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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-02-12
WOMEN CHARGED WITH
Z FIGHTING BATTLES OF
= LOCKED-OUT HUSBANDS

New Castle, Pa, Feb. 11.-Stanch
women strike sympathizers in New
Castle took a hand in the determined
strike Of tin workers here, when
eleven striking men went \ back to
work last week and twenty-six of
them were summoned to- court.
They were charged with violating
an injunction got out for the protec-
ton of strike breakers that forbids
threatening, intimidating or interior
ing with workers in the mills or from
walking past the mills
Some of the men testified that the
women called them "Scabs," jeered
at them and threw snowballs at
them. The accused women sat in
court and looked as if they were at
tending a concert instead of their own
trials. Smiles were general as big
Tom Manns, one of the returning
mill workers, went on the stand and
testified that they had snowballed
him.
If we have to go to Jail, why we
WILL said one women, and another
added: "Those eleven men did the
worst thing men could do in going
back on the cause.
1T is something that the rest of US
can never forgive. They go back to
be slaves and tools, and 1 am!|not
ashamed to say that 1 did meet them
after that first days work to try 20
persuade them how wrong they
Were."
The cases were continued by Judge
Porter for two weeks. -,~s~
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TRAINMEN OF B. o. ROAD
WON'T GO OUT ON STRIKE

Baltimore; Nd, Feb. 1.-THE pos
sibility of strike of the conduc-
tors and trainmen of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad system in connection
with their fight for increased wages
is so remote that it is not to be con-
sidered at all
With this sweeping statement
Grand Master A. B.. Garretson of the
Order of Railway Conductors, who,
Is here in conference with local off,
GERS of the Baltimore & Ohio en-
ployes preliminary to a conference
on wages with the Baltimore & Ohio
officials, emphasized his contention
that only peaceful methods will be
restored to in order to secure the
increased pay demanded.
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SEATTLE INDUSTRIES ARE I
STILL TIED UP BY STRIKE

Seattle, Feb. lion every side as
one passes along the streets of Seattle
the question is asked: How are the
Switchmen coming out?"
There is no one anxious for a set
Element unless it is just settle
ment. Heretofore there did not ap-
pear to be any way in which outsid-
ers could aid them. They have been
attending to their own business so
strictly that very few would realize
there was a strike of such magni-
tude on were it not for the fact that
transportation of freight east and
west has been tied up for two months.
The SWitchmen meet in daily ses-
sion in the Labor Temple, and those
around the Temple do not know the
status of the case Until the past
few days the Switchmen have been
fully able to support their members
without appealing to outsiders for as
sistance
Appeal for Aid Is Met.
Now that the treasury is becoming
depleted they are turning to their
friends in organized labor for finan-
cial assistance, with the result of
500 from the first appeal.
The manufacturing industries Of
Seattle are feeling the effects of the
strike keenly, but so just do they
consider the demands of the Switch
men they do not complain. The fact
that roads desire to make of a man
a slave to one employer after he has
reached the age of 40 years is one at
which any American with red blood
in his veins would rebel and if all
other demands were granted the pub
lie generally would insist that this
boycott on a man in the prime of life
be removed.
FIGURING Mills on Short Time.
Since the inauguration of the strike
the FIGURING mills Of Seattle have not
been running half time, and the same
is true of other Industries dependent
upon the railroads for their mate
rial. Manufacturers realize more
than ever that the railroads have
them in their power, and would ps
ganization would compel the rail.
roads to come to time.
The following interviews were pub
lished in the Times of last Thursday:
I'VE have been running, about one
third of the time since the strike."
said Samuel Wylde, secretary of the
Novelty Mill Company. Seattle peo-
pie are talking about getting more
factories and mills here. 1t seems to
me that something should be done to
take care of those already in the city.
l know of one big concern that pro-
posed to come to Seattle. It's repre-
sentatives were here few days ago
and, after reviewing the situation,
decided not to locate. Mills and fac
tories are at the mercy Of the North
ern Pacific. The present switchmen's
strike has tied us up completely
The Centennial Mill Company has
been shut down half the time since
the strike. r. c.. Hasson, local man.
ager for the company. said: 1--WE
can't get wheat. The strike has tied
! things up so that we have only been
able to run on half time and there
appears to be no prospect of relief
| in the near future"
The Albers Brothers Milling Com
! pany, which handles barley and GER
calls other than wheat, has been able
| to take care of little more than 25
per cent of it's business since the
strike began nearly two months ago.
Last week was the first entire week
! the mill operated since the first Of
December
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ARE EDUCATING PUBLIC /
. TO GARMENTS GRIEVANCES

Philadelphia, Feb. 11.-The eeduca-
tional campaign planned by the Off
GERS of the Amalgamated Garments
Union to place before the public IN
detail the grievances of the trolley
men in the present dispute with the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
is being vigorously maintained.
Notwithstanding the efforts being
made to secure a conference with tho
officials of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company, through the influ-
:ence of State: Senator James P Nc
Nicholl and United States Senator
Boles Penrose, plans for the forma-
ton of ward organizations are still
being promulgated.
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STRIKE RESULT WAS
A DISAPPOINTMENT
TO SWEDE MASTERS

Stockholm, Feb. lift is nothing
but natural that in a contest of this
magnitude labor should have to sac
rifice some of it's troops on certain
weak points. Taking it as a whole
the Swedish workmen have won
glorious victory" says a labor leader,
referring to the past strike in this
country.
Still the struggle is by no means
over.
There are still 1000 men in the
fight of the original $4,000. But
besides there are now between $4,000
and $4,000 men who are discharged
which is only another word for
'bfacklisted.' These men have actual
ly no chance of ever securing employ
ment in Sweden or any other country
where their language is spoken, as
the employers are quite solidly or
ganized throughout Scandinavia.
So for this reason they have prac-
tically no choice but to emigrate. At
present they are with their families,
being supported by the national or
ganization, but realizing what a bur-
den they are on their brothers and
realizing the black prospects before
them, they are now scattering all
over the world, facing an unknown
destiny.
THE president of the Swedish ma
tional organization of workers states
that support is still urgently needed
and that any and all help would be
exceedingly welcome.
Those that hoped that this gi-
gantic struggle would crush the spirit
of the Swedish. workers and be the
beginning of the end of labor's eff
forts in northern Europe are sorely
disa ppointed."
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GREED PLACES SUICIDES I
. IN GRAVES OF PAUPERS
Continued from Page /.

shelter. The following year-the year
of the panic-the number jumped to
53,741. The effect Of the panic was
shown by the registration in Deem
Der, 1907, and January, February and
March. 1908. Except the month Of
February, when 1O,902 persons were
sheltered, the registration ran more
than 1900 each month.
In the year 1908, 96,934 were cared
for. Last year the number again grew,
the total being 102,421. The present
year promises to be the biggest in the
history Of the lodging house.
6O7 Sheltered in One Night.
From 112 in 1906 the daily average
registration has Increased in three
years to PSI. The biggest day in the
history of the institution was January
IS, 1909, when 6O7 derelicts were
given beds for the night.
The claim that these guests of the
city are the aged Or the lazy is easily
refuted. The average age Of male APP
plicants for relief in 1909 was 40
years; the average for women was Al
years.
Every able-bodied man applying for
relief is expected to pay for it in work
After Il warm breakfast the guest is
taken to the island where he is ex-
pected to work for about three hours
Then he is given lunch on his return
and has the afternoon to himself to
look for work. Those who wish can
work in the woodward in the after
noon, TING pay being IS cents an hour.
1t is worth noting that a different
jc. Oh Off irL
one is permitted bed more than
three times d month.
''Officc of Aching Hearts,
Pitiful are the tales which are told
daily in the office of George w. Meeks,
superintendent Of the bureau of de-
pendent adults. Well might it be call
ed the 'office of aching hearts, for
to it come those who, sick or we'll,
have no place to turn, no bed, no
food
All day long the sorrowful process
sion moves down East 18th street
past Bellevue hospital, to which
so many are forced to appeal, past the:
| mOrgue, to which thousands are taken
, each year on the way to their last
resting place in Potter's Field
In 1904, 32,995 persons applied for
relief at this bureau; in 1909 the num-
| Der reached more than $1,000. The
exact figures are not yet available for
the year, but those for the first nine
! months total 1861 Of this number
2,429 were sent to the almshouse, an
| increase of 1880 per cent over 1904.
Great Increase in Rents.
Inability of husbands to keep pace
with the increased cost of living is
wildly shown by the number of ali
mony and non-support cases handled
| by this bureau. In 1904, GIT cases
were recorded; in 1909 the number
was 1,768, an increase of more than
1854 per cent! In each case the
husband was forced to provide a bond
| for the support of wife or children
| for one Year.
An investigation by the Tenemen:
House Department in 1902 and an
other in 1909 furnishes material for
comparisons. On the East Side, 70,
instance, apartments at 1914 East
Houston street, which in 1902 rented
for 81 to $11.50, now cost $14 to SIS
In the same time rents at 34O-342
East Houston street have advanced
from $12 to SIS. Rear tene-
ments at 213 Sullivan street toda,
rent for $40 to SIS that formerly
brought Sc to $12.
|
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MUST PAY FINE FOR
FRAUDULENT USE OF
TYPOS LITTLE JOKER

Olympia, Feb 1.-The supreme
court has affirmed the conviction In
the King county courts of Jamea
Montgomery of Seattle, who must pay
the penalty for using the label of thu
Allied Printing Trades Council of Sc.
attic without authority.
Montgomery printed some cards for
candidate in the fall election. Of
1908. The cards bore the imprint Of
the Allied Printing Trades Council.
which brought suit.
In the Montgomery case the SUI =
preme court holds that the label was
properly registered and that it can
not be used unless authorized.
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CHIEF IS
COOPERATION ADVOCATE

Brockton, Mass, Feb. 11.-Presi-
dent John F., Tobin of the Boot and
Shoe Workers Union, has sent let
ter to the various unions connected
with the trade, advising them to es-
tablish~ a cooperative store at which
the $1,000 members will be able to
purch base the necessities Of life at far
less prices than they are no wpaying
to local merchants. S ..5. 7. z,
The union leaders believe that. an
attempt is being made to reduce
wages here, and a controversy has
been started with the committee Of
seventeen which is n composed OF
merchants { a a and members Of the Board
~ Trade. .1s7)
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THINK FEDERATION rs
! L UKEWARM IN DEMANDS

Boston, Mass, Feb. 1.-THE New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail
road district lodge of nlachinists at
its quarterly convention instructed its
delegates to the New Haven Federated
Council of Shop and Mechanical
Trades to urge that body to push
more energetically the recent de-
mands of the men of all the trades
in the shops of the road for increased
wages. .-.....
1t was maintained at the meeting
that the Federated Council officers
had been rather slow in pushing the
claims, and those of the machinists
especially. 49,
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CARPET PRINTERS WIN

Philadelphia, Feb. 11.-Four hum
dred members of the Tapestry Car
pet Printers Union have been grant,
ed an Increase of per cent in wages:
to take effect as soon as they return
to work, by the six manufacturers of
tapestry-woven carpets in Philadel-
phia. The carpet printers have been
on strike fourteen weeks
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WILKESBARRE MINERS
DEMAND CLOSED CARS

Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Feb. 11.-Be-
cause. the company will not provide
passenger. cars to take them to and
from their work, 500 men and boys
of the Stearns colliery Of the sus-
quehanEai Coal company went on
strike, at Nanticoke "Wednesday
morning. >... ts,5* = 49,: ~.
The company has been taking
them to and from work in open coal
cars and the men demanded that
passenger cars be provided in cold
and rainy weather. - ~, -.
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HOME A MONUMENT
TO UNIONS THRIFT

Colorado Springs, Feb. ia new
library addition to the Union Printers
Home here has been erected at cost
Of $26.O00
This money was voluntarily con-
tributed by the membership Of the In
ternational Typogra phical union. The
library houses 10000 volumes, gifts
Of union printers, and employers
throughout the country.
The new building contains an up
to-date kitchen, with modern utensils,
serving room, refrigeration plant,
bakery. store room, servants dining
room, etc.
The Union Printers Home at Colo
RADIO Springs, was erected and IS
maintained by the International Typo
graphical union, and its present ply
steal value is, by competent real estate
men, placed at one million dollars.
The home is maintained by per
capita tax of ) cents per month on
the union printers Of the United
States and Canada.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany announces the adoption Of a
pension plan to fool it's poorly-paid
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Your act won't do. I cannot per-
init profanity in my .theater.'
= But, sir, + make use Of no pro
family -. = E -, s.7 s. z.z 8
If. No. but the audience would afte,
seeing you act a53 M ai4S
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Are the poor heather progressing
any these days ~ s I5s b:
.s5 54 You bet they are, 81 They put pure
food labels on canned Inissio nary
nAy. Ar q
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L orrai1le issue
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"A very handsome lightweight
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shown in many patterns, such as
plaids, stripes and checks. Beau
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st. Malo (next day..

Dearest Mamma: Such an awful
thing almost happened! Clara had a
nightmare, and came near choking to
death on Mr.. Brewers plaster-the
locket, you know. Uncle says only
prompt, efficient, quick-witted, thor
ougly capable nature like Miss Clara
Emily's could have saved her. Oh, l
just know he's becoming serious, and
Lee says it's just tommy-rot about the
efficiency, because all in the world
that Miss Clara Emily did was to jerk
the locket up by the chain; and she
did that in such an awfully quick way
that poor Clara says she's cured of
Mr.. Brewer forever She will have to
eat soup through china straw for
several days.
Uncle wants to go to Carnac and
see the ruins of the Stone Age, and he
and Miss Clara Emily are mapping
out trip. I'm sure don't know
what I'll do. for Scott Mccarthy has
bet Mr.. Stowell ten dollars that uncle
gets hooked" in Carnac Lee told
me, and Lee himself is provisioning
the yacht, and says he's cock-surc that
he eats some of those provisions
aboard of her himself. Emily doesn't
want to go to Carnac, and Jim Free
man says it isn't any automobile coun-
try, on account of the relics of the
Stone Age being so thick in the roads.
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Seeing France with
Uncle John
BY ANNE FARMER
YVONNE to Her MOTHER
BY ANNE WARNER
Copyris ht, by the Century %.
st. Malo.

st. MalO.
Dearest Mamma: We are all here
together again except the Brewers and
the two Trips and Ellsworth Grimm.
1t is very jolly, only l am SO worried
over uncle and Miss Clara Emily.
Even Mr.. Peters cannot keep them
apart. Lee took Mr.. Peters to his
room and talked to him seriously, and
offered to make uncle still more worth
his while; but Mr.. Peters has been
agreeable so long that he doesn't DO
It well any more. He just looks silly,
and Lee says if he was us he'd let
uncle go rip. But of course Lee isn't
us, and / know that he can't be ex-
pected TO know just how we feel. If
Uncle John marries Miss Clara Emily
1 know no one is going to like it at
all.
We went to Mont-Saint- Michel, and
every one but uncle went up, and he
went seven flights up-he says 20, but
I don't believe that there are more
than 16 or IL in all. We were ahead
and never knew that he had stopped
being behind, and it was so interest
ing on top that / forgot | had an un
Gle. There are beautiful halls and
cloisters, and then one goes down
through all sorts of horrors while the
guide tells who lived five years in this
hole and who lived IL years under
those steps. You get to have such a
contempt for people who were in
prison only one or two years over
here-as if they ought to be ashamed
of only having been in such a short
time. There is ghostly. CHASTITY mu-
scum in Mont-Saint-Michel where the
visitors walk through an unlighted
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tween the ensilage and the wall of
the silo as the ensilage settles. The air
will work into these spaces with the
affects mentioned above.
The walls should be strong and rig
i'd. If they do not possess these quail
ties they will crack or spring and air
will be admitted to effect the spelling
of the ensilage.
The walls should be sufficiently
non-conducting ("warm") to prevent
extensive freezing of the outer por-
tions of the ensilage in cold weather
Such portions as adhere to the walls
by freezing are likely to spoil If they
thaw out slowly
Built of stone, brack or cement, the
walls may be made sufficiently strong
to produce perfect silage, the round
silo being the most popular type.
The Illustration shows view of the
hollow-walled cement silo of l.. A. Por-
ter. Adrain, Mich. It has an inside
diamater of IL feet and stands SO feet
high above the floor. The Aoor stands
AZ feet below the surface of the
ground and six inches above the bot
tom of the foundation.
The lower three feet of the founda-
ton is of cobble stones and cement:
the upper two feet is of concrete. The
foundation is 101z inches wide at the
top and broadens inward and outward
to about IL inches at the base, the
floor having diameter of only IL feet
The silo wall above ground has uni
form thickness of eight inches and is
unique in its construction. Forms are
used in it's construction, but the wall
is rendered hollow" first, by the use
Of forms. and, second, by the building
into the wall of tiers of No. 2 three
inch drain tiles. The illustration rep
resents a horizontal cross-section of
the wall. 1t shows not only the ar
rangement Of the tile and other hollow
spaces, but also the outer and inner
forms, the plan of the door frame and
the manner of reinforcing the walls
with the wire cables. The hollow
spaces formed by the tile and by the
forms are continuous. The tiles begin
six feet above the foundation. form
spaces lying below the tile. The inner
form was built Of 2xx x26 inch pieces Of
pine. nailed upon two circles of elm.
Each of these circles was built up of
two by three inch pieces. All Of these
pieces we're cut to circles Of proper
radius.
The outer form was built Of I'VE by
one-half inch strips nailed outside and
at the ends of the ribs. These forms
were clamped into place by means of
two one-half inch bolts in each form.
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put into the silo. For several reasons
it is better to cut it. but it is not inn
perative that it be so cut. In early
practice not even corn was cut In en-
SLING.
The best ensilage is produced when
the air can be kept most completely
from coming in contact with the en-
siled material. s
A silo may be defined as a deep
chamber with air-tight walls, in which
green folders are preserved in mild
Iy fermented condition for future feed
ing.
In a good silo the wall should be
perfectly air tight; otherwise air will
get into the ensilage and promote
molding and rotting.
The inner surface of the wall should
be perpendicular and smooth. Where
these qualities are lacking, open
spaces are almost sure to occur be-
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them pinned on in such a funny way.
st. Malo next day..

St. MdlO NEXT Qay).
Dearest Mamma: Edna has sent yafle
the letter about your coming over,
and | am so relieved Perhaps you
will get here in time to save Uncle
from Miss Clara Emily; l do hope so.
Edna's things must be lovely, and
read her letter to Lee. He says if I'm
good / will have some things of my
own some day, and do hope so; but
uncle is so heavy on my mind that
cannot realize that / shall ever have
any life except trying to keep him
from Miss Clara Emily Mr.. Peters
is no good at all any more, and has a
bad cold besides. He and Clara sit
on the ramparts and gaze a the sea,
and look as if they were two consola-
ton prizes that the people who won
didn't care enough about to take home
with them. Lee says he never real
lied that Mr. Peters could peter out
quite so completely. Lee wants to go
yachting. and wants me to go, too, and
| can't leave uncle, and uncle won't
leave Miss Clara Emily, It's quite
stupid here at st. Malo, and we want
to go on.
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YVONNE.
taft Remembered REQUEST.

When Mr. Taft was passing through
South Carolina on his way to Charles
ton, to sail for Panama, little girl
handed him from the rear of the train
bouquet of violets. She had fas-
tened card to the stems, on which
was written her name-Josephine
Bass.
rs that your name?" asked the pres
ident
"Yeth," lisped the child.
your violets are very sweet, 10
sephine, and / would like to do some.
thing for you; tell me what you would
like"
The little girl hung her head and
put her fingers In her mouth reflec-
lively; then, with bright smile. she
said:
Il would like you to send me Z
souvenir postal when you get to the
canal"
The postal card was duly mailed.
and it is doubtful II the little recipi.
ent had any more pleasure in the
transaction than was felt by the presi-
dent-elect when he directed the IL.
Illustrated bit of pastehoard. to Miss
Josephine Bass" his little admirer in
South Carolina, and knew that her
wish would be gratified.
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It's the nature Of hogs to be hog
gish. Unless prevented they win climb
into their troughs and upon each 9TH
er. thereby wasting their slop and an
noying their feeder. A swinging door.
supplied with iron arms such as are
illustrated in the sketch given below.
has proven Of great service. The iron
arms keep the hogs separated and
prevent them from piling upon each
other. The doors are swung into the
pen and fastened there by means Of .
wooden peg and pocket while the