Iowa Unionist (Newspaper) - August 8, 1908, Des Moines, Iowa UNIONIST The Interest of One is the of AH VOLUME X How Organized Labor Is Treated In Oklahoma EIGHT HOURS THE LEGAL DAY DES MOINES IOWA SATURDAY AUGUST 8 1908 Current Rate of Wages Must Be Paid Slate County and Municipal Equipment Must Be Repaired Within the State Two new laws now on the books of Oklahoma arc of especial In terest to members of organized One provides for au hour day and the of the rate of wages on nil state county ami mu work ami rends as follows Section 1 Eight hours constitute a days work in all cases of by and on behalf of the state or any or municipality 5 Sec 2 Any person firm or corporation or any Agent contractor or subcontractor Who violate the provisions of Hits act or who shall aid con at or permit any violation thereof Is of a misdemeanor and upon con viction shall bo punished n riuo of not lena than fifty dollars CO nor than one thousand dollars ami by im prisonment of not ILSS than thirty nor more six months or b line and Imprisonment Each day such vio lation continues shall constitute a sepa rate Sec 3 Not less than the market rate of wages In the locality where the work Is performed shall bo paid Sec 4 For the preservation ot the pub lic health peace and safety an emergency la hereby declared to wherefore thla act shall be in full force on and after Ita passage and approval TLO other la designed es to compel the operat ing In the to all repairs to stock tn shops maintained lii borders of tlie state Thla law will undoubtedly Lie classed by the reactionaries us gone but In Answer Cnu he said that the people who give a corpora tion life and supply the resources for the dividends should some bene Dt The provisions of the are as follows Section 1 Transportation companies op within thin state which have now tn or machine far the repairing of locomotives engines and cars or which may establish such roundhouses or machine for such purposes shall hereafter maintain such shops ami roundhouses with sufficient equipment and employees to keep in proper repair ail rolling stock locomotives engines and ears used within thla stain In the transportation ot and and such transportation companies shall hereafter cause all such rolling stock locomotives engines and cars to he repaired nt such shops or roundhouses nml kept In a safe nnd serv condition and no such repair shall be done stale of Oklahoma provided it Is such repairs na can ha done nt such shops this state Sue 2 The provisions of section 1 of this act shall lie deemed a condition and part of every charter granted to any transportation company nnd of every II censo of every foreign corporation com pany to Io In this state Sec 3 Tho exercise of the right of em inent ly nny transportation cnm pany organized or existing under the laws of this state or the utilisation ot any franchise ly any such company bo deemed cm tlon of the iin arid n such corporation shall exercise the of eminent domain or use tins such frnn chiso such Sec i L t ri tat ion co which violates the provisions of this ac shall upon conviction thereof forfeit charter or license to o business In state and In addition thereto shall be subject to a penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars JiOO for each offense nnd each separate day that U shall vlo late the provisions of net shall con a separate offense Sec 5 An emergency for tlm preserva tion of ho peace health H hereby to by reason whereof this act shall take effect from and alter Its passage and approval Masons Pass Work Along Tii order to furnish work to ns many members as possible the Italian Stone Masons union 3000 mem bers In York city hns made what It calls au emergency rule whereby contractors nre permitted to employ a force for only one week on it given contract The succeeding week n force fs substituted anil KG on until the Job Is The rule hus worked perfectly for tho past couple of and will remain in force the domain for men justifies its repeal Other unions In Ui building trade nro likely to adopt n similar rule In the however the of unemployed dropped from 00 to GO per cent and is still diminishing Monument to Young Hero A to Midshipman Thomas recently been erected in he National til on it are inscribed those words by himself while suEfer Injuries Never me Im all Look after those other fellows Cruse who n lan met death lust sum mer from Injuries received in an ex plosion In a turret of the battleship Georgia while at target practice in Cape Cod buy lie was rendering at he assistance he to the injured seamen when some one reminded him of his own serious condition hen it was that he uttered the words h oft monument Emotional Politics Thu Republican convention yelled for Roosevelt for fortyfive min utes and the Democratic con tention yelled for Bryan for an hour nnd a half The woman nro nrw saying that if the or tho D A R or nny other of women had In lint wny the election of their prescient linve Icon pointed at on nil sides i ton to he trusted with the ballot Rapid Clothes Washer A invented si which with water cleanse 300 h Hum minutes in nid nf soup LABOR DAY EDITION The Unionist will issue an edition for Labor Day in keeping with its custom which witi be read by 6000 laboring and their families We want it representative of the industries of our city If you are in business we want your card on this occasion If our representative does find you call us up If he him your ear Labar Paper For San Juan A providing of n labor paper it San Inan Porto just been nf i convention thiic of 110 unions having with HIM l American Federation of Were Sayin GOOD BYE To all our odds and ends o Summer Clothes Everything has been quietly but firmly invited to leave through the CUT PRICE door on these odd lots and broken sizes of Mens Suits Boys Suits Childrens Clothes Hats Furnishings Weve pinned the GoodBye tag stamped with prices that will clear then out quick F N SIMMONS Mgr She Holds Her Head Too High Goddess of Liberty Listen I say and look To tho sounds and the sights of Borrow Thla side of Sandy Your oyo Is searching tho distance You aro holding your torch too high see the slaves who nro fettered Though nt your feet they lie And tho cry of the suffering stranger Has reached your ear and your But you do not the wail that From the haunts of your own oppressed of Follow me I lead ome down into the sweatshop And look on the work of Ereed Look on the of children Old before they wero born Look on Hie women Of all sex Braces shorn Look on tho help us If this la what It means To he men in tho land of freedom And live like mere Goddess of answer How can the slaves of Spain Find freedom under your banner White your own still wear the Loud Is the screech of tho Ami boastful tho volco of drums But ill not silence wall of rises out of your slums What will you do with your conquests And how nil your hosts be fed While our streets nre filled with for work or bread Wheeler Wllcox THE TRADES UNION A Factor In Industry Must B Recognized Trades unionism is becoming a of business nnd cr who to same o question or hla to his or his which ha ives tho which enter Into the of his business makes n mistake which sooner or later lie will be to correct In this us In oilier tilings It Is much hotter to start right than to make mistakes in which necessitate returning o correct them Experience shows that the more full the recognition ilven to the trades union the more businesslike ami responsible It be comes la order to be entitled to such rec the organization or union must give the same recognition o the rights o the employer anil of thera which It demands for itself and or Its members Tbe worker has tho it o quit or to strike In conjunction with hla fellows by so doing ho oes not violate a contract mndo by or or him He has neither right nor II ense to destroy or to the property of the employer hns lie any right or license to or to use violence the man who chooses to his right to work nor to Interfere with those who do not feel the union offers the best method for adjusting grievances George Oray what beneficent schemes iti the past have fulled to se measure of control by work over the conditions of Industry The trade agreement Is the clearest and most of the importance of labor to capital and capita to labor and there Is nothing EO promising for the establishment of friendly relations between these forces as the growing tendency of rep to meet in friendly con ference in ortler to adjust conditions of Mitchell An Old Typographical Organization Some which will be of Interest to printers of tills generation Is contained in n centennial of the of Columbus O says the Ty Journal In his res for concerning the origin ami progress of educational re fraternal societies A Taylor author or work Hurts Hint typographical or h ivas char tered by the Ohio nil Fob object was To relief tto deserving wiil members their widows and or to preserve the of the by ihi adopting of as shut to them ipp mil its members nf provisions of Hi net iiv rating Ibe society Is rather pe r as It dechires raphy is to be profession not a trade clause of the act la liat It limits the income of the society to a stun not exceeding THE TRADE AGREEMENT Jt Represent tho Central Idea For Which SUndi While the In numbers nml conservatism of lie trades will undoubtedly minimize friction the hope of future In the Industrial world lies it ic trade The Irade agreement la the very es sence of trades unionism It represents central Idea for which trades lim the collective or Joint bargain It represents the high est form of cooperation In modem tint It secure to A Laboring Dandy It Is Interesting TO watch a skillful mechanic while at especially if handles bis tools and neatly Such n man was be front of a small restaurant lower Clark a few days ago lie was in noot lati shapely creased trousers a fashionable spring and a branil new derby hat lie wiis front of the restaurant a yellow nn a crowd most of whom from to made and remarks The on swiftly aad well and never dropped a snot of paint on Ills lino apparel He paid no lo the crowd and when the Job was finished he drew from a pocket a white handkerchief on he dain tily wiped Ins There were no paint on later Wagos In Welsh Tin Plate Trade Consul Jesse II advises lhat lap tin plate anL labor was recently held in Swansea con lie writes Tile main object Ui discuss the wages In the tin plate trade The claim for per cent ad vance and as a sub He tho of 2 per cent wasto njs inn tint by The request liy tlie openers for of singles was A for was rejected II was at till pins la Hie tin bouse where are LIO risers ns he Riven to tin men As to lint was a of Xo made lo packers Hie tin house were conceded for American Strikes Mere Childs Play in Comparison MIGHTY ARMIES ENGAGED Great Railway Struggle In Russia Paralyzed the Notable Battles of English The London Dock Trouble lu this country strikes have been compared of the great lubor wars that have para lysed cities and even whole countries in Europe The recent dispute between tuo wesl cru employees was settled by but even hal the men emit worl strike would have boon beside the great strike flint began on railways In October 1003 nnd spread until more than 1000000 men were involved Ioth Moscow aad Wt Peters burg completely Isolated from the rest of the world and the whole of European was This was a political strike hiit it had all tho nnd methods of an In contest Business came to a and famine stalked through out be empire Gas and electric lights went out Tile water supply ceased In was rife Everywhere riot ers were going about in bauds and shops were plundered For days there reified all the elements of civil war Perhaps the most embarrassing fea ture of the disturbance so far as tiie Russian government concerned was the fact that the postal and tele graph employees joined In the move ment thus paralyzing the tem of the empire For a time It seem ed as if even would or the sailors did on some of the warships The movement col lapsed at last in bloodshed and red ruin The loss of life was dented In Moscow alone 15000 per sons were officially reported to have been killed or wounded Our own great railway strike of when the government troops were camped on the lakefront and tho whole country was at 11 little desultory rioting and a teyv deaths by violence was mere chillis plav beside this Russian strike Tile police relied upon to keep the peace during a labor war but In Dublin one llu police hem selves went on strike On the morn ing of Sept 1 no a police cer on duty In Irelands capita Tho stores closed and the shopkeepers hastily fastened their shutters Cabs aad street cars at once running and the timid people shut themselves up in their bouses Nor Mere the fears that these meas ures indicated groundless In a little while the streets wero filled with howl ing mobs The British government hurled battalion after battalion of In Into the town as if Dublin were liy a army The troops meant business too Each sol dier carried En his pouch forty rounds of ammunition and there were no blank Tlie rioters were charged with fixed bayonets but he nf such an overpowering ar ray of troops along the streets ren dered firing unnecessary Cue of the worst strikes was that of the dock laborers and riverside men In London in 1830 There were only 80 000 of these strikers lint they brought the shipping ami commerce of Eugland to a standstill Fifty million dollars of cargo lay rotting in the river and could not bo moved Five or six millions were lost In wages and the loss lo the factories waiting for ma terial and toe shops walling for trade is beyond estimate In the cud the docker won the main points fur which the strike was called which was more than the work men did early the next year when the groat gas strike came near plunging Into darkness all London south of the Thames There were anxious times and citizens ami strikers alike fear fully watched the rise and fall of the gas tanks of I he South Metropolitan company One huge reservoir especially which was christened Jumbo came to be regarded as n sort of strike barometer When Its mighty dome soared upward showing that it was full of gas the spirits of the strikers fell to zero When the gas tank fell the men were elated A fog was the one tiling which the strikers prayed for Then the re serve of gas would have been used up speedily and the men would have tri Hut the fog held aloof It seemed as if nature played Into the hands of the gas company and the strikers were forced to go back to work on the old L in Chicago News Monument to Unionism after great San Francisco disaster of when tho city lay in ashes some of he coura geous and public spirited men in the labor movement of the city ed it scheme for a local labor temple This building was recently dedicated under the auspices of the San ran Cisco Building Trades council and the structure Is an ornament to the clry as well as a monument to lie indomitable energy of organized labor In the me of the western coast Tailors Refuse to Amalgamate From the International headquarters of the Journeymen Tailors union at 11 It has been ed that through a referendum voio the union has refused to consider mation with the United Garment Work ers union The latter has a member ship of about 100000 Not very long ago tho proposition to amalgamate the Journeymen Tailors union with the United Garment Workers and the In Womens Garment Work ers was looked upon as a lion devoutly to be wished bnt from the action of the n reversal In sentiment has evidently taken place Amalgamation would have produced a with a membership of 350000 H B WYMAN President G B MACKINNON JOHN A Cashier THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK 313 STREET MANHATTAN BUILDING Capital Surplus Courteous and Impartial to the of cch customer Visit DCS MoniM new Office Supply House where you ill find prices reason able with quality All lines very complete Blank Books Letter Files Station ery Fire Proof Safes Oliver Type Office 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