Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-30
IN LABOR CIRCLES
c.

MI. John II. Brinkman, the newly elected
president of the Central Labor Union of
this city. has again been honored by cleo
ton to the Office Of secretary-treasurer of
| the International Union of Carriage and
Wagon Workers Of North America.
By trade. Mr.. Brinkman Is a carriage
wood worker, and has been an active men,
Der ever since the formation Of the local
Carriage Workers Union. of which he is
also president. Mr.. Brinkman holds at
| present numerous offices in the labor move
| ment. including the presidency of the Cen
| trail Labor Union of Washington, chairman
Of the strike committee of the Carriage
Workers. chairman of the Hearst reception
committee, and is an organizer of the
American Federation of Labor. Mr.. Brink
| man is a close friend and adnirer OF
President Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation Of Labor, who is one OF his
chief advisers in everything connected with
the movement of his craft.
Mr.. Brinkman has been known in his
craft organization as an anti administration
man. He did not favor the old constitution
or the mode of conduct of the international
union. At Buffalo last October, when a
delegate to the constitutional convention
of his craft organization, he was success
full, with the aid of his alternate delegate,
Mr.. Henry c. Stein, who Is very close to
him in all matters affecting organized labor
in the District, in injecting into the consti-
tuition new form of government quite diff
ferent from that heretofore obtaining. The
delegates there assembled saw the wisdom
of his position and that of Mr.. Stein and
adopted their plan Of government Mr..
Brinkman was nominated Immediately after
the convention for the office Of secretary
treasurer by a number of local unions
throughout the country and was elected by
an overwhelming majority. Mr.. Stein was
nominated for the office of vice president
of District No. l, comprising the states of
Maine New HamnShire Vermont. MASSa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Virginia. Maryland and the District of
BY virtue of his office he will be mem
Der of the International board. and no
doubt Is expressed concerning his election.
The headquarters of the international union
will be located in Washington, D. c., and
this fact will be a material factor in the
local strike of the carriage makers. The
entire force Of the international organiza-
ton will be employed in the local contest
with money and prestige, this local being
Mr.. Brinkman's child. 1t will also give
them a standing with the American Fedora
ton of Labor of such proportion as to in
sure both moral and financial support The
carriage and wagon workers of the District
are elated over the result and now pro-
claim a mastery of the local situation.
There can be no doubt but what Mr.. Brink
mans elevation to new and greater office
in the labor world has imbued his local
followers in the carriage and wagonmaking
industry with new courage and determine
ton to win the strike now in progress. Mr..
Brinkman will leave Washington Tuesday
morning next for Chicago to take over the
international office, and in his absence Mr..
Stein will be in full charge of strike head
quarters and everything pertaining to the
local contest. Mr.. Brinkman will be absent
about one week, taking in Pittsburg. Mil
waukee, Cleveland and Toledo on his
return.
|. Delegates have been seated in the Cen
trail Labor Union as follows:
Bookbinders-Joseph McManus, S. H.
Dye, Thomas McNerney> Alvin J. Tanner,
J. l.. Feeney.
Engineers (hoisting). No. III. G. Bishop.
John j. Cosgrove, VIM. McGilivary, II. E.
Patterson. Thos. E. Saunders.
Musicians. No. 161-G. w. Sunderland,
c. Carlton, Theo. Urban, c. B. Mcpherson,
J. c. Callan
Painters, No 36s-Thomas sheahan, Allen
Cross, August Cordes. w. H. Baker, John
Scott.
Soda and Mineral Water Wagon Drivers,
No. 372-W E. Kelley, J. w. Cronie, a. B.
Schlotterbeck, August Becker, w. A. Davis.
Tile Layers. No. 2-Milton Clark. August
Hageman, Chas. Potterton, ST.; Geo. Pot
terton, E. Stevens.
At a recent meeting of the Central Fed
Grated Union of New York city Harry De
Veaux of the actors complained that lack
of police protection was responsible for
many assaults made by organized East
Side gangs on the striking Hebrew actors
doing picket duty" and requested that
communications be sent to Police Commits
sorfer Bingham and to District Attorney
Jerome explaining the situation. He said
that in the three weeks the strike had been
on there had been from thirty to forty as
saults. lone of the gangs he said, lis
the Kid Twist gang. member of it
said to one of the strikers:
We've got nothing against you fellows.
We're doing it for what's In It. " De
Veany'S reuueSt was granted
c. C. Driscoll asked for the Endorsement
of a bill Introduced in Albany making it a
felony to sell cocaine, morphine or opium
without a physicians prescription. Driscoll
said many Of these drugs were sold in va
rious forms to resemble patent medicines.
He said there were So 600 to 100 600 cocaine
fiends in New York city, and that boys six
teen to seventeen years old in certain, parts
of the East Side who used cocaine ito be
tough" were in the last stages of cocaine
poisoning. He made other sensational
statements along the same lines, but the
c. F. U. postponed possible Endorsement
of the bill until next Sunday, declining to
act on it until it could see copy of the
measure.
That part of bill introduced in Albany
by Senator Page providing that no child
under sixteen years be permitted to work
more than eight hours a day and that no
such minor be allowed to work except be-
tween am. and pm. was Endorsed.
committee of three was elected to call on
Governor Hughes and to inform him that
a delegation pretending to represent state
laboring men that called on him and asked
him to appoint Samuel ]. Oberwager of
that city labor commissioner in event of
the resignation of Commissioner Sherman
represented neither the c. F. U. nor the
State Federation of Labor.
In response to c. F. U. protest against
alleged insanitary conditions in non-union
bake shops, Labor Commissioner Sherman
wrote he had investigated 1900 shops in the
last few months and found they were all
clean. Borough President Ahearn an
nounted in a letter that engineers employed
in the municipal departments will receive
an increase in wages to $3.50 day Febru-
airy 1. Governor Hughes will be asked to
appoint r. E. Quirk of the steam engineers
union as railroad commissioner.
In a recent edition Of the New York Press
apears the following so-called labor story:
II take up my pen,' wrote the Armless
Wonder yesterday to the Circassian Beau
ty land he wasn't lying, for he writes the
most delightful footnotes with his toes), ito
inform you that several Of us have taken
steps to form Human Prodigies Union,
and we expect to hold a convention when
the Barnum & Bailey show opens in the
Garden in April. I want you to join and to
spread the news along the circuit you're
playing. And let them all know the first
thing we'll do will no IN make every man.