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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-10-02
N|||| | | LABOR |: !
TR0UBLES|lhcREASE
Women and Girl Employees Seek
Shorter Hours and Higt""'
Pay.

NEW HAVEN, donn., Sept. 30
Labor troubles in Connecticut are on
the increase, in spite of many adjust.
ments which have 4been made, either
after strikes or to avoid them.
Attempts are being made to, Or
ganize the, worktaEs satlDrces In praettc-
ally every industrial plant in this city.
the chief attention at this time being
given to women and girl employees In
the corset factories, the shops making
clocks, rubber goods and. specialties,
and war munitions, of whom there
are in the aggregate probably 10000.
The Acme Wire company here, has
announced 10 per cent wage raise to
toolmakers and other machinists.
Strikes are now on In Hartford,
Waterbury, New London, New Brit
| ain, Bristol, Shelton, Ansonia, Tor
rington, and Bridgeport, in spite OF
efforts made by employers to avert
| them. The principal demand Is for
the eight-hour day, with wage adjust
ments, either to compensate the
workers for the shorter workday or tc
1 give them a net advance over the pre-
vailing schedule.
1t is estimated that since the first
week in July. there have been so ac'
tual strikes in the state, OF which
about 80 have been settled: About 80
demands have been adjusted without
strikes.
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DESIRE FOR WEALTH
CRUSAES DR.; HILLS.
Brooklyn Church Is. Scene Of
Dramatic Confession On Part
of Great Divine.
CHASE FOR DOLLARS > .
BROUGHT HIM POVERTY
Declares It Destroyed His Useful
ness In Doing Needed Work
Among Poor.

While the congregation which filed
the fashionable Plymouth Congrega-
tional church in Brooklyn-both men
Newell Dwight Hills, one of the most
famous ministers in the United States
last Sunday confessed from the pulpit
that he had speculated till he is now
on the brink of bankruptcy, that he
had set position above his duties and
that he had neglected the needy while
he sought to fulfil his ambitions.
Today his congregation was of one
mind-that they will stand by him to
the end and help him to straighten
out his shattered finances. It was re-
ported today that DR.. Hills had Of
fered to sell his $4,000 home to meet
his obligations.
Loved Position Too Much.
! DR.. Hills confessed that he had
loved position too much and that he
had cherished his own interests while
he neglected the "sick, the poor, the
j friendless, and the boys and girls of
hungry minds"
Dr. Hills fervently deplored the eff
| feet that his example might have had
on the minds of young men studying
for the Christian ministry. and con-
fessed that he was ashamed to state
how much he had made as a lecturer
and writer, sin view of the little
wages of the working people and the
poor"
His hearers sWayed forward as he
spoke. Men made no effort to cloak
their feelings. When it was all over
they thronged to the pulpit, wrung
the hand of their beloved pastor and
told him his sorrows were their sor-
rows, his woes their woes.
Began Calmly.
Just before the sermon, Dr. Hills
made his remarkable confession. He
began calmly and almost dispassion-
ately as the humblest man in Brook
lyn might have confessed to his fail;
ure in life.
After his confession was ended DR.
Hills CROPPED his way back to hi:
/ study with tears binding his eyes.
DR.. Hills debts amount to more
than 100000. How much more
neither he nor his counsel, Fredricl
w. Hinrichs, will say. He has durin:
the last ten years seen about $780,,
t 900 pour in and out { f the various en-
S terprises that he believed would max
. him a wealthy man, but which top
e pied over, burying him beneath tn
e wreckage. This is shown in the of
e fetal reports of his business dealins
now in the hands of his former bust
ness mentor, Friedrich L. Ferguson
:. From trustees of Old Plymouth an
e men who have been closely associate
g with DR.. Hills, it was learned tha
d within the last two months there hav
: been three meetings of holders G
e bonds of the Alberni Timber com
e pany, DR.. Hills greatest single ven
o ture: that there are outstandin
t, 100000 Of these bonds: that no ir
le terest has been paiG on them; ths
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CLEVELAND CITY LIGHT PLANT Is BONANZA;
one YEARS EARNINGS PAY FIXED CHARGES

\ 'rhfs makes total payment to interest sinking
fund account Of about $110so49 since l. year.
all ot which was earnings for the pay
men Of interest and sinking fund they
came due. ="
i This maintain is remarkably good showing be
made during the first Of operation Of this plant We
owe the sinking fund commission $84, 900 money
vnced by it to the interest bonds during
course Of construction period. - - *,<
> IT have enough money now in operating fund as
surplus accumulated during the first years
this account There is question however,
We should the interest bond account during
the construction period from received
ton whether it should be paid money
and charged to capital The latter method
that generally followed. . " - '~t
believe however, that will finally decide to- pay
this account out of profits from operation If we
do this it of would be considered remarkable
if charging ourselves for rate as
the private service corporations charging
when rate is less than the rate charged by
companies then the fact of having able only
our interest and sinking fund
from profits for the first with plant yet
half loaded but have further than this
the interest during construction period
profits of first years operation. This record.
ltention from every one interested in the cause"
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During the late fight the municipal ownership Of
light plant Duluth great deal said by the ops
city ownership the tremendous loss Of
city plant at Cleveland. The municipal owner
ship advocates their level to dscredit claims
of supporters Edison Electric Company
about the Cleveland plant but little information
available, attention directed the marvellous
the city plant at Seattle. g
Now the pleasing statement that the earnings
Of the Cleveland plant during its first year of operation
will only pay the interest and sinking fund charges
for that period but will also all interest charges
accrued during the construction period. +
Attempts further discredt the Of the Ceve
land plant through false and misleading statements pubs
shed the of the Public Utilities interested IN
desperate attempt off municipal ownership are
still being made The claim is made that the not
paying interest but that such payments being made
from money raised by taxation. -.
kee called attention Of Commissioner r.
W. Ballard in charge of the Cleveland plant In refuta
Mr.. Ballard writes:
THE facts regard to this particular payment men,
toned that had at that time something like s115
600 surplus peratng accumulated during
year.
II wrote order before leaving town to make pay
ment interest due Sept l. amounting tt
! Grating fund mentioned above.
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ges than aetrain can run over them.
But these physical difficulties, fully
equaled should the invaders, attempt
ipgress at Te1npico, are. by no means
all that our soldiers would~tface, as
has been limited already In the
words of the writer: .-~~-1-,
What the Mextcans Will Do.
AS the invading forces move in
land from sea or land ports, what are
the Mexican people: the nearly A.
000, 1000 who can neither read nor
write, who. are the same class OF
beings whom Uncle Sam puts on reser-
vations and sets soldiers to. guard
what will they be doing? II they
follow the directions Of their leaders
they will, be refusing open battle and
fighting the guerilla warfare which
according to- newspaper correspond:
ents IN the Philippines, has made life
unsafe twenty miles outside Manils
ever since 1898. Shall we have seven
teen years Of Indian warfare IN Mex
leo IT, we intervene?' In the opinion
of American troopers stationed alont
the border, we shall have twenty -av,
years of it. These are the things tn,
,Carranza, Villa. and ZapataS leader
have ordered the people Of Mexico t,
do, giving their orders through, TIL
newspapers In Vera Cruz, Mexico City
Puebla, Zacatecas, Durango, Monterey
and other large cities of Mexico: Il
Instructions published Broadcast,
Burn every growing crop and fir
the Jungle. s . .5 55.. ..=5.. :. I. I
|
destroy every head Of stock an
poultry you can not eat or carry ava,
Poison all springs and wells.
Throw every dead body, human an
animal. into the streams g ss u s5s.s s,a
] Send your women among tn
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$4,000 BURNED BY
WAR EVERY MINUTE i
81" Histo.. "rial Treasurer De-
oisi .e"p'to;' s,:s;c: s.: oSs,:,.*
Spend 70, 0,0Vv,s y.
ENGLAND AND GERMANY
BEAR HEAVIEST COST
Tuetons Claim They Are Carry
ing Cost At Home-France Is
Greatest Borrower.

BERLIN, Sept. 29.-Imperial
Treasurer Carl Helfferich estimates
the current war expenses Of all the
principal belligerents at $70,00O,O0O a
day, or nearly $500 900 an hour, day
and night, Sundays anu holidays.
This means over $2,O0O,CCO,OOO a
month and over 5,000,D00,000 a
sacrifices unheard of
before this war; as the great finance
minister said.
He added that the heaviest lnanc-
land and Germany, but he did not be-
lieve such expenditures >nable.. any
one to form conclusion regarding
the duration Of the war; at cast, no
such conclusion could be reached
concerning Germany.
"Germany is waging war; he said,
almost exclusively by means of ma
terials produced by herself. she is eX-
erting all her producing e" ergies. And
the money raised by Germany is paid
to Germans.
"The common expression that
money stays il the country may not
wages its war not with money but
with it's labor, exerted in it's most in
tense form, means everything.
Germany cannot be broken finan.
cially as Ions as German energy, con.
tidence and efficiency is not broken
DR.. Arthur Solomonson of the Ger.
man Imperial bank thinks that Rus
sia will recover soonest from the war
but that America alone will grow ricl
and more powerful than ever.
He says that France has alread.
borrowed $6,000,0O0,000; that he,
best productive regions for coal ant
iron are in the hands of Germany
that France must soon pay ..er for
eign imports with gold, and that tn
flood of unredeemable paper none.
which she has issued will bring abou
an~acute crisis and that mo. one ca,
tell what will become Of her.
These are the opinions of two o
the greatest tinanciers in Germany.
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GIVES ! !: DEATH 4 RAP |. TO. !.
U|V0NREC'OIGNIT'|'||O|V| Il
= y n <oG'sT s = 49,
= - '-7f ------ 49, -,
Young John D.; Will Consent to
:: to Nothing But Employers
Kind Of. Unionism.
STRONG FOR *'WELFARE;;"
NO HOPE FOR LIBERTY
Will, However, Condescend to
Deal With Individual Work
men Having Grievances.

DENVER Col, Sept. 3o.--A death
blow to any possible chance Of recos-
milton of unions in Rockefeller's vast
Colorado holdings, was ths interpre-
tation union leaders here placed to-
day on the .'representat:ve-form of Ia
bor," which the Rockefeller Ieuten-
ants announced last night would be
put into effect.
Opponents of union labor h> re, as
well as the labor. leaders, expressed
the belief tEat the so-called Star j.
Murphy plan, would squelch all form
of unionisnA as far as Rockefeller in
terests are concerned, as effectively as
it has been r4uelched among The great
army of employees of<all Standard Oil
holdings.
+ The announced plan is an open
shop idea which was briefly outlined
in statement by. Murphy and young
Rockefeller from New York some
months ago. .:''' -.
Union Not Recognized. >.
It provides fer representatives to be
chosen by the men, to whom all
grievances are submitted. Decisions
by these representatives may be ap-
pealed direct to- higher up officials.
Every effort Is to b. made to pre-
vent sub-bosses from discriminating
against workers. who have appealed
from their decisions,
/ In every instanc, Of .~pr cal for bet
terment either of working conditions
or wages, the retittcrer will be treat
ed as an individual. He will have no
standing if the petitions as represent
ing a union or as a member of a
union. a.. ~ J
l. - Must be Nonunion.. -
/ According to the plan, no man is to
be discriminated against if he belongs
to the union. The m. 4 will be per
EInitted to. organize as Rockefeller EN-.
1 sp1oyes, but affliatioTs with he United
! Mine Workers OF. America or any 9th
er union will be frowned upon.
The. plan has practically been ir
effect for some time, and Rockefeller
Officials claim it. has done much tt
alleviate the conditions which existed
before and just after the recen1
strike. D.. =
l. Edward Doyle, secretary OF ths
miners union in District Is, compris
ing Colorado, Utsh and New Mexico
today he had on file statements o
union miners refused work at Rocke
feller's mines. 49,. =
go to Mother oJffes," one .appli
cant was told, according to Doyle
why don't Frank Hayes give you
job?" another was told. - -.
| Complaint on Blacklist.
| Another complaint will, be made, t.
the Colorado state .idrstrial commits
sion regarding the alleged blacklist.
William Diamond. ranking interna
tional officer. of the United Min
Workers here, declared there is nov
no union organization l.: or near an
of the Rockefeller camps. .~%
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soldiers of the invader to kill individ-
'uals, -: - - =, 49,, -
Tf1ese: Instructions. of which the
above are verbatim TRANSACTIONS, were
published in Ell Renovador. the lead
ing Spanish daily of Mexico City, for
the. entire first week Of, August, and
simultaneously in other cities mem
toned. It should be noted that some
rama, some by Villa, and some by
Zapata, each leader the implacable
enemy of theAother two, vet all united
on the common ground. Of defending
their country against Intervention.
One can hardly Imagine a more
fiendishly cruel sort OF Indian war
than 4 one based on these direc-
tons would be. Accompanying the
Instructions in Ell Renovador and the
other newspapers was an order to each
village leader to post the notices con-
spfcously, and, in. the case of those
who could not read, to. read them to
the people, or to appoint men who
could read to act in their capacity
.~s-> No Love for United States. 81.
| We are reminded that the Mexicans
are taught to regard this country a.
q wolf in sleeps clothing that il
hungering to- devour their fair land
without mercy or recompe or even
| without humanity for its people. Thu
United States Is pictured TO them q.
I..slavering for the daughters Of Mexico
and thirsting for the blood OF hel
1 men, And, naturally, IL the people
i Of that morbidly imaginative countr,
actually believe, such incredible ray
|ings, it is no wonder that they urg.
one another, as they do, to fight unit
4 the dead cover the ground and tn,
pestilence arising from slaughteres
IL Mexico shall drive out the hated: Ia
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one or the other Of the rebel bands.
So they will fight an invading army
especially If it be that Of the United
States. :. ,ss5;is55 81 2.s@s.S. IS.
When there was danger OF inter.
Vention-stronger than the landing at
Vera Cruz-during the Huerta re-
gime, women of another class, the
wives and sweethearts and sisters of
Mexico, began organizing themselves
in their homes Not as nurses did
they form clubs and societies, but as
women determined to- fight to keep
the terrible dragon OF the north
from devouring them and their child
rem, as the newspapers told them hett hettt
would do. Ever since the landing OF
Cortez woman has been the slave of
Mexico; even in the educated, wealthy
classes, where her work was not so
arduous as that Of the wives Of the
II, 100000, she has, never even had
the privilege Of being q companion
to her husband, except in Isolated
cases; while as for any voice in public
affairs, even OF the simplest-tha has
been beyond her widest dreams
s $500 81 Women Are Slaves. 4
| But when real wars shadow fell on
her country she offered herself, as she.
has always been, the sacrifice OF her,
nation. How much or how little faith
she had IN her husband or her brother.
Eas warriors does not appear. but she:
was ready to give all she has ever ' had.
iher strength and life, to her country:
A It's hour off need. And the women
OF Mexico, the good and the Sbad,.
Twill be found lighting against the com
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Instant coordination and co-opera-
tion on the part of the new irreconci-
able factions in Mexico would result,
1t has been said, the moment the
United States began an actual move
of Intervention in that prickly coun-
try's affairs. 1t has even been sug-
gested, with more truth perhaps than
humor, says the Literary Digest, that
a feint- at armed interference by this
country is the only possible way to
stop the different factions from fight,
ing one another. In their haste to
fight us, even the greatest of mutual
differences would be forgotten.
From Best Authority.
This view is recently substantiated
by the statements of a newspaper man
who has spent seven years in Mexico
and knows it fairly intimately. This
writer assures us that not only would
the Mexicans unite to fight us, but all
SO would they oppose us with the most
devilish and inhuman form of war
fare imaginable. With them, too,
necessity knows no law when they
are confronted with the demon they
have been taught since childhood to
fear and hate-invasion by the north
ern neighbor who once stole Texas
from them. We are assured that the
Mexicans would devastate their coun.
try and poison it with plague and
pestilence, and even sacrifice" their
women folk for the sake of destroy.
ing the loathed 'gringo" invaders.
This, of course, presupposes thai
we could manage to accomn1isl
something like real invasion. Inva
p sion from the North would be diff
cult at best, ana, would be opposed b,
active and experienced forces nov
situated there. from the west sucl
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vader, though every Mexican can be
slain. We are told further: g
These newspapers express to the
fullest the deep-seated hatred Of the
lower class Mexican for the United
States and it's inhabitants, and their
undying purpose to, fight Intervention
to the bitter end. Z. -. 1sss...
< That such d fight will not win for
them they can not believe, and even
Mexicans who haye lived all their lives
in the northern States Of the Republic,
close to the American boundary, have
said to ME in all seriousness:
s'.'If it were not that Texas stands
in the way, we would invade the
United States and regain our lost
territory, = 3s @ III $50 s3 g. 8
Such is the ignorance of the IL
900, ,00O,l an ignorance which can be
removed from adult men and women
such as these only yiby the rifle and the
machine gun. II include women in
this sentence adyisedly, for the women
Of Mexico will hight the invader with
more hatred, with more insidious and
more deadly weapons, and with far
more courage than will the Mexican
men. ss =3 S==z.$ ss.s !. 5G5 ~ la5stls
So, 900 Women Follow Armies.
l IN the combined Mexican armies Of
all the leaders there are nearly SO 900
women, the $50 called soldaderas, wan-
ton lights g. love for the most part,
| who follow the soldiers as flies fol
low 81 molasse4-wagon. but who have
fought like tigers IN some Of the hard
est battles of Mexico'g revolutions.
dressed like the aol diers, armed with
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entrance as could be gained by land
ing troops at Manzanillo, Salina
Cruz, and Guaymas would be rendered
futile by the impossibility Of crossing
the 1O,000-foot mountain wall that
parallels the coast but few miles
inland. The best approach is OBJ
viously upon the Gulf ports-Vera
Cruz, Tampico, Puerto Mexico, and
Progreso, but even here the difficult
ties are of the most formidable sort.
The writer, Harry H. Dunn, gives US,
in the st. Louis Globe-Democrat, a
concrete example of this:
Dynamite and a Cigar.
Mexico City is nearly 400 kilomet-
ers (about ESQ miles) from Vera
Cruz, and the capital is linked to its
teroceanic .(narrow gage) and the
Mexican Railroad, which, because il
is owned largely. by British> capital
is most often called 'the Queens
Own," having been built in the days
of Victoria. Two men, each provided
with five sticks of dynamite and &
lighted cigar, can: put both railroad.
! so far out of commission that 5Ot
| men could not repair them in 8
months steady work, even if undis
turbed by the enemy. Bridges ant
curves abound. on both lines, on,
bridge. on. the Mexican being notet
as the, longest curved trestle in th'
world.
Climbing, as both these railroad
do, from sea-level to an altitude o
nearly 10000 feet in about 200 miles
and then dropping to Mexico City
altitude Of 7,140c. feet in the remain
ing half-century Of the distance, i
may be imagined that they cling lik
spiders webs to the eastern wall q
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OREGON WAGE LAW
HELPS LOWEST !! PAID
Girl Workers Under 18 Must
Receive at Least So
a Week.
EXPERIENCED WOMEN
WORKERS PAID $9.2
Fears Expressed By Merchants
About "Poor'' Employees
~, Not Realized. ss;

Oregon's minimum wage law. TOR &
women has raised wages for women
as whole. is the conclusion drawn as
the result of an Investigation by the
United States bureau of labor.
r. The determinations in Oregon, fixed {
by the Oregon industrial commissions,
classify employees in retail stores as {
girls under Is years, inexperienced
adult women l2 years OF age and over
with experience Of not more than one
year in an occupation, and experi-
enced adult women 18 years Of age
and over having more than one year
of experience in an occupation. Any
change in the character of service
rendered constitutes a change in oc7
cupation, and therefore the beginning
of a new apprenticeship year. s
81 Per Day. =
The first of the Oregon awards.
fixed minimum of $1.00 a day for
girls upnder Is and took effect Octo-
ber 4, 1918; the second, taking effect
November 23, 1913, fixed a minimum
Of 1926 week for experienced adult.
women in Portland; and two taking
effect February,7, 1914, fixed a mini
mum of 1926 a week for experienced.
adult women outside of Portland and
of $500 a week for inexperienceds
! adult women throughout the State.
Since the awards came into effect
the rates of pay for women, as a.
whole, have increased, but the wages
! of the three groups (girls under 49,
adult inexperienced women and adult
experienced women) have been diff
! ferently' affected. Girls under 18 were
| benefited, the proportion receiving.
] under $500 "a week decreasing from
! rs per cent. before the determinations
to less than / per cent. after the de-
| terminations;;.t the proportion getting
| $500 a, week was 53 per cent. before
/ and 79 per cent after the determine
! tions, W lille the proportion getting
em6re than loo was practicaiiy ths
same both before and after. In the
period before the determinations the
average rates for the whole group
! under 1Ss was $5:93S while afterwards
it was 1924. ..s5.. ss
! Average Rate Decreased.
t.: For adult Inexperienced women the
results were not so favorable. The
iaverage y. rate per week decreased
slightly, falling from $6.ss to $6.4.
Before the determinations SO per cent.
and after the determinations only SO
per cent. of this group received more
than. $500. The old employees did not
suffer a reduction of wages, but the
place Of a $500 or a $4,000 a month
girl was filled by a $4,000 girl.
For adult experienced women the
wage determinations brought an im-
provement of conditions. There was
an increase not only in the proportion
receiving s.: rs a week (the legal min
imum in Portland,) but also in the
proportion receiving more than $9.25.
The proportion Of the force getting
$1,000 and over a. week also increased.
although the actual number decreased.