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LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.
It Pay* to Iso Union Mn Big Victory
Secured by the Hott. Coal Miners of
low* —Tbe Fight A|HMt H*e Chicago
News hml Record la Still In Force.
A Muthei'i Portrait.
O! tliat those lip* hatl language! Eire
bus passed
With me but roughly since 1 heard thee
last.
Those lips are thlne—thy own sweet
smiles 1 see,
The same, that oft in childhood solaced
me;
Voice only falls, else how distinct they
say,
“Grieve not, my child, chase all thy
fears away!'
The meek Intelligence of (hose dear eyes
(Blest be the art that can Immortalize.
The art that batll.-s lime's tyrannic claim
To quench 111 heie shines on me still the
same.
Faithful remembrances of one so dear.
O welcome guest, though unexpected
here!
Who bldd'st me honor with an artless
song.
Affectionate, a mother lost so long.
I will obey, not willingly alone:
But gladly, as the precept were her own;
And, while that face renews my Illlal
grief.
Fancy shall weave a charm for my re
lief,
Shall steep mein Klysian never
A momentary dream lliut thou art she.
Mj mother! when l learned that thou
wast dead,
Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I
thed ?
Perhaps thou gavest me, unseen, a kiss;
Perhaps a tear, If souls can weep In
bliss—
Ah! that maternal smile! It answers—
Yes.
By contemplation’s help, not sought In
vain,
1 seem to live my childhood over again;
To have renewed the Joys that once were
mine
Without the aid of violating thine;
And, while the wings of fancy still are
free.
Andi can view this mimic show of thee,
'lime has but half succeeded In his
theft—
Thyself removed, thy power to soothe
me left.
—Cowper.
It Pays to Ho a Unionist.
Last year there was little or no or
ganization among bituminous coal
miners in lowa. This year organiza
tion lias been effected by tbe United
Mine Workers of America. On April
4 an agreement was made at Boones
boro, lowa, from which the following
paragraphs are taken:
We, the operators and miners of the
Boone district, known as Sub-District
No. 4, of District No. 13, U. M. W. of
A., agree to the following agreement:
First—This agreement is made for
one year, from March 31, 1893, to April
1, 1900.
Second—That 90 cents be paid for
mining lump coal, same to be run over
the screens now in use.
Third—Eight hours' actual work
shall constitute a day's work. The
day wage scale to be based upon nine
hours at the prices prevailing prior to
the date of this agreement.
Sixth—The mine shall work six days
each week when required by the opera
tors. legal holidays and funerals ex
cepted.
Mr. John P. Reese of Roone writes
to the Mine Workers' Journal to tell
what the above means. In his letter
he says:
“This, in our judgment. Is the great
est victory ever won in lowa, inasmuch
as the men have only been organized
since April 1, 1899, and the agreement
made on April 4, throe days after the
organization was started. I.ast sum
mer they, as unorganized men, re
ceived 80 cents per ton, ten hours per
day, and the day wage scale was based
on $2 per day when the coal was 90
cents. This summer, by being United
Mine Workers, they will receive 90
cents per ton. nine hours’ pay for eight
hours' work, which will be seen by the
agreement. Needless to say that these
men think the organization is a good
thing. When we arrived here on March
29 there was not an organized miner in
the district. Today we can count them
by the hundreds. These men did not
think the men of this district could be
organized, because they have had
union here before and they broke up,
but you can’t tell them this one will
ever break up. Men are beginning to
get their eyes opened.”
It pays to be a soldier in the army
of organized labor. You get better ra
tions, bigger pay, more allowances, less
duty. It is for each to say for himself
whether he will march in the army
that contains the cream ar.d gets the
cream, or whether he will train with
the skim-milk crowd on a skim-milk
diet.
No Show for Unionist* Here.
The Allied Printing Trades Council
of Chicago, which is conducting a hot
fight against the Chicago Daily News
and Chicago Record for employing
scabs, has given the following eye
opening affidavit to the public: We
respectfully submit this document,
which is a fac-simile of the affidavit of
Mr. + l ank M. Harris, who was former
ly employed as a stereotyper in the
News and Record office. It shows con
clusively the false pretenses of the
publisher of these papers, aud that the
efforts of his managers are being ai
rected toward the stamping out of
unionism in ills establishment.
State of Ohio, Franklin County, ss.:
Before me, the undersigned authority,
personally appeared Frank M. Harris,
who, being first duly sworn, says that
on the 28th day of March, 1899, he was
called to the office of S. S. Rogers,
manager of the Chicago Daily News
and the Chicago Record, on which lat
ter paper he had been working for the
last eight months. When this affiant
appeared before Mr. Rogers, he said:
“I hear you have been talking union
ism to the other members of the stere
otype room, and have beer inducing
them to go into the union. The union
will never run this shop again, and I
don’t want any men here but those
who are loyal to the office.”
He then and there discharged this
affiant from his employ.
FRANK M. HARIRS.
Sworn to before me and signed in
mv presence, this 3d day of April. 1899.
J. L. BACHMAN,
Notary Public in and for Franklin
County Ohio.
Ttixius Franchise*.
Further light on the law taxing fran
chises in New York gives a still more
satisfactory impression as to its bene
fits.
It appears that under its workings
at least a thousand millions of dollars’
worth of property will be added to the
taxable values of the state.
For instance, three street railroad
lines and the Consolidated Gas com
pany in New York city have their val
uation increased from $21,000,000 to
$221,000,000, The Manhattan company’s
valuation increased from $1,700,000 to
$42,440,000, and the Consolidated Gas
company from $14,493,000 to $100,242,-
000. Upon a 75 per cent assessment
similar to that on real estate the in
crease in the taxable property of the
four corporations named —three street
railway and one gas—will be in round
numbers $166,000,000, taxable at the
general rate of 2.49 mills on the dollar,
and the levy will Increase their taxes
from $500,000 paid last year to at least
$5,500,000 to be paid this year.
It has been suggested by an able
Chicago lawyer that the corporations
might have been pleased to have their
franchises rated as real estate, but
when such a rating means a tax of
$20,000,000 a year this supposition is
hardly tenable.
It is estimated that the law' will add
$15,000,000 annually to the revenues of
New York city—“enough,” the World
says, “to buld anew Brooklyn bridge
every year, or schools for 10,000 chil
dren, or a rapid transit tunnel in less
than three years.” By the addition
to the taxable property of New York
city the debt limit of the city w’ill be
raised by at least $100,000,000.
All this Is extremely interesting to
the people of New York, but this is not
the end of the matter. This increase
in taxable values, if proved to be legal,
will prove a most valuable hint to the
legislatures of other states, and espe
cially to that of Illinois and conse
quently to the taxpayers of Chicago.
Cost (>r Living in England.
Living, in a word, is cheaper for the
English poor than for our own, and
dearer for the well-to-do than in Am
erica, because there are here two stan
dards of living, says Harper's Bazar.
Tlie unit of value for the well-to-do in
England is the sovereign, or the $5
piece, whereas our American unit of
value in housekeeping is a dollar. The
unit value with the English poor is a
sliding standard that runs from a pen
ny down to a farthing, just as in Am
erica it is a nickel.
No American of middle circum
stances who has made his home in
London will dispute my statement that
it costs more to keep a family there
than it does at home. Men's clothing,
wines and liquors, servants, flowers
and a very few minor articles are
cheaper in England, but these advan
tages are offset by the higher cost of
all other necessaries. The cheapest
cut of beef is £5 cents a pound, butter
is 30 cents a pound, coffee is 40 cents,
strawberries never go lower than 8 or
10 cents a basket, and good small fruits
are generally very much dearer.
Peaches are 25 cents apiece, milk is 8
cents a quart, cream is 50 cents a
quart, oysters fetch $1 to $l5O a dozen,
bread is about as cheap as at home,
loin of pork '3 25 cents a pound, the
cheaper mutton (from New Zealand) is
20 cents a pound, and English mutton
fetches 7 cents more. These are all
west end prices, but they are not high
prices. They- are the quotations of a
very careful buyer.
Western Labor Union.
The Western Labor Union has is
sued a call for its second annual con
vention, which will be held in Salt
Lake City, beginning May 8. It is like
ly that the bait Lake City convention,
if western papers are correct, will not
only regard with coldness any attempt
to secure reafflliation with the A. F. of
L„ but may throw the gauntlet in the
shape of carrying a proposition to or
ganize all trades, whether or not
unions already exist.
Poker has been forbidden in Vienna,
on the ground that it is a game of
chance.
THE CRAFTY USURERS
AND THEIR TRAPS FOR THE
UNWARY.
The Outcry Against a “Fifty-Cent Dol
lar" Designed to Conceal the Manipu
lation* by Which the Two Hundred
Cent Dollar Is Evolved.
The creditor combinations who own
the debts of the world and are inter
ested in making money scarce and
dear, and everything that money buys
cheap, have invented many ingenious
phrases to deceive their unwary vic
tims—the laboring and producing
classes. The creditor combination is
the money octopus. It holds demands
against mankind for the entire stock of
gold money in the world forty times
over. The amount of interest it gath
ers in six months equals the total gold
money in existence. To make money
scarce and dear is to increase its
wealth and power, and to correspond
ingly weaken the ability of the people
to resist any demands it makes.
This rich, powerful and crafty
combination understands every prej
udice of the human heart and every
weakness of the human intellect. By
skillfully manipulating these they not
only secure acquiescence in their
schemes of robbery and spoliation, but
cause their victims to zealously do
their work.
Among the various catch phrases
coined in the parlors of the world’s
great pawn shops to deceive their un
wary victims are numerous ingenious
and sophistical appeals to the moral
sense, the pride, and the passions of
man, says the National Watchman.
The craft, cunning and ingenuity of
the phrases used are evidenced by
their acceptance as truth by millions of
unsuspecting victims.
One of the statements that has done,
and is doing, duty for the gold combi
nation is the cry of a “50-cent dollar.”
It is not uncommon to hear men sus
pected of average intelligence, who
wear clean shirts and whose ordinary
pretensions pass muster, echoing the
50-cent dollar argument. If such per
sons realized that such arguments ex
posed their weakness of intellect and
caused them to forfeit the respect of
their more intelligent associates, they
would protect themselves against be
ing classed as intellectual imbeciles by
declining to ever repeat them.
The argument current among many
thoughtless victims of gold monopoly
is “that the reopening of the mints
to the free coinage of silver would
enable miners and other owners of sil
ver to have fifty cents’ worth of their
material stamped a dollar by the gov
ernment and empowered by law to dis
charge a dollar of debt; that this dol
lar would only be worth fifty cents ac
tual value, and that, therefore, gold
dollars worth twice as much would no
longer circulate side by side with
them, concurrently and interchangea
bly, making purchases and payments;
that the withdrawal of the gold money
from circulation would cause a terrific
contraction of the money volume, mak
ing money so scarce that it would crip
ple business and ruin debtors, and that
the business-of the country would be
transacted with dollars worth only
fifty cents.”
It must be remembered that money
Is desired not for the purpose of
swapping dollars of different material,
but as a medium of exchange to facili
tate the work of producing and ex
changing commodities. The value of
money, whether made of gold, silver
or paper, is the amount of other things
in general that it can be exchanged
for. When money is made of material
such as gold or silver that can be re
minted and the coin of one country
converted into the coin of another
country, free of charge, in whatever
quantity obtainable, such money ma
terial will move from one country to
another seeking the market wherein it
can be exchanged for the most goods,
and commodities will seek such coun
tries as they can be exchanged for the
largest amount of such money mate
rial. Thus it will be seen that the
whereabouts, of gold must always be
determined by the prices of commodi
ties.
So long as commodities are priced in
and exchanged for money, whenever
money becomes scarce prices must fall.
So any attempt to take any large
amount of gold out of circulation
would cause such a fall in prices as to
at once call the gold back again by
giving it a greater power to exchange
for commodities here than elsewhere.
Thus it will be seen bow absurd is
the claim that our gold could leave on
any account so long as prices in this
country do not go above the interna
tional gold price level. Again, tnat
our volume of money would be con
tracted to a point that business would
be cramped and debtors ruined, and at
the same time we would have in cir
culation dollars worth only fifty cents,
or one-half as much as before; that
they could only be exchanged for one
half the amount of ether things,
reaches the climax of transcendent ab
surdity.
To say that money, the one thing ol
universal and constant demand, hav
ing full debt-paying power, can be
scarce and cheap at the same time,
so scarce that it will stagnate business
and ruin debtors, while it can be ob
tained for one-half the labor or sacri
fice it could before, and everything for
sale will command double the amount
of it in exchange, is to confound all
logic and common sense. Whenever
you hear a laborer, producer, or tax
payer, or any other person not a mil
lionaire bondholder, make such an
argument, please examine the size o!
his ears.
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.
The American banker is very much
exercised over the fact that the con
solidation of small concerns into trusts
Is working a hardship on the banks
in the way of curtailing the amount
of commercial paper used, and suggests
the organization of a bank trust to
overcomo it. The complaint is made
upon the grounds that large banks that
are centrally located are doing all the
business. It seems that the big fish
are eating the little ones, even among
the banks. —Living Issues.
Some Republicans in Philadelphia
have just been arrested for doing a
wholesale business in internal revenue
stamps and bogus money. Nine tons
of paper were captured. How truly
loyal these honest-money fellows are!
Oh, how they would like to deport all
those enemies of law and order known
as socialists! It was these fellow's
whose love of country saved the nation
for McHanna prosperity and the law
iu 1896. They are somewhat of a kind.
—Appeal to Reason.
There is no hope that the slum ele
ment will ever do much to change ex
isting conditions. After a man or
woman passes a certain stage of pov
erty and degradation they lose their
spirit and hope, give up all as
lost, and are not material to build up
progressive movements with. The ren
ovation of society must come from
those who have not lost their man
hood and love of freedom. Many have
already fallen so low in poverty and
misery that they will have to be freed
in spite of themselves. —Social Econ
omist.
It is claimed in behalf of young
Rockefeller, who is just starting into
business with a backing of $300,000,000
from his old man, that he touches
neither tobacco nor liquors. And in
a few years, when he has doubled his
wealth through Usury and the plunder
ing of the people by holding them up
on the necessities of life, some dodder
ing idiot will hold him up as a bright
example of what we ail might become
by refraining from the use of tobacco
or liquor.—Labor Leader.
There are but three modes to secure
necessaries of life, and, jmoperly di
vided, all men would, according to an
English writer, be classed as workers,
beggars or thieves. The classification
is not complimentary to those who es
teem themselves as the “better class,”
yet it is economically true. There are
absolutely but three ways by which
any one can get rich —by work, by gift
or by theft. And clearly the reason
why the workers get so little is that
the beggars add thieves get so much.
When a man gets wealth that he does
not produce, he surely gets it at the
expense of those who produce it. Just
as sure as all former social systems
have died, giving place to new systems,
just as sure will the present robber
competitive system decay, giving birth
to an industrial co-operative common
wealth. Already the advance guard is
coming forward, and each year its
numbers are swelling, and its sledge
hammer blcws directed against present
wrongs and inequalities are shaking
the present corrupt social fabric. —Min-
neapolis Union.
Really No Lack of Work.
We are told that there is lack of
work. But there is no lack of useful
and beautiful work to be done, and no
lack of eager toilers to whom the free
and fruitful labor would be the glad
ness of life. Millions of fields are
waiting for plow and seed, and for wa
ter from the hills, that they may sing
to the ill-fed and overworked millions
with harvests of bread and joy. Mil
lions more of valley and hillside acres
are ready to blossom with cotton and
the wool of sheep, that they may
clothe the millions of ill-clad children
and their miserable mothers. Millions
of ore and fuel. In the hearts of moun
tains- and the depths of earth, promise
to come forth for the wealth aud
warmth of the millions asking to ful
fill the promise by the labor of their
hands. Millions of homes are needed
for the millions who die in the moral
and physical wretchedness of tene
ments, because they must buy from
the lords of rent a place wherein to
lay their heads on the earth God gave
them; and millions of builders are
waiting to clothe with home of love
and beauty an earth set free from own
ers and tribute-takers. —Prof. Geo. D.
Herron, D. D.
Limburger Cheese Fraternity ~
A club called the Detroit Limbi
Cheese Fraternity was recently
ganized in Detroit. A most Import °'’
requisite of aspiring members i s ?
they come to the initiatory with
bottle of chloroform, closely C( J *
It Is said that limburger, proi S£
drugged, is bearable to those that 1
not used to that sort of thing. ar *
Some of the questions asked of
plicants at the first meeting were
“What was your name before „
were married?” ***
“How old do you appear to bo?”
“Are your father and mother ally,
and if so, from what causes?” *
“Is your wife single or married, am
what is her occupation?”
“Has she any intention of changij,
her occupation or going abroad?
“Have you ever committed suicid*
and if so how often?”
“Is there consumption in your famii,
—if so, of what?’
The last applicant drew a revolver
from his pocket and threatened t
end it all right there, but the ehloroj
formed cheese revived him and betook
out a policy without further protest,-
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