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THE RICHMOND PAIXADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1908. PAGE SEVEN. EVERY PRINTER IS CHILD LABOR IN ry, so that while the young husband Is away with the troops the wif may work his lands and till his fields, for a girl always goes to live with the family of hor husband. Child labor laws are unknown In old Knrope, so to speak, and save for the love of the parents for their little ones the labor is practically not regulated at all. Here and there only one sees abuses, but they are rare; almost equally rare as they are anywhere outside of the big cities in our own countryFelix J. Koch. Officers of Richmond Typographical Union, No. 301 OF EUROPEAN NATIONS j1 Typographical No. 301 Has on Its Roll Every Printer In Richmond. ii Small Folk Must Also Assist There in Gaining the Family's Livelihood.
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I AGED MEMBERS OF THE UNION ARE CARED FOR AT COLORADO SPRINGS UNTIL THE DAY WHEN -80" COMES. Richmond Typographical Union, No. 301, occupies an enviable position 'In the community. It claims the distinction of having on its membership roll every working printer In the city, 100 per cent. The union was organized September 14, 1891, with follow ing Charter members: W. G. Wellborn, Henry Nobbe, John ;E. Polkerth, J. B. Maag, Sam Thura- ; ton, D. P. Oarst M. Ritchie, Nettle Young, Fannie Elstro, Alvin J. Hunt, and Lou V. Armstrong. Of this list there remains but one k who continue to hold a card In the local union, Henry Nobbe, of the Palladium chapel. The union enjoys the fullest confidence and respect of the employing : printers and both work. In harmony. 'No serious trouble has ever occurred between the two. When the eight- , hour fight was precipitated, the local newspaper offices, which had long been on an eight hour basis, signed contracts with the union at once. The job offices of the city, also came to an agreement with the union within a week and the several men who were effected, returned to their old positions after having drawn strike benefits but six days. - The eight-hour work day, (4 hours a week) has now been won ' throughout the United States and ' Canada and no union printer can now work more than forty-eight hours In any one week except in case a compejtetent' substitute can not be secured, r Richmond printers did their part no- " bly In the fight to establish the shorter work day and during the struggle " the union contributed $2,375.21 to that end. Under the supervision of President Lynch and Secretary Bramwood, of the International Typographical union, by which the local is chartered, .$4,018,058.11 was expended in the struggle. The Influence of the union is for the good, and well being qf Its members. " Of course the primary object of the ' organization is to secure a proper wage scale and fair treatment for members of the craft but its scope has widened and under the wise guidance of President Lynch the work of improving health conditions has been taken up. However, sanitary conditions in Richmond are excellent. All composing rooms are large, airy and well lighted, and no member of 301 is a victim of the printers' scourge, tuberj culosis. While1 it is not a fraternal organization In the commonly accepted sense, ''. yet there is a brotherly feeling existing between" members which will allow no card-holder to depart hungry , or thirsty. It is a boast of the craft ithat no union printer was ever buried i In a potter's field nor was one ever denied assistance when ill or in distress. When a member becomes afflicted with any incurable disease, grows old or Is disabled, the doors of the Union : Printers' Home at Colorado Springs, Col.,; swing open for him. and offer a haven for rest or recuperation. There are now at the Home a number of old fellows, grown gray and bent in the work of unionism, who are waiting for "30," surrounded by all comforts and In the care of competent attendants who will make their last days peaceful. For the old printers who would rather stay with the partner of his joys and sorrows and among familiar scenes, the International Typographical union has devised a pension 1 scheme. This union Is the pioneer along this line and it promises to care ' for the old men in fhe proper way. The local union is composed of re- ' sponsible men. most of whom are men of family. Some of them own their homes and all are good, desirable citizens. Following is a roster of the membership: President Chas. I. White. Vice President Frank Spekenhier. . Secretary-Treasurer Chas. L. Kirk. Clyde Arthur. Ed Arthur. W. R, Bloom. George Burk, G. M. Blair, Ed. Brower, E. J. Christman. Ed Fitzgibbons, A- G. Flagg, J. H. Fraser, Frank Fllmore, C. W. Genn, A. L. Grice, Ed C. Green, John Grant. Chas. Hummert, F. Howells, J. W. Hall, J. Hunt. C. L. Kirk, Lewis King, H. H. Miller, Fred Maier, E. Menke. Henry Nobbe, O. K. Parker.J. F, RInghoff, Albert Schnurr, Frank Spekenhier, L. H. Tucker, Howard Van Zant, Chas. I. White, J. E. Wissler, Josepli Whctston, James O'Brien, J. R. Howell. I RUNGE & CO. FLOUR AND FEED. In speaking of those enterprises that have won the endorsement of our people and been found to be. thoroughly reliable, we wish to give particular mention to J. Runge and Company, dealers in flour and feed, and located at 16 South 7th street. This is a worthy concern and our members and friends will make no mistake in giving i their unrestricted patronage and upporL
4 D0AN& KLUTfc Undertakers. 14 South Eighth street. fU Both Photes Bell, No. 36: Home, i . 4223. Office open day and night. Walter J. Doan, telephone. Bell, 496R. .Edward 1L Klute. Old Phone 319. .
UNIONISM AND PATRIOTISM CLOSELY AKIN, ACCORDING TO LABOR LEADERS YVorkingmen Organize lor the Betterment ol themselves and Their Families as Well as to Regulate Hours and Wages What Some Labor Champions Have to Say.
The labor union movement is not a mere matter of wages and hours. It aims to regulate these. But back of these are great moral and patrotic principles, ignored, it is true, too often by its members, and lost sight of almost entirely by its opponents. John Mitchell, perhaps, knows more than any other leader of the movement of the real and full purposes of trades unionism. He is by no means a demagogue, but holds the public confidence as a man of sound judgment and unimpeachable integrity. He says: "If I believed that the trade union movement stood for nothing else than securing a few cents higher wages or securing a few hours less labor I would leave it. If I thought that is all it does I would quit the trade union movement and I would try to start myself a new movement. But I believe it does more than that. I believe the trade union movement raises the standard of our citizenship; I believe, it raises the manhood and the womanhood and the childhood of our people. Any movement that elevates society; that elevates the manhood and womanhood of our people, contributes immeasureably to the welfare of our people and the good of our country." In his "Fortune of the Republic," Dr. H11118 says: "Consider Carlyle's warning to England. In substance he said to the merchants of Manchester: 'The nexus between you employers and you yo'i people is a cash nexus. Between you as manufacturer and your workmen, there is a great gulf fixed; you have emphasized class distinction until your working people have become but the mere accidents of a machine. Yet, despising them, when a generation has passed, what through poor food, ventilation, bad air. you will destroy the source of your wealth. Then fifty years pass by. The Boer war is on. The sons of the factory people come in to enlist as soldiers. But what a tragedy is revealed! The factory boys pass before the recruiting office, are refused because of their thin blood, stunted bodies, spindling legs, weak eyes, deficient in nerve power; only an occasional factory youth measures up to the standard for a soldier. They go down like grass before the scythe of these stronghanded Boers. Then parliament appoints a commission of inquiry, to investigate the causes of physical degeneracy of the factory folk. Startled by these conditions an author begins his investigations. Head that tragic, heart-breaking book, 'People of the Abyss.' Think of what is involved in this, that in those wondrous isles of Britain, among the Scotch and English who, two generations ago, would have died rather than beg a crumb of bread, there are now 4.X.ox beggars, and persons receiving state relief a loaf of bread, clothes, or soup." Every man taught the dignity of la-' bor to fit himself to do some useful work and hold it at a dignified -valuation; every woman saved to the home or safeguarded from conditions conducive to ill health, despondency and degradation; every child kept from that slavery which robs youth of its freshness and freedom, and gives to society a stunted and vimless manhood, is immeasurably more than a matter of dollars and hours. There is a german story of a poor man who always went about his work in such a contented happy way. with laughter in his eyes and a beam of pleasure flushing his cheek, that he was called "the dreamer." He married, and the infection of happpiness filled his home. His wife and children caught the contagion of congeniality. His friends wondered. When asked to explain his everlasting exuberance, the workman replied that he carried around with him all the time t.he dream that he was a king, that his
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wife was the queen and that the boys and girls were princes and princesses. The aim of unionism is not to incite to ideas of inferiority to tell men and women that they are slaves to sinister circumstances. But to make them "dreamers." To inspire in them ideas of superiority. To animate their aspirations with visions of regal dignity for themselves, their wives, their children, their fellow workers. The-test "of a nation's value is tha kind of men it produces. Someone has said that " the first business of a nation is the manufacture of souls of a good quality." "The first need of our country," said Lord Roseberry, the brilliant British statesman, before the University of Glasgow, "is the want of men. We want men for all sorts of high position first-rate men, if possible; if not, as nearly first-rate as may be." The greatest manufacturing industry that needs encouragement is that which produces a high grade of manhood. Protection for American manufacturers is not in any wise important except as it protects the manhood of the country. The open shop, the politician tells us, is bad for the American manufacturer; it exposes him to the competition of the cheap, foreign manufacturer. Is it not equally had for the American workingman? It is better to have cheap goods than cheap men. If closed-shop tariff is good closed-shop labor is better. "The protection of American labor!" That has been the political cry of every party. They have taught us that a Chinese wall of protection must surround our nation in order to protect us from the cheap labor of the old world. Their orators have pictured to us the horrible conditions that exist in the various countries of Europe. Yet, while the hired hot-air dispenses were painting this picture with their fervid breath, the employers were opening the gate and flooding our American labor market with the cheapest labor from across the seas, and insisting that the American laborers who sought protection in their unions were arraying themselves against the be'st interests of the nation. Either the American workingman is a slave, or he has rights as sacred as those of any employer. He has obligations, too. and the greatest of these is to give to the nation a high type of citizenship. He must have high ideals of liberty and advancement, and he must stand for them. He must not .degrade his own manhood, or the manhood of his fellow-citizens. He ha3 no right that is not subject to his obligation as a citizen. The labor union is the principal means for benefiting the condition of the working classes. That's the opinion, plainly expressed, of the best economic authorities of the world. And it cannot be denied. Even its enemies! emphasize it bv the activity of their opposition. If it did not raise their wages and shorten hours and work geri..Hlly to the advantage of the emp!o 3, it would not arouse much antagonism. Mr. Hearst has explained: ' Whydoes the -:nitalit 1-innp-Vitilv rofmn treat with the accredited aeent of the men who have labor for sale? "Is it not because he resents the workman's attempt at emancipation and emancipation and equality? Is it not because the capitalist in his heart demands submission from the man who works for a daily wage? "Is it because the powerful among us fail to admit that workers have passed from slavery to equality?" Says Lowell. "They have rights who! dare maintain them." If the laborer! does not stand for his rights, he cannot have them. If he does not oppose to the low ideals that deny him liberty and equality, ideals hish-based on j manhood and aspiration, he is yet a slave and ceeervea to ba. A ad woraa,
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ft4 he is a traitor to his sires, his sons, his fellow citizens. "No people can endure half slave and half free." The author of this sentence was not an agitator, but a peacemaker, . He was not an enemy of his country, but its savior. The idea was not original with him, but with One greater than he, the Savior of mankind, who said, vided against itself There is an equality maintained, as there A kingdom dtcannot stand." that must be are equalities that cannot, be. Once this equality is abrogated, division ad disaster must result. And this equality requires that the man who works- for a wage, however humble and obscure, be denied no right of personal protection and advancement admitted to the man of wealth and position. Why is not China hoary with the frosts of centuries a history complete before history began a great nation, industrially, commercially, in every way? Why? She has vast resources, vast fortunes, but no equality. She has no unions. Li Hung Chang had enough money to buy out some of our merchants and manufacturers' associations as a whole. He could cut off the head of any striker (what a cinch for the union-hater). His coolies got five cents a day and worked fourteen hours. Who said that cheap labor was the industrial salvation of this country? THE PEOPLE'S STORE A Union of all our people, our common interests, makes this a Union of States. This Union of States makes this, our Nation the greatest on the face of the earth. Its first function was organization. Wo therefore believe in organization, unions, if you prefer to call them. In union there is strength. We do not believe in oppression of any kind, whether from trusts, corporations, unions, or of any oppression under whatever name. There is very little coercive measures in labor unions, but we know that there are excessive burdens placed upon labor and the people at large by- corporations and trusts in their fixing wages and prices on their output of that which they have to sell and upon nearly all commodities. There are many instances of combined interests of trusts and combined stores against the smaller dealer because he stands out alone, attends to his affairs diligently, faithfully and has to meet unfair competition of the combined trust or mail order business concern of this city and country. "The People's Store" has always been looking to the interests of the great Common People and in each instance when we have been approached, solicited to associate ourselves with these combinations of trust stores that wished to fix prices or, to use their solicitor's word. "Maintain prices, make our good profits, etc.. WP simply turned these propositions down and trusted our interests to the people. The one great item of
the little measure of successes the j Here you will receive the most courte-; books and papers, and in comparativePeople's Store has gained, is upon theiOUS treatment and get the best service ly few lands do the peasants care to basis of small profits and a regular i 0f any VACP jn tn Cjty an1 it is with j rafi. even where they may know how. quick turn over of merchandise and pleasure that we direct you to them. So at evening they sup and turn into
thus always something new to dis- 1 J,lay a,1 this 13, 'nat m?11 thf i Bu3' ljOW Pnced fctre f lchf ond. I i We b,eHe? th ne ! one that, does things, the one that i the most interested and perfect in his work is the one whom should be the i best paid 1, whether in shop, factory. j furnace or store. Whatever vocation ' in life, the one who has the goods and delivers them on the spot should be rewarded and handsomely rewarded. Isa: 40-10. HARRY M. GARNER Advertiser, Distributor, 104 N. ISth street. New phone 169". Aberdeen (S. D.) musicians lately been organized. have
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ORGANIZED LABOR IS DOING WELL Union Men Hold Together With Fidelity. Organized labor in Richmond is do i ing well - much better in fact than the J unorganized class. A good majority I of the former are at work, and all are holding firmly together with their ac 1 customed fidelity. There have been but. few differences between employers and their employes. JOHN STARR COAL AND WOOD. There are many places where they fell high grade coal and wood but none sell a higher grade than that'sold by the above mentioned gentleman ixcellent service, reasonable prices courteous treatment and fine fuel are always to bo found at the store of Mr. Starr, 272 Ft. Wayne avenue, and if you are not already one of his customers it will pay you to be one as soon as possible 'for. when trading with him, you are always rare of your money's worth. Mr. Starr is a well known and highly respected business man and we wish for him continued success and prosperity. MUCH WORK BEING DONE Each Succeeding Day Activity Seems to Increase. Work in the suburbs shows considerable activity, and with each succeeding day this activity seems to increase. Richmond is on the move and the industrial class are backing up every move tending toward the advancement of the old town along any and all lines. SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO. , H. L. SPINK, MGR. Who has not heard of the Singer Sewing machine? For years ibis machine has been the standard and no housewife is completely satisfied with To. out one. Located at 500 -"111 - ' -Jll V I is the store of Mr. H. L. Spink, and if you do not already have a machine he would be glad to show you one at any time. It is not necessary to say much on the merits of this machine it speaks for itself. BENMNG & SON Now that spring is here everyone gets the feeling that they would like to be out in the country driving, it is quite a natural feeling for the spring is th It is best time of the rear to drive. I? I - . , V. . V : . , . , . . . better place in town to set a nice uptmrnicc n melt Lljeifcf AS IU iu-e.:ue anu nynsn ouiiif in wnicn to ride than at the livery stable of Benj njng ami sons, ll-i;j South 11th street. JOHN J. STEELE SALOON. for choice wines, liouors and Clears j we can direct you to no bette place ' ! than that operated bv the above well known gentleman. For ! Mr. Steele has been in many years business at K'S Main street and he justly deserves his high reputation for honesty and straightforwardness. Working men can make no mistake in giving Mr. Steele their patronage whenever posaible. rranspoit workers to the number of bt.vw are aiiniatea wttn tne General t eaerauon 01 Trade L nions in Ger - maa3"-
MOST OF WORK PLEASANT.
CHILDREN TEND GOAT HERDS. WORK IN STORES. PICK UP WOOD AND EVEN BEG NO CHILD LABOR LAWS IN FORCE. Now that congress and the n-.iion generally have been aroused to the prohlein nf chili labor, especial interest attaches to the many uuiqut ways in which boys and often girls', as well. are made to assist in earning their daily bread in countries other than our own. Nor are all .-f these undolightful. Down in thf Herzegovina, for ex ample, the boys have a summer's task which would perhaps appeal to many an American lad. The Herzegovina consists of moun tains bleak and bare, with only here and there, as in Iceland, a scattered bit of pasturage. The great article of food and provender in this region is the goat. Its meat is taken as a sub stitute for almost all other flesh, its milk is turned to butter and to cheese, its skin gives the family water bag, and innumerable like articles, its hair is woven into almost everv form of cloth or garment. So that the goat is the essential to life. Karly in the springtime, therefore, the older lads take the family's goats and drive them nin up into tne mountain canyons where a vegetation still exists. There the goats graze, while the boys learn to throw rocks at distant targets, or to weave, or else cut little trinkets to sell on the grand bazaar. It. seems an idle form of work, and yet it, is necessary. At night they sleep in caves in the mountain sides, muiaing ior tnemseives sometimes a little tire. Put more often wrapping the ill-smelling goat skins about, them and then slumbering away.. Once a week mother or sister will trudge the weary miles into these up lands, bringing the boy clean linen or else some fresh goats' cheese and bread. In the forests of the Carpathians, in Transylvania (was east Hungary, you remember) boys have another sort of work to do that is equally interesting. There the forests, which are very precious, are the property of the village. Kach year, according to the number in a family, the mayor tells how many cords of wood each householder may draw. Then the boys go out and hew the trees and gather carefully the fagots to keep the winter fires. In fact, it is very hard in the south of Europe to tell just when a boy ceases his childhood and turns to a man. As soon as the little Turkish boy returns from the school behind the mosque he takes his seat cross-legged on his father's bazaar. He smokes the nargileh or the cigarette almost at the age of three, and he indulges In coffee just as often as ho can get it. If his father has stepped across the way to gossip with a friend, little Abdullah waits on you. and this with all gravity. They are little men from birth, I believe these Orientals, and they do not at all amuse by their mannishness. Boys must work hard, however. In all the Danubiah countries. A friend of ours and I were tiding through the broad fiat Wallachian plains stretching eastward from the Danube. Behind us toddled an army of gipsy children. They swarmed out of the underground homes in which these people live, just burrows in the earth, whitewashed about, inside. And, like
. that travelers must take their lunch I clong. for there is none to spa re even .... , ,11 .. . . . to Sell mem, anu wnue you t-ai, nut only the children, but the older people crowd the door and gaze wistfully at your luncheon. Child life is exactly like manhood and womanhood in the European lands, modified only by the difference in physical strength. There are no farms, as we think of them, but everybody lives in villages. ;nd at sunup, whether that be 3 o'clock or '.. men. women and children start out to work in the adjoining fields. Maybe the old'-tt people reJ main behind to guard the place, and ! . . . . . .1 1 c flu, n . it . II) f!r ilMllia'.i. ilIIU le-lllli til-- " I - , , - , , . j ers also who stay to prepare the lunch j to niK'1 out at noon. . i one works, and all equally hard until 1 sundown There is no money for
the Dutch children along the canal to j large aim uicn-asm? uuiia- ji iuo Monnickendam. who cry, "Give me- Greek Candy Store is proof of the exsomething and 1 11 have something," j cellence or their goods and the high these children bezged. but for "sugar" j favor in which this establishment is meaning the monev with which to buy j held by our people. The greatest care that luxurv. We pitied them, they is exercised in the manufacture of were so thin, so poor. Even in the ! these candies, ice cream, etc.. and settled villages poverty is so great J only the purest Ingredients used. All
bed. Sundays fare like any other t Bost efficient Btjd courteous In the days, even in most, ultra C ltholic ; highest degree. "Wilson and Pohllands, except that there may be an j meyer. located at 13 North 10th street, early mass to bo attended. j are men of the highest standing In And yet these hard-working children j their profession. To become a proare the kindest, most obedient cf ; fesgional funeral director and licensed youngsters. j embalmer today requires the study of Notably alone the east coa?t ff the ; years, as this profession Is advancing Adriatic are h?y tanzht thst childrer I with as great leaps as any other eelshould not be seen, as well as . not ence. The above mentioned concern heard. When you visit a clan in this ; js a leading and responsible Institu-
recion you caicn a munieq w msper ; and a clirnnse of little eyes peering i through a crannv at you, and then children are off to work. They work until the time comes for ' U . . t,tA V.n nwi. In oil them to go into the army, for in all i these lands every raan practically ! rnust serve three yearn with the ranks. ; Before they leave, and that is generalily before they are eighteen, they mar
JOHN M. EGGEMEYER & SONS The above well known concern is locate! at 4i1UV Main street, and operated under the able management of Mr. John M. Eggenieyer, one of Richmond's most prominent citizens, both socially and in a business way. This concern carries a most complete and well assorted stock of staple and fancy groceries and their stock is always
fresh while their prices cannot be beat anywhere in the citv. Thev hav phone connections and all orders re ceive prompt attention. Her they combine excellence in quality wlh lowness in prices, and at the same time you receive the moat courteous treatment and excellent service. What more emild be desired? If you hav a want in the grocery line ring up thia firm and your desires will be satisfied. This concern has always been pubic spirited to a mirked degree, an1 has never done anything to oppose the broad underlying principles of or ganized labor. We gladly give them our endorsement and trust that our many members and friends will give them their patronage whenever possible. McCAIN REALTY CO. We desire to call particular attention to the above mentioned establishment, for it hae always been conducted in a most creditable manner. Tb growth and prosperity of any community is dependent to a large degree upon the character of the men dealing in real estate. This firm Is known far and wide as a most pleasant and reliable Arm to do business with and for the upright and courteous treatment of its patrons. There is a growing realization of the value of Richmond real estate as a profitable investment, and anyone purchasing land in Renton Heights can make no mistake. Tiuir offices are located at 2:5 North Oth 1 reet and thy will be glad to give you any Information about their properties at any time. THE GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY There Is hardly a man, woman or child who has not heard of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, for the name is a household word and has become so well fixed In eoplo'a memories that their competitors are little known. Within the last half century this country haa witnessed a stupendous civil war, innumeral financial and commercial panics. National and State Banks and Savings Institutions have suspended payments, railroads and other public service corporations have gone into bankruptcy, life and fire Insurance companies have ailed, while the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company has steadily grown and prospered, and in fifty years has met its obligations dollar for dollar. Their store in Richmond is located at 727 Main street, and is operated under the able management of Mr. Fred Schneider, a thorough going energetic business man who has had 15 years of experience with this company, and has taken prominent rank with commercial and social circles. It is undoubtedly the best equipped store of Its kind In the city and It Is with pleasure that we give this company our highest recommendation, and wish for them the continued support of our many friends and patrons. GREEK CANDY STORE In every way the Greek Candy Store is a first class establlshmenL The. candies, ices and Ice cream 6oId by this concern equal any that are manufactured In the State, and the , 1 i ... 1 ...... - m . . tne various Kinc.s or coniecuons are made and in the most approved man ner. They are located at 62 Main street. C. E. SELL MEAT MARKET. The above mentioned gentleman Is located at t SI Ft. Wayne avenue, and is well known for the high grade of fresh and cured meats he handles. ! H..4 store is well equipjted for the sani itary handling of his meats and fair ! prices and courteous treatment Is ac- ! corded all who f?de there. Mr. Sell j is a public spirited gentleman and we I . , . 1 v . are piaa i't give nun our ujsucbi reu' I ommendatioa WILSON & POIILMEYER UNDERTAKERS. In performing the duties of an ondertaker and embalmer. one must be ; tion. and has prosn-essed with tne ic
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factorv in everv wav when the serf s of one in this line are refjai , 1 This concern has always provei ; 1 1 1 1.1. J 1 . 1 1 1 .
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be deeply interested in all aff ; moted for the good of Richm j we know them to be staunch l friends of the working peop: