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which city women eompositors are prac-
tically unknown.

Wallace Downey, the head of the Town
send G. Downey Shipbuilding plant on
Shooters Island, N. Y, which has been
shut down for year on account of labor
troubles, has made proposition to repre-
sentatives of the union to reopen MS plant
on the cooperative plan. He says that
manufacturing is based on three essen
tials-capital, executive ability and labor.
These three are to receive the prevailing
rates of remuneration, il his plan Is
adopted, and then, if there is a surplus, 1t
Is to be divided among the three in pro-
portion to their contribution to the gen.
eral result If Mr.. Downey is successful
in carrying out his plans more than
thousand men will be put back to work.
Before the adjournment Of the trans
Mississippi congress, which met in st.
Louis few days ago, the following reSo-
luton on labor and capital was adopted:
I'VE favor union labor and the combina-
ton of capital the proper means to
advance the public good but we condemn
any act of combined labor or capital that
in any way abridges the natural rights of
man. We recommend the enforcement of
the Sherman act of 1890, and to that end
urge Congress to pass an amendment to
that act making it the duty of the United
States district attorneys to prosecute all
unions of labor or capital wherever evil
dence making a prima facie case of a
breach of the terms of the act are pre-
scented. And we recommend the appoint
ment of special commission by Congress
to investigate the arbitration laws of
New Zealand and other countries which
may have such laws.
William E. Klapestky, the retiring sec
retary-treasurer of the Journeymen Bar
bers' International Union Of America, has
refused an absolutely unrestricted gift of
$4,000 which the BARRIERS, in convention
at Louisville, recently offered him a
token of their respect and their apprecfa-
ton of thirteen years of the hardest kind
of work.
It is reported that trouble is again brew
ing in the Chicago stockyardS Butchers
employed by the Hammond Packing Com
pany recently quit work because of al
legged discrimination against union work
men. The officials of the Chicago Butcher
Workmens union declare that unless a
satisfactory settlement of the difficulty is
at once reached members of that organ
ization employed in other packing plants
in Chicago will be ordered on strike.
The child labor committee of the United
Charities organization Of New York has
arranged for a vigorous campaign dur
ing the next six months. This committee
women from all walks of life and all sec
lions of the United States are represented
by membership.
ternational Hold Carriers and Building
Laborers' Union of America will meet in
Minneapolis, beginning January 1, 1908.
Many republican congressman seem to
be in favor of Congress adopting uni
form work-day law for all states.
Boston Building Trades Council has
passed a resolution requesting that a
commission be appointed by the governor
whose duty it shall be to regulate the
price of foodstuffs, light and fuel at diff
ferent seasons of the year.
Lynn (Mass) Knights of Labor shoe
cutters and stitchers' organizations have
requested the Saturday half holiday all
the year.
It is generally expected on all sides that
the big fight in the near future between
organized labor and organized capital,
the latter as particularly represented by
employers and citizens leagues so-called,
will be on the question of the open
shop"
Among the labor organizations which
have abandoned the custom OK holding
conventions annually are the Journeymen
Tailors and the Cigarmakers Interna-
tional Union. 1t has been twelve years
since the tailors had national conven-
tion. while the cigarmakers have not had
one in eight years.
The Detroit Trades and Labor Council Is
considering the proposition to abolish the
practice of soliciting funds for Labor day
and other celebrations from business men
and taxing the members instead.