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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-15

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United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
Death Reaps a Horrible Harvest as a
Result of Corporations Failure to
Safeguard Life.

According to a statement made by
Edward Wegmann, the distinguished
civil engineer, the disaster at Austin,
Pa, caused by the breaking of the Bay
less dam, could have been averted at
cost of $4,000. Failure on the part
of the owners to provide this amount
caused fearful catastrophe in which
the lives of over $50 men and women
and children were sacrificed and all the
earthly possessions of hundreds more
were swept away by the death dealing
flood. The following statement from Mr..
Wegmann appeared in the Washington
Herald:
Mr. Haitian wrote me January %,
1910, asking me to give him some en-
gineering advice on reinforcement of
the dam" said Mr. Wegmann today.
agreed to do so and Mr.. Hatton called
upon me shortly thereafter at my office
in this city. Mr.. Hatton submitted to
me the plans according to which ne had
constructed the dam at Austin, Pa, and
stated that the dam had commenced to
move, and was in a dangerous condi-
ton
"Mr Hatton said the base Of the dam
had already slid eighteen inches, and
that the top of the dam was thirty-one
inches away from it's original position.
The calculation which | made with
reference to the stability OF the dam
showed that the profile adopted for the
construction of the dam would have
been sufficiently strong provided the
dam had been built on pervious rock
foundation. AS matter of fact, the
dam was built on a very pervious foun-
dation of sandstone which was more or
less fssured. l found that taking into
account the upward pressure of the
the water under the base of the dam,
the structure was in very dangerous
condition, and | advised Mr.. Hatton to
build an additional amount of masonry
on the downstream side of the dam and
to construct a cutoff wall of masonry
or puddle at the upstream face-this
cutoff to reach down to an impervious
stratum | also suggested that the dam
might be held by building a cutoff wall
and adopting a rock filling on the down
stream face as a reinforcement.
Il submitted my report to Mr.. Hatton
and received a reply in which Mr.. Hat
ton stated that he fully agreed with my
recommendation and intended to submit
them to his clients with some addi-
tional precautionary measures as re-
CARDS water-proofing between the cut
off wall and the upstream face of the
dam"
Mr.. Wegmann exhibited two letters
from Mr. Hatton, the first under date of
February 1G, 1910. In this letter Mr..
Hatton said that he intended advising
his clients to adopt both precautions
recommended by Mr.. Wegmann.
On February 10, 1910, Mr.. Hatton
wrote:
"The dam cost originally $4,000, not
including engineering expenses. | am
| glad to note that you coincide with my
ideas, but fear my clients will fear to
spend the s25,OGO or 100000 necessary
to render the dam absolutely safe
, THE Company evidently did fear to
spend the comparatively trihing sum,
said Mr. Wegmann Significantly, "foi
nothing was done on the dam"
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
FOR HER UNION.
Becky Fisher, Arrested Thirty-Nine
Times in Eleven Weeks is Still
Loyal to the Cause.

All movements for the uplift have
had their heroes. heroines and martyrs,
and the labor movement is no eXcep-
tion to the rule The strike that is now
going on in Cleveland has developed
many characters. among them Becky
Fisher, frail young girl, II years old,
who has displayed great courage and
instilled confidence into her fellow
strikers. And she is only one OF sew
eral hundreds of girls who are gal
lantly holding the fort of unionlsm and
repulsing every attack of inscriptions
employers who are daily attempting TO
scale the breastworks of organized
labor A better fight has never been
Witnessed The girls are exhibiting a
spirit of self sacrifice that stirs the
he arts of all honest men and women.
For fifteen weeks 6,000 members OF
the international Ladies' Garment
workers Union have been on strike IL
Cleveland O. Two thousand OF the
strikers are women and girls and nc
advance movement has had braver OF
more self-sacrificing eXponents than the
girl strikers, who are now fighting FOL
the very life of their union in the nome
city of John D. Rockefeller
Hounded by the private detectives
and slnggers of the avaricious employ
ers driven from the streets and ar
rested by the city police. the women
have maintained the picket line, and
with undaunted spirit continue the
frht for living wages, reasonable hours
OF labor and industrial freedom Even
the specter of the jail with all its at
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
AN OBSERVING BISHOP.
Tells churchmen That Conditions Under
Which the Masses Labor Should
Not Be Tolerated.

In Birmingham, Eng, a clergyman
has labored for seven years and lived
on So a week. The remainder of his
salary has been used in succoring the
needy and his life has been spent study
ing conditions under which the work
ers labor.
This clergyman, DR.. Gore, is one of
the most noted divines in England and
has recently been made Bishop of OK
ford On leaving Birmingham, he wrote
the following letter to the diocese:
zone special sense of failure weighs
upon me which 1 cannot keep to my
self / feel that among the objects
which | most seriously set before my
self there is no one in which l have
failed more signally than in stirring
among churchmen in general sense of
their duty to contribute to the social
and industrial reconstruction of our
nation. There Is a profound sense of
unrest and dissatisfaction among the
workers. Recently society has been
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
AS OTHERS SEE HIM.

President eompers Characterized as
the Chosen Exponent and Champion
of the Working Glasses.
In Fresno, Cal, great multitude
turned out to welcome and listen to
President Gompers. His address was
well received by the workers, and the
following editorial from the Fresno Daily
Herald shows how he impressed the dis
interested public;
The magnificent audience which
faced the president of the American
Federation of Labor at the Barton
Opera House last night was something
more than a personal greeting to Mr..
Gompers. 1t was a demonstration of
the strength and the solidarity of Or
ganized labor.
There have been other occasions upon
which Fresno's forum was crowded to
capacity by men and women anxious to
hear a national or a state leader.
Perhaps never before has there been
gathering so nearly wholly composed
of the workers of the community. Ger
tainly it is long time since an audience
of workers ajoined so heartily in
tribute to one man. Gompers stands
before the people of the United States
as the chosen exponent and champion
of the working masses. 1t must be an
inspiration to find those whom he rep
resents so enthusiastic and unanimous
in their appreciation of his work
From an experience of twenty-nine
years as the president of the fedora
ton, during which he has been in close
touch with the growth of the labor
movement in all its phases, counselling
with the representatives of labor in all
parts of the world, Gompers speaks with
authority. His utterances, fraught with
bitterness as sometimes they are, can
not lightly be dismissed as might those
OF a man of less intimate acquaintance
with the subjects he touches upon. His
arraignment of the courts which have
construed the law unfavorably to the
cause Gompers champions, was strong
and mastery.
"One cannot wonder that to such
man, fighting a battle for millions Of his
fellows against INSCRIPTIONS foes, it
should seem that laws and courts are
merely instruments by which the powers
of wealth defend themselves and harass
others. Experience of biased judges
has not tended to soften Gomper's heart
toward the judiciary. Antiquities in
laws which have been availed of to per-
petrate injustice are, to him, not an evil
dence of loose law-making, but the proof
of malignant design on the part of
labor's foes. His attitude is necessarily
Lhdl VI d uSutei WIZ SApeSlS INC enemy
to resort to the tactics of war. He
would not have attained, or retained,
his position had he been of the judicial
temperament which weighs and consid-
ers. Born leaders of men are rarely
capable of dispassionate judgment.
"Gompers has proven himself by his
work. Organized labor trusts him and
he has honored the trust. Fresno's
workers cannot but be encouraged by
his visit. 1t is impossible to believe that
Mr. Gompers, on his side, has not re-
ceiyed inspiration from his reception in
Fresno"
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12

deeply alarmed at it's symptoms. I can
not but believe that this profound dis
content is justified, though some par
ticular exhibitions of it are not. The
longer l have lived in this great indus
trial center the more l have felt that as
Christians we are not justified in toll
Grating the conditions of life and labor
under which vast mass of our popu-
lation is living. We have no right to
say that these conditions are not
remediable, and we have no right to
expect that they will be remedied until
Christian hearts and Christian heads
energetically demand and insist that
they shall be altered. Social science
will help us to avoid mistakes, but only
the real love of man can give the i'm
pulse to effective reform.
- The preventible lack of
equipment for life among the young, and
later the insecurity of employment and
inadequacy of remuneration, and con
sequent destitution or semi-destitution
among so many of our people, ought TO
inspire in all Christians a profound and
passionate system l cannot but pray
from my heart that my successor may
be enabled to bring home to church
men generally a deeper sense of their
social obligations"
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
Go to Bauer's, 1912 Curtis, for fresh
candies and bon bons.
GAINS RECOGNITION.

Lamp makers employed by the Hud-
son Lamp Company, at New York City,
have gained an important victory.
Sometime ago they presented demands
to the representatives of the company
which were denied and they were forced
to go on strike. The workers fought
valiantly and every attempt on the part
of the employers to break the strike
failed. A complete victory followed
the company agreeing to recognize the
union, granted a nine-hour day and time
and one-half for overtime. Other i'm
portant concessions were also granted
Bauers bon bons are the best. Try
them.
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12

tendant horrors for frail women has not
kept them from responding to the call
of duty, and scores of them are ar
rested daily for attempting to exercise
the rights of American citizens.
Humiliating and mortifying trips in
the patrol abuse at the hands of bullies,
private detectives and city police and
even confinement in vile cages in sta
ton houses have all failed to break the
spirit of the strikers and the battle is
being waged with undiminished vigor
and marvellous courage. There can only
be one ending for such a conflict and
that a complete victory for the strikers.
Becky Fisher has been arrested
thirty-nine times in eleven weeks and
driven in the patrol to the station
house because she refused to surrender
her right to talk to her fellow workers
and try to persuade them not to take
the places of the strikers and help un-
scrupulous employers to defeat honest
toilers. She has been insulted and
abused by those who should have been
her protectors. Becky has never
flinched. Released from endurance vile
she has always hastened back to the
scene of the fray to succor and cheer
her fellow unionists.
She has a horror of the police the
patrol wagon and the jail but her union
is as sacred to her as was Old Glory
to Barbara Fritchie. and fear is an un-
known quality to this little girl when
she is fighting for her loved union and
the cause it represents.
Becky is now on the road pleading for
funds to enable her brothers and sis
ters to continue the struggle against
the Cleveland labor crushers. Her ap-
peal is from the heart and should meet
ready response from all union men and
women.
The strikers want a ffty-hour instead
of a seventy-five-hour week, the aboli-
tion of the sub-contract system, and the
charge of % cents day for the use of
the machines and many other very OBJ
noxious conditions.
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United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
DRIVEN TO REBELLION.

Three hundred men, women, boys and
girls employed in the plant of the
American Druggists Syndicate in New
York have gone on strike as protest
against unbearable conditions. The
strikers have been the recipients of eX-
ceedingly small wages and have been
compelled to work from 1880 a. m. to
G:30 p. m. Recently a system similar
to the Taylor system was established; ;
the workers protested and declared
they could not stand the strain, and
their complaint was answered by the
issuance of an order requiring them to
work from 1880 a. m. to p. m. and IL
p. m. without extra compensation.
Seventy-five men walked out and were
followed by the remainder of the work
ers. The plant is now guarded by the
police.
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
After dinner. try a Principe de Lees
THE mlnoTAuR DEvouRs AGAIN.

With jaws of steel and fiery breath
the modern Minotaur continues its work
of destruction strewing its path with
helpless victims. 1t spares neither old
age or youth and the strong and the
weak are alike helpless when enveloped
by its destroying influence.
Speeding along, the Gettysburg ex-
express, on the Western Maryland rail
road, on account of spreading rails,
jumped the tracks near the Maryland
Pennsylvania line, and sixteen pas
sengers were badly injured. The smok-
ing car turned over and rolled down an
embankment, manning and bruising its
helpless occupants. A relief train with
physicians aboard was rushed to the
scene of the catastrophe.
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
Try a Principe de Lees cigar for a
after-dinner smoke.
A MULTITUDE OF STRIKERS.

A report issued by the labor depart
ment of the Board of Trade, shows that
in the month of August there were on
strike 14S,OOO railway workers, $4,000
dock laborers, carmen and others; 3d.
600 dock workers, seamen, etc, at Liver
pool and Birkenhead; 5000 carriers at
Manchester, and $500 and 1000 tram
waymen at Glasgow and Leeds, respec-
lively.
There were 100 new disputes during
the month affecting 365,256 more than
in August last year.
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12

Beats them all. La Belle SC cigar
Union-made
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12

The La Belle is good smoke for s
cents. Try one.
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
Allied Printing Trades Council
rhomaa AutsE. see.-rreaa.. Boz l4az.

The following printing firms are en-.
titled to use the label in Denver:
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12

Try Principe de Lees for good
rmoke
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
VICTIMS OF CORPORATE GREED.

Bauers ice cream has become famous
United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12

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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11
BISHOP VERDAGUER
Of Texas Dies Suddenly After Long
and Useful Career,

Right Rev. Peter Verdaguer, D. D.,
who for the last twenty-one years has
filled with such ability and distinction
the exalted Office of Vicar Apostolic of
the important missionary diocese of
Brownsville, Texas. died suddenly Oc-
tober 29. He was ordained to the holy
priesthood in his native land and, fired
with missionary zeal, he came to the
United States and began his labors
in the Spanish missions of California,
He became rector of a church in Los
Angeles, where he did such thorough
work that his ability brought him to
the notice of the American Hierarchy
and when the Vicariate Apostolic OF
Brownsville, Texas, became vacant by
the elevation Of the Right Rev. Dom
inic ManueS to the See of Mobile
Father Verdaguer was chosen to sue
ceed him in this important section OF
Texas.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11
A Miraculous Cure.

Elizabeth Agnes Caigan, an 1S-year-
old girl, who for two years has lain a
cripple, suffering all the time intense
pain, walked more than a quarter of
mile unassisted, Oct. 81, to st. Peter
and PauIs church, where she heard a
Mass in thanksgiving for a wonderful
cure brought about, she believes
through a novena to Our Lady Of Per-
petual Help, at whose shrine in the
Mission church. Roxbury, many mir
acles are said to have occurred.
Her crutches, splints. a steel brace
that extended from her instep to her
waist, and other special apparatus
contrived to meet the requirements OF
her case, lie discarded. Where some
OF the best surgeons fail, she says, a
fervent prayer has completely restored
her health.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11
DOMESTIC TRIBUNAL
This Is a Court for. Arbitratins nl
vorce Questions.

A court has been established in
Chicago which it is hoped will pre-
vent some of the divorce suits which
are so common nowadays.
The head of the court is Judge
Goodnow, and the people who are
saved by him from telling their trou-
bles to a policeman are mainly wo-
men, wA4le the people about whom
they are troubled are men. The trou-
blous story is first of all told to a
woman, Mrs. Leavitt, not a police ma
tron, but sort Of human sympathizer
intelligenlly guided.
She Is able to adjust many domes.
tic tangles without their going into
court at all. When the court comes
in as factor "she keeps the record
and has friendly relations with the
home side of the case" All cases in.
volving women as women, and all
cases OF children, except those belong
ing to the Juvenile Court, now arc
segregated and tried by the Court o
Domestic Relations.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11
Before the First Shot at Tripoli.

A pathetic and appealing episode OF
the bombardment Of Tripoli is the
subject Of a full-page illustration in
"The Graphic" London. 1t was the
hosting of the Red Cross flag Of the
Geneva convention on the roof OF the
hospital, to act as q warning-off no.
tice to the Italian gunncrs and afford
protection to the Italian Sisters of
Mercy, who nobly decided to remain
at their posts in order to carry on
their duties among those who might
be injured through the operations. The
Sisters Of Mercy were. as fact, with
the exception Of the Apostolic Prcfect
OF Tripoli and some Capuchin monks,
the only Italians in the town during
the bombardment.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11
Three Daughters Enter Convent.

Miss Frances Z. Potts, daughter OF
Rear Admiral Robert Potts (retired),
entered upon her novitiate in the Car
melite convent, Caroline and Biddle
streets. She is the third daughter OF
the Admiral to enter a religious order,
Miss Marie Potts, the eldest Of the
trio of sisters who have taken the veil,
founded a convent in Manila, and the
second sister entered Carmelite con-
vent in Philadelphia.
Admiral Potts is one Of the most in
teresting characters in the city. Lit
tie Is generally known of him, as he
is not fond of society himself He is
from Pennsylvania, and has lived in
Baltimore only for a few years, al
though he married q Baltimore girl
He served in the Civil and Spanish
wars as an engineer on United States
warships, and was all engineer on the
cruiser Baltimore on the occasion of
her memorable visit to Valparaiso
Chile, when two Of her sailors were
mobbed and International complica-
tions seemed likely to follow.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11
BALFOUR RETIREs
At Caucus Next Monday New Unionis,
Leader Will Be Chosen.


London, Nov. 9.-The Unionist party
is to swap horses while crossing the
Home Rule stream. Arthur J. Bal.
four at an emergency meeting of the
City of London Conservative associa-
ton yesterday afternoon announced to
his constituents his retirement from
the leadership Of the opposition.
Impaired health, increasing age. and
the desirability of the leadership's
passing into younger hands, are the
reasons he gave in speech marked
by much feeling. But no one doubts
that the increasing attacks against
him by the ambitious younger Con-
servatives, particularly the tariff re-
formers, were the principal factor.
While a number of influential I'm
Austen Chamberlain and F. T. Smith,
have been demanding his retirement
from the leadership, few believed MIR.
Balfour would drop the helm In such
an important stage of the party's for
tunes. Lord Lansdowne, opposition
leader in the House of Lords, denied
reports that he would also withdraw.
Mr.. Balfour will remain in the
House of Commons, although he would
be elevated to the peerage if he de-
sired
A caucus Monday will choose new
leader.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11

case of Irish Self-Government they
would be scrupulously careful of the
rights and privileges of the minority.
In the case of Welsh Disestablishment
he would be liberal--even more than
liberal-to vested interests, and even
to reasonable expectations. That was
the spirit in whicl he wished to ap-
proach both those tasks, and he and
his colleagues would do SO believing
they followed in the lines of the great
Liberal statesmen OF the past.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11
Columbus Day for All America.

According to press dispatches move
ment has been started by the Knights
of Columbus in the west to make Col
umbus day a holiday in the western
hemisphere from pole to pole. The
day now is generally dn twenty-nine
states, only) observed on October IL
in the United States, and the Canadian
parliament is to be asked to declare
1t a holiday in the dominion.
Then Mexico will be urged to join
in the observation, and on down
through Central and South America
the countries will be requested one by
one to make this day one Of observance
in honor of the discoverer of Amer
ics