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THE UNION MAN.

Who is he? How can you recognize him? What are his distinguishing traits?

He carries a paid-up card as evidence of his membership in the union of his trade or industry. That is a means of identification.

The fellow who never contributes anything to the cause of unionism, yet insists that he is just as good a union man as those who do, is a fraud. He is a moocher, a panhandler, with all the vices that belong to his trade. He always has plenty of excuses; we all know him.

business institution to aid the worker in maintaining and improving conditions. He does not expect a business to run itself. He gives his time, his thought and his money to the cause. The cause of unionism does not suffer reproach because of his conduct.

He studies the history of the labor movement in order that the present may avoid the mistakes of the past and also be able to point out the contributions of the labor movement to the cause of human freedom. He keeps up with the chief events of the day, social and industrial movements, the trend of legislation and judicial decisions, so that he may be able intelligently to aid whatever is helpful to Labor's cause and oppose that which is injurious.

He exhausts peaceful methods of redressing grievances before advocating or resorting to a strike, realizing that whatever contributes to the establishment of amicable relations between the employer and the employe promotes the well-being of labor; that an unnecessary strike, lost or won, injures labor's cause.

When a strike is on he lends his fullest support to it. He claims the enjoyment of his rights as a citizen. He places the facts before the people as a brief for the strikers' cause. Outside the strike zone he is active in their behalf and pays his quota as an investment for improved conditions.

The union man is a thinking worker putting in practice the gospel of brotherhood.

When the human kind are taught that they must "work out their own salvation" instead of depending upon others to save them, we shall have a stronger race of men and women.

There is no easy way. Freedom and rights come as a result of organization and struggle. They can be maintained only through organization, eternal vigilance, and above all else, preparedness for defense.

There is room in the organized labor movement for every man or woman

who is honorably employed for wages. The unions owe it to themselves to see that the message of collective effort is carried to these people in every community and that they are given a hearty welcome to our ranks.

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NEW YORK CARPENTERS DISCIPLINED BY UNION. Discipline, cold and hard, was used by the convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners against sixty-one local unions of that craft in Greater New York, who were found guilty of violating the laws of the brotherhood, of insubordination to legally constituted authority and of securing an injunction against officers of the brotherhood which debarred them from carrying out the constitution in New York city.

The case dates from last May when these locals, through the New York Carpenters' District Council, ordered a strike to increase wages. Later President Hutcheson, of the brotherhood, secured a settlement, under authority granted him by the constitution, and which was rejected by the strikers, and who later secured an injunction against this official and associates. The suspended carpenters sent a large delegation to the biennial convention in Fort Worth, Texas, to plead

their case, which was considered by a committee elected by the convention.

This committee found that on April 20 General Secretary Frank Duffy notified the New Yorkers that the General Executive Board had considered their wage movement and had instructed him to notify them that if no agreement was reached before May 1, "our members must not be called on strike until the General President (Hutcheson) has an opportunity, through a representative, to bring about a settlement."

This letter was not read in the New York Carpenters' District Council until May 8, eight days after the strike occurred, and eighteen days after it had been forwarded from the general office at Indianapolis.

The committee's recommendations, which were concurred in by the convention, included an immediate withdrawal by the New York carpenters of all injunction proceedings and the rechartering of the suspended locals by the brotherhood and the creation of a new district council under supervision of the brotherhood's Executive Board. The recommendations also provided that the number of locals in New York City should not exceed twenty-five.

New York, Nov.-By a five to one vote the members of sixty-three local unions of the Brotherhood of Carpenters have voted to accept the recommendations of the special committee elected by the recent Fort Worth convention.

These unions were suspended because of their violation of laws in connection with their wage movement last summer. They then secured an injunction against General President Hutcheson, of the brotherhood. At the Fort Worth convention, after a full investigation, the general officers were sustained and the New Yorkers ordered to withdraw the injunction as the first requisite of reinstatement, which must be worked out under the direction of the general officers, who have been unyielding in their demand that the brotherhood's laws be complied with.