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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
STRIKE PUTS LABOR
LEADERS TO TEST

At least one good thing has come
out Of the sstrike-we have come to
learn much more about every other
fellows real worth. Some of the
men that we regarded as cracker
jacks in the labor world, are now
down and out. They were great at
shooting off their mouths, but when
it came to making good, they weren't
in it. 1T was quite plain that they
had no brain power and that as
leaders they should never be trusted.
Unless the fellows forget, they will
| never again come to the front in any
kind of a deal.
| The question of leadership is really,
the most important phase of the labor
question. This was very clearly
brought out in the meetings of the
union. Most men are apt to be led
! into doing fool things just because
another fellow is a good talker
1t seems to me that If I were
boss I'd encourage every good man in
the shop to join the union, If it were
simply to keep the fellows from being
stampeded. It isn't the professional
labor leader that ordinarily does the
mischief. It's some fool bunch in the
SnOp or IN the union CnaC carries
everything before it,
Of course, the fellows who go into
the fight professionally, become the
spokesman for the crowd, but they
rarely originate the trouble. Often
they are held responsible for what the
men themselves have forced upon
them.
If there were more good men In
the union-men who could think and
| speak clearly-it would result in two
desirable things; first, there would
be better leadership; and second, the
| men would fight out in their secret
| meetings, in a war of words, most OF
the battles that are now being fought
! out in the streets of our big cities
with the bullet and the bludgeon.-
Rev Chas Stelzle.
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OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

Three women have been nominated
fonsRarliament in=Norway. =, 49,.
III Denmark, the National Woman
Suffrage association has grown during
thesSpast year from 1000, members
to 1900. i: T.. -" g. ;:
Mrs. Dewey G. Bailey, president Of
the Denver Wo1nan's, club, has been
endorsed by the State Woman's Re-
publican club for the nomination for
congress III the first district.
The state convention of the South
Dakota Federation of Women's clubs
has officially endorsed the Woman
Suffrage amendment, which is to be
voted on. next year in that state. The
cooperation of this body is considered
of much Importance by the Suffrage
association.
Enough boxes and seats. have al
ready: been sold to ensure a tremend-
GUS audience in Carnegie hail for the
opening lecture Of Mrs. Emmeline
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Pankhurst, president OF the womafl's
Social and Political Union in Great
Britain, commonly known as the
"suffragettes ,"
In one day recently articles favor
able to woman suffrage appeared in
the Christian Science Monitor, Of
Boston, Christian Herald, of New
York, and the National Pure Food
Magazine; showing the wide scope of
this movement and it's freedom from
all political and sectarian. bias
Mrs. Oliver H. P Belmont and Mrs.
Ida Hustled Harper were two of the
three women among long list Of
distinguished men writer's to contrib
ute special articles to one of the
Hudson-Fulton souvenir editions of
the New York American Mrs. Bel
mont wrote on Progress of, Women
in New York in 100 Years." Ind Mrs.
Harper on, :'Progress of Women Suf-
frage in the United States
Baltimore women are making a
determined effort to secure municipal
suffrage. The Baltimore Equal Suf-
frage league, numbering nearly 500
members, with Mrs. Ellicott, wife Of
Professor Ellicott of Johns Hopkins,
as president, is taking an active part
in the campaign. The first plea of
woman for "a vote in this country
was made by Mistress Margaret Brent
of Maryland, to the Colonial Assembly
ina 1647.
The State Federations of Labor
of Maryland and New York held
their respective annual, meetings late
in September, and both bodies offic-
tally endorsed woman suffrage Tho
American federation of Labor de-
clares for woman suffrage every year,
and declarations in the following
states have taken similar action:
California, Connecticut, Colorado,
Iowa, Indiana; Illinois, Kansas Mass
achusetts, Minnesota, Maine, Michf-
gam New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
Texas, Washington and West Virginia.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
!. PEI 70 RESCUE
!. |NCOMP|'E|'T'|:|E|:.N|

a novel idea has been put into
practice in Boston. a., '"s, =.
Expert housekeeperss are held
ready for a call from any woman
perplexed by the; cares Of her house,
hold. ~>JS.,s 3 t t III! Is Z o.
The. corps Of expert ss&housekeepers
Is under the management of the
Women's Educational and Industrial
Union.,@ "a trifling fee is charged, IN
return for which any problem of
housekeeping Will be solved; 6 =:
Many =. brides have called :. In Il the
experts to help them out Of difficult
ties. The experts meet any demand
from buying furniture to, cooking an
omelet. i. ~ :. z 81
Also, they give instruction in the
arranging of rooms and ;the handling
of servants. The plan has been sue
cessful from the start, and now, at
ter few weeks trial, tits proposed
to Increase; the: staff OF instructors.
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TRANSFERS ASK z+<; >5. . ~.
.@ $ WAGE RAISE
Continued from Page 1.

lis to take effect Immediately All
use of teams shall be based on this
scale! = -
When it is considered that 1920
a month for street sprinkling is only
81 day for 80 days work, our pro-
position Is very conservative. The
garbage hauling at 500 month
amounts to only 1884 day for 26
days. Taking everything into consid-
Grafton, the price of an outfit, feed,
etc; our demands are very fair and
this question need not be enlarged
upon as the members Of the city
council are we'll acquainted with the
facts pertaining to this matter. There
fore, we hope that you will consider
this proposition and give us a square
DEAL ,
All Team Work BY Union Men.
I'm relation to public work in the
city of Minneapolis, from and after.
April 1, 1910, we would demand that
all team work done for the city he
performed by union teams and team
sters and that uniform scale Of
6211 cents an hour be allowed and
IAAdI d udy CONSTITUTE e16HI hours
work, provided that all street sprinkl-
ing and street cleaning be not limited
to eight hours work.
1.-THE team owners and drivers
union, local No. 232, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor,
the Minnesota State Federation Of
Labor and the Minneapolis Trades
and Labor assembly, is the only local
union to which the above communi-
cation applies. The Minneapolis
Trades and Labor assembly respect
fully requests that the aldermen make
this effective in the respective wards
as far as possible"
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"A vol untary increase of one and
two gents per hour resp ectively in
wages of the 5000 motorment and
. conductors employed by the Detroit
4 United Railways and !. on interurban
lines who have ebeen In the service
of the company for two. and three
week. | H. ,>-f : : {1s<. y .E%ig II
i The Retail Clerks International Pro-
Stectiye association has decided to put
an extra assessment on the mem
bers. for the purpose of creating ade-
tense fund. Il The growth Of the Clerks
association has been phenomenal. A
referendum vote will soon be taken
ito elect national secretary to occupy
the chair recently vacated by the
death of Max Morris. ~, .ctE stAi.:
Canadian unions are cond GINNING
militarism in that country. They say.
the military expenditures have been
Increased threefold during the past
few years. The Canadian minister Of
militia in particular has raised the ire
Of the unionists. He stated that the
militia has more than saved the cost
of maintenance by SURPRISING strikes.
Is 1t is reported that the United Cigar
Stores company is making prepara-
lions to enter the drug trade by oper-
ating a chain of stores under the
name of the Lauer Drug company: 1T
is said that three stores in New York
city have already been acquired, and
it is expected to add to them until
the' company has a chain extending
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
The; Sailors Union of the Pacific
has paid over $1,000 in shipwreck
benefits to the crew of the steamer
Ohio lost in.Alaskan waters. Another
instance of the power of trades union
ism to protect its members in the
hour of distress. The Ohio was
manned by crew of good seamen-
union seamen-hence the. fact that all
but 'ffve;<of her passengers and crew
were saved. -
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DULUTH WORKERS SHOULD
TRY COMMUNITY IDEA
Continued from Page !.

Continued from Page J.
over Sunday, to plan and prepare,
was no burden
Then one member Of the commun-
ity had the interest of all at heart
and these interests were safely
guarded even in their absence by
some one member who was on the
spot
Now they are most of them settled
on their land and have by combining
their sales of produce obtained for
themselves far greater consideration
at the hands of the city buyer than
would have been possible were each
marketing as unit.
By combination they have been
able to enact local laws that work
for the good of the whole community
and have been able to put through
measures for the improvement Of
their roads that would never have
been possible were they a divided
community:
just AS Easy For Duluth.
Why should not such a plan be
possible for Duluth workers?
With thousands of cheap acres ly-
ing almost at the city's very gates
there is no time like the present for
such a community to make it's start
Land will never be cheaper than
at present in st. Louis county.
Land which is now selling as low
as SIS an acre will double and treble
In value within the next few years.
History shows that this has been the
case with communities situated year:
ago as Duluth is today.
And history is bound to repeat her-
self in this particular instance .
Don't get scared because land is
being offered at exorhitant prices just
outside the. city limits.
Guard Against the Sharks.
Land at from 500 to $3.50 an acre
is not the land for the wage Garner
to look for. He is simply allowing
. the real estate shark to skin him,
out of five or six hundred per cent
profit if he buys it.
Land on a good line of railroad
with assured prospects of some day
being the center of producing agri-
cultural country is what must be
found.
If you are contemplating the bay.
ing of a little farm on which to pass
your declining days think this over
1t is better to pay SIS an acre for
land 80 miles from the city which
you can reach in two hours on the
railroad than it is to pay $500 an
acre for land that will necessitate :,
two-hour drive in buggy every time
you want to come to town.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
IN THE VINEYARD.

Massac husetts unions have a mem
bership Of over $4,000. y VI (. s,FS:.5
2" Eighty per cent Of butcher shop:
tenders in New York city have, been
recently organized. 4" ~ + 3 IS 5#ss 6,
In Oklahoma there are at present
about 1875 separate unions, with an
average membership. OF seventy-one
per organization. - y. .':a* -'S6e:i5@
William Glockling, International
president of the Bookbinders' union,
has been elected the head Of the
Trades and Labor Council of Canada
At the convention of the Railway
Carmen in Atlanta, Georgia, it was
decided by unanimous vote to affili-
ate with the American Federation
of Labor.
Fifty girls who struck at the plant
Of the Masury Explosive company,
Sharon, Pa, two weeks ago have re-
!. turned to work after winning all the
concessions for which the asked. q
The San Francisco Labor Council
recently voted to expel the anti-Mc-
Nulty locals of the Electrical Work
ers' union, in accordance with the
request of the American Federation
Of Labor. . r':-s
The strike Of 800 Greek laborers in
the Utah Copper company's plant was
settled last week. It is said that the
company granted the demands of the
strikers for an increase from $175
to 81 per day. 49,.
The Oklahoma State Federation of
Labor has made provision for a labor
organizer to work among the negroes
of the state, and a determined effort
will be made to enroll them in the
ranks Of union labor. !
Announcement that the glass manu-
facturers and workmen have reached
an agreement was made at Woodbury.,
N. j., recently, but there is a feeling
in some quarters that the reduction
in the wage scale is greater than was
expected. 49,.
The $4,000 or more employees Of the
Rock Island. railroad system are to
have the benefits of a comprehensive
pension system, to go into effect June
3d. 1910. Compulsory retirement will
occur at the age of 10 years and
elective retirement at S.:
After months of work the Illinois
commission drafted a bill of thirty
three sections, thirty-one. of which
were unqualifiedly favorable to&labor
1t is said that the bill is now a law,
and gives Illinois the best labor code
in the country, if not in the world.
:. Peace for at least three years was
assured in the street car situation at
Chicago by the signing by union Off
Gals, representing the employees of the
Chicago Railways company, which
operates the North and; West Side
line, of the wage scale offered by the
street car officials.
Suit was filed under the Alien-Con-
tract labor law against Frederick c.
Roberts & Co., Of San Francisco, In
the United States district court at
San Francisco on October 8 to re-.
cover a penalty of $1,000 for an: al
legged violation of the statute by the
importation Of a laborer from Mex
leo.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
ANNUAL BALL OF SUPERIOR
ELECTRICIANS A SUCCESS

The ninth annual ball of the Supe-
rior local Of the Electrical Workers
union held in the new Sons of Nor
way hall on Tower avenue in that
city Monday night was a complete
success.
The affair was the first social gath.
ering Ito be held in the new hall and
was regarded as we'll in the light of
a house warming. for the building.
The feature of the gathering was
the decoration of the hall which was
composed Of electric devices hung by
members of the union.
The committees who were in
charge Of the ball and whose efforts
contributed to the success were as
follows: '@.> 80 -a ~. -.
Arrangement-B. Rosenberg, Whip.
pie Young, J. R. Tillotson, J. johnson,
John Skuse. :. i.@.
Decoration-E. J. Tiff, chairman
and the entire membership.
Reception-Dick Monahan, J.. r.
T1llotson, S. Stafford, o. E. Eby, Ern-
est Latterneau, Victor Eckholm.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
BRITISH PARLIAMENT
TO FAVOR FOUNDATION
| OF LABOR EXCHANGES

Consul-General Robert J. Wynne,
of London, furnishes information con-
corning the labor exchanges which it
is proposed to establish in the United
Kingdom and on which favorable
action by the British Parliament Is
predicted
The plan of the government begins
by recognizing the British board Of
trade itself, and creating a special
department, which shall be con-
cerned with the new labor exchanges
and the system of unemployment in
surance to be created. The country
is to be mapped into 10 divisions,
each with a divisional clearing house,
under a divisional chief, and all CO.
ordinated with a national clearing
house in London.
In these 10 divisions will be set up
between so and 40 first-class labor
exchanges in towns with a population
CT 100000 and upward, Is second
class exchanges in towns of popula-
ton between $4,000 and 100000, and
$50 minor exchanges in smaller CEN
ters.
In the large centers general advis-
DRY committees, consisting of equal
numbers of employers and employees,
will be appointed; but these will in
all cases be under the direction of
an impartial permanent official"
appointed by and subject to the Brit
ish board of trade.
The president of the British board
of trade estimates the cost at $780,
900 year, rising during the building
period to 100000.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
FARMER I UNION PUTS
LABEL ON POTATOES

e
PUEBLO, Colo, Oct. 21.-C.
y. Robertson, manager of the
Farmers Union Trading COM.
pany at Calhan, Colo, while in
Pueblo attending the state meets
ing, had several thousand tags
printed with the Farmers Union
label standing out conspicu-
ously*> One of these tags will
be placed. on: each sack Of po-
tatoes shipped out by the CAL
han Farners', Union.
Six month ago the Farmers
Union Trading company was or
ganfzed with.:a capital ST $500,
and since that time business to
to the extent of $4,000: has
been done, and the members
claim they have saved as much
more through. benefits derived
by corporation. & =.
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COLLEGE EDUCATION -
-. ! is NOT NECESSARY

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 21.-U.
S. Census Director ,Durand states that
the impression seems to- have gone
abroad that the census bureau prac-
tically"requires that all candidates for
positions<of special agents for5 the COL
3lection|of manufactures and mining
statistics must be college graduates.
i LAS a. matter Of fact" says Mr..
purand, we are very anxious to get
as special agents as. many men as
possible who have had practical bust
ness experience, and a. college educa-
ton is by no means required
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WILL EXPERT GRAY
DISCOVER CAUSE
Continued from PAGE 1,

go and select the goods herself and
PAY CASH FOR THEM.
There's the rub.
The grocer is human and the temp
tation to make good profits at the
housewives expense is strong
He sends up the bill of goods and
charges his own price for them
If some of the goods are a few
ounces below weight and the canned
goods are a ten-cent brand instead
Of the fifteen-cent brand charged on
the slip, the lazy housewife, who
never takes time to check up her bill
will not discover it. The grocer
knows this, so the groceries often
come short weight and poor grade.
But the housewife who keeps
posted on prices and brands isn't
getting fooled this way.
Blocks the GrOcer's Game.
She gets what she buys and there
by saves her husband many dollars
a month that. an unprincipled grocer
would otherwise fitch from him.
She watches the advertisements and
"O1A cll1OW c11ty S4IlOOt11-tOHSueO Or
der clerk to make her believe that
cheap brand of peas is just as good
as the staple brand she has been
using.
Thus she helps keep down the cost
OF living in her family. More of her
kind would materially reduce the cost
of living for all Duluth.
When the housewife shows the
butcher that she knows the differ
ence between neck meat and the
choice cuts and is too wise to let the
grocer put off seconds" on her,
these purveyors of foodstuffs Will
take tumble and the prices of their
goods will fall along with them.
The careless housewife can blame
herself for~at least third of the
amount OF the monthly food bill.
If Professor Gray starts his inves-
tigation along the right lines he will
find this is so-in Duluth at least
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LAD SHOT DOWN BY STRIKER
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Continued from Page 1.
convict is not the only one Of his
stripe on the boats, of the Vessel Own
ers' association at present. Police
records of other lake cities prove It,
The decks are full of them. It
takes three or four of them to do
one good seaman's work
At sea they are a menace to the
property of the greedy trust that
employs them
Ashore they are a menace to the
lives OF you and your children.
You who do not believe in the JUS
tice of the striking seamen's cause
can take your choice between the
Morris-Casey kind and the man who
braves the perils of the great lakes
six or seven months in the year to
support a wife and family decently
In your midst. y:
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ALLEGES COAL CONSPIRACY.

James B. .McLachlan, secretary
treasurer of the Nova Scotia branch
OF the United Mine Workers Of AM
erica, has brought charges Of con-
splracy to restrict the supply Of coal
IN IN. Nova 20 Scotia, and thereby to raise
prices prices ulnreasonably, against Alex
! a q der Dick, sales agent Of the Dom
Tlnion Coal Co, and 10 n r. Cowans,
SSI laniall1 the Spring Fill coal
mines,
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sAwBONEs WILL STRIKE.

VIENNA, Oct. 21.-The doctors at
tached to the hospitals here have de-
cided to go on strike on December
Is unless the city agrees to their de-
mand for an increase in salary.
Private physicians will support the
action of their colleagues: so, unless
an arrangement is arrived at by the
date set, 1.-The Viennesel hospitals will
be without medical aid r.. y.
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VERDICT FOR MRS. HBATONYu

NEW YORK. Oct. .20-The jury be-
fore which Mrs. Frances Work Burke
Roche Batonyi brought suit for d.
vorce from Aurel Batonyi, the Aus
dict in favor of Mrs. Batonyi. The
verdict will have to be confirmed by
the judge before a decree will be
granted
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4 assf~j4 s: ,+F-% 49,.
THANKS HER FRIENDS.

Mrs. Alma Seaberg desires to thank
hsramany kind friends for their help
during the sickness and at the death
( Of x,her, husband.
= This THANKS is specially rendered
Those who attended the funeral and
to che occupants of the Manhattan
building. MRS ALMA SEABERG.
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ATTENTION
UNION MEN AND WOMEN

Ladies and gentlemen can be
supplied with frst-class hose at
reasonable prices; also dress
gloves of a specially select quality.
Strictly union goods, attested by
the union label. Call and examine
for yourselves.
MRS. CATHERINE DEMPSEY
204 Old Masonic Temple.
Zenith Phone c23S-A.
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i. WILL. BILL GIVE ITO

LONDON, Oct. 21.-Lady Cook, the
leading English suffragette, left this
week for an extended visit to Am
erica. ,..|% # 5#. 55, III
ri Lady Lac 6 Cook announced her intention
of$ens Ieavsoring to enlist the support
q Presadent Taft # for the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
COMMISSIONER McEWEN TO
: SPEAK AT ONEoTA"CHURCH

State Labor Commissioner W.. T..
McEwen will speak at the Merritt
Memorial church, Oneot@ in this city
city on Sunday evening, November "a.
Mr.. McEwen will take for his sub
ject 1.-The Perils of Peace"
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OUR EQUIPMENT

Together with thorough KNOWLEDGE ~
examining eyes and grinding lenses, enable
us to produce a quality OF work that is un-
surpassed Lenses duplicated from broken
pieces Prices reasonable.
DIR. w. w. FRENCH.
State Licensed Optician. i: Office: 20S Ara
Bldg. %%1 West Superior Street.
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go and select the goods herself and
PAY CASH FOR THEM.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-05-29
NOVEL USE FOR AUTHORS NAME.
Euphonlc SyIlables Unfortunately
 Were Badly Applied.

When Josephine Dodge Daskam, now Mrs. Bacon, met college class mate short time ago, the classmate congratulated her on the fame she had acquired and said: T had startling proof of how well your name Is known after we'd been out of college only five years. l was then on trip abroad and was doing a little sketch. ing in the picturesque parts of Eng land. Several other artists were grouped near me one morning, all at tempting to sketch delightful bit of landscape, when gust of wind blew my sketching sunshade over A gal lant young artist tried to pick 1t up for me- The wind bowled 1t over a little farther. Then he knocked over my stool in his gallant efforts, nearly upset my easel and had very clumsy time of it, and all the while he kept muttering under his breath: Josephine Dodge Daskam, Josephine Dodge Das. kam
 "'Do you know herr asked finally.
 'Who?' he asked, surprised.
 Why, Josephine Dodge Daskam. She was college classmate of mine.'
 "The young man turned fine red and said sheepishly: No, don't know her from Adam, but I've read lot of her stories. and I always say her name when I want to swear, and can't. Her name Is the nearest like cussing without being cussing. of anything [ know of"