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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
WOULD eliminate PRIVATE
EMPLOYMENT AGENTS

To the Editor Of the Labor World
presume that the federal and
state governments intend to keep up
some sort Of employment service in
the future. Therefore it would be
timely to ask: Why have private agen-
cies that charge fee stand like the
devils which they are. between the
unemployed and his job?
No man should give a dollar for a
job when there Is a state and national
agency paid for locating these Jobs.
While the fee-charging agencies are
in existence there is premium on
secrecy about where work can be
found, until the laborer comes across
with a fee, usually 81.
The writer of this screed is no I. w.
w.. and no advocate Of sabotage. What
do advocate though, is the removal
Of the provocation for sabotage, and
that is the fee-charging agents who
go about in the l1ypocritical role Of
helping labor.
Just now, many fee-chargers are
monopolizing Jobs that should be re-
ported to government offices, The
sooner the fee-charging offices are
squelched, the better: They will be a
potential source Of corruption to en-
ployers and government agents. They
will also be nuisance to labor.
The taxpayers contribute to the sup
port Of the state and federal offices,
and that should be enough. The fee
chargers should be 1egislated out of
existence.
OF course the employment shark"
preys mainly on the migratory work
ers, and the unskilled laborer, yet he
would live. on skilled laborers more
If he could.
President Wilson says in 1.-THE New
Freedom" that the country is be-
coming unprecedented with nearly
every one an employe.
The free offices, being supported
by the public money. for definite
and desirable purpose, think the en-
ployers Of the country are under OBJ
legations to patronize the government
Offices: They have no right to boy
colt the government officers and fitch
fees out Of their prospective 1aborers.
It seems to me: som ething like job
for the unions, the clergy. and all who
are interested in the welfare OF labor
to work for the elimination Of the
grating fee-charging employment
agent, who, more than any other class
+ Of men, thrives on unnecessary hobo
ism.
Duluth, April 81.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
"UnEARNEb INCOMES

Apropos Of "unearned incomes" as
designated in the proposed Nonpar-
tisan league income tax measure in
North Dakota is the case Of the Aston
child in New York. The child was born
after his father went down with the
Titanic. At his birth 100000 was
settled upon him. This fortune is
not to be touched until he is 81 years
old. 1t will then amount to $780,
$50. This infant this child, this
growing and adolescent youth, will
have learned" $5,057,sss in 81 years
without raising finger. without hav-
ing spent one moment in work or
worry, without having 50 much az VS.
tied factory, mine. store or railroad
for the purpose Of ascertaining how
this fortune is. increased. | /.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
TESTIMONIAL FROM BRITISH
TRADE. UNIONISTS.

The beautiful panel given by the
British Trade Union Congress for
the American Federation of Labor
Building in Washington has ar
rived in America.
The panel was brought back on
the steamer with President Comp
ers and his fellow delegates who
have just returned.
One of the worlds art master
pieces, the panel is a massive affair.
An allegorical story is told by fig
ures in bas relief. It will be. in
stalled in the Federation headquar.
ters building in Washington, but
may first be exhibited at the Allan
tic City convention.
1t was the purpose Of the British
Trade Union Congress to have the
panel reach America in time for TIE
dedication of tho building, but the
outbreak Of hostilities in 1914 put
a stop to plans to ship the treasure
and made it impossible to get it to
America until now.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26

The Minnesota Public Safety COM
mission need not make an account
ing to the taxpayers of the several
hundred thousand dollars which it
expended. The legislature has de-
cided to permit the commission to
continue its existence, regardless Of
the fact that there is absolutely no
reason why it should. not now be
dissolved. as it was primarily a war
time organization. Perhaps Gov
ernor Burnquist intends to make a
campaign for some office soon. Who
can tello
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
DECLARES A|eHER WIRE
RATES ARE UNNECESSARY

Organized employees Of the post Of
tice department are crowded off the
first page Of newspapers with their
quarrel with Postmaster General Bur-
lesson because Of the Postal Telegraph
company's quarrel with the postal
chief.
Mr.. Burleson recently 'deposed Clar-
ence II. Mackay, president Of the
Postal, ana several other officials be-
cause, he said, they refused to obey
orders" Then Mr.. Burleson said wase
increases compelled him to raise tele-
graph rates 20 per cent. Now the
organized commercial telegraphers
say. search us for wage increases"
Then Mr.. Mackay took the center OF
the stage and averred that MI. Pur]e-
son is in cahoots with the Western
Union and he filings mass Of figure"
at the postal chief to prove his point.
Mr.. N1ackay says lit is absolutely un-
necessary to raise telegraph rates es-
cept that mir. Burleson has agreed to
pay the Western Union more than he
should have agreed to ana in order
to realize that amount he has to
raise the rates.
IT Mr.. Burleson will return our
lines to US at once" continuous the
Postal man, I'VE will carry on the
telegraph business at the cid rates."
Mr.. Mackay also says that tho West
ern Union is not administered careful
~ and economically.
But Western Union is saying moth
ing. It is too busy raking in the shek-
els and victinizing members Of the
Commercial Telesraphers union.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
IT'S DIFFERENT. NOW, Then
(From Dertoit Labor News.)

We can now observe what the usual
whine Of reactionaries about the me-
cessity Of "obeying majority rule''-
when they are in power. Of course
really amounts to.
In North Dakota the voters, by an
overwhelming majority not only elect
ed state administration, a state leg
!, islature and judges Of courts, as we'll
as local officials who stand for prog
| ress, but they approved of a number
Of constitutional amendments and
proposed laws submitted to a referen-
dunn for the public benefit.
The legislature, obeying the man
dates Of the people, promptly passed
the laws, which were duly signed by
the governor.
These measures provide for an In
dustrial Commission for control and
operation of industries; establishment
Of a state bank, with which to finance
industries; home builders act, by
which the state will engage in con-
struction Of homes for residents on a
building and loan association basis;
coal mine inspection law, and three
bonding bills carrying total of $17,-
100000 in bonds with which to carry
out the industrial program. The state
terminal elevator and flour mills as
ISOLATION is the chief enterprise Of the
| group.
/ No sooner are the laws enacted
when the reactionaries enter the
United States district court and file
suit to stop their enforcement on the
ground that they are in conflict with
the Federal Constitution and claiming
that the state is prohibited from en-
gaging in private. business-protecting
the public being construed Of course
as "private business"
No one can safely predict what de-
cision will be rendered when the
United States supreme court finally
passes upon the plans Of the North
Dakota people to get from under the
crushing influence of the Flour Trust,
the Meat Trust and the spectators
| and thieves who juggle the stock mar
kets thousands OF miles away.
If the supreme court twists the Fed
eral Constitution to mean that the vot-
ers of a state have no redress in using
their political powers to establish just
| and equitable conditions for the bene-
| fit of all the people, and that the lat
| ter must forever remain the prey Of a
| robber class, then look out for more
! radicalisnl in this country than the
| SNUG and satisfied elements ever
dreamed of.
| Privileged parasites are becoming
unpopular all over the world, and it
! is unlikely that the American masses
are going to stand much longer for
dictation from those gentry, who braz-
emily claim, in substance, that the fran
! chise is farce when it operates
Eainst their private interests.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
BUl YOUR SHARE OF BONDS!

The campaign to- sell Du'uth's
quota of bonds of the Victory Lib
erty Loan has been in progress since
Monday, and at the time of going to
press the amount disposed OF was
still far short of the allotment.
On the previous four Liberty
loans Duluth established a nation
wide record for greatly oversubscrib-
ing its quotas, and that reputation
must be upheld!
The terms of payment of the pres
ent issue are very liberal. being
spread over six months. The rate
of interest is ~ per cent, which is
considered good return.
The Victory bonds are a splendid
investment, and all the money sub
scribed will be used by the govern
ment to pay debts: incurred during
the last few months Of the war, and
also to bring the boys still in France
and Germany to this country.
The high cost of living is pinching
the pocketbooks Of many working
neople, and consequently makes 1t
harder to invest in bonds of any
kind. However, the Victory loan
MUST be successful, with Duluth
taking it's share.
Every one must buy the limit OF
bonds. Let's finish the Job right,
Buy one more!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
STOP WAGE CUTTING:

Bethlehem Steel threatens. a 80
per cent reduction in wages, says
an editorial in the New York Eve
ming Sun.
1t appears that Bethlehem Steel
intends 10 trv out the ground for
others who have the same desires
but less of either strength. or cour-
age.
IT there is any one thing that
anybody in America could do to
bring upon the country depression
and dissatisfaction, if there is any
one thing that anybody in America
could do to give encouragement to
those whose sole object is the dis
ruption of our social stability and
the undermining of our national sta
bility, this plan of Bethlehem Steel
is that one thing.
All America ought to unite against
this blow.
No thousand preachers of sedi-
ton and disorder could utter any
preachment as effective as the
preachment planned by Bethlehem
Steel.
Disorder feeds upon reaction. And.
furthermore, we have got through
with reaction. The faces of the
great masses of the American peo-
pie are turned toward progress.
There never was and never will
be any progress fathered by a re-
duction in wages.
Reduction of wages means less OF
food, poorer houses and poorer
clothes for those who get the
shrunken pay envelopes.
Wages must not go down!
1t is said that blind men develop
a sixth sense that saves them from
pitfalls and bumps. Evidently this
is not true Of those afflicted with
economic and social blindness.
Somehow America must be saved
from the consequences of this most
dangerous loss of sight. Wages
must not be reduced.
1t is argued that it. Bethlehem
Steel can reduce wages, others will
be able to follow. This may be true.
Therefore, there must be no start.
1t is argued that if wages can be
lowered the cost of living will go
down in equal proportion. This is
not true and it needs no learned
professors to bring forth the proof.
though proof there is in abundance.
The fallacy that is today the most
menacing fallacy in the world is that
which breaches reduction. of wages
In the process of reconstruction.
Return to normal conditions"
they say.
Reduction Of wages Will pile: ruin
upon ruin in the world Of industry,
when America and the world are in
need Of every last ounce that indus
- 'FE
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
Spring SUITS AND ovERcoATs
Best Values at The Big Duluth
NEW hmsEs, SHIRTS FOR BOYS
Best Values at The Big Duluth

a brief course OF intensive training Oh
another job she. was put on produc-
ZION work and although her efficien.
cy on her original Job had been only
80 per cent at the time she was
transferred. her. efficiency on the new
work was 80 per cent at tho start
and increased within two weeks to
70 per cent. Through the aid Of the
school she had increased her earn
'ngs practically SO 1-3 per cent.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
.NolRAR1lSiNS INVADE ONO /
(From tho Cleveland Citizsn.)

NS|OkA SSS0 ~5SVoA0U0 ~St1bSNs/'
The Nonpartisan league has decided
to invade Ohio and locate headquar-
tiers in Cleveland.
Welcome to our city and state! =
The n. L. 10 to be respected not
only Tor the progress that it. has
achieved In North Dakota ana other
states in tho West, but for the enemies
that it has made.
The N. L. 10 the best-hated and
consistenly-cursed organiSation of
working people in this country among
the parasitic crowd, who SEE It Is IN
unpatriottc dangerous institution that
threatens to seriously interfere with
their age-long privilege Of despoilinx
the dumb. driven wealth producers.
Every wheat gambler and specu-
lator in tho country is the mortal foe
Of the Nonpartisan League; the Flour
Trust, Meat Trust. Fruit Trust, Sugar
Trust and ALL the rest Of the brood OF
profiteerlnE vu1tures are unit in
characterizing the league as a dam
nable conspiracy against all that is
pure and holy In this broad land.
1t is only necessary to peruse the
daily newspapers, and many of tho
weeklies printed in the Western Sec
ton Of the country to learn what a
hetnous and immoral aggregation this
organization OF farmers really is.
For. haven't these farmers despite
the bitterest Of opposition, Smashed
the old political machines and elected
men from the farms. mines, railways
and workshops into public positions
instead OF never-ending stream OF
lawyers, doctors, business men and
professional politicians-and are they
not now engaged in legislatins in such
manner as to preserve to those who
produce wealth more Of, their product?
They are doing all that, which is
contrary to the rules Of the great
game OF grating sreenhorns.
Hence we rather like the Noupart-
isan League-we extend sympathetic
and 1raternal welcome to any body Of
earnest citizens who bear a message
OF progress, and who strive honestly
and consistently to demolish the rot
ten, antedeluvian political machines
that have outlived their usefulness and
who hold out the hope that American
principles and ideals Of government
may be shared by all Americans in
stead Of few pampered plutocrats
and their parasites
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
:CANNY SANDY.

Pat and Sandy. accommodating.
round an old farmhouse found a war;
weary chicken. Pat was overjoyed.
He was sick Of bully and biscuits.
THAT'S bit Of luck" said Pat. "Sure.
We'll have a dacint supper tonight"
mo, no.. said Sandy, with his native
cautiousness. Lets keep it till to-
Mirror.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26

today's demand is also tor handouts
across the sea-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26

Some doctors who take life. easy
escape arrest.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26

IT your luck isn't what it should be
write ''p" in front OF It and try
again.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26

No man is ever great from his neigh
bor's point Of view ...5s . " H.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26
CURRENT COMMENT:
MAKING GOOD AMERICANS.

In sprinfield, Mass, 4 remarkable
unity among the various forces that
are organized to fight disunion is pro-
duc1nE splendid type OF American
citizenship out Of the many rationale
ties that are gathered there. The pub.
nc school system under Superintend-
ent J. H. Van Sickle has, in co.opera-
ton with the Bureau OF Naturaltza-
ton, evolved a highly successful sys-
tenn Of education Of tho foreign born.
This system is now to be broadened
by making the evening schools in the
North End, South End, and Indian
orchard community centers for all the
people Of these cosmopolitan locali-
ties. A sewing class. in which tho
teaching Of English is made incidental
to sewing and soc1ability, has already
been organized in the Hooker school;
and a cooking class and many other
classes-educational, musical, and dra-
1natic-are to be formed. as we'll a,
classes in English and citizenship.
The plan is to ultimately make each
center a public forum, with educa-
t1onal motion-picture films illustrated
talks. concerts, and entertainments Of
various kinds the medium for getting
together.
SAFEGUARDING CHILD WORKERS
The employment certificate as a
safeguard for the health and educa-
ton OF working children as well as 4
proof Of age IS discussed in q leaflet
just issued by the Children's Bureau,
United States Department Of Labor,
Tor use in the back-to-school campaign
which is being carried on in 50
states by the local child-welfare conf
mittees of the Council Of National
Defense. The need for such safe
guards is emphasized by the bureaus
experience in administering the form
err Federal child-labor law, when one
fourth Of the 1886 children under Is
years Of age to whom certificates of
age were issued were found to be
unable to sign their own names leg
IDLY.
The bureau points out that the en-
ployment certificate safeguards the
employer as we'll as the child. for if
the employer has in his possession
an employment certificate secured in
good faith stating that the child is Of
legal age; to work, he is. protected
against prosecution for violating the
age provision Of the child-labor law.
NECESSITY FOR TRAINING.
Machine operators put: into produce
ton work without special training
realize very soon, after factory train
Ing departments are established. that
they are under = handicap az COM
pared with operators who taya: been
specially trained. and many OF their
own initiative ask that they be al
lowed to undertake the training course
according to information reaching the
Training Service, Department Of L.
: Dor.
One such operator. who was trans
terred at her own request to the
training department, showed within a
short time that she was batter adapt-
cd Tor other kinds Of work than on
which she had been employed. After
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26

Telephone Expenses
Have Advanced l.. taily
This Neees:itates Increased Telephone Rates
Nearly everything n furnishing increased
the last
High labor manufacturing plants telephone
Ito
buy.
The telephone steadily advanced, both because the
increased cost material the telephone and the increased living
Of employees
The realized the
for clothing
the conditions which have all the necessities Of life
In order meet the high telephone
portion be obaincd
this Company furnish telephone service the public it
a t
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-04-26

THINK IN 1NrEREsr-sAvE-
The Glenwood post., 1919-05-03

OORADO lost good and friend to her every
dusty when Werner Reed the struggle and quietly
passed from the Although wealthy Mr.
Reed forgot that he and he always greatly
interested in the development of the the prosperity well
fare of the the Hotel Colorado that Mr. Reed
smaed the mining deal which him the Toboy mine at Teu
ride which really the for the immense fortune which he
afterwards acquired Many the successful enterprises of Colorado
due to the foresight business this successful and
loyal citizen
The Glenwood post., 1919-05-03
BILLY" SUNDAY ON THE VICTORY LOAN

many excellent arguments behalf of
and other federal loan drives both during and the
but for decness of speech and peppy that drive
truth and cnch hold the brilliant
have anything the noted evangelist Billy Sunday who the
Denver auditorium few days ago delivered himself follows
audience of fifteen thousand people:
Whosoever sounds about floating this last
chief idiots place the assembly
there's fools heaven he IL be there the front B yelled
nc Sam has built home for Miss Peace and Miss Liberty and he
put bought tin lizzie
So it's you God could handle the deal himself He
always the pill against the fence and he took the
for bunch but he has left the job you So for heaven
sake don't hagge the that lenced the guns hell
And in that connection, 'Bly told the audience few
things about the for this loan.
just up
Godfoaken thief in the world We about Germany
and asking you the funeral expenses lot Of
trouble bury skunk After you away
rid Of the nkand deodorizer the
hhooks pocket and loosen up This nickel
nursing nation and it's going to be'
And from the looks of that crowd from the cheers the shouts
the congratulations the crowds of who clambred the plat
"Blys'' finished
vecves the indications exceedingly that would be
no hesitancy about that 'kick-in.''
The Glenwood post., 1919-05-03
FARMER AS BUSINESS MAN
NEEDS ADVERTISING

The farmer Of today is a busincs.
man, just as much as the banker, the
clothier, the grocer, the hardware deal
er, and the real estate dealer.
As business man he can profitably
Use newspaper advertising, not so gen
orally nor on such a large scale as his
fellow business man in the trades, but
he can Trofitably use it to limited
degree, and much more than he does
now.
Suppose he has half a dozen pigs
that would make good breeders, and
which he wants to turn into cash. II
he will advertise them in his local
newspaper, using a display space of,
say, inches double column, and set
his p'ice at what the pigs are worth
as breeders he will realize much more
from the pigs than if he took them to
town and sold them for pork.
And the best part of it is, he can
sell them this way without leaving his
farm and his work for half day.
Try it.
The Glenwood post., 1919-05-03
WHY DIDN'T THEY FULFILL?

IENRY FORDS weakly the only evidence that the United
and dsnterested that
freedom the Philippines and continues he world does not
throw that face because knows that the Republican party
pledged in order explain and justify seizure of that
territory How the Ford outfit does enjoy ibelng the United
States We did ee the Philippines acquired them in
with law nations first by driving the Spanish
out and second by paying for them Second record
the Philippines the admission of Senator Hitchcock Demo
cratic chairman of the senate committee foreign affairs the bright
chapter the whole history of colonial administration 1t is
record of asc adrft at the close of the Spanish
Philippines would have been over first
chaos, and then to Japanese acquisition
Yet the Ford attempts make record the Philip
sshness policy which this
of pocatc demagog attributes to capastic interests
But the fvver pubcs who he his first vote for Garfield
for president three after Gareds death evidently overlooks
entirely charging the Republican party with responsibility for the
failure of the Fnos achieve independence that both the legs
ve executive branches Of the American have been
i'll Democratic hands for six years Why hasn't the Wilson admins
traon given the Philippines independence instead Of passing by the
opportunity until its chance gone With the beginning of the
Wilson administration the Ford paper began think
reeerng the truly American promises had made dependen
The Glenwood post., 1919-05-03
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

which from Mr. Carlton, Of the
Midland railroad of his life the road
extending Delta Monros about the best railroad
which has Montos for time This under
will make the by railroad from to Denver go
miles present addition will be
oadgage road practically doubling the railroad facilities for Mont
rose and the Uncompahgree valley.
And then the of the Midland take in Mont
ought have wholesome effect broadgagng of the
Marshall experience of the
months with the broadgagng it is quite evident
that the officials favor the road
from MUntrose Salida This quite The D. g.
had this Of the country long time
Having competition they have felt safe putting this locality off
with what seemed please the themselves When Montroe
find another railroad AM broadgag that
the d. R. G. will have give good service lose lot of
business
Here's hoping that the Midland will be extended Montroe
by of the will notice suf
Enterprise.