Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-13


but was refused admission ON the ground
that she was not a member of the union.
That was five years ago.
Miss Kirby returned to Cumberland and
began practicing on the machine herself
She soon mastered IL. and ever since she
has been depended upon solely to get out
the paper Miss Kirby has been SO
wrapped up in her work that she has rare
ly taken a vacation.
She weighs less than one hundred
pounds. She has ruddy cheeks and a
wealth OF dark hair She has been assert
i've in the community. but quietly. and she
Is looked upon as a woman of more than
usual force. She has thoroughly prac-
teal knowledge of the workings of the
modern print shop. Her artistic taste Is
especially shown in the fine typographical
effects she produces while seated at the
keyboard of the machine.
The picturesque DEVELOPMENT of the last
week in the Chicago labor world has been
the strike of the egg Gamblers. The public
was impressed with the fact OF the exist
ence OF this peculiar and essential craft,
ard learned that special skilled workmen
stood between them and the added egg.
President William J. Bowen of the Brick
layers and Masons' international onion has
received letter from Edward J. Brandon
third vice president, located at San Fran
cisco. in which he says bricklayers are in
demand but that there are no accommodate
tions for any more men at present. The
letter, in part, follows:
Work has commenced among the large
Class buildings that were partially dam
+ aged on the inside, and 1t looks as If in
the course of a few months things will be
humming. No building permits are being
granted at present except for temporary,
one-story frame buildings.
"A large committee has been appointed to
frame new building ordinance, and am
sorry to say that no representative OF our
craft is a member of it. A great effort is
going to be made to place the reinforced
concrete huilIipy I'm "a class ahOVp the brick
building. This is due to the fact that the
fire walls of nearly every building in town
came down with the shake. and In many
cases the whole structure collapsed. In
others the walls fell out. leaving the loaded
floors standing intact. resting on the wood
Gil posts and girders.
I'm my opinion all OF these failures OF
brick are due to poor workmanship and
even poorer materials There are many
brick buildings standing, and they do not
show crack anywhere. Most of the latter
have been built by the day, or else there
was a superintendent of construction en-
ployed. l have tried to interest the Master
Builders Association in the matter, with
little success to. date. but will keep pug
ging along doing the best can.
There is another problem We will need
many more bricklayers, In fact, we need
them now but cannot bring them here
until we have sleeping accommodations Tor
them. We have about fifty members at
present sleeping in tents, and we are max
ing arrangements to put up cots In our
headquarters, which will accommo date
about this number. / am receiving letters
every day asking for bricklayers from the
small towns adjacent to Frisco, but we
have none to spare. Santa Rosa wants
twenty men, and l presume they can work
there steadily for a year or more II men
are too scarce 1t Is going to make brick
buildings cost too much, and this Will be
another argument against them, especially
since reinforced concrete is cheaper.
would like you to think over this matter.
and when there is demand for men and
we can give them sleeping accommodations
/ will notify you"
The International Steel and Copperplate
Printers will hold their convention In
Washington, beginning June 70
The action of Local 132 of the Brother
hood of Carpenters, in again entering the
fold of the Central Labor Union, after a
long absence therefrom, is generally com
mended in local labor circles. The three
former locals of the carpenters have been
consolidated in No. 49,, which Is now one
of the strongest labor bodies in the Dis
trict
Delegates have been seated in the Central
Labor Union, as follows:
Carriage and Wagon Workers, No. IL
John H Brinkman, vice Delegate Carroll
Electrical Workers, No. %, Ed. Aughin-
baugh, vice E. R. Bateman, resigned
George E. Mcneil. the father of the
eight-hour movement" who was buried in
Boston June l. is given the following obt-
uary in the Weekly Bulletin of the Clothing
Trades:
George E. Mcneil known throughout this
George E. Mcneil, known throughout this
country and Europe the father OF the
eight hour movement, died at SomeTV1lie
on May 10. His sudden illness was occa-
stoned by intestinal trouble, and the neces-
sary operation resulted fatally in a few
hours Mr. Mcneil had lived in Somervile
for the last three years. coming from Cam
bridge. He leaves a wife and four children.
He was born in Amesbury. then a little
manufacturing town. on August 4, 1886 and
as a child worked in the wooden mills. He
was of Scotch descent. His father, John
Mcneil was one of the first to join with
his neighbor John Greenleaf Whittier, in
the anti-slavery movement.
For many years he appeared at every
hearing of the labor committees of the leg
islature, the unpaid advocate of all labor
over the country. In Washington he was re-
ceived by procession of trades, headed by
bands of music, with more than 10000 men
in line. In Chicago he spoke to more than
13, 600 people.
''Twenty-three years ago he went into the
insurance business in the Massachusetts,
Mutual Accident Association becoming
treasurer and general manager. He kept
his interest in the labor questions, and was
prominent ip the discuss on OF the great coal
strike three years ago,
Gov. Wolcott appointed him the COM
mission to investigate and report on the
taxation laws. His report caused sensa-
ton and remains today one of the strong
est indictments of the system of taxation
generally in use that has ever been writ
ten