Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-09
TRANSFERS TOUNlTE
Team Drivers Organization May
Form District Council.
WILL CONTROL WAGES OF The CRAFT

The Three Local Unions of Drivers
Propose Holding Meeting Soon.
Clerks Expect Increase in Member
ship-Other News in Labor Circles.
1.-THE matter published e this col
umn is furnished by the officers of the
Federation of Labor
There are organizations of team
drivers in this city, the milk drivers,
expressmen and coal haulers and gen
eral teamsters. These organizations
propose to hold a meeting and form
a district council in this city, for the
purpose of regulating the conditions
of the work The organizations are of
considerable strength and are growing
rapidly. Hardly meeting night of
any of the locals takes place without
great number of applications being
passed upon. 1t is believed that be-
fore spring the coal haulers and gen
eral teamsters organization will have
z
nation of the proposed district coun-
Gil, the unions will form scale of
wages and submit the same to their
employers There is little doubt but
that it will meet with their approval,
and the unions will then be placed in
q position to control the wages of
their craft in this city.
Retail Clerks.
At the next meeting of the Retail
Clerks Protective association it is
anticipated that at least fifty appli-
cations will be made for membership.
There is little doubt but that great
number of the clerks in this city be-
gin to see the benefits of their organ
ization, and will henceforth take an
active part in controlling it's destiny
Carpenters and Joners.
The local union OF carpenters and
Joiners is making great strides and
gaining membership at every meeting.
An effort is being put forth to create
good feeling between the organiza-
ton and the contracting carpenters OF
this city, and for that purpose, Mr..
Henry, general organizer for the
brotherhood has been in the city for
the past two weeks. Mr. Henry re-
ports the local organization in splen-
did condition, and one of the soundest
carpenters unions in the state. He,
has been visiting the business men
prospective builders in the city in the
interest of the local union. All the
members of the union in this city have
begun an active campaign in the in.
terests of their organization and it
is believed that ere the robins sing
in the spring, the carpenters that now
remain without the fold. of the organ
ization will see the great benefits to
he derived from becoming members
and will join hands with the members
JOf the local organization
Butcher Workmen.
The butcher workmen have begun
to show signs of great activity and are
organizing local unions at tremen-
dous pace throughout the country
The national officers are kept busy
looking after the ever increasing mem
bership, and President Donnelly re-
ports expectations of further increases
within the next month. The local or
ganization is also wide awake and
ton for the patronage of meat mar
kets displaying the union card. The
members of the union request all sym
pathizers to patrcnize the meat mar
ko.s displaying the union card.
President Sam p Hobbs has put in
some good work in the last month in
the interest of the local organization.
Trades and Labor Assembly,
The next regular meeting of the
Trades and Labor assembly will be
held on Wednesday evening of this
week, and thsre shAuld be a full rep.
resentation of.the delegates from each
local union, as very important business
will be transacted. Some of the dele.
gates from the organizations have ne.
elected to represent their unions in
the assembly for the past three
months, therefore the organizations
have not had their interests looked
afser and should wake up and de-
mand report of the delegates after
every meeting of the assembly II is
coming to time of the year when i'm
portant work will have to be done in
the assembly in the interests of all
the local unions and the officers of the
locals should see that their delegates
attend these meetings.
Why Labor Organizes.
In accordance with the law of cause
and effect every effect must be the
result of a cause and as logical Sc
squence the effect produced must be
in direct proportion to the efficiency
!. of the cause.
What then, we might ask, is the
cause, or rather series of causes
which has led to the wonderfully in
creased growth of organized labor in
recent years? That this increase has
been phenomenal is a matter which
admits of no doubt.
Chief among those causes unqoes