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€*feu ^w^'- m:x fcf w&Mp im&V ,• *,v Offices of Gov. pberhart, Invoked by Lafcpr Officials Plea, Used to B$ji(? About Con ference. LABOR HEADS MEET WITH MANAGERS IN ST. PAtJL Believed That Plan of Arbitration Has Been Agreed on Subject to approval of Head, of Man agers' Committee at Chicago. At present writing the end of the switchmen's strike is in sight. The end of the week may see ar bitration well under w&y. Governor Eberhart, after having Instituted a riglcj Investigation into the. state of railroad traffic on north west lines. Tuesday sent his private secretary, R. W. Wheelock, into a conference with G. T. Slade, third vice president of the Northern Pacific and General Manager J. M. Gruber of the Gr£at Norther*), with the result that later ,that day another conference was had at. which the same gentle with te.it official ttio& gt. £h§ ^eric#» fLabor, j^re present ..^Plie' restili: of^ tills irfc$ by lunlattimoii^ hel^froh^ tlif1 ires£ tfjtWll* jrtettS|y «faal ject^to-ii ohaitY^ah^of thfc -geligrgf .ctomtomee^ .: ^1^e^eetirfg^^.i^| Slade's dl&be i)nsiiiies«pfcwhich Yd' frwji^the- pryfcn-s£. r, mfferte^'S^ti^ess£hi ifcafje' of traffic 6 the hlrii": co^elusfwfcly tfiatf, ''A|p^^p^jigAgera.^ ivSng-.^frit^Wk*. whirf-oji' cbtisi^ilng" to have hfe e$ary" represent him in a |9ontffond .private AGAIN VICTOR Reports in Annual Election of Mine Workers' Officials Indi cate Reelection of Former Pres ident by Increased Majority. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 23—The bal lots cfist in the election of officers of the. United Mine Workers of Amer ica are being received at the national headquarters in this city, and private advices accompanying them are re garded by the friends of Thomas Lewis as clearly indicating his re election over William Green, of Ohio. Lewis is said to have carried the anthracite districts by a large ma jority and to have more than held his own in Iowa, Kansas and other West ern states. Green nearly divided the Ohio vote with Lewis, and in the bit uminous fields of Western Pennsyl vania, Virginia and West Virginia is said to have secured a majority. In this state, because of the revoca tion of the charters of some locals who struck contrary to the rules of the organization, and who were sup ported by the Indiana district officers against LevWs, Green received a ma jority of the Indiana vote and it is believed that the Illinois vote is very close. Friends of' Lewis claim that he will have a larger majority than he had last year when a bitter fight was made against him. Prominent Member of New York Typographical Union Goes to Paris to Post Workers of Gay Martin has been delegated by the International Typographical union to carry, the fight against the Butterick Publishing Company into France. v»here, many of the publications of this cdnc^rn are sold. After relating the\ c&tufcjB" q&?ch led up to the strike of Id 05-6, and after showing how the union had established the eight-hou? day, even in the most powerful n$ws xuuer offices, Martin says in a local |T*% 4' -lif War Against Butterick Firm Is Now Carried Into France Capital Against Unfaic Pat terns. PARIS, France, Dtc. 23.—E. M. Martin, a well-known printer of New York and prominent member of the Big Six Typographical union of that city ha« arrived in Paris on an im portant mission. v,(M'v-' -^vyt- vv' :Sm STRIKE ARBITRATION •n!: -•'$$,' '"•r-u: STRIKING SWITCHMEN TO SHARE BENEFITS WITfi BROTHERHOOD AND NON-UNION MEN An was issued Tuesday by President Frank T. Hawley of the striking: switchmen frdm strike headquarters in St. Paul ordering the heads of all loeals of the striking switchmen to make up ami send in a complete list of all men out on strike, including all Brotherhood and non-union men. r' This list will be used by the officials of tlie union in paying out strike benefits in case a set tlement of the strike is not reach ed within a few days. These benefits will be paid alike to the members of the switchmen's unions, to the Broth erhood men and to the non-union men who stuck by the switchmen in the strike. The officials of the union feel that this will jbe but a slight return to those out side the switchmen's ranks for the loyalty shown by them in re fusing the alluring offers held out by the railroad managers. It is expected that the lists in complete will be in at headquart ers by the first of next week when plans for paying out strike f:'benefits will be made. iners to Raise Fund of $100,000 For the Orphans tPITTSBURG, Dec. 23.—The United |ne Workers of America will at tfempt to raise $100,000 as a per anent relief fund for the widows .nd orphans of the victims of the jCJherry mine disaster, according to ,|jfche announcement of National Presi fcfent Thomas X«. Lewis. Lewis estimates that 1,000 children gtiave been made homeless by the dis jajBter. While the Red Cross society !i! attending to the immediate needs of the destitute families at' Cherry he believes a fund should && raised for the, bare of -the little c^|je^ in the. fut-urp. r, '•& fitn^v^^'will ''mSint 1 t- 1 ta,-.43i% 2,300 local ^organizatioxis of mtifera asklng, for, contributions. All contributions distributed by a special committee to be provided tot 'Either by the national executive board or-by the conventiort. It is' the plan to have the fund held in trust of the committee. JOKER IN CONTRACT CAUSES SCHENECTADY SCHBNECTAPY, N. Y.„ Dec. 23.— Nearly a thousand boilermakers and tankmakers of the American Locomo tive company have gone out on a strike and unless an agreement can be made the whole plant will be tied up. The strike in question has been brewing for about a year, when a new system of time 'fcent into effect whereby the men were paid a bonus for doing quick work, but a joker in the schedule appeared when the men found they had to work twice as fast as formerly to make the same wages as before. During the last few weeks orders have been coming in fast and the men decided that the time was ripe for a strike. THEIR CHRISTMAS WILL BE A CHEERLESS ONE LOWELL, Mass., Dec. 23.—Christ mas will be a sad affair in a thou sand or more families here. In accordance with the curtailment policy adopted by the cotton mills of Ne England, the Tremont and Suf folk mills closed Monday last. paper: "The Butterick Company alone re mains absolutely opposed to working men's organizations, and I appeal ta all unionists of France^to members of the Socialist party and of co-opera tive organizations, not to read the Miroir des Modes, or any ftf the other publications of this eoncern. Let them tell their wives and- sisters to rigor ously proscribe he magazines of these arrogant capitalists, who are trying' to reduce their brothers—the workers of America—to a condition of starvation and servitude." The spirit in which this appeal has been, received by the workers of Paris is seen by the following paragraph: "The allied printing trades (of Franbe) will certainly do everything' in their power. Other organisations! should imitate their example, and the: labor, press-should do their utmost to prove to our: American brother^ that we can. show our international iam.otherwise than by mer4 phra)te»." 4'United -'V' 'mmmrn &AvJ#^ .,»••• w« _. devoted to the industriai: the heap S'jj} vT W Jr r.'-TR The following letters were ad dressed to Sarita Claus in care Of the Labor World this week and as the writers did not specifically Request -that: they be kept secret the Labor "\faorId takes the liberty of reproduc ing them. 'Dear Santa Glaus:—What I want for a Xmas present is for you to set itfe the Switchmen's strike so that my papa can go back to work and we can. have nice things to eat again..Please' fix it this time that my papa can come home sometimes while me and my-little brother is awake so we can 'see what he looks like in daylight. And please have the railroad man gitfe him more wages as we need new stockings awful and mamma has to darn so hard on the old ones. Yolirs respectfully. '. A A .SWITCHMAN'S CHILD. Dear Santa Claus :-r-What we want and: want right, away is a settlement of tlffe switchmen's strike. It's eat ing ItfVo our profits something fierce. The -Country, people—Our legitimate prey^hen the city people are asleep —ship any .hay or other produce In to{tys and we can't Work that "re ceived in bad order". gag on them as of ten./as. we would like to. 'No mat ter Who loses in the deal fix it up quick, good Santa* so we ',•• i#^*.-^few-ifP 4k w,\M S.m^M $ *», (-f 7*' "*T\^^sr 1 )f" AND SUPERIOR, St4lfflK)AY, DE0EMBEE 25,1909. r, Mi."4 In conveying at tMs time to the members of organized labor its-best wishes for a holiday Season and prosperous year to come The Labor World wishes to emphasize more thaia ever its faith in a coming era of prosperity for the organized toilers of the land. Never before did the wage earners' horizon glow more brightly with hope of things* long deferred, that bid fair to soon be theirs. Never before was there more need to empha size in the most nrgent language the doctrine of solidarity. Never before has the motto We Stand, Divided We Fall" possessed more, significance than at the present period. United we can present a solid and unfrig htened front to the aggressions of those who wonld crush labor to a merest pittance Of wage reward. Divided we are easy victims for the foes within and without who would first of all undermine our solidity then obliterate xi The Labor World urges on both leaders and followers alike the need at this time of caution in every move. The massed wealth of the country is at the disposal of those ,to whom organized labor is a thing to be feared and, fearing, to be wiped out at any cost •fcjSTever did times carry heavier portent of great things to come than Jin these declming day&rof 1909. Let solidarity^ and watchfulness be the countersign for 1910. The Cpining of Santa Glaus can get to work again.. Yours hungrily COMMISSION BOW. 'Dear Santa Claus:—So great is my love for Duluth and the head of the lakes in general that I want nothing better in my stocking than the con tinuance of the switchmen's strike-r at least until the switchmen come to my railroad managers on bended knees and ask for their jobp back at any old tyages. Also WI would like, please Santa, the head of that re porter" of' the News Tribune who is, writing such scurrilous stories- about the way my roads are hindering the growth of Duluth and raising the price of living there. If you can't get me his .head, Santa, please put it into -Gil Hartley's heart to be easy *n me£ I know I'm .play ing it down low on Duluth'but there's no sense putting people on to me who would otherwise tbink me a £hilaiithrdp{$t aiid a demi-god. Yours in sheep's clqthlng, 'Q: D^ar^ Santa Claus:—All I wants is my good easy living back on the Bowery in Ne^„York ,where that em ployment a^eiit found me when he got mevto, come west to help Crush the Bwlfchnien's^'uniorii Ttie sooiver StntfiUS *W"? .", 1 '^JT*'('lA. 'i-1 E %t This Christmas ,« .Sf SI jj,, I Toilers of America (l mm Job and my pals is being cut down every day in the yards what with mistakes In signals and frozen-switch points. The feller what bunks with, me in fhe company's car tas cut-in two in thfe Superior yards yesterday and be fore my eyes. It vwas awful. The papers did not say anything about it and I heard the boys say that all the accidents was being kept quiet by the company.I hope they'll notify hig. wife and "kids' back east. 'Please have it settled so I can go back to a seat next the stove in "Red" Cassidy'a place in Harlem. ., Yours in desperation^ $^V*$ *-..\- .*. ., ., ,T?— *.-, ...... .nW lS?W #'TkifI ^tfTlOTaraSTOE: 2W5SS! ¥$/?&?>,*• 'Now A STRIKEBREAKER. Dea^ Santa Claus:—What "I Want in my stocking and want right away, is a settlement of the Switchmen's strike. And I don't care^ how soon it comes or it's the asylum for me. You know that I want to do what is right by th^ striking *switchmen but if you phly knew what the railroad man agers are doing to me these days in the way ot' "pressure/' Ph^W! It's something awful, so please -stick a satisfactory settlement in!. my gjrey sock a^d let it go at that. I am witl ing to-pass dp the| next gubernatorial nomiriatiOn ft can get this pejsky a^ett^edjap., O. e?v-s -i -Vii»^'• STEVEDORE MADE BIG FINANCIER TOE LINE ON STi^ikI$HIP DOCKS NEW .YORK, iec: 23,—J. P. Morgan,' -Jr.. went' to the pier of the White Star lii^e yesterday to confer with .L. H. Smith, a bank er from London. vIn the midst xf the conference^ Morgan lighted a dollar cigar. .v. A red headed .stevedore named Lowery: touching Morgan on the arm, said: "Will you just' look up a sec ond?". V^^'',*M' v-^ r: ^orga'^'%lfeii'6fed 'upward and found he had been standing un der a sign' which in Jetters a foot \long conveyedit^fthis command: "l^o Smoking/* Morgan hesitated,. then walk ing over to tlie edge of the .pier* threw tlie cigar in the water. Lowery' walked aw ay, and a bellow workmiapi said to him: vDo'you know who that is? It's J." Pierpont'• Morgan, Jr." f'l don't care," said Lowery. "I''d do the same thing if it was ?ill Taft." ', -v Lowery has been at. work on the -pier 'for thirty years. Blind Men Strike In a Philadelphia Home for Workers PHILADELPHIA, Dec 2*—Sixty five. workmen of the Pennsylvania Working -Home for Blind Men, at Thirty-sixth street and Lancaster ave nue, have formed a union to work for higher- wages. They met secretly in ,:a hall, ia West, Philadelphia, and pledged loyalty to their organization an^. to tHe cause. "^TJieir- chiet demand is that the ^wage, liinit repulatlop at the home be rescinded.' Uritil four weeks ago each .man' was permitted to'earn as much as he was able. a married man is allowed to to earn' not more than $.9 a week,- a dingle man,- iivlng outside the -home, %6, -and 'those, living in the home, $4. :^a |4^ition, the. board of the inmates v-^hfafc beqn boosted from 2.25 to' 12.50. i-Ae».superIntendent of th$ home of broomcorn lias made the new^ ^tples iimpferative. A^l of the men ^prk in broommaking. Tl*e'.-:, home, (oai^toys 105 blind, men.. LOSES LEGS IN GOV'T. SERVICE, IS BARRED FROM ADOPTED LAND WASHINGTON,' Dec. 23—Aftfer flosing both legs whUe employed by the \Gnited "States -.government* on the' 'Panama Railroad, Alessandro Comba, an Italian workman, has been denied admission to this country as incap able of self-support. ,f' Comba is' attenapting to have Con gress Include his case in th^ injured government employes' compensation act, passed a year after the injury to him occurred. Awaiting the decision of congress, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cable granted Comba permission temporarily to re main at the Ellis island Hospital. ?AINTER?? GIVE $1000 TO CHERRY MINE FUND CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 23.—At last Friday's session of the National Convention of the Painters' Union resolutions of sympathy w-ith the sur vivors of the Cherry mine disaster were adopted and $1,000-was donated to the Cherry relief fund of the Unit ed Mine Workers. 1 MNQUIST IS REELECTED. STOCKHOLM, Dec. 23.—At the labor party's congress of Sweden which has just closed its sessions, Herman Llnquist was reelected presi dent. 7 It Was decided to. have alwayai on hand -an emergency fund of 1,000,000 crowns ($270,000). ,• ,...& A°v*i FIVE W AISTM AKERSLO QUAKER CITY OUT ON STRIKE lltlHrcStff* Makers." R. R. Employes Win Strike for More Host In *&&&>* ii,-' Force Master Mechanic South ern Road to' install' Hefttiiig Devices Removed to Save Iynr ance Cost. ATLANTA^ Sa„ Dec. 23.—The em ployes of the Southern .Railway at the, Ipman Yards,' fihops^ hpufefe have this week won a flght to obtain heat In the buildings. ,* A strik«i wae^-' called at about -7 o'clocku in the morning, and .the men returned. 4o work Vifctorioys at 10 o'clock. The management agreed to *ut in 'stoves Ip all departments, and ha4 the stoves/ about twenty-five in number,, delivered and fired, up be- About, two lfhundred men -work fit the Inman yar^ ships' Abb^t 125 are WTiites.'and seventyrfiVe negroes. With orga^iss^d^of -..unorgalnised,. ^vhitp ahd 18T8B1CAL Thousands of Girl Operatives of Philadelphia Shirtwaist itorioi Follow Lead of York domrades. 1- Fac Nw g' ••'.fteisJ CZARISM OF DIRECTOR •:. PRECIPITATES ST^HK Injustice of New York Courts and Police Enlists Sympathize ers to Support of Shirtwaist^ Strikers in That City. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23 —After deliberating several days on the ad-J|| visability jaf a general' strike the shirtwaist .makers of this city Mon-^PP day last went out in a body tieing up all the prnicipal factories of town. the?g| The number of the strikers is esrt& timated at several thousands and in- '-4^ creased wages .and. better working5t|f conditions are the principal'demaihto^jl The. strike was precipitated by the action of Director tjay of the public: safety department of this city who on the eve of a mass meeting to have^J been held last Sunday issued orders-** forbidding the meeting. The meeting was to have been in tne Arch Street Theater and it was announced that Mother Jones,'C. O.^l Pratt, leader of the recent trolley- ''U men's, strike John-J. Murphy$ presi dent of the Central Labor Union: and^S B. Feigenbaum, associate editor ojfl the Yiddish Daily Forward, .of Newf^ York, would deliver addresses. Clay's reason for tabooing the meeting is incomprehensible and thai grounds on which he bases his actiok have not been made public. COURT'S IN JUSTICE IS T':, v,.? REACTING FOR STRIKERS^ Unfair -Tactics j)f New York Police and "Justices is Bringing Many frijends to Ranks oY Girl Waist r- NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—As day byi day there, leaks .out .to. the -general»ft'^ public, details of the lvaliarit iight the^ ftrjjatofctid' waist vmake*S of 'this ity^lfo are making' against -the persecdttlp^^ aTnd' mistreatnierit of tKeljh bosses, vr many not hitherto interested ^Ut-»the- "J' der thet4a^3ter of. the strikers.' Fpr-rSnne time-Rose Elite Fasto Stokes^ttie' famou^ settlement work er, wife, of a millionajli^.V^l^ks openly cast in her. lot with the fpiris'on-^tritso*? andv has- with them withstood the in-, suits ofc the hired thugs ifid the un- (Continued on Page 5.) -That action will^ lera.1 mlthorttipft BOSTON, Dec. 23.—' be taken by the Federal authorities as a xesult of the:investigation made by Immigration Inspector Burke into the conditions under which the. strik ing mill operatives at Ludlow were induced.to come to-Work in the plant of the Ludlow Manufacturing Asso ciates is almost'certain. The Department of Commerce and Labor has. referred' the matter -to United States Oistrlpt Attorney French who asked Assistant- District Attorney Sullivan to make-x further investiga tions, S,ullivan, after a confe'rericei with' Immigration Inspector' Hoe,-said that he was'sure that there had been a violation, of the contract labor law by'the mill owners of Ludlow. He said that the issuing of circu lars in foreign countries with a view1 to the sectyHng of employes in Amer ica by that means was a violation of the jaw. It lis Understood that- the associates- admit having sent circu lars' to Poland, setting forth the ad-4^ vantageous conditions' ^rndei- which^S^ their employes worked- "iS. the shops. He sent..word by the fore man for the men to go"back,'and he would, grant the demands, but this was not acceded to.' lie was obliged to appear In person, and promise de-| liVery of the stoves that day," before? the meifir would ^return to work. Up to a' short time previous ^O this, ope|i fires had beeri usecl to fur--,^ .wish heat/ This the J«insura3iCe com-', pafties objected to, and rather than go t° the slight expetise Otf stOVe^i the bosses decided to 16t the -men suf-i fer. 4* mNOfiHOBE^QSK 1?0 X|AY£ A KONTSLf irE^AFEp SAN FRANCISCO, Dpc. '28.—TChO^ Interna^on^l l^on^hocemen's A«so?1, elation of' this «ity to publishyan.^ official organ—they Long^hpremenft whichfwlll' come out the first'of the? .. IS. fitted ^ifet union 'fy in- mentb^rsllip .aii(l^| Ihcr :that.:]i TpOctaljioii