Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-02

j LILO tffuo DelnR. Inc men Will uOL get dfl
agreement, but will secure 10 cents per
day increase over the former minimum for
| DAY S wages as substitute.
the National Association of Stationary En-
| CHEERS convened Monday In Louisville. Ky.
| The convention will continue until the end
| of the present week, ii is said The only
| man now mentioned for president is Thorn
| as Tomflson, who is at present vice pres
ident of the organization. A hot contest for
| the various national offices is expected to
| materialize and Tomilson will have strong
| opposition in his campaign.
At a recent meeting of the Washington.
D., c.. Council of the Structural Building
Trades Alliance the following officers were
elected: John A. Mcdonald, president;
John Piland. vice president; Jas. S. OLA
gan. secretary-treasurer; A. w. King, ser
| geant-at-arms.
| H. A. Stemburgh. national secretary
| treasurer of Hold Carriers and Building La
! borers' Union. was in the city last week in
| an effort to- adjust the differences existing
| between the building stone laborers and
| their former employers. as also to appeal
| to the members of organized labor in the
| building trades to give them their moral
! support.
A strike of $4,000 housesmiths all over
| tho country has been ayerted saws the
| Trades Unionist.
The strike had been declared against the
| National Association of Erectors of Struc-
! tural Steel and Iron, at the instance of the
| International Association of Bridge and
| Structural Iron Workers. The latter asso-
| citation had an agreement with the en-
| ployers for year which had expired and
| when the employers refused to renew the
| agreement IT was decided to order q gen.
eral strike.
Frank Buchanan, president of the Iron
| Workers, explaining the matter, says:
The structural iron workers had been get
| ting $40 n dav eight "
| demanded a renewal of the agreement
| Strikes had been ordered and every iron
| worker throughout the country would have
been called out If the agreement had not
| been signed"
| labor writer in the Saturday Evening
| Post says the two great parties In the con-
test now going on In the world between
| labor and capital should come and are to
come together In close relationship The
coming together will result not from
| formal rules but from the application Of
be vital. and not made OF bylaws
Among the principles which both the
| capitalist and the laborer are to recognize
| In their relations are:
l. Each man is to make the most of
| himself. His body is to be strong, his mind
able to think clearly, his conscience to de-
eide moral questions rightly. his will
| prompt to act, and his heart able to love-
| Each man is to be the largest man.
q A second principle is the principle Of
| liberty. This principle allows and dema nds
the development, not only of ones self. but
| also of others individualities. Under the
| principle of liberty exists the right of COM
bination Of either capital or labor.
=. Another great principle relates to the
| appreciation Of values. Both the laborer
and the capitalists are to recognize that
| character Is more than money. Ideas, feel
| ings, knowledge. the sense of the beautiful
| represent forces Of greater worth than
money.
International Brotherhood of Transfers
will hold its annual convention at Philadel-
phia, August T.
On the same date at Boston Mass, the Ma
| tional Association Of Heat Frost. General
| Insulato tors and Asbestos Workers of Amer
| lea will meet In convention.
Initiation to membership In the Mine
Workers Union will be reduced from $40
| to 81 throughout the anthracite region until
| September l. This is in the effort to rapid
| ly increase the membership Of the union
| before the meeting Of delegates. which is
| to be held late In the fall. This meeting
! will formulate the demands which to
| be made for new agreement to take the
place of the three-year agreement which
expires next spring.
By Increasing the eight hour benefit as
| sessment from one-half of per cent to 2
per cent of the earnings of each member,
| Chicago Typographical Union. No. 16. ex-
poets to increase its defense fund from
! 81, 900 to 81, 100 per week. Members of local
| unions outside Chicago are expected to fol-
! low the example Of local No. 16 and in
crease the assessment to the 2 per cent
basis. and it Is believed that the defense
| fund will reach 100000 before January 1.
All the bottling establishments in Aexan-
| dria Va, have been unionized and the en-
ployes placed in utilization with the ma
! tional organization of Brewery Workmen.
! 1t is stated that since the organization of
| the bottlers they are receiving an increase
of wages over those formerly received of
| from 80 to 100 per cent.
Fred Scheitinger, a Louisville employer.
| threatens to sue the president of the Sheet
| Metal Workers for $4,000 damages. alleg-
| ing libel in declaring Scheitinger unfair to
union labor.
Representatives Of fourteen of the big
structural building trades organizations of
| Boston, Mass, are proceeding with the
| formation of structural building trades
alliance in that city.
There are now In California $4,000 Japa-
nese, and on the whole length of the coast
fully 10000, the majority having arrived
| in the last five years.
National headquarters Of the Amalga-
mated Leather Workers of America were,
on August l. removed from Philadelphia to
Newark. N. J.
A project to establish homes for incapaci-
tated trades unionists has been taken up
for consideration by the United Associa-
ton Of Plumbers.
The recently arranged tour of the country
by President Gompers and the various
members of the executive board of the Fed
Grafton Of Labor is looked upon as taken
| nm as a move against the campaign for ex-
tending it's scope entered upon by the In
dustrial Union.
President Gompers will be in Pittsburg
during August for the purpose OF assisting
| the local committee having charge OF the
| coming annual convention of the federation
| to be held in that city in November While.
| there President Gompers will deliver sew
eral addresses, and it Is expected that he
will dwell upon the new organization at
some length.
The locked out broom makers at Ever
EFT Mass, have started a cooperative rae
| tory and have adopted a noval plan to OBJ
| tain the first batch of orders They have
| addressed a letter to every union In Massa-
| chusetts requesting any members VINO
wanted a broom to have the secretary OF
| his union notify the broom makers and that
| the broom is to be paid for on delivery.