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MR MERCHANT Hintoitthe AS bccured to you that this paper goes homes of the best.pair working men in Duluth and suirounding territory? It is carefully perused by. every adult mem ber of th? household. There is no better ad vertising medium anywhere. HARRIS ANL^ TIME GEITINGTfe^ Chicago Agents Send Men to Duluth, Declaring There Is No Labor Trouble Here One Man Tells His Story Refused to 1% Strikebreaker and They Send Him to Hibbing. Was Out of a Job. L. C. Harris, president of the Citizens' Alliance, and Ed, Whalen,^ the employment agent, are having some anxious and exciting moments as herdersr of strikebreakers. Their agents at Chicago are getting them in bad and when they learn of cases of misrepresentation to honest and innocent workers they refuse to make good. This is manifest from the plain and unvarnished story related by Georg'j M. "Wyatt, a paperhanger from Chicago, who was engaged to come to Duluth by the Fedder's Employment Agency of that city, well known as a strike breaking agency from coast to coast. Wyatt was out of a job and in reply to an advertisement in a Chicago paper he called on Fedders in the. company of a man named Joseph Smith. Fedders assured both men that there was no labor trouble here. "Just open shop," he said. The story of their experience can best be told in Wyatt's own language as he related it here and to which he made affi davit. It is as follows: "George M. Wyatt, being first duly sworn, eavs that he is a resident of th* city of Chicago that he has been a paperhanger by trade for more than twenty years that on or about the 6th day of June, 1921. he read an adver tisement in the Chicago Daily News, which read in substance as follows: 'Wanted, 4 paperhangers for out of town work^ Transportation furnished. Apply employment office, 24 South Canal street.' "Together with a man by the name of Joseph Smith, I went to the above employment office on the same day where we met a man by the name.of Fedders. The employment agency was operated under the name of Fedders Brothers. I told Mr. Fedders that I had come in answer to the advertise ment for paperhangers. He told me that.the job was in Duluth. Minn., and that if I proved to be a good workman that I would receive 51.00 per hour and possibly $1.15 per hour with time and one-half for all work over eight hours a day, and double time for Sundays. showed me a letter, containing Jp substance the same information. This letter to the best of my knowl edge and recollection came from the Citizens' Alliance of Duluth. and was signed by a man named- Mr. Whalen. "I to Fedders: 'Now, there is no labor trouble there, is there? This is no strike job. is it?' Fedders said, .'No, they aro just short of paper hangers In Duluth. It is open shop/ He al^o said, 'You will receive time and one-half for all over eight hours end you can get in all the overtime you want. You will also receive trans portation to go up. and if you find that conditions are not satisfactory when you get there, they will give you trans portation to come back.' "I said. 'All right, I will go.' Fed ders then told us to be at the Grand Central depot at 5:30 p. m.. and to have our tools and grips with us. Smith and I went to the depot at the appointed time, where we met Fed ders. Mr. Fedders insisted on check ing our baggage to Duluth. He also refused to give us our tickets but said h* would deliver them himself to the conductor, which he" did. "Just as the train was about to pull out Mr. Fedders said. 'Oh, I forgot to get yOil to sign a contract.' and he pulled a yellow slip out of his pocket, together with a printed card and handed them to us to be signed. I signed mine and then glanced over the yello^i' slip. I noticed some ref erence to labor trouble and said to Mr. Fedders, 'I thought there was no strike up there.' and Mr. P'edders said. 'There is no trouble and it is open shop.' "The train had started and Mr. Fed ders took the papers out of my hand and jumped off. Smith and I then talked the matter over and I sug gested that we. get off at the Western Avenue station. Smith said that we could not very well do that, as our grips and our tools had been checked and were then on the train. "So. after talking it over at some length we decided to go to Duluth and if it developed that there was labor trouble there we would refuse to work and would demand our transportation "back to' Chicago. Fedders gave us a letter to Mr. Whalen. addressed to Room 613, Providence building, Du luth. Minn. "When we reached Duluth on the following morning we went direct to that office and delivered the letter to Mr. Whalen. who said. 'You boys will have, steady work here and can get in all the overtime you want at time and one-half.' He sent us to the Savoy hotel and told us he would come over after us in a short time and put us right to work. We waited at* the Sfcvoy hotel from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. but: no one came after us. "J'n the meantime we learned-at the hotel .that the painters and paper hangetfs of'Duluth were on a.strike, sO we went over to the, Citizens* Alli ance headquarters and talked' with Mr. Harris. *,1 told him about the mis representation under which we had been sent here and said that we would not 'work under strike conditions. "Mr, Smith also went up to see Mr. Harr-ls- latei* and* when he came, back he" «|Lid to me that Harris was going toi send us lq Htebing where there was' ^ie&ntinued on page2.)- 1 ^\vr I ABSOLVES LABOR Cross-Examination Forces Ac knowledgment That Wages of Labor Are Not Too High. BUFFALO, N. Y., July 7.—Ri^id cross-examination of Henry W. Rust, secretary of the Master House^Pjfiut* ers' association, at the Lockwood' building probe, forced the acknowl edgment that labor has not secured wage increases in proportion tp. the cost of living and that everything else has increased far beyond the average cost of laboi*: It was sho^n that the increase in labor Cost waft a very negligible thing comparedvwith the increased cost added by the con tractor, as a result of which build ing operations in this city have \peert checked. Rust stated that when his associa tion raiised wages of non-union em ployes 60 p&r cent prices to th6_ pub lic were increased from 120 to .00 per cent. Later he admitt^.-..-:tJiftfc prides hsCd "been "raised as per cent during- the* pafet three' yaa'rs and that more than 26 per cent waft charged over the rate paid labor, in 1917 the charge for burning off pa,int was 70 cents an hour in 1&20 this charge was $1.40—100 per cent ^in crease, arid 80 per cent more -than paid to the men who d® the .Ivprk One of the ludicrous incident^: of the probe is the attitude of the &r»ti-. union Commercial, which said in .p. leading editorial: "Mr. Unterm^.e& tfte. Buffalo Commercial suspects thdt you have political ambitions." Ail Pretense Aside in Fight on Union Labor. INDIANAPOLIS, July 7.—"The em ploying printers of America," an anti union organization that attaches "open shop" to its title, has throtvh aside all ^pretense in its war against printing trade unions that demand en forcement of a 44-hour agreement made two years ago. In the last strike bulletin of the International Typographical union is printed this official statement from the employers' bulletin: "Having declared your plant an 'open shop,' it is advisable to malfe this policy decisive and permanent by adopting the American plan of. em ployment to preclude all possibility of labor Union interference in the future. "Under the American plan the em ployer exercises his fundamentil right of private contract, dealing With employes as individuals and declin ing tp deal with them through the medium of any organization. To fore stall the intervention of professional meddlers, and to safeguard his Untie-, niable right to run his own busing as he sees fit, every employer sJiot|l| .take the wise precaution to includf in each individual employment c|n tract a clause in which the .person employed agrees that during the terjft of his employment he will not hold .membership in, any labor. Union." A little word we cannot withdraw often life's greatest thorn. Retailers, «ndeavoring to educate, the public to high prices have dis covered thdt- there, are many back ward pupildk •, VOL, 28 NO. 45. DULUTH AND SUPERIOR, JULY », 1921. .i. The Commercial was never known to say a harsh Word aga'inst big.busi ness. Its manager, McCone/recently told a congressional committee in. Washington that the International Typographical union maintained- a censor over the press of the country and that only his publication and three others were immune. tlntepyer Takes Shot at Equity Process anil Demands Trial in Criminal Court. NEW TORK, July 7—The proposed «iyil prosecution of building material men 'byVthe. federal department of justicei was ridiculed by Samuel Uri termyfer. counsel for the Lockwood 'committee, created by the New York, legislature.. The attorney said that an, equity suit against them "would be a' ghastly farce." and that the only method to secure results is to indict the building material men and try .them before a jury. "There is already one equity suit pending in the federal coiirt in New Jersey, where it has been peacefully slumbering for 18 months," he said. ••'The facts were developed by this committee more than seven months ago, on which we finally forced the finding of an indictment after -con tinuous prodding of the federal au thorities of the last administration. '.'The defendants should by this time*frave been placed on trial. There is nothing the matter with the case, except the chronic procrastination of government bureaucracy and red tape. Av Sljft in equity now, when these men should i»e facing prison sent ences, would be a travesty of justice. "The only kind of injunction that these men fear, or that is of any use, is a conviction on the indict ment. The same evidence that will support the one will support the other. The latter has proved effective the -former is a "worthless scrap of paper. "It is just-this sort of soft pedal lirfig and pussyfooting in pretending to pursue the. big powerful fellows for.' violating the anti-trust-laws that has brought Us to our present de plorable state, where these men have almost gotten beyond the reach, of the law. There must be an end to .thik The' situation is far* too Serious. hereby serve notlce on the de p&ttmentof justice thifi: if it be trite, as Currently reported, that they In tend to fiddle with1 this grave peril while the pedplef of the country are being day by day worse exploited, they "Will have the house tumbling tfver their ear's before they get much farther on that line." West Virginia Operators Start Back-Fire Against Unions Since Senate Has Acted. EIGHT 9 tVII^LIAMSON, W. Va., July 7.— Immediately on the passage -of a Mingo county probe resolution by the United States senate, the coal owners in this Section raise the "stop?thief" cry. "We will show that the United Mine Workers^ which organization is seeking to unionize this field, is an illegal and irresponsible organiza tion," the coal owners say. The probe will show'that" the union came into this field at the solicita tion of unorganized mipers and that the reign-of terror in Mingo county is the coal owners' attempt to main tain anti-union conditions. The miners assure coal owners that thpy will be afforded ample oppor tunity "to prove their charge before the senate committee,, and they will alisd^ be- called upon to explain the workings of their private armies. JAILED FOR PICKETING 600 FEET FROM PLANT ft- TRENTON, N. J., July 7.—Striking Scketlng. achinists at Hoboken violated a injunction because they came within 600 feet of the' pl.\nt, rules the, Btate court of errors and appeals The jfl^iinction prohibited" them froift picketing ."near the plant," and ,th.ey'werife arrested when they stayed 6Ci0 feet Away. The machinists have been se^jtenced to three: months in j«l artd p«y a fine of $50. prgan ,iz«dlstbdr will care fdr th^ families or the while they -are' serving their i^nteaiofes. .—-— .Since ^an, 1, 1921, th« average monthly sale of thrift stamps, and U. S. savings.' sj.t9.mps and certificates has amounted to about $3,0D0,000. Thro# .a* half hitch around the straggler" in^ybur union" who is falling behind' a-nii^pull him,aiong with his fellows. Sympathy Aha begins and'ends in Jip servlc^ -is^ of Jittle help to any Pf US^^ -4 -A- 1 AMERipAIi LABOR WILL NOT SB OUTLAWED OR ENSLAVED LAWYERS' UNION AMENDS RULES TO ADMlf WILSON Former President Woodrow Wil son is now eligW^ to practice law in the District' brCtflumbia and the state of New Yo^ Objections made at the'time S law partner ship waS announced^ -between Mr. Wil»6|i and his formeifsecretary of state, Colbojr, have 'overcome and the Lawyers' union wl}l have a new member whither they like him or not. A few weeks ago the New York state legislature unani mously enacted a bill removing the technical obstacles 'to the former president pleading at the* bar in that state. The bill ^was signed by a Republican governor and became a special law. l.ast week the jus tices of the District of Columbia supreme court held a special eon clave and amended the rules of the union to read: -"A former presi dent or former vice president of the United tatcs, whb is an attor ney at law, may be admitted with out formal applicatiojli or other re quirement." Mi-. Wilson is pursuing the quiet life of & private'citizen at his. home, iii Washington. It is reported that his health continues to improve and visitors are re ceived daily. After a long rest and recuperation it is predicted that he, will again take a prominent place in the affairs-of the nation. WASHINGTON, Ji4y| 7,—By a Vote of 167 to 113 the house rejected a 12-hour work day for firemen^ oilers and water tenders oh thVGrea-t Lakes. The propoeat ras in Con gressman -Scott's anieWdment tt» the seamen's law. Congressman Nolan of the Iron Molders': union' led an all day battle against .the lonfe "work day. The bill, is now-in the hands of the fcenate committee-on commence. The seamen, ,-however, lost their fight to maintain the present require ment of able seamen on the Great Lakes. Undej* the seamen's: act 65 per cent of able seamen arg required in the deck crew on the ocean as well as on the Great Lakes. The Scott amendment reducing this requirement to 50 per cent on. the Great Lakes was adopted by a vote of 160 to 128. This means that life boats on passen ger and excursion steamers may be manned by men, 50 per cenfof whom 'never had experience in handling an oar or in swinging a lifeboat, filled with women and children, free from a sinking vessel. WESTVA.STRIKE Senate Votes to Conduct Inquiry on Denial of Constitutional Guarantees. WASHINGTON, July 7.—After sev eral postponements, the senate passed a resolution presented by Mr. John son of California, which provides for an investigation of the coal strike in Mingo county, West Virginia. The measure was passed without a roll call, although Senator Myer of Mon tana continued his opposition. He said that the investigation "would be a useless consumption of time and money" and that "congress ought.- to stop investigating every thing some time." Senator King also offered vigorous dissent, and Senator Williams of' Mississippi, made light of the project, despite repeated dec larations by Senator Johnson that constitutional guarantees do not exist in Mingo county, and that a super government is functioning in that sec tion. BANKS MUST "LET LOOSE" AS THEY ADVISED OTHERS NEW YORK, July 7.—Wall street is whispering-vthat banks have been caught by the-continued depression arid that they must. now do what they' advised others to ^or^-unload. These banks hold grasit quantities of merchandise of all kindji as. a re* suit of decreases, in jgftlues that com pelled business men to let loose. The banks hold thera, and. thiff, it is^ de clared, "form one of, the most se rious' phases of the liquidating prob lem." The banks are now realizing that they, too, tjteir ,medi Illinois Concern Weiring Out Workers in Carrymg Case Through Several Courts. 1 GRANITE CITY, 111., July 7.— Trade unionists in this city are ask ing h°w many times the United States supreme court will re-hear th^ case known, as American steel foundries vs. Tri-City Central Trades council. The right of workers to unite and peacefully picket is put squarely be fore the court, which has heard the case twice, and now orders that it be fought all over again. Causes for the suit began in April 1914, when the company, a New Jer sey corporation, operating extensive steel mills in this city, cut wages and refused to arbitrate the question. A strike wars ordered, and the Tri-City Central Trades council assisted the strikers. The company secured a fed eral injunction which held that the central body is an "unlawful combina tion" and that there is no such thing as peaceful picketing. The United States circuit court of appeals refuse# to sustain these views, and the com pany appealed to the United States supreme. court. The attorneys for the union indi cate the far-reaching effect of this brief: "If the argument of complainant is logical—operation of plant inter fered with because of picketing, gives a property rights-then what is to pre vent the steel mill from selling the 'property rightj it has in its working men to another company? "The fallacy of such a position ist too palpable for "further comment. The humanitarian spirit that is pre vailing in our -nation* a^nd the. de mand for social justice which hais taken hold of the hearts: of men and •women, 'declare tha-t the:Wtstldoisr. trine which held that hun^an -lab0!* was a coinmodity to hi ^bought and sold at the lowest possible market price, as. machinery, oil. coa'l, wheatr flour-—and used until its supply is consumed, or its efficiency exhausted, is vicious in'morals and unsound in. economics." Various Organizations of Goal Barons Unite Against Fre linghuysen Bill. WASHINGTON, July 7.—The va rious organizations of coal owners are lined up against a bill introduce-d By Senator Frellnghuysen to stabilize this industry. "For the purpose of defeating -the pending and all other* coal legisla tion," said the law maker, "these' "Wt rious bodies, representing hundreds "of millions of dollars of capital,. have united in 'one big union/ 'so to speaks to continue their strangle hold on the necks and purses of the coal buyers." The lawmaker said that heretofore he was inclined to believe the coal owners' claim that their profits were overstated, but in view of their" pres ent campaign of~. misrepresentation against his proposals he is disposed to believe "that they have nevet been sincere and have never told the "truth regarding the operators' profits. "If they resort to 'deceit in one par ticular, they will do likewise in g.n other," he said. PRIEST SAYS "OPEN SHOP" MEANS NATION OF TRAMPS ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 7.—In his ad dress to the convention of the Boot' and Shoe Workers' union, /Rev. Tim othy Dempsey, known as "Father Tiro," had this to say of the anti union shop: "The 'Open' shop/ to me,-means.a nation of tramps I run a hotel for workingmen, and up to two or three yearp ago it was an 'open' shop. Then iqen who stopped with me were hoboes or tramps. Then an organ ization of the maintenance-of-^ay men was started and they had theit wages doubled. Then they stopped! coming to vthe'hotel. it1 ., NoW they are coming again, because (he .men who. are' running the industries of the country are trying to make it a nA, tion of tramps through the 'open'* shop." The comfort of haying a friend mcjy be taken away, but not that of having had one. 1 1 political democracy is" the forerun ner of democracy, in industry^ Minneapolis Judge Issues Re order Against The school board is not only playing into the hands of the Citizens' Alli ance aird has become an-ally of that anti-union organization in fighting l^bor. but it is being charged with spending public money with an extravagance that is shocking. ,uEarly in the spring it was resolved by the board to have all the painting in the schools during the summer vacation done by day labor. Peter Mun kehy,. a well known painter, was selected as foreman and a crew of union painterg, all bona-fide residents off Duluth, was employed at the union scale of one dollar an hour, MINNEAPOLIS, July 7.—"So-called peaceful picketing" was. placed under the ban today by Judge Edward F Waite,* who issued a temporary re straining order forbidding vthestriking members of four unions from interfer ing with- employees of the Bureau or Engraving, printersTand engravers, 500 Third street South. Judge Waite.set the hearing for Friday, when argu ment will be made and h-is final deci sion rendered. "I don't intend to pass the buck In this case," said the judge,\*anhouncing .he-would stay in town.for the, hearing Friday, although he had' made all ar rangements to .go on his vacation. ^he application for .ihe injunction was made, by F|rankJ Huff, "irt-essroom foreman for the Bureau of ^ngr.4,ving MMs. «ftttplafirt /narrrfis4lieMinhea '^rpel^rtjphical .union, -loeal No: 42i the Minneapolis Passmen's union,-local No. 2-0 the Minnea. olis 'Press, Assist ants' unioh. local No^- 6, and the Twin City lbcal, No. 12, of the international •Brotherhood of Bookbinders. .' Demand for the restraining order was jnade by 'Nathan Chase, attorney for Mr/Huff, when C. F. Keyes, ap pearing for the unions, asked that a continuance of one week be granted :'to::permit Shop Employees Ask I, G. C, to ct Big Sum From ments to Pennsy. WASHINGTON, July 7.—Railroad shop "employes have asked the inter state commerce commission to deduct $3,173,982 excess cost from, govern ment payments to the Pennsylvania railroad, company, which is charged with closing its repair shops-and turn ing work over to "the Baldwin loco motive works.- Attorneys for, the interstate com merce commission presented the full fctory of how the railroad, .last year, gave the. Baldwin company a J4.500, 000 cost plus CQhtract for repairing 20ft locomotives, .which coul^ .have been repaired iri\ihe railroad's own shops within the same time and .at a great saving. .In ursiofc the commission to with hold J3,173,982 from 'the company's 6 per. .cent guarantee,- the shop em ployed declared that the commission's own ihvestigation-.pr«ivfed that the con tract wis unjustified ahd improvident, and that. the railroad officials were kiot "honest, efficient] :and econom ical" in ^heir inanagenient, as re quired .by the CumivinsrEsch law. It w%8 -alto- stated :that «the company, and large equipment -companies and financial interests have cbhspired to catry ®n such piaptices in -defiance of law. •fc' '''"7 In Cleveland, Ohio, the city council Ignored the Builders' Exchange pro test against- 'the union shop policy of city officialr in the erection of munici jal buildings.- v- r''1 —:—1 Tour thoughts are the invisi6iB ln fluence which .gives its edn^p|exion' tar yoiir jlfe, even^as'.-iitte,,-iAsec£- Ji col ored y.thft |eat,ohj ?a 0 MR WORKING MAN Tpertaining HIS is your paper. It publishes matter to your life and welfare. It wants and needs your support Jt cannot without it. Your cause would be weak indeed without a labor paper to champion it. TO BREAK Passed Resolution to Have Schools Painted by Day Alliance Reduction in Warn. Saved People's Money. All employer's profit was to be sa,ved to the board and the most com petent workmen were engaged to do the painting. The school board, by resolution, authorized such a program. To carry it out material and ^quip ment were purchased, insurance pre miums were paid and a number of men were put to work. Everything was moving serenely. The painters were putting in their best licks. Satisfactory work was performed and the schools were be ing painted at a cheaper cost to the board than has beSn paid in years. Then came the Citizens' Alliance with its usual "butting in" habit. There is nothing that will make L. C. Harris see red so quickly as a union man working on a. union job under union conditions. When the anti-union boss learned of the school board. painting he went "straight up." "That must not be," he-declared, and it seems srs !n him to prepare the defense. Mi*. Chase declared that because of the activity of the union men -it was necessary for the Burpau of Engraving to board and lodge its present em ployees at the plant to protect them from threatened violence and abuse. He. said the men liad'lived at the plant fcirice June 4. .Mr. Keyps denied there ,ha& been enough evidence in the form of difidavits, introduced to bear out this assertion. 'y School Director Knight is employed' by the Minnesota Steel company at Morgan Park and Mr. Clough is a contractor doing work for the same concern. The Citizens' Alliance presi dent know where to pull his string. It is now proposed to advertise for j)ids to complete the painting in the schools. Union painters hold that no contractor will be able to do the work as cheaply as it can be done by day labor. If a non-union contractor should be the lowest bidder he would employ imported strikebreakers to dq the work. A large delegation jf painters waited on the school board at a spe cial meeting held last Friday "eve ning in protest against the action of the committee on schools and build ings, but it was ruled that the mat ter could not properly come before a special meeting. It will be taken up at the regular meeting of the board to be held this evening, Friday. Wasteful Extravagance. The Duluth Taxpayers' league, the organization of taxpayers recently formed here, has, it is said, been get-' ting reports of the wanton extrav agance of the school board in the. expenditure of public money. That will be a subject for investigation in the ndt distant future. There will be a school election on Saturday, June 16, at which three di-"! rectors .are to be elected. If the school game was played on the square and if the majority of the members of the present board were less auto cratic and reposed more confidence andHtrust in the people who elected them than they do there would be., five directors elected at the coming^ election, instead of three, for it is given out on good authority that two of the present members are to re-' sign shortly following/the election. Randall to Leave. Director Frank R. Randall is about to leave. Duluth to take up his resi dence in Omaha and therefore will be compelled to relinquish his- of fice. It is said that P*. Eklund tiring of the work and has wanted tq resign, but he has been induced tijgv --Tv withhold his resignation until aftei the school, election. The. vacanciei __ *v if?r^ "d.""SffTHPSf"* 'i 'V niTitnwr^1-- FIVE CQftK&ETC if his '.'must not be" was taken by certain members of the school board as a ukase. Put It Over Coole. A meeting of the committee on schools and buildings' was hastily called. This committee is composed of Directors, Clough, Knight and Coole. Mr. Coole was. late in his ar rival at' the meeting. Clough and. Knight constitute^- thexnselveep^ia quorum and -without giving Mr. Cocne an. opportunity to be.heard or,^ vote .-., the "matter".they" ..declared.'. reduction in the wages of painters from to 80 cents, an hour to gp int* immediate effect, without a vote of the board, on the matter. When Mr. Coole arrived at .the committee meeting the tw° other members continued with the business before them without advising the S labor member of their action in -vot ing to reduce the wages of the paint ers employed by the board. Indeed, Mr. Coole did not learn what had been done until he was informed by the. business agent of the Painters' union some time later. Harris Pulls Strings. :.. will be filled by "the remaining mem-^i, yAfi bers of the board. At the coming election Directoi%^ Frank Crassweller is a candidate to|?^|3^^ elected. Director: C. Francis C^jfemarf*?*^.|'te is also candidate lor re^elecUon. Director McCullough is not a eanidi^ 'jkte for.el6ctit»iti -Suht-iSr-^