Official Journal of the National Brot.herhood Electrical Workers of America.
61XG! S. COPIES, 10 C'ESTS.
VOL. 8, NO.i l.
~Nhere Some of Labor's
rouble Lies.
AND ITS POSSIBLE ~OLUTION.
:;a,~duc:atio:::lalMeans fllr EnUghteument--
l'e,.f.ul'sive Meast:res {or Adjustment of
Mutua.l 1tJ.tc!'ests--ConservaUvc ,~rpws
snd Actions for the Ac:complishnlent of
the God-Giye.. Rights, and the Fnll
Relllb;:;.t\on of Man's Duty to His Brothe,.
:ilIau--Not $1'·."e5 Under the :r..ash of P.
liard 'X'ask Maste,..
In allswer to an article in Feb-
r.I:lry Dumber (If tht: Electricai
\Vorku, headed "lIlectrical \Vork-
ers. St:ll~ible and Timely Remarks
by a Ligiltlling Manipulator," hav-
illg for its theme of discussion the
followin 6 , verbatum et literatuUl.
.. The cry has been raised all over
the country a!!ainst the 1II.1,,·,'·fui
combinations, sty.ied 'trusts,' whose
p~rpose ·it is to centralize· prodac-
tion ; to Ulil!imize menial labor, and
to substitute the macbine for the.
workman ...
(hlr purpose in replying to this
article is to c0minuc the discus-
sionoll SOUle of the points raised
by the writer. and. if possible, in
our weak, feeble l~.ngnnge to cor-
'r(:C't sOllie wrong iJ1lpr~,;sioI15 \\'hiell
!~ .... \,,~ ~~'..::p~ !li, !.~i.z:i·t:iiy ..: .... tisiug
m:my thOllgl~ts ()f bitterness and
'dislmst iroll' voth capital and
lah:lr; :md :::.lso to hroaden ollr
Selll of l;sefullle!;S by 8\'ailing oiu-
selves of the material and means at
our cOTllmand for the elevation of
our OW!l craft as. well as the vast
enny of wage earners, who are de-
}X'udcnt for their li\'clihood by
eamiu~ thdr bread by the swe~t
f>i tilcir l,row, which is the COlll-'
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE, 1899. fi.c.o PEJ.. YEAi<.. !S AnVA.NCB
until he return to earth ~eLlled for all time,
lOon lot of mankind, according to the
fulfilllllent of prophecy contained in "The as far as this world is concerned, the
lIoly Writ.,,· . foundation for a cla's5 of beings who. being
W'e believe in the quotation from the endm'!cd with reason, should .coult!lanu
Latin, "I.abor 01llni vincet," (labor con- the respect 'Ji his iellows, nc; matter what
quers all thillgS) a quotation literally true station in liie, iron, qle king to the pens-
only as long as labor i~ fostered along con- ant, or the iJresider.t to the man iu the
servative lines, and by the sway of an ex- ditch, and, nccorJing to our COO$titutiou;
ample abm'e reproach it wi11 bring all wit!> it being io touch with the great fundamen-
whom it comes in contact to a lw.rmoniou,; tal principles cOlltaineu in the Bible that
blending of lllutual interests. all men a.e created free and eqn"'l, having
'l'l~e did-ne injunction that man should certain inalieniable rights, we find that
earn his bread by the sweat of his brow thil" army of wage-workers han! a iOLlida-
tion of colossal magnitude. "!:lU
all that remains is to staml by' the
prindpksof frugality and 1J(Hl":5tr;
th~ question of theduty of war.· t.,
ma,l will at once be settled.
\Vhen we speak of capital we
speak cf OUI' brot.her who, by shrewd
t
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.7t
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bllsiness tact oi' otherwise, has
gained a few more dollars than
.\ b,is honly-fisted brother who works
iI _#':t~~ ·'~'r··· £~" at iile,Ucl!('h or climbs the pole ;
!,
'%
but he is only human just the sauH~
. ~ :-.". 'l. :
as us, and we are bOllDll to t1·t:at
hilll as such, as he is bound.to ac-
knowledge us iii a like manner;
for temerity and disre!'>pect should
I not entel' within this cit ele of
fricndship, which is the IIlutual
r principle of operation. One could
~ 110t exist witbout the other. But
Luere has ~cen alSOll,e limes and.
f
". som~ places an uOllecessary r.up-
II
ture between these two great factors
. ,.~, :'
in human progress, which has tem-
pora";l), separalcu t~.e vital ele-
ments of our nation as well as the
f world in general, and as tbe world
stcJ.1s 011 there !'eems a tendency
Ir to ~t.ill widen a chasm which should
have heen hriJged long ago by.a
Ulutual ulillt:r';Landillg, which was
a II1isulldc,s~andiIlg ; bridging for-

ever over the pitfalls to which bumanity ,is,
heir, raising aoll above tbe lower level of
man's evil nature, be would be gazing from
an eminence pre-eminent above all, and
would CQUlmand the homage due for tbe no-
bJ.e effort to restore that harmony which
-sbould exist.
We should not l'ook upon capital as a
great greeu-,eyed monster, ,ready to swal-
low up the oue who labors just because it
is capital; th,ere mu,st ,be a fountain bead
from whence supplies must issue. Capi-
tal - furnishes tbis; and also tbere is the
demand for support wbich labor must have
that it .ay exist, as it iis by tbe efforts of
both - tbat ,both live; but one' mnst not
take advantage of the other, for this is
wbere the trouble lays; and wbere it·
began. It is .'but a few years that tbe
struggle has lasted, but it is not a one-
sided affair ;' we are bound to admit this.
We belive a workman should do an bon-
est day's -toil, as his time belong§ to his
employ.er and in turn receive just and full
compeasation for every hour and minute
of time wbile 50 employe<,l. With this
state of affairs thcre is a mutual agree-
ment, and, all thiag!; will run smoothly,
but when the,employer doubls there must
be some reason, and he at once proceeds
to levy 11 cut witbout consultation on tbe
grievance, which is bis privilege, but that
is wrong, as you will see from bolh sides,
as their interests are mutual; one fur-
nisbes material and means, the, other
brains and labor, and so the trouble begins
at this point, both are firm in tbeir belief
tbat they have done all right; tben, possi-
bly, labor will enter a protest against this
levy, and to overcome his condition it is
carded to outsiders and noised about that
whicb could 'have been talked over and
adjusted in a satisfactory manner. Then
organization is dragged into it, and bluffs
are exchanged by both capital and labor,
,and the first thing we will find we have a
strike on our hands, and all brougbt about
by ignorance and breach of duty and ob-'
ligation, one with the other. This is
wbere botb must be educated to the point
of equality of rights and privileges, for
tbis lack has caused the great and fatal
JIlistake; and why somucb trouble and
bloodsbed has been tbe result, where
should reign the most fraternal feelings,
for labor must awaken to its own enlight-
enment; it is tbe principle of life, that of
advancement. She is the moving arid
ruling power of the 'wo.r1d, w'hether en-
throned or not, and must set the' example,
as she can, that all may follow; not dnven
slaves:
From time immemoriaf labor has had
but few clean breasted leaders, and ha~
lacked thorougb organization, which is
synonomous with centralization ill capital,
and is the proper foundation for both, and
the only requisite to thc'life of both,
and must be if su(:cess is to come to either.
TIlE ELECTRICAL WdRXER [june
Labor rur.st -organize,that she speak 'as one and the great heart of man'kino 'writ throb
lUan. on
c;apital must c~:ltTlilkIlC account in rythin in the re:rlization of a oompl-ete
of ecoJlomical"aperation !Otit-Side'of actual understanding of the 'dutY' of.' ma~"-1f~.lm:l!.n,
w.orkilig ."£;J.eilses Hm} t,:be ~fiei~ecompeti­ and which will only bc·accQP.lplishedby
ti()!'I, as capit111 has its foes ""1'tntil.-ut throats conservative means; as -they alone 'Yill
as \,:.. eH as layor . TllP-l-nai;l, .ttouhle does win, but labor must lead until she )1as
not~C0f!1t; fropl thepnion' janks;, blit, from brougbt capital into tbe same 'pace,oe-
t'oin6ii~11~io~ an'll.t~ie traitQt';;.: i~,lio gain cause she was the first thing jn the woNd,
admis..4ion :to unions"'but are seo.;j weeded and if this be the case she is' th~ Parent
out b:>~natt1~al pmce;}ses. , and capital tbe son, and if j;he is, pot able
Tbe,spirit o~ lQ;1).:ir wh"l1 crushed has to control the cbild as a parent ,ShQul:qjt
been in manycas~· othat'j:}f re~emon on is a sbame, but by proper judgmel1t' she
account, of unfair'.discriminatj;Q~, but she can accomplish ber ends, then step,: \?y
i!"'begincing to realize thl?$i';',;iiot tbe step, brothers, until the dawn' of, the '~w
rational ~ay. 'She, is 110W I~~p~i~g arbi- ,era.
tration; But she' U!usf -g'o ~f?"rt,her than Yours in hope,.
that and use theveTY pl~ns 'ih~t capital J. H. STOUFFER.
'llSef1,t.h~t of COll~~rt.ed~,iei-iQn'~'~.When Pittsburg, May 8, 1899. ..
capital wishes to gain it! a poi!1-t to out-
str-ipitscompetitors,:it gathers its, ,money Bro. Harvey Burnett,
together in large bl/:'cks and"reau~:es the The subJect of our first page illustration,
cost of production by m~,ljt~ery, and Press Secretary of No. 18, Kansas City,
forces fhe small fislHo go ilithdt' resopha- Mo., was born in Alton, III., 31 years ago.
gus against proff?_'it ~'thel' n{ereis one pur- Bro. Burnett lost both of his legs when but
poS'e. I.abot's tr()tlble is that slle is divided a boy, being only eight yea.-s old. at ,~he
into scve,;31 organizaliollspavillg opposing time. Bro. Burnett is all pluck and nerve
principles; /1l1d tlil).t is why labor has' not and is Union to the l:ore. He,has bee,n in
accomplished IDolle.~than she has. What many cities, having passed back and forth
must be done is she 'nmS\}lSye one mighty between San Francisco and New, York
purpose . founded 'on ,true Pi-i1lciples, or thirteen times, finally settling in Kansas
'U.;i: day will be lost. 'We lieci! have no City. Bro. Burnett is an armature winder,
fear of the word h'11';tS or combiuations, by trade but will not work at it here aS,the
because everyone born ouly,hastens the Street Ry. only wants to pay $1.50 to $1.75
day of tbe cOlllpleteoverthrow, of this con- per day and he says he will sell gun'! on
dition of affairs, and cipiW~s"realization the street and do what little odd electrica I
tbat it really has a d~ty to· its brother jobs he can catch before he will work for
man, that is a, sacred" thing; and wbich such wages. Bro. Burnett has had several
will find its expression orii)~ wben labor is good positions, being at one t,ime motor
educated to the same' point,.then ulid tben inspector of the Street Railway Co. of Mil-
. only will this be po~sibl~;rbut" if lahor does waukee. Bro. Burnett is a bustIer and has
not awaken and stj]] 11llows .:~pital to take never asked [or aid. He never ti,res work-
advantage of he., she \vill.:ontinue for a ing all day and port of til{; night to support
while, hut the endwiii c'ome alld the reck- his family;of which he boasts with pardon-
oning wi!l be a S"or~,'9rie for both, therefore able pride. His family consists of a wife
it behoQve~ every uuion luan to do his and little ,girl. Bro. Burnett's wife was a
duty, be true to principle, hor.est, fair and Miss Kenney, 01 Milwaukee. Bro. 'Bumett
square, lind try to educate his weak brother has done:quite a lot of electrical work here,
and Will him'from his'~tate ';f ignorance having wired quite a number of business
into the light and libei'ty-wbich should be houses, put in window lights, etc. When
the priceless boon fci),:'ftue effort to elevate he has no electric light or bell wiring on
the conditions of mankind, then will capi- hand you will see him on the corner of
tal realizelhat the·,"i:'lle' mt:chanic looks Nif!th and Main; or <)08 Main St., selling
Ollt for his interests as,hc 'wiJuld himself, gum;
and he will smely ~ .. ,,:~ore money fo~ a To make a 'long story short Bro. Burnett
man of that ~tanlp ; reduced means that; would like to get a pair of artificial,leg~
better work rt1f"ms higher, wages; higher and has'always been too nerv)' to ask any
wages u,eans l)ett~,:'· ""rkillen; better one for aid, but I would ask for aid, on be·
workmen means betier.·'i--n.:es on Illanufac-' h".lf of inc l:irothel and think lli·m.Ji::ser,-
t'ured articles, andtl.lat !lle>lI;;; mo~'e, mo~ey ing of same. While Bro. Burnett is not a
in the dh·ider.cl<;, 't";hicl1 would furnish a member of No.2, still NO.2 has, starled the
positive basis for tire "rJaYI'Jent of highe~ ball roliing by donating $;.00 in behalf of
wages. Cay you say lIay i' Bro. Burnett, Which Local will respond
Labor w,:>ulrl at 'least be t>enefited, by next? Brothers, I believe the amount,
~etter wages, for :.he mOTe ll1(mey receiycd should you ,respond, would not be missed
\y(,ule. [!i~:r a hetter st:dus of oper~tioll to and would be a blessing to those who
s! ari. IIO:!! t1:at he IIlay uuij •.l for that donate. Send all contributions to Brother
.. rainy day" y. 11i.::l1 (".!lIH~S to e\'e!'y man. It C. H. ADAMS, 2nd V,P"
:remains for Iabo: to ednc::>te capital to what 290' Summit St.,
it 'hoa}<J do, then ;;~l-ikf'~, ',\'iH disappears Kansas City"Mo.
 June]
P. S.-Each Local will be credited in the
Worker each month, also all individual
member-so Come Brothers and help us.
QUESTION BOX.
Rochester, N. Y., June I.
Editor Electrical Worker:
III a recent issue of your valued IXlper I
noticed a query from one of th_e brothers
about feeder connections at the crossing of
two trolley lines, so .arranged that they
shall be equally divided 'between the two
distant power houses. It seems to me that
he did not state the conditions he was
working under with sufficient exactncss
for a definite (mel exact answer, and the
rest of the Brotherhood must have thOl1ght
so also, as I have not yet noticed any
answer.
In a general way it would be proper to
connect the tw'o power houses with a feeder
(witbout taps to the: trolley or subfeeders)
ill the same W8.y as tbe equalizing 'wire is
run between two direct current generators
that are to be operated in multiple. The
distante in this case would probably 'put
such an equali7ing feeder out of the ques-
tion, and in any casc" as I understand the
conditions, the brother who spmng the
problem on us, simply wanted to know
. llOW to ('ounect his present feeds together
at the crossing. I have in lllind three
schemes.
b In case the two roads are operated by
D StatIOn No.2
--~'i---- --'-.":--.-'-.
c f e d
o Station No. I
a 'Zv, .:r, y and z on an ordinary house annun-
First-If the toad on each of the four
arms (or legs if you prefer) of the system
is approximately equal there i£ no objec-
tion to tapping the four fee~al! together,
,supposing, 0/ com'sc, that the trolleys arc
all positive to the rails, or of same polarity
at least.
Tl.i.. is the sll1i:plcs[ 'Lbing to do and un-
der certain conditions the best thing also.
I -sho-uld Eke to ask the brother if the
two roads are operated by one company.
If they are it would :;eem tllat a great ill1-
proyemellt in the maintaining of equal po-
tential over tbe entire system would be,
effecterl by makin~ the crossing a centre
of distrihution (or "disturbance," as TIro.,
Breese would say), 3?Jd having a feeder to
it from each sluli"!l, 110 tl1.ps to be plw:erl
on eitber fWnl str-tions to crossing and tl:e
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
voltage to he ,reguJate9- by. presstue wires
froUl this ceiltre to each station instead of
regulating by the voltage at each switch-
board. This would keep your maximum
pressure always constant at the crossing,
and with equal loads the drop in potential
would be equal along each litle to the ex-
treme ends, or if voitage at e, fig. I was
550, and at d 475, with same number of
cars runnirig on each branch the voltage
would be also 475 at a, 0 and c.
Second-Supposing the conditions were
such that it was desirable to have station
No. I take care of half of the load on road
ccd in addition to its own load on road
a if b, then feeder e d should be cut loose
from feeder c c and connected to feeder
a ,0, a modification of this scheme would
be a double throw switch at e to change
feeder e d during hours of heavy load on
road ced and to throw ed back onto ce
and station No. 2 during hours of light
load on road ce d or of heavy load 011 fl e b.
Third --COHllect a tap from feedei' a e b
I! lid ru 11 same along road c e d to pOin t f,
to be located by calculating the drop in
feeder c e d and which would divide the
load on line from / to d proportionately
between the two stations. For the sake of
illustrating the idea I have located point /
at an arbitrary point between c and e, but
of course this might come at some point
between e and d, bllt probabiy would not
be far from crossing e.
separate companies a 'wattmeter could be
introduced in tap from e to / and current
No. I station is furnishing to help out No.
2 station could be easily ascertained.
\;ery truly,
FRED'K FISH.
Rochester, N. Y.
Editor. Electrical-Worker:
I should like a little space this month to
'Lell your reauers aiJOtlt allother way to wire
for an auxiliary bdl to ring with 'OlJ,e -drop
only of an anJluncia:or .. \Ve will suppose
that buttons fl, b, c and d operate drops
ciator, and an auxi!iary bell is wanted to
ring when push II Ie; clOSt'd.
\Ve cut lead 011 at a com'ellient point, as
at p in sketch and rUlI wires from the two
ends thus ob:ained to lJell lIl, Now if this
bell is sil:gle !:>troked so tha. the bell on
3
the annunciator breaks the circuit for both
itself and m, then 1ll will ring wbenever a
is presseu~ but at no o~her time, and there
cannot be any" sneak current," to throw
drop '"i.t,' when any of the other buttonk are
pressed.
The ad vantage of this method is that you
do nol have to make a special contact for
button a and have no additional lead to
run to 'ill from button a.
Very truly,
FRED'K FISH.
Bannack; l\Ion!., June 4, ISg9.
Editor Electrical Worker:
A 500-volt direct current is run in two
iron pipes which are in direct contact with
very wet ground. Wire A is grounded.
On touching wire B, after disconnecting
supply, a considerable charge can be felt
when standing on the ground.
To ~hat is charge in w:re B due, induc-
tion being impossible, there being no other
wires near? Leakage across switch base. is
also out of the ql1estion, as wires were
taken out of terminals of switch.
ALBER1' UHL,
i~ocal 65.
WHY IS THIS?
\Vhen the land is full of workers,
Busy hal1d~ &ud active brains;
\Vhell the craftsmen and the thinkers
Feel about them binding chains;
\Vhen the laborers are cheated
Of the work their hands h.we wrought,
Aud the thinker, vain of logic,
Sees that reason comes to naught;,
\Vhen t111;: forces menbave ha.rnessed,
And have trained to do their will,
Ought to leave 110 homeless people,
And no hungry mouths to fill ;
But have proved to be the servants
Of the shrewd and selfish few,
And tbe many get but little
For the work they find to do.
\VlIen the labor of a million
Goes to swell the gains of one,
As the serfs of ancient Egypt
Slaved beneath a burning sun.
\Vhen the schemer and the sharper
Hold the wealth a.nd rule the land,
Using up the tl1inkers brain force,
Mortgaging the craftman's hr.nd.
\Vhen the many shear the sheep
Aud the few secure the wool,
When l;u; gallows claiuis ~ts victims
And your costly jails are full ;
Then the men who dreamed of progress,
Alld the hopes of peace and'bliss,
While they weep and wonder vainly,
Ask each other .. V"hy is tlus?"
Then the thinker, whiie confessing
That his vision yet is dim,
Says tllat one thing, very clearly,
Is apparent unto him- .
That the people, blind 'and heediess,
Place themselves beneath the rule,

Either of the knavish schemer
Or, still worse, the sodden fool.
And the toiler toils for~"er,
That the rich may ricber get,
'Fo~ the burden of his day song
Is" We are caught Within the net
Of the men who have our souls bought,
Whose sTaves we are to-day,
If 'we struggle, deeper sink we
Iu the mire and the clay."
Let us ask ourselves tbe question,
Pray, neighbol's, " Why is this?"
.. ANN ARKIST."
UNCLE TOM, OF 38, CLEVELAND, O.
BOSTON CENTRAl, I,ABOR UNION.
Boston, May 23, 1899.
Editor Electrical Worker:
The undersigned, a committee author-
ized by the Central Labor Union. of Boston,
Mass., to solicit aid for the support of the
strike now in progress ·at Marlboro, Mass.,
appeals for your sympathy and support.
Ten local unions of shoe workers, number-
ing 3,000, have been on strike for the past
twenty-one weeks, defending tbe right to
maintain their organizations.
The employers seek to establish what
they call "free shops;" properly called
slave pens, and insist that they treat only
with individuals.
Two of the etuployers (Mr. Rice and
Mr. Howe) at a banquet held in Dosto~,
November 21st, declared it to' be their in-
tention to" smash the American Federa-
tion of I.abor," MId likened the unions
urito tbe Ku Klux of the south.
We are led to appeal to you at this time
in tbe hope that you will assist the men
and women who are making one of the
most, if not the most, heroic struggles in
defense of the rights of organized labor
ever made in this cmmtry, and that we
may awaken your interest to the extcnt
that you will contribute at least flo sum
equal to two cents vr more per member
rnonth-.~~ yoJ;~i;;"~hi:k' the
per .
strike-.cGlltjn~ "',"" ':: .. ' ';!;'
The strikers are so e.n.t:Lusiastit:'4ud.con-
fideut_ o.f their' \~lti m:iJt~: .;uc.~e'ss . t h2t it'
wo~ld .' be lMt'auke,,'l smt1;r@J4{: ~rwmized
labor· -faiierl, ;(o,·:a ppre~iai:e' tile;;; sa:bri·tices
now being;niMic by tWise:-I'loh~"men and
wQmenwbo • ~~e d~.fe~ding> a "pri-nciple
most dear to-every true. trade·u~ionist.
If you canpessibly 4"ake up. e. f\!w dol-
lars whidi .can he COtltri'but~d 'to this
worthy.,mmse thclldoso quickly, ann send
returns to.D. p.DriSlloll, 987 WashiJ1'gt~n
street, BostolJ,_l\"la~s.,::,
Erat"rnall)·-yours. ;.
FRED -J. KN-E:EJ.. ANU,
Cbairman.
P. S.-Do not be deceived by an)! article
that may app::ar in the press Hating, that
the strike. ,i~ :r.I.arbboro is sehlcJ, that is
but: a ~.ut (:)f tlie. ~cl?eme or the mallufac-
tUH:rs to defeat the sHi1.:e.
l\Iarl.boro, Mas~.: ?.Iay 11, !~S9.
'To \oVhondt 711:::.y.Concern :
The .shoe mRnufacwrers of Marlboro,
Mass., aud thelr emissaries an: circubting
the report that..the strike which lias been
on ill tlJat- cit y,.fCl" the past, si..x 1l1onths is
over ..
\Ve wish to inform yoa that this strike
was entered into'on the I~th of last No-
vemher to deIeud th~ right oLthe Illen and
women wQrkeJ:S in that~ity to]lQjd mem-
bership in thp.ir respective organizations,
aud up to tl11!;lime (26 week;,) tlJe:manu-
factu!"ers have not, conceded . .that right,
and the strike is just as much on at: ever,
and win s.) continue ,'Illltil tr.at right is
established, but 110t jil the llip.l1nel" con-
ceded by the., employe~s, who ;ay, "\Ve
concede yo!!r right to, belong to tue union,
but you will Ilo.t ·workJor us while enjoy-
iug that privilege.'>'__
'It is true,l;omeof our people who have
made this noble struggle iu defl!nse of
their'.'organizatiQI}. ha,·e applied for work,
but instead of being lwuoreu for the sac-
rifices which ~l:ey Ulaae in defense of what
they considere'dAheir rights, they arc in
many cases insuJtedby those inau~hority
at the V:'1.rious factories, allti in 110 case has
there been thc lea:;t disposition 5-hown to
rt:coguize the organization, Ilnd the neces-
sities of those who app1y for work is made
the opportunity· for veuting tIle pent-up
spleen ()f petty bosse.:.
The. Marlboro' Enterprise, the uiiicial
mouthpieeeof ·the employers' a'>Socialion,
l.!lakes 'mcny m'er their appl'cciatioll of. the
effects of the boycCiit; crun-itcterizlng' it as
the hest kind of adn:rti::;ing, while at the
same time all kinds 01': ffioves a:e ,heing
nw.rle to ha\'r; .he ho)'cott lifted.
~iljct: H j~ S1..1::::11 a gootl tll;;,g·: all~(i they
are so Jeiighteu with its hel;etici;J "ffects,
there is no. vote that 11lay ue takf!11 in
:r.·r~rlbo1"o whidl Ca.!l mc:~e dean tll1: unfair
mUlmiacturers of ttat d,y, tb::n;fore,-the
jiif"
general organization of ·tbe-'Boot..&~~
Workers' Union and the Ameriean-Fede?-~
ation of Labor wiUonly raise'tbe~j£ci4lt
when there is a cQmplete recQgnition'of
the right to of.ganize ':md main~:iin -unions.
·\Ve have still over 2,000 people·who have'
beel.1 in tb1s_contest. all through, and who
are' in destitute circu1llst~nces, who 'Can
only be succored by the contributions of
their more forlunate friends in the -trade
unions, and we appeal to you to cont.ribute,
mOlley at once. Send all moneys.to B.P::
Dorsey, Secreta,ry-Treasurer, 198A MaiD
street, Marlboro, Mass. "
Every effort should be made to locat~-the.
'products of the Rice & Hutchins firm,
whose goods are stamped "Rice aud
Hutchins," and who have factories in
" Rhode Island State Prison," " Warren,
-r"Ie.," "Kennebunk, Me.," .. Rockland',.
Mass.," "South Braintree, 1\lass.," "'\Vor-'
cester, Mass.," and three factories in Marl-
boro, Mass. Return the 'compliment fO.r·
their boycott upon'organizcd labor by
refusing to purchase boots or shoes unless· .
they bear the label of the Hoot'and Shoe
'Vorkers' Union impressed upon .the inner
or outer sole. / Per order,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOINT
COUNCIL NO.8.
JOHN J. DALTON,
PHILIP J. BYRNE;,
AUG. \OVHE;LAN,
BERNARD P. DORSEY""
JOHN H. MURRAY,
WILLIAM LAYE;RTY.
. More of Our Troubles.
Salinas City, CaL, June
Editor Electrical Worker:
I:18g9-
Again I anL' constrained to write a few
lines to keep the working claSs pOsted
upon a gross insult to American labor.
~all anyone wonder tb'at we should organ-
ize, and can we be called criminals because
we do? The miners' trouble in Idaho is
the fault of the mine owners, not the
workers. Do people look iuto the true
cause of strikes? Is it not because the
meil are not treated fair? Everything is
being concentrated by gigantic formation
of trusts, sanctioned by the present gov:.
ernment at V.'ashington, D. C. Who pro-
duces the wealth of this nation, or ailY
vther? The world at large does not deny
that the hand of labor is the cause of all
wealth. Well, then, if we make wealth
we should ha\·c somt! of it. . Tht: farmer
raises grain, but the' gambler on ·stock
bonds makeS the price. Is that right:?
Only a few days ago the iron and sted
industries of the United States, were 'COll-
solidated for $600,000,000, simply to -con-
trol the markets, put up the price of-the
commodity alld keep down the 'price of
labor. Another case of glaring .injustice
comes from Copperappolis, Cal., a once
thriving city. The copper combine has
dosed down the mines, and 1,000 men are
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June] THE ELECTRICAL ,WORKER 5
thrown out of employment, without a coast. I hav,e s~{~(i hc[or~ ll~V_' s01:nethjng goes to Europe, his daughter weds a titled
shadow of a chance to get work. Some about Going a.way'viith prison laboI'. Well, blackleg and the hard. earned money' of
who are unmarried can leave the place, in the third we eli of l\Iay hve> nmrd::rs the while slave is spent in paying the'
but those whe have wives and babies de- were corum itt-ed in' CaHornia. prisons by aforesaid titled B. L's debts.
pending on them, what of them? WhM. men who.;::h,oulli. have heenhung 'iC:l~S I will write more next time if myink
will they do? "To hell with them" says ago on gcueral principles, but who are kept holds out. )'
tlie capitalist. " The public be damned," fat and well dressed and ah-..a.>'s on the ANN ARKIST.·
said Vanderbilt. "If they haven't bread lookout to stick a knife in a guard. The -------
SUPPORTING T.HP; UNION.
let them eat cake, ". said Marie Antoinette gross misscarriage of justice in dealing
of France, and so it goes. with such Illen will Jead to people taking l\ie:nhers who stay away from their
. And now the governor of Idaho says it the law (Lynch law) in their own hands, unic'n meetings because they do not feel
s~t;5fied with the way mhtters are nm,. at
. should be a punishable crime to belong to hanging the cdminal, and also hanging a
or organize a labor union. \Vell, if so. it few jurywefl and some of the judges, per- the same time keeping up thelr member-
should be just as niuch a crime for the sons who do nothing the year round but ship by paying their dues, are doing the~­
wealthy class to organize to control the sit on juries and disagree on the techni- sclve;; and their union an injustice, It is
output of .necessaries of ltre. "What is calities, regardless of the fact that 1 or a duty they owe themselves a'lld their union
'sauce for the goose is sauce for the gan- 1,000 good witnesses saw the crime com- to attend the meetings, and by word and
der." This is., according to our" be1ov-::d mitted, and ought to be hung by mobs of action to assist in seeing that things al'e
Constitution," a free .country, and the laws infuriated taxpayers. Thousands upon run properly, at the same time giving due
aTe made for oueand 'all; but if you have thousands of dollars are wasted every year consicleratioll to the fact that in tlle most
the proper amount of cash you can break by lenient judges, quibbling shysters aud perfectly regulated bodies things cannot
the laws with impunity and steal millions, dishonest juries. \Vell, what are you alway:; go to please everybody. '
but should you be so foolish as to be poor going to do about it? As I said, if you Obstructionists and would· he dismptors
and should appropriate a ride on a freight have woney you can get free, but the Lord should not be tolerated, the members who
train, to pri~n with you, and yet, YOll hav~ help you if you happen to be a ··\;orker. stay a',;,-ay because of them, while the !Jro-
not taken a peuny's worth of goods. Wake up ye sleepy slu~gards; get up and vocation is often great, are not showing a
If some of you think this call go Otl for- be doing. The democrats and republicans proper ;'egard for the duty they owe their
ever you are mistaken. The tre'nd of thc are now getting the barrel filled, and their orgal1!zation.
It is the, seeming indifference of the
times points out the way through socialism hand io; ready to pat you 0:1 the back and
stny-av;nys that increases the boldness and'
and education. J firmly belie\'e the rail- tell you how much they think of you, (for
presumption of these disligreeable fellows
roads, telephone and telegraph monopolies your vote ouly) aud then do ')"011 dirt after
until they come to think that those who
should be owned by the gO\'ermnent, an<1 election. Elect YOllr own class, tell thew
stay away do so feeling that in their hands
all cities should own their own water, gas, what they were e!ccted for, and then if
the Itdoll y;ill be safe and that the other
electric and street railway plant. If the tIlt:)" don't do your behest and are nut hon-
mell!befs are satisfied to let them be tIle
government can· control the mails, it eim est, make an example of them by Lynch
"whole thing."
control all other things. It pays annually law. A m,1Il is honest as long as he knows
Members who are continually raising
enough money to railroads for carrying he is well watched, but given half a chance
poil1ts of order, alld blocking progress and
mail to buy altd pay for all the tracks in and good bye to him. You can pass pages
occasioning dissatisfaction by' exciting
twenty-five years, and furnishes its own of resolves and therefores, bItt eterual
wrangles over constitutional technicalities,
messengers. If the railroads makes mil- \'igilance is your only hope for the price
ll.re a drawback and should be "sat dov,,'n
liOllS the government will not ollly make of liberty and pur~uit of happiness. In
on II by the unions to which they belong.
the same' but save millions now paid for California only the fool;;, workiugmen aud
Parliamentary law and constitutions are,
carrying nlail. Look at the millions made Chinamen pay ~4 per year for road and
as a rnle, good things for the members to
by the express companies alone, and jet poll tax, the l1Iil1io!1~"'ires and tramps goo
have knowledge of and to be guided by,
the common people fought in and are no\\" free, aud devilish Ii, tie of the :noney S0
b.;t the member who would have the union
fighting in the war, yet we, the people, collected is put where i.t honestly belongs.
TUn in strict conformity with them should
must pay the war tax (md the "blo.lted" As I glance on:r Hly 1I1':'rning paper I
lea,rli that matters will often be better
stockholder of \Vells, Fargo, Amencan read that the wages in the \Vestern sugar
facilitated by the exercise of common sense. •
and United States Express Companies pay refinery have been cut i'15 and $20 per
-:-Dirmiughnm Advocate.
not a cent of war tax. Is that right? The month on oilers and centrifugal workers.
general manager says yes. The last named workmeu handle the sugar Prediction of Tom L. Johnson.'
I am now going to say so1tle~hing that at the point where it is dried by extracting Tom L. Johnson, the wiuely kno:wnstreet
might hnrt a few of your feelings, and I the syrup with the same process clothes car magnate, in an interview is quoted as
hope you "ill wake it'p and say the Ann are dried in a laundry .. They only work sayin~ :
Arkist is right. I hope the day will come, twelve hmirs a day and thitty and thirty- . "The time is going to come when the
and right soon, too, that the working tHen one days a month, and if they don't like people will ride free upon the street cars,
of America wiIi have their wages cut 5 per the cut they have the perfect right to quit run ·and operated by a municipality, 'the
cent. a day eVl:ry day in the week' and and ·stan·e. There is lio such thing as the same as they now get their letters deliv-
every week in ihe year till you a're acLl.Ially working slave makiug every other wan he en:d to them by the postal !.ystem.' Muni-
obliged to steal and beg, and' then you will dcals with lower his rent or board. It's cipal control is as easily handled as gov-
>\waken and lis/':ll to ii'll: voi(:e vf reason. just work or quit, 10,000 men ate ready to ernmental control. Politics would not be
Reason says .)\'gani7.~, join a labor union, fill your place. If white mcn will tlOt do able to cut any figure. In every' separate
make a stand ior your rights, kick uutil it, then the Jap al;d opium-soaked China- organization where the servants of the
you get them, then maybt: yon will see llIali steps ill, a stri ke fullows, some prop- company, government or municipality arc
the advantage of the goyernl1lent ownillg erty is destroyed, Ii few are shot in cold subject to examination by public sentiment
the great monopolies which are now suck- blood by the~15 a IIl(ll1th mnrderers called where free access to the inner workings is
ing the.life and strength of the people of home guards, and the mill starts up and made accessible, no corruption is found .
this conntry. . the general manager's tlividend is still up It is only in the hidden. byways that politi-
And now a few words about the Pacific to high water mark. Tht: boss stockholder cal chicanery can be possible."

6 Tf::t¥,~~tECTRlt~J.i:W:6~ER
NniiQNAiL"~ROTH'ER'HHD OF ELECTRICAL ,Undc !ofu is' one of the ~hill'in-.r:'tiglits' of courtesy of an answer, but by' dilige'n'i in- '
WORKERS.
- PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
H. w. $H~RMAN, Publisher and'Editor,
731 Powers'Bldg., Roc~ester, N. Y.
ltntuedat tbe,Post-Olfice at It.oebester, N, Y.,
" u ~nd·class m~er.
UBCUTIVE 1I0ARD.,
'Grand P;fesident-J. H. Maloney,
13S9 W. Congress St., C,hic:ago, nt.
, G1'Ilnd Secretary-'H. W. Sherman,
, '731 l'owe~Bldg., Rochester, N. Y.
GnmdTreastirir-P. H. Wissinger,
411 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, Md.
FiratVlee-Presi;4ent-Thepdore Gould,
, n Wareham St., Boston, Mass.
Second Vlce-Presideat-C. H. Adams,
:lg01 Summit S1" KlIusas City, Mo.
TMrd-Vice-Presiden't-Thomas Forbes,
447 Avery st., Detroit, Mich.
Fourth Vice-President-S,.M. Keeble,
2233 Park Ave., St. Lauis, Mo.
Fifth Vice-President-R. P. Gale,
1210 A Broadway, '!"an Francisco, Cal.
Su4scr;ption $1.00 per year, ;n advance.
As 'rbe>Electricai' Worker reaches the men who do
the work and recommend or order the material,
its vaIue as an advertisiu,g medium can be readily
app~iated. '
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE, 18c)9.
W. N. Gates, Special Advertising Agent, forty ccnt~ lil01'e.
29.. Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, O.
OWING to the magnificent response from
the locals we have been obliged ~o increase brother in .l)u.sim:s~.Thp.re are
lohis issue to twenty-four pages.
THE Brotherhood has granted charters,
,since April I, to -~ioux City, la.; Milwau-
kee, Wis.; Norfolk, Va.; Richmond, Ind.;
Scranton, Pa., and Cripple Creek, Colo.
BROTHER JAS. T~{ISTLE, of Local 44, month go by without rai~,ug the mOl)!!Y. of this coun~ry',~av'e a harder row, to ,poe.
was very seriously injured June 2nd. His The amount now 011 hand is Olle hund:'ed If these tramp~organi.zers, these wandering
spur pulled out, allowing him to strike a
step. Here is that you may SOOI1 be out contributed by the followi!lg :
again" Jim.",======"",
IN this month's issue we print the picture
'i!
of Brother Harvey Burnett, an electrical
worker without legs, ,who is desirous of
getting an artificial pair. Members wish-
ing to help this Brother along will kindly
send all money to Brother Adams, Second
Vice· President, 2901 Summit St., Kansas
City, Mo. . 7 75 hood they answered because the Nadonal
BROTHER ED. STINSOS, of Local 45, A. UhI
Buffalo, severed his connection with the Local No. 71 . . .
Bell Telephone Co. to accept a position' as F. White ant1 g::.ng
superintendent for the new Telephone Co.
at Rochester. Bro. 'Stinson is'recognized
....... t ' .. :.": ~:"
',' ~;:~;.""" 'T.~;i'r,~: ':'.";' -,
, ",' r . . . '_
-,- ,'" .:*,-;;.~
as, ~~~;of :~e, _~'~ry bes~:i~~}ti :te'leghone ISOI.AT~D
•
I.ABOR ORGANl:ZAX-:lONS.
; .; ',' "".;:" .:'4 !:'<,i ...: .~,
busjg,~~S, -~nd, w~ think fhe cqrnpan y 'made
a Itood .selecti0n. Here's wishin~,v.ou suc- Some months ago we issued ;('C'h;l\1er to""
ce~s, Ed. . , ,,', - . . , eightnlen in the city 0'( Sp;ingttcl~_, Hr."''''
Fora I!!wmonths they' paid the' pef:HrpiGt
AT the request ola great many:',readers tax ~ndl'~1l wa1'i well. They bci;arhe §ra:t-k~~ ,
of the Eiectrical Worker, we lla~'e' this w~iyi;J~~~p,several dines andrec~:v~d"
month p.rooiihed the:pict'.lre of Uncle Tom, no' ,~\:!'~~lr:'·,-Th~ secretary," lilte',qlany
(Mr. ,:rhdl1las ' Whee lei," o'f'-LOciI38). othe~:'- :faiiea "to extend' the'co¥tnQD
J Local ?8, aiid i.s well known 111 the 1.abor quiry~+~, learned that the local' h,~4 go~~
mm·emeht in' the State of (1lli,,: "He was out of'.existence and, Phoenix' like, i'fiere
deleg;,tte to onr 1<15t ~ollve'h't10n hild in had ari~eil from the ashes a little Brotllet~,"
<
Detroit, and was 'chosen delegate Jo the hood of their own-that a charter ii'ad been
W ofldngmen's conventi6nj.t:cer~t1y' held ,grant~athem from the State'Viderafion,'
at Columbus, 'Uncle Toni while not an Right here we question the right of apy'
eloquent i;p~aker, is 'very ci>hvindiig and State F~<iej.a~ion granting a cnart~r wh,(He:'
holdS' hIs listeners ve:r~ wdl,'.but is ;ore of there isa National body. There h~d Qeeh
a worker tn~n a talker. ' . . ,:' ', . no complaint entered, not a wor4 '6f dis~
'~. .: ..' :
satisfaetign; but simply these m'e'il \vanted
THE' prt:ss secretafor of Locapi~.:40, in a little Brotherhood of their o'wn. ' In this
his Ip.tter this month, 'wants 'the Editor to state ire ~s good union men as there~rc in"
explain why, members of the 'B ..ot!J~r,hood any other state; just as good, no beit~r;
have to pay 'one'dollar and twenty cents a nor do th~y claim to be bett,er. One' of o~r '
year for the Electrical \Vorki;r, when the very best'iocals is in that state, a jocalijlat
SUbscription, price is' one dollar::" The has alwa}'s remained true to the N:it' E:
broth~r is wlOllg..The meWB-cl'S()£ Ll)e w. anthr~'(eel safe in saying al~a)'s wHI:'
Brotherhood do not pay ,on'e ,<;biiar '!nd Ther,e~<l'~¥ueen tiines when perlIap$ cer-
twenty cents, the}' p'!ysixty ~ents: ',til~ per tainth'in.-gs'did not suit them, buttherG'
capita tax is twenty cents Go" ead. me'm- was ney;e.r :l~r seeds of discOI:c( Ii'own ,'In
ber pet month, of ,)\;pich .fift~~ ,cent~'goes their ra~.ks; n~ver a word about forminga
to the General Fund of the Bi,otheirbood little BrQther'fipoo of their own. But we
and. five to the W orl:~r. "Tweh'c'·'tim:es find in the' i'-arne state men who have'
five are sixty, so (lut~ide sub~~r.ib~r;; pay jumped the
'Br9therhoodsilllply, be~.ius~
.
, - , . '. ," ,'. , ' they cou.id 'not have their' own and " ,vay:'
;;,
, why the centr~I'I, bC?dies of. the large cit,~s
TH~ ROBERT WRIbHT lnjN'p; sh()uld scattlie.s~ ,tramp organizations;-
In our last'.'issue \\'e wade "L~t we then,', we are at a '10,55' to know, 'They' elect'
thOllght o,ur la~t apPeaU(lr Robert W~ight, delegates toattenu the A.F. of L. conven-'
but, at the requesfcfa l~umbero(b:·(\ther5, tiQn, shout tllemselves 'hoarse adv~catinir
we have concluded to,'try again. It cer--' an undivided Iront, claimillg. we'sbOl.ild he
tainly should be possible to rliiseat lea.~t·, as'one, that there shoulqbe no north; nli
two bu ndred and fifty dollars to, start 'th~,' SQuill, ,no east or no \,:es't, bu't that \Ve sliou1d'
a.
great be' united in one 'gr~:~J"Brotherhood.-that
many readers j>f this'paf,eJ.· who have not ' the'£?ri,ccrn of '!?fii~;:~to,~id be the con'cern
put in their mi~,e. Now <::ome, 'btly;, jnst a oi:ail., Then,gp.,back to their own cities
little ten-cent piece from C<'lch oncwi1l an(f'lll.il few weekS~ote toseat some Molly
raise the 3,DlCunt. 'nri!!g the matj,erup McGuire organi~~t.ion. .. 0 consist~ncy;
for discussi~n in, your locals and this can thou art~a',jewC'O:" Just as. long this' as'
be accomplished, Do not let another goes Oil just so "ion,g will !he w(),rkingmen
and forty-four donal'S and 'thirty-two cents, Willies of the labor, mo\'ement,say they
left their national' budy becausecenain
Local No. 56 . I> 4 73 things 'were wron:g,don't believe what they
" ' 37 7 oc !!ay, be,causeall intelligent men 'know, all,
E. Rush " . wrongs can be righted. We hold conven-,
Loc~~No. 45
I 00
50 tions r,
every two years, and ~wo y'eJlr~ Jfi>.,
~~ lt~, short time in the history of 2D crganizatiq,n.,
"
.. 5
72
, .' 4 52 There is a tramp organization in .the larg-
~ 50 est city of this country and when asked a
few weeks ago why they left tile ,Br~ther,_
!'
4 25 25
" 6
" 1&
~ ~ body refused to allow them certain f,lea'th
" 49
I 00 claims, a bare-faced lie, as an)! III ember of
9 50 the E. B. who was in office at that timeca~
12 00 certify to. These Molly McGlIir.e,s knew
W. Call "
14 00 that if they told the truth they wo~id have
Total; . $144 32 a lame case, bllt, 'like SOllIe' pettyf~ggy
 June]
lawyer, when he sees the law is against
him, he endeavors to win his case by foul
meailS. There has never been a legitimate
claim refused by this organization, so lying
pretem:es of this .kind don't go. Another
one of these Washington know-it-alls had
the nerve to say, the reason why they did
not want to go in the Brotherhood was that
it was filled ~p with inferior workmen. Ye
Gods I All the good wiremen in this Uni-
ted States belong to a little isolated tramp
organization whiCh, like the wandering
refugee, has no home, no affiliation with
any one, but stands alone. NO'IVthisshould
not be' tolerated, this is nan:ow·minded
unionism; this is what tbe boys c;:tll home
guard unionism', Why Mr, Isolated Union
Man, if you take a notion to travel, it is
then your finish ~omes, Your card that
did you good. becomes 'useless, not worth
the paper it is printed on. Our Brother-
hood has a card that is good from Boston
to California, a card that has procured em-
p!oyme!l~ for ,a great many of our members,
A card that has done service as a railroad
ticket, for any good railroad man will gin.>
a fellow playing in hard luck a ride, with a
good up to date Brotherhood card, Or-
ganizations that are formed by malcontents
to satisiy their own selfish aims cannot
prosper, they may hold the balance of
power for awhile, but the foundation is
weak and rotten and sooner or later the
entire structure· must totter anel. fall.
Every man working at the electrical busi·
ness should be under ·:one banner of right
and justice-a broad-min~ied Brotherhood'
looking to the welfare of the ci I'i Ii zed glnbe,
a Brotherhood that is willing to extend its
hand across the sea and ~ay to our brothers,
your interest is my'intert:st, we must cume
together, form a workingman's alliance and
with old Glory and the Union Jack, the two
prettiest flags kissed by the sun, flying side
by side 'and an International Brotherhood,
~ve r,jUst succeed. Let uS hope tllat this is
in the near future; let us hope th(" isolated
men will see the error' of the.ir way and
come over to the fold.
A WORn TO THlt CONTRACTOR.
We received a communication some time
ago from a contractor, askil1g for informa-
tion' in regard to a charter. He said,
although he was all employer of men, he
thought a Union was a good thing and he
advised his 'men to f()!'D1 a Loca1. This i:;
the proper feeling for- employers to have,
for is it not an Il.ndisputed fact, better
hours,. better mE:ll; better wages, better
men; better men, better work; better
work, better name for the contractor; bet-
/ ter namc for' him, better money-there
i you are! A cOlltract{Jr and his workmen
have the same thing at stake, 'While the
workingman is pouuding away with muscle
and skill he is thinking of his family at
home ~lnd realizes every hour, every day,
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
. .
",very week, put in fl.t good, fair wages,
'Will bring comfort tu those he loves. And
the contractors who havc tlleir money ill-
vested are working f~r the wife and little
ones at home; this makes them identical.
in as far ~~itiii1t~~ii~··~1:1ioods a~~-;chnc~:3~-a .>;
Of course, we are forced to admit there are
different kinds of contractors as well as
different kinds of workmen,
Some contractors have the good and
welfare of their workmen at heart to the
extent that they want to pay the scale
every time. There is no need in saying
meu "don't :lppreciate this, for they cer-
tainly do,:iVi'r:·Coni.raCtor. How truly the
words of the poet come. home to the work-
ingman, "a little word in kindness spoken,
a motive or tear has often healed the heart
that's broken and made a friend sincere, n
when his employer stops long enough to
ask how his little boy or girl who was sick
if> getting along. Say, Mr. Contractor, he
feels better for the asking and, ask your-
!it-lf, don't you? The mat} wlw want:; to
impress on the minds of his emp,1oyees
that he is boss all the time, not allowing
them any freedom, does not get the results
that the man does who remembers that we
are all human and must act in concert with
each other to accomplish the desired ends,
Here is success to the contractor who
wishes his employees sllcl:ess.·
MAI.CONTltNTS IN THlt T.ABOR ~t:OVlt­
MltNT.
During the few mOHths of 1899 there
have oet!ll more strikes than at any other
time for a great nUUluer of years, and as
was expected we have had our share of
trouble but we are pleasE:d to say have been
successful. It has been impossible for
Locals to adr.ere to the Constitution, so
each local that made demands knew what
to expect. The trouble has bl'!en settled in
e,\'ery case to i'he enlire satisfaction of the
majority and this is all that could be asked,
as this organization is run by majority
rule. We know too well that it is a hard
matter to please everyone, so if we please
the majority it is satisfactory; the malcon-
tents uo olle can please, they cannot please
themselves and there are times when they
hate, themselves, Take for example a
recent trouble where a man of God, a
Bishop, was asked to interc£:dt- for a booy
of men' who had certain gI1c"ances. This
good lU311, 'who ":.:.~~:~ ollv:;iY;:; r:,;specte~ by
all who knew him, irrespective of cre(:d,
ail knew when he unClertook anyt1i1ug it
was for the best int('rest oi ali cOllCerU(;U,
in fact they placed implicit f.,ith in him.
He called the llIen tog~ther :llld gave them
good advice, and through hinl the matter
was settled not to the entire satisfaction of
ihe malcontents, but to the satisfaction of
the 1l1ajority, to the satisfaction of business
men and to the satisfactiun of the poor
suffering wives and children who had
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suffered· for weeks. But the malcontent
got in his sneaky work. Not face to face
with the Bishop, oh, no! malcontents do
not do business that way, but in some re-
mote corner far away from' the Bishop he
would tell the few men who gathered
around him how strikes ,should be 'conEluc-
ted and that the Bishop had sol~ d\lt to the
contractors. Yegods, think 'of this! A
ma.n of the Bishop's calibre selling a strike;
or, in fact, of any man selling a strike.
How could it .be done? The matter is
never settled until a vote is taken by; the
nlen interested. Why, intelligent men
in the labor movement have long since
seen the impossibility of this and paid no
attention to the malcontents or calamity
howlers. Strikes are serious things at best
and many could be avoided in the rank, and
file if more confidence was piaced in the,
men selected to settle the trouble. We'do
not mean to give the committee fnII power
to act, but give them time to report baCK
to the 0rgani:mtio!1 before yOll. criticise
them. :Men who serve on committees have
to consider the nU'Dlber of people who are
likely to suffer. Then act accordingly and
do not make any radicai moves, but acHn
:!. conservativ~, gentlemanly manner, and'
more call be accomplished than by being
too aggressive. l'here are many men in
·the labor movement too ready to condemn;
this d{Jes no good. Calling a man a thief"'
don't mak", him one by any means; :you
have got to prove him a thief before the
l:~w or intelligent men will not take any
nutice of it. Jest watch the fellow who
lealls upon the bar with a glass of beer in
his hand; pay particular attention tobim;
he will give you pointers how to run the
labor movement in this country; the sys-
te:m is all wrong; all the labor leaders
are out for what they can get; watch that
fellow; trace out his past; see how honest
.he ha!; been himself before -you pay any
attention to him, ·for its dollil:l's to dCill.gh-
nuts that he owes the Local of his craft
money. Perhaps he run for SOme office
and failed to get votes enough, and this
makes him a malcontent; and not satisfied
with becoming dissatisfied himself, he
starts out on the mission of making con-
verts to his cause. The man who carin'ot
stand defeat, is a poor man indeed. A
workingman's life is one of constant de-
feats from the cradle to the grave; we
must bear these defeats; why not take de-
feat:. in all organization ·"ito the same
good grace. Buckle on the armor, enter
the fight and help the man w.ho defeated
you aud show that you are made of the
proper stuff for a Union man,aitd your
fellow craftsmen will think more of you
for it ; a,bove all things don't become a
JlIalcontent. There is nothing gained by
knock.ing al1 the time, quit it alld get out
and hustle some and when you uo the
other klJockers _will get a chance at vou.
Say, malcontents, dOIl'tthink the so-c~l1ed
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·labor leaders of your country are getting 'n !toes wIthout sajing that lh€ahswer a
He will propose stOCk" cOffi~iW6f"""~"y'­
.rich; look the list over and see how many which, in'8:II '~ndor·. we' arec()mpelled to ICX? shares of the par ~alue.3>!.~I7>:~~ach. t
tnillionairesyou will find. "Men who be- llIa.'ke' is notaJ;l agr!i~ah!e' oiie'; 'that it is the patent or patents to go 10 as the capl-~'
-come leaders ~n the labor movement do noi>tbe' ffilswer wflkll'ine' 'bl·6tlllir had tal. Thirty 'shaies are to' ~':"""J5llic~'lir
Dot get any great amount of money. you hoped to receive. 3n(hlot (\ie 2,lls#¢i which treasury stock, the promoter. taking thitty-
~n bank on that .. We don't go much on he would ha\'e received ftom nli~;'fundred five and the inventer thirty:five. FrOm
the word "leader." ·for every man who and 'ninety-nine ottt of one th;~sandpeople the proceeds of the sale' of the tr:easllry
lives :up to the doctrines of right and to ~vho!n the inqui!-yomigilt hl.we been ad- stock the promoter is to-be 'iein'ibatse-<:t'Cor
justice and believes in the good old motto dressed. Now. the m'.tnral and proper the money he has advanced and'forsalary
of-equal rig·hts to all mankind is a leader. inquiry wifth'e: "Wbatt" ~p"'reason for as manager.' traveHn.g expenses' and aoy'
!fhe movement is gaining ground in. spite this a.avice?;' : There are niillI~'" ·reasons. charge which he can ring in. andhenold'S':'
ofthema1contents. and let us hope in the and we will give just a few df ·them'. -with his friends who 'have the treasurY'
'Jiear future there will be no malcontents in ~¥jrG.t.::...;.the la~s;7whicXlg~~t'::rn t~e' issue stock-the controlling·interest ..' Now-note
tbtf·locals. If things !1on't suit. make ofpatents)n' thiscouutrj;,'ap!!to which an the plain arithmetic. The 'Promoter has
them; it is not a very l1ard matter to get inventor innst "look for coii~erva~'io'l of his recouped himsel££or every.dollar he hltS'-
men with yon when in the right; it may righfS. are ri0t fw'nied,and, admbistered spent and' ~very dollar"he could·mana.ge·to
fake some time but they will coine after for the protcctiono(jIl~;e~~Qrs. This is a charge against the outfit. 'Then,.th~ 'in":'
awhile. In conclusion let us say. get hroad statement. but it is llonie out by the ventor being the 'orily real contribution of
down·to bmri,ness and stop knocking. history of the eJ,?ct:'ic;al art. . capital. the promoter coolly' offers the'in~
That's oue reaso.~::;"i:cre is another: ventor a tm~d and ahsolutely ·valueless·
" : iOOKIl~G over a cert.ain Electrical Ma-
gazine. we ran across the following. written 1£ yon place y~ut invention in the hands interest. In other words, the cOmbination'
by~. ,fhiladelphia shoe clerk ~
of .~ ':Comp:uiY prdl1foteT he 'Yill get the to which the promoter belongs get ·their
elltire olttfit by a}iy 'ofh.;Uf ~ doY-en meth- money back and a controlling interest
~NCREASED HIS S"ALAR Y $5.00 PER WEEK.
.,Before taking the .Wiring and Bell-Work
ods .. In the eud thft inveutor will be "done without having really invested a dol1ru-.~ ,".
Course of Thc International Correspond- up'" if the invt!ntlon has any vil.lue. and At this point the inventor. rem:eiD:b'~r~rig
ence Schools. I was a shoe salesman, at a he'v:i1l save]otsof worry and ruined air- that a large number of the appliances ha'Ve
salary' of $8.00 per week. I still hold thc' castles if .b·e take$".thes;rap hea1) wllte at been sold at a profit, is very apt·to' .. kil'ij.· .. ·
same p@sition. but receive SQ.oo per week.
.1. ha.ve one afternoon and three evenings
the.ol;tsel for;" as the leUe!" \~'ritei' :d~tually
and refuse t~ join auy such open~aiid-sbut
off .duty each, week. This spare time I Pllts it, he has no mOl!ej> wIth" wbich to stock deal. and demands that the terms of'
tum to advantage by doing electrical w.ork. fight for his rights, .. the contract be carried out ; and the con~'
hitbrs way I increase my salary ::>5.00 per That's a se;,'ond reasor. ; here is auother: tract says nothing about a siockcompa-uy ..
week. making $14.00 in all. I now feel
qualified. to accept a position in an elec- If. as we are all the time assuming, the It is just here that the little jokcr~- in
trical establishm~nt, and when the oppor- brotber·sinveutJon. is of realvahl·p.. and if the Chicago game gets in its work. )":he.
tunity occurs, I intend to change my occu- hei,; shrewd enough toescapt: thc wiles of unfortunate inventor produce;; his contract
pation. .
the ordinar)' promotor. he n:ny still find and is coolly .informed that the contract
And in spite of such things staring elec-
himself ·'.upagainst" the "Chi~ago game." does not specify when the profits are to'be
trical workers in the face some men will
ask. what good is a labor organization, and
DOll't know the.,game in Boston? No? divided. and such proves to be. the ease:
Well. it is known in the latitufte of New By this time the most houest and 'confiding
wonder why their wages are so low. Now,
York state. and ',8 :;.000 ma.lY inventors inventor will tremble. But he has his
young men who are shoe clerks' some of
who have heencaught by it will give a contract, The first lawyer to' whom he:
thefime and wiremen when not clerks not
good sample. of vigorous profa:lity when presents . his.; case wili tell him that it is
only "hurt the workingmen. but the con-
the trick is mentioned. This partiCBlar llselesstoJ;~,gin a law suit withQut a good
tractor as we!I. Philadelphia. one of our
method of, circum\"c!lting inventors is rollo(mQRey to ca-rry'it through, if the
largest cities, has nei local.
e_ ----., called the' 'Chicago game" because it was inventor is ou'his metal and is deterItiin,ed
HATTaR OF PATaNTS. first practised in that enter!,l"ising city. to obtain his rights. a little inv~tigatioit
Here is the iay. out. and it will not be our discloses the fact that the man who sj.gned·
.. :' ,-he editor of the Worker has received
fault if Ollr 'Hoston brother does not recog- the c~utract is only a "dummy;" tliat)le
the letter.which follow.s from a brother in nize it when he " meetronp" witlJ it : has no financial responsibility. and thai:"it
Ali inventor has a mp.chine or device of . is useless to attempt to recover. The real
Boston. :Mass .• May 2. 1899.
palpable merit. and which is cleariy patent- parties who have put up. ,the money. have·
Editor Electrical Worker:
advanced it to him and hav.e already been
.' My Dear Sir: I have invented an elec- ahle, but· he has neither the money to
trical. appliance which I know. by trial. patent nor exploit it. A man comes to repaid from the sales. If they are,not
if;, of intrinsic value. and which. can be him and makes a proposition which; on its entirely repaid the promoter will slm.ply
'made 'very useful in connection with cer- tell the inventor that he (the promoter).
'lain electrical machines. I cannot afford fBec. is perfcctly square. He proposes. in can get his money out of it, and he ca'hrily
't6 get it patented. and I certainly haven't' consideration of one-half of all 'th~ patents.
.the capital to manufacture it and place it to procure such iJatellt~, m"nulr.ctllre. ad- proceeds \\'lth the business. ·Of. course.
.0J;l.~hc market. _ \'clti"e !llJU·',;t:i1.tae appliances aud divide the object, as in most .other patent.p.romQ7.
What is the b.est course for me to take?
. Yours very truly. tht;, 'profits; one-half to go tobi:nself and tion games. is to reach a compromise .'Ona
L.H.W. one-half to go to the invent.or. A simple stock company which will -give the ..pro-,
~ 'That is an easy. one. contract ,1:; urawn to ihi.. 'eH'cd and the moters control ·without . investment. In
'(" If. the writer of this letter has stated the business progresses. Money is spent very most cases the inventor gives up the fight;
~se" fairly-of whIch we have 110 doubt- freely. Th~ de'dce is well l11f,nufactured. and a little later the company is',legally
.and values his peace of mind. he has bu~ . well adverU"ed. 'aud, c.p to e. certain point " reorganized." and he finds himseU Qut,
-t>ne alternative. that is. to break the ap- well sold .. The1l th:> ru3Ili)1'!.1ator of. the in the cold.
pliance into as many pieces as he call con- Chicago game '·fiuds, AS he say:-. that it is That's our reason for advising the BO$"O
:viently and distribute these pieces in half necessary to get a lot of capital and ton - brotlier, if he cannot raise mOlley
..il dozen different scrap heaps and burn·his. ".spread 'o(it" His propof,itioll i5 some- enough to exploit his own invention. to.
;diagrams.. thing like this; send it to the scrap heap..
 June] THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 9
a special tax is levied agah1st abutting have, no doubt, but we can all overcome
property. ELECTRON, them by being true to our union. When
_ _ _ _.:...._ _P_ress Sec'y. you are truc to your union, you arc true to
one and all alike, and it does not take the
1;.oca] 'union NO.2.
employer only a short time to find this out,
~ocal Union No. :l. Kansas City, Mo., May 31, 18Q<). and he· is therefore more willing and
St. Louis, Mo., June.7, 1899. Editor Electrical \Vorker: anxious for your welfare.
Editor Electrical Worker: Dr. to the N. B. E. W. of A., through the 1 want to say, success to Uncle Tom and
columns of the Worker, to the above I hope 1 may be able to see his excellence
"All work and no play makes Jack a
named order, a letter from Local NO.2 of at our next convention in the Smokey,
dull boy," and as the members of No. 1 have
Kansas City, Mo., als(\ an apology which 1 where your 33rd nephew, C. H. A., was
been working steadily for. nearly a year
since the termination of our strike last hope the members will kindly accept,' as bred and born, in the valley just above the
summer, they have decided to give a rail- you are all well aware No.2 has only been Smokey amongst the pumpkins and the
road excursion to Havana, 111., on June II. organized a short time. \Ve are doing as corn.
The distance is 130 miles. The train will well as could be expected, having al the Wishing success to thlt members of the
pass through Springfield, giving those who present time thirty-three members and . N. B. E. W. of A. and wishing more to fol-
desire an opportunity to see the sights of hope to get more shortly, as we have low throughout the world.
the State capital aud return with the ex- promises, although promises do not buy Frate-rnally, ,
cursion in the evening. An interesting anything. We were somewhat afraid C. H. A.,
program has been· arranged and a good at first that by organizing the linemen's Press Sec. NO.2.
time is guaranteed to all. The game of local here, thereby taking some of the P. S.-l just come from over the river,
ball between Nos. 1 and 3 will be a battlc oldest timber from No. 18, we would to a being up to Pumpville, Kansas, til test one
royal aud so~e of the players will undoubt- certain extent cripple that local, but 1 am of Nicko-Teso's Humo air meters.. Seeing'
edly receive offers from league magnates proud to etate that No. !S's gain since has a nutice in last month's \~Torker in regard
after itis m;er. been double their loss, and no one feels to them and the statement of them not
prouder than Adam's, .. Old Boy," and 1 sending out any free samples, it only being
NO.1 has been holding some rattling
hope the electrical workers ontside of the a short distance from K. c., as you know,
meetitlgs of late. At the last meeting we
local will appreciate what we have been we are on the border here, 1 just walk oyer,
noticed the smiling faces of three who had
doing for them and take a tumble to them- being accompanied by a cousin of NiCko
110t attended a· meeting for nearly a year.
selves and roll up or gently walk up some of short birth. Well, we'arrived all O. K., .
\Ve will Soon have- with us se"eral who
Wednesday evening to 1117 Walnut st., except dust}', hot and Ollt of breath. as we
broke ranks iu April, 189S. Forty-five
Labor Hall. \Ve will give them the hand passed through the hot wind part of Kan-
dollars is the amount they are paying and
of fellowship, and say come lets be broth- sas. Well, we got hitched up to the meters
as sooii as that amount is paid we will ex-
ers again, or lets be brothers, as the case and will just say they work immensely.
tend to them the glad hand once mClre.
may be. Nick wanted me to take one to K. C. with
NO.1 added a number of members by Bro. Drollinger is out on the road with a me but I told him I thought I had better
card recently. Onr brochers inother cities little gang of his own stringing wire for the not as 1 did not think they would be a sue;:-
should bear in. miDlI that il costs $20 lO get Postal between Kansas City and Denver, cess in Mo., as the air in Mo. is damp . and,
their first Bnilding Trades Council card in Colo. The Postal is O. K., so when you heavy and sometimes muddy and was
NO.1. The running expenses of the uliiolJ Have a message to send out of K. C.. donot quite sure it would ground [he meter. He
are about $200 per month. It has cost forget the Postal hires Union men. agreed with me and stilted he would get
everyone of the old Illembers of NO.1 Bro. C. N. Miles has been \'ery low with up an amendment to the meter thereby
from $150 to $200 to secure present condi- pneumonia; was not expected to recover, evaporating the air before using it in the
tions in SL I,ouis and melllbers coming but would say he is much better and on the meter. New, f understand, or have been
from other citiesshollld not complain that road to comple-te rec:overy. I hope the informed, that Bro. Roth of Atchison,
we are hard ou t}\f!lJ1,. 11' a city where brothers "'iii get their journals O. K, If Kans., uses one of Nicko's mete..s co,,-
wages are from $1 to $1.50 more, and the you move dOli't forget to te-II the \Vorker, stantly and when he came down to K. C.
working day two hours less than in sur- for if you do not inform it, it will not fol- last Sunday· he wore the meter also; being
roundin~ cities it is absolutely necessary to low you. of course used to it, but I have been in-
have some restriction-a protective t&ritt As some of the brothers of No.2 took out formed the air was too damp in K. C. for
if you wish to call it !mell. cards and transportation to Salt Lake, we it and consequently Bro. Roth got the
On and after July 1st the initiation fee would be pleased to ht::ar from them meter grounded before he left K. C. and
in No.1 will be $35. This, and a number through the Worker. We wish them suc- was not able to get to see all of the boys.
of other amendnients to our by-laws, was cess. Will say they work O. K. in Kansas, but
adopted about a month ago. We understand Bro. McCarthy has gone they are N. G. in Mo. Would ask Brother
The uuiou labor ordinance mentioned in to St. Louis. Success Jack, and let us hear Roth if this is not true. Well, to make
my :March letter was passed after being from you. We also have several ex-mem- this story short 1 succeeded in getting
am~<le-.d in the COU!l dl. It was thought bers of No, 18 in St. Lo:.ds. V.'e hope they Nicko to join the order. Reccj"ed his
at first, allli was probahly so intended, that have not fallen hy the' wayside. Come, cash, gave him ,the goat hop and the Elect.
the ~melidment made the bill worthless as brothers, let us wake up <Jnd solicit trade- Fling and will say .Nic}w is now a full-
far as the 11lain object sought to be ob- for the N. B. E. W of A. and make it a fledged member of the N. B. E. W. of A.,
tained was concerned; hut the fact tbat a trust that we have faith in and not afraid and you will undoubtedly hear from him
det~rmil1ed effort is heing made to ,have to trust. Let us make the N .. B. E. \V. of hereafter. \Vould close by saying I had a
the law repealed would indicate that the A. one of the leading grand Judges of the question asked me some few days ago
. Missouri-Edison and other unfair concerns' country. Let the world know you are which you may think is foolish, but I have
are afraid of it. As the law now stands it Union but in so doing f,rove to your em- since given it considerable thought and
compels the· ins('rtion of a union-labor ployer you are a better, truer and more will put the question to you for answer a:;
clause ill all contracts let by the city ex- trustworthy employee for being union. it was given to mc: If an· irresistible
cept street and public improvements when You may have some bad faults, as we all force should come in conlact with an im-
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movable dbj.ect, what would be the r.esult?
. Fraternally, " rec~ve reasonable c~nsideration, which,
C. H. A.,
Press Sec. NO.2, K. c., Mo.
I,ocal Union NO.3.
St. Louis, June 6, ISw.
Editor Electrical Worker:
.As we have no press secretary, I will
write a few hnes in regard to giving the
members of Local No. 3 a jacking.up for
. nQt atte~4i,g our meetings. There are
several of t~tJro.thers. who make engage-
ments to" ki·\l·:lri.~.n, and meet their girls,
and order suits or.clot~es. Now, all of
this has to' be Qn.:,r~u-rsday. I would like.
to inform the brotbers that there are six
other nights in the week on which to make
those engagem~nts. Then there are sev-
eral br.others· who have a habit of sending
thejr dues up by some one else. This
should be stopped .. Brothers, don't be
'afraid tQ ~hQw yourJ<aces; come up, so we
can. have a large crowd, and it will put us
in !pind of old ti!pes. A good many of the
brothe~s stay away from meetings because
they are afraid if they come· up they will
be elected to.some office. I would like to
ask these brothers how the deuce they ex-
p~j:;t to run a union without officers. Get
your heads together; be men; don't be
boys, and se.e if we can't make our local as
big as .the rest of them. .<\l,1<1 another thing
. 1 would like. the.. boy:; .to tio is to try and
induce all of the ex-brothers who have fall-
en by the wayside to come back. If you
.don't succeed at on-ce, try a.gain; keep at
them until you get them. I hope none of
the brothers \vill feel offended at these re-
marks, and that thIS arti~le in the \Vorker
may he the means of a larger a.ttendance
at our meetings. J. T. O'DRINE,
Press Secretary.
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I.ocal Union No. S.
Pittsburg, June S, 1899.
· Editor Electrical \Vorker:
We11, our gang of trouble experts have
· returned and report the lines are clear, in
· fact, a fulfillment of our prophesy iu last
month's 'Vork:er. All ground, short and
open circuits have.received due considera-
tion by the local's committee, and also the
Pittsburg Electrical'Contractors Protective
Association; and considering that a child
had to be born for a special purpose and.
that it has attained an age to be sufficiently
stropg enough to wa~k, it has struck out to
accomplish said purpose with its fellow
· co-laborers of Local Union NO.5, and with
.a mu,tnal understanding with each other
all in the space of four weeks is, we think,
a rather slick article when it goes for speed.
All men should be reasonable am} possess
· a fair degree of common sense, of course,
each one has his opinion; but as' Lord
Bacon said: .. Reading maketh a full man,
conference a ready man and writing an
· .exact mau," we think that reasonable de-
i
I.
mE ELEC1RJCA,f;,. weRKER
man.ds laid before reasonable J;uen,would
we are glad to say, has been tIle gratifying
result. There 'is not the slightest doubt
that if the sanIe methods whic'h have char-
acterized the former action is carried
throughout the term of this agreement that
both contractors and wiremen will be the
gainers in all they undertake, which was
at this time a precarious condition for the
contractors. Owing to the low basis work
had fallen to, it was their ~)11ly salvation.
The agreemeut was not a ·compulsory
measure but was made to appear so by out-
siders and the press; there was no trouble
nor was there an intention of a strike. It
was simply a business proposition offered
by Local Union NO.5 at a tune when it
meant so much to the employer; to refuse
would mean . a11 kinds of trouble and a
smash-up, ·,to .accept the proffered help
was to join hi the mutual operations per-
taining to the trade we look to for ~iu
support.
It is with a feeling of exultation that I
pen these lines to tbe Brotherhood, boru
not of a single idea but many, that go to
make our natures as they should be, when
labor is given her dues. The first reason
that gives rise to our present buoyant
spirit is for the organization and keeping
Local Union NO.5 in a thoroughly ·good
financial working basis, that is, I meau
those who have stood by her when hope
seemed like a fading star Oll the horizon
of our existence, fading slowly into com-
plete oblivion; not the ones who tremble
as slaves and are not worthy of the name
of men, being devoid of honesty and prin-
ciple and have not tIle full degree of what
their craniums ought to hold, who will run
as a skulking dog or a traitorous coward
when trouble comes, and are afraid :to-stand
their ground as' -they should as brothers.
It is for these I do not care one flip-
human vultures feeding on the mistakes of
others. But all organizations are sorely
afflicted with these parasites and it is not
worth the time and paper to give them
notoriety-those who know more of Local
No. 5's business than its bonafied members.
If they said strike, they are prevaricators
of the first water, as these lubbers are al-
ways on the lookum to do. damage to some-
one, even if it is friend against frienu, and'
brother agai1lst brother. But "the mill
of the Gods grind sluw and exceedingly
small," a1,u these insigniiicant particles
fall out ~etween the burrs in a short time.
'Vords cannot express the contempt I feei
for such individuals, and as for Local No.
S she never was in a better financial condi-
ti01l than now and is goiJ;1g forward.
The second reason is that the electrical
coutractors have arrived at the point which
Local Union No. S has been IJl1shing ever
since she was an organi7.ation, the very
ideas are taken up and the same work will
have to be gont; Lhrough,but.oH afa,r.dif-
ferent blll;is of opat'~O.n", ~~,~ :ue.,.'
show thehel ping ·hand'; whi<:,b.\w"n 'Pro1~'·
fel'ed before, passed unnoticed: ibJloiC00bll!Pit·
tors and in·spectors; put nowA;;liI~t:It;-wijlt~,.:.
a unified effort for the. general ~tterU1ellt
of the electrical industry, a basisohnntual
operation which will alone accomplish tire
results intended by ·the. tW{')·bo<ii-cs;, As,;
one of the early agitators of this, and in
conjunction with the effort!> oJ my col-.
leagues we have to-day accomplisaee. what
others said you never can ; and I. beHev.e
a
it stands without peer for clearness. in t4e
adjustment throughout, and it is with. ex-
ceedingly great pride that I now bav.e.
before me the actual docum.eat-an agj-e.e-.
went between employer and em.ployee that
is a reasonable. one and makes. the' two
hearts beat as one for the success of both.
An 'honest effort of labor to elevate by
hard work of education to the point. of
rights and privileges and where th\! mistake
has been made, which placed both con-
tractor and wiremen on 3.n unsafe footing:-.
NO\v, bridged by an agreement for and]:,y.
thl' united efforts we will succeed; this is
where labor gains, in having Ii sur-e, "fair
understanding and makkg reasonable and
rational demands.
Did you ever think as the llearse drives by,
That it won't be long 'til yotl aud I,
Go riding out in that big .plumed hack, ..
And we neve.r remember of coming ··back .
Did you eve. think, as }'.111 strive for gold,
That a dead man's hand can't a dollar hold,
You can pinch and tug, ~,trive and sa:ve, -
But you'll lose it all when you~each. the
grave.
That man Dlay last, but never live~,
Who much .eceives, but nothing gIves;
\Vhom none can lovi>, whom lJone ·e'an'
thank,
Creations blot, creations blank.
Bllt he who marks from day to day,
In generous acts his radiant way,
Treads the same path his Saviour tro4,
The path to glory and to God. . .
THoMAs: DALY.
The third reason is that the hand' has
been extended to labo. ill this vicinity to
gain in a financial way. A grand .testimo-
nial benefit will be given the week of t.he
26th of July, and the proceeds over. and
above the actual running expenses· are to
be divided share and share alike among the
various labor orgBnimtions in this 'Vicinity
who take part. It.is a novel scheme inits
make-up and has on the faceo~ it the guar-
antee of success, be·cause of the basis 0l
mutual operation for a given '.end, 'i'he
show will be well advertised and ·is· ttl he
made '.lp of the .cream of the Ame.rican
stage vaudevilie performers, and' one·that
will be within the reach of all, fifty cents
being the price of admission:
The whole scheme ,vas e"olved o'.!tside
by ·the friends of jabor which shows that
 June] THE EtECTRICAf: WORKER:
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tuere ha!; oeefl a:li!le of conservative ac- OW11 up the corn as you ought to; you helper to one journeyman, wireman; or
tion, or elo;e it Wfji-:lJ -not havc been recog- lluve a whole lot to read bet,v,een these fixtureln'an.
nized in thiR ma1ii-rer. Good luck to our lilies; do your dnty as ~ man, iife is too short EighLh-A boy to learn the trade shall
outside friends. - to act as ell ass; read this agreement. ana: serve one year as helper, and at the e;-:pi-
Well, there bas been all kin.}s l)f hustling think tht:'lllar:t~r ovti,,"anJ sei~'wll!:~~vou ration of that time, if of gooci charl!l'ter
bete in Fitt!;burg according to some of the ~talld, t~)t':l ,'gct ii Hrove ou_- with you!' ann ability. shall be admitted to the Vnl i Ju
reports of-the doctors, several, night cll,llb plunks. - as all apprentice, provided he bas ::ttaiLed -
havc been answered- and the"e has come Brother Eldridge has returned from a the age of 17 years.
into the union many new members who trip for his health alld is looking as plump Niuth-An apprentice sball riot be a1-
will sen'e as apprentices for a period of as H possum, and has lots to tell you; we lowed to finish any w('rk in any brotilCh'of
tinle. Brother Fox WIl,S greatly surprised are glad to have him amol1g t1S again. the business under two yeaes' selyke ..
the other night by the appearance of a P. S.-I think I've writte!1 a long 1etler Tent.h-The party of the first P''lit agrees
Foxy;, well, to tell it as it was understood, don't you? aud it's alwut. 'time -I'd stop, that all'mt'n empio)'<!d by them, or shall'
they did 110t k~ow for quite a :while what; becal13e I yloll't want yon to think for olle be clup10yed by them after d:l.te aforesaid,
constemation reigneu un til they disco,·- minuie 'll1ut I'm ruuning a race willi dear 5"aU be union men in good standing; and
crerl a small pair' of-spurs, then of course Ullc1e 'l\ml with his P. 8's. that would the party of tbe . second part agrees not to
they knew it ,was a wire puller. Bro:her Ilc\'(,r do. \\'e all enjoy his letters and work for any firm not signing this agree-
\Vilsdell llad a similar experience but 1'. ne\'cr'd ge~ tired reading them if they took' ment, except manufacturing firms operat-
different result (o!Jeu face) diYerler ann up the whole paper. ing their own plant.
coil winder. Wc -;;:uow that brother Ford Here is our agreement: Bleveuth-This agreement sball apply
bas his troubles-a pair; stem wind, swi~dl :llEMORANDu:.r OX' _-\GREEM}<~NT. _ to all work within the radius of 15 nliles
hoard expert, allll ~1I open face carbOll This agrecment, made and entered into frOl~1 AlIeg1eny County Court house.
treater. I am sure that the bwthers are this first day of July, 1899, between the Twelfth-The parJ-y of the first part re-
pleased judglll!; f~Clll the numuer of appli- ,'.~sociatioil of Elec~rica1 Contractors of serves the right to diSCharge any man in
cations ,c.'1.1Jed for, but as the r"p()~l~ are -Piusburg, ilcreillaf:er called the party of their .employ, at any time for reasonabl.e
not _complete and o:hcr quarters to be the first part, aml Local lillion ~o. 5 of the cause.
he-ard froul later, we will wait for results. ;,ationa1 Bro~l:el'h0od of Electrical "'ork- Thirteenth-Neither party hereto shall
What next? en; of America, hereinafter called the party do any act discrimil:;lting in any way
Brother I'wurley got himself together of the second pan. against 10Y memb.:'T (Jf the union or asso-
and went and found somcone better, as that Witnesseth: That the parties hereby ciation.
:3 the geaeral acceplati011 of the acdon. agree and with each otht:r as follows: Fourteenth-In case of hr"ach of agree-
o ho~ nice a good cigar wouhl be ; hayen' t First-Nine hours (9) shall constitute a ment by either party, the other party shall
llad one for a long time. .day's work, froll! 7:30 a. m. to I2 110L'I;, aud furnish to the party so offending, a COIU-
Brothcr Charle.,: Campbell has made a from 12 :30 to 5 p. Ill., exc,ept 011 Saturdays, munication ill writing, and each -party
lerrible discovery, a motor that has ner- 011 which S hours shall constitute a day's shall appoint a committee of three, said
vous prostration. If any of the brothers work, from 7:30 a. m. to 12 noon, and from committee to meet as soon thereafter as
ever heard of that ar disease afore, please 12:30 to 4 p. m. possible, aud dispose of the question at
send the medicine to Ilrother Campbell; it Second-All car fare frol11 office to work issue.
ought to be fixed. simi! be paid by the party of the first part, Fifteenth-In case of -breach of agree-
,Brothers Welsh and Kesler left the unless the party of th~ second part is noti- ment by allY contractor or member of the
Smoky city for a clime that suits their fied to report 011 job; if work is out of union, and if the accused shall be fOllnd
health better; we would liked to ha"e had town, the p:lrty of the lirst pal·t will pay guilty, a fine of $5.00 shall be imposed for
thenl stay with us but they vanished. Call all fares exceeding IO cents. for the first offense, aud for the second
again brothers. Tbird--·All ow:, nine homs }Jer day, and offense they shall be 'expelled from the
Now, since the agreement is signed, and Sundays and legal holidays, time and a union or association.
'will take dred July 1st, J899, all wiremen, half shall be paid. Nothillg less than one- Sixteenth-When an applicant presents
journeymen and fixluremen in this vicinity half hour I'll anyone week shall be consti- himself for admission into the union a
,'\'ill have to come under tbe sha,low of No. tuted as overtime. committee of three shall be appointed, two
5 if we know anything about what's gwine Fourth-The minilllum rate of wages fOI of wholll shall be members of the union,
to drop. \Vhere are those chumps who journeymen, wiremen und fixturemen, and one a member of the associa~ion, and
said the union be d---? Ah, hah, olu sltall be $2.50 per day. Journeymen, wire- said committee shall constitute au examin-
man, how about it now? Innocenls and men or fixturemen, when recognized as ing board to pass upon application, and :i
sit:ners get in out of the wet, because it's foremen of a job, shall- recei ve not less two-third vote of said board shall entitle
going to rain pretty hard and YOtl've got no th311 ;'2.75 per day, provided he has charge applicant to membership into the electrical
umbrella. of three or more men. workers' union, provided he is favorably
But some will say that's a little strong. Fith-The' party of the first part s11all considered by sait! union in meeting as-
('There was a time wben there was a chance, illruish all tools for conduit -work, and also sembled, said union to pay all expenses of
.'lnd y~'~l -didn't :lU'·r!.,lce;"- 'We'are not ~;l G.rills and bits O\·c;: If. inch,,:! ill length, exauliail.g board, provideu ,;aid expense
{or fUll; we mean business and that's why when such are required on a job; journey" does not exceed $2.00. '
we Me here yet ~.nd st-ill in business at the men to be responsible for tools taken frow Seventeenth-This agreement, when ac-
old stand. Come uownand we'll put lhe shop. cepted, and signed by the committees and
glm'es on with yeo Look here, paTu, bke Sixth-No journeYlat.:I1, wiremen or fix- an executive officer of the union and asso-
yer medicine like a laan; knuckle down tlorelllt!lI shall do any worl: that properly ciation, is an agreement between the par-
hard, none of your flinching; if you don't belo1!gs, to the party of tile first part;- and ties bel'eto; and it is agreed aud distinctly -
like this dose, frielld or foc, it's good for not more than one member of a contracting understood that all previons communica-
you, I can leU you that you nCt!d a douhlc firm ~ilalJ do journeymen work, unless in tions between said parties, eitl1er "erLal or
portion, and if I lIad the words to givc I'm case of extrcme necessit}. written, contrary to the provisions hcreof
sure you'd get it straight. Drink her 5en,nth-No contractor 5ha11 elllploy at are hereLy withdrawn and annulled, aau
down and look pleasant; smile Ii little a!ld any tillle more than on:! apprcntice or this agreement shall continue in force for
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12 Tli~~_~ECTRI>': _ ltKER JJ",,;lI.~~'

one year from date, and this agreement

Tll.e~;s~. inl~resti~g':aJd:i;;;';~~--""'in"'g:""..:::c=o=n=-==a=g=o=w=e=e=le=c=t=e"'d"'a=b"'u=sl=·n=e=s"'s"'a=g=e"'nCt='to=:g"".o=·t""o=rt=h
shall be modified only by a duly approved tests of the day -were the - pote-eHmbing and do missionary work am-<mg the uab'e-'
suppl,ementary agreement signed by both events,. that are p.~~ji2.r:>to .the ·el.ectrical lieving of our city. Bro: Bow,el'!, "YlHo is 'a'
parties, provided one mOI).th's written wo.J'~..s ap,lt of p~\;;ir;ilil ,¥a:!~~)QJl.\i~m, as heart-and-soul worker for tfl:It:>!l'nion, was
notic;e shall be given by either party, con- demo,nstra't.L}lg how q.~!ckly th.?¥ ca:~;climb selected to fill the office, but Bro. BGwen
taining full information in regard to con- up and ,!o'rn pole\,.witp. th~:use of their was compelled, after two we.eks,<.to resign,:
templated changes. iron ..foot spurs.. !Three poles had been owinlg to the pressing duties of. hi~ other
Witness our bands and s~ls this :md day erected on-:the 'main.,rQ'ld for the P'lu<pose, positio.ns. Bro. O. L.Dress.ei"'wasappoin.t-
of June, 1899 . . the taller of !Vhicb·w:'-1s fifly.,five. feet high, ed to fill his place; and that, JMo .Dr:esser.
Electrical Contrado:rs Association per H. with a clOssbar four feet from the top. J. is a hustler goes without .sayi.n,g; as· during
W. Cleland, secretary. J. Cameron WOR the prize for the fa.stest his short term in office we haveadd.ed. sev_
J. B. MCGINLEY, time in ciimbiQgup and coming'down the en inside wiremen to our ranks. . Tha"t's
JAS. A. LANGTON, pole.. He TJlade it,.:in 19 seconds, thereby ri.ght, Bro. Dresser; keep it lip. We ne.~d
GEO. R. MATH lEN, winning the fine ge,ld championship medal a few more like you. I thimk other :Iocals
i . Committee. set with diamonds; The, Qth.er contestants ·could imitate us in this line to the·ir advan~
Per E. D. SMITH, president:. in ther.e order were : ]. A: Camer0n, 201-5 tage. A business agent will do your looals
Local Union NO.5, National Brotherhood se~s;E. Verd:on,2J ; O. Eckstrom, 22 ; all kinds of good. Of course ev.ery broth-
of Electrical Workers of America, per H. J.J.::Wson,z3; J.oe Williams,'26: . er is, or should be, a self-a'ppointed a.gent.
H. Haas, president. The·three·pole climhing cont~st was won He should do his utmost to promo.te.-the
F. D. l\:I.~LONE,
by J.A. Cam"ron in 35' seconds .. The other good of the' union. But in all OFganiza-
WM. A. EVANS,
contestants in their:order were: D. Eck- tions a few men do all the hustling, ,whHe
JOHN W. ECOFF,
strt>ln,36 2'-5 ; E: Verdun,37; J•. Ellison, the rest of us look on, instead of doing our
. Committee.
Per JOHN S. HASKINS, chairman. 377=-;; Joe Williams, -50 ~·5. share. Thi.s r~mioos us of a story. This
[1.. s.J D. ~ck5trom,w.ontbe, cont'!st of pll!cing story commenCeS as all well-regulated.st<,3-
Yours Ftatern,a11y, a cross. arm on the. top of 'a pole, his time ries should, thus: Once upon a ;til'ne the
J. H. STOUFFER. being 2:Q, .to z:16by JOf: Willial'llil. people ofthe earth agreed that.uporr a cer-
~oca1 Union No.6. The contest of ·throwing a wire over a tain day, at a given time, they would raise
San Francisco, Cal., June I, 18w. line fifty feet high :was won by contestant a shout which' would ascend to the lRoon.
Editor Electrical Worker; Dug'an, Coffmanseoond and Bentley third. At the appointed ~ime every pcrsonw,as to
The following extract from a local paper Tbe orders .for the va.rious prizes were shout at the top of his lungs. Now,·as:the
,,;m no doubt be of interest to the brothers: distribu,ted on the groun.-}s, time drew nigh, each one said to .himself,
The fift·h annual picnic of the National The offi·cers of the Electrical \Vorkers, "Everyone else is going to shout; guess
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at all of whcm were a;~ive ill makin~_ the pic-. I'll keep quiet and iisten.'" And the result
Agricu.ltural Park recently was largely at- nic 'and cx<:ursion it: success, were: R. P. was that at the appoin·ted time it was the
tended and a most enjoyable affair. The Gale, Grand Yice •. President; ]. J. Cam- stillest, quietest moment that 'the earth
crowd was an orderly one, and as the eron, President; Gco~ge .Sittman, Viee- ever experienced. Now, this' is what the
weather was delightful there was nothing President; A. A. Whitfit'!d, Recording trouble is with the greater number -of lis;
to mar the pleasure of the occasion. Secretary; R. P~ .G:li-e, Financial Secre- we want to keep quiet and listen whil:e the
The excursionists from San Francisco tary; T. Connes!!, Press Secretal) ; George other fellows do the shouting. '
came in two trains of fifteen cars that were Keetley, Treilsurer ;.Harry Hilton, Fore- Now, we all know the men of our .craIt
well filled. They were accompanied by a man; C. Baraeo, Inspector'; Charles Stark, are not paid in accordance to the wbrk
number of policemen in full uniform, who T. Conues!:;-:-Harry Hilton, Trustees. they perform. We should receive better
did not have anything to do in their official The committees of·the day ;"ere: Ar- pay than a common laborer, but in' some
capacity, but took part in and greatly en- ran.gement Comojitt~e,.A. Whitfield, chair- cases, -1 am sorry to say, the wages are' not
j.eyed the amusement features of the day. man; J. J. C~mel"i)n:, J~" P.Gale, C. Rem- much better. You receive pay for -the
Sheriff Langford was also on the ground sehel, H. HiI.ton, George Barnhardt, B. manual labor performed by your 'hands,
with a posse, but they were not called upon Brown. H.-·F: Dampke, .T. Conness, J. W. nothing for the knowledge of knowing how
to eltercise their authority, as no serious Giass, George K. Porter. to do it. A plumber once sent· a'. bill t'o ~
disturbances materialized. Recepuon~mittec'7C. Anderson, F. cranky customer who returned the 'bill and
The dancing, which was kept up all day Thurles, J. Williams, C. Gillispi. W. Con- wanted to have it itemized. The plumber
in the pavilion and on the .open floor in nor, P. Lynch" F. PiIlitt, F. Guthrie, R. itemized the bill in this manner: .
the eucalyptus grove, was much enjoyed. Brvant, WiiJi.am Me LeHan. Fixing pump. . . S .50
There was a throng of dancers on the Floor Di.rectors-":G. eerge Sittman,
_ Edgar K '
nowlDg h ow.. . 2.00
spacious floor of the pavilion throughout Ries.
the day and the scene was an animated Floor C6mOlittee'-C. V':. Baraco, W. H. Tutal.. . . . . . $2.5°'"
one. Perkins, F. Keetley, C. Stark, f\. Rose, H. So you see a man should be; according to
The games in the afternoon proved lively Hasselback, L. Riche. this friend of labor, paid for.a little rnore
and interesting contests and greatly enter- Games Committee- Waiter Bentley, than manual labor. That plumber 'can
tained the. crowd. ]. J. Cameron, a husky Lieutenailt C. J, Hogan, j. Vi. Glas!>, have a cigar on me the first time we meet.
electrical worker from San Francisco, who Judges-H. J. Ed,,'nrds, William Mc- . Now, we are all about to install new 'offi-
has often proved himself the champion on Farland, J. R. Hailey. cers, and let it be the aim of atl locals to
former similar occasions, won the honors Gate Keepers-H. Hiilon, G("orge ·Barn- elect men who will be of the best servi-ce
on this' occasion, with his brother, J. A. hl!rdt, . _ _ _ _ _- ' 0 _
to our cause, and help them allyotl can to
Cameron, second. ~ocalUnio!! NO.7. build up our union.
. The bicycle race, once around over the Sprin.§;tlelrl,. ~l?.!'s., June 9, 11199. Hoping the next six montbswiH be as
race course, was won by contestant Allen, Editor Electrical \V.:orker: prosperous as the first six 'munths 6£ .this
D. Manning second and George Dow third. Another m(,nlh l,as C(Jille and ~olle and yeal', 1 remain,
J. J. Cameron won two of the footraces, L~1(;a! NO.7. has accomplished much in Frate'rnally yours,
securing fine pri·zes. that short !ifi<tce of t!me. Ab01il !our weeks :" THE JUDGE."
 June]
P. S. It's an off with Farrell's base bail
team. No more practicing. mil Junes
swallowed the hall. J.
Local Union No .. 9.
Chicago, June 7, IS(}9.
Editor Electrical Worker:
As our P. S. failed to make his report to
the Worker last month, we have erased
his name from the pay-roll, and in his s~cad
NO.9 has elected one of the stalwarts of
the N. B" but as he has not been installed
yet I was instru(:ted to notify the N. B. that
NO.9 is still alive and doing business in
this village, and the latch.strjng hangs out
to all brothers coming this way.
We will hold our· annual picnic August
13. No superstition about ·~o, 9. \Ve
change the pole contest from one high to
three short poles; by this change we hope
to decrease the chances of· accident and
increase number of contestants. I hope
we will see some (If our old members there.
Idon't think there are any idle members
in NO.9. The city is build;ng a large l'lec-
tric plant for street lighting at 6-tth street
and ;Wentwbrth avenue. This is to fur-
nish light south of 39th street. This plant
will have a capacity of 2000 lamps of 2000
candle power, This work will give NO.9
a chance to rna ke some good brothers or
test contract with city.
Fraternally yours,
W. E. KNAPP.
Local Union No. xo.
Indianapolis, Ind., June 6, '99.
Editor Electrical Worker:
I have b\lt a few words to write this
time, and will try to write them quick and
ring off. No. 10 is doing good business,
and the brothers will believe the statem~nt
wheD they hear that we had seven new
lights and two. old· ones to add to aliI' cir·
cuit the other night, and two more old ones
last night. Our $10, that we chargt'd to
ride our goat, don't scare anyone, They
put up the stuff right on the jump, c1l1d
don't you think for a minute that we are
easy on backsliders, either; for if they are
far enough in arrears they pay the same
rate as new appiicants; we are not a bit
easy; and I, for one, have no patience with
a m;m that is working all the time, or near-
ly so, and then will let his dues go. 'i'hey
are 110t very deep; you can reach the bot-
tom of their unionism with a very short
pole. Let some fellows get where they
don't have to ,;hc',\, a: card and theh dGc-
money is soon blown ·in. \Vhy can't the
laboring men hang t::>gether? Why i" the
laboring man not protected? \Vhy do not
ail classes of labor command the wages
they are worth? Why arc men-fathers-
working to-day for the same wages tbat we
hoys used to get for riding a horse in the
hay field or gathering sheaves in the wheat
field 15 or 18 years ago? Think of it; men
supporting families now on the wages that
boys earned when there wasn't but the be-
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 13
ginning of as much muney in ·circulatiun uscd to be a member of Local No. 12 has
as then' is to-day .. God knows we, as men, violated hi~ oath of allegiance to the Na-
cam more, but get it,if you can. \Ve h<=.\'c tional Brntherhood and joined that body of
got a gQ,~d Mandard ·uow; we ha ve prospecr- rebels known as NO.3. Not that we regret
ity; con·i1dence is. restored; the poor man losing the man, for where one is like him·
has learned economy; his stomach is there are 100 loyal ones; but it only shows
shrunken; he can't eat :':0 much; his shin you the low, dirty work that a man can
is acclimated and hardened; he don't need stoop to. He had no reason to do this oth-'
clothes; he has lost his American pride; he er thaI' getting a job that would pay him
lives in woodsheds and barns remodeled, more money. He was working for the N.
or else away out in the suburbs, where he Y. Te!.Co. Members of other locals will
can use some of his big wages to go to and please bear in mind the name, Frank J..
from work. They don't care for their fam- Luce, and when you run across him-well,
ilies; they can stay anywhere. Why is the you know the way to treat a traitor.
poor man where he is to-day? I'll tell E. W. LATHAM, Sec'y pro tem.
you. It is because he .has permitted him-
Local Union No. X7.
self to be pushed and !;hoved wherever the
Detroit, Mich., Juue 9, 1899,
bosses willed. Why don't we, to a l~~an, Editor Electrical Worker:
pause and study the condition of ourselves
A greeting to the brotherhood from, No.
and our fellow-men? This will be enough.
17·
Many will ask, \Vhat can we do? I say, I am sorry to report a bad accident to
organize, and then stick together; for yol,1 Bro. lV. Coniu. He was on top of a pole
can see the re!;ults of organization every- laking down some wires aud when he cut
where. Look how the money power is or~ the hst ones off the pole snapped and it
gani7.ed ana. note the result of the last three and brolher . Conine came crashing to the
years. They have e~'erything their own earth, breaking the bones in b()th his feet.
way. Look at the monopolies that are I aml!appy to state that he is doing nicely.
forming every day, and note their success. . The union esteems tbis brotht:r very highly
Brothers, \~e must succeed if we get thor- and congrat~lates him <in his narrow escap~
oughly organized; and when. you go into from death.
any labor organization, remember the com- Hurrah fo!' Xu. I of St. l.ouis, Brothers
mandment, .. Love thy neighbor as thy- Raymond and Woodwortb have th~ir ca~ds
self," and expect to help your neighboFs there and from their glowing l'epi>rt~.No.
and fellow· workmen as much as yourself. I nIllst certainly be a ilOble body· of IUt:J!,
I say, if you don't go into the union with to han~ been able to bring about such g~od
this intention, stay Gut, and don't get in the conditions as they have in that metropolis
road. Some say, .. r have no kick coming, of the southwest. Here's wishing 'you
because I've got a job and pretty fair luck No. I.
wages." But I have got a kick coming, 'Ve are takmg in some inSide wil'e~eti.
and I expect to kick. My job and my now. Business Agent Shea is getting the
wages don't create jobs and wages for my union clause into lots of the jobs tbis sum-
fellow-men who have no work and are mer. Every finn has SOUle union men, the
hungry. Kick? You bet 'I'll ki;;k! I Electneal Construction Co. have all u1110n
guess I must hav.:c been born kicking; but men, I understand. ' This company U!les
I will quit it for this time and see how some its men right, and what I say about so~e
people like it; then, maybe I'll kick harder. bosses in another part of this letter does
No. 10 is doing all she can t9 push the not refer to them, or to other employers
good cause along. We pick up e\'erybody who are on the square. The Ediso!1 Co., •
that is qualified, if they only give us a hint for instance, with Joe '''-idman as superin-
that they want to se::eus. You ought to see tenuenl of lines. .'\ lineman wbo wvrks
Joe Langdon go after them. He is the real- for hiU! once never wants to lean:: ·him.
stuff; and wt:'ve got a iot more just about That kind of people never have aily trouble
as good. All are well at prescnt and about you will notice. They are square.
up to date, The boys all seem to like to Brotber Rohert \Vright, we ha\-e not for-
carry good cards. gotten you, but you know No. 17 has had
lowe and willingly make an apology to lots of trouble of its own lately, and you
Bro. McCarthy. His girl happened to be know what that does to the treasury, but
;> boy, ?nd <'lltwdghed 13ro, Pike's girl half we .lre going to dig up something ne:-:t
a pound, and he, like his father, is a good meet.; 11g night, nevertheless ..
un!cn man and has already sent in his ap- As the strike at the Bell T~h:pho!le Co.
plication to No. 10. Hoping that this cor- is over and the brothers back at work at a
rec.rion is sufficient, and that we may have mis? of wages, I will send you the follow-
many letters this month, I am, as ever, for ing four names of union men who scabbed
union and our rights, . . during the trouble:' 'Vm. Blll'ke, George
'E. E; BAUMAN, P. S. Allen, Owen Gregg and John Laderoot.
Local Union No. u. The first one is the worst, but are not the
Brooklyn, N. Y., June 5, 1899., whole four a fine collection of hyena-
Editor Electrical Worker: hearted things? Yes, a precious ql1art~tte
I wish to publish the fact that one who of CUTS? They have been expelled lind
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placed on the black-list. I have 110t the ag:linsHne strong and to· light· the grinder and the remedies to be applIed.' ~l~fothers;
names of tbe non-union men wbo scabbed. of .l:abor at every turn. Take. for i1Jstltonce, a apply them. - '.i'-"
There were several of them. Their names lot of men working for orteot tJi/"se grind- I hope the new Press Sec. wilt keep' lifter· ~
wiU be published next month. It speaks inl!·,sneerin~ bosses.· "\'herethese men those scabs wbo broke, their· iobligation
volumes for the influence of No. J7 that st;nd d~bating whether to bc~ their during the Bell Co. 's strike. I would li1!:e·
only four union men broke their solemn pr~.sF!lIt iUs, or fly to ot1>crs they 1:.r;o'." not to publish a book about the low-firing, seJ...;·
ohligatioNs aad -scabbed. We request the of, ifthel'e is· a union m2n :l.IDong them, he fish, sneaking, grasping, cowardlyllouiuis.
Reetlrdmg Secretary of each local to cut it is who:Urge:;· them ·te!T'ake a sfa.nd for I would make it so hot that the vohmie
the 'a90ve four .names oat and paste them decent tI·eat!1!ent ; lie·' it is wh.? sei'zes the would have to be printed 011 asbestos paper
in their minute books for future reference, gauge orbattlear.d f1iTlg~ itJu!!·and fair and bound in fire brick.
in case these grafters ever try to get into in the fa'ee of the d'ominet-ring boss. And Yours fraternally, .. , ..
the Brotberhood again. yefthcTI: are 'th(\se who rlare~::>J· that the DAN E. ELLSWORTH,'?-T
One of 'the brothers requests me to turn union tyrannizes over·'.the ·poor. Again, I Press Secretaiyi·:
the hose on all scabs in general through say,·that .. is a biack alld bmtallie. . -------
Local Union No. :IS.
the Worker. Instead of t~ hose I would . The m·asses of the people are. poor,
like to shoot kiU-me-qnick· l'oach powder ignorant and disorga,.i;:e'd, n,ot ktlo~ving Kansas City, June" 1899. , -, ,
over them through a funnel a foot in dia- the 'rights of mankind 0:1 the earth, be- Editor Electrical \Vorker :
meter. cause a small class in every country bas In vain do I look for NO.2, when; oh
One of the scabs of the recent strike taken possession of property aud govern- when, wilt thou appear? Somebody get a
Uu-eateoH. to raise Cain if we interfered ment,alld wakes iav.·s for its OW11 !mfety search' light. I see that F. D; o( NO.4
with him. No: 17 has a distinct knowledge andt-he secnl'it)· of its plunder. Chgim- says he is going to let us know about
Qf its own business, and we propose to ized iabor is the pioneer in the cnlsade some of the backsliders of NO.4. Well,
come al.ol1g, let's have their names •. Now,
carry out a policy \\ith whlske£s on it, so agaim;tthesc classes ",nt;'. P.et as if taey bad
a "divine ·r1bl,lt n· to ·;p!ander the poor. F. D., why don't you sign your full·name.
what t' 'ell BIll? What t' ell ?
Unionism is teachingUie great common to your letter? I think that each'and
Soon after the Bell trouble was over, the pe;)p1e to shame arid to hate tht>se ar:sto- every Press Secretary should sign bis fuil·
brothers at the Detroit Tel. <;0. went out, cratie thieves. The Ul1tOn is an emalleipa- name to his letter. Now, come along,
and after putting up a line fight have re- tor of lmman j;bcrt}· .and human thought. let's have your, name. I might meet you
turned to work with substantial points
A tree is known:bY·its fruit~. If. these some day and I would like to take you by· .
won. They tied tbiugs up so tight that the
classes.had not· the:great fotces of organ- the hand and say, "Brother F. D., how
company soon called for an arbitration ized hrI>or and,gs syr.ipathi7ers to I'eckon are you, etc."
board, wbicb adjusted the trouble. Frank with, .they. would· be t~le .death .>f the Judge, I read your letter, and I am goiug
Snyder and the rest of the committee did American slanua!"d··of liv;.ng, and in their to take it before our City Couucil. Wby I
fine work, backed:up by every DIan on accursed greed woul,l hold the world in Look out for my July letter and see; at
strike. As the question was one of bours pawn. \Vho dares say this is not true? present I cannot tell you. Brother Millel:
more twin wages, and as they gained the Thei·e is no exa!.~geratiol1 about this, I am says "save your nloney." Now, boys"
niDe-bour day, you cau call this olle more talking straight fac::s·i;o YOll now, Ameri- stop right here and think awhile on wbat·'
victory for No. 17. cans. Brother Miller says. I have known and
Up to the minute this last strike was If this letter com~ under the cye~ of any know now Olen who are af work here· in t:
ended not a. man wavered. They were the nou-unionists I want to urge tbem to come Kansas City, who make from fifty"t&
rig:i)t stuff from surface to center aud back in aild he men, and· cl'; their part. Don't seventy-five dollars a month who, 'before·
again. Why, bless their bravebearts, they be af~aid ; he·lil.c a union mall, afraid of the month is half gone, borrow tW. pay·
knew tbat all struggles do Dot win the first nothing. ~9 sir·; a· genlli~le unio;1 DIan day. Now, boys, just stop and; think·of"
tim.e? .. Even if lost, they knew a strike is don't know what fear is. He thinks it is wAat you are doing. You are spending'
a benefit to the extent that it shows the some kind· of a disease like yellow. fever your hard earned wages ftlr that which is·
employer that ·his pocket book suffers and ollly knows that ,he· has nev.;:r had it. not bread. Now, boys, stop it; "if-you,:
duriug the trouble and almost always for a Come in and. rub 111) agail'lst some good have got families on your hands, think of .
long time afterwatds too, and he is more tmioll men and they willsr;rely iustill some what will become of them, if you keep it-
apt to concede some things in the future to independence. into yon; J see loyal urlion up. Now, we all know that· a man who·
avoid this stoppage of profits. If unious nlen all arou\lfL ·me, and t!J know them is has got to work for a living does not know'·
had laid dowll in the past when defeated, to lov~ the;ll. I know their faults and when he will lose his job, and then what?-·
conditions would Dot be as ·rosy today as their ;'·irtnes. anal a(.i11!ire them in spite "Ob," you say, "I will look. out for·that;"·
they are. Are. we not as game as those of one and for the .0theL· See ho\v nobly It's sixteen to one you won't do anything'
before.us? they do fight fOI··.the cau:;'.!, and I may say of tbe kind. Now, boys, for tbe dear'oues':
In my travels I have ruD across arrogant they will yet achieve that bettermel!t of at home, stop and think..
bosses, and they are almost invariably per- the workingmall for •... hich lhey haye toiled Well, Brothers Pike and McCarthy, I '
sonal cowards aDd in time of trouble tbey so earnestly, battled so bravely and hoped can sympathize with you; I have got a girl-'-
will send some olle else oui: to do the dirty so ::!:~("nt1YI il~,l. ii: 0:":':· !l-::~:-t~ 'n:,t::r ~!.';es too, just· twenty ·mont!ls.· So you see--I
work if tbere is any danger, while they e,'er a faith that tile tillle will yet corne in know how it is.
themseives skulk$itilin the walls of a this fail" hl11d of ours· when there will be Give it to them, Brother Dean, go in ·old··
hOllse. Any old house will do as long as it neither a miiliouaire ncr a beggar,a Jllaster boy, and may you never be weary in wen
don't leak lead. not ,. slave. doing. I have got one here who is trying .
I read a short time ago in one of the The election of oruCt:·s win take place to come the same game on m~, but you can·
monopolistic man-bating newspapers that before anoth!:!' letter l:; ,.",illen. and you bet as long as I· can. handle a pen he will·
unions try to tyrannize over not only the will hear from ~ new Press Sec. I lI:i.ve never do it.
rich, but the poor as well. That is a black written the letters for. No. 17 for :I kong Well! well! if here isn't No. 25 of old .
and brutal lie. The union never casts a time, and ha..,(' striven .0 give my conccp- . Kentuck. I am right glad to make your
stoDe at the .poor and unfortunate, but is tion of the W"-Ol!g3 uone to \l;o:-kingmen, acquaintance, Brother Diebel. Come again, .
ever ready to back the cause of the weak the· evils that spring frcm these: wrc.ngs, _ always room for one more•. (Ain't it so,
 June]
Uncle Tom ?) So keep it up now that you
have I'tart!.'d, do not get short circuited and
shnt down, but l,te~p up with a full load
each, Dlonth. Keep a log book, my hoy,
and ~.. ou \\;11 always have some copy for ye
.. tditor. I know he wants some from each
and ,every local, eh Uncle?
Brother Sullivan, in his letter of 1ast
DlOnth, wants to know how 111uch longer
we are going to wait before we define ",hat
~n eiectrical worker must be before he ean
sign up as Itn electrician. Now, Brother
Sullivan, just keep your eye opeu for my
July letter and you' will see what he 111ust
be here in Kansas City beffire he will he
allnwed to do any kind of electrical work.
\Vhy, Uncle 'fom, 1 am surprised, a man
of YOUI age going i.u ball gawt:s and !"Out-
ing like a Co;nanche 'or Siwash Indian.
My! it's no wonder your little nephew is
sho~ked. Why, it is just like getting
agroulld on a five hundred volt circuit to
hear that about a man of your venelable
age. Now, I ilever go to a ball gallie
(when I can't get a cbance), so for my
denr Auntie's sake, try and be good. (Take
her .)
Speaking about ball games, that reminds
me of whow I m~l at a ball game a few
Sundays ago. It was Brother Eugene
Roth, of Atchison, Kansas. It was the
first time I ever had. the honor of meeting
Brother Rotb, and I will ~ay right here, it
was gr?-ud to take him by LIe hand; ror,
if ever there was a lUan who hau the wel-
fare of the Brotherhood at heart, l{ro~her
Roth is that man. So come again, Brother
Roth, we would like to see you at No. IS.
A 101- of the boys felt hurt because you did
not call; so, if you will come, why we will
do the rest. I see by Brother 'Yeiser's
letter tbat the trimUlers of St. Joseph,
lVio., have got a raise to $60.00 a month.
Now, why cannot a private plant pay as
much, 1 will tell you why, St. Juseph
owns her own plant, and we all t:ncw
tbat wherever a city owns a plant, or any-
thing else for ~hat matter, it pays better
wages than a pri\'ate corporation does. So,
wby in lhundt:r don't you go to the polls
and vote as you ought to do. Vote for
men who will not give these valuable: fran-
chises away. Now, ,bere in Kansas City
trimmers only get $50.00 a month. Don't
they work just as hard as the boys do in
St. Joe? Well, I guess. So vote for
Ulunicipalownership of public franchises.
Wages 'will go up. and stay up at that.
There will be no strikes tben. So wake
IIp and think awhil.: bdcre yoa vote for
l'iark Hanna .)r .bis' tribe again. Let's
hear from Uncle TOUl on this. 1 would
advi~e Brother Martin of Chicago to have
his route change,d to the river, then, if he
falls fron. one of those poles he spoke of
in his last ietter, he will go in the rivel' aml
only get a liUlf' uath and w~ all know that
~ hath is good for the health (especially a
mud bath).
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
That is right, Brother l\IcBroom, giYe
the names of those bl3;ck sheep you
speak of; they might drop ,around here
and we would iike 'to meet them (with a
pike pole and can't hook.) \Ve would
give them a very warm leception you can
bet.
I see in last month's 'Yorker quite an ar-
ticle on fires, caused by defective wiring.
Now it is a fact that iully twenty-five per
cent. of the fires 1Iowauays are caused by
poor WlTlng. Here in Kansas City not
long ago we lost oue of the finest theaters
west of the Mississippi River by that kind
of work. I refer to the Auditorium. It
took fire at 1:05 a. m. aud by 5 o'clock a.
m. it was ruins; loss $175,000.00. Now
this subject should be brought up and dis-
.cussed in our meetings. I also noticed in
that article that SOUle of the boys did 1Iot
like to have the inspector come nosiug
around. Why uot? Are they fifteen cent
men, and call not their work stand an
honest insrection; it looks like that to me.
A man who does not want his work to be
inspected is ,110t much of a workman; I
dOIl't care a rap who it is, either. Now,
we have got two inspectors here in Kansas
City, a city nlan and an underwriter mall,
'and all either one of them asks is for the
work to be done right. When it is, it
passes, and not until it is right does it pass.
Now, I will try and give YOll a little news
from No. 18. "'e ha\'e a little scheme 011
foot that we are trying to get through.
(Where you ask). Wait until next month
and 1 will tell you all about it. If we get
what we wallt it will do away with a lot of
bum workmen here in this old town. 'Ve
will make it so hot for them that they will
shake the dust off tIleir feet ne\'er to cOllie
back again. It will not. only benefit us
here in Kansas City, but I think the whole
United Stl!,tes, ~ecause if it is a Sllccess
here l believe every city in the V. S. will
adopt it. ,It is endorsed by the fire under-
writers alld the chief of the fire department
of Kansas City. Also the general manager
of the Electric Light Company. So you
can see it must be a uandy. So watch ont
for the July number of the 'Vorker. then
you will see what it is. If it doesn't make
some of these fifteen cent men quit, that I
am always a harping 'on, 1 will miss my
guess.
'Veil, Uncle Tom, Ko. IS has donated
five dollars to Brother Wright. ,I only
wish that it was more, hut. it was the best
that we could do, as our finances are very
low at tbe present time. If every local
wonld do that much, "Grother "'right would
have more than enough to start hi1l1il1
business.
No. IS was mor!.' than pieased with the
quarterly reports Gf the Gra1ld Secretary
and Graud. Treasurer. :My only wish is
that the delegates to the next Convention
will keep them in office, for they certainly
deserve it. For, if t:\'~r hvo men did their
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duty, these two are the ones. So"come
along boys, and push a good thing along;
you kilOW what 1 mean. Now I don't want
you to think that I have forgotten the E.
B., for I have not.
Brother Hutchinson was not jlt the meet-
ing on the 26th ult. Why? Oh! only a
ten pound,boy, that is all. He sent a box
of good cigars to the boys of No. IS on the
strengtll of it. No. IS voted thanks for the
cigars and wished the boy well. Old Hoss
C. H. Adams, who was at the meeting, re-
sponded to the call for a toa~t. He said,
.. Here's success to the boy, and may he
never be an electrical worker." I wish to
say, ut this writing mother and boy are
doing well.
Here is some more fifteen cent work.
Two young men, H. A. Daviuson and Chas .
McCallulll, took a contract to install two
telephones (private) foe an alderman -of
Kansas City, Kansas. 'Vell, they suc-
ceeded st) well that a young lady and gen-
tlen]f.a will be, cripplf'<; for life and the
work also called out the fire department,
l<' put ont the fire at each end of their line.
Their lines caUle loose frolD tlte insulators
and hung down across an arc circuit Qf
2500 voits and dropped within an inch or
two of the sidewalk. The lady and gen-
lIeman 1 spoke of were walking along the
sidewalk when they gl)t tangled up in the
wire, and, as I said before, are cripph:d for
life. And, if it haduot been for our
worthy President, Brother 'Vaterous aud
Brother Short, who happened to be close
by ~ll:d answered the young lady's cries,
they would have soon been dead. The
two hrothers cut the wires and released
them. ·1'00 :l1uch credit cannot be given
thost, t ..... o Brothers, for their presence of
mind ~..Id knowing what to do 011 'the in-
stant.
H. A. Davidson had the nerve to ask our
President if No. IS would stand by him and
lise out influence to get him out of his
trouble. Well, I guess Dot. I guess it
will teach those two boys a lesson. For.
my part, I think they ought to be pUllished
very sen:rely. Well, 1 will ring off, as it,
is time to cut ill, so goodbye till July'-
HARVEY ThlJRNETT,
Press Secretary, No. IS,
Kansas City, j\Io.
PLEASE READ FIRST, THIn, JUDGE.
To the illerchaltts of Kansas City, ,110. :
Gl-::-<TI.E:\IEN-It is with nO pleasure and
consirlerable regret that we address to yon
this circular letter. Only the systematic
evasion of O!!T request fer arb:tration look-
ing to a friendly aud peaceable solution of,
to us, a most serious question, and the re-
peated failure of the employers to keep
their positive and implied pledges and.
promises to meet us in i'riendly argument
has forced upon us the only manly way
left us to express our confidellce in the full
ef)uity of our requests, DeuJ:\IIds 'they
have never been.
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The history of electrical workers of
nearly all classes, having in their hands
the elCecution of wotkof responsibility, the
safety of lives, and of property, has been
I 'one of a grossly underpaid clp.ss of wage-
l
,. ear-ners. Working at intervals, in a spas-
modic· and very uncertain way' as to time,
thti!y have labored for wages much below
those of almost any 'other trade connected
with the building industries.
They have lately requested of the em-
ployers a meeting "for friendly arguinent, .
consideration and concessions. For over
three months the union, through its COnl-
mittees, has faithfully petiionned its duty
laoKing to a peaceable settlement of the
grievance. The first schedule, to some of
the provisions of which the employers ob-
jected, was discarded, and a new one, em- .
bodying only 'Su.ch features as had not been
objectiOl~able in the first, was drawn up
and presented. The result, systematic
evas~on of a meeting alJd bwken pledges
on the part of the employers, has been the
same 'in' every instance. Thus, meeting
with cold, discourteous demeanor from the
employers at every step'of our exertions,
every essay on our part to arrive at a peace-
able solution; treated to broken pledges
and unkept promises in our endeavors to
realize to the full the tenet of our order
whidil calls for the settlement of .. all dis-
l'xltl,es lMtween employers and employes by
a
arbiltllatien ; oppose thus, we are driven
to ths·t mGst distastefnl of all alternatives,
a strike.
The scale of wages preferred is most
moderate, and' much below that paid in
any other line of the building trades. The
other provisions of the schedule are in no
wise inconsiderate of the rights of the em-
ployers. As a union we have ever been
ready to meet on the broad ground of the
undoubted equity of our posi'tiou, to give
concession for concession. \Ve desire a
friendly' relation at all times with our em-
ployers and it is in a friendly spirit we
have entered upon'the present unfortunate
contentiOn.
Trusting no lesS in the sense of justice'
which animates all citizens, and merchants
especially, of Kansas City than ill the full
and complete equity of our position, we
request of you your moral and ac~i\"e sup-
port in our present difficulty, to the end
that a peaceable solution may be speedily
had to a much ve:-ted and most regretable
cOildition. The public press will keep you
advised as to those finns who recognize the
justice of the scale presented to them,
By order of
-GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE.
~oeal 'Union No. 25.
Louisville, Ky.,J~ne 7, J8(N-
Editor Electric Worker:
I will have to say·somethiJ)g or the boys
will get mad, and so I will say it in a few
word:., NO •. 25 had a smoker last Thurs-
!
day night and we had i go6J>lime. We
had repre5enratives from cv~r-y'lIn.ion in
the city. I tlJink there wer~-- ahout 300
prescnt, and W'! :had some gi:>i.ltl1;peaking,
and e';'eryhr,,-iy !:eemed to enjoytliemsdves.
Wr; got six applications for membership; I
think that is about all tbe electriCal work-
ers that were present who tlici'b,;i belong
to the union, !;o yeu see ·~-{e mad.e therr.en-
joy themselves. After the meeting they
came to us and saiGthey wanted to join
the union. r '11.11 very glad I got a letter
from the old_ Louisville boys from Pitts-
burg, and I would like to hear from more.
Things arc getting a iittle b~tter here now,
but it is nothing to sp~ak of yet.
'JOHN C.DE!BEL.
Local Union No. 30.
Cincinuati, 0., June 5; IS<:J9.
Editor ElectrkalW-orker:
In order 'to : have it reach ht'adquar-
ters in ·time f()( public.,<tticin 1 will have
to cut ·this Jetter short. Twill. l'liy read
the letters from LocaJ No. 17 and from
LocaL-No. 38 of the May Worker: don't
forget Loc';''ll }';o. 37; for. he's all right.
B.-others read these letters and YOIl have
my way of believing and doing.
\Vork iu and around Citicbnat~ is not
very flourishing at present. There was to
be quite a bit of work started by t!iis time
but for some reason they ha\'o't got down
to business as yet.
The Ciucinnati Edison Electric Light
Co, got rid of one man last mouth. He
was trimming an arc lamp 011 'tllC Eighth
street viaduct which is situated OIl top of
the Electric 8.treel R:lilway poles which
are,of iron and grouml,(:d to the iron work
of the viaduct. It secnis tha~. a few small
boys found a place where the Cincinnati
Electric Light Co. and Cillcinnati Edison
Co. wires CoTIlealffi().~t'in contect with e.ach
other and· being bare they would throw a
piece of ~-jreovel' the two and have a little
fire wOI-ks. . I will say to. these brothers, and I am voic~
'l'he membership of Local No. 30 is on
the increase, some of the boys that have
fallen back a little are coming to the front
again. Success to thp. brothers. As my
fuse is about to blowout I will hav'e to re-
lieve it by layiug down my pen, ,,0 J will
ha\'e a -:hance to dig up somethi!lg for the
issue of the jou:-nal j,;r !lex!: monlh.
Brothers that come this way dr,;,p in and
see m; on the first and third ~,lor:<1ay of
eat..'~ lllOl,lth, O}' aliY vl\1 :.iUH:.
Frat(-Tn~.ll); yonrs,
WHISKERS NO MORz..;.
~ccal Union No. 37.
Hanford. Cc'nn., June !), le99.
Editoi- Electric:>.! 'Nor1:~!"':
I am in the WorJ;er this rnoT1t~l io give
some. of the h:otbe.rs of No. 37 a roast. I
.know it's hot enough o'ltside, but the ... de-
serve it. The subjcrt of !lly rem~rk:;.j-s the
lack of attt:ndance !It the !nectjn[:s~ There
are lots of members in· this c;:it)i' \vho Ii'ilve-
not shown their faces at a me-eting for two
or three months, Now, what'l Would-1'ike-
to know is, what is tbe matlei witli them, .
that they cannot attend 'at lea·s(on·e-·fu'eef-
in,g in a month? Is it too much"'to as'lt-jOu
to come to a meeting at least'once a rrionth?
If it is, I am sorry you can't leave ·yo'ur
girl, your bicycle, or your favorite s·<iloon
at least that often. Why, there are a 'lot
of you fellows hanging a-round the corn-ers
every night in the week except Frid'ay
ni,ght, and Friday night you couldn't be
found by a mercantile bill collector. 'Now,
I am .going to tell you someth-ingthat wi.i1
undoubtedly surprise you;' This. 10ea·I. at
its last meeting, made it a- law that any
member who does not attend one of four
consecutive meetings will be fined twenty-
five cents, aNd it will be char.ged up to'
them as dues, unless they can give a ver.y
good excuse -for their non-attendance. This
la'ck of interest in the union has got t~­
come to an end. If a man don't' take
enough interest in the union to. attend'-a:
meeting once in four wecks'-we don't\vaRl .
him. What good ,is he, any way, to a:nf
local? No good. We don't 'rieed'His
money, and what is more, we don'f want h.
If he thinks we do, he can .get" ov-er th;t·
idea ri.ght now and go and join se)Jile insu-
rance, or social order. where he Can get .
better returns for the money invested that'!"
we could give him. It has come to'a: .pass
where we have got to weed. and we are
going to do it, even if it cuts our mernbeJ:-
ship down to one-half. That one:h;ilf we
will be' able to depend on; and pow we"
don't know what we've .got. Here \ve ate'
initiating new members' every .1l1eetihg·
night, and we get barely a quorum. - We
can't even get our full quota. of offkers.
The consequence is the. initiation is a farce,'
and it gives the new members the impres:
sion t.hat it don:t amount to muc'h; as \vell
as settin.g a bad example for them.' Now,
ing the sentiments of the brothers who take
an active interest in this local; tbafH you
don't think enough of the union to attend
the meetings, don't send up any more dues,
but just let us know you are Ollt of it. A
postal card will do, and we- will neit be one'
bit sorry to lose you: Money will never
build up the National Brotherhood t~ a·po-
sition where it can benefit the members.
What we want is action. If we had' trioie
interest taken in this local the" electric
company would not ha·ve a gang of-line- .
men counting up about twenty, oufof whic'll
there are about two union men; nor an in-
side gang with ahout the same number of .
union men and about half a dozen dubs'.
They could long ago ha \'e had" shorter
hours and better wages but for the lack of
interest.
Local 37 suffered by a fire, a week ago,
the loss of all their electrical display, ",-hich
was stored in a buiiding on State stre-e"t.
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It cost the locaillbout two hundred dollars
and an immense amount of labor, and it
will be a very difficult matter to replace it
in time f,or our next annual dance.
I would like to say to the brothers of No.
I 4 that we are very sorry that we are com-
pelled to give up to them one of our broth-
). er members who has gone to New Orleans
to work for the Edison General Electric
on the underground, namely, Bro. Roberts.
He was one of our most active and earnest
workers, and while we feel the loss, we
know that Bro. Roberts will always be an
active union man, no matter where he goes,
and we all join in wishing hiPl every suc-
cess among the brotbers of NO.4.
Fraternally yours,
M.P. SULLIVAN,
Press Secretary.
~ca1 Union No. 38.
Cleveland, June 7, 1899.
My Dear Nephew:
The time b:as a.rrived for your uncle to
re.lire from the field of journalism. Time's
lip. Election will be held this month and
some one better able to give you the news
and· current ellents relating to 38, its wants
and needs, will doubtless be elected. I
have filled the required term, six months.
During that time 1. ha \~e written more or
less no~sense-stuff, if you please-know-
ing that there was in it little that was in-
structive, useful, or beneficial to anyone.
No one knows this better than your uncle,
but he is a believer in the old saw, .. A lit-
tle frolic now and then is relished by the
best of men;" .. Variety is the spice of Ii fe,"
etc. Taking these old saws for my cue I
have written this nonsense to make up a
variety of reading for the readers of the
Worker. There 'are others who are able
and have from time to time written upon
subjects scientific and political, etc., etc.;
.let them keep it up. The press secretaries
h;we d.one well, and J am Sllre, if ',hey do
as well the six months to come as they
have the six months past, the first of Janu-
ary, 1900, will see the Worker established
as one of the foremost journals of organ-
ized labor. Let the good work go on.
I want to thank Nos. 5, 38 and 72 for
their contributions to the Wright fund, and
especially do I want to shake hands with
NO.4, of New Orleans; for a local tbathas
been through most of the vicissitudes of
life, had her treasury looted, besides many
other troubles, 1 lhmk she is entitled to the
thanks of the brotherhood. Here is my
hand, brothers; si'Jake. I havt! met sev-
eral of the boys from NO.4, so I am sure
the local in l\ew Orleans is made up of the
timber we hear our granddads talk about.
Let's shake again, brothers.
I understand other locals not yet heard
from will contribute this month That's
right, my hearties; let the good work go on.
No. 38 is prosperous anel happy, and
most of the boys are working. Jack Ste-
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
phens took upon himself a helper (non-
union), but, in sympathy with the cause,
Jack sent over a jug of 0id. Madeira, and
the boys Eent back::their bt~ssings .. Sev-
eral of the boys fronl No. -l dre working in
town. Bro. Thomas, of No. 10, I beheve
is still with us. Bro. lack Forbes, of No.
17, is also in town. J~ck g'ave us a good
talk a couple of weeks ago. He, in com-
mon with many others who have visited
38, W<tS disappointed. Some of the boys
have got il into their heads .that 38 is a sort
of a one-horse local, and dull at that; but
if they could only attend one of our meet-
ings and see the attendance of from 75 to
100 members every \Vednesday night, they
would change their mind.s, as did Bro. Jack
of 17. All of the boys who have come to
Cleveland so far ha\'e their cards with
them, paid right up to date, like little men.
I am in receipt, and have been for some
time, of letters from. elt!ctrical workers in
diff~rent parts of C<!Jlaria. They want to
cc;nc into the Brotherhood, <!.nd I <1m sure
that the delegates to the next convention
will make the organization international.
This will benefit the Brotherhood and help
the cause of labor over the border.
No. 38 is trying an experiment in regard
to the Worker.. Instead of hadng the pa-
per sent to each individual, the G. S. sends
them to the P. S. in a bunch and he takes
them to the meeting and distributes them
there. So, if a brother wants a paper he
must come to the meeting to get it. So
many papers went astray that we hit upon
this plan, and it works fine.
I had the honor to represent· 38 at the
big labor mass convention held at Colum-
bus June I; representatives from all over
the State were there, Perhaps in some fu-
ture number I may tell you what we did,
and expect to do,. politically, in Ohio.
\"hile in ColumiYus I met one of the broth-'
ers of No.8; I cannot remember his name,
but he was up-to-date all right. I was sur-
prised in not seeing some of our boys from
Cincinnati; I did, however, meet the father
of Cincinnati's press secrt:tary, and I want
to say right here that if the P. S. is a chip
of the old block, the N. B. E. W. will not
suffer for a champion of its interests.
Now, my boy, you'll have to excuse your
uncle, for this is his moving week. Vt.T e
find, after due consideration, that it's cheap-
er to move than to pay rent, but oh, it's
tough on one's morals to swear up a stove-
pipe and cuss down a carpet. It does not
tend to.make a man" remember his Crea-
tor in the Jays of his youth." I teli you,
my dear nephew, J am neariy played out,
and hoping you are elljllying the same bles-
sing, I will stop short.
From your UNCLE TOM.
I.,ocal Union No. 40.
St. Joseph, Mo., Junl' 8, iSCl9.
Editor Electrical \\'c,I'ker:
There is' vel y little n~ws, this month.
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Everybody is working and too busy even
to atteud lodge; as a matter of fact we do,
not expect as good attendance in the sum-
mer Ulollths as the winter. But it st:ems.
fUllllY that a brother can aUend other
lodges and societies regular, but cannot
get around to the union once in a while.
Several of our brothers are away behind
with their dues, and some day it will be
the "same old story" with· -them. Pay
up, brothers, that" rainy day" is comi.ng.
Several of the .boys who are behind with
.us wallaged to raise the initiation fee in
other lodges and are then greatly surpris,ed
when they get blackballed.
I intend to write a short history of No.
40, and if you want your .name in the
proper column you must pay up before I
write .;ly next letter.
No. 40 does not amount to much nor do
we have a very large attendance, except
when :;omebody lias "an ax to grind."
But there is not a member who begrudges
the \IIoney it costs hiUl, sti'll we are able to
keep our members in good positions, and
occa~ioJlally get them a raise in wages. ,.
There is one thiug we would like to pav~
the editor explain, "why is it that we are
compelied to pay $1.20 per year for the,
Worker when the regular subsc.ription
price. is but $1.00 per year?"
The Central Labol' Council's paper, the.
St. Joseph Union, is prospering; it ill' a
weekly paper at $1.00 per year The ele<:-:
trical workers were highly honored by
haviug liro. James T. Motter, made its
edilor and manager.
There is a movenl~nt on foot now. to
have the Building and. Trades Council re-
vived. That will help No. ,40, as there. is
at presel1t but one inside wireman in good
standing and that is Bro. G. E. McCormac,
with the American Electric Co.
Brother John Webb is at the Enswor~h
hospital.
Several of the brothers are taking a
cout"se ill the National Correspondence
school at Scranton, and all 'expect to be •
great electricians someday. \Ve hope you
will, brolhers, then probably your ·.mion
will reap SOUl£: benefit for your non-attelld-
ance now. There is an old saying, if YOll
want to keep a man away froUl your lodge
just elect him President or to the highest
office, and when he gets through the chairs
he will absent himself most of the time.
Well, we have found a new plan; just ap-
peiut him. on a committee to draft a new.
set of by-laws. We refer to brothers Me:-
Carty and p!'eyso!!.
\Ve do wish our number wa<; something
else besides 40, for when one gets through
rea!iing that Uncle Tom letter, they never
have any time to read the next.
The position of P. S. is not a pleasant
one at aU times. There is always SOUle
one censuring and very few praising you.
Below I will give you my expericuct:; al-
most every meeting night just after W~
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receive out Worker: Happy, nervous,
anxious, expectant, desperate, aroused,
disheartened, jubilant, disgusted, buoyant,
doubtful, hopeful, despondent, discour-
aged, disappointed, conceited.
Fraternally,
Y'S,
Press Secretary.
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I,ocal Union No. 41:.
Buffalo, N. Y., june 8, I&J9.
Editor Electrical Worker:
Being somewhat late' this month I am
afraid -my article wiil be quite short and
probably not very interestiPg, although the
doings in Local ;p for the past month have
been quite so. We have quietly asked,
been refused, struck, and won out, and the
scale of wages for journ,eyrnen wiremen in-
the city of Buffaloo is no-w 3OC. per hour and
an eight·hour day until further notice.
The boys feel very well sa,tis-fied with the
result of the tWQ-weeks strike, and too
much praise cannot be _given the- commit-
tee in charge for the way in which they so
successfully conducted the strike. I might
say a word for the lllembers-each and
everyone of them behaved like gentle-
men and looked into every question care-
fully, intelligently and peacefully. All
seem satisfied, and I do not believe that
local 41 will have any more ,grievances for
awhHe:
I am sorry to ha-\'c to say we had to ac-
cept the resignations from office of two of
our old·time mcmbers. Bro. AI. Cunning-
ham, our treasurer, has accept.ed a very
responsible position putting in a large
20,ooo-volt power plant in Canada. AI. is
a warm member and we all feel' confident
-he will use his best efforts to organize the
boys in Canada, also do what he can to
have a representative from Canada at our
next convention, in October, at Pittsburg.
We wish AI. all manner of success, aad
hope he will return in time....to make some
of the dollars the boys are laying for dur-
ing the Pan-American Exposition. The
second resignation was- that of Bro. Harry
M. Scott, the only financial secretary the
local has had since receiving its charter.
It was a hard blow, and there -was a very
long-debate, all to no purpose. We had to
give in and accept the resignation. Harry
will stay with us just the same, and prom-
-ises to give all the assistance he can in
- keeping things in \vorkirig _order.
Bro. w. H. Kelly has taken his usual
IlUmriier vacation, but I believe he is to
combine business and pleasure. Bro. Kelly
has gone to the Thousand Islands for two
or lhree weeks. While there he will su-
perintend the putting in of several ofi'lces
for the Postal Telegraph Co. We all hope
that Willie will return much improved in
health, fo~ yuu know he is of quite a deli-
cate nature. I don't belie\·e he- weighs
over 250 pounds at present. We do so
hope his sojourn a.t the !sland(wHl prove
TH-E -ELECTRICAiJVkT(J-RKER _
bene-fidal to and recupcratehi-s-Ji«iHrame.
I was !nfon't1cd at our ,-last r~&"~tar meet-
ing that Br€1. John Miseaer-'.:itt";auout to
launch out into l:iusines:; for hitnse'lf. - I be-
lic\'e be is going to open a trans-for_mer, or
a place called The Transfonria,-f mean.
I did not hear whetberit was'"a ~ep< up, or
a step down. but yen 'can bet it you- give
john_-aeaH,'ne win make it a booster. You
can f.eel pi:!ifectly safe with Jonn, f0r if you
get -an overload he ha!> good -wQrkin.g lim-
its w'hich -will pre-vent any burn-tilut. His
stock of' goods will be strictly fiTst-class,
with aU up-to-date impro·:ements.
Oi,e of the most impurtarrt events of the
season will he a picRic to be held at Edge-
water, on l\iagara river, ~h'ell by Local 45.
I believe, or in Iact I knlHv, that Local 38
of Cle\'elano are to be the guests cf Local
45. Local 4' has been tendered a very
cord-iill invitation to atteno, \Ve have
passed resolutions to' ~(ve _Local 45 our
most hearty-support aad assist a~! we can
in making their ollting a sucress.- Local
48 will come b.y boat,'stupping -at Toledo
and Erie, and bring-a numhero.f the boys
from Locals ;} and 56. I hope that Local
44 of Rocbesterand 43 of Syracu;:c will be
well represented, for I know Locai 45 will
take good care' o"£.- -all the vlsiting-hrother-
hood -and gi .... e them; a day's pleasure long
to be rernemherl!d. -
I would like to to;a.y to Bro. Cli;as0n, of
38, please- see .hat our l}nde Torn :catches
the boat, ,md, if poss!ble, resurrect some
of Local So's members and bring them
along. I will see to it that Qlyseli' ant! Bro.
Taylor will do our best to entertain them.
I would say to the electriCa! workers,
Buffalo at the prest:Qt time is nut very
brisk. Although the she for the Pan-
American has been _sc-iected, there will be
nothing- doing in the way of elecn'ic work
for some time. I -shali endeawr to keep
in pace with the work, and jus~ as soon as
it starts I wil! I-et' you know, no matter
whether I am press secretarY-'or- not. The
columns -of the journal are open tu ali good
N. B. E. W.r.rerr.
Fraternaliy- yours,
WM. A. BEl::ESE,
Pres.C\ Secretary.
~o.~al_Uniolll No. 44.
Rochester, N. Y., J1h11! fl, '99.
Editor Electrical Worker:
Well, how is everything wi~h you this
month -, VIi iti-, us it IS -lme. AI! of the
brothers are peg~ing aiong, as usual. with
lots of work- gild a ne';Y tdephone cvmpany
in sight that promises to be a snccess in
the near future.
"''Ie have a little t:x,itemeut now 'it 44,
as it is time to .el ~ct a !lew Sd of officers,
-an;! also 1.0 get our lamp" Oll a m~n- tr. send
to the next com'enti.-m. I thin:; yo~ will
-ali agree with me that we can not be too
particlliar abnl;: the miln that we i:lt,.!!"!d to
plac.e in that reaponl:iible pDs!fion,
!Jtme--,: -
I don't think the-re are any-of tbe·oo:ys--
on the repair list at present. ,I ami-_ -_-
Yours truly, _ :.-
_M.-N.:-S.'
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I,ocal Union No. 45~
'Buffalo, Jufte. -4, 1&J9:, __
Editor Electrical Worker: __ , " J
I find that 'nearly another month liaS-
elapsed since my last publication in the
\Yorker .. and I hasten with a few remarks
to help fill the columns of our June num-
ber.
Local No. 45 has been !;erious.Jy contem-
plating holdin~ a great picnic this sum-
mer and we have been more or iess
discussing the subject for Some time: At
our regular meeting of May 20th, the local-
requested the chair to appoint a {-arge .com-
mittee to devise ways and_ means by whi'ch: -
such-an affair could be brought to -a suc-
cessful termination, -and the chai.rman com-
plied with the request. 'fhe- committee
met on \Yednesday evening, MaY-24-th, i.n
a select chamber at Council Hall todiseuss
matters. No newspaper reporters --were-
admitted, only youl\'humble servant for !!he
Electrical Worker, and I must - sav- th'at
they reminded me very forcibly of--that
-great peace conference which is now sii:~
ting at the Hague, devising wayS to 'bring
about a disarmament of Europe .. - Brotller
Haley, one of our past presidents; was -ap" '
pointed as chairman, and he is indeed a fit-
representath'e of Baron de Staal, the<:~ars'
most favorite diplomat who fills the chair--
of that august committee. Now after-duly
discussing affairs among tb.emsei"es they'
soon found that it required the cooperation
of the master minds of the whole -local in
order to make a glorious succe'ss of the_
affair. 'VIi- e want it to be recorded in the
annals of ollr local's history as the greateSt
event of the nineteenth century, and I'have
no hesitatiol'l in prophesyi::lg that it wiil'De.
We expect to .eclipse and outshine ~very,­
thing in its line, even surpassing the Schley
dinner and the Bradley-Martin ball. Now
I wish to impress upon all the neighboring
locals that this might be called a reunion as
No,' 38, of Cleveland, Ohio, is _going to
attend in full for.ce, and we expect :that she
will be re-enforced by all the locals al.ong
the lake and will arrive in Buffalo about
1,000 strong. Our twin sister, Local No.
4', will be represented to a mart. and as
for No. 44 of Rochester, well we ~xpect, to
see the whole city up to help add to the
splendor of the occasion. Jt is going to be
held on the 4th of july and there is no lise
staying in Rochester when such an event is
being pulled off in Buffalo on that great
day. The only thing- that annoys _us i~. we
are a Iittie afraid of o\"er-shado\Vj~g- the-
Pan-American, if such a I_hing is possible.
I take this opportuni·ty to extend a cordial
invitation to all those neighbor.ing loca.ls
and I desire that my invitation be more
sweeping and -far Teaching in its effects.
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r therefore ex.tend it to every local within
the boundaries of the Atlantic and Pacific
and the Gulf and Lakes and expect that
each and every local will be repn:sented,
. even if it. be by only one member, and I
fcel positive that they will go away well
pleased and salisfied for having come from
the four winds of the nation and spent a
d:ty of amusement with one of the foremost
councils of the National Brotherhood of
Electrical.Workers.
Yours very truly,
J. J. CASEY.
I.ocal Union No. 46~
Lowell, Mass., June 6, 1899.
FAitor Electrical Worker:
I have not the unbounded pleasure .of
being the regularly ordained P. S. of this
local, but I received the nomination for
that position at our last meeting, so I am
I going to try my hand at writing a letter lo
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the Worker, and if I like the work I will
put up a' hot .campaign bdween now and
the election of officers. If I don't like it
I will positivcly decline to run. In the
1 absence of our regular, legal P. S. Bro.
Barrett and myself agreed to send some
little thing to lhe paper just to let the
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
ashamed of is raked up alid used against Later-Say, that foreman that I spoke of,
him. For years I had been striving to wdl, he h.:.s been turned down for good.
gain the proper level of ignorance and ~fhey put a new man in his place to-day.
brutality ilecessary. to become a qualified Sound the good news all over the land, so
foreman (h(~':"'Jiiy fdJowmer.,. and .h?d . that in case he comes your way you can
"scored a hit" as far as"brutalit)· was con- give him the cold shoulder.
cerned, and was almost ignorant enough to _ _ _ _ _ _--.;,:.4~II-44.
be a "cop" or a train dispatcher, or the • I.ocal Union No. 46.
ht:~d of an iniormation b~lreau, but I·
Lowell, Mass., June 2, ISw.
couldn't keep down the past. We had' a
Editor Electrical Worker:
new foreman 'placed oyer us on the 1st of
I will drop a few lines to the Worker
May, and he has raised H- auna ever since.
just to let the brothers know what 'we are
Say! he was the most brutal, bulldozing,
doing. Bro. Joe McDonnell is sick with
overbearing cuss you ever heard of ; orders
'the measles hut at present he IS doing well ..
us to call him Mister, reports every little
Th~re is no great amount of work here at
thing to the general manager, expects us
present. No 46 had occasion .to put in her
to huy his drinks, keep him in cigars, and
fil Sl kick. I said. a great many things iii
contribute towards the support of his wife
last month's letter about changes in the.
and family. But we soaked him! Brother
L. E. light corps but I ~ill tell about one
Barrett will tell you about it. Some men
this month that I did not mention on May,
are not like this one. YOIl know how sODle
3rd. The manager of the Lowell Electric
men would take promotion in a quiet, gen-
Light Co. called the trimmers to his office
tiemanly manner, treating everybody just
and told them that one Fr<tnk Leonai"d.
the same as before they assumed such
would be their bczs hereafter. !..eona~d is
prominence. Above all they would never
well knO\vn among the journeymen line-
forget to be modest and unassuming. All
men of New England and they a:1 know he
gre3t men are modest. I am myse~f,
is no good, either practically or in principle.
though I don't show off about it. In fact,
To gain a point he will undermine his fel-
my friends say that you' would hardly
low workmen and there is no limit to his
'notice it. In a fit of tem porary abberat.ion
deceitfulness, ami after two weeks of his,

I "boys" know that 46 waS!l't dead. ldidll'l

want lo do it this hot weather, but thollght
I could "Barrett" if he could. He will
of the mind the other night I took. occasion
to compare specimens of my handwriting
with different samples of writiug included
harsh treatment the trimmers formed a
committee of the whole. Abollt half of

! write all the news. I alll only going lo fill

up space, and if y"ou don't like it, why just
speak up like men and say so. No brick-
I bats, dead cats or anything like that; they
hurt a fellow's feeling, and they are not
gent1em~nly arguments. anyway.
r The poor, overworked carbon trimmers
in an article on "reading .character from
handwriting," and the result honestly
them hdofli; tc the union and they went to'
!'ee the mar.;tger on !\lay 18th, and on May
31st we got our answer which was that
justifies me in the most modest and con-
servative opinion I have always had of my
rare abilities. My writing contained-ac-
Frank Leonard would not have charge of
us any longer. This. s1lme Leonard was
the caus'e of No. 46 going up the spout here
cording to my very impartial comparison
. of the specimens-each and every good
some yea;'s ago by tellingthe Superintend-'
ent what was going on in the union. I will

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for the Lowell Electric Light Corp. have
hnd a heap of trouble the past month over a
'lIewly appointed foreman. I am going to
I tell you all about it, I got tired telling it
to the policemen, ill fact they got tired of
listening and intimated that I had better
sl1Ut up, intimated with a club and it car-
ried weight too. But about the foreman.
Did you ever notice what a queer effect
that title has whell it is given to some men.
Foreman; you know the definition of the
word, one who does nothing andgets a
'salary for doing it. I came very near
being appointed foreman over a gang of
men once, but just at the last moment, just
as I was beginning to figure up how much
more "booze" I could buy with the new.
salary, some "/JIean cuss" told the general
manager that I was known to have shown
(way back in the remote past), dangero;!:J
symptoms of alniost human intelligence,
aud I got tumed clown. I don't think that
they ought to hold a little thiug like that
against a man, but that is the way of things
in this hard, cruel world-the harder a man
tries to make himself worthy of a position,
and just as, he think!; he is going to gain
the goal of his amhitions, some little thing
.way back in his life which he is heartily
characteristic of them.' all.Acco~dillg to
that article I am everything that is good
l1ud great, a model man, a pattern for all
to copy (2S cents a pattem, please). Blush-
ingly, I mention 2 few (out of many hun-
dreds) of the "good thiugs" I am,
"Courageous to Rashness," "Pntdent and
Sagacious," generous to a fault, a great
student and a careful planner, a master
lJand at intuition and deductive reasoning,
tenacious and persevering, noble of char-
acter, etc., etc. I only stop quoting for
lack of space. Now all this is strictly tme,
I've known it myself a long, long time,
but such is my extreme modesty of bearing
that not even my closest friends have sus-
pected the truth. "I don't look it," so
tne" say, jealous you see; but it is all
down there in that. magazine in printers'
i11k, soit must be trne. No! I don't think
I will run for president Jlext year. Gh'e
Billy Bryan a chance, my time is sure to
come, and I will be magnanimous this
trip and let him or some other 'poor fellow
take the place.
TInt is all this time, Mr. Edircr; only sons who &hall assault, mob, 01' do videnc.e
you might notify the brothers that photo- (in any way conceivahle or incor.ceiv:tb!c)
graphs may be obtained hy forwarding len
cents to the writer. 4-1I-44.
say that some of the boys wished to strike
at that time, but better counsel prevailed
and we acted like men in an arbitrary
manner and won everything asked for. I
would like some of the boys about town,
who think unions arc no goo:i to takc stock
ill what the trimmers done as it will be of
fllture use to them. I happened along the
other day and found Brother Murphy sing-
ing .. I'm ill love with the man in the moon"
on a sixty fuot pole. Our meetings waxed
warm of late and we are trying hard to .
enlarge our numbers but it is a tough job
here: too much afraid of the little job is
what the matter is, but when it is all work
and hardly any pay then something must
be done they will say. Do it now, boys,
joiu the union.
=----~-
Local Union No. 52.
Newark, N. J., JUlie 2, 1899.
Editor Electrical "'orker:
Will you kindly publish in your valuable
and t!steemcd Journal a portion of N. J.
law. I ",ill quote it: "Any person or per-
to any editor, reporter or press secretary
shaH be punished.
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20 THE ELECTRJCAL '\AT,9R:KER

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I am nominated for P. S. and I expect to The wages .t~ey ,wer~"gettilig We;'O: aactly I could gQ on and. telJ y.o~,a:}>9ut :D.lJ'~~lt,
be -elected. Brother Larkins has resigned ~l in-two; for fQur hours but it's Sund;iy:.an(l'idon'i
and nobody else will take it and I am elec- They quit tllcir jobs :.ig:~ttl·,t'IZ and j:here, like to hear any' one tl\lk a~ut ih~~;se(vJ;s'
tioDeedng night and day and my friends there was nop~iI!g e1se to do. on ·Sunday. ' . -r:~' :'.'" ...'
, are standing by me like true friends always There are black sh~ep iu .t"~-ey}' flocIe, and Of course, there are a few'p~p~r;'np.~u:g.;.
do. If I am elected there is one murderer, I'm sorry for to say down men and salamQnac
• .
disturbe'rs
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hi
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robber, thief and all around sc~)Undrel who That there was one amiii. QUI men who at and around Erie that I,can s~1f.9f~.Th.t:,
1 will expose if he doesn't reform. To his work did stay. first man of great impQTtanc~;th.at '. , " I'i4in~
;." .
hide my identity I will sign all communi- He WB.L; a···· :;cab." ~'S ali can g"otess, and of is Jim Rush, the li,ner;' r~~' (!!i~J~i<::e,.,
cations "Lazyman." Of course I am not , sh~'wed his color:;, too, wide open countenance this a. m •• atui he
afraid, but a person must take care of his But he will be dealt with,accQrding to the gave ~e a smile and his' counte~n~'
beallh-. As I will have to buy a postage opened. ' • ' ... ,
laws'uf " 52."
stamp anyhow to send you this, I will tell Some. of the smaller brQthers of s6 are'
you what we did at our last regular meet- The .trollole did ~oi: last s. '7lcek; the men planning for a picnic and' a 'pi~ ~i~g
ing, June 2nd. We non;inaten a full s·et of are \.Jack (mr~ mOJ.-e, match, followed by hole digging apd wire
officers, ihe names of which I will send you And p.ve:-y Illall is gettitig bettc:r pay than fixing. ' . '. '
after election. We adopted r-esolutions he got befo:re ; Bro. George Burger hasbou.ght a. pQ~y.
protesting against the employment of Gov- A happier lot of 'felluws never dawned upon He buys a polly most ev~·Slln~y., ~"',
'ernlnent troops to break up labor organiza- your "iew The brothers of 56 deciqecl. t~Rt ~ wire
tions. In coilclllsion the resolutions demand Than those boys,'all charter members of fixer was worth about $2.50 per day ~n~
that' the President and Secretary of war LU(:81 52. all companies agreed top~y it except tb~
hnmediately withdraw the continuance of It never raius U!11CSf. it pou:-:s. and s.o it was Edi,son Electric Light Co. ,r.nd sO t,hey
tb~ National Government from the atro- righther~, were!l't -doing any wOl'k aud only char.ged
ciou:s violation ()f Uberty and the rights of Fo!' the Crocker '}/heeler Com pany doing ns (,7.00 for current fQr Qur danc~ apd,dis~
Am,erican citi·zenship; that they recall blls·iness n,t " ampere," play and we didn't think it was right'tQ
Gen. Merriman and notify the Governor of , Ll.'Cked oui. tlleirmen (aU willders) but for say much tQ them. '" ,."
Idaho that the military force of the U. S. it they did me, I can't say much about the general mat-
can be used on,ly for the constitutional pur- For they [/luud cut that tlley were backed ters of 56 as I have .got too muchfanu'ing
pose of protecting against im;asion and by Loca1S2. to do this summer to attelid' to' our meet-
domestic violation, and not for the suppres· ings and so I can't keep posted. Butany
The men all stuck like leeches, and before way I cease. . ,
sron of legitimate associations of workin-g-
a wC'ek had flown Fraternl<lly yours,
men.
The c/)mpany sent '"f<"r our co~mittee to , L. E; C.,
Bro. Blaicklock is back to work after
meet one-of their own; _ _ _ _ _ _ _.....;..l'rCS& Se.c.
three months illness.
The finn signed Qur agteunent, 'twill
'Bro. Stiver has accepted a position in I,ocal Union No. 6o~ .
plcase everyone of )"0\'
New York State.
Yours fraternally,
To hear that" victory came ·once more tQ San AntoniQ; Tex., June 4, '99,
Local 52." Editor Electrical Worker: '
"LAZYMAN." A~ No. 60 failed to make its appearance
So, boys, get on a huetle, £01' your "leurels"
Newark, N. J., June 5, IIl99. in last month's Worker, I will try and l.et
are at stake,
the brothers see something from us this
Editor Electrical Worker : Jf you ~ant to,g~t ahen<:1 'of, us you all
Electric workerS here in Newark are fa11- month. No. 60 is rolling along nicely, and
rul:st keep awake,
,ing into line; we feel proud of its success and progress;
For our members are aU wprking llMd, and
We expect to have them all in e'er the end it's both a pride and. a pleasure to an true
when we do get through,
of '99. union men to see their local improve'in
Ther~ "ill b", few locals in the Broth~rhood ,
Winders; binders and connectors, line and members'hip.. I am sure if all the· brothers
ahead of 52.
wiremen, too, will keep together, act toge·ther and· stand
FRANK J. McNULTY,
All ride the goat' each meeting night of Vice-PresidelltLocaI5 2 • togetl:er in the interest·of .our BrotherhQod,
Local 52. that it won't be long bdore every' wire"
When we organized three months ago we Local Union No. 56.' , worker in the Alamo city wiil'be a'union
were all at .. sea," Erie, Pa.; June 4, 1899. man.
And .were going to' affiliate with New Editor Electrica! Wor~er : Last Saturday 'night we initiated six ll-eW
York's NO.3, members, and they tell me they had a nke,
As I Wi\"'" cut dow~ all the heuges and warm time. On account .of illne5lJ1 ~ould
Then Bro. Sherman came to us and proved trees between Erie, Pa., and Westfield,
it was no good ; not be present, but from what the boys say
N. Y., anJ have to cut (lown about twenty
We changed our minds, and thanks to him miles more between V,,' E.s~field and Dun- I know they enjoyed themselves. Bro. C.
we joined the Brotherhood. E. McNemar had all he could do to get
kirk, N. Y., I have told cverybrxlyabout
We got ,cur Charter; the news soo!) spread, it allo c4n\A;<!t ...uy \.)11(: ~u L~li~,,\;; h, &0::' home after the, ball. The boys fQund ~!1e
and workers in this town goat rather hard to manage, and Ch<lrlie
want you to publis}-~ it,in the ·Worker. I
!augbed tiU it iiked to have killed him
Knew it. was ,a God·send, for wages were ·havc been putting n;;w crt)&:; h.:allls and
dead. I'll write a more lengthy letter next
, way down ; . , bottles 011 my poles, and I am tl'yiug to
Filled out their applications, the proper gc~ my linc {;.xed up so r <.~u sell it before time.
thing to dQ, With best wishes to all the brothers, sin·
the comp:my take!' it tlwr.y fT<J:Jl me. But
cerely and fraternally yours,
And now we are two hundred strong in I :1m having quite r. time with the wires
'S. L. H., Press ·Sec.
Local 52. and t~e' fanners. On~ maTI; g:!ve us a
\Ve did not look-for trouble, but soon it pitcher Ot grape wir.e for trlmllling his I.ocal Union No .. 69. ,
came our way; trees, and another oue .....:.5 going to send Dallas, .Texas.
The employees of the Traction Co. 's were us to Mayvii.le to pO~l!JI.i .stOlle w;"h a little Editor Electrical Worker:'. .,.. .
:'!ll called in the offic.e one day; liam!!lCr,all.:lI doa'U-i:';e;; little: hammer. Everything seems to be going all O. K.
 June] THE ELECTRICAL WORKER ~I

in -Dallas. Every one working and all seem not being prC'sent, as he was going to get Now, hoping this will catch the eyes,of
to be doing' well. We have the largest married. We congratulate him. some of the good Brothers, Bros. Sullivan
membership now that we have had since We are~tHi.,tak~ng iH new member~ ilnd, and Sayies, for instance from No. IG, who,
our organization, and have only had one hope to bl.·:irhi~hctsi;i:pe to r-;'c~'i;/e"rie'N'~' {'an make Col., 0., Local Union N. B. E. W.
member lapse in the last three months, but members .. nJ visiting brothers ',in the near a hummer when once started, for I must
if some of them do not come up pretty soon future, as'we are go:ng to get in a larger admit there is some good ·material but
they will be gone and things may' change, hall, and have room 1.0 do things up in they need to be shown the benefit of being
Clnd they might have to look for a job. It great shape. bound together.
is so much nicer when you ask a fellow for Electrical work is still on the boom here. I have been assured we can ha\'e the
a job and he asks "do you belong to the The Independent peopl~ started out on loyal support of the Central Labor Union
Brotherhood?" If you have an uP'to date ·their territorial line today with gang of a and Building Trades Assembly of the city
card to show you won't have to make a'iot about fifty .. so. I was told. I guess the to, help further our 'cause.
o~ excuses of which a good part of them Southwestern Tel. &'1;'d. Co. think by this 'Hoping to see in the near future a Local
may not be'true. " time that the Independent Co. mean busi- established in this city,
Well, brothers, I have no douBt but a few ness; they did not at first. The South- I am yours fraternally,
of you will read this letter if it is not 'con- ·western are doing considerable work, as ' ONE OF NO. 'IO'S BOYS,
signed to the waste basket and I hope 'it they will have to get things in good shape, A Good Offer.
will not be', for it makes me feel all over in to compete with the new company. Reading, Pa., May 20, 1899.
spots to see my n;lme in print, but I am Before I close'I will tell you where I Editor Electrical \-Vorker:
.afraid that some of our Press Secretaries work. I am working for the Waco Elec- In the April issue of your journal we
do not feel the same as' I do or we would trical Supply and Plumbing Co., the only notice the appeal from your correspondent'
see more letters [rom them. I have got a electrical supply house in the south. signing himself as Uncle Tom in behalf of
little card I have had for a number of years We will be glad to have any of the boys Bro. Wright, whom we understand has been'
that I think about coverli Bro. Wrighfs who ~'C passing tbrough Call Oil us. As disabled by paralysis. We have been
case SG I will send it along. this is my first I will make it short. With thinkmg that we too could be of service to
GIVE HIM A LIFT. best wishes to all the Brothers, Bro. Wright, provided your society or
In passing through life's uncertain way I am, Yours truly, order will cooperate with us in extending
Providence 'may have been more kind to F. D. RODGERS, and introducing our brand of "8-Hour
vou tban to'him,; if so, then help him all Press S:cretary.
y~u can to 'cast a ray of sunshine on his ----------------
Who Will Help?
League" cigars wherever a, ineillber re-
sides. The brand in question is strictly
pathway. . Accidents will happen who can Union-made, 5 inches in length, spoW:'d
Columbus, .ohio, June, 1899.
tell when, or why. Sumatra wrapped, and is forwarded all
Editor Electrical Worker:
Give him a lift, ,don't kneel in prayer or I would like to say a word in behalf of charges paid upon receipt of. 1'3.50 per
moralize at his dispair, the condition of affairs as they' stand in this hundred. 1£ any Lodge of ElectriC'aI'
The man is down and his great need, is city. I am glad to say almost every trade \Vorkers will care to get their dealers in-
ready help, not 'prayer or creed. and business here is unionized, with the ex- terested in the above cigar we are' willing
'Tis time when wounds are washed and ception of the Electrical Workers, and to give, the agent's commission of 10 per
I healed the inner motive be revealed, they are in a demoralized State indeed.
But just now one grain' of aid is more 'to him In fact, it would seem Jhat they are beyond
cent. of ail the sales for the benefit of Bro.
Wright. We promise to ,carry out faith-
than themes of v,anity and love. redemption, from the fact that the Dell tully our part of the proposition, aljd have'
Telephone Company's city, foreman is a as a record our 13 years in Un.ionism to
Pray if ·you will within your heart,
veritable machine for making" would·be .. back it. What say you? What say you all?
Give him a ,lift, give him a start,
I
" This world is full of advice, linemen, and that's all they are !Now Fraternally,
W. E. KRUM & CO.
Of prayer and praise and preaching nice, these .. salamoniac disturbers" are receiv-
But generous souls' who aid mankind, ing from 50 cents to $1.50 per day of'll to :From ',' Old Cl'ip."
Are like.the diamonds, hard to find; ,!4 hours, or from sunrise to sunset. Raton, New Mexico, June 5, I~9.
" And they shall wear a glorious crown, I worked here four days but I'll say to Editor Electrical Worker:
Who,help boys up when they are down. you all, I got the sum of $2.25 per. day (and Althongh I aUl a little late I will try and
that was 50 cents more than the sub-fore- get a few lines in for' the journal this
Give him what you can and then give
men were getting), but I resigned my posi- month. 1 have not much news to write
ten cents more.
tion from the fact that it was against my about, but I guess the brothers would like
Thanking Bro. Sherman in advance for
publishing this, I will close 'for this time, principles as a Union man to work with a to know that I am. sti1lliving. I was glad
hoping our P. S. will have a letter this
number of 'men who are mere instruments to see so many good letters intlle 'Vorker
used to run our craft in the ground by again last month, also very Dlllchdeligbted
month, and wishing good luck to all union
men and the' reverse to scabs and all working for such wages and such hourz. to know tbat the locals were sending in
And what's worse than that, you can't con- some more money to my" Box." It will
others.
Fraternally, vince them any different but what they be a great help to me to get the contents
W. B. COURTNEY. think is just right. ' I hope to see a change of the box. I have been on the streets
soon, for the Columbus Citizens' Telephone frem day to day trying to seli collar but-
140cal Union NO-72. Co. has secured a franchise, and I think tons, key rings, etc., and took ill 30 cents.
Waco, Tex., May 29,1899. will commence work here in about two If I can get a stock' of goods in my stand
Editor Electrical Worker: weeks, and it ought to be the duty of the right away, I am sure I could do all right.
As Bro. E. ,P. McBroom could not b<:: Union men, known as the" floating frater- J am clad that Brother Harvey Burnett, of
with us, I was appointed to fill the unex- nity" to get on the gn:.und as early as pos- I,ocal 18, is going to try to help me onto
pired time for which he was appointed. sible and show these II screwdrh'er" elec- I assure every brother that helps me that
Everything is mm'ing along smootbiy tricians where to back up at, f~r if we don't be has my everlaSting gratitude amI I hope
with us. Bro. Kane was not with us at our they will put Col., 0., on the" hog train .. no other member of this Brotherh9OO VI ill
last meeting. He had a good reason for for all time to come. ever be as unfortunate as I have bt~ell.
 22 'THE ELEcrRICA:L 'W;()RKER
·The weather j·s getting warmer here now
aed I guess I will make a barrd of lemon-
ade and try-selliog that, 8J:ld if I·can't sell
. ,
it all I can drink jt myself.
'. I will close hoping all the brothers are '.~ .•.. --
happy and successful. .
Fraternally,
ROBERT G. WRIGHT •

.Iln 8Jtmo~i(lm.
. Erie, Pa., June 8, '99.
Editor Electrical Worker:
The' following resolutions were adopted
by this Local Union No{S6 on the death of
Bro. Carl 'Brainard~ .
Whereas, It has pteased Al'mighty God
in His infinite wisdom to call from our
midst otlr estee'med brotbe~, Carl BrainarQ,
a member of. out union, and'
Whe-teas, We mourn the loss of one who
whHe in life we heM dear as a brotht:r and
as a friend, and while we can neve·rmore
grasp his hand and meet 'his pleasant smile
in this life, we qln submit to Him who has
. called our brotlier's spirit to the life beyond
the .grave, the-ref.ore, be it
Resolved, That we extend to the be-
reaved family our hearfelt sympathy in
their sad ·and unredeemabl·e loss, and while
they can not again meet the loved ones in
this life, we can point them to a Saviour
who said, .. I go to pre.pare a place for you,
that where I amihere ye may be also;" and
be it further
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu-
tions be suitably en.gross.ed and sent to the
family of our deceased brother, that they
be spread upon our minutes and a copy
sent to our official journal for publication;
also that a copy be sent to People's Paper.
Respectfully submitted.
HENRY PUDENZ,
JAS. P. HANLON,
JOHN F. ST. CLAIR •.
ON :THE DEATH OF THOMAS M. LEMON,
DIED NOV. 23, 1Il98, IN ST. LOUIS, MO.
Blow gently, 0 ye wintry' winds,
Across his narrow bed-
In the citv of St. Louis,
They s~y my son lies died.
2000 voits shot through his heart,
In the twinkling of 'lin eye;
Ah! when death comes to the true and
. brave
It is not death to die.
The golden gate stood open wide,
A gentle voice said, .. Come."
In his bright youth and manhood pride,
He quickly e~tered ·home.
. He'hung upon the cross-arms high,
Where a thousand eyes could see.
He died· as once our Saviour did,
Without the agony.
Up, up through the shining ether, , .. Hush, baby, you will break my heart,
He soared like a bird on the wing,
Tht' light shone down from the pearly gate, Your papa':, iac~ :.'0;': cannot·ser;:,
And he heard the angels sing.
UDloD, 01 coune. 19 )'ear5 It: buslne.s, sod Dever had a strllce-that's our Jabor reco'nl. ,
If ~ou" dUller don't keep Kc)'stone ,oods, send IlJ bls name.
CLEVELAND & WHITEHILL CO., Newbur.gh,N.
They said a smile was all his ract:
They never saw before.'
I tbink he heard the. music s,·;t:ct·
From out the open door.,
His comrades hastened to his sidt:,
While the',gaping crowd stood round-
"Quick, throw the rope, unbuckle his belt,
And let young Lemon down."
The physician-work.ed with all his mi.ght,
The linemen tbey stood ne.ar,
Too paralyzed te sa~' a' word,
Or wipe away a tear.
. Superintendent Warrance came in haste,
.~ VIlh'lt, Lemon gone this time-
He was tht: rr:ost tl'ushvorthy man
I had upon the lin-e."
One linemall lingered ncar him,
His tears told how he felt,
He.slowly up the ladder climbed,
And brought down Lemon',;; bdt.
It was only four short hours beCoi'e,
He kissed his wife and son,
And then went singing to his work,
The wo!"!;: that ,,00n was dcne.
For·the echo of his feet;
No more tht! little boy will watch
For hi!' papa on the street.
.. Say, mamma, where has papa. gone!
His face I do not see; .
He aiways.lmrried horne :It night,
To take mt! on his knee.
With all thi'i weight of woe.
His ~o\'c1'ou'i] ne-vt:-T know."
.' ..
y~
"Come, darling, put your nighty on,
I'll sin-g your evening hymn; .
Your papa cannot come to us,
So we will .go to him."
No more around the family hearth
His letters will be read.
To all the dear young folks at'hQme .
His last good-bye is said. ..
We-see his books, his empty.ch.aii,.
His fife, his drum, his sleigh,
As we look at them they speak to us
Of the boy that went away.
We'l'l think cf him when the sky g'rows
dark,
When we hear the thunders roar;
He speaks to us when the lightning flash
Plays.around the farm-~ouse. door.
We kno~ that we shall meet again
In that bright home on high,
And clasp his strong right h;md o~ce more,
And never say good-bye.
As Jesus took His heavy cross,
And up to Calvary trod,
So I'll lie' down at His (Jear feet
And leaye it all with God.
I'll wa1k withShadrac.;k through the fire,
And Daniel in the den;
At every blow, I'll climh up higher,
And write with a fiery pen. .'
Then lay aside those 100ig black robes.
Put on a wedding ring, .
The grave shall have no victory,
Since death has lost his sting.
JENNIE I. LE~!oN.
Hetbel, SuUivanCo.,-N. y,
 June]
£I.;~TB:ICAL WORK£~.s STRIKE.
Eighty-Five "lnside,II Men go out Because
Bosses Ignored a New School.
The Electrical Inside Wire Workers'
union No. 18 ordered a strike of all the
inside wire workers and as a result abont
eighty-five men walked out. Two reasons
are given for the strike-one by the meu
and the other by the employers. Here is
,the outline of the mell's grievance;
Early in the winter they presented to
.tlle employers a uniform scale of wages
which they asked them (the employers) to
sign. They asked for first clllSS jouruey-
, men thirty cents an hour inst'~d of twenty
and twenty-five cents,' the present rate,
leaving the nunibe~ of hours constituting a
days' work optional with the bosses. For
first class helpers they asked twenty-five
cents an hour instead of fifteen and twenty
cents; for second class helpers twenty
'cents instead of twelve and one-half, and'
for third class hel pers fifteen cents instead
of twelve and' one-I.alI and ten cents. The
• men also claim that the bosses on several
occasions made appointments with them
to talk of arbitration, but each time they
ignored the engagement. They say that
the employers were given until May 1st to
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 23
TO WHOM 1'1' MAY CONC~RN. with the t.hought that they are the only
Galveston, Texli5, May 3. 1899. chilurt:n on earth, remember that Brother
Wright tlllnks the Same thing. Though
Robert G. Wright, while d<ling work as
a lineman ill DentOtl County, Texas, near he C3n 1!ot romp and play his heart is in
the city vf.De:i~ol1, _x/as <:a.uf;ed to iall the the right place. It has often been said
distance;:ofdit::",sklf}.l feet and.'''''a" "'~,tkke,ll that electrical workers are liberal hearted
with paralysis. and has beeif totally dis~ men and we know this to be a--fact.Come
abled since. Feeling his depeudence upon
his fellow craftsmen, we take this method on, boys, lets raise $250 for Bro. Wright.
of assisting him, by taking up subscrip-
tion and forwarding same- to Grand Secre-
tary. H. \V. Sherman, No. 731 Powers ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Building, Rochester, N. Y. Same to be
sent to Robert G. \Vright as soon as all Send III Velll" OrdeN f01"
Locals are heard from. 8ame to be nloney
to purchase some b\lsines~ for afflicted
brother to support wife and child, and this
list to be published :in our official journal.
The above explains the sad accident to
Brother Wright and we sincerely hope all A Large -Supply 'on hand.
locals will respond as freely as Galveston.
SaUd Gold, $x each. Rolled Gold, soc.-t!~cl1.
Come boys, wake up and let the good. old
Texas hospitality strike your hearts, and H. W. SHER:IIA~, 73~ Puwers Block,
when you are romping with your children Rochester,N. Y.
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15N'T IT FOLLY
to buy tllat lV/lic/l may be adulterated

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, come to terms and then the time was ex-
tended to June 1st, but as they still refused WHEN YOU CAN GET
to arbitrate the strike was ordered.
The Iron Moulders' International union
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will bold a coiH'ention-the first in four

( years-at indianapolis on July 10.

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Pays highest commission on clubs of six or more.
Postal brings SA,MPLE COpy or estimates on
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•WESTERN ELECTRICIAN., OFFIC~S:

-," Wilen you see the-sam,PIe, you'll wan,t -:11 62-70 Mumford Street.
" Ie every wee,k. We can 1111 orders I --1
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Directory of Unions.
Secretaoes will please furnish the necessary in-
formatioft to make this directory complete. Note
that the time and place of meeting. the name of the
President. the aames and addresse8 of the Record-
ing IIDd tJiDandaI Secretaries are required. .
/
. fio. XI at. r.oulII, .o.-Meets every Monday at
60c M~et st. Pre.... C. W. Campbell. ;3626 Califor-
ni& av.; R. S_ Paul Ettinger. IS'~ N. 12lh st.; F. S.,
p, C. l"ish. 1927 N. 1,5th st.
Bo••, EIUl8&II Cit,., Mo.-Pres .• J. L. Cocbran.
216 West lotb st • K C•• Mo.; R. S .• g. P. Myrick,
1246 hall at., K.· C., Mo.; P. S .• J. J. Saxe. 1501
Peun st.. It. c.. )10. ..
Bo. 3, at. :r,olll.. Mo.-Met\. every Tbursday
. at 60c Market~. Pres•• W. M. MeCoJl. 16 S. 17tb
st.; R:$., J. 0 ' _ ; Ion N. Leffingwell av.; F. S.,
. FJ&Dteoo~·.33'J3·"faDcbestH' ,,".
T1iesda,.
Bo• •• Bew Ch'2ealui, T4a.-Meets 1St and 3d
at Carondelet alld Perdido sts. Pres.• C ..
D. Batt. 928 eo.mon st.; P. S .• Geol'ge E Wells.
724 Camp at.; IL. S.. Cb.... Elmore. 1:¢i South
Jl.ampart at. .
:WOo . 5, Pittsburg, Pa.-Meets every Priday
night in ,;chmen"lUdg.• cor. Water amI M "rket &\5.
Prell .• F. H. H..... Oak Stiltlou P. 0, Pittsbu rgb;
R.S., Frank Lunney. 301 Robinson .t .• AUegheny
Cit,; ~, S. F. G. Randoll'h, 805 Walnut st.. Station
D. Wilkensbalg. Pa.
·Jro. 6, San FrlUicl~o,·Cal.-M ..ets ~(\ 2:;1 4lh
Wednellday5 at ~or~~te,.s' H~l1. 20 Eddy ~t. 1'r"s.•
J. J. C:\zerul1. 233 Cleml!J)tioast; R.. S .• A. A.Whit·
liekl. ti3' Nato..a st.; F. So, R. P. Gale. J2!0 Broad-
._yst.
11'0. '1. Springfield, Haas. - Meets every
Wednesday at.room 14 Barua ·Blk. Pres.• G. T.
)(~i1Yray, 30 Desse Pl.; R. 8.. T. J. Lynch:
ChICOpee Fans. Ma~: P. S •• M. Farrell. 59 Broaa
at. . Wellu,,~ays
lie.. 8, Tcledo. O.~Meels ·every Monday at
Friendahip Hru1. 1':-:5. C. E. Marryott. 2030
B",,:e~st.; ,R. 5., B F ...l~i1I~r,44
F~ Ai. ~ens.Je<:hleT, 711 \-o.tlum ~t.
Hic!.s st.; F. b •
)\0. ~,Ch!.cag-o, IIL-?{eets every'Saturdayat
S.; Mac,s'lll st .• Ha!\ 6. l'r~s., H. Cullen. 53 Aber·
cI:.~ust.; j{. S .• J. E. Pf:!igg. 922 W. 53rd st.; F.
.... J. U";5.."(II1,I; Puiler at.
Nn. :to:., In4li!napolis, l:nd.·-Meets every Mon-
dAy at ~I:c-.,:a:t llan, S9 o. Del. st. rres.,1ohu Bp.rry,
«:Ok", hdQI'S. Fire ~pt.; R. S , Ce;). R. Meecher. 813
N. Senate av.; F. S .• C. j. L,a11l',!on. Sol West
l'Ntt 5:.
No. 1:1, Greater New York-Pres .• ' W. W.
Vaughau.9 N ..s..... u st .• Brooklyn; R •. S .. ,·bas. L.
Rogus. 134~ Ke.scin~ko st .• Brooklyu; F. S .• F. G.
OrU, 334 First 6l.. Bruoklyn.
Jro. X7, DetroU. Mich.-Meets ""ery Tuesday
lli«b~ at. No. 9 C.. dillec .q. Pr,,". R. Scanh'lI. 90
Porter st.; R. S .• G.li. r.~cwn. 5" Chester av.; .... s.
TJlomas H, Forbes, 4-11 !\.very ave.
Jro. r8, Kauns CIty, Mo.-Meets every Friday
ni¥bt, Lal',.>r hdqrs.• 1117 Walnut st. Pres .• ·H.
•;-__ ; ~U3. 93.> Osag" ..ve., K .. C.. Kun.; R. S .• P. J.
Schadel, (;,12 Wall EL, K. C Mo.; P. 5., C. F.
I 7 1.ill<len 51 • I'tw"~k. N. J.
DmUenger. 613 0 ..13ware st .• K. C•• Mo.
Bo. 19, Atchison, Kan.-pres.• F. J. Rotb. go6
N. Tenth st.: s.. :;.• H. G. Wickersham; F. S •• R. E.
J!a9ton.6o:I'l Cow1 st. ".
}fo. lilli, Otnaba, Neb.-Mep.ts ~very Wednes·
<iay at l.abor 1·emple. lith & Donglas sts Pres .•
W. P. I.eedom. 20:10 Graye 5t.; R. S .• J. F. Simpson,
,iS19 W. Faruum st.; F. 8.. 1\(. J. Curran. 617 S.
%~h~i. . No;'56, £rie, .Pa.-:-Meets !~t 'and 3d Wednes-
No. -3, St. paul, MiI:n.-Pres.. J. H. Road-
isouse. 1;;0 Sherburne av.; R. S .. W. B. Tubbesio&.
497 Martin st.: P .. S., A. !I. f":?rrett, :-;5 Richll"OllC :~;.
No. 1II4, ltIim::e!'.pclis, Minn. - Pres .• O. P.
I Shortail; R. S .• W. 1. Heywood. 16 E. 26tb st.; F. S .•
P. B. C. Wood, 273I Tremont av. S.
II 11'0. liS, Lotlhville, Ky.-Meets first and third
'l"blirstlll.ya c: .t:acll mouth. Pr",,:, JameS AileD.
Columbia ntdg., 4tb aDd Maio sts; F S .• E. H.
Venerahle, 405 W. Market st.; R. S .• McGonigale
KUler, call' Cnion Hall. 516 Stb st.
11'0. a6, Washington, D. C.-;-Meets e"ery Sat·
urday at 1204 Penu ay. PrCb.. Jobn· Hoffecker.
tOlYl N. Caroliosav. S. g.; R. 8 .• J. C O'Connell. 930
~ st .• N. 'W.; F. S .• G. A. "'(nione. 4!>·1-. st.. N. W.
11'0. lII'i', ~alt!more. M. D •...:..Metls "v""1 Mon-
dayat Uall,roc. Fayette and Po~k ""S. Prer., 'V.W.
Welsh, 1420 A isquith st.: 1<.. S • A.. R. I.arkin. 171S
V.,.,her st.; F. 5 •• F. H Russell, %408 Aisquilh st. ., Hou~t:; F. tie N. H. SpeJi-c.,=r, Rogchi lilt ..
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No. 30, Cindnnati, O,--Meets 1st al\:i y1 Mon· No. 65, Butte, )[ont.-.Meet.~ 2d aDd .. u.
<1ays a.\. -I~ E. Coun 51 Pres..,. \VID. .'~"illiams.
1325 Bt-oauway; P.. S., Wm. Price .. lo,¢ Lel~tial st.,
Wedllesciays in Good Templars' Hall. Pres.• Jas.
~la\'idSOD. 'u9 O~sky BIl<: R. S .• W. C. Medh~t'5t,
Mt. Aubnme~"i~y; ·F. S •• G.;;c. R. Kildtbt';;IlC, 403 E. P. 0 Box 8¢; F . .5•• E. M. DeM,us, P. O. ~ ~1'"
3rd &1.., Ciuciunati Qhi,>. . . . No. 66. H0118toa. Te~.-)(eets.lst all<i:ad :>lOll'
Boo' 3r; Anaconda, MOllt.':":r'~8.,:1"h<i..1>wyer, days. Pres .• Ceo. O. Wood. 1203~·-Capit ..1 av.; k. $ .•
care Elect. r,igM Co: CR., S ...J. ·F. :'..'!d~; F.S .• W. P. Jobn.on, r~let>hoae Ofti<:e; F. S., W. F."
Caywood, 14'3 Franklin avo . '.
Chas. M.:Dooalc; Carroll, .)<lont.. .
No. 6'1, 1:!tliuc,., Xll •...:l\(eets 2d and 4t.h Wedtt..,So
No .. 3~. Z,ima,·(I • ...,Preli;O.G. ·SnY,J~f • .sl. High day" at Trad.... Assembly. Han. S. 8th st..· Pres., J; .
st.; R. S. w. C. Holtn~. J; .... Ha~ftlw. ave ~ I.ima,.
11.. N'es'oler. 525 Maideo Lane st.: J. M •. ll.t"<!!ttutta,
Oilio; F; S .• C. L. WhC!'t,."I. n2 N. ~;iz?beth 1>t. 825 Jen." st ; F. S., C. H. )(cNemee. StT S.7tb st.
. N'o;3s. Boston, lIla:~.-Meets everY Wednes- No. 68, Deaver, Col.-HeetsMoncay .nijrhta
day ~t ..w-J~eUtl.~lt ·st. Prt:~., 1:'. j.L ~-Jt..'1vi!le. ~l at 1731 Al"spho st., Ciub Bldg.; PreR .• F !:·lce~er.
Mtlultou!!t. Ch~rJestowt1. M"~s.; R.S.• J: B. Jeffers; 1931 Penn av;; R; S .• F. A Warae.-.luo Larimerst.~
27 MC'L.CaIlA.;.F. S .• W .. \:. Wood",ard. loCbutCh st. ·F. S .• C. W. Armstrong. 63tJOlh avo .
No. 36, Sa:ttam~tc; ·C:!I.-!\f.. "t~ 1St aDd 3d .
Tues.u.ys lit For""1:~I"S' H:lll_ l't'cs:. C:h"~. M. Dur-
No. 69, Dallas, 'Tex: • ...:Mects every 'Tuesd'IIY
e"eoing at Labor HaIr. Pres.. P. P. Barues. 141.
k<'e,6%4.G st.: R: S., WUliam·F. ~1e.rleY--529~ .... st.: Akark st.; R. S .• C. E;. Bas.on.438 Mail> st.: l' ~.;
P. S., iI. O. Hutton, I6t7~:'o(. st. . .. C. T. Wheeler. 438 Main st. .' •
11'0. '10, Cripple Creek, Col.-P:-E:S" y. :)1.:..
lio. :l'1. Hartfo~d, ~oun.--Mects<;vO!'YW<,dncs­ Lovell. care Teh:phon!!Co.; R. R .• JQsepb C. J:jjd,s.
day at 6<'3.IIl",iu st. PI ~s .• W. II. Cl'nWr"y,7:\ !opriu!;' Cripple Cred,,: F. S •• John T. Waller&, "Cripple •
st.; R. S:·;"M. P. Sulbvit4.i77As,tlllll ~t.; F:S .• J. J. Creek. ' .
Tra!;Y,.~ 1"mplo:; st... . ' . . Bo. 'Ix. G""ve.t~ Tex.-Meets '=d' " ..,d4lli
I'!~.; .aSJ .Cli.:r~;.\1l4,O,-:\te~.~s ~ery;;Wedue... Tbur!'da"". Cooks and Waiters' Hall, ?:.d .it. be-
daYn.ig!ltat,JS6'Uutano st. Pte¥., Geo. H. Gl"uon. tween Merket and Mec:bamc. Pres. J. P. Poyxu:.
11%1 St. 'Clair ~ ; K. S .• R. ·M. kUclS, 59 C"ll'iLte st.: F.
S .• A. Herron. 4 "'aflaee· st. .
1528.N st.; .R. S .. D. L. Gohle, 3,)20 R' .Kst.; P. S .•
W. F. CunnlRg. 2r22 .~ve. P-;4. .
Bo~ 40, St. Joseph, Mo.-Meets e"ery Tburs- .Bo, '1-, Wac:o, TeX.-Meet" e~ry Sata.clay·
nll'ht at Labor Hall. Pres .• J. ·E. Capl~. IOi8 N. r.h
day mgb.tat· Brokaw )tall.Sth ilOud·Locust sl~.Pres .•
Frank l'. Sl. Clair. R'y Co.: R. &."WlJl. 1'. Dorsel. st.; K. S.; G R. Lockhart, 93t·South 6th. st ; F. S., ..
J osepb H >dges. 728 S 6th It. ...
R'y ~o.:'F•. S.• J. C. !;chneid<r. <:ity Jo;ltc. "t. Co.
No. '13, Spokane, Wa!lh.-Meets":~! '''au 3d
No. 41, Bufftllo,N. Y.-..i,.etsevery Wednesday Wedn~3vs io K.of P. H"1I. 816 Riverside :lv •. }"rel'..
at-CQnucll Hall. I'r...... W'tt. A:BrceM, 35! Vermont Eli Hensl~YJ 2!8 Rive.f~idc av.; R. S., L, ~:~.l~we ..
st.; R. S.,. J.:()'COrt~Ui.~'. Fara-o av.; F. S .• Abe
Hass"y, 598 Fargo av; ' .. ' .
gen. 919 Asb S •• ; F. 8.. D. Lonmer. 1723 F!II.h =.
Bo. '14, WiaoJ:ia, Minu.-Pres... H. B.·.Klein.
No. 4~, l,Tt~!!aJ N. ¥.-Pr<>s., W. T. Certer. 68 5ro OlmSI"ad st i.. R. S .• P . F~oC1m. 510 U~"''''t:".;i
NeilsOu st.; k:S .• G. 0'. C>t.,ler,-.6 E;ln, 51.: F. H.• F. st.; F. S •• Joseph Trantner. MO F,. 3rd st. ,'.
Dauahcr,"21o. I.ilapdil~~ &t! '. ".
. Bo. 'IS, Grand RRpidl!, Mich.-Meets Jst and
N~. '43, .·Syrac:use,·~. ·.Y.-"'eets lsi and 3d 3d S1tDrjay~. ~rt;S-, Jo;::. .Nc~\-mau, IS Ken(,,'(~:t 'ft.;
R. S • c. !Yr. BUD. r90 Sheldon' st.; F. S., c. P.,' Po!'!.
TueS<.lays at McCarthy's H"U, Markel ;t.. ol'p. City 132 Wittter st. . '
Hall, .. Prt:s.,.~ Dcnovau, ~IO Niagnrt! st.: It. S .• F.
N. Stiles. 734 K R. R. S.; F. S .• Wm. H. Goui'h. loS No. '16, Tac:ontElJ Wash.--P ..es.. !Wrc .. K!:"e.
HaWthorne lit, .. ~, JJS6 D st.; R.S .. W.J. Lo"'".U310thst:; P; s .. Jls..
·Murray. Ju8 D s t . . . . .
No. 44. Rochester, N. Y.-)f~t~ ,.(f Rod. 4th Bo. '1,{. Seattie, Wti.sh,.-P~, j. G. M.a;l1an~ •.
at 0<i.d. Fell.ow.· Hall. State &1:' rres.•
J. p. \\0111',9 Ceua, st.. R. S .. A. L. Oeun.s~on. .231 Pontlus av.; R. S., S; Curk<ek; F. S .• J. J. J"<1'
14 Baldwin st.: F. S .• Fl·ed.Mli.rtin;·50~!tc~ ..lain st. kins. 1;;19 14t h A V . . · · ' .."':
No, '18, Chicago, Zl1.·-PrCli .. W. J. MCC<>I·r:;cl,;·
y.
No~·.5, Buffalo. B. ...:MeEts I~t and 3d Sat-
urda}s:at Cuu ..cil Hal!. ·J'rea.•.F:Dc"li1i, 711 Vir-
7207l'.i St. La,,(renCf! av.; F. S •• George H. FoU.:, 3;;'
W. Adams st.; R. S., W. T. Touner. 147~ Ohio &(.
gioilut.: R. S., J. Diugblllu.ll: r·. S •• M. E. St2ble, No. 80, No!'follt:, V9.-P;eS .• C. W. RrfO"dloV";,
46 Kail st.' :. . 38 Falkland st .• Norfo!k. Va.; F. S. Hill, :01" N.
Bo. 46, Lowell, Xaiis ... -M~ts·Cyel'Y Thuooay Marshall.v.; ~'. S., E . .!'v!. W~VtSJ8 ~IBiD st. .
at 202 Merriluack st.; ~d 6001', rooUl 5 Pres. Her· Bo. 8x, Scranton, l'a.-Pres.• W. K.· Cl"e:--
be~ L .. "'hitney. 6 )?uffel' av ~.R. S:. JM. Harrell. 17 water. 345 Pear st.;' F. S. B. C. Hackdt. I!4 N, .
First st.; F. S. H. F. Hardil'•• 3S E. Pille st. Hyde Park av. , .
No. 4'1 Siou-x:; City •. l:n.:-Ptes. J J. Sullivan.
1701 Celller.st.; R. S .• A. S!JurUcy. 1600 ottb til.; F. S ••
R. H. Greer. 2,,01 Illh st. .
No. 48. MilwaUkee, Wl!:,-Pn:s.• lo"
'c:. Ray'
ulond, 600 l.'iand a,· :·R. S .. ·M. J Qui,!.:, "718 Clay.
bourne st: F. S .• O. C. Kars,,,rer, 916 Richard st.
N'0"49, Chiclil&'O, IU.-M.:el8 eV«'ry·Secon.! and
Fuurth Tuesday Ht Jllngs Rnll 1.:6 E. t{andolpb st.
Pn·, .. F' J. Strulth:. ~o ·.W. 'Di\'ision st·.; R. S .•
Walter J. Dcmp-ey. 153 Thlo;>p...st.; Eo'. S .• Chas.
Fu~lc'. 2~9 W. CQ1liresES~. ;.,.
No. 52. Newark. N. I.-Pres .. J. H. Thomas.
346 W. 59thst .. N Y. City; R. S , W. S·. Hnrriogtou.
24 Willow st .• Blo',mfi"ld N. J.: P. S., 1-;d: il!aA<e1oc:k •
No. 53, Harrisburg, FB.""'Pres., C. A. S ... ager•.
. t'
ns~ ;\lan.l:t .t.~ R. <S •• jQ;;. Em'glIDfl'er, "5 N. 15tb
. -. , 46 Suoullilt ~t.
st.; F. S .• C. Atid, r5<>O,
No. 55, Des Moille.. Ia.;-M..... ev.cry Thurs·
dal' night at 'rrades ·.~"""tr.bly Hal!: Pr...s. J. Pit.,·
gI!1I1Id,'-J9'4 ';ill.er·st; R,8 .• I:. C. Pur!!. 71S'Scott st.;
F. S • ·1Il. O. Trbcey,. 2~2 Raceoo st. .
day", ·Pres .• .P ,.J"'"'Oos, 161 l<»£t 7tli st.: \t. S .• L. B.
C:1t'.~OD .. 303 l'II.:uch ·dt.;·F. S., ,T. F. St. Clair, 71I
Freach st. .
No. 51, Salt Lake CIty, Ut..h--"res .• J. k.
Bl.. ir. 258 S. 2nd Pa~t· £t.; R. $ .•:J. llorlgson. Utah
Pow.er Hou.se; -p:. ~ ... A~ W. SC\lttl Valley HOllse.
Nc.. 60, San Antonio, Te-.:.~-:\i ...t:ts TS: Ilr.d 3d
S:ltnrda)'" at S~P:In.: in Painters' Hall, 1.31 S<>ldud
~1 pres .• Martin 'Vnght. 114 Roo;·lIr. st.: R. S .• A.
C. La".t:n. 116 N""rasl:.a ..t.; P. S.·, Chas. E. McNe-
mar, 8,8 A\·,.O. .' .
No. 6~, Los An24:1es;cal.-t-rC$.. 'P. B",,1I8nao,
3~iN. ?of"i" st.; P.. S., Vl A.. ';'·'ods. D<lX il.; £tation
B; Y. S:, s. L.·Brose .. 4~f-CQ1,·tc"'Gt. . '.
No.6:l, Troy, N. Y.~-F: S:,·M. J. :Keyes.·.No.3
Short 7th ~t. _". .' _. _ "-
No. 63. War~~~,:P::'.-'l!eet~ lS'. ani! ~d \Vcduf'&oo
day' at D. O. H, Hall. cor. ~<I all!! LiI... t;·y sts. Pres .•
F. W. r. .f!S~:, L·tberly 51.:-1'.. S., R. Y. 'F!~~n, kevere