The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
ACTION OF UNION MEN
LAWS ENACTED BY CARPENTERS
AND JOINERS' BROTHERHOOD.
Annual Report of the Preside emit of the
Cigar Makers Organizations
Strike of TeIeGra phers.
CLEVER, AND

CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 2S.-The
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners to-
day restricted the payment of sick benefits
so that in future no member will be paid
such benefits for a longer period than two
years. The scheme of proportional repre-
sentation, giving each union one delegate,
with as many votes as there are members
in the union he represents, was voted down.
A resolution was passed in favor of re-
strcting immigration to $4,000 year. In
this connection the Lodge orliss bill was
approved, with a proviso that immigrants
should be distributed by board of ten
members, appointed from the labor organi-
cations, who would see that new corners
were not sent to already overcrowded fields
of labor; all immigrants failing to find en-
ployment within sixty days to be sent back
to the country they came from.
An energetic agitation will be started for
the enforcement of the eight-hour day in
all localities. bill will be drafted and
introduced in Congress to make the eight
hour law practically operative for all fed
factory lien law will be offered for consid-
Grafton of all State Legislatures at their
next sessions.
Officers We're elected as follows: Henry
Lloyd, of Boston, general PRESIDENT Louis
e. z. Lossy, Of Detroit, and w. NJ: Macfar
CURE, of Philadelphia, secretary-treasurer.
William Flogg, of Lewiston, Me. and A.
w SWartz of Allegheny, Pa, We're chosen
members OF the executive board, leaving
the other three members to be yet selected.
International Cigar Makers.
DETROIT. Mich, Sept. 2S-About 275 dell
egates were on hand to-day at the first ses-
sion of the twenty-frst convention of the
International Cigar Makers Union. The
convention is being held in Turner Hall
Thomas Of no
trades council delivered an address of well
come. He explained the causes and results
of the Detroit cigar makers strike, which
has been in progress for sixteen months and
which has been assisted by the international
body. He said that its results had been of
mere benefit to the cause of the union blue
liable than any other strike. President G.
W. Perkins responded briefly to the adj
dress. and routine business was then pro-
ceeded with.
This afternoon President Perkins read his
report, the delivery of which occupied three
hours. 1t stated that trade had not mate
rally improved since 1893, but that accord
ing to indications normal trade conditions
might be expected commencing with 1897
The number engaged in the cigar-making
trade in the United States and Canada was
given as $685. the number of factories Ia
600. of which 7,147 are strictly union and
many others mixed Since the last trien-
NAL convention charters were granted to
sixty-eiSht unions, and the treasury of the
International Union is in good condition.
The average number of strikes per year
had decreased. The report deplores the
diminished use of the union label. but ac-
counts for it by the trade depression. By
comparison with Internal Revenue Office
reports 1t appears that the shrinkage in
the manufacture and sale of nonunion
cigars was nearly six times greater than in
using the union label. The gem
eral fund, which amounted to more than
$500. 000 in 1893 had been reduced to 1854 438
on Aug. 1, 1885, owing to the many out-of-
work benefits paid The president com
work per day for five days with a full
stop on Saturday and Sunday, to the con-
sideration of the delegates.