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making and gambling lie Saa a
personal friend ~ the famous Bat
Mastersou. and lived with Master
son in Dodge cts Kansas during
Mastersons stirring career there.
fiood vas often mistaken Tor the
F1God who fought John l. suill-
van. and sometimes ianEhlnglY ad.
mitied that be vas the man but
Dave Argyle. Floods wRrmest
friend in this country. said today
that he merely admitted the honor
thus thrust upon him 70 save ar
Eumeut
Jack Flood vas 50 years old
and leaves widow living at
Georgetown
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Fishing Season

Nov IL the time 10 get your
fishing rods Fishing will BE- good
from now On. A 1. Hall. I'LL
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WHEAT ABOVE
A DOLLAR

fs~fipp. TELEGRAPH s@rsfee.)
CHICAGO. May 2i.--wheat again
wsnt above the 81 mark today. July
closing At sI.0tn.
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IRISH TURN DOWN
HOME RULE BILL

DUBLIN. May Fl The Irish ma.
tionaiint convention today rejected
Hirrsirs home rule bill offered b.
the eahinst and adopted Redmond 3
plan
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MANY WANT JOBS.

Today IS draughtsmen and com.
puferH took examinations for posi-.
lions In the city engineers office.
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a trial trip piil be- made ~ mo
Yosemite. nov fitted ~ a. sEcur-
sion steamer. on Saturday afternoon
stHrtfur 20 E o'clock. making Hain-
bridge Island. Agate Pass. nremsr-
con. Port HIakeiey. Tho YaasmltA
goes into commiasion on Saturday
right
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lily becomes as a candidate a relatively
good or bad politician, representing
for brief term policy that may
change with his successor. 1t is plain
that In this political situation the re-
sultant labor problem is most difficult.
An employee can only hold Office in UNI
certainty, with its consequent evils.
This form of disquiet is not usual in
private employment. As to Richmond,
burning race question indeed, North
and South, were municipalization gem
orally adopted and Rlchmond's exam
pie in that respect followed.
"Any advantage in wages or hours
to be figured out for the municipal en-
terprises Investigated in America over
the private ones compared with them
look much like stale illustrations Of
the soft berths to be found in public
employment. To what extent the jobs
are political for the employees single
or collectively, or a bid for the labor
vote is constantly a question. A cor
rect view takes in these points: SYRIA
cuse, the wages situation politically
lebauched; Wheeling the same; Al
iegheny, the same, to an extent that
when a difference of 50 to 100 per
cent, in favor of multiplication is
soberly computed by one maa i. makes
another laugh; Detroit private and
municipal plants but snare differ
ence; Cleveland, nine hours municipal
as against ten IN he general aoor
market, wages the sane; Chicago fire.
men in the fire department do not re-
ceive union rates; New Haven, no
undertakings; hours, eight
public departments, as against nine
water works; Philadelphia, United Gas
Company. he1Ier wages
and hours THAI any city department.,
and reductions from twelve-hour
shifts under municipal operation to
eight under the ccIuT any. with higher
wages, Further points To be kept in
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who have the ear of the clamorous
among the hungry masses, but the re-
cent elections have gone against the
radical sentiment and appropriations
from councils and Parliament are
commonly expected to cease or follow
slowly.
''In America the municipalized en-
terprises visited by our labor investi-
gators have been rich mines for signi-
fieant facts relating to politics rather
than to labor. These facts are not
usually among those heretofore en-
phasized by the American advocates
of municipal ownership. The testi-
mony as to political rottenness, root
and branch, in Syracuse, Allegheny
and Wheeling is conclusive. The
municipal plants examined in these
cities it is to be remembered, were
selected as models by representative
municipalities of the commission. Nor
is the politico-labor situation in De-
troit, Cleveland, Chicago or Rich
mond at all settled as well as it might
be. In Cleveland, the present mayor
in the beginning increased his reform
forces in the public water department
$50 as to strengthen his vote in the
primaries-an act possible at all times
also under the next and succeeding
administrations, which may be bad
where the present is good The de-
gree of purity attained by the present
administration is attributable to the
officials and the public sentiment
aroused, and not to NATURALIZATION
In Chicago, where civil service is iron>
clad, the appointment by the mayor of
heads and even Of the
Civil Service Commission itself, has
more than once proved a vulnerable
point in the civic armor, with sad re-
suits. In Detroit, Cleveland or Chi
cago, the stability of the municipality
operated enterprises rests largely on
the mayor, who, however, personally
estimable and statesmanlike, necessar-
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Summarizing what precedes Win
the exception of the twelve-hour sta
tions Of the South Metropolitan Cons
pany, and taking into account the gem
eral level of wages in the several To-
calities, it cannot be said that there is
any material difference between the
public and private undertakings dn' the
wages Of stolxers or in the average
wages of the shift-workers in the re-
tort houses. The differences that oc-
cur do not show prevalence one way
or the other, but they tend to follow
pretty closely the general level of
wages in the locality, irrespective OF
whether the undertaking is managed
by a municipality or by a private CONS
pany. The case of the twelye-hour
shifts of the South Metropolitan Com-
pany is peculiar and requires the dis
cussion Of another aspect of the guess
tion-the amount of work done by the
stokers.'
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view; With the companies mentioned
many times more hands are employed
than with the. municipalities. good
men have been more cef';,iI, Of retain
ing their places; she employees pay no
political assessments and are other
wise politically free; they work under
better conditions as to comfort and flu
ture prospects. Public employees, fire.
quently against their will, under
duress from officials who may injure
them, promote by election contribu-
tions the fortunes of certain men and
parties, though at heart they may be
opposed to both. The revolutionary
or, councilman or department head
not only in appointing, but in promot-
ing or dismisslng employees, is exposed
to partisan, personal, social or other
pressure.
Even If the reformer in office is
genuine, even if the scheme he has
promises well for the working masses,
there arises the question of the dura
ton of his official powers and those of
his successors with similar aims, to-
gether with the assiduous attention of
the public to its own self protection"
Foreign to American Genius.
On examining municipalization as
exhibited in the labor reports, Mr..
Sullivan declares, it is seen to be a
project to restrict men in their activi-
ties by methods foreign to the Ameri-
can genius, while in, practice it has
failed to make out the case of its ad-
vocates as in the least measure a step
forward in promoting the best inter-
ests Of the employees Of the enterprise
investigated, or of the occupations
most closely interviewer with them, or
of the nations broadening masses.
Mr.. Sullivan in his report says:
My colleague and myself, in closing
our joint inquiry as to wages and con-
ditions in the British gas undertakings
visited, agree In saying
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Continued on Twelfth Page.)
A CARD OF THANKS

From Union No. 1, w. c. T. u, to Rev.
Mr.. Haynes and Others.
The ladies of Union No. l, W. CT.
u, at their last meeting of the season
voted to send their sincere thanks to
Rev. A. j.. Haynes, pastor Of the Unit
ed church; the choir, the organist and
the janitor; to the Rev. w. w. w. Will
son, the Rev. Donald Munro for their
kindness during the General Dagett
lecture, Sunday afternoon, June 30.
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Politics.

In the course of his report Prof Com
mons said
II take 1t that the key to the whole
question of municipal or private own
ership is the question of politics. For
politics is simply the question of get
ting and keeping the right kind Of men
to manage and operate the municipal
undertakings, or to supervise, regulate
and bargain with the private undertake
ings. The klnds of business that we
are dealing with ar essentially monop-
oiies performing q public service, and
are compelled to make use Of the
streets which are public property. If
their owners are private companies
they are compelled to get their fran
chises and all privileges of doing busi-
ness, and all terms and conditions of
service from the municipal authorities.
And in carrying out their contract with
the municipality they are dealing con-
tinually with municipal officials. Con-
sAouently it Is absurd to assume that
private ownership is non-political. 1t
Is lust as much a political question to
get and keep honest or business-like
municipal officials who will drive good
bargains with private companies on
behalf of the public and then see that
the bargains are lived up to, as it is
to get similar officials to operate a
municipal plant We do not escape pol
itics by resorting to private ownership
we only get a different kind of prac-
teal politics"
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Examples in Various Cities.

Referring to unfavorable conditions
politically under municipal operation
and citing an investigation of the
Wheeling Gas works, Prof. Commons
says:
'The secretary of the Wheeling Gas
trustees, quoted by my colleague as
testifying to the political rottenness of
the municipal gas works, is the same
man who testified to the political rot
tenness of the private gas, electricity
and street car companies of that To-
cality. Instead Of relying on his state
ments, l interviewed a large number
of officials, politicians, business men,
employees and others, and checked up
his statements respecting both the gas
works and the corporations. This shows
that while the gas works are in poll
tics, the public service corporations are
also in politics. The gas employees take
part in the primaries of the Republic
can party and the motormen and con-
ductors of the street cars companies
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The influence of wage-earners
through their unions upon the condi-
tons of municipal employment in the
United States has been complicated
through the presence and activity of
practical politician. In the municipal
enterprises Investigated, except South
Norwalk and Richmond, the eight-hour
day has been established for the past
ten or fifteen years for all employees,
whereas, in the private companies the
hours are longer or have more recent
" ben reduced for a portion, but not
all, OF their employees in the more skill
ed branches of work. This advantage
in municipal undertakings has been
brought about not by definite labor
party, but by the influence of wage
earners as voters upon the municipal
officials
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The Sheffield company, although its
president mad openly attacked and
wrecked trade unions in hts private
business, contented itself with gradual
~ undermining the gas workers union,
through the payment of wages and
bonuses superior to those paid by 9TH
Ter private employers of the district,
and even in the case of unskilled labor,
superior to those paid by the corpora
ton of Sheffield.
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Joseph Haggert has resigned as
deputy Republican registrar for the
Fifth ward. General Registrar Knoll-
meyer has appointed George f. Holl-
aeher to fill the vacancy.
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Prof. Commons view.

The views expressed by Prof. Com
mons are in many respects favorable
to municipal ownership. He finds, how
ever, that the proper method of dealing
with employees is the most difficult and
critical problem Of municipal owner
ship, and he favors recognition of or
ganized labor as a safeguard against
the pressure Of outside (politicaD rec
concentrations.
On this subject he says:
THE appointment promotion and dis
missal of employees and the wages to
be paid offer peculiar opportunities for
political and personal influence incon-
sistent with efficiency. Civil service re-
form, so-called has been found in it's
highest perfection in the city Of Chlca-
go, but it is evident by comparison
with a less perfect device in Syracuse
that its integrity depends on the politi-
cal influences that control the mayor
and the heads Of departments. If the
head Of the department Is independent
Of politics, as shown in Cleveland, De-
troit and South Norwalk. the civil SER
vice commission is not needed. The
| Chicago system is temporary bulwark
lbuilt around the departments until such
| time as the chief officer himself can
also be protected from political selec-
ton. This is the case in British cities
where the idea of a civil service COM
mission is unknown.But even there, es-
peclally in the Sheffield tramways, APP
pointments have been made on the rec
ommendation of councillors The ex-
perience of Glasgow Is instructive, Fiji
teen years ago the practice of hiring
employees on the recommendation of
councillors was universal in all depart
ments. But with the growth Of munich
pal ownership it has almost disap-
peared
"Our Investigations have shown tina.
the strongest safeguard for manager
against the pressure of outside recon-
mendations is the recognition of organ
lied labor within his department
wherever we have found a class of
employees organized and dealt With as
such through their representatives we
have found those positions exempt
from politics. This follows from the
nature Of labor organization which cam
not survive If individuals are given
preference on political religious, per-
sonal or any other grounds than the
character of the work they do. Even
In the politically honeycombed munich
bal undertaking at Allegheny, the I'M
ion Of electrical workers stopped the
practice Of paying assessments by its
members for political campaigns, The
success OF the civil service system Of
Chicago is owing more than anything
else to the tact that organized labor
has one of the three members on each
examining board The manager of the
Manchester tramways ascribes his free
dom from Interference by individual
councillors to his recognition of the
union that holds 80 per cent. of his mo-
tormen and conductors"
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Wages of Labor.

in general, Prof Commons finds
common labor better paid by munich
palities. in America than by private
companies. He says;
I'm the United States the minimum
paid for common labor BY the private
companies is, in all cases except At
lanta, lower than that of the municl-
patty, and the minimum paid for
common labor by municipal undertake
ings is higher than that of private
of the same locality.
In none of the American enterprises
Investigated were the common labor
ers organized. In the municipal UNI
dertakings they are paid higher wages
and given shorter hours than in the
case of private employees Of the same
locality. They are also In all cases
citizens Of the United States and resid-
ents of the locality. The common la
Dor of the private companies, except
In Indianapolis and the southern cit
les, where they are colored, Is COM
posed largely Of immigrants and no at
tention is paid as to whether they
have secured citizenship papers or not.
I'm the matter Of wages and hours
the principal effect of municipal own
ershlp is seen in the unskilled and UNI
organized labor in both countries, In
that of street railway employees in
Great Britain and in that Of gas work.
ers and electric workers in the United
States"
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MIR. sulIIvan's Report.

Mr. Sullivan sums up his obserVa-
tons with the conclusion that in all
but the most poorly paid forms Of la
Dor, and for tramway employees, muni.
equalization has not raised the wage or
improved working conditions of the
employees above conditions In the pri-
vate undertakings. With respect 10
Common, unorgan sed laborn how
lever the Investigators found differ
ence somewhat favorable to British
municipal employees. The report cli6s
two causes for this condition: irsl,
that the municipal laborcr Ia a picked
man, and second, that this class Of
labor is capable OF exertihg On city
councils a combined pressure which
obtains for them better terms than the
lemploying ouneillors accord ID the
men they hire in heir private capan-
Iity for similar work. IN, street car
undertaking in Great Britain has ever
been a private enterprise In The sense
in which the word as applied in this
country SAYS Mr.. Sulvaa. 1.-THE
ltwenty-one Jears term Of the fran
chise, the veto If c1mrang petitions
by village authorities, the enormous
cost Of Parliamentary powers and To-
cal assents. and various other restric-
tons non-existent in the United States
shackle and impoverish British tram
way company management and conse-
quently forbid an intelligent investi-
gator to employ British example to IL
lustrate possibilities in America
through change from private to NUM-
cipal ownership. British tramways
have always been semi Municipal AS
by the terms of their franchises all
English tramway undertakings may be
taken over by the municipalities, d.
Irectors manage their properties with
that end in view. Compared with the
remarkable changes for the better in
wages and hours in the American
street car industry under companies,
the best of the British municipal la
Dor improvements seem hardly more
than trivial"
Conditions in British municipalities,
Little attention has been given in
tAAS ANPCAb ~ Inv AAoGS Va DIlNlSil
municipalities who would carry NUM-
cipal ownership into fields wherever
they imagine promise of a speedy rem
edy for civic abuses or economic bet
terment for the masses. "If any of
the utopian schemes of these NUM-
cipalizers had still bid fair to be full
filed" the report continues, the facts
would have been given passing recog-
milton and the hopeful outlook touched
upon. Rather are there indications
that the tide in practical municipallz-
alton is turned. Where advocates once
looked for a constant expansion, this
has been arrested by disillusion. Gov
eminent ownership of undertakings of
electricity and light railways covering
supra-municipal areas may be called
for, but there the practical political
leaders show a disposition to halt.
With regard to municipal lodgings,
steamboats, and miscellaneous supplies
there has been reaction Platform de-
mands may be more numerous than
lever with extremely radical theorists
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are given leave of absence on pay to
work in the primaries of both the Re
publican and Democratic parties. Even
the officers Of the street railway en-
ployes' union take part in this kind OF
traction politics on behalf of their
employees The councilmen and al
dermen nominated and elected in this
way control the municipal gas works
and they control the franchises
and contracts Of the private COM
panies. The City Hall Ring Is just
as much a ring Of the political tools
Of the private corporations as it is the
ring of municipal politicians. To pick
out the politics of the gas works and
not to see that it is bound up with the
politics Of the private corporations
would be a perverse and one-sided
method of investigation. The report
gives not selected facts, but all OF the
facts in the situation Indeed, the sec
rotary of the Wheeling Gas Trustees,
in his indignation towards the politi-
cal management of the gas works, re-
fered to by my colleague, was defeated
in the Republican primaries by the
motormen and conductors of the street
car company on leave OF absence as
political workers.
"In cities other than Wheeling the
convention system prevails instead Of
the direct primaries, and consequent
lily it was not found that the wage
earners of the private companies took
a similar active part in political cam
Ipaigns. But in Syracuse, Allegheny,
indianapolis and Philadelphia, where
municipal employees are named by po-
Iliticians, it was found also that street
car, electric, gas and water companies
had employed men on the recommend
alton of councllmen, mayor or chair
man of a political committee, This
Ipractice was carried furthest by the
street car companies Of Syracuse and
Allegheny. In Chicago, where a most
rigid civil service law is enforced no
levidence of political appointments
lcould be found IN the municipal cleo
tricity or water departments during
recent years, but men were hired on
Recommendation of aldermen by the
private electrical companies at the
time when their contracts were before
the council for renewal"