Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-08

local disbanded He again became affil-
lated with the Knights Of Labor in 1885
as a charter member of the Bakers As
sembly. which was then recognized, and
1895 he affiliated with the present organi-
zation Of bakers, Local Union, No. 11S.
| Mr.. Schmidt has held all the important
offices in that body, and when the union
concluded to have a business agent in 1903
he was selected for that~postion, and has
since filled that place, having last month
been again elected for two years service.
During this time he has also served as dele
gate to the Central Labor Union, and on
various committees, as well as having held
the Office of financial secretary for three
terms in that body. and is at this time
chairman of the auditing committee of the
Central Labor Union.
Concerning President Roosevelts letter
to Honore Jaxon In relation to the Hay
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. case, now on hear
ing, Editor William Upton Talbot of the
Trades Unionist says:
at appears that our structures have not
seemed severe enough to suit some enthu-
iaStic uniOniStS. The addition Of few red
would doubtless have made our comments
acceptable to the DIRECTORS.
"But we do not believe the fact that this
paper speaks for organized labor Is in it
self good reason why its columns should
be enlivened by the reckless language Of
the stump. That sort Of thing has become
far too common or late.
eve prefer to leave such expressions as
'unqualif1edly and atrociously false 'slob-
bering trickster,' sinister hypocrite' and
'bespectacled monster to the President and
others. in whose view the naked truth looks
better adorned with that sort of fig leaves.
''If we thought 1t would help the cause of
labor to dip our expressions Of opinion fresh
from the lava streams of emotion and spill
them lurid and smoking through these
columns, we would not hesitate to do so.
But we believe that such method Is not
in keeping with the true policy Of the
trades-union movement-that the labor
cause Is not in all respects httlngly repre-
scented by the billingsgate school of journal
ISM"
Speakine of the San Francisco political
situation, the Coast Seamen's journal says
that a union labor government which Is
mo worse than any other government Is
government without any excuse for exist
ence. union labor government which
Is worse than any other government Is a
crime against human hopes.
The National Womens Trade Union
League, which has over 100000 workers en-
rolled in membership, has elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year, Mrs.
Raymond Robins of Chicago, president
Jane Adams. Margaret DAILY, Rose Schnei-
derman May Kehow and Ella Henrotin, vice
presidents; Miss Nestor, secretary. and
Miss OSullivan, treasurer. The delegates
also mapped out work for the coming year
and formulated plans for a national conven-
ton.
With a record of almost unbroken and I'M
ceasing progress and controlling directly
the destinies of from 10000 to $4,000 men
and indirectly those Of 10000 more, the
delegates Of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers met at To-
ledo, Ohio, Yesterday in thirty-second an
nual convention.
In this convention there are about one hun
dred and eighty-1ve delegates. represent
ing lodges from Maine to California and
from the Canadian boundary to Mexico,
where there is one lodge. The most i'm
portant matters for these men to pass upon
will, of course, be the wage scale While
they will have in view only the interests OF
their own members, they will in reality be
fixing the scale to be paid in every mill
and factory In the United States where
steel, iron or tin is made.
While the membership of the Amalgamat-
ed Association amounts to only about four
teen thousand, and while the scale which
these men will fv will govern only this num-
Der, yet there is not another scale In exist
ence-and there are many among the other
10000 irenworkers and their employers
but what Is based on the Amalgamated
scale. There are other unions Of these
workers in the country and there are many
plants that are run on the non-union basis,
but in every case the terms at which all
these men go to work are so much more or
less than the Amalgamated scale. This,
therefore, Is sufficient evidence of the i'm
portance of the convention, and its every
action will be watched with interest in all
parts of the country.
Word comes from Spokane, Wash. that
officers of the typographical and pressmen's
unions have served notice they will with
draw their delegates from the Spokane
Central Labor Union and appeal to Samuel
Gompers, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, for ruling on the ac-
ton of the local body In unseating Rev. w.
]. Hindley. pastor of the Pilgrim Congre-
gational Church, who was formally adj