The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-09

strike or lockout
The Taylor system is to be introduced
at an early date in the Fairbanks Scale
works at ST. Johnshury, VT, and is
creating a good deal of criticism, esps
cially among the skilled artisans.
Clerks in Australia are so poorly paid
that there is a proposal TO establish a
wage board to fix q minimum rate IF
| wage for clerks. Two thousand five
hundred and five male clerks over Fl
years Of age only get an average wage
of SO per week. These clerks work an
average Of so hours per week.
The delegates to represent the Ameri
can Federation of Labor at the next
4 British trades union congress are G. L.
Berry, president of the international
Printing Pressmen and Assistants union,
and John H. Walker of the coal miners.
Philadelphia.-Refu to comply
with orders recently issued by the COM
pany, compelling one man to operate
two machines instead Of one as hereto.
fore. a number Of mechanics employed
in the milling department Of the Stand
ard Roller Bearing company have gone
out on strike. The strikers say il was
| impossible to comply with the demands
of the company.
IF the Amalgamated Society Of Car
penters and the Amalgamated Wood
Workers refuse to meet the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
and the president of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor in joint conference for
the purpose of amalgamating with the
| United Brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners. their charters win be withdrawn
not later than July /, 1912.
The Scottish miners have declared that
in event OF national coal strike they
viii join hands with other workers in
the country.
When we consider how much power to
upIift the wage Garner is bound up in
the union label, that little harbinger of
industrial good, is it too much TO ask
that each and every member of organized
labor do his share to increase its effieien
cyf Let our slogan 90 forth to every
man and woman to buy only union label
goods. Let us remember that in the
economic struggle the union label is
''first in war. first in peace and. best
of all, first in the heart OF every man
and woman who believes in helping the
cause of humanity.
The municipal gas department Of Man
chester, England, has just reported a
net profit of 100000 last year. The city
council has resolved to reduce the price
Of gas from 50 to 40 cents for 1000
cubic feet The gas department has paid |
over to the city fund $4,000, which |
win reduce taxation one-half
The question of the aged workman. one
of the greatest humanitarian questions, |
should receive our most caerful consid |
Grafton. 1t is our duty to agitate that
ii is the duty Of societythe state-to |
establish old age pensions as an honor |
able means for caring for the aged SO |
that our intirm will be taken as much |
care of as machines
IT should be of some interest to the |
organized labor movement of Vermont |
to find some of our employers and repre- |
sentatives of their associations giving us |
some small credit for the common sense
method we as trade unionists, have used
in conducting our labor difficulties in
the past. While the workers OF Yer
mont sincerely deplore the terrible trag-
edy at Los Angeles, and have been loud |
in our denunciation of the same, we
also sincerely appreciate this fair and |
impartial and unbiased declaration in
our favor, Let the good work continue. /