STRIKEBREAKERS
They Make Easy Money During
Labor Troubles.
POCKET THE CAR FARES.
Rnder No Returns to the Street Rail
way Companies Other Sources of
Income That Come the Way of the
Professional "Breaker."
The . following from the Brooklyn
Eagle throws light on the methods of
the professional strike breakers and
explains why they are so readily ob
talnable:
"The strike breakers on the Coney
Island and Brooklyn railroad are re
ceiving only $2.50 a day, and I can
prove it from the vouchers," said a
man who has taken an inconspicuous
but none the less effective part in the
war between the company and its mo
tormen and conductors. "Of course
they get their board also, but they
signed up for $2.50 a day, and they get
no bonus either."
"Didn't they get $25 a trip for tak
ing out the first cars?" he was chal
lenged. "They did not," he emphatically re
torted. "They didn't get even a dollar
extra pay for taking out the first car
or any car. But;" he added, "they do
not ring up any fares. They pocket
all the fares they get, and that's their
graft And they make good money at
it. Some of them will leave here with
$150 or $200 apiece. This graft is not
recognized in the contracts, of course,
but there is an understanding about it
which Is not mentioned by either the
company or the men. When they come
on the understanding is that they are
kept on for five or six days after the
trike is broken. That is when they
clean up. They are at it already.
"A man will come back from a trip
with $6 or $7, and he will Join in the
crap games at the barns. If he wins
he keeps on playing, but if he is
cleaned out back he goes to the starter
and says, 'I'm ready to take out anoth
er car.' He gets his car, divides with
the motorman and gets his pay and
board and lodging just the same. Some
Of them lose all they make in the crap
games, and others are lucky. They
are glad of the chance to work under
these conditions. I suppose there are
about 5,000 men in this jndustry. The
company had no troubled In getting all
it wanted.
"These fellows make plenty of mon
ey." he continued, "and they drift
from town to town, all over the coun
try. j "Why, one of these men told me
that he and another fellow had cleaned
up nearly $300 between them in a
couple of days during the sugar strike
over at the refineries in Williamsburg,
lie said they were sent out to deliver
a big load of sugar. They drove along
all right with the load and sold it out
to grocers along the line for what they
could get. Then they turned their
horses and drove up to the section
where they were ordered to deliver the
sugar. They took the nuts off the
wheels, let the truck smash to the
ground, spilled some sugar around and
a couple of broken barrels and yelled
for the police. They even biffed one
another in the face, he told me. The
police came and found the men were
slightly hurt and the truck wrecked.
"They told the police that they had
been attacked by the striking sugar
drivers, the wagon broken down and
the sugar stolen. They banged them
selves up generously, accepted the es
cort of the jollce and went back to
the refinery To repeaTfthelr tale oTbu"f
rage. Then they laid off for a few
days at $5 a day until they were told
to take out another load of sugar.
They worked the same game, were
escorted back to the works with a
squad of police for protection and
were the heroes of the strike.
"They said that the same thing was
worked in the strike of the meat driv
ers over in Manhattan. The strike
breakers would take out a load of
beef and sell it to small dealers for
whatever they could get. 'What will
you give for a side of beef?' they
would ask a butcher. 'Two dollars,'
the butcher might say. 'Off with it,'
they'd say and heave him the side of
beef and drive along, pocketing the
$2. Then they would let a wheel off
the wagon, 'break down,' call for help
and be escorted back to the market.
"But the railroad company has no
complaint to make about the men
They stand by their contracts and
have their own code of 'on the level,
man to man.' They give the service
all right, but they're all descendants
of Captain Kidd "
Harbor Men Join Hands.
Delegates from the Seamen's, Long
shoremen's, Harbor Boatmen's, Ma
rine Cooks', Stewards', Waiters', Prod
uce Shipping Teamsters and Dock
Builders' unions have completed the or
ganization of the Greater New York
Waterfront federation, comprising a
membership approximating 100,000
The conditions in the various crafts
mentioned, together with a desire for
a complete unity among the.unlons, are
the motive which actuated the forma
tion of this large organization.
John J. Barry Honored.
John J. Barry of Boston, who for
the past three years has been the in
ternational president of the Theatrical
Stage Employees' union, has declined
re-election for another term and has
been elected chairman of the union's
delegation to the American Federation
of Labor convention at Atlanta in November.
LONDON WOMEN WIN.
Wretched Factory Workers Get a Lit
tle More Pay.
Amid the excitement of the greater
issues at stake comparatively little at
tention has been paid to a strike of
London women which ended in a com
plete victory for the workers.
Some 15,000 women and girls em
ployed in biscuit, jam and other fac
tories struck, and after being out about
two weeks their demands were con
ceded. This is a result unparalleled in the
history of London working women,
and it has shown what can be done
even for the poorest class of labor by
choosing an opportune moment for ac
tion. The women won, but at the cost of
sharp privation and suffering. Every
afternoon they were to be seen cluster
ing round the Labor club, in Fort road,
Bermondsey, where their advocates,
leaders of the National Federation of
Women Workers, have their headquar
ters, anxiously awaiting the free dis
tribution of bread. Without this char
ity there would have been no choice
but the workhouse for many of these
women, who normally support them
selves and their families on a wage of
about half a sovereign ($2.50) a week.
How they manage it those who know
the most of their lives cannot say. The
rent must absorb most of the money,
and a few shillings a week only are
left for food and all the other necessa
ries of life.
Here is a case which came to light
during the strike: Two girls In a jam
factory were earning 8 shillings ($2)
a week each by exacting Jqil. JThey
Prices Reasonable
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lived in East Ham "ana "Bad "to pay Ts.
6d. (36 cents) a week in fares, to- and
from work and G shillings ($1.50) for
board and lodgingr They were left
with the splendid sum of sixpence a
week to spend. As a result of the
strike the margin has been raised to
half a crown (GO cents).
The collapse of the employers before
the girls' demands caused some sur
prise, but the real reason was indicat
ed by an employer, who told the Fed
eration of Women that he resented
newspaper publicity and would make
sacrifices to avoid it.
Funds For McNamaras.
The Glass Bottle Blowers associa
tion at its recent , convention In Co
lurubus,' O.. unanimously declared a
fifty cent assessment upon its entire
membership to aid in the defense of
the McNamaras. . In order that the
money might be Immediately available
the fiscal officers were instructed to ad
vance the total amount at once from
the funds in the general treasury.
DEATH IN DUST.
A warning against the dangers
of dust was issued recently by
the National Association For the
Study a ad Prevention of Tuber
culosis, In which it is shown
that the percentage of deaths
caused by tuberculosis in dusty
trades is more than double that
for all employed men in the reg
istration area of the United
States. While among males gen
erally In the registration area
of the United States 14.5 per
cent of all deaths are from con
sumption, the mortality among
grinders from this disease is 49,2
per cent, and in hardly any of
the dusty trades is it below 25
per cent. The percentage of
deaths from tuberculosis among
all those exposed to metallic dust
is 3G.9 per cent; to mineral dust,
28.6 per cent; to vegetable fiber
dust, 28.8 per cent; to mixed
animal and other forms of dust,
32.1 per cent; to street dust,,
25.5 per cent, and to organic or
dust coming from the articles
being manufactured. 23 per cent.
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is
NIOTICE OF INCORPORATION.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned have associated themselves
together for the purpose of forming
a corporation under the laws of the
state of Nebraska.
The name of the corporation shall
be the Maupin-Schoop Publishing Com
pany. Its principal place of business., is
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska.
The business of said corporation is
to do a general publishing and print
ing business and any and all things
necessary and consistent therewith,
including the right to buy and sell
real estate.
The authorized capital stock is five
thousand dollars, divided into shares
of fifty dollars each.
Said corporation shall commence
business on August 7th, 1911, and con
tinue for twenty years, unless sooner
dissolved by a majority vote of its
stock, or by process of law.
The highest amount of indebted
ness to which it shall at any time
subject itself shall not exceed two
thirds of its authorized capital stock.
The affairs of the corporation shall
be governed by a board of four di
rectors, who shall have power to
elect from among their own number
a president, vice-president, secretary
and treasurer.
Dated this 5th day of August, 1911.
WILL M. MAUPIN,
FRANK L. SHOOP.
25-5 -
LEGAL NOTICE.
Seth W. Lowell, will hereby take
notice that William Foote has filed
his petition and commenced an ac
tion in the District Court of Lancas
ter County, State of Nebraska, enti
tled "William Foote, Plaintiff, vs.
Seth W. Lowell, Defendant," and
plaintiff has filed affidavit therein
that the defendant is a non-resident of
the State of Nebraska.
The object and prayer of said ac
tion is to recover the sum of $176.45,
with interest at the rate of six per
cent per annum from the seventh day
of March, 1890, upon a promissory
note that plaintiff has caused to be
attached in said action, the undivid
ed one-third interest in Lot Four (4),
Block Two (2), Trester's Addition to
the City of Lincoln, Lancaster Coun
ty, Nebraska, and the undivided one
third interest in Lot Eight (8), Block
Forty-three (43) in University Place,
Nebraska; that the defendant is re
quired to answer the petition of the
plaintiff on the ninth day of October,
1911.
24-4 SETH W. LOWELL,
By TIBBETS & ANDERSON.
Attorneys.
