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out to you, Mr.. Worker.

out to you, Mr.. Worker.
You may not believe this now.
Will you believe it next Jan. 16
when a similar dose is handed out
to Gompers, Morrison and Mitch
ell, heads Of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, because they ex-
ercised their rights as free men
in the Buck stove controversy.
It is freely predicted that this
will be done.
WAKE UP, MIR. WORKER!
GET OUT YOUR THINKING
CAP.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03
i, 100000 CHILD WORKERS
MAKE ELDERS LOT HARD

There are 100000 child labor
ers in the United States, says the
Weekly Bulletin of the Clothing
Trades.
That is a huge army Of child
rem to be working in the vitiated
atmosphere of mines, mills, fac
tories and stores, instead of stor-
ing up knowledge in. the schools
and growing into healthy men
and women through play in the
open air.
Child labor is an unmitigated
curse to the working class of this
and every other country. It not
only robs the children Of their
childhood, but it spells greater
misery and degradation to all who
toll.
There are now a large number
Of occupations in which a child
can do almost as much in a day
as a man. And the child is en-
ployed in preference to the man,
because he can be secured for con-
siderable less money, and only
for this very reason.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03

his platitudes uttered in the voice
of one firmly conscious that he is
,uttering a wonderful new truth,
we are reminded Of the story of
the two boys discussing the rel
alive merits of their respective
fathers. One Of the boys, finally
overcome by the superior claims
Of the other, exclaimed:
"'Well, anyhow, your father
don't know as much as God.''
II know he DON'T replied the
other. **Bdt my father is not as
old as God yet
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03
"PEACHEs Is. PEA0HES!'

AAOA ~ WIZ OUA 'VAuLA GS1lu "xtu-
out doubt told for truths sake !:
A fruit farmer at Albion, New
York, lives near the shore of Lake
Ontario, where the keen autumn
air puts the finest flavor in the
world into those good old-fash-
Toned apples, Kings and Northern
Spys. He raises peaches, too, and
one day in September he picked
thirty-six baskets Of them, packed
them carefully, took them to the
railroad station, and delivered
them to the order and commits
sion department Of the American
Express company. : A few days
later the farmer, whose name is
Mare w. Cole, got formal &C.
count Of the transaction, which
reads thus:
Thirty-six baskets peaches
at 30 cents each. $1,000
Express charges. $1,000
Money order. .03 1907
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03
'SAD1E'S' JINED THE REDS
And still thew nnrao

And still they come
It looks by the following as if
the redoubtable "Sadie Mcguire"
had gone to the "demnition bow
vows and had taken on Socialist
ic "leanin 81. Well, he's not the
only one by many a thousand.
Say Sadie in the Western
Laborer:
1.-THE manner in which the national
trade union leaders have met the
Parry movement has been such a dis
appointment to the rank and file that
the union labor movement has suf-
fered a distanct shock. The disaps
pointment has left indifference where
enthusiasm should be--and was The
Indifference of the last few years has
been taken advantage of by the So
cialists and now, instead Of brist-
ling of fighting feathers, a Swapping
bark at the propagandist, you find 4
man who listens. takes the papers.
reads In them the exposures OF the
detective agencies that picket the lo-
cal union with spies who make money
by creating as much trouble as pos-
sible for the union. The pure and
/ simple union man wonders why he
cannot get such information IN 81 Ills
I own ficial organ. and when his
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03
IN THE USUAL RATIO!

The Plate Glass Trust, made
possible by the higher tariff wall,
has added 100 per cent to it's sell
ing prices in about two years
time, and of this advance it gave
one.sixth to the workmen and five
sixths to the stockholders. This
trust makes the American consum-
err pay nearly So for every ST
worth Of glass he buys: 1t will be
noticed that the ratio of / to 5
is about the usual proportion in
which the Republican party pro-
tects the laborer and rich manu-
facturer.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03

Who is there who dare say that
the trusts have no sense of graft.
tude or fair play {?
The express trust on Thanksgiv-
ing eve gave large number of
New York policemen each a big
fat turkey for helping it crush
the strike Of it's overworked, un-
derpaid drivers and express hand
lers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03
REGENERATION PROTEST
BRINGS SPEEDY RESULTS

The storm of petitions that have
gone in to the heads of the u. s.
postoffice department and to con-
gressmen at Washington, asking
that a square deal be given to the
publishers of the Mexican paper
Regeneration" and that, having
complied with the postal regula-
tions, the paper be admitted to
second class privileges, has had
it's effect.
The publishers of the paper
were this week notified that their
paper had been admitted to it's
rights and further representations
to the little tin gods' at Wash
ington will be needless.
A statement detailing the "cas-
us belli'' Of the affair was printed
in the Labor World last issue as
in many other labor papers of
the country.
Regeneration is published by
the three Mexican refugees, Vii
lareal, Magon and Rivera who
have even this side the line been
prosecuted by U. S. officers at
the instance of Diaz, the tyrant.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03

Organization brings higher
wages; higher wages brings great
er spending power to the work.
ers; greater spending power
means proportionate increase in
business in every community and
more prosperous times for all.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03
1NEQU1TABLE TAXATION.
IS MAINTAINING DESERTS

Says the. Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin:
There are numbers of vacant plots
in various parts of Philadelphia-par-
ticu1arly in West Philadelphia-whic
are today undeveloped solely because
their owners are waiting for the rise
In value which is bound to come with
the upbutlding of the sections sur
rounding them. Would not many such
eye-sores quickly disappear If we had
a system under which homes erected
upon them would be so lightly assess
ed that to keep the land in idleness
would no longer be a profitable I'M
dertaking.
And this is exactly the case of
Duluth. If you doubt it, ride out
on the Woodland or Lakeside car
lines once or twice.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03

= 10
The farmer, in other words, re-
ceived two cents each for his
thirty7six baskets. The labor and
packing alone cost him over fiji
teen cents q basket. Here is an
economic situation in which the
farmer saves money by leaving, a
crop Of splendid peaches to rot
on the, trees. Meanwhile there
were 9 good many millions Of
people il 1' the cities who weren t
able to get as many peaches this
fall as they would have liked. It
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03

The pay roll of Krupps in May last
numbered 6s,905e men. an increase Of
about 5000 in two years. IT."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03

49,?
HAVE YOU GOT WARREN's
"CRIME' ALL FIGURED OUT?
Workers of the country! Have
you gotten off by yourselves and
analysed that sentence passed on
Fred Warren, the fighting editor
of the appeal To Reason?'
If you have not yet given
thought to it, DO IT NOW.
It means much to you if you are
a worker, one compelled to earn
his daily bread and that for his
family by the toll of his hands or
brain.
There is terrific Importance in
that sentence handed out to the
militant little man of Girard. No
matter what your politics or
whether you belong to a labor
union or not, you are vitality in
terested in that $1,000 fine and
month sentence handed out to
Warren, FOR IT HITS AT
YOU'LL YOU ARE A WORK
INGMAN.
Warren was a champion of the
workingman. In his paper he es-
poused the cause Of labor as
against the explorations of cap
ital and in pursuing this policy he
championed the cause of Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone, miner Of
fcials, whom the political tools of
the mineowners of Colorado and
Idaho were trying to send to the
scafold.
The United States government
legalized the kidnapping of these
three men and their removal by
stealth and force to another state.
They were charged with murder.
So was Governor Taylor of Ken
lucky. He was a refugee, hiding
in Indiana on that account.
"Let us see," said Warren, IF
there is one law for the rich and
another for the poor-one for the
political head of state and
another for the heads of a work.
ingman's organization"
So on his letter heads he caused
to be printed the offer of a re-
ward of 1000 for the kidnapping
of Taylor from Indiana back into
the state where Goebel was shot
from ambush.
For this he was arrested and
tried, convicted and sentenced.
Just prior to the case going to
the United States court of appeals
Warren's counsel assured him that
his sentence could be reversed on
technical legal grounds. But War;
rem is not made of the stuff that
tries to secure its purposes by
means of evasions and hair-split-
tings. Warren fights straight
from the shoulder.
He demanded a. reversal of the
decision on the ground that it was
unwarranted in legal principle
He demanded a reversal OF the de-
cision in order to establish the
principle that the same law ap-
plies to rich and poor, to repre-
sentatives Of the capitalists and
to representatives Of the working
class.
Failing to secure the establish
ment, in actual practice, of this
principle, he succeeded in compel
ling the United States courts to
proclaim from the housetops their
new principle of law, that there
is. one law for the capitalists and
their representatives and another
law for the workers and their
champions. sy. 4..
So the fine and prison term
meted out to Warren is indirectly
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-12-03
FOR SALE

$5o0-Cash- seven-room house 1873
East Fourth st. Balance OF
r 1880 in monthly payments.
A bargain. VIII not need any
repairs. d."
$35O0-New > six-room house 1901
81: East Sixth St.. Hot, water
heating plant. $1,000 cash
-.r -. - balance easy terms.
$S2OO-Two flats, five rooms each.
1862 West Fifth st. $500
cash, balance $50 month.
$32O0-New six-room house Ais W.
Third St. Water, gas, cleo.
trio light bath, hardwood
floors. $1,000 cash, balance
easy payments.
PuLF0RD, HOW & COMPANY
: 500 Exchange Building.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23
Lest You Forget.

Many OF us have been reasonably
successful in our business affairs during
the past year, some have been exceed
ingIy so. The result is that many are
celebrating the Christmas tide with
munifcent gifts to relatives and friends
and sweethearts. In the very largest
ratio it will be a merry Christmas But
there has been great deal Of sickness
and distress in Union City, among them
are the unfortunate. To them Christ
mas tidings bring no cheer unless kind
hand or heart is extended.
Lest you forget we would appeal to
your good nature, to your kindness, to
the promptings Of your humanity in
the interest of those who need your
assistance, who need your cheer, while
the world is glad with JOY
We have an organization known as
the United Charities, with very large
field OF work. II you have not already
done so contribute to this fund; but you
may be able to reach others with little
act Of kindness whom this will not.
Winter began earlier this year than
usual and the prospects are for long
cold season. More is the need for the
work Of caring for the unfortunate.
Remember it is Christmas tide and
the time for remembrance Let your
generosity bring sunshine and warmth
to cold and cherries fireside. 1t is
more blessed to give than to receive"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23

and fayorably discussed a good road
to the lake and good road to Gibbs
have also been offered as subject mat
Ter. These are very live and important
topics. but it viii take the combined
wisdom Of our citizens to formulate a
definite plan. A meeting for good
roads is called and we hope every citizen
who can will be present-erery business
man, every mechanic, lawyer, ply
stefan, school teacher, or whatever he
may be. Come out. It is your town
as well as ours. It is to the interest Of
every citizen who lives here no matter
what his calling. Come out to the
meeting, to all the meetings, and get
together for a greater Union City. Let
1911 be the banner year Of progress in
Union City.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23
Judge A. S. Buchanan.

Judge A. S. Buchanan, who has been
appointed Supreme Judge by Gov. Pat
terson to succeed Judge Beard, is cit
izen and lawyer OF Memphis of high
standing. Although not generally well
known over the State he is known to
the legal profession and is recognized as
a man and lawyer of marked capabili-
ty, and his appointment will be accept
able to the bar and the public The
law required that the appointment
should be made from the Western Di-
vision OF the State to supply the va
cancy from that division on the SUI
preme bench aud the Governor explains
that he deemed it more appropriate to
make the appointment from Memphis,
which was the residence ot Judge Beard,
and city in which litigation is very
heavy. Nashville Banner.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23
A Bachelors Funeral.

Two old maids at shut of day
A bachelors carcass bore away
With wrinkled brow and matted hair
And heart that never loved the fair.
Bring briars. they groaned, bring weeds unknown
Bring rankest weeds of name unknown.
Bring withered boughs from dreary wild
TO strew the bier of errors child.
And make his grave where the lizards hide
Where nightshade strews the swanp-creek side
Far out of sight where genial spring
Shall send no gentle bird to sing.
His old jacknife lay with him low
TO cut the strings of cupids bow
The sad house cat shall whine around
His lonely grave in grief profound
Low lay him who was often high
Here where shall fall no plying eye.
For him, for him, no loving heart
Shall ache--for him no tear shall start
His bloodless lips shall fall to dust;
His old jacknife shall waste and rust
He whom we hide from light of men
Shall never fright the babes again.
For we have laid him from the light
Beneath the ground and out of sight.
But his rude epitaph shall stand
He whom TO no one gave his hand
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23
Selected.
Great Hog Sale Held at Memphis,
Tenn, Dec. 7.

The great hog sale pulled off at Mem
phis, Tenn, December u under the
management OF ]. S. Henderson, Ken.
ton, Tenn, Secretary-Treasurer OF the
Tri-State Swine Breeders Association,
was decided success from every point.
The attendance was good and the inter-
est was great, notwithstanding the great
Aviator Meet that was on at the same
time, and many times the bird men
were flying in the air above the barn
where the sale was being held; yet the
interest was.so great in the sale but lit
tie attention was paid to the flying
planes.
In this sale % head Of Berkshires, 2S
Poland Chinas and / Duroc Jersey
was sold to the highest bidder, for an
average price of $47.95 per head. The
management considered this a very
good sale when taking into considera-
ton only q bred sows were in the sale
with SO bears and open SOW pigs, and
many of the latter from 5 to 2 months
old and many of the bred sows under |
year old. The bidding was spirited
from start to finish and at no time dur
ing the sale did the bidding lose inter-
est. And many of the buyers did not
get all the hogs they wanted and IN
sisted on the manager putting on an
other sale the last of January or the
early days of February at the annual
meeting of the Tri-state Swine Breed
ers Association; and we hope to be able
to do so.
!. H. l.. Currie, of Brownsville, Tenn,
topped the sale with a very nice ma
tured SOW bred for her third litter, at
the price Of s104, to B. II. Hopkins, OF
Memphis, Tenn.
J. S. Henderson, of Kenton, Tenn,
was close second with a beautiful Is
months old bred SOW, which sold for
500 to II. G. Bennett, OF Memphis.
G. Letterlee & Son, of Harrod's
Creek. KY, sold very fine young SOW
for ST. to n. II. Martin, OF Memphis;
ami many others ran around the SIS
mark.
The hogs went 20 four different
States: % to Mississippi, % to Tennes-
see lin Memphis territory. II to Arkan-
sas, and / to Louisiana.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23
The South ) EIoecake.

That division Of the staff Of life known
as the hoeeake, which is made Of corn
meal, has long been a general article OF
diet in the South.
The cotton has been king and corn
shamefulIy neglected, the hoecake has
managed somehow to survive and
flourish, until now it is in a fair way Of
attaining greatness.
1.-THE hoecake be taken as synonymous
with the South's corn crop and the
wealth resulting. itmay be added that
it has received tremendous enlarge
ment during the past year. The crop
increase has run into the millions Of
bushels.
Cotton is still king. but corn has risen
to great power in his domain, not as a
rival and competitor, but as helper and
supporter. And il the domain was
great with the presence Of only one,
greater still will it be with the coalition
of the two.
The South just now seems to be en-
tering that period OF diversified and in
tensified farming that its seers have so
long known was necessary and have SO
long labored to bring about.
The development has been so inn
portant that it has attracted national at
tention. A notable change for the
better" says President Taft in his mes
sage to Congress, commented upon by
the Secretary of Agriculture, is the fact
that the South, especially in those
regions where the boil weevil has inter-
fered with the growth Of cotton, has
given more attention to the cultivation
of corn and other cereals so that there is
a greater Investigation of crops in the
South than ever beforehand all to the
great advantage of that section. At
lapta Georgian.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23
Paper Next Week.

A small paper will be published in
this Office next week Last year we
suspended publication one week for the
| holidays. This year publication will
be necessary to meet the laws requiring
successive publications Of legal adyertis-
ing. However we want to take advan-
tage Of the opportunity to offer the
thanks Of the Office for the patronage
and kindness of our many friends
throughout the county and many other
sections of country. The Commercial
has grown substantially and we have
reason to believe that its weight and in
fiuence have also increased. fhe other
day an old-time friend whom we have
known since boyhood, and a man who
stands as solid for his good citizenship
and character as the county can boast,
said to us that You publish clean
paper and / like it, +" He could have
paid no greater compliment. We thank
ed him from the depths of the heart.
The ruling thought in the Office has
been the publication of clean paper,
one which can be accepted in any good
home and respected for its opinions.
With all the readers we have not always
agreed, but we certainly appreciate their
in the continuation of
their connection with the paper What
ever our newspaper ideas we claim only |
to be trying to reach the secret leading
to the right and to expose to the wrong
wherever it concerns public questions in
which the people are generally interest
ed. From private opinions, including
religious matters, ETC., we carefully re- !
frain. They do not belong to the pro-
vince of the paper, but to the citizen to
Judge and dispose OF in his or her own
good way.
These or few things in the line of
which we have adopted and
which we trust have been the means OF
about the success of The Com
Wishing all our patrons, readers and
friends Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year, we thank you one and all.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23

Reported schemes are on foot to ask
that the Legislature appoint board
clothed with the power to appoint State
officials in the place Of the Governor.
This is only way to increase the num-
Der o. useless Offices in the State which
may be sooner or later controlled by the
Governor. The board of election COM
missioners was instituted ostensibly to
take the appointment of county election
commissioners out OF the hands OF the
Governor, but in fact it increased the
Governor spower in this direction. The
State board was not only controlled by
him, but the county commissioners
cameunder his dictation also. Governor
Hooper proposes to do a little pruning
when he is inaugurated, and we hope
the Legislature will not undertake to in
crease the bureaus with useless ex-
penditure.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-23

The Legislature conyenes on the iirsi
Monday in January and then we viii
have the regular office scramble. Al
soon as this is disposed of the election
OF United States Senator will be on
hand 1t has been conceded from a
number Of sources that the regular
Democrats will be in che majority and
that, of course, they will name the SEN
ator If they can agree. Ex-Governor
Benton McMii!in was the nominee oil
the primary held last summer for that
place, and it goes without saying that
the regulars are under obligations to
that gentleman. We have heard no
other candidate mentioned who stood
with the administration forces, and in
all probability there will be none. Gov
ernor McMillin was nominated as a reg
uIar, but however distasteful TO NUM-
bers the method OF his nomination, few
meE in Tennessee who will not concede
the Governor has an honorable and dis
tinguished record in Congress and in
the executive chair OF the State. He
has been known as conscientious
hard worker as well as statesman and
thinker, and his services are recog
nized in many splendid and substantial
achievements. He was good repre-
sentative in Congress, he was good
Governor. His Democracy is unques-
toned, his motives sincere, and his APP
plication to duty thoroughly reliable.
There may have been in Congress men
better known for their brilliancy, but
there have never been more capable
representatives.
The Commercial is not saying these
things to- be construed as announce
ment of its support OF Mr.. McMillin.
We are referring to facts which are fa-
miliar to many Of the people of Ten
nessee, possibly not to some of the
younger generation, or to those who
have not kept in touch with the pro-
'ceedings Of Congress. We are trying
TO give credit whore it is due from
personal knowledge of many of the
facts. Above all we want to say that
whatever his association was in the
campaign just closed in Tennessee Gov
ernor McAIillin is a Democrat. His is
the democracy Of the people. His
craftsmanship is Of the kind that is
now being demanded all over the coun-
try, He is in sympathy Chat is his
record with the people and their inter.
ests as opposed to class interests or mo-
nopolies. There are many other Dem
Ocrats whose records do not give the
proper evidence Of this, and suggestions
Of number Of names in connection
with the United States Senatorship from
Tennessee have recently been made
that are positively odious TO the reform
We have stated privately number
81 times that there will be no regrets
ID this Office if Governor McMillin is
slected to the United States Senate from
Tennessee. If the regular Democrats
Ire in control he is clearly entitled to it. !