The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-27
IN The WORLD OF LABOR.


ternational union. II is In part as follows
The Chandelier Manufacturing company
agrees to employ none but members o
the above organization In good standing
or those who carry the regular workiae
card. The same wages now paid for ter
hours shall be the standard for nine hougs
Overtime shall be paid at the rate OF tim;
and half. Christmas Day, Decoratior
Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day
and New Years Day, double time; but
under no circumstances shall work be doat
on Labor Day II two shifts are EN-
ployed, single time only shall be paid, nine
hours to constitute a days work for each
shift There shall he q steward In each
factory appointed by the organization,
whose duty 1t shall be to see that the men
working in said factory belong to the or
ganization. The company agrees that n
representative, II provided with the proner
credentials. shall have access TO the fac
tory during working hours but he shnll
not be allowed to Interfere or delay the
men in their work during said hours. Men
at present employed not members of the
organization shall be given one week TO
make application for membership. Failing
to do so at the expiration OF that tine,
they shall be discharged. All apprentices
shall be members Of the union and carry
the working card of the organization. A
sympathetic strike to protect union pril A.
ciples shall not be considered violation
of this agreement. Apprentices leaving
before the expiration of their term shall
be requested to return to said employer.
Under no circumstances. unless doing so,
shall they be allowed to work under Tas
jurisdiction of this organization Should
any difference arise between the employees
and said firm which can not be settled bo-
tween them. II shall be referred to boa I'd
representing the employer and employees
for mediation and arbitration. It Is here
by agreed that this agreement shall be
opened thirty days previous to it's ex-
plration, for the purpose Of discussing the
wage scale or amending any other article
In this agreement. This agreement shall
continue to September /, 1899.
THE powerful skilled tradesmen OF our
country, who. in the early years of their
existence, found advantages by affiiatiag
with the Knights of Labor, but who since
then, prompted by greed for their own adj
vantage have been weaned off from their
connection with us and enticcd into that
moro favored field OF trade organization,
have again become restless because OF
their further greed which prompts thum
to make still another separation from the
favored callings. and who And succor in
what is pleased to be termed trades couh-
Gil, within whose ranks self-interest alone
is the only lesson taught. and whose prin-
cipal object is to satisfy this sslf-lntorest,
even at the expense of their fellowwork-
ers in every other station of life forget.
ting forever that great watchword, An
injury to one is the concern of ALL DIS
carding as they do the great field open
TN no ~ m.
der, wherein every man, skilled or I'M
skilled, educated or ignorant, rich or po)r,
could stand on terms of perfect equality
with each other. General Master Work
man Parsons.
Eighteen of the commercial printing
houses In New York have granted the in
crease for line work required by the now
scale of wages adopted by Photo Engrav
ers' union No. 1. Twelve firms refused
the advance and advertised for ncn-union
engravers. One hundred and eighty mapl-
bers of the union are awaiting the outcoras
at their headquarters in Wizig's hall,
East Fourth street The officers OF the
union say there are not ffty non-union
photo engravers In the United States eui
hat the employers will be obliged vi HIN
1 few days 10 send for their regular help.
The Cleveland Retail Clerks union Won
another skirmish in their fight against
the seven-day merchants at the last meet
ing of the Central Labor union. when 1t
was announced that the Butchers and
Meat Cutters union, Pearl lodge Of the
International Machinists and the local
of the BARRIERS and several other
rades organizations had Endorsed the iigat
# the clerks and voted not to patronise I
he clothing stores that were kept open
Sunday on that or any other day of the
week.
An emphatic protest against the erection
VI monument on Boston common 10
British soldiers was made at the meeting
# Grocery and Provision Clerks union.
The organization unanimously condemned .
he project on the ground that those who
ought and died for independence should
re honered by the people of Boston, Reso-
utions were adopted calling on the wage
workers. of all political parties to vote
n favor of the eight-hour work day for
ity employees.
"As TO my Milwaukee mission said
'ompers, II found hard work at the start.
wing to the determined stand of tbs
nopers against the machinery employers
we're bent on introducing. BY persuasion
md conferences with the men we came to
n understanding, and l think the whole
copper problem Is now adjusted. So
ured increases ranging from 10 to so
ents day for the men involved in the
rouble. ! also got the men to be friendly
.oward the machines. The eight hour
chedule was secured"
look over the field shows that or
anized labor has won in almost every a
sht lately. ] can state positively that II /;
were not for the strength OF the great !
inor organizations labor would be ground 4
own and veritably crushed. The day ]
Dr. labor crushing in the United States ,
as gone. All We insist on is justice {
mr. share of what we produce--ani we Z
III certainly enforce our demands In
very legitimate manner at the proper
~ 1883 law was passed In Germany ,
nat every German with an income az
ioo and over must insure his life against q
ckness and old age. In 1898 there we're |
l,zVo'oOO persons in Germany thus in II
'tred and SO many OF these had mi q
lonary consumption that thirty seven n, n
lie insurance companies erected Al the,r 4
wn expense sanitarium for the care -,
hese persons. VI
The glass factory 10 be established j.,
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