Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
The new battleship Kentucky is said
to be swift. The Blue Grass state al
ways did produce racers.
Quiet weddings are now said to be
the proper caper. Designed to harmo
nize with the divorces, probably.
The Atlanta Journal says that Lon
don “proper,** is but a small town.
But then, so much of it is “improper.”
A San Fr-nclsco man is now suing
his wife for divorce because she will
not talk. There’s no accounting for
tastes.
To the residents of Port Arthur the
case of the Trenton (N. J.) man who
never sleeps does not seem at all re
markable.
The difference between the Fourth
of July and Thanksgiving is that one
has its night before, the other its
morning after.
In not liking the way American
yachts are sailed, the Kaiser is assur
ed of the hearty sympathy of Sir
Thomas Lipton.
In Boston the pianoforte is now used
to assist in the cure of nervous dis
eases. Eccentricity always was Bos
ton’s forte anyhow.
This is the time when the cam
paign song-writer makes the inventor
of names for new breakfast foods look
like a wilted seedling.
Those current attempts “to reform
the Fourth of July” unfortunately ig
nore the necessity of first reforming
the average small boy.
A Brooklyn judge recently declared
it to be his candid opinion that Adam
deceived Eve. Probably had to to
get his share of the fruit.
The late Mr. Herbert Spencer’s lady
housekeeper desires to meet with a
similar position. Highest references.
Address the London Times.
One of those up-to-date New York
financiers has a safe with a tin back.
Needless to say that his depositors
never get their money “back.”
A Chicago woman believes that men
should pay their wives regular sala
ries. Some of the wives may be de
« pended on to get theirs anyhow.
It was a man who declared man the
proper study of mankind. Whether it
is proper or not. man always has de
voted most of his studying to himself.
A Milwaukee man tried to fly the
other day, but owing to the fact that
his starting place was only five feet
high he is still able to be up and
around.
A Tennessee court has decided that
a woman cannot be compelled to tell
her own age. When under oath, the
average woman is apt to be under age,
as well.
The June bride didn’t realize how
she will hate next December, when the
thermometer is marking 10 degrees
below zero, to get up and build the
kitchen fire.
We’ll bet some mean man meant to
put woman's temper to a severe test
when he started discussion of the
question, “Why have women more tem
per than men?”
The Academy of Medicine at Paris
has decided that excessive meat eating
causes appendicitis. It does more. It
causes emaciation of the pocketbook
and bankruptcy.
A Pennsylvania man who inherited
$35,000 has received no less than 300
offers of marriage. Money must be
uncommonly scarce or women uncom
monly plenty up there.
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The theme chosen for her com
mencement essay by one of Chicago’s
sweet girl graduates was the “Psycho
logy of the Pig.” The subject has the
true stock yards flavor.
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According to "the Department of Ag
riculture, peanuts contain “about four
ounces of protein and 2,767 calorics of
energy.” We know now why these cir
cus men are all so “strong.”
An imminent agricultural authority
informs us that “hogs are said to cut
their throats when they swim.” The
trouble with the sort of hogs we have
around here is that they can't be in
duced to sw’im enough.
Judge Brewer recently declared that
in forty years’ experience on the
bench he had never heard but one law
yer tell a lie in court. This is the
first time that we knew that the judge
-was as deaf as all that.
The brilliant Washington Post
quotes a current magazine as putting
this soul-searching question: “Is
America Developing an Aristocracy?”
If we are, it is certainly one of the
worst cases of “arrested development”
on record.
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Two Philadelphia society men fought
twenty rounds with hard gloves and
one finally knocked the other out.
Philadelphia as a whole may be slow
and sleepy, but there are parts of
Philadelphia which are as alert and
modern as the Bowery.
A statue of Dr. Benjamin Rush, one
of the signers of the Declaration of In
dependence, was unveiled in Wash
ington last week. Considering the
length of time the good doctor has
been dead, his admiring countrymen
have certainly been in no.“rush” to
honor his memory.
A Pittsburg man who was annoyed
by a persistent organ-grinder killed
himself instead of the peripatetic
musician, which is about as interest
ing an example of misdirected enercy
as has recently been seen.
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THE MORALS OF AMERICANS.
Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall thinks
that the moral standard of the Ameri
can people is degenerating. Dr. Hall
is president of the Union Theological
Seminary in New York. In the course
of an address May 18 before the Re
ligious Educational Association in
Chicago he spoke of the “relatively
good state of the common morality of
the American people,” but a deeper
examination of the social side of our
American life reveals, he thinks, a
situation that causes anything but
satisfaction. Our activity has aston
ished the world, “but morally we are
rapidly going astern—so rapidly that
one is dumfounded at the contrast
after a visit to some of the countries
of Europe.” Religion, he finds, has
very little part in our civilization to
day; our home life might be better,
and our people are generally apathetic
about their spiritual interests. To
much the same intent but more spe
■ cific are the conclusions of Dr. Coyle
| of Denver, as disclosed by him May
• It* at the opening of the Presbyterian
| general assembly at Buffalo. He
noted the drift of the people away
! from lofty ideals and from organized
| Christianity. It meant something, he
j thought, when conservative observers
called our time “the age of graft.”—
Harper’s Weekly.
THE TOO-READY REVOLVER.
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There would be fewer murders in
the United States like the unprovoked
assassination of Andrew H. Green
were proper legislation enacted and
enforced in every state of the union
restricting the sale of pistols and
knives under reasonable regulations.
In Great Britain a movement is on
foot to require proper safeguards in
: the 6ale of firearms. There has been
■ too much laxity and injurious license
j in such matters in this country.
There ought to be a law In every
commonwealth in this republic laying
down barriers of genuine weight
against the carrying of revolvers
W'ooiit permits irom tne proper au
thorities, and the granting of such
permits ought to be hedged about
with thorough precautions. More
over, any and every offender against
such a statute should be compelled to
serve a term of imprisonment and
not be allowed to escape punishment
by the mere payment of a fine.—New
j York Tribune.
SPEED THE TIME.
Music is a great blessing when it i9
music. It is a civilizer. It exalts the
soul and—unless it is rag-time music
| —inspires noble thoughts. When it
is not music it has exactly the op- j
posite effect. It makes savages of
good citizens, suggests manslaughter
i or assault and battery and makes
men enemies c* their kind.
Some day, when we have grown
more civilized, cities will have noise
proof buildings in every ward for the
convenience of persons learning the
violin, the piano or the cornet, and
beginners and bad performers gener
ally w ill be compelled to betake them
selves to those asylums when they
wish to practice. Then it may be
made lawful to take a club to the ‘guy
j next door” if he defies the law and
i persists in playing at his open win
j dow.—Minneapolis Times.
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TERROR-DRIVEN “RED PETER."
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His majesty-by-murder Peter of
! Servia has, according to a strong ar
| tide in the London Saturday Review,
already begun to reap the fruits of
the crime that crowned him; the na
tion already faces its Nemesis for
having submitted to the disgrace.
A “timorous tyrant, himself the ab
ject slave of murderers and cowards,”
Peter starts at a shadow. One might
believe that the ghosts of Draga and
of Alexander haunt him. He has sup
pressed freedom; “the sole demon
strations of joy are manufactured to
order by the police.” Spies are every
where, with the inevitable results of
false accusations, trumped-up charges,
private vengeance under cover of pub
lic forms. Brigandage has been re
sumed. The King cannot obtain cred
it. The soldiers remain unpaid, public
works are abandoned. “No foreign
financier will trust the stony state
with a single para.”
In his extremity of fear, the Review
thinks, Peter has even applied to the
rival of his nation—has sued for pro
tection to the astute Prince Ferdi-.
nand of Bulgaria. It would be a
strange sequel to the drama of greed
and murder in the Belgrade palace if
Servia were to be “gobbled up” by a
stronger and saner power, and if
“Red Peter” of the blood-stained
robes were to lose the throne for
which he sold his soul.—New York
World.
SPAIN SINCE THE WAR.
Spain is financially better off than
when she was loaded down with colo
nies, which she had for generations
administered feebly and corruptly,
and which she had become incapable
of administering at all. Not only that,
but they bad forced her to keep a
useless navy, and to waste in them
capital and energy which were needed
at home. If Spain will now establish
genuine free government under what
ever form, cut off the horde of privil
eged officeholders who sap her life
blood, reduce her army, provide uni
versal free schools, reduce her In
numerable holidays to a reasonable
basis and turn her attention to the
development of her own rich and
neglected domain and untouched re
sources rbe may enter upon a new
and lasting era of greatness.—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Man never fastened one end of a
chain around the neck of his brother
that God did not fasten the other end
round the heck of the oppressor.—
Lamartine.
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SCENE IN WHEAT BELT.
One square mile of wheat. Ever
see it? Transcontinental trains used
to stop in the Smoky Hill valley of
Kansas to allow passengers a view of
such a wonder. It realized all the
travelers’ dreams of agricultural
splendor. Hundreds such visions
now mark the great grain area of the
plains, but their beauty is none the
less. Six hundred and forty acres of
wealth; $6,000 profit—perhaps more!
It shimmered beneath the perfect
opalescent blue of the sky, the tall
straws bending with their weight of
grain. Standing on the seat of the
reaper one might see in the distance
a glimmer of green pastures and
catch glimpses of rustling fields of
corn, but here was the heart of sum
mer.—Scribner’s.
USE OF VAST FORTUNES.
Vast accumulations of money al
ways were, and always will be, in
teresting, but it is obviously difficult
for the accumulating individual to
make more than a moderate fortune
minister to his personal happiness.
A very big fortune determines what
hjs occupations shall be. and on what
he shall put his mind, but it has not
much to do with determining how
much satisfaction he shall get out of
life. The great office of accumulated
wealth is to promote civilization to
realize new' possibilities of develop
ment. When wealth can buy new
knowledge for mankind; when it can
help a lower race to rise a little, a
higher race to rise still more, it is
doing about the only thing it can
hope to do which is highly important.
The more thoughtful of our very rich
men seem to realize this. They give
money most readily for the spread of
knowledge and the discovery of new
knowledge. For the relief of suffer
ing they are less solicitous. As is
natural, considering their training,
they want to do things that will pay;
that seem to be scientifically useful.
The proportion of their incomes that
our richest men spend for their own
pleasure is a mere bagatelle. What
they don't spend at all immediately
becomes productive capital, and a
large part of what they give away
promotes the spread of knowledge.—
Harper's Weekly.
REAL HEROES ARE MODEST.
Our brave men and women do not
come from the dime novel readers
who love to imagine themselves the
subjects of newspaper illustrations
and the recipients of popular adula
tion. True bravery not only seeks
no reward, but it shuns publicity, con
tent with the approval resulting from
the performance of duty. So if the
Carnegie fund is to go to real heroes,
its recipients must be sought out,
for no deserving candidates will pre
sent themselves for reward. Modesty
is not a quality that merely enhances
heroism; it is essential to heroism
itself, since entire obliteration of sel
fishness is the incentive to bravery.
—Providence Journal.
STRATEGY.
What has war taught about strat
egy? Nothing. The principles of
strategy are few. simple, and appar
ently immutable. They are the same
now as they were in Caesar's time,
and have never been better epito
mized than by Gen. Forest, who said
that the art of war consisted in “get
tin’ thar fustest with the mostest
men.” The Japanese have managed
to do this so far. It Is supposed the
total number of Japanese soldiers in
the field about equals the total num
ber of Russian soldiers. But the Japs
had considerably more troops in bat
tle at the mouth of the Yalu, Nanshan
hill and Vafangow than the Russians.
The Japanese generals, up to the
present time, have showed themselves
to be the superior strategists.—Chi
cago Tribune.
WORK FOR CONVICTS.
"I may never be governor again,”
said David R. Francis in an address
to the recent good roads convention in
St. Louis, “but if I were to be I would
surely put the convicts on the high
ways.” It might cost the taxpayers
a little more to work the state’s pris
oners on the roads than it does to
keep them locked up, but the ultimate
results would probably be more profit
able to the state than would be the
results from any other use they could
be put to. The outdoor work would
be good for the convicts’ health and
would, therefore, according to the best
authorities, exert a stronger influence
upon them than indoor work does, and
the products of their labor would not
then come into competition with the
products of free labor.—Kansas City
Journal.
WHERE OUR WOMEN FAIL.
The native-born American woman
has been made the subject of discus
sion almost ad nauseam; indeed, it
would be a matter for no surprise if
she were to regard herself as being
apart. Her energy, her brightness,
and resourcefulness have been lauded
to such an extent that the women of
other countries cannot be considered
in the same category with her. This,
loo, is true as far as it goes, and in
many qualities the American woman
stands supreme. Unfortunately, how
ever, she failB in the most Important
one of all—that of maternity, fend
fails in consequence of her cultiva
tion to excess of those attributes
which are generally thought not to
be within a woman’s province. Her
physical powers BUlTer in proportion
as her mental powers increase, and
as a propagator of the race she can
not compete with women of stronger
bodies but of less highly trained
brains—New York Medical Record,
Let us so live when we are up that
we Shall forget we have ever been
down-—Stockto"
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MEXICO AGAIN HONORS DIAZ.
Veteran Statesman Re-elected Presi
dent Without Opposition.
Porfirio Diaz was, on July 1, for
mally elected President of the re
public of Mexico. The formal elec
tion of Ramon Corral as vice presi
leut of the republic was also an
lounced by the electors.
The election took place two •weeks
ago, and it remained simply to an
nounce that the returns as to the two
candidates w'ere unopposed. The
day following the election the Presi
dent announced in a proclamation
;hat inasmuch as there was no op
position to himself or Mr. Corral they
were elected by the people, subject
tc the board of electors.
The electors announced to the re
public and to the world that for six
years Porfirio Diaz would be Presi
dent and Ramon Corral vice presi
dent. The election was received
with general satisfaction throughout
the country. The election is taken
to mean that Corral will, in the near
future, be the real President, for
President Diaz is aging rapidly and
is feeling the strain of office, and he
is going to retire in reality, though
be will nominally be the President.
In doing this he will be relieved of
the arduous duties of office and will
at the same time satisfy the people,
who love and honor him.
It is believed that Gov. Miguel A.
Ahumada of the state of Jalisco will
be selected as Mr. Corral's successor
as minister of the interior.
RICHER THAN HETTY GREEN.
Mary G. Pinkney. Spinster, of New
York, Has Much Money.
The richest spinster in New York
city is Mary G. Pinkney. She is said
to have more money than Hetty
Green and certainly more than Helen
Gould. The reason that her name has
never been connected with matrimo
nial gossip is that she is 87 years old.
Miss Pinkney lives in New' York in
the winter time, having fine apart
ments in the Hotel Buckingham, and
in the summer she goes to her farm
up in the Bronx. This farm is worth
about $2,000,000. She raises garden
truck and flow'ers, and is said to be
an excellent farmer. She does not go
In much for charity, but she is not
eccentric, nor parsimonious. Nearly
all her relatives of the younger gener
ation are socially prominent. Like
Russell Sage, she finds her chief pleas
ure in work.
F. H. PLATT CRITICALLY ILL.
Little Hope Is Held Cut for Son of
New York Senator.
Frank H. Platt, son of Senator
Platt, is still very sick of typhoid
(ever in his apartments in the Am*
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Bonia, New York. It is feared that
he cannot recover. He has been ill
for eleven days and his condition is
Buch that the two physicians in at
tendance fear he cannot be brought
through the crisis.
Russell Sage's Successor.
The successor of Russell Sage in the
put and call market of Wall street is
said to be Amos M. Lyon, until recent
ly all but unknown in the financial
world. Yet he is worth perhaps $25,
000,000. He is an old man now. He
was born and bred on a farm and
seemingly never learned how to dress
In approved city style.
Use for Two Watches.
When Assistant Secretary Adee of
the state department travels abroad,
as he does every summer, he carries
two watches on his person with Wash
ington and European time. He says:
“When I want to think United States
I pull out the Washington watch and
when I want to think European I look
at the other.”
To Help Italian Orphans.
Capt. Salvatore Pizzati of New Or
leans has given $75,000 for the erec
tion of an asylum and industrial school
for poor Italian orphans of that city.
Tho project sgll be carried out by tbs
Missionary Sisters of the Saared
Heart, an Italian charitable associa
tion. i
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REVOLVES I
I MORE LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.
Thousands of Acres in South Dakota
to Be Made Productive.
Three hundred and eighty-two thou
sand acres of the choicest of Unclt
Sam’s unallotted lands are thrown
open for settlement of American cit
izens on the 28th of July. This vast
acreage comprises a very large part
of the Rosebud Indian reservation in
southeastern South Dakota. The
land has been apportioned in 160
acre tracts, practically 2,400 quarter
sections in all. Each successful
drawer will have one of these tracts
turned over to him, to be his without
condition at the expiration of five
years, if he meets all of the national
government's requiremeuts.
To be more accurate in the matter
of location, the Rosebud reservation
lies in Gregory county, between the
Missouri and Niobrara rivers. It ad
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joins lands already highly cultivated
for corn raising. The adjoining farm
land is selling now at prices ranging
from $15 to $35 an acre. In many in
stances recently as high as $40 an
acre has been offered for land touch
ing the reservation lines.
The government disposes of the
public lands at a nominal cost, in
easy payments—$1 per acre in cash,
75 cents per acre at the end of two
years, 75 cents more per acre at the
end of the third and fourth years,
and within six months after the ex
piration of the fifth year a total of
$4 per acre.
Any citizen of the United States, 21
years of age or over, male or female,
and heads of families under 21 years
ol age, are entitled to enter a home
stead of 160 acres or less, while every
soldier ,of the civil war or the Span
ish-American war secures the special
advantage of having his time of pub
lic service deducted from the five
years of residence required on th«
reservation land.
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IN CHARGE CF LIFE WORK.
Rev. Bjork Re-elected President of
Swedish Evangelical Mission Cov
enant.
Rev. Dr. C. A. Bjork, who has been
re-elected president of the Swedish
Evangelical Mission Covenant of
America, at its twentieth annual con
vention at Paxton. 111., is a noted
churchman and missionary worker.
He organized the Covenant in 1885.
with a few hundred members; now it
has 20,000 members and 180 churches,
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with missions in Alaska and China,
besides xhe North Park College and
the Covenant Hospital.
Indian Court of Justice.
A full-blooded Indian court of three
justices sits every Saturday at White
Eagle, I. T., to hear misdemeanor
cases and punish offending members
of the Ponca and Otoe tribes. The
court is authorized by the Indian de
partment. Little Soldier is chief jus
tice and he is assisted by Justice
Big Goose and Justice Rough Face.
They never speak English while on
the bench and they have a high idea
of the dignity which belongs to their
position. Each is paid $10 a month.
It is their unvarying practice to pun
ish offenders by the heaviest admis
sable fines.
Has Long Family Tree.
Few Americans can boast of so long
and distinguished an ancestry as Mrs.
H. A. Mitchell Keays, author of “He
That Eateth Bread With Me.” She
recently received a letter from a dis
tant relative interested in geneoiogy
which contained Mrs. Keays’ family
tree written out, showing its roots
reaching back to Henry III. of Eng
land.
To Inspect American Institutions.
Theodore Moeller, the famous Prus
sian statesman, Is expected to visit
this country In August. He is com
ing on a government mission and he
will give almost all his attention to
inspecting financial and Industrial in
stitutions. Herr Moeller is the pain*
i ister of commerce under the kaiser.
Must Wait for Publicity.
Henry M. Stanley left behind him
an immense amount of material con- '
cerning himself in the form of diaries <
<Uid letters, and also documents cf
historical Importance, which could 1
not properly be published during tho I
lives of the persons most concerned <
in them.
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The Happy Husband.
How many times I have wondered
How life would seem, dear heart,
If from our modest dwelling
Stern poverty should depart;
If the cottage becafhe a castle
Furnished with treasures rare.
And we had everything tnat we'd ha.tr*
If I were a millionaire!
Suppose, dear, a stately butler
Awaited your every sign.
And the water upon the table
Should change to sparkling win*;
Suppose that a dainty pheasant
Replaced our now humble fare.
And the table with the things we'd have
If I were a millionaire.
Suppose that our stables sheltered
Full many a well-groomed steed;
That you rode in your vie in comfort
Or hunted o’er field and mead;
Suppose that each day brought nothing
Of worry and trial and care.
As we've often thought the days would
be
If I were a millionaire.
Would the logs in the hearth burn
brighter
Than those chips in our tiny grate?
Would the feeling of home be stronger
If dinner were served in state?
Would a spin in your vie be better
Than our walks in the twilight rare?
Would the love in our hearts be greater
If I were a millionaire?
Would we be more to each other
If trouble were ^wept away?
Would the sun in the west glow softer
Than now at the close of day?
Life is but a mighty heart-throb
And the love that makes life fair
Would be rio greater and truer, dear.
If I were a millionaire!
—Colorado Springs Gazette.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
The Commercial Telegraphers’
union now reports 10,000 members.
The bureau of labor has commenced
an investigation of the labor difficul
ties in Colorado.
One thousand school teachers of
Pittsburg have organized to demand
an increase of wages.
Terence V. Powderly, former head
of the Knights of Labor, has opened a
law office in Washington.
It is better to secure the confidence
than the advantage of others.—Week
ly Bulletin of Clothing Trades’ Union.
The glove cutters’ strike, which has
been on in Gloversviile and Johns
town, N. Y., for more than six months,
was officially declared off.
The three rod mills at the steel
mills, Joliet, have been closed, affect
ing 600 men. The closing of other
departments is looked for in the near
future.
It is announced that the American
Smelting and Refining company will
distribute $100,000 among its em
ployes who have been with the com
pany for the last two years.
The first number of the new week
ly newspaper, the Illinois Stats Labor
News, has just been issued. It is
edited by John Felker, v.hi.e E. J.
Ryan is acting as business manager.
President J. H. Winfield of Boston
sheet metal workers’ union. No. 17.
was elected sixth vice president at the
recent convention of the amalgamated
sheet metal workers’ international alli
ance.
The British house of commons has
passed to third reading the trade
union bill legalizing peaceful picket
ing. Premier Baifour opposed the
measure, but it was progressed by a
majority of 39 votes.
A report issued by the employment
bureau of the Chicago Employers’
Association shows that an average of
115 applications for work a day have
been received so far. There have
been inquiries for 190 employes made
by employers.
Journeyman Tailors' Union No. 5
has taken steps to organize a central
council of all unions allied with its
craft. It has also levied an assess
ment of 25 cents a member to raise
a fund for the relief of striking min
ers in Colorado.
Bookbinders international conven
tion’s most important decisions were:
That strike benefits to be paid only
after‘the second week of a strike: to
promote the interests of women’s local
unions, and prevent friction between
local unions in cities where there is
more than one union.
Charles H. Moyer, president, and
W. D. Haywood, secretary and treas
urer of the Western Federation of
Miners, and thirty other men were
charged with murder and inciting
riot in connection with the deaths
of Roscoe McGee and John Davis
during the riots at. Victor.
Recently in Detroit, during the
“open shop” controversy in the build
ing trades, the police essayed to drive
a number of trade union pickets from
a church in course of construction.
The pickets showed that they were
not only members of the church but
were on its building committee, and
they successfully contended for the
right to picket their own building.
A settlement as to wages to be
paid for the year beginning July 1
has been practically agreed to by the
committee of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers and the American Sheet and Tin
plate Company, on the basis of ^he
present scale, which is 18 per cent,
lower than the original scale for 1903
04.
International Typographical anion
has withdrawn the charter from the
typographical union at Tulluride, Col.
This action was taken on the com
plaint* filed by the typographical
unions at Ouray and Durango. The
reason of the withdrawal of the char
ter from the union at Tulluride was
awing to the fact that the printers
participated in the deportation of min
ers from their homes.
To prevent hasty action and to give
employers ample notice of intended
changes in wage or time scales, the
3an Francisco Labor Council requires
:hat every union must give at least
:hree months’ notification of demands
!or improved conditions, and that no
lew rates of wages or schedules of
lours shall be enforced on a building
'rom the time work begins until it is
sompleted.
A knockout blow to all contracts
jetween unions and employers was
Siven In a decision by Judge Hardy
>f the Superior Court of Massachu
setts, who held that any agreement
‘elating to the employment exclave*
ly of union help, regulation of hours
of labor, apprentices, etc., is against
public policy and illegal. The case
probably will go to the Supreme
Court.
Four hundred employes in the car
shops of the Pullman Company at
Pullman have been laid off, and sev
eral hundred more, it is expected,
will be thrown out of work within a
short time, as a result of a decrease
in the volume of business. Officials
of the company say they are unable
to tell when the present slack condi
tions will end, and it may be several
months before the men can go back
to work.
Leaders of the strike of garment
workers declare the tieup to be com
plete and estimate the number of per
sons out at 35,000 to 40,000. In a day
or two .10,000 finishers, mostly Italian
women, who take the work home, will
be added to the number of those idle.
It is the biggest clothing strike that
New York has seen for at least «x
years. No wage demand has been
made, the strike being merely against
the “open shop.”
Fifty thousand clothing workers
have joined the strike against the
“open shop,” inaugurated by the Na
tional Clothiers' Association, accord
ing to the executive committee of tbe
Garment Makers' Trades Council. It
was said that the strike would spread
and that thousands more would join
the strikers in the next three days.
Assistant Secretary Crouchley of the
L nited Garment Workers of America
said the union would win.
Less than 10 p'er cent of the mem
bership of the brotherhood of boiler
makers and iron shipbuilders were in
terested enough to vote on the refer
endum election of international offi
cers. “If cities have bad government
because many of their reputable citi
zens do not go to the polls on election
days,” said one member of the boiler
makers, “what kind of officers are la
bor unions to have if 90 per cent cf
me memuersnip aoes not vote.
After a conference with the United
Garment Workers. Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, announced that he was sat
isfied with the action of the New
York garment workers in striking
against the “open shop." and that the
American Federation of Labor will
aid the strikers in their fight. The
garment workers struck against the
“open shop” several days ago, and,
according to the strike leaders, several
thousand men are out.
Everywhere throughout the country
the cause of organization among the
wage earners, for the purpose of bet
tering their condition, is becoming
stronger and stronger. Not a day
passes without new bodies being
formed, and, as the workers are being
educated along the lines of what are
the real aims and objects of union
labor, the employers are also learning
that it is with the organized workers
they will receive and do receive the
best returns.—Freight and Baggage
man
Labor unions are slowly making
their way into Mexico. In the City of
Durango, for example, there are three
associations, one with more than TOO
members. These are not composed
strictly of artisans, though in theory
they are intended so to be; and net
one of them as yet lias attempted to
influence the wage scale, though
there seems no reason why they
should not do so if the need therefor
should occur. Their main object is
mutual aid, and they fulfill their mis
sion to some extent.
Secretary Henry White of the
United Garment Workers union, in
the call issued before the New York
and Chicago troubles last week, says
this regarding the importance of the
coming international convention: “As
the time for holding the annual gen
eral convention is approaching, it be
comes my duty to issue this call for
the thirteenth convention, to take
place in the city of Buffalo, begin
ning on August 22 of this year. As
the national union is confronted with
the gravest crisis in its history, owing
to the organized effort being made on
the part of the manufacturers to es
tablish the open shop, and the long
continued struggle in Rochester and
Philadelphia, against the combined
employers', and the serious difficulties
that threaten elsewhere, it is the duty
of each local union to send its full
allowance of delegates. The welfare
of every local is dependent upon the
efficiency of the national body, hence
it is to the interest of each local to be
represented at the Convention and
take part in the deliberations.”
Railroad brotherhood magazines are
commenting at length on the recent
decision of the United States Supreme
court which laid down the principle
that a telegraph operator for a rail
road company and a fireman on a rail
road engine are "fellow servants,” and
that the negligence of the former
causing the death of the latter in the
operation of trains was a risk the
fireman assumed and was not a ground
for damages against the railroad com
pany. The Advance Advocate, the offi
cial organ of the Maintenance of Way
Employes, makes this editorial com
ment on the decision: “W’e may next
expect the Supreme Court to lay down
the principle that a passenger may
not recover damages on account of
injury received in a railway accident,
or that his legal heirs may not re
cover damages on account of his
death from such cause, because in
purchasing his ticket he ‘assumed the
risk’ of being killed or maimed. As
this decision comes from the United
States Supreme Court there is only
one thing for railway employes of
every grade to do, and that is to dtv
mand that they be paid for their la
bor in proportion to the risk and dan
ger of their positions, so that they
can buy and pay for life and accident
insurance without depriving their fam
ilies of any of the immediate necessi
ties or the comforts of life, which
they are entitled to enjoy as sharer
in the prosperity which th«y have
v 'jed tc eat*.