SLOGAN OF EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN. Washington-"Every labor organization in the country should be keenly interested in the welfare of women in industry," remarked a labor man in this city. "In all adaptable employments women have an equal right to positions. They should be encouraged rather than discouraged. With the transition of industry during the war period the employers, true to their well known concepts, will endeavor to substitute women at a lower wage scale than they are now paying their male employes. It is already being done. Patriotism is the cloak with which they are endeavoring to hide their financial gains by a lower labor cost. Women are being employed in railroad shops and other forms of employment entirely unsuited to them while thousands of men are available for these positions. The opportunity which the war affords unfair and unscrupulous employers to secure cheaper labor by the employment of women should be met by vigorous action by the unions of labor in the localities where this practice is being inaugurated. Equal pay for equal work should be the slogan. Every central body in the country should provide for a standing committee to collect data in its locality relative to the employment of women. If those who are substituting women for men are not paying wages formerly paid to men a local campaign should be inaugurated against the practice and the facts given the widest possible publicity and the officers of the American Federation of Labor informed. When a nation-wide campaign for equal pay is instituted by the labor unions the results will not only be beneficial to women who will enter industry, but the standards established by the unions will largely be maintained. We should not delay our efforts. It will be infinitely easier to check a tendency than correct an abuse." MINERS WILL INSIST ON RIGHT TO UNITE. Indianapolis. The United Mine Workers stand ready to give efficient aid to the Government to secure an adequate coal supply in these war times, but this does not mean that they will surrender their right to unite or that they will accept victimization policies. The above declaration is made by the United Mine Workers' Journal, which gives this sidelight on practices of operators: "To-day, as in the times we speak of, the miners of what until now has been the non-union fields are flocking into our organization, insistently demanding that we accept them in our union. And because, when the operators follow their established policy of discharging those who join our union, they find they cannot replace them, there is a demand made that we suspend our natural functions, inasmuch as organization plus the arbitrary, un The Price of the New Emblem Button Remains the Same The style and design are the same as the original button, proportionately reduced to one-half inch diameter. Solid gold (guaranteed), Price 75 cents Orders taken by the Local Secretaries. fair policy of the operators, tends to lessen the possible output of coal. "We demand that the operators abandon their unfair discrimination. Inasmuch as the fact must be patent, even to their unwilling minds, that their employes desire to join with and be represented by the miners' union, and inasmuch as they have a perfect right to do so if they so elect, and since they cannot provide men to take the places of the people of entire communities as they have done in the past, it is just up to these operators to make a virtue of necessity; to take the same course of recognizing what has always been the absolute right of their employes-the right to organize with their fellow workers for mutual uplift. "Thus only can we be assured of peace with justice to all in the industry recognized as the most important to the country's ability to carry on the war." AN 8-HOUR DAY FOR 3,200 ELGIN WORKERS. Chicago. The Elgin National Watch Company have put into force an eight-hour day. This in a measure is experimental, but it is carrying out the ideas of Charles H. Hulburd, the president, that shorter hours of intensive work and longer time for recreation and rest is productive of economy without affecting the output. The Elgin National Watch Company is one of the largest manufacturing concerns of its kind in America. A few years ago, through Mr. Hulburd's suggestion, the workday was reduced from ten to nine hours. That proved satisfactory. Mr. Hurlburd has had the present reduction in mind since the latter part of last year, but is trying it out during the summer months, when it is customary for the plant to shut down Saturday afternoons. Instead of the half holiday once a week the Elgin plant will be operated on Saturdays as on other days. There are 3,200 employes in the Elgin National Watch Company's plant at Elgin, I. While the hours are not defnitely decided upon, it is expected that the work will start thirty minutes later in the morning and close thirty minutes earlier in the afternoon, making the day from 7.30 to 4.30, with the usual midday rest. Necessarily this means a shortening of the working day of the factory 3,200 hours. A TALE OF SEVEN YEARS. Los Angeles, Cal.-On May 19, 1910, organized brewe:y workers in this city were locked out and an industrial war, that focused the eyes of the country on Los Angeles, followed. On June 6, 1917, Los Angeles brewery proprietors signed an agreement with their organized brewery workers and raised wages from 10 to 20 per ceat. with improved working condi tions. The agreement is the best these workers have ever secured. The above illustrates the power of trade unionism and the militancy of the Brewery Workers' Union and Los Angeles organized labor in general, which refused to be crushed by the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association. TOO TAME FOR FATHER. A young fellow of our acquaintance is cutting rather a wide swath among the younger high-brow set. Not that he is a poseur-he's just an eager kid with artistic ideals-the sort we oldsters smile at but ought to envy. Last week his father came to town to visit him, and the son promised himself a fine time entertaining the old gentleman with such culture as existed. He arranged a theatre party for Saturday night. When we met the lad Sunday we asked: "Where did you go Saturday evening?" "We went to see Beerbohm Tree, at the opera house." "Did your father enjoy it?" "Father didn't go with us. You see, he's too old for Shakespeare-he went to the burlesque show at the Star!"Cleveland Plain Dealer. affecting the good and welfare of your union; assist and encourage your fel low-member; give due consideration to the opinions of others; stand for right and justice at all times; reason to gether on all questions; avoid unnecessary wrangling and rag-chewing; stand by your colors; uplift the standard of labor; never be ashamed of membership in your union; let the history of the past be your guide for the future; remember your obligations at all times; remember, too, that organization is your only hope; never give up!-Frank Duffy, in The Carpenter. Sherman exaggerated. What's a little thing like war to a man who's used to riding in the subway twice a day? Delay and decay are seldom found far apart. Nations, notions and numbers are rendered ineffective by unpreparedness. JENKINS INTERLOCK MANUFACTURING CO. 926-28 Mountain Street, Philadelphia The finger A on fig. 1, extending downward from the door, as the door is opened it revolves wedge-cam B giving motion to A and B. Fig. 2, lever D is fulcrumed in bracket C, thereby giving it a reverse motion carrying plunger E and pad F in the direction of range-stop D in Fig. 1, moving the point out to allow the lug or cam B to pass under it and the door to be opened. G in fig. 2 carries end of rod H, which is connected to crank I, secured on end of shaft J, the other end carrying crank K, which gives lifting motion to rod L, engages in slotted disc M, thereby locking the controller until the door is closed. Local No. 2, Chicago, Ill. Meets first and third Mondays in month at Colonial Hall, 20 W. Randolph St. President John Fitzpatrick, 3914 Filmore St. Vice-President-C. Wiltgren. Recording Secretary-William Pease, 2721 Ogden Ave. Financial Secretary-J. Dorack, 1230 S. Avers Ave. Treasurer-D. F. McDonald, 711 Kilbourne Ave. Business Agent-W. Snow, Room 606, 184 W. Washington St. Phone, Main 5354. Local No. 3, St. Louis, Mo. Meets first and third Thursdays in month at Unity Hall, 2651 and 2653 Locust St. President-Fred. Doyle, 6556 Scanlan Ave. Vice-President-Chas. Hynek, 3440 S. Jefferson Ave. Recording Secretary-Louis Volk, 5235 Vermont St. Financial Secretary-C. M. Wilson, 4064 McPherson Ave. Treasurer-F. Obear Ave. H. Burmester, 1902 Business Agent-Louis Schaeffer, 2651 Locust St. Correspondent to Journal-C. L. Low, 6957 Tyler Ave. Local No. 4, Boston, Mass. Meets second and fourth Thursdays in month at 386 Harrison Ave. President-Fred. Wood, 112 Oliver St., Lindon, Mass. Vice-President-Geo. Shaumut Ave. Minahan, 301 Recording Secretary-Wm. Cansley, 74 Edgewood St., Roxbury, Mass. Financial Secretary-William Roxborough, 20 Crocker St., Somerville. Treasurer-J. Swansen, 216 Marginal St., E. Boston. Business Agent-J. C. MacDonald, 386 Harrison Ave., Tremont 491. Correspondent to Journal-J. C. MacDonald, 386 Harrison Ave., Boston. Local No. 5, Philadelphia, Pa. Meets President-Charles P. Fisher, 2516 Recording Secretary-William B. Mac- Treasurer-J. S. Irwin, 3637 N. 17th St. Business Agent-Robert Smith. Office 621 Heed Building, 1213 Filbert St. Phone, Walnut 1441. Correspondent to Journal-W. B. Macalister. Local No. 6, Pittsburgh, Pa. Meets first and third Wednesdays in month at Labor Temple, Washington and Webster Sts. President-W. F. Hopkins, 1361 Jeffers St. Vice-President J. G. Hopkins, 6108 Broad St. Recording Secretary-C. E. Dunn, 159 Henderson St., N. S. Financial Secretary-G. J. Husak, 2020 Sarah St., S. S. Treasurer-J. A. Cryder, 756 Woodbourne Ave. Business Agent-H. D. Rowan, Room 4, Labor Temple, Phone Crafton 232 M. Correspondent to Journal-C. E. Dunn. President-C. K. Wisehart, 4223 Blaisdale Ave. Vice-President-Emil Skoglund, 1414 Penn Ave., No. Recording Secretary-N. W. Johnson, 1728 Wesley Ave., St. Paul. Financial Secretary-F. Pierce, 427 Fourth Ave., N. E. Treasurer-N. W. Johnson, 1728 Wesley Ave., St. Paul. Business Agent J. J. McNellis, 2109 2d Ave., No. Correspondent to Journal-J. J. McNellis, 2109 2d Ave., No. Local No. 10, Washington, D. C. Meets second and fourth Thursdays in month at Pythian Temple, 9th St., above K. N. W. President G. W. Jarboe, 1011 D St. S. E. Vice-President Henry Huntt, 3404 Warder St., N. W. Recording Secretary-Chas. Crump, Ballston, Va. Financial Secretary-J. E. Barbee, Bethesda, Md. Treasurer-J. O. Whiting, 906 7th St.. S. W. Business Agent J. W. Reynolds, 1116 C St., N. E. Correspondent to Journal—J. F. Herrity, Arlington, Va. Local No. 11, Cincinnati, Ohio. Meets first and third Fridays in month at Labor Auditorium, Clark and John Sts. President-Trefz, 744 Laurel St. Vice-President-Wm. Brangan, 1129 E. 3rd St. Recording Secretary-Fred Barkhau, 2192 Central Ave. Financial Secretary-B. J. Veeneman, Business Agent-Fred. Barkhau, 2192 to Journal-William Brangan, 1129 E. 3d St. Local No. 12, Kansas City, Mo. Meets first and third Thursdays in month at Labor Temple, 14th and Woodland Sts. |