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Colorado "Springs, Col. The dona
tion of $100,000 to the home of the In
ternational Typographical union, made
by a philanthropic Colorado woman,
whose name is withheld, has caused
a halt in plans for immediate building
of the Cunimings memorial addition at
$110,000 cost. This addition as planned
will practically double the size of the
main building. The $100,000 dona
tion, however. Is a nucleus to secure
cottages on the grounds for the fam
ilies of infirm or aged inmates. The
constitution of the order will be
amended to admit of. this innovation.
At present 125 families are interested.
This will admit of war on tuberculo
sis that cannot be well waged now,
with close proximity of aged and sick
patients in 'one building. Tents are
used limitedly in fair weather, but
this is not permanent, as cottages
should be. A fund much larger than
the $100,000 may be secured by philan
thropic donation, possibly for con
struction and endowment of colleges.
New York. The question of a strike
of printing pressmen and press feed
ers in cities where recent demands of
the union for an eight-hour day, with
increased wages, have not been grant
ed, is now being decided by a refer
endum vote of the members of the In
ternational Pressmen'3 and Assist
ants' union. The vote was ordered by
President George L. Berry, of Cincin
nati, following the completion of an
agreement entered into between the
New York locals and the New York
Printers league, comprising about 80
firms of employing printers, which be
comes operative November 19. and
will last until January 1, 1909. By the
terms of this agreement the employes
will work eight hours a day and the
pressmen will receive an increase in
their wages of one dollar a week,
making their wages $23. The feeders
signed a scale of $16 per week last
March and will not be affected finan
cially. New Orleans. About 500 longshore
men and teamsters went on a strike
here on the river front, when the
crews of the Leyland line and Austro
American line steamers started stow
ing cotton in vessels. The strike was
expected, the steamship agents having
failed to make an agreement with the
cotton screw men. Other union labor
ers besides the screw men, longshore
men and teamsters are interested and
it is probable that 8,000 men, repre
senting practically every class of la
bor along the river, will become in
volved. Wheeling, W. Va. Judge A. G. Day
ton, In the federal court here sen
tenced John Beymer, a striking tele
phone lineman, and his wife to 60
days for contempt of court. Some
time ago the court granted an injunc
tion against the strikers. Two days
I later Beymer and his wife were ar-
resiea. ineir onense consisted oi
calling nonunion men "scabs." Judge
Dayton . scored labor unions for at
tempting to interfere with the right of
man to work if he chooses.
Brockton, Mass. John F. Tobin, na
tional president of the Boot and Shoe
Workers' union,, with which the WC L.
Douglass Co. had a working contract,
has sent a letter to the striking last
ers of that concern announcing that
unless they went back to their places
Immediately they would be liable to
fine and suspension from the union.
The strike of 250 men followed the re
fusal of the company to recognize an
officer of an independent organization
secretly formed.
Wabash, Ind. The 200 employes of
the Pioneer Hat factory walked out
pending an agreement on the new
schedule of prices. The hat factory
employes are the best paid of any in
Wabash and the strike is severely felt
There is no attempt to make the plant
nonunion, but the men declared to
work no longer unless the schedule de
cided upon by the union is signed.
This Nathan Meyer, the proprietor,
refused.
St. Louis. The joint executive
board of the St. Louis Union of Retail
Clerks' International association has
Inaugurated ' a movement to enforce
the Sunday closing' law against retail
stores in St. Louis and for the eight
hour workday.'
Washington. The percentages of
the total number of strikes in the prin
cipal industrial states last year were
a3 follows: New York, 27.75; Penn
sylvania, 11.31; Illinois, 9.86; Massa
chusetts, 7.55, and Ohio, 6.99. Of the
strikers 25.12 per cent, of the total
were in Pennsylvania; 21.15 in New
York; 13.31 in Illinois; 6. 36 in Ohio
and 5.25 in Massachusetts. In these
states the greatest number of lock
outs also occurred.
Sharon, Pa. Three hundred ton
nage employes of the South Sharon
sheet mill of the American Sheet and
Tinplate company have been informed
of an increase in wages of 2 per cent.,
effective Sept. 1. The advance is In ac
cordance with the sliding scale, and it
is said that all the sheet workers
in the employ of the United States
Steel corporation are affected.
Boston. As a result of conferences
held between the Boston & Maine
railroad officials and the union 1,500
employes in the freight, baggage, sig
nal, switch and crossing departments
have secured an increase in wages
Washington. The bureau of labor
of the federal department of com
merce and labor has published an in
teresting comparison, showing what
an hour's wages, on the average.
would buy of food in 1906, as cois
pared with the average during the
decade from 1890 to 1899. The retail
price of the principal articles of food,
weighed according to family consump
tion of the various articles, was 15.7
per cent, higher in 1906 than the aver
age price for the ten-year period; but
taking the increase of wages into ac
count, the purchasing power of an
hour's wages in 1906, as measured by
food was 7.3 per cent greater and of
a full week's wages 2.4 per cent,
greater. The reduction in hours of
labor explains the fact that the pur
chasing power of a week's wages in
creased less than the purchasing pow
er of an hour's "wages.
Alexandria, Ind. The 500 striking
Penn-American plate glass workmen,
who went out on a strike recently de
manding pay days every two weeks
on Saturday, have failed to accomplish
anything and went back to work. The
company will perhaps stick to its de
termination to pay on the 10th and
25th of the month, or as near that
time as it chooses. The ten days of
shutdown has been improved by the
factory in making repairs to machin
ery and buildings.
Washington. After a conference
with President Roosevelt, Postmaster
General Meyer announced that the
attorney general had completed an
opinion sustaining the Meyer modifi
cation of the Cortelyou mail-weigning
order, which, it is stated, will save
the government several million dollars
a year in railway mail pay. The Mey
er amendment makes Sunday a "work
ing day" in all cases where the mails
are carried and weighed on that day.
Helsingfors, Finland. The , bakers
went on a strike and the -master re
solved upon a new departure. They
invited women and girls to take the
vacant places at the same v:ages the
strikers had refused. The places were
instantly, filled to the great satisfac
tion of both employes and employers.
Heretofore baking has been a male
pursuit only in Finland. Men and
women here receive exactly the same
wages for the same kind of work.
Berlin. Letter carriers here begin
on a salary of 900 marks ( mark equals
23.8 cents), with an allowance in ad
dition of 360 marks after years of
service. They work 12 nours a day,
and the average weight of mai. deliv
ered daily is laO pounds, except when
the American mails arrive, which in
crease it to 300 pounds. Appoint
ments are made by examination and
preference is given to those who have
served in the Germany army.
Pawtucket, R. I. The scarcity of
help in the mills and factories through
out the Blackstone valley is proving
a serious offset to the general pros
perity resulting from a favorable mar
ket for the product of the mills. Most
of the factories are being rushed to
the limit, and at the same, time are
refusing orders for goods. Nearly
every trade in the district is experi
encing the same shortage of unskilled
labor.
Indianapolis, Ind. F. M. Ryan of
Chicago was reelected general presi
dent of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
at the annual convention here, over
Dave Jennings of Cleveland. The con
vention decided to meet here again
next year.
Shamokin, Pa. The Shamokin and
Mount Carmel, transit line between
this place and Ashland, which was
tied up since last May by employes
going on a strike, has been sold by
the principal stockholders, residing In
Lancaster county, to coal-region capi
talists, headed by former Congressman
E. W. Samuel of Mount Carmel. The
road, which is 16 miles long, will be
reopened at once.
Pittsburg, Pa. The big Bessemer
departments of the Homestead Steel
works, as well as the Duquesne works
of the United States Steel corporation,
have, been closed. The Dequesne de
partment will not be reopened. The
Homestead bessemer department wlJI
be closed for at least 30 days. This
is one of the first movements at reduc
ing expenses.
Providence, R. I. The Rhodes Is
land State Federation of Labor has
petitioned the members of congress
for the enactment of a law which
would prohibit government bands com
peting with civilian bands.
Toronto. According to . the census
returns, wages in Canada have in
creased 27 per cent, the past five
years.
Charleston, W. Va., The outlook in
the West Virginia coal fields for the
coming winter is considered grave by
the coal operators owing to the scar
city of miners. In the Pittsburg dis
trict, however, both miners and oper
ators declare that conditions are nor
mal; in fact, a little better now than
they were at the same period a year
ago.
, St. Louis. The general executive
board of the Independent Boot and
Shoe Workers' Union of Missouri has
extended the strike begun by the cut
ters of St. Louis so as to include over
22,000 members of the allied trade.
A PRINTER "DOPE SHEET"
The local Typographical Union will
vote soon on several propositions sub
mitted to the referendum by the Hot
Springs convention. As usual, the sal
ary proposition comes up again.
Under all the circumstances, The
Wageworker believes that the proposi
tion to increase the salaries of the
president and vice president should
be defeated. This is due in no wise
to any personal antagonism to the
gentlemen holding those important
positions. At present the president
and secretary receive $2,100 a year
each, this including their services as
(rustee3 of the Home. In addition to
this they have very liberal expense
accounts. The rank and . file have
been making great sacrifices for two
years to make the eight-hour day a
reality, and the 2 per cent assessment
is still in force. We cheerfully admit
that all else being equal the inter
national officers should be better paid,
but we submit in all candor that the
time to grant that increase is not
when the rank and file are paying an
assessment that has taken more than
$100 per man during the past eighteen
months. The international officers
may deem an increase due them, but
they ought to be willing to make sac
rifices like the rest of us. A salary
of $2,100 a year, together with a lib
eral expense account, is pretty fair
wages under all the circumstances.
The argument that there are foremen
drawing that much or more is of no
weight. There are not a dozen men
holding cards in the Typographical
Union who receive more than $2,100
a year, let alone their expenses.
If The Wageworker is not mistaken
the prevailing sentiment is that no
increase of salary should be granted
until the eight hour fight is wholly
settled and the assessment removed.
The pension proposition should be
carefully studied by every member.
It provides that every member who
has been in continuous good standing
for twenty years, and has reached
the age of 60 years, may have a pen
sion of $4 a week from the interna
tional, provided he shall not earn more
than $4 a week working at the trade.
The plan is a good one and should be
carried by an overwhelming vote. It
is a very safe and a ridiculously cheap
form of insurance. It will relieve the
pressure- on the Home and will be a
blessing to many an old timer in the
days to come. Let No. 209 make it
unanimous, in favor ' of the pension
proposition.
The Wageworker does not believe
the proposition to release jurisdiction
over the Newspaper Writers is found
ed on good faith. True but one or
two locals have been organized and
only forty or fifty members, enrolled.
But is it wisdom to curtail jurisdic
tion to any degree? It looks very
much as if it wa3 intended' as a slap
at Victor Berger. Now this humble
little paper has no particular reason
to take up the cudgels in defense of
Berger. It believes that he has . too
often represented a political party at
the expense of the union. But his
unionism is unquestioned. He has
been something of a. thorn in the flesh
of a few would-be dictators, and' they
seek to get rid of him by taking his
card away from him directly. He car
ries a card in the Newspaper Writers'
Union, and if jurisdiction is released
he will be left out. The Wageworker
man is going to vote against the prop
osition.
George Willnot Harris, the recal
citrant and impudent president of the
Benevolent Order of ZooZ, who was
removed for cause, has joined hands
with the jealous Warren C. Browne,
and the precious pair of them have
tried to imitate the example of South
Carolina and secede fro mthe union.
They held a rump convention in New
York a few days ago and sent out
their nullification order.
But they will get theirs, just like
Butte. "By the Eternal," the B. O. O,
Z. must and shall be preserved.
Butte is showing fight. It was or
dered by the Hot Springs convention
that the Butte Union withdraw its
appeal and apologize to the executive
council on pain of losing its charter.
Butte has met since then and politely
told the executive council to go to-.
Mark the prediction: the" executive
council is going to find itself up
against it when It tries to make good
its boast that e'the executive council
always finds a way to enforce its man
dates." In the first place, the Butte
union was never put on trial. , On
what meat do these Cesars of the
executive council feed that they can
revoke charters without a trial? And
how is the executive council by im
perial ukase to deprive men of their
legal rights to the Home? By what
right can they deprive a man of his
right to participation in the pension
fund? This is what is going to hap
pen: Butte refuses to apologize and
the next step will be for the executive
council to take steps to revoke the
Butte charter. Then Butte will enjoin
the council, and when the matter is
threshed out in the courts Butte will
win.
A few more Butte and Philadelphia
cases and the International Typo
graphical Union will awaken to the
fact that it is- not wise to let two or
three men grab too much power and
authority.
"The Butte Mulligan" is the name
of a paper on the exchange de3k. It
is issued by Butte union to adver
tise its annual fiesta, and it is labeled
"Special Apology Number." And the
apologies malce mighty interesting
reading, too.
The Hammond Printing company
of Fremont continues to herd in a
"country printer" or two now and
then. The Tribune of October 16 an
nounces the arrival of a certain ex
editor to take a position in the me
chanical department, and it says, "He
is one of the best printers in the
state." It is" to laugh!" He is' a
"blacksmith" as a mechanic and a
four-flush as a newspaper man. ' The
more of his ilk the Hammonds secure
the better off the Typographical
Union will be until the fight is really
settled. '
Up to date nothing definite has
been heard concerning the "squaring"
of the Woman's Home Companion.
The last Typographical Journal made
no mention1 of it. Better wait before
sending in your subscription. ,
It cost the International over $500
for express charges on 'trunks" and
boxes" from Indianapolis to Hot
Springs. But this is $200 less than it
cost from Indinapolis to Colorado
Springs. At the same time something
like ten or a dozen clerks and officials
from, headquarters went to Hot
Springs. Was their personal baggage
so heavy they could not . check an
extra trunk or two?
On October 13, Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Maupin celebrated the thirteenth an
niversary of their marriage. Mark
the double hoodoo! It happened on
Sunday, and in the evening about a
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dozen friends who had learned of the
anniversary dropped in and spent the
evening. Everybody had a good time,
or said they did. And the head of the
house didn't buy any hominy, either.
West Baden, Ind., Oct. 15 Special
Correspondence) Nothing doing now.
It's all over until next time.
Shelby Smith, senior viper, declines
election to the headship of the Benev
olent Order of ZooZ, and names Har
ry DeGour of Reading, Pa.,, for the
place. DeGour is one of the original
vipers who made good at Toronto. He
will be eligible just as soon as he re
mits the percapiter to the Most Wor
shipful Secretary (which is us) and
promises to do a better stunt of vip
ing than he has been doing for a
month or two. THE executive, coun
cil has acquiesced in the demand that
the percapiter be remitted to the Most
Worshipful Secretary (which is still
us), and sweet peace now broods over
the Jungle., All roads lead to 'Bos
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v CAPITAL AUXILIARY.
A pleasant meeting with a good at
tendance was held with Mrs. Wa
than, 1744. Garfield street, last Friday.
Amendments to the international con
stitution were discussed, and will be
voted on, at a meeting to be held for
that purpose at the home of Mrs. H.
W. Smith, 1725 P street, on Monday,
October 21, between the hours of two
and six p. m. It is hoped that all
members wil take an interest in the
business of this meeting and vote on
these amendments. '
The social dance was voted down,
and instead we are to have a Hallow
e'en party on the Tuesday evening,
October 29, with Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Mickel, 1945 South Sixteenth street.
The next meeting will be with Mrs.
B. O. Wilson, 1124 K street, Friday,
October 25, at 2:30 p. m. .
' Mr. and Mr3. Hebbard drove to Sew
ard last week, to see friends.
COMING CONVENTIONS.
Dates of Meeting -of International
Union Conventions for 1907. :
. November 11 Norfolk, Va.; Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
December 2 Chicago; Bill Posters
and Billers. ,
December . 2 Chicago; Seamen's
Union. '
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