Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 September 1915 — Page 25

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SUNDAY, SEPTEM^ 5, 1915

US RECALUfARLY DAY IN CITY

Socialist Leader "*s Pioneer in Forming Organizes and Tells Union Org*z&tions.

After more tharprty-two years of active service in -'half of organized labor, there is pr(ibly no man better fitted to tell of trials, obstacles and advantages ^fronting the organized movement Terre Haute Mian Eugene V. Debf Mr. DelSs was enrolled as a meiler of Local No. 16, Brotherhood ofk°c°motive Firemen, February, 17, 1?, when the local was organized in T/e Haute. There were 21 quarter m«ters initiated at the same time. "It Was a n! world opened to me," Mr. Debs sayjn explaining his initlation into a Von- 'elt that mere

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was new purpose in life which had vagily haunted me and toward which I ha long been groping. "Son after I Joined the lodge of fireen, P. J. McGuire, then general sectary of- the Brotherhood of Carpenrs and Joiners, came to Terre Ha© to organize the carpenters. He aski me to assist him in organizing thesarpenters. We barely succeeded in ftting enough to start a local.

Won Many Strikes. tbe early seventies, the coopers, whn 1 had helped organize, had troDle with James Clutter, one of the leang bosses at that time. The^ came to le for advice and I drew up their jgrVances. After a hard fight. Mr. fcl'tw eccepted the demands of the movers and the men returned to work. Ii»Iuly, -18.80, I became grand secrets' and treasurer of the Brornernood oi^ocomotive Firemen and editor and ^riiiBi?cr of their magazine.' The iiead-

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quarters of the organization was then moved to Terre Haute. "In the early nineties, I organized the first union of the street railway employes and soon afterward, they went out. The strike was finally won. A second strike later also was won by the street car employes. "In the early ninties, I was placed in charge of the moulders' strike. This strike was a complete success, all demands being granted with the return to work of the men. In 1884, I organized the first local of the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen at Oneonta, N. Y., aid still have the gold badge presented to me at the national convention of that organization in 1888. "While the work of organizing the workers has been a serious business, yet it does not lack humor. I remember during the first street car strike one of the men I sent to the president of the company with the demands broke into the directors' meeting and held out the demands saying: 'Here, d—n you, sign this and be quick about it.' The manager was so taken back that he signed."

BARTENDERS' ORGANIZATION HERE HAS STEADY GROWTH

Union Started in 1903 Now Boasts Large Membership and Has Raised Men's Wages.

It was early in 1903 that a few bartenders in Terre Haute felt that they had cause to demand better wages and they organized the first local. The charter was received December 19, 1902, and the local was designated as local No. 504. Since that time the union' has been recruited to considerable strength. James Bruder is president of the union and Edgar L. Brown is the secretary.

After the fourth year of the organization, steps were taken to provide a sick- and death benefit for.-the members. A system of tax levy per capita was arranged and more than $5,000 has been paid out of the fund derived from this tax since its establishment.

The button which the union bartenders use has proven an eye sore to the open shop advocates and has proven the best weapon of the union. The button is known to stand for fair wages, sanitary conditions and a union saloon.

MANY FOREIGNERS IN TT. S.

There are nearly 7,000,000 white foreign-born males over the age of twenty-one years in the United States. About 400,000 of these are English and 600,000 Irish.. There are less than 60,000 French, about 800,000 Russians and 1,300,000 Germans.

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Twenty years ago Prof. W. C. Roentgen discovered the x-rays. Labrador had a population of 3,947 in 1901 and two more ten years later.

Oklahoma leads the other states in its Indian population, 117,607. Arizona is next.

Nitrade of sodium crystals as clear as the best glass have been made by & Parisian scientist.

A gasoline-operated tamping machine takes the place of a number of workmen and does the work Just as well.

Philippine cigars are now regularly exported to forty countries. The total exports last year were 155,000,000 cigars.

The newest third-rail patent is alive only at the point of contact with the shoe. Accidents are thereby prevented.

Strasburg, the capital of Alsace, was annexed by Germany in 870, taken "'»y Franoe in 16S1, and recaptured by Germany in 1870.

For shingles alone, 750,000,000 feet of timber is cut in that part of the state of Washington which lies west of the Cascades.

Wireless messages have been successfully sent without the usual aerial. The wires, properly insulated, were laid on the ground.

Reliable statistics show that of all the timber trees cut in our forests less than half of the available wood material is actually used.

The Canadian soldiers are equipped with motor cars which can be driven from either end, so as to aWow greater flexibility of movement.

An Alaskan cable was put out of commission recently by a whale becoming so completely entangled in it that the wire proved a death trap.

The land at the head of Wall street, New York, upon which Trinity church and cemetery stand, comprises a plot 391 feet lonsr by 227 feet broad, valued at J17.000.000.

The register in the street car may be shelved. An electrical device has just been patented by which the passengers entering a car are recorded automatically.

Aluminum shapes to fit all parts of the human body, pierced wilh:channels for hot or cold water circulation, have been invented by a Viennese surgeon for. use as surgical comprcsses.

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JOHN S. ROBERTS President.

|NOWN throughout the country for its grlass factories, Terre Haute has the distinction of having one of the largest locals of the Glass Bottle Blowers association in the world. The rerre Haute local has been in existence since 1900 and its membership ranges from 350 to 491 according to the amount of work on hand.

Since the organization of the local, the wages of the glass blowers has

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been substantially Increased and working conditions have been bettered. The union now hM a nice balance in the bank and is enjoying & prosperous year.

John S. Roberts, who was named a deputy sheriff by\ Sheriff George W. Krietenstein, is president of the local. John Chamberlain is vice president, Lewis D. Bush, secretary, and Joseph H. Pote is financial secretary. Mr. Pote has held the office of financial secretary continuously for fourteen years.

volts. The treatment Is said to have its greatest effect on the harmful

Herbert R. Fay, superintendent of the|ffrerms, as the beneflcient ones do not seem to be seriously ipterfered with. Being put in bottles and capped, the milk keeps sweet from fonr to eight days, and the nourishing elements of the milk are not changed in any particular. The milk haB been indorsed by health authorities.

San Lflego water works department. In the last generation the tuberculosis death rate has decreased 49 per cent, in the registration area of the country, and the death rate from kidney disease has increased 131 per cent.

Building Inspector C. C. Knox, of Youngstown, O., claims that great precautions should be taken in the construction of, chimneys, as hs contends that twenty-five per cent, of all fires in the city are caused by defective chimneys. r*

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