A BIG LABOR BUREAU
INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE, WITH
HEADQUARTERS IN SWITZERLAND.
A Man From Chlrao In Chargf, but
the Scheme Una the BacklnK of
Oroniturni Men In the Countries of
Continental Hnropc.
The international labor bureau open
ed for business in Basel, Switzerland,
May 1, In the same couutry where the
central office of the Hed Cross society,
the intermitlonul telegraph bureau, tlie
bureau for the regulation of interna
tional freight tariffs, the Latin Mone
tary union and the International Post
al union are in operation. Most of
these institutions are the real organs
of the associated governments of the
world, the Hed (Toss society and the
Postal union embracing all the civi
lized nations of the four quarters of the
globe.
The director of the labor bureau is
Professor Stephen Bauer of the Uni
versity of Basel, once professor of
political economy in tlie University of
Chicago, who has Just compiled an ac
count of-the origin and purpose of the
bureau, from which George Gilford,
American consul at Basel, has made a
report to this government. It is al
ready recognized by several govern
ments.
The scheme was first suggested In
1876 by Colonel Kind Frey, a Swiss
statesman, knowu lu America as a vol
unteer in our civil war, afterward as
Swiss minister in Washington, aud
finally as president of the Swiss repub
lic.
lis suggested that International con
ventions establish uniform conditions
of labor in all industrial communities,
since the danger resultiug from foreigu
competition Is a great obstacle in the
way of Isolated Social reform. But
when, five years later, the Swiss na
tional council unuuimously voted to be
gin negotiations with other countries
for this purpose, the answers were all
unfavorable.
The Idea did not cease to make prog
ress, however. It was a second time
recommended in 1888, and in 1890 the
German emperor cnflod uo internation
al conference at Berlin. Here all the
propositions in regard to regulating
hours of labor, the work of women and
children and Sunday labor were reject
ed by the delegates of the different,
countries.
In 181*7 Switzerland again took up the
question, and the answers, though not
so distinctly adverse as on the first oc
casion, were again unfavorable. Only
four states gave the scheme some Pla
tonic support.
The workingmen. however, did not
abaudon the idea of an international
understanding. The Swiss working
men's society called an internatioiinl
congress nt Zurich In September, 1897,
to which they Invited as guests govern
ment labor officials, factory Inspectors
and economists, and it was here that
the project of an international labor
bureau of a semiprlvate character took
definite form.
A congress held soon afterward at
Brussels appointed a committee to
make proposals for carrying out the
plan. To this committee und to the
parallel action of a meeting at Ber
lin in 1899 Is due the foundation of the
International Union For the Lcgul Pro
tection of Workingmen. This associa
tion Is designed to organize the efforts
for social reform in every country as
well as to serve as a financial basis
for an international labor office. The
Committees which pursued thlH aim
met nt the International congress for
the protection of workingmen. which
was held nt Paris in July, 1990, where
the statutes of the uew organization
were approved.
The Swiss national council, on mo
tion of the government council, has
voted an annual contribution of 8,000
francs ($1.544 i toward the foundation
of the international labor office aud
1,000 francs to the Swiss section. The
other governments are disposed to as
sist lite office in a similar way.
It will publish first a code of exist
ing labor laws In the English, French
and German languages; second, an In
ternation bulletin, aud, third, an in
ternational annual of labor.
The international code will contain
the texts as well as the motives und
the interpretation of the existing legis
intion. The international labor office
hopes to enjoy the co-operation of ex
perts or every country for this scien
tific work, who will be appointed as
correspondents. The work of transla
tion will be done by the office Itself.
The bulletin will contain current leg
islative and administrative nintter, ex
tracts from parliamentary debutes and
from reports of commissions of inquiry
concerning social reform, a survey of
strikes and lockouts, a bibliography of
official documents ooncernlug labor leg
islation.
The annual will contain the annual
report of the association, the proceed
ings of tlie congress for labor protec
tion and the current supplement of the
international code.
Governments, industrial and labor or
ganizations, as well as private mem
bers of the association, will receive in
formation concerning texts and mo
tives of foreign labor legislation. This
branch of the international labor office
is already in full activity. The office,
in order to fulfill this mission, relies on
the liberality of governments, which,
by sending their labor laws and fur
nishing information through official au
thorities, can do much to improve the
service of information.
it is not proposed to aim at a me
chanical uniformity of labor legisla
tion, which must adapt Itself to dif
ferences of national character and ad
ministration in the various industrial
countries. Labor legislation will be
promoted by the international labor
office, first, by finding the most ade
quate technical formulation of the
regulations concerning certain protec
; J!ve purposes fe. g., the formulation of
periods of rest); second, by iuquir
, lug into industrial efficiency as far a9
jlt is affected by labor laws (e.g., short-
I eulng tlie hours of labor); third, by es
tablishing a statistical standard meas
ure for the degree in which social poli
tics makes Itself felt in each country.
The international labor office will be
able, by means of its correspondents,
i to form an opinion in regard to ques
tions of judicial, hygienic and tech
nical Importance which arise in legis
lating about labor. Committees con
sisting of manufacturers, workingmen
and economic experts will be convoked
by each section and will report to the
office on question* of industrial effi
ciency. The director of the office will
request the Inspectors of factories and
directors of labor departments to give
Information on these points. If these
documents should not be considered
sufficient, International statistical in
vest igations will be set on foot. The
whole material will be compiled for
the congress by the director of the
office.
ALTRUISM IN FACTORIES.
tflve Labor Fair WHBM and It Can
Get A lonic Without 4 linrlty.
| yThe wage scale having been fairly
adjusted, the employer need not worry
himself about what altruistic measures
he will adopt for the benefit of his em
ployees. Once the Interest of the latter
in the success of the enterprise be
comes established, suggestions regard
ing methods which will be to the com
mon Interest of employer and employee
will come fast enough from the men.
Conveniences which good men need to
do their work well and keep them in
prime condition, mentally und physical
ly. are of advantage, and they are
bound to come, but they have their
time and place of coming, which are
after more Importaut things are set
, tied. It must be remembered that kind
! words and rest rooms and libraries
and lectures aiul other so called al
truistic measures, although excellent
iti their proper time and place, do not
in themselves bring happiness and con
tentment, for they do not supply food
and clotlies and house rent and home
comforts, and the latter are what men
work for. Of such tilings, therefore,
until the proper time arrives the men
I become suspicious, as they partake of
the nature of charity, and honest work
! men resent anything of such a nature.
1 The men must be mentally happy and
well advanced in modern thought and
: methods before such things can be in
. troduced.
I Nor t should an employer allow the
| announcement to become current that
lie has a "model shop" when he has
i made Ids business a success by adopt
ing the methods outlined above and
added such conveniences as he finds
are of conimou advantage to his busi
ness and Ids men. Intelligent work
j men are sensitive to being referred to
as adjuncts to anything "model."
An attempt to advertise an enterprise
by proclaiming that philanthropic prin
ciples dominate its management may
be effective for a time, but men lose re
spect for such philanthropy and its
projectors. There is no philanthropy
about it; it is pure business. Nor should
! a manager onuounce to Ids men or to
! the public that he incorporates advnne
; ed ideas in ids system of management
"because It pays." No advantage can
U gained by such a course. It will, in
fact, he found that it does not pay. lie
should no more think of making such
a statement than of saying that he
keeps his own hands and face clean or
changes Uis linen daily "because it
pays."—ll. F. J. Porter In Cassier's
Magazine.
A Qnftr Strike In Flurldn.
Six thousand cigar makers of Tampa,
Fla., struck recently owing to an un
usual cause. A bridge which connects
Tampa with her western suburbs bad
been broken for two days. The men
had lo be ferried across the river, and
this was slow and unsatisfactory. It
was proposed that they strike to force
the manufacturers to bring pressure to
bear for the quick repair of the bridge.
All men employed on the western side
of the river struck and marched across
the other bridges and held a mass meet
ing lu the heart of the city. This body
I of 2,000 in number then swarmed
| throughout the remainder of the city
| ami demanded that the men employed
;in other factories quit work. Every
• man walked out. and as each factory
I emptied they joined the crowd, which
numbered 0,000 at noon.
Several narrow escapes were made
by boats being overloaded. Orders
were given to place pontoons in posi
tion. The strikers also boycotted the
street cars because the management
did not give them more ears. The
strike was participated in by the In
ternational and Hesistencla men alike.
Falliuir W'nKci In (■real Britain.
Wages are coming down with a run
In the coal, iron and steel trades, where
sliding scales rule the roost and where
the employer has learned how to rule
1 the sliding scale. The decline has
I beeu threatening long enough, and
I now it is here In all its grim unpleas
i antness. Take the figures for Febru
ary. In iron and coal mining close up
on 200,(XX) men had to submit to de
creases against a solitary small ln-
I crease in the wages of underground
and surface workers in Somerset. In
| the Iron, steel, engineering and sundry
; metal trades the break is not so big
j yet, bur 15,000 men have had their Fri
; day pay sheet made out for smaller
! amounts. It is fortunate that in some
; things prices are coming down, as the
j workman's wife would be in a pitiable
plight indeed when she was doing her
marketing. These drops are indicative
of the trade depression which is piling
up, and the current talk among em
! ployers Is that wages must come down
I a lot more yet before business will re
i vlve.—London Letter In American Fed
' erationist.
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Virtues of a Milk Diet.
| Milk is the latest and most approved
I dietetic fad. The woman who is fair
and with 40 staring her In the face and
who is determined not to be fat makes
I her breakfast and lunch of milk and
fresh fruit. She dines on a quarter of
a pound of lean roast meat, with
enough fresh green vegetables to
j "make bulk in her insldes," as Tommy
I Atkins would say.
J The fresh, wholesome beauty of the
young queen of Holland is attributed to
her frugal diet of the national milk and
! cheese, and the extraordinary vitality
of tlie aged itoiuan pontiff is another
j evidence of what a rigorous diet will do
for even so delicate a man as Pope Leo
| lias always been.
The milk diet is of more value than
many complexion washes, and as a
means of adding to or diminishing
j one's weight it lias no equal.
The popular superstition that milk is
j fattening arises -from the fact that
| many misguided people, In addition to
a heavy meal, drink milk sufficient for
another meal and complain that It disa
' grees with them and increases their
weight.. In order to derive benefit from
; the milk diet one should get hold of a
| few fundamental facts.
In the first place, Vfa pints of pure
milk, or three glasses, contain besides
water enough food in concentrated form
and properly proportioned to make a
meal for an adult human being. This
quantity of milk, with the addition of
a little fruit, is the regulation break
fast and lunch of the dieter. For din
ner a quarter of a pound of lean roast
i meat, with some green vegetable, Is al
j lowed. A pint of milk is the limit
where loss of flesh is an object, and
one glass, with fruit, for breakfast and
the same for lunch may be regarded as
; rather rigorous treatment.
Aa Outdoor I'Hiitry,
j People with plenty of ground space,
yet constricted houses, may profitably
take a leaf from the book of south
| country household economy. It Is com
mon there for country, folk to have a
sort of outdoor freab air closet, a small
FKESU AIU FOOD SAFE.
; detached structure set in the shadiest
place possible, standing upon four tall
legs, with a flat shingle roof with bare
ly enough pitch to shed rain. The floor
is at least four feet from the ground
and the whole structure only big
enough to reach well across. There
are shelves all around, and the weather
| boarding up next the roof is full of tiny
auger holes. The door fits tight and
fastens with a lock. Around each of
the four legs is commonly a tar band
age applied six inches above the
ground. This traps venturesome ants,
spiders and their kidney, thus keeping
the inside clear. The structure is
whitewashed inside and out twice a
year, in hot weather floor and shelves
are washed every morning and scour
ed twice a week. Such a fixture should
not cost over sll or $4 even if oue hires
it built, and it is certainly among the
handiest things one can have about
the house or yard.
"Cheap and Nasty.*'
There are a large number of house
keepers who have a horror of anything
cheap and who of two tilings precisely
the same would instinctively choose the
higher priced. "Cheap and nasty," they
; quote, and there, for them, ends the
: matter. To be sure, some cheap foods
, are nasty, and much food is eaten by
tlie poor that is not only cheap and
nasty, but unwholesome. And much
food sold in the markets is sold too
| cheaply—i. e., at n price that cannot pay
the producers, whom it is nobody's in
terest to starve. The fact is that this
disagreement, like so many in the
World, depends upon the use of the
same word by different people with a
different meaning. "Cheap" by one
party is taken to mean merely low
priced, and it Is a truism to say that
low priced things are often not worth
buying even at their price, while
"cheap" is by other persons taken to ID
: dieate the worth of a thing rather than
its price. So the meaning attached to
the epithet begs the whole question.
Hints.
Baked apples are tlie best healthful
dessert that can be placed upon the
j table.
Good pastry can only be made when
i the ingredients are absolutely cold.
The colder eggs are the quicker they
i will froth.
A spoonful of vinegar added to the
water in which flesh is boiled will
I make It firm and tender.
Pickles should never be kept in glas
ed ware, as the vinegar forms a poison
ous compound with the glazing.
Always well heat a gridiron before
, broiling meat, fish, bread or anything
i else.
Lemons will keep a long time if cov
| ered with cold water. American
' Queen.
Explanation.
| "I hopes you'll 'scuse me fob axin
any question dot soun's pus'nal," said
Miss Miami Brown, "but I would like
to know what makes you walk so kind
o' loose in de j'lnts?"
"It's my musical disposition," wns
the reply. "Dey runs de bands so close
together In a puhcesslon dat you's 11-
'ble to be listenin to a quickstep an a
slowstep bof to once, an try in to keep
step to 'em simultaneous kind o' results
in makln your ankles limber."—Wash
ington Star.
The P.mlilem.
The landlady wns helping her $lO
| per week floek to Ransagc.
"I hear that yon are an Odd Fellow,
Mr. Batiks," she said, pausing In her
work.
"Proud to say that I nui," responded
! the new boarder.
"Ah, then I shall Just give you three
I links."
! And as his table mates received from
four to si* links the new Ixmrder knew
that he had spoken unwisely.—Chicago
News.
The kldrrly Caller and Johnny.
"1 hope, Johnny, you are a good little
boy and mind your parents. You must
never forget how anxious they are that
you shall grow up to be a good man.
Never do anything to give them sor
row, Johnny, and let your conduct al
ways be such that they may be proud
of their son, who"
"Say, them new teeth of yourn don't
match the other ones at all!" Chicago
Tribune.
The Acme of Comfort.
Husband—Don't forget to wake me
at 7 o'clock, as usual, tomorrow rnorn
| ing.
| Wife—Why, you don't have to go to
j the office. It's a holiday,
j Husband—l know, but wake me at 7.
! I want to have the satisfaction of roll-
I ing over and going to sleep again.—
| Philadelphia Press.
I.nte Aploftlr..
j I.ady—Do you remember, professor,
that 20 years ago when we took danc
ing lessons together you stepped on
my toe, almost causing me to faint?
Professor—Ob, yes. I beg a thousand
pardons.—Meggendorfer Blatter.
A Hoprlr.. Cn.c,
"After years of effort I have suc
ceeded in learning how to pronounce
'Goethe.'"
"Well, are you satlsfled now?"
"No; every time I say it somebody
corrects me."—Chicago Itecord.
I'notr Alien.
"The seven nges of man," Uncle A1
len Sparks was saying, "as I have ob
served the creature, are these: 1. Crib
bage. 2. Nonage. 3. Suffrage. 4. Mar
riage. 5. Bondage. 0. Breakage. 7.
Dotage."—Chicago Tribune.
They All I,end In.
Towne—Blugore's not very Interest
ing himself, but there's a born leader
of men In his family.
Browne—You don't say?
Towne—Yes; it's a girl; arrived last
night.—Philadelphia I'ress.
I'an-Aiunricnn Exposition.
Low fares via the Lehigh Valley Hail
road to the Pan-Atuerican Exposition.
Five-day tickets, good only in day
coaches, will be sold on Tuesdays anil
j Saturdays, May 1 to October 31, from
j Frecland at the rate of for the round
trip.
Ten-day tickets will be sold from Free-
I land every day. May 1 to October 31,
j good on any train, except the Black
Diamond express, at the rats of $1(1 for
the round trip.
Mr. James Brown, of Putsmouth, Va.,
over IIP years of age, suffered for years
with a bad sore on his face. Physicians
I could not help him. DeWltt's Witch
Ha/.el Salve cured hiin permanently.
Grovor's City drug store.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the jjj? Z/S7J
Signature of C-tLa^y/^CCCSu/U
Low Tares to Detroit.
1 Via the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Ac
! count of the mooting of the National
ICdueational Association. Tickets on
| sale July *', 7 and 8. See ticket agents
j for particulars.
Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.
It artificially digests the food and aids
Nature in strengthening and recon
structlng the exhausted digestive or
gam. It Is the latest discovered digest
aut and tonic. No other preparation
can approach It In efficiency. It In
stantly relievesand permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Naußea,
Sick Headache, Gastralgia.Crampsand
all other results of imperfect digestion.
Price3oc. and sl. Lflrgc sire contains 2Vt times
small sise. Book all about dyspepsia malledfree
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(Irover'g City Drug Shorn.
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dealer in
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The finest brands of Domestic and Imported
Whiskey on sale. Fresh Rochester and Shen
andoah Beer and Yeunjrllne's Porter on tap.
Centra street.
ZPIRITSTTIIsrG}-
j Promptly Done at the Tribune Ollioe.
Summer Weather Under
wear, Men's and Boys'
Furnishings, Hats and
Caps, Boots and Shoes
of All Kinds. Large
Stocks and Low Prices.
Persons intending Our goods are
to purchase all of this
anything season's make
in the above lines and are
are requested guaranteed to be
to call worth all we
at our store. ask for them.
McMenamin's
Hat, Shoe and Gents' Furnishing Store,
SS Soutli Centre Street.
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\ Colds, J
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
.lane 1901.
ARRAKOEMKKT or I'ASBEMOXK TRAINS.
LEAVE FKKKLAND.
8 12 '1 li m Maueh Chunk,
AUentown, Kcthleliera, Easton, PhUa
rtcljiliiu and New Voik.
34 \vj'i'i ' Sul "'P "un. White Haven,
Wilkes-Banc, Pittatmi and Korantnn
0 15 a in lor Hazleton, Weulhprly. Maueh
J' /\Dent>wn, Hethlehera. East on,
h rtd r, ,,hi ' Ncw *'°rk, Delano and
Pottsville.
930 < H N ,n i!i ir Hazleton, Delano, Mahanoy
11 an i% • ,,,, doah mid >it. Carmel.
1 1 42 u in for VVeathiily, Maueli Chunk, Al
lentowii, Hclhichem. Fusion, I'liila
dolphin, New Voik. ila/.leton, Delano,
CaiinH fehp,u,, nloali and Ml.
115 I it m lor White Haven, Wilkes-Burre,
Scrunton and the* West.
4 14 o in for Weatherly, Maueh Chunk, Al
len town, Hcthlrhoin, Eaaton, Philadel
phia, New York, Ma/.ktoii, Delano,
Mnlmnoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Cnrniol
# and Pottsvllie.
6 3,5 {{.„? lSun,, y Hn,, i w hite Haven,
| West 8 I 6' Scr * nton 14,1,1 a! 1 points
7 29 p in tor Hazleton.
AKIIIVK AT FKKKLAND.
734 a front Pottsville, Delano nnd lin/,
h ton.
9 1 2 a in irora New York, Philadelphia. Ka
t>n, itethlehein, Allontown, Maueh
Chunk, Woaiherlj, Hazleton, Mahanoy
ir> or* Mi'n*iidf.nh rt nd Mt. Carmel
9 30 w , n I , F ;V," L ; V^R N " M ' WII """"" ,R ' *"
I 1151a in from Pottsville, Mt. Carmel, .Shen
andoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and
lliizlcton.
12 48 p in lroin New York, Philadelphia,
huHton, Bethlehem, Allontown, Maueh
Chunk and Woathcrly.
** P ri n ) from Surunton, Wilkes-Harre and
white Haven.
6 35 J> in iroiu New York, Philadelphia,
Las ton, Bethlehem Allontown, Maueh
Chunk, Wourherly, Mt. Carmel,Shenan
doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Hazle
ton.
7 29 p in from vScranton, Wilkes-Barre and
" hi to Huven.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Merits.
UDLLIN Il.WlLHUK,General Superintendent,
2tt Cortlandtstreef, New York City
CM AS. S. LKK. General Passenger Agent 1
' M Cortlandt Street. New York Otfcv
G. J. GILDKOY, Division Superintendent,
Hiizieton. P.
LLKLAWARK, SUBQUKHANNA AKI)
A BCITUYLKIIL RAILROAD.
.r i . lno tubl< ' in effect March 10, 1001.
•ro(?k !. d? Dri !, t<)n f°r .ledrto, Ecklcy, Hazle
. i ii lon ' Denver Meadow Iload, ltoan
2!! \ 1 " zlet " , Junction at WOO a m, daily
except Sunday; and 7 0? a m, 2 'di u m Sundar
lom h'iek'?n V ° I) I rlt ,V >n . lor Harwood, Cranberry,"
I omhicken and Deringer at 600 a m, daily
oxcopt Sunday; and 7 a in, 238 p in, Sun
u^,'£iDßi'wave. f °r Oneida Junction,
flarwood Iload, Humboldt lioad, Oneida and
000 * m d i ] r except Sim
and 7 0i a m, 2 ilk p m, Sunday.
I rains leave Hazleton Junction forllarwood.
Lrauberry, lomhicken and Deringer at 835 a
n, dully except Sunday; and 8 53 a m, 4 22 n m
Sunday. '
Trains loave Hazleton Junction for Onoida
Junction, Harwood Koad, Humiioldt llrmd,
.? Hnd Bh PPton af ; i2.11 10 am,441 ■ m,
-ai i'j' except Sunday; and 737 a m, 311 p m
Sunday. 1
Trains leave Derlnror for Tomhleken, Cran.
..P,.\ ai lvoo< !> Hiizieton Junction wid Roan
at 6 110 p m, daily except Huuday; and 337
a m, a 07 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Koad, Harwood Iload, Oneida Junction, Hazle
ton Junction and Koan at 7 11 am, 12 40,
p m, daily except Sunday; and 8 11 a m, 3 44
p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for licaver Meadow
iFhJ , AF ockto ii, Dazle Brook, lickley. Jcdds
an< iFt 11 at 520 P m - dfl Dy, except Sunday;
and 8 11am, 3 44 p m, Sunday.
1 rains leave Hazleton Juuction for Beaver
Meadow Koad, Stockton, liazle Brook, Kckley.
Joddo and Drifton at 54 p m, dally,
except Sunday; and 10 10 a ra, 5 40 p m, Sunday.
AH trains connoct at Hazleton Junction with
electric cars for Hazleton, Jeanesville, Auden
ricd and othor points on the Traction Com
pany's line.
Traiu leaving Drifton at SOO a m makes
connection at Deringer with P. R. K. trains fer
Wjlkesbarre, Sunbury, llarriaburg and points
LUTUKK C. SMITH, Superintendent,