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Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
Important Changes of |. T. u.
Ldws Effective on January l
SepenDay Situations Abolished and Old Priority Reegdted
to the Scrap Pie Per Capita Tax Increased and Nep
Rules Governing Apprentices Will be Enforced

building mt cost of approximately
sl50o00. At present there are not suf-
ficient quarters to accommodate all who
want to become residents of the institu.
tion. Hcnceforth the Home per capita
tax will be 20 cents instead of Is cents
per month.
A change in the laws that was pro.
posed by the Denver delegates at the
Los angeles convention substitutes the
words "womcn members" for "female
compositors" and changing the word "fe-
male to woman" wherever 1t appears
in the l. T. u. book of laws.
Mailers Gain q Point.
Hereafter, under new section of the
general laws, in cities where an organi-
,ation of mailers exists, OF in localities
where mailers' Organizations have juris-
diction, 1t is ''imperatively ordered that
no typographical label shall be issued
without consultation with the Mailers'
local having jurisdiction over that local
ity."
A brcakaway from the ultra conserva-
tive policy OF tho l. I. U. is indicated
by new section reading thus,
"a subordinate union may take politi-
cal action when the interests of organ
ixcd labor as whole and the craft in
particular may be benefited thereby
provided no subordinate union shall as
sess its members for partisan political
purposes"
Another new section provides that
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25

members holding situations who become
temporary residents of the Union Print
ers' Home shall regain same Immediately
upon reporting for work.
Apprenticeship Now Five Years.
The number of years apprentices must
serve in both newspaper and CONNER
cial printing offices is increased from
four to five, except with consent of a
shorter period by the president OF the
/. T. u, and il is almost mandatory
that they graduate in the International
typographical Union Course in Printing.
All apprentices must be indentured and
are not eligible to full membership un-
der 81 years OF age. Local unions, thru
committees, are required to examine ap-
prcntices as to efficiency each year.
The new laws covering apprentices is
very complete and exact, and are intend
cd to maintain and elevate the standard
of workmanship Of the craft
A bulletin has just been issued cover
ing in detail all the new laws, changes
and effect of their operation, from I. t.
U. headquarters. q copy Of which may
be consulted at the office of Secretary
Frank c. Birdsall, sol Bank block.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
Each of 100000 Organized Workers Will Give
Second Hours Wage to Free Former Employees
of Shylocks Who Have Taken Their Homes

Washington, d. C.. Dcc- Is, 1915.
To An Intcsnaftos.l and National 10.
ions and Their LocAl Onions; to An
State and City Central Bodies and to
All Local Unions
Dear Sirs and Brothers;
VIII you give an hourf Not an houE
to read this, but an hour Of your labor
in a righteous cause, on Hatters Lay,
January q, lsl6'
The plight in which the Hatteu OF
Danbury, Conn, find themselves arouses
the concern and the sympathy Of all
the workers. as well as Of all liberty low
ing citizens of America The Danbury
Hatters have performed . service OF his
toric importance in the struggle for In
dustrial freedom
Efforts of employers in America TO
keep their workers in subsection have
been particularly hcartless and unrclent.
ing. They have used all their power and
influence economic, political and particu-
larry the courts. The legal theory that
has enabled the employers thru the
courts to restrict the industrial freedom
Of their employees was based upon a con-
ccpt that labor power was a commodity
and that employers possessed rights de-
rived from a kind of ownership Of the
labor power Of their employees and west
ed rights derived from the right to do
business. This principle was the basis
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
January u Designated as Donation Day
For Relief of Danbury Hatters' Victims

under the provisions of the Sherman an
ti-trust law.
During the early period of the case
before the courts, the United Hatters OF
North America bore all the legal ex-
penses involved. Then the membership
Of the entire organization thruout the
country was involved in a great Ssfrikr,
in which every available dollar Of the
orKanixaxicu was expended. and expend-
ed With victory resulting II was during
the time when the United Hatteie ot
North America was in financial embar-
rassment that the American Federation
of labor was appealed to, and the A F.
OF l.. then assumed the financial obli-
CATION of meeting every expense of the
case before the courts, involving the
amount of s9S, ,756.0e-
Twice the case was before the supreme
court of the United States: In 1908. on
a writ OF certiorari. the supreme court
held that sections l, ; and 7 of the Sher-
man antitrust act were applicable to the
case and to all organizations of wage
earners organized not for profit. but for
the securement of higher wages, a short
er warkday and better working condi-
tions, that is for human welfare; and
again when the case came before the
court upon the appeal from the decision
of the Federal district court. on January
5. 1915, when the supreme court of the
United States rendered final decision
upon this case. which had been pending
in the federal courts for more than
eleven years.
That decision reaffirmed the legal fic-
tion that human beings, wsge-earners.
could be legally classified in the same
category with commodities, control over
which was to be regulated by the Sher-
man antitrust act. Under this decision
the Sherman antitrust law. which was
intended for the protection Of the citi-
zens of the United States. could be uti-
lized as an instrumentality for depriving
them of their rights as free men and
women and for denying them control
over their own labor power. control in
separable from their personalities. and
from their living bodies. Should such a
decision prevail they could not maintain
their freedom as workers or as citizens.
However, in the course of this case.
legal opinions were given which estab-
lished clearly the judicial attitude to-
ward ORGANIZATIONS of workers and the
legal rights of workers. These decisions
established the basis necessary for de-
manding and securing remedial lesisla-
tiou, which should remove human beings
from the purview of trust laws and for
changes in injunction procedure, so as to
Continued on Page Ski
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25

for flagzznt abuse of the injunctive writ
and - in1wprstAtion Of anti-trupt iau
20 af3<f TO rolun<ary Organizations oi
workers associated for the establishment
OF better conditions of work and for the
maintenance of their personal rights and
freedom
When xhis abuse of the injunctive pro-
cess and Perversions of trust laws be-
came 50 frequent and 90 dangerous as to
menace the very existence OF organiza-
tions Of workers, the organized labor
movement sought for cases pending in
the courts that could. be used as ties.
cases to establish cleary thru a decision
from the highest court of the land
whether there was judicial sanction for
this principle which classified labor pow
er as a commodity and which had been
used to restrict efforts of workers to
better conditions of life and work.
Organized labor could not, of course,
begin to institute such cases We had
10 wait until the cases were brough;
against our movement and select those
which presented the fundamental prin-
ciples involved
Two caecs were found illustrative of
most flagrant injustice. They were the
contempt cases against Mcssrs. Gompcrs
Mitchell and Morrison. and the suit that
the so-called Anti Boycott Association =
through d. f. Loewe and Company,
brought against the Hatters oi Danhury,
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25

Several important changes in 1nterna-
tional Typographical Union laws, enacted
thru a recent referendum vote, become
effective january ]. They have been the
subject of much discussion among the
65, 600 members thruout the jurisdiction
in the United States and Canada. Two
are radical In their nature and change
established rules of many years. One
practically eliminates the priority law,
long held as cardinal principle" Of the
I. T. u, under which the sub longest in
service must be given the first vacant
or new situation. Under the new law
a foreman may choose from any sub on
the floor, provided he hns shown up for
at least sixty days. The next most i'm
portant change In existing laws is that
declaring that under the unions six-day
law no member Ia entitled to seven
dny situation. The effect Of this will
be to increase the number of situations
on seven-day papers and each regular
will have his regular "off day" estab-
lshed permanently by the foreman of
an office instead of the regular electing
his own day to lay off each week and
put on n sub.
Increase Of Home Fund.
The per capita tax of all members is
increased 8 cents per month, which will
be added TO the maintenance fund of the
Union Printers Home at Colorado
Springs. Primarily this is for the pur.
pose of erecting an addition to the main
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
HOUSTON AND HINES PURCHASE
The DENVER LABOR BULLETIN
NOTION TO DIsMIss HAWKINS cAsI
Arguments Heard By Judge Wiley in
Trinidad District Court

Judge J. G. Wiley of the Twelfth dis
trict court in Trinidad this week heard
arguments on q motion to quash the in
formation filed by the attorney general
Of the state in the case in which Attor-
ney II. N. Hawkins, chief counsel of the
United Mine Workers, and Associate
Counsel =. w. Clark are charged with
subornation Of perjury in connection.
with an affidavit made by one Grover
Hall, a member of the jury which, May
last, returned verdict finding JohI
r Lawson, Mine Workers officer, guilty
Of murder in the first degree.
Hawkins and Clark are charged with
having induced Hall to make an affi-
davit containing the alleged false state
ments that the juror who had voted foi
the aequittal OF Lawson had been CO.
creed into voting for verdict of guilty
by the irregular conduct Of jury bailifi.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
WANT REVIEW OF RAILROAD LAWS
Rio Grande Employees Close Two Weeks
Meeting in Denver.

The convention of Federated shop EN-.
ployes of the Denver & Rio Grandc rail
road. which has been In session in Den
yer for two weeks, adjourned Saturday.
Fifty delegates were in attendance, rep
rcsenting the Machinists, Boiicrmakers,
Blncksmiths, Sheet Metal Workers, Elcc.
tricians and Car Men.
The sessions were given over largely
to a discussion Of revisions in the laws.
Morgan Howe of Salt Lake City, a
boilcrmaker, was elected president for
the two.ycar term; f. o. Anderson, Den.
yer. sheet metal worker, vice president,
and Frederick Mills of Midvalc, Utah,
secretary treasurer.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
D. R. G. SHOPMEN
WANT AN INCREASE
File Notice With Officials and
State Commission
President Nudge Of the Company viii
Confer With Committee Of Employees
Upon His Return From New York

shop employees of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, thru their federation,
have filed notice with the State Indus
trial Commission and officers Of The
company for an increase Of wages ap'
proximating cents per hour. The de-
mand comes from the mnchinistr, boiler
makers. blAcksmiths, carmen, Ahect mctai
vorkess and e5cctrisiaus epp1nyed oses
tke-sHfirs system. and IL . movement 70
stanardise wages. The notice on the
company is TO open up the present agree
mcnt for amendment, and at the samc
time notice il filed with the Industrial
Commission In conformity with the new
law covering questions Of this nature. It
IL said there l. no talk Of strike, Ms an
amicabic agreement will probably be
reached.
President Nudge OF the d. & R G. re-
ceived the notice Wednesday just before
leaving for New York, and gave out the
statement that he would return to Den
YER about January 10 and take the mat
ter up with the shopmen's federation
The notice cited that the employees be-
longing 20 the various crafts named are
members Of local unions affiliated with
the Associated Crafts Of System Fedora
ton No. Q, which includes all the Colo
RADIO lines having considerable mileage in
Colorado. and the Denver 6 Rio Gmnde.
with a demand for flat raise Of 4 cents
an hour.
The problem that vcxe. members of
the State Industrial Commission con-
Germs its authority in the matter, be-
cause of the fact that the demand is
interstate in that II concerns system
operating in both Colorado and Utah.
Officials OF the Industrial Commission
arr investigating in the hope of cstab-
fishing jurisdiction.
II 1t is decided that the demand is
interstate. rather than intrastatc, and
that the commission is lacking in juris-
diction, the matter may become subject
for action by the federal board of mcdi.
alton and conciliation created by act Of
congress in 1919.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
United Mine Workers to
SlDipe John DIS Union

Upton Sinclair. who has just completed
!, tour over the trail of John ID. Rookie
TELLER, Jr., through the coal fields. pre-
diets that the United Mine Workers will
he in complete control OF the new organi
zstion built up by young Rockefeller
within another year.
Sinclair says that he has talked to all
of the miners who are leaders in the new
Rockefeller organization and that they
are quietly planning to SO over to the
old organization that was broken up by
the big strike OF 1914.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
GIRLS WANT SHORTER HOURS.

Shorter hours. recognition Of their
union and sanitary work rooms are de-
mandcd by tho White Goods Workers.
Union Of New York, which has called
several strikcs in unorganizcd shops
These girls are cndeavoring to have un.
organized shops join an association Of
manufacturers that represent this indus
try and which has working agreement
with the union.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25

Japan has eighty-seven government
factories.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
CARPENTERS WANT EIGHT HOURS

!, baltimore. Nd, carpenters are dc.
handing $3.50 for an cight-hour day, be-
ginning the first OF the year. The pres.
cnt rate Is $3.50. These workers say
baltimore ranks among the leading cities
near the fifty mark In wages and sixth
In population.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
CARPENTERS MAKE WAGE GAINS

The Carpenters Union of Portland,
Ore, has secured three years. agree
ment with cmplt yers. Union shop con-
ditions arc to prevail, as are shorter
hours and increased wages.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
EX-FIRE CHIEF is
CALLED BY REAPER
Former Head Of Council Bluffs Fire
Department Dies Suddenly at
His Home.
WAS IN OMAHA ON TUESDAY

Charles Nicholson. retired chief OF
the Council Bluffs fire department.
died Wednesday morning about ?
after a two-week siege o. the grippe.
He was SO years OF age.
Nicholson was member OF the Coun-
Gil Bluffs fire department for over thirty
years. lie was chief OF the department
for greater number OF these years lie
was retired from the department on a
pension year ago last MAY. lie was
also president Of the Iowa state Fire
mems association and the Interstate Fire
mems association. The latter orsauiza-
tlon consists OF the Iowa and Nebraska
associations and was formed Tor the par
pose of staging big tournament in
Omaha next summer.
About two weeks ago Mr. Nicholson
suffered an attack of the grippe. Tues
day he recovered sufficiently to 20 out
Of the house and he was feeling in the
best of spirits About o'clock Tuesday
night he was stricken suddenly IN again
and shortly after midnight he became
unconscious and passed away an hour or
so later.
Mr.. Nicholson called on Chief Salter at
the city hall at ESQ Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Nicholson waited in the office a
while for Commissioner Withheld. whom
he wished to see. The visit of the Coun-
Gil Bluffs man was In the nature OF a
social call, as he had known the Omaha
fire department men for many years.
lie is survived by his wife and two sons.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
Y. N. C. A RECEIVES
NEW YEARS DAY
Reception Both Afternoon and
Evening Saturday in All Parts
Of Building.
ALL FRIENDS ARE INVITED

The Young Mems Christian association
ts TO keep open house Saturday afternoon
and evening, when the following program
viii lie carried out:
$50 p. m.--Opcn house All parts OF
the building open, decorated I'm hol day
attire. Public invited. II IL especially
ldesired that parents Of boys. members OF
The boys department, attend.
I Refreshments in the boys department
Program in the gymnasium BY the b,ys
consistinE or Drills, gaines, tumohnG
!. 1870 D. m.-open house throughout the
i FIRST FLOOR.
Reception by the board Of directors and
Their wives
A chart demonstration of the work Of
the Young Mems Christian association.
Teddy brothers I'm a new act, tumbling.
Readers in special apparatus work, swim
ming
A FOURTH AND FIFTH FLOORS.
Dormitory men receiving in their rooms.
THIRD FLOOR.
city.
in the cafeteria
n Demonstration OF class activ. ties in diff
9erent class rooms.
In the Young Mems Christian 'associa-
ons state secretary's office. reception
~ state secretary. members OF the state
.ommittee ard wives.
Presbyterian Headquarters and studio
of J.. G. Kratz open.
SECOND FLOOR.
Reception by boys. Chart demonstration
lof work of the boys department.
musical and reading program in the
auditorium.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
Many Complain that
They Do Not Receive
Their Xmas Gifts

Now the folks who didn't get Christ
mas presents that they think they ought
to have received are telephonins and
making personal complaints at the post
office. More than seventy-tive such com
plants have been received.
These are not. by any means. all from
persons who have been notified that
presents have been sent.
Everybody. nearly. has friends or
relatives from whom they think thcy
should have received presents said Post
master Wharton. "If Aunt Polly has sent
Niece Mollie n present for the last ten
or twenty years and n Niece Mollie hasn't
received the present this year she bo
lieves II must he lost In the mails AMI
She calls up about Il.
"Sone OF the complaints come from
people VINO have been notified by letter
that the gift has been sent, but thes
seem to he I'm the minority"
out Of the sevcnty-five complaints 70
ceived only three packages have bee
found and delivered
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
Federal Janitor
is Arrested for
RObbing the Mail

Fred II. Jackson. colored. was arrested
at the Union station postoffice on
charge of robbing the mails lie waived
preliminary examination before United
States Commissioner Singhaus and was
bound over to the grand jury under 1900
bond.
Jackson was formerly a janitor in the
federal building. Following the disap-
pearance of a number of valuables there
he was transferred to the Union station
office. The thefts transferred themselves
at the same time. .-ral
Superintendent of Mails w. j. Mettlin
and Postal Inspector w. NJ. Coble did a
bit of detective work and confronted and
accused the man. He was Immediately
placed under arrest. He is alleged to have
taken a number of parcel post packages.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
FollowIng are charter members
ICE CUTTERS WILL GO
TO NORTH PLATTE FRIDAY

One hundred men will be sent to North
Platte at $3.50 y. m. Friday to engage In
Ice cutting This will be the first large
exodus OF ice cutters of the season.
The party will be sent under the -direc-
ton of Captain Kline of the Salvation
Army. Some OF these men have been
waiting for weeks for the ice cutting sea
son to start. The captain has an order
for fifty more men hext week.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
JULIUS 0RKlN FINDS
BUSINESS IMPROVING

Julius Orltin has returned from New
York. where he was engaged in buying
stocks. While in Gotham the Omaha man
observed that business conditions are inn
proved and business men generally looked
for prosperous new year. The weather
was miserable.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
JARDINE TO PUT H0B0ES
TO WORK NEXT MONDAY

next Monday morning to work city
prisoners on a grading job at Sixth and
Dorcas streets. A protest from the
Greater Omaha Labor Forward Move
ment will not deter the commissioner
from carrying out his plan TO make
Omaha an undesirable place for hoboes
and thieves.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
Timely HIn,s IN 0,+r E.,,uE.

christmas, New Years and other feast
days cause many disturbed dlgesions
The stomach and bowels should not -
permitted 20 remain cloEged M. for in
digestion and constipation are often fol
lowed by serious diseases. resulting from
undipested poisonous waste matter. Fole,
Cathartic Tablets should be In ever
home. ready for Use. No gripping; no uD -.
pleasant after effect. Relieve dstreS
a ter eating. regulate bowels. swecter
stomach and tone Up the liver, Sol,
eN eryWhere. --Advertlsement.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
STRICKEN XMAS DAY WITH
DlPHTHERlA LITTLE GIRL DIES

Dlphtheria caused tho death Tuesday
night OF little 5-year-old Helen Ninzant,
400 South sixteenth street, daughter o.
Mrs Martha Vinzant The little elrl took
sick on Christmas day. There are -four
other children In the family, but thus Ear
none have shown symptoms OF having
taken the disease.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
John T. Yates,
Sovereign Clerk,
is Seriously III

John T. Yates. sovereign clerk OF the
woodmen of tho World. is seriously Ill
with pneumonia. Mr.. Yates went to Des
Moines Monday to attend a convention
of the order and was taken i'll soon after
his arrival. He returned to his home here
Tuesday evening. Yesterday his condition
was regarded as serious.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
MANY TO ENTER HIGH
SCHOOLS AT I0-TERM

The superintendent OF school reports
that on January 81. at the beginning of
the second semester of the school year,
524 eighth b pupils will enter the three
high schools. On January 2s eighty mid
year graduates will leave these high
schools.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
RICHIE SAYS HE IS NOT
FINISHED WITH CONTROVERSY

william Ritchie. jr.. of Bridgeport,
Eeb.. attorney for the bondholders Of the
Alliance Irrigation district in Morrill,
county. who is attending the convention
of the Nebraska State Bar association
On Omaha. is not yet through with his
controversy with State Land Commits
lsioner Beclman in regard to Beckman's
Refusal to invest the states money for
irrigation bonds.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
DR.. BeIT.s Pinc-Tar-uopc,

cases your cough. looscps the mucous.
strengthens the lungs. The first dosc
helps. Get a bottle TODAY, only Csc. All
druggists. Acknowledgement
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
The Junior Omaha
League to Boost
Omaha is Formed

The Junior Omaha league was organ
Ased Tuesday night at the court house
iThis is an organization to which twenty
live years residence In Omaha is required
lfor membership. The object of this or
1sanization is said to be to boost for
Dmahe.
The following were elected officers:
Robert Houghton, president; Charles l..
Williams, vice president; Alex Beck,
treasurer; ]. +. Hurst. secretary; com
bnittce on bylaws and application, w. A.
Beck, August Cline. A. Harte, Il. NJ
Allison. II. A. Pierce.
Following arc charter members:
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30

JEANETTE MCDONALD was sick and her papa was sick
when dolly Edna to her house to live with them
at I'LL Fourth avenue Council Bluffs kind lady had
terested herself in gathering pictures from The Bee and
this doll for Jeanette in The Bees contest last week.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
r SCARFS REDUCED TO HALF PRICI
Hosiery and Underwear
Some lots from regular stock whose only
fault is that they are so good that De puT-
chased heavily but must reduce quantities

Women's Pure Thread Silk
Hosiery, double soles, spliced
heels; slightly mussed and
used in decorating. Worth
69c to CSC, at, pair, 69c.
Women's Pure Silk Boot
Hosiery, double soles, heels
and toes, wide garter tops.
Worth up to Soc, at 2oc.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-30
Handkerchiefs

Ladies' and Mems AII-Llnen,
Slightly Mussed handkerchief,
worth to Use, sale price I2hc
Ladies', Mems and chlIdren's
fee Initial Handkerehlefs, all
pure Irish linen, special at 1Oc
A Big Lot Of chlldren's Fancy
Colored China Silk Handker-
chiefs, worth up to 12Lse, at &c
Thousands Of 1oe Handker.
chiefs for Men, Women and
Chill, mussed In decorating. Sc
All SC and see Handkerchief
that are mussed and solIed. All
kinds for women, Children and
Men. spe. in the basement. 21sc