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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
W0MAN's UNION LABEL
LEAGUE, LOCAL NO. 230
Holds Regular Meetings at Kalama-
zoo Hall, First and Third Mon
days of Each Month.

This wide awake organization Of
devoted and progressive women, is
rendering a. most efficient service to
the cause of the trades union move
ment.
From the organization of the league
until the present the mem mbership has
steadily maintained consistent at
titude and policy, and have been un-
tiring and resourceful in their en-
deavors to advance the interests of
every craft. by their efforts on be-
half OF more universal recognition
of the union label by union men.
The membership of local 230 most
certainly deserves we'll at the hands of
all the trade Unionists of Duluth,
and We bespeak a, hearty and cheer
tained in the following co1nmunica-
tion: -
Duluth, Mimi. Feb. Z. IL
Dear Brother and Fellow Union
ist:-We respectfully invite your at
tention to the moving picture cam
paign which the American Fedora
ton Of Labor is putting forth for the
! union label of every craft. 1t is ed
ucational and will be tremendous
help to the Women's Union Label
leagues throughout the country, as
they need the cooperation and help
Of all the unions.
Our Duluth league is to give a SER
les Of socials and card parties to
help their work along and cordially
invite your union to be. represented
on Mondoy evening Feb. 20, to card
party and dance.
Enclosed please find ten tickets
which we hope will be acceptable.
Thanking you in advance
Fraternally,
MRS. CATHERINE DEMPSEY.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
BUTTON MAKERS FIGHT -
REDUCTION IN WAGES

NEW YORK, Feb. S:-The Button
Makers union has been waging a
fight against a reduction in their
wages attempted by Joseph Ortman
of Union Hill, N. j.. The men have
been out since January II. Ort1ran
worked his men five days a week and
he then attempted to reduce the
wages Of the workers.
Being unable to earn living wages
working five days a week, the men
said that they would not stand q
cut, and they went on strike. Both
the strikers and the union are deter
mined to continue the fight until
Ortman grants their demands.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
DULUTH UNION MEN
SHOULD FOLLOW SUIT
"1nona Trade Unionists Will Here
after Patronize Their Home
Merchants Only.

W1NONA, Minn., Feb s.-The VIM
ona Trades and Labor council has Or
ean'zed for the year by electing the
Following officers: President c. c..
Jensen; vice-president, Marion Peter
son; secretary, H. w. Libby; treas
urer. l.. Clifford; ,statistican, Charles
lngold; sergeant-at-arms, Peter sas-
taup. The council voted to patronize
Winona business houses to the exclus-
ion of foreign and catalogue houses.
and adopted as slogan for the wear.
DO It for Winona.'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
CARPENTERS AND Jo1NERs .
LOCAL UNION NUMBER se1
Notwithstanding winter Weather
Conditions Are Fair with quite
a Promising Outlook.

Through the courtesy Of Bro. Geo.
w. Burger, ex-presfdent OF No. 1851,
and Geo M. Davis, : CORNER .busin sss
agent Of the local, the Labor World
is enabled from information thus de-
rived to state that's Carpenters local
No. 361 is steadiiys increaeinx in
numbers, and that tlleseause of union :
ism has no more devoted adhere1ts
anywhere than the members Of this
local. NJ
The meetings are we'll attended and
a lively interest il manifested in all
that pertains to the welfare of the
craft, and the success 5pf the trades
union movement 5,8n7t r..
Owing to winter wexther: and the
fact that, not many large buildings
are at present being (rEcted in: the
city, work is not as ssplantiful as dur
ing the last falr Inonkha but the out
look for approaching Hs spring gives
promise Of greater activity in the
building line. ses.Es,'
Full returns from the count of the
referendum vote for general officers
of the United cBrotherhood' of Car
penters and Joiners has been COM
pleted by the .tellers, at national
headquarters in indianapolis, show
ing the election Of the following gem
eral officers: ! 9s$
President, William %. Huber, In
dianapolis; first vice -president, Ar
thur. A. Quinn, Perth Amboy, u. ";
second vice-presidentyJ. D. Mckinley,
Chicago; secretary; Frank Duffy. In
d1anapols; treasurer Thomas Neale,
1ndanapoiis;- member Of the general
executive board, First district, Charles
H: Bausher, New: York; Second dis
trict, D. A. Post, Wilkes-Barre. Pa.
Third district, John II. Potts, Gin
cinnati; Fourth district, r. E. L.! Con-
molly, Birmingham; Ala; Fifth dis
trict. John Walqufst, Minneapolis:
Sixth district, w A: Cole, San. Fran
cisco; Seventh district "A. Martel,
Montreal, Can. 80 $::E
All these officers are: the present
incumbents with: the exception of
Mckinley, Potts and Martel ):
The vote for president was as fol-
lows: William D. Huber, Indianapolis
2o,46e; William G:'schardt, Chicago,
2o,315; Harry Payne, Rock Island
ILL.,, $3.50. s..
The members Of the local greatly
rejoice over the election of John
Walquist of Minneapolis as member
of the general executive board for
the Fifth district
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
PRISON POPULATION -.
INCREASED IN 1910

The prison population Of New York
state has Increased during the last
year. despite the fact that the num-
Der of prisoners paroled far exceeded
that of any previous year.
This significant statement is made
in the annual report of the superin-
tendent of state prisons, just issued,
The prison population Of New York
state in Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton
prisons was larger in 1910 by an aver
age of 1889 prisoners than that of
the year before.
This increase in prison poulation.
the report says, is not due to the
general increase in the poulation of
the state, Ito the trend of foreign
criminals to the United States during
the last few years."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
WOULD EXTEND THE
RECALL TO JUDGES
California Legislature Consider
ing Advanced Problems of
Popular Rights.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb.9.-Fol-
lowing in the footsteps of Arizona,
the California state legislature is con-
sldering the adoption Of the popular
right of recall of public officials ex-
tending even to the judiciary This
is an administration measure intro
duced by Senator Lee c. Gates al
the request of Governor Johnston.
At first considered doubtful of
passage the proposed law has sud-
denly won many new votes in botf,
senate and assembly, because of lat
est decision in the Abe Ruef case.
which has again set free that no.
torious manipulation of legal mach
.inery.
In addition to the recall, laws are
proposed, giving the right initiative
and referendum to the citizens of the
state.
At the state election. in November,
undoubtedly, be an issue at the polls
with more than an even chance of
success. Women who made a sweep
Ing victory for the suffrage cause in
their experience in the California
campaign. The big labor and Social
list vote is already pledged to the
side of the suffragists.
The Los Angeles city elections,
which follow within so DAYS after
those Of the state. are expected to
result in the seating Of a score of
labor candidates in the city council.
This will put an end for all time to
the rab1d persecution of organized
labor which has made the present
city government notorious through
out the United States.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN
C0NGRATULATES MIR. TAFT
Assures the President of Being With
Him for Canadian Reciprocity
Treaty.

Mr. Frank Day, chairman Of the
Minnesota Democratic state central
committee. has sent President Taft
a. letter assuring him that the people
or Minnesota are with him in his
fight for Canadian reciprocity. Mr.
Days letter IL In his usual clear and
explicit style, and Is as follows:
Mr.. President: Although am
chairman OF the Minnesota state
Democratic committee. and probably
Will have the pleasure Of opposing
you In 1912 al I did In 1908, am
fair fighter enough to give credit
where credit is due. am 80 de-
ngnteo with your course In proposing
the Canadian reciprocity agreement
to congress that I am willing to run
the risk of committing a political in.
discretion in writing to you IN sun.
port of your position.
l am surprised and Eratifed at
the broad and patriotic stateyman-
ship you have shown in putting this
agreement up to congress- You have
In my humble opinion, taken a. ster
that will make history. and great
history at that. I honestly, believe
that nothing has been brought be.
fore. congress for years that is fraught
with 50 much moment as the PROPOSE
ton.
If congress will only rise to the
situation and second your patriotic
etforts the future historian will re-
cord that in your administration and
by your Initiative was begun a move
ment which vastly increased the rros.
perlty and welfare Of the American
people and insured the perpetuation
OF peace and good will throughout
English-speaking America.
1T seems to me that for any broad
minded patriot there is only one side
to this question. I hope that con-
gress Will have the statesm aAship and
patriotism to respand quickly to your
initiative. but II congess lags and
hesitates I would respectfully suggest
tnat the people will enthusiastically
support you regardless of party If
you will take an aggressive attitude
ana exhaust every resource at your
command to drive this tremendously
important legislation through con-
gress
Respectfully,
FRANK A. DAY.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
Fears Entertained That Employ
ers' Opposition May Defeat
tho Commissions Bill.
NEW MEASURE ABR0GATEs
MANY ANT1QUATED RULES
Was Drafted by Justice 0'Brien
Of the Supreme Court and
Is a Masterpiece.
Special to Labor World!

Special to Labor WOrld!
ST. PAUL, Feb. Sowing to the
fact that majority and minority re-
ports were submitted to the legisla-
ture by the employees compensation
commission, appointed by the late
Governor Johnson ,and fears being
entertained that the employers asso-
clation might succeed in effecting a
defeat of the majority measure, the
friends Of labor caused another bill
to be prepared which was drafted
with great care by Justice Thomas
D. O'Brien. Of the supreme court,
and which will be introduced If the
commissions majority bill Is de-
feated.
This new bill makes important
changes In the laws, common and
statute. relating to personal injury
litigation.
The fellow servant rule is abro-
gated altogether, and 80 Is the doc
trine Of assumption Of risk. In other
words, if this bill is made law, no
employe can be deprived Of redress
for injuries incidental to his employ
mcnt on the ground that fellow
servant, not the employer. Is respon-
sible: nor can he be kept out Of court
on the ground that in taking his Job
the workman assumed the risks as
sociated with 1t.
The doctrine Of contributory negli-
gence Is modified as follows: 1T
shall be no defence that the person
injured or killed contributed to the
accident or injury unless 1t appears
that the wilful misconduct of the per-
son injured was the proximate cause
Of the accidental injury. But any
contributory negligence Of the person
Injured shall be taken into consider
alton In determining; the amount of
damages
Scope of New Bill.
The measure applies to the follow
ing classes of industries:
l. Railroads. including street and
electric railways: telephone and tele-
graph construction and repair. in
Guiding lines and poles and electric
apparatus.
2. All shops. mills. factories. ele-
Fators' gas worsk. electric power
plants, engine and boiler rooms in
any OF which mechanical operations
are conducted for prolt by means
other than animal power. and all
yards and ways connected Herewith.
3. The erection. repair or demoli-
tion of buildings, al lscafrolds there
on and all scaffolds used In cleaning,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
TOBACCO WORKERS ELECT
INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS

The referendum election for Of
ficers Of the International Tobacco
Workers union results as follows:
President, Anthony McAndrews. Gin.
cinati, O.; first vice-president. w. r
Walden, Richmond, Va; second vice.
president, John sRuckert, New Or.
leans: third vice-president, Charlie,
Alder, Detroit; fourth vice-president
Frank essels, Covington, KY; fifth
vice-president, Robert Fox, Richmond
Va; sixth vice-president, Thomas
Finnegan. Hamilton Ontario; secre.
tary-treasurkr. =. Lewis Evans, Louis.
willie, KY. 5s4 ..s55: ..4 .s:S ii
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11

The cause Of poverty is unjust SO
cia! conditions, and poverty is the
source of vice and crime.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11

good bluff Is better than poor
excuse u N S4zsS
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12
Observation-Disclosures
PRINCIPAL Events Gathered Il, the
Old S0anakxnavian Countries

Baron Erland N0rdenskjolG, a Swedish
scientist. who has been studying life
and general conditions of the Indians
OF South America, lectured few
nights ago in Kristiania. He was in
terviewed by reporter, and this gave
him. chance to make some interest
ing comparisons between different ma
tons as to their way of treating saw.
ages and people enjoying low type
OF civilization. The treatment of the
Eskimos of Greenland, he said, was
an ideal one. The Eskimos live under
better conditions than any other of
the lower races Of the earth. Baron
Nordenskjold said that the government
OF Greenland does great honor to the
Danish people.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12

a mouthful of rice. Many parents,
despairing Of keeping the entire fam
lily until the new crops appear. are
deserving their offspring.
The lawlessness In the stricken ter
ritory is growing each day. Made
desperate by hunger, bands of hun
dreds of starving refugees are rowing
through the famine area plundering
and Milling. and reign of terror pre-
, walls.
At Kunshax, walled village 30
miles from Shanghai, the villagers,
after a raid in which stores were
looted and many killed, melted ont
punishment peculiarly Chinese in It's
callousness to the raiding refugees.
A band of more than 500 are reported
to have been surrounded In a cozn.
pound and burned to death.
Relief has been coming in, but It
has proved inadequate. The Ameri-
can Red Cross society has sent over
about $4,000, while the Chinese Of
San Francisco have forwarded $780,
900. It costs but cent a day TO
keep one of these starving Celestials,
yet the United States and Japan have
been the only nations to give aid.
China is sending its plea over the
entire civilized world for help.
The famine situation has recently
somewhat overshadowed the plague
ravages, but not because the latter
has shown any signs of let up. 1t
is still sweeping over the northeast
ern territory. scattering death right
and left. Tbs plague conditions have
become a menace to the world. The
whole northeastern corner Of the en-
pire and of Manchuria are in the grip
OF a fresh outbreak Of the black
death and the civilized nations Of the
world are rushing physicians and med.
1cal supplies to the east In an effort
to prevent the spread Of the pestilence
to other lands.
Never before in the history Of China
has there come plague that has
brought such dumb terror to tho
hearts Of the people as has this most
recent outbreak. Swift in its fatal
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12

following close on the heels
n OF the plague. a great famine IS
Sweeping nre Ing over 3Sa the Chinese st EN-
dual persecution are now num-
gered by the tens of thousands. The
plague is bad enough, but the famine
will be ten times worse. Already
hundreds are dying from lack Of food,
yet these hundreds will number thou
sands and tens Of thousands before
the first scanty rice crop furnishes
relief. From the relief committees of
the interior comes word that one mil.
lion people will die before the first
crop is harvested. Even this will be
scanty, because the people have not
the strength to till the soil and no
animals remain for blowing.
It is estimated that 100000 people
are without food. They are existing
on roots, grasses or anything that az
fords the slightest possibility of nour-
lshment. Those possessing grain
guard it day and night. Missionaries
who are distributing re2ssf tell of
many tragic occurances-a man on
his way to meet them, dying on the
road; another falling by the wayside
as he was returning to his family
with a packet Of rice. These relief
committees describe the people as
horrible skeletons, some with their
limbs hideously swollen. They SUI
fer all the pangs of hunger until death
brings relief. This endless relief is
coming to thousands daily from starv-
alton.
The pitiful condition of these starv-
ing wretches Is we'll shown by the
recent food riot at Sha-Yang, when 81
persons we're trampled to death. The
emaciated men and women fought
like demons for these few mouthfuls
OF food, and the peril to the relief
workers who were distributing it was
great. A considerable amount of food
stuffs had been received by the mis-
sionaries, who planned a systematic
distribution. Their work was hardly
begun when thousands of desperate
men, women and children, who had
learned that there was a chance Of
their hunger being half satisfied,
swooped down upon the supply depot
An uncomfortable riot followed. Each
fought for himself and the weaker
went down and were ruthlessly
trampled
In some portions of the province
parents are offering their children for
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12
DEN MARK.

1t Is proposed to build new sewers
for $2,25o,o00 in Sundbyerne, Valby
and Bronshoi, suburbs of Copenhagen.
The county commissioners of Fred.
riksborg resolved by a vote Of six to
four not to permit the use of automo
biles on certain secondary roads in the
county.
A great lockout was expected in the
iron industries of Denmark; but as nc
news has been cabled on that subject
It may have been averted at the criti
cal moment.
A large tract Of waste land has been
bought near Silkeborg by a benevolent
society, which is going to put about
one hundred persons to work clearing
and cultivating the land. The aim OF
the society is to get work for persons
who would otherwise be idle.
The mails are distributed aeven
times day in the central portions OF
Copenhagen, and five or six times a
day in the rest of the city. It is now
proposed to make a horizontal reduc
ton of two deliveries a day in all parts
, of the city. This will reduce the ex
penses of the postofice department
very materially.
During the debate in the Landsthine
on a renewal Of the Anglo-Danish arbi
tration treaty, Count Ahlefeldt-Laurvig
the minister of foreign affairs, stated
that he had endeavoreds to renew the
compact upon broader basis, but that
the British government had declined
the proposition on the ground that 6
treaty with the United States must
precede all other general arbitration
treaties which Great Britain might
conclude.
Kristian Jonson. the new premier o.
Iceland, is lawyer, and is said to bt
. cool-headed and very able man. II
politics - 10 Z moderate.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12

ity, 1t has swept from village to vii
lage, up one country road and down
another, until it seems that no part
of China is immune from its ravages.
AS the black plague in the middle
ages swept down the valley of the
Nile, Transforming a garden seat of
the world into a valley Of death; as
later in Spain there were none that
did not mourn; as in England but
half Of all London escaped; so in
some parts of China there is scarcely
a family that has not been visited.
The unsanitary condition of the
cities and towns in China where Clio
dreadful pneumonia plague Is raging
is responsible in large measure for
the spread of the disease. The pres
ent pestilence Is pneumonia rather
than bubonic, that is, it almost invar1-
ably proves fatal. One of the terrify-
ing things about it is that it spreads
through the air. In the bubonic
plague the microbe is communicated
by bites of fleas from infected rats.
In the pulmonary form the patients
themselves transmit the disease by
expectoration or fits Of coughing, in
which they scatter germs with which
their lungs are filed. Sever&! doctors
have been infected In this way and
have died.
The Chinese cities offer a fertile
field for the propagation Of the dis.
ease. The people ara crowded to-
gether like behring's In d barrel and
once the disease has appeared in a
house 1t is almost sure to contain
mate all the inmates and to spread
quickly through the whole city. There
are many Chinese towns where pigs
are the sole scavengers and where
sanitation is Of the most primitive
kind. Contrary, too, to general belief
which regards worship Of ancestors
as the main religion of China, there
| are many parts of the great empire
where the dead are not inferred at all
The collins containing the dead are
placed on the ground in places spe
cially reserved for the purpose neal
towns and villages and are preyet
upon by dogs and wild beasts. Now
in the plague-infected regions th<
dead are being burned. A Wagon
driven by man wearing mufflet
sprayed with iodoform, goes through
the streets and collects the bodied
from the houses. They are then take1
to great pits outside the city or town
soaked with kerosene and burned
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12
SIX DEhD IN TORNADO.
Forty Others Injured and Town In Ala.
bama Wiped Out.

Mobile, Ala. - A death list Of six,
and forty injured, sums up the result
of a tornado that wiped out the town
of Gainesville, Monroe county. More
than 100 buildings were torn down and
trees and crops were uprooted by the
furious winds that cut a swath 200
feet wide across the county. The VIC
Tins were killed in collapsing houses.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12

after which a little loose earth ia
thrown upon them.
The recrudescene of the plague in
China began In Fuchiaten, in Man.
! churia, one of the filthiest towns in
all the east. Little attention was paid
to 1t at first and it continued to
spread with great rapidity. The dead
were thrown into the streets, where
they lay exposed, and often, accord
ing to correspondents, those afflicted
with the pestilence were placed in
the streets to die. Over 5000 persons
have persisted In the Chinese quarter
of Fuchiaten. It was not until the
black death had spread over a large
section of Marchuria that the nations
Of the world were aroused to the
menace And now the plague, unless
almost superhuman efforts are nut
sorth, promises to spread beyond con.
troll. At 4ssikho, 40 miles east of
Hardin, In Manchuria, there are 400
to 800 deaths day. The same num-
Der Is perishing daily at Muk6en.
Chefoo reports $50 deaths daily. At
Chang Chun 800 bodies were burned
in a week and at Heulan 1400 vic.
tins were cremated in an equal period
of time. Cordons of soldiers are post.
ed around many Of the infected vii.
lagos.
Doctors who have studied the
plague and who are now working in
che affected regions say that tho
plague is of intense virulence. Dt,ath
usually ensues In "a hours and some.
times sooner and nearly every case
proves fatal. The disease is conveyed
by feas from rats and other small
animals and may be contracted bv
breathing the germ-laden air. The
case with which It may be communi.
Gated Is one Of its great daneera
Through disease-bearing fieas Of rats
ships may carry it to London. New
York, San Francisco or other civil.
lied centers: That is the deadl,
menace Of China's gres& pestilence.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12
ARBITRATION WINS ENTHUSIASM.
British Show Interest in 900 Meetings
Throughout Kingdom.

London, Eng. - The attitude Of
the imperial German chancellor DR..
Won Bethman-Hollweg has not cooled
British zeal for arbitration. The pro-
jected demonstration to be held in Al
bert Hail was abandoned in favor Of
q wider national movement. It took
the form of 900 meetings Saturday and
Monday in all the cities OF the king
dom.