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the other victims of the panic, as
quickly and as- quietly as possible.
As soon as his casket touched the
ground, the .grief-stricken mother
took up her position at the head of
the grave. "My boy, my boy, my
dear, dear little one," she wept again
and agaiii. Then throwing a bit of
dirt onto the cofiurand looking once
more into the; open grave, Mrs. Jokipii
turne'd into the arms of her husband
and started toward a neighboring
hill where the greater number of the
dead were being laid in two long
graves.
Her eyes were still pouring out
tears. Her heart was still breaking
for her lost child. But she was hur
rying to share the sorrow of others
and share her sympathy with them.
All of these tearful funerals are
over, but every human heart is still
breaking in this city of caskets and
crying.
GOMPERS SEES DANGER
TO UNION LABOR
Washington, Jan. 2. Whether or
ganized labor is to be ''outlawed" is
a question which the American peo
ple must decide without further de
lay, according to an edlt6rial by
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, in
"The" American Federationist." He
viewed with alarni the. Sherman in
dictment of United' Mine Workers',
officers in West Virginia and declar
ed that the "very life of organized
labor is al stake."
"The anti-trust law,, as now inter
preted and applied," he said, "con
stitutes the most .serious menace to
the labor movement.
"That law, which was intended to
benefit human beings, to prevent or.
check monopoly and absolute control
over the products of labor and of the
soil, and to assure to the people the
necessities of life at reasonable
prices, has proved useless in estab
lishing control or regulations over
the trusts and monopolies," said
Gompers. "In a .spirit of .glee-.these.
same monopolies, trusts and corpora- j
tions, unharmed by the law which
was to have regulated them, now
turn this law against the human be-'
ings who were to have been pro
tected." Gompers demands that the Wilson
administration shall give "substance
to its convictions, if it is not in favor
of outlawing organized labor," for it
charges, "as was the custom under
the late regime, the present adminis
tration has permitted, under the pro
visions of the Sherman anti-trust
law; indictments against men helping
their fellow workers to secure higher
wage's and a shorter work-day."
Gompers stated that imperative
necessity for the amendment of the
Sherman law to exempt labor is
shown in, the decision of the U. - S;
circuit court of appeals that the Unit
ed Hatters must pay to D. E. Loewe
& Co. $252,130 for "conspiracy" in
the. means used to obtain higher
wages and shorter hours.
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TROUBLE WITH SHOE WORKERS
St Louis, Md., Jan. 2. Rivalry be
tween the Boot and Shoe Workers!
Union, which has just signed" a closed
contract "With the Hamilton-Brown
Shoe Company, and the United Shoe
Workers of America, threatened ioi
day to cause a bitter industrial strugr,
gle, here. Unless the 1,000 United'
Shoe Workers employed by the Hamilton-Brown
factories join 'the Boot
and Shoe Workers' Untom affiliated
-with file American Federation of
Labor,, they will be locked out.. . . -Leaders
of the U. S. W. predict that
members Witt remain loyal and fight.
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DAWES HOTEL OPENED '
The RufuS F. Dawes Memorial ho
tel, where "dowri-and-Suts" can get .
a bath and a bed, for five eentst a
private room for ten cents and meals
at from 7 to 15 cents, was opened, for
business today. Charles G. Dawes,
president of the XJentral Trust Coin-,
pany, 'built the hotel as a memorial .
to his only son, who was drowned in,
Lake Geneva, Wis., one year ago. .