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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
MORE STEAK
AND GOLDFISH
When They Have Reformed in
Matter of Supporting
MillionaireS

Current literature has been enriched.
Mr. S. r. Guggenheim, president of the
Yukon (Alaska) Gold Co., in u magazine
article, insists that the real cause of the
increased cost of living is national ex-
travagance. His reasoning is clear. Peo-
pie insist on wearing SO much silk that
silkoline is selling at twice what it was.
They demand SO high quality of wool
clothing that shoddy is all they can get
They banker for the choice cuts of meat
and as a-result shank and liver have been
sent up to 10 cents Il pound.
They will live in mansions, and two
consequence.
1t is SO all along the line You can
see that it would be SO. The demand
for luxuries is such that necessaries of
life are high because nobody wants
them,
Perfectly clear, Mr. Guggenheim, says
the Cleveland Press. All these things
tend to reconcile us to the fact that the
Guggenheims are gradually eornering the
earth in SO far as Morgan and Rookie
feller haven't already fenced it in. Per-
haps d better let 'em have Alaska
Ballinger may have been right about
it,
Listen to this fine old bromidiom of
Guggenheim:
81 believe says he, ''that the wage
Garner is more extravagant in proportion
to his earnings than the millionaire
Shouldn t wonder a bitl Right in this
town wage earners frequently spend for
meat to last them over Sunday every
blamed cent left over from the week s
pay check! Do you happen to know any
millionaires who do such a thingf
a pipe or two of smokin tobacco
after supper will probably amount to
half of i per cent of the laborer s
daily wage. Mr.. Guggenheim s. daily
income Is estimated at 100000. One
half of 1 per cent of this is $50. Do
you suppose that the thrifty Guggenheim
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
A WISE LAW

bill introduced in the Massachusetts
legislature by Socialist member of the
lower house-Charles II. Morrill, of Hev-
erhill-designed to prevent common
form of deception by employers during
labor strikes, has gone into effect as
law 1t was opposed before the labor
committee by corporation attorneys, but
the committee reported it favorably and
both houses having passed it the governor
signed it. The law provides that
If an employer, during the continuance
of a strike among his employees, dur
ing the continuation of lockout or other
labor trouble among his employees, pub
licly advertises in newspapers or by post
ers or otherwise for employees, or by him
self or his agents solicit persons to work
for him to fill the places of strikers. he
shall plainly and explicitly mention in
such advertisements or oral or written
solicitations that a strike, lockout or 9TH
er labor disturbance exists
Thepenalty for violation is 800 for
each effense.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23

smokes hundred and fifty dollar cigar
after dinneri Certainly not. He is
much more economical ..in proportion 10
ms income than almost any one YOU
know.
In order to equal the extravaganza of
the iaborer who drinks 5-eent glass of
Deer after his days work, Mr.. Morgan
would have to consume $50 quarts of
champagne at So quart Mr.. Morgan
doesn t do it! We state this boldly.
Mr. Guggenheim asserts and we be.
iieve he is right-that John ID. Rocke.
feller is the least extravagant man he
knows of. Mr.. Rockefeller has never
been known to slip down to Billy 3 place
on the, corner and spend $4,000 playing
pool IN the evening, as he would have to
do II he eqnalled the extravagance-ssa ac-
cording to income of the stone mason
who rolls one game at 20 cents an hour.
But the crowning extravaganza in which
the poor indulge Mr.. Guggenheim never
refers to. The poor give up large-a
very large-part of their incomes to
make Guggenheims, Morgans and Rookie
fellers.
When they come to real economy here IS
where they will begin to cut down ex-
penses
When they have reformed in the mat
ter of supporting ,millionaires, maybe
they will be better able to stand the
strain of the chuck steak and Goldfish.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
Steel Trust Generosity

always take the steel trust IS prom
lses with u grain of salt,'' said Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American Fed.
Grafton of Labor, when shown the an
nouncement of the United States Steel
Corporation that it has decided to raise
the pay of its two hundred and thirty
thousand employees, about nine million
dollars annually.
But granting that the steel trust, out
of the kindness of its corporate heart,
will give the increase promised. What
does it amount tot Thirteen cents a dsy
IS the munifeent increase each steel work.
er will receive. A glorious sum, is it not
Thirteen cents a day will not keep the
men from organizing. The steel trust
know that the men are discontented with
their pay and their conditions. 1t knows
that A. F.. of L. organizers are meeting
with much success in their work among
its employees, and fighting desperately for
the maintenance of its open shop policy,
1t jumps into print with all kinds of
benevolent schemes. When the men are
thoroughly organized, they will enjoy the
conditions that union men generally do,
and the steel trust will then stop its press
agent promises of what it is going to do
for it's two hundred and thirty thousand
employees
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
Employers Back Of
Blow Against Labor
Senator's We're Told By Wire to Defeat Am
endrnent Protecting Unions From
Sherman Act.

Washington, y. g., June 22.-That the
,.,.oraph wires fairly sizzled with mes
.,,ss from the leading manufacturers
,,d EMPLOYERS organizations to Senator
G,IIuper OF the committee on appropria-
lions immediately after the adoption by
the House oi an amendment to the sun
5ry civil bill, introduced by Representa-
,iy. Hughes Of \cw Jersey, providing
against the spending OF the special funds
ia prosecute labor organizations under
The Sherman antitrust law, was learned
today.
What direct influence these kilograms
had Oh rhr m,mIhrrs Of the senate COM
mi,,ee IS not definitely known, but it is
a fact, Ecv"rl hrI"ss, that the committee
did exactly what ;hr manufacturers want
ri aud submitted an amendment striking
out the House amendment to the bill for
the appropriation OF 100000 to enforce
TIE Sherman ict.
demonstrating beyond doubt that the
manufacturers have Il secret office in
Washington Tor the purpose of fighting
labor legislation and TO keep interested
manufacturers posted, is this latest infor-
nation that tctrgrams by the hundred
poured IN the national capital from diff
ieTrnr parts OF the country as soon as the
House, after stit1 fight, passed the
Hughes amendment.
The Western Paper Box Manufacturers
Association of Chicago, said to have 200
members. wlrrd Senator Gallinger that
1--WE cannot believe that your honorable
body will lend itself to any such discrim-
natoFy cgisIation.
The Shoe manufacturers Association
OF Brock'om, Mass, asked that the New
Hampshire senator use all efforts ''to-
ward eliminating said amendment from
the bill
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23

take any action whatsoever against the
steel trust until the Supreme Court of
the United States has decided the appeals
now under consideration in relation to
the American Tobacco Company and the
Standard Oil Company, is significant as
to his probable reply to the resolution OF
Representative Stanley
In the meantime, say the labor repre-.
sentatives, the prosecutions of farmers
and union men who are attempting to
combine and mutually sell their products.
VIII proceed with all dispatch, for Wick
ersham krows~ his masters voice.
1t is also pointed out that as Wicker
sham S days of official activity are un-
doubtedly limited, owing to the scandals
winch have connected him with BalIineer
and Alaska and Lawler and Mexico, the
Attorney General will not hesitate to do
whatever 'the interests NAV remire
despite all consequences.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
Workers Lives No
Concern to Solons

Washington, d. c., June 22.- Still
locked in the desk of the secretary of the
senate Subcommittee on interstate COM
meree the locomotive boiler inspection bill
is as far as, ever from becoming law and
saving the lives of thousands of passen-
gers and trainmen now wsntonly sacri-
feed by the railroad corporations.
Aside from the petitions sent in by
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin.
eers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginmen, international Brother
hood of Boilermakers- and Iron Shipbuild-
ers and Helpers, the members of ,ihe
Boilermakers Union have written approx
imately $4,000 personal letters to their
Senators and Congressman.
A conservative estimate shows that
nearly one million people have signed the
petitions circulated by the Brotherhoods
for this law.
Many hundreds of kilograms have been
sent to President Taft asking his and in
the matter, and it goes without saying
that if the President wished to bring
the same pressure to bear upon this life
upon the rate raising of the railroads
the locomotive boilers of this country
would soon be officially and legally in
spected.
The text of these kilograms to Taft
read along the lines of the following
wire from the Boilermakers, signed by
three hundred delegates:
''St. Louis, Mo-, June Is, 1910.
"Hon. VIM. H. Taft,
President of the United States,
Washington, D. c.
eve, the undersigned citizens of the
United States, all practical boilermakers,
and delegates from all the states to the
Ninth Annual convention of the Brother
hood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbulders
and Helpers of America, hereby petition
you to use your best efforts to have
passed at this session of Congress the
Locomotive Boiler Inspection bill, thus
ending the numbering and injuring of
hundreds of railroad employees yearly ;
also, reducing the dangers to the travel
if it is reported out by the committee. -
Congressman Mann and Senator Cum
minis are the chairmen fthe two com
mittees having this bill under considera-
tion. What will they do with it' And
what will the railroad Brotherhoods do
with them if this measure is throttled in
committed
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
Finds It PAYS

Seattle, June 22.-Chauncey Wright of
this city has the distinction of being the
first restaurant man in Seattle running
eight hour shifts. He says he finds he
can do so economically The eight hour
shifts have been going on now for four
months, and the same wages paid as
prior to the Inauguration of the eight
hour day. There are twenty-three people
in the employ of the popular caterer, all
first class in their line of work They
are proud of the fact that they are the
pioneers in the eight hour column of cul-
mary employees.
Wright would not go back to the old
twelve hour shift if the men wanted to,
1t is said. The new agreement the cooks
and assistants are putting out to the en-
ployers at the present time asks for
reduction from twelve to ten hours.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
BROOKLYN BAKERS
WON'T END FIGHT

New York, June 22.-The Brooklyn
bakers unanimously voted to ratify the
decision of the joint executive board of
the Bakers Unions of Greater New York
to continue the fight against the trust
bakeries until they are forced to grant
the demands of the men.
There was great enthusiasm when the
chairman announced that the Brooklyn
Federation of Labor, at its meeting on
Sunday had decided to call conference
of all trade unions, Socialist party organ.
izations and Sick and Death Benefit fund
branches for the purpose of devising
ways and means of helping the strikers
to raise funds to continue the fight.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
Post Springs Another
Fizzle Against Labor

Battle Creek, Mich, June 22-''G.
Nuts Post has launched his Trades and
Workers association, with which he pro
poses to put the American Federation of
Labor on the ''has BEEN list. Dues
will be 25 cents month and 80 cents
initiation. For this sum the association
promises to establish reading rooms, Ii
braries, club rooms, sanitariums and a
relief fund for the sick, Injured and dis
tressed members.
The new venture is "agin' all sorts
of strikes, loekouts, boycotts, etc, and in
tends to "allow'' an adequate and gen.
erous return on the money invested, and
then give labor the highest wages the in
dustries can afford.
Post does not state in his prospectus
who will be judge of "fair return for
the money invested
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
Joker I'm Measure
For Steel Inquiry
Stanley Resolution Asks WicI<ershan OnIv
For Facts In His Possession" Against
Mighty Trust

Washington, DC, June 22-The Stan
ley steel trust resolution, which has been
adopted by the House, calls upon Attor-
ney General Wickersham to give ssall the
facts in his possession concerning the
alleged conspiracy in restraint of trade
between the United States Steel Corpo-
ration, the American Steel and Wire
Company, the National Tube Company,
the -.merican Bridge Company, the Fed
eral Steel Company, the American Tin
plate Company and the Cu.-,gie Steel
Company.
Labor representatives in Washington
believe that the resolution was greatly
weakened by the phrase call the facts in
his possession for Wickersham is not
in the habit of gathering facts tending
to shake the value of steel-trust stock or
to make life unpleasant for Schwab and
his kind.
Wickersham s recent declination to
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
PULL STRING AND
SAILORS BILL DIES

Washington. II. c., June 22.-The lat
esi desp"ra'" and pdobably successful
move 10 Kill the scamem S bill comes
through nn order secretly given to the
secretary of IA" House committee ON mer.
GIANT mir'n" and fisheries to call off all
further committee meetings for consider
anon OF i"~ measure for protection of
thc sailors
- u"'r'uG and persistent had been the
"o;h OF 'A' tcirgatcs from the Interna-
uo"al >"amcu 5 Union and the Marine
IRENE" IiH"". i'll furnishing evidence
10 '"nsf"s-iurm - 10 the conditions of
'''"'' slavery HON existing on the high
seas 'hH' majority of the Congressional
committee had been won over to the sail.
ofS point of view.
rearing therefore, that Il meeting of
Tue committee would mean the favorable
''lO''"I ct representative Spight s bill
"e agents Of the shipowners pulled the
string which stopped all further commit.
lee in,r'rugs
'"" '"h-'"Ssm"n from the Pacific
,o's' al" credited with being the main
,.'''> i' 'H' way of this Just legislation.
''' "'' duncan y. McKinlay, from
- n'''' ''"'a' a"d William Z. Humphrey of
Wasl.ug'un.
u "''' M"NrHIay. who. in the course
'' "" "a'"-y vIcw blurted out the state
.'''' '"'' b" would do nothing to an
Mai '''''e
WIS humphrey who finally told An
ne" "rNN''h, president of the Seamen g
-. ..'. doe would never allow the bill
w .''"' ".' o' the committee.
J." 'a nf.n letter to Representative
,'-"i i..''E i Washington. Furuseth has
his 20 -..s.
'"- ra., lived for wears ON PUGET
i H"n" If the shanghaiing per-
.'" 'rImping element of Ia
.." and Port Townsend. You
a''" 'aat hugs are nor dore oxoon.
"r some equivalent. You
r... ta' average time of men fol-
.'' sea on the Pacific coast is
~, ."'' lire" years. Yet in sn;ta of
.I,. .'', ''' 'r" indicative in your oppo-
p,..'.. '.' from representatives of
,'>.'.A'sa. COMMISSIONS of ths .nnst;u
vor 'i'- "nd"rmanning and vet
he ... .' me ''h"n I asked you to let
.r "fr Of the committee, .Nev-
nc. ~a" h.''' r,. let there be no
.-- that
'H. r-... supreme Court of
.rarr.- d" case of the Rio
San &c.. 'h" entrance of the
y....l '"r. decided that tn
'1 uno- anned because of III
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
SPIRIT OF UNREST
lndiana's Governor Sounds Warning
Toilers Are Ready to Strike
For Rights

Extracts from the opening speech of
Governor Marshall, as temporary chair
man of the Indiana Democratic conven-
tion:
We have exploited this republic until
exploitation will soon become explosion -
he said. ''We must get business out of
politics and must take politics out of
business. That must be done quietly,
soberly, disereetly at the ballot box, or
there will come an hour when the toiling
millions of America, not willing to wait
for an election, will accomplish by force
that which should be accomplished by
law
1--WE are beginning to find out that
we are living in land where men do
other men.
THE Golden Rule has been suppressed
ed by the rule Of gold: the command
mem, 'Thou shalt not steal,' by Thou
shalt not convict Success has usurped
the throne of conscience and failure in
our only crime.
1.-THE Joabs of high finance smile glad.
ly on the common people, and as they
ask, is it well with thee today, my
brethrenf' deftly insert their knives into
the fifth rib of humanity. Not what we
ought to have, but what we want, is the
distorted role of life. Conscience has be-
come the vermiform appendix of high
finance. 1t was not written Thou shalt
not steal from the American people to
build the Panama canal, but loi it was
written Thou shalt not squeal!
"There is spirit of unrest abroad, a
feeling that men do not stand equally
before the law. Seven years in the re-
formatory for stealing a hama seat in
the senate of the United States for ex-
plotting the coal lands of Alaska
'Do you tell me that the humble wage
Garner of today is willing to look along
the vista of years and see nothing but q
pauPer s grave at the end, while a few
men, by legislative enactments, are en-
abled to dwell in marble halls and scat
ter money like drunken dukes at monkey
dinners? God does not pay at the end
of every week, but He pays. He pays
nations as He pays men, and that people
is not wise which is not just
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
sI.Oo a Year IN Advance

the persecution of the Mexican political
refugees in this country. When she was
called upon to testify at the hearing on
Representative Wilson s resolution for an
investigation of these outrages before the
House committee on rules, Chairman Dali
zell asked her to state the place of her
residence.
live wherever the workers are fight.
ing the robbers she replied to the sur
prise and embarrassment of number OF
corporation men who are members of the
committee.
Although seventysix years of age, Mo-
ther Jones has no thought of retiring.
- am still in the fight she says.
. From here L am going to New York
City, and see what L can do for those
bakery boys who are there on strike.
From there l am going to the anthra.
cite region, and from there, I don t
know
Working to the limit of her strength
for those who are living, Mother Jones
has not forgotten those cold warriors
who have blazed the way"
I'm lonely spot in Bruceville, Texas,
marked only by piece of an old iron
shovel, is n grave of Martin Irons, the
labor pioneer, who is unhonored, unsung
and unremembered, feelingly said Mo-
ther Jones.
Martin Irons, on whose bleached
bones the railroad brotherhoods have been
built, the man who was bounded to death
by the Goulds and their satellites, is
buried in an obscure spot in the little
cemetery of that small Texas town When
visited his grave, these words came to
my lips:
Here lies the hero of the industrial
battle. He lies alone and yet not alone.
for the mocking birds are singing their
love songs to their mates.
In the near future, 1 am going to
have his remains moved to the cemetery
of the martyred miners in Mt. Olive,
Illinois, and there Martin Irons will sleep
with fellow soldiers who have given their
lives for humanity's greatest eause''
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23
Labor Progressing,
N Says Mother Jones
Workers of Today Do Their Own Thinking
Declares Stormy Petrol" In
Special Interview
Special Interview

Washington, D. c., June 2e.-"The
workingmen of this country are at last
beginning to think for themselves.
These significant words came from the
hps of Mother Jones, the gray haired
labor agitator, who for the last thirty
years has participated in every labor
struggle of any prominence, whose pres.
ence on the field of action inspires cour-
age and hope among the workers, and
strikes terror in the hearts of the mas
ters
In the years gone by" said "Moth-
er,' as she is fondly called by the mil,
lions of her boys - the workers were
absolutely helpless and dependent on the
ability and loyalty of the leaders. To-
day the leaders are absolutely helpless
and dependent on the strength and intel
ligence of the rank and file
The work of the old warriors of the
labor movement who have blazed the
way with sacrifices for a cause that burn
ed their souls, is bearing fruit. The
workers are at last fired with the spirit
of revolt and religiously and Industrial
tion. -
With the force and strength character
istie of the 'Stormy Petrel," and with
sudden Frightening of her kindly face,
she transmitted to her interviewer the
thoughts that were stirring her soul when
she uttered, "'They are working out their
own salvation.
There are any number of plain work
ingme.l,' continued Mother Jones, "who
for clearness and logic in nnalyzing and
understanding economic questions can
give cards and spades to any Senator
and Representative in Washington.
Workingmen of today exchange ideas
and discuss important problems in the
workshops, at their union meetings, and
in their ever growing labor press These
are the most promising signs of the
times7'
Mother Jones has spent the last ten
days in Washington, doing her utmost to
secure congressional investigation of
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-23

Similar kilograms came from such large
manufacturing concerns as the Glauber
Brass Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland;
Moran & Hastings Manufacturing Co. of
Chicago; The Temple Art Glass Co., of
Chicago; Grand Rapids Supply Co, of
Grand Rapids; Maverick Clarke I.itho-
graphing Co., San Antonio, Tex; The
Empire Brass Co., Cleveland; and Brown
q Saenger~ Co., Sioux Falls, South Da-
kota.
1t is believed that this campaign of
the manufacturers against the clause ia
Vorlng labor unions was not limited to
Senator Gallinger or the members of the
committee on appropriations, but also to
Senators generally who "win take a
hint This belief, is based on the fact
that many Senators of the Aldrich stripe
displayed Unusual activity on the floor
of the Senate when the Oklahoma Sena-
tors put up stiff fight for the House
amendment.
The adoption by the Senate of the
antilabor amendment of the committee
on appropriations by vote of 34 to 16
is considered by unionists here as a " slap
In labor's face,' because of the fact
that no attention whatever is being paid
by Congress to the amendments of the
Sherman antitrust law introduced in be-
half of the voluntary organizations of
the workers of this country. These
amendments are buried in the committee
rooms.
Not only does the United States Con-
gress refuse to pass law similar to the
Trades Disputes Act, which protects the
British labor unions, but it "rubs it in ;,
by appropriating 100000 to prosecute
American workers who organize for mu-
tual protection and advancement.
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There are approximately two million
voters in the United States who are mem.
ners of organized labor. They strike to-
gether, when necessary; hunt Jobs TO.
se'her when out of work, are locked out
together when they begin to show a little
spirit of independence; but they never
vote together. If they would stop scab
blng on each other on election days
they can accomplish in few years more
than they can accomplish in a lifetime by
ciinging to political party prejudice
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