The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-05-28
STRIKES AND STRUGGLES
OF the Labor Unions in Various
Countries.

OF the Labor Unions in Various
Countries.
The employment of non-union men
in the structural iron work of the
new court house at Great Falls is
going on uninterrupted.
The carpenters and joiners have
organized union in Havre with 35
members and have elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing term:
President ]. F. Dawson, vice presi-
dent, Paul Decles, recording secre-
tary, Sam Cameron; financial secre-
tary, Charles Emery, treasurer, E. S.
Miller; conductor, R. D. Perret; war
den, Pete Martin. Embodied in their
bylaws is a clause which states that
after June 1 nine hours shall con-
| be 81 a day. Double time will be
asked for work on Sunday
Persons who will take positions
made temporarily vacant by striEe
of the regular employees are usually
very foolish and ill-advised chumps,
and what do they often gain? 1t is
almost invariably the rule that they
become the tools of the moment, as
it were, and after the trouble has
been settled receive their dismissal.
Then, what recourse have they? They
are pointed at with scorn and
disgust as traitors in labor's ranks,
and destroy for themselves almost
every opportunity for employment.
A number of white brick workers
&C the soldiers home at Johnson City,
Tenn, have quit work because the
contractors put negro masons to
work.
Pullman conductors and porters
are organizing and will demand an
increase of wages from SIS to $40 a
month. There are $4,000 in the bust
ness.
BY invitation a fair representata-
ton of the Kalispell labor unions at
tended the Presbyterian church last
Sunday evening to listen to a sermon
on labor and the church, which had
been especially prepared for the &C.
casion and inspired by the labor con-
ditions in Kal1spell.
stop eating meat is the cry of
the laboring men," This is the head
line over an article in a recent issue
of a Chicago republican newspaper.
During the campaign of 1900, the
columns of the same newspaper car
ried each day a picture of a tin
bucket, with the plea to vote the re-
publican ticket and obtain four
years more of the full dinner pail"
This republican newspaper quotes a
laboring man as saying that to stop
eating meat is the only way in which
laboring men can obtain their rights.
One of the most uninteresting puz-
zles ever offered to the American
workingman is now to find meat in
his full dinner pail"
A dispatch from Stockholm, Swe-
den, announces that the social demo
cratic party has decreed a general
! strike in support of the suffrage
movement. The suffrage bill is be
: ing discussed in the riksdag, and it
is expected that the strike will con.
f tinue until suffrage is secured.
June IL will be the date Of the
meeting of the proposed amalgama
ton of Toronto's, Canada, various 10
f cal labor councils, to be known as
the grand central labor council. II
is reported that the scheme has beer
Endorsed by all the unions. At pres
+ ent there are about SO labor organi
cations in the city. Of this number
81 are represented in the trades ant
labor council.
Seventy-five labor leaders of RuttH
and vicinity boarded the Decor
Short Line at 4:30 o'clock. a+ Butte
E Thursday afternoon, and, amid the
, cheers and EXPLANATIONS of good will
$ and wishes for good luck from thu
o crowd on the depot platform, started
6 on their journey to Denver, where
J. they will participate in the great
, joint convention of the Western La
= Dor union and the Western Fedora
4 ton of Miners.