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•®3 5 If Iff Sfi#. fe i: fW & m, i'V4 tty THE LABOR WORLD Published Every Saturday. Established in 1896 by Sabrle Q. Akin. Bu«lneu Offices 504-7 Manhattan Bid*., Duluth. Minn. Zenith Phone 65. SUBSCRIPTION#! One Tear, in advance #1.00 Six month*, in advance. Three months. In advance. 25 Single Copies, 5 Cents. Advertising Rates Made Known on Ap plication. Entered at the Postofflce at Duluth. Minn., as second clas3 matter. WILLIAM E. McEWEN, Publisher. HARRY H. TURNER, Editor. UBQR DON'T BE IDLE WHILE THE WRONG IS DONE President Gonlpers, Vice Presi dent Mitchell and Secretary Mor rison are not the ones alone af fected by the recent decision of the Court of Appeals of the Dis trict of Columbia, which says these workers must go to jail. A question involving the very fundamentals of our government is now involved. If Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison are placed behind prison bars, because they violated a court order, denying them the right of free press and speech, a precedent will be estab lished that closes the mouth of any worker, and puts a Russian censor over the labor and reform press of Our land. Not only does_this question ef fect workers, but the interests of all other patriotic citizens, who deny the right of a court to say what shall or what shall not be published in our press, are in volved. Our constitution declares against "the abridging of speech or of the press." These words are plain, and while written before our present judicial tyrants had perfected the injunction writ and chloroformed our best and noblest ideals, the constitution still stands as an in spiration to every liberty lover who protests in righteous indig nation against injunctions and other capitalistic sandbags. REMEMBER, THE MEN IN VOLVED STAND FOR WHAT YOU STAND FOR, and if their liberty is taken from them, as sure as the sun shines, you, too, are dragged behind the %olted bars. These men must not go to jail— an aroused public opinion is our and heir salvation. -. f^5r These times call for plain talk. And don't forget that when you buy that, new fall hat, or pair of shoes, shirt, pair of suspenders or tie, to see to it that the union la bel il on them and prove yourself a union man and not a card man. PRIVILEGE, MAN MADE, IS A FRANKENSTEIN Privilege crucified Christ ston ed the prophets enslaved Egypt destroyed Greece and Rome plunged earth into the dark ages, and fought to keep it there. It causes every war, famine and plague creates every prince and every pauper gives every bribe corrupts every branch of govern ment turns the Seriflon on the Mount" to a laugh and the "Golden Rule" to a sneer and sits today in court, in senate hall and throne the absolute ruler of the world, so hedged by ignor ance and corruption that few there be who know where and what privilege is. ^For privilege preaches in pul pits, teaches in schools,, writes books, edits papers, controls poli tics the first truth it kills is the truth about itself and it ^s the policy of privilege to appreciate and parade itself in the clothes of .dead truth. Privilege has no patriotism, no religion, no country,j no creed, no king but graft', no god but gold. Privilege is the root of all evil, a "Pandora's Box/' whence come all the ills that flesh is heir to, and which forever holds Bo^e a prisoner.: It is a "Frankenstein" man has made with which to destroy him self. NON-UNIONIST SHOULD JOURNEY TO HIS FATHER One of our exchanges got into a religious frame of mind last week and this was the result: Undoubtedly the devil was the first non union man. There is no disputing the fact that heaven has always been run according to un ion principles and as a closed shop. Satan rebelled against these conditions and started to agitate for an open institution, whereupon he was expelled from membership in the angel's union and fired to perdition. Ever since then harmony has reigned in Paradise, and the clos ed shop prevails. No non union' man is tolerated in the kingdom of heaven, and there is no room for Professor Eliot's hero strike breakers there. Our advice to the man who is so low as to act the strike breaker is to go to his father. PARCELS POST WOULD CURE POSTAL DEFICIT How much truth is told by a Western contemporary in the fol lowing editorial paragraph! "Railroads are responsible for the $20,000,000 deficit in the pos tal receipts. It is blamed on the rural routes, on, the newspapers, GOMPERS MITCHELL MORRISON on the grafting congressmen who frank without any stamps, put their signatures on dining tables, milch cows, carpets and carloads of worthless public records. The fact js thatvthe railroads collect $20,000,000 for services that should be given free as part re turn for their franchises. Even if paid for, the services of railroads are not worth over $6, 000,000. Postal experts and rail road experts are now figuring to cook up reports that will show the railroads ark reasonable tin their charges. The retrenchments ordered by the ^postal department are simply monkeying with the problem. The rural routes would paf if the express trust allowed parcels post. The deficit would disappear and postage on letters could be Cut in two if the rail roads were choked loose." JUDGE UNIONISM BY F^IR MEASURE Unionism should not be judged by its worst features, but by its general characteristics* It does not ask to be judged by Its best qualities. There is good and bad in all institutions. Their real value lies in their general attrib utes. Unionism has objectionable features, but even these when 1 1,11 11 If Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison of the American Feder ation of Labor have violated the law of the land they should be punished. But so should others, men on the side of capital who have violated the same law. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison disregarded the injunction. They virtually defied the court by continuing to publish the un fair list,. In doing this they, undoubtedly did. wrong. They should have waited until the point at issue was .definitely and finally dqqided. For violating the injunction they were haled into court and sentenced to imprisonment. This decision has just heen affirmed by the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. The law, of course, must be vindicated. But it is unjust to enforce it to ^he limit against some and not enforce with equal thoroughness against others. The anti-trust law, which wis invoked in the prosecution of Gompers, Mitchell and MorrisOn, has not infrequently been invoked against the great trusts which, capital has formed "in restraint of trade." Poor men, leaders of the poor, have been sent to prison rich men, "malefactors of wealth," have never been sent to prison. In the federal court, for instance, Rockefeller, Rogers and Archbold were shown to have violated the anti-trust iaw, but they were not personally punished in an£ way, not even prosecuted personally. Their company was heavily fined, to be sure, but the fine did notho.ld good. It is a strange coincidence that at the very moment of the success of the movement to let the wealthy criminals of San Francisco go "unwhipt of justice," there should come the de cision upholding the imprisonment of Gompers and, his asso ciates. These things are too likely to teach the lesson that money means immunity^ from prosecution -or punishment for crime. There should be one law for all f1 (It feller as well as a Gompers, a! Harriman as well as a Morrison, a Ryan as well as a Mitch-ell. Only that law i$ good and sacred before which all are equal. —St. Paul Daily News. 1 'LJ' properly understood lose much of their objectionableness. The real t^st of an institution lies in its helpfulness to those who need help. The union stands for the progress-of'the plain people. Its Word is personality^ Its aim is to lift the standard of toiling manhood and womanhood. It has done much and will "do more to make the multitude happifer and better. To criticise it apart from a recognition of this purpose is to do it an injustice. WHERE WOULD WORKER COMB IN AT $1 A DAY Formerly it. required 200 hours of human labor to place 100 tons of ore on railroad cars. Today, aided by machinery, two hours of human labor will accomplish the same task. Formerly it required 240 hours of human labor to transfer 200 tons of coal from canal boats to bins 400 feet distant. Today ma chinery will accomplish the* same work in 20 hours. On a bonanza farm in Califor nia wheat was produced at a cost of cents per bushel. Professor Rerzog of Austria has estimated that 5,000,000 peo ple with the help of modern ma chinery, could supply a population of 20,000,000 people with all the necessaries and small luxuries of life by working hours each Today 100 men make 250,000 bricks where twelve years ago they produced only 30,000 bricks. •Today 850 "hands'' in one fac- It will be remembered that Gompers and his associates were enjoined from publishing in the organ of the federation an "un fair list"—a "we don't patronize list"—which referred particu-^ larly to the Buck's Stove Co. This was the boycott*in its simplest" form. The injunction was granted on the ground that this act was in "restraint of trade among several states." »It was held to be a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. RYAN HARRIMAN ROCKEFELLER j. should goyern Rocke tory produce 225,000,000 matches a day. Seventeen years ago 5,000 "hands" in 36 factories produced only 140,000,000 a day. Yet you. will hear manufactur ers say that $1 a day is enough for a laboring man. The co6t of production has de creased 100 per cent, the cost of" living has increased about 40 per cent, and wages increased 10 to 12 per cent. Following this ratio of progres sion it is not hard to see that the wage-earner will come out* at the little end of the horn. TRUE UNION MAN IS FATR TO EMPLOYER Take the mass as a whole, the organized man is an honest, up right, conscientious workman of ability. He ^ealiiies his own worth, but he "seldom overrates himself. "While he insists on re ceiving just remuneration for his services, he is ready and willing to exert himself to# give his em ployer the Tbest service there is in him. The good union man is glad when the day's work begins and is happyNvhen it is over. In every union man there is a desire to do a fair day's work for a fpir day's pay, and he dpes not ABhmiCA* greatest CLOTHING SPECIALISTS. BUie^ir^Sirits —Mike— 3 Winners* Only $15.00 Blue^Sergre Suits .are always In de mand, but this season the 4feman| is greater than ever. We are showv ln« a beautiful pure-i Wobl, Blue Serge for only |if, that caniiot be" bought In any tttore In Duluth for less than 22 80.- This- garment is* made up hr tlje nitty 27butiton..coat for the young, fellows, 'and al^o In the plain" conservative models for the man that- ju§t wants plain clothes. Sizes ruff from 83 to 46 breast measure and we guarantee back P^tly °r your money ALL "GOODS ijOUGHT HERB ARB KEPT PRESSED AND RE PAIRED FREE OP CHARGE. CLOTHING CO., (Inc.) 115 Eut Superior Street, Between 1st and 2nd Ave. But, have to be growled at or driven to do it fey the boss, although there are sometimes found em ployers who have become so hard ened to the sense of fairness that they cannot recognize (the tnie worth and ability in a good union man when they have one. YOU COURT DEATH MINUS THE LABEL "You would not employ a little child to stitch on your garments. You would not invite a sick and diseased, wretched, coughing con sumptive to your home to make your clothes. You would not have sitJk chil dren sleep on your new suit of clothes. Xou would not employ men .and women in a filthy room to sew on your clothes 18 hours a day. But, my union man friend, that is what you encourage that is What you actually do—these things mentioned—when you buy a suit, of clothes without the. la bel." .• .v.-/. u. UNCLE SAM WOULD FORGE AFFLICTED jfoOM EMPLOY -The secretary-ofc the navy is sued an order this week which, while it does not directly affect organized labor, must' concern every workingman who has a real heart in him. The order directs that- all persons in. the navy de partment, whatever their station, must submit to an examination, and if traces of tuberculosis are found in any of them they are io be dismissed from the service. There has seldom been heard a more sweeping or more unjust ruling by a public official. It is, of course, stated .that the action is taken to prevent the spread of the disease, and this may be ex actly true. But at the same time, in view of the fact that the gov ernment makes no provisions for itst decrepit employes, no more heartless action could possibly be taken. An exchange quotes Wm. J. Bryan in the following eloquent words: "The union label is hu manity's emblem, forging its way into the workshop, factory and mill, bearing upbn its wings sweet messages of peace." Then goes on to-say. that there is no typographical union label on 'fcThe Commoner," Mr. Bryan's paper. ', Is this correct? Esa£ Sold his birthright for a mess of .pottage. Judas Iscariot sold Jesus Christ for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his coun- m' __ **£2W3S O. Av HOFFMANN, rt try lor the proibise of an pfficer's commission in the English army. The modern strikebreaker Wis his birthright, his country, his wife, Ills- children and his fellow "vorkmen for an unfulfilled prom ise from a trust or corporation. Esau was* a traitor* to himself Judas lscariot was a traitor to his CrO-1 Benedict Arnold was a trai tor to his country. A strike-breaker is a traitor to himself, to his God, to his coun try, to Jiis family and to his class. .— Governor Draper of Massachus etts is invited by the labor unions to explain why he vetoed the eight-hour day law recently pass ed by the legislature of that state and we think he has got the task of his life before him with failure 0 an assured result. Astronomers are, earnestly: 'searching for the planet Yulcan, which seems to-be missing. We suggest that inquiry, be made of Mr. Rockefeller. It turns out that the reported failure of the peanut crop i^as only a "shell game." Nineteen deaths from baseball this season will" make it necessary for football to brace up. We are not surprised' to hear that a clergyman in Delaware has invented an airship. He's a sky pilot. The, widow who thought sihe had married a count and found she had married a cook is to be congratulated if he's a union cook. The meanest cuss an the face of God 's green earth is the man*who carries a union card in his pock et, subscribes for his labor paper, and when he knows he owes about two dollars, refuses the paper and has it sent back with the endorse ment "refused." If. trades-unionists voted as they talk there would be more po litical victories for them to record THE SONG OF THE SWEATSHOP SUIT It tells of the sweatshop's misery, It speaks of.the toiler's Strife It calls to mind human suffering That ends yith the worker's life It sings at' the hot foul attic, Where twenty long hours a day A horde of men, women and chil dren Are wearing their lives away. It tells of the fainting creature Sewing on at the endless seam It pictures the crowded quarters That reek with the heat and steam It represents human life-blood,.' The price that it costs to live The cost of the bread and butter Some starving mortal must give. It shows its shabby make-up The injustice that gave it birth It speaks in its shoddy finish Its-uttermost lack of worthy Its sags and its thousand wrinkles Tell plainly where it was made. As though even it'were ashamed to be seen The suit of the sweatshop grad^ Thien why do you buy it, brother? Those clothes that are stamped unfair Those garments of filth and squalor .v' That the* smell of the sweatshop share. Refuse them and look for the la bei Your Conscience won't trouble :.v you then Don't accept that product of star vation Wear union made clothing W?1- 1. lf4 BROKER, kMain Floor, Palladio Building. He Execute Your Orders. ACTIVE OUto COPPER STOCKS A SPECIALTY WritjB or telephone or com^ in and talk it over.^ Dolttth Phone, 2662 fjMi is ci. ^»iii|i,fir-i lnyjr iii rr|jiiririjTnifayjti^j-)i ^i mg our big save, money. 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