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Denver, coi. -A Din patterned after
Ihe Canadian Jaw which has for Its
purpose the prevention of strikes and
lockouts, has been introduced in the
Colorado legislature. It provides that
Trhen employers and their 'workmen
cannot agree upon wages or conditions
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of employment this fact shall be re-
ported to the governor of the state, be-
fors any. strike or" lockout shall take
place." The governor shall then ap
point a board of arbitration and concil
iation of three 'members. One member
ehall be recommended by a commit
tee of workingmen or their union and
one by the employer,- and the two
ehall recommend the third member,
who shall be' the chairman of the com
ciittee. The board thus constituted
shall have power to summon witnesses
and require the production of books
asd papers. It shall then make . recom
mendation as to settlement of . the d!s-
agreement. There will be no obliea
tion on the part of either side to a
dispute to accept the award or find
ing of the commission, but the fact
that no strike or lockout can be or
dered or . called until an. investigation
by the commission Is calculated to
have'a good effect. ' Fines' are provide
for In case of violation by either side
pending an investigation, as prescribed
in the measure.
Boston. Mayor Hibbard has . an
nounced his intention to be free from
the dictations of labor unions. In an
Interview on his selection of James
II.. Smith of Brighton, as superintend
ent of the municipal printing plant, he
aid: "I "believe in the union shop;
ibut I want a man that v will be with
me wholly in what I am trying to do
at the city hall. For that reason I
have made up my mind not to appoint
to office any active members of a
union, for I am convinced that their
first Interest will be for their organi
sation and not for the mayor."
New York. Applications for em
ployment made' to the Interborough
T, , . . . .
STltJl f!!5 !
r , & 1M"UICC wees' General Incandescent Electric com--especially
from among the ranks of Ban7. emnlovinp- 1 onn ma
unemployed building workmen and
railroad men. Judging from the appli
cants now as compared with a fev.
,-weeks ago it looks as if there are
(fewer idle in some of the trades. At
a conference of representatives of all
carpenters' unions within a radius of
!25 miles reports were received to the
effect that conditions in ths trade
were rapidly improving.
Washingtqn. Labor has two repre
sentatives in congress who hold mem
bership cards in the Telegraphers'
union. One i3 Representative Carey of
(Milwaukee, a Republican, and, the oth
er Representative McDermott of Chi
cago, a Democrat These tebor men
are worMng hard to obtain the passage
of labor legislation, and since the re
cent decision by the supremo court in
the Hatters' union case have been
seeking to have enacted an amend
ment to the Sherman anti-trust law
that will exempt labor unions from Its
provisions.
Indianapolis. The ; printers were
ithe. first craft of any importance to
extend their organization throughout
the entire country; The National. Ty
pographical union was established In
1S52. In order to take in Canada
there was established in 1852 the 'In
ternational Typographical union.
Kansas City. Twenty members of
Kansas City Beer, Drivers' union No.
ilOO, employed - by local breweries,
struck In sympathy with the striking
workers of J?t. Louis. Several brew
eries were unable to deliver beer. .
Dublin, Ireland. Until recent years
fe remunerative Irish cottage industry
bad been drawn needlework. Nowa
. days this industry is killed by Jap
anese exports of linen to be mado
Into drawn work, table covers and the
like, which counted 600,000 yards in
1306. Irish home workers have thus
to face the - competition of the Ori
entals. Mobile, Ala. The Southern Railway
ilssued orders closing the city ticket
office and downtown freight offices in
Mobile. The same class of offices at
Selma have also been closed Indefi
nitely. It Is understood the nine-hour
law caused the retrenchment.
Seattle, Wash. M. Saito, former
minister of commenfe in the Japanese
cabinet, arrived here from Tokyo. His
errand covers a' campaign amosg
union labor, leaders for admission of
Japanese workmen to membership In
organized labor bodies.
Chicago.- A union of hospital su
perintendents has - been organized,
which may be extended to take in
medical 'and surgical workers. It is
called the Chicago Hospital associa
tion and has 25 hospitals in its 'mem
bership." V -J 1
Hairmond, Ind The Republic Iron
and Steel company's plant; employing
1,200 menwas closed as the, result of
a strike of r engineers, caused by a
wage reduction from $3 to $2.90 per
diem. The Standard Steel Car plant,
employing 2,500 men, will close; the
firs of the week owing to lack of or
ders. It3 pay roll is $100,000 monthly.
, Ithaca, N. Y. The striking tailors
have signed an agreement with their
former employers whereby ; strikers
are to go back to work at the old
schedule. They failed to win a point
they struck for. The shops will be con
ducted on the, open sliODpi-
St. Paul, Minn. Refuslrjg to agrea
to the new working schedule proposed
by the officials of the road, and des
pairing of reaching an amicable under
standing on any other basis, the com
mittee representing the engineers,
conductors, brakemen, firemen and
f - vauvu UJt'.l
switchmen on the Chicago Great West-
era have asked Chairman Knapp of
the interstate commerce commission
and Charles P. Neil, commissioner of
labor, to intervene, under the Erd nan
act, which provides for the arbitration
of difficulties arising between the offi
cials and employes of railroads which
threaten to interfere with interstate
commerce.
Fall River, Mass. Notices were
posted at the Fall River Iron works
and the American Print company in
this city that these plants would ba
closed one week, and that until four
weeks' curtailment had been complet-
ed they would be in operation on al
ternate weeks only. The American
Print company is the largest producer
of printed fabrics 1 in the United
States, and employs about 750 hands.
The Iron Works company operates
seven large cotton mills, which feed
the 'print- works'. It employs 5,000
hands and has a weekly pay roll of
approximately $35,000.
- Washington. Probably the most
important gathering in the history of
labor in this country, as far as future
results are concerned, was that at
Washington of President Gompers
and the A. F. of L. executive board
with the International officers of the
nearly 200 " International labor unions
of the country. It was to consider
action to remedy the situation labor
is In because of the recent decisions
of the United States supreme court
and to consider political action, If nec
essary, to secure to labor what it con
siders its Just rights.
Pittsfield, Mass. A reduction in
working hours went into effect in the
-" " &sov. uiouuiatiunug planus in
lhIs cl' At the plant of the Stanley
two largest manufacturing plants in
per cent, or tne employes will con
tinue to work on full time, while in
certain departments the men will
work only 3y2 days a week and in
other departments 4 days. At the
mills of the Eaton, Crane & Pike Pa
per company the 1,100 operatives went
on a schedule of 39 hours a week.
New York. In a canvass of the
country to ascertain the number of
unemployed men dispatches have been
received from many industrial centers
with reports of conditions, and from
these it is estimated that more than
one million men are minus jobs. The
reports indicate more than 600,000 un
employed in the chief cities and near
ly 600,000 in the states outside the
cities.
Providence, R. I. Robert Knight,
head of the B. B. & R. Knight com
pany, announced that a general reduc
tion in wages amounting to - ten per
cent, will be made in the Knight mllL
The company employs 6,000 opera
tives. A ten per cent, reduction will
also be made at the mills of the God
dard Bros, and the Manville company's
Globe, Social and Nourse mills.
New Bedford, Mass. Notices of a
wage reduction averaging ten per cent
were posted In all the cotton cloth
mills in the city. The yarn mills
which are outside the New Bedford
Cotton Manufacturers' association
will, It 13 understood, take similar ac
tion. About 22,000 operatives will be
affected, 16,000 in the cloth mills an
6,000 in the yarn mills.
Springfield, Mass. A wholesale
exodus of Polanders to Europe fol
lowed the ten per cent, reduction ia
wages in the Chicopee and Holyoke
cotton mills. Seventy-five per cent of
the 4,000 operatives affected are Po"
lish.
San Francisco. The Alaska Fisher,
men's Protective union decided to
fight against the proposed 20 per cent
cut in wages. Unless the packers sub
mit to their demand 3,000 salmon fish
ers in Alaska will be called out.
Boston. Mayor Hibbard declared
that he is and always was in favor of
labor unions at a big mass meeting of
the railroad clerks of New England.
But first of all, he said, he wanted a
man to be an American.
St. Louis, Mo. The supreme court
affirmed the sentence of Clarence O.
Skinner, treasurer of the billposters
union, of two years in the penitentiary
upon conviction of having embezzled
$600 of the union's funds.
Cleveland, O. The wage scale for
tugmen upon the great lakes for the
next two years has been agreed upon.
The rate of the last two years will be
maintained. The contract will go into
effect on May 1. '" '
Indianapolis, Ind. John Mitchell,
the famous leader of the coal miners,
delivered his valedictory to the men's
representatives at the special con
vention at Indianapolis, and perma
nently retires from the presidency of
the union, which, with its nearly
400,000 members, Is the largest trades
union of the entire world.
Boston. Boot and Shoe Workers
union international officsrs report that
the union's moving picture show, ad
vertising the union stamp and show
ing the process of shoemaking. is be
ing well received in the sections of
'the country it Is now touring.
SHOOTING WAS ACCIDENTAL
Father of Fatally Wounded Child
In Jail on a Charge of
Insanity.
A most lamentable accidental shoot
Ins took place Saturday night at 0:45
in Stanley Skronpska's boarding? house
at the corner of Twelfeth and Madison
street, when Joseph Kaminski, n boar
der, fatally wounded Genevieve "iCamlns
ki, six years old, through the discharge
of a revolver which he did not know
was loaded.
Genevieve !s the daughter of the
daughter of the boarding house keeper
and is now lying at Mercy hospital In
Gary, hovering between life and death.
The enraged and half crazed father
yesterday sought to punish the man
whom he believes is responsible for the
injury to his child and after finding
that he had been released, beat him to
insensibility with a piece of iron.
The father now In jail charged with
assault with intent to kill and Is on
the verge of insanity. The man who
did the shooting was released as It has
been proven conclusively that the In
jury to the child was purely accidental.
Just after supper Saturday evening
Joseph Kaminski was In his room
cleaning an old rusty revolver He had
removed five of the cartridges and did
not realize that the gun was a six
shooter.
The gun would not work very well
and Kaminski made several efforts to
pull the trigger before he finally suc
ceeded in doing so. When the ham
mer was released it exploded the re
maining cartridge in the gun Just as
little Genevieve came running into the
room.
The bullet struck the child In the
eye and she fell over, apparently dead.
Dr. T. B. Templin was called and he
and Robert Long carried the wounded
girl to the hospital In a clothes bas
ket. Joe Kaminski and his friends at once
went to the police station and Joe
gave himself up to the police. He
was put in a cell pending an investi
gation but was released when it be
came apparent that the shooting was
accidental.
While in the cell Kaminski raved
like a wild man and told the police
that If he was not liberated in two
days he would be insane. The shoot
ing preyed upon his mind and his rav
ings were terrible.
As soon as Kaminski was released he
went back to the boarding house to
get his personal effects. Here he was
assaulted by Stanley Skronpska, the
father of the girl, and was struck over
the head with an iron bar seven times,
according to witnesses.
Skronpska was then arrested for the
assault and he will be held for the
offense. The father is on the verge of
insanity and like Kaminski, who was
responsible for the shooting. Is raving
and it is doubtful if his mind can stand
the strain.
M PARKSPROMISED
East Chicago and Indiana
Harbor to Have Parks
Galore.
East Chicago and Indiana Harbor
will have parks galore after the East
Chicago company and the East Chicago
council gets through dickering.
A number of secret meetings between
the council and the East Chicago com
pany's representative, George W. Ross,
are about to culminate tonight in a
gigantic deal in which many acres are
to be turned over to the city for a
nominal sum of money, and other good
and valuable considerations which will
cost the city nothing, but will be of
benefit to the Land company. The na
ture of these has not been made pub
lic but will most likely be announced
at the council meeting tonight.
The parks which will become the
city's are the Lake Front park, which
has never been transferred to East
Chicago, although it has always been
displayed on maps of the city as a
park; a five-acre tract near the filter
ing beds, another five-acre tract near
the pumping station, and a large tract
adjoining the city hall, embracing some
twelve or fifteen acres and bounded by
Johnson street, Todd avenue, One Hun
dred and Forty-fourth street and For-
sytn avenue.
The main city park which occupies
a space in the center of town and
which was once deeded to the city,
traded back to the Land company by
a previous city council in exchange
for twenty acres in Park addition,
which is low and swampy and has
never been improved, will be redeemed
to the city with a clear title. When the
trade was made, and before it was
fairly consummated, but not, liowever,
before certain lots were sole from it
some East Chicago citizens entered a
protest which put the former park
property under a cloud. Since then the
title has remained obscurect and the
understanding is that this w,lll be re
moved, the lot purchasers j appeased,
and for all this the Land company re
ceives back as its own twelve acres of
thctwenty formerly given in exchange
por the park whose title is under dis
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QUESTIONS LEGALITY OF ROAD
Point of Constitutionality Brought
Up in Case of C, I. & S. vs.
tSate Officials'
Valparaiso, Ind., April 6. (Special.)
A suit of unusual importance and
one that is destined to be far-reaching
in its results has been brought to Val
paraiso. The. hearing has been set for
trial at the next term of the Porter
superior court on a change of venue
from Lake county.
The action was brought by the Chi
cago, Indiana and Southern Pvallroad
company against the railroad commis
sion of Indiana to enjoin it from pro-,
ceeding to enforce the decision of that
body compelling the railroad to es
tablish a freight and passenger sta
tion and proper shopping facilities, in
cluding cattle pens, chutes, etc., for
live stock, at Lake Village in Newton
county, this state, in response to a
petition of John Hess and others.
Attorneys J. B. Peterson of Crown
Point, Crumpacker and Crumpacker of
Hammond, and Glenison, Cary, Walker
and Howe of Chicago, represent the
complainants.
"in an exhaustive complaint of nine
teen typewritten pages they say that
the company has the necessary facili
ties at Conrad, a station two miles
south of Lake Village, and that Lake
Village at the time of the building of
the railroad was merely a farming
community of very few inhabitants and
that the . business at the two stations
such a short distance apart is not suf
ficient to warrant the establishment
and maintenance of the additional fa
cilities. The company says that it does not
advertise a station or shipping facili
ties at that place and does not pre
tend to maintain a station there.
Furthermore, they say that the or
der of the commission is unjust, in that
if it is enforced the company will be
subjected to a fine of from one hun
dred to one thousand dollars for fail
ure to have the improvements com
pleted within ninety days from receipt
of notice of the issuing of the order
and that the time granted them is not
sufficient as the work will have to be
started in mid-winter. They further
allege that the specifications of the
work required are very vague.
Constitutionality Queatloncd.
The principal argument advanced,
however, and the one which bids fair
to make the case one of the greatest
interest throughout the state, is the
one of the alleged unconstitutionality
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of a large number of the provisions of
the state law and its amendments un
der which the railway commission was
created and its powers and duties de
fined. A few of the many points made in
the arguments are that the powers
granted the commission are unconsti
tutional and consequently illegal, in
that they are legislative and Judicial
and empower the commission to exer
cise its .discretion in the providing and
enforcing of penalties for violation of
the law, whereas such powers rest
wholly within the general assembly.
According to the complaint the act is
unconstitutional in that, the commission
may order the company to . establish a
station at a given place along its right
of way and not require another rail
road passing through the same place
under like conditions to do likewise, or
may impose a penalty upon one " vio
lator of an order of the commission and
not upon another. ' "
It states also that the one act at
tempts to legislate upon two subjecs
which are not sufficiently related, to
each other, and also that the heading
or name given to the act does not . in
dicate all of the matters legislated
upon therein.
Each one of the twenty-two points
advanced, more than fifteen of which
attack the constitutionality, of th.e . act
and cite sections of. the. state or fed
eral constitution in support of the ar
gument, is contained in a separate para
graph. Lawyers say the complaint Is
one of the most scholarly and master
ful documents filed in the Porter coun
ty courthouse, in -a long time. When
the array of legal talent engaged gets
together for argument, Valparaiso peo
ple who are interested in legal bat
tles undoubtedly will have the oppor
tunity of a rare treat.
NEW CHURCH IS DEDICATED
AT INDIANA HAKE0R.
Swedish Lutherans Gather at That
Place Yesterday.
The new Swedish Lutheran church of
Inidana Harbor, located at One Hun
dred and Thirty-ninth street, Hemlock
avenue, was dedicated yesterday af
ternoon. Ministers from the surround
ing Swedish Lutheran congregations
were present and assisted in the carry
ing out of the ceremonies.
Rev. Martin Heft, who is now in
charge of an East Chicago congrega
tion, and who will be in charge of the
new congregation at Indiana Harbor,
was in charge of the ceremonies yes
terday which begtn at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon and lasted until 5 o'clock.
The new church which is a frame
building, will hold 200 people and Is at
present large enough for the congrega
tion. The attendance yesterday num
bered 350 people, crowding the church
to. the door and leaving many more to
stand outside. Thirty families belong
to the congregation, and the number is
steadily increasing.
The East Side choir has fifty voices
sang at the dedication and was led by
Rev. Andres Andre, pastor of the East
Eide choir.
Ministers were present from East
Side, South Chicago, Cheltenham, Pull
man, Burns.de and West Pullman.
The name of the new church will ho
Gensearaph.
Take THE TIMES for Its political
news until after the election, jfot for
Its republican news, not for Its demo
cratic news, bat for both, sides.
EXODUS OFENGINEERS
Lake County Men Ship for
South America
Saturday. '
East Chicago, April 6. (Special.)
Robert Reed, city engineer, will tenrW
his resignation this evening to the city
council. He leaves next Saturday for
South America with a party of five
engineers from this region, to go to
work on a new railroad that is about
fo be constructed there. His destina
tion is Bolivia and the road on which
his services have been engaged is the
Maderia Momone railroad.
The only, candidate yet announced
for the position to be vacated by Mr.
Reed's resignation is A. G. Dorland
now of Gary, but whose home is In La
porte.' His companions from this part of the
country are J. C. Spaulding of Gary,
now employed on the C, L S. & E
Engineer Smith and James Schwader
also of Gary, and F. C. Englesing of
the South Bay hotel. Indiana Harbor.
Mr. Enbleslng will be engineer-in-chief
of the party, which besides the engi
neers already named, will include five
others, mostly from St. Louis. All of
the men are single with the excep
tion of Mr. Englesing, who has a fam
ily, and who has been retired recently
but got back in the game to undertake
the work for the scene of which he
will so shortly start. The boat will
sail from New York next Mondav.
Mr. Reed came to East Chicago last
September from Michigan City, suc
ceeding V. C. Brown in that capacity.
Last January his mother moved to
East Chicago and kept house for her
son.
The construction company which has
the contract for the ne wrailroad are
the J. G. White people, with offices
in London. New York and Montreal It
is largely English capital which ' Is
backing the enterprise.
SEVERAL BUILDINGS PLANNED
iu an BUILT IN GARY.
Chicago, April 6. (SDeclnn
cago, Lake Shore & pnatrn 1
will erect a brick and steel machine
shop 25x150 feet at Gary, after plans
by Engineer A. Montzeimer of Jollet.
The Hill Construction company, Chi-
fZkor Vina 41. . .
"aa me contract.
Architect John Klurina Via.. v,?
plans for a $6,000 store and flat build
ing at Gary for Frank Valch. to be 2
stories 22x52 of pressed brick.
Architect Franz Roy has planned a
2-flat buildlnET at KppowUph fnr TTVo r
' w . A 1 LI 1 I
Crane, to be 2 stories, brick, and cost
H0BART CARPENTERS WILL
ORGANIZE THIS WEEK.
Two of the strongest union men of
Gary, William II. Kliver and John T.
Hewitt, will go to Hobart this week
where they will assist In the organiza
tion of a carpenter's union at that place.
The local carpenters have already been
so energetic that it is not believed that
the work will be very difficult, or
take very 'long before the union will
be. in existence, the committee which
John Bastine, Indiana Harbor; and J. C.
Harlow of Hammond.
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HIS GRUD8E IS PHIO
South Chicagoans Get Re
venge by Uprooting His 1
Enemy's Trees.
Having nursed a grudge against hlw
countryman for weeks, and not know
ing how to avenge himself, Itnotz Man.
ikowski, yesterday evening went intt
the yard cf John Parkowski, S738 Com.
mercial avenue and pulled up seven
young trees by the roots. ,
He would have torn out more, but
for the interference of Parkowski. who
seeing him through the window, hurled
a monkey-wrench at the destroyer. Tha
wrench, however, missed its aim, but
scared Hanokiwski, who ran away.
Parkowsik summoned the police, who
arrested Manikowski on the charge of
vandalism. The prisoner will be tried
today. -
CHILD DIES WHILE FATHER
IS AT POLITICAL RALLY.
William Voss, Republican Candidate for
Assessor of Thornton Township,
Meets Sad Bereavement.
Lansing, 111., April 6. (Special.).
William Voss, of Harvey, 111., the re
publican candidate for assessor of the
town of Thornton, has, within two daye,
met with a sad bereavement. On leav
ing home Friday evening to attend ths
political rally in West Hammond, he
left a very sick child. When ho re
turned home he found that his child
uaa aies. ine cnlld is being taken to
the parents' old home in Ohio to ba
burled.
Mr. Voss will not return until Wed
nesday morning, the dav after pIoom
leaving his campaign in the hands ot
ms irienas in the meantime.
PAVING CONTRACTORS BEGIN ,
DERATIONS IN EAST CHICAGO.
East Chicago, April 6. (Special)
The Gary Construction company in the
persons of A. F. Knotts, president, and
Wm. Yaeger, superintendent, were fn
East Chicago Saturday arranging for
the stabling of about twenty head of
horses. This company has the eon
tracts for paving four East Chicasra
Streets and will begin work immediately
or as soon as the equipment can be
gotten here. This contract calls for
macadam and One Hundred and Fiftieth
street will be the first one takled. The
others are One Hundred and Forty
Third. One Hundred and Forty-Nineth
and Baring avenue.
FLOYD FITZPATRICK IS
ACCIDNET 'TALL GUY.?
East Chicago. April 4. (Special)
Floyd Fitzpatrick Is probably one of
the unlucklest men that ever worked
in a sewer. There has been two ac
cidents In the One Hundred and Fiftieth
street sewer at East Chicago, and Floyd
was the victim in both cases.
A week ago last Friday there was
a small cavein that managed to catch
him and last Friday a chunk of dirt fell
in that knocked him down and neces
sitated the taking of about six stiches
in his forhead, to say nothing of nearly
drowning him. He is being cared fop
&t his home and is expected to be out
Ishortly.
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