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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
WILSON IN THE WATCH TOWER.

Judge ]. F. MCGEE, member of the
Minnesota Public Safety Commits
sion, hied himself down to Washing
ton this week to tell the members
Of Congress how to run the nation,
as lie has been running Minnesota
ever since he was appointed to his
present exalted position by Cover
nor Burnquist.
Among other things Judge MCGEE
advocated the suspension of trial by
jury, and proposed that all charges
of sedition be tried before military
cOurt-martial. He didn't get very
far, however, with his proposal, for
shortly after he had given his testi-
mony to a Senate committee Presi-
dent Wilson, in letter to Senator
Overman, knocked McGee's Prus-
sian-like dream Unto a cooked hat"
This is said in Wilsonan sense.
In characteristic manner the
President pointed out that by TAX
ing away powers now vested in the
civil courts and transferring them
to the military authorities we would
be following the example of Prus-
STA. We would shatter the ideals
for which We are contending in the
great world war. We would estab-
lish system of military rule in
America that we are trying to crush
in Germany. We would be paraded
by our enemies before the world as
a hypocritical nation, pretending to
stand for democracy abroad, and
denying it at home to our own peo-
pie.
1t is generally admitted that Presi-
dent Wilson's timely warning has
. killed the Chamberlain spy bill, as
it should be killed. In an indirect
way it has done more. It has put
the people on guard against other
wise good men like Senator Cham
berlain in the nation and Judge Nc
Gee in the state, who seem to have
no real conception of the high pur-
pose of the United States in enter
ing the great world war-and who
profess little faith in our civil in
situations, the bulwarks of our lib
erties,---for the life of which a
united country is in arms.
But Wilson is In the watch tower
of democracy Thank God for Will
son!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
LIMITATIONS OF POVERTY
By REV. CHARLES STELZLE.

The real curse Of poverty is not so
much the lack of money as 1t is the
lack of opportunity. Broadly speak
ing, no man was ever made happy by
wealth. and no man was ever made
unhappy by poverty. It is the OPP
portunities to broaden life that come
with wealth which give a greater
chance for happiness; and it is the
limitations of poverty that cause
misery.
The worst kind of poverty is that
which calls for the sacrifice Of the
inner life. 1t is bad enough to have
the body so hungry, but it is far
worse to starve the soul. And this is
the condition of great numbers of the
poverty-stricken. There are really
four classes of people in the world:
the poor poor, those who have no
money and practically nothing else;
the rich poor-those who have no
money but who have an appreciation
of many of the other things in life;
the poor rich-those who have money
but do not enjoy the rehnements of
the world; and the rich rich-those
who have money as we'll as apprecia-
ton of the better things of life. The
last class are the happiest, but they
constitute very small percentage of
the people. The great mass may be
called the poor poor; and they are
always so by reason of their own
fault For the crushing blows of alb
ject poverty have been such as to re-
duce them to the lowest levels of ap-
probation. For them, life has become
simply a physical struggle and only
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
THAT MESABA RANGE "STRlKE''

Judge MCGEE boastfully declared
in Washington this week that firm
action taken by the Minnesota Pub.
lie Safety commission headed off
strike of iron ore miners on the
Mesaba range last year. He also
took a fling at the department of
justice and charged that it's repre-
sentatives were not sufficiently &C.
tive and virile in Minnesota.
AS matter of fact, there was no
more danger Of an iron ore strike in
this state last year than there was of
a wind famine on Lake Superior. 1t
is true there was considerable strike
talk in the newspapers, but it did
not come from the miners. Specia!
agents of the department of justice
ran the thing down, and they traced
the origin of all strike talk to the
spies and paid agents of mining COM
panies who kept the pot boiling to
save their jobs,-to justify the COM
panies in retaining their services.
So long as Minnesota employers
treat their employees decently, dur
tng war or peace, there will be no
strikes in this state Minnesota labor
is loyal to the core. The mem bers
of organized labor recognize that the
one big thing to do now is to win the
war by the shortest route. and that
is to speed up production and trans
portation to the limit. To do this
there must not be one lost moment
of action.
The Minnesota Public Safety COM
mission has done little to head off
strikes in this state. Indeed if it
were not for labor's loyalty to the
country the commissions conduct
would have provoked strikes. Judge
MCGEE is taking too much credit
upon himself. He is stealing labor's
thunder. That there are no strikes
is due wholly to the patriotism of
minnesota labor. Wherever the
commission has butted into labor
matters it has made botch of it..
It used the mailed fist on the Twin
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
ARMY FACTS

An army corps is $4,000 men.
An infantry division is $4,000 men.
An Infantry brigade is 1000 men.
A regiment of infantry is $500 men.
A battalion is 1000 men.
A company Is $50 men.
A platoon is so men.
A corporals squad is IL men.
A field artillery brigade comprises
1900 men.
A field artillery has 1876 men.
A firing squad is 20 men.
A supply train has 2S3 men.
A machine gun battalion has 296
men.
An engineers regiment has 1,09s
men.
An ambulance company has &C men,
A field hospital has IS men.
A medicine attachment has 10 men.
A major general leads the field
army and also each army. corps.
A brigadier general heads each in"
fantry brigade.
A colonel heads each regiment.
A lieutenant colonel is next in rank
below a colonel.
A major heads battalion.
A captain heads company.
A lieutenant heads a. platoon.
A sergeant is next below a lieu-
tPnant-EX,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
ASPIRATION OF THE LABEL.

The aspiration of the union label
knows no bounds. Its ambition is
to redeem a world. Nothing in the
whole realm of unionized labor is
capable of such effective and con-
tinuous utility. Other agencies have
varying degrees potentiality, and are
intermittent in effectiveness. I'm
happily, they sometimes fail to win
public sympathy, translate indifer-
ence into antagonism, intensity the
suspicion of employers, and energize
auction pens into a malevolent as
sault upon the labor movement.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
in these agreements, which cover all
classes Of textile workers except me-
chanics and those engaged in the
maintenance of the plants.
A DESPICABLE OUTRAGE.

News dispatches last Friday stated
that Congresswoman Jeanette Rank
in of Montana was refused permission
to make Liberty Loan speech at
Deer Lodge, Mont, because of her
alleged association" with the lead
ers of the miners strike in the Butte
district last summer. Those refus-
ing this right were "citizens led by
State Senator Williams"
In the first place, those who seek
to prevent anybody from making pa
triotic utterances, such as a Liberty
Loan speech, In behalf of the govern
ment, are as disloyal as the most
vicious pro-German or I. w. w. in
this country, and should Immediately
be made to answer for their trait
orous conduct.
Secondly, to those who have fol-
lowed Miss Rankin's career in the
house, this disreputable attack is
significant in that it is plainly the
work Of petty politicians inspired
by Montana mine operators, who are
eager to discredit her and secure her
defeat should she decide to again run
for congress.
1t is we'll known that Miss Rankin
has refused to be dominated by the
big business interests in her work
at Washington, and that she has
proved herself the friend of the
working people at all times. Last
summer when the miners in the
Butte district revolted against the
exploitation of the operators, Con-
gresswoman Rankin, eager to serve
her constituents, rendered her serv-
ices to the men and the mining CON-
panies in an effort to adjust the diff
ferences. Devoid of all scruples and
courtesy, the companies ignored her
completely, not even replying to her
communication.
On the other hand, when @'the lady
from Montana" journeyed to Butte
at the time OF the trouble she was
met at the railroad station by ten
thousand miners-what better token
OF appreciation and esteem could be
shown any one?
The significance of all this is that
Miss Rankin has endeavored to be
fair and just in her service to her
constituents-that she has been just
as mindful-probably more-of hui
man rights as she has of those of
property, a characteristic seldom
found in our national lawmakers,
and which is abhorrent to capitalists
whose only consideration is profits,
more profits, wrung from the toll of
the workers.
Verify, the path of an honest and
! Conscientious laWmaker even
though she be woman-is beset by
intrigue and Vaccinations.
The despicable outrage at Deer
Lodge against both the government
and Miss Rankin is but the product
of depraved minds, and, instead of
injuring the congresswoman, will re-
act and prove far more deleterious to
the perpetrators and those they rep
resented
1t is futile to attempt political
murder of Miss Rankin at this time,
for when she goes before the elec-
torate of her state again, she will
receive a beautiful tribute-but it
will not be inspired by the copper
barons and their henchmen.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27

For the purpose of studying the
Canadian system of vocational reed.
ucation for disabled soldiers and
sailors, c. A. Greathorise and A. e.
Holder, members of the Federal
board for vocational education, have
gone to Canada to observe the Cana
dian process of rehabilitation, .
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27

In a recent case tried in a Federal
court it was: established that, criti-
cism Of profiteers does not constitute
sedition. H :: .:se..S 1. .$ss
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27

The union label unites all interests
that lie in the improvement of indus
trial conditions through the abolition
of the sweatshop, tenement house, in
sanitary factory, convict labor, Chi
nese labor, night labor, and child la
Dor. Each of these evils has it's anti
dote in the union label. ,...-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
LOYALTY.

Baltimore Trades Unionist: Men
of labor! In this crucial hour of his
tory, the massed legions of military
autocracy are being driven forward
Is last mad desperate thrust for
world dominion. The free govern
ments and the free institutions Of the
earth are in jeopardy. The republic
Is calling us to stand steadfast and
loyal to her cause. He who would
betray America in this hour of stress
and storm would prove unfaithful:
and betray his comrades, when in the
midst of industrial conflict his organ
ization was endangered. He would
be disloyal to his friends in their
time of need and adversely Measured
by the standards of real manhood he
would be found pitiably wanting; a
recreant=to his trust, a sham and a
counterfeit
In this supreme moment the fate
of civilization is in the balance We
stand on the threshold of a new era
in the affairs of men, Before us
stretches the vista Of world emery
ing from the nightmare of war into
period of social and economic re-
construction. Let us have vision that
we may see apd understand how much
1T means to us to play our part and
perform our duty, in order that we
may thwart the designs Of the mill
tary autocracy that is seeking to cast
it's dark shadow over the world. Lei
us be loyal to the republic. Let US
be loyal to our organization and it's
principles. Then we will have been
loyal to ourselves.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
ILOVE.'T E1EE,= COLUMBIA.
NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM.

NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM. -~5: :;
(Dedicated to the People of the United sates:) =
I thee. Columbia fair land of the west
BY nature with lavish hand bounteously best: e
Thy streams sparkling silver, thy plains waving gold,
Thy lakes Heavens mirrors thy peaks towering bold;
Where the palms leaves greet the evergreen pe
refuge from OPPRESSION
Thou home of liberty;
Whose starry banner shelters
Freemen forever free!
I love thee, Columbia, for patriots died
TO wrest thee from tyrants that justice denied.
Thy bled to save, from disruption and shame,
Thy banner of stars and thy glory and fame,
That, still, from thy shores there may the
The watchword of freedom, the song of the Free
Chorus
l love thee, olumba. In progress and toll,
n love of
Lakes to the Gulf from Atlantics wild roar
To majestic Pacifcs gold-gistening shore
Were foe thee to threaten, thy name to despise,
Thy in invincibe ranks would arise
Chorus
I love thee Columbia, and, true eer to thee,
I'll strive for thy glory, land of the free.
May "Justce to ALL" be thy motto brave,
Where shall be master, and shall slave"
A Nation united, will stand
Our hearts pledged to thee, dear native land.
My own, loved country, thou the goal!
Throughout all the world spread the OF SOUL
o guide thou the nations and thou the light
That freedom and peace, with the blessing divine,
Prevail DER the earth and the glory be thine!
Chorus
BY HENRY G. KOsT.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
ABOUT PROFITEERING.


YOUNGSTOWN Democrat: The man
who prot1teers simply takes advantage
OF a public necessity in order to in
crease his private gains. The pro-
fiteer is no new figure in our national
life. He existed long before the war.
Before the nations struggled under the
weight of their present burdens pro-
fiteerlng was accounted-and by a
great many respectable people-as
simply smart business. 1t has taken
war time conditions to bring profiteer-
ing into disrepute; to put it under the
ban of public sentiment.
And yet all profiteering amounts to
the same thing in principle. The
moral aspect of it is not changed par
ticularly by whether or not nation
is or is not at war. It is wrong to
increase private gains during times OF
peace. If profiteering is frowned up
on just now, it is only because we
see an old acquaintance in a new light
There is another aspect in which
the public view has undergone re-
cent modification. Not only public
utilities but private corporations are
now rated upon the basis of their
ability to render real national serv-
ice. The corporation that declines to
serve is rated as unpatriotic. The in
dividual who shelters himself behind
his wealth and declines to serve is also
rated as unpatriotic; and there are
none who defend him.
War tends to emphasize the virtue
~
to the public veal; and by so doing
it throws a stronger glare upon sell
fishness. In times of peace a self in
terest that escapes by being classed
as fault is in times of war classed
as a crime. Yet the offense is one
that can differ only in degree.
''MUsT WORK" LAWS.
Railway Federationist: Must
Work" laws are becoming quite pop
ular with legislative bodies, and the
order "go to work at something use
full OR you will have to go to work
for Uncle Sam,' has become a slogan
among all classes Of people. Id1eness
is a crime against society if it is not
enforced idleness due to so-called
over-production.
Every able-bodied man, regardless
of his wealth, should be compelled to
as we'll as in time of war. Let the
slogan be for all time: "He that will
not work, neither shall he eat.''
OF course, it is self-evident that the
right to work is an inherent right
Mans life depends upon his ability
to perform useful labor unless he con-
trolls the means by which others live
Whosoever is denied the right to work
by others who deny him access tc
natures store-house, or prevent him
from using the tools fashioned by the
sons of toll, unless he pays tribute ir
the form of rent, interest and profit
to those who control them, is moi
| properly an object for punishment by
the state, but is, in truth, the victim
of diseased social order for which
society as whole is responsible.
Enforced idleness is evidence thai
our social and industrial structure
needs remodeling; more than that, il
! shows that industry has outgrown the
individualistic stage and must give
way to an entire new structure Of
society-a structure hased upon socia
ownership and democratic operation
of all industries.
! Let us insist that, "all must work,
not only during the period of the, war
but even when wars alarms shall
have been silenced.
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-27
PARTY OR GOVERNMENT,
WHICH?

The National Equity News: There
is no doubt any longer that a few
politicians are trying to place party
above patriotism.
Some of these politicians in con-
gress are saying that Baker is giving
a:d and comfort to the kaiser. They
are charging Creel, another man close
to the president, of giving aid to the
kaiser and in this connection, almost
charge the president of the same
thing. Must everyone who differs
from another be charged with pro-
Germanism or treason?
These same fellows who are backed
by big biz" have been instrumental
In charging the farmers as unpatri-
otto and slackers. Every one of you
know how unjust this charge is and
their bluff must be called, and while
We did not vote for Wilson We pro-
pose to stand by him to the last ditch
and declare here and now that in our
opinion "big biz together with
their hireHng editors of the average
daily papers q thousand times more
dangerous to- our democracy than all
the I. w. VS. and anarchists tcom-
bined. Z. ~ Z: asE@ -. @.'I2S.&
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-11
WAR ROADS TO Be
ONLY ONES BUILT
GOVERNMENT REQUESTS STATE
TO IMPROVE ONLY THOSE
OF MILITARY VALUE.
MUNITIoN SHIPMENT PLANNED
ABSOLUTELY Necessary That Roads to
States Gateways On South Be
Kept In Good Repair.

Lansing.-"War time" roads and no
others are " be built in Michigan this
year.
Commissioner of State Highways
Rogers has sent out letters to each
county commissioner asking for the
plans of the counties for the year The
letter was sent at the suggestion of
the government which has requested
that only war time" roads of military
or commercial value. be constructed.
1t means in Michigan that the roads
leading from the automobile manufac-
turing cities into Detroit, and from
those cities to the Lincoln highway
in Indiana will get most Of the road
building this year.
The government plans big move
ments of munitions out of this state
next summer by truck, and 1t is abso-
lutely necessary that the roads lead
ing to the gateways at the southern
edge of the state be kept In tip-top
shape.
With governmental control of rail-
roads, the government can dictate
where the roads shall be built.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-11

United States Presidential Elections.
The following is a brief description
Of the composition and functions OF
the electoral college of the United
States: On presidential election day
which occurs on the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, instead OF
voting directly for the president and
vice president, the qualified voters OF
each state vote for as many electors
as the state has senators and repre-.
sentatives In congress. The electors
thus chosen constitute the electoral col.
lege. These electors meet in their re.
spective states on the second Monday
In January following, and vote by bal.
lot for the two Offices. Three lists OF
the persons voted for, and the number
Of votes received by each are certified
and signed by all the electors and then
sealed. On the second Wednesday Of
February the lists are opened by the
president Of the senate In the pres.
ence Of the two houses Of congress.
The votes are then counted, and the
winning candidates declared duly elect.
ed. The names Of the presidential
candidates do not appear on the ballot
used at the election of the members of
the electoral college.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-11
GUARD OFFICERS TRANSFERRED
Commanders Of Michigan Companies
Are Re-Assigned.

Camp Macarthur. Waco, Texas
With the transfer of several Michigan
artillery officers to Wisconsin batter.
les within the Thirty-second division
there is a general impression here that
there Is to be sweeping shake-up
in the war departmnt's policy involv.
ing the assignment of officers In this
and all other national guard organiEa-
lions in the county.
That It will mean greater efficiency
II some of the officers commanding
their home town companies are trans
ferred to outfits from another state,
seems to be the opinion of the regular
army chieftains here, and they appear
to be ready to try the plan out on q
wide scale.
Reinstatement of 10 officers In the
Fifty-seventh artillery brigade Is the
first stop.
It Is pointed out that II the plan
II extended throughout the division 1t
will tend to eliminate completely any
trace OF state politics.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-11
STATE FACES HEAVY EXPENSE
Cost Of Maintaining institutions
Sure to Be High This Year.

Lansing-Michigan, as Q government
tai function, faces a year that is like
ly to prove the most strenuous In its
history.
From q standpoint of finances 1913
will be the most costly ever exper-
fenced by the state government. The
high cost of living, going upward az
It is, is bound to increase the cost Of
maintenance Of the various state hos
pitfalls for the insane and institutions
for the care Of unfortunates.
Then, too, the interest Of $500 900
worth of war loan bonds will have to
come out of the treasury this year.
The bonds bear per cent and thus
100000 will have to be put to that
use.
Some idea Of the amount of work
and expense the bond issue is going
to bring about may be gathered from
short statement regarding vouchers.
The bonds are held practically by
5000 holders. This will mean a
voucher for each of that number. This
year the audtor-generals vouchers ran
over $4,000, and are bound to increase
in 1918 without the bond vouchers.
In the legislative end of the govern
ment, the state will attempt for the
first time really to enforce state
wide dry" law. While Michigan was
"dry" once before, the histories tell US
that the enforcement of the law was
a joke. But the bone-dry law Of 1918
will not be a joke, II the preparations
which are already being made in state
departments can be taken as a criter-
Ion.
The enforcement of the lawIs in the
hands of the dairy and food commits
sioner, who is responsible to the gov
ernor. He must have a lot OF new
assistants.
Much will depend, of course, on the
assistance Of the local authorities.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-11

A petition was filed In the probate
court Friday asking that an admins.
traitor be appointed in the estate of the
late Robert Cameron of Byron. Mr.
Cameron died Dec. %. leaving an estate
estimated at $4,000. Of which s12. 000
is in realty. The heirs named in the
petition are Charles r. Cameron, q son,
Of Cohoctah township, Livingston coun'
~, Bertha May Ketchum, q daughter,
Of the same township; and the widow,
Mary v. Cameron Of Byron. Accord.
ing to an snte.nuptisl agreement the
widow has surrendered all her rights to
. dowery in the estate of the deceased
having received consideration. The
date set for the hearing is Feb. 4.
The will Of the l::te Oscar Bailey Of
Owosso, was offered for probate Friday
Mr.. Bailey died Dec. 20. leaving a will
dated Jan. 81: 1889 BY the terms his
estate, which is estimated at about
81, 800, is left mostly to his widow. Mer-
linda Bailey. Fifty dollars Is willed to
each of the two daughters, Hattie Sny-
der and Mary Edith Smith johnson.
Mrs. johnson lives in Detroit, which is
also the last known address Of Mrs.
Snyder and her three or four children.
A son. Fred Bailey who lives at the
county farm, receives 500 from the
estate. and thetresidoe goes TO the
widow,