Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-25
IN THE LABOR WORLD

between 300 and 300 machinists and help
ers in the gun factory at the Washing
ton navy yard will be dismissed on or
about January l. owing to a lack of work.
has caused dismay in local labor circles.
Rear Admiral r.. H. c. IleutZe. COM
mandant of the navy yard. is held blame
less in the matter. it is known he has
striven for years to keep the naval gun
factory not only up to high state of
efficiency. but to maintain full and
sufficient corps of trained gunmakers
and their assistants, in order that the
establishment may be ready to respond
promptly in any case of emergency that
may arise.
THE proposed discharge is charged to
the efforts of certain members of Con-
gress TO build up their political constitu-
encies at the expense of the general gov
eminent and the practically defenseless
District of Columbia" labor leader
declared. THE fault lies with Congress.
and it seems that our only redress lies in
an appeal to that body and to the public
conscience.
1t was suggested that every organiza-
ton in the District-religious CONNER
cial political. patriotic and what not
should enlist in campaign of protection
to the workingmen of the Washington
navy yard, who are facing dismissal in
the midst of cherries winter
Sam De Nedrey. secretary of the Cen
tral Labor Union and editor of the Trades
Cnionist says the threa tened discharge
Is matter of moment, not only to the
workngmen, but to every business man
and citizen of the District of Columbia.
In round numbers, he adds. it will mean
d loss in money to this community of up
wards of $3UU,CO0 annually
The suggestion has been made that all
organizations here pass resolutions aimed
at Congress and send committees to that
body to avert the disaster, if possible.
\ union of clergymen is suggested by
Editor Charley Holman of the Bakers
Journal. He says in the last issue of
his publication:
Many ministers are unable, it is said,
to support their families on the small
salaries they receive, and numbers of
them are forced to toll for living at
other occupations. In Boston it is there
fore proposed to form union.
The proposed union is to be based on
the same principles as those of organ
lied labor and is intended to have the
same sort of restrictive and protective
features. There will be a clause cover
ing movement on the part of the clergy
answering to the strike of the working
men. and there will also be a functionary
of the nature of the walking delegate.
If the Boston ministers find it neceS-
Sary to organize, we should think the
bakery workers of that city would find
ii of much greater advantage to affiliate
with the organization of their trade. But
1t does not seem to be with them, we
are sorry to say. and there is still a
large part of them unorganized. Appar-
emily they are satisfied with the condi-
lions they have to work under: they
belong to that multitude of workers who
can only be driven and forced into the
organization by dire necessity and who
will leave the organization more readily
again. when better times have been gain
ed for them. And there are others of the
same ilk in many of the other cities"
last meeting of Columbia Typographical
Union, President Frank A. Kidd and
Secretary George G. Seibold will make
application for membership in the WASH
ington Board of Trade. The printers, 1t
is said desire to keep up the record of
their organization for progressiveness.
and keep in touch with the commercial
and civic throb of the community. CO.
lumbia Union is a prosperous aSSocla-
ton with a membership OF upward of
1000 typos.
The Trades Unionist says representa-
tives of the Butcher Workmen. who have
been on strike for several weeks, report
UTdt lneS are nOlulDS lilelT own III Tie
controversy with the bosses. and hope
soon to be able to report satisfactory
adjustment. One firm has signed a con-
tract, and prospects look bright.
A statement is made that the building
trades Of the District are steadily gaining
ground: that the amount of fair" work
given out in the first week of this month
was S915.7O0. as against S117.3CO unfair.
and that for the month of October. this
81 Got, -Hrlyf r{yynv, nttf
to contractors was S1,O33,OO0. as against
S344 $50 for the month of October, 1907.
The members of the Womans Auxiliary
to Columbia Typogra phical Union will en-
tertain their friends tonight at Thanks
giving eve reception at Typographical
Temple. 1t is expected that many of the
typos from the government printing office
will be present.
H. S. Sutton in his Just Every Day
Life" in the Trades Unionist says: I'm
the government printing office proofroom
twenty readers are appointed as result
of the late examination; in the merg di
vision a room has been partitoned off
for the use of Record readers. with the
room in the mono section Mr.. Fowler re-
turns from his honeymoon, Mr. WilmOth
from a visit to Texas and Mr.. Roe from
a trip to Minnesota: a number of the
single HdcnlneS nave DeeH utteu 10 IL
point for bills and the duplex has come
into general use
Word comes from GAINESVILLE. Ohio. that
failing to agree after an all-night session
with representatives of operators. 900
coal miners of the Crooksfield district
struck Meetings had been held for the
last eight weeks in an effort to settle a
controversy over the removal of bone
coal The strike closes twenty-eight
mines and means a loss of $4,000
monthly in wages.
Rather than be forced out of work
through the closing of the mills, with the
attendant distress, steel workers in the
Ohio districts have agreed to accept a
wage reduction. thereby making 1T possible
for the plants to keep running and work
to keep up. The cut came in the form
of newer and lower scale. which the
scale committee selected by the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron Steel and Tin
Workers signed in behalf Of the men after
a long conference with the employers
representatives in Detroit 1t provides a
general cut of 10 per cent in all, or nearly
ALL branches of the trade.
The 5000 operatives in two great thread
mills in Newark, n. j.. were notified that
full time work will be resumed at once
Since last April the mills have been run