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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
STRIKE Of WEAvERS
IN new BEDFORD
Textile Workers Under A. F. of l.,
on Strike Against New
"Grading System

FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 1.-The
Textile Workers of New Bedford to
the number of $1,000 are idle, because
of strike Of weavers against the So
called grading SYSTEM
This system is the outcome of a
campaign started against fning weav-
ers for imperfections in work. It
has been the custom among cotton
manufacturers to fine weavers for
such imperfections and in many in
stances when sthe defects were not
caused by the weavers,
Years ago the Textile Workers
union succeeded in obtaining the pass
age of a state law known as the
"weavers' fining law" This law pro-
hibited employers from f1ning the
weavers without their consent, but
the weavers were placed in position
Of submitting to the fine Or losing
their job, and, of course, under such
conditions they submitted to the fine.
At the last session of the legis-
lature this act was amended so as to
make it illegal for an employer to
impose fine upon a weaver for any
imperfection.
The manufacturers then adopted
the plan of grading the work into
first and second qualities. They re-
duced the price for so-called seconds
to one-haf of that paid for first quail
ity. The matter was then taken to
the supreme court of the state and
it decided that the grading system
adopted by the employers is not a
fine and therefore does not come un-
der the 'weavers fine act," con-
sequently the weaVers are now in a
worse position than they were under
the filming SYSTEM"
The matter was taken up with the
employers and they proposed to keep
an account of the amount of second
quality cloth and the reductions in
price therefore, and then divide the
amount every six months among all
the Weavers who had worked for three
months continuously in each mill.
The weavers refused to countenance
this system in any way. They notified
the manufacturers that if the fining
system was not removed they would
strike.
Some of the mills removed the no
tlces, but more than one-half refused
to change their attitude. The other
textile unions endorsed the action of
the weavers and the United Textile
Workers ratified the action of the
textile council in voting to- support
the WeaVers in this unavoidable strike.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
R|NCOAL FILES;
GAN De ELECTED
Nestor of Minnesota Progressives
Becomes. Leading Candidate
For Governor.
NO RECENT CONVERT
TO POPULAR RULE
Leader in Fight For Progressive
Principles For More Than
Quarter Century.

P. M. Ringdal of Crookston, has
filed for the Democratic nomination
for governor in the primary election.
He will be opposed for the nomina-
ton by Prof. Andrist of the Univer-
sity.
In making his filing Mr. Ringdal
gave out a statement in which he said
that he filed because his Democratic
friends in the state assured him that
he was the strongest candidate to lead
the party. He refused to make a per-
sonal campaign for the office and in
Inmates that it is up to the voters to
either accept Or reject his candidacy.
Mr.. Ringdal has been before the
people in various official capacities for
the past quarter of a century. He
left the Republican party in the late
eighties. He afterward affiliated with
the Populist party, serving one term
as state senator from the Crookston
district.
Mr.. Ringdal can we'll be termed the
nestor f progressive principles in
Minnesota politics. The things he
stood for twenty-five years ago are
the popular political demands of to-
day. He is no recent: convert to
progressive principles. He is funda-
mental Democrat, who believes in tho
absolute rule of the people.
When John Lind was governor of
Minnesota. Mr.. Ringdal served as a
member of the railroad and ware
house commission: His record as a
member of that commission is an open
book. The Duluth News Tribune in
Inmates that "Mr. Ringdal would do
nothing startling as governor" but
that he would "give the people a
clean, business-like administration,
not much different from that of the
many others who have occupied the
off1ce.'
Mr.. Ringdal, as a member of the
Minnesota railroad and warehouse
commission showed the kind OF stuff
out of which he is made The COM
mission of which he was a member
made the only fair and just rules for
the regulation of the railroads Of
Minnesota that has been made in this
state.
He voted on the commission to re-
duce iron ore rates on, the iron range
railroads, from 80 cents to so cents
per ton. When a Republican ,legis-
lature put him out of office, the new
railroad warehouse commission REIN
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
IERSE TRUTH TOLD
ON CONTEMPT BILL
congressman Wilson and Kendall
Make Strong Speeches on
Great Labor Bill.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 1.-The
House yesterday had under consider
alton the A. F. of L. contempt bill. It
provoked considerable timely discus
sion, most of which was favorable to
the passage Of the bill.
Congressman Wilson, the labor
member, entered into the debate and
electrified the House with his elo-
quence and logic. He said:
This bill is the natural compile
ment of the anti-injunction bill in so
far as it applies to cases arising in
trades disputes. 1t is within the con-
stitutional power Of congress to enact.
1t will extend the right of trial by
jury to indirect contempt cases where
the acts alleged to have been COM
m1tted> are of criminal character,
and removes the suspicion that bias
on the part of some Judge does in
Justice to innocent parties. It will
regulate, the exercise of judicial power
so as to protect the people in the
exercise Of all their rights
Congressman Kendall said: "The
protest against the abuse of the in
junctive process has become national
"ASAAA 40 IdIdClSI. IL Is
reasonable :clamor. It is too insistent
to be ignored as temporary discon-
tent. There is a confirmed conviction
that the equity powers of the federal
judiciary have been employed not
exclusively to preserve property from
destruction, but frequently to compel
the settlement Of industrial disputes.
This contempt bill regulat ting the
procedure in prosecutions for con-
tempt is complementary to the anti
Injunction bill recently passed. II
they both become law it will not be
possible in the future for the intunc-
tion to be invoked and abused In
labor disputes as it has been in the
past. No court then will entertain an
application for the restraint of. men
in their. lawful, peaceful rights. The
system under which we have been
operating can no longer be success
fully defended. = '" r
=: "A judge appointed for life and re-
sponsible to nobody (sitting as a
chancenor)" issues an Injunction tn
vading the natural rights of. men and
then when violation is alleged he ap-
propriated to himself the functions of
prosecutor, court = and executioner.
This situation is intolerable,e and it is
to correct 1t that this legislation IL
universally demanded - ..
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
PETERSON ON TRAIL
OF SENATOR NELSON
Corporate Interest Succeed in In
ducing Present Senator to
File Again.

James Peterson. the La Toilette
progressive candidate for United
States senator, opened his campaign
in Owatonna Thursday evening.
Mr.. Peterson did not wait for
Senator Nelson to file for nimina-
ton. He has assumed, and right
fully so, that Mr.. Nelson would file
for the nomination at the proper
time.
IN statement to the press he said:
For some time past I have known
that representatives Of the great
corporate interests Of Minnesota have
been urging Nelson to file for re-
nomination., and I have known that
Nelson was considering their re-
quests favorably. II am not definite
~ informed that he intends to file.
although he has not done me the
courtesy to answer a telegram T
sent to him asking whether or not
ne would become a candidate.
Il welcomed his advent into this
contest, although I know that he is
the strongest man that reactionary
forces can put into the field. All
other persons, whose names have
been, mentioned as possible candi-
dates, have stated that they would
not file. if Nelson did. Therefore,
the contest will be between Nelson
and myself.
II wish to see the issue drawn be-
tween the forces of reactionary and
the forces Of progress, as represented
respectively by Nelson and myself. I
wait no longer to begin a discussion
Of Nelson's public acts as shown by
the records of congress and I propose
to discuss these acts from now un-
til the campaign closes at the pri-
mary election"
Mr.. Peterson has chosen William
T. Coe for his campaign manager.
He expects to make a whirl-wind
campaign through the state and in
d1cat1ons point to his nomination.
Senator Nelson can expect no
support from the working people of
Minnesota whom he has failed to
represent in the United: States SEN
ate. Time and time again he has
been urged to support various labor
measures, but he has pers1stently re-
FUSED to do so, even going So far as
w ASAuo0 W S1ouI duu1enCeS 10
committees representing organized
labor, and terming all advocates of
labor as dangerous labor agitators."
Senator Nelson's public record, in
which he has consistently supported
special interests in congress, is so
damnable that. he is not entitled to
the support. : of a single progressive
voter in this state.
The Labor, World proposes in an
another issue to. publish his record
So that all who run may read it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
WILSON AND SEN. BORAH
~ REPORT ON PEPPER BILL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Con-
gressman Wilson, chairman of the
committee on labor, on July Is, made
a favorable report to the house of
representatives on the Pepper bill,
prohibiting the officials of the army,
navy and other manufacturing de-
partments of the government from
substituting the stop watch, Taylor
or other high speed working system
In shops, navy yards and arsenals Of
the United States government. Il.
Senator Borah. Of. the senate com
mittee on education and labor, has
also ben authorized to report this
bill fayorably TO the senate. 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
ITALY STILL LEADS
IN SENDING ALIENS
Southern Europe Ships Larger
Number of Immigrants.
745,7 TAT in II Months.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The bu-
reau Of immigration and naturali-
zation of the Department of Com
merce and Labor has just issued it's
May. 1912, immigration bulletin.
The influx of southern Italians
continue in one unbroken deluge,
with material additions from north
ern Italy.
The total number of immigrants
admitted during the month men
toned reached 1865. Southern
Italians head the list numerically
with 1863, and then comes Polish
1871; German, 1885; Hebrew
6,541; Irish, 5,75s; Greek, 5.724:
English, 5,47s; Scandinavian, 1925:
Crotian and Slovenian, 3,72S; Slovak
34O0; Magyar, 1916. The balance of
the immigrants was divided between
29 other nationalities.
The total number of Immigrants
landing at United States ports from
July, 1911, to May, 1912, II months,
aggregate 745,747. 2
During this period there were
l4,975 aliens debarred. During this
period it is interesting to note the
numbers and vocations Of those COM
pr1slng the swelling immigration tide:
Farm laborers 160,737; laborers, 49,
S03; servants, 104,O44; tailors, 16,979
clerks and accountants 1867; car
penters, 9,S07; shoe makers 1852:
farmers, 6,975; seamstresses, 6,s97;
miners 5,299.
Those debarred as likely to
become public charge numbered
12,004. The number Of emigrant
aliens debarred for the II months
totals 3fO.O29,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
GOV. FQSS VETOES
FULL CREW BILL
Progressive (?) Governor of
Massachusetts Again Shows His
Attitude Towards Labor.

BOSTON, Aug. IA full crew bill,
directing steam railroads to employ a
minimum number of men on specified
trains engaged in interstate COM
merce, passed the Massachusetts, gen
eral assembly almost unanimously,
there being opposition from only one
member in each house against the
legislation.
When the bill finally reached Gov
ernor Foss he arbitrarily vetoed this
very meritorious safety provision. His
alleged reasons were almost identical
with those given by Governor Dix of
New York in his veto Of the New
York full crew bill.
Dix ruled that the regulation should
come under the public utility COM
mission Of New York as an admins
tratton order, and Foss took advant-
age of the opportunity to advocate the
esta blishment of public utility
board" as a cure-all for an insuffi-
cient train force
Neither Foss nor Dix explained
where such board or railroad COM
mission has ever in any state ordered
a uniform minimum number of men
In the makeup of a train crew.
Both governors ignored the su-
preme court decisions Of Indiana, Ar
kansas and the United States in all of
which cases full crew law was sus-
tanned.
The undermanning of trains is un-
doubtedly one Of the causes of the
frequent mishaps on railroads result
ing in the awful loss Of life of almost
daily record. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
MEN STAND PAT
IN DOCK STRIKE
Most Orderly Strike of morgan
lied Laborers Ever Con-
Quoted in Duluth.
FEW STRIKE-BREAKERS
ARE BEING EMPLOYED
Men Refuse Compromise Duluth
and Superior Dock Workers
Are Involved:

The unorganized dock workers in
Duluth and Superior are surely putting
up game and determined fight
against the Northern Pacific railroad
Tor living wage.
The men have been receiving 80
cents per hour. They went out on
strike for 35 cents an hour for ordi-
nary labor and 40 cents per hour for
handling cement Every local repre-
sentative of the railroad companies
admits that the claims of the men are
reasonable.
AS one official put it to The Labor
World: THE men ought to get
great deal more money than they are
asking for, but my hands are tied.
We must let the officials at St. Paul
settle the question"
About 700 men are involved in
strike in Duluth and Superior. In
spite of all claims to the contrary,
there has not been a single dissertion
from the ranks. The company wanted
to compromise and it offered the men
an increase Of 2k cents per hour,
which was refused. Since then the
country has been secured for strike-
breakers and up to Tuesday noon, but
thirty had been secured. However,
on the afternoon train of Tuesday
three carloads of strike breakers
were brought to town and put to
work under guard.
The company maintains that If it
should agree to pay to the men in
Duluth and Superior the increased
wage they ask, it would be necessary
to also increase the wages of all dock
laborers. It admits that the men on
strike are entitled to all they ask for,
but 1t refuses to pay them their wage
for fear that it will be obliged to
also pay others a living wage.
Indeed, the railroad company is
paying the strike- breaker more money
to help crush the workingmen on
strike than they ask for in wages.
According to their advertisement in
the daily papers they agreed to give
to the men who will break the strike
81 II cents per hour for handline
miscellaneous freight and 35 cents per
hour for cement and each man will
be given free board and lodging. If
the company would do as much for
the men on strike as 1t is doing for
the strike-breakers, the trouble would
be over in a moment.
There never was more ORDERLY
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-03
MOLDERS STRIKE FOR.
BETTER CONDITIONS

UTICA, N. Y, Aug. LIN three
non-un1on foundries in this city the
molders have been organized and
are out on strike for better condi-
tiono.
In 1904 a strike occurred in these
same shops, but Polish and Italian
workmen took the places of the
strikers and defeated the purpose Of
the strike, -. - :.
The foundries are at complete
standstill now, and it is believed that
settlement will be reached within a
,Aost time. 1s7
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
Biblical Versiication.

From the London Chronicle.
Versification, not only of the Psalms
but of other books of the Bible. We're
numerous in the sixteenth century. One
of the most prolific versifiers was William
Hunnis, who under such fanciful titles
as Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul fol
Sin," "a Handful of Honeysuckle." "a
Hiveful of Honey ETC., published a mum
Der of rhyming versions of Genesis and
Job, which are now worth their weight
in gold to the bibliomaniac. Another
prominent biblical versifier was Christie.
pher Tee, who rendered the Acts of the
Apostles into such verse as:
1t CHANGED in Iconium
As they oft times did
Together they into did come
The synagogue OF Jews.
Zachary Boyd, a seventeenth century
professor Of divinity at Glasgow Univer.
sity, succeeded in versifying the whole
Of the Scriptures. He left all his prop
erty to the university on condition that
his bust should be placed in the quad
rangle and that his great work should
be printed under the supervision of the
senatus. Both conditions were complied
with in order TO secure the legacy, but
the rhymed Bible. although printed, has
never been published, most Of the stan
Zas being of grOtesque nature. How
ever, curious visitors have always been
allowed to peep in it. and few choice
morsels are current, such as
And was not Pharaoh saucy rascal?
That would not let the men OF Israel, and theil
wives OIL
And their little ones, their iocks and theil
herds 60
Out in the wilderness to eat the Pascal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
RAILROADS.

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO LINES.
3:16 pm. daily-Sleepers to Louisville, Cincin-
natl, Indianapolis and st. Louis.
6:30 Pm. daiy-Pullman to Cincinnati and
Chicago.
1l:fO pm. daily Sleepers to Virginia Hot
Springs. Cincinnati and Louisville.
613 Pa. ave.. 1889 ST.. and Union Station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
CHRISTMAS MUSIC PROGRAM.
Special Anthems Rendered at St
Georges Chapel, Farlee, Va.

The following program of music was
rendered at St Georges Chapel, Rev Ed
ward Calender, rector, at Farlee, Va.
Christmas: Venite, Robinson; TIE Deun
in C, Raphael Dressler; Benedictus, anon.
Kyrie Eleison. Il. Towers: Gloria Tibi
Paxton: offertory, There Were Shepherds
Vincent: Sanctus and Sursum Corda, ]
Camidge: Agnus Del. T. Adam; Gloria il
Excelsis, Old Anthem.
The soloists We're: Mrs. Anne Snyder
soprano; Mrs. w. G. Welburn. contralto
X. G. Ballinger. tenor; Karl Kerr, basso
Choir-Misses Greenwich. Snyder. Callen
der. Kerr. sopranos; Misses Welburn anC
Roberts, contraltos: DIR. w. G. Welburr
and Mr.. Hines, tenors; Messrs. Kerr
Hines and Butterfield, bassos.
The church was decorated with a roo
screen. Gothic, of Christmas greens anC
an electric star. Two new brass altar
vases were used for the first time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
HEARING ON CAR SERVICE.
Complaints as to Chevy Chase Divi
sion to Be Discussed,

A formal order has been issued by the
interstate commerce commission provid-
ing for public hearing. in the rooms
of the commission. January 6 at 7:30 in
the evening, on complaints that the pres
ent service on the Chevy Chase division
of the Capital TRACTION Company between
Chevy Chase Circle and 18th street and
New York avenue northwest is made
quate, and that existing conditions war
two points.
This is the hearing which it was re-
Gently announced by the District electric
railway commission would be held some
time in the early part of January, a num-
Der OF informal conferences having been
held before the District commission. with
out agreement. between the railway COM
pany and users of the Chevy Chase line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
A King for Fun.
tt IdSCS.
From the Chicago Tribune.


In these days of revolutions, which con-
vert kingdoms into republics. it might
be imagined that the king business was
on the blink, as the oxford dictionary
would say. and that there was no fun in
being in the fierce light which beats upon
throne. Alfonso of Spain evidently
thinks differently. There Is no monarch
who experiences more wildly the joy OF
living than he.
He takes a boyish delight in sport of
every kind, and he mixes with the people
in their amusements in the most demo-
cratic way imaginable. Recently. at a
bazaar and summer fete given for charity
at Cowes, he took SHES at Aunt Sally
and won a cocoanut, which he proudly
carried most Of the day afterward. He
stepped into a booth and acted as sales
man with success that would have won
the admiration of Walter ID. Moody him.
self Then he served as judge in hat
trimming contest, in which the prize was
given to a one-legged soldier.
1t may be that Alfonso sees the finish
of the king business and that he is de-
termined to get all the fun out of it while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
Well Worth Reading.

In our next Sunday Magazine: Fight
ing Pension Pirates by James Hay, jr
part of a two-part story, Through the
Bulkhead," by Morgan Robertson; Sud
den Riches by Clarence L. Cullen
Dawn and the Maiden" by Stanley Ohm
sted; THE Tax on Philanthropy" by
Sherman Montrose Craiger: ''Kyomei OF
the Locket.' by Il. T.. Powell; a double
page illustration. by Joseph Clement Coll
illustrating Ambition" a poem by Her
bert Kaufman. and the final installment
of The Man Who Was Lost" by Maude
Radford Warren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
ASSAULTS MOTHER; GETS YEAR.
James H. Carroll Sent to Jail by
Judge Mullowny.

James III. Carroll. twenty years old,
was sentenced to one year in Jail in
the Police Court by Judge Mullowny
today for assaulting his mother. Car
roll. according to testimony, has been
wanted since June to answer charge
of stealing some paint. This case
against him was dismissed today. Car
roll was further charged with assault
ing his siX-year-old sister. His personal
bonds were taken in this case.
The alleged assault took place early
yesterday morning. Mrs. Carroll was
awakened by the smell of burning bread
and on investigation found her SON
whom she has not seen since he left
town to avoid answering the larceny
charge, trying to toast some bread. She
reproached him for staying away SO
long. and he, according to testimony
being drunk. assaulted her. The little
girl ran into the room, and, it was
charged. Carroll kicked her in the back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
Paris Police Reports.
ON the London Telegraph.

At the prefecture of police are pre-
served the most characteristic reports
drawn up by policemen during the last
thirty years. Thus, one guardian Of the
law announces his discovery OF "the
skeleton of head whose owner I was
unable TO find" Another. with "A love for
brevity, wrote: "rhis gentleman gave me
his card OF membership Of the Society
of Animals" Yet another Solemnly de-
poses that "the injured man was unable
crushed"
Tho doctor We sent for stated that
the injured man had his whole body
covered with confusans.'' was found in
another report. 1t is rather difficult to
recognize Commissions in their Chinese
guise.