The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-05-12

pelier people and the members of
the Legislature then present, intend
ed marriage,
cat the time of some convention
rode down the river with my father
! in a two-wheeled chaise accompan-
| led by other carriages of the same
sort. Two miles above Waterbury,
several men got out to walk up a
steep hill. My father called out that
he believed there would sometime be
railroad along Onion river This
was received then and referred to
afterward as a good joke, for those
men were intelligent and it was
generally understood that a rail-
road must be Jewel and straight
My father lived to take many rides
on that roalroad.'
NOTES FROM The LABOR WORLD.
The Big Four station in Springfield,
o., will be erected by union labor.
There are 200 women BARRIERS am
ong the 1000 BARRIERS in the State of
Massachusetts.
Chicago iron workers have a scale
of 621s cents an hour and are now
asking for 50 cents.
| 1
employed in New Jersey factories &C
cording to law just passed.
Two of the Winnipeg, Manitoba,
seats, and perhaps three, will be con-
tested by the labor party in the next
provincial election.
The first national labor congress
was held at Baltimore on August 90,
1866. This body met annually in diff
ferent cities for several years there
after.
In Rhode Island a new law pro-
vides that no child under 16 years
of age shall work after p. m. Near
ly 1000 children in the State are af-
fected
Organized labor throughout west
fern Canada is having a busy time of
it endeavoring to keep pace with the
phenomenal industry development and
capitalist expansion.
The executive of the Labor Educa-
tional Association of Ontario, Can, is
making arrangements for the holding
of mass meetings in various ceHtsrs
Throughout the Dominion.
The United Garment Workers of
America have been great sufferers as
a result of the prison output of shirts,
overalls, trousers and the like, used
by workingmen in their trade.
The State Federation of Labor OF
Texas has decided by a large MAORI
ty vote that hereafter all officers OF
the federation are to be elected by
secret ballot and in that way all poll
tics may be eliminated.
The question of establishing an old
age pension fund is being considered
by several of the big international
Iunionc Tho old 600 pancion ,urd N,
the international Typographical Union
has been raised to S21S,000
100000 wage earners in Greater
New York are receiving wages small.
Ter than $500 year the minimum Of
decency" fixed by the annual repor,
recently given out by the committee
on congestion of the population.
The Central Federated Union of New
York City has issued an appeal tC
Samuel Gompers and other nationa
labor leaders demanding the organic
alton of a national labor party in this
country, modelled on the lines Of tn,
British Labor party.
The giving of commission or DO
nus to domestic servants or other!
making purchases for their employer
is made an offense in New Jersey ant
Washington. The receiving of tip.
by waters in hotels and restaurant
and the giving of such tips is also pro
S hibited in those States.
e Thomas Van Lear is on the Pacif
e coast in the interest of the machinist
= at present. He will interest himsel
: in all of the railroad crafts in lin
d with the policy of the railway depart
: ment of the American Federation o
/ Labor, and the idea of bringing abou
S a better understanding between tn
: trades.
JACK SPRATT REARRANGED.
(The Dilineator.)
Jack Spratt could eat no fat,