Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-31

DetrBhte FUN flate ff1ntcTB Union.
trade union field. Mr.. Ryan graduated
from Georgetown University In 1894 and is
now the editor of the Plate Printer. the
paper established In the interest of that
craft by the late E. L. Jordan.
Dor unions Sunday In sermon at Grace NJ.
f. Church, Denver. for their work in short
enins the hours of labor. He said In part
Every effort to extend vacations for peo-
Grafton would result If the Saturday half
holiday were more general. All through
England either Thursday or Saturday aft
ernoon Is given to the employees. 1t Is.
pers cannot exist there.
Ihe general baggage agent Of the Penn
syNania railroad found by scientific inyes-
tisation that men accomplished more in six
DAYS than they did In SEVEN when 1t was
nnbroken by rest. and he gave his men one
day In seven as an economic measure
Denver should give the unions much
credit for helping close up stores in the
evenings and on Sundays. In Philadelphia
the grocery and clothing stores are open
every evening until 10 and IL O'Clock IT is
great help to morality to have our de-
partment stores close at noon Saturday
Our hurry-up life endangers the home. We
must have time to enjoy and cultivate II IL
the home spirit grows.
People going into the mountains to ca
rouse or even to wander around without
God will not get much benefit But IL folks
make the fields and forests places to walk
with God. they will grow as weather-fa-
vored wheat does In spring. Vacation times
may be wasted. and may even be curse
IL wrongly used. Some folks given shorter
hours AZ once proceed to spend 1t in the
saloon" ~. = - :. = :. -
Miss Jean Gordon Of New Orleans female
factory inspector of Louisiana, has made
four affidayits against as many local cot
ton mills. charging the proprietors with
tho
hours a day. Miss Gordon interprets the
law TO mean ten hours in the aggregate
including the dinner hour which would be
practically nine hours labor. The mill
owners take the opposite view. contending
that the statute gives them the right to de-
tain employees eleven hours. including the
dinner hour. The defendants are the Kohl
mann mills. the Lane Maginnis mills, the
McLellen mills and the Alden mills. No
question of age Is involved in the cases
Miss Gordon in discussing the matter said
Ten hours In factory surrounding. with
one hour for dinner. is quite long enough
Tor these poor women and girls to labor
Most of them have to cook a hurried
meal before leaving home IN the morning
ana nave to prepare their evening meal
FOR themselves and families in many
cases. The extra hour means a great deal
to these laborers
of all the children with whom / have
come in contact during the course of my
factory. inspection work there was none OF
Jewish birth and absolutely no negroes
II tlt lower grades OF the public schools
could be made more interesting to chill
dren there would be fewer of these to seek
work In factories. Little hands must be
given work to do in the school ro0m as
well as little brains or the child will seek
occupation elsewhere"
pastors union. composed of all the
Protestant cergymen of La Crosse. Wis.
ana affiliated with the American Feiera-
tion of Labor. is something out of the
ordinary. but La Crosse has one such In
that town members of the other trades
look upon the preachers as brother work.
ers, admit their delegate to the meetings
OF the Trades and Labor Council and have
a representative of that body at the meet
ings OF the clergymen. On last Labor day
The preachers marched with the printers
the cigarmakers. the bricklayers and other
unions in the Labor day parade. while at a
recent meeting of the pastors they were
addressed by delegate from the Root
and Shoemakers' Union in advocacy of in
sisting on the union label when making
purchases of shoes
The money spent for war purposes in this
country OF ours. says the Hodcarriers Jour
nal. II used to pay old age pensions would
furnish 81 a week to every person over
sixty years Of age In the United States
But of course. It's better to be able to brag
about being a world power than it is to
have common sense and make life a bless
ing to two or three million old people. Half
billion year. the amount spent for war
purposes. would. II judiciously expended for
few years. give us the finest roads in the
world The soldiers could build them and
the officers could engineer the work That
half billion a year would go a long way
toward giving every poor boy and girl q
good education. But we don't pay taxes
for our own benefit. Some day we will have
direct legislation and make laws for our
selves
Following the strike OF 800 Italian track
men on the New York Central railroad a
movement has been started to organize the
.pOpo or more Italian railroad employees
all over the United States and bring about
higher scale of wages AT the head Of
this movement Is Michael Sylvester of Chi
cago who Is here managing the strike
against the New York Central
All the news from the industrial battle
field in Germany points to the certainty
that 1907 will be the year of great lock-
outs.
Agriculture, laborcrs at Argen,a. In the
province of Ferra. are on strike for a more
equitable division of labor and wages.
The farmers of Minnesota as represent ed
by the American Society of Equity have
entered into an agreement with the union
men of the state to buy no goods of any
kind not bearing the union label and the
unions, through the state federation OF la
Dor have pledged themselves to the In
dorsement Of the farm produce label adopt
ed by the farmers.
In England female labor has almost dis
appeared In agricultural pursuits: in Ger
many II stu constitutes over per cent
OF the total number OF workers.
strike OF 500 weavers at the Coronet
wooden mills, Providence. r. L. began
when orders were given for the weavers to
operate two looms on fancy work.