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t^f" 1 14 THE LABOR WORLD. PablAshed Bmr g«tartt7. Established in 1896 by Sabrle O. Akin. BtuiscM Offleat 133 Manhattan Building. Duluth. Zenith Phone Minn. SUBSCRIPTION! One year, in advance Six months, in advance Three months, in advalce :**S as Single Copies, 5 cents. Advertising Rates 1" ide Known on Ap plication. Watered at the Postofflce at Duluth. Minn., as second class matter. WILLIAM B. MTQWBW. Editor and Publisher. TRADES ffflgi CQUNCIL10 THE STBENUOIIS LIFE. No matter what your trade or call ing In life, be enthusiastic. Go at it "hammer-and-tongs" fashion. But above all, do it well. Let there, be vim and push and earnestness in it. Get In touch with the purpose of your calling trade or profession. If it is an honest business, don't be afraid to push it. If you are you will never succeed at it. We like that new-coined word of President Roosevelt, "strenu ous." It means hard, earnest, constant .work. To love your calling will make the work easier. But it will be a labor of love. You will be loth to quit it. Success, just within your reach, will spur you on. The hours will pass only too -swiftly. Your sleep will be the better because of your earnest, vigor ous, constant effort to achieve success. And when success is attained, how self-satisfying you will feel. Be en thusiastic, and witn it all be content that you have deserved success, even if you fail after your best efforts. ton't get discouraged if you happen to go down in the first round. It may need hard blows, thick and fast. II it does, you must resolve to give them. SHORTEN THE WORKDAY. There is nothing, pertiaps, more to be regretted than the fact that extra ordinary commercial prosperity and an unprecedented accumulation of wealth .. have hitherto done so little to shorten the workman's hours of labor. It is unreasonable to expect that the moral qualities in man's nature can be duly developed if life Is passed in one un varying round of monotonous work. I" We are constantly being reminded of the ennobling and elevating influence produced by contemplating the beau ties of nature, by reflecting upon the marvels which science unfolds, and by studying the triumphs of art and liter ature. 3fet.no inconsiderab'e portion of the toiling masses are reared in such ignorance and surrounded from early childhood to old age by so much squalor and misery that life could be to them scarcely more dreary or de pressing if there were no literature, no science and no art, and if nature had no beauties to unfold. The undue length of time which men have been accustomed to work represents, so far as many branches of industry are con cerned, a thoroughly mistaken policy. In many instances it is undeniable that men would not only get through more work, but would do it more ef ficiently if they had more opportunity for mental cultivation and for health ful recreation. No small part of the intemperance which Is laid to the charge of laborers is directly to be traced to excessive toil. When strength becomes exhausted and the body is over fatigued there often arises an al most uncontrollable desire to resort to stimulants. THE OPPRESSED TOILER. There is small comfort for the work ers who have secured by strenuous ef forts the passage of a law reducing the number of hours of their labor by forbidding tdfelr employers to require more to be told by the courts that the Constitution "guarantees" them the right to work 14 hours when they want to work eight, and that the statute which they had secured by so much effort is unconstitutional because It interfere^ with their "freedom of contract." The right the laborer sought by his statute was the right to leisure. The right the court so often guarantees him in Its stead and by Its destruction Is the right to work unlimited hours under tne stern laws of necessity. The right to work harder and longer than he desires or than humanity stAuld require is called a property right, ana. the statute taking away* that right is one, they declare, which takes away liberty or property "with out due process of law." Oh, wretched man that I am," says St. .Paul who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" The laborer with his constitutional body of death groans also and wonders if the time WiU ®Ver CQme when the rlarht" riSht and be to leis ure, the right to reasonable freedom J'- ifrom toll, will become a "property recognized by the law, ***•'Ip*** it Is Dy the w«rklnc:mf hif^clf kJ W famrn as an essential part of that hackneyed, phrase, "Life, liberty and property." which is not to be taken from him. THE ROYAli ARCANUM AND THE UNION LABEL. A question which caused consider able discussion at the national conven tion of the Royal Arcanum, held this week In Boston, was that of placing the union label of*the printers upon the printed matter of the order. The resolution requiring the use of the label was finally killed at the last day's session. The only reason as signed is that the organisation, which does its own printing in Boston, em ploys both union and non-union men, running an open shop, and it was deemed advisable not to show favorit ism to either side. I THE MISSION OF UNIONISM. Just as long as men and women are forced to toil excessive hours for in adequate wages, just so long as little children are exploited in mill and fac tory, just so long as sweatshop condi tions continue to foster vice and disease and the toiling masses are sub ject to unjust conditions, just so long will the flag of trade unionism float from the flag-start to Inspire the hearts of heroes to do and dare and battle for the uplifting of oppressed humanity. THEY NEED OUR AID. Thousands upon thousands of little children, shut out from God's sunshine, stunted in growth and preVaturely aged, in the profit grinding factories of America are going down to untimely graves that millionaires may roll in wealth ^nd their wives build dog houses for the pug-nosed pets and give teas that cost a hundred thousand dol lars, with no voice raised in protest but that of the trade unions. These chil dren need the aid of organized labor which alone has dared to champion their cause and denounce the monster iniquity. "BOB" DUNN IS RIGHT. The following two clippings from Bob Dunn's paper, the Princeton Union, shows where a good heart beats: The implicit faith which the Western Federation of Miners has in the innocence of Moyer and Haywood was demonstrated last week when these two men were re-elected respec tively president and secretary-treas urer of the organization. In the tobacco growing districts of Kentucky the American Society of Equity has been of great benefit to the farmers. Wnat organized tobacco producers accomplished in Kentucky can be accomplisned by organized farmers in Minnesota. The money spent for war purposes In this country of ours, if used to pay old-age pensions, would furnish $3 a week to every person over 60 years of age In the United States. But, of course, it's better to be able to brag about being a world power than it is to have common sense and make life a blessing to 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 old people. Half a billion a year, the amount spent for war purposes, would, if judiciously expended for a few years, give us the finest roads In the world. Tne soldiers could build them and the officers could engineer the work. That half billion a year would go a long way toward giving every poor boy and girl a good education. But we don't pay taxes for our own benefit. Some day we will have direct legislation and make laws for our selves. Associate with successful people. Avoid those who are failures. They would not have failed often enough to be ranked as failures had they shown a disposition to learn the les sons such experience teaches. The committee in charge of the Labor Day parade and picnic 1b hust ling. An elaborate program is being mapped out, and every union should take part in the parade'. Five valu able prizes will be awarded. Several women have obtained cab drivers' licenses in Paris. One of the stipulations insisted upon by the pre fect of police in granting the licenses is that the lady jehus, when plying the vocation, must wear male attire. Method and organization are neces sary in every department of life for the attainment of the best results. Just so tar as they prevail in the household is the comfort and happiness of each member conserved. The real value of an Idea is in its dissemination rather than its posses sion for the world may hold many un announced geniuses it benefits not a whit thereby. Enjoy each day to the full. Get pleasure out of small thijjgp and thus ease the craving for great things which, after all, become small when they are possessed. Mr. Union Man:—Notify your laun dry man that th* Bell 'Phcuua Un- taP .. MOTHER'S GRAVE By Byron Williams. Right over this way, mister, here whar th' shade is deep, Here whar th* boughs droop tender here whar th* glories creep, Is mother's grave. This is th' grass plot, mister, here whar th' vi'lets grow, Here whar th' birds Is singin', here whar th' zephyrs blow— She lies asleep! Gasped when the doctor told us mother must go away, Gripped at our hearts like sorrer does when she holds her sway And beckons death! Brown was our fam'ly doctor bols tered us all with pills, Cured father's rheumatism, cricks an' slch other ills 1 As most folks has— But when th' doctor told us. told it must be th* knife— Well, we Just paled In silence—what if it cost her life! Our mother's life! Then to th' train we took her doctor he went along— Sent her away a-pray in* nothing would turn out wrong In mother's case! Sir, 'twas a quiet evenin' Just after dusk and still— Sayin*—good-by—t*—mother Bless/ me my heart's aflll! And these are tears! Wore a gray dress of broad-cloth, vio let hat of blue Hair was all soft an' silv'ry, thar whar it shimmered through Behind her vail! Told us to hope, so cheery wait, an' she'd comc again— Train sped away from th' station left us—an' then—an' then— Well, we waited! Waited an' hoped in sorrer-—waited a day or two Wired us t' come to th' city quick, on the first train through! For she called us. Jlst as we went t' board it, telegram come that sdid— Well, what it said don't matter— mother was dead! Was dead! And our mother! Buried her here whar summer's shade n' th' sun unite, Planted th' vi'lets wild like, Just whar they'd git th' light, Fer she loved 'em! Birds flings their songs of sorrer, silent th' glories creep, Here In th* peace eternal, mother has gone to sleep! To sleep! To sleep! Right over this way, mister, here whar th' shade is deep, Here whar th' boughs droop tender, here whar th' glories creep, Is mother's grave, Mr. Union Man:—Notify your Shoe Dealer that the Bell 'Phone Is Unfair. "MAKING GOOD/' The fellow who hurries and worries and flurries. And rushes and gushes and rants Who chases and race* through all pub lic places, With his eyes ever on the main chance, Will blunder, then wonder when he has gone under, Why he all the shocks never stood. But he failed, for he paled and he shivered and quailed, When it came to the test—"Making good." The halter and trimmer may catch a faint gleaming, Of a goal that his eyes will en trance. But he pales and he quail3, and his energy fails, And he couldn't win out if he would For he sighs, and he cries at the van ishing prize, When it comes to the test—-"Making Good." The fellow who's ready and sturdy steady Who hustles and rustles and learns Acts honestly, fairly, uprightly and squarely— That fellow success quickly earns. Let him win it—that minute he will be strictly it, And meeet every test as he should^ He will work like a Turk, and a duty ne'er shirk, And go right ahead "Making good." —The Commoner. Mr. Union Man:—Notify Tour Cigar De&ler that the Bell 'Phone is Unfair. THE DREAMER. For The Public. Where'er oppressive forces' rise To crush the spirit free, A dreamer dwells. In dungeon cells Is born sweet liberty. What chains of circumstance may bind The pleasant paths of peace Are broken by the dreamer's song. To find his heart's release. No desert waste of mocking sand. No far, uncharted sea, But gives unto a dreamer's faith Some paradise to be. And all the wicked wars of hate,' Where men for truth have died, Have won for love some blessed boon By dreamless hearts untried. Go where you will across the world, The castled Joys of Spain Have paved for you a smoother path Their luxuries to gain. What tho' a dalliant dreamer fail His empire's throne to build— With nobler triumph must the void At last be grandly filled. O, sordid stress of pride and power! Where your consuming pain Spreads desolation thro the earth, What potent dreams remain. And thro the long and dismal night That blinds our eastern view, We weave of sadness and suspense The dreams that dawn makes true. —Geo. E. Bowen, .I Mr. Union Man:—Notify Tour Cigar Dealer that the Bell 'Phone is Unfair. J- 3 i^ 4^^ AMUSEMENTS. Stock Manage** Friends ot Union Labor. Th® stock company at the Lyceum wish to make known their views on unionism. They also believe in home industry and too that end are having all their printed mater turned out by a local house and In some way the last edition of hand dodgers was print ed without the Union Label on it and a number of them were returned througa the mali with a "notice'' pasted on them to that effect and they wish It known that it was a mistake the part of Messrs. Selpel & Hunt 's MISS MARIE BONSALL. With the Mack-Leone Stock Co. at the Lyceum^ ley. For the coming week the stock company will offer two new plays to Duluth. The first half of the week "Facing Ine Music'' will be the offer ing. This is the, comedy in which Henry E. Dixey met with overwhelm ing success. For the last half of the week, starting Thursday and including Sunday, "Polly Primrose" will receive its first production In Duluth, and should prove a very popular offering owing to the fact that Miss Adelaide Thurston used the .piece with marked. SU6C6&S. The prices, are W, 15 and SO cents at nlgnt and-'the ladies' matiness at 10 and 25 cents on Wednesday and Saturuay. EQUITY NEWS, From The Rush City Post: The Pine County Union, A. S. of E. held Its annual meeting at the Court House, Pine City, on July 6th. This union representing some 1,500 mem bers, including many farmers of note, with their friends and visitors from other counties, filled the hall. Mr. Robinson called the meeting to order, and after routine business had been transacted, introduced T. W. Malcolm of Rush City, Minn., who made a brief address on the objects of the order. At 1:30 p. m. the delegates again as sembled at the hall and Mr. R. H. Aldrich, state secretary for Minnesota, in a lengthy speech* outlined, the con ditions leading up toi the formation oi A S. of £2. His remarks were listened to with deep attention by the large audience present, and were frequently applauded as he made point after point, illustrating the working of the different branches of the Equity so ciety. Mr. Alclrich was rollowed by W. E. McEwen of Duluth, secretary of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor. Mr. McldWen, made no pretense at ora tory, but his speech was something a great deal better, for every word he uttered was to the point direct .and he held the audience by his great earnestness of manner and received round after round of applause. His address showed the farmers how, by organization, they could dictate their own prices how the speculator and the middleman could be eliminated from gambling in farm products and When You in an You Drink the Best Beer That Can Be Brewed Hamm*s Beer by reason of its uniformly high quality has attained an immense pop utarity eOeryWhere in the Northwest, It's Absolutely Pure he especially warned the farmers keep th^r products until paying prices had been reached. He gave a good illustration of what the working men had accomplished in therr unions and showed very plainly how the farmers could unionize themselves after the same manner. He, spoke earnestly about the Union Label, and showed how by its use the sweat shop could be done away with, and in conclu^on as sured the farmefs of the hearty co operation of the American Federation of Labor. The farmers of Pine county are to be congratulated on what they have accomplished in the short time since they organized, and it is to be sincerely hoped that they will continue to or ganize unions until Pine county will be the banner county of the state. Mr. Union Man:—Notify your barber that the Bell 'Phone Is Unfair. MG GIAL THUS iii yne houses Member cf Garment Workers Says Working Girls Don't Want Charity. NEW YORK, July 18.—Miss Rose Sneiderman, young sewing machine operator, and a member of the Gar ment Workers' Union had something to say to the big audience in attend ance at the annual meeting of the Equal Suffrage League last week at the Hotel Astor. The subject before the meeting was the encouragement of cheap, boarding houses for girls in charge of experienced matrons. Ex ponents of the idea waxed warm on the subject, and the debate was brought to a hasty determination by the neroic little women representing the working girls of New York. "The" working girl is not looking for charity," said Miss Sneiderman, "she only wants a square deal. She is not as much Interested In proposed lodg ing houses as the people who are try ing to start them for her and as they are recommended in Dorothy Richard son's book, 'The l^ong Day.' The men we work for would like them better than the girls, for they could say: 'There is no need of our paying you more than $5 a week, for if you can get board ana lodging for $3, that leaves $2 Guaranteed under the National Pure Food\ Law and also under the Food taws of all, other states. Call for the "PREFERRED STOCK* for clolhes, and you are comfortably off.'" "The lodging houses the City Feder ation is starting for working girls will not be run for profit," said Mrs. Belle de Rivera, "but to give the girls a clean and comfortable home for the money they are able to pay." "If it is co-operation there will not Order from J. W. Ander son, Mgr. Duluth Branch. tjjfg /.''Slip ESTATE OF JOSEPH LEWANDOW SKI. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF St. Louis, In Probate Court. In the Matter of the Estate of Joseph Lewandowskl Decedent. Letters of administration this day hav ing been granted to Agnes Lewandow Skie It Is ordered, that the time within which all creditors of the above named decedent may present claims against his estate in this court, be, and the same hereby Is, limited to three months from and after the date herof and that Mon day the 21st day of October, 1907, at ten o'clock A. M., in the Probate Court Rooms at the Court House at Duluth in said County, be, and the same hereby is, fixed and appointed as the time and place for hearing upon the examination, adjustment and allowance of such claims as shall be presented within the time ftforGB&id Let notice hereof be given by th pub lloation of this order In the Labor World as provided by law. Dated, Duluth, Minn., July 16th, 1907. 1 Suit Sale No. 2 Starts This Week In the Men's Department, it includes.all our regular $20, $18 and $16.50 suits also a number of higher priced single suits, which we pushed down from Sale No. 1, now on at $18.50. The New Price is Remember the kind of suits the ^olumbia sells, marked moderately in the first According to our One-Price-to-All system, when judging the offers made by the different stores in the papers just now. Suit Sale No. 2 for Young Men College suits of former lots retailing at prices up to $16.50 Now go at $ 11.50 And last week's offer of the departments at $18.50, $17.50 be continued until the entire Extra Special $4.50 to $7 Fancy Vests at be so much objection to it," said Miss Sneiderman. "I do not think Miss Richardson in tended the lodging houses sh* suggests as a charity," said Mrs. Frederick N&than, "but to give full value for the money the girls pay, which is some thing they do not usually receive." J. B. MIDLECOFF, Judge of Probate. (Seal Probate Court, St. Louis Co., Minn) Labor World—July 20, 27, Aug. 8, 1907. ESTATE OF ANNA MARY AARON SON. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF St. Louis, In Probate Court. In the Matter of the Estate of Anna Mary, Aaronson, Decedent. Letters testamentary this day having been granted to Aaron Aaronson. It Is Ordered, That the time within which al creditors of the above named decedent may present claims against her estate in this court, be, and the same hereby is, limited to six months from and after the date herof and that Mon day the 20th day of January, 1908, at ten o'clock A. M., In the Probate Court Rooms at the Court House at Duluth in said County, be, and the same hereby is, fixed and appointed as the time and place for hearing upon the examination, adjustment and allowance of such claims as .shall be presented within the time aforesaid. Let notice hereof be given by the pub lication of this order in the Leibor World as provided by law. Dated at Duluth, Minn., July 15, 1907. J. B. MIDDLECOFF, Judge .of Probate. (Seal Probate Court, St. Louis Co. Minn) Labor World—July 20, 27, Aug. 3, 1907. Order for Hearing on Petition for Adjust ment of Final Account and for Final Deereo of Distribution. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF St. Louis—In Probate Court. In the. Matter of the Estate of Mary Qleason,- Deceased. The petition of Mary J. Kenna, as rep resentative of the above named decedent, togther with the final account of the ad ministration of said estate, having been filed in this court, representing, among other things, that said estate has been fully administered, and praying that said final accounts of said administration be examined, sdjusted and allowed by the court, and that the court make and enter Its final decree of distribution of the resi due of the estate of said decedent to the persons entitled thereto, and for the dis charge! of the representative and the sureties on the bonds: It is ordered, that said petition be heard, and said final account examined, adjusted and allowed by the court, .at the Probate Court Rooms In the Court House, In the City of Duluth In said County on Monday, the 12th day of August, 1907, at ten o'clock A. M., and all persons Inter ested in said hearing and in s$ld matter are hereby Cited and required at said 4iiher andplads to show cause, if any *£212&£U Suit Sale No. 2 for Children Kneepant suits for boys and children in values up to $6.50. Now go at $3.95 finest suits in these three and $6.95 respectively will summer stock is cleared. Columbia Clothing Co there be, why. said petition shoiild not be granted. Ordered further, that this order be served by publication ••in the Labor World according to law. Dated at Duluth. MInn., July 17th, 1907. By the Court, J. B. MIDDLECOFF, Judge of Probate. (Seal Probate Court, St. Louis Co. Minn) Labor World—July 20, 27, Aug. 3, 1907. NEW BIJOU THEATER. H»bm si Rtfllid Vaadwfllt. SOROS. PICTURES, 3 SHOWS DAILY fl PRICES T&SUIT THK MASSES 1fl(, 18 A 200. Good Seat* at 10o« FOR AGENTS—OPPORTUNITY! "THE OLD WORLD AMD ITS WAYS" William Jennings Bryan NOW RBA»Y FOR SOLICITORS. W» Imperial Octavo Pases. 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