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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-07
GIGANTIC STRIKE IS
EXPECTED IN FRANCE

PARIS, May THE government confronted by serious
situation The postal telegraph and telephone employees defiance
of the government
by the wongnens gigantic strike
The situation is causing the gTavest anxiety.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-07
MILITARY ASSIGNMENTS

SAN FRANCISCO May 7-Colone Binger of the transport
Colonel
who will go ST. Louis.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-07
HONORS TO IJICHI.

commanding visiting
will guests
a thu Fairmon
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-07
ROosEvELTs BAD BREAK.

article
protect
itself against coming.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18
The Drunkard's Fate.

A man returned to his native
Indiana village after having en-
lgrated to Kansas some twenty
years previous.
He asked about differant ones he
had known in the old days and
finally of old Nicodemus cambridge
the town drunkard of his time.
''Oh he's dead" replied the one
questioned.
''Well, well, dead and buried,
is he?'
"Nope, they didn't bury him ;
Didn't bury him." exclaimed
the former resident. Well, then.
what did they do wife his remains.',
Oh, they just poured them back
into the Jug
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18
VALUE OF AFFILIATION.

1t has been fully demonstrated
by experience, that unity of action
and organization among working
people are imperative and essential
III order to combat the ever grow
ing encroachment of organized and
consolidated capital. and as there
are many questions affecting the
interest OF the working classes
which can not be dealt with in
special or seperate trade or labor
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18
She Handed Him a Hot One.

A young mother had habit of
airing the baby's clothes at the
window. Her husband didn't like
it, and believed that if she saw the
practice as others saw it she would
deSist. He directed their walk
one day so as to bring the nursery
window into full view. Stopping
abruptly he pointed to the baby's
dress tiappingI in the breeze and
asked sarcastically: ''My dear.
what is that displayed in our
window!'
''That?'' she replied. "Why.
that is the flag of our union.'
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18
THURSDAY. VI ARCH is, 1909.
LABOR'S WATCHWORD,

We nH Stdnd by our friends md
administer u siiHging rebHke to men
On. J,ayijes rhO are either indifferent,
ncgiigcnt or hOsiie, and, ,chenecer OPP
p0rtuniiy afords, Secure the election
Of intelligent, honest, earnest hddes-
uaiomiSis ,oith, unblemiShcd, pail uE
uniOn cdIdx in their possession.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

If the County Court stands by
its recent declaration several of thu
self-appointed political bosses will
lose their usefulness as dictators as
to whom shall secure liquor
licenses, and also the graft attach
ed. May the County Court be
firm and steadfast in its stand and
the first step toward the elimi-
nation OF the corrupting of the
ballot in Kanawha county will
have been taken.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

One great advantage of spending
your money with home merchants
is you can see whether the goods
you buy carry the label, or not
before you pay for them. When
you patronize a mail order house
you are compelled to take what
ever they send if it is anything
like the catalogue said it was.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

These are the days when the
necessity that all labor should be
united against the common foe is
so apparent that any person who
in any way advocate the splitting
of labor into small and hostile
factions will receive little en-
enlargement. Such persons may
not be receiving gratuity from
Van Cleave's organization, but
they richly deserve it.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18
More Labor Benefits.

More than five hundred mem
bers of the International Typo
graphical Union are now in receipt
OF the pension of sixteen dollars
per month and paid by the organi-
cation to all members who have
reached the age of sixty years and
furnishing proof of twenty years
continuous membership.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The men in the ranks of organ
lied labor who are ever busy in
criticising the officers and in
stirring up dissention are always
the last to pay their dues and do
committee work. They are IA
worse menance to the welfare of
the organization than the ..Scabs. -
They are the first to apply for
financial relief in times of strikes
and the first to desert the cause in
time Of industrial conflict
Union men beware of the man
who is continually casting retiec-
tons upon your officers in their
absence, if they have a grievance
the place to present it is in the
presence of the men they accuse.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

Now is the time to prepare for
the fight for labor legislation at the
next session of the legislature.
Centralize labor's forces and con-
tinue the agitation until success
crowns our our efforts Affiliate
at once with the State Federation
and make this possible.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18
JUDGES NOT INFALLIBLE.

at was Il judicial tribunal
which condemned Socrates to
drink the fatal hemlock, and which
pushed the Saviour barefoot over
the paveInentS of Jerusalem, bend
ing beneath His cross.
cit was a judicial tribunal which,
against the entreatieS of her
father, surrendered the fair Nir-
ginia ;iS d Slave-which arrested
the teachings of the great APOSTLE
to the Gentiles and sent him in
bonds from Judea to Rome; which
al urcd the saints and fathers of
the Christian church to death, in
all its most dreadful forms amidst
the shrieks and agonies of its
victims.
sit was Il judicial tribunal
which in France during the long
reign of her monarchS. lent her.
self to be the instrument of every
tyranny, as during the brief reign
of TERROR it did not heititate to
stand forth the Implying accessory
of the implying guillotine.
''lt was judicial tribunal in
England, surrounded by all the
forms of law, which sanctioned
every despotc caprice of Henry
VIII, from the unjust divorce of
his queen to the beheading of Sir
Thomas Moore, which lighted the
fire OF prosecutions, that glowed at
Oxford and Smithfeld, over the
cindcrs of Latimer, Riley and
John Rodgers which. after elab-
crate argument. upheld the fatal
tyranny of ship money against the
patriotic resistance of Hampden;
which. III defiance of justice and
humanity, sent Sydney and Rms
sell to the block; which persistent
ly enforced the law of conformity,
that our Puritan Fathers presist-
emily refused to obey; and which
dilel"itIttS, Win Je1tIleS on the
bench, crimsoned the pages of
English history with massacre and
murder. even with the blood of
innocent women
''lt was a judicial tribunal in our
country, surrounded by all the
forms of law. which hung witches
at Salem. which affirmed the con
stItulonality of the stamp act
while 1t admoniShed "iurors and
the people" to obey. and which
now, III our day. has lent its
sanction 20 the unutterable atrocity
to the Fugitive Slave Law
Charles Sumner, in Senate OF the
United States.
II the great Republican cham
plon of human liberty were to look
down from Heaven and read
Judge Wrieht's decision would he
not add another chapter To the
arraigument:
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

Through the agency of the
hungry stomache, which is Il great
conductor of thought, the toiling
millions are gradually TRANSMITTING
their activity from their feet to
their brains, and intelligently
the most powerful weapon in
their possession. When this be-
comes universal, as some day it
must, the hirarchy of greed with
its inherent brutality, debauchery
and oppression of honest labor.
will perish from the earth, and
be burned in an unhallowed grave
in the cemetery of history.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The annual report of President
Davis to the ninth annual con-
convention of District No. Il,
United Mine Workers of America,
is one of the most comprehensive
papers on the mines and mining
conditions in this state that has
ever been issued. 1t covers all
questions of interest to the miners
and citizens in general giving
statistics of csal produced, cost of
production, fatalaties in and
around the mines, number of men
employed in the coal industry and
much other valuable information
in regard to working conditions,
legislation, strikes, etc. Every
miner in the State should secure a
copy of the report and give it
careful study.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The captain of the late black
belt brigade is said to have a
cinch on the recorders berth I'M
der the new regime. That ac-
counts for the mails advocacy of
buy partisaniSm.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The miners convention now in
session promises to be one of the
most important in the history of
the organization. 1t will shape
its policy for the ensuing year to
be followed by its officers and a
strong effort will be made TO ex-
pand the scope of the organization
by the time it meets in tenth
annual session.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The franchise grabbers for the
time being are on top with the So
called bipartisan city charter,
Rut when the people of Charleston
do arouse from their slumber there
will be rafting of dry bones.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

unions, and as that end can best
be attained by a central labor or
ganization through which all
branches of labor may prove allies
to any particular one that may be
oppressed, and all may form a
brotherhood for the defense and
protection of the laboring class;
therefore all labor unions in this
state should affiliate with the West
Virginia State Federation of Labor.
The labor movement of the state
is expressed in the State Federation
of Labor, and all local movements
should be in touch with the state
designs and demands. Unions,
like individuals, achieve greatest
results in cooperation.
a link in the chain of commune
cation, fellowship and solidarity is
welded by such connections; its
seal certities the genuiness of pur-
pose, attests the worth, entities
to respectful hearing, and com
mandS recognition from all the
people i'll the state.
A larger field is thus within the
reach of all, prompt and concerted
action can be secured, unity is cx-
tended and its power increased, OBJ
noxious legislation retarded or
abolished. Labor weapons can he
used more effectively and general
interest furthered.
A voice is had as well us vote
in the state forum of the workers,
the convention of the State FEEDER
alton of Labor, to which Annually
gather wage workers of all classes
and callings from all localities in
the State to exchange views and
speak to a listening world the de-
mands oflabor.
The effectiveness Of labor unions
depends upon the numerical
strength of affiliated unions which
comprise the State Federation.
BY joining the State Federation
of Labor you are entitled to the
support of all affiliated unions, and
it is your duty as well as for your
self protection to be represented in
the central organization of the
state.
And that we may in future ac-
complish the ends of labor organi-
cations and of human progress, we
ask the cooperation of every true
and loyal union man in the state.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

Remember the matters when
buying hat. This war of ex-
termination may strike you next
If the matters fail the attempt will
be made to crush others. Look
for the label when you buy hat.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

Norman single handed, can stand
against the world. Union of forces
is natural law. Yet there are
those who would deny labor the
right to band together for self
preservation.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The lemon handed labor by the
legislature will prove sour
proposition to many of the MEM
bers at the ballot box the next
time they aspire to toady to the
corporations.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The "sleepers" in the bi-parti-
san charter bill will be awakened
by the public service corporations
when they elect to fleece the
people with a new franchise deal.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

Trades unions are not only the
necessitous and economic but the
logical and common sense organi-
cations Of those who work for
wages. They are bound to pro-
gress-
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The union label is the strongest
weapon that can be used in the
warfare against the great white
plague. 1t guarantees sanitary
and humane working conditions in
all shops and factories where
articles are produced that bear it.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

There are some things that will
grow under the new"buy"partisan
city charter-your gas, electric
and water bills.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

We have heard it said that the
labor press is to the labor move
mcnt what rudder is to ship.
This may be true, with this diff
ference. The rudder of a ship is
carefully looked after, while the
rudder of the labor movement is
allowed to drift at will. If half the
care were given to the stearing gear
Of the labor movements rudder us is
ordinarily given to ships rudder
the conditions now existing would
be Il matter of ancient history and
the labor movement would be a
power in the land-politically,
morally and socially.-Mobile
UniOnist.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The turning of Lots wife into a
pillow of salt was not so wonderful:
lots of men turn to rubber on the
street every windy day.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The late legislature received
several well merited raps from the
speakers at the Anti Tuberculosis
mass meeting Tuesday evening
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18
Pointed Pickings.

The girl who marries the foreign
nobleman for his name generally
gets fooled with the bargain.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The prosperity promised in
November has probably been
gobbled up by the taffy trust.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

The girl with a shapely ankle
can always find an excuse for cross
ing 4 muddy street.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

Under the "buy"- partisan (cor-
poration dictatcd) charter the
public service, and land grabbing
and tax lodging corporations will
assume entire control of the city
and have the people at their mercy
that is the reason that 80 per cent.
of the citizens are opposed to the
product of the railroading pro-
clivities of the attorneys for the
corporations.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18
lINCoLN'S WARNING.

Monarchy is sometimes limited at
as a possible refuge from the
power of the people. In my
present position l would be scarce
ly justified were | to omit eXer-
cising warning voice against re,
returning despotism.
There is one point to which 1
ask attention; it is the effort to
place capital on an equal footing
with, if not above. labor in the
structure of our government.
bid the laboring people to beware
of surrendering power which
they already possess, and which
when surrendered, win surely be
used to close the door of advance
ment to such as they and fix new
disabilities and burdens upon
them till all of liberty be lost.
Labor is prior to and independ-
emit of capital. Capital is the only
fruit of labor, and never could
have existed had not labor pre-,
viously existed. Labor is much
the superior and deserves much
the higher considera ton.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

Trades unions Tighten toll and
brighten man.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

And Pat is going to lift the lid.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-18

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The Greeley tribune., 1909-12-30
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The Greeley tribune., 1909-12-30
Facts of Importance
Regarding Sugar Beet
Industry and History

slow, which necessitated the dumping
OF huge piles along the railroad
tracks at the different shipping points
These piles were the CONSERVATION
of all strangers and impressed them
with the size of the beet industry in
northern Colorado.
The beet acreage Is constantly IN
creasing and next year will probably
be greater than ever. While the net
profit is not so great rs the profit
from the normal spud crop. yet the
grower feels more satisfaction at the
beginning of the season in knowing
just what he is going to receive for
his efforts, barring, OF course. the
floods and hail storms which would
be fatal to any crop.
The cultivation OF beets is long
past the experimental stage and there
are but few growers who do not
raise from ten to forty acres. With
the grower. the labor problem is of
more concern than the elements
Before the beet industry reaches
its zenith the iaborer must be paid
by the ton rather than the acre and
the grower must use as much dis
cretion in the selection of soil as he
does in the growing of the tuber
which has made the district famous.
The laborer will be glad to work
by the ton when the grower gives
him soil that is worth his effort.
Because the farmer received mil
lion and half for his bcets is no
reason that he has that much money
in his pocket A half million was
paid to tine Jap and kindred labor
before the grower, in most instances,
saw his check In round numbers
the seed cost 500. 900 and when the
implement and groceryman take their
portion OF the balance, the grower
with twelve tons can hang up very
small stocking for beet money.
But the greater portion of that
million and half, together with
many thousands distributed by the
three factories for labor, is now cir
culating in the district and the short
age in the potato crop is only notice
able by a slight but unusual con-
seryatism on trade.
While far from the expectations
OF early spring the sugar beet crop
was in proportion with the other
products OF the soil
The. general condition OF the dis
trict will not be perturbed by this
minimum crop of spuds and beets.
Next season the grower will redouble
his efforts and produce twice as many
of each.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-12-30

About $4,000 lambs are being Tod
In the Greeley district this year. max
ing about one-fourth as MANY as
were. fed in previous years. This
decrease is due to two reasons. viz
The shortage of the hay crop this
year, and the high prices asked for
feeder lambs by the range men,
The shortage OF the hay crop was
due to the late frost last Nav which
killed much of the young alfalfa, hui
the greatest shortage was caused by
that most destructive pest, the grass
hopper. This could have been check
ed by the careful cooperation on the
part of all farmers by a slight ex-
penditure for Paris green, etc. II is
safe to say that the loss to northern
Colorado this past summer was half
a million dollars. caused by the grass
hopper alone.
The high prices for feeder lambs
were caused by the heavy demand
from the Illinois, Nebraska and Kan
sas feeders. where hay was more
plentiful and corn much cheaper.
Another small reason for the high
prices was probably due to the gov
ernment quarantining parts of wy
r.,
thus causing heavier demand for
southern lambs.
The alfalfa produced in this sec
tion contains more nourishment and
better fattening qualities than else
where. which enables us to make
from five TO ten pounds better gain
than the feeders are able to obtain
In the east.
The average bunch of lambs are
fed about ll0 days. each lamb re-
Quiring about 500 pounds of hay and
1875 pounds OF grain, principally bar
ley and corn. During the first sixty
days. hay is fed from three to five
times per day, in order to put growth
on the lambs. When beet tops are
fed. II does not require quite so much
hay. During this time, from one
half to three-fourths of n pound Of
grain. principally barley. is fed per
day.
During the latter part of the feed,
hay is decreased and grain increased
from the barley ration to pound
and half or two pounds of corn per
head n day. This amount of hay and
grain will produce. in "A Favorable
season. n finished lamb. which viii
top the eastern markets,
Owing to the high prices of hay
and grain, hay being IS to $40 per
ton in the stack and corn sl.25 de
livered Greeley, the feeder must have
better than an Scent market in the
spring in order to break even.
Sheep feeding will decrease as
business and speculation for north
ern Colorado unless more hay IS
ra isod
The Greeley tribune., 1909-12-30

More acres but less tonlSA' = ~ ~,
history of the beet indus 'g' y'e ~,
season lust closed AS COM ,'r
|preyious years, but the mi,lle "".' q
balf OF money distribut1 al wy
sugar company among ~ Z" "'e .
went a long way to rescue ne a'AS'' '', /"
prosperity OF the Greeltg 1lS'' ~
which was half devoured by tN' P'~
tatn bug last tall.
The total area sown to beet SScu
yyns $4,000 acres, but in eul} sP' <
almost 5000 acres were destroy ca
nv hail and the floods AoAA tnV
Pbudrc and Platte, the Nr.la us
trict suffering most.
throughout tue district the aver
age WELD will be about Twelve TONS
10 the acre, making n to-, TOT 'h'
district OF 100000 tons.
Only two-thirds of tn mount
were sliced in this district tAe other
third being shipped to Lon -moHl ana
Loyeland, where the capa,y oI the
plants is greater than tie acreage
of the district.
II was Intended to orsrate the
three plants in the Greeley district
until December 10. but u Greeley
plant. which had been kelt running
above its capacity, was aable 70
withstand the long grind and was
compelled TO shut down To- repairs
on December 21, having gQGnd but
10000 tons instead of the normal
capacity OF 5000 tons. iThe Eaton
and Windsor factories will run until
the first week in January and VIII
slice the beets that the locai factory
was unable to handle.
For this reason a large portion of
the Windsor beets were slice at Fort
Collins and all beets west o Eaton
went TO Longmont.
It is stated on good authU-tE that
before another season tn, Greeley
plant will be enlarged to double its
capacity, which will make h battery
in this district the most formidable
in northern Colorado.
According to estimates already
made by the management. 'h7 total
yield FOR the district was 100000
tons The Greeley factory sliced So
600 tons, the Eaton factory E..i slice
IS, 900 tons and the Windso- factory
as, 600 tons An additional Hu,o0o
tons We're shipped from thi district
to the LonEmont district
This year the harvest Wa earlier
than usual and with the exception of
the silo crop the beets wera all in
storage a month in advanJ For
want of cars the transporta was
The Greeley tribune., 1909-12-30
Old English BrioerJ.

Bribery. according I" an expert on
the subject hrst became r"CogulZ'd
mode OF securing votes In the r"lrI
Of Charles l. IT was aftcrwhrd IN
proved upon 10y George III. who lost
NO Opportunity of enforcing It's cintmS
as "a good vul-r gettrr III he wrhu
10 his chief adviser on one occasion.
tho Duhc ut northumberland requires
some ru.u p,!~ tor the election "
would toe wr'u. not tn satisfy hiul
The hiu. was not altogether selfish 80
this matter al spending money. iui
the gold pills came cut OF ms "N %
medicine chest ine ciyii list Whrr"'s
his sucr"SsurS urcw uu"u the srrf'|
servicr cash FOR the corruption oi ui'
voters I.nudou chronicle.
All the news in the Daily Tribune
The Greeley tribune., 1909-12-30
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