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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
COUNCIL BACKS
CITY ATTORNEY
IN RATE FIGHT
Commissioners Refuse to Be
Influenced by Resolutions
Sponsored by Company.
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their steps and get back where they
belong.
Members Of the city council al
most wavered in their support of the
city attorney, following the passage
Of the resolutions by the business
mems organizations. It required
persistent urging on the part of City
Attorney Richards and Byron r. Ctr
ford. the city's appraisal engineer, to
induce the council to act. 1.-THE city
attorney cannot hope to prevent an
emergency rate unless you pass this
resolution" said Mr.. Clifford. ''Ihat
is true" said Mr.. Richards. Only
after three meetings did the COM
missioners recognize the Importance
OF standing by their attorney.
Voices Public Opinion.
While the present schedule may
not be what the people would like
to have, nevertheless Mr.. Richards
voices public opinion, when he de-
clares that as between a higher street
car fare and the present service the
people by their votes on two occa-
slons have expressed themselves in
favor Of the present fare of cents.
Last January when the city d.
rected the company to restore it's
schedule OF 1917 its officers went into
federal court and applied for a re-
straining order against the city,. and
in his sworn petition, Mr.. Herbert
Warren, manager of the company,
held that his company had furnished
"a sufficient number of cars" and
was then operating sufficient cars
with such frequency as to accom-
modate the. travelling public
1t Would Now Recede.
1.-The company would now recede
from that statement" as Mr.. Rich
ards puts it. "for the purpose of
making the citizens of Duluth pay
during the succeeding months of
1921 an increased fare above cents.
They are asking Z cents as a cash
fare and four tickets for rs cents -
The people of Duluth have twice
said that the street railway company
should not be permitted to increase
its fare above cents. They were
not then and they are not now sat-
isfied that the company needs an in
crease to enable it to pay dividends
to It's stockholders No statements
the company has furnished the city
seems to warrant an increase.
/ NOW that the state has the rate
fixing power, the company would in
slst upon the emergency rate to
stave 1t. over until an actual ap-
praisal of the railroad property shall
have been made. :. The city fears if
temporary increase is made on the
mere showing. Of the company the
railroad commission will find it diff
ficult to order return to the scent
fare should the actual appraisal show
that 1t is now earning sufficient
money on it's present revenue. The
Labor World believes the city at
torney's position is sound.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
COST PLUS PLAN
TEMPTED BOSSES
Employers Blamed by Arbitrator
for Waste; Contracts En-
Couraged |nettiCiency.

TRENTON, N. j., Aug. 4.-Acting
as arbitrator in the building trades
dispute, Attorney Martin P. Devlin
placed the blame for waste on en-
ployers, and refused to accept the
claim that workers are Stacking.
AT the hearings it was conceded
by ALL said the arbitrator in his
decision, that the government con-
tracts with the builders during the
war were based on the cost plus sys-
tenn, which encouraged inefficisncy
and caused a large expenditure Of
time and money regardless of the la
Dor returned for the same. Such con-
ditions demoralized the efficiency of
the building trades and was largely
due to the employers. It is how ad-
mitted by the employers that on the
general average the men are perform
ing a days work equal to the years
preceding the war and that the unions
give the employers the right to dis
charge any man who is either incon-
petent or inefficient. This leaves the
remedy entirely in the hands of the
employer"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
DEFENDS 0USTED
union TEACHERS
Peoria Miners Union Protests
Against Dismissal for Actjv-
titles in Labor Movement,

PEORIA, Ill.,, Aug. 4-Miners
Union No. 4646 protests against the
dismissal of II public school teachers,
and in resolutions forwarded to the
school board these coal diggers in
dulge in Americanisms that political
agents of big business should renlem-
ber
The miners say that the teachers
are ousted for apparently no other
reason than that of belonging TO a
labor union and voicing their opin-
ion on a matter of state government t."
Therefore" the resolution contin-
1es, I'VE draw these subject matters
to your attention: That their dis
charge was made possible by a SUBJ
sld1zed press that nodded public opin-
ION IN a manner prejudicial to them.
we are aware that organized la
Dor does not constitute all of the
toilers Of America. but they stand
Tor the things that are right.
Freedom of speech carries with it
the right to be wrong and to be I'M
n1une from censorship.
CLOSING the mouths of America n
citizens, whether civilian or public
officer, is not good business in a free
country. Repression has profited
nothing in any age or in any coun-
try but on the contrary it has TO-
mented rebellion, inflamed radicalism
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
GOVERNMENT REPORTS
SMALL REDUCTION IN
COST OF F00DSTUFFS

WASHINGTON, Aug. Are
tail food prices in June were only
thrce-tenths of 1 per cent lower
than in May, according to the
United States bureau of labor sta
tistics. Hens and granulated su9ar
dropped Z per cent; plate beef and
cheese, per cent; nut margarine
and butter, 5 per cent; cvaporated
milk, per cent; pork chops, cleo.
margarine and lard, 3 per cent:
chuck roast, crisco, corn flakes and
tea, z per cent; rib roast, bacon.
canned salmon. fresh milk. bread.
macaroni, baked beans, canned
tomatoes, coffee and prunes, / Der
cent. Sirloin steak and raisins de.
creased less than fivc-tcnths of
per cent.
The following articles increased
IN price: Potatoes, % per cent:
cabbage and oranges, 7 per cent:
strictly fresh eggs, 5 per cent:
flour and bananas, per cent:
onions, Per cent; leg of lamb and
canned peas, 1 Per cent, and ham
less than five-tenths of 1 Der cent.
Inere were no charge in the
price Of round steak, corn meal.
rolled oats, cream of wheat, rice.
navy beans and canned corn.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
COURT AFFECTS
FATnERLY POSE
Advises Capital Not TO Tread on
labor's Toes, Then Issues
Injunction.

NEWARK, N. J. Aug. 4.--In in
junction proceedings Instituted by the
Cyrus Currier & Sons corporation,
Vice Chancellor Backes gave stern
warning to "capitar (meaning cap
italists) that it must not tread on
"labor's toes with intent to injure."
The court made it clear where he
stood in this matter-and then issued
an injunction against organized iron
molders.
The company insists that every en-
ploye agree not to join the union
While so employed. It was discov-
cred that union iron moldere secured
employment on the claim that they
did not belong to the union and will
not join. The company claimed this
was plot to unionize their plant,
rushed to vice chancellor for aid. The
courts granted the request. while cam
ouflaging his order with cheap neroics
on the need for ''capital' to be careful.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
MOONEY CASE OF
CHIEF INTEREST
New York Globe Declares t viii
Not Down Until Justice Be
Given Victims Of Frameup.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-The Mooney
case will not down, says the New
York Globe. which declares that the
case is of chief interest to the gen.
crafty because it showed so clearly
the dangers, under American sys-
TENS of criminal prosecution, of what
might be called legal lynching.
1T is important that justice be
given Mooney, not primarily because
1t is unpleasant for him to spend his
time in Jail, butt because otherwise
the case will certainly serve as a
precedent for other legal lynchings.
There is a certain type of Amer
lean, often very influential and used
to having his own way. who needs
to be taught sharply that when his
desires clash with the law he can
not have his own way"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
WOULD MAKE CHINESE
Poems ON PLANTATIONS
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was obliged to compliment the labor
man upon the fairness of his testi-
mony.
Under the terms of the coolie i'm
portation bill, the subject of the hear
ing, it would be possible to import
approximately $4,000 Chinese coolies
to Hawaii upon proclamation that an
emergency exists requiring such labor.
The coolies would be brought to the
islands in bond and would remain in
state Of peonage in the islands.
1t is announced that the American
Federation of Labor and affiliated
bodies will continue a vigorous fight
on the bill, officially known as H. J.
Resolution III, and that a number
OF labor representatives will testify
before the committee, objecting at
every step to peonage legislation, let
ting down the bars to coolie impor-
tati0n.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
HOUSE REJECTS
P|CKETINC BILL
Committee Refuses to Enact
MODEL ''Anti-labor Law
introduced by B|anton,

WASHINGTON, Aug.4.-With one
dissenting vote, the house committee
OF the Distric of Columbia, voted to
lay the Blanton anti-picketing bill on
the table. Congressman Blanton is a
member of this committee The bill
would stop picketing in the nations
capitol and was introduced with the
intention Of securing a "modelr anti
picketing law for the various states,
with the prestige of approval by con-
gress and the president. Congressman
Blanton made heroic attempts to Sec
ure it's passage and interested num-
erous anti-union influences.
During the last campaign appeals
for financial assistance to aid Con-
gresham Blanton were signed by a
relative and issued from his office to
large employing interests,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
COAL OWNERS PUT BLAME
ON UNION Mine WORKERS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Testifyine
before the senate committee that is
investigating the Mingo county lock-
or coal owners representatives as
sured the committee that the trouble
IS caused by union coal owners in
ONO, Indiana, Illinois and western
pennsylvania. l-ccording to the West
Virginia coal owners, their rivals to
the north are jealous of the peace
and harmony that existed between
employers and employed in the noun
tain state and have ordered the union
to stir up trouble.
AS result Baldwin Feltz detectives
are necessary to protect property and
thelf Tree and Independent y orkers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
BELGIUM ADOPTS.
E|CHT-A0UR DAY
King Ratifies Hours Of Employ.
ment Act and Urges New
Methods by Employers.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 4.-The
eight-hour day and 4s-hour week are
established by law in this country.
In letter to the ministry of indus
try, labor and food, the king said:
Il have just ratified the hours of
employment act. the result Of long
discussions in parliament and OF an
agreement for which the chamber
and the senate have made a praise
worthy effort of Cancellation. The
eight-hour day has therefore been
won legally. It remains now to win
it from an economic point of view."
The. king urged greater production
on the part of workers. and lew
methods on the part of the employ
ers that Belgium may export to sus-
tain two-thirds of it's population. This
country can only support one-third
Of its population, the remainder &C.
pending ON industry and commerce.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06

establishing a national standard safety
code for the erection Of ladders and
scaffolding in building operations.
The loss. of life. principally occa-
stoned through imperfe ctions and lack
of safety devices for scaffo:dings and
ladders in Urge building operations.
has been terrific during the last year"
said William J. Spencer, secretary OF
the department. Zone trade union
alone-iron workers-produced fig
ures at the meeting showing that one
death in every "a hours and one
manning every four hours was the
average for the country during the
past year."
A committee composed Of engineers,
employers, architects and workers
will meet in the near future to take
the first move in the direction of
greater safety. The board endorsed
the code that has been enacted by
New York state as a completely log
.ical and efficient one.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
Will Keep Wages Up, Says
Leaders of Building Trades
Following the extraordinary confer

/. Following the extraordinary confer
ence of national labor chiefs in Wash
lnston, meeting of the building
trades department executive board
was convened to consider threatened
wage reductions and other matters at
fecting building workers throughout
the country. The board members took
the position that until retail prices
OF food, clothing, fuel and housing
show material decrease there was no
justification in cutting wages and any
movement of this character would be
stoutly resisted.
The board adopted a resolution ad-
vocating the repeal Of the income tax
on profits from mortgages which did
not exceed $4,000. This is for the
purpose of making it easier to obtain
money for building operations.
Steps were taken for cooperation
with the American Society of Safety
Engineers in the framing of a law
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
CAN'T SELL UNION PAPER
NEAR N0N.uNION BAKERY

TACOMA, Wash, Aug. 4.-Judge
Askren has rulel that the Tacoma
Labor Advocate cannot be sold near
a struck bakery in this city, because
the labor paper tells the story of this
concerns opposition to .organized
bakery workers. The court holds that
this is picketing. Attorneys for the
unlonists reminded the court of the
employers methods, which were not
only on larger scale, but many Of
the statements were untruthful.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
COMMERCIAL KEY MEN
RENEW OLD CONTRACTS

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-After three
weeks Of negotiations in this city the
Commercial Telegraphers' union Of
America has renewed last years rates
with the following press associations:
United Press, United News, Interna-
tlonal News Service and Universe,
Service. 60
Attempts were made to cut WAGES
20 per cent with a general reduc,1on
of working conditions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06

that industry. The Four L organ;
ization proved the mirage all expert
enced trade unionists had predicted
for it as soon as it would be put to
the test. It has utterly failed to pro-
vide any protection to it's members
against the ruthless slashing Of wages
by the employers. Its former meme
bers seem to be now fully disiIlus-
toned and are flocking to the Inter-
national Workers union"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
COMP ANY. UNION
GIVES Up GHOST
-Four | Organization Formed by
Coast Lumber Barons Goes BY
Boards; Men Join Union.

VANCOUVER, Wash, Aug. 4.-In
their report to the convention Of the
State Federation of Labor, officials
make this comment on the company
union" known as the loyal legion Of
loggers and lunbermen.
1.-The Timber Workers union Of the
state has launched g. campaign to
complete the work of organization in
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
SAYS SUGAR is PLENTIFUL

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Federal
Sugar Refining company can't UNDER
stand why sugar prices are advanced
when there is an oversupply. There
100000 tons of raw sugar availa BILE
FOR eastern refineries. This is enough
to last until October I when new DOM
este beet and cane crops will be on
the market.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06

METAL WORKERS UNITE
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. Aug. f.
Sheet metal workers in this city or
ganized and the idea is spreading to
other unorganized building craftsmen
in this vicinity. :.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
San FRANCISCO BUILDERS
WOULD |NTIM|DATE COURT

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 4.-Ac-
cording to the local press members
of the Builders Exchange were mott
fled "to be present. at the court
room when officers of the exchange
were arraigned for violating the state
antitrust laws. The notice called for
a demonstration in the court to i'm
press the presiding judge that these
patriotic law-and-order, liberty-lov-
ing 100 per cent, anti-union Amer.
leans are opposed to business men
being arrested for violating the anti
trust laws of this state. =
Trade unionists are asking what
would happen il some labor organ
azataon sent out such a. notice. =.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06

VISALIA. CAL, Aug. 4.-Carnen-
ters' union No. -14s4 has secured the
44-hour work week.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06

A membership in labor organi->
cation does not make; of one a union
man or woman.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06

BARBERS GET AGREEMENT.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aus. THE
s. Bar bers union has signed 8 new
asreement with emp Ieyers
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15

found that green flies are especially
attracted to boiled cabbage and that
where fly traps are baited with boil
ed cabbage, most of the green flies in
the neighborhood can be trapped and
the danger of lipberneck greatly re-
duced. 1t is the general experience
of poultry keepers that when timber
neck once gets started many cases
are likely to appear within short
time; and this is readily explained
by the discovery that green flies are
carriers of the disease. Trapping
the flies is safe precaution at any
rate and will prove general bene-
fit to the farm flock and it's owners
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15
THE ROAD TO NORMALCY

Charles E. Gunnels, treasurer of
the F. B. A, speaking at the Clar-
india, Iowa chautauqua, this week said
"Our great banking system, he
said, las typified by the Federal Re-
serve in normal conditions is hard
ly adapted to meet the full require
ments of our farmers. Our national
agriculture represents more than one
third of the wealth of the nation. 1t
is an 80 billion dollar industry, but
the Federal Reserve reports less than
80 billion dollars worth of agricul-
tural papr was handled in 1920.
"The Interests" of the country
are opposed to the organization OF
farmers for they realize, better than
the farmers themselves, what can be
accomplished when farmers finally
"get together and stick together
The organized grain trade is spend
ing $25O,OOO to defeat farmer organ
izations. If they can make farmers
suspicious and maybe be dissatisfied
with their own organization, so they
will drop out and weaken it, they
they want 1t.
every line of industry in America
is federated with local, state and
national associations and they are all
represented in the National Cham
Der of Commerce at Washington,
which is maintained for the benefit OF
industry. The same thing is true
of Labor. All crafts have their
local, state and national organiza-
lions and then there is the state fed
erations and the American Fedora
ton of Labor-and they are getting
results.
"You know why they get results.
They may scrap among themselves
but they stick by the decisions OF
the majority and they pay their
dues regularly and they hire the best
brains they can get to work for
them. OF course Labor wouldn't
hire a man friendly to Capital to do
their lighting Neither would Cap
itaI hire a Union man to represent
the moneyed interests. But Labor
doesn't try to make an executive out
of "a printer or a bricklayer, II "a
printer or bricklayer with executive
ability cannot be found in the ranks
then they go out and hire man with
brains and executive ability who Is
known to be friendly to their inter
ests.
"Stop and think for minute OF
the unlimited possibilities that are
offered the farmers of Missouri. thru
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15

public office.
1.-The Farm Bureau is the farmers
organization. They control its des
tines absolutely, both locally, in the
state organization and in the nation
al organization.
stay at home and is spent under To-
Eighty per cent of the dues
cal direction. The remaining 20
per cent pays dues in the state and
national federation.
Farmers must all get the vision
and all work together until agricul-
ture is as we'll organized as Labor
and Capital and Industry. They
will come a-running when they full
ly realize what it means to them"
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15
HOW TO FIGHT THE ANTS

Where ants can be traced to nest
or den in the soil, carbon bisulphate
may be applied to advantage, prefer
ably after dusk With a stick make
three or more holes at different
points in the nest, according to the
size of the colony. and Immediately
pour in about an ounce of carbon BIZ
sulphate, Immediately closing with
damp earth without tramping the
spot. The liquid Immediately eva
porates into a heavier than air gas
which destroys any breathing insect
with which it comes into contact.
A syrup made of three grams Of
sodium arsenate (soluble) in a
spoonful of water added to two
pounds OF sugar dissolved in three
quarters of pint of hot water is Of
ten successfully used to soak bits of
sponge or cloth along the ant trail
or in tin cans with closed tops hav-
Ing holes punched to admit the ants,
thus protecting animals from secur-
ing the poison.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15
FARM BUREAU NOTES
IT PAYS TO SELL
THAT OLD ROOSTER

BY conservative estimate the an
nual loss from bad eggs in Missouri
is at least S5,000,000 A large per-
centage of this loss could be prevent
ed by the simple expedient of remov-
ing the roosters from the summer
flock
BOOSTERS eat consid cradle feed dur
ing the summer and do not add to
egg production. This puts them in
the same class with the Gull hens
and they should be given the same
treatment.
Here are five rules for getting the
most money from the summer fiocks:
Produce infertile eggs by re-
moving the roosters from the flock
in the summertime.
2.-Provide clean nests and keep
eggs clean.
3.-Do not wash eggs.
4.-Gather eggs twice daily dur
ing the summer to prevent them from
being heated by the hen.
5.-Keep them in a cool, dr.!
place, away from the flies.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15
Zn0REhn5
E6en1~
BABY.FACES

l love the baby-faces \
That 1 see most every day,
AS l trudge along, half-hearted
In my narrow, stubborn way;
When the world seems cold and selfish,
With a cloud in every place.
o, it turns my soul to sunshine
When l meet baby face.
When l spy the little go-cart
And the darling that it bears,
The glimpse l catch in passing
Softens down the sterest cares;
Yes that ugly frown relaxes,
And a smile will take it's place,
At the magic intervention
OF happy baby's face.
love each little wanderer
More than he can ever know.
For he recalls baby-face
That cheered me, long ago
I recall the childish prattle
AS he perched upon my knee
But shucks! he over thirty now,
An thinks he's bigger'n me
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15
The Watched Pot

There old saying that "a watched pot never bos"
That's why lot of folks keep saving account.
is human nature to want spend money if you it
in pocket book it where you handle it and
it, Is like the watched pot The sensible thing put in
good bank where ss yet Of your sight with the temp
aion to spend removed This bank invites you open
account and deposit your money where it win grow
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15
All sizes of Firestone tires and tub
es at Wells Drug Company.
Dodson's Liver Tone
Killing Calomel Sale

Don't sicken or salivate yourself or
paralyze your sensitive Liver by taking
calomel which is quicksilver. Your
dealer sells each bottle of pleasant,
harmless "Dodson's Liver Tone" under
an ironclad, money.bac& guarantees
that it regulates the liver, stomach and
bowels better than calomel without max
ing you sick--l5 million bottles sold
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1921-09-15
GREEN FLIES ARE
SPREADING LIMBERNECK

The surest means for the elimi-
nation of limberneck is to trap the
green flies which are now believed
to spread the trouble. 1t has been