The San Francisco call., 1906-09-22

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of Michigan, the Attorney General and
members of the Board Of Control of the
prisons of the State to take action that
will result in preventing the teaching
of any mechanical trade in the penal
institutions Of that State.
The workingrnan is far better of ir
England than America" That is the
assertion made by Bart Kenn edy, 6
well known writer in the London Daily
Mail No severer analysis Of the condi-
tions in both countries has ever ap-
peared. Mr. Kennedy has just re-
turned to London after long trip In
this country, where he has worked as
a laborer. TOO long" he says, has
America run the bluff that 1t is the
finest and best country under the sur
to live in. The time has come wher
the truth is beginning TO be revealed
and the statements of Secretary Shaw
and the crowd of boasters is being ex-
posed" Mr.. Kennedy having worked
In both countries as a laborer draws
the following comparisons: In Eng
land a NAVY (laborer in exeavatine
gang) engaged in public works gets fol
a day OF ten hours s1.03 In America al
the outside he gets sl.6S." Mr.. Ken
nedy maintains that s1-03 in England
goes farther than S1.68 In America
where house rent and food are deareI
and where a glass Of beer costs five
cents. compared with four cents IN
England. When everything is reck-
oned up, Kennedy maintains, the work
man in England gets forty per cent
more for his labor than in America
He points out, too. that in this coun-
try there is no law or laborers' com
pensation for injury. such as exists In
England When I worked as navy
on the Croton aqueduct," he says, men
were hurt and killed all the time by
falling rocks. The attitude of the con-
tractors was of the meanest and mos'
cruel kind. Englishmen as rule have
some sense of duty toward those who
labor for them; Americans have none
The United States is a good place for
workers to keep away from In Amer
lea the NAVY has TO do double work foI
practically the same wage"
The milk in the cocoanut developed
In Mr.. Kennedy's last sentence. He
was compelled to keep his end up with
an American and of course failed; hence
his tale Of woe.
The railway switch tenders and flag
men of Chicago viii hold meeting this
week for the purpose Of forming .
union. These men have never before
combined, but they now propose to
form a plan OF future action and make VI
a wage scale which will be submitted
TO the railway companies. There are
1900 of this class OF men at work II
Chicago.
Attempts to unionize the 1ee struc-
/ tural iron workers employed at the
/ international Harvesters' plant, neal
/ Chicago, was the reason given why sis
regular city policemen and eigh
special deputies have been stationed
around the works.
It is becoming quite the fashion these
days for non union men to go on strike
The weavers at Hopewell. Conn, have
refused to go to work because while
they recently received raise Of 2;
cents a day. they object to counting
the picks" while the cloth is on ths
loom. The number OF picks" ol
threads in an inch of cloth is the
basis upon which the operatives are
paid The strikers are talking Of form.
ing union
J. w Small, master mechanic of the
Southern Pacific shops In Los Angeles
has informed the boilermakers' helpers
who went on strike last week for ar
increase of ~ cents an hour, thai
4 Immediately upon their return to work
the company would consider their de-
nands, but It would not do so while
the men were on strike At the last
meeting of the Boilermakers' Helpers
Union IN that city 1t was decided tc
have the sixty members return to work
after the statement from Mr.. Small
had been received. As the boilermak-
ers also went on strike rather than
work with non-union helpers, they are
in a position to return as soon as the
tary Hutchinson OF the Helpers Union
states that there was no doubt that
Mr.. Small would endeavor to adjust the
matter 10 the satisfaction of both sides
The request OF the lodges of the In.
ternational Association of Machinists
In the Pittsburg district for an eight
hour day and minimum wage scale OF
forty cents an hour was presented re.
Gently to the Manufacturers Associa-
tion for consideration.
An old-time window glass worker o.
Pittsburg has expressed the opinion
that the advance in wages the manu-
facturers have been asked to pay this
season, as well as the unsettled con.
dition of the trade, viii make the man.
ufacture OF glass at profit an I'm.
possibility, owing to the high cost oi
living within the llInlts Oh I1tlSDur 3
The workers in one plant, who, a.
partners IN the concern, took only
market money out of the receipts
will lose the weekly balance they
turned back and viii have to go else
where TO find employment.
The finance committee of the Labor
day celebration at Los Angeles ha:
turned over to the Labor Temple AS
ISOLATION the sum of $445.06, the ne
profits of the day. AS ne liquor was
sold on the grounds this sum is regard
ed with satisfaction. The annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the associa-
ton will be held Monday evening, Oc'
tober 29, TO elect q board of director!
and transact other important bust
ness.
The bootblacks ot Philadelphia are
about to form a union. AS soon as th'
organization is working ii is proposed
to raise the price OF a shine to ter
cents.
$50 Second Special Excursion s1.5(
Over the scenic North Shore Railroad to th'
Russian River and great redwood forests on Sun
day, September 23- Boat leaves San Francisc'
I at T.46 via Sausalfto Ferry. for Cam