I PULL FORWARD.
In the labor movement there
Is uo room for the man who
hangs back in the traces. The
load Is so big that it requires the
constant tu,!ging of all to make
headway. When all pull and
pull altogether our best efforts
are reached. Pull forward and
not backward if you would the
better enjoy life. Contempt is
only felt for the man who does
not do his share in the battle of
life. He is looked upon as a
hindrance and sinks below the
respect that active, earnest and
intelligent workers have for each
other.
You must be one or the other.
Choose the position in life that
will entitle you to respect and
admiration for your efforts and
shun the path that brings re
proach upon you. Don't think
your labor is not needed or de
sired; that is a mistaken, fool
ish idea. There are room and
work for all. Let us do it.
A RECORD IN HARMONY.
What Trade Agreements Have Done
For the Iron Molders.
Thirty thousand iron molders, em
ployed in the stove and range industry
in the United States and Canada, were
given an increase in wages of 5 per
eent through an agreement signed re
cently in Chicago between the Stove
Founders National Defense associa
tion and the Iron Molders' Union of
North America. It was the twenty
first yearly contract which has been
made between the two organizations,
aud during that time there has not
been a strike or lockout or any inter
ruption to business.
The increase, which went into effect
Jan. 1, makes a total advance of 30
per cent which the Iron molders have
received through " conciliation since
1S0S. The stove founders and the iron
molders were the first employers' as
sociation and the first labor union to
sign a national trade agreement in this
country, and for twenty years the
same harmony has prevailed in the in
dustry. It establishes a new record for the
Joint trade agreement, and congratula
tions were general when the contract
was signed. The president of the
Stove Founders National Defense as
sociation is George Mitchell of Pitts
ton, Ta., and the secretary is Thomas
J. Hogan of Chicago,
The officers of the Iron Molders
union who negotiated the contract are
Joseph F. Valentine of Cincinnati,
president, and John P. Frey, editor of
the Iron Molders Journal.
"We have set a uew mark for em
ployers and labor unions to shoot at."
said Mr. Frey "tweuty years with
out a strike aud relations as harmoni
ous now as when we made the first
agreement. It is a strong argument
for the joint trade agreement move
ment in this couutry."
Came to Terms In Jig Time.
Just to give our readers an idea of
how strong a hold the priuters union
label has on Louisville, writes a cor
respondent of . the Typographical
Journal, I will tell about a cer
tain union office. The office in ques
tion unwittingly put the label on the
title page of a book that was being
"printed iu a nonunion office. The of
fense was of such a serious nature and
a precedent having been established
by another office, to be on the square
a fine of $23 was assessed by the
Allied Priting Trades council. Uathor
than pay the tine the. labels were sur
rendered. "We can got along Without
the label; we can operate an Topeh
shop,' " etc. Well, in exactly fourteen
days' time a new contract was made
with the office and the fine paid.
Wages and Cost of Living.
That the average wages of factory
and workshop employees advanced
only 22.2 per cent in the last twelve
years as compared with an increase
of 40.9G per cent for a number of se
lected articles of food was shown in
the annual report of the New Jersey
state bureau of statistics of labor.
This means that increases of wages
have fallen short 1S.7 per cent of keep
ing pace with the increasing cost of
foodstuffs.
Trade Union Briefs.
Longshoremen of New York harbor
have decided to delay demands for a
wage increase.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has grant
ed a substantial increase in wages to
its engine drivers. -
The Milwaukee city council instruct
ed the city attorney to enforce the law
which provides for closed street car
vestibules.
Pullman car porters have requested
an increase of wages to $43 and $50
a month, according to term of service.
The average wage now is $30.
The Order of liailroad Telegraphers
will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniver
sary in June.1911, and has adopted as
a battlecry. "Complete and thorough
organization."
The Toronto union plumbers and
steamfitters are conducting a series of
lectures of a technical nature concern
ing the modern science of plumbing
and steam heating.
The Boston Wharf and Bridge Build
ers union has presented the employers
with a request that on and after May
1 next a new wage scale will go into
effect. It calls for $3 a day for the
land men, who now receive $2.75, and
$3.50 a day for the toolmen and build
ers, who now receive $3.28 a day. ,
X THE UNION LABEL.
Ninety-nine per ceut of the
people in the United States are
in favor of extirpating the evil
of child labor.
Meanwhile, until legislators
can be aroused to their duties,
the union label is the all power-
ful weapon to use against em-
ployers of children. J?
& Ask for the label.
Always ask for the label.
See that you get the label. ?
Always see that you get the
i label. i
Remember that the label can
never be used on any product of J
which child labor was a part.
$ Thus you can see that by call- J
ing for the label and insisting
on the label you are delivering
tone of the blows that rmist and 4
shall culminate in the death of
this crowning disgrace of our
J civilization the slaughter of In
i nocent childhood. - . $.-
& '
Trade Union Briefs.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, cele
brated his sixty-first birthday Jan. 27.
Typographical union No. G, New
York, celebrated the hundredth anni
versary of the birth of Horace Gree
ley, its first president, on Feb. 5.
The Central Federation union of
New York is opyosod to tli.X'HJOSOl?
scheme of compulsory arbitration as
planned by the National Civic federa
tion. The United Hebrew Trades of New
York city is helping the hatters to
unionize the east side stores and get
ting them to handle only union made
hats.
Organized labor in the various states
is called upon to exert its influence for
legislation forbidding the police 'third
degree" to get confessions from pris
oners in a letter sent out from the na
tional headquarters of the American
Federation of Labor.
Representatives of the 35,000 locomo
tive firemen employed on sixty-one
western railroads ( and the general
managers, who have been conferring
over a dispute as to wages on a cer
tain class of engines, have failed to
reach an agreement, and the wages
will continue the same.
Thomas L. Wilson, international vice
president of the machinists, who has
been in charge of the New England
field for the past four years, will take
up the work on the Pacific coast.
During Mr. Wilson's work in the New
England territory 20,000 members have
been added to the unions of the dis
trict and 40,000 members have bene
fited by increased wages and better
conditions.
WHY NO PARCELS POST?
John Wanamaker's Four Reasons Now
Reduced to One.
Commenting on the recent strike of
the express drivers the New York
World pertinently says:
"If the express trust had set out to
spread before 7,000,000 people the most
convincing object lesson of the press
ing need of a parcels post, its man
agers could hardly -have succeeded
better than they have done during the
strike of their employees.
"The violence of the men and theii
sympathizers has been met and match
ed by the shiftiness, the evasions, and
the arrogance of the trust and by its
utter disregard of public loss and in
convenience. It has merited the
mayor's rebuke by its misrepresenta
tions. It has compelled the president
of the Merchants' association to do
what it should have done itself and put
its terms of settlement into intelligible
form to end the deadlock in the public
interest.
"Is it not also Intolerable that such a
public business should longer remain
In the hands of an extortionate private
trust? 'Is it not time we had,' as
Mayor Gaynor asks, 'a parcels post
like that of other civilized nations?
"Is is not an indictment of Ameri
can business sense that the rural free
delivery drivers should serve their
public at a loss to the government
when loss might be turned to profit
simply by putting parcels in their
wagons?
"Is it not a humiliating comparison
that the German domestic post" will
convey a parcel weighing 110 pounds,
ours one weighing only four pounds?
Is it not discreditable to us as a prac
tical people that our postoffice," in its
polite desire not to annoy the express
trust in its golden monopoly, will not
carry eleven pounds of merchandise
for you one mile unless you divide it
into three portions and pay $1.70 post
age, while the German post will carry
it anywhere within the country for
12 cents? j
"John Wanamaker as postmaster gen-!
eral found four reasons why we did ,
not have in his day a parcels post I
the Adams, American. United States !
and Wells-Fargo Express companies. !
Today there is but one reason the ex-;
press trust. - Public convenience, busi
ness economy and the honor of the
nation among civilized communities
cannot much longer be balked, in the
growing anger of the people, by such
a barrier." . . j
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