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NO SHIRKS ADMITTED
Masons and Bricklayers Proud
of Their Trade.
REGULATE THE PERSONNEL
Apprentice Rules More Strict Than In
Most Other Trades—Applicrnts For
Union Membership Must Be Skilled
Craftsmen
A canvass of the 0,000 workers in the
trade in Chicago probably would show
one opinion iv the majority'- tin 1 stone
masons and bricklayers are proud of
their trades, writes Oscar New ma v in
Chicago Tribune. So proud arc they
that tbey watch and regulate tbe per
sonnel of the trade wiib a vigilance
gaulzntlou. The shirk or the Inefficient
by virtue of the test be will undergo in
his term Of apprenticeship, is weeded
out before the time comes to make hint
wise is dropped before be has achieved
Perhaps no trade exercises so rigidly
its working rules aud apprentice regu
lations, and the result is tbat perhaps
there is no craft where the work is
rough ami the training likewise where
the standard of membership is so high.
Witness the rigid, almost drastic rules
drawn up by the joint arbitration
board of the bricklayers and stonema
sons' organization and the Contractors
ami Builders' association of the city.
All apprentices iv this trade shall be
Indentured by ami be under the juris
diction of the joint arbitration board,
which has authority h ttrol them
and protect their interests.
A contractor or firm can take only
one new apprentice each year.
A contractor entitled to an appren
tice may lake one on trial for two
weeks, provided the applicant holds v
permit from the board, ami if after
two weeks' trial tbe boy is unsatisfac
tory be ueed not enter into indentures,
but shall pay the boy (5 a week for
the two weeks. No boy will be allow
ed a trial with more than two con
tractors.
A contractor taking an apprentice
shall keep him steadily at work or,
failing to do so, shall* pay him tbe
same as if be bad worked, in case
auy apprentice nt the end of his term
for some cause is not a proficient
workman be may be required to serve
another year, if the board, after a
thorough investigation, so decides.
The applicant for apprenticeship
shall be under eighteen years of age
and shall serve continuously for a pe
riod of uot less than three years.
An apprentice shall work continuous-1
the board not less than two hours each
February, March, April, November
am! December of each year of his ap
prentice time, and a certificate to this
effect from the .school that be has at
tended will be required before be shall
Tbe minimum wages of an appren- [
first year, $350 for tbe second year j
aud $450 for tbe third year, payable
For every evening an apprentice is
tardy w disorderly at school one day's
work without pay shall be added to bis
fails to attend school during the school
term, except when, in the opinion of !
the board, a valid excuse is given, two
days' work without pay shall be added
to bis apprentice term.
Tbis is the extent to which tbe trade
regulates its apprentices even after
working hours. But in admit ting ap
prentices to the trade there are other
rules which do uot here appear. Tbe
boy who wishes to enter this trade
must, besides being under eighteen
years old, as stated, be of good health
and strength, good character and rep
utation and impress tbe board with his
indication tbat he will make a good
and honest workman, a good citizen
and a credit to the craft. The two
weeks' probation period before tbe in
dentures are made out further guards
against the entrance of undesirables
into tbe trade, aud the provision for
au extension of the term of apprentice
ship guarantees tbat tbe boy will not
be permitted to go to work until be
All contractors have tbe right to
teach the trade to apprentices, but
each and every one of them who does
so is held responsible to the board tor
the proper training, education nnd < are
of tbe boy or boys under bis charge.
All of which means that "1110 trade is
father to the boy" and that once he
has been accepted and indentured the
apprentice will find that bis craft, bis
associates and tbe regulations govern
ing it all will become the strongest in
fluences tbat help to direct and govern
bis development. And bis development
Eight hours shall constitute a day's
work, to be performed between tbe
hours of s a . ,„. ~ud 5 p. m.. except
on Saturdays, Vi lieu the work shall
stop at 12 o'clock noon, with four
Eight hours shall constitute a night's
Time and one-half shall be paid for
all overtime. No contractor shall work
his men overtime except in case of'
Double time shall be paid for work
done on Sundays or holidays, the hol
iday beginning at 12 o'clock at night
The minimum pay shali be 6TM, cents
an hour from July 1, 1906, to May j.
1910.
BIG UNION BENEFITS.
How the Society of Engineers Aids
Out of Work Members.
The annual report of tb" An
mated Society of Englneei - IUOB
was recently received from the g aer
al office in England. The Amalga
society is an .Unglisborganisation, with
branches the English speaking worm
over. The branches in tbe United
States and Canada are affiliated with
the American Federation of Lnbor by
arrangement with the international un
ions of macbluista and engineers.
The report showed slightly over 100,-
OW members in good standing at tbe
cud of the year The main items of
expenditure from the head office were
$1,223,730 la unemployed benefits,
$200,000 in contingent trade benefits,
$308,700 i:i si. U b tits, $649,620 in su
perannuated oi- pension benefits aud
$ 13,8 Mi in sit k lent trade grants to help
other organizations iv difficulties.
The returns show that the benefits
paid by tb" local unions, in addition to
the grants from the national funds,
made a total of $5,400,655, more than
The exceptionally hard times during
the year accounted for the heavy dis
bursements, for which the general and
invested funds bad to be largely drawn
upon for the firs! time for some years.
The report shows, however, that the
general funds still had a total balance
of $3,360,000 at the end of the year
and that the superannuated reserve
fund bid $1,750,000 left when the
books C ed, an aggregate total of
210,000 l'niids in tbe bands of the
treasurer, and nearly all, as shown in
the detailed report, invested In paying
real estate and nv;r*gi)g"S.
A recapitulation of the benefits of all
kinds paid by the society during the
fifty-elghi years In which benefits of
my 1 ;::d have been paid shows that a
total ot' $10,727,005 has been expended
it the work, -Pennsylvania Grit
The Union Label Campaign.
Miss Annie C Patterson of Brooklyn,
chairman oi the auxiliary committee
of tlie Label League or Greater New
York, was the principal speaker t»t a
receul meeting to boom the label cam
In the course of her argument Miss
Patterson said that organized labor is
only half organized. The other half,
the spending power of the family, is
more than wasted. It is used to build
up the sale of nonunion goods. The
purpose of the women's auxiliaries is
io organize that spending power of or
ganized labor, to systematially build
up a demand for the union label. The
wages of the organized workers amount
to about $2,000,000,000 a year, 95 per
cent of which is spent for nonunion
goods, which is a sufficient argument
that iho spending power of the work
ers must be organized
WANT HIGHER WAGES.
Conductors and Trainmen Preparing
New Schedule.
One of the most important labor con
ventions of the year was held in Hos
too recently, that of tbe eastern asso
ciation of ;.-eneral chairmen of the joint
boards of arbitration and adjustment
of tlie conductors and trainmen on the
seventy foin railroad lines and systems
east of the Mississippi river, north of
the Chesapeake and Ohio lines and In
cluding eastern Canada.
The convention decided tbat the time
was now opportune for a general de
mand for a substantial increase in
wages and equalization of the working
hours on all the roads. Now some
have nine, eleven and twelve hour
day schedules. A straight general ten
hour schedule is wanted. The western
association secured such a workday
several years ago. Tbe eastern asso
ciation considered following tbat ac
tion at its convention Inst year, but
it was passed up. as the time was not
considered the proper one owing to
business and traffic conditions.
The eastern men are lower paid but
do heavier and more Important work
than the western ones, it was stated.
Tbe main proposition, as to whether
tbe men will enforce the request by a
strike if necessary, goes to a referen
dum vote at once.
The new executive board and the
general officers of the two big brother
hoods will meet about Dec. 1 nt some
central dot to canvass the vole and.
if the • |Uestk>n Is sustained, to de
cide upon the date for the enforcement
ami notify the management of the
It is stated that the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and the Brother
bood of Locomotive Firemen and Engi
neers are contemplating similar action,
-o (bal i be move for shorter hours and
higher wages will be a concerted one
by all four of the big brotherhoods,
which Include every man of their lin«<
on every find, it is staled.
LABOR IN POLITICS.
Wagev«orkers to Form Nucleui of New
Party In Pennsylvania.
Organised labor a/ill be the nucleus
of ilie Dew party which the Klinn
- pro| i in form iv Pennsylvania
t<> combat with the Republican organ
ization. Tbia stati meiit was made the
other day by Alexander P Moore, edi
tor of tbe Pittsburg Leader, which
newspaper la the reputed mouthpiece
of ex-Senator Klinn. lv an interview
outlining tlie plan Mr. Moore said:
' A formidable organization is being
formed to make a fight within the Re
publican party, and during the next
Pennsylvania will witness a rev
itj n In politics. This organization
not Include so called pollticans.
It is the wage earners of tbe state
who are falling in line, men who are
not known aa political workers. It
UOl md tide labor leaders. It Is
at ipoeed of the intelligent railroad
men. of whom there are 2.1,000 icoters
in Allegheny county; of iron and steel
I workers and other art leans who are
j dissatisfied wltb the action of their
1 present representatives. Tbey are go
; lug lO demand legislation for the wage
earner, such ns tbe employers' liability
bill nnd acts that will prove somewhat
beneficial to tbe laboring classes. Rad
ical legislation win not be demanded.
"As yet the organisation Is not com
! pleled. but every day new members
are affiliating themselves with the
movement. We count on tbe support
of the siate grangers and railroad
men nil over the stale. We want men
who will demand an investigation of
I the abuses of the iron ami steel work
ers nt tbe bands of the state and na
tional governments."
The Real Protection.
When i panic hit Hie country about
two years ago the union workmen in
the glasamaklng industry accepted a
reduction in wages approximating 60
per cent. Now that "prosperity has re
turned" these same employees asked
for a restoration of 20 per cent of the
!50 per cent reduction. After a three
weeks' strike an 8 per cent Increase
j was granted. The new tariff law gives
j the manufacturers ample "protection"
lin order to enable them to pay good
] w ages to t heir employees. While ninety
nine out of every hundred of the glass
workers favor a high protective tariff,
> the fact will now probably dawn on
; them that tbey have only been able to
demand a high wage scale by reason
of having a thorough union organise
j tion.
LABOR BRIEFS.
The salaries of the members of tlie
executive Itoard of the Amalgamated
i steel aud Electric Railway Krnployeea'
union imve been raised from $0 to 87.
The United Textile Workers' union
convention at Washington favored the
eight hour work day. tbe abolishment
of child labor and the booming of the
union label.
a. H. dill .'mil .1. N. Olyncs. both la
bor members of tbe British purlia
: ment, are fraternal delegates of tbe
British unions to the American l-'eder
ation of Labor cotiveutlou at Toronto.
J. 3. Collins of Chicago, general or
ganizer of the M.v binists' union, lias
started a tour ol the seventy odd ma
chinists" lodges of New England. He
i will conduct a general organizing cam
paign
The difficult} of the W. L. Douglas
company at Broektoit and the Boot
! and shoe Workers' union bus been
■ partially adjusted, and the indications
are that complete pleasant relations
! will again exist. 'I he drill has alreath
] given not! c ot the < lose of its new
j factories lv several other places and
j the taking of t!i • work done at them
j back to Mrrwktop
Great
Unloading
Furniture
Sale
Don't delay your Christmas shopping
until the last day. Now is the time
to buy, while stocks are full and as
sortments at their best, and before we
I are too busy with the regular Christ
mas rush to give, you all the time and
!attention you require in making your
; selections.
Do your holiday shopping now. We
will take care of your purchases until
elate nt delivery. We pay the freight,
Make this store your headquarters. You
are welcome whether you wish to pur
chase or not.
We have a large stock of Roomy
comfortable Chairs, Rockers, Morris
Chairs and Settees; also Tables, Book
cuscs. Writing Desks. Etc. Prices the
lowest.
This Rocker is upholstered In genu
ine No. l grade leather plain seal.
tufted back, deep leather fringe- all
around, Would make a splendid gift
tor Christmas. Regular value
$35.00; sale price $22.00
Comfortable Rocker, large ami roorriy,
full spring seat, upholstered in genuine
Spanish leatlier. A good value
at $l&etj Bale price $| |.75
'.ttlier Rockers iv endless variety
from $1.50 UD
Peterson
Furniture Go.
Complete Housefurnishers.
2002 Hewitt Cor. Lombard.
THE LABOR JOURNAL
UNION'S GREAT WORK
What the Ironmolders Have Done
In Fifty Years.
A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT.
High Dues Have Enabled the Organiza
tion to Pay Substantial Benefits and
Thus Increase Membership—Wage
Agreements Favored.
In July of this year the Ironmold
era* union celebrated tbe fiftieth anni
versary of Its organisation asn national
body.
There was a union of Ironmolders
i in Pittsburg in 1830 and one in Pbila
i delphia in 1.837. Cincinnati had one In
| 1847. Each of these various unions
may have been organized several
1 years earlier than the date named for
i It. The records Of most of the early
i unions nre lost. We get just ft glimpse
I of one here and there by accident.
On June 10, 1855, the molders of
Philadelphia formed a union, which
still exists as union No. 1. Through
its efforts the nati tl organization
i was formed. In the fall of 1858 0 cir
cular was sem from the Philadelphia
union to all the local Ironmolders' un
ions It could gel track of, asking each
to send n delegate to n national con
vention. This convention met in Phil-
I Bdelphla July 5, 1860, with delegates
from local unions lv Philadelphia, St.
j Louis, Albany, Troy. Peekskill, Dtica
i and Port Chester. N. T.J Providence,
! It. I.i Jersey City. N. J.; Wilmington,
i Del.; Baltimore and Cincinnati. Let
ters came from local unions in Louis
ville, Ky., and Stamford, Conn., pledg
ing them to abide by whatever action
was taken by the convention.
While the molders from the very
I start favored wage agreements and
their union was among the first in the
field with tbis peace promoting device,
tbey have bad harder lights and more
of them than any other union 1 know
of. Partly because of its numberless
, strikes tbe molders' union early came
up against that most serious of all
i the foes of unionism—the opposition
of tbe wives of union men to the un
! ion. Women could see in tbe organi
zation of labor only danger of more
strikes and an expense at least to the
extent of the dues nnd assessments.
Whether tbe benefit features of the
ironmolders' union were consciously
introduced to placate the women or
not Ido not know. In 1808 at the con
vention in Toronto a resolution em
bodying some rather wild benefit fea
tures was adopted, but it was never
put In practice. Iv IS7O an attempt
was made to form an auxiliary asso
ciation to be composed only of mem
bers who agreed to pay an assessment
to meet death benefits. This plan soou
collapsed, The convention of TS"!),
held In Chicago, ordered a death or to
tal disability benefit of .SIOO iv each
ease to bo paid from the general fund,
tills to bo in operation on and after
Jan. 1, 1880, nnd to apply to all mem
bers who at the date of death or dis
ability had been in tbe organization
for twelve consecutive months and did
not owe more than three months' dues.
The convention of 1899 changed this
arrangement to a graduated beuelit
and provided that a member who had
been iv good standing from one to five
years should receive $100, from live to
ten years $150, from ten to fifteen
years 8175 and from fifteen to twenty
years or over $200, membership to be
computed from Oct. 1, IS'.)5.
Prom the inception of this benefit
feature, Jan. 1, 1880, to June 80, 1900,
there bad been paid from the general
fund for death benefits $019,880; for
disability benefits, $45,225; total. yOilo,
--111.
A sick benefit fund was established
by the convention of 1805, also held
jln Chicago. At that time the dues
I were raised to 25 COBta a week, 8 cents
of it to go to n fund from which a
benefit of $5 a week was to be paid to
a sick member for v period not to ex
ceed thirteen weeks in auy one year.
Any member who was twelve weeks
iv arrears on dues stood suspended.
The high dues went Into effect Oct.
1, 1805, and 32 percent of all dues and
reinstatement fees from that time on
was to be set aside for sick benefits,
; but the latter were not to begin until
j Jan. 1, 1890. In July, 1902, the sick
; benefit was increased to $5.25 a week
. j and in July, 1907, to $5.40 a week. In
i October, 1907, the dues were increased
jto 40 cents a week.
Since January, 1890, the union has
paid out in si-k benefits $1,000,097.
It was found that 32 per cent of tbe
dues provided an unnecessary surplus
In the sick benefit fund, so in 1897 n
iso called out of work benefit was
started on n cent a week from each
member. All that Is intended by this
fund is to prevent the lapse of mem
bership through nonpayment of dues
by members who are neither sic k nor
disabled nor on strike. If n member is
out of work the union will pay his
dues for thirteen weeks in any oue
year. Prom Oct. 1, 1897, to Oct. I,
1907. a pom d of ten years, when the
dues were 25 cents a week, 28.'!,471!
payments of dues were made, amount-
I lug to $70,808. Between Oct. 1. 1907,
and June, 1909, there was an enor
mous amount of enforced idleness in
all the trades, the ironmolders being
especially affected. During the period
the weekly dues were 40 cents a week,
aud 271,650 payments were made.
, amounting to $108,602, or a total from
! the fund of $179,530.
We have thus a total of benefits paid
j by this union ns follows: Sick benefits,
i |1400,079; out of work dues paid,
$179,530; death and dlsnblllty, 9666,-
I 111: total, $2,604,720.—8tbe1bert Stew
j art iv Chicago News.
HOPE OF THE TOILER.
Trades Unionism the Force on Which
He Relies For Freedom.
President tiompers In Ids report to
i the twenty-ninth annu.il convention of
ttie American Pedorutlou of Labor
I among other things said:
"In tbis labor movement we gather
'as the representatives and by direction
of our Organized fellow workers, and
It is upon the labor movement that the
tollers nnd the lovers of human free
dom have set their hearts and hopes.
, They realize that the trades union
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movement or America is the historic
ally developed potential force winch
bears the brant and scars of battle
and which makes sacrifices for right i
and justice for all for all ti There
Is not H wrong against which we fail
to protest or seek to remedy; there is
not a right to which any of our fel
lows are entitled which it is not our
duty, mission and work ami struggle
to attain. So long as there shall co
ntain a wrong unrigbted or v right de
nied there will lie ample work for the
labor movement to do. Tbe struggle
through the ages has always been at
tended with brutal tyranny and cruel
injustice. Some have always bad to J
suffer that the people might obtain!
some modicum of freedom. The times
in Which we now live are no exception
to that rule. They are true to their
fellows, true to themselves, cannot and
dare not evade the duties and respoit
Slbllttlea which may < ie from their
advocacy of the cause ol ihe people.
"Tyranny, exercised bj no matter
whom or from what source, must be
resisted at all hazards. The labor
movement, which is tbe defender, pro
tector and promoter of tbe rights aud
Interests of the people, must be car
ried forward, its rapacious, ignorant
opponents to the contrary not with
standing. We should not and we musl
not surrender the rights which we
have achieved for the toilers. We dare
not permit the workers to become the
vie tims of the lender mercies of their
exploiters.''
SEAMEN MAY AMALGAMATE.
British Labor Leader Plans Worldwide
Union of Sailors.
Rnvelock Wilson, leader of the Union
of liritlsh Beatnen, is now in thla coun
try to organize American seamen on
new hues ao as to form an Internation
al union of seamen in America and i;u
nope. Addressing a mass meeting of
sailors al the port of New York. y r
Wilson outlined his plan as follows'
"I am sent here nt the request of the
seamen Of Ureal Britain to make prop
aganda for the great International fed
oration of seamen. Kor twenty vei-s
£• »f**HNltl f English Shipowners
has kepi the British Reamen'a union
in a state of demoralisation, hut deter
mined to improve conditions for the
seamen, the leaders have been active
forming branches i„ Bremen, Ham
burg Kiel. Antwerp. Norway. Sweden
and .te gu.n. Kollowlng the es«
of the Uritlsh em yes. lof AWer Jl n
employers have been waging an active
war against the unions of seamen on
he great lakes. Recently many con
ferences have been held by the repre
sentatives of the powerful ahlnnlna i„
terests in London for the purnose nf
Kiving to the campaign against the sea
mens unions International aeons In/i
to make tbe proposed lnternVtlon«l
war as releniless and as ayatemaH.
possible. nu.mcas
"The following International
mauds win bo decided on bf the
posed great conference of ret r nt
Jives of the seamen of the ewblto it
held in Copenhagen next '"
"First-Uniform Wage scats*
long and short Journeys.
"Second. -The number ~t rh. „
chlnery personnel to '.."! n
the nmount of coal carried
"Third.- A representative of th. a. ,
men's union shall be ------
the selection of „ crew f s,f
tbe interests of the meo."
goods &t
Stone-Fisher Co.
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New Scenic ."SbST
FAMILY TlU'vim- I veiling IVite.rinanee »t
Admission 10 and
Stone-Fisher Co.
k Big Store
Like a Fairy Godmother
Adds one-third to your
Christmas Dollars
Visit Tolland in the Center of Store, Near Stairway. The delight
of ever]) child s heart. Bring them here to sec and enjoy the wonder
ful products of Santa Clou-,' tporshop. You'll find a large and bctlei
stock of Toys and Wheel Good, than we've ever shown before—all
open and ready for vigorous selling
Buying us we do in immense quantities to supply three large
■-tores, we go direct to the manufai liners. This brings you better good.
at smaller prices than elsewhere.
Bring the children, l itis is their store. See the window display.
Lei the little ones choose their oa»n gifts
GAMES. IRON TOYS, PIANOS. BALLS.
I OPS. DOLLS. DRUMS. DOLL DISHES.
ORNAMENTS, HOUSES. GUNS.
MECHANICAL TOYS. TOOLS. DOLL SETS
Christmas Ribbon Sale
gest displaj of Xmas Ribbons we Lave ever shown. Fine assort
cj and Uresden Ribbons up to five inches wide,
worth un to 75.~
i iv / j<_ 35 c
Ribbons un to nine inrh<»< t i »n
1 " '"''" ' "lue; regular value, up to $1.00 a
yard, for 50f
cy Dions, extra wide; regular values up to $1.50 a
yard - for 75c
Visit Our Glove Store
Wr K«ve Glove, , lt .11 . . ,
P ric <-'s, and we are showing the be»t makes.
Lei us sell you a C/oVe Certificate
—dheads, all blue. Setyat, j
ew (ouch (overs and Portiere" arrived tint morning. They"
— Presents.
PEOPLE WHO shop EARLY WILL SHOP WELL
Friday, December 17, 19()<)
EVERETT, WASH.
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