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-*r*i See "Mikado at Lyceum Feb. 11 and 12. Y00, TOO, May be well dressed at very little cost! Fitwell Overcoats Y0UR CHOICE 1£.DU Values to $22.50. CLEARANCE SALE uajy. lypwuQguttt is" Jfe IIP a, *r- ..^«»PPKW::rlSI^*S «|§S®r '"ft" yt 1 «%w 1 An Actual Bargain in Qur tains You Can Insure Yourself of Bigger Success An Electric Sign is a business insurance pol icy. It safeguards a merchant against loss of trade because it keeps his trade message be fore the public, in letters of fire, every night. It attracts new customers from blocks around. An Electric Sign pays its small cost in merely the transient trade that it attracts. It is no fault of the sign if the merchant does not con vert transient customers into permanent ones. Electric Signs are Trade Bringers of Proved Ability No agency that you might employ for increas ing your sales will produce as rich results at as little cost as an Electric Sign. Why not find out more about this effective silent salesman? Phone or call for full par ticulars. Duluth-Edison Electric Co. 216 WEST JH&ST .STREET. In addition to the large as so of a Curtains to be found on sale in our Drapery De partment, we offer the following, actual bar gain for Saturday only —40 PAIRS ECRU LACET ARABIAN CURTAINS in four Dainty Patterns, while the last, YOUR CHOICE—per pair .. Throughout the Entire Store There Tire to be Found Reductions on Our Re&* ular Stock of 10% to 50% Gash or Easy Payments $2.50 BRANDEIS TO FIGHT FOR TEN-HOUR LAW Continued from Page 1. ation of Labor have been directed to examine the documents in connection with the alleged fraudulent seizure of the Michigan, copper lands as exposed in these columns, so that the council raay present the matter to the presi dent and to congress, with the object of having the government take the necessary steps to have the illegally seized copper lands of Michigan re stored to the government. The documents on file in the con gressional library and in the general land, office show that notwithstanding prohibitions against the acquisition of "mineral" lands contained in grants made to certain canal companies ia 18G5, these companies proceeded to acquire many thousands of acres of rich coppep lands, which are now in the possession of the Michigan cop per barons. CARPENTER'S WIFE CLAIMED BY DEATH Death this week visited the home of Alfred Mayer of the local Car penters' union, and took therefrom* his beloved wife. She had been sick for several months and her death was rot unexpected. The funeral was held Wednesday from the Jean de Eaptiste French Catholic church. In terment was at Calvary. Or 1 41 i» r-*vr Active Union Men Get Together and Form Duluth Card and Label Council. Duluth at last has a wide awake card and label council. It was organ* ized last Friday evening by the livli est bunch of union men ever gotten together in any 'city in the country. Delegates were present from fourteen unions, and no time was lost in get ting down to business. The meeting was called to order by V. L. Baker, chairman of the Allied' Printing Trades Council and a mem ber of the Typographical 'union. W. M. Reed of the Photo Engrevers' un ion was chosep temporary chairman. E. F. Busk of the same union was elected temporary secretary. Delegates were present from the Typographical, Cigarmakers, Sheet Metal Workers, Iron Workers, Bartenders, Iron Molders, Painters, Blacksmith, Leath er Workers, Carpenters, Machinists, Photo Engravers, Pressmen and Brick layers union. Their credentials were read and the delegates seated. The secretary read the preamble and principal extracts of the consti tution of the Minneapolis Card and Label Council, after which Speeches were made by S. S. McDonald, vice president of the Minnesota State Fei eration of Labor V. L. Baker, Fyed Bernard of the Bartenders and a num ber of others. It was voted to call the organiza tion the "Duluth Card and Label Council." The following officers were elected: President, W M. Reed ^vico president, Fred Bernard recording secretary, A Howe financial secre tary-treasurer, George Walters ser geant-at-arms, V. L. Baker. Trustees will be elected at the next meeting to be held at Kalamazoo hall, Monday, February 16. Vice President McDonald of the State Federation of Labor installed the officers. A committee was ip pointed to draft a constitution and by-laws to report at the next meet ing. Convention Dance GIVEN BY Federated Trades Assembly AT THE ARMORY TUESDAY EVENING, February 17th Proceeds for Entertainment of Con vention, of Minnesota State Fed eration of Labor. La Brosse Orchestra. Tickets, per Couple 50c Extra Ladies 25c COLORADO MINERS STRIKE EFFECTIVE Continued From Pace 1. near Denver where there were no labor troubles. Under False Pretenses. 'Another large bunch of mten were brought from Joplin, Missouri, 'on the pretense that they were buying J20 acres of land in the San Luis valley near Alamosa and then taken under military protection into the Delagua mine several hundred miles away. "With the aid of ,militia and hun dreds of murderous mine guards these men were forced to work In the mines against their protests. At Tercio the guards took the men's shoes from them every night to pre vent their escape. "The operators made repeated an nounements through their press that they had all the men they needed and that prodution would be normal for the month of December. Througnout the month they repeated these state ments and said that so far as they were concerned the strike was broken. Leased Mine to State. "When, in the middle of December they were unable to produce enough coal to supply the penal institutions of the state and' were forced to lease a mine to the state to produce its own coal, they made no effort to explain the shortage. 'Those citizens who have had any doubts about the success of the coal strike can find excellent food for thought in the figures for December. "The non-union mines of Las Ani mas county produced 120,188 tons of coal in December, 1913, as against 399,348' tons in the same month of 1912. Little Coal Is Mined. "Huerfano county's non-union mines produced 69,046 tons, last month as against .173,474 tons,in the' same month of 1912. "Fremont county's non-union mines produced 7,585 tons of coal in .De cember, 1913. The production in De cember, 1912, was 81,471. fWhile the low production of the ^ion-union mines is encouraging, the operators' figures also prove the ef ficiency of union labor. Five union mines in El Paso county produced 26-319 tons of1 coal in December, 1913, as .against 23,657 tons In De cember, 1912. "The operators' figures therefore prove that while non-union men were able to produce but 30 per cent of the normal tonnage, the union coal miners mined 112 per cent of the nor mal output." The man who has gone to work in a powder mill because' of a quarrel with his wife Is Playing witH A •v** •. lUS. -j Little rails Citizens Stand By tTnion—Make It Hot for Strikebreakers. The Paper-makers' unions of Sauk Rapids and Little Falls are still put ting up a game fight for the eight hour day. The boys went out May 30, 19.13, and from that day to this there has not, been one desertion from the ranks. The paper mills at both points have brought in a number of strike break ers, but they remain for but a short time there seems to be an endless chain of them coming and going in and out of the mills. Public sym pathy is with the strikers, so much so that strike breakers have difficulty in being fed in the towns by citizens. According to Jacob Miller, one of the striking papermakers, every hotel in Little Falls refused to board the strike-breakers. A butcher who fur nished meat for them when they were kept at the mills had to close his doors as the citizens quit dealing with him. A grocer wtho 'did the same thing is sorry that "he looked for that trade. Now it is said that a union brick layer, Fred Wohlert Sr., is housing and feeding the strike breakers after all the others refused to have anything to do with them. Ths iis what is at pre sent bothering the union papermakers. It is the last straw, and it .no doubt will be soon broken. It is also reported that the company at Little Falls it cutting wage's to ,$1.C0 a day it is, so the papermakers re port, buying cheap poplar for pulp wood, and the breakers are making but very little paper. REACH INTO SEWER TO ASSAIL GOMPERS Continued, from Pago 1. mitting nothing to escape in its zeal to make capital for Socialist votes. White Is Their Hope. The Leader has trotted out Presi dent White of the United Mine Work ers as the candidate against Mr. Gom pers for president of the American Federation of, Labor. It gives this in formation: "White is not a member of the Socialist party, but he is ac ceptable to Socialists as he favors in dustrial unionism. He is a Catholic." And we wonder why this Should make any difference. The Socialistic at tempt to inject'party politics 3.nd re ligion into the American labor move ment is significant. It can split the workers on such issues easier than they, can be divided on all others. It seems as if the g:ame is "anything to defeat Gompers.'' And-they are willing to go to the sewer to get the.filth with which to do it. Gompers has a labor record tof thirty-five years'. standing. It is a good record if i|,were not they would have found weak places in it long ago. That is .why they slander him-r—not his record, but his character. Slander has ever been the refuge of cowards. Treated Gompers Shabbily. Gompers went to. Indianapolis at the invitation of the convention of the United Mine Workers. He an swered the charges McDonald and his sort made against the American Fed eration of Labor, and he answered them so effectually there was no chance to come back. So they trumped up the accusation that Gom pers was a drunkard. This charge has been made against many good men. The best way to answer it is to ignore it. Those who know Gompers and are his friends do not believe it, and those who are his enemies will still con tinue to assail him. His life work stands out as the real refutation of the vicious and cowardly charge. Oh, that their own leaders were as pure and as clean as Gompers. And to think that a Scotchman, or at least one who bears the honored name of McDonald should stoop to the charge? He must be a left-hand ed celt. His assault is not in keeping with Scottish character. Men of that blood usually have great charity they may be earnest and zealous for a cause, but they usually fight fair, at least they are not character scaven gers, and it is knowledge of this Scot tish trait that makes us ask, "With what'filth McDonald i^ polluted."' BIG ST: LOUIS HOTELS PUT ON "UNFAIR LIST" The secretary of the Federated Trades Assembly of this city is. in re ceipt of a circular letter from St. Louis announcing the fact that all the big hotels in that city have locked out their white waiters, bartenders and cooks, and are now employing negro strike-breakers in their places. As a result of this lockout the fol lowing. hotels in St. Louis have been placed on the unfair list of organized labor: The Jefferson, Planters Mar quette, Maryland, American and its. Annex, Buckingham and Washington. MACHINISTS~INSTALL NEW SET OF OFFICERS The local union of 'Machinists, at a regular meeting held last Thursday .evening, installed the newly elected officers, headed by R. J. Coole of West Duluth as president. The other officers are W. H. ^Lawrence, vice president A. J. Nys, financial secre tary William Blarney, recording sec retary O. B. Paine, treasurer Wal ter Emerson, conductor and Carl Nel son, sentinel. JOSEPH JENNES, WELL KNOWN UNIONIST, DIES Joseph Jennes, 5720 .Hughitt ave p.ue, Superior, died Saturday last fol lowing a brief illness. The deceased was a veteran member of the local Carpenters' union. The funeral was held Moncfay. The remains were shipped to ~£eerwoo}, Minn., -for lnr terjaenL' ':.vr:v: /•. ,,-w, A Lyndon A. Smith Submits Opin ion That Minimum Wage Law Is Constitutional. The Minnesota minimum wage law for women and minors' has for the second time been held constitutional by Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith. His views' oh'the new law were sub mitted Tuesday to the advisory board appointed by the minimum wage commission to investigate the hours of labor and. wage conditons in Twin City mercantile establishments. The'advisory board submitted a. series of questiqns relating to the powers aind authority of the commis sion in fixing wages. The crucial question, submitted to the attorney general involved the constitutionality of the minimum wage law. Labor in terests viewed with suspicion this mod.e of procedure. They contended that it was the duty of the advisory board to go ahead and investigate labor condi tions in mercantile establishments, determine a minimum wage for wom en and minors, and then put it up to employers to obey. If they Refused it would then -be up to the courts to determine the validity of the law. But Attorney General Smith shows that he is abreast of the times. He held the law to be valid, and now there is nothing to prevent 'the commission from going ahead with its work. TILE LAYERS''UNION MAKES NEW SCHEDULE The. Tile Layers and Helpers union will meet tonight at Kalamazoo hall for the purpose of completing their wage scale, to be presented to employ ers. The new scale will take effect May 1. Of course conferences, will be held with employers, and the pro posed agreement will be thoroughly threshed out by both parties before it is "signed. RELIEF COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN SUNDAY The joint relief committee for the striking copper miners will meet Sun day afternoon at 310% West First street for the purpose of compiling a report of receipts from, the tag ?ay. A report will be rendered the Trades Assembly next Friday evening. All members of the committee are urged to be present. LEAVES FOB PORT ARTHUR. Levy Regali of the local Carpen ters' union, residing at 315 Isanti ave nue, left yesterday for Port Arthur, Canada, where he is to work at his trade for the next three months. LARGEST IX THE WORLD. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.' 6.—With the admission Of a class of nearly 100 candidates the local Laundry Workers union has now an enrolled member ship of 2,000, which is claimed to be the largest union of its kind in the world. Duluth Curlers would be better sweepers if they used Want Law Passed to Compel Pay ment For All Coal Mined. No Short Weights. Duluth Universal Flour THE GREAT BREAD MAKER. Atfe the recent state constitutional election, the people placed in their organic law a section making this practice illegal. When the following legislature attempted to give this dec laration statutory effect it was con fronted by a powerful lobby that blocked action at that time. The matter was referred to a com mission for investigation and it is said the decision, When made public, will be favorable to the miners. It delights the cook and makes baking a success. Ask your grocer for it AND SEE THAT YOU GET IT. Made by the Duluth Universal Milling Co. COLUMBUS, Feb. 6.—Ohio union miners axe preparing to renew their fight before the next state'legislature against the present use of screens at mines. Under this system, wages are computed on the coal that does not go through the screen. The opera tors, however, dispose of this screened coal in the markets. The operators are now threatening to go into, court if the legislature "The Shopping Center of Duluth1 Just to Remind Women that the REMODELING SALE All Children's Coats for Ladies, Misses and Chil dren reduced to Half Price All-Wool Sweaters^ .J Now Selling at',?" ,?! Half Price On the Second Flxr Continues There isn't a suit or coat now in stock, from the finest novelty to the simplest tailored style, that is not priced at Half Price and Less Than Half its original price. And every one will be sold—not one is to be carried over. "We have now taken every coat on this floor and divided them into two lots Every coat is smfart and attractive, showing distinct features in cut and material. Wonderful Suit Bargains Now at $7.50, $10.50, $14.75 and $17.50 V. The opportunities that have existed on Tailored Suits have become •tjie talk of the town, and we are free to say that for real bargains now will be the greatest of all. Our entire stock of suits has been divided into four lots priced as above* neck passes an anti-screen law, on the ground that such legislation abrogates fredom of contract. Threats to close down Ohio coal mines when the con tracts with the miners expire, on April 1 next, are also madfe. These threats arc not deterring the miners, who have fought the screen practice for years, and dc not pro pose to lose their present advantage ous position. FURNITURE MEN UNITE TO FIGHT UNION LABOR GRAND RAPIDS, Feb. 6.—Robert W. Irwin of this .city has announced the formation of the National -Furni ture Protectiye association for the purpose of protecting furniture man ufacturers from "unjust demands of organized labor and other influences." Mr. Irwin says the n^w organization will "guard our industry and those associated with it. We propose to have a national council and a central board in ea.ch organization of every state through which local conditions may be controlled.. "Ffinds will be supplied for ad vancing our principles for an open shop and against unjust labor de mands." According to one critic, there ace not enough husbands to go around in England, but over here the complaint is sometimes heard that they go around too much. $ Is Still Very Good Lingerie Waists Going at Half Price. Comprising dozens of smart styles in Voiles, Batistee, Crepes and Lawns,,, beautifully trimmed 'in lace and embroidery, .ranging in price from $2.00' to $9.?5, now at Half Price. m: TV A'