Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-01

four local unions, and in many cities has
secured the eight and nine-heur day.
The International Union of Painters,
Decorators and Paperhangers, organized in
Baltimore in 1887, with but seven local
unions, now has 735 local unions in good
standing, with membership of nearly
4o,0oO, 2l0 local unions having been organ
ent year. Wages have been increased and
hours decreased in over $50 cities since jan
uary l last, with the Saturday half holt
day established in some places.
The Journeymen BARRIERS International
Union was founded in Buffalo in 1887. five
cities being represented Today the union
has surplus of over $4,000 in it's treasury
and nearly 10000 members. In some cities
the hours of labor have been reduced nine
teen and twenty hours a week.
THE International Brick, Tile and Terra
Gotta Workers Alliance Is union which
has adopted the arbitration plan. 1t is
proving very satisfactory, many strikes
having been avoided, and it is only in cases
where the manufacturer has refused to ar
bitrate that strikes have been called. The
alliance has 100 local unions, in eighty five
cities, and Is especially strong in Chicago
Although the International Association
of Marble Workers was chartered in jan
uary of this year, with eight small unions,
1t had in July, this year, twenty-five local
unions, four new unions alone bringing
into the association over 700 new members.
A Strong Washington Union.
"The Steel and Copper Plate Printers
has a strong local union in Washington,
and since it's affiliation with the American
Federation Of Labor in 1898 the member
ship has almost doubled. Eight hours Is
the average for days work, and all men,
bers Of the union who care to work are
kept steadily employed. The plate printers
have been organized for thirty years. and
as far back as 1870 there were local unions
ILL.,. W 1l.t,.
ton. Ninety-seven per cent of the plate
printers are affiliated with this organiza-
ton, and it Is hoped in short time to have
all of the craft members.
''The union of theatrical employees had a
hard struggle for existence, owing to the
many men in cities who were willing to de-
vote their evenings behind the scenes with
out pay, these men holding day positions
rate of wages is paid to all who work in the
amusement field and confine themselves to
that class of work. Local unions are main
tanned in the different cities, and they are
making steady progress
1.-THE union of the ladies' garment work
ers has secured for its members a general
increase of wages of 20 per cent, the condf-
tons of employment have greatly improved
secured. In one year out of 100 strikes the
union was successful in 125, with seven
more compromised.
1.-THE Order of Railway Telegraphers is
izations and has made phenomenal growth
lately, having increased it's membership be-
tween January; and July 1 las 4,123, and
during the same period it has been success
full in securing more benefits for It's mem
bers than they have secured in like period
during it's existence.
"Chinese labor, sweat-shop and prison
labor competition were among the causes
which led to the organization of the Laun-
dry Workers Union. 1t has succeeded in
establishing it's label and gaining better
conditions without strikes in seventy-five
laundres and seven collar and shirt con-
Germs, covering thirty cities. This union Is
especially strong in Troy, n. Y.
Hard Fights for Recognition.
'Of the different labor organizations in
this country which had obstinate and dis
couraging conditions TO overcome none has
had a harder struggle than the Journey
men Bakers and Confectioners Information
al Union. The hours of daily work once
averaged from sixteen to eighteen, and the
pay was very low. Today there are DOB
local unions throughout the United States
and Canada, with membership of over
$4,000. The average hours have been re-
duced to ten, and the wages have been sat
isfactori!y increased.
1.-THE Journeymen Tailors' Union is one
of the Oldest in this country. There were
unions in New York. and Philadelphia as
early as in 1900. A'tailors' union organ
while a union established in Troy, N. Y,
in 1923 still fourishes. There are now about
$50 local unions, with a membership or
II, 1000. Since the adoption of the label OF
the organization over 100000 labels have
been used. Strike benefits amounting to
over 100000 and funeral benefits of $4,000
have been paid, while there is in the treas
ury upward of $4,000.
''This wear has been the most successful
in the history of the Trunk and Bag Work.
ers' International Union since it's organiza-
ton in 1885 The membership has been
doubled, and the men work ten hours day.
THE Cigarmakers International Union is
one of the largest and strongest unions
affiliated with the American Federation of
Labor, and the first cigarmakers' union was
organized in Baltimore in 1881. Now the
prevailing workday is eight hours, and the
reforms which have been brought about
for the betterment of labor by this great
union are almost without number. During
the year of 1901, for instance, 1t paid in
benefits a total of $450,00 and the grand
total of benefits it has paid members
amounts to 5,1S7, 600.
'.The past year has been one of the most
successful in the history of union labor, and
these conditions promise to greatly I'M
prove"
Members of local labor organizations,
particularly those employed by the govern
ment, have taken exception to the state
ment said to have been made by Secretary
Moody in a speech recently delivered at
Madison Wis., when, in abiding to the eX-
travasance of government control, he is
reported to have said that 1.-The printing
done by the government costs twice or
thrice what private concerns would pay for
it. and the II 900 men in the navy yards get
10 per cent more per house than those in the
Cramp yards, this being due to numerous
HOLIDAYS, short hours, etc.
At a meeting of the Central Labor Union
several weeks ago resolutions declaring the
statement of Mr.. Moody to be untrue wer3
submitted, and after considerable discus
sion it was decided to defer further consid
Grafton pending a response to communi.
cation sent Mr.. Moody by Secretary Wins
low asking if he had been correctly quoted
in the published statement.
At the meeting of the Central Labor Unior
held last Monday evening, the secretary
| having reported that Mr.. Moody had no
RESPONDED to his communication, a com
mittee was appointed to prepare state
| ment of the cost OF production in the pub
| lie departments as compared with the cos
| for similar work done by private firms. Thi!
statement, it is said, will be submitted II
| refutation of the reported statement of Mr.
| Moody, and may be preliminary to tn,
| adoption of resolutions criticsfng him fo
1 his attitude relative to public construction
| which is regarded as unfriendly to organ
| lied labor
| 1t is said by those prominent in labo
| circles that Mr.. Moody is opposed to publi
| work being done under the direct contro
| of the government, but favors the letting