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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
ARM0R PLATE TRUST
MADE FOOL THREAT

There are doubtless a good many
persons in the country who have not
! felt sure that the government ought
/ to go into the manufacture Of armor
plate. There are, on the other hand,
! many who are convinced that, al
! though it should not try to manu-
facture all the armor plate it needs,
| it must be prepared to make some,
| as the best guarantee that 1t will not
] be victimized on the price. That is
! about he way feeling stands,
But II there was one thing needed
| to increase and strengthen and solid
fly the demand for government fac
! tory, 1T was the threat from certain
steel makers, conveyed through the
| medium Of Senator Penrose, though
we do not understand with his ap-
prevail, that if the government went
in for manufacturing armor plate,
the prize of their product would be
raised 5000 a. ton. For sheer stupid
tactics, this is about the prizet win
ner
The American people don't like to
be threatened. AS Edmund Burke
noted almost a century and a half
ago. they are inclined to go long
way in answering threats and at
tempts at coercion. If anything were
lacking to create sentiment for an
armor plate plant, it has been sup
piled. And if there were, doubts that
this was needed to keep the govern
ment from being held up, this parti-
cular piece of work was the one best
way to remove them. It's effect is
likely to reach even further.
We suppose a concern established
in this country is in the dast analy-
sis responsible to the government,
and it certainly is to the people Of the
| country. To see the face that has
become so familiar asking favors ap-
pear offering threats is not unlikely
to suggest to the thinking people Of
the nation that the creature is get
ting bigger than it's creator. If the
stupidity Of the move were less pa
tent, the danger of serious results
would be even Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
IMMIGRATION BILL AGAIN.

The Burnett immigration bill has been favorably re-
ported by the House Committee immigration This
bill will be acted upon by both houses Of Congress in
the very future similar bill has twice passed
Congress during the last four but in each instance
was vetoed by the President 1t believed that the
Burnett bill will receive sufficient number Of votes
this session it the Presidents veto, should
he again veto it.
The bill which recommended for passage last
week by the House committee is intended to restrict
that sort of immigration which is being used by the
steel trust coal trust mine barons the packing indus
tries and other employers of cheap prevent the
organization of their employees that they keep
wages down. The American Federation of Labor,
through it's conventions has repeatedly declared for this
legislation and has instructed it's officers persist in
change of four votes would have passed the Burnett
bill the Presidents veto at the last session of
Congress.
Every power and influence known to big business
the Burnett BILL because the restriction of mmi
grafton the organization of their employees fol-
lowed by increase in wages and the eght-hour day.
The bill is aimed to discourage the coming to this
country of aliens from the backward of the
world 1t is demanded by labor as an economic neces-
sty The Nteracy test provided for m the bill offers
the chief objection to its passage While big business
does not admit it, is pretty generally that wher-
ever workngmen have been given the opportunity to
learn to read and write in their native language their
standard of living automatically rises. Workingmen
with low standard of living supply unequal COMPETE
ton to workingmen who have acquired the American
standard. 1t does not require large wage to MAIN
tain home where the standard of living and human
wants are low it does to maintain a home whose
occupants have learned to live become Americans.
To offset the tremendous influence the agencies Of
big business bringing to bear upon members of
gress trade unionist every forward looking
citizen should promptly notify their senators and rep
resentatiVes in Congress at Washington that unre-
sricted immigration makes possible two every
job and that two men for every job is menace to
American living Standards
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
A MODEL.

She never says an unkind word when
poor weak mortals fall;
She pedd]es out no gossip, of tn
neighborhood at all:
She hears no breath of scandal, there
is no doubt Of it,
And doings of her neighbors interest
her not bit.
She doesn't scold her husband and
she's not one to complain.
Though the gossips hum around her,
not an item does she gain.
When the hammers are all busy, she
remains discreet1y mum.
Perhaps you've guessed the answer.
YEH, THE LADY'S DEAF AND
DUMB.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
MEN AND WOMEN NEED
\ BOTH WORK AND PLAY

TIFFlN, Ohio, Feb. 17.-"Every
human being demands certain
amount Of work and a certain amount
Of play said Mrs. Barr, in an ad-
dress to churchmen in this city. mo
man can labor all the time and be
happy, neither can he be at leisure
all the time and be happy. No ma
ton, no community, no class OF peo-
pie can keep up without the higher
standard of labor, and where labor
Is put on the lower standard, the more
misery, the more suffering and GRIM
1nality there exists.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
TO TIE 81 .FREEBooT
By Cecil Montague

Should you bring before your mind
All the wrongs that you have done
All tho base, deceitful actions,
All the mean and poor infractions
or the aim to make on earth good
will and peace abound,
Are you sure that you would find
That the things which you have won,
Just mere coin and reputation
And q giddy, higher station
AS the things, which picked from
all, are best to have around?
Have an inventory made
On comprehensive plan,
With much time for calm reflection
And the pen Of intropection,
AS the ledger's opened full upon
your hardened soul.
Then consider what you've paid
In your tributes laid on man;
You will certainly discover
That you never can recover
All tho damage done when stuff be-
came your goal!
Yes. you've sold and purchased men
AT bargain--they were cheap
With their aid your exploitation
Cursed a young and 1ovely nation
Till the burden grew so great the
Virgin swOoned and died.
In your filthy, swinish pen,
Midst the stagnant vice SO deep,
You have dealt in prostitution
With no thought of restitution
For the crimes that you have done
on every hand and side.
In the work you sought to do
You concerned yourself with trash
On, you craved accumulation,
Jeered at mankind's CONSERVATION.
And you sneered when happiness
was sought by pauper weeds.
What were hopes and love to you
In comparison to cash.
With it's glittering damnation
And its joy eradication,
OF oppression born and grown from
hellish seeds!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
THE SHADOWS,

AS we sit by the fire when night an
And the lights are turned low.
dreaming our dreams OF yeteryears
Long, so long ago:
There is the fitful shadows
That are fitting to and fro
We can see the dim, dear faces
Or the friends we used to know
How dear to our hearts are these
And the scenes that they recall;
While the hand of memory traces
It's writing upon the wall,
AND QUE hearts are filled with yearn-
ing
Held in the fleeing thrall,
Though we know it's all a fantasy
Shadows, that is ALL
And we smile at the dying embers,
And think of life's bright fires;
How dea.: are the joys one remembers
Ere he last, faint spark express
The ambitions that we cherished.
The hopes, the loves, the desires,
Which ell In their turn have persisted
And left us alone by our fires
We used to kick over the traces,
And the old world turned too slow.
But we smile on the dear old faces
AS they dim and DINNER grow,
Drifting back into the shadows
That gre fitting to and fro
Like the ghosts of our dead ambitions
That died so long ago.
ROBERT r. DT1NCAN
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
GARMENT WORKERS
BOOST MR.. BRANDEIS

Contrary to expectation President
Wilson has chosen a radical for the
bench Of the United States Supreme
Court in the person of Louis D.
Brandeis, lawyer of national rep
utation, with an honorable name as
a defender of popular rights.
To say that this. appointment was
a. shock to the high brows in our po-
litical, financial and commercial life
is to state the fact mildly. :
It was generally supposed that the
president would follow old prece-
dents and select a. man declared by
big business, by bar associations, by
stand-pat politicians. and the receiv-
ers Of special privileges to be safe
and sound in upho1ding their views
as to judicial dignity and poise and
thereby aid in the perpetuation of
their power through conservative in
depreciation Of laws.
It is q great pleasure to us to know
that such a man was not selected, for
that is not the kind of a man that
the people of this country today
want and need in their highest tri-
bunal, end we trust that the senate
Will 10 UEOS1u CAOu3A W oOO SAoC IAC
man selected by President Wilson
for the supreme bench Is a candidate
worthy Of their confirmation, and
will place him in q position where
his ability az an advanced thinker
may display itself in the interpreta-
ton Of the constitution and the laws
in accordance with the full demands
of human progress.
The question Of race or creed
should have no consideration in de-
Gliding this case. The ability of Mr.
Brandeis as a lawyer Is unquestioned
his reputation is honorable, and his
mind is awake to a solution of the
problems that menace our. social and
industrial welfare and he is the man
to infuse new conception OF the So
cial conscience into the deliberations
and the decisions of the United States
Supreme Court. 49,.
The conservatives have too long
had a monopoly Of the supreme
court md the time has come when
the view points Of a radical may
have a most beneficial effect on it's
members in reaching decisions that
insure 1ustice.--The Garment Work
err. :z> - -..- -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
SUBTLE PLEA OF COAL OPERATORS.

Inc coal operators they will spend
100000 to inform the people that by granting in
creases In to coal miners it will materially raise
the price Of coal to consumers. They are now using
full page advertisements in the large daily papers in
which they attempt to give their side tho contro-
versy with the miners The summary of it all is in the
final section, follows
Every we'll informed man who has made a study of
conditions in the anthracite field will agree that the
anthracite industry whole is conducted on as
low margin of profit is possible the operators are
to continue to the public any increase which
may be granted must necessarily eventually paid by
the heads OF families and other anthracite the
operators while desiring to deal justly their
ployes deem it their plain duty any
able demands"
But EVERY we'll informed man who has made a
study of conditions in the anthracite field" does not
seem to agree with the statement There Professor
Scott Nearing formerly of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania and Of Toledo University who has Just pub
lished book containing the results of nvestiga-
lions OF the Pennsylvania coal mining industry, and he
finds the showing of small profits to be misleading.
The coal carrying railroads the anthra-
cite fields and Professor Nearing finds:
"Where the mining and carrying of coal are under
the same the carriers have years fol-
lowed the policy of operating the mines at a slight
profit at loss while the chief profits went
to the railroads.
He shows further that profits unfairly figured by
being based overcapitalized values and increased
land values The operators should either squarely
the facts cited by Professor Nearing or modify their
claim about conclusions of well informed nvestga-
tors
It is believed that publicity campaign fnaugur-
ated by the coal operators is part of scheme to
pare the people for increase in the price they
now paying for COAL In the past prices to
have been raised in greater proportion than
in wages granted the miners.
The American people standing for a good deal
from the interests which have monopolized
of the country but they should once realize
the enormous tribute they paying the big fellows
IN dividends capital stock that exists only on
1t will become exceedingly dangerous the coal trust
or any other like combination give great publicity
to the reasons they will pay decent wages to their
employees.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
BOUGHT LIQUID FARM.

A certain man recently invested in
a Florida farm, purchased through
an agent by mail. Recently he wrote
to the recorder Of the Florida coun-
ty for description Of it. He received
the following reply:
"Have investigated your property
site. If you will look at the map of
the United States and trace with a
pencil where it is written Gulf of
Mexico, you will find that your lot is
located exactly under the letter ''o''
in the word Mexico
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
SECRETARY WILLIAMS DEAD,

BOSTON, Feb. II. - Secretary
Treasurer Williams of the Interna-
ttonal Stereotypers and Electrotypers'
union, died in this city Of pneumonia.
He was II years old and was secre-
tary-treasurer Of tho union for IA
years.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
EXCELLENT ADVICE

A modern dude with narrow
striped clothes. saddle-colored shoes
a. loud necktie. hair parted over hi
nose, and smoking a cigarette. ad
dressed his best girl thus: "If 70,
was me and was you. what woul.
you do:" She unhestitatingly sale
with a smile: Il would take Oft the
hideous tie, put that cigarette in the
stove, cart my hair on the side. then
pray for brains.'.-Portland Review
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
THE STATEWIDE BABY WEEK.


nounced that "Baby Week" will be observed in this
state from March to II. It is proposed that
cises be held in the public schools, with meeting at
which teachers physicians shall give short
talks 1.-The Baby"
There will also be Baby Sabbath and the clergy
will be expected to discourse the of babies.
mass meeting is also proposed in each city at which
talks will be given by city county officials physi-
clans, clergymen and social workers.
or 5000 babies left in Minnesota homes each
year. it is officially stated, that of each
dies before reaches the age five years. and one
out of each five dies before first birthday
Ignorance the part Of the mother and the part
of the community declares Murphy secretary Of the
Minnesota Public Health Association the chief
Of the great slaughter of these innocent victims.
According to statistics given out by the committee
on Industrial Relations of which Frank p Walsh is
chairman, 100000 American babies killed by pow
erty each before they reach their first birthday
The care OF the baby Is all important subject dis
cuss and every young mother is seeking information
that will aid her to properly raise her baby and to
make healthy and strong But to the babies
is necessary to do than to teach how to care for
them Fathers must be given wage sufficient to pur-
chase the right kind food and to maintain decent
homes for their families.
In Brookine, Mass, live the well-to-do and the rich
OF Boston, Babies die in Brookne at the rate of 70
per thousand. In South Bethlehem Pa where live
the steels workers. whose Drawn produce the
wealth that has glutted Wall Street banks and the
Golfers of Broadway wine merchants babies die at the
startling rate of 233 per thousand.
East Orange N. j., is another suburban town where
no one works hard and Of the residents work
not at ALL Babies die there rate of Is per thou
sand Fall River Mass, is the center of the textile
industry OF New England. The people there produce
the wealth that is spent in towns like Brooklne and
East Orange, Fifth avenue New York. and their
babies die at the rate Of 229 per thousand
For every baby of the wel-to-do that dies in East
Orange or Brookne three babies of the poor who
also the most Industrious die in Fall River or South
Bethlehem.
In Fall River wages are low that many mothers
work in the mills. Among $50 infants Fall River it
was found that the infant mortality rate among families
with non-worktng mothers 1905 and that among
families with working mothers 1t was 1886.
In the figures and facts involved in the subject are
truths SO shocking that devoted the ideals
and principles for which the American flag stands can
help but wonder how any defender of the flag could
ignore this dshonor these atrocities when he sets
out to awaken the conscience of his countrymen
Duluth labor organizations would do well to observe
baby week. They should take advantage of the occa-
sion to drive home the fact that more babies die from
starvation than from the ignorance of their
parents 1t we wipe out poverty, ignorance its mate
Will disappear as if by magic.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
STREET RAILWAY MEN GIVEN MORE PAY.


The Duluth Street Railway Company has announced
that its employees will be granted increased WAGES af
1ect1Ve March l. 1915. The minimum scale has been
raised from 20 to % cents per hour and the maximum
from 28 to 80 cents.
This is the first material in WAGES the DID,
utn company has ever voluntarily granted It in stated
that the management decided upon this new wage scale
10 mead OIL the possibilities of another strike We
choose to believe that the increase was given for an
otaer reason Men will not work street car for 81
cents hour when they can earn 25 and ~ oar+. -
other Labor particularly when are plenty Of iohs
begging Tor men. The street railway company finds
1at " IL IS 10 nave and retain sufficient number of
competent employees it must meet the compet,ton If
the open labor market The situation is such that tho
increase IN wages was practically forced upon the COM
pany.
Will ne permanent. The management has learned hv
experience that it does not pay to cut wapas II
pursuing much wiser policy In treating with its
poyees now than it formerly did Two long and costly
strikes would not have taken place had its nresan+
policy then been followed.
WORK day OF more than eight hours is Amer
'a' from oeo 10 work and from work to bed belongs
to age long past
In operation, the eght-hour day has done mora r.
raise the status of immigrants have sought refuge
On our snores than any other factor It has paved tho
way Tor night study which opened the doors Of learn
ing to ambitious thousands.
job is every mans right 1t is as much his right
as the right of life and liberty. Indeed man without
job hasn't much Of either.
Mexico is not vet safe place. The villa clans arc
holding up trains grabbing Mexcans whom villa doesn.
IKE. and killing them. - = .=.>s. .=.>S1-5:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
WE'LL, MORGAN is FRANK,

n.
j. P. Morgan is chairman of the Finance Committee
OF the Steel Corporation. Investigation YOUNGSTOWN
showed that the shamefuy low wages and long hours
imposed the steel workers were defended on
the ground that the Steel Corporation sets the
Independent manufacturers they can pay no more
than the Steel Corporation.
Morgans are important because Of his
commanding position in the greatest employing
porations Testifying before the Commission on Indus
trial Relations in New York year ago. Morgan was
asked II he considered $40 week sufficient wage for
longshoreman.
1T is if SO is all he get he takes it, replied
Mr. Morgan.
That was honest anyhow. Morgan didn't pretend
that his corporation is benevolent father to his
100000 employees and that they trust to its gen
crosby and conscience He frankly admits in effect
that 1t hasn't conscience the steel workers can
get more they are entitled to it. The YOUNGSTOWN
workers who struck and formed unions gave valuable
object lesson in how to 60 about It. .
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19

1t the majority members Of the city commission at
tempt to ugse the referendum the armory ordinance
a. they did with the 1itney ordinance there sure win
oe some excitement in Duluth politics for the next few
months M, @I 1#15-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19
MACH1NIsTs MAKE GAINS.

. TORONTO. Ontario. Feb. 1.-THE
Machinists' union reports the estab-
lishment Of the 50-hour week in prac-
tically every shop in this city. This
has been made possible by thorough
organization. 4. ~,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19

'ou 10 every manS r1ent. 1t Is az much his right
as the right of life and liberty Indeed man ,v,+hc
job hasn't much Of either.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19

Mexico is not yet safe place. The villa clans are
holding up trains grabbing Mexicans whom villa doesn1
IKE. and killing them -: -. t=s ..| IT.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-02-19

"A work day OF more than eight hours is non Amer
1can' From bed to work and from to bed belongs
to age long past
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-07-28
Presidents of Mexico.

Mexico had no vice president until
1907; up to that year the secretary Of
foreign affairs was empowered to act
for the president in case OF the sud-
den illness or necessary brief alb
sence of the chief executive. In the
following statements the dates given
are to be understood as the beginning
of the year: 1901 to 190S-President,
General Porfirio Diaz; Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, Don Ignacio Mariscal.
1908 to 1911-President, General Por.
trio Diaz; Vice President, Don Ramon
Corral. October 1, 1911, to February
10, 1913-President, General Francisco
L. Madero, Jr.; Vice President, Lie.
Jose Maria Pine SuareZ. From the
murder of Madero, on the last named
date, to the recognition Of Venus
tiano Carranza as chief executive Of
Mexico by the Pan-American confer
ence, October 10, 1915, Mexico had
only provisional" presidents: Vic
toriano Huerta, until July Is, 1914;
Francisco Carbajal, for four weeks af-
ter that; General Eulalio Gutierrez,
Rogue Gonzales Cara, and Francisco
Lagos Chazaro, successfully, none Of
them recognized as president of
Mexico.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-07-28
Through Npri! Dusks.

When April trips along the road
and twilight settles down, she passes
lightly through the mist Of springtime
gray and brown. And as she goes
along her way the stars peep out and
glow, the moon smiles down with mer.
ry smile, a cleaning silver bow. And
old folk, sitting in the dusk, lift up
their weary eyes, and look along the
springtime road with unconcealed sur.
prise. And, half uncertain, half sur
prised, they hear the song Of love, the
song of youth and happiness, the
songs from heaven above And half
bewildered, half amazed, they know
that through the land train Of low
ers softly walk together, hand in hand.
They know that farmers plant their
crops, that mothers sit and sew; that
robins build again their nests; that
music, gentle, slow, is singing On the
breeze of night; they know that flow
ers spring upon the brown of we'll
loved graves; that moss and ivy cling
with tender arms about the earth that
guards each sleeping form; they know
that resurrection comes and banishes
the acknowledgement E.>Sangster, Jr,
in the Christian Herald.