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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
INSTITUTE ON WHEELS
. FOR FARMING I! COURSE
Meritorious Project For Spread:
49,. ing Agricultural Gospel in
St. Louis County.
Specialists From State Agricul-
tural College Are Among
the Instructors.

The Duluth Commercial club has
perfected arrangements with the State
Agricultural college, extension depart
ments, for a potatoe special to tour
st. Louis and Lake counties. The
two railroads, the D. & I. and D. M.
& N. have generously offered the
equipment so that the whole school
may go on wheels through the coun-
ty with paraphernalia that it would
be hard to carry from town to town
in any other way.
Dates and Staff.
The dates set are March q to
April 10 1911, and the following are
the staff of instructors: c.. E. Brown,
potato expert, Elk River; O. M. o.
son, state agricultural school. St. An
thony Park: N. E. Chapman, poultry
expert, agricultural extension staff;
A. B. Hostetter, superintendent Of
agriculture, Duluth Commercial club;
Harry A. Hopkins, manager, Pro-
ducers Cooperative Market association
The Equipment.
The train will carry two cars fitted
for class rooms and one arranged
for demonstration work, with other
cars for quarters for the staff and
guests.
When the train arrives at a station,
the settlers will be divided in three
groups. In one car Mr.. Brown and
Mr.. Olson will conduct potato
class. In the next Mr.. Chapman will
preach his poultry gospel. In the
third Mr.. Hopkins will have an ex-
hibit of standard packages and crates
and with Mr.. Hostetter, will answer
all the questions about preparing and
grading. packing and shipping, and
making the products marketable to
fetch the best prices.
BY the time three groups have been
through the three cars in rotation
they will have about all they need to
carry away for one days instruction.
The Itinerary.
Subject to change, the itinerary will
cover the following places, the ex-
act schedule to be arranged: Two
Harbors, Crimson, Fairbanks, Tower,
Embarrass, Aurora, Biwabik, Lake
Junction Cook, Hibbing, Eveleth,
Forbes, zim, Kelsey, Meadowlands.
Alborn, Burnett Adolph, Floodwood
and possibly few places in ad-
joining territory, ending with a day
In Duluth for farmers within driving
distance.
Gospel of the Hen.
Mr.. Chapman, who has just gradu-
ated six day class at Duluth, the
most successful poultry school so far
held by the extension department.
will carry the gospel of the hen on
this trip. His ambition is to double
In one year the yield of the state in
eggs and fowls and the cash value
thereof. AS the poultry industry in
this region is just getting started, his
ambition for this district bids fair to
be realized. z5
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
DULUTH INDEPENDENT a
UNION: LABEL LEAGUE
An Organization of Women, United
in Action and Effort to .Ad-
vance the Union Label.
Trade Mark That Guarantees Against
Every Unfair Condition of
Employhent.

The Duluth Independent Union La
bel league is, as it name implies, an
organization of aboutF1oo women, not
in affiliation with any national body,
but doing noble work nevertheless for
the little trade mark that means hon.
est work we'll performed by skilled
labor, the best material fifty joined
together by men and women at living
wages, IAN honest days work for an
honest days pay
Purchasing for family needs is in a
large measure left to5the women. The
wife and mother areGthe real distri-
butors of the money. learned by our
great army of breadWinners, and If
they can be sufficiently Impressed by
the Importance of refusing to pur-
chase non-union articles where the
union label product can be secured,
such conditions as were exposed by
the shirt waist makers strike last year,
and the garment workers strike just
ended in Chicago WILSON be cured.
This organization was started in
Duluth about three years ago, and
through loyalty and untiring efforts
of decidedly progressive and brainy
woman-Mrs. w. A. Warnecke. the
organization has become an important
factor for the advancement of the
cause of trades unionism not only in
Duluth. but in many Cities whose pro-
ducts find retail market in Duluth.
The members of this organization
look for the union label on every ar
ticle they buy. because they know it's
appearance on any article is a sure
guarantee against. stenement sweat
shops, child labor, and other unfair
conditions. Furthermore it bears wit
ness to the fact that the :workmen
producing the article; have had a.
voice in arranging the. scale Of wages
they are to receive,ssand the length
Of the workday. E5ss
The meetings of INSTRUMENTATION are
held on the first and third Wednesdays
of each month at kalamazoo hall. The
present. staff of Officers are the fol-
lowing: President, Mrs w. A. War
necke; vice president. Mrs. G. H. Bur-
Cher; secretary, Mrs l.. West; treas
urer, Mrs. r. F. BaErows.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
POSTAL CLERKS FORM
new INTERNATIONAL
Old Association Declared to Be
Snapped of Its Strength by the
Post Master General.
(By Pan-American Press.)

ST. PAUL Minn., Mar. 16.-The
convention of the newly organized Ma
tional Brotherhood of Railway Mail
Clerks now in session in this city, has
decided not to call for a general walk
out Of it's membership as first favored
by many delegates. This decision
followed upon information received
from the 'brotl1erhood's legal repres-
entative in Washington, James Mana
han, to the effect that LaFollette and
other insurgent senators had taken
up the railway mailEclerks' fight and
that Postmaster General Hitchcock
had become so fearful of the public
sentiment aroused against him that
he had issued orders for a complete
revision of the working hours on the
mail cars, cutting down the working
time to approximately the standard
demanded by the clerks.
John L. Thornton, chairman of the
publicity committee of the brother
hood, denied the intimation in the
Washington dispatches that he was
the agitator responsible for the pres
ent militant attitude of the railway
mail clerks.
would that the honor was mine"
feelingly exclaimed Thornton, but
the truth is that l am not the in
dividual referred to-. Chief Clerk
Weeds fulminations have reference
to- Urban A. Walter, editor of the
Harpoon, for it was Walter that put
the bill through the house of repres-
entatives providing for steel mail
cars, a measure which will save hun
dreds of lives
Charters were issued by the bro
therhood to II cities and towns in
Minnesota, North and South Dakota,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Montana, West
irginia and Ohio.
Affiliation with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, is a matter now
under consideration. The old associa-
ton of railway mail clerks was dis
couraged in every way by the post
office department from joining the
A. r. of L., and men who became
too 'militant' were dropped from the
service. 1t was Hitchcock's plan to
hold out the bait of an inspectorship
to those officials in the association
that were most Influential and conse-
quently the fighting strength of the
organization was sapped.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
SUPERIOR TO HAVE
MANY FINE HOMES
Coming Season Will Witness
Erection of Many Imposing
Residences.
Our Twin Brother Coming to the
Front Fast With Palatial
Structures.

SUPERIOR, March 16.-Nork will
be started on number Of fine resi-
dences as soon as the weather Is such
that building operations can be car
ried on with facility
Plans are being prepared by Archi-
tect F. E. Johnson for a residence to
be erected at Hammond avenue and
Twenty-first street for H. c.. Beck, SUI
perintendent Of the Reiss Coal COM
pany's dock. The residence will cost
approximately $4,000.
DR.. Chas. W. Giesen Is also having
plans drawn for a home to cost ap-
proximately $4,000. The house will be
in the craftsman style and is to be
started shortly. F. E. johnson also
drew the plans for this residence
Another residence to be erected Is
that for F. H. Giesen, who is also to
build a $4,000 structure. This, like
the others, Is to be of the most mod
ern type, the plans being prepared
by the same architect.
The contract for the new brick
building to be erected at Seventh and
Tower to replace the frame structure
recently gutted by fire will be this
week.
The building will have frontage Of
80 feet on Tower avenue and 80 feet
on Seventh street. The cost of the
building will be $4,000 The plans
for the structure were drawn by John
O. Bach, the local architect
The contract for the new garage
building to be erected for e. T. Carey
at f7Oo-07 Tower avenue has been
let to E. Sedlachek
The structure will be built of con-
crete and steel and will he one story
in height. 1t will have frontaxe
CT 50 feet on Tower avenue and will
be l40 feet deep. It is to be fireproof
so far as is possible with the mater
ialsto be used.
The cost of the building will he
$4,000. Work Is to be strated this
summer
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
DEMAND HIGHER WAGES
AND SHORTER WORKDAY

NEW YORK, Mar. 16.-The Book
binders union has ordered strike
against ]. Fink. bookbinder of 81
duane street, for higher wages and
shorter Workday. Twenty-Five mea
are out on strike and they expect
an early victory. They demand a
nlne-hour day instead of ten, as they
nave been working. and an increase
IN wages from 10 to IS per cent as
well as recognition of their union.
The fight against Fink was taken
up by all local unions of the book
binders and they promise to assist
the strikers until they win the fight.
Although Fink said that he won,6
nave nothing to do with the union.
but that he would deal with the en-
ployes individually. he has already
changed his position and has asked
Tor a committee from the union. The
strikers maintain headquarters at 151
Clinton street. wheer they assemble
every day.
They request all bookbinders to
stay away from the shop.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
ANTI TUBERCULOSIS
BILL IN LEGISLATURE
Number of Bills Presented and Each
Has Its Particular
Defenders.
Object of All Of Them Is MeritoriOus
and Great Relief Is
Assured.

ST. PAUL, March 16.-Probably
within a week the fate of the bill
Oh. F. 749) establishing state sana-
torium for all stages of the disease in
each congressional district will be de-
cided In the house. The bill is on
general orders but there are over 100
bills ahead Of It, A duplicate bill
has been introduced in the senate by
the senate Public Health & Pure Food
committee as S. F.. 6O2. A duplicate
of house file GIL appropriating a
mission has also been introduced in
the senate as S. F.. 525. Unless this
bill passes the work of caring for the
consumptive must wait a full year or
until the tax levy asked to build the
institutions will become available
next March.
The school exhibit bill, H. F. 1876 is
based on the, assumption that the
best machinery through which to
educate the rural population of this
state who have been largely neglected
so far in the anti-tuherculosis cam
paign Is the county school organiza-
ton This organization reaches the
remotest districts.
Many of the county superintendents
are already much interested and will
do everything they can to spread in
formation in their territory hence
with the hearty approval of the state
department Of Public Instruction and
the State Board of Health the State
Anti-Tuberculosis association is asking
the legislature to appropriate $1O.-
600 to the State Board of Health with
which to place 10 or more small COM
pact hand portable exhibits in the
hands of each county superintendent
to be circulated through the schools
of the county. The plan is to have
a set of exhibits for each county,
each of which is different so that the
schools may have a change every so
often. This plan would add to the
interest and make possible dissemina-
! ton of larger amount of informa-
ton than could be given in one small
permanent exhibit.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
BOX WORKERS
WIN MANY VICTORIES
Manufacturers Hasten to Strikers
Offices and Sign Union
Agreements.
Extra Hazardous Conditions Are
Remedied and Many Important
Concessions Granted.

NEW YORK, Mar. 16.-Hundreds of
paper box workers returned to work
after their employers signed agree
ments with the union. For the first
time in the history of the trade a
union card will be presented by every
worker upon entering the shop.
Paper box manufacturers are
crowding the offices of the strikers
and signed the union agreement.
The victory of the strikers seems
now certain. More than half Of the
manufacturers have settled already,
Among them are many of the most
substantial paper box makers in tile
city
The victory which the strikers won
according to the officers of the union,
can hardly be overestimated, as the
conditions in the paper shops prior
to the strike were extra hazardous
Thus many of the shops had no fire
escapes, while those which had them
did not have them in condition that
would make them useful and avail
able in case of fire. In many of the
shops the exits which led to the fire
escapes were used as storage places
or were blocked by machinery.
The fire escapes themselves gener-
ally led into a yard from which there
was no exit, or at least the exit was
not easily accessible, especially in
case of panic.
Must Provide Fire Escapes.
The contracts which paper box
manufacturers now sign with the
union provides for fire escapes which
will be easily accessible and which
will lead to safety and not into blind
alleys. The passageways to these
fire escapes must be kept cleared 80
that they can be reached easily.
Amoog the other important provis-
ions which the strikers gain is half
hour more for dinner. According to
the terms of the contract they will
get an hour for dinner instead of only
half an hour. AS mout of the work.
ers in the paper box trade are boys
and girls of tender age, to be able
to rest for half an hour after their
midday lunch will be great relief.
The strikers also gain a provision
for the putting in of sinks in the
shops for drinking and washing pur-
poses. Besides they get dressing
rooms for girls and boys and an in
crease in wages of, Is per cents. :
: Another provision which may save
a paper box maker here and there
from contracting tuberculosis. is tile
one which provides that the floor Of
the shop be scrubbed once q week. 4
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
TRADES ASSEMBLY
FAVORS TEACHERS
Recommend That Salaries Be Revised
Upward to Extent of Is to
Is Per Cent.
Present Wages is Out of Proportio,
to the High Cost of
Living.

At the last meeting of theDuluth
Federated Trades assembly the follow
ing resolution was adopted by un-
animous vote.
The Duluth Federated Trades as
sembly in regular session convened,
does hereby give it's unanimous sup
port to the efforts now put forth on
hehalf of the teachers Of Duluth for
an increase of compensation.
1t is our deliberate judgment that
the salaries now paid Duluth teachers
are inadequate to enable them to
meet the demands made upon them
by the social and economic condl-
tions. of society. and we think that
the board of education should i'm
the salaries upon a higher basis than
now obtains
It is universally conceded that from
the standpoint Of competency, educa-
tion and efficiency the teachers OF
Duluth as whole are not excelled
by those Of any city in the north
west, and it is a burning shame that
we do not pay them salaries COM
mensurate with their worth. There
fore,
Resolved: That a copy of these find
ings be certified to the board Of Edu-
cation of this city, supplem ented with
the request that there be anentire re-
vision upward of the teachers wage
scale to the extent at least Of an In
crease of from Is to 20 per cent.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
Congress Adds Far Reaching Pre-
cedent to Naval Appropria-
tion Bill.
EIGHT.H0UR WORKING DAY
ASSURED FOR $4,000 MEN
Victory For Which Union Men
Fought Through Two Ses-
sions of Congress.
Special to Labor World.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. 16.-
The final vote of the house of repres-
entatives in favor of the Naval APP
preparation bill with the Hughes
amendment intact and part of the
measure, practically assures all 8hour
working day to over $4,000 men, the
large majority of whom have been
compelled to labor for 10 hours day
in the great shipbuilding yards of
William Cramp, Philadelphia; New
York Shipbuilding Co.. Camden, New
Jersey; Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry Dock Co.,; Bath Iron Works.
Maine; Fore River shipbuilding and
Engine o., Quincy, Massachusetts, and
the Maryland Steel company.
Working openly to wreck the Shour
day, the Secretary of the Navy, Won
Meyer, made it plain to the labor
lobby that he voiced the fear of the
great corporations who, while they
might have consented to hours on
purely government work, realized that
this precedent once esta blished would
certainly effect other vast plants
where cheap labor at unlimited hours
had been coming millions for their
employers.
Te amendment presented by Re-
preventative Hughes of New Jersey:
covers the ground in this short and
drastic clause:
'Provided, That no part of this
appropria ton shall be expended
for the construction of any boat
by any person, firm, or corpora
ton which has not at the time
of the commencement and con-
struction of said vessel established.
an eight-hour workday for all.
employees, laborers, and mechan-~-
les engaged or to be engaged in
the construction of vessels named ~
herein ->-E<., - -: ~s'~,>~-
The chairman Of the Machinists'
Legislative committee, William H.
Johnston, has been fighting for the
success Of this victory during two
sessions of congress and with him was
the best and most persistent group OF
union men that have ever tracked
the unwilling congressman to his Of
flee door. Lacking the usual means
OF bringing congressman to terms.
monied pressure, Johnston and his
mates utilized another power, namely,
the fear of the home vote, and when
the reluctant congressman's mail be-
came flooded with demands for action
from labor organizations in his own
voting precincts, the desired results
were obtained. Among the machinists
this victory has a peculiar signifi-
canoe for Johnston, a radical, is a
candidate for the presidency of the
International Association of Machin-
lists as against President James O'Con-
nell. a member of the National Civic
federation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
COLORADO JUDGE IS
TRIED FOR BRIBERY
Is Accused Of Having Been Paid
$4,000 Before Sentencing
Sixteen Union Miners.
Impeachment Proceedings Now
Pending in Colorado House
of Representatives.
(By Pan-American Press.)


DENVER, Mar. 16.-The impeach-
ment Investigation against Judge
Greeley w. Witford, which is being
conducted by a committee of the
Colorado house of representatives,
took a most sensational turn when
the committee was told by Mrs. Mar
garet Miller that prior to his SEN
fencing sixteen union miners to- Jail
few months ago she had delivered
package to Witford which, she al
legged. contained $1,000 .
Mrs. Miller said she had been on
terms of close relationship with Wit
ford for eight years. She testified
that during the Cripple Creek min
Ing troubles she was in the employ
of the Mine Owners association. She
alleges man associated with her in
those troubles gave her the money to
give to Judge Witford.
The sixteen miners we're released
from jail last week by Judge Wit
ford after serving two months Of
their sentence.
union labor organizations all over
the State of Colorado unite in pc
titionins for Judge Witford's remov-
al from the bench, declaring that
the court in sentencing the miners
had found them guilty of a criminal
charge without giving them the right
OF trial by jury. Mother JONES'
played an important part in the free
ing the the men by holding immense
meetings in all of the large Glitch OF
the state. ~ -: .,.>
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-18
SCORES BUREAU OF LABOR
AND FACTORY INSPECTORS
Chance for any kind Of Compen.
sation Act to Pass Remote.
State Insurance Urged.
Special Correspondence.
ByW. E. McEwen.)

Workingmen's compensation had
another inning before the judiciary
committees of bottle houses Monday
evening. 1t was employers night and
Mr.. George NJ. Gillette held the floor
for more than three hours in defense
of his report to the legislature as
a member of the employees compensa-
ton commission.
He paid his respects to his COL
leagues on the commission, some
times lauding them to the skies, and
at other times deploring their course.
He attacked the constitutionality of
the Mercer McEwen code, and held
that took away from employers their
constitutional rights.
Employers Selection.
However, he was of the opinion
that his plan of election before the
accident and at the time of employ
ment, which of course means "ep-
ployers selection" would solve the con-.
stitutional problem. At this point in
his remarks Senator Putnam Informed
Mr.. Gillette that his bill was very
artfully drawn to give the employer
a decided advantage over his employe.
Mr.. Gillette laid particular stress
upon the necessity of having the en-
ploye contribute to a fund out Of
which could be paid all accident
claims. He gave two reasons for this
provision in his bill. His first was
that it would help to reduce the cost,
and his second. was that a cOntribu-
tion from employe would make them
more careful, and would help in the,
reduction of accidents.
Factory Inspectors.
The method of appointing factory
inspectors in the Bureau of Labor.
came. in for a severe roast. At this
point NJ. Gillette said, that "Mr. Nc
Even made the best labor commits
sioner this state ever had But the
employers were getting very poor in
spection for the reason that the Bur-
eau of Labor was a sewer for labor
politicians.
While I agreed with Mr.. Gillette in
some of his criticism of the appoin-
tive methods of the bureau of labor,
did not permit him to place all of
the responsibility upon labor or the
political party organizations.
Question of Accidents.
Of the 10000 accidents which hap
pened in Minnesota last year two
thirds of them occurred in industries
over which the bureau of labor had
no supervision, because of restric-
tions in the law creating and defin-
ing the duties of the officers of the
bureau of labor.
AS an illustrations: An elevator ac-
cident happened in the wholesale
house of Gordon & Ferguson in this
city Tuesday morning in which three
people were killed outright, one was
fatally injured and three others were
seriously hurt. Because of a provi-
sion of the factory law the bureau of
labor can not inspect elevators that
are insured by casulty company.
A large number of accidents happen
Confined on Pare E.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-21
POLITICIANS
ARE ACCUSED
Former Brooklyn Candidate
and Leaders Arrested.

FL yes
New York, Nov. ~2f.-Joseph Cassidy,
Democratic leader and ex-borough
president Of Queens; William WiIiett,
Jr., and Louis T. Waiter. Jr., were ar
rested this morning on the charge that
they committed the crime of c0nspir-
acy in bringing about the nomination
of Wiilett, who was defeated at the
last election for supreme court justice.
Justice Scudder, who has been sitting
as a magistrate in order to hear evil
dence against the three men, who have
now been named as defendants, or
dered that warrants be issued for
them, saying that be was convinced
from the evidence submitted to him
that a prima facie case had been made.
Wiilett and Walter will make no
comment on their arrest.
Two sections of the penal code are
believed to cover the charges against
the trio. WiIlett, who has been a con
and Walter are accused IN
der one Of the sections which deals
with persons who attempt to secure or
accept a nomination for money. The
punishment for THE upon conviction Is
two years in prison. a fine of $4,000 or
both. Cassidy IL accused under the
other section, which deals with an at
tempt to procure or promote a nomf-
The penalty for this ofense Is
one year in prison.