Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-19
IN LABOR CIRCLES

dent of the union Of musicians in this
city. was reelected president of the Mu-
steal Mutual Protective Union. $40. A. F..
Of L., in New York last week, receiving
vote of $50, to 565 for his competitor.
Mr.. Kerngood has met with success in
his work in New York.
The mass meeting of the members of
the Order of Railway Telegraphers in
New York city October 20 promises to be
one of the the big sessions in the history
Of the order. 1t is expected that there
will be more delegates present from the
eastern lines than usually attend the
national conventions.
More than 1000 delegates and visitors
attended the twenty-seventh annual con-
vention of the Laundrymen's National
Associat ton of the United States and
Canada at Norfolk, Va, this week.
The Association of Iron and Steel Elec-
trical Engineers elected the following Of
ficers at it's annual convention in Pitts
burg: President, ]. r. Palmer, Pittsburg;
first vice president, B. r. Shower,
Youngstown. Ohio; second vice president.
urer. E. w. Yearsley. Philadelphia: sec
rotary. John Harrington, Steubenville.
Ohio.
Three thousand girl dressmakers en-
ployed in tailoring stores on the East
Side of New York city paraded through
the streets of that section a few days
ago and held a mass meeting in Rutgers
Square. The parade was held to cele-
brate the winning of the recent general
strike of dresSmakerS for a fifty-twO-
hour week and 70 per cent increase in
wages.
The East Side dressmakers constitute
District No. > Of the Waistmakers'
The thirty-five cigar factories at Tam
pa Fla. which have been closed since the
beginning of the strike, July %. were
opened October II under ''open shop
rules. About 100 returned to work, under
the protection of about twenty special
police, sworn in by the city officers. There
was no rioting. The citizens committee
has guaranteed protection TO employees
and employers alike, and for all property
interests.
T. F.. Thomas, for ten years president of
Union No. 30, at st. Paul,
Mimi. and for many years its secretary.
and for two years vice president of the
State Federation of Labor. died of cancer
recently in hospital in that city.
Charles II. Meyer, head of the Western
Federation of Miners. is in the Black
Hills. S. D., talking to the various unions
on the labor situation. While many union
miners have quit the hills since the fail
ure of the strike against the Homestake
Mining Company, last fall. there are still
several hundred there working in other
capacities.
The long-pendng contention between the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
and certain Of its machinists over rules
work in shops has at last been
settled by an agreement which is being
ratified by the machinists of the different
shops.
John r. Lennon, treasurer of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. of st. Paul,
Mimi, was at Bloomington, ILL.,. on Labor
day and made a speech. With other
bon mots apropos OF the day, Mr.. Lennon
told the following:
1.-The workingman of today is wise
one, all right. but in the past he was easy
to fool and delude. That is why he failed
so long to get justice.
when l think of the easy, unsophis-
ticated workman of bygone days / am re-
minded of the man who. while passing
golf course. was hit in the eye with ball
The man clapped his hand over his eye
and ran toward the player who had driven
the ball that hit him.
This will cost you So he screamed.
But / shouted "fore-' my good man.
said the player, earnestly. Did you, sir.
replied the injured man. in Modified tone
Wei, / did not hear you. III take the
four dollars
It will be gratifying to the friends of
abor to learn that, at the instance ana
cooperation of the J. P. Morgan CON-
panyof New York. more than score OF
industrial and kindred corporations have
adopted a plan Of profit-sharing with en-
ployes The United States Motor Com
pany is one of the corporations to adopt
the plan, based largely on that adopted
Many properties controlled by the Morgan
interests have made the proflt-sharlnS
success.
reports a better market for labor this
year than last and says that conditions
have been vastly better than In 1905, but
not SO good as in 1905, 1906 or 1901
The figures were obtained through the
returns from 1870 trade unions in the state
of New York They showed the unem-
ployed i'm these 1870 trade unions to have
been between $4,000 and 100000 members,
or nearly one-fourth OF the organized
wage earners Of the state.
Idjeness due to strikes and lOckouts for
the first six months of 1910, as whole,
was considerably more than In 1909.
.It must be borne in mind,' says the
that the idleness here re-
due to labor disputes Or disability as we'll
as that due to the state of trade as af.
fected by the weather and business con-
ditions. 1t is idleness under the latter
head only which constitutes true unem-
plovment and directly reflects the state
of the labor market
The coming Christmastide should be
ma rticularly happy for the army of en-
nloyes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. Since the general increase in
wages some time ago, the company has
reaGiusted the salaries of it's trainmen,
conductors and Engagement, granted an
additional per cent to the telegraphers
and dispatchers, and given an additional
The increase to the telegraphers and
dispatche alone will amount to $2OO.O0O
a wear and is being paid out for the first
time this month. The clerks are down
also for an increase. ranging from 10 to
IL per cent.
AT the convention Of the National Mas
Rapids. Mich, William e. Murphy OF
Philadelphia was elected president and
Atlantic City was chosen as the next
meeting place.
EmpIoyes of a number of cigar factories
at Reading, Pa, were agreeably surprised
recently. by substantial raise in wages.
The makers received an increase from
ST. so to 81 a thousand. The packers got
an increase of cents thousand on
all one-tenth packing, while the shippers
and other salaried workers received a
6 per cent increase. This interests many
of Washington's wage earners because
the Reading goods are sold in the local
cigar stores.