Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-04

President Building Trades Mechanics Council.
and Canada. His friends say he is by
temperament and experience peculiarly
fitted for the positions he holds.
President 10 Evans is about fifty-three
years of age. He was born at Welshpool,
North Wales. and is rather stout and of
pleasing personality. He is a regular
contributor to the Stonecutters Journal
and his articles arc generally used by the
labor press throughout the country.
Word has been received here that the
organization Of new labor union. en-
bracfng the =. 100000 union employees on
10000 miles of railway. has just been
completed at Chicago by the merger of
twenty-five unions of American. Canadian
and Mexican railroad men or affiliated
with railway employees. 1t will be known
of the American Federation of Labor,
and though affiliated with the a. f. of L.,
will be conducted as separate govern
ing body The temporary officers are
III. B. Perham of the Telegraphers Union,
president. and d. W. Roderick of the
machinists', secretary treasurer. a per-
nlanent organization will be effected at a
meeting in Chicago in August.
Failure OF the company to accede to
their demands for ten-hour instead of
an eight-hour day led to waIk-out of
100 car repairers at the Joliet shops of
the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern. The un-
usual demand for a teH-hour day hinges
not make living wages working eight
hours and they declare that they will
work two hours longer to get more
money. Under officials at the shops
claim that they have not the work to
furnish for more hours.
After being out on strike since July l
marble workers of Milwaukee returned to
Thn f,t1it in hra n
largest works in the city because their
demand for an increase of 30 cents day
had not been granted. The employers
made a compromise offer and the union
accepted the proposition. The terms OF
settlement are being withheld.
Rev Charles Stelzel. who spoke before
the glass bottle blowers at Milwaukee.
most important thing about the labor
question is to give the other fellow a
square deal. The average workman is
too close to the labor question to under
stand it. but what Is true of the average
workman Is probably just as true of the
average employer. Thousands of men are
being deluded by the vain hope that If
they can abolish the labor union they
will have solved the labor question. II
every union were to be abolished today
the labor question would still be present.
Because their demand for an increase
in wages OF % cents on q hundred axes
was refused. 300 grinders and edgers en-
ployed at the Kelly AK Manufacturing
Company at Charleston. w. Va. said to
be the largest plant of it's kind in the
world, went on strike. 1t is claimed that
unless settlement Of differences between
the men and officials of the company is
reached within a few days the entire
plant will have to be shut down, thereby
affecting 1900 men. Most of the strikers
are Poles.
Wrecking truck drivers of Brownsville
y. Y, have organized.
Steam engineers and hoistermen have
organized in Poplin, Mo.
The Colored Walters Union in st. Paul
Mimi, Is gaining steadily.
The next convention of the Retail Clerks
Protective Association will be held in Co.
luuhus. Ohio
The Marine Engineers have a total
membership on the coasts, lakes and
rivers of the United States of 1850.
The Wholesale Dry Goods Clerks in New
York city have applied for admission to
the United Hebrew Trades.