Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-16
Notes of Interest in
The Field of Labor

The Field of Labor
Letter Rss s ssa1s4. 's ssss. II band rGs
composed wholly Of employees of
tn local postoffice. with the exception
OF Arthur Heft. All the men are union
men, belonging both to postal clerks
union and to tha musicians union,
which is affiliated with the American
federation. Arthur Heft is the musical
director II. Fred Henry is associate
director, B. D. Heidi is manager. This
band is the outgrowth Of the old Let
ter Carriers band and the lowe State
Hillary band, which were console
dated last year. The band gives con-
cert every Wednesday evening for the
business men Of the west side, between
Fifth and Seventh on LOCUST street.
Saturday evening they give concert
on East Sixth and Locust streets.
They have also made several trips out
over the state.
The State Federation Of Labor is
preparing to put forth Its most strenu-
Gus efforts to secure legislation on
several things in the future. One OF
these Is the adjustment Of convict
labor in the state Of Iowa, and in con-
nection with this to have the Ameri-
gan Federation get a national law pro-
shibiting the Interstate shipping OF arti-
cles made by convict labor
It is announced that the retail gro
| GERS will hold their picnic when we
! need rain. II the present weather.
keeps up, we are assured that the pic
! mic will be some time in coming.
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| Rev. o. w. Fifer appeared before the
| Trades and Labor assembly at its reg
| ular meeting Wednesda-, and extended
| an invitation to all union men to come
to Colfax and hear President Gompers
Of the American Federation of Labor.
who will appear before the chautau-
sold to the union men at reduced
prices.
officers for the ensuing year for the
local trades ana Labor assembly We're
| elected at the regular meeting as foi-
lows: President, Tim O'Connell;
| vice president, Otto Peei: secretary
urer, ]. o. Staley: assistant secretary,
Nd. L. Cornett; trustees, L. o. Pouchot,
1 L. p. Joyce and G. s. Cowger.
At the regular meeting the plans for
Labor day were not discussed.
1 ) y
The local cigar makers union Is go
ing to insist that the saloonkeepers
live UP to an agreement made three
years ago in which the saloonkeepers
i agreed to sell and boost Des Moines
made union cigars. A year ago there
were one hundred cigar makers en-
4 ploved in Des Moines. At the present
4 time they number about forty
One of the laws passed by the re-
cent legislature which is Of interest 70
union men is the one permitting the
4 use of convict labor at the pentten-
tfaries for the domestic service of the
wardens.
4 At the annual convention Of the
International Printing Freshmen AND
Assistants held in Brighton Beach
Music hall, New York, June 1924 the
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, George L. Berry. Of San Fran
Murphy, Of Butte. Mont; second vice
president, John G. Warrington. Of st
Louis; third vice president Peter
Breen, New York City; secretary-
| treasurer, Patrick McMullen, Gin
. cinnati.
A bill is being prepared by tn ,,
State Federation of Labor that WI
place the responsibility Of liability te
: workmen around machinery upon thu
proprietor when 1t Is shown that the
employer had been informed Of thu
defect In the machinery. The railroad
; men are backing the bill, as 1t VII
benefit them more than any other line
of trades. The bill will be submitted
, to each union in the state before 1t Il
finally drafted. The bill was before thu
last legislature but was not pushed 3!
labor men because of several weak
nesses that might have become loop
holes for the employers.
>, TN refusing the San Francisco tel
| egraphers their demands for highe
wages in that city you have not heart
the claim made by the Western Unio1
or Postal companies that they eoult
not afford to make concessions" salt
a local telegrapher.
Both corporations he said, "cal
easily afford to pay their men bette
wages. The peculiarly high cost o
living, following the earthquake il
| that city, makes the demand for high
er wages to the telegraphers irnpera
tive. The operators are merely seek
ing fair living wage. The intelligen
. public which understands the peculia
1
9 will see the justice Of the telegraphers
$ fipht, which, evidently. is just to be
:. gin in earnest. The operators through
+ out the country are in hearty sympath
/ with the men on the coast and at
|. large meeting to be held in Chicag
e Sunday, will probably declare sym
n pathetic strike in that city,
The thirty-third annual picnic Of tn
!, Iowa Moulders union Of Rock Island
y was the greatest success they eve
had Fifteen hundred people attend
It ed, and for the first time in man
years there was no speaking.
e All the union plumbers are out q
4 Davenport with no hope of a settle
ment. Trouble arose over the appren
ticeship question.
Monday two score of men engage
in building operations and relayin
l. cement walks struck at Story City 70
a 25 per cent increase in pay. Troubl
lis feared when strike breakers fror