The labor world., 1899-06-10
Superior.

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A meeting of carpenters and joiners
was held Thursday evening and it is
expected to have this craft re-organ-
lied this month.
The steam engineers met Thursday
evening in the Hammond block. Off
GERS were elected and various commit
tees appointed. The new local is No.
"a and has % charter members.
The labor bazaar to be given under
the auspices of the Trades and Labor
Assembly at the Fair building some
time this month is bound to be sue
cess. The committee in charge re-
port favorable progress.
| The breweryworkers scale, which
was presented to the master brewers
some time ago has been signed by all.
Some concessions were made on both
sides although the breweryworllers
received slight increase in wages.
Superior Typographical union held
a regular meeting Sunday afternoon
and adjourned until tomorrow after
noon at $3.50 at which time two applf.
|,cations for membership will, be dis
posed of and the new constitution and
bylaws read.
Tuesday evening, June 13, will be
the date for the next regular meeting
of the assembly. The report of the
local organizers doings will be read
and considerable other business trans.
acted. All delegates should be tdn
hand promptly.
o., N. Calef will leave for James.
vile. Monday evening to attend the
seventh annual, convention of the Wis.
consin State Federation OF Labor
which convenes June 49, Mr.. Cale1
represents the Trades and Labor As
sembly and. will endeavor to ihave
the next convention held in Superior
A meeting of stonemasons and
I,bricklayers was held Wednesday even.
ing in the Hammond block for, the
purpose of forming a. local union
Quite a number of the stonemasons
were present, but only one bricklaye1
and it was decided to hold another
meeting Monday evening June IL, a,
which time an effort will be made
to have both crafts fairly represent.
ed land q ,T,eHmanenc Organization
formed.
The retail clerks have another jot
on hand this summer as the following
article from Thursdays Evening ,Tele:
gram will show:
WE CLOSE AT 8 p. NJ.
We, the undersigned MERCHANTS
hereby agree to close up our respect.
i've places of business at p. M, ex.
|;cept Saturdays. 5s
Last April we were represented at
the meeting of the Trades ana Labor
Assembly, and then stated our griev.
fance regarding the early closing
movement. We stated the facts that
there are IL stores open below Fifth
street and that we could not afford
to continue closing early, unless all
are closed, including below Fifth
street. A committee of the Trades
and Labor Assembly and the Retail
Clerks union were appointed to confer
with us in order to come to some
satisfactory agreement. We submit
ted three propositions to the com
mittee for their consideration, as fol.
lows:
First. To grant all of us Ehree
months in each season, spring and fall
later hours and the remaining months
we agreed to close at $3.50.
Second. To grant us the O'Clock
movement all year around.
Third. To close up all new clothing,
furnishing and shoe stores below Fifth
street.
The committee submitted our prop
ositions to the assembly and as a re-
suit they extended invitations to all
the merchants to express their opin-
ion. Many merchants were then mp
and after debating it freely on both
sides another committee was then ap-
pointed including the president of the
assembly and of the clerks union
to- determine which proposition to ac-
cept. After discussing the ,vnrious
propositions very fully the committees
accepted the third, which was to close
up all the stores with tine understands
ing that if, after reasonable time,
they fail to do it, we shall be allow
ed to open up in order to protect our
own trade. That was final and the
conference ended.
Now the clerks union Immediately
after gave us the idea of closing the
stores below Fifth street at $3.50, and
we, after waiting about a month, con-
Guided to remain open. We have now
agreed to close at 8 p. m. except Sat
urdays and it will afford the work
ing men the chance to buy in the even
ing and also shorten the nours in the
store and thus protect our trade from
going below Fifth street.
SIEGEL BROS, -
N. GREENGARD & BRO,
BLOOM DRY GOOD CO.,
KARON BROS..
B. BLENDER.
A. FREID.