Evening star., 1903-12-16

MS, IF St., Cor. I 1th. :
and this organization. is wholly false and
| totally unworthy of belief"
| The reelection of the old board at the
| recent annual election of officers of Local
| Union, No. 4, International Brotherhood
OF Bookbinders, is taken by local labor
| leaders as an Endorsement of the proceed
! ure and actions of the officers in the Mil
! Ter case, which held the attention of the
| entire American public several months
| ago and which at this time is somewhat
| agitating the members of the executive
council of the American Federation Of
/ Labor.
The election resulted as follows: Presi-
| dent. Robert B. Barrett; vice president,
| George IL. kirch; recording secretary,
James A. Stockman; financial secretary.
William Gallagher; treasurer, John G.
| Espey; guide. William Piedmont.
| The twentieth annual meeting OF the
Mutual Relief Association. composed of the
| printers, bookbinders and other employees
| OF the government printing Office, was held
| Sunday afternoon. The election of officers
| for the ensuing year resulted as follows:
President A. w. Bowen; vice president.
J. b. Dickman; financial secretary. J. E.
| keefe; recording secretary, E. F. Geyer;
| treasurer. A. J.. Arnold
| The present membership is about 11OO,
and 50 1000 was paid out the past year in re-
! lief. At the close Of each association year,
| December L, those who have not received
| benefits are entitled to a pro rata dividend
| of all money on hand. The dividend this
| year was SS.45 OF the vast amount of
| money handled in the last twenty years not
| one cent has gone astray. The annual
| manual published by the association is
| about to be issued.
/, "A movement has been started looking to
the organization Of an International union
| of the engravers of the United States.
cities and 1t is the purpose of the men of
/ that calling to form a national organiza
i ton. The engravers of Washington, Phila-
delphia and New York are at the head of
4 the movement, and there is every indication
that their efforts will be crowned with sue
/ cess.
All the preliminaries incident to the for
nation of such an organization have been
| arranged The date for the first meeting
| and the exact lines and principles upon
which the body will be conducted have not
been agreed upon. A meeting OF the local
| engravers was held recently, at which time
with members of the craft in other near
by cities submitted. The committee
| which held the conferences was composed
of r. F. Bartle, L. A. Hill. E. NJ. Week
sented by Messrs. Hutchings, Grambo. Lun
dine and Osborne. Philadelphia sent
Messrs. Cook, Helm. Sharp and Beckett to
represent them, and Messrs. Bunnemeyer
| and Clark from Forest Hill, N. j., were
| also present
| At the regular meeting of Stereotypers'
Union. No II, Monday evening at Typo
| graphical Temple, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
| dent, w. s. Whitmore; vice president, F. 8.
! Larkin; secretary-treasurer. D. J. Murray;
| sergeant-at-arms, Henry Koffenberg: ex-
l To, @
| Briggs and Richard D. Brown.
The Offices of secretary and treasurer
| have heretofore been separate, but 1t was
deemed advisable to consolidate the two Of
| fees. Several changes were made in the
bylaws of the constitution.
| The National Civic Federation, of which
Senator Hanna is president and Mr. Sam
| lished an interesting review of the combi-
nations of capital and labor and boycotts
Reference is also made to business agents
and the membership of combinations
The salient features of the review follow:
While combinations both of capital and
labor strive to bring all competitors into
their fold. they also agree in trying to limit
the numbers of competitors. The unions
have initiation fees, examination of candi-
dates and limits to the number of appren-
tees. The associations have initiation fees
and sometimes limitations to membership.
When union or association passes from
mutual protection to mutual aggra ndize-
ment. the change is likely to appear in
higher initiation fees or stricter limits on
admission, when the New York stone
cutters or the New York stock exchange
resolves to admit more members.
Many organizations of both kinds have Of
| fcers with duties designed to meet viola
! tions of the combination agreement The
| walking delegate business agent of the
union who. looks out for 'scabs" and scale
violators is similar to the inspectors of the
| railway classification committee. which ex-
oit,ac 70 -t,Nk
pers are cutting the freight rate scale by
underbilling, and whether individual roads
| belonging to the association are conniving
| at the practice. Where, as in the hardware
and iron and steel pools, there is-a com
missioner this officer is given the remark
able authority of apportioning the output to
several members. just as walking delegate
or shop steward sometimes "calls down"
man who is working too fast
Boycottfng in some of its forms IS a nat
ural and first-suggested means employed
| by both classes of associations in going be-
yond persuasion and putting pressure upon
| non-members to join in a common cause
Unions have developed large and syste-
matte methods of boycotting. but their
methods are much the same as those of
the publishers and booksellers, the whole
! sale druggist. railroad association which
divert shipping from one line to another
| and other capitalist associations.
| The blacklist Is a form of boycott and
! similar in object to the boycott and black
| list but the reverse in method, as are the
whitelist and the label, either of the Con-
sumers' League or the union. The union
| label in some trades like cigar making
clothing manufacturing and breweries has
, become a powerful instrument for direct
ing consumers away from unfair estab-
| lishments toward those which accept the
union conditions of hours, wages and en-
| ployment. The Consumers League COM
| posed In part of wealthy society women.
grants its label only to those manufac-
turers of women's wear who pass the
standards of its inspectors, and their
names are published in the 'whitelist."
There is scarcely an industry that is free
from combinations of capital or combina-
( tion of labor in some form. The differences
are found only in the extent to which the
combination Is successfully carried. There
/ is an infinite variety in the methoos of the
various combinations. yet there Is general
similarity In their efforts to regulate COM
petition and to bring pressure to bear on
persistent competitors. price cutters and
nom -unionists. What 10 true of the boy