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WILL ORGANIZE
STEEL INDUSTRY
Big Movement Planned to Union
ize Men in Steel Corpora
tion Plants.

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Under in
structions of the last convention of
the A. F. of L., President Gompers
called a conference of representatives
IF iron and steel trade unions to ar
':ange for nationwide organizing
campaign against the steel trust.
The following international unions
we're represented at this conference:
8lacksmiths, boiler makers, electri-
,al workers, machinists, molders,
luarrymen, seamen, firemen, station
Try firemen, steam engineers, struc-
ural iron workers., railway carmen,
plumbers and steam filters, steam
shovel and dredgemen; mine, mill and
melter men and iron, tin and steel
workers.. Representatives of the Chi
ago Federation of Labor and Build
ng Trades council were also present.
"A national committee was formed
nd President Gompers was selected
chairman and w. T. Foster, repre-
entfng the railway carmen, secretary
reasurer. This committee will con-
ist Of one member of the co-operat-
= ng tnternationals and will have COM
Iete charge of the campaign.
The committee has invited other
hternationals to join in this move
nent Offices will be esta blished and
oeal organizing committees will .be
let up in Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chi
ago, Bethlehem, Youngstown, Buff
alo, Alabama and Minnesota, and as
- ne campaign progresses, - in other
trongholds of the steel interests.
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EARNS MlLL6>> A MONTH;
PAYS LABOR A PHEANCE
Big Corn Products Concern Put on Pan for Failure
to Recognize Claims Of Labor for Slightly More
Than Living Wage.

WASHINGTON, Aug 22The net earnings of the Corn Prod
uc Refining taking its profits amount
to 100000 month for the past months according to the
treasuters statement We think the well afford
share these profits with the workers who produced hem said
Miss Ida a organizer from the National Wqmen Trade league
who Of the elected of the workers. made the
concluding statement their against the Corp Products
at tn hearing before the National War Labor board yesterdays
II think dead right the somewhat surprising reply
of the young president G. NJ Moff of New York
And therefore ask the board award merely living
but fair of the living and the
earnings continued President G. Galloway of the Granite City
(nl Labor union, chairman of the workers. committee.
But the young president Of the Notwithstanding
his justice sharing his profits with the workers.
showed true to employer form his final statements eve ask
the board fix scale corresponding the scale
plants similar those Of the Corn Products he said
his conclusion of not compel this company
to pay than other manufacturers paying''
Four of the five plants operated by the Corn Products
namely those Granite City, Ago and Pein Ill., and Edgewater
Jwer the hearing which granted at the
workers order settle disputes Of oppressive
labor conditions Of long standing No anywhere in the United
Sate declared President John Fitzpatrick Of the Chicago Fedora
ito Of Labor oe there exist condition Of completely
troled labor than the Argo plant Of the Corn Products Refining
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TRADES
T0.AD0PT=ElGhT'-: :
HOUR WORK DAY
Survey and Report in Milwaukee
influences Employers to
Change Schedule.
Special to The Labor World.

special to inc LABOR NOrl1.
MILWAUKEE,, Aug. 24.-Info"ma-
tion to the effect that the metal
trade shops in Milwaukee engaged in
war contracts had adopted the basic
eight-hour day beginning August /,
1918, came as ray of clear light in
to situation hitherto rather clouded.
Fer large part of the peculiar
and unsavory reputation which has
collie to Milwaukee was due to the in
dustrial conditions there, and the
frank profiteering attitude taken by
employers of labor in the big leather
an: iron industries.
A study of the local facts and in
ments, led to some correspondence
with the war department and other
federal officials The outcome was
the appointment Of committee to
consider, draft and report resolutions
on the subject Of the basic eight-hour
day as related to =: contracts.
AS a result the entire question was
carefully studied and the material
on which proper resolutions should
De DaSed was accumulated.
Many employers whose loyalty to
the government and the purposes Of
the war could not be questioned, had
not then made any adequate study
OF the eight-hour day and it's c ,cts.
One such employer, cut of patience
with many of the men in his factory
in respect to their opposition to the
prosecution of the. ::g"r, when asked
to consider the advisability of in
Producing the basic eight-hour day
in his factory, remarked bitterly, 1T
is not the eight day they care
for give 'em that and they'll howl
about som mething else showing that
he had no. conception -of the factors
involved.
1t is now evide.,t that all of this
personal and other educational work
has helped to. bring about the pres
ent 'esults. .,hich. after+all is simply
! following the British war experience.
Now that this, result has been
gained, and it becomes possible to
measure the effects it may be that
f<employers in Milwaukee and other
cities will begin to understand that
1t is not entirely to their disadvan-
tage to introduce the eight-hour day
generally as the rule of American in
! dustrial life.
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LABOR OPPOSES
/: WORK OR FIGHT CLAUSE
4. =: Of L. Officers Declare 1t Will Put American
Labor in False Light Before Workers Of the
World-No Labor CONSUMPTION in U:7S:@

WASHINGTON, Aug 22-Organized Labor emphatic decara-
en to the work fight amendment the bill
extending the draft the military
tee Tuesday by Frank Morrison secretary of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor.
declared that the provision inserted by committee auhorz
withdrawal of deferred classification from
and transcription Of labor in covert which would be
resented of the country He suggested that special
interests secretly pressing antlabor legislation
After discussing problems of educating drafted youths with Dr.
e. Mann OF the departments committee education the
committee closed its hearings and began work bill prob
ably will be reported in few days for immediate consideration
the house. The will take the Thursday
Morrison referred to the probable International effect of the
work or fight provision
1t will make the world and allies believe us
he said t asked by the government which
esd the ndusret concrpton: Who asking this? l.
the Colorado Fuel company the great steel trust?
He asked the amendment adopted soldiers Of democ
would be used breakers Citing the pledge
labor made at beginning Of the he added: -
Labor has kept faith Labor concrpton asked by the
government and not This the United States not Ger
many
enacted the amendment would be used bv eyerv unfair
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:S.PAlttul|lloN.=... / ! ] \ !.
. LABOR INFORM: |:
DETERIORATION r
Senator Jones Beads the Lion
In His Den: Breaks Into
saimlJ;|fllIlyj::

ST. PAUL, Aug. -22.-Union> labor
men from twenty organizations iii st.
Paul have declared their intentions
Of working for prohibition in their
own craft, it was anneunced last night
at meeting of the Frade Union Dry
league of Ramsey cbunty At the st.
Paul Y. M. G. A.: 4 permanent or
ganization was formdR and resolutions
were unanimously adopted declaring
that the Trade Uni4n Dry league is
unalterably opposed to the liquor
traffic because it. prl vents the growth
of the labor moven int and causes
many labor leaders q forget the prin-
ciples for which organized labor
stands. Support: was! promised the
Ramsey country dry committee.
Senator Richard Jones, manager Of
the Minnesota Dry Federation, who is
president of the Trade Union Dry
League of America, with branches in
18 states, told Of the wonderful growth
Of the labor organizations in dry states
and ,refuted the argument Of unem-
ployment by quoting from labor lead
ers in Colorado, Louisiana, Washing
ton and Oregon.
The following officers were elected:
G. Hood Thompson,:,t stone cutters.
president; c. r. Dewey, railway teleg-
raphers, secretary; q. E. Loye, loco-
motive engineer; George James, photo
engraver: Joseph Maiden, printer and
former vice president state Federation
Of Labor; CT. Johnson, retail clerk;
James Burrows, carpenter G.. p,
'Foote, LOCOMOTIVES engineer; Thomas
Hail.: stone cutter" C. eR: Hubbard
commercial telegrapher,. and G! w.
Jensen, railway+telegraphe members
of the executive committee:
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: ' .. =:
!. MINERS.
UNION 'ENLISTS
Charter Granted TO o<130 Union
Miners When They Sail
for>France.
to The Labor World.

DENVER, Aug. 24.-One whole
local union of the Internationa! Union
Of Mill, Mine and Smelter Workers
has gone to France. Every member
pf this union was a volunteer in the
Tive .lty-seventh Mining Engineers
Corps in the United States army.
The miners, coming from various
local union were stationed at Camp
Meade, Colorado. They applied to
headquarters for a separate charter
and it was issued to them by Presi-
dent Charles H. Meyer and Secretary
Ernest Mills. President Meyer be-
heves this is the only complete union
III the army. .
There are .130 members in this
soldier-miner union, each with a card
paid up for the duration Of the war.
Their. charter has gone with them to
France. While at Camp Meade the
union held regular meetings, but
with the beginning Of service over
seas the mem bers will be simply SOL
diefs with union mem mbership- but
with the 1pirit OF trade unlonism
running strong to- inspire: them in
their work., ~;;.:.:..
=; President. Meyer r. believes that
nothing: better typifies the spirit of
labor in the war: than this union Of
soldiers, which he believes is the only
one in the army. . y. ~:-5.
y so far az is known here there is
no precedent for; the action of this
local union in this; country. During
fthe = .Constitutionalist RESOLUTION in
Mexico. however, unions; enlisted in
the revolution as unions, and fought
under thir union banners, ~sthe Casa
del Obrero Mundial l4Iouse Of the
Workers 81 tthe World > federation
OF unions) havi :: ,ad q signed con-
tract with the revolutionary pro-
,visional govefnment@ recognizing mu-
tua1ity of Aims. =, - s,. /s,ss;-
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By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.

representing the government, the employers and
the worknen, that there Nould be 81 inquiry
into the working of the rationing system. The
committee has been appointed and IS ready for
work. = -. ~ = " = s<'> >>','
This failure of an attempt at q national strike
on mere sectional question is clear proof that
that the pacifist element in labor ranks has lost
ground in the past few months. Nevertheless,
it is active in certain areas, and while it cannot
achieve it's declared aim of peace by2negotiation
it takes. advantage Of any industrial unrest to
stir up trouble. -.:-s.: .:-.-,:~m@~.
Although the British people are very toler-
ant, the Limit to their patience has been reached.
Any recurrence of the--recent movement would
give the government the, overwhelming support
of the workers, should it decide drastic action
against the pacifist agitators. rs :.
- Discussion of the proposed International So
:cialst conference continues, the main point Of in
terest being the attitude of the German major,
ity Socialists Arthur Henderson states that the
German Socialists have adopted more sympa-
thetic attitude toward he:aAied labor war claims
memorandum, but an official letter from Her:
man Muller, member of the executive committee
Of the German Socialists INDICATES THAT:
THE PARTY STILL. HOLDS sTHE,sSAME
PEACE VIEWS 1T HANDED THE STOCK
HOLM COMMITTEE LAST YEAR: : dis.
crepancy which naturally does not tend to make
the proposed international conference any easier.
$40 81"
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lprofiteering employer, 1t is. being
used today by the Bethlehem com
pahy. Understand, I want it made
clear that we do not protest against
the; men going back to- fight, but
against placing an employer III a posi-
ton to brand his employees as slack
ers. =:
How to Reach Idlers.
In case of5strtk6s Mr::aAforrison said,
very few cases would occur where the
men would refuse to work pending ad-
justment by the war labor board. If
the men should refuse to work he
said, the existing draft regulations
could be invoked and that further
legislation is unnecessary.
Representative Harrison Of vir-
ginia called attention to Secretary
Bakers statement denying that, the
senate amendment is labor con-
scription plan, but Mr.. Morri4 in
sisted that it would be consea tion
and would be used as such bye1llfair
employers. Mr.. Harrison declared: if
reasons for exemption of workmen
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(By Gable to the Labor Worldly


LONDON, Aug. 22.-During the past week
considerable unrest in munition manufacturing
areas, which eliminated in a. short-lived strike
in Coventry and Birmingham, due to the decision
of the government to ration skilled labor in war
material, has been seized upon by few pacifist
agitators as an excuse for protest against .'in-
dustrial conscription.'
The governments regulation was intended to
prevent any: firm or combination from securing
corner in the market in skilled mechanics.
This agitation was rendered easier by an ILL:
advised and incorrect notice by one of the ra-
toned firms. Before the true explanation could
be issued several thousand men had left work
The Coventry delegates sought the support
of other districts. The overwhelming majority:
of the workers, however, was strongly against a.
strike ,-.-: -~~--:--.
The public displayed such hostility toward
the attitude of the strikers that the strike rapidly
collapsed The Coventry and Birmingham men
have returned to work rk.
The government plainly stated that the ra-
tioning of skilled labor was not intended to in.
fringe upon the rights of trade unionists, and also
that men who left their employment were acting
hostilely, not toward the employers, but toward
the state, therefore making them liable to mill
tary service: .,...,.=.
The promise was made by the joint committee
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union LABOR DEFEATS
CONGRESSMAN B0RLANO

; KANSAS CITY, Aug. 22.-Con-
gresham oBrland has been over
whelmingly defeated for denomination
in the primaries Of his party. The
lawmaker was confronted with his
attempt to force federal employees to
work longer hours with no overtime
under the plea If deficiency" This
proposal was 1.s-ached to the legis-
lative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill, which was vetoed by
President Wilson, who said that the
government should not reduce work.
ing standards in these times when it
was calling on private employers to
maintain working standards.
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Two
committees of telephone workers,
representing the joint council of tel
ephone workers of New England and
the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers., arrived in Wash
ington today for a conference with
Postmaster General Burleson for the
purpose Of urging. that the telephone
and telegraph administration estab-
liish similar machinery to that set
up by the railroad administration for
adjustment of wages and working
conditions. The conference is sought
particularly because of the xdiscrimi-
nation practiced by telephone COM
panies on ths.-Pacific coast, where
girls active In connection with the
recent strikes at Seattle ana Port
land have not been reinstated.: -: i -
The telephone operators. are rep
resented by q committee OF women
which IS headed by BY Miss Julia o'Con-
nor of Boston, president Of: the Tel
ephone Operators department Of the
International Brotherhood Of E1ec-
trical Workers and mem ber~Eof the
executive board of the National Wom-
ems Trade Union: league. Miss Mary
Mahoney and Miss May Matthews, also
Of Boston, are the other two members
of the committee, which represents
81 locals Of organized telephone op-
orators. T.: ~ <..'.@'*ss .<z-:tsss -;
The mems committee, representing
the joint council Of Electrical Wark-
ers of New England numbering 10;-
900 workers, iSheaded by George =.
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UNION LABOR MANFouNDS =:
mo COMPROMISE" WAR CLUB

FLINT, Mich, Aug. 22.-Hugh
Drummond, president of the Flint
Federation of Labor and member Of
the charter revision commission, is a
founder Of the Unconditional Surren-
der club, whic has won the indorse-
ment of President Wilson and the ad-
miration of patriots.
Certainly I believe in unconditional
surrender he says. America can
accept no other solution of this war
with safety. We are seeing in Rus
sia the. tragic result of a negotiated
peace with Germany. No nation which
holds treaties to be scraps Of paper
can be trusted to keep a bargain Me
for absolute surrender
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PATRIOTISM OF LABOR Will WIN FREEDOMS war
No. IS i . = ~ - - :. "
=
Con,n'ends Goni,pers
and Praises Labor

NEW YORK, :. Aug. ~. The
'patriotic and contructive attitude
of the American labor movement
under the leadership Z; of Samuel
Gompers," was commended in res
olptions adopted at a conference
held last night by the National Civil
federation and made public tonight.
The purpose of the conference, it
was announced, was to consider
vital industrial and war problems
and to meet the commission that is
soon to sail for England, France and
Italy under the craftsmanship of
Mr.. Gompers.
The resolutions appealed for
moral and material support of the
people Of Russia.
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NEW. 1fQRK ..aE.1-221 Uncle,
Sam sdoesnot propose to have his
soldie aontnaot puedd mol1ia and
othersIlS beeSsnse- q profiteer-
ing and ring %ofs ahcoeat max: NAL !.
ers, and he h4ordHrel1 an inspection
Of all *milltarS siincooaats held in this
city ssdpfs;s "a sslt,lipnaent! Government
ageptsst1ast week esported that they
examined 55,587 coats manufac->
tured by 10 different concerns, and
that 28,e25, or slightly In excess OF
81 per cent, were found to be unfit
for service . In one instance so per
cent Of the coats made BY one con-
Germ were defective while in several
cases two out of every three coat
were rejected. The inspection will
be continued until every coat Is
passed upon. =
To date 2S arrests have been
made in connection with this mean
est form OF graft.
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PROPERTY, wealth AND
AREA OF. FIGHTING NATIONS

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. - The
treasury department states that the
entente allies excluding Russia and
only those British donlinfons
whichgars salf-EeyerainE ana;nn,S the
United States propef--have* '11,,OoQ,-
1000 square miles of Territory, 303, 900
900: people and $4s5,ooo,0oo.ooo~ Of
national wealth..
The central powers have 1850, 900
square miles Of territory, 147,o0o,000
people and $4,000, 600, 900 pf ma
tional wealth. "
The entente owe an aggregate debt
Of 69,000,000,000, which is about IA
per cent of their total assets. The CEN
trail powers owe $4,000, 100000 or %
percent of their national wealth.
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The committee representing the
workers numbered 27, headed by
President Fitzpatrick. Although there
were two delegations from Argo, one
from the organized workers and one
from the unorganized, and although
Pekin and Edgewater sent nOnunion
repreenta tives, all the delegations,
after conference among themselves in
81 Washington, subscribed unanimously
to the demands to be submitted to
the company.
Vice President Moffett and the four
plant superintendents, repreenting the
company, agreed to a number of the
demands of the workers. The prin-
cipal questions left to be settled by
the national war labor board are the
reinstatement of employees dismissed
for union activity, the method of fu-
ture arbitration of disputes, the spe-
eific application of the principle of
equal pay for equal work, and the
wage scale throughout. The company
employs at it five plants about 1000
people, of whom $500 are employed
at Argo, Ill.
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MlEMCAAslW0!Nl|'Ti' I /. .siCilB ! G!
on AMERICll LABOR

BLooM1NGToN, iii, Aug: a.
Railroad hstpers and -laborers7 en-
;ployed lby tie Chicago. &. Alton rail-
road won their. strike for higher
wages Thes company imported Mex
lean workers to act as s.rikebreakers,
but when :the fMexicans became ac-
quainted with conditions they refused
to- work and were quickly shipped
out Of town They declared they would
not work where there was a strike.
The company raised wages TO 80 and
3755zs cents sa1 hour Former rates
ranged around q cents.
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AGAINST PRIVATE. CONTROL.

BOSTON Aug. 22.-The state con-
tituttonal convention has passed
esolution designed to give public con-
FOL Of the states natural resources.
The convention (nally rejected the
'esolution to extend the power of the
tate so as to provide homes for it's
itizens. .--., -,
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PE:AN|lsiN!Iy|lAA ROAD >: ~: !:
!; .EthDfS; full CREW UF

HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug: 22.-rhe
state public service commission has
found the Pennsylvania railroad guilty
Of violating the state full-crew law.
The commission states that no ad-
'mfnistrative discretion is lodged with
this commission in enforcing the full
crew law" The company has been
ordered to operate trains with the re-
quired number Of men over its Sc
wickley and Boyer Run branches. :
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CAN PREVENT ACCIDENTS.

SEATTLE. Aug. 22.-In urging en-
ployers to become imhued with the
sa1ety first idea, c. w. Price of Chi
cago told business men: Of this city
that accidents have been. reduced IS
per cent where education and pre-
ventative methods are applied. :.=.
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CAN'T: QUIT BUSINESS.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 22.-Food Ad-
ministrator: Maltbie' has refused per-
mission to wholesale and retail ice
dealer to give up his retail business
because it is no longer profitable. The
food administrator ordered him to
serve the public and assured him a
reasonable profit.
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STRIKE IN COVENTRY LEAVES BRITISH
PACFISTS WEAKER THAN EVER AND
WAS CAUSED BY MISUNDERSTANDING

Blow to Their Hopes Also
OF German Socialist Executives Indicating That Their
Views Have Not Changed Since Last Year ~.
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The columns of this paper afford
an excellent advertising medium for
all kinds of merchants. Printers ink
says that space in a labor paper is
superior to that in any other publi-
cation, reaering@ the consuming class
and thesrates are much lower.
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The Labor World is3 endeavoring to
render invaluable service to the work
ers by keeping; them; tnformed.sas. to
: the vital problems affecting their well
fare. The labor press must be sup
ported by the Observation-Disclosures
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