The Washington times., 1906-08-12

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/ reduced TO an organized business basis
/ was brought out"
/ The Bowen-POst Company, OF 1856
J Broadway. New York, is the name OF
/ the concern that is willing to under
\ take 10 break any strike that takes
place by supplying men 70 III the strik-
{ ers' places. The firm addressed a letter
I 10 this effect 20 the brewers. but they
paid no attention TO IT. made the letter
/ public, and settled the differences with
their employees satisfactorily TO all con-
/ cerned
There is a bill before the Ohio State
[ Legislature, with every prospect Of Its
passage, that viii take convict labor out
OF the market as a competitive factor
/ against free labor
The Llthographers' International Pro
tective and Beneficial Association OF
the United States and Canada has or
dered a general strike The demand Of
/ the association is for forty-eight instead
/ Of dfty-three hours week, at the pres
/ ont rate of pay The strike Will affect
/ 5000 men. Many shops all over the
country have granted the demand. In
/ Philadelphia the victory was complete
I for the photographers. In Baltimore the
situation IS not SO promising In New
{ York and Chicago and other cities
/ lithOgraphic and printing work is prac-
J ticaily tied up. It Is said the Employ
! ers' Association met weeks ago in an
| Jclpation OF the strike and raised a big
strike fund. Members Of this ass0cia-
I tion are bonded not 10 give in 20 the
/ demands of the strikers.
District No. l5, Of the International
Association OF NIachinists Of New York,
/ has started a crusade 20 bring into the
unions ranks every machiuisC in the
State.
/ The strike Of the machinlsts OF the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at the
GIcnWood shops. near Pittsburg. has
T been settled satisfactorily. However,
I the International Association Of Ma
/ chinisJs are busy organizing that sys-
7 TEN in anticipation Of future trouble.
| President John Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers. has appealed 10 union
F labor 10 assist in defeating Congress-
man Overstreet Of indianapolis, alleging
I he Is an enemy to unionism.
A press telegram from Cincinnati says
/ that Congressman Nicholas LOngw0rth,
/ the Presidents sOn-in-law, is another
! legislator who has come under the ban
| of the American Federation Of Labor.
T Like Speaker Cannon and Congressman
( Ldttledeld. his reelection is to be OPP
posed upon the ground that he was
more or less antagoHistic IN the recent
Congress TO the projects OF organized
+ labor
/ T. NJ Campbell. the union labor can
dldate for governo, of Texas, in the
. primaries led the contest. but none oJ
/ the candidates received q majority OF
votes cast. The contest will be decided
I In the state convention at Dallas Tues
/ day next.
There is a labor famine in the Pitts
/ burg district. Twenty-Five thousand or
/ more men are needed in the various in
dustries. The scarcity Of labor is sec
ond only to the scarcity Of Bessemer
/ iron IN steel circles, and a conservative
/ estimate made by leading interests is
that 5000 laborers could find imme-
diate employment in the Pittsburg dis
trict today
The National Tube oCmpanys new
tube mill needs 5000 men; agents of all
the big steel and iron plants and the
coke producers are in New York seek
ing TO capture every able-bodied lmmi-
grant as soon as he lands; cOlored labor
is being brought from the South. Coke
producers in the Counellsville and other
districts are at wits ends to meet the
labor famine. 1t is impossible TO oper-
ate all the ovens and existing conditions
have caused the II. G. Friclx Coke Com
pany 70 go into the open market and
purchase coke from small producers to
meet its obligations to the United States
Steel Corporation.
A Pennsylvania judge at Uniontown.
hearing a case Of trespass brought by
a coal company against q merchant,
makes the remarkable decision that a
coal company can fence in a town, If
il owns it. The town In question is on
the coal company's property, and has a
population of 100. Defendant entered
the town TO collect a bill.
Organized labor viii name candidate
for Congress in the Ninth Ohio district
He VIII be independent Of either Of the
national parties.
Watchmen armed with rifles are pa
trolling the mill yards of the Trainer
Spinning Company in Chester, Pa.
There is no strike on, however. The
plant is in fun operation. The reason
for this display of vigilance is said 70
be a difference between member cf the
firm and a number of the stockholders.
the latter faction busily planning il is