The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-01-17

sBAsIENs UNION EXPECT TO NAVE
MARINE ENGINEERS AND COOKS

Hotel and Restaurant Employers
VIII Object to Marine Cooks
Going to Seamen, Leaving Fight
For Industrial Organization
Hurried On by Jurisdiction Diff
ferences Among Unions-Bix Steel
Trust to Deal with Marine Unions
The Seamens' union met in annual
convention in December at Milwaukee.
Closely following the wake of the A.
F. of l.. convention it granted charters
to the Marine cooks of the Pacific coast
and acted favorably on the request Of
the Buffalo Marine cooks TOR a charter.
Ine Bur1aIo COOKS were animated With
the holel and restaurant employees
union, put they handed IN their cnarter
from this organization.
lhIs action VIII be sure to raise the
ire OF the Hotel and Restaurant EN-
ployers. Jere Sullivan, the secretary
OF this organization maintains that
cook is a cook whether he is in the
kltchen OF a hotel or a. boat. The sea-
men on the other hand hold that a sea-
man is a seamen whether he be deck
hand, wheelsman or cook, and there
you have it.
1t is safe to say that the difference
between these organizations is not end
ed, and the next A. F. Of l.. convention
will have the whole thing to hash over.
In fact the Jurisdiction fights in the
Federation convention are becoming
quite serious. At each meeting they
| are increasing both In numbers and in
| bitterness.
| We remember the first fight in an
A. F. of l.. convention over jurisdic-
| ton. 1t was between the machinists
and the printers at the Kansas City
| convention. Such able men as Sam
Donnelly OF the Typographical union
and James O'ConneN of the Machinists
were pitted against each other, taking
the sides Of their organization. The
! printers won in the end. and now In
large cities all maclinists in a printing
office are members Of the Topographic
al union. o..
4 Since the r. T.. r. A. asa ffiliateds
IsWithS thelong eInsns quest onalS:
ines
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seem
I not become a :formid dable organization?
This suggests to us that there viii
soon be general reorganization ol
: wage earners, without any serious dis
, turbance in labor circles: The trade
union plan Of organization may b.
, practical enough among ancient bust
= ness institutions, but the coming pla1
of Industrial organization will surely
: be hurried by the more complete organ
! ization of capital
Take the United States Steel Corpor
alton forinstance: It employees upol
g its boats men of all trades, 1t Il
f reported that next year it will trea
g with union labor directly in the elm
ployment of all maritime labor
a | Would it not be much easier and NOR
satisfactory to deal with one responsible
9 organization? Combine the engineers
9. firemen wheelsmen, cooks and ordinar
seamen all in one national organization
r. and you have first, 4 most formtdab bl
y defensive organization, and second,
q simple plan Of making schedules an
- agreements without any doubt as t
It what may be expected in case Of
i failure to secure an agreement.
"a The lonoshoremen and Seamens o.
ganizations may soon clash on turi.
dfction lines. The former organisatio
at it's last convention widened it's scop
to unheard Of proportions. AS no.
constituted it includes all tranpol
workers on land or. water, all mar
It time workers. and even i to the mill
t. where the products are made. III
IS ultimate idea Of the lsngshoremen
lg to control If possible the commerce {
ct the entire: country.
,e The seamen are bent on claiming a
k. workers on the seas. There motto
= 1.-THE Brotherhood Of the Sea- W
e believe that happy medium would /
Mt for the longshorenen to concede to tt
l. seamen all workers on. the high sea
Id while the longshorenen could have q
t.? it could do to take care of the tran
a port workers and marine men on era
d, in the harbors. '.-<@ .'.-
lie James Walsh and Capt: VIM. Puns
ed left this week to attend the conventie
ic of the L. I. p. A: We: have suggestt
IL that these gentlemen do their level be
ke to bring the convention to Duluth ne
at year. = ~. = ;>= r.
be James Bishop offthea Marine En9i
ho eerse left this week for Washingtt
!: where he went to attend the Nation
& convention Of; his, Organization. 1t "
II be at this meeting that the questi'
:. OF affiliation with the seamen will !:
= considered. s Nv s.. s. = ! 5s ;
,ts 81 The LtT PA. 3head dquarters ii Il
to & Manhattan Il Bull ding is becoming
rt. central meeting place. The Wreckel
e. and. Divers, and the Il Stationery ii,
IA. AL unions hold regular + meetings
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