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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
Labor Briefs.

Great Britain contains 207.51S wom-
en- unionists. -
The Pittsburg Bolt and Screw COM
pany will remove its plant to Gary
Ind.
Members Of the National Window
Glass Workers succeeded in securing
wage advances during the past year
amounting to SO per cent.
Operators of lace machines in Not
tingham earn on the average $3.50
per week. while their assistants aver
age only from $3.50 to So.
In Birmingham. England. bonus Of
FL ga .SGo is given to every motorman
for every three months that he goes
without an avoidable accident
In conformity with an agreement
made a year ago the 10000 street car
men of Chicago now receive % cents
IN hour This makes an increase Of
from 10 to 20 per cent for the Car. men
since 1902 Next year 30 cents an hour
will be the maximum
The Anti-.Iapanese Laundry league
Of San Francisco reports that It Is
greatly encouraged in its efforts by
numerous communications 1t received
from persons who write that they have
ceased Pntronizing ASiatics and have
transferred their patronage to white
lnundrirs.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
Barber Scale In San Francisco.

The San Francisco BARRIERS new
schedule is MS follows: Sixteen dollars
per week and 60 per cent over $23. SIT
per week and 20 per cent over $26.
SIS per week and GO per cent over $2S
or fiat rate of sol per week. Any
day or part of day. Saturdays. Sun
days. holidays and days before holt
days excepted. So and 60 per cent, over
IS Saturdays or any part. 81. and 60
per cent over 81. Saturday and Sun
day mornings or days before holidays
and holiday mornings 81 and GO per
cent over $40. Sunday mornings or
holiday mornings. 81 and 60 per cent
over 81. Wednesday. Saturday and
Sunday mornings $40 and 60 per cent
over S15 Every evening from 5 p. nj.
to p. III and Saturday and Sunday
mornings. $l3 and tD per cent over $40
Every evening from 3 + m. to 8 p. m.
and Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday
mornings. $i1 and 10 per cent over 500.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
Miners Get Advance.

Miners in the southwestern fields.
which include Missouri, Kansas. Ar
kansas and Oklahoma. receive an in
crease Of 5.55 per cent on day work.
dead work and yardage. The miners
also receive an increase of cents a
ton on shooting coal and an increase of
8 cents a ton on long wall work. The
arbitration clause was finally settled
by an agreement to leave all future
differences to w. L. A. Long. mine in
spector of Kansas. A penalization
clause provides that when the opera
tors close mine they shall pay the
men 81 a day each during the time
II is closed. and the miners agree each
to pay the operators SO cents a day
for the time they cause mine to be
closrd. The strike began more than
I'VE months ago.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
To Restrict Immigration.

The government and organized labor
on the one side and leading citizens Of
foreign birth on the other will In the
near future lock horns over an order
recently issued from Washington to
immigrant inspectors to maintain
most rigid examination of all aliens
with view of checking the tide OF
travel to congested cities. like Philadel-
phia and New York. This order has
already resulted in strong protests from
Italian representatives in Philadelphia.
who have visited Washington to pro-
test against the deportation of several
dozen Italian immigrants ordered de-
barred within the last ten days..
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
FOR SHORTER WORKDAY.
American League Says That Working
Time Limit Is Chief Issue.

American League Says That Working
Time Limit Is Chief Issue.
The Eight Hour League of America
has issued a call for cooperation, in
which it says: THE Eight Hour
League Of America desires to call
your attention to the possibilities of
mount issue in the presidential election
OF 1912. No greater question con-
fronts American statesmen than how
to provide opportunity for all who
wish to make an honest living. The
universal eight hour workday is the
most practical solution of the problem.
1t was the opposition of the party in
power to the extension of the eight
hour workday favored by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor that com
PEELED that, Organization to enter the
political arena
THE demand for the eight hour
workday furnishes the basis upon
which all the progressive forces Of the
nation can unite as well as the ground
on which all labor. organized and un-
organized. can combine. 1t is an issue
they thoroughly understand and know.
Its adoption will benefit all business
and improve the condition Of the
working masses by shortening their
hours of labor. raising wages, and
making it less difficult to secure en-
ployment. 1t will enable them to
stand together and present a united
front in opposition to those who are
endeavoring to fasten a system of in
dustrial slavery on the wealth pro-
ducers Of the country"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
LABOR DEPARTMENTS.
Suggestion That They Be Created by
State Governments.


State Governments.
President Wright of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor makes
proposal which is worthy of sympa-
thctic consideration. says the Chicago
Tribune. He points out that if de-
partment of labor were created in the
state government it would coordinate
the work done now by several boards
and commissions. doing the work bet
ter and at considerable saving because
Of this coordination. The factory in
spection. the free employment agen-
cies and the bureau of labor statistics
are among these. Mr.. Wright also
maintains that much Of the statistical
work on accidents on railroads and
traction lines now done under the SUI
pervislon Of the railroad and ware
house commission could better be car
ried on by a labor department. which
would make systematic report and
enable uniform comparison among all
forms of industrial accidents.
There is probably good deal Of
waste through the lack of this co-or-
dination, which is inevitable where
new conditions developing from time
to time are met piecemeal by bureaus
or commissions. We are now in Illi-
nois awakening to the interests and
needs Of the industrial worker and the
vital Importance to the commonwealth
of conserving these interests and meet
ing these needs. Illinois, once an al
most exclusively agricultural commu-
nifty, has now a large Industrial popu-
lation, whose claims are substantial.
The widespread awakening to these
has reached us. and our laws and in
situations will be modified and extend
ed to cover adequately the new field.
Sanitation. housing, factory regulation.
employ ment. mine protection, accident
insurance and other phases of the in
dustrial problem should be dealt with
not at haphazard or under the pres
sure of political influence. but broadly
and scientifically as part of our nor
NAL machinery of government.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
UNION LABELS ORIGIN.
Device of Trade Unionism First Used
by Carpenters.

Dev1Ce OF 1FaQe OnionlSm FIRST OScd
by Carpenters.
We are indebted to the Johns Hop
kins Press for copy Of a monograph
on 1.-The Trade Union Label" by DR..
Ernest II. Spedden. in which he traces
it's origin. says the New York Times.
The device was first generally used in
1875 as result of competition in San
Francisco between Chinese and white
cigarmakers. DR.. Spedden is inform
ed by Miss Lucille Eaves of the Uni
versity of Nebraska that in 1860 the
Carpenters Eight Hour league of San
Francisco had used stamp on prod
ucts of planning mills in which the
eight hour rule obtained. and he thinks
possibly the cigarmakers profited by
the example Of the carpenters.
In testimony given before the con-
gressional committee of 1867 the
device was referred to by one of the
union witnesses as STAMP" but the
term union LABEL was soon in vogue.
and by 1878 fifty cigar manufacturers
were using it in concerted effort to
drive out the cheap Chinese labor.
The Cigarmakers' Official Journal Of
January. 1879 records that the label
had then come into use by at least one
eastern manufacturer.
From its employment in San Fran
cisco the label spread among unions
in many occupations and to the chief
countries Of Europe and Australia.
The attempt to identify the label with
the hall mark of the medieval
guilds has failed, in DR.. Spedden's
opinion The hall marks were merely
certificates of genuineness and had
nothing to do with labor struggles and
boycotts. The union label is distinc-
lively in its origin a device of Ameri-
can trade unioniSm.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
ACCIDENTS IN INDUSTRY.
Responsibility For Injury to Workers
Hard to Place Definitely.

Responsibility For Injury to Workers
Hard to Place Definitely.
In one year 526 men were killed by
accidents of employment in Allegheny
county, Pa, 1915 steel workers, 125 rail-
readers, II miners and 1875 miscellane-
GUS workers. including housesmiths.
carpenters, electric linemen, elevator
men, teamsters and quarrymen. OF
these nearly half were American born,
70 per cent were workmen of skill and
training, and 80 per cent were under
forty years of age.
An analysis of these fatal accidents
according to personal responsibility
showed roughly this result: For 30 per
cent of the accidents no one was re-
sponsible, for 80 per cent the workman
killed or his fellow workmen was re-
sponsible. for 80 per cent the employer
or some one representing him ID a po-
sition of authority was responsible,
and for 10 per cent both employer and
workman were responsible.
While sometimes the workman's
carelessness is eXasperating needless
ness oftener it is ignorance or mat
tention, due to long hours and intensi-
ty of work or recklessness inevitably
developed by trade which requires
daring While sometimes the employ
er's carelessness is deliberate disre-
gard for safety in the construction OF
his plant. oftener it is the human frail-
ty of his agents. the hasty mistaken
orders of foremen or the putting off OF
necessary repairs from day to day so
as not to delay the game-an ordinary
outcome of competition. In short. one
must conclude that these accidents sell
dom can he laid to the direct personal
fault of any one They happen more
or less inevitably in the course Of in
dustry.-Survey.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
Fined For Importing Aliens.

The largest judgment ever entered
by United States court in favor of
the government growing out of pros
ecution for attempting to bring alien
laborers into the country in violation
of law has been reported to the depart
ment Of commerce and labor from Tue
son. Ariz.. where the jury rendered a
verdict of $4,000. This was $1,000.
the penalty fixed by statute. for each
forty-five aliens whom it was attempt
ed to import. The defendant in the
suit was construction company in
Los Angeles.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-07
Socialist Candidates Lose.

The Socialist slate was defeated at
the recent annual election Of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor. All of the
six Socialist candidates for positions
in the organization were beaten over
whelmingly. Opposition to the com
penSation feature of the employers
liability commission. which adjourned
recently without action. is given az
the reason for their defeat
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

(Ga.) Tribune, Oct. 81, 1891. From
there it was reprinted in the Dalton
(Ga.) Citizen, and Mrs. Workman,
now living at Marion, Ind, clipped
it and retained it in her possession
for many years.
Recently Mrs. Workman had it
republished in Marion paper, stat
ing at the time that during the
time she had retained the letter in
her possession without having it
published, or attempting to, she
has had a species of bad luck which
she attributes to her failure to Sc
cure publicity for the letter.
Mrs. Ruby Crutchfeld Of TreZe-
want, Tenn is another woman who
claims that having the letter in her
possession without securing its pub
LEGATION has brought her a varied
lot of misfortunes. She retained it
for three years, then induced the
Greenfield, (Tenn) Times to print
it.
From the revival of the publicity
given the letter by reason of the
actions of Mrs. Workman in Indiana
and Mrs. Crntchfeld in Tennessee
it has spread far and wide, and
continues to each week as before
indicated.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

birth and put her trust in me she
shall be delivered of her child. You
shall hear no more news of me, eX-
cept through the Holy Scriptures,
until the day of judgment. All
goodness and prosperity shall be in
the house where copy of this let
ter shall be found. Finished"
From the hands of the child who
found it the letter is said to have
passed into the possession of a con-
vert to the Christian faith For
some reason possibly because of
the prosecutions to which Christians
were frequently subjected, or from
fear of ridicule-this convert failed
to have the letter published.
He kept it, however, as a sacred
memento of Christ, and as such
passed it on to his eldest son, who
likewise transmitted it, end thus it
came down through many genera
lions, but never was published, the
tradition being that when it finally
was given publicity it had been in
this one family for more than a
thousand years.
During all this period of time,
the story goes, the family suffered
repeated and continuous misfor-
tunes. Discouraged members had
migrated to countries other than
! that which the person who had got,
ten the letter from the child had
lived-Palestine, evidently-and at
last one of them came to America
bringing the fateful letter with him
Mrs. Fannie Workman of Marion
Ind, is more or less familiar with
the history of the letter since il
came to America. The family hav
ing possession of it settled in Vir
ginia, still keeping the fact of the
letter a secret. 1t seems that de
scendants of the Virginia famil!
moved further South, still followed
by misfortune, and finally the las
member, a daughter, approached
her death bed.
I One story is to the effect tina
with the death of this daughter thu
entire family which had for S,
many centuries disobeyed the in
} junction of the letter, and with sucl
dire results, was extinguished. A
any rate-and this is Mrs. Wort
mans understandine-the daueh
} ter, on her death bed, called in
neighbor woman by the name O
Thompson and turned the lette
over to her, relating its history a
it had come down through a thous
} and years or more.
Impressed by the story she ha,
heard from the lips of the dyin
r girl. and by the text of the letteI
!. the Thompson woman immediatel
r began an attempt to have it pub
, EahAd and n annaara2 n, sha poy,,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

parel and vain dressing, for have
ordered it a day of rest. | will
have that day kept holy that your
sins NAV be forgiven you.
You will not break my COM
mandments, but observe and keep
them, they being written by my
hand and spoken from my mouth.
You shall not only 90 to church
yourselves, but also your man-serv-
ant and maid-servant. Observe my
words and learn my command
ments.
You shall finish your work ev-
cry Saturday at 6 o'clock in the
afternoon, at which hour the prepa-
ration for the Sabbath begins. |
advise you to fast five Fridays in
the year beginning on Good Friday
and continuing the Fridays follow
ing in remembrance Of the five
bloody wounds | received for you
and mankind.
You shall love one another and
cause them that are not baptized
to come to church and receive the
holy sacrament - that is to say,
baptism and then the supper of the
Lord, and be made a member there
of, and in so doing l will give you
long life and many blessings. Your
land shall be replenished and bring
forth abundance and will comfort
you in the greatest temptation, and
surely he that doeth to the contra
ry shall be cursed.
Il will also send hardness of the
heart on them, and especially on
hardened and unpenitent unbeliev-
ers. He that hath given to the
poor shall find it profitable. Re-
member to keep holy the Sabbath
day, for the seventh day l have
taken as a resting day to myself.
And he that hath a copy of this
letter, written by my own hand
and spoken from my own mouth
and keepeth it, without publishing
it to others, shall not prosper. but
he that publisheth it to others shall
be blessed by me, and if their sins
be as many as the stars at night
and if they truly believe they shall
be pardoned,. and they that believe
not this writing and my command
ments will have my plaques upon
you, and you will be consumed
with your children, goods, cattle
and all other worldly enjoyment'
that l have given you. Do bu
once think of what l have suffered
for you-if you do. it will be vel
for you in this world and in tn,
, world which is to come.
, whatsoever shall have copy o
+ this letter and keep it in thei
house.. nothing shall hurt them
: neither pestilence. lightning o
: thunder. and if any woman be Il
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13
remarkable Letter Being Printed in
Southwestern Newspapers.

Southwestern Newspapers,
Country papers throughout the
Southwest are printing, usually at
he request of subscribers, what
burports to be a letter written by
Christ. In this letter was an in
JUNCTION that it should be publish
I'D" to the world by whosoever
found it, together with the state
|nent that misfortune and bad luck
would follow the person having
possession of it in the event that it
MAS not given publicity.
There is likewise d promise that
|whosOever may have copy of this
letter in his or her possession will
prosper and be followed by good
fortune. The promise and the pre-
|1iction seem to have had such eff
feet on many persons that the
spread of this letter bids fair to
equal that of the famous chain
prayer" which swept over this
country and England a few years
ago.
A number of persons have sent
copies of the letter to the Post
dispatch with requests that it be
Sted. In many cases the eXpla.
nation has been given that it was
sent the writer by some friend,
while in other instances it is clipped
direct from a newspaper by the
sender.
One of the latest of those to fur
nish copy of it to the Post-Dis-
patch is Mae LaBrant of 1901 Mar
shall street, Little Rock, Ark. She
states that it was sent to her by
Mrs. j. E. Atkins of JOnes5oro, Ark,
last September, and says: Il have
had several disappointments, but
otherwise my life has been very
pleasant since this letter came into
my hands"
According to the history of the
letter as it is variously recorded it
was written by Christ just after his
mGclfixion, signed by Angel Gabriel
100 years after the Savior's birth,
and presumably deposited by him
under stone at the foot Of the
cross.
On this stone appeared the le-
|gend: Blessed is he who shall
turn me over" No one knew what
this inscription meant, or seemed
to have sufficient curiosity to in
vestieate, until the stone was turn
ed over by a child and the letter
which follows, was discovered:
"Whosoever works on the Sabbath
day shall be cured. command
you to 90 to church and keep holy
the Lords day without any mannel
Of work. You shall not idle or mis-
spend your time in bedeckins your
belves in supernuities Of costly ap
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

A man with a painful expression
of countenance. sat on a dry goods
box. Are you ill., some one ask
ed. No" Have you lost any
thing?" Never had anything to
lose" Whats the matter, then?"
I'm sitting on a wasp" Why
don't you get up?" We'll, that was
my first impulse, but l got to think
in that was hurtin' the wasp as
badly as he was hurtin' me and
concluded to sit here a while"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Mrs. B. G. Moss is visiting her
sister Mrs. M. B. Carson in Quincy
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Miss Bernadetta 0'Daniel is in
Kansas City visiting friends
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Mrs. j. L. Lake is visiting rela-
tives in New London and attending
the fair.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

For Rent-4 room house witt
barn.--Mrs. M. A. Pike.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Mrs. W. D. Barnes and children
are the guests of relatives in Bush
nell, Ill.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Mrs. NJ. E. Norman and Miss
Virgie Nolen are visiting in Kansas
City and other points in Kansas.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Come and see me when needing
Furniture Hamilton.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Samuel Scobee and wife of Perry
were the guests Of friends in this
city Monday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

For Sale a room house and 6 lots
$1450.00. NODE GREEN.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Let me show, ggNga 4SSTXtotb sGleaspIs4I asosiM
your carpets . sBS Fq&s 5SOa RelwennuH 1seu
Hamilton. Vshauts2 ESQ
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Mrs E. Mcdowell and Miss Grace
Turner were Quincy visitors We'd
nesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Come and see me when needing
Furniture. Hamilton.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

Let me show ydGUhOwbesiRaeaf" u h9'dT
your carpets andrugse uecaH meYlOi bloc 1850
Hamilton. !siisS60 Di9nAoolo "Sh
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

George Hardesty and wife are cd syEsI
attending the carnival in Hannibal .ssi1q
anu ''i0 A"'- ~ ] Iliw Bil611n9O
Mrs. S. J. Robertshaw andtaaEgR y'foi'109ia
ters Mrs V. M. Reid of Sff9ibiiSeo ash JOSH
and Miss Gertrude were QtfHty 'eRsi! o7'9sls sn'
itors Wednesday. hs' o'l,'o'' ''' O',S
The ladies of the P. ESpeapcistyw1ed nU1 sd
will give a bazaar shortly before sgilQ7a1u1
Christmas -------------------
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

l. L, Lake has been with New
London friends and relatives.
Fred HaW kins and wife left Tues
day for a visit with relatives in
Washington, D. c.
NJ. A. Hornback and wife Of Pal
myra, have been the guests of their
daughter, Mrs. J. c. Hardy.
E. c. Durrett returned Tuesday
night from a visit in Great Fall,
Mont.
Earl ParSon of near Hunnewen
was in the city Wednesday enroute
home from a visit in Sheridan, WyO
A. J. Smith and wife and Mrs.
Robert Dunlap of Hunnewell were
the guests of W. Y. HuebSch and ri
wife Wednesday. ,dr
The Robert E. Lee Chapter will 9VI
meet with Jeanette Vaughn Satur@ y"
dav at 2.9O n m i sdj
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-13

The W. CTU, wifi n mRSe2et ylRsihtBSs sa M,
MIS- Anna CapnseE l9eSSaaaXe S ai Sts2 1oi 5e cd,
hooh ocl' TO- dl 10y adj 20 dunn rs soiwt yIlul