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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-17
ADJUSTMENTS
Rose StahI

AT the Jefferson theatre Miss Rose Stahl
will be seen Thursday night In her new
part of Maggie Pepper" which New
York. Chicago, Boston and other cities
have indorsed as worthy successor to
Patricia OBrien. Miss Stahl bakes Mag
gle Pepper very real, genuine woman,
whom one might meet at any time in the
of business with one of the
big city department stores. Seat sale
Tuesday,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-17
Baraca Class Meets

The Baraca class of the Southside Bap-
tist church held an interesting meeting ut
the church yesterday morning. r. G,
Foster. vice president of the GLASS; was
in the chair A double quartet made
up of Messrs. Ansley, Nettles. Thornton,
Gaines, Reynolds. Hutchns, Love and
Watts rendered, Remember Me-" by
Kinkel The quartet was directed by
Evangeistic Singer Reynolds. Joel #
Webb taught the mornings lesson in his
usual clear and forceful manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-17
Orpheum-Xaudeyille

With Prince Lai Mcn Kim, famous
Chinese tenor, as ons of the three head
liners this week, the Orpheum is offering
bill that is entitled to be called big
time vaudeville. All of the acts were
originally booked for the Lyric theatre.
but were switched to the Orpheum be-
cause the new house was not ready.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-17
Biiou--"The Bachelors BABY"

Francis Wilson's comedy success, ''rhe
Bachelors Baby" will be given it's first
presentation i'll Birmingham at popular
prices at the Bijou theatre this week. and
there are two very competent stars head
ing a cast which the Norfolk papers de-
clare is the best of the season. This is
the first comedy offering at the Bijou.
The stars are Henry Buckler and Baby
Mimi Yvonne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-17
Hobson Makes Speech

Huntsville, November 1G.-CSpecial)
Capt. Richmond p. Hobson, candidate
for the Senate, Is on his second tour
OF Madison county in the present cam
paign, and spoke last night to large
crowd at Gurley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-17
LEADER PLEASED
WITH HIS NORTH
ALABAMA TRIP
Underwood States False
Prohibition Issue Fallen
Flat-SOuth Alabama
This Week

Oscar W. Underwood, candidate for
the Senate, returned yesterday morn
ing after a weeks tour through north
Alabama
Physically | am in better shaps.r
he said, than when I left; spiritually.
inasmuch as / received everywhere q
warm welcome. [ have nothing OF
which to make complaint"
During the week Mr.. Underwood
spoke in Morgan, Colbert, Lawrence
and Lauderdale counties. He delivered
addresses in Decatur, New Decatur.
Hartselle, Sheffield, Tuscumbia. Moui-
ton and Florence In each place his
reception amounted practically to an
ovation
AS a result OF his personal investt-
cation in Alabama. Mr.. Underwood bas
reached thee onclusion that the effort
of certain politicians to make probt-
bition the issue has fallen flat. ana
that the general boast that the farmer
is supporting Congressman Hobson is
an error.
EventfuI Week
III be an eventful week in TN.
sehatoIiai campaign. Today Mr.. Under
wood viii rest save for a consuIta-
ton with his leaders in this county
Tomorrow he confers with the men-
oers of his state campaign committee
relative TO effecting an organization
In every county of the state, Wednes-
day he leaves for Mobile where he is
scheduled to make an address before
the Alabama Good Roads association
| While in Mobile county and the south
ern end of the state he will do as much
political campaigning as he can.
He will return To Birmingham Sat
uroay and deliver an address at tho
Gipsy Smith auditorium. The jefferson
county friends of Mr. Underwood have
arranged for this meeting. Prior to the
gathering there will be a torchlieht
procession headed by brass bands Tr
VIII all be in compliment to the House
leader and testimonial of the fact
that Jefferson county is standing al
most to man behind him.
Monday and Tuesday of next week
Mr.. Underwood will make a tour of
Jefferson county
Fight Is Won
The Underwood leaders are abso-
lutely confident that the fight has
been won. They do not concede a.
single county to Captain Hobson, al
though they admit that he may win
three in his own district They are
claiming the state by majority rang
ing between $1,000 and 10000. They
predict an overwhelming triumph Of
democratic ideas and an expression by
a landslide of confic the abil-
! ity and integrity OF p: of the
party in Congress.
! Tomorrow Congr oson will
! organize in the ta.r $50. of the
| Chamber of Comr rca ana ( is stated
that he might - luu'u ce his JEFF
| ferson county c.af a. .f anager To-
morrow night hf iJress rally at tho
jefferson theatrs Hantt / Hobson will
address the az " ca
Next week n WOOD win re-
trurn to his cfagress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-17
VIII Relieve Nervous Depression and
LOy SDlrtta

The Old Standard general strengthen
ing topic. GROVES TASTELESS chill
TONIC. arouses the liver. drives out
Malaria and builds up the system. A
sure Appetizer and aid to digestion. soc
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
TRUST THREAT GOES;
GARY PLANT CLOSED
Rumored That Big Steel Plant
Plans to Punish United States
Government.
Continued on Page 3

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-The
threat which has been covertly made
that the steel. trust will close some Of
its plants for the purpose of disciplin-
ing the United States government
seems to have some substance to 1t,
While officials Of the steel trust
have denied the statement, there ia a
growing feeling that the trust il pre-
pairing for just such a program. Ru-
mors are afloat that the big steel mill
at Gary, Ind, employing 5000 men,
will close. Asa matter of fact, the
big plate mill at Gary has already
closed, and reports are to the effect
that all other departments of the
Gary plant are working only three or
four days q week.
The men who have been at Gary
since the plant was first built saw that
no reason has been given out by the
officials for closing down the different
departments. =.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
INJURED ME|V.L|
UNDER: COMMON LAW
Oregon Has Ideal" Employers
Liability, But Negligence Is
Factor and Men Lose.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-During
the forty-one weeks of this year,
from January 1 to October IA, the
Oregon supreme court has handed
down SO opinions in personal injury
cases brought under the employers
liability act, according to a ,compila-
ton issued lately. -
The injured and MANNED workmen,
or their widows and orphans, OBJ
tanned verdicts for less than 16 per
cent of the aggregate amount for
which they brought suit. Suits were
brought against the employers. tor a
total of $652,3s2.
In the lower courts they obtained
verdicts for $154,246, but the su-
'preme court reversed verdicts in
volving $6o,650, leaving only s1o2,-
SOS that was affirmed. On the 81
verdicts obtained in the circuit
courts. the supreme court reversed 9.
either dismizsing the cases Or. send
ing them back for new trials.
Some Of these cases had been in
the courts for three or four years
There were rs verdicts affirmed.
These averaged a little over $4,000
each. The Oregon law does not con-
tain the. .workmen's compensation
features provided for in California.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
TRADE UNION OPENS Is
Il TECHNICAL SCHOOL

CLEVELAND. Ohio. Nov. 20. The
large local union OF Electrical Work
ers in this city has inauguratsd an
innovation that Is being received with
genuine satisfaction by the member
ship. Is 56s
.s An educational committee, c0m-
posed Of the most skilled mem bars.
was appointed several weeks ago To-
teach some OF the technical and more
intricate phases OF the business to-
those who desire the information.
The first meetings were held 81 the
union rooms, but when the nature OF:
tho work became known to the mem
bership the atten lance increased To-
suck IN extent Thar q hall will have
til: be secured Stc accommodate those
who Arc anxious &c take advantage Of
the opportunity prs sented.
The school bids seslion once s
inssh md "a mem sof The orxan-
q ltGSple entyl1
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22

While the white children are slav-
ing in the mills, the black children
are going to school. . S
That is why 1 say that, when the
present generations Of children In the
cotton states Of the south has grown
to. manhood and womanhood, and If
the literacy test ,is applied to voters,
the whites will be disfranchised and
the blacks alone Will vote. The blacks
will be the superior race. #a
It's legal to drive children into the
mills. Its legal to make them work
desperately. unremittingly. for starv-
alton wages; to give them never q
chance to play In the fields. to laugh
and romp: It's legal to keep them
from school. to stunt their bodies
and dwarf their rnind make de-
generates and tmbeciles OF them "a
that they vi her and die young.
Its ]; 5atto thu mind sc the
sconse tence nIsorltI
i-s- II f. IS Z
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
.PADR0'||NES 0 THRIVE ON
IMMIGRANT vi ! R|||A| I GIRLS.
Massachusetts, Legislative Com
mittee Unearths Frightful situa-
tion in Shirt Waist Factories.

BOSTON, Nov. 20. - Startling
stories OF, girls working in this city
for So cents a week and the exist
ence Of a padrone system even worse
than that of former years has been
testified to- at the first hearing given
In the state house by the special leg
islative committee, appointed to in
vestigate the status and condition OF
Immigrants in. Massachusetts. ~. s
1t was asserted that girls who had
just arrived from Europe, and un-
able to, speak a word OF English, are
working In the shirtwaist factories
for So. cents q week. Only few re-
ceive as much as IS, ana those who
do are compelled to pay 81 q week
for board and room and 60 cents 4
week for car fare. thus leaving them
40 cents for clothes, laundry and
Announcement ST. s53is4. .sss ~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22

Commissioner Of Labor Insists
That Formerly Robbed Can
ners Be Paid in Full.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20.-The
salmon packers who are returning to
San Francisco from the canneries of
Alaska, where they have been en-
ployed during the season. are enjoy
ing a novel experience Of receiving
the full amount Of their seasons
earnings.
In the spring of the year the
American Federation Of Labor. upon
recommendation Of the San Fran
cisco Labor Council, revoked the
charter Of the Salmon Packers union
because that organization had fallen
into bad hands, the charter evidently
not being used for any other pur-
pose than to prevent: the labor COM
missioner from protecting the work.
ers against robbery. -~ ~, ?. =
Organized labor of California then
prevailed upon the legislature to en-
act a Jaw which empow cred the la
Dor commissioner to enforce the pay
ment Of full wages in such cases.
Under the provisions Of this new
law. the state labor commissioner and
his deputies are now experimenting
:he work of paying off the salmcn
ps sckers and are not permitting any
deductions for questionable debts.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
TEACH PRINTING IN
! MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOLS

W MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 2O.-The es-
taNblishment of printery school in
the public schools in which boys can
learn to set type, print school papers.
Booklets, etc., has been recommended
TO the board Of education by the su-
pertntendent OF schools in a plan de-
signed to increase vocational training
work.
i55$rIt has been proposed that pupils in
Sta certain school be allowed to dress
all the lumber used by the manual
training departments of the public
schools. Whether the school board
has the authority to go into CONNER
ctal business Is one of the questions
that the city attorney will have to de-
eide. u t..:s.l n tB45 n j. .l%,
The school board favors such
plan to help the pupils and furnish
them an centiye in their vocational
work N Il. d
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
FRANCHISE GR|AIB|]BER| G||||AI I ] |
IS CHEAP !2|E |M|TATOR. | |
Attorney for Bell Telephone Com
pany Rails Against Union
Labor Clause.

WHEELING, Nov. 2o.-In a con-
ference before the county commis-
sioners with reference to the giving
Of a franchise to the Bell Telephone
company. the attorney for the cont
pany paid his respects to labor
unions. There had been inserted In
the franchise provision for the em-
ployment Of union labor.
The attorney for the Bell COM
pany delivered himself thus: did
you ever see any humanity about a
labor umon7 They are nothing but
q bunch Of blood suckers. They pre-
vent honest men from earning bread
and butter for their children. Do you
think the Bell Telephone company
will be subject to this class Of peo-
pie? No, sir. gentlemen. am here
to tell you that the Bell Telephone
company will never receive such q
franchise from any county. municipal
government, or hamlet in the state Of
West Virginia." s
Thus did Alfred G. Caldwell, late
attorney general of West Virginia,
and the present attorney for the Bell
Telephone company. deliver himself
before the county commissioners
when the union labor clause incor-
porated In the tentative franchise
with the Bell Telephone company was
up for consid Iteration. It is enough to
say that, OF course. the county com
misisoners struck out the clause re-
lating to union labor and granted the
franchise. atg 81 Z, S s*ssf
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
RAISES WAGE: SCALE;
GOOD TIMES FOLLOW
Union Brick Manufacturer Earns
Larger Profits as Result Of
Fair Dealing.

GALESBURG. ILL.,, Nov. 2o.-Many
months ago. when the employees in
the brick manufacturing yards de-
sired an increase In wages from $1.75
to 81 per day, the employers refused
to meet the wage advance. AS a re-
suit a strike took place.
One Of the employers. being fair
and wanting to deal with the union,
represented that 1t would be impos-
sible for him to meet the advanced
wage scale and compete with his
competitors. However, rather than
continue In opposition to the union,
he agreed to pay the advanced wage
SCALE while others in the same busi-
ness refused to do so: The question
Of competition did not result as ex-
pected.
The fair employer. business COM
menced TO increase rapidly, and only
a short time ago this same manufac-
turer voluntarily raised the scale, and
he is employing more men than ever
before in the history of his. yard. As
a matter of fact, he has been unable
to supply the demand for union made
brick. ., -.
There is a moral to this story th.t
viii not escape the employer who
wants to. be fair to his employees.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
PROFIT SHARING rs
BEST LABOR REMEDY

H BOSTON. Nov. 20.----''Profit shar-
ing is the only way out Of an intol-
erable condition OF Industrial strife =
In the opinion Of President Emeritus
Charles w. Eliot, Harvard univer-
sity, . M IAE III 3{s 4, 84
Democracy. plus the wage sys-
tenn, has produced 81 statt OF affairs
which Is intolerab bic, : said DR.. Eliot
In addressing the i Clsb of Printing
,lEIoust lEI Craftsr1 1en. ething fun-
damental mlist be done: The only
way "a bring sff,c ciency ~ 10 give the
ssanne mo otipes to IL both apita ana
slabor roht shaiing viii ma ks ~
& q q M B y. 6 q s. M Is $ 8 n A. q ~
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are added to the army Of the unem-

are added to the army Of the unem-
ployed. nFr.E. ~
You are q good man. You obey
the law. Your private life is unblem-
ished. Perhaps YOU go to church.
But business Is business 30 long as
You keep within the law! $ 5S s..SS..
II you would know the FUN de-
troying power Of that hateful plati-
tude. turn to the cotton states OF. the
south. 3s sE589s n 4: Al 4 .t.. s..' !;
~ There you Will find employed IN
the cotton mills white chlldren--
babies even liliterate. stunted 81
body. dwarfed 5of mind, dull. never
aanghing. stupid and hopeless. II
s#ss' The negro chil ldren do not work In
the cotton mills. i they work at all
# y IN the si sld The negresss can
not be driven into the mills
D hile the viii chill On are slav,-
sing IN the nil tns black chiI dren. II,
the fres a. tn ~ ine are
I & ~ Eg.g
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
|. v. ". IS FAILURE
SAYS COLLEGE PROF !.
Not Able to Muster Over 1000
Members After Eight Mill
"# tant Years. , 4 Il
HAVEN FOR THEORISTS
TO VENT CLASS HATRED
Cannot Appeal to Good Judg.
ment Of Constructive Mind
Z! 8. OF AaDOr. = =

CHICAGO, Nov. '2O.-"Instead Of
being the grim brooding power pic
tured in popular imagination, the In
, dustrial Workers Of the World is q.
!, body utterly incapable Of strong, ef-
icient, united action and. the attain
ment of permanent results.
| THE I. w. w. not only is weak in
membership and organic unity. It
Possesses no financial resources even
! in a. slight degree adequate"
These are statements by Prof. r.
F. Hoxie. University Of Chicago, who
writes in the current issue Of The
Journal Of Political Economy.
THE American public has been
frightened by the impressionist school
Of reporters and magazine writer's
into a vital misconception and >tre-
mendous ovcrestimate of the power
and Significance Of the Industrial
Workers" he writes. >.....
Not More Than 1000 Members.
I'm spite of eight years of organ
king effort and unparalleled adver-
tisement the official roll Of the con-
paid-up membership does not exceed
$4,000 men. ...'. = r ~...
1T has net been able to organize
effectively q body of men equal to /
per cent of the membership of the
American Federation OF Labor alone,
or to one-sixtieth Of those who act
with the Socialists. It proposes q
successful direct Industrial assault
upon capitalism, but it has not drawn
to Itself q permanent enrolment
equal in number to the employees Of
many a single capitalist enterprise.
The I.:W. w. must depend for the
bulk Of its membership on the least
capable, least developed, lowest
trained, and poorest paid American
lsworkmen.-. To thcse may be added an
Ee@sn4e ss
WHO are: 90 constt ttuted that to them
all authority is al, ever present chal-
lenge. No American, workman Of
constructive mind will pern,ane entity
affiliate himself with a revolutionary
in dustrial Organization so long as he
can see ahead the hope Of immediate
betterment. .|. .. =
=, Faces a Perpetual Dilemma.
The: l.. w. w. faces a. perpetual
dilemma. = The bulk of American
workmen want more here and now
and care little for the remote future
or the revolutionary idea The In
dustrial Workers Of the World are
more an object Of pathetic interest
than Of fear. ..''
1T has succeeded in impressing
Itself upon the. popular, imagination
as mysterious. incalculable force
| likely to appear and work destruction
at any. time and pace. It has terri
fed the public because its small
body of irresponsible and footloose
agitators scent trouble from afar and
flock to the point where social rup-
ture seems to be imminent"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
OH, WHAT CRIMES ARE COMMITTED
r :=..: MILL. BY BUSINESS WITHIN THE LAW
Business il business!"

business is business IT,
., All his life Samuel Gompers has
been hearing this. l.'--Tsss25.. s5..3.. : = 1
r Il have come to hate it," he said.
1T is a drug. It soothes the troubled
conscience and destroys it. Because
you are money-mad. you take to it
as drug fend takes to opium.
-2''But It does more than destroy
your conscience: It seems to tell a
simple truth. but oh. It has told SO
many subtle Hes! @,.. 4. Z = .75.. "a 7. Z.
business is business you say.
and make your men work II hours j
day instead 81 10. .Business is busi-
ness!' and you cut the wages OF your
men s per cent. III u M s
/! g' The 4 wives and c1t tldren of ypa,r
mem eat littae lesls, 81 wear 10 little
Spporer cloth ies. ever non i sstrse ga
~ 4, % your scrlits
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-22
MONEY CREED CAUSE
OF LAKE ACCIDENTS
Weather Bureau Refuses to Be
Made the Goat for Great
Lakes Disasters.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS
CALL VESSEL OWNERS
Openly Accuse Lake Interests Of
Wilfully Sending Sailors to
Watery Graves.

The big shipping interests on the
great lakes attempted. through one of
their congressional servants this week
to make the weather bureau the goat
for the awful disasters which hap
pened during the late storms and by
which hundreds of sailors went down
to watery graves.
Prof. Marvin, head Of the weather
bureau at Washington. lost no time
in getting back at the ship owners.
His reply was peppery, and he
showed conclusively that all vessels
were notified in ample time of the
approaching storm. After telling
what was done by the bureau, Prof.
Marvin then openly accused the ship
owners of wilfully and needlessly sac
rificing the lives of their sailors. Prof.
Marvin Was supported in his state
ment by Harry c. Frankenf1eld, CHIEF
forecaster.
Both men declared that vessel
owners compelled masters of ships to
disregard storm signal in order to Sc
cure profits from additional trips be-
fore the close of the season. They
also declare that the weather fore
should have held the vessels in port.
but that it has become the Gust m OF
vessel owners to disregard storm
signals.
The statement was authorized by
Secretary of Agriculture Houston.
J. r. Oldham, naval architect OF
Cleveland, joins in the statemen,
made by naval experts in other cities
in saying that the efforts to save
space, hasten unloading, and increase
cargo capacity has sacrificed the
safety factor.
1.-THE greatest fault with the lake
steamers lies in the 'hatches," says
Oldham. The hatch conbings are
low--about II inches in height. They
shanld BEG feet high. The matches
should be stronger and heavier, and
more attention should be paid to the
hatch coverings.