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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
WOMEN's TRADE UNION .:-,..
LEAGUE CONVENTION
Preparations Are Under Way for the
Third Biennial Convention, Which
WilIsBe Held Next Month.

BOSTON, June THE third bien-
nial convention of the National Wo-
mems Trade Union League will con-
vene in this city June II, 1911. The,
league has been active and assisted
materially in spreading the prlnclples S
Of trades unionism among tho wo-
men workers. It has also dons val
uab;e service in great strikes wnere
large numbers of women have heen
involved. During the sessions of the
convention a mass meeting has been
arranged. and among others, Jchn
Mitchell will deliver an address. .s5>
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
ROSTER OF DULUTH j.
UNIONS INCREASED
Grocery Drivers and Bill. Posters
Are the New Local Ac-
cessions. sj.s: :,
Organizer Chubbuck Of State Fed.
Grafton Of Labor Is Sponsor !, ,,
~ for Both. . ..=.5

The roster. of Duluth unions has
recently been increased by the addi-
tion of two locals. One is composed
Of the grocery drivers and It's char
ter number is 419; the other lis COM
posed of @billers and billposters. We
have not learned its chartered num-
ber. ~ -s@.t s<ss 81 Il. $500 ss.a i..Hss
Both unions are made up Of active
sup-to- date young men who will in due
time give a good account Of their
work in the cause Of trades unionism
e The work Of organization was done
hys John d. Chubbuck, organizer for
the Minnesota State Federation OF
Labor. n, .. 5.s-.a !. {,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
SERIOUS STRIKE
CITY OF CLEVELAND
Six Thousand Garment Workers
Revolt Against Tyranny
Of Bosses.

i CLEVELAND. Ohio. June s..
Especial /. to Labor World Six thou
sand union garment workers struck
saEainst the abject granny OF the
bosses, at 4 q o'clock yesterday. For
"a long time the union employees Ii,
the garment facto ories have been sub
sjected to every conc ceivable Insult FOR
their union affilia tion. The bosses
Iresorted to every species Of provoca-
ton TO harass and annoy their union
employees, with the hope Of prevail
Ing upon them to sever their coinnec-
tloIl with the union. The conduct soi
the bosses has recently reached
point at Whch th eir reading M and
N gging yvas more i han "a
Eture ceuls 4 lg hence tho strik
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
Contends That Combination in
the Great Trust Is Necessary
to Avoid Decentralization.
COOPERATION MUST TAKE
PLACE OF COMPETITION
Expresses Himself As Favorable
to Government Control and
the Regulation of Prices.

Judge E. H. Gary, executive head
Of the United States Steel corpora
ton, who appeared as a witness be-
fore the Stanley steel trust committee
of the House of Representatives at
Washington, was so very candid and
staggered the committee.
Among the facts with which he
confronted the committee were the
following:
That combination tends to eff
cheney and economy, while competi-
ton is wasteful and inefficient.
That combination and corporation
In the steel industry was an absolute
necessity if decentralization was to be
avoided.
That the Sherman Antitrust Law,
as recently interpreted by the su-
preme court, and in itself, is an ar
chaic and useless statute that can
not possibly be applied to modern in
6ustrial conditions
That cooperation was bound tc
take the place of competition. The
answer to the query Of Representa-
tive Littleton, Have we then come
face to face with the surrender of ou1
policy of competition, and the neces-
sity of accepting this new policy UNI.
der government regulation?" was, 1T
seems to me that we have"
That the trust controlled the out
put and prices of it's subsidiary com.
panies.
That the competitors Of the trus,
could not increase the price of steel
products. That the trust always
withheld its consent when asked by
its competitors to increase prices.
That the trust itself could put
prices up, but could not put them
down. '. = ~.--1n~ sy+s.sss
That it cost $25,0o0,ooo to build a
modern rail mill.
That three years ago the trust be-
lieved 1t mad absolute control Of all
the sources of ore production, but
that since then it had been discovered
that the supply of ore was almost un.
limited.
Such testimony was never before
given in any previous trust investi-
cation, and, remarkable to relate, the
statements of the witness on these
points were never once challenged
though they utterly overthrow the
accepted political economy based on
the assumption of the permanency
Of competition.
From these premises, Mr.. Gary ad-
vocated government regulation Of the
trust, and government control OF
prices, as the only method of dealing
with the situation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10

COURTS AND Off : /
MUST CoNFoRA- 80 LAW
Alleged Fugitives Must Be Ac-
corded All Their Constitu-
tional Rights,

WASHINGTON, D. c., June7.-
Special to Labor ld).-Deter-
mined that congress shall once and
forever stop official kidnapping in
the United States, Socialist Repre-
sentative Berger today introduced a
Oil In the house, providing drastic
punishment to any person denying an
alleged fugitive from Justice all his
rights.
The bill provides that no person
arrested as a fugitive shall be de-
livered to the agent of the demanding
authority until such person snail
have been first taken before a court
OF record In such state or territory,
and shall have been given ample op-
portunity to notify friends, and to OBJ
tain counsel, and to test the suffi-
cieny Of the extrad1tion proceedings
by habeas corpus or by other pro-
ceedings."
Any judge, policeman, detective, or
private person, who violates this pro-
vision Is to be fined not more than
$4,000, or imprisoned for not more
than ten years.
Another important feature of Ber-
gers bill is that it provides for tie
return of prisoner to the jurisdict-
ton from which he was taken in
case the alleged fugitive proves that
he has been denied his rights before
| extradition.
If this provision were on the stat
utes today, Mcnamara could be re-
turned to Indiana.
Bergers' proposed law defines tie
term fugitive to mean a person ac-
tually within the state when the al
legged crime was committed.
The bill was referred to the COM
mittee on judiciary. This is the COM
mittee, which will receive from the
committee on rules q copy Or ait the
testimony recently taken on Berger.s
resolution on the Mcnamara case.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
IA fOllETT AXES
IssU ) | WITH N 1 TAFT.
Senator Contends That orgsniza
tionIs Government Employees
Only Present Refuge.
CHARAOTERIZEs GAG RULE
AS ALTOGETHER VICIOUS
Employees Of the Whole People
Made Victims Of Political
Bureaucracy.

There is one United States senator
that always uses terse English in !
defining his attitude, and that gentle
man is Senator LaFollette. In the
last weeks issue Of his weekly, un-s
der the caption of '4Taft's Protest .
Is found the following: SIS
President Taft protests against
permitting the railway mail clerks
to organize and affiliate with the
American Federation of Labor.
Speaking before the convention Of
the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men at Harrisburg, Pa. May IA, he
said: s s3
I do not think that reasonably
minded trades union men, who are
fully alive to the necessity for RI
gorous means to enforce their rights
In their controversies with capital
and with their employers, will fail
to see the broad difference that ex-
lists between their case, in which they
are scontending for the betterment
Of their livelihood against the ma
turally, selfish motives Of their en-
ployers, and that Of the class Of gov
erment employees, who are privileged
not only In the amount of their COM
pensation, the less number OF hours
Of their employment and the greater
permanency of tenure. and who serve
the government Of all the people,
the very existence Of which will be
threatened, should they combine to-
gether to quit the government ser.
vice all at once, and paralyze the
benefit, and the equal benefits. that
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
BLUFF TO REDUCE & WAGES.

t@# OAKLAND. Cal, June Az = res
suit Of the passage Of the 8-hour law
for women in California the owners
OF the California cotton mills at
Oakland posted notices Of q reduction
OF 10 per cent. attributing II to be
necessary on account OF the law
shortening the hours. Immediately
the 25 o semp loyes ceased work, being
composed chiefly Eof women and
schiidren. The mill of icials were BIT
ter opp onents Of the bill i and thia
move of red ducine wages - taken as
bluff to ght the new LAW.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
Mr.. BeSt's Article.

Mr.. Best's Article.
Violence in labor strife is totally
unjustifiable but not quite totally un-
explainable.
Explaining it makes no difference
to the law, which ought to punish
any sort of violence vigorously re-
gardless of circumstances. But ex-
planning does make a difference in
mutual human understanding.
Especially should it make a diff
ference with the church. Instead of
such outbreaks being, as is usually
alleged, a reason why the church
should hold absolutely aloof from the
labor movement, they are in all fair
ness and justice a reason why the
church should feel a. peculiarly soli-
citous sympathy for 1.-THE very
kind Of sympathy which an older
man who has triumphed over the
temptations of youth rightfully feels
for a young man stin in the thick of
struggle.
Review of Church's History.
When the Christian church was,
relatively speaking, Of about the same
immature age as the labor movement
is today it was fully as much given
to violent ways of achieving it's pur-
poses as Is organized labor now.
Indeed. it was doubtless worse, for
there seems to have been in the
medieval church mucn less protest
against violence than there is now in
notwithstanding labor unions. ,.
Giving tribes Of inoMensive heather
their choice Of baptism Or. the sword:
E(ab1rnf1fg alleged Siiff1deis to- sdeati1$ at
the stake; hurrying helpless COM
munities of dissenters out of their
homes and over the mountains under
dragonnades of cruel soldiery; shoot
ing cities into ruin for. their unor-
thodox theology; executing diabolical
plots of massacre to rid the world
of heretics-are these things better
than putting dynamite under the
foundations of non-union printing
office and blowing a score of lives
out?
Lesson of the Past.
TO be sure, the modern protestant
feels that the reformation has cleared
him of the shame of such deeds.
He may even possibly resent having
them called to his mind for compari-
son at the moment when he is freely
expressing his disgust at the bomb
man and the strong-arm man among
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS PROGRESSIVE
Organization Shows Progress i
B: }. FL 4 Added ll! q n Membership and Wage

81. Ernest Mills, secretary treasurer Of
the Western Federation Of Miners,
IN a communication to. the American
Federation of Labor, states that
charter was granted on April 25. 1911
to the Bartlesv!lle, Okla, smeltermen,
and that after a brief strike their
demands for an increase Of u S cents
per hour were acceded to and the
men returned to work The miners
ct Crane berry, N. g. have also or
sanizad, their union being known IS
Elk l.'l Park liners ' union. Charters
sl1aye Is1i Y been granted to the sne neltermen
\ sz'at Dearing Ind u Altoona. kansas. III
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
UNIONIsM ON RANGE.

organizer John D. Chubbuck of the
Minnesota State Federation of Labor,
has Just returned from range TRIP
ana reports that prospects are good
1or the organization of two unions
at Virsinia--the tailors and the cleo
trical workers He states that every
thing thing looks bright for labor in tie
range city, and that a federated
'Iades assembly would soon be or
~'xad there. "a M
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10

The The first eight-hour day ever
granted 81 mt. by a railway corporation. to
its y me- me- chanical department employees
=, Was s conceded M by the Denver & Rio.
Grande railway recently. 3 s,;s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
Chauffeurs Organize.

Tie chauffeurs Of this city have
organized a Mutual Benefit associa-
ton for social educational and ber,e-
ficent purposes. @ The society starts
out under very favorable auspices.
It already has an enrolment Of 20
mem bers. 8#sS5 .s sss s|5 a.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
IOWA CARPENTERS 25.
!. GEr WAGE INCREASE

Waterloo, lows carp penters secured
increase of s cents per our. Bar
f.bers red duced ms time one half
hour. Plum bers rot raise. Paint err
after short str secured . e IS cents
per hour incraa
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10

(This article from the pen of No.
Ian r. Best, editor of the Con-
tinent" the National Presbyterian
weekly, was forwarded to the La
Dor World by it's regular contri-
butor, Rev. Charles Stelzle).
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21

out much merchantable timber, and
he would make II plain at the start
that this class of lands will be recon-
mended for purchase only when IL is
offered very cheap. Proffers of land
at eXorbitant prices will not be con-
sidered.
The government hopes to see n
great deal of public spirit manifested
by land owners. The lands acquired
by the government will be held as ma
tional forests. They will be protect
ed from fire. and the growth of the
timber will, be improved as much as
possible. These lands will not be
game reserves, but will continue to be
open to tie public for hunting and
fishing in accordance with the laws
of the state in which they are stu
ated All their resources will be
available for the public under reason
able conditions. Another point which
Il is wished to emphasize Is that II
Is not intended to take from people
their homes in order to put the lands
into national forests.
Timbered lands may be bought
either with the timber standing on
them or with reservation by the own
err Of the right to cut the timber I'M
der certain rules to provide for per-
petuation of the forest. These rules
will form part of the agreement for
the purchase of the land Since
however, the government can not pay
high prices, II is not regarded as
probable that much land bearing O
heavy stand of merchantable timber
can be bought. Culled and cut-ovei
lands may be bought, as well as land
covered with brush which Is usefu
for watershed protection, burned
land, and abandoned farm land
whether cleared or partially or Who'll.
ly covered by young timber growth
Good agricultural lands will not be
considered Owners may reserve tht
right to remove valuable mineral de-
posts which are known to exist.
1t will be noted that the Govern
ment when buying land aims not tc
destroy or seriously hamper estab'
lished industries.
II stands to reason that II will moi
do this, If all the conditions are un'
derstood, when disposing of public
lands.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21
FINAL LEGISLATIVE DUTIES.

Seldom does Legislature with a
the closing hours Of the session with
out congestion of important meas
uros on which the legislator must
think quickly and act solely with the
general welfare in view.
The period has passed when trad
ing or Legislative log-rolIing can be
done without injury to the common
good. The representatives of the
people are down to the bass tacks
OF business,
Appropriations and the tax meas
ures are the bill uppermost in the
thoughts Of the people. In dealing
with these matters the Legislature
that this is u growing city and II
growing Territory. "A great amount
Of work has to be done. The city can
not grow and the outside districts
cannot develop without laying new
problems and broader responsibilities
upon the officers of the government
and also upon the people, Those re-
aponsibiIities are right here. now
For many years there has been
much harping on the string that these
islands have the machinery Of Cor
liss engine TO run the business of Il
small watch. Too much harping on
this string Is one Of the reasons why
one Legislature after another has cut
down here and pared there, and held
to a one per cent taxation fetish, only
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21
WANTS RAILROAD
station CALLED

Representative II. s. Richard Of Ha-
wall thinks that there are some things
about the railroads of Hawaii that
need fixing and accordingly he intro
duced the following concurrent resolu-
ton this morning:
BE II Resolved by the House of
Representatives of the Territory Of Ha-
wall, the Senate concurring, That II IN
the sense Of the sixth Legislature OF
the Territory Of Hawaii that all rail-
road companies operating cars for the
transportation Of passengers, be and
the same are hereby compelled to an
nounce throughout all of the cars,
whether attached to an engine or to a
train OF cars or locomoted singly, the
names of the respective stopping places
or stations. prior to ARRIVING at each
of the Respective stopping places"
The resolution was referred to the iu-
dietary committee by Speaker Holstein.
who occasionally wakes humorous In
the chair.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21

to find that during the period between
sessions crises have arisen calling for
more money, more work. and emer-
gency measures for which certain
firms and the merchants of the city
are privately assessed to tide over the
situation.
This Is not as II should be. And
curiOusly enough the very men who
condemn the inadequate provision by
the Legislature are the ones who
force the false economy and then cry
with loud noise against the special
assessment for special emergency.
AS you love your country, gentle
men, and have some regard for ell
cicnt government. shape the final pro-
gram of this session on broad lines.
BY this we mean lines broad enough
to enable the departments to do the
work that must be performed either
through our own officers and levied
against the property and income of
private enterprise, or by Officers Of
the United States government and
levied especially against private prop
erty and our island enterprises. II
citizens and officials of Hawaii don't
act, someone else will.
Provide for securing the funds
needed for sanitation operations and
for transportation by means of bet
ter roads. and don't be afraid to go
at such large projects in "A manner
that will make adequate amounts of
money available. The value of the
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21
FOLLOW TRADITIONAL LINES.

of that which Is their birthright, and
has been regarded rs the birth"ight OF
AnC: lean children in every o.her
Territory ever organized under the
American flag
Pass the Fairchill resolution.
Suoh "ction win Irove to Congress
that the people of Hawaii are in line
with the American principle estab-
lIshcd as far back in our history as
the first Congress of 1885.
Should Congress conclude after
considering all phases Of the ques-
ton that the enemies of the Fairchild
resolve are right, well and good. We
are perfectly safe in taking chances
on that.
But the action of the present Leg
islaturC, now that the subject has
been brought before it as clear-cut,
straightforward issue, should be such
as to prove to the members of the
UnIcd states Congress and the peo-
pie OF the United States, that despite
the failure to set aside public lands
for the education Of the people in the
past, the heart of the citizens of the
Tcrwtory of Hawaii is in the right
ulaoe.
II is significant that the leading OPP
?0nents of this bill are the represnu-
tativos Of great corporate interests.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21
THERE is NO QUARANTINE ON
Wireless
MESSAGES

investment cannot be questioned.
Finally. don't try to saddle upon
the current revenues Of the present
period the cost OF work from which
generations for the next fifty years
will reaD the greatest direct benefit.
Construction of new buildings, per-
mancnt repairs Of old buildings, new
and permanent road construction, and
the reclamation of swamps and pres
cnt insanitary areas may all be prop
crly charged against the money OBJ
tanned through public loans.
The line Of demarkation is clear to
any business mind, and nothing IL
gained to any man and certainly not
to the community by striving to he
smart lin cutting down expense" by
taking the cost of permanent work
out of money that is needed for cur
rent expenses.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21

Every state and Territory ever
brought into the United States has
had public lands set aside and ir-
rcvocably dedicated to the cause of
public education except the Terri.
tory Oi Hawaii.
Not one acre Of public land in this
Territory has ever been set aside rs
an endowment for educational pur-
poses
Senator N"wlanls in the original
annexation resolution proposed that
the traditional American plan should
be followed. But local interests of
I.awri worked in the joker by which
tie income from the public lands is
diverted to other public purposes
Now the proposal is made to dedi-
cato valuable public land and water
rights to education and health, while
thcro yet remains u few acres Of pub.
Nc land to dedicate.
This Is being fought bitterly.
Does anyun" suppose for morren;
that the mcmbcrs of Congress will
side with or believe in the good laith
Of men Of Hawaii who cuchercd cdu-
cation out Of an endowment of pub.
lie lands in the first place, and now
seek Ia prevent he children Of the
Territory from re lping the benefits
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21

Events have so shaped themselves
that the issues are clear for the mem
bers OF the Legislature who have any
Of what great future
is before this Territory and its peo-
pie. 1t will be a glorious and pros
porous future II the present a.egiBla-
ture in the few days remaining of its
existence rises to the occasion rs
might be expected of Legislature
made up Of broad minded, honest,
fearless and patriotic men.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21
WORK-A-DAY RELIGION
:: Il ., :, Z, 3, Z, n ., Z, Z, n n y n Z, d :.

The Modernist movement affects
the Anglican church AS well as the
Roman. Mr.. Howard, himself Epis-
copalan, says: Shall the Anglican
Church suppress Modernism by judi
cial authority as the Roman has
done; or, If not by law, shall she lay
II on the individual conscience that
inability to accept certain articles of
the creed and a particular concep-
ton of the church as historical is
equivalent to renupciation of Chris
tianity and denial Of Christ?
Educated as the vast majority have
been to consider Christianity and its
scholastic Interpretation as identical,