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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-31
PROOF POSITIVE

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The notice in the restaurant win
dow said Assistant Cook Wanted"
and the shivering alien walked
straight in.
He was directed to the kitchen,
where he discovered two men. One
was the chef, and the other appeared
to be engaged in the mental task OF
washing dishes. Turning to the
former, the would-be assistant cook
asked: 4
''vill do? l hat come about that
job"
But the only reply he got from the
august head of culinary matters was
d nod in the direction Of the man at
the sink, and curt:
ASK the boss
mot so much lark, you" cried the
bewildered applicant. THAT can't be
the boss! The, boss don't wash up,
you call it,"
The individual at the sink, who had
just finished drying stack Of plates,
here interrupted the conversation in
dramatic style by letting them fall to
the ground and smash to atoms.
Then, turning to the scandalized for
eigner, he exclaimed, firmly but
quietly:
"Now who's boss?"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
BOOSTS AND SLAMS
ON CURRENT EVENTS.
LIVES UNDER SINGLE TAX.

I UST allow me to saw a few things
~ about the single tax as 1t is now
over here on this side. We have
the single taxation and it's works JUS
tice to ALL Here I have a piece OF
land and rich man has land and
stock and he only pays the same
amount OF tax per acre as I do on
land equally valuable. 's
Is 1t right for the poor renter who
does not have permanent home to
pay personal tax to help to build
up schools, roads, and the hundred
and one things that will not increase
the value Of his personal property in
the least, and will increase the value
Of my land? Can anyone say yes and
say 1t honestly? I say no, no, no! AS
for living where there is single tax.
or the double, give me the single ev-
cry time. -
am q land owner here and can
say that my tax is lighter here than
It was In the state. Of Indiana. We
have just as good improvements here
In the way Of roads and schools as
over there, and we are not taxed to
death to get them, either.-s. /.
H1nkle, Gull Lake, Sask., Canada.
Letter in Successful, Farming (Des
Moines, 1a.) the most widely circu-
lated farm paper In the Mississippi
valley.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
UNEARNED INCREMENT.
0NE OF the leaders of the Pro

|0NE OF the leaders Of the Pro-
~ gressive party in Ohio is John
ID. Fackler, Cleveland lawyer. Mr..
Fackler's office is in the Williamson
building, and paying rent every month
mas given practical application In
his own case to an idea which he ex-
presses thus:
Who made the value upon which
the Williamson building stands? The
value Of this land, which sold in 1920
for $477, has grown to over 100000.
yielding its owner clear Of all tax a
net revenue of $4,000 year."
Mr.. Fackler thinks that increase
in value from SAT- to over 800. 900
wasn't due to any particular virtue
In Mr.. Williamson Gf that is the own
er's nancy, nor to any, contribution
Which Mr.. Williamson made to the
public welfare. Mr.. Fackler thinks
the increase was made wholly by the
people Of Cleveland, and he thinks
the people in Cleveland, in the future
at least, ought to get portion Of
that which they make themselves. So
hs has started a movement to amend
the Ohio constitution to provide for
an Increment tax"
Now the increment tax provision
simply says to the landowner: I'VE
will value your. land exclusive of i'm
provements on January J., 1915. If
after that date the population of the
city grows, and adds more to the VAL
ue of, your land, the community
which creates the value is going to
insist on a share. Of the profit which
1t produces for you.'. "a
Golfers Weekly.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28

the train, turn on the lights, reload
and back up to give them another
dose. I guess that will end the strike
on Paint Creek So
But the sheriff refused. -. ,..
There are no men there he said.
I saw only women and children
Tricked the Sheriff. o..
=" Sheriff. told Hill, you have
been tricked by men who carried you
here to cover crime " -
1T know it, said the sheriff. Il
see it-now.' .s ..z.E !: i i ri
And believe ,4a added Mr.. Calvin,
solemnly that the sheriff of Kanaw-
ha county was absolutely innocent of
the plot which sent that train of de-
struction to sweep misery and death
through Paint Creek. Every man
aboard the Death Special was a dep
uty sheriff, a. Baldwin-Feltz detective
on the G. & o. or B. & F. mine guard.
Excepting two-Quinn Morton, repre-
sentative Of the coal companies. and
Morton's general manager"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
TRUSTS AND TRADE UNIONS.

President~ Wilson this week approved the amend
ment to the sundry Civil bill exemptng labor organiza-
ons and farmers organizations from the operation Of
the antitrust law. The Presidents action has aroused
the wrath of trust defenders. ,..,..~., "r1
The Sherman antitrust law has been msnanned It
is not antitrust law at ALL but protector It
was passed by trustcontroed congress- same that
the Mckinley law divert popular
attention from the cause of trusts &:.<4
After twentythree years there are more trusts
and bigger trusts than when passed. There have
been some attempts made enforce It, which have failed
OF course trust in possession Of special privilege
is proof against such legislation as the Sherman law
One that has no special privilege does not last long
While useless defense against privileged trusts
the Sherman law does offer opportunities for harassng
and prosecuting labor leaders and members Of labor
organizations OF course, labor organization is not
trust in the economic sense Of that term, whatever
may be in the legal To be trust economic
other collection of individuals banded together for the
same purpose possesses or possess
If the trainers of the Sherman law had been sincere
they would have framed it that not have
been construed to include such associations as labor
and farmers organizations. But they not sincere
In shielding real trusts they rather liked the notion of
creating trouble for organized labor.
Now that the exemption has become law trust ad-
vocates will lose interest in the Sherman act. Any at
tempt to enforce it seriously hurt them since
does not affect their privileges, but still It will cause
them annoyance and trouble Unable to urge it's
against labor organizations they are not
likely to ask that it be enforced at all.
1t will then become easier to push genuine trust
remedy the abolition of the privileges on which their
power is based.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
WAGES OF COMMON LABOR.

We not bit in sympathy with the conclusion
of the News Tribune that because the local mill
refused increase the wages Of their lumber pliers
'the wage Of so-called labor reached it's
limit The result of the mill strike does justify
this conclusion than the result of the
street railway strike showed that the traction company
could not afford to increase the wages better the
conditions of it's conductors and motormen although
since the strike the has practically
request made by the strikers.
The mill owners afford to pay more wages
to their employees. The present price of lumber the
immense profits the business and the fact that the
industry has produced fabulous fortunes any
of lumbermen in less than forty indicate that
in the lumber industry have been robbed
of their just share of it's fruits.
The late lumber pliers strike, repeat, does not
Indicate that the of so-caed common labor has
reached it's limit that employers paying they
afford to 1t does concusively prove however,
that increased wages do not to wage earners
silver platters ybynight labor organizations
founded by rainbow chasing wind tanners, with their
treasures supplied by low dues, play any part in
proving the conditions Of the working classes. Indeed
they do more harm than good.
If the so-called common laborers will but appreciate
that they get something nothing if they
will learn to follow the example of the organized trades
men it will not be long before their wages will be
raised in the same proportion has through
patient and constructive organization other working
The common laborer has every advantage in organ
ization that to the skilled worker. at
the longshoremen. They so-called aborers
Before they organized their low and their
conditions of toll hard and irksome. Today they are
receiving high wages as many tradesmen and in
instances considerably Organization along
trade union lines did this They did not wait until
strike called to organize. They first became strong
in organizations their membership learned discipline and
they built up their treasury to Withstand any trouble
into which they might be forced.
Now they do not have to strike. The trade union
is the best andote for strikes know Of The long
shoremens union has demonstrated that the
borer may have every advantage in organization that
is enjoyed by the skilled worker.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
HARAss1NG JOHN MITCHELL.

THE APPOINTMENT Of John
l. Mitchell as labor commissioner
of New York state has created quite a
squabble. g.. Acting Controller Walsh
refuses to pay Mitchell's salary.
Walsh is a Tammany man, and ap-
parently Attorney-General Carmody
is acting with Tammany in this, as
he volunteered an opinion that
Mitchell was not legally appointed.
without Governor Sulzer asking for
it. The governor has said that his
legal advisers say his nomination of
Mttchell is within his power, and he
Is willing to submit the question to
tho courts.
In the interval, the governor will
give some attention to Walsh, Car
mody and others opposing his reform
ideas in politics, and a merry war is
now going on,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
PRESIDENT G0MPERs
!: RAPIDLY IMPROVING

WASHINGTON, June 2e.-Presl-
dent Gompers is improving rapidly.
Since the operation for mastoiditis on
June 6 he has made wonderful rec
ord in recuperation. ~ts.~...~
The devout wish Of his friends and
the entire trade union movement that
he would recover from his serious
illness is to be realized. The physic-
ians state his his progress toward
complete recovery is all that could
be wished for. .-a:.5- t.
l. With his recovery there liz feeling
Of qualification and the hope ex-
pressed that he. may continue in the
great humanitarian work in which
he has been engaged in the greater
portion Of his life. ~. -.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
THE WEST VIRGINIA OUTRAGE.

During the West Virginia coal strike an armored
train equipped with machine guns and containing a
dozen with loaded rifles, passed by a camp con-
tanning lot of men, women and children. The men on
the train opened fire. killing and wounding a
woman while she shielding some children. Was this
justhable?
If the the train had been strikers and the
persons fired on mine guards and their families the
press of the country would be ringing with denunciaton
or the outrage No doubt every man who had been on
the train would after been arrested and now
be waiting trial for murder If already tried and
convicted But 1t happens that the on the train
were mine guards and the in camp strikers
their families. Is that different? It must be, for no
attempt to punish the guilty parties has yet made
may perhaps be said that shooting by strikers
was lawlessness But shooting by the side
for at the time this happened the constitution laws
of West Virginia had been set aside in this locality with
the consent and approval of the governor, and the
supreme court of the state. r.. .:-,~ $50
committee of the United States Senate Is now in
vestgating the outrages In the interest," Of the
strikers particularly but peace throughout
the country is devouty that the investga
ton will have result that will prevent
renee OF the West Virginia outrage If governor
troled by coal barons declare part all Of the
state in nsurrecton and for that suspend the
laws and constitution, and establish military despot
sm then free institutions within the United States
in very precarious condition governors duty to
suppress an instruction does not imply right to
overthrow mperil free institutions so doing There
are worse things than unsurpassed Instruction
The object of the outrage not the establishment
of law and order much desire force the strikers
to return to work at the mines barons terms
Land monopoly in West Virginia has reached the point
where it has openly assumed control government
1t is high time for West Virginians to put to It,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
death SPECIAL"
SHOT INTO TENTS
Continued From Page 1.


found their friends. A fight with
striking miners sounded fine and
saved their jobs. There you have the
battle Of Mucklow!' Is. .5.cc Il =.
Capt. Levi telephoned the sheriff
to come UP and arrest the shooters.
SHERIFF Bonner Hill was just sworn
In and knew next to nothing of his
duties.
"R. B. Paine, assistant chief of the
|Baldwin-Feltz men working as Chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad detectives,
knew the sheriff was inexperienced.
So Paine sent word to Holly Grove
that the sheriff was coming up to
make wholesale arrests. Then we
called out the c. & O.'s armored
train.
Sheriff Hill picked up ten depu-
ties in Charleston, but paid neither
for the train nor the arms and am
munition put on board. Calling it
the sheriff's train was only a blind.
Left Women and Children Alone.
when Holly Grove heard the sher-
iff was coming, the miners fitted into
the hills.
Remember. it was in February
early dark, and bitter cold. About 9
Charleston. In the steel armored car
behind the engine was machine gun
and dozen B. & F. mine guards act
ing as Chesapeake & Ohio detectives
Five Of those men had done time
for murder, burglary or worse. Five
were ex-policenen discharged for
drunkenness. ..-.
Used Confscated Guns.
Sheriff Hill and his deputies sat
quiet, talking and joking-expectin
no trouble. But when the train passed
the junction and headed up the creek
the detective pulled out boxes of rifles
and began loading a gun for each.
Quin Morton had obtained two boxes
Of Winchesters from the state capital.
These guns belong to his consolidated
coal company, but had been conf1s-
Gated by the militia at the first de-
claration Of martial law.
Phil Walker, railroad detective,
offered me rifle. I refused. .ss.
f. You were often up the creek be-
fore and never got hurt. Why do you
expect to be shot into tonight? p
asked him. ri. '*!...;- &% ~ d..
Because the strikers have found
out the sheriff is coming. Get hold Of
this gun says Phil. ~. . .,-.~.
Then why didn't the sheriff say
there was shooting on the program 2
I says, and refused the Winchester:
Pour Death Into Camp. i
with that we came near Holly
Grove. Someone turned out the car
lights. The engineer gave two short
whistles. And before you could think
the machine gun III the arInored car
opened Are on the strikers tents near
the track. n: 4. ls II @5 :.
'Geoorge "A. Lentz, CHIEF detective
Of the C.& o. detectives, worked the
gun. ss}}Ea . :s * ss: III 5.s.22 II:
#."It was near II =, M, dark and
frosty. The means Of women and
children were heart-rending. Esco
Estop was shot dead. Mrs. Halls leg
was n wouhde led. Two women gave
premature birth to dead children. The
town OF tents took Are. ff8 ..i .5g8
The 1llllionaire Cheers. s;
s. omen and children shrieked ali
night. God only knows what they
thought HAD come upon them IA their
sleep!
'But ouinn Morton, general mana
ger Tor the Imperial Colliery Co. X
I'ThounH III these psopls must lock "a
lslive an1s "a h down the or from,
ltho 81 1sri III d 81 Il, Z!
sShofa1E dtttss
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
WOMEN ARE MAKING HISTORY.

The Illinois victory giving the chief franchise power
to women by legislative vote is great STEP Prejudice
is the only support of the old refuses
political voice, and prejudice live light Of
familiarity. Wherever have voted, the states
adjoining have rapidly adopted the new method
Illinois, right at the center of the nation, will have
tremendous influence in making people of the east
accustomed to the Innovation This is certainly the be-
ginning of the end in America.
In England the mitants have just given public
funeral to their first martyr the who sprang in
front of the kings horse at the Epson woman
lived long enough utter Of
in the fight 1t looks If Mrs. Pankhurst would soon
find her physical strength exhausted in long war
fare
The methods of the mtants we believe to be sadly
mistaken but the spirit they is worthy of wiser
actions If the suffrage the only stake
it would not matter, but where SO many wrongs are to
be righted in this age regret to have any one use
IRRATIONAL futile to attain great ends II working
men should follow the women's example they would meet
the gatling gun and solve problem either Blunders
| are crimes matter how we'll ntentoned they may be-
Shorter hours of labor to preserve the natural
strength in the human body without impairment; they
afford opportunity to become acquainted with nature III
various forms; they provide for leisure hour re-
quired for Intellectual Development shorter hours are
incentive to the study FOR the solution 81 economic
and social problems which attracted public atten
ton $s5 4 zs f=.l#z3 @G@ r
T. ,Ff $5fS Il r ..T 4. .+t .
mules kick was Responsible for the refreshing Of
the memory Of Oklahoma man az to where ha had
! buried his gold No kick on that kick. zS5%
. s@1stfE %s5 I" E#@ s.
@@ 1f1 had $1,000, co. writes Boston man, Il would
60 home and kiss wits " Appears al il he wanted
TO shiftzthe responsibility II = hurry. b n @
There were Is deaths as1ation ast year. sone
@ the hays is hurnp
lto ksep trenn
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
JUNE IN THE COUNTRY.

4 RIDE through the country is es-
"A pecially delightful these early
June days. The new leaves are fresh,
clean and fragrant, and the air de-
lfcious. Here Is a patch OF ground
by the roadside, blue with the wild
geranium; there are clusters 81
columbine sheltered by some bushes
Now tree stands out alone in it's
beauty OF contour and commanding
size. Then comes a dense woods
where tree and flower, vine and bush
crowd each other closely. In q sud
den opening a clear pool of water
reflects the surrounding trees. A farm
house yard gives q pleasant picture
Of flowers and shrubs, barns in good
repair and noisy, contented fowls.
orchards promise welcome fruits.
Fences are upright, and performing
the service of fences. burrows are
straight In a plowed field. In an
other field the brown earth ii car
peted with the growing grain. Again
we see the long rows Of corn pushing
their pointed leaves upward seeking
the sunshine. Sleek, we'll cared for
cattle craze, and sheep already shorn
OF their winter coats. Another farm
shows less careful 4, tilling and one
wonders If the character OF the own
er does not show in his fields ana
buildings. The. climax comes when
the region Of small lakes is reached
Green to the waters edge, points
reaching out far. and little cosy coves
between trees bending over the edges,
and pictures Of beauty whatever way
one looks. s. d H. ...S. Il 4s. @t4.1
Pause on a hillside away from the
sight Of all that man has made, and
let the greatness and perfections of
GODS making sink into your heart.
Let, earth, sky, the wood. the water.
bird 5aad flower speak to your soul
and crowd out 81 consciousness the
Il thoughts Of gain 81 gold. Let selfish
seeking be Tor the time forgotten,
while the soul IL filled With awe and
a e - ation at the beauty and wonder
Of Gods world. Slven to you.
~ A0f1 NANNY .xsE u ST. Stss - ~. - VI
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28
A WE'LL DESERVED ELECTION.

The convention of the Minnesota State Federation of
Labor held at st. Cloud last paid we'll merited
tribute to E. e. Hail. efficient chief executive when
it elected him for the third to preside over the
destinies of the labor movement of this state.
The Minnesota State Federation of Labor has had
many able executives and many honest ones too but it
never had more panstaking, earnest, con-
scientous harder working official than its tried
and true president.
AS organizer he has added many new organiza-
lions to the family of trade unions in this state as
legislative agent he has achieved than all his
predecessors combined; conciliator he has settled
many conflicts between local unions and employers in
which he the admiration gratitude of the former
and the respect and confidence of the latter.
Mr.. Hall thoroughly understands the philosophy Of
the trade union movement He understands that trade
union achievement travels constructive evolutionary
course by which it gathers little today some more
tomorrow and larger chunk the next day. but always
endeavoring to hold to that which it once gains
Temptations frequently come no doubt to follow the
fascinating will-o' the-wsp trail with its rainbow
promises and beautiful fances that lead to land where
milk and honey is apportioned to all alike where
all are workers and shirkers, but~Mr Hall
with the experience of centuries
the part of the working classes behind them that
it is rough rocky and perous route we must travel
and so he proposes to be guided by the history of the
past giving to it present day application as the
exigency of the times may warrant
The interests of the working classes of Minnesota are
perfectly safe in the hands of E. G. Hail. There will be
no reaction but healthy staple advancing progress
The principal abuses in the Industrial sys-
TEN are the sWeat shops masQuerading as home
work.; the employment of children under 16 years of
age; the employment of eight hours per
day in manufacturing establishments contract con-
Wet labor system the employment Of minors in dan
gerous and unhealthy occupations; the nsantary work
shops and factories, and low wages.
The history in the enforcement Of labor legis,a-
ton proves that few judges only sympathy with
the objects for which the laws were enacted "A mini
mum penalty of not less than fifty dollars should be
provided for the first violation and for the second vo
laon Jail penalty Of not less than 80 days should be
Z inserted in the act lj ss45s. Ri s%**53..5# 81
t is estimated 100000 cigars are smoked il CHI
cago each day 40 wonder there crying demand tnat
the anti smoke ordinance BE strictly enforced
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28

Lots Of people hand themselves
boquets who would never get them
otherwise.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28

There were deaths AVIATION lat ysar solne
81 nv have to hump thea,elyes
to kssp from bslneS OUT 15
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28

4z had $1ooO,ooo !" writes Boston man. II vould
60 home and kiss my WIFE. Appears al ii Ia want4d
70 shift the responsibility II = hurry. s 4. Il.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28

mules kick Responsible for the refreshing st
the memory Of an Oklahoma man az to where Ia Mad
buried bis gold. No kick on that kick # s@=
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28

t is estimated 100000 cigars are smoked ii CHI
cago each day No Wonder crying demand tnat
the sntl-smdke ordinance be strictly enforced