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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11

afforded in the recent strike on the
Gogebic range in Michigan. News
dispatches tell how the state force
was rushed to. the sections where
strikes of miners impended, there to
intimidate the workers to remain at
work, and terrorize the community.
The Labor World does not seek
to encourage industrial trouble, in
curing strikes and their attendant
hardships and suffering, and the con-
sequent interruption of production,
especially at this critical period of
the nations history, but neverthe-
less believes that, when a group of
workmen considers itself the possess
sor Of grievances which require i'm
mediate adjustment and redress,
those workmen are fundamentally
entitled to carry on negotiations with
their employers without interference
and molestation by law-defying,
arrogant, murderous element such as
state constabulary or mounted
police force.
Minnesota is indeed fortunate that
sinister influences were unsuccessful
in putting through this vicious piece
of legislation at the 1917 session of
the state lawmaking body.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
7. w. w. MENACE TO LABOR

The onward upward march of the
working classes has been fraught
with many obstacles. Up through the
years they have come, getting a lit
tie one day, little more the next,
and so on, holding fast that which
they have gained and hoping and
preparing to get more for tomorrow.
This Is the history of constructive
organized labor.
On the other hand the fmpulsive,
spasmodic and cratic movements of
such organizations as the I. w. w.
are as destructive to the working
classes as the bona fide trade union
movement has proven to be benefit
cial. There is nothing but a path Of
ruin left in field that has been
worked by this organization of in
dustrial pirates, whose system of
guerrilla striking is tending to upset
the sane and rational evolutionary
movement of labor.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
SENATOR JOHNSON
SCORES PLUNDERERS

In speaking on the food control
measure before, the United States
senate. Senator Hi: ~, W. Johnson Of
California spoke Of the great sacri-
fices that big business will be
called upon to make to support the
war and insist in carrying it to a Sue
cessful conclusion. le declared that
there can be no business as usual
during the war. There must be sac
rifice Of profits. just as there is sac
rifice Of blood. There must be con-
scription Of property and Of wealth,
just as we have conscripted our
youth. While, Of course, legitimate
enterprise during the conflict should
be nurtured and encouraged, it must
be understood from the very begin
ming Of this war that no profitable
patriotism" will be tolerated.
OF that benevolent institution, the
United States Steel corporation, popu-
larly known as the Steel trust, which
has a habit of beneftciently working
ignorant foreign laborers twelve hours
a day seven days a week, to keep them
OFT of temptation and vice, Senator
johnson said:
1--WE find that before the war this
corporation was selling its products
for from $21 to SIS per ton. At the
beginning of 1915, it's contracts for the
delivery Of steel plates to commercial
shipbuilding concerns was sass per
ton, and very recently, it asked from
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
YOUR COUNTRY FIRST!

If the miners of the iron ranges
of Minnesota have any grievances
they wish settled it will be poor pol
icy to trust them to the I. w. w.
Let them organize committees or get
into the American Federation of
Labor where they properly belong.
The State Public Safety Commits
sion, we are sure, would be willing
to assist in adjusting any reasonable
grievance presented to that body.
The principal thing just now is to
keep the iron ore moving. The ma
ton needs it. A miner is just as
much soldier as the men in the
trenches. Everything depends on
his patriotism and loyalty to the
country. "Your country first; that
should be the motto of every man in
the United States.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
INDUSTRIAL UNREST AND THE
HIGH COST OF LIVING.

Secretary of Labor Wilson has
said that the whole industrial un-
rest of the country today is due to
the high cost of living.
And this reassuring statement is
made in the face of repeated charges
Of Treason" II. w. w." "Pro-
German ETC., against striking work.
men, made by those who would dis
credit labor and render it subservient
to the whims of capricious and heart
less exploiters.
In this day of abnormally high
and unwarranted cost of the neces-
saries of life, when one dollar will
purchase about so cents worth of
food, 1t is a veritable physical i'm
possibility for the large majority of
the workers Of this country to make
their meager wages cover their 1iv-
ing expenses, and this not iufrequent-
ly means just enough to provide for
the mere sustenance of life.
1t IS not dlsloyalty or unpatriot-
ism that prompts workmen to strike:
it is not antagonism to the govern
ment nor desire to harass it in the
prosecution of the war-but, instead,
the Inherent human instinct to fight
for the preservation of life itself, and
the strike is the one medium which
labor has to secure higher wages and
to generally meliorate it's condition.
The statement by the labor men,
Der of the presidents cabinet is of
momentous significance at this time.
and will go long way toward the
vindication of labor, and also to place
deserved stigmatism on that rapaci-
GUS creature, the food speculator.
incidentally, that brand of "patriot
ISM Haunted by employers is shown
in it's true light.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
CONVENTION NUMBER OF THE
DENVER LABOR BULLETIN.

The Denver Labor Bulletin, which
lays claim to being the leading labor
paper of the country, has materially
strengthened that claim by the pub
LEGATION Of superb convention edi-
ton of 100 pages, commemorative
the holding of the annual meeting of
the Colorado State Federation of
Labor at Boulder, and the annual
convention of the International
Typographical Union at Colorado
Springs.
The edition is replete with a
wealth of information on the Denver.
Colorado and national labor move
ment, and has numerous feature
articles on points of interest to labor
in Colorado.
The paper was produced in the
Bulletins own plant, and typograph-
lcally, it Is an excellent example of
the art preservative. There are sew
eral fine illustrations which greatly
augment it's effectiveness.
The convention number IS also the
occasion of the twelfth birthday OF
the Bulletin, and visualizes its
phenomenal growth from a small
monthly pamphlet to its present pin
nacle among the labor press of the
country. 1t is also the foremost dry
labor paper.
The special edition is without
doubt the most comprehensive and
complete labor paper ever published
and is vivid testimonial to the
worth OF the Bulletin, and an
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
encomium and appreciation of the
people for it's advocacy of the cause
of labor.
THE CHURCH AND THE HOME.
At a meeting Of the Interchurch

Al "eet1u6 OF the 1QteFCnurCu
Council in this city recently one of
the speakers made the following
statement: "Your first task here is
to provide a substitute for the saloon.
And the first substitute for the sa-
loon is the home. You must labor to
make industrial conditions such as
to make the home possibility"
That speaker struck the right
chord, and in that thought is ex-
pressed the medium whereby the
modern church can accomplish some
thing of real benefit for mankind.
and at the same time cement more
closely the present loose ties existing
between the great army of industrial
workers and the church.
If the church would lend it's in
fluence toward meliorating the social
order by improving the industrial
system now in vogue, 50 that the
term "hOme" will bear the same
meaning for thousands of working
men that it now does for too few,
and make it haven of comfort and
rest for the weary, with sunshine and
happiness pervading the surround
1ngs-then will the church and the
workers enjoy closer relationship,
and an increase in the membership
made up of the latter will be
manifest.
The members of the Interchurch
Council were given very sage advice,
and it is hoped that it's activities
along this line will be given added
impetus.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
1. W. W. STRIKE IS TREASON.

Six dollars day for six hours
work. That's the slogan of the I. w.
w.. among the iron miners of the
Lake Superior district. Circulars
calling for general strike of mine
were this week distributed among
the men employed on the Vermillion,
Mesaba and Guyana ranges of Min
nesota, and it is reported that few
miners, principally Firms, are re-
spending. 1t is not expected that
there will be any general tie up.
A few weeks ago county authori-
ties found in the Socialist hall at
Virginia printed hand bills asking
the miners to prepare for a general
strike and stating that 'the miners
we're producing the iron ore, which
made munitions of war to kill their
brothers in Europe" Government
officials are in possession of these
notices. The I. W. w. leaders who
were responsible for their printing
were later advised by friends that
the wording of the notice was Gin
discreet" as it would furnish a good
excuse for the government to bring
charges of sedition against them in
case strike was called, and there
was interference with the production
and shipment of iron ore, which is
used largely to manufacture NUM-
lions of war.
OF course the same end could be
attained by using other language.
Here it is: "Six dollars a day for six
hours work" For nearly so years
organized labor has been fighting to
secure the universal eight-hour day.
1t has been long and hard struggle
with numberless men still working
the l0-hour day. If the I. w. w.
was honest and it really wanted to
accomplish something worth while
for the working classes, which it
pretends to represent, it would CEN
y,
"a ssibility,-instead of making
a big bluff for the six-hour day
an impossibility at this time.
The issue it is now attempting to
make for the six-hour day reveals
the real motive of the present move
ment among the miners. 1t is not
a. strike for better conditions, for
more wages or for shorter hours of
labor. These demands are mere SUBJ
terfuges. The I. W. w. leaders have
but one purpose as allies of Ger
many, and that is to embarrass the
United States government by inter-
fering with our preparations for de-
tense. A strike under such condi-
tions Is akin to treason. It is trea-
son.
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~-,, - :,
What Other Papers Say
WAR NEEDS AND THE LAND.

me Public: A growing number of
bills introduced in the United States.
senate shows that senators are be-
ginning to realize that there is a land
question. Senator Borah would slim
ulate production through the taking
OF immediate measures for reclama-
ton or arid lands. Senator Phelan
would accomplish the same purpose
through leasing lands withheld from
private entry. There is good in both
measures, and both senators should
take note Of the fact that two years
ago the department of labor recon-
mended legislation to accomplish the
same reforms that they would intro.
duce with additional provisions
needed to secure the best results. The
departments recommendations were
embodied i'll bill introduced by Con-
gresham Crosser and known as the
Crosser Colonization bill, but it never
emerged from the committee stage.
However, the senators should also
take into consideration that 1t is not
through use If arid and withheld
public lands that production may best
be stimulated. Production is mainly
restricted through the withholding
from use of privately owned lands,
which do not need to be reclaimed to
make them available. It is further
restricted through taxes levied on in
dustry and enterprise. The substitu-
ton Of land value taxes for taxes on
labor and it's products is the reform
most needed.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
STATE CONSTABULARY AGAIN.

During the last session of the state
legislature a bill providing for
state constabulary was introduced,
which was strenuously opposed by
organized labor, which advanced the
argument that such a police force
would be nothing but a labor-in-
tfmidating and strike breaking or
ganization used principally to protect
property and solidify the rights of
the property-owning class.
The daily press of the state was
generous in it's laudation of the
need of constabulary, and clamored
vociferously for the enactment of
the measure creating it. Even the
city attorney of Duluth saw fit to
make few trips to- St. Paul to lobby
for the bill, and this despite the fact
that he is supposed to be a servant
Of the people.
A very vivid illustration of the
functions Of state constabulary was
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
THE UNION.

United we stand and our freedom
command.
Divided we fall by the way,
And fractional strife is the danger 90
rife
That adds to our doom and dismay.
Be brothers, be men. Do you real
lie when
We were slaves to the masters of
gold,
Deprived of our rights and the worlds
sweet delights,
Enslaved in the dark days of old?
Then pause and reflect and the Union
respect.
Let nothing detract from its aim:
Let jealousy's dart and all malice de-
part.
Be tardy to censure or blame;
Be true to the cause and abide by its
laws
And cherish it's blessings, I pray:
Revere vt and love it, no cause il
above it., ..,
The Union, God bless it for aye!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
What Our Readers Say
SENATOR LIKED EDITORIAL

Editor Labor World: My copy Of
your paper dated Aug. has just
reached me and hasten to tender you
my compliments on the very able and
wise editorial entitled "Haywood's
next winter. It is expected that a re-
terest to me personally for I was one
Of few men whoSin the legislature,
threw down the gauntlet to the I. w.
to be a friend to legitimate organized
labor.
It has seemed very clear to me for
u long time that this unpatriotic and
unAmerican organization is the very
worst enemy that real union labor has
to contend with. Operating under the
disguise of union" the I. w. w. is
and always has been a disrupting and
disturbing element conducted by be-
levers in force and coercion, and so
far as my personal observations 20 T
fail to find where they have ever
made an honest attempt to benefit or
improve the wages or working condi-
tions of the man who lives by toll.
At the present time when our coun-
try is in war for the freedom and
liberty of the whole world and with
nothing to gain but that freedom and
liberty, this I. w. w. organization so
far as it is able, is doing it's utmost
to hinder and impede and endanger
our chances for success. 1t is' fight
ing those very things that it
ought to be battling for. It is seek
ing to destroy the unity Of our nation
at the same time that the lawless
leaders of the organization are claim
ing protection under their "constitu-
tiOnal rights It is teaching con-
tempt for our laws, sneering at our
properly constituted authorities, OPEN
ly encouraging crime and defaming
good citizenship.
My hat is off to The Labor World
for it's laudable stand and as a citi-
zen who loves his country I thank
you.
o. H. 'GRIGGS,
Senator SiXty-first District
Virginia, Mimi, Aug T.
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WHY THIS DIFFERENCE:

Much has been done for the con-
servation of our natural national re-
sources and for lower animals, but
the poor human animal, who has to
bear the brunt OF our brutal econo-
mic system is given little considers~
t1on-he must swim out of the tor
rent without the offering hand OF
real help.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11

If congress or state legislatures
should enact laws that employers
should be made to pay men and
women equal pay for equal work the
women as industrial workers would
be q thing Of tho past:
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OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

Allentown (Pa) Labor Herald: The
practice of mobs of western employ
ers, armed, supported by subservient
officials, of herding together men who
do not agree with their economic poll
panied with murder, of driving these
men out into the desert, there to SUI
fer and die for want of food and
water, for all the mob knows nor
cares, is becoming so alarmingly fire.
quent that we may well pause to
ask what has become of our "consti-
tutional rights?'
According to the Constitution of
the United States all citizens are guar
anteed protection of life, property
and liberty to enjoy the exercise of
their citizenship under the laws of
the state in which they live.
The states are bound to uphold the
national constitution. Whenever any
tutional guarantee, the national gov
eminent is bound by the constitution
to come to the defense of the citizens
who are assailed and whose liberties
are denied. This is the theory upon
which the Federal government is
founded and is for the protection of
these rights that men have given their
lives that the Federal government
might be preserved.
The employers of Bisbee, Arizona,
not being able to agree with the men
in their employ, over dispute con-
corning wages and hours, formed a
mob and with arms forced their men,
along with merchants, businessmen of
various sorts and other sympathizers,
men with families and property; to
leave town under threat of death:
Two men were murdered by these
during the melee.
The state government took no i'm
mediate action. The federal govern
ment took no action beyond taking
charge of the citizens who were thus
outraged and giving them food and
shelter.
Such an outrage as this could hap
pen in no other civilized country. The
only similar cases by which to COM
pare this would be the deportation
of the Jews in Russia before the war,
and the deportation Of the Belgians
by the Germans.
The Federal government should
take action. A brigade of regular
troops should be sent into Bisbee,
Arizona. All participants in this riot
should be arrested. The leaders and
those who actually murdered the two
citizens should be tried for murder.
If the Bisbee riot and deportations
and murders are to be allowed to go
then the constitutional
rights of American citizens are no
more safe than are those of the Bel
CLANS. The Constitution is rat a
''scrap of paper" to the Bisbee mob
and to send American worlingmen to
Europe to fight for democracy, when
riot and murder and destruction of
families is allowed to go unpublished
in an American community, is para
dox of hypocrisy.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11

The wet regime has certainly
brought prosperity" to Superior, at
tested by the fact that during last
month there were more than five
times as many arrests as during
month of the preceding dry year.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11

The same committee found that the
gross income from the mines was
Sal, 500,000; from railroads in the
state was $6o,199,9s6; from farm
crops was $81,154,1e0 and from live
stock was $54,187,960.
The farming interests bear nearly 43
per cent Of the tax burden and the
total income was &135,S42,150. The
mines and railroads bear about rs per
cent Of the tax burden but had a gross
income Of $2o1,699,996 for the year
1915.
1t ought to be self ?evident that the
mining, lumber, railroad and other
valuable land holding interests fight
the single tax idea most vigorously
because they are pretty we'll satisfied
to let the farmers bear the burden of
taxation, as they now do. Congress is
facing the burden Of raising billions
for war purposes. The people need
relief through Just and simple sys-
tenn. The land value tax is getting
more popular every day. Necessity is
9 great educator. The light is break
Ing. .s='.. -.~.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11

Which are you, a card man or
union man? If the latter, demand
the union label on your purchases!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
WARNS AGAINST DANGERS OF

WARNS AGAINST DANGERS OF
STATE HEALTH INSURANCE
Editor Labor World: In a brief
paragraph in your issue Of Aug. 4, you
refer to the fact that nine states are
investigating the question of univer-
sal health insurance for wage work.
ers.
am writing this to warn wage
workers against the dangers of state
health insurance.
If the state is to insure the health
of wage workers, then the state must
regulate the conduct Of those it in
sures. The next step will be state
laws requiring wage workers to sub
NIT to vaccination, serum treatment,
anti-toxin, and all sorts of so-called
preventive measures.
Later on laws regulating eating,
drinking, clothing, housing, ETC., will
be demanded, as all these things con-
duce to good health, in the minds of
doctors and lawmakers.
I might say much more, might call
attention to the insidious way the
German militaristic plutocracy has
been debauchtng the minds of Ger
man workers for two 'generations-but
this is enough for warning.
c. ]. BUELL..
St. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 4.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
STATUS OF LOCAL JITNEURS

Editor Labor World: My attention
has been called to an article in The
Labor World of Aug in which it is
stated that at the last meeting of the
Trades Assembly of Duluth, Delegate
Pereault made an attack on the
standing of the Duluth> Jitney Drivers
association with reference to their
affiliation with the International union
and that this attack was made for per-
sonal reasons by Delegate Pereault. I
beg leave to inform you that as an in
ternational officer of the Brotherhood
Of Transfers, Chauffeurs, Stablemen
and Helpers of America I took the
matter of the Duluth Jitney associa-
ton up with Vice President Pereault
at the Faribault convention, as had
called at the office of the Duluth local
a short time previous and had ascer-
tanned that no per capita tax had been
paid to the international brotherhood
since their charter was issued.
They also informed me that Mr..
Thompson, their former president, was
responsible for the condition in which
they found themselves, and that he no
longer was a member Of their organi-
zation. I requested Brother Pereault
to take this matter up with the Duluth
Federated Trades Assembly on behalf
of the International brotherhood.
The teamsters appreciate the work
that Vice President Pereault has done
for them in Duluth and I trust that
you will publish this letter in The
Labor World so that the organizations
in Duluth may know the truth with
reference to this matter. FraternalIy
yours,
JOHN .GEARY,
Fifth Vice President International
Brotherhood Transfers, Chauffeurs,
Stablemen and Helpers.
st. Paul, Mimi. Aug. 6.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-08-11
Farmers Bear Big
Burden Of Taxation

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-"successful
Farming." one Of the leading farm
papers of the United States, prints the
following editorial on farmers and tax
alton:
A committee of the Montana senate
found that the burden of taxation
rested upon the different interests of