The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-28

the federation, which will be held in
Pittsburg next November.
A discussion of "The Open or the
Closed Shop?" occupied one session OF
the American Economic association
at Mandel hall at the University Of
Chicago recently. In the four long
papers and several short discussions
of the different questions it appeared
that all but one-the paper Of John
Hubbard, president of the John Davis
company of Chicago-declared sympa
thy with the closed shop movement
The Brotherhood OF Blacksmiths
and Helpers and the Journeymen
Horseshoers' union have made an
agreement to end Jurisdiction dis
putes. The officers of each organi
zation have signed a contract that
horseshoers will not do any black
smith work. neither will blacksmiths
do any horseshoeing, and that each
organization will at once turn over
any members Of the union having
proper jurisdiction over them.
The union spirit is fast entering the
south. From Baton Rouge comes re-
ports that the eight hour day fight
will be opened in the spring and that
the unions Of brick makers and set
ters have grown very strong during
the present year. Nonunion labor is
paid as low as 81 per day, according
to the oflSial reports received at
union headquarters. Work has been
very plentiful this year, and the men
employed at cotton picking. in the oil
mills and saw mills have become or.
ganized.
Canadian statistics show that in
November eighty-seven persons were
killed and 163 injured through acct
dents while working at different
trades. The largest number Of casu-
alties occurred among the miners
seventeen Of whom were killed, while
in the printing. clothing, woodwork
ing and food and tobacco preparation
trades no deaths were reported Eff.
teen persons in the railway service
were killed and twenty-nine injured,
and in the metal trades thirty-three
employees received injuries.
1t is officially announced that the
Lake Superior corporation will start
the year 1905 with sufficient orders tc
keep the 500 ton rail mill in continu
GUS operation until the end of Sep
tember. and with every Prospect that
within the next month orders will be
closed to keep the mill running full
till the end Of the year. OF market
Of 100000 tons made by Vice President
sDrummond the 500" mill will gel
almost the entire amount, as the Dom
inion iron rail mill will not be ready
for some months, and the largest Gus
toners will be the Canadian Pacific
the Canadian Northern and the Grand
Trunk.
In referring to the lack of organiza
tion among the farm hands through
out the country Organized Labor of
San Francisco. newspaper published
in the interest of working men and
women, declares that in many parts
of California farm hands work four
teen hours day. "On many a Fresno
grain farm in summer" it says, "tht
plowman works like this: He gets
up at $3.50 and feeds his team, goes t
breakfast at AIS and is out in the
field by 4:45. He works seven hours
until noon, stops one hour for dinnei
and then puts in six hours more be
fore quitting time After that HI
must feed and bed-down his team, anC
then he is in luck if he gets to his owl
bed by $3.50 or 8 o'clock"
According to the decision handet
down by the supreme court the South
ern Pacific railroad is liable for in
juries sustained by brakeman ii
coupling an engine to a railroad
coach The suit was brought fo
! $4,000 The southern Pacific ap
pealed the case contending a locomc
tive was not technically car and al
such not under the law. 1he inter
state commerce commission ind thD
labor organizations have taken a grea
, deal Of interest in the case, and tn,
final decision by the supreme cour
that an engine is technically car i
considered a great victory.
The executive board Of the Wester
Federation Of Miners has decided t
carry the case OF the Center Sta
Mining company against the miners
: union at Rossland, British Columbif
! to the highest court in Canada, and /
> necessary to take it before the priv
. council Of England, in order to obtai
! a reversal of the decision of the lowe
: court awarding the plaintiff damage
( because of strike of its employees
The union was prosecuted under tn
: provisions of an old English lay
) which gives an employer the right t
r sue for three times the amount q
: loss he may sustain as a result OF
: strike of his employees.
1 Il firmly believe the day OF tn
5 strike is over was the declaratfo
D made by T. v. Powderly on his arriys
at New York recently from PittsburI
q Z don't mean that there is never I
1 be another strike" added the forme
r chief of the Knights of Labor. but
< do mean that each year viii see fewe
r causes for strikes, and that as ma