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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
RETAIL MERC CHANTS ADOPT
new BUSINESS HOURS
Organized Labor Must Support the Movement For Early
Closing on Saturday Night Means Weekly
Reduction of Eight Hours.

On Thursday of this week. large number Of the leading retail
OF the put into effect schedule Of business hours
the shopping period and incidentally the hours
OF labor for clerks and other employees of their establishments
The hours from $50 $50 daily excepts
Saturdays the open until o'clock to be
effective during July and August The
daily and to 10 on Saturdays
Stores that have already signed the schedule for
August Glass Block George Gray company The
Pan store Stack Abram store Wenger Krege
sc and 10c store Freimuh Siberstein Bondy Gliding
Co. Bruen Apparel shop Oriental shop,
Fur factory Sample Cloak Suit company Woowor
rhe four retail furniture houses that have signed the July sched
e only are: French Basse Belnet Furniture company
Kelly Furniture company and Bayha & Co.
The Retail Merchants association has appealed public
shopping early the day. that
dom OF the movement and establish the hours.
Members OF organized labor should their undivided
those firms which have signed the
withholding their business from those which choose sacke
shopping done earlier in the day. it possible the nnova-
ton expand and may become ayear nearly ayea
PRACTICE . 'O'
When union consider that empys of the observing
the new schedule will have about eight hours weekly
consequently that much time spend
readily realize the significance shorter store hours and What
means to the many employees affected
II IS expected that the Federated Trades Assembly, it's
ing July L. VIII inderse the official influence
in support thereof:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07

taken over by the government. for
war purposes. This suggestion is
made after the Federal Trade COM
mission, which has been investigating
the anthracite and the bituminous
COIL industries at the order Of the
senate, has proposed government
operation of the entire coal business
of the country, from mine to con-
sumer. It makes the proposition the
broader by asking lso that the rail-
roads and steamship lines be run by
the government, in order that prompt
deltverery of coal to the industries
may be assured.
Fear of government control under
military rule, and control which shall
not. recognize the employees as having
a voice in the management, is behind
any action which the United Mine
Workers ma; take against the new
scheme. They have just secured
representation on the coal production
committee Of the Council of National
Defense, and they think they can get
9 reasonably fair deal for their men,
bership from that body. In any case
they will fight against the turning of
the coal industry over to any auth
Ority in which they are not fully and
forcefully represented.
Member on Appellate Boards. :
Organized labor will have one Of
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
PERTINENT LABOR NEWS GATHERED AT THE NATIONS CAPITA

T WASHINGTON, July 5.-For the
moment, food-control legislation is
he biggest prize in sight for the or
4nized labor movement in this coun-
y. That is shown by the hammer
1d-tongs attack which the central
A'or bodies in every state and city
.'ie making upon the element in con-
'ess which is playing the food ex-
ftiPners' game. It IS shown by the
.lxi1cty of the officers of the Amer
any Federation of Labor t. get the
,var hill passed. It is even more
ea3ciy shown by Thousands of letters
hi iieh are coming from the members
he local unions of all crafts, warn
81 the standpatters of their finish"
. They do rot make a quick jump
= e Of the read.
Nobody knows, Of course, how far
lie Hoover plan of government buy
ng and selling OF foodstuffs will re-
! uc9 retail prices. The present
respect is that the reduction will be
bout 20 to 80 per cent on wide
arifety Of articles of diet, and that
fteNr a few months there may come
1r1t 1ther reductions as the food admin
tfation gets cours-e to cut out the
'stt Of the graft. If Hoover is OF
zen genuine backinc, and that at
'1Ie hands CT the organized labor
s ovement everywhere. in every de-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07

for these factory cases for more than
SO years past. The United States has
one such clinic in Boston, and the
start of one In Brooklyn. It will need
one, soon, in every city big enough to
support war contract factory.
Probably the labor organizations. will
have to make it an issue with the city
and state governments to set the
money, for this protection.
-
Women Protest.
Headed by Miss Agnes Nestor of
Chicago, viceopresident Of the Inter-
national Glove Workers union, COM
mittee of the Nationar Women's
Trade Union league has been in
Washington, asking for a guaranty
that working women and children will
not be made the victims of the war;
profits craze. They took to the White
House resolution adopted at their
recent national convention, protesting
against child labor, and demanding
that women be not worked long hours
nor be paid less than men for equal
work. They went to, the secretary of
the treasury and protested against the
working Of the bureau OF engraving
and printing on l2-hour shifts About
5000 women are now Employed there.
and very large proportion of them
are working the long hours.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
Would Empower President.

Would Empower President.
Senator Cummins has proposed q
sensible amendment to the Lever food
control bill, in the late stages of it's
passage through the upper house. It
meets the point raised, in all this
food business, by the labor group in
congress. It reads: !;
THAT If during the continuance Of
said war the president nnds that, not
withstanding the foregoing provisions
of this act and the provisions Of other
laws of the United States. the prices
of necessaries compared with wages
and other fixed incomes ID. resulting or
will result in an impairment Of the
health, strength and efficiency Of the
people generally by reason Of their in
ability to provide themselves with
such necessaries in sufficient quanti-
ties, he is hereby empowered to re-
QUESTION and take over any such ne
cessaries wherever they may be
found and, through. such agencies as
he may establish or authorize, sell the
same to the people at fair, reason.
able prices III - ::
Many of these necessaries, even un-
der the bill reported from committee
in the senate, can be bought up by
the government and sold affair prices
to the people, to break any attempt
"t souging the public. -
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mand which he shall make on the big
grain buyers, the millers, the packers,
TIE egg storage people, and so on, he
Will be forced to appeal to the big
business crowd-and with the usual
results. The working class of Amer
lea can make or breaks this venture
Into lower food costs. If they let
the packers get control, as the pack
ers confidently expect to do, there
will be a great discovery by the big
business press that Hoover has gone
too far" and the man with q wage
of SIS a week will need to double
his wages to keep his family from,
getting hungry.
This Is the view taken by the labor
men in congress. 1t is their opinion
that every local unit of the labor
movement must save it's own share
OF the gains from the food control act
by helping in its local administration.
Hoover has told them that he recog-
nizes the labor organizations as the
one great body that" speaks for the
consumers. He will rely on them to
save the substance Of his plan from
the attacks of the special interests
everywhere.
:. Along with the food. legislation
comes the new proposal Of Secretary
of the Navy Dapiels that the coal
and Oil supply of the country be
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
ORGANIZE
Richard Jones Installs tho Off,
GERS Of New Local 0fganiza-
tion,

The. Federal Emplcyns union wac
organized permanently i'm Duluth last
Thursday evening. The newly elected
officers were installed by Richard
Jones, organizer for the American
Federation Of Labor.
III. w. Richardson, chief of the local
weather bureau, is president Of the
new organization and E. w. Beaton,
secretary-treasurer.
A national convention of Federal
Employees unions is to be called at
Washington next September. At
present there are about so local
unions. At the Washington convsn-
tion it is expected an international
organization will be formed.
Every branch Of Federal serv-
ice, with the exception of postal en-
ployes, is included in the new organ
ization. The object is, Of course, to
bring. about more satisfactory condi-
tions in the Federal service. Accord
ing to the constitution strikes cannot
be called against the United States,
but the activity of the organization
will be confined to fostering public
sentiment in behalf of the men In the
various branches Of governmental
Servico
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
:|NGLEFARE AND
! TRANSFERS JAN, |
'esident of Street Railway COM
pany Makes New Offer to
City Commission.

BY virtue of an offer made Monday
fternoon at the city hall by A. M.
Robertson, president of the Duluth
treet Railway company, to the city
commission, Duluthians are promised
: single fare and universal transfers
y Jan. /, 1918. This was made after
agreement had been reached
.onth ago to put this proposition in
effect Jan. I, 1920, and does. not
/ any way affect the construction of
re Morgan Park-New Duluth extern
lon this fall, which had already been
greed to.
- Because Of the new arrangement,
cps have been taken to drop the
sst suit instituted against the street
ailway company to question the
alidity of the double fare.
In view Of the proposed acquisition
f the Park Point street railway sys-
am by the Duluth Street Railway
Ympany, it is assured that Duluthians
Jill soon be enabled to ride from one
art of the city to any other section
18th the payment Of single fare.
The scent fare will mean much to
many employees Of the steel plant at
Morgan Park who reside in the east
,rn sections OF the city, and also to
he residents of the suburbs beyond
Aorgan Park when the extension has
,ee1i completed.
All the city commissioners are we'll
LEASED with the latest developments
a the street railway controversy, with
he exception Of Commissioner Phil
ps,| who is in favor of the institution
condemnation proceedings looking
ward the purchase of the system by
he city. 0
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
SHIPPERS RESIST
RATE INCREASES

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July s.
California shippers, who stood so
loyalty last year behind the railroads
In their fight against the eight hour
day, have turned on their former pals
and are organized to resist freight
rate increases. The shippers insist
that added operating expenses are
more than taken care of by the in
creased volume of business being done
by the different railroads. ~.
When the railroad brotherhoods
made this claim, the shippers pooh
poohed. But the railroads, were not
limiting Of freight rate increases at
that time, when it was considered
real smart%1<'to oppose the workers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07

ARTHUR: I, HOLDER
IS NOMINATE RI .
NEW WFEDERA|||LB10ARD
For' Vocational Education By
President Wi1son-l formerly
Machinist Organizer.

WASHINGTON, July 5.--Arthur E.
Holder, who has been legislative agent
at the capitol for the Council of Ma
tional Defense, has just been nom-
mated by President Wilson to be a
member, for a three-year~ term, of
the new Federal board for vocational
education, at salary Of, 5000 a year.
Holder was formerly organizer for
the International Association of Ma
chinists in the railway shops in Iowa,
and upon his recent trip through that
territory he was given q .triumphal
welcome-home receptions: At Sioux
City they banqueted;ah him, and got
some good level-headed advice in re-
turn, for Holder is as sound as any
man of his years in the3movement on
the fundamentals of%shard work in
labor organization.
It was this short, sthbby Welsh
man who got the joker into the nitrate
clause of last summers military act,
which permitted the government to
manufacture anything it wanted,
when it wanted to. It5was Holder
who snauggled into the naval approp-
riation act Of March 4, 1917, the words
which made the eight-hour rule apply
to all government contract work dur
ing the war. OF course nobody is
enforcing that rule, because the pres
ident set it aside by special order,
as was his legal privileges. However,
the law provides that t least time
and a half shall be paldfor all work
done on contract jobs, over eight
hours a day. The steezx workers,
slaves in the plants at Pittsburg,
Homestead and Bethlehem, are not
getting that overtime rate, so far as
reported. The law does not run to
steel towns yet. Maybe Holders per-
sistence was a cause Of anxiety some-
where, and they decided to shelve him
into this education job.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
NO REPRESENTATION. FOR
LABOR ON CONTRACT BOARDS
Which Will Control Government WoIH Capitol Bldg comp
ternatonal Unions Anticipate Period Of lndustnal
Disputes es-Agreement Refused. \

WASHINGTON, July 5-Dgused with the refusal Of the Coun
Of National Defense and the and department to
ad unons the committees and board which will
o the for the national and international
odies the American Federation of Labor have settled back for
ing Of industrial demands and probably of big
trikes
We offered them national covering the nine crafts
the Metal Trades department. said A. Berre secretary Of that
apartment the other day. We offered to arbate all disputes and
do everything avoid oppage Of work They paid atten
That leaves but to do what have always done
hen rights invaded We shall defend position If they
plan for giving deal with less friction than
ow have they welcome to offer it. Until they do shall keep
usual activity with the usual results measuring Of strength
18th employers who refuse recognize the labor
In this connection he spoke the head of the
alton Employers at New York. who refused
zion official when strike Of pyard mechanics
ng This employer type Of hundreds who getting
ne to make fortunes from and they
to bring such series of strikes will possibly the
vernment into giving organized labor Influential place
,uncs. |
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
Gains in Railroad Shops,

On his trip Holder looked over the
gains just made-during JuAe-for
the eight-hour day in the railroad
shops. He found that on the North
ern Pacific, the Great Northern, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, the
Chicago, Minneapolis, st. Paul &
Omaha, the Rock Island, the Chica-
go, Burlington & Quincy, the Denver,
Rio Grande & Western and one or two
other roads the men had secured the
eight-hour in place of the nine-hour
day, without any strike. Wages for
125,000 men, including helpers and
apprentices in the various trades, had
been advanced from to II cents per
hour. The wages of machinists were
raised to a level Of from SO to 81
cents an hour, the latter prevailing
on the Pacific coast.
This is a gain which the shop
mechanics expect to hold without any
question from the roads, and it fol-
lows that they will try to get it in
every other part Of the country while
the enthusiasm Of this one group runs
strong.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
IDENTIFIES ACCUSED,
BUT NEVER SAW THEM
Witness in Mooney Case Makes
Damaging Admission About
Testimony.

SAN. FRANCISCO, July. .5.-1n the
language Of printers, Sadie Edeau was
pied up" when she took the stand
against Mrs. Rena Mooney, charged
with completely in last years bomb
outrage. The Edeau woman's testi-
mony played an important part in the
conviction Of Warren X. Billings and
:Thomas~J. Mooney, both of whom
were identified by the witness.
The state was given a. hard blow,
however, when Mrs. MONEYS attor-
neys forced Sadie to acknowledge that
when she made the statement to Dis
trict Attorney Fickert that she iden-
titled the accused she had not seen any
of these persons nor had they ever
been pointed out to her.
This admission caused. such an up-
roar that court was adjourned for 10
minutes.
: The witness acknowledged that
while she was making her statement
to the district attorney ''Mr. Swanson
was there" Swanson is private de-
tective employed by the gas company
and who is charged by the defense
with being one Of the chief instigators
of a frame up' plot
AT the time you made this state
ment you had not seen these de-
dendants in jail?" asked Attorney Nc
kenzie for the defense.
mo-"
"How could you identify them,
then?'
There was something else put on to
my statement after lunch," replied the
witness.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
LABOR CONSUMPTION
THEORY REPUDIAT Ed
By the Convention of the Pattern
Makers League at WASH
ington:

WASHINGTON, July "a warn
ing against possible labor conscrip-
ton was sounded and opposition to
the theory that judges have the right
to issue injunctions' in personal rela-
tions was recorded by the Pattern
Makers league at it's convention in
this city.
On the, question Of labor conscrip-
ton the unionists declare that now
is the time to effectively combat such
a. possibility and labor organizations,
farmers and friends of freedom every
where are urged to join hands in re-
sisting this innovation that would
place workers on a military basis.
Regarding labor injuncttons, the
convention declared: "Whereas,
Equity power to forbid, to issue in
functions for the protection Of prop
erty rights where there is no remedy
at law, came to us from England and
was adopted into our system as it
existed in England prior to the Amer
ican revolution; therefore be it
Resolved, That we will not admit
that the court, sitting in equity, has
any jurisdiction in personal relations
the relation between employers and
employees; that we will plead the
courts lack Of jurisdiction in all such
instances in which such Jurisdiction
seeks to fasten itself upon us, and
that we will in all such cases disobey
the equity court, taking whatever
consequences may be our lot; and fur
ther belt
"Resolved, That we do these things
out of regard for our duty as citizens
of the United States, having received
from our fathers the freedom which
we deem it our sacred duty to trans
NIT at least unimpaired to our sons. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
NET EARNINGS Of
RAILROADS INCREASE

WASHINGTON, July 5.-Nearly
complete returns from all railroads
for the four months ending with
April, made public by the interstate
commerce commission, show continual
improvement in net earnings in every
section, notwithstanding the greater
increased cost Of factors entering in
to operating expenses. Southern
roads showed net revenue for April,
1917, Of 81 per mile less than April,
1916, while western roads, grouped as
a whole, made more money than ever
before, exceeding by $31 per mile net
revenues over the banner period a
year ago.
Operating revenues reached new
high figures, $1,192,911,654 for the
four months, an increase Of nearly
$106, 100000.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
STRIKING STREET CAR
MEN ENJOlNED

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.,, July s.
Striking street car men have been en-
joined by Judge Welty, at the request
Of the Bloomington & Normal Rail-
way and Light company, from 'in-
terfering with, 1indering or obstruct-
ing the company's operations" The
strikers are debarred from soliciting
the public not to ypatronize the cars.
Bloomington trade unionists pro-
tested against this injunction at one
Of the largest mass meetings ever held
in this city.
The strike was called when the
company refused to meet a committee
Of it's employees and discharged work.
ers because they Joined the union.
The company has a union agreement
with employees on it's lines in other
cities.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07

PREDICTS WOMEN WILL
OPERATE RAILROADS
IF WAR CONTINUES S

PARSONS, kan., July 5.-If the
war continues three years more
many railroads in this country will
be operated largely by women, is;
the opinion of III. F. Anderson, gen.
eral manager of the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railroad. In referr-
ing to this railroads training school
for women in Dallas, the official
said he believes women could sell
tickets, do routine work in railroad
stations, act as clerks in freight Of
fices and even collect fares on
trains.
Although Mr.. Anderson did not
say 50, it is evident that the M, X.
g. T. has failed to secure strike
breakers to replace members OF
the Order of Railroad Telegraph
ers, who have been locked out be-
cause they demanded living condi-
tiOns. .,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
WEST VIRGINIA LAW
WOULD FORCE MEN
TO WORK REGULARLY

PHILADELPHIA, July 5.-A To-
cal newspaper quotes 'tindustrial
leaders and lawyers as favoring
the West Virginia law, passed by
the last legislature OF that state,
which requires that every able bo-
died male between the ages of 18
and 60 years must "habitually and
regularly engage in some lawful,
useful and recognized business, pro-
fession, occupation or employment
whereby he may produce or earn
sufficient to support himself and
those legally dependent upon him."
One manufacturer is quoted as
saying that ''it is q good thing to
make everybody work."
There are several features of this
legislation that are most beneficial
TO employers. The most impor-
tant is its effect in strike times. 1t
can outlaw work suspensions and
make the state a procurer of strike.
breakers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
RAILWAY SHOPMEN.
GET 8-HOUR DAY

CHICAGO, July 5.-The Chicago &
Northwestern railroad shop fedora
ton has secured the .eight-hour day
for all journeymen, apprentices and
helpers and practically all others in
the motive power and car depart
ments, excepting seven-day men in
the latter department. The federation
is now discussing rates with the rail-
road management.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
MANY NEGROES SETTLE
IN EAST ST. LOUIS

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,; July Sat an
investigation into the recent race riots
here, Mayor Mollman testified that in
the last six months from 5000 to"6, 900
negroes have settled in East St. Louis,
in some instances having taken the
places of white factory workers. This,
he said, he considered the cause of the
recent riots.
Trade unionists insist that the cause
is low-wage employers, who have lured
the negroes into this section.
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mittees of the Council Of National
Defense, but it will retain full free
dom to defend its own interests while
others do the managing. The seamen
have been voting on a proposition
agreed upon in conference here with
the shipowners, whereby the latter
shall make room on their vessels for
boys who shall be taught the rudi-
ments Of seamanship. They will be
apprentice boys, of the kind that used
to be found on every American or
British ship-the sailors in the maxi
ing. In these modern times the boys
will be pretty well grown up before
they start, but for the purposes of
the craft they will begin at the bot
tom and learn everything by hard
work.
Industrial Clinics.
Industrial clinics are going to be
demanded in most Of the industrial
towns before this war is much older.
Eye-strain. industrial poisoning and
all of the other ills of bad factory
conditions are coming back with the
mushroom growth of war work.
Armies of raw recruits are pouring
into industry, and are suffering the
consequences Of bad adjustment Of
machinery.sof fighting, f$ventilation.s
France has had special hospital cltnics
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-07
PLUMBERS LICENSED.

DENVER, Colo, July 5.-The state
law requiring licenses for plumbers
is now in effect, and a board of exam
lners has been appointed by the state
board Of health. The fee for en-
ploying plumbers will be SO for the
first year and IS year thereafter.
For journeymen plumbers the fee will
be 50 for the first year and 81 a year
thereafter.