The Labor World from Duluth, Minnesota • Page 10

8 A SABRIB G. AKIN, The Labor World BI-WEELY JOURNAL. Office, 215 Woodbridge Duluth. SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in advance $1.00 Six month, 41 Three month 25 Single copies, 5 cents. Advertising rates made known on application 50 Editor and Publisher.

Letters and articles relating to the social problem are solicited. In issuing this, our initial number of the LABOR WORLD in Duluth and West Superior, we take pleasure in announcing that we now become a ent fixture in your cities, and will devote our money, time and energy in co-operation with every labor union, to advance the interests of all those who work, advocate solidarity and harmony among all the labor organizations in Duluth and Superior and throughout the great Northwest. To working men and mean all who toil honestly with hand or brain, we say that the LABOR WORLD is published in your terest and behalf and ask your co-operation and support. LABOR WORLD, go forth, and may you reach the homes of wealth, and awaken them to their duty, may you fire the hearts of reformers to greater deeds, may you stir the mind of legislators to the need of ter laws, and may you above all, help to bring the great mass of the laboring millions to ize that the secret of their greatest happiness and the tlement of all troubles lies in the upholding of that law laid down by Him who not only said "do unto others as ye would that they industrial THE LABOR WORLD. should do unto you," but also that "the laborer is worthy of his hire." Why is it that those who make clothes are ragged? Wlty is it that those who build palaces are houseless? Why is it that those who do the nations work are forced to choose between beggary and crime, or suicide in a country that has fertile soil enough to produce plenty to feed and clothe the world There is something wrong some where.

Where lies the awful responsibility for all this untold suffering on an cent and outraged people? Republicans say it is because the Democrats are in power, the Democrats say it is because the Republicans have been in power so long, the Populists say the cause lies with both of the old parties and in our financial tem, the prohibitionists say the cause is largely the liquor traffic, and I want to say wherever the cause lies it does not lie with the would gladly work if they could find thing to do, especially if they can receive living wages. There is no longer any excuse for ignorance of the curseful and awful condition of the oppressed masses. Toiling brothers, you must use your brains more in your own interests or you will be compelled to use your muscles more in the interests of your master We must know the right fore we can do the right. The first step to a remedy is that the people care, and if they know, they will care. To help them to know and care to ulate new sympathy for the victims of power, is the mission of the LABOR WORLD.

The snow storm of a week ago gave many willing but idle hands work. Men were seen shoveling snow bare-handed and poorly clad, cheerful and happy at the porspect of a few days work. The Duluth Trades Assembly has taken up the cause of the miners on the iron range. It seems that the mining tions have forbidden their employes to join labor zations and have posted up tices to that effect. They also are discharging, as fast as sible, men who are already members.

An appeal has been made to the Trades Assembly and they will take up the fight in the miners' behalf. The contest will undoubtedly be a bitter one, but the miners have right on their side and will in the end win. The law will be tested as to the rights of laboring men combining, but to prove these men were discharged because they belonged to a union is where the difficulty comes in. The action of these tions is an outrage! What right have they to dictate to free born Americans whether they shall organize or not? Capital is organized. The iron companies combine to keep up the prices of the wealth taken from mother earth, yet in their hellish greed they will do all in their power to keep the workingman from organizing so that he may mand a higher price for what he has in the market to Labor.

They say: Organize and you shall not eat. These Shylocks and shysters hold justice by the throat, arid force and bribe courts and islatures to assist in ing this terrible, hideous hell of hopeless hunger in a world of plenty. And yet, many cry, "Wait a little longer! We are riot ready for a change the world must grow more wise!" They set up the hypocritical cry that the world is not ready for justice. Nobody has the gall to stand up and declare that a system which gives tice to the toiling masses would be an injury to our govern-.