Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-13
rooms if employers refused May to grant
q new scale of wages

new scale of wages
Although on record as emphatically OPP
posed to local option legislation, these two
unions, unless their demands are granted.
will exert their best efforts to prevent
thirsty picnickers and dancers from drink
ing anything. hard or soft. MIXED or
by man with a union card.
I'VE will strike every ballroom or picnic
park in the city unless we get what we
want" said Henry Meisel delegate for No.
! g. I'VE demand 81 instead of So for extra
men who work nine hours a day, and $21
| week for men working steady. We de-
mand 30 cents an hour for overtime, and If
the employers don't see it that way their
| patrons can go thirsty. I don't think we
| will have much trouble bringing them to
time" The c. F. L. Endorsed the new
scale.
On recommendation of the executive COM
mttee, which had had the subject under
consideration for a week, the c. F. U.
acted favorably on the request of the
Farmers Union to establish trade rela-
ton between the farmers and city union
men. so that the latter may obtain country
| food products direct from the producers at
prices cheaper than they have to pay
trusts which the farmers say now have
a monopoly on their products. The plan is
for the farmers to establish distributing
stations in the city where union men may
buy the necessaries of life at reduced
prices. the farmers agreeing. in return, to
buy manufactured articles that do not
bear the union label. This plan, it was
i said. has been successfully operated in
Chicago and other western cities.
Without solicitation the part of the
union, Mayor Mcclellan sent a communica-
| ton saying that through an inadvertence
no representative of organized labor had
been named on the Hudson-Fulton commits
, sion, and that he wanted Ito repair this
oversight by, suggesting the names Of AL
fred ]. Boulton, register of Brooklyn
James P. Holland. delegate of the Fire
mems Union to the c. F. T.. and Nathan
| Newman. delegate to the same body from
| typographical Union, No. 6. He said he
would appoint them if the c. F. U. ap-
| proved.
Although only one or two delegates in the
| body knew what the commission was until
it was explained that it was to prepare for
| a Fulton anniversary celebration, the
| names were Endorsed unanimously. Sew
eral delegates remarked on the great So
| lictude for organized labor that the mayor
| has manifested recently. The mayors sec
rotary sent communication in reply to the
c. F. us request that the snow be re-
| moved from the side streets Of the city, In
| which he said it would receive the mayors
careful attention"
A novel proposition was made in letter
received from the Central Labor Council OF
Seattle, Wash, which. like the c. F. T., has
taken up the defense of Meyer Hayward
and Pettibone officers of the western
miners organization indicted-unjustly, the
unions say-for the murder of Gov Steu-
! nenberg. The suggestion was that central
labor bodies In twelve different cities Sc
lect a representative to become member
of an unofficial jury to attend the trial
and give verdict" on the merits of the
case as they understand them. The idea is
to publish the findings of this jury, 80
that laboring men throughout the country
may get an unbiased statement regarding
the trial. This communication. as swell as
one from laboring men in Philadelphia sug-