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United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11
RUSSIA CLAIMS BEST LABOR LAWS.

Russia, having been denounced all
over the world as the worst oppressor
of the working people, now comes for
ward with the unique claim that she
has the best labor laws in the world
Russia declares that ''pluck-me" stores
cannot exist in the country, as they do
in America, for example. Employers are
compelled to pay wages in cash, not in
food, clothing, etc. and bosses disobey-
ing the law are fined from $25 to $3.50.
The employer is also required to take
hygienic care of his laborers, and to
supply them medica, attendance free of
charge.
In factory where thousand persons
are employed, a hospital with at least
10 beds must be provided and all medi-
cal attendance is free. The working day
is limited between 6 a. m. and p. m,
labor on Sundays and 40 holidays in the
year is prohibited except in cases of ac-
tual necessity, and not more than 12O
hours overtime may be worked in any
year.
On the other hand, employers may fine
workmen for any of these three causes:
First, for defective work; second, for alb
sence without sufficient cause; third, for
any infraction of shop regulations. In
determining what is defective work the
employer is not the sole judge The
government factory inspector may be
appealed to. The fines are calculated
by the nature of the defects, and not by
the loss sustained by the employer. The
fines go into special fund for the ben
eft of the employees.
Fines for absence without sufficient
cause may not be imposed unless the
absence is for at least half day. No
fine for absence on account of fire. food,
illness of the workman's wife or parents,
or death of either. Strikes are prohib-
tied and punishment by imprisonment
for one week to 16 months depending
on the damage caused. The government
also Furnishes employers by imprison-
ment not to exceed three months, and
prohibits them from managing a factory
for two years.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11
CLOAK MAKERS WINNING STRIKE

The opening wedge toward settle
ment of the big cloak makers strike in
New York was made by a number of
$1,000 men, who signed the agreement
of the union. President Gompers and
Treasurer Lennon of the American Fed
time in this city helping the strikers in
various ways. The local labor move
ment is also giving much assistance to
lieved that another week will see the
end of the strike, and the men back to
work under union conditions
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

1t is true that there is often more
than one wage-earner in the family. But
the measure of mans wages today is
not determined by his ability to support
family, but rather. by what the aver
age family as whole may earn, and
this measure is the margin of bare sub
sistence
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11
LABOR NOTES

An assessment of 81 per capita for
the benefit of the Lead miners, which
will provide fund of 100000 to $4,000
for these strikers was voted at the con-
vention of the Western Federation OF
Miners in this city last week. This ac-
ton means that the Federation is deter
mined to win the strike in the Black
hills and should be paid by every
member.
Everywhere in the northern Colorado
coal fields, where the miners have been
on strike for several months, they are
being evicted from the houses controlled
by the different coal companies. Some
of them have been compelled to leave
the homes they have occupied for
quarter of century; homes that they
have built with their own hands and
money, but which are unfortunately sit
uated on company property.
Demand the Union Label on all pur-
chases, and get it.
Over one-third of the $4,000 cloak
makers in New York who went out on a
general strike about three weeks ago,
are back to work under union conditions,
while those still out appear to have the
upper hand of the situation and are ex-
pected to make the victory complete any
day.
Eugene v. Debs, Socialist orator and
three times candidate for the presi-
dency, is lying dangerously i'll in
Rochester, Mimi, hospital Although it
is announced that Debs' condition is SER
ious, the exact cause of his illness has
not been learned. No one is allowed to
see him except his wife, who has re-
mained at his bedside.
James E. Faulkner, president of the
Cigarmakers, has been indorsed by the
Cigarmakers for delegate from Colorado
to the annual convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in st. Louis.
He will be supported by large follow
ing. Mr.. Faulkner is in Grand Junction
this week and is making many friends
among the delegates.
James Rogers of Stereotypers No. 13
is in Grand Junction as alternate, as
Frank Steward, who was the regular
delegate, found that he would be unable
to attend.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

The editor was dying, says an ex-
change, but when the doctor bent over.
placed his ear on his breast, and said:
Poor man! Circulation almost gone!"
the dying editor sat up and shouted:
You're liar; we have the largest cir
culation in the ountry."-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

With all of the car tracks filled with
empty cars, the switches blocked and
nearly every railroad entrance to the big
Minnequa steel plant closed, the switch
mems strike at Pueblo, Colo, on the Col
orado & wyoming railroad is assuming
serious aspect and with it is seen the
victory of the strikers.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

La Belle SC cigar, the best union-mad
SC cigar in the United States.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

Beats them all. La Belle &c cigar
Union made.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

The best in the United States. La
Belle &c cigar.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

La Exploridad. the perfect smoke.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

For fine after-dinner smoke try La
Exploridad.
United labor bulletin., 1910-08-11

James Rogers of stereotypers No. 1
is in Grand Junction as alternate, a
Frank Steward, who was the regula
delegate, found that he would be unabl
to attend.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

Spaniard He is a magnificent refuta-
ton of the madhouse doctors who swear
to You that genius is a disease.
Remember, too, that the limita-
tions of Velasquez are clearly de-
fined. In a word, Velasquez
was a puzzling comming clement of the
classic and the realist. He had the
repose and the firm virile line of the
classics, while his vision OF actuality
has never been surpassed. The Dutch
Terburg, Vermier, Van der Helst, Franz
Halls saw as vividly the surfaces Of
things material; the last alone was
the match Of Velasquez in brush work,
but not Rembrandt recorded in his
Anatomy Lesson the facts ,of the case
as did Velasquez.''
Before noting another chapter one
more quotation singularly fine can not
be resisted:
His art is not correlated to the other
arts. One does not dream of music or
poetry or sculpture or drama in front
of his pictures. One thinks OF life and
then of the beauty of the paint. Velas-
quez is never rhetorical. nor does he
paint for the sake of making beautiful
surfaces, as often does Titan. His
practice is not art for art as much as
art for life. AS a portraitist Titian's
is the only name to be coupled with
that of Velasquez. He neither fiattered
his sitters. as did Van Dyck, nor mocked
them, like Goya. And consider the
mediocrities. the dull, ugly, royal per-
sons he was forced to paint! He has
wrung the neck of banal eloquence. and
his prose, sober, rich, noble, sonorous
rhythmic is, to my taste, prefera bile TO
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

''The 26th of the month seems to be
a fateful day for me-" said George
Barr McCutcheon recently. II was born
on the 26th of July and was married
on the 26th of September. The other
day 1 was looking over my journal or
diary, or whatever you call it. l keep
record of the day on which l begin
and end the novel l am writing. Strange
as it may seen, l began 'Graustark
on the 26th of December, Castle
Craneycrow' on the 26th Of September,
The Day of the Dog on the 26th of
October and Beverly of Graustark' on
the 26th of November. / was not at
any time conscious of this coincidence
in dates, and it has startled me into
the belief that it has been my lucky
day-so far, at least"
George Barr McCutcheon certainly
must have begun his latest novel. THE
Butterfly Man" on the 26th of some
thing, for 1t is one of his best
THE Butterfly Man" is Sedgwick
Blynn, a very popular young society
man, who docs" a season in Chicago
with unexpected results His father
left, when he died, a widow with a
small fortune and a house in Lombard
avenue, where she and her two grown
daughters live comfortably. OF course,
they idolize this only brother, who
works on the mothers sympathy until
she spends her entire fortune for him
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
Brief Reviews of New Books

The Dethronement OF the City Boss"
is the title of a book by John J. Ham
ilton. a man who plainly has studied
his subject thoroughly. This is the
commission plan OF city government, as
begun in Galveston, Tex, in 1900 after
the great storm. There it proved so
satisfactory that 10 other towns Of
Texas adopted the same plans during
the nine years following Des Moines
has adopted and elaborated these plans
and the very interesting particulars Of
this great experiment are given. The
book is earnest and is simply written
and will interest all students OF civics
(Funk & Wagnalls, New York s1.2o.)
A new revised and enlarged edition
of Charles Brodie Patterson's DO
minion and Power or The Science Of
Life and Living" is just issued. 1t is
a call to introspection, a delineation OF
the means by which character is formed
and a helpful book in many ways.
1t deals with the modern thought on
self-help, self-curs and the general
psychological and psyehical phase of life.
The book will help every serious reader
and is full of good suggestions.
(Funk & Wagnalls, New York. $1,000
When the SEVENTEEN birthday of
Bjornstjerne Bjornson was celebrated
in 1902 great many tributes were paid
to the genius of the venerable poet.
AS an American contribution to this oc-
casion a survey of Bjornsons life and
work was made by William Morton
Payne and published in the Interna-
tional Quarterly of March, 1903. This
essay, which offers the most systematic
account of the man and his writings at
present obtainable in the English Lam
guage, is now reproduced with few
changes and additions in a small vol
ume. The text includes original trans
lations of several of the lyrics and OF
a few passages of prose. Coming out
as 1t does Immediately after Bjornson's
death, this is a timely publication sure
to attract rhany readers. "a. c. Nc
Clurg & Co.. Chicago. so cents)
Makers of Sorrow and Makers OF
JOY" is the title of a book by Dora
Melegari,s an italian woman who was
born and reared in France and writes
in French. Her brother is now ambas-
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

sador of italy TO the court OF Russia.
but the author is more OF a cosmopoli-
tan than of any one nationality. Ma
rian Lindsay has translated this book
and IL shows the author to be a woman
or deep thought The object OF the
book is to show how wicked are
thoughts OF vanity, jealousy. impa-
thence. deceit and uncharitab1eness.
She has much to say to her own sex.
they being the victims .of these evils
more often than men, She points the
way toward Improvement and makes
the book practical. (Funk & WagnaIIs
company. New York. s1-25)
David w. Edwards novel OF up the
Grade" is a tale OF the desperate at
tempt of a black hearted villain to
wreck the life OF a fine young man
because he discovers that he is the son
or a woman who, years before. had
tried unsuccessfully TO break or a pro-
posed marriage between himself and
young girl who was much too good
for him. Rather complicated and
roundabout, but no more so than the
tale itself. In the words OF the author
the hero becomes the target for the
arrows OF venom, hatred and long srnoI-
dering revenge in the hands OF an in
sidiOus foe who wears the smiling
mask of friendship" The author saws
the events IN the tale are taken from
life &C. NJ Clark publishing COM
pany. Boston.)
"Pogrom." a word used often by
George Kennan in his articles on "The
Reaction in Russia" Is defined in the
new supplement OF the Century die
tionary as: In Russia, an organized
massacre. particularly a massacre OF
Jews that is countenanced more or
less openly by the officials" Kennan
himself in his articles in the June
Century defines IL as that distfntivefy
Russian combination OF assault rob-
berry, arson, pillage and murder"
Lincoln Steffens. Morris Hillquit and
Bolton Hall were the speakers at the
last dinner of the season given by the
book sellers league at the A1dfne as.
ISOLATION. rooms.
Mrs. and Mrs George Riggs Kate
Douglas Wiggin) sailed on the Lusi-
tania April 20. They will spend most
of their time in Scotland and England.
with the possibility OF a short motor
tour in Germany, where Riggs has
business interests.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
Books Received

..The Pursuit" by Frank Savile; Little Brown
& Co.. Boston.
.whirlpools.~ by Henryk sienkiewicz: Ike.
Brown & Co. Boston
"Karl Marx. Life and WOrk." F" BY John Sparz0c
B. W. Huebseh. New XcrS-
"A Life for Life.T by Robert Herrick; Mac
milan company. New York
ssThe Channel Islands, By Charles Frederick
Holder; A. &. MeClurg 4 Co, Chicago.
"A White Paper Garden BY sara Andrew
Shafer; A. c. McClurg & Co. Chicago.
Potash and Perlmutter" by Montague Glass:
Henry Altemus company. Philadelphia
'.Fruit Growing in Arid Regions" By Wendell
Paddock; Macmillan company, New York
Pathway to Western Literature" BY Nettie
s. Gaines; Nettie S Gaines. Stockton. Cal
Year Book Of the United States Brewers As
ISOLATION; United States brewers association,
New York
.Index Guide TO Buffalo and Niagara Falls
by Frederik Atherton Fernald; Frederik A. Fer
nald. New York
"A Language Series (book H. by Robert c.
Metcah and Augustine L. Rafter; American book
company, New York.
The American Association Of Public Account
ants Year Book; American Association OF Public
Accountants. New York
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
"Promenades of an Impressionist
Published by scribners Sons New York Price


the exalted. versatile volubility and
lofty poetic tumblings in the azure OF
any school OF painting"
The reader who has admired Huneker
for his fine style and literary excellence
will see evidence throughout the book
of work which has gone before The
author constantly compares the work
OF artists to the work of writer's and
musicians as being along the lines of
Interpretation. Honore Daumier one
of the few humoristic artists who will
live long, was admired as caricaturist.
but Mr.. Huneker gives him a more pow
erful place than that. He says he was
a pictorial muckraker of genius and
scourger of public scamps. He was a
power in Paris and his imitators are
found the world over.
The great Rodin furnishes Huneker
with material for one of the most in
teresting chapters in the book. The
quotation contains the gist of his i'm
preston: "A marvellous poet, a precise.
sober workman of art with a peasant
strain in him like Millet, and, like
Millet, very near to the soil; a natural
man. yet crossed by nature with a
perverse strain; the possessor of a
sensibflity exalted and dolorous; NOR
bid, sick nerved and as interpretive
as Heine. visionary and a lover of
Ire, very close to the periphery OF
things, an interpreter of Baudelaire;
Dantes alter ego In his vast grasp
of the wheel of eternity, I'm his pas
sionate fling at nature; withal a sculp-
tor. always profound and tortured.
translating rhythm and motion into
the terms of sculpture"
The author has perhaps shown more
enthusiasm in his essay on Velasquez
than any other, but the one on SoroIla,
new. little known and having no In
PRODUCTION proves the authors posi-
tfon as a critic for all time. This
essay alone makes the book a neces-
sity in every library, for every one
who saw the exhibit at the Hispanic
society last year went away deeply
interested in that brilliant Valencian
and eager to know more about him
and his art
Each chapter in the book is a little
masterpiece and so compelling and
fascinating is the authors style that
he converts the average reader to his
way, for the moment, at least. of rea-
soning and thinking. The book is most
charming reading.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19


The latest MacGrath book is his most
ambitious. and many will think 1T hts
best The theme alone would win ad-
nairers even If the author had not han
died it so cleverly. The new tale is
clever and daring.
1t has to do with a Napoleon fiction
which is not revealed until well along
into the book; but every other sort OF
bid for interest and favor is offered.
too We have fine old American
retired admiral, whose greatest interest
in life is is the study Of pirates and
pirate methods. with the kindred sub
ject of buried treasure. His only
daughter is the sort of American girl
one dreams about. She is beautiful. OF
course-as clever as she is beautiful
and, 1t is difficult. indeed, throughout
the whole course of the book to find a
single flaw in this lovely creature.
There are two very interesting young
men, an American. of course, and a
German. Both are in the race for
Laura's hand, and, though we know
at the start who will win, it is excit-
ing to watch. The Napoleon part OF
the story is well worked out, but were
even a hint given Of it the pleasure
would be spoiled. Suffice it to say that
no better time killer is on the list for
the week than this, and it must go to
the country with you.
The book is well printed and bound
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

The Gilded Chair is one of the
artistic novels OF the season. It is
beautifully written so that If the tale
cid not interest one would stin go on
reading. Upon two OF the character
the author has spent much time and
care. They are Marchesa soderrelli. a
widow, an American girl by birth. aud
the duke of Derset, but lately sue
ceeded to the title and estates in Scot
land.
The scene opens in rural Scotland,
where all the characters are presented
TO the reader. The marthesa calls
upon the duke, asking his aid She is
rsn financial difficulties. In the course
= OF conversation she tells him OF some
American friends Of hers, a father and
: daughter. who have come north for
the great gathering at Oban A bit
. Of explanation OF this festival may be
quoted. for il is little known to the
world al large
The Highland gathering is a sort
OF northern durbar. and OF an antiquity
equaling those Of India. The custom
of the Scottish clans TO meet for
day Of games piping and parade had
its origin anterior TO the running of
the Gaelic memory. A durbar it may
be called. and yet contrast in that
word can not be laid here alongside the
gorgeous pageant of Delhi. The word
may stand. albeit, in either case,
equally descriptive. Both are gather
-ings. The distinction lies not in the
essential and moving motive of the
function, but IN the diametric differ
.ences Of the races The orient con-
tEasted against the north.
The rajah fin his cape of diamonds,
attended by his retinue. stripped Of his
eastern splendor. is but a chief accom-
panied by his tail The roll of skin
drums is music Of no greater mys-
terry to the stranger than the whim Of
pipes. The fakirs. the jugglers of India.
disclose the effeminate nature OF the
east. while the games of the Highlands
disclose equally the hardy nature of the
north.
Here under this cis-arctic sun can
be displayed no vestige Of that daz-
zling splendor. making the oriental
gathering a saturnalia Of gems and
color. But one will find in lieu of it
hardy exhibitions OF the strength, the
courage, the endurance, the indomitable
.unhagging spirit that came finally TO.
set an English resident in every state
Of India"
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
By James Huneker.

No more aptly named book has ap-
peared for several seasons than James
Huneker's "Promenades of an impress
sionist." 1t is the apotheosis of impress
s1onism and is delight. 1t is of
course decidedly personal and follows
no set rules either chronologically or
otherwise. AS the author feels, so he
idly writes and the result is perfectly
delightful. We browse with him in
his rambles among pictures and artists
just as one would browse among the
books In a giant library, picking out
one here for the beauty of its bind
ing, one for its color, one for its an
tiquity and one for its originality The
impressions" are not arranged in
chronological order, but cover vast
field. Botticeln is perhaps the oldest,
and the newest are Gauguin and Toul-
ouse-Lautrec. The French impress
sionist movement contains studies on
Monet. Manet, Renoir. Degas, Paul
Cezaune, Gauguin and Toulouse -Lau-
tree; modern Spaniards are represented
by Fortuny, Sorolla and zuloaga. The
OANOi ltAdSShCio dIS represented DY bOII1-
eelli, Rembrandt, Halls, Ell Greco, Velas-
quez, Goya, Chardin, Vatican, and one
section is devoted TO etchers and en-
gravers. Meryon. Rops., Plranesi. Dau-
mier, John Martin. Zorn and others
The special articles or more than aver
age excellence and interest are upon
Monticello. Rodin and Carriere.
While Mr.. Huneker's impressions are
supposedly casual one can not but see
that he has studied his subjects deeply.
and while the result is personal
opinion it is intelligent personal opin-
ion and one we can all we'll afford to
listen to- 1t is a pleasure to walk
with Mr.. Huneker as he gathers these
Impressions for many are the names
hitherto unknown or at least little
known which have escaped fame.
Velasquez, the great Spanish genius,
furnishes much material for Mr. Hume
ker and his opinions are worth more
than a careless reading: HE was
eminently a painter of daylight and not
nocturnal visionary as was Rem
brandt. Shakespeare. who had all
the strings to his Tyre. had also many
daylight moments. Mozart always
sang them, and how blithelyi No one,
not Beethoven, not Raphael, not Goethe
to name three widely disparate men
of genius-saw light as steadily as the
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19


is in great demand for the debutante
dances.
We first see Sedgwick at a dinner
given by Mrs. Cortland Trend. He is
late as usual--that Just fashionably
late"-but his excuses are so nicely
made and he is so sincerely sorry-not
to say, very good looking-that his
hostess and every one else forgives him
at once.
little seamstress living next door
has been the playmate in childhood of
the butterfly man. but as he climbs the
social ladder she is left behind 1t
requires all the hard knocks possible
to bring the young man to his senses
the girls to whom he is engaged meet
and exchange condolences; his mother,
at last undeceived dies broken hearted;
he quarrels with his unselfsh sisters:
and then-well one does resent it a bit
when he turns to his childhood friend
However, the various knocks have de-
veloped his character and one closes
the book with feeling that the girl
who has chosen to accept him will not
have an unhappy time after all So
ciety life as the author sees it is the
same in all, cities. and one can hardly
phases of 1t are viewed.
The tale is slight one, but is ar
tistically bound and printed on thick
decorated paper thereby becoming
swollen to the proportions of a real
novel The Illustrations by Harrison
Fisher are particularly good.