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We Must Call a Halt on the
Practice Of Giving Statutes a
Loose or a Strict Construction,
According as the One or the
Other Best Suits Monopolistic
Interests, to the Entire Disre-
gard of the W9ge Farmers.
The Strict or Narrow construc-
ton is Always Applied When
it is PROPOSED to Use the Pow
ers of Congress to Give Some
Protection to Workingmen
Against thf Lawless Tyranny Of
Gigantic Corporations.

SO long a the capitalistic interests.
and trust representatives and attor-
neys contrbl the machinery OF gov
ernment, Just so long will the wage-
earning classes of our nation be de-
prived Of their just measure Of recog-
BY what process of reasoning courts
can reach the conclusion that cer-
tain law is susceptible of an inter-
pretation that renders boycotting un-
lawful and blacklisting lawful, sur
passes comprehension.
Workers Waking Up.
The reasoning, to say nothing Of
the motives, of such decisions natur-
ally tend to awaken the working class
to their true position, and the sooner
they take a united and active interest
in regulating the affairs Of govern
ment the better will it be for them.
1t is very evident that conditions
have reached a crisis at which the
wage earners Of the nation must enter
politics or be ground down harder
tnan ever before.
Anti-Labor Decisions.
The anti-labor decisions of recent
date deal hard blows to labor. When
august judges hold that workmen
must repay threefold the loss of profit
caused by a peaceful boycott, and in
the same breath hold that the black
listing of workmen is perfectly law
full, it is clear that the spirit Of such
decisions can be summed up in the
words which Judge Jones Of the
It,St - II
bama used last summer in issuing an
injunction forbidding the States Rail-
road Commission to- attempt to COM
pei the railroad companies to~obey the
laws of the state.
Judge Jones' Decision.
In the course of his decision, Judge
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
The Sherman Antitrust Law
Enacted to Prevent Great Man.
ufacturers or Traders With
Railroads From Combining to
Crush Smaller Competitors, is
Now Used Almost Exclusively
Against Labor Organizations.

cases decided last month, it held that
the constitutional power to regulate
Interstate commerce does not include
power to make railway corporations
doing an interstate business liable for
damages when employees are killed or
injured at their work, nor to forbid
them to discharge employees for join
ing a trades union. That is the strict
or narrow construction, which is ap-
piled When it is proposed to use the
powers of Congress to give some pro-
lection to workingmen against gigan-
tic corporations. But the loose or
broad construction is applied when it
Is a question Of stretching the law so
as to protect capitalist corpora tons
against the efforts of workingmen' 8
organizations to improve the condi-
tions of labor by peaceful and orderly
methods Of disseminating correct in
formation and advising worlxingmen
not to buy from markedly hostile en-
ployers.
Another Drastic Decision.
The law seems to be made rigid or
elastic, according to the wbim Of the
court. The only rule is, decision must
be against labor, on the third inst.
The United States Supreme Court to-
day rendered another anti-labor de-
cision Of an even more drastic nature
than the two which preceded it on
January 6 and January 81. The court
unanimously held that a boycott insti-
tuted by a union of worlxingmen
against a capitalist establishment
which seeks market in more than
one state Is "a combination in re-
straint Of trade among the several
states' within, the meaning OF the
Sherman aAet. and IS therefore Iilini1law. ii I'D
full and. renders the institutors of the
boycott liable for damages to the capt.
talist concerned.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
HOW Do YOU LIKE /. ~
THIS TOBACCO?

Secretary Wilson Of the Depart
'ment Of Agriculture has been investi-
eating some Of the products Of the
American Tobacco company, known as
the trust, and declares that Bull Dur
ham is nothing but finely cut straw
board soaked in a liquid containing
tobacco. stems and tobacco refuse.
Dukes Mixture. is ; only 10 per cent.
tobacco 90aper cent, being alfalfa, q
grass used in the west for fattening
live stock" This report was pub
slished recently: and as It comes from
Uncle Sam himself we respectfully
.refersit to- those trades unionists who
really couldn't snnd any union, tobacco
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15

Jones said:
"An employer has a property right
in the services of his workmen in his
business. The employer can maintain
an action against any one who entices
his servant to leave him, or prevents
the servant from working for his en-
ployer This property right is pro-
tected bv the sanction Of our criminal
laws ALSO"
The employer has a property right
in the services Of his workmen. Any
action on their part which lessons the
value Of that property right of his is
unlawful. Any law Of state or nation
which lessons the value of that prop
erty right, which prevents him from
getting the largest possible profit out
of his workmen is unconstitutional.
That is the view Of the courts and
will be until workingmen vote to put
a different sort of men on the bench.
An Inverted Antitrust Law.
The Sherman Act is commonly
ostensible purpose, when enacted by
the Republican party, was to prevent
combinations of great manufacturers
or traders with railroads, etc., from
combining to crush smaller competi-
tors and drive them out Of business
In practice, under present judges, it
has been used almost exclusively
against labor organizations.
Two-Faced Interpretation.
The reason for the limitation Of its
provisions to matters Of Interstate
trade is that the Constitution oivas
Congress power to regulate commerce
between the states, but not to regu-
late commerce within any single state
The Supreme Court gives thts *pnrasye
a loose or strict constructions, &c,
cording as the one or the other suits
capitalist interests. Thus, in the two
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15

that would equal. Dukes Mixture or
Bull Durham, 1t is also stated by the
same, authority that the substance of
English curce Cur and Lucky
Strike" contain only 40! per cent to-
bacco, the rest being brown paper cut
fine. This statement will, no doubt,
open the eyes of the smoking publt.
and especially the union men who may
think that the above so-called to-
baccos are all right. The pure food
and non-adulteration law is respon-
sfble. for the reported. exposure of
the frauds on the public.-Fox River
Leader. ~#<
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
PRESIDENT GOMGERS
RES|sTs INJUNCTION
Insists That the Courts Iniunc.
tion Is a Menace to Personal
Liberty. j..
Case Will be Carried to the Su-
preme Court of the United
States, ..

Alton B. Parker and other promi-
nent attorneys have been retained and
the faithful president of the American
Federation of Labor, will test the case
in the supreme court.
He does not intend to comply with
all the terms of an injunction recently
issued by Justice Gould against put
ting the Buck Stove and Range COM
pany on the 1--WE don't patronize list"
Statement by Gompers. ri
In an editorial published in the
Federationist, Mr.. Gompers says: 'It
is an invasion of the liberty of the
press and the right of free speech.
We would be recreant to our duty did
we not do all in our power to point
out to the people the serious invasion
of the liberties which has taken place.
That this has been done by: judge
made Injunction and not by statute
law makes the menace all the greater.
THE matter of attempting to sup
press the boycott of the Buck, Stove
and Range company by Injunction,
while important, yet pales into insig-
nificance before this invasion and de-
nial Of constitutional rights.
I'VE discuss this, Injunction and
feel obliged as a matter of conscience
and principle, to protect--its issuance
and. Its enforcement, yet we desire it
to be clearly understood that the ed
itor of the American Federationist
does not consider himself thereby vio-
lating any law of either state or ma
tion, nor does he intend or advise any
disrespect toward the courts of our
country. And yet inherent, natural
and constitutional rights and guaran-
tees must be defended and maintain
ed." : '. i
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
FROM NEIGHBOR1NG
TOWNS.

i. Friends Of organized labor in our
nefghboring towns make it a point to
visit the Labor World office when in
Duluth. We are always delighted to
see them particularly when they are
such sterling characters as e. J. Wiley
of Coleraine and Harvey Knowles Of
Two Harbors. Each of them called
and found us out. We humbly apolo-
gize, and have instructed our adver-
tising manager that the next e. time
either of them comes, to hold him
until our return even If dt be from st.
Paul. In this day of lockout coldness
we need the warmth and inspiration
that contact with such men as Bros.
Wiley and Knowles will generate,
Don't want to miss you again boys.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
ANOTHER LESSON. !.
FOR Uhl0H%MEh.
The Utter and Absolute Folly Of
Placing Corporation Attorneys
In Judicial Positions. :
It Is High Time That Organized
Labor Was Getting It's
Eyes Opened.

Another law designed to hold in re-
straint the earth-owning and man.
owning corporations, and give some
protection to the people from the
creature of the law, has been swept
aside and declared null and void. The
Supreme Court of the United States,
by. a, vote of eight to one, declared un-
constitutional the law which declared
it illegal for a corporal tion to discharge
a man because he held membership in
a labor union. The opinion was de-
Iivered by Justice Harlan. and the
only dissenting vote was Justice Nc.
Kenna. It might be we'll to note in
passing that Justice McKenala, who
was appointed to- the Supreme Court
by William Mckinley, was one of the
Justices who dissented from the opin-
ion, lately given. declaring unconstitu-
tional the Employers Liability law.
Blows May Be Beneficial.
q Organized labor has lately received
several blows from federal judges,
which, when one considers, may be to
their benefit, II those decisions but
stir trade unions out Of their letharw
and bring to them proper realiza-.
tion Of the danger of having corpor-
alton attorneys in high places.
=; - logic OF the Decision.
'The union is q lawful association.
and If man can be discharged be-
GAUGE. he belongs to a labor union, by
the same logic he can be discharged
II he belongs to political party OBJ
jectionable to the employer, Or to q
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children, whose fathers the iniquitous
aggregation would reduce to starva-
ton wages, and thus consign' us all to-
a + life Of perpetual and unamerican
hopelessness." o.!
Inconsistency Of Judges.
BY process; Of reasoning which We
women cannot understand, and which
would: not be much to our credit if
we did, certain, judges brought up in
n1onopolistic atmospheres have de-
clared the bla;cklisting Of our nus
bands as perfectly legal, and the boy
cotting of the same parties by our
husbands as very illegal. We will see
what. these trust-serving; Judges will
do and say, when we women. refuse
to make purchases Of any .merchan-
disc. whatsoever unless it bears. the
union label.
More EffsetuaI Methods.
We. are not going, to trouble our
selves over unfair" lists or over I'VE
don't patronize" merchants. We have
more effectual< methods. Before the
Duluth union, busting aggregation
shall starve us into submission they
will require to be: fortified by some-
thing more enduring than even the
immaculate steel trust. The heavier
the burdens imposed on us the .more
determination shall we put forth on
behalf OF; our husbands, and children"
Merchants Must Elect.
THE merchants on Superior street
will be given an opportunity to elect
whose patronage they desire. II they
prefer the friendship OF those who
buy their dry goods and other mer-
ehandise In New York and Chicago to
that of the wage-earners who expend
their money at home on *Daanth mel.
ctandise they can do SO, but we wo-
men propose to know what their elec-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
APPRENTICE LAWS
" . BEING FORMULATED
Committee From National Asso.
citation of Master Plumbers
Confer With Committee
From United Association of Jour.
neymen Plumbers of United
States and Canada,

The conference was held at the
Grand hotel, Indianapolis, Ind, on
January 11th, to devise ways and
means for regulating the apprentice
question. The committee of the
United Association make the follow
ing report thereof:
Report Of Committee.
"The meetings were Of very
pleasant and harmonious nature and
it was evident that there was not a,
very wide difference Of opinion exist
Ing between any members Of this
joint committee on the subject which
Had brought us together. The matter
was well and thoroughly gone over
and your committee feel assured that
the result Of this meeting will prove
satisfactory to all concerned. 1t was
certainly very gratifying to learn that
we were all so nearly Of the same
mind and during the meetings there
was an entire absence of friction and
nothing but harmony prevailed. The
result of this meeting will be referred
to the respective organizations and
beyond doubt will lead to further and
more complete conclusions. The fol-
lowing propositions were introduced
as a basis and were discussed at
length by both committees:
- Proposition I. Each shop to be en-
titled to one apprentice and one addi-
tional apprentice for every 90 men
steadily employed up to twenty (20).
but in no case shall any shop employ
more than four ca apprentices.
Each apprentice. shall be registered
by q joint committee and must serve
an apprenticeship Of five co. years.
Proposition 2. It is expressly un-
derstood that in localities where pro.
visions have already been made to re-:
strict the production of the. appren-
tice less than herein provided they are
not to be subjected to this agreement.
I. With reference to these propositions
It will be we'll to say that the first
met with approval from both commit
tee, while the second~-was approved
BY your committee and disapproved by
the committee representing the master
plumbers. -,...r.~ ..-,I .., :,
s However, nothing binding was i'm
posed on either committee and. thu
distinct understanding was :, reached
that the entire matter should be re-
ferred to the respective organizations
In convention assembled,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
UNEMPLOYED WoRKMEN. =
TO MARCH AT PITTSBURG

P1TTSBURG, Pa, Feb. =. 12.-Unem-
ployed workmen OF Allegheny at a
mass meeting today organized as the
Employment seekers Of the North
Side" and decided to march to the city
hall, tho seat OF government of greater
Pittsburg, tomorrow morning and de-
mand employment. A fife and drum
ners, with suitable Inscriptions have
been secured, two Of them reading a.
follows: I'VE must have work SO that
we can feed our starving families"
and "All idle workmen are welcome In
our army" z#
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sOOD OF, THE WHOLE
Ii THE ONLY QUESTION.

Tbs women. contend that. the
so-called captains Of Industry and
emplQyers Of labor are merely the
agents OF society. That special
privileges, and vested rights are
not divine rights.
But, are the RESULT of arrorant
assunaDtiOn ON the part of: such
interests, stn the face Of the In
enestual% protests OF the majority.
They say. TINT the rights OF
property enjoyed by corporations,
business interests, are all the pro-
ducts Of soctety's endeavorinx to
c0ncede to Individuals such In.
dustrial methods a. will concedey
to the general good. >
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
BEVERIDGE AND GARFIELD
SPEAK AT CHICAGO

CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-United States
Senator Albert J. Beveridge Of Indiana
was the principal speaker at the an
nual Lincoln day banquet of the Mar;
quette club here tonight Another
speaker was James r. Garfield. Sec:
retary Of the interior. s4 s.. . s@s5.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15

A meeting under the auspices of the
State Federation of Labor was held
at Kalamazoo hall on Tuesday after
noon Of this week. George B. How
ley, president Of the State Federation,
who has been in Duluth for several
days, seeking to bring the lock- out
promoters and organized labor with
in speaking distance Of each other
called the meeting to order and I'M
troduced Mrs. w. A. Wannecka, leader
in the movement for the organization
OF a Woman's Label League in Du-
luth.
Mrs. Wannecka's Address.
The good lady was confronted by
an audience Of over 400 women, the
wives of wage-earners, and about 800
men representatives Of the various
trades affected by the present lock-
out. Mrs. Wannecka told Of the OBJ
jects Of the Woman's Union Label
League Auxiliary, and demonstrated
that the league was the most effec.
tual means yet devised to ensure to
the working man his just share Of the
profits produced by his toll.
Cause Of tho Trouble.
I cannot said Mrs. Wannecka, "at
this moment put my finger. on the
absolute excuse for the present clock
OUT; but in this instance as in all
others throughout. our land, the re-
spectacle anarchy of the so-called Ma,
tional Association Of Manufacturers is
very much in evidence as the motive
power, and: we are all: justified in
viewing its. movements with appre-
r! hension - not only on account Of the
thousand Of children, whose lives ft
would wear cut and ruin in mills and
factories. but on account Of our own
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
CUTLER AND HOPPE ~.
EACH WIN "A GAME

ANN .ARBoR, Mich. Eel: s12.-Willie
Hoppe and Albert Cutler met In two
500 point 49, balk line games OF bill
lizards here this afternoon and evening.
In the first. game Cutler won,450O to
800, with an average OF So 5t Tonight
Hoppe reversed this andswans by 500
to ! 1za : with IN. average of u 3-ss.
Hoppe's higth run was Isl while Cuts
ler's was 2o3. slls.eeq. s:sS5
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talnment of unionism or union men or
women. Stand by it, you who smoke
When you buy union label cigar you
get your moneys worth or good to.
bacco, of good, cleanly, we'll paid,
honest labor. When you buy a 'scab'
cigar, you endanger your health, and
help to oppose your fellow working
men and women and pull down the
union banner."-Vermont Union Sig
nal.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
AN EASTERN OPINION OF CIGAR
MAKERS UNION.
In Which We Of the West do Mos
Heartily Concur,

Heartily Concur.
THE Cigarmakers' Internationa
Union is one of the bravest, brainiest
and best unions in the world. We re.
peat the statement here. 1t is and
aids the sick and buries the dead.
helps pecuniarily the men who are
out. OF work and protects the health
of those who are at work. It stands
for higher wages and shorter hours,
and is the strongest exemplar among
the unions of the value of the union
label. It's methods are business meth.
DDS, honorable, pjust and far-sighted.
1t asks nothing that it cannot concede.
denies nothing that it can give in sus-
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EQUAL RIGH1

,
EQUAL R1GH1 lt
"When the courts zs@ nA
the employer, as they TsxZzAS O. D
rights of the emplOyen'1<
property the rights Of psS. ~
they should no less emphaN
make 1t evident that they .S1
exact from property and from the
employer the duties which should
necessarily accompany those
rights; and hitherto our laws
have failed in precisely this point
to enforce the performance. Of
duty by the man of property to-
ward the man who works for
him, and by the man of great
wealth, especially If he uses that
wealth I'm corporate form, toward
the investor, the wage worker
and the general public"
-TIIEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
Dry Goods Merchants, Grocery
Stores and In Fact Every Line
of Commercial Endeavor in the
City Of Duluth Will Have to
Reckon With a Force That Has
Proved Irresistible in the
Worlds History.

Napoleon the Great When g. Soil
tary Prisoner on the Desolate
Island of St. Helena, attributed
His Reverses and Downfall to
the Prayers and Influence Of
the Good Women of Christian
Europe. "
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-15
WORKING CLASS MUST ENTER POLITICS =..:.
NO OTHER NlTERNATA|E LEFT THEM

Laws ostensibly Enacted to Pre-
vent unlawful Combinations of
Greedy Capitalists Are Inter-
preted to Suppress the Peaceful
and Orderly Methods of Or
ganized Labor Not to Patronize
Hostile Employers.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-25
BRITISH CONSUL DEPARTS
5 IN STRANGE MANNER

CHICAGO, ILL, July a4.-The Tr TIL
bune to-day says It be came kno own last :ls
night that Alexander Finn, British
consul for Chicago, departed suddenly
for England on June Gath last, taking
his effects with him. and falling TO
give general notice OF his departure.
Also 1t was learned that Thon me-
Erskine, formerly British vice consul
here, has come from ST. Louis to ad-s
minister the affairs Of the British
Offices in this city. T he strange thing
In connection with Mr. Flnn's depar-
ture Is the secrecy which apparently
pertaiued to 1t. At No. II 8 cass Street,
where Mr.. rim made his home with his
wife and daughter, IT was said that g
suite Of rooms which Mr.. Finn had
enga ged for o occupancy by himself and
family beginning July LIST. We're res
leased two weeks before Mr.. Finn left
for England. He had stated that Mrs,
Finn ana daughter would arrive from
England about the first Of this month";.
Mr.. Finn told some mel hbors that
had advised him to SO away
On account OF rheumat ism. Also 1t was
stated that lie had lost twenty pounds
weight within a month. Mr. Finn said
that he expected to be back. In the {
autumn, &
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-25
GRAND JURY TO
Make { INQUIRY.
Judge Witt Orders searchlight
Thrown on Conditions at
City Home.

Impressed with the necessity illegal
investigation into the conditions now
prevailing at the City Home. Judge
Witt, OF the Hastings Court. yesterday
Instructed the grand Jury to investi-
gate the home affairs so that blame, II
there be blame. for the circumstances
that led up to the murder OF BABY
Vaughan and the subsequent suppress
sion OF information concerning the
crime, might be placed on responsible
shoulders. The Judges charge to the
grand jury was strong and In plain
terms July Goth was set as the day
for the investigation.
Addressing the jury, Judge Witt said:
~ wish, when you gentlemen retire
to your room, You would consult nmonE
yourselvcs as to when 1t Will be con.
take up another matter to which de-
sire to call your attention. have OBJ
served from the Newspaper reports
that the condition of affairs at the City
Home IN such as demand your imme-
dintc and closest attention. The affair,
In my opinion, demands nm investiga-
tIon OF the most thorough md sacruti-
mixing order. There appears to have
been criminal negligence on the part
OF somebody connected with the homo.
Conditions there, MS represented, are
u Disgrace both to the city und 10
humanity. You are to probe this mat
ter to the bottom, that the public may
know who Is responsible. This part
of the city government at least will
let the public know that 1t has done
Its duty"
The jury is composed OF men OF af-
fairs. able and intelligent. They are
Captain Charles F. Taylor. foreman;
A. G. Hartman, Captain John a. Curtis,
NJ Cullingworth, Blair Boiling, n.
4. Ellyson, Moses Hutzler, H. T. Car
ter and Abner Cooley (colored).
The grand jury Investigation will 30
thorough and rigid. An expert court
stenographer will be employed. If nee.
essary. The inquiry will be not only
into the baby's tragic death, but will
also take up conditions in the city
Home. Il 80. 80