The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-05
LABOR union TROUBLES
THE CENTRAL BODY HAS A SOME
WHAT EXCITING SESSION.
Fight Against the Police Dispatch
Company and Other Matters
The BARRIERS Union.

The special meeting OF Central Labor
Union held in the Machinists' Hall last
night again took up the fight against the
indianapolis Police Dispatch Company
John w. Kerr, who moved at the last meet
ing of the central body that committee
be appointed to cooperate with the Mer-
chant police force in protesting against the
new company putting up its boxes and
stringing wires said that the committee did
not know what it was TO do and asked for
instructions. This brought several delegates
to their feet, who declared that the COM
mittee should know, as the matter had been
threshed out several times aud the Central
Labor Union had declared that the most
aggressive steps should be taken against
the new company.
Later in the discussion Kerr really de-
Tended the company, as did the other men,
bers of the committee appointed with him.
The discussion ended when Edgar A. Per-
Nns moved 70 have the committee dis
charged. This action taken President
Feltman and Secretary Slough. who were
formerly appointed a committee to visit the
Board OF Safety and not request, but de-
mand that the board refuse to grant police
power to employees OF the company under
its proposed system, will continue the work.
President Feltman said that he and Slough
still constituted the committee and that IL
would carry out the dictates Of the central
body.
H. S. Beissenherz, of the grievance COM
mittee, reported the settlement of the diff
ference between the Bridge and structural
Iron Workers and the Own-Ketcham iron
works. and said that ere were prospects
of settlement with the Hetherington-
Berner Company.
Regarding the conditions of the Suspender
Workers Union, he said the members OF
the company employing the workers had
told the committee that they had no obJec-
ton to the girls belonging TO the union and
had sent for 5000 union labels for their
goods. The committee recommended that
an officer of Central Labor Union meet with
the suspender workers and teach them how
to conduct their meetings. Concerning a
Garment Makers Union, which named and
charged several firms or this city or hand
ling goods made by an Eastern firm that Is
the unfair list, Beissenherz said the
committee investigated and found the
charges 10 be false. He requested that the
secretary of the central body be instructed
TO write the national secretary of the
Garment Makers that he should be more
careful in making charges and not put the
Central Labor Union TO the bother and ex-
pense OF investigating them. The request
was granted.
Organizer John Blue reported that en-
ployes OF the Bates hominy mills had told
him that seven men were discharged for
joining a union that was being organized in
the plant. The matter was turned over 10
the grievance committee for investigation.
The Typographical Union asked that the
secretary of the Central Labor Union write
to Senators Fairbanks and Beverage, pro-
testing against the appointment OF John n.
Baker, judge of the United states Distrlct
Court to succeed the late Judge William
A Woods, OF the United States Circuit
Court. The request was granted.