Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-21

The National Alliance OF Amalgamated
Painters. Decorators and Paper Hangers.
recently in session In New York city is I'm
favor of matchmaking with the Brother
end was taken when COMMITTEES was ap-
pointed TO arrange for conference with
the brotherhood to settle all differences and
bring about amalgamatlon.
Gen. Jacob S. Coxey OF Mount Vernon.
Ohio, once leader OF the ''commonwcal'
army. has filed a personal petition in bank
ruptcy In the United States court al Column
| bus. His liabilities are given S2s1 tN1
His assets consist of $50 shares OF stock
in the Coxey Steel ard Silica Sand Company
and an unsecured note for sll 600. The
company referred TO is now In the hands
of receiver
The Bartenders Union of Texas has begun
n movement to purify and elevate The
! loon. Organizer Hustled. who has been
| studying conditions in Texas for the past
/ month. has reached the conclusion that the
/ low dives and the Joints" are not only
! menace TO society. but bring odlum and dis
grace upon all who are engaged in the sa-
loon business Therefore the BartcndArs'
/ Union. as an organization. will give aid and
/ support to a bill that viii suppress an these
! tough places and rid the saloon OF gambling
! dens. vine rooms. etc. According TO Mr..
Husted bill cmbOdyiug these and other
reforms IS now being prepared and will be
introduced in the next legislature.
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! lator conventions. which are 20 be held IN
! the near future The next hig convent n
! viii le that of the BrckiIYcrs ana Ma
/ snls' International Union ia san Francis
/ CO. Cal. beginning January :. Il Is asJi-
mated $50 delegates from all parts of ,llc
/ United States and Canada will attend the
sessions. The sixteenth annual national
! convention of the United Nine Workers
] VIII be held IN INDIANAPOLIS and will open
January IL. The Switchmen's Union Of
! North America Will hold It's convention in
! ItdianapOhs May Is l"'5 \ meeting 81
! The general executive committee of the
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Flramen and
| the grievance comnittee az The. same or
ganization will be held iu Chicago early
/ In January.
! The American Economic Association VIII
! hold its seventeenth annual meeting az the
! University of Chicago during the Christ
! mas holidays On Thursday afternoon De
! Cember -. there Will hr an interesting
! discussion on open Shop or Closed Shop
! John g. Hubbard. president Of the Chicago
! Metal Trades Association. IS To read a
! parer showing why an open shop is
! necessity from the employers standpoint.
! and Thomas |. Kidd. who represents or
ganzed labor. will show the opposite side
| of the question. Other papers on the sub
! jet will be read by T. II. Webster presi
| dent of the Webster Manufacturing Conn
| pany of Chicago; Professor John II. Com
| mons. University of Wisconsin. John Graz
! ham Brooks. president Of the American
| Social Science Association. Edward \.
| Ross. University of Nebraska: George T.
| Barnett. Johns Hopkins University. and
Henry r. Seager. Columbia University.
The Interior Freight Handlers and Ware
! hcusemen's International mon holds its
convention next month IN Chicago when -
! Is expected that the railways clerks unions
| will join that body ana consolidate. Score
| tarv Lennon has issued cail for de@a-
| gates convention of the Jourueym.n
| Tailors Union Of America. to meet ia
bloomington. H., on Monday February d.
100.
Iowa women are found in almost every
| Inc Of work in the building trades except
! masonry and plumbing. They also fight
shy of roofing. one woman Is brick
maker. there are seven carpenters and one
presumably muscular dame finds it con-
genial TO do stone cutting.
AT the recent celebration. Of Mitchell
day by the Pennsylvania coal miners Mr..
| Mitchell at Mahanoy City in an address
| minated that the great coal question viii
! come up again in 1906 and that the anthra-
cite miners will then ask FOR better wages.
| He said:
But everybody. employer ard employe
| alike. Will approve these words: i want
| to see such relations established between
employer and employe as shall make
strikes. lockouts and blacklis,s impos-
| sible.' "
The canning business is now one Of he
| chief industries in Maryland. More than
! IL lbs freight cars would he required 10
l.aul the output OF the Maryland canneries
Cor a single year. exclusive Of the vast
| oyster and pineapple output Of the Balt-
more canning establishments.
The latest novelty in manufacturing COM
| panes is said to be concern FOR tho IN
canny manufacture of glass collins. The
| company has purchased 80 acres of land
end will begin at once the erection of
| large plant. The patentee of the new glass
| coffin is a clergyman. the Rev. James NJ.
Stafford.
The Des Moines. Iowa. Woman's club
will ask the street railway company for
reduced rates for laboring men. The mo-
tive of this is to enable the laborinE men
! to live in the suburbs.
IL Iowa there are loo. $50 females ten
| years of age and over. engaged I'm earning
| their own way This does not include wO-
| men who are engaged in domestic service
/ in their own families. but only those re-
ceiving wages for specified occupations.
| l: is expected the construction work IN
the New York barge canal. employing
| thousands of men. will be started about
January l.
There is some talk Of forming a Wash
| ington branch of the International Broth
! erhOod of Transfers to be composed Of
automobile drivers who operate business
vehicles. This movement starteA In
! New York and is being carried TO all the
|
| half a million teamSters and draymen In
| the United States.
Frank Buchanan. president OF the In
| ternational Association of Bridge and
| Structural Iron Workers. predicts that
| next wear strikes in the building line will
| be 80 per cent less than I'm the past year.
due to the efforts of the structural build
| ing alliance.
| 1t is said engineers will receive $3.50 and
| the cranemen $3.50 month on the Panama
| canal. The will he furnished free
| TRANSFORMATION from New York to Colon
| and return. While in the government
| service they will be provided with board
and room free and will he cared for I'm
| government hospitals II sick.
Judge Puterbaugh of the appellate court
| of Illinois has rendered a decision affect
! ing the employment of boys in coal mines.
| The substance of his decision IS that coal
| mines come under the provisions of the
child labor law. and that children between
! the ages of fourteen and sixteen shall not
| be employed in mines.
| All members of the famous Boston SYM
phony orchestra have quit the Musicians
| Union. The orchestra thus becomes def
| nitey and absolutely a non-union organ!-
| cation.