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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
SYMPTOMS.
By Scott Nearing.

Inc United States is prosperous
more so, perhaps, than it has been for
5O years. Yet despite this thing called
prosperity, or, perhaps because of it,
the people are profoundly dissatis-
fled. Discomfort abounds. Unrest is
everywhere.
Everyone grants the existence of
unrest. Even to students of the prob
| lem, the symptoms of it's rapidly
widening influences are surprising.
Glance for example at the record OF
strikes that have occurred in the past
two years.
The United States Department of
Labor reports that during the first
| nine months of 1915 there were GIG
strikes and lockouts. For the same
! months in 1916 the total was 1854
almost three times as great TO be
sure, strikes occur during periods of
prosperity. but the leap from 900 to
$500 in one prosperous year is none
the less extraordinary
The strikes Of 1915 were not local.
They were confined to no one section
and to no one industry: On the con.
trary they were we'll distributed over
localities and over industries.
There were IS states in which more
than four strikes occurred during
September, 1916. Pennsylvania leads
the list with AZ strikes; New York fol-
| lows with 40, then comes Massachu
sets with 80, Ohio with 10, New Ter
sey with IA, and Connecticut and ILL.,
nois with Is EACH While the strike
area is of necessity the industrial
area, the field of strikes was as wide
spread as the field of present-Cay in
dustry
The industry reporting the largest
number of strikes is the metal trades.
The metal trades industry is very far
from being alone, however Fifteen
other trades report four .or more
strikes for the month of September
1916. The number of strikes in the
! metal trades was SO; among the min
ers, "a; the building trades, So:
among the textile workers, 20; the
clothing industry, Is; among the
bakers, IL, and among paper makers,
1O. The strike area is thus spread
over as wide a range Of industrial &C.
tivities as it is of states.
Most of the strikes were called by
unions. In 154 strikes and lockouts,
the employees were connected with
| unions; in 10 strikes and g. lockouts
they were not so connected; in 9
strikes they were not connected with
! unions at the time of striking, but
became organized during the course
OF the strike; in the remaining 50
strikes it was not stated whether the
strikers had union affiliations or not.
Union and non-union workers are
striking. They were strikig in many
different industries, located in all OF
the great industrial centers. Unrest is
growing. 1t is far more prevalent in
1915 than it was in 1915. Millions of
Am ericans are FESTIVE under the con-
ditions of prosperity that surround the
people of the United States.
Why?
Perhaps because there is a differ
ence between the manufacturers
bankers-real-estate variety of pros
perity and the variety that brings,
peace, plenty and happiness to this
masses OF mankind.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
UNCONSTITUTIONAL"

+. We shall hear great deal about the alleged
unconstitutonality' Of compulsory state insurance
: during the ensuing three months When the oppon-
ents Of state insurance have their backs to the WALL
without single legitimate argument left for the
continued existence of the present system they can
still tall back upon the timeworn objection to any,
thing new, namely that it would be funconstitu-
tional.'
10 levy specific tax upon employers the pro-
ceeds to go into state fund out of which injured
Workmen and their dependents should be paid-for
the states to do such rash thing is against public
policy, violates three four principles of the law
ana IS therefore unconstitutional. That is what the
DIRECTORS to state insurance for injured workmen
will say This is the argument of most of those peo-
pie who ENJOY monopoly in any business, when the
state assumes to take hand and tries to see that
justice IS done between and man.
the state should bring the man and the Job to-
gether That IS its duty Also it is the duty Of the
state to see that workmen jured when engaged in
developing our natural resources given ADEQUATE
compensation for their contribution to society.
rhe principle of taxing employers to maintain the
1ntortunates OF particular industry is not new in
h Minnesota. -
SI.s Back in 1875 the Supreme Court of Minnesota
hello that law taxing saoonkeepers to maintain an
4 lnenrlate asylum was constitutional
t. Oklahoma taxes banks to pay for bankrupt con-
Germs, and the Supreme Court Of the United States
has approved the law '~@
! keelaiming the inebriate,' says the Minnesota
supreme Court IN the of State vs. Cassidy stre
storing him to society," prepared again to DISCHARGE
tne duties OF citizenship, equally promotes the public
welfare, and tends to the accomplishments Of like
beneficial results and is difficult to see wherein
me imposition OF a reasonable license (tax) fee
would be any the less proper exercise of this
(pollce) power in the case than in the other
, The constitutionaty of the statute taxing the
Isaloonkeepers was attacked on the ground that It
imposed specific tax upon class of persons en-
gagged IN particular business, and was, therefore
ln conflict with the constitution "
me Cassidy case was decided back in 1875, as we
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13

bish. breeding place for flies and
mosquitoes.
The seeds of the noxious weeds are
blown into the lawns and gardens of
the neighboring homes, greatly add
ing to the labor of keeping them
neat and attractive; while the flies
adding to the expenses and diminish
ing the comfort of these people who
have made the homes.
These homes are the foundation of
civilization. The vacant lots across
the street are nuisance and a men
ace to civilization.
See how we tax them
Before the cottages were built the
taxes were the same on both sides of
the street-about IS a lot. The next
year the home owners were taxed
from $50 to SIS each on their houses
and lots and nearly all Of them from
IS to SO more on their household
goods.
The owner of the vacant lots across
the street was still taxed at IS apiece.
The fine for improving these lots
for employing labor, buying material
and building homes-was in no case
less than SAT, and in one or two cases
it reached as high as ST.
This was the extra tax because
these lots were used for homes, in
stead of being held idle for specula-
ton. And this same thing goes OF
year after year, not only in this one
street, but in all parts of the city.
Moreover, the building of these
homes caused the vacant lots to in
crease in value to about double what
they were worth before the homes
were built, thus making it harder still
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
HOW THE CITY
HOME IS TAXED
By G.. J. Buell..

Here on one side of this street is a
row of pretty cottages. The lawns
are nicely sodded, and flowers and
shrubs have been planted to add to
the beauty and attractiveness Of these
modest homes. In the rear are USE
full kitchen gardens, neatly fenced for
purpose of protection. ~. - .~s ..s.s
i Across the street the lots are all
vacant, left to grow up to, weeds,
strewn with tin cans and other rub.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
DECIDE AGAINST
DANBURY HATTERs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-1n a new
phase of the old 'Danbury hatters' I"
case, the supreme court Monday de-
cided that Dietrich E. Loewe, Dam
bury, Conn.,. hat manufacturer, and
not the United sHatters~ union. is en-
titled to $4,000 in interest accrued
on union hatters' saving bank de-
posits attached toward satisfying
Loewe's $s53, 900 judgmen secured
under the Sherman law for union
boycotting; In 1908. .. Re. = ! > 7.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13

stated before, and the courts have made some
progress since that time
We need compulsory state insurance law in
Minnesota, the only kind which will make for the
success Of state insurance plan, and The Labor
World believes the courts will uphold such law on
the ground that it restores the injured workmen to
society prepared again to discharge the duties of
citizenship equally promotes the public welfare,
and tends to the accomplishments of like beneficial
results
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13

An English munition concern recont1v o,+h;d
American companies on furnishing pro;ect;les for
the Tn United States navy. The figures were more
tnan $2oo per pro- ecte below the nearest American
competitor, and time of delivery was cut in half.
Why this disparity? '''A'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13

-. Last Monday the supreme court of the United
States upheld the constitutionality Of the Webb
re o!ll passed March 1913, which prohibits
Verify, it took long time, but then ''~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
n -:

Recently members Of the I. W. W., while picket
ing IN an orderly manner near West Michigan
sreeE employment office, were told to '<move on =
by guardians of the peace. Would Mr.. S;Ihersta;n
Please tel Us which ordinance was being violatedi
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
HANDY FOR MENDING.

Put u roll CT gummed paper tape
on the emergency shelf, it will make
itself useful in dozens of ways for
mendins torn box corners, paper
dolls, book backs and leaves, sealing
packages, holding the lids on the
boxes, etc.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
WHAT OTHER
PAPERS SAY
To Penalize the Land Hogs.

Minneapolis Daily News: Early in
the coming session of the legislature.
Senator Dick Jones of Duluth, is 60
ing to make another effort to pro-
mote Minnesota development by re-
vision of the tax system. The bill
which he will introduce is a close ap-
proach to the single tax. It reduces
personal effects to a basis of one per
cent valuation, while live stock, poul
try, agricultural products. stocks and
merchandise, buildings and other I'M
provements would be taxed on a ten
per cent valution instead of twenty
five per cent as now.
The single tax idea appears in a
provision Of the bill that unim-
proved land shall be taxed on a val
uation of forty per cent which is an
advance of thirty-three and one-third
per cent over the present rate and
would make the takes on unimproved
land as high as those upon improved
land with the exception of plated
areas.
Senator Jones' bill is doubtless in
spired by conditions in Northern Min
nesota. That portion of the state,
particularly the areas near the min
ing districts, are held in tremendous
bodies by the ore roads which refuse
to break them up or permit the use
of any but very small part Of them
by settlers. Some lumber COM
panies also own very large areas of
cut-over lands which are being with
held from the market. 1t is railroad
land grants, however. whose idleness
affords the most conspicuous example
of the ill-effects Of the present sys-
tenn. Not only does the idleness of
this land hold down it's value so that
the state derives practically no in
come from taxes upon it, but also the
fact that it is not permitted to sup
port an agricultural population
tends to fortify the political pres
tige of the Steel Trust in the northern
part of the state. So long as agri-
culture can be retarded and mining
maintained as the principal if not the
sole industry, the Steel Trust is in
a m"ch better position to influence
elections.
penalty vi SUCH ldllOS DIS
are being withheld from use would
work wonders in Northern Minnesota
provided some way could be found
to apply it to idle land grants now
practically exempt from taxation on
account Of the railroad gross earn
ing tax which is in lieu of all other
taxation upon property owned by rail-
roads
Northern Minnesota has Len ham
dicapped from the first through the
fact that big interests rather than in
dividuals have played the role of pio
neers there and following the lumber
men came the miners and railroad
companies so that the upstate area
was pretty well staked out by ex-
ploiters before the hardly settler ap-
peared on the scene.
If Senator Jones can loosen the
grip of the clutching hand which now
holds so large portion of Northern
Minnesota. he will have done about
the biggest service to the state that
has been rendered by any public Of
nclal in many years. The situation
there has cried aloud for some atten-
ton In state campaign for the last
ten years, but both parties have ig-
nored it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
They Never Give a Thought to Labor

They Never Give THOUGHT tn Labor
Springfield Laborer: The average
friend of capital is always wishing fot
some means whereby capital NAV be
made secure, where its dividend-earn.
ing power may not be encroached on
and whereby the pleasure and conven.
lence of the rich citizen NAV not he
disturbed.
The fear is always that labor ma,
commit some overt act that will en-.
croach on the rights of the rich. bu1
there is little thought or fear lest can.
Ital may encroach on the rights of the
poor.
Capital In large sums is always a di.
rect evidence of encroachment on the
rights and privileges of the poor. II
Is taking more from labor than is hon.
est that makes for large capital; there
can be no swollen fortunes excep,
there be poverty to even matters up
With an honest divide in business, and
a fair division Of landed holdings
there will be few rich, no excessively
rich, and very few excessively poor.
The incentive to piling up of immense
fortunes will vanish, nearly every one
will he satisfied and abject want can
not exist.
1t may take a revolution in the
minds of man to accomplish this: it
would take but few changes in stat
utes, the few new ones being written
into our books Of law. wiping off in
Vulnerable codes and systems that
make for tyranny and impoverish-
ment of the masses and providing an
especial benefit to the few.
All the talk of conserving health in
this country has back of it a desire to
build on nature, and let the forces of
nature do much Of the work. But
every time we see these new plans, we
find they have in mind Harvesting the
forces Of nature in the interest of
those already rich, or to be born to
the rich in the near future; not one
OF the plans contemplates fair divi-
sion of what is conserved
Let nature do the work, conserve
and capitalize all the powers, forces
and possibilities of the immediate fu-
ture, but after this is done let the rich
turn the saving accounts into the laps
of the idle rich and continue the grind
of the poor man and woman-even to
the tender age of and 8 years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-05-17
CONNERY MURDER is
CONFESSED BY McCO0L
Accused Man Tells His Story to Min
neapolis Police Head and Repeats
1t to Governor Burnqulst4 :

Minneapolis, May 15.-Chief Of Po-
lice Harthill has announced that
Frank J. McCool had confessed to,
the murder of Patrolman George Con-
merry. The confession, he said, wasI
made in the presence of himself, CapI
tain John Calvin and Detectives Mel
win Passolt, j. A. Weare and Frank
w. Brunskill.
McCool repeated his story to Gov
ernor Burnquist. The Minneapolis
police relied upon this recital to OBJ
tain requisition papers for custody OF
Edward Hamilton who is under arrest
In San Francisco and who is said to
have been named by McCool as the man
who was with him in the automobile
that bore Connery to his death.
McCool told the governor neither
he nor Hamilton had anything to do
with the murder Of Mrs. Alice Nc
Quillan Dunn in st. Paul and denied
that Hamilton is Joe Redenbaugh who
is accused by Chief of Police O'Connor
of st. Paul as Mrs. Dunn's murderer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-05-17
Camouflaqe.

A remarkable Interpretation of the
British national characteristic reserve,
appears in the Century, entitled
Camoufage. 1t is the story of two
young people on the eve Of the hus-
bands going to battle.
For the benefit of those who may
not be acquainted with what camou-
flage means, it might be truthfully de-
scribed as a thin veil drawn over great
events.
"There are endless varieties of
camouflage, and endless uses to which
it may be put. A great white road is
concealed from the enemy's lines by
a hedge of thinly plated twigs-camOu-
aage. An observation point hidden in
the heart of a haystack-camOuflage.
A mighty gum masked by an awning
Of fishermen's nets, Sprinkled with
dead leaves-camouflage. A corpse
brought in from nO-man's land and re-
placed by live man, who watches
what is toward in the Huntrenches--
again camOuhage. But, perhaps, the
subtlest variety of all is the kind that
men and women devise to screen their
real emotions from one another and the
world"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-05-17

Washington, May 15.-Congress be-
gins the sixth week OF war with the
calendars of both houses still filed
with legislation which the administra-
ton feels is essential to the success
full conduct of the conflict with Ger
many.
The Senate after two weeks debate
on the espionage bill drawn by the
Department of Justice is expected to
pass that measure at once.
The House probably will conclude
discussion Of the S1,800,000,O00 war
revenue bill early in the week and
send it to the Senate where two days
Of committee hearing have indicated
that many changes are to be made in
its structure.
The espionage bill has been stripped
OF the press censorship section which
caused much Of the opposition to its
passage. The injection Of an amend
ment prohibiting use Of cereals or
grain during the war, probably will
not greatly delay ultimate passage Of
the entire measure.
War Army Bill.
Conferees on the war army bill call
ed to meet again because the House,
after once rejecting the so-called
Roosevelt amendment, now wants to-
put 1t in, are not expected to take,
long at their task and the bill may
reach the Senate floor at once. Since
the Roosevelt amendment originated
in that body, it is possible that the,
army measure can be disposed OF,
without much debate to the Presi-l
dent.
In both houses the food legislation
is expected to cause much debate. It
is almost certain a measure will be
passed giving the Department of Az
riculture money and authority to make
q food survey and to curb food spec-'
ulations.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-05-17
10000 FOR OFFICERS
OBTAINED IN 20 DAYS
Second Series Of Camps May Be Ar
ranged for to Be Held Probably
in August.

New York, May 10.-The full quota
Of 10000 men which the War depart
ment requested for the officers train
ing camps throughout the country, was
recruited within 20 days after the is
suance Of the call, Captain Arthur F..
Cosby Of the Military Training Camps
association has announced.
After the completion Of the first
camps, Captain Cosby says It is ex-
pected another series Of camps will
be held, probably in August.
men eligible but not selected for
the first camp will have an opportu-
nifty to make application for this new
camp" said Captain Cosby. eve will
urge the War department to announce
at as early date as possible the open
ing of the next camp.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-05-17
ITTIIiI iITlIII[IIIIiIiIIII.

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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-05-17
HEAL BABY RASHES
That itch, Burn and Torture With Cuti-
cura-TriaI Free.

hot Cuticura Soap bath is soothing
to irritated skins when followed by
a gentle application of Cuticura Oint-
ment Use Cuticura for everyday tot
let preparations to prevent such trou-
bles. After this treatment baby sleeps
mother rests and healment follows.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-05-17
Unconsciously Scotch.

An Englishman touring in the high
lands of Scotland had the misfortune to
lose his way. Noticing small cottage
By the roadside, he went up, knocked at
the door and when the guild wife came
he explained:
II am very sorry to trouble you,
madam, but have lost my bearin's."
"Dae We tell me that?" was the as
tonishing reply. 81 hope their NTH
ers wi them"
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Conserving Health.

In a statement on vital statistics the
state board of health of Alabama says:
''The greatest asset or resource of
nation is In it's healthy citizens
healthy mentally, morally and physi-
cally. Yet we pay comparatively lit
tie attention to the conservation OF
this great resource"