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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16
KEEP THE PROFITS
IN THE POCKETS
OF THE PEOPLE

UNION MEN FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Those so-called union" who are supporting the
Duluth Edison company and critcising The Labor
World its editor publisher for standing by munich
pal ownership should up the true principles
of trade unionism
The Labor World offers apology for it's advocacy
of municipal ownership. The Declarations OF Prnc-
pies of the American Federation of Labor, the Mime
Federation of Labor and the Federated Trades
and Assembly of Duluth contain panks declaring
for municipal Ownership of all Public Utilities"
Every America pledged to this principle
No union man can be against it without violating his
union pledge.
OF there is difference between "card men
and union" union man Is one who is loyal to
every principle of trade unionism. card is
who will sacrifice the basic principles of union labor for
his immediate gain.
The Duluth Edison company has been fair to the
Electrical Workers unon with which organization has
Union Shop agreement and under which it to its
wiremen Union Wages and employs them only Eight
Hours day. Under municipal ownership wiremen will
be paid good wages, If not better The Eight-Hour
day will be recognized and other conditions equally
favorable will be granted AS general rule publicly
owned enterprises higher and grant better
conditions its employees than do institutions that
privately owned
The labor movement of Duluth and the principles for
which has long contended among which is the munich
pal ownership of public utilities will not be sold out SIM
ply because 60 men being given fair wage by a.
private company.-McE.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16
60 10 n, MIR. HUGHES, 90 10 IT.

G8 GO TO TT, MIR. HUGHES, GO TO TT.
Ray Hughes. the chief spokesman for the Duluth
Edison company lost his head Monday evening IN de-
bate with A. E. McManus at Polish hall Mr.. McManus
paid compliment to The Labor World for its defense
of the people in this contest which enraged Mr. Hughes
who at time served private secretary to Congress-
man Miller He then threatened to get the scalp Of
w. e. McEwen, publisher of The Labor World and at
present postmaster at Duluth.
II know how postmasters made' he shouted,
"and sometimes it takes but short time to unmake
them This yelled threat fell flat with the audience.
Not even the henchmen of the Duluth-Edson company
who there in large numbers sympathized with the
speaker sufficiently to applaud his wild threat.
The Labor World and its owner in fight for
principle principle in which have believed for
than twenty years. We endeavoring make clean
fight free from personalities and abuse and
to remain in the fight until the people of Duluth
in possession of their electric lighting plant
there is of intimidation coercion that
divert us from course
Our advice then to Mr.. Hughes is to go to it. if
mistake not there is different order obtaining Wash
ington than when he made and unmade postmast-
ers In event will take chances with Presi-
dent Wilson, who has publicly stated that he did
why federal office holders should surrender
their rights citizens when they entered into the
poy of the Federal government.-McE.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

The following letter under date Of
Jan. 8, 1915. was received by Mayor
Prince from Mayor Baker of Cleve-
land, Ohio, in. regards to Cleveland's
municipal light plant.
Mayor Bakers letter.
In 1906 the city of Cleveland an
nexed the village of South Brooklyn
and took over with it a small NUM-
cipally owned electric light plant built
originally by an issue Of $50, 100000 of
bonds. BY appropriations and earn
ings the value Of this plant in 1914
was $54S,182, Of which $211,000 had
been paid for out of appropriations of
money derived from taxation; the rest
being from the earnings of the plant
itself. In the year, 1912 this plant,
although badly located for the eco
nomical production and distribution
of light and power, made earnings so
large that If a price had been charged
which would have just paid the cost
OF operation and interest on invest
ment, We could have established &c
per XVIII as the maximum charge.
years was 50 great that the people Of
Cleveland voted a two million dollar
bond issue to build larger central
power station. Sz e
Operate Liarge Plant.
This larger station is now built; it
has capacity Of $4,000 X. w. and it
was opened in July Of the past year.
At that time the rate for current was
fixed at &c per XVIII as a maximum
and 1c as = minimum Already the
big station has load equal to ono
fifth Of its capacity and each month
its earnings grow In q highly salts
factory way. Those of us who are
watching II have the confid ence based
upon experience and knowledge that
BY July ofs the nc sent year this large
plant I, Will bs I'M the interest upon
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16
25 CYCLE LIGHTS ARE IN USE.

70 CYCLE LIGHTS ARE IN USE.
What won't the vassals of a public service
corporation resort to in order keep the corporation
the backs of the people? 49,"
Where deliberate false statements and misleading
statements cannot properly be resorted to-
from outofdate reports used to discredit modern
and up-to-date proposal.
In the full page advertisements inserted in the daily
papers the following statement is used tricky way
effort to hoodwnk the voters Pilsbury Claus
sen in their 1911 report flour ago) stated
Is cycle current would not give steady satisfactory
light"
Four years this may have been true but it does
not apply to 1915 rs Cycle being today
in Duluth at the Great Northern power plant light
ing purposes in the drafting where the best of
light Is necessary
In Washington, D. c., privately owned concern is
furnishing rs cycle for lighting purposes The
same is true of Baltimore and Buffalo.
Were it not the object of the Citizens Referendum
Committee to deliberately mislead the voters of Duluth
they should have honest enough refer to the
port of Pillsbury and Rittenhouse for 1914 Wherein
they state as plainly the English language will per-
mit that The improvements to the plant, system and
service Of the Great Northern company since that
time. 191l) however, such warrant simpler
and cheaper course now.
This simpler and cheaper course is the unit plan
which has been explained in three issues of The
Labor World
This pan proposed, is not the fantastic idea of
bunch of fanatics of the staff" but is the recon-
mendation of two Of Americas most competent en-
gneers
Mr. Pilsbury is today employed by the United States
government at Washington, D. c., to place valuation
upon the public service corporations that city, while
Mr. Rtenhouse is employed by the public service cor
poration of that city for the purpose.
Do you for moment believe that these men would
be in the employ of these two Corporations if they
were unreliable?
The Labor World has sufficient confidence in the
citizens OF Duluth to know that they will not allow the
daily papers and the Citizens Referen-
dunn committee to bluff them with such bunk. Choose
between Hughes and Beaton and Pillsbury Ritten
house. The former two lawyers and not engineers the
latter engineers of national reputation.
Vote Eyes" on the Unit plan, next Tuesday and you
will never have to regret your action
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16


It's been long, long fight to get
our Light Plant.
But we'll soon be there. -. : - PIG
Mullin wrote a letter ::
But he didn't write it right :
Quite different from his other
In the last election fight -',-''@-
He made mistakes In figures,
But People DEAR" said he
''Twas Oscar Mitchell wrote them; -
Don't lay the blame on me-" -.
Charley Mitchell wrote a letter,
In the News Tribune one day
Saying-"You'I have a lawsuit
If you get in Hartna1-'s way"
But the people satd-"Dear Charley
Just listen to the truth, - =. g.
You may scare fellows like Neil Bea-
80 =. $3.50 ton
But you can not bluff Duluth"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16
COMMISSIONERS SAYS 1925
OF DEATHS NEEDLESS

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Jan. It..
In talk on high death rate in this.
country, DR.. B. "A. Wins1ow, Of the
New York state board Of health, said:
Fully as tragic as. the deaths due
to the war we're those Of 100000
men. women and children who died
in the United States during 1914.
Fully 40 per cent of these deaths were
needless Half of them. might have
been prevented by simple procedures"
In commenting ON this statement,
the Public Ledger says: Evil housing,
filthy surroundings, cheerless rondi-
tons, lack of" sunlight-in short.
general lack 81: those essentials which
make for physical strength and cheer
full minds cause a death rate entirely
beyond proper proportion
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

The figures Of the city's~ engineers
either as to- the unit plant or as to
the valuation Of the Duluth -Edison's
plant has never been challenged as
to one single item by any competent
engineer. = If. there was anything the
matter with these figures the Duluth
Edison certainly would have been able
to hire some one to refute them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16
TRICKS OF THE PRESS.

TRICKS OF THE PRESS.
1t is rather unfortunate that there is not daily
paper in the City Of Duluth that will stand the side
Of the people during critical period.
During the past week editorials containing garing
1nisstatemens quotations from out-ofdae reports
have been used in effort to blind the on the
3 question at ISSUE
B In the morning paper of January II appeared a
lengthy editorial which written with inspiration re-
ceved from the Municipal Ownership committee en-
titled Don't Be Goop!"
In the "goop" stunt the editor states that in the
twelve the bonded Indebtedness Water
and Light department increased he did not
mention the fact that the capitalization of the Duluth
Edison Electric company during the time increased
$21S8,00O Neither did the editor of the morning paper
his readers that the construction work done bv
the Water and Light department during this time
amounted to $2151.651 while the construction work
done by the Duuth-Edson Electric company was onlv
$l,058,013.
These figures should convince the average man that
the business operations OF the city far higher
plane than those of the Edison Which do Won
prefer the business operations of the Water and
Light department the high nancering of the electric
company?
Further down in the editorial we find the fol-
lowing "They (meaning the city, have never had the
Rttenhouse report published may seen strange but
told that the editor actually believed he was tell
Ing the truth when he made statement The fact
is that the City had the report published months ago
and freely circulated at the Water and Light de-
pertinent 1t could have been obtained at the Municna
Ownership headquarters any since the camnaipn
opened Further than that this report now being sent
to tho voters of Duluth by the City in pamphlet an
titled "The Unit Plant Ordinance" Also a copv was
sent to the News Tribune but to the Water and
Light department.
Sorry to state the editor each of the dav paners
B has made the bunder of making quotations from re-
port made in 1911 by Pilsbury and Claussen which
made with the intentions of building plant that would
have duplicated the Edison plant before the service
Of the Great Northern Power company had attained the
degree OF efficiency under which it is operating today
The Rittsnhouse and Ptsbury report was made in
1914 under conditions entirely different than those
d 1911.
TO quote from the Rittenhouse report in regards
Y "a the Unit plant it says This WOULD NOW RI
70 LOGICAL IN VIEW OF THE INCREASED AND IN
CREAS1NG RELIABILITY OF THE GREAT NORTH
ERN SERVICE AND THE RESULTING FACT THAT
THE NEED OF RESERVE PLANT IS BECOMING
Is LESS AND LESS so THAT SUCH PLANT MIGHT
Is NOW BE DISPENSED WITH"
"A further advantage-this plan would enable
the City to make RATES LOWER than under anv of the
81 other plans mentioned and LOWER than could protta
ssH bly, be made by the existing company"
Defeat the peoples opportunity to choose betveen
Sc and 4c rates BY njunctions mandamus proceed.
nss1 GO to it. That success for municipal
& svasrshi1. 81 I. 81 $40 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

what IS there that 1s complicated about modern
electric lighting plant All that is required is number
Of poles, few miles Of wiye transformer few Ia
porers and MANAGER. 4 y 80 simple proposition
that the arguments against the ctys building 81 plant
seem ridiculous
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

Inc daily papers never utter protest against bond
issues Tor public parks armories city improvements
but how they howl when it is proposed to issue bonds
Tor public Institution that will bring some returns to
the people, such city electric lighting plant
will do. ="-~.E -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

Turkey never. feels normal unless
she is at, war and being sliced up.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

Greysolon Cigars. 3 for. Csc. and .
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16


Calgary and Edmonton in Alberta, Canada own their
electric light and plants and the people like them
The defenders of the Electric companv
are wasting their time shooting fire rockets putting tor
pedoes on the track and swinging lanterns in an
attempt to keep the voters of Duluth from owning and
operating their own lighting and power plant.
In Calgary and Edmonton the light and power plant
unlike the situation in Duluth employs no political
gangsters who attempt to stampede audiences at pub
lie meeting plays tricks politics. hires no shyster
lawyers to spout for it in order to poute the public
mind and above ALL they have no secret Ownership
the daily newspapers and do not maintain a closed
account with which to buy votes. 49,.
On the other hand the people of these cities are
than satisfied with service they are getting
their publicaly owned utilities.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

WAGES ARE BETTER UNDER PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
One of the maxms of the American Federation Of
Labor runs like this; whether you by the piece
or work by the day, when you shorten the hours you
increase your pay"
observation has shown that the average the tend
ency under public ownership is to shorten hours and
increase pay. Public ownership on the average places
labor above property, men above money.
Professor Parsons states that the publicly owned cars
running over the Brooklyn bridge pay $275 for an eight
nour day while the privately owned running along
the same route pay $3.50 to $3.50 for ten-hour day
In addition to this the employees the publicly owned
system are furnished with necessary rubber goods and
get two weeks vacation pay annually while the
employees of the private concern non of these
vantages.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16
"A Deliberate Libel,
Same Old Crowd.

You see, it is the same old crowd;
and they are doing business in the
same old way. They use the same old
methods, the same old newspapers,
and some Of the same old heelers.
1t is up to the people to give them
the same old licking with the same
old thoroughness, and end the mat
ter this time for good
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

Defeat the peoples opportunity to choose between
Sc and 4c rates BY injunctons mandamus proceed
ings7 90 to it. That sure success Tor municipal
seuasrship. &. sS' ..1@
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-01-16

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