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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.