Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20
WANT UNION LABEL
General Demand Becoming Large,
Counterfeiters Prosecuted.
TRADES UNION MOVEMENT EXPANDING

Local Carpenters Union Make PERTH
nent Suggestions to Trades and La
Dor Assembly for Government of
Unions in This City.
[Th, matter published in this col.
umn is furnished by the officers of tic
Federation of Labor.
All of the national unions attaching
union label to their product report
remarkable increase in the demand
for that label. The matter of educat
ing the union workmen to demanding
the union label has gone on for some
years and the effort put forth in this
direction is beginning to bear fruit. So
great is the demand that some I'M
scrupulous manufacturers have at
tempted to counterfeit the different la
bells but majority of them have been
discovered in their attempt and prose-
cuted, and their attempt to steal the
| label and deceive the working people
into patronizing institutions that are
not entitled to union patronage is only
Strengthening the determination of
| the union men to step forward and
make, more pronounced demand for
the union label
Painters, Decorators and Paper Hang
erS.
| The painters, decorators and paper
hangers have almost completed get
ting their scale signed by all the local
contractors. The painters are moving
along at splendid rate all over the
county.
The following we'll deserved tribute
is paid to the general officers of the
American Federation of Labor. The
article is from the pen of NJ P. Gar,
rick. general secretary-treasurer of
the Brotherhood Of Painters, Decorat-
ors and Paper Hangers of America
The support and assistance accorded
the Brotherhood is only a repetition
of what the general officers of the
American Federation of Labor have
done, are doing and will do for all ma
tional and international bodies under
their jurisdiction.
Tribute of M. p. Garrick.
"a glance at the books of our gener
al office is positive evidence that Pres
ident Gompers and his Woodworking
secretary, Frank Morrison, have left
no stone unturned TO advance the
cause Of unionism and help build ur
the brotherhood to the position il
should hold in the trades union move
ment in America. The truth should
be told. To conceal it is anfair. Oul
membership at large should be ac
quainted with the situation as it ex
lists, without coloring or exaggeration
must confess when | was elected
general secretary-treasurer, | was al
opponent of the policy of the official:
of the American Federation of Labor
in it's dealings with our organization
but after careful examination of the
+, files in our offices l have discovered
that through the efforts of the Ameri
can Federation OF Labor organizer.
over one hundred unions have beer
; added to our list in the past nineteer
months, and eighteen during tn,
, month of January, 1902. This i!
: something to be proud of and deserve.
. at least our gratitude. The capitatiol
tax paid to the American Federation
of Labor is returned to us a hundred
, fold.
For United Organization.
1T will be remembered that for fiv,
: years we We're divided national I'm
ion. with two factions contendng 70
supremacy, organization was neglect
ed. fraternal feeling was banished, in
dependent unions had sprung up il
|
side of ours could have stood the terri
, BILE strain. When we agreed to unite
! to bury the past and shake hands owe
the bloc-ly chasm, there was no ma
in this broad land left happier tina,
, Samuel Gompers, president of tn
) American Federation of Labor H
:, takes PLEASURE in the fact that h
!. helped to bring it about and we mus
, all cheerfully admit it. After the III
ity conference had adjourned at Wasf
ington he issued orders to his corps c
organizers in the United States an
d Canada to push organization in our a
/ lied crafts. He poured literature an
|, money into unorganized centers. Al
n pications for charters rolled int
: headquarters. Independent unions i
g many ccnters ceased to exist and a
$ tached themselves to the brotherhood
0 and should nothing occur to distur
0 the present industrial conditions {
e the country we will be right in lin
q with the best and biggest of then
+ Like ourselves, he believes that ind
pendent local unions are a menac
and danger to the existence of the III
tional trades union movement. H
has promised to aid us in convincin
e the painters of New York, Philadelphia
and Washington, D. c., that their plae
n is under our banner; that they mu
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