f COST OF CHEAP LABOR.
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The strike of the Chicago gar
ment workers has cost the man
ufacturers at . least $4,000,000
through the cancellation of or
ders because of the walkout. In
addition to this loss the manu
facturers hare seen thousands of 4,
dollars worth of material ruined
by incompetent strike breakers.
In one shop alone 2,000 waist-
coats were "botched," and the j.
superintendent of the company
decided it would be cheaper to 4,
close the shop than to pay the
help it had. X
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UNIONS SUSPENDED.
Carpenters and Steamfitters Dropped
From Building Trades.
Two international unions hare been
suspended by the building trades de
partment of the American Federa
tion of Labor. These are the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers and the International Association
of Steam and Hot Water Fitters and
Helpers of America, representing ap
proximately 215,000 men.
The trouble had its origin during the
Tampa (Fla.) convention of the build
ing trades department, when the Sheet
Metal Workers International alliance
complained that members of the Unit
ed Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners were erecting metal doors and
.trim and contended that such work
belonged to their organization. After
hearing both sides the contention of
the sheet metal workers was sustain
ed. Instructions were then issued im
mediately to the carpenters and join
ers to discontinue all such work. The
carpenters appeared, however, to have
taken the contrary view of the matter
and declined to follow the decision
that was rendered against them and
persisted In accepting contracts for
work that the sheet metal workers
had complained against. For this ac
tion upon the part of the carpenters
and joiners that body was suspended.
The organization has 200,000 men on
Its rolls.
In the case of the International As
sociation of Steam and Hot Water Fit
ters and Helpers of America, as wel!
as the United Association of Journey
men Plumbers, Gasfitters. Steamfitters
and Steamfitters Helpers, the depart
ment instructed both not to attempt to
organize steamfitters and their helpers
In territory already covered by one or
the other of these bodies. The Inter
national Association of Steam and Hot
Water Fitters and Helpers of America
Is said to have repeatedly violated this
agreement; and for this came its sua
pension. Involving fully 16,000 work
lngroen throughout the entire country .
There are but two courses that can
be followed by the suspended unions
for reinstatement in the . building
trades department. One is a pledge
to abide in future by all decisions and
the ones they are charged with the
violation of, or they may appeal to the
American Federation of Labor and
if sustained by that body could se
cure representation In the building
trades department once more.
Regardless of what action either in
ternational may deem it best for its
own interests to take, the cause of
both will be presented at the next con
vention of the federation for some
sort of action.
A Christian Nenunioniet.
The officers of the Kew York print
ers union recently received a resigna
tion from membership which for
uniqueness stands at the top of its
class. Here it is:
I hereby hand in my resignation, as
a member" of Typographical union Xo.
6. Have concluded that I cannot con
sistently go on with unionism in the
light I have as a Christian. See TI
Cerinthians vi, 14. "Be ye not un
equally yoked together with unbeliev
ers, for what fellowship hath right
eousness with unrighteousness, and
what communion hath light with dark
ness?" To which President Tole re
plied with a quotation from Joshua
xxiv, 13, "And I have given you a
land for which ye did not labor and
cities which ye bui'.t not, and ye dwell
In them; of the vineyards and olive
yards which ye plauted not do ye eat."
Brooklyn Eagle.
Use Short Words.
Literary aspirants should religiouslj
eschew polysyllabic orthography. Th
philosophical and philological substruc
ture of this principle is ineluctable
Excessively attenuated verbal sym
bols inevitably induce unnecessary
complexity and consequently exagger
ate the obfuscation of the mentality ol
the peruser Conversely, expressions
which are reduced to the furthermost
minimum of simplification and com
pactness, besides contributing realistic
verisimilitude, constitute a much less
onerous handicap to the reader's perspicacity.
Observe, for instance, the unmistak
able and inescapable expressiveness oi
onomatopoetic, interjectional, mono
syllabic utterances, especially when
motivated under strenuous emotional
circumstances. How much more ap
pealing is their euphonious pulchritude
than the preposterous and pretentious
pomposity of elongated verbiage. Life.
A Shock For Tennyson.
If any one asked Holman Hunt
about persons. he would tell delightful
frank anecdotes concerning, maybe,
the great men he knew and loved and
measured exactly. He liked a spice of
fun in everything, too. and his face
beamed as he described a walk with
Tennyson he had lately taken. They
heard footsteps behind, and the great
man frowned. "How they doe us,
Hunt! How shall we escape them?"
"Just sit on the stile till they pass,"
said the matter of fact artist. They
did so, and two lads hi knickerbockers
marched by swinging their sticks and
not even turning their heads. Tenny
son was chapfallen.
"Do you know. Hunt," he said, I do
not think they know who I am."
"Very likely, my dear Tennyson, and
they would not even know if yon
told them ! " Becollections of Holman
Hunt" in London Academy.
Provided For In Advance.
A playwright in an interview In New
York said that without attention to the
minutest details theatrical success
could rarely be attained.
"And yet," he added, smiling, "even
this grand virtue of attention to de
tails may be carried to excess. Thus a
certain playwright said at rehearsal
to his leading man:
" 'Now, remember, John, after you
speak this line, "Helen, I will save you
though I perish," pause and wait for
the applause.
"But the leading man sneered and
answered cynically:
'How do you know there'll be any
applause T
That is my business, not yours.
John, the playwright answered with
calm confidence." Washington Star.
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Fairy tales are made out of the
dreams of the poor. Lowell.
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