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THE LABOR WORLD. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Office, 101 Torrey Bidf?., Dulnth. Telephone 280. I'rintiii? Plant, WIS \V. Superior St. Telephone 276. SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in udvance, $1.00 Six Months, .50 Three months, -25 Single copies, 5 cents. Advertising rates made known on application. TRADES (Iftffflj COUNCIL 3 ^pJTHrfSSJS^ SABRIE G. AKIN, THOMAS Editor and Publisher, E. HILL, Associate Editor, letters and articles relating to the social problem arc solicited. Entered at the postofflco at Duluth, Minn., as second class matter. The telephone franchise pro moters are laying low until af ter election. They are busy electing aldermen in the inter est of the. "dear people" just now. They say, don't get in a hur ry take one thing at a time, and things will eyolute all right. Hanged if we can find a place where power gave up sway until it had to—'taint comin' that way,- The Social Democracy has established a co-operative col ony at Olalla, Wash. The Co Operator is the name of a weekly paper published by the colony, and is successor to the Social Democrat. The people of Havana are again to be given a forcible ex hibition of the real meaning of American freedom. A four cornered contest is now going on .at Havana,_ with the posses sion of its streets for rapid transit purposes as the prize. In France recently-a man adulterated flour with fine saw dust and he was promptly sent to prison for ten years. In this country the men who adul terate food are promptly sent to Congress and promoted a front seat„ in the fashionable churches. The French are not civilized. If present conditions contin ue much longer, it will soon get so that producers will be glad to get any kind of meat to eat. Even the "embalmed beef" that Gen. Miles turned up his riose at, and which the army department gave to the army to fight the Spaniards on, will be considered by them as "might}7 rare eatin'." The rush of American office seekers and franchise grabbers to Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines scared those peo ple up to the fighting point. They say the wholesale pur chase of franchises from the dying Spanish de jure officials was wonderful in the bribery line. It is awful to contem plate those poor devils who escaped from the rule of the Spaniards to the grip of the Yankee trusts. Our people have grown used to it, but it is a new inquisition to those peo ple. They will get used to it just as we have. It does not take long to fig ure out how long it will require for all the wealth to become the property of the few. In thirty years 31,000 families have ob tained legal possession of fifty four thousand million dollars of wealth out of a total of sev DULUTH IMPERIAL HAS NO EQUAL FOR.PRODUCING THE BEST?BREAD. enty-two thousand million, which the 14,000,000 families of the United Stated have created. They surely can get all worth having of the remaining eight een thousand millions in the next ten years. Human nature, ignorant nor intelligent, has never silently consented that a few should possess all the wealth, nor will the}'. At the present rate of absorption all the wealth, except a few homes, will be owned by the few in five years, and these few are eating each other up, so the number of rich grows less and less. The people are anxious for a change. O, yes. But the change they want is one that will prevent the big monopolies from getting so much, but not at all interfere with the small fellows doing business for a "profit." No such a change is possible. The big fellows have the same right to make all the "profit" they can just as much as the little fellows have to make their "profit." They can not conceive of a business be ing done unless a "profit" is made, and until they can or un til they are firmly convinced that they can never get a chance to make "profits," will they be willing to advocate the public ownership of the means of production and distribution, All the woes of all the pepple of all nations flow from the one cause—private ownership of what should be publicly owned. GOVERNOR TANNER THANKED. Gov. John R. Tanner of Illi nois has received several thou sand communications endors ing the position he took in the recent coal strikes, but very few can equal the endorsement given by the Federated Trades Assembly of Duluth in the res olutions passed Friday night. The resolutions were idrafted by Walter M. Thompson,Thom as S&vard and William Gar land. In full they are as fol lows Whereas, the coal miners of Virden and Pana, 111.,'were in the summer of 1898 engaged in a strike, where victory meant a living wage for the toiler and his family, and failure, servi tade and slavery to the miners and those dependent on them and, Whereas, the termination of the-strike stands unprecedent ed in its far-reaching benefits, and unsurpassed for its impor tance to organized labor and believing that the timely and courageous action of the Hon. John R. Tanner prevented the coming to pass, in the state of Illinois, of the prophecy of our martyred president, when he warned the people of the Unit ed States against the growing power of a combination of wealth that would defy all law and become a menace to the life and liberties of t&e Ameri can people and, Whereas, the governor of Illinois defied this robber cor poration and refused to place at their command the armed guards of the state for the slaughter of the striking min ers, and for the protection of the corporation and its pauper labor, but on the other hand, calling them out to prevent the importation of pauper labor, as against the laws of the state, for the protection of the weak and down-trodden wage-earn ers of Pana and Virden We therefore express our ad miration for the brave and manly courage of John R. Tan ner, governor of Illinois, who, MADE: IN DULUTH FLOUR. seeing his duty in the light of conscience, knew no fear of corporation interests and com binations of the money power, and has protected the toilers of Pana and Virden, and demand ed for them strict justice, a fair day's pay for a fair day's work, and that criminals, toughs and off-scourings from another state should not be permitted to wrong toilers that have made homes for themselves sur rounding the coal mines, and are educating their children for the amelioration of the hu man race. Therefore, be it resolved, that the Duluth Trades and Labor Assembly, voicing the sentiments of the thousands of toilers in our fair northwestern commonwealth, do hereby ex press our admiration and ap preciation of the valuable ser vices rendered to our toiling brethren at Pana and Virden, and to the organized labor of the United States. lOWNE IS HONORED. The minority vote of the Minnesota state legislature for United States senator was cast for Hon. Chas. A. Towne last Tuesday. It is an honor wor thily bestowed, and Senator Baldwin voiced the sentiment of the people of the Sixth dis trict when he placed Mr. Towne in nomination in the following eloquent language: "Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Senate: On behalf of the minority in this senate, 1 rise to nominate for Unit ed States senator for the state of Min nesota a man whose name is known throughout the length and breadth of the commonwealth yes, throughout this great country and beyond its ex tensive borders a man who has not sought or expected this honor, but who himself insists that the honor and dis tinction which we would here and now bestow upon him rightfully belongs to another a man who has not been, in public life for any benefit which he might personally derive therefrom, but holding principle above party, and .be lieving that the party whose idol he was, the party that he represented in -the halls of congress, had departed from principles of justice and right, he left that party atd all the honor and splen dor which it offered him, to champion the cause of the people With whom he has always been in close touch, and whose condition and needs he has made his constant study a brilliant scholar, whose range of study and investigation haVe been almost without limit a matchless orator, whose eloquence holds spellbound the thousands who gather whenever he speaks a splendid states man, whose fame, young as he is, has spreadJrom sea to sea, and who gives promise of greater things with advanc ing years a patriot whose love of coun Iry and flag is excelled by none—such a scholar, orator, statesman, patriot, Mr. President, I nominate for United States senator^—the Hon. Charles A. Towne, of St. Louis county." Labor Measures. There will be several labor measures introduced at this session of the state legislature by the Minnesota State Fed eration of Labor, and some others will be introduced by individuals, but with the indorsement of the Federation and a promise of support to secure their passage. The Federation council has already passed upon and indorsed three bills: An electric motormen's license an eight-hour bill, and a labor registra tion bill. Several other measures are being prepared which will be of benefit to the working classes of the state. The council has decided not to ap point a lobbyist for thiB session but that the council, or individual members thereof, should attend to all legislation, believing that better work could be ac complished with less expense in this way than by having a lobbyist continu ally at the state capitol. Any union having a labor measure which they wish to have presented to the legislature should report the same at once to Arthur W. Field, secretary Federation Council, 509 Humboldt ave nue north, St. Paul. TO CURE A COLO IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Qnlnine Tablets. All druggists refund money it fails to core. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. Socialist Lecture. Section Duluth, S. L. P., proposes to give a series of lectures. The first one will be held on next Thursday night, January 26, at Kalamazoo hall. Edward Kriz, president of the Trades Assembly, will be the speaker subject, "The Dev elopment of the Socialist Movement." Admission is free, and working men and women will be particularly, welcome. Questions will be answered by the lec turer, and opponents or non-members will be allowed to make short addresses, LOCAL NOTES. The building trades intend having a big display at the labor bazar. The labor bazar committee will meet next Tuesday evening, at No. 11 First avenue east. The Jolly Pathfinders will give a dance at the Armory the evening of Jan. 26. Everybody invited. There is every probability that organ ized labor will take a more active part in the coming city election ihan ever before. •Hf The Marine Engineers' Beneficial As sociation will give its second annual ball at Odd Fellows' hall, Wednesday even ing, Feb. 15. The F. F. Adarus Co., tobacco manu facturers of Milwaukee, are on the un fair list. They do not employ union la bor. Look for the label. The Label League meets next Mon day night at No. 11 First avenue east. All delegates should be present, as mat ters of importance will come up. The Central Labor Union, of Cleve land, O., has put a full ticket in the'held for the spring city election. What is the matter with Duluth doing the same? Wm. Strauss, a representative of the local cigar makers' unions of New York has been in the city this week in the in terest of the label. He left Thursday night for Fargo. The business firms of the city are haartily responding to the request of the labor bazar board of managers to make displays, and it is expected some very elaborate booths will be on exhibi tion. An offer made to the Washington, D. C., typographical union, by the Mer genthaler company, to supply ma chines for the purpose of instructing in their operation, has been rejected. The printers regard it as an entering wedge for their introduction into the national printing office. The typographical unions of the Twin Cities are interesting themselves in re gard to the establishment of a state printing office, as suggested in Governor Lind's message. A committee has been appointed to look up statistics on the question and to draw up a suitable bill to present to the legislature. .* The street car employes met last Sat urday night and elected the following officers: President, John Fyfe vice president, J. H. Tomlin recording sec retary, E. C. Dryer financial secretary, A, B. Kenyon treasurer, S. M. Johnson. Trades Assembly delegates: Cobb, Kenyon and Wallace. The street car employees' union was treated to three boxes of cigars at last Saturday night's meeting by Claveaux & Co. A letter accompanied the gift thanking the employes for their patron age in the past and the wish that the company would continue to deserve their good will. A rising vote of thanks was given the firm by the boys. Carl Upham, tobacco manufacturer of New York, has broken faith with the union and is now using machines oper ated by girls. This firm has employed union labor for the past eight years and gained a wide reputation on the strength of the label. The unions of New York have sent Wm. Strauss on the road to agitate against the use of this firm's brands. The Gradle & Strotz Tobacco com pany, of Chicago, have unionized their factory, and are now using the union label upon all of their goods. For fifty years this firm has been employing non union labor, but have come to the con clusion that union labor is more profit able in the long run. Among their brands are Sweet Tip Top, Beats All and Double Eagle. Call for this firm's brands when purchasing. See their adv. on first page. The cigarmakers, at their meeting Wednesday evening, appointed a com mittee of twelve for agitating the blue label. The committee will be divided into four sections of three each, to work in different parts of the city. The ci garmakers are hustlers, so we can look for some good, effective work to be done. The committee consists of Messrs. Gar land, Schebesky, Malaston, Piering, Weismueller, Kehtel, Ruhnke, Paslch kowski, McQuirk, Davis and Anderson. 334 WEST SUPERIOR STREET. TRADES ASSEMBLY. An Interesting Meeting—Matters of Im portance Discussed. Friday evening's meeting of the Trades Assembly was- quite well attend ed, nearly all delegates being present. The officers recently elected were in stalled, and the old officers retired, with the thanks of the assembly for good work performed. Wm. E. McEwen, in retiring from the presidency of the Assembly, made a very interesting speech, covering several points of interest. In speaking of the attitude taken by certain enemies of or ganized labor, he said: "There has been no capital to drive away. As far back as I can remember, and I was born here, there has not been a single bona fide manufacturing estab lishment in Duluth. After the bonuses have been used up and the land given disposed of to suckers, the plants have been closed up and the 'capitalists' left the city." A committee was appointed to inves tigate as to what amount, if any, is to be paid the street railway company by the city for the construction of the ap proach to the Daluth-Superior bridge* and the grounds for Buch pay meat. It was decided that in case any of the aldermen who voted against the eight hour day resolution are candidates at the coming election, the assembly would issue an appeal to organized labor and its friends to vote against them, This plan was adopted after a long discussion as to how the assembly should proceed. It was suggested that the assembly call a convention and nominate candidates, and that organized labor endorse such candidates, nominees of the parties or independents, who were friends of or ganized labor. These suggestions brought up the old question as to whether the assembly should go into politics. There was a great diversity of opinion and the discussion waxed warm. Had' it not been that the brevity of the time before election rendered it doubtful whether anything effective could be done in the way of getting the members of organized labor together t° select candidates, it is possible that something to that end might have been done. This, however, brought the delegates togeth er on the motion made by Mr. McEwen, to appoint a committee to prepare and circulate an appeal ap stated above. The committee consists of W. E. McEwen, Henry Dworschak and Edward Kriz. There was some discussion as to whether the appeal should be worded to include "all aldermen who had vio lated their pledges," or should be con fined to their action on the eight-hour resolution. It was the sense of the del egates that it would not be well to cover too much ground. Labor Bazar. The bazar board of ihanagers met last Monday night and planned considerable work ahead. A committee consisting of Wm. Garland, Chas. Leytze and Wm. E. McEwen, was appointed to get up the bazar program and solicit advertis ing. Messrs. Garland, Dunn and Conk lin were appointed to call on the differ ent business firms of the city and ar range space for exhidits. The different unions are taking hold of the affair in good earnest and from all indications the exhibit will be the finest ever seen in the northwest. Both floors of the Armory will be used, which will be a great improvement over the bazar given last winter. At that time only the basement was utilized, and the lack of room was a great inconvenience to the large crowds which visited the bazar each evening. On the first floor will be arranged the stage, and of course the people from the gallery will be able to both hear and see. An art exhibit on a large scale will be on this first floor, besides the booths of different trades. All the machinery, etc., will be in the basement, so as not to interfere with the excellent program of music and speaking which is being arranged for each evening. The date of opening the bazar has been changed from the 6th of March to the 13th. Admission to both floors will be 15 cents season tickets, 75 centB. Twentieth Century Club. A musical entertainment, "The Evo lution of the Dance," will be given at the High School assembly hall, under the direction of Mrs. Loman, Monday evening, Jan. 23. The musicale is un der the auspices of the Twentieth Cen tury club, and will be free to all mem bers. A fee of 25 cents will be charged non members. The firm of Finzer & Bros., New York, after employing union help and using the label for many years, have sold out to the tobacco trust. Look for the label. AT- FOR JEWELRY AT THE LOWEST PRICES. CROS Bafegna »o: Ameri small qn to the tri which tb eion ally quest to sendi. t|j to be wy inquiry country isfactcry Tbe rei though, issue "cr The ti lines dra Ibe botto near the apart. TJ will prev bat a ba done, tb© is writte lines the institutio any wordi the bank, quired. rj is a well ish posta. custom is people on common dom. When a this raant 6elf, but it poetoffice lander, bu paying ofi merely sen to go to tb' money. postoffice it the sender self. 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