Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
IN LABOR CIRCLES
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The REORGANIZATION Of the local Allied
Council of Building Trades as recommend
ed by the executive committee of the Cen
trail Labor Union Is a matter now largely
engaging the attention Of local organized
labor, and much interest is manifested
in what will be the result OF the confer
ence of the building trades which will be
held at the Typographical Temple on or
about November Is, for the purpose OF
forming a council along the lines recon-
mended by the committee. 1t Is anticl-
pated by many of those having knowl-
edge of local conditions. and who are ex-
perienced in building trades organization,
that the efforts of the executive COM
mittee of the General Labor Union to or
ganize a council, which will unite all the
building organizations, will prove abortive.
1t is said that since the formation Of
local branch of the Structural Building
Trades Alliance the organization of an eff
fective council, under any conditions Is
impossible.
The Structural Alliance. it Is stated. is
composed of a number OF the largest build
ing organizations, having an aggregate
membership, approximately, of 5000, which
is about 20 per cent of the local organized
tradesmen. OF these the larger number
are members of organZati lions which were
expelled from the local council. and, upon
demand of that body, were also expelled
from the Central Labor Union. Those who
desire a reorganization of the council do
not anticipate that these organizations will
again affiliate neither is it probable that
several prominent building trades, which
have refused to become allied with the
council, will accept the scheme of reor-
ganization. Many of the labor people,
ton favorable for the rehabilitation of
the Council of Building Trades, and many
regard the recommendation of the COM
mittee of the Central Labor Union not
feasible.
Credentials have been presented and dele
gates seated by the Central Labor Union
as follows:
Steam Engineers, No. TIC. B. Falbush,
]. w. King. F. A. Marden, D. P. McCrack-
en-, r. A. King
Stonecutters-G. W. Furlong, George
Brahler, T. Jottol
Carpenters, No. 11O3-H. C. Johnson F.
Gardiner, B. Johnson (vice Muckenhaupt,
kolb and Bladen).
Granite Cutters-William Silver, N. w.
Scholz, VIM. H. Tobin, George F. Smith, ].
J. Crowley.
Sheet and Metal Workers, No 2-H.
Klinger, vice ID. c. Childress
Columbia Lodge of Machinists, No. 174E
Frederick Brennan, vice W. r. Adams.
The organization committee of the Gem
trail Labor Union has been instructed to as
certain why the Commercial Telegraphers'
Union and the Stenographers and Office
Employees Union have not affiliated with
the central body.
Information received here is to the eff
feet that the Sydney mines, Gowrie and
BlOckhouSe collieries, at Cape Breton Nova
mile under the sea, and 1t is believed there
are possibilities In submarine mining in
that locality which were hitherto I'M
dreamed of by the most enthusiastic op-
orator.
Thomas E. Burke, general organizer of
the plumbers, gasfitters and steamfitters,
while in Washington several days ago,
reported trade conditions good through
out the country. He is on an extended
tour organizing new unions and strength
ening those already in existence. From
here he went south and will continue his
work, he said, until he reaches the gulf
coast.
L. Edwin Dudley. United States consul at
Vancouver, British Columbia in a recent re-
port to the Department of Commerce and
Labor gives the following wage scales paid
in the lumber and shingle mills and log
ging camps in the vicinity of Vancouver:
Lumber mills-Laborers. white, S.75 to 50
a day; Japanese. 81 to SLIGO a day; Chi
nese, SOC. to s1.3O a day. head sawyer, 81
to s. a day; carriage riders (white), $275 a
day: edge men. 50 to 8 so a day; edge mems
helpers. rs day: trimmers. 81 to $3.50
day; engineers, first class, $50 to $125 a
month; second class, $50 to s75 month;
firemen, $45 to $50 a month.
Single mills-Sawyers. from II to 15c. a
thousand feet; packers (Chinamen), half the
So day; engineers. second class. $50 to
$15 month"; firemen, $40 to $50 a month:
Cinnamon, soc. to $1.35 a day.
Camps-Men are paid only for actual
~, Of
men receive no pay. Fellers $3.50 to 81 a.
day; buffers, $3.50 to $3.50 a day; snipers.
s.. 80 to 81 a day; bankers, $3.50 to SO a day;
skid road men, 81 to 81. so a day; hook tend
ers, $3.50 a day; engineers, second class,
$50 to $75 month; flremen, $45 to $50 a
month. All men pay board, which varies.
From private advices received from the
International Typographical Union head
quarters the Trades Unionist learns that
the sixth proposition, known as the eight
hour day proposition. was carried in the
subordinate typographical unions by a vote
proportionately six to one in favor of It..
Chicago was the last of the large unions
to vote and that union cast 1,471 votes in
favor of the sixth proposition and 225
against it, The second proposition is de-
feated by a large majority being for inv
crease of salary to international officers,
while all other propositions were carried
in the affirmative.
In a consular report received recently at
the Department of Commerce and Labor
there is statement that an American firm
which sells at Omsk Russia, annually more
than $4,000 worth of agricultural imple-
ments has decided to erect at that place a
technical school in which persons will be
trained to use agricultural implements and
to instruct farmers in their USE The COM
pany found that the lack of knowledge of
agricultural machines was the greatest
drawback to the development Of its trade
in that region.
This idea is also applicable to other
parts of Russia" says the American con-
sui 1.-The governments of Ekaterinoslaf
and the region of'the Don should erect such
a school. The agricultural implements pur-
chased there are for the most part OF Rus
sian manufacture and are no cheaper and
no better than foreign made machines. The
foreign machines are Disseminated against
solely because the Russians are not famil-