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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-24

railway carries you flying by. and an endless river of earth is moving out on the cars to be spread over the hollows. In one place l was shown a dump which contained 100000 cubic yards of such spoil. Using our method of calcu- lation above given, that spoil would equal ditch a yard wide and yard deep nine thousand miles long. It would fill tun- mel running through the globe and still leave enough to make a ditch of the above size from New York to Chicago.
 The railroad from the Culebra cut to Panama along 1t runs on the canal bed, where year from now there will be over 40 feet of water. and shortly there- after leaves the canal, and comes into Panama, at the edge of Ancon. This is the old railroad. The new line has been located and the grading for 1t Is going rapidly on.
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Mrs. Faulkner went to the movie" shop.
 there was a young lady there who was rounding a typewriter She was getting
 s20 a week. She goth there on time. but
 never before the stipulated hour for be- ginning work. She knew exactly how
 much typewriting work in the movie offices is cratic Some days there is little to do. Some days there is a tre- mendous rush. The young lady was very we'll pleased on the slack day. She didn't like Is on the rush days There were some things she had to attend to, no
 matter what happened. She was very solicitious about the condition Of her
 hands. She had to polish her nails up
 several times day. She didn't consider that she was a perfect lady if there was the slightest stain upon her fingers. It didn't matter to her whether the company had great success or little success That | typewriter and the clock were of the most concern to her
 | That girl had been with the company
 year in advance of Mrs. Faulkner. She
 was educated. She had been well to do, | and had the advantage of travel and ob- servation She had the advantage. too, of
 some business experience She could do first rate typewriting, but she isn't work ing for the movie company any longer They got tired of her and let her go. She
 never got more than S20 week
 Mrs. Faulkner gets a salary that many
 business men of long experience would be delighted to receive. It Is less than two years since she became widow. Her | work agrees with her. She Is gloriousy healthy, and happy as only busy person | can be. She has given an example of what an energetic, resourceful woman may do, regardless of how Ill equipped 1 to fight the battle of life she may seem
 to be. Instead of waiting for opportunity to seek her, she went and found 1t.
 Too bad that Mrs. Faulkner hasn't
 written a scenario around her own efforts
 and success that would stir the hearts l and minds of that vast number of wo- men who think they are helpless because
 they are in middle life and inexperienced | in this great work-a day world.
 Copyright, 1912. by Richard Spilane)
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office. She looked at him In surprise, not understanding at first what it meant. He beckoned again. She stood still for a few minutes. He beckoned once more. Then she entered the office. He smiled and asked her to take a seat by him. She looked him in the eye and then coldly and distinctly told him never to beckon at her again, never to summon her to his office, and if he ever had any business to transact with her, to send or come to her office, state his business and depart Then she went to two of the high officials of the company, and told them she had an experience with one of the men which they might learn of from him, but never from her. And she informed them, that If ever she was subjected to anything of that character again she would leave the | establishment.
 But that was not the proof of her good sense. The man who had presumed found it necessary, in the course of busi- ness to consult her. He went to her office. When he entered he was doubtful of how he would be received, but Mrs. Faulkner greeted him cordially, acted as If nothing had ever happened that was unpleasant between them, and today they are good friends instead. of personal enemies.
 It isn't in working all her wakeful hours that Mrs. Faulkner has been most SuccesSful III Wlnflns tne regard or lhose about her. With all her activity, she never Is thoughtless. One day she was hurrying out of a big exhibition room when she saw a laborer approaching who was burdened with a great lot of props She was a boss, a department head. He was only a laborer, a foreigner. To get l his burden through a door near by would
 be a difficult thing. She stepped out of
 her way to get the door open and hold Il clear while he entered. He muttered a
 few graceful words. If was character
 istic of the woman. and explained why
 there Is hardly a person among all the
 300 employees who isn't eager now to do
 her bidding.
 Success depends upon the individual,
 not upon the environment. There are some persons who never will learn. When
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cannot realize that more than enough earth to make wall nine feet high and three feet wide clear around the world has been moved. You are told that up- ward of a quarter of a billion of money has been spent and you look in vain for the marks of the dollars You will understand all better later on when take you through the canal.
 Let me tell you in simple words how the undertaking struck me as l came in today As we approached Colon ] saw no sign of canal. There was a break-
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was here in 1898. now 14 years ago. The latter related to a Yankee sea captain and a clustering son of John Bull. The Britisher was boastng of the power of his government and saying how 1t would wipe out the United States in case of war between the two coun- tries. Thereupon the Yankee tar replied:
 Indeed man it makes me laugh to hear you Brtishers blow. Why. if Uncle Sam wanted to clean out your tight little island all he need do is to dig a ditch through the Isthmus of Panama and
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1 But To. the sun rose there right in our
 faces and out of the Pacific. and it seemed to me it preceptibly winked as it squnted at me over this the lowest range of the Andes.
 I had to stop and think moment be- fore I knew why this was. The isthmus here runs east and west instead of north and south, and the canal itself runs north and south instead of east and west l l have a room facing the east at Uncle Sam's big hotel here at Panama and see the sun actually rise out of the Pacific ocean every morning This part of the isthmus is the only place I know of where, standing on our hemisphere you can note this geographical fact,
 The Canal at Colon The entrance to the canal at Colon is now invisible from the steamers. I look ed in vain for dredges and excavation material. There were no piles of dirt and rock. Everything Is of the greenest of green. The shode is fringed with cocoa nut trees, and the green grass grows all around
 The steamers land you at Colon a ragged shabby town of low two-story frame houses with galleries running along the first stories and shading the streets. The town is bordered at one side with cocoanut trees, and standing on lNt StedIltI dl the IleDA EOu Htt d great cocoanut grove in which lies Christobal Colon's big American sister. This has some of the canal administration build ings and the homes of many employees. They are all yelled in wire netting and
 there are no ditch banks or dirt to be l seen.
 1 Crossing the isthmus on the railroad, along the line of the canal, is for the most part like riding through botanical | r1pn YOn first Monkey Hill cemetery. that horror of the Panama of the past but now beautiful park
 and then come into q country where nature runs riot in the luXuriance of its 1 tropical vegetation. There are palm trees | of an hundred varties, wild bananas s and strange trees in which are to be seeu air plants and orchids hanging to the
 limbs and nesting at the roots of the branches There are great clumps of l bamboo with leaves as feathery as those which line the under wing of an angel and great beds of tasselated papyrus, the
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water away off to the right, but no evil dence of any interior waterway In fact. all my ideas were turned upside down. I thought l was looking toward the west, and our steamer was really facing the Pacific ocean which lay beyond a range of low mountains only fifty miles off.
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
Is SILENCE ADMISSION OF Gu1Lrq

In the issue of The Bulletin of Sept. B.
pointed the dozens of unfair advertisements in
the Year Book, published by Secretary Treasurer
Hickey, that should bring blush of shame to the
hardened labor scate, but when is further pointed
out that the income from the space at least
81 900 short of what it should be, the blush gives
place to anger and suspicion The Year Book has
been carefully checked up by experienced advertis
ing men, among them men who have worked on the
book, and it is conservatvely estimated that at
least 900 solicited the Year Book. The
State Federation received $500 from the solicitor
its share-ths is what the official report shows
Out of this the printing bill must be paid We will
allow that the solicitor received 30 per cent. for his
services That would give him $500, making 81, 600.
Now, gentle reader, what became of the difference
between $1,000 and $1,000, or $1,0OOf There has
been no report of this amount made. Can Sim
plicity'' BANTER. who audited the report give any
light on the subject? If there is nothing wrong
about this account, the secretary should lay the
data before committee representing the three
tral bodies of Denver and allow it to render a
port that will clear the secretary of the charge that
a correct return not made, place the blame
where it belong. The Bulletin demands investi-
cation of the Year Book.
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
cAPP's hackers REPUDIATED.

The primary election results show thing
palmer than anything else: The hackers of Sheriff
Capp, who was a candidate for secretary of state,
repuoiated in every district in the state
cept in the home district of the candidate himself
The miners officials indorsed Capp and organized
political league to boost his candidacy, and the
miners could have nominated him hands down, but
Pearce beat him in every district in the state
cept Boulder county, where the business men gave
him complimentary vote. The hypocritical claims
of the Capp campaign committee caused his defeat
The third term cry made against Pearce as the
only argument why he should be defeated; but
every time this heard the Pearce supporters
pointed to President John McLennan of the State
Federation of Labor who is serving his fourth term
and to Secretary Hickey, who is serving his fourth
McLennan is president of the political league
that brought Capp to the front. There is thing
certain the miners-both metalliferous and coal
will not stand for the political leadership of Nc
Lehman, Lawson, Doyle and kirwan- handicapped
he with the support of the men just named
Frank Smith, the efficient expresdent of the United
Mine Workers made an excellent fight for Sheriff
Capp. The nomination of James B. Pearce to sue
ceed himself is a victory for decency and for labor
He has made efficient secretary.
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
moLDERs GET AGREEMENT.

Holyoke. Mass.-At a recent confer
ence between representatives of the
Molders union and representatives OF
the employers in this city, Springfield.
Westfield and Chicopee, assisted by rep
resentatives of the International Iron
Molders union. an agreement was
reached covering twenty-eight shops in
the cities mentioned. BY the agreement
the wages of the molders were increased
from So to sS..~. and the wages OF the
coremakers were increased from S2.75 to
$50 until January /. 1914. when the
coremakers get another increase OF Is
cents. equaling the minimum of the
molders. The life of the agreement is
two years and four months. This agree
ment will have beneficial effect on the
foundries in Easthampton, Greenfield.
Turner Falls. Florence and Northamp-
ton. as it is understood the molders in
these places have asked for concessions.
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
BREWERS MEET HERE.

The convention of the International
Union of United Brewery Workers of
America is in session in Denver this
week. The convention is doing its busi-
ness in a quiet way. and little is known
of the business to come before the con-
vention.
The delegates were welcomed to the
city Tuesday morning by Acting Mayor
McGauran. who told the delegates that
they should elect their own men to polit-
ical offices and not elect petty politicians
to represent them. His address was well
received
He was followed by President Frank
A. Bryan of the Trades assembly. Bryan
welcomed the delegates on behalf of the
laboring people of the city. He spoke in
favor of the campaign being made
against statewide prohibition. and hoped
that the state would be wet" He dis
cussed the public utilities bill which the
Trades assembly initiated. His address
was well received.
The convention elects chairman each
day of the convention. and the business
of the organization is transacted in a
business way.
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
SMALL VOTE CAST AT PRIMARIES:
MANY GOOD men NOMINATED
Few Laborng People Named -Ammons and Stewart
for Governor Scott for Supreme Bench--AIIen
Nominated for District Bench

The primary election is satisfactory to
The Bulletin except in a few places
We regret the defeat of Rucker and
the nomination of Kindel.
We were for" Adams, but Shafroth
will make an excellent senator.
We were boosting" for Taylor and
Williamson, and got Taylor and Keating.
both excellent men
The nomination of Scott is not so bad
as people would make you think He
will give the people the best of it.
The Bulletin was for" Ammons from
the start and he will make good gov
ernor, if the people don't get better
one in Costigan.
Roady Kenehan led the ticket, being
the candidate of the Progressives as well
as of the machine.
The Bulletin regrets the defeat of
Mary c.. c. Bradford who won in Dem
yer. but lost in the state. She was op-
posed by the News, the Post and the So
called progressives and the miners, yet
carried Denver. The lukewarmness of
the miners, to whom she has given years
of effort. caused Mrs. Bradford's defeat.
John l. 1ierney. labor's choice in the
twentysecond district for state senator.
was victorious.
For state senators from Denver coun-
ty, none of the victors are labor candi-
dates.
For representatives, few labor candi-
dates were recorded victors- Williams
and McCarty come the nearest to being
the choice of labor. They are both mem
bers of labor unions and both machine
candidates They received the high
votes.
Mullins was defeated for district at
torney. The election of Rush cannot be
called victory for any but the people
that caused his election-the newspa-
pers.
George W. Allen. whom certain labor
people tried to defeat for district Judge,
was nominated on both Republican and
Democratic tickets. Circulars were about
to be sent out by the Union Federated
Political League (miners). denouncing
him. with Whitford and Shattuck. but
through the efforts of Frank Bryan. pres
ident of the Trades Assembly, and The
Bulletin. this plan was defeated. Nor
ris. Johnson. Perry and Teller are the
other nominees on the Democratic ticket
They are good selections
William F. Evans. business agent Of
the Machinists. received one of the larg-
est votes for representative of the Pro
gressive Republican slate; but on the
same slate Chris Irving and Harry H.
Post, both employers of non-union labor
were also nominated.
1t is believed at this time Thursday
morning) that most of the Progressive
Republican candidates for nomination
have won, with Phil Stewart, for gov
ernor. heading the list.
The nomination of BENJAMIN f. Grif
fifth for attorney general on the Repub-
lican ticket is a distinct victory: and the
defeat of James H. Brown for United
States senator. on the same ticket, is to
be regretted.
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
MOVING FOR EIGHT HOURS.

Washington. = The Lance. Toronto.
Canada. prints this item: The Ontario
government has finally decided to make
a move with regard to the eight-hour
day for miners. Samuel Price. govern
ment mining commissioner, has been In
strueted TO go north and make thor
ough investigation of the whole question.
reporting to the legislature in time for
the next session. II will be remembered
that Sir James Whitney introduced d
bill giving an eight.hour day to miners.
following a notice by Mr.. Rowell OF his
Intention to present similar bill.
Strong opposition was raised by the
mine owners. and the government bill
was withdrawn. to the great Indignation
of the miners. Sir James sometimes
finds II necessary to think twice. and his
second thought in this case was an ex-
hibition of good judgment In some
other mining districts second thoughts
would be equally beneficial to the min
ers"
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
THE HYPoCRITE EXPOSED.

All the world detests a hypocrite does
the liar 1t is not always best to be too outspoken,
too blunt-but to deliberately deceive those whom
have confidence in is the most despicable fault in
a human being. We find that fault exists in those
alleged leaders that now at the head OF the labor
movement in Colorado
In relating this story to the readers of The
United Labor Bulletin in the state let first say
that the Colorado Industrial Review has again come
to life. This well and unfavorably known publica-
ton, which publishes every now and then, and
which purports to publish every Thursday, sent
other issue the advertisers last Thursday. This
is the first issue of the paper since the middle of
May, and the aboring people of the city were sur
prised to hear that another attempt Is TO be made
to keep thepaper alive that the Colorado State Fed
Grafton may acquire it-but 1t was really neces-
sary that the paper be issued for the advertisers
that solicited several months ago and whose
advertisements never appeared began to inquire OF
legal authorities if they being robbed But
the paper has issued and the legal obligation to
the advertisers has been cancelled but the moral
obligation they TO their dupes is yet unpaid
After three months of soliciting the paper comes
out with few lines for the hundreds of dollars it
has secured. 1t is said that it will continue to issue
for certain interests until after the fall campaign
But that part of the subject concerns US but
little. What The Bulletin is interested in is the con
tents of the ''Oficial Paper of the Colorado State
Federation of Labor and the United Mine Workers
of America, District Is The contents of the paper
is interesting because the paper has been the pet
paything of President MeLennan and Secretary
Hickey of the State Federation of Labor, and Of
Secretary Doyle and District Board Member Law
son of District l5 L. NJ. W. of A. 1t these al
legged labor leaders that foremost in the cam
paign against The Bulletin at the Cripple Creek con
vention last month There it pointed out that
The Bulletin contained an unfair coal ad and the
miners introduced resolution taking the indorse-
ment away from The Bulletin. They plead with
in their eyes that The Bulletin should be con
demned-that the editor should be rebuked.
And forth the OFFICIAL paper
of the Cripple Creek conspiracy. 1t teens with
'scab'' advertisements and rottenness Just does
the Year Book. which called attention last
week.
The Year Book contained the advertisement of
the Summit Fuel company, but the miners claim
that is the publication of the State Federation and
over it they have control
But the Colorado Industrial Review is the Of
fetal Paper of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea and contains advertisements of the Cambrian
Coal company, the Rugby Coal company, and the
Campbell Coal company, all of which handle non
union-mined coal.
Then look along little further and we find
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
BREWERY WORKERS CONVENTION.

The International Union of United Brewery
Workers of America is assembled in convention IN
Denver this week The thing that is most notice
able about the convention that nobody knows any
thing about it. Reporters from the different papers
have visited the delegates and in every way have
tried to find out what is going in the convention
hall, but they have gone away in disgust One pa
per said that there was few Irish at the conven-
tion but the major portion of the delegates were
Germans. That's all the paper said. The Bulletin
is safe in saying that the Brewery Workers have
met in convention for business and not to perform
for the newspapers and the public. The Brewery
Workers do things at their conventions, and when
the conventions the good that has been ac-
complished in the convention is reflected in the acts
of the local unions and the general membership
The Bulletin greets the Brewery Workers. The
Bulletin greets them of the best labor organ
izations on the American continent because they
practice what they preach and act unonism in their
daily lives Here hoping the state goes wet
and that the Colorado membership will be greatly
increased.
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
RELEASE ASKED FOR ETToR.

Through a resolution introduced in the
Trades assembly Sunday, every local
union in the city has been requested to
send letter to the governor of Massa-
chusetts protesting against the imprison-
ment without trial of Joseph ]. Ettor,
who has been held in jail for months on
charge of murder, alleged to have been
committed ar the time of the Lawrence
strike and riot
been attempting to prevent action of this
kind, in an attempt to scare the union
people of this city over a proposal on
the part of the Industrial Workers of
the World, of which Ettor is member,
to call a general strike, but their pleas
have been given but little notice. The
Industrialists have been making fight
on some of the leaders of labor, and
these alleged leaders are becoming g
alarmed and have caused resolutions to
be introduced against the Industrialists
with hope of preserving their own of
fetal positions. The results at Law
renee are "a vindication of the Industrial
lists.
The resolution, which was introduced
by Delegate Vetter, follows, and was un-
opposed:
Whereas, On a day in January, during
a parade of textile strikers at Lawrence.
Mass, the coming of the police created
great disorder and confusion, and
Whereas, In the midst of this disorder
and confusion a shot was fired, wound
ing woman named Lopezzi, who ulti-
mately died. and
Whereas, At the time the only testi-
mony fastening the act upon any named
individual which has reached the public
is that the shot was fired by a police or
ficer named Benoit, and
Whereas. Joseph ]. Ettor and Arturo
Giovannitti have been arrested and
thrown into prison. charged with being
the first degree. and are being held with
out bail. and without date of trial being
set
Whereas. Neither Ettor nor Giovan-
nitti were near the scene of the murder.
and their only offense has been to assist
the underpaid. overworked. unorganized
textile workers of the New England tex
tile mills in their struggle for better
conditions: therefore be it
Resolved, That the Denver Trades as
sembly protest against what We believe
| to be a plot on the part of the capitalist
class and the woo, trust TO railroad these
| two men to the electric chair, and their
lives taken as an example for other la
bor leaders; and be il further
Resolved, That we call upon all locals
affiliated with this body to make like
protests, and same be sent to the gov
ernor of the state of Massachusetts.
United labor bulletin., 1912-09-12
MEMBERS SHOULD ATTEND.

The last meeting OF the Trades assem-
bly, was poorly attended. There is i'm
portaut business 10 come before the as
sembly in the future and delegates
should attend regularly. II is the opin-
ion of u majority OF the delegates that
since the assembly neglected to take po-
litical action Ia an intelligent way in the
primaries, that in future politics should
be kept out of the assembly The Bulle-
tin is In favor of that action. At the
last meeting several attempts were made
to put through endorsements, but since
the delegates neglected to take action in
time to make the campaign effective.