The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-01
Members Are Banded Togeth-
err to Promote Friendship
And for Protection.
ED MILLER NOW PRESIDENT
PRESENT LIST OF OFFICERS IN
CLUOES SEVERAL PROMINENT
SALOON-KEEPERs- PAYS SICK
AND DEATH BENEFITS.

One of the strongest labor oreaniza-
tons in the city is the Richmond
Bartenders League No. 544. OF the
Bartenders International League of
America. This union has a member
ship of sixty and was organized here
August 8, 1907, by Clements Butts,
state organizer. II is affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor and
its objects are similar to the objects
of the great national society. They
are enumerated under four heads,
namely:
l. Mutual protection.
?. Relief and benefit to its members.
and their moral, social and intellect
ual Improvement.
3. Secure employment for its mem
bers.
4. To procure libraries and reading
rooms where members may meet in
social intercourse and create an act
i've interest in each others welfare.
The preamble tc the constitution
sets forth at greater length these same
ideas. 1t is as follows:
ITO establish and maintain an
equitable scale of wages. to defend our
rights and advance our interests as a
craft, to create an authority whose
seals shall constitute a certificate of
character, intelligence and skill, to
encourage the principle and practice
of Cancellation and arbitration in the
settlement of differences between en-
ployer and employees, to exert all hon
Orable efforts for the attainment of
better conditions of labor, and to in
culcate lessons of judgment and good
will among men. the undersigned Bar
tenders League Of Richmond dc enact.
declare and establish the following
constitution and bylaws for their gov
eminent.
The International Bartenders'
League pays a death benefit sum of
$50, and the local Union, being a mem
Der of the League, its members will
receive this benefit. AS soon as the or
ganization gets upon its feet financial
ly, sick benefits will be paid out of a
fund established locally.
During the life of the Union, the Of
ficers have been as follows:
Elected August ., 1907: Tim
O'Brien, president; Gilmore Smith
vice-president; Harry Seefloth, chap
lain John Daudt, financial secretary;
Ed Thomas, recording secretary; Ed
Schram, inspector; Charles Graham,
Oscar Stauber. Jack Silver, trustees.
Elected January -, 1908: Tim o.
Brien, president; George Zeyen, vice
president; Frank Hebbler, chaplain;
Fred Kunckle, financial secretary; Ed
Thomas. recording secretary: Fred
Miller, business agent: Dave Mulligan,
treasurer; JaLe Weber, inspector;
John l.. Miller. inside guard; William
Isenhour, outside guard; William
keene. Frank Rusche and Ben Alien
schultz, trustees.
Elected Sunday, June I, 1908; Ed
Miller, president; George Teyer, vice
president; John T7ouse. chaplain ;
Charles Graham, financial secretary;
George Zeyne, recording secretary;
Dave Mulligan. treasurer: Jack Silver,
business agent; Gilmore Smith, in
spector: Frank Rusche, outside guard ;
Jake Weber. inside guard; Charles
Brokamp, John Kepler and Albert
Weishaupt, trustees.
The Bartenders' Union holds regu-
lar meetings on the first and third
Sundays of each month.