Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-02
IN LABOR CIRCLES

Some of the local labor leaders are dis
cussns the project of forming a commit
tee to cooperate with the conventions
committee of the Chamber of Commerce
for the purpose of inducing national and
international organizations of working
men to hold their conventions in this
city. Those interested in the matter
point out that the headquarters of the
American Federation Of Labor, the In
ternational Association of Machnists and
other labor associations are located here
and that in other respects this is an
ideal convention city.
The coming to the capital of many rep
|resertatives of labor bodies would also be
in the nature of an educational trip to
them, leading carpenter said. Should
the conventions be held In the winter
months the delegates would be enabled
TO attend the sessions of Congress. In
the summer they would see Washington
at it's best, and be able to visit the sew
Ieral departments. the museums and other
points of interest in and about the city.
A New York workfngman who is I'm
Washington on a visit said today:
One of the first of the large surface
transit lines in the United States to fol-
low the example of several of the rail-
roads and large industrial corporations
ana adopt a pension system is the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company. The railroad
employs 1900 men. Each employee who
has served thirty-five years will be en-
titled to receive 80 per cent of his month";
|ly pay when he reaches the age Of sew
|enty, or is relieved through incapacity
between the ages of sixty-five and sixty
nine years. The minimum limit of service
to entitle the employe to participation
is twenty-five years. the pension being
graded down to thirty per cent for such
workers. Provision Is also made for en-
ployes who are less than sixty-five years
old and have become incapacitated after
serving thirty or more years.
Will Maupn. the labor writer In an ar
ticle in the Lincoln Wageworker. SAYS:
Sam De Nedrey OF Washington d. c.. for
delegate to the A. F. of L. We second
the nomination. They don't make wires
that will carry any more current than
De Nedrey carries all the time"
Strikes occur for various reasons
Editor John W. Hayes says in the cur
rent number of the knights of Labor
journal, but it is seldom that strikes
embody in their demands and chicken
once day at meal time The heavy
SHOW storms of the past month required
large number of men. particularly on
the various railroads, to keep the tracks
clear and assist in speeding the traffic
The Chicago and Northwestern. at James
vile. Wis, had two hundred and twenty
men as snow shovelers. The men were
working but few days when they re-
solved to ask for an increase of pay and
chicken dinner every day. Their de-
mands We're refused by the company,
whereupon the entire force struck
According to the bureau of vital sta
tistics of the United States government,
American bakers and confectioners have
death rate due to consumption of 80. 1
per 100000. The death rate from pneu-
monia amounts to 117.4 per 100000. From
these two causes, both growing out of
their occupation. their death rate is 367. .
per 100000. The average death rate
among all people 1910 per 100000.
In the referendum vote for general sec
rotary of the Journeymen Tailors' Union
of America. John 3. Lennon of Blooming
ton. who has he'd the position for
twenty-three years, has been defeated by
f. j. Brais of Cleveland who will take
charge July l. 1910 Lennon attributes
his defeat to his activity against saloons.
Lennon is also national treasurer of the
Federation of Labor.
last week Franklin Association Is Of
Junior PressInen, Assistants and Feeders
of Boston elected, It's 1910 wage scale COM
mittee. The present agreement expires
June l. BY it the eight-hour workday
was cec,,rnd