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PROTECTSUNIONS Bill Under Consideration In New York Legislature. WHAT MEASURE PROVIDES. Makes Orderly Boycott Lawful and Penalizes Attempts to Coerce Work ers to Refrain From Joining a Labor Organization. Trade unionism has the public ear open and attentive to its pleadings for relief by law from unnecessary bur dens and gross injustice bound on its hack by the emploj-ing class and the courts. This is proved by numerous facts. Among the most significant and hopeful of these is the quickened consciences of legislators in many parts of the country with reference to laws for the protection and assistance of labor in its struggle for the better ment of its own legions and the whole eople of the country. A striking case in point is this: The legislature of New York has before It and is seriously considering a bill providing for the addition of five new sections to the state labor law, all re lating to the rights of laborers. The bill makes it a misdemeanor for any person, company or the officer or agent of such company to compel persons to refrain from joining any labor organization as a condition of such persons securing employment with the company or person. Viola tion of this provision Is punishable by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not less than ninety days nor more than twelve months, or both. It permits boycotting. It provides that agreements or contracts between persons to do or not to do any act In contemplation or furtherance of any trade dispute between employers and employees in the state shall not be deemed criminal and shall not be pun ished as a conspiracy.unless such acts would be criminal if committed by one person. Such acts are not to be con sidered In restraint of trade and may not be enjoined. Violence is prohibited. It also prohibits employers from bringing in employees from other states or from other 'parts of the state by means of false or "deceptive induce ments or representations as to work to be done, the conditions and the com pensation to be paid. Failure to state in an advertisement that there Is a lockout at such place of employment is to be deemed a false advertisement. Violation of this provision is punish able by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $2,000, or imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than one year or both. Strike breaking is also prohibited. It provides that any person who shall hire or aid in hiring persons to guard with arms or deadly weapons olh?r persons' property and persons coming from without the state so armed for that purpose without the consent of the governor shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be impris oned for not less than one year nor more than five years. But no person is to be prohibited from protecting and guarding his property, as is now pro vided by law. The provision regarding strike break ing and false advertising is to apply only to worklngmen brought into the state or induced to go from one place to another within the state. "Working men so brought in are given certain rights to recover damages sustained. A similar measure has been intro duced In the Oregon legislature also in which the same course of legislation 1? Prop.osed. There has been no con- ference or agreeinent between the east ern and western states, but the new labor bills they are considering are al most identical in what they contain. This is a strong indication that the sentiment of the people east as well as west is aroused and insistent on the subject. Profit Sharing Pays. Believing return in loyalty and am bition on the part of their employees made it doubly worth while, Ilibb'ard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago have extended their profit sharing plan to include every one connected with the institution. Several hundred employees, ranging from department manager to office boy, recently receiv ed checks of from 4 to 12 per cent of their salaries, representing their shares in the firm's earnings during the last year. "The profit sharing system has proved an immense success with us," said Frank Ilibbard, fourth vice pres ident of the firm, "and the time will come when every progressive business house will realize its advantage and put it into effect. "We have found that the plan not only encourages employees to stay with us until they have qualified for participation in the benefits, but that it creates a sentiment of loyalty to the house that is invaluable." Miners Support Mitchell. John Mitchell of the National Civic federation has been given assurances of support by thousands of mine work ers of the Pennsylvania anthracite field. Big mass meetings were held in various regions on Feb. 19. and at these leaders of the mine workers and others voiced their indignation over the passing of the resolution at the recent convention declaring that Mitchell must either leave the union cr give up his membership in the Civ ic federation. At each of the meet ings resolutions were passed condemn ing the delegates who voted against Mitchell and expressing the confidence of the anthracite men in the former national president of the union. Union Label Shop. A new shop managed by women for the sale of articles made for and by women has been opened in New York. It is known as the Label, because each article sold In the shop will be marked with a label showing that the condi tions under which it was" made are considered fair to the employee. Miss Elizabeth Dutcher, a Vassar graduate and chairman of the label committee of the Woman's Trade union; Miss Carola Woerishoffer, a Bryn Mawr graduate and a magazine writer Mrs. S. M. Bridgman, secretary of the Con sumers' league, and Miss II. C. Eck hardt are in charge of the venture. The object of the shop, it is stated, is not to make money, but to make It easy for persons interested in social betterment to buy goods with the ap proving label. ' The Six Day Week. The value to labor of the preserva tion of Sunday as a day of rest is em phasized by James Lynch, president of the International Typographical un ion, in one of his recent publicity let ters, lie states that in the printing trade, where the seven day week was formerly in vogue and was abolished by requiring members who were em ployed on a seven day schedule to give one day each week to the first obtain able substitute, the wages for a six day week are now In excess of the wages formerly paid for the seven day week. He also states that the Ger man branch has reduced the days from six to five, with simijar results. President Lynch believes a movement toward an open Sunday is a move ment for long hours and is against the interests of labpx.i FOR THE CHILDREN Fun With Problems. "Write these problems on paper dis tribute them among your friends and see how many ean answer them promptly and correctly: First. "What two numbers multi plied together will produce seven? Second. How may four fives be placed so as to make six and a ljalf ? Third. What Is the difference be tween twice twenty-five and twice five and twenty? Fourth. Divide the number fifty into such parts that if the greater part be divided by seven and the less er by three to quotient in each case will be the same. Fifth. If you have a piece of cloth containing fifty yards and wish to cut Into fifty one-yard pieces, how many days will it take you to do so if yon cut one yard a day? Here are the answers-: First. The two numbers are seven and one. Second. The figure 5, the fraction 5-5 and the decimal fraction .5. Third. Twice twenty-five are fifty. Twice five and twenty are thirty.. Fourth. The two parts are thirty five and fifteen. Fifth. Forty-nine days not fifty days. Plague Stones. Travelers on English, roads here and there come upon the remains of old stone crosses, generally at no great distance from some village or town. In many instances the cross itself has dpappeared, leaving only Its pedestal with the small cavity in the top for the shaft of the cross. At periods when terrible epidemics have raged in country towns these stones have been used by the sufferers when seeking to communicate with those free from the disease. The practice- was as follows: The market people placed near the stone their different wares and re tired to a distance, while those from the afflicted towns came out and put on the stone money to the value of what they wished to take. Sometimes this money was dropped into the cavi ty that the rainwater, generally lying there, might clean it. On returning to their homes the market folk tame again and took the payment left-for them; hence thse remains of older monuments have acquired the name of plague stones. Burning Black Mud. If some one should ask you to go-dig some mud to make a fire with you would be more than likely to send for a doctor and the man that takes peo ple to the insane asylum. You know very well that mud does not burn. Not many hundreds of years ago peo ple thought that some men were crazy when they came home and said that they had seen a fire made out of black stones. Stones do not burn, as every one knew, and so it was a long time before people learned that coal is not exactly rock, Jfust so people must learn that there are different kinds of mud and that some of it will burn. The kind of mud that is in many swamps is not much different from half finished coal, if you can imagine such a thing, and so some people are going to dig it out of the swamps of Indiana and sell it. There are many places, especially in Europe, where this mud, known as "peat," is used more than anything else for making fires. Snails Hard. to Kill. "Do you know," said an eminent nat uralist, "I consider a snail the great est curiosity in the animal kingdom. Here is a snail which you can se is live, yet I have haTfE packed away for fifteen years under the impression that it was dead. This is even more astonishing than that of the Egyptian desert snail which came to life upon being immersed in warm water after it had passed four years glued to a card in the British museum. "Nothing seems to kill a snail except piercing its vitals or burning it A snail may be frozen for weeks in a solid block of ice and be thawed out alive. The eggs of this creature are as hard to destroy as itself. They seem perfectly indifferent to freezing and have been known to prove productive after having been shriveled up in an oven to the semblance of grains of sand." Who First Made Ice Creai? The first ice cream maker is said to have been a French confectioner, who prepared the dainty for the Due de Chartres in 1774. Lord Bacon was aware of the process of congelation by means of snow and salt, but to him it was a scientific fact of great er or less interest, and he had no idea of the delightful possibilities of this process on various eatables. Iced drinks and water ices were known to the Parisian epicures a century and a half earlier, the dainties having prob ably come from the far east by the hand of some traveler who had tasted sherbet Unions Thrive Under Opposition. Los Angeles perhaps more than any other city of like size in the United States has been the field in which, bitter opposition to the existence or growth of the trade union Idea "has been prevalent for a long period of -years. Twenty years ago there were two or three trade unions in Los An geles. Today there, are ninety-two. Thus do the unions prosper wherever they meet the most strenuous opposition. Articles of Incorporation of the LINCOLN TYPESETTING CO. . Notice is hereby given of the incorpor ation of the Lincoln Typesetting- Com pany in conformity with the following articles: I The name of this company shall be the Lincoln Typesetting Company. II The principal place of business of this corporation shall be Lincoln, Neb. . Ill The purpose of this .corporation shall be to engage in any or all of the various branches of the general printing business; to own, lease or operate any or all kinds of machinery used in the general print ing business; and to own, lease or control any real estate necessary to the pursuit of ' the purposes! of this corporation. IV. The capital stock of this corporation shall be 510,000 divided into 1,000 shares of a par value of $10 each. This stock shall be preferred stock and in voting oh to one vote. Any such owner may, by proxy duly filed with the secretary of this corporation, authorize any other matters of business, policy or manage ment each share shall entitle its owner stockholder to vote for him. Immediate ly on the filing of these articles of in corporation, the incorporators shall pro ceed to the election of a president, vice president and secretary-treasurer who shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year. The annual meeting of the stockholders of this corporation shall be held on the Saturday next pre ceding the expiration of the terms of the officers of said cornoration. The business of this corporation shall begin as soon as 50 per cent of the au thorized capital stock shall nave been subscribed. The term of the existence of this corporation is fixed at tniriy years from the date hereof. The officers of this corporation PhaU be those enumerated in section 4 of these ar icles and their duties shall be those ordinarily entrusted to such "'fleers This corporation may adopt such by-,fw for its management as a majority; of tne stockholders shall at any time determine at the annual meetings or at any meet ings called by the president, no ice of which shall have been duly served on all stockholders The limit of indebtedness of this cor poration shall be two-thirds of its sub scribed capital stock. By GEORGE MVj KLINE, G. A. MOSSHRT. , : Incorporators, O. H. KLINE