. GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.
Demand the label.
The union label that's all.
Ixiok for the union label.
It it Is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog
ers & Perkins.
Detroit street ear employes have re
reived an advance wage scale.
The machinists are endeavoring to
organise a metal trades council.
The demand for bill posters in Chi
cago Is greater than the supply.
A strike of 200 pavers In New York
city resulted In a victory for the men.
An increase of 5 per cent has been
secured for the spinners of the coun-
try. " '
Carriage Workers have been grant
ed a nine-hour day in Toronto, Can
ada. A movement is contemplated to es
tablish a standard rate of wages for
pavers.
Cigar Makers have recently char
tered new unions in Manitoba and
Wisconsin.
The Sheet Metal Workers have won
their year's strike against the open
ahoy at Bridgeport.
"Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and well made.
, Sold by all dealers.
Printers of Fort Smith, Ark., are
still out for the eight-hour day. The
' clerks are organizing.
Asbestos Workers in New Orleans
have obtained an increase of 50 cents
a day and eight hours.
Good trade conditions, eight-hour
day and fortnightly pay are being en
Joyed by paving cutters.
Glassworkers are striking for the
maintenance of the union shop in
Chicago and intend to win.
The unions of Los Angeles, Cal., in
creased their membership ?5 per cent
during the past twelve months.
The Slate Cutters are making an at
tempt to organize the members of the
craft in Virginia and Maine.
Employment in the British building
trades shows a general improvement
as compared with a year ago.
The wage standard of last year is
being maintained by the Lathers.
Their membership is increasing.
The British Admiralty is instituting
a universal 48-hour week for the em
ployes in the government dockyards.
An effort is being made to thorough
ly organize the Watch Case Engrav
ers in the UJnited States and Canada.
Tobacco shippers of New Haven.
Conn., have secured an increase in
wages ranging from iO to 100 per cent.
The Foster Artists' association is rer
ported to have been granted a charter
by the American Federation of Labor.
Asbestos Workers of Boston, Mass.,
recently secured a two-year agree
ment and an advance of 25 cents per
day.
The carpenters of Birmingham. Ala.,
bave secured the signing of theh
scale and an increase of five cents an
hour.
Organized labor in France is turn
ing it3 attention toward enforcing the
Saturday half holiday. Many strikes
are in progress.
Chicago railroad' rate clerks must
make good from their salaries all
losses to the roads occasioned by in
correctly quoting rates.
Boston & Maine and the New York.
New Haven & Hartford railroad
freight handU?rs have both been grant
. e1 the $2 a day wage rate.
Five thousand male wage earners
are out of work at the present time in
Melbourne, Australia, and 50,000' peo
ple In Victoria are existing below pov
erty line.
The first national union to be en
trenched in the government service
was recently organized among the
clerk3 of the postofflce department of
Chicago.
Railway employes in Ireland com
plain of Inadequate wages, excessive
' hours of labor and arbitrary and vexa
tious treatment on the part of the
i:nder-bo3ses. '
The farmers In the vicinity of Hot
Springs, Ark., took part in the Labor
Day parade, and at the present they
are among the staunchest in demand
ing the union label.
The Car Workers have recently won
strikes in Ashtabula, O., and Buffalo,
N. Y. The demands made were for
$1.00 Bottle
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SOLD AT
RECTORS, 12th & 0
increased pay and better shop condi
tions. Wages for this craft have re
ceived a general increase of 10 to 15
per cent during the past year.
The pavers are contemplating the
establishment of a uniform wage for
the craft throughout the country. New
unions have been formed in Seattle.
Wash., and Chicago. 111.
It is estimated that 20,000 more men
than can be supplied will be needed
to push along the railroad construc
tion work an- harvest the crops be
tween Minneapolis and the Pacific
coast.
Froni a report recently issued by
the British home office it appears that
the number1 of persons engaged in
mining and quarrying in Great Brit
ain and abroad in 1004 was about
5,000,000.
The Woodsmen have postponed the
presenting of their wage scale owing
to the sailors' difficulty on the Pacific
coast. New unions have been formed
in Savannah, Ga., Stringer, Ark., and
Millinocket, Me.
Of the total number of persons en
gaged in remunerative occupations in
France, , 42 per cent are engaged in
agriculture or forestry and 30 per cent
in industrial occupations other than
mining and quarrying.
It is estimated that there are about
2,500,000 Independent farmers in the
German empire, 'and that of these
over a million are members of co
operative societies, the most popular
form being credit societies.
An international exposition portray
ing the life of the laborer for the past
2,000 years, showing conditions sur
rounding him from the time of feudal
slavery to the present time, is con
templated by the French parliament.
Word comes from Hawaii that there
li a well-defined scheme on foot by the
plantation owners to get laborers from
Europe. Already a thousand Portu
guese families are being imported by
the Sugar Planters' association.
Plumbers, tinners, bricklayers, plas
terers and hod carriers of Bridgeport,
Conn., are on strike. The individual
local union agreements soon expire,
at which time all building trades will
consolidate and the strikes will be de
clared off.
The death rate from accidents at
coal mines in the principal coal pro
ducing countries in 19C4 were: Aus
tralia, .92; Belgium, .93; France, 1.07;
Great Britain, 1.34; Germany, 1.19;
United States, 3.55 per 1,000 persons
employed.
The Boot and Shoe Workers' Inter
national i Union recently, from Janu
ary, 1904, to March, 190G, paid out
$200,000 in sick and death benefits and
$40,000 in aid of strikes. There wa3
at time of report a balance of $100,000
in the treasury.
The anthracite miners, who are
members of the Mine Workers of
America, have gained a notable vic
tory, the Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vania recently deciding that the min
ers' certificate law of 1S97 is constitu
tional and effective.
The Cigar Makers' International
Union of America has elected the fol
lowing delegates to represent them at
the convention of the American Feder
ation of Labor, which will be held in
Minneapolis the week beginning No
vember 19: G. R. French, Louisville,
Ky.; John T. Smith, Kansas City,
Mo.; Morris Brown, New York, and
P. Mahoney of Boston, Mass.
PRAISES UNIONS IN SERMON.
Rev. Wallace Short Has Good Words
for Them.
"The employer and organized labor"
was the subject chosen by Rev. Wal
lace Short for his sermon last Sunday
night at the Beacon Hill Congrega
tional church at Twenty-fourth street
and Troost avenue. He said:
"Formerly conditions were such that
men worked side by side with their
employer and in many cases were his
personal friends; always his acquaint
ances. Under conditions which exist
at present the men in most cases work
under the supervision of a superin
tendent whose duty is simply to see
that the work is done and to manage
it so that proper dividends are brought
in. The employer rarely knows the
men who are working for him and
often they do not even know him by
sight. This being the case, no' matter
how good may be his intentions, he is
not in a position to be able properly
to look afier the interests of his em
ployes. For these reasons organized labor 1s
inevitable. Labor unions are organ
ized for the purpose of securing better
conditions. .
"I believe that it is often the case
that employers would like to better
conditions governing their men but on
account of the keen competition exist
ing in all lines of work they are unable
to follow their inclinations. When
unions become powerful enough to
compel all employers to do as the few
would like to do but cannot, then will
unions become 'a real help to the bet
ter, class of employers.
"Next to public schools union labor
is the greatest factor in the assimila
tion of American ideals, influencing
workmen who come to this country
from other lands. Unions are also
next to public schools in the training
of their members to discuss important
questions and to decide they must
meet the judgment of public opinion.
"There is no question but that when
unions gain power they often overstep
the bounds of fairness. Therefore an
employers association is inevitable.
The true attitude to be taken is to
realize that both have their mission
and for each to try to attain its truest
ideals." Kansas City Journal.
THE BARBERS.
Had Good Reason for Absence from
the Labor Day Parade.
Some criticism has been heard of
the union barbers for their failure to
parade on Labor Day. The barbers
claim to have good and sufficient rea
son for their absence. Labor Day was
the beginning of fair week and the
crowds came early. Feeling that the
employers were entitled to some con
sideration, and knowing that to close
on Labor Day would deprive the em
ployers of a big lot of money, the
journeymen decided to work. They
took a day off a couple of weeks be
fore and had a picnic. While they
regretted their inability ' to parade
and at the same time ' do justice to
their employers, the journeymen bar
bers feel that they did the right thing
under the circumstances.
Look out for the union shop card.
There 'are several "scab" barber shops
In the city. If you don't see the card
when you step into the shop, step out
and go elsewhere.
The National City bank of New
York engaged $8,000,000 in gold for
import to New York, all but about
$750,000 of which will come from Lon
don. The $750,000 worth will come
from Australia.
6 RAND CENTRAL BARBER SHOP
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Sheridan, Wyo. 25.35
Mackinaw City 25.05
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