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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
HEALTH INSURANCE IS
FAVORED BY DR.. HOWE

NEW YORK, April 1s.-Dr. Fred
eric C. Howe of the Federal depart
ment of labor, leading authority on
protective legislation for workers, has
replied to misrepresentation of his
position on health insurance, in the
following telegram to the San Fran
cisco Bulletin:
II have recently received copies of
the Bulletin in which Peter v. Ross,
member of the Christian Science pub
lcity committee, quotes passage
from one of my books and proceeds
to construe it as an indictment of
social health insurance, which he op-
poses. I have never written or spoken
word in opposition to health insnr-
ance: On the contrary, am strongly
in favor of it, and hope that you will
make this correction in your paper,
in which I have been put in a false
position by the gentleman who op-
poses it,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20

REJECTS DEATH BENEFIT.
CINCINNATI, April 1S.-The pro-
posal to establish a death benefit fund
has been rejected by a referendum
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EAT MORE: POTATOES!

Potatoes are good fuel. They fur
nish starch which burns in your MUS
Giles to let you work, much as the
gasoline burns in an automobile en-
CINE to make the car go:
One medium-sized potato gives you
as much starch as two slices Of bread.
When you have potatoes for meal
you need less bread.
They give; you salts like other vege-
tables. You need the salts to build
and renew all the parts of your body
and to keep it in order.
Potatoes at Their Best.
An old king is said to have tested
each cook before hiring him by asking
him to boil a potato. Even the best
potato can be spoiled by a poor cook.
To boil them so that they will be
''fit for king" drop the unpeeled po-
~tatoes into boiling sailed water and
cook twenty to thirty minutes. Drain
the water off at once. If they are
cooked too long or allowed to stand in
the water they get soggy.
: If you peel the potatoes before
cooking them YOU will waste time and
potatoes both. You may throw away
sixth or even a quarter Of the good
part of the potato with the skins.
Also, if the potatoes aren't covered
up by the skins while cooking, some
Of the valuable material will soak out
into the water. Even very small po-
tatoes can be economically used, if
they are boiled in their skins.
For best mashed potatoes, peel the
boiled potatoes, mash and beat until
very light, adding salt, butter or oleo-
margarine and hot milk. a half cup of
milk to six potatoes. If dinner is not
ready to serve, pile lightly in a pan
and set in the oven TO brown.
Potatoes are good in breads. Get
Farm ers' Bulletin No. S07,, BREAD and
Bread Making in the Home" from the
Department Of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. c., to learn how to make po-
tato yeast bread:
Potato Cornmeal Mullins.
Two tablespoons fat. tablespoon
sugar, egg, we'll beaten. l cup milk,
cup mashed potatoes. l cup corn
neal, 4 teaspoons baking powder, I
teaspoon salt.
Mix in order given. Bake forty
minutes in hot oven. This makes
twelve mullins. They are delicious.
Pota toes are good in cake. They
are often used this way to keep the
cake from drying out quickly. Mash
the potatoes and beat up with milk
until very light. You can use your
usual cake recipe, substituting one
cup:of mashed potatoes for one-half
+ cup of milk and one-half cup Of -four.
I Potatoes, left over or fresh, may be
! combined with cheese or nuts or meat
or other material, often to make the
| main dish of meal
Because of the fact that there
are enormous stores of potatoes in
Minnesota. and a corresponding short
age of wheat, consumers are being
urged by the United States Food Ad-
ministration to increase the consump-
ton of potatoes, which: at present are
being retailed at unusually. low prices:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
PRESIDENT APPROVES
PLANS FOR PROTECTING
CHILDREN OF COUNTRY

President Wilson has sent the
following letter to Secretary of
Labor Wilson,:
The White House,
Washington March 20, 1918.
My dear Mr.. Secretary: Next to
sible for the soldiers at the front.
there could be, it seems to me, no
more patriotic duty than that of
protecting the children, who con-
stitute one third of our population.
in England in behalf of the chill
dren is evidenced by the fact that
the infant death rate in England
for the second year of the war was
the lowest in her history. Atten-
ton is now being given to educa-
dren by the legislatures of both
France and England, showing. that
the conviction among the allies is
that the protection Of childhood is
essential to winning the war.
l am very glad that the same
this country, and heartily APP
prove the plan Of the Children's
Bureau and the Woman's Commit
tee Of the Council. of National De-
Tense for making the second year
on behalf of children, and in that
sense a. children year.
I trust that the year will not
only see the goal reached of saw
ing 100000 lives of infants and
young children, but that the work
set up certain irreducible p1ini-
mum Standards for the health, edu-.
cation, and work of the American
S So3's c0rdi7 W6oDR RS W vnfss9!y
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
RAILROAD SHOPMEN ARE =.
RAPIDLY ORGANIZING

PITTSBURGH April >1's:-The five
principal shops of the Pennsylvania
railroad have. been nearly IS per
cent organize dssince the government
took control sof the railroads. These
shops are located at"Columbus. Ohio,
and Fort Wayne, Terre Haute. Lo-
gansport and Indianapolis, Ind.
The Pennsylvania railroad under
private management has camoufla ged
its anti-unioism with "open shop"
claims, but the increase of trade un-
ionism along this line indicates the
sentiment of employees when privileged
to act as free men.
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great food-producing states. The re-
ports of Prof. Elwood Mead of the
University of California, the testimony
Of Commissioner Herbert Quick of the
Federal Farm Loan board, the reports
of the department of agriculture, all
show that the best agricultural land
in this country is being monopolized
in the hands of comparatively few
men; that vastacreages of it are held
out of use by specializing owners at
prohibitive prices, and that farming
has become an almost utterly pro-
hibited business for the man without
considerable capital.
How, then, can we expect American
workers to engage in farm labor?
Government Investigations have
shown that there are plenty of men
in the country-labor shortages are
matter Of faulty distribution of
labor, not actual shortage. How can
farming be made so attractive that it
will automatically draw to it the
of the sort that can
be converted into good citizens, good
neighbours, understanding democrats?
Must Impose. Tax.
Is it not tinae for the state and
federal governments to open land to
the people by forcing spectators and
absentee landlords to relinquish their
grip? Is it not time to follow Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Western Canada
and Denmark in the imposition Of a
tax: on land values that will penalize
the man who holds land out of use
and force him to dispose of it at a
reasonable price? We have the land;
we have the men; what we lack is
system of land tenure that will per-
NIT the poor man, the man of moder-
ate means, to acquire farm with
some reasonable prospect that he will
succeed. This requires not oaly land
value taxation, to take the water out
of land values, but the exemption of
all farm improvements from tax
ation,--the tax burden so removed
from enterprise to be spread over land
itself, and just as heavily on land
unused as on land that is cultivated.
Land value taxation might not har-
vest this years crops by increasing
the number OF working farmers. But
it certainly would increase next years
supply Of food. And it is the only
measure that can save the farming
industry in this country from ultin1-
ate disaster, of which Chinese labor
would be only one feature.
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vote of the International Union O:
United Brewery and Soft Drink
Workers. The vote was 6,S62 for and
1892 against.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
CAN increase FOOD SUPPLY
BY TAXATION Of ullUSEDlA NDS
Present System Of Land Tenure Prevents Poor Men From
Entering Agricultural Pursuits: Land Specu-
Iators Should Be Pena|zed.

NEW YORK. April 1S.-The i'm
minence Of another serious race prob
lem, involving sharp controversies
and additional bitterness between
classes, is with us today as the result
of our faulty system Of land tenure
and the decay of agriculture as a field
for the average man.
Genuine alarm il felt III farming
and food distributing circles of the
Pacific Coast states over the shortage
in farm labor and the prospect that
it will be impossible this year to har-
vest the grains and fruits of the great
foodproducing districts OF these
states.
Land, in California is held in large
tracts and owned largely by men Of
substantial wealth. To harvest their
crops with the aid of men resident in
the community is out Of the question
They depend upon the great army Of
migratory laborers who are also the
backbone of other important western
industries. These 1aborers have gone
from harvest to harvest or from lum-
Der camp to construction camp, lead
ing the lives of vagabonds, finding it
living most Of the time in insanitary
quarters. This year they are other
wise employed, and their desertion
from the migratory labor field threat
ems serious economic crisis.
Urges Coolie Labor.
Wheat and dried fruits from the
Pacific coast are important items in
the feeding Of the armies and our
allies. To meet the situation, the
farm labor committee Of the California
state council Of defense has brought
in a report urging the importation Of
Chinese labor. The plan has been
Endorsed also by e. H. Gary, chair
man Of the board Of directors Of the
steel corporation. The acute need for
farm labor is seized upon as the en-
tering wedge for a policy of whole
sale importations. Powerful interests
are for letting down. the floodgates
and diluting Americas labor force
and it's racial stock with millions Of
Chinese. Regardless Of the abstract
right or wrong OF restrictions on such
immigration, all liberal thinkers are
agreed that for the present a policy
of encouraging Chinese immigration
would immensely .complicate and in
:tensify some Of our most acute social
and economic problems.
Only Rich Men Can Farm.
The California problem is little diff
ferent from that in Texas and other
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
windy CITY: PIANO
WORKERS STRIKE.
Chicago Federation Of Labor
Urges Boycott Against Lyon
& Aealy Company.

All workingmen are requested and
dmonlshed not to purchase pianos
1ade by the Lyon Il --ealy Piano
company of Chicago, in an appeal by
he Chicago Federation Of Labor.
1t is stat: d that this concern en-
aged superintendent who changed
he method of work from piece and
ay work system to the contract or
weating system, accompanied by a
age adjustments, which was in
eality wage reduction. The en-
loyes who protested were discharged
nd gunner were employed to intim-
late the workers.
The concern. which pays the low
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
WANT WAGE LAW ENFORCED.

DETROIT, Mich., April 1S.|The
local federation of labor has asked
the city attorney to enforce the min
mum wage law. This act was writ
ten into the city charter, two years
ago, by a. vote of the people and has
been resisted by city officials since
that TIME. AS the law provides for
the prevailing wage to city employees,
anti-union employers are not inter-
ested in this law enforcement.
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est wages in Chicago for its class Of
work, refused to arbitrate the differ
ences with it's employees, and the l;.t-
ter were forced to strike last Octo-.
Der. The strike is still effective, hav-
ing simmered down to a fight be-
tween the Chicago labor movement
and the Illinois Manufacturers asso-
citation.
All workers are urged to aid the
striking employees Of the Lyon e
Healy Piano company by not patron
izing the products of the concern.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20

President Wilson has sent the
following letter to Secretary of
Labor Wilson:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
TWIN Cities UNIONS TO
VOTE ON GENERAL STRIKE

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 1S.-st.
Paul and Minneapolis labor union
men were late Saturday ordered to
vote as to whether they will declare
a, general sympathetic strike, designed
to end the street car controversy.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
WHY WAGES WE'RE RAISED.

DAYTON, Ohio, April 1S.-The
Dayton Street Railway company has
raised wages 2 cents an hour without
solicitation by it's employees.
Local trade unionists are associat-
ing this action with the appearance
in this city of representatives of the
Street Car Mems union. 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
WISCONSIN IS LOYAL;
MANY BADcER' SOLDIERS:

MADISON. Wis.,. April 49,
While loyalty of this state IL be-
ing discussed by people who judge
Of a few surface occurrences. Ail-
jutant General Orlando Holway
states that every fifteenth Ameri-
can soldier In France Is from Wis.,
CONAN.
Lieutenant George N. Wiechelt
reports that Milwaukee has ex-
ceeded its quota for the navy by.
a big margin and that nowhere
has he found better cooperation
md more enthusiastic support of
the government than in that city.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-20
BLACKsAIITHs RAISE WAGES.

WHEELING, W: Va, April. is
Striking blacksmiths employed at the
Peninsular plant of the. Wheeling
Mold & Foundry company have Sc
cured a. union shop agreement and
raised wages 5 cents an hour. ~,
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-09-26
Three West VHginIanS
And Lansing CO. Boy
Located in Germany

WASHINGTON. sept. 2a.-HhrncS ~
II additional American soldiers hrih
prisoner in ';"Ilnan%. announced t"GhF
hy the war department. included inc
following:
camp Acknowledgement /. II. Rose
Eryno}dsvll". IA: PrIvatcs Thomas y.
Phillips. Philadelphia: trentl Shc'"r.
WINNERS. Pa: Robert Trainer 'orli"rcd
Ia h" l;rh"rr T.. Train"rt. Allentown. "a
Emil Srvrits tb"Iirvrd 10 h" Earl NJ.
Srv"its,. i!rrlin. Ia. Homer y. Shaiicr
Garrett. Ia. Steve Sullivan. west
Rridgcwatrr. IA. Russell H. Wagner.
l;radins, Pa: George McQnrstion The
llry"d to- l,r Gc,rrE" II. MrOucSti"nl. ON
r,uuatl. O.. C'lur"rr" II. Iinkcn. BEAVER.
IA. Werner Weston thlicvsd I" d.
Warner =. WeStonl. Alt""na. Pa; I'"rt
y Ferris. Elmor". O.; t;'rrg" l"ngslr".
shelby. g.. Ralph T. Hurry. Frrnsl"y.
W. Va; Louis j. C;nrInicy. l'hiladhinhia'
Antonio L'yrrl. t;r,ys Landing. Pa; FL
inrr l.. Gurvrr. New brighton. Pa: Ed
ward M"r"E and Angel" s. P;t'lnne'
Philadelphia. f'r"d ii"dgson. Scranton
Pa. Glwrod r.. lIunn"ll. CUlumhis
county. Pa. William Stauffer. Willow
Grove. Pa: Joseph THrtaEitn. ihiladcl-
phia; F:midi" Tcnn bio, Budm"n'. "a
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A POSSIBLE AUSTRIAN
PEACE

II Austria wants peace there is q
way by which she can get it quickly.
That is to renounce the Hun and all
his works. and throw herself on the
mercy of the allies. She will have TO
restore italian territory TO Italy, Ser
bian territory to Serbia, and to grant
some form Of autonomy 10 the Poles
and to the Czecho-Slovaks. However.
she is going to have 10 do these things
sooner OF later. The sufertngs OF her
people through another year OF war
fare will only add 10. instead OF
tighten her burden. It is not imposSt
hle that Ausuia's internal conditions
may force her to seek a separate
peace. While more highly developed
than Russia. the Austro-Hungarian
state has not the wealth OF materials
and manufacturing resources OF Ger
many. Austria has been bankrupt for
more than two years. Austrian paper
money is practically worthless. An
Austrian bond issue now would be an
inpossibility. The government IS
maintaining itself simply BY taking
from the people what il can take. The
Confederacy maintained itself in that
way during the last days Of 1864 and
SIS. 4 nation can fight on when its
credit is gone and its resources have
been wasted, but the result is newt
able.
\ new peace proposal from Austria
would be certain if the allies we're in
a position to grant easy terms. But
easy terms are not possible. Austria
will be broken up. She will never
again exist as the ruler Of dozen
subject peoples. held in subsection by
the denial of all political and COM
mcrcial rights, and all military oppor-
tunitieS.
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RIPPING RHYMES
py WALT MASON.
Using THEM ALL.

The fires of c0nnmrr"" hay" 10 hnrn'
the wheels If induS;r r. must luTn. though
all our strong men shoulder arms. aul
leave the ritics and IN" farms ana
cross tho oceans briny trough. /" SHOW
the Hun whore IN gets off The mills
must grind. the FORCES glow. though all
the Young and Slulwart go. :" any man
who has his head may ind Il plar" 10
earn his bread. The Crpplrs who III
peaceful days were jnstl"d from our busy
ways. have found n useful place at last.
wherein they may forget tn" pass.
nun may earn his bread and nra though
SHY Of sundry hands and feet. The halt.
the spawned AMI tn" lame. once more
get in lif"'s busy game. and earn their
share Of useful mon. and h"lp I" over
whelm the Hun. old ErTtnddRu. who's
been ShcIvcd for years. nEd VINO "nr"un-
tered hrarllrSS j"crS. when h" insisted.
and repeat. that hr WIS StIll as good
rs wheat has left his Chnir and inEle-
monk. his SprrlarlrS and d"g-"arrd book.
and now he's showing AL the town that
DSler was a lncord rluwn. The world
won't siaud for wanted men. until sweet
Pence, comes back again. THAT member
Of III" humau race who has the strength
tn f"c, his face. has strength To du
some helpful stunt and aid III" armies
n, he front.
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SOLID DELEGATION REPUBLICAN
COAL IN THE ". Va. CAMP A|GN

than did the two Democratic 'ir"
hers on tho delegation. Nicely and l-'F
tlcpage. IN.
on the eight measures selected ny
h.. National Security League as p'' u,
mount in making up tn" loFh4tS
the record showed that Nicely E"''u
wrong on four Of III" eight and LA
page on three of chem. H"WrrS ~
and t,ooper voted right on all eight OF
them and woodward on Al! but one ~
cnrdinE to the league statement.
So. inStcnd of tho Bowman nasty
and vicious assaults on woodward hu''-
ms, hin, and helping his opponent anu
the lat;rr'S party they helped " 'oo
yard By directing public ATTENTION. !"
the true facts Of the record not only
hclncd him, but helped every other hc'
publican cand idate and the party u
self But il certainly didn't help .Ne'N
and L!ttlcpaGc any and has put 'hcN'
on tho defensive. The denouerncnt
came carly, THANKS I" thn III
plan of campaign that HnW1nan start
cd on, 10 make. and IN" Republican
Marty in general. and Mr.. woodward IN
particular is enjoying n favorable pres
lign and advantage AT the outset ol me
campaign which they mean to hold.
Charles y. Schuck in thc First dis-
trict and Hon. l.. s. Echois. the re
publican candidate in tho sixth MS
,rict. haxn been quick I" take adNah-
tage Of Whist Bnwman's attack on
woodward in the Fourth disclosed IN
regard to the official record OF Nce'!
and I,ittlepaEe. They are making the
most of it. and not hcransH al ma
particularly. but bccaus" "f tho agErcS-
siyc and effective campaigns MnSsrS.
Schuck and Erhols arc making. the pen
that they have put into 1t from IN"
start and the high hop" OF success lneS
have aroused in the party. Their" rs
steadily growing confidence on the pafe
Of Republican leaders that the flrSt
and Sixth districts, normally and NJ
heart Republican. will he r"dernlcu
this wear The party organization Is
said 10 u" in better shane IN thoSe '"'
districts than it has h"cn for years
Fayrtte county. under the leadership
n N-iuiam McKclI and his associates.
is in finer condition than il has been
IN a decade. and MT. Nickel has prom
,sod that i, will come UP with an Old
fashioned Republican majority hc
Same thing Is said 10 b" true or ha-
nawha and Raleigh counties. indeed
every report from the Sixth dlStrnct ~
tha. tho Republican party is gong
"ovcr tho top" with C.andidat" Echola
FOR n clcan-un Ike the boys did IN the
ST Mihiel salient.
.rhcs, ,rc some Of tho high lights IN
,h,. situation as seen ny the politicians
md rxnlain In brief ard curSorE
fashion why Republican confidence IS
go strong and Republican hopes are
20 high: why heir goal has been set
for "A solid Republican aclrEahnn
representation in tho Scnat" and mousse
without break in party lines; MAJOR
F1kins and Charley Schuck. Ge"rG"
Rovcrs. Stuart Rocd. Harry Woodward
Wells Goodykoontz and l.. :. Ech"'S
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tho entire German people that they ha1
bc..n made tho victims at u robbers w;tr-
fare"
In other words. the German Social.
ist really thinks it would be a rob
bers' warfare" if Germany is made I'D
pay some small price for her despcr-
ate world adventure Having gambled
and lost. having played with tremen-
dous stakes. beaten Germany must
te given back all she had before. and
DO put in a position 10 make another
attack upon humanity. If this is the
German idea Of peace. it would in
deed be interesting TO learn the Ger
man idea of peace. based on German
victory. However, We need not ser
iously consider German peace propa-
eanda now. The peace terms will be
written in Berlin, but they will be
written in a spirit Of retributon for
every act Of aggression. for every
brutal crime committed. and every
drop Of innocent blood shed by Ger
many.
Conspiracy against the peace OF the
world cannot 20 uppunished. The. con-
spirators, big and little. must pay such
penalty that would be imitators for
decades to come, will remember. and
shrink from the risk.
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THE BOLSHEVIK TYRANNY

News comes from Russia that the
constituent assembly which was for
chilly dissolved BY the Bolsheviki is
being reorganized. and IN fact is again
Il force in Russian affairs. The con-
stituent assembly was the legislative
body chosen by the vote Of the Rus
sian people-a vote in which men OF
every rank and class, from the village
peasant to the proudest grand duke.
shared. In the constituent assembly
the Bolshevik, representing the ex-
IRENE radical elements of Russian
life, we're only a handful. They made
up. however, in daring reckessress
and absolute disregard for law and
order for their lack Of numbers
Supported by the Red Guards Of
Petrograd and Moscow, the Rolshevik
first drove from the constituent as
sembly all men of the property own
ing. manufacturing and commercial
classes. and later dissolved the assem-
bly, itself, proclaiming that all political
power rested in the Soriets. The
Soviets are simply the local counseis
OF peasants and workmen. No mer'
chant. land owner. teacher or profess
s;onal man is a member or has voice
in their so-called deliberations. The
Soviet government is Il government
from which the industrial genius. the
business experience and the executive
capacity OF the Russian nation is e1-
Guided. II is a class tyranny. as I'M
inst and as hateful As the class tyranny
Of the old Russian bureaucracy ever
was. AS it totters 10 its fall the Boil
sherik government seeks madly to de-
stroy all which oppose or who fail 10
support it. Like every reign Of ter
ror. the Bolshevik terror must soon
end. Free government will be re-
stored in Russia The great American
Republic can do nothing more worthy
than to lend it's aid to the esta bltsh-
nent OF a government in which all in
telligent and patriotic Russians may
share.