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PORTLAND LABOR PRESS World-Wide Labor Movement Interesting Items From Trade Union Papers and Exchanges, at Home and Abroad. Don’t miss an opportunity to say a good word for your union. « Little Rock, Ark., union men and women are about to organize a union label league. A number of Atlantic ocean steam ship lines have combined with a capi tal of »25,000,000. « Bakers all over the country are starting a strong agitation for the eight-hour workday. Three large smelting plants com bined in Buffalo with $1,200,000 capi tal, and more men are laid off. The Labor News got the endorse ment of the Illinois State Federation as the state official newspaper. Your receipt for a year’s subscrip tion to The Labor Press is the union label on your fidelity to the cause. The white barbers of Little Rock, Ark., who recently withdrew from the mixed union, have organized a new union. The Central Trades Council of Lit tle Rock, Ark., is working with praise worthy energy to establish a public library and free reading-room. Steamfitters and steamfltters’ help ers should keep away from Washing ton, D. C., pending the adjustment of differences between contractors and the union. « The Indianapolis street railway com pany has begun to weed out the force in their employ, dishcarging, they claim, only those who are lax in obe dience of rules. Trouble will result, it is thought. The man who advertises in the work ingman’s paper shows his friendship and his appreciation of the advantages he enjoys in so doing. Show vour ap preciation of his efforts by patronizing his store. « The street car company in Lima, O., put placards in the cars requesting the passengers to watch the registra tion of fares. The conductors became indignant and quit work, and the pla cards were removed. « The Master Painters’ Association of St. Louis have abrogated the agree ment entered into May 5, 1900, with the St. Louis district council of the Brotherhood of P., D. and P. of A., and trouble is feared. « The mining machine is steadily in creasing its field of operations. Sta tistics show that 43,963,933 short tons of machine-mined coal were taken out last year, or an increase of 11,550,933 tons over the record for 1898. « Robert Thomas, a Southern paper- maker, has discovered a chemical ac tion that will reduce cotton-seed hulls into a pulp at one-half the cost to man ufacture wood pulp. Salt trust mag nates will take up the Invention and fight the paper trust for a market. Are you calling for union clerks and labeled goods, or are you satisfied to have that clerk with a nasty name wait on you and let him furnish you with prison-made articles? Remember it requires no great amount of courage to say, “Mister, have you a card?” and if he says "No, but I believe in unions,” just tell him you are from Missouri.—Galesburg Labor News. The assessment of 25 cents per month that has been levied upon each member of the United Mine Workers since last March for the purpose or taking care of the striking miners of the organization will cease with the present month. This action was or dered by the national executive board at its last meeting. T H IS IS ADDRESSED TO YOU TH E G ITY kflU H O R Y CO. W ITH STRICTLY W HITE EMPLOYES, IS THE FIRST LAUNDRY TO PATRONIZE ORGANIZED LABOR .. . REMEMBER THEM O re g o n P h o n e 4 2 9 Representatives of the National Metal Trades Association and the In ternational Association of Machinists, at a meeting at Washington, D. C., have agreed to a nine-hour day throughout the United States, beginning May 18 next, and all differences are to be settled by arbitration as a means of avoiding strikes. « The Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs will demand the union label of the Alied Printing Trades Council upon all its printing. Mrs. T. P. Stan wood, the president, has notified all affiliated clubs that they must also have the label upon all their printed matter in conformity with the action of the Rockford convention. The shoe manufacturing firm of D. G. King & Co., of Toronto, Canada, after fighting the Shoe Workers’ Union for several years, announced, as a re sult of a conference with Mr. Tobin, of Boston, representing the union, that their factory would hereafter be a strictly union one. and that the union label would in future appear on every pair of shoes turned out by them. All of the 500 employes not now in the union will at once join. This is a great victory. Who’s next? « A number of Tiffany & Co.’s highly paid copperplate printers and engrav ers who were on strike applied re cently at the Union Square store of the firm for reinstatement, saying that they were sorry that they had struck. They were told that the matter would be taken under consideration; that the firm would not discharge any of the new men taken on who had proved competent. The agitators who caused the strike will not be taken back. Some of the strikers made as high as $100 a week, and none of them received less than $50. F o u rth C o lu m b ia P h o n e 4 1 0 an d Couch S ts . First (irapd Ball G IV E N BY Beer Drivers’ dpiop fio. 201 p t S iirp e r Jtell Saturday D^e. 22, 1900 Sienet® 25 Qetyte, pd/nittipg (¡eptl<?map apd lady, Eael? pddi- tiopal lady 25 ^epts HEADQUARTERS Unites Brotherhood of Leather Workers on Horse Goods O F F IC E O F G E N E R A L S E C R E T A R Y - TREASURER, 435 a n d 436 G ib r a lta r B uilding. K a n s a s C ity, Mo. T o O rg a n iz e d L a b o r a n d T h e ir F rie n d s : The o rg a n iz e d L e a th e r W o rk e rs th r o u g h o u t th e c o u n try a r e m a k in g g r e a t e ffo rts to e sta b lish th e ir B lue L abel p e rm a n e n tly in th e m a rk e t. B elow is a n e x a c t fa c -sim ile of o u r B lue L abel. O U R L A B E L T h e L e a th e r W o rk e rs h a v e a d o p te d th is tr a d e m a rk o r L abel as a guide fo r th e p u rp o se of e n a b lin g u n io n m en a n d th e frie n d s of o rg a n iz e d la b o r to d istin g u ish th e goods m ad e by u n ion la b o r from th o se m ade by n o n -u n io n labor. W h e n e v e r you see th is L a b e l on h a rn e s s or co llars, h o rse boots, o r a n y th in g m ad e of le a th e r th a t a ho rse w e a rs, you a re a t once a ssu re d th a t th e y a r e m ad e by union labor. All u n ion m en a n d frie n d s of fa ir la b o r c a n g r e a tly a s s is t u s by th e p ro p er u se of th e ir g r e a t p o w er a s p u rc h a se rs, th ro u g h th e m e a n s of o u r U nion L abel, w h ich h a s been en d o rsed by th e A m e ri c a n F e d e ra tio n of L ab o r, a n d all its affil ia te d bodies th ro u g h o u t th e c o u n try . R e ta il d e a le rs, it w ill be found, a re e v e r re a d y to c a te r to a n y o rg a n iz e d d e m a n d m ade upon th em fo r labeled goods, a n d by h a n d lin g su ch goods th e d e a le r is w o rk in g to th e in te r e s ts of h im se lf a s w ell a s o rg a n iz e d lab o r. W e re sp e c tfu lly re q u e s t th a t you u se y o u r influence a s a c u sto m e r in a s s is tin g in th e c re a tio n of a d e m a n d fo r U nion L a b e l h a rn e s s , col la rs, h o rse bo o ts a n d g ig sa d d le s by r e q u e s tin g y o u r d e a le r to h a n d le lab eled goods if he is n o t d o ing so a t p re se n t. W ith y o u r c o -o p e ra tio n in th e w a y s u g g e ste d w e w ill be e n a b le d to b u ild o u r o rg a n iz a tio n upon a b a sis o f p e rm a n e n c y , s te a d ily a d d in g to its m e m b e rsh ip and g ra d u a lly a d v a n c in g th e w a g e s o f its m em bers. T h a n k in g you fo r th e m a n y fa v o rs sh o w n o u r o rg a n iz a tio n in th e p a st, w e a re , F r a te r n a lly y o u rs, U N IT E D B R O T H E R H O O D O F L E A T H E R W O R K E R S O N H O R S E GOODS. C H A S. L. C O N IN E , G e n e ra l S ec’y -T re a s. K A N S A S C IT Y , MO. ADVISES CONSOLIDATION. In speaking of the sympathetic strike, the Terre Haute Toiler says that it sometimes involves a violation of agreement between the organiza tions and employers, and plainly shows that there should be a change in our form of organization; that industry organization should take the place of craft organizations. Under the present system members of many crafts are dependent upon other unions for sup port, for the reason that there are but a few of them employed at a plant. This gives an opportunity for arraying one craft against another, by granting the demands of one organization and using it as a club to whip the others into line. I do not mean to blame such organizations for this state of affairs. The larger organizations are more to blame. In past years these minor crafts were anxious to get into IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE WHOSE OX IS GORED. the old organizations, but were not ad The trades unions are frequently mitted, or, when they were, were not given any protection In the scales. criticised for expelling members and They then organized separate unions, seeking to prevent such from securing and now the old organizations have work alongside of and under the same seen the error of their ways and are conditions as union men. This, it is clamoring for one organization in an claimed, has the effect of preventing industry. This is true of the miners, these men from earning a living at all, brewers, printers and numerous other but these critics never say a word old unions. Let us get together as when a lot of lawyers are disbarred, close as the capitalists are.—Union by the sitting delegates of the lawyers’ Guide. union, and are actually deprived from following their occupation at all. What The enumerators’ sheets in the ag can a disbarred lawyer do in the way ricultural division of the census bu of getting work at the profession that reau will show that there are in the he is trained for? He actually has to United States between 5,500,000 and begin life all over again. The Bar 6.000,000 separate farms. Association is not a trades union! Oh, no! It’s a profession, and that mokes Keep yourself posted by reading The a difference. Anything that a labor organization does is wrong, but if it Labor Press. See That This Badge is Worn by the Teamster Who Does Your Draying INTERNATIONAL TEAM DRIVERS’ UNION No. 162 M eets E very T u esd ay in U nion H a ll GENUINE UNION LABEL SHOES STOCK in M A R K S SHOE CO. 253 Morrison St., Near Third THE “SOLID COMFORT TRUSS” CAN BE HAD AT THE SURGICAL INSTRUM ENT HOUSE OF C. H. WOODARD & CO. 108 Second St. Portland, Ore. Expert Truss Fitters JO H N SO N & LUTHER HARNESS AND SADDLERY A Full Line of Harness on Hand and Made to Order. Repairing Promptly Done. Superior Workmanship. Good Goods. Reasonable Prices.................. Phone Hood Fourth and Couch Sts. happens to be a high-toned profession al “union,” then anything can be done without exciting comment.— Pueblo Courier. If you call for union-label goods, you aid your fellow-workingman in other trades. Every union should have a press committee, who will send to The La bor Press the news of the meetings of the respective unions. Please bear thi3 in mind. The business man who wants the trade of the workingmen, should say so by advertising in The Labor Press.
