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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

up The Sun, which has shamefully sup.
pressed news unfavorable to the com.
pany, was obliged to admit yesterday that
although fifty or more strikebreakers were
landed by river the previous afternoon
from Chicago, yet there were altogether
less than one hundred workmen within the
stockade. Ono pretense of operation
was made in the car shops during the
day The company is at present NOR.
ally and physically beaten, defeated at
every point.
All that remains to be done is to turn
the defeat of the enemy into a complete
rout and to utilize this most favorable op-
portunity for the advantage, not only of
the Mckees Rocks strike, but also of the
vast army or workers in the entire Pitts
burg district, of the still vaster army en-
poycd i'll the entire iron and steel in
dustry of the country, and indirectly of
the entire working class of the nation.
The only organization that can fully
utilize this opportunity is the American
Federation of Labor. 1t is to be hoped
that the absence of its president in Eu-
rope will not keep the responsible Off
cials on the spot from fulfilling their full
duty, both to their organization and to
the entire working class. They should
bear in mind that this splendid opportu-
nifty was not of their own making, and
that another opportunity equally favor
able may not present itself in years. In
the first place, the American Federation
of Labor should make the cause of the
strikers its own and help them to achieve
that complete victory which they have so
gloriously earned. But beyond this, it's
first duty, the American Federation Of
Labor should proceed to an amalgama.
ton of all the various unions of the iron
and steel workers, which have been so
frequently at loggerheads among them
selves, into one vast and harmonious or
ganization that shall also include all the
tens of thousands of iron and steel work
ers who never were included in any. union.
This is, truly, a splendid opportunity
The malgamated Association, now fight
ing for it's very life against the Steel
Trust, will undoubtedly be eager to rem
der all possible assistance to the officials
Of the A. +. of l.. The other unions all
equally menaced by the powerful Trust,
must be in the same mood. The unorgan-
lied workers, who have learned the su-
preme value of organization and who
have for so many years been kept out of
the old unions by their narrow and anti
quated constitutions, have shown in this
protracted and stubborn fight their splen-
did fighting qualities, as well as the in
domitable spirit of solidarity which ami
mates them.
This is the time for glorious achieve
ment The workers look to their chosen
commanders to do their full duty and to
justify the trust of their followers
n. Y. Call
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liar import rendered by other courts. In
effect, although, of course, not in so
many words, and possibly not with such
intention, these decisions override, super
sede and abrogate the accepted legal doc
trlne of generations and throw the labor
organizations back to the period of the
Middle Ages Today, in every assem-
blage of the workers, mighty protest is
voiced against this attempt to establish
an anachronism in modern society, a con
dltlon more dangerous to the peace and
welfare of the people at large than to
that of labor itself.
In every Labor Day, meeting today the
story of labor s trivial and triumph will
be recounted; the germ, the genesis and
the growth of the labor movement will be
traced; the golden thread that, running
through the whole history of mankind,
marks the progress of labor from savag-
cry to slavery, from slavery to scrfdom,
from serfdom to freedom, will be picked
up and followed through it's devious wind
lngs for the pleasure and instruction of
the assembled throngs. But above and
beyond the story of the battles fought
and won will rise the clarion call to that
maintenance of those rights already
achieved, a battle in which the cause of
the whole people is inseparably linked
with that of organized labor, battle the
result of which will determine for long
time to come the current of public life,
whether that current shall be progressive
retrogressive.
The outcome of this new struggle upon
which we are embarked can hardly be
doubted. Given full realization of the
issues impending and determination
that these issues shall be settled favor
ably to the cause of human progress, the
outcome is assured.
On this Labor Day we declare anew
our faith in the power of organization as
the only means whereby we may secure
a fair and decent consideration of our
demand for Improvement in the terms of
employment
We declare that the right of organiza-
ton must be maintained inviolate as in
cluding and embodying the right to do
collectively that which may be done indi-
vidually, since only by such right of ac-
ton can the right of organization itself
avail anything.
With all respect to the courts, the Con-
gress and all other institutions of the Ma
ton, we declare that the labor movement
must not be outlawed, and we pledge our
selves to use every lawful means to pre-
vent that condition.
The labor movement must be in the fu
ture, as in all the past, A FORWARD
MOVEMENT!
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02
INCOME TAX
THE THING
Simply the Difference Between
Equity and Non-Equity--0pinion
Expressed by Iron City Trades
Journal.

Congress has passed a resolution per
mitting the states to determine whether
the constitution shall be amended so that
a national law may be created taxing in
comes. The resolution passed the house
by the decisive vote of 81 to IA. more
than the necessary two-thirds, and it had
previously passed the senate AS the
constitution cannot be amended unless
hreefourths of the legislatures of the
states agree to the amendment. it be
hoves organized labor in every Safe to
get busy at once and educate public
opinion to a favorable view of this very
salutary proposition.
The trouble with our present system of
taxation is that the poor and not the
wealthy pay the taxes. The vast sums
needed to the government comes out
of the pockets of those who can least
lfford to be taxed The very rich. who
an best afford to pay taxes, escape tax
alton While the poor not only bear the
burden of taxes necessary to support the
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government, but they also are forced to
pay tribute to the great privileged inter
ests that are permitted by the govern,
ment to control and fix the prices of the
necessities of life.
Every Time you buy pair of shoes, a
a pound of meat, ton of coal, sack of
sugar or "A shovel, you pay not only taxes
to the government, but unearned profits
to the tariff protected special interests as
we'll
With an income tax law, it would be
possible to make wealth bear it's share
of the burden of government. 1t is be-
cause the income tax is a tax on wealth
that it is most just and equitable one
on the masses of the people, because the
income tax is a tax on wealth and not
poverty, the people may be certain at the
outset that nothing short of great pub
lie demand will induce legislatures to
sanction it.
In this matter labor has it's work map
ped out for it. The corporations and the
special interests, privileged by the gov
ernment through the tariff law to rob
eighty millions of people and at the same
time make the poor support the govern
ment, will be able to defeat the income
tax amendment by merely delivering the
votes of the legislature of one quarter of
the states. And as these special interests
usually dominate the political organiza-
tions and control the state legislatures,
it is altogether likely that they will be
able to deliver the votes of that number
of states unless the people are unusually
ylligant, active and aggressive. Already,
John D. Rockefeller has been heard on
the question, insisting that ''when a
man has accumulated sum of money in
a legally honest way, the people no longer
have any right to share in the earnings
resulting from that accumulation, but
the Hon. John loses sight of the fact
that the great incomes enjoyed by gentry
of his ilk could never have been accumu
lated, nor be perpetuated, unless the gov
ernment had specially legalized in the
direction of their accumulation. This be-
ing the case, what more reasonable than
that the government should exact toll
from the fortunes that has aideo in Sc
occurring, as well as does the municipality
exact tribute from property advanced by
value by street and other improvements.
The income tax reaches the ultimate earn
ings of all classes of wealth and property,
large and small corporate and individual
from each it exacts governmental toll
commensurate with its size and earning
capacity. There is no discrimination, no
inequalities. Under the corporation tax,
the consumer is Ii. sooner later, to
stand the burden; the income tax brings
this probability virtually to the vanishing
point
The difference between the two meth
DDS is simply the difference between
equity and non equity.
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Indicate That a Great Opportunity is Open
for Organized Labor Plant Itself
More Strongly in this
Country.
Lawless7ess of the Pressed Steel Car Com
Pany Has Paved the Way Elirr1i-
nate Peonage and Wage Slavery
Government Forced to
Take Notice.

1t is to be hoped that organized labor
will not let slip it's present great oppor-
tunity.
Owing to the intervention of the rep
resentatives of Austria Hungary in be.
half of it's subjects, our government has
been compelled to institute an investiga-
ton into the doings at the McKees Rocks
plant of the Pressed Steel Car Company
This investigation has confirmed every
charge made-not by the strikers, but by
the strikebreakers-agai the infamous
management of the company. Even the
capitalist papers have been compelled to
admit this fact,
Thus, for example, the New York
Times-which was by no means the worst
offender-announced last Thursday in
large headlines: ''No Peonage Proof
Found at McKecs Rocks. - But by Sat
urday it completely changed it's tune and
announced: "Stcel Car Plant Called a
Prison. and Strikebreakers Testify
They Were Held in Stockade Against
Their WILL The next day the same
paper further reported that the Immigra-
tion Bureau at Washington will have to
make an inquiry into the new charge that
''many of the men inside the stockade
have been shipped direct to McIlees
Rocks from immigrant vessels without
realizing that they were to assume the
part of strikebreakers and without under
standing how they were to be paid, or
what perils they would encounter. - This
charge seriously affects our immigration
officials as well as the ear company.
The charges of peonage, brutality, re
fusal to pay the new men their wages,
and feeding them with rotton food re
sulting in ptomaine poisoning, have been
completely substantiated by the testimony
of release or escaped strikebreakers. The
moral effect of this must be immense.
Everybody, excepting idiots and prosti-
tute newspapers and lawyers, can see that
if this was the way strikcbrcakers were
treated, the treatment of the company S
regular workmcn now on strike must have
been infinitely worse. In fact, the hor-
rors that occur daily in this plant could
not be entirely kept from public know
ledge, even before the government inves-
tigation took place. The Survey pub
lished by the Charity Organization of this
Guy, Hlduc hHONil IlduS oI us illitIIouS
practices, which thus found their way in
to the columns even of such out and out
capitalist papers the Evening Post.
BY this time every well-informed man
and woman, not in this country only, but
throughout the civilized world, knows
what to think Of the Pressed Steel Car
Company and it's precious management.
At the same time that the company
stands morally discredited, it is also phys
ically beaten. The pretense of keeping
the vast plant running has been given
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Propst was one of the men who advocated
the same. That, perhaps, he had a reason
for so doing, has become very apparent
since he left the city, and the argument
put forth by this paper at the time that
the girls were employed, that the hiring
of young women in such a place was 4
degradation to womanhood, has been
borne out
''The exposure of the system of female
slavery which bordered on degration of
the sex soon broke it up. The employ
ment of women in foundries is most de-
moralizing.
He being an Independent American
citizen, the kind that the Posts, Van
Cleves and Parrys boast of, it is there
fore up to them to take of him.
Several others have also skipped to other
fields. While strikebreaking was their
vocation, home wrecking and the destruc-
tion of childish innocence seems to have
been another of their desires, and from
the dirt trail some of them have left be
hind them, there is every evidence they
practice their vice most hagrantly-''
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02
Favors Woman Suffrage.

With strong declaration in favor of
granting the ballot to women, the New
Jersey Federation of Labor closed !, busy
session. The federation indorsed the cru
sade against tuberculosis.
Taking issue with Governor Fort 8
plan of wiping out teh state g deficit by
using part Of the educational fund for
other purposes, the delegates instructed
the new officers of the federation to fight
any attempt to divert school money from
school uses.
The delegates also declared for the
extension of the eight-hour labor law TO
jailers and all other employees in county
institutions a resolution urging the
passage of law forbidding the employ
ment of persons under eighteen years old
in bake shops was also adopted.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02
Organized Wage Workers of the Country will
Celebrate 9th Anniversary Of the
Day Set Apart in Honor of
the Toiling Masses
Organized. .Labor's 'sDer1onstratior1sA Actuated
by the Single Purpose and Center
ed Upon Single Theme, that
of Elevating the Entire Masses
of our People.

Labor Day. 1909, marks the twenty
seventh anniversary of the day set apart
in honor Of the source of all human life
and progress. Since that memorable day
in September. l~,2, when the Central
Labor Cr5uu of New York City held the
first formal celebration of Labor Day,
thirty SIX states of the Union have rec
0guI~'d HAT day as Il legal holiday and
other States and Territories recognize
the day by Proclamation. In 1894 Con-
grcss passed AN Act making Labor Day
legal huIiIay III the District of Colum-
bin. Practically therefore Labor Day
IS uow recognized 10y law as well as by
custom hrou-hout the length and breadth
Of til" land.
On each succeeding first Monday in
September srucr l>>2 the labor organiza-
tons ha'" marched through the streets
Of city, town and hamlet, displaying the
stmbaIs or the arts and crafts and Civ
I'M expression, hy the united and orderly
dcmeauor of their ranks. to the sense Of
dignity auI solidarity which inspires the
cause or lahor
Ih" r"'hratIun Of Labor Day has ncv-
"r been confined TO mere outward display,
10 >hma ot numbers or 10 the gloritication
o' I""rr or equal, and, if comparison
must b" uaIr Of superior Importance in
til" ceremonies of the occasion are the
literary features. For a space, be it ever
So hrlr', ihU tramp OF the rarchinr army
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

After September LIST it will be unlaw-
full for women to work in any factory.
shop or store in Michigan more tha1
nine hours per day, or iftyfour hours N
any week The law passed by the
last Legislature, and viii force a number
of stores to give their clerks weekday
half holiday.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

After Labor Day all pull together.
Build up the organization, the State Fed
Grafton, the Labor Argus, and unite our
fight against the notorious guard sys-
tenn.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02
Will Celebrate Labor
Day Throughout the
Valley With Big De-
DernOnStrati
Montgomery, Raymond
City, Paint Creek and
Winifrede Taking the
Lead---Much Good is
Being Done.

National Board Member Rodgers, Of
Iowa, who has been SO ably assisting the
District officers in their organizing cam
paign, leaves today for his home. He
will be chief speaker at the Oskaloosa
Labor Day celebration. 1t is to be hoped
that he will return to this District at an
early date.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

Stand by your union and help fight
your own battles.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

National Board Member Powell, of
Indiana, will spend Labor Day week in
his own District. He has been hard
and consistent worker for the upbuilding
of the organization during his stay
among us, and will be heartily welcomed
upon his return.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

of the organization during his stay
among us, and will be heartily welcomed
upon his return.
large and enthusiastic meeting was
held at Handley on last Thursday night
National Board Member Rodgers and Or
ganizcr Quinnan We're the chief speakers.
The Secretary of the State Federation
of Labor was also present and made a
few remarks. The miners at that place
are displaying great interest and rap
idly building up their locals.
The Labor Day Committee Mt Mont
gomery have completed arrangements for
the big celebration at that place and it
promises to be the largest ever held in
the Kanawha Vallev. The speakers will
be National Organizers Littlejohn, of In
diana, Campbell, of Kentucky, President
Ben Davis, and others.
Paint Creek miners, to show that they
are in the front rank, will pull off Il
grand Labor Day celebration at Muck
low Besides speaking and music, base
ball, races and other amuscments will
be the attraction. The committee have
spared no expense or trouble to make it
success.
The miners Of Raymond City and vi
cinity will celebrate Labor s Holiday on
Monday in fitting manner. A general
good time is promised to all Good
speakers and good music is guaranteed.
The Winifrede miners, not to be out
done, have arranged for a Labor Day eel
ebration and will have speaking and
amuscments galore. \ base ball double
header and parade will be features
Prospects for the organization are
growing brighter every day. Let every
man put his shoulder to the wheel and
help.
The locals at Olcott and Winifrede af-
filiated with the State Federation this
week. Who will be the next?
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

The locals at Olcott and Winifrede af-
fliated with the State Federation this
week Who will be the next?
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

Prospects for the organization are
growing brighter every day. Let every
man put his shoulder to the wheel anG
help.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

The Winifrede miners, not to be out
done, have arranged for a Labor Day eel
ebration and will have speaking and
amuscments galore. \ base ball double
header and a parade will be features.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

The miners of Raymond City and vi
cinity will celebrate Labor s Holiday on
Monday in fitting manner. A general
good time is promised to all. Good
speakers and good music is guaranteed.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-08
new GARAGE OPENS

The Cairo Auto and Garage Co.
wish to announce that they are pre-
pared to do an kinds of auto repair
ing and solicit a share of your wors.
While we are exclusive agents for the
Ford cars and supplies, and want Ne
sell cars. we believe We can best pro.
mote the sale of cars by makirs
present owners satisfied with the cars
they have, by doing their repair work
right and at the least possible cost.
We have a first class man in chars.
that can repair any make OF car ami
viii give one car the same careful Of
to, ton as another On account Of de-
lay in getting the building we want
we have arranged temporarily to DO
the repair work and carry "a full line
OF supplies including tires at io2 Com
mcrcial avenue where we will keep q
car for rent ard 10 go for you if your
car is in trouble.
THE CAIRO AUTO d GARAGE CO.
lo2 Commercial avenue.
Bell phone $50,
Cairo 20S-K.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-08
DAMAGES A PENNY
GAME AT LAW PLAYED BY RIVAL
CLOTHING MEN ENGAGED
IN FEUD.
Beth Named "Harry" and Each Ac'
cused Other Of Getting Trade
Unfarly--Job Lot of
LEGAL Points.


One cent in lawful money Of the
United States is what Harry Joseph
gets for his fifty-fve hours in jail the
loss of ten pounds Of good flesh and
his keen mental anguish. all Of which
he suffered when Rarry Rosenberg
his hated rival in the clothing bust
ness in Lebanan had him locked III
here some months ego.
In Joseph's $4,000 damage suit
against Rosenberg in ne circuit court
the jury yesterday returned a verdict
of one cent damages. This gen erous
sum carries with it the satisfaction
for Joseph that Rosenberg is stune
tor the costs, which is quite consider
able
The Joseph-Rosenberg incident
would make a good farce comedy
The motive would be an expose Of
he easy way in which suckers are
separated from their coin by the mod
ern lawyer.
Joseph and Rosenberg are of the
Chosen people They are in the cloth
inc business at Lebanon. Each hustle,
for all the biz he can get Both are
sgrnamed Harry and frequently pros
pectiye customers got their wires
crossed in looking for Harry. Neither
Harry was anxious 10 put he afore-
said prospective right The prospec.
tive generally left Harry's store with
bundle under his arm. After one
OF these Incidents the TWO Harry S
met and Rosenberg afterward ga d
the other Harry called him a damned
sheeny thief" At leas- Rosenberg
sued and got a $50 Judgment for
SANDER The other Harry, true to
the belief of the fathers that it Is sin
ful TO part with money took refuge
in a schedule" and Rosenberg
couldn't collect.
Rosenberg's lawyer said he would
fix HAT all right. He dug up an old
law which permits the nolder of a
judgment given for a willful wrong
TO lock Up the offending party aud
pay his board in Jail until the judg-
mcnt is paid. Joseph went 10 Jail IN.
der this law. Joseph's lawyers then
got busy and found a flaw IN the pro
ceadng and Joseph was released, He
then sued Rosenberg for $1,000 and
the jury expresses It's opinion of the
whole affair by giving him a CEN.
At the present writing the two
Hagrys are ont considerable amounts
in attorneys fees, for which they
have accumulated a job lot of legal
knowledge,
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-08

The Ohio--At Evansville will con
tinue rising during the next As hours
At Mt Vernon will continue rising
during the next . or days. At Pa
ducah and Cairo, will continue rising
for about 4 days. A stage of b.
tween AZ and AZ feet is now in sight
for Cairo
The Wabash-At Mt. Carmel. will
not change much during the next IS
hours.
The Tenressee-At Florence and
Riverton, will continue falling for
several days. At Johnsonville. no ma
terial change during the next &c to
4S hours.
The Mississippi-From Chester to
above Cairo, not much change durin
the next SO hours.
W. F. BARRON,
Observer.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-08
AL|EN|STS SAY
HAMS WAS SANE
AT THE TIME HE killed ANNIS-
BOTH SIDES IN CASE WILL
sUM-uP MONDAY. VERDICT
EXPECTED TUESDAY.

Flushing, n. Y. May Most Of to,
days session of the Hams trial was
taken up with the testimony Of three
of the states insanity experts They
?" ovr~ossed the opinion. pFedicatel
on the Hypothetical question prepared
by the prosecution. that Hams was
sane at the time he killed An-is.
Attorney Mcintyre for the defense
cross examined the opposing alienisi :
at length and succeeded in drawing
ar admission from each that the facts
as set forth in the defense's hypothet-
zeal question included symptoms CT
acute mania in the appearance and
actions of the defendant at the time
of the shooting.
Monday both sides will sum-up.
and the case will probably go to the
jury early Tuesday.