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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-24
look out for the employer who wants
workers at reduced wages.

look out for the employer who wants
workers at reduced wages.
True, he will say: "Sure, I want
him at his old wages!"
Many soldiers will fall for that
without realizing that it means a
reduction of nearly one-half the pay
he was receiving two years ago.
Few of the returning men know
that the purchasing power of their
dollar has been reduced by about
one-half in the past few years. When
he buys his civilian clothes he will
get the first jolt, but full realization
will not come until he settles down
to the old grind.
that seems to be unavoidable. There
is widespread unnecessary unemplOy-
ment. Especially is this true in in
dustrial centers. There is a con-
gestion of jobless workers in many
eastern cities.
Many soldiers, deceived by the
glamor Of the hero worship and
wild welcome in eastern cities, have
made the mistake of returning to
Atlantic ports with their discharge
bonus, apparently thinking the days
Of. joy and nights Of .:gladness were
to be prolonged forever. All he had
to do was to take a job and then
gather with his wonderful ,newmade
friends, !,
The recoil is sad; establishment is
doleful. Some of the "hard boiled"
employers are taking advantage of
conditions to get cheap labor. They
are offering the "old wages on the
old job"
We owe it to our returning men
that they should not be robbed of
just wages. We owe it to ourselves
that wages are not to be cut at this
time.
Warn the soldiers and sailors who
are coming home. Let every organ
lied worker be on the alert. Talk
this in meetings. Get the under
standing Of the RELATIVE WAGE
and insist on an income that will
be adequate to maintain" not only
| the reasonable standard of life'' out
lined in labor's new international
bill of rights. but high American
| standard. Resist the insidious wage
cutter,
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I. w. w. CONVENTION.

Comparatively little was heard
about the proceedings of the first
annual" meeting of the I. w. w. in
the United States, just held in Chi
cago, so quietly. so far as outsiders
KIN ew, was the business of the organi-
cation carried on. The small stir
occasioned by the meeting was, no
doubt, in large measure due to the
fact that it was deemed wise that
this first annual session should take
the form of gathering of a rela-
lively small number of delegates
rather than that Of a mass meeting
of. the members. Whatever may
have been the purpose in conducting
the session in, this >mannen the Ma
ton should take note.@of'. the fact
that such Information as was made
public confirms impressions which
had:sal eeiiefal w1thtre-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-24
NEW CHILD LABOR LAW.

How is the new child labor fed
eral law working out in this vic
Unity?
If you don't know here's a chance
quietly to Investigate. If you find
violations you can do good turn
to childhood and to labor by max
ing the truth known.
Here are some of the provisions
Of the act which became effective
April IS:
If any child under the age of IA
years is permitted to work in any
mill, cannery, workshop, factory or
manufacturing establishment, or
any child under the age of 16 is
permitted to work in any quarry or
mine, all the profits of those institu-
tons for the entire year are taxable
to the extent of ten per cent.
A child labor tax division has
been established in the bureau of
Internal revenue. Working certifi-
! Gates will be accepted as evidence
of age in states where such permits
are issued. There are no provisions
for certificates in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Mississippi and
Texas. There will be, if one may
judge by past performances, many
attempts at evasion, especially in
those chivalrous southern states
! where child labor has long been a
stencil in the nostrils of decent peo-
! pie.
The law provides rigidly for an
! eight-hour day and a six-day week
and for day work only. The pen
atty provided is $1,000 fine or three
months Imprisonment for false re-
turns on the age of children. How
ever, the penalty would rarely, if
ever, fall on the employer; the
parents of the children are usually
the ones who apply for working
certificates.
A corps of inspectors has been ap-
pointed and is on the job. From now
until the Supreme court gets it's
turn to decide on the constitutional
ity of this new law it would be we'll
to watch is working and it's effects.
Next year we shall see if the rev.
enue collected by this proposed i'm
post shall have been sufficient tc
pay the salaries of the inspectors.
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his sovereignty and. the integrity OF
his home and his soul

his sovereignty and. the integrity OF
his home and his soul.
1t would have been "a grave act OF
omission if in the definiation of the
new and juster foundations of the
new order of the world the rights OF
nine-tenths of its population-its
workers-had found no affirmation.
The eight hour law, the prohibition
of child labor, a reasonable living
wage-all these declarations are ex-
pressions of the new brotherhood of
man, the new realization of the right
of peoples to govern their own lives
and to work out their own deStinies.
Labor has a right to specific inclu-
sion in this new brotherhood, this new
guarantee of the freedom of self de-
termination and self-development.
The world could not. in this unprec-
edented prcsid Of righting of wrongs
have denied to it's working people
the foundation of its power and its
happiness-the guarantees to which
they are plainly entitlcd.-New York
Evening Mail.
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gard to certain important matters. It
appears, for instance, that this
organization desires to establish re-
lations with all revolutionary organi-
cations, in other countries, which
subscribe to the declaration that
'emplOyers and the working class
have nothing in common; that it
is bent on fomenting labor troubles,
and is aiming at industrial revolu-
ton; and that it is making persist
ent efforts to influence in this direc-
ton the larger groups of people in
the country who do not understand
the English language, and so are
unable to inform themselves in any
adequate degre concerning the insti-
tutions and aims of the Nation.
Quite clearly, the discouraging in
cidents which the I. w. w. has thus
far met with in it's course in the
United States have not upset it's pur-
pose to make the most of it's OPP
portunities to enlarge the scope of
it's activities and influence, for this
convention adopted resolution in
favor of. more vigorous campaign
of agitation to be carried on through
the circulation of I. w. w. literature
and by means of speeches. The speci-
fication of speeches as one of the
principal features of the propaganda
seems to imply intention to spread
the teachings in a. more open manner
than in the past. i:
, 1t is satisfaction, though an I'M
necessary one, to have the testimony
of the I. w. w., as the convention
!, frankly furnished it, in addition to
that of the American Federation of
Labor, to tire fact: that. there is no
affinity between these f9rganizations.
And the additional fact that there
is no prospect of any such relation
ship was made palmer than ever by
the approval in the convention of a
provision in the constitution of the
l. w. w. that a member of that
organization who may become an Of
ficer of the American Federation of
Labor shall no longer be a member
| of the I. w. w. Delegates declared,
moreover that the two organizations
were opposed to each other, and that
this provision was necessary in order
to protect the l. w. W. from the
Influence of the great Labor fedora
ton. The American Federation of
Labor, which, since it showed itself
SO distinctly loyal and dependable
during the war, has stood high in the
esteem of the Nation, is to be con-
graduated upon it's evidently def
! mite agreement to disagree with the
l. WV. In fact, it is worth some
thing, i'll these times, to know where
the lines run that designate groups
OF people representing different
views on important political and eco
nomic questions. Some means arc
thus afforded of estimating the num-
bers Of these elements, and an indica-
| ton is given as to how much weight
should be attached to utterances by
! their Observation-Disclosures Science
Monitor :,
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mo ANNExATIONS" :
BY w. N. EVER IN THE
LONDON NATION.

Note by the editor.-The announce
ment that the British empire is to be
the mandatory" for German East
Africa, German West Africa, Naura,
the German Samoan Islands and ali
the German island possessions south
of the equator. has provoked an Eng
lish poet in the London Nation to the
following satiric lines:
mo annexations?" We agree!,
We did not draw the sword for gain,
But to keep little nations free;
And surely, surely, it is plain
That land and loot we must disdain,
Who only fight for liberty.
But, still-we cannot we'll restore
To the grim Teuton's iron yoke
The countries that he ruled before,
Rebind on liberated folk"
The cruel letters that we broke,
The grievous burden that they bore
Of course it happens-as we know
That German East" has fertile soil
Where corn and cotton crops will
grow,
That Togoland is rich in oil,
That natives can be made to toll
For wages which men count too low.
That many wealthy diamond mine
Makes Southwest Africa a prize,
That river dam and railway line
GA profitable enterprise)
May make a paying paradise
OF Bagdad and OF Palestine.
However, this is by the way;
We do not fight for things like these
But to destroy a despot's sway,
TO guard our ancient liberties;
We cannot help it if it please
The Gods to make the process pay
We cannot help it if our Fate
Decree that war in Freedoms name
Shall handsomely remunerate
Our ruling classes. Twas the same
In earlier days-we always came
Not to annex, but liberate.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-24
REPUBLICANS ATTACK FARM
LOAN BANKS

In an article more than column
long, the official organ of the Re-
publican organization exploits and
encourages the attempt which Rep
resentative McFadden, of Pennsyl-
vania, has announced will be made to
repeal the act under which farm-loan
banks have been established in behalf
of small agricultural interests. This
organ of the Republican party and
spokesman for the Republican ma
jority in this Congress refers
to the present plan to help the farm
ers as IAN expensive folly" and "a
socialistic bubble.''
Repeating the statements of a
former Republican Congressman, the
organ characterizes the farm-loan act
as "class legislation: asserts that
it does not promote home building or
the buying of farms; contends that
it benefits only one farmer in 161,
and declares that it ''costs the Amer
lean people $40 to give the farmer 81.
Herbert Quick, member of the
Farm Loan Board, has already point
ed out that the attack on the farm.
loan banks is inspired by the concerns
which have made millions in lending
money TO farmers at excessive in
terest. The land banks rate is S IL
per cent. Since their establishment
no money lenders have been charging
more than per cent on farm loans,
except in few localities. Before the
banks were instituted, interest on
such accommodations ran as high as
Is per cent and was seldom under 8
per cent.
When it is remembered that the
| Federal land banks now have out
standing about $1S0,O0O,OOO of loans
to farmers, the saving to the latter
in interest, compared with the rates
they would have had to pay from
private lenders, will be seen to be a
vast amount. In addition to the les
ser charge for the use of the money,
the farm-loan banks have also made
borrowing much easier for the small
farmer. Loans are made up to so
per cent. Of the appraised value Of
the farm, plus 20 per cent Of the
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value of the permanent insured i'm
provements. ,.,
If the Republican majority want
to prove the value and popularity of
the farm-loan bank, let them under
take to abolish it. They will hear
from some one besides the note
shayers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-24
TREATY, PLUS Ii. ut i i totals
PEACE,

PEACE.
Reports from all parts Of the Globe
indicate that most people outside Of
the dominions of the central powers
are satisfied with the terms Of peace
imposed upon Germany. Those who
for one reason Or another find fault
with particulars of: the treaty are
nevertheless glad Of settlement
that will permit the world to turn
back to the work and ways Of prog
ress.
TheEe is, just one shadow across
the path Of the future-just one
doubt in all the ;throng Of humanity's
hopes. If the nations which have
suffered from four years reign of
brutality. sand bloodshed are not
firmly bound to. preserve the peace
for which the Paris conference has
prepared only the formula in the
form Of the treaty now in the hands
of the German plenipotentiaries,
there can be no assurance of perma-
nent peace OH EARTH nor yet Of
good will.
The league of nations must be es-
tablished and empowered to enforce
peace not only between Germany and
her former enemies, but through
out all the continents-now and
hereafter. The treaty is to internal
tional law and concord what the
statute is to the individual conf
naunity-a mere aggregation Of
words which in themselves have no
force or effect. 10 give the statute
or the treaty application there must
be a policeman or an agency Of some
sort to prevent and punish inlrac~
tions. ~.
The league then, is the necessary
correlative of the treaty. The lat
ter is likely to, be respected and
obeyed in ali its provisions only to
the extent that the former is cap
able of compelling observance. In
turn the leagues effectiveness to
that end will be in proportion to it's
acceptance, in all its restriction, pre-
scriptions and obligations, by the
nations Of the world. The greater
the number and power of the ma
tons which adhere to the league, the
greater its strength and usefulness
in behalf Of peace and against war.
The Unitea; States ;could not hirk
a part in the great war. AS a par
ticipant in the war we became a
participant in the peace about to be
we must be and remain party to the
league, because it is not enough to
terminate the worlds greatest and
bloodiest conflict; we must also take
measures to preclude another. We
owe that 'to:ourselves above all, but
to- the rest of the world, too.
Those senators and others who
talk of separating the treaty and the
league are PROPOSING to divorce law
from enforcement. Treaties in them.
selves do not and cannot preserve
peace. Belgium gives testimony tc
that truth. They are simply compacts
which the stronger party may breah
almost at WiH"against the weaker
Put behind a treaty the might OF
many nations and which one will
have the hardihood to violate it?
The Paris conference of twenty
seven nations has given us a treaty
A league OF forty or fifty nations
will guarantee lasting peace.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-24
PORTO RICAN WORKERS
REJECT PENSION PLAN

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, May 90
The several thousand locked out EN-
ployes of the Porto Rican American
Tobacco company have rejected the
company's pension plan as a SETTLE
ment for the present differences.
The plan provided that the COM
pany would set aside 100000 and
would add to it five cents week
for each person employed by the
company, provided the employees
would contribute five cents a week.
From this fund it was proposed to
pay weekly benefits to all employees
on strike until work in the factories
could be provided for them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-24
SOLDIERS SEEK WORK.

WASHINGTON, May 23.-Of the
711,247 American soldiers discharged
between Feb. 8 and April 10, 1S0,724
requested governmental assistance in
securing work. according to an official
statement, just issued. The proper
ton of those requesting assistance
to the total discharge was highest in
the weeks of March and IS, when
about one-third sought aid.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-24

ATLANTA, Ca, May 23.-several
hundred teachers in this city have
affiliated with the trade union move
ment,
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THE GOLD WAGE" FRAUD.

Make way for the soldier-worker.
Help him toward his immediate
need-a job. ......-. ....-. ....<... =:
ii: That's good as far; as ii; gigoets;-but
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-06
Germany to Refuse
to Bare Her Secrets

LONDON, May 6.-Karl Kautsky
one of the under secretaries in the
German Foreign ministry, who has
finished an examination of the secret
documents of the German foreign Of
flee, task assigned to him by the
government last winter, is quoted to-
day in an exchange telegraph dis
patch as declaring the government
had decided not to publish these doc
uments unless the Allies agreed to a
similar publication of secret docu-
ments from their archives.
Herr Kautsky added certain docu-
ments which might have been pc
culiarly compromising were destry-
ed before the German revolution.
Matthias Erzberger, head of the Ger
man armistice commission, Kautsky is
quoted as saying, was responsible for
the order that the documents be not
made public, Kautsky declared he was
greatly surprised at this attitude on
the part of the German government
and pointed out that the refusal to
| make the documents public would
have a very bad effect in allied
countries end would perpetuate sus-
pici0ns of the good faith of Germany
! by revealing that the revolutionary
government is prepared to shield the
| old rulers of Germany.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-06

the day the well came in as l was sad
when I had to let the cattle go.
Then too, the oil and the gas kept
getting all over my white chickens,
and had them dirty in little while
The gas wasn't confined either and
and we couldn't cook at home.
80 finally, we just gave it up and
came to Ranger"
But now Mrs. McClesky s going
back 10 the country and she says she
Will cook and wash just as she did
before. However, she has other and
more ambitious plans.
Il am going to travel" she says,
travel great deal-all over Texas
and Oklahoma. You know l never had
much chance to get around before but
I'm going to now.
An agent already has been out here
to get me to take an excursion to San
Antonio and l just think | will 60"
Asked what was her greatest wish
now that she had all the money she
wanted she replied that she wanted to
get to Fort Worth and get a new set
of false teeth
The plain west Texas woman gives
her husband credit for being very
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-06

fall from eating too many peaches.
With his fortune. explained Mrs. Nc
Clesky, he insisted on moving to
town and gratifying his craving for
fruit, especially peaches and he died
soon.
The McCleskey estate is now worth
seven million dollars, and four more
wells on the once inferior farm will
be brought in as soon as storage can
be procured at Ranger. These may
double the value of the property and
the income of the heirs, including the
widow.
Two years ago the MsClesky family
was poor. Mrs. McClesky, cooked,
MIXED, washed and cared for her gar
den. Then the oil came in one day and
the gold was poured into the family
Golfers.
I'VE have had a terrible time since
that well came in said the million
airess who has so much money COM
ing in every day now she doesn't re-
alze the amount and yet hasn't been
spoiled I'VE had to sell our cattle
because those oil men kept leaving
the gates open and tearing down the
lsnces. / tell you | wasn't half as glad
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-06
AS YOUNG AS
YOUR KIDNEYS

The secret Of youth is ELMTNA9
TON OF POISONS from your body.
This done, you can live to be hundred
and enjoy, the good things Of life with
as much "pep" as you did when in the
springtime of youth. Keep your body
in good condition, that's the secret.
Watch the kidneys. They filter and
purify the blood, all Of which blood
passes through them once every three
minutes. Keep them clean and In
proper working condition and you have
nothing to fear. Drive the poisonous
wastes and deadly uric acid accumula-
tons from your system. Take GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules and you
will always be in good condition. You
will feel strong and vigorous. with
steady nerves and elastic muscles
GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules
are imported direct from the labora.
tories at HARLEM, Holland.
They are a reliable remedy which
mas been used by the sturdy Dutch for
over 200 years. and has helped them
to develop into one of the strongest
and hearthiest races of the world. Get
them from your druggist. Do not take
2 substitute. In sealed PACKAGE
three sizes,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-06
LIST OF WOES
OF OIL WIDOW;
HAS 7 MILLIONS

RANGER, Tex, May 6.-Mrs. Cor
die McCIesky, whose farmer-husband
near Ranger, became fabulously rich
one night when the first oil well in
west Texas broke loose in his drought
stricken chicken yard, is tired of being
millionairess. She sold her town
house in Ranger, the heart Of the new
oil fields and is going back to the
country. She can plant garden there
for the long drought has been relieved
simultaneously with the bringing in
of the oil and besides she wont be
bothered with the excitement of the
oil district.
McClesky himself, on whose land the
golden well came, didn't survive the
newly acquired wealth. He died last
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shrewd man, saying that once when
sardines advanced from Is cents to 20
cents he sent can back to the
store"
Soon after the well came in and the
fortune was assured McClesky asked
his wife what he could present her
for gift.
81 told him I wanted new AK, be-
cause the old one had a nick in it, p"
she said.
And she has the bright and shiny
AK at her home in Ranger
The house where Mrs. McClesky
lives in town and which she insisted
on selling so as to get back to the
farm brought $4,000.
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introduced chrvsanthemura.

It was in the autumn of 1908, that
the first bunch of chrysanthemums was
seen in Paris, brought by a French
man from far-off Japan. His first
care was to present them to the EN-
press Josephine, who was delighted
with the flowers and introduced their
cultivation in French gardens.-Chris-
tan Science Monitor.