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mothers' pensions were limited, and in some sections of the State even extremely few. But the reason for this was not that mothers did not desire the pensions, but that they knew there were no pensions to be had because the Legislature had failed to make adequate appropriations for the purpose.

Mothers' pensions are desired. The principle of mothers' pensions has been so splendidly vindicated that it should be put into still greater practice.

Labor has a special interest in this because most of the mothers who will need pensions will be labor widows.

Mothers' pensions experts have estimated that $800,000 will be required to put the mothers' pension law into effect throughout the State for the next two years.

So $800,0000 it ought to be and labor in all sections of the State should not hesitate to notify its Representatives and Senators that $800,000 it must be.

Give mother a chance. She will

bring up our future citizens both cheaper and better than any institution possibly can do it, and who has a clearer title to the job?-The Progressive Labor World.

LABOR INIQUITIES."

Not so long ago the Supreme Court of the United States finally decreed the boycott illegal.

Not so many years ago the Supreme Court of American industries decreed the sympathetic strike intolerable, indefensible, outlawed, a blot on civilized law and order, anarchy.

Nothing that organized labor ever stood for has been more thoroughly condemned by the press, business, pulpit and the courts than the boycott and the sympathetic strike.

Here in Philadelphia the sympathetic strike principle put into effect by the building trades was met with determined opposition from master builders and the business world in general. And what happened here happened all over the country. Leaders of sympathetic strikes were

branded as public enemies. Some of the country's ablest magazine writers traveled through the land to "expose" these sympathetic strike agitators.

The sympathetic strike, the right of a workingman with no grievance of his own to strike in sympathy with a fellow-workingman with a grievance against the common employer of both workingmen, was discredited by every means at the command of employers and their powerful associates.

Employers of all classes joined together in a movement against the sympathetic strike. They did, in fact, organize a sympathetic strike of their Own against labor's sympathetic strike.

The boycott at the same time was fought out in our courts and the judges could see nothing in the boycott except an "illegal conspiracy in restraint of trade." The courts not only decreed the boycott illegal but went even to the extreme of empowering employers to collect from individual members of trade unions such damages as they claimed to have suffered from a boycott. The case of the union hatters whose homes were taken from them because their union had boycotted an unfair employer is still fresh in the minds of all labor organizations.

But we learn at last that the sympathetic strike and the boycott, after all, are not such iniquities.

One of the judges who ruled against the boycott was Judge William Howard Taft. We have too high regard for the former president of the United States to imagine for a moment that his anti-boycott ruling was inspired by anything but the highest motives. No doubt Judge Taft gave the matter thorough and conscientious consideration. It may be taken for granted that Judge Taft was absolutely honest in his opinion that the boycott was illegal, reprehensible and damnable.

More than this, William Howard Taft to this moment is probably not aware of the fact that he now stands at the head of a boycott movement.

That Professor Taft to-day is advocating the sympathetic strike principle has probably never dawned upon him.

But he is.

As the leader of the movement for the formation to enforce peace, Professor Taft proposes to combine the nations of the world in a boycott on war. Professor Taft further proposes that the league of nations to enforce peace by boycotting war shall combine their strength, all their army and navy power, in a gigantic sympathetic strike against any nation violating the boycott rules of nations.

But Professor Taft does not stand alone in his changed attitude towards the principle of sympathetic strikes and boycotts.

But the application of labor's sympathetic strike and boycott principles to world problems is so plain that there can be no denial of the fact. People the world over, certainly working people, will quickly enough realize the smypathetic strike and boycott proposals made to them in the interest of peace and in the name of leagues of nations for the enforcement of peace or the abatement of war hor

rors.

Nor is it our purpose merely to point to the reversed position of any public man on these questions.

We desire only to call attention to labor's belated vindication.

We know well the old proverb that "Necessity makes naked women spin." It was necessity, of course, and sometimes dire necessity, which made labor think and evolve the sympathetic strike and boycott measures as weapons of defense against powerful wealth.

That men of the professions, business men, able lawyers and jurists, did not reason out these measures from our point of view, we do not hold against them. Necessity never drove them to it.

Nothing less than world-wide disaster could have driven many of them to reason out the principles of a sym

pathetic strike and boycott as they now have.

It is not to their discredit that in their present mood of reasoning they are entirely unselfish and uninfluenced by personal interests. The eminent men who saw nothing but iniquity and anarchistic conspiracies in labor's sympathetic strikes and boycotts but who now advocate the same tactics in the interest of world peace may have been influenced by personal prejudices, even unconsciously, in their former attitude. They undoubtedly see clearer and think straighter now when their aim is the absolutely impersonal, altruistic, utopian dream of world peace.

It matters not how or why they condemned labor in the past, labor welcomes the converts and takes pride and new hope from the vindication of its principles.

In all the issues brought up by the world conflct, labor stands pat.

Labor is now, as it always has been, in favor of sympathetic strikes and unrelenting boycotts against all forms of injustice.

AS IT WOULD HAVE

APPEARED IN LEGAL FORM. If a man were to give another an orange, he would just simply say, "I will give you this orange." But when the transaction is entrusted to the hands of a lawyer to put in writing, he adopts the following: "I hereby give and consign to you; all and singular, my estate and interest, right, title, claim and advantages of and in said orange, together with all of its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all right and advantages therein with full power to bite, cut, suck or otherwise eat the same, or give the same away, as fully as I, the said A. B., am now entitled to bite, cut, suck or otherwise eat the same orange or give the same away with or without the rind, skin, juice, pulp or pips, anything hereinbefore or hereinafter, or in any other deed or deeds, instrument or instruments of whatever nature or kind, forever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding."-Selected.

NO EFFICIENCY SYSTEM ACT

FOR OUR CONGRESSMEN

TAYLOR SYSTEM DEFEATED IN CONGRESS AFTER SHARP DEBATE

Washington, D. C.-The advocates of the Taylor system and other sweating processes labeled "efficiency" were defeated in the House when they attempted to strike an anti-Taylor system provision from the fortification appropriations bill on motion of Congressman Gordon, representing one of the Cleveland (O.) districts.

Mr. Gordon pleaded with his colleagues to permit this system. He said: "Without this or some similar system there is absolutely no way of determining in any large manufacturing establishment what it costs to make an article. No honest man who desires his employer to know what amount of work he does in a given time can have any possible objection to this system. It simply keeps a

record of the amount and cost to the Government of producing any part of this work. I cannot for the life of me see why an honest man should object to the Government knowing what it gets for its money."

Members of the House refused to be moved by Congressman Gordon's plea, which did not include labor's repeated statement that it did not object to a cost system, but it did object to the speeding-up systems, which was the real motive of alleged "efficiency" advocates.

STORES CLOSE WHEN

CLERKS FORM UNION. Memphis, Tenn.-Sixty department stores and other mercantile establishments closed their doors to-day as an answer to a recently organized union of clerks which demanded recognition and various conditions.

A minimum of $6 a week and pay for overtime are asked.

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CAR CONDUCTOR TORBORG DIES SAID TO BE WORTH $500,000.

Seventy-three-year-old

Conductor Invested His Surplus in Real Es

tate-Died at Work.

Chicago. Henry Torborg died here recently, leaving a fortune of $500,000, most of it accumulated during the last forty years while conductor on a street car of the Blue Island avenue line. He was 73 years old and died while at work.

Between the ages of 14 and 19 Torborg saved $500. In the next ten years, always saving his money, he worked on sugar plantations and wharfs along the Gulf of Mexico. Then he came to Chicago and invested his savings in real estate. He got a job with the street car company, continued to save and to invest in outlying property.

The growth of the city to a population of 2,500,000 tells the story of the growth of his fortune, but few persons of the milions who handed their nickles over to him dreamed that the methodical old man had all this wealth. Two sons inherit the fortune. Torborg had a number of sayings:

"Good spenders may be good fellows, but a bank account needs no friends.

"Never pay for having work done that you can do yourself."

"Make your vacations pile up your dividends."

"The man who stops work is like

the old mill out of use; he falls to pieces."

The last bit of philosophy is said to account for his sticking to a job which for many years he had ceased to need as an income-producer.

A woman will often confess her sins, but there is no record of one ever having confessed her faults.

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