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Y.W.C.A. NOTES
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Successful Event.

The girls coync III. held a very sue.
cessful Japanese sale Saturday after
noon and evening at Hotel Iowa.
The money made is to pay for furn-
ishings in the girls club room.
& iftn igo1E.
Thanksgiving vesper
The Thanksgiving vesper service,
led by Miss Solomon, was largely at
tended. The meeting both in message
of word and music was most helpful.
The masiciiwas furnished by Mrs. O.
b. Towne. 8
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Puckechetuck lodge No. 43, meets
every Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
Chas. Weld, ". g.; George w. Imme-
CART, permanent secretary.
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Minstrel Show at the Grand.


In all the splendor and freshness OF
a brand new scenic production. with
company of undoubted superiority
and with all new acts and features.
Neil O'Brien and his great American
minstrels, now on their third annual
tour will he the attraction at tint
Grand opera house tomorrow night.
Few organizations ever promoted
have more decidedly or more quickly
gained public esteem and confidence
than this enterprise, headed by one of
Americas. most distinguished minstrel
stars, and the announcement of its
approaching engagement in this city
conveys to the discriminating theatre
goers an evening of much good class
fun and many a hearty laugh. The
O'Brien minstrels now occupy for.~
most position among organizations Of
its kind, distinction gained by meri-
torious performances in the past. per-
formances clean and free of all OBJ
.jectionatle features, yet lively and
eXhilirating throughout Seats now On
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-Rsad The Daily Gate CITY.
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INQUIRY ! a.
BQ|A|R'D||..sEEkIs.F| FIRST
HAND||lvF0RMAT9D|l m
Industrial Relations Commission
Opens Hearings in New York.
All Sides to Be Heard!
WILL STUDY CAUSES
OF INDUSTRIAL WAR
Every Phase of Labor Problem to
Be Investigated Hearings to .
Be Held in Many Cities.

Nk~be United States commission on
silS. <1ial relations this week began
a se Nof hearings in New York to
get fir. /hand information for recon-
mendations to congress for rem medial
legislation. Men and women promi-
nent in social and labor work will
present their views. =.
Quietly, but none the less certainly
the commission is moving to attack
the most momentous human question
of the hour. The question is: why
is industrial war. Why is Colorado,
West Virginia, Michigan. Lawrence
Why is the L. w. w.? Why is. John
D. Rockefeller, Jr.?
The hearings opened in New York
Monday will be extended to every
large industrial center in the United
States. The commission is not sched-
uled to meet in Duluth, but it is, al
ready known that the sessions for
Minnesota will be held. in st. Paul.
1t is expected that the hearings
will be held at least four weeks in
New Yor. The commission will then
go to Paterson, N. j., Philadelphia,
and then for the west.
l. Hearings in any Cities.
The program now being carried out
in New York is typical. The first
three days have been devoted to en-
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license, and now the saloon-man' 8
property, due to one man s aTrog-
.ance, has been reduced to the
value of junk. -: !, n 81.
- When the mission revokes
the license of q saloon man who
has violated the law there is. no
reason for; complaint. The offend
err took the chance; he knew in
advance what the penalty would
be, and If: he loses the value of
his property through his viola
tion of the law he. has no one to
blame but himself. %' -. -.
But what. about the man who
not only obeys the law to the let
ter, but who complies with every
police order? Is lie ever to be
secure?E Shall his reward for
abiding by the law be the lpsspf
his license; just as law breakers
are used? T. = .:s%< s;:s<...~:-r :
:. IF Mr.. Hicken:'s purpose is to
gradually, cut down the number
of saloons and this is the means
by which it lis to, be done, ! he
shou Id be frank about it and give
the saloon keeper who has. been
law-abiding a chance to dispose
of his property before it becomes
so much Junk. .~4.
- In the Erickson case we under
stand he is the owner of the prop
erty and no brewery had any
strings on him, which is another
reason why it. is difficult to un-
;derstand Mr.. Hicken's attitude in
refusing to renew his license. y
s. Possibly there are too many sa.
looms; we think there are, but in
the process of elimination, it
would seem that Commissioner
:Hicken ought to give law abiding
saloon keepers the best of it, and
then should it come Time to can,
eel their licenses they should at
least be, given. ample warning $50
that they will have anssapportun.
ity Is dispose off f Their Hell property
at other than forced sales. II
pays to be fair in all things, and
more particularly in matterssthat
result in the practical confscation
of mans property-even: saloon
property ~ 49, - .:z:.~. .:>,:..s. :: =.
We think Mr.. Erickson and
Mr.. Dacey have just right to
be indignant over the arbitrary
action of Commissioner .Hicken.
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AT. OF N, ENDORSES
STRIKE At BROADWAY
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Duluth superior Delegates Retarn
. From Dos Moines Convention. !.
- :. Play. Important Part: :Thare. IT.,

l.. F.. Berger, president, and w. j.
Dutcher, secretary, or the Dufuth-Sn+
perior Musicians union, returned
Monday from the annual convention
of the American Federation of Musi-
clans at Des Moines where they at
tended as delegates representing the
local union. They declare the conven-
ton was great SUCCESS.
The two Twin Ports delegates
brought before the convention the
matter Of the lockout at the Broad
way theater in Superior. The cause
of the trouble was gone into
thoroughly, after which the conven-
ton endorsed the course of the Du-
luth Superior union. Unless the trou-
BILE is soon settled the. matter will be
taken up with every theater controlled
by the owners Of the Broadway.
Owen Miller, the father Of the
American Federation of Musicians.
was reelected secretary by unanimous
vote. Delegate butcher Of this city
introduced resolution granting to
Mr.. Miller an increase in salary from
$4,000 to 5000 a year, which carried
by almost unanimous vote. :"
. Joseph M. Weber, who served az
president of the A. F. of M.,, for many
years declined reelection. He is sue
ceeded by Frank Caruthers of Kan
sas City. Prof. Meters, once leader of
the Third Regiment band of this city,
was a delegate to the convention from
the Pacific coast. =:
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ent and emphatic-to the great harm
Of society, the discouragement of prog
ress,. the encouragement Of vice and
drunkenness, and the hlndrance of the
abolition of poverty. = ~ f.,
= Whatever may have obtained in
early days when land and opportunity
were free and apparently inexhausti-
BILE, it Is not. now true that vice and
drunkenness. cause poverty. Head
ache and heartache they cause, re-
morse, disease, and death, but not
Labor Gets the Least.
:. Time was in America when wealth
came largely from industry and thrift
though, there never was a time
despite the lying textbooks and
school readers, when those = who
worked hardest and lived meanest
thereby gained the most wealth.
But now, at ali events. wealth
comes mainly from monopoly, from
special privilege, from the '',lnearned
increment" of land values from idle
ness, scheming, bribery and theft And
poverty ii the other pole of the tangl-
ed ball. &s..u.>. .y.>. I'll. ~ y
If}vice and. drunkenness caused
poverty would not most OF the drunk-
ards and the vile be very poor, and
the rest Of, them in the process OF
becoming poor? But this Is not the
case. .5.$*.j.; 8. 81. s...ssjl +. ,.s. n.
Vice and. drum kenn4ss prevail much
more among the rich than the poor.
among those whose incomes year BY
year s. /, automatically N increase, for all
their Indulgence. ..s425 4E 's s.. IA.
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F
j. ". -Ih1PEAC ACIIaiENT
A|u||0Ta|[R|F'E||'QE|R|l|| N Il / |
&. !. JUDGE [ ! II IN DANGER / N
g., O.. 4
Dayton Of West Virginia Charged
By oongressman Nicely With
: Being Unfair Jurist. !.
~ gsSs $S i-- - - :. -------- ---sa I
SUPREME COURT Turns I.
. II. DOWN y HIS DECISIONS
Arbitrary Course Puts. Price on
Justice Poor Cannot Afford ).
d. .. to Appeal Cases. s,

d., ~ L.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-1mpeach-
ment proposals. are contained, in. q
resolution intr duced BY Representa-
tive Nicely, of West Virginia, which
asks the Judiciary com Haittee to con-
slider charges against Federal Judge
Dayton, who have been jailing West
Virginia workers on contempt pro-
ceedinES because of a miners strike
in that section The Representative
said he had received petitions from
5000 labortnE nen urging the removal
Of Judge Dayton, who5is charged with
the folIoWing:, ~. r = s. -. j
b IS That he has issued injunctions
4gainst labor unions, i which j. place
them beyond the. pale az the law, and
which make their .deliberative actions
conspiracy and their members: mis-
creants and felons: ~ -
That he has had. men and women
arrested On the sole, charge of ask
Ing other men TO Join the union;
; Surely Abused His Power.
:. That sby the use or injunction he
has prevented the sexercise of the con.
stitutional right Of the people to as
semble peaceably to petition for re-
dress of wrongs; s>f}} 6 : rs -
That under prosecution by con-
tempt proceedints, hes recently; found
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that his client WAS entitled to
know of the specific instances of
law violation y.ofsSsMhich. he. was
charged in orden4hat he might
have. an opportunity II TO-. ..5:* meet
them, but Hicken seemed quite
put. out that such, a request
should be made Pf. him. He de-
clared that the upcil$. was not
obliged to: give any good reason,
and that the: council could. grant
or refuse: to grant a license with
or without reason. 80 ." J..
Lieutenant Wilcox of West
Duluth was present at the hear
ing, and was quoted by Mr.: Dacey
as having said that nothing had
occurred :.duringSthe past year or
more in the tickson saloon
which was, in >vf9aation: Of either
the old liquor ordinance or the
new: code. = 81.
AS; this is the. only, license in
West Duluth to be taken away
Mr.: Dacey asked Lieutenant Viii
cox if tn e Eric kson saloon, was
the worst saloon lin that part of
the city. p: :Ehe officer replied !:
'"Theres is no worst saloon in
West Duluth ). they are all. obey
ing the law, and have been for
more than,a year,, 49,
Mr.. Dacey presented a petition
to the commissioners signed by
all but three. business men: within
two blocks of the saloon, certify
ing to the good character of Mr.:
Erickson; that ,hs had conducted
his place with entire satisfaction,
and declaring that it. would be
unjust and unfair if a renewal
license was not granted. They al,
SO joined II the petition for; the
granting .ofzaa. new license Ito
Erickson. The s,three business
men who did not 81 ggn the pet iition
|, were. not opposed TO the renewal.
IN addition q pst1tion .-was pre-.
sented by 93@ citizens in the imnae:
diate neighborhood. also praying
for renewal of the Erickson Ii
cense.> Many of these were prop
erty owners. :: 49, =. :, =
But Hicken stood like a rock
against Erickson; the other com
missioners in accordance with
their custom of granting to the
head of a division n any6o old thing
he might ask, voted against the
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Joseph shartel, Former Duluth
Alderman. and Union Labor
Man, Greets Old Friends.

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Joseph Shartel of Landis,. Sask., for-s
merly Of Duluth and at one time al
derman from the Fourth Ward in
this city, was a visitor here during
the week. Mr.. Shartel was well1known
In union labor: circles during his resi-
dence, here, having served with ability
as president of the Federated Trades
and Labor assembly. s#s5
: He was accompanied by Mrs. Shar-
tel, who underwent a surgical opera.
ton at Rochester. The operation was
q success. but it will be several months
before her health will be completely
restored. -
. Mr.. tShartel is in the. hotel business
at .Landis. He speaks highly of west
ern Canada and says that while they
have had some hard times in the west.
'he believes the tide has turned and
business is now looking up. He is
meeting with exceptional success in,
his business. While here he visited
among his old time friends. .2
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JUSTICE
ASK PRESIDENT TO
PROTECT STRIKERS
Mine Workers Officials in Color
ado Seek Nations Aid to Stop
Further Bloodshed.
JUDGE BEN LINDSEY
TELLS AWFUL STORY
Father Who Went to-, zap to Got
Son Saluted With NJ sss
Corpse. 49,

A telegram was received in Duluth
yesterday from the officers of the
United Mine Workers union in Col
orado urging the state federation Of
labor to protest to President Wilson
against the withdrawal of federal
troops from Colorado.
The telegram stated that the Col
orado legislature had adjourned by
passing only three bills. none of
which were aimed at settlement Of
the strike. The legislature voted a
bond issue of s1,oo0,O0o. Over $780,
debts already contracted by the mi
1itia. The balance will be used to
keep the militia in the strike zone.
The union officials fear that if the
present militia men of Colorado, most
of them gunner from the east, are
sent back to the strike regions, there
will be further slaughter of innocent
men. women and children. The pres
ence of federal troops would prevent
further blood she'd
A telegram in the name of the Min
nesota tate Federation of Labor was
sent to President Wilson urging that
federal troops be kept in the strike
district, and further that steps be
taken to force a federal receivership
of the Colorado mines.
Lindsey Fears Civil War.
Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver.
author Of the Beast and the Jungle" i"
accompanied by five Colorado women
are in Washington to beg President
Wilson not to withdraw the federal
troops from the Colorado strike zone.
Judge Lindsey asserted that civil
war would result if the regulars we're
withdrawn and replaced by militia
men.
THE true story of what occurred at
Ludlow is too horrible to print said
Lindsey. I'VE can only suggest the
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Hickep Might Have Good
But Saloon Man Is Entitled Charges Made Police
Against Him-n Purpose Law Abiding Saloon
w lists Should Bs =

The Labor World has taken no
part in the opposition to Com
missioner Hicken which has arisen
over his law enforcement policy.
We believe in law enforcement.
We have condemned the so-called
liberal element for keeping alive
an issue that they should help to
settle. Mr.. Hicken is entitled to
full credit for the effective man
ner in which he has compelled
a strict observance of the laws re-
1ating to the sale of liquor.
But to; a newspaper that wants
to. be fair on all subjects it looks
as if Commissioner Hicken is per-
mitting His zeal to blind his sense
Of right. He can not long be sup
ported by open minded people if
he assumes a dictatorial and :un-
fair attitude in the matter Of
treating with individuals engaged
in the liquor business who are
complying with the law.
At Tuesdays meeting of the
council W. F. Dacey, former as
sistant city attorney, appeared
before the commissioners and ask
ed for hearing in behalf Of Alex
j, Erickson, owner of a. saloon at
10, South Sixty-third avenue
West, whose license expires to-
day.: Commissioner Hicken had
announced that the license would
hot be renewed, but he would
furnish no specific reasons for his
refusal to issue the license.
Mr.. Dacey called upon the com.
missioner to make specific charges
against the owner of the: saloon
if he had any to make. Mr.. Hick.
en-. declared he was not. required
TO make any charges; that Erick.
son and his attorney were per.
mitted to. appear before the coun:
ell only as 9 ma tier of courtesy
sinceh the. council was the whole
sf5,arsstles s35asle % to who should be allowed
: to conduct saloons: r..
He1 stated,that he had made ar
Investigation" through his; police
officers, and it was found that
Eriekson's saloon was conducted
in an unsatisfactory manner and
declared: he could have been put
out Of business months ago, il
necessary. i,
j i Mr.. Dacey at this point insisted
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noverty- ty-stricken-nor Is vice in any
form common to- the poor. 4 :E.z.
= Of those vices of RIGHTEOUSNESS
which run to harmful perversiens the
very poor have scant knowledge If
any; they lack the education for it,
the safety of. comforts and 1uxuries
that, brings. the tedium which pre-
cedes it, the blaseness that begets it,
the passion for it, or the means to
indulge it. But its very nature vice
poor who graduate into it quickly
cease to be poor. s. .* {. n 4 b.
- The Poor's Only Vice.
Drunkenness is about the only vice
of the poor, yet even this indulgence
is less common with them than with
the rich. It does not seem SO to the
good ladies COT seither sex) who
would legislate us all into goodness
But that Is because the poor are
obvious when drunk while the rich
are only devious, and sheltered from
the vulgar eye, In their cups. 5
The poor 60 to jail when drunk;
the rich 90 to bed. The poor has
spent his. bed money for his 'jag 4 = -
or his household expenses and tears
to. SO. home, II he has one. 4 tits diff
feFent with the rich: . NJ q. ~ a .7.s5f t5 Il
i f ii Yet this glaring circumstance that
the poor nan has robbed hib family
or his landlord III order to- gain sthe
one exaltation known TO him or WI HIN
hiss reaoh, Ii quite enough tor, the
mental capacity .of sthpug htless phil.
iAfithro opiats@ a1ld pu lie mo lists. s Es
That the poor man has first been
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- :
.z.TrIfe sxSc.ltiv eo.nnaittee,s.of the r.d4
slaf.aatsd Trades and labor Assembly
held 9 special >msetIns early this week
and ant decided to canvass among 1.-The
merchants, OF. the, city. with the view
OF having them close their stores on
memorial, day. x z ty;<szsss: ~ J.
a committee was appointed to in
.tervfews, the local merchants and at
the hour .of-goinE to press all Of: the
leading merchants on o6uperior street
agreed to close excepting the Oak Hall
Clething, store: This firm would not
consent to close, but 1T is, believed the
management will yield when ;: the
wholesome public sentiment in behalf
ct observing the day realized. :. !.
IA committee from the e*Retaii Clerks
union, headed by President James
Murray. il also visiting the merchants
and the members speak highly OF the
cordial manner In which tthey are re-
ceived, ,and the cheerful way in which
the merchants acquissced in the re-
quest: OF, the union. = Only the Oak
Hall people hesitated; and, as we have
said, they may yet yield. ~
All working folks and their friends
are urged to do no shopping on Mem
orials day, Saturday May 80. Help the
clerkssto have a rest. It will do. them
good. and it will do .you good, too.
Patronize*no Store that Keeps open on
that, day. This is..sone matter upon
which most Duluth merchants and
working people agree. Let every one
! be with the crowd, iii refusing to do
any shopping on Memorials1lay. 1T is
Americas most sacred holiday.
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MORE "HELLO" GIRLS
TO ORGANIZE UNION

SCRANTON, Pa, May 22.-Opera-
tors at both. telephone exchanges in
this city have signified their willing
ness to join a union which will rem
edy the "split shift" and other OBJ
jectionable working conditions.
, The !'split Shift means that an
operator, although not working over
kept on the job ten and more. hours
the legal limit of hours "a week, is
every day, her time off coming in the
middle :of her work, which is of. no
use for recreation or rest.
{ The advances made by, Boston or
ganlzed' telephone girls are being
pointed to-: as an illustration : of the
power: of unity. :,
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CALIFORNIA UNIONS
TO" SIZE UP JUDGES

SAN FRANCISCO, May 22.-Judges
seeking re-eleotiop will have their
records investigated and made public
by the law and legislative, committee
Of the Labor Council, with a view
to letting men and women Of. labor
know the attitude of the judiciary
toward the workers. u: =. ssT-..,s. ~. r
In, speaking on this question, Presi-
dent Gallagher, who introduced the
resolution, said: I'VE do not ask the
judiciary to subyert the laws to con-
forms to labor's views, but we do. in.
sist, upon fair play and justice, and
do desire to have every Judge Get the
human viewpoint of each case that
comes before him" 5=.=*- ]
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! - j" -SECEsSSION-
| .DEBs.As;Iks|V / ! |; MINERS | | \
T0'QU|I||T 4. Of.
Former Socialist Candidate for
President Writes Characteristic
1. Letter to Big Union.
WOULD BREAK DOWN
GREAT FEDERATION
Says It Is Worm. Eaten and Time
Is At Hand to Form s One Big
5.= Union for Workers. =

Eugene ", Debs, founder OF the one
time American Railway Union. organ
izer Of the. Socialist Democratic party
and later. an active pa rticipant II the
formation Of the IndustriaI workers
fof the world. now adyiaess that an
other attempt be made to form Zone
big union for al workers. f
In a letter to the Mine Workers
union, Mr.. Debs in characteristic
style, as he has done for more than
twenty years, attacks, the American
Federation Of Labor: declares it is,
worm -eaten and dead, and advises
that a new organization Be launched
in its place. * f .s - tss54. 8. ~
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4: ;:EE;::0FLL:.z.N N|AkEsB|Me;
GAINS DURING YEAR
-.
69,756 New Members We're Ad-
mitted During Past IL. Months.
Federation Is Active.

WASHINGTON. May 22.-Reports
showing a gain of 6e,756 members of
affiliated unions for April, 1914. over
April, 1913, were made public today
by Secretary Morrison, following. the
final meeting of the executive council
Of the American Federation of Labor.
The total paidup membership for 1914
was 2,069,157; that of April, 1913, was
1,999,401.
Secretary Morrison's report showed
that in the seven months of the fisc al
year ended April 80 there were log
charters issued. The treasury balance
on April 80 was s105, ,09s.O1.
The council formallys protested
against ratification of the Ipterna-
tional Convention of Safety at Sea,
signed in London last January
The council determined to support
the contentious of the marble work.
ers in their jurisdictional dispute with
the bricklayers and masons.
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COAST LUMBER JACKS - /:
DEMAND 8.HOUR DAY

BELLINGTON. Wash, May o.
Asking for eight hour pay for an
eight-h hour day, time and one-half for
overtime, and a minimum wage of
1925 per day, the International Union
Of Shingle Weavers, Saw Mill Workers
and Woodsmen has addressed COM
munications to the logging camp
operators, and lumber and shingle
manufacturers in this section. :,
The action of the union follows a
meeting held at Aberdeen, Wash, re-
Gently, when it was voted to- ask for
the eight-hour day, with a minimum
wage of 1926 and to demand that this
be granted an May 1, if an effort to
reach a satisfactory agreement with
the employers falls, - -: