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Advertising Ratei Made Known on Application. $H I ft THE LABOR WORLD Pnhlianed Every SntttBdny Established in 1896 by S&brle G. Aikin. Business Office, Suite 610 Manhattan Building, Duluth, Minn* Zenith Phone, Grand, 65. Dtiluth Phone, Melrose, .1288 SUBSCRIPTIONS! One Year, in advance '.. Six Months, in advance Three Months, in advance Single Copies, *S Cents. W. E. McEWEN, Editor and Publisher. THIS WEEK'S THOUGHT. 1 do not think the question whether or not the employment is a public utility makes any dif ference in the situation. Where there is public" ownership of the utility it is possible that the right to strike might be affected. That, however, is the only conceivable case in which the right could, perhaps^ be abridged without contravening public policy. In every other instance, including utilities, I am convinced that the. right to strike must be kept inviolate.—Louis D. Brandeis. SOME ETHICS OF INDUSTRY. The great work before the labor unions now is to educate. The people at large do not understand the purpose of unionism. They are taught by many influen tial agencies that the union has improper aims. They must be made to see that our great organization is con tending for great moral principles that affect home and national life. For 'instance, Rev. Charles Reynolds Brown, in his "Social Message to the Modern Pulpit,, says: "And some men must be made to face the.f$ct that no rich man ever becomes rich without the co-operation of many other men who give the best of their- lives to the enterprise he has organized and that all talk about 'a man's right to manage his own business in his own way,' regardless of the industrial conditions maintained upon the health, the happiness, and the morals of these other men whose very lives are bound up in that bundle of prosperity with his own, is both irrational and im moral. His right to purchase labor does not include any sort of right to purchase the permanent and in evitable degradation of the laborer himself. And thus to purchase labor in the cheapest market, even though it does involve the sure degradation qf the laborer and the destruction of all the possibilities of a wholesome family life for him, is as openly immoral as murder or adultery." .! that's pretty plain language. But it is none too strong. The crimes of our great prosperous industries are a large and dark chapter in our modern civilization. HONORING "THE SIX MEN OF DORSET." At Tolpuddle, in Dorsetshire, England, a monument has just been erected to the memory of the "six men of Dorset," also called "the first martyrs of trades union ism," and memorial exercises were held there to mark the seventieth anniversary of their "martyrdom." It was on February 25, 1843, that the six labor union pioneers were thrown into prison to serve a sentence of seven years imposed upon them by Judge Williams, who had said: "Not for anything you have done, or as I can prove, you intend to do, but as ah example to others, I con-r sider it my duty to pass this sentence upon each and every one of you." The "six men of Dorset" who are .now enrolled in labor's hall of fame were common laborers. Reaching the point where they could no longer support their fami lies on their scanty wages, they joined in a demand for an increase of one shilling—twenty-four cents—a week. Phis "impudent demand" was forthwith refused by their masters, and^the six men held a conference on the sit uation. This meeting was held to constitute a deep, dark and devilish conspiracy against the peace and pros perity of the British empire, and the men were arrested, lonvicted and transported for seven years in hardly more time than it takes to tell it. INSULTING THE PRESIDENT. If John Kirby, Jr., president of the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers, is possessed of a desire to .in sult the president of the United States he is to be con gratulated on having succeeded. Nothing more studious ly offensive could be imagined than the phrases of his protest against legislation permitting men to form or ganizations whose object is to raise wages, shorten hours, and otherwise improve the conditions of labor. "I hasten to inform you says the oracular Kirby, "that the particular provision under discussion is viola tive of every consideration of the equitable, just, and impartial administration of our laws and statutes." If the proposed legislation is of this character it is insult' ing to the president to assume there is possibility of his favoring it. So to assume he may be practically to say that the president is either a fool or a knave. If, on the other hand, the legislation is not of the character de scribed by Kirby, then an insulting effort is being made to browbeat the president. Mr. Kirby is one of the unfortunate persons who can neither see nor think straight when labor unions are mentioned. His paroxysms have long tended to weaken the proper influence of his organization. His latest out break is calculated to destroy yhat influence it has left. President Wilson, with his acute intellect, is about the last person in the country to try to put nonsense across on. A proposal to authorize laboring men to co operate to specified ends is not "violative of every con sideration of equitable, just, and impartial administra tion, and it is an affront to the intelligence of the presi dent to ask him to listen to a doctrine so preposterous. Why all the rumpus about the "bleached flourf decis ion of the supreme court of the United. States? The bleaching agen^vitself is..poisonous, but the bleached flour is not poisonous, nor is, there even the slightest evi dence that it is injurious to health. tt After a visit of but a few weeks to the Philippines Congressman Miller has concluded that the FiMpinos are Rl 'f,,caPa^e self-government. Why nature endowed 801310 asses wIth the £nt«rod at the Foytoffle* at Dulutb, Minn., aa second class matter. 1.00 P°wer speech is still'a myfetery. '\V' iM' lifu1l! SATURDAY- UMTY OF ACTION! The prospects for securing the passage ,©f the Bart lett-Bacon Dills are better now th&to ?v*r before. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,'^ Brotherhood of Locomotive Firefaen and Enginemfen, tfhe Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, the Order of Railway Conductors, and the Switchmen's Union of North America all have representatives in Washington who are now actively en gaged in assisting tlus representatives of the American Federatiqa of Labor in urging the Judiciary Committees of both Houses qf Congress to report out the Bartiettr Bacon bills. The labor representatives in Washington are also being given valuable assistance by the repre sentative .of the Farmers' Unions throughout the« country^ At a conference held recently, at which were present all of the representatives mentioned, it was agreed, that every effort possible be made to secure action/by the Judiciary Committees at the earliest possible moment, 3p that the bills shall be reported arid, placed upon the calendars of the Senate and House of Representatives for acttan. Further than this every local lodge of the railroad brotherhoods, as well as every local union of the farm ers is to be at once communicated with, in order that the various Congressmen may hear in no uncertain way from their constituents at home. The labor papers of the country are giving wide pub licity to the Bartlett-Bacon bills. In fact there never has been a situation that presaged such good results as the present, for the combined effort of all of the rail road brotherhoods, the farmers' organizations, and the American Federation of Labor acting s® a unit in press-: ing home the demand,for immediate actidn can but have a salutary influence upon the members of the Judiciary Committees. While perhaps they have not been dilatory although the bills'have been before the Judiciary Com mittees practically a year their inactivity is not,in ac cordance with the importance of the measure under dis cussion. In addition to the conferences held by the legisla tive -representatives of the labor organizations and farm ers' unions, meetings have been held by ^he members of Congress who. are also members of trade unions. These meetings resulted fnr the appointment of committees composed of the card members of Congress to urge upon' the Judicial^ Committee the importance of immediate action on the Baftlett- bill in the house. These commit tees have done, valuable service and many of the mem bers of Congress now begin to realize that labor demands of the dominant political party compliance with its plat form pledge. Jt is not amiss to quote here the plank in the •Democratic platform which refers to this legislation: The expanding organization of industry makes it essential that there should be no abridgement of the right of wage earners and producers to organize for the protection of wages and the improvement of labor conditions to the end that such labor Organizations and their members should not be regarded as illegal combin ations in restraint of trade." As the party now in power voluntarily made the above declaration, it Is patent that the representatives of labor have a moral right to insist and persist that this declaration shall be carried into effect by tfee passage of tfce Barlett-$acon bills. This was pledged to the peo ple of the country as well as' to the labor organizations and farmers* unions. The recent indictment of the offi cials of the United Mine Workers of America emphasizes the reasons Why Congress should not only carry out its platform declaration, but should do so at the earliest possible-moment and relteve a situation whieh has been such a tremendous burden and menace to the organized workers of this country, and restore to the real producers of wealth the right to which they are justly entitled. The demand for this legislation is growing, as evi denced by the active interest of the railroad brotherhoods at this time. That the railroad brotherhoods take such a pronounced and aggressive' position signalizes the fact that the demand from the'membership of the multitude of local unions and local lodges is becoming so impera tive that Congress during the present session will be held to a strict accountability of its action on the meas ure which seeks to restore the ownership of man iu himself. In order that every avenue of influence may be Util ized in securing the passage of these biljs, it is urged that every local union, and every individual member of each local union or each local lodge, immediately address a letter to their own United States Senators and Repre sentatives in Congress, urging favorable action at oncer on the Barlett-Bacon bills. Do y&ur duty now. THE ICE-FIELD OF LABOR, On one of his trips north, Peary, the explorer, left his ship, and with dogs and sleds started over the ice field. The men were frjesh, the dogs were strong, the ice was good, his hopes ran high. On they went, day after day. Then, with instru ments, he took an. observation, and to his surprise found that they were as far south as when they left the ship. The stars could not be Wrong. There was but one conclusion. The iee had drifted south as fast as they had traveled north. He got off that ice-field as soon as he could. The worker finds himself so situated that, try as he may, he cannot make any progress by his individual efforts. /V:. 4- He cannot get off tlie ice-field of industry. He must remain there. His only hope lies'in uniting with his fellow work ers and by organization so control the field of labor that they will be able to make it a vehicle of progress. NEWEST HOUSING SCHEME. British cities have had a good deal of experience with various projects for better housing of their poor. The general conclusion from, the experiments thus far is that the governmental part of the undertaking is rather easier than the social side of it. That is, it is easier to. provide desirable tenements at moderate cost than to jget people to live id them and make the modest pay ments necessary either for rent or purchase. The London county council's latest plan is to develop a section of outlying property under a plan which, care fully calculated, will mike it possible to turn over to a workingmari's family a four-room'modern cottage on pre iiminary payment of $20. Thereafter, he shall pay $2.SO a week as rent, and to this will be added about 50 cents weekly, which ife the installment'on the purchase price. At the end of twenty years .these payment^ will ilinortize the debt and he will be deeded the piace. v. This -looks. like a long-distance investment to the average. wpf kingman. A run of hard luck, lack of em ployment, sickness or other misfortune, might cause*,the loss q^ all he had. invested. So the plan, modified to meet the conditions which experience has demonstrated, proposes that, if the, buyer meets such misfortune he may give up his contract 'and^ withdraw the payments he has made. He is not to be squeezed out of his eaU)ty under forced dispossession. He has in short thevbene* fit of* savli^g8arrangement tt'urelLaq a chancetobnj jinma •THE LAgO* IWW 1 'Sh 3& f.. n\ iLifJ 11 |»tt I-11'H 'fl* H'W'H I' PBFFASUNQ BOOS FOR SASTBR TQXQ5 '*111'H't* 'H' M' M* Possibly no single article of food is capable qf greater vafrjety of services th^nthe egg, and yet how rarely d® we find ejplgs served other than boiled or fried, scrambled, or poached with, occasional variety in the form of an omelet. Spanish Scxamibfod Eggs. One, sweet red pepper,, one tea spoon chopped onion, six eggs, one tablespoon- -butter, one cup tomato pulp, one-half cup stock, salt and pepper and one tablespoon grated cheese. Chop the pepper finely, rejecting all the seeds chop the onion finely also and cook both in the butter for two minutes, Have ready the tomato pulp, using fresh tomatoes in their season and the thickest part of canned* tomatoes whfen the fresh ones are not obtain able. Add this to the mixture already in the saucepan and cook five min utes longer. Beat the eggs, yolk and whites to gether,, and add the stock and season ing of salt and pepper to them. Stir Into thes hot sauce and cook to a soft ..scramble, stirring in at the last mo ment the grated cheese. Sefcve on thin slices of buttered toast.' Swiss Eggs. One tablespoon butter, four eggs, grated cheese, thin slices of cheesed (preferably Swiss), three tablespoons thin cream or brown gravy, salt and pepper. Melt the abutter in a dish Which will stand the heat of the oven, yet which can be sent to table-—one of the fire proof earthen dishes is best. Cyt cheese into the thinnest of slices and lay these in the dish over the butter. x£reak in the eggs, and pout the gravy or cream, Whichever it has been de cided to use, over the eggs. Season to taste and sprinkle grated cheese over the top. Bake in e, moderately hot oven just until the eggs are set. Serve at once, TTiese ca.n be baked in individual dishes and in such case will, naturally, be easier to serve. Scotch iEggs. Three hard-cooked eggs, egg and bread crumbs, one-half pound sau sage meat, three tablespoons bread crumbs, frying fat and gravy or toma to sauce. Let the eggs be thoroughly hard cooked. Remove the Shells and see that. the eggp are thoroughly dry. Seasoh the sausage meat and add to it three tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs together with a generqus sea soning of salt and pepper. Take one-third of this mixture and Cover one of the eggs with it, trying to get it of even thickness ail over the -egg.' When all are coated, brush them over with beaten egg, then roll in Stale bread crumbs and fry golden brown in deep frying fat. The fat must not be as hot as for frying croquettes or other food# which have been once cdoked and which only need reheating, but in view of the fact that the sausage meat is raw, the fat shoilfd be cbol' enough to allow of this being Weli done be fore the surface becomes too brown. Drain, after, frying, on soft kitchen paper, and with a sharp knife divide ?ach coated egg in two (crosswise). Place, cut side up, on a serving dish and surround with brown gr§vy or to mato sauce. Nested Eggs. Slices of toast, eggs, Cold minced ham or tongue, seasoning. Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs, beat the whites to a stiff froth, and lay the yolks aside. Have ready slices of toast made from slices of bread cut rather thick. Put a layer of minced ham or tongue on toast, then pile a portion of the stiffly beaten White of egg on this. Make a depression in the center of it and drop the yolk into this. Season with salt and peppier and bake just until the eggs are set. Very small fragments of ham or tongue will serVe for this dish, and only a very small amount of the meat is required. Scalloped Eggs With Potatoes. Four cold potatoes, one and one half cup white sauce, four hard cooked eggs, a little grated onion and but tered crumbs. 4 Gut the potatoes into dice and chop the eggs coarsely. Prepare the saUce by blending together two tablespoon^ fuls of butter, the same of flour* one quarter teaspoonful of pepper and one-third teaspoonful of salt, stir these together until the butter is melted and mixed sihoothly With the flour,, then add the. milk, a little at a time and cook until boiling point iS reached, stirring all the time, continue to simmer for five minutes then add the grated onion.* .Grease a baking dish, place in it a layer of potato, then a layer qf chopped egg, then layer of sjuitce. Proceed in this way until all the in gredients are used, Sift buttled crumbs over the top And take 25 min utes. To prepare-, the buttered crumbs, melt a tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan, stir into it two tablespoon fulls of stale breafl crumbs and toss them about until they have absorbed 3ll the butter. Egg lliu^les. Pour eggs, fialt, pepper, nutmeg, one cup., milk, slices of fried bread, tomato saUee.' ^eat the eggs just until llght~ yblks and whites together. Add the n*ilk to them, also the seasonings. Turn into very small molds or custard cups,- previously well greased with but ter or olive oil, set in a pan of hot water «Lnd' cooK in a moderate ovsn until the eggs are set, Which *ah' be ascertained by testing With tiie blade of a knife as in the ease bf boiled cus* tard. Let them stand a inoment -after removing from the -oven, then turn out onto croutons of fried bread. ,Suty round with tomato sauee. r*" Once having tried a few "of UNION LABEL BETTER THAN HAMILTON PLAN $'M"t I I I I i» Bditor Labor World: In your issue of April 4, Mr. J. W. Hamilton has a communication advo cating a place of some kind where by tenement sweatshops and similar Slave 'dens may be brought under national, state or ^municipal control, to the laudable end, of course, that the purchasing public may be pro tected and the working conditions improved. With Mr. Hamilton's worthy purpose I have no quarrel. I Would,, however, direct his attention and that of others to a few unim peachable facts that lie~ close to TUs^ subject, Just so long as there are found purchasers for the product' of tene ment sweatshops and similar slave dens, just that long will those com mercial ulcers continue to fester in the industrial system and no amount of national, state or municipal con trol or supervision, will ever make better those sweatshops and slave dens out of them. When there rio longer sale for the product, then, and then only, will its manufacture -cease. None Who are desirous 'of pur chasing goods, of any description, that are produced in sanitary work shops, amid decent surroundings and under fair conditions to the toiler, need ere in the selection as between the product of tenement sweatshops and that product made Under right conditions, if the purchaser Vttt so elects. Demand the union label, When yqu purchase an article bearing that label, you need question no further, fdr it is in itself an absolute guar antee that the article bearing it has been sent into the commercial world with a clean bill of health and that the toilers who produced It labor un der fair conditions and receive a liv ing wage. If the purchaser believes that the toiler "is worthy of his hire" he backs his conviction with the courage of economic justice and demands the goods that carry the 'badge that guarantees right conditions and a fair day's pay for a fai.r day's toil—the union label. Do Your tftesn new recipes, the sensible little cook will soon get away from the tonr old fashioned ways of cooking eggs. Consider the majestic confidence of the man who eats fre^ lunch sau* sage arid neVer asks a Question. HATS, T1 BAi BIO Th# of this bank from its beginning in 1902. inspires confidence in its methods and management. In 'selecting yonr bank in wjiich to accumulate your resources, you cannot do better than make this your banldng Iran*. Northern .' asaaksissBaisaasssaB' National ALWOBfH BtipUDpiO. Designated as United States D^ository for Pos tal SavingsFuiids. rnnilih Bl*otHo Storati .... V. --for UOHT Ills P0WES v,,„. .'J.'-'-L'lC! ^ith^ watermark can he furnished for Stationery and Envelope Ranfcin ^Primiiig Co. Bldf., J* Al jj jwJlt I! 11 pp B. M. G. Duluth, April 8, 1914. DEATH CLAIMS WIFE OF ALFRED M. HAY Mrs. Anna Hay, wife Of Alfred M. Hay, died Monday at St. Luke's hos pital, Where she had been taken Sat urday for ^.n operation. The funeral Was held yesterday afternoon from the family residence, 819 East Fourth street interment w«s at forest Silt. Mrs. Hay was 30 years' of age, and the Wife of one of the best known members of ifie ^rpenterii* union. He is now engaged dejmty city assessor. The (jterpenters* unlbn sent a beautiful ftefat offering and passed resolutions of sympathy. EASTER DULUTH. SUITS, THE BIG c. mm will bnild you a house on monthly payments if you have a lot fully paid for. 0. 615 Providence Building. FIRE INSURANCE WRITTEN ftjpRdira coM^ANi&s. PhMea: Mil. €be Block Store W2*. "The Shopping Center of Duluth" Demonstration of In the Infant's Department (Second Floor) Today, and Friday April 9, and 11 when Mrs. Daughefty, a trained nurse, will illustrate in models "Vanta" way of dressing babies without pins or buttons and will give you a working pattern of the Vanta Baby Diaper. This is an educational demonstra tion which should interest every mother. A Cabinet Photograph of Your Baby Free During these three days every mother visiting our Baby Department will be presented with a certificate en titling her to a cabinet photograph of the baby from the MoKenzie studio. Ctovad Musical 48*. ONION MADE BUR irlnK Mineral Water 4 OFANSRICA COyrHliHT ftTHAOt KMK WECISTtllgD IS03 Bears This Name 6n Kegs and Boxes of Bottled Beer. "CALL FOR SAME." PHONE Zenith, 174041. SMOKE: PURAD0RA and GEO. TAYLOR KEST WEST DOMESTIC CXOARS Made hy MATT ETTINGER, Prop. 24 East First 'Street. OLDEST RANK AT THE OF TBI® LARES. WE THREE PER CENT PAID ON sAvnros AOCOVHTS. Centrally tMttci. New ail B«t Celd Water a*« all Modern Conveniences. ... BLY RATKOVICH, Pray. MAmr HOUSEHOLD OARfia ANB DUT1E8— XbeN is Hftttolng se. good* pom and sfewlshins as a S^ass et FITGER'S BEER Before Meals and at bed* time—* Recommended by P»a»itnmi* Physicians— Used by nnrses and hospitals Sold at all good {daces Fitger Brewing Co. DULUTH. Zenith Telephone 1892. J. 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