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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
Protest
Against Monarchy
Women'S Lives Wrecked.

AFTER giving the matter care
full study We are fully convinced
that the ten hour day for women
in our manufacturing establish
ments, under the present system
of high speed and the large number
of machines to be tended is more
than flesh and blood can stand, >"
writes Thomas j. Lyons, Commits
sioner of Industrial Labor Statis-
tics, of Maine, in his annual report
"a long work day is unnecessary,
because of the well proven fact
that the ten hour day, WITH pres
ent conditions of machinery and
speed, produces more goods than
the thirteen hour daJ of sixty
years ago; and it is just rs clearly
proven that the ten hour of the
present time is vastly more detri-
mental to health than the thirteen
hour day of former times.n
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
STRIKERS START
HAT FACTORIES
Adopt This Unique Weapon in
Their Struggle With the Manu-
facturers Association,

That the striking hatters have
the best end of the contest with
the National Hat Manufacturers
Association is evidenced by the
reports received daily at the head
quarters of the United Hatters of
North America in New York city.
The strikers have adopted line of
tactics that are unique in labor
struggles.
The most powerful weapon that
they have employed is the opening
of two cooperative hat factories in
order to supply the great demand
for union label hats. These shops
not only provide work for the
strikers, but prove to be strong
competitors for their former em-
ployers.
"We are waiting to see if the
manufacturers really mean bust
ness" said Secretary Marian
Lawlor of the United Hatters of
North America Friday.
'sIf we find they are actually out
for long fight many factories will
be opened. In fact, union men
already have started two CO.
operative factories, one in Dan
bury and one in Bethel. The
strikers received their second
weekly strike benefit last week.
More than $40. .O0Oiwas provided
for strik benefits last week, but
many of the strikers did not apply
and much of the money was left
over. Since the payment of the
first strike benefits 10 per cent. of
the strikers have obtained employ
ment in union factories. These
factories are working night and
day. The employers have found it
impossible to obtain men from the
strike. breaking agencies.
A large and successful meeting
was held by the strikers of Newark
district at the New Auditorium in
Newark. Friday. Strong address
es were made by Raymond
Robins. of Chicago, and and John
A Moffit, president, and Frank p
Shalvoy, vice president, of the
United Hatters of North America
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
A BIG PROTEST
MEETING HELD
BY Chicago Union Men Denouncing
Judge Wright's Decision in
Gompers, Mitchell and Morri-
son Case.

The largest labor demonstration
seen in Chicago since the release of
Eugene V. Debs from woodstock:
Jail in 1895, was held Sunday at
the Garricll Theatre Here organ
lied lador OF Cook County and its
sympathiZerS met to protest against
the attempts of the Courts to sup.
press free speech and free press.
Labor bodies throughout the
country had been ready to protest
against court decisions since the
beginning of adverse decisions more
than Il year ago, but the sentencing
to Jail of President Samuel Com
perS. Vice President John Mitchell
and Secetary Frank Morrison of
the American Federation of Labor
by Justice Wright, of the District
of Columbia, proved to be the last
straw i'll Sundays great meeting
was the protest OF the Chicago
Federation of Labor
The theatre was jammed full of
union men and Socialists. fiery
resolutions denouncing the action
of Judge Wright were adopted.
Amoumg the speakers were
Clarence =. barrow, George w.
Perkins, international president of
the Cigar makers Union. and
Louis +. Post.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
LEWIS TO CONFER
WITH OPERATORS
Will 60 10 Wilks-Barre, Pa, to
Meet Scale Committee with
New Demands.

Reports say that President I. L..
Lewis, Of the Mine Workers
Union, will go to WIKI Barre next
week, and expects to at once re-
quest conference with the coal
operators so that he and the mem
berS of the scale committee may
present the demands of the an
thracite workers. 1t is understood
that President Lewis wants the
operators to meet the miners as
they do i'll the soft coal religions, at
Il joint conference for a discussion
of demands and conditions. An
thracite operators predict that he
will not be successful in this and
that the big operators will do no
more than offer to renew the pres
ent agreement for three years,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
Laborir1g Masses Should Re
ceive Protection Under the
Law and Granted FreedOr
and Justice.

The following facts pointed out
by Abraham Lincoln in his Presi-
dental message OF December, 3
1861. should prove to be very in-
teresting reading to the wage
slaves in West Virginia ut the
present timer
cit continues to develop that
the insurrection is largely, if not
exclusively, a war upon the. first
principle of popular government
the rights of the people. Con-
elusive evidence of this is found in
the most grave and maturely con.
sidered public document as we'll as
in the general tone of the in
surgents. In those documents we
find the abridgement of existing
right of suffering and the denial
to the people of all right to par
ticipate in the selecting of public
officers, except the legislature,
bodily advocated. with labored
arguments to prove that large con-
troll of the people in government
is the source of all political evils.
Monarchy itself is sometimes hint.
cd at as possible refuge from the
l'o"SA VI ShS. IS|OP1C tl
"ln my present position / could
scarcely bejustiIied were to omit
raising warning voice against
this approach of returning despot.
ism. " s'1fI +fE
"It is not needed nor fitting here
that Il general argument should be
made in favor of popular institu.
tions; bat there is one point, with
its connections, not so hackneyed
as most others, to which ! ask
brief attention. 1t is the effort to
place capital on an equal footing
with. if not above, labor in the
structure of the government. 1t
is assumed that labor is available
only in connection with capital,
that nobody labors unless some
body else, owning capital, some.
how by the use of it induces him
TO labor. This assumed, it is next
considered whether it is best that
capital shall hire laboreis, and
thus induce them to work by their
own consent, or buy them and
drive them to it without their CON
sent. Having proceeded so far,
1T is naturally concluded that ali
laborers are either hired laborers
or what we called1, slaves. And
further, it is assumed that whoever
is once hired Iaborer is fixed in
that condition for life.
''Now there is no such relation
between capital and labor as. as
sumed, nor is there any such thing
as free man being fixed for life
in the condition of u hired laborer.
Both these assumptions are false,
and all differences from them are
grOundless
''Labor is prior to and independ-
ent of capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor, and could never
have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior
of capital and deserves much
higher consideration. Capital has
its rights, which are as. worthy of
protection as any other rights: nor
is it denied that there is and al
ways will be relation between
capital and labor producing
mutual benefits. The error is in
assuming that the whole labor of
community exists within that
relation
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
In Restraint of Trade.

That both the Anaconda Typo
graphical Union and the Mountain
Federation of Labor We're guilty of
violating the antitrust law in tn at
they were guilty of combination or
conspiracy in restraint of trade
was the report given on January >
by Oliver I. Crane. Master i'll
Chancery in the Circuit Court of
Helena, Mont.
The suit was that of Butterick
Publishing Co. and a number of
Montana labor unions. against
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
BUCK STOVES ARE
DRIVEN FROM MARKET
Van Cleave's Labor Crushing
Campaign is Responsible For
II All.

There is not Buck stove sold in
the Toledo market
For over two years Mr.. Van
Cleave's product has been missing
from this city as result of the
publicity given the non-union
tactics of the st. Louis man.
Toledo can boast of a first class
union made stove. manufactured
by the Toledo Stove & Range
company. Its manager, B. G.
Taylor, is an eX-union moulder.
and takes pride in his union shop,
and the absence of trouble.
During the Pope strike, Mr.. Taylor
was the only business man who
came out boldly for the union
workers and against the policy of
the Metal Trades and the Citizens
Alliance, and this at a time when
public sentiment was almost un-
animous against the unionists be-
cause of the labor crusherS' sys-
tematic campaign of misrepresenta-
ton.
Workers are buying the Toledo
stove. and have succeeded in
driving the "scab'' Bucks out of
this market.-Toledo Union Lead
er-
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
Telegraphers' Wages Lowered.

The average wage of telegraph
operators decreased during the last
two years and during the year 1908
as compared with the year 1908.
Ihls is the salient fact developed
IN report on the telegraph bust
ness transmitted to the Senate by
DR.. Charles P. Neill, Commissioner
of Labor The reduction in wages
IS undoubtedly due to the failure
of the telegraphers' union to win
its strike.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18

whom the former had asked injunc-
tion.
The case has been in court since
last spring, and has been bitterly
contested on both sides. the pub
fishing company bringing wit
neSseS from New York:
The Master i'll Chancery recon
mendcd that the case against the
other unions be dismissed, and the
injunctions against those named in
this action be made permanent.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18

memorated solemnly the name OF
Lincoln. All classes and ranks of
life gathered to listen to the
eulogies pronounced upon the life
and services of our martyred Presi-
dent.
Brilliant cooperation lawyers pro-
uounced their labored orations.
Leaders of the party which traftics
In his name and violates every
ideal he cherished used the mo-
ment for profit.
Masters and slave drivers as.
sembled to voice their hypocriti-
cal praise of this dead champion of
the slave.
The Scribes, Pharisees and
Hypocrites, ,Ithe whited sepulchres
who on Christmas dav celebrate
the name of Jesus, met to celebrate
the name of Lincoln.
Others assembled, also. great
multitudes of them, who worship
not in lip service. but in truth
They now face the crises he
knew would come. They fight
anew the battle he fought.
1t is the old, old struggle, ever
taking new forms, ever masking
under new terms, but even the
same ancient, hoary, struggle be-
tween master and slave.
Gin my personal position, -
Lincoln said as President, II
could scarcely be justified were |
to omit raising warming voice
against this approach of returning
despotism.''
"What despotism"' you ask.
And he answers. '"The effort to
place Capital OH an equal footing
with, if not above, labor in the
structure OF government
Mark these words. They were
not thoughtlessly uttered. They
were as all Lincoln's public utter
ances, mersured, weighed and put
forward with grave deliberation.
Read them again. He denies to
capital the right to an equal foot
ing with labor. He refuses to adj
init that oil and steel and factories
and gold should have Il place in
the structure of government equal
to that of labor
And yet he was hardly buried
before the party, which he helped
to bring to war on despotism, be-
gan to break the power of Labor
and to place capital in absolute
control of the government.
Now, forty-four years after his
death, His party even questions
the right of labor to free speech
and free press. 1t has abolished
trial by jury in Labor cases. 1t
has allowed capital to use the
20 Il, hni
homes and to force them into bull
pens. 1t has stood by and watch
ed hundreds of thousands of blacks
and whites in the South being
Shorn of their only peaceable
weapon against despotism-the
right to vote.
In word, the Despotism
Lincoln warned us was coming is
here.
1t has been said that Lincoln
was not a Socialist. That is true,
of course. He understood in 6
vague way only the economic
power of capital. He knew moth
ing of the theory of Surplus Value
He saw only in its crudest form
the exploitation of labor by capi
tai
1t is not surprising, therefore
that Lincoln should not have beer
Il Socialist, but it is surprising
that this great, simple man of th'
people should have stated a
powerfully as he did the entire de
mands of labor and Socialism.
''Inasmuch as most good thing
are produced by labor he said II
lS47 "it follows that all sucl
things of right, belong to thos
whose labor has produced them
But it has so happened in all age
Of the world that some have labor
ed. and others have without labo
enjoyed large proportion of tn
fruits. This is wrong and shoul'
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
John Mitchell Hurt in Wreck.

John Mitchell, secretary of the
National Civic Federation, while
on the way to New York after a
short visit at his home. was slight
" injured in 4 Urolly car collision
Nonda,-. Mitchell had his
wounds dressed and proceeded on
his journey.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
Underpaid Deputies.

The second method does seem to
the committe to be the correct solu-
ton of the problem before it, Every
operator and company who operates
10 any extent employs Il mine fore
man and where there are gaseous
mines. a mine boss. These mine fore
men should be efficient men. thorough
" acquainted with the dangers of the
mine an they should devote their en-
tire time providing for the safety OF
the mine and should not be required
to perform the many duties that de-
volve upon mipe foremen at this time
This method would make the mine
foreman an inspector. The chief of
the department as we'll as many of
the operators in seeking to agree upon
bill. represented TO this committee
that the department was weak on
account of the low wages paid to dep
uty inspectors: that by reason of
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18

The Labor Argus stands for the
wage workers Subscribe for 1t
and make it possible for it to in
crease in influence.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
Lincoln the
EfnanCipator

pator lies the promise, of the
emancipation of all mankind.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
Just Two Ways.

This ideal condition can only he
attained i'll two ways. First. by
strengthening the mine department
10th in number of deputies and quail
fcation of each deputy. Second, hy
throwing the responsibility upol the
operator by making him liable for any
and all accidents and deaths that may
occur by reason of his mine bainS in
an unsafe condition. BY the tirs:
method suggested the state would as
sume great burden by creating u
very expensive department. So great
that unless the operator should he
compelled to bear the burden Of tie
department the state should not be rs-
quired 10 maintain such DEPART
mcnt.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
Department Not Strong.

Department Not Strong.
The mine department in the Gpin-
ion of the committee is not st,ong
enough to cope with all the cCn.liticrs
before it. This inefficicnccy. however +,
cannot be said to be due entirely to
the officers. 1t is the composite of
many resulting causes. In the first
place it is 4 physical impossibilIty for
twelve deputy mine inspectors, 10
matter how competent they may tc,
to visit the great num5ar Gf mines
i'll their districts frequ emily enough to
be of any great advantage IL keeping
the mines in wholesome and safe
condition and free of all dnagars AS
the department is now organized no
deputy can visit any one mine more
than three or four times a year. The
mine may be III good condition at
the time of the visit but i'm case the
operator should not cooperate with
the department it is possible for him
to know of the coming CT the deputy
and put his mine in a Sool condition
for the visit and during all ,h.e IN
terim between the visit i.e is at lib
erty to permit any and all practices
by the miners in violation of the law
or in violation of any orders that may
be given by the department. so it is
the opinion of the committee that to
attain the ideal conditions in the
mines of the our state there mus be
an inspector for each mine who
should give it his entire time. This
was the opinion of Chief Paul rs
shown by his last report 10 the govcr-
nor OF the state and which report was
laid before the committees
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18
REPORT
OF Special Legislative
Mine Investigating
Committee
Submitted to That Body
Today--Many Viola
tIOns of Law
Are Found.

The Special Legislative Mine In
vestiaating Committee made its re-
port to the legislature today.
The special committee waS aproirt.
ed at tfie regular session of 1867. 4
partial report was made hv tn" com.
mfttee at the special session of last
year. The report with the Testimony
taken by the committee, covers EIoT.s
than thousand pages. The commit
tee is composed of Senator Thomas
Gartlan. chairman; Senator Kidd and
Delegates Mitchell, Strick.;n:s ard
Duth.
The report is in part as follows:
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-02-18

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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-26
OFFICIAL ATTENTION CALLED
TO THE UNAUTHORIZED USE
OF PERSONAL EXPENSE
MONEY BY COUNTY COMMITS
SIONERS.

The attention of-the grand jury
was today called to the allowances
for personal expenses illegally
made to themselves by. the last
board of county commissioners for
the years 1905, 1905, .1907 and 1908.
The total allowances for. personar
expenses made In their favor by
the county commissioners during
the lear 1908 was in excess of
$1,000. 1t requires the vote Of 10
grand jurors to go into the investi-
cation of any matter. '''-.-....
An examinationso of the files of the
commissioners ONCE shows that r.
NJ. Barnhart, then prosecutor ana
legal adviser of the county, in June,
1905, advised the county commits
sioners that they could not draw
one cent from the county for ex.
pense in coming to the meetings of
the boar dor for rooming or board
ing while in the city in attendance
at the meeting. He also held that
every bill for personal expense by
members of the board must be filed
and sworn to by the party who rem
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-26
BEFORE THE
GRAND JURY

dered such service at the request
OF member of the board.
The commissioners, not satisfied
with this finding, asked Barnhart ii
they could draw a fiat allowance of
$25 per month, but he held that
they could not, and cited his first
opinion.
When F. c. Pugh became prose
cutting attorney last January he de-
livered an opinion coinciding with
that of Barnhart and referred the
commissioners to the Barnhart
opinion as being the law.
Yet in the face of this opinion OF
their legal department the county
commissioners In the last four
years have drawn thousands of dol
lars from the county treasury In
clear violation of the law as laid
down for them, at their own re-
quest.
Henry Rohwer was not on the
board of commissioners at the time
the Barnhart opinion was delivered
and processes to have known moth
ing of the law on the question until
last January. In all probability Mr..
Rohwer will refund to the county
the money paid him for lodging,
board and carfare while attending
the sessions of the board. The 9TH
er commissioners involved are Co.
lin, Dean and Spence.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-26
FASSETI To
HUTCHINSON
Says Fassett to Hutchinson:

says faSSeU 10 dutchinSon'
Senator Hutchinson, in COM
menting upon speech which I
made at the McGoldrlck lumber
yards. had it appear that l said
that the workingmen were boozers.
What l actually said was as fol-
lows:
THAT under, the old system,
when the saloons were open every
day in the week, many workman
was unable to report for duty on
Monday morning. and was minus
his wages for the preceding week,
the money having been spent in
the saloons during Saturday night
and Sunday; that police records
show that under the old system an
average of from 60 to So men were
tried for intoxication or forfeited
fines for intoxication at the Mon
day session Of the police court, and
that since the saloons have been
closed on Sunday the average num-
Der of men tried at Monday SEES
sions of the police court have been
from six to eight
81 know the wOrkingmen of Spo-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-26
CARRIAGE
CONVICT HIM

cry with Clein. Consequently, un-
less Saudawskis digestive organs
had been hindered in their fune-
lions by strong drink, or unless he
ate more after his dinner with
Clein, he must have been MUIR
dered in the city.
1t was learned last night from
papers found in a secret recess Of
Clein's trunk that he has been
leading a double life, and his cor
rect name is apparently Paul Kras-
nensky. He admitted having been
married. He was the father Of
twins, one of which, with it's
mother, is dead and the other Is
under the care of Alexander Por-
ter, Kalso, B. c. Other papers in
dicated that he had later been In
various parts of the world under a
number of different names, and
though alleged to be engaged to
marry Mrs. Ida Douglas, a cham
bermaid in the Lynne hotel, he
was corresponding with May Ran
dali, believed to be a woman of Ill
repute at Kalso, B. c. A letter
from her showed that he had writ
ten to her asking for money. The
trunk in which these papers were
found contained a double bottom,
and they lay between the two.
Tools found among his effects in
tool chest held at the county jail
were today identified as the prop
erty of Mr.. Wiseman of the show
case works. Others are eviden.iy
the property of the Washington
mills. A trunk clock, which Clein
sold to Joe Konrad, belonged to a
woman formerly living at the Min
er's hotel, where Clein had room
till month or so ago.
The authorities are now working
along the theory that Clein killed
Saudawski on the morning of
March g
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-26
STILL ANOTHER
GOOD THING"

An idea Of how the business of
Spokane county has been run in
1.-THE good old days." as they are
now termed, can be had by refer
ence to the recopying Of Plat Book
A, containing the early town and
city pIats. When these pIats were
recorded originally the county 70.
ceived five cents per lot for the
work.
The book had become worn, and
the commissioner contracted with
Norman 3. Cook, 90-a-month dep
uty In the assessors office, to re-
copy Plat Book A at eight cents per
lot or three cents more than the
county received In the beginning.
Cook logged along, took a nice sum-
mer vacation, and finished the work
in about eight months at an ex-
pense to the county Of $3385.91.
Cook some times told the boys In
the auditors office that he made as
high as $40 per day. He averaged
over $500 per month for the time
actually employed on the job anu
some months drew over $500.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-26
ON THE WAY TO
WE'D HER JAP
(Bv United Press)

PORTLAND, Ore, March 90
Helen Emery. daughter Of the Cali
fornia archdeacon, accompanied by
her mother. arrived in Portland at
Z this morning, and quietly left the
train on the east side, while big
crowd of curiosity seekers awaited
them at the union station.
1t is reported that Gungiro Aoki,
the Jap dishwasher whom the girl
is bent on marrying, preceded Their
mother and daughter north. The
couple rode about the city in taxi
cab, which left them at the union
station, where it is supposed they
boarded the $3.50 train for Tacoma.