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The Washington times., 1910-05-31
TENIPERaTrRE
sun TABLE.
TIDE TABLE.

Today-High tide. I:O2 a. m. and -
p. m. Low tide. 7-23 a. N. and sos o. m
Iomorrow-High tide, 2-26 a. m and
80 p m. Low tide, 9:l0 a. m. and
9.1S D. N.
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Eighty-fve Employees Come
to Work Knowing End
Is in Sight.
VACATION ORDERS"
ARE ISSUED TO-DAY
Reinstatement in Other Depart
ments Is Promise Made TO
Many by Officials.

Eighty-five employees OF the United
States Treasury Department were ready
today for the word relieving them OF
their duties at 40 o'clock this after
noon.
The official order contains no mention
Of the fact that >S-Sse clerks are being
reads that, beginning Wednesday, June
l, they will go on the annual vacation
OF thirty days.
OF the eIghty-hve. all but six or seven
employees in the office Of the Collector
OF Internal Revenue have been notified.
These latter expect TO receive notIce
shortly before 4;30 o'clock The en-
plcyes already no'Ihed include thirty
two clerks in the OF &C Of NJ. o. Chance.
auditor for the POstOffiCe Department.
OF these there is a possibility, but little
probability, Of their being rcinstated in
some other branch OF the Government
at later date
Have Good Records.
The remaining number are employed
in the issue division and include opera
tives, separaters, feeders, counters, and
pressmen. These latter employees are al
said 20 have good records. and are be
ing let Out. not because Of age. but be-
cause Of changes in the system OF work.
The whole eiEhty-flve have been DOING
~
transferred 10 the Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing. and with the exception OF
the thirty-tWo in Mr.. Chances office. il
IS claimed, viii be taken care of by
Director Ralph. of the bureau, as soon
as vacancies occur. Instead Of filing
such vacancies from the list OF elisibles
obtained by competitive examinations,
the former employees OF the Treasury
Department. II IS promised, will be given
the places.
Cause Assigned.
The reason for getting rid Of the
thirty-two clerks in Mr.. Chances office
is that where iAt work has been done
hy hand. Il Is now done by machinery.
The clerks let ou-. il Is claimed. are un-
able 10 manipulate the machines
OF the Freshmen who are let out, IL is
said that with the exception o. one or
possibly two. all viii be given work at
the Government Printing Office G, m be-
fore the expiration OF their thirty days
leave
Some Of those who cannot be found
permanent positions n the depa artments
Will be taken -ure or in temporary po-
sitions in the Census Bureau. BY the
time their work Is done there % Is
claimed, work they are fitted 20 perform
viii have been found for them IN other
departments TO the heads Of which
President TAFT has sent Individual ap-
peals 10 care for all clerks let out IN
case work can be found for them.
The Washington times., 1910-05-31

Doors I1z-Inch Thick, $3.50 Apiece.
Frank Libbey * Co, 9Th & n. Y. Ave
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HARPERS FERRY. w. Va. Nav a.
potomac very muddy and Shenan6oah h
slightly cloudy this morning.
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MADE GOODS.
Exploitation of ConvictS a Ma
tionaI Disgrace.
CONTRACT SYSTEM EVILS.
Distressing Effects of Penal Labor
Competition With Free Workers.
Livelihood of Women Endangered.
Sad Lot of Prisoners.

Distressing EHeStS VI TSha' Gopo'
Competition With Free Workers.
Livelihood of Women Endangered.
Sad Lot of Prisoners.
Sensational evidence charging that
mammoth trust is exploiting prison Ia
Dor throughout the land and that this
combination corrupts officials, de-
grades convicts, destroys free industry
and denies a living to thousands of
working men and women has been laid
before the house committee on labor
by manufacturers, reformers and rep
resentatives of organized labor.
In support of bills which If made
law would practically abolish inter-
state commerce in prison made goods
the terrible extent and effect of prison
labor were clearly shown by men and
women in all classes of life and all
parts of the country.
That Judge Watson of the appellate
court of Indiana is stakeholder and
director in the Misunderstanding Manu-
featuring company, otherwise known
as the prison trust" was charged by
A. B. Salant, shirt manufacturer. 1t
was also related that a warden in
New York had made $4,000 commits
sion" In one year for selling prison
made goods and that another In Ken
lucky was dismissed for receiving
brides from contractors.
This powerful prison trust, accord"
ing to the testimony, controls the con-
tracts of eleven penitentiaries and re-
formatories. 1t pays New Jersey con-
victs as low as 20 cents for nine hours
Of labor.
One hundred prisoners working at
machines turn out 100000 hand
kerchiefs a year, which are sold in the
open market at 4 cents less per dozen
than 1t costs firms employing free la
Dor to make the same article.
1t was estimated that the output OF
shirts made by .convicts yearly is
$500, 900, or rs per cent of the entire
industry.
Rev. ]. Burkart, ex-chaplain of the
Baltimore city jail and house of cor
rection, emphatically denied the asser-
ton made by some that convict indus
try teaches trades to the prisoners and
prepares them for work after being
released. He said that most of them
are employed at making goods done
by women workers outside of the pris-
on walls. He also declared that the
contract system is brutal in the ex-
IRENE, being worse than peonage or
chattel slavery. The prisoners, he said,
are driven from early morn until night
leaving no time to improve them NOR
ally, mentally or physically.
Arthur E. Holder, who, with Thor
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as f.. tracy, represented the AmelI, ia.
Federation of Labor at the hearing,
gave the following incident in his ex-
perience as an organizer, showing how
convict labor affects free" workers:
Up here in little place called Tfdi-
cute, in northwestern Pennsylvania,
last summer | went into large chair
factory, among the employees. l tried
to induce those men to form local
organization, and those men told me,
with tears coursing down their cheeks:
Mr. Holder, it is no use. We are
down and out. We are simply living
upon bread and molasses. We have to
live two families in small home,
where formerly we used to have a
home of our own. Then our days
earnings came down to $1,35, from
$1,35 they came down to $1.15, and
from 81 10 they came down to 81, and
last summer we were working for 80
cents day"
B. A. Larger, secretary of the Unit
ed Garment Workers of America, told
the committee that convict labor
threatens the livelihood of the 10000
women organized in his union. lie
said: I'm the Trenton penitentiary they
make corduroy trousers such as are
made by our best class of firms manu-
featuring that grade of goods, and they
ship them complete for so cents doz-
en-. Our price on that class of goods
is S1.75 a dozen"
Henry E. Wise of Wise Bros, shirt
manufacturers, said that the competi-
ton of penal labor has forced them
to reduce the number of their employ
ees from 1900 women to 100. Wise
said: I'VE formerly used to run the
Maryland reformatory house of ref
uge We could not run It. No man
who calls himself man can run a
prison contract and do what is expect
ed of him."-Minneapolis Union Advo-
cafa
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many labor leaders, and l know that
for every strike they bring about they
stop a thousand OF that thousand
you never hear You never hear of
the collective bargains they make
upon terms that mean decent liveli-
hood for thousands of workingmen
and hope in their families for future
that means something more than serf-
dom.
But l don't pretend to say the UNI
ions do not make mistakes. They are
particularly prone to enthusiasm and
are very liable at times to overreach.
And that is just the very reason why
they need to be understood and need
to have friends and need to have at
their backs all those who believe in
our institutions and our civilization,
lending them always their helpful in
spiration.
Organized labor as at present con-
stituted believes in our institutions.
Socialism blindly cries out against
these institutions and would try to
lead the people away from them. Or
ganized labor believes in rewards ac-
cording to the service given, and it be-
lieves in the Individual. 1t has faith
and hope In the essential institutions
under which we live, and If you are
interested in stemming the growth OF
socialism you have no method so read
lily at hand as organized labor. L
have never met men more honestly
DESTROYS of lawful methods and Of
peace than many of the labor leaders
with whom am personally acquainted.
Labor has the right to organize and
for doing so should not be condemned.
Instead we should seek to learn what
it is that gives this institutional force
its vitality and its life.
Il want to say now that 1t is doing
concrete and definite work that can
not be done readily by any other force.
On account of its place In the HER
archy of the institutions of our nation
al life 1t should be welcomed, and l
want to say that the Catholic church
does welcome it and extend its hearty
support"
1t was some moments after this dec
laration before the resulting applause
subsidized.
Father Kerby In concluding made
special appeal for the labor leader.
''He is huge force" he said, work
ing for Justice and for faith In man
kind. His aims are born of high and
sane ideals, and it is a bad thing to
choke off his desires through misun-
Outstanding them and thus force him
to lose confidence In us. Let the pub
lie study the labor union. Let 1t I'M
derstand it, and 1t will then learn to
approve Of It,"
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Labor Briefs.

The union label is required on all the
city printing of Sioux City.
The Toledo electrical workers new
scale calls for $3.50 for eight hours.
twenty-five boss bakers at New Or
leans have abolished Saturday night
work.
The Cleveland metal workers have
obtained an increase from So to $3.50
a day.
Cleveland fathers have obtained an
Increase of so cents day They now
earn $3.50.
The present membership of the San
Francisco Building Trades council Is
above the 10000 mark.
The majority of ST. Pauls boss bak
ers have signed the new contract pro
viding for nine hour night shift.
One of the first acts of the new So
cialist council of Milwaukee was to
order that all city printing should bear
the union label.
"Since the Introduction of the eight
hour day in the ranks of the cigarmak-
ers of the United States within the last
few years" said Samuel GOmpers. 1.-THE
average life of men engaged In the
craft has Increased fifteen years"
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STRIKES AND BENEFITS.
Greatest Battles CT Labor Have Beer
Waged Without Funds.

John b. Lennon. treasurer of the
American Federation of Labor and
general secretary of the .Iourneymen
Tailors' Union of America. has placed
before the members of the latter or
ganization some interesting opinions
on the question of strikes and benz
fits. Mr. Lennon has been secretary
treasurer of the Tailors' union for
twenty-five years, and his opportuni-
ties for observation at close range have
been unlimited.
In cases Of strikes or lockouts in
volving only a few journeymen. Mr.
Lennon says, it is a mistake to permit
the displaced workmen to take en-
ployment in other tailor shops in the
town or to go to other towns. Where
a union has had the power and cour-
age to say, NO, you cannot leave our
city, nor can you accept work in any
other shop until this contest is set
tied" they have in nearly all cases
won, according to Mr.. Lennon. But If
the strikers leave town or accept work
in other shops the result is almost as
bad as If they went "scabbinG." he
says and under such circumstances
success Is practically impossible
Mr.. Lennon also thinks 1t is a mis-
take for local unions to pay or attempt
to pay strike benefits. He holds that
the benefit paid by the national union
Is sufficient. He says that the mem
beers who strike because they are guar
anteed the combined benefits of ma
tional and local organizations do not
make good strikers. When the local
treasures are exhausted, which some
times is an early result of the special
demands made upon them, such strik-
ers become disgruntled and weak
kneed
TO clinch the point under both these
heads Mr.. Lennon suggests that If any
one doubts his assertions he should
study the history of the worlds labor
struggles. He declares they will dis
cover that the greatest battles of labor
have been made by those who had
scarcely enough from day to day to
keep them alive"
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LABOR NOTES.
cafa

The Hotel and Restaurant Employees
International paid $7092S in sick bene-
fits during the last fiscal year.
The Western Maryland Railroad COM
pany has granted its locomotive engi-
neers an increase in wages of about 8
per cent.
Telegraph operators on the Big -Four
railway system have received an In
crease in wages amounting in the ag-
gregate TO $1,000 a month.
Every typographical union in Califor-
mia has Endorsed the proposition to OBJ
tain the convention of the interna-
tional body for San Francisco in 1911.
The report of Secretary Morrison of
the American Federation of Labor for
the five months ending March ! indi-
Gates an increase of 6.000 In member
ship over the same period last year.
The balance on hand March / was
$154 SOB.
The latest semiannual report OF the
International Association of Machin-
lists shows that the receipts from all
sources during the preceding six
months were S211.111O2 and the ex-
penses during that period SIG 423 II.
The union has invested In government
and other bonds $94.53s75.
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LABOR BRIEFS.

The mines of Butte, Mont, have
combined payroll of 100000 a year.
The brewery workers of Buffalo have
received an advance in wages of 81
per week.
The International Typographical un-
ions benefits last year amounted to
$30S, 600
The Plumbers union is discussing
lhe ACCESSIBILITY of building a home for
needy and disabled members.
T. l.. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers. has issued statement.
He declares that the men have $1,000
600 for strike fund
A report from the International
Molders' union shows that during 1909
the receipts from all sources exceeded
the disbursements by more than SILL
900.
The Boston Allied Printing Trades
council has adopted new form OF lease
for the loan and use of the union
label 1t has instructed the men OF all
the unions TO see that union men de
liver all materials at their places OF
business.
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Following the lead of the lnterna-
tional Typographical union, the Inter
national Printing Pressmeu's and As
sistants union will erect a home at
Royerville, Hawkins county, Tenn.
The referendum vote taken in Septem-
Der last empowered the international
officers and board of directors Of the
International Printing Pressmeu's and
Assistants union to proceed with the
arrangements for the establishment Of
sanitarium for sufferers from tuber-
culosis and a home for the superannu-
ated. The site is tract of $40 acres,
beautifully situated in the Allegheny
mountains. 1t has been famous as a
health resort for fifty years.
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binds them together In common toll
and danger, let their hearts grow to-
gether in a strong sense of their COM
mon interest and destiny. Help them
to realize that the injury of one Is
the concern of all and that the welfare
of all must be the aim of every one.
If any of them is tempted to sell the
birthright of his class for mess of
pottage for himself, give him wider
outlook and ii stronger sympathy.
Teach them to keep step in steady
onward march and to fulfill the law
of Christ by bearing the common
burdens.
Grant the organizations of labor
quiet patience and prudence in all
disputes and fairness to see the other
side. Save them from malice and
hatred and from the two edged sword
of violence that turns on those who
seize it, Raise up for them still more
leaders Of able mind and large heart
and give them grace to follow the
wiser counsel When they strive for lei
sure and health and a better wage.
grant their cause success, but teach
them not to waste their gain on fleet
ing passions. but to use it in building
fairer homes and nobler manhood.
May the upward climb of labor. its
defeats and its victories In the farther
reaches bless all classes of our nation
and build up for the republic OF the
future a great body of workers. strong
of limb. clear of mind. fair in temper,
glad TO labor conscious of their worth
and striving together for the final
brotherhood of all men,"
To Keep Workers Out of Unions.
The International Harvester compa-
ny has long been bitterly opposed to
having its employees organized OF
members of labor unions, and 1t is not
improbable that its activity In adopt
Ing system of industrial insurance
for its employees is for the purpose OF
keeping them out of the labor orgahi
cations.
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POPE FOR UN|ON|SM,
Catholic Church Pledges Sup
port to the Cause OF Labor.
OPPOSED TO SOCIALISM.

Father kerby Says That No Modern
institution Is So Misunderstood as
Trades Unons-CoIlective Bargain
ing Means Decent Living.
With what continuity vociferously
enthusiastic audience would allow, the
Rev. William j. Kerby, professor of
sociology of the Catholic University OF
America, pledged the Catholic church,
from Pope Plus downward, at Cathe
dral college, in Madison avenue. New
York, to the cause of union labor in
an address that was bitter arraign-
ment of socialism.
The address was one of a series plan
ned with the official sanction of the
church as a formal assault upon doc
trinal socialism, The Rev. w. b. Mar
tin, president of the Institute of Sci
entific Study. who has charge of the
anti-socialistic propaganda, said after
the address that he hoped to see the
movement now being launched spread
to every city and village in America
and that it was being launched in the
drcnulOceSe VI NEW ioih III th"' p"A
pose.
Asked specifically If 1t was an out
growth of the controversy following
the assassination of Francisco Ferrer
in Spain, Father Martin said that the
movement originated in the New York
diocese and was not stimulated from
abroad, but had been submitted to the
pope and received his Endorsement ana
approval.
Those present were mostly members
Of the Catholic faith, and 1t was an
nounced that the lecture was meant
to be Informative and for Catholics
themselves rather than to attract the
attention Of outsiders.
Programs announced that Archbish-
op Farley. was patron of the lecture
series, and this patronage was empha-
sized through the presence ON the
stand of the Right Rev. NJ. ]. Lavelle.
second assistant vicar general or the
archdiocese Of New York. who acted
as chairman.
Father Kerby took the place as lee
turer of Charles D. Neill, United
States commissioner of labor, who was
prevented from keeping the engage
ment announced for him.
In paying his tribute to trades union
ism as the force which is to save the
world from socialism, Father kerby
said that none OF the modern institu
tional forces was so generally misun
derstood and so wholly judged by III
mistakes instead of its virtues as th'
trades unions.
when the disorders that the,
sometimes reluctantly participate II
occur" he said, 1.-THE world hears al
about 1t. But l personally know
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Boston Carnenters, New Scale.

Boston carpenters unions joint execu-
tive board has issued official notice to
each of the 5000 members that he will
report at the district council office on
June if his employer does not agree
to pay the 1910 wage scale on that
date. The main request is an increase
from 47s4 cents an hour to a wage of
so cents an hour for house and gener-
al shop carpenters.
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peasant cottage inhabited by a China
man There is not a hearthstone in
any sense as we understand ii of an
American home or an English home or
an Irish or German or French home.
There is not a domestic fireside in that
sense, and yet you say it is entirely
safe to sit down and permit them to
fill up our country or any part Of it.
You cannot" continued Mr.. Blaine,
work a man who must have beef and
bread alongside of a man who can live
on rice In all such conflicts and in
all such struggles the result is not to
bring up the man who lives on rice to
the beef and bread standard, but it is
to bring the beef and bread man to
the rice standard"
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CHINESE HAVE RIGHTS.
But They May Not Debsss American
Citizenship.

But They May Not Debsss American
Citizenship.
An Asiatic is as much entitled to
life, liberty and happiness as an Amer
lean. But he is not entitled by any
law, national, moral or humane, to en-
croach upon. to abridge to any degree,
the life, liberty or happiness of an
American. He is not entitled to de
base the standard OF American citizen
ship.
There are some mighty good Ameri-
cans who have not yet reached these
shores. But 1t is impossible, says the
Los Angeles Citizen, TO make Ameri-
cans out of Asiatics. They do not
come here TO enrich our citizenship,
but to impoverish It,
In 1879 James G. Blaine spoke
against the Chinese invasion Of the
Pacific coast and said: There is not a
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PRAYER FOR WoRKINGMEN.
Divine Blessing Asked on Their Efforts
TO Benefit Mankind.

The April American Magazine con-
tains the following prayer by waiter
Rauschenbusch for all workingmen:
20 God, thou mightiest worker OF
the universe, source Of all strength
and author of all unity, we pray thee
for our brothers, the Industrial work
ers OF the nation. AS their WORK
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-06-09

In the city refuse to respond to the
usual number of twists and turns Of
the combination the owners, instead OF
tearing their hair and saying naughty
things step to the telephone and call
for Miss Darling. She takes a few
tools and goes to the street and num-
Der given.
With an Unborn knowledge of the
mechanism and its whims, Miss Oar.
ling examines II critically and listens
20 an explanation of the difficulty.
With a smile that is contagious she
puts her alligator handbag on a near
by desk. removes her gloves and ap-
proaches the box of steel. After q
few def turns of the combination
and she knows most OF them; 1t is
more than likely that she set this
one--the bolt may refuse to move.
She smiles at her failure and as II by
some mutual understanding between
safe and woman, It opens at her sec
ond attempt.
To show the high esteem in which
she is held by the manufacturers
through the United States 1t is only
necessary to state that she is the re-
cipient of a number of costly and beau
tiful jewels which have been given to
her from time to time. II is only her
love for Portland that has prevented
her from accepting lucrative offers
In distant cities.
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his labor through the bestowal upon
him of the order of the Red Eagle by
the German emperor and the Chinese
war medal by the king OF England.
McCalla. then commander of the
cruiser Marblehead, was In the first
fighting line In the Spanish-American
war. He landed the marines at Guam
tanamo, the first of the American
troops to set foot on Cuban SOIL In
the face of fierce fire from the Span
lsh troops, and maintained them there
for many days until regular troops
could be brought to their support. At
Cienfuegos he went in boldly under
the Spanish batteries and cut the
cables that connected Cuba with
Spain, thus accomplishing one of the
most important functions In warfare.
But perhaps his most brilliant
achievement was In connection with
the Boxer uprising in China in 1900.
when the legationers were besieged in
Peking.
Rear Admiral McCalla was born AT
Camden. N. j., in 1874. entering the
navy in 1861. His services during the
almost 80 years OF active duty in all
parts of the world were noted with
conspicuous acts