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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-01-09
Birthday First Day Of Year

New Years night relatives and
friends spent the evening at the home
of Mrs. VIM. Schlender in Greenfield,
it also being Mrs. Schlender's BIRTH
day. A bountiful dinner was served
at o'clock. The evening was spent
in music and playing games and all
departed at late hour reporting a
good time and wishing Mrs. VIM.
Schlender many happy returns of the
day.
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Mattke and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Ziernke and family, Mr.,
and Mrs. Herman jain and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles FaIkernstein
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto luck, Mr.. and Mrs
Christ luck of Baraboo and Theodore
Kern of Baraboo.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-01-09

Mrs. M. Lesser went to Madison
Saturday for few weeks visit with
her son, Lewis Lesser.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-01-09

M. d. Hutchinson madela trip to
Chicago and Harvard today.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-01-09

gs>OR CATARRN v the nose, throat,
4 stomach, bowels and more delicate.
organs, be sure to take Hoods Sarsa'
0arilla--it is a RADICAL CURE
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
MISSOURI ENFORCES
WOMAN'S 9-HOUR LAW

SIT. LOUIS, Nov. 13.-For working
female employees more than sine
hours per day a large cleaning and
dyeing company has been fined $25
and costs In ten cases, making a to-
tai of $37s. The factory Inspector
favored the small fine because it WAS
the first offense, together with the
fact that the company promised to
obey the law in the fu:ure.
n Another labor law that is causing
changes in tn: foundries is the Muld-
ers Sanitary Law, which applies to
all foundries employing ten or more
men, and Calls for washrooms, lock :
ers, hot and cold water, and other
desirable improvements. The factory
inspector announces that the neces.
sary changes are under way and that
no great difficulty is expected in So
curing compliance with every provi-
sion OF the law. II 4 4. III. II. @.g l.. III 5.i@
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
.TRAIV|AG|V GRANTED
|. !. BIZ BIG 1 WAGE ] G. INCREASE
Total Of $6, 600, 900 Added to Pay
Of 100, 900 Train Service
= r. Employees.
LIVING COST CHIEF
FACTOR IN DECISION
Arbitrators Award Advance Of Z
Per Cent ailroad's Poverty
!: Ignored.

81 NEW YORK, Nov, ls.-Forty-oue
eastern railroads granted 100000 con-
ductors and trainmen an increase In
wages averaging per cent, tota1ling
$6,0O0,O00 annually-about half Of
what they wanted. The scale is eff
fective Oct. 1, for one year.
Thus ends by arbitration under the
Newlands amendment to the Erdman
act a dispute that threatened to tie
up by strike the transportation sfacili-
ties Of all cities east of the. Mississippi
river and north Of the Ohio. ~
Cost of Living As Basis.
The board ruled against the en-
p1oyers on four out Of five points
submitted as reasons why the In
crease should be branted ana found
for them on the fifth-the increased
cost of living. Since 1903. when last:
an increase was granted, the arbitra-
tors found the cost of living has in-=
creased per cent. g =. - 8,
THE board does not found its ac-s
ton entirely upon tho increased cost
Of living" reads the award, though
1t looks upon this as basic'
p Rate of Payments Fixed.
AAe al IASAoS pAoVAue I111eLuo 11lOntlt-
ly pay. of employees In the passenger
branch Of the service shall be:
Conductors, $1s5.00; baggagemen,
$500; hagmen and roar brakemen,
$500; brakemen, $76.60. ssszs
Overtime will be paid as follows:
Conductors, 45c per hour; assistant
conductors and ticket collectors, s5.7;
baggagemen, 27.5; fagmen and rear
brakemen, IS; brakemen, 25.5.
! Awards I'm Freight Service.
For the freight service the chief
awards are; ss.s..4.sEt IS
Through Tuns-C Cond duotors, 1 cents
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
RESUME LOBBY PROBE
AFTER CURRENCY BILL

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-Ths
Senate Lobby; investigating Commit
tee will resume it's hearings as soon
as possible. The committee intends
to hear witnesses regarding the al
legged labor lobby and also witnesses
on the part the press has had in the:
lobby. ss &c. sz
Two new, hess cs the lobby com
mittee, Senator's Reid and Nelson.
are members Of the Banking and Cur
rency Commit ttee, which is now en-E
gagged I'm hearings on the currency,
bill. 3i5 .55t 45ss 5si 51 s q
It Is intimated that the report OF
the Senate Lobby COMMITTEES will not
be made to the Senate before the lat-s
ter part of December or some time.
in January. IS i - n
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
FLASH LIGHTS HURT
PHONE GIRLS EYES
Something of Nerve Wrecking
Work of Girls in Telephone
Central Office.

There are in the United States
about ,125, 900 telephone girls, whose
average term Of service is three years
ot5l 5lsss. The working hours are about
eight per diem; the average -numbat
Of calls is about 40 per hour, run
ming, at the peak to 225 or more.
d: The operator sits facing a switch
board which Is covered with. num-
Der having small signal light that
flashes on and off as the call is COM
pleted. When the person calling
raises his receiver, light flashes on
the switchboard at central" and this
light continues to burn until the op-
orator plugs the number and re-
ceives the call. She then plugs the
number called for and this light
burns until the called person raises
his receiver from the hook.
When the receivers are finally re-
placed on their hooks, both lights
flash and burn until the operator re-
moves the connecting plugs. To COM
plete one call means four flashes OF
light As the average number of
ere during the rush hours, ther?
calls is 140 per hour, with 225 or
more during the rush hours. the op-
erators's eyes are exposed to from 500
to 1000 flashes Of light every hour,
resulting in fatigue to the eyes, to
say nothing OF the mental and ply
sical strain under which the oper-
ator constantly works. ,+
The Bell, system, in 1911, spent
$72O,953 for rest-rooms and lunch
rooms for the operators, and It has
secured sufficient air space and good
illumination, yet, although only
young and healthy girls are selected,
the average length of service does not
exceed three years. -. - =,
The symptoms Of eye-strain which
the girls develop are headache. dull
ness, INDIGESTION, exhaustion, nerve
strain, insomnia, colds ,and so forth.
The two or three short years of
telephone work possible to the girls,
as we'll as nine-tentns of all their
suffering, is porbably due to the con-
stant near-range eyework, without
proper protection for the eyes, y
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
n. A. N. AND A.f.0Fl |,
STILL At DISTANCE
No Truth In Reports That Manu-
facturers and Labor Have
Buried Hatchett.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-Within
the last week or two q story has been
printed in a few newspapers that the
National Association Of aManufactur-
(ors and the ofticials of the American
Federation OF Labor have come to aa
understand ding, and that ''sweet SER
entity now prevails. The reason for
the PRONUNCIATION of this comic story
does not appear on the surface.
After the long, relentless and un-
justifiable war carried on by the Ma
tlonal Association of Manufacturers
against the labor organizations Of this
country, it is difficult to conceive how
complete summersault could be
taken by this delectable band
The National Association or Manu-
facturers, however, during the recent
lobby investigation, suffered seriously
and as consequence it's influence
has been practically nullified In It's
efforts to retrieve it's former ground
it could be plausible to suppose that
stories of the kind mentioned might
naturally spring from sources not dif-
ficult to determine.
|. The association started on its car
! eer for the purpose of destroying the
organized labor movement, but it has
made progress backward. Even with
It's tremendous influence prior to the
lobby investigation it failed utterly to
stop the progress and the growth Of
! the labor organizations.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers is STILL. even with its re-
naming slender influence, endeavor-
ing to carry on its old practices, but
1t will be unabls to delude the organ
lied working people with any story
that an understanding has been
reached with the organized. labor
| movement.
Whenever the rights of the work.
ers are recognized by any association,
no matter what its character, an un-
derstanding can be reached, but 9TH
erwise the organized movement pro-
poses to stand for the protection OF
all workmen against the unjust en-
| croachments of any association of
employers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
SCHOOL FOR CONVICTs 5.
INMATES ARE TUTORS

JACKSON, Mich, Nov. 13.-Jack-
sons prison school for inmates of the
penitentiary has been opened. The
new superintendent has authority Of
the State Board Of Education to COM
fer diplomas upon inmate graduates.
The first eight grades will be
started Immediately, and the Tenth.
Eleventh and Twelfth grades will be
added as soon as necessary examina-
tions can be given. Many OF the
teachers DIN the school will be from
among the inmates.
The warden states that there are
d number of inma tes who are college
graduates and very CAPABLE men. /, and
these men will be given charge Of the
classes. II 81 ,s Il h. 5 5.f 4
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
COURTS MAY ASSUME
POWER OF GOVERNOR
New York Judges Delegate to
Themselves Authority to Gall
Militia During Strikes.
BUFFALO, Nov. 1S.-The right O

BUFFALO, Nov. 1s.-The right Of
a supreme court Justice to call out
troops has been affirmed by tho
Court of Appeals. The decision was
rendered in the case wherein Justice
Brown called on the brigadier gen
eral of the state to put three reH-
ments into action in the Buffalo
street car strike last April. -H'
The treasurer OF Erie County re-
fused to pay them. The court or
dered the treasurer to issue oerti-
fcate of indebtedness for the three
days service performed. The county
attorney advised the board Of super:
yisors and the county treasurer to
refuse to pay the troops, stating he
was of the opinion the military law
under which pay was asked was un-
constitutional, and that Justice
Brown had no right to call out the
soldiers -. :rc..uss> &C. =. -, r.
: The case then went to the courts
and as indicated above, the Court OF
Appeals, the highest court in the state
has affmed the former judgments
and the county will now be required
to pay the fiddler. ~ sz5 n. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15

toll of lives and ships is due wholly to
the greed and avarice Of ship own
ers.. sr 3-'> 49, ,A... .
And these are the men who are
flooding congress with letters and Pc
titions against the passage of the
Safety at Sea bill, which was recent
ly put through the senate by Mr.. La
Toilette. With tears In their eyes they
declare If the bill becomes law they
will be forced out of business on ac-
count of the expense they will be
bound to contract in manning their
ships with full crews of able bodied
seamen. $50 "
/ We have had enough of their l1y-
pocrisy. Safety comes first. The
most wholesome thing that could hap
into the manner of handling ships Of
the Great Lakes. The testimony Of
the captains, we verify believe, would
be the most startling ever given in an
investigation. Why not demand one?
1t may be true that few Of the
ship wrecks were unavoidable. Acct
dents at sea will always happen, but
their consequences could be material
ly lessened If more regard were shown
for human safety. The modern
freighters on: the Great Lakes are
built for profit and not for safety,
and hence lake sailing has become
more hazardous than ever before. Is
it not time to be on the square with
Safety First slogans? +.
Congress should lose no further
time in compelling steamship own
ers, to comply with the reasonable de-
mands of the men who man t. r.
ships for lessening the hazard of their
occupation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
ITALY STILL LEADS. .
HEBREWS NEXT
Startling Statistics On Number Of
Southern Europeans E:mmi-
grating to United States.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The rec
ord of Southern Italian Immigration
to this country is indeed marvellous.
While it is true that many of these
Southern Italians return to their ma
tive land after either short or long
periods in this country, yet number
less thousands remain here.
For many months the Southern
Italians have outstripped every other
race in point of numbers landing at
American ports. The record of the
last ten years ended June so, 1913,
Of Southern italian immigration
shows that there have landed at
American ports 1,S24,293
In order to show the full Italian
immigration there must be added
354,39S Northern Italians to the rec
ord of the last ten years, which
makes a grand total Of Italian immi-
grafton during the period stated Of
2,178,691: For the month of August,
1913, Southern italians in point of
numbers outstripped all other nation
aNties again, 27,554 being admitted.
Hebrews Are Second:
Next In point Of numbers for Au-
gust comes the Hebrews, with 1909,
closely followed by the Polish, with
1861. Germans, 1890. ..,.. Crotians
and Slovenians, STA. English, 5,221:
Russians, $685. Ruthenians, 4,43S;
Northern Italians, 4,20S; Lithuanians.
3,os1: slovaks, 1911; Scandinavians,
1884; Magyars, 2,74S; Irish, 2,545;
the balance being scattered between
"a other nationalities, usually re-
corded by the Bureau Of Immigration
while a small number is listed under
"Other Peoples t.. -. .
Designated according to occupa-
tions declared by those landing dur
Ing August, 430,989 were farm labor
ers, 23,345 laborers, and 1887 as
servants. OF those declaring them
selves as skilled workers there Were
1856 tailors, 1918, carpenters j and
joiners; clerks and accountants,
1903; seamstresses and dressmakers,
I2,247. Other trades are, represented
by a much smaller number. %.sss
l:..& New York Gets Most. IA
The distribution of these inmi-
grants forms also another interesting
portion OF this story New York be-
ing the recipient OF the largest num-
Der, 81, 476 having gone to that state,
while pennsylvania received the sec
'ond largest number, !. 20,664. 4S Thel,
comes Illinois with 11,824; Ohio,
1880; Massachusetts. 1854; New j err
sey. 6,218;;.2 Michig gan, 5, $50; Connecti-
tcut, 3,,735 E the remaining number be-
ing scattered to the various states in
the union. Fl III 55I
The total ilnnnigr . ation Tor the
months was q. 4, h showing IA IN
crease the irnn1i igrat Ion of ID.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
KANSAS \ ] ! CITY / owns 4.
PUBL|c.L|GAT ( | c PLANT || N
City Cuts Rates Right and Left.
People Like Public Owner
sip Best.
PLANT, 8 MONTHS OLD: |.
n SUCCESS rs ASSURED
What Kansas City Is Doing Du-
luth Can Do-Big Boost for
City Ownership. !.

."t How city took it's street lighting
out of the hands Of a private monop-
oily, put 1T under municipal control
and then began slashing prices right
and left to the consumer is the story
Of the municipal light plant of Kan
sas City, Kan. ....- u.
. The franchise for the old lighting
company, known as the Consolidated
Light & Power company, expired
three years ago.
The city's bills for street light
ing were then exceeding the income
to the street lighting fund by about
$4,000 per year, after levying all
that the statute would permit.
The law for commission form OF
government was just going into ef-
feet and under'Nth commission law
the city commissioners, vacate their
offices if they occasion or continue
an expense for which there is no in
come. Negotiations had been car
ried on with the company for some
time looking to a renewal Of the
franchise, but 1t had refused to make
any reduction in rates.
Vote Bond Issues.
1t might have been possible to Sc
cure a reduction had it not been that
this lighting company and the one in
; Kansas City, Mo-, were the same and
this company realized" that it could
not for any length Of time success
fully maintain residence rate Of 10
cents kilowatt hour in the Missouri
city while selling it at cents in Kan
sas.
After prolonged negotiations it
was found that lower rates could not
be obtained from the old company,
whereupon the proposition Of q bond
issue Of $360,o00 with which to erect
a municipal plant was submitted to
the citizens and carried by g good ma
Jority.s Later another issue of 5000
f000 wassvoted bringing the total
vestment. up to- e$55O,ooo. 49, ~ -
The municipal lighting plant began
operations eight months ago and has
been running continuously since. H.
Produces $1,000 Month.
In that time the plant has pro-
duoed an income of about $1,000 per
month and the operating expenses do
not exceed $4,000. New customers are
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
EVEN PENNSYLVANIA
(. HELPS WOMAN LABOR
New Nine Hour Law Enacted By
Keystone State Becomes
Effective.
HARRISRuRG

HARRISBURG. Pa, Nov. 13-
Pennsylvania new women's employ
ment law went into effect on Novem-
ber /, and the limit of hours of en-
ployment for women and girls will be
81 per week, except in the home and
on the farm.
The new law prohibits the employ.
ment of women or girls for more thar
six consecutive days and not more
than ten hours in any one uay. One
of the features of the act is that IS
minutes must be allowed for the mid
day meal and a rest period of the
same length after continuous EN-.
ployment for six hours.
Night employment is limited to
telephone operators over IS years Of
age, and to women employed as man
ayers, superintendents, clerks and
stenographers.
The Department of Labor ana In!
dnstry is charged with tho enforce
ment of this law. The effect will be
to csuse many changesinindustrial
land mercantile establishments.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
HU|MA|V|T |TY REJ0|CES
At BELLS VERDICT
Trial Is Proof that Russia Is Not
H. Civilized, But Half
70 Barbarian.
~
WORLDS DENUNCIATION
INFLUENCED THE VERDICT
From Every Corner Of the Globe
Protests Were Sent that
Trembled Russia.

The story of Mendel Bells Is the
story Of Russian Jew whose cause
became the cause Of civilization. A
murder trial is not an event to startle
the world The prosecution set up
the theory that this murder had been
committed as a sacred rite Of the
church. Investigation satisfied unpre-
JUDGED minds that the charge was so
impossible that 1t would have been
absurd if it had not been horrible.
When it became known that convic-
ton would be p provocation and an
occasion for the deliberate massacre
of Jews in Russia, the interest of civ
ilization grew to white heat. NOT
Judaism alone, but Christendom, al
so, has been filled with indignation.
The Russian pogrom, the uncon-
trolled massacre of Jews, has been q
greater blot on the civilization of Eu-
rope than all the Moslem cruelty OF
the undefended Turk. The Bells
case apparently was a deliberate at
tempt not only to provoke. but to In
vite and perhaps unofficially to
sanction more murders.
World Was Not Dumb.
The world has not been dumD.
From every corner of Christendom
has come indignant denunoiation OF
a charge so silly and so barbarous az
tho charge of ritual murder. 1t was
an insult to Christianity that ma
ton calling itself Christian should
permit such a thing. 1t was proof
that Russia was not civilized, but half
barbarian.
Can there be much doubt that the
ringing denunciation of the world in
fluenced the verdict in the Bells
case? A court in such a country can
not be supposed to be uninfluenced
by orders from authority. And the
rulers of Russia must have trembled
at the sentiment of every other nation.
1t Is well for Russia that Bells was
freed. but she has much yet to gain.
The least that can b. demanded OF
the empire If it would begin to set
itself right in the eyes of the world
is that no demonstration against
Jews shall be allowed to follow the
finding Of the court and that Bells
life shall be as safe in a Russia that
calls itself Christian as though he had
not been accused and were not a Jew.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
BATTLE CREEK FIRM ::
ADOPTS UNION LABEL
Union Shop Adopted By Cereal
Company In Home City
of Arch Labor Halter.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Nov. 13.
AT :, conference Of the Is sales
agents 'of the Kellogg Toasted Corn
Flake company. Battle Creek, Mich .
repres knting every section of the
Unite States. Monday, it was unani-
nous y voted that the union label
shouli appear on every package of
the Iod made by the concern.
Tf 2 question was discussed at
leng h by the agents and at the close
of he discussion, and following the
vote the management announced that
it had decided some time ago to man
ufa }ture its own cartons and that
each will bear the union label and
be 'made by union labor
'fhe company is one of the largest
ce ieal concerns in the country and
thf action is significant as more than
5't000,000 Of packages are distributed
a tnually.
hion label is especially interesting
In view of the extreme antagonism
which exists against organized la
Dor by the Post company, which is
also located in Battle Creek.
Union Halter Post has made stren-
uous advertising campaigns against
organized labor through editorials in
the capitalist press throughout the
country. He has on one occasion en-
deavored to institute an organizat ton
OF MS own among his employees.
Which last but a short time.
The action Of the Kellogg COM
pany will undoubtedly put crimp
In Posts business. as organized la
Dor will come to the aid of the union
concern and patronize union-made
products.
Post has made every endeavor to
make Battle Creek an open town. but
this move on the part Of the KELLOGG
concern will kill Posts hobby.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
UNION LEADER SUES
F0!ssFO|R sLANDER|
s.
FORMER President of Boston Cen
tral Labor Union Files Big =
Damage Suit. i

& BOSTON, Nov. 13.The bringing
Of e suit against Governor Foss for
100000 for alleged slander has been
announced by James T. Moriarity,
former president Of the Boston Gem
trial Labor. union. The suit, Moriar-
ity said, was based on a. statement
signed "E. N. Foss," which appeared
this week in a Boston 5s paper, N
which Moriarity was denounced Tor
participation in a strike Of employees
of factories controlled by the gov
.ernor. 555 II III a Ills y!
Moriarity said he objected rarticu-
larly to a portion Of the. statement al
.leging that he was defeated for re-
election as president of the union. he
declared that fter serving two terms
as Epresid lent he wa Is not y candle date
FOR re-eiect ton, On d that the new
spre stdent ected a ysi t,hout oppo-
EAttten
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-15
DECLARES
TRUSTS ARE ME|uACE
Great Lawyer Believes They Win
Soon Cease and Progress
to Cooperation.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1a-Eouis
D. Brandeds drew 4 vivid picture OF
the overwhelming power Of oonosn-
trated control Of money at tonight.s
session of the American Academy OF
Political and Social Science.
'The most serious objection to the
trust" said Brandsix 10 It's ability
to overcome labor unions. While the
Steel Trust was earning for stock
holders $660,o00,000 In excess Of =
liberal return ON iU actual capital
men were working - hours week
and the wages Of tho large GLASS OF
common laborers wsre such that II
men worked IL hours a day, seven
days a week, So weeks In the year,
they would still fail short Of earning
what the Associated Charities Of,
Pittsburgh declared was essential to
the minimum Of decent living for q
man with a wife ana three children.
'"This does not mean that we
should return to the isolated units Of
century ago. The great capitanstio
combinations, falsely called co-oper-
atton,' will cease. because they are In.
consistent with liberty. But In their
place will arise true cooperation,
that democratic Joining together Of
men and industry for their common
benefit, under which mans facu1tieA.
will be liberated and developed" ]" ss
Frank A. Vanderlip. president OF
the National City Bank Of New York.
the largest in the country, was great
~ wrought up over Brandeis' talk and
practically called him q liar.