Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-25
union men Big Six. as New York Union Is
called is said TO be steadily gaining ground
in the big strike.

in the big strike.
Austrian country doctors who are dfssat-
fsfied with their rate of payment are pre-
pairing to strike. They declare that they
win no longer vaecinate the poor for cents
q. person, when veterinary surgeons receive
is cents for inocculating each head OF cat
tie. They point cut that qualified doctors
for examining tramps and Migrants receive
less than BARRIERS who cut the hair of the
same individuals. They declare that they
will cease work except In cases of extreme
peril unless the government increases the
wholesale payment of public medical attend
ance.
The officers OF the Actors Protective
Union of New York announced that a union
of opera singers has been formed in that
city with a membership of 1S2. The new
union will be known as No. IA of the Actors
National Protective Union and will have
charter from the American Federation Oh
Labor. Its members include German, Eng
lish and Italian singers.
The Sydney (Australia) Wharf Laborers
Union is greatly dissatisfied with recent
decision of the New South Wales compul-
sorry arbitration court. which, 1t is charged,
has lowered rather than improved their
condition. The result of the wharf laborers
appeal" says the Waterside Workers Ga
zette, can only be regarded as supremacy
ridiculous and manifestly unfair"
Judge John Day Smith of the district
court at Minneapolis denied the application
of the Minneapolis Typothetae for a tenn
porary injunction against the striking print
ers to prevent alleged picketing The ty-
pothetae asserted the printers had entered
into conspiracy to injure and destroy
their business and the presence of pickets
was a serious menace to It's safe conduct.
To secure relief until adjudication Of the
strike an injunction was prayed for
There are published now 1856 official jour
nails issued monthly or oftener, by Ameri-
can international unions. and IT'S weekly
labor papers, all devoted to the defense ano
advocacy OF labor's interests. nearly all OF
which are stoutly espousing the trade union
movement and the American Federation OF
Labor.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron.
Steel and Tin Workers has decided to make
demand for increased wages. Eastern
manufacturers have served notice that tney
will not grant the demand. Should a strike
be declared about 2o0oo men would become
involved.
In reviewing the work of the department
of free lectures for the people in her report
to Mr.. A. T. Stuart. superintendent OF
schools Mrs. A. S. Gitterman says the re-
suits are found TO be very encouraging Inc
majority of the lectures were Illustrated by
stereopticon views: the average attehuahce
was high, as shown by the statistics or at
tendance; the audiences as rule were well
behaved and intelligent; the instruction I'M
parted was of high order, Will be seen
from the subjects OF the lectures and the
standing of the speakers whose services
were secured. There were five lectures on
nature Subjects seven on history and bio
graphy, nine science. thirty-two on
travel and geography The predominance
of travel and cultural subjects Is indicative
of first years work. Next year an eff
fort will be made to emphazise science and
history subjects, and to have the majority
presented in courses of three, thus insur-
ing continuity of treatment.
TT cannot always be said that instructors
succeed in making learning so enticing that
the fact has to be explained to their audi
tors that what seems like play is in reality
serious work
Belief in those whom Lincoln delighted
to call the plain people, and belief in their
appreciation of the best In human know
ledge and experience when that best Is
popularity presented to them by speakers of
distnction-such belief, characteristic OF
both men. seems to have been justified by
the large and attentive audiences of which
this report gives some account"
The Rev. DR.. Joseph silverman, rabbi of
the Temple EMANUEL, New York city. In
recent sermon on 1.-THE Abolition Of Child
Slavery" spoke of the evil results to man.
kind and civilization from a citizenship
largely composed of men and women born
OF parents who have been stunted in growth
by labor in childhood, saying
''Of such poor stuff will thousands upon
thousands of our citizens be constituted.
They will grow into men and women with
religion or Ideals; and yet they will have 1t
In their power to aid in shaping the po-
litical. industrial and social destiny of our
country"