Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
IN LABOR 1CIRCLES
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That organized labor is in fear of the
yellow peril, as Chinese immigration Is
termed. is shown by reports received re-
Gently at the headquarters of the American
Federation of Labor lin this city, II Is
stated. Trades unions in all parts OF the
country have received Instructions from the
heads Of their national organizations 10
deluge Congress at its forthcoming session
with protests against the making OF new
treaty with China.
Secretary Hay. it is stated, is about to
enter upon negotiations with the authorl-
ties Of the Chinese empire for new treaty.
1t is feared in labor circles that attempts
will be made to remove the stringent re-
strictions surrounding the admission OF
Chinese immigrants to the Uniteo states;
Among the reports current Is one 10 the
effect that the terms Of the new treaty
will permit the entrance Of cooiie lapor
into the territory recently acquired Dy tnis
country and that provision permits 'ne
use of Chinese labor on the construction OF
the Panama 4canal In this connection, II
is said by labor leaders, that the ATTITUDE
of Vice President-elect FAIRBANKS on the
Chinese question gives hope that the new
treaty will be all the friends of labor can
expect.
Several important labor conventions are
important of these, by long ODDS, is the
annual meeting of the American Federation
of Labor, which will begin next Monday at
San Francisco. President Samuel Gompers
and General Secretary Frank Morrison or
the Federation have taken their departure
from the headquarters in Washington ana
are now on their long journey across the
continent. Advices from the convention are
anxiously awaited by local labor leaders,
especially as to what action will be taken
by the convention in the Jurisdiction hghtsi
one of which has recently caused consld-
cradle trouble in the Central Labor Union
of the District of Columbia, and which
involves the steam filters union and the
union of plumbers, gas filters, steam filters
and their helpers.
It is proposed to hold the first convention
of a new interna tional union, now being
formed3in Washington. December 10. and
call to- that effect has been issued Inc
new International will be formed OF carpet
cutters, layers and measucers Of the United
States and Canada. 1t will probably be
called 1.-The Carpet Workers International
Union. The local branch is known as Car
pet Workers LOCAL, No. IS, and meetings
are held twice each month.
The annual convention of the Interna-
tional Union of Bill Posters and Billers will
|be held in Pittsburg. beginning December B.
The National Manufacturers Association
will meet in annual convention In New
Organized labor will watch this meeting, 1t
is said, as D. M. Parry will propose a new
scheme for doing away with labor unions.
Credentials of delegates to the Central
Labor Union of Washington have been re-
ceived as follows:
Carriage and Wagon Workers Union. No
Y, Frank WillcockS, vice John w. Baker.
Steam and Hot Water Filters and Help
ers, No. 49, Edward Dewdney, vice John
Boyd.
Interior Marble and Slate Cutters, No. 5,
applica ton for reinstatement referred to
organization committee.
The Hotel and Restaurant Employees In
ternational Alliance and Bartenders Inter-
national League of America was organized
at Detroit in 1890.
Ernest L. Harris. United States CONNER
cial agent at Eibenstock. Germany, in re-
port to the Department of Commerce and
Labor on wages in Germany" says:
Masons in this part of Germany (Giben-
stock districD receive from to cents an
hour, carpenters from to cents an hour
and day laborers From 45 to 80 cents day
of twelve hours. AT present a railway is
being built here, on which 100 laborers
mostly Bohemians. are employed. They are
paid from 60 to y cents a day.
An interesting report on girls as fruit and
hop pickers in Scotland has been submitted
to the Department of State by Marshal
ham. England. He says that "in the
Strathmore district of Perthshire, Scotland
fruit growers have dispensed almost en-
tirely with tramp labor having engaged
girls from Edinburgh Glasgow and Dundee
as pickers. These girls, engaged ordinarily
In indoor occupations in those cities as fac
tory hands, dressmakers, ETC., welcome the
open-air employment as heaIth-siving
holiday for which they are paid The papers
say that the girls are well looked after
comfortable board and lodgings being pro-
vided Tor them by the farms on which they
are employed at shillings Isl 4G) week
Attention is not called to the ia ct that flo
employment of these girls as extra hands
at fruft-picking times must disorea nize tho
work IN the factories where they have reg
uiar employment. In the chain nullev
block and anchor district near Rirmineban,
there is annu<ffy very great embarrassment
10 the lronmasters ewing to the fact that
.ne men women and children employed in
their works abandon them tempora rily each
year at hop-picking times and 7 am told
that during the hop-picking season In Kant
some OF the London board schools are prac-
t uoaiiy en,p.ieu, Whoie families migrating to
the country, where they encamp in barns
and sheds and under hedges until the bons
are gathered in" ie iiopS
The latest innovation in odd ,,h
CARNATIONS is the formation at Rmfso1a
~ Y, OF the Shoe Sinners and porta;
Union, composed of bootblacks and barher
shop porters, and union of ia nitorS &c
vator men and office workers. which r.
being formed, it is said, at st. Louis ="
According to advices Washington. ;s NOT
the only city where trouble has arisen in
central labor unions on account of the
Jurisdiction tilt between the United Assoo
citation of Plumbers and the National As
soc1at1on OF Steam and Hot Water Filters
Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis ST. Ionis
and other large cities have felt the effects
of this disagreement, and when the matter
comes up in the American Fedora tion of
Labor next week for settlement ~ j
more than likely that a long string oS
cases will be submitted by both parties to
the fight. ~
Delegates ~ the recent convention of
the Journeymen BARRIERS International
Union at Louisville, KY, report that the
meeting was one of the most interestinp
ever held. There were 635 delegates nres.
ent from all over the country. and an in
crease in membership was reported from
almost every section. Some important
changes were made in the constitution r.
was decided to increase the benefits to
members, but there will be no advance In
dues. Representation to conventions was
cut down, and hereafter but one delegate
will be allowed for every $50 members.
Conventions are to be held every Ave
years instead Of three years A monthiv
journal is to be issued by the Organization
to be called THE lJourneyman Barber" w
e. Klapetzky was elected editor at a salary
of 81 600 a wear. f. X Nascbonr 80 A.