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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
HOW TO MAINTAIN INDUSTRIAL
PEACE.

What is the most important event
transpiring in the industrial world
4or some time was the signing of
the final report of the War Labor
Conference board last Saturday at
Washington by the five representa-
lives of labor, five representatives
of the employers and by former
President w. H. Taft and Frank p.
Walsh for the public.
This board was created several
weeks ago by President Wilson, who
named the first ten members and
directed them to select the other
two. The principal work of the
board was to formulate a war labor
program which would seek to estab-
lish peace and harmony in industry,
30 that production may be stimu-
lated and everything possible done
to speed up the prosecution of the
war to successful conclusion,
The report contains most of the
fundamental demands made in the
findings of the commission on in
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
dustrial relations few years ago
and provides for the following:

dustrial relations a few years ago
and provides for the following:
In fixing wages, minimum rates Of
pay shall be established which will
insure the subsistence of the worker
and his family in health and rea-
sonable comfort.
The right of workers to organize
in trade unions and to bargain COL
lectively is recognized and affirmed.
Employers are also conceded the
right of forming organizations for
collective action.
That women shall receive equal
pay with men for equal work.
That established safeguards and
regulations for the protection of the
health and safety of the workers
shall not be relaxed.
That there shall be no strikes or
lockouts during the war.
To enforce the latter provision,
the report provides machinery for
the settlement by mediation of every
controversy arising between employ
ers and workers, consisting of ma
tional war labor board. 1t is sug-
gested that this board be chosen in
the same manner and have the same
number of members as the Walsh
Taft board, and it is only logical to
believe that the latter will be made
permanent and carry out the recon-
mendations which it has submitted.
The report signed last Saturday
is a comprehensive and far-reach-
ing document, the spirit of which is
indicative of the rapidly growing
recognition which labor is receiv-
ing and the Importance it is assum-
ing in the affairs of the nation.
If both labor and employers SUBJ
merge their personal interests to the
extent that each will meet the other
on a basis of fairness and equality;
if the workers are granted a living
wage and those who control the ma
tons Industries agree to eliminate
profiteering, the effect will be to
unity all elements and weld the
population of this great republic into
composite whole, with the one OBJ
ject of crushing German autocracy.
The Walsh-Taft board has pointed
out the way. It behooves all the
people-who are either employers or
| Workers-to do their utmost to the
end that the findings be observed
and the recommendations carried
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06

who have it also turn heaven and
earth to blow it in while they hang: on
to it and increase its bulk. 1t some
times Looks as though the world had
gone wealth mad, and that modern
civilization was little better than a.
large-sized crazy, house. Men live for
wealth, fight for wealth and die for
wealth, oftentimes entirely oblivious
of the fact that they, as individuals.
never have any Of it, and can never
hope to get any. Those who do not
have it are, as a rule, miserable be-
cause of the want of it. Those who
have it in the greatest measure often
appear to not only be equally as mis-
cradle, but frequently more coarse,
vulgar and disreputable than those to
whom it is an entire stranger. IT is the
proud boast Of these most glorious
days Of. ruling class, blood, slaughter
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
WAR FOR HUMANITY .

War, in a good cause, is not the
greatest evil which a nation can suf-
Ter. War is an ugly thing, but not
the ugliest of things; the decayed and
degraded state Of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks nothing worth
war is worse When a people are
used as mere human instruments for
firing cannon or thrusting bayOnets,
in the service for the selfish purposes
of master, such war degrades a peo-
pie. A war to protect other human
beings against tyrannical injustice: a
war to give victory to their own ideas
of right and good, and which is their
own war, carried on for an honest
purpose by their free choice, is often
the means of their regeneration. A
man who has nothing which he is
willing to fight for, nothing which he
cares more about than he does about
his personal safety, is miserable
creature, who has no chance Of being
free, unless made and kept so by the
exertions Of better men than himself.
AS long as justice and injustice have
not terminated their ever-renewlng
fight for ascendency in the affairs Of
mankind, human beings must be will
ing, when need is, to do battle for the
one against the other.-John Stuart
Mill.
This was written half century ana
more ago, but it might have been
written yesterday it apples so we'll to
today's conditions. The truth is the
same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
THE MINIMUM WAGE.

The American Freshman: A c3nl-
mon argument against trades unions
among a certain class Of employers is
that the grading of workmen is for
hidden by the unions and, without
such grading, the good mechanic is
held down to the same level as the
poor workman.
The truth is that the unions have a
grade established-the minimum scale
below which no worker in that sce-
cif1c trade should be paid. Then the
employers can pay the extra skilled
workman as much over this minimum
scale as they please or consider the
man worth. The unions simply agree
with the employer in saying thai this
certain labor can only be graded
down to such a point, and the mini
mum scale, as a rule, is only fair
living wage. In the trades composed
of men who understand the grading
fallacy and have united in strictly en-
forcing a minimum grade, the wages
are good ad the hours are low. The
employers are also not only nak;ng
better profits but there is an under
standing between employers and en-
ployes that can be compared to the
relation existing between the ruler
and the citizens of a country possess
ing representative governments In
such a country there is true progress
while where Kaiserism or absolute
rule prevails-non-union conditions
there is retrogression and the people
are only held in subsection through
fear without loyalty.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
WAR RISK INSURANCE.

Milwaukee Daily News: 1t is an
nounced from Washington that up to
this month soldiers, sailors and nurses
in the military service Of the United
States had taken government war
risk insurance to the total amount Of
s12,000,000,000. Some 100000 per-
sons have taken this insurance. the
average risk being $S,OS5.
This is a generous average amount
for each man to take, as is realized
when it is seen that the. maximum
any one may take is $4,000. 1t Shows
that not only are the rates low and
the pay of American fighters high,
but that the fighting mans apprecia-
ton of safe and sound insurance is
great.
This insurance is issued to soldiers
; in order to protect their families
| should they die in service. and for
their own protection should they be
| injured. It takes the place of the
| pension roll, the government financ-
| ing the plan, providing the capital.
! caring for the premiums and the sew
eral funds, transacting all the routine
and clerical business connected with
| it. In short the government is the
| insurance company. The premiums
are low and the security positive.
Following every war this nation has
had there has been a long pension
roll Such rolls have become centers
of abuse, the title of good and honest
men being clouded sometimes by the
! crookedness of the dishonest. The
pension sums have mounted high.
! carrying the cost Of war through sew
, eral generations, with all their scan
! dals trailing along.
BY this insurance plan it is hoped
| that all such things will be minimized
and that following this war there will
be no such things as have been so
| common for many years. Fraudulent
applications, girl widows Of old SOL
diers whose marriage certificates date
generation after the war, the hun
! dreds Of private pension bills run
! through every congress backed by pull
all this, it is expected. will be done
away with by this insurance plan.
This is one of the wisest humanitar-
ian acts associated with the war, one
of the most far sighted, and at the
| same time generous to the soldier as
we'll as protective to the government.
1t is a pleasure to note how we'll it is
received by the men and how they
patronize it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
EMANCIPATION IN THE
STOCKYARDS.

The decision OF Judge Samuel
Alschuler in the arbitration of diff
ferences between the big packing
companies and their employees, made
public last Saturday, provides for
the eight-hour day, overtime rates of
pay, wage increases ranging from
3 IL to AZ cents an hour, equal pay
for men and women doing similar
work, and guarantee of a weekly
minimum Of forty hours work.
The award virtually comedies all
the demands Of the workers except
the amount of the wage increase,
and affects 100000 employees of the
"big five" packing companies with
plants in nearly dozen cities.
The arbitration proceedings were
the result Of the packers opposition
to their employees joining labor
unions. For years a system of in
dustrial exploitation has obtained in
the stockyards of this country, par
ticularly in the Chicago district,
where Thousands of foreigners are
employed. Pitiful wages are paid;
exceedingly long hours are put in;
women arc employed at miserable
work in insanitary surroundings;
and generally conditions are deplor-
able beyond the comprehension of
those not familiar with the packing
industry. Despite all this, the COM
panies are reaping enormous profits,
withholding from the toilers remu-
neration necessary to maintain their
families in decency and reasonable
comfort.
The award of Judge Alschuler WIN
rectify the unjust conditions and do
much to ameliorate the lives and
bring sunshine into the homes of
thousands of families of working
men; to make American citizens out
of apathetic foreigners, and restore
faith in the freedom and ideals
which symbolic this country.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06

and devastation, that fortunes are be
ing accumulated more rapidly and ar
assuming a far greater magnitude tina:
ever before. 1t seems that the hun1a
blood and butchery business is eithe
a most profitable one; or it acts as
powerful and paying stimulus to othe
lines of business effort to volumin
ously pour forth. the figurative flood
that spells wealth gotten for NOTHING
in the great and beneficient scheme 0
uplift and sanctffication known as f;
nance, trade and commerce.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
JOHN BARLEYCORN'S DOOM
PRONOUNCED.

John Barleycorn is fast elm bling
on the water wagon with the rest
of us old tanks, by compulsion if
not from choice He was handed
several severe wallops this week and
in places on his wasted carcass where
he little expected it.
Old John has gotten more out OF
the traffic than any of us who
played the game with him. When
we lost he won. Now he is losing
and the Whole nation is rejoicing in
his DOWNFALL He has few sympa-
thizers outside of his hackers, Sec
onds and ,timekeepers, and even they
will turn against him when he takes
the final count and they discover
how much more satisfactory it is to
ply their energies in life-giving
rather than in death dealing avo-
cations.
Barleycorn is a versatile old
rooster He has written comedies
and tragedies, burlesques and melo-
dramas, all at the same time and
with the same pen dipped in the
same connection. He has produced
more monologue artists than all
other agencies on earth. their in
coherent, rambling soliloquies re-
sounding through prison cells and
insane wards of every cline. He has
made buns out of bankers, mer-
chants and professional men. He has
taken top-notch factory workers
from their machines, mechanics
from their benches, laborers from
fields and clerks from their desks,
and sent them emaciated in body
and crushed in spirit to the gates Of
hell. and gloated over their ruin.
He has turned palaces into novels
as if by magic. He has transformed
happy cottages into miserable huts
with the mere waving of his poison
GUS wand Jealous of the bloom
and beauty Of youth. he has fend-
ishly plucked the blossoms before
their time, and looked on uncon-
cerned while the human plants
wasted and died. Like the man
with the withered arm, he has stood
unmoved at the widows and orphans
he has made. He has drowned
cheers with tears, turned joys into
sorrows, brought suffering where
happiness and prosperity dwelt, and
cheated life of it's sweetness and
fragrance.
This monster. whom men defend
as some do his living prototype across
the Rhine, is now being called be.
fore the bar of judgment to answer
for his multi-crimes. The South
has tried and convicted him. The
West has sent him to perdition with
loud acclaim. The North has pro
nounced his doom. 1t is left to the
East to complete the Job and drive
him from the nation entirely
Massachusetts, the stail old con
servative Bay state, has spoken. AL
New England will render the same
verdict, as will the people of Mime
sofa next November.
Goodbye, John Barleycorn, W,
see your finish You are soon to b,
numbered among the evils tina
were.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
ANOTHER LESSON FOR BIG
MONEY.

The Mesaba Ore: Oscar Keller,
one of the city commissioners of St.
Paul, was renominated for the posi-
ton by the greatest plurality ever
given any candidate for office in that
city.
That in itself really wouldn't make
much of a story, because he's a popu-
lar man-popular because he is a
man-but the fact that he was given
such a splendid endorsement by the
people so closely following; the at
tempt of big business to railroad him
to the penitentiary is somewhat of
story, in that it shows the temper
of the voters Of the corporation
ridden town.
Keller was one of the three prom
inent citizens indicted by hand
picked grand jury for alleged "incit-
ing to riot" in connection with the
recent street car strike, but the case
was so flimsy, 50 rank and raw, that
it was promptly thrown out of court.
1t proved conclusively that Big Eusl-
ness was attempting to prostitute the
laws of the state to gain its own
greedy and lawless ends, case
parallel with the scandalous enter
Prise that aimed for the utter destruc-
ton of a number of Hibhing citizens
who were standing up for their rights
against the big money interests.
A few years ago Big Business could
have, and did, put over rough stuff OF
that misunderstanding frane-ups and
the courts to remove men who stood
in it's way-but there is coming a
change in the conditions Of men and
things, change that Big Business re-
fuses to see, even after the, lesson
! taught by the St. Paul election.
Some of these days the people will
! rise up in their might and SWEEP
! every law breaker out of office-leg'
islative, judicial and executive-and
the signs are that the day is not fal
| off.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
HAlLuC|NA1|oN OF WEALTH

From British Columbia Federationist.
The dominant world obsession these
days is wealth. Everybody worships
at it's shrine. Everybody talks about
it. Everybody chases it, dreams about
it, and hopes to seize it. He who has
it longs for more, and usually leads a
life of misery in trying to add to his
holdings. And at the same time those
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06

The attributes of the union label
shine with the cardinal tenets of fair
play, shorter hours, and reliable goods.
From its inception it became a trade
promoter. It gave work to it's crafts
men, but it's vital principle was edu-
cation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06

D. p Robinson, formerly manae
ing director of the Hog Island ship
yard, who received $4,000 a veal
has been discharged. Does anyon-
know where there is $4,000 posi-
ton open?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06

The union label Is an appeal to
principle-principl that Is above
price; the principle that a dollar ex-
pended in the maintenance Of fair la
Dor is worth more in, the end than
a dollar saved at the bargain counter.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06

Someone has suggested that per-
haps the senate committee investi-
eating the St. Paul speech of Sen
ator La Toilette intends to make
its report when the war is ended.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06

The union label facilitates orsaniza-;
ton by increasing the demands for,
the products Of oygantze& Workers 49,;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
How WEAK, NERVOUS WOMEN
QUICKLY GAIN VIGOROUS
HEALTH and STRONG NERVES
"a DAY FOR ? DAYS

II you are ambitious, crave sue
cess in life. want to have a healthy
vigorous body, clear skin and eyes
that show no dullness, make up
your mind to get a package OF Bio
feren right away.
1t costs but little and you can get
an original package at any druggist
anywhere.
Take two tablets after each meal
and one at bedtime-seIen a day
for seven days - then one after
meals till all are gone. Then II you
don't <eel twice as good, look twice
as attractive and feel twice as strong
as before you started your money
is waiting for you. 1t belongs to
you, for the discoverer OF Bio-feren
doesn't want one penny of II unless
1t fulfills all claims.
Note to Physicians: There Is no
secret about the formula OF Bio-teren,
IL is printed on every package. Here
it is: Lecithin: Calcium Glycero-
phosphate; Iron Peptonate; Mang-
anese Peptonate; Ext. Nux Vomlcs;
Powd. Bentian; Phenolphthalein;
Olearesin Capsicuua: Kolo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Charles R. Weber Is
Elected as President Of
the Municipal Band

Charles r. Weber was elected presi-
dent Of the Municipal Band at a meet
ing of its members yesterday. other
officers elected were:
Vlce-president, Frank p. Snodgrass;
recording secretary. Jay q. Trimmer;
financial secretary, Frank Blumen-
stein; treasurer. w. W. Burris: con-
ductor and manager. Frank Blumen-
stein; assistant manager. w. w. Bur-
ris; assistant conductor, f. ID. Sears;
librarian. Benjamin Katzman; trus-
tees. Seth Barnhart, Alpha Foltz. w.
H. Hoyt, Edgar Wire, Wilson Miller
and l.. ID. Sears.
The organization recently removed
into It's new headquarters at Fourth
and Market streets. After n few al
terations. the band will be ready to
receive its friends in its newly-fur-
nished rooms in the second and third
floors of the building.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Thirteen Cases Listed
For Civil Court Trial

Thirteen cases have been listed by
Prothonotary Charles Il. Pass foI
hearing in argument court next Tues
day. The list follows:
Ida j. Hacker VS.. May Heck, mo-
tion for new trial; Commonwealth VS.
Sarah Heller motion for new trial;
Commonwealth VS.. Joseph Verbos and
Jacob Blazina, motion for new trial
Commonwealth vs.. II. E. Ruhl. motion
for new TRIAL; Commonwealth VS.
Putnam Brandt, rule to modify order
of the court; Commonwealth VS.
Charles Y. Saul, rule for increase OF
maintenance order; Ira d. Lowery VS.
j. H. Lowery. Jr.. and Alice Lowery
rule to open judgment; Common
wealth VS.. Frank Grippi, demurrer;
Fannie Nathan VS.. Barnet Rosenzweig, z,
rule for judgment for want of a suf-
ficlent affidavit of defense; Sheet Met
al and Supply Company VS.. Louis Be-
gelfer, motion for judgment for want
of sufficient affidavit of defense
Jesse VS.. Blanche NJ. Hawkins, rule
for counsel fees; Morris NJ. Strohm,
for use of Catharlne Specht. vs.. Eliza
beth l. Nissley and Ross w. Nissley.
rule to strike off Judgment: D. f.
Buchmiller VS.. Martha Gerhart Sober,
rule to open judgment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Teachers Vote Heavily
to Join State Fund

With the complete reports from
all of the 32 city school buildings
received at the office of the board
Secretary D. d. Hammelbaugh an
nounced that 327 of the $50 city
teachers have decided to join the
state teachers retirement fund
which is to be created. Few of the
teachers objected to the plan, while
a big majority of them heartily ap.
proved of 1t.
The report from the teachers was
submitted to the school directors
this afternoon so that a resolution
could be passed approving the pen.
sion fund plan. The vote of the
teachers and a copy of the resolu.
ton will be submitted to H. H. Baish
secretary OF the Teachers Retire.
ment Board.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
HELPED BOTH HIS
WIFE AND HIS SON
Sinking Springs Contractor Saws
Tanlac Restored Health and
Harmony at Home

My wife was in bad way from
nervous indigestion" says Peter r.
Leininger, a well-known stonemas-
sonry contractor of Sinking Springs.
Pa. She couldn't eat or sleep and
she was in constant misery.
She was awfully nervous and
continually so distended with gas
that she could hardly breathe, for
1t seemed as though her diaphragm
was compressed by the distention of
her stomach.
We had tried many remedies
without satisfactory results and we
had about given up hope when 1
read in the paper where Tanlac had
brought relief in q similar case. 1
bought my wife q bottle of this
wonderful medicine and 1t gave her
relief from the very first doses. She
improved steadily and 1t wasn't long
until she found herself enjoying her
meals and sleeping we'll and long.
we both feel now that she is per-
manently cured and we have been
giving Tanlac to our young son and
he is rapidly becoming we'll and
strong, so that, thanks to Tanlac,
health and harmony have been re-
stored to our home"
Tanlac is now being introduced
here at Gorgas Drug Store.
Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas
Drug Store in the p. r. r. Sta
ton; in Carlisle at w. G. Stephens
Pharmacy; Elizabethtown, Albert w.
Cain; Greencastle, Charles b. Carl; !;
Middletown, Colin S. Few's Phar-
macy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's
Pharmacy; Mechanicsburg, H. F..
Brunhouse.
The genuine Tanlac bears the
name ~. l. Gore Co." on outside
carton Of each bottle. Look for it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20

whereabouts could not be found late
than July 4, although the family
knew where he was as late as Sep
tember.
Yesterday Mr.. Mackey received Mr..
Darrow's answer. inclosing the letter
received from the office of the Ad-
jutant General in answer to the
query. Mr.. Mackey's letter and that
from the Adjutant Generals office to
Mr.. Darrow read:
December 19, 1918.
Hon. George z. Darrow,
Congressman,
Washington. D. c.
My dear Congressman.
have your letter of the 18th inst,
inclosing the letter from the ad-
jutant general in answer to my in
quiry regarding Private Edward d.
German.
1t seems to me that the information
that this department has given you
upon this case justlfies all the
charges that have been made in the
newspapers about the incompetency
of its service. The latest official in
formation that this department can
now give you about this soldier is
of July 4, 1918. when the family has
traced him as late as September 1918.
You are referred by the War De-
partment to the American Red Cross,