The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-15
complaints with the argument that all
the employees of the city are under
civil service, and individual and per-

complaints With the argument that all
the employees of the city are under
civil service, and Individual and per-
sonal agreements are not binding.
The officers of the Kellog Switch
board Company profess to be satisfied
with the present state of affairs. The
fact Is the corporation is laboring under
heavy financial burdens not enjoyed"
by its competitors, and the final ending
is not difficult to foresee.. Pickets sur
round the works and are meeting with
success in persuading competent me-
chanics to stay away. The incompetent
ones are glued to their Jobs and are do
ing the company more harm than good.
Superintendent Podstata and the
County Board are being urged to make
certain changes regarding the employ
ment of attendants and nurses at Dun
ming. The union has made certain COM
plants and employed J. ]. Sullivan, an
attorney, to represent it In the proceed
ings mapped out. The attendants desire
more salary and shorter hours. While
they have no objection to working
longer than eight hours daily they de-
mand extra pay for overtime:
The Labor Day committee of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor has drawn
up the line of march for the annual
procession of the trade unions. There
will be two columns, one forming on
the South and the other on the West
Side. The organizations to form on the
South Side will gather on Michigan
avenue, south Of Twelfth street, and
march north to Jackson boulevard,
where they will merge with those that
form on Jackson boulevard, west Of
Halsted street. The full procession
will then go north to Randolph street,
where it will disband.
The Vassar Swiss Underwear Com
pany, which is composed Of employees of
Marshall Field & Co., has made ar
rangements to leave Chicago and es-
tablish it's plants at Rochelle, ILL.,, where
trade unions are thus far unknown.
At a meeting of the citizens Of
Rochelle $4,000 was raised and that
sum was swelled to $4,000 within the
next two days to bring the factory
there. There is no union of makers of
underwear in Rochelle now, but there
will be when the new factory locates
there, unless the Vassar Swiss Under
wear Company gives proper Industrial
conditions.
The freight handlers have Withdrawn
their pickets from the freight sheds Of
the Chicago & Alton Railroad, and car
penters out on strike at the Union
Stockyards have opened peace negotla-
tlons with the packers. The 600 workers
the stockyards went out three weeks
ago after demanding IS cents an hour
for repair work, and up to SO cents for
new work. When these wages were
refused they asked for uniform rate
of so cents.
The Union League Club has been
placed on the unfair list by the Cooks
and .Waiters,sjoint board. ;
d Representative of the Machinists'.
sIlnion ave- served. mott z.on. Il the chi
members must not accept contracts.
from H. M. Caldwell & Sons, whose
employees are out on strike.
In his charge to the Cook County
grand jury Judge Edward Osgood
Brown told that body that if union men
were breaking the law by intimidatins
other workingmen, or using violence,
or interfering with the legitimate voca-
tions Of citizens, as stated by the daily
newspapers, such matters ought to be
investigated and THE guilty parties
punished. The grand jury has adjourned
without bringing is single Indictment,
and the presumption is that the 'tter-
rible conditions" which the newspapers
had brought to the attention of Judge
Brown did not exist.
Attacks on two employees of the Chi
cago Edison Company are laid to union
men. D. M. Calder, foreman, and Au-
gust Martin, a machinist, are the vic
tins. There is no evidence that union
pickets had anything to do with these
outrages. Neither of the men is seri-
ously injured. Just now every brawl a
non union man gets into is laid to union
pickets." The probabilities are that
such men are of quarrelsome DISPOSE
ton, or get full of booze and start a
fight. Then some one slugs them.
Western delegates to the Interna-
tional Convention of Laundry Workf1ers
in session at Toledo, Ohio, this week,
were entertained by Chicago local union
men Saturday and Sunday.
1t is reported that the big packers at
the stockyards may curtail their team
ing by cutting off deliveries to city
butchers.
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