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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-21

Hartsel has signed again with the Ath-
letics. 1t was thought that the little man
was all through, but his great work In the
one worlds series game that he played
made him SO strong with Connie Mack
that he gets in again as utility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-21
johnson Beat Lang.

Lang is a typical Australian, game,
strong and willing. He met Jack johnson
several years ago and was taking a hard
beating when the authorities interfered.
This battle took place in Australia when
Lang was little more than novice. Tom
my Burns knocked him out in six rounds
in 1893. but last year in another scrap
Lang managed to stay twenty rounds,
though Burns received the referees ver-
dict on points. Lang came to America
last summer to see the Jeffries-Johnson
mill. He hooked up with Kaufman in
Philadelphia IN the fall and was clearly
outpointed In six-found contest In that
affair Lang broke his wrist and was un-
able to do himself Justice. at the same
time being compelled to take long rest.
When Lang reached England he was
hailed by Mcintosh as the coming cham
pion OF the world. He proceeded to beat
Jack Burns Of California, fourth rater,
and then lost on a foul to Petty Officer
Curran In the first round.
Lang is a slow coach. He can hit with
either hand and is fairly clever. His best
hand in hand with remarkable pluck. He
can take a beating and for that reason
Mcintosh does not see how Langford can
put him to sleep.
The Olympia Annex can accommodate
nearly 10000 spectators and the fight has
attracted SO much attention on the other
side that an immense crowd will attend.
sion to $50 fora box seat, and the men will
fight for 60 per cent Of the gate receipts.
Eugene CORR, the stock broker and
sportsman, probably will referee, and will
go into the ring with the pugilists Ameri-
can style.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-21

According to Chicago writer's, Connie
Mack declares that the White Sox and
the Red Sox will be the dark horses OF
this seasons American League pennant
race. Cornelius picks the Athletics to
repeat in a close race. He figures he has
to beat out the Yankees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-21

Totals. 271 27o $50 Totals. $50 3Ol 2l6
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
Demo. Defeat Labor

There is great deal of discus
sion in labor circles here over the
action OF the Democrats in defeating
IN the House amendments for the
elght-hour day and against convict
LABOR, which We're introduced by
Minority leader, Mann, during the
debate on the Farmers Free List
BILL
although the Republican leader
was known to have been insincere
when he introduced the Two labor
amendments, it is a fact, neverthe-
less. that the Democratic party went
on record as being opposed to these
measures. There was no good rea-
son for the Democrats refusing to
call the Republicans bluff.
The convict labor clause was de-
feated by vote of 172 to 73. The
eight-hour day amendment was rul-
ed out or order on point Of order
made by Underwood, the leader of
the Democrats. Mann appealed from
the decision of the chair but lost by
vote of 1O7 to 49, In neither
case was the vote by roll call.
The defeat of these labor 'riders"
shows that that parliamentary me-
thod is for the use of the vested
interests only. Labor riders" are
always ruled out of order, no mat
ter which of the old parties are in
control
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
GENERAL DEMANDS.

]. The immediate government re-
lief for the unemployed workers by
building schools, by reforesti.lg of cut
over and waste lands, by reclamation
Of arid tracts. and the building of
canals. and by extending all other
useful public works. All persons
employed on such work shall be EN-
ployed directly by the government nm
der an eight-hour work day and at the
prevailing union wages. The govern
ment shall also loan money to states
and municipalities, without interest
for the purpose of carrying on public
works. 1t shall contribute to the
funds of labor organizations for the
purpose of assisting their unemployed
members. and shall take such other
measures within its power as will
lessen the widespread misery of the
workers caused by the misrule of the
capitalist class.
>. The collective ownership of rail
roads. telegraphs. telephones. steam
boat lines and all other means of So
cial transportation and communic.-
ton.
=. The collective ownership of all
industries which are organized on a
national scale and in which compe-
tition has virtually ceased to exist.
d. The extension of the public do
main to include mines. Quarries. oil
wells. forests and water power
3 The scientific reforestation of
timber lands. and the reclamation of
swamp lands. The land so reforested
or reclaimed to be permanently re-
at as a part of the public do
main.
6. The absolute freedom of press
speech and aSsemblage.
INDUSTRIAL DEMANDS.
7. The Improvement of the indus
trial condition of the workers.
ta) BY shortening the workday in
keeping with the increased produc-
ivenesS of machinery.
90 BY securing TO every worker n |
est period of not less than day and
half in each week.
Co BY securing a more effective
Inspection of workshops and factories.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18

That Uncle Sam should be
among the first to recognize labor
organization, is the opinion Of Ber-
ger.
He has taken teep interest in
the l'aTing on the Lloyd bill now
taking place before he House Com
mittee on Reform in the Civil Ser
vice. In few days Berger will
make an argument before the Com
rittee in favor of this bill, giving
government clerks the right of free
speech and right to organize.
For several weeks Berger has
been receiving letters from postal
employees throughout the country
asking him to take mp their cause.
He intends to do all in his power
to get relief for these oppressed
workers, whose destinies are direct
ly in the hands of Congress.
President Nelson Of the Fedora
ton of Postctficei Clerks, concluded
his address. He made n fine i'm
preston, and gave the committee
such information a. only a person
formerly in the service could give.
In the course of his remarks Nelson
told of the dismissal Of eight postal
clerks in Indianapolis for political
reasons" AIN
What do you mean by political
reasons?" asked Berger.
These, men did not vote for Rep
resentative Overstreet. the favorite
OF the Republican machine. One
of the dismissed men was a Social
list. replied Nelson
We'll, that's a good reason"
smilingly suggested Representative
Gillette, of Massachusetts. Every
body laughed. But only few
realized that these dismissals meant
the robbing of a livelihood of work
ers who had given their best to the
Government
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
j. p. CLARK
CHARLESTON. w. VA.
All Orders delivered promptly.
Give lis a Call.
NATIONAL Committee MOTION
'Cirard, Kansas,

'Cirard. Kansas,
May 9, 1911.
Dear Comrade Barnes AS Ma
uonal Committeeman wish TO
make the following motion:
That the Woman-s National Com
m1ttee shall meet once each year at
the National Headquarters of the
Party at such time as such commit
Tee snail decide on, the travelling
ana hotel expenses of the members
OF the committee to be met from
the National treasury.
Comment: The Woman's Ma
tlonal Committee has become an or
ganic party of the party organiza-
ZION. To do its work effectively it
should meet at least once each
year to plan its work and examine
progress made. It is but a short time
heiore women in many more of the
western states will have the ballot
and the Importance of the work of
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
Platform of the Socialist
Party of the United States


tenn, the workingmen will free not
only their own class, but also ALI
other classes of modern society: The
small farmer, who is today exploited
by large capital more indirectly but
not less effectively than is the wage
laborer; the small manufacturer ana
Trader, who Is engaged in desperate
and losing struggle for economic in
ceFendence in the face of the all
conquer1ng power of concentrated
capital; and even the capitalist HIM
ser, who Is The slave of his wealth
rather than his master. The s:rug-
Gle or the working class against the
capitalist class, while 1t Is a class
struggle for. the abolition of all elias
conservation of health. The bureau
ses and class privileges.
The Rock OF Glass Ruie.
me private ownership OF the land
and means of production used for ex-
ploitation is the rock upon which class
rule is built; political government is
Its indispensable instrument. The
wage-workers cannot be freed from
exploitation without conquering the
political power and substituting col
lective for private ownership of the
land and means of production used for
exploitation
The basis for such Transformation
Is rapidly developing within present
capitalist society. The factory system,
with its complex machinery and
| minute division of labor. Is rapidly de-
stroying all vestiges of individual
| PRODUCTION in manufacture Modern
production Is already very largely a
| collective and social process The
great trusts and monopolies which
| have sprung up in recent years have
! organized the work and mana cement
of the principal industries on a ma
| tional scale, and have fitted them for
collective use and operation
Land and Public Welfare,
! There can be no absolute private e
title to land. All private titles,
whether called fee simple or other
wise. are and must be subordinate to
the public title. The Socialist Party
strives to prevent land from being
used for the purpose of exploitation
and speculation. It demands the col
lective possession. control or manage
ment' of land TO whatever extent may
be necessary to attain that end. 1t is
not opposed to the occupation and pos
session of land by those using it in a
useful and bona tide manner without
Exploitation.
| lie SoOCldllSL rarity Is primarily an
economic and political movement. 1t
is not concerned with matters of re-
| ligious belief.
| LabOr's Interests Identical.
In the struggle for freedom the in
terests of all modern workers are
identical The struggle Is not only
national, but International. 1t EN-
braces the world and will be carried
| to ultimate Victory by the unite work
erS of the world
| To unite the workers of the nation
and their allies and sympathiZers OF
all other classes to this end is the mis-
| sion of the Socialist Party. In this
battle for freedom the Socialist Party
does not strive to substitute working
class rule for capitalist class rule
but by working-cla victory to free
| all humanity from class rule and to
realize the International brotherhood
of man
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
SOCIALIST POST CARDS.

Just the thing to wake up your
friends and enemies.
Give them II Socialist tip. Send
them IL Socialist lost Card, ''WalSe
EN- up. Buy of your local. Pack
age of IL old different, 1Oc. Buy of
your local Secretary or lecture
agent, or the publisher of this pap
err. Special 80 days offer to local.
20 ten cent packages for one dol
lar to help swell your. treasury.
Samples to locals 6 cents.
GEO. Il. DICT<ERT,
Gen. Del. Sta. "C'', Toledo, o,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18

tdl BY forbidding the employment
of children under sixteen wars 81
age.
te) BY forbiding the interstate
transportation of the products of child
labor. of convict labor and of all i'm
inspected factories.
~ BY abolishing official charity
and substituting in its place comnni.
sorry insurance against employment.
Illness, accidents. iavalidism, old age
and death.
POLITICAL DEMANDS.
o. Ihe extension of Inheritance
taxes, graduated in proportion to the
amount of the requests and 10 the
nearness of kin.
g.. A graduated income tax.
TO- Unrestricted and equal suffrage
for men and women. aud we pledge
ourselves TO engage in an active cam
paign in that direction
IL The initiative and referendum
proportional representation and the
right of recall
-. The abolition of the senate.
10. The abolition of the power
nsurped by the supreme court of the
United States to pass upon the consti-
| congress. National laws to be re-
| pealed or abrogate only by act of con-
gress or by a referendum of the whole
people.
IA. That the Constitution be made
lamendable by majority vote
Is. The enactment of further meas
ures for general education and for the
| OF education to be made department.
The creation of department of
health
| 16. The separation of the present
! bureau of labor from the department
of commerce and labor and the estaE-
| lishment of a department of labor.
II. That all judges be elected by
the people for short terms and that
the power to Issue injunctions shall be
cnrbed by immediate legislation.
! The free administration of justice.
| Snch measures of relief as we may
be able to force from capitalism are
but q preparation Of the workers to
seize the whole powers of government
in order that they may thereby lay
hold of the whole system of industry
and thus come to their rightful inherit
lance
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
PROGRAM.

AS measures calculated to strength
en- the working class in it's fight for
the realization of this ultimate aim,
and to increase its power of resist
ance against capitalist oppression. we
advocate and pledge ourselves and our
elected officers to the following pro-
gram.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
this committee is manifest,
Fraternally,
tSiGned)-MAY WOODSMONS
Member National Committee
for Illinois.

Comrade Louis Kopelin in charge
or the National Socialist Press
news bureau at Washington, D. c.,
IS supplying articles of 2O3 papers:
eleven daily papers with a daily let
ter, and 1872 weeklies with a week
~ news letter. Comrade Frank E.
Wolfe has been assigned for similar
service in Los Angles. California, on
the Mcnamara case.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18

We also handle a number of other.
different Brands Bottled in Bond.
full quarts ut sS1.OO per quart.
ALL KINDS OF BARREL GOODS.
and YEARS OLD, FROM $500
PER GALLON, UP.
WE ALSO HANDLE IMPORTED
GOODS
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18

The Wells Fargo Express comDany
started with s5.OOO.OOO stock in
creased it to s24 100000. paid 10
per cent dividends annually for six
teen years. declared a 80 per cent
dividend last year and then had
S".6oo.oo0 cash surplus. These facts
came out the other day at hearing
IN st. Paul before the state railroad
commission
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
APPEAL TO REASON.
GriSard, Kansas.

Single Subscription so cents a year
Clubs of 4 or more 40 weeks %
cents .
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
THE FAMOUS BARBER SHOP

is now open in their new
quarters, no Virginia st.
and are now in position to
serve the patrons with the
same speed and efficiency
as in the past.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18

THE SOCIALIST.
26 N. Hight ST., Columbus.
Subscription $1.OO a year.
Six month 60 cents.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
Wants Government
Unionized

That Uncle Sam should be
among the first to recognize labor
organization. is the opinion Of Ber-
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18

SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC HERALD.
Milwaukee, Wis.
One year so cents.
Six months 35 cents,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
The Vital Issue.

me struggle between wage work
ers and capitalists grows ever fer
Ger. and has now become the only
V1al Issue before the American peo-
pie The wage-worl1ing class. there
fore, has the most direct interest in
aDollshlng the capitalists system
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-05-18
Power of Corruption.

10 maintain their rule over their
Fellow men, the capitalists must keen
In their pay all organs CO the publ
powers, public mind and public con-
science. They control the dominant
parties and. through them, the elect
ed public officials. They select the
executives. bride legislatures ana
corrupt the courts of Justice. They
own and censor the press They
dominate the educational institutions
they own the nation politically and
Intellectually just as they own il III
dnstrially
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-26

deprived of it by the action of local
political managers through the admin
istration at Washington Character
and merit in the candidate, the inter
est of the service, and the wishes Of
the people to be served, go for moth
inl Personal feeling and the sup
posed interests of party work griev-
GUS injustice; and the case demon
strates that the largest business de-
partment of the national government
is not conducted on sound business
principles in regard to its employees,
and that a farmers daughter, working
for living honorably and in every re-
spect successfully, cannot expect from
the national government the consider
alton and support which every intelli-
gent and respectable private employer
would surely give her. The case was
not an exceptionally hard one. All
appointees on political grounds are Ii
able TO just such treatment, and, as
a matter of fact, at the present mo-
ment all the higher appointments I'M
der the national government are
spells or patronage positions
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-26
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS
Native Of Brandon and Brought Up
On Vermont Farm.

Hon. Charles l. Button in recent
address at Middlebury spoke as fol
lows of Stephen A. Douglas who was
one of the greatest sons OF Vermont
and who was brought up on a Yer
mont farm.
As we are nearing the centenary
of Stephen Arnold Douglas QS13-1S6D
the most famous of the boys that
Brandon farms have produced and
whose career links Brandon to Ad-
Olson County it is fitting to dwell for
a moment upon his life story. Born
in Brandon village, he was brought up
on his maternal grandfather's farm
IN the Arnold district just over the
border from Addison county, until at
the age of fifteen he came to Middle
bury and learned the cabinet makers
trade There are few boys here today
that know the cabinet makers or any
other trade / believe the great need
of this country is for less highly edu-
Gated boys and for more trained arti-
sans Returning to Brandon, he at
tended the academy there and later
obtained a little further schooling
as Canandaigua, n. Y. This school
| ing was slim but sufficient to render
| him the teacher and the maker of
Lincoln Moving 10 Illinois, he be-
came at the age of q judge of the
Supreme Court at 80 congressman,
at 33 U. s. senator, and at 35 a candi-
date for president He remained in
the Senate and presidential candi-
date until his death at the age of only
las. Throughout the decade before the
war he was acknowledged to be the
foremost American. No man OF our
/ time save Roosevelt has yielded the
power that Douglas then possessed.
I II seems necessary 10 emphasize this
/ for Vermont does not realize the great
ness of Douglas He was Democrat
and considered it necessary to win
the friendship OF the South, then far
more powerful in the counsels of the
nation than the North, in order to win
I the presidency. At heart his sympa-
thies were with the North. The South
saw this and repudiated him. The de-
bates with Lincoln in 1858 focused the
attention of the nation upon the awk-
ward country lawyer that had dared
to break a lance with so peerless an
orator as Douglass. The linking to-
gether of their names rendered Lin
coin a national figure, enabling him
/ two years later to be nominated and
I elected to the presidency, defeating
4 Douglas Douglas and Lincoln had
previously been suitors for the hand
of the same girl, in which contest
+ Lincoln likewise won. Douglas held
Llncolns hat at the latter's Inaugural
ton. Three months later Douglas sud
denly died. His monument is the
University Of Chicago that he found
ed
In the past Vermont farms have in
stilled success into Vermont boys. 1t
is time for Vermont boys to instill a
greater success into Vermont farming.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-26
NO wIpowER IN LABRADOR
Six Weeks the Limit Of Mourning for
a Dead Wife.

In civilization 1t Is said that a wife
does not always add to her husbands
ease or render his life more support
able, but up on the Barren.grounds
the worst Of wives would be better
than none.
There, among the heather tribes,
if a mans wife dies-proyided he be
not a polygamist, in which case there
Is less need tor hurry--he often mar
ries again within the week, and even
the Christian Eskimo widowers are
with difficulty persuaded by the Mora
Wan missionaries to allow six weeks to
elapse between the death and re-
marriage. Certain n is that on the
very day after the six weeks have
lapsed the hunter presents himself
with a new bride, and asks that the
marriage service may be speedily
read
Nor is the reason for these things
far to seek We say in civilization
that "a woman's work Is never done,
and far more is that true of the help
mate of the savage and the semi
savage, the woman OF the Barren
5ANuAAlo VI VI LllI lNt-tD6Nt out illdhNo
and breaks camp, cooks, cuts up and
carries to camp her husbands kill;
she dresses the skins OF deer and seal
"a laborious process, as the skin often
has to be chewed to make II soft for
sewing); she is responsible for the
fashioning of foot-gear and clothes
on a journey she often paddles the
canoe, and on portage she carries
heavy load.
In fact it is easier to write down
the duties not expected of sQuaw
than those which by immemorial Gus
tom she must perform Inded, the
Northland is a country calling aloud
for woman's movement, a crusade of
emancipation; but such will never
come, even in a thousand years, for
in the wilderness the provider of food
Man the Hunter, has reigned, reigns
and, and ever will reign Having
slain his deer or his bear, he will take
his ease in the best place in the lodge
deputing all the lesser Offices to the
mother of his children 1t is a law,
and the laws of the Northland do
not change-H Hesketh Prichard in
the June Wide World.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-26

the civil service of the United States
DR.. Eliot sums up his article as fol-
lows:
THE moral OF this story is plan
A young woman, well born, well
brought up intelligent, better edu-
Gated than nine-tenths OF American
children, and OF irreproachable char
acter, demonstrates by five years Of
service as assistant in two post-offces
that she is fully capable Of discharg-
ing well the duties OF a postmaster
By fidelity and intelligence she reach
es a good position in the United
States Post-Ofice, that of postmis-
tress in third-class Office, only to be