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tie thinking these times and we NAV
expect to see party politics get some
rought jolts these strenuous days from
the class who proposed to vote as thev
individually think. and which indepen-
dent vote cannot be used in party poll
tics as a blind vote to be bought ara
sold in the political clearing house of
the dominant parties Of today. A.
though they killed or rather put the
workingman's vote to sleep in the sos
by using the assassin's knife of officia1-
dom on It's leaders, some of those lead
ers who did not sell out can now see
return wakening up of the labor poll.
tics. That does their hearts good but
spells death to its prosecutors of the
past, for the old X. of l.. constitution
preserved the independence and secrecy
of the ballot by provision which saws
in taking part In politics, no member
shall be compelled to vote with the ma
5ority," and so no member could mot
give the votes of the whole lodge Ia
any candidate for office as 1t could nor
be collected Individually s.
l. HUGH WAKEFIELD.
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Ing, although grave physical deterior-
alton may be taking place.
"One preparation which has been
an extensive advertiser has at differ
ent times assured the public that it
contained no 'whiskey,' thus putting
total abstainers off guard, yet the In
ternal Revenue Department recently
listed it as AN Intoxicating beverage
and not medicine, and it cannot now
be sold except under a liquor tax GER
tificate. Notwithstanding this fact
reputable newspapers ire still .adver-
Using 1T as great cure
"A case was published a short time
age in Lcs Angeles paper of death
there FROM deljrium tremens caused by
'catarrh cure A coroner's jury in
England, according to the DRUGGISTS
Circular of New York, gave verdict
last summer of death from Liuuozone
In the case Of two children in one
home. Liquozone, which has been ex-
posed repeatedly as a cheap compound q
of mineral acids and water, is still
telling the public by means of the press
that it Is a marvellous cure for most
all diseases.
I'm Baltimore, Maryland, and In
Utica, N. Y, several infants died re-
Gently from a morphine dope, mis-
named 'Baby's Friend An Associat-
ed Press dispatch of February from
Washington, quotes DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley. of the y. S. government bureau
OF chem stry. as saying that more than
a million infants have been sacrificed
to tho various concoctions known as
soothing sy'ups and pain killers.
Are the newspapers which edvertise
these death dealing nostrums free
from responsibility? Is it not time
that newspaper publishers of the bet
ter class should refuse longer to en-,
r1cn themselves by decciving the sick
and suffering into wasting money
upon what is likely to do no good. and
may do positive harm? The time cer-
tainly has come when Intelligent read
ers cannot excuse this class of adver-
t1sing upon the charitable view of lack
OF knowledge.
Therefore, we, representing the Ma
tional Temperance Union and by au.
thority of that body; appeal to you as
lovers of humanity to cease carrying
advertisements of secret medicines, and
to open your columns to the facts con-
cerntng such medicines"
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Trade Union Movement Needs No
Defense-1ts Work is an Ever
lasting monument to its Mem
ory-No Reason For Any to be
Impatient at Progress.
Trade Unionism Does Not Neces-
sarily Mean Narrow Graft Un-
.ionism- 1T is as Inaexible as the
Labor Movement Itself-Many
Examples Of Progress.

There is nothing to be gained for the
labor movement by a debate with a
member of that alleged labor organiz-
alton, the Industrial Workers of the
World. Trade unionism needs no de-
Tense before body of workingmen. It's
accomplishments are so well known to
every thoughtful union man that moth
ing can be said to discourage honest
workingmen as to it's efficiency for the
future.
Trade unionism does not necessarily
mean a narrow craft organizat ton. It
Is as flexible as the labor movement
itself. The most bitter and determine ed
foe to trade unionism has been the
Socialist movement. Many leading So
cialists have tried to disguise their
real attitude towards trade urionism,
In the hope that the Socialist senti-
ment might spread among the work.
ingmen, and they would be in a posi-
tion to ultimately capture the move
ment.
There are few notable exceptions
to the rule. Such philosophers as
Victor Berger of Milwaukee and Max
Hayes of Observation-Disclosures and
consistent socialists,-apprecia the
value of the practical, economic organ =
izatfon for workingmen. While both of
these great socialists believe in in
dustrial unionism, they have no SYM
pathy with the De Leon kite, viz,
The Industrial Workers of the World.
They, like great many economic
socialists in the trade union move
ment, believe in the development of in
dustrialism within the American FEEDER
alton of Labor. There never has been
any reason for one to become dis
couraged because of an apparent lack
OF progress In the trade union move
ment. The American Federation of
Labor has advanced as fast. and no
faster than the law of true progress
would permit. Industrial unionism has
been adopted by International trade
unions wherever the condition of an
organized industry warranted its prac-
tical application. For instance who is
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NON PARTISAN POLITICS

Sir-In a late Issue of your paper
you quote the Washington correspon-
dent OF the Cleveland Plaindealer in his
report on the Federation of Labor tax
ing part In politics as body, and,
among otner statements as saving
Ihe knights of Labor was wrecked
among other causes on the Rock Of
Politics. and 'its predecessors all came
10 srler when politics crept in," which
Is perfectly true but why did he not
give 1ull statement If he is any au-
thority on the matter. But I think Che,
like a local judge of Duluth. while
making similar statement at Labor
Day festival, while Adam Bede's nic
ture winked at him from everv tree
stump) stopped short with the bare
statement When common honesty to
his listening Workmen, demanded that
ne meant nOn-partlsan politics as advo-
Gated py the founders of Labor Dav
was sure death to party politics. II II
was not stopped and so it was ICON
sistently to partisan politics) wrecked
by the dominent parties rock of se,r.
preservation. even If it choked tho
germ life (non-partisan politics, or
true and full citizenship in ORGANIZED
labor's ranks And its death as re.
suit lies not at labors' door as imn1,ed
by the speakers, but on the record ~
the dominent party's door step whera
labor is met as supplicant bv tho
commercial element who form tho han .
and sinew Of the old parties orRan,za.
lions under the name of commercio,
clubs. board of trades, etc. How many
working men are told to leave politics
with their employers who knows best
what the people want, but it does not
work now the workman is doing lit
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Security of Movement Depends
Upon Practical and Common
Sense Leadership - Rainbow
Chasers do not Make Practical
Officers in Movement.
Industrial Workers of the World
is Gathered Remnants of De-
funct Socialist Trade and Labor
Alliance and American Labor
Union.

lean Federation of Labor for the pur-
pose of organizing tf11 socialist ally
herein referred to. Most of the old
factional fights among the Socialists
were temporarily declared off, and all
got together to destroy the trade un
ion. It was the moment De Leon had
longed for, "as the heart panteth for
the water brook He willingly mani
pulated the organization and strength
ened his Socialist Trade and Labor
Alliance. Now he was in position, he
hoped, to make good his threat of ten
years ago. Now the trade union move
ment would be destroyed, and even
former enimies of the Socialist Trade
and Labor Alliance-men like Eugene
V. Debs-were uniting to take part in
the destruction.
The first open attack against organ
lied labor was made in Butte, Montana
by a number of expelled members Of
the Cigarmakers' union, and former
strike breakers, who organized under
the I. W. W., and turned out reA
label brand of cigars. The proprietors
of the non-union shop which recognizes
the I. w. w. are both expelled men,
bers of the cigarmakers' union. One
of them was fined $1,000 by Union No.
157 of Belvidere, ILL.,, for repeated
violation of union rules, and forfeited
$50 to that union for the same offense.
The other was fined $500 By Ution
No. IA Of Chicago for scabbing it in
trust factory.
This is the record of the men who
are now actively engaged in destroying
the cigarmakers union. We submit
that the labor movement has nothing e
to fear from such opposition. So Tar
as we are concerned we shall refuse
to enter a contest between working
men. Our time and space will be given
in advocating higher wages, shorter
hours and better working conditions
for all men and women who work for
a living There is no agency capable
of securing these things like the trade
union 1t Is labor's friend. Stick to
it, and it will make good for you.
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TRADE UNIONS is HAVE NOTHING TO p
GAIN IN DEBATES WITH INDUSTRIALISTS

there to declare that the United Mine
Workers is not an industrial organiza-
ton? The Longshoremen and Marine
Workers association Is the most COM
plete industrial labor organization in
the world. Through recent decision
Industrial organization has been agreed
upon in the carpenter and wood work.
ing industry. Even the machinists
have developed in industrial unionism.
There are several other trades which
have long done the same thing, and
others will become Industrial in their
method Of organization step by step
with the perfection of organization in
industry.
The thoughtful American working
man learned long ago that it was much
safer for him to cooperate with the
type Of leadership manifested in a.
Gompers. a Mitchell and Keefe,
rather than with the reckless daring
of a Debs or a Meyer. All of these
men are known to be honest and sim
cere advocates of labor. We admire the
courage of Debs and the fidelity of
Meyer, but these splendid qualities
alone are not sufficient for safe leader
ship.
Abraham Lincoln was once asked
how long a mans legs ought to be, and
he replied: Long enough to reach the
ground" Some very we'll thought of
labor leaders have their heads in the
clouds, while their feet are dangling
hopelessly in the atmosphere The
movement has best progressed under
the leadership of practical men.
There is positively no excuse for the
existence of the I. w. w. It is fifth
wheel of the labor movement, and can
accomplish nothing except the disrup-
tion of organization among working
men. If its leaders were desirous of
noting the economic welfare of the
working class they would devote their
efforts to soHdifying the forces Of la
Dor. rather than In dividing them by
the formation of dual organizations.
Daniel De Leon, one Of the founders
of the I. w. w. stated publicly some
ten years ago that 1T was his purpose
to destroy the trade union movement
and build upon it's ruins monument
to the Socialist labor Party. He or
ganized the Socialist Trade and 14abo,.
Alliance, and for several years he con-
Quoted fight against the trade unions
of New York, cooperating with en-
ployers in reducing the workingmen to
atoms.
After the Colorado outrages the time
was opportune for De Leon to gather
together the leading enelNes in the
labor movement opposed to the Amer
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LOOKING. BACKWARD | ON !: !
TRADE UNIONS WORK
Prior to 1880 American Working
men Worked From Sun Rise
to Sun Set.
In Struggle for Ten Hours Hun
dreds of Labor Leaders
Went to Jail, =

Prior to 1880 the workday was elev-
en- to thirteen hours, or from: sun to
sun. In that year the agitation for a
tcn-hour day became quite common
and resulted in number of strikes.
The merchants, manufacturers and
employers generally pledged them.
selves not to employ laborers unless
they would agree to work twelve
hours for 81 a day. From 1920 to
1865 the ten-hour contest resulted in
hundreds of strikes and lockouts. The
conspiracy laws sent hundreds of our
wage-workers, fathers and grandfath-
ers to Jail, the military was called
cut on the slightest pretext, and the
ten-hour agitators were openly de-
rounced as lazy, worthless gang of
lcafers and drunkards. The loss in
wages through strikes and lockouts
resulting from this agitation amount
ed to hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars.
We are reaping the benefits of their
efforts, privations and punishment.
Are we grateful to those staunch old
union sires? All you fellows who now
work but eight or ten hours are reap
ing the benefits of unionism.
The employer today. is just as av-
aricious as were those of. 1880, and if
II were not that labor today realizes
to certain extent it's power, and re.
fuses to be subservient to the en-
ployer, the eleven and thirteen-hour
day, at little better than starvation
wages, would be the rule, instead Of
from eight to ten hours, with fair
wages and fair conditions. 's- -
All you fellow who now work but
eight or ten hours are reaping the
benefits of unionism. Are you willing
tc accept these benefits without Civ.
ing unionism your good will and sup
port in return? Think this over as
you 60 to and return from your work.
Unionism needs your cooperation.
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QUESTION OF JUSTICE;
Is WOMAN SUFFRAGE
BY Mrs. Ella S. Stewart.

Women are asking for enfrancfYse-
ment on the ground OF simply justice,
1T is right, 1t Is just, it is in harmony
with natural rights as we'll as with the
spirit of our government;
The progress of civilization may be
traced by the battles for freedom. Lib
erty or death was the cry of freedom s
apostles long before Patrick Henry and
his compatriots struggled to break the
chain of a servile relation; and while
the wielders of power have always
branded these advocates as rebels and
insurgents. the verdict of history has
been and 'evermore must be that every
gain in liberty Of the people every wild
ening privilege of popular government
has rsulted in the; progress, happiness,
and higher welfare Of the world. The
desire for liberty, for self government,
Is innate in the normal human mind;
and the race, the, nation or the indi-
vidual that does not desire freedom and
struggle against the bonds of serfdom
Is dwarfed and :stunted~ They can
never. reach the highest plane Of human
development until they respect them
selves enough to- demand that. liberty
and freedom which, should be accorded
to every human being.
The possession :of a power presup-
poses freedom in, the use and develop
ment Of that power. The possession OF
eyes Is evidencesto me that I was in
tended to see, and a law that would
compel me to go bMndfolded through
life would be tyranny. The, possession
of mental powers is the ,unanswerable
argument in favor. of their use and de-
velopment, and along this line the bat
tie for education Tor women was fought
and won, and SO with every advance
that has been made. Il. 4 qa5
In general the principle is conceded
that woman has mind which she
ssnould be allowed to ecultvate; that
she has a. soul for whose development
sne is responsible to her Creator alone;
that as member of society she has
certain rights In common with all; but
It is still denied that, as a factor OF
the government taxed and amenable
to the laws, she has the rights Of a
citizen. Yet political liberty stands on
the same ground az indust rial educa-
tional, social, and religious liberty. II
man has the right to exclude womai 1,
from one field OF development, from
liberty In one Of these avenues OF adj
svancement, he has the right to exclude
her from all. here he obtained the
right 70 exclude her ON one or all as
za question that remains unanswered
and alnA nsyv era ssS
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In Strong Circular National Or.
ganization Appeals to Fair
ness of Newspapers.
Fake Patent Medicines Cure Alls
for Diseases of Humanity
Roundly Scored.

One of the strongest appeals sent
out to newspapers in many years is
the following from the Nationa! w. C..
7. u, asking for their support in a
crusade against fake patent medi-
cines. The appeal says:
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union began systematic agitation
against alcoholic and narcotic patent
medicines in 1897, and since that time
has done much through its literature
and by lectures to enlighten the pub.
lie as to the real nature, and the ex.
travagant, in some cases, fraudulent.
claims of many preparations adver-
tised as safe family remedies. AL.
though the press has been willing to
publish accounts of other branches of
our work, almost everything said or
done relative to patent medicines has
been suppressed. Reporters said It
was useless to take such matter to
their papers as it would not appear
because 1t fnterfered with advertise
ing interests.
I'VE are ready to believe that what
has been called the conspiracy of
silence was due not simply to the
manufacturers demands in their adj
vertis1ng contracts, but largely to
lack OF knowledge Of the great harm
done to the health and morals of mul.
titudes of people by some of these
preparations. The revelations of the
past year or two remove for evermore
the palliating excuse Of lack of infor-
nation.
The press is largely respons,h1o
for the ill-health, the premature
deaths, the idiocies, palsies. and
drunkenness which have resulted in
many cases from continued DOMINO
with rostrums. The extent of the evil
Is enormous. The law of suprestion
operates powerfully, as day after dav
people read, Does your back ache ,
Are your kidneys weak? and other
questions, with the assurance that DR..
Quackem's Great Restorative cures all
Ills. The testimonials deceive the I'm.
wary; also, for they do not know tho
fraudulent means frequently used IN
obtain these.
: Many women have been permanent.
~ injured by preparations sold exclu.
sively for their use, because medicine.
which may be of service in some con
ditions aften cause congestion md
other troubles II used by those affllct-
ed In d different way. Women are un-
able to diagnose their own cases. and
the ingredients Of the medicines, are
unknown to them. The newspaper al-
fvertisements advise AL women to taxa
the same medicine, with no .warninr
word az to varying conditions. 71'
As alcohol sis q large factor In. Il o.4
snostrums its ~ erve eadeninx effect
4 plkss people think 4 hey are 77irnprov.s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-30
THOMAS E. WAGGAMANN
DIES In MARYLAND
He Failed for Over $4,000 900 at Wash.
inqton Last, Year. ls,>s

WASHINGTON June 27-word has
been received here that Thomas e.
Waggaman of this city. former treas
urer of the Catholic university, who
ago, died at a farm house near Annap-
oils. Md. where he had been for q
number Of months. The cause Of his
death was cancer Of the face He was
sixty-nine years of Age. b$
Waggaman's failure 81 startled this
city, whore hundreds OF persons had
placed with him various sums Or mon
ey Tor Investment His art collection.
which was regarded, as one OF the most
valuable In The country was hold at
auction In New York Ia order to par-
E,tiaaly satisf hts crs itors.
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TWO MEN HAVE STRANGE ,
ESCAPE FROM DEATH

DETROIT, June 27.-Theodore H.
Perry and Harry Rogers, both of De-
troit, had strange escape from death
late today. being blown off their sail
boat by an explosion while they were
sailing near the mouth Of the Detroit
river. The young men were passing
a small island at the Head of ror
island, the smaller island being used
for the storage of explosives. A
powder house blew up and windows
were broken as far away as the Ca
madam city Of Amherstburg. It is
not believed that there was any one
In the powder house at the time. ~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-30
NON uM|0N|sI STRIKE ||
! IN: new. york FACTORY
Unattached Knee Pant Workers
Can No Longer Endure
Free Open Shop
Shining Example of Parryites
Idea of Individual" Rights
of Labor.

New. York, June 28-At the pres.
ent time there are several garment
workers strikes on in New York city;
some of these are non-union people
who have felt the oppression so Sc
we're that they were compelled to
strike" - -.'ff'
At Bennett & Isaacs', on Lafayette
place, 81 non-union ;pantsmakers quit
work, with an additional outside shop
OF this firm employing 20 hands.
The strikers sent for Business
Agent M. Goldberg of Pantsmakers'
Union No. 8, and signified their will
1ngly to join the U. G. w. of A., and
they were admitted. On Saturday af-
ternoon last they held a mass meeting
and were addressed by Board Mem
bers Schweitzer and Hashkins, Busi-
ness Agent, Goldberg and Barney Ab-
rams, secretary of D. G.. No. l. Their
strike is for increased wages and the
general betterment of conditions.
Business Agent D. Wiesenfeld of the
Knee Pantsmakers' Union is also hav-
Ing his hands full advising union and
non-unton strikers. Eighteen hundred
A>AASO p0AIoAonClS "CAI OuL OA oL14h0
against the furnishing of their own
machines, and are demanding an in.
crease of wages and the recognition of
the union. Settlements have been
made with shops employing 800 men.
who have returned to work. At
RrOwnville over 1000 knee pants
makers are out seeking an increase of
wages. None of these are of the
rumber who recently returned to
work at Eisner's, as they were coat
makers. At Brownville the knee pants.
makers were receiving 80 per cent.
less in wages than were the knee
pantsmakers of New York city.
Several of the shops on strike were
non-union, and all the men have ap-
piled for admission into the U. G. w.
of A. and were accepted. At one
shop, H. B. Rosenthals, of Broadway,
New York, there were rs: non-union
employees, Jewish and Italian, who at
once sent for the business agent and
expressed their desire of joining the
u. G. w. of A. and were admitted
Five inside shops, all non-union, it
is reported, have held joint meeting
end have voted to subscribe Is per
cent. Of their. wages to support those
Eout- on strike For good reasons they
will not join the union at present, at
least not until the strike is over.
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Later,

Since the above paragraph was
written in connection with the strike
at Bennett & lsaacs'' settlement has
been effected and the men have all
returned to work. This is decided
victory for the U. G. w. of A.-unor-
ganized shops organized, signed
agreement for union shops, increase
of wages, recognition of the union.
and the right of the business agent to
visit the shop from time. to time.
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FAVORABLE REPORT r..@ b.:
,..@. ON EIGHT HOUR Bill,

E WASHINGTON, June 27.-Chairlnan
Gardner OF the house committee on
labor today filed q favorable report
on the eight hour bill It Is not ex-
pected that the MEASURE will receive
sion.
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