The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-11-09
LABOR NOTES or
VIDE INTEREST

| diueu ny state olilcHliS ana InelHDclh WIN
believe that platform pledges should be
faithfully lived up to and fulfilled.
True, we have not heard through the
newspapers that any person or persons
in particular displayed unwonted activ-
ity IN the passage Of the bill, and it is
to this point ! wish to refer. happen
to be in a position to thoroughly UNDER
stand what is transpiring at the capitol
on all matters relative to labor and the
interests OF the working classes, and il
is with great pleasure | testify to the
great amount of time and energy Rich
ard Grigg, our city representative, has
devoted in bringing this measure to a
successful issue.
I. L. Howley of Burlington and Eu-
gene Nerney of Graniteville are Others
who are lending their best energies to
the passage and introduction of other
measures which will tend to the general
uplift of the wage Garner, be he organ
lied or unorganized. More power to
their arms, say II
While very much pleased that the |
trustee process law is passed and will |
become law Feb. /, 1918, | wish to say |
a word to those "doubting Thomases"
who see nothing in the measure but just |
"a bill for crooks" In the first place, |
feel the new measure will be a protec- |
tion to our storekeepers insofar that If |
they are skeptical of the new GUS
toner" they will know when and where
to hand out the mo trust" sign. Sec
ondly, the trader will have the salts
faction of knowing that he is not paying
for other bills than his own meaning
by this, that he believes land Justly sol
that If a crook beats the storekeepers,
well, to put it plainly, the storekeeper
has to make up for it, through some
other method, or get out of business.
Give this method a fair trial, be We
storekeeper or man of toll, and ] feel
assured that in many ways it will prove
blessing to all concerned.
Practice what you preachl II you
object TO your employer employing nom
union labor, you have no right to en-
ploy non unionists yourselfand that is
just what you are doing when you pat
ronize a firm that does not use the
union label, shop card or union button in
their establishments.
/ am not appealing for the unor-
ganized, but ask you to patronize those
who are entitled to your support, the
union men and women in the American
Federation of Labor II
The state of Wisconsin. in accordance
with the provisions OF bill passed by
the last legislature has entered into the :
life insurance business. The plan pro-
vides that any citizen of Wisconsin be- +,
tween the ages of % and 80, living a
L., Al, |
policy after satisfactorily posing a
medical examination under the supervi !
sion of the state board of health. Wis
consin is the first state in the union to Z
engage in the life insurance business.
London-The changes in rates of
wages taking effect in September, ac- !
cording to the Board Of Trade and Labor
Gazette, were all increases and amount Y
ed to SIT 900 week in the wages of
100000 working people. The most i'm {
portant advances affected 10000 carpen.
ters and joiners in London, $3.50 depu :
ties, mechanics etc. at coal mines in
Northumberland. and $500 coal miners h
in the Forest of Dean and 10000 in
South Wales and Monmouth, 5000 iron G
1uddlers and mill men in the west OF
$4,000 engineers in Leeds and +
district. 5000 laborers in the engineer
ng works at Sheffield, and 5000 ring
,pinners in Lancashire
Under the caption, "Folly of Using
heap Labor" the Washington Herald
ecently printed the following editorial:
Fibre and Fabric says the Lawrence
Mills know all about the economy of
killful labor, but they cannot get it.
they have filled up with new immi- I
rants, many of whom cannot speak or
understand English. because native la
or has withdrawn from the mills. The
anne organ OF the textile trade also tells
( the native labor that retires from
he mills as fast as this crude labor is
Omitted The exit of one class was
Ding on while the other class was COM
no in. and there is substantial rea-
on for believing that the mill owners
ne chiefly responsible for the substitu-
ION OF the inferior labor. They have
cen irving TO get the cheapest labor
hev could get for lower wages. But
hey are beginning to find out that the
heap labor is not economical. and they
ave had destructive strikes to boot"
The Rand school of social science,
hich has been in existence for six
ears. win reopen on November IL in a
ew home, at lao East 10Th street.
his school is designed and conducted
long the lines of the Ruskin Labor col
ge of England its curriculum consist
% of studies on the labor movement,
economies. labor legislation, social re-
,rm. English grammar, composition and
lblic speaking. Any of our readers
terested in these subjects and who de-
re to enlarge their information on
lem would make no mistake in taking
e five months course which begins on
ovemher IL.
For more than twenty years our coun-
v has been playing hide and seek with
e trusts and the economic questions i
hich have come with them, vet we are
no nearer a solution than
hen we started. Consequently, it
ight not he a bad idea to try a plan
nilar TO the one to be tried in Ger
any. As soon as the necessary legis-
ton can be put through. the Reich. q
NJ apparently il has been agreed onl,
nominally private but UNI l.
r government supervision, will have the
lie right to sell oil and oil products l.
wholesale in Germany. The capital