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$00T & SHOg WORKERS UNION UNION factory Na A. B. HADDAD DEALER IN Groceries and Confectionery 902 East Second Street New Phone—Gr^nd 1815-D PISTACHIO NUTS A SPECIALTY MEN'S WEAR AT POPULAR PRICES M- COOK AND SON 13 and 15 East Superior Street SEE OUR $15.00 SPECIAL MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S jCLOTHES We Carry a Good Supply of Union Label Clothes Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Cheerfully Refunded. THE TVIH PORTS CLOTHING CO. Compliments of JOHN MOIR FINE GROCERIES AND CHOICE TABLE DELICACIES Marine Supplies a Specialty* 2017-19 West Superior St. Both Phones* Named, shoes are frequently made in Non-Union factories DO NOT BUY ANY SHOE No matter what its name, unless it bear* a plain and readable impression of this UNION STAMP. All shoes without the UNION STAMP are always Non-Union. Do not accept any excuses for Absence of the UNION STAMP BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 240 Summer Street. Boston. Mau. JOHN F. TOBIN, President. CHARLES L. BAIBfE, Sec.-Treas. they be shoes tor heavy work or dress up for school, or use in the woods and deep snow, our shoes are good shoes. We try to see how much service we can put into our shoes rather than how cheap we can turn them out. We're proud to put our name on all our shoes and can't afford to risk our reputation in order to save a few dollars. "The Hartman," our dress shoe (named after the pres ident of our company), is an all-leather shoe, beautifully designed, skillfully made, comfortable on the foot and they wear such a long time. Let us send you our beautiful new Hartman shoe book et just issued. 0ULUTH, MINN. SATURDAY WAR ACTIVITIES RISK •Ms Labw MrisskKr Cab MMa In Sfwiq Mosltil! tads. Springfield, 111., Aug. 29.—Barney Cohen, director of the Illinois depart ment of labor, says accidents in Illi nois are increasing and the demand for labor makes it imperative that the hazards in industry be reduced. "No matter what? the industrial conditions are," says the director, "machinery should be safely guarded in full compliance with the law—now more than ever, and no excuses can be tolerated by the inspector whose duty it is to see that workers are not subjected to abnormal hazard. "Under the more crowded condi tions of our work shops and fac tories iti will be necessary that ven torie's it will be necessary that ven tion. The increased strain placed upon the worker means that he midst not -be forced to work in sur roundings which reduce his: ability to resist disease because of foul air filled with dust particles or chem ical substances injurious to health. "No allowance can be made for the necessity for greater output or. unusual housing conditions, as there is no option available, other than that enacted law be strictly observed by all employers of labor." WIRE COMPANY* DID LAND OFFICE MAIL BUSINESS NEW YORK, Aug. £9.—A federal grand jury has indicted the Western Telegraph company on charges of having transmitted messages by mail. It is claimed that 346*417 messages were carried by messengers between August 2, 1917, and June 15, 1918. The company would place a large r.uinrer of night telegrams, directed to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash ington, in charge of an employe, who would go to these cities on fast trains and deliver them to waiting messen gers, who would take them to the of fice in that city and have them de livered the next morning. This service was in reality not much faster than post office special deliv ery, but the telegraph company charged the regulation telegraph toll. Is our watchword in,the making of shoes and whether -THE LABOR WORLD' EMIIi ERICSON JOHN BENNETT Organized labor has two candidates of its own for the legislature in the coming campaign. They are John Bennett of the Plumbers' union, candidate for the house in the Fifty-eighth district, and Emil Ericson,' candidate for the senate in the Fifty-ninth district. Mr. Ericson is a mem ber of the Brotherhood of Locomotive. Firemen and Enginemen. Both are honest, clean living and upright men who'can be depended upon to properly and effectively represent workingmen in the legislature. It |s expected that union men generally will organize committees in differ ent portions of both districts to properly conduct, the campaigns of Bennett and Ericson. UNION LABOR IS LOYALTONATION Keys Up Production, Heads of Strikes, Prevents Cessa tion of Work. (Continued From Page 1.) their union buttons, and no. one has dared say them nay. They are going to continue to wear their union but tons. And since the act of joining the union is no longer to be punished or questioned, President Konencamp ol the Commercial Telegraphers' union sees no reason why he should not now go out and organize the whole forcfs, just as has been done by the metal trades and building trades organiza tions in war industries. Mr. Burleson has backed down. His broom didn't work. Ten per cent advance in wages made no difference. The right to or ganize was the issue, and it was set tled right. This victory of tliie telegraphers has brought great comfort to the Federa tion of Postal Employes, the Letter Carriers' association, and all the branches of the mail service. They see the day coming rapidly nearer when they, with the telegraphers, will not merely be tolerated but will be called in as an organization, to have a part in establishing a region of that industrial democracy which Walsh so clearly points out as the big thing to be won. Work or Fight Amendment. As these lines are written, congress is fighting oven the scheme put for ward by Senator Thomas of Colorado, and so bitterly denounced by Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L., as an insult to organized labor— the amendment to the man-power bill which would virtually forbid strikes of workers in war industries during the war. At the same moment, the 50,000 workers in the war industries at Bridgeport, Conn., are in a turmoil of protest at the failure of the employei members of the War Labor board to permit the rendering of a decision on their conditions before the man power legislation shal be passed. Many of the men at Bridgeport fear that the award is being delayed in order to force upon them a wdrk-or fight law: that will permit no protest at an award which falls short of a living wage and union recognition. Walsh Hfeeps Busy. Frank P. Walsh, accompanied by John Fitzpatrick, president or the Chicago Federation of Labor, is now in Bridgeport, meeting the workers and reasoning with them. Walsh asks them to be patient, to stay on the job, and he promises, that the War Labor board can give them nothing short of a fair award. He does not say that the millenium is at hand, or that the award of the six men representing capital and the six representing labor will be a 100 per cent labor decision but he says that .it will go far in ad vance of what they can get by any other road. And one thing is as sured—there will be recognition of the shop committees of the workers in every plant in the town. Would Not Hunt Movement. Suppose congress does enact a law which would cancel the exemption of any-worker who weiit on strike, as proposed in the Thomas amendment. It is scarcely to be supposed that that law would paralyze the labor move ment. Workers would continue to send their demands to the War Labor board, and to. urge prompt action. They would take more interest in see ing that their demands were pressed. They would hold the local plant su perintendents more directly account able for trouble. The force that had been expended in strikes would simply be turned into another channel of protest. Possibly more effective means of dealing with anti-democratic bosses can be found than have ever yet been developed. The War Labor board, for instance, has shown that a boss can be publicly discredited and made ridic ulous, and the workers can be official ly formed into a sort of vigilance society to protect industrial justice In the plant. And ^ith each step taken in educating the bones/ the' labor movement discovers jnore of its own •AUGUST 31,191& ability to run things on a co-operative basis At Gillette's Plant. Up in Minneapolis there is a steel I company that has denied its employes the right to organize, tfhe War Labor board has investigated. The local agent of the Burns Detective agency made an appointment with Organizer Abbey of the machinists, leader of the strike, and tried to buy him off. In due time the War Labor board will roll that company out very flat. In dustrial democracy will be established in Minneapolis, even in the steel in dustry. Meanwhile, the company of ficials are trying to excuse bad war materials turned out by their scab force by saying that the government inspectors of the work are "pro-Ger man"! Post to Take It Up. This Minneapolis situation, and some others of general interest to the Department of Labor, will come un der the eye of Assistant Secretary' Louis F. Post, during a trip around the country which he began this week. Accompanied by his private secretary, Hugh Reid of Chicago, Mr. Post goes to Seattle, then to NSan Francisco and Los Angeles, and* come eastward, along the Mexican border. Later he will be in Denver and in Minneapolis. On the Pacific coast and along the border he will be chiefly concerned with immigration and deportation matters. He will also take up with the local officials of the United States Employment service the problem of seasonal labor supply dur ing the war, and .the application of the rule against employment in non essential industries. Mr. Post has been the leader of the development which has wiped out the whole system of private employment agencies in the United States, and has pooled our man-power'for the period of the war. If he had his way, the dollar-power would be Spooled in much the same way, anfl the profi teering which the Federal Trade com mission and the Treasury reports have recently disclosed would be killed off in an hour. Meat Trust's Lobby. Speaking of profiteers brings up the question of the big meat packers once more, just as the word monopoly used to bring up the names of Standard Oil and Rockefeller. The Federal Trade commission'has shown that the government must run the wholesale meat selling houses, as well as the big stockyards, if the packers are to be controlled. The packers are increas ing their expensive lobby in Washing ton to prevent any action by congress to bring this about. Their chief lob byist is in the society columns of th» papers almost every day, with enter tainments given to big politicians and to officials of various kinds. The families that pay the excess profits on meat are not giving these dinner-par-" ties to ijjii«p^w}io can put the brakes on corigr«jsv*f BAKERS RAISE WAGES. CINCINNATI, Aug. 29.—Bakers' union No. 213 has increased wages $2 a week. 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SERVICE A POUCH OF GRAVELY Dealers all around here carry it in 10c. pwAw. A 3c. stamp will put it into his hands in any Training or Sea port of the U. S. A. Even "over then" a 3c. stamp will rVP* You* dealer will supply envelope and give you official directions how to address it. P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO CO., Danville, Va. The Patent Ppaeh keep* it Freeh and Clean and Good —it it not. Real Gravely without this Protection Seal Established 1S31 THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK DULUTH, MINN. OAPllAL a# «t .$1|000,000.00 auItPLUS a a a a a a a a a a a a a a O O O O O O O O UNDIVIDED PROFITS 900,000.00 THREE PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS AND TIME DEPOSITS. Compliments of Northwestern Fuel Co. Compliments of •4- COLL &SEILER Jewelers 5 Smith Fifth Avenue West Compliments of Winkler Brothers Company Manufacturers of High-Grade CANDIES AND CHOCOLATES 2115 W. Michigan St. Duluth, Minnesota. WEST PARK GROCERY ALLEN WIKSXROM, Prop. Dealet in STAPLE and FANCY 6K0CERIE8 Assorted Line of Fruits and Vegetables/in Season Phones: Lincoln 650 Cole 1248-J. 310 VERNON STREET DULUTH. MINN.