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THE LABOR ADVOCATE
GEO. KUHLMANN
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'YOU MAY JOIN A UNION,'
COURT TELLS TEACHERS
Chicago The appelate omit has an
nulled the so-called "Loeb rule," passed
by the Chicago hoard of education,
and which prohibits teachers from
maintaining a union affiliated to the
American Federation of Labor.
This is the third court victory won
by the teachers. When the hoard
adopted this rule, Judge John M.
O'Connor issued a temporary restrain
ing order. Later, Judge D. Ii. Sulli
van, after listening to extended argu
ments, refused to dissolve the order.
The board of education then appealed
to the appellate court, which now sus
tains the loucr courts in their position
that the board exceeded its authority.
"The law is that the board may stipu
late for the amount of training, the de
gree of proficiency and the physical fit
ness of its teaching employes, but it
cannot provide that its teachings shall
be done only by certain persons, or
classes of person-, members or nou
members of certain societies," said the
court.
The board of education, together with
large interests in this city, have waged
a continued war against the teachers
maintaining a union. The organized
workers have assisted the teachers to
their fullest extent.
Washington, D. C The Gary (Jnd.)
School Teachers' Association, affiliated
to the A. F. of L., was assisted by the
latter organization in planning a cam
paign for increased pay and better
working conditions. President Chad
wick of the Teachers' Association wrote
to Secretary Morrison:
"I wish to thank you for your prompt
assistance. It makes all of us appre
ciate the American Federation of La
bor, and we feel that we have good
backing in our work."
New York. The Teachers' Union
lias voted to affiliate to the American
Federation of Labor. It was also voted
to bar from membership superintend
ents, principals and assistants to prin
cipals Teachers declare that super
intendents too often have the viewpoint
of "officialdom," rather than that of
teachers. . , , ,-,...
UAK.MKXT WOKKKItS lOOKKI)
OUT.
New York. Last Saturday the
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers'
Association of this city struck another
blow in its opposition to the Ladies
Garment Workers' Union by locking
out over .'10,(1(10 employes.
This union and the manufacturers en
lered into an agreement known as the
protocol September 'J, Will. This con
tinued until May ao, I'.M.l, when it was
abrogated by the employers, whose as
sociation, the unionists charge, has
come under control of a small group
hostile to the union. In July, I'.Mii, a
council of conciliation was appointed
by Mayor Mitchel and accepted by
both parties. Wages were inci eased
and piece work standardized. The coun
cil's decision was supposed to hold for
two years, but the action of the employ
ers has placed it with the protocol
in the discard.
The employers insist on individual
bargaining Ilefore the present lock
out the F.mployers' Association refused
to confer with Mayor Mitchel in an
effort to adjust the difficulty. Oscar
S Strauss, who, together with other
citizens, have been striving to avert
a break, made this comment on the
employers' snub to the city's execu
tive :
"I cannot understand a body of busi
ness men, a body of manufacturers,
daring to put themselves in this wrong
jiositnm before the community. I think
it should be borne upon them, and
iloubtlc-- it will be from this meeting,
that they have put themselves in an
indefensible position in declining to
come here and place their grievances,
if they have any, their reasons or ob
jections, if they have any, before the
public "
ACTIVIC IN .MONTItlCAIi.
Montreal, Quebec. At no time in the
history of this city have the organi7ed
workers been more actively engaged in
bettering working conditions. The
unions of journeymen tailors and gar
ment workers are demanding that wages
be increased. The present rates are be
low almost every other Canadian city.
'I he longshoremen's Unions have
signed a new agreement with the ship
ping companies, while many of the
metal and building trades' unions arc
being assisted by international organi
sers in their demand for improvements.
OHIO STItlKK K.VDS.
Xenia, O. The six hundred cordage
and twine workers have won their strike
for higher wages. The increases average
about 0 per cent and mean an additional
$25,000 annually to these workers.
DETECTIVE IS ACCUSED
OF MURDER
At Voiiiigstown, After Killing of
Peter .Mu.lo, Striker lloll'mjiii
Claims His Gun Was Discharged
Accidentally State Mediator Crov
ton Arrives To Attempt, To llrlng
About Km of Industrial Trouble.
Youngstown. O., May 10. Edward
Hoffman, of Frie, Pa., a New York
Central Railroad detective, was locked
up today on a charge of murder, it be
ing alleged that he shot ond killed Peter
Muio, 10 years old, whose hotly was
found near the tracks early today.
Hoffman arrived in the city last even
ing and started to work near the Trus
sed Concrete Steel Company, where a
strike is in progress. According to his
story he engaged in a scuffle with
Muio, when he attempted to search
him to see if he had any firearms, and
his revolver was discharged accident
ally. It is claimed Hoffman was never
sworn in as a special officer. Muzio
was employed at the Trussed Concrete
Steel Company, hut was on strike, and
was tin his way home when he was
shot.
Fred C. Croxton, chief mediator of the
Slate Industrial Commission, and his
deputy, George F. Miles, arrived to
night from Columbus to assist in ending
the local strike, in which about :i,()00
men are affected. Governor Frank Ii.
Willis sent the mediator to this city
on request of Mayor Carroll Thornton.
Itecause of persistent efforts of labor
leadens to force employees of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
to walk out the Mayor believes the situ
ation is serious.
More men reported for work at the
Trussed Concrete Steel Company plant
to-day, and President Julius Kahn
stated the plant is working about f0 per
cent. The situation at the other plants
affected by the strike remained about
the same. The Republic Rubber Com
pany, it is expected, will reopen next
week, as many of the employees are
eager to get back.
(HKIi STItlKICKS AltltKKTKI)
When They Refuse To Move From
Their Picket Stations.
Cleveland, Ohio. Seven girl strikers
doing picket duty in front of the J. C.
Newman Cigar Company plant, where
a strike has been in progress since Mon
day, when 100 cigar makers went out,
weie arrested this morning after thej
defied a police order to move on.
Police claim that in attempting to
dissuade others from going to work
this morning the gills became boister
ous and were ordered to move on, but
refused. A policeman attempted to
force the girls to move away and the
crowd became menacing.
When re-euforceinents arrived seven
of the girls were taken to the station,
warned to respect the police and "gold
en rule."
ri'onuuts (jut iik.iikkt pay
Known To Trade Since Years Im
mediately After Civil War.
Youngstown, Ohio. Puddlcrs in the
Youngstown district will receive the
highest wage rate during May and June
this year since the years immediately
after the Civil War, according to a state
ment by James II. Null, Secietary of
the Western Mar Iron Association, here
today.
The new scale fixed at Cleveland
Tuesday calls for $7.10 per ton, an ad
vance from $(1.00 per ton. The rate is
fixed by agreement, between manufac
turers and employees, and is based on
a sliding scale in connection with a bi
monthly inspection of sales sheets of
manufacturers.
The highest rate paid puddlcrs in this
country was $! a Ion, in IMiii, About
10,000 men in the Mahoning Valley will
he benefited by the new Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers' scale arranged Tuesday.
HACK OF STICIKi; IS IIKOKKX
At Alkali Plants Near Detroit When
Strikers ICestime Work.
Detroit, Mich. Operations were re
sumed at Plants Nos. 1 and L of the
Michigan Alkali Company, at Wy
andotte and Ford Village, suburbs of
Detroit. Several hundred employees
have been on strike for higher wages
and shorter hours. A riot occurred
near the plant Saturday night, during
which one man was killed and about a
dozen persons were wounded.
Notices were posted today at both
plants, slating that all old employees
could return to work, but thai the wage
scale would not be changed at present.
"A central employment bureau will be
arranged, and a bureau will be formed
to receive and adjust all complaints,"
th" notices said.
BUILDING SUB-CONTRACTS
Flat Huilding A three-story brick flat
building, to he erected on Highland ave
nue, near Oak street. Owner, Joseph
Xiederkorn; architect, Oscar Schwartz,
Provident Hank Iluilding, Cincinnati, O.
Contracts awarded as follows: Iirick
work, lloltscher & Tenover; painting, J.
C. Flannery; plumbing, J. G. Cripps;
roofing, to Geo. L. Dirr & Son.
Residence A stucco and half-timber
residence, to he built on Holly lane, Hast
Walnut Hills. Owner, J. 1!. Hawley;
architects, Tietig it Lee, Fourth National
Hank ISuilding, Cincinnati, O. Contracts
awarded as follows : Concrete work, ex
cavation and grading, J. & G. 1 leitbrink,
and for plumbing, to Edward Morgan.
Speedway An automobile speedway,
to cost $7r.0,(H)U, to he constructed at
Sharon, 0 on the Cincinnati and Day
Ion pike, Kuck road and Crescentvillc
pike. Owner, the Cincinnati Motor
Speedway Co., E. W. Edwards, Presi
dent, Cincinnati, O. ; architect, Harry
Hake, and Chas. II. Kuck, associate
architect, Telephone Iluilding, Cincinnati,
O. Contract awarded to Edward Ryan,
of Cincinnati, O.
Husiness Iluilding A building to be
erected on the southeast comer of
Fourth1 and Race streets. Owners,
drowning, King & Co.; architect, G. W.
Draeh, Union Trust Iluilding, Cincinnati,
O. Contract for the superstructure
awarded to the Fcrro-Concrete Con
struction Co.
Residence A two-story frame resi
dence, to he built at ill Mulberry street.
Owner, Joseph F'ettig; architect, Martin
Fisher, U'lTiO Central avenue, Cincinnati,
O. Contracts awarded as follows: Ex
cavation and stone masonry, Frank
Jacob; brick work, II. Jacob; balance of
work to Max Penker & Son.
Business Iluilding Alterations in
building at IL'-T.-.'i" Main street. Owner,
Chas. Keyer; architect, E. II. Dornette,
Pickering Iluilding, Cincinnati, O. Con
tracts awarded as follows: Excavation
and concrete, Sperry & Kahlies; brick,
George E, Anders; iron work, Wm
Lang & Sons Co.; carpentry, II. Heck
man ; electric work, Al Hecker & Son ;
marble and tile work, Moormann & Ot
ten ; hardwood. )loqra,.the ,K roger-Jacobs
Co. ; shoring, T." J. Tanner.
School A $,'o,000 addition to he built
to high school on Price Hill. Owner, the
St. Lawrence R. C. Church ; architect, A.
Kun, Jr., !)."i W. Court street, Cincin
nati, O, Contracts awarded as follows :
Cut stone, Frank Mcrsch's Sons; brick
work, August Wahoff; rooting, Geo. L.
Dirr & Sou ; iron work, the Pottholf
Construction Co. ; plastering, John J.
Greene; carpentry, M. F. Fitpatrick;
electric work, Chas. A. Aull ; painting,
Joseph Klueseucr.
lOliKCTKICIAXS' KTKIKK KNDIOD
Al Cleveland lly Crovtou, Who Sow
Is Wanted at Yoiuigstowii.
Cleveland, O State Mediator Fred
C Croxton announced May !) that the
nine-day strike of .six hundred electri
cians heie had been settled. The men
will go to work Wednesday, Croxton
said.
The men asked for 7." cents an hour.
They have been getting (8-4 cents. The
settlement provides they shall have 70
cents at once, 71! ' cents in three months,
and 7.1 cents May 1, 1!M7.
The .settlement was reached early the
morning of May !i, after an all-night
meeting of representathes of both the
union and contractors with Croxton.
Croxton icceived a message from Co
lumbus that Mayor Carroll Thornton,
of Youngstown, had requested that he
lie sent to that citj to try to effect an
agreement between inanufactiuers and
striking machinists and other union
workers, who are threatening to strike
in that city. Mayor Thornton has been
trying to gel the employers and workers
together, and believes Croxton could be
of material assistance.
lAisoiticits skci'ki: A;iti:i;.Mio.NT
Hostou. A. F. of L. Federal Labor
Unions of Millinocket, East Millinockct
and Madison, Maine, have secured a
union shop agreement with the Great
Northern Paper Company, Wage in
creases average about l." per cent, and
the contract will continue for three years.
At a conference between the Woodland
Federal Labor Union and the St. Croix
Company wages were increased to about
'.) per cent, and a union shop agreement,
to run three years, was secured. These
contracts will begin and expire on the
same date as the contracts of 'the Sta
tionary Firemen's Union and the Paper
Makers' Unions.
WlXXIPICfJ FACTO I. IKS IX IAXK.
Winnipeg, Manitoba. Representa
tives of the Garment Workers' Union
have secured signed contracts with evcrv
shirt and overall factory in this city.
The agreements provide for better work
ing conditions.
HOME-OWNING FARMERS
DECREASING IN U. S.
Washington, D. C. While the senate
was considering the question of rural
credits, Senator Sheppard said that a
vast and growing number of American
farmers arc reduced to such conditions
that they have no land to offer as se
curity for loans, no means to acquire
land which they might offer as security
for loans of balances due on purchase,
and hardly enough left after the land
lord, the merchant and the banker are
paid from the proceeds of their crops
"to keep body and soul together until
another crop is made."
The Texas lawmaker quoted figures
to show that tenant farmers arc increas
ing and farm-owning farmers are de
creasing, and that less than 0,000,000
families in the United States own their
homes free from incumbrances and
nearly 11,000,000 families live in rented
homes, according to the last census.
He declared that "an aristocracy is
rapidly developing in this country, built
on the concentrated ownership of lands
and also on the concentration of other
forms of wealth, an aristocracy that
riots in unmeasured luxury, an aris
tocracy for the most part selfish, in
different and cruel."
The speaker referred to the land rec
ommendations of Secretary of Labor
Wilson as "an epoch-making sugges
tion." These provide for the holding
by the government of all public lands
and the acquiring of other lands, to be
used by citizens on long-time payments.
This plan also provides for the develop
ment of farmers through governmental
educational agencies.
Senator Sheppard said that the best
preparedness was to make this country
a nation of homes, and he presented an
amendment to the federal constitution
empowering congress "to purchase land
anywhere in the United States, hold,
improve, subdivide and sell the same
and also to make loans for the purpose
of encouraging and promoting farm
home ownership in the United States."
It was sliowji.tjiaf.tliq'pe.opje of Mas
sachusets, in "November, liflfl, amended
their State constitution along similar
lines by a three to one vote.
I.MMKJKATIOX KIGUItKS.
Washington. The Federal Depart
ment of Labor reports that :i:i,(iS." im
migrants arrived (luring March of this
year, against S(i,i:i,"i in March, l!)!."), and
l()S,!)3:i in March, l!)l I.
Italy furnished ;i,!i;i8 immigrants, the
largest number of arrivals during
March, lyifi, Greece followed with
II.'Js:.; Mexico, a,12l: Portugal, 1,080.
Immigration from tjie Balkan States,
one of the sources of cheap labor for
American industries, has practically
ceased because of the war, the admis
sions from Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro
and Roumania totalling but !0.
Unskilled laborers, as usual, com
prised the largest portion of the ar
rivals. The laborers total (1,101 and
farm laborers, :i,'0'.
The industrial States received the
largest number of these immigrants,
New York- leniliiitr with fi.71K.
The southern States continue almost
immune from direct contact with this
invasion. Alabama received JJfl; Ar
kansas, 7; Georgia, :i(); Kentucky, IS;
Louisiana, .VS"; North Carolina, 0;
South Carolina, .", and Tennessee, 8.
FAVOItS ItKKTIllCTIO.V.
Yreka, Cal. The Journal of this city
declares that the repeated votes by Con
gress in favor of immigration restric
tion can no longer he said not to voice
popular opinion.
"A nation that fails to assimilate its
immigrants," says the Journal, "suffers
from an acute attack of indigestion. This
is no fault of the Government, but is
due, probably, to too great an influx in
a gicn time of foreigners. It is in the
position of a man who has eaten more
than he can digest. When a man thus
suffers he abstains from eating for a
time, or eats but sparingly. It is this
fact that leads an increased number of
American citizens, anxious for the coun
try's welfare, to ask if it is not better to
check immigration for a time, and do it
by imposing a literacy test.
"Under ordinary conditions the ques
tion is important, hut it is now of un
usual moment, in view of the fact that
the close of the war will make the im
migration problem even more acute than
ever. The prospect now is that the end
of the war is nearer than seemed possi
ble a few weeks ago, and when it comes
it is altogether likely that millions of
peasantry and others will seek to escape
the burden of crushing taxation by com
ing to this country. The United States
likes to be hospitable, but present con
ditions make it necessary, judging from
LoniTcssional action, that the nation
guard its own safety."
HOKSKSIIOKUS ItKJKCT OKFKIt.
Worcester, Mass. The llorscshoers'
Union has rejected the offer of employ
ers to raise wages to $1'J..i0 a week. The
unionists insist on their original demand,
$21.
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