Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-09
;reat, but the power of workers wives

great, but the power of workers wives
is greater.
Get together, stay together and
pull together" should be the motto OF
organized labor.
The International Typographical I'M
ion is now organizing at the rate OF
three unions week.
Iowa has a child labor law which
permits children under the age of IA
to work in manufacturing plants.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers and Joiners paid out last year
100000 in sick benefits.
Broommakers Of Ohio held con-
vention in Dayton recently and form
ed state organization.
Newspaper writer's in many of the
larger cities are organized. They are
attached to the |. T. U.
Trade unions are the guiding star
in which the ambition, aspiration and
hope of labor are all conferred.
Eighty-two per cent of the indus
trial workers of France come under
the provisions of the ten-hour act
The union label presents visible evil
dence of accomplished results and the
promise of more to come. Demand it.
During the past six years the mem
bership in the various labor unions in
New York state increased Is per cent.
Five thousand school teachers of
Chicago have organized union and
applied for membership in the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The labor union that does not at
tempt anything to better the condi-
tons of it's members dies a lingering
death.
The Amalgamated Association of
Street Railway employees has grown
from 5000 to nearly $4,000 in the last
five years.
Political and trade union problems
will be handled by a great labor con
gress which meets at Sidney, Austria
liza December l.
The first union of hair spinners ev.
er organized in America was launched
ty-seven members.
The Brotherhood of Painters, Decor
ators and Paperhangers of America
has enrolled 1883 new members
within the past six months.
The oldest trade union in England
the Operative Carpenters and Joiners
society, recently celebrated its seven
ty-fifth anniversary.
In the state of Illinois it is reported
that the sale of non-union shoes has
decreased rs per cent in six months
by reason Of the label campaign.
The carpenters unions have beer
successful in over ESQ moves fol
shorter hours, higher wages and bet
ter conditions during the last foul
months.
The seamen of the great lakes arr
looking forward with lively interest te
a convention of the international
Seamens Union to be held in Milwau
kee December /.
Seamen have appealed to Presiden
Roosevelt to stringenuly enforce the
Chinese exclusion act. The seamer
claim that steamship companies open
ly violate the law.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
has rescinded its act of expulsion
against Typographical Union No. .16
| a,iG offered to reinstate the delegates
when they apply for admission.
Labor unions have fought success
fully and continue to fight successfully
for the reduction of the hours of labor
until such a time as the minimum
working day is established.
In union the workingman has as
his own the strength of all his fellows
when he asks for better wages ant
better treatment. Out of union he
has only the strength of a single in
dividual
Everett, Washington, trades union!
have finished building meeting place
of their own at cost of $4,000. A.
| they did their own work, it saved ovel
5000 and now they can meet under
their own roof
A certain philosopher has said tina
instinct guided by reason is neve
wrong" This observation explains
much of the success of trades union
1 ism, which is primarily an expression
of the instinct of self-preservation.
| 1t is reported that the members O
/ the American Labor Union at Butte
Mont, sent the striking anthracit,
/ miners $4,000. That does not look a
though there is much of fight on be
/ tween eastern and western trades I'm
! ionists.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
! which mas nearly doubled it's member
ship in the last ten months, now in
/ cludes 1872 unions in good standing
1 These unions have nearly 100000 mel
! affiliated with them. Here is an Sin
| dustrial army" which by reason of it
/ strength may WELD a great influence
and power for the betterment of al
classes of toilers.