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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
COMBINE AGAINST UNIONS.
Paris Employers Plan 20 Make slaves
of Workers.

The employers in all the metsllurgic
trades, which include seventeen Of the
most important branches OF French In
dustry, have decided TO organize
sgainst further demands of the work
men. At a meeting held on May II
they came TO am understanding with
amazing quickness and adopted the
following agreement:
Considering the present movement
on the part Of the workmen, not only
uneconomic, but revolutionary, the I'M
dersigned employers have decided that
work shall not be resumed in their es-
adjustments except on the following
conditions:
''First.W refuse to grant shorter
day, whether OF eight or nine hours.
Second. We will grant no Satur-
day afternoons OF. This pernicious
example is copied from the United
States and would corrupt our entire
system.
"Third.--We will not In the future
admit any collective representations
from workmen regarding time or sal
aries.
Fourth. We will continue the piece
work system In spite Of union opposl-
ton"
Then comes the last clause. which
capped the anger OF the men employed
in the metallurgic trades.
Fifth. Henceforth on the salaries
paid the men employed in our indus
tries tax OF per cent will be levied
for the purpose OF forming fund for
the protection OF the employers against
strikes.
on the 30o,0o0,o00 francs 100000
600 annually paid in salaries the fund
would reach about s1.200,000. The
new organization has not yet elected
officers or adopted bylaws, but has oh
tanned charter from the state. This
movement. which Is ia earnest so far
as It's leaders are concerned, coming
on top OF the plain ayowal Of the ati-
tomobile employees to resume work,
complexities the labor situation, but Il
Is thought hardly possible that after
morally conceding the nine hour day
the employers win be able to put
through their radical programme.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
In BOSTON MARKETS.
Butter Prices Hold About the Same
Eggs Do Not Change Much.

Boston. June 2T-There is no change
in the local butter market. s fair de-
mand from the regular trade is reported,
but speculative buying is very slack.
Prices hold about as last quoted. Cheese
i still quiet, bnt prices are triae firm
err IN response to strong interior adyiees.
Eggs do not change much. Invoices are
lighter, but offerings are still large.
Fancy fresh stock IL firm, but the poor
er lots are rather weak.
Quotations follow;
Butter Creamery. extra Vermont and
New Hampshire, 2fi&e: northern New
York 21isc, western 21612l ", northern
creamery firsts 19iAM20iac. western
creamery firsts 10000. creamery sec
onds l6(dlsc, creamery thirds 14d sc,
eastern creamery, best marks 20M20lsc,
fair to good ls0a ice, dairy extras Ice,
common to good $50 lse, western ladies'
1f0l6c, packing stock l3dl5c, renovat-
ed butter 15Mlsc, boxes and prints
14622c.
, Cheese--New York twins fancy 10% c,
fair to good oMl0c, Vermont twins fan
cy 10lac, fair to good GA Toe, Wiscon.
sin twins 9lsmi0lsc
Eggs Fancy hennery 23c, eastern ex-
tras 10000, common TO good 17Cdisc,
western best marks i701sc, choice 1919
@i7c, fair TO good tsCd Ice, western
dirties i3M14c
Note The above quotations represent
the prices obtained by receivers for
Wholesale lots, and are not jobbing
prices.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
Proposed Label carnivaI.

The worklngmen of Washington are
already manifesting much interest IN
the proposed label carnival TO be held
there few months hence In the
meantime tue local trades unionists are
conducting an active campaign in be
half of the union label. \ printer In
referring to this matter recently said:
"Thc merchants Of Washington are al.
ready asking where they can purchase
label goods. Labor unions have de
cided that the use Of the label Is one
Of the best ways 10 Eight their oncmies
Courts are kept busy granting injunc-
tlons against The boycott against pick
citing and other things, but they can.
not restrain people from buying goods
bearing The union LABEL
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27

sixteen as against any opinion which
may be entertained that the unions are
insincere.
"You should not infer from that
statement that believe that DIR. Fry
berg il accurate in his charge that 1t Is
from selfish motives that the unions
of labor are favorably disposed toward
the abolition OF child labor, but quot
ed him simply TO show that even ac-
corling to this accusation we must
necessarily be sincere in defense OF our
own self interests.
Il presume that there are number
OF men and women In this city of ours
and IN this country Of ours who are
altruistic. Thank God that there is a
continually growing number of men
and women who act from that high
purpose. But, taking men and women
as they are--not here and there, but
the accepted view of men and women
as they are--I wonder whether all the
bankers and all the brokers and all the
business men and all the newspaper
men and all the companies have been
prompted from purposes Of absolutely.
purely ideal altruism.
Now, as to the insinuations that are
INDUCED In that labor men, from the
standpoint of their own personal In
terests. advocate a certain policy, how
IS IL that you find men usually who are
engaged In the manufacture Of GER
tain products universally protectionists
from the viewpoint Of the tariff And,
on the other hand. you win find men
who are engaged In simply commercial
pursuits free traders. Is II a psyche
logical Influence that brings this
about? Is II physical? Is 1t climatic?
Is 1t proyidential or Is It not purely
selfish interest that prompts them to
be the one thing or the other? And
vet you expect-not you personally, my
friends. but yet some people expect
that the men who have only their labor
power upon which TO depend and to
support those dependent upon them
shall govern all their actions from
purely altruistic motives and purposes.
surrendering everything that they pos
sess.
I'VE are just as good as you. not bet
fer. but. repeat. just as good. From
the earliest days of the present indus
trial era as II emerged from the days
Of serfdom and from the days OF the
Introduction of the factory system the
organizations OF labor have advocated
the restriction of child labor. There IL
not child labor law on the statute
books of the United States but has
been put there by the effort OF the
trades union movement
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
ADDICTED TO MORPHINE
AND HAD BEEN DRINKING
Thaw Had Been Bitter Against White
Because Of Latter's Friendship
for Nesbit Girl.

New York, June ~. The Evening
Sun says:
He will never ruin any more" This
expression from Harry Kendall Thaw,
the giddy Young pittsburg millionaire,
which came from him while The pistol
with which be killed Stanford White,
the architect, in the Madison Square rool
garden Monday night, was still warm
and while his victim lay dead, seems 70
epitomize the motive for the crime which
has startled New York as ii has not
been stirred since that day, years ago,
when 4 Ed' Stokes shot down Jim
Fisk on the marble stairway OF the old
Grand Central Hotel,
Those who know something of the
swirl that caught up young Thaw' when
he came TO this city with more money
than he knew what to do with, and who
have followed his dizzy way which led
through $780, 900 dinners, gay life in the
extreme, his marriage to Evelyn Nesbit.
the artist model chorus girl, and the
sensational developments that followed
lie might believe that exeesses had un-
balanced his mind until II became prone
to all kinds Of thoughts. But added TO
eliminate itself from his mind and that
turned on To thought Of events that pre-
ceded his marriage to Evelyn Nesbit.
1t is known chat Stanford White
sought the friendship Of Evelyn Nesbit
when her mother first brought the pref
Itv little Pittsburg girl to New Norn.
Stories are told Of their outings when
tile girl was still an artists model. and
afterward when she became a flower
girl in the original 'Florodoraa company.
Then came Thaw with his money and
lavish manner OF spending It. After
that was the two marriages -one abroad
and another to satisfy the elder Mrs.
Thaw ut PittsbuFg. The Young wife, il
is said, started 80 fit herself for the
new position In which she found herself
and seemed to be doing fairly well along
this line. But the remembrance of the
earlier friendship Of his wife for White
would not down, and added to this, ac-
cording to report, were taunts that we're
made to him by White whenever they
met This aroused Thaw 10 fury that
finally ended in murder
Thaw appeared sober enough after the
shooting, but ilr had drunk considerable,
and it is probable that he was to some
extent under the influence OF morphine,
To which he has become addicted In
deed, it is said that insanity following
his manner Of life and the use OF drugs
will be the defence offered for him by
his attorneys.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27

Butcher workmen at the Chicago
stockyards whose union was disrupted
by the big strike in 1904 are beginning
10 organize again. although they are be-
Ing closely watched by foremen and
superintendent
The Tobacco Workers International
union Is now engaged in an active cam
paign against the tobacco trust. Or,
ganizers promoting the union made
product Will visit large conventions Of
labor organizations.
Institutions recently visited employ
ed a total Of 4,253 convicts in the man
ufacture of boots and shoes. These
1858 convict shoe workers are paid an
average wage OF 43 cents day. and
they are turning out 25.34o pairs OF
shoes every day.
1t Is not upon the record that en-
ployers as rule voluntarily advance
wages or reduce hours according to
profits.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
THE ToILER's PlTTANcE.
German Exhibition which show. the
Wage of the Poor

"aAt VI tnS E-oofs
The beggarly compensation received
by the maker OF lace by hand is com
parable to the wages earned by those
whose work figures in homo industry
exposition now in progress at Berlin,
referring to which Consul Hurst Of
Plauen writes as follows:
Everything that one naturally CON
meets with a great fair is strikinely alb
sent. The products OF tenement and
sweat shop, small piecework evolved
by the needy. are laid bare to the pub
lie. Each exhibit Is ticketed, setting
forth the pay for piece. time employed
in making. the profit per hour. If the
object itself does not particularly at
tract the attention of the visitor the
descriptive ting certainly appeals TO
him.
"A few samples may he given: A
boys suit Of clothes, three pieces.
made for about II cents; artistic wood
en- ericlhxes. carved at less than .
cents an hour; IA toy mensgerie anil
mails for II cents: putting up 900 nee.
dies for less than ! cent for the lot (:
mounting hooks and eyes on 300 cards
with "A pairs on each, altogether 1920
pieces, for IS cents; and an extreme
case is that Of biz of lace from
plauen worked ut the rate of about
one-quarter cent an hour. Progress
and poverty are nowhere more abrupt
ly contrasted than in this pitiful dis
play. Expressions OF amazement and
sympathy, manifested by the highest
classes of society. are echoed through
out the German press
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
London Times Defends Our
Reputation
EXPOSURES ARE EXPECTED
Small Packing Plants in Chicago Foul
The Indiana Board Of Health
Is After Preserved
Meats.

New York, June 2T. The Times
prints the following copyright despatch
from London.
The London Times this morning pub
fishes letter from an American cores
pondent protesting against the alleged
readiness Of Europe to condemn the
whole American people and their bust
ness on account of the scandalous dis.
closures respecting American life insur-
ance methods and the operations of the
Chicago meat packers. Commenting on
the letter editorially, the Times says:
1T would be Il great mistake to sup
pose that every Englishman believes
Everything said by every newspaper No
sensible man believes that American
business Is rotten because some swim.
dies have been exposed, any more than
hc thinks that all French business Is
rotten because there was Panama
scandal or that all our own business is
in the same condition because we have
scandals from time to time and are
aware Of much that il wrong, though
il may not vet have come in 50 striking
form before tho world Strong Ian
guage about scandal is not to be taken
pose the whole business world in the
country where it occurs to bc corrupt.
II is not their air OF business to offer
a careful judicial view Of American
business as whole They are concern
ed with the scandal alone, and the gem
eral prospective must be left for adjust
inent on some other occasions.
americans may dismiss the idea, If
they ever entertain it, that the people
of this country regard them as all in
the same boat with the Beef Trust,
Standard Oil Company, dishonest rail
way managers, and people who control
yellow dog funds. There are Pharisees
and foolish individuals in all countries.
We have some among MS, and as they
are generally very ready TO talk, they
probably do some mischief, but. the
mass Of American people are very like
themselves, and that in America, ms here
and elsewhere, society Is held together
only by the saving remnant Of which
our correspondent speaks the quiet, in
articulate people who still believe in
probity and honor and try to do their
duty and fulfill their obligations hon
estly.a
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
The Times Daily Short Story.

example made OF him. They watched
the colonel take a straight course over
the sands, which We're just beginning
to heat up under the morning sun Of a
summers day. He was strongly mount
cd and carried water and provisions
and at his watch chain was a compass
The colonel had figured that the de-
serter could not have made over forty
or fifty miles. That would not be half
way across the desert Despite the
heat the horse had covered that dis
lance before the sun went down. The
colonel had seen skeletons as he rode
1.-The skeletons Of men and Of animals
to the right aid left and ahead Of him.
He had derided them. He had noted
that two great yultures lowered over
him as he rode. looking down on him
always, but uttering no croak or cry.
He had smiled at them. A thousand
times he had cast his eyes around him
and taken In the dreariness, but he had
laughed II to scorn. And now night
had come, and he was as much alone
as II there had been no other human
being on the face Of the world. He
ate and drank and sought sleep. IT
would not come He counted the stars
above him; he counted the numerals.
he cursed himself as being more fool
ish than a woman.
v OF d sudden the officer found himself
sitting UP and staring out into the
night and listening so intently that he
detected the movements OF a lizard
yards away. The situation was get
ting on his nerves, and be struck
himself In anger as lie realized 1T. Do
what lie could. he could not sleep. AS
he looked out across the sands he
thought every cactus moving figure
every figure an enemy His horse
trembed and perspired and snorted
and finally broke away He listened
10 the thud OF its hoofs until they
quite died away, and then he sat with
his face In his hands. He had sneered
at and derided the desert, but the
desert had conquered the man of iron.
Who can tell Of the next day, with its
blazing sun roasting and scorching?
The frightened horse had galloped
miles away. The mans footsteps sank
deep into the shifting sands at every
move, and the serpents and lizards
and cactus were ever before him..
Above him the vultures were always
lowering and waiting, and il he shook
his fist at them and dared them to
come down and give him battle ii was
no new thing TO them. They had seen
other men do the same
There was another day and another
night perhaps two OF them. OF what
good is compass to man who bah
bles as he looks at its face? OF what
good strong pair OF legs when he is
half hundred miles from succorf 1t
was simply another victim for the NAV
of the desert, and IL men ever ride
past the bones of the missing officer
they cannot tell them from the bones
Of the scores and scores who preceded
and have followed him.
NJ. QUAD.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
ESSEX COUNTY CONVENTION.
Republicans Nominate Ticket at Guild
hall Yesterday.

Guildhall, june %. The Essex county
Republican convention met yesterday
and nominated the following ticket,
For senator. Robert Chase Of Guild
hall; for assistant judges, j. IL. Beatte
of Brunswick and O B. Cutting Of
Concord. for Judge Of probate, II. w.
Blake OF Island Pond; for states attor.
ney, H. y. Amey of Island Pond, for
sheriff, Richard Bcattie Of Maidstone,
for high bailff, George r. Ramsey of
Lexington.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
A Desert Drama

copyright, 1906, by G, b, Lewis.J
Looking north, south or west from
the lonely military post on the edge OF
the Mojave desert you saw nothing
but sand and scrub and cactus. No
living things were to be found out there
except the serpent and the lizard.
Only the vulture spread his wings to
fly over il.
In the rank and file of the army this
lonely frontier post was called the
Death post. Not that there was more
sickness there than elsewhere but that
an average OF four men per year went
out from it and were heard of no more.
They were always private soldiers, and
they were always men who had acted
queerly for days before. They had
been found brooding or weeping. They
had ceased to laugh or smile. There
was fear In their eyes. One by one
at intervals they had quietly gone
forth at night, and when their abb
sence had been reported the surgeon
had gently said to the commandment
ut is not desertion. The men have
been awed and terrorized by the pres
ence OF the desert. 1t has drawn them
to itself. Out there on It's bosom there
will be another skeleton"
The commandant may have agreed,
but he could not SO state in his official
reports 1t must be missing" or de
sertlon." In time his superiors de
manded explanations and limited at
laxity OF discipline. They even sent
him to a new field and sent an iron
man 10 replace him. colonel. who
laughed at the desert and felt no awe
when be looked up at the rugged cliffs
! which the brawling river had cut its
way through when the world was
younger by a million years. His pam
acea for lonesomeness, for homesick-
ness and for sentiment was drill and
plenty of 1t. He would give the men
no time to think. When they told him
that Private Parker was acting queer
ly he had the man before him and
cursed and threatened and ridiculed
Two nights later, when the midnight
relief came around to Parker's post it
found his musket lying on the ground,
but the man himself was missing.
He heard the call of the desert, and
he has gone to his death" whispered
his comrades.
1.-The man Is deserter, and I will
have him back here within two days
or resign my commission" exclaimed
the man of iron.
Squads were sent out, and the search
continued for three days without sue
cess Then the commandant deter
mined to put the post to shame and kill
sentiment and superstition at blow.
He mounted his horse and rode away
over the desert. He would find the de-
serter and bring him In. He believed
the man had taken food and drink
with him and pushed for the mining
towns on the other edge OF the sea Of
sand He should he overhauled and an
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
LABoR's WATcHWoRD.
The Political PoIicy Of ths Anorisaa
Federation.

Federation.
The convention OF the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor many years ago adopt
ed and often thereafter reafirmed the
following declaration Of Iabor's poIit-
icai policy:
That as our efforts are centered
against all forms Of industrial slavery.
and economic wrong, we must also d.
rect our utmost energies to remove all
forms Of political servitude and party
slavery, to the end that the working
people may act as unit at the polls
of every election.
THAT the American Federation Of
Labor most firmly and unequivocally
favors the independent use OF the bal
lot by the trades unionists and work
ingmen, united regardless Of party. that
we may elect men from our own ranks
to make new laws and administer them
along the lines laid down in the legis-
latlve demands of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and ut the same dime
secure an impartial judiciary that will
not govern us by arbitrary Injunction
Of the courts or act as the plant tools
Of corporate wealth.
The time Is now opportune for the
toiling masses of our country to carry
into effect their oft repeated dscIara-
ton.
Let the inspiring watchword 80 forth
that we will stand by our friends ard
administer singing rebuke to men
or parties who are either indifferent
negligent or hostile and wherever OPP
portunity affords to secure the election
OF intelligent. honest earnest trades
unionists with clear. unblenaished. paid
up union cards in their possession
Samuel Gompers in American Fedora
ticnist.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27
THE CHILD T0ILERS.
EFFORTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR TO
AGATE THE EVIL.

Trades Unionism Instrumental In the
Passage OF All Laws Prohibiting
the Employment of Children, Says
Samuel Gompers.
In an address before the national
child labor committee at Washington.
Samuel Gompers said in part:
To-day there liz no division of opin-
ion relative TO the lnadvisabliity aud
inhumanlty of employing children OF a
young and tender age in gainful occu-
pations. SO much ut least has been
gained In some sections of the coun-
try opposition Is still manifested
against the movement for the aboli-
ton of child labor upon the pretense
that the enactment OF such law
would be the encouragement OF organ
lied labor. am not prepared to deny
that. ass
MY honored friend. the commission
or of labor, anticipated the very re-
mark intended to make. and ] am
glad 10 be in accord with his judy
ment that an industry which depends
for its success upon the labor OF young
and Innocent children is not worthy
of success and ought TO go down
"There Is no law OH the statute books
of any state of the Union or in any
country that has for its purpose the
protection Of the child and the health
OF not only children, but women, but
that law is due directly to the efforts
of the much abused organizations of
labor.
at has been within my recollection
when the Hon Elbridge Il. Gerry Of
New York, for many years active In
the movement for the protection of
children, came before the conventions
OF the 4. r. Of l.. and said that the
hope and the mainstay for the nau-
ruration, the enactment and the en-
forcement OF child labor laws rest in
tho last degree upon the organizations
or labor.
'Tf there Is any one who harbors the
thought that the organizations or labor
are insincere IN the effort 70 have laws
PASSED and enforced for The protection
Of children. let me quote to you a
statement made BY O gentleman who,
presumably. was associated with Us in
the effort 10 abolish child labor, Or.
A. II. Icryberg. president OF the Gin
cinnati child labor committee. in which
hn said. The committee speaking for
his committee. is not In sympathy
80 AZ. ,,nvataaft If In hnr ttniona foy
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-27

Q We who poise O. iordiy head
In naughty, gold created pride,
Who walk Tie streety With idngiy tread
And brush the honest POOR aside,
Who think the toiiers but the scum
OF earth End always IN the WAY.
Know you the time win surely come
Whom You Will he M poor az they
That death viii level king and siave7
There'll be no caste beyond the grave.
You lock with proud and cold disdeIn
On those who toll for daily bread;
The clanking Of the labor chain
You hear With careless toys OF head;
You never shake poor mans hand
Unless you have an nx to grind.
Some new ambition 70 be famed
From coal 70 name, hut keep in mind
Death knows no master. Knows no
slave
Thcrc'r be no casts beyond tho grave.
This life is az n quick drawn breath
Compared unto eternity;
Ills but d span from birth to death.
Then out upon the shore1ess sea
We drift. and thcre the man OF pride,
Who was . king upon the earth.
Must float AZ equal side by side
With fellow man OF humber birth.
He cannot ride private wAye-
Thsrs'll be no caste beyond ME svavs