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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,- Detroit Free Press. 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