Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-31
chose .tates among .the proudest today OF

those states among the proudest today OF
their membership In the Union?
And this need OF organization is not con-
fined to governments. We find on ali hands
each interest organized for its own better
ment. 1t Is the spirit of the times.
so we have the manufacturers associa-
ton, we have organizations of clothing men
and OF the other trades
And may 1 be permitted to say here in
Minneapolis we have organizations of the
flour mills?
Then there are the great railroads, the
gigantic trusts; all have their unions. The
professions, again. ministers, physicians
lawyers. have their unions.
no ever heard of a reputable, self-re-
specting physician taking another mans
job?
"In the court where Justice Is dispeused-
| dispensed WITH sometinles-a lawyer comes
| to plead. II he is not known he must first
show his working card. He calls it a di-
ploma- Sounds nicer. perhaps.
Amy member of the Bar Association who
transgresses the ethics of the profession is
petufoggeS and 'shyster' And We. too.
have our pet name for the like
The workingman claims a voice in the
wages and conditions under which he IS to
work. For everything else but labor IL Is
the seller who fixes the price. But the en-
ployer has arrogated the right to fix wages
and all conditions without interference.
| we want time. the most valuable OF all
assets. some time for ourselves, We want
|
freedom and to improve ourselves. We want
the eight-hour daylight hours for work,
eight for sleep and eight for recreation.
| we are for Cancellation and for arbitra-
ton. We don't want to strike There is no
fun in striking, l can tell you. I've been
| through ii. and / don't want any more. But
under the same conditions | should strike
again, and strike hard.
Some say unions should NOT strike at all.
If any union should declare that as it's poll
/ Icy the employers would soon do all the
| and shorter wages
| We want to be prepared to strike IL nee
essary. And the better prepared union 10
| the less likely is strike
Mrs. Margaret ]. Spencer, wife OF Mr..
| Sharles Spencer, an employe of the Navy
department branch of the government
printing office, was recently stricken with
paralysis and died almost instantly.
The plan suggested by Umpire AdoIph
Strasser for the consolidation of the ANAL
gamated Society of Carpenters and join
| ers with the United Association Of Carpen-
tiers and Joiners has been defeated by ref
| erendum vote of the brotherhood. The re-
| suit was officially announced last week.
! There We're S9Ss votes for the plan and
| l,4T3 against
Reports received at the headquarters of
the Federation of Labor In this city state
| that the organization of retail clerks Is
! rapidly gaining in membership.
Delegates OF the Typothetae attended
the meeting OF employing printers held
| recently In Atlanta, Ga, to resist the eight
hour movement of the International Typo
graphical Union for book and job printers
The meeting declared for the open shop
| and against any reduction In the hours OF
| labor. Resolutions were adopted urging
| the employing printers to organize local
chapters of the Typothetae of America, SO
as to successfully oppose the unjust de-
| mands of organized labor" After the res
outions were adopted a banquet followed,
and an the bosses" had good time.
Washington workingmen say the Chicago
| strike situation IS at a most critical stage
and is spreading daily into new channels.
Now that the building trades becoming
| involved, It is impossible TO foresee the end,
! they declare
l. A coterie OF Battle Creek Mich, work.
! men considering abe purchase of 200
or 800 acres of land east of the city on the
Battle Creek and Jackson electric line. The
| plan Is to form cooperative settlement,
| divide the land into five-acre lots for homes
and raise fruits and vegetables, start can
ming and picking factory and start a CO..
operative store for the needs of their fami-
| lies.
One of the important questions TO como
| before the convention of the National Asso-
i citation OF Letter Carriers at Portland, Ore,
| is the proposal to establish home for
aged and disabled carriers. The Portland
| convention will undoubtedly take some deli
! mite action toward the establishment OF the
! institution, which SO many members OF the
organization desire.
Bricklayers of Hot Springs, Arr, are out
| because of a refusal of the contractors to
grant an increase in wages The men have
| been receiving IS a day and struck for
| dollar a day increase. Between $50 and 800
| men are out, and building in the city, espe-
| ctally in the burned district is completely
| tied up by the strike.
The Commercial Telegraphers' Union
| claims a membership of 1000.
| A team of workhouse inmates yoked TO
| a plow has been at work recently IN a field
| attached to the Milton-next-Sit tingbourne
! workhouse, in England. The idea Is that OF
the master. who has been considering the
| problem of what to do with the able-bodied
| inmates Of the house. No dissatisfaction
| was expressed by the members of the team.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Carmen will
hold its annual convention In Buffalo on
| September r. At this time the lnterna-
! tionaI Carworkers' Union will hold Its an
| nual convention. The joint convention 1t
| Is predicted. will result In an amaigamauon
of both nationals.
| Masons' laborers at Albany. N. Y, have
| succeeded in gaining an Increase In wages
| as a result of their strike. The laborers
| now receive 50 % for an eight-hour day,
| instead of 50, as heretofore
Drug clerks of San Francisco. Cal, are
rejoicing over the new bill passed py 1ns
| legislature regulating the maximum WIN
| day of ten hours for six consecutive days
week.
Boston Stablemen's Union, No 1l,so3 has
voted to affiliate with the American FEEDER
| alton of Labor.
| The street car men have an organization
| of 2OoO in Detroit, Mich, one-hfth OF the
union men in the city.
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