The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-02
LABOR UNION NOTES
BY CORRESPONDENT
DR.. Woods Hutchinson Quoted in Sup
port Of a Working Day Of Shorter
Hours Of Employment.

"Four hours OF intelligent work each
day by all adult members OF corn.
munity. through the proper development
Of machinery, can be made sufficient to
supply all its needs" declares DR. Woods
Hutchinson, physician, lecturer and
writer Six hours a day would be
enough at the present stage of develop
ment, if everybody worked. The super
man of the next century is to be the in.
telligent educated craftsman who works
with his fingers and brains at the same
time.
The miners of the anthracite region
in convention decided TO make demand
for an increase of wages, the eight hour
day and recognition of the union, after
the contract expires in March next.
A Joint committee from the United
Mine Workers and the Western Fedora.
ton Of Miners was appointed at the re
cent convention of the American Fed.
GRAFTON Of Labor to draft plans for the
organization of mine department.
The national union Of boot and shoe
operatives of Great Britain, having
adopted a label to be placed upon the
product of its members. has instituted
an active label campaign. Union labels
in this country are few, and the agita-
tion being carried on by the boot and
shoe workers is, therefore, to some ex.
tent novel.
The union label is a constant remind
er of the common interest and common
duty of all trade unionists in and toward
each other and certain guide in the
discharge OF that duty The union label
is a weapon that profits the employer
equally with the employe, but only so
long as both aim at the same object.
1t can never be turned against the EN-
ploye, because it is the latter's ex-
elusive property, to be given or with
drawn at pleasure. To the women Of
the trade unionist household, the union
label affords guarantee that the wages
earned under union label conditions are
expended upon union products and for
the maintenance of union conditions to
return with interest in improved condi-
tions for all. The union label enIists
and arms in labor's cause those ele-
ments which determine the issue of every
cause in civilized society, namely, the
women and children.
The supreme court of Wisconsin has
lust handed down a decision upholding
the constitutionality of the workmen's
compensation act.
Secretary-Treasurer L. w. Quick of
the Order of Railroad Telegraphers is
being doomed for the nomination for
governor of the state of Missouri Mr..
Quick is one of the active trade union
lists of the country. He is now city
treasurer of st. Louis.
The closing of the Solway iron works,
Merryport, England. has thrown 300
men out of work and the men have been
informed that the works are likely to
be closed for six months
II is reported by officials in charge
of the work at the Panama canal that
there is now surplus of labor in the
zone
During an inquest at Whyteleafe. Sur
rev county, England. on two months /
old girl named Wilding, whose death the /
doctor claimed was due to wasting away /
on account of bad assimilation Of food /
the foreman of the jury asked the father,
q railway porter, if his wages were sufii- |
cient to allow him to provide proper
for his wife for her recent
confinement. Wilding replied that he