Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-24

night to direct a communication to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. incloslng the resolutions
passed at the last meeting. In which the
President in criticised for his attitude re-
garding Haywood Meyer and Pettibone,
the alleged assassns of former Gov Steu-
nenberg. of Idaho, some months ago
Delegate Beattie Of the photographers
Union said that If the President does not
respond to the communica ton during this
week the Central Labor Union should take
some action as even the President has no
right to style the prisoners undesirable
citizens until they had been given trial.
The Washington brickayers are elated
over a recent complimentary editorial rel
erence to their craft which appeared under
the heading of "A Remarkable State
ment" in the last issue Of the Omaha West
ern Laborer The statement is as fol-
lows:
while the Bricklayers and Masons' In
ternational Union of America does not pro-
vide for or maintain by compulsory law any
beneficial features in aid of its members,
vet its subordinate unions have raised and
distributed for such purposes during the
past fifteen years over fifteen hundred
thousand dollars. Thus have the burdens
of hundreds of our sick and manned broth
ers been lightened. Besides this the de-
ceased have been buried. and the WIDOWS
and little ones given sustenance
I'm contrast to this benevolent work. we
have, during the same period dlsbursed
but twenty-five thousand dollars for strike
bricklayers and masons OF this country and
Canada may well feel proud
The exhibit of the American Federation
Of Labor. which was awarded a gold medal
at the ST. Louis exposition. is to be shown
at the jamestown exposition, which opens
April &C. In addition to the exhibit Of the
International labor unions, the products OF
manufacturers who employ union labor
will be shown. President Gompers has
sent out request to the officers of all af-
filiated unions intending to participate In
the exposition, to ship their exhibits before
April Is, SO that they may DE lnstalled De-
fore the opening day.
The trades dispute act which passed both
houses of the British parliament without
dissenting vote is in substance as follows:
An act done in pursuance of an agree
ment or combination by two or more per-
sons shall, II done in contemplation or FUR
therance of trade dispute. not be action
able unless the act, II done without any
such agreement or combination would be
actionable
1t shall be lawful for one or more per-
sons acting on their own behalf or on be-
half of a trade union or of an individual
employer or firm in contemplation or fur
therance Of a trade dispute. to attend at or
near a house or place where a person re-
sides 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 peacefully per-
suadlng any person 10 Work or ABSTAIN iroIh
working.
An act done by person in contemplation
or furtherance Of a trade dispute shall not
be actionable ON the ground only that 1t in
tract of employment or that 1t is an inter-
ference with the trade. business or en-
ployment Of some other person to dispose
of his capital or his labor as he Wills.
An action against a trade union, whether
of workmen or masters. or against any
members or officials thereof on behalf Of
themselves and all other members of the
trade union in respect of any tortious act
alleged to have been committed by or on
behalf Of the trade union, shall not be en-
tertained by any court.
Nothing in this section shall affect the
liability of the trustees of a trade union to
be sued in the events provided for by the
trades union act, 1871, section 8, except in
respect of any tortious act committed by
or on behalf of the union in contempla ton
or in furtherance of trade dispute.
The railroad boilermakers of Cincinnati
have secured a wage increase Of 20 cents a
day.
The Intermountain Protective Association
of the Carpenters Union recently purchased
the armOry building In Spokane, and will
convert 1t into a hall for headquarters.
Cleveland electrical workers have present
ed a new: scale asking for an increase in
wages from 45 to 90 cents an hour.
A bill has been introduced in the German
reichstag which proposes to alter the law
with regard to trade unions. The measure
IL enacted will permit trade societies to reg
lister themselves and thereby acquire the
status of corporations to be able ito sue
and be sued"
The International Association of Machin-
lists will on May 1 inaugurate a general
movement for an increase in wages all over
the country where employers have not al