Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-03
IN LABOR DOMAIN.

Booker T. Washington, in q reoont
speech at a public meeting at Durham,
n. c.. expressed the belief that the con-
dition Of the southern negro laborer is
lar better than the European. He stated
further that OF all places in the world
he had visited he had found none whore
the white and colored races. living side
by side, dwelled in such satisfactory rsla-
tionship as In the south.
Fully 100 teachers Of Luzerne county,
Pa, declared in a resolution adopted at
an institute held recently at Wilhesbarre
OF the American Federation Of Labor if
a way can be devised for joining 1t. The
teachers are ripe for organization, hoping
thereby to secure moral and financial
support in their efforts to perfect a state
organization for the purpose of securing
legislation beneficial to themselves. This
plan of the teachers includes laws pro-
viding for fixed salaries, for the codifica
ton Of the school laws. Tor making their
positions permanent after five years
service. for establishing a teachers re-
tirement fund. and for providing for the
elimination Of politics from all educs-
tIonal work.
The question OF seven-day labor in con-
tinuous processes In the iron and steel
industry will be investigated by q COM
mittee appointed by z. II. Gary. chair
man Of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, and president Of the American Iron
and Steel Institute. This action Is q Sc
quence to the resolution passed at the
meeting of the American Iron and Steel
Institute held in New York on May q.
The Pennsylvania railroad system paid
out In wages to 127, 1S6 employees In July
IS, 705. 500.
Union painters are on a strike again
in Philadelphia because employers Of ten
per cent Of their number refused to agree
to demands of the union. Fully one
thousand men responded to the call and
they declare that they will not return
until their demand for shorter hours and
increased pay Is granted.
Expert investigators for the national
child labor committee OF New York. who
have been conducting a quiet investiga-
ton in Delaware In cooperation with the
social service commission of the Episco-
pal diocese Of that state, report the con-
ditions as deplorable. The inspectors Sc
cured photographs OF berry fields ana
cannery scenes. The pictures are Of os-
adjustments in towns where 1t IL alleged
that children too young to attend school
are worked nine hours a day. ana, IN
extreme cases. from sunup to shutdown.
1t is asserted that hundreds OF children
leave the Philadelphia schools In defiance
Of the compulsory education law to work
I'm the berry fields Of Delaware and New
Jersey. 1t is alleged also that the par
ents encourage the children, for II 10 COM
puted that the labors Of a family OF dvo
in q berry field would net from IS to
$12 daily. 1t 10 also charged that chill
dren under fourteen years of age were
dangerous machinery. the major portion
Of which was unguarded.
Sixty-five skilled cigarmakers, among
Aw<v~
Pittsburg. Pa. recently to Tampa. Fla.
to accept positions In the factories In
which a strike has been on for some time.
Agents of these cigar factories were In
Pittsburg for q week or more getting
together force to send south. They
wanted only the very best workmen, 90
they had some difficulty in securing q
goodly number for the first quota. 1t IL
reported that inducements Of an extraor-
binary nature were held out before re-
cruits to take the places Of the strikers
were scured.
Technical education. although opposed
strenuously by the labor unions In the
recognized by many Of the unions OF the
country as Of vast benefit, and now In
many localities. wherever technical train
ing is part OF the college or school cur
riculum. the members OF the labor unions
have been quick to take advantage OF IT,
In line with this modern thought Is the
report that night industrial schools are
to be started In St. Paul. Mimi, TINS
winter by the st. Paul Builders Elk
change in cooperation with the st. Paul
Institute and the board of school In
spectors (the public school board.
In Pittsburg the other day q fifteen
year-old-girl was found working for ]
cent an hour-10 cents a day or 60 cents
a week. She was Celia Gold, q sweet
faced Roumanian girl. and she was found
eking out an existence on this pittance