Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-21
MORRELIS UN UNION
Monthly Report Federation Of
Labor Mentions Position.
LABOR DAY CELEBRATIONS In IOWA
j. F. Byrne of ottumwa Will Speak at
CentsrvilIe, Where the Local Trades
Unionists Will acknowledgements
Mention Will Begin Work Soon.

The monthly report of the Iowa
State Federation of Labor which is
compiled by j. j. Jackson, of Des
Moines, one of the members of the
organization, mentions with but little
comment, a notice, which, it says, has
been issued by John Morrell & Co., OF
this city, regarding the employment
of union men. The report says:
THE John Morrell Packing Co., of
Ottumwa, has issued a circular to it's
employees, in which it says: While
this company will interpose no objec-
ton to our employees joining any soci-
ETY. of legal standing, we do not see
any necessity for their doing so, not
belonging to any organization our
selves either for the purpose of regu-
lating prices or depressing wages.
Our company has no desire
to be known as a union house, and it
is not our intention that it should be,
as we propose to employ non-union
men and will protect them from inter-
ference and annoyance of union men,
should such conditions develop. 1t is
not our intention at this time to dis
charge any employe for belonging to a
union, and when discharged for rea-
sons sufficiently good to ourselves, no
explanation will be made to any party
or parties not C onnected with our bus
mess. Similar statements have been
made before"
Proceeding, the report is as follows:
Labor Day in Iowa.
To the cities previously reported
where Labor Day celebrations will be
held should be added: Abba with w.
B. Wilson, of Indianapolis, as speaker;
Centerville, with j. F. Byrne, of OF
tumwa, and S. U. Storkman, of Sioux
City; Keokuk, with E. D. Brigham, of
Des Moines. The child labor and gov
eminent by injunction questions will
also receive their just dues at Boone
and Council Bluffs. The speakers at
the two last named cities have not yet
been selected.
New Organizations Reported.
administrations Engineers and
Metal Workers.
Iowa City-Printers.
Cedar Rapids-Teamsters.
Sioux City-Bakers.
Oskaloosa-Leather Workers and
Printers.
On the Battlefield.
While the trades unionists of Des
Moines are contributing to pay the
striking operators the scale of wages
demanded, the Iowa Telephone com.
pany is increasing wages and shorten
| ing the hours of it's employees all over
Iowa. 1t is doubtful il there ever was
strike that has produced so many
| beneficial results to wage earners who
| have been neither directly nor indi-
rectly connected with the strike, and
it is also doubtful if these same men
and women realize the why's and
wherefores of their improved condi-
| lions of employment. The twenty
/! Des Moines telephone girls who have
so manfully stood by their guns have
played no small part in securing for
others what they themselves have
been refused.
Charters Issued.
Retail Clerks No 405, Davenport.
Electrical Workers No. 109, Daven
port.
Painters and Paperhangers No. 1893
Davenport.
The Employment Feature.
Application for employment: One
machine cooper, address Victor E
Greene, Boone; five painters, address
S. G. Woldenberg, Clinton; three ma
chinists, specially, lathe and bench
hands, address G. F. Claiborne, Des
Moines.
Opportunities for employment:
Woodworkers at Dubuque, wages $135
to $2.25, ten hours constitutes a days
work; street railway employees at Bur
lington, wages $1.40 for twelve hours
one stereotyper at Sioux City, wages
$2.25, nine hours, apply at Tribune;
tailors at Waterloo, wages $3.50, ter
hours per day; woodworkers at Mus
catine, wages $1.35, ten hours per day
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