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labor is not adequate for their sup
port. : -. ). 3 7sfS3 - s.
A young lady presents herself to the
manager of a department store, and
she is told that she must dress 'likesa q
lady, and act like lady, live like
a lady" on IS or. less per week. Let
us say she can pay her rent, board.
clothes and car fare out of SIS per
week. This is not all young girl OF.
1S wants. These girls are Just girls
They love pretty things, they like.
amusements, but where are these to
come from? One story will. suffice.
One night in the levee district of Chi
cago two women, loving fallen girls,
were trying to talk to some. girls
about leading a higher life, and afte-
the girls had listened for some timess
very patiently, one OF them, acting as
spokesman. for the rest, said Don't
waste your time on us. Go down antis
help raise the wages Of the girls who,
work forg$5 or less. per week. From
sad experience they knew.
Wages and Morals.
We do not intend to intimate that
all the women who toll are Immoral.
or irreligious. but we have seen the
growth Of immortality aud the lessen
ing Of religious ties upon this class OF
toflers. and we must, therefore, think
there Is a vital Connection. You ask
what Ia the remedy? That Is q hard
question. Undeniably women are In
industry to stay. That being the case,
they should be paid for the services
that they reaf s. -
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Confined on Page 8.
DECLARES SEIZURE
OF MAIL UNLAWFUL
United States Supreme Court
Holds It Illegal for Police Of
ficer to Seize Mail.

WASHINGTON. March '13.-The
United States Supreme court. has un-
animously held that 1t is illegal tor a,
police officer to seize letters or papers
of a person charged with crime and
use them to convict the person charE-
ed unless said officer is properly arm
ed with a search warrant.
The decision was made in the case
of Fremont Weeks, a Kansas City ex-
press messenger, who was charged
with using the mails to further a lot
terry scheme. He was arrested at a
railroad station by one group of po-
licemen, while another group searched
his home without a warrant. The
court held this action illegal and a
new trial for Weeks was ordered be-
cause his Constitutional guarantees
were violated.
The court also held that a citizen
may prevent private papers which
have been unlawfully obtained from
him from being used as evidence at
his trial. This he can do by going
into court before the trial and de-
manding their return.
1t is declared that criminal prosecu,
tions in the United States will be re-
Volutionized by this decision, which
marks the end of prosecuting officials
seizing papers without authority and
using them against persons accused of
crime.
This decision also reverses a former
ruling, made in the case of a New
York gambler, where it was held that
the court was not compelled to ques-
tion a. witness as to how he had OBJ
tanned possession of papers, but would
admit them as evidence, rega rdless of
now they were secured.
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BY REV. W. S. LOCKHART.

Among the ancient Hebrews the
grocer pledged himself to honor,
support and maintain his wife" The
bride, if without dowry, was to do
all her housework. If she had one
slave she need not grind, bake or
wash clothes; If two, she was exempt
from cooking and nursing her chill
dren; If three, from spreading the
bed and working in wool; If four, she
might sit in the chair" and look
after the household: Frequently
they were empowered by their hus-
bands to manage shop or store and
frequently widows were appointed
guardians over their children. OF
all ancient peoples the Hebrews hon
ored, their women most, and as a
result many stars of the first mag
nitude are to be found in the galaxy
Of the crown of this nation. Theirs
has been to furnish characters for
. the inspiration Of the world.
They Work Everywhere.
At the present time women are to
be found in nearly all trades, and in
most Of them she has legitimate
sphere. The rapid increase Of women
in the realms of industry in the last
twenty years has been one unparal-
leled in. the history Of the world. In
the past ten years she has increased
faster than the population, faster
than men and children, and We are
inclined 10 think in the past few
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SLAVERY: REVEALED
IN Nc0L0RAD0 MINES
Startling Testimony Given Be-
Congressional Committee h :
Coal Inquiry. :
LIBERTY IS DENIED;
WORSE THAN RUSSIA
Blacklist System Kept BY oper-
ators Exposed-Coal Districts
Managed by Tyrants.

DENVER, Colo, March 1S.-(Spe-
cial Correspondence.) .)-Southern Col
orado today is in a state of anarchy.
Men are held slaves in the coal mines.
terrorized by hnurderous mine guards
and robbed of practically every cent
Of the small pittance they are paid.
The striking coal miners are intimi-
dated and murdered by the hired
assa ssins of the operators. denied
their constitutional rights by the Mill
tia of the state Of Colorado. These
and many other outrages were
brought out by the congressional COM
mittee which closed its months in
vestigation of the Colorado coal strike
Saturday.
Colorado's Liberty (?)
For years the coal miners of the
state have maintained that they had
less personal liberty, less rights in
Colorado than have the people OF
Russia For the same length Of time
the papers of the state have denied
these reports.
If there was any doubt in the minds
Of the people Of Colorado as to the
real conditions in the coal fields those
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tAo eAEAc ~oEheU III uahp TOOm, or
else in one filled with dust, and the
result usually was lung trouble with
In q few years. Nearly all the
matches. are made. by women and
girls, who, fsem the breathing of the
phosphorous poisoning, are invariab-
'ly weakened in short time. Add
to these the painting of meat cans In
the packing houses, the enameling of
kitchenware and the winding of, tele-
meat in packing houses where the
temperature is SO degrees Fahrenheit
ten hours per day.. add to these tho
fact that large per cent Of our ready
made clothing is made in the sweat
shops and factories where woman Ia
Dor constitutes 80 per cent. and you
have something OF conception of in :
dustry at the present time.
Woman Competes With Man. ),
- The first thing TO be noted is that
woman labor means competition with
men and always lowering OF the
wage scale. In some Of the trades this
amounts to little or nothing. but in
our own Southland when we remem-
Der that Il per cent Of the laborers
in the cotton. mills are women, then
W. may realize something of the tre-
righteousness of this problem. There
are very few lines of woman labor
organized, and nearly all attempts at
organization UP to this time have been
more or less failure. For instance.
the girls who work In department
stores are, on 4 an average, rs years
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Numerous legislative attempts have
been made to correct this. Four years
ago. in the state of Illinois, a bill was
introduced - Sk> legislature to the
effect that when women did as much
same wages, but the bill was defeat
ed, and so it has been wherever tried.
"A Serious Phase. i H.:
Here we touch one Of the serious
phases Of woman labor. The old time
home life of the south is rapidly dis
appearing in our industrial centers,
and the sons and daughters alike are
entering the industrial realm. Let me
draw you typical picture. There is
emerging from tenement house a
man, woman and baby. The baby 5i9
taken to the nearby settlement house
and packed in a day nursery, there TO
be cared for, looked after and taught
and trained by some one other than
its mother. The husband goes to the
factory, the wife to the mill. The day
of toll is, passed; they eat dinner at
separate places, at some working
mans or. working woman's restaur-
ant. the mother gets her baby and
together they enter a cold, cherries
home, no blazing hearth, no cheering
welcome, no plays or romps upon the
floor with baby; but all out Of protec-
stion from the cold and exhausted from
the. day efforts. go to bed, ) or else
where. or to q saloon and there spend
the evening. Il: rs III ..ssl5
d little ater. when the child ( u
larger and it 81 is . not admitted into
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OF age. A majority OF these girls are
not compelled to work for a living
and they thus are not concerned about
labor unions for girls, because they.
are intent upon matrimony a. little
later and are only doing this as a
temporary matter. Then again, they
are "unskilled," nd in most, in
stances make no effort at becoming
skilled labor and thus they are un-
fitted for large increases in salary.
From this it may be readily seen what
hardship is worked upon a girl who
comes. in from the country and be-
gins work: at department store with
the understanding that she must
make good" In. the factories the
competition with men is we'll Illus
trated in little incident which took
place in Chicago a few years ago. q
For One-Half the Wage. r
In a machine shop there Were $50
laborers. One Of these operated a
powerful machine making railroad
bolts. This machine was supposed to
make one bolt every other revolution.
For years it was thus operated, and
at last the grown daughter Of this
man, who was nimble Of fingers, with
a little experience found that she
could make one bolt every revolution,
! or r1twice as many as the father. In a
short time the father was displaced
by the girl, ana while she earned
twice as much, she was paid half the
sslm her father received. This 10 a
common Il occurrence in the factory
districts OF our country.
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namiters'T was this: 70 A year before
McManigal set off his dynamite in
Superior, the News Tribune published
a story Of a. dynamite explosion re-
ported to have: occurred at Two Har-
bors. The Duluth Herald on the same
day printed anothefsstory denying the
truth Of the News Tribune's story. An
investigation :showsd that no explo-
sion had taken pIace. How such a
story, as was printed: in the News
Tribune, was givepaout has ever been
q mystery. s>, =,
Clippings toMcNamara. $
Mr.. Mooney sentssto Mr.. McNamara
clippings from the two Duluth papers
containingthe stortesnf the Two. Har-
bors explosion" Each story had
reference to certain s.labor troubles
the American Bridxe company had
with the Structural Iron workers
union: Mooney sent. the clippings as
matters Of news lust as any loca,
secretary of any trade union might
have done under Ike circumstances,
:, Now. when the Superior explosion
occurred it was the4most natural thing
in the world for Mooney to send the
newspaper clippings containing the
account of the matter to McNamara,
just as he had donesone year previous
~ when the false story about the TWO
Harbors explosion" was published. IT
was equally natural for him to say:
I'VE had real dynaniters here this
time, not the kind that were here a
year ago." ss..,
Mooney Had.No Malice.
That. Mooney had no malice is evi-
dent from. the language of his post
script. The newspaper story contain
ed an account of the effect of the
explosion. 1t stated that one of the
upright pieces of steel was raised
from the abutment and settled ON the
ground in, q slant direction; but suf-
ficient to prevent the upper structure
from. coming down. Mooney called
this upright piece The .".leg.''' 1T was
luck" he said, that the leg landed
where it did or the whole bridge
would have come down" Had he been
connected with the conspiracy as
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FRED MOONEY IS INNOCENT; HE "
SHOULD NOT BE SEMITIC PRISON


The last fight has by no means
been made for Fred Mooney, the for
1ner secretary Of the Duluth union
Of Structural Iron workers, who was
convicted OF conspiracy by a federal
jury in Indianapolis Is months ago
and sentenced to- one year in the
Leavenworth prison. The United
States Supreme court Monday refused
to review the cases Of the ,:2s iron
workers. =. 49,
Mr.. Mooney has not been advised
by his attorneys of their next move.
It is not believed they will give up
without forcing the matter in the su-
preme court in some other. way,
Surely the: highest court in America
can NOT successfully close every ave-
nue. of approach usually open to- Il
Not for Guilty Men.
in ordinary appeals:
We make no fight and offer NO
apology for the guilty men among the
convicted iron workers. The Labor
World still maintains its belief in the
innocence Of Fred Mooney. Knowing
his case: as we do we affirm that MI
OAOolcy Is u VlCtlul OIL ClTCuHlStanceSs
that he did only what any other secre-
tary Of trade union would do;~ that
we would have done had we been in
Mr.. MONEYS position, and we had
the: confidence Mr.. Mooney had in
the honesty and integrity Of J. j
Mcnamara. IS
His Only Crime.
The court of appeals held that
MONEYS participation in the cor.
spiracy may we'll be inferred from
the letters and circumstances in evi.
dence." The only letters used .agains,
him were two in number. A post.
script in one said: I'VE had some rea!
dynamiters here the other night, not
the kind that were here a. year ago
but the real thing was done. The
damage was not so great, but it was
luck the leg landed where it did
otherwise the bridge would have
come down and the damage woulc
have been great. am enclosing
clippings
What Mooney, meant by real dy'
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charged it is not likely that he would
have referred to the fact that the
damage was slight in the manner in
which he did. 1t will be noted that
there is no ~~~~~ssion Of bitterness
in his comment on the explosion. II
there were any bitterness about him.
he would not have used the word
luck" - -. ,,. o., :
Tactics Not ''Tricks."
The second letter introduced against
Mooney contained tho following lang
uage: Il can not see where we are
going to win unless we try some new
) trick" This was written to Mr.. Nc
Namara and had reference, to a. nom
union firm temporarily. engaged at
the head Of the lakes. Mr.. Mooney
declares that the Burns detectives,
1 in copying the letter, inserted the
word trick" for "tactics.'' During
the trial he insisted that the wore
was tactics and not trick" =
In any event this is immaterial.
Mooney had been trying to induce
Mcnamara to .agree to. permit mem
bers Of the union to work for con-
tractors here, provided they would
employ union men only, irrespective
of whether or not they were unfair
throughout the country. Mr.. Mooney
in his letter refers to this as local
option" Had Mr.. MONEYS reques;
been complied with the building
trades lockout in this city would not
have taken place.
Only Evidence Against Him.
-. The only evidence presented against
Mr.. Mooney by the government is
given in the letters quoted above. We
submit to every unbiased reader OF
The Labor World that there is not
enough in the two letters to send him
to Jail. II this we're not a contest in
which union labor men were involved
his case would have been thrown out
of court long ago.
Duluth friends of Mooney are pre-
pairing to request President Wilson to
grant him a pardon. Mooney is not
very enthusiastic about such a move.
He is innocent, and only, asks for a
fair chance to esta blish hi4 innocence:
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RAILROAD DEPARTMENT.
TO HOLD CONVENTION

ST. LOUIS, March 1s.-Officers of
the Railroad Employees Department
of the A.. F. of L. have issued a call
for the second biennial convention of
this department., which will be held in
the Labor Temple at Kansas City, Mo.
beginning Monday morning, April IS.
The basis of representation will be
one delegate from each craft from
each railroad system. ,,. =
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TIMERS RAISE WAGES.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, March 49,
Sheet Metal Workers union, No. 140,
and the Master Timers association
have signed an agreement that calls
for S cent per hour increase. to take
effect April 8. % 49,. -
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PRINTERS RAISE WAGES.

CORs1CANA, Tex, March 10
Printers in this city have raised wages
$3.50 a week. The agreement runs
for a period of five years, and in>
cludes better working conditions.
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The Washington times., 1914-09-08


In order that the impatience Of the
reader may be curbed, we will tell
as much in a nutshell as possible and
give all in the first chapter. Two
points stand out prominently:
First, the favorite ballroom dances
of last winter. the tango, the hesita-
tion and the maxixe, will be as pop
ular as ever this year, but each OF
them will be reduced to a simplified
and standardized form. And. sec
ond. two brand new dances will be
seen everywhere, both invented by
New York dancing masters. One of
these dances is called La Russo: the
other is the Hungarian social dance.
Both were shown to the writer at
the convention in the Hotel jes-
tic yesterday. They were found TO
be charming and-apparently-no
difficult to learn.
How the Tango Will Be Danced.
But first what's going to happen
to our old friends. Tango & Co?
Jf you would bc up to the min
ute in your dancing, avoid the dip.
Hold your partner loosely. Don't
dance with beuds touching or
close together. There must be no
swinEfnE of the upper part of the
body. Finally, remember TINT IL
is entirely pOssibIe-and much bet
ter form-to tango to classical mu-
sic Instead of raStimc.
So much for the dance don'ts.
But can you not describe in de-
tail the steps of the correct, stan
dardized tango. maXiXe and hesi-
tation?" Louis II. Chalif, the New
York vice president Of the Ameri-
can Society Of professors OF Dan
cling. was asked. And Mr.. Chalif
obligingly complied.
''Properly danced. the tango con-
sists OF four steps" he began. The
first is a march step. This is fol
lowed by the cOrtes and double
Cortss. COrtes is Spanish and
means literally cut In dancing il
denotes short step. The third step
in the tango Is el medic luna. the
Ealf-moOn, to perform which the
dancers move in d semi-circle. The
fourth and last step is ell passio.
"In the standardized mxxixe
there nre eight movements. The
first is the promenade; the SECOND,
the single arch, where each dancer
rnises ono arm above his bead, the
hand claspfnG thut of his partner;
the third movement L. the skating
step, long siidinS step, she
fourth movement Is the twinin.
skating step. la the NTH move
ment, called In cOIuettr, each part
ner dances a few steps Ia one side
OF the other, while the hands re-
mnip cIssp~d. The sixth move
mcnt fs the double arch where
all four arms arc raised; the sew
ep,h movement, the spinninE atep,
the eighth and final movement, la
naxixe itself.
The hesitation has only four fig
ures-first the side hesitation: sec
ond, the forward hesitation: third.
the butterfly, weaving movement
from side to side. and fourth, one
hesitation step, three waltz steps and
a turn.
forms of the three standard ball
room dances. The fox trot is simply
modified turkey ITot. and IL is
doubtful if IL will be danced to any
great extent next winter. The lu lu
fado is variation of the maxixe
and will have a certain amount Of
popularity. La furlana and to tao
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nm audible tap with the heel. twice
repeated. TLcn take Two runntn"
steps and hrin- the heels together
twice in the rhikoSS. Then each
partner must turn away ir"" the
other and do shr same steps ''epa-
rateIy. one hand behind the head.
the other placed smarti> on ti;e
hip. Then cnch swings twice to
the left. they meet In the open pc
SItiOu and dance forward. husSar
fashion. They two STEP TO one side,
click heels again for the chtHoss.
turn quickly and dance forward
backward. aud sideways In the
Hungarian trot. To make 'he dance
most effective the music should hc
played rather >i",viH.''
II sounds complicated. p"rhapS. hu
1t really isn't. and II somehow c"m
hines gyrsy glee with ballroom Crac
and seenrlineSs. It's really the pret
tieSt new dance yet.
The Washington times., 1914-09-08
DEATHS

Du LANEY-On Monday. September Z. 1914,
at 2:55 D. m. at the residence of his son.
c. $. Du Laney. 2l2 Eighth street north
east. Washington, ID. c.. Rev. JAMES
HERVEY. aged seventy-eight years. be-
loved husband OF Sarah v. Du Laney (nee
Shipley).
Funeral services at Mt. Vernon Place NJ.
r. Church South. Ninth and K streets
northwest Thursday, September 10 at 1850
a. m. Friends and relatives respectfully
invited to attend. Interment In Loudon
Park Cemetery. Baltimore. Nd, at $50 ..
m.
MUNCK-On Saturday. September 5. 1914. at
10 D. m, EDWARD C.. beloved husband Of
Lena VI. Munck, in his sixty-second year.
Funeral on Wednesday, September .. at
O'Clock. from his late residence. s0<
Fourteenth street northwest. Interment in
Rock Creek Cemetery. Friends and rela-
tives invited.
Baltimore papers please copy)
SCHoRR-Suddenly. on Sunday. September
s, 1914. at $50 p. m. JOHN, beloved Ius-
band OF the late Mary Schorr. and father
OF William e Schorr. Of $50 Gresham place
northwest
Funeral from chapel Of Frank Geier's
Sons, 1113 Seventh street northwest. on
Wednesday. September .. at 2:3o .. m.
Relatives and friends are invited. Inter-
ment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
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Marriage Licenses
Deaths.

Edward C. Munck. s. years. 4sH Fourteenth
street northwest.
FIorrie s. owens. 10 years, Sibley Hospital
George Bultman. 10 years, Government Hos
pital for the Insane.
Mary A Chapman, IS years, 14l1 v street
northwest.
Eugenie H. Lebschutz. 81 years. Garfield
Hospital.
John Schorr, g. years. 1905 e street north
west
Albert Kirchner. 50 years. 500 Maryland ave-
nue.. northeast.
Katharine Larcombe. n years. ns Seventh
street southeast.
Gerard Florence, s months. Providence Hos
pital.
Robert F. White, months. 21s Third street
northwest.
Warren W. Bowles. months. 7o2 H street
northwest.
Joseph E. Paxton. . months. 1o14 Thirty-frst
street northwest.
Nora washington. IS years. IA Third street
southwest.
Robert Sears. IS years. 2ocs First street
southwest
Lizzie Anderson, "a years. 7 Alex court north
west
Jane Davis. 81 years. 1o7 Knox avenue. Gar
field, d. C.
Marie johnson. II months. Freedmen's Hos
pital.
The Washington times., 1914-09-08
New York Dancers Decree
T1v0 Nezv Steps for Winter
One Called La Russo and the Other Is the Hungarian Social
Dance Both Charming and Apparently Not
Difficult to Learn.
By GARDNER MACK.
By FLORENCE E. YODER

The time has GOMEZ the Haru sad to talk Of many things,
"Of ships and sealing of cabbages and kings
The waus usual perfectly right but as there had
enough cdbbage and kings and ships and sealing
censorship the only thing left to dssect by the akeu pub
lie is the shoe or foot question:
Despite the dunpeoping of the there pho
that back of all there badly
concealed sneaug desire off and whisper
SAY, knoW all that, but WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO
DANCE THIS WINTER"
Don't feel about it, has the impulse is
Perfectly NATURAL and Just because the has crowded Car
onto the third and forth all the dance
question is going to be entirely ignored
The American Society Professors of Dancing which concluded
its thiepenh annual convention Nep York yesterday
moved the question: their
set forth words far pronouncabie
foreign Word that could be mentioned this writing.
Louis H. Chal the president of society," given