GENERAL MENTION.
SHOP
EARLY
IN THE
WEEK
IWotidLeiyr Morning, January 3d
Brief Bit of News Picked Up and
Pilfered From Manywhere.
Teamsters in Toledo received 53
new applications last week.
Shoe cutters In Rochester, X. Y.,
are being supplanted by Armenians
and Greeks. '
Four hundred women joined the
Waist Makers' Union In Newark. N.
J. last week.
Moving picture operators in Cin
cinnati have almost every show house
in the city unionized.
The Ilock Island cut the pay of its
section men In Dubuque, la., to $1.25
u cut of 10 cents. They are unorgan
ized. The one concern in Fort Worth,
Ind., that Insisted on handling and act
ing as agent for Buck's Stoves has re
tired from business.
The Lebanon Valley Iron Com
pany, Lebanon, Pa., has granted pud
dlers an 'increase from $t to $4.50.
Four hundred men are affected.
Steamfitters In Cleveland report
every shop in the city with one ex
ceptlon la union, and there are not
more than four competent mechanics
outside of the union.
Union made sample shoes
1-2 off. Rogers & Perkins
1129 O Street.
The Railroad Telegraphers' Union
Is a widespread one. It has members
In Canada, the United States, Porto
Rico, Cuba, the Hawaiian Island, and
the Philippines.
Factory Inspector Watklns has
been securing data of the Labor
Unions In Jackson, "Mich. Every
union has reported an -increase in Its
membership. In some cases a 50 per
ceut Increase is noted.
Painters In Jackson, Mich., feel jubi
lant over the success of their eflorts
to increase the membership. It is ex
pected that every painter in the city
will be in the union before the spring
season opens.
The three-year fight between the
painters and contractors at Fort
Texas, has come to a close. The last
boss has just signed an agreement
with the union and fired the scabs,
and alt sides are pleased.
All but 25 of the 200 girls employed
as knitters In the Standard Hosiery
Manufacturing Company Philadelphia,
went on strike to voice a protest
against Intolerable conditions.
"We're at peace with the world,"
says President James J. Freel, of the
Stereotype and Electrotpyers". Un
ion. "Eighty-seven per cent of the
workers in our line in North America
are affiliated with our union."
An eight-hour city with one strike
In 18 years is the boost for Barre,
Vt., of P. F. McCarthy, of the Quarry
Workers' Union of that town. One
third of Barre's population of 12,000
are declared to be trade unionists.
A number of the leather workers in
rejily to advertisements inserted iu
forvlgn papers arrived in Ottawa, Can
ada, but Immediately on learning that
thert was a strike on they joined the
International Union of Leather Work
ers. Only 29 years old, Matthew Woll
president of the International Photo
Engravers' Union, fa probably the
youngest International president.
Working "at the bench" by day and
studying at night, he put himself
through a considerable law course.
In protest against the attempt of the
firm of M. Cohen & Bros., Brooklyn,
N. T., to out the wages of its em
ployes 20 per cent and to discharge
the organizers and members of the un
ion. 200 paper box makers are strik
ing and feel confident of victory.
Ninety per cent of the strikers are
women. ,
A lockout of 200 clonk and skirt
makers occurred in the Printz,
Btederman & Co., shop, Cleveland,
for demanding the right to have a
committee in the adjustment of prices.
The cloak and skirt bosses proceed
upon the theory that the workers have
nothing to say about wages, hours,
etc., but are to accept what is handed
to them and be mighty thankful that
they are alive and permitted to work
for kind masters.
WHAT'S THE ANSWER?
Dancing luxuriously for the relief
through our alms of those we impover
ish by our privileges, may be an agree
able kind of penance; but isn't it
somewhat suggestive of those follies
of the predatory rich of France which
provoked the excesses of the Rtvolu
tlon? Chicago Public.
' A PERTINENT QUESTION.
The Gary steel plant has a hospital
for its employes, who work ninety-six
hours per week. Wouldn't a cemetery
be more appropriate? Michigan Un
ion Advocate,
A NEW ONE.
The Tribune, of Springfield, Ohio, is
the latest to bid for favor in the realm
of labor. The Tribune is a neat seven
column quarto, well edited. Issued un
der the auspices of the Trades Assem
bly of Springfield. We welcome the
Tribune may it live forever.
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THE CARPENTERS.
Will Meet Monday Evening in Their
Quarters at The Temple.
The Carpenters will meet Monday
evening, and for the first time in the
Temple. This fact is expected to
bring out a larger attendance than has
been the rule for some time past On
the ground of lack of funds the local
union declined to elect a delegate to
the South Omaha convention. A few
of the members are possessed of the
idea that when a union is not prosper
ing as it should, that the time to
make a special effort to start some- j
thing. The State Federation's purpose
is to push the work of organization, as
well as to push beneficial legislation,
and the organizations that need as
sistance most should be the organiza
tions to make the most earnest efforts.
The local union of carpenters has five
times more members than one other
Lincoln union that has prepared to
send a delegate, and an even ten times
more members than still another Lin
coln local that will be represented at
South Omaha. Clearly the Carpenters'
Union is not appearing in a good light
when it refuses to send a delegate to
the Nebraska State Federation of La
bor convention on the ground that it
cannot afford the paltry expense of $15
or $20.
Last week Manager Rudy of the
Temple hustled around and secured
the lumber to floor the north side
store room, and then a bunch of car
penters appeared on the scene and do
nated the work of laying the floor.
The work was done in rapid time in or
der to have the floor in shape for open
Ing on December 29.
THE CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE.
The constitution of the Nebraska
State Federation of Labor provides
that the president shall appoint a com
mittee of credentials, and that this
committee shall meet iu the conven
tion city at 2 o'clock In the afternoon
the day before the 'convention opens
Our Windows for Bargains
and prepare a list of duly accredited
delegates. Acting on this authority
President Maupin has appointed the
following committee: Louis Connelley,
sterectypers, Omaha; Frank M. Cof
fey, Typographical, Lincoln; T. O.
Duckworth, Barbers, South Omaha.
This committee will meet at the Labor
Temple in South Omaha at the
hour mentioned. President Maupin
and Secretary-Treasurer Hart will act
with this committee.
UNION BUCKS.'
Son of Original Founder Will Start
New Union Stove Works.
S. B. Buck, son of Charles H. Buck,
founder of the Buck's Stove and
Range company of St. Louis, which
always employed union labor during
his control, has organized a new con
cern, as originally announced in The
Review of October 29 through our
Denver correspondence. The new
company is known as the S. B. Buck
Stove and Range company, of which
Mr. Buck is president, and the factory
is at Belleville, 111., across the Missis
sippi river from St. Louis, home of
the old Buck plant now controlled by
Van Cleave, which has made such a
famous, and for itself disastrous fight
on organized labor. Business head
quarters of the company have been
located at Kansas City and it is the
purpose of the firm to devote its at
tention for the time being to territory
west of the Mississippi river.
Mr. S. B. Buck was in Pueblo this
week and, of course, had no trouble
in establishing an agency for his
stoves here. In fact, the firm which
had been carrying the Van Cleave
non-union Buck's stoves in cold stor
age is said to have been glad to ac
cept the local agency for the new
union Buck's stoves and ranges and
quit handling the non-salable St.
Louis product.
For the past month Mr. Buck has
been in . Denver demonstrating the
"new Buck" stove, having brought a
We have never gone into a Clearance Sale when our assortments in all lines were as complete
as they are at this time. Having bought heavily, anticipating an advance in price by the manu
facturer, our warehouse and salesfloors are crowded with the newest and the best the manufac
turers can produce in our line. While our holiday trade was exceptionally heavy, we have many
discontinued lines that we close during this sale if prices will do it. There are many, people who
have the idea that prices are higher during the holiday season so wait till January before doing
their buying. While prices in this store were no higher in December 1909 than in any other
month, they will be lower during this sale in order to reduce stock before invoicing. We advise
shopping early in the week and early in the day.
carload of the first manufacture! west
for this purpose, and has met with
great success.
Mr. Buck says the Belleville factory
of the new Buck's stoves is ' to he
union throughout and it is, expected
to supplant the old Buck's non-union
stove throughout the entire western
country. Agencies are being estab
lished just as fast as he can visit the
different cities, and just as rapidly the
old Buck's are being thrown on the
scrap pile with Van Cleave, of labor
crushing notoriety.
The formation of the new company
is the direct outcome of the present
fight of the Buck's Stove and Range
company of St. Louis on Gompers,
Mitchell and Mlorrison, of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, and it is
understood several dissatisfied mem
bers of the old firm have transferred
their allegiance and money to the new
concern. In buying a "Buck's" be sure
you get the "S. B. Buck." Pueblo In
dustrial Review. : i
STRIKERS GO BACK TO WORK.
Locomotive Company Effects Settle
ment With Boilermakers.
Schenectady, N. Y., Dec. 28. The
strike of the bollermakers in-the Sche
nectady plant of the American Locomo
tive company was settled this after
noon, and this action will act as a set
tlement of the strikes of the boiler
makers in the plants of the company
at Dunkirk, Montreal, Richmond and
Pittsburg. About three thousand men
are involved. The men will return to
work in the Schenectady plant on.tke
basis of day work tomorrow. An ef
fort on the part of the company to in
augurate the standard time system led
to the calling of the strike here Decem
ber 7, and the general strike followed.
THE MUSICIANS.
A Member of That Union Now Sits
upon That Bench,
In the recent New York City elec-
Everything for the
tion Edward J. Gavengan, who holds a
card in the Musicians' union of that
city, was elected to the supreme court
bench for a term of fourteen years at
a salary of $17,500. Here Is what
the New York Tribune says of him:
"Edward J. Gavengan, elected jus
tice of the supreme court, is a gradu
ate of Yale, class of '89. He holds
a union card of the Musical Mutual
Protective union and has represented
the Building Trades as counsel. He
was attorney for various labor organi
zations at the conference of labor
men, called by President . Roosevelt
last year. He is endorsed by Attorney
General Wickersham, - James Byrne
and "P. Tecumseh Sherman, ex-state la
bor commisisoner. He is an indepen
dent democrat."
TAFT'S FRIENDSHIP.
Promotes Notorious Labor Hater to
Supreme Bench of Nation.
President Taft has appointed Judge
George A. Carpenter of the circuit
court of Cook county to assume the
place on the federal bench in Chicago
left vacant by the death of Judge Sol
omon Bethea. It is said that ' Presi
dent Taft appointed Judge Carpenter
on his record which interests labor
men. One is his hostile action in the
Mears-Slayton contempt case, in which
he sentenced three union carpenters to
jail for contempt of court without a
hearing. The second is his refusal to
include without a fall hearing, several
manufacturers in the injunction grant
ed by Judge Richard S. Tuthill in fa
vor of the W. C. Ritchie Company
against the woman's ten-hour law. ,
DIP INTO EDITORIAL WdRK.
Shirtwaist Strikers Present Their Side
of the Case.
New York. Dec. 29. Scores of shirt
waist strikers played the part of
"newsies" today. Garbed in their best,
the girls invaded the residence and
business districts selling copies of a
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newspaper printed under their editor
ship and setting forth, their side of the
strike issue. The strikers were aided
in their editorial work by young col
lege women who volunteered for the
task. ' .'
i Miss Elizabeth Dutcher, one of the
Vassar graduates having the newspa
per venture in charge, declared her
confidence in the result of the girls'
campaign. .-, ' ,
, Miss Dutcher, mentioned in the
above dispatch, is a Nebraska girl.
Several years ago she was a member
of the reportorial staff of. the Omaha
World-Herald at the same time that
the editor of The Wageworker was
similarly employed. She is a capable
newspaper woman, and in her the
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.
First Meeting of New Year at the Tem
ple Sunday Aftemonon. ' :
Lincoln Typographical Union will
meet at the Temple Sunday afternoon
at the regular hour. , As this' is the
first meeting of the new year, as well
as the first meeting in the 'Temple, it
is expected that the atendance will be
larger than the average. So far as is
now known there will be no especial
business to come before the meeting
further than provision for the organi
zation's share of the Temple and the
election of a member of the Temple
board of directors.
The meetings will be in Hall No.
2 hereafter, and the union's handsome
banner will adorn the wall alpng side
the charter. A case will be secured for
the banner at once. Secretary Hebbard
will have his desk in the "Smokery"
down stairs, where he will have regu
lar hours for meeting the membership.
Engineers on the Lehigh Valley
railroad have been granted an increase
of $-10 per month. Ten hours 4s to be
considered a day's work and overtime
is to commence after that number of
hours of service.' 1
