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The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-30

The directors of the Orlando Mid
Winter Fair are getting an early
move on in arranging for the next
annual exposition This seems step
we'll taken. since seven months is not
any too long ahead to accomplish all
that needs to be done to make the
fair the success it should be.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-30
In the Good old Summer Tim
There's a Reason Why
Several of them i'm fact

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- FLORIDA. YOU HAVE MORE TIME
TO WORK OUT YOUR IDEAS FOR
PRINTED MATTER AND STATIONERY.
WE HAVE TIME TO GIVE IT MORE
CAREFUL ATTENTION THAN DURING
THE RUSH OF THE WINTER MONTHS.
ATMOSPHERIC coNDlTIoNs-AN EVEN.
Err TEMPERATURE, GREATER HUMID
lrv, LESS ELECTRICITY IN PAPER
BRING IT ABOUT THAT PAPER AND
INK "WoRK UP" BETTER AND IT Is
THEREFORE EASIER TO GET A BET.
TER JOB.
As A RESULT OF THE WAR THE PRICE
OF ALL PRINTING MATERIALs-lNK,
PAPER, TYPE METAL, ETc.-ARE
HEADED STRAIGHT FOR THE SKY.
AND IF THE WAR CONTINUES
THROUGH ANOTHER SIX MONTHS, 1T
WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN
PRESENT PRICES.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-30

Springtime 10 the open season for
houses and the advance models are
|btinguished for their simplicity.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-30

THE kind Of printing that pays
i dividends is the kind you should
have. Pale, muddy, poorly arranged
printed matter Is worse than none.
The quality Of your business 10 often
judged BY tho quality Of your sta
tionery-lnferIor printing gives an
Impression Of eheapness that 10 hard
to overcome, while good PRINTING
carries with II a desirable suggestion
Of quality.
We produce only Quality Printing.
Whether you wan an inexpensive
handblII or a Ietterhead In eolors, II
you order II from us you will be sure
Of getting good work. We have the
equipment and the "know how" that
enables us to get out really good
printing - printing that Impresses
people with the good taste OF It's
users. That Is the ony kind Of print.
ing that pays.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

resultant enlargement of their earn
ing powers.
Organized Labor Alert.
Organized labor sees very clearly
at this time how easily the laws
which apparently offer every safe
guard to the toilers may be disre-
garded by a certain element in the
business world who would not be at
all averse in using the war as an ex-
cuse for ignoring the restrictions
placed upon them, or in obtaining a
repeal Of such acts as now regulate
the employment Of women and chill
dren.
Already have several attempts been
made for the repeal of child labor
laws, and the statutes limiting the
number of hours Of employment for
women in industry. and already has
been recognized the influence at work
Of those who regard personal profit
above all else even in this time of
peril to our welfare as a nation.
The right Of women to engage in
industry cannot be challenged. AT
this time our nation has need Of their
services in many lines of employment
new to them, but the work of women
at low wages should not be counte-
! nanced, neither should men be sup
planted by women who will be re-
| quired to do the same amount OF
| work at lower wage than that pre-
viously paid to the men.
It is very necessary that we stop
and consider where the wage.earn-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
PRESERVATION OF PRESENT STANDARDS OF LIVING IS NECESSARY

which was held not long ago in the
city of Pittsburgh, Pa.
War Lowers Standards.
Particular emphasis was placed
upon the fact that the immediate ef-
fects of war spelled disaster not alone
in the killing and manning of a large
number of the strongest and best
men, but through increased hard
ships placed upon the people, neglect
of education, the lowering of the
standards Of living, while women and
children are pressed into service be-
yond their physical capabilities.
Those connected with the work Of
the above mentioned association also
recognize that which the organized
labor movement has long known to be
a fact, namely, that legislation and
reforms not firmly grounded in con-
vinced public opinion form a flimsy
platform which falls under the more
insistent demands Of war;"
On this subject The Survey says:
"Protective labor legislation, for in
stance, can only be saved in our states
by the utmost united endeavor The
brighter side of it is that, by the
very urgency and bulk of the demand
for good work and sound children,
the nations at war are beginning to
understand the things that social
workers long ago understood-the
need for adequate physical care and
mental development of the young, the
sick, the discouraged, and the protec-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

ers will find themselves at the close
Of the war. Society at large is con-
fronted by problem appalling in its
immensity, but which it would seem
can be reduced to a matter of dol
lars and cents.
Status of Workers?
If the women are drafted into all
lines Of industry during the period
of the war, what will be the effect
upon wages when the war shall have
ended unless adequate provisions are
made at the beginning of this new
movement to protect the wage scales
already in existence and to prevent
reduction of same merely on ac-
count of the sex of the employe?
Complete decentralization of wage
scales and standards of living can
very easily be brought about unless
the wage-earners themselves, and the
remedy lies in their own hands, ad-
here strictly to the propaganda Of
trade union organization. Associ-
ated, the toilers may accomplish COL
lectively that whicktthey could never
hope to accomplish as individuals.
All remedies for the amelioration
of the working conditions Of the toll
ers fade into insignificance beside or
ganization. WhateRtltk - unfortunate
conditions and experiences we may
have to undergo as a. nation, united
in our determination to fight to the
finish for the mighty principles of
democracy, let us hold fast to those
doctrines for which the organized
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
PRODUCERS And !. .JNSUMERS
IN CONFERENCE; AT ST. PAUL
Called By Nonpartisan League to Urge Elimination
of Protteerng, Heavy Taxation of Wealth and
Government Ownership Of MonOp0lies.

ST. PAUL, Minn, Sept 2o-The threeday session of the
here Tuesday
under the auspices of the National Nnpasan league to naugurate
combat the high cost of living Several
thousand delegates attendance representing nearly three million
members of industrial and agricultural organizations
The of the mceing explained by A. c. Townley
president the further regulation eliminate
pro6ng place heavy wealth and
ownership monopoe transportation -four mills
and farm machinery manufacturing.
In opening the conference President Town]ey said: I'VE are at
this the the discharge of its
tremendous responsibilities pledge loyalty the government
this world crisis and loyalty to remind the that expect
the be loyal the will of the majority its
1T duty that the does not mistake the
eadng and threats of those making billions of profits of the
1ation suffering for the Of the of The
malls of with special representatives of privilege
but withstand the of those
Th of this aid, strengthen and the
government, expedite efforts finish it's reduce
prices
Farmers and wageworkers willing ready and
support law that makes for the of this liberty and
democracy We that law be applied alike and
do all aid the purpose
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
STRIKE OF MEAT
PACKERS SETTLED
In Kansas City By Recog,,i-
ton of Union and Small
Wage Increase.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 20.-The
general strike of the packing houses
employees was ended last Thursday
afternoon when the strikers accepted
proposal outlined by Patrick c.
Gill, federal mediator, which had been
previously agreed to by the packers.
In the settlement the employees were
awarded recognition of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workers of North America. Earlier
in the day negotiations were tenn
porarily blocked because the packers
refused to include this in the arbi-
tration proposal.
AS a further guarantee the arbi-
tration agreement was signed by each
of the heads of the packing houses
and also by Gill, federal mediator.
The strikers insisted this be done.
The agreement included 2k cents
an hour increase in wages, recognition
Of the organization of the strikers,
permission to advocate the principles
of union labor as laid down by the
American Federation Of Labor, rein
statement of strikers, hiring Of all
employees by centralized employ
ment bureau, the right Of discharged
men to appeal to the superintendent,
and the right of the employees to send
grievance committees to the employ
erS.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
(By H. J. Conway

Many are the serious problems con-
ronting the entire world today, none
them more important possibly than
he position of women in industry.
Before the beginning Of this ter
BILE world war women had invaded
industrial field in large numbers
t now that the manhood of our
,tion and of other countries has
zen compelled to take up arms for
defense of democracy the women
being drafted into industrial SER
'ce in larger degree than was a
lort time since even dreamed pos
Die, and they are today taking up
>lrious lines Of manual labor here
'fore considered entirely beyond
cir scope and ability.
ALREADY this condition is giving rise
the question of women's status as
CARDS wages, and it has not been
20 soon for some employers to grasp
ne opportunity to substitute women
Or men employees under the guise of
ecesslty but in reality for the pur-
ose of getting the work done for a
mailer wage.
This problem is already attracting
'idespread attention at the hand of
lose Identified with the work Of So
, al service as is indicated by an ac-
punt published in a recent issue of
he Survey of the National Confer
nee OF Charities and Correction
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
HOOVER ADMITS
HELPLESSNESS
INPR|CE CONTROL
Has No Power to Fix Prices to
Consumer; Claim Joker in
Food Bill.

WASHINGTON, Sept 20. ~ That
congress expressly withheld authority
for the national food administration
under the direction of Herbert Hoov-
er to fix retail prices to the consumer
was the statement of Senator La Foil
cite in the senate recently. The state
ment was brought out when Senator
Sherman disputed the food adminis-
tration's relation to retail prices Sem
ator Sherman called attention to the
high price of eggs and to the fact
that the price of bread had not been
reduced since the organization of the
food administration.
According to Senator Gronna, the
net effect of the food administration
bill has been to reduce the price paid
to the farmers of the nation for wheat
by 80 ia per cent. Senator Jones, in
defense of the food measure, con-
tended that the wheat prices were
fixed by a committee appointed by
the president, who is responsible.
Senator Lodge argued that the au-
thority for fixing retail prices was
provided in the clause of the food bill
which covers the licensing Of food
dealers. Just how this clause may be
construed to produce the desired re-
suit has not been made plain.
In speaking before the National
Live Stock conference, Mr.. Hoover
denied not only his authority but his
| ability to fix meat prices. AS long as
there is heavy demand for meat,
with a decreased production, meat
will continue to soar, he said, in spite
of all laws and all existing authority.
The food dictator admitted his help
| lessness in the existing dilemma in
food production by which the con-
| sumer is the greatest sufferer The
consumer, according to the leading
| lights of the United States senate, is
! made to suffer-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

one delegate that, in order to restore
work to certain groups of dressmak-
ers and milliners now idle, women
should continue to buy clothes and
hats as before. Rather there seemed
agreement that purchasing should be
confined to essentials and, so far as
possible, to the products Of which
there is not a shortages; that care for
the unemployed girls should be pro-
vided through better system Of en-
ployment agencies: that there is no
lack Of work-rather a lack Of work.
ers, and the girl who makes evening
gowns or trims bonnets can be put
at some other task. It was pointed
out, also, that for men as we'll as
women there will be a widespread
attempt to demand longer hours of
work, and that this, together with
speeding up and the employment Of
great numbers of inexperienced men
in the place of those who have en-
listed, may be expected to lead to
an increase in the number Of indus
trial accidents"
We of the organized labor move
ment know that all reforms in the
field of labor, whether legislative or
otherwise, are not stable and secure
unless those benefitting thereby, the
wage-earners themselves, are organ
lied and ever on the alert to safe
guard any conditions which may have
been obtained tending to increase
their health and weu-being with the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
PROT ECTI0N FOR
ENLISTED MEN
DURING SERVICE
Moratorium to Guard Civil and
Property Rights Of Men
in Army and Navy.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Legisla-
ton to protect the civil and property
rights of soldiers and sailors in effect
a moratorium for the duration of the
war, in behalf of men who are serv-
ing their country on the firing line,
may be placed upon the administra-
tons program for this session of con-
gress as a necessary element of the
raising of citizen army.
"The soldiers and sailors civil
rights bill," to carry out this purpose,
houses, Secretary Baker, it has been
learned, has under consideration rec
concentrations that the entire weight
Of administration influence be brought
to bear to obtain an early enactment
of the measure.
To save soldiers and sailors from
all kinds of legal injustices during
their absence from home, the meas
ure would enjoin the carrying out of
certain civil court actions until after
the close of the war. and establish
as a. legal excuse for failure to carry
out certain contracts. the fact that a
man is in the military service.
It is proposed that creditors suits
against officers or men may be held
up and Judgment by default denied,
the trainers of the bill recognizing
that man in the army or navy would
have no opportunity to make his de-
fense.
If such a judgment rested against
a man at the time of his enlistment,
the bill would prevent it's execution
during his absence. it would set aside
the statute of limitations so that a
debt owed to soldier might not be
outlawed in his absence; it would pre-
vent the eviction of his family while
he was away if they failed to pay the
rent; it would protect his equity In any
real estate or other purchase contract
in which he might be engaged at the
time he went into the army; it would
protect him against the ordinary re-
suits of defaulted payments on busi-
ness mortgages and keep him from
being sold out in his absence; it would
insure any rights he might have to
public lands although his service at
the front had prevented him from
completing the legal acquisition of the
property.
Another element Of protection the
bill would accord to the fighting man
would be as to his life insurance,
which could not lapse through fall
ure to make any payments. His prop
erty also would be protected from sale
for taxes.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

labor movement has striven during
past years. Sacrifices will be de-
manded Of all, and all true citizens
will respond freely to any call of our
government for aid; but let it not be
said that we placed a heavy burden
on those least atle to bear it, and that
capital was permitted to take advan-
tage Of the wage-earners in their ex-
tremities.
Let it not be said of our nation that
our women were called to do the
work of their husbands and brothers
whose lives were dedicated to the SER
vice of their country, and that the
wages paid them were niggardly or
that advantage was taken Of their
necessities. ,A
Must Protect Wage Standards.
In its final analysis the problem
resolves itself into the adoption Of the
surest means to protect the wage
standards of American industries,
then when the war shall have ended,
and we pray God to hasten that
glad .day,-the men returning to the
pursuit of peaceful industry will not
find themselves forced to accept
lower wages than now on account Of
the competition Of women employed
at small wages. s:-.>
y Organized labor has its task to see
that the present standards, are main
tanned and improved and that no
spirit of retrogression may. obtain
foothold in the industrial life Of our
great nation
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

tion of normal family life if the whole
people is to be sound and we'll and
do its part in either war or peace"
Referring more directly to labor
standards The Survey continues:
No Time For Relaxation.
"As to labor standards, there was
no debate; everyone was agreed that
the time has certainly not yet come
and very likely will never come when
the war need will be so pressing that
we must throw health and efficiency
to the dogs for the sake of a tempor-
ary increase in factory output. Mrs.
Kelley acclaimed Governor Whitman
for his veto Of the bills repeating labor
standards and offered it as a striking
fact that the greatest industrial state
had refused to yield to the hysteria
OF the first weeks Of war-'in New
York no woman can work at night
in any process, though we are sur
rounded by states in which women
can and do work at night She was
loudly applauded and continually
quoted during the week on her state
ment that we believe that in war az
in peace the heavy work should be
done by men and that at night the
mothers of little children should be
at home.'
Useful Work.
There was considerable talk of
various types Of war economy, but
no agreement with the proposal OF
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
AB0LITI0N0F
PR|vATE.WEALTH
IS Demanded !!
!
By Russian Worknlen'S Council
, After Overthrow Of Korni-
loft Revolt.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Over-
throw Of the Korniloff revolt in Rus
sia, which seems to have been backed
by the biggest propertied interests
with a view to protecting their hold
ings against the radical government,
has been swiftly followed by a de-
mand on the part Of the joint council
Of workmen. soldiers and peasants
delegates for the "abolition of pri-
vate property" Further details Of the
plan these actual lawmakers of Rus
sia have in mind indicate that they
want all of the landed estates divided
among the peasants who live on the
land and cultivate it. They want the
factories and railroads and other in
dustries to be made national prop
erty, to be administered under a
management to be elected by the
workers in each industry. They want
the private holdings Of money, real
estate and all other forms Of wealth
to be taxed away to the point where
all Russians must perform useful
service.
Their demand for democratic man.
agement Of the Industries. with col
lective ownership, is echoed by the
growing radical element of the French
and British labor movements, as
step toward democratic control of the
policies of both industry and foreign
trade, which in turn will control the
forces which make for war.
Might Upset Social System.
These sweeping demands in Russia
are not likely to be realized during
this war. Instead they. will arouse
new and severe internal quarrels in
Russia. But they point which way
the Russian working class is moving.
For that reason the governments of
the Entente nations are likely to be
more concerned over the fact that
they have been made by a great ma
jority of the revolutionary 1awmak-
ers, than over the fact of Korniloff's
revolt. They are demands which
would upset the whole social system
of the Central and the Entente pow
ers alike, were they to be taken up by
the labor movements of Europe gen.
orally. More than ever, we shall
hear the Russian workman cursed as
an enemy to the success of the AL
lied cause. Certainly he is trying to
shift the lines of this war.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
CUNMEN POSED AS FRIENDS
OF BONA FIDE LABOR UNIONS
Hypocrisy Of Mining Company Representatives Ex-
prsed By John Murray-Gompers Being Mis-
represented By Arizona Loyalty League.

WASHINGTON, Sept 2oPredent Meyer of the International
Union of Mine, Mill Works. Crough has
been organizer for that and predecessor the
on of Miners Arizona for the fifteen have arrived here
help John Murray carry the fight for the copper
southwest j. Lowney of Butte representing the copper strikers
Montana is with them Some important developments the be-
the and the labor
On the of their arrival
witnessed dramatic the
Indeed they part stages of the affair."
much to their satsfacion
For than week there had been hanging
Senator Ashur and Congressman delegation
of citizens of Bisbee whom the faithful
President Wilson, secretary labor the War
other officials They claimed that they here help keep
of to 25 order keep price
the copper mines
On last Thursday morning eight of these zen appeared
office of Mr. Gompers saying that they wanted while city,
their respects the ablest labor leader
that when they they found Meyer and his
together with Secretary Morrison James Egan
the general of the A. F. of L.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
H.. C.OFL. HITS
JAPAN A BLOW
Nipponese Begin to Feel the
Effects of the Big Ee.
pense of Wm.

TOXIC, Japan, Sept. 20.-The cost
of living in Japan is mounting to
figures that foreshadow radical COM
promises in the labor situation. A
general unrest is making itself mani
fest through every strata of Japanese
society.
Incipient strikes have thus far been
quietly settled, but the disgruntled
workman seems to be the rule here
as in the other labor markets of the
world.
Certain classes Of skilled artisans,
as in other warning countries, have
all the best of it through the tempor-
ary initiation of wages in industries
affected Immediately by the war work
of the imperial government and seem
to be spending Unfortunately for gaudy
luxuries that only add to the war
burden.
Among the allied nations, Japan
fares easiest so far as war burdens
are concerned.