Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-22

laboring earnestly and successfully to un.
lonlze the local establishments. Those
employing union clerks are reported to
the Central Labor Union and listed by that
body and the members of the various allied
organizations are requested TO patronize
only those stores in which clerks are en-
pioyed VINO are members OF the clerks as
ISOLATION and having the union membership
card OF the Retail Clerks International ass
sociation.
The refusal OF the Central Labor Union
at a recent meeting to reinstate the plumb
ers association to representation by prac-
tically unanimous vote is regarded as a
fnality TO the question at issue between
the plumbers and the trades Of the Building
Trades Council.
Mr.. John H. Brinkman. a delegate from
the Wagon and Carriage Builders Union
who submitted the resolutions for REIN
statement at the meeting of the Central
Labor Union last Monday evening stated
| that he did so without the knowledge or
consent or the plumbers and was solely
| actuated by a desire to maintain as far
as possible, the unity of the local trades
Union ORGANIZATIONS He stated that with
uut Two exceptions all the trade unions Of
the Llstrict are affiliated with the Central
LABOR Union and that the best interests OF
| Iocal LABOR would be best promoted by
maintaining the practically unanimous af-
! hllation of the local organiza tions
! 1t is commended by others that the with
/ urawai OF the plumbers from the building
| council tended to the injury of that body
/
suit In seriously affecting the harmonious
| cooperation Of the building trades.
The refusal of the convention Of the
american Federation of Labor now in ses-
sion at New Orleans. to revoke the charter
OF the Amalgantted Society of Carpenters,
as requested by the Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters, is a matter of general comment among
members of local labor organizations
Without exception the opinion is express
ed that notwithstanding the action OF the
convention the factional differences will
continue TO exist. particularly in those To-
callties where the two organizations will
not cooperate along trade lines In this
locality. 1t is stated. the attitude of the fac
tons Will remain unchanged so long as the
malgamated society is allied wIth~an as
Sembly of knights of Labor carpenters and
refuses to cooperate with the brotherhood
and other building trades unions. This po-
sltlon OF the amalgamated carpenters. it is
said. is regarded by the trades unionIsts as
at least unfriendly, the knights of La
Dor have always been considered antago-
nistlc to union organization; particularly
so, 1t is stated, with the assembly with
which the amalgamated is allied, as 1t is
alleged that upon several occasions the as
sembly attempted to disrupt the local BROTH
erhood organization.
The recent expulsion of painter from a
labor. union in Schenectady, n. Y, for be-
longing to the militia, and the adverse crit
icism thereon by the press of the country,
has ELECTED many expressions of sentiment
from organized workmen relative to the in
commend the action of the Schenectady or
ganiZation. The opinion is generally ex-
pressed that member of a labor union is
out of place in the ranks of the militia.
Referring to the matter, q prominent and
observant member of a local union said:
The organized working people TO large
extent have a dislike for the militia be-
cause they believe it has been used on many
occasions for purposes outside of the duties
for which the men were enlisted. They
have observed instances when the militia
under DreteXt inf "a mir Ia nd
order in cases of so-called labor troubles,
has been used solely to further the inter-
estS of corporations and defeat labor In
these instances, 1t is believed the militia
has been prostituted, and until the work.
fngmen are convinced that such service Is
patriotic and Iegitimately the duty of a
soldier the militia will not be very highly
esteemed by large per cent of the organ
lied workmen of the country
At recent meeting Of the Bookbinderss
Local Union. No. f. an entertainment COM
mfttee. composed of Messrs. Charles F.
Weston. chairman; Thomas Esperon, Will
Figg, Charles Welsh. Charles j. Cassidy,
Walter Oliver, Daniel Chute, Samuel May
berry and Frank Wallace, was appointed
for the purpose of arranging for the enter
tainment and dance of that organization, to
be held New Year eve. These entertain
ments are held annually by the bookbinders.
Columbia Typographical Union, No. 101,
has also appointed a committee, Of which
Mr.. Thomas L. Jones is chairman, to ar
range for similar entertainment. The
committee has arranged most attractive
program for the occasion. All the perform
ers, including the musicians, will be print
erS.
The special convention committee Of the
Columbia Typographical Union. No. 1O1, has
already begun making preparations for the
entertainment of all delegates who attend
the 1903 convention of the International Ty-
biographical Union, to be held in this city
next August.
Mr.. c. c. Hopkins is acting secretary Of
the Columbia Typogra phical Union, No. 10l,
during the absence of Secretary William NJ.
the convention of the American Federation
of Labor a delegate from the Interna-
tional Typographical Union.
The official journal of the printers states
that bill will be introduced in the next
Massachusetts legislature looking toward
the Incorporation of labor unions. The
measure, it is said. will be fathered by the
manufacturing interests of the state, which
desire to place labor organizations in a pO-
sitfon where they easily be forced into
litigation.
Word comes from across the Atlantic 20
the effect that the Porte of Turkey has
passed a law which permits printing estab-
liShments to have only one door, and that
opening on the street All windows must
be covered with wire netting through which
required to make a statement year in ad-
vance as to the amount of ink and paper
required, and they are supplied by the state.
specimen of everything printed must be
kept, and shown at any time request OF
the police inspector.