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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
OFFICIAL. LABOR,
BAN ON CHICAGO
Federation to lose Charter If the
Rules Are Not Obeyed.

Rules Are Not Obeyed.
Chicago, March 17.-For jurisdic-
tional offenses committed during the
last year, the Chicago Federation of
Labor must make peace with the AM
erican Federation of Labor or lose it's
charter,
This is the official declaration of
William J. Spencer. one of the vice
presidents of the American Federation
Of Labor. He will demand the revoc-
alton of the charter of the local feder-
alton when the executive council of
the national labor body meets in Den-
YER, April 18.
The Grievance against the Chicago
federation is due to a refusal to seat
the delegates. of the corporation steam
filters, who are chartered under the
United Association of Plumbers, and
the seating of delegates of the Steam
filters Protective association, a rival
organization, which the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor has refused to charter
because it. has been decided that the
plumbers have jurisdiction over the
nine trades.
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ongaaixed1 ii. 6
:: no . Up Against Big Crisiis

The Chicago Tribune, in a recent
issue said: "Organized labor is facing
the greatest wage crisis since the panic
Of 1893, if the forecast Of its leaders
is correct. 1t is estimated that before
the close of the year the great employ
ing concerns of the country will have
dismissed nearly 100000 men, most Of
them laborers and general utility work.
ers. Of this number the railroads are
expected to discharge 100000 employees;
the mine operators $4,000; the machine
shops, iron, Steel and tin plate plants
100000; and the building trades 10000.
The railroads and the steel mills have
already begun the work of reducing
their forces, and the wage liquidation
threatens TO become as sensational as
was the recent liquidation in stocks. u
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
HAD TO
HAVE :.PERMH':=T0: SPEAK
WAS NOT PERMITTED TO SPEAK
IN COLORADO WITHOUT
CONSENT.
Militia Officers Had to Issue Order
Before Hon. James r. Carey, the
il. Socialist Memker Of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature Was Allowed
to Speak In That State. Copy Of
Readers.

Denver Colo, March Thames r.
Carey, the we'll known lecturer Of the
National Boot and Shoe Workers un-
Ion, who represented the Haverhill,
Mass, district In the Massachusetts
legislature for the past five terms, pas
sed through Denver yesterday on his
way home from q visit to Colorado,
where the military powers are running
things with a high hand. He is widely
known throughout the United States
as labor agitator and legislator. For
five years he represented the fifth
Haverhil district in the Massachusetts
legislature, and was only defeated in
1908 for a sixth term after an unprec-
edented campaign. Carey's tireless ad-
vocacy of working class emancipation
has earned for the bitter antagonism
of every enemy of the workers in Mas
sachusetts.
Carey begun work in the shoe fac
tories of Haverhill when a boy, has
always participated in trade. union af-
fairs, and was chosen a member of the
Haverhtll common council in Decem-
ber 1897. The following year he was
elected to the sachusetts legisla-
ture. He was reelected in the face of
stubborn opposition in 1899, 1900, 1901,
1902
In 1895 Carey presided over the con-
vention in Boston at which three ma
tional organizations were consolidated
into the National Boot and Shoe Work.
ers' union, which organization he rep
resented at the American Federation
Of Labor Convention at Boston in 1903.
For ten years his work has extended
throughout every phase Of trade union
activity.
Everywhere Carey goes he speaks
in favor Of emancipation Of the work.
ing classes, and he is a close observer
of, existing conditions. One of the
treasures that Brother Carey brought
back from Colorado is a permit from
the military authorities to speak in
public, as follows:
Telluride, Colo, Feb. "a, 1904.
TO Captain :Burkley Wells.
Permission for Hon. James F. Carey
to lecture at Red Mems hall tonight
is desired Major Hill promised this
two weeks ago.
STEWART FORBES.
Affirmed: BURKLEY WELLS,
Captain. Commanding Camp Telluride
|; The bltl*Epen the: censorship ofall
Is:ssEsR 81 go
quoting affairs iii Colorado, MI: Carey
says, is a disgrace to the state and ma
ton. Much has been said, Mr.. Carey
admits. but the half has not been told
regarding the Colorado situation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
Garment Workers. Union
Wants Labor's Support

Minneapolis, Minn.. March 1.-THE
United Garment Workers on strike here
are still putting up good fight against
the Robitshek, Frank & Heller. Every
girl on strike is remaining firm, and
each have made vow that she will
not return to work until the wages are
restored.
The local union is composed entirely
of girls ,and they have joined in an ap-
peal to the unions of Minnesota to visit
the merchants and urg> the discontin-
uance of patronage to the nom ~>>i.>,
firm where the girls are on str:Se.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
Clothing Cutters Want
Conference On Strike

The amalgamated Association of
Clothing Cutters of New York and
vicinity. contemplate the issuing of a
call for national conference of dele
gates from the local cutter and trim
mer unions of the United States and
Canada, to take place in Rochester
within few weeks, for the purpose of
considering the situation in that city
relative to the strike against the Cloth
iers' Exchange, and to devise ways and
means of sustaining the strike until it
is won.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Douglas the Brockton shoe manufac-
turer, has withdrawn. from the Shoe
Manufacturers Association of that city
because they adopted rule excluding
the business agents of labor organiza-
tions from the factories. It is thought
that the rule was scheme to pave the
way Or an "open shop campaign.
An agreement has been signed by the
plumbers Of Sioux CITY to observe the
open shop policy. It. was stated by
John n. Shank, president .of the Trades
Assembly that this. will surely preci:7;
trades; 1c1udinss 3bout
E;.s e At$th4 meeting 81 the district coun-
Gil Of tie BROTHERHOOD Of 5Blacksmiths
and Helpers, of Chicago, it was prac-
tically decided to-. asksase 10 per cert.
wage increase on May l. The district
includes 81 locals and 5000 members
Of the union. The matter will finally
be passed on two weeks later.
Indications point to a spirited strug-
gle between the members of the labor
unions Of Racine, Wis, and the recent
ly organized Citizens Alliance. The
leaders of the men have charged that
manufacturers are back of the alliance
and that it's purpose is to wipe out the
unions of the city.
Next Tuesday the miners of the btu
minous coal field will lay off half a
day to vote upon the proposition Of
whether or not to suspend work on
April l to resist a reduction of 5h per
cent. The result of the referenG um
will be counted at headquarters in Ind
annapolis two days later.
The conference between the Balti-
more & Ohio telegraphers and Assistant
General Manager Haas in regard to an
agreement which would increase the
wages and lessen the hours of the tele-
graphers has ended without settle
ment having been reached, and now
there is strike talk.
Prof: L. O. Triggs, one of the ablest
! college men in the country, is the latest
| educator to be bounced from Rockefel-
ler's Chicago University because of his
"socialistic Tenderness" . There is ncw
quite long list of educators who have
been placed under the ban of the in
! dustrial czar.
| Trouble. between the ten thousand
lithographers Of the country and their
employers, which have been brewing
for nearly two years, is expected to
come to head on March Is, when a
general strike or lockout will occur.
The ':open shopp'' scheme is at the
bottom of the trouble.
| Members of the Chicago Employers
Association are preparing to secure the
passage of a new boycott and picketing
law at the next session of the Illinois
Legislature. But it would be wrong
don't you know, for union worklngmen
ito unite and use their political power!
Detroit pnionists made such a hard
! fight against the offer of Carnegie to
build library for the city that the city
council turned down the proposition
The slogan went forth that the city
needed none Of Carnegies blood money
window glass workers accepted a re.
tiuction of wages ranging from 121z tc
Is per cent. 1t is asserted that cuts will
be made in an other branches Of the
glass industry"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
Big Labor Day
At St. Louis Fair

st. Louis, March 17.-It is proposed
by Western unionists to have the first
Monday in September designated as
Labor day at the st. Louis exposition
whose directors have taken up the
proposition and are said to be inclin-
ed to it's adoption. The suggestion
is- that trade unions within 1000 miles
of St. Louis prepare to send delegations
for that day, and forming, say, $4,000
union working men and women into a.
procession. march to the fair grounds.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
MANY ..tlBd| | ID CHIEFS
'n5!lQs II ANGELES
DETERMINED FlchT is MADE BY
CITiZEN'9sALLlANcE,


Los Angeles, CaE, March 17.-(Special
Correspondence: Eing the past
week President Callahan and General
Organizer Foley Of the Hotel and Res
tuarant Employees International Alli-
ance, with l1eadqaarters in Boston;
President Frank Bachanan of Chicago,
representing the Bfidge and Structural
Iron Workers; and President P. H. Nc
Carthy of San Francisco, representing
the California Building Trades Council,
have been in Los angeles in the inter-.
est off, their respective organizations.
The assaults Of the Citizens Alliance.
backed by the notorious Los Angeles
Times, have had the effect OF causing
the greatest activity in the ranks *of
the unions ever knewn in this vicinity.
AS a result of the visit Of Messrs.
Callahan and Foley. the cooks, walters
and bartenders have formed a defen-
sive alliance, and will stand together
in every instance where the Otis ag-
gregation attempts to make war on
any of the organizations named.
Messrs. Mccarthy and Buchanan
rendered valuable sassistance to the
various building Trades unions, and it
is expected that as a result of thei1
plans, in the near future a marked i'm
provement will be felt in the building
industry of this city.
At present..the town is absolutely
overrun with idle mechanics, but the
unions are confident that they will be
able to hold their own.
Herast's Los Angeles Examiner is
making deep inroads into the circu1a-
ton of the notorious Times, and as d
result Otis is frantic in his denuncia-
ton against everything and everybody
! in sympathy with the cause of union
ism.
A runor is being persistently cir.
| culated that it is the intention Of the
Citizens Alliance to bring about a gen.
| eral lockout Of union men. affecting
| many trades
Widespread interest is being taken ir
| the union conference, to be held Marct
IA, at which plans will be perfected 70,
united action in all flights brought or
! by Otis Alliance. !
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
Lithographers May
Have Strike Next Week

New York, March ia proposition
to arbitrate the difference between the
lithographers and their employers
throughout the country has been re-
jected by the New York union 260 to
28. Should other unions follow suit the
employers will lockout 10000 men
throughout the country on March &c.
The men want the minimum rate Of
wages raised. They are now earning
from $25 to $135 a week.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
Boot and Shoe Workers
Growth Calls for More Room

BY reason OF the Increased member
ship. calling for larger amount of
clerical work, the Boot and Shoe work.
ers'' union has been called upon to in
crease it's office space in the Albany
building, Boston. Mass, with an addi-
ton of 140o square feet, The organiza-
tion has offices equipped in the most
modern manner, having every facility
to accommodate their many thousand
members. / 9 .:-5 s5:S
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
No Convict Labor
to Be Leased In Texas

Labor unions throughout Texas have
started a movement In opposition to
the State .Peniten entiary Board leasing
convicts to coal operators to work Ii
the mines. tMenbers Of the Board claim
the right to lease the convicts in this
way. and Say that the $4,000 received
as wagsA monthly from them materially
helps IL sreductng ed :the. 1T taxes Of: the
State. ss1 ( s: =.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
Iron Moulders Union
Headquarters to Be Moved

A referendum vote is being taken
among the iron moulders as to the ad-
visibility Of moving the headquarters
Of the organization from Cincinnati to
Washington. 1t is expected that sew
eral other unions will follow this lead,
as they would then have headquarters
in the same city as the A. F. of L., and
would be able to attend more easily
to bills relating to their craft which
turn up in Congress.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
Mortality Increasing
Among Bridge Builders

Chicago, March 17.-According to Sec
retary O'Brien, Of the Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers local of Chi
cago, ILL.,. 1916 per cent, Of the members
Of that local were either killed or in
jured while at work during 1903 Eigh-
teen were killed, Is totally disabled
and 1o3 were injured more or less SER
iously. The local in that city has voted
to increase the wages from 561k cents
an hour to 621z cents.
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CANADIAN WORKERS

Montreal Canada, :longshoremen are
discussing terms for the coming season.
The rates Of; wages and the. hours of
labor that existed last season are con-
stdered satisfactorily but thehy want
the clause prohibiting a representative
Of the union on the. docks during work
hours abolished. ,: ,*'. !: .,: III
Montreal win he the first Canadian
city invaded blythe Citizens, Industrial
Associate ion .of America So ass..: 5*
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
st. Cloud Quarreymen
In New Organization

The Quarrymen's union, organized
here last July has affiliated with the
National union of Quarreymen. This
union was organized by the State Fed
Grafton of Labor, and at the beginning
had membership Of over 50 good and
true men at work in the quarr1es in this
vicinity. From the outset all the men,
bers have been active, and today this
union ranks among the best in the
Mississippi city Of granite.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
ACCUSED OF PERJURY

GREEN BAY, Wis, March 1e.-E.
r Harding, a sewer contractor of Ra-
cine. was arraigned today, on an in
dictment charging perjury In his tes-
timony before the recent grand jury.
Harding pleaded not guilty and was
bound over under a $1,000 bond, This
is the last of the indictments resulting
from the civic investigation. i { { /$z*s z%s.$.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19

The western Federation. of Miners
have issued al. ficial statement show s
ing that they have received over. ~ 900
in@donations=ffor thehir .eiE Eht-hopr fund.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19

if z'ls higil proba bie that
it ';wis:> ..absorb the powerful Scottish
Workers Representation committee.
The great miners federation is running
its own candidates.
Paris bakers have decided to call a
general strike before the end of the
year, which is intended to be the signal
for strike of preliminary trades all
over France
Practically all Of the employees of the
South Metropolitan and Crystal Palace
gas companies in London, Eng, are
shareholders in these concerns. The
profit-sharing system is to become a
co-partnership concern, the workpeople
to have share in the directorsh!p Of
the companies.
In Dresden, Germany, there is a gov
ernment school for horseshoers. No one
is allowed to shoe horse in that Sec
tion of Germany without diploma,
which he has to obtain from this school.
Every pupil must study for five mon:hs.
Three municipal workshops for the
blind are to be provided in different
localities in London, England.
Seventeen hundred persons are en-
gagged in the manufacture of wooden
shoes in France, and they turn out more
than a half million pair per year. They
| are made by hand.
Delegates representing all organized
labor in Porto Rico are voting for
amalgamatio under the A. F. of L.
! In Germany workingmen are visited
| at their home on pay days by savings
| bank officials to collect their savings
! for banking.
1t is figured by conservative estimat-
OTIS that approximately $4,000, 600 has
been taken from this country by about
q, 900 returning immigrants, mostly
Italians, to their native lands
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-19
FOREIGN LABOR NEWS

There are in Paris, France, some
thing like one thousand cooperative
cabs plying. supplied by 16 to 18 CO.
operative cab yards, which are now
in flourishing condition, some of them
very large and substantial undertake
ings. The men in this service net on
the average about 60 cents a day above
the out de cabman's rate of compen-
sation
- In nd the. Labor. Representation
corr s. now sov a lion
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-12-17
DEPORTERS Of MINERS
MUST STAND FOR TRIAL
Cripple Greek Deporters and
Destroyers of Union Prop
erty Must Face Justice. ;
One Murderer of Union Men
Also on List-Judge Ap-
points Attorneys.

Cripple Creek, Col, Dec. 15.-Judge
Cunningham, in the district court at
Cripple Creek, Wednesday, appointed
two special prosecutors for the coming
term of court. Tully Scott was ap-
pointed special prosecutor in the cases
against James Warford, charged with
the murder of Chris. Miller and Ike
Liebo, in Goldfield, on election morn
ing.
The other prosecutor is Charles C.
Butler, formerly deputy district attor-
'ney. He will have in charge the cases
against some fifty prominent citizens
of the district for the deportations
that took place and the union store
wrecking. The defendants in these
cases will include c.. C. Hamlin, re-
Gently elected district attorney of this
judicial district, and also Edward Bell,
the usurper sheriff The list includes,
besides those mentioned, e, A. Col-
burn Gail S. Hoag, Thomas E. Me-
Clelland, A. E. Carleton. E. c.. New
comb, Nelson Franklin, r. P. Russell,
John Sharpe, John Dalzell, Henry Fl
Dahl, William Bainbridge, Samuel d.;
Crump, H. L. Shepherd, Julius Kirby5;
c. e. Funk, A. B. schilling; f.. NJ.
Reardon, W. e. Dingman, S. Al
Phipps, Clarence Fitch, K. c., Sterling,i
Daniel Mccarthy, A. T. Holman and.
others = Ss%.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-12-17

reacting unfavorably upon the trade
OF other countries, and in Italy-the
country whose immigrants we least
deslre-there are in addition extensive
labor troubles. There will, therefore,
be large immigration from Italy, and
the labor unions Of the United States
have already protested vigorously
against this. They will have to renew
their protest with emphasis at Wash
ihgton this winter. and they should
begin by enlisting the interest and
support of President Roosevelt, whose
influence with Congress is bound to
be great. Immigration should certain
ly be more restricted. Incidentally, it
will be noted that the American Fed
eration OF Labor voted overwhelming
ly at San. Francisco in favor of apply
ing to apanese the same restrictions
that are now used to exclude Chinese.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-12-17

tlffs are under the ban of the union
Of carpenters. ~.
ITO enforce the rule Of the union for
bidding members of the union to han
die non-un1on millwork.
To enforce rules existing or that
may. hereafter be adopted which would
be coercion if the union men interfere
with the plaintiffs business. IA;
To issue union labels to mills=in the
Pittsburg district jurisdiction for the
purpose of interfering with the,splain-
tiffs' business.
Here is a decision that goes prac-
tically the full limit. Here is aS,real-
ization of D. NJ. Parry's drean1;: and
what are you going to do about it,
Mr.. WOrl1in gman?
Think it over a while, and wake up
to the fact that it is high time to be
up and doing" :
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-12-17
PENNSYLVANIA JUDGE
ISSUES INJUNCTION
Strong Enjoiner Covers Every.
thing Workingman Must do
to Protect Himself.
Ruling Would Put Puritans to
Shame Than Blue
Laws of New England.

In Pennsylvania judge has been
found sufficiently ignorant or corrupt
to satisfy the most vicious union fla-
ter. He has granted an injunction
covering everything Workingman
must do to protect himself, and while
1t is not probable that an appellate
court can be found that will sustain
the decision, the strikers must respect
it while it exists. Here Is what a
northern LABOR paper has to say about
it:
''Union men Of the keystone State
have stopped to catc! their breath.
Judge Galbreth of Butler County re-
Gently handed down one Of the most
despotic injunctions that the monopo-
list has ever had the audacity to die
tate.
THE decree is against the Pittsburg
District Council and Carpenters local
No. 500, and is the outgrowth of a re-
cent carpenters strike against PuEPis
& CO.
1.-THE court aided the contractor In
defeating the union in a damage case
In which the union was compelled to
give up s1,770 of their hard-earned dol
lars. and then proceeded and chained
them up with an injunction forbidding
them collectively and individually from
committing the following acts:
ITO request that customers have
their work done in union mills in pre-
ference to mills of the defendant.
ITO conspire or attempt to interfere
by intirnidating or attempting to in
timidate by express or implied, or d.
rect or indirect, threats OF injury to
business Of plaintiffs customer.
To send out any notice that plain
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-12-17
sToNEMAsoNs WITHDRAW
Their Delegates Retire From Mime
apoIis Trades Assembly.

Minneapolis, Dec. 15.-Last Wednes.
day, evening, the local stonemasons
union notified the Trades Assembly
that it had withdrawn its delegates
from the central body. While no rea-
son was assigned, it Is surmtsed that
the stonemasons' union considers that
1t is ineligible to membership in the
assembly because the latter is affil-
lated with the American Federation OF
Labor, while the former is not -The
bricklayers '\un1on is also out of the
senlbly, having withdrawn long ago
The question Of the Eligibility OF these
organizations came up Wednesday
evening and the secretary of the as
sembly was instructed to get a ruling
from the officers of the A. F. Of L. in
the matter> The interna tional union
under which both locals hold. charters
is not affiliated with the A. F. OF L.,
although it is recognized by the latter
as a. regular organization. Should
no objection be made by the federation,
these unions Will be invited to, send
delegates to the assembly,. >..