Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-10

trail Trades and Labor Council of Rochester,
N z. with the request that the council. on
pehalf of the central body Of this city,
present the resolutions to Mr.. Sherman,
who has become a resident of that city.
A local trade organization has recently
been informed, officially, that a firm of
general contractors, which has completed
several large contracts In this city, and
abor h Sas been sa large employer Of local
trouble has It's genesis in injunction pro-
ceedings instituted by the firm against sew
erai unions In Massachusetts because Of
a building. where certain class Of work
was done by laborers which is claimed by
the skilled workmen.
The Injunction was issued by Justice
James M. Morton Of the supreme judicial
court OF Massachusetts,, the final decree
being as follows:
Ordered. adjudged and decreed that the
respondents in said bill and each and every
member thereof, be, and are hereby per-
petually restrained and enjoined from d.
rectly or indirectly combining and conspir
unions at work on tho buildings now in
process OF construction by the plaintiff and
from continuing in force any strike order
heretofore issued, for the purpose Of COM
pelling said plaintin to give up the use of
labor-saving machinery or to take out and
remove any work done or from Interfering
by force, threats or intimidation with men
desiring to continue in the service Of the
plaintiff, or from interfering and combin-
ing or conspirtng to interfere, by force,
threats or Intimidation with the manage
ment of the plaintiffs business by its off,
GERS and agents, and that an Injunction
against said defendants, and each Of them
be forthwith issued under the seal Of this
court as above set FORTH
Secretary Frank Morrison of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor reports that of
the e51 unions making returns of the con-
dition OF trade in November. with aggre-
lin 0f q
per cent without employment. In the pre-
ceding month 1885 unions with member
ship OF 1o4, 11S. reported . of 1 per cent
unemployed.
President Samuel Gompers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, in an address to
organized labor on the outlook for the pres
ent year, says
I'VE are marching on toward labor's most
glorious year. Viewed in the light of SUBJ
stantial advantages and improvements. 1t
will be good year, a better year than the
last with labor getting more of the share
of Americas unexaInpled prosperity to
which 1t is entitled. But In another quite
as important way the progress of labor is
assured. The bitter antagonisms to the
labor movement, born of ignorance, are
passing away. There is better conception
OF the clean reasoning, the logical force,
of the nobler aspirations of the labor move
ment among men of affairs, who can no
longer be swayed by fiamboyant and bigoted
addresses. Our higher position and pur-
be better understood next year than this
year, and better still the year thereafter
OF course the labor movement Is a rough
struggle. All movements for better life
for human rights have been rough struggles
from time immemorial-from the time of
the cruSades, with the cross In one the
sword in the other hand, to the reforma-
ton; from the reformation to the struggle
of the American colonies for independence:
from the revolution of the civil war for the
maintenance of the Union and the abolition
of human slavery; from the civil war to
the sympathetic strike of the United States
for Cuban independence-all have been
rough struggles, ever with the highest aims.
And thus 1t is clear that the labor move
ment must continue to be rough struggle
But organized labor is ever minimizing the
roughness of that struggle and making for
better ana grander ends. Nor will unor-
ganized labor fail to have a share in the
Improvement and the development and the
progress.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers says
that the circular letters to be drawn up
by the officials of the brotherhood In re-
gard to the proposed rate legislation will
be in the form of suggestions and VIII not
carry anything compulsory. Mr.. Stone de-
clares there is still a scarcity of engineers
all over the country and no relief is in
sight. The brotherhood has requests from
railroads for $50 engineers that cannot be
granted as the men are not to be found.
Mr.. Stone says few men care to tackle
the monster engines of today. The work
is too strenuous.
The visit of President Gompers to In
dianapolis, January 90, to address the
miners convention. will be fraught with
much interest, and will have, no doubt, a
strong bearing on the outcome of the nego-
tiations that are TO take place between the
mine workers and the operators for a new
agreement upon the expiration of the pres
ent one on March 81 next. Should the ne
gotiations fail, it is believed this country
will witness a colossal coal STRIKE hat will
stagger all previous strikes of miners.
While in Indianapolis Mr.. Gompers will
also attempt to straighten out the differ
ences between the two great organizations
of carpenters, told In The Star yester-
day.
The Bricklayers and Masons' Internat1on-
al Union has voted down the referendum
proposed at the last convention by a few
votes The total vote cast on the PROPOSE
tor was 17.2S7 OF that number II ,512 were
i'll favor of adopting the referendum sys-
tenn. but as the affirmative vote was q
little short of the necessary two-thirds
the proposition has been declared defeated
The revised laws OF the International AS
ISOLATION of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, which became effective January !,
provide for some radical changes in The
financial system. Under the new laws the
per capita tax to the international organl-
Zation is 30 cents a month instead of 40
cents per quarter, as formerly. Under the
old system, however, the members were
charged 40 cents a quarter for the insur
ance fund and IL cents quarter for the
magazine.
The new tax will cover all obligations
The transfer system also was amended, so
that all that member now requires TO
obtain transfer is to be in good standing.
Under the old rules SO cents was charged
for each transfer.
Free beer won out for the master brewers
of Cincinnati last week. when the brewery
workers presented demand for eight
hours. The men will continue the nine
hour day The question was acted upon
informally by the workmen in nearly forty
breweries in the city, and the men decided
to accept the proposition of the master
brewers to let the hours of labor remain
as they are at present, with the additional
incentive of free lager.
The railroad employees who went to Wash
ington to protest against railroad rate leg
islation are getting little sympathy and
many hard knocks from their brethren IN
the labor world. The official journal or
the switchmen in a recent issue calls at
tention to the fact that none of the rail-
road employees who oppose rate legislation
represent their organizations officially.
President Ben Russell of the Slate and