The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-20
LABOR NOTES OF
VIDE INTEREST

The labor movement the struggle of
| the toilers for economic JUSTICES a
natural element in the evolution of So
Getty and notwithstanding the fact that
all the weapons of hell's equipment
have been brought into play against it,,
the patience and peaceableness of the
working people has withstood the strain.
/ Bayonets bullets, gattling guns md
| lliterate Islander of the low browed
bully of the slums, the bomb of Che
hired anarchist, to the learned lie of the
| high browed Judge on the bench, have
all been directed against organized la
Dor by the powers that profit through
the miseries of mankind. That labor
| suffers peaceably under the severest
strain that has ever been put on the
back of aspiring humanity is miracle
of our American democracy.
Men, women and children have been
dubbed, bayonetted shot and killed
while peaceably protesting against the
unbearable conditions imposed by the
hand of greed. Under such condition
| if organized labor We're actuated by the
same spirit manifested by its opponents,
rivers of blood, instead of the orderly
progress resulting from the calm DELHI
GRAFTON Of minded, honest hearted,
square-dealing citizens would have
marked the labor movement of our coun-
try
Organized labor is fully aware that
there is no altruism or mutual love
governing the conduct of employees in
the race for dollars. Ever and always
in it's struggle for existence, labor is
goaded by the sight OF its products
falling into the rapacious hands of con-
scieneeless trusts and monopolies. and
by the very force of circumstances it
is compelled to form compact and ex-
tensiye organizations TO protect society
against what otherwise would certainly
result in mobocraey. Labor has right
to protest, and does protest when its
rights are trampled upon, but it does not
depend upon the strong arm of physi-
cal force to make its protest heard. To
do so would Immediately destroy every
claim it has to the respect, considera-
tion and support OF fair dealing men
IL
After two months of hard and bit.
ter fight between the masters and Jour
neymen horseshoers OF Cincinnati, the
lockout which started May % terminal
ed in sweeping victory for the jour-
neymen on July Is, when the ma ioritv
Of the horseshoeing shop owners request
ed the men to return to work, with an
increase OF 80 cents per day for floor
men and % cents per day for firemen.
This fight was direct issue made by
the Master Horseshoers' Protective assoc
citation te disrupt local union No. II.
The local did not lose a member dur
ing the struggle either by resignation
or desertion. but instead, they increased
their membership while the test of
strength WAS being waged.
The ma ster horseshoers attempted to
obtain support from the courts by means
of the injunction route. but the court
of common pleas denied them. The |
matter was then carried to the circuit |
court, and on July 10, the circuit court |
handed down its decision, which was
again favorable to the journeymen horse |
shoers. The Brooklyn horseshoers of To- |
cal No. l42 are at this writing negotiat- |
ing new agreement with the master |
Of New York City.
Lord St Adwyn, the arbiter having |
in charge of the negotiations for the min |
imum wage scale growing out Of the
recent general strike of coal miners in |
Great Britain and the passage of the
minimum wage act by the English par
Lament, has made report and fixed |
the minimum wage for the various
classes of coal workers in the South
Wales collieries. The rates fixed are
only slightly below the South Wales
schedule as submitted by the Miners
Federation of Great Britain last Jan
uary, the rate then asked being 7s l1ad
and Is I'd per day the actual award
given by ST. Aldwyn being 6s llhd, |,
or about 2lad per day less than recon-
mended by the Miners federation. st. |,
Aldwyn's award has been received with I,
loud protest, and as might be expect
I'd, considerable dissatisfaction. What
The outcome win be at this writing is
The city officials of Pekin, Ill, have
decided in the future to use only union
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