WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
GENERAL COMMENT.
Bits of Labor News Picked Up as It
Drifted By.
The "pay-iheck" and 'loan-shark"
evils are ilealt with in bills now pond
ins in the 'California legislature and
likely to become la v.
John P. White has been elected
president of the United Mine Work
ers of America, defeating Tom L.
Lewis by a vote of 9S.934 to 72,190.
An eight-hour bill for women in
all commercial and mechanical pur
suits, except fruit-raising and pre
serving', is now before the California,
legislature, and will probably become
law.
The San Francisco Labor Council
has received pledges of the sum need
ed to purchase a lot for a permanent
Labor Temple, thus assuring the
completion of the structure at an
early date.
A bill giving mechanics and labor
ers a direct lien en buildings was
passed by the California assembly on
February 3. The present law gives
workmen only an indirect lien in their
claim upon the contractor.
An employers liability bill, which
eliminates the "fellow-servant" and
"contributory negligence" features
common to such legislation, is now
before the California legislature. The
measure has the support of Governor
Johnson and is likely to pass.
The San Francisco Labor Council
has feci Jed to urge the state legis
lature to enact the pending measure
restricting- Japanese, Hindoos and
Malays from owning land in Califor
nia; also providing separate schools
for the Asiatic races.
The United Mine Workers of
America, in convention at Columbus
on January 31 adopted an amendment
to its constitution making ineligible to
membership mine bosses, superin
tendents, members of the National
Civic Federation or other organiza
tions allied with the employing class.
John McLennon, president of the
Colorado St:ite Federation of Labor,
has iHled charges in the state legisla
ture against Judge Greeley W. Whit
ford, asking that he be impeached in
connection with tho sentence of im
prisonment imposed upon certain
miners for contempt of injunction.
The shortest hours of any union
workmen in New York City are those
of caisson workers. Three hours a
day, with thirty minutes off for
luncheon and wages of $5 a day is
the rule for the men who work under
an air pressure of "three atmos
pheres" (about forty-five pounds).
Between S.000 and 10,000 members
of labor unions participated in a
demonstration at the state capitol in
Denver on February 2 in protest
against the imprisonment or certain
miners for contempt of an injunction.
Practically all construction work in
Denver was at a standstill as a con
sequence. The San Francisco Labor Council
has decided to communicate with
President Taft and the California
congressional delegation protesting
against the elimination of the eight
Vrmr day on government work; als"
ini)K tft the battleship New York
be constructed in a navy yard instead
of by private contract.
A HANDSOME BOUQUET.
Which Is Accepted With Thanks and
Profuse Blushes.
"That which we call a rose by any
other name would smell as sweet."
Will M. Ma u pin has changed the
name of his paper, The Wagcworker,
published at Lincoln, Neb., to "Will
Maupin's Weekly," but the vigorous
and progressive publication has not
suffered in any respect by the chance
of name. In fact, if there is any
change in it it is better than ever.
In his foreword Mr. Maupin an
nounces his motives for the change in
name and character of his paper.
These are his desire to make a living
for himself and family and 'his wish
to contribute in some measure to the
upbuilding of Nebraska. These are
worthy incentives, and all Mr. Mau
pin's friends wish him success in his
new venture. The Weekly will not
be altogether a labor paper, as The
Wagevvorker was, but it wll do all
in its power to promote the cause of
organized labor, as its predecessor
did, and it is certainly In capable
hands for excellent work of any kind.
The Minnesota Union Advocate
wishes it long life and abundant
prosperity. Union Advocate, St. Paul,
Minn.
Woodward and Watson, of Omaha,
are stalking Senate File 16 like a pair
of deerhounds, and they are not go
ing to lose sight of it until it gets to
the governor for his signature.
Dorothy Righter is still dangerously
ill, but the latest reports are to the
effect that she is slowly recovering.
Dorothy has now been in bed for
eleven weeks, and most of the time
she has suffered the most excruciat
ing pains from rheumatism. Her
many friends hope to soon hear of
her complete recovery.
UNION PRESSMEN'S HOME.
Another Noble Charity to the Credit of
Organized Labor.
The International Printing Press
men and Assistants' union is building
a sanitarium, home and technical
trade school, which when completed
will be one of the noblest and most
useful Institutions of its kind in the
world. It is located at Rogersville,
Hawkins county, Tenn., at what has
been known for over fifty years as the
Halesprings health resort, and is only
thirty-eight miles by air line from
Asheville, N. C.
This location was selected because
it has a medium high and medium
dry altitude, which always gives the
best promise of permanent cures of
tuberculosis and kindred diseases and
escape from the bad effects of return
ing to a lower and more humid at
mosphere after treatment.
The plan of the institution includes
a sanitarium for the treatment and
cure of tuberculosis, a home for su
perannuated members, a technical
trade school for the teaching of press
work and many other features of ab
sorbing human interest. The approx
imate cost of the plant, embracing ev
erything required to make it first class
in every respect, is conservatively es
timated, at $125,000, and this covers
the cost of the 519 acres of fine farm
ing land on which the institution is to
be conducted.
The whole establishment will be sup
ported by a per capita tax on the
members of the unions affiliated with
the International union, although many
private donations have already been
received to aid in founding it and car
rying it on. The promoters of the
project have gone about their work
wisely, taking advantage ' of the ex
perience of other organizations in sim
ilar enterprises, and they will undoubt
edly reach, the very summit of excel
lence for the present day.
Arrogance of Greed. -
In contemplating the arrogant and
high handed methods used by the em
ploying garment makers in crushing
the spirit and starving the families of
their workers one Indeed wonders what
Christ would think should fro to
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