Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03
IN LABOR CIRCLES:

In few weeks the active building sea-
son will open here, and the continuance
of the eight-hour contest between lhe
F,mployers' Association and the Ai'ieu
Ruildine Trades Council will be watched
with interest. The master builders claim
thew have successfully established the
omen shop in the District of Column
for all time. The organized workingmen
dispute this claim and declare the open
shoo spasm." as a leading carpenter de-
scribed it, will soon suoSlue anu u''ioi'
conditions be restored.
That the mixed union OF employers
and employees recently formed by the
masters will solve the problem is the
belief of the employers. They claim tha'
the public has as much right to honor
the working card of the mixed union as
it has to recognize that of the unions
of carpenters, bricklayers and others.
There will be no fight this spring be-
tween the employers and the labor
unions a master workman declared to-
day. 1.-The fight is over and the smoke
of battle has cleared away, leaving the
open shop permanently established here.
There will be no retrOgrading on our
part, and the building operations In the
District will be more extensive the COM
ing spring and summer than they have
been for several years. because industrial
peace has been brought about. We will
not have any time for contests hereafter.
We will be too busy working.
Members of the building trades, on the
contrary, assert that the contest Will be
waged until the "open-shop theory is eX-
ploded."
The editor Of the Bakers Journal gives
a list of exclusive unions. as follows:
sro preacb marry people and collect
the salary, fees and perquisites of the
pulpit you must belong to the Ministers
Union, the clergy, and carry a license
card
ITO practice law you must belong to
the Lawyers Union. the bar, and carry
paid-up license card.
ITO practice medicine you must belong
to the Doctors Union and carry diploma
card
IF YOU own stocks and bonds can yol
go or the floor of the exchange and sci
them? Not unless you belong to the
Stock Gamblers Union, the stock ex
change.
..Do you see farmers on the floor OF
the produce exchange selling their grain
and cotton? Not much. They do moi
belong to the Produce Gamblers Union
do drovers sell their cattle and hogs
on the floor of the livestock exchange.
| The nearest they get to 1t Is the ONCE
of Skinem, Bilkem & Shark. livestock
commission merchants, who are member:
in good standing of the Livestock Gam
blers' Union.
THE open shop is a beautiful institu
ton only when applied to plain and sim
pie work.
about the only lawful thing you ma,
do. and not belong to a union. is to work
like dog and starve."
T. c. Parsons. late president of Co
lumbia Typographical Union. No. 101,
but now an organizer for the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, has return
ed to this city after successful re-
cruiting' trip through the south.
Jere +. Sullivan, secretary tree: sureT
of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees
Interna tional Alliance and BartenderS'
International League of America. with
headquarters at Cincinnati, Ohio has
wired Secretary Morrison of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor to draw on him
as the representative of his organiza-
ton for $1,000, Il subscription to the
appeal fund in the contempt case against
the American Federation of Labor Off
Gals.
In an. editorial in the current issue of
the Trades Unionist, Editor De Nedrey
says:
mo men Of rank or official station in
this country are so beloved by the indus
trial workers as Samuel Gompers and
John Mitchell. In comfortable homes
and in the novels of the. less favored
these names are suggestive of rugged
honesty and ceaseless endeavOr for the
betterment of industrial conditions. 1t
is a fact not always admitted by our
opponents. that the power placed with
these gentlemen and their associates Is
in the interests of a peaceful and ra-
ti0nal solution OF industrial disputes,