PORTLAND LABOR PRESS
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LABOR NOTES
T h ere are only four unfair resta u
ra n ts in Cleveland, O.
Striking bakers in B altim ore, Md.,
will start a co-operative bakery.
T he lath ers are organizing many
new unions in the S outhern states.
T he M iners’ U nion at B ourne, Or.,
is erecting a new hall, tw o stories, 30x
80 feet.
T he B arten d e rs’ League of San
Francisco is asking one day a week
off for its m em bers.
T he big m olders' strike in P rovi
dence, R. I., has been declared off.
T he struggle began last Septem ber.
T he young ladies of W o rcester,
Mass., w ho follow ty p e w ritin g and
steno g rap h y have organized a union.
Bosses of D ubuque, la., have
form ed a “peace alliance” to settle
strikes according to their ow n no
tions.
Girls em ployed in labeling beer in
a M inneapolis brew ery are on strike.
T hey got 90 cents a day and asked
for a dollar.
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T he A. L. U. has issued a call for
a convention of delegates rep rese n tin g
C alifornia unions to form a sta te o r
ganization.
T he la rg e st shoe m anufacturing
concern in T o ro n to , Canada, recently
unionized its plant. O ver 500 men
are em ployed.
S ecretary M orrison rep o rts th a t the
A. F. of L. is receiving per capita tax
on 1.457,593 m em bers. T h e defense
fund is nearly ^SS.OOO.
T he differences betw een the traction
com pany and its conductors and mo-
torm en at S henandoah, Pa., were set
tled and a strike averted.
In San Francisco th e T ile S ette rs’
H elp ers are on a strike fo r increased
wages. T h ey have been gettin g $1.50
p e r day and ask for $2.00.
D uring the m onth of Ju ly the cigar-
m akers won strikes in the U nited
S tates affecting 1554 m em bers. Sev
eral new unions were organized.
M em bers of the T ypographical
U nion of S haron, Pa., have received
an increase of 10 per cent in wages.
A strike was im m inent at one time.
T he establishm ent of a legal bureau
by the Chicago F ederation of L abor
to tight injunction and o th e r court
proceedings, is under consideration.
A fter a lockout lasting th ree weeks,
planing mill m en at E ast St. Louis,
111., have received their full dem ands—
$3 for a nine-hour day. and weekly
pay day.
Com m ercial te leg rap h e rs’ national
convention decided to raise a huge de
fense fund in order to m ake a fight
against com panies that blacklist their
m em bers.
A fine of $5.25 and $18 costs has
been im posed upon a boss barber in
Sydney, A ustralia, for keeping his
shop open after the prescribed hours
of w orking.
Frem antje, A ustralia, carp en ters are
a-k in g for a 44-hoitr w eek and $4.25
per day. If the bosses refuse their de
m ands. the carp en ters intend going to
the arbitration court.
1 Since the inauguration of the New
South W ales, A ustralia, sta te female
reg istry office, 2583 applications for
em ploym ent have been received, and
2OU4 positions filled.
Q uarrym en at Stony Creek, Conn.,
w ho w ent on strike for the eight-hour
day and no reduction in w ages, have
retu rn ed to w ork. B eginning O ctober
1, the new schedule will go into ef
fect.
T he 1200 pork b utchers and oleo
m argarine w orkers in the K ansas City
packing plants have been granted a
25 per cent increase of w ages to make
th e scale correspond with that of Chi
cago.
T he next convention oT th e S h irt
w aist and L aundry W o rk e rs’ U nion
will be held at San F rancisco. W . O.
Pow ell, of P ortland, w as elected a
delegate to the A m erican F ederation
of Labor.
C oopers who struck in the A gthoven
shop at C incinnati, O hio, for recog
nition of th e ir union and a raise in
pay are retu rn in g to w ork as indi
viduals, each one being granted an
increase in pay.
In view of the fact that the N ational
Cash R egister Com pany at D ayton,
O hio, has stated that it is in financial
difficulty, and cannot raise-w ages-, the
w oodw orkers have w ithdraw n their
request for raise in pay.
T he strik e rs in the G ilchrist mill at
A lpena, Mich., went back to work,
th e com pany g ran tin g a 10 per cent
raise in w ages to all th e men who
had been receiving $10 a week or less.
A bout 700 m en were out.
A new w orking schedule has been
adopted by the O n tario & W estern
R ailroad and the te le g ra p h e r^ E x
tra m oney is allow ed for w ork over
tw elve hours and o th e r increases
range from $5 to $10 m onthly.
P uddlers are con fro n ted with a m a
chine which ex p e rts claim will m e
chanically puddle 60,000 pounds of
iron in 12 hours, and effect an en o r
m ous saving in labor, m etal, fuel and
o th e r costs of p resent production.
T he Los A ngeles A m erican, an
evening p ap er, dem ocratic, th at has
been ru n n in g about th ree m onths, has
changed from a union paper to a “ra t”
sheet. It is believed th a t H. G. O tis,
of the T im es, has p urchased the p a
per.
O rg an izer W aite, of the am alg am at
ed leather w o rk ers, was fined in Cur-
winsville, Pa., because he organized
th e leather w o rk ers of th a t tow n. H e
was fined on the p reten se th at he had
tresp assed on the leath er tr u s t’s p ro p
erty.
U pon ap p licatio n of the H arbison-
W alk er R efracto ries Com pany, of
P ittsb u rg . Pa., a p relim in ary injunc
tio n has been g ran ted by the Cam
b ria C ounty courts, restra in in g the
strik e rs fro m in terferin g w ith the
w orkm en at the F eig art plant.
C obbling by m achinery is fact driv
ing the little old-fashioned cobbling
shops out of business. Som e of these
m achine cob b lin g shops do an im
m ense business and use m ore sole
leath er in th e course of a day ’s o per
atio n th an m any sm all shoe factories.
T h e c o n tra c to rs at Rocklin, Cal.,
w ho gave n otice to th eir men th at
th ey would have to board at the com
p an y ’s b o ard in g houses o r pay $6 per
m o n th out of th e ir salaries, have re
ceded from th e ir arb itra ry position,
and the strik e has been declared off.
L abor tro u b le s are som ething of the
past in th e C ity of H am m ond, Ind.
T h e T rad e and L ab o r Council, the
Business M en’s A ssociation and the
M an u factu rers' A ssociation have each
selected rep rese n tativ es for a board
o f arb itra tio n to settle all labor diffi
culties and act as a court of final ap
peal.
P assen g er train men on the Pacific
division of th e Canadian Pacific Rail
road are to receive an increase of ap
p roxim ately 12 per cent on th eir p res
ent wage schedule, and the men em
ployed in th e op eratio n of freight
train s are to secure an increase of 13
per cent. T h e increase d ates from
A ugust 1.
A ccording to the D ayton, O.,
Picket the E m p lo y e rs’ A ssociation of
th a t city has becom e an “oath-bound
organization, pledged to a blacklist
system , b itterly opposed to organized
labor and a rro g a n t in its entire sys
tem ." T he cen tral body is being com
pletely reorganized to m eet the a t
tack s of the P arry -K irb y com bine.
O rganized
labor in W aterb u ry ,
Conn., has offered a rew ard for in
form ation th a t will lead to the ap p re
hension of th e parties guilty of the
m u rd er of the policem an who rode
on the car o p erated by an unfair con
d u cto r and m oto rm an th a t was a t
tacked by several m asked m en claimed
by prejudiced new spapers to be strik
ers.
T h e engirieers and firem en of the
U nion Pacific Railw ay C om pany have
secured an advance of w ages for the
engineers of about 3J4 and for the
firemen of 4 ¡4 per cent. T h e increase
runs from 10 to 20 cen ts a hundred
m iles for the engineers, w ith p ro p o r
tio n ate increases for the firemen. Ne
go tiatio n s have been p ending since
Ju ly 6 betw een the com pany and the
men, and the new scale affects the
en tire system .
D uring the strike of the Russians
at Kieff, on one occasion, w hen the
tro o p s were o rd ered by th e G overnor
to fire on the strikers, a young Cap
tain stepped in front of his com pany
and forbade the tro o p s to fire on
"th eir poor, starving b ro th ers.” T he
soldiers obeyed the co u n ter o rd er and
the Captain m ade a flam ing revolu
tio n ary speech to his men. H e was
im m ediately arrested , tried by court-
m artial and sentenced to death.
O ne of the features at th e W o rld ’s
F air in 1904 will be the p rin tin g and
publishing of a com plete daily new s
paper on the grounds. T h e linotype
com pany will install a b attery of their
latest im proved m achines, m anned by
the fastest o p era to rs in th e country,
and papers will be tu rn ed out in va
rious colors on presses of the latest
make, as an exhibition, in co n tra st of
a parallel b o o th of the hand com pos
ito r and hand pres« of fifty years ago.
T he w ages per hour paid to carp en
ters in the various principal cities of
the co u n try is given as follow s by the
N ational E lectrical C o n tra cto r: Chi
cago 45c, M inneapolis 3754c, Cleve
land 35c, P ittsb u rg 43J^c, D enver 45c,
St. L ouis 45c, W ashington 4 0 ^ c , K an
sas C ity 35c to 37J4 c , St. Paul 30c to
37 %c, Reading 30c, T acom a 37j4c,
C incinnati 33c. P hiladelphia 35c, M il
w aukee 35c, New Y ork 56%c, P ro v i
dence 31*4c, San F rancisco 50c, Buf
falo 33}4c, D etroit 30c, N ew ark 37J^c.
T h e coal m iners around F lorence,
Colo., have organized under ch a rter
of the U nited M inew orkers of A m er
ica. As soon as the field is th o r
oughly organized the m iners of the
n o rth er fields will help the Southern
Colorado men in a stand for the eight-
hour day. abolishnm ent of com pany
stores, a b etter system of ventilation
in the m ines and recognition of their
union when the tim e is ripe. P re si
dent Jo h n M itchell will aid them in
securing the reform s.
A t a m eeting of the d irecto rs of the
legislation conference of New York
a resolution w as adopted requesting
Mie G overnor to call an ex tra session
of th e L egislature to pass such a law
as will settle the present strik es and
prevent such lab o r troubles in future.
O f the 250 unions invited, 23 sent
representatives. T he resolution will
be sent to the 700 local unions of this
city. If a m ajo rity agree th a t this is
the best way to proceed the resolu
tions will be fo rw ard ed to th e Gov
ernor.
W ar on the all-night barber shops
has been declared by the B arb ers’
U nion of Chicago. An agreem ent has
been reached betw een the boss b ar
bers and th eir em ployes by w hich the
la tte r agree n ot to w ork in barber
shops which keep open after 8 o ’clock
at night. T he b arb ers do n o t hope to
close all the all-night shops at once,
but believe th at they will eventually
be successful. A strike will be de
clared on all shops which do n ot close
at 8 o'clock, and th e unions, it is said,
will have the support of th e F ed era
tion of L abor.
U nion officials announce th a t three
general supply sto res will be estab
lished at once by the union fo r the
benefit of the strik in g m iners of the
Cripple Creek district. T h ey will be
at V ictor, C ripple Creek and G old
field. G oods will be sold at cost, and
credit will be given the m en until
such tim e as th ey are able to pay.
T he n ecessary funds have been fu r
nished by th e W e ste rn F ed eratio n of
M iners. T he m ove is the resu lt of
the recent action of the M e rc h an ts’
A ssociation of th e district in discon
tin u in g all credit business.
receipts w ere $139,005, and the ex
▲ T O P -L IIM
penses $92,588.22. S trike benefits cost
$34,262.50. T h e to ta l m em bership is
14.496. A m ong th e expenses is an
THE DHUOOIST
item of $16,908.32 for organizing, and
$15,312.40 for funeral benefits. T he Cornor Stcond and Washington S tru ts
total num ber of strik es and lockouts,
L e t n s su pp ly your drug w an ts
as nearly as they can be ascertained,
w tre about 113. O f these strikes and
lockouts, both large and small, the J.
T. U. of A. w on alm ost every one. In
not a single case w ere we positively
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defeated.
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A R SH A L L 8T H H B T S
T h ere is a m ix-up in F resn o , Cal.,
P O iT L A I D , O B IO O J
betw een the city and the P lu m b ers’
Union. By ordinance the plum bers
Sol B lu n a u e r
B ag eae B o o k
m ust be licensed by the City E n g in
eer, w ho appoints th e Plum bing In
spector to exam ine them . T h ey o b
jected, as th a t official is n o t a plum b
er, and asked th a t a plum ber be ap
pointed inspector. T h is was refused,
Wholesale Deal era and Im porters
but an exam ining b o ard of seven em
ploying plum bers were appointed.
W hen the jo u rn ey m en ’s association
then requested equal rep resen tatio n
o n the board w ith the em ployers, the
city au th o rities w ould n ot agree,
though the em ployers w ere willing.
T he journeym en w ere given until A u
gust 15 to take th e exam inations, but
not one appeared. T h eir association
m et and resolved n ot to apply for li
censes until given rep resentation.
ALBERT BERH I
A. W. ALLEN
Dispensing Pharm acist
MiHiatr 1 Hoc)
Witts, L lp is ant
Cigars
To Study Foreign Labor.
A ccording to rep o rts a m ovem ent
Portland, Oregon
has been started am ong the organized
labor people of th is co u n try for the
purpose of appointing a com m ission
Sole Agents: Old Kentucky H om e Club, S k a W r
Pure M a lt, Old Jeff. C . T a y lo r’s Med, W h ite and.
to go to G reat B ritain and E urope Blue Star, Mount Vernoa Rye, Repaold's Cognac
with a view to stu d y in g th e labor Brandy.
conditions. Such a com m ission of
Qua Freiw ald. Preeldaiit
E nglish w orkm en visited the U nited
J. M Geller», V iee Präs.
S tates lately as the guests of Mr. A l
▲. Praiwald, Bao’y and Trans.
fred M osely, the g reat diam ond m er
chant and p h ilan th ro p ist of L ondon,
who is a staunch cham pion of o rg a n
ized labor. It is also rum ored th a t
Brawera and B ottlers
of the Famous
Mr. M osely is g ettin g up an o th er com
m ission of E nglish to ilers to b rin g to
th is country. H e w as so favorably
im pressed w ith th e results derived
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Columbia Phone BX0O
from his last visit th a t upon his re
tu rn to the B ritish capital he an
nounced his in ten tio n to come to the
Portland, Oregon
U nited S tates again in a sh o rt tim e.—
M axw ell's T alism an.
M. J. Gardner
M. G ardner
T h e sixth annual convention of the
In tern atio n al B ro th erh o o d of S tatio n
ary F irem en, held in R ochester, N. Y.,
closed A ugust 4 5, w ith the election
of officers. T im o th y H ealy, of New
York, was elected p resid en t; C. L.
Sham p, of F o rt W ayne, Ind., secre
ta ry -trea su re r, and P eter M iller, of
St. Louis, th ird vice-president. T he
next convention will be held in W a sh
in g to n in A ugust of next year. It
was voted to rem ove the N ational
h ead q u arters from New Y ork to O m a
ha. T h e o rg an izatio n is about to b e
gin a crusade to organize th e sta tio n
ary firemen of th e W est.
T he rep o rts of th e officers of the
T R Y N E W T A C T IC S .
Jou rn ey m en T a ilo rs’ U nion of A m er
Y o u r ad sh o u ld bo in th e c o lu m n s
ica show the organization in splendid
condition. A year ago there was $25,- o f t h e P o r tla n d L a b o r P r e ss. C all
066.55 in the treasu ry . T o d ay there u p C lay 1601 a n d w e ’ll t a lk to y o u
is a neat balance of $46,417.05. T he a b o u t it.
Star 4 Brewery 4 ßo.
HOP GOLD
EAST THIRD AND BURNSIDE STS.
GARDNER BROTHERS
M anufacturers of
UNION MADE CIGARS
Tampanola and Boaabud
A lso Dealers in
FINE WHISKIES
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W IN ES , LIQUORS and CIGARS-
A new daily paper w ith a capital
stock of $3000 is to be launched at
Beloit, W is., about the day following
L abor Day. A com pany has been
form ed. It will be know n as the Be
loit Daily Jo u rn al P u b lish in g Com
pany and will be supported by union
labor, each local tak in g one share.
O v er $1000 has already been sub
F a m ily R oam * an d F a m ily G ard e*.
TIVOLI GARDEN SALOON
A ffD R S W SW A N SO N , F rep r.
Cor. 2M and W a a k la g to n ,
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scribed.
At a conference of the rep resen ta
tives of the clo th in g trades unions of
New Y ork City, w ith an ag gregate
m em bership of 40,000, and of the
C lothing M an u factu rers’ A ssociation,
an agreem ent has been reached by
w hich the w ages paid under a form er
agreem ent will be extended one year,
av ertin g th reaten ed friction over the
w-age question.
T he B rew ery W o rk ers of Branch
No. 1 have ju st had a new co n tract
m ade with the U nion Brew ery, of
S haron, Pa., which, besides giving an
increase of w ages in all departm ents,
including engineers, firem en, b o ttlers
and team sters, has th e follow ing
clause: “O nly union-m ade cooperage,
m alt and b o ttles and union-m ined coal
shall be used in th is b rew ery .”
T h e C entral T rad e and L ab o r Coun
cil of New O rleans, com posed of
w hite labor unions, has invited the
C entral L ab o r U nion, com posed of
negro unions, to join it in a big p a
rade on L ab o r Day. If th e w hites
and blacks parade to g e th er it will be
the first tim e this has been done in
20 years. T h e re are 19 n eg ro labor
unions, rep rese n tin g 11,000 men, in
th a t city.
T he strike of the p aperm akers at
H olyoke, M ass., w hich has been on
since June 15, has been declared off.
H am ilton, O., bo asts of being the
best organized city in th a t state. W ith
a population of only 25,000, its trades
unions com prise a m em bership of
over 2000, a little over 8 per cent of
its entire population. D uring the past
year the gro w th of unionism has been
phenom enal there.
T he San Francisco L abor Clarion
•-ays the New Y ork T ypographical
U nion, No. 6. is advocating the erec
tion of a building for its own use.
Chicago U nion has decided by refer
endum vote to erect a building at a
cost of $100.0(10. while W ashington
alread y has a building w hich realizes
a net income of $2500 p er annum to
the union. San F rancisco U nion may
co n sid er the m a tte r in the not far
distan t future.
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Bedroom Sets at Medium Prices
D u r in g M id s u m m e r j u s t b e fo r e t h e b e g in n in g o f A u tu m n ,
is a g o o d s e a s o n to b u y fu r n itu r e . W e h a v e r e c e iv e d a L a rg e
A s s o r tm e n t o f L ow a n d M e d iu m -p r ic e d B e d r o o m S e ts d ir e c t
fr o m th e E a r te r n M a r k e t.
T h ey a r e o f th e N e w e s t a n d M ost
A t t r a c t iv e D e s ig n s a n d a r e s o ld a t p r ic e s w ith in t h e r e a c h o f a ll.
W e w o u ld l i k e to h a v e y o u c o m e a n d in s p e c t o u r n e w s to c k .
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B e d s t e a d , D r e s s e r a n d C o m m o d e —w h ic h w e ca n s e l l y o u a s lo w
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F U R N IT U R E . I t is s tr o n g a n d d u r a b le a n d is m a d e u p in th e
n a tu r a l w o o d . I t is s u it a b le fo r t h e p o r c h o r la w n a n d a ls o
m a k e s a v e r y p r e tty r u s t ic a d d itio n to t h e h o m e . Som e, o f th e
p ie c e s h a v e b a c k s a n d s e a t s w o v e n fr o m t h e h a rk o f th e H ic k o r y
t r e e . T he p r ic e s a r e v e r y r e a s o n a b le .
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PO RCH T A B L E S, # 4 .5 0
R O C K E R S a n d C H A IR S . # 2 .5 0 a n d # 2 .
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R O C K E R S, # 2 .7 5 , # 3 .2 5 a n d #«.5O.
J A R D IN IE R S , # 2 .5 0
C H A IR S , # 1 .7 5 , # 2 .2 5 a n d # 3 .5 0 .
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