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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15

II a "a W A0AAASOAS SAuSCIS 0uu
instrumentalists, at the Braun
theatre Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday.
Mrs. George Blake Of Wynd-
mere was calling on friends and
transacting business m tae city
last Thursday.
For sale-An eight room house
with bath on Fourth street north.
Inquire of Mrs. w. X. Eckes or
at National hank.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross left Tues
day morning for Iowa where they
will attend the golden wedding Of
Mrs. Ross parents.
Girl Wanted-A good capable
girl wanted for general house.
work. Good wages will be paid.
Mrs. Meckstroth.
1.-THE Guiding Light" beauti-
full drama at the sea will be shown
at the Braun theatre Monday,
and Tuesday, May 10 and 20.
Frank Vail, the Minor banker,
and state senator from Sargent
county, was transacting busi-
ness in the city last Thursday.
The alumni Societies of the
high school and fthe S. S. S. are
making arrangements to receive
the classes Of 1913 into member
ship.
A. H. Johnson, D. c., graduate
chiropractic, with several years.
experience, has located. in Breck-
enridge. Office in the Gum block.
i2-5-p
Supt. Thornton made an ad-
dress at the consolidated school
in Sheyenne Tuesday night, that
being the end of the school year
at that place. -. I.
Thomas Reed of Walker, Mimi,
has accepted a position with Mr..
L. j. Mitchell. Mr.. Reed is
tailor and ball player and will
play in the Indian school.
The st. Johns ladies aid will
give their annual fancy work sale
and supper on Wednesday, May
Fl, at Forester hall. Supper will
be served from $50 to 1870.
FREE RENT-One Of the cot
tages at the fair grounds is avail
able for desirable man and wife
up to September Goth. See Geo.
w. Woods, secretary, in Boston
block.
Tommy Drew spent Sunday in
the city with his wife and family.
He returned to Fargo Monday
morning, taking the family with
him, where they will make their
future home. Tommy has a fine
position with the Rumley pro-
duce company.
Louis Christensen arrived in
the city last week from Tacoma
and Spokane where he has been
railroading for the past six years,
this being his first visit with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Chris
Jensen in that time. Louis says
it is good to get back to Big
Dick" again and that if he can
find suitable position he will
. remain here.
Nick Meyers, the barber and the
leader of the Meyers orchestra If
Wahpeton, was married to Miss
Regina Zentgraf of Summit town
ship on Tuesday morning of this
week at the Catholic church, Rev.
Father Ridder officiating. Our PEG
pie are in a quandry to know how
Nick could ever have Thought of
it, but The News with his many
Paramount friends extend congrat
ulatiorfs.-Fairmount News.
Ole Dokken, proprietor of the
feed mill, was the victim of very
painful accident stast Saturday
when the frame of a sawmill
which he was operating slipped
and caught his hand. The thumb
of his right hand was nearly Sc
vered and the tip of the fore fin
! ger was cut off. Me- Dokken hur-
ried to a physician and had the
! hand dressed and it is thought
that the thumb can be saved.
| While he is incapacitated Ed.
Helle of Mcleod is assisting him
at the mill. -Wyndmere Pioneer.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
WANTED

A competent girl for steady po-
sition. Wahpeton Steam Laun-
dry.
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ron aALK

or will exchange for land a large
eight room house, modern in ev-
cry respect, including two lots
and q barn. Inquire Of
MRS. ANNA BRAUN
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
PLANTS

We have a large and up-to-date
line of plants on display at our
store. Among the line will be
found:
GERANIUMS.
4 CANNAS.
PANSIES.
ASTERS. ssa
CARNATIONS,
FUSCHSIAS.
NEnRy ulllER.a compAnv
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II you want to put your stock
in a pasture that is we'll fenced,
plenty Of grass and water, call
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
FOUR BROOM MAKERS
FREE; SIX IN PRISON
What Duluth Housewives Might
~ Do to Encourage Good Living
Among Broom Makers.

Six out Of every ten brooms used
in American homes are made in penal
institutions. Putting it another way:
for every four workmen employed In
American broom factories there are
six convicts employed at making
orooms In work houses and peniten-
tlares. There you have it in a nut
shell.
At the last meeting of the FEEDER
ated Trades and Labor assembly a
communication was received from
VIII r. Boyer, secretary treasurer of
the International Broom and whisk
Makers union, asking Duluth work.
lpgmen's housewives to come to the
assistance Of Americas free broom
makers.
According to Secretary Boyer, be-
cause Of the competition OF penal.
rerormatory and charitable institu-
lions, the broom makers Of the coun-
try are forced into idleness a large
part OF the time and are compelled ia
work at starvation wages, when EN-
ployed
The brooms made in prisons are
usually sold through jobbers who
place their name on the label as
manufacturers and thereby n1islead
the purchasers. The only guarantee
that a broom is not made in a prison
is when it bears the blue label of the
union.
All merchants can secure union Ia
belled broon1s; they cost no more
than the prison made brooms, are
better and last longer. Mr.. Bower
asks local consumers to urge Duluth
broom makers to Join in the fight
the union is making on convict labor
competition. Duluth brooms would
look better If they carried the union
label.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06

Betrayed in the house of our friends Mus
nicipal ownership was never in such critical
position in Duluth as it is today, and it is due
wholly to thesfact that our commissioner Of
public utilities has permitted the daily papers
to use a misleading table relative to the cost
and the furnishing of water in different cities
owning their own plants, and with which the
Duluth plant by comparison is placed in an un,
enviable position j.
One would think after reading Commission
er Merritt's statement published in last Satur-
days Herald that our water plant was going to
the pow vows. Duluth a city of less than one
hundred thousand people and with an area OF
many more miles than cities Of ten times its
size, is compared with densely populated cities
of small areas in the three hundred thousand
class - q
The maximum rate in Minneapolis is given
as .O6 cents; the maximum rate in Duluth is
IT'S cents. Minneapolis water is not ft< to
drink and Duluth has the best water in the
world, and we had to spend some money to 81
out in the lake to get it, and we had to BLAST
rock and surmount many obstacles to carry i
to our homes, while down in Minneapolis they
merely bored through sand Minneapolis cont
sumers have to pay two water bills, one fol
general domestic use and the other for sprin9
water. In Duluth we have but one bill to .paN
and we get ice with our water even during thS
warmest month in the year.. +
When Duluth water rates are compared
with Erie, Pa, and with Fall River, Mass,
cities nearer our class, we find that the watet
rates more nearly approach what we are payE
ing here. The maximum rate in Erie is ,025
cents less than what is charged in Duluth, and
in Fall River it is :O25 cents more. But they
haven't the rock to contend with in those cities
that we have here.
Then again, Duluth has a water plant
equipped to supply the needs Of million peo-
pie. Wait until we are in the st. Paul. Minnes
apolis and Milwaukee class, and then let our
commissioner of public utilities make his com5
parisons 7
The figures given by Commissioner Merritt
will be circulated broadcast among the enemies
of Municipal Ownership. That will be tbe
crime Of it. And yet those figures mean not14s:
ing They ten nothing, nor do they prove any
-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06

thing. No mention whatever is made about
the number of consumers of each plant, nor of
its gross revenue. We have the largest bonded
Indebtedness of all the plants mentioned. This
means that have higher interest charge
to meet than the others. But even this SHOULD
not be charged up against municipal owner
ship; indeed it should prove it's success We
are getting cheaper water now than we were
given under private ownership it is much
purer, and it cost us a. lively sum to extend it
to pure source of supply. 80
2S:~ II private company owned our gas and
water plants it would be capitalized and bonded
for at least 10000, 900 and upon which it
would be paying dividends And yet Commits
sioner Merritt gives it out that our water plant
is worth about 1854, ,666. It cost almost one
half Of this amount to build our supply system
from Lakewood to the Thirty-fourth avenue
reservoir. Is it not strange how some people
tion for public ci<utilities owned by the people,
and another kind Of computation for utilities
owned by private companies1 ~
- When we come to buy the private electric
lighting system, we wonder if Commissioner
Merritt will be as 'reasonable'' in fixing it's
value as he is in admitting Of the worth of our
water plant. If he is we will be able to drive
a mighty good bargain.
Now it may be true that Duluth 8 maximum
rate is too high and it's minimum rate too low;
we do not know anything about it. Mr.. Mer-
ritt should know; that is what we are paying
him 50, 600 year for. But we are not paying
him that amount of money to discredit munic-
ipal ownership, or to discourage the people in
making further progress in acquiring public
. utilities
!. We want the city to own it's electric light
ing plant, after which we will be after the
street railway system, but there will be no use
trying to do anything further unless we are as
sured that true friends of city ownership are
in control of the utilities of which we are now
in possession.
. IS. TO say that our gas and water plants are
losing the city money is to say that our officials
!. arp attempting to fool the people. We know
Sthht they are the best assets we have. The prin.
zciple OF municipal ownership is right. If there
lis any fault to find it is with the management.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
COLORADO IN. MIDST
0E E.clVA WAR DEBs
Veteran Labor Crusader Leaves
!. Health Resort and Helps Colo
- RADIO Coal Miners. ::

Eugene v. Debs, the veteran labor
crusader. came down from the noun
tains this week to help the Colorado
miners in their strike for moro pay,
shorter hours and better working
conditions. He has lost none Of his
old fighting vigor and this week
finds him in the thick Of the fray
Debs has been in the mountains for
the benefit of his health.
The first thing Debs did when arriv-
ing In Denver was to visit the gov
ernor Of Colorado with whom he had
B. heart to heart talk over the strike
situation. He was emphatic in de-
claring the miners would and must
win the strike.
Colorado Is in the throes Of one ol
the greatest industrial warfares in
the history of the country" said
Debs. II might add that the present
coal strike may spread and become
national issue. The miners are
prepared to fight and 1t may be nec-
essary to. line up every organization
in the United States to help win the
battle.
IF I were the governor Of Colo
RADIO could soon end this coal strike
I would compel the operators to
listen to the wishes OF the people and
force the owners to q settlement.
Conditions in Colorado are worse
than most people are aware. There
is a. civil war raging and the peo-
pie, for the most part, do not know
it."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
OLD SPOKANE GANG. ! !: !
Gets DAVE COATES
Public Service Corporations and
Machine Politicians Blind Issue
and Beat Good Man. !.

David c. Coates. spokane's Socialist
city commissioner. who served two
and one half years under the commits
sion government, was defeated at the
recent local election by q narrow
margin.
Dave Coates is one of the best
known labor men In the west. He
formerly resided In Colorado where
he served term az lieutenant gov
ernor. Coates is a: printer, one Of
the fighting clan who made labor
history in the west. His reputation
extends throughout. the country. = !.
As city commissioner Mr.. Coates
made great record. He hit at the
vitals of privilege from every angle.
His opponents made a group combi-
nation against him. They remen-
bered his antagonism; the people
forgot. They were divided: privilege
was united, and Coates was defeated.
But Coates is good loser. He
consols himself with the thought that
everything he stood for was approved
by the people. AFTER all, he says.
principles, and legislative measure to
put them into, practical operation.
count the most. Besides the win
ming Of the wages scales and the
double platoon system for firemen,
the establishment of municipal
electric lighting plant has sunk deep
into the minds of the people,. its sue
cessful establishment and operation u
assured within the near future. 4
The friends of Mr.. Coates declare
the preferential system Of voting war
responsible for his defeat. But he
declares they are mistaken. II am
stronger in my faith in the prefer
entail system for safe guarding pops
ular government than ever. The men
whom the largest number of people
want should be elected. The same
combination Of people could have de-
feated me much easier under the old
system.'' sssessSs.5 sS5sS2 FRI ~, 5iSszs.ss3
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
W0MAV'S MINIMUM
Is T.. t.,s -! .'... r.. - - g. '.t
WAGE $3.50 A WEEK
. ~ .E:.
Secretary Of State Commission
viii Recommend This Sum
/: With. Increase to So. ~.

%, Z s .r
ST. PAUL Dec. THE Minnesota
minimum wage commission probably
will fix the minimum wage for girls
at not less than $3.50 q week.
Miss Eliza Evans. secretary, said
today that. though, only SO girls had
responded to the commissions re-
quest to file statements as to wages
and working conditions. she believed
that the amount mentioned would be
the minimum. tn 4 tS3.s 5
s From the 50 RESPONSES received the
lowest wage mentioned was SO a
weak and the highest $1s. Most Of
the responses showed 1 that the girls
we're wroking for from IS to Sc a
week. ~ S.Is. 81 s t A S
u \ q hise Evans says she will recon-
,nnend to tho com1nission that Ii adopt
q minimum Of Sc least 50. 80 and DOS
5sibliy 81 = SiWesl.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
J0KERS MAY DEFEAT
POPULAR RULE LAWS
Is Defeats, 2 Victories for Initia-
tive and Referendum in 1913
& Legislature.
SIC PROTEST PLANNED
BY NATIONS LEADERS
Nonpartisan Popular Government
League to Be Formed for Ma
tion-wide Campaign.

WASHINGTON, Dec. GA new
and sinister line Of attack which Is
likely to defeat the general move-
ment for popular government has re-
Gently disclosed itself.
AS a result a big conference will
be held in Washington Dec. to con-
slider ways and means for meeting
the emergency.
Peoples government IL now and
no longer opposed openly. Its great
danger is that which lies in the Sc
cret opposition of those who pretend
to be its frinds. The little ''amend-
ment' containing the secret joker is
now being used by persons who do
not dare to fight in the open against
the Initiative, referendum and re-
call.
In consequence, although the
fact is not generally known, this
movement toward making govern
ment more democratic has been, dur
ing the last year, brought practically
to standstill.
Legislatures ReactiOnary.
Eight state legislatures, under
pledge to submit, have rejected
amendments. Four have submitted
fairly good ones, one has by statute
rendered imperative an amendment
already adopted by the people, one
has submitted a mutilated amend
ment in lieu of good one now in
force.
The net results In 1913 to date are
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
EXPERTsC0|!DE|v|A J! p! |! !|||:|
STATE REGULATION
Committee Of Municipal Officials
Declare Cities Should Boss
ii: 81: Public Utilities.
LOCAL POWERS. CALLED
FOR UNDER HOME RULE
Direct Legislation In Oregon 0on-
clusively Shows Intelligent
>. Action By. Voters.

Regulation of street railways, tele-
phones, electric and gas plants ex-
clusively by the state was condemned
chises at the recent meeting of the
League of American Municipalities
in Toronto. The report, submitted
by the chairman. DIR. Delos F. Will
cox. New York, dealt with the rela-
ton of municipal home rule to con-
troll Of public utilities.
Tho committee pointed out that
public utilities are primarily urban In
character and that. on general prin.
ciples. the control Of public functions
should be localized as much as pos
stble, in order to obtain the interest
and effective cooperation OF citizens.
Moreover, as practical matter. the
more powerful the corporations be-
come and the more widespread their
services. the more important 1t Is
that they should be directly answer
able to the local communities. they
serve.
1T may easily be possible" said the
report, that an appointive state COM
mission will fall more or less COM
pletely under the domination of the
powerful interests which control the
public utilities of the state. and thus
the very machinery provided for the
regulation of utilities be captured by
the interests presumed to be regu-
lated by It. It may be necessary to
array against the powerful financial
interests Of the companies the direct
mass interest. of the local consumers
In order to preserve the vitality of the
regulatory function. Public utility
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06

for the loss Of the vessel and the sac
r1f1ce Of the twenty-four lives?
Apologists for the present system. will
claim that the master should have
disregarded the owners expressed
wishes not to drydock the vessel. But
those who are at all familiar with the
peculiar relatt onship between master
and owner know that such course
would be equal to a resignation Of
the Mount Oswald's' skipper. There
would have been many ambitious and
willing successors to risk anything
their own lives and the lives of others
TO get ahead of the other fellow.
It the poor old skipper had objected
to taking the unseaworthy vessel to
sea. he would have had the ,satisfac-
ton Of saving his own life. but he
would find it very difficult indeed to
secure another command.
Clearly, the responsibility lies with
the owners of the vessel and with the
law which REQUIRES that an officer
must join with the crew before they
can demand a survey Of the vessel to
determine its seaworthiness. In the
American coastwise trade majority
Of tho crew, exclusive of Officers,
have right to demand such survey.
but not when the vessel IL in q foreign
port. Section 1 Of tho 6eamens bill
Is. b. ~ aims to correct tho law 50
as to give majority OF the crew
the right 70 demand a.survey in any
port. ..ss. " n
This section, of course, is objected
to by the ship nowners, or At least ~
their spokesman, who advanced the
following trivial argunsnt: III this
goes thEos,gh, ny time ttl,s crew
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
BIG FIRM INVOLVED
IN BAD PRISON DEAL
Iowa Governor Orders Probe Into
Contract Labor in State
Penitentiary,

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Dec. 4.-The
President of the State Federation Of
Labor, J. H. Strict, has field a protest
with Governor Clarke and Senator
McColl of the Board of Prison Con-
troll at Des Moines against the Sim
mons Hardware company labels on
farm tools made in the state peni-
tentiary.
This firms main establishment Is
located at St. Louisiana is the vendor
of an extended line Of goods COM
prising farming implements, cutlery
etc., sold under the brand known as
"Keen Kutter.''
The president Of the State Fedora
tion asserted that he could furnish
evidence that tools made by convict
labor at Fort Madison are labeled
Dymond- Simmons Keen Kutter,"
and distributed from the firms Sioux
City and St. Louis establishments.
The governor agreed that an IN
vestigation should be made at once
and oreder the Board of Control to
act. The state farm tools contract
is with the Iowa Tool company.
It Is a matter Of common knowl-
edge that much, If not all, Of the
products handled by the Simmons
concerns are made under contract
either with little known manufacture
ers or with prison labor contractors.
The State Federation proposes.
through the investigation to be made
through the investigation to be made.
to give wide publicity to the facts.
The governor and Board of Con-
troll have also agreed to satisfactorily
adjust the matter of convict labor
competing with free labor at Fort
Madison
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
WEST: VIRGINIA MAY
LESSEN MINE RISKS

CHARLEsTOWN, w. ", Dec. t.
Governor Hatfield. exercised by the
recent report of the chief Of the state
department Of mines, in which it was
shown that one coal miner Is killed
each working day in West Virginia,
has evolved a plan which he hopes
will lessen the mine risks.
The governor plans to have the
state department of mines place the
mines of the state in three classifica-
tions, VIZ: non-hazardous, hazardous
and extra-hazardous. It is further
planned to have the mine inspectors
spend more time in mines known to
be hazardous.
Operators who provide safeguards
for employees will be allowed a lower
rate OF liability under the new law.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
LANSING PREACHERS
SCORE COPPER KINGS

LANSING, Mich, Dec. 4.-The
newspapers and other sources Of in
formation are being flooded with the
story that the, strike of the copper
miners is over.
This is far from the truth. The
strike is SO much alive that the Min
isters' Association of Lancing at a
recent meeting adopted set of reso-
lutions in which the governor of the
state is called upon to appoint a
commission for the purpose Of maxi
ing an investigation Of the issuesein-
volved in the contest, and that the
facts be given to the public.
One section of the resolutions says:
I'VE believe any person or persons
who refuses to submit to tn principle
of arbitration in dispute thereby
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-12-06
PR0F|TSC0ME Il
SAFETY An s2EQT
Vessel Owners Still VigN .
Oppose La Follette's safet q
at-Sea Bill,
PASSENGERS PAY FARES
AND LIFEBOATS DO NOT
Seamen Tell Stories of Danger of
Sailing On Great Lakes.
Many Lives Lost.

The ship owners trust in fighting
the La Toilette seamen's safety bill
is making the assertion that to COM
ply with the proposed law they
would be compelled to overload their
decks with lifeboats and thereby
strain the decks.
Passengers pay fares, lifeboats do
not" is the significant answer of the
Lake Seamen's union and the Fire
men, Marine Oilers and Water Tend
ers' union.
The ship owners point to instances
where excursion boats carry from
5000 to 1000 passengers and that 10
put the extra boats on the deck would
make the vessel unsafe.
But they believe that it Is per-
fectly safe to crowd a solid mass Of
humanity in the same space and be-
lieve the decks are safe enough to
carry them as long as they are reap
ing the profit from the mass of peo-
pie who are taken out unconscious
of the risks they are runing," say the
representatives of the union. There
is no complaint then of straining
decks and making vessels unsafe"
Asks Only Safety.
The La Toilette bill calls on the
big ship owners to protect the lives
of the passengers and prevent a repi-
tition of a crime like the wreck of
the Titanic," declare its supporters.
This bill demands that every ship
shall carry sufficient boats to save
the lives of all on board and also de-
mands that each lifeboat be manned
by two seamen who understand their
business.
could one ask for a more just
and fair bill than this La Toilette
bill ask the seamen. 1.-The life Of a
human being is being asked spared
at sea. and these good men, these
Christian men stand at bay and re-
fuse to grant this request. What
murder they must bean in their
breasts, what desire they must have
for the almighty gold. at the risk OF
human life. -.> -.
Have Only One Excuse.
The only excuse is that these
safety laws should apply only ta