Newspaper Page Text
3, !i il !r I- PIANO STORE CLOSED Will Be Open Next Friday and Saturday For Final Closing. Mr. J. F. NVeissmillcr, manufactur ers' representative, left the city on liis demonstration tour. The balance of the manufacturers' stock of the very highest priced instru ments left unsold at 28 Lake Avenue North will be closed out next Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 and 23, by John Korby. Great bargains will be offered in order to close out balance of this stock in two days. Many good makes of pianos and player pianos to choose from. LAUNDRY WORKERS ADVANCE. COLGATE. Okla., Sept. 21.—Laun dry workers have organized and se cured the eight-hour day and wage in creases. Laundry workers at Ft. Scott, Kan., have also organized. DULUTH UNIVERSAL FLOUR Is Better for Biscuits Ask Union Labor to Help Them Discourage Sale of Non-Union "Cinco" Cigars. The Duluth Cigarmakers' union has voted to assist the cigarmakers of Lancaster, Pa., in their fight against thte firm of Otto Eisenlohr & Bro's., manufacturers of the "Cinco"1 cigar. This firm operates factories in 19 different towns in the state of Pens sylvanla and employes '5,000 persons. It is said to be the largest independ ent cigar manufacturing firm in the country, and is capitalized for $9, 000,000. .. ..... The fight' is being backed by the Lancaster Central Labor union, and an appeal has been sent out to every labor union in. the country for a con tribution of one dollar irom each to assist in winning the strike. The Duluth Federated Trades and Labor assembly will be asked to ap point a committee to visit all local cigar dealers and urge them to refuse to handle the "Cinco" cigar so long as it is manufactured under unfair con ditions. Duluth labor iinions are requested to subscribe to the fund, and to send their contributions to Daniel J. Mc Geever, 425 East Clay street, and to at the same time notify H. M. Till brook, 527 Juniata street, both of Lancaster. Advertise your Union Label in The Labor Wor)d. Columbo $14.50 Suits It is a well-known fact that women's clothes are sold at big prices at the beginning of a season and given away at the end. There may be an excuse for overcharging the, early buyers because of the rapid and radical style changes in female attire. Why men's clothing stores ever imitated this rotten custom is beyond me, but they did until re cently, from one end of the country to the other. We broke away when we introduced the Colum bo $H.50 suit, at first de signed for young men only, but now in stock fo* m£n of all ages. This Columbo $14.50 Suit is naturally never subject to a cut-price sale. The mark up from wholesale cost necessary to cover store expenses and a moderate net profit is extraordinary small. iksA 1 joods Quality selling is the sound ecoIiomiCal basis of the year-round bargain price. I It is. a "bargain" price compared with what piOst stores charge for like suits, "upstairs" stores not excepted. If $15 or thereabouts is the priceyou wish to pay for a suit, we advise you. to try a Columbo this fall. Buy early. Conditions are such that we may have to raise the price of Co lumbo suits any time after present stocks are cx exhausted. Duluth, At Third Ave. West. Broadway Foot Note: Wear the Columbia $4 Shoe. At Lenora Ausun Hamlin of St, Paul was sent by the Woman's Welfare league to'get first hand information abput the treatment accorded to men ,and women during the miners' strike on the Mesaba range, following a speech made before the league by Ma ry Heaton Vorse and Elizabeth Gur ley Flynn. BLAMES PRIVATE POLICE FOR VIOLENCE IN MINERS' STRIKE Lenora Austin Hamlin Gives First Pen Picture of Actual Conditions oil Mesaba Range From Disin terested Standpoint Makes Telling Report to Woman's Welfare League of St. Paul. The St. Paul women wanted a color less story of actual conditions. Mrs. Hamlin, 'well trained for. this sort of investigations, was requested to do the. work. She visited all the impor tant points in the strike zone, and her story confirms the claims made during the strike by the miners. Minnesota is closely following in the footsteps of Colorado and West Vir ginia,- as is shown by the report. It reads in full as follows: Members of the Woman's Welfare league will recall that on Tuesday, Aug. 15, we were addressed by Mary Heaton Vorse and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on the subject of strike condi tions on the range and that great in terest Was aroused by their descrip tions of the part women were taking in the strike and the hardships they were enduring in consequence. Following the meeting an informal request was made by officers and members of the league that an investi gation of strike conditions as they af fect women and children be made by the State Labor department with spec ial reference to thevcase of Mrs. Ma sonvich held, with her baby, without bail, in the St. Louis County jail. This request was endorsed by other women's organizations and later a committee of three members of the League, of which I was one, was ap pointed to follow up the inquiry. In response to our request an in vestigation was made by the Labor Department into the Masonoviorh case, and into certain charges of child labor at the mines, and a report filed with the governor. My visit to the Range was of course quite unofficial, but as I enjoyed rather exceptional opportunities of meeting and talking with the strikers and their families, a brief summary of my impressions and conclusions may, perhaps, be of interest From the Keewatiri picnic on Sun day, when several hundred men and women walked a distance of fourteen miles. or more to_ protest in a half dozen diffferdnV fanguages "against the refusal by the sheriff trt Itasca county of the right of free assemblage in that county, to ray visit to Carlo Tresca and Mfs. ilaSohdvictt lit tH8 Dtllttth jail, the week was a continuous mo- tion picture performance of the most I Minneapolis than" any I saw' on the noyel and vital sort. Range. There should be a state hous Eeel&fter feelUh*oTted tf"heart Iingr throb" stories of tftftfcle fdreign people of tragedy suddenly injected into a homely domestic scene of heart-breaking' struggle of the work ers against Wealth' and power and hunger and "stupid, sometimes brutal officialdom of defiance and the swift, sure descent of the law of'slow imprisonment and the marshalling of the legalv forces for the final battle— all against a background of bare, riven, red earth and beautiful, swept and garnished cities. Verily a cross seption of American life. There was a wild ride through the rain followed by a careful, painstaking examination of the house near Bi waJbik in which the shooting of Dep uty Myron occurred, a tragedy as stupid, as unnecessary as could well be imagined. Four armed deputies enter a home and demand the imme diate surrender of a than who hap pens to be asleep at the time in an adjoining room—on the charge of "unlawful assemblage." The people in the house are immigrants from the South of Europe, speaking little or no English. "Wait till O'Hara come" says the woman. O'Hara is the Bi wabik police officer whom all the for-" eign people of the district respect and* obey. But no, these newly,created officers of the law cloth 1 in a little briof authority, will not wait They pull their guns and begin to shoot. The woman struggles with one of the deputies and tries to take his gun from him. Thfe husband and the four boarders and the- womsn struggle with the deputies and beat them off. A deputy is shot dead. A man deliv ering a case of pop at the gate is shot dead. Two presumably useful lives are snuffed "out, two women made widows, and their children' fatherless, arid all because they wouldn't "wait till O'Hara come." Now a slender dark eyed Monte negrin woman with a pale-faced baby at her breast waits in a close, sunless, inside jail room, along with a dozen "drunk and disorderly" women of the streets, charged with murder because she joined in defending her home and her family against an attack of armed and apparently lawless men. The pity of it, and the shame of it—in Amer ica. There was a, visit to two women In a Duluth hospital, one a young Fin nish woman whose back had been severely injured toy being dragged over railroad ties ^and theft ,tumbled into aditch while on picket duty. The other, an Austrian wo«%an, was ar rested in her kitchen, aUtoon a, charge of picketing. She deniei thte' charge and resisted arrest ,and Ipft her un born baby as a result* bit the 1 en counter., She was very, ilk indeed, :wh6n I saw her. Afterward I met and talked with the SheriffCiw Wing County, where ]botih| a^id#|o(iptirred. He admitted thai tHer|'be£n un necessary display of foWjUn thts part of hi« fifty- men whea^ first .,p,ut on duty, but: said' lie' hi# '^gojt Hhein^ to gether a* soon as. Jij £old them to ."cut it out." He said lie never parried a gun himself, that the'people didn't need a gun. I think he spoke the truth. My feeling is th^ most oMhis "gun toting" on the part of officers of the law is a totally unnecessary piece of business .that it provokes violence in stead of. abating it and that it brutal izes the men who carry the guns. As for the women on the picket lines, they are not playing "the baby act." They're good soldiers. Thpy picket because they are likely to be less roughly handled than the men, because they can't be blacklisted and because they wjmt.to help their men. They're thoroughly "game," those \lomen and we should be immensely proud of them. Then there is Alice' Areola, who bit the patrolman, and is out on bail. She wa^ picketing and a big policeman grabbed her and left the black and blue "mark of his five fingers on her breast." Alice bent her head and bit his hand and he let go. What woman wouldn't? Mrs. Vorse told us that story you remember and said she saw the marks. I met plump, sparkling Alice Areola in her home one night and she confirmed the story. She said she was going on the picket line the next* morning at five. The Finnish co-operative movement is one of the surprises of the Range. In most of the towns there is a Fin nish hall owned co-operatively, and in many of them a Finnish co-operat ive store. The halls have been open to the strikers for their meetings, free of charge, and except, for them it would have been exceedingly difficult for the strikers to find a place in which to meet. These Finnish people on the Range are a remarkably interesting racial group which will richly repay study and further acquaintance. For one thing they stand for equality between men and women. They bring that idea with them from Finland where men and women enjoy equal political rights. They are all equal suffragists. The mine operators may break this strike, .they probably will, butl they might as well make up their minds that organization is coming. Capital is organized and labor must organize in self-protection, and the public will support labor in its efforts to organ ize. No amount of welfare work or philanthropy will take the place of self-respecting, self-directing organiz ation of .thS- workers by themselves for themselves."* As to housing' conditions on the Range, they could be improved no doubt, but there' Are much worse housing conditions in St. Paul and cod® witli of8c»*l to enforce suit- able housing regulations in both city and county districts. *, Life in the mining "locations" could, be made much less colorless and lonely-if the school buildings in the "locations" were opened for Social Center purposes at night. People who work hard need recreation near their homes, and the public school is the only building in the ".location" large enough for recreation purposes. Be sides it belongs to the people and they have a right to use it. A Social settlement on the Range directed by trained and social minded men and women might do much to bring the people of all classes to gether and help them to understand each other. The point of# view of the rich is often more limited and pro vincial than that of the poor. But one thing above all we must stand for shoulder to shoulder over all this great country of ours and that is the right of free assemblage and free speech. We must strike swift and hard at every attempt to deprive us of that fundamental democratic privi lege without which free institutions cannot ehdure. Tn defense of the rigtht of free assemblage and free speech we must be prepared to take cracked heads and bloody noses, If necessary, women as well as men, for without it we area nation of slaves. CULTIVATE NOW TO SAVE RASPBERRIES Wormy raspberries, still freSh ,in the minds of the pickers, are fortunately not a necessary evil. Berries which are infested with raspberry fruit worms cannSfc be shipped pny distance. They make the box unsightly, soon fall apart and Require unnecessary work of the housewife. During the picking season, and im mediately after the season's close, the worms drop to the ground, where after about six weeks they change to a helpless, delicate pupa, jn the spring they transform to small, adult, brown ish beetyes about one-seventh of an inch longe. Being .hungry, they imme diately chew elongated holes in the young tender leaves and later make holes in the bud's. Often from 10 to 15 per cent of the puds may be de stroyed In this manner. Since the insects are helpless in the ground, cultivation in the late fall and early spring will kill many of them or expose them jto their enemies. They can be killdd also by spraying with 4 poundsofl^ad araenate paste to 50 gallons of water about the first or second week in -May, when the young plants are about' Six Inches high, jit id- ^.npQ^ant to. fha.ye neg lected wild bushes destroyed, 'for these serve as breeding grounds. Black Caps and Buthherts- do not seem to be subject t^. fcttgcj? by the worriai :t6 laifj? el-eat .Keftept,' while Kings 1 aft? .th^i^pst siy&elsj Infested. —S. liiarcovitch,"sectron bf economic entomotopifcir University Farm. St. PauHll::|yg. If you .want Jo rteacn the union me^t of Duluth run ait -fttt weekly* Re- Grain Trimmers Ask Judge To Determine Which Union Has Right to Hold Charter. Suit to restrain persons claiming to be members of Local No. 913 from acting, under tin name of the Inter national Longshoremen's association has ben started in district court by rival Local No. 910, as a culmination of the action of W. B. Jones, fifth vice president of the I. I. A. and sec retary of the Great Lakes district, in granting a charter to Local 913 after Local 910 had already received a charter from the parent body. Both locals are composed of grain handlers. District Judge H. A. Dancer has ordered the members of Lofcal 913 to appear in court next Saturday and show cause why they should not be enjoined from operating as members of the I. L. A. Copies Of summons will be served on 16 members of the defendant local. Organized Regularly. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff organization was granted a charter as Local 910 by the Interna tional Longshoremen's association Feb. 1, 1916 and that the charter,was received and fees and dues paid -as prescribed by the rules of the associa tion. It is also set forth that the members of the plaintiff local have always observed the rules of the gov erning body since. Plaintiff further alleged that subse quent to the granting of the charter to Local 910 the International Long shoremen's association illegally granted a charter, to Local 913 which has since styled itself as a part of the International Longshoremen's as sociation. Interference Alleged. The defendants are alleged to have interfered with the work of the plain tiff local's members' called them scabs and threatenfed them with phys ical violence and the plaintiff asks that the rival local be enjoined from in any way molesting the members of Local 910. "Several" members of the freight and lumber handlers' locals with a number of others banded together and formed the local which was granted charter 913 last February by the International Longshoremen's as sociation," said T. M. Robinson, presi dent, last hight. "Three months later W. B. Jones, secretary of the Great Lakes district, arrived in" Duluth and through some error.granted,a charter to Local 913, at the stfmi&'time announcing that ours would be annulled^ This he had no right to do. "Several members of Local 913 have scabbed against union men at various timesr, during the last 15 years," continued Mr, Robinson, "and their organization has not been recog nized by the trades assembly of Du luth. Gordon O'Neill, a member of Local 913, iV now in Buffalo where he is attempting- to ret the long shoremen to refuse to unload cargoes which we handle at the head of the lakes." The membership of Local 910 is about 30, while that of the defendant local ha&'16 members. Catchy Phrases "Open Shop" and "Law and Order" of No Avail, Says Mayor. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.—In a Labor day speech Mayor Rolph pre dicted that the anti-union campaign of the chamber of commerce will fail, despite its catchy phrases of "open shop" and "law and order." "The price of labor is something entirely different from the price of barrels or of «hips. The man who sells his" labor is selling not a com modity, but his life," said Mayor Rolph. "The price of labor is the welfare of the nation the price of labor is the pride of men, the honor of women, the well-being of children the price of labor is the price of life, of liberty, of happiness. "In San Francisco at this moment, a strong effort is being made in cer tain quarters to destroy organized labor. I prophesy the failure of this movement. "I am sure that not even a consid erable minority of our people is in sympathy with any campaign to de stroy organized labor, a movement which would precipitate a wasteful and distressful struggle which settles nothing, brings no good to any one and divides a community for years. "The public is informed, however, that this campaign is not an attack on organized labor. Most opponents of organized labor declare that thly do not wish to destroy the unions. They would permit the unions to exist if they confine themselves to the func tions of benevolent Societies, 'visiting the sick and burying the dead—but they must not attempt to deal with thexwages or conditions of employ mentor interfere with the inalienable right of every man to work whether he belongs to a union, or not. "According, to- this school of thought every man has an inalienable right to work. But let any man seek ing employment go into any shop or factory or bank and, relying upon his inalienable' right to work, demand a job He will soon find that h{s in alienable right to work is nothing but a group of words and that about the only inalienable right he has is the right to starve." WOOD CARVERS WANT MORE. CHICAGO, Sept, 21.—The Wood Cafvers\ union is preparing to enforce a! dwi'^ndw£ge increases of 5 Cents effect Oct. Advertise your Union Label Koofts Mia b§hor .worW, \V. J. COWAN President $6*75 I We Sell Union Hade (Mes for Men GAINS FOR RAINCOAT MAKERS.' NSW YORK, Sept. 21—Waterproof Garment Workers' union has signed a union shop agreement with the Waterproof Garment Manufacturers' association. A 48-hour week and the following wage rates are secured: Seventy-five cents an hour minimum for operators and cementers $18 a week for button sewers and $29 a week for cutters. About 1,000 work ers benefitted. This victory was followed by the independent manufacturers, employ ing about 3,000 workers, agreeing to the same conditions. The raincoat workers are affiliated, to the Inter national Ladies' Garment Workers' union. REJECTS PEACE OFFER. BANGOR, Me., Sept. 21.—President Ryder of the Bangor Railway & Elec tric company, whose motormen and conductors are striking for recogni tion of their union, has refused to consider a proposition for the- settle' ment of the strike presented by strikers through state officials. each. $7 to $9» $6.00 Suits, Overcoats, Shirts, Hats, Underwear, Shoes, etc., and invite ypnr call when yon need such goods. Union salesmen to wut~on yon. FLOAN & LEVEROOS JOHN CURHAN Secretary and Treasurer CASH MARKET COMPANY INCORPORATED Chinaware Crockery Glassware Fresh and Salt Meats Fancy Groceries Phone Nos. 173-174. Nos. 709-711 Third Ave. HIBBING, MINN. Majestic Theatre "The Brightest Spot in Hibbing' T. RODDY, Prop. Presenting the Best at All Times in Photo Plays Continuous SUNDAYS, from 2 P. M. the Time for Warm Outing Flannsl and $7400* $5.00. CHAS. GRIESBACH Vice President t" RUBBER WORKERS GAIN. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 21.— The management of the Siemon Hard Rubber company concluded to adjust differences with individual employes and ignore the shop committee of the Rubber Workers' union, affiliated di rectly to the A. F. of L. This policy resulted in a suspension of work by 150 employes. The plant was forced to shut down and when A. F. of L. Organizer Duffy volunteered his services a settlement was reached that included wage in creases of 5 cents an hour for a 50 houir week for time workers and sub stantial increases for piece workers. PLUMBERS SECURE CONTRACT. TOLEDO, Ohio.. Sept. 21.—Plumb ers and Steamfitters* union has se cured a two-years' contract. The eight hour day and a $5 rate are agreed to. UNHOLSTERERS WANT MORE. CINCINNATI, Sept. 21.—The Up holsterers' union has submitted a new wage scale to employers. An eight hour day and $18 a week is asked. For children's night gowns, kimonos, petticoats, baby dresses— just in season, at prices perhaps you won't hear about for some time. 5,000 yards fancyOuting Flannel very heavy quality—28 inches -wide, September sale, 8c yard* 3,000 yards 36-inch fine Outing Flannel, in stripes only. This is an extraordinary bargain September sale, tic Block yard. 4,000 yards 36-inch fancy stripe Outing Flannel. Extra heavy for pajamas and night gowns September sale, \2x/z yard. 2,000 yards of 36-inch extra heavy Blanket Outing Flannel, all white—the best in Duluth September sale, S6c yard. 3,000 yards of extra heavy 36-inch fancy striped Outing Flannel regular price 19c, September sale, 15c. We are fortunate in being able to offer the 36-inch Fancy Out ing Flannel at these pripes. Real Heme Comforts Rosebud Lamb's Wool—Pretty rosebud pattern, best quality silkoline tied with the yarn, full bed size filled with new lambs wool. Regular $5.00 quality, special at $3.95 each. Persian Lamb's Wool—Assorted colors, Persian design, high grade sateen cover, scroll stitch. Regular $9.00 quality, special at Chrysanthemum—Down Filled—A beautiful floral pattern, sateen-covered, blue border comfort with down filling regular $7.00 value, special at $5*75* American Beauty—Down Filled—High quality, sateen cover, in very desirable assorted patterns and colors plain sateen border, scroll stitched regular $12.00 quality, special, $8.75. Real Shoe Quality Comfort, style, novelty, appropriateness—every woman has a right to expect them when she buys good footwear. Geo. W. Baker two-tone shoes in champagne and black, tan and white, black and gray, wine and black, lace or button 8^-inch tops, Geo. W. Baker Mat Kid with cloth or kid tops, Cuban or .French heels, Geo. W. Baker Black Russian Calf, button or lace, Cuban or low heels, Geo, W. Baker Patient Leather, button, with turn or welt soles, Cuban or French heels, cloth or kid tops, kid, lace or button, welt or turn soles, and $6.00* $5.00 and Shipment of Stockings In answer to the large demand for Black Silk Hose, we ordered and h&«e just jr^ived a big shipment of this popular quality.. We will Have, more, $ $6.00. 8 Our Shoe Repair Department grows busier every day. Phone and pur driver will call. within a short time yet those we have are going rapijUy. A neirloif of Black Silk Hose, double soled, re-inforced heel' and toe, and double lisle top, 59c a pair. A ne^ jo| .4f KoV^ty' Sil^Hpse^^ to $3.50. 'r.hil/li^n'a^TfthoFiber 'HoM. excellent wear, 85c value, special, 29c* Sises 5 to Black and 9-inch tops, $5.00 .i