Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-26
and paying our per capita tax. I hope the
proposition will carry"

and paying our per capita tax. hope the
proposition will carry"
During the recent sitting of the Irish
| trades congress at Dublin Mr.. II. Russell
Smart. the man mainly instrumental in
| bringing within range OF practical politics
| Of THE Right to Work" was interviewed
| upon his favorite theme, A few years ago
Mr.. Smart was we'll and favorably known
| to progressives and trades unionists in Dub
| lin and Belfast as a lecturer on la Dor mat
| tiers. and he contested Huddersield as a
labor candidate In e early days OF the
| movement
Regarding the advent of a distinct labor
| party in parliament. Mr.. Smart declared
| that it Is the beginning of change in the
| condition of the people and the industrial
| system by which they lve-and by which
many people live and do not labor-the
| cumulative results of which will amount to
: a revolution in the ownership of land and
| capital.
He said that he considered that the COM
ing change would prove beneficial to the
| mass of the people. He said that he be-
| lieved that the only hope of securing the
opportunities of health and happiness lies
| in a cooperative state In which the COM
| munity owns the land and machinery.
The national convention of the Amalga-
| mated Association of Street and Electric
| Railway Employees is announced to be held
at New Orleans in August. 1t is said several
| delegates from Alexandria, Va, Will attend
| the general meeting.
The trades dispute act. which passed both
houses of the British parliament without
dissenting vote. is In substance as follows:
| IAN act done in pursuance Of an agree
| ment combination by two or more per-
sons shall. II done in contemplation or fur
| therance Of a trade dispute. not be action
able unless the act. IL done without any
| such agreement or combination, would be
ut shall be lawful for one or more per-
| sons, acting on their own behalf or on be-
employer or firm In contemplation or fur
| therance of q trades dispute. to attend at
or near house or place where a person
resides or works or carries on business or
happens to be, IL they SO attend merely for
the purpose Of peacefully obtaining or COM
municating Information. or Of peacefuliy
from working.
IAN act done by a person In contempla-
ton or furtherance of a trades dispute
shall not be actionable on the ground only
that II induces some other person to break
a contract of employment or that 1t Is an
interference with the trade business or
| employment of some other person, or with
the right of some other person to dispose Of
his capital or his labor as he Wills
"An action against trades union.
whether Of workmen or masters. or against
any members officers thereof on behalf
Of themselves and all other members of the
trades union in respect Of any tortious act
behalf of the trades union, shall not be
entertained by any court.
Nothing in this section shall affect the
liability Of the trustees of a trades union
to be sued in the events provided for by
the trades union act 1871, section 0. except
in respect of any tortious act committed by
or on behalf Of the union in contemplation
or in furtherance of a trades dispute"
Boiled down labor news from the several
trades journals is as follows:
The outside sheet metal workers have
organized a union in jamestown, n. Y.
The Bricklayers' Union in Boston reports
1,400 members in good standing.
The iron molders of Winnipeg Will go out
on strike for better wages unless a suit
able agreement is reached
The union painters in Boston have &C.
| cepted the proposition offered by the mas
ter painters for minimum scale of 39h
cents an hour and AZ cents an hour for
| decorators.
Members of the Brewery Workers
Union have, after short strike in San
| Francisco, received an increase of pay
from $21 to s25 a week About 1900 were
| involved
When it comes to works of charity the
| union painters are in the front rank. Sixty
two of them worked gratis on the build
ing Of the Little Sisters Of the Poor in
| All the linemen in the employ of the
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph
Company at San Francisco quit work in
| sympathy with the striking girl operators,
| who are seeking a recognition of their
| union.
There will be no strike of funeral drivers
|
| signed by which the 1000 drivers will get
$14 week for the twelve-hour day.
Union molders in Milwaukee have APP
pealed to the United States circuit court
| of appeals against the decree issued by
| Judge Sanborn of the United States district
| court preventing picketing.
Pittsburg locals of the Brotherhood Of
| Painters. Decorators and Paperhangers of
| America have been notified that the gen.
eral vote Of that body defeats the PROPOSE
l ty0yn 70 oil Dot a
| annual convention instead Of by referen-
| dunn.
| AS one means of breaking a strike. 1t is
| said, certain employers and manufacturers
| In some of the middle western states have
| entered into pact. That Is, the parties to
the agreement will decline to employ work.
| men from factories where a strike Is on.
nor will they hire workmen from other EN-
! ployers places of business at an advance
| In salary unless the applicant possesses a
| clearance card from his former employer.
| A dispatch from AtIin. British Columbia.
| says that, angered at the introduction OF
| Japanese into the Atlln district. the miners
| have determined to force the orientals out
of the camp If they cannot be induced to
| depart peaceably.
| government bill has been introduced in
! the Hungarian parliament prohibiting en-
| ployes of state railroads from participating
| in strikes under pain of instant dismissal.
| Los Angeles. Cal, Electrical Workers
| Union has doubled Its membership within
, the past six months. The local is COM
posed exclusively of linemen.
All the news from the industrial battle
field in Germany points to the certainty
that 1907 will be the year of great lockouts.
Agricultural laborers at Argenta. in the
province of Ferra, Italy, are on strike for
a more equitable division of labor and
wages.
The Norwegian steamship Ada is loading
seventeen locomotives at Philadelphia for
the Orleans railroad of France at the Port
Richmond piers, and is about ready to leave
for Bordeaux, where the entire cargo will
be discharged The locomotives the
largest ever built in Philadelphia, and are
believed to be the largest in the United
States They Were built along the lines of