SATURDAT- -THE LABOR WOtLl) -NOVEMBER 25,1916.
EXAMINATION QUESTIONS. THE LABOR WORLD (1) The value of all property in the United ,TI STEEL TRUST States is estimated at $187,000,000,000. Two per We are showing a complete line of Wool Soles {or crochet cent of its 100,000,000, people own 65 per cent of it. v x Advertising: Rates Entered at slippers, in all sizes. Postoffice at Sifcty per cent of the people own 5 per cent, and Made Known on Duluth, Minn., as the remaining 38 per cent of the people own 30 per E Application. Second Class cent. Find the value of property owned by the Matter. average individual in each class. State how many times the average holding of the individual in the 6 two per cent class exceeds the average holding in I T l'nblisbed Every Saturday. the 60 per cent class. Explain how the two per TOstablished in 1896 by Sabrie G. Aikin. cent got so much. Businesiii Office. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Sol Wex- Suite G10 Manhattan Building, Duluth, Minn. (2) A laborer receives two dollars a day and By HARRISON GEORGE. Zenith Phone. Grand 6,~>. Duluth Phone. Melrose 1288. ler, president of the Pan-American works six days a week. If he spends nothing at all, commission corporation, which is Special Investigator for The Labor SUBSCRIPTIONS. how many years will he require to save a fortune loaning money to the Tfucatan gov "World. One Year, in advance $1.00 Silk Sale Continues Six Months, in advance ' .80 equal to Rockefeller's, estimated at two billions? ernment commission regulating tl^e It is the custom for an employer Three Months, in advance 25 IIow can one man produce wealth equal to Rock sisal output, defends the Yucatan when faced with a demaii - for a wage Single Coo'cs 2 Centa. board in an article in The Wall Street increase, made by organized labor, to With New Additions to Reinforce efeller's? Journal. emit Iqud howls of purse-stricken WILLIAM E. McEWEN, Publisher. The Comision Reguladora is an as pain, to cry "confiscatiot." and com C. MdlLhlliLAN, Managing Editor. How can one man produce wealth equal to one f ormer Offerings two thousanth part of Rockefeller's estimated for sociation similar to that of the Cali plain that the "predatory poor" are tune? fornia fruit growers, Mr. Sexier says. rendering valueless his immense hold Come in and secure your silks for holiday purposes at IN PASSING—A COMPLIMENT. The association on the part of the ings, into which he has sunken—at If Rockefeller did not produce his fortune, who planters, assisted by the government, grfeat personal risk—his life, his for a big saving. In passing we wish to compliment the Superior did, and how did Rockefeller get it from them? became an absolute necessity by rea tune and perhaps—his "sacred honor." Telegram for its excellent newspaper work on the son of the fact that 80 per cent of the Let us review in brief, just what 36-inch Black Messalines and Taffetas, OQ night of the election. DID YOU KNOW— whole production, of Yucartan sisal this argument is worth when applied special, yard , *pJL was purchased by two concerns, to the U. S. Steel Corporation in its Notwithstanding the fact that there are two That one of the most scandalous oil concessions working in harmony, one of which acquirement of the lorgest iron ore 54-inch Check Velour Suitings, all wool, for suits and newspapers in Duluth, the Superior Telegram, from is one of the most severely criticized deposits in the world on the Mesaga ever granted in Mexico under the Diaz adminis Range in Minnesota. skirts—green, blue, brown and other com- ' jT/l a smaller city and across the bay, was the first paper tration, was that granted to Lord Cowdray, British trusts in America, against which pro on the streets of Duluh Tuesday nigh. ceedings have been taken *- in more Iron was discovered on the Mesaba binations, a yard capitalist ? than one state. Range in 1890. As the U. S. Steel 36-inch Velvet Velour in navy, brown, laurel green and That this happened during the Taft (Republi Broke Trust Control. Corporation was not formed until 1901 we must deal with those whose black; will make you a dressy suit— £V| THE DRAMA, THE STAGE AND THE ACTORS. can) administration? The practice of these two< corpora acts led to its formation. The sw.^rm That George W. Wickersham, attorney general tions was to remain out of the market of speculators which over-ran the a yard • 01/ The United States has come to a critical point in of the United States under Taft was a director in until the Yucatan growers were Range upon the discovery of iron ore 36-inch Cotton and Wool Challis in light and dark its history. forced, by need of funds, to sell at can be roughly divided into three the concern organized by and presided over by any price that was offered. After the grounds—all neat "patterns; suitable for house dresses, The capitalistic press, the near capitalistic press Lord CoAvdray? groups: the Llerritts and their friends, 0* bulk of the crop had been thus pur a group of local capitalists; Henry W. kimonas and dressing sacques, special a f Q _ and the labor press, all admit this. That. Henry W. Taft, brother of the former chased at prices which left the farm Oliver, a wealthy Pittsburg man; and The United States of America is all set for the president was also a director in this coihpany ? er no profit and often caused a loss, the third group, i of get-rich-quick yard, at only -ivt supreme drama. The actors are ready. Does the so-called "Mexican situation" still the -small quantity remaining was pure—or impure-—speculators, who systematically advanced, so as to cre grabbed everything in si?ht and then The prologue is now going on. puzzle you? ate a basis upon which to fix a high lay on their "ores" waitinsr for some In San Francisco, Thomas Mooney of the Hold price for binder twine to the Amer thing to -happen Something did hap Hosiery and Underwear THE CHARITY EVIL. ican farmer. By this means both the pen—though not to their liking. The er's union, Israel Weinberg of the Jitney Driver's Yucatan grower and the American first question was that of transporta union, Edward Nolan of the Machinist's union and Something that charity workers should read and user were milked for the benefit of tion and the Merrftts,* who Were real Ladies' Combination Suits, fleeced lined, winter weight; Warren K. Billings of the Machinist's union with consider is an article entitled "The Meaning of the two concerns referred to. developers, built a railroad from Lake bleached white, fine ribbed—all styles and As the growing of sisal is practi Superior to the Rangt?. This required Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of Thomas Mooney, are Charity," by Dr.'Elijah Jordan, of Butler College, cally the sole sustenance of the ehtire more money than they had, so they sizes 34 to 44, special vt/v on trial for their lives. Already Billings has been Indianapolis, in the latest issue of the American population of the state of Yucatan borrowed the nee'essary cash from Children's Combination Suits in gray or white, winter sentenced to life, imprisonment. Journal of Theology, published in Chicago. and its prosperity is, therefore, so en Rockefeller and, with child-like sim tirely dependent upon the pripe ob weight; fine ribbed, drop seat, high neck, long Officially they are accused of planting a bomb Dr. Jordan finds that the final meaning of char plicity, mortgaged their entire inter ity is: < tained for this product, the govern ests—mines and railrq^d—to the Oil sleeves, ankle length. All sizes to 12 years, a suit.. v t7l/ at Steuart and Market streets on July 22 of this ment undertook to correct the dis King. year. The parade of the preparedness propagand " To establish between persons an'ineradicable tressed condition of the farmers by The panic of the oa.rly nineties came Child's Home-knit Stockings, fast black, worsted, fine ists was in progress. The bomb killed nine people distinction into classes, which are in nature mu creating a commission through which on and it, together with cofctly and ill- gauge ribbed, fashioned ankle, seamless, heavy and injured forty. tually exclusive * * * In the social order it the entire crop should be S.old. advised management, resulted in The commission was made up of Rockefeller taking over the whole quality, soft and elastic, all sizes 7 to lOi, a pair. . • t/C/ In reality their crimes consisted of opposition becomes a justification of slavery through economic Yucatan farmers and the president of works of the Merritt group. He re to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce so- means. * * * My neighbor 's need establishes my the state of Yucatan, became' the fused to renew the loan and the real called "law and order" committee in its effort to right over him. My wealth makes him my servant; chairman of the commission. Several developers were left with empty my intelligence makes him the instrument of my years-after this organization, that is hands. The hard times had also force open shop conditions on sleeping San Fran from 1912 to December, 1915, the ef pressed Oliver to the wall and he was Fine Footwear tor Ladies cisco labor leaders. So far as having anything to purpose; my spirituality makes him my protege; forts of the commission to obtain a in way of financial collapse when ap do with the bomb was concerned, a transcript of my vice makes him my victim. In short, I am my reasonable price for their sisal were proached by the Carnegie Steel Com A complete showing of the new creations in winter testimony we have read, proves to any fair minded brother's keeper, and under the influence of this abortive because they were without pany, and seeing a way out. he hur footwear. Now is the time to make your selection. fallacy is indefinitely postponed." ^he necessary financial facitlities for ried to Pittsburg. man that the cases are deliberate frame-up'fe. withholding their product l'rom the It was there that Ihe Steel Trust, Fine Russian Calf Lace Boot, 8-inch top? fkfl The recently organized National Industrial Con No doubt the charity workers will have an an market until a fair price was obtain the most pitiless exploiter of labor ference Board behind which the New York World swer ready for Dr. Jordan. They will admit ten able. the world lias witnessed, conceived it a good serviceable shoe ; *P • •if if tatively all that he has said, and then add: Bankers lldp Yucatan. self in the mind of Henry Clay Frick, New Model Lace Boot, low heel, C7 claims is J. P. Morgan, is simply another action in chairman of the Carheg'.e Steet Com fkfk this great drama. "But wo cannot allow the poor to starve, while In December, 1915, they succeeded pany. Frick knew Olive- needed tan only. $ • • W The country is in the midst of an industrial tur we are waiting for human brotherhood. Therefore, in obtaining the necessary financial money and he enforced a most amaz we must have charity." ' assistance through an ordinary bank Black Kid Lace Boot, gray or fawn, fjjO f\f\ moil. Employers are starting a concerted and de ing arrangement under which the ing contract upon him which Oliver having no alternative by bankruptcy, buck top yjO• \J\J termined effort all over the United States to crush Such an answer might be sufficient for the time lenders agreed to lend a reasonable le ssue a accepted. The Carnegie Steel qompany labor forever. beiiig^ were ^ i new one "and Dr. Jordan's percentage of the value against hemp loaned to Oliver $500,001), to be spent All plum color Kid Lace Boots, flfi criticism the first that had ever been parsed on char shipped to the United States,' stored In development work. This loan was This is particularly evident in the street car and in American warehouses and fully the pair W electric power industry. ity. But the fact is that the issue is not new. For secured by mortgage and, of course, covered by insurance. At the s^me was to be repaid with interest. Yet a The National Industrial Conference Board will years the attention of charity workers has been time the commission opened offices condition of the loan wa£ that Oliver make ttr fight against the Adamson law. Whether called to the ^legalized wrongs that create poverty in New York and New Orleans, es must give to the Carnegie Steel com and make charity necessary. Books have been tablishing a policy of selling its prod pany half of his present and future they are able to swing the United States Supreme uct to all manufacturers at the same U. S. TO BUILD court, or not, remains to be seen. written showing that so long as one man must de holdings, in other words, Oliver was trice and of insuring an adequate held up for half his ore properties, WORKERS HOMES The final result, however, is never in doubt. pend on the permission of another for a chance to supply always on hand ill the United .worth untold millions: and the Car The toiler is coming into his own. earn his living, so long must some be denied the States so that every manufacturer negie Steel company afterward to be He has entered with a high head, a fierce deter right to work and so long must there be poverty could buy his requirements from time come the nucleus of the tT. S. Steel PANAMA, Nov. 24.-^—Plans are now to time as needed and could be ab Corporation, came into control of half being made by the United States gov mination born of the song of hope in his heart and and distress. There has been no lack of effort to solutely certain that no one enjoyed its present vast interesta On the Me ernment for f e erection of govern a far seeing vision. reveal to them the fact that private ownership of any advantage over any other. saba Range without costing- Carnegie ment-owned quarters for all of its We venture to predict that the workingman who nature's bounties gives to some control of oppor Since this arrangement was entered so much as a postage stamp! employes. has been ground to the earth, misled and tortured tunities needed by all. inl|p the sisal commission has been However there was further work to LONDON, Nov. 24.—The British able to secure fair pricei for its pro