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FEDERATED TRADES COUNCIL
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OFFICIAL PAPER
INSTATE FEDERATION OF LABOR
TRAD E UNIONS A R E TH E B U L W A R K S OF M ODERN DEMOCRAC IE S .— W. E. GLADSTONE.
P O R T L A N D . O R E G O N . A U G U ST 21, 1902
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ON THE FAIR LIST
No. 2
GENERAL NEWS OF INTEREST TO WORKING PEOPLE
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Prices .Are Greatly Reduced ©
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mans struck, but the Italians kept on * 1 a few are still unsettled. Besides this, he would bait them. Accordingly he
working.
The following day the con the New Y ork trouble am ong painters j w rote up a want ad and took it tp the
i O regonian for publication. It read
H op pickers will receive, 50 cents per tracto r noticed that all the Italians had has been straightened up.
CAN SAVE YOU MONEY ON
I this w ay:
box in nearly all of the valley yards. cut two inches off the handle of their
When asked about his views on the
“ W anted—Non-union steam engi-
| The price of hops justifies the raise.
shovels
The ringleader of the gang efficiency of Building T rades Councils 1 neers; $150 per month; steady employ­
was asked for an explanation, and in Mr. Skemp said: “ It is the most pow­ m ent.”
The address was given, and the ad
The tragic death of Mr. and Mrs. reply said: “ Not so much pay, not lift) erful instrum ent for good that we have.
was paid for. When the paper was i«-
IT’S A BUSINESS PROPOSITION. YOU CANNOT AF­
Charles Fair is a sad lesson of reck­ so much dirt.
So much longer last j To break it up or try to disrupt it j sued next m orning the ad. was there,
FORD TO WALK OR RIDE STREET CARS
lessness.
Their rieh.es could have w ork.”
would be the height of folly. The but the “non" to the union” was miss­
AT OUR PRICES
I been put to b etter use than the taking
Building T rades Council is a double ing. The officer went to the business
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office and showed the ad. man the e r­
of their own lives.
The chapel of the Butte Miner has] advantage. It protects the individual ror, and again the ad. was sent to the
adopted two new sections to its rules craft by the united strength of printer. The next m orning it was the
E x-G overnor Lind of M innesota is that would have a wholesome effect all allied crafts, and it gives the ; same as before—the “non” to the
They are as follows: contractor and the public a guar­ i “union” was missing. An effort was
j a candidate for Congress from the M in­ most chapels.
made again, but still the ad. came out
In without
neapolis district.
O n account of his “The charter of the Ancient O rder of antee for faithful perform ance.
the "non” to the “union,” and
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. SUNDRIES
friendly attitude tow ard organized labor Backcappers is hereby revoked, and San Francisco, where my home is, finally it had to be given up. The of-
while in office, the trades unionists any member of this chapel backcap- the council obsolutely controls the , ficer. who knew some of the boys on
ping another shall be fined $1 for each unions in the city, and it does I the ninth floor, went up and confiden-
will indorse his candidacy.
You ; tially told one of them what he had
offense.” A nother section is to the ef­ it for the common good.
been trying to do. The printer winked
will
find
that
under
the
council
the one eye and told him that accidents
fect
that
any
member
preferring
SUCCESSOR TO DENTON & COMPANY
Judge Tuley, of Chicago, has made
The were liable to occur any time, but he
the statem ent that every time he sen­ charges against another and failing to unions are m ore conservative.
tences a “crim inal,” he feels like a sustain them shall be fined not less union that has a grievance cannot strike didn't think the boys in the ad. alley
liked the looks of “non-union” in the
giant placed in his position by society that $2 nor more than $10, at the op­ without permission of the council, and ad., as they all carried paid-up w o n t­
that permisison is not extended except ing cards.
for the purpose of taking revenge on tion of the chapel.
under stringent regulation. F or in­
The truth flashed upon the mind of
victims produced by society itself.
Organized labor of P ortland will stance, the demand must be made the engineer and he burst into a hys­
terical fit of laughter.
Portland is going to have several have L abor day all to itself next year. three months before action is taken;
th
at
is,
three
m
onths’
notice
must
be
The
Elks
convention
at
Salt
Lake
just
miles of good concrete sidewalks.
If
G O N E IN T O B U S IN E S S .
an ordinance was passed to conform closed, voted to eliminate street fairs given the employers. All contracts
Frank Calkins, for a long time dele­
made
prior
to
the
date
of
the
demand
and
carnivals
hereafter.
The
unions
the streets with the new sidewalks
gate to the Federated Trades Council
m ore of the w inter's rainfall would of Portland hereby announce that they are to be finished at the old scale of and secretary of the T ailors’ Union,
will brook no interference in the future wages, and the Building T rades Coun­ has surrendered his membership as an
find its way into the Pacific Ocean.
upon that day and want the co-opera­ cil will entertain but one demand at a j employe, and donned the garb of an
tion of the business men, citizens and time. In other words, one strike must employer. Frank has stepped down
If business men would transact their
from the active list, but his heart is
retired capitalists from now on to make be settled before another can be de­ coated with unionism, and in the right
own affairs as they do world's fairs—
L abor day an all-day holiday.
This 1 clared. The councils all over the coun­ place. H is place of business is room
especially the Lewis-Clark F air—P o rt­
will give the people an opportunity to try are doing such a vast am ount of 7, 232% W ashington street, next dool
land would rem ain unbuilt to this day
see the advancement of America's good that the National brotherhoods to the L abor Press, where the genial
for want of a site. It is a hard m atter
Frank will ever be ready to serve his
are more and more declining to enter patrons
toilers in the most practical form.
with the best of goods a t 'a
to tell if procrastination is the thief
into local controversies. It is felt that price within the reach of everyone who
in this instance o r not.
the local Trades Council is better ac­ ! can afford a suit of clothes. The first
F R O M T H E C A P I T A L C IT Y .
quainted with the conditions, is more piece of furniture put into the shop
E ditor L abor P ress: There is a I
W u Ting Fang, the Chinese minister,
O F F IC E
deeply concerned, and is better able to was the union shop card, and the con­
has accepted an invitation to address slight ripple in the heretofore peace-1 do the proper thing. I consider the tract with the union hangs in a frame
the union of labor men of Bingham ton ful waters of unionism in this city. The Building Trades Council tp be at pres­ on the wall.
on L abor day.
This may be out of P ain ters' Union has declared the firm ; ent the nearest solution of some of the
U N IO N IS M A N D T H E E M P L O Y E R .
Mr. W u’s sphere, and som ething of a of W arner & Co., painters, unfair. problem s that confront us, and you will
While much discussion of trades
The
W
arners,
though
members
of
the
departure from the industrial morals
find our brotherhood always in the unionism has been had in print and on
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of a Pacific Coast unionist, but Wu is union, ignore the plain provisions o f 1 front when it comes to maintaining the platform, one striking and valid
the constitution and of unionism, and
a brainy man.
argum ent, appealing directly to the self-
them .”
hire the only scab painte- in the city,
of employers, has l>een slurred.
Friday
evening
Mr.
Skemp
visited
T h e L a r g e s t P l a n t i n t h e P a c if ic N o r t h w e s t There has been considerable talk and a man who boasts that he is a j the P ain ters’ Union and addressed the interest
Charles A. Murdock, of San F ra n ­
I about obsolete laws and “dead letter non-union man. The union here has members along craft lines, encouraging cisco, a well-known employing printer,
ordinances, but witness how active and done all in its power to have this firm ! them in their organization and giving if he is not the inventor of the argu­
effective they become when men are in do the right thing, but all to no pur­ some wholesome advice. He left Sat­ ment. at least gave it clear and ef­
! office who are not afraid to enforce pose. The W arners also have two ap­ urday m orning for his home in San fectual expression in the W estern
P rinter last October.
them.
The up-town business man is prentices, when they are entitled to but
Francisco.
D eploring the sharpness of compe-
as amenable to the law when he violates one. They have no disposition but u t­
tion in the printing business—a com ­
ter contem pt and overbearing, and will I
it as the notorious N orth-E nder.
III T C H E R S ' II I H B E l l E .
petition which, he wrote, had greatly
not condescend to meet the union and 1
Last Sunday the butchers' barbecue dithinished profits and damaged the
make
any
attem
pt
to
square
themselves
j
The impression is abroad in the East
attracted about 1200 people to T ro u t­ trade—Mr. Murdock rem arked that
j
that as soon as the scarcity of an th ra­ whatever. Local dealers have volun- [
measure of stability we enjoy we
dale to spend the day in sport and “the
tarily
asked
the
P
ainters’
Union
w
heth­
must place to the credit oi our em ­
cite coal lias forced the price suf­
feasting.
Two
beeves
were
roasted,
ployes, and cannot in any m anner
ficiently high the coal barons will make er it desired that they refuse to sell
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but the rain Saturday evening inter­ claim it as the result oi our own ef­
a few concessions of m inor importance supplies to W arner & Co., saying they
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fered with the program m e, and the fort. I wish to express my conviction
to the men and resume work in the would prom ptly comply with such a r e - ,
F o r R e c r e a t io n ’
roast was not so good as it would that we owe the -Typographical Union
quest,
but
the
painters
have
not
asked
mines.
It is thought that the strike j
more than we are accustomed to ac­
otherw ise have been. The outside was
will be settled sometime during Sep- j it yet, hoping to get these people to re ­ well enough done, but the meat was knowledge." Mr. M urdock said that
com petition had forced many printing
consider their action and do the square
tember.
too rare next to the bogie. T he’hotels
thing. The W arners are obstinate, and at Troutdale, however, prospered by houses to hire girls and boys to do
cheaply work which in other houses
German
Consul
Lohan
attacks | union men say they use the union the misfortune to the butchers. Many was done by men at fair wages. By
people secured a piece of well-cooked this means prices had been brought so
when
soliciting
work
from
union
sym­
L arry Sullivan and his gang of run­
pathizers, and boast non-unionism flesh, but there were many of the 1000 low that many firms, though busy all
ners and crimps with two-ounce gloves.
that remained uncut.
the time, were making little or no
when trying to deal with people who loaves
The sports were carried out as sched­ profit They had to take work at cost
Portland may be worse than other
oppose
unionism.
The
central
body
met
uled,
and
were
interesting
from
the
port, but we imagine there are others
or below cost in order to prevent
and indorsed the action of the painters, start. The baseball contest between their trade from being -tolen away by
T im e w a its for no m an , b u t ju st as bad.
If they are they need
the
W
illamette
ironw
orkers
and
the
w e h a v e th e finest tim e -k e e p e rs purging just as much as P ortland does, and unless the W arners soon make Troutdale butchers led. and resulted in cheap-John rivals P rinters in giving
estimates used to be perplexed becau-e
in th is c ity fo r th e m a n o r and their sailor boardinghouse keepers themselves right, the efficacy of the a score of 14 to it in favor of the they had either to pare prices to the
unions
here
will
be
tested,
and
it
is
T
routdale
team.
The
game
was
con­
w o m an w ith th e m oney.
i and litter of crim ps sent to jail.
quick or see jobs go to other offices.
thought a certainty that its work will siderably interfered with on account of The Typographical Union had checked
A nd fo r th e m an o r w om an
the
crowd
pressing
in
upon
the
the downward progress of prices, and
w ith o u t th e m oney w e can m ake
F. Stacy W hitney, general organizer be quick, sure and effective.
P reparations for the celebration of grounds, but withal the game was by establishing a uniform rate of pay
s a tisfa c to ry a rra n g e m e n ts so j for A. F. of A., writes th at he will
warmly contested and at times excit­ ior labor had preserved the equality
y o u can p a y fo r y o u r w a tc h on leave the eastern p art of W ashington, I L abor day will soon be completed. ing.
of opportunity and checked the dem or­
The other sports followed in regular alization that follows the forcing of
v e ry e a sy p a y m e n ts, w e e k ly or where he has spent over two m onths 1 There will be a parade and speaking in
the grove by local business men, union order, and the winners and prizes are labor to its lowest price—had dulled
m o n th ly .
i past in the cause, and pay more atten ­
.as follows;
the too-sharp edge of competition. Mr.
Com e a n d look a t th e a s s o rt­ tion to the w estern p art of the state. men, m inisters and others.
100-yard race^(butchers)—First prize, Murdock w rote:
Appeals
from
the
anthracite
mine-
cleaver, knife, saw and steel, Thomas
m e n t, a n d le a rn how easy it is ! We would infer from the letter th at he
"I believe the advantage« of an equal
w orkers have reached the unions here, H ealy; second, cleaver, W. F. Smith.
to ow n a good tim e-p iece.
standard of pay are so great that we
| was instructed from headquarters to do j
free-for-all—First prize, $5 can afford to he patient, even when
O u r F a ll S tock o f Shoes an d I some work in the lumber districts, | and it is safe to say all will respond hat. 100-yard
P. Maloney: second, one Rex ham, they (the union) are unreasonable and
liberally. The cigar-m akers have set
C lo th ing w ill bo u n p a c k e d F r i ­ 1 where organization is badly needed.
14-pound. Frank Beatty.
arbitrary. And in the m atter of ap ­
the pace with a standing weekly assess­
50-yard fat woman's race—First prentices some strong control is neces­
d a y a n d re a d y for Sale S a tu rd a y
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ment of 50 cents per member.
prize, spice, tea and coffee. Miss Say­ sary, or a fait office is at a trem en­
2 3d in st.
Charles M. Schwab is to retire as
second, one side breakfast bacon, dous disadvantage. I believe that it is
Com e a n d see o u r n ice goods j president of the g reat steel tru st on ac- j By-laws and constitution for the cen­ lor;
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tral body have been adopted, and a uni­ Mrs. F. G ratton.
our best policy to be friendly to out
J count of his health.
It is stated that
50-yard girl race, under 14 years— employes and to their organization
form w orking card to be issued by the First
prize, umbrella. Mis- Lena W ood;
his mind has been affected by the great
central body to all unions was like­ second, one corn ham, Miss Florence whenever we can; to do all , our
power to influence them to wise and
1 responsibilities of his office. IL C. 1
wise adopted, and, having been previ­ Cleveland.
judicious action, and to resist them
Frick has been named as his possible
50-yard boys' race, under 14 years—
I successor.
W hile Mr. Schwab's at- ) ously printed, will soon be in evidence. Prize, baseball bat and ball. Ralph only when they are clearly w rong and
impose upon us restrictions they have
R. A. H A R R IS.
Hansen.
1 titude tow ard organized labor has not .
no right to make, and to which we
50-yard wheelbarrow—Prize, box 100 cannot in honor submit."
P O R T L A N D ’S O N E - P R I C E C A S H O R C R E D I T H O I ' I E
j been thoroughly tested, it will I k ' a
D I S T I N G I 1*11 E l l P A I N T E R .
Excelleneia cigars, Messrs. Beatty and
Com petition.
when
normal and
| sorry day for the w orkingm en if M r I
Joseph C. Skemp, third vice-president 1 Westledge.
healthy, is the life of trade, but when
) Frick is installed as president.
Running broad jump—Prize, meal it becomes too active and feverish it
of the International Brotherhood of ticket. $5.50. Thomas F. Healy.
of ladies’ wear and general dry goods,
L A B O R D A Y C O M M IT T E E M E E T S .
produces death. To combat the evil
Painters,
D
ecorators
and
Paperhang
Hop. step and jump—Prize, meal of excessive competition, an evil
G. Y. H arry, president of the O regon
The L abor Day Com mittee met ' and are agents for the Bazar glove-fit-
ers, arrived in this city last Friday, on ticket. $5.50, Thomas F. Healy
felt alike by m aster and man. the em ­
W ednesday night and heard the re ­ j ting patterns. They bid for the p at­ | State Federation of Labor, left Wed- his way to San Francisco. Mr. Skemp
100-yard, proprietor
(butchers)— ployers formed trusts and the employes
|
iiesday
for
valley
points
on
the
west
Prize, fancy smoking set. T. E. Woods.
ports from the various sub-commit- ronage of union men and women, and
has been attending the semi-annual ; 100-yard (sausagem akers) — Prize, unions, so that the two movement«, so
tees. E verything shows up favorably, I should receive consideration in return ! side of the River on an organizing
hostile to each other, are twin children
meeting
of
the
executive
board
and
one fancy negligee shirt. Lon Eichberg. of one m other and have the «ame end
tour.
He expects to be gone about
and there is no doubt but there will ] for their co-operation.
100-yard (m eatcutters)—Prize, one
10 days, visiting McMinnville, Dallas, stated th at the brotherhood had never Philippine turkey, value $5, Charles in view. It has been «aid in argum ent
be an immense turnout of union men
been in a more prosperous condition.
that trades unions were nothing less
1
Independence,
Sheridan
and
Corvallis,
for the parade at 10:30 A. M. Besides
Eneix.
Bishop H enry C. Potter, of New
than labor trusts. The reto rt is obvi­
W ithin the last year over 200 locals
The prize waltz—lady's prize, sweat­ ous that tru sts are employer«' unions,
listening to the various reports, W. H. Y ork, believes the anthracite coal op­ j W herever enough mechanics can be
have been granted charters, among er—was won by Miss Julia Welch, as
and that if it is right ami fair ior em ­
Barry was elected grand marshal, and, erators are wrong. He thinks “the j found in one craft local unions will
which
was one in P o rto Rico. The was also the silk umbrella in the cake­ ployers to organize it is right ami fair
having served in this capacity last anthracite coal operators have all be organized under their respective in-
walk.
membership
for
these
unions
has
been
workmen to organize.
year, was the best man, in the opinion along m aintained a false position. They ! ternationals; otherw ise Federal Labor
The sheep-killing contest was won for Murdock
applied his argument to the
of the committee, for the place. He is take the stand that they will not deal I U nions will be formed under chart«., an increase of 12.000, which gives a by Jack Hickey, of Troutdale.
printing trade only, but no doubt it
thoroughly com petent and will do the
total membership of over 40,000 mem­
from
the
American
Federation
of
with the uiganizations, but insist on
applies with equal force to all trades,
position proud.
bers in 750 unions. The percentage of
T H F . E N G I N E E R A N D H IS A D .
and it seems strange that the spokes­
dealing with th e men as individuals. Labor.
increase has been greater than that of
A funny story has just leaked out men for trades unionism have not made
Now this is all wrong. Any body ol
A U n io n S to r e .
one of the officers of the Steam much use of it. Resistance to trades
In Germany recently a railroad con­ any other b rotherhood in the same on
Readers of the L abor Press will no­ men whose interests are common have
length of time. In the past year there Engineers' Union of this city. A short unionism is founded mostly on selfish­
the
right
to
organize
into
an
associa­
tracto
r
working
two
gangs
of
laborers,
tice on the local page of this issue a
time after the union had been o rg an ­ ness, and if employers can be con­
tion for mutual protection, and are en­
have been 100 strikes and disputes for ized the afore«aid officer got a tip that vinced that unionism will help their
display advertisem ent of McAllen & titled to recognition as an organiza­ one German and the oth er Italian,
higher
wages
and
shorter
hours.
Of
a couple of the members were doing business they *oon will yield.—San
McDonnell, a union store run on union tion in m atters which affect their in­ posted notices th a t' upop a certain day
wages would be reduced.
The Ger- these 95 per cent have been won, and some underhanded work, so he thought Francisco Bulletin.
principles. They carry a large stock dividual and combined interests.”
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