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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26

The Labor World has desire to be put in the
position of hen-pecking the city commissioners We
know they have difficult tasks to perform and they
are all too the job to fully demonstrate what
can be done under the commission form.
We hesitated long time before writing the article
appearing in these columns last week, but when We
saw the apparent careless and Indifferent of
the majority members of the commission towards
water and light department, deemed it our duty
call their attention to it, 4
When the five commissioners acted as board Of
public works this week and with Commissioner Muir
Gibson went proposed public improvements at
Fond du Lac and New Duluth, they carrying out
the spirit of the city charter and doing what the
charter commission contemplated they should do /
Now the point want to bring out is this The
commissioners at regular stated intervals should go.
the work of every division just they week.
took up the work of the old board of public works
Each commissioner should be the managing director
of his department. but always subservient to the will
of the majority of the commissioners sitting as board
in his DIVISION The commission should meet from
time to time water and light board, as park
board library board, a, police and fire board, and
SO on. If this were done the commissioners would
win the confidence and support of the majority
OF the people of the city.
Former Manager Hatch when forced to resign
from the water and light department, publicly stated
that the city commission had not up that time met
in his department. and that Commissioner Merritt had
only paid three visits the department in June and
then only to nercede for seeking favors
Mr. Hatch. This statement has never been denied by
any member of the commission. !.
The Labor World has not heard of meeting Of
the city commission water and light matters since
Mr. Hatch made his charge, nor since last issue
1t was never intended that any commissioner should
be given absolute control over the water and light
department. except to act as managing director thereof
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26

Neither it contemplated that the commissioner
nf public affairs should have all to about what books
should be placed in the public library, nor what the
policy of the city should be with relation parks
He it is true, is expected to administer affairs of
these institutions, but it is for the five commissioners
to map out the policies that should be pursued
What is of the other departments is also true
of the public safety division The public will not long
tolerate onemanrule. matter how good efficient
any commissioner may be- If the commissioners want
to sicken the people of the commission form of gov
ernment and to scken them quickly, all they need
do is to keep their present policy of permitting
commissioner to be absolute dictator of affairs of
his division.
During the week of the daily papers intimated
there was movement on foot among the friends OF
municipal ownership to initiate amendment to the
city charter for the creation of light board
The friends of municipal ownership of them
advocates of the commission form of government
are advocating such amendment. They believe it
to be unnecessary All they want is that the present
commission shall do it's duty and sit from time to
time water and light board, rather than to con-
tinue permitting the commissioner of public utilities
to act as the whole thing in the department.
If we are to have water and light board, why not
resurrect the library and park boards, or even the
board OF public works? To do this might just
as we'll back to the old system entirety
But this must not be donenot yet at east-and there
Will be no call for it if the commissioners will now
before it is too late out the spirit Of charter
and take the place of the old boards as commission
and not as individual commissioners.
Our observations lead to say that the chief
criticism against the commissioners comes not SO much
from those who are forced to obey certain laws but
rom people who dread one power in any public
INSTITUTION The commissioners have it within their
power to remove this cause for criticism.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
UNION LABOR Fares
WELL IN BAY STATE
MASSACHUSETTS Legislature Enacta
Many Laws in Interest of
Working Glasses.

WORCESTER, Mass, July 24.-
The executive board of the Massa-
chusetts state branch at its last meet
Ing received the final report of the
legislative committee.
This report contains resume Of
the bills introduced, the efforts made
for their passage and the final re-
suits. Prominent among the laws Sc
cured were the eight-hour law for
public employees; nine hours for
children over fourteen and under six
teen years Of age, and the public
opinion bill that has been urged by
the labor unions for the last eight
years.
The public opinion law provides
that all questions of public policy
may be put on the ballot in a sena-
torial district If 1900 VOTERS petition
Tor 1t and any representative district
If 200 voters petition for it.
Another measure gives the new
board Of labor and industries, to-
gether with the industrial accident
board, Increased powers for investi-
CATION and the making of rules or
regulations for safety and health,
A uniform child labor law was
passed excluding thousands of child
rem from dangerous, unhealthful, and
demoralizing occupations. Provisions
was also made for widows left with
children, and although the amount of
the pension was not as high as de-
sired, it gives some relief.
The legislature passed two bills on
injunctions limiting the powers of the
courts in the issuance Of injunctions
-Four bills went through, amending
j the workmens compensation act.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
|. v. N. CHIEFS FIGHT
AMONG THEMSELVES

WASHINGTON, July 24.-Reports
from various sections of the country
are to the effect that the whilom
leaders of the I. w. w. are en-
broiled in an internecine war over
the distribution Of funds collected
for the purpose of spreading the
propaganda Of that organization.
While advertising itself as an in
dustrial organization it appears that
there are many divisions within it's
ranks and that the leader of each
division is struggling to make himself
the bright, particular star.
elimination and recrimination is
now the order Of the city, and there
seems to be no limit to the possibili-
ties of these industrial panecea
mechanics in their field of industry.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
CEDAR RAPIDS STREET
RAILWAY MEN ORGANIZE

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July a.
After many years of effort the Anal
gamated association Of street and
electric railway employees have or
ganized the traction companys lines
in this city.
The new organization starts oft
with a membership of 100, and pros
poets are bright for the organization
comprising every employe on the
road.
The local labor paper, The Tribune,
was primarily responsible for this or
ganization, in that it secured an inter-
view with the general manager of the
company during a recent franchise
campaign, in which that official stat.
ed he had no objections to the or
ganization of the employees on the
lines.
/ n The indications point to the per-
4 manency of the new organization, and
all differences in the future adjusted
Il in an amicable manner. .= ~.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
M0LDERS' UNION HIT
BY H00S|ER JUDGE
Gives Verdict for $4,000 Damages
Against Union and Forbids
Picketing.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 24.-A deci-
sion of far-reaching Importance was
rendered today by Special Judge
Thornton in the case of the striking
iron molders at the plant of the Key
less Lock company, an open-shop
factory, where non-unionists claim to
have been assaulted time and again
in an effort to force the shop to
unionize.
Judge Thornton held that a union
may legally declare a strike to force
other men to become members, that
the plaintiff is entitled to damages
in the sum of $4,000 for loss of busi-
ness on account of the strike, and
that the union has no right to en-
ploy pickets at the plant for the pur-
pose Of intimidating non-union men
or forcing them to join the union.
The court went into the evidence.
finding that the union men had
used threats and violence on numer-
Gus occasions, that they had tried to
deter men from working for the COM
pany, that the union men were guilty.
Of conspiracy to injure the PLAINTIFF 8
business, and that the plaintiff is en-
titled to recover damages as result
of unlawful conspiracy
The members of the union were an
Joined from any further acts to pre.
vent the plaintiffs from carving IN
their business as they may deem fit.
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A. F. OF |. HAS MORE
MEMBERS Than EVER

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July 24.-
ed to be taken up by the executive
council of the American Federation
of Labor, which convened here yes
terday for a weeks session.
The report of Secretary Frank
Morrison for the nine months of the
fiscal year ending June 80 showed
that the membership for June was
2,o26,716, as compared with 1,703,-
749 in June, 1912.
Besides the executive council, off,
GERS of a number of international un-
ions are attending the sessions.
The executive board of building
trades department Of the American
Federation Of Labor is also meeting
here. :
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
|NTERURBAN CARMEN
SEEK new CONTRACT
Material Increase in Wages Asked
BY Illinois Street Railway
Men.

AURORA, ILL.,, July 24.-The
working agreement between the
Amalgamated association of street and
electric railway employees and the
Aurora and Elgin interurban lines ex-
pired recently.
Negotiations are now under way
and have been for a month or more
looking to a renewal of the pleasant
relations which have existed during
the past three years.
The members Of the Amalgamated
association are asking for a substan-
tial increase this time. In the three
years the last contract ran, material
changes have taken place. principally
among these being the increased cost
Of living.
The scale presented the company
calls for the following: Aurora and
Elsin city lines, 26 cents per hour
for new men for six months; over six
months to one year, q cents, and
after the first year 80 cents per hour;
Aurora and Elgin interurban lines, "a
cents per hour; Yorkville line, 81
cents per hour; third rail line, AZ
cents per hour; ticket agents and
substation operators, linemen, shop
men, &C., 10 per cent increase.
Stipulations regarding the condi-
tions are also in the new demands.
important among them being that
employees be able to complete a. day's
work in twelve hours. Conferences are
being held, and both sides express the
belief that an amicable adjustment
will be had.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
DANIELS GENEROUS, i.
NAVY WAGES RAISED
New Secretary of Navy Recon-.
mends Wage Increase for
Navy Yard Employees.

WASHINGTON, July 24.-Follow-
ing a conference with the senate and
house committees on naval affairs,
Secretary Daniels of the navy depart
ment asserted that he felt it his duty
to recommend that 10 per cent in
crease be granted the Washington
navy yard employees.
The naval appropriation bill pro-
vides $4,000 to be used for ord
nance and ordnance supplies, and this
item was inserted in the appropria-
tion bill after an investigation had
been made into the living conditions
of the navy yard employees of the
District of Columbia.
AS the Washington navy yard is
the only one where ordnance and ord
nance supplies are manufactured.
Secretary Daniels has construed the
law to mean that the Washington
navy yard employees are the only ones
to get the benefit of an increase un-
der the new law.
Accordingly the employees in the
Washington navy yard have been
granted an increase of 7.S per cent
in pay for the six months from July
1, 1913, to January /, 1914. A con-
ference of the commandants of all
the navy yards Of the Atlantic coast,
with the exception Of the command
ant of the Philadelphia. yard, has
been held.
The chief subject under discussion
related to the wages in the several
navy yards. Secretary Daniels pro-.
poses to- have made wage investiga-
tions at each navy yard with view
to the revision of the wage scale. It
is further asserted that the. secretary
also proposes to give the employees OF
each yard a representative on the
wage board in charge of wage ad-
iustments. l.: - 8sss4E.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
HARD GOAL ROADS
COIN BIC MONEY
The Higher Their Expenses tho
Bigger the Profits They Get
From Consumers.
CARRIERS ALSO OWN
ANTHRACITE LANDS
How Public Is Robbed by I'm.
mense Carrying Charge Of
Trust Owned Railroads.

PHILADELPHIA. July 24.-No
group of railroads in this country can
make as good a showing OF earnings,
both gross and net, for the fiscal
year which ended June 80 last as the
eight carriers which constitute tho
anthracite group. These railroads
are the Central of New Jersey, Della
ware & Hudson, Lackawanna, Erie,
Lehigh Valley, Ontario & Western,
Susquehanna & Western, and Read
ing. The latest returns cover the
month Of May and the period Of
eleven months of the fiscal year. The
output Of anthracite last month was
just little short of the production
in June year ago, so it may be
taken for granted that the net returns
for last month, which will complete
the fiscal year, will not vary much
from those Of the corresponding
month of last year, and a fair esti-
mate of the yearly earnings may be
based upon the returns for eleven
months.
Gross Earnings Increase.
In eleven months the gross earn
ings of the eight anthracite carriers
were 2S1,170,215. an increase Of
S35,S3S,357, or about 12k per cent
For the same period the net earn
ings Of the group were $90,053,163,
an increase Of $1s,479,514, or 20 per
cent. The only one Of the eight
roads which made smaller net earn
ings in eleven months than last year
Is the Susquehanna & Western. con-
trolled by the Erie, and this small
loss of s45,661 will probably be more
than made up when the June state
ment Is published.
This increase in gross and net
earnings is partly due to the fact that
the anthracite mines were closed last
year for some weeks on account Of
labor troubles with the mine workers
Anthracite production was at it's
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
LACKAWANNA TO OBEY
SEMQ-MONTHLY PAY LAW

PHILADELPHIA, July "a. - In
structions have been issued by the
executive officers of the Lackawanna
railroad for department heads to sub
NIT their pay rolls twice a month in
stead of once a month. This means
that the company is preparing to obey
the law passed by the recent legisla-
ture. The law becomes effective july
l. The semi-monthly pay day has
been agitated for years and will prove
= boon to many workers. 3Rss'.aES a;Ss
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-26
.REDD UNION. wITHDRAws. 1a

The Machinists' union Of Brainerd
has voted to withdraw from the Min
nesota State Federation Of Labor be-
cause Of the refusal Of the st. Cloud
convention to pass series Of Social
tsts resolutions proposed BY Its dele.
sgates.
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COMMISSION ACTS AS PUBLIC WORKS
BOARD; WHY DOES IT NOT ACT AS
WATER and LIGHT DEPARTMENT ?


of City GrnneAn
Friends Not Advocate
Library Park Boards-smpy b.:
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ara score card. Then the physical de.
velopment Of the child Is compared
with the score card, and certificate
or medal is given In accordance with
the facts. There is no competition be-
tween babies, but only the effort to
reach standard But the very pur.
pose Of the Child Welfare Department
Of the exposition would not be served
unless there were something further.
There will be advices to mothers offer.
ed by competent men and women,
Thus the child will be benefited and
also the parents.
These are only two of the many fea-
lures that will form a part of the ex-
hibits in the Child Welfare Building at
the exposition. Miss Julia G. Lathrop,
chief of the the Children's Bureau Of
tho United States Department of La
Dor and one Of the most noted women
in the country, Is in full charge Of the
plans and preparations that are being
made for these exhibits. Miss Lathrop
was for many years associated with
Miss Jane Adams in the splendid
work that is being done by the Hull
House settlement in Chicago.
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Here Is Something New For
Big National Conserva-
ton Exposition
big CHILD WELFARE EXHIBIT
Most Noted Women, at Head of This
Department for Knoxville Show
Every Mother viii Be Interested in
Exhibits.
CHECK your baby, madame?'

CHecK your DaDy, madame!
This is going to be one of the queries
that will be heard frequently during
the progress of the big National Con
servation Exposition in Knoxville
Tenn. The exposition will throw open
its gates on September l and will con,
tinue until November l.
The Baby Checking Departm
will be only one of the many novel
things that the progressive men and
women in charge of the Child Welfare
Exhibit will arrange for the exposition.
The question asked above and answer
Ell affirmatively does not mean that
baby will be checked tagged and then
put in an oblong compartment like a
suit case. Rather, it will mean that
baby will be taken in charge by com
petent nurses and well cared for.
There is going to be babies
room" in the Child Welfare Building
at the National Conservation Exposi-
ton, room, well lighted, airy, screen
ed and daintily furnished. There will
romp and play; there will also be cozy
rest rooms, where the little ones can
sleep when their eyes become heavy
and their little legs tired.
Experience has shown that many
mothers, rather than miss the show,
such as the National Conservation Elk.
position will be must bring the little
ones. The management Of the expo.
sition welcomes the children. 1t wants
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next fall will mark a most impor-
tant slept in the worlds work.
The exposition is of nationwide
Importance, and timely. 1t will not
be celebration, like other large
expositions. 1t looks forward
pointing the way to better condi-
tons. 1t is in line with the ad-
vanced thought of the day. 1t will
stand second to no enterprise of
recent years as an agency for the
promotion of the general welfare.
The great plans and purposes of
this exposition are being carried
out for the benefit of the whole peo-
pie aad of posterity.-From state
ment made by w. M. Goodman, Di-
rector General of Exposition.
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Exposition Planned for Whole People and for Posterity

! The country Is facing grave prob
lens, the solution OF which must
come from a clear understanding of
conditions, and immediate action.
The work of man in dealing with
the forests and soils, which were
given for use, and not for abuse,
may aptIy be compared to the work
of smaller forms of life, such as the
boll-Weevil and army worm. The
great creator probably views it in
this light. Devastation is apparent
on every hand, in denuded hills and
CALLED and quilted fields.
For this reason and for many
others the National Conservation
exposition to be held at Knoxville
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Checking Department" 1t will be a
place whore mother can leave the chill
dren and rest assured of the fact that
they will be having the best kind Of a
time, and that they will be looked
after every minute of the day.
Baby Health Contest.
/: is also proposed that in the Child
Welfare Building there shall be
BABY Health Contest" The one OBJ
ject Of this contest will be to set up
a standard of health for the babies.
The absurd features-too often cruel
of many baby shows will be done away
with by this feature The Babies
Clinic Of Knoxville has agreed to CO.
operate in the Baby Health Contest"
Here is the way in which it will be
carried on: First, there will be a stand
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every child to see the wonders on dis.
play But at the same time the WON.
en- in charge of the Child Welfare De.
partment realize how necessary 1t is
to have place where mother can
leave the children. So the Baby
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1913-06-06
no! FOR KNOXVILLE
National Conservation Expo
sition To Be Big Event
of the Year
SOUTH'S GLORY ON DISPLAY

Exposition viii Be One of the Differ
ent" Kind and win Be Greater In
All Ways Than Anything Ever Seen
In This Section of United States
Before.
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The National Conservation Exposi.
/ ton that will be held in the pictur-
esque city of Knoxville from Septem-
/ Der ! to November 1, Of the present
year, will be the one big event of the
year in the South.
/ No meeting, no gathering, no con-
ference, no exhibition of any kind will
overshadoW in Importance the Nation
al Conservation Exposition. 1t will be
national in scope, national in charac-
ter
The National Conservation Exposi.
ton has been planned along broad
I lines and is designed to teach the
great lesson of the necessity of con-
/ serving the resources that nature has
so beautifully bestowed on the coun-
try More especially will the necessity
OF conserving the immense resources
OF the South be brought out and en-
phasized at the Exposition.
Following are a few facts that give
some idea of the magnitude and the
aims of the National Conservation Eek.
position
The exposition plant represents an
outlay of over 100000.
The site of the exposition is in the
most beautiful park in the South-a
park that nestles in the foothills of the
great Smoky mountains, picturesque,
rolling, green, highly improved.
Eleven Big Buildings.
The exposition grounds embrace
with lakes and drives over one hun.
dred acres.
Never was site for an exposition
with more natural advantages chosen,
never one better adapted to exposition
purposes.
Eleven large exposition buildings,
modern, stately, snowy white, as well
as number of smaller buildings, will
house this exposition.
Railroads realize the Importance OF
the exposition and are cooperating in
every way in the enterprise.
National leaders of conservation
with Clifford Pinchot as chairman are
directing the exposition.
Sixteen Southern states have formed
boards for exposition work and these
boards are actively engaged in the col
lection Of comprehensive exhibits and
in arranging state days for the expo
siton.
South a Treasure House.
The National Conservation EXPOSE
tion at Knoxville during Sentemher
and October will be different" The
displays in various lines will be the
largest, the most diversified, the most
interesting ever seen in any exposition
in the South; they will compare favor
ably with any exposition ever held in
the United States and they will all
teach graphically, eloquently and point
edly the lesson of conservation, ad-
mittedly one of the greatest questions
before the American people to-day.
And about all the South-the great
South, the South that is a treasure
house Of the nation, the South busy
with the hum and the whirr of count
less manufacturing industries-will be
on display in Knoxville during the ex-
position. The South with it's tremend-
GUS resources and great industrial pro-
gress will be strikingly typifed.
There will be much for every citizen
of the country to see In Knoxville dur.
ing the exposition months, there will
he much for every one to learn