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TRADE UNIONS GIVE
MEN II GREATEST AID

TORONTO, Ont, April 23.-The In
dustrial Banner Of this city is one
more trade union paper that hits the
nail on the head in its following sum-
mary of the value Of organization:
after all is said and done, there is
nothing more certain or easy Of proof
than the assertion that trades union
organization has accomplished more
sin: sSafe&uar ding the rights OF the
working class than all other agencies
,combined:
The craft that has 1e0E per cent
organization In any industrial center
ts more potent to force the concession
OF reasonable hours and a, living wage
and to maintain them, even during
periods of business depression, than
the best fair wage clause that was
ever enacted by municipal council.
J.. ''While it may be true-not in To-
ronto, however-that when properly
enforced fair wage clause may
force even unfair contractors to pay
the prevailing rate of wages, the said
prevailing rate is first fixed and en-
forced by trades union organizations.
Where the labor unions are weak
the prevailing rate is bound to be cor
respondingly low, and even an eff
GENTLY enforced fair wage-earner a.
higher scale of remuneration than the
weak Reorganization existing is able to
enforce.
where organization is weak the
hours of labor are long and the pre-
vailing rate Of wages are low, and
where organization is strong it nat
urally follows that shorter hours and
higher wages must necessarily follow.
mo fair wage clause ever seeks to
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.R|0T{B, NEEDS HELP T | :. :.
NONE ff$;||y!A!k, ~ F. OIL. i
Organizer Tells Why u Eide
Labor Movement Refn> 4
, to Give Aid.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-General
Organizer Hugh Frayne, stationed at
New York city, has reported to Amer
lean Federation Of Labor headuuar-
ters on a circular issued by the
Leonard Frisina Defense Fund COM
mittee," New York, which purportz
to be raising money for the defense
Of F'risina, who is charged with inctt-
ing riot at Roosevelt, N. j., during the
recent strike of chemical workers
that was won with the aid Of the
A. F. of l.. The circular says "the
A. F. of L. wilI~ not help, Frisna,
and an effort is made to create the
impression that the bonf fide labor
movement only responds to appeals
from those who wear a particular
brand of trades unionism."
Organizer Frayne's report speaks
for itself and is as follows:
During the strike at Roosevelt and
Chrome, NJ. j., this man Frisina
worked himself into the good graces
of the strikers and succeeded in hav-
ing them place him on a salary not
withstanding the fact that out of 600
strikers there were only so or 70
Italians.
Tylkoff and Tarcai were on the
ground everyday during the strike
and a considerable time afterward. I
even agreed to send an Italian organ
izer and interpreter to look after the
interests of the italian strikers three
days each week without any expense
to the strikers, but Frisina was able
to persuade the men to reject this
offer and to retain him. He had the
executive board of the union send me
a special delivery letter demanding
that he be placed on salary by the
Federation, claiming if we were will
ing to pay some one else there was
no reason why he should not be con-
sidered.
My answer to this was an ultima
tum that unless they Immediately got
rid of this man I would withdraw
the organizers and notify the trade
unions, especially in New Jersey, who
were contributing financial support, to
withdraw same. This had the de-
sired effect. further instructed the
secretary and the treasurer Of the
union that I would hold them ac-
countable for any money given to this
man, who is nothing more than a
faker who usually gets into situations
Of this kind and takes advantage of
the ignorance of the strikers in fur
thering his own personal interests.
@You will note In the circular that
he says 'Frisna does not belong to
the American Federation of Labor ]
warned him if I found he was using
the name of the federation in any
way that I would make it very un-
pleasant for him.
II would also suggest that the at
tention of the postal authorities be
called to the matter as I believe an
investigation will disclose the fact
that there is no one behind this move
except Frisina and possibly one or
two others who see an opportunity OF
getting easy money
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required 7the expenditure of $780,
The ill-starred .Boer exacted
a toll of -90,898 lives and cost Eng
land alone over a billion dollars.
Russia and Japan fought each
other to practical financial exhaus-
tion, with a charge of 555,90O men,
and OF treasure :$2,25O,0O0,0OO.
OF Han these = enormous sums
wasted burned in the fierce flames
OF battle-only. a. small part. was
money on hand, or provided in any
natural fashion. The greater part
was raised by discounting the fu-
ture--laying burden on, the emas-
culated life to come whose earning
and paying capacity was at the same
time jeopardized by killing off hum
dreds OF thousands of the strongest
most virile, most ed-blooded-the
best that war always takes. Z"
When the present awful tempest
broke over Europe, not one of the
nations involved bat was staggering
under stupendous burden of debt,
Inherited from past conflicts. Even
with ample prosperity and great. in
comes 1T was practically impossible
to devote more than a mere baga-
telle to the reduction Of indebted
ness, because of the incessant de-
mands for constantly increasing sums
with which to build and sustain
great armies and :navies.
With every nation of Europe in
1913 the budget was to, great ex-
tent an economic tragedy. l.a,
Great Britain, with her. forty-fiye
mfllion4of people, had a debt of $3,-
389.577,O00. a per capita. of over
$92. Her interest was an annual
charge OF over $100, 700 900. !. The
German Empire, with {. 65,OO0.O
overcrowded population. had a debt
OF $3,580,0 900, ,0OO.. II, ~. ssss. -
# France bore the inconceivable load
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STREET RAILWAY Co:
GAINS BIG POINT
Legislature Forces Minneapolis
TO Grant 80 Year Franchise
To Corporation.
CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS AND
LABOR UNIONS PROTEST
Appeals of Citizens Ignored BY
Lawmakers. Special In
terests Dominate.

The Twin City Rapid Transit COM
pany won signal victory in the leg
islature when the senate passed the
so-called "enabling' act, empowering
the city of Minneapolis to proceed to
grant a franchise to the street railway
company of that city.
Strictly speaking the bill wassnot an
enabling act, for real enabling act
would require only about fifty words
giving the council the power to pro-
ceed. Minneapolis does not operate
under a home rule charter, hence the
action of the legislature is necessary
before the council can negotiate with
any corporation.
{ The bill just passed by the legisla-
ture, and which has probably been
signed by the governor by this tlme'
is a long recital of what the pro-
posed franchise shall contain. This
is the gospel" says the legislature to
the people of Minneapolis. You
must grant franchise with these
conditions and limitations.' The city
will be deprived of any power to cope
with the company unless it submits
to this so-called "enabling' act.
Must Give 80 Year Contract. !.
The Wallace Westlake bill provides
that the city must give a 80 year
franchise to the company or none at
all. It carries referendum clause,
but with only 80 days in which to
make the campaign.
Civic organizations, labor unions
and numerous other bodies including
the city council begged the leglsla-
tors not to wish" this iniquituous
piece of legislation upon the people Of
the Flour city. They argued that
the present franchise of the company
would not expire for eight years and
that there was no necessity for ac-
ton on the part of the legislature at
this time that If the legislature at
tempted to prescribe the conditions on
which the city must deal with the
company, this would place the city at
a big disadvantage in making any
kind of a contract.
Despite the fact that three sessions
of the legislature must pass before a
new contract will begin the solons at
the capitol needed the request OF those
Minneapolis representatives and SEN
aators swliose attitude during the pres
affillation with the street railway in
terests.
Same Men Oppose Other Bills.
Senators Wallace and Westlake car
ried on the fight for the franchise
bill. These two senators were the
chief antagonists Of the "Nolan" bill,
which attempted to regulate the gen
eral electric company, and which
might have been stretched to include
the street railway lines. Wallace and
Westlake also fathered the bill fixing
almost prohibitive fees and liability
insurance for "Jitney'' buses, which
bill received almost unanimous vote
in the senate-Senator Jones of Du-
luth being the only member of the
upper house voting against the meas
ure Senator Wallace led the fight
against Senator Campbell's bill which
would have compelled the Twin City
Rapid Transit company to place a
flagman at dangerous street crossing.
Verify, 1.-THE OK Knoweth his Own
er and the Ass his Masters Crib"
Senator Campbell Of Minneapolis
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fore they squandered- present pos
session or incurred fresh. obligations
against an already oVerloadedF and
insolvent future. ,,:} ~ - ~ .
But the war lust has>no wit. Mad,
fatuous and insane. i it make E no
pause for argument, it is swayed
by no deduction, it learns no Wis
dom, from: experience, it heeds no
warning from disaster. i%~ :
!: They who spend moreoyer-they
who with blind temerity; pile Ossa
on ~Pelion are not they who earn,
nor they who pay, any more than
they who make wars and plan. bat
ties, are they. who fight and bleed
and die. =. =. ~; r C.. ( !,
~ In the last analysis these wars Iof
I Europe are the last and soon to be
sannihilated prerogative OF that gov
ernmental system. that makesi It pos
s1ble for q man or men to send other
men to battle, save as they choose
to- 60, for a man or; men to spend
other mems money, save only as
they shall order it spent.
And this, said a'..wounded Ger
man, a prisoner In 4 Belgian hospi-
tai, this is not a Fl olkskrieg''- lit
ifs q .Koenigsgreig ig,, n OF a peoples
>Warit il. q war Of kings ,S1s1 IS &.
/, Il only the kings might pay! ss4:
am writing at the end of the
eighth week Of the war, the eighth
week since Austria, declared war
against 6ervia.s In an Interview given
the other day the chairman OF the
United States Steel Corporation es4
timiated that the actual expendi-
lures of the war amounted, to at
least S $4,000 900 q day, and this
vast sum- but feebly expressed the
secondary cost OF property aggregat-
Ing billions and took no account of
the fncalculable economic ruin, ! re-
sulting from the hdrawal off
thousands Of men from Sproduc ctiYe
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APPROPRIATION FOR
JAY COOKE, PARK IN. !: !:
THE APPROVED LIST:

ST, PAUL. April 2s.-The Jay
Cooke state park provision Is
Il snugly slowed away in the ap-
propriate, legislation and nothing
except its elimination by Cover
nor Hammond (not even remote
~ ly probable) can keep it from be-
coming law.
Fifteen thousand dollars be-
comes available each of the two
coming fiscal years.. Under the
terms of the plaKely legislative
part Of the Jay lCpoke measure.
( the heirs ssof the Philadelphia A.
nancier will turn over !: to the
state of aMinnesota approximately
q. 500 acres toveri the .estab blish-
ment Of the plrkk. : title to vest
in the state, in perpetuity,
and with the funds made available
by the legislature enough more
land is to be purchased to con-
stitute a state park of approxi-
mately 5000 acres.
The projected park lies almost
wholly In Carlton county. but
near enough to Duluth to be
practically at it's western door.
The original bill was :. intro
duced in the~house by Represent
ative Searls of Carlton and War
ner Of Atkin and Senator Vivert
of Carlton.
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civilized world has been bearing a
burden it had no part in creating
the sins of the fathers have been
visited in awful measure upon the
In the crisis of war, there can be
no delay when money is needed for
the support of armies, the expense
of transportation the supplying of
the munitions Of battle, ) 40
Who Pays the Debt?
No one ever stops to think or to
question who will eventually pay.
The back of unborn generations is
very broad. ~, Il
In Egypt they tell still of the ex-
ploits of Ismail, the prodiga1 spend
ersthe bankrupter of. the nation. On
one occasion a bill of $4,000 pounds
due to local bank was pressing
for payment. Government securi-
ties had DEPRECATED and were worth
what one could get. TO tlischarge
this obligation the prodigal spend
thrift turned over 100000 pounds
Of government securities at q price
OF 81 So. In other words, to pay q
debt of $36O,00O- the Khedive laid
upon the backs of the next genera
tion a load of 81 100000 on which
the interest charge alone was $6s,-
900 a year: :: i-..~ -~ +:
|. ..I>- Cost in Human Life.
| Infinitely. greater and more IN
human have been the legactes of
war. . -
! The Napoleonic contest between
England and France alone cost L.
100000 lives, and, in money .$6,-
25O,000,O0O. = 49,. H..
Our own, Civil war demanded
656;000 lives, and cost $3,7oO,000,-
O0O.. ~ -ss%.4g -. g.. I;k* r. :
> The Franco-German war of 1870
exacted only 100000 men, but be-
sides the billion dollar indemnity 1t
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How many schools can Russia build
for her peasants with the frightfuf
impost of this combat weighing her
down? s,-..(EasHes X
Cost Measured I'm Misery
Not in mere millions Of money,
but in tears and groans, in pangs OF
hunger and in the sordid miseriea
of poverty and want, in the deep
curses and bitter resentment Of gen-
erations deprived Of that which.
should be theirs, must be measured,
the price that must be paid for E1-
rop's mad and insensate frenzy. Who
pays? + t.s ~, r s.iz;; b s II. 5 q
The Innocent, the helpless, indi.1
gent women and defrauded children
MANNED and palsied men, unborn
babes. strangled and stifled In the.
mangled sloins Of those who might
have been fathers. whose bodies
sbutchered out Of likeness TO hu-
manity rot In the foul trenches on
blood-soaked battle fields hese
pay, humanity pays, the world nays.
Shall we In our grand, glorious
America, standing today supremely
magnificently apart from this vast
calamity, shall we not thank God
with humble, grateful hearts, that
this haggard, grisly; future does not
confront us today !. 55S
How much farther on tho onward
march Of humanity we might have
been today had We not paid the
ghastly price OF our own Civil War
we can only dream.
But shall We not, with The picture
OF Eurnnn,a halnf,IlG fafn hnfnrae 49,
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Of $6,286,435,O0O. Her interest
charge of $192,762,000 was q per
capita of IS alone. +. =: -.
Russia, enormous and inchoate,
carried an Inherited and constantly
increasing debt Of $4,507,O7I,00O.
Her interest charge, for which !: in
turn she borrowed fresh money, was
over 5000, ,o00,0oo. !, ~
stria-Hungary, a. combined in
debtedness Of So, ,612,389; her inter-
est an item OF $150, 100000 >>.r, ,-l>r.,
Italy, feeble financially. and eco
nom1cally, has thus far. held herself
neutral by reason Of her already
crushing load, q debt of ~. .614, ,182-
900, and q yearly interest. available
only by means OF e1tortionate taxa
tion, of $92,145,0O0. g. go - Il :
l. Such is the war story OF Europe.
Such the criminal mortgagingxof the
future to pay the criminal and I'M
holy costs Of reckless war. stss5E y s&s,f 4
And It Is not. alone the actual pos
tive problem Of bea1 ing these enor-
nous loads, and paying their tre-
tmendous cost, that forms the trag-
edy. Infinitely greater is theRneHa-
tive result,,Sthe stupendous 4 blight,
the monstrous calamity Of the things
that should be and are not the
curse Of poverty, Of ignorance, OF
degradation, the disgrace Of stolid
men of %shaggard women, of stunted
tll-born child rem all the result iof
government that is not for the peo-
pie and for their good, because the
money that should be used for the
sake Of those from whose sweat, 1t
Is coined Is pledged and paid in in
fernal compact to the lords Of hell.
5*&1s "A Shattered Dream. t55. S
We had thought that one insup-
cradle safeguard against war was
this economic tragedy .of 5 Europe.
That nations already burdened 4 to
the breaA king point would pause be
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We have been used for years in
our consideration of militarism as a
menace to peace, as we'll as a bur-
den to the life and well-being of
the world, to talk about the ''Waste
of War" Not alone in the destruc-
ton of human life, the withdrawal
. of large portion Of the working
force of civilization from useful and
lucrative labor, but in the actual
expenditure of money, and armed
peace has been treading closely up
on the heels of actual war. Sixty
five per cent of the yearly income
of the great nations has carried a
load of debt, laid upon the snoul-
ders of posterity by the fighters of
earlier generations. To care for the
mere interest charges of these al
most inconceivable amounts, has
been a problem that has taxed the
ingenuity of the masters Of finance.
, A Terrible Burden.
The commercial avenues of in
come, customs, profits on the sale
of government commodities the ma
tural and proper usufruct of barter
and sale. have yielded perhaps
enough to furnish the actual cost of
the machinery of government. The
interest on these enormous . debts
has been the old man of the sea,
on the shoulders of the nations. TO
raise these tremendous sums but
one way has been devised, taxation
upon the 'life,. the labor, the earn
ings, the very existence of the peo-
pie. Under this titantic burden the
people have groaned and struggled.
Out of it's exaction have come poy-
erty, ignorance, degradation, crime
all the hideous brood of horror
that has bred discomfort the con-
stantly increasing cost of living
the failure of civilization. In one
way or another, every nation in the
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labor and the stagnation of trade.
- National Wealth Diminished.


Nikola Tesla used to the ,calcula-
t1on of the ordinarily incaluculable,
sobers the whole world when he es-
Inmates that by the end of, the two
hundredth day, the war cost will
have reached $70,0OO,O0O,OO0.-~c :
The total estimated wealth of the
warning nations Is $30O,OO0,OOO,0OO
Of which In the end at least rs per
cent will be- the, sacrifice that ma
ttons must make as the price OF a
few mems folly < n - -. 49, Z
). For q hundred years three genera
tions must pay and pay, must bear
the gruelling load Of crushing taxa
ton, must be- deprived Of the bless
ings Of civilization and the JOY of
life, because the jealous monarchs of
today fed their envy on the hell
broth of war. >s. >5:s !: Z. 7: - 81 Z ;.
b Instead OF the people rising step
BY step. generation by. generation,
into broader culture and wider
knowledge, for fifty years Europe
viii know IN Its bitterest fullness Of
decadence that follows war. ) " ~ t#5
In England today there are by
actual census count ], ,.O86,707 abso-
lutte registered paupers, public
charges lin every relation of life. Can
anyone estimate & the multitude OF
impoverished people, aged and in
firm. Invalid and helpless, young
and orphaned, that this war S will
leave as q hideons legacy
Germany is losing thousands OF
men, spending Millions OF money,
Her population Is congested now,
11onn1ra aSv4uI>il
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required that he contract to pay
100000 for steak and $4,000, for
a loaf of bread. But there was no
complusion. He didn't have to buy
if he did not want to eat ~, -
1T is so In the ecanneries. These
women and children need not work
the IL hours. If they object. Neither
are they compelled to eat. But they
must quit both If they quit the one.
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do more than enforce the prevailing
rate that organization has already
won.
EVERY craft that is In the enjoy
ment of the eight-hour day has Sc
cured the boon, not through the good
will Of the employers or the party
politicians, but because of the trades
unions that have compelled its recog-
nitiOn"
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Newly Elected Commissioner
Formally Installed AS Coun4 S.
" y. cilmen, ys.... %s, zsss l#s5y
CLERK PALMER DEPosED
80 AFTER EIGHT YEARS
Mayor Prince stirs Audience BY
Voting Against Palmer. Elk.
..@.= =, plains His Vote
TWO CENTS.

Monday the first sesslonoEtk1e
commission was held in the counciE
chamber with a good sized audiences
in attendance. 80: szs: So So
Among the con1municatfons receiv-
ed by the commissioners was one from.
the Federated Trades assembly indors-
ing the proposed administration plan
to hold council meetings in the eve
ing thereby making it. possible for.
working men to attend the sessions
Of the commission zzfz$
, Mayor Prince is commissioner OF
public affairs at the head of the fol-
lowing organiZation-Berna Silber-
stein, Commissioner Of public safety
James A. Farrell, commissioner OF
public works; Frederick J. Voss, com
missioner of finance; Leonidas Mer-
ritt, commissioner Of public utilities.
Walter Bergen is city clerk as sl1c-
cessor to Charles s. Palmer. B. j..
Campbell and ;. Allyn Scott retain
their positions as city auditor and as
SCISSOR. .s5sy' s...5.s.
Greene New Attorney zs=
Henry F. Greene is city attorney TO
succeed Harvey Clapp, William Harri-
oO14 4OtdAAS do 81 <1S1S1oIdIlL C1Iya< AL.
torney temporarily. Walter Gonska
second assistant. -
Fred Ash, deputy city clerk under
Palmer, rendered his resignation, but
may continue under Bergen. The lat--
ter offered Ash the job by long dis
tance telephone from st Paul, and the
deputy is considering acceptance.
DIR. Edward w. ,Fahey has been ap-
pointed to succeed DR.. H e. Webster.
as director OF public health. DR..
Harry Klein succeeds DR.. I. j. Mur-
ply as assistant. Both viii hold their
places until Commissioner Silberstein
engages "whols-time' director
Capt William r. Hoy is the new
+ harbor master as successor to ~. G.
1nnaan Ioseph sR Randaus keesstinHeA
as f1re4chfeE. 5 49,
Ayress ssC1ty:Engtneer.
Lyonel Ayres is city engineer an,
successor to John Wilson. James g..
Lawson is continued as .maintenanca
superintendent and assistant engineer
in addition. Ned Culver has taken
Charles G. Futter's place, as chief.
works division secretary and clerk.
Chaunoey III. <Troyer continues as:
police chief temporarily with a per-
manent appointment under the Sil-
berstein regime to be made later.
Commissioner ,Silberstein is presi-
dent of the council by unanimous
vote. = He will preside and act as.
mayor in the absence of Mayor Prince.
Commissioner Voss moved that Sil-|
berstein be elected president of the
council. The: latter was chosen with
out dissenting vote. III s .ssss.$ 5;.s$#f
= Commissioners Merritt moved shat
Bergen be elected city clerk. Conn
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PAPERHANGERs ORGANIZE

LOUISVILLE, KY, April 23.-A
union of paperhangers has been or
ganized in this city by officers of the
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers of America.
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