The Advocate and news., 1898-11-23

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There are numerous citizens, observes
the Railroad Telegrapher, who still find
1t convenient to sleep under water tanks
over night and first thing In the morning
tap at the rear door Of the section house
for a hand-out. Those poor fellows do
not know that prosperity has returned.
The telegraphers who came back from
Puerto Rico from enlistment in the sig
nal corps don't take kindly to the hard
ships of military service. They do not
object to those which cannot be avoided
but 1t seems that they have been obliged
to carry hay, run errands, clean the Of
ticers quarters and do other work.
Rev. Herbert N. CassOn: During the
last twenty years we have been develop
ing a slave element in our pOulation.
The opportunities to secure profitable
labor have become less and less, and even
those who are lucky enough TO obtain
one Of those things called "jObs" are no
longer expecting anything more than
living.
Hardie's Labor Leader: One Of the
most unique cases Of generosity on rec
ord is reported from the Lancashire cot
ton village Of Withnell. Mr.. H. 7. Parke,
a well-knOwn liberal and Wesleyan in
North Lancashire, has retired from busi-
ness as manufacturer, and has pre-
sented old employees Of twenty years
standing with 100000. None have re-
ceived less than ESQ. Several have got
92OO, one $500, and two 900 each.
Cigar Makers Journal: The retail
druggists, in national convention at st.
Louis, refused to admit committee Of
union cigarmakers. The committee re-
Quested few minutes to speak for the
union label. The retail druggists are
constantly growing about the depart
ment stores and shouting to the popu-
lace to save them from the certain ruin
of the department store competition Still
they shut the door in the face of organ
lied labor The druggists handle non
union cigars almost exclusively.
Judge Holmes, OF the United States Cir
cult court, in decision recently handed
down at Omaha, said "The label is a
part Of the well-known machinery Of
trades unions, and the use of 1t is found,
If finding be necessary, to be Of value
to the union and its members. 1t would
not be travelling too far from the record,
perhaps, II we should assume that the
use of the label is in fact, as it certainly
might be, of far more economic import
ance to the union than are most Of the
trademarks, strictly so called, which are
protected by the courts"
The following officers were elected at
the national convention of the Journey
men BARRIERS Union of America, at Mem
phis, Tenn: Jacob Fischer, Anderson,
Ind, president; Frank x. Noshang, AL
bany, N. Y, first vice president; =
Byrne, Boston, Mass, second vice presi-
dent; Geo. N. Schmidt, Quincy, ILL.,, third
vice president; VIM McCaulley, Dayton,
o., fourth vice president; w. f. Kla-
petzky, Syracuse, N. Y, seCretary-treas-
urer; W. o. Pinard, Memphis, Tenn, gen.
eral organizer; j. E. Fitzgerald, Kansas
City, Mo-, delegate to American Fedora
tiOn of Labor. The next convention will
be held at Saginaw, Mich
Locomotive Firemen's Magazine: One
of the peculiar features Of the National
Peace Jubilee" held in Chicago, and of
which the President of the United States
was the honored guest, was the fact that
those in charge selected the greatest scab
printing Office in the country to print
the Official souvenir program" and then
snubbed the Governor Of Illinois, pre-
sumably because he had taken the min
ers' side of the Virden trouble. This
would signify that while we may 'jubi-
late" over a supposed peace with Spain,
those in charge of the Chicago demon
stration propose to pursue the same old
war against labor. But when
we stop to consider that the spoils Of this
war are about fifteen million ignorant
pauperized laborers who are to be
brought into competition with the work
ing people in the States, it is not at all
that the people who boss the
nation should thus serve notice on union
men that in the new order Of things they