Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-19
LABOR MEN INDIGNANT
OVER DEFEAT OF FOUNDRY BILL
IN CONGRESS.
Men Who Voted Against Measure
Marked for Defeat-Action Of
the Central Union.

InoSe members OF Congress who voted
against the proposition for the addition
of modern foundry to the equipment of
the Washington navy yard were placed
upon the griddle and roasted to a turn
last night at the meeting of the Central
Labor Union. Mr.. Emmett L. Adams,
former president of the central body, ar
raigned the opponents of the bill in
scratching terms and declared they were
the friends of the great steel trusts.
The bill was brought before the House
only to be defeated by the Speaker and
his obnoxious and arbitrary rulings" he
declared. 1T was understood that there
would be no good committee assignments
in the next House for those who opposed
Speaker Cannon"
Mr.. Adams asserted that Columbia Lodge
would yet have the bill passed, the Speaker
to the contrary, Notwithstanding.
AS to those members of the committee
OF the House who voted for us in commit
tee said Mr.. Adams, land then retreated
they will have to answer for their conduct
at the polls. 1t is one for all and all for
one with us, and when one of US fights
all of us fight. We are determined to de-
feat at the polls those who defeated the
foundry measure.
Details Not Necessary.
1T is not necessary to explain what OPP
100000 for the commencement Of work
on new foundry at the naval gun shop"
he said. You all know it. 1t is needless
to say it was principally from the delega-
ton from Pennsylvania, and that it is
susceptible to the steel trust, and from
others equally interested and susceptible
We polled the entire democratic vote with
two exceptions, and twenty-six good re-
publ1cans, who voted in favor of the
amendment more to show their contempt
for the working of their party machinery
particularly interested. The respectable
element of both parties voted upon their
honest conviction for the amendment"
Ihink OF man, d so-called statesman"
said Mr.. Adams, bitterly, 'pre-eminent in
his party, and Speaker of the House of
Representatives, resorting to such tactics
to kill an appropriation that is SO sorely
needed by the government, and which has
received the hearty Endorsement of the
Navy Department, all those directly inter-
ested, and parties on the outside, who see
the justice and advantage of such an ap-
preparation.
I'VE have an organization of LOO men,
the banner organization of the machinists
craft. We have made a bitter fight, a just
and commendable one, and we will con-
tics.'
Secretary Sam De Nedrey, on motion
of the delegation from Columbia Lodge of
Machinists. was then directed to send a
letter To senator f1dle, CHAIRMAN OF the
committee on naval affairs of the United
States Senate, stating that the working
people of the District, as Represented in the
Central Labor Union, were in favor Of the
proposed appropriation for the new foundry
at the Washington navy yard.
New Wage Rate Announced.
A communication was read from the local
union of hosting and portable engineers,
informing the central body that after May
1 the wage scale of that union would be
621z cents per hour, broken time, and $24
per week, straight time, eight hours to con-
stitute day, and time and one-half for
overtime, and double time for Sundays,
July 4, Labor day and Christmas.
Secretary De Nedrey, from the legislative
committee, reported that Rev. Donald Mac
Leod, at the hearing on the Weber bill be-
fore the House committee last Thursday,
made the statement that 80 per cent Of the
cases in the District fail and 95 per cent of
the cases in the workheuse were due to the
excessive use of intoxfcants by the working
people of the District Secretary De Nedrey
said he resented this statement and that
investigation would prove that the workers
of the District of Columbia were as law
abiding and God-fearing as are the con-
stituents of either Mr.. Weber or DR.. Mac
Leod. He also stated that if the state
ments made by those who appeared for the
bill were true that 80 per cent of the inhab-
itants Of the District were prohbitionists-
and mighty inconsistent in their professions