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United labor bulletin., 1910-01-28
Comment on Events
in the Labor
World.
BY r. e r . kEY
The Lions Mouth" Proposition.

George Allen. who is rightly termed
the Father of the Label League, in the
Trades Assembly last Sunday. asked why
the previous instructions given the Board
of Directors to establish what is called
the Lions Mouth" proposition for boost
ing the union label, had not been carried
out and he also moved that the delegates
to the Label League be instructed to see
that the League had the necessary box
made and placed in the ante-room, where
complaints could be made in writing
against any union person that had been
seen patronizing non-union concerns or
products, when union ones could be had
The motion was carried without any dis
sension. but as the chair was too busy
with the Water Proposition" to have
time to appoint the new delegates to the
League, and as no one else is empowered
to bring this matter up, the chances again
favor the whole thing being forgotten.
The Lions Mouth" proposition has
been adopted in several union communi-
ties and has proven very successful in
boosting the label. Briefly stated, the idea
lent place where members can inform
upon others when they see them buying
non-union made goods and patronizing
non-union places, the member giving the
information gives his number and union;
this is to insure secrecy. For this rea-
son the members of The unions are ex-
pected to number their members, and no
ts.I ndi. nj in
is supposed to know one members num-
ber from another's, unless when COM
plant is made the member whose num-
Der is signed to the complaint is chal-
lenged by the member who is complained
against. In instances of this kind the
complainer's number is given and he
must come out in the open and repeat his
charge
The idea is that of making members
ashamed of themselves by having their
names read out in open meeting, and it
works well. for, after member has had
one '.balling out" he is usually very care
full of his conduct for some time after
wards.
The idea of secret bureau of informa-
ton Is. however. TepuSlistilN " hiS "SNssA
organized labor man or woman; it smells
too much of the detective agencies work
and I doubt if the scheme will be very
successful in Colorado where we have es-
pecially been afflicted with the work of
spies and Pinkerton thugs
I much rather would prefer to see the
system of inspecting members clothing.
a different article each meeting. estao-
nshed. This system is done out in the
open and can not but work we'll The
president. for instance. can designate 10
the proper officer. when the password is
taken up. the article which he shall IN
spect at that particular meeting hats
shoes. coats, etc. The inspector will then
look for the label in those articles and
not finding it. report it to the meeting
when the usual ''balling out and badger
ing will naturally ensue- \ few doses OF
this medicine will be all that is necessary
to teach the members the needed lesson
of their absolute necessity of patronizing
the label
United labor bulletin., 1910-01-28
>ovERNmENT OWNERSHIP.
Arthur Brisbane Points out Benefits Ths,
Would Accrue Therefrom.

n the government owned the railroads,
freight rates would he reduced. the cost
OF travelling would be reduced, Travel
would be made safer. since no selfish in
terest would fight safety appliances be
cause OF the expense.
Government Ownership would also ben
eft individually the workingmau-they
would number millions-that the govern
ment would employ.
Some time when you are travelling on n
fast train go ahead to the forward cars.
You will find an expressman and a gov
ernment mail clerk working very near to
each other.
They run the same risks of death-trav-
cling in aimsy cars that smash like paste
board in n collision. because fiimsy cars
are cheap.
The express man has longer hours than
the mail clerk He gels $40 a month. or
$3.50 a year-the mail clerk gets 5000 a
year
The mail clerk. employed under gov
ernment ownership, gets almost twice as
much as the expressman employed by a
private corporation.
Why? Simply because the difference
In wages is needed TO pay the profits oil
the private corporation.
II an individual owned the postofiice,
the mail clerk would not he getting $500
year-he would be getting $3.50 year
the remaining $500 would be devoted to
paying dividends to the postoffice owners.
devoted to building up fortune OF a
thousand or two thousand millions
II we had government ownership we
should have. in addition to the many
other advantages of safety, etc, several
millions of employees building up comfort
able homes. providing for the future. In
stead of having a few Rockefellers. Nor
gans. Hills. Goulds and others accumulat-
ing hundreds of millions that they do not
need. corrupting legislatures TO give them
hundreds OF millions more.
When the iphabitants Of America get
ready to vote intelligently. we shall have
government ownership.
The workmen will be better paid, the
farmer will pay less for freight food VIII
cost less. the trusts will be deprived OF
the secret rebates that foster them. mill
ions OF American workers will be decent
ly paid. and taxes will be lightened.
We shall need an income tax then, and
being more intelligent. we shall have 1t.
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CRIMINAL NEGLECT CAUSED DEATH.
Total Indifference of the safety OF the
miners. wilful neglect of safety appli-
ances and criminally negligent operation
of the Cherry mine In charged against the
st. Paul Coal Company by Frank A. Rock
hold In his report prepared for the Aus
trian-Hungarian and Russian consulates'
says the Chicago Daily Socialist, In Its re-
port of the attorney.
United labor bulletin., 1910-01-28
Try La Francesca-Havans cigar'
+ + + + +
PAY FINES IN PENNIES.

New York.-Four striking shirt waf-.
makers in New York City who were fined
SIS collectively for their activity as
pickets. paid their fines in pennies II
took the entire clerical force of the court
half an hour to count the $500 pennies
Meanwhile the girls looked on with
amusement.
United labor bulletin., 1910-01-28

Livingston Cigar Co.'S Ia Exploridad
Havana cigars can't be beat.
United labor bulletin., 1910-01-28

The union cigar makers work eight hours
a day. and by so doing they have many
hours of sunlight outside of the factory
during the summer months. Such condi-
tions as these are undoubtedly RESPONSE
BILE for the decreasing consumptive death
rate among the union men and women in
the cigar-making trade. If you smoke.
use the union label!-Women's Bulletin.
United labor bulletin., 1910-01-28
NOTICE TO THE DELE
GATES TO THE La
BEL LEAGUE.

The next meeting of the League will
be held in the hal No. 315 of the Club
building. as the Cooks Union has gave
up their hall nog and business firm
has rented the same, so we will move
with them to the new place of meeting
United labor bulletin., 1910-01-28
CARRIES THE LABEL.

The center OF the typographical rodents
seems to be in Los Angeles Because
the woodmen of the World prints its of
fetal organ. "The Pacific woodman,' .
only with label rat concern in the
City of the Angels is very much miffed.
The very able heads of this remarkably
strong fraternity came in for abuse and
Misrepresentation. I. l. Boak. the head
of this order, With 100000 members and
100000 reserve funds, gets more than
his share, because it is the settled policy
of the order, confirmed by the head man.
ayers year after year. that well paid
union labor was what it should encour-
age 1t is only in this jurisdiction of the
Pacific Coast thai the printing of the
Pacific woodman" applies to; the other
parts of the country have other publica-
tions. but the 100000 copies of the paper
published in San Francisco have the
union label and will have it for the next
three years. anyhow.-Portland Labor
Press portland, ore.). Dec. %, 1909.
United labor bulletin., 1910-01-28

joining a union. These poor fellows soon
got their walking papers, The result
has been that the men are afraid to talk
to any one that pretends to be labor
union organizer
The labor unions were. responsible for
the vestibuling of the street cars and on
this score at least the men should have
natural sympathy for unions. but the
experiences OF the past have not been
good on this point Some of the men
evidently have wished to play the syco-
phant to their masters by taking hand
against the unions in any labor troubles
that have from time TO time occurred in
this city. Colorado Springs has the only
union of street car men in this section of
the West. and this is one of the very best
unions that exists in this state. They are
fighting. militant bunch down there and
deserve a better fate than to be sand
wiched in between two such rat towns in
their line as are Denver and Pueblo.
THE BUILDING TRADES STRIKE Is
STILL ON
There is an evident attempt being
made throughout the East and in fact all
over the country. to make the members
of the building trades unions believe that
the strike is settled at Denver and that
conditions between the bosses and men
are lovely here. This stun has been
boiler plated" and is now appearing in
several labor papers, Coupled with this
stuff is the flaming notices that are ap-
peariug on the front pages of certain
Denver newspapers of million dollar
hotels and buildings that are to be erect
ed here this year. The whole thing is
plainly a prearranged plan of the bosses
to induce mechanics of the building
trades to come to Denver, and after here
become stranded. They think they will
have that number of strike breakers to
select from 1t is well known fact that
competent mechanics can go to work any
day. provided they will renounce their
unions. The supply of strike breakers
that are competent is and always will be-
scarce. because the good workman does
not have to scab it and in rare instances.
neither will he; the strike breaker is the
poor mechanic that the boss will not hire
when conditions are fair. The bosses are
having no end of trouble and expense
with these fellows and are seizing every
straw that will better conditions for them.
The Building Trades Council must get out
circular letter and send it broadcast
warming building trades mechanics to
stay away from Denver
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30
Insurance investigation in New York.

Insurance Investigation in New York.
The vigorous investigation Of al
legged insurance irregularities in New
York state by State superintendent OF
Insurance Hotchkiss is developing
much interesting material. Like the
life insurance investigation Of several
years ago, It develops that a case of
securing desired legislation at the
hands of the New York assembly was
the source Of trouble. When 1t is
necessary for an insurance company
to buy influence In order to gain O
hearing the company itself, although
not to be censured the less, a not be
Justly held as the only culprit.
New York state is not to be taken
as q model for civic morals, IL we read
current of1cial report rightly. A low
standard of civic duty has been dis
covered in public service in that state
during the last few years and dis
closure seems to have but little de-
terring effect. The life insurance ir-
r~egularities OF a few years ago, Wnlch
we're thoroughly aired and properly
punished, have been apparently no
warning to other companies doing
business in the state. A regular sys-
tenn Of retainers' fees between insur-
ance companies and certain members
Of the legal. and political professions
have apparently obtained. The Aids
bribery case, still before the state sen
ate, bids fair to be eclipsed by these
fire insurance bribery, cases. Every
effort possible should be made to as
certain the truth and a punishment
should be melted out to the culprits ef-
fective enough to put a stop to all
such transactions hereafter,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30
PERSONAL NOTES.

An English witness in a local court ad-
dressed the magistrate as "your lordship"
and the magistrate ordered him to "cut
that out"
If the United States authorities at New
York succeed in convicting the maccaroni
s~mugglers. they will probably feel like put
ting feathers in their hats.
Oven IL the New York heiress who is ad-
vertising for a soul mate were TO find him,
the chances are that the authorities would
not let him out of the asylum.
A Pittsburg CRATER implicated sixty Of
his pals, because after his conviction they
refused to provide for his wife and family.
He now doubts that there is honor among
thieves.
Chief Weather Forecaster Moore boldly
classes the ground hog as a fakir, while
John T.. Roberts Of barley, Pa, defends
the shadow prophet as a sure thing
that is. as sure as the official weather
forecast for March 4, 1903. That man Darby
is an offensive knocker.
Seth Low will be the new president of the
New York Republican club, succeeding
Robert c.. Morris. A committee appointed
by President Morris TO help welcome Mr..
Roosevelt includes Attorney General Wick
GIbLldlhs LAGAAAg W. 1oANi NAANS NAAu
Depew, Timothy L. Woodruff and William
Barnes, jr.
Lee Lynch of Masan, Okl., who weighs 800
pounds, is the baby of his family. He is a
clerk in a general store conducted by his
father. 1t is said that when measuring
cloth Lynch does not make use of a yard
stick, but simply stretches the goods across
the top of his trousers, 1t being just a
yard from one suspender button to the
other.
Mr.. Rockefeller doesn't have to save up
money just because he has promised to en-
dow the biggest foundation ever. He has
given $50, 900 to the Georgia School of Tech
nology in Atlanta The gift is made with
out conditions, but it is understood that
MI. Rockefeller would be glad to have 1t
used in constructing a building for the
Young Mems Christian association.
Moonlight larks are nearly as perilous
to married women in Kansas City as JOY
rides and hotel suppers. A watchful horse
doctor came upon his better half and a
strange man smuggling under a park tree.
The carving act was omitted because the
strange man saw the horse doctor first
and didn't wait to exchange greetings.
But an up-to-date couture was badly
mussed in the subsequent proceedings.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30

whole question, incidentally, Affords a
good idea Of the possible b%enencent
application and also the limitations
of arbitration or mediation between
sovereign states.
But this is not the frst time these
two states have tried to settle the
boundary dispute by arbitration.
Alfonso XII Of Spain tried It in 1855
and later President Loubet attempted
1t, but neither reached a permanent
solution, and as a result the treaty
drawn up at the time was mutually
ignored. Tho surveys in both cases
we're incomplete and inaccurate and
generally unsatisfactory to all con-
cerned. when Panama was a part of
Columbia, as we'll as since 1903, when
1t gained its independently.
1t is rather interesting to note that
all efforts made to settle this trouble
within recent years have been OF a
friendly nature, although some din
Guilty was experienced shortly after
the year 1908, when the United States
minister to Panama, Mr.. Barrett, at
tempted to effect a settlement. But
conditions are now different and the
whole situation Is to be placed before
the chief justice Of the supreme court
of the United States by Secretary
Knox and finally settled, maps,
records, surveys and former treaties
being the evidence used as a basis for
decision. There is little doubt but
that this course will be satisfactory,
since present negotiations are volun-
tary, friendly and are to be final.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30
Justice Brewer.

The sudden death Of Justice Brewer
of the United States supreme court
naturally shocks the whole country,
but more particularly the people Of
this section, because he was not only
appointed to the bench from our sister
state of Kansas, but vas also assigned
to the circuit made up Of the states Of
the middle-west. In a word, Justice
Brewer, more than any other present
member of that high tribunal, was re-
garded as q representative of the great
agricultural region Of the Mississippi
and Missouri valleys. He was cred
tied with being more intimately ac-
quainted with conditions prevailing in
this part of the country, and with look
ing at the big questions constantly
coming up for adjudication, from a
broader point Of view because of this
fact.
Justice Brewers great legal ability
was universally conceded, although
some of the decisions in which he had
a leading part have provoked severe
criticism and dissent. In<the famous
Nebraska maximum rate cases Justice
Brewer really formulated the decision
adverse to the state by his preliminary
grant Of an injunction which was
affirmed on appeal to the supreme
court, and in SO doing seemed to show
a distinct leaning toward the railroads
side. The law as he laid 1t down in
those cases, however, has since been
utilized to bring about more effective
railway regulation and will probably
help pave the way for complete asser
ton of government control.
From another standpoint Justice
Brewer occupied a unique position on
the bench In being associated for many
years with his uncle, Justice Field,
serving as colleagues in what is &C
claimed the highest court Of justice
known to history. AS a member of
the famous Field family, which gave
to the world the builder of the Allan
tic cable, a recognized leader of re-
ligious thought and two great justices
Of the supreme court, Justice Brewer
has added luster to the name.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30
Mount Etna

The recent volcanic activity Of
Mount Etna in Sicily during the last
week has naturally caused consterna-
ton on that little island. Although
this is a very different sort of an
eruption from that of Vesuvius, which
occurred a few years ago, yet it bids
fair to do much damage. Instead Of
emitting ashes, smoke, hot cinders
and sulphur, Etna is rolling molten
rock down It's slopes in great broad
streams, scorching, burning and de-
v~astating everything in the way.
One would think that the people on
this island would become discontented
because of the earthquakes and erup-
lions which have visited it, but, like
the dwellers on the mud fats of the
rivers OF this country, they fee for
safety when it Is necessary, and then
return again, rebuilding their houses
and places Of business and go to work.
1t is apparently impossible to discour-
age them and they cling to their
homes on the island the same as they
have done for thousands of years.
Just what the earth hides deep be-
low its surface that such eruptions
should be continually taking place is
not known. Scientists have told us
that IL we were to pierce the earth's
crust for a distance Of seventy-lve
miles we would find rock formations
disappearing and its constituent ele.
ments molten or perhaps gaseous.
Some go further and say that the
eruptions of volcanoes are simply the
escape Of some of the interior com
position Of the earth through caverni
whereby It gains access to the out
side. But these explanations are
purely theoretical for lack Of abso
lutte data on which to base conelu.
sions. But we do know that in GER
tain localities over the surface Of the
earth there are vent-like formation
from which come destruction and des
oIatlon and that Italy. Martinique
and Sicily, especially, have been grea
sufferers from such manifestations ii
all ages
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30

The Kentucky state senate, by a vote
OF II 10 n. defeated the resolution 60 rat
lfy the proposed income tax amendment
10 the federal constitution. h Ken
lucky IL the third southern state to throw
lie effort against this most equitable plan
OF taxation. Georgia first, Virginia sec
ond and Kentucky third.-Mr. Bryan's
Commonor.
Il is not that the three states al
ready rejecting the income a amend
ment are southern states that is sig
nihcant, but that they are democratic
states, and by this action are repudi-
atlng and trampllng under foot a
plank of the Denver platform sup
posed to be binding on all good demo-
Gratis, both as to what 1t contains and
TO what II omits. Certain northeast
ern states, more particularly New
York and the New England states,
where wealth is so concentrated that
the proposed income tar would fall
with added burden as compared with
other states, were naturally expected
to oppose the amendment, but the
democratic states of the south have no
such excuse. Kentucky, however, has
been recalcitrant on other occasions
when it has refused to take MT.
Bryan's advice, notably when he trav-
eled all the way to It's capital two
years ago to tell the democrats in the
legislature whom to choose for United
States senator. Georgia and Virginia
have ordinarily kept in line, and why
they should fail to accept the income
tax is not clear.
This much is certain, however, that
IL the income tax amendment is lost
It will be because Of democratic back
aiding
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30
Panama and Costa RIGA

Unless pending negotiations fail
Secretary Knox will be able to per
form a service of great Importance to
Panama and Costa RIGA by a peaceful
settlement Of the boundary line sep
arating the two countries. This Ques-
ton Of boundary dates back over a
hundred years and has been the cause
OF much trouble and disanection to
both. There is no Ill feeling over the
matter now except impotence on the
part Of the two states that it has been
allowed to drag along for such a
length Of time. The history Of this
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30
THE WONDER Is.
baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Sun. -
The wonder is that all the world Aalf
so good and sweet,
The captains and the kings who rule, the
people that we meet;
The trouble is, We want so much we cam
not feel content
With just the portion of the dream that
unto us is sent.
The wonder is we cannot see beyond our
narrow strife
The beauty of the boundless bloom that
fills the wales of life;
The trouble is, we do not care to kneel
and look around us,
Upon the living loneliness with which the
~ lays have bound us. q
The wonder is we take our walls of care
for all that lies
Around us In the world that lifts to wide
and starry skies;
The trouble is, the selfish will that burns
us and consumes us,
While everywhere the light of love In vain
with love lllumines us.
The wonder is that in this world we've
heart for anything,
Except to listen and to learn, while gray
Grief folds her wing,
And music chimes, and tinkling rhymes
and fairy bells awake
The hearts OF love that give and take for
sake Of loving's sake.
The trouble is we do not know o much
of goodness goes
Upon the tide of teeming life that round
leaps and flows;
With beauty here and beauty there, and
Gods impartial will
To save us harmless from the hate that
haunts and hounds us still.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30

A paid orator imported from Colo
RADIO, whose chief asset is that he is a
friend of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, is to
be let loose on Nebraska to tell us
what we are missing by not comforting
suffrage on women A reading OF
Judge Lindsey's story Of political cor
ruption in Colorado, where women
vote, would lead to the conclusion that
Nebraska without woman suffrage is
still in better condition than Colorado
with 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-30

The pioneers of Nebraska laid out
the roads on good liberal lines, with
a far-sighted view to the future, and
made the main roads wide enough to
accommodate all the traffic likely to be
developed. The change from horse
vehicles to motor carr is|not only max
ing more use of the roads, but also
using more Of the roads. The orig
inal road-makers in Nebraska did not
commit many serious blunders.