The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-09
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LABOR NOTES OF
VIDE INTEREST
Get Together.

law gets to the supreme court, especially
if it is for the benefit of those that
labor, the supreme court says it is UNI
constitutional ! will select, say, ten
granite cutters, ask them to retire to
a room and draw up laws for the gov
eminent of the granite cutters union,
and when they report back to the con-
vention every man will know exactly
what they mean That is not true of the
laws enacted by Congress and by state
| legislatures. What we need to do to-day
is to forget petty jealouses and take
! the men from the farms, the mills, the
quarries, and the work shops-and yon
will find brains enough among them
and put them in the state legislatures
| and in Congress to enact better laws for
lis. It is our fault that the present laws
are on the statute books. ] trust the
men of Vermont will use their united
| efforts in their respective districts to see
that men who stand for the great, broad
| principles Of humanity are sent to the
state legislature and to Congress.
Electrical workers of Billings, Mont,
secured an increase Of 25 cents per day,
nine hour day, and union shop, after a
strike of twenty-four hours.
Draper loom weavers Of Brunswick,
Me, secured per cent. increase,
Press dispatches say that the steel
manufacturers of Glasgow, Scotland,
have posted notices that all work will
be suspended in their plants in che event
that the ccal miners 90 on strike. Ten
thousand men are employed in the plants
at Glasgow.
1t is reported from Los Angeles that
the plumbers OF that city have been
successful in materially changing condi-
tions during the recent past. As re-
suit Of the activities of the members, a
great many employers have executed
agreements, calling for the union shop,
and not shop has been lost to the
union
The steamship companies cannot evade
the expense of returning rejected imml.
grants TO their native shores, according
to decision Just rendered by the Cnitei
States supreme court in case against
the North German Lloyd Steamship COM
pany.
George f. Tuckett, cigar manufacturer,
Of Hamilton, Ont, has voluntarily in
creased the wages OF his cigarmakers
from Sll to Sl2 a thousand on certain
lines OF cigars. The demand for union
made cigars is stronger than ever in
Ontario. with few idle men. 1t is said
the increase in wages was brought about /
by the heavy demand for union made |
goods. Information is also to the effect /
that the same firm is putting on 20t
more men in London, Ontario
Congressman Buchanan Of Illinois, one /
OF the labor group, and member of !
the House labor committee, has intro
duced a bill raising the average rate of
wages az the Washington navy yard |
naval gun factory and the national prov |
ing grounds at Indian Head to $500 per |
eight hour day. The bill applies to Jour-
neymen mechanics. The scale proposed |
runs from 46 cents per hour to SIS cents, i
not interfering with the present regu /
lation as to leave of absence or holi- (
days,
After several months, the iron molders
of Waterloo. Ia, have reached a satisfac-
tory agreement and the strike called off
At the beginning Of the strike there
were ! 70 members involved, and now at
the close Of the strike the organization
has 200 members.
The fertilization appropriation bill,
which passed the House of Representa-
tives on February 20, carried provi.
sion that the manufacture Of guns, cais-
sons and powder must be carried on
under the eight hour law.
The House committee on immigration
has voted to report out an immigration
bill containing an illiteracy test Pres-
dent Gompers appeared before the com.
mittee and presented the views of the
American Federation of Labor on the
question and Immediately
thereafter action was taken as stated.
The Stricken Brothers company. Mari
atta, Ohio wholesale manufacturers of ,
harness and saddlery goods, have adopt
ID the union stamp of the Brotherhood {
If Leather Workers This is a notable /
victory for the organization, as it has
been impossible in the past to purchase i
/ full line of such goods at wholesale
bearing the union label, This should APP !
zeal to those members of organized la :
,or. as we'll as the farmers unions, WHO /
ire DESTROYS of cooperating with organ I
zed labor. |
A professor in the university of Chi a
ago has succeeded in solating and meas
lring what is known to science as the I
mallest thing in the world 1t is the f
on, fragment of an atom, which, if t
he electric theory of matter be true. is ;
10Th the smallest quantity of electricity t
nd smallest quantity of matter capable b
f existing in the free state. II is said a
o be so small that if enough electricity o
o generate the hydrogen in a toy bal 7
Don were to be obtained by counting G
ut the ions. 100 to the minute, the TASK
rould occupy 1O0000OO0 persons 4,000,- i
90 years. That's going some. The ion l
nay be the smallest thing in science, s.
ut there is something in labor that sizes &
p with the ion like a gnat beside #
iraffe It's the intellect of the worker n
no thinks he doesn't need the labor o
Mon. a.
Alex. Ironside Correspondent. d