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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20

Life Insurance company as to him
shall seem, wise or necessary. This
department is therefore in charge of
the affairs of the Washington: Life
Insurance company and will. shortly
send out a circular of information to
the policy holders of that company
II believe that the policy holders Of
this company are amply protected and
can with safety continue to pay their
premiums, If by draft, check or money
order, to me as superintendent of in
surance as trustee, at the home office
of the company, al Broadway, New
York City,"
The Northern Assurance company
dife) Of Detroit, Mich, has with
drawn from Minnesota. It has very
little business here.
The license of the North American
Accident Insurance company, Chicago,
ILL.,, was revoked by this department
on Feb. 10th, for continued violation
Of the law requiring foreign insurance
companies, to do business only through
licensed resident agents.
Fire losses for January in Mime
sofa amounted to $6,660,000 compared
with $4,000 for the same month in
1908.> The losses in the United States
were $1s,6S6,o00 as compared with s22,-
100000 in January 1908
The fire losses and premiums in the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
GROWING BETTER.

The world Is growing better. no
matter what they say.
And the light is growing stronger with
a radiant. newborn day,
And the world is growing kinder, each
day more plain I see
The great eternal purpose working out
what is to be,
And l know that sin and sorrow from
our earth will disappear,
And know that Joy and gladness will
take tne place of doubt and fear,
And know that ere Death fingers,
when q conscious soul cries. "Stay!
Even you, o Death, fear not; 1 am
Master, go your way"
AND l know, as we grow wiser, we
shall learn the law Of life -
That love brings all things to us.
Nothing good can come through
strife.
We are slowly, surely learning what
the Master came to tell,
That the Kingdom is within us, in the
heart where Love doth dwell.
Yes, the world is growing better,
kinder. WISER day by day;
And the weary, heavy laden, find more
helpers on the way.
Courage then, O earnest workers. SOW
thy seed with lavish hand!
Wait the harvest Hear the anthem!
Peace on earth, good will to man.
: The Character Builder,
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BOSSES BEGIN ACTION. =.
AGAINST THE HATTERS
CONTINUED from. page ~

locals are concerned; will be robbed Of
it's jurisdiction over its members.
President Moffitt stated tina the in
junction will be fought at every step,
The United Haxters have not vet re-
tatned counsel TO represent them be-
fore Judge Cross on March 20: this
matter is to be settled after President
Moffitt has conferred with his col
leagues.
Asked as to just what he thought
OF this latest development Moffitt said:
1 have no comment as yet to offer on
the action of the manufacturers in
bringing this suit. All information will
be given to the press by counsel as
soon as retained"
The proceeding for an injunction is
the last desperate attempt Of the boss
matters to postpone their defeat. In
every district hat factories are losing
business and feeling severly the pinch
Of the lockout,
Reports are being circulated in a
few capitalistic newspapers to the eff
feet that the strikers have rejected
two propositions Of the boss matters.
One proposition, it is stated, was
made by twenty-seven firms connected
with the Associated Hat Manufacture
ers, Offering to break away from the
association, providing the union men
would agree to make hats for ninety
days without using the label.
Another proposition was made nv
the bosses to the effect that the label
question be left to committee of five,
two to be selected by each side and the
four thus selected to agree upon the
fifth member to act as referee.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
SPECIAL SERMONS.

The Rev. DR.. Rice of the First
M. E. church Of this city is preach
ing series Of Sunday evening SER
mons on specially selected tapics.
AS well as being able, instructive
and uplifting, the addresses are so
very entertaining that the attention
OF the nearer never once wearies
during the delivery of the discourse.
The addresses are not for Metho-
dists only; they are just as appli-
cable to members Of other demon
nations, and to persons who have
NO church affiliation whatsoever.
"We are not a Methodist ourself
but we take in every one OF those
sermons, and would advise every
good man, like ourself, to go and
do likewise.
Next Sunday evening March q,
the subject will be The LIAR We
are not told that the meeting will
be under the auspices Of the Duluth
Ananias club, but we feel assured
there will be large number Of the
clubs membership present, az we'll
as it's grand and executive officers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
RELATION CHURCH
TO To- | ! l||:|| |. SOCIALISM.
Church Believes in Character
!. First While socialism Gives
Precedence to Environment.
Ninth Of 4 Series Of Labor World
Contributions by Rev.
Charles Sickle.

The socialists attempt to ridicule the
church by saying that it has never
done anything for the common people
that their plan is far more effec-
tive than ours. If ever there was an
opportunity for the socialists to try
out their plan among a real needy peo-
pie, such an opportunity exists among
the cannibals Of the Pacific islands.
But It is quite noticeable that the So
cialists do not go there. They are
quite content to wait unil the church
sendI out its hundreds of missionaries
and pours in it's" millions OF dollars,
producing Christian civilization, and
when it is perfectly safe to do SO, the
socialists build upon the foundation
laid by the church many years before.
Then they turn around and scorn the
church because Of it's. "fadlure" to help
the masses. The shipwrecked sailor
who saw the church sleeping in the
valley, knew that his island-wlaich
was formerly occupied by cannibals--
was now perfectly safe; because, in
stead OF eating their visitors, the peo-.
pie now worshipped God, as the result
of the coming of Christian mission
aries, some Of whom had given their
lives as a sacrifice in order to make
this condition possible.
Environment and Character,
Socialism believes in environment
first, hoping that good characer may
result. Christianity believes in char
acter first, knowing that good environ
ment will follow. The history Of the
world has proven that this principle
Of Christ's is most effective in reform
ing mankind. Even in His day, when
social conditions were much worse
than the yare today, Christ did not
advocate another social system in or
der to help mankind. He Immediately
began to change Individual men. If
that was Christ's method, we can we'll
afford to follow him. There are I'M
doubleday other things to do and the
church must do them, but its princi-
pal business is to change bad men in
to good men, an dto change them one
by one. The socialists tell us that
C Christianity has been trying the
character first plan for two thous-
and years, and that we have not made
very lHucn progress; Out haven't we!
What about the cannibals, for in
stance? What about the time when
our ancestors were naked savages and
drank blood and wine out OF hunaan
skulls. il It necessary to narrate the
long story OF the vilest degradation
before the teachings Of Christ were
accepted, and then tell of; the victories
fthe cross in every land? These
things are only too we'll knowr-ex-
cepting to the socialists =. =
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1 arc iiN a., SETTER 4 i /

:.- ,:;s u GROWING BETTER.
The world y growing better, no matter
What they say, al: .... IL: ".. y
And the light Is growing stronger with
!, = radiant, newborn day, "s' Z 4
And the world is growing kinder, each
a., day more plain I see
The great eternal purpose working out
4. what Is to he, >>#z.'
And I know that sin and sorrow from
our earth WIN disappear,
And know that Joy and gladness will
take the place Of doubt and fear,
And know that ere Death fingers,
when conscious soul cries,
"Stay!A IL.
Even yon. Osspsath, I fear. not; am
Master, 80 your way"
And - know, as we grow wiser, we
shall lear nthe law of life
That love brings all things to us.
Nothing good can come through
strife. IL .-'-.
We are slowly, surely learning what
the Master came to tell,
That the Kingdom Ia within US, In the
" heart where Love doth dwell.
Yes, the world is growing better,
kinder, wiser. day by day;
And the weary, heavy laden, find more
helpers on the way.
Courage, them o earnest workers., SOW
thy sect with lavish hand!
Wait the harvest! Hear the: anthem!
Peace on earth. good will to man
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
SOME TONGUE .TWlsTERs.

A Loadon paper recently offered a
series of prizes for the best tongue
twisting sentences. Most boys and
girls will find the prize winning con-
tributtons quite amusing: Here they
are:
A growing CLEAN growing green.
The bleak breeze blighted the bright
broom blossoms: ..--. =. d.
Two toads totally tried to trot to
Tedbury. :. =, 49,.
Strict, strong Stephen Stringer snar-
ed Sticky six stckly silky snakes.
Susan shtneth shoes ana socks;
socks and shoes, shines Susan She
ceaseth shining shoes. and socks, Tor
shoes and socks shock Susan, =.
A haddock, q haddock, q black spot
ted haddock; a black spot on the black
back of black spotted l,addock.
Oliver oslethorp ogled an owl and
an oyster. Did Oliver Oglethorp ogle
an owl and an oyster? II Oliver Ogle-
thorp ogled an owl and an oyster,
where are the owl and the oyster Oil
YER Oglethorp ogled? r. ~.
II you can get through with that ex-
ercise without tying your tongue into
quintuple bowknot you will deserve
greater prize than the London paper
offered in this unique contest.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION,

Industrial education is forcing itself
on the workaday world. There is no
longer doubt but that it is to be- q
factor If it be directed and controlled
by capitalists with the idea Of advanc-
ing to their profits, it will in the alb
stract prove hurtful to society and be
OF little benefit to the pupil.
If the workers take an interest and
become potent in shaping the course
Of this new movement, it will prove
beneficial all round. There is a vast
and vital difference between the capt.
talist notion of how to progress and
the trade union idea.
We are talking now of forces, not of
individuals-of capitalism, not capt.
talists; Of trade unionism, not trade
unionists.
1t is compatible with the capitalist
conception that A has progressed If
he has amassed million or SO, even
If be at the expense Of B, c, D, and the
rest OF the alphabetical family. In
other words, capitalism is satisfied
with progress that is based on one
stepping higher on the shoulders OF his
fellows.
Progress in the unionist sense is the
elevation Of the whole mass-that
when there has ben an Inward lift all
have been bettered and none hurt
There are many violations OF the rule
On both sides, but that is the general
tendency Of the respective elements.
In so important g. matter as indus
trial education, is left unchecked, the
conception of capitalism will prevail
in general way notwithstanding that
here and there capitalist or a group
OF capitalists will stand out for the
other ideal. This will be perverston
Of education.
If the unions-lor labor is voicelese
except 1t speak through organization
take an interest, they may effectual-
ly check the wrongful tendency, end
can at least divert the flow OF effort
into a channel that will lead US to a
system Of education nearly approx
mating the ideal reason for its being
the elevation Of the student and the
Improvement OF the mass.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
CHILD LABOR PLEA.

Only one plea is made in favor
of child labor--it is cheap labor.
This is all sufficient from the stand
point of money making, and the
only excuse offered (when an ex-
PLANTATION is asked for) is the al
legged necessity of assistance to in
digent parents. The result is two
fold. 1t cheapens labor. thereby
increasing dividends, and at the
same time lays the foundation for
still cheaper labor in future gen.
erations and less opposition to the
development of the monied aristoc-
racy Of whom cur country has now
more than is good for' 1t.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
MACHINIsTS APPEAL.

District No. Is, International As.
sociatton Of Machtnists of New York
and vicinity, through their attorneys
have appealed from the decision OF
Supreme Court Justice Mills In the
Jones speedorneter case, wherein
that Justice deereed that the mem,
bers Of the machinasts' organization
should pay the sum ot $3.s47 to1
Pinkerton services during a strike
at the plant OF that company.
They have filed an indemnity
bond OF $1,000 to take up the case
to the Appellate court, and, If nee.
essary, to the Court Of Appeals.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
ROTH !. WILL APPEAL,

Egsf .,2ys.- 3JId WIAl AffhAI. H., sssa,,s,
Both sides involved in the deci-
sion BY the Court of Appeals OF the
District OF Columbia modifying the
recent injunction against the Amer
loan Federation Of Labor In the pro-
ceedings OF the Bucks Stove and
Range company. Of st. Louis,
against the labor organization will
take an appeal to the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
go Contrary to the usual custom of
awarding judgment for costs, which
goes ordinarily to the appellee when
a decree OF the lower court is at
firmed. Justice Charles H. Robb,
who handed down the decision, d.
rected that the costs shall . be
equally divided between the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor and the
Bucks company.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
HEALTH ORDINANCES.

There is too great an apathy In
regard to certain laws and ordi-
RANGES on the statute books of most
cities; they are simply dead letters.
The Investigations cond ucted in con-
nection with the campaign for the
prevention of tuberculosis have re-
vealed that nearly every city has a
splitting ordinance, but in the ma
jority of them it is not enforced and
arrests have not been made.
The attitude of the average Amer
lean citizen when he reads a sign,
Don't Spit on the Floor. Read
the Ordinance" is that this injunc-
ton is an infringement ON his in
alienable right as an American citi-
zen to spit when and where he
pleases.
Doubtless if the sign should read
so as to appeal to his reason it
might have a different effect. In
some cities the sign, why Spit on
the Floor? It Spreads Disease" is
used. And while each person spit-
ting doubtless feels that the sign
is not meant for him, he is suspi-
cious of his neighbor who INDUCES
in the filthy practice, and this i'm.
preston reacts as a check on his
own carelessness. Nevertheless
there is an inexcusable amount OF
splitting done in every city.
Now, that the danger Of this evil
is known, not only to those few who
are interested professionally or 9TH
erwise, but to the public as WELL
there is no excuse for the condi.
ton of the public buildings and
streets in some of our cities. 1t Is
time that police departments co.
operated with the health depart
ments in enforcing these ordinances
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
BUREAUCRACY's GROWTH.

The fact that the number of spe-
cial agents, inspectors and the like
employed by the Federal govern
naent, In what is largely detective
work or special investigation, ha.
risen from 1877 at the end OF the
Mckinley administration to some
5000 at the end of the Roosevelt
administration, reveals in a vivid
way the very rapid growth in Wash
ington OF a Federal bureaucracy.
Senator Hemenway, who is the all
thority for these figures, says that
TN the 5000 are not included those
Federal employees engaged in run
ming down suspected violations of
the new Pure Food Law; but the
complete number ought to be dis
covered and published-San Fran
cisco Star!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
REACHED AN AGREEMENT.

After conferences lasting more
than two months the joint trade
arbitration beard OF the Mason
Builders Association and the brick
layers unions of New York came
to an agreement as to wages and
working conditions. A contract for
two years was signed The present
wages Of 70 cents an hour for eight
hours day and double wages 70.
overtime and Sundays and holiday
work ire to continue. ...5:.rss 81.
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tons OF the gambling. spirit. and
millions OF suffering men, women
and children wall be lifted from the
depths of poverty and despair to the
uplands Of ever~increasing affluence
and intenslfying 10y In existence.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
"RECALL" NOT NEW.


Many people have IN idea that
the recall is a radical innovation
in political affairs aud = new de-
parture in tho administration OF
government, but they are mistaken.
In the ARTICLES, Of Confederation
adopted by the Continental Con-
gress on the 9Th day OF July, 1778,
appears this provision:
ARTICLE s. For the more con-
venient management OF the general
interests of the United States, dele
gates shall be annually appointed
in such manner as the, legislature
OF each state shall direct, to meet
in congress on the first Monday In
November In every year, with a pow
er reserved to each state to recall
its delegates, or any Of them, at
any time within the year and to
send others In their stead for the
remainder Of the year,
This was certainly a wise pro-
vision and If a similar article had
teen embodied in our present con-
stitution, it would have done no
harm, and might have accomplish ed
some good.
1t Is certain, that if such a provi-
sion were contained in the present
constitution, a strong effort would
be made to bring it into requisttion
at this time, in the Eighth congress
sfonal district of Minnesota.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20

TO CUT YALE "PRONI'' EXPENSES.
New Heaven Dispatch to the New York
Herald.
please. do not. send expensive flow
ers to your girl guests and their chap
erons: at the prom" is the meaning
Of the Yale Junior promenade commit
tees request to students to limit their
expenditures.
The prom will be held on January
10 after several days: small entertain
ing. It is g. costly week because OF
the flowers, carriages. hotel bills, and
candies. Every year the students whose
purses are light find it necessary to
pinch. later; in the year II: they keep
up with the weafthy., -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION

THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION.
''The changing order of things is
wonderful. You talk of your ma
tional constitution. You have no
constitutional is thing of the
past. This is not the government
that you had in the days of Lincoln.
You have two governments today.
One the political government in
Washington. The other-the real
government, located in Wall Street. -
Mother Jones.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
THE GAMBLER.

In the series of special topics,
which comprise Rev. DR.. Rice's
Sunday evening sermons at the First
NJ. E. church, the subject last Sun
day evening was "Gambling.'
The doctor drew clear line Of
demarkation between gambling
methods and the necessary process
es of general business.
Business consists of production
and exchange, while gambling con-
sists of hazarding something in pos
session, on the chance of winning
something in another's possession,
without imparting anything in lieu
thereof.
Normal business is to produce
economically and to exchange eauit-
ably-whereby all parties are bene-
fitted.
In gambling there is no pretense
of production, but only the capture
of pool by superior dexterity at
the game.
In business, all participants are
presumably benefited in proportion
to their several equities. That is,
each receives, theoretically, the
equivalent of what he has produced
and added to the sum total to be
distributed.
In gambling, the element of pro-
duction is absent, while one merely
expropriates from another by out
whiting him.
The one process is wholly bene-
ficent; the other totally baneful. The
two processes are morally antithet-
ical.
The fact that the element Of
chance enters into both does not
make them Identical, any more than
that the element Of carbon in iron
makes it Identical with charcoal.
Chance is a minor element in nor
NAL business, and its entire ex-
tinction is the desideratum; while
in pure gambling it is the chief
element.
The fact that gamblers are also
largely engaged In business, and
that they have studiously DEGRADED
a large portion of the worlds bust
ness to the low plane of chance
have made of it the play of the
gamester-is not denied. On the
contrary, it is generally recog-
nized fact that society is agonizine
under the demoraNzing influences Of
the gambler in business-the gam
bier, who craftilly injects his vicious
methods into the realm of business,
and then, like the fakir that he is,
{ blatantly proclaims the resultant as
y the inevitable condition of co-c6:
& erative society!
Free the business world from the
+ deliberate. cold-hlooded machina-
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WILL GO TO EUROPE.

Carrying out the instructions of
the last convention of the Federation
President Gompers is making ar
rangements to visit England, Ger
many, France, Russia and other
countries to study the trend of the
labor movement. He will sail about
the latter part of June and will be
gone for several months.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
EQUAL RIGHTS.

There can be no equal rights OF
American citizenship, while Gould,
a Vanderbilt, a Hartman, Rookie
teller and the magnates of Wall
: Street have their Joe Cannons in
the house of representatives and
their Simon Guggenheims in the
senate of the United States.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-20
Serious. Indeed.

Lady" said thu: battered tramp
ct the: kAts, cant yer aparo mo !
dime on very urgsnt eollsctton r.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-22
BOl7ie Would Pnf Fees
 On S07t 01 Graded Basis

T do not like the. fee system in a county of the size of Jefferson county. !" said former Congressman Sidney J. Bowie last night. "The system in vogue in this county is one of many evils. yet It Is q question which should be dealt with with considerable thought and deliberation.
 T am very much impressed with an ex- pression l once had from Edward NJ Sheppard, the famous New York attorney. He told me of an experience the people of that state have had since they took a reform notion that fees were too high.
 MT. Sheppard stated that the county of ffeers were put on salaries. clerks were employed and their hours were shortened. He said that the state had to pay the clerks twice as much as they were paid during the time they worked for individ- uals and this with the officers salaries and other expenses ran the general ex- pense away up so that the costs of run ming the county officers was not reduced and it was found that there was a great laxity in the work, resulting in very poor service.
 Viewing the question from an econom- ieal standpoint 1t seems to me that the fees in the large counties should be