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UNION LABELS AND CARDS
There are now' 56 labels and 10 cards issued by the fol
lowing organizations, which have been indorsed by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor:
Organizations Using Labels.
American Federation of La
bor. Bakers and Confectioners.
Boilermakers.
Blacksmiths.
Boot and Shoe Workers.
Brewery Workers.
Brickmakers.
Broommakers.
Brushmakers.
Carriage and Wagon Work
ers. Carvers, Wood.
Cigarmakers.
Cloth Hat and Cap Makers.
Coopers.
Engravers, Watch Case.
Flour and Cereal Mill Em
' ' ployes.
Fttr Workers.
Garment Workers, United.
Garment Workers, Lady.
Glass Bottle Blowers.
Glass Workers.
Glove Workers.
Gold Beaters.
Hatters.
Horseshoers.
Jewelry Workers.
Lathers.
Leather Workers on Horse
Goods.
Machine Printers and Color
Mixers.
Machinists.
Metal Polishers.
Metal Workers, Sheet.'
Molders.
Painters.
Paper Box Makers.
Paper Makers.
Piano and Organ Workers.
Plate Printers.
Powder Workers.
Pressmen, Printing.
Print Cutters.
Rubber Workers.
Sawsmiths.
Shirt, Waist and Laundry
Workers.
Stove Mounters.
Tailors.
Textile Workers.
Tip Printers.
Tobacco Workers.
Travelers' Goods and Leath
er Novelty Workers.
Typographical.
Upholsterers.
Weavers, Goring.
Weavers, Wire.
Wood Workers.
Leather Workers. '
ORGANIZATIONS USING CARDS.
Actors.
Barbers.
Clerks.
Engineers, Steam.
Firemen, Stationary.
Hotel and Restaurant Employes.
Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen.
Musicians.
Musicians.
Stage Employes, Theatrical.
Teamsters.
The following crafts and callings are using the American
Federation of Labor label: Artificial Limb Makers, Cos
turners, Badge and Lodge Paraphernalia Workers, Bottlers
(Soda, Mineral Water and Liquor), Coffee, Spice and Baking
Powder Workers, Cloth Spongers and Refinishers, Carbonic
Gas Workers, Cigar Makers' Tools, Nail (Horse Shoe) Work
ers, Neckwear Cutters and Makers, Oyster Workers, Paint
Workers, Photographic Supply Workers, Soap Workers, So
da and Mineral Water Workers, Starch Workers, Suspender
Makers, Steel Case Makers.
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News of the Labor Field Boiled Down
to a Minimum.
London, Ont. An additional branch
office of the Ontario bureau of labor
has been established here.
Beaumont, Tex. The workers in
the oil fields are planning to reorgan
ize the Oil and Gas Workers' Union.
Boston. The $1. Y., N. H. & H.
railroad has announced an increase
cl 5 and 10 cents a day for its railway
clerks.
Fall River, Mass. Fall River weav
ers have accepted a compromise, that
yards constitute a cut, and the
'threatened strike is oft.
Buenos Ay res. Nine men have been
killed and many injured in a fight at
Eahia Blanca between harbor strikers
and the police.
' London. The number of women
employed at printers in England in
creases every year. At present there
are 200 in this city alone.
London. In the paper-working in
dustry in India the average wage per
day for men is 15 cents; women, S
cents, and children, 3 cents.
Washington. The headquarters of
the International Union of Carriage
and Wagon Workers of America will
shortly be established in this city.
Washington. Pres. Samuel . Gom-
pers of the American Federation of
Labor is writing a book on "Organ
ized Labor in the United States."
Portland, Ore. Two 'longshore
men's unions will shortly meet for the
purpose of forcing the Harriman lines
to meet the rates charged all other
lines.
Springfield, 111. The striking plpe-
men at the Wabash shops returned t6
work, the company having granted
them an increase of wages from 28 to
3t cents.
Boston. Coopers' Union No. 58 has
announced that it is out for a raise
of 25 cents a day for every member
at every shop. Many of the largest
firms have already grapted it.
Los Angeles, Cal. Drug clerks of
this city have taken up the matter of
the law regulating the hours of work,
a number of druggists having failed
to carry out its provisions.
Mexico City. The Mexican branch
of the A. F. of L. has a membership
of over 60,000, and all classes of labor
are included, but so far membership
is confined to Americans employed
in Mexico.
Washington. By an executive order
the employes of the government print
ing office are now. enjoying a half
holiday during July, August and Sep
tember, the same as employes of other
departments. - V.
New York. The United' Hatters'
International Union has established
an international death benefit system
by which the nominee of a member
receives a stipulated sum upon the
death of a member.
Boston. Church Organ Workers'
Union, whose members are on strike
at five local factories, sees very fa
vorable prospects of an early and
complete victory. '
Readville, Mass. The 2 per cent
wage increase for the carmen at the
shops of the N, Y., N. H. & H. rail
road has gone into effect.
Medford, Mass. William Foley, a
former resident of this city, has been
re-elected president of the Interna
tional Union of Steel and Copper
Plate Printers. Mr. Mahan, who now
lives in Washington, was re-elected
secretary for the sixteenth consecu
time time.
Glasgow. The Scottish conciliation
board decided upon another six and
one-fourth per cent advance for the
"miners. It is the third advance
granted the miners within a year, and
a fleets 80,000 men.
London. The highest accident
death rate among industrial workers
ir: Great Britain, is among seamen (53
per 10,000), and the death rate of
seamen in sailing vessels is three
times as great as even this ratio.
Washington. During 1907 strikes
for increase of wages have, been more
successful than those for any othe
cause. During 1901-05, 6 per cent of
all strikes and 12 per cent of all lock
outs were settled by joint agreement,
and less than 2 per cent of the
strikes and a little over 2 per cent
of the lockouts were" settled by arbitration.
Washington. A plan by which the
metal trades of the United States may
act as a unit and, if heed ba, call
vast sympathetic strikes, extending
over the whole country, is suggested
by President Gompers of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, who issued
a call to John Fitzpatrick, president
of the Chicago Federation of Labor,
who in turn called a conference of
the officials of the Metal Workers'
Unions of Chicago.
New York. "It isn't generally
known, but is nevertheless true," sai 1
a prominent official of the Bookbind
ers Union, "that more than 30 per
cent of our members throughout the
United States and Canada'are already
working on an eight hour schedule,
and the number is steadily increasing.
Ey the 1st of October fully 50 per
cent of the binders and rulers will
be enjoying the shorter workday, and
we do not expect much trouble.
Pittsburg. The bottle blowers are
well satisfied with the policy that has
been pursued since machines were
Introduced into the industry. Ac
cording to President D. A." Hayes this
policy has reduced the hold which
Hen-unionism had on this method of
production and resulted in the em
ployment of union men on the ma
chines at good wages. During the
last fire there were 186 machines in
operation, on which there were 710
men employed, an increase of eighty
over the previous fire.
New York. la a great many in
stances where trade unions pay sick
and death benefits men are dropping
their fraternal societies in favor of
their unions. The Stonecutters' Jour
nal on this subject says: "The first
four months of this year sixty-seven
stonecutters died in good standing
and received $6,700 by return mail to
pay their death benefit.". This is the
largest number of stonecutters that
ever died in that space of time in the
entire history of the general union.
Boston. The 'Longshoremen's Trade
Council, which includes all the 'long
shoremen's unions ' and assemblies,
last .week adjusted a dispute with the
'stevedores for the Warren Steamship
company. Last May the council made
an agreement with the Atlantic con
ference of steamship agents and
stevedores in which certain rules re
garding night work were made espe
cially emphatic. It was claimed the
Warren line stevedores were violat
ing the terms. Simon Donovan, for
he firm, agreed to live up to the rules.
The council accepted the settlement,
and ordered the men not to work the
next ship unless the agreement was
being lived up to.
ha'e also made similar appeals, to
say nothing about editorials in the la
bor press.
Announcement is made that the five
officials of the English labor party in
Parliament are total abstainers. So
are also the chairman and secretary of
the Trades Union Congress, twenty
nine labor members of Parliament, and
forty-three general secretaries of
trades unions.
Sometime ago at a conference of
tbirty representatives of labor and
thirty representatives of the employers
in a particular trade, It was suggested
t.iat "all hands." come into the 'bar
room of the hotel to have a drink.
Every man on the employers', side
agreed, but only two workingmen ac
cepted -tie invitation twenty-eight
were total abstainers.
A committee' of six bricklayers had
just concluded an agreement for a pic
nic of their local, with the owner of a
summer garden. As was his custom,
he invited the committee to "have one
or. him." Three drank lemonade, two
to. k cigars and one accepted a glass
of light wine. "If the rest of your
crowd are like you, I won't make much
out of this deal," remarked the picnic
ground owner.
This is a pretty good showing. It
indicates that organized labor , is not
being guided by a lot of drunken ir-
responsibles. Rev. Charles Stelzle.
LABOR AND TEMPERANCE.
Unionism Makes Better Men By
Teaching Moderation. .
Comment has already been made in
one or two previous articles with ref
erence to the tendency of organized
labor to cut loose from the influence
of the saxon. President Gompers' re
port to the last convention of the
American Federation of Labor strong
ly recommended that local unions.hold
the meetings in halls free. from sa
loons. Central labor bodies have pass
ed resolutions urging trades unionists
to abstain from the use of intoxicat-
i-.g liquor because of possible injury
t- their fellow workmen, if for no
other reason. International unioiUs
ing to the La Crosse theory the car
penters could demand the expulsion
of the bricklayers, and vice versa.
What a lovely situation!
However much The Wageworker
may differ from the ministers on this
question of the liquor traffic, it
wouldn't give the snap of its finger
for a minister who did not seek to
curtail it in every possible way that
Is honest and legal. That's a minis
ter's business, and he who does not
live up to it is as much a "scab" at
God's work as the ' carpenter, the
cigarmaker or the printer who fails
to live up to the rules and regulations
of his union.
The man who can not take as well
as give blows "on the square" has not
"intestines" enough to be a genuine
union man. The brewery workers of
La Crosse are a set of puling "quit
ters who have disgraced their- union.
The central body that hearkened to
their appeal ought to be deprived of
its charter. The delegates who voted
for the expulsion of the ministerial
delegates ought to be severely dis
ciplined by their local unions.
A DISGRACE TO UNIONISM.
Ministerial Delegates Ousted on Com
plaint of Brewery Workers.
The ministers or La Crosse, Wis.,
recently organized a union and asked
the privilege of affiliating with the
local Central Labor Union. The
privilege was granted and delegates
elected and duly obligated. A few
weeks later the delegates represent
ing the Brewery Workers demanded
the expulsion of the ministerial dele
gates, alleging that the ministers had
injured them by their campaign
against the saloons. To the everlast
ing disgrace of the Central Labor
Union of that city, and the shame of
every central union in the country,
the ministerial delegates were ex
pelled.
Of course the ministers' union op
erated to the disadvantage of the
brewery workers' union, but per
contra the brewery workers' union
operated to the disadvantage of the
ministers' union, and the ministers
had a perfect right to ask the expul
sion of the , brewery workers if the"
brewery workers had a right to de
mand the expulsion of the ministers.
If a man builds a house he must
either build of brick, stone or wood.
If of brick the .bricklayers knock the
carpenters out of work, and accord-
Fell "Into Tree 'Top.
Mrs.. Myrtle Rysdike, a 17-y ear-old
aeronaut, narrowly escaped death at
Middietown, N. Y. When 300 feet un
the balloon caught fire and fell rap
idly. Mrs. Rysdike landed in a tree
top, receiving only a few scratches.
Car Owners- Organize..
Private-car owners met in Chicago
to complete the formation of their na
tional association. They desire to
bring about a uniform, lawful, equit
able system for the handling and use
of individual cars. ' ,
Much Money In Dividends
Total interest and dividends pay
able' -by leading New York corpora
tions in September will represent $76,
097,351, of which dividend disburse
ments will contribute $44,847,351, or
an increase over the same month a
year ago of $7,396,206. .
No New Cases.
There have been no new cases of
plague at San Francisco, and the
health authorities express the utmost
confidence that there is no danger of
the spread of the disease.
Caught Under Automobile.
Mrs. George P. Clifford of Grand
Forks, N. D., was probably fatally in
jured four miles west of Ashby, Minn.,
by the overturning of an automobile
in which she and her husband were
touring to St. Paul.
To Paint King's Picture.
King Edward has commissioned
Mrs. Leslie Cotton, a portrait painter
of tNew-i(York-to paint his portrait.
Two sittings have already been given
and the results are most satisfactory.
(Setting AheM
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