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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-11-08
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Professional Fink, Out of Job,
Following Successful Strike,
Deceives Many Laborers.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. g.
Information comes through the press
that number Of Birmingham work
ingmen allowed themselves to be.
duped by extravagant and golden
promises made by one Taylor, who
was a strikebreaker during the
Building Trades strike In Birnaing-
ham, to leave the city with nothing
more than the mans word to assure
them, went to New Orleans supposed
@ly to be transported to Argentina,
where they were to make fabulous
wages. 4. qa... "-a# e,:7-' ~ .3., M &
They found that Taylor had played
g. huge joke on them and left them
In New Orleans with nothing in sight
but the prospect Of paying railroad
fare back to Birmingham or some
other place. .s <# ssss. ..9.5##
The man TAYLOR was one OF the
fOremen employed by a construction
company on a hotel Job, and when
the Building Trades strike was
called. Taylor was instructed to en-
ploy non union carpenter.a on the
job, and, Notwithstanding the fact
that he was a union carpenter him
self, he obeyed orders and worked
.non-u union men during the strike.
When the settlement was made with
the union carpenters Taylor was
thrown out. Of employment and COM
menced contracting in small way,
but was not successful. EsS Sssl
sWorking ngmen should always III look
into advertisement with the utmost
care. as many Of these .ads $ re In
serted Tor he purpose of procuring
men tai act as strik ikebreakersag againal
craft tsmen who are & asking for better
sWag u, d con
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PEOPLE Spend
s2,346,,'24'G|| ! !. 4 YEAR. ! | AR.
San Francisco Figures It Out.
What City Growth Contributes
to Business Volume.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Nov. 6.
The San Francisco Chamber Of Com
merce points out that during the last
SO years the population of San Fran
cisco has increased approximately
1900 per year. 1t is reasoned that
the yearly increase of business In San
Francisco by reason Of the consump-
tive demand which follows an in-5
crease Of each 1000 in the city's
population is $2,s46,246. /
AS the Chamber of Commerce
views it, 1000 new people will create
q yearly demand for $225,000 worth
of manufactured goods. One hum
dred and seventy-six different neces-s
sary commodities are itemized in the
bureaus presentation OF how In
creased population enlarges trade.
Thus mention of some few will
convey the point. If 1000 people are
added to San Francisco's populations.
the clothiers and haberdashers will.
have to meet q demand for new busi-s
ness to the extent OF $6,455 for the
wholesale dealer and $17. 80 Tor; the
retail dealer. putting in circulation
$26, 1866. $# Ri 5sz. D..
# The hardware and implement deal-
er will profit in the circulation OF
$17,119 for the wholesaler and $34.-.
238 for the retailer; the commission
merchant will share In the distr1bu-
ton Of $57,758, the grain broker $3s.-
$50, the banker, $133,51O; the jewel
ser will profit in 1859 for the whole
saler and $3,198 for the retailer.
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GIVEN $4,000 FOR
NEW SAFETY DEVICE
New Haven Railroad Advertises
For Automatic Safety Stop
and Gets One.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-The New
York & New Haven railroad adver-
tised a.~reward Of $4,000 to be-paid
on the order the the Interstate Com
merce commission and the railroad
commissioners Of some of the New
England states to whosoever should
invent an automatic device that would
safely arrest an express steam loco
motive which had passed danger sig
nails.
A device purporting to fulfill these
requirements has been invented by a
Washington man. A few days ago a
test was made of this device, a
special train equipped with the ap-
paratus making a round trip Of $160
miles. The apparatus worked In the
most satisfactory manner, and the
experts who witnessed the trial were
highly pleased with the results, ,s.
This device. consists OF an electric
battery, governing instrument, and
recorder. The battery maintains an
independent circuit on the engine be-
tween the cab and the forward trucks,
which transfers the wayside signals
to the cab itself.
AS soon as an engine pulling q
train, passes a. distant or danger sig
nal. giving warning of a. train ahead,
broken rail. open switch, etc, the sig.
nal is Immediately conveyed to the
cab Of the locomotive. warning the
engineer Of the danger. ahead BY
flashing 4 red light in the cab, blow.
ing the whistle. and applying the all
brakes to the train. / 4! .S sts4.s .5 35$
All Of these different operations are
performed electrically within period
of5 three seconds after the engine haa
passed the niger signal. zss8s III;
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MINERS WILL WIN;
SAYS MOTHER JONES
Miners in Washington
ZIG Federal Probe
o. Colorado Strike.
INVESTIGATION WILL
SHOW BAD SITUATION
Gunmen Provoke Riots - Taunt
Women and Children-Labor
Conditions Are Horrible.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-Branding
Gov. Ammons Of Colorado, the mine
owners and the mine guards as bur-
glars, Mother Jones today, in an in
terview, predicted congress would act
this week for a probe of the Colorado
strike.
In the national capitol, after work.
ing with the striking miners and their
families, this aged labor leader has
presented her pleas to Rep. Keating
of Colorado, Asst. Sec. Of Labor Post
and the local leaders.
The Colorado strikers will win,
she predicted today. AN investiga-
ton by congress will mean improve
ment in conditions just as it has in
West Virginia. The conditions in the
two fields are similar. The grave
yards out there are filled with miners
burned to death in the mines. Their
places and the places of those killed
in the recent riots are being filled
with Mexican poems and other for
eigners.
Shoot at Women and Children.
"The miner owners and Baldwin
'bloodhounds' have sent out armed
autos and fired machine guns into the
strikers tent camps along the bleak
mountainside. Women and children
cannot sleep in these tents, for the
owners have a big searchlight playing
on the tents all night long. I have
seen these people fire on defenseless
women and children. I have seen
them trying to incite riot in the
streets of Trinidad so that Gov. Am.
mons might see it. 1 have seen them
put eight bullets into an unarmed
boy. I have seen twenty wagon loads
/ OF furniture driven out of the com
pany's house and nobody would give
$40 for the lot
But right will triumph" she said
ln. conclusion. The strikers may SUI.
;fer. in the:tcold, blasts, but as :they arr
now situated they are better of thar
in the horrible homes that the com.
pany provides. We will have freedom
| In this country some day."
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GEAR FEARS RESULT
OF MURDER !:
Even Anti-Semite Papers Are Be-
coming Alarmed-Dec1are
Bells Innocent.
SEE REVOLUTIONARY
MENACE IN PROCESS
Attempt to Prove Ritual Mur-
der" May Weld Jews and Gen.
tile Against Bloody Czar.

The Car of Russia is very much
test that are being adopted by all
the civilized countries of the world
against the trial of Mendel Bells,
charged with ritual murder" by the
black hundred. Even the anti-Semite
papers are becoming alarmed. and
many Of them have declared their
belief in the innocence of Bells.
The Kievlianin, an anti-Semite
newspaper printed at Kief, is most
pronouncedly in sympathy with Bell
Is. 1t sees in the trial the growth Of
revolution and predicts if Bells Is
found guilty Jews and Gentiles will
unite against the bloody czar. Per-
haps no trial since the Dreyfus case
in Paris has created such general in
terest throughout the world.
Back to Middle Ages.
The very fact that it takes the mind
back to the days of the Middle Ages
has caused thousands Of people of
other faiths, and no faiths at all, in
all the world to evince the keenest
interest in the daily newspaper re-
much out Of place in the new CEN
tury as would be the witch trials"
at Salem, Mass, two centuries ago.
1t is not generally known that the
Bells trial is the fifth ritual murder
case charged against the Jews in the
last twenty-five years. Invariably
these trials have been the climax to
wave of anti-Semitism or were
brought to rekindle the fires of hatred
were on the wane.
The first time in the last half CEN
tury that there was staged in a tri-
bunal Of justice the legendary medl-
eval superstition that Jews drew the
blood Of Christian children with
which to- knead the dough OF their
Passover cakes at Easter time, occur
red In 1882. 1t CAME at the height
of an anti-Jewish wave in Hungary,
when a young girl, Esther Solimossy,
was literally butchered at Tisza-
Eszlar. 1t was charged to the Jews
as a ritual murder" as If they had
merely sought for another opportun-
ity to draw down upon their heads
still greater racial and religious hatred
and prosecutions.
Aother OF the Trials.
When the anti Semitic wave was al
high tide in Germany in. 1891, and
again in 1900, a boy at xantan and
one at Konitz were murdered. Jews
were charged with ritual MURDER
Shortly after the christian Social
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PUBLIC OWNERSHIP I
OF RAILROADS | 4 !. next !
Chairman Of Iowa Commission
Makes Striking Prophecy At
81 Washington Conference.
u. S. COULD INCREASE .>#
= WAGES 500, ,000, 900
Operation With Eye on Stock
X Market Costs Americans -.
$500, 600, 900 Annually. &. l.

:. WASHINGTON. Nov. s. Govern
ment ownership of railroads will be
the burning political issue in the
United States before the governments
railway appraisal is completed, Chair
man Clifford Thorne, of the Iowa
Railroad Commission, today predicted
to the National Association of Rail-
way Commissioners Z.
Sounding warning against the
proposed per cent increase in
freight rates, he declared the govern
ment could buy all the lines, issue 8
per cent bonds, and, then distribute
$1OO,OOO,000 annually in higher wages
without increasing. rates.
''Railroading done in the United
States with an eye mainly on the
stock market costs Americans $780,
100000 a year." he declared.
1T is cheaper to enforce railroad
safety laws than to pick up and bury
the railroads dead and care. for their
crippled William Fitzpatrick of I'LL
nois. declared. He also branded the
largely responsible for the enormous
QeStI uCtlOn OF Ire ON rdllTOaQS.
,., For More Safety. r..
Drawing on experiences of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road, Fitzpatrick urged all roads to
put in signals to prevent operation of
more than one train on block at
once. and use of automatic train con-
troll, which, he declared, has been
tried successful. He held that it is
vostly more important to take steps
to avert collisions and derailments
than to provide steel cars to mitigate
fatalities. His figures showed $4,000
children, 36.276 tramps and 100. .103
citizens killed and injured in the last
twenty years because. America does
not enforce railroad trespass. tz., .
II 2. sHermaas rreff- chtgan. Tor tl1s
tcomnnfttee on sLesisIati ION. urged mt
formity Of railroad laws and elimina-
ton Of conflict between State, and
Federal boards. -. -. .,-...;-.. ....
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MAY FORM COOPERATIVE
PRODUCE EXCHANGE HERE

An article on The Michigan
Street Food Trust and the or
ganization of a cooperative pro-
duce exchange has been pur-
posely held up for this week.
The. Labor World IS in COM
munication with q number of
farmers societies throughout the
state, and there IS hope for the
organization in this city Of an
exchange to be controlled wholly
by the producers and consumers,
with the brokers and wholesale
middlemen entirely eliminated.
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''0NE MORE MILLION .
+: SAYS SAM G;OMPERs
But It Is Not Money He Wants; {;
It's Men to Join the Trade
Union Movement.

Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor. and
the members, of the executive coun-
Gil of the big parent labor organiza-
tion, passed through Minnesota last
Sunday morning on their way to
Seattle to attend the convention of
the American Federation Of Labor
which opens In that city on Monday
next. They had but 40 minutes stop
over in St. Paul. e ,@ +
. President E. G., Hall of the Min
nesota State Federation of Labor
headed q, commit tee .ss--of Twin City
union labor officials who met a.
F.: of u: party at ST. Paul. The party
consisted Of President Gompers, Vice
Presidents, James Duncan, John
Mitchell, James O'Connell, D. A.
Hayes, William D. Huber, Joseph F.
Valentine, John r. Alpine and H. r..
Perham, Secretary Frank Morrison
and Treasurer John Lennon. The
two fraternal delegates from Great
Britain, Ivor H. Gwynne and Thom-
as Greenal1, were guests Of the Fed
Grafton party. ... ...
Mr.. Gompers declared in st. Paul
that the labor movement was never
in as good condition as it is today.
I'VE have passed the two million
mark" he said, "and our slogan for
the next year is to be Three Mil
lion.' We want you men in Minne-
sofa to help us reach that mark.
There are at least 10000 miners, me-
chanics and other workmen in this
state who should be organized, and
you are permitting the day of grace
to go by in not attending to it,
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SECRETARY WILSON
VISITOR IN STATE
Head Of Federal Labor DEPART
ment Stops Off at Minneapolis
on Way to Coast.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 6.-"There
has been more general employment
during the last summer than at any
time during the last generation de-
clared w. B. Wilson, secretary Of
commerce and labor, who was in
Minneapolis yesterday morning be-
tween trains.
THE problem of the unemployed
will always remain a problem" said
Mr.. Wilson. Ito minimize it as much
as possible is all that can be hoped
"A statistical compilation Of labor
conditions figures made during the
last summer fron reports Of 100 cities
reveals. The encouraging fact. how
ever, that at no time during the last
80 years was there more general en-
ployment Of the generally unemploy-
ed than during the past summer"
Mr.. Wilson Is en- route to the coast
to inspect the immigration stations at
Seattle and San Francisco.
"A new immigration problem has
arisen in the last year and half
which is causing some concern in the
coast states," he said. The Hindoo
for the first time in history has be-
come an American immigrant. East
Indians are coming into this country
in large numbers to engage in the
small industrial peddling pursuits or
to work in lumber camps and
orchards.
THE approximate increase in the
population of the United States in
1912 from irnmiorafion a10ne was
100000. In round figures 100000
persons entered the country and 400,-
900 departed"
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A. F. Of L. Convention. Opens
Monday at Seattle Federation
Passes 1000, 600 Mark.

SEATTLE, Nov. 6.-rhe thirty
third annual convention, which will.
begin a. two weeks session here Mon
day. will celebrate the passing of the
100000 mark in membership and
sound a new slogan, Nov for 3.000,-
000!"
Practically all of the 11S. interna-
tional unions comprising the fedora
ton will show substantial progress
during the past year in members
gained, in wages increased hours of
labor reduced, benefits established,
finances strengthened, etc. -.
Miners Strike Most Serious.
The most serious strikes were those
of the miners, who gained a compro-
mise In West Virginia which virtually
revolutionizes old conditions. The coal
miners have gained nearly 100000
members during the past year and
have close to 100000 me enrolled.
The metal miners have also made
steady gains, as have others of the
larger organizations. F..
1t Is frequently charged and COM
monty understood that the A.. F., of L.
is hostile to the principle Of indus
trial unionism, but there is nothing in
the laws or procedure of the fedora
tion to warrant such an assumption
Plumbers Joined Steamfitters.
Indeed, this very year the interna-
tional organizations of plumbers and
steamfltters have been combined, ex-
cept in few isolated places. The
Brotherhood and Amalgamated car
penters are also voting on the ques-
tion of combining and indications are
that the decision will be favorable.
Several years ago the Amalgamated
Woodworkers were merged with the
carpenters. :. H.. +:
J. The FIVE International unions in the
printing trade are about to confer on
the question Of forming a close fed
Grafton along industrial lines. .32s %
It has been rumored that candi-
dates will again oppose Samuel Com
pers for president. as we'll as other
mem bers Of the executive council.
Heretofore only the radical element
has opposed the administration, but
there is talk that a prominent inter
national union official who has been
arrayed on the conservative side OF
the house is b ambitious to become
president, and that If the time is con
sidered opportune his friends will en-
ter him In the race. 5i n. ,5s ,5st
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CUT OUT MIDDLEMAN's
Fl PROFIT; DO 1T IN DULUTH
PHILADELPTIIA. Nov. g.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. g.
The housewives and retail
butchers have organized to cut
the high cost of living by elimin-.
ating the middle mans profits.
The leaders. in the movement as
sert that the price Of meat, but
ter, and eggs Will be reduced
from 10 to 20 per cent below
current rates.
An organized movement, con-
sisting Of the housewives, is
conducting a crusade and has
agreed to give their patronage
to butchers who are organized
to buy direct from the porduc-
ers. Efforts are being made to
enroll the 5000 butchers TN the
organization. for the purpose of
buying beef <directly from, Ar
genttna and eggs and butter
from western dadrtes and cream
er1es. ~. Ss ssgE$.s.5.. i.
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BILLY HARVEY, UNION
BUTCHER, IS WRESTLER

f# Billy Harvey of the local Butchers
union attracted local attention this
week as a wrestler Of no mean ability
He took part in one of the prelimin-
aries before the big Beel-Yokel go
at the Curling rink, Tuesday evening.
He was thrown in IL minutes and 20
seconds by Peter Pitkoff. Billy is
young at the business, but he is de-
termined. and spell Of good train
ing will serve to mako HIN top
notcher in due time. /. ,#i 55s35
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BoILERMAKERS OPPOSE
FEDERAL. INSPECTOR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.The con--
firmation Of Frank McManany ass
chief inspector OF locomotive boilers
Is being held up In the senate. He III
at present assistant inspector. with
eadquarters IN Denver, and Is q lo-s
comotive engineer. szssss y5sss
s. is The boilermakers have presented:
their reassns why "a he chief inspector
sof locomoti ilers should ~
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this branch Of the department Of
commerce has made separate investi-
cations Of great value, Including the
beef, tobacco, lumber. steel. Standard
Oil. water: power, harvester and other
trusts. These Investigations have fur
nished the public authoritative facts
regarding each specific industry, but
up to this time the government has
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Safety -At-sea Bill Would Compel
Higher Wages to seamen,
Says Feruseth.
ALSO DECLARES THAT
+, SAILORS ARE SLAVES
Emplo loyment Of Skilled Help and
Able Seamen Would Bene-
fit American Owners.

WASHINGTON. Nov. e.''1 have
definite information from abroad that
not only British, but continental snip
owners are going to bring all the pres
sure to bear that they possibly can
to prevent the passage Of the sea-
mems bill in its present form through
the house." said Andrew Feruseth,
president of the International Sea-
mems union, on the eve OF his de-
parture to the London Conference on
Safety at Sea. = .-.>I s 4g
., If this bill should pass, the for
eign shipowner will have to pay sub
stantially the same wage as the
American shipowners and the great
advantage. which the foreigner. has
had in the wage cost Of operation
which has been one Of the main fac
tors in destroying the American mer-
chant marine-will cease" continued
Feruseth. - ~ .<s
:. r Like Fugitive Slave Law.
THE low foreign wage cost OF op-s
GRAFTON has been made possible by
their power to enforce q contract on.
labor by Imprisonment for desertion
"a law operating In all respects as
did the fugitive slave law. Foreignz
shipowners have been able to keep
their wage cost at the present level
in ports Of the United States because
the United States government has
acted as their slave catcher.
There at the present moment two
men confined In prison at Mobile.
: Ala, one from a Norwegian and one
from a British vessel. They had de-
serted, were arrested and detained
by the request of consular officers to-
be returned to those vessels against
|, their will. This is typical Of what
Is going on all the time" ~.
Replies to Lake Men.
Ferusefh g answered The ehaNse
made at a. meeting of the Lake Mich
igan steamboat lines to the effect that
the lake steamers could not comply
with the provisions OF the La Toilette
bill as passed. The steamship men
contended that on the larger excur-
sion steamers nearly 200 lifeboats
would be necessary, requiring 400
able seamen to man them.
"The bill,'' said Feruseth, goes no
further either in its requirement of
lifeboats or anything else than is nee
essary for safety. It is entirely up
to the steamship owners to use the
kind Of lifeboat that is most suitable,
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FOR GOVERNNENT. OWNERSHIP.

FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
a-s5 'WAsHINGTON, Nov. A bill
to empower the comrnissioner Of the
District Of Colum pia to tack over and
operate the street rail ilreads. telegraph
and teleph zone lines, gas and electric
light and power plant IN the District
5of Colu1ab been introd duced #in
the house of rep
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Continued ON Pare 3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-07

1t will be enjoyed by both older and
younger folk.
Mrs. Woodruff is fast gaining an en-
Viable position In the world of literature
both playwrights and authors deIighting
to pay her homage. The New York papers
of recent date have had these notes:
Mrs. Charles Boston entertained for
Mrs. Woodruff the author of The LADY
of the Lighthouse, ON Monday, November
a. Mrs. woodruff gave a beautiful read
ing from her book
Mrs. Oalles gave a luncheon on Tues-
day, November %, at the Hotel Plaza
in honor of Henen S. Woodruff. the au
thor. whose new book, The Lady of the
Lighthouse is just out. 1t is a beautiful
Christmas story to help blind ochiIdren.
Mrs. Leary iof 1883 Fifth avenue will
give tea in honor of Mrs. Lewis b.
woodruff, the author, on Friday, De-
cember u. President and Mrs. Wilson
and Secretary 'of War Garrison and wife
will be among the guests. Mrs. Wood
ruff will give a reading from her new
book The Lady of the Lighthouse
Mrs. T. Darlington Semple win enter
tain in honor of her old pupil, Mrs. Helen
S. Woodruff, thetauthor, ON Saturday. No.
vember 49, with large tea There will
be many prominent guests present, among
them Sir and Lady Johnston"
Recently Mrs. Allie Birch of this city at
tended a birthday luncheon in New York
for Mrs. Woodruff's little bocx, where
every woman present was one who had
done things" There were Mrs. Kate
Langley Bosher of Mary Carey" fame.
Maria Thompson Daviess ("Melting of
Molly'), Margaret Sidney CTitttle Pep
pers'9, Princess Troubetzkoy and several
other celebrities among.the guests