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

reaching economic evils" and that there
fore they would awaken an interest in So
cialism among educated men and women
of the country.
The article reveals the astounding fact
that a vice president and actuary of one
Of the largest life insurance companies is
a party socialist, and that the socialists are
distributing his writings In pamphlet form
not as the doctrine of one of themselves,
but as an acknowledgment from one prom
inent in the world of Wall street that the
reign of capitalism is doomed.
The Review declares: There can be no
halfway position for these men. They must
array themselves either. as patriots who
have been misled open enemies of
the institutions of the one country that
stands pre-eminently in the history OF
mankind for the development of democracy.
The article quotes excerpts from the lit
erature thus circulated, which proclaim the
branch all capitalstic institutions OF pres
ent day society,"" to bring about a revolution
more tremendous than any revolution that
has ever occurred In the history OF the
world" to seize the whole powers OF gov
ernment;" to labor night and day at un-
dermining society
The Plumbers Union of this city has the
following communication relative to the
project to establish a home for incapaci-
tated and INDECENT members of the trade:
THE members of Local Union No. Al of
Butte Mont, have read in the Journal the
various able articles upon the advisa bility
of the united association establishing and
maintaining a home for the aged and needy
members of our crafts. The project is so
meritorious and full OF such unbounded pos
sbilities for the upbuilding and perpetual
ton of the association tand so easy of ac-
complishment as ind!ca ted by Brothers
Langston and Hodgson) that We urge upon
the members in general to consider
duty to those most worthy pioneers who
have served their full time with the ladle
and stocks and entitled to lay them
aside for some of the conditions more
suited to their declining years, and en-
deavor before the call for our next conven-.
ton to have some plan formula ted to be
presented thereat that will bring about
this much-to-be-desired result
The Rev DR. McKim. pastor of the
Epiphany Church of this city, in sermon
on labor recently said Labor organiza-
lions have done a splendid work and |
honor them. They have been lifting up the
masses of the people who are not con-
tented any more. Their ambition is aroused
to be men and women, and their song is
Eight hours for work. eight hours for
sleep and eight hours to do what we WILL -
Luke Grant, the labor writer, has this
to say about the recent socialistc-labor
convention at Chicago:
Ihe much-heralded convention to launch
an industrial union is a matter of his
tory. 1t closed last night after a session
OF eleven days. The new organization will
World.
Whether the movement will live or not
is a question that only the future can de-
termine. That ii will grow and become
a power for good to the workers OF the
form 1t seems impossible that It will at
tract workingmen and women who want
practical results. 1t may attract vision
aries and 1dealists, but II is bread and but
ter that the workers of America are look
Ing for and expect to get through organize
ton.
"The constitution of the new organization
is great mass of ideas iuInbled together
In such a way that the proyerbial Philadel-
ph1a lawyer would go crazy were he asked
to interpret them. The constitution is the
work largely of the idealiSts, the practical
trade unionists almost without exception
having opposed the form of organization
In order to give an idea of the move
ment 1t is necessary to quote the form of
organiZa ton as provided for in the second
section of the constitution. The other
clauses are of less Importance. the gem
eral idea is embodied in the second section,
although that did not get the same inter-
probation from three of the delegates.
Some of them candidly admitted that they
did not understand 1t, but TO every ques-
ton Father Hagerty was ready with an
answer, which was in substance that the
general executive board would decide these
things later on. 1t would seem 1t will have
a job on Its hands
Reports received here state that there is
great indignation among workingmen in all
sections of the country over the Presidents
order anent the Chinese exclusion act On
the Pacific coast the excitement among the
members of labor unions and others is said
to be fairly bubbling over"
A good story is going the rounds of the
labor press. 1t follows:
A verdant youth dropped into a jewelers.
and, after gazing at some fraternity pins In
the show cases. said to the proprietor:
"Theys mighty nice bre2stp-ns you got
thar mister
What kind of pin would you like to
look at?"
How much is this one with a pair O.
compasses and square?" pointing to a
Masonic pin.
Five dollars"
Five dollars Ell? You haven't got one
with any handsaws on it, have you? I'm