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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1904)
. , 'I ' " , - - F ? OM THE . I : r I _ ' The Riches of Love. Talk nhoul 110\'crty-nothln' , It 1Ccm , ltkh . 11m I ever , with lo\ + ! It/Ill / the dreams Who with mv wClllth In the world can cbmlll\rt. IUch In the glory ot .TcllnY'1I gold hair J-I".ulltltul , el..wn."tn'lImllll hair , that 1 hold , Tn the hands ot me , IlIssllli nllll lovIng Its gold ! Talk about poverty ! IJr'htht the nun siren run , 'fAke the wUI'ld'H richeR ulIII give ml hlvo's dt'C'ntntl- , Drlo\m In the dark skies and dreams In the fair , The light , the bravo splendor ot JennY'H Kohl hnlr Earth bath Its millions , hut : 1I0thln' IIIte , thlll- The beautiful hair chose gold ringlets 1 kiss There III no poverty ! Give me , dear God , Not the gold harvests that color the sod ) : Not the worh ) ' " breath , ovcr fltz' oceans blown , Rut the reel lips ot Jenny that lean to my own ! And even In deAth just n Joy like to t h is- lIer gold hair to shadow mc , sweet with 10vo'II ; kiss ! -Atll\nta n5tJtulion. . r . - NEWS OF THE 'LABOR ' WORLD. - - - Items of Interest Gathered from Many Sourcea. It Is report that 238 manufacturing - Ing concerns In various parts or the country have withdrawn from the Parry . ry association The members ot the police force oC AlleGund , Norway . asked the town board for nn increase of salary and on being ; refused they fltrllclt. The deCent of the Initiative and ret I"ronlillm " nmcndmcnls In Missouri \ Ilt the recent election caused universal regret ! In organized : labor circles It. should he the aim of every union ember ns well as every sympathizer ) with our great cause : to be helpflll In every way to extend the beneficent influence . flucnco of the labor ' ' IH'esB.-B Samuel Gompcrs ; An organization to ho known as the National child labor committee was recently formed In New Yorl 'rllC names of several promInent perSOI11 ! appear In the list oC those who arc interested . terested In the new orgnnlzatlon. President Theodore ShntTer of the Amalgamated Association IC Iron , I Steel and Tin Workers said he will not bo n candidate for ro . election . He do- dared , however , ho Is nol heing driven out President Shatter II ; nn Mtplrnnt tOl' the position ) or cOli 'nlssIOlHZ' of Jl\hor. Following . close on the announcement ' mont that Gov . Peabody ) \ 'as to with. draw from the contest Ear governor ot the Western Federation of Minors baR called off the strJl\Cs III Telluride and Ophlr. In all likelihood the same action will bo taken III Every ! mlnlllE camp In the state. The fact cnnnot be overlooked that there Is n movement In progress tending . Ing to strengthen the fraternal rela. t\lns \ of workmen all over the world , n ' general onward and upward mo\e. meat of unionists being clearly exhibited . ited \ everywhere.-By Bans Fehllnger , Orgonizer : for Australia. "Thero Is no better friend to true lHlfllWB5 than the trade union. Busi ness In Its real sense , Is not to set wheels to turning ! md cause the smoke to ascend from the factory chimneys , bat to find R. market.for the products of brain and brawn.-W. D. Mahon , president of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Street and Electric Rnll. way Employes at America. Plttsburg gets the convention or the American Federation of Labor for 1905. Invitations were extended by St. Louis and a. few minor cities , but the activity of the union leaders at PlttRburg won. And at that eastern industrial center the trades unIons command great attention and it Is 13x- pected that the convention air will teem with lntlrut. Alter III montba' trill of th" "OI' 1\ 11M' " p.1t , ' 14"51' by the cbI' . " ' 'T 'ago gmployers' association the Cole- Davis Shoe company ( \ has withdrawn from the hoot and Shoe \tlll1ufactur. : CI'S' association and signed t1 closed : shop reement with the Boot :11111 Shoe \\'orkers' ullion. l : dwarM. \ . , Cole , president of the compuny , salll that he had taken the step fur busi- nes ! : ! reasons , because he had found out that Il paid to have the union stamp. Tim union minors In the employ of the various commercIal coal operators - tors In hirininghani Ala have received - ed an advance of five cents n ton for mining coal stud a corresponding nd , vance In the price of day labor This means that the cost of mining coal has increased nearly nine cenls The Increnso was haled on the fact that Iron Is selling lit more than $10,50 a ton. All coal ruining contracts In this district : are on a sliding scale , based on thc price or Iron. 'rho National fotl\1I1ers \ association has adopted a policy for dealing with organized labor which may bring on trollhlo It declares for the removal ofoll , unionist restrictions on Indh'Idll' al olltPllt. The associatIon's convention . tlon lit Cincinnati , however , also adopted a resolution announcing con- tlnlled belief In the 1ll'Inciplo of and lratlon and dlsappro"1I1 of strikes or lockouts , 111111 Instructed Its officers and administrative council to favor arbitration with enipluycs , either sing- ly I or collocllv'I 'rhe twent.foul'th annual convention of time American Federation ( of Labor , vas one of the longest and most strenuous In the ' ' of the ' history O'gll11l- zatlon. It . began its deliberations on the morning of Nov. 14 and did not mel until X"O\ 2f. 'rhe convention \111 go on record ns having passed IIIOn some of the most important IIIl'Sllons lint It has ever been Its Iuty to 11I8CIISS It assistance to the strikers of Fall River , \tass . will go down In the history of unionists as one of the many humane acts for which the national body Is respon- slhle. slhle.With With the opening of the plate mill the Illinois Steel company announced an equalization of the wages of em- ployes.V. [ , , S. Shields , superintend- 3nl of the plant at South Chicago posted notices which mean a complete ° eadjllstmeut of the wages palll the ) OU men of the plate ) ml1l. According ' 0 the outline of the equalization plan Jltl1led workmen , ns heaters ; and turn- rs , who received from $8 to $10 a la ' , will receive a reduction of from > 2 to $3 each , the men receiving $1.-10 \111 get $1.80 , the U,50 men will get ,2 , and the $1.85 men will receive ' 2,20. . All arrangements have at last been erfected for the amalgamation of the : ntcrllatlullul association of machin- 'sts ' and the allied metal mechanics. The agreement to ,01lll111al , the two organizations was made In New York city the other day One of the , points of dltTerence In the way or time I \ \1IIt\lgnnmtlon the name of the low organlzntlon. Representatives of ' : Ilthor bOdy contended that when the consolidation was effected It should be alled after their organlzntlon. The mechanics yielded , and all other points being settled , the amalgama- tlon will take place In the near future. rt will be called the International as- wclnUon of nmaclmitlists The following organizations , having ' 10 individual label have adopted the 'Jllicla.1 label oI : the American Federation . tlon of Labor : Artificial Limb Makers , Costumers , Badge and Lodge Paraphernalia . phernalla Workers , Baking Powder Workers , Soda and Mineral Water : Dottlen , Cigarette Paper Workers , Coffee and Spice Workora Cloth S on > ; err and Rflnnlfthor:5. : DIIlt11hsrJI and : . RectlAors1 $ Sedlalue Wgfkln ' " I Horse Shoe Nail Workers , Neckwear Cutters and Makers , 'Oyster Workers , Photographic Supply ) Workers , Salt Worlccrs , Soap Workers , Soda and Mineral Workers , Starch Workers ; , Suspender , Makers , Umbrella Makers , Wine and Liquor Worltcl's. Among the unions represented by dtlegates with voting power In the recent convention of the American Federation ot Labor were the following . lng , which arc seldolll mentioned : Four locals of the Unc1crlaltol'f Union , ! one having two votes : two locals of I bookkeepers , both represented hy wOlllen : Barber Shop Porters and ' Bath House Attendants , ono local cf Cemetery Employes , one local of Firemen . men , the 1\tl1kers' Protective Union , Newsboys and Route Carriers' Union , Ordnance \hm's : Union , Paste l\Ialtcrs , Union , Oyster Worltcrs' Union , Fish Cleanel's' Union , five locals of the Agricultural . rlcultural Worlters' Union , the Coffee Selecters' UnIon. The Commercial Telegrophers' union or America has removed Its headquar tern to Chicago , and now occupies a suite or rooms on the firth floor of the Manon building. To increase the mem- hershlp or the organization the initiation . tlon fee has been lowered to $1.75 until Jnn. 1. Circular letters . giving the alms and objects of the organization . tlon , together with reforms In the service . vice It hopes to bring about , have heen sent to nil commercial tClegra' pliers In the countr ' br International President S. . / . Smnll. Among the reforms desired Is a more equitable arrangement of hours and salaries of mnnngers and operators or offices of the second and thIrd class. That the "closed ship" Is Illegal was decided by the justices of the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court , silting In Brooklyn A contract entered Into between the firm of Mor- ris Cohn & Sons and the Protective Coat Tailors and Pressen Local No lifi of the United Garment Workers of Ammerica whereby the firm was pro' hlhlted from employing labor not belonging . longing to the local and also from e n- ' ' member of the union ployimmg even a unless such memhel' held a card signed by time business agent of the local , was declared by the court to bo contrary to public policy . PresIding Justice Hirschberg wrote the court's opinion. Justice Bartlett dissented Before the adjournment of the trnns.l\lisslsbllipl congress , which met In St. Louis a few days ago , the following . lowing resolution on labor and capital \ \ as adopted : 'We favor unIon labor and the combination of capital as the proper means to advance the public ) good , hut we condemn any act of com- blued labor 01' capItal that in any sway abridges the natural rights of man We recommen the enforcement : of the Sherman act of 1890 , and to that end urge congress to pass an amend- ment to that act malting : it the duty of the United States district attorneys to prosecute all unions of labor 01' capital wherever evidence making a prima facie case of a breach of the terms of the act are presented. And we recommend the appointment ot a special commission br congress to investigate - vestigate the arbitration laws of New Zealand and other countries which may have such laws " In an appeal Issued to the public , rind organized labor In particular , by , , the Pennsylvania Blue Label league to aid : In the work of stlmlllating the demand for union made cigars , the statement Is made that In that state there arc at least IiOOO children em- ployed In the manufacture of nonunion - union cigars. These children operate machines , which turn out Immense quantities of cheap cigars , which flood the markets and are sold In direct competition with the products of factories - tories that employ adult lubor. Tine child workers are paid n mere pit- tance. and the result Is their employers . ers arc able to place their goods on the mark at a much lower figure than can the manufacturer employing men and women who work for the union scale ot wages. The cigar- markers' organization are committed to the work ot ridding the country ot child labor. They believe that by nsl' tatlnc t ' the IUe of union nude IQOlll : ; U" .vll .1) II part 'M lUI1t4ltd. > . T . . , . ' . . . . II . . . , , , . . . \ . G When Hogs Can't Walk. - Men that were raised on New England . land farms line memorIes of great . fat hogs that for months before slaughter ' I ter were unable to stand on their hind legs The writer has seen hogs ' that weighed almost GOO pounds that before slaughter had to move around . 011 their Im a belies as 011 n pivot. They " " ate and slept In the same place , turn- , lug one way to eat amid the other to sleep 'rhelr owners thought It 110th. Ing unusual , they only saId : "The hog has become so fat he can't stand up " Yet with more light on the situation we know that It was not n case of fatness . - , ness only , but a case of the constant feeding of corn and slop , out of whIch , the animal could not manufacture any hone or muscles that would sustain his weight. In those days the food or SlIch hogs was corn as largely as it Is now. Had those animals received a ration composed or ground oats , skim milk and such nitrogen supplying foods they would have had a hone-and. muscle that would have carried about any weight. The same results come from the same I causes now , hut It Is I not so apparent , nf the hogs arc mar I Iteled at haIr the weight they were In j the clays mentioned. No man should ! , feed n corn diet exclusively to his , - j hogs.-Farmers' Review. I Mulching for the Orchard. At the Michigan Hortlcultllral Society . I I clety meeting W. .1. Green discussed this subject , and his advice was as follows : "When the orchard Is young probably more material can be grown on the entire area than will be need- . ed , but as the archnrd grows the . . ' quantity needed will be Increused. , Finally little can be grown because of the shade : in other words , mulching material must be brought from other . . . fields. - - In growing ! an orchard by the usual method of cultIvation with catch crops , the first outlay , and nil cost of producing the crop , and at the same lime cultivating the orchard for ten . rears , can , under favorable conditions , . ' he got out of the sale of crops pro- laced : but If much extra fertilizIng I Is done the crops will have to be such I as bring the highest price with least j drain on the soil- Doubtless a lmeav- I lIy mulched orchard suffers less from changes of tempemture and varia- tion of rainfall than one unmulched. _ An orchard with n store of plant food constantly increasing thelosoll Is like a. man with a life Insurance In a sol vent compan " . Do We Believe It ? . It Is an old saying that the bull Is "hair the herd. ] " Do we really believe It ? Plenty of men , according to Prof. 1'rases of Illinois , will pay $300 or $400 for a good registered cow , yet ri the owner will not pay more than $200 for It sire to head time same herd. I Does not that fact show that but few 1 men value the sire as highly as they . ' do the dam ? Yet she has but one calf . . . a year , while he Is the sire of many. - It often takes a statement like this to show us what we really do believe. . The most famous and successful . breeders have always paid their highest - est money for sires , rather than dams , ' . with nil breeds of domestic animals. . . . . . - - ' - , Keeping Cows to Capacity. Il Is a matter of the greatest dim- culty to get a cow hack to her flow of milk when It has once been permitted . ( J milled to shrlnlt. From the lime she becomes fresh unUJ she has been In milk nIne or ten months , the daIry cow should be kept up to her full ca- . . . pac1ty. ThIs Is especially Important 'I with young heifers. The girt or con. ,1Ii tlnuance II ! ! 11 valuable girt In , a cow , ' . . . "JIj and to II.cl1ulro < it , idle must be trained wlu1rOU ; il