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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-05-01
JoBLESS PARADE, THREE
MILES LONG, ASKS FOR
BREAD; CITY BALKS AID

WINNIPEG, April 30.-Ten thou
sand jobless men last Friday assem-
bled under the shadow of Queen Vic
toria's statue, Parliment square, and
pleaded for bread.
Premier Rodmund Robin was ask
ed to divert funds for work on new
parliment buildings to the purchase
OF food for starving unemployed He
was also asked to raise a loan OF
$20,00O,000 for placing jobless men in
Canada on Canadian farms, to be sold
to them on easy payment plan.
The premier said he could do moth
ing.
The procession of unemployed was
three miles long.Banners were car
ried reading:
I'VE are not enemies Of Canada; we
are hungry and want work." Work
or Bread" Nearly all were Germans,
Austrians and Poles.
They dispersed without receiving
any assurance of aid and many threats
Of trouble were made.
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the goal is reached. In this en-
deavor nothing must be left un-
done till all. obstacles are over
come OF eliminated. i.
*'In organizing and bull ding up
the trades:$unioI movement, we
should heed the; lessons Of the
past, the costly experience gained
from defeats. N:H we build, let us,
build wisely; Rt Us build strongly;
let us build upon a foundation
that will stand the test of time:
and the test Of defeats. Let us
build upon basis that will enable
us to. recover, lost ground in a.
brief time after a disastrous de-
feat; that viii enable us to rally
our scattered forces in quick order,
full Of action, of hope and ardor.
''The American trades union
movement, with a few exceptions,
is full Of weak spots It is lacking
in preparation for emergencies,
and fails to. make provision for
conflicts of an@extended. nature; it
is narrow in: O. constructive sense
and ignores the. most vital point
in caring for the unemployed in
periods of business depressiops. )
1t is built upon prosperous
times and a continuous period of
sunshine; it is not prepared for
periods of depression and the
fluctuations in trade conditions.
Some national unions have failed
to make provisions, for: any strike
benefit whatsoever; the members
have to depend upon voluntary
contributions and donations ap-
propriated by the national execu-
tive board. There is no guarantee
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COLORADO ] .|!|| ID !. PASSES ! /
COMPENSATION [ [ A: ]. Law Nv
Entering Wedge for Adequats
- Law Goes Into Effect I.
August l.. 4 ~ 0

DENVER, Col, April S0.-A COM
pensatton law has been passed by the
state legislature. About the only value.
the bill possesses is the fact that it es-
tablishes the principle Of compensa-s
tion' in this state. The act contains
four different kinds of optional insur-a
ance, and the students of this question.
believe the law will prove .unworkable.
The law takes effect the first of next
August and it ie urged that by the
time the general assembly again con-
venes, January, 1917, the demand for
genuine compensation act will be-
universal.
The new law exempts farm labor
and domestics, as we'll as employers
who employ less than four workers.
Four forms Of insuring for COM
pensation are left open to the em-
ployer-insurance in the state cona-
pensation insurance fund, which is
created by the new law; stock COM
pany insurance, mutual insurance and
the carrying by the employer of his
own risk, on filing of bond with the
industrial commission to guarantees
| compensation payments if the neces-
! sity arises. p. S#4 SIX
The Industrial commission makes
rates for insurance in the state fund.
| Disability indemnity to be paid under
| the law is based on the average week
! ly, wages Of an employe, but cannot
exceed So per week. In case, Of death
| the maximum amount to be paid is
$2.50O.
| The law will be administered by
; the newly created Industrial cemmiss
sion. Other duties of this board con-
sists of making Investigations in in
dustry and the settlement of differ
ences between capital and labor.
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of their class who seem oppressed
On the other hand, only good results
from a. scrupulous regard for the
rights of the fractious element coupled
with the enlistment of the sober mind s
ed wage-earners in efforts to solve the
social problems affecting themselves.
The tactics then for controlling SUBJ
versive is not the application OF the
gag, but the redress Of real grievances
There is no need of the hurried re-
sort to high handed tyrannical meas
urec. Our social order is not so weak
as Its more, vociferous champions inl-s
agine.@szOur institutions are not like
the walls of Jericho to be leveled bvs
"a blast upon the trumpet What isl
going on under our eyes is not the
break up OF society, but the painful
struggle upward Of sections OF the:
laboring class which have been in the
most depressed and helpless condi ition.
In their struggle with the powerful
their initial weapons are the unhinder
ed disclosure OF their wrongs and free;
discussion of plans for concerted ac-l
ton. For organized society to ALLOW
these weapons to be wrenched out Of
their hands would be connivAnce "a.
one Of the greatest iniquities that
could be committed. Excerpts from
an address OF Edward Alsworth RosA
University OF Wisconsin, president 81
the American Sociolo ogical Society
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newspapers to fight their battles!

newspapers to fight their battles!
What we are witnessing in recent
years is not at all an anarchistic move
ment among wage -earners, but the
struggle Of the worst paid or worst
treated laborers to improve their
position and exact the, treatment due
to men. Does any candid student of
society doubt that the grievances Of
the sections of labor which are being
organized by the Industrial Workers
OF the World are quite as real and
serious as the grievances Of which in
times past the railroad men, the
miners, the longshoremen, the print
ers, the telegraphers, the iron molders,
the structural iron workers and many
other groups Of skilled workingmen
complained? These past movements
for the betterment of conditions were
certainly accompanied by strong emo
ton, bitterness, class animosity. ire
sponsible leadership, Utopianv propos-
ais and lurid rhetoric which lent color
to the capitalists cry that, law and
order were in danger. There was al
ways enough wild language and vio-
lence by individuals to allow such Off,
cials, courts, politicians, newspapers,
pulpits and colleges as were subser-
Went to the employing class and would
fight the labor movement at it's, crime
and spoliation.
I I remember how, thirty years ago
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self-restraint, of the duty upon the
people of obeying the law they them
selves have made and Of the righting
Of wrongs by orderly procedure have
become deeply rooted in the bulk OF
the population! ,a
To judge from the lavish use of the
club and the cell, the rantings Of kept
newspapers and the bombardment
from the heavy artillery Of social de-
fense, one might suppose that nothing
less is at stake than monogamic mar
riage, the life of civil officials and
the institution Of private property.
So great a pother is the profits from
long hours, low wages. false, measure
ment, arbitrary fines, speeded labor,
company stores and the evasion OF
the laws requirements of safety and
sanitation; able to raise when men
aced by the advent of an intrepid
agitator with suggestions of organiza-
ton and strike. . A mortifying anti.
climax must it be to the good citizen
who has been drawn into sanctionine
high-handed measures against dis.
turbers to find later underneath tho
'1aw and order" movement nothing
but the pecuniary alarm Of a handful
Of greedy and arrogant local magnate!
who by the unholy use of their finan
cfal power have been able to force tn,
city authorities. the police courts, th'
business men, the pulpits and tn,
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the Knights OF Labor leader called
on, carefully pulled down the blinds
before he would talk And yet many
of the reforms his organization sought
restriction of: child labor, the es-
tablishment of bureaus of labor statis-
tics, postal savings banks, inheritance
taxes, the use OF arbitration in labor
disputes, the gradual Introduction of
the eight-houri day have already been
or are being realized, and, few disin-
terested citizens would have it other
wise.
We look back upon the wrongs and
needless sufferings of a bygone gener-
alton of labor and regret that the
scales did not sooner fall from our
eyes. We wish that the labor of 1884
had not been denied the protection
which we Acknowledged as the right of
the labor of 1914. But thirty years
hence in 1914, what rights will the
ill-paid floating, seasonal or unskilled
| laborers enjoy with the. full approval
of all the better elements OF the then
society, which today are being I'd enied
them while their organizations, dem
onstrations, .parades, agitations and
strikes are being denounced ;: as an
archistic and criminal? If indeed the
public has nothing to learn wher
these sections Of labor gain the lime.
light and q voice, if the public know:
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A DEFENSE OF FREE SPEECH

1t is expressibly shocking. that the
rights of free communication estab-
lished so long ago at such cost OF
patriot blood, time tested rights which
in thousands Of instances have vindi-
Gated their value for moral and social
progress, accepted rights which in the
minds of disinterested men were as
settled as any principle of human
conduct can be, should with increasing
frequently be flouted by strong en-
ployers and set at nought by local
authorities.
Are the agitators of today more
artful or inflammatory than those of
other times? Are wage-earners more
ignorant, less self-controlled, less able
: 70 distinguish right from wrong or
truth from error? Is there some un-
represented section Of the people bent
upon subverting our form of govern
ment? Is. there a convinced class
working resolutely and in concert to
bring about a. state of anarchy?
No, there is no such crisis.
If freedom of communication could
be established in time when most
men were unable to read and write
we're ignorant of the responsibilities
# citizenship and inexperienced ir
liscounting the spoken or writer
word, how rock-fast it ought to b.
today when practically the entire pop
ilation reads, and the traditions OF
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-05-01

Postmaster Beseiged With Appli=
cations From Men After
,s.:,.s; 81: - Railroad WORK.

Postmaster William E.. McEwen
wishes to, inform men seeking work
on the new government railway in
Alaska that there is no work to osbe
had. All the crews have been selected
while thousands of men from all
points of the country are laboring
under the mistaken idea that the gov
ernment needs large numbers Of
workmen. "a ~ s51gsss
"Fully 10000 men have sent in ap-
plications to government employment
Offices said Mr.. McEwen. These
men believe that a large number OF
workmen are needed. Some have
been badly misinformed and believe
that the government will pay their
fare to the frozen fields of Alaska.
The fact is no more men are needed
Postmaster McEwen has received
so many application through the goV-
ernment employment agency that he
has been forced to prepare a circular
letter to answer the applicants.
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whatsoever for an adequate sup
port in case Of a protracted strike
or, lockout. This is one Of the
weakest spots in> the financial
structure Of the American trades
union. movement it gives the en-
|ployers a tremendous advantage
at the outset Of the struggle. It
almost enables them to calculate
when the starvation period would
start in with all Of. it's depressing
Influences. It encourages the en-
ployers to hold out and to delay
settlement based on conciliation,
confidence, and arbitration. It
gives them the vantage and better
position in the field Of dispute.
"The employers cannot be de-
ceived by bluster and braggado-
cia about millions Of dollars in
reserve which have no foundation
in fact; neither can they be brow
beaten with high sounding resolu-
tions and effusions. 1t is a we'll
filled treasury which counts in the
final analysis of the situation.
The weekly strike benefit paid
promptly without reservation and
evasion is the ammunition in the
industrial field. It is the commits
sary department distributing the
provisions to the families Of the
members on strike, which bears
on the situation with telling effect.
1t furnishes the endurance and
perseverance necessary for the
maintenance of united front.
The building up Of a powerful
and permanent reserve fund is
one of the means to eliminate con-
hicts Of long duration.''
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SOUTH AUSTRALIA
"oUTLAWs" A UNION

ADELAIDE, fsouth Australia.
April 30.-On the application of
managers Of twp theatrical enter
prises, the REGISTRATION of the Musi-
clans union has. been cancelled and
this organizatih has been "out-
lawed' becausethts members have
dared to controz their own affairs
and. have .l =: erninent. + m.
terrier ence. ~ ~ f@ '''' : =
- Judge Edmunds, of the industrial
arbitration court, made the award,
which is referred to by the Daily
Herald as follows:
THE grounds of the application
were that there were inherent de-
, fects in the rules of the union,
which were contrary to public pol
icy and the policy of the act; that
the rules attempted to thwart the
decision of the wages board; that
the union was: consequently con-
spring or Juggling with another
union to defeat the intentions of
the federal arbitration act.
His honor said that he ques-
toned whether the union should
be allowed to exist when it made
contracts which usurped the func-
tions, in some respects, of the leg
islature; the court and the wages
board. This union, by it's. rules,
had built around it a; stone wall
which shut out the court and the
wages board. ;: The application
would be granted An order was
made cancelling so much o the
award as related to members of
the uniOn."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-05-01
WEAK SPOTS in LABOR M0YEMENT MUST Be
STRENGTHENED TO ENDURE LONG CONFLICTS

President Perkins of the Inter-
national Cigarmakers' union uses
language both plain and emphatic
to show low-dues unionists their
weakness, and the necessity for
these workers favoring their or
ganizations maintaining strong
financial system.
AS editor of the Cigarmakers' ,
Official journal this executive
writes on the |Weak Spots'' of
our movement in the following
Observation-Disclosures fashion.
'No progress has ever been OBJ
tanned by self-complacency; nor
by moving aimlessly; nor by ig-
noring the records of experience
and history. 1t is necessary and
laudable to dwell. upon the
achievements of the past, and to
explain to the rising generation
the efforts and sacrifices made in
gaining shorter hours, higher
wages, and improved working
conditions. It is the mission of
the trades union movement to en-
courage the workers in the agita-
tion for the Improvement Of the
economic and social status of the
masses. Moreover, it is of prime
Importance to point constantly to
the necessity Of increasing the
membership by agitation and edu-
cation, and by extending the hand
of friendship to men and women
outside of our ranks. The organ.
ization Of the workers, both male
and female, skilled and unskilled
must go on and cannot stop till
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REARGUMENT BEFORE
FULL BENCH" ORDERED
Judge Lurton Said to. Hold De-
Gliding vote-other Judges
Stand 4 to 4.

WASHINGTON. April 30.-For the
third time the fight of President Sam
uel Gompers, Vice President John
Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morri-
son of the American Federation of
Labor, to escape stigma and punish
ment for alleged contempt of court
was staged Monday in the supreme
court.
Reargument of the labor leaders
appeal was specially ordered by the
Absence of Justice Lurton, who was
i'll when the case was present Jan.
s, caused the reopening Of the litiga-
tiOn
1t was reported that the eight other
justices stood to 4 and that Justice
Lurton held. the deciding vote, neces-
Stating the retrial.
When the order for proceedings
was made April 6, it was stated that
the court was in such grave doubt re-
garding the issues, the prominence Of
the defendants, and the important
questions of the right of free speech"
and freedom of the press involved,
that rehearing with every justice
Case Long Drawn.
Prominent labor officials occupied
seats in court when counsel for the
federation officials and the special
prosecuting committee" of the bar
clashed. That final decision would
not be handed down by the court be-
fore June, or possibly not until next
fall, has been predicted because of
| the reargument.
Judge Alton B. Parker, New York,
once Democratic candidate for presi-
| dent, and Jackson H. Ralston, of the
local bar, appeared for the labor lead
ers. The prosecuting committed
was J. J. Darlington, Daniel Daven-
sented the Buck Stove and Range
contempt proceedings. g.. 49,
officials and Atty. Ralston will close
the case, with the prosecuting attor-
neys "sandwiched" between.
What Cases Are.
The appeals are from sentence to
80 days in Jail imposed upon Presi-
dent Gompers and fines Of $500 each
upon Mitchell and Morrison, under
a decree of the District of Columbia
court Of appeals, a. federal court.
The trial court, the district supreme
court, had sentenced Gompers to one
year, Mitchell to nine months and
Morrison to six months in Jail, those
sentences being mitigated by the ap.
pellate court.
The offenses charged against the
three defendants were violation of ar
injunction of Justice Could of the dis.
trict supreme court against boycott
ing the Buck Stove and Range com.
pany in 1907. "Blacklisting'' of thu
stove concern, despite the courts in.
junction by placing it upon the un.
fair, or I'VE Don't Patronize" list O,
the "Federationist' was complained
Of
Speeches criticizing the court anc
particularly Justice Daniel Thov
Wright, who imposed the original sen
tences, were cited as contemptous.
Impeachment proceedings were re
Gently filed in the United States hous,
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FURN|SS IS HARD
PRESSED BY P!( :: $!
Enrolls Prominent Business Men
In Attempt To Maintain
Non Union House.

That the pickets for the Moving
Picture Machine Operators union are
making things unpleasant for Thomas
Furniss. proprietor Of the Rex and
Lyric theaters, through their persis-
tent campaign in which the methods
of Mr.. Furniss are exposed to the
public, is evidenced by the attempt
last Thursday to influence Commits
sioner Silberstein to forbid picket
ing"
1t will be remembered that a similar
group Of business" men waited upon
former Commissioner Hicken for the
same purpose but to no avail.
Ridiculous Charges Made.
Charges made by the "business
mems" delegation were first that the
picketing results in obstruction to
sidewalks. Think of one or two pick
cts standing on the curb for two or
three hours ''blocking traffic" Second,
abusive language. This charge is
pure buncome made out of the i'm
agination Of Mr. Furniss who is play
ing his last card. Third that the
pickets are an annoyance to pedes-
trians. It is to laugh. The only "pedes-
trians" who could possibly be annoyed
are those whose conscience prlcks
them when caught entering an unfair
picture house.
May Draft Ordinance.
City attorney Henry F. Greene in
formed the "committee' that the pick
cts were acting wholly within their
rights while picketing. 1t is probable
however that a regulative ordinance
will be drafted and acted on by the
commission.
Remember These Men.
Among those present at the meeting
who expressed their views, were
Thomas Furniss, proprietor of the un'
fair houses Attorney H. H. Phelps
George H. Bate of the Bradstreet Co.
f. ]. Filiatrault Of the Mutual Auto
Co., and H. w. Coulter.
Others present were: T. w. Hopes
l.. S. Loeb, ]. C. McGreevy, A. B
Siewert, M. A. Thompson, A. c. Hub
bell, G. v. Burgess, Max Shapiro, N
j. Upham, c. A. Klein. H. V. Eva, A
C. Beuglet, Fred Buck, George Ebert
]. ]. Cook jr., David Williams, Thoma
Merritt, William Burgess, T. A. Gall
H. r. spences, Max Wetzler and c
A. Graves.
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WALSH ! REPLIES / ] L: : :. !. ::
U1yv 1IuNUvuvv3vD -@"G|7'
I0.R0CK[FELLER
'-,. 60
Says He Can. Stand Abuse If It
Will Prevent Another a..
Ludlow
RoCKEFELLER, s DEFENSE =
or MURDER RIDICULOUS
Admits, Women and Children
Were Smothered While His
Hirelings Shot Men. :

Chicago, April .5O.-Mr. ROcke-
feller's personal abuse of myself is
in line with the Rockefeller policy of
crushing any individual who opposes
him in any way" said Chairman
Frank p. Walsh, of the United States
commission on industrial relations,
in replying to the young oil baron's
published statement designating
Walsh as a "falsifier."
II can stand the abuse" he con-
tinued, feeling sure that this very
publicity will create a sentiment
among the American people which
will prevent recurrence Of the Lud-
low horror, and, perhaps, go a long
way toward establishing a Repub-
lican form of government in those
communities controlled i. by the
Rockefeller interests.
1T is interesting to note that the
Rockefeller defense to the Ludlow
massacre is that the women and II
children who met their deaths on
that occasion we're not shot, but
merely smothered to death, while
bullets from the mine guards of his
companies were flying over the
mouth of the pit.
Asks For Candor.
Entire candor, however, should
have moved young Rockefeller to add
the additional detail that his mine
guards, in the gu1se Of state militia
men, burned the tents and looted the
victims before and after their deaths.
"Rockefeller's anger and resent
ment toward me obviously grows out
of misconception by him of my du-
ties as chairman of the Industrial re-
lations committee. I was not ap-
pointed to allay or smother the causes
Of industrial unrest but to investigate
and make them manifest to the
world. s,,.- 4~-., ~.., ~ @,
The published letter which arouse
Mr.: Rockefeller's ire are all admitted
by him to have been written and
| correctly quoted. It is interesting
and amusing to. note that Jesse + F.
Welborn,. president of the Rockefel.
fel companies in Colorado, gives q
labored interview attempting to show
that no such letters ever were writ.
ten, while L. M. Bowers, chairman Of
the executive committee of thu
Rockefeller interests in Colorado
furnishes his somewhat lame contri
button to the Rockefeller defense b,
confessing the authenticity of the cor,
respondence, but declaring that IT
did not amount to anything
Fails to Explain.
II must confess to certain degre,
of disappointment with Mr.. Rookie
feller's statement:
' To fail to explain in any wa,
the confession of MI. Bowers tina
the Colorado Fuel and Iron compan,
leads in fixing plices and conditions
of labor, to fail to set for the me
morandum which he declared in hi
letter of June: IA, 1914, to his publ
city agent, Mr.. Lee, that it could b,
appropriately used in the letter from
Gov. Ammons to President Wilson,
certainly leaves much to be desired
ALSO the explanation of Mr.. Rookie
Teller was fragmentary, to say tn
least, in that it did not contain tn
names and location of the 'friendl,
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EIGHr-HoUR DAY NECESSARY.

"a -SCHANION, Ra., 'Apfh 5o-lH all
editorial on the eight-hour day, the
Republican of this city says:
Mining, and particularly coal min
ing. where pockets of gas as we'll as
treacherous roof are always a menace,
is conceded by every one to be haz-
ardous occupation. The confinement
in the dark chambers and gangways,
where the air Is never as pure as at
the surface, tries the stamina of even
the hardest men.
1T has been the contention of the
mine workers that in occupations such
as theirs they can do as much in a
shorter day, through more strenuous
effort, than if compelled to labor for
nine or ten hours. In addition, being
more alert and fit during the entire
period of a short day they are vigi-
liant in the observance of safety meas
1lres"