The Minneapolis journal., 1901-10-11

body entities it to three representatives.
There are 525 members of the local union in
good standing
1t is not believed that the strike of the
Chicago telephone linemen will affect the
local situation so long as the windy city
workingmen bear their own burden. Should
they be unable to do so alone and general
strike be ordered, the Northwestern people
in Minneapolis. being one of the allied sys-
TENS with the Chicago company, would prob
ably find their men walking out.
Charters for two new unions were issued
by the Western Labor union last week
the Denver Expressmen's union and the Fuel
Workers and Drivers union, also of Den
yer. The former promises to be one OF the
strongest Organizations-numeric In Den
yer, more than 800 expressmen having signed
the charter roll. 1t is believed that this union
will have 1900 members within the next three
months.
Nearly 300 Pennsylvania railroad men had
wages in part withheld when the pay car
reached Fort Wayne, Ind. collection
agency sent man there month ago and
bought up accounts against this number, and
the mems wages were garnisheed at Wheel
ing and in Chicago. The total amount OF
debts and costs was over $1,000. In one case,
where a debt was Sc cents, the court costs
increased it to $1O17.
President Louis Hansen, of the Trades and
Labor Council, who is doing missionary work
in Illinois and Wisconsin, has written an in
teresting letter to the Union from Beloit,
Wis, telling Of his work Of organization. AT
Beloit he found only two unions and he or
ganiZed a third, the woodworkers, and then
got these In line and formed a central body
very similar to the Minneapolis council. He
also did considerable work among the strong
unions Of Rockford, Ill.
movement which contemplates a general
increase in the remuneration of $500 lum-
bermen in western Montana has been in
augurated with excellent prospect of success.
The new schedule provides for a general in.
crease Of S. per month in the wages OF all
classes of labor, and raises lumbermen from
$35 to $40, two-horse teamsters from $40 to $45
and teamsters driving four-horse wagons
from $45 to $50 per month, board and lodging
being furnished in each instance
David c. Lane business agent of the Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers Union, re-
turned this week from the international con-
vention at Boston. He says the convention
did great deal Of business and inaugurated
several movements that will ultimately result
in benefit to the members. 1t was harmo-
NOUS meeting, everybody pulling together
better than the most sanguine had hoped.
Milwaukee won out in hard fight and Sc
cured the next annual meeting of the union.
The Minneapolis garment workers, who re-
Gently organized a local union, assert that
they are growing in strength and numbers
and that within the next few months they
will be able to control several OF the large
foot to secure the promise Of local merchants
to handle goods bearing the label Of the Gar
ment Workers Union in preference to non
union made goods Other unions in Mime
apolis have pledged their support the gar
ment-makers in their work.
Labor men are to establish a professorship
at the University of Chicago to teach ethics
and moral philosophy. 1t is claimed by those
that labor has as much to teach
scholarship as scholarship has to teach labor.
The new chair is to be established and it's
occupant chosen by Jan. 1. This professor
ship will not be in the pay of the univer-
sity, but will be supported by contributions
from labor men all over the country. Pro-
fessor Walter Vrooman, founder of the Rus
kin labor colleges at Oxford, Eng, and Tren-
ton Mo-, is back of the movement.