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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
OUR ACTUAL RULERS.

Forms Of government remain
long after Il total change Of the
substance. We should not deludc
ourselves with the idea that the
people govern in this country, and
that through the congress and
state legislatures they shape their
own deStinicS. when in truth and
IN fact they can not pass a single
statute of any kind or nature
however urgently demanded, IN.
less the statute shall meet the APP
prevail OLA majority of the lawyers
who happen ut the time to com
pose the highest court.
In some states two lawyers Ca
majority OF three) can thus pre-
vent or nullfy all legislation. In
other states three or four LAWYERS
according as the court may have
tive or seven judges hold the
absolute unrestricted power to de-
Stroy the announcement Of the
popular will by the Legislature,
and five lawyers, Il majority of the
Supreme Court Of the Union,
said, venerable, conservative, and
by reason of their years not I'M
naturally averse to new measures
can at will bring any movement of
the people of congress to an i'm
pcrative halt: Ninety millions
must stand instantly still at their
command.
The form of the enactment Of all
laws, if the fact were truly express
ed, would be "Bc it enacted by
the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, if the Majority of the
Supreme Court shall assent there
to for Congress can enact nothing
against their consent.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
LABOR NOTES.

VILLAIN ID. Ryan of Springfield. ILL.,.
the national secretary treasure of the
United Mine Workers of America. will
retire on April of next year to enter
new field Of work. He has been SEQ
rotary for twelve years.
John Samuel Of st. Louis. who is
hlhetE-lWo years of age. still takes an
interest in organized labor. His spe-
cialty is cooperation.
Boston Roofers' Protective union has
ceaScd 10 exist. Its members have
transferred to Boston Sheet Metal
Workers union
W. H. Carter Of Peoria. for years the
general OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is now
grand master Of the brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen and Engineman
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10

The union label speaks an elo-
quent language. 1T tells Of mans
rights to the enjoyment of life's
best blessings and how they may
be obtained. 1t tells you that the
goods you buy carrying this
emblem were made in union shop
by union wOrkmen, under union
conditions. This is the mission Of
the label. 1t is up to union men
and women to make it glorious
reality.
The label is beyond reach of the
injunction; it connot be adversely
affected by any court decision;
when you patronize it you are
doing your part towards solving
the questions of blacklist and boy
colt. Keep in mind that every
dollar spent for an article made by
non union labor is helping to de-
prive some union man or woman
of employment.
We urge our union people not to
become indifferent in regard to
the Importance of boosting the
label. Let every union man and
woman of Charleston be a label
booster. The time has come when
we must concentrate all our
energies toward increasing the
power of the label.
All hands on the label lob,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10

ment i'll regard to prices, trade could
be regulated so that each concern
could live and make profits:
When Europe Objected.
A detonation factory was being
built in New Jersey at that time to
which the European concerns object
ed, The companies in this country
agreed, according to the document, to
stop the erection of this factory. 1t
was also agreed that the United
States should buy 100000 pounds of
decorators from Europe.
Regulations were made as to black
powder sportsmen's powder and
smokeless military powders.
1t was agreed, the document set
forth, that if the United States re-
ccived any bids from foreign coun.
try for smoicless military powder it
would find out what the European
Germs here should not bid any less
than the same price and should bid
more.
World Divided Into Districts.
The world was divided into districts
over which each country should have
jurisdiction. Mexico was American
territory; South America was divided
between Europe and America; the
West Indies and British Honduras
were common property and the rest
of the world was European territory
1t was agreed that fees should be paid
INTO common treasury and all fines
should be paid into 4 common treas
ury to be used for the benefit of all
the concerns
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
The Argus is greatful to its sub

The Argus is greatful to its sub
scribcrs who have come up with
the coin i'll answer to it's warning
and also to those who have had
the nerve to order it discontinued
without paying their arrearges.
Its editor was taught when quite
young that it was proper and right
to treat all men as gentlemen until
they proved themselves something
else. In trying to live up to that
early lesson he has paid dearly for
the knowledge Of mankind he now
has. but he is glad to relate that
in this instance the gentlemen out
numbered the rascals some dozens
to one, and if that ratio is main
tanned this paper will have very
gentlemaniy lot of subscribers
when we write 1907 for 1OOS's ac-
counts.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
VICTORY FOR LABOR.
Supreme Court of New York Holds
Contract With Union Valid.


Contract With Union Valid.
The appellate division of the supreme
court Of New York, second depart
ment, has decided that Il contract made
Oy 4 corporation with q labor union
whereby only union men shall be en-
ployed should be uphcld.as valid and
binding Certain employees of a
brooklyn corporation Zone Il stockhold-
err hesitated at joining the Stereo-
typers and Electrotypcrs' union after
the latter had secured an agreement
With the company to employ only
members of the union. These en-
ployces were served with notice that
they must either join the union or
separate themselves from the comma
ny's employ. They then brought suit
against the union to set aside rho con-
tract between it and tho 90, a
the ground that the latter ed
by uurcSS to execute it an ID
thal the officials of the company be en-
joined from Diminishing them.
On the original trial evidence on the
part of the plaintiffs was furnished
showing that the union had organized
throughout thc country n boycott
against the products of the comDauy
the consequence of which was the on
ecutlon of the contract to employ none
but union men. The sitting Justice
ruled In favor of the union, UNFOLDING
the contention that the lattcr's efforts
CO uhlonlze the company were legal
ana tnat the contract was voluntarily
executed. An appeal was taken with
the result that the lower court was IN
held.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
INCREASED COST OFF LIVING.

The increase in the cost of co m
modltles has not been offset by an
increase in wages and salaries.
For the past few years there has
been so much talk about the pros
perlty of the wage Garner, that he
himself has almost been led to
believe that such statements have
some foundation. in fact, nOtwith-
standing that the knowledge Of
the lnadeuuacy of his earnings
with regard to their purchasing
power has been forced upon h i'm
again and again. Prices for food,
clothing and shelter have gone
soaring upward, forcing the work.
ers |" clrtall their expenses, to
live IN closer quarters and to aug
ment the family income by placing
at work children who should be
kept at school.
Smaller living quarters, poorer
nourl>hmcnt. less recreation and
''il'i i.l'pol are Illc natural con-
sequences of an increased cost of
living that is not equalized by the
rise IN wages.
Employers are only to prone to
complain of the greed Of the work
1nS1nen Who ask for 4 constant in
crease OF pay. without taking into
consideration the conditions that
force those men to demand that
what the'dollar has lost in pur-
chasing power shall be made up to
them III part at least.
Not until there has been brought
about 4 more equal relation be
tween the wages received by the
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
DEMAND THE LABEL.

Demand the label, cards and
stamps. The poor emaciated gar
ment worker, living and laboring
in tenements under unsanitary CON
ditions, underfed and poorly paid,
is entitled to our assistance. De.
mand the label, the only emblem
of far conditions and fair wages in
the workshop.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1908.
LABOR'S WATCHWORD,

We mW stund by 0ur friends and
administer II stinying rebuke to men
On. pu,'tirs rho are either inditcr ent,
ncyliycn or hostle, and, aohcnerer OPP
poyt,uity unords, Secure the election
Of intelligent, honest, earnest hutles-
unjohisis uih, unblen1ished, 1,aid atE
nniOn cu,'iS IN Meu' possession.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
OUR DETERMINATION,

Not only in our own interest,
b ut in the interest of all the people
OF our country, for the prescr-
walton of real liberty, for the eli
nation Of bitterness and class
hatred, for the perpuation of all
that is best and truest we can
never rest until the last vestigc of
this injutice has been removed
from our public life.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
WORLD WIDE AGREEMENT
Continued from Page One)

ment i'll regard to prices, trade could
be regulated so that each concern
could live and make profits:
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10

The constitution protects the
vested rights of property, whether
gotten by fraud or honestly, and
does not bother itself as now in
terpreted about the divine rights of
Gods children. These rights have
not yet been defined by written
constitutions and statutes. They
are supposed to live only in the
brains of a few harmless but emo
tional altruists who talk inately
about the brotherhood of man.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10
THE MINING SITUATION.

| LIE WlNlNG oll UAllON.
The mining situation in this
vicinity has assumed somewhat OF
serious phrase, owing to the
fact that the coal operators of the
kanawha Valley are demanding a
change in the mining prices as
agreed upon at a conference of
miners and operators last spring,
which contract was entered into in
good faith, and which it was
agreed should be in full force and
effect from April 1st 1905 to March
81 1910.
TO a close observer Of the mining
and industrial situation generally,
1T seems exceedingly strange that
any set Of coal operators would
demand change in the mining
scale or conditions of employment
at time when the press reports
from all over the country are
hcralding the fact that the wheels
OF industry everywhere are hum
ming, that mills and factories are
employing more men, that in
dustries closed down as a result Of
the recent depression are opening
up, and that a general return Of
prosperity is noticeable in all
branches of business.
Even the coal trade Journals are
commenting on the healthier con-
dition Of the coal market. And
this complaint coming as it does
from operators in a state that has
Its coal mined SO cheap that it can
be sold in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
up on the great lakes, and through
out the northwest at lower rate
than that mined in all those great
coal producing states north and
west.
This coal going in direct com
petition and undertaking coal
mined in other states. under
union conditions, where eight
hours constitutes days work
where something like American
conditions prevail. where a mining
scale and a day wage rate prevail
far III excess Of that paid IN West
Virginia, and where it is unneces-
sary to employ so-calleu "guards''
to protect the operators in their
neiarious schemes Of swindling the
the miner Of his just rights,
forcing upon them long hours of
employment, paying them in scrip,
and every other conceivable
scheme that is I'M American and
not only I'M American but indirect
violation Of law both moral and
statutary.
We are informed that only Is or
per cent Of the coal mined in West
Virginia is consumed within the
borders Of the state the rest going
out and underselling the product
Of other states, and every penny
every dollar that is made bv I'M
uerSelllnS the coal from other
states is taken out of the backs of
the miners Of West Virginia.
If the miners are undergrad.
they cannot pay their store bill
and as a consequence the mercha ant
is affected when the retailer is not
prosperous the wholesaler is af-
fected, and so on III an endless
chain.
The prosperity of a nation de-
ponds on the welfare of its com
mon people, and if the miners of
West Virginia are compelled to
work under these miserable con
ditiOns and small wages then West
Virginia, commercially will suffer
as :t consequence while natures
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-12-10

The guards still control the
real officers of the law.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24

Continued from First Page.)
bank Is up 1928 per foot for 317 State
street
The New Haven Savings bank will
have to pay on an assessment 5000
higher per foot on their Orange street
property
The Yale National bank will be met
with bill based on 5000 more a foot
for 745 Chapel street.
Senator Mlnotte r. Chstfeld Is
doubtless not over pleased to have an
assessment OF 500 more per foot on
300 State street
Trinity church has increases of $500
and 200 per foot on lots they own on
Center street
The Cudahy Packing company has
been assessed 5000 more foot on 1879
State street
The Exchange building company,
owners Of the Exchange building on
Chapel street, will have to bear the
biggest Increase In the city as they
are to be assessed at $500 more a.
foot for their lot than any other as
sessment they have had.
The Hill estate has increases on
ZAP Chapel street of $500 more a foot,
on $50 Chapel street Of 5000 more a
foot, on 1855 Chapel street of 5000
more foot, on 70 Orange street Of
5000 more foot, on sos State street
of 5000 more a foot on SO Orange
street Of 5000 more foot, and on
S14 State street Of 500 more foot
Joseph z Hubinger will have $3.50
more foot for his Orange street lot
Edward Malley will be assessed
$3.50 and 800 more foot for the two
lots on Center street.
Mendell & Freedman will be assess
ed 5000 more foot for the land IN
der their Chapel street store
The New Haven Gas Light company
will be raised s125 a foot for 10
Crown street.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
TO AMEND CHARTER.
City Court Rsr to Discuss Question
Next Monday

There will be a meeting of the city
court bar next Monday to discuss an
amendment to the court charter. This
Is to he in the form Of an addition to
section 1876 Of the provision The Sec
ton itself relates to rules regarding
court action on pleas in abatement and
other similar technical points,
The addition to the provision reads;
IF any party Is In default OF pleading
In the times provided for In this sec
ton, the adverse party may leave no.
tice with the clerk who shall immedi-
stely send notice to the party In de-
fault that the case will he defaulted or
non-suited If the necessary pleadings
are not fled within one week. At the
end Of the week. the clerk will call at
tention Of the court to such case in
chamber and default or non-suit will
be entered Time for filing such
pleading may be extended by the court
upon motion or the case restored to
the docket by order of the court and
upon such terms as may be ordered for
good cause shown
The merits Of this addition to the pro
visions will be discussed before Judge
Mathewson and the bar will take ac-
tion on the proposed section.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
.SOPHS TAKE ALL
WRESTLING BOUTS
CONTINUED from First Page.)

ttOntlnued from f1TSt rage
Robert c. Walker OF Richmond for the
sophomores. After keeping up we'll for
little over two minutes Russell was
suddenly thrown by Walker and the
first round ended. The other two
rounds were drawn, but the match was
awarded TO the sophomores
In the middleweight class, o, r.
Dunn was the freshman champion
against w. A. Prime. jr.. Of 1911. Twice
the contestants went at each other,
clinched and held until the round was
over The third time Prime got fall
and cheer went up from 1911.
The heavyweight bouts proved walk
overs for the sophomore. Mather ,Cleve-
land OF Denver He threw the fresh
man, w A. Hotchchild in two success
sive bouts.
Gladdened by victory. the sophomores
ran up Library street to York and
waited for the freshmen to form for
the rush But for the first time In a
good many years the freshmen did not
form. The sophs waited patiently for
about Is minutes and some OF the up
per classmen tried 10 form the fresh
men but without avail They remain
cd in the darkened rooms or stood on
the sidewalk In small groups. When II
was seen that the freshmen had de.
faulted the rush yell of rage went ur
and the whole line OF sophomores burst
into Pierson hall and ravaged the
place.
Here the vaudeville was Of every ma
ture. In one part of the lower hallway
ar excited freshman was doing a sa'
lone dance cheered on by good,
gathering. In another part fresh
man from the rural districts was de-
livering an grafton on the subIec
shall the People Rule?" Sail another
was singing an editorial In one Of thu
college papers to the tune of the Mer
airy Widow waltz In one Of the rooms
on the ground floor about 30 sopho
mores gathered TO teach one freshman
the Yale cheer. When he had learned
Il satisfactorily they found that tn,
door had been locked on the outside
and the whole thirty had to Jump from
the window eight feet above thu
ground Various soda fountains In tn,
neighborhood were visited and 1912 meI
we're shampooed.
Realizing the awful Importance Of thu
occasion last night the faculty has M
recitations this morning. but at
o'clock this afternoon the educationa
part of Yale opens for the season o
i 19os-le0a The next social event vii
occur Saturday night In the annua
Shelf parade and rush.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24

European shipping companies are
suffering severely because trade and
traffic in the Levant and on the far
stu.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
UNZICKER CLAIM ALLOWED
Pope Receivers Ordered TO Pay $780,.
900 Which They Disallowed.

Newark, Sept. PA further advance
toward the settlement OF the Pope
Manufacturing company's affairs was
made yesterday afternoon when Vice.
Chancellor Howell signed an order au-
thorizlng the receivers to settle the
claim Louisa A. Unzicker and Others
interested with her amounting to $75,00t
and which claim the receivers and dis
allowed by the payment Of 100000. The
order signed by the chancellor di.
recting the payment OF the first divi-
dend of rs per cent. directed also that
the receivers should pay $6S,000 into
court as the approximate, proportion.
ate share that would be due the I'm.
zickers IN the event Of the ultimate al.
lowance of their claim.
further sum Of $4,000 was added
TO this fund by order OF the court
when a second Is per cent. dividend
was paid.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24

The New Haven theater will he as
sessed $3.50 foot more for 1872
Crown street.
The New Haven Water company
will be raised s157 per foot for 100
Crown street
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company will be
assessed s125 a foot more for s05
State street
S. y. Poll will find a raise OF 5000
foot on his building at "a Church
street
Resides all these there are num-
erous smaller companies that will he
assessed at varying rates more for
their property In the streets named
above
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
Mortgage Deeds.

Mary Mayer to Lydia Bristol. Eng
lish street, 81 feet, $4,000
Edwin Cory to Ellen Mccormack
Browpell street. 40 feet, 5000.
Edwin Cory to Paul Stypman. Brown.
ell street. 40 feet, $500.
Edwin Cory to Frank and Julia
stelnlger, Brownel street, 40 feet
$500. ,.
S. Fred Strong to Joel sperry, Edge.
hill road, 100 feet. $4,000.
Giuseppe Prete to Ralph Preta Wa
ter street, S6 feet. sl.125.
Natalie Cunto to Isaac Kaufman, Fail
street. 80 feet $1,000.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
THE GRAND CIRCUIT
Citation Wins from Hedgewood
Boy, a Prime Favorite, in
Big Pace.
HARVESTER SHOWS WELL
Does the Rest Trotting Of the Season
for Three Year Odds IN Inn
portant Event.

Columbus, O., Sept. Hedgewood
Boy such strong favorite for the
free-for. all pace OF this afternoons
grand circuit card that he was barred
in the first heat betting. was defeated
by Citation, but the Illinois mare had
TO set worlds record to do It. Her
heats In 2;01 "a and 1908, following
one by Hedgewood Boy In 202 ~,
are the fastest two ever paced by q
mare In a race.
Citation was only nosed out In the
first heat and won the second by
scant heat after a desperate and
eruelling mile, the last uarter being
paced In 40 Ia seconds.
Hedgowood Boy and his rival were
about even choices for the third and
decisive mile. Mcmahon trailed with
Citation to the head of the stretch
when he swung the mare out wide and
raced Hedgewood Boy into the ground.
The Harvester did the best thNe-year
olds trotting OF the year when he won
the Kentucky Stock Farm Futurity
In straight heats.
Summaries:
M
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
Free-For-AIl Glass, Pncinr, Thrs
Heatsj Purse. 1920.

Citation, b. m. by Norvalsoh,
(McMahonl .......,..,...,.. 2 / /
Hedgewood Boy, CHI. h.. by Chit
wod Sweet ........ 2 3
Boran Grettsn, b. g., Gears. 3 3
EcstAtic, b. m. (I,anE) .. DIS
Time, 2;o2A, 2:O1%. BOB
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
Building Permits

Natalie Di Francisco, 1873 Greenwood
street, frame stable.
John Heighman. ia Alton street
frame addition to dwelling.
: J, w. Robinson. III Oak street, frame
stable.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
Kentucky stock Farm Futurity. Three
Ycsr-Old Trotters. 2 in 81
Purse, rs .0O0.
Kentucky stock Farm Futurity, Three.
yerr-OId PAGERS, 2 In 81
Purse, $1,000.

Catherine Direct. b. T., by Di-
rect tMcMahon) ......e....s 1 l
Erl5ur Smith, b. C., by Leonatus
lhoss) ,.....,,........t
Time. 2;1lN. 2:10N. 2:12A.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
200 Glass Pncipr. 2 IN Vt Purse. $1,000

three hcHth uesuhYsl
Charley Hal, h. e., by
Star Hal, (Snow). .. l ID
Leslie Waterman, CHI g..
by oh So. (McDonald ] II
Thor b. h., whitney, 1b 3
Nilmah, b. m. lAnder-
r,m sSR, / s ,snvdsi, 4 7 !: 70 !
Ding Pointer, b. M, INC
rl sssop 5. M. ; jA.driok,. ( i { 70 70
Robert Herman b. &.
Cpougles) ........... II 10 no
(Gcers ,,.....,...... ia I II 70
william NJ, b. g.. (Hay-
woody 4n.,.s..,..... s "a 8 70
Lydeiie, b. M, (Nalen-
tine) ...,:.,,,,.:: 10 no
ply ...,..,'...,..... 6 II 1s no
(Jordan) ....,...,..,. 70
Gold Coin, b. g., tRobln-
SOM .,....'...,.,... 10 IL TO
Minnie NJ. ch. NJ, tHoft
NAM ............... II 10 10 no
Nancy Allen. b. m.
(Rathbun) "......... 10 9 II 70
shaughran. b. h.. (Da-
/ Time. s;csM, s-o7A. 2.osA.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
Quit CHIN Deeds.

&HHH NHHHH 'NVHeH
Clarence Thompson to Lydia Bristol
English street, 81 feet,
Clifford Munson to Henry Dupee,
Newhall street. 30 feet
Ralph Prete to Giuseppe Prete, Wa
ter street. 30 feet.
Joseph Welssmsn and Isaac Kaut-
man TO Harris and Sarah Lepides,
Commerce street. 81 feet.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24

Ann MCFARLAND 20 Jacob Cohen. a
Oak street.
Adellne Goodrich to Abraham CONN
and Harry sichol, 167 Crown street.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
DoINGS IN REALTY
Papers Filed Yesterday In the
Office of the Town
Clerk.
Warranty Deeds.

Edwin Cory to John Mccormack and
Ella Mccormack. Brownel street, 40
feet.
Lambert Bristol to Mary Mayer,
English street, ~ feet,
Henry Gorham to George Warner,
West HAGEN street, 70 feet.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-24
LAND VALUE JUMPS

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