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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
House of Reputation.

We remember at one time of having
seen cartoon showing a man pain
fully and laboriously building a house
The House of Reputation. The
house represented the work of his
lifetime. His thought and toll and
hope had entered into it's construc-
ton.
The house was beside a mountain
and from it was thrust a heavy boul-
der-The boulder was known as scan
dal. When this vast boulder of scan
dal was let loose the house was utterly
crushed, and it's builder, standing be-
side it, was helpless to forstall it's ruin.
Nothing is easier than to put scan
dalous stories into circulation. Moth
ing is harder than to stop them, once
they have started on their devastat-
ing course.
Something in the human mind,
some mysterious survival of the old
days When greed and evil were domi-
nant human traits, prompts men and
women to credit every scandal that
comes to their ears.
1t makes little difference who is the
subject of such story. The man
who has sought all his life to live cor
rectly and honestly has no armor
against scandal.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14

Of all the evil products of malice,
scandal is the greatest and most dan
gerous. 1t finds fertile soil in the
human mind. Its innocent victims
have no weapons against it. AS long
as men more willingly believe evil
than good of their neighbors, it will
continue to be a blasting force Of
harm among human beings.
It is easy to suspect. In our law
courts we proceed on the theory that
a. man should be believed innocent till
be is proved guilty. AS a matter of
fact, the majority of people believe
thim guilty till he proves himself inno-
cent.
The voice of scandal never lacks for
an audience. Stand on the street cor
ner and praise a man or woman, and
you will have no hearers. Stand on
the same corner and assail somebody,
make charges, insinuations, innuen-
does, and people will crowd to hear
you.
Caesars wife, we are told, was
above suspicion. But Caesars wife
mad despot for a husband, and it
twas extremely dangerous for anybody
! to suspect her publicly.
Today nobody is above suspicion.
NOBODY is beyond the reach of scan
daA -.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14

His right living is interpreted as
hypocrisy. His honesty is looked upon
as a cover for secretly practised viii
lainies.
Easy to Say.
It is easy to counsel young men and
women to avoid the appearance of
evil. It is easy to say that he who
cultivates character need have no fear
for his reputation.
But even preachers of these plati-
tudes know that they are not true. AS
long as. scandalmongers exist reputa-
tions can be shattered over night, no
matter how honestly and how toilfully
they have been acquired.
Many are the ways of starting evil
reports, and many are the sorts Of
people who engage in this scoundrelly
business.
One of the penalties of real
achievement is the breeding of envy
in the unsuccessful. It is a curious
fact that a successful man, no mat
ter how he has accomplished his sue
cess, finds himself hated by many
people who never saw him, and of
whom he has never heard.
Why this is no one can Say. Great
achievement is always of benefit to
the race. The man who paints great
picture, who writes great novel, who
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
BOARD
MEETS. APRIL IS
Officers VIII Make Report of
Work During Session Of the
Legislature.

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 12.-The
next meeting of the executive council
of the Minnesota Federation Of Labor
will be held at Federation hall, 43
South Fourth street, Minneapolis, on
Sunday, April Is, and will begin its
proceedings promptly at 10 a. m.
Trade unionists throughout the state
are earnestly requested to bear this in
mind and attend the meeting if they
have any business to lay before the
council. It will be an important ses-
sion for them to attend whether or
not they have business for the coun-
Gil to consider, as the work of their
representatives during the present
session of the legislature, which will
then be near its close, will be reported
in detail, and plans for future work
in other fields will be laid out. The
council will be pleased to receive sug-
gestions from unionists in all parts, as
its members wish to do the best they
can to promote the interests they have
in charge.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14

tion Of scandal many years ago, but
are little different from cases that oc-
cur today.
Whoever becomes prominent be-
comes a target Suspicion, like death,
loves a shining mark.
There is a. percentage of rascality
in every collection Of human beings,
and it's power is out Of all proportion
to its magnitude.
No man can lay a straight course
without interfering with others. And
those whom he interferes with are
usually those who are laying crooked
courses. They know it is useless to
fight honestly in the open, so they
fight it in the dark.
It is hard to answer the tongue Of
envy. 1t is almost impossible to free
the public mind of suspicion once
lodged there, however lacking in any
foundation that suspicion may be.
Unclean Weapon.
Scandal is an unclean weapon. Yet
there are many who never scruple to
use it If It happens to suit their pur-
pose.
You may build your house of repu-
tation as carefully as you choose; you
may avoid sedulously all appearance
of wrong; you may mean to do right,
and you may succeed, in doing right,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14

tack made indirectly, but which was
nevertheless calculated to do him and
his policies incalculable injury.
It happened that this particular at
tack failed, but it is quite possible for
others to be set on foot that will not
fail. The weed seeds of suspicion
find far more fertile soil in the hu-
man mind than the grain seeds Of
good report.
Scandalmongers there will always
be, and their possibility for harm will
always be great. There is but one
way to render them less dangerous,
and that is to pay no attention to
them.
Without publicity evil will flourish.
Whenever there is cause for suspicion,
it is a public duty to clear it up. The
method of investigation employed
when public men happen to be sus-
pected is good as far as it goes. It is
seldom thorough enough.
But to credit every evil story Of a
mans public or. private derelictions,
without a shadow of foundation, Is
merely to keep in the hands Of the
most wretched Of all human beings
the weapons with which they can de-
stroy theiY betters, and against which
honest men and women have no de-
Tense. =
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but somewhere and somehow you are
likely to find an enemy ready to stab
you with his unclean knife, and the
wound he will inf1ict will prove be-
yond the power of any physician to
heal.
AS. we said at the beginning, our
theory Is that a man 10 presumed to
be innocent until he is proved guilty.
Technically that is the practice of the
courts. But it Is never the practice
Of public opinion, and few are the
juries who can Withstand public
opinion, when it is once thoroughly
aroused.
1t is seldom that an innocent man is
sent to his death or even to prison on
unfounded charges.
But many is the time that jury,
disagreeing as to a verdict, leaves in
the minds Of all who see or read of
the trial q firm belief in the guilt of
the man who has been arraigned be-
fore them.
. In very recent years men with more
cleverness than scruple have used Or
ganized scandal to accomplish busi-
ness and political ends. =
There has been one recent public
instance of an attack on a high public
officer who was doing his best for the
people, for the whole country-an at
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
HALL AND LAWSON
DOING GOOD WORK
Are Active In All Lines Benefi.
cial to Unionism In State
> of Minnesota.

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 12.-Presi-
dent Hall and Secretary Lawson of
the State Federation of Labor have
been doing some good work in the or
ganizing field, although their legis-
lative exactions leave them but little
time for any other activity.
Within the last month they have
made a strong addition to the labor
forces of the state by organizing a
union of pulp and sulphide workers
at Cloquet, with a membership of
more than $50.
Practically all Of the members were
at the last meeting of the new or
ganization. Secretary Lawson spoke to
them. It is expected trat the activity
OF this union will soon open the way
for the organization of others in the
same territory.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
CRIhili;;;;;;;:: :;s:s'sly!!Np|l!!CALlSM y!
! BILL PASSED BY SENATE
Senator Nors Drastic Measure Provides Severe Penalties
) for Mere "Presence" at Assemblage Jones
Is Lone Dissenter. :

ST. PAUL, MINI, April Ex-senator Nords bill, aimed at
criminal syndcalsm the Tuesday 81
Senator Jones Of Duluth alone voting in the negative
The bill exceedingly drastic in its provisions making
oense punishable by Imprisonment for than 10 years.
by fine of not than $5O00 bot for who
tariy participates by his meeting which sabotage
is advocated.
Heated debate led by Senator JONES' developed Section
of the bill, which reads as follows:
Whenever two persons assemble for the purpose
advocating teaching the doctrines of criminal syncasm defined
this such assembage unlawful every
unfairly participating therein by his presence aid nstigaon
guilty Of felony and punishable by imprisonment the prison
for not than 10 years by fine of than
both.''
Senator f. H. Peterson Of oorhead attempted to strike
word prence but without Only
the Peterson amendment The Moorhead senator
bill entirely drastic STOOD and that operate
to do TO OinnOce
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
HOUSE CONSIDERS
AMENDMENTS To
COMPENSATION LAW
Reduction In Waiting Time and
Increase In Compensation
Voted On,

ST. PAUL, Minn., April a.
Amendments to the workmen's COM
pensation law came before the house
on special orders yesterday afternoon,
and a lively fight ensued over these
amendments as they came from the
committee.
Representative Gill of Virginia,
chairman of the house committee on
workmen's compensation, attempted
to- kill off the amendment providing
for a cut in the waiting time from two
weeks to one week. Gill's amendment
was prepared for him by the attor-
ney for the Minnesota employers as
sociation and, If adopted, would have
left the two weeks waiting time as it
is at present, but would merely pro-
vide that in case g. workman was in
jured for AZ days, compensation
should be paid from the date Of in
jury.
In view of the fact that nearly IS
per cent of the injuries in Minnesota
today are for periods of less than two
weeks, this amendment would afford
absolutely no relief in such cases.
Several members expressed regret
that Mr.. Gill should lend himself to
sponsor such an amendment, especial
ly in view of the fact that two years
ago he waged successful fight in the
house to reduce the waiting time from
two weeks to one week. The senate,
at that time, refused to adopt the Gill
amendment.
,.,ROll Call.
Here is the way st. Louis county
members voted on the Gill amend
ment:
For the Gill amendmeat: Bergen,
Gill and Pittinger.
Against the Gill amendments: Ber-
nard, Bessette, Erickson, McNiven
and Murphy.
The house by an emphatic vote
turned the amendment down. =
Next came the amendment tncreas-
ing the compensation from so per
cent to sc 2-3 per cent Of the wages
of the injured man.
An amendment prepared by J. A.
Shearer, attorney for. the Minnesota
Employers association, was intro
duced by Representative solem of
Minneapolis. After spirited debate,
Representative McGrath of St. Paul
agreed, on the part of labor, to ''com-
promise" by accepting the 60 per cent
amendment of the Employers asso-
citation. The house then proceeded to
adopt it.
SThere was considerable resentment
among leaders Of organized labor over
the action of Mr.. McGrath. Consider
able sentiment prevailed in favor of a
raise to sc 2-3 and it was thought that
Mr.. McGrath should at least have let
the matter come to vote so that
organized labor could take note of
those who were ready to stand by the
sc 2-3 amendment and who would
not.
The amendments will now go to the
senate and another fight is expected
over there. It is said that another
attempt will be made in the upper
body Of the legislature to raise the
limit to sc 2-3.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
DECLARES WAGES OF
WOMEN ARE TOO LOW

MILWAUKEE,, April 12.-1n an
address before the Citizenship Study
club Clinton M. Barr declared that the
wages paid 100000 American
women constantly keeps them at the
bread line standard of existence, is as
destructive as war and is far less de-
fensible.
THE girl without a home, who
manages to lead decent life on $6 a
week." said the speaker, ''as must
hundreds Of Milwaukee girls, deserves
the Victoria cross, usually granted
for unusual valor in front of the
trenches. The greatest retailer in the
world has a thousand stores; en-
ployes 100000 girls at from So to 81 a.
week, with few being paid the latter
figure. Last year they rang up on his
cash registers a total of $4,000, ,000."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
NT|-|NJUNCT|0N
BILL SAVED FROM
IMMEDIATE DEATH
Report Of Senate Judiciary Com.
mittee to Postpone Measure
Is Rejected.

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 12.-Sena-
tors George H. Gardner of Brainerd
and Richard Jones of Duluth, won a.
short but lively scrimmage with
Chairman Frank E. Putnam of the
senate committee on judiciary early
this week, and saved the anti-inj unc-
ton bill, which passed the house last
week, from immediate death.
The bill is modelled after the Clay
ton Federal act, to restrict the use of
injunctions in labor disputes.
The Judiciary committee reported
the bill for indefinite postponement.
Senator Gardner moved that the
report of the judiciary committee be
not adopted, and that the bill be
placed on general orders. Senator
Putnam declared the bill unnecessary,
holding that the present laws are in
adequate.
Senator Jones came to the rescue
of Senator Gardner, and the bill was
saved by vote of 35 to 27. It was
the first time in the session that a.
report Of the judiciary committee was
turned down by the senate. Senator
I Jones called attention to the fact that
when the judiciary committee acted
on the bill. only 10 members out Of 26
were present.
The Duluth senator said that the
bill merely followed the Clayton
amendment to the Federal antitrust
law holding that labor organizations
should not be held to be combinations
in restraint Of trade.
He said that the Minnesota EN-
n nrCV l.
the members of the legislature in
which they stated that the II. w. w.
element" in the labor movement was
backing the measure. Senator Jones
vigorously denied this charge, and
said that President Gompers himself
had indorsed the bill, and that as a
matter of fact, it was at Mr.. Gompers'
suggestion that the Minnesota State
Federation Of Labor had made this
one of organized labors "preferen-
tial' bills" at this session.
Roll Call.
Those voting to sustain the report
OF the Judiciary committee and thus
Kill the anti-injunction bill, were:
Adams, Baldwin, Benson. A. S. Camp
bell, r. c. Denegre, Dunn, Duxbury,
Dwinnell, Gjerset, Grose, Hanson, Hill
bert, Lende, McGarry, Nelson, G. Nj.
Peterson, Potter, Putnam, Refs, Rus
tad, G. H. Sullivan, Swenson, Ver-
milya, Wallace, Ward, Weis, West
lake.
The following senator's voted
against the committee report and in
favor of the anti-injunction bill: AL
ley, Blomgren, Andrews, Bonniwell,
Buckler, Callahan, w. A. Campbell,
Car1ey, Gardner, Gillian, Glotzbach,
Gnggs, Handlan, Healy, Hegnes,
Jackson, Jones, Knopp, Lobeck, Mil
let, Nord, O'Neill, Orr, Palmer, Pauly,
E. P. Peterson, F. H. Peterson, Rask,
Rockne, Sageng, Steffen, J. D. Sulli-
van, Turnham, Van Hoven, ,Vibert.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
KILLED IN SENATE
Constitutional Amendment, Al
Passed In House, Is Decisively
Defeated In Senate.

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 12.--The
proposed constitutional amendme ent
for woman suffrage was decisively de-
feated in the senaaea: Monday after
noon. The vote was ~ to IA.
The elections committee unani-
mously reported the bill for indefinite
postponement, after it had passed the
house by large majority.
Eight of the nine members of the
elections committee are advocates of
equal suffrage. But on account of the
fact that the suffrage organizations of
the state, through their leaders, had
indicated that they did not desire to
have the amendment submitted at
this time, the committee voted for in
definite postponement.
It was thought by the members of
the committee that the suffrage
amendment would be showed under
at the 1918 election, if submitted with
the prohibition amendment. This view
was shared by the women who have
been working for suffrage in Minne-
sofa for many years, and who led the
recent unsuccessful fight for the bill
which would give women the right to
The Roll Call.
The following members voted in
favor of the committee report and
against submitting the suffrage
amendment at this time: Adams,
Alley, Andrews, Baldwin, Benson,
Blomgren, Bonniwell, Callahan,
A. S. Campbell, w. w. Denegre, Dunn,
Duxbury, Dwinnell, Gardner, Gillian,
Gjerset, Blotzbach, Griggs, Grose,
Handlan, Hanson, Hcaly, Hegnes, Hill
bert, Jackson, Knopp, Lende, Nc
Garry, Millet, Nelson, Nord, Pauly.
E. P. Peterson, F. H. Peterson, G. M.
Peterson, Putnam, Refs, Rockne,
Rustad, Sageng, G. H. Sullivan, J. D.
Sullivan, Swenson, Van Hoven, Ver-
milya, Vibert, Wallace, Weis, West
lake.
Those voting to submit the suffrage
amendment were: Buckler, w. A..
Campbell, r. c. Carley, Dunn, Jones,
Lobech, O'Neill, Orr, Palmer, Potter,
Rask, Steffen, Turnham, Ward.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
MAKES HUGE PROFITS,

HARTFORD, Conn.,, April 12.-At
the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Coldt Patent Firearm
Manufacturing company a $2,500,000
melon was cut.
The present capital stock was in
creased from $2,500,o00 to $1,000, 900,
and the par value of each share re.
duced from 500 to $25, thus giving
eight new shares for one old.
The profits for the year were 259
per cent, or $6,345,731.39, and divi-
dends were 63 per cent, or $1,575, 900.
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Presence Is Evidence.
"F'or instance" said Senator Peter
son, Il might be attending a meeting
at which some member of the I. w.
W. advocates sabotage. Under the
provisions of the Nord bill, would by
my presence at such meeting be sub
ject to arrest and heavily fined and
placed in states prison."
Senator Jones said the bill, if it
became law, could easily be used by
employers to prevent meetings of
strikers.
"A hundred men may be gathered
in a hail. or in the open air, discuss
ing wages and conditions" said the
Duluth senator, ''and two or more of
the participants in that meeting
might, in their zeal, make statements
that could be construed as criminally
syndicalistlc. Under such c1rcum-
stances, the entire group of one hun
dred men could be arrested for a
felony"
Measures Necessary.
Senator Dwinnell of Minneapolis
did not deny the claims of Senators
Peterson and Jones, but insisted that
owing to the present crisis confront
ing the country, measures of this kind
We're necessary.
'"Those who participate in such
meetings, even by their mere pres
ence, will be taught a lesson under
. the provisions of this bill, if it be-
comes a law" said Mr.. Dwinnell.
This statement by the Minneapolis
senator ''let the cat out of the bag"
and no further attempts were made
by the proponents of the bill to deny
the statements of Senators Peterson
and Jones.
Senator Sullivan Of saltwater then
took up the fight for tho Nord bill.
The Saltwater senator claimed, as did
the author, Senator Nord, that public
safety at this time required the pas
sage Of the bill
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
PREPARING FOR
BIC CONVENTION

FARIBAULT, A1inn., April 12.-
Secretary Lawson and President Hall
Of the Minnesota Federation of Labor
addressed a meeting here last week,
called by all the labor organizations
Of the city, for the purpose of begin
rhing active preparations for the en-
t.ertainment Of the delegates to the
convention of the State Federation of
Labor, which is to be held in this city
next July.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
Women Wage Law
Is Constitutional

WASHINGTON, April 12.-ore-
CONS law fixing minimum wages
for women, the first compulsory
minimum wage statute ever be-
fore the supreme court, was up
held Monday as constitutional by
an equally divided court. Similar
compulsory laws in Washington.
Colorado, Wisconsin,, California,
Utah, Minnesota and Ohio were
likewise sustained.
The supreme court also upheld
rs constitutional the Oregon law
limiting labor Of men in mills,
factories and manufacturing es-.
tablishments to 10 hOurs a day,
permitting thirteen hours Of labox
II paid time and 4 half for Over~
time. 1t was the first general
hours Of labor state law ever be-
fore the supreme court.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
SENATE KILLS DW[NNEEL
BILLBY VOTE OF 43 TO %
Republican Leader. Consped to Abolish People,: Prima-
ries-An Measures Changing Election Law.
Have Been Defeated.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April Ex-senator Dwnne's bill restoring
the convention system and taking the
dates from the people received rubbng
Minnesota senate last week.
The defeat Of the Dwinn bill disposed the bills
change the election laws which have been introduced
session. All were defeated and not change the method
nomination g candidates public office has been made
despite the determined attempts that have that end
by the Republican leaders in the legislature.
favor - 80 ~
1t currently rumored that Governor Burnqu Speaker Par
ker and Lieutenant Governor Frankson enlisted fight
with the Republican leaders do with the peoples primaries
Senator W. A. Campbell of Minneapolis Republican, was lined
up opposition the Dwnne bill and has consistently opposed
all the bills introduced in the legislature aimed at the
primary system. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14
Urges the Adoption
of Anti-Banner Law

PORTLAND, Oregon, April H.
The chamber, of commerce urxes
adoption Of an ordinance prohi-
biting banner carrying by union
lists. Under this act It would be
illegal to carry or display any in
formation ON a banner, sign,
transparency, writing. printing,
dodger, card, notice. stieker, but
ton Or sash (which by, its terms
Feet1y, induces or attempts to in
duce Others not to buy frOm, sell,
to, or have dealings with any
designated person or persons do
Ing business in the city OF Port
land,n
The advocates OF this legisla-
tAoR failed II secure the passage
Of q similar law by the last legis-
latuEe.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14

HARRISBURG, Pa, April 12.-The
state senate has voted to substitute
life imprisonment for death as a PEN
atty for first-degree murder. One of
the strongest advocates of this legisla-
tion was Warden Francies of the
western penitentiary, where all the
murderers in this state are electro
cuted
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-14

Opposed to Change.
Senator Campbell prior to tho
present session, was outspoken in op-
position to any change in the pri-
mary laws. He made speeches in
many counties throughout the state
against such move.
In the session Of 1915 Senator
Campbell was member of the senate
elections committee. He was re-
moved from that committee this wear.
and politicians around the capitol
corridors assert that there was
method in the madness" of Lieuten-
ant Governor Frankson when that
gentleman removed Senator "Bill'
Campbell from the elections commit
tee.
But Campbell got sweet revenge
last week when he led the fight
against the Dwinnell bill-and won.
st. Louis county senators voted as
follows on the final roll call:
:: For, the Dwinnell- =. Bill: Adams,
Griggs, Peterson, :Healy. :
Against the Dwinnell Bill: Jones.