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The Falls City tribune., 1910-05-06

For Rent-Eacuum Cleaner, with
or without operator. Phone 20S or
426. 17-tf.
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representatives Of the


lists and to representatives Of the
working class.
Failing to secure the establishment
in actual practice, Of this principle, he
succeeded in compelling the United
States courts to proclaim from the
housetops their new principle Of law
that there is one law for the capital.
lists and their represent atives and an.
other law for the workers and their
champions.
So the fine and prison term meted
out to Warren is indirectly fin.
and prison term measured 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 Com.
pers, Morrison and Mitchell, heads Of
the American Federation OF Labor, be-.
cause they exercised their rights as
free men in the Buck stove contro.
versy.
it is freely predicted that this will
be done.
WAKE UP, MR.. WORKER, GET
OUT YOUR THINKING CAP.
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Pitiful Plight of Unfortunates who
Revolted Against Tyranny
of the..Coa1 Barons.
Suffering of Women and Children in Irwin Field
Beggar DescriptionLiving in Tents with
Frozen Ground for Carpet and Hard
Wooden Bunks for Beds.

Plt.sburS. Pa. Dec. 14.-Have you
ever camped in bleak and barren
hillside in the frosty month Of De.
cember with nothing to protect you
from the biting winds but a fiimsy
tent, with the frozen ground for 4
carpet. and a hard wooden bunk for
a bed? Can YOU imagine more
cruel punishment to infiict upon the
most despised criminal upon earth
AND yet this is exactly what thousands
of people in the Irwin. n.GreensDurg
strike district are comne11ed to do,
and they are not criminals either, bu:
upright and honest. lava biding peo.
Pile. The conditions which confront
these poor mortals simply Deggar de.
scription. no mind can picture nor
pen accurately describe the situation.
And what have these people done to
oe thus punished? Is it a crime to ce
volt against merciless oppression, to
prefer death by cold and starvation
rather than a miserable existence iii
abject slavery. If it is then these
people Should be punished Just like
other criminals, but we know OF no
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the facts which he told me out of his
own lifelong knowledge of the
courts of this country.
He nolI me That the Supreme
Court OF New York state was rotten
with corruption
He told me that on one occasion
|wnen he was representing the New
York Central railroad in an import
ant suit and went to one of the high
officials OF the road to consult with
him about the case, the official took
from his desk a typewriter list OF the
judges of the Supreme Court OF New
York state and marked a number. OF
the names with crosses and handed
1t TO Dill with the remark: you may
bring snit in any of those districts;
those are our Judges He also told
me that three of four days after it
was made known that he had been
to the bench in New Jersey
one OF his most intimate friends, a
well known lawyer, came to him with
the proposition that Judge Dill's firm
in New York city accept retainer
from MIR. r. II. Hartman of $4,000
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ROBBERY EITHER WAY.

We hear so many people say the
rich accumulated their wealth by the
use of good judgement and by being
endowed with Better brain power than
the average man. We will grant this
and still say it is wrong for the strong
to Cypress the weak. whether he uses
his mental strength. physical strength
or financial strength.
If one uses physical strength brute
force lead pipe or sand bag to rob
man Of his earnings. it would be
called robbery. But should YOU use
your superior mental power and take
advantage of his ignorance and pow
erty to rob MIN OF his earnings that
would he called business. Now what
difference does ii make to the man
robbed whether you use your superior
brains and knowledge or whether You
use your superior physical strength
He is robbed just the sam
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THE STEEL TRUST
PENSION FARCE
Employee Must Have Served rs Years in "a He'll
with the Lid OFF, to Get the Pension
List and be Over 60 Years of Age.

set forth in the book of r.tlcs By the
following illustrations
"An empioyc who has been - yrs.
in the service, and who as received
an average monthly pay of $50. will
receive u pension allowance Of 20 per
cent of $50, or $15 per MONTH"
That sounds very nice: but where
can you find a workingman who can
work for twenty years in "a hell with
the Id off, as someone pictured th2
plants of the steel trust very correct
~" Or where can you find a man
who. after twenty years of work in
that hell will reach the age Of sixty
or seventy? This whole philanthropic
business is a well calculated trick. 1T
is nothing but another step to COM
plete the victory the steel trust
gained over organized labor. Theirs
are no more labor organizations to
speak of among the employees Of the
trust. To enslave the men now work
ing tor the United States Steel Cor
poration completely. is the purpose OF
this old age pension scheme as we'll
as of al; former 'philanthrOpic' meas
ures adopted by the trust We only
remind Of the profit-sharing scheme
established some time ago. The OBJ
iect is to head oft all future effoffrts
as to organizing the men working foT
! the steel trust by holding out all kinds
| of beneficiary featres which cost the
steel barors nothing and have 1T
value whatever for the workers. Ihs
| holding out of such beneficiary feat
ures are calculated to indce the 2ooi
/ dpes OF workers to hold out as IONS
as they can in that 'hell with the liz
off, in the expectation that they VII
get something in the end OF thel
term of slavery by the grace OF thel
4 exploitcrs And e-en if one or th'
other does mold out that length o
time the amount of the pension III
: will receive the exploiters have too
from him manifold.
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Cincinnati, O., Dec. 1.-the United
States Steel Corporation. commonly
known as the steel trust which every
year cripp,es and kills thousands of
workingnlen just to satisfy it's insane
desire for profit. is again making IN
philan .lropy. With the first day of
January a system of old age pensions
will be inaugurated along the follow
ing lines:
The rules of the United States Steel
and Carnegie Pension Fund. which
will apply to employees Of the corpora
ton, establish three different lines OF
pensions. They are:
First. pensions by compulsory re-
tirement granted to employees OF ~
wears service or longer and who nave
reached the age of 20 years for men
and 60 years for women.
Second. pensions by retirement. at
request. granted employees VINO nave
been 20 years or longer in the service
and have reached the age OF 90 years
| for men and 50 years for women.
Third pensions for permanent IN
capacity through no fault OF their own
The Management sets forth ina
the new pension system has no con
,ection whatever with tie Voiunta'
accident relief plan. which was p'
into oDcration oy the corporation iae
Max b1t is entirely new. an eNpai'
sion OF the lines first laid down oS
Mr.. Carnegie.
/ II &c intended to insist that empl'E
as at the age Of 20 years shan d.
forced to retire on pension pro'iu''e
they have been in the employ OF an
of the plants comprising the otee
. C,ornoration for 20 years. Inc 0'ee
cornoratior being Itself far from
; wears old. it is specially stated D.
, the nension fund management ''''
, tho rules apply to work'nSmeh va
, have been for 20 years emploSeu y
:. any of the plants taken over oE -
. corporation at it's inception or s'he'
The pension will not exceed 'i'
, month. nor be less thah 81
+ month. The system of payment
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per year for five years and they neec
not do any work
Sick of the Came
Judge Dill said to me that he had
Withdrawn from corporation practice
because he had made more money than
he knew how to spend and because he
was sick of the game of corruption
His answer to this legal friend was
Go back to Mr.. Hartman and make
him this reply-you are fisherman
and You will understand it-a tat
trout does not rise 70 fly'
II have no words with which to ex.
press my contempt for the men who
today sit in the seats O. authority
and pervert the law ard the Constitu.
ton to the ends of greed ana tyranny,
nor have l. words with which to ex
press my admiration 1or the heroic
lover of liberty who takes his place
III felon's cell because OF his efforts
tc open. the eyes OF the people to
their slavery.
II cannot imaginc a higher fate that
could befall any man than to 20 to
prison as Fred Warren goes. followed
by the love and admiration of mill.
ions OF devoted working men and
women. and bearing in his heart the
hopes OF t!:e future of this American
republic
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THE HOT DINNER BUCKET

The Brown Food Warming Co are
supplying a long felt want to the wage
earners who live a distance from thei:
work and have heretofore been com.
PEELED to eat cold dime They
have placed on the market d food
warming dinner bucket which in 4
few minutes will give them a good
worm meal. 1t certainly appeals to
us on these cold days. See their az
in this issue.
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WARREN'S
C r / M E :?
Wage Farmers of Country
Have You Figured
Out Result?
You Are vitality Interested
in it for it Hits at all
Workingmen---A. F. of
L. Officers will Follow
Editor to Jail in Janurry

workers of the country! Have VOL
gotten off by yourselves and anaIy
sed the sentence passed on Fred o
Warren. the fighting editor Of tho
Appeal to Reason?''
If you have not yet given though.
to it, DO IT NOW.
It means much to you if you ar.
a worker, one compelled to earn his
daily bread and that for his family
by the toll Of his hands .cr brain..
There is terrific Importance in
that sentence handed out to the mill.
tant little man Of Girard. No matter
what your politics or whether you
belong to Iabd dr union or not, you
are vita'Iy Interested in tha. $500
fine and six-moath sentence handed
cut TO Warren, sFoR IT HITS AT
You-'F YOU fRE a WORKING.
MAN.
Warren was champion of the work.
'ngman. In his paper he espoused
the cause OF labor as against the ex-
pioitations of capital and in pursuing
this policy he cltampioned the cause
Of Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone,
miner officials, whom the political
tools Of the mineowners OF Colorado
and Idaho were trying to send to tho
scaHoId.
The United States. government
'csalized 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 Kentucky. He
was a refugee, hiding in Indiana on
that account.
Let US see,'' said Warren, ''if there
is one law for the rich and one for
Of state and another for the heads
of a workingman's orsanization."
So on his letter heads he caused
to be printed the offer of reward OF
$1,000 for the. kidnapping Of Taylor
from Indiana back into the state
where Gobei was shot from ambush
! For this he was arrested and tried
convicted and sentenced
Just pricr to the case going to the
| United States court Of Appeals War
ren's counsel assured him that his
sentence coculd be reversed on tcchni
cal legal grounds. But Warren is moi
made of the stuff that tries to Secure
it's purposes by means Of evasion and
! hair-spIitt,ngs. Warren fights straight
| from the shoulder.
! He demanded reversal Of the de
cision on the ground that it was un
4 warranted in legal principle. He de
manded reversal of the decision r
order to establish the principle thai
the same law applies to riei, anc
poor, to Representatives of the capital
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ORCHARD FOREMAN IN PEN,

Harry Orchard. the clossal Grim
inal who tried to hang Meyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone. is now a fore
man IN the shoe department of the
Boise. Idaho. penitentiary- The for
meT FlnKerton is entirely forgotten
and despised by even the inmates of
the pen,A but outside influences Sc
cured him an easy berth. wnich is
somewhat different from breaking
strikes and blowing up mines.
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Upton Sinclair Exposes the Courts
as lmplacable Foe to Labor
at2Warren Meeting
Says Fred Warren Goes to Jail Because His Able
Defense. .ssSofssthe Wage Farmers Who Pro-
duce saH the Wealth and Receive
None Of the Benefits of Toll

Wilmington Del, Dec. l4.-At =
meeting held here last night to pro.
toat against the sending OF Fred d.
Warren to Jail an immense crowd Of
Socialists and their friends listened to
al exposition of the Warren case By
Upton Sinclair, the author, who w:e
the principal speaker.
SincI.Iir's speech follows in part:
Since the decision was announced
! Aarr gwen good deal OF my time
trying TO bring the facts to the at.
t"ntlon OF the public. | wrote cour-
Ioo"o and respectful letters to the
editors of practically all the news
papers in New York concerning the
'a'o. None of those letters were pub.
Iiahrd, 50 far. not. one line about
III" Warren case has appeared in any
metropolitan newspaper-except, OF
course, the Socialist paper, The Daily
CaIl Needless to say, of course yerv
little ncWs about the case has been
sent ont by the Associated Press
NNuH" political and financial items
ave nov censored in the office OF Mr..
j" F'"rpont Morgan. Also. needless
!" say none have been sent out by
inc hearst newspaper syndicate
Noich has abandoned the attitude OF
'"'''liani and is engaged in diligent.
~ Importing President Taft.
y am = careful reader of the New
'"'N newspapers. and 1 believe that
'h"r' must recently have been a def.
NJ" dGr"emcnt among the milliOnares
"n' own these newspapers and use
'"'h i"r purposes of their own. to
'Aji@N" from their columns all men.
u'N o. tn" progress OF Sociails,ic SEN
hAent III this country.
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THE RED
CROSS SEAL.
Picture Films PORTRAY In.
teresting Drama in
the Great Fight.

Moving picture :heaters have been
enlisted in the army of crusaders
hsntins tuberculosis by selling Red
Cross Christmas Seals, and on Decem-
Der 10th in all parts of the united
States a film entitled The Red Cross
Seal will be exhibited for the first
time. according to an announcement
Of the National Association for the
Study and prevention of tuberculosis.
The picture drama has been pro-
duced by the Edison manufacturing
National Association for the Study
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ANNUAL ELECTION
OF THE MINERS
National and District Officers Took Place Tues
day---Result will not be Officially Declared
Until Next Month---Other News.

AL the local unions in the Kama
wha district voted for District as well
as International officers on Tuesday
night. The result will not be de-
clarcd IN the district election until
the Annual Convention meets in this
city on til 10th Of next month. The
result of the International will be de.
clared later in the month when the
convention meets in Columbus.
The results will be known in a few
days IN majority of cases and where
there is not 4 very close race which
will take an official count to decide.
The District Executive Board con-
vcncd in the District office on Friday
of last week and disposed Of numbe :
OF important matters At this meetin 3
as at all previous meetings OF the
Board. the best of feeling prevailed.
Organizer Littlejohn and Boaru
Member Cairnes returned from trip
to Kentucky last week. Prospects
! of organizing the miners in the non
union fields of Kentucky are getting
brighter every day.
! See or special offer on page foul
olso copon on page three. Get busy
and send in a few subs. We would
like to get something in our Xmas
stocking besides wind-which gets
in through the holes.
The miners of Black Cat will be
organized this week. Already twenty
five names have been secured. anC
initiation fee has been put up. Thi;
promises to be one of the best loCa
unions in the District
i Organizers GARY Littlejohn ant
Toney .Ionese. held one OF the bes
meetings at Boomer, ON Sunday Dec
einber 4th, that has ever been held i
that place. Flfty-four men were re
: instated at this meeting.
Ii is to be hoped that the Putne.
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law they have violated, aad hence so.
clety owes them some little considera.
tion, at least an opportunity to live
as others in this richly blessed land
of ours live. The stories of life in
the mines as told by some OF the
strikers before the revolt took place.
a life which some OF them have en-
dured for 20 years or more reads
more like stories of ancient and bar.
baric slavery days than a page from
tne book OF our present day civiiiza-
tion. And slaves ;hcy certainly have
been. But the shacklcs arc broken
and henceforth they are determined
to 1.-Two as free men. They have firmly
resolved never to go back TO work
under the old conditions; they have
suffered much but will grimly face
even greater hardships and privation
rather than surrender. Men, women
and children are without shoes and
even stockings to wear, many are
otherwise scantily clad. One little
fellow OF about years of age was
picked up barefooted out or tho deep
snow in one of the camps by member
of the relief committee and his I'M.
mediate wants supplied
Everything possible is being done
by the committee in charge to sup
ply the wants of the most destitute,
but it is inevitable that among such
large number of needy people SONG
will be overlooked. Relief in the
shape Of clothing and money Is com
ing in fairly satisfactory to the com.
mittec, but more is needed, particular.
~ shoes and stockings of all sizes and
for both sexes. While a large mum.
ber of strikers have left the district
there are still about 5000 people to
be cared for. This strike is not lost
by any means, statements to the co1l
trary notwithstanding. The claim OF
the operators that the output is over
80 per cent. Of the normal is greatly
exaggerated, and made with the speci.
hc purpose Of discoura gins the strik:
ers. Their statement that the number
of men employed is nearly 5000 is
also overdrawn by more than one.
half. and even if correct makes the
claim regarding the output appear RI
diculous as the number is less than
IGll VI luOSe SllDloycu
conditions before the strike. The
truth OF the matter. according to mem
bers Of the committee on Policy is
that not more than 1000 men are
working as against 10000 before the
Strike occurred. The actual output
is less than one-fifth of normal at
cost Of 50 per cent. above normal
Neither is it true that the non-union
men employed are satisfied with the
conditions under which they are work
ing. Hundreds OF applications nave
been received for membership in the
Union by men who express their viii
lingneSs to come out. All are held in
abeyance as it is impossible TO care
for more than the number being pro-
vided for now.
1t is true that most of the State
Con bulary and Deputies have been
witndTa wn, and this only emphasizes
except to incite riot by their dirty i'll
suits even to the women OF the strih-
ers. That the Mining and 1mmgra
/ tion laws are being fla aSrantly vioated
is also charged and just as soon as
! sufficient evidence is secured it will
/ be laid before the Government Off
I ciais
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Patronizc our advertisers and kclD
your cause grow. Tell them you saw
their ad in the Argus.
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See our special offer on page -four
Get up club at once. We want =
square meal on Xmas day.
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Lest you forget The union Label
is also one of our weapons to aid
the coming nation.
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up boys, what is wrong at Putncy.
The Local Unions of District No
splendid effort they are making tu
collect the assessment levied by the
International Or sanization.
The organization Is in better shape
now than it has been for number
of months. The membership is in
crcasing right along
Secretary Morris took up several
grievances at the Hernshaw mine tn,
first OF the week The Hernsila"
men are coming to the front
Organizer Campbell mas been some
what under the weather for the pas;
few days. bat keeps moving about.
The stork visited the nome Of Presi
daughter.
Organizer Hastings has held sew
ieral important meetings in the uppel
end of the field this week
Vice President Lanilam held a sue
cessful meeting last week on BrIa1
Creek.
1t has been rumored that the Gov
ernor is going to give the Cabin Creei
guard Gscommissions as Railroad polio,
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more interest in the organization
than they have in the past. Wake
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Schnslle & Co.. pure and wholesome
union made bread
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judicial Rottcnness.

'"h'' o know intimately the la 9
.'.'''5 i' pjil who was legal au.
.''. '..'.-D." work on corporation is
Pc VI "cok i'll every law school in
....- 'onntr' He was also one OF the
'"<"h highest paid corpora ton
.'a :" the country and later he
...'- 70 member OF the Court of APP.
'~ w. the state OF New .Ie.TrseT.
-. Is dead now. and so | presume
'.' 'n u liberty to Tell some OF
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Do your holiday shopping witch our
advertisers.
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sitting on the Lid.

II IS the policy OF our ruling ciuss.
~ sit tight on the lid of social
''7''"i'N'. W" have elected PrcSi.
''" "n" IS especially adapted to the
'''t"t'"h OF sitting on ;ne lid. He
''' '"'td it ior several years in the
''UIlHino Islands. | was talking the
''''' day with Boston manufacturer
W." spent several years in the Philii-
''".' ANA devoted a good deal of his
'.'''' ~ attempting to bring Justice
'''' unhappy people. The T'ilipi-
"' ''N' phrase by which the de-
1eIl'" their eminent Ex-Governor ou,
''T'''l.t' William II. Taft-they
,."'N "i his death bearing smile.
'."H Warren goes to Jail because
Ills defense OF the wage earners
VIZ '''N country. the men who produce
'..' Wealth and do not get it. The
N"i'n is struck at him is 4
'"" ~ EVERY such man and women
In The country.
we must a2itate and continue TO
"~'''i" nn,il every such man and
"'r"0 IN the country has been ma
'' 'HI't-tand it. If there is "A person
d" 1|7 audience who is not a sub
'''F 70 the Appeal to Reason, lei
- upon him that he is missin.
'' In" most dramatic and sig
'5'.'"' oanpaisns in American his
-w..
''' American l,&ople 10 not realizc
.' ""idhs 10 which our judiciar,
SUNK nor the low personal char
y" iA" men who occupy judicia
.'-.r.,u-
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Ii is to be hoped that the Putnev
miners viii become active and take
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Continued on page fourD
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1t has been rumored that the Gov
ernor is going to give the Cabin Creek
guard rGscommissions as Railroad police
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Vice President Lanham held SUI
cessful meeting last week on Br1a
Creek
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per year for five years and they need
not do any work
Sick of the Game
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Organizer Hastings has held seN
eral important meetings in the uppe
END of the field this week