Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-02
News of the Labor World

last legislature of that state, provid-
ing that women shall not labor more
than ten hours a day, is Invalid. rms
decision was made when 1t was known
that the Illinois law was drafted on
the lines of the Oregon statute, which
had stood the test of the United States
supreme court. The decision OF the
Chicago court will be fought by the
state factory inspectors In the hlgner
courts for a final settlement of the
question.
President Eliot of Harvard spoke pc
fore an audience recently at Gambler
Ohio, taking for his subject 1.-THE Flu
ture of Trade Unionism in Democ-
racy" In the course of his remarks
he denounced the policy, which is now
fast becoming universal, of making
Joint agreements between capital and
labor, notwithstanding the acknowl-
edged fact that this procedure mas
proven of inestimable benefit to both.
Collective and longtime agreements
entirely do away with strikes and in
dustrial unrest and insure peace and
harmony between the parties to the
agreement. Some of the evils which
he ascribed to unionism, and for which
he can show no authority, were limita-
ton of output and opposition to trade
schools.
At the recent meeting of the United
Textile workers of America which was
held in washington, ID. c., delegates
We're present representing 10000 opera
tiyes. The convention was addressed
by Samuel Gompers, who has just re-
turned from a tour of investigation OF
labor conditions in Europe. Mr.. Com
pers dwelt at length upon the neces-
sity of the textile workers providing
a life insurance clause in their laws and
other benefits calculated to hold the
members In closer embrace. The strike
of the textile workers few years ago
in the Fall River district, Mr.. Com
pers said, had taught the employers in
the textile trades that 1t was cheaper
to pay the living wage asked by the
union than it to bear the expense of
strike. "If employers in the textile
trades understood" said Mr. Gompers,
that the life line had been reached in
wages of the textile workers, and that
the men and women in that trade will
not work for less than a living wage,
that living wage will be paid to them.
If people simply allow themselves to be
nodded by the oppressive grasp of EN-
ployers, there is no limit to which the
workers may not be oppressed"
At the convention of the State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor held in san Rafael
recently, a proposition by Delegate
Lehman was adopted calling for a
savings bank under the direct control
of the labor organizations, as was also
a resolution indorsing the establish
ment of postal savings banks Other
resolutions included those calling for
the eight-hour day for women and
children in all trades, for an eight-hour
day. in the postal service and for fin
ing members for purchasing non-union
made goods when others are obtainable.
Now comes the navy department and
enlists in the army of those endeavor-
ing to stamp out consumption, an or
der having been issued to the bureau
of medicine and surgery to make an
inspection of the officials and clerks
10 see whether or not any are afflicted
! -ith the disease Sanitary conditions
are to be looked into sharply. 1t has
been decided where clerks are afflicted
and working with those not afflicted,
10 segregate them or give them APP
pointments. in more favorable climates.
The investigation is to be thorough,
and it is possible other departments