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v! S, Vol. 11. No. 32. OPEN MM IS JEIIIC WISED Against Trades Unionism by Manufacturers Asso ciations. Servile Lawyers, Judges and the Public Press Are Work ing In Favor of This Object. That determined war is being waged against trades unionism to day from every influential point of combining manufacturers cannot be doubted or denied. Their lawyers are trying to outlaw labor, their judges are judging against it and their press is knocking against it and their preachers are preaching against it with all their might. At no time within our memory has trades union ism ever been subjected to such a critical test. It is likewise true that some of the weaker soldiers in the cause of trades unionism, weary of the struggle, have concluded that the price of freedom from industrial slavery is greater than they can pay, but on the other hand there are those sturdy optimistic giants upon whose shoulders every reform of the past has rested, who still declare that the ends justify the means, and that the struggle must go on and on or the workers will sink to a condition far worse than they ever dreamed of before. As the fight progresses a gradual change of sentiment takes place, and when the smoke of battle has cleared away it will be seen that trades unionism has emerged strong er and more deeply rooted than it has ever been before. Just ten years have elapsed since the Pullman strike. It was thought by many that organized labor had at that time received a death blow, but it has since developed that, al though the American Railway union went down to defeat and dissolution in the Pullman strike, it only paved the^ way for powerful trades unions, the like .. which had never before been seen. Therefore we are justified in drawing the conclusion that when history repeats itself, the present struggle against labor unions being more bitter than that of 1894, so will unionism come again with greater force than ever before. Unionists who remain unionists throughout these trying times may in years to come point to that fact with pride, when the labor move ment has grown so strong as to ab sorb practically all of the workers. There, are others more experienced who seem to share these views. Frank Foster, of Boston, Mass., a unionist of the old school, in season and out of season, addressed the Chi cago Federation of Labor recently as follows: "When I saw the tremendous wave of organization in the city a few years ago I feared that history would repeat itself, that the movement would be subjected to the universal law, and that the tide would surely ebb. It now apears that this is just what has happened to the move ment in Chicago. "We in the labor movement have much to learn, though this fact is often disregarded. In the scientific organization of crafts much good will be accomplished for the working people, but the inspiration and sen timent which lead men to organize must be crystalized into practical form. The organization movement must be directed by judgment and the principles of common sense must be applied or the inspiration alone will not carry the movement to ulti mate triumph. "The happy optimism of the peo ple who join labor unions, with dreams of accomplishing great things in a hurry, soon spends itself and reaction results. Because results are not accomplished men think the or ganizations are worthless and are dissatisfied because the dollars in vested did not bring them fortunes. "I have watched the ebb and flow of the tide of organization for many years, and notwithstanding the many time that unionism has had to re treat, there comes to me an assur ance that no power on earth, not even the gathering force of Parryism nor the weakness of our own move ment—that we all know exists—can prevent the slow but certain im provement of the working craft through organization. Don't draw any lesson of discouragement because there is an ebb in the tide. The la bor movement is an evolutionary one. Great gains have been made in the past and will be made in the fu ture." Henry Abrahams, secretary of Boston Central Labor union, says: "W«e trades unionists are to see three of the hardest years that have been viewed in the history of trades unionism. "We will emerge from the strug gle a great deal, stronger than we have ever been. The effort of cap ital to crush labor unions has al ways resulted in our being better organized as an ultimate conclusion. "The labor movement is like all other movements. It has its periods of prosperity and decline. It must be admitted that this is the crucial period of trades unionism. "ihe open shop is nothing new. It means the non union shop, with its long hours, low wages and child labor. It means the employer is the only one that can and should decide what wagep his employes should re ceive for whatever hours of toil he (the employer) may name. "The advent of a better day in the recent past for the workmen of our country has been due absolutely to the organization of the workmen and attributable in no wise to the philanthropy of the employers or to their sense of justice. The great public is beginning to realize that the elevation of the msfeses can be brought about by trades unionis. "They shout Americanism, patri otism and lots of Fourth of July ora tory about the rights of individauls, they mean the rights of the employ ers to autocratic and dictatorial pow er in hiring men for the wages and at the hours and under the condi tions, they, the employers, select. "The bandit lJower of wealth can not crush Americanism out of the wage-workers of our land so long as trades unionism survives the at tacks of corporate greed. The spirit of liberty is shown in high wages, reasonable working hours and work ing conditions will be supreme, rising high and proud and triumphant, and expressed in the trades unions of our country."—Easton Journal. PENCIL POINTS. By Ajax. Many times and oft during the history of the human race mankind has been the subject of the. ambition and service of the ruling classes. It was so in the early dsys of every nation which has graced God's foot stool. It is so now In China, in Rus sia, in Turkey and largely so in ev ery European state. This is the only nation that was ever organized according to the px*in ciples of the rights of man an-i the golden rule. And yet, it took 89 years of toil and effort before the gli'iering generality :n the Declara tion of Independence "that all men ar.i created equal, et"- became a reality. It required ljur years of bloody, and relentless war and more than a million men p.bd billions if treasure was sact'iSceci to wipe away the stain of human slavery. Civil and religious liberty was establish ed, but we left ourselves bound and manacled in the thrall of coqjmer cialism. The social and economical side has been neglected. There has got to be fought out, in the near future the industrial, social and economical problems of the day. The warfare will be just as bitter, and unrelenting the suffering as great and the rewards as certain as it was after the other great wars. The battle may not be fought with bullets and then again it may. It will be mainly a war of words, of ballots, of strikes, of lockouts, and all the impediment that is known to warring humanity. The hustings, the legislatures, the Federal congress and the courts will be the principal battle grounds. On the one side will be arrayed all the arrogance and splendor of a moneyed oligarchy and on the other side will be enlisted the brawn and manhood of the producing masses. It will be a bitter and unequal struggle, bjut t^ejnajsuses. will win, be-, cause it IS-tWrTBgn?—of fate. The car of destiny is moving forward and will be impelled by the immutable decree of- the Almighty. The laborer, the farmer, the pro ducer will have to take those great questions into the domain of poli tics. The government was organiz ed for the people, it is composed of the people and should be administer ed by the people. They have the sovereign and inherent power to make and execute the laws so that equal and exact justice may be met ed out to all. All that, they ask is to have a square deal. To have the right to earn their bread in the sweat o£ their brow. To get a reasonable compensation for their effort and to be allowed to purchase the necessi ties of life in the open market at a reasonable cost and not be compell ed to pay a royal tribute into the coffers of a trust every time an ar ticle of necessity is purchased. In short to make the trusts "keep their feet out of the trough." The whole question is bound up in the seductive and alluring phrases of "vested rights," of property rights." and "business Interests." Under modern methods every thing is under the domination of trusts and corporations and the old law of competition has been nulli fied. And the question now before the American people is whether the government shall control the corpor ations or the corporations shall con trol the government. To my mind there is only one side to the propo sition and that is that the govern ment is supreme. That it should be put in a position to see that these great agencies are rendered power less to harm the people. A REFORMERS APPRECIATION OF JUDAISM. To this day there is fresh inspir ation, there is living power in the story of Moses, because his career was a perfect embodiment of that great truth that man's social welfare is religion's chief concern. Mioses made himself the benefac tor of all ages when he taught that the land problem is the fundamental problem. He set an instructive ex ample to our modern statesmen when he instituted his measures to pre vent land monopoly. No religion can do its full duty to society without teaching as Moses did that the land of a nation should be treated as the gift of God and that its tenure should be so guarded as to give full protection to the rights of all God's children. Moses' way of solving the land problem was to cause a redistribution of the land every fifty years. That might do in a primitive agricultural community. For a highly complex society like ours it would be out of the question. The greatest economic problem of today is to carry out the spirit of Moses' land legislation by methods that shall be just and prac- They Know Not Where to Look for Another Expert, Conse quently Their Expensive Plant Is Dead. On Account of the Scarcity of Expert Men of This Kind Trouble Is Looked for in Getting a Suitable Man. Another week has passed and finds the striking printers as firm and de termined as ever. But one desertion from their ranks has occurred since the strike was inaugurated. Throughout the country the condition of affairs is similar to that in Duluth. In Chicago the Corbett Railway Printing Co., employing a large num ber of men has signed tne scale. This is considered quite a victory for the Typos, and is looked upon as the be ginning of the end. Two hundred and eighty-five cities an dtowns have and eighty-five cities and towns have has yet been lost and the Typothetae have no reason to congratulate them selves bn a single victory. Poor fel lows, it must be a sad condition that they find themselves in. No ray of hope to cheer them on. Only con stant defeat all along the line. They cling with bull dog tenacity to the faint hope that they will tire the strikers out. Vain hope! Gentle man. Make yourselves a Christmas present by bettering the conditions of your business in the signing of the reasonable demands of the Typogra phical union. The New York job printers go out on Jan. 1st. Old No. 6 is well pre pared for the fight and no doubt It will be of short duration. Such pro prietors as DeVinne who have many times expressed a preference for union men can scarcely afford to be inconsistent now. Here's to the suc cess of old Number Six. There was something^ akin to con sternation last Monday morning when the Duluth Typesetting Co., an organization formed for the purpose of equipping a linotype office and helping the Typothetae break the job printers' strike, found that the expert whom they had placed in charge, had left for Chicago, not to return. During the last few days he had been prevailed upon to throw up the job and this together with a growing dissatisfaction on his part with the way things were handled tiCable and consonant with modern conditions. Princely Possessions. One man in Oregon owns and con trols between fourteen and fifteen million square acres of the best ter ritory of the West. His holdings are three times as large as the state of New Jersey. Yet 2,400,000 of the people of New York city are hud dled together in tenement houses. One man owning lands larger than all Greece and millions who have not where to lay their heads!— these are conditions which call -for Isaiah's indignant protest: "Woe unto the mthui jo'n house to house, that lay field to fiwid, till t.*rre be no room and ye be ido to dwell alone in the midst of the lf.nd." The pure land values of New York city amount to three and a half bil lions. Mr. Louis F. Post has trans lated these values into terms of ag ricultural lands. Take, as a typical farm, a hundred acres worth fifty dollars an acre. It would take a strip of these five thousand dollar farms, one mile wide and reaching four times around the globe to equal the land values of New York city. But the point is, these values are not created b3r their owners. They are different from other values. They are what economists call "the un earned increment." They are the product of the community and should be taken by the community in lieu of all forms of taxation. Statesmanship of Moses Adapted to Modern Conditions. Henry George was the Newton of Political Science. He proposed to use the present taxing machinery to gradually abolish all taxation of perr' sonal property and improvements, and to raise public revenues by a single tax upon the value of land. I believe this program is just and more practicable than our present method of raising revenues. I be lieve the economic effect would be eventually to socialize the unearned increment of land value and increase the freedom and hope and joy of every child of the republic. Moreover, it involves no attack upon the right of private property, and no dreaded extension of the functions of government, and not the least disturbance to our present social organization. This program is the practicable ap plication to modern conditions of the statesmanship of Moses. My faith in this program has laufftt me to honor and revere those great Jews of history who were the fore-run ners of Henry George and whose words and deeds consecrate the spirit and sanction the measures of the land reformers of our time. HERBERT S. BIGELOW, Pastor Vine Street Congregational church, Cincinnati, Ohio. In the eyes of most men dlsgra.ee does not consist of wrong-doing, but in getting caught at It DEVOTED TO THE INDUSTRIAL WELPARE OF THE HEAD OP THE LAKES. DULUTH AMD SUPEEIOB, SATTJKDAY, DEO. 9, 1905. BOSSES ARE ALL AT SEA THEIR EXPERT LINOTYPER GONE by those who had business to do with him made him decide that life was too short to longer remain in Du luth. He visited Typographical union headquarters a short time be fore leaving and stated that he had had enough of that kind of business and his experience here would prove a valuable lesson to him. He left the machines in perfect condition and therefore the "tea-potters" have no complaint on that score. His con tract with them contained some very peculiar clauses and In our humble opinion would not hold in law. Un der said contract he was to get per week and 10 per cent of the net profits. Our contention in a recent issue that the composition done by this concern would cost the Typo thetae 33 per cent* more than un der the old order of things is borne out my explanation of the con tract. Expert linotypers do not claim that a machine can turn out to exceed $50 worth of composition per week. After paying this man $ and allowing for metal, gas, power, light, rent, interest, depreciation, etc., it can easily be figured out that the Typothetae are reaily up against it. Probably they are glad he left. No doubt it will hasten their settle ment with the printers and it has always been the opinion of those who have given the matter any thought that the two machines would be taken by the News Tribune and Herald respectively, it is to be re gretted that some of the Typothetae members, who dowq in their hearts wish that they had never entered in to this controversy, will not throw their false pride aside .and come out from under the spell cast over them. Before the strike they, were prom ised all the help they wanted and they gave their old employes to un derstand that they had the men ready to take their places. What success they have had is well known. We'd hate to succeed that way. It would not build a city nor turn out much job work, neither has it and today the output of job printing in the Typothetae offices is 40 per cent less than before the strike, while the out put of the offices who have signed the printers' agreemeht has increas ed 50 per cent. Just how long these members of the Typothetae stand for this state of affairs is prob lematical, but reasonable men would be inclined to look at the matter from a business standpoint and con clude as did Mr.-JenSen that ic was to his best interests to„ join hands with t,he Typographical: uniph I. F. OF I. IN»NIITSHELL Condensed Report of the Pro ceedings of the Great Con vention at Pittsburg. Vast Amount of Business Done That is of Great Import ance to Union Men. The convention met on November 13. Was welcomed by J. A. Robinson, of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes' International Association. Presentation of a floral emblem to Mr. Joseph Weber of the American Fe deration of Musicians. Addressed by C. C. Douglas, presi dent of the Iron City Trades Council. Further addressed by Mr. James B. Drew, representing the mayor. Listened to reports of President Gom pers, Secretary Morrison and Treasur er Lennon. Congratulated Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco on his election. Listeped to the report of the execu tive committee. Arranged for settlement of difficul ties between the Woodworkers and the Carpenters—between the Plumbers and Steamfitters—between the Brother hood of Carpenters and Amalgamated Carpenters—between the Coopers and the Brewery Workers—between the Woodworkers and the Painters —between the Seamen and the Longshoremen—between the Drop For gers and the Hammer Men—between the Metal Lathers and the Structural Iron Workers and between the Beer Pump Workers and the Mfetal Polishers. Declared for the restriction of all im migration for the shorter work day for the Printers' eight-hour movement. Levied an assessment of four cents per member upon all members of af filiated organisations. Declared against child labor and for more effective laws against sweat shops. Declared in favor of'the Initiative and referendum, the national injunction bill and national eight-hour bill. Declared in favor of questioning all candidates regarding their standing upon labor questions. Declared for self-government In pub lic schools. Asked the government to enlarge its yards, arsenals and gun factories and to give direct employment to the men working therein. Declared against letting down the bars to Oriental' labor. Declared in favor of organizing all stenographers, typewriters and, office clerks. Declared against the use of military bands in competition-with union rtiu slclans. New York, on the prevention and cure The Typographical Union by Unanimous Vote Decides, to Baise the Weekly Allowance of the Strikers. Conditions for a Favorable Settlement Continue to Grow and by Jan. 1st Conditions Will Be Normal. competent help and brjng to a stop the constant strain ot combatting the union and its legion of friends in Duluth. At their meeting on Sunday after noon last the Typographical union unanimously increased the benefit be ing paid the strikers from $6 and $8 to $8 and $10. The increase will not ne cessitate any advance in the assess ment being levied on those working, for the present. Some of the "teapot ters" have consoled themselves with the thought that because of a section in the i. T. U. by-laws in which strike benefits are only supposed to be paid for two months, that at the end of that time the strike would collapse. Well, the two months have expired and the union is still as determined as ever arid has taken the action as above stated. The "teapotters" have had their hope shattered and know not where to look for consolation next. They must remember that they are fighting an organization that will never give up. There is a scriptural quotation which says that "Bread cast upon the waters shall return after many days." We don't know whether this is Just exactly correct or not. But^ what we want to say is that in 1896 the Boil ermaters of Minneapolis were in trou ble and asked aid from the Typo graphical union of that city. A prompt response to the appeal was made and a substantial donation received.. When the striking job printers of Duluth an nounced their dance recently held the Boilermakers at the head of the lakes remembering the generosity of the printers to their brothers in Minne apolis decided to appropriate $15.00 to the cause of the printers here. For this kindness the printers wish through the Labor World* to publicly express their gratitude. Actions of this kind serve to draw union men to gether in a kindly sympathy and all the mad vaporings of Parry, Post and the other horde of strike breakers can Lv. ^Continued on page four. v -MIBlSn1 -Ann. "''gljluw1 •.Iift-Wllfc.liy New oYrk, on the prevention and cure of tuberculosis: Declared in favor of postal savings banks. Declared in favor of parcel post sys tem. Declared against unjust, garnishment laws, which effect wake workers. Warned all unions and central bodies against the fakir, P. H. Scullin, repre senting the National Peace association. Recommended that employes of the United States should not be debarred action in the civil courts for injury received in the line of duty. Complimented the secretary in un qualified terms for his masterly report. Visited the block houso and redoubt of Fort Pitt, built A. D. 1764. Attended a. smoker of the Pittsburg Musical Society, also a ball given by the McKeesport unions. Listened to Secretary Duffy of the Carpenters' "Take the Hide Off Fakir Pat Scullin." Listened to the addresses of frater nal delegates from Great Britain, David Gilmore and MJr. William Moses. Endorsed the movement for a thor ough investigation of the social and economic condition of women employed in manufacturing and mercantile pur suits. Listened to the address of Mrs. Mary E. McDowell, from the Woman's Trade Union League, upon the subject of "Women in Industry also from Mtrs. Gertrude Barnum, secretary of the Un ion League, upon the same subject. Instructed the executive council to attempt to thoroughly organize the women. Audited and passed favorably upon the financial report of the secretary and treasurer. Listened to an address by Rev. M!r. Stelle upon the subject of the unions and churches.. Refused to accept the money of H. C. Frick, of the homestead massacre home. Listened to invitations from several states and territories for the next con vention. "Endorsed the Blue Label of the To bacco Workers' Union. Advocated the wider use of all la bels and their .wider advertisement. Condemned the use of bogus labels in hats and caps.. Especially urged patronage of union labor for wider use of the Blue Label of the Cigar Makers' union. Refused to concur in a movement for a universal union Jabel. Instructed the executive council to take up the work of organising the farm laborers of the country. Recommended a national federation of the Wometi's Auxiliaries. Listeped to'ah addrefes from Mk*. Cal vin of the Farmers' Educational £nd Co-operative, union. Recomm^d^a close alliance be tween '-the Farmers' Protective As sociation and the trade unions. Very emphatically endorsed the re port of ..^KNBSd^i't Gompers, especially those sections condemning the Indus trial workers of the world, also that part of his report which condemns the Western Federation of Miners for their ungrateful and tr$jtorous course to ward union movement.* .• Declared the so-called Chinese boy cott to be a myth, and the labor movement of America committed to unyielding oposition to the importation of Oriental labor. Granted a charter to the Internation al Association of Steamfitters. Refused to charter the Stone Masons as a separate body from the Bricklay ers. Placed the Keen Barber Supply House of St. Louis on the unfair list. Declared In favor of assisting the Tobacco Workers Aid Cigar Mhkers in their'fight on the American. Tobacco Co. Placed the product of the American Iron and Steel Works, located at Le banon and Reading, Pa., upon the un fair list. Re-endorsed the boycott against the Western Union Telegraph Co., the Na tional Biscuit Co., Washburn-Crosby Milling Co., and Sears-Roebuck. Listened to an address by Owen Lovejoy, secretary of the Child Labor committee. Ordered the Brewery Workers to acknowledge jurisdiction of engineers and firemen over such craftsmen work ing in the breweries. Arranged for a meeting in January between the representatives of the Carpenters' and Woodwarkers' unions, looking to a final settlement. Recommended monthly discussions in ail central bodies of the union label. Endorsed the movement of the Pres byterian church in investigating the labor movement in the relation of it to the church. Condemned the Republican party for its failure to carry into effect the eight hour law, anti-injunction law and the anti-convict labor law. Instructed the executive council to appoint five committees in different states of the nation to take up and fully report: 1, -The apprentice sys tem. 2. The displacement of the la borer by machine. 3. Child labor. 4. •Trade schools. 5. Sanitary connditions in homes and shops. Recommended that all central bodies agitate for the installment of mechan ical safeguards that will protect the electric wiremen. Recommended that all locals of af filiated organizations join the state fed eration within their respective states. Elected as officers: President, Sam uel Gombers first vice president, James Duncan second vice president, John Mitchell third vice president, James O'Conriell, fourth vice president, Max Morris fifth vice president, D. J. Hayes sixth vice president, Dan iel J. Keefe -seventh vice president, William D. Huber eighth vice presi dent, James F. Valentine treasurer, John B. Lennon fraternal delegate to British trades union congress, Frank F. Foster and James Wilson fraternal delegate to Canadian trades fnioi|-con- rlected 'Minneapolis, Minnesota ,, as the place for the -next convention. Unequivocally ^endorsed' the stand taken by the president regarding the Western Federation c*f Miners, and con demned that organization for its hos pitality to the A. F.' of L., and mis handling its funds. Voted to enter into a national cru sade against the plague of tuberculosis. Passed a vote of confidence and re spect in favor of Thomas I. Ividd, re tiring third vice president, of the or ganization. Adjourned to meet in Minneapolis in 1906. UNIONS' HELP THE HOME. (By Geo. W. Perkins.) Trade unions have done more to im prove the home life and social and ma terial well-being of women thai$» any other agency or institution. As the husband Or father's day's work is short ened, the wife's labors are correspond ingly reduced arid'brought into a shor ter compass. Women are benefited more, if that is possible^ by the good results of trade unlorts than the men, hence should do their part in building up and fostering the trades union movement. A certain well known writer now in the employ of the United States Government, re cently brought out the interesting fact that the number of marriages fell off greatly during the periods of industrial activity. This all prroves that the more the men earn the greater the number of marriages. It must be a dull mind indeed which cannot understand that the more the men receive in wages the more they will have to spend upon the family in making life worth living, the home more cheerful. The more time the man will spend in it and away from the saloOn and other places where he should not be. The only way for man and women to get better wages is through the trades union system of organization. Trades unionists who receive fair wages are enabled to furnish better homes. Bet ter homes makes better women. Better women make the whole world better. The unionist can afford to and does send his children to school longer. Well educated children make better citizens. The world has been made better by the tfifdes union movement. It is the.duty of. every woman to do all that she can to assist the workers or organise, whether they be male or female. Every woman who works In any gainful occupation should be a member of the union of her craft. In doing so she is first helping herself— morally, materially and intellectually second, doing her share to make the world better in every way and life more attractive and the ..better worth living. Every time a woman does* something to encourage the use of union labels she Is working directly In her own inter ests. Every time she does anything to strengthen the trades^ union movement she "strengthens and fortifies her own position for better .j^cial and economic surroundings. Smoke Puradora Cigar, Clear Havana, Union Label and. Bom* Made. ITVK OINTS. UNION PRINTERS PLEASE E P. ROWELL His Vast Experience He Finds Them the Most Economical. Thinks That Labor Union* Have Improved the Condt-^ tion of Workingmeti. J. r^~ That veteran newspaper advertis ing agent Geo. P. Rowell of NeW York has the following to say la thtg. last number of "Printers Ink:" "For a -great many years we had -J a printing office of our own. It tool(&| tons of type to keep the DIrectory? pages standing and thereby save ar»f large part of the composition bills, 1 Now and then some requirement' 1 would run counter to the rules of -1 the Typographical union. I wouldM^ be surprised that ours was a uniolif office, would insist that it should not\ be some men would go away, other* would come and ours would be open shop. After a year or two thera*'-1 would come notice that this or that thing would not be permitted by tha*~ union. My surprise would break out again, again we had the open shop and again—a little later—th» union would be in command. I fin ally gave up, concluding that on tha whole union rule was most econom ical. Sometimes we needed fifty men, at other periods three or four or even two would do. The union had no soul or body. A mas could be dismissed the moment work slack. The union provided no two'\|g weeks' vacation. No union man ex-./si pected to be paid when hp did not "if work. It was go by a rule and nO" ~2 favors either way. 1 have always if thought that were I a workman 1 would have nothing to do with any-~ LEADER LIGHTS. (By ML Dash.) He is not human who Is ungrateful.?^ .The blooming idiot is always in sea*' son. ..x It is the largest fish that always capes. llvte ind jmlc The depth of a woman's love is as Important as its length. Every time some men think they ought to get another guess. Men marry to get a home and women marry to get away from home. Cupid has been on earth a long time,, tut never gets older or wiser. Many a man who has won a girl's hand has yet to win her heart. The latest thing in marriage licenses has a divorce coupon attached. Once in a while two people stay mar*/ ried because they love each other. The road to success oftimes lies brer the ruins of other men's failures. :f union that the, union is a levelerf that holds poor workmen up and 't keeps good workmen down. Still, oft the whole, as I look on the matter in the best light I have, I cannot but S admit that I think the Labor Unions have improved the conditions of ~-T£ working men. like to think that the world grows better, -that condi- 1 tions tend to improve rather than 3 to retrograde, and it is a pleasure to me to know that I am not required.,,^" to regulate the affairs of the world. not WDien a man stands on his dignity he should be well heeled. An apportunity to. do wrong Is gen erally taken advantage of. The depth of a woman's love isn't as its- length. Be kind to everybody, but don't ex pect to be rewarded for it. i- It's pretty hard to believe all the 1 things you want your children to. A woman seldom gains her point'" when she starts to snarpen a pencil. The corn-beef-and-cabbage man ten marries the pate de-fois girl. It is easier to make a reputation tha to keep one from getting tarnished. The man who pays his debts is not%|ty the only one who borrows trouble. Charity may cover a lot of sins, buti:# more are continually springing up. There is nothing in life worth making* a secret of except one's income. The professional humorist has use for the editor who can't take joke. A man has to travel slowly if he ex^sf pects his income to catch up with hinu: 1 Putting too many things down pre-J^ vents some men from gettipg up ins^j life. jp Riches can not buy happiness, bntj^ poverty stricken love is apt to growf^' cold. The average girl believes that the" man who asks for a kiss don't want it very badly. The bachelor has to pay to hear lectures while the married man gets* them for nothing. Good advice is what few men follow^ That is why they are always so ready to give it away. A flirty, cross-eyed girl can create mioie of a sensation among a gang of young men than anybody else on earth. Much of the effort of those opposing^ trade union is now being directed nul-. llfylng the efficiency of the union labe£ We should -take a cue from this an tagonlsm to the label if it Is of suf«%%|f ficient importance to demand the ac-"kJ tive oposition of our enemies it shou._ be of movement enough to us to cause a redoubling of our efforts in its be half. Nlone are better acquainted with -^jx:J the power of the label as a regulator of conditions than those who are* op-" posed to the trade union theory. To. further the use of their label should^f be one of the chief efforts at the pree-Jlp ent time and it would be a pdrt "of dom did/our locals .devote a part' of *08$ their time to a confeideration of meane^W how better to carrygtm the rwork. iMi' S-ar-.