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VOL. XXVI. No. 41
By International Labor News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind. Representa
tives of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners, who have re
turned from San Francisco within the
week, say that the fight between the
"open shoppers" and union employ
ing contractors of that city has not
been settled and 'that the battle is
still going on.
The strike, which began last May,
when the employing contractors
sought to lock out the union carpen
ters and union-employing contractors,
has not reached anything like a basis
for adjustment because of the deter
mination on the part of certain "open
shop" employers to fight against
union carpenters from establishing
their organization in that city.
A representative of the Internation
al Union of Carpenters said that he
had been on the job in San Francisco
for many weeks, and that while nu
merous conferences had been held no
agreement had been reached. The con
troversial question is not over wages
but over the refusal of certain em­
Labor Queries
Questions and Answers on La*
bor: What It Has Done Where
It Stands on Problems of the
Day Its Aim and Program
Who's Who in the Ranks of
the Organized Toilers, etc., etc.
Q.—What was the first American
trade union to extend jurisdiction to
workers in Canada?
A.—The International Molders'
Union of North America, whieh in
1863 extended its jurisdiction to Can
ada, though Canadian unions had been
represented at the convention of the
organization two years earlier. "This
is the first instance of the extension
of the territorial jurisdiction of a la
bor organization from one country to
another," says the Handbook of Amer
ican Trade Unions, published by the
United States department of labor.
Q.—When and where was the
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen or
ganized?
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Fight on Carpenters' Union
In San Francisco Still On,
With Workers Standing Firm
A.—In August, 1891, at Pueblo, Col.
Q.—Was the Cigar Makers' Inter
national Union among the first labor
organizations to establish the 8-hour
day in the United States?
A.—Yes. The union adopted an 8
hour law at its 1885 convention and
had established it in successful opera
tion by May 1, 1886.
Q.—Who are the president and sec
retary-treasurer ©f the union label
trades department of the A. F. of
J*?
A.—J. W. Hays and John J*_ Man
ning, respectively.
Q.—Is there a union of laundry
workers?
A.—Yes. It is the Laundry Work
ers' International Union, with na
tional headquarters in Troy, N. Y.
"HIGH HAT NAME
For Barbers' Trade Not
Wanted, Says Fischer
International Labor News Service
Indianapolis, Ind. Undertakers
may become "morticians" if they like
and real estate dealers "realtors," but
barbers are not going to be rechris
tened either "chirotonsors" or "dem
mistrists," according to Jacob Fischer
general secretary-treasurer of the
Journeymen Barbers' International
Union.
"Our last convention turned down a
proposal to adopt the term 'chiroton
sor\" said Mr. Fischer, "but since
then a few master barbers have
launched a movement to popularize
'dermistry.' There is even an offer
to endow a 'chair of dermistry' in
western university. We union barbers
have no quarrel with these scientific
terms but we do have an affection for
the ancient name of our trade, which
jiot having been sullied we will be
loathe to relinquish.
'Chirotonsor' represents the union
of a Greek word for 'hand' with
French word, meaning 'prevailing
fashion' which has been for years em
ployed in English in the word 'ton
sorial.' Why the 'hand' should be ad
ded now I don't know. Barbering is
never practiced with the feet. 'Derm
istry' is a new word, not yet recog
nized by philologists, but is based on
'derm' meaning skin. We don't want
§ny vise cracks about barbering be
ing a 'skin game.'
"The barber and before him, the
barber-surgeon, Have always enjoyed
reputations for honestskill and cour
tesy. Why should we hunt a "high
hat name?"
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ployers to agree to closed shop con
ditions. Under the plan now foiced
on the union carpenters and contrac
tors each job must show a fifty-iifty
proportion as to union and non-union
workmen. Unless this is agi'eed to
the material men's association,
through an agreement with non-union
contractors, refuse to sell material to
union contractors.
The International Union, to combat
these unfair tactics, set up material
yards of its own which supplied ma
terial to union contractors and kept
union carpenters from idleness.
According to officials at headquar
ters here there is no prospect in sight
for immediate settlement. The union
is fighting against heavy odds, but
will continue its policy as laid down
when the strike began.
Recent press dispatches which told
of a settlement being imminent was
held without authority by officials of
the carpenters' organization, although
it was pointed out that numerous con
ferences had been held on the sub
ject and that perhaps others would
be held in the future.
The Barbers' Union has experienced
unusual growth in recent years, ac
cording to Mr. Fischer, and last year
5,400 members were added, represent
inga gain as large as had been made
in any three-year period previously.
NEW YORK LABOR
To Push Progressive Legis
lation
By International Labor News Service.
Albany.—The New York State Fed
eration of Labor is prepared for an
active campaign in 1927. Its pro
gram is ready and its work laid out
the moment the legislature convenes
Foremost among these demands are:
Amendment of the state labor law
to overcome the effect of the United
State supreme court decision annull
ing the Oklahoma prevailing rate of
wage law.
Restraint on the court issuance of
injunctions in labor disputes.
Amending the state anti-monopoly
law in harmony with federal act by
the declaration "the labor of a human
being is not a commodity or aticle
of commerce" within the meaning of
the law.
Establishment of the state insur
ance fund for workmen's compensa
tion as an exclusive form of insur
ance for all workmen's compensation
in the state.
Ratification of the federal child la
bor amendment.
Maximum 48-hour working week
for women and minors in factories and
mercantile establishments.
There are many more improvements
asked including a whole sheaf of bills
that will give more aid to injured
workers. Labor's plan is to take the
profit out of compensating injured
workers, increasing maximum pay
ments to $30 a week and to include
disabling illnesses in the compensable
class.
New York labor is all set for the
year's work.
ANOTHER FARM
PROBE NOW BY
BUSINESS MEN
Washington. The agricultural
question is to be studied by business
men. The latter know nothing of the
dirt farmer's problem, but the ques
tion will be investigated from top to
bottom, and proper remedies announ
ced. The probers are financiers, rail
road officials and other business men
They have been selected by the United
States Chamber of Commerce and the
National Industrial Conference Board
The latter represents a score of ani
union employers' organizations.
Some representatives of the. farm
ers are suspicious of the probe. They
fear it may be used as an excuse to
delay legislative relief.
MUST CONVINCE COURT
TO UNITE IS LAWFUL
Yonkers, N. Y.—The state appel
late division has ordered a new trial
in the case of the Westchester Build
ing Trades Council, which was enjoin
ed by Supreme Court Judge Frank
Young from organizing teamsters.
The appellate court held that the
"finding of facts are of such inconsis
tent character that we are unable to
uphold the judgment in the present
state of the record."
The unionists must noW convince
the higher court that their purpose
is to raise living standards of the non
unionists and not "with the object of
injuring or destroying plaintiff's buai
ness."
Walter Gordon Merritt, well known
anti-union attorney and champion of
"free and independent labor," is play
ing his usual part.
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By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Whether Sec
retary of State Kellogg will retire
from the Coolidge cabinet to relieve
the president of embarrassment caus
edby a one hundred per cent perfect
record of blunders, is the question
now going the rounds here.
It is not believed labor will shed
any tears in the event that Secretary
Kellogg finds himself under the neces
sity of retiring from public office.
The Nicaraguan "incident" has
grown to giant proportions. Every
embassy, ministry and legation is
buzzing with comment about it. Most
of the comment is bitter.
And the worst thing that has hap
pened is the solidifying of all Latin
American opinion in hostility to the
United States.
Capping the climax with a supreme
blunder, the president himself, through
his mythical spokesman, issued his
now famous plea for united support
of the press in carrying out his for
eign policy.
Republican newspapers are up
against it fpr a way to defend this
infringement upon liberty of the press,
and some don't even try. Most of the
democratic newspapers are shouting
with unholy glee over the incident.
It is pointed out that there has
never been such an appeal in Ameri
can history, that the American press
RECORDS BROKEN
Labor Produces More, Bu
reau of Labor Shows
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The resolution calls Diaz a usurper, says our conduct is contrary
to international law, declares American lives and property are not and
have not been in danger, and that American interference has hin
dered the Sacasa forces in establishing a constitutional, stable, liberal
government.
Senator Shipstead, of Minnesota, declared American conduct was
developing "a Balkan situation in Latin America."
Washington.—The output per man
hour in the rubber industry for the
period 1914-15 increased at a faster
rate than any other industry studied
by the bureau of labor statistics.
In rubber tires the 1925 production
was almost seven times greater than
in 1914, while employment only slight
more than doubled. This is an in
crease of 211 per cent.
The bureau has also revealed an
unsuspected high productivity in blast
furnace operation, the index showing
that the output per man-hour of work
ers in this industry almost doubled
between 1899 and 1909, and then very
nearly doubled again by 1923. Thus
the output in 1923 is shown to be
nearly four times as large per man
hour as it was in 1899.
The 1925 man-hour output in steel
mills and rolling mills was somewhat
over one and one-half times the out
put of 1909, and about two and one-
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Mired!!
State Department Blunders Pile Up,
Leading to Rumors Kellogg May Qui
Regime Pledged to Help
Labor Opposed in Inter
est of Servant of Reaction
WHEELER RESOLUTION SAYS, "GET OUT!"
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, the force behind the
Daugherty investigation and running mate of Senator La Follette in
the last presidential campaign, threw fresh fuel on the anti-admini
tration fires with his resolution demanding that American naval forces
be at once withdrawn from Nicaragua.
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is not on the whole a political ad
junct, that it is free to criticise if it
feels like it and that it intends to
do so.
Meanwhile the usurper, Adolfo
Diaz, recognized by the Coolidge ad
ministration as president of Nica
ragua, contiues to lose battles in his
effort to drive from the country Juan
B. Sacasa, the constitutional presi
dent.
Light is shed on this conflict in
Central America by the fact that Diaz
is an ancient and avowed foe of la
bor, while Sacasa stands pledged to
permit organization of labor and to
adopt a program of labor legislation
advocated by the Pan American Fed
eration of Labor.
The methods used to bolster up the
reactionary and usurping Diaz, cham
pion of the old order and the bondage
it implies, have been of a most re
markable character.
In the first place, recognition of
Diaz was in the nature of a right
about face on the part of the Ameri
n government, which, since Wood
row Wilson's stand against Huerta in
Mexico, has been grounded on re
fusal to recognize dictators coming
into office by extra constitutional
means. Diaz was "elected" by a
bossed congress to fill an office al
ready filled by Dr. Sacasa who was the
constitutional successor to the presi
half times the output of 1899. This
branch of the industry showed a great
increase in productivity during 1925.
"The effect of the abolition of the
12-hour day can be seen in the last
great advance of productivity in 1925
in the steel industry," the bureau
states. "Despite the large production
of that year, there were fewer work
ers in the industry than in 1919,1920
or 1923, although the hours of many
employes had been reduced. The
man-power of the workers in an
eight-hour day had increased to such
an extent that no more labor has
been required than before it went into
effect."
WOULD KILL LABOR LAW
Boston.—Cotton mill owners will
attack the Massachusetts 48-hour law
for women and minors at the coming
session of the state legislature.
The law was passed seven years
ago, and has been opposed almost
continuously by employers. On three
occasions they have failed to-change
the act.
COUNTY PRESS
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAH
dency when President Solarazona re
signed.
Second came the establishment of
"neutral" zone surrounding the
Sacasa headquarters.
Third came the radio censorship im
posed by American authorities on
Nicaragua soil.
Fourth came the Coolidge procla
mation for support of the press in the
campaign to subjugate Nicaragua.
Meanwhile the Coolidge support of
Diaz has apparently cooled under
flood of public criticism and the
American lives and property" which
served as a cloak for the whole esca
pade do not seem so much in danger
Senators and newspapers are stir
ring up a fire of clamor for with
drawal from the whole unsavory ad
venture. Whether Kellogg can stand
up under the continued fire is an open
question in Washington.
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By International Labor News Service.
Montreal.—Along with the cele
bration of the diamond jubilee of the
Canadian Confederation, Canadian la
bor will this year be able to celebrate
the hundredth anniversary of the
formation of the first labor union in
British North America. It was in the
old city of Quebec that the first labor
union in Canada of which there is any
record was formed.
The printers were the pioneers.
They formed a union in the early
part of 1827, and, according to some
accounts, it has had a continuous
existence for just a century. The next
union in Canada, also among the
printers, was organized in 1834 in
York, now the city of Toronto. Both
these unions eventually became
branches of the International Typo
graphical Union, which body in 1869
changed its name from National
Typographical Union of the United
States, because of the inclusion of
Canadian branches.
Printers Permanent
In the following years sporadic
unions appeared here and there, but
the organization of printers seem to
have been the only ones of a perma
nent character.
In 1851 the Amalgamated Society
of Engineers of Great Britain estab
lished a branch in Toronto, and later
extended its operations to other cities
in upper and lower Canada, and in
Nova Scotia nad New Brunswick
With the growth of cities in the west
it also acquired new adherents. In
1888 the United Machinists and Me
chanical Engineers of America was
formed, and entered the Canadian field
in competition with the British So
ciety. The first Canadian lodge of
the new body was formed in Strat
ford, Ontario, in 1890, ist number be
ing 103 lodges in Montreal (No. Ill)
and in Winnipeg (No. 122) were
formed before the close of the same
year. To meet the extension of its
jurisdiction into Canada, the name of
the organization was changed in 1891
to the International Association of
Machinists. Since that time the or
ganization has largely increased its
membership in Canada, and at the
present time has something over 100
lodges north of the border line. On
the other hand, the British Amalga
mated Society never made any sub
stantial gains in Canada. In 1919 ne-
Canada Labor Celebrates
This Year 100th Birthday
Of First Dominion Union
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gotiations were opened between the
general officers of the International
Association of Machinists and the
Amalgamated Society of Engineer*,
with a view to effecting an amalga
mation. As a result the Amalgamat
ed Society on September 30, 1920,
withdrew its operations from Canada,
and also from the United States
where it had some branches in exist
ence, leaving the whole North Amer
ican continent to the International
Association of Machinists.
Carpenters Organize
Another British organization to
establish branches in Canada was the
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and Joiners, now the Amalgamated
Society of Woodworkers of Britiin.
It chartered a branch in Toronto in
1860. Twenty-one years later the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America came into ex
istence, and began to organize
branches in Canada. Some years of
bickerings between the two bodies fol
lowed, but eventually a plan of uni
fication was effected, members of the
Amalgamated in Canada becoming
members of the United Brotherhood,
though retaining their connection with
the parent body for the sake of the
beneficial features.
In 1921 there was one lone branch
of a British labor organization in Can
ada, a lodge in Hazelhill of the As
sociation of Wireless and Cable
Telegraphers.
Big Gains Since 1900
Although the organized labor move
ment is nominally a century old, its
greatest progress by far has taken
place within the last quarter of a cen
tury. In 1900, the number of unions
in Canada strong enough to maintain
a paid business agent were insignifi
cant.
The prospects which confront organ
ized labor in Canada on the eve of en
tering upon its second century of ac
tivity, are very different from those
that faced the pioneer printers of the
old city of Quebec. Today, the Canad
ian labor movement, which is an alli
ance with the American movement, is
established on a solid basis, and con
fidently looks forward to achieve
ments in the future which will dwarf
the accomplishments of the past, how
ever important they may have been
in their time and place.
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