Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-05

final passage in the House, stating that II
the bill became a law In its present shape,
1t will practically nullify the law regarding
the employment of alien laborers, and that
a class now excluded from the United
States, but which Is permitted to work in
the canal zone on the isthmus of Panama
will have no difficulty in getting into the
United States, where, he declared, 1t will
become a menace to home labor.
The secretary of the Central Labor Union
was instructed to send a protest to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives
protesting against the passage of the bill in
its present form, and asking that the bill
be so amended as to strike out that part
concerning the Panama canal, thus placing
the employees there in the same class as
those of Hawaii and in the Philippine
Islands.
Progress of Strike.
The Carriage and Wagon Workers Union
reported on the progress of their strike, and
asked for assistance The Central Labor
Union voted $400 for their support A COM
mittee was also appointed to wait upon the
officials of the American Federation OF
Labor in relation to getting further finan-
cia1 support from that body. Milford Spohn
and ]. L. Feeney were appointed the COM
mittee.
The engineers reported that their organi-
cation had signed a three-year agreement
with the Heurich Brewing Company.
The Plate Printers Assistants, composed
of the young. women employed in the bu-
reau of engraving and printing, gave notice
that they would give an excursion TO River
View, July H.
Credentials from Electrical Workers Lo-
cal No. 20 and from the Carriage and Wag-
on Workers Union were received and dele
gates admitted.
A communication was received from the
Trades Unionists' Publishing Company
calling attention to the fact that it's estab-
lishment was the original elght-hour print
ing Office in Washington.
A letter from d chemical company of Raj
eigh N c. stating that the printing of
that company was done under fair condi-
lions, was read and referred to the dele
gates from the typographical union.
a letter to the secretary from the Carpet
Mechanics announced that that body had
donated 81 to the fund being raised for the
benefit of locked-out furniture workers at
High Point, n. c.
The offer of w A. Read & Co, bankers.
New York, to sell the Central Labor Union
stock in the Pennsylvania railroad, was
read and placed on file ,
Union and the Naval Gun Factory Band, In
which 1t was charged that the latter was
unfair and so published by the musicians
who also included the president OF the Cen
trail Labor Union, In the charge, was taken
up by the special committee OF the cen.
trail body, and the secretary was instructed
to inform the editor of the musicians oHi-
cial paper that lile CndiS es, as i1i - w,
Adams was concerned, are untrue, ana ask
that correction be made.
The bookbinders extended an invitation 70
the delegates and their friends to attend
fine openfng exercises OF their international
convention at Columbia Theater. Tuesday.
July r. at which time addresses Will be
made by Commissioner Henry B. Macfar-
land Public Printer Stillings, President
Gompers OF the A. II. of L., Representative
William A. Rodenberg. Charles T. Neil and
the presidents of the allied printing trades