Evening star., 1901-12-17
LABOR UNION PROTESTS
RESOLUTIONS DENOUNCING IMPRIs-
ONMENT OF IGLEsIAs.
Communication From brotherhood OF
mittee on District Suffrage.

The Central Labor Union. at its meeting
last evening, indorsed resolutions recently
adopted by Columbia Typographical Union
denouncing the Imprisonment by a court In
Porto Rico OF Santiago Iglesias and other
members of labor organizations
The resolutions recite that ''by the en-
forcement in the courts of Porto Rico OF
the old and brutal Spanish laws whereby
trade organizations are declared Illegal and
members thereof are treated as conspira.
tors and as such laws are in direct vio.
lation Of the rights of laboring men and
are opposed to the interests of individual lib
erty and our republican form Of government
"a clear abridgment of the privileges AMI
immunties of the citizens Of the United
States" as mentioned in section one of the
fourteenth amendment of the Constitution,
and as Santiago lglesias, president of the
Federation of Workmen of Porto Rico and
local organizer of the American Federation
OF Labor of the United States, together
with seven of his colaborers in the cause
os unionism, have been arrested. convicted
and sentenced to terms of Imprisonment
upon the charge of conspiracy for endeaV-
oring to have the price of labor raised TO
correspond with the increase in the price
of commodities occasioned by the change IN
the currency of the island from pesos to dol
lars-an increase of 10 per cent?; therefore,
Columbia Typographical Union, No. 1Ol,
hereby condemns such laws as barDarous
and as relic of Spanish tyranny, and petit
items Congress for their immediate repeal
and the substitution of new and enllght-
ened code to conform to the Constitution
and statutes of the United States"
The officers of the union file an emphatic
protest with the President of the United
States against the carrying into effect of
the sentences.
Protest IndOrsed.
The union also indorsed letter which
will be forwarded by the local Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers TO the labor organi-
cations of the country protesting against
the bill recently introduced in Congress
providing for the examination and licensing
of electrical workers. The organizations
are requested to communicate with their
respective senators and representatives In
Congress and ask them to oppose the meas
ure.
The objections to the bill, as stated in the
letter. are that it's enactment would result
in the classification of electrical workers
by an examining board and a consequent
rating of wages in many instances below
the prevailing rate; that il will prohibit the
organization from esta blishing a uniform
wage scale and thus infringe upon the
right and nullify the purpose of trade or
ganiZat ton.
ITO further the movement to secure the
right of suffrage in the District the fol-
lowing committee, composed of delegates
selected: Milford Spohn, Edward Burley. j.
E. McCracken, T. c. Fox, August Link,
John Craft, F. w. Palmer, Frank Roe,
James l.. Stevens. Henry Albright. John
Dickman. H F. Speakman, c. w. Teets.
William ODonnell. Thos. jackson, Thos.
Flanagan, G. B. Hedges, C. Spresser, E. w.
Chesley T. P. Ryan. Robert Langhorn, T.
j. Brown. j. P. Fleming, E. j. Ratigan, d.
F. Manning. William Silver, A. S. Noland
John Hammerstrom. John H. Lorch. ]. A.
Campbell. ]. l.. Cochran. G. w. Winslow
w. E. Kennedy. Newton A. James, C. w.
Magee, B. Thompson. w. Sidebauth. Fred.
c. Connors, E. NJ Van Ness ]. A. Daley,
William Maloney. Daniel Sullivan, Thorn
ton o. Crown, H. w. Szegedy, H. r.
Fellinger, David McCracken, Charles Lin
kins, Henry Hageman. Charles H. Schnei-
der. Jere f. McCarty, Charles Mcdowell
w. E. Thompson, Samuel Beckett, w. s.
Klemroth, ]. B. Caldwell, c. Williams, H.
I. Wells. NJ Peyton, T. Rose
communication was received from
Glass Bottle Blowers Association, No. 6S
of Alexandria, Va. requesting representa-
tfon in the Central Labor Union 1t was
decided that the association is entitled to
representation and the secretary was In
structed to so inform the organization.
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