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DAY PICNIC COM
MITTEES,
The Labor Day Picnic Committee
meets every Thursday, at 7:30 p.
m. in Trades Council Hall.
The committees appointed by
President Few are as follows.
Refreshments.—Chas. Vaughn,
Robert Shiering, Frank Mooar, Sam
Hiltpolsteiner, A. P. Lombard, Jos
Stoker, Mrs. Vaughn, Mis. Fin
frock, Mrs. Weatherby.
Printing and Advertising.—Ed.
Etzler, George Mayer, Frank Coch
ran, Fred Schwab and Jos. Strat
egies
Amusements.— Edw. Weiss, Ed
Sims, A. D. Howard, Elmer Hall,
David Linn, Geo. A. Hill, Henry
Betcher, A. Erbs.
Music.—Wm. Finfrock, John
Hartm?n, Henry Janser.
The committee w'll meet every
Thursday night in Trades Council
Hall at 7:30 P. M.
Metal Trades Council.
Erie, Penn.
Erie, Penn., August 1. 1913.
To all organized Labor, Greeting:
For eight months past the or
ganized metal workers of Erie, and
vicinity have been engaged in a
desperate conflict with the Erie
Manufacturers' Association. At
first the members of Molders' Un
ion, No. 38, were involved then
came the lockout of the members
of the Patternmakers' Association,
and finally the lockout of the mem
bers of the Machinists' Union and
Metal Polishers' Unicn, the latter
action being the result of the ma
chinists and metal polishers par
ticipgr' in the Fourth of July
parade of the Erie trade unionists.
In the latter case a monster demon
stration was made to rebuke the
assertion that union men were
traitors because they refused to take
part in the Perry celebration ar
ranged by the Manufacturers' As
sociation representatives et al, and
because organized labor bad been
intentionally ignored.
We would like to call attention
to the firms in Erie where union
men have been locked out or on
rtrike, we would suggest that spec
/ial attention be given to the goods
manufactured. In many instances
union mechanics are called upon to
use tools, materials, etc., produced
under non-union conditions in Erie
and we feel that you do not desire
to assist them in crushing the trade
union movement in this city.
The following is the list:
Reed Manufacturing Company,
Pipe cutters, pilars, vices, dies,
laundry machines, pipe vises,
plumbing supplies, wrenches etc.
Ball Engine Company, high and
lew speed engines.
Burke Electric Company, electric
motors and electric supplies.
Pennsylvania General Electric
Co., peneral electric goods.
Jarecki Manufacturing Company
malleable and brass foundries,
making plumbing supplies of all
kinds.
Erie Engine Company, Portable
and'oil well and threshing engines.
Erie Foundry Company, Genearl
jobbing,
Erie City Iron Works, all kinds
of engines and boilers.
Nagle Boiler and Eugine Foun
dry, making boilers of all kinds and
corless engines.
Skinner Engine Works, all kinds
of engines.
Walker Foundry general jobbing.
Germer Stove Company, all kinds
of stoves, ranges and furnaces.
Urick Foundry, general jobbing.
Morse Iron Works, plumbing
supplies
Griswold Manufacturing Com
pany, hollow-ware and stoves, both
in gray iron and aluminum. Meat
cutters, sad irons, kitchen ware etc.
Hays Brass Manufacturing Co.,
plumbing supplies.
Odin Stove Works, wood, coal
and gas stoves.
Standard Pat tern Company, pat
terns and models.
Modern Pattern ^aaipftny, pat
terns and models.
Cascade Foundry Company, gen
eral jobbing.
Kindly give this matter your im
mediate attention and remember to
give the facts herein contained the
fullest publicity among the me
chanics in your city. Any addi
tional information will be given up
on request. Thanking you in ad
VftACe and assuring you that victory
i
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will come with yotir earnest assist
ance, I am
Yours fraternally,
Jacob F. Kissel Secretary.
This appeal for moral support
and assistance has been endorsed
by the Erie Central Labor Union.
Theodore Eichorn, Secretary,
234 W. Twenty-third st. Erie Pa.
Endorsed by Building Trades
Council of Erie, Pa., and vicinity.
J. V. Brotherson, Secretary,
415 East Fourth Street.
Holzberger Quits Race.
John Holzberger, the Democratic
candidate for Mayor withdrew from
the race Monday night. His many
friends tried hard to hold him in
the race but Holzberger thought
best under 'he conditions to lay
down the fight.
UBOR DAY
Committee Meets
Outing
The 21st Annual Labor Day pic
nic and outing committee met
Thursday night in Trades Council
Hall.
The refreshment committee re
ported that they have about com
pleted their work and all arrange
ments have been made.
The printing committee reported
that the advertir.ing hangers have
been printed and are now ready for
distribution.
The committee to look after the
electric wiring at the fair grounds
reported that the service director
will leave all wiring in tact until
after Labor Day.
The Secretary was instructed to
send the necessary tickets to the
Pattern Makers' Uni*n.
The Marshals will met Sunday
morning at 10:30
The Secretary was instructed to
write the City and County officials
and invite them to take part in the
Labor Day parade.
MARSHALS
To Meet Sunday Morning.
The Marshals ©f the Labor Day
Parade will meet every Sunday
morning in Trades Council Hall.
All unions should appoint one
horse marshal and two foot mar
shals and have them attend the
meetings. The Labor Day parade
this year promises to be a large
affair and the marshals will have a
little work to do in arranging the
line of march and other things
pertaining to the parade.
A Printers' Award.
Sioux City, Aug. 1.—The award
banded down by the arbitration
committee in the matter of the job
printers was not exceedingly satis
factory. In fact it was disappoint
ing, as it set the scale of wages be
low that which is generally paid at
this time. The award calls for an
increase in the job scale established
six years ago of 82 per week $20
instead of $18. The original de
mand was for $24, and this scale
was signed by all but three of the
employing job printers of the city,
the latter three participating in a
lockout and strike, the difficulty
later being referred to an arbitra
tion board. The award, as stated,
is unsatisfactory, but the typo
graphical union is very jealous of
its reputation of standing by its
agreements, and the award will un
doubtedly be accepted and carried
out.
Coney Island.
This is one grand week at Coney
Island, the Dutton three-ring circus
is making a great hit, both after
noon and evening, all the week.
There are hundreds of tables for
the picnic folks under the trees
there are ponies, donkies, and all
sorts of devices in the playgrounds
to delight the children, and the
circus will make in itself any day
at Coney a most delightful one.
If you are thinking of a day's
outing, mtke it Coney the boat
ride in itself is a joy incomparable
and when you get to the Island
you cannot possible have a dull
moment. There is a boat from the
Broadway wharf every 90 minutes,
get aboard and spend your outing
hours at cool Coney. Next week
the vaudeville will be back on the
job, after the circus has finished
its engagement.
Metal miners Make Demands.
Elvins, Mo., Aug. 1.—The local
Executive Committee representing
the local anions of the Western
Federation of Miners in the Lead
Belt met in Flat river, and acting
under the instructions, forwarded
to the mining companies a demand
for an increase of 50 cents per day,
and the check-off system. The ex
ecutive Committee has been in
structed to notify the companies
that upon the failure to meet the
demands by August 1, providing
negotiations are not in progress,
that the committee shall immediate
ly proceed with further action as
provided by the laws of the organ
ization. It is understood that the
companies have, up to this time,
practically refused to grant the flat
increase to all the men working in
and around the mine* and mills and
smelters of the Flat River District.
If this situation continues it is
probable that a strike will easue.
Matters Get Schedule.
Newburg, N. Y., Aug. I.—The
finishing department of the Ferry
Weber hat factory has secured a
settlement and a schedule with the
firm covering the scale of wages to
be paid in the department referred
to for the coming year. Some dis
agreement was encountered at first
but finally an amicable understand
ing was reached and the scale
signed.
Railroad Grants Increase.
Vancouver, B. C. Aug. 1.—Ne
gotiations between tne Canadian
Pacific Railsoad and the Federated
Trades on the Western lines for a
new schedule, which has been in
progress for some time, has termi
nated in an amicable settlement of
the controversy, it is given out
that an increase of 2 cents per hour
has been granted, in addition to
several betterments in working con
ditions.
Chester Park.
With the bathing season at its
height at Chester Park, the beach
presents unusual scenes of anima
tion and is truly one of the show
places of the city, The crowds
which go into the water are greater
this year than ever before and
Manager I. M. Martin is consider
ing seriously the enlarging of his
bath house facilities before next
season. The water in the Chester
lake has the endorsement of Health
Officer Landis and other Cincinnati
physicians.
There are special dances given
every Tuesday and Friday nights.
A
serious of prize waltzes will be
danced off on Friday nights to es
tablish the championship of Cin
cinnati. Handsome gold medals
will be awarded.
DOOMED TO A LIVING DEATH.
Fronch Convrcts Leave Hope Behind
When They Enter Cayenne.
Cayenue— red pepper to the world at
large, hell to the few thousand of con
victs transported to this Isolated
northeastern corner of equatorial South
America. Htfre. it was rumored, exist
ed one of the world's moat antiquated
and revolting penal systems, where
thousands of meu are exiled and doom
ed to a living: death Men from French
Guiana had intimated conditions which
vied with the cruelties of the old con
vict ships.
Groups of convicts lounged about or
lay sick and incapacitated on the ve
randas. At night the barred iron door
of each dormitory is locked, and out
side paces a guard, revolver in hand.
Sometimes under cover of darkness the
inmates settle feuds. Occasionally to
establish leaders rival pangs fight with
cudgels, knives and even paving stones.
Some disabled, others dead, the most
indomitable are reconciled and form a
tyrannical secret society.
Many a poor wretch dreads the
night hours, and one suspected of in
forming may be set upon .by an en
raged pack. Occasionally murder is
lommltted in profound silence, and
flay light finds a dead or dying convict
In the passageway or entrance. Ques
tioning is useless, and few guards will
risk life In entering the barracks when
smothered cries and cursings warn
them of internal strife
All the men I talked with were well
disposed toward me, one in particular—
a tall, well educated man with a pair
of dark rimmed glasses and large eyes
fearfully strained through inability to
secure proper lenses.
"You must not lose hope," I told a
group and almost swallowed my own
words. "Hope!" burst out the rich,
tremulous voice of the tall man. "It Is
always the same there is no hope
here." "No no hope here!" was the
echoed murmur of his comrades,—
Charles Wellington Furlong In Har
per's Magazine.
VARICOSE VEINS.
Their the
Causes and Effects and
Treatment They Require.
A varicose vein Is an enlarged and
twisted vein, generally In the leg. It is
caused by stagnation of the blood.
Often the patient has a hereditary pre
disposition to varicose veins or he has
a weak heart with a consequent tend
ency to sluggish venous circulation.
Anything that interferes with the
flow of blood through the veins may
bring fni an attack Presmire from a
tight carter and very severe muscular
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sons who are obliged to stand for sev
eral hours at a time, like policemen,
washerwomen and saleswomen, are of
ten BUtJect to this trouble. Under or
dinary conditions the blood in the legs
must run up hill constantly In order to
regain the heart In the case of those
who stand most of the day the blood
has to work hard hour after hour in
order to overcome the force of gravity,
and as a result the veins gradually en
large and harden.
In mild cases of varicose veins, espe
cially in youug and otherwise healthy
people, the symptoms are very slight
There Is a feeling of weight in the leg
and a dull ache toward the end of the
day. The ache is soon relieved by the
patient's resting with the leg somewhat
raised so that the blood can flow back
more easily. Sometimes painful cramps
complicate the trouble, and the cramp
is likely to return again and again until
life becomes a burden.
More serious complications are throm
bosis (or the clotting of the blood In
the vein and phlebitis (or inflamma
tion of a vein). Often a form of ec
zema appears in the skin of the leg, or
an ulcer may arise. When varicose
veins are very troublesome surgical
treatment is advisable, but the milder
cases can be much relieved by rest and
proper bandaging.—Youth's Companion.
Vartet and Valet.
"We have only ourselves, or, rather,
our forefathers, to blame for the trou
ble about the pronunciation of 'valet,'
says the London Chronicle. "If they
had stuck to "varlet' thero would have
been no difficulty. 'Valet* and 'varlet*
are the same word, meaning originally
Just a boy, the diminutive of 'vassal,'
a man. Unfortunately when our ances
tors applied a word meaning a boy to
signify a servant they went on to make
It bear a scornful sense. And so 'var
let' degenerated hopelessly, just as did
'knave,' which in simply the German
'knabe,' boy."
SHUN FRAYED COLLARS.
They Are Apt to Irritate the Neck and
Cause Carbuncles.
The back of the neck is the com
monest place for a carbuncle to ap
pear. It Is a most sensitive spot, not
so much on the surface of the skin
as In the underlying tisues, wherein
are great nerves that communicate
very closely with the brain. And it is
fn these tissues that the carbuncle
spreads its "roots."
A carbuncle is a breaking down of
the tissue caused by the germs call
ed streptococcus aud staphylococcus.
These are the principal but by no
means the only pus producing germs.
They eat and break down the tissues
The white corpuscles of the blood rush
to the spot, and try to devour the at
tacking bacteria. Millions of them per
ish in the attempt, and pus is really a
mixture of dead white corpuscles and
germs that are exuding virulent poi
sons.
Carbuncles select the back of the
neck so often because of the irritation
caused by the collar if this be slightly
frayed or roughened by careless laun
dering. The back of the neck is al
most as much exposed to dirt as are
the backs of the hands and needs
washing almost as often. The rubbing
of the collar scrapes off the scaly sur
face of the skin, which Is its protec
tion against germs of disease. This
being gone, the germs enter onop
posed.
A collar button pressing constantly
on the one spot may produce the same
effect.
And in a few days you are going
around with a bandage on your neck
and suffering awfu! torture. Fortu
nately the doctors have discovered an
antitoxin that quickly cures carbun
cles. Yet even when this is adminis
tered the patient is doomed to much
pain.
The moral of all this Is: Don't wear
a collar that Is the least bit frayed.—
New York World.
HER SCHEME FAILED.
Plight of a Singer Who Yearned to
Captivate Ludwig II.
King Ludwig II. of Bavaria had a
wonderful winter garden at Munich,
which was built on the roof of the
residenz. There was also an artificial
lake with a painted panoramic back
ground of the Himalaya mountains,
and when the king sat in the garden
a "property" moon shed its gaseous
light above the snow capped peaks.
The king used often to command art
ists from the theater to perform in the
winter gardens, and I remember the
fate which befell .Tosephina Schefsky,
a large, tall woman, whose one wish
in life was to attract Ludwig's notice.
As all singers sang hidden behind
screens, Josephlna's chances of meet
ing the king face to face were exceed
ingly small But what woman is ever
nt a loss for an expedient? She knew
how chivalrously romantic Ludwig
could be on occasions, so she decided
she would fall into the lake and en
treat him to rescue her.
The eventful evening arrived. Jose
phina warbled her sweetest for the
benefit of the listening monarch and
when the song was over plunged
heavily into the lake.
There was a tremendous noise, and
the water splashed to the topmost
summit of the "Himalayas." but the
lady remained chin deep In the lake,
whose still waters were not so deep
as they looked. "Save me. save me.
Lohengrin!" cried the agitated singer
The king rang the bell. "Get that
woman out of the lake and send her
home." he commanded, and the drip
ping Josephlna. sadder and wiser,
walked out of the water and out of the
resident forever.—Countess Marie La
risch.
A Letter For Schiller.
Schiller once received a letter which
took Ave years to roach him. In 1793
the national convention created the au
thor of "The Robbers" a French citi
zen as a tribute of admiratiou for the
revolutionary ideas expressed in that
work. The clerk charged with the dis
patch of this civic diploma addressed
the cover to "Citoyen Gille," and
Schiller did not receive it until 1798.
On its receipt he wrote: "This docu
ment has come to me from the king
dom of the dead. Danton and Claviere
attested it. The covering letter Is sign
ed by Roland. All three hav# passed
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