St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-05-07

Il would seem that none would be
found to dispute It; but everybody
knows that labor union men have
tried in many cases to prevent non
union men from working. A large
proportion of the disorder and act
uaI violence incident to strikes has
been due to their efforts to interfere
with the exercise of what Chief JUS
tice Prentice has called a sacred
right of citizenship"
There are other and indired meth
DDS of interfering with the exercise
of this right to labor. In Paterson
strike involving $4,000 men,
women and children was brought
on by agitators representing the
Industrial Workers of the World;
in Providence a costly strike was
due to the misunderstanding tactics
of leaders of the same vicious or
ganization, and in Auburn labor
union men, who did not live there
and had no legitimate business
there, persuaded employees who, had
they been left alone, would have
been glad of the chance to keep on
working, to quit.
The courts deal with those who
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violate the law. What is I.eeded
now is a way to protect workers
from the professional agitators who
are the most dangerous foes of hon
est labor Rutland Herald.
How Editors Get Rich
After a great deal of worry and
study we have at last figured out
how so many country editors get
rich. Here is the secret of their
success. There is a child born in
the neighbOrhood. The attending
physician gets $40. The editor CIV
es the loud-lunged youngster
great send-off and gets so. 1t is
christened, and the minister gets 50,
and the editor gets 500. 1t grows
and marries. The editor publishes
another long-winded fiowery arti-
Gle and tells a dozen different lies
about 1.-The beautiful and accom-
| plished BRIDE The minister gets
! $40 and a piece of cake. The edi-
tor gets 5000 and a request to carry
| the groom's subscription account
another year. In the course of time
! she dies.
The doctor gets from IS to 800,
| the minister gets from SIS to 500,
the editor publishes a notice of death
and an obituary two columns long,
! lodge resolutions, a lot of poetry and
card of thanks and gets $4,000.
No wonder so many country editors
| get rich.-I Exchange.
Insurance Rates
The Essex Publishing Company
has been looking up insurance rates
on the Vermont newspaper plants,
and discovers that they range all
the way from $3.50, in one in
! stance, to $50 or over in six in
! stanres, the highest rate being that
paid on the cOmpany's own plant at
Essex Junction-or $3.50. The
Tribune deplores the existence of
high insurance rates as touching
newspaper plants or any other prop
erty, and especially the high rates
which prevail, in some instances,
right here in Ludlow. But it is the
| hazard which makes the rate. A re-
duction of the hazard brings down
the rate, and, taking the word of
| the insurance neil for it, the YER
mont rates are none too high consld-
ering the risk. 1t is claimed that
the insurance companies have nOt
been getting rich out of Vermont,
and several of them have Withdrawn
from business in this state. A rate
of from $50 to $3.50 on a thous-
and is not pleasant to contemplate,
and it is up to boards of trade. bus
mess mems associations, and the
state insurance commissioners, To
use all possible means for the secur-
ing of a reasonably low rate of in
surance. And it is up to the rest
of us to do what we can for the re-
duction of the hazard.-TV Vermont
Tribune