Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16
WILL Be NO STRIKE
Miners and Operators Will Agree
in Their Convention.
LABOR MATTERS IN OT1UMWA
Dongs of the Local Trades Unions
Important Assembly Meeting to Be
Held Wednesday Evening, January
22-Organizations Report Progress.

FISi0 WSoiCSuay EVCiiuS, SdHIaiy
22-Organizations Report Progress.
The matter published in this COL
umn is furnished by the officers of the
Federation of Labor.l
Just before the miners convention
which will be held in Des Moines next
month, as is usual the sensationalist
will be out with story that the min
ers are going on strike and that the
whole mining industry in this state
will be tied up by strife and turmoil.
1t would be well to advise these SEN
sational gentlemen in the start that
the miners and operators in Iowa will
meet in joint session in Des Moines
for the purpose of drawing another
agreement for the period of one year,
and their meeting is called with no
other purpose in view. They will of
course fight for everything on both
sides that they think they are entitled
to, but it will all end with an agree
ment that will be lived up to in the
strictest letter of the law. The date
for the convention is not set and will
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Illinois miners and operators conven-
ton. The public will watch with much
interest the proceedings of these con-
ventions but need have no fear of an
industrial strike.
The Building Trades Council.
There is every reason why at the
present time the building trades coun-
Gil should be made success. Under
present conditions every building
trades union in the city should affil-
late. The great necessity for building
building craft in this city is apparent
to every mechanic working In that
line. This organization met at brick
layers hall last Saturday evening and
will meet at the same place on next
Saturday evening. Every organization
should send full delegation.
Trades and Labor Assembly.
The next regular meeting of the
Trades and Labor Assembly will be
held on Wednesday evening, January
%. A large attendance is anticipated
from the fact that the legislative COM
mittee will report and the matter of
iiSS lSAL DOoho Ill Lie SIuOOlS Will NC
made special order of business.
There are other important matters
that require that every union send it's
full delegation, among them the re-
port of the delegate to the convention
Of the American Federation of Labor.
The meeting will be called to order
promptly at s o'clock in order that all
of the important business may be
transacted. 4g
Bakers and confectioners.
The remarkable growth in the de-
and confectioners' goods in this city is
a surprise and very gratifying one,
| to the trades unionists of Ottumwa.
One baker reports the use of $4,000
union labels since the signing of the
scale. There is no doubt but that at
the end of next year the union bakers
will control majority of the bakery
shops in this city,
The Machinists.
Financial Secretary Queeney of the
| local machinists' union, reports that
the organization is prospecting and
moving along nicely. A majority Of
the machinists in this city are mem
bers of the union which is considered
one Of the most conservative of those
represented in Ottumwa.
Carpenters and Joiners.
The following comes from st. Louis:
"St, Louis, Mo-, Nov. 81, 1901.
ITO Members of the Brotherhood Ev-
erywhere:
In answer to numerous inquiries
as to the condition Of trade in this
city, We desire to say that there are
at present hundreds of idle men here.
Carpenters, both union and non-union
are fockng into this city under the
impression that work has started On
the Worlds Fair buildings.
There will be no work in that direc-
ton until spring. At present no con-
tracts have been let for any of the
buildings, and the grounds are not
graded nor severed, which work will
have to be done before building can
begin.
"This means a delay of several
months.
"By order of the Carpenters Dis
| trict Council. R. Fuelle, President.
IN. Blackmore, Secretary"
| hC obo'C oppitSc " Oil otiSl u aus
in the building line.
Brcklayers.
President Geo. P Gubbins of the
Bricklayers in the thirty-sixth an
nual report of the B. & M. l. U. speaks
very favorably of utilization with some
of the general bodies as matter of
self-protection. He suggests that the
constitution should be SO amended as
to allow subordinate unions to attil-
late with those bodies without losing
the support and protection of the |. U
in case of strikes and lockouts. An
other important fact is that after an
. existence of thirty-six years five-siXths
of the bricklayers are still inorganic
; ed.
Chinese Exclusion.
1t is high time that every member Of
organized labor, and others who wish
to see American labor kept free anc
independent, begin in earnest to use
their influence to secure at the hands
of congress the re-enactment of the
Chinese exclusion act, which expire!
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