Labor Notes

A death benefit ranging from $75 to $400 according to the length of membership was adopted by the recent convention of International Typographical Union, and will go to a referendum vote for ratification. This was the most important business transacted at the meeting.

"We ought to parade, not ride. No hacks, no automobiles, no horses," was the declaration of William McKenzie, representing the engineers in the Central Labor Council of Portland, Ore., in discussing the resolution prohibiting the use of any but union labeled harness and horse equipment.

Boston Cigarmakers' Union voluntarily assessed themselves more than an aggregate of $25,000 during the first six months of this year to assist, in addition to the international benefits, the members out of work during the dull times in the trade and for other purposes. It gave $19,852.43 to out-of-work members.

The Glass Bottle Blowers' convention decided not to publish an official trade journal. The organization has a system of keeping the members conversant with all the inner workings of the organization, and the publication of a journal would tend to give these facts to persons who are not members, it was said.

The strike, which for four days tied up the Standard Steel Car Company's works, was settled and the 3,500 employes of that plant returned to work. The settlement is a partial victory for both sides. The company officials agreed to take back all of the workmen, and consented to a reduction of the per cent of delinquent rents taken from the pay envelopes of the men each week.

William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employes, has sanctioned the proposed union of conductors and motormen on the street car lines in New York and will come to New York from headquarters in Detroit in a few days to organize the men. The new union will receive a charter that will entitle it to the support of the American Federation of Labor. Enrollment of members has already begun and 1,500 men are said to have joined the movement.

General Thomas C. Kelsey has turned the keys of the city scales over to his successor. If Lincoln gets as good a man as Kelsey to succeed him it will be entitled to congratulations. Kelsey took the position of

city weighmaster fcur years ago, and brought the job out of obscurity and made it a source of goodly revenue to the city. His accounts were always in splendid shape, and the scales never run on a more businesslike basis. It is to be regretted that Mayor Love did not see fit to reappoint him, but the mutations of politics prevented. But General Kelsey retires rightfully proud of the record he made in the office. -Wage Worker, Lincoln, Neb.

Employes of the La Crosse City railway, whose grievances have been under investigation by an arbitration board since the recent strike, win every point in dispute in the decision announced by Chairman John Humphrey of Milwaukee, member of the state board of arbitration. The grievance committee will be all union. The wage scale is raised an average of four cents an hour, shorter hours are provided, and better toilet accommodations for the men required. Heretofore the wage scale has been 17 cents an hour for the first year, up to 21 cents maximum for the fourth year and time thereafter. Under the new scale the men get 19 cents the first six months, 20 cents the second six months and 23 cents thereafter. The decision is binding upon the men and the company for one year.

UNION-MADE HOSIERY.

Columbia Knitting Mills,
Philadelphia, Aug. 29, 1909.
Do you

Dear Sir-You are a union man. wear Union-made Hosiery? Every employe in our mill belongs to Local No. 696, of the United Textile Workers of America. They work fifty hours per week, and get sixty hours' pay. They are the greatest hosiery workers in this country, and they give us the best made hosiery in the world.

The stocking we want to call your attention to, as the greatest value for the price, is made of 2-ply long stape combed yarn, 36 gauge.

Stocks Bear the Union Label-At retail they would cost you 25 cents per pair, or $1.50 per six pairs. Buying from us, direct, they will cost you 121⁄2 cents per pair, or 75 cents per six pairs, which is the smallest quantity we ship. If, however, you can get ten or more orders to be delivered at one place, the price will be 70 cents per six pairs, a saving of about 7 per cent additional.

If you don't wear union-made hosiery, take a step in the right direction and start now. Order today, and if our hosiery is not better than the same priced ones at any store, return them and get your money back. They are indorsed by every union man who has seen them. This is the manner of doing business.

Owing to the low price, and to save any additional expense of collecting, money is to accompany order. Yours truly,

COLUMBIA KNITTING MILLS.

Entitled to Hero Medal.

Tess-I think I'm entitled to a Carnegie
medal. I saved a life the other evening.
Jess-The idea! Whose?

Tess-Jack Manson's; he said he couldn't
live without me.-Philadelphia Press.

The Old Adam.

"I wonder why three-fourths of the stenog-
raphers in business offices are women?"

"I guess it is because men like to feel
that there is at least one class of women
whom they can dictate to."-Baltimore
American.

Wanton Waste.

The Nurse-You've been badly hurt.
The Victim-Watcha gointer do ter me
now?

The Nurse-Rub you with alcohol.
The Victim-Gee, I wish I'd been turned
inside out!-Cleveland Leader.

Thought They Had Made a Mistake.
Three Irishmen were stopping at a second-
rate hotel, and one of them imbibed so freely
at the bar that he had to be carried to his
room, in which also slept a negro in a sepa-
rate bed. His comrades, as a practical joke
on him, proceeded to paint the Irishman's
face black. In the morning, when awakened
by the proprietor, he got up, and happened
to catch sight of himself in the mirror. "Oh,
bejabbers," he exclaimed, "if the blamed
idiots haven't gone and woke the nigger by
mistake!"

at the theater shines like a good deed in a
naughty world.

A bald head should never be covered with
fly paper in summer. Just have a cobweb
and spider painted on it by some sign
painter, and the flies will keep away from it.

An Iron Tip.

"Now, boys," said the teacher, "can any of
you tell me how iron was first discovered?"
A hand shot up.

"Yes, sir!" cried Thompson.
"Well, Thompson, just tell the class what
your information is on that point."
"Please, sir," replied the scholar, "I heard
father say yesterday they smelt it!"

Prepared for the Worst.

"How long had your wife's first husband
been dead when you married her?"
"About eight months."

"Only eight months? Don't you think she
was in a good deal of a hurry?"
"Oh, I don't know. We had been engaged
for nearly two years."

In the Wrong Place.

A one-legged Welsh orator named Jones
was pretty successful in bantering an Irish-
man, when the latter asked him:

"How did you come to lose your leg?"

"Well," said Jones, "on examining my
pedigree and looking up my descent, I found
there was some Irish blood in me, and be-
coming convinced that it was settled in the
left leg, I had it cut off at once."

"By the powers," said Pat, "it would have
been a very good thing if it had only settled
in your head!"-London Mail.

Brighter Prospects.

"My dear," said the banker to his only
daughter, "I have noticed a young man at-
tired in a dress suit in the drawing room
two or three evenings each week of late.
What is his occupation?" "He is at present
unemployed, father," replied the fair girl, a
dreamy, far-away look in her big, blue eyes,
"but he is thinking seriously of accepting a
position of life companion to a young lady of
means."

WATCH OUT.

Be sure that the tobacco you buy for
chewing and smoking purposes bears the
blue label of the Tobacco Workers' Inter-
national Union. Otherwise you are not
using union-made goods. Be exceptionally
careful in regard to this.

a period of one year. The initiation fee
shall be one dollar ($1.00), and the dues
twenty-five cents (25c) per month. They
will be allowed a voice but not a vote, ex-
cept on questions of strikes, when they will
be entitled to a voice and a vote. If called
out on a strike, they shall receive three
dollars ($3.00) per week, but shall receive
no sick or death benefits... After becoming
competent as journeymen, they shall be en-
titled to all privileges and benefits without
further initiation fee.

EXPLANATION.

Local Branches can in accordance with
this law admit apprentices, who have served
one year or over at the trade.

After becoming Journeymen they are rec-
ognized as full fledged members, and en-
titled to all benefits as prescribed by the
Constitution, upon payment of the regular

dues.

Secretaries, in ordering due books, should
state the length of time the apprentice has
worked at the trade. The dues of this class
of members being 25 cents per month, one
stamp shall appear each month in due book.

Proposition No. 16.

Article 11, Section 9-It shall be the duty
of all local branches to submit to the Gen-
eral President a true copy of all communi-
cations, price lists and agreements passing
between the local and firms in their juris-
diction.

It shall be the duty of the General Presi-
dent to correspond with locals two months
prior to the expiration of agreements, giv
ing advice and suggestions beneficial to the
organization, that all such data be placed on
file at Headquarters for the convenience of
the Brotherhood and General Officers. Local
branches shall, when requested, furnish the
General President with information relat-
ing to conditions existing in their locality
prior to their organizaton, and what im-
provements have been made since being
organized.

EXPLANATION.

The only change occurring in this sec-
tion is the addition of the words, "price
lists and agreements," after the word com-
munications in the second line.

Proposition No. 18.

Article 12, Section 6-Any member suffer-
ing from a chronic or incurable disease, ail-

ment or injury, shall not be entitled to receive more than thirteen weeks' sick benefits for such injury, or ailment, chronic or incurable disease. If he is incapacitated from work by a recurrence of said disease, ailment or injury, he shall be entitled to receive thirteen out-of-work stamps in each year, dating from beginning of first claim for benefits. Local branches shall be reimbursed by Headquarters for all medical fees incurred in any case where there is a doubt as to whether or not a member comes under this law.

EXPLANATION.

By the enactment of this law members suffering from chronic or incurable diseases.. will only be entitled to thirteen weeks' sick benefits, and no more. Heretofore, there was no limit to the amount of benefits; a member could draw from year to year when suffering from an incurable disease, providing he paid his dues and worked part of the time.

When in doubt as to the proper construction of this law, write Headquarters.

Proposition No. 22.

Article 13, Section 1-The dues of all members, either local or at large, shall be twenty-five cents per week, due and payable each Saturday, and a semi-annual assessment of fifty cents, to be paid on or before June 1st and December 1st of each year. No member shall be exempt from payment of this semi-annual assessment. Said dues to include subscription to the Official Journal.

EXPLANATION.

The only change that occurs in this section is the addition of the last sentence. The change makes no material difference, simply makes provision, so that the law will agree with the printing on our due stamps.

All laws, or parts of laws, in conflict with the above are hereby repealed.

The new laws become effective on September 15, 1909.

New Constitutions are being printed and will be sent to all secretaries as soon as delivered. JOHN J. PFEIFFER, Gen'l. Secy-Treas.

All leather workers will stay away from Fort Worth, Tex.; Chicago, Ill.; Pueblo, Colo., and Victoria, B. C., and not heed alluring advertisements. Strike is on.

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.

The strikes at Kronauer's and Hanisch Brothers, Chicago, Ill.; Frazier's, Pueblo, Colo., and T. R. James, Fort Worth, Texas, are still on. Local No. 118 reports the strikes in the shops in Victoria, B. C., in good shape. One shop has settled and the prospects of an early settlement are good.

To make these strikes more effective members will not write or answer ads from any of these places until notified that matters are settled.

STRIKES.

R. T. Frazier, Pueblo, Colo.

T. R. James Co., Ft. Worth, Texas.
Hanisch Bros., Chicago, Ill.
Kronauer Saddlery Co., Chicago, Ill.
F. Norris & Sons, Victoria, B. C.
Wm. Duncan, Victoria, B. C.

All leather workers on horse goods are hereby notified to stay away from all cities where trouble is pending or strikes are on. We have advised members in every case to write the secretary-treasurer of a local branch before communicating with firms or accepting positions in various cities where price lists are pending or trouble is on. Local branches will rigidly enforce Article 16, Section 13, General Constitution, and all members will be governed accordingly.

THE No. 6 HARNESS MACHINE. A point of great interest in the John O'Flaherty Co.'s No. 6 harness machine advertisement, which you will see on another page, is the way the machine draws off exactly the amount of top thread required for each stitch, the amount varying automatically according to the thickness of the work being done. When sufficient top thread is drawn off for the next stitch it is absolutely locked so firmly that to attempt to draw off more must break the thread. This machine absolutely locks the thread while some others have a tension which, though heavy, varies with the thickness and quality of the work being sewn.

IN MAKING REMITTANCES.

Members will, in forwarding payments for buttons, badges, dues, etc., please send post office money orders or drafts, and not postage stamps, as the present system of vouchers at headquarters will not admit of the receipt of same without a double entry.

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A DEADLY HABIT.

A fault-finding, criticising habit is fatal to all excellence. Nothing will strangle growth quicker than a tendency to hunt for flaws, to rejoice in the unlovely, like a hog which always has his nose in the mud and rarely looks up. The direction in which we look indicates the life aim, and people who are always looking for something to criticise, for the crooked and the ugly, who are always suspicious, who invariably look at the

worst side of others, are but giving the world a picture of themselves.

This disposition to see the worst instead of the best grows on one very rapidly, until it ultimately strangles all that is beautiful and crushes out all that is good in himself. No matter how many times your confidence has been betrayed, do not allow yourself to sour, do not lose faith in people. The bad are the exceptions; most people are honest and true and mean to do what is right.Success.