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United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
DUNCAN REPORTS
TYPOS PROGRESS
Arbitration Eliminates Former
Expense of Strikes
During Past Year l. 7. u. Has Added
16 New Unions and 1906 Members:
iTotal Funds Reach $929, $3.50

General advances in every department,
of tie International Typographical
Union is the dominant sentiment of In
terpational President james NJ Dun
cans report just issued from headquar-
ters at Indianapolis. During the past
year many new wage scales have been
negut iated, and the following other
gains are noted. Membership. 1904 !;
new unions, 16; increase in funds, sl32,-
40S.2i making the total to date 1929,
35S.sO; increase in pension fund, S55,-
$685.; increase in mortuary fund, S49, :
44l.sG
Dsclssing "Old Age Pension and Nor
tuary Features" President Duncan says:
"The manifest advantages of cheap
and thoroughly effective management
have from the outset warranted the be-
lief that complete success awaited both
these ventures. Time has shown the
wisdom of the forecast. 1t is only
needed to consider casually the heavy
prinhi and constant expenses that must
be borne by regular insurance companies
~ perceive the simplicity and security
of salr forms of relief. It is not the
leai4 worthy feature of these that
prom tness of payment is the invaria-
bic ~ e, and here if anywhere those who
give 'omptly give doubly."
Arb ration is discussed as follows:
80 by any means to be regarded as
an .<ntire novelty in the labor move
menf, the principle of arbitration, con-
sideFing its boundless possibilities, must
be conceded to have met rather tardy
accef tance. Such is the force of habit
that long after it was demonstrated
beyond doubt that strikes We're costly
provocative of retaliation, rarely com
pletely successful, union men stuck to
the iancient procedure. Ocular demon
stration has slowly converted many ad-
vocates Of the former method and
eDough Roadway has been made to en-
eoIrFsa the belief that arbitration once
fairly tried will not be rejected. The
experience of the International Typo
graphical Union since its adoption of ar
bitration as an article of faith has
brought the expected blessings, and it
should be our constant endeavor not
only 10 extend its scope, but to see that
il sball never be said that in this most
saersd OF contracts we have ever done
less than rise to the full appreciation
of our obligation.'
Among other recommendations made
by President Duncan to the sixtieth con-
vention. which meets next week in
Providence, is that the priority law n.
to giving out of situations in printing
offices under jurisdiction of the /. 7. U
be npesled. This law has been in op.
eratipn for a number of years and wa.
ada ted to prevent foremen showing un,
due favoritism in the giving out of sit.
uations.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
MUST TAKE STAND

some Socialist publications have fire.
queutly denounced the policy of Samuel
Gcmpers. who is charged with appealing
to labor to Reward your friends and re-
buke your enemies" 1t seems little
out of place for Socialist publications to
denounce Gompers while condoning or
fiuding excuses for the perfidy of So
called Socialist administration in Butte.
Mont.
The Socialist press will be forced to
60 On record relative to the administers.
ton in Butte, and side-stepping or ignor-
ing the lawlessness and anarchy which
disEraced Butte under Mayor Duncan
viii not crown the Socialist party with
halo of glory.
The Socialist party, through its press,
must stand out in the open and declare
in ", uncertain language where it stands
on the question of riot. "direct action
and "sabotage."-Miners' Magazine.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
HIGH WAGE POINTS LAST YEAR
San Francisco Leads All Industrial Cen
tiers for Wage Increases.

The average rate of wages per week
in forty of the leading cities of the
United States for more than sixty of
the principal industries was higher on
May Is, 1918, than on May Is, 1912, with
the single exception of millwork carpen-
tiers. which showed no change, says a
statement isued lately by the bureau of
labor statistics. The gratest average in
crease was for marble settlers, which
was &C per cent.
The highest scale per hour paid in
Nav, 1918, in the following trades was
a. follows:
Bricklayers. s7Is cents in Dallas and
San Francisco; carpenters, &c cents in
Chicago: hod carriers, so cents in Port
land, Salt Lake City and San Francisco;
painters, 65 cents in Chicago; plasterers,
s7is cents in San Francisco; plumbers
and gas filters. SlA cents in Seattle;
structural ironworkers, 10 cents in San
Francisco; stonecutters, 20 cents in
Portland; iron molders, so cents in San
Francisco; compositors English news
papersl, day work. IS cents in Seattle.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
Jeff Dauis, the King of Hobos
Puts O. K. on City of Denuer
Obeate Members of Western Federation Conuenton Passes
the Hat and Then Takes Side-door Pullman for the
National Hobo Reunion in Chicago This Week

"Eh, giuk, what dye tink O. dat for
whizzing bit O. oratorys"
you go for me, bo, all the way down
the pike"
Thus did jeff Davis, King of the
Hobos," conclude erack-'o-jack ten
minutes speech in the Western Fedora
tion of Miners convention here last Fri
day and gain approval from Vice Presi-
dent Charles Z. Mahoney, who was pre-
siding at the time. Then Jeff passed
around Ills hat and was $2s.l5 richer by
reason of stopping off in Denver en- route
from his headquarters in Seattle to
Chicago, where the International Tin
Grant Workers Union of Hobos of
America is holding its annual reunion
this week.
Feeling so well satisfied with the re-
ception extended by the miners dele
gates, Davis administered the hobo obli-
CATION and declared them all members
of his union. He told them the word
hobo" is one OF the highest compli-
ments that can be paid to a man, since
.it is a contraction of homo bonus 4"
which is the Latin for good man."
According to Davis 1000 delegates
will attend the Chicago reunion from
every point of the compass, coming in
side-door pullmans, on the rods, riding
the blind baggage and possibly few
timid ones hitting the ties" for it is
against the principles of the organiza-
tion to pay railroad fare, even when
members have the money. He predicted
the 1915 reunion would be held in Dem
yer, as he likes the town and says camp
life in this region during summer
months is superior to any spot on the
tourists map.
Does Some Splendid Work
Davis has been the international presi-
dent of the Hobos' Union for the past
three years He is very proud of his
position and his organization and what
it has done since il was founded by him
self and ]. FADE How of st. Louis. "the
millionaire tramp" l3 years ago.
Just 10 give you an idea OF what We
have been doing / want to say that
since took charge of the organization, n
said Davis, Eve have sent over 600 run
away boys back TO their families and
have induced more than 1000 men to re-
turn 20 their wives and those depending
upon their support. Since the first Of
the year We have got something like
5000 men out of jails-men who had
simply been arrested because they did
not have any money.
The hobo is a man who is looking for
an opportunity to work and to better
himself. He is different from the tramp
who takes the stand that the world owes
him living, and from the bum who be-
longs to the home guard and spends his
time loafing about barrel houses and
places OF that character. real hobo
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08

At the annual convention of the Min
ncsota State Federation of Labor, held
in Duluth, the following inspiring trib-
ute 70 President Gompcrs and the Amer.
ican Federation of Labor was presented
by Delegate Cornelius Quincy from the
st. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly,
and was enthusiastically and unani-
mcusly adopted by both the committee
on resolutions and the convention:
True to its strong professions, in
spring traditions. pure purposes and
lofty aims. the Minnesota State Feder-
alton of Labor. in annual convention as
semblcd, once mopc declares its full con-
fidence in and unwavering loyalty to
the American Federation of Labor. its
peerless head, Samuel Gompers. who has
so long and so wisely guided its activi-
ties, and his official colleagues. This
State Federation of Labor proclaims its
pride in being connected with a parent
stem of such robust vigor, immeasura-
bic usefulness and glorious history.
The American Federation of Labor
has illumincd the world with the blazon-
ry Of its great achievements. The eight
hour day. increased wages, better work
ing conditions, sanitary workshops. fac
tory inspection, safety devices, compen-
sation for injuries in the line of or
death benefits. the abolition of child la
Dor in large measure. war on sweat
shops leading rapidly to their extcrmina-
tion, free school books, compulsory cdu-
cation, vocational training, restriction OF
the hours during which railroad work.
men can be continuously employed, pro-
lection Of miners in their hazardous oc-
cupation, the reduction of the evils Of
convict labor to a minimum, sane and
helpful employment for the inmates of
prisons, radical change in the attitude
of courts toward the working classes, the
establishment Of an annual holiday in
recognition of the usefulness and dig
nifty Of labor, the increased and increas-
ing influence for good of the labor press
these are some of the gifts of the
American Federation of Labor to the
people of the United States. They arc
all triumphs for human well-bcing and
have all been won without violence
through the rcsistlcss might of enlight-
ened public opinion. which the great
American trade union movement has
done more than any other agency among
men to instruct, convince and arouse to
united and effective action.
THE American Federation of Labor
finds its mission in the domain of holy
endeavor. II seeks the. abasement Of
pride, the redress of wrong, the vindi-
cation of an unshieldcd right, the cxalta-
tion of the lowly, equal and exact JUS
tice to all classes Of the population be-
forc the law. But Il moves not to the
field Of conflict with bayonets and bat
teriss and troops Of the line. Its soul
responds not to the blast Of the air
piercing trumpet It starts not at the
rude summons Of the doubling drum. II
eschcws At once both the panoply and
the destructivencss Of war. Its arma-
msnt Il made Of uplifting ideas and ita
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
Notable Tribute Paid Gompers
By Minnesota State Federation

battles are won by their diffusion. con.
centration into disciplined potencies and
practical application to the affairs of
everyday life.
This great leavening and benevolen,
organization works noiselessly and un-
ostentatiously. but It works constantly,
and. while its progress is often unnoted
and at times even ridiculed. its advance
mcnt is steady. In our federal Con-
gress. now sitting. il has IL members
enrolled where few years ago it had
none. And that Congress has shown, as
none before it has ever done. that it
considers the working classes of the
country as among its chief objects of
concern. and their relief from injuries
and cruelty which have so long and so
bitterly oppressed them as one of its
most important duties
The American Federatio nof Labor is
the only institution in this country that
has worked for such results and has Civ
en- all its energies and resources solely
and singly to their accomplishment. Like
it, the Minnesota State Federation of
Labor can look the whole world square
ly in the face and point to its record
of service to humanity without a tremor
or blush for anything it has ever
done or attempted. Both can rest secure
ly on the principles they proclaim and
practice, all of which have the approval
and support of all true men and women
who are sincerely interested in the well
fare of their fellows.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08

is willing to work and will do every
thing to better his condition"
One of the principal matters to be dis.
cussed at the coming convention at Chi
cago, Davis says, will be the modifica.
tion of the vagrancy laws in the various
states. These laws, he AYERS, are unjust
They enable the police to throw man
into jail simply because he has nc
money and because he is unable to OBJ
tain employment.
Davis says there will be more than
1000 delegates from 43 locals, represent
ing more than 100000 men who have
taken the hobo's oath, at the convention
The anarchistic element will not be toll
Grated at the convention. Several years
ago Emma Goldman and DR.. Ben Reit-
man, Davis says, attempted to obtain
control of the union, but both were
promptly kicked out
I'VE have no sympathy with the
!. W. w. movement and our members
are sworn never to act as strikebreak.
ers,' declared Davis with emphasis.
Fifty Thousand Women Are Hobos.
The hobos at this convention will ask
Congress and President Wilson for the
support and passage of bill looking
to the exclusion of all immigrants from
the end of that time, Jeff Davis asserts,
the unemployed problem will have been
solved, the American workingman will
have a new grip on himself and it will
be safe to open the gates once more to
the world,
There are $4,000 women in this coun-
try, mostly girls, it is said. who have
met with adversity who are hobos. The
convention will try to interest wealthy
women who once were up against it
to help these girls.
There are in the United States, ac-
cording to Davis, 100000 hobos, 700,-
600 tramps and 100000 buns Impor-
tation of foreign laborers by mine and
mill owners, he declares, is increasing
the hobo army. Foreign labor is cheaper
than American labor and the foreigners
drive the Americans out of their Jobs
and into a rowing life.
Investigated Mexican Peonage.
Davis is just back from a trip through
Mexico. He has been investigating the
condition of the Mexican poems, who are
he believes, members of the same class
the American hobos. He was driven
from one town to another through all
Mexico.
-Pay railroad faref" he said Friday
Il should say | don't Where would j
get money to pay railroad faref / Just
take the first free ride see coming
along"
Davis claims that jefferson Davis
president of the Confederate states. was
the brother of his grandfather He does
not boast much of the relationship
however, for he believes it is Just as
great an honor to be King of the Hobos
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
CHILD LABOR BILL PASSES HOUSE

The child labor bill has passed the
Georgia House of Representatives by a
vote of 90 to a.. It is now before the
senate, and trade unionists and other
opponents of child labor are confident of
its passage. During the hearing on the
bill A. +. Of L. Organizeer Miles had the
Fulton strikers in the capitol, and for
the first time the mill workers had an
opportunity of expressing their opinion
on child labor.
The strikers are standing together 10y
ally, and from time to time are succeed.
ing in inducing other employees to Join
them. The company has brought in over
100 operatives per week, but the strikers
send most of them away as fast as they
come
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
x. C. CARMEN GET WAGE BOOST

Upon recommendation of the recciv-
ers Of the Metropolitan Street Railway
Company Of Kansas City Federal judge
Hook has ordered an increase of cent
an hour in the wages of the employees
of the company. The increase will af-
feet about 3.4o0 men and will cost the
company between $4,000 and sl25 900
year, according to the estimates of the
receivers.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08

Beats them all. Ia Belle So cigar;
union made In Denver.-Adv.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
SUE CITY FOR Loss UNION HALL

BItte Miners Union No. of the
Western Federation of Miners, repre-
seniing both the local organization and
the Federation, has filed with the city
clerk a claim of SlSs,29l for damage
caused to the property of the organiza.
tion as the result of the riots in Butte
on Iune Is and June e3. The city is
held by the miners TO be responsible for
that the authorities failed in the per-
fornance of their duty to protect prop
erty.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08

II the tango dancers knew what we
thinS OF them they would sue us for
libel.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08

cler'k. &c ciear-union made.-Adv.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08

Beats them all. La Belle Sc cigar;
union made In Denver.-Adv.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08

Clerk, g eigar-cordovs Cigar o..
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after-dinner smoke. Union made.-Adv.
Clerk. &c cigar-Union made.-Adv.
United labor bulletin., 1914-08-08
MEDIATOR DAVIES SERIOUSLY ILL

The proposed conference between Sec
rotary of Labor Wilson and Hywcll
Davies and William R. Farley, Colora-
do coal strike conciliators, to determine
u further line of action for Federal me.
diation, has been indefinitely postponed
because of the serious illness Of Davies
II is possible that II will be necessary
TO appoint . new conciliator in Davies
place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-21
REBEL LEADERS MEET.
Generals Carranza And Villa Confer
at Chihuahua.

Chihuahua, Mexico, April 21.-
With many fateful questions dealing
with the revolution and foreign at
fairs before them, General Venas-
tiana Carranza and General Francis
co Villa met formally here yester-
day.
It was their first meeting IN four
years. Carranza first having met the
military leader when, fresh from
outlawry, he was leader OF one Oh
Francisco |. Madero's small revolu-
tionary bands.
The meeting had every appearance
of friendliness mad Villa made a
point of referring to Carranza as
his chief. Autographs bearing the
likeness of the two leaders side by
side appeared in store windows and
citizens wore buttons, and badges
similarly decorated.
Villa, accompanied by General
Angeles, who is q member OF the
rebel cabinet, came from Toreor
Sunday night for the conference
Soldiers guarded the streets from
the railroad station to Carranza':
palace, while crowds of onlooker:
chcered. Sunday night the military
band, one of the best in Mexico
serenaded the distinguished visitor
and his host for hours. In the park:
the populace made holiday.
No official announcement OF th'
proceedings of the conference wa
made except that it was harmonious
r. was understood on high author
tv, however, that it was determined
to prosecute the resolution regard
less of the estrangement betwee'
+, washington mad Mexico City, S
long as rebe- territory is not in
yaded or threatened.
Hundreds of messages, some cor
eratulations and others dealing wit
business military. and dlptomatl
subjects were received.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-21
;REATEsT BATTLE OF WAR ON.
Fighting Continues After Three Days
With Rebel Rcinforcements
Rushing to the Front.

Matamoras, Mex, April 21.-One
of the greatest battles of the war is
being fought at Monterey. On the
Fe:eral side about 5000 troops are
engaged, and the number of rebels
is said to be equally as large, with
reinforcements coming from the vi
cinity of Torreon. Fighting began
Saturday and has continued. ever
since with slight interruptions. The
rebels commanded by Gen. Pablo
Gonzales, fought throughout the first
line of outposts and entrenchments or
Federals AMI gained the edge of the
manufacturing district, three miles
from town.
Brigadier- General Wilfrido Mass;eu
is in command of the government
troops since the last attack of the
rebels against Monterey. The au-
thorities there hhve male elaborate
plans for defense. They have all the
vulnerable points about the city fenc-
ed in with double and triple rows OF
barbed wire fencing, and this wire
has been connected with the Monte
rey electric lighting plant so that it
may be charged with powerful cur
rent on a moments notice.
Many fortifctions have been thrown
up around the city, and on the high
hill ait Obispado. Not only are there
earthworks, but eight heavy cannons
have been placed and these guns com
mand all the approaches to-.the city
i'other~ commanding adnts likewise
have been fortified by the FederaIs'
un.er the direction of General Mas
sieu, and special attention paid to the
town of Topochico. where the rebels
entered on their last attack.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-21

Speedy action on the part OF the
United States in dealing with Huerta
lis imperative. :,
Just after the adjournment OF the
cabinet session this morning, 1t was
ioaiciallv announced that the State
Department has been notified that a
shipload of field artillery and anmu-
milton, consigned to Huerta, is nearing
Vera Cruz, and is to be loaded and
sent inlani as early 'as railroad condi-
tions will permit.
It is the purpose of this government
to Immediately capture Vera Cruz
and appropriate the arms anS' amnu-
milton, the moment it is put ashore.
The munitions of war now beng
,ushed to Vera Cruz for the federal
army are aboard German steamer.
While in the absence of an actua!
state of warfare, there is no intention
of seizing the vessel, it is purposed
seizinp the cargo the moment it IS
landed. The origin of the conS!gn-
ment is carefully guarded by the au-
ministration. Ostensibly it was sent
to Huerta by a German manutactur-
er, but this is not positively known.
The Mexican situation was almost
the entire subject of discussion at TO-
davis cabinet meeting. The members
of the cabinet had usea their indl-
vf1yal influence to hurry action from
Congress and the President oaileVeS
the resolution over which the Senate
hy,tpnpled last night, will reach nm
this afternoon. 1t has been decit' eo
'bv' the administration that it vii! &C.
cept the resolution reported by the
Senate Foreign Relations Commlstee
inst previous to adjournment shortly
after .nidnigh.: as a substitute to1
that passed by the House. Iae HOUSE
leaders will be asked to agree to i
when it comes to the conference.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-21
SAYS HE DROWNED BABY.
Student And Girl to be Arraigned
on Infanticide Charge.

Spartansburg, S. c., April 21.-
Charged with the murder of a two
months old baby, Clyde c. Clement
recently student in preparatory
school here, and Miss Laura F. Pen
delton will appear in the Court OF
General Sessions for trial.
The young woman, in an alleged
confession made public by Solicitor
Albert E. Hill, charges that Clement
dropped the baby from bridge
into a creek here on the night Of
January 80, this year. She is repre-
sented as saying that she unwilling
" consented to the drowning only
after Clement had threatened to
,ba ndon her if she did not agree to
the death, and agreed to marry her
if she acquiesced.
I According to the reputed comics
sicn, Miss PendletoR pleaded WITT
her lover the whole night previous ~ o.
70 the Killing, asking him to ;le1. let 7n' q,
child live, and. il, he would Il. not &c
that, to drown her also.
The child is said to have been Dor bon
in the Presbyterian Hospltat a
Charlotte, N. c., where it was knowl
as Virginia Caldwell A man glVln'
his name as Caldwell and represent
ing himself as the husband OF IN .
mother is said to have settled Tn
hospital bin.
Miss Pendleton's home is. IN pur u
, ham, n. C. Clement is the son :. Q
!Rc5ert c. Clement, a prominent mer
chant and planter. re1as
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-21
OPINIONS ABROAD.
7 oudon Standard Says Intervention
Should be Hailed With Salts
faction by Europeans.

London, April 21.-Mexico over
shadows all other matters in pub
lie interest here. Throughout the
British Isles local and Imperial
politics, although of great import
ance,s had to give way to what has
been considered here for long time
the inevitable intervention by the
United States to rstore order in
Mexico.
Paris, April 21.-The evening
newspapers of Paris take very little
note of the situation between Mexico
and the United States.