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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
MANAGER Of INDUSTRIAL PLANT
HAS NO HAPPY JOB THESE DAYS
Aarassed and Pes,s'.s '"o' Hours by Petty An
noyances Modern "Upters" aIu o.ers; No Wonder That
Their Heads are Gray; Union Labor Can Relieve Them.

Here have been finding fault with managers
dustrla plants holding their shortcomings condemnng their
tyranny and rdcung their efforts make shop pleasant
without giving consideration to their side of the question.
That habit with labor and this paper exception
There always good in the of just there
bad in the best Of u.s. None perfect While giving thanks
this week for the good things that have
year to that it timely present the
side of the
The has produced number of non-producers
Statesmen factors distribution but
think craftsmanship being overworked
has cropped quite recently and is feeding industry
greed that frghtens William Hard we'll known writer
with the Federated Press tells about them how they
the managers of modern industrial plants Here is his
Shed Solemn Tear of Sympathy for Them.
Il ask the American Labor and shed
solemn tear Of sympathy for Of employer
is not very happy And he is frightfuly overworked
Just think Of what he has to do besides the ordinary old fash
ioned running of his business
Bright and early the morning he picks the consolidated
of the daily endeavors Of his
poyes He learns that Jack samsy and Tony heard
yesterday that there going be meeting
Of Lanophoopouos fruit He calls for the
record cards Of Jack Samny and Tony Petorc studies
anxousy including place of BIRTH Of mother chemarks
indicating behavior while working for previous employers He calls
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
SAFEGUARD PUBLIC AND Define
RIGHTS OF Capital AND LABOR
So Declares W. Jet Lack, Former Secretary National War
Labor Board and Well Known economist, Who Clearly Defines
Present Chaotic Industrial Situation; Points Way to Piece

Declaring that public opinion alone the present indus
trial situation and that only voluntary relations between employers
and employees will the SYSTEM J Lauk former
Of the national labor board in speech before the
meeting of the National Consumers league in Philadelphia this
week. advocated the by congress of law define the
rights of capital and labor.
Mr. Lauck clearly forth his plan dwe the present chaotic
situation industry set forth the needs labor called attention
the rights Of employers and pleaded for the public interest,"
consideration of the question: What has the worker
right expect Of ndusty? Mr. Lauck said eve
recognition and the fundamental social right Of
labor the right of an opportunity to work.
Workers Must be Afforded Opportunities Of Employment
Ordery society must afford opportunities of employment
great constituent element the workers. and that form Of society
which does not do this has something inherently with it that
must be corrected either by unemployment insurance.
for the regularizaton of employment.
Concded this social right the industrial rights of the workers
are elementary.
The worker has right to living that will
able him to live and support his family according TO American
standards of living health reasonable degree of comfort
The worker has right basic day short commensurate
with maximum efficiency and maximum production.
The worker has right to recognition socalled part of in
dusty and the result of this recognition entitled therefore,
the control Of industry and its operation This embraces the
right of the workers to organize and to bargain collectively with
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27

tered into by the parties to dispute,
and honestly approached with a view
to working out just settlement.
Apparently, however. the reason
able members of the industrial and
business world of Seattle were not in
control. Instead the program was
mapped out and carried into effect by
the old gang of irreconcilables who
still held to the stone-age theory that
a worker had no rights than an ex-
ploiter was bound to respect.
This crowd had 20 months in which
to prove their theories. They have
demonstrated beyond the shadow of a
doubt that they are out of date and
that Seattle, as a forward-looking
community. will have none of their
understanding program. They have
proved themselves failures.
Evidently realizing that a continue
ton Of the ill-advised policy of the
Associated Industries could only lead
to financial, commercial and indus
trial ruin. the sane portion. of the
business world has again taken the
reins into their hands. Speaking
through the chamber of commerce, a
new program has been announced.
A summary Of that program was
published in the Union Record. It is
lengthy declaration and q complete
analysis would take more space and
time than can be given it. The general
tone. however, is one OF conciliation
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27

and reasonableness It renounces the
doctrine of force, force without
STINT" and would substitute a pro-
gram that would predicate judgment
on investigation, analysis, justice and
equity
No specific method is outlined to
bring into being such machinery for
adjustment of Industrial disputes.
However. we believe that the creation
of such machinery is possible If the
spirit evidenced in the tone of the re-
port is permitted to find expression in
deeds.
Organized labor believes now, as it
always has. that the way to arrive at
a just decision is to honestly discuss
it, learn all of the truth touching the
question, and then reach a conclusion
with an eye single to working out the
most good for the greatest number.
Labor believes that the workers are
entitled to an equal voice in formu-
lating policies Of Seattle. We know
that there is no member of organized
labor who desires more than an "even
break" Likewise, It,. may we'll be
frankly said that labor will not be
content with less.
Organized labor stands ready now,
as it did a year ago, to lend every ef-
fort in support of any program that
has for it's end an industrial peace
grounded in equity and good-fellow-
ship. s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
DECLARES HARD
COAL OPERATORS
FEAR PUBLICITY
Expera Economist for Miners
Union Says They Have So
Far Blocked Every Move.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Anthra-
cite coal owners fear the truth, is the
claim of w. Jett Lauck, economist
arbitration proceedings.
Mr.. Lauck declared that only a
sweeping investigation of the entire
industry could bring about the con-
structive reforms in the had coal in
dustry that are necessary to guaran-
tee fair prices.
1.-THE attitude Of the anthracite in
dustry," he said, "is strictly negative
and devoid of any sense of public re-
sponsibility. AS a matter of fact, at
the recent hearing of the anthracite
commission they even claimed that
the public was not interested in their
proceedings. A further illustration of
that attitude is furnished by their re-
fusal at the present time to make any
reports to the federal trade commits
sion showing their cost of production.
1.-The public should demand and
secure an investigation which would
break down and effectively turn to
public benefit the present monopolis-
tic and exploiting alliance between
the hracite-carrying railroads, the
coal-producing companies and the
coal-sales companies"
Mr.. Lauck called attention to the
elaborate data and exhibits on an
thracite prices and producing costs
that were prepared by the miners fol
submission to the recent anthracite
wage commission, appointed by the
president. These exhibits were ex.
cluded from the records on the plea OF
the coal owners that it was not the
business of the commission, which
had been created to settle wage dis.
pute, to pry into the cost of anthracite
production and it's relation to wages
and the cost of living.
1.-THE coal owners" said Mr.. LAUGH
''are afraid of publicity. They siren.
uously opposed the submission of our
evidence, and finally, on purely tech
nical grounds, prevailed upon the
chairman to exclude these fundamen-
tai figures"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
French UNIONS
Reject MO 0T|0N
ON B0LSHEv|SM:
Stand by Trade Union Policy and
Turn Down Dictatorship
by the pro|etariat."

PARIS, France, Nov. 25.-"Dictator-
ship by the proletariat" was rejected
at the recent congress of the Confed-
Grafton of Labor Of France, held at
Orleans. For several months a cam
paign has been waged in French trade
unions against the non-political policy
of the confederation. Leon Frossard
national secretary of the Socialist
party, declared in one of his pro-Bol-
shevist speeches, that at the Orleans
congress he and this associates would
go over the heads of the confederation
officials to the membership with the
determination to change the policy of
the French trade union movement.
Frossard went to Orleans, and he
also went to defeat, the trade union
policy of the confederation officials
being adopted 10y an overwhelming
vote.
The resolution reaffirms the policy
Of the confederation to rely on trade
Union action and methods to obtain
justice for the workers.
THE action of the Orleans con-
gress," says Leon Jouhaux, secretary
general of the confederation, means
that the trade union movement of
France will continue to determine its
own methods of action for the posi-
tive and constructive emancipation of
the proletariat.'
The conferedation also reaffirmed
it's demand for industrialized ma
tionalization'"' of the railroads, mines
and similar basic industries, and again
made it's position clear that this de-
mand does not mean that these uti1i-
ties shall be. operated by the political
state, or what is understood as "gov-
ernment oWnership.'' The workers in
sist that these industries be owned by
the government and that they be oper-
ated by autonomous service associa-
tions of the producers. consumers and
interested employees.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
CAMPAhY "UN|0K'' PAYS;
WAGES CuT::20.PER CENT

ENTERPRISE, Ore, Nov. 25.-The
Oregon Lumber company announces
wage reduction of 20 per cent. This
concern operates a company union"
known as the loyal legion of lumber
men and loggers, established during
the war by Col. Disque. The legion is
rapidly falling to pieces despite every
effort to give it the appearance Of life.
Organized timbor workers point to
this wage reduction as proof Of their
claim that the timber sbarons favor
the legion because they can use it
when wage reductions and a long
work day are wanted.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
b|SbEE M0bbERS
CHEAT !. JUSTICE
Defenders Of LAY and order'''
Who Deported Labor Men
Will Not Be Tried.

BISBEE, Ariz., Nov. 25.-The mob
bing of 1.186 workers who were run
out Of this city in July, 1917, at the
point of rifles. will not be punished by
the law. Indictments against 206 of
the mobbers have been dismissed
upon the motion of County Attorney
French. The first of the defendants,
hardware merchant, was acquitted
last April after trial that lasted
three months. &
The county attorney said it was
impossible to go on with the trials be-
cause Of the inability to get witnesses
and the strong sentiment against a
continuance of the cases..
Trade unionists are not surprised
Special interests in fhis state, headed
by copper barons, hive maintained a
continuous opposition to the prosecu-
ton. The plea was;smade that court
costs would increasg taxation. Many
important witnesses for the state dis
appeared and demand ssfor vindication
of the law were answered by the
charge "disloyalty."
The mobbing grew out of miners
strike called the previous June. The
mobbers rounded up their victims and
loaded them into cattle, cars and
freight cars. They were taken to the
desert, II miles from Columbus, N.
Mex, where the men were unloaded.
The United States army went to the
rlief of the men and removed them to
the military camp at Columbus until
they dispersed.
The sheriff of the county boldly de-
clared in court that he was respon-
sible for the shuggery. He said he was
actuated by patriotic motives.
The mob included business men,
bankers and officials Of copper mine
companies.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
PACKARD MOTOR CAR co.
DECLARES Big DIVIDENDS

NEW DIRK. Nov. 25.-The report
of the Packard Motor Car company
for the last fiscal year shows net
profits available for dividends of So
se5,46S, an increase of nearly ST.
100000 over the preceding year. The
company also reduced it's liabilities
more than \$4,ooo,ooo and increased
it's inventory account nearly $11,
100000. 1t has reserve of $2,500,000
to guard against possible shrinkage in
the value of materials and has sur
plus of more than $20,00O,O0O.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
CINCINNATI PRINTERS
CONCEDED WAGE RAISE

CINCINNATI, Nov. 25.-An arbi-
tration board has awarded substantial
wage increases to commercial shop
members Of the Typographical union.
The new rate is $46 a week for day
work and $40 for night work, with
double time for holiday and Sunday
work. This is an increase of SO a
week for hand and floor men and 81
a week for machine operators.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
DON'T NEED LICENSE.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. The
United States supreme court has ruled
that the state of Maryland can not
compel drivers of government auto
mobiles to carry state license. The
government was upheld in it's claim
that the license law was an inva-
sion Of the constitutional freedom of
federal operation from state control"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27

ANOTHER N0N.EMPL0YER
STIRRING up TROUBLE

BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 25.-Ed-
ward Il. Rooms, real estate agent
and president of the local chamber
of commerce, Is looking for trouble.
He has circularized business men
on the advisability oGdeclaring for
the non-union shop ma giving pub
licity to the fact thlt Buffalo is
non-union city. $
Koons attempts H conceal his
anti-trade unionisnN under such
tricky verbiage as fthe right to
work. and "the open shop"
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)hlS employers through representatives
of his own choosing, and his right to a
share in the proceeds of industry over
and above his wage in proportion to
his productive efficiency.
AS Social Being.
'These rights of the worker are pre-
Dictated upon his heins-ee1asidered and :
treated as social being. Labor is no
<1onger regarded as mere commodity,
to be dealt with on the basis of the
law of supply and demand to be ex-
plotted mercilessly, or to be exploited
intelligently and patronizingly by self
appointed overlords of industry. That
industry which does not or can not
yield it's workers living wage is un-
social, and has no economic or ethical
right to exist, and that industry which
requires of it's workers unduly long
hours is destructive and may also be
classed as inimical to the best in-
terests of society as a whole.
Many Unscrupulous.
''As a rule such industries as these
which take advantage Of and exploit
their workers, are equally unscrupu-
lous in the tribute they levy upon the
general public in the way of high
prices and unjustifiable profits. There
is no better concrete illustration of
this than is to be found in the an
thracite coal industry, the control Of
which centers in this city and the min
ing operations Of which are within a
short distance.
when the anthracite miners pre-
sented their wage demands and other
grievances to the commission ap.
pointed by President Wilson they ex-
posed condition of affairs shocking
They showed that miners and their
families were living under housing
and community conditions which were
deplorable to say the least. The earn
ings of heads of families in the coal
mines were found to be inadequate.
How They Lived.
"In order to supplement the family
income, or the earnings Of husbands
and fathers, the wives and children of
the miners were forced into the silk
mills, the shirt factories and the knit
ting mills that are to be found
throughout the anthracite region,
developed there to take advantage Of
the necessities of the mine workers and
their families.
Forty per cent of the wives of the
anthracite miners either kept board
ers and dodgers or were employed for
wages, and approximately % per cent
of the families >Were dependent upon
tn earnings of children.
"Evidence was also offered to show
the monopolistic control and monop-
olistic profits of the anthracite in,
dustry, and that the industry could
pay a. living wage without increasing
the price Of coal to the consumer, but
Grafton on the technical grounds that
it was not germane to the arbitration.
''The anthracite operators took the
position that the matter of their pro-
fits was none of the public's business,
and to date they have been permitted
to get away with this amazing arro-
gance. .~2 F.. q -
Wives and Children Helped.
''Those: familiar with the proceed
ings will recall that one operator tes-
titled that he knew 1894 per day to
be living wage because he knew
miners who lived and supported their
families on that amount. He admitted
that the wives and children helped"
"Another operator declared that the
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terpret the checkmarks He phones
the head of the detective agency to
hire another detective to watch the
detectives watching Jack and Tony.
The Morning Broken. =
'"The brightness of the morning Is
broken. ell turns with clouded brow
to his incoming business mall. AM A
letter from the Industrial American
Corporation! This corporation will
furnish weekly a printed. talk to be.
slipped into the pay envelope of every
employe each week along with his pay.
The employe will read this talk and
will learn that most employers make
very small profits and that the ceme-
teries of Moscow are full of workmen.
who have starved to death under Boil
shevism, and then the employe will an
preciate his employer and not join a
union. Sixteen specimens of these
talks enclosed.
"Our conscientious manufa cturer of
warm worsteds for an otherwise shiy-
erlng public reads the 16 specimens.
he mad thought that no further solu-
tions of the labor problem in his fac
tory would be necessary after his re-
cent purchase Of the "Man-to-M Man
Method' of the Industrial Peace bu-
reau. Under this method the door of
the office of the employment manager
Is kept open by catch or brick and
any employe could always walk in and
bawl out the company to him man to
man. Yet now Tony and Jack were go
Ing to meet with some Bolshevists in
. the back room of a fruit store.
A Bit of Bolsheyism.
Our overworker-or,a at least, over
Wr1ght-manufact cturer meditates bit
on Bolshevism. His gloom is increased
by lady who bursts into the room
over the protests of the office boy
and looses on him a great wind of
CHEEKY statistics about the number of
un-Americanized aliens in town and
the number attending the classes in
English given by her. branch of the
new society for courses of lectures on
the Constitution. He can clearly per-
cleVe-she thinks-that a diligent
study of the Constitution by the en-
ployes of worsted mills is today quite
essential to the efficiency of the
worsted industry. .
Our manufacturer perhaps reflects
tnat ne has not yet had time this
morning to do anything about worsteds
and there is a lunch ahead. of him at
winch he is due to listen to a lecture
by reformed Russian revolutionist
who was chased from Mimi NovG orod
10 odessa and out to sea by the Boil
sneV1sts and who is going to speak
on how to stop Bo1shevism in America
out OF his experiences in stopping it
In Russia.
Stands for "Shakc Down."
so our manufacturer gives the lady
MS subscription to her society for
readings from the Constitutions and
turns to his desk to try to earn. his
nVlns as manager of such things as
Aooms. He then in the course of the
rest or the day considers the follow
ing propositions brought to him by
mali or through salesmen:
Membership in the nation-vide
open shop campaign.
membership in the organization for
promotlng peace with the. Orient by
1aVorlng the admission of Chinese Ia
Dorers into this country to relieve the
congestion in China and tn increa 90
the supply Of free intelligent non.
union labor here.
subscriptions to fund for electine
oherlff guaranteed to refuse to permit
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WHY THEY DISLIKE UNIONS.

TAMPA, Fla, Nov. 25.-The board
of public works showed why employ
ers dislike trade unions when they
ordered a job of painting awarded to
the lowest bidder.
Union contractors bid on the basis
of 81 an hour, and non-union contract
ors on the basis of so cents an hour.
The latter received the contract
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27

The greater part Of the textile in
dustry in New England is operated on
a basis of "A hours a week.
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A good grievance is worth more
than bad pavement.-Don Quixote.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
MR.. WORKINGMAN

HIS is you. paper. 1t publishes matter
! pertaining to your life and welfare. It
wants and needs your support. It cannot
exist without it. Your cause would be weak
indeed without labor paper to champion Il.
Become reader and subscriber.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
MR.. MERCHANT

LAS it occurred to you that this p.per goes
- into the homes Of the best paid working
men in Duluth and surrounding territory?
It 10 carefully perused by every adult mem.
Der Of the household. There il no better ad-
vertising medium anywhere.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1920-08-01
POR FL CLUB IRIS"

Ell ell eos Soledad st. tuv lusar
~artenoche una interesante junta Gel
Club "Iris'', concurriendo a ella Ia
r1avor parte &c los socios actuales, y
tomandose varios acuerdos de trascen
dencia pala esa a~grupaclon social.
FL senor Manuel c. Gonzalez. que
Gurante algunas desempeno
las f~unciones de Presidente Provisional,
del Club. volvi6 a hacer entrega de
csc puesto 4 10 antigua P~resldente seno
rita Guadalupe Acosta, que goza de
crandes sin,patfas entire los asociados.
Momentos despues de csc acto, Sc a
| cordo unanimemente celebrar IN sun
| ,uoso bale en- Ell Salon del Casino 81
| tuado en- Ia Gale Market, ell proximo
dfa Is del corriente agosto. Tiene eI
| Club Iris CT proposito de dar e'
mayo lucimiento a csc bale, a efectc
de atraers el mayor hume
70 de socIos, para Ell engrandecimientc
de Ia s!mpatics. agrupaclon.
Esta ~haciendose una larga lista para
distribuir urofusamente las invitacione:
del bale entire las familias amigos de
los miempros del Club.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1920-08-01
Joi
VIAJ EROS

FL sehor Alejo Garcia lego aver a
San Antonio, procedente de Laredo
Texas. lugar dc su residential.
r. C. Rodriguez lego aver a San
Antonio, procedente &c Nueva Orleans,
y Sc hospeda en- Ell hotel Gunter.
Procedente del puerto de Tampico.
Tamaulipas. lego aver a esta ciudad
el senior c.. Z. Aldrige, quieE Sc hos
media en- 81 hotel Gunter.
Mrs. Elen.a Danlom lego aver a San
Antonio, ?rocedente de la ciudad de
Laredo, Texas, y Sc hospeda en- el
hotel Lanier.
Sc hospeda en- el hotel Bexar ell Sc
for. Fernando Guerra V Cana, proce-
dente de Ia ciudad de Chicago. ILL.,,
ouien c~ontinuara en- breve su viaJe a
Ia ciudad dc Mexico. D. F.
-Procedente de Laredo. lego aver
tarde Ia sehor!ta Virginia r. Martl-
uez. cuien permanecera en- San Anto-
rio breve temporada en- casa de 81
rolftico Sr. Luis q. Austin