The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-09-25


Judge Louis Kelley Of st. Paul de-
MED an application for an injunction
against striking plumbers. He upheld
'the right OF laborers to form unions
and quit employment IN a body for the
purpose OF compelling their employers
to grant demands for higher wages
and other betterments in their condt-
tion.
The National Building Trades Conn-
ell has adopted a label for placing on
buildings built wholly by union labor.
The label Is in the form Of bronze
plate. 14x9 inches, bearing the il
seription. Union Made Oficial Label
National Building Trades Council Of
America In the center is a repre-
sentation Of the Capitol at Washing
ton.
@he Berlin Norwaert's Russian cor
respondent writes that tie strikes in
the south and southeast Of Russia are
assuming more and more the charac-
ter OF an organized demonstration
against the government In Odessa
the population sympathizes with the
strikers and the city is Hooded with
revolutionary literature which is dis
tributed in secret.
The Consumers League formed in
New York, to make war on the in
human sweatshop system, now has 4ls
branches in eighteen states Forty
two stores In New York city handle no
clothing that has rot the label Of this
league on It, and forty manufacturers
are now using the label The organi-
zstion has done splendid work and ar
comDlished great results.
James e. Roderick, chief mine in
spector Of Pennsylvania. in his forth
coming report will suggest leyying a
tax amounting to one-half cent a ton
on all coal mined in the state for one
year for the purpose of founding a
hospital in which crippled and injured
miners will be cared for 1t is claimed
that to levy this tax for a year would
result in a fund Of S750.000 for the pur-
pose designated
st. Paul (MinnD Musicians union.
fearing competition with the Twenty
first Infantry Band, has decided to ask
Congressman Stevens to introduce
into Congress a bin providing that
army bands shall not be allowed to
play at civic functions. The members
OF the union allege that the military
band plays for less than union rates
and that it may be secured free If the
colonel Of the regiment gives his con
sent.
The strike Of trolley men at Water
bury, Conn., which began thirty weeSs
ago. has been settled. The Connecti-
cut Electric and Lighting company
agrees to take back part Of the etrEA-
| ers at once at the old wages; to give
employment to the others as soon as
| practicable. and 10 treat with a COM
mittee from the men regarding future
| grievances. The announcement Of tke
settlement led to a general public
demonstration Of JOY throughout the
city. 80
Notice has been given that the com
ing international convention Of the
stationary fremen's union win ask
that that craft and the stationary en-
gineers be selected TO make the bat
tie next year for an eight-hour day.
Each year the A. F. Of J.. selects an
organization to which It votes the
necessary support to force the eight
hour day in the craft The fremen
and engineers are so closely allied IN
their work that the request viii be for
joint campaign.
Serious difficulties are expected In
the fiintglass industry as a result OF
the differences with the men over an
Old-established rule which it Is said
the members Of the American Flint
Glass Workers union repudiate The
Phoenix company has entered suit
against the workmen for damages in
the cost Of melting glass. the work OF
dipping it out and the loss OF produc-
tion. Proceedings are to be entered
against the national officers Of the
workers organization.
The Wisconsin Federation Of Labor
at It's recent convention adopted 4
resolution urging its members and the
working people TO organize their eco
nomic and political power, to the end
that labor secure the full value Of It's
product. the emancipation from wage
slavery and the establishment Of a
democratic Industrial cooperative
eommonw wealth7 All Of which sounds
well. but the facts are that Wisconsin
"a one of the worst organized states in
the country and the workers In it as
a consequence are. about the poorest
paid. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Ornamental glass manufactures
have discovered that there is a vide
variance in the wages paid in various
parts OF the country. This state Of ar.
fairs has led to a feeling Of unrest
among the employees and hints of
threatened strikes have reached the
ears OF employers until they have been
compelled to take action. Recently
they met 10 Columbus Ohio. and
formed an association called the Ma
tlonal Ornamental Glass Manufacture
ers' Association. and committees were
appointed 20 visit the different locali-
ties where glass Is manufactured and
lcok CD the labor situation. An effort
is to be made by the committee 10
/ establish a uniform wage scale
throughout the country.
While the employers OF labor
throughout the country are lighting
the sympathetic strike on the part OF
the labor unions. the developments in
+ Pittsburg are interesting. There It Is
a sympathetic lockout that has para
lyzed tie building industry and thrown
10000 men out Of employment. This.
too. IN spite OF the fact that nearly ail
the unions had agreements with their