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CONTRACT: /! LABOR /.
SA|YS'G0MlPE PERS
Resolution Against: immigration
Aimed to Checkmate the
Efforts Of Trusts,

NEW YORK, July .17.-Opposition
of the American Federation Of Labor
to Unrestricted immigration during
the next four years is based largely on
desire to checkmates q ''combina-
.tion Of corporations. trust and ship
ping companies to- bring Immigrants
to the United States under contracts
which made them virtually Slaves
to these trusts" Samuel .Gompers de-
clared in. an address before the Pan
American Federation of Labor before
his departure for Europe. .-..-.
Mr.. Gompers' address was in res
the federation had taken a stand cs1
immigration to its Atlantic City con-
ventton (which conflicts with the con-
Germs of the first congress .of the Pan
American Federation of Labor he'i
at Laredo, Texas"
The second reason, Mr.. Gompers
asserted, was that the federation's
duty was "to so adjust our affairs so
that the Americans shall: have tt ,
right to a. job before any one who
may come from another, country"
Discussing the alleged, "combina-
.tion" Mr.. Gompers said:
1.-THE contracts which these indus-
trial trusts and corporations had with
those people were such that the peo-
pie were for years slaves to these
trusts. Persons who observed could
see the immigrants each with moth
ing more than little box, herded into
trains and taken to factories, sto Tx
yards, steel plants and other indus
trial establishments.
ITO such a pass did the situation
come, that the trust magnates would
advertise in American newspapers
and papers of other countries that
they wanted men but did not want
American workers..
Mr.. Gompers asserted that the fed
GRAFTON had BEEN trying for years to
organize workers in the packing and
iron and steel industries but had me:
Wit, little success because these me
have been kept in bondage and have
been allowed only their own languag
newspaper, which taught them the'
should hate the American labor. move
ment and not join it," *'~ , .-...'
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.RENA MOONEY r.
ADDRESSESTW0I| !
LOCAL MEETINGS
Wife Of Convicted Man Says Ev'
.idence Proves Innocence
IN Bomb Case.

Touring, the country in an effort to
rouse public interest and urge sup
port for a new trial for her husband,
Thomas Mooney, who with four 9th.
ers was charged with having been
responsible for the bomb explosion
in San Francisco during the Pre-
Mooney stopped in Duluth Sunday,
land addressed a large crowd at Fair
mount park In the afternoon and an
other large audience at Woodman
hall in the evening. Mrs. Mooney is
travelling. under the auspices of the
International Defense league Of San
Francisco.
In her. address Mrs. Mooney de-
clared that she and her husband were
on the roof Of their residence a mile
and quarter from the scene Of the
explosion, proof of which has been
established, by photographs taken by
a Y. M. C. A. youth in which a clock
in the background gives the time as
1855, 2:01 and 2:04 o'clock, while &C.
cording to the statement of the prose-
cutting attorney, the time Of the ex-
plosion was at 2:06 o'clock, more
than a mile away.
She also asserted that under the
direction of the president, the gov.
ernment had Investigated the case
three different times, on each oc-
casion bringing forth a verdict of a
! conspiracy.
| Mrs. Mooney also spoke at. Supe.
rior. From Superior she went to Two
| Harbors.
Mrs. Mooney IS at liberty at pres
ent under $4,000 bail. Her husband
Thomas Mooney, was sentenced to
death, but obtained communications OF
sentence to life imprisonment. War
rem K. Billings, arrested with Mooney
is serving. a, life term. Charge.
against Edward Nolan were dis.
missed and Israel Weinberg is at lib
erty under $4,000: bail. -.
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BUREAU NOT
D|SC0NT NUED
Commissioner Gardiner Corrects
MIsconception About
Women's Office.

Assurance has been received in Du-
luth from John p. Gardiner, COM
missioner of the state: of Minnesota
department of labor and industries,
st. Paul, the women's branch of the
state employment office in Duluth
will not close. Because of the clos
ing Of the women.s braneh:. Of the
federal office July / it. appears that
the impression in some quarters has
been there is now no women's en-
ployment branch in tha city. In
order to clear the situation Mr.. Car
diner has made the following state
ment:
''The state of Minnesota has op-
Grated and maintained a free employ
ment service in the city of Duluth
since the year 1907, and while it can
be truthfully stated that it was not
on as elaborate scale possibly as
the service conducted jointly by the
United States employment service and
the state during the war, still the
fact remains that the free employ
ment service in Duluth is not any
thing new, and that Irrespective. Of
whether the United States continues
to cooperate with the state of Min
nesota or not, the employment serv-
ice. will continue and be maintained
by the state.'
The state service still maintains
quarters in the Fargusson building
and has fixed a schedule of lengthy
office hours In order to fill the press
ing needs of women employers and
employees.
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Minimum WAGE. IS
FIXED IN WISCONSIN

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.,, July H.
The Wisconsin Industrial commits
sion has fixed a minimum wage
for women and all employees. who
are not of age. Women and ex-
perienced minors over II are to
be paid not less than p cents an
hour. Employees between the ages
OF 16 and IL are to be- paid 18
cents for the first three months
and 20 cents after that. Children
under 16 are to be paid not less
than ,18 cents an hour. Women
and minor employees over II, on
first entering employment are to
receive only 20 cents for the first
six months.
Employers cannot have at one
time, more than 25 per cent OF
the force in the class where less
than that minimum of % cents Is
paid. An allowance of $3.50 a
week for board and $2.5Ofa week
for lodging is fixed where main
tenance is furnished. The order
becomes effective on Aug. 1.
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CHURCH PROGRAM WARNS AGAINST WAGE CUTTING
l.*W. ". AGITlI0RS ~.
INKkNShS SubDuED

TOPEKA, Kans., July 17.-The
l.. w. w., situation has quieted
down In Kansas for the period of
the wheat harvest, but it is ex-
pected to break out again when
the threshing season opens. Frank
McIver, special deputy fire mar
shall, says the activities of the ag-
itatOrs i'm the wheat fields had
been complete failure because of
the advance information which
state officials had and their abil-
ity 10 arrest the organizers and
confiscate the literature which
was expected to be used in the
campaign.
Ten organizers are agitators are
now under arrest in various parts
Of Kansas. They were caught just
as they began working among
the harvest hands at Wellington,
Wichita, Great Bend, Sterling Ly-
ons and Harrington. Each one
was offered employment at IS
to So q day, with board and room
and when they refused to go to
work they were locked up under
the vagrancy law and will be
kept in Jail until the crisis has
passed.
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seed oil, breakfast foods, vim 1lz, cdfletll
hair, pepsin, and washing powders
Their branch houses are not only STA
tions for the distribution Of meat
and poultry. but take on the character
of wholesale grocery stores, dealers
of various kinds of produce and job
bers to special lines of trade. ,,
"They have interests large enough
to be a dominating influence in most
Of the services connected with the pro-
duction and distribution of anima:
foods and their by-products, and are
reaching out for control, not only OF
substitutes Of animal food, but OF SUBJ
stitutes for other lines into which the
.sfAegration Of their business has led
tilem. They are factors In CATTLE
loan companies making the necessary
loans to growers and feeders OF live
stock; are interested in railways and
private car lines transporting live
stock and manufactured animal prod
ucts, in most of the important stock
ward companies-the public market
for the bulk Of food animals; and In
live stock trade papers on which
growers and feeders rely for market
news.
""They are interested in bank from
which their competitor packing
houses. borrow money; in companies
supplying machinery, ice, salt, mate
rials, boxes. ETC., to themselves and
their: competitors: they are principal
dealers on the provision exchanges
where future prices in standard cured
animal products are determined; they
or their subsidiary companies deal IN
hides, oleo, fertilizer material, and
other crude animal by-products; pur-
chase from other packers these crude
- by-products, and themselves carry the
manufacture thereof to a further stage
than most of their competitors.
''They are important factors in the
leather industry, in oleomargarine
and lard substitutes, in cotton-seed
,il, in fertilizer, in soap, in glue. etc.
-.vA.s Vast Distributing System.
rur "Their vast distributing system,
With the advantages arising from the
control of private cars, cold storage,
md a network Of branch houses. has
,nabled them to extend their activi-
les on a large scale into poultry. eggs
cheese, butter, rice. breakfast foods
AIMED vegetables, soda fountain sup
,lies, and other lines.
"From rendering edible fats from
What would otherwise be. wasted IN
heir own factories. they have reached
ut to secure for rendering the waste
at and bones of local butchers in
arge sections Of the country, and IN
ome instances are interested in COM
aiies contracting for the disposal OF
arbage Of large cities.
'Individuals of the Armour family
re owners Of grain and elevator COM
anies and ]. Ogden Armour and thu
resident Of one of the Armour sub.
diaries are important stockholders
"a company producing from mineral
spoSits in Utah substitute for pot
iii. as an element Of commercial
rtiuzers.
~. Ogden Armour is also a promi-
.,nt factor in the American Inter
ltional corporation, with it's ship
ng. and shipbuilding interests, It's
lport and export companies in vari-
IS lines. its interest in a company
ganized to develop cattle, raising,
eat packing, quebracl1e extract and
lied businesses in Paraguay. its con-
d Of q large tea-importing COM
ny and sugar-machinery corpora
n, and its minority stock in the
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,living and vary with the purchasing
(poweracf The I'd 9llar..sss y : A Actu ualawages,
fhat ~. wages :reckonesdd III power. to
purchase, conmo daties,~ have been de-
creasing for severaf years in spite Of
wAge-earners. There IS Urgent need.
Of provision by industry. under the
guidance Of the; government, .for some
regular method OF adjustment of
wages and salaries to. the purchasing
power of money. 49,
High wages are desirable as gen.
eral principle, since they mean, or
should mean, a fairer share of the
industrial product. greater purchasing
power, and consequently stimulated
trade and greater happiness health
and hopefulness for the workers and
their families. It should be; kept in
mind that under machine production
with a proper method OF distribution,
all might work and all might shars. in
comparative plenty. Employers who
plead a. falling market, aggravated
competition, increased hazard; or: 'ex-
ceptional conditions IN justification
of low wages or wage reductions,
should support their contentious by
opening their books and submitting
their figures to public scrutiny. ;
: Unemployment.
Unemployment is one of the trag-
edies of the present industrial order,
which the war has demonstrated can
be controlled, or at, least effectively
reduced, by the government and CO.
operating voluntary agencies. Any ad-
.equate attempt to meet the problem
of unemployment should includes:
"(a) Rehabilitation and perma-'
nent maintenance -of a. co-ordtnated
nationwide employment: service =
"(b) Reorganization of seasonal
trades, wherever er~:practicable,> SO as
to make continuous employment pos
sible. (, 4 Z. - . = = - -
"(c) "A zpolicy=of public works and
land settlement framed with paEticu-
lar reference to the absorption of=un-
employed labor. - - =: :; -.
"(d) 4 guarded extension of pro-
visions and opportunities Tor social
insurance to cover unemployment due
to Industrial conditions, Or to Ill
health, accident or pld age. To offer
work is mitch more. valuable than un-
employment INSURANCE.
"(e) The rehabilitation of indus
trial cripples; under: the direction Of
dustry. The possibilities Of such re-
habilitation. have been dem onstrated
in relation to the cripples OF war.
Labor's Share in Management.
"A deep cause Of unrest: IN indus
try is the denial to labor Of q share
in industrial management. Contro-
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STATE UNIONS TO MEET.

OMAHA, Neb.. July 17.-officers of
the Nebraska state federation Of labor,
have. issued call for the twelfth an
nual convention. to be- held: in. this
city, starting, Aug. g.. next;
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HOGs PRICES SOAR.

:, CHICAGO July 17.-One day last
week hog, prices broke all records in
this country. At. no time. during the
civil war. did prices, reach this level
.-$22 q. hundred. pounds, live weight.
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PRINTERS RAISE WAGES.

DAYTON, Ohio, July little Ty-
biographical union has advanced wages
Of members employed on evening
newspapers to $36 a week.. For morn
ing newspaper work the new rat is
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Remember the school election Sat-
urday-polls> open from s q. M. until
p. m. al. :s .s5.. s..' ., !s.s .
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Remember-the school election Sat-
,urday-polls open from 8 =. M, until
Z p. M. I, q NJ ;ss .sss.5 .
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Remember the school election SAT-
urday oils open from 8 q. M. until
Z p. NJ .s.
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Remember the school election sat-
urday polls open from s q. m.,. until
= -. d, l,~':..f= IL
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ELECTRICIANS GAIN.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. July 17.-Organ.
lied: electricians have raised wages s
cents an hour, making their pay $6.40
a. day.
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The columns of this paper afford
an excellent advertising medium for
all kinds OF merchants. Printers Ink
superior to that in any other publi-
cation, reaching the consuming class
and the rates arc much lower.
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- Tho Labor World is sndsayorius to-,
render invaluable service to. the work.
ers by keeping them Informed % to !.
the vital problems affecting their well.
fare. The labor prese must g. sup
ported by \ the, .worksrs--therstors J
you ought to subscribe-Sl- 4 year.
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COMING EVENTS

May1s-:-Methodis. centenary drive.
May is-G-Home Service Campaign. Sal.
walton Army.
May 3-2l-Granc Lodge X. Of F. con.
rention. Lewiston.
May a-s,-Grand Temnle Pythian Sis
tiers convention. Lewiston.
May EDUCATIONAL convention. Broth.
e,.1ood Of Railroad station Employees
MAY 2l-At Eockland. annual meeting
Maine Retail Dry Goods Association
May 21-sunrage jubilee luacheon. Lew
ssttn.
May p, ee-Main. Episcopal Diocesan
convention. st. Luke's Cathedral
returned soldiers. Bangor. -
MAY 3-Maine Library Association a.
Brunswick.
May 2A-S-- .nnval convention, Maine
Spiritualists Association. Portland.
May 3-24-Saco Valley Teachers AS
ISOLATION. Brownfieid
May ej-Memorial Sunday.
May 2SPardon hearings cefore Cover.
nor and Council. Augusta.
May 9-knox-Waldo May Music Fes-
tival. R1ckl2nc
May H-Memorial day.
Eay 3eknights of Column bus fourth de.
gree Assemblies of Maine and New
Hampshire. Portland
Nay as-Yeung Mems Hebrew A.soc:a.
ton annual outing. Casco bay.
June -s,-W,elcome Hone. Soldier Boys,
AT Skowhegan.
June Io-II-Fifty-sixth annual session
o: the Maine Conference of Unitarian
CHURCHES at Second Parish c1urch. Saoo.
June ll-Junior prize speaking. Bates
College.
June ll-i2-Afaine s. Of V. annual en-
campment. Waterville.
June lc-lvy day. Bates College.
June N-cS-Commence Enent. L. OF NJ.
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One Cause of a Bad
C0,nplexi0n--the Remedy

Look at a section of skin under the
microscope and you Will readily under
stand why cosmetics generally iniare
the complexion" says a we'll known
physician. The skin. smooth as i,
looks to the naked eye. under the elas
EXHIBITS a Iacework OF tiny holes.
mouths OF myriads of little glands. To
keep the skin healthy. these holes mus,
De unoos,ructed. that the perspirat.or
and. natural oil can have free outlet
Should the glands be blocked up with
irritating gritty particles. common
result o. using powders ohd creams, ma
ture retaliates by causing sal,owness,
roughness. blotches or pimiles.
LAS substitute for all cosmetics I
recommend ordinary me-colized wax.
II not only does what the various fac.
preparations are supposed to accomfl 3 !,
but its peculiar absorbent action frees
the pores from the daily accumulati ion
Of impurities. also absorbing the devil
ta!ized particles OF surface skin. This
produces a natural, healthy. youthful
complexion. One ounce of this wax. 10
be, had at any drug store. Usually SUI.
hteito rejuvena,e the poorest complex
ion. Il is put on nightly like cold cream
and washed off mornings. ADV.
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Editorial Comment

american ISSue)

(AmericAn Issue)
Prohibition in Ohio will close NOT
only the largest saloon In the state
but without doubt the biggest LIQUOR
Joint In the country. This IL Sam
Ungerleider's saloon At Bridgeport.
on the Ohio river. and opposite
Wheeling. w. Va This saloon has
bar s62 feet long. mploys u bar
tenders and clerks, and the sweetest
music in the place to Ungerleiders
ears is made by the constant jins-
ling Of coin in sixteen cash registers.
More than $4,000 q day on an average
is paid for drinks over the bar. and
the number Of patrons runs into the
thousands every week.
Cn8erleider is not fooled by the
claims Of wet attorneys that Pro-
hibition, either state or national. can
be set aside. He is Of the opinion
that when his mammoth place closes
this month it will be for good. He
has a wholesale liquor house In CO.
iumbus and is interested In the booze
business in other places. He has
made a fortune out OF the trafhc and
the misery and degradation he has
caused will never be known. but it Is
safe to say it equals even in dollars
and cents all the money Cngerleider
has made.
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in European troubles. No American
soldiers to police foreign lands
"Sassiety" Taking Hold.

New York society has taken the
Salvation Army to its heart. and. in
the $4,000. 900 Home Service Fund
campaign. which will he conducted
throughout the nation thi. week,
members of some Of the Most fash
ionabie and exclusive families are
among the ardent and active work
ere.
Many years ago it was said that
there were but 400 persons III New
York who we're worth knowing from
a social point of view. The number
Of persons in the inner circles of So
ciety has naturally increased with
the years. so much so that. when the
Greater New York womans COM
mittee Of the Home Service Fund
sought socially prominent young
women to serve in the campaign.
more than 1000 names were put on
the list of workers.
Those 1000 wearing Salvation
Army bonne,s and capes. will cover
every square inch Of territory within
the corporate limits of Greater New
York during the week Of the cam
paign. How socially prominent is
the personnel Of this corps of work
ers is known by the fact that the
members of the Junior League. the
most fashionable and exclusive or
sanization of young women in
America, are working for the Saliva
ton Army in a body.
II society" would only acquire the
habit Of doing useful things with in
telligence-and for love of doing It
and not for show or because Mrs.
Highstepper is doing it-what a
wonderful world this soon would be.
"Society's" penchant for hunting
cuseedness to fend of ennui was in
ausurated before Sodom. we are
told.
Anyway. let us pray for more
drives" by worthy causes and a
growing tendency on the part OF
society" to take each to its heart
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Oranges
R.verview Grange

TIE regular meeting OF River View
grange. Lisbon Falls. was held
Thursday evening. County Agent
Harold Shaw of Auburn. was pres
en-. and gave a talk to the boys and
girls relative to starting a club here.
A committee consisting of c. W.
Coombs. W. H. Douglas. Frank Pet
tee. James Fowler. Mrs. Annie Allen.
Mrs. Agnes Harris and Miss Lillian
Witham was appointed at the last
meeting to confer with the county
committee and it is expected that a
club will be formed here in the near
future. The program included; Pa
triotic songs: The History of the
Star Spansled Banner" by Mrs. W.
H. Douglas: vocal solo, Miss Geneva
Trufant: historical sketch of the
oranges il Maine by Mrs. Annie AL
len: discussion of a question relative
to the man working around the house
and the woman helping out OF doors.
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Mt. VERNON

Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Bean who
have passed the winter in Massa
chusett; have returned to town.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Irving are
passing a week with their son in
WeStbrook.
Miss Nina Frost who has been en-
ployed in Gardiner has returned
home.
H. y. Whittier has sold his farm 10
Mr. Dingley from Livermore Falls.
The r. E!OSwift farm has been
sold again.
Mrs. Arthur Gordon who has been
il! is able to be out again.
DR.. c. F. Davis and family visited
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Q. Parlin over Sum
day
Mr.. and Mrs A. G. Whittier Sere
visitors in Winthrop Mon6dy.
H. A. Comstock is moving his fam
lily TO Thomaston.
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WOMEN ARE CARELESS

This has been proved over and
over again during the war. They
over-estimate their physical strength
and overtax it. Their ambition is
commendabie. but does not compen-
safe for the hours and days of mis-
cry which they suffer from symptoms
caused by female ills brought on by
overwork- Women who are weak,
nervous. respondent. with headaches.
backache and dragging down pains
should remember there is one tried
and true remedy. that Is Lydia E..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. now
recognized everywhere as the stand
ard remedy for such ailments.-Ady.
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Be Careful What You
Wash Your Hair With

Most soaps and prepared shampoos
contain too much alkali. which is
very injurious. as it dries the scalp
and makes the hair brittle
The best thing to use is Mulsified
cocoanut oil shampoo. for this is pure
and entiriy greaseless. It's very
cheap and beats anything else all to
pieces. You can get this at any
drug store. and a few ounces will
last the whole family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with
water and rub it in. about a tea
spoonful is all that is required. II
makes an abundance OF rich. creamy
iather. cleanses thoroughly. and
rinses out easily The hair dries
quickly and evenly. and is soft, fresh
looking. bright. fluffy, wayy. and easy
10 handle. Besides. it loosens and
takes out every particle Of dust, dirt
and dandruR.-Adv.