Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-28

delegates. The credentials were received
and the delegates were seated. This
marks an innovation In local labor circles
that leading workingmen declare will re-
suit IN great good to the workers of
Washington.
These Presbyterians preachers" said
South Washington workingman. will be
heaven In the labor loaf that viii be of
incalculahle value to the uplifting feature
of our efforts for humanity
Delegate Boyd OF the Musicians Brother
hood has reported to the Central Labor
Union that the differences musicians had
with Herman had been adjusted and that
men at that house had been taken into the
Musicians Union. He presented a commu-
MICA ton from his union, under seal, asking
| that kernan's Lyeeum be taken from the
unfair list.
The recent action of the Master Builders
Association of the District of Columbia in
| rendering it's moral and financial support
| to the Master Plumbers Association in Its
contest with the iourneymen plumbers Is
being generally discussed in local labor
| circles. 1t is limited In some quarters that
this declaration of the boss builders may
result IN several sympathetic strikes OF
some of the building trades this summer,
unless the plumbers differences are patched
UP in the meantime.
Referring to the recent death of Thomas
Gordon, a Washington bricklayer. the
Trades Unionist says he was forty-two
years of age, and that his death was a
great SnOCk TO MS many ne iidu
been member of Bricklayers' Union, No.
/, for over twenty years. His funeral took
place from st. Martins Church, where
requiem mass was said for the repose OF his
soul. The pallbearers, all members of the
Bricklayers' Union, were Messrs. Thomas
Holloran, Maurice Davis, William Grady,
Roger Carroll. Daniel Scanlon and
Michael F'lavin.
In connection with the proposed construc-
ton of a temple OF labor In Washington,
1t is said the erection of a labor temple
costing 100000 on a site costing 100000,
with Offices and meeting halls to accommo
date Chicago's 7C0 trade unions is now
being considered by a prominent banker of
that city, who has offered to finance the
proposition under certain conditions. Sec
rotary Alex Mcdonald of the Associated
Building Trades has undertaken the task
of interesting capitalists in the matter
The plan will be to pledge each union
for an amount the total OF which shall be
sufficient to purchase the site. after Wnlch
| the building Will be erected. STOCK COM
pany will be formed and an amount OF
stock equal to the value of the property
will be sold to members OF trade unions
only. x,.. Ill,
he asked to take the stock. union bank,
with safety deposit, is contemplated IN the
scheme.
Union nnachinists In the Pittsburg district
are to make attempt to secure an eight
| hour workday with a wage rate OF 40 cents
| formal demand on the employers
The machinists' union has suffered a big
| decline in membership in and around Pitts
| burg the last two years. From AZ" IN
| 1904 il has dwind!ed to about loo. tondl-
| tions did not become better and the men
| now work nine hours a day for 80 cents an
| hour
| few months and the organization now be-
| lieves 1t is in "A position to put up good
| front.
Employment is good, considering the sea-
| son Of the year, says stephen G. Hogan of
| the marble workers in his report TO the
| American Federation of Labor. He con-
| tinues: General improvement in hours and
wages is noticed in olT craft wherever the
men have organized. Trade conditions good
| and steadily improving. On the ether hand,
among the unorgdnized workers there has
| been no Improvement for the last ten years.
In New York city our members are on
| strike for increased wages and reduction
| in hours. Have organized union in Allan
| ia, Ga
Bulletins have been received from Inter
| national Typogra phical Union headquarters
at Indianapolis, giving the names of 435
| cities and towns in which the eight-hour
| day has been established absolutely. There
! are about fifty places on strike in which
| the majority of printers are on the eight
| hour basis. Baltimore is the latest large
| city that has virtually swung into the
| eight-hour column. There are but fifty
printers on strike including thirty-two non
union men. while 475 working eight
| hours day. A number of smaller cities
! also report settlements.
The Newsboys Union of Cleveland, Ohio,
| held Its annual banquet and entertainment
| in Council Educational Alliance Monday ev-
| ening, March 90. An invitation was sent to
! the newly formed local in gainesville to
| participate In the festivities. The kids"
| Indignantly deny that a squad Of cops"
had heen engaged to prevent rioting.
An increase of 81. 00o, 600 in the wages or
| carpenters IN Chicago during the coming
| year, beginning April l, has been practical
| ly assured by the signing of the agreement
| which has been under consideration for sew
| eral weeks by the Chicago Carpenters and
| Builders Association and the Carpenters
| Union. The question was settled by the ar
bltratlon board of the two organizations.
| The new agreement provides for an in
crease of cents an hour for carpenters for
| the first year, Ga cents an hour during the
! two years following. The agreement now
| awaits ratification by the local unions ana
| the building association whole, This
! is practically assured, the agents of the
| organizations interested were authorized to
| negotiate Il settlement. The present wage
| scale of the carpenters is 30 cents an hour.
| Baltimore Topographic Union and the
| printing concerns have signed agreements
| for the eight-hour day instead Of a nine
| hour day. There will be no change in the
I
| same pay for eight hours that prevailed %:
| the nine-hour day. The agreement carries
| with ii an increase of cents an hour for
| over eight hours Every establishment,
! with the exception of one signed the new
| scale or agreed to the terms, and there has
| not been the slightest break In the cordial
! relations existing between the printers and
| their employees. The reason of the eight
| hour day just going into effect In Balti-
! more is that the union had contracts with
| the employing printers which did not expire
! until March l, and in consequence no action
| was taken until the first of the month,
| when all parties got together and signed the
| contract for the eight-hour day.
! The quarrel between the brotherhood OF
| Locomotive Fremen and the Brotherhood
| of Locomotive Engineers is becoming more
| bitter and there does not seem 10 be any
| hope for an early adjustment. Under its
| rules the engineers brotherhood is endeav-
| oring to force fireman who has been pro-
NOTED to sever his connect on with the fire
| mems brotherhood and join the engineers
! organiza ton. The firemen refuse to give Up
| their orga niZation on account of the m g
| nificent beneficiary feature and also for the
| reason that they may at some time return
| to the occupation of fireman.