Evening star., 1909-06-23
IN LABOR CIRCLES

candidates elected as delegate from CO.
lumba Typographical Union. No. iol II
the International Typographical. Union
convention to be held at St Joseph. Mo,
in August next. is an employe of the gov
ernment printing office
Mr.. Schinnerer was born in Prescott.
Ark. May 23. isT3. and in 1850 moved
with his parents TO Memphis. Tenn, where
he afterward learned the printers trade.
commencing his apprenticeship on the
Public Ledger and finishing out a
journeyman on the Memphis Commercial,
where he received his first union cara
from Memphis Typographical Union. M.
III. in 1890. He has worked In Chicago.
Cincinnati, ST. Louis and other cities in
the west. and in 1895 was appointed COM
poSitor iii the G.. l.. O.. where he has
worked in various capacities in nearly all
the divisions of the great print shop. and
at the present time holds the position OF
timekeeper on the Congressional Record
force.
Always an active member of Columbia
Union, Mr.. Schinnerer has performed
valuable service on the relief committee,
finance committee and executive commit
tee of the union, and his work has gained
him close friendship with the down
town printers well as with his CO.
workers In the G. p. O.
His experience in matters pertaining 10
the printers organization. his friends SAY
will make him valuable representative
of Columbia Union at the |. r. L. conven-
ton at ST. Joseph, Mo.
Joe Danielson, organizer OF the knights
of Labor, made a report TO his organiza-
ton of his observations among business
firms and states that they are greatly
pleased with the knights of Laboris
method of doing business and are en-
ploying men carrying Knights OF Labor
cards, and that one firm which secured
one of the largest contracts in the city
arranged to employ only men carrying
knights of Labor cards.
He says his organization has had quite
a demand for carpenters well as for
painters. as result OF which some or
the bosses have gone out In the market
TO bid on contract work containing the
union clause: that painters. members %
IDS. are working one of the best jobs
in the city-a strictly union tob-anG
that members of 36S. Brotherhood OF
Painters. have been working with knights
OF Labor on that job. Mr.. Danielson
says: Il am satisfied that Local 36S will
grant the Knights of Labor the same
chance on these three jobs that il did on
the other job.
II had the pleasure" he states. 'of
being present at the last meeting of the
carpenters, when 1t was reported that
committee reported the signing of a con-
tract with boss builder for employing
Knights of Labor carpenters.
The hours of labor in manufacturing
and mercantile establishments in Maine
will be fifty-eight per week after January
]. 1910, by the provisions of bill passed
by the last Legislature. Another bill
passed creates state board of con-
ciliation and arbitration. Massachusetts
and New York have state boards of a
similar character.
The erection of labor temples is rapidly
becoming prominent feature OF the or
q q n a hn, t11,.
1t is announced the organized workers
of Superior, Wis. are TO build $4,000
labor temple and clubhouse.
President M. o. Sullivan of the Anal
gamated Sheet Metal Workers. has been
seriously i'll at his home in Grafton The
latest reports are to the effect that he
will be on duty again in a few days.
B. A. Larger. general secretary OF the
United Garment Workers, leaves for
Europe the latter part of this month TO
represent the American Federation Of
Labor at the British Trades Union con-
gress.
Boston Cigarmakers' Union has petit.
toned Congress to pass a law making IL
criminal Offense to speculate in wheat.
As the price of flour increases the death
rate correspondngly increases, the union
declares.
Junk wagon drivers, stenographers.
bookkeepers and assistants have organ
lied in Kansas City, Mo.
Garment Workers Union i'm Erie, Pa,
received increase in wages ranging from
10 to 40 per cent and the eight-hour day
without a strike.
An educational session once a month
with a professional expert as instructor,
will be held henceforth by Boston Coal
Nc
The Indianapolis labor organizations
have recently leased a farm of thirty
acres west of the city, which they intnd
to improve and use for picnics and out
ings.
The eight-hour workday has been estab.
l1shed in 9S per cent of the shops through
out the country. according TO Robert
Glockling. international president of the
Bookbinders' Union.
OF 221s5 women employed in the va
rious industries in Pittsburg. less than
one-f1fth earn 50 week or more; one
fifth earn about 81 and three-ffths OF
them receive less than s..
The argument used in the British
house of commons recently in favor Of
a bill to check sweating was that in the
sweated industries the wages paid are
often below the level of decency and
puDi11 iiloidlS ana Hedlln. tndt the in
dustries themselves are largely of the
parasitic" order and that if they cam
not be mended society would lose moth.
ing by ending them
in connection with the new system Of
discipline adopted by the Burlington rails
road. drunkenness, disoyalty and insub-
ordination are given as causes for imme-
date dismissal without appeal.
deputation of Victorian australian
pohcemen waited on Premier Murray re-
Gently and asked for an increase of sd
per day In their wages. Murray ex-
pressed himself in favor of the increase.
bill making ii a misdemeanor. pun
ishable by fine of from 500 to $500 nr
by Imprisonment for from three months
to one year. either to use a union label
without authority or to counterfeit the
label or to have in possession any mer-
chandfse marked with a counterfeit la
bel is now law in the state of New
York.