The Globe-republican., 1904-03-03
changes consolidates the officers OIL

braclug three or more states. Edward
Trunk, Peoria, ILL.,, was elected presl'
dent. la'
Ninety.eight Chicago carriage and
wagon manufacturers have signed
their names to the agreement that
they will not reopen their shops until
ordered to do SO by majority OF the
association. The lockout has been
made more effective every day since
it was declared. In the week past
twenty small shops have been shut
and there is not now one factory OF
Importance running in Chicago.
A Massachusetts committee lnvestl'
eating the relations between employer
and employe Is divided on the ques'
ton Of the use Of injunctions in labor
disputes. Carroll D. Wright, Royal
Robbins and D. R. Dewey, q majority
of the committee, favor the present
law, while Henry Sterling wants jury
trials in contempt cases, and William
N. Osgood wants peaceable labor DEM
STATIONS protected from lnjunctlons'
At Cincinnati, Ohio, Judge Hosea,
Of the Superior court, made perpetual
temporary injunction granted
against the journeymen plumbers as
sociation and the building trades
council, forbidding them to Interfere
by patrolling, intimidation or persua'
sion with the employees Of the master
plumbers. This is case where q
strike was ordered by way OF dis
cipline to compel the payment OF dues
to union.
At a recent meeting Of the Church
Association for the Advancement Of
the interests Of Labor in New YorA
CITY the audience was startled by the
facts and figures given by Jacob Fan
ken, one of the organizers OF the
Ladies' Garment Workers Union Mr.
Panken said: "There are SOB places
in the lower East Side where ladies
garments are made, and large pro
portion of the work is done at home
There are 1903 tenement house sweat
shops in.Chrystie street; in Ellzabetl
street, in the Italian quarter, tvs; Il
Mott street, 512; in Mulberry street
$685."
New York painters are seeking leg
islation, to be framed on lines OF
German law prohibiting the use o
white lead in paint for public bullt
ings. At the hearing the journeymc
painters representatives will sho'
how many Of their fellow craftsme
are annually crippled with partls
paralysis from white lead POISONING
and urge this relief as a public healt
measure. The bill proposes lid
white" as a substitute.
The Terre Haute (Ind.) carpenter
have presented a scale Of wages IL
the season beginning April l, whlc
calls for an advance from a slidln
scale Of from 221s to 80 cents an ho'
TO a minimum Of IS cents. 1t is all
stipulated that no carpenter is
work on a job where ,aborers al
permitted to handle carpenters tool
The building contractors have take
no concerted action, but in talking
) the demand individual contractors Sc
, they cannot pay it.
If John Turner, the Englishman d
. tanned on Ellis island, New Yor
! charged with being an anarchist,
\ not released, it will not be the TAU
of the Chicago Federation OF Labo
4 The organization voted to take
/. Turner's cause, and laid down "
o lines Of action. A petition to DO
n houses Of congress asking that Il
q law under which the Englishman
held be repealed was Endorsed al
will be circulated among trades unit
, members. Each union also was call
= on to give at least 81 to a fund to asst
= in carrying Turner's case to T.
: United States Supreme court.
v as not organized labor trust, a
v where will you find a trust with sll
:. power and such divldends?" II
a question was recently put to SAINT
Gompers, president Of the Americ
n Federation of Labor. "You may G
n 1t a trust" replied Mr.. Gompers, D
a it is a trust for the good OF the ma
10 and not for the individual few l
10 combinations Of capital try to elll
N nate every one but themselves. In
If try to freeze out as many OF tn
n. own members as they can, and
+. biz fish eat the little ones, Our tru
10 il you call it so, Is open to ALL
welcome every one, and our only a
b. is the good Of the country and OF
IN the members Of our organization
I'd The special committee appointed
IN Governor Bates Of Massachusetts II
Of July under q resolution Of the legis
or ture of 1908 to Investigate the re
10 tions between employer and emplc
ne has made its report. The commit
es presents workingmen's compen
tion act, substitute for the empl
&c. ers' liability law, although that is
RS lowed to stand on the statutes. I
OF is the most radical feature Of the
es mort, and no legislation Of the kI
re has been attempted in this count
re The report recommends that the
As be changed so that any workman
in iured while at work can recover FIR
IS. his employer. In case Of death
m. workmans family, the committee I
ommends, should receive under t