Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-31

well hall tomorrow at 3 p. m. All engaged in that line are earnestly re- quested to attend.
 The paper box makers of New York city are becoming strongly organized and a label will soon be adopted to be placed upon work of their manufac- ture.
 There will be an important meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Ealgi- neers and Machinists this evening. There are several new members to be initiated, also several applications to be acted upon.
 1 The Ivory Workers union and the | Amalgamated Wood Workers, both of whom received their charters last Sun | day, are starting off in an energetic manner. In the former are already 1 found nearly all engaged in that line l of work in the city. while the latter is receiving many applieat tiors for mem 1 bership.
 There will be a regular meeting or 1 the Economic league at Carpenters and Joiners' hall tomorrow Sunday evening at o'clock. The new ward committees will be elected and plans for the further conduct of the league more fully discussed than at the last meeting. The meeting is most i'm portant one and all members should endeavor to be present. The secre- tary is now compiling the membership list and those desiring to join are re- quested to hand in their applications. < t l Following is brief synopsis of the benefits paid out by the Cigarmakers' :! International union for the past 20 I years:
 Sick benefit q9 years) $1, ,335, ,594 49 Out of work benefit 1O
 l years) ............... S93, 3,215.35 Travelling benefit (20 years TOP, ,O29 02 l Strike benefit (20 yearsJ.. 7O0,22321 l Death benefit (19 years). 695, ,783.3 | Total $4, ,326, ,845.39
 And this but one of the many inter- national organizations.
 Tickets for the grand benefit concert I 10 be given on the evening of Sunday, February 15, for the purpose of aiding the striking trolleymen, are now in the i hands of members of the various unions and will be disposed of in quan- titles to suit the purchaser. It is hoped to make the receipts the largest of any benefit ever given in Waterbury. The program will be a most excellent ] one. Here is the opportunity for the 1 many people who have expressed a desire to aid the strikers to do so and I at the same time to receive full value I for the money expended
 Within the memory of people now living the hours of labor were 13, 14 or ID. At the present time they are r.. 10, and in some lines S. Tt is we'll known that when labor is best organized their wages are highest and hours the shortest It Is true that the average employer who desires to pay higher wages could not do so and successfully compete with his rival who pays the lowest wage scale. But l if all the employers would employ un- ion men only. wages would be uniform and the wage question would be eIimi- mated in regard to commercial compe tition.
 The purchasing power of good, honest days labor in the New Eng land mills, as measured by the neces- slties or life, is less than during the hard times, and there is social discOn- tent in the home of honest labor. The ] prosperity that has come through gold Imitation to the farmer, the merchant. the speculator and the trusts has not come to the wage-earner in the ave- nues of industry. Hogs is high. and hogs is rising" and the western farm 1 CT is enabled to pay off the mortgage on his farm because 100 pounds of live hog will pay twice as many dollars 1 of the mortgage as it would half a dozen years ago; but the dollar that 1! comes to the hand of toll in the mines and in the mills will not buy half as much hog as it would half dozen years ago. wage of $1 a day be- fore gold imitation was worth as much to the workingman as wage of $2 a day is now. The remedy is rise in wages to meet the new conditions Solon Chase in Boston Herald.
 What is the American Federation of labor 1t is the great body to which nearly all of the national and in l ternaHonal unions are members and in l a general way acts as arbitrator in CsASC O1 uAACAlLy DSLWCEI1 LIlOSC 0VOkS1sSs It looks after such legislation as may l have bearing upon the interests of the laboring class. It's principles in brief are:
 I i. Compulsory education.
 ?. The repeal of all compulsory and
 general laws affecting seamen and other working men, incorporated in the federal and state laws of the United States.
 I 3. A legal workday of not more than eight hours.
 1 4 Sanitary inspection of work shops, mines and home.
 5. Liability of employer for injury to health, body and life
 $. The abolition of the contract svs- tenn in all public works
 '. The abolition of the sweating system. 5
 s. The municipal ownership of street cars, waterworks and gas and electric plants for the public distribu- tfon of light, heat and power.
 9. The naturalization of teIe- graphs, telephone. railways and mines.
 10. The abolition of the monono,v system of I9y46h0Jdnrc ana +bo e...L,.A: