The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-11-26
World of Labor.
Compiled for The Comet by H. YerdeI
Labor Omnia Vincit.

UNIONS are instructed TO advertise
their labels in friendly papers,
A strike of all the street car employees
in Pittsburg is threatened. This would |
affect ., 700 men.
Tho labor commissioner of Ohio re-
ports that Industrial conditions are inn
proving in that state,
About forty brick layers came up
Knoxville last week, and are working
on the Soldiers Home.
The Brick Layers international asso-
citation begins its utilization with the
American Federation Of Labor on Jan
uary /.
AS result of the building trade
strike in Pittsburg 10000 men are out
OF work and contracts worth $4,000, 900
are tied up.
The plant of the Shelby Steel Tube
company at Greeneyille, Pa, has re-
sumed operations after a two months
shut down.
Northern Pacific and Great North
ern have reduced the hours of their
shop forces about one-seventh, owing
to lack of work.
Slattery ~ Co., coal operators in the
anthracite region, have refused to pay
miners back wages as ordered by the
anthracite coal commission.
The hope for justice and right, now
aud hereafter, as well as the perpetual
ton OF liberty in our republican insti-
buttons, lies in organized labor.
A 10 per cent. reduction in the wages
Of the operatives of the cotton mills of
Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts took effect on the 93d inst.
The union cigarmakers held their
twenty-second annual ball in Knox
vile Saturday night. 1t was q sue
css. Let Johnson City get in line.
The Lehigh Valley Coal company
has settled the strike at Snowshoe, in
Central county, Pa, the men accept
ing compromise. The men have been
out since June.
by the agreement reached between
manufacturers and glass blowers in
Philadelphia in regard to the wage
scale, 1000, 900 boxes of Belgium glass
will be shut ont yearly.
There is a movement on foot among
the labor organizations of Johnson
City to organize central labor BODY.
1t is expected an organizer of the A.
+. OF Il. will soon be in the city for a
few days visit.
The mills of the Republic Iron and
Steel Co., and of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Co., at Birmingham have
been closed owing to the lack of orders.
Several hundred men are thrown out
OF employment.
The Textile Council at Fall River.
Mass, has asked for a conference with
the cotton mill operators, with a view
to submitting proposition which may
prevent or modify the proposed cut in
the wages OF operatives.
Jesse l.. Nave, organizer for the A.
f. OF l.. for Bristol and vicinity il
meeting with success as an organizer
having recently organized the retail
clerks and the barmen. He also has
a central body under way.
All wage workers should be union
men. Their progress is limited only
by them who hold aloof Get together
agitate, educate and do. Don't wal
until tomorrow; tomorrow never comes
Don't wait for some one else to start
start it yourself. Don't harken to the
the Indifferent; wake them up. DOM
think it impossible; one million organ,
lied workers prove different. Dom
weaken persistence wins.
Trades unions foster education anC
uproot ignorance; shorten hours anC
lengthen life; raise wages aud loweI
usury; increase independence and de
crease dependence; develop manhood
and balk tyranny: establish fraternity
and discourage selfshness; reduce pref
udice and induce liberality; enlarg,
society and eliminate classes; create
rights and abolish wrongs; tighten tot
and brighten man; cher the home anC
Preside and make the world better.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor, in closing hi
speech against the resolution intro
duced by the socialists with the intent
to commit the federation to the social
istic propaganda, said 81 am at yari
ance with your philosophy. Econom
ically you are unsound, socially yor
are wrong, aud industrially you are an
impossibility. | have an abiding faitE
in the trades union movement because
it is the protector of labor today, anC
il emancipation comes some time i
must be the trades anton movement
that will achieve it," The announce
ment of the defeat of the resolution
was hailed with cheers. Now, will vol
be good, Mr.. Socialist?
The American Federation of Labor
after o session of two weeks duration
at Boston, Mass, adjourned Saturda,
night. This was the most import
ant meeting of its kind ever held il
this country. A great deal of bust
ness was transacted for the benefit O
subordinate bodies. Among othe
matters before the convention for con
sideraton were the following, which
were adopted; The resolution asking
that only American labor be employed
in the construction of the Panama
canal; declared for the union shop OIL
government work; asking that til,
Chinese exclusion act be made to ap
ply to the Philippine Islands; refusing
to commit the federation to socialism
demanding an eight-hour work day OF
all government work; condemning til,
manufacture of mail bags by convict.
at the Trenton, N. j., penitentiary
appropriated 81 900 to the State FEEDER
alton of Alabama, to be used in estine
the constitutionality of the anti-boycot
law; refusing charters to insurance
agnnts. nlAnned for hetter denomination