The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-13
Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1912

tries, in which women and children are
largely employed at very low wages.
| The Atlanta Federated Trades moved
into its new labor temple on January /
in which accommodations will be fur.
nished to all OF the unions in the city
To the great credit of the organized
workmen of Atlanta, their new home
is paid for.
Organizer Ford of the A. F. L., who
! has charge OF the button workers strike
at Museatine. Iowa, has been indicted by
I the country grand jury for conspiracy.
| He surrendered himself to the sheriff and
gave bond for his appearance. Notwith-
standing all efforts made by the employ.
ers, the strikers stand firm.
!:
From the bulletins issued by the Unit.
ed States census bureau, the following
interesting results have been proven by
analysis In 1904, l59,406 persons were
engaged as wage earners in the cigar
making business; their average annual
wages amounted to 1892; the value of
their product averaged S2,077 per capita
In 1909, the number of wage earners
increased to l66,s10; the average an
nual production had increased to $4l5,-
000, and the average per capita produc-
ton had increased to S2,437 This shows
an increase in wages of six per cent and
an increase in productivity for the same
period, of seventeen per cent
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As result of the Socialist administra-
ton in milwaukee, the city aborers
have had their wages increased from
Sla5 to $500 per day. The union rate
is paid in every department of the city
government, thus assuring greater eff
cheney and higher standard of living
to The wage earners and this despite
the fact that this year the actual tax
rate in the city is three cents on the
thousand less than ever before.
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During an address in Cincinnati on
December 80, Senator Robert M. La Fol-
lette attacked the decision of the United
States supreme court, in which II
brought the organizations of labor UNI
der the restrictions of the Sherman anti
trust law. lie said at is strange that
when the court goes to its further limit
in imposing penalties ON combinations
of capital, all of the capitalist owners
get away with the full value of their
property; but when the court goes to
the same limit in enforcing penalties on
combinations of labor, it takes away the
homes and savings of the workman.
The fact is, the law was not understood
by the people to apply to labor organiza
tions, and it is mistaken judicial con-
struction that has made it to so apply.
The law should be amended by taking
out from under its operation all labor
organizations and all employers asso-
Citations" By this clear, straightforward
statement, Senator La Toilette has dem
onstrated spirit of high courage, ster-
ling honesty and true justice, and in
addition he has set noble example to
contemporaries.
A man who has never belonged 20
labor organization has some excuse for
purchasing non-union goods and pat.
ronizing non-union stores, restaurants,
barber shops, laundries, etc, and cannot
be blamed for taking the place of
striker in the same measure as a men,
Der of union taking a union mans
place. But where union man pur-
chases non-union goods, spends his mon
ey with non-union establishments, etc,
he is a traitor to unionsm and is the
real scsb.
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In the crowded city dwelling,
There the atmosphere i'll smelling
And the microbes fairly reyel,
Sending death both far and near;
Where the sweatshop's slaves are work /
ing,
And diseases foul are lurking,
You will never, never find
The precious union label there
Alex. Ironside, correspondent