Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 46, Hammond, Lake County, 10 August 1907 — Page 4
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THE LAKE C OUNTY TIMES Saturday, August 10, 1007;
The Lake County Times
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STANDING OF THE CLUBS. NATIONAL LEAGUE. w. l. ret. riiifnso T.t "T .730
! Pittsburg- 5 38 .604 New York 57 40 .588 j Philadelphia 52 41 .559 P.rooklyn 45 4 .455 Cincinnati 44 55 .444 Huston 59 .392 ; .St. Louis 25 7S .243
AMERICAN LEAGUE. V. 1.. Pet.
Detroit 5S 86 .617 Philadelphia 57 33 .600 Chicago i 41 .r:s
Cleveland 56 43 .566
New York 45 61 .469
Boston 41 56 .423 St. Louis a 57 .406
Washington 2'J 61 .312
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A CHANCE FOR JUDGE CRUMPACKER. In a letter published in the Gary Tribune Congressman Crumpackcr of this district states his views of what ought to be done to improve the Calumet river In Indiana. He reviews the progress that has already been made and then declares unequivocally that lie favors the improvement of the whole river to Gary. Mr. Crumpackcr has had too much experience with appropriation committees to definitely promiso results, but it is gratifying to know that he is going to interest himself in the securing of river and harbor appropriations in the fall, and the chances are that with the prominence that Gary has given the Calumet region there will be something done. Heretofore there have been two objections to the improvement of the river In Indiana. The first was that there were not enough industries along and In the vicinity of the river to warrant the expenditure of money for the purpose of making a harbor available. In other words Uncle Sam does not deal with possibilities no matter Low alluring they may seem. lie concerns himself with actualities. Consequently when the people of this region asked for a harbor our Uncle Samuel Bald: "What do you want with a harbor."- It was replied, "We hope to locate some factories along its banks. " Uncle Sam shook his head, and that was all there was to it. The other objection to the digging of the harbor through Hammond and
on through East Chicago was the fact that the G. H. Hammond company
dumped so . much fifth into the river that it was impossible to keep open a channel, and therefore useless, to dig one. Fortunately the G. IL Hammond company is a thing of the past and so the digging may now proceed without
lnteruption.
In the few years since Hammond aspired to become a lake port, there
has also been wonderful progress Industrially. Gary has become an assured fact. It can now be pointed to as a reason for the extentlon of the harbor
that far cast.
The strides East Chicago has taken Industrially are not even appreciated
by the citiztn3 of that city itself. Hammond, too, has witnessed ;reat indus
trial progress, and it is safe to say there Is a hundred per cent Riore activity
vrif? the Calumet Upr . in IruVCr tTTTrn there in IlllnoU where millions
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Of dollarshave been spent.
It is Indiana's turn now and if Congressman Crumpacker can convince the watch dogs of the treasury that this is true, and then put a stop to the conniving of the Illinois congressmen who have heretofore "hogged" all of the appropriations that have been alloted to this region, he will have won the
gratitude of the 50,000 people whom he represents in this locality. BETTER POSTOFFICE SERVICE.
A traveling man stepped into a local store last night and offered to buy
fomo postage stamps. He informed the clerk who waited on him that he was
going down to the postofflco to mail the letter. "It is after 9, and yu can't get into the postoffice," replied the clerk.
"Well, I will mail the letter in the box outside and the night clerk will make
his collections before the train leaves."
"There Is no box In front of the postoffice and the clerk will not make a
collection until tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock," said the clerk. "What about packages?"
"It is impossible to mail them down town at any time and It is positively Impossible to mall them at all after 9 o'clock," was the information the startled
ravelin? man received.
"You have a night clerk?" "Yes, but he doesn't handle mail after 9."
"Is thi3 a third class office?" asked the traveling man. "Frst class offices
are generally open all night so that the patrons of the boxes can get their mall
at any time."
"This Is a first class office," said the clerk. "Haven't you seen our new
building?"
"Well, you have not been getting first class service," was the reply, and the
man walked out of the store In disgust. LET'S WAKE UP.
There is to be a deep water way convention held in Memphis in October.
Mayor Busse of Chicago is planning to appoint fifty business man to represent tho city. The Calumet region has greater possibilities for deep water ways
than has the whole area of Chicago. The Calumet region is not to be repre
sented at all. There is another opportunity for a live commercial club. Think of the advertisement a silvery tongued orator could give the Calumet region if he
should go there as the representative of this region and tell those other dele
gates a thing or two about the Grand Calumet.
AN EAST CHICAGO truck driver in charge of a load of saloon fixtures became Intoxicated and was arrested. jThe fixtures must have been saturated
to have had that effect on him.
Til HER is a girl's club in East Chicago called the J. U. G. club. If there
was any indication that there was buttermilk in it, Fairbanks pernicious ac
tivity might be suspected.
HANLON may bo a hero, but we doubt it when a man by that name will
stand bv and seo a pretzel band playing, "The Wearing of the Green." Ben
Bell wouldn't stand for it.
IX THE bright lexicon of tho Crown Point youth there is a new word:
Spoonholder. Meaning a seat in the dark in the court house square. Further
explanations unnecessary-
IX THESE days of made to order biographies you can never tell whether a
public man has been raised on buttermilk or chocolate creams.
W. L. Pet. Toledo 67 4 3 .609 Columbus 60 4 8 .556 Minneapolis 53 5 .51H Louisville 56 65 .505 Milwaukee 51 57 .472 Indianapolis 44 61 .419 St. Paul 45 66 ,406 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. Pet. Omaha 64 43 .&S8 Des Moines 52 44 ..542 Lincoln 56 .49 .533 Ienver 51 4H .515 Pueblo 42 55 .533 Sioux City 3S 64 .273
THREE EYE LEAGUE. W. L.
Decatur 55 32
Springfield 55 33
Rock Island 5S 35 Peoria 54 34
Cedar Rapids 4S 42
Clinton 39 52
Hloomington 34 E4
Dubuque 14 75
CENTRAL LEAGUE. W. L.
Springfield 61 S7 Wheeling 51 43 Canton 43 44
Kvansville 53 50
Terre Haute 52 50
Dayton 4 6 53 Grand Rapids 44 56 South Bend 40 62
Pet. .632 .625 .624 .614 .538 .429 .3S6 .157
Tct. .622 .543 .522 .515 .510 .465 .440 .392
got a like number for Boston. The last game of the series will come this afternon with Tannehill or Cy Young against Walsh or White.
GAMES TODAY. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at Pittsburg. Boston at St. Louis. Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
The Cubs lost yesterday to the Fhilles by a score of 3 to 1 after they had the game well in hand. The winning came on a rally in the ninth inning when the score stood 1 to 0 in favor of the Cubs. With two out, a volley of hits came from the visitors' bats that sent three men over the plate. Corridon and Lundgren were in the
box and the honors were in favor of
Corridon, although the hits were even. Carl went up in the air for fair in the last inning. After one out Courtney was passed, Bransfield was out on a
fly, Doolin singled, Jaeklitsch followed with a single and Courtney came home with Doolin on third. Corridon then completed the doings with a single that scored two men ahead of him, and
Thomas passed away. Pittenger and
Jack Taylor are thought to be billed for today. The same teams play this
afternoon and again tomorrow.
The barbers are to line up against
the Never Sweats tomorrow and here
are the chaps who will emulate the
Sox and Cub:. For the scissors artists: Barber, second; Koegler, third; Frame, first; Kain, center; Fogelsong,
catcher; Shoemaker, left; Simpson,
short; Andes, right; Tuttle, pitcher;
Edwards, Walker and Reynolds, bench warmers and Red Noonan, mascot. The
Never Sweats present: McQuiston,
third; his brother, left; Smith, first; Osborne, short; Sterling, second; Roper,
right; Green, center; Lavinge, catch
er; Sheridan, pitcher; Ducomb and
Burge, assistants and Bill Adams, mascot.
AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at Boston. Cleveland at Washington. Detroit at Philadelphia. St. Louis at New .York.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. NATIONAL LUAGIT. Chicago. 1; Philadelphia, 3. Ft. Louis, 5; Boston, 4. Pittsburg, 5; New York, 2.
vino ngers ana Athletics had a
chance to rest up yesterday although the boys would have much rather been
at each others throats than laying
around. The whole town is baseball mad as it was when Canny Mack and
Rube Waddell won the pennant. They
think they see a chance to head the league again this year and they are figuring on a cleanup. Hughey Jenn ir.g3 also sees a chance to bring the Hag to Detroit and ho is not going to
give in. A double header may be played today. Donovan, old Wild Bill, who has been making a record this year will go in one game against Rube.
AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston, 7; Chicago, C. Other games postponed; rain.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Columbus, 3; Milwaukee, 2. Toledo, 4; Kansas City, 0. Louisville. 3; Minneapolis, 0. Indianapolis, 4; St. Paul, 1.
THREE EYE LEAGUE. Bloomington, 2; Clinton, 6. Decatur, 4; Dubuque, 1. Springfield, 0; Cedar Rapids, Peoria, 4; Rock Island, 5.
CENTRAL LEAGUE. South Bend, 4; Grand Rapids, 1. Canton, 1; Wheeling, 1 (13 innings). Terre Haute, 1-2; Evansville, 7-1.
"WESTERN LEAGUE. Lincoln, 3; Omaha, 0. Sioux City, 6; Des Moines, 8.
Down in third place this morning.
Fine business for the Worlds Champs. The Boston sluggers took another
swipe at the Sox yesterday and although the Chicago boya made a game
rally they were beaten by a score of
7 to C. Nick Altrock was the first
offering and in six innings the horns
team had swiped out thirteen hits. Patterson did better In the next three and held the beansters without ' a single. Ralph Glaze was in the box
for Boston and for six innings held the Sox to four hits, although in the sixth
the visitors made three runs. Fearful that the game was sliding away Mc-
Gulre put In Cy Young and In the
three innings the old man hit for five
clouts and three more runs. He held the Sox down towards the last and managed to stave off defeat. Issy was
the strong boy for the Sox, getting three hits and Sullivan and Congalton
way to eavo blng eaten up.
The chicken ducks when the dog ap
proaches.
Th dog ducks out of the man's way. The man ducks out of the horse's
way, drawing a buggy.
The auto has, or takes, the right of
way over the horse.
The trolley has the right of way over
the auto.
The steam engine has precedence over
the trolley car, and is the only one
which does not concede the. right of way to any living or moving thing.
It's the king of them all.
Cold Feet v . Clammy Hauds. he Rabson separate maintenance
suit has been stricken from the docket
at the county seat. The parties have
been reconciled, the reconciliation be
ing brought about by the Judge, who suggested that if Mr. and Mrs. Rabson
would be more tolerant of each other's
physical deficiencies they need not live apart.
Mrs. Rabson applied for separate sup
port, alleging that she could not get
along with her husband. Ainong other
complaints was that he had clammy
hands. Mr. Rabson claimed an offset
his wife had cold feet.
The Rubberneck Telephone Line. Mrs. Rusty Riddle, wife of the man
ager of tho I armers Telephone company is an expert photographer. When she ain't busy at the exchange answer
ing calls, she is developing negatives of her own taking.
Her husband says that If she would
spend less time in the dark room monkeying with worthless negatives and give more attention to the switchboard the service would be improved and there would be fewer complaints regis
tered.
Mrs. Riddle retorts that the com
plaints mostly come from the "Rubber
neck Line,' 'the party line between Hop
kins and Bogus Island, which has thirteen phones on it. When one subscriber is talking all the others on the line are listening.
A Rural Visitor. Mrs. Hank Henderson of rural route
No. 2 Is visiting Mrs. Jaxon Smith of
3 Hay, Press avenue for the week-end.
Mrs. Henderson brought along enough
butter and eggs to moro than repay the expense of her entertainment.
Beautiful Portrait Frauiea. Mr. and Mrs. Bilton Blades have pre
sented tho public library with crayon portraits of themselves. Mr. Blades
was one of the library's founders, and
Mrs. Blades is one of its chief patrons.
The portraits were enlarged from
photos taken some years ago when the subjects were younger. They are mounted In heavy gilt frames, which attract more attention than the por
traits do.
A Ilusinens llust Up.
To quote an Irish bull: It would
have been money in Steve Lester's
pocket if he had never been born.
For the third time Steve has failed in
the butcher business, his place on Hay Press avenue being closed by attach
ment writs Friday. The creditors are
mostly Chicago stock yard firms.
Steve's liabilities are $300, assets
about $400. This will wipe him out,
for even if there was any salvage
the lawyers would get it.
About all that Steve has left is stock
in the glue factory and his faith in the Jonah and the whale story, neither of which can be reached by creditors.
Steve's glue factory stock is unpaid for, and his faith in the Jonah and the whale story is not a tangible asset.
Entitled to a Medal. The Gad Godfrey home was damaged
by fire, more by water than by fire, Saturday night, the local fire depart
ment confining the fire to the roof, but not tho water, which flooded the house.
When the fire broke out Mrs. God
frey displayed great presence of mind
by throwing her drunken and worth
less husband out of the second story
window and carrying the feather bed
down stairs.
Mayor Watson intends to recom
mend Mrs. Godfrey for a Carnegie
medal.
A Hnaband Disillusionized. An accident lately befell Henry
Brown, a farmer living in the south
end of Pembroke township, which was
both a misfortune or the reverse,
whichever way It may be regarded.
For seventeen years Mr. Brown had
been partly blind. His vision was so
blurred that he could only distinguish objects faintly. A few weeks ago while rummaging in the woodshed he
came across a bottle on a far back shelf. Curious to learn its contents he
opened it. It was a bottle of horse medicine many years old, and chemical
T-pnrtlon had long set It. There was
an explosion when the cork was drawn
the frothy liquid spraying Mr. Brown's
The Canadians f i. T-r lr,,r r,t face and eyes. 111S aireauy weaKeneu
suprplse In the prelims of the National eyes suffered intensely from the pain
Regetta at Philadelphia yesterday. I A doctor was summoned, who applied
when they won a Place in everv one of soothing remedies and bandages
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Paris. France has 4,623 local unions, with an aggregate membership of 7S1.344. London, Ont An additional branch office of the Ontario bureau of labor has been established here. Beaumont, Tex. Tho workers in the oil fields are planning to reorganize tho Oil and Gas Workers union. Boston. The N. Y N. II. & II. rail
road has announced an increase of 5
Glasgow. The Scottish conciliation: board decided upon another six and one-fourth per cent, advance for the miners. It is the third advancegranted the miners wlthla a year, and affects SO.000 men. London. The highest accident 3eath rate among industrial workers in Great Britain is among seamen (53
per 10,000), ainl the death rate of seajrnen in 6ailing vessels is three tlmea
and 10 cents a day for its railway 1S Srcat a3 even tMs ratl0
clerks. Fall River, Mass. Fall River weavers have accepted a compromise that 47Va yards constitute a cut, and tho threatened strike is off. Buenos Ayres. Nino men have been killed and many injured In a fight at Bahia Blanea between harbor strikers and the police.
Boston. Marble workers unions'
strike, which has entered Its twenty third week, is nearing the end, every one believes. Conferences for a settlement, asked for by eome of tha bosses, are in Eight, it is said. Washington. Peter Curran, laborite, well known to many unionists In this country as a fraternal delegate to tho A. F. of L. from the British
London. The number of women f trades union congress, was elected to employed as printers In England in- j i Beat la parliament at the recent bycreases every year. At present there election. ' There were four candlare 200 in this city alone. i dates, and Curran's plurality was S00 London. In the paper working in- j In a liberal stronghold, dustry in India the average wage per j Paris. The terrible disasters which day for men is 15 cents; women, eight , have recently occurred in the coal cents, and children, three cents. : mines of Germany and France have Washington. The headquarters of ' directed the attention of scientists, the International Union of Carriage j especially in the former country, to
and Wagon Workers of America will j Introducing methods of protecting the
shortly be established In this city.
Washington. President Samuel
miners against a recurrence of euch calamities, or at least of diminishing.
The Hammond team win present a
new lineup in their game tomorrow at
Hubbard's park. Tobias or Moste will
be in the box, and tha rest of the positions will be played as follows: B.der,
catcher, Scherer, right; Barget, left;
Rhode, first; Fowler, second;, Klose third; White, short; and Moste or Toias, center. The Grey's lineup will
nclude: Schrage, right; Griffith, cen
;-r; Simmons, left; Carringer, catcher;
Girard, first; Long, second; Lampman,
third; Llndburg, short; Hall or Hawk
ins, pitcher.
Gompers of the American Federation i as far a3 rossible, the Iobs of life.
of Labor is writing a book on "Or-1 W ashington. A plan j by which tha ganized Labor la the United States." ! mtal trades of the United States Portland, Ore. Two longshoremen's imay at as a unit and If need be, call unions will shortly meet for the pur-; vast sympathetic strikes, extending pose of forcing the Harriman lines to i ovor the whole country, is Suggested
meet tho rates charged all other lines, j Dr 1 resident Gompers, of the Ameri
It. L. Little ran against a snag yes
terday in the tennis semi-finals at Bos
ton in the person of Bob Le Roy of New York who put him out of the running. Hobart won his game from HallowelL LeRoy and Hobart will play today, for the right to challenge
Larned.
Benny Yanger and Packey McFar
land are putting in hard licks at their
training quarters and are rounding in
to shapo for their fight at Fort Wayne
on Aug. 20. Yanger left for the Indi
ana city where he will finish his work,
while Packey will continue at Gil more's emporium.
Eighteen swimmers will start this afternoon on the Marathon race from the Chicago Yacht club to the South
Shore Country club. The course ia ten
miles and A. M. Goesling, of the Mis
souri A. C. is one scratch with handi-
caps ranging to forty minutes.
Gans and Britt finally signed articles for a match, to take place Sept. 9, at the baseball grounds at San Francisco.
xney are to go twenty rounas ior 000 and have started in training. The referee will be Jim Jeffries or Jack
Welch.
Stovall and Delehanty, the suspended players of the Cleveland team, will
join the outlaws, it is said. The Read
ing club of the Athletic league claims
to have signed both men.
the six events.
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l)OXT KICK. A big ''sign, bearing the above admonition appeared not long since in the front window of one of Hammond's chief business houses. I don't know but It's there yet. No, I did not say it was displayed in a real estate, sh philanthropist's window. But it's all right anyhow just what was needed. Folks are drilling into Hammond .these days from all points of tha compass, and being strangers in a strange land, what more natural than that we old timers hero should proceed to pluck
them to the pinfeathers whenever and
wherever we get the chance? The
trouble is these newcomers, being also
strangers to our gentle methods of sep
arating tnem irom tneir com, have ac
quired the annoying and uncivilized
habit of "kicking" if we put the
screws on a trifle tight, forgetting, or
in their ignorance, ignoring the very
potent fact that we need the money,
No gentlemen strangers, for mercy's sake don't kick. Just stand still till
we skin you, bcJ" boots and breeches.
It will hurt soma but not for long.
Bum Trunk Packing:. Abe Akron left for Ohio yesterday on
a message that a rich bachelor uncle whom Abe expects to inherit a slice of money from, was dying. Abe hurried
ly packed his trunk, disregarding his
wife's offer to pack it for him. Clothing
and other articles were thrown in and
jammed down, Mrs. Akron standing on
tho trunk top so that Abe could lock
it. When the trunk was dumped on the depot platform out spilled a mixed
up mess ot Btutr shirts, collars, neck
ties, razors, soap, a lather brush, socks, underclothes, a razor strop and what
not.
Excruciating Surgery. Ole O'Margarlne slid from a hay
stack on the Houseworth ranch Mon
day, knocking a shoulder blade from
its socket. Fortunately Dr. Bill Blow-
key, our skilled veterinary surgeon.
happened to be on the ranch prescrib
ing for a sick mule. The doctor, who is better acquainted with the anatomy
Then you can go as soon as you please
while we deploy otir hustlers to bring.
in a new batch of "easy marks."
Yes, that was and is a good sign. Put it up again or another just like it only larger. HANK.
Next day the bandages were remov
ed. To his Joy Mr. Brown discovered that his sight was improved. The im
provement continued daily. Finally he uid see fairly well, although not
with the keeness of former days be
fore his affliction. While the loss of eyesight is a ca
lamlty, yet its restoration is sometimes painful In its disillusions. This
was so in Mr. Brown's case. During
the years of his clouded vision he had remembered his wife as she was before his affliction full in form, plump of face and cheeks abloom. He liked best r rrall her as she looked on their
of animals than humans, got the shoul
der blade back in ple after a heap of
painful tugging, pushing and jamming,
In describing the bone setting opera
tion Ole said that it was like getting wedding day when they walked proud
teeth filled bv a biin.i .init iv ,i,uvn tha church aisle and stood
Got Vnat She Yearned For. before the parson. He had not taken Jake Jester sold hi, farm m th account of the passing of time and Its
north part of Pembroke township and withering effect on humans.
will come to town to live. The sale
was for $S,000, $5,000 cash and a mort
gage for 53.000. Mrs. Jester wouldn't sign the deed until she had exacted a promise from her husband that he
would give her money to buy what she
Mr. Brown was pained as he gradu-
niw rpaiiip.l the change in his wife's
an j - appearance. Her plumpness had dis
appeared. The bloom had faded from
her face. Her cheeks had lost their nnoca nnrt her hair was streaked
had long longed for a Gainsborough with gray, partly due to time, partly
hat.
Jake unchlvalrously declares that his wife is getting bughouse in her old
age. The Royal Right of AVay.
The bug. The chicken. The dog. The man. The horse. The automobile. The steam engine. In the order of their precedence the following road rules are observed; if not. something happens. The bus sets out of the chicken's
to worry over her husband's affliction
Mr Brown's sadness was offset In
measure by his joy in the recognition
of his children, two of whom had been
born since Ida blindness,
Mrs. Brown had been disturbed by
the Improvement in her husband's eyesight, for with a woman's -instinct she knew that her faded looks would cause him sorrow. And it did. Not that his love for her was lessened, but his rosy recollections were shattered. The blind man's mental picture of his wife's youth and lovliness. locked within his brain so many years, was gone.
Springfield, 111. Tho striking pipemen at the Wabash shops returned to work, tho company having granted them an increase of wages from 28 to 31 cents an hour.
Boston. coopers union oS nas an
nounced that it is out for a 25 cents
a day raise for every member at every shop. Many of the largest firms have already granted it.
Los Angeles, Cal. Drug clerks of
thi3 city have taken up tho matter of the law regulating the hours of work,
number of druggists having failed
to carry out its provisions.
Mexico City. The Mexican branch
of the A. F. of L. has a membership of over 60,000, and all classes of labor
are Included, but so far membership is confined to Americans employed in
Mexico.
Washington. By an executive order
the employes of the government printing office are now enjoying a half-
holiday during July, August and September, the same as employes of other departments.
Boston. Boston laundry workers
secured union agreements with three more big laundries. National Secre
tary John I. Manning, of Troy, is at present in this city in the interests of the Boston local.
New York. The United Hatters' nternational union has established
an International death benefit system by which the nominee of a member
receives a stipulated sum upon the
death of a member.
Boston. Church Organ Workers'
union, whose members are on strike at five local factories, sees very favor
able prospects of an early and complete victory. Last week the other Greater Boston unions gave a mass meeting and $800 to the union as ex
tra assistance, the international paying tho regular strike benefits every week.
Readville, Mass. The 2'2 per cent.
wage Increase for the carmen at the
shops of the N. Y., N. II. & II. rail
road has gone into effect.
Boston. The industrial insurance
agents unions met at Faneuil hall and formed an international union. It
elected as officers: Andrew P. Hickev,
of East Boston, president; James Nel
son, of Lawrence, vice president; John D. Williams, of Maiden, secretary-
treasurer; Edward O. Carneau, of Hav
erhill; John A. McDonald, of Medford; Harry A. Flint, of Chelsea John Fitzpatrick, of Norwood, and John Moran, of Boston, executive board. There were nearly 100 delegates representing 70 unions, many recently formed, of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. After the preliminaries, the international union was formed for mutual advantage and protection. It was also decided that the several unions which affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World withdraw from that. It
was also decided not to apply, for the present at least, to the American Federation of Labor for a charter, but to maintain an independent existence for, the present. Duluth, Minn. There i3 no sign of a settlement of the ore handlers' strike. It is said the employers will refuse to arbitrate the main Questions at issue that of a raise in pay and recognition of the union. Mines in
the Hibbing district are reported working. Medford, Mass. William Foley, a former resident of thi3 city, has been re-elected president of the International Union of Steel and Copper Plate Printers. Mr. Mahan, who now liTes in Washington, was re-elected secretary for the sixteenth consecutive time.
can Federation of Labor, who issued
a call to John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor", who in turn called a conference ot the officials of the Metal Workers" unions of Chicago. New York. "It isn't generally known, but is nevertheless true," said a prominent official of the Bookbind-. ers' union, "that more than 80 per
cent, of our members throughout tha United States and Canada are already working on an eight-hour schedule, and the number is steadily increasing. By the first of October fully 50 per cent of the binders and rulers will be enjoying the shorter workday, and we do not expect much trouble." New York. In a great many instances where trade unions pay sick and death benefits men are dropping their fraternal societies in favor of their unions. The Stonecutters' Journal on this subject says: "The first four months of thl3 year 67 stonecutters died in good standing and received $t3,700 by return mail to pay, their death benefit." This is the largest number of stonecutters that ever died in that space of time In tha entire history of the general union. Boston. Longshoremen's trade council,, which includes all the longshoremen's unions and assemblies, last week adjusted a dispute with tha
stevedores for the Warren Steamship company. Last May the council mad an agreement with the Atlantic conference of steamship agents and stevedores in which certain rules regarding: night work were made especially emphatic. It was claimed the Y7arren line stevedores were violating tha terms. Simon Donovan, for the firm, last week agreed to live up to the rules. The council accepted the settlement, and ordered the men not to work the next ship unless the agreement wa3 being lived up to; Washington. During 1907 strikes for increase of wages have been moro successful than those for any other cause. During 1001-'05 eix per cent.
j of all strikes and 12 per cent, of all
lockouts were settled by Joint agreement, and less than two per cent, of the strikes and a little over two per cent, of the lockouts were settled by arbitration. Washington. Arrangements are being completed between the American Federation of Labor and national trade unions of England, Scotland, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands and other foreign countries, to interchange union cards between unions of kindred crafts and callings. In addition to this world-wide movement between the organized wage-workers cf the world, the American Federation of Labor and the American Society of Equity (the farmers' unions of the United States) have formed an alliance. The vast armies of the organ
ized wage-workers of the world represent more than 50,OC 0,000 people. The more advanced leaders propose an international convention of all craft unions. Boston. Boston Upholsterers' union 53 has had one boss arrested on th8 grounds of intimidation. The bos3, it is alleged, insisted upon a cash deposit of $25 from every employe as a bond that the workman would not Join the union. The case Is now la tha courts. San Francisco. Japanese laborers In the Hawaiian islands are taking steps to form a lafcsr organization or union In order to - receive the Eama pay for like work' that is given to white labor. The iJapanse claim to 2o more work an 3 receive les3 pay
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