The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21
PETER POWER SAYS:

Fair warning: Within the next few
months the organs of privilege will
join in another chorus of condemna-
cause of high prices.
The reason assigned will be that
the Western railways took the lead
in filing new tariff with the inter-
state commerce commission advan
cling freight rates 16 to % per cent,
following successful demands of the
railway employees to secure better
wages
Such little matter as initiating the
alleged values of stocks and bonds
and bleeding the people for dividends
and interest on wind and water; and
such a little fact that the railway
employees do more work for wages
received than at, any time in the
country's history, will cut little figure
with the monopoly organs: q
The increased freight rates take
effect on June l.. The Eastern rail-
ways will speedily follow the ex-
ample of the Western combines.
The Canadian working people are
|: sick of the promises of the poll
|.tician, and at the Forthcoming con-
vention of the Canadian Trades and
I will doubtless be taken to launch an
| independent political movement with
strong Socialistic demands:
The Canucks are likely to follow
the lines Of the British Labor party,
which has had signal success in
forcing important bills through par
| lament
The workers in the four Western
I states Of the dominion are red-hot
for political action, and their enthu-
siasm has spread into our own Alas
ka, where an Independent labor
party has just been formed with. the
genheim interests and conserving and
! preserving that territory for the peo-
pie who live and work therein.
The Cigarmakers' union, which
the tobacco trust is seeking to de-
! stroy, has just issued it's annual re-
| port, showing that it paid to it's
! members last year in sick, death,
| disa ability, out-of-work, strike, and
| travelling benefits, over $672,0OO. In
the past 80 years the cigarmakers
! paid 100000 to their members in
! need. The tobacco trust pays nothing
! to its women and children toilers ex-
| cept low wages for long hours of
work. '~''
/ The United Mine Workers are vim
ming their fight for an increase of
| wages averaging 55:5 per cent. More
|: over, they are increasing their mem
I bership by thousands. Still better.
| the powerful Western Federation of
! Miners has decided by an overwhelm
| ing vote to enter into an alliance with
I the. U. M. w. and also to join the A.
II. of L.. RI -. ,:.
! The greatest legislative victory of
|; the year for the laborlng people has
|jbeen won in Ohio, where the employ
7 ers liability or workmen's compensa-
ton bill has been forced through the
state legislature in the face of the
most bitter opposition from ''tl1e in
| terests.." The best T. constitutions
lawyers declare that the. law : will
stand and serve as a model for other
states. .as.l.l sE,5E, + -
/ Pennsylvania unionists have formed
Federated Labor party with q
l4-plank platform. The party will
! probably not place an ! Independent,
ticket in the field, but will conf1ne it,
efforts to picking out good mem and
bad mem in the parties already ii
the field. AZ &S5S II t@s.s .2s II
:f u: BIG SLAVE PEN NEEDED. .=ss
GsARY, Ind, May 2 q. S.. The National
J Tube Company will, in q few DAYS.