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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
HAVE
FAT BANK ROLL
!. 7. i. Prints Page Advertise.
ment in Toronto Papers Show
ing Financial Condition.

TORONTO, Ontario, Nov. SIN a
page advertisement printed in local
papers for the benefit of delegates
to the convention of the United Typo
thetae of America, the international
Typographical union presents statis-
tics to refute the claim by some dele
gate among the employers that the
union is financially embarrassed be-
cause of efforts to enforce 44-hour
agreement, made two years ago.
1t is shown that the unions general
fund has increased $287,222.50 since
April 20, 1921. The balance in all
funds on September 20. 1921, was $?,-
55,96S.82.
"All the union demands is the full
fillment of the contract made in good
faith with employers says the adver-
tisement.'
THE International Typographical
union has always believed that a con-
tract is not crap of paper
1T had contract with employing
printers for the eight-hour day with
a Saturday half holiday.
If there is any odium come cted
with the unemployment conditions
in the printing industry at this time,
it is with the employer and not with
the typographical union."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
SURTAxERSA|M
TO Get FURTHER
TAX REDUCTIONS
Congress Agrees to Less, But
They Are Not Satisfied and
Look for More.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Both
branches of congress have agreed to
reduce the IS per cent surtax-or ad-
ditional tax-on large incomes. The
house favors a reduction to 80 per
cent, but this has caused such a. pro-
test throughout the country that the
senate has made the surtax SO per
cent.
Under the senate amendment the
surtax starts with a charge of 1 per
cent on annual incomes from $4,000
to $4,000. Another 1 per cent is
added for ever yadditional $4,000 in
come, until the 100000 and over in
come is reached, when the surtax will
be the maximum so per cent, instead
of IS per cent, as provided under the
present law.
The few thousand excessively rich
individuals, who will gain by this re
duction have not lost their fight for
a still greater cut in their income tax
alton. for when the revenue bill goes
to conference amendments can be
made and these must be accepted by
the house and senate, or the entire
revenue bill must be rejected and the
long fight reopened.
Advocates of the low surtax claim
that persons with large incomes arc
taking their money out Of industry
and placing it in tax-exempt bonds
OF all description, which are esti-
mated to total 100000 100000. The
high surtaxers reply that the tax
exempt bonds will be owned by some
one, and If the present owners sell
them the ownership will be merely
transferred and no reduction Of in
come taxes can prevent the sale Of
these securities.
The revenue bill also calls for the
abolishment of excess profits. Linked
up with these revenue losses to the
government are whispers that the
governments economy program has
proven a Flash in the pan" and that
deficits agsrgsEs,4ing millions Of dol.
lars are facing the treasury.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
MARKET SYSTEM
CAUSE OF WASTE

TRENTON, n. j.. Nov. 3.-A crop
Of 100000 heads of lettuce is going
to waste on New Jersey farms because
the public cannot get it at reasonable
prices, says the New, Jersey depart
ment Of agriculture.
Growers who are anxious to sell
at a little more than the cost of pack
ing and marketing, in order to recover
some fraction Of the cost of produc-
ton, find the big city markets blocked,
with customers charged war prices
plus for this product.
Comparisons Of prices paid the far
mer and prices paid by the house wife
Show a maximum spread Of from 400
to 900 per cent. Many growers are
plowing under the crisp heads of let
tuce for which the public is hungry.
Luttuce growing is extensive in this
state largely because of the educa-
tional campaigns of the use of greens
containing minerals beneficial to
health. The lettuce growers say this
campaign is futile because dealers
have needlessly put lettuce beyond
reach of the average family's pocket
book.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
SENATE FAV0RS
BIG RAIL loan
Committee Makes Favor Report
on Bill Granting Roads ID
ditiona| Half Billion.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-The SEN
ate committee on interstate commerce
has made a favorable report on the
bill that would pay the railroads
$500,O00,o00 and postpone their debts
of an equal amount to the govern
ment.
It is claimed this legislation will
permit the railroads to buy equip
ment and give work to unemployed.
At recent unemployed conference,
called by the president, President
Carter Of the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen, suggested that the
bill be indorsed with the understand
ing that the money be used for equip
ment. Advocates Of the bill refused
to accept Endorsement under these
conditions. The brotherhood official
said that If former practices Of the
railroads were followed, they would
use this $500,O0O,O 900 to pay deferred
dividends to stockholders.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
union men QUIT
INJUNCTION JAIL
Hob0ken MachiniStS Serve Year
and Leave Jail Defiant Of
Injunction Writ.

HOBOKEN, N. J., Nov. Slight
machinists who served a years i'm
prisonment for violating an injunction,
have been released and are more
strongly opposed to the Injunction
writ than when they entered Jail.
The workers are Samuel Peterson
William Murray. Patrick E. Musto
Abffraham Ebert, Vincent Grammon
George Miller, Albert Thorry, and
Stephen Rethman.
When a strike was called by the
Machinists' union against the Blur
Motor Appliance company the work.
ers were enjoined from picketing by
Vice Chancellor Buchanan. The
strikers refused to desist telling their
story to employees and were jailed by
the chancellor. who now finds that
his un-American order creates no ter
ror among workers.
Before leaving Jail the unionists
signed a letter Of appreciation to dis
trict No. IS, International Association
of Machinists, for making common
cause in the fight and for aiding their
families while they were in Jail.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05

OF 1920 decree announced the COM
pulsory working Of overtime with
pay as for double time for tho first
two hours and time and half there
after. Instead Of the 44-hour week
the Russian industrial workers have
been compelled to work ~ hours per
day and ~ hours per week during the
last II months.
Sunday work Is frequently COM
pulsory and severe punishment is ad-
ministered upon those who fail to re-
port for work. When SUNDAY work
is required the result is so hours work
per week.
The remuneration Of the Petra
grad metal workers in 1920 was about
20 times below his remuneration in
1916. AS consequence Of such con-
ditions the staple food Of the skilled
workers of Russia is nothing but black
bread, and that often Of an inferior
quality
"A workman from the Pootiloff
Works Gin Petrograd) reported to the
English labor delegates: In the full
sense Of the word We are starving.
as We exist on bread and Soviet SOUP
alone. We are completely exhausted
owing to excessive overtime and in
sufficient nourishme ent.' -. =. ~ ,..''.
IA workman from the Oboukhoff
Works said: Whilst In consequence
Of Inadequate payment the Workmen!
were unable to buy during the last;
year etthert.meat for fsts and were
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
WORKERS WAGES Down:
OFFICIALS SALARY UP

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Secre-
tary of War Weeks has inaugu-
rated an economic policy in the
Panama canal zone, on rccommen-
dation of a commission headed by
Brigadier General COnnOr.
Wages Of workers arc reduced
and the many concessions given
them as an independent to go to
Panama when health was menaccd
Is taken from them. These reduc-
tions are estimated at $9O.05 a
month for married men and $1,000
for single men.
The ''economy' program stopped
with the wage workers., for the
commission recommended that the
salary of the governor of the canal
zone be increased so per cent and
that he also be allowed an addi-
tiOnal $4,000 as president of the
Panama railroad, for "entertain-
ment expenses
1t is also stated that hcnccfOrth
the canal zone will be operated un-
der what anti-unionists term
"open" shop.
Officers of the A. r. of L. metal
trades department took the matter
up with the secretary of war and
the president, but without. success.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
CUNMEN BLAME ED
FOR ". VA. WAR

BECKLEY, w. Va, Nov. s.-At the
convention Of district No. 20, United
Mine Workers, it was declared that
the men working in and around the
coal mines Of West Virginia, for the
past 80 years. have not been allowed
to exercise their state and constitl-
tional rights. and have been forced
to work under the most brutal gun
man, mine guards system.
For the past IL months the miners
of Mingo country. Of this state. have
been locked out from their work be-
cause they joined our union, and dur
ing this time thousands Of our women
and children have suffered and sacri-
ficed, and numbers Of our men have
given up their lives in this struggle.
At the present moment 861 Of our
members, including the president and
other officials Of both districts in this
state, are indicted by frameup evil
dence, charged with conspiracy and
murder"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
INSURANCE DOCTOR SAYS
LIFE CAN Be LENGTHENED

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Dr. A. S.
Knight, president Of the national as
sociation Of life insurance medical d.
rectors, told delegates to the conven-
ton of that organization that a six
year test has shown that human life
ls prolonged by periodical health ex-
aminations.
me mortality of a special group Of
o'931 men, who have taken voluntary
medical examinations regularly since
1914 has been only So per cent of
the rate expected on standard insur-
ance tables, DR.. knight said. The
company, he added. in defraying the
expense Of the tests for it's policy hold
ers has had its principal returned and
has made on the investment, through
reduced insurance claims, a profit of
200 per cent.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
CRAFTERS Will
BE SAFE after
ARm|ST|CE DAY
There Will be Joy Among War
Looters When Nation mourns
Loss Of Unknown.

WASHINGTON, Nov. S-There will
be Joy among war grafters when the
nation mourns at the interment OF
the unknown American soldier boy on
Armistice day, November, II. After
that date the grafters will be immune
from prosecution by the statute OF
limitation.
A few weeks ago attention was
called to the probability Of the graft
ers escaping, and much talk Was
heard about rushing a bill through
congress extending the statute Of linn
itation from three years to six years
The plan was dropped, however, but
Attorney General Daugherty was not
SO busy at that time that he could
not journey to Cincinnati and tell the
American Bar association Of the need
for compulsory investigation of in.
dustrial disputes that strikes may be
stopped by law.
A house committee headed by Con.
gresham Graham has been investi-
eating the war grafters. Rhe COM
mittee made this report on the Stand
ard Steel company:
"There were fraud and bribery ad-
mitted by the government agents, bu;
all such accounts were allowed in
full. The company stole a car load
of small tools from this plant) and
removed them clandestinely to their
own plant"
Reference was also made by the
committee Of the sale of the company
for 100000 of buildings and materia]
which had cost $3,5o0.000, though
there was a bid in for 100000, 900
which the negotiating army officer
concealed. from his associates"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
COAL M|NERs-t"N
STRIKE AGk F. ST
ANDERSo(T dict
Nearly 10000 I;$!s a Miners
Walk Out; unio : ids 0per-
ators to W.. Tract.

Press reports indicate that $4,000
coal miners in Indiana have quit work
in that field although no strike order
has been issued by the district Of
ficers. 1t is predicted that every
mine in the state will be closed this
week in protest against Federal Judge
Anderson's injunction decree.
The officers of the United Mine
Workers union, it is said, are in
sisting that the provision Of the con-
tract with the operators relating to
the '*check off, of dues and assess
ments shall be enforced. That con-
tract was made under government
pressure, by government consent and
with government approval. The Of
ficers will regard it's discontinuaDce
by the operators in spite of Judge
Anderson's order, as violation of
their agreement
Union chiefs declined to amplify
the telegram. sent Tuesday evening
to the II district presidents, virtual
ly instructing them to stand pat on
the present agreement, which they
pointed out was arrived art with the
governments approval.
In some quarters belief was ex-
pressed that the sending of the tele-
grams by John L. Lewis, internation-
al president Of the union, and his col
leagues might be construed as "open
defiance" Of Judge Anderson's de-
cree and lead to repetition Of the
contempt of court proceedings of
two years ago. Frederick Van Nuys,
United States district attorney. was
silent on this phase of the situation.
Gompcrs Warns "Autocrat."
Judge Andersen's injunction for
bids men to organize" said Samuel
Gompers president Of the American
Federation of Labor. 1.-THE bill of
right gives them constitutional free
dom and the Clayton act gives them
the guarantee of statute law.
Judge Anderson sweeps away both
of these guarantees as if they were
but the merest scraps of paper. He
plays the part of autocrat we'll, but
sooner or later every autocrat has his
fall. rs
There is a great moral issue at
stake, and the side of justice and free
dom and humanity will not be aban-
doned, even at the behest of this mod
ern Jeffries. Judge Anderson"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
La Toilette WINS OUT
IN TILT WITH OLD GUARD

Things have been going badly
with the Old Guard in the Senate
and there are sound reasons for
the statement that it is going to get
few more hard knocks before con.
sideration of the revenue bill is
completed. Its first decisive de-
feat came with the approval of
Senator La FOllett's amendment
striking out the tax exemption on
foreign trade, drawn by the Finance
committe in the interest of inter-
national bankers and industrial
concerns that are planning q con.
quest of world trade hacked by the
American government and who had
hoped to avoid paying anything for
tho service to be rendered.
Scarcely had the smoke of this
struggle blown away when the Old
Guard was compelled to accept the
compromise amendment covering
excess profits, the high surtax
bracket being placed at so per
cent on large incomes. The House
bill set the tax at 81 per cent and
the Finance committee incorpOr-
ated that figure In tho draft. Big
Business had constructed the DOM
inant party's campaign pledge OF
reduced taxation as applying parti-
cularly and exclusively to its select
circle.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
UNION LABOR uNTIES TO
Defend Federal BUREAU

ORGANIZED labor is making a de.
termined effort to prevent the
United States Department of Labor
from being emasculated by the
Harding administration. A con-
ference of trade-uniOn legislative
representatives in Washington was
held recently at American Fedora
ton of Labor headquarters. to map
out program. .Forty-five legis-
lative agents, representing national
and international organizations.
were present. 1t was unanimously
voted to strcnuOusly oppose any at
tempt to weaken. destroy, subOrfli-
nate or amalgamate the the Depart
ment of Labor.
President Samuel Gompers prcsi-
ded at the meeting. He was
directed to bring the matter to the
attention of the rank and file of
labor In the United States and to
the people generally. 1t was the
expressed opinion that the proposed
changes would, II carried out, op-
crate to prevent the normal activi-
ties of labor and would aid the de-
signs OF those who seek to oppress
the workers and to curtail their
constitutional rights.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
WORKERS RAISE WAGES.

FORT WILLIAM, Ontario, Canada,
Nov. 3.-Organized railway clerks
and freight handlers employed by the
Western Stevedore company have
raised wages and retained old work.
ing conditions. Rates for truckers
and checkers were advanced four
cents an hour, and leaders and COOP
ers will be paid an addition five cents
an hour
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
FAVOR ANTI-LYNCH BILL.

eeWAsH1NGTON. Nov. 3.-The Dye.
anti-lynching bill, imposing heavy
penalties on persons involved in mob
action resulting in the taking Of life
haS been favorably, reported by the
house judiciary committee. 5E
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
THEATER SIGNS.

TACOMA, Wash, Nov. 3.-The BIZ
jou theater has signed an agreement
with the Motion Picture Operators
union.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-11-05
MIR. MERCHANT

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men in Duluth and surrounding territory
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-08
PettiCOat Government
u Makes Good in jackson
Many improvements Dur
ing Years Administra-
tion-Relect Women

JACKSON. Wye. June S.-JackSon,
after years trial of petticoat govern
tnent. has found il good. Half a century
ago the first jury of women to be inn
paneIed in the United States was drawn
in Wyoming and 20 years later Wyoming
insisted. and won its point, that it be.
admitted to the union without one single
change in it's constitutional provision
giving women equal suffrage rights with
men. When the votes We're counted at
Jackson Tuesday night, May 10, they
showed the following results:
For mayor: Mrs. Grace Miller, 81
l.. W. Spicer. II
For cauncilmen: Mrs. GeneYieye Van
Week. ca; G.. r. Blaine. 10; Mrs. Faus-
tina IIaight. &c; Almer Nelson, IL.
Just a year ago this picturesque little
western town, with a population of go
by the latest census. Nesting beneath the
beetling peaks of the Giant TetonS in the
heart Of the famed Jackson's Hole coun-
try, startled the nation by turning out
! its man-made administration and install
| ling a town government made up entirely
| of women. The victory was all the more
notable because of the fact that Mrs.
Rose Crabtree had been elected to the
| Evidently the women of jackson had de-
cided tn spoil the towns glamOrous
reputation as the rendezvous for bad.
/ bold two-eun desperadoeS.
The exact issue in the campaign year
| ago is a matter for argument but what
ever il was the women won decisively.
/ This year it was the same thing over, n
three to one landslide.
/ During their years tenure. the five
women OF the towns administration mau-
aged to keep jackson clean. morally and
physically and i'm addition they brought
about number of municipal improve
! mentS. They transformed what used "a
F., be country lanes into city streets they
1 acquired q site for cemetery TO take
! the place of the old. familiar burying
ground: and they are now working on
a plan for a modern. adequate water Sys-
/ tenn to replace the present system Of ir-
I rigating bitches fed by nearby Cache
creek
! Two of the CONDITIONER are holdOverS
4 this year. The other two. along witt
thc mayor. stood nat on their records
The mayor. Mrs. Miller. is the wife oil
La wealthy retired StOckman and runcher
who IS supervisor nf the Teton NatioHa
4 Forest reserve. OF the councilwomen
Mrs Crabtree runs n hotel Her huS
band is a huildIng contractor. Mrs Va.
/ Week is the wife of n hardware mer
chant. Mrs. IIaight is n school teacher
and a hOmesteader and Mrs. w. G. De
LOueyS husband is a member of the Wy
oming state legislature.
: a few days after the election May 10
: Miss Pearl Williams. the towns -
year-old marshal. announced that sh'
would not seek rcannOintment OF the new
/ administration. When asked why no
: she replied: I've had plenty. Besides
jackson has become 50 quiet and orderly
, that the town doesn't need marsha
lany more.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-08
wEyBRIDGE GIRL KILLED.
In Automobile Accident While En- ROME
Go Wilmington.

AITDDTEBIrRY. mnc s. Miss
Emma Baker. %. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Baker of Weybridge, was
killed yesterday i'm an automobile acct
dent between North Lebanon and Pc
tersburg. y. Y. The news was received
late yesterday afternoon in telegram
from North Lebanon signed by a doctor
Of that town. No particulars of the ac-
cident were given.
Miss Baker. with her brother, Har-
old. left Weybridge last Friday for New
York. to drive home an Overland road
ster. and at the time of the accident they
were on their way from New York city
to Wilmington to bring home an ac-
auaintancc who teaches school at the
latter place. They evidently had taken
the wrong road Harold Baker. the
brother escaned without Injuries, and
arrived in Niddlebury on a late train
last night
Miss Baker is survived by her parents,
her brother aud one sister. Welthea, all
of Wevbridge. She was graduate of
sIiddleburys high school of the class Of
1917 and had taught school in Weybridge
and Salisbury
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-08
DIR. WORK SCORES
BOOZE DOCTORS
Their Ethical Sense Would Degrade a
Bartender-Crisis Facing
Real Physicians

BOSTON. June S.-The prOmiscuouS
prescriber of alcohol licensed as a physi-
clan, but whose ethical sense would de-
grade a bartender. the perfunctory pre-
scriber for a fee. the vender of habit
forming drugS-all are educated crimI-
mails. a social menace. but posing rs
physicians, DIR. Hubert Work of Pueblo.
Col. president, told the American Medi-
cal association convention here yester
day.
'These physicians are tolerated by the
uublic" he continued, because the in
tegrity. efficiency and self-abnegation of
a ma jOrity Of medical men is so great
that these dereliets almost escape no
Il sometimes fear chat we regard our
selves as dictators in medical matters.
when in reality we merely meet the de-
mandS Of the public.s We should remem-
Der that numerically we are as enc in
500 among the people and that our cali
ing has already been granted many priv
ilcges. some of which are being betrayed
Physicians are Indifferent to quack-
cry as competitor in all its phases.
Charlatans have no place in rational med
icine. They are adventures. supported
by people who court deception for the
excitement of it. and who are lured by
the mysteries of ignorance. - $saatEf
'-Thoughtful men believe that a crisis
threatens established principles. and
that physicians must now earnestly adj
dress themselves to the cause and the
prevention of disease and disability as
the primary concept of medicine. safe
guarding its principles, lest the profess
sion lose it's esprit de corps. and its
| place in public esteem. If its members
| become piece workers. il may fail of
public appreciation as an essential eco
J monte factor in the preservation of the
national wealth, because of a depreciat-
ing national health. Our medical out
! look must then be based on public vel
/ fare and the functions of the physician
/ should be- not only to treat. but also to
j prevent disease in the families under his
care. and in the community of which he
is part
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-08
SENATE TO ACCEPT
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE
President Well Pleased With
Congresses Attitude on
Disarmament
DIFFER ON NAVAL
APPROPRIATION

House Dislikes Senate's Increase - May
Appeal to President to ADJUST Differ
euces - No Disarmament Until ia
pans Attitude Is Clear.