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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-15

DEATH Rate
So Declares Federal Bureau In
Bulletin After Examina-
y ton. Of Printers,

WASHINGTON, Sept 49, In bull
letin No. 200 on Hygiene of Printing
Trades" issued by the feder al bureau
of labor statistics, the International
typographical union is quoted as re-
ducing death@, due to tuberculosis,
from 31:2 per cent in 1900 to 1877
per cent in 1915.
The menace of lead poisoning is
shown by an examination Of 200
working printers in Boston and Chi
cago. Only SO of these workers. or
46.5 per cent, were free from note
worthy symptoms Of Ill health. The
other 107 had health impaired and Is
of the latter were suffering from
chronic lead poisoning, which is ac-
qrired, the bulletin states. by ham
ding food or tobacco with hands
which become smeared with lead or
by breathing dust and fumes.
Excessive speeding up or excess
sively long hours are among the
causes stated for occupational dis
eases among printers. Preventive
measures include ample ventilation in
all sorts of weather, electric heating
of lead pots, scrupulous cleanliness of
the premises, no dry sweeping or dry
busting, proper lighting, prevention Of
excessive heat, ample washing facili-
ties and prohibition of boys work in
processes involving exposure of lead
dist or fumes
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BEGIN M0v| TO
UN|0N|z e ME-
|NSToCkYARDS
Hundreds Of Workers in CHICAGO
Sign Membership App|i-
cations,

CHICAGO-Sept. 13.-An organ
lied labor drive" on the stockvards
last Sunday resulted in hundreds of
workers in packing plants signing APP
plications for membership in the
unions affiliated with the Stockyards
Labor council, according to- state
ments by heads of the organization.
The drive" was held in Columbian
hall. and was attended by more than
1900 workers, the number necessita-
ting an overflow meeting in a cold
drzzle outside the hall. Like meet
ings were held simultaneously in
Kansas City, Omaha, and East St.
Louis.
John Fitzpatrick, president of the
Chicago Federation Of Labor. was
chairman and chief speaker at the
meeting.
How you aHS your families are
forced to live is no consideration Of
the packers he said. mo one real
ICES better than the packers that Or
better living and working conditions
for you, and it is that realization that
has led them to oppose unonizing you
w every HledllS Ill Their power.
Must Keep Standards.
"E. p. Ripley, president Of the Santa
Fe railway system, says Chinese labor
should be imported into this country.
It is true, as he says, that business
will he conserved but what about the
destruction of the ideals and stand
ards Of living that the men and wo-
men of organized labor have strug-
gled for these many years?''
Mr.. Fitzpatrick made an appeal to
negro workers at the yards. declaring
their cause was common with that of
white workers-"to deal with the
bosses as we do"
Miss Agnes johnson of the Wo-
mems Trade Union league talked in
behalf of women in the packing
plants. declaring they should be paid
as much as men when doing mems
work.
Huge War Profits.
She said gross profits Of the pack
ing plants had increased from $685.
1877 in 1913 to s20,1oo,o0o in 1916.
'There has been no corresponding
increase in the wages of workers at
the yards, however" she said.
Other speakers were Martin Dew
ries, bakery wagon drivers union: J.
w. Joh.lstone, painters union; j. w.
McGarry and Albert Peterson, ma
chinists' union: Robert Sims, office
janitors' union, and Dennis Lane,
Edward Carbine, Anton Janovsky,
and A. Werner of the Stockyards
Labor council. -
Emmett T. Flood, general organizer
of the American Federation of Labor,
Louis.
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The state legislature of Massachu-
sets has conferred upon the governor
wide powers during the war period.
He may take possession of any kind of
land, buildings, machinery, equipment,
fuel, cattle or other provisions which
he deems necessary for the use of the
military or naval forces of that state.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-15
REVIEW OF labor LEGISLATION
Indicates That Many Protective Laws Are Being Enacted Work
mems Compensation Laws On Increase.

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.--The years
srist of labor legislation shows pro-
gross, and indicates that protective
laws for labor are regarded by legis-
lators not as matter Of sentiment
but of sound economics, says a re-
port of the American Association for
Labor Legislation. Womens hours
have been reduced in eight states,
mems hours in mines in two. One
wage legislation, making - in all.
and two more have set investigating
commissions to work on the problem.
Five new states enacted workmen's
compensation laws. In eight states
official commissions are studying unit
versal health insurance, the next big
step in American labor legislation.
The movement for universal work.
mems health insurance has made
rapid strides. The official commits
sions of Massachusetts and Califor-
MIA, which made favorable reports
early in 1917, have been continued
for additional study with view to
public education and legislation. New
investigating commissions were Great
ed in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,.
Working Day Shortened.
For women, Nevada and Montana
established an S-hour day in many
occupations, and Ohio reduced daily
hours from 10 to 8. New York ex-
&ended it's 9-hour day and 54-hour
week to restaurants. New Hampshire
cut one hour Off the previous 55-hour
maximum, while Nevada set Sc
hour limit, and Connecticut 5S-hour
maximum in certain employments.
Both Delaware and Ohio restrict
women's work to 6 days a. week. and
the New York statute to this effect
now applies also to restaurants: The
only state to permit a. general length
ening of legal working time for wo-
men was Wyoming, which increased
its weekly maximum from Sc to 60
hours War conditions, however, led
New Hampshire to except from its
munitions for the United States dur
ing war times, and Oregon and Cali
rornia excluded from their S-hour
laws women engaged in the prepara
ton Of fruits, vegetables, and fish.
EOr men, Kansas and Washington set
up an Shour day in mines.
Arizona established minimum
wage of SO a. week for women in
stores and factories. Illinois and
North Dakota established commits
sons to investigate wages and other
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cans and who tell the people there
that the United States does not want
war, that it is brought on by capital
lists and contractors who want to make
money out of it: and that when these
have obtained their riches, the United
States will make separate peace
with Germany. They quote senators
and misrepresentation at these pub
lie meetings to prove what they say.
Worth Much to Kaiser.
Each word is worth more, to the
kaiser than 10000 additional men;
every time there is a peace meeting
here or La Toilette speaks, it is a Ger
man victory. If these men are ignor-
ant of what they are doing they are
too ignorant to represent you. If they
do know, they are traitors and should
not be at large for a moment Lincoln
had his La Toilette in Blandingham:
and he put him over the Conferdate
lines. That's the thing to do with the
copperheads of today. Tell them,
Your symrathics are with Germany;
then go and live with Germany This
Is no time to stab the republic in the
back"
Referring to the Russian situation
again, Mr.. Russell said:
Twill the Russian line hold? What
keeps it there? Not any car. The
Russian army reflects the feeling of
the Russian people. If they think that
the United States is not sincere or
that its people are against the war,
the determination of the Russian peo-
pie is weakened. That's what La Fol-
lette, Gronna and Stone are doing.
Should Germany take Moscow, it
means five years Of war for the Unit
ed States. the taking of 100000 of
lives of her soldiers and $4,000, 0O0,-
600 in money. Let us make no mis-
take as to the responsibility for this
condition. The copperheads are play
ing with the lives Of millions of our
men. La Toilette and his kind are
strangling Russian democracy.
Still for Social Reform.
II yield nothing in my contention
for social reforms. They will benefit
the country; but let's make sure we
are to have country to benefit.
This is no time for the working
man to talk of Strikes Wages are
nothing, dividends are nothing. Moth
ing amounts to much beside the ques-
ton: Shall we have a country or shall
we not? I am for the workingman
and I still hold my card in the Inter-
national Typographical union. I am
proud that learned my trade and am
thoroughly in sympathy with. the
workingman. But to strike now would
be unfaithfulness and disloyalty to
the republic. Workingmen have more
at stake than anybody else. Capital
and corporations will thrive under
autocracy, but workingnen have no
chance except under, democracy; and
your democracy in this country is
threatened with deadly peril"
Il have no patience" he said, with
"a considerate or ladylike warfare. We
must know that we are on the edge
of the cliff and let go with everything
we have. All of us must be prepared
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conditions of women in industry.
Working Age Raised.

Eleven states strengthened their
child labor laws, mainly by raising
age limits, extending existing restric-
tons to new employments, or short
ening hours. Texas passed new
general statute setting a 15-year min
imum age for factories, and Vermont
provided for issuance Of Regulations
in conformity with those of the fed
eral child labor act, which went into
effect Sept. with an appropriation
Of $4,000 for it's enforcement. Kan
sas and New Hampshire legislated on
Factory safeguards, Texas on fire es-
>apes, New Jersey on scaffolding,
Montana on electrical apparatus,
Delaware on sanitary equipment, and
West Virginia on mines; all follow
ing the modern tendency to lay down
in the law merely general require
ments, leaving to the labor commits
sioner fire marshal, board of health,
or other administrative official, the
duty of issuing specific regulations.
New Jersey forbade the manufacture
Of articles Of food or children's wear
in tenements.
Compensation Acts Passed.
Workmen's compensation laws
were enacted in Delaware, Idaho,
New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah,
making 40 states and territories
which now have such laws, in addi-
ton to the federal governments COM
pensati ton law for it's own 100000
civilian employees. Compensation in
the new acts is so or IS per cent of
wages but is increased by half in New
Mexico if the injury resulted from the
employers failure to provide safety
devices required by law. In more
than 20 additional states existing acts
were amended, the changes being
marked by tendency to. extend the
scope, shorten the waiting period,
and increase provision for medical
care Insurance for seamen in Amer
lean vessels was authorized under the
federal bureau of war risk.
Wyoming for the first time estab-
lished commissioner to enforce its
labor laws, and Utah and Vermont
Joined the states in which administra-
ton of all labor legislation, including
workmen's compensation, is centered
in one consolidated department. In
Utah and Pennsylvania the Industrial
commissions are given power to issue
regulations having the force of law.
Civil service rules looking to greater
efficiency and stability of the factory
inspection force were inaugurated in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-15

There are two declarations Of labor
in Argentina, South America, H. ~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-15
DEFENSE COUNCIL D0DGES
QUESTION OF EQUAL PAY

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-. Sept. 49,
The state council Of defense, at its
meeting in this city, lodged the ques-
ton of equal pay for women when
they do mems work. President Wood
Of the state federation of labor is a
member Of the war board and called
the councils attention to the policy
of employers who are conducting
schools for women, because, these
employers say, the draft has created
labor shortage.
President Wood says the women
are not replacing the drafted men,
but are taking the places of those not
in the army. He asked the council to
record it's opposition to this policy,
and stand for equal pay, but the
nemhevs refused.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-15

the highest cargo ra-- in history ex-
pended for it's shipment across the At
lantic. What reason can be assigned
then for the fact that bread is sold
cheaper 5000 miles away from the
original wheat field than it is at
home?
"Five-cent bread is what the
masses of the country need. Those
above the ranks Of the worker aye
able to eat even if they are over
charged. But the man who labors
should have his table protected.
"A food regulation which means
cheaper wheat for the farmer, cheap
er flour for the miller AMI baker. but
which does not reach down to the
mass of the people, is a farce. The
people who find their bread prices do
not fall despite great promises will
be more disappointed than if no eff
fort had been made to relieve them"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-15
Bread CHEAPER
|NE:UR0PE
IN THIS COUNTRY
Using American Wheat, Bakers
Sell Foodstuff for SO to
100 Per Cent Less.

WASHINGTON Sept. 13.-Euro-
peans are buying war bread more
cheaply than Americans. With flour
milled from American wheat, bakers
Of Great Britain, France, Italy and
Belgium are selling bread at from 60
to 100 per cent less than this coun-
try's white loaf commands.
These figures are from Representa-
tive Heating, Colorado, father Of the
child labor bill, who with other con-
gressmen asks: 'Why not scent
bread in American
In Great Britain 80 ounces Of bread
sell for ! / cents: in France IS ounces
for cents: in Italy 35 ounces for s
cents; in Belgium IS ounces for i
cents.
In Washington D. c., IA ounces sell
for 10 cents.
"Remember," said Heating. that
l..u grain which goes into this bread
was raised and sold by America II
farmers: that spectators and middle
men made their regular profits: that
freight was paid to the seaboard and
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-15
women Want
PLACE ON WAR
COMMIT EES
Chicago Trade Union League
Declares Representation
Is Essential.

CHICAGO, Sept. 13.-There should
be at least one woman on every gov
ernmental or semi-governmental war
committee, members of the Women's
Trade Union league of Chicago ar
gued last Sunday at one Of that or
ganization's regular meetings. Repre-
sensations backing up the contention
will be made to 1.-The government
through organized labor channels, it
was stated by Miss Agnes Nestor,
president of the league.
1T is essential to the interests of the
present women workers of this coun-
try as we'll as to those women who
will take the places of soldiers, that
they be represented on defense coun-
ellis and other committees" said Miss
Nestor.
1.-THE women representatives should
be active in the labor movement and
carry out the leagues principles that
women who are in great need of en-
ployment should be the first selected
to fill vacancies, and that they should
receive the mems wages.
It was decided to circulate petitions
throughout the state urging rigid en-
forcement of the child labor laws and
containing blanks for the reporting Of
violations of that law. The petitions
read, in part, as follows:
"Children must not fight in this
war. When the European countries
went to war, children took the places
Of men in the workshops and factories.
Ill health and lawlessness followed.
America must not make this mistake.
As the war goes on there will be a
tendency to put boys and girls to
work. It is the business of women to
guard against this evil. Our future
strength as a nation can come only
from our children"
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RUSSELL ADDRESSES
BIG GATHERING At
THE AUDITORIUM
Continued from Page ~

CONTINUED from Page ~
behind the republic and strive to fas-
ten their fangs in her back.
riga was not captured by the Ger
mans but by La Toilette, Gronna, Bill
Stone and their kind. If Petrograd
falls, the same poisonous trio will be
RESP onsible. In the Field of Mars, in
Petrograd, one can see hundreds Of
groups discussing public questions and
the war, and from group to group fit
so-called men who claim to be Ameri-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-15
TO PROTECT STEEL PLANT.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Sept. 13.-The
kaiser will get warm reception II he
attempts to capture the Carnegie Steel
company plants, now that employees
have organized two machine gun units.
It is stated that INSIDE defense COM
panies will be strengthened and new
ones organized in all the plants of the
Carnegie steel companies as rapidly
as possible"
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to make sacrifices. We cannot hoard
dollars or lives. This country could
not possible exist under German rule.
stake"
William E. McEwen was chairman
Of the meeting and introduced the
speaker. He said that war was not
without it's blessings, and should serve
to harmonic the contending forces Of
labor, and capital.
Cheyenne record., 1917-03-15
WESTERN.

Wichita, Kan, adopted the man.
ager plan Of city government.
Indefinite postponement Of the an.
nual meeting of the national conserva-
ton congress, which was to have been
held at New Orleans, La, April to
8, was announced.
Members of the family of Frank r.
Compton, Chicago publisher and na-
tive Of Grand Rapids. admitted his en-
gagement to Margaret Wilson, eldest
daughter of President Wilson.
Judge L. E. Porterfield, in the Crimi-
nal Court at Kansas City, set April 8
as the date :o- the new trial of DR..
d. Clark Hyde on the charge Of hav-
ing murdered Col. Thomas II. Swope.
Mayor Gill didn't say Thank you
He Just picked up the $4,000 roll Of
bills like box of Matches" testified
Logan Billingsley. chief witness for
the United States, in the socalled
liquor graft trials at Seattle, Wash.
Border conditions in the lower Rio
Grande valley are better than they
have been at any time for the last
two years, according to Major Gen
eral ]. ]. Pershing who returned to
San Antonio from an inspection trip
in the Brownsville district.
Cheyenne record., 1917-03-15
SPORT.

Nathan Hail of Boston won the ma
tional amateur billiard championship
at 1872 balkline.
The Fort Morgan five defeated the
Akron basketball quintet in the final
game of the season at Fort Morgan,
Colo, by a score of 80 to Z.
The Mountain States Telephone en-
ployes won two events in the first an
nual telegraph tenpin match between
Denver, Butte, Salt Lake City, Helena
and Ell Paso in Denver.
Frank A. Marshall, the American
chess champion, created what is be.
lieved to be new record for stimuli
taneous play at Buffalo, N. Y. Mar.
shall played against 144 local players,
including one woman and five ct H.
dren. The best previous record known
was 129. Marshall lost one game and
drew twelve.
When the first weeks schedule Of
the American Bowling Congress tour.
nament wound up at Grand Rapids,
Mich. new leaders and new records
had been established. Walter Swor.
owski and Walter Lundgren of Chi.
cago led the doubles with a score of
1920. L. J. Mackin of Dubuque, Iowa,
ran up u score of 649 in the singles
and the Hotel Navarres of Toledo led
the team events with 1882
Cheyenne record., 1917-03-15
WASHING GTON.

The American merchant marine has
made a net gain of 313.914 tons
through registry changes since the
European war began.
A resolution pledging support to
President Wilson in the international
crisis was adopted by the executive
committee Of the American Peace So
ciety.
The Zimmerman note which in
vited Mexico to join with Germany
against the United States was made
known 10 President Wilson by Gen
eral Carranza, according to state
ment made by an American who ar
rived at FL Paso, Tex, from Mexico
City.
The Americans who were taken
from various ships by the German
raider and sent on the steamer Var
rowdale to Germany where they were
illegally held more than three months
as prisoners and then released, will
be able to present claims for damages
against Germany.
Treasury department officials re-
'ferred to the attorney general for de.
cision a request from the custodian
Of public buildings at Spokane, for an-
thorization to use the roof of the fed
eral building there as the location for
the erection Of a scaffold to put to
death federal prisoner sentenced to
die March 20.
Plans for the immediate construc-
ton of large number of submarine
chasers for use by the navy in coast
patrol work will be discussed with
motor boat builders at q conference
called by Secretary Daniels.
Cheyenne record., 1917-03-15
PERsiA5Is RICH IN OIL FIELDS
That's Why Three Of the Big Bellio.
erent. Nations Are After IT.
Fields Only. Scratched.

A three-cornered rush for Persia has
been ON since the beginning OF the
great war. The Germans, by hurry
Ing their Bagdad' line, sought to reach
the hapless Asian kingdom. Russia,
which once had maintained virtual
protectorate over Persia, made hard
drive against the Turks in an effort to
keep Persia from being overrun. The
British got in the rush and launched
their Mesopotamian expedition. Per-
sia had suddenly become exceedingly
valuable. Why?
The report of the Anglo-Persian Oil
company Ltd.) in London few days
ago seems to contain the explanation
c. Greenway, chairman and managing
director of the company, stated that
the company's accrued dividends
amounted to considerably more than
100000. Ten-inch pipe lines had been
completed that permitted the ship
ment of 36O,O0O,OO0 gallons Of oil
year. and additional pumping stations
are planned that will raise this to
3,00O,0 tons. But the really signif-
cant statement was that the fields had
merely been scratched and that they
gave promise of furnishing enough oil
to fill large portion, If not the
whole, of Great Britain's enormous de-
mand for petroleum products.
Mr.. Greenway stated that it had be-
come matter of the highest impe-
rial Importance" to safeguard the de-
velopment of the fields.
Cheyenne record., 1917-03-15
GEN e RAJ,

J. p. Morgan, 1t was learned has
made application for $2.50O,O0O life in.
surance, which would be the largest
policy ever written under one name.
The United States has contributed
a total of $9,9S0, ,602 to Belgium relief.
according to a statement made by the
commission for relief in Belgium.
Ninety thousand bushels of Maine
potatoes were bought by George w.
Perkins of New York through a Bos-
ton broker. Mr.. Perkins, as chair
man of the New York Food Commit
tee, will sell the potatoes at cost The
purchase price was said to be more
than $225.000.
King" Francis Schlatter, self.
in the United States District Court
at Los Angeles of using the mails to
defraud. The jury deliberated but
four minutes. Prince" August Schra-
der. co-defendant in the case, died
soon after the start of the trial sew
eral weeks ago.
Twenty-Five to thirty persons were
killed. more than $50 more or less Sc
riously injured, hundreds of others
hurt, $1,O00,00O damage done and
more than a score OF solid city blocks
were swept bare in a path of death
two blocks wide and a dozen or more
square in length by a tornado at New
castle. Ind, Sunday.
William Demetral Of Chicago and
Constantine Romonoff, heavyweights.
wrestled two hours and three min
utes at Los Angeles without either Sc
curing fan and the match was final
ly declared q draw.