People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — YOUR HAND ON YOUR HEART. [ARTICLE]

YOUR HAND ON YOUR HEART.

i ! New ’'Seerc-t. Sign” of the Metal Polishers and BuJTers’ Union. Though the labor unions arc getting i tired of the old grips and passwords ‘ which used to hold thcpi together, they! are still in favor of signs t< : ■ ntify! member’s at meetings. Among the or-1 ganizatlons which have abolished grips' and 'passwords and still stick to tho t signs is the Intcraut-ioual Union of j Metal Polishers, IJufibrs, Platers* and j Brihs Worl, -r< Tins Organization has established an entirely new sign to be used by members when they are entering union meetings and leaving them. It has issued a statement giving the sign to be used in future. The statement says: “The proper sign to be made in the future on entering or retiring from a toom where there is a meeting is by placing the left hand over the h art and raising the right perpendicularly over the head The president will answer by placing the left over his heart. All signs made previously will be discontinued. ” Nobouy is supposed to know anything •* * . ►

about these signs except the members oT the union, and they are not supposed to give them away. The meetings are secret, and only those who can give the signs will be admitted Each member is to carry his duebook to the meeting. If they have not their duebooks, they are looked upon as nonunion people, unless they are vouched for by the financial secretary.—New York Suti.