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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
TORONTO MEN MAY 49,
STRIKE FOR WAGES

WEST TORONTO, April 15-There
is growing discomfort among the C. P.
r. mechanics here over the fact that
the company has not granted the men
wage schedule since the recent
strike. Men are being paid in &C
cordance with the views of the COM
pany, and it is claimed that men who
entered the service at the time Of the
strike are in many instances being
shown preference.
An employe at the shops has stated
that if an understanding regarding
the schedule is not arrived at the
men will walk out on May 1. The
men argue that this would be an I'M
fortunate time for a strike so far as
the company is concerned, owing to
the fact that it is impossible at pres
ent to cope with the work on hand.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
FITGER BREWING COMPANY
MOVES INTO NEW OFFICES

The Fitger Brewing company &C.
cupied its new office building at Sixth
avenue east and Superior street yes
terday. SIP. 49, -. =
The main office is fitted with
bronzed iron banking fixtures and has
plenty of room for the general bust
ness force. ~.
A large back room overlooking the
lake contains the private offices of
August Fitger and P. S. Anneke. Over
the fire place is space for the fine oil
painting, ~ Icara," by Arthur = Fitger,
brother OF. August Fitger. y
The new structure will be IS by 80
feet. The vacated building will be
added to the bottlipg department. :
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
MILK TRANSFERS ARE
THREATENING TO STRIKE

=. CHICAGO, April IA strike Of
Z 200 milk wagon drivers Is threate-
!ened as a result Of the refusal of
members of the Illinois Milk Dealers
association to grant an increase on
wages Of 81 per week, The drivers are
determined to leave their wagons I'm
less the dealers by next Thursday
grant the advance demanded. J..
:: More than 1920 drivers met last
night at las Randolph street and
ordered a special meeting of the union
to be held in Brands hall next Thurs
day afternoon to. take ., ! strike vote
unless the increase is granted prior to
that time f., I'D. ~ r. q. Il ? s -s ,l,., =
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
COURT sUSTAINS LAW -:
REQUIRING FULL CREW

INDIANAPOLIS, ND, April Is
BY unanimous decision OF the SUI
preme court the full train crew law
OF 1907 was Friday declared consti-
tutional and judgment was affirmed
against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati Chi
cago and st. Louis Railway company
for running It's fast mail train from
Richmond to this city with crew OF
only four men. s ~ -: - -
The train consists of seven mail cars
and no passenger coaches, and the
crew includes only the engineer, fire
man and conductor and one brake
man. The statute says that any
passenger. mail or express train Of
five cars or more must have a flag
man in addition to the operatives
named. ~:~ -, =, =
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
ITEMS INSURANCE
THE Or MINNESOTA
Contributed BY John "a. Hartigan,
Commissioner Of Insurance
at Sc. Paul, MINI.

The North Americtn Accident Insur-
ance company of Chicago, Ill, was re-
licensed by this department on March
10, 1909. q 55E. */
The following companies have been
refused a license by this department
for the year 1907: The Queen City
Fire Insurance Co, Sioux Falls, SD.
The German Union Fire Insurance Co..
Baltimore, Nd, The Minnesota Farm
ers' Mutual Hail and Cyclone Mime
appolis, Mimi. r. !. <.5~. !. d ~, Az
The bill recently Introduced IN the
legislature requiring all fraternal So
cieties to charge National Fraternal
Congress rates after February 9Th,
1870, has been Withdrawn by it's au-
/ thor: ~ - =, ...>
The, bill establishing standard pro-
visions for health and accident poll
lc1es has passed the house and has
been recommended for passage by the
senate committee on insurance. This
bill was bitterly fought by some of
the Insurance companies. 1t was sup
| ported by the insurance department
| and by several Of the best companies.
The Peoples National Fire Insurance
Co., Of Philadelphia, Pa, was licensed
to do business in. this state ON March
! 9Th, 1909 49, ~. :, :t'' :.
| Companies writing Fidelity, Surety
and General Casualty insurance in the
state of Minnesota, collected in pre-
J11iums during 1908; $,021,507.32, an in
crease Of $15s,1o1.3s over. the previous
year. The: losses paid for 1908 were
$1.o15, o14.03, an increase for the year
of $165,573S4
The fire losses in Minnesota for
February amounted to $s5,00o.00,. as
compared with $242,000O0 for the
same month of last year. The losses
in the United States were $14,591,-
100000, as compared with $500, 900 90.
in February. 1908
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
BELGIAN MINERS GET
H. = NINE HOUR DAY

BRUSSELS, April .15.-After; a long
discussion over the length Of the
miners work day, the Chamber Of
Deputies has decided that no miner
Shall work. more than nine hours
daily, including the time taken for en-
tering and leaving the mines. A mo-
ton by the socialist deputies to make
it an eight hour day was previously
defeated by a vote Of rs to 80.
The city council of Anderlecht, one
of the suburbs, has decided to change
the Name of one Of it's most. promi-
nent thoroughfares from Street Of
Solitude" to Karl Marx street. Karl
Marx lived in Brussels three, years.
from 1916 to 1848, ais an exile.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

the prisoner told shortly after she had
shot down and killed the physician in
the vestibule of an up town apartment
house aroused widespread interest in
her case. She had killed DR.: Auspitz,
she said, because he had attacked her
while she was under the influence of
an anesthetic during ner term of SER
vice as a nurse in a sanitarium which
the physician conducted at the time.
She brought with her today from
Blackwells island, where she had been
a prisoner, the baby; born to her since
the shooting. She had expressed con-
fsdence that entire justice would
ultimately be done her and in state
ment declared that she was merely the
instrument of God in the killing of the
physician as her efforts to punish him
in the courts had not succeeded.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
THEY DON'T WANT
CARNEGIE'S GIFTS
Canadian Working Men Oppose tn,
Acceptance of BIood-Stained
Libraries.

HAMILTON, Ont, April 15.-Thes
Trades and Labor Council at it's last
meeting passed a warm resolution
ccndemning the proposed action of the
public library board to accept the Of
fer of Andrew Carnegie of $4,000
for new library building.
In addition to the resolution con-
demrling the library board a special
resolution was passed for the benefit
Of Henry Dallyn, who is the repre-
sentative Of the Trades and; Labor
Council ON the library board, calling
on him to resign for the stand he had
taken in: the Carnegie matter.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
SCHOOL OF TRACTION ENGINEER.
.~ :t- ING. - -. ~ F.. :

+ The School Of Traction, Engineering,
which is now one Of the short courses
of the School of Agriculture of the
University of Minnesota. will he held
this year at University Farm, ST. Paul,
for one month commencing May rs.
: steam engineering, gasoline engin-
eering, and blacksmith1ng will be
taught: in a proctical way Students
will be given practice in actually
running the engines and will be given
sufficient work at the forge so that
they may. be able to do some Of their
repair work. Students will room and,
board in the school dormitories.
"A prospectus describing the work
and giving full informal lon will be
sent to all who desire. Apply to
James NJ. Drew, Registrar, University
Farm, St. Paul, MINI. W. S;$5
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
ENGLISH MECHANICS 49,
-. COME HERE TO LIVE

NEW YORK, April 15.-Fifty Eng
lish mechanics, unable to obtain en-
ployment in England, arrived here
with their families on the American
line steamship st. Paul. Leonard S.
Reading, spokesman for the party
said: 1--WE are all good mechanics
and, as a rule, should ge along best in
our native land, but there is no work
for us there, and have come to Am
erica to become citizens. We cannot
support our families in England, and
we think we have the ability to do
that here.''
The party is bound for the middle
west. p
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
CAUTION TO WORKERS..

Gem ent II: workers, Structural Iron
Workers, Carpenters Electricians,
Transfers. Linemen and Common La
borers are especially urged to refrain
from coming to Montana to work on
the Hauser Lake or Wolf Creek Dams,
near Helena, as the contractors, Stone
& Webster, of Boston, Mass, have. re-
fused to recognize union labor union
conditions and union wages, and have
been declared unfair. by the Montana
Federation. OF Labor. IL
The Federation says that the en-
ployment agents want your fees, the
railroads want your transportation, the
real estate sharks wish, to transfer
what surplus, cash you may have left
to their custody, the contractors want
ctlean labor, and by inducing men to
come to Montana hope to throw them
into Strengthened circumstances and
after while force men to work for
any sum which they may wish to pay.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
NEW BANK FOR DETROIT.

DETROIT Mimi, April IA new.
bank to be known as The Security
State bank, has been organized and
will ommence business June 1. Local
capitalists are back Of the new enter
PRISE but the list Of officers and
directors has not yet been made pub.
lic The work Of remodeling the only
vacant store building in town has
commenced, and It will be made into
ample and convenient quarters for the
new institutions. There are now two.
national banks here. Is S.3{-S5 IS
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
WOMAN VOTES At 81

At a recent municipal election In
Copenhagen, In which women had the
right to vote, one OF the first voters
at the polls was woman ninety-sev-
en- years old. She was at the polls
before they opened and remarked to
those who asked the reason tor her
early coming that when one had wait
ed as long as she had to vote they
came early to the polls. She was the
one time noted actress, Mrs. Phister.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

NEW YORK, April 4 i. Sarah Koten,
the young Russian woman charged
with shpoting and KILLING Dr.s Martin
w. Allsplts on Asla. last, pleaded
guilty to manslaurhtet In . the hrst|
degree svnef, eall ga 10 trial. COR her
slife. In the supreme court hers to-
day She wass rsniAnded for sentence
on Friday
Tho crime to- which the young wom-
anss plsaaed aaailt ~ ssA tional la
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
CONTEST NOTICE.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
United States Land Office.
Duluth, Mimi, April 8, 1869.

DuluLI, Mlnu., April q, lSOS.
A sufficient contest affidavit having
been filed in this office by John B.
johnson. contestant, against homestead
entry No. 1869, made March 6, 1907,
for SEX VIVA, Ek SWh, Sec. 10, and
NEA NWA Section Is, Township, 81
North, Range 49,, West, by George
Shafer, Contestee, in which it is al
legged that said George schafer has
failed to improve said land in any. man
ner except to partially erect log
cabin; that he has not established ac-
tual residence thereon and has wholly
abandoned said land since the 1ncep-
tfon of the entry; that said absence
ployment in the United States Army,
Navy or Marine Corps in any capacity
during any war. Said parties are here
by notified to appear, respond and Of
fer evidence touching said allegation
at 9 o'clock a. m. on May rs, 1903, be-
fore the Register and Receiver at
the United States Land Office in Du-
luth, Mimi. -.
The said contestant having, in a
proper affidavit, filed April 1, 1909,
set forth facts which show that after
due diligence personal service Of this
notice can not be made, it Is hereby
ordered and directed that such notice
be given by due and proper publtca-
ton.
]. c. HERMAN ENGEL,
B. N. JOHNSON & SON, Attys.
Labor World Apr. 1924, May 1-s-15,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
.pEMoNsTRArloN...

The Best OF All brand OF flour will
have It's superiority demonstrated at
sGassers store, beginning Monday,
April 49, and continuing every day
during the week This flour is made
ny union men, who are paid the union
scale of tAases: ana under union con-
sdltions. The flour merits your pat
ronage. for there IS no better on the
market SO
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
CANADIAN WORKERS !. I ST I.
- SIGN AGREEMENT

WINNIPEG . Man.. April s15.-Me-
cnalnics, boalermakers, blacksmiths.
carmen and helpers :. signed a, new.
agreement with the Canadian Pacific
railway last night, the company and.
the unions having arrived at d salts
factory arrangement tor new sched-
sule. The terms were; not. given OH
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
WOMAN WORKERS WAKING UP.

1t is significant that the bill provid-
Ing for an eight-hour day for women
in factories, which is now before the
Illinois legislature was introduced not
by philanthropists but by the Wait
resses' Union of Chicago. This looks
as if women were beginning to fight
their own battles. =.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
PRINTERS GET INCREASE

!: AKRON. Ohio, April 15.-Typo-
graphical Union 1872 has signed e. an
agreement with one of the local news
papers whereby wages are increased
from $3.50 to SO per week. This
latter amount will he the minimum
wage for all employees in the cornpos-
ing room with the exceptions Of fore
men and, apprentices. The agreement
runs until May /, 1913 - :
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
SOME OLD TRADES UNIONS.

The International Typographical
Union was organized in 1850; the Hat
Finishers', Stonecutters' and Track
makers unions. 1854: Iron Molders,
1850: Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers, 1868; Cigarr1akers, 1864;
Bricklayers and Masons. 1865; Rail-
way Conductors, 1868; Locomotive
Firenen 1873; Horseshoers, 1875;
Iron ana Steel Workers, i. 1876: win
dow Glass Blowers, 1877 Granite
Cutters, 1877 and Railway .Tf'rainn1en,
1883
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
TENTH ANNUAL BALL.

Duluth Lodge No. $50, B. of r. T.,
held it's tenth annual bali at the Arm
DRY Thursday night, April 49, and al;
present had a happy and enjoyable
time. Flaatens orchestra furnished
the music.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

The Duluth Paper and Stationery
company have remodeled their store
throughout, and are better prepared
than ever to give their customers the
most acceptable service.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

We are informed by Mr.. Bergen of
the N. w. Paint Co., that the COM
pany has just received Gar load of
the justly celebrated Sherwin Will
llams paint. No better on the market
here Or elsewhere. i
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

Alderman Chartell has been con-
fined to his home; for several days by
severe attack of inflammatory
rheumatism. L.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
= THMs Ol INTEREST.
SNUPTIA Ais.

~ yeuWIMB
Miss Mabel BlanchaId and Frederick
DELUXE were married. Monday evening
at. the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. DiMarco,
914 West Fourth street, Rev. r. J.
Mooney officiating. The bride was
gowned in blue and carried a bouquet
OF yellow roses. Mr.. and Mrs. DELUXE
left for a short wedding trip and will
be- at home in, the West End in the
course Of q few weeks ~ = ~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

Union men should remember when
purchasing hats that there is in Duluth
a strictly union hat. factory, where
quality is not excelledg by any eastern
house, and prices are as: reasonable
as living wages and close profits will
warrant. :: 1t Is known as the Volland
Hat Factory, George: CT Moosbrugger,
proprietor, located at "a 1st Ave. East.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17
PITTSBURG COAL

PITTSBURG COAL co.
Will move into new, offices on the
ground floor Of the Torrey building
about May 1.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

Mentor & Rosenbloom have moved
into their headquarters at 122 East
Superior street; and with their in
creased facilities are enabled to render
their many customers the most salts
factory service = :" -.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

i: Mr.. T.. p: Bradley Of the Duluth Log
company has returned from an extend
cd; business trip TO. .Destroit, Cincinnati
and other points,: In business activity
Mr.. Bradley says Duluth compares
favorably with the BEST Of them, and
is superior to the most Eof them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

Mr.. J. H. Larkin, manager. for Men
tor & Rosenbloom, clothing merchants,
1922 East Superior. street.: reports that
business is brisk, money getting easier
and customers more abundant This
firm makes a speciality: of fashionable
and substantial. garments which they
sell at very reasonable prices, which
probably accounts for y their steady
trade ond: ever-increasing popularity.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

B. N. JOHNSON & SON, Attys.
Labor World Apr. 1924, May 1-S-15,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-04-24

Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.. 100
State St, Springfield, Mass.
cady, Mrs- Frederie. Palmer, Mass
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25

him less because his indisposition arises from
bubonic plague"
The natural enemy of the rat is the home
less and hungry cat-or which New York ap-
pears to have a hountifII supply if may
Judge from the evidences OF ones senses-uot
the sleek and pamporrd house pet, which wins
cups and wears ribbon with a bell about its
neck. 1t is the mean and scrawuy brute that
yowls at night that cannot be petted and has
to get its living where it can that may have
saved New York and many another city from
visitation of the awfu! kind described by Pcpys
and Boccaccio. 1t is thought that eat neas Viii
not carry pla que. but this point has not been
fully settled. 1t is the conclusion of the
perts that human agencies DO not play directly
any great role in spreading the plague. Nor
does freight. except a vehicle for infected
rats and feas. It used to be thought that
sanitary conditions might be responsible for
outbreaks of the disease, but now it is known
that such conditions only contribute to the
danger of the plague because they afford shell
ter and food for rats.
1t is said in the faoetious language of the
report that five thousand baciIH of bubonic
plague could harbor in the gizzard of q single
flea, and the flea feel just athletic and
terprising as any other insect" Were there
no neas or other suctorial, parasitic insects
there would be no bridge for the plague to pass
from rat to man, man to man, to rat
and back to again, even from rat to
rat. In flea time, in spring, when they breed
actively and in summer. a healthy rat will sup
port twenty-five thirty feas, and a sick one
as many as eighty-f1ve. The baciIH multiply
in the fea's stomach and the flea seems none
the worse.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25

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eeactfve irstr,,r,en+ for r.,r-,oses of N,
tior ,bar tn d. u he ,,+s..s ,rf,t n, ]
h. -. - - g .- - s.--
ex,dss MOI Tho rf,a +raras Tbs
/ scratches and tb.. chances s.--. vsrv favr-1
! ~ his r1bbfnr the infected blood into -b4 -
/ nrrct,,ra in tho skin -rb. flea fs raori-al
49,, ,-..,,.,,i..sfl.., - ,,,. f,e..-5l. o,,s, s
-, - .-.,. I'D - -r.-
irr4..ted r,,,rber- r,,.e NOT ,a1,an the his.
ohan no rsas v4rc r-czc~t p convey il q
Aeas bite men but when tn sick rat is 4
and his eighty ny eighty five boar14-z \
reft his cold ,ad.,,-ar and ..4--,a5 for
dow, r,f,b,-,, food ~, d. ..,..l- in tho 7a-I
,,rJ.- tr. r7a..-d f,9~t ar =r "a rfr-rs rsrsI
.I,,.t in . corner tElt t5, broom failed 10 ral
tr.v viii hf,. an-thfns They VIII bite W
man i,,er as ,,--i,1- 90 Oh .-rf-a-17- or a H
:, ~. ..., -,...,, t--, rr..s -1,,7 tho a
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
EDUCATING II CITY.
San Francisco's Plague Campaign
Essentially Of Social Character.

One of the fruits of the remarkable and sue
cessful fight of the people of San Francisco
against the buhonlc plague in 1908 is a book
recounting the moves of the campaign the in
cidents of the battle and the lessons gained from
1t This is believed to be the first printed aC-
count of a successful fight against the disease
that has devastated many cities in this and
other centuries and has cost millions of lives.
It's publication is TO give cities which some day
OF how victory won in city noted for
the care-free individuaistc tendencies Of its in
habitants The problem was that Of extermina-
ting the rats of the city, a task that could be
performed only through the cooperation of the
entire population The city of the Golden Gate
proved itself equal to the occasion, and its
people played the role of the Pied Piper in a
fashion to make them the peers of the hero OF
the old legend
It was battle by n Thoroughly organized
force, In which the sauts the enemy were
conducted scientifically and with a drectness
that gained ground with every move. The cam
paign was essentially social in character all the
sanitary authorities Its aim was the starya-
ton and destruction OF rats It was an enter
prise with guiding rreccdents among white
populations. and one in which the means Of or
ganization Of educating the public to a knowl-
edge of its danger and its defence. and of pro
noting effective action had to be improyised
In the face OF prejudice and growing peril.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25

roMp1 ETE STORY OF SAN FRANCIsCOS SUCCESSFUL FIGHT

The work was so economically done that the
Citizens Health Committee standing behind the
campaign was able to do the unusual by re-
turning a portion of the subscriptions Nearly
one-fifth of the sum given by the people was
returned to the givers.
Before San Francisco could get rid of the
plague it had to go to school and study zoology,
had to learn about the plague as disease and
an epidemic The first lesson was that it Is
disease of rats mice and squirrels and Is trans
mitted through the medium of the flea
probably says the account Eve have no
adequate conception of the extent to which the
lower animals are infested with parasites. The
whales belly is covered with barnaCles, the
back of the elephant in a state of nature, with
fungus and of the thousands of rats examined
in San Francisco, black. brown, red and gray,
"a per cent were found to contain tapewOrm,
and almost all of them had something of the
l1ind-trichinosis, fukes, round worm, thread
worm or some other sort of undesirable citizen.
whose eggs excreted and carried on the feet
and legs OF their hosts to human food, could
easily (and doubtless often did start colonies
in human insides.
And all of them have feas, IN season, until
they are dead, when these parasites leave their
cold bodies for warm ones, or take refuge in
floor cracks or house dirt. A sick rat, being in
disposed to clean himself has more feas than
well one; and the fleas do not seem to love
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
A VIEW OF THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO

After a reIe ntIess campaign against rats and .is
from all contagious diseases for the year