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any attention wa& given to it, has a
courage that deserves to receive
mention.
The only thing the doctor omitted
to add to his story that should not
have been left out yas where the
other 21 men of the commission were
pleasuring at the time he was in. Pan
ama and the bill was down in Spring
field at the mercy of "pressure
brought against it."
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GARMENT WORKERS FAVOR THE
LA FOLLETTE SEAMEN'S BILL
The United Garment Workers of
America, Local 21, last night passed
the following resolution in reference
to LaFollette's Seamen's bill:
"Whereas, The relations of seamen
and vessel owners under the jurisdic
tion of the United States still retain
the forms of past ages under which
the lives and liberties of sailors are
absolutely left to the unrestrained in
dividual caprice of the ship's master;
and
"Whereas, The greed for gain, ha
bitually disregarding the common
welfare, has sent vessels upon the
seas insufficiently equipped and man
ned, entailing great loss of life; ,and
"Whereas, The seamens' bill now
pending in the House of Representa
tives, Senate Bill No. 136, also
known as the LaFollette bill, disen
thralls the seamen of the United
States by abolishing antiquated prac
tices and at the same time restrains
the hand of greed in operating vessels
by compelling every vessel, in the in
terest of greater safety to the travel
ing public, to carry an efficiently
trained, and a numerically sufficient
crev of competent seamen; and
"Whereas, It is current rumor that
the Vessel Owners' Association, to
gether with such of their friends
among men of large business affairs
as they can muster, are urging the
members of the House of Represent
atives to defeat said bill, alleging the
time-honored falsehoods that the re
quirements of said bill are an un
necessary impositton on "businesa"
and also that its provisions which
tend to lift seamen out of the bonds
of slavery are impediments to "busi
ness" efficiency; and
"Whereas, These false arguments
set the social pyramid upon its apex
by assuming as they do, that people
were created in order that business
may fatten and thrive upon them;
and
"Whereas, Any business can only
be legitimate as a properly subordin
ated incident to the general well-being
of the people; and
"Whereas, The false arguments by
which this seamen's bill is opposed
have heretofore prevailed 'in legisla
tive councils, state and national, until
our land today is a seething caldron
of industrial turmoil, bordering on
civil war; now, therefore be it
"Resolved, By Local Union No. 21,
United Garment Workers of America,
in regular meeting assembled, that
each and every member of this local
be and hereby is requested to can
vas his neighbors, his casual ac
quaintances and his friends in be
half of this bill; and that they and
whoever they may be able to per
suade to their belief, request the
members in congress from the city of
Chicago to work and vote for its
passage.
"Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be given to the Chicago
Day Book and Chicago Daily Press,
to LaFollette Weekly Magazine, and
to the Garment Worker and that a
copy be sent to each of the members
of congress from the city of Chicago
and to the Seamen's Union."
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More than $100,000,000 has been
spent on the scheme to make Russia
independent of American cotton im
ports. All efforts to enlarge the area
of cultivation of cotton in Turkestan
and the trans-Caspian territories in
Asiatic Russia have turned out use
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In the Falkland Islands there are
five times as many men as women.
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