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6 *«^,. v,'"V All talk points to the fact that five of the present six councilm'en will be defeated and their places taken by four men chosen as candi dates from the ranks of organized labor and the other places filled by men running with the indorsement of labor. Commissioner J. M. Clancy, for mer president of the St. Paul Trad'es and Labor assembly, who was elected councilman two years FINEST BLEND-: This Label on the Back I *2&T-— Secretaries of Political and Economic Branches of Labor Move ment Devote Week to Ranges, DIM and Two Harbors Ex plain Progress Made By Workinpen In State Politics. Thos. Van Lear, secretary of the Minnesota Working Peoples' Non partisan leagoie, and G. W. Lawson, secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor, are speaking this week in the several range towns. They are scheduled to be in Duluth Friday and in Two Harbors Saturday. Van Lear and Lawson are ex plaining to the workingmen the purpose of the league and the prog ress that is being made in organiz ing the workers politically through out the state. It is said that two thirds of the Duluth unions have djrectly affiliated with the league, the remaining two-thirds soon to be members. St. Paul is the center of activity for workingmen in politics. The branch in that city has lined up to make a stiff fight in the city cam paign now under way there. The platform calls for a cleanup of old gang politicians, grafters and hang ers-on who have been having a free hand in the administration of the city government. A constructive program also is advanced for civic improvements by which all the people will benefit and not a few self-selected cliques. Every indication now, 10 weeks before the city primary election and four months before the final elec tion, is that the workers' ticket will win. MAKERS OF THE WELL-KNOWN BRANDS: Look for & plied i'ub experience put lhaf Duluih Universal oil ike iable. Its VAN LEAR AND LAWSON VISIT IN NORTH CAMPAIGNING FOR LEAGUE dou^iiQul dcv ago on the labor ticket, is the only present member of tlje council as sured of re-election. He likely will lead the ticket this year. A referendum vote now Is being taken at regular meetings of all the unions in St. Paul to select the four labor candidates for council men. Nine names have been sub mitted to the unions. The four re ceiving the highest vote will be the candidates. About 12,000 votes will.be cast by union men in the referendum. This vote will go solid in the election for the candidates named. As 14,000 normally are enough to win an elec tion it can easily be seen how much power labor will exercise in the election. The vote will be completed early in February. A committee now is visiting union meetings each night and taking the secret ballots, which then are locked in a safe and will not be opened until all unions have voted. A campaign committee of 200 members, representing every union in the city, is handling the political situation from the labor side. Im portant actions of the committee, such as selection of candidates, are submitted to the union for final de cision through a referendum. In this way every action is known to be that of the majority of union members and ,any chances are re moved for charges that th'e com mittee is yielding to Influences not representative of the rank and file of labor.- While the St. Paul campaign is the*.center of attraction now, work is continuing throughout Minnesota of organizing the league and getting ready to take part In the state cam paign and other municipal elections, as well as contests in legislative and congressional districts. wanted a cigarette with the label—»her* it is—as good as* you are ?T^™a.slng Plus the UNION-LABEL. If you area good UNION Joo* DSB mn0N IDLE HOUR cigarettes are now on vale in most PlM8i- vhert tobacco Is sold. Any dealer can get this brand from his Job ber. POPULAR PRICE (20 Cigarettes) Manufactured by The United States Tobacco Co. RICHMOND, VA. Epicure Tobacco Central Union (cut Ping) 15f Campbell's Shag Tobacco ^15,. ^-rrf-,pr 'V wrygyrrr mjf* SATUBDAT- -THE LABOR WORLD ANOTHER'FINK' Labor World Editor In Close Quarters For Short Time Hop ing to Convert Him. Another "fink" with a grievance drifted into The Labor World office yesterday. He landed here from In ternational Falls and he sure had it in for "Jim" Barry, boss of the Backus strike breakers. Their word Is no good," he said. "Dey told me that If I shipped from Chicago and didn't like It up der, dey would pay my fare back. When I quits and bones dem for de cushltfn passage, all I gets is a biff in de neck and a kick from de bunk house." This "fink", like our caller of last week, had Jt in for Barry, and some how or other he was sent to The Labor World to find out. if the law really compelled Backus to pay strike breakers' return railroad fare from International Falls to Chicago. After he was informed that there was no help for him under the law, we were treated to the choicest bit of Chicago West Side lingo we had heard in many days. Like a Machine Gun. Temper, profanity, slang and threats poured like bullets through a machine gun for the next few mo ments. "Wait till I get that guy back to Chi," said the visitor, "and I'll trim him right for trowin* de hooks Into me. Say boy, if you could see him when he wants us to go on a Job, he's all honey, he is, and der ain't nothing too good for us. But when he is tru wid us he bumps us like as if he never wanted us again. He tinks we have no memory, and when we goes broke in de big town we'll for get all about what we got on de last job. Here is one guy who won't for get. I'll get him yet, see if I don't." "We have heard such talk before," chimed in The Labor World man. "You fellows are strong on threats, but when, the next strike breaks you will be as eager to .get into it as is a soldier in the rear hearing the r,oar of battle ahead wanting to go to the front. You will be told of the big money and easy time, and nothing will prevent you from hiring out. We can't understand your composition. You are absolutely devoid of con science and principle. You would sell your mother for a piece of silver." We Got His Goat. He stood straight up, screwcd his mouth, twisted his nose and blinked his treacherous eyes. Then shot his right hand, towards us with the fist closed and index finger pointing out. "See here," he saiJ®"you are landin* on me pretty stron^me boy. I've used a cannon on fellows who have (talked like dat to me before, and I didn't coitie here to be insulted. I came to ask you of der was any way to make Barry pay my fare back to Chicago. You are no gentleman or you wouldn't talk to me like dat." "You have merely proved my con tention," cut in "the editor. "By what right do you come to me for infor mation. This is the office of a union labor newspaper. We are in entire sympathy with the men at Interna tional Falls whose Jobs you 'finks' have taken during a strike. You knew When you left Chicago that you were shipping out as strikebreakers. You knew that you were going to Inter national Falls to defeat a number of. workingmen who were striking against a reduction in wages and the length ening of their work day. You went up there to help an enemy of all labor defeat your fellow workingmen. You got the worst of it, and now you have the brazenous to come to a union labor office for help and assistance. Shouldn't you be ashamed of your self, and are you not really devoid of the first principles of manhood? I have triedj to treat you decent in the hope that you might see the great wrong you were doing, not only to your fellow laborers, but to yourself and to your wife and babies and to other wives and babies. I didn't in tend to insult you, and I am sorry if I did, but I do wish you would get out of this nefarious business and play the game of life a litle bit more on the square. He Mellowed a lilttle. "Say pard," he said, "you're not such a bad fellow after all. I didn't, get you right at first. But don't waste any time on me. I am beyond it. I've been at de game too long. Der's a tousand union men in de country who would slug me in a minute if dey got de chance. Dey'll never forgive and dey'11 never ttrget. I'll be a 'fink' until I croak. I'm a gone, goose-so far as trotting wid union boys is con cerned. I know dis business ain't xactly right, but I'm after de change and dis is de easiest way a man like me can get it. So don't do any. more preachin' to me, but I am much obliged to you just de same. And say, you tink I'll forget Barry? You've got me wrong. I'll show him that he can't double-cross a guy dats always been right wid him and get away wid it." He left the office still assuring us that he had it in for Barry, but with out the slightest remorse for the dirty work at which he is engaged. And as he left this thought ran through our mind: "American employers are con tributing thousands of dollars these days to campaigns against Bolshevism and the work of Americanizing the foreigners, but such as Backus o'f In ternational Falls is doing more to promote Bolshevism and to injure the cause of Americanism than all the wild-eyed anarchists that ever Infested this or any other country." BI6 SUIT AHD OVEBCMT Ml FS All Prices Rcdnced The Big Dnlutb Expenrt to Sn, VU, Dost. Deal, CM, Cases and Ba4,Li|btfiig is tajar teas to your Eyes. Sore, Inflamed Eye*. Quickly Relieved bf lMM/tfl fttiedy. A* «U Dnwf at°rej._ Write for Eye Care leak, free ¥«fc«gyf •—|j •„?«. OfcieSt.. CMaf* HIBBINGMNS President state Federation ot Labor Did Good Work on E. G. Hall president of th'e state federation of labor, has been on the range only a few months, but it is doubtful if any labor organizer on the range has been so successful as the federation president in organiz ing the unorganized workers. The year 1919 was a great year for labor in Hibbing, and the major portion of the success of that year has been due to President Hall. Perhaps, the greatest and first or ganiatiozn work done by Hall was the organization of the Hibbing Central Labor union. Heretofore, labor in Hibbing had the members, but with the exception of the build ing trades, there was. no concerted action. The. Central Labor union is now one of the strongest labor or ganizations in this part of the state, and its power is already being felt in certain quarters. Had Hall only organized the Cen tral Labor union he could have called his work on, the range a suc cess, but In addition, he organized the bakers' union, the meat cutters' union, the hoisting .^engineers' union, the chauffeurs' union and the retail clerks' union in the few months that he has spent on the range. All these organizations are now thriv ing unions and a credit to the labor movement on the range.—Mesaba Ore. Dreamers serve a good purpose in the trade union movement be cause they assist in stimulating! thought and counteracting inertia, writes President Perkins of the Cigar Makers' International union, in the official magazinfe of that organlation. Th'e cigar makers' executive well says «that trade unionists "neither fear nor shirk from those yho hold adverse opinions," and that the door of trade unionism is open to every man and woman who works for wages. "No organization, including labor, is perfect or can become. perfect," he continues. "In the process of evolution that which seemed an ideal organization or state, if reache.d, would become old-fash ioned and unsatisfactory. It is well that this is true and it will always be true so ldhg as hope and ambi tion last, and both will probably last forever: The natural evolution brings with it new ideas and in creased intelligence and fresh hopes," President Perkins then gives this advice to those who would divide workers through secession or dual ism: "The real fed-blooded man gets Inside and stays inside of the ranks of organized labor and there fights man-fashion against what he thinks are wrongs, and in advocacy of his ideals. The self-styled* progressive is often too short sightecL and im patient with the ^evolutionary proc ess and what he thinks is slow progress and is Inclined to rush off and start something new—a dual organization. This something new invariably fails, chiefly because It attracted the erratically inclined who never want to stay hitched, and they then start out with something new again, while the solid, sub stantial, plodding, evolutionary, con structive trade union movement continues to improve. The con structive -trade union is always re liable, ready to sacrifice, willing to meet the other fellow halfway, and always ready to fight-for principle, justice and right. Courageous men Stand up and fight within the or ganization along constructive, evo lutionary lines the coward runs away. He labors under the mis taken Idea that the way to build up is to tear down." SHIPBUILDERS'UNION TO GETGOOD CONTRACT W. E. Brennan, general organizer for the International Boilermakers and Shipbuilders' union, is a visi tor in Duluth this week, assisting the local union in completing a working agreement with the Mc Dougall-Duluth Shipbuilding com pany. Mr. Brennan held a con ference with, officers of the com pany this week and it is believed a satisfactory" agreement will be made. Mr. Brennan's home is In Supe rior, but his headquarters are in Toledo. His work takes him to various porta along the Great Lakes. He is well known to Duluth and Superior union men. THOR HANSON IS MAIN HEAD OF PLASTERERS Plasterers' Union No. 53 elected officers for the year last Monday evening at Rowley hall. Thor Han son *was re-elected president by unanimous vote. Victor Hellstrom was chosen vice president, and Richard: .Dinham, secretary treas urer. The trustees .elected are Samuel Maghan, H. Wasstrom and John Noble. The retiring officers submitted their reports for the year. The next meeting of the local will be held' January 26., The organization Is' In a. flourishing cpndjtion. •JANUARY 17,1920. Coats of Silveitorie, Velour, Bolivia, Broadcloth, Kersey or Mixtures, in all of the fashionable shades of brown, as well as Navy, Black, Jade, Pekin and Taupe. Coats formerly priced 65.00— 99 CA now only u£«uU Coats formerly priced 59.50— aa *7C. Coats formerly priced 49.50— 4 'TIS now only MTt Coats formerly priced 39.50— mp Coats formerly priced 39.50— EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF A. J. Crawford of Vancouver, B. C., vice president of the Amalgamated Sheet. Metal Workers* International union, is a visitor in Duluth. Mr. Craw ford is visiting among: local sheet metal workers and 'generally -boost ing trade unionism wherever he goes. He has been in the east and stopped off at Duluth on his way home. He stated to The Labor World that con ditions throughout the country, look exceedingly good for labor* and he has every reason to believe that they will continue as such. The union label protects the trade union against -attack by constituting the purchaser the real employer.' LOAMS $50 TO $5,000 AT BANK RATES Why Pay More Liberty Bonds, Stocks,Bonds,Mort gages, Endorsements or other Col lateral. "Weekly or monthly payments. The Dakrtfc Moms !^l^Wr332E"-XTSM^ The Style Stays, the Ooafity But the Price is Half Gone Our Ready-to-Wear Buyers, who have been in New York for several weeks, tell us day after day of the new things they have ordered for Spring and Summer. With the peak of winter still several weeks ahead of us, this talk of springtime has only one effect, but that is a welcome one to all women who are in need of a warm Coat for this and next winter, and a stjdish Dress for any time. Prices have fallen. In many cages they are at half-mast. In very many cases. Coats formerly priced 69.50— OA *7tt Silk Dresses formerly priced 49.50— nj* now onlv Z4. iV 1 A *7K MM CO. 20 THIRD AVE. VEST. mw&mmm ail The fihojspjnq Center of Duluih JOHN E. JENSEN A6AIN HEADS TRADES ASSEMBLY John E. Jensen was unanimously re-'elected president of the/ Feder ated Trades assembly at the semi annual election of officers held last Friday evening at* Owls' hall. Every other office* was also re-'elected Without opposition. Cleve Gold smitht although absent, was hon ored again asvvice President. Henry L. Morin will hold down the seat of secretary for six months more, as will "Billy" Farmer as reading clerk. 'Peter Schaeffer, the old standby, was called again to serve as finan cial secretaryVtreasuren New trus tees were .chosen. Lack of time on 'be, part of the 'officer' prevents us &om writing a full news account of the meeting. CLEJULS, REDUCE HOURS. COLTJM9U6, Miu., Jap: l'5.-r Througjt Organization retail clerks have reduced their-work' week three .hours.'. •f .. E l*otricalC6ntraotbk XVXRTTHNRO ELXCTKICAX. Oor. Central an Grand iv«. Phone Gol^076-T. nim'l"r"|[' ~*|t Dresses of Lace, Satin, Georgette, Tri colette, Serge, Wool Velour, and Tri* cotine, and their colors are also ver satile, being ofr brown shades, navy bhek and taupe. Silk Dresses formerly priced 55.00— 9*7 CA _Silk Dresses formerly priced 75.00— 9*7 CA Wool Dresses formerly priced 99 CA 65.00—-now only .. Wool Dresses formerly priced ''-'IK1-- Remains, Oa«OU Wool Dresses formerly priced 9*7 A 55.50—now only £*i *OU a Wool Dresses formerly priced 99 CA: -"v 5- *7C' BOSTON, Jan. 16.~- £s political writer in a local newspaper' this reference to anarchy of k|.l gloved kind: "The people, know that roads, the railways and neaxly tvery industry of moment are1 helnjg* ,roiin hanjlled today by selfish groups of unscrupulous men wtto%iek to ypreck everything in Ught 'eo that they can bring about legal* but 'Un moral, reorganisation of thee« g^eat enterprises' and thereby lions for their- own 'few ip6dto|gdBid wreck the lives of the bapd^dB of thousands who depend, upor^ tablished conditions' for tl bread." I .. if GOODWILL TWgoodtrittlnoH ia dM stopfer's! Ik* «iwMsl K*dy tale. INGERSOLL-TAW) Cinttmctffigam MikOC*s II BROADWAY. NCI*: ffcia ik "ludtii