Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-04
UNION BOYCOTT Fight
A Des Moines Restaurant Being
Fought by the Unions.
Women Interested.
Low Wages to Girls Forces Them
Into Vice and DeGra.
dation.
Money Will Be Spent to Improve
the State Capitol
Building.
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per time one may may meet on the
sidewalk short distance either way
from the restaurant one, two or three
young men engaged in handing out
boycott cards. Nine men out of ten
throw them down in disgust and re-
mark on another Of those disagreeable
quarrels about recognizing the union"
or paying the scale" The restaurant
keeper has appealed to business men
to show him their sympathy; and
as an Offset q committee from the Des
Moines trades and labor assembly made
the rounds Of business houses and
talked 1t, over. Then the women be-
came interested and at meeting OF
the professional women's league the
committee of unionists was invited to
be present and explain the situation.
This was DONE Then the women made
the discovery that there was some
thing beneath this little boycott on a
restaurant which meant more than
question of unioinism.
'The fight we are making" said the
spokesman for the party, is for recog-
milton of the union and paying the
wages demanded. At the bottom OF
this is a moral question. We stand for
living wages for half dozen poor girls
unable to help themselves. They are
paid some SO or 81 a week. and they
are required to pay their own laundry
bills. A clean apron every day cuts
| q hole in their wages. 1t reduces them
to that point where something else
must be done to earn living. In
short, to be plain about 1t, starvation
wages for girls in such places drives
them to the street and recruits the
army OF young women forced to vice
and degredation.'
| When the matter was presented in
this light the professional women's
league resolved upon taking up the
| fight, and from this time on it is ex-
pected that the restaurant war will
take on a more lively aspect.
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Incidentally and in this connection
one who has interested himself great
deal In social, questions, Mr.. Weeks OF
| the Settlement house, has resolved up
on an innovation which will lead to
broader knowledge and understand
ling on social questions. He is leader
| of Sunday school class at the Ply
mouth church The class Is composed
OF men Of active minds and courageous,
4 and they have been straying; away
| from the text and taking up all sorts
i Of subjects more or less suggested by
1 study of the gospels. Now the class is
j to go a step further and will listen to
short talks from men who are thinkers
land workers in all lines. 1t is to be-
Icome an open forum. There are some
totlfer churches In Des Moines In which
/ this thing is being encouraged to.
great extent and number of the lead
ling ministers of the gospel are known
to be quite radical In their views and
Expressions on all social questions.
But out Of this Plymouth Sunday
school it is expected there will grow q
|healthful desire to consider fairly all
present day problems.
The unwillingness of the Des Moines
CITY council to grant franchise to the
promoters of the electric line to Colfax
unless the promoters will accept a con-
tract which binds them to pay per
cent of the gross earnings into the city
treasury is looked upon by thoughtful
ones as an indication that public senti-
ment in favor of holding corporations
Ito q SLTlCL dCCOulllttSIiiIy 40 AAsANAAAo
some effect The seekers after the
Ifranchise-the Cleveland syndicate or
which Mrs. Butler is the promoter-de-
j sire the right to run electric cars into
iDes Moines. but to pay nothing FOR the
fright. The company has secured fran
chise rights in Altoona. Mitchellivlle
and Colfax and tax aid in all three
places, but has no way of getting INTO
Des Moines now. But the aldermen
4 of Des Moines doubtless recalling that
spring election is only short dis
tance off, have refused to grant any
free franchise to anybody. Unless the
i company agrees to pay somethlns IL
will not get into the city and there VIII
he no interurban line by that company.
"Did YOU ever think" said Secretary
Wesley Greene of the Iowa Horticul-
tural society, that practically half OF
the United States is a treeless region
and forestry is not only impracticable
but impossible in all that region?"
Mr.. Greene has just finished coloring
1 a railway map of the United States to
/ show at a glance the distribution Of the
1 forests of the United States. BY
| glance at the map, which Is prepared
| for the use of the new Park and For
estry association promoted by Profess
sors Macbride and Pammel. one may see
that practically all of the timber land of
| the United States for coms1ercial use
| lies in great belt extending thru Ar
kansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and the
Allegheny mountains, with patch up
| in Michigan and Wisconsin and some
down in Florida.
"All this talk about turning to the
/ forests Of the Pacific states when the
forests of the east are exhausted is nom
/ sence," continued Mr. Greene. The foh
1 ests of the far west are compare lively
small. They skirt the mountalns and are
] in the valleys. but they cannot take the