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The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13
NOTICE

We are in the market for T., 1A" 112' and 2' No. 1 Shop Spruce, the same thicknesses in No. 2 Clear and Better Spruce, and as much 3" to 6" and over wide, 1S' to 40 long, Clear Vertical Grain Spruce as you can get out. In replying please give specific details regarding stock you have on hand covering quantities of the differ ent sizes and grades and whether it is dry or green. Can you furnish any Bev>, Siding, Ceiling and Finish in No. Clear and Better Spruce? Can you surface the Shop and Clear Spruce? Can you accept orders for specific thicknesses and grades? In naming your best price please quote delivered F. o. B. cars Prince Rupert and aboard vessel Seattle, Wash We would like to have your price both ways
 PATTERSON LUMBER CO.,, White Bldg, Seattle Wash.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13

The old admonition hitch your wagon to star should revised when starts the Valdez trail Here the motto should be hitch your Ford to a road commission team-Fairbanks Citizen.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13

Those passengers who have just come down the river loud and emphatic in their condemna- tion of the river service. In the language of the poets. it is particularly rotten. One man remarked that in all his experience he up against such impossible service. One company having things al lts way, with one to interfere and the people supporting this condition of things by the election Sulzer the candidate of all the trans poration companies there little hope that any improvement could be expected.-Nome Industrial Worker
 Transportation conditions the Yukon probably are better than they have been for sevreal The long waits that have had to endure points have been of annoyance foI But the rather peevsh nsinuation that Delegate Suzer is in any way responsible is unworthy the Nome newspaper Surely it does not expect Suzer to remedy in short months eff a abuses which the valiant Wickersham unable correct in eight years!Idita rod Pioneer
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13

For this great war does of necessity draw us to- gether Makes us more than friends; but makes
 us brothers and comrades just the same as our ancestors felt themselves to be when they fought for the nations independence The boys who are leaving today for the front will only repeat that which our forefathers did at the birth of the nation They are going to fight for liberty theirs and ours. For these reasons, we who shall remain at home should devote every minute of our time to better their conditions. Come closer folks and together we can help the boys.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13
COME CLOSER. FOLKS!

From now on expect that our boys will
 be departing from our shore for the place they have undertaken to do a great duty, even at the cost of their lives in many cases perhaps. Those of us who are to remain behind in person will no doubt follow them across in mind at least and everything that they will do will be watched with the deepest interest and the deepest solici- tude not only by those who may be dear and near to them: but the entire nation will follow them.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13

Unless something is done pretty suddenly those who opposed Sulzer for delegate will have to accept him as such Congress is about to adjourn without having paid much attention to dissenters And we don't know but what it is just as we'll The same may be said about our governor Besides, hasn't President Wilson said that he wanted harmony? In these times even a peaceable Republican is preferable to the ad- mnstraton than a troublesome Democrat. What?
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13

understand it. retreat to victory and beating while the beating is good much alike you can't tell 'em apart.-Macon Telegraph.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13

SITUATION WANTED-by skilled mechanic. 36 years old and married, steadily employed but for sound reas- ems desires to change. Wishes out of town job. or as caretaker or watch man. with reliable concern.-First class references. s.-address Box 105 ketchfkan. Alaska-adv If.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-13
IMITATION

is the sincerest form of flattery, that is why it pleases us to hear that other laundries claim to do work just like ours. It Is tribute to the excellence of our lauderin1 which we fully ap preciate But why not have the ortgi- nal? Send us your Washables and you won't have to say they are as perfect as ours. The work will be ours and the real thing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-14
Those t8 Appeal.


Rock Island lodge No 50. Order
knights Of Joseph. has received no
ttca from the headquarters AZ Cleve-
land Ohio, that the executive board
has relieved any member Of the order
called into service n the army or
navy from paying his dues and has
exempted the subordinate lodges from
paving the dues. The order has also
DatrioucaLIE arranged 80 pay the ben
aaclarles ia the event OF the death u
the mem Der in service
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
REDUCTION. MADE
IN RETAIL PRICE
OF HARD COAL
Expected All Dealers viii FOL-
low Lead Of Pittsburgh
Coal Company

A reduction Of 35 cents a ton in the
retail prices of all sizes Of hard coal,
reflective Oct. I, was announced
Wednesday by the Pittsburgh Coal
company. This brings prices to the
following basis: Egg, $8.95 per ton;
stove, $3.50; nut, $3.50; pea, $3.50;
buckwheat, $40.
So far none of the other local re-
tions, but the managers have stated
that it is most likely that the prices
as established by the Pittsburgh COM
pany will be met. They are awaiting
instructions from their respective
headquarters.
The reduction was made as the re-
suit of the order issued by DR.. H. A.
Garfield, fuel administrator, on Oct.
1, that retail coal prices Of hard coal
must be brought down in all the cities
and towns to level that would allow
dealers the same percentage of profit
they had in 1915, plus an advance of
30 per cent to allow for the increased
cost of doing business at present.
The Pittsburgh company will re-
fund the difference between the old
and the new prices to purchasers of
coal since Oct. 1. It IS not yet known
whether the other dealers will do
likewise.
No information is obtainable as to
future prices of soft; coal, but local
dealers predict there will be little de-
crease, especially since the fuel ad-
ministrator" has ,inpseassd the fixed
price of coal at the mines.
Receipts of coal in the Duluth
Superior harbor have been Irregular,
but on the whole have shown an in
crease over the corresponding week
Of last year. Coal dealers still predict
a coal shortage this year, but do not
think it will be of such severity as
to cause actual suffering.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
INCREASE $l.55M THREE
MONTHS OVER LAST YEAR
to Industries Covered By WOrkmen's Compen-
sation LaW-Ayerage For Women Is So.

Wages in Minnesota continued advance during
ending Sept 3O according special
State Labor and Industries The study based
the returns in about 5000 accident and therefore limited
industries by the Workmens chief
lines excluded farm labor and railroads.
The for all industries $s19 per week.
15 the
which ended June go The medan had shifted
higher showing that half the
1874 week and half less $161
The department also show that
the state at large and not due chiefly
country When the figures mining
previous statistical l6o2 the quarter
increase of 1884,
The greatest advances the twelve
shown by metal products sawml woodworking and yards coa
ice and lumbe The smallest found
ons and umbeng The for the during
quarter Mining $2o63 metal products $75
$2o29 carriage and storage $16o6 public utilities
yards, $l7 81 and stores $14
The returns for kept separately
not enough Of them to make reliable There
dus and the indicated average
of SO median of $685.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
REGULATION OF BAKING
INDUSTRY BY GOVERNMENT
Will Force Operation Under License Systenp-In-
vestigation Shows ingredients in Pound Loaf
Cost Less Than Four Cents.

WASHINGTON, Oct sThe baking industry to be taken in
hand by the government and forced to behave
The big bakers have reeced all offers of the food
voluntarily bringing down prices They have hampere
effort Of the the real costs and profits The
has decided mporize longer with tem but to force
them operate under license with strict limitations
profit.
Examination of baking records and actual baking tests
by the ITSELF the public being held when is
awheat With the baking
industry the price reduction required will approximate
25
This probably will be secured through the Standardization of
2Oounce loaf to retail for 10 providing bread
the believed the loaf satisfactory
than maintaining the pound standard and fixing the price odd
figure such 8 cents.
The extent which the bakers have opposing
control is shown by the following instance
Some three weeks showing that
records submitted by bakers themselves the ingredients entering
into pound white Loaf retailing but
This under ordinary practice the stated doubled
cost of baking, distributing and overhead expense
The Bakers Publicity Bureau at began cfe
the effect of this Personal letters editors
enclosed which editors asked to
These tests made formulas submitted by baking show
that with flour at its present price the Market the cost of
gradients wheat loaf the bakers
dcaed4l2 CENTS but from 344 cents Loaf
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
PRESIDENT SIGNS:
INSURANCE BILL
FIXES Definite Compensation
Sums for Dependents OF
E.. listed MN.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s.-President
Wilson has signed the soldiers and
sailors war insurance bill. which
passed both houses of congress with
out dissenting vote
This legislation is unusual in that
1t fixes definite compensation sums
to an enlisted man and his family or
dependents, instead of the old system
OF pensions that necessitated action
by congress in many individual cases..
Under the regulation enlisted men
must allot at least SIS a month to
their families. Under the act just
signed the government will pay the
family sum equal to that allotted
by the enlisted man. but the govern
ment's allowance will not exceed SIS
a month
The law also provides for a life in
surance system under which enlist ed
men may insure themselves up to
$4,000 at the rate of So per $1,000,
the government to pay all other ex-
penses. This section of the law was
opposed by life insurance companies.
which did not seem to enjoy Uncle
Sam entering their field, especially
when he is charging such low rate
FOR insurance.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
u. S. is BUILDING
787 :WARSHLPS
Contracts Let for $50 Ne,v
DesHoyers, Giving Ma
ton Lead.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s.-America
has leaped to the forefront with the
largest warship building program in
the world. With the letting of con-
tracts for at least $50 additional de-
stroyers, the navy has 7t7 warships of
all types building or contracted for.
hanging from super-dreadnaugl1ts
to speedy submarine chasers, every
ship will be in active service within
eighteen months, according to the
contracts.
The destroyers recently contracted
for will give the United States the
greatest fleet of that type OF vessels
in the world. The navy department
withheld the exact number but it was
stated $50 was the lowest figure esti-
mated and that this country, will have
at least twice as many destroyers as
at, present.
The total cost Of the 7S7 ships
will be $1,150, 100000, according
to estimates. In a number of cases
especially to complete the new des-
troyer program-it will be necessary
for the navy to build yards. These
yards will be operated in connection
with the plants of the companies
awarded contracts.
The destroyer schedule contem-
plates the expenditure of practically
the whole $3.50, 100000 emergency ap-
preparation voted by Congress. Part
will he used for new building facili-
ties.
Delivery will begin within nine
months. Until six months ago it took
% months to build a destroyer.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
AVERAGE WAGE IN llINNES0 INDUSTRIES Is $l819
DEFENSE COUNCIL DOES NOT
FAVOR new ENTERPRISES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s.-Sec-
retary of War Baker, in his ca
pacity as chairman of the cOun-
Gil of national defense, writes an
inquirer that the council does not
favor new enterprises which are
not fundamental to the efficient
operation of the country's neces-
sary war activities. "Eyery ef-
fort that this country is capable
Of making should be applied to
bring the war to a speedy and
successful conclusion" he says.
''The resources of the country in
a general way may be said to
consist Of men, money and ma
terial and during the period of
the war any new enterprises or
undertaking should be tried and
justified by the test: Will the
men, money and material so ap-
piled, best contribute in this way
to the winning of the war;"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
DAILY WAR COST
IS $16o,ooo,ooo
Of This Vast Sum United States
Is Paying at Least One.
Quarter.

NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-The war is
costing belligerent nations $160,0OO,-
900 a day-$6,500,0 an hour-and
the United States is paying at least
one-quarter of this staggering sum,
according to estimates made by
the Mechanics & Metals National
bank of New York. The estimated
daily cost at the beginning of the war
was $50,000.000 and a year ago it
was $100,000,0o0. This country's
rate of expenditure is greater than any
other nation, Great Britain being Sec
ond and Germany next.
BY next August, according to the
banks figures, the total cost to the
world will be $155, 900, ,OOO,O 900. AL
ready expenditures have exceeded
500, 0,000,000,000, of which all but a
fraction has been translated into per-
manent national indebtedness. Inter-
est on public debt is now calculated
to be more than 10 per cent of
the normal income of the German
people, as against less than one-half
of one per cent in the case of the
people Of this country.
The developed national wealth of
the allies is placed at 100000, 900 900
by the bank, while that the Teutonic
powers is given as $13O.O0O,O0O.00O.
About 53,000,000 men are today en-
gagged in the war. To what extent the
entente allies have gained superiority
over Germany is shown by the bank
in striking fashion.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20

LABOR TROUBLE:
At GLoBE-M|AM|
Copper Miners Agree to Accept
Decision Of Presidents
Commission.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S-The fol-
lowing telegram has been received
at Washington from the commission
appointed by President Wilson to in
vestigate the labor situation in the
mountain region and on the Pacific
coast:
1.-The presidents labor commission,
sent to the southwest and the noun
tain region, has concluded the hear
ing Of the side of the striking min
ers in the Globe-Miami copper dis
trict of Arizona. The commission was
gratified to hear that the state
leader of the of the strikers and
President Meyer, of the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smeltcr
Workers, have unreservedly placed
the adjustment of the Arizona labor
difficulties into the hands of the
commission with an unconditional
agreement to abide by any decision
the commission may make for the
maintenance of peaceful labor rela-
tions in Arizona, at least during the
period of the war.
1.-The commission is now hearing
the side of the operators, and when
that side is concluded and the views
u OlI1SI pdFtleS interested III Lnc COnl-
missions inquiry fare submitted the
commission will begin the task of
formulating plan of settlement
through the corporation of all in
terested parties, which it is hoped
will satisfy all sides and thus give the
nation the copper it needs under just
conditions of employment.
'The striking unie ns concluded the
presentation of their case to the COM
mission by making an. unqualified
offer to go back to work Immediately
upon the agreement Of the operators
to submit the dispute to arbitration
by the commission, and to continue
at work pending the arbitration. The
strikers expressly stated that they
were eager to do away with any de-
lay which would in the least hold up
the normal production of copper for
the use of the nation.'
The commission is composed of the
following: William B. Wilson, secre-
tary of labor; Col. J. L. Spangler, of
Pennsylvania; Werner z. Reed, of
Colorado; John H. Walker, of Illi-
nois; E. p. Marsh, of Washington.
Felix Frankfurter. of New York,
is acting as secretary of the commits
siOn."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
|NSURANCEFUND
PAYS DIVIDENDS
Annual Report in Pennsylvania
Shows Small Expenses Of
State Fund.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 1S.-The
annual report of the state workmen's
insurance fund confounds doleful
prophets who attracted attention
when this legislation was being con-
sidered. The report shows that the
net income of the fund for 1916, in
cluding interest, was $803,543.90 and
the prediction is made that this year
it will be $1,250,00O.
The report gives the expenses for
the year as $138,125.24, or 17:6 per
cent of the annual premium income
of the fund.
The statement of claims shows III
claims last year and that compensa-
ton is being paid to IL dependent par
ents, 81 widows and 80 orphan chill
dren. A dividend of 10 per cent was
paid to a group of coal mine risks
and Is per cent to all other risks, the
returns to policy holders for the first
year being $93,162.O4
The reserve at the end of the year
is given as $472,S75.39, including
$68,049.84 reserve for catastrophe,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
URGES PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE

In his inaugural address president of the
American Medical Association, Dr. Charles H.
Mayo, of Rochester, gave scientific affirmation to
many of the contentious of organized labor. Por-
tions of his address follows:
"The great industries have in the past unneces-
sarily destroyed thousands of human lives and
turned on the public many more thousands of Grip
pies dependent public charity. It has been
cheaper for these industries to let Europe pay the
cost of bringing individuals to maturity and to re-
place the injured and lost with new human material
than to go to the trouble and expense of providing
suitable means for protecting the lives and limbs of
employees. Today face to face with the truth
that we must arise and upbuild our own people.
The economic law of supply and demand has grad
ually been brought into force, and the waste of
human life must cease We hear on every hand of
projects and efforts the conservation of human
life, a movement which is the outcome not of any
philanthropy or sentiment but of necessity Men
no longer be replaced with the old time ease,
and their individual value to the community has
increased accordingly.
"The by-products of human deficiencies mental,
moral, and physical, clog and a burden to the
state. In our great hospitals for the insane we find
that much effort is being made by highly organized
and expensive methods to reclaim the mentally
affected. The institutions have become not the
madhouses of the past, but hospitals for the men
tally sick. The expense is great the percentage of
cures small, but we'll worth the effort University
and state hospitals needed for the care of the
poor for curing blindness. and for restoring Grip
pies and detectives from birth and injury to health
and usefulness. Now that the is producing in
juries by the thousands, new impetus is given
this work. that by training in special employment
and artificial aids such persons may he as happy
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
SPECIAL SESSION
0FLEC|SLATURE
IS POSSIBILITY
Many War Measures May Re-
qure Prompt Action By
Lawmakers,

ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 18.-That
the coming winter will see a special
session of the Minnesota legislature
is looked upon by some as almost
certain. If not certainty it is among
the possibilities and quite few men,
bers of the two lawmaking bodies
aware of this are making plans ac-
cordingly.
two legislative bodies is outlined in
the following:
A new act permitting Minnesota
regular and volunteer soldiers, home
and abroad, to vote.
Additional aid for public schools
Reimbursement for money paid out
for wolf bounties by a dozen or more
Northern Minnesota counties.
Strengthening of the present laws
for the curtailment of trusts and cor
porations in restraint of trade.
More stringent laws for the regu-
lation of corporations and persons
concerned with the storage and dis
tribution of foodstuffs.
Revenue acts looking to the replen-
ishment of the depleted state
treasury.
Legislation necessary to minimize
the inf1iction Of the highest tax rate
in the history of the state.
A general overhauling of the states
corporation acts.
A state tax covering the liquor
traffic
The above and more are regarded
as sufficient cause for the assembling
of the two legislative bodies in spe-
cial session.
Not Paying Its Share.
In the opinion of many, corporate
wealth in Minnesota is not paying
what it should toward relieving the
financial burden under which the state
is now staggering. AS they view it,
there are a score or more of lines
of industrial and corporate activity
in Minnesota that are not paying the
tax they should. Chief among these
is pointed out the telephone monopo-
ly. 1t and subsidiary lines are pay.
ing a tax of 8 per cent on their gross
earnings and this in face Of the fact
that their earnings are the greatest
in their history. Through the gen.
erosity of a late legislature an in
crease of better than 33 1-3 in exist
ing toll rates was permitted and the
inf1iction is still on, A slight advance
in the tax rate as it applies to the
big telephone companies would help
materially and this a special session
Of the legislature could dos with little
effort
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20

as possible and self-supportng, and not mentally
disabled and drag on the community. It is
through organized effort in the medical profession
that so many of these great things in the worlds
work have been accomplished. Within half
tury many years have actually been added to the
average life of This has been largely ac-
complished by preventive medicine we'll as by ad-
vances in the cure of disease.
lone of the greatest functions of state is the
development and control of its educational system.
Compulsory school attendance and child labor laws
have been necessities 1t will soon be generally
recognized that the citizen is best made when a
child. Compulsory school attendance through the
seventh grade and general knowledge of the
English language necessary to this citizenship.
Other languages than English special studies.
Private schools should be encouraged but all
should be subject to state inspection and control.
Private schools conducted by hyphenated Ameri-
should be subject to government inspection to
them from the protective influence of local
and state politics.
"The lack of unity of nation is largely due
to lax educational laws which allow emigrants to
develop community and educational interests in
the language of their fatherands and not to live
up to our Constitution AS people our prestige in
the world has been injured most unfortunately by
the petty jealousies and the local interests which
have been made general through intrigue and po-
litical effort. Especially have decried to the
world the acts of government officials whom we
ourselves have placed in power More good would
come to our country through tongue control than
birth control. Our best people must come to the
fore and, If necessary by self-sacrifice, do their
part in the political management of the local. state
and general affairs of country, If democracy is
to survive"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-20
EMPLOYERS CHANGE
attitude TO UNION

DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 1S.-Employ-
ing BARRIERS were jubilant when they
heard that the BARRIERS union had
surrendered it's charter a few weeks
ago rather than continue the fight
to raise wages over $19 a week Now
the employers are whistling a differ
ent time because their workers are
leaving the city. AS a result wages
are being raised and there is talk of
reorganizing the union with the en-
ployers helping to place this business
on paying basis.