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LABORS
INDUSTRY
The Price of Piety.
"John Dlvoi, man, and hnve yon heard
whut the preacher tald or you,
Intent your saintly churactcr to
xmlrcli?"
"Aye, tlmt I have," John Dives said, "but
the like no more he'll do,
or I havo bought the preacher nnd
tils church!"
"John Dlvea, ninn, nnd hove you hard
how th teacher's spoken out
AguliiNt the mlyn of money and mis
rule?" "True. tru, he did," Joint Dlvcu mild,
"but hc'i pledged no more to hIioui,
I' or i havo bought tho teacher and hl.i
school."
"John IDlven, man, and did you hear
tho legislators say
They'd chock tho sleek, dishonest things
you doV"
"I did " said John, "and tlioy reformed
without tho least delay,
Fop I have boiiKhl tho legislature, too."
"My heart la pure," John Dives wild,
"for tho Coin can do no wrong;
All things ure on the market lor tho
buying,
J've tho kays lo Ksrth and Heaven,
which 1 purchased for a song
1 can Kot the Icayu lo Hades without
trying,"
tvullaco Irwin.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Item of Interest Gathered from Miny
Sourceu.
Tho headquarters of the American
Labor Union, have boon removed from
Hutto, Mont., to Chicago.
A ntato federation of labor was
formed at Augusta, Maine, through a
delegato convention laHt week.
Fifty labor unions have been formed
In Porto Illco slneo tho inland became
u possession of the United States.
President Qompors of the American
Federation of labor will deliver tho
iJibor day address at Utlca, N. Y., this
yoar.
Hlvttl unions of window glass work
ers are expoctod to umulgamnto at a
meeting planned lo bo held in Clove
land thin month.
Stool and copper die cutters mot in
Now, York, July ,4, formed a union
and made application for a charter to
I he American Federation of Labor.
Tho ,Hipremo court of West Virginia
Iimh Ihk(1h! an Injunction against the
United Mine Workor.s of America, for
bidding them from organizing the mine
workers, of that atate.
.1. K. limner of Cincinnati, vice
president of (he International Union
of Strain Engineers, has been Holectod
lofMU tho vacancy caused by the death
of President Patrick McMahou.
Tho twenty-sixth annual convention
of tho New Jersey State Federation of
Labor has been called to meet in the
assembly chamber, in the capital build
ing a Trenton, Monday, Aug. 15.
The Milled Mine Workers of Ameri
ca have chartered thoir llrst union in
Canada. At a recent meeting ot tho
miners Fornlo. 11. C, 211 men form
fd a union and applied for a charter.
Tho essays on "Tho Union Labol,"
for which the American Federatlonl.st
oherod u prize, 'are to bo printed in
pamphlet form and distributed a.s
campaign literature. The three prize
t'Hiuys are printed in the current Is
hue of the Fcderatlonlst
Phillip Murphy, a member of the
Chicago Hoof Uutehcrs' union, won the
world's ehamplonHhlp In a beef killing
and dressing contoHt held at Spring
Held -July L He' killed and dressed
the. anlnui I ready for market hi four
minutes and sixteen seconds.
Among the passenger killed on the
Vabnsh train which was wrecked at
l.ilchlleld, HI., July it, was Harry .M.
Dietrich, a former representative of
the Allied '.Metal Mechanics, and
Churloh Ward, the llrst president of
Ihe Chlougo and Blue Island street car
men's union.
An arrangement has been made
under which such employes of tho
United Slates nuvy yards as can be re
lieved of work on Saturday afternoons
during July. August and .September
will he glveu half-holidays, ami those
! who cannot bo spared will be given
tlje half-holidays as the work In hand
permltH.
The new barber law adopted by
the legislature of Maryland last win
ter and which became effective July 1,
Jh very Htringent. Besides requiring
that all barbers must pass an exami
nation boforo a state board, a number
of rulos must bo observed, the en
forcement of which is made tho duty
of inspectors.
Two new labor publications have
mado their appearance. The first is
tho Journal of tho International Hod
Carriers and Building Laborers' Union
and Is published in Chicago under the
direction of II. A. Stcmburgli, tho sec
rotary, us editor. Tho other is tho
Union Herald, and is published in
Washington, D. C.
Tho Socialist labor party has placed
it ticket In tho field for tho coming
presidential election. Charles II. Cor
rlgan, a member of tho Syracuse, N.
Y., Typographical union, has been
named for president of tho United
Suites, and William W. Cox, a union
coul minor at Collinsville, 111., is tho
vice prcsidontlnl candidate.
The coal operators In tho Kanawha
(W. Va.,) coal fields have entered a
combination known as the Kanawha
Coal association, to fight tho demands
made by the United Mlneworkcrs. Al
ready sixty-sovon havo signed tho
agreemont, and about thirty others are
expoctcd to join within the next two
or three days.
Secretary Edward Nockols of tho
Chicago Foderallon of Labor oxpects
to scud a trainload of at least COO and
probably 700 dolcgates to tho Victor,
Col., mooting in August. Ho oxpocts
tho country at largo to doublo that
number, and that 1,000 delegates from
union central bodies will bo in tho
great meeting which investigates the
Colorado troubles.
The Clgarmakors' International
union, which recently celebratod Its
fortieth anniversary, Is agitating tho
question of a superannuation or old
age pension for Its members. Tho
union has already tho most extended
chain of benefits of any labor organi
zation In the country, but Its loaders
bollovo tho system cannot bo com
plete without the old age pension fea
ture. Cliarles H. Moyor, president of tho
Western Federal Ion of Miners, was
relensed from custody by Sheriff Bell
of Teller county, Colorado, after fur
nishing bonds for $10,000 on tho
charges of murder and inciting riot
filed pgnlnst him at Cripplo Creek.
Honds woro provided bya guarantee
company. Moyor has been a prisoner
10H days and during tho greater por
tion of that time was confined In the
bull pon at Tellurldo on the plea of
"military necessity."
V. T. French, president of tho San
Francisco (Cal.) Typographical Union,
has filed a suit in San Francisco re
straining tho Citizens' Alliance of that
city from putting an emblem on its
printed matter which is a facslmllo of
that of tho printing trades union, aud
is said to be an infringement on tho
design, aud to bo done for the purpose
ot deceiving pcoplo Into bellovlng that
tho printing was done under union
conditions. A temporary injunction
has boon granted forbidding itn
further use until heard lu court.
Secretary McKoo has issued the call
tor the eighth annual convention o!
the International Union of Steam En
lnucrs to meet In Omaha- Sept. IS.
There being considerable business to
come -before tho mooting, Secretary
.MclCeo suggests that delegates should
come prepared for at least a ton days'
May. "Owing to tho growth of the
organization, new conditions surround
us and new problems have to be mot
and contended with," the call read.
and therefore "local unions are urged
to bo represented by their full quota
of delegates."
Tho oxocutlve council of the Ameri
can Fodoration of Labor has Issued an
appeal to all international unions and
central labor bodies In the country to
assist financially the miners In Color
ado who are fighting to establish an
eight-hour day. In the leading edi
torial In the current issue of the
American Foderatlonlst, Editor Sam
uel Gorapers say that, while the
Wostorn Federation of Minora has
adopted certain policies that run coun
ter to those advocated by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, there cannot
and should not be two kinds of Justice
in this country.
Tho 5C0 Boston Journeymen paint
ers who were on strike have gone
back to work under the old agreement,
tho striko having been declared off.
Tho strike lasted nbout five and a
half weeks, about 1,600 men going out.
Tho men go back with tho full under
standing that the old working rules
agreement Is to be operative, this be
ing conceded by the employers. One
of thp most satisfactory features of
tho striko to tho union is the fact that
only twenty-two men out of a total of
2,200 deserted at any time, whilo the
union increased its membership about
400 while tho strike lasted.
In a recent bulletin issued by the
Department of Labor at Washington.
A. Maurice Low has an interesting ar
ticle on British labor unions. Mr.
Low says there are nearly 2,000,000
members of labor unions in Great
Britain, and they have in their treas
uries the sum of $18,330,000. Walk
ing delegates are practically unknown
In England, says the report. The gov
erning power is in the hands of an ex
ecutive committee. It is impossible
for any' one man to order a strike.
Tho older unions, that have several
hundred thousand dollars in their
treasuries, realize the danger of put
tine; too much power in the hands of
their officers. The unions are becom
ing more democratic.
The Illinois Steel Compnny has post
ed notices to the effect that existing
wage agreements with tho tonnage
men will expire Sept. 30. This is the
ninety day notice required by either
ftldc if termination of the contracts is
desired. Some of the men fear the
action means a reduction in wages,
but the move is generally regarded as
a measure to place the company in
a, position to ask the men to accept a
reduction if the condition of the busi
ness necessitates such a request The
agreomonts which will terminate are
individual ones, signed by the men in
1901 after the termination of the Amal
gamated strike and the giving up of
the Joliet charters in that organiza
tion. Carroll D. Wright, as umpire in dis
putes' between Pennsylvania coal
mine operators and coal miners, made
a decision which may avert a strike
of 16,000 miners in the Scranton
district. The umpire's decision was
on the clause in the anthracite award
rotative to tho employment and pay
ment of the check weighing and check
docking bosses in favor of the union
miners. Three coal companies had
refused to deduct the wagesof these
bossos from tho wages of the miners
unless oach miner made a personal
assignment. of the portion of his earn
ings necessary to make up tho wages
of the bossos. The union workers
were willing to make this assignment,
but were afraid that non-union men
were "not, and that this division would
provont the proper collection of the
wages. Prosldent Nichols thereupon,
after postponing the threatened strike,
submitted the question to Umpire
Wright. Mr. Wright sustains the
companies and doclares they have a
perfect right to insist upon a per
sonal assignment. He alio sustains
the miners by declaring that where a
majority of .the men wish the collec
tion, it is mandatory upon the opera
tors to make the wage collection. He
then clinches the decision in favor of
the miners by 'declaring that the re
fusal of any miner to make this as
signment shall be considered Just
cause for a discharge.
TICKLE
GRASS
BYfcW' WILLIAMS
Utopia.
A neld of clover,
Ited blooms all over
I know that scentt
The bee, the rover,
He loves this clover, I
And Is content! j
I love the clover, S
With blooms all over, i
As doeu the bee!
But I, a rover.
Am far from clover,
Upon the sea!
Ah, bee! In clover,
You're ten times over
Wlsfer than I!
You sing In clover
I fret, a rover,
And yearn and sigh!
Oh, field of clover,
With blooms all over,
I swear at sea
When I, tho rover,
Havo been all over,
I'll come to thee!
Ah, field o clover,
I'll roll all over,
Amid thy bloom!
No moro a rover,
I'll live In clover
And sweet perfume!
Somehow the news of approaching
nuptials always brings a glow to the
heart. Marriage, wo are told, In a
Tioly and a ticklish state of servitude,
but the continued practice of mar
rlage leads to the conclusion that few
have compunctions against their tin
holiness and all decide they will stand
for the tickling if tliey "holler their
heads off," as tho uncouth slanglst
says. The poet insists that marriages
aro made in heaven, but according to
an Iowa exchange, they aro made lu
a livery rig. The editor of the Hick
ory Hollow Beo says: "George Samp-,
son has been seen with a livery rig
big enough for two, driving towurd
Scottsbluff. Another wedding looked
for."
It makes one homesick to read the
country papers in June. By this ve
hicle of news at this timo wo learn
that "the excitement incidental to
high school commencement is past"
and that now "the Tribuno expects to
see our citizens take more interest lu
village improvements-." Ah, days of
Cocagno! when "graduatin' " had the
whole town by tho ears! And that
fateful night, how wo settled the mo
mentous questions of the world! But
come to think about It, they didn't
stay settled!
In Sunday school we were tapght
that It pays to get religion before the
cyclone strikes. Perils lie all about
us, and every day's delay jeopardizes
our chances for passing under the
wire while St. Peter Is still in the
judges' stand. Incidents illustrating
narrow escapes of men thut have tar
ried by tho wayside to scoff, are
legion, but ono of exceptional interest
comes from the west where a Colo
rado editor says: "A brick fell trom
a scaffold on the Simpson building
Saturday. Col. Hank Brown was in
Its line of descent. The brick landed
on Col. Hank's head and be saw the
entire starry firmament in all Jits
splendor. The brick was broken and
a severe cut on the topknot was left
Hank as a souvenir."
Success and Luck.
Success was nn earnest boy,
With dinner pall and spade:
While Luck hungr about the town
Wher.e bottlo pool was played!
Success "was at work each day
From daylight until dark!
But Luck with one eye alert
Lolled 'round the city park!
Ah, mo! this was long1 ago;
A score of years or More
Success? Oh, he's working yet!
And Luck? Hard lack! lie's sora!
It frequently happens that the fel
low who took so much delight in rock
ing the boat, refuses absolutely to
rock the cradle.
If tho czar's troops at Port Arthur
have the smallpox, why don't they
break out? OuchS Lemmo alone i
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