The New
China
The Spirit of My
Country Is .
Reform
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FXR UNION MEN
CONVENTIONS IN 1908.
Wtm and Whw Trades Union Gath
erings Will Be Held.
May lU New York City. Actors' Na
tional Protective Uaioa of America.
May 11. St. Louis, Mo, American
Federation ot Musicians.
May 11, . United Brotherhood
ot Papermakers ot America.
May . Detroit. Mich, Internal
Tin Plate Workers Protective Associa
tion of America.
Vay , York. Pa, National Print
Cotters" Association ot America.
Juno 1. St- Paul, Minn, Brother
hood ot Boilermakers and Iron Ship
builders ot America.
Jan 1. Detroit. Mich, International
Association ot Steam and Hot Water
Filers aad Helpers ot America.
June . Washington. D. C la tar
national Uaioa of Journeymen Horse
shoera. Jane. Mobile, Ala, . International
Printing Pressmen Unioa.
Jane i. Columbus, Ohio, Ciainmak
crs" National Union ot file United
Slates ot America.
Juno U SC Loaia, Mo. lateraatioaal
Association ot Marble Workecv
Jum a, International Ceramic
Mosaic aad BeacaasUc Tile Layers
aad Helpers' Uaioa.
Jan 8, Cincinnati. Ohio, Interna
tonal Brotherhood ot Bookbinders.
June S, International Brother
hood ot Tip Printers.
Jane S, Milwaukee, Wis, The Com
niercial Telegraphers Uaioa ot
April C. Toronto, Canada, Interna
tional Association ot For Workers ot
the United States aad Canada.
May 3, Brockton. Mass, Interna
tional Union of Catting Die and Cutter
Maker.
May S, Youngstown, Ohio, Amalga
Anierica. July 4. Amalgamated Leather
Workers' Uaioa ot America.
July . Atlantic City. N. J. National
Brotherhood of Ope rati re 'Longshor-
mt'i Association.
July . Buffalo, X. Y, lateraatioaal
Jtwelry Workers" Union.
July C Cincinnati. Ohio. Brush-
a-akeca" International Uiaon.
July ?. Baltimore, Md, Glass Bottle
Blowers' Asaociatioa ot the Unite!
States and Canada.
July 13. Toronto, Canada, Intern
tional Piano aad Organ Workers,
-ioa ot America.
July 13, Indianapolis, Tad, Lithe-1
graphers lateraatioaal Protective A
eociauon. Joly 13. Minneapolis. Minn, Theat
rical Stage Employes" Internationa!
Alliance.
July IS, Holyoke, Mass, America?
Wire Wearers' Protective Association.
July SO. New York City, Interna
tional steel aad Copper Plate Printers
Union.
August 3, Buffalo. X. Y, National
Association ot Heat, Frost, General In
sulators and Asbestos Workers.
August 4. Detroit, Mich, Interna
tional Glove Workers Union ot
America.
August 10. Detroit. Mich, Interna
tional Brotherhood ot Stationary Fire
men. August S. Detroit, Mich, lateraa
tioaal Brotherhood ot Teamsters.
August io. Boston, Mass, Interna
tional Typographical Union.
August 10. Boston, Mass, Interna
tional Stereotxpers and Electrotypers
Union.
August II, Indianapolis. Ind, Shirt
Waist and Laundry Workers Interna
tioaal Union.
August 24. Milwaukee. Wis, United
5si meut Workers ot America.
September X. . Table Knife
Grinders National Union.
September 2. Milwaukee, Wis,
American Brotherhood ot Cement
Workers.
September 7, Denver. Colo, Inter
national Associates ot Machinists.
September 8, New York Gty. Inter
national Photo Engravers Unioa ct
North America.
September 10. Boston. Mass, Spin
ners' International Unioa.
September 14. Montreal, CanaJa.
Journeymen Stonecutters" Association
of North America.
September 14. Philadelphia, Pa, In
ternational Union of Steam Engineers.
September 14. Philadelphia. Pa, In
ternational Brick. Tile and Terra Cotta
Workers Alliance.
September 15. Salt Lake City. Utah.
United Brotherhood ot Carpenters an J
Joiners of America.
September 17. New York City. Pock
et Knife Blade Grinders and Finish
ens National Union.
September 31, Indiaaapolis, Ind,
United Association ot Plumbers, Gjs-
fi'ters, St eani fitters and Steam fitters
Helpers of United States and Canada
September 21, Indianapolis. lad
International Association of Bridge
ard Structural Iron Workers.
October 3, Washington, D. C, Bak
ery aad Confectionery Workers' In
ternational Union.
October 3, St. Louis. Mo, Interna
tional Union of Wood. Wire and Metal
Lathers.
October 20. Coaoes, N. Y, United
Textile Workers of America.
November 5. Dearer. Colo, Ameri
can "Federation of Labor.
November 10, Bangor, Pa, Interna
tional Union of Slate Workers.
November 12. Tinalhavea. Me, Lob
ster Fisherfmen's International Protec
tive Association.
December 7. New Orleans, La, In
ternational Brotherhood of Maintea-ance-of-Way
Employes.
December 7. Brooklyn, N. Y, Na
tional Alliance ot Bill Posters aad
Riilers of America,
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR.
A Few of Its Declarations Upon Which
It Appeals to All Working People
To Organize, Unite, Federate, and
Cement the Bonds of Fraternity.
1- The Abolition of all Forms ot In
voluntary Servitude, except as a pun
ishment for crime.
2. Fr. Schools. Free Text-Books.
ad Compulsory education.
3. Unrelenting Protest Against the
Issuance and Abuse of Injunction Pro
cess in Labor Disputes.
4. A workday of not more than
Eight Hoars ia the twenty -four hour
day.
5. A strict recognition of not over
Eight Hours per day on all Federal
State or Municipal Work, and at not
less than the prevailing Per Diem
Wage Rate of the class of employ
ment in the vicinity where the work
is performed.
6. Release from employment One
Day in Seven.
7. The Abolition of the Contract
System oa Public Work.
S. The Municipal Ownership ot Pub
lic Utilities.
9. The Abolition of the Sweat Shoo
System.
10. Sanitary Inspection of Factory.
Workshop, Mine, and Home.
11. Liability of Employers, tor in
jury to body or toss of life.
21. The Nationalization of Tele
graph and Telephone.
13. The passage of Anti-Child Labor
Laws in States wh-re they do not ex
ist and rigid defense of them where
.-hey have been enacted into law.
141 Woman Suffrage coequal with
Man Suffrage.
13. The Initiative and Referendum
and the Imperative Mandate and Right
of Rec?L
16. Suitable and Plentiful Play
grounds for Children ia an cities.
17. Continued agitation for the Pub
lic Bath System in all cities.
13- Qualifications in permits to build
of all cities and towns that there shall
be Bathroorrs and Bathroom Attach
ments in all houses or compartments
used for habitation.
19. We fivor a system of finance
whereby money shall be issued exclu
sively by the Government, with such
regulations and restrictions as will
protect it from manipulation by the
banking interests for their ova pri
vate gains.
The above is a partial statement of
he demands which organized labor.
in the interest of the workers aye,
of an the people ot our country
makes i-pon modern society.
Higher wages, shorter workday.
tttter labor conditions, better homes,
better rnd safer irorkshops, factories.
mills, aad mines. Ia a word, a better,
higher, and nobler life.
Conscious wf the justice, wisdom ani
nobliity of our cause, the American
Federation of Labor appeals to all
nea and women of labor to join with
us ia the great movement for its
tchievenieat.
More than two million wage-earners
who have reaped the advantages of
organitalton and federation appeal to
their brothers ani sisters of toil to
participate ia the glorious movement
with its attendant benefits.
There are a diluted to the Ameri
can Federation of Labor US Interna
tional Trades Unions with their 27
t-00 Local Unions: 36 State Federa
tions; 537 City Central Bodies a&l
630 Local Trade and Federal Labor
Unions, having no Internationals.
We have nearly 1.000 volunteer and
special organisers as well as the offi
cers of the im'ons and of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor itself always
willing and aa.ious to aid their fellow
workmen to .rganize and In every
other way better their conditions.
For inform a lion all are invited to
write to the American Federation of
Labor headquarters at Washington,
D. a
By WU TING-FANG.
a Caned '.
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Labor Temple Benefit. Auditorium,
April 23, 24. 25. "In the Land of Gold."
James Fulton and His Merry Company.
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The spirit of China is reform. We are advanc
ing in every direction. We have awakened. Mark
my-words. From now on we will make proeress
which will not merely astound a Chinese returning
to his country after a long absence, but all who have
an interest in my country. f
One can go from Pekin to Paris by rail; from
Pekin to Hankow bv rail. This is one of the inter-
V' I esting featues of the awakening of my country. Xo
j I longer is there hostility to the train. The peop!?
Ifl I want tin railroad. Ther are easrer for it." Thev lik
to ride in trains. We have about 4,000 li of roal
now and we want a great deal more. But there is the question of capital.
Many Chinese believe in the slogan: '"China for the Chinese." They
don't wani capital to come in which will give foreign powers a chance to
interfere in the affairs of the empire. At the same time they want the
railroads built. This must become the subject of agieements so that our
rights and interests will be fully protected.
It won't he long before a railroad connec ts Shanghai and Pekin. They
are building it now. When I go back to China again I certainly expect to
run to Pekiu from Shanghai by rail. One of our troubles is a lat k of ex
pert men to run the engine. Our native workriien make excellent en- -gineers,
but they have to be trained. They are doing well, however. We
know now how to harness the locomotives and we are making them do the
work as you do it in the United States.
Within five years I believe China will have a constitution. We hal
commissions abroad which made thorough investigations of the constitu
tions of the most advanced countries. The reports of these commissions
have been studied with the greatest care. Preliminary measures have been
taken for the adoption of an instrument best suited lo the needs of our
people. We are not ready j-et for anything of the kind, but we learn fast.
There has been constituted already in Pekin a body similar to that of the
house of lords in England. This is made np of the nobility. Then we
are getting an assembly together. Some day these two bodies will be
joined together in a parliament End we shall then have a constitutional
srovernment.
Marriage
Ethics
Are
Advancing
-frcaauarre rums SHJUI.
Marriage was the first thing we really
made ethics about, and we have been mak
ing ethics about it ever since and will con
tinue to make ethics about it, for the eth
ics of marriage is still in the process of
formation.
In the matriarchal period, before there
was marriage, when woman was free and
only respected and honored in her mother
hood, there was little or no ethies. But in
the tatriarchal period, which saw the in
troduction of the family, even though wom
en were only property and a man had as
many wives as he could buy, a very certain
and new ethics was developed, and from that time until the present that
very certain and new ethics has been developing.
A higher order of marriage has developed as the race has advanced
and a higher order of ethics has developed as our ideas of marriage have
advanced, until to-day we have a cleaner, nobler, more practical and alto
gether higher idea of marriage than ever before, with ethics to correspond-In
our life to-day, in marriage and out of it, as in centuries gone,
more importance is attached to the sinning of women than to the sinning
of men, and for what reason ? For answer we must go back to the renjate
past, to which we are so securely anchored and by the ideas of which we
are so surely influenced in all we believe, think ami
do, and find our explanation in the fact that woman's
duty developed first and became more or less fixed be
fore man's duty was considered of any importance.
We must go back to that remote past for explana
tion of many points of ethics of toinlaT- We are tied in
many respects to the ethics of centuries ago. The eth
ics of our ancestors have been handed down from
generation to generation; they have kept their hold
the world through their continued influence on
on
children.
True
Mating
Means
Happiness
irin.
Sometimes marriage is called a state
of bliss and again we hear people say that
it is something else than blisat That is as
the man and the woman make it. When
two persons are joined together according
to God's word in the holy estate of matri
mony, which St Paul says is honorable
among all men, they hare it in their power
to he Terr happy or quite the reverse. If
love has brought about the anion and both
husband and wife have the consideratioa
for each other they should have, they will
be happy and their home will be an altar of
God and will be blessed by him.
Every man or woman centers his or her affection on some object
Sometimes it is a dog, sometimes a horse and very often another human
being of the opposite sex. In most cases when this last is so marriage
is the result. Since this is true and since marriage is a sacrament, it be
hooves every person to choose the right partner in life and be very careful
about that choice. In choosing men for their husbands women should be
careful not to'be attracted by the flashy and entertaining man, bat by one
of stability and character. Good men come high. It is not hard for a
woman to" get a husband, but the difficulty lies in getting the right sort
of man.
In the choosing of wives the same rule obtains. A man should not
set his affections on a young woman because she is pretty, beoanse she
can sing well, dance gracefully or kick high, but because she has character
because she is a good woman and because she will be a loving and faithful
companion along life's journey. When husbands and wives are chosen
for any other reasons that marriage is not as God's word doth allow, aad
wil? not be a happy one.