in
jury or death of the employe, caused
by the defects or equipment or the
negligence of the co-employee.
Senator La Toilette offered the
measure as an amendment to the
railroad rate bill, and when it was
reached in the senate. forced roll on
all the motions relating to it. There
was a determined effort to prevent
him, but most of the democrats stood
by him. The bill was eventually
dropped from the rate bill. r
1t has now passed the senate as an
independent bill, and will become a
law before the adjournment Of the
present session. :z
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
MOHAWK DECLARES DIVIDEND.

CALUMET, Mich, June 6.-The MO-
hawk Mining company has declared
a semi-annual dividend at 50 per share,
which will result In the disbursement
OF $3o0,0 This Is the second divi-
dend paid by the company, the first
amounting 70 33oo. 900, having bsen
paid last January
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
eRAlNERp LETs CONTRACT

BRAlNERD LETS CONTRACT; ;-s
BRAINERD, June 6.-Broadway ana
Kingwood streets will be improved
this summer BY the installation of CO.
ment curbings and cutters. The con-
tract was let to q local Arm last nirht
FOR IS !, 1880.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
THIRTEEN HORSES STARTED.

PARIS, June 6.-Mr. Woodlands .
Fragilite won the grand hurdle race Of
$4,000 at Auteu!l today. Thirteen
horses started. - ..,.s. . .e.
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Continued on page five.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
WRATH SAVED PENSION.

One night River Thames pilot
disappeared from his tug. The suppo-
sition, of course, was that he had
fallen overheard. and was drowned.
The river was dragged all down the
course, but without success.
1t was most necessary for his wife
that his body should be found, be-
cause he carried in his pocket, In a
little tin case. his certificate from
Trinity house, document that was
necessary to prove his Identity and
his dcCeasc. In order that she might
get the pension on which her future
living TO great degree depended.
Weeks elapsed. and no body was
found. TIL one day friend suggested
to the '-dy that she might do worse
than cfhsult a medium.
Her husband came through the me
dunn and said: III you will look for
my body on Gravescnd you will find
II cntanglcd among some chains from
the bargcs that are mouTed ut that
spot
The search was made at the pi,ce
indicated. and as her nephew was
rowing about in the river. suddenly.
10 his surprise. the body of the miss
ing pilot rose 10 the surface. II was
almost, II not quite. beyond identIn-
cation; but In his pocket was tho
little tin case with the necessary
papers quite uninjured. and through
that proof of his Identity his widow
obtained the money that was due to
her.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
SPIRIT wiFe's RepRoAcn.

AS a gamblers wife lay on her
deathbed she talked seriously TO her
husband about this cvll. and ultimutc-
ly obtained from him u promise that
he would never touch cards again
For some time he rosolutciy kept his
word. but one winters night, about
twelve months after her death. hay.
ing party Of mon at his house. for.
gc,ful OF his promise to his dead wife.
he proposed to them to spend tho
night In the same old way,
For some time they went on. win.
ming and losing and getting more ~
cited. suddenly. abou, o'clock. tho
door Of the room myst"rlously opened.
and th.ro-Still. siatu,Sluc, with 4
look Of silent fcproaeh ON her pale
faco--utood the woman to whom tho
promise had been given ana broken,
His hands shook. he dropped tho
cards. and cried out. u, Il my wlfc,"
The party broke Mp In disorder. and
the gambler received such shock
to his nervous system that he had Y
be sent 10 a saniiarlum.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
REVEALED A MURDER.

A peasant OF Minsk. In West Russia.
disappeared, and one night In a dream
his sister saw him, and his body ap-
pcarcd manglcd. He told her that
he had been murdered by her huband
and his brothers lie mentioned tho
exact date and place of the deed. and
added that his body was put into u
sack and thrown into the river.
This dream was repeated several
times, and at last the sister sought
the advice OF her aged inthcrinlaw.
He told her tina, II would be diiiicul,
10 ind the body. and II the culprits
were brought TO justice her children
would be left orphans: so. after con.
sldoration, the sister gave the mat.
ter up.
But her brothers spirit would not
rest, and appeared In dream to a
friend. Soon the news spread to tho
local authorities. who took the mat
ter up. The river was searched and
the body was found In the exact spot
indicated.
This discovery had such an effect
on the murdor.rs that they at once
confessed.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
a ps.u1s.ceI.niAl ~.

was British of!lccr and tradition
rronoui cos his name Dc Sellers.
J This Main street wns n wide high.
way. lined on either side with noble
trees. Al the eastern end Of Il stood
the Dutch Reformed church and the
town Flagstaff. and there they stand
to-day. II stretched away ~ the wssi.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
WRITER'S VIVID DREAM.

A novelist dreamed that well.
known stage manager, close friend.
came TO him with his neck bandaged
and an expression OF extreme agony
on his face. He pointed 10 his ban
daIed neck and tried 10 speak. but
failed. Then the author woke up. and.
strongly impressed by the yividnoss
OF his dream. related /, In the morn.
Ing to his brother, saying: 1T gave
me the impression that $. had been
hanged"
During the morning he went to his
friends house and was told that he
had been In bed for two days. II APP
pearcd that while nj n rehearsal he
had strained his neck and had been
In great pain ever since. This was
striking enough. but there WINS more
TO come: for afterwards he said TO
SIS wife: you know hurried
round because I had dream that s
had been hanged"
That's most extraordinary" was
the reply. because the doctor said
he hnd nearly dlSlooatcd his neck In
exactly the same manner that occurs
when people are hanged"
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
GETS WEIRD WARNING.

The following is vouched for by
young woman who had It directly
from the boys father. who was her
sisterin-law's first cousin. This is the
old mans story:
Il was living in Colorado at the
time this happened and was riding
across the sandy plain between the
b. and NJ. and U. p. railroads. near
the little town of Snyder. when met
middle aged man In a lumber wagon
driving span of gray horses. gave
half the road to him, but as he got
even with me he refined up his horses
and stopped. Thinking he wished to
inquire the way pulled up my team
also. Hello, Mr.. - he said. calling
me by name. Your hoy is in Akron;
II you would keep him out of trouble
go to him at once Just then my
horses, not liking to stand drew my
upon turning to ask the man whore
he got his information found nothing
OF man, wagon, or horses.
Now, to my knowledge. my 10y
was rot at Akron, but at small town
farther down on the B. and NJ. | told
my wife that night about meeting he
stranger and asked her II had better
go. She laughed at me and said Fad
fallen asleep and been dreaming. Out
would swear | was as wide awake
rs l am today while telling this TO
you.
Well. you can Judge my wifes sur.
prise the next morning when | re-
ceived telegram from Akron to come
at once, your son is there and in trou.
ble.'
That trouble landed my boy In the
reformatory. Had | needed the mes
sage the day before could have saved
him from such disgrace"
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03

New York woman is reported to
have died from starvation while the
possessor of a fortune. She will be
severely condemned. and yet is not the
world full of rich people who arc
starving for things that are Just as es
sential for right living and the enjoy
ment of life as food is to life itself?
She only starved the body; thousands
starve the soul and the mind in the
pursuit of wealth, and provoke little
comment.-Denvcr Republican.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
Takes Annual Pedestrian Tour.

Ernest bcnockc. farmer who has
been a resident Of wnnkesha county.
Wisconsin. since 1874. has made his
annual pedestrian tour Of one week
His trip took him 10 Milwaukee. Cod.
arburs. West Bend. Waueouh'a. Eden.
Fond dn Lac. oakfoli. South Byron.
Mayvillc and Iron Ridge. Mr.. Ban.
cckc on his trip follows a TRAIN msIc
hy hin, In Chicago chronic,s
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
Sending consumptives West.

The committee on the prevention of
tuberculosis of the Charity Organize.
ton Society of New York has just sent
out a circular letter to $500 New York
physicians, asking them not to send
consumptives towestern states like Ari-
iona, Colorado and California unless
these tuberculosis patients have %
physical ability to be sslf-supporting
at employment already assured, at
proper salary, in the West; or GU $3.50
at their disposal in addition to railroad
fare.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03

II about IFS years ago. The old.fEsh.
Toned gardens about this house are
particularly interesting and Old
World looking. Further to the west
on the same side of the street, is
the Voorhis house, of about the same
age as the Van Nostrand mansion
Here Washington was once guest
and he old freplaces roared wei.
come to him. This Voorhis house
has curious projecting roof. such as
is sometimes met with In old Dutch
houses. and carved door piece. with
fanlights to delight the antiquarian
The faded colors Of the paint. witch
once covered Its sides and It's solid
window shutters, are now harmonized
by time into effects" which deligh,
the artists eye.
In Eighteenth avenue stands an In
teres,ing. rather "squatty." house
painted yellow. which Was at one time
used as n school. and next to It q
sample OF the nrst change In architec.
ture which came TO Van Pelt Manor
house built apparently about nifty
years ago In a pseudo-colonial style.
elaopols Has History.
The great and towering hagpole
which stands at the head of Main
street. has Its history. II Is success.
sor to pole erected on the same spot
by the loyal citizens OF the village ut
the outbreak OF the Revolutionary
Wnr md Ia aur~nuo,oJ hx tho ,.,,n
great eagle and the same arrow. con.
ccived ms = weathervane. which top
ped the first pole. Al the foot OF tho
pole used to be held. until within n
few years. Fourth OF July celebrations.
With speeches and nag raising"
But the old customs are going gu, a.
the new houses come In. with their
new occupants. and modern Van Gel,
Manor rather Ignores the nagpolc.
However. In few years those who
to-day are settling In the place will
begin to take a deep and ebiding In.
tercst In the history OF the locality
and old times ana old customs sili
be revived.
Looking down Main street at Van
Pelt Manor toward Dyker Heish,s
and Dyker Meadows In the direction
IN which we can imagine the royal
postman squirting his horse In the
early Colonial days In which the post.
road was laid out. one can sec tina, re-
sion rapidly being covered over with
modern houses ns 10 the Manor.
did the Dykcrs live over Their. IN
the early dnys7' was asked OF Town.
send Cortelyou Van Peit.
"Dykers." replied the old man. 81
scvcr heard OF such family. Tina,
was all the Coftclyou property. ana
they were the dykcrs They built
dykes. ms they had learned to do In
Holland. to keep the salt water from
their meadows and they had nnc
meadows. too. have heard my grand.
father say. know many people think
Dykcrs Meadows and Dykers Heights
take their names from family. but.
take my word for II. III. dykera rof,r.
red TO were the Cor,eiyous."
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
SPIRIT MADE PROPHECY.

When a prominent American flnan.
cier was young he was poor, and lived
in garnet in a tenement house In
New York, where his neighbors were
an old woman and her daughter, q
graceful girl who was afflicted with a
distressing cough. He did all he could
to help her, and one night, to his sur.
prise, he woke up to find her standing
by his bedside. On his asking If It
was morning, and If she had come in
TO wake him, she replied that she was
going on a long journey and had come
to say good-by.
She further told him that his trou.
bles were nearly over, and that a
splendid future awaited him, after
which she disappeared. The young
man then remembered that he had
locked his bedroom door, and on goinr
TO see he found it still secure.
Some hours afterward he was
again aroused by the lamentations of
the old woman in the adjoining room,
and on inquiry he found that the girl
had died during the night. and It was
therefore, her phantom, or spirit, that
he had seen. Her prediction was fully
verified.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
DEAD FATHERS VISIT.

Abou, three months after the death
of her husband Mrs S had the follow.
In. experience: A daughter about
four years OF nfc slept with her moth
cr. and the two boys In little cribs
close n, hand She Bwoke from n
sound sleep and found hcrsol' looking
ut hand which rested lron her. H..
Tie daughters breast
She Instantly rotoFnlfo1 tho hand
~ that OF her late husband. Her eyes
followed the hand To the arm. anf
then she saw tho Who'll" Hgur". She
was much terrified. and ~ N. hand
was lifted the little slrl became rest
less and murmurcd IN her sleep. Pap,
Ia away: he IL IN heaven and smiled
and fell into sound sleep nvnin,
Mrs 8. felt asleep. too, but was
awakened by the elder Roy saying
MAMMA. ! saw papa when" she
asked. Just now" he replied. II
woke M and saw papa come Into tho
room and stand n, III. foo, of the bed.
The Monte Vista journal., 1906-03-03
German Doctors.

With 1920 physicians, Germany
has one for every LOO inhabitants. In
the city of Berlin forty.six per cent. of
all the physicians have an income of.
less than $500, and five per cent. of the
whole number do not have a sufficient
income TO return II for taxation.