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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
UNITED STATES WILL
Retain GERMAN DOCKS

The taking over by the United
States of the title and possession of
the docks, piers, wharves and other
shipping property on the Hudson river
owned by the German steamship
companies. the North German Lloyd
and the Hamburg corporations, is
greeted with universal approval by
the American people. The property
is to be retained by the government
and not to be turned back to it's for
mer owners at the close of the war;
Purchasers of Liberty loan bonds
and war savings stamps, who supply
the money used for this purpose, may
feel especial qualification. These
docks and piers and whorves are
strategic points of great importance
and value, and it is intolerable that
they should remain in enemy hands,
or that they should ever revert to
German ownership. German COM
merce has been shown to have been
so indissolubly bound up with, and so
much a part of German militarism,
that it is just and right that it should
suffer all the penalties Of war.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
MOVE TO ESTABLISH
INDUSTRIAL PEACE

The Industrial peace plan, estab-
lished by the representatives of cap
ital, labor and the public, as party
of the third part, to the effect that
there will be no lockouts or strikes
during the period of the war, is q
victorious achievement, the impor-
lance of which is beyond exaggeration.
The agreement reached and pub
lished early in April is the result of
conferences arranged by the United
States department of labor, in which
took part six representatives of capt.
tai, six representatives of organized
labor, and the head of the former
federal commissioner of industrial re-
lations, as representatives of the peo-
pie. The terms of the agreement
reached broadly covers the entire in
dustrial field and is so fair that no
one, not fanatically irreconcilable,
can find fault with it. Under it's
terms neither capital nor labor can
claim any advantage in the principles
standards of both parties are pro-
tected to the point of final decision
with scrupulOus fairness.
Although labor foregoes it's right
to strike, it's right to Organize and
treata collectively is affirmed, and
where union conditions exist there is
no modification Of them. The right
of all workers to wage insuring the
subsistence Of themselves and fami-
lies in health and reasonable comfort
is declared, and there is to be no sex
distinction a sto wages. The public,
the great third party to the agree
ment, is assured of maximum pro-
duction of all war necessities, both on
the part of the employers and the en-
ployes, without artificial increase of
cost.
Although the agreement has been
in working order for but short time,
we have no doubt it will meet the
approval Of the patriotic workers and
! employers. There may be exceptions
(note the Western Union Telegraph
company, obstinate persons to whom
all concession is abhorrent and to
| whom any compromise is a defeat
This class, fortunately, is few in
numbers and its influence inconsider-
able, though it may manage at
times to make tits opinions heard.
! This agreement does not necessar-
] lily mean the end of industrial disputes.
Labor and capital will still have their
| differences. But they now have a
means of progressing to a settlement
! by mediation. And, should media
! ton fail, an umpire, chosen by lot
! from list of names selected by Pres
! idanf Wilson, will make the final de-
; cision.
In the meantime work has contin-
ued and our war activities have suf-
fered no diminution, and that is the
essential condition for victory.
This agreement is most welcome
and most encouraging, and, if carried
out in good faith by both parties, may
| lead to mutual confidence thata will
! have its beneficent results in the post
bellum period.-Bricklaye Journal
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
RAILROAD PROBLEMS
PUZZLE GOVERNMENT

Some of our national transpOrta-
ton problems and difficulties can be
better understood when it is remem-
bered that in the northeastern Sec
ton of the United States, including
New York, Pennsylvania, adjoining
states and New England, the popula-
ton is 693 persons to ever mile of
railroad; in the south the figures are
407 persons per mile; and in the west
ESP.
There are Is square miles of land
to every mile of railroad in the west,
while in the east there is 1 mile of
land. There are innumerable facto-
ries in this eastern theater, and the
bringing in of coal and raw material
and the carrying out of manufactured
products make up tremendous
freight tonnage.
The railroad administration is solv-
ing gradually many problems. BY the
elimination of many unnecessary pas
senger trains several thousand en-
gines are diverted from passenger to
freight traffic, which relieves the sit
uation materially. Also by loading
the freight cars to full capacity a
great saving is being accomplished.
Routing freight by the most direct
route and other methods adopted by
the administration are doing much to
ease the strain on our transportation
facilities.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
WITH GER
MAN LABOR.

Organized labor of the United
States is set for war. In whatever
degree it is unified and expressive
force, it is resolved that there is no
other course open than to fight on
until Germany knows military de-
feata. This is the meaning to be read
from the proceedings of the annual
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
. Conversations with German Ia
Dor are taboo. The reason for this
is that discussion of peace invaria-
bly, tends to blunt the will and de-
crease the power to fight. The mind
that is preoccupied with peace terms
cannot be concentrated upon war.
The capsheaf argument that dis
misses all proposals for "conversa-
TONS with German labor was enun-
ciated by President Samuel Gompers
in these words: ''Supposing we were
to enter into negotiations for a peace
based on the map of Europe as it is
today; supposing we accepted this
humiliating position; what assur-
ances have we that the conqueror and
the hordes of Germany would not,
as soon as our boys were on the war;
ships and transports peacefully deter
mined to go home-that. they would
not turn their torpedoes upon our de-
fenseless ships and regard that treaty,
too, as a scrap of paper? "-Chicago
Daily News,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
AGOVERNOR ON GREED.

The plain speaking of President
Wilson concerning war profiteers
pleased the public and amazed the
grafters The figures supplied later
by the federal trade commission
should have convinced the most sker-
tical that few constituencies scoun-
drels in high life have been robbing
right and left.
One of the first state officials to
speak out after this disclosure is
Governor Arthur Capper of Kansas.
In an appeal to the President to drive
the profiteers out of business, this
governor even went so far as to say
that the morale of the people OF
Kansas was being broken down by
the greed of the big business in
terests. 49,
kansas will support you to man
in any course you may take to
grapple with the profiteers who prey
on their country and their country
men in this time of need" said the
Sovernor. "They are doing more to
hamper us than all the devices of
the enemy in making the necessities
of life and industry cost more than
the people can earn. To be shame
lessly and continually exploited for
the necessaries of living by a great
commercial plunderbund, which they
and their sons are defending in a
is an outrage on the patriotism Of
war that taxes their every resource,
the people, too intolerable to be
borne. Such Unsuitable greed will stop
at nothing short of stern and drastic
compulsion.
"Our continued fitness in the
middle west depends on speedy
solution of the profiteering problem
and the equitable financing of the
war or upon a thoroughly effective
solution of the problem of price regu-
lation that shall include all neces-
sary commodities. A practical solu-
ton of either will amount to a rem
edy for both and will strengthen
and enhearten the people amazingly
for all the trials and demands OF
the war;
The governor is a candidate for
the United States senate. Undoubt-
eddy he knows the feeling Of the
people of the middle west. Men who
talk that language are needed ir
congress. There can be settled the
matter of saving the people from a
greed that knows no country, rec
ognizes no duty and has no flag
except the skull and crossbones.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
BIG PROFITS BOOST
MANY LARGE INCOMES

Where does all the profiteerine
money go? This question has Just
been answered by Daniel G. Roper,
commissioner of internal revenue,
In a report to congress which shows
that almost in the same proportion
profiteerfng has grown the num-
Der of big incomes have increased.
For example, In 1914, according to
the income tax returns, there were
8.672 incomes Of $4,000 and $685. 900
year, representing fortunes of
$5OO,OOO each; in 1916 there were
1858. Incomes of 100000 to $780,
600, representing fortunes. around
$5,OOO,OOO, increased in number
during this period from 233 to 726.
Fortunes Of $1O,OOO,OOO Increased
from 60 to 245; fortunes from $780,
100000 to $2O,OOO,OOO with incomes
Of half to one million dollars a
year Increased from ia to $40, for
tunes above $2O,OOO,OOO. Increased
from 80 to 2O8 in these two years.
Analysis of these figures shows
that while men Of the half-million
dollar class increased i'm numbers 40
per cent, tho millionaires of $5.OOO,-
900 and over increased in number
as we ascend to the millionaire class
respectively 2l1. 255, 23O and 243
per cent.
In other words, profiteerinE is
making millfonaircs much more
rapidly than it Is making men Of
moderate wealth, and there were
over three times as many men own
ing over $5,OOO,OOO in 1915 than
there were in 1914.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
THE STOCKHOLN1ISTS AGAIN.

The Stockholmists are reviving
their propaganda.
Replies from various enemy Social
lists to the inter-allied statement of
war aims are in the hands of Ar
thur Henderson. Included in these
is reply from the German govern
ment Socialists, who, according to
Henderson, are ready to enter a con-
ference "on the basis of the pro-
posals made by neutral Socialists. :"
Which means nothing at all except
that the German government So
cialists are still heart and soul the
pawns of the kaiser!
"They are ready to discuss even
the question of the responsibility for
the war;" said Henderson. And "they
urge that an international confer
ence would be very useful at this
time" The kaiser's military ma
chine is doubtless very sick per-
son!
The war has not brought forth
more devilish proposition than this
international conference scheme. 1t
looks good to the superficial, but it
is filled with the bird lime of the
inferno.
We may look now for an increas-
ing propaganda for the idea of hav-
ing confab with the Hun. Hender-
son, making the most tragic mistake
of his career, is mixing in the devils
business.
Just one factor stands in the road
to block forever the proposal, and
that is the steadfast, Intelligent, far.
seeing determination of the Amer
lean trade union movement to stand
by democracy and to refuse consent
to- any nefarious scheme for the I'm.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
REHABILITATION OF OUR SOL
DIERS.

The United States government is
not going to be content with merely
re-educating and rehabilitating it's
soldiers who have been disabled by
wounds and fitting them for useful
and gainful occupations: it is not 60
ing to leave them to shift for them
selves, but will exert an active con-
t1nuing interest in their welfare.
This does not mean that the gov
eminent is to coddle them or treat
them as weaklings, but it is going to
take an active interest in securing
them work and in other ways en-
deavor to make up to them the oppor-
tunities and advantages they lost by
reason of wounds received in fighting
their country's battles.
Every Liberty loan bond and every
war savings stamp purchased aids in
this work.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
Johnny Get Your Cum
Comedy of the Far West
AT THE LYCEUM.
Summons in Application for Registra.
tim 0f Lind

Summons in Application for Registra-
ton Of Land.
STATE OF MINNESOTA SOFA COUNTY OF OF
enth Judicial District. :
In the matter Of the application OF
Kate schWeiger to register the title
tate to the tSaeG a &C. Hdss
Minnesota, namely: The easter]y
half Of lot three in block ninety one,
in Endion Division of Duluth, ac-
e DIN e a th Of Geeeaa Plat e o
flee of the Register of Deeds in and
for said County and State,
Of Duluth, Henrietta Josalle J. E.
Lundrigan. and all other persons or
) parties unknown ,1 claiming any right:
real estate described in the, appli-
The State of Minnesota to the above
named defendants:
quired to answer the application Of
the applicant in the above entitled
proceeding and to file your answer to
the said application in the office Of
within twenty (20) days after the serv-
ice Of this summons upon you, exclu-
sive Of the day of such service, and,
If you fa to an answer the said app
applicant in this proceeding will apply
to the court for the relief demanded
therein.
court, and the seal thereof. at Duluth,
in said county, this 25th day of July,
a; D: 1918. o,,>a.>-
(seap By g. Z Z. F R1i I2RN$9 1sp Gtsrk'
A. r. NORTON,
Attorney for Applicant: !:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
ALL BANKS TO HELP.

The report that only banking insti-
tutions qualified as United States gov
eminent depositaries would be allowed
to take subscriptions for the fourth
Liberty loan has been enphatically
denied.
1.-THE treasury department." says
Secretary McAdoo, desires that all
banking institutions shall continue in
the future as they have in the past
periodically to assist and cooperate
during the various campaigns for the
sale of government securities
Secretary McAdoo's often expressed
gratitude and appreciation Of the pa.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
UNCLE SAM HAS LOANED
ALLIES S6,O91 100000

The United States has now loaned
to our allies $6,0s1,590,o00. The ad-
vances average about $400,000,00 a,
month.
These, loans to our allies are an
alogoustto lending weapons to friends
who are aiding you in the defense of
your own home. The money is being
used to defeat our enemy, to main
tain armies fighting side by side with
our soldiers, and fleets patrolling the
same oceans with our sailors.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
WILSON AIMS HIGH.

President Wilson has a way of ex-
pressing the highest ideals of the hu-
man race in terms that touch the con-
science and understanding of even
the humblest. And he always pins his
ideals to a practical conclusion.
Take this from his July 4th ad-
dress:
''These great ends cannot be
achieved by debating and seeking to
reconcile and accommodate what
statesmen may wish, with their pro-
jects for balances of power and of
national opportunity. They can be
realized only by the determination
of what the thinking peoples of the
world desire, with their longing hope
for justice and for social freedom
and opportunity"
That's where the autocratic rulers
and secret diplomatists get off at!
And that remark about not achieving
ends by debating, we commend to
certain Of our American cloud navi-
gators who have done nothing but
debate since the war began. Down
on the ground an work; that's the
way out.
One tfhe finest sentences in the
whole address, full of invigorating
inspiration:
1.-The blinded rulers of Prussia
have reused forces they knew little of
forces which, once reused, can
never be crushed to earth again
forthey have at their heart an inspira-
ton and a purpose which are death
less of the very stuff of triumph"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
ENTENTE AND TEUTONIC RE,
SOURCES.

The entente misunderstanding Rus
STA and including only those British
dominions which are self governing
and only the United States proper
have 100000 square miles Of terri
tory, S03,000,000 people and $495,-
000,000.000 Of national wealth.
The central powers have $4,000
square miles Of territory, $4,000, 900
people, and $134,00o,00o,oo0 Of ma
tional wealth.
The entente owe an aggregate debt
of $69,ooo,o0o,0oo, which is about IA
per cent Of their total assets. The
central powers owe $4,000, 900, 900
or rs per cent of their national
wealth.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
Samuel GomDers," saws |

Samuel Gompers," says the Fed
erationist, London, organ of the Gen.
eral Federation of Trade Unions,
"has done more than most men to-
wards the coordination and enthus-
ing of American effort. He is en-
titled to the eternal gratitude of
British fathers and mothers and
wives for his efforts to reduce the
strains upon their. sons and their
husbands"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
LIVE UP TO AMERICAS DEMAND

LIVE UP TO AMERICAS DEMAND.
The American trade union move
ment has so thoroughly demonstrated
its 100 per cent loyalty that there
is no question on that score-and
never has been.
But there are two sides to every
equation-at least two sides.
The trade union movement is con-
Quoting itself in such a manner as
to give the nation the greatest pos
sible total of war strength. In the
fact of this here and there will be
found an employer who has failed
absolutely to grasp the new concept
of the civilized world and who in
sists upon imposing conditions under
which labor cannot do it's best for
the government. And labor is just
determined enough upon absolute ef-
ficiency to rebel against conditions
that make for low grade work and
product.
Such employers must bear the onus
of their own conduct. If possible
they must be educated to the new
concept of things-to the spirit OF
America today.
! The trade union movement insists
! upon complete loyalty, not alone in
| words, but in deed-in daily shop
conduct. The trade union movement
has written for the country a splen-
did standard for the conduct OF
worker and employer:
Do nothing that cannot be justi.
! fled to the man on the firing line
in France
| If the employer, as we'll as the
worker, will live up to that test OF
conduct America will have 100 pei
/ cent effectiveness in the vast net.
work of factories, mills and shops
that constitute the second line Of
defense.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
RUSSIA WILL COME BACK.

This paragraph from the Fedora
zionist about Russia is worth spread
ing broadcast:
THE present situation in Russia IS
a part of war developments gone
wrong, but yet part of it, and
therefore the moral concern of the
allied nations. 1t is imperative that
we go to the practical rescue of the
Russian people and render assistance
necessary to enable Russia to defend
herself against German autocracy.
Thus rallied, Russia will come back
into the struggle for freedom with
a newer and truer realization Of the
meaning Of that struggle for her own
people,"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
WORK. OF THE MINIS,

New coins to the number of 714,-
1919, with value of $43,596,S95,
were made during the fiscal year
ending June 80 last, which breaks all
previous records. The minis worked
on 24-hour a day basis most of the
year. Over 50O,000,000 cent pieces,
nearly 100000 nickels, $4,000, 600
half dollars, 100000 quarters and
100000 dimes were coined.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27

doing of democracy's battles. There
will be no such conference with
American labor's consent-and
without that consent there cannot
be any conference voicing the de-
sires of anything like a preponder-
ance of allied labor,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27

Comstock's manager complains
that $4,000 Democrats voted for
BurnQuist in the Republican pri-
maries. That doesn't leave Burnquist
a very healthy Republican vote. 81:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
PRINTER SRAISE WAGES.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July &c.
After three-days' strike members Of
Typographical union employed in
commercial shops raised wages 81 a
week. The new rates are $29.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
CAUGHT FROM THE MAD WHIRL

triotism and the wonderful effective
ness of the work of the banks of the
country in the past Liberty loan CAM
paigns would seem absolutely to Mega
tive any idea that he would refuse to
avail himself of their assistance in
future campaigns.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
BONDS OF THE FOURTH LIBERTY
LOAN.

Bonds of the fourth Liberty loan
are<now being turned out by the thou
sands daily by the treasury's bureau
of engraving and printing. The bonds
are similar in form and design to those
of the third loan, and space has been
left on each bond for insertion of the
exact terms of the bonds.
It is believed that a sufficient num-
Der Of bonds will be ready to make
possible immediate delivery of all
bonds of the fourth loan as they are
purchased.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
HOSTING THE FLAG.

The United States flag has been
put over the telegraph and telephone
systems Of the country. When the
senate authorized the President to
take control of the wire systems it
took the first step toward govern
ment ownership. With the exception
of few nations of the class of Spain
and Turkey, all means of communi-
cation have long been owned by the
public. From Great Britain and
France to Dahomey and Siam, no
private monopoly takes it's toll from
those who telegraph or telephone.
With one more vested privilege
driven from its trenches, the effort
will now be to convince the people
that government control is a failure,
and government ownership would be
worse. Men whose whole aim in life
has not been service, but profit, will
point out that the government sys-
tenn, like the postoffice, is not paying
adequate dividends on the invest
ment. Such men are blind to the
truth that profiteering can never be
the aim of government business, but
that the welfare of the whole peo-
pie is the main question.
Undoubtedly there will be a saw
ing in operation costs, since COM
peting lines will be combined. No
business house now will have to
maintain two systems of telephones.
The waste of keeping up two rival
telegraph offices when one could do
the business Immediately becomes
apparent. Ultimately, of course, the
cost to the people will be cut. Thus,
in New Zealand, the telegraph rate
is II cents for IL words, as against
the minimum rate in the United
States of IS cents.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-05-23

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THE BEMlDJI DAILY PIONEER
cEWHEREAT MIR. BAILEY SMILED BLANpLY.

We were bthsomely perambulating down Beltrami
enue yesterday morning search of Hooverized
inc repas doing first rate until happened to meet
Sherm Bailey Everybody him Sherm and for time
after kinks takenout for the following
Mr. Bailey accompanied by stranger The pedes,
meet Baeys friend Mr. Shaver district inspector
Lacey act United States department Of agriculture bureau
biological survey No g. Central block, Ashland Wis
consin = as .. = &*g%$E . " #* !, NJ 4,
III "Some guy unused to oursef and sort of sWeed with
pride in meeting bearing such a title zAF A5l
+ sWhat brings you up here?' inquired with Jail the
courtesy at our command. Ss z . 80. E* @i.%z
Hooking after beaver was the replysss s,f Hsa
Game Warden Baieys face became wreathsd II that
the made tracks with heels toward the man with the
long title. fN. re@s+ %a%# >%.H II % <
Lloyd George spend leisure moments in play
ing and singing Welsh national airs After singing "Cyw,
Cyw Foreuo Gold" Rhyvelgyrch Gwyr Harlech making
a war speech would to him tring feat 4 @aa .
- ~----o--- %#@ ~ t.>H4# Il -.
The Germans hoped that their spring offensive would
bring peace But wild hope for Uncle Sam and his
allies will stand for an offensive peace.