Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-28

Twenty-Five bands would he sprinkled
through the parade. Grand Marshal Hol-
,and Will have as his assistants Delegates
McCaoe, Deveaux, Cyr and Curtis. Tho
estimate OF the number of parsders in
ciudes loo housesmiths. l.UO stage me-
chanlcs 300 tiremen' aOO drillsrs 1900
marble cutters, 100 pattern makers +op
horseshoers, 1000 steam engineers 100
butchers, 5000 carpenters, 300 metal pol
lsherS LOO PAYERS 6.oOo excaators and
5000 printers.
John Fahy OF Shamokin. one of the three
ulstrict presidents OF the Mine Workers
Union IN the anthracite field and IN, first
lieutenant of John Mitchell. declared yes
teruay that there was a scarcity of mine
labor and said IL would grow greater unless
petiei wages were paid and the general
conditions improved.
There is no doubt concerning the scarcr-
" oh mine labor. said Mr.. Fahy. and tho
reason for IL is easily found The coal COM
pantes VIII not pay high enough wages
miners are leaving the coal companies and
seeking more remunerative and less risky
employ ment- As matter Of fact labor ia
so nigh now that an experienced miner can
MAKE almost as much money digging "A
oltch where there is little or no risk For
more than year now there has been n
gradual exodus of miners TO other fields Of
iaoors, most of them going west to work
ol' FARMS. New men are not being taken
I'm on III proportion to the number leaving. be-
cause new labor cannot be found"
Mr. Fahy gave il as his opinion that nm
Nss wages and conditions improved there
"ouid De greater exodus of miners in the
spring. " wv
, report comes from Hagerstown Md
t,lat William A. Read. a director of the
~ Mahutacturing Company. said the
laliure of the company was caused pri
marlly by strike of the machinis SITS in III.
automobile plants about six months ago
Al mat time he added the company had
~ o ueis lor ABOUT 400 cars. Orders for more
uarA IL
tney nave more than two hundred cars an
their hands Then the banks had TO restrict
en T credit. and the failure resulted.
me POPE company six months ago II is
said. positively refused to come to an a,, -
ment with the International Associations az
Machinists '''h VI
The third Injunction case against the In
ternational Association of Machinists To ha
MED within the last ten DAYS came up for
nearing before Judge John d. Shafer in
common pleas court No. . at Pittshtrp
Pa. Monday morning The commandment In
TINS SUIT was the Wilson-Snyder Manufac-
tuIihs COMPANY. and Interference by pick
cts was the principal charge in the bill
Inc evidence showed that previous TO the
strike The Plaintiffs had employed about
one hundred machinists who were called
out by the local officials of the union. the
plant had never been closed down "a rho
COMPANY secured strikebreakers: that the
strike was conducted In an unusually or
derby manner and that the pickettng had
been quiet, but effective as several of those
who took the places of the strikers b,d
been induced to give up their nI,ces nd.
Shafer decided to continue the temnor,ry
injunction until the final hearing of the
case.
After four years of a stormy battle and
continuous fighting the anti Shea forces in
the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
nave won out and Timothy p Shea has
been deposed from the presidency TIa
successful candidate was Daniel j Tohin
ol Boston. who has been an uncomproms-
ing opponent of Shea for years
The lines of the contest were sharnIv
drawn. and along with Shea six of the for
ner oHicers went down to defeat before
the anti administration party. The officers
as elected are as follows:
Daniel L. TObin. Boston president: Thos
l.. Hughes Chicago, secretary-treasurer
tre-eIectedl: Edward J. Mullins. Chicago
hrst vice president tre-elected): Joseph For
key, New York second vice presidan. .r.
elected; Thomas Farrell. Chicago third
wee president: Walter J. Gibbons. fourth
vice president. promoted from sixth; Har-
vey Eddy, Buffalo. fifth vice president: Ed
ward {. Huffman. Toledo, sixth vice presi-
dent: Anthony 4. Silva. Glouces ester seventh
vice president: George w. Briggs, Chicago.
general auditor (re-elected); Joseph A.
iurnouii. Boston; John Welch of New Or
leans tre-electedD and George Kidd of Chi
cago. trustees: Michael Mcdonald and En-
met Flood, Chicago: II. ]. Wimbledon PhiIa-
delphia. and John Callahan. Kansas City,
',e hist hdtfoHdl president or the Team
STEERS. delegates to the American Fedora
ton of Labor convention
Regarding the election of Tobin Shea had
this to saw: Mr.. Tobin has won After
October !. when he takes Office. / publicly
announce that he win have my assistance
and support. l will aid him in every way I
am able. and he will find me a stanch SUD-
porter in every move for the advancement
of the union
committee of the Philad alphia Central
Labor Union will go to Wilmington tomor-
row to meet Senator Tillmap and invite him
to be one Of the speakers at the Labor day
celebration to be held at Washington Park
on the Delaware. Elizabeth G. Flynn the
sixteen-year-old socialist orator who Is
making speeches nightly on the streets of
philadelphia. has consented to speak on the
subject of labor at the celebration.