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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-01-24
UNFAIR ATTACKS:
|: HELPED. FEDERAL
I. .:EMPLo'YE| |. I E|SuN|0N
Congressional Opposition to:A
F. Of |. Organization Of Fed
: .era| Employees Was Boost.

WASHINGTON, Jan 22-Attacks on
government employees, who are mem
bers. of organized labor. by certain
members of congress is proving help
ful to the organized, movement, says
Luther G Steward, president Of the
National Federation Of Federal En-
ployes., !. -. -
!: '"The. remarkable growth Of our orr
4ganizatfon is largely due to unfair
workers in the federal SERVICE" de-
clared the: trade union executive, =.
: "The: late. Congressman Borland
practically brought our organization
into, being with his proposal to
.lengthen the work day Of government
employees. Congressman Blanton and
Senator King: have ably. assisted and
now Senator. Smoot has added himself
to the list Of our organizers. we are
asking only for fair, treatment We
shall continue to ask. and sweeping
gereralities plainly actuated> by preju-
dice will only serve to focus public
attention upon the Justice fot our,
claims."> -
j., Senator smoot is opposing. the ef-
fort to increase salaries Of govern
ment employees, and in a. speech Jam
nary this law maker, standing in
the senate, chamber; made this pro-
found argument:
'There was co1ored woman up
at my house calling on our, colored
cook not 80 very long ago.: and after
she left we were informed that every
charwoman in the United States was
going to receive 5f1,93N per: yeet from
now pn, ana icy Wers 81 S going m 'fo. 81 ioin 8 ii
the nnfon, -sna the union sspase:Eotag
to see that the lowest salary }paade BY
the government OF the United. States;
no matter if it was charwoman. and
worked. only four hours q day, ;shou1d
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TURN TO PAGE TWO. !.
C0NGRE SSMlN NELSON
EAvORS RETIREMENT Bill!

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.-1n g
speech to navy yard workers Con4
gresham Nelson Of Wisconsin, said Id,
would support retirement bill. fori
government workers because "it is y
matter Of cane business sagacfty.'s = !!
The government" he said, will
get the best at minimum cost out
OF the employees. A retirement bill!
is 9 fine thing for the emp1oye. also,'
because Of the retirement annuity, and!
the tablishment Of gilt-edge sav1
in1D account. e 5s
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SHEIKG$@S REFUSED TO Be GOAT; may LOSE JOB
have. YOU BEEN COUNTED
IN.1AE i CENSUS ]! f|N|O?N N|Hy?:

You have real interest ii: Duluth,
haven't your There re more than
100000 people III: thts city, - We are
morally certain. Several thousand
have not been. couAsed. Are you
among the missing Eve have got
to 60 some to paag the 1OO, 900.
mark. Fully 1O,Oo1 people have
been missed. Can'tyou: help out
q bit? r.
Duluth wants q fun and honest
count. We don't want q person
counted in Duluth Who should not
be counted, and weIsurely do not,
want to miss a person who should
be counted here. ..
Labor ought to be Interested in
this census: mfornaatfon is gotten
on subjects that have & direc: bear
ing on social problems: II that In.
formation is not acchrate and com.
plete it will: not amount to-. any
thing. 1t is to your interest to
have it complete. no elet's ali get
busy now and make the first greet
ing to your friend be- when you
meet him: .''HAVE YOU BEEN:
COUNTED IN THE. oENsUs?,
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UNDERWOOD | SAYS
:. .:HE'S:AuTH0R0F
STRIKE CLAUSE
Alabama. Senator Boasts That
He First Proposed Bad Sec.
ton In Cummins Bill,

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 22.-In
speech before the chamber Of COM
merce in this city United States SEN
ator Underwood claimed authorship
Of the anti-strike section Of the Cum
Minis railroad bill. He said:
II am probably more responsible
for the labor clause in the Cummins
bill than any man in the congress Of
the United States, because I first pro-
posed it in the senate.
The Alabama law maker devoted
nearly 20 percent of his speech to the
anti-strike section. The bill provides,
in effect: that a board of five men,
bers. appointed by the president, shall
have the final word in wages and
working conditions Of railroad en-
ployes, and if these workers object
to the award and. suspend work, they
will be Jailed or fined. This. is Sena-
tor Underwood's estimate of this pro-
posal.
''The era of war between capital and
labor and the great transportation
lines OF. this country will cease. The
era Of settlement by reason by arbi-
tration, by the law or social justice
Will have begun"
The speaker insisted that the pro-
posed law is not unjust to labor. be-
cause, it applies to capital, or to man
ayers; II they interfere with the oper-
ations Of the railroads.
1.-TWO or more men Of the public
not connected: with the railroad could
, go ont here and oil the track to stop
the running Of trains and they :woulG
DO in: violation. of theslaw,"n said tile
senator, who seemed to infer that
there ia no lawsagainst. this procedure
now.
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i" In the Williams story published in
tho News Tribune he attempts to de-
fend the private insurance companies
and declares that none of them has
neen engaged in profiteering. Only
last, week we published an extract
from circular issued by one Of the
companies announcing that it. was
necessary to increase it's capital stock
to keep its dividends down. It would
be interesting to analyze the financial
statements of other insurance COM
panies doing business in Minnesota.
A, clever stunt pulled off by the
claim agents of the stock liability
companies is to include in their fed
edat1on all the insurance agents Of
the state. the men writing life, ac-
cident, fire and liability insurance.
Compensation insurance, they say, is
but the first step of we'll planned
program of the "agitators." Their
next, move. they say, will be to have
the state write life, fire and general
accident insurance.
~ Now labor has no such program in
mind. Workingmen's compensation
stands off by itself. The state re-
quires that employers must make
certain payments to workingmen or
women injured or killed at their work.
The private insurance companies IN.
derwrite the business for the employ.
ers. They came into this business very
recently. They were first organized
to insure employers under the old
law Of liability, under which payment
could only be compelled when the in
jured employe could prove negligence
on the part of the employer. The state
repealed that law and changed
the basis of recovery from negligence
to the risk of the industry.
Merely Changed Form.
When the employers liability law
was repealed the private companies
merely changed the forms of the poll
cies and underworld business under
the new law. Two grievous factors
fgrew tat under the old law. the per-
@sonal injury attorney and the liability
insurance company. The new law
put the personal injury attorney out
#of business. but the insurance COM
pAnles, being well organized, and hav-
ms much power and influence, sue
tEeeded In inducing the legislature to
stoierate them under the new system.
@5Work1ngmen's compensation as it
obtains In Minnesota has solved no
q soc1al problem. Indeed in many in
#stances it has wrought great injustice
20 injured workingmen and to depend
ssnts OF persons killed at their work.
Inc payments provided for under the
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'Ilh0 MAKERS SETTLE
WITH man THEY JAILED

elHlCAGO, Jan. 22.-strikinR mem
,ers OF the Piano, Organ and Musica,
sasnIss'trument aINs' Workers union have Sc
sured settlements with three piano
5nanuiacturers. The 4S-hour week.
sln4on slls conditions and a minimum
xeekly wage Of oaa are agreed to.
resident Dold Of this Organization
s'eeently served 30 days in jail for. vio-
afing an Injunction that would pro-
SalNt taese workers from picketing. the
lyon lyon q Healy plant, but this has not
shiIected e the trade union militancy Of
sL'olds Or his @c;low members, d.
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MR.. MERCHANT-Has it occurred to
- 80 you that this paper goes into the
homes Of the best paid 'workingmen
sinS Duluth and surrounding territory?
It is carefully perused by every adult
member OF the. household. There is
no better advertising medium any
where.
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CELEBRATING the Victory,

The w. c. T. L. have arranged ex-
ercises to be held in honor of ma
tional prohibition coming into effect.
We know of none more worthy to
undertake this. They have borne
the heat of long. long day, they
have fought the good Highland best
of all they have won and the coun-
try is vastly happier today because
of that splendid victory.
The announcement received from
Mrs. Althea G. Quimby, president Of
the Maine W. c. T. U. and a member
of the national committee arranging
the program, states that all pastors
have been requested to take as a
subject on Sunday, Jan. IL
righteousness exalteth a nation"
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What We Really Need.

If. as is occasionally suggested, al!
reform begins in the desire to see the
other fellow reformed, it is barely
possible We shall arrive at con-
clusion respecting what we all need
by deciding and announcing what the
other fellow needs and making a
symposium. or whatever sounds like
it, of the combined result.
Distinguished contributors to this
are many; one of them Guglielmo
Ferrero who says: Wisdom and
bread" Another is Vice President
Marshall. who in audible whisper in
the wicked Senate the other day,
said: What we need is really good
five cent cigar" His chief, however,
has no hesitancy in letting it be un-
derstood that what we all need is a
third term for his distinguished self
BY the time that is thoroughly sym
posed with what Bryan thinks-pro-
vided, of course, we all go to work
earnestly and persistently minding
our own business-there is a bare
possibility this country won't be in
abject need of anything, but to be let
alone
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CLINTON

Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Greeley have
returned from Middletown. Conn.
, where they have been visiting Their
son. Roydon Greeley.
Mrs z. E. Longley is quite ill at
her home on Spring street.
A meeting of the o. E. S. will be
held on Monday evening at Masonic
hall. This will be the last meeting
OF the year and plans will be made
for installation.
Albert Cain is i'll at his home on
Main street.
Miss Anna Laing of Pittsfield is
the guest Of friends in town.
Clarence Spearin has returned
from Boston, Mass, where he has
been visiting relatives.
Miss Belle Longley is home from
her school in Hallowell. called here
by the illness of her mother, Mrs. E.
e. Longley.
Changers were in town Wednesday
evening to attend the installation OF
the officers of Clinton Grange.
Earl Walker has gone to Portland.
where he will attend Shaw's Business
College.
E. A. Marden of Searsmont was
calling on friends in town recently.
At the regular meeting of Clinton
Grange. P. of H.. Wednesday evening.
State Grange Secretary Mr.. Sibley of
Auburn assisted by Mrs. L. A. Burns,
Nina Gibson. Mary Hatch, Caroline
Cole. Lottie Cain and Mrs. Jennie
Stewart, installed the following off,
GERS to serve for the ensuing year:
Master, Mrs. Annie Clement; over
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Here Is &c. 3. on the Farm" with
Pet Pig Teddy Boy"

His record is SO years continuous
service, except for about a year be-
fore the village shops burned. when
the "newfangled" printing machine
superseded some of the older hand
printers.
Mr.. Grover is now working in the
Bailey plant at Winthrop Center ey-
cry day. driving nine miles a day to
and from his work and attending to
his home farm chores, between
whites"
This boy" of IS years is not afraid
of overtime working and recently
had nine days to his credit in a
weeks time. He cuts and saws his
own wood, does his haying. etc.
Mr.. Grover was born June 90, 1851,
ty, Me. His father was one of the
| many who lost their lives in the
quest for gold to California. He died
while crossing the isthmus and was
buried at sea. At the death of his
mother, which occurred when he was
six months old. young Charles made
his first journey into the world when
he went with an uncle and aunt to
the nearby town Of Troy, making the
trip on an OK sled.
Mr.. Grover came to Winthrop when
young man and entered the en-
ploy of the Bailey firm. Thirty eight
years ago he purchased the farm 4
mile and a half from the village,
| where he has since made his home.
He worked for 10 consecutive
hoc IN
his possession an autographed pho
tograph of the late c. NJ. Bailey, Civ
en- as a reward for working the great
est number of years with the least
| loss of time of any of his employees.
Mr.. Grover says he is good for an
other 20 years.
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Editorial Comment
An Urgent Need.
Republican Journal)


There Is nothing academic in the
present situation in this country.
There will be nothing academic dur
ing the next five years. Neither will
this period be an appropriate time
for the PRONUNCIATION of theories
however ideaHstic they may be. We
are now and will be for some time
face to face with dangerous social
and domestic conditions. We need a
big man for President. Whether he
be a Republican or a Democrat is a
somewhat secondary consideration,
provided he is a big man. We need
an honest, seasoned and all-round
business man. A man who will
build up an administration from the
best and ablest men in his party.
An administration which will do
business in a business like way for
and in behalf Of the people who pay
for and have a right to have it. An
whose bowels do not
yearn for an impossible Utopia. An
which realizes that it
doth not profit us to gain the wholz
world and lose the soul Of the United
States.
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seer, Guy Written: steward, James
Clement; assistant steward, Bliss T.
Watts: secretary, C. L. Stewart;
treasurer, George Hunter: chaplain,
Fred w. Hatch; gatekeeper, Alvin
Boothby: Ceres, Ella r. Bremener;
Flora, Hattie Boothby: Pomona, Nell
lie Written: lady assistant, Ethel L.
Willett. Following the installation
ceremony a baked bean and pastry
supper was served. There were about
165 present.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Besse and party,
consisting of Mrs. F. r. Besse, Mrs.
Bliss T. Watts, Mrs. Everett Besse
of Albion and Mrs. Harry Murry OF
Waterville, have returned from a few
days trip to Boston.
Mrs. Charles Abbott has returned
to her home in Albion, after visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Besse.
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Rotary Spirit Exsmpiifed

Augustus Rotarians and their
guests were favored last evening
with a most felicitous blend Of wit
and wisdom gracefully applied to
the occasion. in the address Of Rota-
rian Arthur G. Staples. The atten-
dance filled the dining hall at the
Augusta House and it is no exagger-
alton to say that each one present
took away. not only the good cheer
in which they who come are never
disappointed, but the well baked and
nourishing meat Of discourse excel
lently served, along with piquant
sauce in abundance. The world
would be better were there more of
such. Included among the guests
we're quite number from Gardiner.
They assuredly were given opportun-
i'y TO get in touch with the spirit of
rotary, and il is said n club in
Gardiner is among the probabilities
We near future.
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FORCED! TO QUIT
Was So Run ND O w n
Couldn't Follow Trade
Andrew Peterson Had Given Up
Hope but Takes Taniae and Feels
Like a New Man. Now

Andrew robertson F1Ao 0sveU W
Hope but Takes Taniae and Feels
Like a New Man. Now
Il had given up my work and
thought would never be able to take
it up again. but since I have taken
Tanlac ! am back at work and never
miss day." said Andrew o. Peter
| son, wellknown painter living at
1903 Ocean street, South Portland.
Me-, who has been a resident Of that
city for the past forty years.
For years and years before I be-
gan taking Tanlac / had suffered
with stomach trouble so much that I
had practically lost my appetite, "
continued Mr.. Peterson. Il ate
scarcely enough to keep alive and
even then the pains and cramps were
severe. I could hardly stand them.
| up into my chest and choked me SO
bad 1 thought I would smother. Ny
| sleep was broken and l became so
weak / could not walk any distance
without giving out completely. 1 am
painter but l had to give up my
work, and as could not hold a brush
in my hand had about given up all
hope Of ever being able to work
again.
That was the condition was in at
the time l started taking Tanlac but
since l have taken five bottles Lam
| feeling like a new man. My appetite
has come back and eat more in one
day now than l used to in one week.
Everything l eat agrees with me per-
: fectly and I am no longer troubled
; with bloating, gas or cramping pains.
/ 1 feel just fine every morning after a
good nights rest and 1 am ready for
as big a days work as any man. /
am stronger than l have been in
years; in fact. 1 never felt better in
/ all my life than l do right now"
| Tanlac is sold in Augusta by Bow
ditch Webster Co., and the leading
druggist in every city and town
Adv.
jan4ad1t
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Dexter

Wassookeag Chapter. Order OF
Eastern Star, held its annual installa-
ton of officers at Masonic hall in
this town, Thursday evening. Sup
per was served in the banquet hall
at 80. After supper the degree OF
the order was conferred upon four
candidates, after which the installa-
ton took place. Mrs. Emma Haley
acted as installing officer and Mrs
Francis Small as installing marshal
The officers for the coming year are
as follows: Mrs. Bernice McKech.
ME. worthy matron; George Hail.
worthy patron; Miss Ruth Thomp-
son, associate matron; Mrs. Static
Thompson. secretary; Mrs. Ethel
Thompson. treasurer; Mrs. Francis
Small. conductress; Mrs. Francis
Dustin. associate conductress; Mrs
Margaret Knapp. marshall: Miss Liz
zie Small, chaplain: Mrs. Marion Ha-
seltine, pianist: Mrs. Alice Lincoln
Adah; Miss Stella Hill, Ruth: Mrs.
Ellen Rand, Esther: Miss Bessie Has
kell. Martha: Mrs. Blanche Hughes
Electa; Miss Alice Maxfleld, warder;
William Knapp, sentinel.
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If MOTHERS ONLY KNEW
Thoussnds Of Children Suffer f.,-
Worms and Their Mothers Do Not
Know What the Trouble IL

I Signs Of worms are: Consultation
sour stomach. deranged stomach
swollen upper lip. offensive breath.
hard and full belly with occasional
grfptngs and pains about the navel.
pale face Of leaden tint, eyes heavy
and DUH twitching eyelids, itching Of
the nose. itching Of the rectum, abort
dry cough. grinding Of the teeth, lit.
tie red points sticking out on the
tongue. starting during sleep. slow
fever.
street. Flint. Mich. used DR.. True's
Elixir for her little baby girl when
she was sick. Mrs. Roberts wrote to
DR.. J. F. True & Co.: my little girl
10 cured Of her worms" And in n
Later letter wrote: baby is fine and I
think 1t was your medicine (Dr.
True's Elixir. The Family Laxative
and worm Expeller) that helped her"
II your child is i'll start giving Dr..
Tfue's Elixir 1t once. Buy DR.. True's
Elixir at your dealers at once. Three
gt8eD.-Adv,
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NEW SAFETY CAR FOR
A. & X. STREET RAILWAY
ARRIVES IN LEWISTON

Lewiston, Me-, Jan. @Rolling int
Lewiston from Eabattus Friday, Wa:
the first Brine Safety car for the An
droscoggin & Kennebec Railroad CO
-Four Of these cars. each operated b.
one man. who is a combination con-
ductor and motorman, arrived at sa
battus Thursday afternoon and Oh
Friday were being unloaded.
General Manager Sweeney Of III
railroad announced that the res. Of
the shipment. eight, is expected be-
fore the month is out. He was n,
prepared to say where the cars wi.
run, except that they will be used
on the city lines. Within a few days
when the final adjustments are mad
and all the equipment added, the cars
VIII be placed in passenger service.
The car attracted considerable al
tention In Lewiston when it cams
INTO the city under its own power az
ter being transferred from the fla.
car on the Maine Central siding 81
saoattus to the trolley system.
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BELGRADE

MRS. John Hanson entertained tn
Larkin Club on Wednesday. Mrs
clyde Dunn entertained the compa-r
with several beautiful piano solos 81.
Miss Reta Wadleigh gave a patriotic
song. Mrs. Hanson served sand,
witches. doughnuts. cheese. coffee and
jelly with cherries and cream.
Loren Kelly is working for Clar.
ence Chase.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Lord are .he
proud parents of a new son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Hanson rassa'
the holidays with his parents, Mr.. ard
Mrs. John Hanson.
Mrs. Walter Hanson and mothsr,
Mrs. Bickford. were dinner guests Of
Mrs. Ell Wadieigh this week.
Mrs. William Wadleish is recover
Ing from . bad attack Of grip.
Mrs. Cora Yeaton has return6 l.
after passing the holidays in Port
land. with her son Clyde.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Wood alcohol is the distillat don
of green wood.
2. Oman is country in eastern
Arabia, bordering on the Per-
sian Gulf and the Gulf Of
Oman. 1t is ruled by a Sultan.
The capital is Muscat.
3. President Wilson was sixty three
years old on his last birthday,
on December %.
4. Catherine of Aragon was the
first wife of Henry VIII of Eng
land.
5. Three Of the great waterfalls Of
the world are the Falls Of the
Zambesi in Africa, the Falls of
1guassu in South America and
Niagara Falls.
6. The Isle of Man In che Irish Sea
has home rule. The insular
legislature is called the House
of Keys.
Z. Hiram johnson was the vice
presidential candidate Of the
Progressive party in 1912.
8. A hemistich is half of a line of
verse.
Q. Seth Pecksniff. the unctuous n.y.
pocrite. occurs in Dickens's
novel. Martin Chuzzlewit."
10. The armadillo is native to South
America.
Copyright 1919, Public Ledger Coz
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The new four-masted schooner al
the yard of Percy & Small, Bath. IL
nearly all planked and will be rugged
on the stocks. the rigging crew get
ting to work next week. She has a
Myannis steam holster aboard
Alongside the wharves' are two
schooners. the Oakley C.. Curtis,
which is flve-master. receiving new
rigging. a new boiler made at the
Bath Iron Works and her engines are
being overhauled. The other schoon-
er is the six-mAster. Edward J.
Lawrence. here for general repairs.
She will have a new keelson, new
boilers and tanks. The yard 10 a buay
plant.
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Our City Editor.

The Journal acknowledges with
pleasure the appreciative notice in
the Portland Express respecting our
city editor, Mr.. Edwin c. Burleigh.
He became city editor succeeding the
late Ben Shaw but had borne much
of the responsibility for several
months owing to Mr.. Shaw's illness.
The Express correspondent refers to
a coincidence some of our readers
will recall. Mr.. Burleigh's father,
the late Clarence 3. Burleigh, as
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the hot flashes. I saw In the papers
about Vegetable Compound 50 / tried
it. Now l feel all right and can work
better. You have my permission to
publish this letter. "-VICToRIA
KoPPI, q Oak Ridge Ave, Summit,
N. J.
If you have warning symptoms
such as a sense of suffocation, hot
flashes, headaches, backache, dread
of impending evil, timidity, sounds in
the ears, palpitation Of the heart,
sparks before the eyes, irregularities,
constipation, variable appetite, weak
ness, inquietude, and dizziness, get a
bottle Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and begin taking the
medicine at once. We know it will
help you as it did Mrs. Koppl.