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United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
ahers' Strike Now On,
80 Per Cent of Men Go Out;
Ell Paso County Signs Up

its high piled furniture. and its be
wildered, woebegone family perched
atop.
And the furniture,
What mockery to the states
boasted riches, What a commentary
on the talk of the prosperity of the
miners OF Colorado,
Prosperity! Little piles of rickety
chairs! Little piles OF miserable look
ing straw bedding. Little piles oil
kitchen utensils, And all SO worn and
badly used they would have been the
scorn OF any secondhand dealer on
Larimer street.
Prosperity. With never a single ar.
ticle even approaching luxury, save
once in a score of wagons, cheap
gaily painted gramophone, With
never a bookcase, With never a book
With never single article that even
the owners thought worth while try
ing to protect from the driving rain (.
And these were the contents of tho
homes of the miners whom the mine
owners have called prosperous and
contented,
Prosperous. These wagons were as
pitiful to look upon as the 'dobe
shacks the mine owners put up for
miners and call homes
Even the horses dragging them
through the greasy mud looking weary
and worn and shame-faced,
But the hope of all these stolid men
and women who have dedicated their
lives TO digging coal shined brightly
through the sheets of rain at Sopris
and Ludlow yesterday when Mother
Jones and Frank Hayes talked to
them
There was no mistaking the enthus.
iasm. the confidence OF the strikers
Things had gone well at these mines
Only 80 were left at work at Spris,
Tuesday. Two hundred of the 270
Sopris miners were gathered for the
beginning OF the meeting: so more
came trooping down the hill from the
mine while the meeting was In prog
ress; five men Joined the union on the
grounds.
At Ludlow. Cedar Hin. Hastings nni
Deiagus the iie-up was even more
complete oaly fcw dozen were letI
at work there and the majority oI
them were negroes. who went to anc
from their toll under guard OF Win
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
MISSOURI STATE FEDERATION.
Largest Convention in History of the
State: Officers Elected.

The twenty-second annual conven-
ton of the Missouri State Federation
of Labor was held in Springfield last
week, with 215 delegates in attend
ance- Following were the officers
elected:
r. T. Wood. Springfield. president;
l.. E. Soldering. Kansas City, first
vice president: Mrs. Sadie Spraggon.
St. Louis. second vice president; Arch
Helm, Richmond, third vice president;
John T. Smith. Kansas City. secre-
tary-treasurer; James A Gallagher.
Kansas City, legislative committee;
Wm. f. Kindorf. st. Louis. legislative
committe; p. Moran. st. Louis, dele
gate to A. F. of L.: Owen Miller. st.
Louis, fraternal delegate to Illinois
State Federation of Labor; ]. l..
Wines, St Joseph. fraternal delegate
70 Kansas State Federation of Labor.
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27

chester rifles. and in fear and trem.
bling.
There were full thousand at the
Ludlow meeting and again the women
and children were in the front ranks.
despite the rain. and cheered the
speakers.
The pitiful thing about the Ludlow
camp lay in the lack OF tents. Six
teen tents. one of them large bunk
house sort OF affair. were pitched on
stretch of prairie beneath the hill
perched mine. Every one of the six
teen was occupied-to capacity. There
were more children In them than
could be found in three times sixteen
Denver homes.
But the sixteen were not enough.
Here and there. over the prairie. were
miner was asked why they We're ly-
ing there, in the open. In the rain. He
shrugged his shoulders.
"The mine guards, they put them
out" he said. THE miners they bring
heem here with wifes and children
The tents. they not here. So they
dump stuff"
"But what of the miners women
and children" he was asked.
He shrugged his shoulders again.
and waved a hand vaguely toward
the tented village.
"Thcy go-somewheres." he said.
Tents are being rushed here. Mean.
time. the people suffer.
The United States government has
sent representative here with view
of settling the trouble. He has been
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
Wilson Defines ''''1'
Labor's Policy
Says Trades Unions Are Ev-
olutionary
Great Problem One Of Distribution, and
the Working People Are Cir
culating Medium.

THE genius of man has solved the
problem of production. The prob
lem of distribution has not yet been
solved
There is seldom such a thing as
a closed shop or an open shop. 1t
is either a union shop or non-union
shop
Publicity is the greatest cure and
the greatest deterrent of labor ills
in the world."-Secretary of Labor
William B. Wilson.
The trades union movement is an
evolutionary rather than a revolution
airy movement seeking to solve the
problem of the equitable distribution
of the wealth created. The genius OF
man has solved the problem of pro
duction. The problem of distribution
has not yet been solved. The trades
union movement seeks to solve that
problem.
Thus fer generally it has worked
on the priciple of utilizing every hon
orable means that presents itself for
tie accomplishment of that purpose.
They take the ground that every man
o. that hls labor produces but no one
has yet devised any method by which
that full social equivalent can be de-
termined. consequently labor unions
take the ground that every step by
which the workers get a more eQuit-
able share of what their labor has
produced is 4 step toward ehe solu-
tion of the problem of distribution.
As trade unionist l concur in that
sentiment. The trades unions as such
would utilize any party or any other
legitimate influence to bring about
the solution of that problem
This was the answer of Secretary
of Labor William B. Wilson at Mil
waukee yesterday to the question
whether he believed the Socialis
party was the solution of the labol
movement. Mr.. Wilson was in Nil
waukee the guest of the Brotherhood
of Railway Carmen in session in that
city.
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
A TOAST.

At the editorial convention re-
Gently held in Colorado Springs,
Colo, a preacher offered the follow
ing toast:
To save an editor from starya-
ton. take his paper and pay for it
promptly. To save him from bank
ruptcy, advertise in his paper lib
orally. To save him from despair,
send him every item of news you
can get hold of. To save him from
profanity, write your correspond
ence plainly on one side of the
sheet and send it in as soon as pos
sible. To save him from mistakes,
bury him-dead people are the
only ones who never make mis-
takes
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
ANTHRACITE TRUST PROBE.

Washington.-An inquiry into the
operations of the so-ealled Anthracite
Trust was proposed in a resolution in
troduced by Representative Murray.
of Massachusetts. Among various
other things. the Murray resolution
demands Information on what pro
visions. il any. these various com.
panies have made for the comfort,
protection. and safety of their EN-.
pioyes working in and about the an
thracite mines"
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
INDusTRIALIsM DEFEATED.
Old Officers of the Reid-Murphy Fac
ton Reelected.

The Reid-Murphy faction of the In
ternational brotherhood of Electrical
Workers adjourned their convention
in Denver this week. The plan to es-
tablish industrial unionism within the
organization was defeated by large
majority.
No direct steps were taken looking
to united action with the Collins-M Nc
Nulty branch. Reid was reelected
president and Murphy secretary. Lo-
cal union No. Ill furnished a nice line
of entertainment. including a trip to
Glacier lake park last Sunday after
noon.
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
RooFERs' UNION.

Bakersfield. Col.-Charter has just
been received from the International
Brotherhood of Composition Roofers,
Damp and Waterproof Workers for
the new union recently formed in this
city. which consists of almost the en-
tire members of that craft. The new
organization will Immediately be-
come affiliated with the Building
Trades Council
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27

unable to gains any concessions from
the operators
Prank J. Hayes. first vice president
OF the United Mine Workers. is in
charge OF the situation
President John McLennan stated 70
The Bulletin this morning that nine
teen Independent coal companies ia
the state had signed up with the union
and that about 1000 miners had re
turned TO work in these mines. Most
OF these companies operate in II
Paso county.
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
Colorado Strike SonS

Sang TO The Tu"o of" The BATH CRY Of Freedom,
We will win the fight today. boys,
We ii win the fight today.
Shouting the battle cry of union;
We will rally from the coal mines,
We battle to the end
Shouting the battle cry of union.
Chorus
The union forever, hurrahi boys, hlrrah,
Down with the Baldwns, up with the law;
For we re coming, Colorado. coming all the way,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
We have fought them here for years. boys
We fight them to the end
Shouting the battle cry of union.
We have fought them in the North we II fight
themn the South
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
We are fighting for rights, boys.
We're fighting for our homes.
Shouting the battle cry OF union:
Men have died to win struggle: they We died
us free,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
TAKING STRIKE VOTE.

San Francisco.-Returns on strike
vote now being taken by the tele-
phone operators on the Northern Pa
cific Railroad indicate that there is an
almost unanimous sentiment in favor
of strike. Officials declare that be
tween 80 and 95 per cent. are in favor
of a strike to enforce increased wages
and improved conditions.
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
WANT BENEFITS ENJolNep.

ST. Louis-The Boyd Coal and
Coke Company, of Sparta, H., ap-
piled to the Circuit Court. at Belle
Vile. ILL.,. for an injunction to re-
strain State and local offices of the
United Mine Workers from aiding
and abetting" strike by paying bene-
fits to striking miners
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
cARMtN WANT MORE WAGES.

cigs1N..aZA strike Of all crews on
regular cars OF the Akron. Bedford
and Cleveland Electric Line is threat
ened. following rumors that motor
men and conductors intended to form
4 union and press their demands for
Increased pay or return to the old
Cleveland. which was discarded sew
eral deys ago
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
Not a Classified Ad.

1t is easy for the fellow who never
does anything TO avoid criticism. but
the man who steps briskly out and
gets somewhere is bound TO step on
the toes of someone. And it is better
to be criticised than to be a mere do
nothing. To which class to you be-
long Oklahoma Labor Unit
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27

good prospects that at least portion
OF this principle will soon be achieved.
Organized labor is with him in this
contest
One more thing to be said of Otto
F. Thurn. for benefit of labor men
who haye been advanced TO high politi-
cal positions. is this: He never
misses meeting of Denver Typo
graphical Union No. 40.
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27
WHO'S WHO" INS7f1E DENVER
UNION LABOR MOVEMENT
OTTO F. THUM

There would be no reason to
print this sketch If all readers
of The United Labor Bulletin
lived in Denver. AS 1t happens
this paper circrlates in every
state in the Union except
Louisiana. Here is a printed
prose half-tone story of Otto F.
Thcm that tells more than we
could say il there was some as
sistance. For more years than
he will admit, Otto has been a
member of the Typographical
Union. Having been elected
city clerk, he liked the job SO
well that he ran for Commits
sioner of Property under the
new form of government and
was elected. When the Colora-
do State Federation OF Labor.
was formed, Otto F. Thum was
elected the first president. In
his present position he has
charge of all public property in
the County and City of Denver
The picture published in con-
nection with this article was
specially posed for The Bulletin
at the City Park zoo. Otto gives
careful attention to the kids
whether they be of the lion fam
lily or the two-legged variety
born on Vallejo street. Another
thing that might be mentioned
with no desparagement to this
prominent city official is that he
is never too busy in his front
office at the city hall to meet
United labor bulletin., 1913-09-27

his friends or anyone else who shows
union card His original appoint
ment OF sixteen union labor men to
positions in his department estab-
lished a record for the entire United
States.
Municipal ownership of all public
utilities is now the chief object of
Mr. Thum. He has majority of the
commissioners with him. There arc
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-18
Special Masters Sale
OF
Valuable Real Estate

In pursuance of an order of the Court of
Chancery Of New Jersey, made and dated on
the twenty-seventh day of January, nineteen
hundred and thirteen, in the cause therein
depending, wherein Estella M. Thompson by
David Jester, her next friend, is complainant
and Clara Newton, ct ais, are defendants, 1,
Reginald Branch, one of the Special Masters
OF the Court OF Chancery OF the State of New
Jersey. appointed by said court in said cause
for the said purpose, will expose for sale At
public vendue. on
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10th, NEXT, 1918
between the hours of two O'Clock and five
O'Clock, at the Metropolitan Inn corner High
and Broad Streets Burlington, N. j., all the
following described lands and premises, viz:
All that certain house and lot of land stu
ated at Juliustown,1n the township of Spring
field, county of Burlington, and State OF New
Jersey, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone in the line of Benja-
min b. Autrtus' land line established by
Isaac Bigalow, former owner, to run parallel
with the main street running through julius
town and is now corner to q small strip OF
land which Henry W. Curtis purchased OF
Samuel ]. Lewis, and runs: /, North sixty
seven degrees east one chain and ninety
links to a stone; thence 2, south thirty de-
grees and thirty minutes east two chains and
street; thence along the same, 8, south sixty
seven degrees west one chain and ninety
links to stone corner to said Lewis, thence
A, north thirty degrees and thirty minutes
west two chains and seventeen links to the
place of beginning. Containing two roods OF
land, be the same more or less.
Also a small strip of land mentioned above
which the said Henry w. Curtis purchased of
the said Samuel ]. Lewis, by deed, reference
thereto being had the butts and bounds OF
the same will appear. Together with all and
singular the hereditaments and appurten-
ances TO the said premises belonging or in
anyw1se appertaining.
Conditions will be made known on the day
of sale, and will among other things require
ten per cent. OF the purchase money to be
paid on the day of sale and the balance on
March 20, 1913 at my office.
REGINALD BRANCH,
Special Master in Chancery of New Jersey.
ALBERT 8. WOODBURY., Solicitor.
Dated Feb. 10. 1913 PRS adv. fee S22.A
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-18
FurnIturs Casters.

Many furniture casters are made of
leather, disks of the required size being
cut out and cemented and compressed
to form the wheel. The wheel is then
put into a lathe and turned rounding
on its face. Disks of metal are clamped
on each side of the wheel to serve as
bearings for the axle that runs through
the wheel Such casters are made for
use on hardwood floors. Casters of
compressed felt are also designed for
this purpose. Among other styles OF
casters may be mentioned those of
glass, designed to serve for purposes of
insulation. and ball bearing casters.
one style showing no wheel, but in
stead ball which, when the furniture
is moved, revolves on a circle of small
er balls within the caster fitting Then,
too, there are caster wheels made of
porcelain and of rubber, of hgnum
vitae and other hard woods. Great
numbers of casters are of iron and
brass.-Exchange.
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How Gold Pens Are Made.

Metallic iridium, used so extensively
for the points of gold pens, is made
from the powder obtained in the wet
way from platinum ore by heating to
high heat In a sand crucible and then
adding stick phosphorus. The iridium,
which cannot be melted alone, is thus
fused in the form of all iridium phos
phide. To remove the phosphorus the
phosphide is heated with lime, and the
iridium is left in the form of hard
white mass. 1t is now so hard that 1t
cannot be filed or cut and is broken up
into small pieces for soldering to the
points of gold pens These small pieces
are ground to the right size on copper
disk wheel with emery or carborun-
dun. 1t is said that an ounce OF irid-
Ium will make from 5000 to 10000
pen points 1t has also been found
that the iridium thus prepared is prac-
tically as hard as the ruby. No steel
tools can make any impression upon it.
At one time much less expensive than
platinum, iridium now is worth more
ON account of the demand for hard plat
mum, In which the iridium is the
hardening agent.-New York Press.
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Nails the Kindling Wood, an
Icicle the Match
AT THE 1918 cHAUTAUoUA

Mr.. Reno B. Melbourne stands on the
Chautauqua platform before table OF
simple things like matches, motors,
corks, clocks, strings, thermometers and
wires. A touch here and touch there
and the most astonishing liveliness re-
suits. The juggler- scientists enthusiasm
as he explains it all is as thrillful as the
experiments themselves
Mr.. Welbourne's ingenuity with physi-
cal phenomena has given him recognition
by scholars abroad as well as at home.
But if he had no other talent than that
of firing the imaginations and the rea
soning powers Of people who make up
his audiences at Chautauquas, we might
still marvel at his lavish endowments.
The whole purpose of Chautauqua pro-
grams is summed up il the thing he
brings us.-It is Inspiration.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-18
A Accommodation.


The most accommodating people in
the world are tailors You'll have to
hand 1t to them. They're always will
ing to help you out all they can. We
are reminded of this undoubted truth
by the experience of friend of ours
last Wednesday. He got measured for
new suit. When the ceremony was
over he smiled and said in his winning
way: "Ill be frank with you l can't
pay for this suit until the latter part
of next month. Will that make any
difference?"
'Not the slightest difference. You're
an old customer. and you shouldn't
mention such things
That's mighty nice of you When
win the suit be ready?"
1.-THE latter part of next month";
Chicago News.
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Thackeray was much pestered by the
autograph hunter, says Holder in his
"Recollections." He disliked above all
things to write in an autograph album
and often refused those who asked him
to do so, sometimes rather brusquely.
On one occasion the owner Of an al
bum, young lady, was fortunate.
Thackeray took her book to his room
in order to look it over. Written on
page he found these lines:
Mount Blanc is the monarch OF noun
tains.
They crowned him long ago,
But who they got to put 1t on
Nobody seems to know.
ALBERT SMITH
Under these lines Mr. Thackeray
wrote:
A HUMBLE SUGGESTION.
1 know that Albert wrote In hurry
To critlcise l scarce presume
But yet methinks that L.indley Murray
Instead Of who had written whom. "
w. M. THACKERAY.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-18
The Greet Marshal Nay,

A recent English book about Mar
shall Ney. Napoleon's heroic lieutenant,
'the bravest of the brave" brings
out some interesting facts. This
Frenchman was really a German. He
was born at Saarlouis, now In Prussia
and then and always German. He
spoke only German as a child. He
was red haired, with wide face and
round blue eyes. Five feet eight inches
In height, he had a short body and long
legs. His comrades called him '1e rou-
geot," which was equivalent to scar
rots" or "bricktop." He was forty-six
years old at Waterloo So was Ma
poleon. So was Wellington. Marshal
Ney was a man who was trained to the
hardships of a workman's life His
father was cooper, and In his boy
hood work in his fathers business he
was accustomed to toll and exposure.
This enabled him to sleep placidfy IL
the snow on the return from Moscow,
wrapped In his cloak, with the
starved, ragged soldiers of the grand
army keeping guard and the Cossacks
prowling around in the darkness"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-18
The Hnnan Brain

In estimating the size of the human
brain in comparison with the brain of
other animals we must figure on not
only the positive size. but the relative.
Were this not the case man would
stand below the elephant and whale,
as the brains of those creatures far ex-
coed mans in positive size, while as
regards relative size they stand so far
below him that, while the brain of the
elephant amounts to about the FIVE
hundredth and that of the whale to
three thousandth part of the bodily
weight of these animals respectively,
the brain of man varies from one-thir-
ty-ffth to one-thirty seventh of his en-
tire weight This shows the immense
superiority of the human brain as COM
pared with the brains OF the lower ami
mals.-NeW York American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-18

'REBRccA OF SUNNYBRooK FARM" COM
ING TO THE GARRIcK THEATRE, PHILA-
DELPHIA, FOR ITS FAREWELL VISIT
EASTER wEEK.
Mrs. Virgins novels ''Rebecca of Sun
nybrook Farm and New Chronicles of
Rebecca" have made the story of Rebecca
familiar to the world. In these DAYS
when every play has a purpose or
preachment, and the uplift impulse is
strong in our midst, this drama with
problem comes like the refreshing show
ers in summer drought. And "Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm" is such a play.
Episodical, in tue manner of many drama
tized novels, it depends for success upon
its freshness, purity of theme, and the
keenness with which the Yankee types
are drawn. Mrs. Virgins and Charlotte
Thompson have most happily presented
such well remembered incidents as Re-
becca's arrival at the Brick House, where
the stiff routine forces her to run away;
the soap peddling excursion that intro
duces Mr.. Aladdin, and incidentally the
love motive; the pathetic Simpson family;
finally graduation day, when Rebecca,
standing on the threshold of womanhood,
faces the future. with a promise of future
happiness to be shared with Mr., Aladdin,
These somewhat unrelated scenes are
fused together by the many happenings
of New England village life, and four
artistic settings and an atmospheric back
ground. The company is headed by Edith
Taliaferro, one of the most experienced
of the younger American stars; she has
youth, beauty, freshness and vivacity, and
enacts her role with fine, def, delicate
hand. Archie Boyd will be seen as the
jovial, whole-souled stage driver, COM
forting Rebecca in her troubles, and play
ing the rustic diplomat for old Riverboro.
Others of the original cast are Marie Day,
Eliza Glassford, Ada Deaves, Hayward
CHM, Sam Colt, Viola Fortesque, Edwin
Smedley, Leila Frost, Violet and Clara
Mersereau and Neune1le Foster. Messrs.
Klaw & Erlanger and Joseph Brooks, who
are making the production, are respon-
sible for the statement that it will be in
keeping with all their big successes sent
to Philadelphia, and when you consider
that they have given us "Ben Hur, :"
1.-THE Round Up" 1.-THE Pink Lady" and
ssThe Count Of Luxembourg" one can
get fair idea of the magnitude of the
forthcoming presentation. Matinees:
Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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Disconcertinc.

what does this nation need?' shout
ed the impassioned orator. what does
! this nation require, if she steps proud
~ across the Pacific, If she strides
boldly across the Pacific, if she strides
boldly across the mighty ocean in her
march of trade and freedom? repeat
what does she need?"
Rubber boots" suggested the gross
ly materialistic person in rear seat
New Orleans Times