The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-16


/ fused further election as national head
OF the woodworkers, has an interest
ing editorial on Democracy in Labor
Unions" in the International Wood
! worker. He says: "Our best citizens
bewail the fact that there is corrup-
ton in politics, but they stay at home
on days when there are primary elec.
tions. So with the rank and file OF
the unions. They want to see every
thing conducted as it should be, but
they stay at home and take no inter-
est in the meetings. They leave it to
few men to conduct the business
Then when some proposition comes up
that they are summoned to vote on,
they turn out and vote it down, not
because they have considered the mat
ter, but because the clique that runs
the union favors it,"
At Cripple Creek, Colo, Nov. IS, Dis
trict Attorney Trowbridge dismissed
the cases of forty-three men who had
been charged with completely in the
Independence depot explosion and the
Victor riot Of June 6 last Two of
the men had been in jail five months.
The others were out on bonds. There
remains similar charges against seven
teeen men, including Charles H.
Meyer, president, and William d. Hay
wood, secretary treasurer Of the West
ern Federation of Miners, but it is
doubtful whether these cases will
ever be tried. Since the election
about fifty men who had been deport-
ed have returned to the district and
have not beeen molested.
The reports of the officers OF the
American Federation of Labor. in its
twenty-fourth annual convention in
San Francisco, point out more strong
ly than anything else the steady
growth of that body, beginning with
its initial meeting in Terre Haute,
Ind, in the summer of 1881, and its
first convention in Pittsburg, Pa, in
November of the same year. The
men and women in the meeting in
San Francisco represent in round
numbers 100000 wage-earners, and
it is the general belief and aim of the
officers of that body, with the assist
ance Of those Of it's affiliated unions.
to have 100000 enrolled under the
broad banner of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor when it meets in twen-
ty-ffth annual convention and cele-
brates its silver anniversary next
year.
The American Federation of Labor
convention adopted a resolution ask
ing congress to give payment to gov
ernment worimen for all overtime
performed by them in excess of eight
/ hours day since May 10, 1861, the
J matter to be adjudicated by a court
Of claims. A movement to make the
} union label more effective was ap-
proved, and a universal label was
! urged A proposal to ask the secre-I
tary Of commerce and labor to APP
, point a strike arbitration board was
lost, as were proposals Of working
mems banks and for settlement of the
question OF trades autonomy. 1t was
J voted to ask congress to prevent en-
! listed musicians from competing with
union men.
} The Cincinnati Chronicle says:
when the members of a trade union
have, by the expenditure of their own
! time and means, created certain con-
ditions necessary to their safety and
well-being in a given industry or in
stitution, it is morally their right and
} logically their duty to insist that the
non-unionist who seeks to share these
conditions shall first agree to share
the labor and expenditure necessary
/ to their maintenance; in other words,
to insist that he shall join the union. /"
Such is the main contentious of the
} trade unions in so far as the nom
/ unionist is concerned, and upon this
: principle rests the so-called closed
| shop. For his own sake, as well as
l for the benefit Of all workingmen, the
nouunionist is asked to join the union
If he refused he certainly has no right
to complain when union men decline
to work with him. II he is willing to
: accept the benefits which unavoidabIy
: come to him because of unionism
I without making some return for them,
t that is matter he must square-if
/ he can-with his own conscience.
The lumber industry, which was the
: foundation for the growth of Clinton,
) Iowa, has come to an end and doubt
t less not another log will ever be sawed
( in what was formerly known as the
/ old cits Cf Clinton. However, the
t Joyce mill, located in what was for
merly the old City Of Lyons, will con-
/ tinue for a few more years. At one
: time nearly 5000 men we're employed
+ in the saw mills in the city and mil
E lions of feet Of lumber were cut an
D nually. Scarcity Of logs compelled the
r mills gradually to close down. This is
S true of all the cities along the Missis-
( sippi river and within five years the
: last mill will have ceased operations
. aud a great industry will have passed
: into history.-Chicagc Record-Herald.
$ Following are the receipts and ex
t penditures Of the American Federation
0 of Labor from 1881 to 1904:
Year Recefpts Expenditure