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. It was funny to
be left all alone out there, with the
office boys looking me over and every
body walking right by. It made me
feel like a measly yellow dog without
any friends. That surely was a
grouchy day, and I didn't love the east
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