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Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03
STORY OF FIRST DECADE

This elegantly printed, illustrated and
bound history of Imperial valley by Ed
gar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hail. has
been out of print but few more copies
of the original edition are now to be had.
Exclusively on sale at the Valley School
Supply. Original price So. now for $3.50.
When these are sold there win be no other
edition 1t is a history which every resi-
dent of the va,icy should have. If
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03
EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
INCREASE IN DEPOSITS

President +. b. Fuller of the Ell
Centro National bank gives a fine i'll
ustration of the splendid Improvement
in affairs of the valley by pointing to
the Increase in deposits in his bank
alone since December of $4,000.
To every citizen it has been appar-
ent that money is more free than
ever before in the valley, and this is
but one of many illustrations of
very evident truth
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03
PERSONALS

Mrs. w. r. Gilmore and Mrs. Otis
and child of Pfost will leave on this
evenings train for Les Angeles to at
tend the wedding Of Mrs Gilmore's
daughter. Miss Bessie Gilmore, to G..
L. Ramsey, a young bssiness man of
tAAk city.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03
STILL UNSETTLED

[BY UNITED PRESS AssoCIATIoNsl
NEW YORK, May 3.-In an attempt
to avoid general strike in the anthra-
cite region, which appears imminent
as result of the miners refusal to ac-
cept the compromise offered, the min
ers' committee met today. They prob
ably will request the owners to modify
certain portions of the proposed COM
promise and then call a general con-
vention to decide whether to accept
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03
MURDER ON RESERVATION

[BY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONSl
RIVERSIDE, May 3.-Indian Agent
viii Stanley, who was shot yesterday
on the Soboba reservation by Ambrosia
Apapas, died this morning Apapas is
in Jail here.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03
HOTEL BURNED

AUBURN, Cal, May Supposedly
incendiary fire today destroyed the
Hotel Placer and several frame build
ings. The loss is placed at 100000
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03
PARTIES WISHING STORAGE SPACE

We have leased the large sheet iron
warehouse formerly occupied by the Ham,
llton Supply Co., and are prepared to ham
die any and all kinds of storage business.
See Pioneer Transfer Co., at office on 5th,
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03
CITRUS FRUIT GROWERS
DECLARE WAR ON FROST

POMONA, May 3.-The annual meet
ing of the Citrus Protective league
opened here this morning Every cit
rus section in southern California is
Frost was the subject
for discussion this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-03

Have you tried some of the new pota-
toes grown on the w. Fl. Brooks ranch?
For sale by all the grocery stores.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
IRA|NMEN Of Duluth
APPEAL TO CONGRESS.
Two Local Lodges Endorse Fed
eral Bill For Compensation
of Worhmen.

The railroad men of Duluth are in
favor of the federal Workmen's Com
pensation bill which is now pending
before congress. On Sunday last the
two lodges of the Brotherhood Of
Railroad Trainmen of Duluth adopted
resolutions indorsing the bill. Tele-
grams were sent on Monday to Sena-
tors Clapp and Nelson and to Con-
gressman Miller urging them to sup
port the measure.
The following is copy Of the tele-
gram sent by the local Switchmen's
union of the B. of r. T.:
"The Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen of Duluth, Lodge No. 831,
in regular session, unanimously in
dorsed Senate bill No. 1892 on Work
ingmen's Compensation and would
respectfully request you to give it
your support.
while the compensation provided
for in some instances seems low, we
indorsed the bill because We recog-
nize that it writes into law the COR
rect principle. Whatever defects it
may possess can be corrected by ex-
perience. In any event the bill will
be a vast improvement over the pres
ent obsolete and iniquitous employ
ers' liability. Every railroad man in
Minnesota wants a change and we
believe this is the best that can be
had now"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
G0MPERS SPEAKS ON
GREAT STEEL TRUST
Says it Has Nightmare When it
Believes That peace Reigns'
in It's Plants.

WASHINGTON. April 11.-Presi-
dent Gompers, in addressing the
American Academy of Political and
Social Science at Philadelphia, en-
l1Vened the proceedings by hi strong
indictment Of the United States Steel
corporation.
He said in part: To-day the United
States Steel corporation is practically
safe from inconvenience from the
organized labor movement It has
peace in it's camps, but it is the sort
Of peace to which the Car of Rus
sia referred when he said, Peace
reigns in Russia You are lulling
yourself into fancied security.
"Some day you will wake up and
find that it has been either a dream
or nightmare. You have crushed
out the spirit of labor organization
in some of your plants. By direst
methods you have opened the chan
mel of immigration to your plants
and the American workers are there
no longer. They are docile-they do
your bidding without evasion.
"You think you are safe. So did
the proprietors of the textile mills of
Lawrence, and so do many other
employers"
The academy contains in it's mem
bership the leading thinkers Of the
day, and President Gompers created
an intense situation by his remarks
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
COAL C0MB|nE.,
Be. PUT ON RAbA
Appeal Made By The Labor
World Is Taken Up By the
City Council.
ALDERMAN PHILLIPS IS
SPONSOR OF RESOLUTION
Strong Indictment Is Made
Against the Practices of the
Local Combine.

The appeal made by the Labor
World last week to the people of Du-
luth urging them to unite in a pc
tition to congress for an inquiry into
the alleged coal combine at the head
of the lakes has borne it's first fruit.
Alderman Phillips the militant
representative in the city council
from the eighth ward. introduced a
resolution at the last meeting of the
council calling upon congress to
listen to the cry of the people of this
community.
The council passed the resolution
by unanimous vote. 1t cites the fact
that the coal combine refused to sell
its precious black nuggets to the
people Of Two HarbOrs unless the
village became a member of the Min
nesota Retail Coal Dealers associa-
ton.
Membership Is Refused.
The resolution asserts that men,
bership to this association was re-
fused the village of Two Harbors. 1t
also states among other things that
the price Of coal in Duluth is uni
form and that it f1uctuates simulta-
Continued On Pare 2
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
WIN BIG
VICTORY IN OHIO
Friends of Initiative and Refer.
endum Garry Constitutional
Convention by Storm.
HERBERT S. BIGELOW IS
THE MAN OF THE HOUR
Father of Direct Legislation Cam
paign in Buckeye State Now
Mentioned For Governor.

The bitterest contest for popular
rule that has been waged in any
state convention in America for
many years was successfully ended
in Ohio last week when the consti-
tutional convention adopted by a safe
majority a provision and proposal for
the Initiative and Referendum.
The defenders of Privilege mus
tered together, by every sort of ruse
and by every trick known to political
machinery, united opposition
against the measure. They centered
their attack upon Herbert s. Bige-
low, president of the convention, a
man who for Is years travelled up
and down the state advocating the
principle of direct legislation, and
whose record is as clear and as pure
as that of any man in public life in
America.
Descends from Chair.
President Bigelow descended from
his chair, and, in ringing tones which
resounded through the immense
chambers Of the state capitol, he
took up the cudgel for the people as
he had been doing for these many
years. His speech was a fitting cli-
max to his life's work in defense Of
great principle. When he had fin
ished the applause which greeted
him was deafening. The question
was put, the roll was called and the
defenders of Privilege were COM
pletely: routed.
Commenting on the result of the
vote in the convention on the Initia-
tive and Referendum proposal in
which the progressive forces won,
Mr.. Bigelow said: -
BigelOW's Comment.
''The Initiative and Referendum
cause has won. The is years war
is ended. OF course there comes
the vote at the polls, but that will
not be a battle; it will be a celebra-
ton. We shall then celebrate the
Establishment in Ohio of real .popu-'
lar government.
The proposal which passed is as
good as that Of any yet adopted in
America. 1t is more liberal even
than the Oregon law, which has
served for ten years as the model.
with this machinery of direct:
legislation, the politicians will be
helpless in the hands Of the people.
THE corporation lobby, with its
blighting influence, will pass away.
Public interest will take the place Of
apathy. Patriotism will have a new
meaning. The citizen will be a SOW
ereign.'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
Will STOP TOBACCO
men GIVING COUPONS
Bill Is Finally Signed By Presi-
dent Taft-Congressman
Wilson Wins,

WASHINGTON, April 11.-Con-
gresham Mott of New York has in
troduced bill which prohibits
tobacco manufacturers from packing
or attaching to their product, be it
snuff, cigars, fine cut chewing tobac-
CO or cigarets. any. sort of coupon or
label Offering a gift, premium or
prize.
The Congressman states that in
dependent sigar dealers and manu-
facturers all over the country are
urging the passage of the measure.
There was time," he continued,
when a man could enter the tobac-
co business with the hope of some
day owning a store, but the big or
ganization which controls so much of
this business now has way OF
swallowing up the retailers, and the
best young man can hope for is a
job managing one Of the trusts re-
tail stores" .'- "
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
NEW CITY ENGINEER
DESERTS 8-H0UR DAY
Standing Resolution of City
Council Violated BY New Ad-
1ninistrative Department.

Mayor McCuen'S new city engineer
we have forgotten his name-start-
ed an innovation at the city hall last
week. In spite Of the fact that there
is standing resolution of the COM
mon council which fixes eight hours
as legal workday for city employees.
the new engineer had a notice posted
in his office increasing the working
hours of his field force from eight
to nine hours per day.
Of course, there are a goodly num-
Der Of people in the city who will
pat the engineer on the back for this
'evidence of a desire to serve the
taxpayers WE'LL" but he might just
as we'll have made it ten hours as
nine hours.
If he did, the same people, and not
any more, would still continue to pat
him on the back.
However, the workingmen of this
community will not take kindly to
any public order that has for it's pur-
pose the increasing of the hours of
labor of any city employees. The
sole object of securing the eight
hour day for public work on the part
of organized labor was that this
course on the part of a, government
would have a good moral effect upon
private employers of labor.
Now. If the city deserts the eight
hour day and returns to nine hours
without protest from the working
man of Duluth, why would not private
employers of labor be justified in be-
lievipg that labor had itself deserted
the eight-hour day?.
The city engineer may be wise on
engineering propositions, but he evil
IDENTIFY has lot to learn about eco
nomics. He at least can practice econ
Homy in other ways than by increasing
working hours. s5I3a. Nj s5a.3 II 4. s q 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
COUNCIL HAS POWER
TO CONTROL AGENTS
Private Employment Business
Pretty Well Entrenched- 1t
Will Be, Long Fight.

Alderman Phillips started the fire.
works in the Council last Monday
evening when he introduced a reso-
luton asking the charter commission
to submit an amendment to the peo-
pie prohibiting private employment
agencies from doing business. The
committee on Ordinances and Reso-
lutions is considering the resolution.
Every workingman in Duluth hopes
that Alderman Phillips will succeed
in his object, but it is feared that
the cards in both the law and the men
are stacked against him.
Another alderman some years ago,
and also union labor man, made
just such a move, but he found be-
fore he proceeded very far that en-
ployment agents were pretty we'll en-
trenched. If the charter commis-
sion should submit q proposition for
the charter the private agents would
| then be authorized to do business Just
like any other person and without
any police regulation.
! The state law authorizes city coun-
| ellis to issue licenses, and before any,
thing can be done this law must be
, changed. However, it strikes us, that
the Council has it within Its power
to regulate the fees to be, charged.
| and these can be made SO low that
it would be Improbable for any
private agent to do business in the
! city. .ss
| This talk about the private en-
ployment agents moving to Superior
| and taking with them the many thou
sand migratory! workers to whom
they give information OF employment
to the tune of $1.00 per job, is all
bosh. The business follows the men,
and IL private agents desire to starve
In Superior 1t Is their privilege, but
they; Will not be able to change the
jlabor market. ssss 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
WILL PASS
EXPRESS RATE BILL
Five Big Reasons" Against
Parcel Post to Feel Uncle
Sans Power.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-The
house committee on interstate COM
merce has favorably reported to the
house the Adamson bill providing
for drastic regulation Of rates Of ex-
press companies and placing such
companies under the jurisdiction of
the interstate commerce commission.
The bill provides that hereafter
express companies must assess rates
on packages not exceeding eleven
pounds in weight according to the
zone system, the lower rate applying
to the shorter hauls.
The maximum rates are fixed at
two cents per pound for packages
travelling 400 miles; four cents per
pound under 800 miles; five cents
per pound under 500 miles; seven
cents per pound under 1900 miles;
ten cents per pound under 1000
miles and twelve cents pound for
any distance greater than 1000 miles.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
NORMAN MINE HAS
HEAVY DEATH LOSS
Fee Owners Ask That Lease Be
Cancelled-Mine Is Operated
in Ruinous Manner.
MINE INSPECTOR OUGHT
TO CLOSE UNSAFE MINE
It Is Crime to Permit Men to Be
Ruthlessly Slaughtered With
out Intervention,

Under the pretense that miners
are being ruthlessly slaughtered in
the Norman mine and that it is be-
ing operated in RECKLESS, haphazard
and ruinous manner the fee owners
have cancelled the lease held by the
Oliver Iron Mining Co., the Minneso-
ia mining constituent of the Steel
trust.
About year ago number Of men
We're killed in this mine by falling
ore. Several others. it is reported,
have since been killed in the same
manner. About two weeks ago there
was an immense fall of 100000 tons of
rock, just a few moments after the
miners left their work. Had this
taken place during working hours, it
is said that 60 men would have been
buried beneath it.
Real Purpose of Fee Owners.
It is we'll understood in Duluth
that the fee owners Of the Norman
mine are using as a Subterfuge the
argument that the lives of the miners
are in danger. If they operated the
mine under the same conditions as
the Steel trust the chances are there
would be as great, if not more, sacri-
flee Of human life in the mine.
The Norman mine, it is Said, was
leased many years ago by it's owners
at a very low fee. This lease will ex-
pire very shortly and the Steel trust
is taking advantage of every moment,
getting out every ton of ore 1t can
under the low fee, and it is doing this
regardless of the cost to human life.
No concern anywhere is spending
more money and working more ear
nestly to provide safeguards and safe
ty devices about all places where
danger turks, than the Steel trust is
doing lin northern Minnesota. In
this instance, however, it has come
to point where safety, cost of pro-
ductfon and output clash.
Location of Norman Mine.
The Norman mine is a narrow strip
of land sandwiched between two rich
properties. The Steel trust is min
ing the ore to the line of the prop
critics on both sides of the Norman
without encroaching a single foot
upon either property.
We have stood on the banks of the
Norman mine and we have looked
down into the deep pit where men,
resembling pigmies, work below The
banks rise up perpendicularly from
the bottom of the mine to an i'm.
mense height.
The Oliver Iron Mining COMPANY
has a large group of watchmen con-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
UNCLE Sam puts
BAN ON REFUGEES
0fficious immigration Officers
Refuse to Admit Political
Fugitives.
TWO CRIMINALS" FROM
RUSSIA SEEK LIBERTY
Sentenced to Siberia For Life
They Escape and Reach
America.

WASHINGTON April 11.-A strong
fight for the admission Of two Rus
sian political refugees into this coun-
try is now being waged before the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
Simon o. Pollock, counsel for the Po-
litical Refugees Defense League and
w. J. Ghent, representing Congress-
man Berger, have appeared before
the Department and submitted proof
that the refugees are Social-Demo-
Gratis and not anarchists as is
charged by the federal inspectors of
Tacoma. Washington. where these
aliens are now being detained.
The refugees, Fitel Kagan and
Vastly Lachatchon, have both es-
capped from Siberia where they had
been sentenced to exile for life. Both
are young men and had been doomed
by the Russian czar for having par
ticipated in the movement for po-
litical freedom. According to their
testimony they have been assisted by
friendly officials who gave them
passports and made possible their
escape to Japan. In the latter
country a Russian sympathizer, but
an utter stranger to them loaned
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
TAXICABS IN CHICAGO
TO BE RUN BY WOMEN

WASHINGTON, April 11.-A num-
Der of women are now preparing to
pass city examinations as chauf-
feurs, and are to be employed by one
of the largest taxi-cab companies in
the city.
There seems to be a desire by en-
ployers in every line of business to
supplant men with women. Whether
this latest innovation will prove sue
cessful, of course, remains to be
seen.
1t is apprehended, however, that
the women's clubs and other kindred
organizations will start an active
campaign against the employment of
women in this class Of labor, N n B" I.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
COMMISSIONER OF LABOR .
NELL MAKES INQUIRY

WASHINGTON, April 11.-An en-
ormous amount Of data was secured
by Charles P. Neill, United States
commissioner Of labor, during his re-
cent visit at Lawrence, Mass, where
he went to investigate the strike in
the textile mills.
Mr.. Neill also had a number of
assistants assisting him during his in-
vestigation, and it is expected that the
report will be compiled and ready for
publication in the not distant future
It is stated that the investigation
was carried on in systematic and
quiet way, and that the report will
bring to light manr facts which have
heretofore been hidden. e
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
Mr.. Warren Unwittingly But Admirably
Tells What Is Wrong With This City


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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
CHILD LABOR BUREAU
CREATED BY CONGRESS
CONGRESSMAN Mott Introduces Bill
to Curb Methods of TO-
bacco Trust.

WASHINGTON, April 11.-Only
recently the senate passed the chill
dren's bureau bill. A similar bill
was also introduced in the house
and referred to the house labor COM
mittee. The house labor committee
reported the bill favorably and it has
passed by a vote of 17s to II.
The bill, as passed in the house,
only differs in one particular from
that passed in the senate. The sem
ate bill provides $1,440 per year as
the salary of messenger, 1while the
house bill conforms to the statutory
salary of $940. The provision in the
house bill regarding this difference
was accepted by the senate, and then
the bill went to the president for his
signature. The president will sign the
bill Tuesday.
The purpose of the bureau which
is about to be created, after long
years of agitation. is TO investigate
and report upon the question of in
FAINT mortality. orphanage, juvenile
courts, accidents, diseases of children
and the employment of children. and
is for the further purpose of sug-
gesting legislation affecting children
in the several states.
In fact, the bureau will be en-
powered to make inquiries and sub
NIT reports on every phase of child
life.
Congressman Wilson, chairman OF
the house labor committee, had
charge of the bill on the floor of the
house during the discussion incident
to it's passage.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13

WASHINGTON, April 11.-Rail-
road wrecks recently reported are as
follows: Seventy-two passengers were
injured on Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul road near Oakwood, Wis,
due to spreading rails.
Two passengers were injured on
New York, New Haven and Hartford
near Bedford, Conn. Twelve passen-
gers were injured, five seriously, on
Georgia Southern and Florida, near
Tifton, Ga. Engineer and fireman on
New York Central near Belfontaine,
o., were seriously injured by collision
with a freight train.
A score of passengers on the At
lantic Coastline near Wilmington, N.
c., were injured in headon collis-
ion. Two employees on the Louisville
and Nashville at Mobile, Ala, were
probably fatally injured in collision.
Five persons were killed and eleven
injured on a.,Canadian Pacific train
in collision between Ottawa and Hull,
Ont.
Engineer, fireman and six people
were seriously injured on the Penn
sylvania system at Greencastle, Ind,
on account Of collision.
Two killed and 33 passengers SER
iously injured on Chicago Great
Western train near Dunkerton, Iowa,
the train being derailed. Three dead,
five missing and score or more
were injured as the result of a rear.
end collision on the Santa Fe at Nc.
Cartneys, New Mexico, on account o1
a. collision.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
CENTRAL BODY AGAINST
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS

LOWELL, Mass, April 1.-THE
Central Trades and Labor council of
this city has just passed a resolution
condemning the I. w. w.. and urg-
ing the wage workers of this city to
refrain from allying themselves with
an organization, Whose whole policy
since it's inception has been a per-
sistent effort to destroy the legiti-
mate trade union movement" "
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
STEEL WORKERS FORCED
TO STRIKE IN SHEFFIELD

LONDON, April 11.-About 1900
steel workers have struck at Shef-
field. The cause of the trouble is that
some of the contractors for gun
shields for the admiralty have placed
some of the work with, coremakers
who are paid 35s q week, and the
moulders, claiming the work. are re-
ceiving 42s per week. 5s, y s}5t .s4.."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
RECOMMENDS EXTENSION
FOR RURAL CARRIERS

WASHINGTON, April 11.-In
special recommendation to congress
Postmaster General Hitchcock urges
immediate extension to rural letter
carriers who may be injured in the
line of duty the same privilege and
compensation as now provided by
law for injured railway mail clerks.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-13
CASEY THE PLUMBER
TO RUN FOR CONGRESS

W1LKESBARRE, Pa, April Ii
John J. Casey, general organizer for
the United Plumbers. Gas and Steam
Filters union, and member of the
lower house Of the Pennsylvania leg
islature at its 1907 session. has an.
nounced himself az a. candidate for;
congress In the eleventh district.