Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-06

A dispatch from Chicago says:
"Organfzed labor will make it's influence
felt in the coming presidential election Il
an extent that will make statesmen sit
up and take notice according to Samue
Gompers. president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. who passed through the
city on his way to Wisconsin. The lead
err of the labor movement declared that ii
the measures urged by labor do not be-
come laws at this session those RESPONSE.
Bile will have to answer in the fall cleo
ton.
Mr. Gompers said he had been advised
by the legislative committee that the
Wilson bill amending the Sherman anti
trust law. would be introduced in the
Senate by Senator William Alden Smith
of Michigan.
THE determined stand which the labor
unions took against wage reductions has
saved the country from an industrial
stagnation, in the opinion of Mr.. Com
perS."
Chicago is to have a workingmen's hos
pital 1t is to be an institution managed
comparatively by the labor unions, in
which free treatment and medicine will
be given the families of workingmen in
time of sickness.
The plans for the hospital have been
drawn and negotia atoms for the purchase
of a site are already under way. Through
the sale of annual memberships at 81 each
which will cover the establishment Of the
institution and the first years work. in
q general way the institution will be SIM
liar to the workingmen's hospital in New
York.
For the 81 a year that a person will pay
as a member of what probably will be
called the workingmen's hospital asso-
citation the subscriber will be entitled to
free treatment at the institution when
ever he is i'll. The treatment will include
medicines. medical attendance, nursing
and board.
Manning. medical director of the govern
ment printing office, for his efforts in be-
half of hospitals for wOrkingmen and
women and for hospital wards and better
sanitation in big factories. 1t Is said to
have been principally through DIR. Man.
ning's efforts that an emergency hospital
room was established in the big public
printery here. DR.. Manning is also de-
voting much of his spare time to writing
papers for the bstterment Of the working
classes along health lines. One OF his
dissertations on "Plumbism. or Lead
Poisoning was recently awarded a prize
by the German government. Dr. Man.
ming is an active member OF Columbia
Typographical Union and always carries
working card.
Announcement is made that William
Bradfeld formerly president of Local
"a, Commercial Photographers Union. who
was deposed at a meeting OF the local
Sunday. wilt carry the matter to the Mil
waukee convention of the telegraphers,
to be held June q.
The resignation of Mr.. Bradf1eld had
been requested by F. III. Lantz chair
man Of the executive board of the local,
some time ago. Mr. Bradfield declined
to resign. On the contrary. he asked
the general executive board for an in
vestigation. This was refused. with the
result that the Office was declared vacant.
Plans are being made by the Structural
Building Trades Alliance and the Central
Labor Union of Spokane. Wash, to erect
a labor temple I'm that city to cost $4,000
There are 1000 union men in spokane.
and by 20 per cent of them taking so
worth of stock the amount can be raised.
A dispatch from Butte, Mont. says the
Northern Pacific railroad announced
reduction in pay of all telegraphers. to
take effect when the new nine-hour law
becomes operative. The reduction Is from
five to ten dollars a month.
II was announced in Omaha by the
Union Pacific, Northwestern and Burling-
ton railroads that they would observe
literally the nine-hour law. These three
roads employ about two hundred adoi-