Portland labor press., July 21, 1905, Page 4, Image 4

PORTLAND LABOR PRESS, PORTLAND, OREGON
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In New Brunswick, N. J., organized
labor is very much dissatisfied with
the party in power, and propose to
put a ticket in the field at the next
election.
The Seattle Labor Temple is near­
ing completion and will be ready for
occupancy by Labor Day. The con­
tract for furnishing the building has
been let.
Street railway employes of New
Orleans have signed a five year con­
tract, and will receive a gradual in­
crease in wages from one-half to one
cent per hour each year during the
life of the contract.
The people of Hawaii wearied of
the increase in the Japanese popula­
tion of the Islands, will, it is said,
ask congress to exclude Japanese
coolies, and fortify the islands
against possible war with Japan.
All the mines of the Western Fuel
Company on Vancouver Island, B. C.,
have been closed down. The issue be­
tween the miners and company has
been shifted and from now on it will
be a straight fight for recognition of
the union.
A Kansas firm has commenced the
manufacture of a farm auto-motor
that will do the plowing and harvest­
ing formerly requiring 30 to 48 hors­
es and a score or more of men. It is
confidently expected that the harvest­
ing problem will be solved by next
year.
Switchmen employed by the San
Pedro, Salt Lake anil Los Angeles
Railroad in Los Angeles, San Pedro,
Las Vegas, Nevada and Calientes,
Cal., who are members of the Switch­
men’s Union of North America, went
on strike on July 4 for an increase
of wages.
ed because of the robberv of a high-
toned thief. They had about $80,000
in the institution. But a tew days
previous to the failure a bank ex­
aminer, after an “ examination,”
showed the bank to be in a solvent
state.
A convention of stationary engine­
ers, held at Santa Barbara, Cal., has
decided to work for a state license
law which would license engineers
and provide for a further inspection
of boilers. A committee was ap­
pointed to draft a bill and have it
presented at thg next session of the
Legislature.
Printers of Rochester. N. Y., have
entered into a contract for the eight
hour day after January 1, 1906, and
secured an increase of wages of $1
per week after May 20, 1907. The
Typothetae strongly objected to its
Rochester members signing this scale,
but the eight hour dav is winning
right along.
Six hundred boilermakers, shipfit-
ters and apprentices went on strike
recently from the yards of the John
Robins Shipbuilding Company and
the Robert White Shipbuilding and
Repair Company, Brookyln, N. Y. The
apprentices demanded an increase in
wages and the journeymen joined
them from sympathy.
The Byrd Printing Company of At­
lanta, Ga., has signed an agreement
for a strictly union office. This is
one of the results of the recent con­
vention of the “ open shop” Parry-
ites in Atlanta, and disposes of about
the only large concern left outside of
the union fold after the general lock­
out of two years ago.
Recently an inspector of factories
in New Zeland detailed a number of
Oamaru employers systematically
dodging the Arbitration Act. In two
cases sums of £37 and £35 respec­
tively had to be paid by firms to girls
for arrears of wages improperly with­
At the closing session of the Ex­ held, or never credited, extending
ecutive Council of the American Fed­ over a number of years.
eration of Labor, held at Scranton,
Reports indicate that John R.
Pa., recently, the anthracite miners O ’Brien, international president of
were urged to organize in order to the Retail Clerk’s Protective Associ­
secure a working agreement with the ation, has been defeated for re-elec­
operators to replace the arrangement tion by at least 1500 votes. II. J.
which expires next April.
Conway is the new president. Mr.
Indiana miners had their funds tied O ’Brien is in Galveston, Tex., to pre­
up in the Terre Haute bank that fail­ side at the international convention
of the clerks, which opened in that foreign credit reports and so on,” he
said; “ but we soon found out that
city July 11th.
the real motive was to fight organized
In Philadulphia organized labor is
labor and we at once withdrew.” As
booming Frank Feeney, president of
to the closed shop Ma’. Hamper had
the Central Labor Union, for sheriff.
this to say: “ The closed shop is
He will run on a strictly labor ticket,
simple justice. It protects the work­
but if either of the old parties want
ers. It makes the shirk pay his share
to endorse him they may do so. The
in maintaining the union. For ex­
labor people of Philadelphia believe
ample, in dull times there are thous­
it is a good time to knock out the
ands of unemployed who are willing
“ machine” politicans and are going
to work for a song. If you have the
to try to do it with one of the best
open shop the employer is at liberty
labor men of that city.
to lay off his regular union workmen
From a report issued by the Berlin and employ the ‘scabs,’ as you call
Trades Union Commission, which is them, thereby bringing distress upon
practically the same thing as a trades faithful employes. I hold that a
council in this country, it appears man has no moral right to do that,
that the German capital is one of and if they have not the humanity
the best organized large cities in the about them to do justice it is in the
world. The commission shows that province of the working people to
the membership of the affiliated or­ organize and force them to. I had
ganizations was 174,192 at the end of much rather deal with the union as
1904, an increase of over 37,000 a whole than to deal with individ­
against 1903. The metal workers uals.”
number 45,000, cabinet makers 18,-
700. bricklayers 13,300. transport
DANGER OF LOW DUES.
workers 12,000, printers 8.068, book­
Trade
unions have been thriving to
binders 5,856, builders’ laborers
such
an
extent in this country the
4,886, municipal employes 4,412, car­
past
few
years
that the average mem­
penters 4,088, tailors 3,800, painters
ber
of
the
organization
has not had
2,855, etc.
occasion to stop and consider where
The coopers employed in the San we are at, and so the unions have
Francisco breweries quit work July gone on adding new features which
17 to enforce a demand for an in­ entailed increased expense without
crease of wages. The strikers are providing for adequate revenue to
members of Coopers’ I nion No. 65. meet the increased demands on their
They have been receiving $21 a week treasury. Usually the ordinary re­
and recently the union adopted a new sources of nearly all organizations
scale calling for a wage of $22, to are taxed almost to the limit to main­
become effective July 15th. The em­ tain these obligations, making it im­
ployers refused to concede the ad­ possible to accumulate funds for
vance and the strike was ordered. emergencies that are liable to arise
There are about twenty men now in­ any time.
volved. The brewery workers may
There is a good reason for all this.
become involved as some of the coop­ One is that neither conventions nor
ers are affiliated with Brewery Work­ the referendum of any organization
ers’ Union No. 7. The brewery work­ ever give due consideration to expect­
ers’ organization lias an agreement ancy of life in making laws govern­
which runs for two years for a -wage ing death benefits consequently un­
of $21 a week. The coopers who are ions attempt to pay sums that are
affiliated with Brewery Workers’ Un­ utterly out of proportion to the reve­
ion No. 7 are still working.
nue received. Some say the lapses
REFUSED TO 3 E DUPED.
Mi’. W. R. Hamper, manager of a
large tobacco works in Detroit, said
the other day that he had severed his
connection with the Perry-Post Manu­
facturers’ Association. “ We were
once induced to join in order to get
Fifteen Acres where the Forest and River come
together in the City Lim its
Oregon Water Power & Railway Co’s
AM USEM ENT PARK
EVERYBODY'S PLAYHOUSE
The Oaks
Music Dancing Bathing
Maze
Bumps
Laughing Gallery
The Chutes
A nd N um erous O th er Features Installed for the
E ntertainm ent o f its Patrons. Special arrangem ents
for Picnics, Sunday Schools and Lodges.
ADMISSION 10 CENTS
Reached by River or Rail from
First and Alder Streets, Cars every
15 minutes from 1 p. m. Daily
make up the differences, but unions
do net permit members to lapse if
they can prevent it, and as organiza­
tion is being perfected, unions are
continually increasing their effective­
ness in successfully reducing the
number of lapses.
Time was wli^n a protracted strike
or series of strikes involving consid­
erable numbers meant the beginning
of the end of the organization,
whether the strikes were won or
lost. That time is past. A strike,
big or little, won or lost, is now look­
ed upon only as an incident in the life
of an organization.
The stability of trade unions is
only endangered by the desire of
some of its membership to get out of
the organization more than they are
willing to contribute. This short­
sightedness is not confined to union
members in America, but seems to be
universal. I t is true even of Great
Britain, the home of the trade un­
ion, where its highest development
has been reached. Thomas Reece,
the veteran labor writer of London,
England, in a letter printed in a re­
cent number of the American Fed-
»erationist, observed that there are
some there too, who look upon the
payment of dues as an imposition,
while to receive benefits is a right
which should not be denied under any
circumstances.
The primary function of our unions
is to protect our distinct interest as
workers; beneficial features may be
added and maintained at less cost
than in any other society, and we
ought to be willing to defray that
cost by payment of sufficient dues to
meet it and still have means to carry
on the prime purpose of organization
among working people.
A few unions have fortified them­
selves against contingencies by pro­
viding that a certain sum per capita
be held in reserve, and that amount
is assured by laws making assess­
ments mendatory. One thing is cer­
tain, union men of all trades must
give closer attention to the fiscal pol­
icy of their respective organizations
and provide effectual means against
the possible necessity of repudiation.
Of course the opponents of our move­
ment can not ultimately triumph, but
our own aims can bo gained much
more speedily by wise legislation and
generous support of the medium
through which these ends are to be
achieved. — Amalgamated
Wood­
worker.
Ask for the union label and the m er­
Island regarding the alleged violation
chant
who w aits on ydu will respect
of the eight-hour day by the Scho­
field Construction Company, which you for being consistent.
was recently awarded a contract to
built a new drydock at a cost of $1,-
PETITION FOR LICENSE.
600,000. The firm ba» been employing
To th e H onorable C ounty C ourt o f M ultn o­
men to do the preliminary work, such m ah County, S ta te o f O regon—
as removing tlie old piles and pre­ W e. th e un dersigned le g a l votere w ith in
P recinct No. 70, M ultnom ah County, Oregon,
paring the site for the improvement. hereby
p etition and pray th a t B. C. L ars­
son and Joh n Larsson be a llo w ed a licen se
The men have
cen worked! nine to
sell spirltous. vlnious, and m a lt liq u o r,
in T rou tdale, w ith in said P r ecin ct 70. In said
hours, while the law says that on all j County,
and th a t In le ss q u a n tities th an
government contracts and work, eight i one g allon for th e term o f six m onths.
In accord an ce w ith th e above p etitio n we.
hours is to be a day’s labor.
B. C. L arsson and Jo h n L arsson, w ill apply
Warwick and Kean will call on to said C ounty Court for a license.
R. W hite, A. J. V andever, L. A. H arlow ,
Schofield and endeavor to adjust the W. B. D. Forrest, M. C. D in g le. J. S. H u d ­
son, M C. Supples, R. T. H utson . Joh n
matter with him. Should he refuse H olm , J. T. W llcoxson, W . E. Crawford.
T. M cCreary. Fred H ood, H enry B arn ey,
to concede the eight-hour conditions, J.
G. O. W orden, John L arsson, E. R osecrantz,
P. B rooks, H. W. L ove. B. F. T hom pson,
it is probable that the grievance will C.
R. R. Jones, E. John son, F. F o th . Chas.
H um m el. John H um phrey, T. W. Corder.
be placed before United States At­ C.
J. H olm . C. M cFarland, E m il T egerstran d
torney Devlin, with a request tli«»t B ert W illiam s, E. Stafford. H. M. N eilson ,
Thos. A lexander, C has A. M cK enney. S. S.
action be taken in the United States L ogan, A. J R ichter, E. C. Ott, T. E. H a r ­
low. J. M. E dw ards, F. M. P elton . J. H.
courts against the company.
H oyt, L. H. H am shlre. M. O. H arlow . A.
T his is a good tim e to put in a
good w ord for O regon-inade goods.
Ask for the union label and you'll
be helping yourself.
Stafford, W. D. M errill. E. W. H olt. W. J.
M erchon, W. P. B en n ett. John Shepherd.
H. C. B ell, Jeff Sh ipley, J o h n Coons. W m .
Sutherland, H enry V anderhoof, A. P. 81m-
onl, A. Galburlns, C. W. C leland, Jacob
W ette. P at McGuren, Sam 'l M cK enny. H. C.
Sexton. Ed. L. Schuyler, Geo. W illia m s.
Aaron Fox, P. Staneko, R. L atourell, O. N.
R eynolds. B. C. Larsson, D. B. R ichardson.
A. Surber, H, R ichardson, C has. E. K efsr,
| Chris T im m , A rthur R ichardson.
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