The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-03

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that Wisconsin will attempt to solve the
| high cost of living problem by the estab-
| lishment of cooperative stores. 1t is
stated that arrangements are under way
to follow out the plan of the Rockdale
pioneer stores in Great Britain.
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A general strike of miners is threat
ened in the district of Bornage, Brus-
sells, and twenty-five thousand are al
ready out
The Cooperative Wholesale Societies
LTD of Great Britain have prepared a
table showing the increased cost of GER
tain articles since 1898, and the follow
ing are few of the cost increases:
Bacon and hams sold in 1898 for 9.a2
cents per pound, in 1906 for 1923 cents
and in 1910 for 1886 cents. Butter in
1898 sold for 22.70 cents per pound, in
1910 for 25.74. Cheese in 1898 sold for
l0.4S cents per pound; in 1910 1918
cents. Lard rose from GAS cents per
pound in 1898 to 1856. cents in 1910
Sugar sold in 1898 for 29S cents per
pound and in 1910 for 4.06 cents, with
the duty reduced in 1908 from $lOl to
Al cents. The only decrease in cost
shown in the table is -four, meal and tea,
the two former articles only lower by
a small fraction Of a cent, while tea
is less than two cents cheaper.
Under the direction of its investigating
committee, the Consumers league in
Washington, d. c., which has as it's
ultimate purpose the improvement of
working conditions in the stores and fac
tories, will wage a campaign for the
passage by Congress OF bill regulating
the working hours and conditions OF
work women in the district The league
proposes to put into operation white
list" scheduling therein the business
firms and factories that humanely treat
their employees.
When the vote is east for the next
presidential candidates, four states will
vote whether they will extend the right
of suffrage to women, as follows: Ne
yada, Oregon, Wisconsin and Kansas.
Washington, d. Cone of the special
news correspondents in this city has
just sent out an item relative to the
wooden mills and cheap labor. He says:
'In view of the strike of textile work
ers at Lawrence Mass, it is interesting
to know how the wooden mill owners
attract cheap labor to their mills. Con-
gresham A. F. Gardner of Massachu-
sets one day in the House contributed
some valuable information on the sub.
ject. For instance says Mr.. Gardner.
'supposing | am Syrian conducting
Syrian boarding house in the city of
Lowell, Mass Perhaps some mill sends
down to me for hands. | furnish them
at "A somewhat lower rate than il ex.
pected by ordinary citizen help. | adj. !
vance the money for Syrian emigrants to
come from the old country. / tell them |
if they do not pay me back the money
will have them arrested; that they |
must hand over the full wages that they |
get in the mill. They are held in terror |
of the police Meanwhile, | take all
their wages, while feed them and keep
them alive just as | wouh feed and !
keep horse alive that | had imported ,
LOT use Ill livery stable.
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At Norwich, Conn.,, the painters re-
Gently obtained an increase of 81 per
week without strike.
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The February issue of the American
is of unusual interest to
trade unionists and general readers. 1t
contains President Gompers' reply to
Senator Heyburn's insinuations that he
S not an American citizen. The ed-
torials include "The Men Higher Up
Dutcry," "The Asinine Canard." "Gom-
1ers Desecrated the National Flag" $50
,ialist Methods vs.. Trade Union Meth
DDS" The issue should be secured by
very trade unionist and carefully pc
used by those interested in the common
lplift.
1t has been given out that pensions to-
aling 1891 ,457 were paid last year by
he subsidiaries of the United States
teel corporation. In view of the ire
nendously large capitalization of this
gigantic corporation, the sum enumerat-
d is extremely small and indicates that
he company is not afflicted to any APP
extent with generosity.
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No man who has given the question of
trikes and the labor movement any
bought can look upon strikes with fa-
or, but to condemn them is entirely i
mother thing. The strike is an indus
rial battle, and to know when to engage
n the battle or not to engage in it is
cience in peaceful warfare for the bet
erment of the workers that is not vet
ully understood by society as whole.
shall not enter into a descriptive analy-
is of the industrial conflict in Lawrence,
lass, but will simply call your atten-
ion to this fact, that the most potent
actor to prevent such conflicts is we'll
rganized trade union with full treas i
nv. This is the army and material or
rar that is necessary to win the battle I
or more just and reasonable considera-
ion on the part of labor against these
who have no souls. q
Child Labor.