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and excessive award, OF the war
labor board" in the matter Of adjust.
ment ol salaries. were among the
reasons assigned iog the action
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Dry Bill Ratified.

CHARLESTON, W Va. lam o.
The West Virginia legislature today
completed rs ratification ot the led
cfal prohibition amendment.
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In lU4 he was retired by operation
OF law and has since made his home
In Washington.
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The labor world., 1919-10-04
COST OF LIVING
STILL TOO HIGH

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-The bu-
reau of statistics of the department
of labor in a report just made public
presents an interesting discussion of
the high cost Of living problem for
families whose incomes aggregate
from $1,000 to $500 in the high cost
of living schedule of 81 selected cities
in all parts of the United States A
family with the income indicated ex-
pended during the past - months an
average Of 1894 for food. In Boston
the expenditure was $579, in Balti-
more $547, in New Orleans $3.50, in
Pittsburgh $685., in Philadelphia s533,
in Chicago $523, in Kansas City s514,
y in San Francisco s514, in Cincinnati
1904, and in st. Louis s497.
"The average annual expenditure"
says the report. "for food by all the
families in all the cities listed was
$511. The largest sum, 1924. was
spent in Fall River, Mass, and the
smallest sum, s427, in Savannah. ia.
The cities having the smaller expend-
-ltures for food are for the most part
n the middle west with some IN the
south.
The labor world., 1919-10-04
TURN TO PAGE THREE.
TURN TO FACE IFtEEE.
WISCONSIN firm |
SUES MACH|N|STS

RACINE, Wis, Oct. IA trial
which involves the right of unions to
strike and what damages can be coll
lected for so doing is to be tested in
the courts here. Last spring Machine
lists union No. 437 demanded -ecog-
milton, higher wages and shorter
hours, and when the Webster Electric
company refused to meet these de-
mands the union machinists in the
company's employ struck. Since
then the union has continued the fight
in the ordinary way.
The company has entered suit
and filed a statement that lit desires
to recover damages against the de-
PENDANTS by reason of a wrongful and
unlawful scheme, combination and
conspiracy entered into by them for
the purpose of doing injury to the
plaintiffs property and injuring and
destroying it's business by threaten
ing and intimidating its employees and
coercing. them by force and violence
and unlawful means to leave the
plaintiffs employ. Yhatsdue to this
the products sot, the plaintiffs factory
have been reduced and its profiu
diminished" 81
The labor world., 1919-10-04
Steel BAR0NS: EMPLOY STATE u:
POLICE TO BEAT UP WORKERS
Pennsylvania In Great Steel Strike Presents All Aspects Of War;
Steel Kings Go Limit to Arm Guards Machine Guns in Front
Of Plants; Ordinary Rights Of Citizens Tramp|ed Down.

PITTSBURGH, Oct 2-special Correspondence )-Pennsyl-
today the heart the steel strike all the aspects
with the exception that only side equipped with the i'm
plements of
If the underdog excited sympathy the striking steel workers
certainly deserve in western Never has the greed
capitalism the instance suppress the fnd
mental rights of the workers.
From Pittsburgh Clarion distance of Is miles, and
each side of the Mononga be found the largest
steel mills the country All surrounded by newly uniformed
recently depuized heavy rifles wide cartridge belts
pockets bugng with and the butt of heavy
trudng significantly from its leather holster fastened each WELL
groomed body. -%~
Machine Guns Mont Entrances of Plants.
At the each steel mill from
oneha dozen machine and around these stand from dozen
hundred bosses with police their heads others with
blue still others without sign of authority their apparel
But all have deputy shef athere than 10000 the
section referred to- Many have also been appointed the
police force of each the boouhs and along the river
In addition to all this there large force Of the unspeakbe
constabuary the district clothed with blanket police authority
ride particle warning down the the
small steel communities their vicious clubs and shooting right
and left Men badly BEATEN and children mercess
mpd under the feet of the horses the American flag which
then shortly aerward than
and charged with melting riot the county Jail in Pitts
The labor world., 1919-10-04
CONGRESS AGAIN
ASSERTS UNIONS
ARE: NOT TRUSTS
House Refuses to Include Organ.
izations Of Labor With Illegal
Combinations,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The house
rejected the amendment offered by
Representative Fess of Ohio to the
deficiency appropriation bill that pro-
vides funds for the prosecution of lille
gal combinations under the federal
antitrust Jaw. His purpose in Offer
ing the amendment was to classify the
trade unions and farmers associa-
tions with trusts. This, he would ac-
complish by amending the law which
says that no money authorized for the
enforcement of the antitrust law
shall be spent in the prosecution Of
any organization or Individual for en-
tering into anw combinat ton or agree
,ment having in view the increase in
wages" or "shall be expended for the
prosecution Of producers Of farm pro-
ducts and associations of farmers who
cooperate andorganize in an effort
to and for the purpose to obtain and
maintain fair and reasonable price
for their products" =
These exceptions, which have been
carried in the appropriation bills for
I" Au44AUcF VI years. nave excited DlLter
opposition, and those unfriendly to the
trade unions and the farmers asso-
Citations have never permitted an op-
portunity to pass to attempt to elm
mate them from the appropriation
bill.
When the house was in committee
of the whole, Mr.. Fess succeeded in
securing; favorable action on his
amendment. to cut out the appropria-
tion, the vote being So to 10. When
the bill was reported to the house,
the contest was oyel tne amendment
-tfatherad. by Representative; ;aFess .-.-.
Following the action of the commit
tee of the whole, representatives of
labor and the farmers associations
got busy. AS result of their activi-
ties the Fess amendment was de-
feated. On the demand Of Represen-
tative Nolan, of California, a member
Of the labor group, for the reconsid-
Grafton, the section of the deficiency
appropriation bill carrying the ex-
emptions was restored by a roll call
vote of 203 to 20.
The labor world., 1919-10-04

But mind you, rney will not at
tempt to commercialize their war
performance to gain these ideals.
What they did in the war was
from a patriotic standpoint. Good
Americans that they are, they stood
by their country and do not now seek
to cash in on dutiful performance.
Pay a Living Wage.
"'Again I repeat that strike is un-
necessary. Every industry should
charge for it's products a sufficient
sum to pay its employees a decent
wage. Conditions of employment
Under which this wage is earned
should be in keeping with the times
and by all means humane.
":If the coal industry will grant
such conditions, coal strike will be
averted.
y" The public should not be alarmed
by strike talk. The miners are not
seeking a strike. but simply indus
trial justice. that's all. - ] ~
""Grant this and all will be well.','"'
The labor world., 1919-10-04

/, fundamental principle that first
caused men to bind themselves to-
gether in trade union for a common.
purpose. And that, to elevate them
selves to a plane Of living. embracing
the blessings of an advanced civiliza-
tion that by every reason should be
theirs.
How is a strike to be averted ?'
Mr.. Lewis was asked, "since the oper-
ators have flatly stated that the de-
mands formulated will not be ac-
ceded to-"
1T the operators are determined
to force a strike" said Lewis, then
of course there will be nothing left
for the miners to do except to use
their only economic weapon, strike"
But" said Lewis, "the public
should not condemn the miners for
executing their only alternative and
certainly not in advance of the ac-:
tual happening"
The public In general is not familiar
with mining. as they are with other
The labor world., 1919-10-04
RADICALS EvADE.
.V0TE0N ONE BIG
union QUESTION
Chicago Meeting, However,
Commits Itself to United
Action Of All Labor

CHICAGO, Oct. 2.-The convention
called here to start campaign in the
United States for the release Of all
so-called political and Industrial pris-
oners, effected a. permanent organiza-
tion Sunday, passed resolution de-
dicating itself to conduct Of vigorous
propaganda to awaken the labor
movement and those political parties
not dominated by the private owners
Of Industry to this cause; pledged
itself Ito urge the utter futility Of
merely petitioning congress or pass
ing resolutions begging those who
should be servants of the people to be
loyal to the people," recomm ended
that "all delegates who represent la
Dor unions work for the united action
of all labor. that the power of soli-
for freedom" and before adjourning
listened to a speech by William D.
Haywood, former national secretary
treasurer of the I. W. W.
The question Of the One Big Union
Endorsement, which caused so much
debate on Friday, was disposed of by
the resolutions committee, to which
the resolution was referred to recon-
sideration, with the lines calling "for
united action of. all labor"
When the One Big Union advocates
inquired about the former resolution,
this line was pointed out as the ac-
ton Of the convention on this ques-
ton. The matter was left there by
the convention.
The members Of the committee pre-
senting the minority report, who on
Friday had declared directly for the
One Big Union, announced Yesterday.
that they had consented to withdraw
their report. The majority had made
a. report on Friday against indorsing
the One Big Union. Robert Buck,
editor of the New Majority, the Off
cial organ of the Cook County and
Illinois, State Labor parties, was chair
man of the resolutions committee.
Mr.. Haywood was cheered loudly
when he went to the platform to
speak, and his appeal for the I. w. w.
was frequently interrupted by cheers.
The labor world., 1919-10-04

industries. The citizen can pass the
factory or workshop, store or rail-
road properties and there see the
workers in action. When an en-
ploye Of any of these industries makes
complaint, the public has an under
standing of their employment. Not
so with the miner, who is employed
underground in the dark pits of the
earth. Few citizens who: tread the
surface understand the hazardous
conditions surrounding his occupa-
ton.
1.-THE whole situation" said. Lewis
may be summed up briefly as fol-
lows: The miners have never been
paid an adequate wage for their labor
consistent with the wages paid in
other industries.
isolated in remote sections their
living costs have always been con-
siderably higher than that Of the
workers in the thick1y populated cities
and towns I,
Miners have beeA prevented from
The labor world., 1919-10-04
INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT I'LL
ON JOB AT NATIONS CAPITOL
Desperate Working to Force Hand Of Congress and Consunae
Steal Of Ten Billions Of Dollars Poughed Into Fake Property
Investment Account People Asked to lega|ize

WASHINGTON, Oct 2-(spccal Correspondence 1.-THE "n-
visible government which has swayed congress the Civil
active behalf of desperately
work at Washington trying force the hand
steal Of ten billions dollars that have
fake property investment which the asked ega
and afterward reward with that directly
living
he only before that stands between the people
and tn hghwaymen in the Sims BILL which
lated and has the Endorsement of the
Every other bill proposes permit this gigantic
sal bit of freebooing in the annals Of crime.
Plumb Plan Only One That Covers All.
The brotherhood bill is the only that adequately
question of watered stock and the labor problem
the only force here Washington the nain fighting the
pies side this that wields that the politicians
Seventeen separate and distinct plans railway
been submitted But noteworthy that neither the
the Warfed committee of alleged shareholders
had the emety give publicity their demands the
posed legislation.
Tru the Warfed crowd has presented congressional
mittec the proposed draft of legislation which demands but
under pledge of confidence and the public has heard
word from it, That evidence that the railway group
state of wholesome apprehension They don't public
scrunz too closely what they trying do They
to get into and then they will slip through
steal and the people, they hope will the
The labor world., 1919-10-04

+ forcing the issue to secure an ade-
quate wage by the steady inflow Of
immigration and the oVerdevelopmen
Of coal fields, controlled by the iarg-
est combinations Of capital in Amer
lea in some instances. =
During the war. when shipyard
workers, building trade workers and
other lines Of employees were receiv-
ing weekly and monthly increases,
the miners were held in check by the
fuel administration from striking for
increased pay, thereby forfeiting their
opportunity to secure an equitable
wage such as fell to the good fortune
of other tradesmen. "p,
1.-The war is over. The miners
played their patriotic part in winning
the war by breaking all production
records with reduced mine forces And
now since the United States has
successfully passed through the war
period, they propose to secure the
conditions of employment and wages
to which they are entitled. =: -
The labor world., 1919-10-04
LEWIS DECLARES COAL MINERS STRIKE UNNECESSARY

There is no necessity for strike
in the coal industry" declares John
L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers. "The mine workers
have no desire to Inconvenience the
public, halt industry and created
stagnated business condition that
would paralyze the nation.
What the mine workers desire,
their demands being but an express
sion of their hope, is to secure for
their labor from the sale of the basic
product of the nation, upon which
the wheels of all industry hinges, a
sufficient wage to enable themselves
and families to win out in the game
of living decently during these extra
ordinary times Of high prices.
"Our demands of today, drastic as
they may seem to those who have not
kept pace with the times and pro-
gressed with the advanced thought
Of the day, are based upon the same
The labor world., 1919-10-04
BAPTIST LAYMAN URGES
PREACHERS TO STRIKE

NEW YORK, Oct. IA nation
wide strike of Baptist clergymen, un-
less they are granted higher salaries,
was advocated in statement issued
here by Charles A. McAlpile, a mem
ber of the national committee of
Northern Baptist laymen
IF I were still a pastor and my
salary was not more than $500 per
annum, which is the amount received
by the average clergyman in our de-
nomination, I'd organize a union of
minister's" said Mr.. McAlpine, who
predicted there would be shortage
of clergymen soon unless ministers
are better compensated than milk
men, window cleaners and day labor
ORG
The labor world., 1919-10-04
REFUSE TO MAKE
POLICE UNIFORMS
Boston Garment Workers Notify
Employers They Will Not
Hell p Strikebfeakers.

BOSTON, Oct. 2.-Few recruits are
appearing for the new police force
now being raised by Edwin U. Curtis,
police commissioner, to replace the
men on strike. Another difficulty
which has appeared in the police ques-
ton is the refusal of garment work.
ers to make uniforms for the members
of the new force.
M. Llnsky, who has made uniforms
for the Boston police for years, has
announced that he will be unable to
make those Mr.. Curtis wants because
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers #
America have served notice that thew
will not, either in Boston or in anv
other city, touch uniform for a man
to replace a striking policeman. The
garment workers not members of the
amalgamated are affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. and
presumably will adopt similar tactics.
Because of the difficulty already
experienced in recruiting the replace
ment police force, Commissioner Cur
tls' it is understood, will ask the Civil
Service Commission to modify the reg
ulatlons regarding appointments to
the force.
Members of the old force entered
the service at 5000 a year, and did
not receive even as much as $1,10O for
two years. The new men will start
IN at S1,400, and it is intimated that
they will have maximum of $4,000
set as a further inducement. I'M
proved working conditions and shorter
hours will also be arranged.
The labor world., 1919-10-04
Steel TRUST IN
: ::U,:S,. hfChc0URT
Wants Decision on Its Legality
Based on Present Instead Of
20 Years Ago.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. I'm a.
supplemental brief filed on Saturday
the United States Steel Corporation
asked the supreme court to decide the
pending antitrust case brought by the
government under the Sherman act
on the basis of the situation in the
steel industry growing out Of the war
instead of on conditions 20 years ago.
The case is to be argued soon after
the cour treconvenes on Oct. 6.
The corporation pointed out that in
1901, it produced SOL per cent of the
steel, while in 1911 its proportion was
only 45.7 per cent. Can anyone rea-
sonably contend that this of itself
establishes preponderance in the sense
of power to control the industry" the
brief asked.
Pointing out that, despite it's fall
ure to have the suit decided before
the war, the corporation had pro-
ceeded to expend enormous sums Of
money in enlarging it's plants, which
enabled it to meet "every requirement
Of the government to the end of the
war;" the brief asked.
"Can anyone doubt that the cor
poration's ability to meet it was due
to the very size and strength of which
the. government complains as con-
centrated economic power?' And
ought this power, SO efficient and so
useful to the public in time Of stress
and 50 easy Of public control, to be
ruthlessly destroyed on a mere theory
that it may possibly be abused?"
The labor world., 1919-10-04
TO START Drive
FOR 500 UNIONS
Officers Of Working Peoples
Nonpartisan Political League
Want Them All in

MINNEAPOLIS, OCT: 2.-Officers
of the Working Peoples 'Nonpart1can
Political league have set as their goal
the enrolment Of the 500 unions in
Minnesota in the organization by
Nov. /.
Reports of enrolment and interest
shown on the part OF labor and pro-
gressives in general in the new poll
ical movement already give assurance
9thatthe goal win eakly be- reached.
Nearly Is per cent of the unions in
st. Paul and Minneapolis I. have en-
rolled and paid their fees since the
league was organized, July 20, at the
annual convention of the Minnesota
State Federation Of Labor.
At the last weekly meetingof the
executive council of the league, held
at the headquarters, Minneapolis, an
organizer sent into southern Minne-
sofa reported that unions in New Ulm,
Mankato and Albert Lea had affiliated
with the league.
In these cities arrangements also
have been made for large PUBLIC gath
erings to explain the movement to
workers outside the ranks of organ
lied labor and point out the fact that
the league membership is not con-
fined to- union men but welcomes to
its ranks all true progressfves.
In word, it is general political
movement for the uplift of govern
ment and in no sense merely labor
political enterprise.
Organization meetings also have
been arranged for Winona, Rochester,
Hastings and Red Wing.
In every place visited by organizers,
workers have been almost unanimous
in their decision to join the league
as soon as they heard the platform
and purposes of the organization ex-
planned.
The labor world., 1919-10-04
i. s. ALLOWS PRIhCELY
SALARIES TO R. R. HEADS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Repre-
sentative Thompson of Ohio, charged
in a talk in the house that 72 officials
of the railroad administration, de-
scribed as "men on the staff of the
director general" are receiving an
nual salaries aggregating $2,398,000.
Railroad administration officials re-
ceiving the big salaries were given by
Mr.. Thompson as follows. Five at
$4,000 each; two at $4,000; three at
$4,000; eleven at $4,000; one at $751;
500; one at $4,000; one at $17,500;
six at $4,000; one at $4,000; one at
$4,000; one at $12.5oG four at $12,-
600; one at $1,000; one at $1O,60O;
and twenty three at $4,000.
The labor world., 1919-10-04

'burgh, 20 miles away and each held
in 100000 bail.
Put "Plant'' There.
One man had a blackjack thrust
into his pocket BY one: OF the state
cossacks, whereupon he was imme-
diately charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons. After he was in Jail
the same people confiscated his auto
mobile, and thus they have secured
another monster for riding down the
helpless and terror-stricken workers.
In McKeesport, on the same day,
where for several weeks meetings
have been suppressed, arrangements
had been made to hold one on some
lots that had been bought outside the
city. A monster crowd had as
sembled when the state consta bulary
rode roughshod into the crowd. In
this instance. many ofthe people were
standing in the edge Of an embank-
men, which they were obliged to dive
over to escape being run down by
the cossacks.
On Sept. "a, when another gather
ing had assembled in the same place,
they again appeared. slugged a dozen
men into insensibility, arrested s6,
and, in their reckless disregard for
the rights of anyone, ran down and
very seriously injured the chief Of
police Of Glassport, who was there to
see that order was preserved at the
meeting, it being held within the
limits ofthe Borough Of Glassport.
More Atrocities.
In Duquesne, where it has been
impossible to hold a single meeting
during the whole organizing CAM
paign in this district, these state CO.'S
sacks go to the private homes of the
men, arrest any one found out Of
work, take them to jail, fine them
heavily and threaten them with fur
ther arrests unless they return to the
mills.
To illustrate the methods by the
:ity authorities in Duquesne: A steel