The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-03-09

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| Victory For, the Molders-Thc
Union Was decentralization La
Dor L. Paid in Manila.
| WASHINGTON March GA congress
which assessed every man woman and
child so annually, or each family
about $50 a year for the support of the
| government has just adjourned without
paying the slightest attention to the
legislation desired by organized labor.
The eight-hour and convict labor bill
were entirely fair and reasonable in
every way. They were for the general
welfare of wage workers, yet congress
was too busy, promoting a standing
army and seeing that the spectators
and franchise grabbers get free hand
in Cuba and the Philippines to pay any
attention to domestic affairs.
| The presence of the American Fed
GRAFTON legislative committee was not
without It's uses. Such committee is
always powerful in preventing mis-
clievous legislation, and the defeat of
the ship subsidy bill was in no small
measure due to the attitude of organ
! lied labor against the principles in
| volved.
The result is what might have been
expected at a short session just fol-
lowing presidential campaign, but it
begins to look as If ORGANIZED labor will
| have to devise some new means of i'm
pressing upon congress the necessity
! for legislation which is ardently desired
! by workers all over the country.
Iron holders Victorious at Cleveland
! The following from Mr.. David F.
| Black, editor of the Iron Molders'
! Journal, is of interest to every union
man. In writing me of the terms of
settlement, he says:
! You are no doubt we'll advised that
while the ostensible cause of the strike
In Cleveland was the maintenance of
10 cents per day advance, which they
had been enjoying during the months
Of May and June, 1900, the fight really
became a trial of strength between the
National Founders Association and the
Iron Molders' Union.
i Many Of the foundry men made the
statement that they were fighting for
open shops and the privilege of hiring
whom they pleased, without dictation
from an outside organization.
II AS a result of liberal use of money
in the form of bonuses, the foundry
men succeeded in bringing 1926 non-un-
ion men to Cleveland and these were
in the shops when the conference took
place.
i The salient features of the settlement
are that the Iron Molders recede from
their demand for the continuance of the
10 cents per day, and the other one
j which in our opinion is the most i'm
portant one-is that 1926 non-union men
shall be removed from the shops within
forty days and Immediately on the
shop being vacated by these men the
members of the Iron Molders' Union
will take, their places.
The Associated Press and hostile
newspapers are circulating the report
that the molders have lost their fight
claiming that the main issue was the
ten cents per day. Trade unionists
know that the real fight was the main
tenance of union shops in the city OF
Cleveland
Had the foundrymen's association
succeeded in obtaining open shops in
Cleveland we well know what would
have been the result. So the officers
of the Iron Molders' Union look upon
the settlement as substantial victory
for organized labor"
The iron molders have right to con-
graduate themselves on the result
They have been fighting for months for
the very existence and future of their
organiza ton. Their victory shows what
good thing it is for union to always
be ready to meet an important issue
The Iron Molders' victory will be I;
lesson to other associations Of employ
ers who feel tempted to crush out the
unions with which they deal.
How Labor In Paid in Manila.
Under the terms of the Spooner re-
solution the president will soon be Civ
ing out franchises and grants of valu-
able public lands in the Philippines.
Our new brethren, the Filipinos, dom
care about working-especially wher
the result is to be reaped by the en-
ployer.
This country will soon be flooded with
literature setting forth the great op
portunities for American men of energy
, and brains who will go to the Philip.
pines.
We always have energy and brains
when they want to exploit our labor
+ Carroll D. Wrights last bulletin give;
an interesting table or wages and cos
.. of living in the Philippines The cos
of living for white man is rattle
higher than in this country. Here arr
!. a few samples of wages:
. Bakers So and 50 per month; black
smiths, IS to 50 per month; cigarmak
ers, Is to so cents a day; electricians
Y SIS to SIS a month; woodworkers, Is t,
81 cents per day.
= Rather difficult for union man t,
see the advantages of a change of eli
mate for such wages. How about tn
r competition of articles made at sue
= prices with the products of union labor
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