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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
NEW CASTLE SOCIALIST
SEDITIOUS LIBEL TRIAL ON

New Castle, Pa, June 13.--The trial
of G. II. McCarty, f. NJ. Hartman,
Charles McKeever and William White,
charged with being guilty of seditious
court room was jammed with workers,
anxious to hear the development of the
valiantly for the workers through the
columns of Solidarity and the Free
Press.
The defendants were represented by
attorneys Charles Mehard, George Win
gartner Of New Castle, and John Marion
of Pittsburg.
The prosecution was represented by
District Attorney Thomas Hickey, assist.
ed by James Gardner, city attorney, with
the corporation attorney Iounging in the
background.
Attorney Mehard made a motion at
the opening of the trial for the quashing
of the indictment. He made his motion
firmly, taking up many technical reasons
for the 'quashing of the Indictment. He
argued that the articles on which the
indictment was based were not an affense
against either common law or statute law.
There was no malice implied in them, he
argued. He also contended that a per
son has the right to say anything he
will, being responsible for actual dam
age.
Mehard reviewed the strike in the tin
mills, pointing out the lawlessness on the
part of the steel corporation. He made
a fine argument in defense of the work
ers ORIGINATING into one big union and
voting to abolish tyranny
District Attorney Gardner answered
Mehard by citing number of old Eng
lish decisions in support of his conten-
tion that common law was violated, and
said that if the defendants don t like
the laws of this country they should get
out of it.
At the conclusion of Gardner 8 argu-
| ment Judge Porter overru1ed -Mehard s
request that the Indictment be quashed,
| and the court proceeded to draw the jury
| for the trial.
If convicted the defendants face long
terms in prison. The lackeys of the steel
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
Organize Girls and arc Arrested

Because Mrs. Glendower Evans and
Miss Mabel Gillespie, tive women organ
izcrs attempted to anionize tie girl en-
ployes of the Gillette Safety Razor Com.
pany of Boston, last week they were ar
rested and charged with the terrible
crime of distributing hand bills without
u permit
Large meetings were held near the fac
tory entrance, mt which there was much
enthusiasm displayed when the two or
ganizers, assisted by Misses Pauline New
man and Rose Schneiderman, prominent
in the New York Shirt Waist Makers
strike, told the girl employees what they
should do in order to better their condi.
tions.
1t was evident that tins enthusiasm on
the part of their employees was not
agreeable to the proprietors, and imme-
diate steps were taken to break up the
meeting, and police interference resulted
in the arrest of the two organizers
A good organization has been formed
as a result of the agitation conducted by
the organizers.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
OUR ROYAL HERITAGE.
(By Rev. Charles Stelzle.)

Every man is unique. He cannot give
away his personality, nor exchange it for
another s. He may influence others by
always remain his own Indeed, in, the
very exercise of this power he strength
ems and more firmly fixes it. So true
has this been in the lives of men that
the mere mentioning of the names of
well-known individuals suggests certain
peculiar personal characteristics. Caesar,
Napoleon, Bismarck, Stonewall Jackson,
Roosevelt, Bryan, remind us not~so much
of what they have done as of what they
were and are.
What man is, therefore, is of more
Importance than what he has accomplish.
ed. 1t is this by which he will be long
est remembered. This applies not only
to the great of the world but to those
who walk in the humber places of life.
Conduct is important, but character is
more important. For what man is will
determine what he will do
We cannot get away from this great
fact-that every man stands absolutely
alone, just though he were the only
man in all the world. While we may
think Gen masse,'' and work in multi
tudes, and pray by regiments, and sing
in battalions, and trade by corporations,
nevertheless, there are times when the in
dividual stands out alone and when his
self hood asesrts it's existence.
This fact brings tremendous RESPONSE
bilities, but it also has its compensations.
The greatest thing in the world is a man.
Not crowd of men, but just man. Made
in the image of God, with His attributes,
with His spirit tbreathed life and power,
he may gaze at the mountains and feel
that he is greater than they, He may
look out upon the seas and say: ct am
your MASTER
Because of this we may take courage.
The thought of it will "brace up'' that
chap who is down in the dumps. It will
straighten up the back of the fellow who
has been a drudge for so long that he
has forgotten that he is ga son of the
King with all the royal heritage Of his
Father.
Has somebody deprived him of his
rights' Then by all the powers of his
Fathers kingdom, let him stand up
straight as a real man, and win back
that which is his by virtue of his rela-
tionship to the Creator of all, never for
getting, however, that "man doth not
live by bread alone, but by every word
that passeth out of the mouth of the
Lord''
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
UNION AND
OPEN SHOP
One Protects and Uplfts, While
the Other Degrades Home

Persons who are opposed to the union
shop because it interferes with individ-
ual liberty either forget that there is no
such thing as individual liberty or they
have never given sufficient thought to the
subject to reason out this fact. Nation
al, state and municipal law is an inter-
ference with what is called individual
liberty Individual liberty is anarchy
under another name.
The union shop says to the men whose
standard of life is low and whose envi-
ronment is degrading and who have no
home or family ideals and responsible
family ties shall not be dragged down
to the level of the irresponsible and shift
less.
The non-union shop which is termed
the open shop is desired by some en-
ployers because the non-unionist can be
used to tear down the living and moral
standard of the better class of workers.
In the social life the handsome streets,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16

Jammer Kids, walked out of his pri-
vate office with his dignifed head tilted
towards his left shoulder, and received !"
the labor men in the ante-room
'1What is it you wish, gentlemen ~
mechanically said Senator Nelson.
eve came,' - replied Mr.. Roe, who
acted as spokesman, ''to ask your sup
port of the bill providing for an investi-
CATION of the subject of workmen s com
pensation. This is a matter of great i'm
portance To-
HImportant7 This matter is not i'm
portant at all, - almost screamed the AL
drich puppet. cts only important to
a lot of demagogues and labor agitators,
not only outside of Congress, but inside
This bill,'' yelled Nelson with rage, "is
only scheme to give lot of soft jobs
to labor agitators who
Roe, are you demagogue,' was
Nelson 8 breathless peroration, and the
man who poses as the GO friend of labor
before the workingmen of Minnesota,
then slammed the door of his private
Office as he hurriedly sought its shelter
The labor men looked at each other in
surprise and smiled.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
MIR. DOOLEY ON
CAPITAL AND LABOR

1t was diff rent whin I was young
labor was frindly, or labor was. Cap
ital was like a father to labor, givin it's
board am lodgin S. Nayther intherfer-
ed with tn other. Capital went on cap
italizin' an labor wint on laborin'. In
thin golden days wurrukin , man was
an honest artisan. That 8 what he was
proud to be called. TIL week before
illiction he had his pitcher in th' funny
papers. lie wore square paper cap
an leather apron, an he had his arm
ar round capital-a rosy binivolint oil
guy with a plug hat and eye glasses
They were goin' to the polls together
to vote for simple oil capital. Capital
an labor walked arm in arm instead
ofhavin' both hands free as at prisint
Capital was contint to be capital, an ,
labor was used to bein' labor Capital
comes ar-round an felt the arm iv
labor wanct in awhile an ivry year Mrs
Capital called on Mrs. Labor an con-
graduated her on her score. TIL pride
iv ivry artisan was to wurruk as long
at his task as tn boss cud afford to pay
tn gas bill. In return r his fidelity
he got turkey ivry year. At Christ
mas time, Capital gathered his happy
family round him, an in the prisince
iv th' ladies in the neighborhood give
thin a short Grafton. ''Me brave la ads, -
(Cheers) 81 have made millyun dol
lars. (Sensation.) I attribute this to
me supeeryour skill, aided by We 'er ar
(Sobs.) Ye have done so we'll that de
don t need so many iv US as we did.
cloud and continyour cheerin y Those
iv us who can do two men 8 wurruk will
remain. an if possible, do four. Our
other faithful sarvints can come back in
the spring. he says, IF alive he
says. And the bold artysans tossed their
paper caps in tn air an give three cheers
FIR Capital. They wurruked till OIL age
crept on thin, an thin retired to dive
on tn wish bones and kind wurrds they
had accumulated.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
IJNIONISTS INSULTED
BY SENATOR NELSON
Aldrich's PupPet Loses His Temper When
Asked to Support Bill to Probe Work
mems Compensation.

Washington, u. c., June Ex-senator
v.I.ou of Minnesota, who had gained
considerable uotoriety as shameless
c,,w,jou uf the Morgan Ballinger-Gug.
o.ph,im interests while acting as chair
man of the Hallinger- Pinchot inquiry,
ba, in Il most c"wurdly manner insulted
three legislative representatives of or
.ouizrd labor, simply because they asked
him -u -npport a bill for an investigation
., the subject of workmcn s compensa-
ton
After having received the Endorsement
of President Taft, the Department of
Commerce aud Labor and many members
nj the Il,ue, and Senate, for this meas.
urc, Arthur T.. Holder, representing the
American Federation of Labor; Albert
\ Roe. ri the Brotherhoods of Train
men and locomotive Firemen, and Her
man T. Wills. OF the Brotherhood of Lo-
romo,ivc Engineers, called at the office
Of Senator Nelson, who is a member of
the Coumittr" on judiciary, before whom
the measure is pcndI'g.
Tie Minnesota Senator, who resembles
one of the elderly gentlemen connected
with the rorni" exploits of the " KatZen-
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
What Printers Have Done

The following comment is made by the
Machinists journal on the progress of
the international Typographical Union as
is shown by the wage scale report is.
sued:
"J w. Hays, the secretary treasurer
of the International Typographical Union
has just issued refSSt to the members
of his organization wff;h deals with the
eight-hour day camp; in which they
have been engaged, rh can not fail
to be of interest to every student of trade
unionism, its aims ~aAs objects. The
report shows what printers have
actually accomplished, Shat they have
gained in hours as well dollars and
cents, and ought to act powerful
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
LOCAL NEWS
OF THE MINERS
Membership of District
No. II Rapidly In
creasing

In the absence of President Davis,
Vice President Lanham has been looking
after the affairs Of the District for the
past week, and things were handled in
very commendable way.
President Davis arrived home Monday
evening, and on Tuesday morning went
to Marting for the purpose of taking up
several questions which have BEEN vpend-
there for some time.
Organizer Deck of Illinois, who was
recently operated on at the General hos.
pital, is somewhat improved at this writ
ing.
Vice President Lanham and Organizer
Barry of Michigan had a couple of good
meetings at Burnwell and Greencastle on
Paint Creek the first of this week.
Organizers Hastings and Campbell had
several good, meetings in the upper end
of the District this week.
Fent Clendennin and W. l. Holstine
were callers at the District office this
week.
President Davis has arranged for a
general mass meeting of all the miners
on. Briar Creek, for Sunday, June 26th
Organizer Littlejohn has been some
what under the weather for the past week
but still keeps grinding.
Board Member Cairns left for Pitts,
burg the first of the week to meet a
committee and look after some work re-
ferred to him by the International Ex-
ecutive Board.
President Davis expects to call a meet
ing of the District Executive Board the
first of next week.
The membership of District No II is
growing rapidly, and prne. iically all ques-
tions and disputes have been satisfacto-
rily adjusted.
Secretary Morris is following out the
Roosevelt policy-the stork visited his
home this week and they have a fine
large boy.
Arthur Adkins of Colorado is in West
Virginia trying to run down the agents
who are deceiving men from this state
by taking them to Colorado where the
miners are now on strike. All miners
should be on the lookout for agents who
are trying to get men to go to Colorado
by Misrepresentation. Stay away from
Colorado as there is a strike on at the
present time.
All miners should subscribe for The
Labor Argus.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
SI.00 a Year In Advance

of a union cigar maker was 80 years and
. months, and in 1909 it was 46 years
and II months. The International Typo.
graphical Union can show similar de-
crease i'll the death rate of these diseases.
Both of these organizations stand for the
union shop and sanitary working condi,
tions, with reasonable hours of labor.
This work alone of the two organizations
conveys an eloquent tribute to one result
that has followed the application of union
principles.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
LOCAL NOTES

The all.star Printers base ball team
of this city will go to Huntington Sat-
urday evening on No. 13, where they will
play double header Sunday afternoon
with the Huntington printers.
These two teams met last year at Hun
tington, and the game resulted in the
score of to in favor of Huntington.
The local printers team this year has
been strengthened considerably and ex-
poets to take both games and establishing
the claim to championship.
"Larry'' D. White will handle "high-
balls'' in right field for the home team.
Frank w. Snyder, editor of the Argus,
is in Hot Springs, Va, where he expects
to remain three weeks for the benefit of
his health.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
WISE WORDS OF GREELY.

IT cannot forget that the laboring
class, so-called, must, like any other,
stand up for it's own rights or be content
to see them trampled under foot, and
that the strength given it by organiza-
ton, superinduced upon numbers, is it's
only effectual defense against the else
unchecked tyranny of capital, eager for
profit and reckless of others rights The
power developed by combination may be
abused like any other power, but labor
is helpless and prey without it. .''-Hor-
ace Greeley.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
SENATE PUTS LABOR
UNDER TRUST LAWS
Defeata Hughes Cnendnoat
Against Use of Special Funds
to Prosecute Trade Unions

Washington, d. c., June l5.-The Uni
ted States Senate again proved that it
has morircd the Characterization "House
OF Corporation Lords,' when, by vote of
81 To Ii. l. adopted an amendment of
the Senate committee on Appropriations
striking ont of the sundry civil bill the
House amendment, which provided that
10 money appropriated by this measure
for the prosecution of trusts in violation
Of tie sherman Act shall be expended
Tor suits against labor organizations.
That 'Ec lluuse amendment, which had
been Introduced by Representative
ltughc, OF Now Jersey, was considered
dangerous To the interests is shown not
only by the recommendation of the AL
drIch committee, but also by the strong
amendment hy the foremost Senators of
III" administration machine.
HonD W,rr r;lbd i'll their denunciation
Of the organizations of labor, others
aamne1 unl"uIsm with faint praise, while
only the TWO progressive Senators of Ok
I""ow openly and bravely championed
tue cause OF the millions of organized
"aSr r"rn'I~ Of this country.
What = considered by many as being
the must powerful and eloquent speech
III '"hoi pt organized labor delivered on
The i'm"r 't the Senate, was made in the
''''s" 'i 'ag debate on this amendment
d d
Il" $500 Isl part:
'a' deposition as it comes from the
'''"S' .."~ "n' seek to legalize what is
".A"tI.. II DOGS not seek to legalize
''2'H''. D. merely protects individual
"''"!'.- a'H labor organizations against
l''-''...-..- '"r acts that are not within
''n,,.,. unlawful
Ia'. prosecution of laboring men for
'" 'a.T A" promote their own welfare
'.'' lt -i''.'E Las come down to us from
.'." 30 In 1871, a statute was
I',''t '' 'a' English parliament which
'".....s' .-ilres of the peace to fix
'1" F..-'~ Il .aborers in England and
'..'' rmc for any laboring man to
'-"r wage or better compen-
''''.. 'n.n 'n1t prescribed by the jus
'r'' "' 'aa peace
I.'' s'a'Htc remained in full force
'A" '"f ,nr tour and a half centuries.
".'- ."f for"aled until 1915, and then
' Was repealed because the justices of
.' j"."' myro suspected Of too much
.'..".'' '"'rds the laboring men of
H-a
".r Gore then traced the labor leg
','''.." "' England, showing that the
'.'"".- .' that country had been pro.
..''". .Hom organizing or meeting tc
'.'as coalitions of labor, and that
i'a 80 we're the British labor or
-a'.l.'.a- .e-alized.
'.art in Tx United States tc
horinc iaen for attempting
'...r own condition is simply
'-o darker times. We ought
-....I them. We ought to cast
"s is. In the blaze of the
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16

''Show me a land where the majority
of its law-making body are bankers and
financial magnates; where former cor
poration attorneys sit the bench as
justices of the supreme court, and whose
judiciary is not elected by the people,
and l will show you country where no
popular elgislation is enacted; where
gold is god, and whose national emblem
is the dollar sign. ''-American Eagle
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
GENERAL LABOR NEWS
THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
Denver Job Printers Ask for Increase-Rail-
way Carmen and Western Federation of
Miners to Affiliate With A. F. of l.

DENVER PRINTERS ASK RAISE.
Job printing compositors of Denver
have asked for an increase of 90 per
cent beginning September l. The pres.
ent scale is $22 per week, and employers
say that this is all that they can afford
as job compositors in Kansas City and
Chicago get $40 and $50 per week re.
spectively.
1t is understood that newspaper com.
positors will ask for a similar increase of
20 per cent Compositors on morning
papers now receive $2S6O and those on
evening papers $3.50 week
WILL AFFILIATE WITH A. f. OF L.
Two large bodies have recently decided
to affiliate with the American Federation
of Labor-the Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen and the Western Federation of
Miners. Of the 265. local unions in the
latter body only five voted against the
proposition.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
President Gompers' Book

A handsome volume of 2S7 pages, en-
titled Labor in Europe and America
by Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has Just
been issued by the well known publishing
house of Harper 6 Brothers, New York.
1t is the most complete review of work
ing conditions of the European countries
visited by President Gompers that has
ever been published. The book is writ
ten in his well known scholarly style and
would be n valuable addition to the IL
brary of every workingman and student
of economic conditions at home and
abroad. Mr.. Gompers concludes his book
with these words:
1.-THE old world is not our world. Its
social problems, it's economic philoso-
phies, its current political questions are
not linked up with America. All the peo.
pie of the globe may be on the broad
highway to social justice, peace among
men of all tongues and universal brother
hood, but all the nations and governments
have not reached the same points on the
road. In the procession, America is
first. -
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
GIRL LEADS STRIKE.

Louisville, Ky. : Lulu Spaulding, u
frail girl of 81, is leading the strike of
$500 employees of the American Tobac
co Company here. The girl has worked
twelve years in the stemmery of the to-
bacco trust and has learned the lesson of
solidarity from bitter experience.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16

Texas unionists demand law requir-
ing all railroads in the state that con-
troll or operate 500 miles or more to
erect suitable hospitals and maintain the
same for the benefit of their employees
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
LABOR NOTES.

Three hundred girl shoemakers at
Cleveland struck when they found that
time clock had been installed. They
were out five minutes. Now the clock is
out.
Seattle brewers obtained an increase
of So to 81 per week.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16

Children under sixteen years of age
cannot be employed in New Jersey fac
tories according to the law just passed,
after July, 1911-
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16

trust will leave no stone unturned in an
effort to convict the defendants The de-
fense fund of the local Socialists is com
pletely exhausted.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
HEADS THE LIST

In the past five years the International
Typographical Union has reduced the
working hours of its members to a great.
er extent than any other labor organiza-
ton in the world.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16

The label question is now in order.
Are you discussing it with your fellow
worker? How much of your shopping
is being done in union stores9 What
per cent Of your purchases nre union
made goodsS Whatever the part is that
is an index as to your belief in the cause
of union labor. Union labor now earns
enough money. If it was all spent in
the purchase of label goods it would
unionize many shops that are now non
union. This would raise the standard of
living in many cities and aid the cause
of every lover of good wages and good
conditions while doing their work. Insist
on the label.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16

The donation of one day S pay for the
establishment of a national homo is be.
ing promptly paid by the membership of
the Freshmen Union throughout the
United States and Canada, and the home
is now an assured success. 1t is estimat
ed that the funds raised in this manner
during the month of May will be between
$4,000 and 100000. With the nucleus
already established building operations
can commence Immediately.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16
VALUE OF UNION CONDITIONS.

VALUE OF UNION CONDITIONS.
Statistics issued by the Cigar Makers ,
international Union show that in 1888,
52 per cent of the deaths among members
of that organization was due to tuber-
culosis. In 1890 this percentage had
been reduced to 35 per cent, and in 1904
to 24 per cent In 1883 the average life
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-16

Iurprise and smiled,