The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-05-27

W tAe IopOFteT Oh MS Trip, In part:
Il told the commission that New York {
were the best factory laws in the United
States. l told them further, that the best
class Of custom-made clothing is made un-
der the worst sweating conditions. A suit
OF clothes to cost the wearer SIS will be
sent to one of these sweating shops from
the handsome store in Fifth avenue and q
man, wife and child will work on it for q
week, fourteen to sixteen hours a day. and
will get $12 for it.
The best stores in Fifth avenue send
their goods to these sweating shops. Many
OF them have small shops in the rear of
their stores, where they say their work il
done, but really very small part Of it il
done there. Some Of these tailors did their
work IN their own shops, but gradually the
shops.
ine nnest made custom clothing in New
York 10 more apt to be made in the sweat
shops than the cheaper grades"
The strike Of the 500 machinists EN-.
pioyed In the Holly Pump company's works
a. III! Lo sx n; Z, has been settled hap
ply BY the discharge Of the obnoxious
Inc picture most striking among those
depicting industrial events was the one
portraying Bishop Quigley. Of the Buffalo
diocese. entering scene of bitter wage
connict bearing aloft the sceptre of ar
and more applied to the better settiement
OF industrial difficulties.
:, we All remember the part which Car
omar manning took in the London Dock
ers strike. battle not very dissimilar to
mat now at Buffalo among the coal SHOW
elers and longshoremen.
blsnop Potter has done much to intro
OUC0 and teach tho
and Cancellation in labor disputes. There
are more bishops and priests and pastors
VINO nave done good work in this field of
CHRISTIAN endeavor, and the development
may De welcomed as q growth Of good in
huences in life.
The bishop Of Hereford has been for
some time advocating through the London
papers the creation Of a court Of arbitrs-
ton between employers and employees
whose decision shall be mandatory.
During the past year the Cigarmakers'
International union has paid out for sick.
death and out-of-work benefits the sum Of
The convention of the miners Of tho
central Pennsylvania fields, held last week
at Clearteld, decided to call a strike at an
mines IN that district which did not agree
TO pay the advance demanded by June i.
In the first week of the present month
over over S,ooo new members were added to the
aoDacco Workers National union. One
union tobacco firm in Brooklyn used 2.00(). :
ooo blue labels in the month of April.
-, Inc semi-annual report of the auditor of
the National Stonecutters' association.
whose headquarters are at Washington. D..
~ SHOWS the organization has a snug sum
In its treasury.
The labor unions of Kansas Civ have
uetermlned upon labor temple in which
the labor organizations can meet for ed,I-
catlon and recreation. 1t is intended to
lay out at least $4,000 on the building,
Inc International Association of Flint
Glass Workers will meet at LAFAYETTE. Ind.
July 10. -N''
Textile workers of Taftville, Conn.,, have
issued an appeal for financial assistance
About 1000 operators are on strike for
restoration of the wages prevailing. prior
to Jan. 1, 1898.
10 the average business or professional
man the union label may not possess much
significance. But it means a great deal
w ~ VIZ nAa6 udu. ana IL means, too,
a great deal to the employer. Practically
1t is, in great degree, a protection to
MIN against strikes and labor troubles in
his own line of industry. Writing in the
American Federationist, John N. Boeert.
organizer of the federation for the state of
New York, has the following condensation
OF the benefits of the union label:
ITO sum up, the entire community
should unite in promoting the union label:
Because 1t supersedes the strike, the
lockout and the destructive boycott; it is
the outward manifestation of harmony be.
tween employer and workman, binding
both parties to maintain their friendly re-
lat1ons and the continued approval and
patronage of discriminating public.
Because it condemns child labor and
humanizes factory life.
Because it minimizes convict COMPETE
tion with free and honest labor.
Because it wipes out the tenement and
sweat shop systems of production.
Because it has ferreted out, exposed
and cleansed the unwholesome cellar
bakery. '-
Because 1t shortens the work day and
gives the toiler time to read and think
and cultivate the social sides of life.
Because it guarantees a living wage
and rational conditions of employment.
Because 1t will some day free the white
slaves in our northern mills-such as
those who toll day and night and Sundays,
too, in the Glens Falls Paper Works, two
phalanxes working every hour in the
twenty-four, one force putting in eleven
hours by day, the other thirteen hours at
night, with no time of for meals, snatch
ing their lunch between times while tend
Ing the machine-all for shilling an hour
and without extra pay for nights or Sun
days.
Because it stands for quality and hon
est workmanship.
Because it is not a weapon for indus
trial war, but an olive branch held out to
bind the brotherhood of man.
Reports from New York state that a
socialist alliance of cigarmakers is about
long established and recognized blue label
of Cigarmakers' International Union.
A two weeks revival by the Central La
Dor Council at Fort Wayne, Ind, resulted
in the formation of eight new unions.
The Architectural Ironworkers in Chi
cago are still on strike, and, while some
of the firms are willing to concede their
demands, others are not. There is q strong
inclination on the part of number of the
members of this organization to affiliate
with the structural ironworkers and work
under the latter's rules and regulations.
This would mean that all iron work would
be done by the members of the Structural
1ronworkers' Union, and that the wages
would be 45 cents per hours. The present
strike for IS cepts per hour. SO by ANAL
gamating with the structural men they
see way out of the present difficulty and
at the same time secure a raise of 10 cents
per hour more than they are asking. It
is generally conceded that the bosses
would not make anything like successful