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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
COUNCIL PASSES
Two ORDINANCES
Organized Labor Scores Double
victory--AI| Stores Must
Close at Six.

Organized labor scored two victor
les at the meeting of the city council
! last Monday when the city commits
sioners passed the ordinance regulat-
! ing the opening and closing Of retail
stores and repealed the dual water
system ordinance. Commissioners Phil
lips fathered the repeal measure.
Commissioners Farrell and Murnian
voted in favor Of Commissioner Phil
lips amendment; Mayor c. r. Mag
ney and Commissioner F. J. Voss voted
against it.
In April. 1913, the council passed an
ordinance making it possible to estab-
| lish physical connection between city
! water and bay water, with Commits
| sioner Phillips casting the only oppos-
| ing vote. Commissioner Phillips made
an unsuccessful attempt several
! months ago to have this ordinance re-
pealed.
Commissioner Farrell wrote to every
state in the Union to get opinions on
F., the dual water system. About IS per
cent of those heard from were opposed
! to it. Although he voted to repeal
| dual connection. he said the chance
Of the water becoming polluted is re-
| mote.
i A petition signed by 48 merchants
asking that the ordinance regulating
! the opening and closing hours of
! stores be not passed, as the proprie-
! tors of small stores are able to cope
! with the large stores only by giving
more personal service, and that much
trade from transients would be lost If
! the opening and closing times were
! specified, was read.
! Edward o. Adams, secretary of the
Metal Trades council, said that the
| laboring men are not opposed to the
ordinance, and that if a vote were
taken the regulation of hours would
! be approved.
! Under the ordinance. which will go
into effect 80 days after publication,
retail stores will open not earlier than
! $3.50 a. nj. on all days except Sum-
days and holidays, those dealing ex-
clusively in meats and groceries at
hour is set at p. m. Shops may keep
open. however, until 9 p. m. on Sat-
urday of each week, on days preceding
legal holidays, and for six days pre-
i ceding Christmas.
! Merchants not affected by the ordi-
nance are licensed pharmacists en-
gagged in the sale Of drugs, medicines
and surgical appliances, and persons
engaged in the exclusive sales Of fruits.
CONNECTIONS, tobacco, newspapers and
! periodicals. The penalty for violation
| Of the ordinance will not exceed a
fine of 500, or IS days at the work
! farm.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
THE SACRIFICE TO MOLOCH.

There is a lot of difference be-
tween an open hand praying for
relief and a fist demanding It..
Politicians brush the one aside with
Kind words and fake issues; they
give respectful attention and do
something for the latter.
In the years to come we will
realize better than now that we owe
a debt of gratitude to the railroad
brotherhoods for sticking a big fist
very close to the official noses of
official Washington. The conven-
tlonal answer to the railroad brother
hoods is: you may be getting less
Tor your money now, but you are
getting more than the rest of us
workmen. You are selfish in de-
handing more"
But the spirit of the brotherhoods
replies: "You other workers and
farmers can continue sacrificing
yourselves, your women and chill
dren to the Moloch of greed if Won
are set on doing so, but as for us
and our house we will serve the
Lord. We will not take a cent from
our families to fill the NAV of the
profiteers. The cost of our living
must come down or our wages must
go up
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
find it necessary to do now.

"The net result of the whole al
fair in Canada" says this labor pub
LEGATION, merely proves that the o..
b. H., idea of general strike, of COM
plete cessation of all Industrial ac-
tlvlty, is economically unsound, and
is not a practical scheme for attain
ing the desired ends of labor The
general strike is impossible because
the other fellow controls the fool
store houses and can eat three
square meals day while labor starves
It is impracticable because all society
including women and children-suf-
fer while the fight is on. And last
but not least it is impossible because
the rest of society will not permit it.
Neither will the state permit it. If
! union men persist in refusing to turn
a wheel industrially, the remainder
of society will do the job for them
Self preservation is the first law of ma =
ture. Because Of these irresistible
facts the o. b. IT,, was doomed to fail
ure at the onset. and already it is rec
ognized generally not as the one big
union but is the one big failure
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
"STAKD PAT" THEORY IS
NO PART OF A. F. OF |.

Writing in the American Fedora
zionist, Matthew Woll. acting editor
in the absence of President Gompers
laughs at the claim that the A. F. Of
L., is a "stand-pat" organization. He
says the "Amercan Federation of La
Dor lays no claim to being a conserv-
ative organization"
Eastern newspapers express sorrow
at the action Of the last A. F. of L.,
convention in denouncing injunction
judges, and one editor declares that
1.-The American Federation Of Labor
failed to display it's usual good sense
and conservatism. ITO this statement
Mr.. VOL says:
1T is for the defenders of the prof.
iteers and plunderers and for those
who are in need of all the machinery
of Reaction in their struggle against
progress to build for themselves rec
ords of consistent conservatism. La
Dor has no use for any institution
or arrangement which does not serve
1t regards all institutions as having
the best interests of all the people
value only in so far as they serve the
actual needs of the people.
when it comes to Kidding the coun-
try of institutions that no longer serve
this purpose, there is no conservatism
to be found in the American Fedora
ton Of Labor. The American labor
movement is strenuously radical
movement and is the more radical by
reason of the constructive character
of it's radicalism.
"Organized labor knows the injunc-
ton as an instrument in the hands Of
reactionaries and bourbons to crush
the hope and ambition and struggle Of
the wage earners for brighter day
and better life. The injunction losses
all character as proceeding in equity
when it is used as an instrument for
the suppression of constitutional rights
Labor firmly believes that the
courts usurp certain powers which
| come into direct conflict with certain
| rights definitely and specifically guar
anteed by the constitution of the Unit
ed States and it admits to no institu-
ton and no set Of men the right to
| abrogate any section or provision con-
tanned in that document
Labor regrets that certain news
| papers have found it impossible to up
hold the Constitution in this respect.
Labor would like to see the voice of
the American people raised in unani-
| nous dmand that abroga ton of the
constitution and denial Of the rights
guaranteed by the constitution be end
ed forthwith and forever"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
HEADS WORLD LABOR.

1t will be gratifying news to the
great body of constructive trade
unionists in America, and to the host
of his personal friends, that William
A. Appleton has been elected pres
ident Of the International Federation
Of Trade Unions at the congress in
Amsterdam. 1t will be pleasant also
to learn that Mr.. Appleton was
nominated for that office by Samuel
Gompers.
William A. Appleton has been for
years secretary Of the General Fede-
ration of Trade Unions in England.
In 1917 he visited the United States
as head of a delegation represent
ing the General Federation of Trade
Unions. One of the most cherished
possessions in his rich collection of
mementoes is an Illuminated address
presented to him by Typographical
Union No. of New York during that
visit.
Appleton always has been
staunch friend of the American Fede-
ration of Labor and an ardent adj
mirer of its policies and achieve
ments. More than any other Euro
pean leader of labor, he thinks in
accord with Samuel Gompers.
During the war Appleton was tire
less in his work for victory. Night
and day he drove his brain and his
powerful physique under a burden
of war work that would have baffled
most men. His tasks ranged all the
way from sending books and letters
of cheer to soldiers to the delicate
tasks of high diplomacy which he
performed entirely unofficially in al
most every conceivable direction.
1t is hopeful sign and one that
will find welcome in America that
Appleton, constructive, progressive.
democratic to the core, should be Sc
lected from among all Europeans to
head the International labor move
ment at time when so many. signs
OF intellectual vagary have been
coming from that side of the world.
Just what the election of Appleton
signifies in the way of changing
trend in the whirl of European labor
may not be clear at the moment, but
the one certain thing is that APPLE
ton, as head of the international
labor movement, will leave his i'm
press upon the whole movement.
Hitherto it has been the secretary
of the international that has been the
executive officer and who was looked
to as head of the world movement,
Inc election of Appleton changes
that situation. President Appleton
will be the real executive chief while
he holds office.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
AMERICAS FIRST NEED
IS WELL FED FAMILIES

Americas first need is well-fed fam
lilies, is a summary of the North Amer
leans editorial on malnutrition in this
country.
THE truth isl says this paper,
that this nation today faces, in NAL
nutrition. more dangerous foe than
any armed force the world could
muster. This truth showed it's ugly
head when one-third of the men
called in the drafts were rejected for
physical defects due chiefly to nutrl-
tional lacks in childhood. Now its
equally ugly body is being barred to
public gaze by a government which is
waking up to the menace of MANU-
triton.
The draft revelations led to fur
Their investigation. It seemed strange
that so large a percentage of our
young men should be physically un-
fit at time of life when they ought
to be fittest. In the early twenties
one is less than 10 years beyon,- child
hood. And childhood-in theory, at
| least-is the health-building time of
life. Yet American childhood is not
that in anything like the measure i:
| should be.
I'm fact. 100000 of our boys and
girls are suffering from malnourish-
, ment.
I'VE have some 100000 children
so this means that one in every five is
being Handicapped at the source Of
strength and usefulness by wrong
nourishment-too little food, too much
food, or lack of right food
How did we come to find this
out? Well, last year was children's
year-planned and carried out by
the children's bureau of the federal
department of labor-and in every
part of the country the health and
surroundings of children were given
careful attention by a host of VOL
unteer investigators, who reported
to Washington.
When these reports were gone over
it was seen that malnutrition was
working more harm among young
Americans than anything else.
Years ago a notorious Hun said
that what you want to put into a ma
ton you first must put into it's schools.
That may do for ideals, But for
power of mind to appreciate ideals
and power of body to apply them
practically it is better to say that
what you would put into q nation
you first must put into the stomacks
of the Children
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
CAPITALISTS ARE HIDING
THEIR VAST FORTUNES

While investigating the meat pack
ing industry the federal trade COM
mission uncovered a remarkable fl
nancial device which can completely
hide the ownership of stocks and
bonds. If this system comes into gen.
eral use, the commission says, it can
be used to evade the payment by cor
porations Of income and other taxes
to the government.
The device is known as a "bearer
warrant" and is receipt for stock
certificate. The certificate itself runs
to the treasurer of the corporation
and he issues a receipt, or warrant,
for 1t. TIL warrant runs to "bearer"
and the dividends can be collected
and the stock actually voted without
even the officers of the corporation
knowing who the stakeholder is.
The system was discovered by tn.
commission in its search for the true
ownership of certain Chicago stock
yards interests and it prevented the
commission from fully determining
the identity of the real stockholders
The Chicago yards. yard railways
and adjacent real estate development
are operated by companies whose
stock is owned by the Chicago juno
ton railways md the Union stocH
Yards company of New Jersey, which
in turn is controlled by the Chicago
Stock Yards company of Maine.
Bearer Warrants" for 1914 per cent
Of the Maine company stock have been
identified as belonging to J. Ogd IN
Armour & Co.. one of the big five
meat packers.
The commission found that Ar
mour exchanged $4,000 in cash for
$1,552,000 of stock in the Maine COM
pany. Up to the year 1917 he has
drawn in dividends $152,95o more
than his investment.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
PRAISE FOR PORK CHOPS
WOULD TRADE WORDS Of

Editor Cease OF the Railroad Train
men, official! magazine of the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmcn. declares
that railroad employees are willing 20
trade war for pork chops. He says:
I'VE have had our fill Of generall-
tics and kind words Of what mighty
factor we were in winning the war.
They pay FOR no pork chops. And,
besides, we have a suspicion that they
are all true. What We want now is
time and one-half for overtime and
wage that will let US earn enough
in six eight-hour days to live well
and comfortably for seven 24-hour
days.
I'VE stand ready to swap all thu
nice things tina, may be sad of "
for the things We need"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
THE COST OF LIVING.

Official Washington. which could
not discover the cost Of living prob
lem until the railroads thrust it I'M
der the official noses, is likely to
advance remedies that will be worse
than useless. The proposed raid on
the wheat farmers is a case in point.
A mere blind raid on prices that
will be paid for by the fundamental
producers is likely to produce
nationwide panic.
What we need is a new system OF
distribution which will take control
of production out of the hands or
the market specialists and market
gamblers. AS nation we are pro-
ducing for a market profit instead of
producing for use. Our so-called
captains of industry, with the ex-
ception of a few like Henry Ford,
use their talents and all the talent
they can hire to see how much they
can sell an article for instead of try
irg to see how cheaply they can
produce it.
Little wonder then that we are
not producing enough coal, enough
shoes, enough clothes or enough
food to go around, and that prices
soar and soar. Efficiency experts
have estimated that our factories are
about IS per cent efficient.
The government can make big
cut in the coal price at once. for
instance, if it will take over the
marketing of coal and order the coal
companies to produce at certain
fair profit per ton. The coal COM
panies would then make their profits
higher by turning out larger
back product for market profit as
they do now. The same principle
would work wonders in every big
line Of necessaries. Employment
would be plentiful and prices would
be within reach of many more of us.
in some lines, like the packing
industry, where trusts have secured
practically full control, more than
government pooling of marketing
will be needed. The government will
have to manage production too.
Likewise the natural resources will
have to be nationalized to give the
industries the raw materials they
need at cost or near cost and in
abundant quantity.
Nothing short of complete market
readjustment, so that craftsmanship
and market manipulation can become
lost art, will solve the cost-of-living
problem. The politicians are, how
ever, not ready as yet to sacrifice
their best friends for public welfare.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
CHEAP SHOES-ABROAD

A shoe manufacturer here de-
clares he is ready to sell 10000
pairs of mems shoes abroad at prices
ranging from $3.50 q pair for low
grade work shoes 10 S5.75 for mems
gun-metal calf, high Grade shoes "
1nasmuch as these prices are about
one"haf TO one-third what we ere
paying, it would seem 20 imply that
the ilrnor OF real competition in our
sAco trace is unfounded; also that
Ike tie. old-fashioned retail mer-
chans TIC shoe manufacturer has to
see ms customer before he knows
What his price is
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
WHAT IS SLAVERY?

IT'S to work, and have such pay
AS just keeps life from day to day
In your limbs, as in a cell,
For the tyrants' use to dwell,
So that ye for them are made
Loom, and plough, and sword and
spade.
With or without your own will bent
TO their defense and nourishment.
'Tis to hunger for such diet,
AS the rich man in his riot
Casts to the fat dogs that lie
Surfe!ting beneath his eye
IT'S to be a slave in soul,
And to hold no strong control
Over your own will. but he
All that others make of We.
shelley I7c2-1SS2.)
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
THE LEAGUE, OR ARM TO THE
TEETH.

Eleven million men were killed in
the great war
Fifteen million men were injured
in the great war
Almost every normal process of
the worlds civilization was thrown
out of joint.
The league of nations offers the
only hope of making another such
war impossible.
Without the league of nations
there must come blighting, crush
ing race to see who can pile up the
biggest stack of guns for the next
war
Just what can be in the minds of
those senator's who oppose the league
Of nations?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
SUFFRAGE Amendment IS
RATIFIED BY 10 STATES

The record Of the states of the
Union on the issue of ratification OF
the Federal Suffrage Amendment is
as follows:
Number necessary to carry amend
ment, Sc.
Number that stand in favor, IS.
Number that stand against, /.
Number needed of those yet 10 vote
23
States that have ratified. with date:
Illinois--June 10, 1919.
Wisconsin-June 10, 1919
Michigan-June 10, 1919
kansas-June 16, 1919.
New York-June Is. 1919.
Ohio-June Is, 1919.
Pennsylvania-June "a, 1919.
Observation-Disclosures Is, 1919.
Texas-June 81, 1919.
Iowa-July 3, 1919.
Missouri-July 3. 1919.
Arkansas-July %, 1919.
Montana-July so, 1919.
State that has refused with date:
Georgia-July "a, 1919.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
Congressman Blanton asks that TN

Congressman Blanton asks that the
house inpeach Secretary of Labor
Wilson because of his work on the
Presidents western Investigating and
Cancellation mission last fall.
II It is not indelicate, we rise to
suggest that the congressman's out
burst reminds us of nothing so much
as OF the first three letters CT Lis
own name! -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
HISTORICAL WAVE FOR
ONE BIG union EbBS

The. hysterical wave Of .one-big-
unionism is receding in Canada. de-
clares the Edmonton Free Press
which states that the central body
OF this city refused to be stampedsd
into tho o. b. H.. movement and by
the exercise o. foresight performed
ss1poa lrlluso 1su;o QoluM. zlsra Z
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
FOREMOST OBJECT OF LEAGUE OF
NATIONS IS TO PRESERVE PEACE
By WILLIAM H. TAFT.
By WILLIAM H. TAFT.

ARTICLE NO. 2.
Since the prime object of the league of
peaceand the benefits of peaeet how the league
will operate to accomplish that purpose.
In the first place will seek the war;
BY the formation of international
the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations Then will
seek compel the nations make of this That nothing
less than application Of the roles and governing
individuals civilized communities to the relations between nations
Secondly the league will seek to great temptation
by tn general reduce the of armies and
This will halt the for military and naval Supremacy which
largely responsible for the ended The of
nation maintain will be strictly Defined Th will be
impossible tor one country overwhe its nehbor by unexpected
attack, IN the that Germany crushed Belgium and wod have
crushed France had not the other democratic nations gone her aid
The idea that each country keep and navy large
enough to enable to @ its responsibilities member of the
league, but larger The United Stat for example, probably
wod expected keep check Mexico the
turmoil that country od be taken into consideration deciding
how large army should need.
The third important safeguard which the league will up
system OF penalties This will make oaw of any nation
eoup nations which goes violation of the of the
1eage The ouawed nation will be boycotted by all
members Of the league and will find itself off both Business
and social communication with the rest of the world.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-08-16
NEWS and COMMENT

Isn't it time for some people to
wake up and recognize the importance
Of the labor situation. The condition
is indeed serious when the most y, om-
inent actors in the United sta G.: find
it necessary to strike and close the
leading theaters Of the east 70 get a
living wage. The strike is sp 'eading
to Chicago.
George NJ Cohan de;iarGs that he
will spend his fortune to beat the
actors. He will have mighty good
opportunity to get rid of good
chunck of change, but the rood
man should know a little labor his
tory and take lesson from Post,
Van Cleave and a number of otha- &C.
II futile effort to stop the onward
march of labor.
Senator Lodge has finally unloaded.
He made 70 appeal TO reject the
League Of Nations. lie mere'.y wants
certain reservations. It is the SAME
Old Republican nayslng. Wilson did
not do it as we'll as Lodge would have
done l., but if the senator had sat in
ct Versailles We wonder just how
much he would have accomplished Tor
the free peoples of the world.
Tie railroad brotheri1oods are
charged by Senator Pomerene of
Ohio with promoting Bolshevism in
the United States because of the ad-
vocacy of the government operation
of railroads. If it is BolsheVism
there are a lot of Bolshevists in the
country, and there will be more too,
if the profiteers and food pirates do
not let go.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-09
Trolley or Tractor for Traffic.
Satisfaction

A wizard Of mechanics, whose success
in making motor cars in large quantities
is now said to be threatening the trolley
car with extinction as method of hand
ling interurban passenger traffic, pro-
poses a sort of glorified "fivyer," whose
superior qualifications as means of
transportation will give it such advan-
tage over the present style that the
tramways and trolley wires will disap-
pear from city streets. A certain degree
Of mystery surrounds the announcement,
however, for it is not intended that
any portion of the benefits to flow from
the new plan are to go to any soulless
corporation, grasping monopoly or other
combination of greedy individuals who
grind the faces of the poor by hauling
them Is or 20 miles at high rate of
speed, now and then with chance to
sit down, at five or six cents the pas
senger This is, of course, one Of the
lesser delights of the promised blessings.
In other ways the prospective advan-
tages are listed, all in favor of the trac-
tor and against the trolley However,
the scheme has not developed to a point
where immediate substitution of the
new for the old way impends. In time
the world may get more definite knowl-
edge of what is involved in this, but
finally the settlement will be on the ba-
sis of what viii give the greatest service
at the least cost.-Omaha Bee.