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VOL. 7, No. 25. 1 25 Success Follows Success GET THE INFORMATION. A copy of the National Oil Reporter has just come to hand containing a writeup of the Beaumont oil fields. This is a superbly illustrated magaz ine and full of interesting information. Persons interested in Texas oil as an investment could do nothing better than to study its contents, we have a copy at our office, and will be glad to have those interested see it. But in the entire magazine of oil fact there is nothing that does not tell you in the strongest terms: "Buy Dia mond Crude Oil stock." The more you study the question the more firmly you will be convinced that this is the thing to do. DuumtniNN. The Glass Block Grows* OUR SALES ARE BOUNDING AHEAD RAPIDLY—BUSINESS IS far ahead of a year ago. One of the most important departments in the store sold more goods the first eleven days of October than it did during the whole month of October a year ago. And the best two thirds of the month is yet to come. Our growth is permanent as well as phenomenal—for dependability can always be placed in our qualities, styles, statements, advertising, representations and prices. We never broke faith with anyone. We are doing more business than ever we did, and aren ow formulating plans to more than double our business. Our bargain sales are closely watched, and faithfully attended by discriminating women. We always offer special bar gains each week. We always cut prices more than others. We al ways give reasonable offerings. We always have plenty of advertised goods. Look carefully through the advertised items, check what you want, and remember -that thousands of other splendid good things are here that we havena space to mention. ANNUAL Autumn Notion Sale THE MERE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THIS ANNUAL EVENT, which becomes a greater factor as a tremendous money-saving sale with each recurring sale, is sufficient to crowd this section of the store during this sale. Anticipate your notion needs now. —Ironing Wax—with wood handle—Two Brass Thimbles—Spool Black Button Hole Twist—Cake Bees Wax, white or yellow— Card of two dozen hump hooks and eyes, black or white—three dozen hat pins, lc quality—Paper of hair pins such as we sell at 2c. -Spool of Daisy Crochet Silk, worth 5c—Climax safety Pins, small, medium and large sizes, regular price 4c, 5c and 6c— A package of cotton tape, containing all widths, in all 11 yards—Curling Irons, small, meium and large—5c Mourning Pins, boxes contain all sizes. —15c quality dress stays in sets of assorted sizes, in black, blue •JC white, yellow, red and slate—A large box of hair pins, assort ed sizes, plain and crimped—Three 50-yard spools of black linen thread, in all numbers—A card of 2 dozen ivory buttons for wash dresses, worth 10c a card—three pairs strong shoe laces, our stand ard brand that sells at 3c—A dozen corset laces, in black, drab and white—100-yard spools sewing silk, black only, worth 10c per spool—A 7c pin cube, assorted sizes—six cards Dorcas darning cotton. A yard of velveteen and brush braid, in black and colors, worth 10c. -A piece Taffeta Seam Binding, warranted all silk and our 10c quality—A %-yard strip of Elastic Remnants, in all silk and mercerized, plain or fancy, all colors—Corset Clasps, white, black and drab, 4, 5, and 6hook, our 10c quality. —Six Spools Machine bread, full 100 yards to the spool, sella •j -Needle Cases containing five papers of assorted sewing need |ll£ les, also tape and darning needles—Collar Forms, all sizes, our 15c grade—Pearl Buttons, 2 dozen on a card, siriall, medium and large sizes, regular price always 15c. DIAMOND CRUDE OIL CO. Texas oil offers more for the investor —big or little—thao any other form of investment we know of. The Oil Reporter advances the bold assertion that 75 per cent of the fuel of the in dustrial world will be crude oil in a few years. This statement i= hard to believe, but even if it Is ?Tscounted many times it still makes Texas oil the greatest industrial proposition in the world, next to the ir*/n industry. Think of it, one of the large southern railroads, after an experimental test, pronounced oil 85 per cent, cheaper than coal, and this did not take into consideration the fact that It would dr» away with the services of the firemen upon locomotives. READ THE FACTS. The problem is so great that it can not be covered In any mere announce ment of this character. Our prospectus has been carefully written and is ab .« lut»ly accurate in its statements. It will be sent vou on request. Better still, call at the office, if possible. The Diamond Crude Ol! company own? n. lot on Spindle Top. where all the great gushers are. We have a well row drilling) about 400 feet deep, •which Is in the hands of one of the best drillers 'n the Of Beaumont, Texas. CENTS a Share Bsaumoiaf field. That well is likely to b#- gushing oil within wo weeks, and our company needs ad ditional fun'ls to nut its oil on the mar ket. Considerable money Is necessary t» buy tanks, pipelines and other equipment to harvest the oil crop. Our company has profited bv the experience of others, ar.d is now vmtractinsr for a pipeline from the Diamond well to the railroad tank loading track, to be SEND FOR PROSPECTUS. DIAMOND CRUDE OIL COMPANY, 1. PAR VALUE $1.00. ,t° harvest its product at once. We will arrange for tanks next, and then will be able to supply oil to con sumers upon terms equal to the larg est and best equipped companies. A considerable asset of tne Diamond Crude company is our holdings at Sour Saratoga Springs, and at Big Hill. These properties have been over shadowed by the great success at Spin dle Top, but they are very valuable and well worth development. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. The officers and directors of the Dia mond Crude Oil company are all men whom the public has every right to feel confident in. The list follows: President—C. W. Ransom, of Albert Lea. Minn., for over 20 years the head of the wholesale grocery house of Ran dom Bros., president of the Consoli dated Fire and Marine Insurance com pany of Albert Lea, director in the Al bert Lea National bank, etc. First Vice Prealdent—Frank T. Locke, of Sibley. Iowa, president of the Melvin (Iowa) National bank, presi dent of the Bank of Harris, Harris. Iowa, and cashier of the Sibley (Iowa) State bank. Second Vice Prealdent—Hon. M. rR' Everett, of Waterville, Minn., a state sc-nator and president ,pf the Everett City Bank, of Waterville, Minn. Secretary—A. W. Harris, of Sibley.' Iowa, secretary- and treasurer of the A. W. Harris Grain company, of Sibley, 1 ar.d president of the A. W. Harris Gas Light company, of Sibley. Iowa. Treaanrer—A. H. Gale, .of Maaon City. Iowa, cashier of the City National Bank of Mason City, Iowa. Other Dlrectora—Ella* Fltterllng, of Minneapolis, Minn., capitalist and owner of the valuable property on Nic ollet avenue now occupied by the New Store. G. H. Mance, of Duluth, Minn., lumberman. W. M. McAllister, of Al bert Lea, Minn..1 creditman i»f the We.«tern Grocery company. Albert Dol lenmayer, of the Dollenmayer Adver tising Agency, Minneapolis, Minn. H. BENNETT, Agtnt, 5i4 Manhattan Building, DULUTH. DULUTH AND FEDERATION'S CALL AMBHICAK FEDERATION OF LABOR ANNUAL CONVENTION. Twentr«flnt Annual Convention to Be Held at St. Thomas College Hall, In the City of Serynton, Pa.| Beginning Thnriday, December 5, 1801—Many Matters of Extreme Importance to Be Considered. To All Affiliated Unions, Greetinsr: Pursuant to law, notification is hereby given that the twenty-first annual con vention of the American Federation of Labor will be held at St. Thomas Col lege Hall, in the City of Scrantori, Pa., begining at ten o'clock Thursday morn ing, December 5, 1901, and will continue until the business of the convention has been concluded. Inasmuch as matters of extreme im portance to' the wage-workers of our country await the calm, deliberate con sideration and action of tne organized workers of America* in our convention, every organization entitled to send delegates is urgently requested to be fully represented, and this, -too, by the most faithful and best qualified mem bers. Under no circumstances should mere favor prevail in the selection of delegates. The cause of labor is too sacred, important, and far-reaching to warrant our unions in selecting as their delegates to the conventions of the Am erican Federation of Labor anv but those who not only have the Interests of the toilers at heart, but who com prehend the conditions by which we are surrounded and can be helpful in de vising the most practical means to se cure relief from burdensome conditions, and to protect and promote the best in terests of the toiling masses of our country. We have not only to organize the yet unorganized toilers, to unite in one compact body the unions of the several trades and callings to more completely establish the federation of all to make the unions and our federation constant ly more effective in opposing the wrong and establishing the right to extend our resources, to maintain the vantage ground already secured, and to pro vide for the constant advance of the workers on the road to emancipation from the thraldom of ignorance and greed to carefully and intelligently out line our future action, and bravely de fend our firm convictions and resolves. These and' many other matters too numerous to mention here require the attention of the delegates to the forth coming convention, and the unions are therefor importuned, though temporary sacrifices may have to toe made, td be fully represented at the SJcranton in the American labor movement as well as upon any other field of human activity and when representation is accorded in our conventions, unions do themselves and their members a gravt wrong when for any reason they fail to take advantage of. the opportunity offered. Representation in the convention will be on the following basis: From nat ional or international unions for less than four thousand members, one dele gate four thousand or more. tw6 dele gates eight thousand or more, three delegates sixteen thousand or more, four delegates thirty-two thousand or more, five delegates sixty-four thous end or more, five delegates, and so on and from central bodies and state fed erations, and from local unions not having a national or international un ion, and from federal labor unions, one delegate. Organizations, to be entitled to repre sentation, must have obtained a certi ficate of affiliation (charter) at least one month prior to the convention and no person will be recognized as a dele gate who is not a member in good standing of the organization he is elect ed to represent. Only bona fide wage workers, who are rot members of, or eligible to member ship in, other trade unions, are eligible as delegates from federal labor unions. Delegates must be selected at least two weeks previous to the convention, and their names forwarded to the sec retary of the American Federation of Labor immediately after their election. Delegates are not entitled to seats in the convention unless the tax of their organizations has been paid in full to October 31, 19fl}l. Resolutions of any character, or pro positions for changes in the constitu tion, intendedv for consideration by the convention, must be sent to the secre tary of the American Federation of Labor at least two weeks previous to the date of the convention. The same will be compiled and printed in the program of business and mailed to each delegate elect and to the executive of fice? of each affiliated organization. No resolution or constitutional change can be considered, unless printed in the program, without a two-thirds vote of 'the convention. Under the law, organizations having grievances against other organizations are required to meet by representation for the purpose of adjusting the ques tions in dispute before the same can be considered by the convention. A griev ance which has already been considered by a previous convention can not be taken up by the forthcoming conven tion. unless three years have elapsed from the time of the decision being rendered: provided, however, that the organization feeling aggrieved has ob tained the consent of the executive council to again bring the subject-mat ter to the attention of the convention. Credentials in duplicate are forward ed to all affiliated unions. .The original credentials must be given to the dele gate-elect and the duplicate forwarded to the American Federation of Labor office. The committee on credentials will tueet at Scran ton, Pa., five days pre- a ,1 vious to the opening of the convention, and will reporfe iatifteSiately upon the opening thereof! hence secretaries will observe the i^cessity of having- the duplicate credentials of their respective delegates at heli&quarte.ra at the earl iest possible mpment. The executive council will meet thjjpe days previous to the conventional Delegates can^bbtain accommodation on the Americanfplan as fallows: Hotel Jermyn, $3 and :|2.50 SAMUEL GOMPERS, FRANK MORRISON, President. a. Secretary. TOWS ASSEWIY SEEKS I INFORMATION IN REGARD TO CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT. Assembly Will Walt Until the Am erican Federation of Labor Movea In Matter—Gordon O'Neill Urge* That Conncll Committee Ascertain Canae of Delay to Tenth Avenue Weat Foot Bridge. The proposition to renew the £hinese exclusion act, which expires within a few months, was again discussed at the regular meeting of the Trades As sembly, held last Friday evening. The secretary was instructed to write to Congressman Morris for information concerning the act, and as to the citi zenship in the Philippines. It was thought by many that action at this time would be a little prema ture, and that it would be better to wait until the matter came before con gress, at which time a resolution by the assembly would have greater, effect. The American Federation of Labor has taken a hand in the matter and it wai suggested that it Would be well to as certain just what s|and it will take. The next meeting| of the Trades As sembly will be a seffil-social affair. The business o'cloclt *b*t atl £usl a sbcial way. #ill4e pres ent and a musicil procrara will be given. It will be an open meeting and the members' wives and friends are in vited to attend. Taylor Howe, of the Leather Work ers' union, and Victor Johnson, of the Clerks' union, were elected to vacancies on the board of 'trustees*. OJe Sund was elected a delegate to the Building Trades CounclL Delegate O'Neill, of the Longshore men's union, waxed wroth over the de lay to the foot bridge at Tenth ave nue West and asked that the council committee make that a special order of business Monday evening. He thought that if the present members could not make the railroad companies erect the bridge organized labor should elect aldermen that could. And they could do it, said the daughty delegate. Delegate Ole Larson introduced a resolution donating $15 to Mrs. M. Mc Leod, whose son was killed in tlie hold of a ship a few weeks ago. it was adopted. The woman's husband, who died some time since, was a carpenter by trade, and was with the son of Secretary Skrove of the Carpenters' un ion shortly before he was killed. The lad 8hined shoes and sold papers and was his mother's sole support. He was about 16 years of age. A communication was read from the iron trade workers of San Francisco, asking that men stay away from that city- as the unionists there were out on strike. HEIGHTS ON WARPATH. Do Not Get Sufficient Protection From the City. The citizens of fculuth Heights are up in arms, and it Is not against the street car company either. They feel that they are lntitled to better treat men from the city council. The man who gets their votes for alderman this year has got to make them certain pledges, and give assurance that he will keep them. For the last few years the city has not spent a dollar on Duluth Heights. The board of public works department has repaired/ the county road for the benefit' of the farmers and pleasure parties going to Pike Lake. Electric lights that burn only on moonlight nights, Were given in August, and that is all. 'This llitie suburb pays into the county treasurer for taxes every year a sum amounting to only $3,500. Small though this may seen, yet one-fifth of It-is not expended on the Heights. We paytaxes for schools, fire and police protection, and public mainten ance. There is a beautiful school there, that sustains three teachers, and this is all. Police and fire protection is out of the question entirely, and there does not seem to be any hope for any in the near future. 'A good fire would in one night wipe the entire suburb off the map, together with the -life sayings of a hundred: worklngmen, who have not another thing in this world. ,It appears that some parts Of the city are getting more than their share, or. there is an imnjense leakage somewhere, for the people there are entitled to more prii tction than they are gettlng. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1901. The Coyne Hotel, & per day/ two fii a room St. Charles Hotel, |2 per day, two in a room Lack awanna Valley fHouse, $2 per day, two in a room The|lrving Hotel, $1.75, one in a room |1.5(U|two in a room Hotel Tert-ace, $2 perlflay, two in a room. Headquarters wfl be at the Hotel Jer myn. If other ijptel arrangements are made or additional notice regarding the convention is necessary to be given or required, it will be furnished by cor respondence, circular, the American Federation of Lap or and the labor press Special railroa| rates have been se cured, the termiC and conditions of which will be communicated in another circular. Fraternally yours, NCITS1CIKVU LABOR HAS SECURED AND MAIN TAINED GREATER RIGHTS. Certain Jndgei Have- Carried the Abase of the "Equitable" Powers to Unheard of and Astounding Iienarths—Courts Are Not Justified in Their Use of the Power of the injunction. In a recent number, the American Federationist directed attention to the grave and numerous signs of reaction against the respect won by organized workmen after years of persistent and strenuous effort. Thia^reaction is mani fested in ferocious attacks on union ism, in senseless misrepresentations of the aims and tendencies of the labor movement, in audacious denials of es tablished economic truths, and in the revival of old and exploded libels up on the representatives and leaders of the trade organizations. It is but natural that thhrretrograde movement should have reached and in fluenced the courts. Certain judges have literally run amuck, and have carried the abuse of the "equitable" powers to unheard of, and astounding lengths. The injunctions issued of late are so arbitrary, so tyrannical, so in famous, that even newspapers of the most conservative class, which have shown no special sympathy with organ ized labor, felt themselves constrained to raise vigorous protest and call a halt. We can give here but a few of speci mens of these revolting injunctions but they are representative of the new spirit—a spirit dangerous to American liberty, American law, and constitu tionally guaranteed rights. Picketing, which no state prohibits by law, has been declared a crime by sheer judicial legislation. Judge Wing, of Cleveland, in restraining striking molders from picketing (among a score of other things), declared to an objecting at torney that "persuasion inself, long continued, may become a nuisance and unlawful." He therefore enjoined the Molders' union "from picketing the premises" of a certain company, or "interfering in any manner whatsoever with, its employes." He defined picket ing as "organized espionage," and "a physical demonstration calculated to intimidate." This was bad enough but it at least pretended to distinguish between or dinary, normal, proper persuasion, and persuasion "long continued." Even this was a concession far too generous for the militant plutocratic spirit, and Judge Ga*er *f the 8upr*wn .court Interfering with any person' who may 'desire to enter the employ of the plain tiff, by way of threats, persuasion, per sonal violence, intimidation, or other means." This order prohibited moral suasion, without If and buts,. without qualification of any kind. But what right has this judge to us urp! the function of the legislature and prohibit the use of moral suasion by strikers? When men are enjoined from doing things expressly forbidden by law, the wrong and injustice then consists in depriving them of. the guar antees of Indictment by grand jury and trial by petit Jury. The man who is accused of disobeying an injunction may be punished by the court without indictment and jury trial, and such punishment is not a bar to Indictment and trial upon the same offense. When an injunction prohibits something that is wholly legal, then, in addition to the outrage named, we have the further, and, if possible, greater outrage of judi cial usurpation of legislative functions. Instead of the constitutionally provided division of governmental powers, a division essential to freedom and indi vidual rights, we have judicial absolut ism, the worst form of absolutism imaginable. No wonder that this imbecile and in famous Gager Injunction aroused the opposition of the more intelligent and less servile section of the dally press. Some of the comments upon this judi cial enormity are strong enough to de serve reproductions here. We have space for but a few but every unionist will read them with pleasure for it is not often that an influential newspaper, of unquestioned "orthodoxy" in eco nomics, so vigorously champions the cause of labor, which is really the cause of American citizenship. Animadverting particularly on the Gager masterpiece, the New York Evening Post said: "An injunction of this order is mak ing that criminal which the people, acting through Its legislature, have not made criminal, is setting aside the or dinary safeguard of the citizen in trial by jury, and Is causing an innocent act to take on the consequences of a viola tion of the law from which It may have been carefully guarded. Confusion and tyranny do not often rise higher than this mark. It is an action that thrusts itself directly in the path of social progress. "Judfce Gager would rob the workman of the direct and ordinary methods of enforcing his views, and bring the machinery of law to work in an entire ly unusual way In favor of his adver sary. If there Is any time in whjch the law should be applied with caution, moderation and fairness, it is in con nection with the settelment of ques tions involving the ultimate, welfare of society. There is, In these questions, •no temper of criminality, but simply a Wish,to assert and maintain rights. The judiciary already suffers from the suspicion among worklngmen that it does not and will hot brlnpr to this class of questions sound and unbiased opion ion. Workmen would feel that they might as well he arranged before the company with whom the controversy S A Vav i' 1 14 sUlK S was opened as before a man like Judge Gager." The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, in discussing the recent injunction epi demic, .asks: "But are the courts justified in en joining picketing anywhere and every where? Have not the strikers a right to meet the non-union men at a dist ance from the factory, and there try to persuade tjiem to take organized la bor's view of the situation? Rtason able people, who are not biased either way, must answer in the affirmative. To deny this right of peaceable persua sion is tyranny and oppression." And after citing some rational dis senting 'opinions the same newspaper concludes: "The present tendency is so far run ning to an extreme as to aggravate Seriously the old conflict between labor &nd capital. The simple right to talk, to argue for any legitimate ^ause, vio lence not being used or positive Intimi dation, is too fundamental to be over thrown at any point in our. social sys tem. In thus extending the enjoining power, American courts are in bad busi ness for they not only outrage the people's inherited conception of ordi nary rights in the citizens, but cover themselves with suspicion in the minds of -the wage-earning classes as being controlled by the power of capital." The New York Herald says that" to enjoin men from resorting to moral .suasion would seem to be an abuse of the injunction power, as unwarranted by law as by common sense, and an infringement of the constitutional rights of free speech." TheChicago Evening Post describes these injunctions as sheer judicial legislation. A Cleveland judge says: "To forbid men from doing what no statute, makes wrong is to open a wide door to all sorts of personal whims hav ing the force of laws. It introduces.a sort of oriental cadi feature into our courts which Is ill-suited to the temper of free people, and the spirit of free institutions. It is a novelty full of danger." We have quoted these utterances for the benefit of the plutocratic reaction aries and prostituted scribblers who mendaciously assert that in fighting Injunctions labor is putting itself In op position to "law and order," when the truth is that it is opposing lawlessness, usurpation,', and assaults, upon the most cherished, law-secured rights and immunities.' So far as organized labor Is concern ed, it is its right, and duty to scorn and defy, these unlawful, tyrannical and monstrous in junctions, even if it should result in the courts sending scores of innocent, orderly and law- a Sentence enforced upon, him by-~k local judge for disregarding an anti picketing injunction. This is the right policy, and it should be emulated every where. The present reaction against legitimate organization and the es sential rights of labor must and will be checked indifference would be a crime, a sign of degradation and loss of man hood.—American Federationist. ,4 ITS FRIENDS DISGUSTED. State Hoard of Control Have Shown Themselves to Be Incopetent. The Post-News was and an earnest advocate of the state board of control plan. But every day we grow more and more disgusted with -the present board. They have shown themselves on every occasion absolutely "incom petent, irrelevant and inadmissible," says the Alexandria Post N*ws, (Rep.) They only pull their feet out of one hole to stab them deeper into another, and for lack of tact, bullheaded obstin acy and absolute ignorance of good business sense they repeatedly prove themselves to excel. The trouble seems to be that It is a one-man board, and that one man, Leavitt, is a small and very narrow article of furniture. But he absolutely controls the board, who daire not breath# without his permis sion. He is of the sort of men who grow rich by shaving notes and squeez ing the unfortunate, and then pose as remarkably brilliant because, forsooth, they have made money. He was the worst mistake on the board, but all have shown inability to measure up to the requirements and Governor Van Sant, if he does not wish this law to prove the great mistake of his adminis tration, should accept their resignations and appoint men who can make it a success. So far the board has had trouble with every state institution. The law ex plicitly demands publicity in its acts and yet its first serious move was to enter into a secret contract for coal that proved to .be a "gold brick." It has made an absolutely uniform, cast iron list of salaries for all the penal and charitable institutions without re gard to location and lobal conditions. It lias insisted upon running the normal schools and yet has made.no effort to Include the university under its control. It asked fpr a compromise with the normal schools and then repudiated its own written pledge. It has simply gone on from one fool act to those still fooler until the best friends of the bill are dtsguested, and the Democrats are in a position at the extra session and on the stump to make the board of control the laughing stock of the state. The monopolists vote together and otherwise stand shoulder to shoulder in defense of their special prlveleges that make their economic Interests com mon. They co-operate for mutual ben efit.' They are class conscious.' But when the worklngmen propose to adopt the'same tactics in behalf of their class, they axe dionounced as selfish revolii tloh'lsts, and the most prominent ones ere blaokllster or hounded to the grave. FITS CENTS. HMfSCMIWMI ORGANIZER HANSEN, OF MINNEAPO LIS ORGANIZES NEW UNIONS. Returns to Minneapolis After a Most Suaaeeefnl Trip TI^ms^i Illinois and Wisconsin—Union* Orgssia«4 at Roclcford, 111. and Belolt, Wis* Say a That He Haa Seen'Nothing to Compare With Minneapolis Labor* MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 17.—(Special to the Labor World.)—Louis Hansen, or* gariizer of the American Federation of Labor and the Amalgamated Wood workers' International Union of Ameri ca, has returned from a most successful organizing trip in Illinois and Wiscon sin. In speaking of his work. Mr. Han sen had the following to say: "It is fifteen days since I left Min neapolis and in that time I have seen much, worked hard and had the -best of success crown my efforts. I left Min neapolis on October first-and arrived at Rockford, 111., the same. evening. Looking the ground over, thoroughly I laid my plans and went to work. Being employed by the Amalgamated Wood workers' International Union,, It fell to me to endeavor to get the woodwork ers re-organized at RockfOrd. 'Rockford Is the second largest wood* working center in the world for furni ture Grand Rapids, Mich., alone being ahead of it. Wages are verjr low here, ranging anywhere from, a dollar to a dollar and a half a day for skilled bench and machine mep. Hours, why they never stop if they are busy, and the poor workmen get no extra pay for over. time. 'There are something like fifteen or ganizations in the city, but they, with the exception of one, have not been organized long enough to gain any material benefit. The Typographical union has a very strong organization, and newspapers, of which there are three dailies, are all union from cellar to garret and each of them display the allied printing trade3 union label.. They have a central body which is doing good work in promoting the interests of the various unions, and a number of level headed men are at the head of it, in whose conservative hands it will in time prove a great success. I called two meetings of the woodworkers, and before 1 left I was successful in getting an organization with an efficient corps of officers. "After leaving Rockford I journeyed to.Beloit, Wis., to try mr luck. Three organizations were already formed in this city, "which is a great town for Jrwi auch as m^htnift! untoir scs**. Step •other tio tions are, the machinists and the «ore^ workers, which'are rapidly coming to* the front, "Though there are only about twelve thousand inhabitants In the city it is a great manufacturing center, just the same. While there I organised the woodworkers with a fair charter list, and though I am paid by the Woodwork ers' International Union, I found time enough to devote myself to other crafts. Before I left I got an organisation of carpenters formed with a membership of forty, and a Retail Clerks' union of thirty members, consisting of both men and women. "After leaving Beloit I went to Janes ville. Wis., and formed a strong union, of the woodworkers in that city. I ap peared before several of the local unions in these places as well as some of the^ central bodies, but as yet I have seen nothing in the way of organized labor that compares with that of Minneapolis. Though Wisconsin is noted for small wages and long hours, I want say that people of that state are. beginning to realize that if they expect a fair per centage of the fruits of labor they must organize to get it." GETS A BENEFIT Employe of Freimuth Profits Bjr Membership In Asaoeintion. The Freimuth Beneficiary associa tion, limited to the employes of Frei muth's department store, has paid Jte first benefit. One of the salesladies having been ill for over three weeks was voted $16. The organization was' formed last June, but this is the first case where it has' had to extend its benefits, At a meeting of the directors the following committee was selected to look after the social side of the asso ciation during the winter months. Miss Jane Everlngton, Miss Margaret Scan ion, Miss Olga Stahlbush, Hugo Hindi man, E. Sattler, J. Medley. BOOST FOR JAS. K. STEELE. Is Made Manasrer of the Frelmnth Department Store. James K. Steele, who came tp Frei muth's less than a year ago to take charge of the 'advertising department^, is receiving congratulations of his, friends these days, having just been promoted. to the position of manager of pa to re re muth recognised in him a man thor* oughly fited for the position. Mr. Steele will be succeeded in the advertising branch of the business br W. G. L. "Tucker, of St. Paul, form-^, erly with Schuneman & Evans. Mr^| Tucker was for years in the advertte^U ing department of the Omaha road ojher big enterprises. Falsehood, vituperation and mallet#'-! always come home to perch on thaiii shoulders of the man who uses them, c-'f In Russia strikers are treated as reb els. Some of our employers ought te ^migrate tft the land of the csati pft