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On July 19, 1899, the General (British) Federation of Trade Unions completed the first year since it undertook the re sponsibility of acting as a centre for its affiliated unions, and thus become a nucleus around which all the trade unions of that country will, in all pro bability, ultimately rally for mutual protection and the conquest of indus trial peace. That the newly formed federation will, ere many years, develop immense strength there can be little doubt, since the only test of membership which it imposes is that each organization ap plying for affiliation must be a bona fide trade union, and the advantage to be derived from closer unity are to© obvious to be long neglected by any considerable number of genuine trade unionists. In the language of its man agement committee, "the federation preserves the autonomy and distinctive character of each trade union, and In no way interferes with their internal workings. Without violating the tra ditions of any, it hopes to increase the common interests of all. It believes that the financial qualifications for membership should be such as to ad mit of every union in the country (skilled or unskilled) joining. It hopes to strengthen itself and the trade union movement by first strengthening the various unions. It will strive to pro mote peace, and believes that such peace can be best obtained by organi zation. It recognizes the necessity of every union for assistance at some per iod of its existence, and undertakes to give such assistance. It believes that a central authority, to systematize the many questions affecting trade union ism should be establish and hopes to fill that position, supply information, and be a means of communication be tween unions all over the world." When the federation entered upon its existence is was composed of 44 unions with an aggregate membership of 343, 000. During the first year of of its ex istence 17 unions, with 52,609 members have been recruited, and 2 unions with 17,880 members have been excluded. Thus it appears that the federation on its first birthday consisted of 59 unions, embracing 377,729 members. In pass ing, it may be remarked that these 59 affiliated unions have 2,250 subordinate local unions, 109 officers who devote their whole time to the business of their respective unions, and that they possessed combined reserve funds at the commencement of the second year amounting to $f,lC9,495 (five million one hundred and sixty-nine thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.) At the close of its first year's existence the membership of the federation (377, 729) represented nearly one-fourth of the known trade unionists of that country (1,644,591) yet the number of unions affiliated was less than one twentieth of the total number of unions in the same territory. This fact shows conqljjsiyely that the federation has al ready enrolled a largeportion of the strongest, existing organizations. Financial statements issued by the federation show a steady increase of funds which, if something extremely untoward does not happen, will soon make that organization the mightiest palladium that the workers have ever had since the dawn of history. The total income during the period stated amounted to $112,815, while the total expenses, including all provisional ex penditures, did not exceed $3,360, thus leaving a balance of $109,455. As previously stated, two unions have been excluded, viz., the United Associa tion of Carters and the Amalgamated Society of Tailors. Remarking on this latter unfortunate occurrence, the com mittee makes the following frank statement: "The circumstances sur rounding this severance from the fed eration show that the need for a cen tral authority amongst the trade unions has been too long delayed. The Amal gamated Socitey of Tailors have failed to meet their obligations from the very simple, if unfortunate, reason that their difficulties during the year have been such as to necessitate their husbanding their resources. We do not desire to say anything calculated to increase these difficulties in justice to our selves, however, we would point out the evident necessity there is that this old established union should be placed up on a more sound financial basis, it must be apparent that an organization which is unable to meet the very small responsibilities entailed by membership of the federation can not hope to meet the growing obligations is has incurred to its members." Reviewing the year's work as out lined above the committee states: "We are more than satisfied, believing that the success of the federation does not depend upon the unions outsidet but upon the loyalty, moderations and tol erance of those inside. The affiliation of those outside we can leave to the circumstances of a willing exposition of our principles and policy whenever they are desired. That no union in this or any other country can stand alone, we have had bitter experience of, and we believe that the method (or, in the past, want of method) of rendering each other assistance has been bad, un systematic, unbusiness-like and expen ive, and has seldom proved effective. It published to the world the need of as sistance and so brought about its own defeat. The method adopted by the federation is systematic, just, business like, economical and prompt, but above all it is organization—the very essence of a trade union. Relating to the policy pursued by the federation, the committee makes this clear-cut declaration: "The existence of the federation is not a menace to the industrial peace of the country, but a guarantee that everytnlng will be done to avoid dispute this being not only the policy of the management commit tee, but distinctly set forth at the first object of the federation. Such peace cannot be obtained by want of or ganization on one or both sides, but by organization on both. Our desire there fore is for peace. The policy we hope to pursue will be one embracing many features of the trade union movement, and, while we have no desire to inter fere in the internal working of^any organization, and accept the fact that there is competition amongst many un ions for the same class of workers, our advice and influence will always be used to bring about a fusion of such unions, and we will resolutely set our face against a further multiplicity of societies catering for the same work ers. Competition in industry, we be lieve to be bad in trade unionism we know it to be suicidal. The tendency in some quarters to further erect per pendicular barriers, dividing the work ers in the same trade into government, municipal, co-operative and workers for private firms, and to establish separate unions for each section, is, we believe, wholly bad and makes for disintegra-. tion. Any condition the workers for public bodies enjoy they do so largely as the result of the energy and enthu siasm of their fellows empolyed by pri vate firms, and this should be recipro cated by membership in the same un ion." From the annual report, of which the foregoing is a condensation, it appears that the federation has not confined its attention solely to the British Islands, but has sought to ascertain the stand ing of colonial, American, and foreign federations. In that portion of the re port which deals with the American Federation of Labor, ail mention is omitted of the long and bitter struggle to inject partisan politics of a certain well-known stripe into the American trade union movement, which culmi nating in the Dehver convention of 1894, was finally defeated by an overwhelm ing vote of 1,796 against 214, declaring the program of "the common ownership of all the means of production and dis tribution" to be alien to the trade un ion movement. That omission was doubtless made from motives of policy, yet the wisdom of that policy is open to question, because experience is the best teacher, and the experience so dearly bought in America by five years' internecine war in the ranks of labor should be valuable to our british bro thers, who may have ere long to pass through a similar struggle in defense of the integrity of their trade union movement. It may be that the more general diffusion of education, result ing from a slightly better economic condition, together with a wider poli tical experience, has enabled the organ ized workers of America to be the first to emancipate themselves from the dangerous delusion that social ques tions can be solved by political means. Be that as it may, the trade unionists of American have faith that the pro verbial common sense of their British fellow workers will repulse every at tempt to mar the prospect of their al ready great federation by associating it with any partisan political move ment, however insidiously advocated. "Let us have peace!" should be a watchword for both federations. Let us have peace within the ranks of la bor and, to that end, freedom from the unprofitable discussion of questions in soluble in our day and generation, and for all time to come, by the crude ar bitrary and superficial means proposed by the enthusiastic but visionary ad vocates thereof. This peace is emi nently desirable in order that each may be better able, to push on more energetically to the great work of the voluntary, .organization .pf the workers and mutual' insurance against all the evils of working class existence. The British federation is a grand step in this direction, and we trust that It will ever strictly adhere to the admir able program it has laid down for it self, and thus continue to grow in num bers and influence, serving as a bril liant beacon guiding and encouraging the oconomically oppressed wirkers of all lands.—Hugh Macgregor. THE SUDDEN ENRICHMENT. By An Oft Repeated Claim Riddled tlie Siircaum of Mr. Adams. Charles Frederic Adams, lawyer, one of New York's most earnest and pro gressive reformers and a firm friend of labor sent the following letter to the New Tork Times: Apropos of the "ticker" boom in the prices in "securities" (too often inse curites), you cheerfully remark that yesterday "the United States, as represented by the whole list of cor porate securities that are traded in in Wall Street was- a great deal richer, a great many millions richer, than it had been the day before, when there was still a lingering doubt"—there was, was there?—whether Bryan might not be elected after all." What an artificial, "Wall Street" view of what really con stitutes "riches" for the United States as distinguished from that small fraction of the American people who will actually have sold "securi ties" at the increased price! No doubt between noon of Nov. 6 and noon of Nev. 7 there may well have been a net increase in the real wealth of the United States, for during those 24 hours crops were growing, young animals maturing, fruit ripening, wine improving, eggs hatching, manufactur ed articles progressed toward comple tion, plowing, drainage and other such work advanced, etc., but that is not the increase in wealth of which you speak. The "enrichment" to which you allude, not representing either an increase In the quantity or an improve ment in the quality of either products or the factors of production, must, it would seem, have been an enrichment of those selling the securities at the increased price, at a corresponding in creased expense for those who bought them. The people as a whole had no more (nor better) actual food, shelter, clothing, vehicles, objects of art, tools, etc., than before. Some (a relative handful) of the people could get more in exchange for what they owned, but only because others gave this "more. It was a transfer of property, not a creation of wealth. Is the country as a whole really better off because, for the same useful things, people needing them have to pay a higher price? If so, the people can make themselves in definitely richer by simply going on with the game of selling their wealth to one another over and. over again at constantly higher figures. Why work any more if by'this beneficent "confi dence" game we can all get "richer," a great many millions richer in a single day? IK UMR WMtlt RECENT HAPPENINGS IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. Short Review of tlie Dotn&it of Work infr Men Tlirouifliout tlie Country. Tale* of Toller* In tfnny Field* of UNefnlneHM Briefly Told In Con denned PnragrHpIm—Many Matter* of IntereMt to Organised Labor. Lockmakers of Reading, Pa., have organized. Kansas miners are agitating against convict mined coal. Plumbers at Pittsburg are demand ing higher wages. Philadelphia job pressmen have struck for higher wages. Brunswick, Ga., women have organ ized a federal Jabor union. A building trades council is be or ganized at Syracuse, N. Y. The Cleveland firemen cleared over $100 on their annual ball. Electric mining machinery is being introduced in British mines. The American Federation of Labor has 640 organizers in the field. There are 544,233 children employed in various industries in Germany. Two thousand workers have been laid off at Cramp's ship yard. The retail clerks of Scranton, Pa., hve organized a good, strong union. Organizers of the United Mine Work ers are busy working in West Virginia. Granite cutters recently organized unions at Columbia, S. C., and Lynn, Mass. The total number of newspapers of of all kinds published in the world is 48,000. The Massachusetts eight-hour law has been crippled by "a recent court decision. Curtis Brother^., sash manufacturers of Clinton, Iowa, have, cut wages fif teen per cent. A local union of the allied metal me chanics has been organized at Dun kirk. N. Y. The stationary firemen's unions of Massachusetts will hold a state con vention at Holyoke, February 4, 1901. The Pictou, N. S., collieries strike has been brought to a close by the miners receiving an increase of twelve per cent. Chicago Clothing Cuttei-s' Union, which was practically broken up after the strike of 1894, has again re-organ ized with 156 new members. The International. Brotherhood of Sta tionary Firemen-has -granted a- -charter for a firemen's, union in Sit. Carmel, Pa., also .one at Luzerne borough, Pa. Stove manufacturers of Canada form ed a $6,000,000 trust and will concen trate their business in Hamilton and Toronto, and close down plants in smaller towns. In the time that the Cigarmakers' International Union has been estab lished $4,660,000 in benefits have been disbursed to the members through the international organization. The newly elected lieutenant gov ernor of Colorado, David C. Coates, is a member of Pueblo local of the Inter national Typographical Union, and is an ardent trades union agitator. The strike of plumbers in the Stock ton (England) district, "which lasted three months, has been settled, the em ployers agreeing to advance their wages a farthing now and another far thing at the end of six months, making them 9d per hour. Two new laws became operative on January 1st throughout France. One gives to soldiers free postage for two letters each month the other requires stores to provide seats far shop girls. An increase to 37% cents an hour has been granted to the carpenters on the, Howard electric tower at the Pan American Exposition. This action, will have the tendency of doing awajt with rumors of a strike arsong the car penters. The new plant of the American Axe & Tool Company, of Glassport, Pa., the largest of its kind in the world, is nearing completion and will commence operations Feb.l. One thousand men will be employed. Labor Commissioner John T. Smith,' has completed a census of Colorado, and publishes as a result 1*50 unions, with a membership of 27,000. The Labor Advocate of Jacksonville, Fla., is making a warm fight against the Clyde Steamship Company. The company i3 having trouble with its deck hands. It has been charged before the Fed eral Industrial Commission that in most of the great cities of the country the plumbers' union and associations of contractors have combined so as to monopolize business and practically fleece those who have plumbing done. DP• IP 't Rnp Prom ?a5,sv Positively Ui liu JJlin 5 warranted to cure the Genuine Ferach most stubborn cases of remain Relator larities. 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Organized la bor uplifts all labor the union man is protector to the non-unionists, in fix ing the standard of wages and giving him better conditions. Organized la bor is learning the legislators and judges are made and unmade by votes.. It believes that if a right is worth hav ing it is worth fighting for. Moreover organized labor knows where it is it is fully aware that only- through gradual changes, each step well calculated and $8, $10, $12, $13.50. Some Handsome Pattern* at— $18, $20 and $25. SI'RIXG OVERCOATS, with Union I,il»cl, u«- $8, $10, $12, $15. I ATS, at— UNION LABEL HATS, at— $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 All the Latest Spring Block*. REMEMBER, we sruarantce each and every article bought of us, *o yon rnn no risk whatever. CHAS. W. 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Inflammations. Irrita tions and Ulcerations of the-mucous membranes. An internal remedy with injection combined, warranted to'cure worst cases in one week. S3 ner nack asre or 2 for $5. Sent anywhere on re S®!"1 orice- and guaranteed bv THE KIDD DRUG CO.. Elgin. 111. Retail fund wholesale by S. F. Bovce and Max Wirth. druggists. Duluth. and Nygren's Drusr Store. West Duluth. Minn. Rises Daiiy Iq Fhblic £stiqjattdp. TYPEWRITER It has won its way around the world on Real Merit. THE SMITH PREMIER.. marks the very mghest point reached in writ ing machine mechan ism. PRINTED MATTER fRE£. 6 utruiiiiHCU £*x It is the most durable writing a. machine madet and being good at every point in its superior con- $ struciipH does the best work for the longest time and thorn oughly satisfies buyer anii user• Co 156 East Sixth Street, ST. PAIL, MINN. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY CHARTER. One: Amend section 372, so as to read as follows: "Section 372—When said, board shall be ordered by the council to make any improvements prescribed- in section 356 of this charter it shall, when the' same is- ordered to be done by con tract, cause an estimate, of .the cost of fcucft .improvement to be ijqade jjy the city engineer, and shall thereupon pro ceed at once to assess 90 per cent of such portion of the estimated cost, of such improvements as is assessable/fn cluding 10 per cent upon said amount, which shall be added to the assessments to defray the necessary expenses of making survey,plans specification's ftnrt superintendence on the property to tie benefited by said improvement in pro portion as nearly as may be to the benefits resulting thereto, but in no cases in excess of such benefits. In making such assessment roll the board shall describe each parcel of property assessed, the amount assessed against the same, and shall state the name «f the "owner thereof so far as known.,by said board. No mistake, or omission of such owner's name shall In any wise affect such assessment. "If the work shall have been, com pleted before any assessment is. made, or if the amount so assessed shall be insufficient to complete the work, said board shall, after the completion of said work, make a final assessment in the same manner to pay the dame "All assessments paid on account of any improvement before the contract therefor is let, shall be keep separate in the permanent improvement revolv ing fund for such improvement until the amount of said* fund available for said "improvement equals that portion of the estimated cost of said improve ment that shall be paid from said fund." Two: Amend section 35$ by adding to the end thereof the- following: "Pro vided, that for the purposes of this section in determining the ownership of property, only those owners .shaft, be considered whose titles appear of ffec ord in the office of the register of deeds of St. Louis county at the. tifcne the improvement is ordered,- and where any piece of property is owned by two or more owners, all such owners shall* be counted as one." Said amendments will be submitted to the qualified voters of the- City of Duluth for their ratification' at ,the •municipal election to be held February 5 1 9 0 1 it ii H. W. CHEADL&, Ci ty?Uffk, Labor Worldly.Jan.- 5-12-19-2$ Fab. & ,4W JZiSm