Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1904 — Page 26

TTIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, 31AKCH L'O, 1904.

PART THREE.

CHicago's Capitalists Are FigKting Organized Labor with Much Vigor

Secretary Job, of the Employers' Association,

TalKs to FranK Carpenter About the Battle Being Waged with the Unions E-mployers Unite Successfully to Help Each Other and to Aid Individual Workmen Who Wish to

Be Independent HICAGO is the great storm center of labor and capital in the United States. Its record of strikes exceeds that of any other city. It has about 00,U men In Its trades unions and It has been and is now largely ruled by the man in the overalls. At the same time the capitalists are good fighters. They have studied trades union methods and within the past few months have combined together in a great association to protect themselves. Nearly every business has Its local organization of employers, and these have affiliated with the great city association of employers, which is now opposing a solid front to most of the demands of organized labor. The Chicago Employers' Association represents a capital of thousands of millions of dollars. It is backed by Marshall Field c Co. and the great department stores, by the millionaire pork packers and the steel magnates, by the street railways and by about 2.000 other companies and individuals handling altogether a number of workmen far in excess of the army of the United States. This association is running its campaign in opposition to organized labor on much the same lines as those which organized labor has used to defeat the individual employer. It has brought a new feature Into the labor question and one which promises to extend to every city of the United States. Similar associations are being organized in many places and they may in time from part of a great national association, embracing the whole country. The Chicago Employers Association can command no end of money and It is ready to spend freely to protect the individual workman or the individual employer, supdying- the latter with funds to reimburse lim for losses In case of strikes and even carrying him financially at the banks. It will protect him or the workman in the court3 and bring the best legal talent in opposition to any fight with organized labor. The association has a secretary who is paid a salary bigger than that of a United Ötates senator. He holds much the same position in regard to the association as Samuel Gompers does to the American Federation of Labor or John Mitchell to the United Mine Workers, and he has. in fact, been nicknamed the "walking delegate of the Millionaires Club." The real name of this man is Frederick W. Job, and his profession is that of a lawyer. He is an Illinois man and a graduate of Ann Arbor. He is. I Judge, about forty years old, is six feet tall and weighs 2v pounds, He is big headed and broad-shouldered, having the muscles of an athlete and the Jaw of a bulldog. He looks like a good fighter and as far as I can learn, is proving himself 50. HOW CHICAGO EMPLOYERS COMBINE. I met Mr. Job in his ofllce in the Marquette building on Dearborn street and had a long chat with him about the Employers Association and the labor conditions here. In response to my questions as to the association, he said: "We are a combination of employers unions rather than an association of Individual employers, without regard to our businesses. The association does not want lnaivldual employers as members,-although there are cases In which such are taken In. It is rather an affiliation of the representatives of employers associations. For instance, the laundry owners of Chicago have an organization, the manufacturing confectioners have an organization and the brass manufacturers and the picture frame makers have each an organization. It is to with nearly every branch of the business. We are made up of all these organizations as such, and if an individual employer wants to Join us we tell him to ioin the employers organization of his own usiness and to be represented through it." "Then you are to the employers associations much what the American Federation of Labor it to the different trades unions?" "Yes." seid Mr. Job. "save that our field la confined to Chicago and its neighborhood, and also that we believe in the laws and in doing all we can to enforce them, and this the trades unions do not." "I your association avowedly opposed to all organized labor?" I asked. "As such labor is now constituted and operated, I say most emphatically yes." was the reply. "We do not object to men combining or organizing to better their conditions so long as they do not break the laws as regards the public, their employers or their fellow-workmen. We insist that every man should have the right to work. that every employer hall have the right to employ whom he pleases." "Do you aim to do anything as to fixing wages and prices? I asked. "Not at all." replied the secretary. "That Is a matter for the employers and their men. or It may be for the associations of the different branches or trade and the men. All that we want Is the preservation of our principles as to the enforcement of the laws In the protection of the public, of the employer and his business and of the rights of the men to work whether they belong to a union or not. We don't care for more laws. We are satisfied with those already on the statute books. What wa want is to have the laws enforced." FOR THE OFEN SHOP. "What has been your chief fight, Mr. Job?" "We are fighting for several things," was the reply. "In the first place, we want the open shop; second, we want no sympathet

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Mb mIU iia t vrticrii Ur-&tj Lilt UrS Ijiitl tA I "What tree Is selected as a nestii5 rue uic girdirsi uuuiutl of birds?" Without attempting to give a positive answer to this question. I should say there are not many more popular nesting sites than the apple tree. I know that some of the evergreens are used by many species possibly by more than make their homes in the orchard-but If we have a few large old apple trees on the premises, it is not impossible that we may be able to study, close at hand, the nesting habits of twenty different birds. The first time I found a bluebird's nest it was in a hole in an apple tree, and, as I wished to see the eggs, I thrust in my hand to take them out. To my astonishment, omethlng In the hole gave me a painful nip. and I pulled out my hand to find a house sparrow hanjlng to one finger. After that I was not so quick to Jump at conclusions or to put my bare hands into holes In trees. Both bluebirds and house sparrows are among the commonest residents of holes in apple trees, and the latter birds alo build large nests in the branches sometimes. In the larger holes I not infrequently find a screech owl, brooding her roundish white eggs on a handful of feathers doubtless plucked from the bodies of her victims. How sdie will bite and scratch when we attempt to examine her treasures! Flickers, too, will often make their nests In euch hollows, usually widening and shaping thm first, but more often, perhaps, they will make a fresh hole in some dcaytd branch. I have seen a pair of flickers nesting In an apple tree, in a natural cavity, the month of which was less than four feet from the ground. Hut the eggs were not hatched, for the tree grew to close to the road, and the ne3t was robbed by one of the many people who saw the birds going In and out. Branches too email for a flicker's nest are sometimes used by downy woodpeckers. I to bins seem tu nest In every orchard.

ic strikes; third, no restriction of output or of personal industry, and fourth, the full enforcement of the public laws. I think we have gained our point as to sympathetic strikes .-ind that we are in a fair way to make the open shop the rule in Chicago, if we have not already done so. In ninety casfs out of every hundred we have won. We are making it possible for the nonunion man to worK in Chicago and possible for his emi loyer to hire him without fear of belnt? boycotted or otherwise injured In his business." "Do you iidrr.it members to your association who have the closed or union shop?'.' "No, we do not. We are ready, however, to come to the support of such men if they have trouble with organized labor and want to reform and Join us." "Give me some idea of the extent of the trade unions in Chicago?" "We have several hundred unions," replied Secretary Job. "but I believe that from 50 to K) per cent, of their members are Involuntary ones. They have been forced or coaxed into the unions, and are afraid to leave, them. If I had the power of emancipation President Lincoln had when he freed the slaves, if I could send forth an edict which would enable the members of the trades unions of this country to desert the ranks of orgaidzed labor without fear of violence or ostracism, I firmly believe that four-fifths of the trade unions would leave. "You will see that this is the case," Mr. Job continued, "if you watch any election in which the labor vote constitutes an important element. That vote is never half so Inrge as anticipated." "Why so?" r "It is because the men voting as they please secretly change their ballots and throw them against their own candidates, because at heart they are sick of the thralldom to which they are yoked." "Is Chicago a dangerous place for a workingman who does not belong to a union?" "It has been so at times, and I will not say that it is not so now under certain conditions," replied Secretary Job. "I could cite many instances of men who have been assaulted and maimed because they have opposed the will of the unions, and some in which men have been murdered. I have heard of union meetings where men were forced to assent to the doings of their leaders, and where they believed their lives would be in danger if they did not. There have been many outrages on nonunionlsts, as, for Instance, we had .recently a published case of a nonunion printer who was thrown to the floor by a party of union employes in one of our saloons and the question there debated whether it would be better to break the man's arms or his fingers one by one, that he might be incapacitated for work. The police, rescued that man. "Now, such things may not be done by the leaders or the better element of the unions, but I believe they are instigated by them, and wo have it alleged that there is a band of paid sluggers here who are used as wrecking crews to commit acts of violence in behalf of organized labor. The hospital records will verify this." GIRL WITH GREEN SILK WAIST. "In what classes of labor do such conditions obtain?" I asked. "They have obtained in almost every class," was the reply, "and that even among the women trades unions. One odd case was that of a nouuiou girl in a West Side factory, who was guilty of the heinous offense of wanting to earn her living in her own way. The union girls wanted her to join them, but she would not, and they then appointed a committee to assault her. Now, the nonunion girl wore a bright green silk waist, and this was the mark by which she was known to the committee. She was followed as she went home one day by the members of the committee, and they remained outside her house waiting to assault her when she might come out. The house in which she was living was a two-story Hat and she had the upjfer apartment. After a time a girl in a greeu waist appeared and started down the street. It was about dusk. She had not gone far before the members of the committee pounced upon her and scratched and pummeled her to their taste. She objected strenuously and screamed again and again, but it was some time before they learned that they had got the wrong girl. Another green waist maid lived in the lower flat, and it was she who came out first. "Yes." continued Mr. Job, "the women are quite as bad in union matters as the men. Take, for Instance, a strike which occurred . in the plow works at Springfield. The union men left and nonunion workmen were put in their places. Violence'wns apprehended and the employers carried the nonunion workmen home in closed cars. Some of the wives and female friends of the strikers got in the cars on the plea of wanting to ride, and after they were well on their way they went for the nonunion men with their hat pins. They came near killing one man whom they struck too near the heart." , ' "But such cases," Mr. Job, should not be charged to the unions," said I. "They are merely the acts of hotheaded individuals?" "Yes. you might think so," was the reply. "I know that the labor leaders claim they do not counsel violence, but every one here knows that is not true. I have an incident In my mind now which I know to have occurred, but which I do not want to locate. I won't say that it was or was not in Chicago; but it was in one of the big cities of the United States. , "NONVIOLENCE! NO VIOLENCE!" A street car strike was in progress, and the leader of one of the striking unions' talked thus to his men: " 'Now, my man, remember, in the conduct of this strike we want no violence! No violence! Suppose, for instance, you should see several Joints of gas pipe lying near the car track, and some one suggested that if the pipe was Joined and laid on the track so that one end of it would touch the trolley wire and the other the rail,

and twice, at least, I have seen the home of a wood thrush in an apple tree. In one instance the tree grew close to a house, the occupants of which, passing in and out, could plainly see the parent bird as she sat on her eggs. Of the hanging nests, perhaps the one most frequently found in apple trees Is that of the orchard oriole, but occasionly we may find also those of the Baltimore oriole, yellow-throated vireo ami whiteeyed vireo. The yellow-thoated vireo is one of the most charming of our bird-neighbors, being one of the tamest ami gentlest. Several instances are recorded of birds which have allowed themselves to be stroked on the nest; one I know of which would come down on its landlord's hand for food, and I have myself had the pleasure of lifting a yellow-throated vino from her nest, and of seeing her nestle down on her eggs again when I put her back. My experience with .a white-eyed vireo. whose nest I once found in an apple tree was very different. The little home had been visited by a cowbird. whose large mottled egg had been deposited with the four much smaller ones of the vireo. If I remember right the birds were away, but when I called, a few days later, the little mother vireo was very much in evidence. None of her own eggs was hatched, but the young cowbird was on leck, and from her actions it seemed as though she was afraid 1 was going to steal him. "Virago" would have been a better name for her. as she flew into a bush quite cios to m and. looking me right in the face with her Strange white eyts. poured forth a terrent of abuse. People are often angry with you if you happen to discover that thev have done some foolish thing; and had I not discovered that she had hatched a cowblrd's egg? Bet, I knew that there was trouble brewing for her, so I went away, and did not return lor a week. When I did come back the young cowbird not only filled the nest but hung over on all sides. Beneath him I found one poor little starved vireo; Its brethren had probably been pushed out of the nst by the usurper. But the foster mother, far from admitting her mistake, proceeded to anuse me worse than ever, so I left htr to her problems. Other small bird which eometlir.es claim th apple tree as a home, are the chipping sparrow, h.usc-wren. yellow warbler, least flycatcher and ruby-throated humming bird. Near the tp. on the outer branches, the kingbird often builda his nest, and lower

FREDERICri AV. JOB Secretary Chicago Employers Association thereby forming a connection which would make a short circuit and burn out the trolley wire, don't let any such act be laid to your doors. " 'Or if any one should tell you that you could wreck the underground cable by throwing rocks into the manholes and I know there are piles of rocks near some of them don't let such an act be laid to your doors. " 'Again, my men, some persons may tell you that if you throw In cement and sand and rock it will ruin the track. Now, I understand there are warehouses near the track where there are barrels of cement, and you know very well if this is mixed with rock, sand and water it v ill harden, and if thrown into the manholes it will hold the cables. If you did that it might hurt the company, stop the cars and we might gain the strike, but, boys, we want no violence, no violence. If any one does that, let us see that it is not laid to our doors. I hope you have understood me correctly.' " "But. Mr. Job, do you think your employers' association Is really making matters better? Have you done anything?" "We have done a great deal, and we are going to do more. I have told you we have given the nonunion men the chance to work and we have protected the employer in numerous Instances. Take the Kellogg strike, in which 650 men left work and tried to prevent the business of the plant from going on. The employers had put nonunion men in their places, but the Teamsters' Union Joined them and would not deliver goods nor permit others to deliver them. We investigated the matter and waited upon the mayor, who Issued a proclamation warning the teams to keep off the streets in the vicinity of the Kellogg plant. We had policemen go. along with the wagons and we saw that the goods went in and out, regardless of the demands of the union. Before that strike 90 per cent, of the men in the Kellogg plant were members of the union. The shop is now a nonunion shop, and it has 501 contented men doing the same work that 650 strikers did, and at the same time turning out 25 per cent, more of a product." PROTECTING NONUNION MEN. "We have had a number of similar casee," continued Mr. Job, "in which we have helped the employers, and we are ready at any time to defend the rights of the nonunion man. Take the case of Chester B. Blish, who was a nonunion elevator boy in one of the downtown buildings. He was threatened, bulldozed and bluffed by the unionists, but his father wrote a letter to this association, and we came to his protection. When the unionists saw that the power and wealth of the employers association was at the command of a simple colored boy, whose existence the association had never dreamed of until he became bold enough to work as a nonunion man. they began to realize that the employers of Chicago proposed to protect not only themselves, but all unorganized labor as well. . "Again, take the recent street-car strike," continued Mr. Job. "The strikers had promised there would be no disturbances, but there were hotheads out in force to stop the cars, and the union teamsters tried to block the road. It was largely through the employers association that 1,500 police were put on duty in the strike territory, and through it all other teamsters were kept out of the way. The result was that the cars ran and the men were protected. When the coal teamsters struck In sympathy and refused to haul coal .to the street-car power house, the employers" association undertook the delivery of that coal, and sent the wagons, guarded by policemen, to deliver It. The result was that the street-car companies won their fight for the open shop." "How about the people; are they with you in this matter?" "I think they are," replied Mr. Job. "In the street-car strike they were entirely so, and they have been so in most of our other tights. We are not waging a war of offense, but of defense. We have no chip on our s"houlders and we do not seek quarrels, although we are ready to fight if we have to. Before the association was formed our newspapers here were somewhat apathetic on labor questions, but since then at least one-half of them unite in indorsing our methods. The same is true of the politicians, and I think our work has also aided the Judges in showing them that their injunctions to prevent such outrages have the Indorsement of the best of the business element of the community. ".We are not only doing good here, but also in the other cities of the United States, where we are looked upon as the originator of this movement. We are helping to organize them and in doing so we feel that we are approaching the nearest practical solution of the present industrial problem." FRANK G. CARPENTER. Copyright, 1904. A TREE BELOVED BY BIRDS Dy Ernest Harold Baynes down we may find, toward the end of June, the homes of those late builders, the goldfinch and cedar waxwing. On one occasion, 1 was entering a very old orchard, when I heard a loud whistling of wings, and looking up. I saw a pair of mourning doves flying straight from a large apple tree, and on going up I found their partly built nest in a wide crotch, within a few feet of the ground. But a more unusual nest to find in an apple tree was one I found on the Connecticut coast, a few years ago. I was visiting a colony of green herons in a clump of cedars. Among the cvtrgreens there was a large apple tree, and on the top of it there lay the nst and eggs of a green heron. Doubtless there are other birds which more or less prequently build their nests in apple trees, but those I have mentioned are all which have come under my personal observation. The Aimwcr of the Mlit. "The firmament hoyeth his hamliwork."Psalm xlx. 1. When nijfht her saMe veil has fiunsr Far out. until it nhrou-ls the world. We marvel how each msh Is hum? With ftars. and how each fold ia pearled With strar.tls of living fire whose glow Ymes faintly through the outer mist Where subtle colors ebb and flow From, ebony to amethyst. Thfn man looks In tho Jeweled cky Where patiently the planets climb, And there is held lefore his eye The unsolved mystery of time. He traces all the .wanilerlngs Of restless universe and world. But whete the hand that onward flings The ttaia with such precision hurle-i? What I the all-explaining word Writ with the stats for men to heed? Why 1 it In Its grandeur blurred That straining eyes may never read? Why. when our sUht has found the place herein the farther Ktnr is net I unknown flnseru swiftly trace A constellation farther yet? Eich star that sends Its laughing light Has that deep secret long possessedIt trembles on the Hps of Night The knowledge hidden In her breast et man rr.-at his What and Why, And frets for that he never sees Bow that the star have made reply Through Cod's unnumbered centuries. W- 1. Mesblt. la CLicaea Tribune,

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Chickering Jcwett Vosc Behning Fischer Let Us Shaw Yon Some of ihi New Indiana's Largest Hnsie Bouse delegates of lesser European states attending the sessions, but not as members: Eighteen of the twenty-nine articles of the original treaty were eliminated or revised, Russia being robbed largely of the fruits of her victory, Great Britain and Austria-Hungary gaining. The standing of various Balkan states was. defined, certain fortresses very helpful to Turkey In defending her borders were dismantled, and the principle of earlier treaties that Turkey's status was to be decided by the powers Jointly, rather by any one of them, was reaffirmed. -i- -f- -fI see there is a ruling in the Pension Bureau, to take effect April 13, fixing the pension age limit, sixty-two to seventy years, at $6, J8, $10 and $12 per month. Is this for those who draw no pensions now, or is it general? In other words, is it added to the soldiers pensions that are already being paid? C. C. The new order simply gives a new construction to the age pension act of 1S90. Heretofore, ünder that act, a veteran not drawing a pension for special cause, could draw a disability pension of $12 a month at Architect Phi lada :l diately in the rear of the dining room. The second floor is divided into four bedrooms, each having a large closet and ample space for beds and bureaus. It has a lar?e bathroom, which is equipped with the best sanitary plumbing. The house is heated by steam and lighted by electricity.

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Braumuller Stewart Stodart Wulschner Kroeger Casj Designs Now on Display 123-130 North Pennsylvania Street the age of seventy-five years. Under the new order his disability is held to begin at sixty-two years, when he may draw $5 a month; after pixty-five years, $5 a month; after sixty-eight years, $10 a month, and after seventy years, $12 a month. The new order does not increase the disability pension, but it hastens the time of the beginning and increases It by Installments. It Is not added to the pensions of soldiers already drawing. -fPlease state the names of the congress men of Indiana, their party and the district from which they were chosen. Subscriber. James A. Hemcnway, Robert W. Mlers. William T. Zenor, Francis M. Griffith, Elias S. Holllday, James E. Watson", Jesse Overstreet, George W. Cromer, Charles B. Landis, E. D. Crumpacker. Frederick; Landis, James M. Robinson and Abraham L. Brick represent the thirteen congressional districts of Indiana in the order named. Miers. Zenor, Griffith and Robinson are Democrats; the other nine Republicans. . ( What! is the percentage of deaths for each decade in the United States from birth to 100 years? 2. When was the battle of Tippecanoe fought between General Harrison and Tecumseh? 3. What was tho name of the Indian prophet that lived at Prophetstown. located a short dlstanco from where Tecumseh and his braves were stopping at that time? 4. Where and by whom and when was Tecumseh killed? 5. At what time did silver coin go out ot circulation on account of a premium on it? 6. What does the word kalnit represent, and where Is it obtained that It la used to a large extent in making Southern fertilizers? The expectation tables prepared for use of life insurance companies do not go below the age of ten years. They show that of lOO.noo persons aged ten years 743 die the first year. Of the remainder 744 die In th next year, that Is, between eleven an(J twelve. Of the 93,003 left 743 die between twelve and thirteen. Following up the deaths each year it Is found that at th age of fifty there are 3,S04 alive and &C2 die in that year. At eighty there are 14. 474 alive and 2.001 die that year. At ninety there are 847 alive and 3&3 die that year. At ninety-five there are only three left. 2. November 7. 1811. 3. The Prorhet wai Tecumseh's brother and is not known in history by any other name than tht Prophet. 4. Tecumseh was killed at th battle of the Thames, in Canada, where he was serving the British In the war of 1S12. The battl was fought Oct. 5, 1S1J, and Tecumseh is supposed to have been killed by Colonel Richard M. Johnson, who commanded the American troops. 5. Silver disappeared from circulation very fooa after gold did in the summer of 1S. 6. Kalnite is a mineral substance containing magnesium and potassium. It is chiefly found in Germany and Spain, but Is not known to exist in this country. THE QUININE CRAZE. New York Commercial. According to a prominent St. TLoul pharmacist, the use of quinine is growing rapidly among the people of the United States in general, and not a few persons possess a veritable craze for It. They dose themeslves vith quinine on the slightest provocation," and appear to regard it as a universal cure-all. .ci only is it demanded for colds and fevers, but for stomach disorders and a score of other ills. "One customer of mine. hays the pharmacist, "recently b-came flightly nauseated after eating and he took quinine, in the full belief that it would put a period to the sick fefling. while another entertalni a theory that quinine is good for the kid neys and takes the drug regularly when he fancies there Is anything wrong with hie organs. These are Just a for of the foolish beliefs that many people entertain regarding quinine. I could quote scores of ideas atout its use for other phyMcal trou--blcs if it were necessary. How such beliefs have ever prung up I cannot lmagln, but I know persons who dose themselvet with quinine for everything, from a pain la their foot to pneumonia. "This is the time of year when the erase for quinine it mo.-t notlct-able. and I think the people ought to know that while It is a good thing for certain ailments, when taken under the direction of a physician, it has somewhat injurious effects hon taken promiscuously and for any old trouble vhatever. If the heart is we&k a heavy dose of quinine mill have a b.d effect on it. priHlucing palpitation in many cases. It will also cau headache, congestion in th usual uasaagva and a few other ly