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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

We demand a vote for the people in
all future foreign policies, in all
treaties, in all alliances, in all peace
settlements, and above all in all wars.
AS look around this colossal assem-
bly,. 1t is borne in upon me that pre-
cisely such a mass of living human
ity-counting all the bclligerents-
has been murdered and mutilated this
very day and that the same mass has
been mutilated and murdered every;
day for nigh thousand days. And
I say, Never again!
I'm celebrating this revolution to-
night, our first thought and our last
word should be of thost brave SOL
diers Of freedom, though men, women
and girls, lashed and tortured, starved
and driven to suicide in verminous
dungeons, shot without sentence,
hanged by bungling amateurs, sent to
rot In exile. They seem to be here
with us tonight, thes~ racked spirits,
out at peace and exultant at last,
knowing that the price they paid was
not In vain. Some of these great,
souls are happily still in the flesh,
witness the noble veteran who has 80
long honored our country with his
presence-Prince Kropotkin. And
still more heartening is the triumphal
return to Petrograd after IS years
In Siberia Of the beloved grandmother
of the revolution, Catherine Bresh-
kovsky. It all serves to remind us
that the mills Of God do grind, how,
ever slowly. %= ,......s. !.
.,~4 Many Died For OauseS - . !.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

Lord Northc1ffey IL we have no royal
autocrat we have lloyd George. who
has ignored tho house of commons
and given the cabinet the Knockout
blow. No doubt Lloyd George loves
freedom-has he not welcomed the
Russian revolution as resounding
blow for liberty? But like the king
who, when he had dined we'll, thought
his people happy, Lloyd-George thinks
because he can do exactly as he
pleases, therefore old England was
never such q land Of liberty as today
Now, Mr.. Lloyd-George, tempered by
the constitution, may be all very we'll,
but unalloyed George is national
danger,
"And, therefore, we hope that the
first effect of the Russian Revolu,
ton will be to give us back our Duma.
To the new Russia we look for the re-
demption of the new England. At
the very beginning of the war + ven7
tured-as one Of an ancient people Of
sorrows, experienced in the ways Of
despots-to warn my guileless fellow
citizens, who were making ducks and
brakes Of the freedom bequeathed to
them by. their forefathers. that it is
infinitely easier to give up ones liber-
ties than to get them back. The SIM
pie Englishman, unused to tyrantss
imagines that the tiger which has
tasted blood will still pay regard to
the food controller. He does not know
that all who have power abuse it. We
have always prided ourselves-not
overwisely-on the cautiousness of
our Liberalism; boasted that our !.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

And among these martyrs there
sweeps before me tho long array of
those heroic young Jews whose Bund
was the brains of the movement for
freedom; and who died equally for
Russia and for the prisoners of the
Pale. That Pale is now to be swept
away, with every other oppressive dis
elimination of the race and sect, For
the great gesture will which the new
Russia has freed my people at a
Stroke I do not thank her; I con-
gratulate her. I rejoice with her that
Russia is at last able to look civiliza-
ton in the face. for the persecution
and massacre Of the Jews weighed
upon all her noblest sons. Gorki, An
dreiev, Sologoub, Mereshkovsky-all
confessed .44~t It was staining their
own history, humiliating them before
the world. Iejoice that this burden,
has ben lifted from the Russian soul
as from the Jewish body. 8 Hand-in-
hand with Russian brothers will the
Jews, drawing over their agonies and
expressions the veil of forgiveness.
go forward with them to-build the
great Russia of the future, that real
holy Russia which is already today a
new inspiration to humanity, an in-
spiration already working In Ger
many, In lrelano, ;..-o4lg our women,
among ourselves, and wheresoever
the great glad hope Of the French
revolution'--the semmage OF liberty,
equality. fraternity-st till leaps un-
.quenched In the human heart, an inn
mortal aspiration.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
SIGNIFICANT MEETING TO CELEBRATE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

NEW YORK, May 17.-News has
just reached this country of great
and significant meeting held in Albert
hall in London to celebrate the Rus
sian revolution. Every seat in the
vast hall was taken, and 5000 were
turned away at the doors. In the
speeches by Israel Zahgwill, members
of Parliament, and labor leaders,
rang a call to action in behalf of Brit
,ish democracy and against the dan
,lgers of wartime restrictions.
J These speeches have never been
printed in this country, and are now
|avai1able through the receipt Of a
! COPY of ''The Herald" London
wee fly devoted to the interests of
lah( and ordinarily restricted in it's
cil llation by the censorship.
letter from Bernard Shaw was
RI at the meeting and speeches
IL Re made by H. w. Nevinson, Robert
S. lille, Robert Williams, Israel Zang-
II, Commander Wedgwood, NJ. P. A.
egellamy, DR.. Lynch, NJ. p, and
others. The keynote of all the
speeches was the demand that Eng
llsH democracy be brought up to the
Jewel of the newly-constituted demo-
cratic regime in Russia. - New light
Ton American readers is thrown on
thee dangers to democratic institutions
Involved in the conduct of such a war
af1 the United States is facing today.
H'or this reason the speeches carry a,
1ime1y message for America in these
9iays when our policies are just taxi
ling form and there is time and oppor-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

Prince Of Lies are they. rejoicing
over? How could the paradise they;
depicted be changed, except for the
worse? Do they not see that their,
jubilations over the new Russia are a
judgment upon themselves, that every
cheer they raise is their own condem- >,
nation? They confess now, these,
Judases Of journalism, these Parlia,
mentary parasites of success, that
Russia was always a deadweight in
the alliance, political incubus; that,
in fact, England was ashamed. Of her.,
And this was the real truth, and the
best Russians knew it, and it dis
tressed them.
But what is the position today?
By the irony of history just az Russia.
has gained a constitution. we have lost
ours. And instead of our having the
right to be ashamed of Russia, it is
Russia that may soon be ashamed Of
us. Evil communications corrupt
good manners. What was worst in
Russia was waited over here; the
censorship, the passport, the police,
Recommendation, the prohibited zone,,
the oblawa, or drive of human beings,
the persecution OF religious sects-for
what else is the conscription Of Quak-.
ers?-the okhrana or secret police.
the agent provocateur, the farcicai
trial; even, on a mild scale, the po,
grom.
Lloyd George Dictator.
III Russia has turned into Eng,
land; England has turned into Russia,
II we have no Grand Dukes we have.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
BUS DRIVERS ARE
ON STRIKE AGAIN
Responding to English Govern
ment's Call Men Return
to Machines.

LONDON-Hundreds of bus drivers
who, responding to a government ap-
peal, resumed work Monday so NUM-
tons workers could reach their shops
Without delay deserted their machines
again Tuesday. Ten thousand drivers
are on strike, completely tying up bus
traffic except on the Woolwich line.
After informing the men it was
their patriotic duty to resume work
Immediately, the governm ent Tuesday
threatened to apply the defense of
the realm act"
AS a result Of the strike tube and
surface traffic, taxed, to the limit,
has been greatly impaired.
Settlement of the engineers strike,
predicted for Tuesday, failed to ma
terialize, the strikers refusing to re-
sumo work in the munitions plant
despite appeals of the government.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

tunity to avoid England's mistakes.
Official commissions are now in
this country to advise how we may
avoid the military and industrial mis-,
takes of England and France. Be-
lieving it more important to avoid,
political mistakes that conflict with
the democratic ideal for which the,
struggle is being waged, the Peoples
News Service presents the following
extract from the most eloquent and
typical of the speeches delivered at
the Albert Hall meeting. The speaker;
is Israel ZangwiH, distinguished play
wright, novelist and publicist. After
picturing the despotism and brutality
of the old regime in Russia and re-,
buking those English newspapers and
public men who had tried to minimize
them, ZangWill said:
Driven From Homes.
During this very war there have
been hundreds of pogroms against the
loyal Jewish population, millions Of
whom, moreover, were driven from
their homes. Even crippled Jewish
soldiers, with the cross of valour,
were bounded from the cities they
had helped to save. AS for the myth"
of Siberia, the Duma itself was not
lmmune-witness the five Social
Democrats banished there. And the
scrlbes and Pharisees who backed up
this Russia, and from whom no whis-,
per of encouragement came to the
struggling Russian people, now have,
the brazenness to rejoice at the revo7
luton. What in the. name Of the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
Freedom broadens slowly down
From precedent to precedent.

Freedom broadens slowly down
From precedent to precedent.
''Would at least there were similar
caution in our reactions from Liberal,
ism! But, alas! Our freedom tumbles
down from precipice to precipice.
Does anybody know what law we are
living under now, if there is still any;
law? I ordered copy of the De-,
fence Of the Realm Act. The book
seller inquired which volume, as there
were several hundreds. Such an Act
is a Destruction of the Realm Act.
The war after the war must not be a.
war against German trade but a war,
to win back England from our home
born Huns. Even Russia, whose
agents provacateurs we have now imi-,
tated, never refused to produce them
in court. That refusal was worse
even than numbering Lloyd-George-:
it was numbering the soul of England,
And. the sanctity and stability Of the
state are equally undermined when
there is a talk Of Industrial conscrip-
ton, or the importation of colored
labor, donliciliary police inspec-
ton, or when taxes are collected with;
an unscrupulousness unknown to Tur-
key. Who gave the government power,
to do these things? Whence comes
their mandate-a word so often in
their mouths Wien we stood on this
platform demanding votes for women
and were told they hadn't got it?
.. Autocracy Must End.
I'VE say tonight that this a, tocracy
must end. as It has ended in Russia,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

NEW YORK, May 17.-Awakened
by the war to the necessity Of more
fundamental measures than wage in
creases that merely kept wages level
with the cost of living, Organized
Labor in England has officially
adopted a partial single tax program
as its next great objective.
The Labor porty, representin5 or
ganized labor in England as truly as
the American Federation represents
it in this country, met a few weeks
ago in Manchester and adopted
resolution cA4llng upon the govern
ment to impose q direct tax on land
values.
Because of the party's strength in
parliament, there is every reason to
believe that England will soon take
the first step toward wiping out the
greatest of all privileges and the one
from which all others spring-the
right Of a minority either to hold land
and other natural resources out of use
or to levy exorbitant tribute on the
people, who depend on these natural
resources for life's necessities
The resolution adopted at the Man.
chester conference of the Party, after
calling on the government to levy a.
direct tax on land values, said:
This conference affirms that such
tax, in addition to providing a large
amount of revenue, would open up the
land to the people, increase the pro-
duction of homegrown food, and thus
materially reduce the prevailing high
cost of living, tend to raise wages, and
lessen the evil Of unemployment
which threatens on the alose OF the
war;" ...=<H-<
Thus, without sacrificing any Of the
Immediate objects on the labor move
ment, organized labor in England has
adopted a definite program for strik-
ing at the roots Of, poverty, injustice
and oppression, instead of merely nib
bling at the foliage.
The action Of the Manchester con-
ference may be expected to set the
American labor movement to thinking
and to stimulate the efforts of many
American unionists who are working:
for the adoption of a like program in
this country. The need was never
greater nor the time more favorable.
For organized labor realizes today as
never before that wage increases by
themselves will never solve the prob
lem, helpful and necessary as they
are in enabling the wage Garner to
meet the rising cost of living.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
CULINARY CRAFTS
SECURE 8 HOURS
Seattle Union Gains World Rec
ord; Eight Hour Day and
Better Conditions.

SEATTLE, Wash, May 17.-seattle
is the only city in the country-yes, in
the world-having an eight-hour day,
and a six-day week for culinary work.
ers, and this applies to cooks and as
sistants, mattresses and waitars with
out exception.
Dishwashers and yardmen, who
have been working IL and 13 hours
day will work hereafter but 10
hours with promise of further
shortening of the day later on.
Councilman Bob Hesketh, himself
a cook and first vice president of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees In
ternational alliance, did yeoman serv-
I've In bringing about an agreement
without the necessity for striking.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
GOVERNMENT TAKES
OVER COAL MINES
Forecast of What May Happen
Elsewhere During War
Period.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, May 17.-The
federal government has taken over
the mines of the Stineman Coal COM
pany. Soldiers were stationed around
the property and officials were in
structed to refuse all information as
to the coal mined or it's destination.
Three hundred men employed at the
mine struck Tuesday to enforce their
demands for an advance of 33 1-3 per
cent. approximately 10000 other
miners in the district have announced
they will strike next Tuesday if SINH
lar demands are refused.
The action Of the government is
said here to forecast>what may be ex-
pected throughout the district unless
the miners and operators reach an
agreement.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

After further protest, the superin-
! tendent changed his mind. The plant
is now back on it's eight-hour sched-
ule, and is running six instead OF
is likely to take place shortly in the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
where the stamps, bonds and paper
money are made. The three men,
bers of the house have their eye on
that institution, where $50 women are
employed - hours a day at present:
IF it's right to legislate for the pro-
lection of the potato, in this war
CRISIS" says Heating. cts right to
man and the woman employed back
of the army and navy. There is a
bill now before the committee on agri-
culture, in the house, giving the Presi-
dent full power to take control Of the
food, fuel, clothing and other neces-
saries of life, and to fix the prices to
be paid for these necessaries to the
! producer and to the retailer. I am
not opposed to that control. But it is
J. just as important to fix by national
, legislation the control of Industrial
conditions during war time. Wages
and hours and other industrial condi-
tions are necessary, just as food is
necessary, to the maintenance of the
nation. 1 want to see this country
empower the labor department, or
some other special branch OF the gov
ernment, to see that every employer,
during this war, shall pay decent
wages, abide by reasonable hours, and
!maintain conditions under which the
health and strength and civil liberty
of the employe will be safeguarded."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
Slberstein's Jitney
Ordinance Is Killed
By City Commission

by a vote of three to two, the
city commission rejected the
drastic jltney ordinance prepared
by City Attorney Samuelson and
introduced i'm the council by COM
missioner SilberSte1n.
Prolonged argument preceded
the vote I'm which members of the
council. j1tney men and represen-
tatives Of the Federated Trades
Assembly participated.
"1f you want to put the jitneys
out of business, you can do 80 by
adopting that ordinance said o.
e. Thompson, president Of the Jit-
ney Drivers, when addressing the
commission.
Resolutions adopted by the
Trades Assembly protesting
against the enactment of the pro-
posed ordinance were presented
and read mt the meeting.
Mayor Magney, Commissioners
Phillips and Farrell cast the votes
which killed tho ordinance, while
Commissioners S1lberstefn and
VOss voted i'm favor Of 1T.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

How the committee and it's aims is
regarded is indicated by the following
expressions by those concerned:
Joseph H. King, president of the
Chamber of Commerce-"I consider
this one Of the biggest things the
Chamber of Commerce and labor
have done in common. It makes Oak
land the first city to stand for indus
'r1al peace and progress and will do
much to heal the breach between
capital and labor.
Secretary Spooner of the Labor
counc1l-"Organize labor welcomes
the opportunity to confer and collab-
crate with organized employers. We
are satisfied that much, if not all, of
the industrial turmoil Of today might
be avoided. The honest, conscientious
workman does not possess the preju-
dice against the upright employer he
Is so often given credit for.
James Traverse, factory manager
1T strikes me as the only way en-
ployers and employees can Cooperate
for the best interests of the country.
This committee is the best solution of
labor troubles"
5. w. Lore, delegate to the Labor
council-"Organized labor's position
in the community in relation to all of
labor is precisely the same as the
Chamber of Commences relation to
all of business. When representatives.
of the two visible heads that speak for
and control the destinies Of the city
get together, their meeting means
much to the community.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
RANCE CITY VIII
NOT MEET UNION
Petition to Council Asking En-.
ployment Of Union Labor
Only, Turned Down.

s. CHISHOLM, May 1.-THE city
council at it's meeting this week
turned down a petition to employ
union men exclusively in municipal
work.
1.-THE council is not against union
labor" said one of the members, "but
no employe will. be discharged because
he is a union man, nor is any man
going to get job because he is a
union man."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
w. E. McEwen is Named
Head of Labor Division
Of Liberty Loan Assn.

w. e. McEwen, editor of The
Labor World, has been named
chairman of the Labor Division of
the Duluth Liberty Loan assocfa-
ti0n.
Duluth is expected to raise
$2,OOO,OOO of the big loan. This is
the amount apportioned to this
city by the federal authorities In
charge of the @big drive.''
Each bond is in the amount of
$50 and will pay three and one
half per cent interest.
Every loyal citizen 1s expected
to do his duty. II you can p0ss-
IDLY afford to do so, you should
subscribe for a liberty bond.
1t Is expected Mr.. McEwen will
name his associates an the Labor
committee within a few days.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
NOVEL SCHEME in 0PERA ATl0K%f@0N PACIFIC COAST
Chicago Federation
Donates Five Hundred
For Mooney Defense

The following letter was sent
by the Chicago Federation Of La
bOr to Tom Mooney, charged with
murder In connection with the
Preparedness parade In San Fran
cisco last summers
"Chicago. Ill.,, March Is, 1917.
sT0m Mooney,
Scare of County Jail. San Fran
cisco, Cal.
"Under auspices of ChicaE0
Federation Of Labor twenty thou
sand American citizens assembled
today In mass meeting in the COL
1seum and heard the Hon. w.
Bourke COckran's word picture of
the travesty upon Justice in the
trial and conviction Of Tom
Mooney. Adopted resolutions un-
animOusly demanding Congress
xiOna1 investigation and are for
warding same to United States
Senate, the House of Representa-
tives and the President of the
United States. Will send five
hundred dollars to defense fund
and our best wishes and faith I'm
the innocence Of Billings, Mooney,
Mrs. Mooney, Weinberg and No
Ian.
"CHICAGO FEDERATION OF
LABOR.
"JOHN FITZPATRICK, Pres.
"E. n. NOCEkELS. Secretary
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19
ENGLAND MAY TAKE
OVER BRENER|ES
State Control of Liquor Traffic
During War is Being
Considered.

LONDON, May 1.-THE govern
ment has taken a definite step in the
direction Of state control of the liquor
traffic by deciding to assume charge
Of the breweries.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-19

In the long, fierce struggle for free
dom of opinion the press, like the
church, counted its martyrs by thou
sands.-James A. Garfield.
The Washington times., 1917-08-29
Cousins
Should
Marry.
Not
DEAR Miss FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am twenty-three, OF foreign
parentage. graduated from public
school. and have attended high
school.
] am now going about with =
man OF thirty-siX. who is
cousin. He has'not mastered Eng
lish yet. though he is trying TO
learn. He is a very quiet man
and when among my friends SUI
fers in comparison.
My parents and I think we'll OF
him and like him. but we are IN
decided whether two people with
such a difference in age can be
happy together. I'D.
COUSINS are forbidden by the law
OF the State OF New York to
marry. Have you thought OF that?
Tho ference in your ages is by no
me barrier TO your happiness.
MOI j the fact that one OF you
wa. Ight up in n foreign land
and . here Interfere with your
happiness. But you are of such
close kin that all students of racial
betterment would say that you
must not marry,
The Washington times., 1917-08-29
Little Stories of Interest

peaches on his neighbours property.
Each year the cliffs are poTtioned
out anew. the Saxon Mod. or Coun-
ell, assembling for the purpose.
The adjacent Islands and "stacks'
are regarded as common property.
and are hunted at intervals by a
party despatched in one OF the
boats. the proceeds being equally
divided among the entire popula-
tion. No fowler IN the world Is
more expert than the st. Kildan-
Armed with a long rod. at the end
OF which IS a horsehair moose. he
climbs tho dizzy heights and snares
the sitting birds at will. slipping
the fata moose over their heads and
dragging the Tutoring captiyes TO
him
The Washington times., 1917-08-29
ROYAL Names.

Nicholas Romanoff is the name
by which the late Tsar is mentioned
in the Russian papers. But it may
be doubted whether this Is a cor
rect use of the word Romanotf. be-
cause monarchs: who sign by their
Christian names only. are not sup
posed to have surnames. In the
early days. when both surnames
and customs were In the making.
they did not need them. and. except
in case OF reinforcement, and not
always then. they have never need
ed them since. Contrary to popu-
lar belief. Plantagenct was not a
surname. Tudor may have been
one. and Stuart certainly was. But
Guelph was not; and so good an
authority as Mr.. Fox-Davies holus
that the present King OF England
has no surname at all. Less learned
authorities have been perplexed to
know whether the descendants Of
Queen Victoria did not inherit the
surname of their father. the Prince
Consort