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upholds Fine for Violation of
:. U. s. Sixteen Hour. ::
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BOISE, Idaho, March z7.-Tyins
up on, a siding tor any purpose,
whether to wait orders or for the
passing .of other trains, or for any
other purpose connected with the
transportation Of freight or passen-
gers. il as much part Of the gen.
eral movement Of trains as the actual
running therof,''g says the United
States Circuit Court OF Appeals in San
Francisco in unfolding a fine levied
against. the Great Northern Railroad
by the Federal District Court of
Idaho. - ~--+ .''s-.s ."
:, The. case was that of a fireman
forced to work more than sixteen
hours in one day and who was then
compelled to work as watchman
while his train stood on a: siding.
Both courts held that sixteen hours
work means sixteen hours work, ana
TIA fireman, is. forced to do other
work after theslimit provided by law
is: reached, this /, constitutes an Of
Tense, for every activity Of, employees
is essential in the operation of the
W.
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THING ON EARTH IS THE HUMAN RAG

every night, year in. and year out,
crawling across the cold stone floor,
in the wet, scrubbing,. cleaning, head
bent, and face white and worn-hire
same gray-haired woman. who. has
been left a widow with children, or
who is cursed with a sick or drunken
husband. Such woman you can
hire for 81 per night, if you know h ,w
to go about it. and how to- find the
mother made desperate by her chill
dren's needs. :
Do you want swiftly fia-
gers, keen eyesight. great agility, in
your canning factory-or in your
making of paper boxes or artificial
flowers?
Hire little girls-you can get them
by the thousands for a few cents a
day.
'''r. By Bribing Inspectors. ~
BY bribing inspectors, or avoiding
inspectors. you can work these chill
dren from daylight until dark, work
ing the mothers, too, through the
same hours This is done; it pays
and the affidavits and the photo
graphs are ON record, showing the
half-fed, half-grown. children falling
asleep from exhaustion at their work,
then awakened and driven to rive III
the last ounce Of vitality. by threats
and blows. 5.u..-.,
This is a fine world for the man
who wants to make a fortune out ~
cheap female labor. i @'.Es+>..,
The little store and the big store,
the little tenement sweatshop, and ti,e
sweatshops in the loft, and the great
sweating factory all compete, and
their competition turns upon the
question-how much labor can We ex-
tract from the bodies OF women and
girls. and how little. money, how lit
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-28
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

The important thing on this earth
is the human race, not individual
profits.
The women create the race, and the
welfare of wom men and girls, their
health. their strength, their vitality,
their virtue, transmitted to their chill
questions.
Today under our methods Of en-
ployment and competition, the work.
ing woman is the lower milestone in a.
grinding system of meanness, cupidity
and heartless exploitation.
Various Beasts of Burden.
Many animals are used by man az
beasts of burden-from the Asiatic
elephant, the small llama Of the An
des, animals of all kinds the horse.
the OK. the mule. the ass, the camel.
even the ostrich and the reindeer are
made into working slaves for men.
Cheapest of all among the animals
+ that man harnesses and drives in his
money-making schemes is the huma n
female. -.
u Do you want miserable slave to
stand on her tired feet all day long,
!. with aching back and tired heart, and
{ stretched nerves, for twelve or more
hours a day-hire a girl of sixteen.
You can hire her for less than it
actually costs; to feed her if you are
a good slave-driver. 49,
Do you want your office building
scrubbed night after night: DO you
/ want human being on hands a.,d
b knees to spend the hours of darkness
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ton like that of the East End of Lon
don, Whitechapel district, where
the women bear babies that are called
"wasters" children, that no skill can
save from the grave in infancy? :.s'. :;
Are we to have duplicates here of
the miserable, half-starved and often
degraded English working girls, living
on a few shillings a week, keeping
their bodies and nervous energy going
with tea, or With gin? :: 49,
lished? ,s
Was it to enrich a few merchants
and manufacturers. or was it to create
9, nation free, strong and healthy, with
the women powerful, good mothers,
the children healthy and at play, and
the men able to protect the women
and safeguard the children in their
youth? - ~
Supply and Demand? !
Supply and demand? What have
supply and demand to do with ques-
lons affecting the welfare of rate?
There was a supply Of slaves in the
South. and great demand for them
IN the cotton fields and rice swamps.
But this country spent a million lives
and five thousand million dollars TO
demonstrate the fact that supply and
demand, as interpreted by brutal self
ishness, do not rule, when men are
in earnest SAls: s
When We. say here that the law
should and will compel the payment cf
decent wages to women we are told
that We ignore athe law Of supply
and demand, and that these things
must regulate themselves. ,s,sy
Nothing regulates itself. Man has
his intelligence IN order that he may
regulate conditions And abolish brut-:
ality, and com pei. justic ,s,s 81
8a5 We MAKE Thousands of laws to sprt..
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PHONE || TRUST comes !.
DOWN v \. ANOTHER A ! / PEG | ! |
Co., -r-r.e- = = l., = 80
Bell Concsrn AgFses lernit
%. ::: :: Rival Compaaies~to Dse z 8 I !:
Lines. ~ J.

NEW YORK, March 27.-Another
chapter: in the dissolution agreement
Of the: American Telephone and Tele-
graph; company was concluded. Friday
when N. c. Kingsbury, vice president
OF the company, returned from Wash
lngton and announced that thereafter
all the toll lines of the Bell system
which connect in more than: IL 900
places in this country, would be open
to the independents. ...., -" H..
p. At the time the American. Tele-
phone and Telegraph company vol
UNFAIRLY agreed to dispose OF it's hold
ings in Western Union it made an
other concession to the government
by allowing Independents use It's toll
lines: The conclusion of the, Ameri-
can Telephone and telegraph agree
ment means that more than 100000
miles Of toll wires will be at the dis
posal Of rival companies,
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and the law should prevent; crime re-
gardless Of economic arguments and
laws: f. :
For years the matter has been left
haphazard to accident. to competition,
to individual selfishness, and for years
conditions have been getting worse.
It is time Tor the public intelligence,
the public conscience and the. public
ptwerE to protect women by law.
Every legislature in every, state
should punish as felony the crimina,
underpayins, and = overworking of
women employees. - r.
CAREFUL Investigation, intelligent and
honest consideration, Of conditions and
cost OF living should s,underlie such leg
islation, of course. = 2ssss 2
In the cities, where rents and living
expenses are highest, the minimum,
that Is to say, the lowest legal wage
should be higher than lin the smaller
towns and villages, where lifes cost
is less: 81 s., s:... ff557s b (.
,l 1 Can't Hurt Business.
This would discourage the dreadful
crowding in great cities, the criminal
building of factories and sweatshops
in narrow. sunless city; streets. It
would scatter population ana counter
act great evil of our day,
Do not imagine that any capable or
honest man, any useful industry or
business, would be injured. by laws
giving just protection to women.
That which, is good, tor the whole
natien ID good for every citizen In it,
Esta blish by law a minimum wage
for women, protect the children BY
law against dendl child labor. and
YOU protectsrhe well meaning employ
er, the ma 4 with q cpnsc once and 8
heart. .,sS 81
Forbid s1tloits IL ion ef women.
the ssta rs,ln nm of Sirls.
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by miserable and heartless employers,
and you protect the. good employer,
since you protect the fair man against
heartless competition.
Many man conducting great
business is filled with shame as ne
contemplates his payroll. He has, per-
haps, one thousand women and girls
working for him, and he knows that
at least three quarters Of them are
shamefully underpaid, because they
are poor and disorganized.
But, he must pay what the others
pay or go out of business.
He competes with other employers
in his ability to buy goods, in his
knowledge Of public taste, in his
power of organization. He completes
also, In his power to buyst life blood
of working women at the lowest pos
sibie price.
Will. Protect Honest Employers.
Laws that will protect the working
women against starvation wages will
protect honest employers. And, what
Is far more important, such laws will
protect the coming generation and the
future Of this country.
It will be said that men are under
paid also. that disorganized labor suf-
fers. and that the wives and children
of the Ia borer suffer. In the competi-5
ton Of low wages. That is true.
.., But b one step at a time is mans way
of walking. And one step at a time
is the governments way of lawmak-
ing. - s. 49,
Protect the women and girls, com
pei payment Of decent wages, Jail
the man who hires q girl or woman
for less than IF costs her to live de-
Gently. or who works her so hard as
to leave no energy In her body tor the
duties Of snlot otherhood and You will
have made a-Eo GOD esinninl
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tect the merchant and the: manufac-
turer in their money making. III b..
Our government attacks and::p pun
ishes combinations and conspiracies in
restraint of trade, because they hurt
the individual business man. :.
We forbid the railroads to. practice
extortion and oppress the money MAX
ing shipper of goods through rebates
We say that the passenger shall be
carried at go much per mile, that the
thousand feet of gas shall be sold for
so many cents. ,..:1 *s
In every direction, when money is
involved, we make lays forbidding 'op-
preston, compelling fair prices, pro-
tecting industrial, commercial and
personal rights. : Shall we not also
make laws protecting women and girls
against. the sharks and the shark like
se1fishness by which they are exploit
ed and ground down?
For a Living Wage.
mo man denies that women and girls
are hired, forced by their poverty and
helplessness, to work for wages upon
which they can not live.
i Upon such wages, paid to hundreds
Of thousands Of women, normal health
and strength can not be maintained.
The law would not permit man. tn
underfeed a horse and gradually wear
him out. This would. be prevented re-
gardless Of any argument as to COM
petition. Cruelty being demonstrated
the half-fed lanimal would be pro-
tected and the owner punished. \, jl7$5,
Cruelty, exists, and heartless brutal
FSity exists, wherever a woman or girl
Isl put to work, paid less than 1t costs
her to live, or worked beyond her
strength 3s.. n .s. II; 81 h, s .
TO overwork or starye 81 won an, To
sdriye kris 81 I'M oral HIVES, Is crime,
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PAY S75 EACH FOR
FIRE. VICTIMS. |. '.L|V|ES i
81. Settlement Finally Ead4 On A.
, count Of Loss Of Life IN :.
Triangle Fire. ::

NEW YORK; March 27.-Twenty-
three additional suits for damages as
result of the Triangle fire.: in which
14s employees lost their. lives, have
been settled for SIS each.
Most Of the suits were for moro
than $4,000 damages, and were filed
shortly after the fire occurred, three
years ago.
{" The terms of the present suits were
flied in the supreme court, and are
similar to compromises last January,
when Surrogate Fowler signed an or
der permitting the administrators Of
the estates of nine victims to settle
claims against the Triangle company
for '$76 apiece. =; i: -:
1t is claimed that company in
which the Triangle: concern was in
sured is fighting these cases. =.
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tie 1000 and rest can they be com
PEELED to accept in return?- -.
When, merchants in the big cities
need extra, horses in their delivery
department they pay usually $1.75 a
day for the use of a; horse. and they
must promise to take good care of lit,
drive 1t slowly, and must be driven
only so many miles and 50 many
hours. = ."'':~ ..s =
The man who pays $1.75. for the
days work of horse pays fifty
cents, and; often less, for the days
work of girl or woman. And the
horse needs only a bed of straw, oats
and hay, no clothing. You know. what
the, woman ought to have, although
she does not get it,
More and more the women Of the
country are drawn into the whirlpool
Of industry. and commerce, half paid
and half fed. d." +:
Mothers Vitality Drained.
More and more the vitality of the
mothers OF the next generation is
drained and. diminished for the sake
of profit. .+,-r,.. =. = r. : 49, +:
Now every little child put to work
beyond its strength, every girl har-
messed to a machine run by electricity
at high speed. every woman ovei'-
WORKED, underpaid and underfed rep.
resehts weak mother, and every
weak mother means weak children
and . weaker generation to. succeed
thisson Ss5 ,a.i. ~. :. So: t.,,1
| ;, The story has been told in England
where child labor and overworked, un.
derpaid female labor produced a gen
Grafton 50 sickly and stunted that il
| was difficult to- find recruits of the
proper size even for as small an army
as the English army. s3s, 5
Are we going to have ia the United
!. States h and in the biz cittes : Dop,lla.
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special election, for the education that
would come from it would set the peo.'
pie and the commissioners right,
! Take the water and light depart
ment, for Instance. Commissioner
Merritt should be recalled for his fail
ure to call his fellow commissioners
together with. him. to- sit as a water
and light board at regular intervals to
determine upon water and light poll
cies and matters. y w -<ste <s5 s
: n All Should, BE Recalled.
The other four commissioners
should be, recalled for rtheirsnegligence
in failing to demand that, they be
privileged to sit from time to time. as
water and light commissioners, as the
city charter contemplates they shall
do. What is true with theIwater and
light department and Commissioner
Merritt is also true with the park de-
partment, the public welfare depart
'ment, the library and Mayor Prince.
1t is also true to more or less extent
with the public works department and
Commissioner Murchison. -
= We shall refuse to support a recall
on Commissioner Hicl1en on the sa-
loon issue, but; unless the commission
ers soon set themselves right we will
go the limit to help recall them for
violating the city charter by unlaw-
fully denying commission government
and maintaining in it's place five sep
arate, distinct and unchecked one
man governments.
A Public Duty
Oh yes, we know this will be an
unpleasant work, but we shall regard
it as a public duty, to insure the sue
cess and permanency Of the commits
sion form of government as, it was in
tended to be by the people, when they
voted to establish it in this city. -:
s. The city commissioners should read
the Handwriting on the wall" ere it
lis too late. They are sewing the
wind; they will reap the whirlwind; :;
they will be gathered in it and swept
from power by the wrath Of right
ously indign ant electorate. And when
this shall have been done they will
have no one to blame but themselves.
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whom the, only charge is .''that he
strictly and risidly enforces the law
relating o.the sale OF intoxicating IL
quors ?" No self -respesting man in
town, who believes ina government
of law, could afford tostake part in it.
:: Threaten Local Prohibition. !.
If Mr.. Hlcken is toabe rtapalled there
must be some other reasdH advanced
for doing so. He can notsknd will not
be recalled on the saleonsas The
result Of the referend on
the "Hicken code" September
ought to convince the erage maN
how the people would at IA on ssuclj
proposition. The ma 3ority Of tlSss
people would support law enforce
ment and Mr.. Hickena -
The anti-saloon forcessin Duluth de-
clare that. if an attemS IS to-be made
to recall CommisstoleH Hicken, an
initiative petition willshput in circu-
lation for the prohibttf0n of saloons
within the, limits of.the city. The peo-
pie would then be- given an =oppor-
tunity to vote on local 1iprohibition and
the recall of Commissioner Hicken ~at
Vic Sd IHc Illuc. \
Give Saloon Issue A Rest. Il
Do you want such. an election in
Duluth? 1t no douhfH would cause
F.; considerable excitemelt but would, 1,
do the city any good assAnd after all
is it not time to give the saloon ques-
ton rest? There ars big city prob
lens to be worked out, and so long as
the public mind, is; occupied with sa-
loon matters, no attention will be
given by the people to the considera-
ton of those other important things:
that is no general attention will be
given them and they will be held in
subjection. =
Commissioner Hicken may not be
recalled on the saloon issue, but are
cali election on the Whole commits.
sion for violating the spirit of the city
charter in unlawfulY establishing
one-man power government. in place
of commission government might
prove successful. And even if it did
fail it would be worth the cost Of a
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SHALL C0MM|SS SSI0NER fIICkEN BE
I. RECALLED2 F0H WHAT REASON?

There is = rumor widely circulating
through the city that an attempt is
to- be made. to recall Commissioner
Hicken. Everybody is talking about
it, but no one seems to stand as it's
sponsor. After all 1t may prove to be
but one Of those fatherless rumors
that starts out innocently and gathers
wings as it flies, whittier it knows not.
To get a recall will be no easy mat
ter. 1t. will require. at least 1850
sworn sigma lures from legal voters to
demand an election. Are there $500
people in Duluth who will sign such
a petition?: Possibly there are that
number who would cast a secret bal
lot against the commissioner at an
election; maybe there are more, but
to get $500 citizens to openly demand
the recall Of Mr.! Hicken is entirely
another matter.
-. All Want, Laws Enforced.
Almost every man in town avows
that he favors law enforcement He
will say that he wants the saloons to
close at the hours fixed by law and
that is exactly what Mr.. Hicken re-
quires.
But. then objection lis made to the
way Mr.. Hicken enforces the law 1t
is declared that he is altogether too
severe, that he makes no allowance
for extenuating circumstances and he
glories in putting it over" on a sa-
loon man whenever he gets one in the
clutches of the law. e. -.
Hickep Ever On Defensive.
The fact is that Mr.. :Hicken is. ever
on the defensive. He dare not take a
chance to show mercy. He did it with
a Garfield avenue saloonkeeper, and
he came within an ace Of being in
dicted by the grand jury for his .len:-
ency.
Now let us suppose an attempt is
madeT"to recall Mr.. Hicken.. What
would be the issue? What kind OF
a campaign could be put up in oppo-
sition TO 4 public official against
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! | |: Wright ! RI| ] / IS
sC0.REDNV|H0UsE OBI N. { s.
=: eu., ...@
George Congressman Demands
Investigation and Cites Serious
Charges. =,
!; - ;, --e ---- : - =.
ENEMY OF GoMPERs. =
SEVERELY, ATTACKED
Charged With Many .1rregulari-
ties-Formal Demand, for I'm
= peachment Is Made.

! WASHINGTON, March ,27.-Risins
to a question Of privilege, Rep. Park
OF Georgia, in the house made formal
demand for, impeachment of Judge
Daniel Thew Wright Of the District
Of Columbia supreme court.
Park. charged Wright with:
Acceptance OF efavors from practi-
TONERS before, the bar Of his court: al
lowing a street railway company
lawyer to indorse' his r., note. while
the lawyer was retained in cases be,
fore the court; acceptance! OF a fee
'as lawyer during his tenure Of office;
that he wrqngfully collected and ap-
priated other peoples moneys, that
he .purposely changed the record to
prevent reversal of causes wherein
he presided; and that he, pore deadly
weapons in violation OF the law; that
he was guilty of judicial misconduct
in the trial of a writ Of :l1abeas cor
pus to an extent which provoked a
reviewing court of the District OF
Columbia to justly characterize the
trial as a travesty of justice; that he
arbitrarily revoked, without legal
right, the order OF Judge of con-
current jurisdiction, appointing three
receivers So as to favor a friend by
naming him sole receiver; that he
was guilty Of various acts Of persona.
and judicial misconduct; that he is
morally and temperamentally unfit to
fill g. lpdicial. office. ).
The resolution called upon the judi
ciary committee to investigate these
claims. = ! - -.
Charges against, Judge Wright pre-.
vtously had been filed by Wade II.
Cooper with the judiciary committee,
but rejected because not sworn to-,
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WANT HIGHER PRICES.

READIG, Pa, March 27.-At a
meeting of representatives of the ci-
sarmakers unions in. the First and
Ninth internal revenue districts 1t
was decided to submit to these locals
the question of calling strikes in local
tiles where the new wage rate is not
paid. In many of the cities employ
ers! are paying the 81 per 1000 in
crease.
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FORM A STATE RRANcH

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March t27.-.
Sheet Metal Workers in thiss state:
have formed-a district, council. Its. OBJ,
jects are to promote harmony between;
the locals and advance their interests.
Meetings will be held twice a year.. on,
the. second Saturday of March, and
September. :"
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Continued on Paxe 8,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-26

THE letter was one Of the earliest forms Of
literature; for even the primitive stage Of
civilization feels the need Of sending tidings
and greetings. Letters form considerable
part Of the Bible; the Greek roots Of the
word sbiste mean ito send to- In the his
tory Of English literature the writing Of let
tiers has special importance.
The first English novels, those Of Samuel
Richardson. are cast in letter form, and
would never have been written had not
their author learned his trade in what might
be called a correspondence school Of practi-
cal experience. From the time he was boy,
this little printer, who looked for all the
world Ike a plump mouse masqueradlng IN
inB-spo-red r1tfles, was accustomed % write
the love letters # all The girls he knew. In