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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-10-09
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CAPITAL II A|N||D|.LAB0|R| /
Is Euphonious Name Chosen for
j. John D. Rockefeller's Novel "
Industrial Organization. ::
NEW PATERNAL1sM IN =
PLACE OF DEMOCRACY
Plan Provides for Tribunal Com
posed Of Employers and En-
pfoyes to Adjust Troubles.

John D. Rockefeller, .Jr., outlined
in Denver last week his plans for a
working agreement of labor and cap
ital, already known as the Rocke-
feller industrial plan, which. he be.
lieves, will make unions unnecessary
and strikes an impossibility. :,
The scheme virtually provides, for
a. united republic of labor and capt-
tal," with constitution, a president,
a cabinet, and Legislative bodies. La.
boring men and capitalists will sit
side by side in the cabinet. and every
question that has to do with wages.
hours of work, living conditions and
every detail of the laborers' welfare
will be settled by free and fair dis
cussion among the men directly in
terested. The walking delegate" of
the labor union will not exist. Z
"Absentee Employer" System.
Rockefeller feels that the day has
come when efficiency and success in
large business require this sort OF
handling of the labor question. He
feels that the absentee employer"
system has broken down and must
be sent to the discard. Something
more intimate is required. He says
that this view is merely in keeping
with the trend of the times, and that
the man who is most successful in
big business is the man who realizes
it earliest and puts it more fully into
effect
It is now definitely known that the
Colorado Fuel &, Iron company will
never recognize or in any way deal
with the union. 50
New Industrial Plan.
It hopes to do away with the union
for all time by giving the men some
thing in its place-something which
Rockefeller seems sincerely to believe
will be better for both labor and
I capital. ...r -.,. = i..7$ q! ! :
Within ; a. short time Rockefeller
believes the attention of the whole
l-world VIII be cantered upon Culnrad0
|" to, observe the working out OF IN In
dustrla1 scheme that is something ab-
solutely new in history. The system
is having it's first trial here. !.
The Rockefeller Industrial plan is
the result Of years of thought and
study on the part of several men.
Rockefeller himself had hand in It.
He called to his aid William Lyon
Mackenzie King, who was Secretary
Of Laber in the Cana. ian Cabinet tn-
der Premier Laurier, and made King
director of the industrial relations de-
partment Of the Rockefeller Founda-
ton. +
All Employees Represented.
Nearly all of Rockefeller's time
during his stay in Denver was being
devoted to the working out Of this
scheme. - T:
Rockefeller plans to deal with all
his employees. without regard to race,
Continued on Page e.
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CHIC AGUDYE WORKERS /
| ! =. ENJON|ED BY: COURT

CHICAGO, Oct. ,7.-Judge Jesse Bald
win has issued a temporary injunc-
tion against the members, of the, Dye
House Workers union, officers OF the
Transfers union and "A. f, Of L. or
ganizer Flood. together with their
attorneys, solicitors, agents and serv-
ants" "a: ~ -
All these are ordered to desist from
ANNOUNCING that the dye house o1
Joseph Kaufman is unfair to organic.
ed labor. and the unions are debarred
inducing patrons to refrainu from
patronizing this place, or in any man.
ner interfering with its business.
A motion to make the order per.
manent will be heard Oct, 1s.
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200, 600 Railroad Men In Two
Organizations Start Nation
Wide Campaign.

Railroad switchmen of the country,
approximately 100000, yesterday
started a nationwide demand for a
general increase in wages. The in
crease asked is cents an hour for
all classes
Grand Chief Whitney Of the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen petition
ed general managers of all Chicago
roads, including ,industrials, for an
increase of cents an hour. The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
includes, it is said, about 60 per cent
OF the switchmen Of Chicago, the
others being members of the Railway
Switchmen's Association. While the
two orders have been : battling each
other for several years, members of
both organizations receive the same
wage scale and it. is believed the
Switchmen's Association will soon
make similar demand.
Chicago switchmen say the mana
gers of the roads are. the highest
paid in the United States, that is,
their wage scale is the high standard.
Inseveral of the large cities the scale
has been met and it is now desired to
set another standard to which switch
men in all other cities will work.
The present scale of wages is 4o
cents an hour for night foreman OF
switch engines, 3S cents. an hour for
day foreman, 81 cents an hour, for
night helpers and 35 cents an .hou1
for day helpers Ten hours consti-
tute a. days work. /: ts ~, :zs' =
= =, The switchmen's wages were ad-
vanced about two years ago. After
the Chicago demand is worked out
switchmen in all other cities will
make similar demands.
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House Of Representatives and to the
Committee on Commerce of the senate
in hearings which lasted for several
weeks during the 62d and SD Con-
crosses. Under the searchlight Of
analysis and investigation, the charges
were found to be wide of fact and
were as a result overridden when the
act was passed and signed.
Still Fly "Old Glory.'
The publicity campaign has hung
chiefly on two news items from the
Pacific Coast. The Pacific Mail
Steamship company advertises that it
is going out of business because of
the seamen's law. Robert Dollar, OF
California, who has some "tramps''
carrying lumber from hi; ills to the
Orient and such freight as he can
get back, says he also is. going out
of business for the same reason
These things have been believed right
and left, and newspapers all over the
country, in news items and editorials
have condemned the new act. They
have accepted statements that - the
! legislation was ill-considered, foolish
and passed to satisfy 1aLor unions
accusations designed to discredit the
action of the leaders of both spolitica
parties in congress and the President
who, after the most painstaking I'M
vestigation, were convinced that tn,
act would give freedom to the sea
men, would improve safety to tn,
travelling public, would equalize thl
wage cost of operatio | Of vessels dom
ing to and going from ports OF; th'
United States, would thereby hell
build up an American merchant, ma
rine without the payment OF subsidies
and finally would bring American
! back to the sea- -. - Il
The Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany gives as It's reason for going, ou
OF business the fact that the seaman
law will make impossible the use o
Chinese crews who cannot understan
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the language of the officers. Yet the
manager Of the company testified be-
fore g. Committee on the Merchant
Marine and Fisheries, some 18
months before the passage Of the act,
that the Pacific Mail was going out
OF business because Of the Panama
Canal act, which prohibits railroad
owned vessels from going through
the canal. The company must re-
organize and get out from under rail-
road control, either absolutely or at
least colorably, in order to be able
to make New York its eastern ter
minus. Moreover, If the Pacific Mail
were going out of business it would
hardly be making arrangements for
using oil as fuel on its vessels in
stead of coal, thereby very materially
reducing the operating co"t nor would
the company hire university gradu-
ates from China to teach the Chinese
crews some English, in the hope that
it may be able to induce government
officials to permit the employment of
Chinese crews. The company would
not issue a. glossary of nautical terms
opposite Chinese figures, containing
about 100 pages, II it intended to: 20
out. of business, in fact. The con-
cern may go out OF business as the
Pacific Mail, but the vessels will con.
tinue under the American ~flag-o1
that there is little doubt. .,.. - =. --,:
t.. Captain. Dollars Big Bluff.
Captain, Dollar had, prior to the
war, a few tramp vessels in foreign
trade, plying between the Pacific
Coast and China They we're under
the English flag, Differed by English
officers, manned by Chinese ,.s crews
He' sought. safety from the German
cruisers under the American flag; US.
ing for this purpose the energenc,
registration act stating at the same
\ he, was going back under q foreign
flag. Now he finds difficulty in con
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> In 1871 the United States Congress
passed fugitive seamen's law. In
1893 it passed fugitive slave law
modelled on the former. Fifty years
later came the Dred Scott Decision;
then the Civil War; then the Thir-
teenth Amendment.
In 1857 other federal laws were re-
vised to correspond with the .Thir-
teenth Amendment; but the fugitive
seamen's law-which had to do not
with the arrest, detention and return
of slaves from one state to another,
but with the arrest, detention and
return Of seamen from one nation to
snother--was not altered. It stood
untouched until 1915, when the La
Toilette seamen's bill wiped it out
with various other injustices to sea-
workers. This act goes into effect
for American vessels on Nov. 4, 1915;
for foreign vessels, June 4, 1915!
Opposition Too Jealous.
Throughout the summer widespread
publicity has been pushed to dis
credit the new statute before it has
been given a chance to operate. Ths
new seamen's bill contains many
other provisions besides that repeal.
ing the fugitive seamen's law. Al
these provisions were attacked ani
defended at the congressional hear.
1ngs and were given consideration b,
the President when he signed the bill
With canards given out by certain
shipping offices as texts, and with
public concern in the national de-
Tense to play on, the old argument.
have been revived to stampede publ,
opinion. ~
The seamen's act Is not yet in force
It has had no trial.. Yet campaign
TO discredit it, is now in full operation
The same claims that are now bein,
made by the press from the Atlanti
to the Pacific We're made with muc]
greater froce to the Committee OF
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Of tn
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SCIENCE CoNQUERING -. +
GREAT WHITE PLAGUE

PHILADELPHIA, ;, Oct. 7.-within
10. years medical et science, will prob
ably haVo oesueeeededs An, all but eiiln-
mating death from tuberculosis from
vital statistics, is the prediction of Dr,
Jefferson D. Gibson, president Of the
American Association Of Clinical Re-
search, in an address in this cit ty.
He said that recent discoveries by
which the presence Of tuberculous
tendencies can he detected even be-
fore the germs appear in the sputum,
togetheie with a later and higher de-
velopment of the x-ray;; will in a
short time remove tuberculosis from
the list of necessarily fatal diseases. \
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WANT COUNCIL over.
CITY COMMISSION
';ss::, s;;;::s. /: s.: ;:::s -. Of
Amendments:
WILL PROPOSE THEM
TO CHARTER BOARD
Alleged Scheme Provides for Re-
tention of Five Commission
ers-Restricted Powers.

While the city charter commission
is preparing a new election system for
the city of Duluth, quiet meetings are
said to be held by a number OF
citizens who are not pleased with the
commission form of government. The
Labor World, is today in possession
of information to the effect that it
is the plan of this group of citizens
to prepare a draft of proposed
amendments to the city charter, and
then to circulate petitions asking the
charter commission to submit the
amendm ents to the people together
with the proposed new election sys-
tenn.
It is given out that the new plan
preserves the five commissioners, but
it will re-establish the city council
with two aldermen from each of 10
wards. The commissioners will be
denied the right to perform legis-
lative functions. Their duties will
be wholly executive and adminis-
trative. The city council will be the
legislative department Of the city and
will serve as g. check on all municipal
expenditures.
New Duties for Mayor.
The mayor will be the chief ex-
Il ecutive and will also perform the
duties of the commissioner of public
safety. The commissioner of public
works and his administrative duties
will remain unchanged. The COM
missioner of public utilities will serve
as the manager of the Water and
Light department and the services of
- the manager will be dispensed with.
The commissioner will be elected by
the people, and he will have as
sociated with him a water and light
board consisting of four members ap-
pointed by the mayor.
The commissioner of finance will
serve as treasurer and city comp
pose of two high paid officials now
under him. The commissioner OF
public welfare will hale charge OF
the parks, the library ana all ct the
public welfare activities,of the city.
Salaries May Be Changed.
The matter of salaries has not beer
discussed, but it is believed that {
readjustment will be proposed. It i:
said the salaries of the aldermen viii
be nominal. Unde:. the proposed pla1
the commissioners will be permitted
to 'sit in" with the council, ma,
enter debates, but will be denied th'
right to vote. The mayor will hav,
restored to him the veto power.
Our informant will not give ou
the names Of the citizens who ar,
preparing the proposed amendments
nor of the "prominent lawyer VIII
has charge of drafting them, but h
assures us that when the work Of tn
lawyer shall have been completed
the full draft of the amendments will
be given to the papers and petition
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COMPENSATION LAW !. !.
HELPS WORTHY WIDOW

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1.-THE first
settlement under the new state work
mems compensation law was made
when the widow of Lawrence F. Bu-
chanan, who died from injuries re-
ceived in an automobile factory, was
awarded a judgment of $2,755, to- be
paid at the rate of 1885 a week for
-. D weeks. An additional 500 for
neral expenses was also allowed.
! The first personal injury case to be
settled under the law was the claim
of a worker employed in the factory
of the Studebaker corporation, at
South Bend. He was awarded $552.05
for the loss of three fingers, the
amount to be paid in IS weekly pay
ments.
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ideals of greater opportunity and freedom of the
masses of the people The working people have been
supporting him. They have adjonrned as lodges and
trade unions enlist in the Carranza army with their
union officials serving the officers of their reg
ments. T., >.n>: -" ,
Theworkers of Mexico have tried as best they could
with the resources available to present their request
and their right to be allowed to- work out their
pfoblems. They asked you and our government for a
little patience and little time to prove that
the Carranza really represented the people
Of Mexico. You granted that request and time has
proved that General Carranza is really the representa-
tive Of Mexican democracy-that he represents their
efforts to establish of the people
the people. General Carranza has demonstrated his SYM
pathy with the ideals for which Madero gave his life,
and has refused to compromise these ideals with
ican revoutionists who seeking their own per-
sonal interests He has endeavored for the
Mexican republic the dignity and respect that ought to
be accorded to any sovereign government. -
= THE sympathies Of the workers of the United
States have been very deeply touched by the struggles
Of fellow workers of Mexico AS recent events have
drawn all of the countries of the two American
tnents closely together the workers Of these
various countries have been more thoroughly aroused
to the common interests and the common welfare of
the wage-earners who citizens of the countries
It is with the desire that Americans who have
so much liberty and much of opportunity should use
to aid those who less fortunate, that
representatives of the labor movement of America
we urge upon recognition of General Carranza
the head of the Mexican government
.The matter, know, is receiving your most
and conscientious consideration, are
sure that your sympathes are very strong for any
genuine effort to the larger liberty for the
pie, therefore wish you to have the that
the representatives of the organized
| labor movement of America urge upon you has, we
feel sure the hearty approval and endorsement of the
rank and file Of the citizenship of country
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STUDENTS WILL FIGHT
FOR SCOTT NEARING

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 7.-At a
meeting of University of Pennsylvania
students committee was appointed
to attend the next meeting uf tn, uni
versity's board Of trustees and discuss
the dismissal Of Prof. Nearing, as
sistant professor of economics at the
Wharton school. The meeting was
secret, but the students later an
nounced that they intended to ask
the school officials for the reason for
Prof. Meanings discharge.
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COURT REFUSES TO
J, REGULATE ELECTION

CHICAGO, Oct. 7.-Because of ir-
regularities, Business Agent Nels Ris-
gard was ousted from the Flat Jani-
tors union. He was granted an in
junction against officers Of the union
debarring them from taking his name
oofr the ballot to be used in the elec-j
ton Of officers. Officers of the union
convinced Judge Sullivan of the Sup
erior court that the election was legal
and the writ was dissolved the next
day.
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COLUMBIA TRACTION -,
STRIKE ADJUSTED

=, COLUMBIA, s. c., Oct. 1.-THE
strike Of union street car men in this
city has been settled anI the men
that inspectors used their power to
discharge in an arbitrary manner.
The agreement gives the general man
ager alone power to discharge but his
decision can be appealed, both sides
to appoint representatives, they to Sc
lect an umpire, il necessary.
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ExPENDs BIG AMOUNT
TO SUPPORT LAWYERS

CONCORD, N. H, Oct. 7.-Expen-
,ditures by the Boston and Maine rail-
road since Jarutry I..1s 4. to- influ-s
ence legislation in New Hampshire
amounted to $s41,2e7:; according to
testimony given at a recent investiga-
tion by the public service commission
Of such payments. Of this sum $116,-
81 was for advertising. Attorneys in
the state received $258,1S2. -
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APPOINT CONCILIATOR.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-secretary
Of Labor Winson has appointed John
A. Moffett a commissioner of concilia-
ton in the strike at the Brown &
Sharpe plant here. Several Thousand
employees are attempting to force a
demand 70 shorter hours.
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FAVORITIsM CAUSES STRIKE.

PRINCETON, Ind, Oct. 7.-Be-
cause two blacksmiths We're .discharg-
ed to make room for favorites of the
company, 700 miners employed by the
Deep Vein Coal company are on
strike. An arbitration board failed
to adjust the matter.
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) Next to organization, education on
broad aud comprehensive lines Is a
potent weapon In the hands OF the
worl<ine people: 1t affords san oppor-
tunity to penetrate with clear vision
into the shams and sophistrtes which
becloud the minds of the masses.
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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-11-24
jIION SERVICE,
TOMORROW morn
.s,,,,rnEs TU UNITE IN sPHCsAL
.rRyIcE Ar THE GRACE N. n.
cHrRCH oFFERiNG no BE
rsrp N RELiEF WORK

i,aiop Thanksgiving services are TO
!. held at tho Grace Methodist Epis.
.ssai church tomorrow morning at
q o'clock, TO which tho entire public
!. invited. Tho Offering ID for the
,lilsuthropic department OF the Wo-
.aa's Library Club. The program
fellows:
Voluntary
invocation Rev. ". q. RICHARDS
uvmn ,.,... God Of Our Fathers
rhapkssiving Proclamation--Rsv. J.
q. 0rifith
Responsive scripture--Rsv. Richards
as,o--Praisc the Lord ...... Rupes
Mrs. Bert q. Thomas
Praycr---Rev. OriAlth
O6ertory
Quartet
Sermon Why We Keep tho Day
Rev. Chas. r. Hurd
hymn America
Benediction---Rsv. Hurd
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Everybody bring their lunch with
them. Prizes awarded at II O'Clock.
dinner at IL. Program begIns al 2.
Mrs. l.. Dixon was visitor with her
mother. Mrs. Icenblce. last week.
Henry Grimes is butchering today.
g. E. Icenbice is having another
well bored on his place.
Mrs. Burrel Short IN very sick with
iR grippe.
a good program Is being prepared
for next Saturday evening at the Pine
Grove school house.
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who bscsms the -Ssids q 0,ersass-A.
Woodard.
.The young people lslt- lthss 1oatsh
Monday, q p. m, but 0nllAe ~
roads ia bad conditien, thsy a. aot
arrive in this cltyI unt1l am ~
tsrday. They had - pusb shslf ma
chine up several baliAi11s.
Following the esss0pay ~ bvila1
party, and about 1eeeeu eB5saAs, -.
paired to the Keller cafe, whore they
enjoyed . sumptous wedding dinner.
The couples will reside On thslS home
steads. the address soe the Woo4arda
being Chiloquin and the EmsryS oil'
var Lake. -.
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-HA>---
TINE o1U0vD PICKUPs

The Civic Club spent an enjoyable
afternoon With Mrs. o. Brown. A
|sunptous iuaehson was served af 4
o'sooek.
Rev. Morgan Of NJ. Lski gave US a
eood sssuon ~ Pine Grove last Sun
day. ana will preach again In two
weeks. Dscsmbsr 8.
Thsrs will b Thanksgiving enter.
ta'smsnt and school affair ut the Pine
Orove school house Thursday oil day.
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from the uppsr KIsnsth Marsh soun.
try to this city to secure the aeceesasy
licenses and to plight thslr tfoth n Q
double wedding ceremony. This was
performed at the homo Of Rev. Chas.
T. Hurd at $3.50 p. N.
The young people were Miss Esther
Graves, who became the bsl1s Of Nv
erett A. Emory, and Miss Media Clark,
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N0IANO MOURNfD
BY JAcksOMnlS
STATES LEADING DEsaocnAx o.
GANIzATloN PAssEs nnDoLU.
TONS OF REGRET Ar Dn1nsE
OF LOCAL PUR1sT

The so,Iov,.s h.., 49, ,>..av.A
from the Jackson Club. PortIanAis
famous democrat organization:
wberaas In n. ,nscyut.h,. -.
dom a. the Aim,.htv q. -. -. =
to cali 10 his last rest the Hon oeo,..s
No,., ~ Yi.w.4h .o.r., n-.~,s
ana
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