The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-11-16
LABOR NOTES or
VIDE INTEREST

The first general advent in this coun
try of women in industries formerly
!, considered the economic province Of mel
only, occurred when women were en-
ployed as coremakers in Massachusetts
in pump manufacturing establishment
That it is the purpose Of employers To
crowd women into all industries is in
disputable. In line with the above state
ment, the following is an item which
: was clipped from an eastern publica-
tion and is indicative of the condition
of affairs which the workmen of this
country will be compelled to face in the
!, future; at won't be long before the
sight of woman specialist in steel con-
struction directing the work from the
dizzy height of several hundred feet will
be an ordinary one, while the woman
builder, with her cohorts of feminine
bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters and
steamfitters will have lost it's novelty
in the eyes of the public, for new trade
school for women, named in honor of
Fire Commissioner johnson, at Winfield,
Long Island, is almost an accomplished
fact. The school is expected TO open
the last OF this month with a splendid
enrolment of 1876 pupils. Ninety was
the original limit of the schools capacr-
ty, but so many applications have come
to the Masters Builders association,
which is backing the scheme, that it has
been decided to add two more stories to
the original plan, in order TO accommo-
date $50. Otherwise, the school would
have been opened October Is. The plan
met with instant approval of women,
! for after the first announcement of the
project being started in September, the
board of trustees was literally swampei
with applications for admittance. The
requests come from girls in every walk
of life. Some of the letters are from
girls of poor families; Others from the
daughters Of rich parents, the father of
one being a st. Louis millionaire, and
the other United States senator from
Indiana"
The Marine band of Washington, d. c.,
has been granted furlough and dur
ing the leave musical director has ar
ranged for number of concerts
throughout the country, and especially
in st. Louis. Arrangements were made
by st. Louis newspaper to give free
concert to the public, and one of the
large auditoriums in the city was secured |
for this purpose. The American Fed |
Grafton of Musicians entered vigorous |
protest against the employment Of the |
governments band in competition with i
civilian musicians, who make their liv-
ing by furnishing music. The various
labor bodies in the state of Missouri APP
prove of the protest of the musicians,
and the acting secretary of the navy
has been made aware of these objections
and has communicated the fact that an
investigation be had These
government musicians receive a stipu-
lated salary, and bill is now pending
in Congress prohibiting the Marine and
other bands supported by the govern
ment from accepting employment in
with civilian musicians. 1t !
is deemed unfair to the men who earn
4 livelihood by furnishing music TO be
to compete with musical Or !
carnations that are entirely supported |
BY government funds. X
The annual expenditures of the United I
States for the army and navy is, in I
round numbers, s3o0,000.000. To COM {
Drehend the magnitude OF this vast sum I
Ind the appalling waste and loss to the
people which il represents, it is only
necessary to consider some of the service !
/ would give if diverted from the chan
lels of militarism and employed in tie
,rts of peace and civil life If avail
,ble for education, it would give Sl0.-
100000 to establish and maintain grea.
lgtional university three times as sarge
IS our largest university. IL would
rive S4s000,000 to establish a new uni
'ersity in each state, supported annually
" million dollars each IL would
i've S96,O00.000 to establish 100 new
ublic high schools for each of the states,
Imported annually by $4,000 each. 1t
gould give $4,000. 900 to establish FIVE
ew normal schools for each of the
tates, supported annually by 100000
ach. II would give s2l 100000 to es.
ablish 30 new agricultural schools for
ach of the states, supported annually by
$4,000 each. II would give S4S 100000
o the common school fund, or 81 100000
nnually to the school fund Of each of
he states. 1t would give SI0000,O00
18th which to purchase text books for
Il pupils in all schools, public and pri
ate, in all the states of the union. And
would give quarter of a million dol
Irs TO each OF the states annually for
ublic libraries.
The Michigan Baptist convention, held
Grand Rapids recently, Endorsed the q
orkmen's compensation law and the "a
,ur week for women. The ministers
splayed very favorable attitude
ward organized labor in general, and
e social service commission submitted
report which, in part, is as follows
The right of labor to organize should
as unquestioned as the right or any
her craft or class of men to organize.
, refuse this, either openly or by i'm
ication. is to seek TO perpetuate the
igma upon labor which has come down
ON the pre-democratic times TO our
IN. A living wage as the minimum in q
cry industry, and the highest wage
at industry can afford. is one of the
mands of the immediate future in or
r to abolish poverty and to raise the
lndard of industrial skill and efiieien-
Further, labor legislation to safe
ard our workers against dangerous
occupational disease and I'M
and laws to extend the
ssent compensation act to cover oc-
pational diseases are matters which
ist have the attention of our legis-
.ors in the near future"
How the employers liability law of