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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-01-21
NO California CHILD
UNDER a TO WORK

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 90
Among the scores Of labor bills in
troduced at this session Of the state
legislature. Senator Hare's child la
Dor bill Is the most far-reaching
measure ever proposed for the pro-
lection Of the children. 1t provides
complete prohibition of the employ
ment of children under the age Of
IA years in any sort Of business, in
Guiding that of messenger service.
The only exception to this is made
in cases whore the judge Of the juven-
lie court upon report Of probation
officers that the child's parents are
incapacitated through illness, may is
sue permit for the briefest possible
time. Truant officers are given right
OF inspection Of all interdicted places
~ employment. No minor under 16
years Of age may be employed dur
ing school hours.
AS legislative representative Of the
State Federation ~ Labor. L. B. Lea.
witt is in Sacramento to safeguard
the interests of the Is labor bills that
are before the legislature. These in
ciuce the employers liability bill, as
drafted by the A.. F. Of L.: an act
providing that text books shall be
produced by California labor; a. bill
on trademarks and labels; bills fav-
osia5 equal suffrage, free distribu-
tion Of tex: books, regulation of pri-
:vato watchmen, guards and detec-
tives: a. Sunday law for BARRIERS,
prohibiting bakeries In Easements, re-
ElGf!nV tn a1vort}oavo 20 For II
f!n times Of strike: also bills for tho
safeguarding Of lives Of electricians,
licensing stationary engineers and pro-
2teodng members Of labor organiza-
.tions> Organization among the re-
tail clerks has resulted in their draw
5tnE Up bill which provides that all
trux stores shall be closed between
l. end s o'clock Sunday. afternoons.
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SKY PILOTS STAND
AGAINST WH|TL0Ck
|NvOKES CRITICISM

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 90
Cleveland has been having good:
healthy laugh the last few days at
barred Brand Whitlock, mayor 'of
Toledo, from their pulpits because
he could not root for the team as
the minister who was the first to
bar him expressed 1T.
But after having it's sides spit with
laughter at the bigotry of the church,
Cleveland has sobered up. And is get
ting angry.
The Cleveland Federation of. Wom-
ems clubs will hear Whitlock even If
they have to hire the" largest armory
in town to accommodate all the thou.
sands who are now clamoring to hear;
''the knocker of morality>'
The two ministers who found in
Brand Whitlock a hereto and a
force against Righteousness are
the Rev. Robert r. Bigger, Of West
minister Presbyterian church, and
the Rev. Dan Bradley, of the Pill
grim Congregational church.
The evidence upon which these two
churchmen condemned Whitlock as a
hereto and a force against right
eousness is contained in the follow
Of Whitlock:
What you and I regret and de-
plore is the existence of vice and
crime in the world today. You pro-
pose to abolish them by the use of
force. In my philosophy they can
never be abolished until we have as
certained the cause of them and re-
moved those cases."
In the meantime other ministers
of the gospel are becoming indig-
nant at the attitude taken by these
two churchmen toward Ohio's fa-
NOUS social reformer and author.
s THE barring of Mayor Whitlock
from those pulpits is most inexcus-
able" decalred Rabbi Louis Wolsey,
of Scovill avenue temple. THE de-
cline OF religion in an ecclesiastical
form is largely due to just such mar
row-mindedness as that. Mr.. Whit
lock practices what . I have been
preaching for eleven years, and he
would find warm welcome in my
pulpit
; Other ministers made the charge
llI<dL L1lc SlllS LUZ IHCl w AlI1OCh IdS
been barred by these two churches
were not sins against the church, but
his heretical views about society, his
questioning of the wisdom and JUS
tice of the present order of our sys-
tenn.
:. But the valiant Rev: Dan Bradley
is steadfast s;in .in his ,condemnations of
Whitlock. 4 ~: ~. ::: ~. <.sss>:-~4 ,..s
/ - ~ hirlock is knocking morality and
the people who are for morality" he
said. Our church stands for what
is high, moral, sober and intelligent.
IF Whitlock cannot root for the team
he is. welcome to root for: the other
side, but he mustn't expect to do his
roofing on the teams home grounds.
He antagonizes law and order and
decency. He is not doing anything
to make people better
Mrs. Myron B. Vorce, who is chair
man of the program committee OF
the Cleveland Federation Of Women's
clubs, which is planning to hire Grays'
armory for Brand Whitlock to speak
in, made this comment on the Revs.
Bradley and Bigger:
If those two ministers had read
from their pulpits Mayor Whitlock's s
reply to the Toledo critics, it would
have made better sermon than any
thew could have preached"
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In Cooperation With Boilermak-
ers This Compact Organization
of r. r. Workers Forces Bill,
Hated by Railways, Through
Senate.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 90
The senate, moved by the pressure Of
the strongest labor organization IN
America. the railroad brotherhoods.
has passed the locomotive boiler in
spection bill The measure is now in
the hands of the house committee
on interstate and foreign commerce,
where Mann, the chairman, has al
ready promised its passage.
For a year this bill has been bit
terly fought by the railroad corpora
tions, the Pennsylvania road Is parti-
cular sending large delegations Of law
yers and superintendents who all
practically testified that 1t would be
dangerous and most revolutionary
thing for the United States to inspect
locomotive boilers.
Expert boilermakers, among them
Thomas Nolan. third ce-president Of
the International Brotherhood of Boil
ermakers and Iron Shipbuilders. and
H. s. Jeffrey. exposed the custom on
many roads of patching rotten boil
ers until, in some cases. the engineers
were compelled to put bran in the
boilers to stop the leaks.
Long lists Of engineers mutilated
and killed by boiler explosions were
presented by Assistant General Chief
Engineer Of the B. Of l.. E. H. E..
Willis. who is also national legisla-
tive representative of the four great
railroad brotherhoods. Willis tore to
shreds the arguments Of the railroad
lawyers that explosions were practic
ally caused by low water in the boil
ers. Locomotive engineers, said Will
lis. are not given to carelessly COM
mitting suicide, but he did point out
cases where men were compelled to
take out engines with leaking and
dangerous boilers or lose their jobs.
In the course Of these hearings,
General Uhler, who is the head OF
ing steamboat boilers, gave most SEN
sational testimony. He said:
We have had only four explosions
in the last five years, and 414,000, 600
passengers have been carried by the
steamboats, inspected by the govern
ment"
In the house, Representative Mar
tin, of Colorado, himself locomotive
fireman with a paid up card in his
organization; has. charge ~ef: the fight
= for,~the- bill .- MANY "a time" "ssaid Mar
tin. speaking Of rotten boilers, when
I opened the door to put in coal /
took my life in my hands.
The continued exposures of the
scandalous conditions Of their rolling
stock by union representatives in the
various committee hearings. at last
drove the railroads to despairingly
give in and the government inspec~
tiOn of locomotive boilers will, un-
doubtedly, become law before the end
of this session.
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YANKEE 6EAMEN May JOIN
BRITISH SAIL LORS'' STRIKE.
NEW YORK LONGSHOREMEN
ISSUE PUNGENT PROTEST
AGAINST WARREN VERDICT

NEW YORK, Jan. 2O.-1nterna-
tional Longshoremen's association,
Local No. 791, of this city has made
the following pungent protest against
the Imprisonment of Fred D. Warren
by the capitalist courts:
"The Appeal to Reason, edited by
Warren, was stanch supporter of
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone,
trial for their lives. We realize that
there is one law for the rich and
another for the poor.
We are not begging, but demand
justice for our brother. We are go
ing to insist on the right of free
speech and free press if we have to
fight, to. uphold the constitution of
the United States against corrupt
courts and corporate greed.
''In times of war do all the fight
ing; In times of panic VIC do all the
starving; in times of co-called pros
perity we get bumpbacked from
overwork.
THE suckers are beginning to get
wise. ...
I'VE will carry the fight on for
the people of our class can enjoy
their rights as human beings.
We serve notice to the capitalist
class not to go too far, for they will
be resisted till we unfurl the banner
of industrial freedom over this land.
II Fred D. Warren Is sent to Jail
every wage worker in this country
will know the robber class is up to
more dirty work. and will never let
up in their protests.
Yours for industrial freedom,
u. r. REILLY.
president
JOHN J. WALSH,
Vice President
"EDWARD J. MORRISON,
Recording Secretary.
WAITER B. HOLT,
"Organizer.
."All labor papers please copy
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NEW GOVT. DISAPPOINTING
TO R. R. WORKERS STRIKE

LISBON, Jan. 20.-Railway traffic
in Portugal has been completely
stopped by a general strike Of rail-
way men, including the employees Of
the state lines. Almost concurrentiy
q, large proportion of the workers in
the stores and warehouses here struck.
The strike was inaugurated short
ly after the establishment Of the re-
publ" ami was caused by the dis
satis'' ioii Of the railway employees
In not getting the relief from former
oppression as they thought they would
get from republican government,
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Go to Trades AssembIy's
Big Free Picture Show

of the label system. as employed by
organized labor, will be given. -.
Remember, the program is high
class throughout and one which any
union man may be proud to have. his
non-union friends see. It's education
al and eye-opening. That's why it's
under the auspices of the Duluth
Trades assembly who never do things
by halves Their guaranty on the
performance proclaims it's merit
u, Owls hall is at 116 West Superior
street and the show will start at eight
sharp. ~, r %s..s.aa7>t: ..aas,. :4i2jst=a
Come and bring little Johnny with
you. i He'll enjoy it. as well as q
grown-up. And he'll be the better for
it some day. If Y. 155s
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It's the chance of your life that
moving picture show, to be given
next Monday evening at Owls hall
by the Duluth Trades assembly
It's 'first-class show, and though
it's first-class, 1t is free-free as the
air you breathe or the Lake Superior
water you leave alone. .-..4
The program will consist of educa-
,tional subjects along labor and in
dustrial lines-showing the workers
working in the, various trades and
throwing on the screen in addition
facsimiles of the various craft labels
in use among organized tradesmen. "
Illustrated songs will be included
in the evenings entertainment and a
short lecture on the use and benefit
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-01-21
BROTHERHOOD WIN FIGHT
FOR BOILER. INSPECTION
INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE
REPORT IS FILED WITH
BADGER STATE GOVERNOR

MADISON, Wis, Jan. 2O.-The final
report and bill Of the special joint
committee on industrial insurance OF
the 1909 Wisconsin legislature has
been filed with Governor McGovern.
The committee completed its task in
eighteen months and every member
signed the report, although differing;
widely politically.
The bill proposed by the committee
makes it optional with employers
whether or not they shall come under
it's provisions Those who do not
will be subject to suits at common
law, as heretofore. and in addition
will suffer the loss Of their principal
safeguards in damage suits, by the
abolition of the assumption of risk
and fellow servant" defenses. The
defense of contributory negligence
remains unchanged, feature which
is of great Importance to agricultural
interests, and removes any objections
the farmers may otherwise have had
against the scheme.
Four Years Earnings.
The schedule of compensation pro-
vides that in case Of deathathe en-
ploye's dependents are toTfaceive an
amount equal to four years. earnings.
payable the same as wages. In all
cases of accident causing injury the
employe receives IS per cent Of : his
wages. paid weekly, providing the
disability extends over week, the
first weeks indemnity falling due up.
on the twenty eighth day after in
Jury. ::
The bill provides that employees of
concerns who have elected to come
under its provisions must also choose
whether or not they will also be sub
ject to it or will remain free to sue
for damages In case of injury. No
provision is made for joint contribu.-
ton to an insurance fund by en-
ployers and employees. The proposed
law is to be administered by an 'in-
dustrial accident board" which is to
have the power to employ expert ex-
aminers to take testimony and !:re-
port to the board, the findings, OF
the latter body to be final unless
overturned. bY a court. ="
Economic Waste.
The large fees charged by attorneys
In personal injury damage suits are
shown in the report to. range from. 2 .
to. 20 per cent, and this item is set
down as one Of the large ECONOMIC
wastes under the present system.
An interesting feature. of the report
is that <followins. -eac .tsection+ ;tns the
proposed bill IL detailed eexplanatio6n
of that section. Several statistical
tables showing the extent Of indus
trial accidents in Wisconsin are shown
In the form Of appendices.
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M1LWAUKEE'S COOP. PRINT;
SHOP NOW HAS NEW HOME

MILWAUKEE,: Jan. 20.-The ma
chlnists are now at work setting up
the new $4,000 four-deck color
press in the new Herald building. Be-
sides that the Cooperative Printery
is adding $4,000 worth of new print
ing material to it's plant.
The business office OF the news
papers. Herald, Vorwaerts, Naprzod,
and the book department., are al
ready in their new quarters, and are
preparing to expand in every direc-
tion.
The Cooperative Printery moved
into its new home, January Is. The
occasion is being celebrated by the is
sue Of g. monster progress edition, of
the Social Democratic Herald, printed
In colors on January %, 49, s.s.Hl
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GARMENT MFRS ASK
STATE TO INTERFERE
IN CHICAGO STRIKE

CHICAGO, Jan. 2O.-The Illinois
state board Of arbitration will attempt
to settle the garment workers strike
on the solicitation of a number Of
large manufacturing clothiers. Strum,
Mayer & Co. have made satisfactory
settlement with the Garment Work.
ers' union and 500 men, women and
girls have gone back to work. A.
Sitron & Co. entered into like agree
ment with the union, putting 400:
employees to work.
But the main block in the way Of
complete settlement Is the firm Of
Hart, Schaffner & Marx who have
thus far refused TO meet the state
arbitration board and are counting
on starving the workers into sub
mussion.
1t Is understood the state arbitra-
ton board will ask that the objection
al violence clause" in the proposed
agreement submitted by the employ
ers to the union be eliminated. This
clause practically put every return
ing employee at the mercy of the
boss who could pick out the active
members in the union and refuse to
give them employment.
The peace committee. appointed by
the city council, is also working for
a settlement of the strike. The city
authorities fear that an unbiased lin
Nestigation of the actions Of the police
force would uncover a most astound-
ing story of brutality to the strikers;
girls being beaten into insensibility
and injured for life and death result
in a number Of other cases.
The strike financial report, as read
at the last meeting of the Womens'
Trade Union League by the treasurer,
Miss Olive Sullivan. showed that the
total contributions through the league
alone, had been $44,607.49. of which
S41, 1881 had been expended.
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ASSEMBLY
CHOOSES OFFICERS
FOR YEAR OF 1911

The first meeting of the Federated
Trades. yassenbly Tor january u s1a
was called to order by PresidenFF
Phillip at Kalamazoo hall, last Fri
day evening, all Officers being pres
ent except Secretary butcher and
Sergeant-at-Arms Schriner.
But few organizations reported
trade conditions. Horseshoers. Paint
ers and Telegraphers reported their
trades dull: Typographical. good.
New delegates were obligated as fol-
lows: Adam Stingler, S. b. Johnston
of Brewery Workers; Andrew Carol
of Tugmen; John E. Jensen. w. +.
Perry, j. H. Powers of Painters; r.
Richard, Geo. Mortified and Theo.
Kintz of the Butchers and Theo. Op-
son of the Tailors.
The report of the trustees was re-
ceived and filed.
Communication from the A. F. of L.
were received regarding police sweat
box methods. and were referred to
the legislative committee.
Bills to the amount of $3.50 were
received and allowed.
The legislative committee submitted
the following resolution which was
adopted:
Whereas. There has been intro
duced into the legislature Of this state
a bill providing for the adoption Of
the initiative, referendum and recall,
and, ri:
"Whereas, The State Federation of
Labor, In regular. convention assem-
bled, has recommended the adoption
of such a measure. and we believe
the interests of the public would be
protected and subserved by the pass
age of such a measure, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That the Federated
Trades assembly of Duluth, recon-
mend the passage of this bill by the
legislature, and urge upon the men,
bers thereof, to vote for the same,
and be it. further
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be forwarded to each
member of the legislature from the
Eighth congressional district.
Resolved, That we favor the pass
age by the Minnesota legislature at
it's present session of bill authoriz-
ing the city of Duluth to issue bonds
that may be used in the purchase or
erection of municipal electric plant,
and be 1T. further
Resolved. That we urge the men,
bers of the house and senate from
the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty
first legislative districts to see that
such bill is introduced at once,
and passed without unnecessary de-
lay"
New officers were elected as fol-
lows: *@''
~President-Richard Jones.
Vice president-Frank Heideman.
Rccording-secre E. TOwne.
Treasurc1-W. r.. Thompson.
Reading Clerk-E. A. Rickard. .-
Trustees-Jas. Walsh, Jos. Miller,
S. S. Mcdonald.
!! The election of delegates to Supe-
rior andof a sergeant-at-arms was left
left over until the meeting Of Jan.27
The matter Of securing an organizer
from the American Federation of La
| Dor, was turned over to the organiza-
tion committee and energetic meas
| ures will be taken to get .compe-
tent organizer. ;.5 III 5s:5sSB
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Hon overwdlked
New York. that sailed other
armed teeth
anyhow unafiafed bIposes
ladyfke
When they through smeared
Broes old the Bowey MCoys West Thirty
campaign behalf
ankh is an lcure on her favori TOPIC
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TROLLEYA1EN. MAY STRIKE.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Jan. 20
Unless the schuykill Railway COM
pany, which operates lines: through
the Mahonoy and Shenandoah VAL
leys, yields to p demand of the con-
ductors and motormen for an increase
of 25 cents a day and,a so per cent
increase for overtime, the lines will
be tied up by a strike This is the
ultimatum delivered by the Trolley
mems union. The union charges dis
elimination. against its members.
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JUDGE. SCORED FOR: =: !:
THRoT N N|lGG RECALL:
"A II a / u .

SEATTLE Wash, Jan. 20--Judge
C: H. Hanford, of the United States
Circuit court, in granting an injunc-
ton against the city comptroller and
city council restraining them from
appropriating public money for spe-
cial election under petition to recall
Mayor H. c. Gill, has aroused a
storm of public opposition which has
a nationwide significance.
Such a conservative paper as The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer comes out
with front page editorial headed,
"Government by Injunction is Here, "
and winds up its roast Of the judge
with these words:
Judge Hanford has staggered
In where angels we'll might fear
to tread, for any judge who is
bold and audacious enough to
seek to smother a free people by
wrongful and unauthorized use
of the great writ of Injunction,
invites a popular wrath which, if
it does not scourge him from
public service, will at least leave
him without the sympathy and
respect of his fellows.
''The sober. temperate public
opinion of this city has declared
in favor of the principle and of
the application Of the recall to
unworthy officers. The Post-In-
telligencer knows that it stands
. for the people in this. AS against
so Incorporate, unsonnd a decis-
ion as that Of Judge Hanford, the
people will win, as he will pro-
badly soon see."
That the principle of the recall
has become national issue and that
it's application will extent to the
judiciary as we'll as to other officials
is the outspoken opinion. of a large
majority of Seattle's citizens.
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STILL TALK ARBITRATION.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 70
The Winnipeg Street Railway COM
pany is no nearer terms Of: settlement
with it's striking motormen and con-
ductors than. at first. =" -.
Three hundred college students,
who have been acting as strikebreak-
ers, were roughly handled when they
sought to operate the cars. The city
council and the Industrial bureau are
trying to make the company and men
arbitrate. =.
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TRY TO EMASCULATE
OHIO LIABILITY ACT
WITH HELP OF JOKER

CLEVELAND, Ohio. Jan. 2O.-In
an effort to draw the teeth out Of
the Norris employers liability act,
passed at the last session Of the leg
islature, the Employers association
of Cleveland this week caused notices
to be posted in factories requiring
chinery under penalty Of being pre-
sumed before the law, to assume the
risk from such defects.
Thousands of employees were also
compelled to sign agreements which
union officials say, practically amount
to releases in case of injury.
The section on which the employ
ers depend is the latter part of No.
6245, which excuses the employer
from liability where "by the terms of
his employment it Is expressly made
the duty Of the employe to report
such violations (defects) to the en-
ployer."
The supposed joker was put in the
Norris bill by Attorney Jay P. Dawley
who drafted the notices and agree
ments for the Employers association
THE notices are only in accordance
with the requirements of the Norris
bill which specifiec that employees
shall notify employers of defects in
.machinery." Dawley said Monday.
Dawley admitted that if laborer
did not live up to his agreement he
would forfeit his right tp damage ac-
tfon in case of injury. -,
This section was oneIof the con-
cessio11s we had to make; to get the
bill through" Harry D. Thomas, busi-
ness agent of the Cleveland Fedora
tion. Of Labor, said. We realized it
might be used to defeat the general
tenor Of the bill" ~ =
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SA0EW0RkERS' UNION
SUED. By. Lynn MFRS

LYNN, Mass, Jan. 20.-The shoe
firm of Randall-Adams company has
entered suit for alleged damage to
their business against the United Shoe
Workers Of America, lasters' union,
bottom finishers' union and packing
room employees union, individual Of
ficers and members Of each union, for
the sum of 100000: The injury al
legged has been caused by the. factory
of this firm being closed because OF
the lasters' strike, which was followed
by sympathetic strike of the button
finishers and some members, of the
packing room employees; union.
i UNIONS DID TT, OF COURSE.
GARY, Ind, Jan. '20.-A new three
story building nearing completion at
Fifth avenue and Harrison street was
partly wrecked by . bomb explosion
Tuesday night. II; stE
The police declare the attempt to
wreck the building is the result Of
a labor war In Gary, which has been
going on since November. James j.
Reynolds, chief Western engineer of
the: United States Steel Corporations,
with offices IN the Commercial Ma
tional Bank building at Chicago =
the owner Of the bull lding,