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'S The Greatest Story Ever Told— Mt. Advertiser, is the story of what you offer the public in ex change for their money* Use* The Lkbor World to tell your story*. VOL. 24, NO. 20 DENVER, Colo., Dec. 28.—Denver Theatrical Stage Employes union No, 7, has just signed a new wage scale "With all the theater managers of this city, which brings to the members of this organization an increase ranging from $2.50 to $5 per jveek of six days. This agreement was reached through a series of amicable confer ences between a committee of the union and a like committee of the theater managers. WANT STATE-MADE TEXT BOOKS STRAND READY FOR TRIAL TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 28.—Union printers are arousing public opinion in favor of public school text books being made in this state. DEATH IN THE MINES. HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 28.— turing the first nine months of the current year 333 men were killed and 6,958 other workers disabled for pe riods greater than 14 days in the an thracite mines of this state. PITTSBURG,' Kan., Dec. 28.— Twenty-seven miners were killed and seven injured in an explosion in the Reedy & Ryan coal mine, near this city. With one exception, this is the greatest loss of life in the history of Kansas coal mining. Forty men were killed in 1889 in a mine explosion at Frontenac. N.^YV YORK, Doc. 28.—At last, in America, Jack is every inch a sailor, and is no longer a chattel slave. T&e twentieth annual convention of. the International Seamen's union, of America, which has just closed an historic session in New York City celebrated this fact, by sending to Prcsid-.-t Wilson, as its first official act, the following telegram of con\ gratulations: "The International Geamen's Union of America, in twentieth annual convention assombled, -ends best wishes and heartiest congratulations upon your re election. "For the first time in. history the seamen of America are now meeting as freemen. With your own good self at the helm for four yearu more we. feel confi dent of cur ability to demon strate to all America that ..the ^Seamen's Act, to which you af fixed your signature, stand* first Ifor human freedom, second for greater safety of, liffi at sea, and Sheriff Nelson and Deputies Disqualified by Judge Dancer. Hinted That County Attorney Is Co-operating With Administration Enemies to Hold Trial Off Until After Legislature Convenes. Sheriff Nelson of Lake county and all his deputies have been disqualified from participating in the drawing of the special venire of jurors to sit in the case of Mayor E. G. Strand of Two Harbors. Judge Dancer signed an order, to this effect, following a motion made by Mr \Strand's attorneys. Charges had been made that the grand jury which indicted Mr. Strand and Former Mayor Towl were selected almost entirely from company Employes. Scrutiny'of the list of grand jurors bears out this claim, for all but a very few of the 22 men on the grand jury were connected in some way with the Duluth & Iron Range Railway company, or else decidedly unfriendly to the Socialist administration. Mr. Strand called on the editor of The Labor World this week. He tells us he has been ready to proceed to trial for the past three days, but for some reason the county attorney h^s seen fit to pass up the Strand case and try two or three small election cases instead. These cases involve the peddling of literature on election day or other minor offenses. Mayor Strand was elected to the Minnesota legislature by the people of his district. The legislature meets January 2, and the fact that the county attorney seems inclined to put the Strand case off from time to time lends support to the claim of the friends of Mayor Strand, that County Attorney Jelle is lining up with the administra tion enemies in holding off the trial until after the legislaure con venes in order to pave the way to contest the right of Mr. Strand to sit as a member of that body. In any event, the legislature meets next week Mr. Strand has been ready to go to trial for the past few days, and for some reason best known to himself, County Attorney Jelle prefers to postpone the Strand case which is precisely what the political enemies of Mayor Strand want Jell« to do. Two and two generally make four. New Schedule Agreed to In Con ference Between Union Offi cials and Managers. W.F.OFMJS E Is Now International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Men. The historic Western Federation of Miners has changed its title and is now the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Thus passes one of the historic names in the world of organized lsibpr. The change was approved by the American Federation of Labor convention at Baltimore a few weeks ago. The change was ir.ade because the Western Federation is no longer western, but has organizations even in Atlantic seaboard states. When the Western Federation was organ ized it was purely a Rocky Moun tain organization. It now has be come national, and, therefore, wished to drop a title that indicated a sec tional organization. The Western Federation of Miners has figured largely in some of the most dramatic struggles of the last quarter century. Of these the Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone trials prob ably were the most conspicuous. The American Federation of Labor approved the change in the title when assured that the change meant no attempt to extend jurisdiction into fieldfc-of labor belonging to other organizations. STOGIE MAKERS (SAIN. WHEELING, W. Va., Dec. 28.— Stogie makers have won their strike for a wage increase of $1 per thous and in all the local factories except the two plants controlled by the Pol lack concern. last but not least for equality of opportunity for the American ship and the American ship owner. ANDREW FURU3ETH." President Wilson's answering let ter of thanks and best wishes was read to a con\-ntion of forty-five delegates, representing 100 per cent mere union seamen than there were in the service of American chips one year ago and before the new law went into effect. The prophecy of Andrew Furu seth, president of the union, able seamen, and a survival of the old Vikings, is cor..:..j true: "The Amer ican sailor golpg back to the sen and he is going back a free man." Just ~'hat that means, in its many ways, to the United States and to the internationalism of the Seven Seas was briefly indicated in statements made to the Committee on Industrial Relations by Paul Scharrenberg, "edi tor of thi Coast Seamen's Journal of San Francisco and a delegate to the conv^ntion,\and was set forth in the Collections Still Outstanding For Benefit of Stage Hands' Families. Members of the Duluth local of the stagehands' union, who have charge of the fund of $1,526 which was raised through a theatrical per formance given at the Grand theater last October for the benefit of the widows of the late John (Kelly) Pendergast and Edward J. Lorent zon, who were drowned near Mc Gregor while duck hunting,, have de cided that the local union will give each widt^w $50 a month from the fund subscribed by Duluthians in general for their benefit.., So far Mrs. Lorentzon has received two checks of $50 each while Mrs. Pendergast has received nothing. Committees that have waited on her have reported to the union that she says she is not in need, as yet, having received ?200 from two local lodges of which her husband was a mem ber. J. L. Morrissey, manager of thQ Lyceum theater, said that there ar^ still some collections to be made w,hich will be turned over to the fund. Some of the people who took tickets to sell have not yet brought back either the money or the tickets. He says that in one instance a mem ber of the union took ten tickets and has not yet reported. EIGHT-HOUR DM Pro Rata Time For Overtime Granted by Arbitration Board. NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—The eight hour day with straight pro rata time for overtime is granted to the Switch men's union by the Federal arbitration board in a decision today in the switchmen's controversy with the rail roads. The award gives an, increase of 5 cents per hour for both foremen and helpers. "This decision in the switchmen's controversy with railroads has an im portant bearing on the Adamson l&w," it was stated here today by an official spokesman for the conference com mittee of managers of the railroads. "It does not O. K. the Adamson act, in our opinion. The Adamson legisla tion gave the men ten hours pay for eight hours of work, or an increase of about 25 per cent in wages. The award today gives the switchmen only nine hours pay for eight hours of work, or between 13 and 16 per cent increased wages. We get a great deal of satisfaction out of this award." Pleased With Decision. It was pointed out on behalf of the roads that they were pleased with what was alluded to as the switchmen arbitration board's liberal exposition, in its document filed in the Federal court, of the road's argument as ad vanced during the hearing here. Nearly all of the road's contentions were emphasized, it was declared. AMERICAN SEAMEN TO The meetings between the confer ence committee of managers and the brotherhood chiefs to discuss the Ad amson act have been held in abeyance pending the settlement of the switch men's demands. With this controversy out of the way, it was stated by rail road officials today, the Adamson con ferences will be resumed after Christ mas. It was said, however, that the situation probably will remain in status quo until the United States su preme court has determined the con stitutionality of the Adamson act.<p></p>GRATEFUL report of T. A. Hanson, International Secretary of the Seamen. Benefits Already Shown. "Everybody connected with the sea trades hc.t be^n ~:nefited im mensely already," said M.r Scharren berg, "except the American investor in foreign ships whose interest was to drive American ships and sailors from the seas and to keep all sail ors in i. -ry .rid porj/slaves, sub juct to be run down and captured and turned over to sl^ve chafns if they dared to exercise the right of every free man and quit their jobs. These same investors in foreign ships, and members of the international shipping trust, have been the same ones, by the wa/f who have talked co loudly about the American flag, and yet have hired Orientals at, indecent Wages to the' practical exclusion of the American seamen. "The American flag is being re stored to the sea, along with the American sailor, by the Seamen's Act. Just consider one side advantage which, this means The merchantman DULUTH AND SUPERIOR, DECEMBER 30,1916. CHARTER AGAIN HIT BY SUPREME HAPPENED IN N. Y. WHY NOT IN DULUTH? NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—New York coal 'dealers .dropped the price of coal from *12 a ton to $9 a ton as soon as the Evening World began its demands for a criminal investigation and they brought it down to $8 when the criminal inquiry actually began. The district attorney has enough questions to ask them to keep them out of temptation for a while. GETS $32,000 FOR ARM. WPITE PLAINS, N. Y., Dec. 28.— A jury in the supreme court awarded $32,000 damages to Adam H. Boeder, of Mt. Vernon, against the Erie and the New Jersey & New York rail roads for the loss of his left arm while working as a brakeman for the 'latter railroad. Boeder sued both corporations for $50,000 damages. The verdict is a ^record on© for West chester county for the loss of an arm. SHIP CARPENTERS WIN. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28.—Car penters' union No. 1,856 raised wages 2 yz cents an h»our |or its members employed at the Cramp ship yards, after a two-days' strike. The Ken sington Dry Dock company, a sub sidiary of the Cramp concern, raised wages of its carpenters 3 cents an hour after a six weeks' strike. PLASTERERS ORGANIZE. JOPLIN, Mo., Dec. 28.—Plasterers have organized and applied for a charter from the Operative Plaster ers* association^ Other crafts that have recently organized in this city are the moving picture operators, bill posters and the lathers. WASHINGTON, Iec. 28.—In a statement mad? public last week United States Senatqj' Borah records his opposition to all forms of "can't strike" legislation: "I do not see just how tfcose who are advocating the Canadian arbitration law" for this country, or any law for effective com pulsory investigation and arbitration, are going to get by certain well estab lished legal principles," he says. "There seems to be an impression that the whole thing is made easy be cause we are to deal with a body of men and not a single Individual. In other words it is supposed, apparently, that while you cannot compel an in dividual to work or to punish him be cause he quits work that you can com pel a body of men acting collectively or as a union to work or punish them because they agree to quit work. To say that the concerted action of pow erful bodies of men shall not be per mitted to stop the industrial process of the nation does not meet the situation ,at all. It is true, however, that pow erful bodies of men acting together may quit work and may decline to ac cept employment and if their quitting work has the effect of stopping the operation of trains it is nevertheless their right to quit. "A man's constitutional right, either individually or collectively, cannot be measured by the amount of injury which the exercise of his constitutional right may do to society. "In my judgment employes have a right either singly or collectively to quit work because they are dissatisfied with their wages or for any other rea son which has to do with their welfare as to sanitary conditions, etc., as work ingmen. It is just as much an inva sion of a man's personal liberty and just as much in contravention of his constitutional right to compel him to remain in the service of another when he is a member or- acting with his union as it would be to compel him to do so if he was acting individually. Right to Quit. "It has been decided a number of times, and in one instance by no lcrs sailor is the recruit for the nation's navy. Of the .100,000 or more union sailors in the Britich merchant fleet3 more than 16,000 are now serving on the British-men-of-war. America's necessarily growing navy will 'have the reserve force for tif-e of need or the young men trained in the ways of t"he sea on her merchant vessels and having the fine spirit and strength that Lelongs only to free men. "The American Seamen's Act is benefiting seamen all the World over" continued Mr."" Scharrenberg. "As it applies to the sailors and ships of all nations that touch American ports, its result is to make all ship owners of all 'nations pay the same good wages and maintain the same good conditions for health and safety on the vessels. This equalization re lieves the American ship owners of competition,'of foreign low wages and of 'fugitive slave laws' for sea-, men anjl of ijnsafe vessels." Secretly Hanson'g' Report. Condensing the benefits of the 4&W* Sectary Ifansbn's rtport a&erUft: I FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ECONOMIC REFORM AND POLITICAL PROGRESS MINNESOTAXrt.•ftTsfiwwiBE ~Q Daily Press Gave Prominence to Indictment All But Ignored 9 Jury's Verdict. With flaring headlines the daily papers announced the indictment of Mayor Strand and former Mayor Towl of Two Harbors, afid stuck away in the inside of these same papers was the announcement .of the acquittal of Former Mayor Towl by a jury last week. It took the jury only fifty-five min utes to find Mr. Towl not guilty of the charges of taking a bribe. The ^abor World believes that it will take less time than that for the ju»y to tiring in a similar verdict in the Strand case. Dressed as Man, Seeks Job Gets Cell in Chicago Police Station. CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Mrs. Emily Miller, 27 years old, was cold and hungry, so she just put on men's clothes and w'ent to a coal yard to get a job. She didn't look much like a man, so instead of work she got a cell in police station. She is charged with disorderly conduct. I SENATOR BORAH COMES OUT AGAINST SOCALLED ANTI STRIKE LAW an authority than Justice Harlan, late associate justice^ of the Supreme Cburt of the United States, tluit a labor union has a right to confer with refer ence to their wages and to determine as a matter of fact whether they are satisfied, and if not satisfied as a re sult of their Conference, to quit work. I am speaking now, of course, of the rights as between the employer and the employe, omitting entirely the question of .interference with some one else operating the train. But as be tween the employer and the employe, the employe has a right either singly or collectively to quit work, in my judgment, and under the constitution of the United States he cannot be de prived of that right simply because he acts collectively. Whatever one party may do alone he may do in combina tion with others provided they have no unlawful object in view, but the right to quit on account of unsatisfac tory wages can.never be made unlaw ful. "If you can prevent men from act ing collectively and as a union in re gard to their wages, to their sanitary conditions and to questions of health, surroundings and such things, then you have, of course, destroyed collect ive bargaining absolutely and have found a way by which to inhibit col lective action uporuthe part of labor and it would bp the beginning of the end of union labor. Collective Action Needed.' "Collective bargaining and collect ive action both upon the part of capi tal and labor are in accordance with the spirit and principle of the age, and some other way will be found to ad just these matters than that of taking a backward step and destroying col lective bargaining and collective ac tion so long as the action is for lawful purposes. "I have ne\ser believed that com pulsory arbitration was either practic able or legal under present provisions of our constitution, both state and na tional. "The change has been not alone in improved safety, in the working conditions and to'some extent in th6 wages of the men, but the whole life on ship board has been improved, and instead of the old spirit of bit terness and hatred, inevitable, under the slave laws that held the men, there is an air of freedom and a growing recognition of rights and re sponsibilities on *the part of everyl body connected with tlrs ship. It is certain that after the Seamen's Act has been in operation another year or two, that not even the ship owners will.want to repeal it. Instead, we will find that all other maritime na tions will follow the lead set by the United States." The internationalism of the con tention was strongly emphasized by the presence and active participation in it of delegates from Great Bri tain dnd from Japan, relegates B. Suzuki, of the -latter country, and J. Hensen of Great Britain arid Ireland, as well as Richard McGhec, member of Parliament, and Harry* Gosling, 1 *1 HISTORICAL! SOCIETY Return of Gov, Cox to Power Alarms Companies Doing Pri vate Insurance. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 28.—As a result of the election of former Gov. James M. Cox private liability com panies in this state are on their knees. Two years ago Gov. Cox was defeated for re-election after he had jammed through the legislature workmen's compensation law. Dur ing the past two years- the law has been weakened so that private com panies are now writing insurance. In the last campaign this issue was pushed to the f~-e by organized labor and Cox promised that he would drive the companies out of the state if re-elected. The companies are fearful of this threat, and it is now claimed that they are willing to retire voluntarily if no legislation is passed. .They realize that ouster laws would affect them in other states who had been legates from Great Britain to the convention of the American -Federation of Laibor, told of the efforts not only of their re spective countries but of all "the for eign. countries'* to have similar sea men's laws enacted there. A special bulletin and an attempt to value the message of these foreign delegates to the seamen and to the trade union movement in general' will be issued soon by the Committee on Industrial Relations^ As showin? what the merchant sail ors of Europe thought of the Amer ican Seamen'S Act, the visiting dele gates told of the appropriation by the union of Great Britain of more than $400 to' help' the American In ternational to resist efforts to repeal the law. They told also of that union's purpose to contribute con stantly if peed be for the upholding of real manhood liberty on the sea. Will Help En!oNe Law. Now td have the administfrei9v ment DID YOU KNOW THAT— Ave union people are on trial for their T*V» in San Francisco? That strikes arc FDR THE LABOR WORLD. TWO The last time the charter was emasculated was merely the last time, the Supreme Court got a crack at it. It was only a little more than a year ago that we were advised by the Supreme Court that we didn' really want a workable method for electing our city officials that would automatically let the ma jority rule, as we thought we did when we adopted our Home-Rule charter. Some of our people said then it was all right to have four judges out-vote 12,313 citizens of Duluth because the preferen tial voting system was not .submitted separate from the other pro visions of our new commission-form charter, and maybe the people didn't really want it. But now we have our referendum section, which was submitted to the people separately, and before we had any commission-form charter, crated in a straight-jacket, because—well, because it "is an extraordinary tower which ought not unreasonably to te restricted or enlarged by construction." The "rule of reason" was adopted by the SuprerAe Court of the United States a few years ago to emasculate some forward-looking legislation. It has been used by other Federal courts to prohibit picketing and other methods of promoting the interests of the peo ple. A Federal court has recently applied the rule in favor of, not against, picketing. Brandeis and Clarke may live to apply it on the Federal Supreme Court in favor of, not against, the people's legisla tion. May not we hope to see the day when our own Supreme Court will apply the rule in favor of the people so as "not unreasonably" to "restrict or enlarge by construction" some "extraordinary power'* which the people of our cities grant "to themselves in their Home Rule charters? We only know such law*in the Armory case as we read in the brief of the city's special counsel. It may have all been bad law, but we look in vain in the opinion of the court for a reference, not to say an answer, to the fundamental arguments of the city's brief. The decision, however, is the law of the state and we have closed the book. We congratulate Aad Temple on its victory, and have no doub$ it will make the Old Armory anew temple of civic pride and useful* ness. There is. nothing more powerful than a Supreme Court—except the people whose servant it is. Seamen's Act so through the Depart of Commerce, that its full spirit CENTS.<p></p>COURT NOT A HOME RULE CHARTER? Ask the Supreme Court—It Only Knows. Charter Emasculated Every Time Supreme Court Gets Crack At It. The Supreme Court of Minnesota made another "cleaning" for the people of Duluth last Friday, when it emasculated {he referen dum section.of our Home Rule charter. Made Possible by Action Constitutional Con vention. of QUERET^RO, Mex., Dec. 27.—via Mexico City, Dec. 28.—The constitu tional convention today adopted an article which makes possible the ex istence of labor unions. In discussing the labor question, Deputy Cano of Guanajuato made an attack on American mining companies, which he characterized as the worst exploiters of Mexican labor. He asked the assembly to appoint a commission for the purpose of requesting Gen. Carranza to remedy the situation and compel mining' companies to resume operations on pain of having their properties operated by the govern* ment. MACHINISTS WANT MORE. TORONTO,/ Ont., Dec. 28.—At a mass meeting of union machinists it was voted to ask'that wages of tool makers be increased to 50 cents an hour and machinists 45 cents. These workers are nearly 100 per cent or ganized. and letter shall be put into effect is the great aim of the International as it was of the convention. The worst offense against the law and against the seamen is the slack and truly unn lawful way in which the Department? of Commerce, under its present dl rection, "softens" the language testa for the crews at. thus still in mans cases permits vessels to be m«.nne^ by coolies .and by ignorant, income petent persons who do not under* stand the uninterpreted, emergence orders of' their officers. Delegates to| tb^convention, condemned Eugene 'VU Chamberlain, Commissioner of NavH gation, and Gerge C. Uhler, Chief oC the Steamboat Inspection Bureafi, la^ the Commerce Department, as beln^ responsible direc'.ly, and blamed 8eOH retary Redfleld as being responsible at least indirectly, for this violation and partial negation of the benefit cent law. The fast growing strength of the fast growing International Se&men'sT. Union of America was pledged ti»e fight against, these administrai non-enforcements of the law.