Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-19

Interest is being manifested in many
circles and in many ways in the al-day
celebration to be held Monday, Septem-
Der Z, at the Bennng race track in COM
| memoration of Labor Day. The commit
tee in charge has arranged an elaborate
program, including foot, motorcycle and
automobile races and a number or ath-
| letic events will have the usual quota of
| entries.
| A base ball game between teams OF
the Painters Union and Typographical
Union will be played at IL O'Clock. The
motorcycle and automobile races and
| other events will be held during the
| afternoon. The races have been sane
toned by the Federation OF American
Motorists. The prizes for the winners
in the different events are three engraved
cups donated by The Star. the Trades
Unionist and The Times.
A fitting contest between knights of the
District of Columbia. Maryland and Vir-
ginia will be watched by large number
| Of the devotees Of that sport. The prizes
offered aggregate 500 in cash and some
fine work is looked for upon the part of
the knights who have entered. The win
ners will crown the queen OF love and
beauty and her maids of honor IN front
of the grandstand.
A one-mile handicap bicycle race IS
scheduled to take place Immediately fol-
lowing the motorcycle events. This race
is an open one. The tournament will
start promptly at noon. The motorcycle
events are ten-mile race, single. open
to all; fifteen-mile handicap. single and
double and a twenty-five mile race for
road machines, fully equipped. but with
out muffiers.
The field games will consist Of 100
yard dash. open to members Of organized
labor affiliated with the Central Labor
teen years of age. and lOo-yard dash
open to all. For boys under sixteen there
| will be three legged race as we'll as a
| sack race. For girls under fifteen there
row race for ladies. running broad
jump contest will close the athletic
events
| In addition to the athletic events there
in different parts Of the Enclosure.
vaudeville and moving picture continuous
| performance will be held in the large
circus tent during the afternoon and
evening and a number of other amuse-
ments will also be in full operation.
Through its political organization the
Minnesota State Federation Of Labor is
state and municipalities Of the eight
hour day: municipal ownership Of public
| service utilities, payment Of wages week
~, the Initiative and referendum, secur-
ing better sanitary conditions, abolition of
| contract labor In state prisons. compul-
| sorry education and employers liability
act
After being idle for about nine months
| the Leechburg. Pa. plant Of the Ameri-
can Sheet and Tinplate Company re-
sumed operations. About forty men re-
| turned to work. It also is announced
that the company's mines in the vicinity
OF West Leechburg which have not been
INN 1,a ptn
again.
| The strike declared by the employees of
the Elgin-Belvidere Electric Company
schedule resumed. The company has
agreed 70 recognize the union and to nav
the car operatives q cents per hour. The
suDstation employers age raised from $45
per month to $3.50: All persons who
were employees Of the company at the
| time the walkout was declared are to be
reinstated. All other differences are to
be settled by arbitration
Good news came to the people Of Mineo
| Junction. Ohio, recently when Official no
| tice came to start up the Carnegie COM
pany mills at that place four-flfths full
This mill has been idle nine months, re-
| pairs have been made and two of the four
furnaces. the blooming and sheet bar
mills and Bessemer plant. will be put in
operation. Fully 1900 men will be given
employment.
The fourteen cases brought in the cir
| cult court at Jefferson City. Mo-, last
| spring against the Missouri Pacific rail-
way by j. G. Slate. prosecuting attorney,
FOR violation Of the eight-hOur telegraph
ers law were dismissed by the prosecu-
| tors because the supreme court, in q re-
cent decision in a case from Johnson
| county. declared the law unconstitutional.
That the anthracite coal trade Is i'm
proving was shown when orders were
| posted at the collieries of the Reading
Coal and Iron Company at Reading. Pa.
directing that the mines work five days a
| week instead of four.
As intimated in the Brooklyn Eagle a
few weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has apparently decided to make
way with the unions on its system. A
| circular reciting this determination is al
legged to have been sent out to the various
superintendent ordering that superin-
tendents will, through their organisation,
| inform themselves concerning such en-
ployes in the various classes as may be
| members Of the unions. and remove at the
| earliest possible moment the leaders in
our employ, and that they will follow this
up with the removal Of all other employees,
| members of the unions, that have not sew
The lockout of 5000 ship riveters which
is in effect at the Vulcan shipbuilding
yard at stettin. Germany. threatens to
spread throughout the country. The trou-
| BILE had its origin in the refusal of the
men to accept the terms OF their en-
ployers relative to the payment Of over
time rates and in their objection to work.
ing extra hours in the completion OF con-
tracts. The local Iron Masters Associa-
ton decided to reduce the output of all
| their furnaces 60 per cent In order to
coerce the men, and, should this measure
| not induce the riveters to return to work,
| it is the intention Of the iron masters to
| introduce a proposition before the Ger
man National Federation of Metal Work.
ers to entirely close down all their works
| throughout the empire.
The relation Of the workingmen to the
peace movement was the principal topic
Of discussion at the peace congress in