Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 September 1915 — Page 26

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MWERY MEN ENJOY STRONG LOCAL UNION

Organization in Terre Haute Has All Employes Organized—Conditions Bettered.

The Brewery Workers of Terre Haute were first organized in 1892, when the brewers employed by the Terre Kaute Brewing company formed local union No. 85, of the International 'Union of United Brewery Workmen of

America. In 1896 the bottlers and freight handlers were organized into separate unions chartered as federal labor unions by the American Federation of Labor. Later, in March, 1902, these organizations withdrew from the American Federation of Labor and Were granted charters by the Brewery

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Workers' International union as Bottlers' Local union No. 288, and Brewery and Ice Plant Workers', No. 286.

The beer drivers were organized by the United Brewery Workmen in 1896 as local union No. 135. In April, 1911, these four local unions of brewery workers were amalgamated, bearing the title of Local Union No. 85 of the International Union of United Brewery Workmen of America, William Grueslng, Warren Thompson, William Heckelsberg, Mark Ringo and George Remler were eleoted as the first officers of the amalgamated union.

Since the amalgamation of the brewery workers In Terre Hauje the waeres of the members have been increased, through contracts with the brewing companies, $2.50 and $3 00 a week. The eight-hour day is enjoyed

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by the brewers, bottlers, freight handlers and engineers. The beer drivers have the nine hour day. The brewery workers of Terre Haute .are 100 per cent organized, having a membership at present of 225. The present officers are Francis Stewart, president John Lawlor, vice president

Ben Love, secretary and business agent, and George Remler, treasurer. The executive board of the local union is composed of the following members: F. Stewart and Henry Acton, of the freight handlers William Friedhoff and Frank Knipp, of the brewers Fred Love and Harry McCabe, of the bottlers William Merrill and John Turk, of the drivers Morgan Lindsey, of the engineers, and Ben Love, business agent. Local union No. 85 is af filiated with the Central Labor Union of Vigo county. The delegates to this organization are Harry J. McCabe, who is also secretary of the central body Fred Love, chairman of grievance committee Gus Pflrman and Ludwig Eckert.

The brewery workers are stockholders in the Terre Haute Labor Temple association, holding stock to the amount of $500. They are represented on the board of directors of the association by Ben Love.

Local union No. 85 is affiliated with the Indiana State Federation of Labor, and through the International Union of Brewery Workmen with theAmerican Federation of Labor.

The International union has recently published statistical tables showing the growth of the organization and the improvement in working conditions since the organization of the international union in 1886. According to the statistics the membership of the international union in 1886 was 3,148 In 1914 the membership was 51,138. In 1885, prior to the organization of the International Union of United Brewery Workmen, wages ranged from $40 to $50 a month 14 to 16 hours' work was performed each day of the week and from six to seven hours on Sundays. In 1914, after twenty-eight years of organization, the eight-hour day had been established in practically every locality wages ranged from $15 to $30 a week. Sunday work had been almost entirely eliminated and 98 per cent, of all the beer brewed In the United States was brewed under union conditions.

"100 PER CENT UNION TOWN."

Terre Haute, With 200 Industries, Makes This Boast Good. Census figures of 1910 show that Terre Haute has more than 200 industries representing an investment of more than $15,000,000 and whose annual product is more than $35,000,000. More than 12,000 men are employed in these industries throughout the city.

It is the boast of Terre Haute that it possesses more mechanics and laboring men who own their own homes than any other city In the country with the same population.

Terre Haute is known throughout the country as & "100 per cent union town."

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POLICE NAVY GUNS STOP SWIFT PIRATES

New Rapid-Firers on Launches Put to Use for First Time on the Hudson.

Hallock and his men spied the motor boat some fifty yards ahead. They suspected from Its contour and because It was navigating without lights that it was one of the pirates that annoy both shippers and the police. Hallock started in pursuit, the pirates increased their speed, and there began a pretty race. The police launoh, the faster vessel, after a pursuit of half a mile, rapidly began to overhaul the pirate. As the pursuers came within hkiling distance they saw that there were two men In the craft, and called to them to stop in the name of the law. The pirates replied with oaths and jeers.

Then it was that persons on other craft and along the waterfront were startled by the boom of the police launch's rapid-fire gun. It was not until the excitement had died down that they learned that the shots came from a rapld-flre gun which the police were using for the first time in an attempt to rid the waters of pirates. The gun was' fired three times in rapid succession, and at the first report the pirates changed their course, heading shoreward. The police hesitated to Are again, fearing a stray shot might injure some citizen. They were then, however, only twenty-five feet behind the thieves, and they made a desperate spurt to cut them off from land. Just when it appeared that their efforts would succeed the thieves reached a pier opposite Forty-eighth street, and, abandoning their craft, climbed quickly to the pier and escaped in the dark.

The captured launch was painted a dull gray, a color adopted by pirates to make their craft difficult to see at night. A search of the boat revealed $1,800 worth of rubber, which had been stolen from a lighter.

Commissioner Woods and Inspector Thomas Mvero hav« Just finished

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NEW Y0KK, Sept. 4. Persons about Battery park studied with Interest & long:, low, rakish launoh tied up in Harbor A. It was captured from river pirates a few nights agro In the North river, opposite Forty-eighth street, by James TV. Hallock, acting captain, and his men after they had fired three shots at the pirates from a police launch with one of the new rapidfire auton^tlc guns.

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transforming the harbor police service into a miniature navy. Each of the ten police launches has been equipped by the police commissioner with an automatio thirty-caliber rapid-fire gun capable of firing 400 shots a minute. The cartridges are fed from a belt, and the shots carry two miles. The guns, carrying range-finders, are mounted on the forward decks. The police steamer Patrol has been supplied with two rapid-fire Hotchkiss one-pounders, one fore and the other aft. The Patrol also carries four of the automatics. It is estimated that the new equipment has Increased the efficiency of the harbor police 50 per cent. One Incentive to arm the boats was the fact that the police are giving much time to patrollng the piers where trans-Atlantic liners are moored. All suspicious vessels are held up and searched.

Commissioner Woods found that many methods in vogue in the service were antiquated, and with Inspector Meyers he set about raising the standard. In this he has had the co-op-eratiqn of the United States navy and Rear-Admiral Usher, commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, detailed navy quartermasters to instruct the police In the operation of the guns, and a wlg-wag code of flag and lantern signals.

Since the first of the year the lmrbor police have taken sixty-four prisoners, of whom thirty-four were charged with felonies. They have recovered more than $9,000 worth of stolen property, and have taken from the water 395 bodies, sixty-five of which were brought to the surface with grappling l.-onar

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