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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
STEEL WORKERS IN
CONSTANT. DEMAND ! | D
o.

Steel workers who are in the air al
most as much as the modern aviator,
are a much sought class of tradesmen
now on account Of the unprecedented
number of skyscrapers and bridges
now being erected in this country.
J.-T. Butler, second vice president
of the International Association Of
Bridge and Structural Iron, Workers,
states that there has not been such a
demand for men of his craft in four
years. =, r., ,.'s ~. ~ -. II, :. "
1--WE could place 500 more skilled
steel workers in New York state
alone said Mr.. Butler. IT have just
made a.. tour of, that. state and find
men wanted in many cities. In Buff
falo there is more structural steel
work than in years. and the. same is.
true of New York, Syracuse, Utica,
Albany and lots Of western cities, Du-j
luth included. ./A f@%%%l.s;t..% Is IS -
i ..The skilled steel worker should
not be out of employment now. There
is a demand for them such asiI have
not seen in years, not alone in New
York, but all over the country. This
is especially true in the West. Why,
lust to shbw you how much men OF
this craft are wanted, contractors are
offering them premium Of 50 cents
a day. For instance, in Buffalo, where
they; are getting Is I, e day, they set
In many cases a premium Of SO cents.
In Chicago men in our trade were
recently, given a voluntary raise OF
go cents a day. They get IS day
there. 8 M .i. x Il
! There has been: a general resumI,-
tion of building all over the country nttar :.
and III 1910 we look for the biggest
Ibuilding boom this. 5ra tion \ has ever
Fseen. q III .ss
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
QUARREL WITH LABOR IN =
CITY OF BR0THERlY LOVE

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25.-The
Master Granite Cutters association
have declared a lockout which has
halted the work on four public
schools and several municipal build
ings. The cutters union retaliated by
ordering every man not affected by
the lockout to cease work, and, as q
result, strike on all building opera
tions in the city Is threatened.
The action of the cutters associa-
tion followed a general strike which
has taken every man holding union
card off the new Wanamaker build
ing.
Was to Be Ready by Xmas.
No work is being done on this
structure, the completion of which
had been rushed in the hope that it
would be completed in time for the
Christmas rush. i +, - ""s4l>L.5
. =, Grievances against the Nader Fur
.nitnrcs con1pany;%@ef Cincinnati, which
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
CoNvcTEb
Story Told by ''captan Shanghai Cadets as
Published in Duluth Daily Papers, Shows Steamer
Hoyt LostLas Stood Between loss Wages and Death
TRY .LAKE CARRIERS AGENT :
FOR >SHANGHAIEING YOUTHS

BUFFALO. N. Y, Nov. 25-Al Lin :
erick, a former prizefighter, who is
In charge of the shipping office here
of the Lake Carriers association was:
arrested Tuesday on a, warrant
charging him with having shanghaied,
two Buffalo boys on a lake boat. s.
He will be tried later. - ';'"{
John Stromberg and Henry Dobo-
zin, both seventeen years DID, swear:
they were shipped here a month ago
as deckhands on the steamer Salt.
Lake City. They say that when the
boat cleared port they were forced
to go into the fire-hole and shovel
COAL They stood the work until Du-.
luth was reached, where they desert
ed. They made their way home by
Chicago, beating their way on freight
trains
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
Fall Wreakng Vengeance lily Manned Shipping So
Telling Organized seamen Of Great Lakes-Loss
Through Incompetent Crews Will Reach Many Thousands Of
Il Dolers i J r s.@E
BLAMEs INJURY TO LOCKS y y .
' z;-> i \ ON INEFFICIENT CREWS

. . :: 4
TORONTO, Nov. 25:-Victor A.
olander, secretary of the Lake Sea-
mems Union, while attending the A.
F.: of L. convention here, telegraphed
a protest to the Canadian superin-
tendent Of locks against the tactics
OF the Lake Carriers Association,
which is sundermanning its ships to
beat the strike Of the Lake Seamen..
plander's telegram refers to the
injury Of the: locks at Sault Ste.l Ma.
rie, when the steamer Ellwood crash
ed into the lock gates. Engineer
Floyd Lyons, Of the Ellwood; claims
that he was so short-handed in the
boiler room. that he could only keep
steam in one boiler, which was not
enough to- give steerageway to a.
5O0-foot steamer. That was the
cause of the accident.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
TOBACCO TRUST IS n. "
RELENTLESS ENEMY
OF TRADES UNIONS
American Tobacco Company Bars
Union Men From All Its Fac
tories in 80 Per Cent of the
Trade It Controls.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 25.-
Secretary Tracy Of the union label
department, American Federation Of
Labor, has issued statement regard
ing the conditions Of the tobacco
trade that Is most startling.
Secretary Tracy says, basing his
announcement on statistics recently
issued by the United States govern
+ment that about 80 per cent Of all
the smoking and chewing tobacco
and cigarettes manufactured in the
United States are the output of the
American Tobacco company, more
Familiarity known as the trust. In
none Of the factories operated by this
gigantic corporation is there en-
ployed a union man or woman; in
fact, to be known to have a member
ship in a union means instant dis
charge. Nor is the output of the
other 10 per cent, to any degree, the
output Of union workers."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
CATCH TOBACCO LORDS
DUP|NG THE IGNORANT

the trade of cigarmakers and pay
women SO per week and men 81 per
day while learning.
When the foreigners applied for
work in New York they were rushed
off to q trust factory at Columbia,
Pa, and paid the munif1cent sum Of
10 to xas,cents = day - - ~ azsss
60 The foreigners quit work and the
mayor of Columbia, to his credit,
threatened the concern with publicity
If it did not keep it's promise. The
trust officials took the hint and
agreed to pay the wages promised and
transported it's workers to another
factory in Harrisburg, Pa, where
more skin games were practiced.
The immigration official decided to
carry the case to their superiors in
Washington and endeavor to stop the
practice.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
IMP P0RTED:T0: END STRIKE,
C0L0RED Men FOOL TRUST

plant. This the men agreed to do.
and they refused to go to work.
The union men say it is impossible
to operate the pudding mill with Is
men, 200 being required. The Park
mills. have been ,op Grating, without the
departme,l . vast quantity
5of ron having been stored before the
Spudd1ers. struck. : Now; that the sup
ply is becoming exhausted. the men
say, the company Realizes that the
pudding mills will have to resume or
the rest Of the mill wilk be forced to
quit =
The colored men are standing firm
and are entering the fifth month OF
their strike with as much confidence
as the day they walked out They be-
:lieve that If they can keep imported
men from taking their places they
will win out
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27

has the contract for the erection of
the woodwork in the Wanamaker
building, are the cause of the trouble.
Because the furniture company em-
ploys non-union labor in its factories
the carpenters refused to work di-
rectly for the firm, and demanded
that it sublet the contract. 4E%t
Worked Two Weeks for Settlement.
After trying for two weeks to have
their grievances adjusted the district
council of the United Brotherhood Of
Carpenters declared strike. III t5EEt5;
A ympathetic strike of house
smiths, structural iron workers., hoist
ing engineers, painters metal lathers,
granite cutters and settlers followed. I'M
J AS resentment of the action Of tie
cutters who walked out, the master
cutters have. ordered Ia firms to! lock
out 4 all the men employed on build;
Ing work ]=ls 5 :91 g. Il VIII 81 \. 81 IL Il.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
PUSH BACK PRISON.
GATES FROM THOSE
WHO BRAVE JUDGES
Few Days. Stay With Prospect of
Supreme Court Appeal Is
Granted Leaders Of Organized
Labor.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Gomp-
ers, Mitchell and Morrison have a
few more days in which. to put their
houses in order before the trusts and
their subsidized judiciary put them
in behind prison bars.
The court of appeals of the District
of Washington last week took the
case under advisement and granted
stay until Nov. 20 on which day
the supreme court of the United
States reconvenes.
Justice Sheppard said that if the
labor leaders had by that day filed
in that court a petition for certiorari
then on application a further stay
of the mandate would. be granted
pending the determination by the
hghr tribunal of, the application.
Suggest Pardon by Taft!
It is now urged by many, not by
Gompers or his associates, but by
sympathizers, even outside of organ
lied ranks, that the president, has
the power under the constitut ton to
grant pardon In contempt cases.
The most recent exercise of the
pardoning power in contempt case
was by President Taft, who: on April
16, 1909, granted a pardon to Sher-
man S. Smith of Minneapolis, who
had been imprisoned for. contempt
under a sentence imposed by Judge
Page Morris and was languishing in
the jail at st. Paul. Smiths offense
consisted in trying to improperly in
fluence a juror in the federal courts
over which Judge Morris presided.
Two cases 5upholding the power OF
the president to pardon in contempt
cases OCCUR II. the Federal Reporter.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
VISITORS REGISTER Is
PROOF OF INTEREST IN
UNION PRINTERS HOME

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Nov.
25.-The following figures, compiled
from the Union Printers Home reg
istry, reveal the interest in that insti
tuition by Colorado tourists: -
In June, 1908, the number of WIS.,
itors to the Home was 2S6; In July,
955; in August, 1910; in September,
991, a total of 4,022. In 1909, in
June, 329; in July, SAG; in August,
2,722; in September, 1885, a. total Of
5,235, and a grand total for the two
seasons of 9,257. .
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
NO more GARMENTS
TO Be TURNED OUT
BY ILLINOIS JA|LS
Persistent Efforts of Garment
Workers Officers Bring About
Discontinuance Of Manufactur-
ing by Convicts of the Sucker
~ State,

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 25.-The
skirt and overall industries in = the
prisons of the state of Illinois are to
be discontinued and their competition
with the products of free labor. elm
mated. The total elimination of
sprison- made products from the open
market will also become an accom-
plished fact within a few years.
This result has been secured
through the persistent effort Of At
torney John J. Sonsteby, Trustee
Robert Norer. representatives of the
United Garment Workers of Amer
lea, and Edwin r.. Wright, president
Of the Illinois State Federation of
Labor. H., f'3k-.t.t ,x :
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
Negro Puddlers Brought to Pitts.
burg From South Refuse to Go
to Work in Place of Brethren
!, Who Walked Out Five Months.
,SAgo-Fu1naces Tied Up. il =.s=.,..

T,P1TTsBURG,; Nov; 25:-=1n an effort.
to break the strike of the co1ored;
puddlers of the. Park :, mills of the.
Crucible Steel Company, last Monday,
twenty-five negroes, said to be strike
breakers from Tennessee and Ala
bama, arrived in the Smoky City.
The imported men weresmet by rep
resentatives of the United Colored
Iron Workers and told Of the condi-
tions at the plant. The. union men
agreed to care for the new arrivals
and return. them to their homes If
they refrained from entering the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
BY Means of Advertisement in
Foreign Newspapers Hundreds
of Conflding Men and Women
Are "Tolled" to America to
Work for Pittance. ~,

NEW YORK, Nov 25.S-T41at big
bloodsucker known as the American
Tobacco Company, better known as
the Tobacco Trust, has been caught
perpetrating a typical slave-driving
trick. Upon complaint Of the New
York Central Federated Union, the
United States immigration officials
got busy.
The combine has been publishing
glowing advertisements in German,
Bohemian, Slavish and Jewish news
papers offering to teach immigrants
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
GIVES MERRY YULE TIDE
AS PLEA FOR OVERWoRK
OF GIRL TAFFY PULLERS

= CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 25.-The con-
stitutionality of the Illinois 1O-hour
law has been sustained by Judge
Going in the municipal court, upon
a criminal prosecution against the
president of the Bowes Alleeretti
Co., which was accused Of working
Kitty Dewitt I'M a factory more than
ten hours a day.
The foreman testified that he en-
ployed % girls, 18 of whom made
from $50 to $40 a week. He said
the Christmas season now on neces-
STATED long hours.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
SAY FUNDS SHOULD 60 Y.
p. TO STRENGTHEN CRAFT

CHICAGO, Nov 25.-The printing
pressmen have voted against the
proposition Of the international body
to raise 100000 for the purpose Of
establishing a sanitarium for mem
bers, afflicted with tuberculosis and
to maintain a home for superannuated
members. =. -" 5;< a z'.Srs.sfss ~, % :, lES
The reason for voting down the
proposition is that, II any special sum
is to- be raised at. this time, it should
be for the further organizing Of the
craft and strengthening the unions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
HEAR WHAT THIS
r: AUTHORITY SAYS

"Prtntcrs' Ink" the recognized
authority on advertising all over
the civilized world, after a thor
ough Investigation on the sub
ject says: "A labor paper is far
better advertising medium than
an ordinary newspaper in COM
parison with circulation. A labor
paper, for example, having 1000.
subscribers, is more valuable to
the business man who advertises>
In it than an ordinary paper with
5000 subscribers"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
TRAPS" AND flights"
QUARREL, STRIKE OF
SOUBRETTES RESULTS

YANKTON, S. d., Nov. 25.-A
sympathetic strike among the
girls of the "BabeS i'll TOyland''
company, nearly disrupted the
show here. -Four of the girls
. took the afternoon train for
Chicago.
One of the girls had a spat
with the drummer. He slapped
her and she slapped him back,
and the manager. discharged her
on the spot. Three other girls
quit at the same time.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
Predicts Strike
In 't'Baby'' State

OKLAHOMA CITY Nov. pa
strike in every city and town in Okla
homa in support Of the eight-hour
day, involving 80, 900 laborers, is pre-
dicted by Deputy State Labor Com
missioner Wiley ,.r.>s = H.. -
( The trouble started when the labor
comm issioners enforced the eight hour
j tlaWaanxthe emp ers cut TO
correspond with ehe reduction in
hours. *:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
Seventy Year Old Master, Captain
by Chance, Admits He Bullied
Terror-Stricken Grew Of Minors
With Death in Sight.
WATCHMAN SCRUBS DECKS
AS VESSEL HITS REEF
Lads Were Picked Up. at Lower
Lake Ports by Agents Of the
Great Lakes Shipping Trust, to
Fill Mems Places.

"A WIN dSo GAAC' AAOC1" : w OIlu
published in detail charges made
against the Lake Carriers asso-
citation of kidnapping beardless
youths from theirBuffalo homes to
fill the places of experienced sea-
men who had refused to sail for
the Vessel Owners trust under
the unfair conditions imposed.
Now comes confederation of the
cradle-robbing tactics Of the Great
Lakes shipping trust in a state
ment Of lads whose inexperience
contributed, together with a
superannuated captain and in
competent engineers, to the loss
of the steamer Hoyt on Outer
Island reef in Lake Superior a
week ago last Saturday.
Even Daily Papers Tell It.
The lads story, you must bear
in mind, is not to be told by a
labor paper, one Of those anar-
chistic publications which the
Lake Carriers association thinks
should be swept from the face Of
the earth, but by the News Tri-
bune, morning paper printed
right here in Duluth and obvious
ly on the side Of capital and the
employing interests.
Here in the News Tribune s Ian
guage is a tale which shows to
what extremes the Steel Trust s.
subsidiary has been pushed in it's
battle to crush the seamen's or
ganization and, having crushed it.,
to bend it's former members to it's
will:
Here's "Baby Crews Story.
After eight days of more or less
narrowing experience on board the
stranded steamer James H, Hovt.
which went aground on Outer Island
reef week ago last Saturday in a
binding snow storm, the crew arrived
In Duluth yesterday frem Ashland,
where they had been brought from
the scene of the wreck by the tug
Bayfield,.
1.-The baby crew. is what they have
been christened by marine men, and
from some appearances the term Is
no m1snomer. A large percentage of
the ships company was composed of
men ranging from 16 years. to "a.
Three are under II and one of them
held the responsible position If
watchman.
Youthful "Watchnlan'' Tells Story.
THAT was a mighty 'skeery' day
after we struck" declared P. J.
Hogan, who was watchman at the
time the boat was stranded For
many hours the seas went boiling
over the boat, sometimes reaching to
the top of the smokestack Most of
us never expected to see dry land
again. We were in constant fear of
the boat going to pieces and if it had
we could not have reached the island
There was only one yawl boat in com.
mission besides the one in which Mate
Chamberlain and three of the crew
went ashore, and that was so COW
cred with ice as to be unserviceable
Some of the boys constructed a
make-shift raft Of couple of ladders
and a lot of life-preservers, which
might have saved few of US If the
boat had gone to pieces.
Didn't Know Their Duties.
Most of US were inexperienced mel
and didn't know what our duties
aboard the boat were. I was on duty
as watchman when the boat went or
Continued on Page 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27

N CHICAGO, I'LL, Nov. I25.---- 5--.'N Murder,
cold blooded, brutal murder" is the
Indictment laid against the owners Of
the coal mines at Cherry, ILL.,, by
Frank j. Hayes, state secretary-treas-
urer OF the Illinois Miners union.
s5 He said the 4 catastrophe was "a
most striking illustration .of capitalist
greed
More than half of the victims were
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
a Charges Miners Official

known to him, Just how many ot
Sthsm were dead he does not knows q
but those men had been murdered.
he declares. t5$
The Miners union has peatedly
requested the owners Of the mine to-
adopt safety methods Of BLASTING. butt
the owners were too mean 70 oSsos.
he said sssEs
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27
:. MAKE BIG. PROGRESS.

t; MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 25.-While
Minneapolis unions, as a: rule, have
been making rapid growth this year,
some Of them have taken strides
which are unparalleled. Among the
latter are some of the railway organ
sizations. tAs T. z5S,$s f%5.5 q ~@ ..%
/, Freighthandlers' Union in Septem-
sber added 53 TO its membership roll,
while ! s were added to the clerks. s.s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-27

Cor 1tinued Il On pase 9. s. ]
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Continued on Page 5.)
Milford chronicle., 1909-11-12
EVERY DAY A BARGAIN DAY
Clear Cloudy Stormy
While Our Stock Lasts.

One man said 10 US on the last stormy day we had
Its rainy day and cant work, but have bought
OF you pair 500 dress shoes for 500 and saved
7cts, pair OF $50 work shoes for ,2l and saved
ucts more; suit OF clothes Just what want for
$40 u0 that could not have bought elsewhere for
less than 10 or $40 and made So on that any way
and in all together So. made this stormy day
nearly weeks wages for me. We have many
more equal chances TOR the many who have TO be
supplied with good reliable and dependable fall
and winter wear for themselves and boys.
We have about IS mems and Young mems fine
worsted suits that generally retail from et. SIS
81 a suit. that closing out at $40 So and
$3.50 suit correct in style and finish,
About Is other men and youths suits Of al wool
and eolorings worth SO sl4. TO $3.50 to be closed
out at $3.50 $50 and s 80 suit.
An other lot Of mems suits. small sizes, 81 IS,
and 80 mostly good style and pattern to be sold at
halt price or less at S4 S. and ST a suit.
About 30 youth long pant suits in an wool Cas-
sinner. Cheviots and xorsteds that we ere closing
at $3.50 S - and S., a suit which is only about
half price for such suit
Over 100 boys knee pant suits an sizes in both
straight and knickeIbocker pants, mostly al good
wool suits that retail regularly at 50 30 St5O to s.
suits that we are closing out at g. to $3.50 a suit
Another Tot Of boys knee pant suits al sizes
3 yrs to lt at 81 TO $50. suits worth a half to a
double more a suit.
About 30 mess and young mems fine Cheviot
oyercoats in regular and latest styles that retail
slo; 81 and $500 that we are selling out at 81 s.
and So
Milford chronicle., 1909-11-12

/ About 20 more mem and youths overeoa,s worth
81. so and s. that we arc selling at s. and So.
a lot Of small boys overeoals sizes to 3 yrs.
worth $50 to s. .Oo we are selling at s.. and s..
Another lot of boys s. overeoats, sizes 10 70
IS yrs. at s..
A big lot of boys knee pants, in all grades to bo
sold out cheap.
Mems single pants in al grades for dress work
or business to go cheap.
All underwear for men. boys, and women and
children in all grades. Heavy fleece lined medi-
Gated aannels and the Wrght's Health underwear
at cost
Top shirts in all grades for work and all grades
for dress in Neglisee and fine white shirts cuffs.
collars ties scarfs hosiery, etc All at cost.
All grade Of overalls and jumpers for men and
boys.
All the latest shape, in soft and stiff hats at cost
or less.
Last but not least is our line Of well made and
attractive line Of shoes for mem boys, women and
children which includes some OF the best makes
and stylish neluding the guaranteed Burt & Packard
grades OF work shoes for men and good school
shoes for boys and girls heavy work shoes leather
and rubber boots Tubbers, etc.
All goods must be closed out and store vacated
by the end OF the wear.
Milford chronicle., 1909-11-12
A. WHITE,
FUNERAL DIRECTOR

This enables us to give satisfaction IN everythin
Everything drst-class Black or White Hearse
Bodies emb8lmed or preserved by ice. FGnera
supplies in stock; all kinds Of Csskets and Cof
hns used, as preferred.
All telegraph or telephone orders promptly
attended; either at my Office. in Milford or, by
J.. G. Reed at Lincoln City, Del
Lowering devise used If desired. No extrt
charge for church truck. PHONE 70
Milford chronicle., 1909-11-12
RETURNING
Steamer will leave Philadelphia. Pier s, soutl
Wharves, as follows:
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA

Telephone No Bell, Lombard 2l-os on wharf
Philadelphia.
GEO. F. PIERCE, Manager,
Milford. Del.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-27
John L. Sullivan Was Never
Champion 0f the World

Here's something you can get
bet on most anywhere-and wiE.
Make some remark about Jonn
l.. Sullivan. and then add: H
deserved 10 be the champion ~
the world"
Then watch yourself get rise
out Of about dozen people who
think they know all about sport
John l.. Sullivan was never
champion OF the world.
This is the decision OF the sport
ing sharks--the fellows VINO know.
The great John L. was champiol
OF America. but he only fought one
foreigner-Charley Mitchell. He
fought Mitchell twice. once in
France TO a draw, and once in this
country, beating him. The condi-
tions were bad In the French meet.
and everything went under the
rules then.
Corbett was a worlds champion.
and Fitzsimmons and Jeffries were,
but Sullivan was not-so say the
authorities. !