Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-11
IN LABOR CIRCLES
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Much favorable comment is being heard
concerning the action Of the Central
Labor Union at its meeting last Monday
In favor of establishing free lecture
| lyceum to which members Of the labor
unions in this city may be. invited. The
| committee which Is charged with Sc
curing talk talent is headed by Secre-
tary Sam De Nedrey of the central body.
| 1t is said Chairman De Nedrey has on
| his tentative list senators, representa-
tives, lawyers, clergymen, labor leaders,
| newspaper men, physicians and others. 1t
| Is also said the subjects for the talks
| VIII embrace wide range, and that the
| matter OF the open shop will not be
sighted. Announcement of the first adj
| dress may be looked for soon, it Is said.
dispatch from Hazeton, Pa says:
"a movement has been started here to
raise fund of $4,000 among the United
| Mine Workers of Americans testimonial
! to John Mitchell upon his retirement from
the presidency of the union, which he
has built UP. Mr.. Mitchell's retirement
is due to i'll health. following years of
hard work on behalf of the underground
toilers In the anthracite and bituminous
belts.
1t. is proposed to hand him the testi-
monial at the national convention to be
held in Indianapolis next month, over
| which it is expected he will preside.
| Word comes from Chicago that John
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, announced finally
| in Chicago yesterday, On the eve of the
annual election of the labor union of
which he is the head, that he would
not be a candidate for reelection. The
voting. which will be concluded before
the end of the week in every coal min
| ing town east of the Rocky mountains,
will result in the choice of either T. L.
| Lewis or w. B. Wilson the successor
of Mr.. Mitchell. Weakened by illness
| that had kept him in hospital for three
months. Mr.. Mitchell arrived in Chicago
from his home in Spring Valley. He
| was route to Indianapolis to be at the
| national headquarters of the union during
| the taking of the annual vote for officers.
| Mitchell denied a rumor that he was
quitting the labor field to enter politics.
Late dispatches from Gold6eld state
| that the mines are to be opened there to-
morrow. Michael Mahoney, leading
strikebreaker from the east, met with
the mine owners committee and it was
| decided that the wage scale Is to be,,re-
| duced and no member of the Western
! Federation of Miners will be given en-
| ployment. Meanwhile 500 men will be
brought here to take the places of the
strikers.
Such was the decision of the executive
committee of the Mineowners' Association
| reached yesterday. The change from
| Wednesday to Thursday was made to al
| low time to get men from other points
to replace the strikers.
| Gov. Sparks will come to Goldfed to-
day. The troops will be scattered through
the camp and will practically guard the
mines. The card system as used at
| Cripple Creek, will be introduced. Frank
A. Keith. general manager of the Tono-
pah Mining Company, and other prom-
nent mining men from otner camps are
here in consultation with the Goldfield
owners.
The Georgia Federation of Labor caused
| considerable surprise yesterday when it
went on record, through its president D.
+. OConnell, at a meeting of the eXecu-
tive committee, deprecating the reduction
In railroad rates and fares through legis-
| latlon, and opposing further legislation
of this kind. Mr.. Cornell contends that
| labor conditions in the south have been
| disturbed by legislation which caused the
shortening of hours. and thereby re-
duction in the wages, as well as causing
a number of workmen to be laid off.
| Plans for the establishment of a cor
| respondence and technical school of ma
| tOnal scope for the education of ap-
prentlces and journeyman printers were
taken up yesterday, when the apprentice
ship commission of the International
| Typographical Union began two days
| conference in Chicago. 1t is planned to
establish technical schools in the large
cities and to establish a travelling school
of lectures, charts and diagrams, which
Will be sent to the smaller local unions in
| turp The object is to raise the standard
of work and ability among printers and
preSSmen.
! The statement comes from Pittsburg
that thoroughly trained and highly skilled
| railroad mechanics, foremen, mechanical
engineers and craftsmen are now being
| turned out in that city by the School for
| by the New York Central lines at Nc
| KEGS Rocks.
This institution is one of al number
founded by the railroad system at points
along it's lines and has been in operation
| long enough to prove it's efficiency. Such
| schools have become a necessity the off
| Gals of the road declare. for the difficulty
of finding competent and trained foremen
and machiniSts has increased from wear to
| year. the technical schools of the country
not graduating men who display the reuui-
| site knowledge of railroading EspeciaNy
were foremen hard 10 find, on account of
| this training, and It was largely to meet
| this deficiency that The schools were es-
| tabished.
| The Mckees Rocks institution occupies
1 quarters on the second floor of one of
| the machine shops and Ia unGar the con-
troll Of Henry Gardner, CHEF drafts AT of
| the Pittsburg and Luke Eric railroad.
| There are thrty-six apprentices aad they
come to the school every weekday morn
| Ing. being in session from, 7 tn O rrbov