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The Washington herald., 1911-04-12

Charles Provost was yesterday fined IS
in the Police Court for assaulting his
wife and Sergt. Whalen, of the Ninth
precinct 1t is said Prevost's past record
is good, he having been employed until
recently in lumber mill.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-12
JUSTICE HUGHES FoRTY.NINE
Bouquets Decorated His Place on
Supreme Court Bench.

Justice Charles E. Hughes, who was
forty-nine years old yesterday. was sur
prised when he took his seat on the
Supreme Court bench to find several
bouquets decorating his place.
Next Monday Justice Day will be sixty
two years old and Justice Van Devanter
fifty-two
The Washington herald., 1911-04-12
LOCAL MENTION.
EXCURSIONS TO-DAY.

Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Cnmpary's
steamers from foot Of Serenth for Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk daily at SIS p. m
Steamer Charles Manchester for Mount Vernon
leaves Seventh street wharf at 10 a. m and ,s5
n m daily except Sunday.
Cars from Fifteenth street and New York avenue
every quarter hour for Zoo Psrk, Chevy Chase. and
kensington.
Washington. Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Railway operates sIty-thr limited trains each day
between Washington and Baltimore. leaving Fiji
teenth street and New York the hour
and half hour.
To Mount Vernon electric trains Of Washington
Virginia Railway leave from their station. lah and
Pa. ave-. opposite rost-oaice the hour from 10
l.. N. to 2. m
The Washington herald., 1911-04-12
Fined for AssauItinE Wife,

Shafer's Stock of Easter Flowers
and plants merits your inspection. 18th &
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
Printers STRIKE IS
NOW DECLARED OFF
Matters in Dispute With Hearst
Management Will Be Settled
By Arbitration.
Publication of Full Sized PAPERS
Is Resumed in all Chica-
go Offices.

CHICAGO, Mar. 9.-Publication
of full sized papers was resumed in
all Chicago newspaper offices today,
the Hearst printers having returned
to their machines, pending a settle
ment of their difficulties.
The return came only after heated
discussion over telegram from Inter-
national President Lynch which
ordered the strikers to return. The
printers for time we're for declaring
war on the International, on the
ground that Lynch did not under
stand the local situation. Cooler
heads, however. prevailed and the
strike was declared off.
The method for settling the dispute
has not been determined, but arbi-
tration probably will be resorted to-
AS soon as the strike was declared
off, the other papers ceased their
virtual lockout" and full publication
was resumed
The following significant paragraph
appears in the Examiner, the morn
ing edition of the Hearst papers:
Ever since it's establishment as q
newspaper the Examiner has been a
union office and hopes to continue
so. But arbitrary dictation and a re-
fusaT to live up to the contracts en-
tered into in good faith will not be
tolerated under any circumstances and
no matter what the COST ''........;
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
URGES PROSECUTION
OF GARMENT BOSSES
Illinois State Senate Committee
Expose Acts of Clothing
Manufacturers.
Conditions Says the Committee
Call for Immediate Prosecu-
tion of the Offenders.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Mar. 9.-1m-
mediate criminal prosecution of the
ready-made clothing manufacturers
of Chicago on charges of boycotting
and blacklisting garment workers is
advocated in the report of the state
senatorial committee which investi-
gated the recent garment workers
strike.
The report declares that the cloth
ing manufacturers are banded to-
gether as part of a New York trade
association, and that they maintain
labor bureau.
This bureau, the committee finds,
maintains a rigid boycott and black
list.
The committee further charges that
the clothing manufacturers raised and
lowered wages at will, forcing their
employees, by means of the blacklist,
to keep their jobs and shutting to
them the doors of factories which
paid righer wages.
The report urging the prosecution
was drawn up by one member and
submitted to the other members Of
the committee, but they have not yet
taken formal action on it. g.. u.s. .i.-~
According to him, however. he has
assurances that it will become the re-
port of the committee in substantially
the form in which he wrote it. .ss
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
Regrets Mine Workers Gratuitous
Attack upon the National
Organization.
IS CONSISTENT ADVOCATE
OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE
President Low Reluctantly Ac.
cepts Resignation to Take
Effect, March 81. 1911.

NEW YORK, March 9.-John Nit
|chel ex-president of the United Mine
Workers of America, and recently
chairman of the trade agreement de-
partment of the National Civic fed
GRAFTON, made public his resignation
Of his office and membership in the
latter 1t was announced that Presi-
dent Seth Low of the Civic federation,
had accepted the resignation, to take
effect at the close of the present
month.
Mr.. Mitchell's severance of rela-
tions with the Civic federation fol-
lows the stand recently taken by the
United Mine Workers of America in
declaring that any member Of their
organization accepting a position with
the National Civic federation would
thereby forfeit membership in the
union. With this choice placed be-
fore him, Mr.. Mitchell decided to re-
sign from the Civic federation.
Unions Action Disapproved.
His letter of, resignation says in
part:
AT the recent International con-
vention of the United Mine Workers
of America, an amendment to the
| constitution of that organization was
adopted providing that any member
| of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, accepting position as member
of the National Civic federation, shall
! forfeit his membership in the union.
1T is needless to say that I regret
the action of the miners convention
not SO much that it requires me to
choose between the two organizations
as because of the unjust and gratui-
tous attack upon the National Civic
federation, which in addition to its
! many other useful public activities
has stood consistently as an advo.
cate of righteous industrial peace"
| Low Accepts Resignation.
President Lows acceptance Of the
resignation says in part: =
Il greatly regret the action taker
at the in ternational convention Of
! the United Mine Workers of Americe
which as constrained you to make
this decision. Under the. circum.
| stances, however, think the course
you have taken is both natural ant
proper.
/ ION behalf of the National Civic
! fer. Grafton. l therefore accept your re,
signation from the executive council
and from the organization itself anc
release you from your contract al
chairman of the trade agreement de,
partment of the federation. All tt
take effect on March 81, 1911"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
WOMEN'S UNION LABEL
LEAGUE LOCAL NO. 23O
Important Meeting to be Held at
Kalamazoo Hall Monday Even-
ing, March 20.
Loyal Union Men Their Wives and
Daughters Cordially Invited
to Attend

Women's Union Label League, To-
cal No. 230, will hold an open meet
ing in their hall in Kalamazoo block
on Monday evening, March 20; ad-
dresses appropriate to the occasion
will be delivered by we'll known la
Dor men. after which the audience
will be entertained at card playing.
The entertainment committee of the
league will serve refreshments. A
cordial invitation to be present Is ex-
tended to all union men, their wives
and daughters.
The local is composed Of bright.
widewake women, who never fail to
grasp every opportunity that presents
itself to advance the cause in which
they are so vitally interested.
The general officers of the Union
Label department of the American
Federation Of Labor are:John 3
Lennon, president, Bloomington, III.
Thomas F. Tracy, secretary-treasurer,
70s.709.71O Ouray building, Washing
ton, d. c.: Executive Board: First
Vice President. John F. Tobin.2 246
Summerstreet, Boston, Mass; Second
Vice President, J. w. Hays, Newton
Claypool building, Indianapolis, Ind
Third Vice President, Owen Miller
1886 Pine street, St. Louis, Mo-;
Fourth Vice President. Jacob Fischer
222 East Michigan street. indianapolis
Ind; Fifth Vice President. r. A
Rickert. Room 41S, 275 La Sale
street, Chicago, III.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
Southern Minnesota Senators
Don't Like Way St. Louis
County Is Reapportioned.
SHOE-STRING DISTRICTS
CAUSE MUCH SUSPICION
Prayer of Northern Minnesota
May Be Unanswered Because
of Bad Politics.
Special Correspondence.
(By w. F.. McEwen.)


The re-apportionment bill stands a
mighty slim chance Of passing sue
cessfully through the senate. The
senate committee met yesterday af-
ternoon and by a vote of to de-
cided to recommend the bill with a
few slight amendments for passage.
However, this is no indication of the
temper of the senate. In fact two
of the senator's from St. Louis county
said today that the bill was doomed.
The manner in which the st. Louis
county districts have been strung out
like great shoe strings is common
talk about the capitol. If three of the
proposed legislative districts in which
are located the first, second. third,
fourth, fifth and sixth wards Of
Duluth could be strung out one above
the other they would make a strip
of land 396 miles long and miles
wide. This strip would extent from
the Canadian border to the Iowa state
line. Two of the district, if attached
lenthwise. would run clean across
the state from Wisconsin to North
Dakota.
The proposed 55 th., district begins
at the foot Of Garfield avenue ir
tance of 120 miles 1t is twelve miles
across at it's widest point. At its
beginning on Garfield avenue it t<
scarcely one half mile wide. 1t ex.
tends from Third avenue west tC
Twenty-first avenue, a distance of one
and one half miles. After it leave:
the city limits west of Duluth Height:
it traverses in a zigzag manner
through several townships including
the north half Of Hermantewn, which
will enjoy the unique distinction o.
being in two legislative districts.
r. Taxing a stair Hike course through
Canosia, Grand Lake and 1ndepen
dence the district finally gets it,
northward bearings and runs straigh
for the Canadian border. AS i
reaches Virginia it temporarily mar
rows to a width of 9 miles, in orde1
that Virginia might be kept in thu
same district as Hibbing.
When the district reaches the tow1
of Buyck it narrows to six miles
and continues at that width to tho
Canadian line. The towns of Eveleth
Mckinley, Gilbert, Sparata and Mis-
sabi Mountain are in this district
1t has population of 39,281, o1
which 19,499 are In the Fifth ant
Sixth wards of Duluth.
Strange to say the district having
the largest opulation consists of the
city of Virginia, Hibbing and the
surrounding country. Its population
is 42,591. The smallest district ir
population consists of the First ware
Of Duluth, Lake and Cook counties
1t numbers just 26,628 Inhabitants.
The total population of St. Louis
Lake and Cook counties is given az
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
WORDS Of Warning
bYMRS.STARkWEATHER
Something Must Be Done 1mmedi.
ately to Protect Our Young
Women from Dishonor.
White Slave Traders in Cities are
Constantly Becoming More
Boldly Arrogant.

ST. PAUL, Mar. SIN a conversa-
ton the other day with Mrs. Perry
Starkweather, head of the woman's 8
department, state labor bureau, she
strongly declared white slave trad
ers in the Twin Cities and the North
west are daily becoming more bold
ly arrogant and that something must
be done Immediately if our young wo-
men are to be protected"
There is hardly an evil, said Mrs.
Starkweather that confronts the mo-
dern woman that could not be miti-
gated by system of education that
has for it's object the fitting of wo-
mon for the highest, noblest place
they can occupy, that of a happy
wifehood and an American home
Referring to the work being done
by the bureau she said:
This department has taken girls
from the street at night and has
found for them profitable employ
ment, but we cannot hope to sue
cessfully fight this great evil which.
is growing upon us unless we have
the cooperation of the fathers and
mothers.
Few parents seem to realize the
dangers which lurk at every corner
for their daughters. If they did they
would keep them off the streets at
night.
THE public dance hall is one of
the worst places in which the white
SLAYER plies his trade. The wineroom
is but a step from this, usually the
natural sequences takes the girl first
to the dance hall, then to the wine
room and the cheap hotel.
Ito say that youth falls an easy
victim to the vicious, the depraved,
the debased. is to state an unhappy
truth which experience has taught U.S.
The smooth, oily individual who pro-
cures young girls for his awful mis-
sion all too often is successful in his
quest. . :
mo girl starts out to be wrong, but
step by step they are led into it un-
til they have gone too far. There is
always q hand ready to push them
futher downward. -. .~> r. -
This traffic must be ended or the
American home will be ruined. It is
appalling, and the white slave ques-
ton Is becoming the most vital and
important in the country 5 !. ,s.= q.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
STATE LABOR COUNCIL
WILL CONVENE SUNDAY
Busy Session of Executive Board
Of State Federation of
Labor Expected.
Plans for Next Convention-Re-
ports From Officers-Future
Work Discussed.

ST. PAUL, March S.-The regular
quarterly meeting of the executive
council of the Minnesota State Fede-
ration of Labor will be held in St.:
Paul on Sunday. This will be the
last regular meeting of the council
proceeding the Mankato convention.
and the day will be occupied by dis
cussing plans for that meeting.
In addition reports will be received
from the vice presidents of work
done during the last three months
in every congressional district in the
state. Organizer Chubbuck, who has
been at Winona during the past two
months, will tell of his work there.
President Howley will report on his
work among the railway mail clerks.
G. H. Becker, the legislative agent
for the federation will give an ex-
haustive report of the progress of
labor legislation before the state law
making body. The council will un-
doubtedly take action on working
mems compensation, and the officers
Of the federation will be instructed to
center their efforts on at least one
bill.
The secretary-treasurer will report
the work of his office for the quarter.
His financial report will show receipts
amounting to $4,036.23, and disburse.
ments amount to $3,39S.07. The
federation has been aided by the af-
f1liation of twelve new unions, maxi
ing total of twenty-six for the last
nine months.
Steps will be taken to continue thu.
work of organization during the
spring. There are calls for organ
izers from Duluth and other north
.ern Minnesota points. l.. r. Porter.
vice president from st. Cloud, has
resigned on account of leaving the
state. His successor will be- chosen
by. the council. @5.s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
CARPENTERS UNION
LOCAL NUMBER 361
An Organization of Many Hun
dred Men and an Effective
Force for Unionism.
Trade Conditions Quiet During
Winter Months But Much
Activity in Prospect.

Carpenters union, local No. 361 is
fully alive to the industrial advan-
tages achieved through organization.
Every member OF the local is fully
imbued with the thought that pro-
eress, growth and aspiration are the
right and privilege of every human
being, and that in the matter Of gen
eral maturity and development of in
dustrial conditions, society, even now
has only arrived at the experimental
stage, as compared with what is yet
to be achieved. and certain of realiza
their duty and heartily cooperate fol
the common good.
Our esteemed friends Bro. A. J.
Hase, recording secretary of the To-
cal, and Bro. Alfred l.. Board an
active private. were callers at our Of
flee recently, and both expressed great
confidence in the glorious future, and
abounding power of the trades union
movement.
The good brothers referred to are
sincere Delivers in the great value and
power of the union label, as an en-
blem Of loyalty, fraternity and hon
est work we'll performed.
Bro. Hase, considers it largely an
Individual question. That every union
man should determine in his own
mind whether he shall support and
assist the employer who in return
| assists him by employing union labor
| under union conditions and placing
| on the market union-made goods, OF
whether he shall support the en-
ployer who employees non-union help
working them under a system of long
hours and starvation wages. and who
places on the market the produc,
of the scab.
I'VE are not true to ourselves and
to our organization when we are
forgetting that outside of our obliga-
tions to our own craft we have q
duty to perform? When a man joins
a union he does so for purpose OF
protecting his own interest, a. duty
which he owes to himself but when
he remains indifferent towards the
interests of his fellow workers o1
other trades, he is not living up tc
union principles; he is selfish and
union in name only
I'm order to fulfill our obligation
and do our duty towards our fellow.
men, we should do all in our power
to assist them and demand the union
label on all goods we buy For, az
John Mitchell said: IF all the work
ing people in this country would de.
! mand and only buy goods bearing the
union label. if they would prove them
selves true to their organization and
| the labor movement, there would not
! be found non-union product on the
market"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
NO CHANGE MADE
IN WAGE SCHEDULE
Lake Carriers Will Pay the Same
Wages as During Sum-
mer of 1911.
Schedule as Determined Upon for
Various Positions on
Lake Steamers.

.s-',CLEVELAND, Mar. 9.-Although a
number o.. the independent boat
owners lost money last season, and
the outlook for the early part of 1911
Is not bright, there is no talk of cut
ting the wages of the men that are
employed on the boats. The question
of wages was not taken up at the
annual meeting of the Lake Carriers
at Detroit and officials of the associa-
tion say that no change will be made
in the wage schedule.
Some changes were made in the
Lake Carriers schedule last season.
The wages of engineers of class B
steamers were advanced IS q month,
second class steamers SIS per month
and third class steamers $11 per
month. The wages of first assistant
engineers were marked up from SO
to SIG per months, according to class.
Chief engineers on steel steamers
Of the first class will be paid at the
rate of $175 per month; first assist
ants will get 1925 per month and
second assistants $S4 month.
On class steel steamers of the
first class chief engineers will receive
1856 per month, first assistants $40
a month and second assistants $85
month.
Chief engineers of steel steamers of
of the second class will get $140 a.
month and assistant engineers 500
per month. The chief engineers of
steel package freight steamers of
$4,000 to 5000 tons gross will be paid
at, the rate of $155 per month and
assistant engineers will get $11O a.
month.
On steel boats of the third class
chief engineers will receive $105 a
month and assistants SIS per month.
Chief engineers of modern steam
ers over 1900 tons and package
freight steamers over $50 tons will be
paid at the rate of $40 month
and the assistants will receive 800
month.
On second class wooden steamers
which includes bulk freighters of 500
to 1900 tons and package freighters
of 900 to so tons. the chief engineers
will receive 1925 month and the as
sistants 500 month.
TheWages of first mate will range
from $94 per month on wooden
steamers of the second class to $3.50
| on steel steamers of the first class.
Second mates on steel steamers OF
I the first class will receive $50 and
men on the second class wooden
J steamers will be paid at the rate oi
$62.50 per month. Cooks on steel
steamers of the first class will get
$50 per month. ~.
Seamen, firemen, oilers and water.
tenders will be paid at the rate OF
| 81 per day while employed in fitting
| out when they are not boarded on
vessel.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
PAPER MAKERS HAVE
STRONG ORGANIZATION
International Head AQt,arters Are Lo-
Gated at IA Hensen Building
.Albany,#N. Y.
George j. Schneiderof Appleton, Wis.
Is First Vice PRESIDENT and
General Organizer.

Mr.. George ]. Schneider, first vice
president and general organizer for
the International AtBrotherhood. of
Paper Makers. was caller at the
Labor World office early in the week.
The head quarters Of the organiza-
ton are at Albany, New York. There
are five locals of the order in Min
nesota, located at the following
places: Cloquet, Grand Rapids, Little
Falls, 1nternational Falls and ST.
Cloud. I
Mr.. Schneiders horhe is at Apple
ton, Wis, and his terfitory embraces
every state in the union. The or
ganization activities IF the brother
hood is necessarily. limited to those
cities and towns hate" paper mills
in operation therein;
The international officers of tile
brotherhood are: T.: T. Carey, presi.
dent and secretary;sG George J. Schnei.
der. first vice president; w, r. Smith
second vice president; Francis P
Flynn, third vice president; Dominick
McDermont' treasurer: E. T. Fiske
auditor. 3E
The Park. Thomas & Tucker Pape,
Co., of 1852 Sherman street, Chca.
go, is the wholesale western empor,
ium for all paper products bearing
the brotherhoods union label. The
label is a designation about the size
of an ordinary notarial seal and l.
wrought into the paper during thu
process of manufactur& a water mari
bearing the inscription "Internationa
Brotherhood of Paper Makers"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
Purpose Of Session Is to Garry
Canadian Reciprocity Agree
ment into Effect.
PERMANENT TARIFF Board
ALSO TO BE CONSIDERED
Extraordinary Session Will Con-
vene At the Capitol April
4 At IL Noon.

President Taft has issued call for
The proclamation is as follows:
whereas, By this special message
dated Jan. 26, 1911, there was tram
smitted to the senate and house of
representatives an agreement between
the department of state and the Cana
dian government in regard to recipro-
city tariff legislation, together with
an earnest recommendation that the
necessary legislation be promptly
adopted; and
"Whereas, A bill to carry into effect
said agreement has passed the house
of representatives but has failed to
reach a vote in the senate; and
whereas, The agreement stipulates
not only the president of the United
States will communicate to congress
the conclusions now reached and re-
commends the adoption of such leg
islation as may be necessary on the
part of the United States to give
effect to the proposed agreement,
but also that the governments of
the two countries will use their ut
most efforts to bring about such
changes by concurrent legislation at
Washington and at Ottawa.
Fixes April as the Date.
"Now, therefore, I, William Howard
Taft, president of the United States
of America, by virtue of the power
vested in me by the constitution, do
hereby proclaim and declare that an
extraordinary occasion requires the
convening of both houses of congress
of the United States at their srespec-
tive chambers in the city of Wash
mgton, on the 4th day of April, 1911,
.. at II o'clock noon, to the end that
E-ti1ey may consider ~ and determine
| whether the congress shall, by the
| necessary legislation, make operative
tn, agreement. ~:~+, - -.-~>.->-s= >.
'All persons entitled to act as men,
bers of the Sixty second congress are
required to take notice of this pro-
c1amation.
"Given under my hand and the seal
| of the United States at Washington
the 4th day Of Mrach, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eleven. and of the independence
| of the United States the one hundred
| and thirty-fifth.
(Signed) "WILLIAM H. TAFT
Evidently the Canadian trade agree
! ment will be pressed. 1t will be ne
| cessary for the bill to pass both
houses.
The permanent tariff board bill will
also come before congress at that
time.