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Over the Iron I Trail.
Outwit 11I\(1 \ ( oulwllrll on wings of steam
Over the Iron trail
While the hills and valleys drowse and
dream
WIlh n greeting loud and Imle ,
, The hosts or endeavor journey fast
AIIII earth grows rich with 1\ln-
While the room for the soul grows stilt
more vest
( In , the taco oC the I'c1'lIIo 1111\In '
Fur the trains that speed all the golden
West
Curry the ages thllro-
The ! love that fashioned the plowshare
hest
p Tine good that makes lICe fair :
And with every thought that Corms a
thing
With every deed that Is done ,
The notes or mall'a new song aU ( rIng
And n victory glad III won
,
There Iff knowledge . to save the toiling
hand ,
Fine art to pleasure the eye ,
And Increasing chance for the faithful
11111111
Who , yearning , try nllll try .
Tile poor grow braver , the , , rIch more ,
kind ,
There's ; a growing love or love ,
'l'horo It saner trust in each creed defined -
IIncll-
A hope all hope nbo\'c.
1'herc'3 1bit less care , a graIn more
mirth ,
A savor of sweeter rest , .
.As a truer culture rests : on the earth
I'vor : along the West ,
And they who live Ii\ the field or mart , .
Henest and earnest and true ,
With transfigured gaze see the old depart -
, part , . . .
And welcome 111 the now
Thus It feeling Is born wIthIn that shows
The spirit [ [ III key 111 life ,
And the rapIU\'c soul still brIghter
glows
Despite the grasping strIfe ,
And 110 , as the cnrs. glldo all and on
Over the Iron trail ,
'Thoy travel roro\or wIthIn the dawn.
And the peace of time world avail , '
- - -Charles W . Sto\'onson.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
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items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Now York city bricklayers receive ,
j5 ( cents an hour , carpenters 56 cents
and painters 60 cents
Time 1904 convention of the Broth'
erhood of Locomotive Firemen will
meet in Buffalo In September
The early.c.loslng.of.shops bill seems
in a fair way to become n law at this
:3os8ion of the British parliament.
The cotton mills of the Scott Man'
ufacturlng company have shirt down ,
throwing 1,64 employes out of employment .
I1loyment.
President Michael Donnelly of the
butchers dressed strikers In South I
St. Joseph , declaring they were cer I
Main to win Pickets were withdrawn.
. Time executive board , district No. 1 ,
'United mineworkers , met at Scranton ,
'Pa , to consider anthnacite grievances
: and it seems assured there will be no
: strl1ee.
All Lincoln , Neb. , street railway
employes may strike unless an order
which compels the motormen to leeep
check ! on conductors' receipts is
r08cinded.
Soven" hundred members of the
. Amalgamated Association of Iron ,
Steel and Tin Workers at the Loba
non plant of the American Iron and
' Steel company are ont strike , charging -
lug discrimination against union
Members of the Meat Drivers' union
of East St. Louis stopped work in
sympathy with the butchers and meat
.utters. Managers say the butchers ,
K East St Louis have consented to
, o to the packing houses for their
.uppl1es
Vice President T. L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers left Indlanapo-
l1s for Pennsylvania to investigate the
controversy between the miners and
operators of the Laclcawanna and Wy
\ owing district over time payment of
check weighmen.
There will be no miners' strike In
district No.1 , according to President
, Nicholls until the unions have lives
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tlgated the conditions In the mines
now balking on the check weighmen's
and docking bosses' wages The next
meeting llkely will be helll within ten
da's.
ArrnnHements practically have been
completed for the consolidation of the
three large central labor organlza
tions In the vicinity of Plttshurg , the
United Labor league , Iron City council .
ell and the Bulllllng Trades Council ,
the three composing about 150,00U
men
"The lockout called by the Building
Trades Employers" association which
went into effect Aug. 5 involves uOOOO
men and means a fight to a finish in
New York city between capital and I
the building trades unions , " said Phil. I
il1 Winsheimer , president of the . Build'
inH 'fraes' ] A11Imce :
War between the National Founder .
er : ' association : : ; : : and the Iron 1\101del's' \
union 1M believed Imminent because
I the association has declared a cut in
wages of 20 cents a day The union
declares the action has fonowol an
arbitrary campaign waged by the association .
soclation in regard to agreements .
The Bloomington (111. ( ) street car
men's union decided to call off the
strike on the Bloomington and Normal -
mal Railway Electric and Heating
company , which has been in progress
slice ' .Inn. 1 , having lost tlma figlmt for
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an advance in wages , recognition of
the union , and easiest runs for the
older men.
In order to help out some employers .
ers the , members of the Housesmtths
and Ornamental Iron Worlters' union
of Boston voted tQ reduce wages to
42 cents an hour. Some employers
have been paying 45 cents and others
42 , and the union thought It unfair to
place the more generous ones at a
dlsad.'l1\ntage.
General President Dan Mahon of
the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railroad Employes
of America shows In his annual report
port that , while $14,626 was paid out
In 1903 for strike beneflts , over $24" ;
000 was given for sick and death
claims. Sixty-sevon deaths occurred
during the year , oC which nine were
by accident.
The royal commission on labor dis-
putes created In England last year Is
making IIttlo. headway. Trade unions
anti ! labor organizations In all parts
of the country have refused assistance .
anco and Information of any kind toward -
ward making the tribunal of any val
ue owing to the. fact that there are
no representatives of organized labor
on the commission.
L , J. Curran" , the general president
of time International Union of Interior
Freight Handlers and Warehousemen ,
wishes to Inform the members -that
the only official general convention IIf
that to be held at Kansas City , Kas. ,
in January , 1905 The organization i
holds biennial conventions ahd cer
taro members crltlclsed the general
officers because no convention was
held this ) 'ear.
The secretary of the navy has sent
a letter to the protesting local labor
unions giving as his opinion that the
ten.hour workday In force in the construction -
structlon of time League island dry'
( lock is not a violation of the federal
elght-lh1ur law , since that law only
applies to work done by time govern'
mont and not to work done by a con'
tractor ; for the government.
Many prominent men hold membor.
ship in the Brotherhood of Railroad
Firemen 'Vo have lawyers , doctors
and even clergymen in our organization .
tion , " said Grantlaster ! Hannahan.
"Wo even have a priest. There are
several legislators and nearly every
fine of business Is represented In the
I
membership , 1 can say without
na otlRm that It Is doubtful whether
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there Is another labor organIzation In
the world that can produce a better
dressed or more intelligent lot bf
mOll than ours "
J. W. Johnson , international secre
tar.l1'easurcr of the Bridge and
Structural Iron 'Vorltcrs' Union , reports '
port ; ! ; that time recent vote for afiilla
Lion with the proposed Structural
Building Tra es' Alliance was G,135 ,
of which 3u27 were In favor of the
affiliation and 2G08 against He announces .
nounces that the final vote wlll show
the affiliation carried. by a vote of
four to one.
Samuel Gompers , president of the
A. F. of L. , was asked to explain
unionism. In a sentence he replied :
"The labor movement has for its pur-
pose the securing of the best possible
economic and social conditions for the
masses ; and time attainment of those
with the least possible friction , the
meeting of problems as they confront
us ; ' the making of the day after this
a better day than the one preceding. "
The Journeyman Tailors' National
Union was formed at a convention
held in Philadelphia in August , 1883.
Local unions of tailors existed in this
country when trade unionism was In
Its infancy Timex were among the
first skilled workmen to form a com
bination for protection. Previous to
the year 1800 records , are shown
where unions of tailors existed In New
.
Yorl and Philadelphia , antI a union
was organized in Boston in 1806.
Cheers which shook the building
followed the re.election by acclamation
tlon of President C. P. Shea of Boston -
ton and Secretarr-Treasurer E. L.
Turley or ' Chicago by the International
Brolimerhood of Teamsters in convention .
tlon at Cosmopolitan Hall. Other officers '
fleers elected were : Vice presldents-
Edward Gould , New York city ; M. J.
Dwyer , . St . . Louis ; Michael Casey , San
Francisco ; Christopher O'Nen , Buffalo -
10 ; Edward Mullin , Chicago ; John
Sheridan , Chicago Trustee-John !
Mullen , Cincinnati ; S. D. Perkins , To-
ledo ; A. W. Walton , St. Paul.
The three division plants of the In. I
ternatlonal Harvester company In Chi
cage have been closed for a few -days
to arrange for repairs and an inventory .
tory according to the statements of
the officials of the , concerns. This
closing order throws idle about 10,000
workers , nearly all of whom are union
members. The union wage scale does
not expire until Sept. 1. The com-
pany announces that about-one-fifth
of time emplo'es wlll be furnished
work on the repairs and that all wlll
be hack within a month Relations
between the corporation and the
unIons have been friendly during time
year.
A proposiUoh to organIze the school
teachers of the country along trade
union lines created considerable dis
cussion at the recent meeting of the
association The
National Educational
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debate was precipitated by Miss Margaret .
garet A. Haley of Chicago , president
of Ute National Federation of Teach'
ors She said that teachers : should
organize Into trade unions in order to
for their
secure better compensation
services. The pay they received was
not. commensurate with the services
rendered and the relief from these
impositions lay in the field of organized .
ized lahar. The salary of a teacher in
some places , she said , is barely
enough to keep a horse
It Is a settled I10Hcy of the labor
movement that unions shall not pledge
their members to work for certain
employers only or to refuse to work
for certaln-uther employers. Frequently -
ly , when an agreement Is being negotiated -
gotiated between a trade union and
an orgllnizatlon representing a numm .
her of employers it i3 proposed that
the members of the union shall bind
themselves to work for the members
of the employers' association exclu
-stvely. These proposals are in most
instances rejected as involving dis
crimination against other employers
who may be willing to observe union
conditions. Upon rare occasions , how'
ever , these proposals have been ac'
copied but the results In such cases
have usually proved disadvantageous
to the labor organizations directly In.
valved and to the labor movement as
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When Ashes Are Put on Land. '
The application of ashes to land .
does not necessarily show what that
land needs It has been a favorite '
practice to apply ashes to land to determine - .
termine its supply of potassium , and
today most of our people believe that . . M
the chief fertilizing value of ashes Is
the potassium. The writer remembers " ;
a bare hlll top to which be applied . . .
ashes during all of one winter. Thu
next spring the growth was so great 's. ,
on that place that the hay could not , ; . " , ; ' " f
be cured on the ground where it was " .
grown ; but part ofIt had to he car- , ; " -S " , -
vied to another spot to allow of its
being spread thin enough to permit of
the sun's getting Into it. The natural _ _
inference was that the land had be'
come very deficient in potassium But .
Professor Hopkins of Illinois says ' . "
that the test Is not a sure ' one , in its r'
results. .Ie . mentioned parts f UU- _ :
nols where there is no deficiency of a' . 5.-
potassium , but where the soil is acid ' ' . . .
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'fhe application or ashes brought good - . ;
harvests and the farmers wrote him ,
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that their 'land needed potassium. He ;
investigated and found that they were
mistaken , The lime In the ashes
had neutralized the acid and caused : ' .
the resulted . . :
change in conditions that
1n an abundant yield of grain Some'J
kinds of ashes contain over 50 per . :
cent of lime , and this is the element - ; ; '
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that does the work in many cases. " .
Wl , . , , . . 1n..1 n".1" t " tl . " n..lInnH"n ;
n , ten uu.u respon s o me . . \'lu..vu . :
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of ashes it means that either the soU .
contains too much acid which the "
lime in the ashes neutralizes , or hat ' .
It Is deficient in potassium . . . r
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Cold Storage Plants \-a- , _ ' . :
4i . y
There has been quite a furor for . ;
the hulldlng of cold storage plants ' .
during the last few 'ear9. Some . .
years ago men made fortunes by . '
erecting cold storage plants and buying - ' .
Ing quantities of butter and eggs
which were carried from the low- - " , , - ,
priced period of the year to the high- - ' ;
priced period. This of course gave
large profits. As was certain to be : :
the case , other men saw the same
method of getting rich and began to i
build like plants. This was all right
for some years , while the number of ;
plants was small enough so that the
goods stored would not greatly a-
feet the market But the building f.
continued , and now the products
stored compete so strongly with each '
other that the margin of difference of _ ,
prices at different times of year is ' J. ! " . ,
greatly reduced. Reports from New
Jersey tell of a miew cold storage . " _ .
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plant at Jersey City , which was built
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last year at a cost of $300,000. 'The
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establishment was perfect In every '
detail and the promoters expected - - ; , ,
great tbings. But they were unable ' ' - , ; "
to secure business and the enterprise '
went into the bands of a receiver.
The plant was offered for sale at . .
auction , with the proviso that not less
than $190,000 would be taken Not a
bid was received
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In Picking Apples '
One man suggests that a good way
to pick apples Is to put a tick filled
with hay under a tree and drop the
apples Into it from he limbs He . 'j .
asserts that this has been his practice J
and that the fruit Is not thereby In- ' .
jured. This may be all tight for
some kinds of fruit , but It would not
bo for others. There are some of our
varIeties that Injure 80 easily that "
eu the pressure of the thumb and
finger must be looked out fgr. Be
sides , In the letting faIt of apples from
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the top of the tree a great deal of
sklll Is required not to hit the other '
apples In the tick or the limbs of the ' , .
tree when time apples are being
. The basket ' . . .
ropped. apple and the '
apple hag wlll be found most advan . \ I
tageous for most of the work of fruit
vAtharinv