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CENTRAL IiABOS tTNION. Takes np .Case of Musicians and In rokes the .Unfair List. The Central Labor Union at its meet ing last week beard the delegates from the Musicians' Union in regard to the present secession of a number of mem bers, and then proceeded to put the re calcitrant members upon the unfair list. These recalcitrant members are employ ed in various business institutions, and in two cases are engaged in business. Due notice of the action of the central body will be given to all local unions and union men and women will be asked to withold patronage from the firms employing them. This will, of course, raise a howl from the secretary of the Business Hen 's League, but as he is paid to howl he will be given ample opportunity to earn his money. The protest of the Business Men's League against Deputy Labor Commis sioner Maupin was considered and the central body replied by unanimously adopting a resolution commendatory of the deputy labor commissioner and ordering it forwarded to the governor. The organization conimitte was in structed to get busy in the matter of or ganizing the laundry workers, the nec essary literature and instructions hav ing been received from the internation al organization. The Labor Day committee reported that the work of forwarding the cele bration was being pushed and that the various locals had been notified. As soon as the general committee is or ganized the central body's committee will be relieved from further duty. The general conimitte will meet at the Labor Temple next Sunday afternoon at 8:30. A proposition to change the method of roll call was defeated after consid erable argument. The committee having the recent ben efit in charge reported the receipt of $54. The total receipts of the evening amounted to a handsome sum, the larg est reported at any one meeting for many years. The atendance was larger than usual despite the terrific heat, and the interest manifested was good to see. THE LEATHERWORKERS. Men Being Taken on at Gratifying Bate Here and Elsewhere. Conditions in the leather workers' business are taking on a brighter hue, and every day sees more of the men being put back to work in Lincoln. The conditions of the trade render it impossible to take back all the men at once, but they are being taken back as rapidly as possible , and there is a feel ing of confidence that argues well for the future. , Dallas, Texas, reports a settlement of the strike, the men getting the nine hour day and a ten per cent increase in the piece system. Stockton, Calif., reports a victory the men getting the eight hour day and a 15 per cent in crease. Weber Bros, in Kansas City have greed to unionize their shop before August 16. A little trouble has developed with the national officers of the organization, but it is hoped to reach a settlement before the matter reaches the acute , stage. The fight has been a hard one, and it is only natural that there should have been considerable criticism of the method of conduct. THE PLUMBERS. An Item or Two of Interest to the Plumbing Craft. The San Francisco Plumbers' Union and Master Plumbers' Association have greed that one apprentice should be employed in each shop and one addi tional apprentice for every five men employed. The plumbers' strike for an increase of wages, of Trenton, N. J., has been adjusted by the men compromising on 55 cents per hour, which was their original demand. The plumbers first demanded 55 cents. The employers re fused it. The plumbers then increased their demand to 60 cents an hour; struck, to obtain it; were out about a week; employers agreed to . give 55 cents; men accepted; strike is over. George Chipman and family have re turned from an extended visit in Colo rado points and report having had a fine timo. While in Denver Mr. Chip man had the pleasure of seeing thirty five employers Bign up with the Plumb ers' Union. THE CARPENTERS. Dull Times in the Trade Reported on Every Side. Conditions in the building trades are not tho best in Lincoln at the present time. There seems to have been a con Biderablo slump in residence building and there is very little doing in the lino of business block erection outside of the Y. M. C. A. and Banker's Life buildings. The First National Bank work has not yet 'begun. As a result of the slackness a largo number of carpenters are out of employment. Plans have been accepted and ground broken for' a 'labor temple in Chicago, to cost $1001100, and to be ready for occupancy by fall. The building will be five stories high, with basement, and will be built of pressed brick and terra cotta. Carpenters employed by the Pennsyl vania railroad to erect buildings in which to house strikebreakers in case a strike was declared refused to do the work, and walked out at Youngwood, Pa. THE PRINTERS. A Union Printer Now President of the Elks' Organization. "Garry" Hermann, the base ball magnate of Cincinnati, and a member of the Cincinnati Typographical Union, was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and. Protective Order of Elks at the recent Detroit meeting. "Garry" Hermann is the base ball magnate of Cincinnati and president of the national base ball commission. Everything connected with Hermann's base ball business is "on the square." AH the printing bears the label, every mechanic employed on the grounds must carry a paid up card, and only union made tobacco and cigars are al lowed to be sold on the property of the magnate. , An increase in wages of about 30 per cent, an eight hour day and about 90 per cent of the printers organized, are a few of the things that have been accomplished by the International Typo graphical union in Lancaster, Pa., in the past month. THE STAGE HANDS. Hold Big National Convention and Hear Oood Reports. The convention of the Theatrical Stage Employes held in Washington closed with a stirring address by Presi dent Gompers, who referred to the' con ditions existing 25 years ago, when it was customary for the stage hands to give their services for an opportunity of witnessing the performance. Through careful calculation by the American Federation of Labor during the last year, an average increase of 66 2-3 per cerit in wages had been granted to stage employes. John J. Barry of Boston, was re elected president, and Lee M. Hart of Chicago, was re-elected secretary-treas urer. The other results were: First Vice President, J. H. Screws, Montgom ery, Ala.; second vice president, G. Quinn, Minneapolis; third vice presi dent, C. Malloy, Butte, Mont.; fourth vice president, C. Shay, New York City; fiif th vice president, L. C. Thompson, Galveston, Texas; sixth vice president, C. M. Taylor, Los Angeles, and sev enth vice president, L. C. Merrill, Kan sas City. Delegates to the American Federa tion of Labor: Lee M. Hart, Chicago; P. J. Barry, Boston, and M. C. Higgins, Youngstown. With Milwaukee a close second, Nia gara Falls was chosen as the 1911 con vention city. There is a move on foot to abolish conventions or at least to have them held only once in five years. The local union of stage employes gave a banquet in honor of the dele gates, which was attended by President Gompers of the A. F. of L. and a num ber of prominent Washington . labor leaders. LET IT GO AT THAT. But Turner Must Show Proof of Those Paying Subscribers. A few of our contemporaries use matter produced for the "Labor Clar ion" without giving a word of credit. The other week a California labor paper clipped a whole column and ran it as original, without even changing the local references. All this is very flat terinar. but! San Francisco Labor Clarion. The esteemed Clarion is not the only one suffering from this sort of piracy. The Wageworker has the pleasure of seeing its burning editorials clipped far and wide and never credited. As a matter of plain fact, there are about thirty labor papers that have editorials seentingly bereft of original thinking, but possessing unusual powers of dis crimination backed up by shining shears. Hence they manage to keep their columns entertaining by swiping the brain product of others. We are so used to it that we no longer mind in fact, it rather swells us up to know that our stuff is so widely appreciated by our brother editors. The esteemed Clarion should "buck up" and let it go at that. Lincoln, (Neb.,) AVge worker. . Cheer up, fellows. There is not a week passes but the Labor World finds stuff among its ex changes that is better written than any thing we could expect to hammer off. So we swipe it and just about the time we get it clipped out and pasted up some dotard comes along and pays his subscription and tho shock makes us forget all about the credit line at the end. And, just between us three, so it'll go no further, we have more than once come across stuff that we pounded out in rare moments of lucidity carefully revamped in the columns of a contem porary, bo its own stepmother would hardly know it. It's bad business, we admit, but look what would happen if every labor editor were confined to his own exordiums. Jim Barry, of the Golden Gate Star, and Maupin and Egan and perhaps Guiney, would be about all that would survive ttie ordeal. The balance of us would have to go back to the case with our fingers all thumbs from long hours of sloth and high living. Terrible! Duluth Labor World. NO MORE CHECKS GO. Under Becent Law Kansas Employers Must Pay In Cash. Announcements have been sent to all the employers of labor by the offi cials in Kansas that' hereafter they will have to pay their employes in cash and not in checks. In most fac tories the men are paid in checks. When they received their pay on Saturday the banks were closed. The men had to go to saloons to spend money in order to get their ehecks cashed. This resulted in many abuses and many un pleasantnesses to the working people. They began to agitate against the check Bystem until a law was passed making it obligatory for employers to pay in cash. Of course the workers who be long to unions did not suffer from the check system, as in most unions there are rules demanding that all' wages be paid in cash. CANADA BARS STRIKEBREAKERS. One hundred "free American work men" got a touch of Canadian law en forcement last week when they "were stopped by Dominion officials and de nied the right to enter King George's domain and do their strikebreaking stunt against Grand Trunk railroad employes. This position was unexpected, and caused much surprise to men Profes sor Eliot calls "American heroes." MAKE AGITATOR SHOW LABEL. Whenever you hear a union man damning a "scab" ask him to show the label in his hat. If it is there then he may be somewhat justified to continue. If it is not there the gentle man is out of order. Minnesota Advo cate. GOT HIS DESERTS. S. Herman, a tailor, of Chicago, plead ed guilty in the criminal court to using the union label on garments not made by organized labor. He was fined $500 by Judge Latshaw and given a stay of execution on his promise not to repeat the offense. ARIZONA WORKERS ENTER POLI TICS. .775 Union 'delegates who founded the union labor party of Arizona have completed a preliminary organization for the constitutional convention cam paign. WHAT ORGANIZATION DOES. Cleveland trolleymen have won their contention for better pay. Organization and arbitration did it. They will re' ceive 27 cents an hour the first year and 30 cents thereafter. ' THI8 YEAR'SCON VENTIONS. August 8, Minneapolis, Minn., Inter national Typographical Union. August 22, Detroit, Mich., United Garment Workers of America. September 5-6-7, Chicago, HI., Na tional Federation of Post Office Clerks. September 6, Chicago, 111., Interna tional Slate and Tile Roofers of Amer ica. September 6, Boston, Mass., Interna tional Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Employes. , September 6, Bangor, Pa., Interna- Steel and Copper Plate Printers' Union. September 6-10, Louisville, Ky., In ternational Photo-Engravers' Union of North America. - September 8, Boston Mass., Inter national Spinners' Union. September 12, Kansas City, Kansas. Coopers' International Union. September 12, Denver, Colo., Inter national Union of United Brewery Workmen of America. j September 12, Philadelphia, Fa., International Union of Elevator Con structors. September 12, Streator, 111., Inter national Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Workers' Alliance. September 13, New York, N. Y., American Brotherhood of Cement Workers. September 19, Des Moines, Iowa, United Brotherhood of '. Carpenters and Joiners of America. September 19, Rochester, N. Y., In ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Worker. ;'. ' September , 21, St. Paul, Minn., Brotherhood of Railroad Freight Handlers. September 26, Columbus, Ohio, Oper ative Plasterers' International Associ ation of the United States ana Can ada. - October 18, New York, N. Y., Unit ed Textile Workers of America. October 18, Detroit, MiclL, Interna tional Association of Car Workers. MY stow BY JAMES J. JEFFRIES &A tCopyrlg-ht, 1910. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Copyright In Canada and Great Britain. All rights reserved. CHAPTER XIL GET DECISION OVER SHARKEY AND DAWN UPON NEW YORK. BOUT this time there was just one fighter left to the Pacific coast to meet me. He was . Tom Sharkey. Tom had a couple of years' start in the game. When I fought Long, Sharkey was a topnotcher. He came ashore from the cruiser Philadelphia in 1895 and knocked out Australian Billy Smit"i in seven rounds. After licking a sol dier named Miller and drawing with Alex Greggains he knocked Choynski out in eight rounds. Sharkey was such a rough customer that they put him against Champion Jim Corbett. expect ing to see him cut to piecfes. He roughhoused Corbett for four rounds, and everybody went crazy over him. Then he fought . Fitzsimmons, and Wyatt Earp gave him the decision on a foul. When 1 was offered a fight with Sharkey, Billy Delaney and I both felt like celebrating. Things were coming my way, and the championship didn't look far off. As for Bill, he sat down and said: "Jim, you can lick this sailor. There's nothing to it." Billy wasn't much on giving out tips, but he did tell a lot of his friends that I could beat Sharkey. The fight was in Me chanics' pavilion on May 6. 1898. When we entered the ring I looked over at Sharkey, and he grinned. He was as confident as a gamecock. He looked like a sawed off Hercules. His skin was tanned by the sun and wind, and his muscles bulged out all over in big bumps. He had anchors tattooed on his arms and a big ship in red and blue ink on his chest. Do you see that shlo on Sharkey's front?" I asked Billy Delaney. Sure," said Bill. Well, keep your eye on It. I'm going to sink it." I snid. We began fighting. Without waiting to feel Tom out I walked straight at him, and be gave ground. He didn't like my looks much, I guess, after the clever fellows he bad been fighting. But In a moment he jumped at me with a wild swing. It was no trouble at all to push him away with my left and make him miss. I had taken a good lead and was forcing the fighting round after round. In the seventh round Sharkey got vi cious and rushed at me as If he want ed to throw me overboard. Two or three times he jammed me against the ropes. In the next round Tom came tearing at me with his head down like a bull. I reached out and caught him by both shoulders. Then I spread my feet to get a good hold on the floor and shook him like a schoolteacher shaking boy. That was the biggest surprise Sharkey ever had In his life. I tried hard to get him in the last round, and I guess he tried hard, too, for he got in a couple of good swings. At the finish Greggains gave me the decision. Sharkey left the ring look ing pretty glum, but he hadn't any thing to say except that he'd fight me again. I gave him the first chance at my title when I became champion. I had cleaned up all the big heavy weights in the west now, and there was nothing to do but to go east and make a cleanup there that would lead to a fight with Fitzsimmons for the championship. My hopes went high when I was offered my first chance in New York. The eastern people wanted to see the man who had beaten Peter Jackson and Tom Sharkey. Tom O'Rourke matched me against two men for ten rounds each, the fights to take place at the Lenox Athletic club, In New York city. ) The east seemed strange to me on this first trip back since my boyhood days. Even the streets and the trees and the buildings were so different from ours in .California that it seemed like going into a . foreign . country, Even the . people were different. To day I have friends and acquaintances everywhere and can enjoy a visit to New York, but the first time a few days of .it left me homesick for my own California mountains.' ' . As for -, Armstrong and; O'Donnell, the men picked to fight me, . I didn't worry over tliem. Armstrong I knew only by reputation. O'Donnell I had met in San Francisco when he came to the coast with Madden and Ruhlln. O'Donnell was as clever as Jim Cor bett in a gymnasium, but he was an unlucky big fellow. As soon as he stepped into a ring to fight he became so nervous that he forgot his skill. picked Armstrong for my first man thinking I'd do the hardest before there was a chance of getting tired, I couldn't help admiring the looks of big Bob when he stripped in the oppo site corner on the night of Aug, r 1 1898. He was like a great bronze statue. Here at last 1 was going to fight a man taller than myself, with a greater reach, equal strength and plen ty of weight. Armstrong was clever. I knew that, and he could hit. He was line looking fighter, even if he wan black. Armstrong was waiting when I step ped Into the ring with Billy Delaney.' As soon as 1 reached my corner he came across and held out his hand with a wide smile that showed all of his teeth. Billy Delaney whispered to me that Armstrong's corner, the south west, was considered unlucky because of the number of losers that had oc cupied it. There were many . famous fighters around the ring that night , I remem ber seeing Jim Corbett, John L. Sulli van, Joe Goddard. Peter Maher. Kid Lavigne, Sammy Kelly, Tom Sharkey. Mysterious Billy Smith and a lot of others. Bob Fitzsimmons wasn't there. Being champion, he didn't care to look at any dub heavyweights. As soon as the bell rang I went right at the big black man. ' After a few light exchanges I landed a hard left on his jaw and. rushing him back, swung the left again. Armstrong ducked a little, and the blow went high. As It landed a sharp twinge of pain shot along my arm. I had broken my left thumb. ' That was pretty tough luck In the first round of a double header. ! I didn't let any one know my band was hurt, but went right on hitting with it. If you ever punched anybody with a broken thumb on your punch ing hand you know how it feels. It isn't any fun. J As I remember the fight, I forced the pace from the start. The black man was hard to get at. being on the defen sive. I figured when we came up for the last round that I had the fight won asily, but I wanted to knock Arm strong out now that the end was so near. He stood up to me for a mo ment, and I swung my left hard enough to do the trick. Bob saw it coming and in his hurry to get away fell on the floor. As he got up 1 wept after him and, landing both hands on his jaw, drove him back into his own cor ner. Armstrong's seconds were yell ing to him that the end of the round was near, and the big black turned his back to me and covered up like a DUBS SAT ON THE BENCH CHAMPIONS WALKED BIOBT IN. turtle. I was pounding away at bis back ribs to make him turn around when the last bell rang. Referee Charlie White gave me the decision at once, and I started toward my dressing room for the half hours rest As I stepped from the ring Billy Brady, in a ringside chair, called to me and asked, "How are you, big fel low?" I just held up my broken hand and went along. Brady followed m out to the dressing room. My hand was so badly swollen that the glove had to be cut to get it off. Brady took one look. Dr. Flvey of the club examined the hand, too, and said that It would be impossible for me to go on with O'Donnell. I never could have put on another glove that night. - ' ' It was announced from the ring that on account of a broken hand Jeffries would not be able to go on with the second bout. I could hear a sound like the Boman mob growling behind the scenes In a theater Just before reach ing the stage. All of a sudden It struck me that for the first time in my life I was being hooted and Jeered by the fcrowd. It was ' the worst jar 1 ever had. I felt like going on- and fighting O'Donnell with one hand, but what was the use? I felt sick and sore and disgusted with the east! That was the most homesick moment of my life. . . : And to tell the truth it was nothing to what I got the next morning. As soon as I had hopped out Of bed and dressed myself with my hand in a big bandage, feeling pretty blue,' they be gan to hand me the papers. Whew! What a roasting! It . seemed that everybody regarded me either as a quitter or a clumsy second rater. Some of them even said it was lucky for me I . did break my' thumb, for Steve O'Donnell would have beatenf my head off- ;, ' , '" That day I went down to the Police Gazette office with Billy Delaney. In the outer hall there was a bench for visiting fighters to sit on while they were waiting, to see the editors. Dubs sat on the bench. Champions walked right in.- 1 sat on the bench while Billy saw Sam Austin and talked over .the fight with him. 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