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-1 mm. a ONLY LABOR PAPER IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA UNION TB FIGHT KM5T CRACKER TRUST CONSUMERS ASKED TO BUY ONLY UNION GOODS. Officers of Bakers' and Confectioners' International Union Preparing for Vigorous Campaign. Fight Will Be Aired in Convention of the A. F. of L. No. Reason Why Cracker Trust Cannot Be Brought to Time.- Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 15.—The Exe cutive Board of the Bakers' and Con fectioners' International Union are making preparations to wage unrelent ing war on the Cracker Trust, as the National Biscuit Company is called. This great combination now controls the majority of the cracker products of the country, but independent union companies are springing up all over, and are using the union label and it is the belief of the union officials here that such a fight can be made as will compel the National Cracker Company to unionize all its factories before an other year rolls around. Every union meeting place in the country will be supplied with hangers showing the union label of the bakers and confectioners, and warning con sumers not to buy the goods of the Cracker Trust. Every bakers' union •will appoint committees to visit sister unions and urge the members to ask for goods bearing the union label. And committees will also be appointed to visit the grocers, particularly in neigh borhoods where union men and women live, and ask them to buy no goods that do not bear the label of the bakers and confectioners. This fight will also be well aired in the next annual convention of the Am erican Federation of Labor, which meets in Boston in November. The Federation has already endorsed the boycott on the Cracker Trust's goods, but the officers know it will do no harm to impress the fact of the fight ?n the hundreds of delegates representing the 2,000,000 members of union affiliated with that body. There is no reason why the Cracker Trust cannot be brought to time in short order, if enough "ginger" is put into this fight. It will take some money to run such a campaign, but the of ficers are convinced that the member ship mill approve any expepg$ that fray indumeProi^toew&oijrl'''' for Ja". drbp' in vC^(^Sf^Tru§cs«h£ffCT Wall Street. tf ROOSEVELT AND UNION LABOR. The National Labor Tribune of Pitts burg, Pa., official organ of the Amalga mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of the United States, says that the more influential leaders of or ganized labor are not in sympathy with the savage onslaught on President Roosevelt because on his "open shop" stand." "Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation, has always been a friend of the President," says the Tribune, "and certainly the same thing may be said of John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica. These two men have not so soon forgot the courage with which the Pres ident came to the rescue of the workers at the time of the anthracite strike as to now consent to have him represented as an enemy of organized labor for campaign purposes, or any other puF pose whatever. If Theodore Roosevelt had not demonstrated his friendship and sympathy with the labor cause, it has never been demonstrated by any man in this country. It Is by no irtejans certain that he has done anything in the Miller case that is in violation of union principles or practice, and we shall evince no surprise if the American Federation of Labor at its annual con vention indorses the President enthusi astically." WAGES IN CANADA. The Labor Gazette of the Depart ment of Labor of Canada for September contains statistics relating to changes in wages and hours of labor in that country from Jan. 1 to Sept. 1, 1903. Those engaged in the building trades received the largest increases, rang ing from $1 to $3 per week, while in the woodworking trades the increase since January has been fully 5 cents an hour. In the metal trades, the cloth ing and leather trades, the printing trades, food and tobacco preparation, and in nearly all lines of employment there has been a material advance, the increase in raih'oad employment amounting to from 10 to 15 per cent. LABOR AND THE WISE GUY. Written on the walls of a cavern in habited by tramps down on the banks of the Chicago drainage canal neai' California avenue the police recently discovered several aphorisms from vagabondia. One of them read: (Any body can work for a living, but it takes a wise guy to live without work." GET SHORTER HOURS. READING, Pa., Oct. 13.—The work ing time of the seven hundred em ployes of the Reading Railway compa ny's carshops was today reduced to sixty hours per week. They have been working 75 hours a. week. STRIKE 1* THREATENED.^ 1 .* Str/LQUIS, Pet. 13.—Employes of the Padiflc Express Co.-all over the United States, it is underltood are demanding „tr incrHCe of 10 -oer cent-in wn?«s. mtn Jena' their deman^arecomnliedwith "Are. •e nexttThursda*.* HI JL AAX «GsM MINERS MAY STRIKE. Application of District Granted... Indianapolis, Oct. 15.—The national committee of mine workers adjourned at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. -No other meeting will be held until the national convention in January. Im mediately after the adjournment of the meeting, President Mitchell'and Secre tary Wilson issued a statement, whiclt in part follows: "We have bad under advisement since the executive board has been in session, the application of district No. 15, composed of the coal mines in Colo rado, New Mexico and Utah, to strike, for an advance in wages, a reduction of the hours of labor, semi-monthly pay, the right to employ, check \yeighmen at their own expense and the abolition of the scrip system of paymnet for labor done. The district has made application to inaugurate a strike in accordance with the laws of the United Mine Workers of America. After a careful consideration of all the facts obtain able, the following resolution was un animously adopted: 'Resolved That the national exe cutive officers are hereby given full power to inaugurate a strike in district No. 15 in one week after the adjourn ment of the national executive board if a conference cannot be arranged or an adjustment made of Colorado.' "Concerning the strike on the West Virginia Central railroad, which was inaugurated because of the action of the coal companies in discharging every man who was a member of the union, although no demands had been made by the miners for any change in wages, or condition of employment, the entire matter was left in the hands of Presi dent Mitchell to negotiate a settlement if possible or continue the stride." ARTISTS TO FIGHT LABOR UNIONISTS. Do Not Like to Be Hindered in Their Work By Striking Laborers. NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Artists and sculptors throughout the country are preparing to make an organized fight against the control which they assert organized labor is trying to obtain over the realm of art. The recent experience of Director of Sculptors Bittern of the St. Louis exposition, with the plasterers' union of that city, has brought the matter to a focus, and a movement is now under way to establish one or more international organizations in an effort' to protect art, workers, from interfer ence- by Striding plasterers. ljptrse turea whefePth£ firtmOi4 the PRINTERS' UNION MJJST STOP THEIR BOYCOTT. Sweeping Injunction Issued in Behalf of "Open Shpp" News* paper. HAMILTON, O., Oct. 13.—Judge Belden today granted one of the most sweeping injunctions ever issued by an Ohio court. It was directed, against the Hamilton Typographical Union, the Hamilton Co-Operative Trades and. Labor Coun cil and the Nonpareil Printing com pany, publishers of the county trade organ. The defendants are enjoined from continuing a boycott on the Re publican News or firms whidh advertise in it. The court said the constitution gave any company the right to employ whomsoever they saw fit. The boycott was to force 'the plaintiff to unionize and abandon its "open shop" policy. DEBS FIGURE AS A PROPHET. Eugene V. Debs has just given an exposition of his social philosophy be fore the Hull House Woman's Club. The title of his address was "emanci pation," and its theme was the econ omic revotytion of the futurel Mr. Debs made the prophecy that the dawn of the era of cooperation, not competition, was near,, asserting tliiat trusts and the great cooperative enters prises are paving the way to it. "In that way," .he said, "war will be no more, for with the death of competition war dies. I abhor the thought of war, and sometimes doubt that I could strike a fellow man if my own life were at stake." The speech was, filled with epigrams, each expressing spme aspect of Mr. Debs' economic views. Some of them follow: It is commendable to relieve,. crime, but infinitely more rational to prevent it. Could any man with a goodjheart be satisfied with the world as it is? The machine leaped from the brain of the laborer, but he let it slip from his hands. iftSPlSK Vo. 9 No 24. DULUTH AND SUPERIOR. SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1903. No. 15 is cscvtfpitr does hid part: in the scheine of orna-? mentation. 1 I do not find fault with the capitialist he does as he must. I find fault with the system. Political .liberty is rooted in industrial freedom. v. This qarth is a vast auction block in which labor is sold at so much per day. The society queen at Newport—I knowf of no one .more in need of eman cipation than'she. .~ SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL CUT OFF MANY EMPLOYES CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—The Southern Pacific railroad is to follow the ex ample of the New York Central,and curtail expenses by layihg off- em-, ployes. The Harriman line is prepar-: ing, according, to an author itative* re port just. received in-Chicago to"?reduce it^force 1,200 mefi ii]3m^batel3r,1 SECRETARY STEINBISS OBJECTS TO NEW LABOR FEDERATION. Scores President Gubbins of the Brick* layers International Union. Other National Trades Officers are Cri* ticized. Assures Workers That National Buliding Trades Council Is Here to Stay. St.'Louis, Mo., 6et. 15.—Secretry H. W. Steinbiss of the National Building Trades Council is all wrought up over the organization of the National'Feder ation of Building Trades at Indian apolis last week. When asked his opin ion about the new. organization he «aid in very warm terms: "The National Building Trades Coun cil is in no wise connected, with, nor has any official knowledge of, said scheme. As to the need and feasability of such a movement and its serious conse quences to Organized Labor, should it be effected, we leave to the judgment of the rank and file of the building trades unions, whose servants we have the honor of being. As they seem to have no authority from the Unions they represent, it ap pears that this so-called "convention" can at most be but a conference of the promoters with the object of devising a plan for the contemplated formation of a dual organization and seek to have it ratified by. referendum vote of their local unions. Even the right of such conference, for such purpose, by the projenitors, without consent and authority from their constituents may be questioned. For some years past there has been a rumor afloat, that certain labor offic ials. contemplated a combination of actual "structural organizations" to form into a prospective federation, ab sorb kindred smaller organizations and leave the balance of building trades to shape their own destiny as best they could. It was said-to be contemplated to have the Stone Masons, Journeymen Stone Cutters, Operative Plasterers, Tile Layers, etc.,. absorbed. by the-B. and M. I. U., the Lather's trade to: be divided between the B. and M. I. U. arjd the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, the latter also confiscating all^trucl'^rfil me^al ^o^f po^cp}vi work.now performed by the fileetrifcal Workers, etc. But in this hew deal we find the General Secretary-Treasurers of the PJuinbers and Painters joining hands with, the Presidents of Bricklayers,' Structural I^on Workers and a recently formted International Union of Hod carriers and Laborers in a proposed National Federation of Building Trades. Just what actuated the' General Sec retary-Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, and International affiliated with the N. B. T. C., in this action is not quite clear, since the constitution, of the Brotherhood requires its "local Urtionis to affiliate with Building Trades Coun cils, etc. Yet, in a letter of September 10th, replying to a. question from this office, he states, that the proposed fed eration is to be a kind of an interna tional alliance between National Ex ecutive Officers only, of structural trades only, yrith no connection what ever with local Building Trades Coun cils that it is for th^ purpose of avoid ing strikes, adding, that the men who met in conference at Indianapolis in September, "believe the time has come, when National Building tradesmen must do something to protect their 4n tereajs from the interference of central bodies. In another letter, September 15th, in reply to one from this office asking if -he did not think the objects sought could .be' gained by all building trades organizations being. nationally affiliat ed with the National Building Trades Council, he replied that "it probably could, but the men who" have Inaugurat ed this movement thiijk differently and what they want is a National Federa tion of Building Trades WITHOUT any Building Trades Councils, all work to be done through the' executive heads of the Federation," A recent article that has-gong the rounds of the labor. ,press, credited President Gubbin^ with saying that the B. and M. I. JJ. .will absorb the Plas terers, Stone Cutters, and Stone Masons. He made,similar,statements to officials of the- National Building:Trades Coun cil, us|ng instead, of "absorb," the words, "whip them in line." From these statements it would apT pear that the object really is to, in augurate a. sysjtein under which there shall be established, a "strong govern ment" at headquarters, irfucft after th Alexander., IJamilton idea under which the ranK and file shall have little, if any, voice :in the conduct'of affairs in which they are interested: a monarch ical fprm of government, from the tgp down*-in contradiction to the Building Trades Council plans, 'which^ }s a gov ernment for, of and byt^e people con cerned therein, built from the ground upland in which the*people who pay the tax ^re tfie soverigns and law making power., The" above is what we learn, of 'the proposed "National Federation of Building Trades," and, \vith the knowl edge that the American people do not favora monarchical form of goyern meht.^edo -nptheliey.e thatthejAmer DEVOTED TO THE INDUSTRIAL WELFARE OF THE HEAD OF THE LAKES GOMPER&iWANTS BIG STRIKE ENDED Tells New York Building Trades Un ions to Negotiate With ^Employers. Advice Taken as Condemnation Course Followed by Strikers. of New "York, Oct. 15.—In letter to the building trades unions of this city and vicinity, macPe public toniight, Sam uel Gompers, president of the Ameri can- Federation^, of 'Labor, and James Duncan/ secretary,'' have recommended that the"'unions^afgree to the plan of arbitration of the Employers' associa tion. This* action, which comes after Mr. Gompers* "investigation of the sit uation in- the pity, is considered a de feat: for the' building 'grades unions, which have refused the plan of arbi tration. It is recommended that the unions that have signed* the agreement insist upon the .disbandment-'Of such organi zations as haves been instituted recently as rivals to the previously existing un ions of the trade.-' Recommends Leniency. Mr. Gompers also recommends that the unions be lenlierit with the members of .the rival organizations and afford them an opportunity to join the union ranks. The opinion says: "In our opinioit.,time and' circumstan ces will demonsifkte that' .'agreements with employers for the maintenance of industrial peacej|nd pursuit of the pol icy of cOnciliati®with every honorable effort at arbitration of disputed points, and yet maintaining the largest possible limit of freedonrfof action-.-of the upn ions, will tend to* the establishment of more rightful Jri|lations between the workmen and their employers and the establishment of^ larger degree of in dustrial tranqu'fl|ty than any coercive policy of compulsory arbitration whethier enforced'by commissions of em ployers or by thef state." NATURALIZATION LAWS ARE BEING VIOLATED. Conditions May Result, in Federal Courts' AloneQreating Citizens. TACOM^ Waait., Oct. 13.—Startling violations, of the, new naturalization laws at Chicago^ and elsewhere have been brought to light by G. C. Van Dusen, a special .agent of the depart ment of justice who has,, just com pleted a trip of .inspection across the continent. Mr. VanDusen .fleclaresi that the pro vision of the i^ew^aw Which prevents anyone \v ith anairAi3tic beliefs, incli nations or tendepc^9 jrqnv becoming a One Chicago judge is found to have adtnitted 1,800 foreigners to full citizen-. ship iii one evening, an aot which would have been- physically impossible unless the oath were administered to the-ap plicants in- platoons, arid the law pre sumed-that the oath shall be adminis tered, to each individual separately. TELEPHONE QUESTION MAY COME TO A VOTE Citizens Likely to File Petition Ask ing That Matter Be Submitted at Election. Qualified-voters of the city who ob ject to the increase of Zenith telephone rates on a sliding scale -may tdke advantage of a provision in the city charter and insist on the matter com ing to a vote at the next general elec tion in February. The charter provides that before talcing effect the ordinance must be published once a week for four con secutive weeks. Within thirty days, after the completion of publication 3 per-cent of the qualified voters of the* city as sho^vn by the last election may .file a petition asking that the question be submitted to' a general or /special election called for the -pur pose. As the total vote cast at the last city 'general election was 3239, but 98 names, 3 per cent, will be required to bring the question to a vote. MAY STOP DELIVERING. Picking Companies Considering Doing Away With Teams. Managers of local branches of" the big packing houses who. were seen yesterday stated that they had not heardthat the wholesale meat, com panies were going to do away with their '.delivery wagons in Duluth-as was reported^ but they said that they would not' be surprise4 to receive such an order any day. "The use of delivery wagons is be ing discontinued in other, places," said R. ofrthe Hammond compa ny, last evening, "and I shpuldn't be surprised if, Du)uth were treated like wise. We have received no. word to that effect, however," There are seven packing houses in the city and a* each emplqys from three to five men driving teams nearly two do?en men and that many teams will be* thrown out of employment. -.-Easily Explained. /"Strange that after reaching the top of the ladder, he should'fall so sud denly." jcil^ te»^Jcd"i^.5^c:,#t|ar 1 "There was a woman at the bottom M&e&artt* jpore LEGISLATURES TO CONTROL THE WALKING DELEGATE. Lawyers Now Busy Formulating Sta tutes to Curb Labor's Misplased Power. They Excpect to Havie Sup port of Union Men. Provides for State Board of Arbitration. New York, Oct. 15.—Lawyers with the backing, of builders and employers representing $100,000,000 or more in New York City alone are now working on bills to be introduced in the various state legislatures this winter which seek to destroy absolutely the power of the walking delegate and make labor strikes impossible. A state law of this character has been under consideration for three years, but never before have the conditions been such that there was any probability of its passage. It is believed the time is ripe for it now. The measure will have the support of a majority of union men as well as the employers. In brief, it is proposed to do through State enactment what now is frequently done by injunction. Individuals or cor porations may be restrained from acts injurious to the public' good, and it is held that a State law having the same purpose would be constitutional. Such law as this exists in Australia and sim ilar acts have have been enforced in England. J. Powers Donellan, a lawyer who has been at work on the bill for a year or more, will have it framed in tirhe for introduction in the New York Legislature early in the coming session. 'We expect," he said, "the measure will have the support of the better element of the unions as well as the backing of a large army of employers. Such a law would be perfectly feasible and constitutional. It will make it il legal for a walking delegate or a uni6n to order a strike, and will provide for a State board of arbitration for the ad justment 6f as iPfin^ it/the right 6t CQnttittitifr naturalization to* the federal courts. It is- understood that"? the president Will favot a perma nent commission to question the ap plicant for "citizenship papers, take other .testimony if necessary, and report the result of the examination to the judge. ail disputes." A SERVANT'S GUILD. New York 'Movement in the Interests of Both Mistress and Maid. New York, Oct. 15.—Several womSn of wealth and social prqminence Ka^e started^ a movement, jfoi^a aefvaiitB* glrfs whose" references' haV^ beeii vestigated, and who must behave or be barred forever from the privilege intended for them, including a com fortable club .room, lectures and in struction on practical 'lines. Both the mistresses and maids must subscribe to certain rules and regula tions, presumably for their joint bene fit. The girls must be guaranteed their regular day and evening off and must pledge, among other things, to remain at least one month where they are sent, unless they should be discharge^. For those who remain for one year in places obtained for them by the guild, there will be various prizes which will be in-n creased" on succeeding anniversaries. Among the patronesses of the guild will be Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs. S. C. T. Todd. The guild will make its formal start on Oct. 25. This enterprise is wholly novel/' said ]yirs. Healy, one of the officers. "We expect it to be far reaching and to extend to every leading city in the country. Thero are grievances, of course, on both sides. Two young wo men recently started out to investigate and, had themselves enrolled at an in telligence office. One of them saw a woman who wished to employ her, who said her flat was small and her girls had to make their bed at night in the bath tub and sleep there. At another place she found she would be expected to sleep on an ironing board suspended^ between chairs in the kitchen." TO AID "LUMBERJACK." Lumbermen's Associations Help In Work of Evangelization. Minneapolis, Oct.. 15.—^The lumber men's associations of St. Paul and Min neapolis-will be asked to give financial assistance to the work of evangeliza tion which the Presbyterian synod of Minnesotaas carrying on jn .the {Umber camps of the state. The synod's an nual metting at Central Presbyterian church this morning was devoted- al most entirely to the cause of the work in men. Frank E, Higgins of Bemidji, made an appeal for more workers and more money to be used in the pineries. Rev. Charles Steizl of St. Louis spoke of the needs of the workingmen iu cities. 'Free conversation on the state of re ligion, in the churches" brought out en couraging reports from the pastors. Rev. T. H. Clelland of iSuluth acted a9 moderator Rev, John Copeland was the secretary. PRESIDENT HA8 NOT INTER* FERED AT CRIPPLE CREEK DENVER, Oct. 13.—"Purest kind of bosh* and absolutely nothing to it," said Governor Peabody with reference to the report that -He had been arlvised by President Roosevelt to reduce tne military force: in Cripple Creek- -The governor further declared, I'nat he had not conferred with the president con- pm% troops LINEMEN WIN STRIKE. After a Five Months' Struggle, Victory Crowns the Union. Lois Angeles, Cal., Oct. 15.—(Special* Cclrr-espondjfence.)—On May 5, five Months ago today,, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers de clared a strike against the Sunset Teles graph an3 Telephone company, which, irivolved .the entire territory from Van couver, B. C., to El Paso, Texas. To Iay the, men went back to work, the company having come to terms. In no city throughout the vast stretch of country was the fight so bitter as iu Los Angeles, where the Employers' As sociation, aided and abetted by the notorious Times, exerted every effort to break the strike. Scabs were armed and pneauraged to create disturbances, union n»en were arrested without provqeatipn,, and the vile Times daily branded the peaceable, law-abiding un ionists as hoodlums. But without avail. The then stood like a granite wall, and the result was inevitable. The splendid victory of the linemen has been the oc casion of much rejoicing by the union men and women in Southern California, not only because of the good that will accrufe to the sturdy unionists who re mained true throughout the long strug gle, but also it means one more defeat for Otis and his coteri of union-haters. The Times has reason for its shrill denunciation of organized labor, as ad. after ad. is being withdrawn from its colums through the efforts of unionists everywhere. You can aid this good wotk by writing one letter to each of the*following advertisers in thta notor ious sheet: Carrara Paint, 81 Carrara Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. "Santal Middy"—E. Faugera, 26 North Williams St., New York, N. Y. Royal Baking Powder Co., 100 Wil liams St., |New York, N. Y. Philo-Hay Specialties Co., Newark, Ni J. "Castoria"—The Centaur Co., 77 Mur ray St., New York, N. Y. "Cuticura"—Potter Drug' & Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. "Postum"—Postum Cereal Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Scott's EJmulsion—Scott & Bowne, 409 Pearl St., New York, N. Y. Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate—D. Ghirardelli, San Francisco, Cal. Tell" these advertisers that organized labor does not look with fovar upon any -person or firm that is,, aidning la bor's meanest, enemy, the Los Angeles Times.' tfwd~"scalS" is-"A Wahii^td? wqfk artd ddn't." -Let us take an English opinipn, as Mr. Mrinsmade is fond of quoting English law, and. get a projspr definition. At-',-a conspiracy trial held in England the ^prosecuting counsel gave the fol» lowjilg definition of a scab: "A- scab is to his trade what a traitor is tq.*his country, and though both may be ii|^ful in troubl.esome times, they are destined, when peace returns, by all so when help is needed, a scab is the last to contribute assistance, and ,the first to grasp a benefit he never labor ed tOiprcjeure. He care^ only for him self he fees not beyond the extend of a day, and for a momentary approba tion he Would betray his friends, fam ily and country in short, he is a ^paltor on a small scale, who first sells the journeymen and is himself afterwards sold in hsi turn by his employer, until1 at last he is despised by both and de tested by all. He is an enemy to him self, to the present age and to pros perity." Remember the names and the faces. You will meet th^m again. LABOR UNIONS ARE A GREAT BENEFIT. As Minister of Labor, I feel that I oc cupy the* most important portfolio in the Dominion Cabinet Labor tinions are and will continue to be pro ductive of great benefits, but. there can be no success unless controlled by moderation and justice. Labor and capital should hot be hostile forces they should be allies. .... Labor un ionists, do your own thinking. Compulsion and coercion are antagon istic to mah^s better and higher na ture. .1 will never consent to absolute, "coercive legislative measures. The laboring classes will work out the salvation qf. the country.-^Sir. .William Mulock, Minister of Labor of Canada. STRIKE IS DECLARED CANTON, „0., ^jOct. 13.—President Shaffer of the- Amalgamated Associa tion and the executive committee^ of the sixth district conferred here today with the management of the Stark. Rolling Mill company. No agreement was reached and a strike was ordered ef fective tomorrow.. WALL FALLS ON WORKMEN OMAHA, Neb. Oct." 13.—Portions of, the wall-left standing at the Union Pacific* bpllershop»"after last week's collapse ftll today burying four work men. Thjree were-seriously injured. The Employer's .Association of Chi cago, after hearing" the report of ex perts regarding th£ ~cost of living "in districts -where organized workers reside hap concluded that .it has in creased /rper^ent, dhfincr the past Jfiye years, andihtw decided that -there should be a-like increase Jn the rate pf wages. 1 -fu. •i-~ The American Humane: Educational ^ociety Tefeintfy ottered a'prfzle or 1260 iii SUBSCRIPTION: $1.00 A YEAR, IN, ADVANCE. Five Cbn is FROM CHICIGOISSEMBL DELEGATES ATTEMPT INDEPEND ENT ACTION. President Immediately Declared the Resolution Out of Order. Long Debate Follows. Chair Is Upheld. The Father of the Move Makes Strong Plea, and Shows Why Action Should Be Taken. Chicago, Oct. 15.—The following res olution was introduced by James Bren nock of the Carpenters at the last meet ing of the Chicago Federation of Labor: "The present time seems to be the best for inaugurating a movement to obtain for the toilers control of the political forces of our city, country and state in Order to bring about such changes in our organic state and local laws as well as to give to the toiler continuity of employment, natural wages and a decent consideration of his rights by the elected representatives of the people." In order to accomplish this end the resolutions authorized .the executive board to expend $500 in advertising a convention of "one delegate from each 100 citizens who shall sign the creden tials,of the delegates representing them, and -no lawyer, officer or business agent of any organization or society or any person having a job or employment with the city, county, state or nation who has held such job during the past year shall be eligible." President Schardt promptly ruled the resolution out of order on the ground of "no politics in the Federaton." Delegate Brennock then appealed from the decision of the chair. He pointed out the fact that the 300,000 workingmen of Chicago could have any thing they wanted if they stood to gether at-, the polls, instead of dividing their forces between the Republican and Democratic parties, both pledged to work in the interest of. bosses. He showed that the Trades-unions in their contests with the employers were con tinually finding the power of the law being used against them. In view of this .fact is was -surely more effective to take possession of the law-making power than to fight against/it when' in-.the hands of' the.enemy.f Political good majority. Thus ended^anQther at- '5' tempt to form a fake labor party in' Chicago. It did not even have tlie sup port of the GRAFTERS who might ex pect to get jobs in case such a party were successful or who might sell it out to the ^Democrats or be bribed by the Republicans to stay in the field. If it were a real labor party it could only act' as a competitor to the Socialist Party and of course weaken it. The fact is that a majority of the Trades unionists %vho understand the necessity of a labor party are already, in the So calist Party and are not wasting their efforts in trying to get organized labor* to launch another Socialist Party. Neither are they so foolish as to at tempt to commit any union to an en dorsement of the Socialist Party until the sentiment of the majority of the members will sustain such action. THE ETHICS OF LABOR UNIONS The treatment of the labor question offers the strongest evidences of the growth of a religious spirit. The labor/ principles are, in a sense,: ngw. Their principles, which may be right enough, do not always determine iheir actions, but their actions will sooner or- later conform to their principles, which are, based upon the recognition of the rights of all men. The introduction of the spirit of conciliation, the recognition of the right of agreement, so that-the .de-' tails relatingvto the conditions of em ployment scan be fixed by a positive contract, the readiness to arbitrate when all other means have been ex hausted, the recognition of the fact that the workingman is seeking^something beyond his arbitrary living wage—all these influences', aire the result :of a liv ing spirit in men, which must come from religious precepts if at all.—Car- roll D. Wright. MEN SERVANTS IN DEMAND. Large numbers of German .boys competition. thd ^nt*y. an«i & r- fand men are finding ready employment in: London as "hou^e maids"- and "parlor-i?' maids." They are solving to some ex-",' tent the domestic servant problem. The,' men servants draw the same wages,^ work tkice as "hard and" do'not want Rk so many concessions as the- women of their age—between 19 and 23.- They do washing and can turn,their hands to/^j^,^ work for which women are totally uij-£ 'f'tJl suited. -T-he bureau 'which staged fills'. enterprise is doing.a~roarlng trade,-'and3 $ JJ#? several others are being established inl, 3-W^s -.,.1 sdS&M .. ... 'v Texas Negroes In Cooperation. The Texas Farmer's' Improvement So-^ ciety is cooperative body popaposed^ of 3,000 negroi farhiers- owning 50.000 acres of land, 88|000 head of horned cat-j, tie, and'7,000 horses and mules.- Rohertf L. Smith. iWho?isr staled tiie'VTexi^^ Booker^Wa^ingtpn," is at,its head.'.l^ill recently held ite^'seventh annual con-A^^M ventIon The society 4s waging ,an 1