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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-01-14

really, truly, ring-around- -the-rosey
letter of them all. The strongest state
ment that he can be induced to make
in reply to the Trades Assembly's 8
communication is that he owns no
stock in any. corporation in this city
and winds up with the unique and
highly original declaration that she
Is for Duluth, first, last and all the
time"
Senator T. M. Pugh of Duluth and
John Healy of Hibbing at latest writ
ing had not even condescended to
answer and will get another REQUEST
for statement from the legislative
committee.
The evasion and lodging of men
who before election were willing to
promise anything to get the votes OF
the working classes is not being
allowed to go unnoticed by the men,
bers of the Trades Assembly and will
be marked up against them for future
reference. II ~ i l.
The legislative committee will stay
on the job until every piece of legisla-
tion affecting labors interests is dis
posed of at st. Paul, and will prove
a tower Of strength in, cooperation
with like committees from other
trades bodies in the state, l<.1 .=....5. .5.
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the delegation either failed to answer
or gave such evasive replies as to
raise the belief that they were op-
posed to both issues but were afraid
to openly voice their hostility.
Representatives E. r. Ribenack and
N. H. Hillman and Senator Harry w.
Cheadle came out fat-footedly in
favor of the initiative, referendum and
recall and for municipal ownership
as it embodies the owning of light
ing plant by the city of Duluth.
c. T. Knapp of Chisholm says he
Is in favor of a municipal light plant
bill 'if it is properly drawn and if
the majority of Duluth people want
it."
On the matter of the trust bust
triplets'' he says, II would be inclined
to be favorable to the passage of such
a bill, unless the bill which will be
presented has some very objection
able features, .r.s.,.
James P. Boyle of Eveleth is also
inclined to think" that the trust
bust trio ought to be given some at
tention. He doesn't, however, offer
himself with a rush for the job of
wet nurse. He's going to give the
matter some thought, he says.
Anton Bergen Of Duluth writes the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-01-14
SOME DODGE, SOME IGNORE, THREE
SAY ~YES'' TO ASSEMBLY LY'SQUESTI0N

The legislative committee, chosen
at a recent meeting by the Duluth
Trades and Labor assembly, are al
ready actively at work scrutinizing
the propo~~d legislation about to
come before the state legislature and
probing the personnel of the members
OF the two branches Of that law
making body.
One OF the first tasks which Messrs.
Richard Jones, s. s. Mcdonald and
James Walsh, the members of the
committee, set themselves to perform
was to get from each member of the
St. Louis county delegation a state
ment as to his individual attitude on
the respective matters of municipa!
lighting plant for Duluth and on
the adoption of the initiative, referen-
dunn and recall by the state.
In following out this publicity cam
paign letters were addressed to each
member of the st. Louis county dele
gation asking for reply setting forth
his intended stand on these two mat
ters., y 3
The answers received were not en-
couraging, as a whole. i. &,-.' '.
Three were unequivocally in favor
Of the two propositions. The rest of
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Revolt of Garment Workers Of
Western Metropolis to Be Sub.
ject of Searching Investigation
BY Sucker State Solons- Strike
News. =

CHICAGO, Jan. ia senatorial
investigation of the garment workers
strike, its causes, conditions in the
clothing shops and other matters
connected with it. is promised in a
resolution introduced at Springfield,
authorizing committee Of five thor
oughly to probe the situation and re-
port within thirty days. Strike lead
ers are jubilant over the move
Steps leading to the adjustn ent. OF
the strike through arbitration and to
fix responsibility, with a view to 'legis-,
lation making arbitration compulsory
are contemplated: in the resolution.
Efforts were made to sidetrack the
resolution by referring it to the COM
mittee on mines and mining, but Sen
ator Johan Wage, of Chicago, in
sisted that the matter was urgent,
and it was made a special order for
Tuesday,
Labor's Renewed Efforts.
Renewed efforts to assist the strik-
ing garment workers are being made
by local unions of every trade the
entire nation over.
Realizing that the newspapers and
the big news syndicate agencies have
joined hands with the garment ba-
rons, after reading the truth in the
labor and Socialist press, the forces
Of organized labor are aligning them,
selves to give assistance until victory
has been won for the oppressed
clothing workers.
Morris Seskind, who made a ten
day visit to the East in the interest
of the strikers, declared today that
when he visited the many unions in
Greater New York they were more
than willing to assist.
Was Lie About Girl.
Reports have appeared in the cap
italist press and telegraphed abroad
to the effect that Anna Gibbs,
striking garment worker, had died in
the Michael Reese hospital from ex-
posure to cold, occasioned by her
doing duty as a picket.
The reports are absolutely untrue,
as Miss Gibbs died from an opera
ton performed upon her for appen-
dicitis " -: -
She was on strike for fourteen
weeks, and when stricken down with
the disease, was taken to the hospital
at the expense of the. International
Dramatic and s.societ g 81 1ifeh
She was a member - ~
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ATTEMPT Of EXPRESS
= CO.'S TO BREAK UNION
MAY REOPEN STRIKE

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-The first
step in an attempt to crush the ex-
press drivers union was perpetrated
by the American, National. and the
Westcott Express companies this
week, when they disregared their
promises and discharged 105 men
who were active in the union. Most
of those discharged have been in
the employ Of the companies from
four to five years and their discharge
was unwarranted, as practically all Of
them had good records.
The express companies have re-
Gently started clubs in their barns,
and all the express drivers and helpers
were asked to join. The clubs Or
ganized on the style of the car COM
panies employees associations, and
they were started for the purpose Of
smashing the union.
There is great indignation among
the drivers against the companies for
the discharge of the men, and trouble
may result at any moment. The men
who were discharged had refused to
join the clubs organized by the ex.
press companies and it is said that
this was the cause of their discharge
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-01-14
NEW BUDGET FOR CITY OF -.
MILWAUKEE, SHOWS, UP:
BIG cash DEFICIENCY,

MILWAUKEE,. JAM, 13.-The Mil
waukee board of estimates is working
night and day on the new budget =
Scientific preparation is being given
to it, and when completed it :will
cover 400 typewriter pages, when
heretofore it has. been a loosely drawn
document covering about six sheets
written either in pencil or pen.
The men who are making this bud
get say it is being prepared in a sci
entific way and claim. for 1t that it
is the best ever prepared by all
American municipality
The appropriations for this city
made before the election of Seidel
for the year 1910 were made by the
a schap Of paper the amount he con-
sidered necessary for it's department.
These scraps of paper were after
appeared in tabulated form the
amounts allowed and the totals. 4.
The budget with which the present
board of estimate is struggling, and
which has already disclosed a short
age of 100000 in the city finances,
is quite a. different thing.
In it are alphabetically arranged
the amounts asked for by the depart
ment heads for each subdivision of
their departments, as Well as the total
amount asked for.
When this budget has once been
completed it will show at glance
not only the exact amount allowed
for each specific purpose for which
money Is appropriated by the city,
but the manner in which it is to be
spent as we'll.
Members of the administration
claim that the budget has already
proved itself a necessity in that it
has revealed q shortage in the city's
finance that would not otherwise have
been discovered until it was found,
that certain funds had less than the
amounts they are supposed to con-
tain.
Heretofore it has been customary,
according to City Clerk Thompson, to
draw on certain contingent funds
when the regular appropriations were
exceeded in any department, so that
these funds are at present consider
ably short of the amount they are
supposed to contain. - @..-. -.
/. The board of estimates is confront
ed: with the necessity of pruning the
amounts asked for by the several de-
partment heads to the extent of a
total Of over. $1.00O,O00 on account
of the shortage referred to and the
fact that certain debts that should
have been paid twenty years ago
have been extended from time to
time until the present time, and must
be paid now II 81. ID: d. 55,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-01-14
Boston Mailmen Are Severely
Penalized Because They Warm
ed Up On Cold Day With Hot
Drinks-Protest Made by Bos-
ton Citizens.

BOSTON. Jan. 13.-That three Bos-
ton letter carriers who recently COM
mitted the heinous crime of stopping
to get a sup of coffee on cold
morning after delivering their first
mail and before reporting back to
the postoffice, were each fined $500
from their years salary. is the charge
made by the Carriers Protest COM
mittee' in a communication to the
Boston newspapers.
The committee says that the pun
ishment is "entirely unreasonable as
Il was the first offense of these men,
who have hitherto borne excellent
records for efficiency and sobriety."
1t was stated by postoffice Off
cial, that the Carriers Protest Com
mittee" was misinformed.
LAS matter of fact" said the Of
ficial. the carriers in question are
not fined, but denoted. In other
words. they fail to receive the regular
advancement which means a loss of
not more than 5000 at the outside.
The future conduct Of these car
riers may have the effect of making
their fines only $50 each as they can
be restored to their regular rating
the first Of any quarter. For instance,
if their subsequent conduct proves
that the discipline has been sufficient
they may be restored to their Gus
tomary rating April 1, which means
they will lose ONLY $50
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Unions Of OREGON
START SQUARE DEAL
GOING FOR WORKERS

PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 1s.-""Babies
are born without limit and must live.
and there are always plenty Of york
less men waiting to take dead Fathers
shoes y .<- "
"Oregon has protected iron and
steel machinery, but human machin-
cry has been too cheap to protect;
give the babies chance"
That was part Of the publicity bat
tie turned on Big Business in Oregon
by organized labor this last .Novem-
ber; today Oregon has real sure
enough employers liability law.
For years the worst conditions re-
garding the protection of labor dis
graced Oregon. Today Oregon has
the broadest liability law in the ma
ton. The sudden change didn't come
by itself.
The STEP ahead started in the ranks
Of the Electrical Linemen's Union.
The light and power trust maintained
deadly wires on rotting poles: line
men died, fixed juries from the cor
oner's office to the Circuit court pre-
vented redress for the widows and
babies.
Lincmen Got Busy.
The linemen took their fight to the
finally got behind the fight, and an
employers liability law was initiated
that was real protective law, as
we'll as a certain recompense for rhe
stricken family.
The measure went on the ballot
and then Big Business paved the
air.
1T will kill business!" shouted the
interests; and the political guns were
brought to bear on the measure
through every subservient avenue of
publicity.
Nevertheless the bill passed. AS it
stands it's provisions are:
First, it forces all contractors, own
ers, subcontractors, corporations or
persons engaged in construction work,
manufacturing, operation of machin-
cry. transmission Of electricity or
hazardous employment to select ma
terials. test them, inspect them, and
make them as safe as they would be
If the men who had to work with
them had the say about things.
Few Loopholes.
Every device, care and precaution
possible is the general law now, and
If death or injury comes the fact that
any precaution was omitted is proof
enough that the corporation or en-
ployer was responsible.
Which Is some different from Nhe
old game of killing man and then
making his family prove that it was
not his own carelessness, or the ntg-
.l1Eence aof a. fellow servant. >Fsss. S
Under this law the head of the
corporation, or contracting firm, or
the real man higher up, is responsible
directly and personally; his bosses
and foremen and managers are mere
ly his agents; he is responsible for
their acts himself, and their acts are
his doom, In case of a just suit for
damages.
The contributory negligence of the
man hurt or killed is no longer a de-
Tense in Oregon under this law. but
the amount of damages may be re,
duced by the jury If this be shown.
Likewise, there is no limit to the
damages the injured man can recover
If the jury decides that your eye was
worth 100000, you will get $4,000,
and no Judge can nonsuit your case:
1t Is up to the jury.
1t looks very much as though the
worker was going to get square deal
In oregon from now on.
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CHICAGO LABOR WILL
TRY POLITICAL ACTION

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-The Chicago
Federation Of Labor has voted to take
working class political. action in the
coming municipal campaign. Whether
this will be the formation of a la
Dor party . or the endorsement of
those candidates who will pledge
themselves to support labor's demands
.is to be decided sat a special session
of the Federation called for January
z29. ~ 7~'S'- -'e<s 81 r: Il
r. The political action committee ap-
pointed by President John Fitzpatrick
three weeks ago, recommended that
a majority in the federation strongly.
opposed this upon the ground that
there was danger of such a conven-,
ton being packed by old-party poll
ticians in the unions and the de-.
rnand of the rank and file for inde-,
pendent political action thwarted.
Charles e. Curtis of the typographical
union offered substitute motion
calling for special session of the
federation to decide this matter. He
said that the delegates present were
men and women chosen by their or
CARNATIONS for their trustworthiness
and ability to decide just such ques-
tions and to turn such an important
matter over to special delegates would
be an acknowledgements that the fed
GRAFTON either thought the matter of
little Importance or that it desired
to shirk a duty.
Look what the working people
have done in San Francisco and Mil
Waukee," said Delegate Dodd. "In
the latter city municipal laws have
been passed making the city's work.
day hours and the minimum wage
paid city employe SO day. This,
emphasized Dodd, "is the result of
working class political action"
Curtis motion was finally carried
by large majority, the women de-
legates from the Teachers Federation
taking most active part in support
of the substitute measure and promis-
ing practical support for the coming
labor candidates.
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TRADES COUNC|L 0F
P|TTSbURG AGAINST
COMMISSION GOVT

PITTSBURG, Jan. 13.-The Iron
City Trades Council, the central body
of this city, has put itself on record
as opposed to the commission form
Of government which is being loudly
advocated by the business interests
and capitalists of this city and called
the "Pittsburg plan.'
The resolutions below were adopted
at the meeting Of the council this
week. The subject will also be taken
up and fully discussed at a later
meeting. The resolutions were:
"Resolved, That the 'Pittsburg plan
of commission form of government, as
suggested for adoption at the legis-
lature, is undemocratic and unfair to
a large majority of the people OF
Pittsburg; be it further
Resolved, That we look with fear
upon the centralizing of the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial functions
of municipal government in the hands
of an oligarchy of nine men elected
at large and thereby less respon-
sible. than councilmen elected at the
present time from the wards of the
city: be it further
INcool'eu, lHdL Tie pIOlIlOltIS VI
the Pittsburg plan are worthy of the
severest censure in that they have
considered only the wishes of the
commercial element Of the city in
formulating their, plan and. utterly
lgnertng the working class Of Pitts.
burg, who compose the majority OF
the population; be it further
Resolved, That inasnnuch~ as the
legislature of Pennsylpa1lia lis not like
ly to pass a charter which will give
to the people of this ,scityt'representa-
tive government through the. initiative,
referendum and, recall, that: would
be worth considering, we do not con-
slider this feature of = the .Pittsburg
plan as at all practical or likely to
be executed as promised.
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ALIENS URG[''IAFT Il TO :
LET DOWNIAE BARS"

WASHJNGTON,,@ d. c., Jan. 13.-
A delegation representing the Associa-
tion of Foreign I4anRuage Newspapers
has called upon Rrssident. Taft to
urge the relaxationSs of restrictions
now placed on the admission of im1ni-
grant aliens into t1iis country. The
president gave. the delegates a lengthy
audience the resultapf which is re-
ported to be Of a llsfst satisfying ma
tt1re to- the foreign seai tors and their
hackers, the .: Immigrant carrying
steamship companies. The aggregate
income of these companies; from the
immigrant carrying trade alone, is
estimated at $55,o00,000 annually.
Louis N. Hammerling; president Of
the association; said the practice of
the government in barring those i'm
migrants who came to America on
prepaid tickets was unfair; that the
fact of prepayment should be urged
in favor of admission since it indi-
Gated friends of the arrivals here to
take care of them.
"The American Federation of La
Dor is opposed to the removal of. these
restrictions upon imrnigrantion,' said
Arthur E. Holder, chairman of the
A. F. of L. legislative committee. 1T
is not that we oppose the entrance
into the United States of people COM
ing from foreign countries, there is
no question of nationalities in all this,
but there is q question Of maintaining
the standard Of living for the working
people now in this country. If a
shipload of people arrive in America
destitute they are forced of necessity
to work for sweatshop wages. If the
immigrants are illiterate they are the
easy prey of professional labor skin
ners who coin money from this flood
of ignorance.
II have great hope" continued Mr..
Holder, that the bills of Representa-
tive Hayes and Gardiner, the latter
making All educational test necessary
to entrance into this country, will be
reported from the committee on i'm
migration and in due course pass the
house and senate.
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me AND GODS COIN
TO HANG DYNAM|TERS"
Says Otis Tool
Says Otis Tool

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Jan. 10
Earl Rogers, the special" attorney
who has been in charge of the inves-
tigation of the Times disaster. has
made the following statement:
Just as sure as there is God in
heaven we will get those union dyna-
miters and convict them.
There isn't chance for the dyna-
miters to get away. We know the
men, their connections with the labor
unions Of San Francisco and with the
high officials Of those labor unions.
And there is reward of $4,000 for
the arrest of each. So sure are we Of
convicting them on the evidence we
have in hand that the rewards have
been offered without the customary
conditions that they be convicted.
The names of four of the persons
indicted by the grand jury will not
be announced until they are wanted
for trial. The reason for this Is that
we want to try M. A. Schmidt, j. B.
Bryson and David Caplan first. These
are the three who were indicted yes
terday by name. The reason for try
ing these three first is because we have
perfect cases against them. The other
names are kept secret because we
oont want the union to force us in
to trying our weaker cases first
Schmidt, Caplan and Bryson are,
or at least were. members of the
Metal Workers Union in San Francis
co. They were intimate associates of
the big bosses of all the unions, and
were in close conference with them
Tor some time just before they bought
tne dynamite with which they blew
up the Times building and murdered
twenty-one employees
Those three men and their friends
believe they are safe. I cannot dis
close the information we have as to
their whereabouts, but they will be
found before long, brought to Los
Angeles, and placed on trial. And as
sure as there is a God i'm heaven they
will be convicted. Then will come
the others. At least seven persons
will pay the penalty"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-01-14
ILLINOIS SENATE Will
PROBE. CHICAGO STRIKE
NAVY YARD ELECTRICIANS
VICTIMS OF FAVORITISM

NEW YORK, JAN. 13.-Unlesss a
promised decrease in wages is forth
coming on February 1 there is talk
of a general strike among the third
class electricians at the Brooklyn navy
yard by. the middle Of next month
The electricians are dissatisfied be-
cause some OF them were reduced
from second to third class mechanics:
The charge that only favorites were
given an increase in pay, while those
not friendly with the powers that be
were, re-rated in order that they
could not get a raise. ~. ,
The local union of the electricians
which was formed only short time
ago: at the yard has the matter in
hand, and will await developments
before it takes any action. :
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SHOW COURT FEB. II
THAT PEOPLE RESENT
SENTENCE Of WARREN
Urges Debs.

G1RARD, Kan, Jan. 13.-Eugene
V. Debs has uttered resounding call
to arms against the imprisonment
of Fred D. Warren, editor of the APP
peal to Reason. The January is
sue of the Appeal contained the bat
tie cry of Debs printed in big type
and covering the entire first page Of
the paper. Debs reviews recent judi
cial outrages and calls upon the IL
berty lovers of America to prepare
for monster protest meetings to be
held on February IL, the anniversary
OF Lincoln's birthday.
Says Debs in part:
The courts of law. so called, under
the capitalist system exercise the
most despotic power to maintain cap
italist misrule. From their decision
there is no appeal, except to the
people.
The arbitrary imprisonment of
Fred D. Warren, the editor of a.
working class paper, without the
slightest warrant of law, is the
climax of a long series of outrages
perpetrated by the courts to muzzle
the press and silence protest against
corporation misrule. . -
In every age and in every nation
since there has been press, it has
been either prostituted to serve the
ends of corrupt ruling class, or ar
bitrarily suppressed.
The ruling class has always been
the enemy of free press, free speech
and free people. s
Free Press First.
Thomas Jefferson said.
Were it left to me to decide
whether we should have govern
ment without newspapers, or news
papers without a. government, :.
should not hesitate a moment to pre-
fer the latter
Their alleged prosecution of Baer's
coal trust was q comedy and resulted
in a fiasco. The owl-eyed judges
could not even discover. that any
such trust had ever been in existence.
The filming of the glass trust a lew
dollars for having stolen millions;
the imprisonment of three poor, for
lorn wage slaves of the sugar trust
for the colossal swindle of the gov
ernment, allowed the. trust magnates
who pocketed the millions to riot in
their plunder unmo]ested; the opera
bouffe assaults upon the beef trust,
the tobacco trust, the steel trust,
winding up with the roaring farce
In high judicial vaudeville of the
twenty -nine-million dollar! fine of the
Standard OIL trust. are all shining ex-
amples. Of the, miscarriage Of Justice
in our corporation owned courts.
February 12, the anniversary OF
Lincoln's birthday cannot be more
patriotically celebrated than by the
in auguration Of a national demon
stration of protest against the des-
potic encroachmen OF the capitalists
courts s%ts 81 s5 tz5 #5s