El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-25
Rhode Island Takes Steps To Abolish Its
Contract Labor System; Labor Notes
by S Ward TypOpa

, ter president of the fremen, rejected
! the offer of the companies.
I The supreme court of Indiana has
T affirmed a decision of a lower court
sustaining the law of Indiana reQuir-
{ ing all locomotives and cars to be
I equipped with grab irons. The South
( ern railway was fined 800 for viola
/ ton Of this law, and in defence claimed
that the conviction was unconstitu-
tional because the federal government
had passed a law regulating the use
OF grab irons The court holds that
the state law is not a regulation Of
interstate commerce, but is a police
measure for the protection Of train
men at work within the state, and
/ therefore valid.
Under the direction of J. NJ Lynch,
president of the international Typo
graphical union, a nationwide Organi-
Zation campaign, applied particularly
to the towns and hamlets, is being con-
Quoted by correspondence. Every
local union whose jurisdiction is not
/ 100 percent strong can aid IN this or
ganizatiOn work by directing its atten-
ton to local reclamation work" says
the Typographical Journal THE place
for good printers is in the Topographic
cal union even though they may have
been previously in affiliation, that is
not conclusive reason why they should
no wbe barred from membership. Even
trade unionism has its eleventh hour
repentance"
The Tennessee state legislative board
of the Brotherhood of Firemen, which
has outlined its wants for presentation
to the new legislature. will include
among other requests one that the pay
of members of the legislature shall
be So a day; also one that railway
crossing flagmen shall not be required
to work over eight hours a day These
requests are accompanied by the de-
mands for the repeal of laws which
are thought to be unjust to labor unions
and for an electric headlight bill, and
a bill fOrbidding railway blacklists.
The president of the legislative board
for the ensuing year is H '. Reid, of
Memphis, and the secretary is d. J.
Bennett. Of Jackson. Mr.. Reid says
that the brotherhood desires the re-
peal of the fellow servant law of Ten
nessee, which prevents employees from
suing for damages for injuries in cases
where a fellow servant is partly re-
spOnsible for the injury.
The International typographical
union has invested 100000 in var
iOus bonds of government, state and
cities Of the United States and Canada.
They include a purchase of $4,000
Of Hawaiian government public i'm
provement bonds; $125,0O of Chicago
Wtst Park commissioners bonds;
500, 600 of New York corporate stock
bonds; S50,0 state Of achusetts
bonds; $4,000 city Of Buffalo bonds;
$50, 900 city of Milwaukee Library Park
school bonds; $4,000 city OF ottawa
bonds: f, 900 city of Victoria debenture;
$4,000 province of Ontario bonds;
$4,000 bonds of the city OF Toronto;
900 of city of Calgary bonds, and
$4,000 San Francisco Geary street
railway bonds. The bonds have been
delivered to the union. They will net
about four percent All but $4,000
Of the amount invested belongs to the
Old-age pension fund. The expenditures
from that fund for November were
slightly less than $4,000. which was
about $4,000 under the receipts.