Treasurer-Harry Hoglund, 7921 Bellevue Ave., N. E. Recording Secretary-F. C. Heilman, 290 Huntington St. Local No. 18, Los Angeles, Cal. Meets second and fourth Tuesdays in month at Union Labor Temple, 540 Maple Ave. President-Gus Larsen, 140 E. 4th St. Financial Secretary-F. G. Smith, Burlington Hotel. Treasurer-Sam Hunt, 335 E. 33d St. Recording Secretary-J. W. Carlin, 537 S. Flower St. Local No. 19, Seattle, Wash. Meets at Labor Temple first and third Fridays in month. President-H. F. Coffmann, 318 Howard Ave. Treasurer A. B. Clements, 722 Dexter St. Secretary-August Egli, 807 Dearborn St. The unique invitation of the Chicago Local to the celebration of the tenth anniversary of its organization is worthy of note. Great success to No. 2. The raffle for Brother A. B. Wicker, of Local No. 2, was held on January 19. Brother Sam Stangland won the prize. REMITTANCES RECEIVED. January. 26. Local No. 3; per capita tax, etc., for January. February. 1. Local No. 14; per capita tax, etc., for January. 2. Local No. 2; per capita tax, etc., for January. 3. John Saunders; Journal subscription. 7. Local No. 14; supplies. 13. Local No. 1; supplies. 14. Local No. 7; supplies. 16. Local No. 17; per capita tax, etc., for January. 16. Local No. 7: per capita tax, etc., for January. 16. Local No. 14; Journal subscriptions. 16. Local No. 1; per capita tax, etc., for December and balance due from November. 21. Local No. 4; per capita tax, etc., for January. 21. Local No. 4; supplies. 21. Local No. 9; per capita tax, etc., for January. 23. Local No. 8; per capita tax, etc., for January. 23. Local No. 6; Journal subscription. 25. Local No. 18; per capita tax, etc., for January. 25. Local No. 7; supplies. 27. Local No. 15; supplies. 27. Local No. 5; per capita tax, etc., for January. 28. Local No. 13; per capita tax, etc., for January. INITIATIONS. Local No. 1-R. Muir, W. Hickey, O. Price, E. McGarry, A. Weitner, M. Peoples, E. Lancelear, B. Tiernan, J. Henry, C. O. Zeller. Local No. 3-Charles Northcroft. Local No. 5-Albert Tupper, Wilbur A. Snow. Local No. 6-Paul Kinzer, H. W. Parshall, B. J. Burkhart, F. G. Smith. Local No. 7-E. J. Pearson, John G. Dehn. Local No. 8-A. E. Sherwisch, J. De wan. Local No. 9-Ed. Carlson, S. Berg, L. D. McMunn. Local No. 13-Arthur Sprecht, Sidney Jelly, S. R. Rowland, W. S. Fitzgerald, W. J. Rousseaux. Local No. 14-Geo. W. Smith, Wm. Hemple. Local No. 15-Joseph Effertz. Local No. 17-Wm. McKay, O. J. Kin ter. Local No. 18-Walter E. Pennee. SUSPENDED. Local No. 10-J. Methaney. CLEARANCE CARDS ISSUED. No. 92. C. M. Williams, Philadelphia. No. 93, R. Ricker, Philadelphia. No. 94, E. B. Young, Washington (changed from withdrawal). No. 95, C. E. Elder, Buffalo. No. 96, W. Aitken, New York. No. 97, August Hakanson, Baltimore. No. 98, L. M. Van Slyke, Chicago. No. 99, F. F. Mirrick, Boston. No. 100, Archie Wills, Baltimore, CLEARANCE CARDS DEPOSITED. Local No. 2, W. Sykes. Local No. 5, Burt Wills, A. F. Powell, August Hokanson. WITHDRAWAL CARDS ISSUED. No. 128, Wm. Green, Philadelphia (renewal). No. 129, E. M. McKey, St. Louis. No. 130, Paul Ettinger, St. Louis (duplicate). No. 131, G. H. Benton, Pittsburg (renewal). No. 132, J. H. Mildrum, San Francisco. WITHDRAWAL CARDS DEPOSITED. Local No. 17, H. F. Wise. HOW TO WIPE OUT THE SWEATSHOPS. There is just one method of wiping out the sweatshops, and that is to patronize the union label. The mother who insists that our label appear on the suit she buys for her little boy is doing her share toward preventing the boy of some other mother from being sentenced to a life of unrequited toil in a foul sweatshop, a tearless funeral, and a grave in the potters' field. She is helping to give honest employment under fair conditions to an adult man or woman, and to drive out the awful evil of child labor. If we could impress these facts upon the public mind with enough force we would soon drive out the sweatshops and have our children in the schools instead of the mills and tenement workshops.-Eight-Hour Advocate. MURPHY'S NEW JOB. An Irish woman, meeting a neighbor in Fleet street, was glad to see her friend wearing a happier face than usual. "What do you think, Mrs. Grady? My husband has got a job." "I am delighted to hear you say so, and what is he doing?" "Faith, he tells me he is feeding the press in a printing office." "Feeding the press? Go on, now; why, Murphy's not been able to feed himself for the last two months. Feeding the press, indeed. I'd teach him to bring the food home to his poor wife."-Scottish Typographical Circular. ARTLESS ASPIRING. A school teacher one day, during the hour for drawing, suggested to her pupils that each draw what he or she would like to be when grown up. At the end of the lesson one little girl showed an empty slate. "Why," said the teacher, "isn't there anything you would like to be when you grow up?" "Yes," said the little girl, "I would like to be married, but I don't know how to draw it."-Life. SHE LOVES HIM BETTER. "What good is union to you?" the editor of a Western paper asked a sewer digger. "I'll tell you pretty quick," he answered. "Last year I work for $1.35 a day; I join the union; this year I get $1.85 a day. Bully for the union, I say." "Any other benefit?" asked the editor. "Any other benefit? You bet!" he responded. "I'se a better man; feel better; look better, and-" this with a wink and smile-"my wife loves me better."Labor Journal. WILL THE WOMEN HELP? If a woman who is the wife, sister or daughter of a union man had the right spirit she would rather put sleeves in a sack and wear it than to buy unfair patterns. The Confederate women wore homespuns for four years, and all the time bravely cheered the men to the front. The women of Troy plucked out their splendid hair to weave it into bowstrings; and history is full of the glorious deeds of noble women who gave their sons and husbands to die and themselves patiently bore suffering for their country. In fact, no people have succeeded whose women were not patriotic. What shall we say of union women who lend aid, countenance and encouragement to the enemy? -Era, Roanoke, Va. THE MAYOR JOINS THE UNION. Mayor Tom Johnson, of Cleveland, Ohio, has joined the Street Railway Union and will be the motorman on the first car operated on the three-cent fare line. President Bauer, of the local union, suggested that the Mayor ought to become a member of the union if he operated the first car. "Of course I'll join the union," said Mayor Johnson when told of the president's suggestion, "and I'll also keep up my dues, and ask them to elect me as a delegate to the Central Labor Union." A shirt-making firm in Philadelphia, running a "model" open shop, subjected its employes, about 180 persons, mostly girls, to a tax of 50 cents a week for power and for the use of a machine, 5 cents a week for towels and soap, 2 cents a week for drinking water, 5 cents a week in summer time for ice, and 5 cents a week in winter for heat and light, in all about $125 a week from the whole force. Repeated requests for the abolition of these exactions were denied, until finally the girls went on strike and got what they wanted. And this happened, too, in the City of Brotherly Love.-Exchange. The friend whom adversity drives away never was a friend. WENDELL PHILLIPS' ADVICE. "My advice to workingmen is this: If you want power in this country; if you want to make yourselves felt; if you do not want your children to wait long years before they have the bread on the table they ought to have, the opportunities in life they ought to have; if you don't want to wait yourselves-write on your banner, so that every politician, no matter how shortsighted he may be, can read it: "We never forget!' If you launch the arrow of sarcasm at labor, we never forget; if there is a division in Congress, and you throw your vote in the wrong scale, we never forget! You may go down on your knees and say, 'I am sorry I did the act,' and we will say, 'It will avail you in heaven, but on this side of the grave, never!"" So that a man in taking up the labor question will know he is dealing with a hair-trigger pistol, and will say, "I am to be true to justice and man; otherwise I am a dead duck." HIGHEST CONCRETE CHIMNEY. What is said to be the highest concrete chimney in the world has just been completed at Butte, Mont. The inside diameter is 18 feet and its total height is 352 feet 7 inches. The foundation, which weighs upwards of 13,000 tons, is formed of slag. The base, which is of reinforced concrete, is 42 feet 6 inches square by 8 feet 3 inches high. The wall of the chimney proper for the first twenty feet is 18 inches thick and the entire weight of the chimney, including the concrete base and slag foundation, is 15,275 tons. THIRTY-SEVEN REASONS WHY. The Articles on Which the Trade Unionist Bases His Faith in Union Principles and Which Inspire His Enthusiasm. 1. Because it tends to raise wages. This is proven by all sorts of evidence. 2. Because it helps to prevent the reductions in wages. Cut-downs rarely come to well-organized labor. 3. Because it aids in getting shorter hours. Unorganized trades work the longest hours. 4. Because in union there is strength. This is as true of wage earners as of states. 5. Because it makes labor respected. Power wins respect from employers, as from all men. 6. Because association is the distinguishing feature of the age. Men of affairs and executive ability set the example in the business world. 7. It lessens excessive competition for situations. Useless competition is like useless fiction. 8. Because it educates as to public questions. The trade union takes the place of the debating society and professor's lecture. 9. Because it gives men self-reliance. A servile employee is not a free man. 10. Because it develops fraternity. Craftsmen are all to jealous or suspicious one of another, even at the best. 11. Because it is a good investment. No other institution gives back so large a return for expenditure of time and money. 12. Because it makes thinkers. Men need to rub intellects together in matters of common concern. 13. Because it enlarges acquaintance. Their world is too restricted for most wage earners. 14. Because it teaches co-operation. When laborers co-operate they will own the earth. 15. Because it curbs selfishness. The grab-all is toned down by the fear of the opinion of his fellows. 16. Because it levels up. Getting more wages for the low man raises the standard for all. 17. Because it makes the shop better to work in. The brutal foreman can't bully the union card. 18. Because it is your duty. The non union man is the sutler of the union army. 19. Because it helps the family. More money, more comfort, more luxuries, if you please. 20. Because it helps the state. Unorganized and discontented labor is the parent of the mob and revolution. 21. Because it is scientific. The trade union principle stands the test of analysis and application. 22. Because it is labor-saving machinery. The lever of organization can move the industrial world. 23. Because it is legal. The state has been forced to take off the conspiracy ban. 24. Because skinflints and amateurs condemn it. The trade union is to be commended for the enemies it has made. 25. Because your own common sense approves it. What argument can you bring against it? 26. Because it has come to stay. Social fads wax and wane, but the trade union has its fixed place in the social structure. 27. Because of its possibilities. The trade union can be made all that the hearts and intellects of the workers will permit. 28. Because it is American. The highest possible standard of livelihood is none too good for sovereign citizens. 29. Because it is not an experiment. A century of tests has demonstrated its ability. 30. Because it is evolutionary. It seeks no miracles, but goes on step by step. 31. Because it means business. It grasps at tangible results and does not spend its force in speculation. 32. Because of the enemies it has made. When you see people outside the wage class fighting trade unions, put it down that trade unions are desirable. 33. Because it is philosophical. Tt takes human nature as it is, nct as somebody says it ought to be. 34. Because it is universal. The trade union idea is co-existent with civilization. 35. Because it is immediate. It stands as a bulwark for the defense of labor. 36. Because it is a necessity. Your interests as a seller of labor are the interests of your class. 37. Because-fill this out with any reason which impels a man to gain the best possible kind of a livelihood for himself and those who are dependent upon him.— St. Joseph's Union, edited by Father D. O Crowley. |