Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-04
UNION LEADERS MEETING IN DIES
MONIES TO PROMOTE CAUSE
OF ORGANIZATION.
PART OF GENERAL
FORWARD MOVEMENT"
Broom Manufacturers to Organize and
Will Lodge Protest Against State
Manufacturing and Selling Peniten-
tiary Products in Competition-Bis
Meeting Of Traffic Mem

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pss Moines April Meetings ar
being held in Des Moines this week b!
officials of union labor organization
to promote the cause OF union labor.
similar meeting is TO be held in Dav'
enpart and in other Iowa cities. Thes'
meetings are being held in various
cities thruout the country as part O
wha, the labor organizations call "th'
forward movement" Not only are th'
leaders attempting TO increase the
membership in unions already organ
lied and to organize new Industries no
heretofore unionized. but they are hoio
ing conferences with employers II
many trades concerning the relation:
OF employers and union labor.
J. H Strict. OF Sioux City, presloen'
OF the Iowa Federation OF Labor, Is
here Z, E, James, OF St. Paul one I"
the officers in the shoe workers union
IS another OF the union leaders VINO !:
on the ground early. ]. II. Hays, O
Colorado Springs. president OF ths
y prgra phical union. Will r. Boyer. Of
Chicago, head OF the broom workers
union, and Frank L, Kennedy. OF chi
12go. head OF the plumbers union. arr
10 be in the city.
Iowa broom manufacturers will meet
n me c!,y Wednesday and organize
al association. The association viii IT
al! pruha nility go before the state board
Of control and protest the selling OF
prison ma Ge brooms over the STATE
Tn broom manufacturers are cbjectins
IL lho state selling prison made hroorls
or me ground that the use OF prison
labor gives the state an unfair aovan
taEe.
Al series OF meetings held in Du-
lu;h recently 5 0Eo new members Joined
the UNION labor organizations OF thai
cry Similar success is reported by
the union labor leaders in other cities
where forward movement meetings
have Aeen held
Local labor union leaders have been
planning tor this weeks meetings for
some time and strong program OF
addresses has beer prepared
Traffic Men TO Meet
Traffic men and representatives Of
Big business concerns il Iowa viii al
tend the hearing 10 De held by the Iowa
board o. railroad commissioners az the
state house Wednesday, at which the
proposed increase in denurrage chars es
or all cars engaged in interstate bust
ness in Iowa will be discussed. This
conference was requested by the west
ern denurrage and storage bureau IN
order TO consider with shippers the in
creased demUrrage charges which will
become effective April S and will be
cancelled June Is.
The proposed rules give the ship
pers two days free time in which TO
load or unload cars. After the expira-
ton of free time allowed a charge O.
81 per car per day or fraction Of daE
viii! be imposed for three days and 81
per car for each succeeding day there
after.
in its statement concerning the meet
irg ard Ihe rules 20 be considered the
board Of railroad commissioners among
other things says:
The changes proposed in effect pro
vide .o- 10 Increase covering the frs;
two days free time nor for the frs;
three ddErs after free time has ex-
pred but Cor subsequent detention the
rate increases 81 per day. Credits
earned urder the average agreement
W! Offset the present 81 demurraSe
harce for the first FIVE days after tins
expiration of free lime. but will not Dc
Used 20 offset any portion Of the
harges in excess Of 81 per day.
The credits referred to are as fol.
!ows. A credit OF one day win be al
owed FOR each car released within tht
first IEenIy-four hours Of free time
except FOR ar subject TO rule 2, sec.
ton Z. paragraph -. debit of one
da,- Will De charged for each twenty
to1r hours or fraction thereof that e
car * detained beyond free time. II
10 case shall! more than one days
'redit oe allowed on any one car anc
n 70 case shall more than five DAYS
RI dir - applied in cancellation o
ce;.iis accruIng on any one car"
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