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I Known at tha Poatofflea at Dulutk aa aaeond class mattar. WIIXIAM A Bdltor and Publisher. TRADES (Pfligft) COUNCIL fro Law and order have been ously insisted upon by press, pulpit and civil authorities, but In reading, listening or watching the deeds from day to day there is shown a able lack of knowledge or attention to the principles on which law and order are based, namely: -Justice and Liberty. Justice is the basis of law, and law is no respecter of persons at least that is the ideal. Liberty is the foundation of order.

Where liberty does not exist, force and anarchy rule. situation in America is such as to cause the citizen to stop and think: Is law administered with impartial Justice and Is liberty allowed her fect work? A study of one year's record of cisions rendered in the courts of the United States will show that justice does not rule. Anyone familiar with the history of labor in its relation to the supply and demand of product and the rise and fall of prices will understand why liberty is satisfied with a penny flag and a cannon cracker. Justice and liberty are both bound between the silver bars of the The liberty of men owning capital to combine is allowed the liberty of men owning labor to combine is disallowed. The liberty of capital to protect self Is allowed.

The liberty of labor to protect itself Is disallowed. Is that justice? The question is more vital, however. The right of private contract has just been upheld by the supreme court. That decision is one hundred years behind the time. No employer employing over one hundred men Is likely to see those employes personally.

does not employ them his agent if does. He hires them as a collective employer, individually. And the court sustains him. The right of the ployed in combining to be collectively employed is denied. Is that justice? A man's right to the fruit of his bor is a generality everywhere ted, and when it comes to the question of a man's right to the fruit of his labor and that fruit takes the shape of a weekly wage is another question, it becomes involved in business tricacies and the right of the man is ignored.

It Is here that trade unionism comes with its claim that the wage of the workman shall be In proportion to his skill and the value of the ness of his work. As he no longer can command the consideration he did when the individual contract was the rule, he is forced by the action, and as a result of the policy of his ployer, to meet that employer in bination and set a minimum price on what he has to labor. He only exercises his right to individuaJ liberty of action when he combines against a combination, and who is there who denies its justice? "REFORM" HUMBUGGERY. Writing of the so-called ration war on trusts and railroad pool3 the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says: "The attitude of Attorney-General Bonaparte i3 gard to all such Investigations has been a distinct disappointment to every well-wisher of the tion. The Attorney-General has been painfully slow In all of his movements, and his conduct of the office has been In marked contrast with the vigor and promptness with which tht work was administered under Attorney-General Moody.

Before he came Into the Cabinet Mr. Bonaparte gave expression to certain unusually conservative views on the trust question which were entlrely out of harmony with the policy of the Administration of which he has now become a part. It was thought, however, that he would subordinate I' his personal prejudices, but this slrable condition of affairs does not to exist, and the Department of In the last two months or so has been involved in a condition of which has led many people believe there has been a complete pfcessatlon of trust prosecution. Even victory of the Government In the OH cases in Chicago seems pita have aroused no responsive chord It the department." Referring to this Tribune dispatch, Omaha Word-Herald says: "What would you have? What did President ItooMnrelt ekpeet when he appelated, to enforce the oiatnafc the trusts, a man 'entirely out of with those laws? What would a able man expect? What trusts have been busted, anyway? Wtot railroad rates reduced? What combinations dissolved? Again, what would a onable man expeot with such Cabinet members as Elihu Root, Paul Morton, Philander Knox, Shaw, Cortelyou, Bonaparte and others who have lent distinction to the radical President's extremely conservative Cabinet? It's a reform Administration we know it Is because Is says so Itself. But the big trusts and the allied railroads keep right on doing business at the old at the old rates or some a little stlffer." AN INDUSTRIAL CANCER.

"Let well enough alone" is an pression always in the mouths of some unionists and all non-unionists. It has their teeth worn to a sharp edge and their brains flattened. "Let well enough alone" and "well enough" will leave you alone. It does not stand without hitching and is very apt to return to the starting point. The ganization of labor has never reached the point at which it can be left alone.

It cannot be left still, tied still or held still. From the minute it started its ward march, millions of non-union arms clasped its neck an'l sought to strangle it, but it has gone forward, carrying this industrial cancer with it, to a more healthful elevated and tive plane. This "let well enough alone" bunch joggled out the rod puscles of their blood riding on the martyred backs cf the active, working membership. Tftey are exceedingly spry when it comes to collecting fits, but arc prone to faint and quire restoratives when the payment of dues approaches. They really do not want to be left alone they want to leave others alone in the work and struggle necessary to gain the objects of organised bor.

These stillborn unionists cannot be resurrected to the duties of ism, and have to be loaded in the car of improvements like dumb driven tle. Conveying these union "dead ones" intolerable to decent ditions is not a small part of the union's burden. However, it is a necessary part, and to whatever heights organized labor seeks to climb its back warmers must be given due consideration. The work is for them, but not by them. APOLOGY FOR THE PRESIDENT.

The Mesaba Ore of Hibbing rather has it in for all labor organizations in its last number. It calls Moyer, wood and Pettibone "unscrupulous" labor agitators, and this too before they have had an opportunity to be tried. It defends President Roosevelt for his attempt to intimidate the ple of Idaho by declaring the mine workers' officials to be "undesirable citizens," when a word from him might prejudice a whole rtat'on against men who are awaiting trial for their lives. So far as we are concerned we fer to await the developments of the trial. If the burden of evidence is against Mr.

Haywood, and it is shown that he had anything to do with the murder of former Gov. Stuenenberg, he ought to pay the penalty, but if he is the victim of a conspiracy on the part of the mine owner's association and the officials of the state, as he charges, then as a matter of justice he ought to be acquitted. There are too many editors who are willing to assume that Mr. Haywood and his associates arc guilty simply because the powers that have them in jail. We will await the calm ment of the court and jury in doing so we think we are performing our duty as a newspaper and a ciitzen, for it is a poor news-paper, deed, which cannot prejudice a mind or two, and there is little satisfaction in doing a person an injury who never did us any harm.

Come now, Brother Atkinson, let the mantle of charity cover your prejudice until you know the truth of this interesting affair. UNION LABEL EFFECTIVENESS. The effectiveness of the union label depends upon the sustained demand for it by the individual purchaser. Tho friends of the label should be guarded against presuming too much upon the reputation of any firm. It sometimes happens that purchasers, knowing that a certain Arm has dealt in unionlabeled goods, continue to deal with said Arm upon the strength of its putation, of fact the firm in question has ceased to keep union-labeled goods in slock.

The only way to guard against this species of imposition is to demand the union label upon every purchase, ho matter how long or how well established may be the reputation of a given firm. Take nothing for granted. Demand the union label and insist upon getting it! Says the Mesaba Ore, again: "Union plasterers of St. Paul wanted five lars a day, were refused by the ployers and they Quit work. The men say they cannot support their families on as than that sum per dleml It will be Interesting to know how they can eupport tbeirfamiliss while Ingnothlng." The ram of Ore dollars Mr day for look we admit, to some people, but to the mechanic who but from els to eight months a year during prosperous times, and who Is Idle moat of the time during a depression, it Is nothing but a fair wage.

Why, we feed horses whether they work or not. Zs not man of more Importance than a beast? Old Pease of the Anoka Union, he with many peculiarities, cuts In long enough to say: "Strikers today may be begging for work In two years." To which Claude Atkinson of the Mesaba Ore adds: "And old Pease never said a truer think." Tes, and when that time comes some all wise weekly editors will be glad to accept a bushel of potatoes In payment for, a year's subscription. The man who talks against an ployer in a union meeting and mands higher wages and then buys non-union cigars, hats, shoes or clothes is a worse hypocrite than the man who robs a church collection plate. One Chicago university professor expresses the opinion that women dom rise to any intellectual height bu t. as a good many women probably have formed the same opinion about Chicago university professors, the fight looks like a draw.

Do you wonder that an employer objects to paying high wages for ufacturing an article when he Is aware that those wages are spent with a competitor who would hang a sheriff's sign on his door if he could? Compliments are like only takes a small dose to go to the heads of some people, while others can stand a good deal. The man who brags usually has a lot to say about the things he is going to do. What he has done is far less important. Let those employers of labor who are content to employ non-union men be content with the patronage of union men. People would be less suspicious of others if thelfcr didn't know themselves so well.

Bravery isn't much credit to a dog. He hasn't sense enough to be afraid. Criticism of frenzied politics comes with bad grace from frenzied financiers. isn't a great deal of sunshine in the smile a man produces when he loses. A $10,000,000 study of poverty is somewhat illustrative in itself.

If you would raise the wages of derpaid women, boost the lnbel. If you desire safe and sane business methods, boost the label. If you sympathize with overworked children, boost the label. Aid is never satisfactory. The best way is not to need it.

We are all happier for a lot of things we don't see. Boost the label and it will boost the union. A. T. Ellsworth 326-327 hattan are district managers for The Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of Binghamton, N.

T. For $11.50 a year, at the age of 25, you can carry a $1,000.00 policy in this pany. Cheaper and safer than nal Insurance. A Good Point About "Fitwell" clothes is that they will hold their shape. Mr.

Union your baker that the Bell 'Phone is Unfair. The puzzle problem of Minnesota towns still attracts the interest of our young readers. Several perfect swers were received during the week, The names of the successful guessers will be published later. The following are the correct wers for last week: a. 4- 1 11" iv ir UIM'SUTEST Dim LittleD aughter of w.

Query Beoomes Inspiration for Bong and Lyric Tunes It Into Music. "Are they going to hang father?" thus a reporter for an eastern paper was questioned when visiting the home of W. D. Haywood for the pose of making a study of the mestic life of the Imprisoned official of the Western Federation of Miners. The question was asked by the little daughter of Mr.

Haiywood, and the cheeks of the poor girl were wetted by tears as she pathetically looked to the eyes of her visitor. The great papers which give much space to the prosecution's side of the greatest conspiracy of modern times, have not much to spare to Inform the public of the touching appeals of wood's children, so firmly convinced of their father's Innocence. When Owen Spendthrift, the New York song writer read the story of the reporter's visit to the Haywood home, he was impressed with the query of the little girl, and he tuned his lyric for a big "Underslrable izen" meeting to be held in New York on the following Sunday. This is his song: "Comrades, can you tell me what flag it is that waves?" The speaker thus addressed a motley crowd. "Where law protects the millionaire, to be obeyed by slaves?" Rose a murmur then in chorus long and loud.

The meeting was assembled, the ers were all there, Many protest resolutions had been read Through that tempest of confusion came a child with golden hair. And, sobbing, thus so pleadingly she said: Chorus: "Are they going to hang my papa? He's innocent, I know He never could do any wrong, he is so good and true It surely will kill dear mamma, and break my heart in two. Are they going to hang my papa?" plead this babe with eyes of blue. Tearful with emotion, he raised one bony hand O'er the pleading child, the speaker gaunt and tall, So silent In his movement, like a spirit in command Till the calm of death spread o'er that crowded hall. "Arouse, ye slaves, awaken what will your answer be? Are we union men to suffer every wrong? If they murder honest Haywood, they will have to murder me." Then rang a voice above that mighty throng: Then the chorus.

VANCOUVER CARPENTERS. Have Obtained Writs for Penalties Under Alien Labor Act. The efforts to effect a settlement of the carpenters' strike in ver proved to be unsuccessful. When it became certain at the end of last week that agreement would not be reached some union carpenters plied to the supreme court for writs against three members of the ers' Exchange for the recovery of $1,000 for contravention of the ions of the Alien Labor Law. These men had been advertising for ters in antl men who were hired in that city will appear as nesses.

Instead of going to the police court, as heretofore, with such cases, the suit for recovery of the penalties has been started in the supreme court. The outcome of this dure will be watched with interest. Numbers of men have been shipped out from Winnipeg under contract to work In Vancouver, but on arriving there and discovering that they were wanted to act as strike-breakers the majority refused to start work. From reports received from the penters the strike, which is now a month old, Is well in hand. ANSWERS: No.

No. No. No. No, No. ILLUSTRATED Towns-S Zi.

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WHO WROTE DIXIE? Land. There is the suggestions in the words of mance, of war and peace, of love and bloodshed, of charging columns and the dashing half frontier life of the ante-bellun south of the Mississippi river days. Through near three erations it has meant all this to the natives of the south, and now the stirring strains of 'Dixie' are playing to cheering audiences of Americans In every part of the whole 'United It was played at the battle of Manila, at the battle of Santiago, and to its rhythm now march the soldiers of the nation as proudly neath the stars and stripes as ever strode the southern legions beneath the stars and bars," writes the New Orleans Times Democrat. The meaning of the term, how it originated, how it grew to favor, is a question often mooted and never yet settled to the general satisfaction of all those investigators of they unique and unusual who delve in the mine of tradition and legend. "Dixie" was a negro minstrel song, sung in music halls of New York in the late fifties, bellowed lustily to Mark Twainesque audiences from the "Floating Palaces" of the ante-bellun Mississippi by burnt cork artists and artisans who long since followed the echoes of their song Into silence and oblivion.

And the song took. By 1859 it was whistled and sung from the James to the Passes, from Richmond to New Orleans. Peculiarly was it the ite song of the jolly gentry who thronged the steamboats upon the old highway of the Mississippi, and all through the states tributary to the stream the song spread with a ty strange in that day of restricted communication and slow travel. Then the war came, and blood made precious the suggestion of the song, and the song itself became a part of that which it suggested. Young lips sang the song at parting, went forth to death, and died.

In stricken homes the stirring strains have brought through all the years gone, memories and day dreams of that which might have been, or that which was. Gray beards of today, through the mist of decades, hear in the appealing es voices which long ago blended sweet soprano with their bass. And the song itself! Nothing in the words beyond silly doggerel but a silly dogerel red to all the southerner held dear. The music, catchy, with a spark of the vital fire in the lilt and turn of the dashing phrases, struck a sponding chord In every listener ing from the "Land of Cotton." And the origin of the song? There are several explanations. Everybody knows the name of the song? There are several explanations.

Everybody knows the name of the Jolly Emmett, who immortalized the: ballad, but few know where he got the phrase. One theory, long since ploded, was that the expression, "Dixie's Land," came from the phrase, Mason and Dixon's Line. The other was that a certain farmer down in New Jersey, just before the war, ran his fields with negro labor, and ed the manners and the bearing of a southern planter. His name was Dixie, and topical songs of the period referred to his estate as minature southland. Audiences iid not We place In your own home any one of Bucks Famous Ranges absolutely free of charae to do not pay ua one cent.

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More than users of Bucks Ranges in Duluth and vicinity. Be sure your new range has a Bucks trade mark on you have a tee of superior quality. know the local reference took the song as referring to the real south, and Emmett, in his famous ballad, so ed the expression. However, there is another story, and one which brings the subject home to New Orleans. For twenty years prior to the Civil War the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana was the great financial institution of the south, and ranked among- the one or two largest in the land.

Its name was as familiar on the Paris Bourse and the London es as it is now the name of the City National Bank of New York City. In the days of "shin-plasterers" and preciated State Bank currency, the sued of the Citizens' Bank passed at par all" over the land. The Frank E. Long Stock company will open a week's engagement at the Metropolitan theater commencing day matinee, May 19. The Long company, is an exceptionally strong one, supporting the clever comedian, Mr.

Frank E. Long and the talented actress, Miss Nana Sullivan. The bill for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will be the laughable four-act comedy drama, "Our Country Cousins." A play full of laughs from beginning to end. Between acts high class vaudeville will be introduced, ducing some of the best artists in the vaudeville field. NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF ORGANIZED LABOR Duluth, May 20, 1907.

To the members of Organized Labor, Duluth, Minn. Dear Sirs and This is to inform you that the ber shop operated by James Sullivan at 215 West Superior street, is on the unfair list of the Journeymen ber's Union No. 67. The action of our union has been endorsed by the Federated Trades assembly of this city. We would respectfully ask the members of the other unions and their friends to avoid patronizing this FAIR shop until such tijne as he agrees to the rules of the Journeymen Barber's union.

We have learned that some union men do not quite understand our sition in this contest. It is our pose to make it plain to you. work on a percentage, with a minimum wage guarantee. On every dollar we take in, the journeymen receives 60 per cent, with a guarantee of $16.00 for a week's Work, and the boss ceives 40 per cent. He furnishes the building, chairs, towels, antisceptics, hot and cold water, etc.

There is solutely no material upon which he can make any money. Your ers try tb make their profits more upon the material they use rather than upon your day's labor. We must help to sustain the prices of the boss. Long experience has taught us that if we do not do this our wage scale will be low. Our International Constitution demands we set prices of the work.

THEREFORE we ask you to help us sustain our wages. Keep away from Sullivan's shop. If we should report any of your members for pat-, ronizing this UNFAIR establishment, we would ask you to deal with thekn accordingly, and should you ever have a grievance we promise you in return our hearty cooperation. There IS no excuse for any union man to patronise the only UNFAIR shop in town. s-s 1 Yours fraternally, JOURNEYMEN jCt.

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Superior, 8:48 p. m. Equipment, smoking car, comfortable day coaches, parlor-observation car and dining car serving meals a la carte plan. Pay only for what you get. Another good train carrying ard sleeping cars, leaves Duluth, 11:16 p.

m. Superior, 11:35 p. arrives in Twin Cities early next morning. Berths may be occupied after 9 p. m.

and til 8 a. m. Morning train for Milaca. St. Cloud anfl points east and south, leaves luth at 6:25 a.

m. Superior, 6:38 m. 432 West Superior street Superior, 1101 Tower avenue, and depot offices in both cities. F. A.

HILLS. Northern Passenger Duluth. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Notice is hereby given that an cation has been made to me by David D. Mackey, under the provisions of the Statutes of the State of Minnesota, particularly Clmpter 503 of the al Laws of 1895, for a deed to the land situated in St.

Louis County, nesota, described as follows, to-wlt: So much of lots 34 and 36. on West Perry street, in "Duluth formerly ed Portland" as lies within the limit? of the northerly forty feet of lots 14, 15 and 16 in block 106, Portland vision of Duluth, according to the orded rlat thereof. That' said application will be heard before the undersigned, at chambers In the Court House in the City of luth. in said County of St. Louis, nesota, on Saturday, the fifteenth day of June, A.

D. 1907, o'clock A. at which time and place all sons claiming such portion of said' lots or any right, title or interest in the same, or any part thereof, are hereby summoned and required to tend and establish their right to ceive a deed for the portion of said lots above described, or to make any jections they may have to the ing of said application. And It is hereby ordered, that notice of said application and hearing be given to all parties in interest by the publication of this notice in The Labor World, a weekly newspaper printed and? published in Duluth, Minnesota, once in each week for three successive weeks before said day of hearing. Dated, May 15 th, 1907.

By the Court, HOMER B. DIBJ3LL, Judge of the District Court of the Eleventh Judicial District in and for St. Louis County, Minnesota. LEO A. BALL.

Attorney for Petitioner, Duluth, Minnesota. Labor World, May 18, 25, June 1, 1907. want wu beer New Brou.