Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-08

Dor union at Buffers and Polishers' 1 hall Monday evening at o'clock.
 The electrical workers of the city I now have the eight-hour day, in con- mon with the other building trades of the city,
 The smoker given by the Painters union on Saturday evening was suc- cess in every way, and was enjoyed by all present.
 The Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees has in creased in membership from 5000 to 6O,O00 in five years, remarkable rec ord.
 Tickets are out for the first annual smoker of the Building Trades council, to be given at Concordia hall on Fri day evening, December 5. An excel lent program is being arranged for.
 The Laundry Workers union win hold meeting at Carpenters and Joiners' hall tomorrow at 2 p. m. Their charter will close November 23, and those not already members should get in their applications before that time.
 As result of Tuesdays election Connecticut will have another labor mayor, George F. Sullivan of Derby having been elected to that office. MT Sullivan is young man and is a plumber by trade Let the good work go on.
 Congressman Loud of San Francisco, who led the opposition to the efforts of organized letter carriers to secure better conditions, will not be a mem Der of the next congress, he having been defeated by labor-democratic candidate.
 The regular monthly meeting of Typographical union. No 329, will be held at Buffers and Polishers' hall this evening at 8 o'clock. This is very Important meeting, the new bylaws coming up for adoption, and full at tendance Is hoped for.
 Buffers and Polishers' union. No 37, inflated twentv-three members and re- ce1ved thirty-two applications at their meeting on Thursday evening. This local now leads all buffers and polish CTS, organizations of the country in point of membership.
 The twenty y-second annual conven- ton of the American Federation of Labor will convene in New Orleans at lO a. m.. Thursday, November 13 and will continue in session from day to day until the business of the conven. lion has hGnn a0na1r1o1
 The election of William R. Hearst as congressman in the eleventh New 1ork district is distinct victory for organized labor, he having been en- dorsed by the principal labor organiz- at1ons of the city. This is the district formerly represented by the late Amos J. Cummings.
 From United States Labor Commits sloner Wright's sixteenth annual re. port IS taken the statement that during Lne twenty year period, ending with lSuU 5O per cent of all the strikes in the united States were successful dS per cent successful in part. while 53 per cent were complete failures.
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox has addressed an open letter to President MitcheIl of the United Mine Workers. giving her views as to the duties of trade unions lf Mrs Wilcox would secure some other publishing house than the notoriously unfair one of W. B. Conkey t& Go. her elTorts for the uplifting of the laboring class would be taken more seriously bv organized labor and it's friends.
 
 United States is one of the marvels of this day Of progress and organization It Is the opinion of the Labor Record that the trade union system of organiz- atton is the most feasible. the most logical and the most natural because 1t is conducted along the lines of the least resistance. Trade unions are strong and powerful because they have grown up along correct line and with correct principles. and because they carry no dead weight
 If Waterbury trade unionists desire to accomplish anything to advance their interests through politics they certainly will have to go about it in a different manner from that pursued on Tuesday. Plenty of them were out peddling pastors for this and that can- d1date from morning until the polls closed, and had they all been working in one direction the result would have shown, but as it was one was working in one direction and another was oppoS- Ing him. If there was a local candi- date who did not have one or more union men working in his behalf he has vet to be heard from Strange. in- deed, ft appeared to see ardent workers for unionisan doing all in their power to aid in the election of candidates who by their previous actions have shown their contempt for organized labor.