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In Memoriam

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It is with the deepest regret that we announce the death of Brother C. E. Saxby, of Local No. 2, who met his death while at work in this city. The late Brother Saxby was one of our oldest members, a true trade unionist, and a staunch friend. presence among us will be sadly missed, for he was a friend to everybody and everybody was his friend. To his family and relatives we extend our heartfelt sympathy in this, their hour of sorrow and bereavement.

J. Fitzpatrick, Pres.
Wm. Pease, Rec. Sec.

Local No. 2, Chicago.

In Memoriam

In sorrow and regret we announce the death of Brother John Smith, of Local No. 2. The late Brother Smith was a member of many years' standing, a good mechanic, and a true friend to all. He was well liked and respected by those who worked with him, and his presence will be sadly missed by members of this Local. To his relatives and friends

we extend our sincere sympathy in their sorrow and bereavement.

J. Fitzpatrick, Pres.
Wm. Pease, Rec. Sec.

Local No. 2, Chicago.

United States Spends Little for Human Safety

Washington.-In a speech in the Senate, Senator Ransdell called attention to the "colossal sums to prepare for killing men by wholesale" and the small sums voted to conserve human life.

The Louisiana lawmaker did not oppose the appropriations for destruction, which include nearly $680,000,000 in the naval, army and coast fortifications bills, but he insisted that too little attention is given diseases of man, which are covered by appropriations totaling only $1,91,000.

"If we are to reap full measure of success in our program of preparedness," he said, "it is necessary to begin at the fountain head and look well to the health and physical condition of our people. No matter how numerous and strong are our ships and fortifications, nor how many soldiers we have, they will be of little avail unless the men behind the guns are healthy, vigorous and capable of great exertion."

It was estimated by the speaker that the economic loss which our nation suffers each year from typhoid fever and malaria alone aggregates $928,224,880, leaving out of entire account the sorrow, the unhappiness, the misery and the inefficiency which follow in their train. This sum, he said, is sufficient to put our country in a state of preparedness equal to that of any nation in the world, enough money to give us the largest navy afloat and the most efficient army which the world has ever seen, and enough money to pay the annual expenses of every college student in the United States, all of which is absolutely thrown away every year as a sacrifice to two diseases which are entirely preventable.

Senator Ransdell favored

a bill

which provides for improved rural health through the work of trained investigators. He said the bill would pass if the Government believes in the sacredness of human life, and if the health of a human being "is of at least as great importance as the health of a domestic animal," for which $5,016,175 has been appropriated.

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When cows fall ill the Government proceeds to take alarm And sends a veterinarian to sanitate the farm,

The cow herself is put to bed and plied with drugs and pills, And Uncle Sam comes forward, when she's cured, to pay the bills. But when a baby falls in need of medicine and care,

The Government contends that that is none of its affair. When pigs and lambs are threatened by a deadly pestilence Their tender lives are guarded at the Government's expense. They're coddled, nursed and dieted until they're well and fat, And never reckon of the cost-for Uncle Sam pays that.

But when an epidemic marks the babies for its own,

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YOUR UNION'S SUCCESS

DEPENDS UPON YOURSELF.

It cannot be expected that a local union will flourish, succeed and prosper of its own accord.

If not properly taken care of, it will gradually diminish in membership and influence, and finally die.

The past history of organized labor is strewn with the wrecks of unions that came into existence overnight and went out in the same way. The work of organizing and reorganizing, over and over again, is a costly proposition; we have had our experience in that line, and know whereof we speak. We want an up-to-date, wide-awake, progressive organization. To such, every member without exception, must do his part.

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To make your union a success, you must: Attend its meetings regularly, pay your dues promptly, support your officers, enforce your laws, conduct your meetings properly, do your duty willingly, be heard on all questions affecting the good and welfare of your union, assist and encourage your fellow member, give due consideration to the opinions of others, stand for right and justice at all times, reason together on all questions, avoid unnecessary wrangling and rag-chewing, stand by your colors, uplift the standard of labor, never be ashamed of membership in your union, let the history of the past be your guide for the future, remember your obligation

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No Pity for Those Who Fall

It is customary for most of us to condemn the girl or woman who falls. It seems a part of human nature to gloat, as it were, over the misfortunes of others. With a spirit anything but Christian the most religious of us are likely to shake our heads sadly, look out of the corner of our eye and then hasten away from the sinner lest we, too, may become polluted. And yet that wasn't the Master's way.

Wherever there is a fallen woman there is somewhere a fallen man. But the woman we push away to go further into the depths. The man we permit to enter our homes, to become our social equal and to share the best we have. That is, we do until his wrongdoing becomes so flagrant that it reflects upon us. Good women will allow men of this type to occupy their time and attention when they wouldn't think for a moment of permitting the feminine wrongdoer to come into their presence lest they might become smirched by the contact.

It is easy for those on the heights to look down and condemn those in the valley. It is easy to judge others for their misdeeds when we never have really known what temptation is.

We forget that many of the girls who go wrong do so through sheer ignorance, or else because they had no one to guide them, or because their environment was not right. The source of much of the sin of this world is so far removed from the actual act that it is hard to connect the two. Yet careful and persistent effort will locate the one as well as the act proclaims the other.

Not long ago a young woman killed herself or was killed in a lodging house. In tracing her career the reporters found that she had been wayward since fourteen, when she left

home to make her way in the world. In nearly every place she lived she had a different name. When death found her she was scarcely twentyfive, yet she had run the gamut of the night-life until she was thoroughly weary of it.

But the reporters found something more than her wayward career. They found that her mother died when she was a small child. After that she had practically raised herself. She had full rein at a period of her life when she should have been under the guidance of some gentle, motherly woman. At fourteen she was wise far beyond her years, and no one seemingly could restrain her. At a time of life when most girls are beginning their real happiness she was dead.

This girl's case is by no means an uncommon one. Other girls who have been shorn of a mother's protecting love at a tender age have found the world an easy place to go wrong in, but a mighty hard one to keep right in. They have found plenty of people to help them down, but a precious few to keep them on the level or lift them up.

We flatter ourselves that we are a particularly philanthropic and charitable people. We are, in spots. The trouble is that we are so infatuated with ourselves that we forget about others who need us-others who need the good example we might set if we could forget ourselves for a little while. Good men and women are engaged in the laudable work of trying to protect and save just such girls as this one. The trouble is that they don't get near the support from the good people of the world they should have when they need it.

KATHERINE KIP.

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and upward-they marched out of bondage into the realm of freedom.

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THE SIGNIFICANCE

OF LABOR DAY. One day of the year is set aside as the day of the workers of America. The day was made possible and given significance by the labor movement. No other force in all the world has done more to bring hope and betterment to the victims of power. Most of our national holidays are associated with crises in our country's history, with deeds of men who decided great questions. To unite in honoring their work and in contemplation of their patriotism means the quickening of devotion to country, and the nurturing of emotions of incalculable value. Many of these celebrations are connected with the unusual, but one concerns itself primarily with the things of everyday life-Labor Day. The emotions which lie deepest are those associated with the things of daily life-the common life we share with our fellow-men. Look down the ages. there was oppression of those who toiled with their hands, there was the labor movement. Down the ages marched the millions who bore the burdens, yet who were denied opportunity, and who suffered injustice. But they marched steadily onward

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to ideals. Not every close-range view of the movement will show whither it tends or what it means. But the sweep and the scope of this movement as it surges irresistibly through the ages reveals its ideals, and shows what it has been worth to human beings. Steadily the movement has freed them from the power of masters, and has brought more and more freedom into the lives of the people. For Freedom must start within the individual and proceed outward. It must be in the hearts and minds of individuals, and then it can be manifest in their deeds and relations to each other.

The purpose of the movement is the great ideal sought by all the seers. The methods by which the ideal is to be made real are practical and material. By organization the workers secured definite and shorter workdays. The gain seems very commonplace, but when translated in terms of human lives, its purpose becomes one with the vision of greater human freedom and opportunity. Increased wages mean increased opportunities to live. The stomach must be satisfied before the mind can grapple with problems of work or reach out after the ideal. Every new agreement that provides for better physical protection of our people makes possible greater ideal development and a more able and resourceful nation. Progress for the working people has come from organization. The unions have been the schools of the common people. They have taught them their rights, pointed out their possibilities, and shown them that they hold their future in their own hands. The unions have been the enemies of the wrongs that are, the champions of things as they may be.

The extension of the labor movement through organization means better living for the numbers now deprived of their rights and opportunities. The unions carry cheer and

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