The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-05
LOCAL LABOR NOTES.

Machfnists' union and a prominent
delegate to the Trades Assembly, who
has been confined atohis home for the
past four weeks with a severe attack
OF rheumatism was out for the first
time Tuesday. He is gradually i'm
proving, but he feels that it will be
necessary for him to leave the country
before he can fully recover.
r. E. Fish Of the Plumbers union
received the sad intelligence Monday
that his aged mother had died in MAN.
chester England.
The Labor day committee spent Sun
day at Union Grove putting the
|, grounds in shape for the big Labor
day picnic to be held Monday.
The Electrical workers union is one
Of the most generous in the city. It's
members cheerfully donated their SER
vices in placing electric lights on the
picnic grounds for Labor day.
Organized j.. III. Carver sent in the
applications for utilization with the
State Federation of Labor the names
of several unions in St. Cloud during
the week. Among them are the bar
bers', clerks, painters and black
smiths unions.
The local Painters union will surely
look swell in the Labor day parade
Every member will be dressed in a
bran new suits Of overalls and jump
ers,. with white caps to match. Give
the Painters first prize.
Henry Pereault. chief marshal of
the day says that he will be the most
thoroughly equipped man in the par
ade with the union label. Every thing
in the line of wearing apparel will
have the union label. including a new
pair of driving gloves just received
from Chicago;
The Carpenters union will in the
future have desk room in the office
| of the free labor bureau. This will be
quite an addition to the bureau for it
will tend to reach more mechanics
than 1t has in the past. Union carpen-
| tiers will be employed from the free
| bureau.
There was a small scrap at the
Trades Assembly last Friday evening
over the molders' union. Delegates
from the Machinists' union said that
| they would not parade if the assembly
| permitted the six union molders now
employed at the Clyde Iron Works to
march in the parade
| The Labor day committee has been
endeavoring to make arrangements
with band to meet the Longshore-
mt1s unioA at Twelfth avenues and es-
| cort them to their position in the par
| ade. The band wants $4,000 for this
piece of work. and as this is the I'M
| ion prices, and the assembly voted to
have none but union musicians in the
parade they have got to like it.
James S. Abbott engineer for the
General Electric company has been ell
ected as a. delegate to represent the
local union of engineers at the coming
convention Of the national organization
to be held in Wheeling, w. Va.
Three local members Of the Theatre
cal Stage Employees union have been
engaged by the Melbourne Mcdowell
company to tour the country with them
during the coming season.
| For union label shoes for Labor day
Phillips & Co., and the Famous have
! the very best line.
/ The residents Of Duluth HEIGHTS
gave farewell party last Monday ev-
ening to Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cotton
who are about to leave that charming
little suburb. La Brosse's orchestra
furnished the music.
| The Duluth New Tribune is fast
forging to the front as an up-to-date
metropolitan paper. Beginning tomor-
row and every Sunday thereafter it
will contain a. four page illustrated
color page, similar to that used by
the leading daSies of the country. Just
watch another paper fall in line. It
takes a progressive man like Mile
Bunnell to show Duluth how daily
paper should be run. We congratu-
late the News Tribune upon it's addi-
tional evidence of success.
There will be a special meeting of
the Longshoremen's union at West Du-
luth tomorrow afternoon for the pur-
pose of making final arrangements for
Labor Day. It is possible that drum
corps will be secured to lead the union
in the parade.
John Robinson, a stone mason on
Duluth Heights is seriously i'll with
typhoid fever. He was removed to St..
Lukes' hospital Thursday.