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11 IL I i n m ma m : I HI if . I ' The Commoner. VOLUME 12, NUMBER lj R A MY RESULTS &J9 ITmisTihe naked truth USTEN1 TlrTHJjUUHSIjym WINS. SOW ENERGY-RE AP$1 5 A DAY. Turn loose nmWtlon-woo prosperity. Rouse up I look around you-consult KASOw-oppiy w invcstlKntlon-lenrn the trttlh-sclzc opnortuni . iritHi vrtureclf to a real winner, HUMbGUNirUIII l-LUUK SCRUBBING MACHINE A WHIRLWIND REPEATER Cntney, Miss., pctg $15 n day. IIciTtnaii, N. II., tfrtsja nn hour. inmrs, Gn.,cnnnmkeitoon week, tdensen, Kaiis., mnde $20 the first d.iy. Mukc $10 a day sure Vc Prove It Help You Investi gate. Our Agents will Tell You tli Truth the Nuked Truth. experience unnecessary. Far. incrs, clerks, mechanics, any Douy can prosper, PvAnt IxiinnltKH RolVCS UlUai IllilUIIIIUIIi dreaded houjieliold problem turns scrubbing, cleaning into easy, quick, pleasur able tHMC. en 1 TimiKANne. rw a COUNTY. YONDEIrUL Ktl'tATLR. IVnsU: for years. Startling labonsavinj machine. No moro Impk.liroaldnjr. scnilibtnit and floor clonn Ina days. Now Invention Tplneo" old-stylo brushc-u, unsanitary rntrmnd hand'dlHllKurlwj mops. VIBRATION DOES THE WORK Rerun, dries llnoni, cloanB niul lrlKhten romomt llrt, arcane, otalns, gorum worlH llko mnw'io. Mrs. Paul, TtuaH. vrrilon: "It'u a wonder; ncruhtod 3M equnro foot In 20 inlnutos." TlirroHtnrtliiK? featuTM nelMecdlug. clf.nudHlmr,ncll'drylnt:. Holm floor. ortlblilniL. dryfnir niul alrnninu nf iu ilnuluorv. Iln Jiastiuow-rnakusltciwy, quick and pleunant-clilld L! Tv V9 fi a& SW' i Pathetic Secnes at the Textile Strike Hearing Following is a local report from tho columns of the Washington (D. C.) Herald: An extremely disorderly all-day hearing before the house rules corn mil lee on the resolutions proposing an investigation of tho Lawrence Uft.ll-n wnnnil iin at. G o'clock tllO by his own little son of eight years, tooK pity on uiuw ini5"u "Get chairs for these children," commanded Judge Henry. 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" Four years successful oportlon. at I) o ciocii tnei ,.,',, P ,ii mfirm. other evening with a personal clash r, 1 i.a, -- .? between Ho If i to permit children to leave Lawrence gr' V10,,, mh?a nf tho awrenco several days ago, the state authori- ral,;lr if innkod fo? a I ties had violated the federal law. citiens com mtfo- " loo led for a be ro Qn moment as if theie would bo ai wn Z9&r Pt these children being of strikers from Lawrence, local so-1 sent out ol Massac nuseus in ess h M..iiRiR nmi th HtixAnR' committee ' were known that they were to be- ' ... . finmo n niihlin fnnrrrn vjvaaa m j-n viuigv FAULTY metabolism AS A COMMON CAUSE OF DISEASE, U the subject discussed la Balletla No. 1 of the SUafcr Pathological Laboratory. The Bulleda It lent free on request and will prove Inter estlnr to everyone la Pain and Poor Health. Addrest: John F. Shafer, M. D. 214 PcnnAve., Pittsburg, Pa. PATENTS FHSF"-: Asthma RRMEDT trnl nn mCR TltllT. .. Itcures send IlOO; II not. don't. r.le hxpress Office, flat'l Cli.uilrU Oonpany, 819 Cklo at. Sldaey, 0 Wanted a man or woman to net as our tn- fnrmntlnn mnnrl.. in Umo,M N 03ycrlnce necessary. $50 to $300 par u.UUkU. Huuims iu sun. Bona, sump tor partlcn. Ur. 8AI.IC8 ASSOCIATION, 739 AbbocU UonlHdjr. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Kider Agents Wanted cle. Wrttttr tfecial eJTtr. ' ia Mssar" $w to $27 KVnYn rir iVS!i , Ma runcture-rroof tires. xxxoziwsz: 97 to $12 VJSSSIVZSSPU. ' Gronfc WAormiv nrw a -it-t. n ?i UtSPM." Approval vHih.ut , r.undZT'2e.??.KrrV.eJ.!te FAar urJi7.L-""..","r '$ of bicycles WoVandoffe. I , n?T BUV uatJl X0" C w SUSAD OYCIiE CO. 'iionk. mw ....,,, vhhjago Ml aUlttKllfAl r j LW-JaWMitfnri n 11 H BVm'Ljl from the mill city a3 participants But the affair passed off with notu ing worse than a lot of pulling, haul ing, and calling of names. Tho near light occurred just as the committee was about to adjourn until tomorrow, when Representative Wilson, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the house labor committee, jumped to his feet, and explaining that there was no money to pay for the board and lodging of the women and children strikers from Lawrence who came to Washington to appear beforo congress, suggested that a general subscription be taken up. Immediately Josephine Liss. who professes to have been roughly handled by a soldier in Lawrence the other day, jumped to her feet and began to pass the hat. Lewis S. Cox, postmaster of Lawrence and a member of the citizens' committee, dropped a dollar in it. Representa tive Berger happened to be watching. "Give him back that dollar; it Is blood money," he cried, rushing across the room and grabbing the girt by the arm. Cox flushed and the young woman apparently didn't know what to do. Berger reached in the hat, picked up tho dollar bill and pushed it at Cox. Robert Mc Cartney; a Lawrence business man, and chairman of the committee from that city, clutched Berger by the arm. "Go away from me; I don't want to talk to you," yelled the socialist, struggling to get out of McCartney's grasp. "I am a representative of tho people of Wisconsin." "I don't Kive a d n whn vrm rejoined McCartney, still holding on. "I wan't you to understand that I've got as much money as you have and that it isn't tainted." t I T 1 a Know you," cried Berger, "you are some underling of the woolen trust." "You lie," said McCartney. 'Don't talk to me," shouted Ber ger, shoving his face within two uiuiiL-s 01 Mcuartney 8. "I'll say what I d n please," the latter rejoined. All this had taken but a moment and just as the two belligerents were about to start a row in real earnest, members of the riilfiR.inmniUf i spectators rushed up and separated e,mv a?ere was a llvely flurry, in which about twntv ; :u,:? pated, and then Berger and McCart- ?ioWermiled a,ay in PPsite direc t ons. The collection of subscrip tions was continued with gratifying results The delegation of striker! wore able to stay in Washington an other day,. when the rules committee "esW'attn.011 reS1Utina Presented by Representative Ber ger as an exhibit of what "one of in , "1B Protected industries There was no such allegation in this case." "Wasn't that the pretext in this case?" inquired Representative Hardwick, of Georgia. "The pretext was," Mr. Wilson re nlietl. "that thene children were be ing sent out of the state without the consent of their parents. In other words, that they were being kid napped. If that were true this ac tion would bo indefensible, and the state law would cover the case. But it was not true in any particular." "But aren't they in destitute cir cumstances?" asked Judge Hendy. "Oh, Mr. Chairman," replied Mr. Wilson, dramatically, "they all are in destitute circumstances. .No chil dren could be more destitute than those that were left at home and these others had the consent of their parents to go." Many labor leaders were anlong the spectators. The executive com mittee of the American Federation of Labor, headed by Samuel Gomp ers; President Golden, of t.hft tpvrn workers, and President Tim Healy, 01 uie nremen, were among them. The morning session of tho hir ing went off fairly peacefully, but in tut; uuemoon tnere was one disorder after another, Chairman Henry final ly threatening to clear the room of all spectators unless the women strikers quit shrieking "Liar!" at the witnesses and insulting thein in other ways. Representative Stanley, of Kentucky, the steel committee chairman, finally declared he would see uiat mo next striker insulting a witness was sent to jail "if it took ui me power or congress" to do it Representative Wilson, of Pennsyl vania, the labor committee chairman, and Mr. Berger made statements in the morning, and Samuel Upson of Lawrence, a weaver and one of 'the strikers committee, described the -.. wv4 iiwwu wtiKes nniri to o majority of the employes. Six dol lars a week was the average, he de clared, and oftentimes the head of a family of five, six, or seven mem- tSr87aSia,5e t0 Carry not more than fnveTop!4 hme iQ hlS Wee P .. B ifc waa the afternoon session Representative Pou, of North Stf JEiJ s.? him to desert whenlhrpolice and Z'mWa vented the strikers' children trim he ng sent away. Llpson said the" K?JiC l?rabb,ed the children and threw them into patrol wagons S clubbed the mothers wagons and TubW SSSJSt: -mo- i-.Mv.uvttHYo iOU America does to human Z by which it is served," thirteen sallow cheeked, thin-lipped, hollow-eyed poorly-clad children and sL? adults SXi UP ?en.nsylvaa avenue and filed solemnly into the capltol In he committee room thes T "ex hibits" stood along the wall until Representative Henry, accompanied ers clubbed? asked. t DN ihe witness replied. "But I saw them shoved around and pushed in the breasts." nd Why did the strikers want n send their children away 1 Lawrence?" Representative StaSffi? of Kentucky, inquired. oianley lo keep them from being hurt" Llpson renHArt t .. zi. b uurc I because one of my llXiZZZfa his eyes .to me and said, Whv do thn soldiers treat people that way? Wnv do they stick their bayonets in them." At this point Representative Robert O. Harris, of the Fourteenth Massachusetts district, who lives at East Bridge water, protested against the broad character of Lipson's ex amination. He asserted that Lipson was discussing matters with which the federal government could have no concern, and requested that he be limited to the incident of .the pre vention of the children from leaving Lawrence. Chairman Henry de clared that the investigation involved the facts leading up to the incident at tho station, but asked that all concerned limit their testimony as closely as possible. Mr. Harrison said there was present a committee of four, repre senting the city of Lawrence, and he introduced C. T. Lynch, chairman of the committee of safety; T. T. Sul livan, city marshal; D. K. Murphy, city solicitor, and Robert J, McCart ney, a Lawrence merchant. Lewis R. Cox, postmaster of Lawrence, was on hand to act as attorney for the com mittee. Representative Foster, of Illinois, asking Lipson if it were true that the striking textile workers had thous ands of dollars deposited in the sav ings banks of Lawrence. "Oh, no," cried Lipson in reply. "How could men getting $5 or $6 a week put money in the savings banks?" Representative Wilson, of Pennsyl vania, chairman. of the committee on labor, and author of one of tho resolutions of investigation, asked permission at this point to interrupt Lipson's testimony1' and put John Golden, of Fall River, president of the textile workers' union, on tho stand. He explained that Mr. Gol den had to leave town last- evening. Mr. Golden started in by contra dicting the statements of Represen tative Berger, made at the morning session. "Mr. Berger," he said, "who has never been in Lawrence, made tho statement that the industrial work ers of the world represent 20,000 of the Lawrence mill hands, and that I, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, represent just 120. The truth nf fhA Tnntrr is that when this 'revolution' in Law rence occurred the official books of the industrial workers of the world show that the organization had just 247 members." Continuing to controvert Mr. Ber ger's statement, Golden said that 70 per cent of tbe 22,000 textile workers in Lawrence either had left the city or had returned to their jobs. "I am not good at figures," he added, "but I would like to see anybody figure out where the 20,000 workers that this organization claims come from." Mr. Golden referred to the offer that had been made by the American Woolen company to induce Its em ployes to return to work. This offer was described by Mr. Berger at the morn in tT RPRrtlrm n "atlUncr Inanlt to injury." He declared that it would add less than 30 cents a weefc to the wage of a $6-a-week man. But ac cording to Mr. Golden, the company offered a minimum increase of 5 per cent, this to go to the highest paid employes, with a 12 per cent in crease to those now receiving the lowest compensation. "I want to go even further than an investigation of Lawrence," said Golden. "Conditions there are had enough, but In th tertlla tnAiiRtrr "in general and in the south In par ticular, conditions are worse and wages lower than in New England. The cotton industry Is worse than the woolen. I find ther Is univer sal sentiment for an investigations hut it should bo an investigation nol alone of the American Woolen com Kf iim,