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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
MOBILE EMPLOYERS SAY
UNIONS BRING HARMONY,

MOBILE. Ala. Nov. 25.-Unorgan-
lied contract machirists who went
on strike here several weeks ago have
gone back 10 work.
While out on strike the men were
organized into a union. Upon hear
ing this the contractors asserted them
selves and advised the strikers that
they would have been more willing
to have granted the increased wages
had due notice been given OF the de-
mands of the men.
The contractors claimed that they
should have been given a certain
length of time to finish UP all jobs
taken under the old wage scale. thus
giving them an topportunftyto to inturn
demand 81 higher price for. their pro-
ducts. ,.... - :. -; {
The men then returned to work
and appointed committee. to for
mulate demands In writing which
have been presented to the employers.
The new scale demanded calls for an
side work and so cents per day for
outside work.
The employers have declared them
selves in favor of the union shop as
tending to promote a more harmon
ious way of settling any differences
that may arise in the future.
= The outlook is bright for COM
plete unionizing of all of the shops
here doing government work.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
GAYN0R A STRIkEBREAKER
Is CLAIM OF CHAUFFEUR6
EQUAL VOTE QUESTION
SPLITS ALLIED TRADES

Buffalo, Nov. 25.-The meeting of
the joint executive boards Of the AL
lied Printing Trades adjourned here
without arriving at any decision in
regard to the equal voting rights
proposition. The International Typo
graphical union would not agree to
the contention of the Printing Press
men and Assistants union, the Photo
engravers' union, the Bookbinders'
union and the Stereotypers and
Electrotypers' union, which are the
other bodies comprising the Allied
Printing Trades. that they were en-
titled to equal voting power.
1t was decided to submit the en-
tire question to referendum vote
of the combined membership.
Another important feature of the
conference was the application of the
International Papermakers' union for
admission to the Allied Trades coun-
Gil
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
143 Boilermakers in Govt Employ
on 1sthmus Send in Resigna-
tions When President on Jun
ket Refuses to Give Ear to
Their Request for Raise.

PANAMA., Nov. 25.-Because Presi.
dent Taft is reported to have said
that he was too busy on his present
trip to the isthmus to hear their re-
quest for an increase in wages, las
boiler makers, engaged in canal con-
structions have sent in their resigna-
tions to Chief Engineer Goethals.
The machinists also threaten TO
strike. They have cabled the union
headquarters In the United States to
send no one to take their places In
case they join the boiler makers in
their strike.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. 25.-In the event
that the demands of the boiler makers
engaged in the Panama Canal zone
are refused by the government and
there is general strike, the canal
vacanies will not be refilled by me-
chanics from the United States.
This declaration was made by J. A
franklin, president of the Internation-
al Boiler Makers Union, here.
Il don't think there will be a
strike in Panama. said the boiler
makers president.
IL lHele is a SCTlke, however, the
boiler makers employed on the canal
will not be interfered with by men
from home. This trouble is not alone
a question Of wages. They are ask
ing sixteen days leave on full pay,
just as it is given employees in the
civil service.
1T was queer that the president
should have refused to see the boiler
makers when he went to Panama fol
purposes of investigation.
"A cabinet meeting was held for
the discussion of the workmen's con-
ditions. A decision was withheld un-
til President Taft could obtain first
hand knowledge by a. visit to the
canal. When he got there he said
he was compelled to hurry on.
President Franklin has been ad-
vised that 143 boiler makers quit
work because President Taft had
asked them to await his return to the
United States for a reply to their de-
mands.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
IT'S Thus Workers Are Sandba9eed

BOSTON, Nov. 25.-''The way to
teach people not to mind the high
cost of living is to shut, down indus
tries" was the theory advanced to-
day before the Home Market club by
James f. McColl, OF Providence, mill
lionaire cotton manufacturer and re-
tiring president Of the; club.
There Is one effective way by
which the cost, Of living can be. re-
duced." he said, and that Is by bring
ing about a long period Of depression.
People will then learn to do without
many things that they now consider
necessities. Capital will not have the
means and courage TO push ahead
with new enterprise supply will sexs
Coed demand, wages will decline,
prices will s drop and soup k5itchens
Will be In ord lei. .'5 '' s 81 t5sSIs #8s
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+. p Z j. .
Y WASHINGTON. Nov. 25.-A re-
port that the Imperial Glass COM
pany will reduce the wages Of about
800 employees, on the ground that It
is necessary on account Of recent
fines OF $4,000 for violation OF the
Sherman antitrust act, has created
an unpleasant impression at the de-
partment of justice. It was regarded
10 fragrant, attempt to discredit +
the law by taking revenge on the
workingmen.
The attorney general is convinced
that effectual. destruction Of Grim
inal trusts can be accomplished only
through sentencing the guilty Of
ficials to the penitentiary. Officers
Of the department who prosecute
trusts e In the future will he directed
TO u insist A upen priAon punishmsnt ~
every ease Of suiltts
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
TEST T0ISToIAN THEORY
IN WASHINGTON STATE.

. TACOMA, <lMl's Moy:s q. ~ 25.-A~ consumers
company has been" formed by the
Farmers Educational and. Coopera-
tive Union Of Medical Lake, Wash.
The union has bought general store,
fully stocked with groceries and pro-
visions and farm implements, and
supplied each Of it's 100 members
with a key to the establishment, the
doors of which are not open to the
public.
There are no clerks, cashiers nor
storekeepers; no goods are displayed
in the windows, neither are there any
handb1lls and catchy advertisements
to tempt the housewife. The store is
an experiment to reduce the cost of
living
Officers of the organization be-
lleve with Tolstoi that it is as natural
for a normal man to be honest as it
is for a babe to breathe, and it is
purposed to demonstrate the truth of
the theory by giving each member
access to the stock of unguarded pro-
visions.
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NO: PLACE
:. FOR WlRRGA'S OFFER:
= :. !. ITO k|DNAP TAYLOR
Say q. S. Judges

ST. PAUL, Nov. 25.-F. D. Warren
of Girard, Kan, editor of a paper
Appeal of Reason, must serve term
of six months in the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kan, and pay a.
fine Of $1,000 imposed by a jury in
the United States court in Kansas.
The sentence of the court was af-
firmed by an order in the United
States circuit, court Of appeals filed,
Monday last.
Judge Hook wrote the opinion, and
Judges Adams and Reed concurred.
Warren was convicted of sending
through the United States mails en-
velopes on the outside of which was
printed $1,000 reward will be paid
to any person who kidnaps ex-Gov-
ernor Taylor and returns him to the
Kentucky authorities.'
The indictment charges that the
words, were scurrilous, defamatory
and threatening in character, intended
to reflect injuriously on the character
of William S. Taylor. a former COVER
nor Of Kentucky.
The opinion of Judge Hook held
that congress had almost unlimited
power to prescribe postal regulations,
that whether the words were true
or false. the outside of an envelope
was no place for them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
G0MPERS W|LFULLY
M|SREPRESENTED BY
PAPERS OF ST. LOUIS

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 25.-HoW outrage
ously the capitalist press misrepre-
sents organized labor has been strik-
ingly illustrated here.
Daily newspapers, especially the St.
Louis Republic, the Democratic ex-
ponent of would-be-labor friendship,
page article headed:
"GOMPERS READS NEGRO OUT
OF LABOR UNIONS-Race not far
enough removed from slavery to un-
derstand human rights
These papers declared that Com
pers had made such statements at
reception to delegates to the present
American Federation of Labor con-
vention. held under the auspices Of
the local central body.
Gompers Indignantly designated
such newspaper stories as base false
hoods. The fact Is that Gompers in the
reception address made a special ap-
peal to get negroes into the ranks of
unionism, and incidentally remarked
that In our efforts to win negroes
for the unions cause, the facts should
not be lost sight of that American
negroes are over half a century re-
moved from slavery and consequently
are deprived of advantages that white
men have enjoyed for centuries.
What makes this misrepresenta-
ton especially interesting is the fact
that it was made for Citizens AL
lance interests, and that the Re-
public is the same Democratic sheet
which during the last campaign ad-
vocated Gompers' political labor pol
Icy for the benefit of the Democratic
machine
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
MORE REFORMS COME
. TO MILWAUKEE CITY

MILWAUKEE,, Nov. 25.-As a re-
suit of the recent canvass made by
the police department 1928 names
have been stricken from the registra-
tion lists. People who have been dead
for seven years. some who left the
city four and five years ago, and no.
body knows how many fraudulently
reglstrated names have all been car
ried on the registration lists year af-
ter year. This is contrary to the law,
to be sure, but no effort has been
made to prevent it heretofore The
present administration has taken up
the matter vigorously with the above
result.
these names over and over again, the
cleaning up of the list will mean an
average saving Of 5000 to the city
on printing alone.
Last week the first air brakes ap-
peared on the cars Of the milwaukee,
street car system. This Improvement
is hailed with delight not only by the
people in general, who see in it a
guarantee Of fewer accidents but al
so especially by the motormen. who
find their work greatly lessened.
This Is measure that the men,
bers of the present administration
have been urging for years in the city
council, and even in the state legisla-
ture. The greater efficiency of the
air brake will make the street car
system less murderous by reducing
the number of accidents. In many
other walks too, it will increase the
efficiency Of the service. The air
brakes are to be gradually installed
on the cars until the whole system
is equipped.
A resolution passed the city council
at it's last meeting to raise the wages
of the street employees from $1.75 to
$500 per day beginning the first of
January. This is in line with the po-
Icy of the administration to raise
wages and particularly to begin the
process Of raising wages with those
who are most poorly paid. The gen
eral policy of the administration is
to raise the conditions of labor on all
public works to the trades union
standard as rapidly as possible.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
The St. Louis Meet
BY REV. CHAS. sTELZLE.

st. Louis, Nov 25.-The Ameri-
can Federation Of, Labor convention
in session this week In st. Louis is
probably the biggest in the history Of
the organization. There are about
four hundred delegates-veteran
almost everyone of them, and all on
the job. I have attended six con-
secutive conventions, and I've had q
chance to know practically every man
who attended these conventions, fol
most of them come year after year.
Any man who attempts to deceive
these delegates isi hauled up short
and sharp. They know the game and
they can't be fooled. That's the ad-
vantage of sending veterans, although
it's good plan to inject some new
blood into the convention each year.
The way they follow an argument in
the discussion is ah amazing thing
even to the newspaper men, who are
accustomed to listening to debates
and being always alert to the points
being made. ~.
President Gompers' annual report
was a great document. It showed
the acumen of statesman All talk
about ousting him from the presi-
dency is nonsense for there will be
no real opposition to him, and he will
undoubtedly be unanimously re-
elected. The Socialists will make no
open fights. on him, and they will not
offer the usual ''Socialistic Resolu-
tions." They will fight-if they fight
at alias bona fide trades unionists,
and they will declares warfare against
the common enemy. It's a. healthy
sign that the Socialists in the con-
vention are becoming more opportun-
list in their propaganda.
But these jurisdictional strifes-
what bane they are! 1t will be a
great day when the various organiza-
tions can get together and honestly
talk through their differences, and
then stand by the decision arrived
at. But we're very human-most of
us-and this accounts for a lot of the
cussedness that often crops out.
On the whole, there's fine spirit
among the delegates. The general
character of the men is improving.
This is evident during even the short
space of half. q dozen years. To see
them in the 1obbies of the hotels they
look as keen and as clean as any
group of business men. They are a
crowd of which the labor men o1
America may we'll be proud. Let's
stand back Of. them. They have 4
pretty tough Job at best. ....:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
STRIKE APPRENTICES"
Make A CONFESSION p

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 25.-P. E..
Sweeney and w. G. Owens machin-
ist apprentices, Of Sedalia, Mo-, told
Judge Latshaw in criminal court this
week that union leaders in the 4strik-
ing railroad shops had plotted to des-
troy property of the Missouri Pacif-
ic.
On the strength of the boys con-
fessions warrants have been issued
for various leaders of the striking
machinists. Their names will not be
made public until after the arrests
are made.
In the confessions Owens and
Sweeney said they were what is known
as inside men," in other words, they
were to go to work under aliases as
non-union men and then accomplish
destruction of the property of the
company by "doping'' the bearings
Of engines and machinery with emery
dust and steel chips This they did,
Sweeney and Owens said, in Argenaa,
Ark, and in Kansas City.
The first "job,' Sweeney and Ownes
said. was done in Argenta last Sep
tember when they placed a chisel and
capsules filled with steel chips and
emery dust in the great lathes. used
for turning out locomotive and car
wheels.
Each machine is valued at $4,000.
The attempt was discovered before
much damage was done. Sweeney and
Owens then came to Kansas City and
went to work in the East Bottoms
shop. There they placed emery cap
sules in an: engine on November I.
The result was that when the engine
was ordered out for service it ran to
the yard limits and then stopped,
with the; driving rods torn off as
result of the friction of the emery
dust and Clipped steel. -
L. f. Crew, q special detective for
the company, who has been Watching
Owens and Sweeney ever since the
doping" of machines in the Argenta
shops, arrested them. .a.2~...-.z&
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
0KLAHOMANS SEEKING
STATE OWNED MINES

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, Nov. Is.
oklahoma State Federation of La
Dor has commenced a campaign for
state owned mines. Public opinion
has been aroused by the action Of
coal mine owners who have closed
their shafts because Of union de-
mands, and if a vote on public owner
ship of these public necessities could
be taken now it would sweep the
state.
passed at the convention was another
measure favoring state ownership of
freight. electric and passenger lines
Women suffrage was indorsed and
closer relations with farmers unions
favored
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
HOURS INCREASED; UNCLE
SANS SCRUBWOMEN WALL

Washington, Nov. 25.-More work
without more pay is a grievance that
agitates the small army Of char
women at the U. S. treasury. Their
working hours, which were from 4:30
to $50 p. M. have been extended to
Z p. m. Their pay of $50 a month
remains unchanged. The claim is
also made that the number of rooms
to be cleaned by each woman has
been increased from four to eight.
Officials say that the daily work
period was extended because the work
was badly done. They assert also
that one woman has to care for eight
rooms only when some of the other
women are on leave of absence.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
retail BUTCHERS.
EXPOSE TR|CkERY
Of MEAT PIRATES

CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-The convic-
ton is growing that the much
vaunted reduction in the cost of
meats is in reality move on the
part of the packers to turn public
anger from themselves and direct 1t
against the retailers.
Retailers assert that if the packers
will enter into contract with them
to keep the WHOLESALERS prices of meat
at the present level for a consider
able length of time something may be
done "for the public"
Butchers who cater to the retail
trade assert that when they: buy q
lamb, or a pig, or a side of beef,
they buy it at so much a pound, in
cluding portions of the animals which
are sheer waste, so far as the re,
taller is concerned.
recent meeting of the Master Butch
ers' association. Vice President Ed
ward Levy of the association said:
I'VE don't make big profits. The
packers say: why, you pay 121t
cents for lamb and charge 25 cents
But what do I charge 25 cents for?
For six pounds of chops that come
out of forty-pound lamb.
"Then get about fourteen French
chops that sell for 10 cents each
breasts that I can't sell to my trade
at all, but for which some butchers
get cents a pound. tanks that
can't sell, and which bring 11k cents
as chuck, the leg that sells for Is
cents, and the shoulder that brings
1871 cents.
"On the whole lamb. which cost S.,
I am lucky and happy if I make So
cents"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
TAFT TO BUSY TO SEE 'EM.
CANAL MECHANICS STRIKE
OFFERED TO SELL TEDDY
FOR SOC; CALLED IF OFF

Washington, Nov. 25.-Postoffice
officials are breathing more easily
today after averting a calamity
threatened by the advertisement Of
bust Of Colonel Roosevelt for so
cents in the annual dead letter sale
catalogue.
NO. 5723.-One bust of Theodore
Roosevelt; six and one-half inches
high; slightly damaged; value, so
cents.'
Such was the description of the
package when proof sheets were re-
turned from the Government Print
ing Office today to the department.
The postoffice officials immedi-
ately got OH the job. Package No.
1923 was located and the bust of the
ex-president removed.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
ACTORS UNION AND WHITE
RATS ARE CONSOLIDATED.

NEW YORK. Nov. 25.-The White
Rats of America and the Actors Ma
tional Union have consolidated and
have affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. The new organi-
zation will be known az the White
Rats Actors Union Of America, with
a membership of 5000. %:Es.6
The consolidation was the result Of
a conference after several months OF
correspondence. About two months
ago, a tentative agreement was reach
ed, and President Gompers was ap-
pointed arbitrator to settle such ques-
tions as might arise. 81. ~ sssz
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
BROUGHT BACK SOME "eoAT."

BROUGHT BACK SOME "coAT."
Frank Hoffman, statistician of the
state labor commission, was a visitor
in Duluth Wednesday on his way
home to St: Paul after a few days
spent in the woods after big game.
Mr.. HOFFMAN was successful In his
quest. and carried through the city
with him q nice chunk of. wild goat" I"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-26
GARMENT WORKERS.
MAY SETTLE ON
PREFERENTIAL PLAN

CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-A settlement
of the garment workers great strike
is just as far off as ever at the pres
ent time, but a move is on foot to
consider settling on the preferential
shop basis. :
The preferential proposition was
brought into the field by some in.
fuential persons interested in the
strike, and is receiving slight recogni.
tion by some of the union officials.
Under a preferential shop agree.
ment the manufacturers would be
forced to give a union garment
worker preference when hiring help.
In other words, if line of appli-
cants for any position in the various
shops faced the manager or superin.
tendent he would have to hire the
union man or woman in preference to
the non-union candidate.
A preferential shop is far from be-
ing a closed shop, but can be made
almost as effective by clever mani.
pulation and tactics: %,@<. ->:
It, does not keep the manufacturer
from hiring nonsunion tailors, but it
forces him TO showasa preference to
the union garment worker. s. ~ - 8
If things come to the worst, it II
possible that an agreement Of this
sort will be acceded to by both sides,
as it is the first step toward closed
shop. "'r. - '
At the present, time the strikers
are just as determined as ever to
hold out for closed shop; There
is no sign OF. weakness in their ranks
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The Missouri State Federation of
Labor has declared it's opposition to
state wide prohibition Of the liquor
traffic.
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D. In San Francisco the cooks ana
walters are contributing to Los AnKe.
les; and Spokane strikes. 5 d DEW s5
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Will Oppose Wage Cut.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. Nov. 25.-
Charles Bryant, secretary of the Ma
tional Window Glass Workers asso-
citation, declares that organized glass
blowers will oppose any effort to
lower the wage scale made last Au-
gust. Over half the membership is
included in the Imperial Window
Glass company, dissolved as trust
by the federal government last week.
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COURT ORDER sUBTERFUGE
FOR CUTTING WAGE SCALE

PITTSBURG, Pa. Nov. 25.-The
Imperial Window Glass company.
which is undergoing liquidation un-
der an edict of the federal court, is
sues statement in explanation Of
reports that it entended to cut wages
Of the workmen 80 per cent, as a
result of the fines imposed. The
statement says:
Under the order of the United
States courts the Imperial Glass COM
pany is now in liquidation and as
soon as it's stock of glass is disposed
Of it will surrender it's West Virginia
charter. ..
THAT will leave the various hand
glass companies to compete individu-
ally with the machine factories. AL
ready all the hand glass factories
are shut down with the exception Of
six, which are cooperative concerns.
The others have operated only under
the old Lake Erie scale. With glass
at its present price, that Is a reduc-
ton Of. IS per cent from the wages
paid by the Imperial Glass company