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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19
The modern way is to marry at
leisure and divorce in haste.
With Vitriolic Pen, Angel
of Miners Scores Ted The
Joke and Trucking John

Investigations as to the condition Of
the slaves whose lifeblood is coined
into profits that the few may riot In
luxury. When Roosevelt and his body
guard arrived at Scranton they were
received by the Bishop of Scranton,
who wined and dined them and who
remarked during the meal that it was
the first time in his life he had had
the honor of sitting between two
Presidents. On the right of the
bishop sat Mr.. Roosevelt, friend of
the workingman. It was he who, in
order to show his friendship, sent
1900 guns to Colorado to shoot the
miners into subsection and, If they
did not obey, blow their brains out,
and who, while president Of the
United States, sent hundreds of mes
sages to congress-, but never one In
the interest Of the working class. Not
even when the explosion in the Mo-
nongah mine sent TOO souls, the souls
of wage slaves, into the shadows and
shocked the civilized world. did he
find it In his sterile conscience to send
a message to congress demanding
protection for the men whose labor
feeds the mammoth NAV of industry
and warns the fireside Of the world,
Roosevelt's real interest in the work.
ing class is only aroused when no
seeks their votes. On the left of the
bishop sat the $4,000 Civic Federation
beauty, pet Of the mine owners, deco
rated with diamonds. gifts from the
coal barons.
What would Christ have said If
he could have looked down upon this
trinity of sleek parasites as they sat
at the bishops table gorging them
selves with the richest food and the
finest of wines, while thousands of
their brothers down in the valley had
not where to lay their heads7
Roosevelt. and Mitchell made their
Investigations Of the anthracite re-
g1ons mostly from tho comfortable
seats of a large touring car. Waiting
press representatives at each point
were told that prosperity was ram
pant throughout the coal fields; that
the miners never enjoyed to such an
extent the good things Of life. What
an Infamous libel on the truth! Care
full indeed was the labor scavenger,
the well-groomed vassal Of the Civic
Federation, to avoid Latimer and
other points where the misery and
.wretchedness Of the miners defy ex-
taggeration. Here Is where twenty-one
OF his comrades rest in eternal
peace, murdered victims Of q murder
GUS mine owners association! Upon
the breast Of these rugged heroes,
true to their brothers. loyal to their
class even unto death, there flashed
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

lied labor loses it's dignity and it's
prestige and suffers. Violence re-
acts on organization.
I'm arbitration organized labor
and the world at large have the
solution Of all controversies, and
it protects a man who would 9TH
erwise be forced to strike to
coerce an employer into granting
a just claim, and to prevent a man
from being thrown out of employ
ment while matters are being SET
tied.
'*The public too has an interest
in all problems that arise between
capital and labor and has right
to demand that they be settled by
arbitration"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19
Some Labor Statistics

or out into other classes. None of
these are eligible to unionism under
our present development The same
Is true of the tenants, who are small
contractors, more interested in prices
and profits than they are in wages.
Kirby makes the mistake of his
kind by including the farmers as
workers eligible to trade unionism.
The economic status of the farmer
is not yet defined, because he is both
a producer, and a capitalist.
Professor Common, shows that the
100000, clerks, laborers and
servants" is the army from which
militant and aggressive trade I'M
ionism must be recruited. But even
here the lines are not clear, for in
thousands of small villages and
stores the employer and his help
bear the relation Of the father and
son, just as among farmers. Servants
are individually in other classes.
Many thousands Of apparent laborers,
like teamsters, hucksters and ped
dlers, are also small capitalists which
reduce the number eligible to union
ism under our present development,
to SIX MILLION.
If we take Kirby's statement as
true-which it is not-that there
are only 4,482,s54 organized workers
In this country, it will be seen that
the trade union movement, as a
fighting force, consists Of much more
than Is per cent of the wage earners
devoid of profit instincts, because Of
their environment which Is not true
of farmers, tenants and many classed
as servants" and agents.
Some one should write Professor
Commons, Madison, Wis, for copy
of his "Is Class Conflict in America
Growing and Is It inevitable" And
this ''eye opener" should be forward
ed to John Kirby, Jr.. Dayton, o.
He would then find that the trade
union movement includes a greater
percentage of eligible workers than
any other movement in America.
Let workers remember these fig
ures. Commit this article and con-
found our "open shop" friends.
We may also join with President
Gompers and ask Kirby what per-
centage of manufacturers are in his
organization that assumes to speak
for Americas business interests.
-TOlo6o T1piop Toodo~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

statistics for 1908 give a total Of
29,285,922 wage-earners in the United
States, with total membership in
labor unions of 4,428,S54, divided as
follows:
American Federation of Labor
1,40S,490. or less than five per cent.
western Federation of Miners
419,067, or less than one and one
half per cent.
knights of Labor. 179, 40, or
less than three-fifths Of one per
cent.
Independent Mines of West v1r-
ginia, 1880, or one-hundredth of
one per cent.
Scattering, $4,000, or less than
one-tenth of one per cent making a
total Of 2,10S,677, which with men,
bership in the various railway bro
therhoods of 2,378,677, or about 8
per cent, makes grand total of
4,4s2,s54, or Is $40 per cent of all
wage-earners in this country
The above statements were made
by President Kirby of the National
Association of Manufacturers at a
recent speech in Worcester, Mass.
This claim Is a favorite argument Of
"open shoppers" At first glance they
seem to have scored their point-that
small minority (organized w6rkers)
is debating to the greater number, but
like all statistics, Kirby's figures will
bear investigation.
Now let us show the other side.
President John Commons, Univer-
sity Of Wisconsin, claims there are
100000 men and boys engaged in
industry (Kirby includes women and
children)
The professor then finds, according
to the last census, that these a.
100000 are divided as follows:
Farmers and tenants. ... 100000
Farm laborers. ...... 8.76O.0OO
Other laborers, clerks and
servants. ........ 100000
Professional and agent
CLASS. ............... 1900. 900
Other employers. ..... .... 100000
It will be noticed that of the a.
100000 working men and boys in
this country, 9,750,O0O are either far
mers, tenants or farm laborers. IT
Is believed that over one-half of the
laborers are farmers sons, destined
to pass up into their fathers positions
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19
CAPITALISTS GREED HAS
BRED CONTEMPLATE TRADE

AS soon as the express strike
began a score Of agencies COM
menced to advertise for hundreds
or thousands Of men to engage
in the contemplate work of
breaking the strike. These agen-
cies exist not only in New York,
but in the cities throughout the
country and from the cities where
there is no trouble there frequent
ly come the majority of the
strikebreakers.
This profession Of procuring
scabs is one that has grown to
enormous size during the past
few years, and it must be highly
profitable to those who do the
procuring. They maintain recruit.
ing offices. They have men in the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

field all the time rounding up new
scabs, and men also whose bust
ness it is to procure business.
In such a business it necessarily
follows that the more trouble
there is the higher profits will be.
If no trouble exists there will be
no profits. So to get profits it is
obligatory at times to start some
thing. All attempts at settlement
Of strikes have to encounter
the fact that the heads of the
scab furnishing agencies want to
prolong their income and in
crease it as much as possible.
That they are meters to vio-
lence, that they carry their trade
on in criminal mapner-by arm
ing their men, for instance-and
that they are menace to the
public welfare, are known to all.
But laws do not count with the
ruling class where profits are to
be made. Those who use the
scab furnishing agencies also con-
troll the government, and conse-
quently instead of suppressing
them they foster them and in
crease the number.
Where ten years ago there were
a few scattered individuals en-
gagged in this business there are
now scores Of well equipped con-.
Germs who can furnish anything
from a single man to take tho
place Of some lone striker up to
an armed mob that can take the
place Of hundreds Of men and who
can start a riot if necessary. These
concerns should long ago have
been driven out of business, but
until the working class compels
them to go out Of business they
will continue to exist, for they are
a valuable weapon with which the
big interests seek to crush tho
awakening working class.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

no radiant gen as scintillating evil
dence of servility that thrift may fol-
low fawning!
Had Roosevelt followed my trail
through the anthracite regions he
would have seen women old and young
carrying sixteen gallons of water ON
their heads across the coal strippings
for a distances of a mile. He would
have seen the motherhood Of the
future dWarfed morally, mentally.
physically and spiritually in the mills
where they were required to work
ten hours a day and walk three or
four miles each way going and COM
ing from their work for q niggerdly
ptttance. He would have seen the
victims of his commission, whose
award was go favorable to the coal
barons that they have forced upon
the miners ever since poverty and
degradation.
I'm Wilkesbarre, where, they were
received by g. prominent divine, the
outside of the house was illuminated
by sixty dollars worth of electric
lights, while the bloodsuckers were
A~eA>9SAAA6 AAAoAOO. A4AOA0 "S40 1OILy
sky-pilots and some public officials
at the table, but not a single working
man among them! Mr.. Roosevelt was
the guest of the distinguished divine
all night, and in order that the mon
key chaser might have rest they hid
his shoes and would not allow him to
arise until the sun had cast it's charm
ing rays into the room. While all
this was going on, my attention was
called to a most diabol1cal act Of one
of the coal company's clerks, who
stripped young boy of eighteen Of
all his clothing for owing the COM
pany 81 that he was unable to pay
just at the present time, and the child
was forced to go home in torn under
clothing, walking over mile before
he got from under public gaze There
are many more horrify1ng sights that
Roosevelt and his lapdog might have
seen in their tour of investigation, If
they had so desired. Roosevelt's real
mission to the anthracite regions was
one of spectacular self-exploltation
while Mitchell simply poodled in the
interest of his salary-paying master.
"Just before the fall of the Roman
empire heard of such things hap
pening."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19
LEATHER WORKERS ARE
ENJOYING 9-HOUR DAY

The Brotherhood of Leather
Workers, while unsuccessful in
their effort to gain the universal
eight-hour day for their craft,
have demonstrated the power Of
organized effort by establishing
the nine-hour day throughout the
United States, and while the
manufacturers, most hostile to the
organization, disclaim any infu-
ence whatever of the brotherhood
having caused them to grant the
reduction in hours to their en-
ployes. Yet the fact remains. If
not, why at this time should they
experience sudden change Of
heart when they have for all time
past worked their employees long
hours and at low wages?
The facts are, the men would be
working ten hours and in the
busy season twelve and fourteen
hours if there was no organization
to stand in the way.
Undaunted and with a determ-
nation to secure the eight-hour
day, the Brotherhood Of Leather
Workers on horse goods will meet
in convention at Chicago, Novem-
Der Is, 1910, for the first time in
a period Of six years and outline
policy to be pursued not only
in furtherance Of this purpose,
but to make such constitutional
changes, to combat the methods of
the employers, as may seem adj
visable.
No other cause than the inhu-
ence of the Leather Workers in
the granting Of the nine-hour
work day can be made tenable.
Despite the efforts of employers
to disrupt and destroy the organ
ization, the brotherhood is still on
the job and far from being dead.
Wild oats and grass widows go
we'll together. =. Liz.
Many a holy show is not .
coined 3.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

Charles w. Post is accusing
Sam Gompers Of responsibility for
the Los Angeles Times explosion.
Doubtless Uncle Sam has been
guilty Of some pretty bad things,
but he is innocent Of murder, and
also innocent Of divorcing the wife
who helped him from poverty
and obscurity to prominence in
order that he might wed fluffy
haired stenographer Of fewer
years and fairer face:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

Mother Jones, the friend OF the
miners, is now seventy-seven years
old, but her activities in behalf Of
the oppressed are as vigorous as ever
Only lately she paid a visit to the an
thracite fields. Her. account Of her
visit, written for the New York Daily
Call, is as follows:
WHAT I SAW IN THE ANTHRA-
CITE FIELDS.
my work in connection with the
Mexican cases being completed at
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

washington, and feeling assured that
the victims of this 'bloodocracy' would
not be rearrested- on their liberation
from prison. decided to visit the
boys in the anthracite regions, in
vestigate conditions, and see what
progress, if any, had been made In
the way Of organization and educa-
ton since the last general strike. MY
visit to the anthracite regions, which
border on the inferno. followed that OF
Roosevelt and his. ex-labor leader,
John Mitchell. who had visited the
coal fields, 80 It e said. Tor the spur-
pose Of making some observations and
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19
THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUI.
FRAGuST.

Said the Socialist to the .Suffragist: i;
my cause is greater than yours:
You only work for a special class,
We for the gain of the general
Which every good insures!"
Said the Suffragist to the Socialist:
"You underrate my cause!
While women remain subject
class,
You can never move the general
mass,
With your economic laws!''
Said the Socialist to the suffragist:
"You misinterpret facts!
There is no room for doubt or
schism
In economic determinism-
It governs all our acts!"
Said the Suffragist to the Socialist:
"You men will always find
That this old world will never
move
More swiftly in its ancient groove
While women stay behind!''
"A lifted world lifts women up"
The Socialist explained.
"You cannot lift the world at ~all
While half Of it is kept so small,<
The Suffrag1st maintained.
The world awoke, and tartly spoke:
your work is all the same;
Work together or work apart,
Work, each OF you, with all your
| Just get into the game"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

The average worker gets So a
day in order that few may make
$48, 900 a day.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19
ARGUMENT OF ORGANIZED
LABOR IS A MORAL ONE


The following excerpts are
taken from the Labor Day speech
of William j. Bryan at St. JOS
eph, Mo-:
''Democratic sentiment is big
ger than the Democratic party or
any other party ever will be-:
E'The initiative and referendum
is more popular today than other
issues before the people and more
potent than upward, or down.
ward revision of the tariff.
Government in the hands of
the people is more safe than in the
hands Of any men that the people
may select.
eff a governor Of a state may
have the power to veto the action
of his legislature should not all
the people have a right to veto
any legislative act through the
referendum?
''The laboring man has a right
to trial by jury and no judge, as
in an injunction suit, has the
right to be lawyer, judge Of that
law and prosecuting attorney as
well.
''Labor is classed as an honor,
and to be idle or to sponge off
others is now considered dishon-
orable.
"The great problem that con-
fronts organized labor is what
portion Of the products of it's
brain and muscle shall be it's rec
pmpense for it's labor.
"Organized labor must be in
terested in education. Every boy
and girl has a right to say that
they shall not be educated.
eff God had intended that a
Few should do all the thinking,
then he would have made the
backs Of the many broader that
they might be better able to bear
the burdens placed on them by
the thinking few.
Education places the child on
ian equality with everyone.
"The better a man is educated
1.-THE better he is able to demand
shis rights and without education
"a man is not able to do his duty as
"a citizen.
"The laboring man must real
|dze that moral wealth counts in
business and I am glad that or
sganized labor has advanced the
moral welfare Of it's members.
"Organized labor has made mis-
takes but had it not it would have
been mighty lonely.
"Organized labor has done :
service for humanity in lesseninz
the hours Of toll per day; in elm
mating to a large extent chile
Tabor and in lettering the condi
aions under which laboring me1
.Work in general.
"You can drive a man from hi
bed to his work and from hi
work to his bed and thus maxi
him a useful animal, but it doe
mot make him a useful citizen.
:<Organized labor has don
much to achieve the secret ballot
eff by organization labor ha
accomplished these things i
should have the right to insis
that those who share in the fruit
of victory should be members o
organized labor.
"The argument of organized
labor can never be moro than
moral one. Government can neve
permit Of the argument in favo
of organization being carried fa1
Their than moral suasion. Th
minute force is resorted to organ
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

The fighters of unions in New York
have fled to Connecticut and hope
there to rally round the flag Of lower
wages, slave labor and child killing.
The courts are helping them in the
Nutmeg state.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

If you have not: found your
proper niche yet, is isn't because
there is no niche for: you.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

The Building Trades Council. re-
Gently organized in Winona, Minn.,
has obtained the affiliation Of all the
unions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

Di,eoverer Of Herbaqueen Remedies
This hot weather puts ono out Of
commission and consequently the
bowels ana system don't just work
right. Why not let HERBAQUEEN
keep them In repair7 They surely do
Tho work. II you are at1ing with any
kind Of disease come to
81 EAST SUPERIOR ST., UpstaizA
-Oonsula&don and Advice FREQ.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

Many a holy. show is not q
comed d., IS:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-19

Wild oats and grass widows go
we'll together. =. ..@..
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-20

The real city SHOW. Gem
NO DOVER RIGHTS IN
PEDESTAL MARRIAGE

salt Lake. April 19.-Although the
supreme court Of Utah decided several
years ago that a celestial marriage.
which was never afterwards observed.
made Annie +. Hilton the legal widow
Of the late Or. j. Il. Park and entitled
her to the encumbered estate of the
decedent, it was adjudged today in
another suit that Mrs. Hilton had no
dover rights in property sold by DR..
Park without her signature prior TO
his death. such rights. the court held.
were forfeited when Mrs. Hilton was
married To- Hilton and lived as his
wife during Parks lifetime.
The celestial marriage" took place
I'm 1872 when Mrs. Hilton. then Annie
Armitagt. a young convert to the
Mormon church. was thought To be on
her deathbed. To escape the misfor-
tune of living unattached in the future
life, she was sealed by the rites of the
church TO Or. Park The girl rcco,-
cred. but the marriage rite seems to-
have been forgotten DIR. Park con-
tinued TO live as a bachelor and his
celestial bride. as Mrs. William Hill
ton, raised "a family OF ten children.
The real city show. Gem
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-20
TO MEET
IN BOSTON


The National Educational %associa-
ton which comprises among it's
mcmbers the foremost educators of
the country viii meet this year from
july 2 To- b. In boston, and the rail-
roads have already announced worry
low rates from all sections Of the
country. From Chicago 10 Boston.
one fare for the round tiip will be
allowed BIZ the Grand TRUNK lines. The
western aud southwestern lines wiz.
likely charge % rnte OF one and "A half
rare for tie round trip Sew MoXieo
mas u representative ON the dirrc-
toiate ol the tssoeintiou. prof Jamos
~ clarke of Santa re, the present
territorial superintendent of public In
straetion
The secretary of the association has
'iesued the following
Ihe lpCal executive committee viii
he organized very soon. when active
measures VIII De taken To provide for
AN the needs of the conventions It
has already bccn determined that
, otlcN square VIII nc the confer OF
convention activities ns Ia 1903 Tho
National Council viii begin IT'S ses-
siuns ON saturday. JulN ga. tducN-
tional SUNDAY. july 81. VIII ho obsor,-
vd ht tho churches of Boston aud sur
rounding cities
Tho FIRST general session viii ho
held in the stadium of Harvard uni
VersitN on the afternoon of Monday,
july an President Iatt has con-
scented to deliver tho principal address
un thtt occasion The department
meetings VIII al be held during the
l~orcnoons of july 9th to Sth Inclusive
in the various churches about copies
spnure ~ iu the new buildings of
tht Harvard medical school ANA tht
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-20
GRAND SIRE OF THE
ODD FELLOWS TO
VISIT CITY
For First Time in History of
Local Lodge Head of Order
IN World VIII Honor. AIbu-
QuerQue By Presence,

Grand Secretary y. +. stevens of
the Grand Lodge Of odd Fellows of
New Mexico yesterday received a
telegram from W. L. K~uykendall,
grand sire OF the order, stating that
he viii be in Albuquerque on April
26, the ninety-first anniversary of the
founding of the fraternity. Mr..
Kuykendall is now attending the
Grand Lodge meet of the Arizona
odd Fellows at Phoenix and viii go
from there to El Paso where he will
make a visit before arriving here.
1t is expected that all the grand
officers in the territory will come
here to meet Mr., Kuykendall and an
elaborate and fitting reception Will
De arranged for the distinguished Wis
itor. This is the first time since the
founding OF the order in New Mexico
that a grand sire has ever visited the
jurisdiction and it is an honor which
is greatly appreciated.
The odd Fellows organization has
twelve foreign Jurisdictions and num-
bers all told in the world over two
members. Mr.. KuYkendall is
thus one Of the most prominent Off
GERS of a fraternal society in the