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, PANIC IN A KANSAS CHURCH.
The Organist Restored Order With
Music When a Pillar Fell.
Just as the Rev.' Dr. H. L. Murlin,
president of Baker university, had fin
ished his dedicatory sermon at the
new $41,000 M. E. church at Salina
and had announced that he had a sur
prise In store for the audience, a pillar
supporting the balcony fell witha
loud crash. The audience of between
1,60 Oand 5,000 persons was thrown
into a panic.
The orsanist, Mrs. Dowlings of
Springfield, Mo., realizing that the
only danger fay in persons being tram
pled in the panic, began to play a
hymn on the pipe organ, and quiet was
restored before anyone was injured.
The failing of the pillar was caused by
the settling of its iron base. The re
sult was that the balcony Bagged sev
eral inches in the middle, but the
cost of repair will not be great.
After the audience had been reas
sured the Rev. Murlin sprung the sur
prise which he had promised before
the panic, but nearly half the audience
had left the church. He announced
that $1,000 had been raised upon
which to Bend the pastor, the Rev. E.
M. Evans, to Palestine.
8TATE CHAUTAUQUAS ORGANIZE.
To Secure Setter 'Speakers and Im
prove the Courses the Object.
Representatives of nine Chautauque
associations of Kansas met in Topeka
and organized a mutual benefit organi
zation which will be known as the Kan
sas Chautauqua alliance., The purpose
of the new organization is to raise the
standard of Chautauflua work through
out the state, secure better lecturers
and attractions for the summer
courses and )ook after other matters
intended to improve the courses.
There are eighteen organizations in
Kansas which are eligible to member
ship in this alliance. The requirements
are that the association be organized
and comply with the plans of the gen
eral association. Nine of the Kansas
associations were directly represented
and five more were represented by let
ter and they agreed to help in the
state work. The officers elected were:
President, W. H. Eaton, Clay Center;
vice president, A. O. Ebright, Sterling;
.treasurer, C. F. Henson, Paola; secre
tary, Miss Chloe Mattison, Kansas
City, Kansas.
INSURANCE QUESTION NOW.
Kansas Attorney General Preparing
. His Anti-Trust Case Queries.
The attorney general is now prepar
ing a list of questions to be asked of
the eighty insurance companies made
defendants in the anti-trust suit filed
In the district court in Topeka. The
supreme court has held the interro
gatory law constitutional in the Har
vest trust suit and the same methods
will be employed in getting evidence
from the insurance companies charged
with violating the anti-trust laws.
The attorney general expresses him-
LABOR'S NATIONAL PLATFORM.
. The abolition of all forma of In
voluntary servitude except as a pun
ishment for crime.
2. Free schools, free text books and
compulsory education.
. 3. Unrelentng protest against the
issuance and abuBe of injunction pro
cess in labor disputes.
4. A work day of not more than
eight hours in the twenty-four hour
day.
5. A strict recognition of not over
eight hours a day on all federal, state
or municipal work and at not less than
the prevailing per diem wage rate ol
the class of employment in "the vici
nity where the work is performed.
6. Release from employment one
day in seven.
7., The abolition of the contract sys
tem on public work.
8. The municipal ownership of pub
lic utilities.
9. The abolition of the sweat shop
system.
10. Sanitary inspection of factory,
workshop, mine and home.
11. Liability of employers for In
Jury to body or loss of life.
12. - The nationalization of telegraph
and telephone.
13. The passage of anti-child labor
laws in states where they do not exist
and rigid defense of them where they
have been enacted into law.
14. Woman suffrage co-equal with
nfan suffrage, the inltiatve and refer
endum and the imperative mandate
and right of recall.
15. Suitable and plentiful play
grounds for children in all cities.
16. Continued agitation for the pub
lic bath system in all cities.
. 17. Qualifications in permits to build
of all cities and towns, that there shall
be bathroom and bathroom attach
ments in all houses or compartments,
used for habitation.
DRESS PATTERNS.
New York Typographical Union, No.
6, states that the following patterns
are fair:
McCall's.
Independent Peerless.
Pictorial Review.
Union Dime.
Paris Modes.
Economy.
Home Pattern Company.
All the Butterlck patterns and pub
lications are way up on the 'list of
scabs, and should not be allowed In
any workingman's home, especially If
he is a union man.
THE MACHINISTS.
Detect a Traitor in the Ranks and
Quickly Expel . Him.
The twelfth biennial convention of
the Machinists, held at St. Louis last
week, found itself called upon to dis
cipline a traitor. After an executive
session lasting nearly a day, the con
vention expelled George Warner of
New York City, having found him
guilty of "grafting" on the organiza
tion and using his official connection
with it to feather his own nest. It
was shown, by open acknowledgement
on -the part of the man who paid the
money, that Warner was on the pay
roll of the Erie, and that he received
$10,000 a year for this Influence In pre
venting ' strikes and in keeping the
machinists from making demands, upon
the company for better wages and con
ditions. J. C. Stewart, general man
ager of the' Erie, wrote a letter ad
mitting that Warner had for a long
time been employed by the Erie to
use the machinists in the road's in
terests. The proof was overwhelming
and Warner was fired out.
GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
'With the Scissors.
The union label that's all.
Look for the union label.
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
Steamfitters in Hamilton, Ohio, have
organized.
Union made shoes are sold by Hog
rs & Perkins. -
Attend the Scoville meetings. They
will lo you good.
Talk up the park bond . proposition.
You are entitltd to the best there is
in the line of parks. ,
The Canadian Trade Congress will
petition the Dominion government to
grant pensions to aged workmen.
A new district council of cabinet
makers has been formed, embracing
the Minneapolis and St. Paul locals.
The Massachusetts" Liquor League
at a meeting held at Fall River, unani
mously voted to buy only union made
cigars.
The St. Paul Trades and Labor As
sembly rescinded their resolutions re
cently adopted boycotting the daily
papers in that city.
The Brotherhood of Railway Car
men now has 455 lodges, with a total
membership, of 30,451, with a cash
balance of $27,866.94.
The Panama canal authorities have
discontinued hiring labor abroad, the
42,000 men now at work being suf
ficient for the present. -
Pettibone's trial has been set for
next Tuesday and Orchard's trial has
been indefinitely postponed. Petti
bone is quite a sick man.
The Nova Scotia' . government has
appointed a commission to examine
into and report on the feasibility of
bid age pensions fosworkmen.
The Farmers' Union of Georgia,
with a membership of 80,000, has gone
on .record in opposition to the at
tempts to flood the south with foreign
immigrants.
Attention is called to a lot of new
advertisers in this issue. Help your
selves and The . Wageworker by pat
ronizing the merchants who advertise
in the local labor paper. ,
It now looks as if affiliation of the
New York longshoremen with the In
ternatiocaV Union and the American
Federation of Labor was a question
soon to be settled affirmatively.
The Carpenters held a big meeting
Tuesday ,( night and took action on a
matter that is of more concern to
them than anybody else 'and they
took the wrong action. , ,
Labor organizations in New York
state have , a. membership of more
than one-fourth of the totg.1 number
of votes. The aggregate membership
of the 2,459 unions is 414,718, includ
ing 12,515 women members.
Mrs. Will Bustard visited the Print
ers' Home at Coloraod Springs one
day last week. She was on her way
to Portland, Ore., and stopped off at
the Springs to visit , with Mrs. Sam
Hoon, formerly of this city...
St. Paul carpenters are again com
plaining that members of the Minne
apolis local are working in their ter
ritory at the Minneapolis scale, which
is 2 cents lower than' that prevail
ing in St. Paul. The usual investiga
tion is being held.
For the first time in the history of
unions of the United States, Japanese
laborers were present as recognized
delegates at a convention of union
men in, the annual meeting of district
No. 22, United Mine Workers, recent
ly held in Denver.
The Brotherhood of Silvar Workers
has made a general demand all over
the country for a nine-hour workday
at ten hours' pay, but has decided to
put i it in force, in New York and Its
vicinity first, action in other sections
to be guided by the results there. '
It is said that the International As
sociation of Machinists has adopted
a resolution providing that each mem
ber of the association lay aside one
day's pay each year to go into a gen
eral strike fund. It is figured that
In a few years the fund will run into
the millions.
' The Brewery proposition, If carried
out, means the addition of a . lot of
wage earners to the Lincoln list. ; It
means thousands of dollars additional
to the total of wages paid in iLncoln.
It means keeping thousands of dol
lars at home: that are now sent
abroad. It's a good business propo
sition, look at it as you may.
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