Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-12

entered into contracts with the several To-
cal breweries by which they have secured
an increase in wages Of twenty-five cents q
day.
An event of some moment In local labor
circles Is the fact that the International
Alliance OF Sheet Metal Workers will meet
In convention in this city next month. Lo-
cal No. 1O2 is already making arrangements
Tor the reception and entertainment of the
delegates from all parts Of the United
VIII accompany them to Washington. At
the last meeting OF Local No. 100 Messrs
Inomas F. Ryan. B. Egloff. Joseph A. Daily
and r. g. NJ. Ross were elected delegates
to the international body. II is said impor-
tant business to the craft will be trans
acted during the convention.
The electrical workers local has elected
omcers as follows: Mr.. Chris Yeabower
president (re-elected); Mr.. John Hebbard,
financial secretary; Mr. w. E. Kennedy
recording secretary. Grand President F. J.
McNulty was present at the election.
The seventh annual convention Of the
Printing Freshmen and Assistants Interna-
tional Union reelected President Martin
Higgins. The Trades Unionist says Mr..
Higgins rs a typical trades unionist. an
able representative OF his craft and a self
made man He began the battle Of life
%hen put eight years old. selling papers
IN the city of Boston.
observation-disclosures Webb was also re-
elected; he has held the office for seven
years.
The Printing Pressmen's International
Union has $4,000 members, and the recent
convention was both representative and
chuck full OF business. Resolutions favor
Ing the eight-hour day and Japanese and
horean exclusion have been adopted -
The Bakery Wagon Drivers Union. No.
80, has elected Thomas c. Fox to repre-
sent that body at the convention of the
Transfers International Union at Phila-
delphia next month. The great transfers
strike in Chicago will be one Of the impor-
tant matters considered at the forthcom-
ing meeting, Il is said.
s. S. Culbertson. employee of the gov
eminent printing office dob room left for
R Renve,; colo, last Monday to attend the
EpWorth League convention. Mr. Culbert-
son vii visit his sister in Denver whom he
mas not seen for over twenty years.
The plan prepared for the amalgamation
of the United Garment Workers and the
Journeymen Tailors' Union Of America has
been received in circular form by the tai
Tors local OF Washington for considera ton
All other locals have received similar comics
OF the draft 1t Is said John B. Lennon
general secretary of the tailors' union de-
niles the charge that has been made that
the agreement provides for an Industrial
the document will do so carefully they will
discover that nothing Of the kind is true.
1t Is federation in part and an amalgama-
ton In part which leaves to each distinct
craft entering 1t Jurisdiction over It's par
ticular trade affairs. We hope to develop
this matter to a successful termination
and we also hope that when the COM
bined organization is perfected we will
be able to demonstrate to the trade
unionists of the country that a sue
cessful federation of the different trades in
a given Industry can be established and
work out successfully the protection of the
interests of all without losing sight of the
fact that the different crafts must of neces-
sity take care of their own peculiar at
fairs"
The state of employment yor Nav has
just been compiled by Secretary Frank
Morrison at headquarters of the American
Federation of Labor. Out of S43 unions
making returns. with an aggregate mem
bership of 61.300, there were 1.2 per cent
without employment. In the preceding
month 977 unions with a membership of
plOyment.
The true significance of a new campaign
planned by socialist agitators to infame the
minds of the student youth of this coun-
try Is set forth in a lengthy article in the
current issue of the Monthly Review, pub
lished by the National Civic. Federation
The article declares that call for the for
nation of an intercollegiate socialist
school," recently issued, is a part of de-
liberate design by advocates of socialism,
who have failed to capture the mass Of
wage earners to pervert the minds Of the
younger professional men and of impress
sionable recipients of higher education
Further evidence of this plan Is found in
the proceedings of the collectivist society
of New York city. whose avowed purpose
Is to disseminate socialist literature among
the professional classes, persons not ordi-
narily reached by the party propa uganda"
This literature, it is announced Is now
being circulated along ministers, Catho-
lie priests, secretaries of the Young Mems
Christian Association, physicians and in
structors and seniors In the various COL
leges.
The call for the formation Of an Inter
national socialist school, declares that
its signers regard with sympathy the
aims and fundamental principles" of So
cfalism and believe that they will ultimate
ly be found the remedy for many far