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-rwirwf l. ' s"-tF rjBWPTWW,t,Pr w Fy--rrw "JymffWWjyj ywfcmpiPii: The Commoner. 16 VOLUME 9?"-NTTMBER 5ft -r v y '""7 M-Cl l If WAR ON THE STEEL TRUST A Labor leaders In conference in Pittsburg, decided to wage organized war upon the steel trust, declaring it was using its great power to rob toilers of their "Ights. The resolu tions adopted are in part as follows: A crisis in the affairs of labor has arisen. The gigantic trust, the United States steel corporation, is using its great wealth and power in an effort to rob toilers of their right of American manhood and of the op portunity to resist its further en croachments. Grown rich by tho consent of the people of our coun try, this corporation in its mad greed for still greater riches sweeps aside makes and unmakes law its en actors and executors, and is now on gaged in an effort to destroy the only factor the organizations of Its em ployes standing between it and un limited, unchecked and unbridled industrial, political, social and moral carnage. If there exists any virile power In our time and life to check the absolute autocratic domination of thd civic, industrial and political life of our people and our republic, it must be found in the indomitable will and mission of the much mis understood and misrepresented or ganizations of labor. The United States steel corpora tion' has declared war on labor. In its secret councils this corporation has decreed that the only obstacle to its complete sway organized la bor shall be crushed. The labor organizations consist of its employes, "the workers (their wives and little ones), human flesh and .blood. It is by their labor that they live; , they have no other purpose other than guarding their lives, their character, their future, the safety of the re public and humanity. jrtieB.. factors . now confront each otter." "By "their purposes? - attitude and actions must they be judged On June X, 1909, the United States steel corporation proclaimed its de cree of hostility toward labor. The right of the workers to associate for their common protection was no longer to be recognized or tolerated. Accompanying that decree was a no :tce 'of a' further reduction in the al ready scant wages of the worker. The decree went into effect July 1, 1909. We therefore urge that in earnest effort be made to thoroughly organize all employes in the iron, steel and tin plate industry and sub . sidiafy correlated trades. Owing to immediate pressing necessity caused by the present strike and the inde fensible hostile attitude of the United States steel corporation, wo earnestly call upon all" national and international unions of America to send at least one organizer to assist in this work. We further urge and recommend that in all places where mills are located the central labor organizations appoint special com mittees with instructions to co-operate in this work. For educational purposes wo recommend that this manifesto be made a special order in all central labor organizations at tlie 'first meeting in January, 1910. 'We recommend that the executive council of the American Federation of Labor issue a circular to all , unions of America, an appeal for . financial contributions to aid the striking iron, steel and tin plate workers. We further recommend that the amount of such contributions should not be less than ten cents per mem ber. In view of the great wrongs per petrated by the United States steel corporation, not only against the workers but tho public generally, we recommend that a committee be ap pointed by this conference to wait upon the president of the United States, the president of the United States senate, tho speaker of the house of representatives, and such members of either houso of congress as may bo deemed advisable for the purpose of laying before them the grievances from which labor suffers at the hands of this corporation. At tho instance of the United States steel corporation, officers of local, municipal and state govern ments, havo unwarrantably tyran nized over citizens, invading the con stitutionally guaranteed rights of freo speech. We recommend that committees be appointed by this conference to wait upon the governors of state and such other official representatives of counties and municipalities as are in control where the United States steel corporation has plants located, for the purpose of presenting to these officials the great wrong inflicted up on tho people of these communities, and that the committees demand an investigation, and where charges made are substantiated by evidence the officers responsible therefore be removed and the wrongs immediate ly righted. We appeal to all liberty loving Americans for their moral and finan cial support. JAMES O'CONNELL. T. L. LEWIS. W. D. MAHON. GEORGE W. PERKINS. J. W. HAYS. PRANK M. RYAN. E. T. HALEY. ., SAMUEL GOMPERS. .P. J. McARPIE. CHARLES E. LAWLER. THE REGULAR THING A certain Louisville social leader, whom wo will call Mrs. Fayette County, to avoid identifying her, was told by her husband over the tele phono that he would bring a num ber of guests home to dinner. The party was altogether unexpected and in all tho house, which has become noted for the generous and sumpt uous dinners spread in it, there was not food enough. Mrs. County got busy at once and instructed her cook to order certain supplies while she planned the rest of tho dinner. A little later Mrs. County happened in the room where the telephone was and was horrified to hear the cook talking ferociously into tho telephone, something as follows: n , 'An' Ah want six dozen sof shell crabs and ef you' doan get dem up here mighty quick Ah'll skin every one of yo', ye' low down 'Who ia dis?' Dis Is Mrs. Fayette County, dat's whodis is and Ah means ebery word Ah say." "Mandy," cried the mistress, "what do you mean? You must not." "Law'sy," returned the cook, "that's all right; rMIss Fay, Ah talks to 'um like dat for yo' all de time." -r-Louisville Times. Bond me address of two trappers, and I wjll Bond you freo a mink stretching1 pattern. I pay highest prices for raw furs. W1U sell you a JFur Coat at Wholesale Pri ces. Write for prices. FURS Bond 25c for trial box (3 oz.) of "IIiaTTJEXtlSAJCT" Best bait In tho world for catching mink, fox, bear, etc. Pound boxes, ono dollar. Write today. XI JEKMAX KEEL, BIXXi1VJlUIU212, 1VIS. V FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH Former President Patton, of Princeton University, once delivered a sermon at Fifth Avenue Collegiate church, his subject being "Faith." He spoke of- the blind faith of the "client who puts himself at the mercy of a lawyer in preparing an action for himself at the mercy of a' lawyer in preparaing an action for trial, and the confidence of the sick in entrust ing themselves to the physician. "A case of blind faith," said the clergyman. "The doctor writes out a prescription. Oftener than not you can not read it; you don't know what it Is. He tells you to take It. 'Yours not to reason why, yours but to do and die. " Whether or not Dr. Patton meant It, there was a distinct ripple throughout the congregation. Illus trated Sunday Magazine. AN INFANT INDUSTRY "What's this?" demanded the customs officer, pointing to a pack age at the bottom of the trunk. "That is a foreign book entitled 'Politeness,' " answered the man who had just landed. "I guess I'll have to chaTge you a duty on it,, rejoined the inspector. "It competes with a. small and struggling indus try in this country." Chicago Tribune. SCRIPTURAL PRECEDENT Jonah stepped ashore. "I left my records in the whale," he observed. "Anybody who wants to see them can go after them." It was noticed that none question ed his exploit. Now York Sun. WHEN THE BOOKS CQME OUT Book Agent "Is the lady of tho house in?" Jimmy "Maw says which book are you sellln' Peary's or Cook's?" 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