The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-18

1911.
LABOR UNION NOTES
OF WIDE INTEREST
Statewide Organizing Campaign Has
Been Started in Vermont Under
Auspices Of Vermont Branch,
American Federation of
Labor.
There are about a million and eleven
excuses offered by trades union members
who are caught with non-unon goods
ON them, or in the act OF purchasing
otAiIHf bhA hhfg AAii Whtl OuN NtUNlDlts
logical, acceptable, honest reason for
their criminal neglect or indifference.
II union is good enough TO become a
member OF, If its platform and principles
are acceptable, then the member that
wilfully patronizes non-labeled products
aids the opponents OF labor and should
be classed as an enemy of union labor.
A statewide organizing campaign was
started in Rutland last week. General
Organizer j. d. Pierece of the American
Federation of Labor is to devote three
months to the organizing of the follow
ing cities and towns; Rutland, Bur
lington, Montpelier, Bratteboro, Bellows
Falls, St. Adams and st. Johnsbury.
The work is under the auspices of the
Vermont state branch Of the A. I. Of
i.
The wood workers Of Burlington are
rapidly organizing, over sixty having
joined the union in the past two weeks
A Retail Clerks union was recently
organized in Bethel
1t is reported that the coal strike
which has been in effect in Alberta and
British Columbia for the past eighteen
months, has been settled, the men hav-
ing gained 10 per cent, increase.
A strike of 200 machinists has taken
,.Ia IN, r,1aI,
tees The machinists contend that APP
prentiees should be permitted, during
their apprenticeship, to take part in the
various grades Of employment, so that
they may turn out skillful craftsmen az
the end OF their apprenticeship. The
outlook for victory is bright
The Reiehstag in Germany has read
for the first time and sent to a special
committee the new bill providing for the
compulsory insurance OF employees The
contributions of the employers and EN-
ployes will be equal.
The womens nine-hour law has been
declared constitutional by Judge Dillon
of Columbus, Ohio.
The Encouragement Of Ohio, at the
request of Ohio manufacturers, has de-
eided TO start friendly suit to test
the eonstitutionality Of the new compen-
sation law. II is stated that the manu-
facturers desire TO know positively
whether the law will be upheld by the
courts before they contribute to the
state fund provided under the law.
There is only one union collar and
cuff factory in the United States, the lde
brothers of Albany, N. " They EN-
ploy about IS workmen and have had
recently TO shut down for Lack of orders.
Mr. Union Man, is this not squarely up
to YOU to demand the labell The Bell |
brand collars are for sale in this city. |
During the progress of the garment |
workers strike in Cleveland, o., gang |
of strikebreakers were employed to make
believe that they we're at work as gar
ment workers, in order, of course, to dis i
courage the strikers. Later on the same
gang was sent to FL Paso, Texas, and
employed as maehinists and boilermak- |
ers. This is the usual routine Of the life |
of strikebreaker and is a phase of the |
strike which is extremely mdicrous.
Detective Richard Crispin of Regina,
Sask., connected with the Thiel detec-
tive agency, has just been sentenced to
seven years in the penitentisry for fab
rication of evidence and perjury.
Compulsory arbitration in New Yea
land is rapidly becoming unpopular and |
all of the labor unions have
lost confidence in the arbitration court, |
while some of the most important unions
have cancelled their registration under
the act.
The New York City school teachers !
equal pay bill has been signed by Gov
ernor Dix. This bill was enacted, backed |
by the labor organizations, and provides
in the schedules of salaries hereafter
adopted there shall exist no discrimina-
ton by reason of sex.
Organized labor in Cleveland, o., has