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Machinists After O'Connell.
Locnl unions subordinate to the In
ternational Association of Machinists
in Connecticut, especially at New Ha
ven, it is stated, have started a move
v ment looking toward the retirement of
International President James O'Con
nell from the National Civic federa
tion. Falling that, O'Connell is to be
asked to resign the headship of the Ma
chinists' union. The movement against
the president is said to have originated
among the Socialists in the local
unions, of whom there is quite a
sprinkling, and the same results are
hoped for as in the case of John
Mitchell and the Dnited Mine Workers
of America. It is not stated, however,
that any labor union has yet attempted
to prescribe to Its officers certain
church membership or eleemosynary
society affiliation, but maybe it's coming.
BRAVEDAISYMANK
Risks Her Daily Bread to Aid
Fellow Workers.
GIRL TELLS PATHETIC TALE.
Describes Conditions In San Francisco
Cracker Factories to Help Along the
Eight Hour Bill For Women Toilers
of California.
Every age. every country and every
avocation among men has its heroes.
One has just come to public notice In
the cracker industry of San Francisco.
This is Daisy Mank. a "cracker grab
ber" in a big factory located In that
city, says the Minnesota Union Advo
cate. She went before the committee
on labor and capital of the California
legislature and in the presence of the
employers and their representatives,
including one from the factory In
which she worked, fearlessly told how
girls like her were cruelly overworked
and oppressed in their efforts to earn
a livelihood in the cracker factories.
The committee had before it a bill
limiting the working hours for women
to eight in every twenty-four. "Hig
business" was well represented be
cause "big business" didn't want the
hill passed. Uniou labor was repre
sented because it wanted justice for
the working women. Labor thought
the plain tale ot one working girl
would offset the powerful lobby of the
manufacturers, and for this purpose
it took Daisy Mank from the factory in
San Francisco to the state capitol
building, where the committee was sit
ting. When Daisy Mank entered the com
mittee room the first man she saw was
an employee of the Standard Biscuit
company of San Francisco, the concern
for which she worked. The labor rep
resentatives told her she need not
speak, but Daisy Mank never hesitat
ed. "I'll speak If I lose my job," she
said. And she spoke.
When she arose to speak she was
deathly pale, and she trembled as she
looked Into the faces of the rich men
who lined the room, into the faces of
the men upon whom she must depend
for her daily bread, well knowing that
the words she was about to utter might
cost her her position.
Simply and without thought of dra
matic effect she told her story. She
described how she stood for nine hours
a day at the bottom of a chute down
which crackers swirled In a steady
stream, how she kept the crackers go
ing steadily into the boxes and how,
had her fingers fumbled for an instant,
her "job would be the price of the re
sultant pile of broken crackers. Mer
cilessly "big business" representatives
questioned her.
"Don't you know," demanded one
employer of women, "that we have
raised the number of employees at the
cracker chute from fifteen to eight
een?" "Yes." she answered. "We raised
the number by a strike."
, So bitter became the "questions hurl
ed at the girl that State Senator Cami
netti finally demanded that she be al
lowed to tell her story without Inter
ruption. Then Daisy Mank went on to tell
bow, with the exception of the noon
hour, the girls were allowed to leave
their positions for only ten minutes
each day; she told bow hundreds of
other working girls in the state had
the same experience and that she
risked her position that the condition
of all might be known.
"We have no strength or desire for
amusement after the crackers are pack:
eT each day," she said". "All we "want
Is rest."
That was Daisy Mank's story, but it
made a greater Impression on the
legislators than all the flowery argu
ments or financial reports of "big busi
ness" representatives.
"Don't you expect to Jose your job?"
Daisy Mank was asked after It was all
over and the powerful blow had been
struck by a working girl in favor of
justice for working women.
"I don't expect to lose my position,"
replied Daisy Mank. "because I said
nothing against the firm for which I
work, but many girls in the factory
were afraid to speak for fear they
would lose their jobs."
Representatives of union labor are
watching closely to see if Daisy Mank
doesn't lose her position, because they
well know "big business" never for
gets or forgives a blow.
Fate of Gompers' Detractor.
Broughton Brandenburg, erstwhile
magazine writer of some note, has at
last been run to earth and sentenced
to two years" penal servitude in the
state prison at Sing Sing. N. Y. This
Is the man who some few years ago
made sensational charges against Sam
uel Gompers which were proved to be
absolutely false.
Industry's Death Toll.
A conservative estimate of the loss
in cash to the wealth of the Dnited
States through preventable accidents
in industrial plants puts the. total at
about $ 125.1 KKU MK) a year. Out of 29.
000.WO workers in the Dnited States
it has been estimated that one person
has been killed or injured every minute.
Arizona's Constitution.
Three progressive measures intend
ing to benefit workingmen. especially
organized workingmen. have been in
corporated in the new state constitu
tion of Arizona. They were eight hour
workdays on Kfate work, prohibiting
employment of aliens on public work
and prohibiting labor blacklists.
Trade Union Briefs.
Chicago labor unions collect and dis
burse $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 annually.
The International Metal Workers'
federation now embraces more than
forty-five' different unions, with an ag
gregate membership of 750,000.
The California legislature is opposed
to employing convict labor in the con
struction of the $18,000,000 highway
system made possible by the votes of
the people last November.
The Hotel and Restaurant Employ
ees' International Alliance and Bar
tenders' International League of Amer
ica will hold its next annual conven
tion In Boston, beginning May 8.
The income of British unions last
year amounted to $15,212,105. and their
sxpendltures to $15,793,490. The bal
ance of funds at the end of the year
was $29,431,300. The total member
ship of G38 unions was 1,957,904.
The railroad telegraphers and station
Bgents of New England receive from
$60 to $80 a month for daily work
hours that are eight, nine and twelve.
The best wages now received in the
country for telegraph agents ranges
from $120 to $125 a month and for
railroad telegraphers $100 a month.
The Steainfltters' union has existed
In Chicago for twenty-six years, and for
twenty years of that period the em
ployers and union representatives have
worked under the joint agreement
plan. A new four year contract was
negotiated between the master steam -fitters
and the union recently. The
men receive $5.60 per day.
THE PRESSMEN'S HOME.
Main Building Rapidly Nearing Com
pletion. Although the membership of the In
ternational Printing Pressmen and As
sistants' union not long ago voted to
hold biennial conventions, the board
of directors has ordered that a con
vention be called this year to meet at
Rogersville. Tenn.. beginning June 19.
This action was taken in order to en
able the delegates and visitors to learn
the progress that has been made in the
matter of building the union press
men's home at Hale Springs, and also
to express the wish of the membership
regarding the matter of renewing the
agreement with the American News
paper Publishers association, which
expires on May 1, 1912.
Secretary Crowley announces that
work is proceeding rapidly on the
bouse buildings of the home and that
on account of plenty of lumber, stone,
sand. etc.. having been found on the
land the cost of construction, as esti
mated by five reputable builders, was
reduced almost one-half. The main
building and the technical school will
be finished by convention time, and the
tuberculosis sanitarium will be under
way.
A Maine Friend of Labor.
Cyrus W. Davis, proprietor of the
Waterville Sentinel, the only paper in
Maine carrying the label of the Ty
pographical union, was recently elect
ed secretary of state. Mr. Davis was
tvie candidate for governor of the
stale nf Maine and is considered one
of t he very best friends union labor
has in that state.
Favors Union Labor.
Governor Osborne, Michigan's new
executive, speaking at a Franklin day
celebration, gave his opinion of union
labor as follows: "1 am for union
labor and union organization and shall
always hope that union labor will be
honestly, intelligently and effectively
organized; that it will then take in all
the labor of the country, be led and
guided by its ablest and best repre
sentatives and rule the nation."
EASTER
FAVORS
A large line of beautiful
Easter Favors-something
novel and attractive, at
prices that make them
doubly attractive.
EASTER
CARDS
The largest and handsom
est line of Easter Cards
and Picture Cards ever
shown in this city. Noth
ing so artistic ever shown
before.
The Sugar Bowl
Sixteenth & O Streets
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