GENERAL MENTION.
Bit of Labor News Picked and Pilfered
From Everywhere.
Typographical Union meeting Sun
day. Bookbinders In Memphis, Tenn.,
have reorganized.
Tinners in Dubuque, la., have scored
a complete victory.
Machinists in Milwaukee have gath
ered in 112 new members since Au
gust. An Omaha street cleaner has just
learned that he is a Russian duke.
The news prostrated him. There are
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some things worse than being a street
sweeper in Omaha. ;
Trades unionism is growing at a
rapid rate in Japan.
Insist that the driver who delivers
your coal has a union card.
There is a posibility of a Iabor
Temple being erected in Ottawa. Ont.
The strike of the photo engravers
in Albany and Troy, N. Y., has been
settled.
Chaffeurs are organizing in various
cities, coming under the wings of the
machinists.
The New York State Federation of
Labor has come out flat-footed' in fa
vor of equal suffrage.
Electrical workers in St. Louis, Mo.,
have reorganized and are now recog
nized by the A. F. of L.
The Majestic theaterln Springfield,
111., has settled with the Stage Em
ployes after a two months' fight. ,
Great Britain now has close to 200,-
600 organized working women, and the
number is steadily growing each year.
A strike of strike-breakers against
the scab Cayahoga Telephone com
pany took place in Cleveland last
week.
The Leather Workers in Ottawa,
Ont., ask for a raise in wages, some
of them getting as low' as $6 per
weak.
The Illinois Baptist convention
pledged that great church to assist in
upholding the ten-hour law for women
workers.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
the Master Carpenters' association in
Greater New York have reached an
agreement.
Printers are on strike in some of
the "open shops" in Savannah, Ga.,
on account of the filthy condition of
the work rooms.
The Oklahoma State Federation of
Labor has made provison for a labor
organizer to work among the negroes
of the state.
Wisconsin supreme court upholds
the law passed by the last legislature
providing for the closing of barber
shops on Sunday.
James Klrby of Chicago has been
re-elected president of the building
trades department of the American
Federation of Labor.
The 'Typographical Union in Milan,
Italy, has 1.400 members and there
are not more than twenty non-union
men in the city. It has a nine-hour
day.
The dry gods clerks in Greater
New York are winning their strike
for better wages and shorter hours.
The wives of the strikers are doing
picket duty.
There is no humanitarian law on
the statute books of any state in the
nation that Is of interest to the whole
people but that did not find its incep
tion in the meeting hall of some labor
organization.
Michael H. Murphy, president of the
Chicago Painters' District Council,
dropped dead of heart disease in the
union headquarters Monday. Mr. Mur
phy was an old-timer in the labor
movement.
How would you like to try and sup
port a family on $3 per week? And
yet that is just what the cigarmakers
in a non-union factory in Perth Am
boy, N. J., are trying to do. It is need
less to say they are very "independ
ent."
The American Federation of Labor
has authorized the preparation of a
bill which will be introduced in con
gress soon after it convenes to estab
lish a department of labor with a sec
retary co-equal with the secretaries
of other departments.
Claiming that too many Austrians
were killed in the steel works and
smelters at Pueblo, Colo., and in the
mines of the state, the Austria-Hun
garian government 'has appointed a
consul to look into the cases. Head
quarters will be maintained in Denver.
An effort is being made in Cleve
land to thoroughly organize the ladies'
garment making industry. Men with
families are compelled to work for as
low as $4 per week, and there is no
way in the world except by organiza
tion that their conditions can be im
proved.
If the industrial employes' welfare
committee of the National Civic Fed
eration has its way, cloak models in
factories and show rooms in New
York city will have to seek other
means of livelihood. The committee
has decided that the employment of
girls is demoralizing.
KICKS AND KINKS.
Social Investigators Discussed From
a Workingman's Standpoint.
There are all kinds of folks around
here who want to help working peo
ple. Once in a while some of them
come through the shop to "study in
dustrial life" as - one of them re
marked to me. Sometimes the bunch
is chaperoned by a professor of social
science or some other dismal subject.
Occasionally they represent a charity
organization or a religious outfit of
some kind. I have no doubt that some
of these folks are sincere in their in
vestigations, but how in the world
they can expect to learn very much
about us by a swift passage through
a crowded machine shop, where most
of their time must be occupied In get
ting out of the way of grease and
things, is more than I can understand.
They talk about us as "problems."
How would you like to be a "prob
lem?" Oh, rot! It makes me tired.
I read a; magazine article the other
night which told of the experiences
of a college professor among the "la
boring classes." About all he seemed
to have discovered by his association
with us is that we "swear horribly."
Among the men working here I have
found degrees of human nature so fine
that they cannot be measured by the
most exact micrometer that was ever
invented. You cannot deal with work
ingmen as the entomologist deals with
his millions of bugs. They refuse to
be "grouped," and they prove it by
annihilating the carefully made deduc
tions of the sociologists. The sociolo
gists' rules cannot account for it.
They regard with astonishment the
workingman who seems to possess
powers equal to their own.
We live in a six-story tenement.
That is about all one can live in on
the East Side of New York. While
we were seated in our front room
chatting, there came a rap at the door,
and without waiting for our "Come in,"
there entered a group of smartly
dressed young people. "Slummers," I
said under my breath. The men did
not remove their hats, while the
women glanced quickly about, some
what uneasily, I imagined, because I
think that they partly realized this
wasn't exactly what they were after.
But the young fellows pulled out their
note-books and began to ask imper
tinent questions about my most per
sonal affairs. I tried to be courteous
at the beginning of the interview,
largely because I regarded the matter
as a huge joke. But pretty soon I
reached the limit of my patience.
Douglas began asking them the same
kind of questions about their own lives
and about their forefathers. At first
they smiled and looked at each other
in rather an amused fashion. But
very soon he had them on the run, and
they retired in the greatest confusion.
By Jove! but I was hot! After they
left I just roared for a moment, be
cause that seemed the easiest way to
let off my feelings, but I felt more like
saying some cuss-words. . Like some
other blooming idiots, these young
sters imagine that every tenement
house neighborhood is a slum. With
impunity have they been prodding
their kid-gloved fingers into working
people's private affairs. Without
shame have they been "slumming" in
the respectable tenement-house dis
trict in which the workingmen make
their homes. If I had butted into their
homes in the same way that they
burst into mine, they would have
called in the police. But wherein lies
the difference? No, ye students of
the working classes, you cannot deal
with us as you deal with the creatures
and the objects of a lower order. But
'brother" is an open sesame to every
heart, even though each heart may
have a beat all its own. Rev. Charles
Stelzle, in "Letters from a Working-
man."
STRIKE IN PHILIPPINES.
Tobacco Workers Demand More Pay
And Walk Out to Get It. ys
Since the passage of the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill, which had a fa
vorable effect on ' Philippine tobacco
and cigars, . there has been extraor
dinary demand for tobacco workers
in Manila. Most of the factories have
been running overtime with extra
shifts of workmen in anticipation of
a big demand from the United States.
The workers have now taken the op
portunity to demand increased wages,
and it is reported that 1,500 men are
on strike at the Oriente factory, which
is the largest of all the exporters.
BRITISH LABOR STATISTICS.
Nearly All Trades Show Increase for
Year 1908.
Acocrding to an article on British
trade unions by Hans Fehlinger in
the current issue of the Bricklayer
and Mason, the official journal of the
Bricklayers' and Masons' International
Union, as compared with 1898, all the
main groups of trade in Great Brist
ain, except the building group, which
has declined 17 per cent, and the
clothing group, which has declinea" 2
per cent, show a large growth in mem
bership. The relative increase was
smallest in the metal, engineering and
shipbuilding trades, where it amount
ed to 21 per cent. In the printing
trades the increase was 25 per cent,
tn the textile trades 47 per cent, and
ui the mining and quarrying group 92
per cent.
WHAT IS YOUR SHARE?
Here It Is Are You Satisfied With
Its Size?
What is your trade?
What do you do six days in the
week, or maybe seven for that mat
ter, to put food into your babies'
mouths and keep clothes on their
backs?
No matter what you do it is prob
ably some trade where a pair of toil
worn hands, a tired brain and aching
muscles are the daily accompaniment.
. Now do you know within a dollar
or- so how much of the product of
those toil worn hands, fagged brain
and aching muscles really gets home
to,, feed and clothe the wife and
babies?
-Probably not! Few working men
do. Under present day conditions
they are too busy eking out a bare
existence, too engrossed making both
ends meet when the week end comes
round to puzzle over a sum of figures
which will show them .how much the
man or corporation up on top is mak
ing off their labor.
'The following figures compiled from
the United States census reports on
manufactures by a competent statis
ticion will give you some idea as to
how many automobiles you have
helped pay for in the past year and
how many brown stone fronts and
steam yachts you have helped main
tain: In the manufacture of
Beer, labor gets fl out of every
$5.50 produced.
Flour, labor gets $1 out of every
$26.35 produced.
Fruit preserves, labor gets $1 out
of every $6.35 produced.
Steam and street railroad cars, la
bor gets $1 out of every $5.50 pro
duced. Cheese, butter and condensed milk,
labor gets $1 out of every $16.50 pro
duced. Chocolate and cocoa, labor gets $1
out of every $11.75 produced.
Men's clothing, labor gets $1 out of
every $5.35 produced.
Coffee and spices, labor gets $1 out
of every $27.75 produced.
Confectionery, labor gets $1 out of
every $5.25 produced.
. Cordage and twine, labor gets $1
out of every $7.70 produced.. ,
Fertilizers, labor gets $1 out of ev
ery $7.75 produced.
House furnishings, labor gets $1 out
of every $6.08 produced.
Leather goods, labor gets $1 out of
every $8.20 produced.
Paints, labor gets $1 out of every
$7.75 produced.
Patent medicines and compounds,
labor gets $1 out of every $7.25 pro
duced. Tobacco pipes, labor gets $1 out of
every $3.12 produced.
Slaughtering and meat packing,
labor gets $1 out of every $16.75 pro
duced. Soap and candles, labor gets $1 out
of every $8.25 produced.
Sporting goods, labor gets $1 out
of every $3.85 produced. .
Starch, labor gets $1 out of every
$7.25 produced.
.. Refining, sugar and molasses, labor
gets $1 out of every $29.33 produced.
Chewing and smoking tobacco, labor
gets $1 out of every $12.65 produced.
Seeing that the commonwealth
founded by William Penn and his de
scendants has been the shrine of the
high tariff policy of government, it re
mains to be assumed that the benefi
cial effects for breadwinners ascribed
to that system are to be seen there as
nowhere else. If the professed aim to.
levy high duties In order to contribute
to the welfare of wage earners is sin
cere and genuine, Pennsylvania ought
to be a paradise for the horny-handed
sons of toil. But how does that com
pare with the reality . Why, no state
in the union has been so prolific in
bloody labor troubles as is the case
with the Keystone state. Milford
(Mass.) News. .
UNCLE SAM BOYCOTTS.
Refuses to Patronize American Tobac
co Company Any More.
During recent years the opponents
of labor unions have had frequent
spasms over the injustice of the boy
cotts of organized labor. The present
year is no exception and in view of
the frequent appeals being made to
the -courts to restrain members of or
ganized labor from boycotting certain
firms it is of more than ordinary inter
est to note that the United States gov
ernment has undertaken to do a little
boycotting of its own against the to
bacco trust, the recognized head of
which is the American Tobacco Com
pany. The boycott is inaugurated by the
department from whose headquarters
letters have been sent to all purchas
ing agents of that branch of the
United States government instructing
them not to purchase any more sup
plies from the American Tobacco com
pany. The order is made sweeping
and goes on to specify that under no
conditions shall goods be purchased di
rectly or indirectly from the head of
the tobacco trust nor from any of Its
agents.
During the past twenty-five years
the American Tobacco company has
sold the government all the tobacco
it has purchased. Now the government
has declared a boycott against this
trust, being prompted to do so by the
insolent manner in which the tobacco
trust has disregarded the provisions
of the anti-trust law and other laws
of the government. When the govern
ment found its hands tied and unable
to enforce its own laws against the to-
bacco trust it resorted to the boycott
in much the same spirit and exactly
on the same principle as unions re
sort to the boycott when all other
means fail.
HE FOUND REAL MEN.
Heir to Millions Worked in Shops
With Royal Good Fellows.
A member of one of the wealthiest
families in the country earniug his
bread by the sweat of his brow seems
to have learned some wholesome les
sons.. James Watson Webb, son of W.
Seward Webb and grandson of the
late William H. Vanderbilt, who is
looked upon as the probable heir to
many millions of dollars, is spending
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