Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-29

are there to stay. They maintain that the
strikers treated them unfairly.
Local labor leaders state that among the
bills which the laboring masses intend to
submit to Congress for passage during the
coming session will be the "eight-hour
working day bill. 1t has been for years
the purpose all over the country to secure
favorable legislation on this measure, and
it is now declared that it shall be again
urged upon the attention of both House
and Senate. The House has passed the
measure on several occasions, but the Sen
ate in each instance laid it upon the table
ito be taken up at another time"
There are number of new members of
the House who, it is claimed, were elected
solely through the influence of labor union
ism, and 1t is said that these members
will work in the interest of the bill. Labor
leaders have secured the solemn promise
Of a large number of senators to favor
the measure with their vote and support.
The leaders also declare that the passage
Of the bill is practically a certainty.
An article appears in this months journal
of the bookbinders relative to the Women's
Trade Union League of England. 1t was
written by the secretary of the organiZa-
ton and is, In part, as follows:
The league was founded in 1874 by Mrs.
Paterson a printer, who had spent her saw
ings on trip to New York in order to
study the umbrella makers and other
women's trade unions in that city. She re-
unionism for women and was instrumental
In starting a number of women's unions
both in London and in the country.
THE league is federation Of unions, for
which any union admitting women mem
bers is eligible. The original policy of the
w. T. U. L. was to organize women sepa-
rately and in some cases to include women
working at different trades in the same
union This, however, was soon proved to
be mistake in practice Unless the MEM
bership of the union was limited to one
trade its tendency was to degenerate into
mere benefit society, g. the members had
different trade interests. and, therefore,
the union could have little or no fighting
power
The w. T. U. L. now, therefore, always
advises the joint organization of men and
women when possible, or if that is imprac-
ticable, the affiliation of womens unions to
mems in the same trade. But trade socie-
ties, of all these different types, are still in
existence and are affiliated to the w. T.
U. l..
Although the organization of women
workers is the initial object of the league,
much is effected by expressing the views
OF organized women on all legislative Ques-
tons which affect them industrially. The
conference called by the London Trades
Council and the Women's Trade Union
League, in opposition to the retrograde fac
tory and workshop bill, in 1900 was fol-
lowed by the withdrawal of that bill. The
w. L. U. l.. officials follow closely any such
measure affecting women when it is before
the mouse of commons, and, as far as pos
sIble, insure that the womens interests
snail be understood and regarded. Cues
lions are constantly asked In the house of
commons and bills introduced at the request
OF the w. T. u. l.. For example meas
ure to secure further protection against fire
IN factories and workshops has just been in
troduced by Mr. H. ]. Tenant The ad-
ditional precautions now compulsory in the
china and earthenware trade, which have
greatly diminished the suffering caused by
t0 hn aoit
carried On for some years by the W. T. u
l..
Another department of the leagues work
Is concerned with legal advice to women
workers on such questions as claims under
the workmen's compensation act, dismissal
contrary to contract, etc. This work is
carried on by a committee under the joint
auspices of the London Trades Council
ana the w. I. .. L., and supplies a very
real need in the trade union world By it's
lnterposition the workers cause Is often
The w T. U. L. work has also a social
side The offices are used for a girls club
and for meetings Of trade unions, at which
dancing or other entertainments are en-
couraged"
Bartenders' League Local No. 75 at g.
recent meeting adopted a resolution that on
and after January l, 1903 the minimum
wage for bartenders of the organization
shall be SO per week and the maximum
number of hours of labor shall be seventy
two per week. and that whenever more ia
voraole conditions prevail they shall be
maintained.
The bartenders state that they have been
organized fifteen months and have during
mat time succeeded in obtaining recogni-
ton as a labor body from 90 per cent of
the proprietors engaged in the restaurant
business, and have decided to establish a
basis for the calling in which they are en-
gagged relative to the wages received and
the hours of employment. They state that
a mt ,Ior L.
ing paid as low as 81 week. and are re-
CURED to work fifteen hours daily although
the average wage is about $40 a week.
The demand of the bartenders was sub
mftted to the Central Labor Union at its
meeting last Monday evening, and was
unanimously Endorsed.
The Hosting and Portable Engineers
Local NO. II, l. U. S. E, have announced
that the organization, will held smoker
and entertainment next Wednesday even
ing. The engineers assure an ENJOYABLE
time to those who will attend An attract
i've feature of the occasion will be wrestliue
bouts between F. Snyder and G. Herbert
and c. Rooney with another bantamweigbt
A number Of female employees engaged ir
the mail bag repair shops have formed al
| organization under charter from the Amer.
| lean Federation of Labor. At a meeting
held last Tuesday evening at Typogra phi.
| cal Temple a permanent organization was
eHtCteu ny lne election or the following of.
: hcers: Rose Adams. president; A. Otto. vic.
| president; Ada Cross secretary; T. r Wor.
! rel, treasurer; A. r. Mahan guide; A Nc.
| Cubbin, guardian
| Among the resolutions adopted at the con.
| Vention Of the American Federation of La
| Dor recently held at New Orleans are two
| or special local interest. One which was
| submitted by w. E. Kennedy of the Broth
| erhood OF Electrical Workers declares fol
| the elective franchise in the District of Co
lumbia and pledges the effort of the fedora
| ton to secure legislation to that end TIL,
| convention also adopted a resolution which
was submitted by John B. Dickman, dele
gate from the local Central Labor Union
| which directs that the federation assis
| the local Federal Labor Union S193 in secur
| ing the membership of. those employees II
the bureau of engraving and printing wht
are eligible to membership In the unior
and who have not been induced to Join tn.
organization. The resolution was indorset
by the Central Labor Union several week.
ago and will be earnestly supported b,
| that organization.
| The thirty-seventh annual convention n
the Bricklayers and Masons' Internationa