The San Francisco call., 1907-06-24
Boston coopers' un-
ion No. SO has for
mally ratified it's
1an-


ment. 1t grants the Saturday half holi-
day all the year round. reducing the
work week from IS hours to "A hours
without reduction from the minimum
wage rate of $21 a week. The union or
iginally asked for fiat rate of so cents
an hour for the As hour work week.
The steel trust has decided to expend
800, 900. 900 for the purpose of substi-
tuting the open hearth process for the
Bessemer process now used in making
steel rails. The substitution is made
gradually, SO that the dividends of
stock holders may not be cut into too
radically, but eventually all rails are
to be made from open hearth steel. The
Bessemer process gives the steel maker
no control over the amount of phos-
phorus In his products, while the open
hearth process permits him to reduce
it below the danger point. This has
been done in the interest of saving
human life.
George Brett, writer for an eastern
newspaper devoted to the cause of the
workingman, recently wrote: "a man
should be paid what he is worth and the
standard not set by what he can obtain
elsewhere. A man able to get SIG a
n
be worth $40 to his present employer
1t is good policy to pay it, and not
force the worker to threaten to leave.
From the report of Senator Pearce
who investigated the West Australian
state governments experiment in con-
trolling the liquor business in the min
ing center of Gwalia. 1T appears that as
chairman of the senate committee he
,-ar inc a week the
hotel and found the following condi-
tions: That the manager of the hotel
is paid good salary and has no In
terest In adulterating drink or trading
during prohibited hours. The hotel is
strictly for public convenience, and
there is no more incentive to make men
drink beer than there is for a station
master at railway station to sell tick
cts. The result Is that there is no sign
Of drunkenness about the town. When
a man is disposed to drink more than
he can afford or is good for him
there is machinery for exercising con-
troll over him. All that has to be done
is for the mans wife or relative to
speak to the manager of the hotel. and
then the barman receives instructions
that he Ii to be served with only two
long beers q day--one when going on
Ito his mining shift and one coming
off, The miners call this being
placed under the dog act" No one
however. outside the complainant, the
manager or the barman need be in
formed as to who is on the .list-ex-
eept when the prescribed man himself
lectures his fellows on their disgusting
intemperance in calling for more than
two drinks a day. On Sunday not q
drink is sold or asked for.
The Gwalia state hotel, after paying
all expenses. supplying a splendid
table and excellent bedroom accommo-
dation. cleared a profit of $4,000 pei
annum out Of pure liquors. The man
ager regarded himself as a guardian
Of the people. who would not give
them poison to drink nor allow them
to abuse the privilege of obtaining
pure liquor.
The house servants of New Zealand
have formed union, with the follow
ing claims:
The weeks work shall consist Of 5s hours tc
be divided as follows: Work to commence every
morning. except holidays. at s;a0 o'clock. and