Cooper's International Journal du lieu suivant : Kansas City, Kansas • 2

Brewing who thought he FISCHER ON flACHlNERY. Continued From Flrnt Page. could bully the union, is some age to several hundred coopers elsewhere. This company! fin Cincinnati that have been running thing to he admired. It proves to their factory and shop together so same thing can be said of other our satisfaction that No.

89 does not play the baby act when they COOPERS' International Journal. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Official Orgau of the Cooper' Inter national ulou. Terms, 50c Per Annum Postpaid. as to get the union stamp on their trades their machinery does no 1 1 ,1 .1 work such hardships as that Machinery.

For the benefit of those who arte continually kowling about tne Coopers' International Unijon leing antagonistic to progressive science in that they are continually opposing the use of machinery in their trade, the following is written. Ninety per cent, of the nia-chinery in use today is owned by macnnio maae pacKages, naa no good intention, as they only sold coopers. I have interviewed discover an enemy. They handle their enemies to a queen's taste. Those who fear their enemies will reap defeat at their hands.

their stamped packages in cities too late to remedy this evil. I think not, because the condition of coopers can not be worse than at present. If the union stamp is allowed upon machine made packages, about four or five large machine shops would be sufficient in the United States and they would soon control the C. I. U.

and all the coopers would be at their mercy. Experience has taught us that they have no mercy with us. If the stamp is refused on machine work and their business thereby cur machinist who is in a position to know, and he tells me that there would be more work for machinists sure you are right then sail in to win. KDITOH. AM liS A.

CABLE, making coopers' tools if all bar for nlie rels were made by hand than there corporations and operated Local Union No. 93, of Buffalo, Entered at the post offioe at Kansas is in constructing coopers' ma grea N. have just celebrated the ai seoond-class matter, purpose of building up 'corporations. If they where unions prevailed and they would say, we will' furnish you union work way below the home priee for hand made work. For instance, here in Evansville, they offered half barrels at $1.75 and quarter barrels at $1.12.

How can a hand cooper compete with these prices? A member of the firm of Hauser, Brener, Fath Co. stated to a cinnery. i also trunk it is very anniversary of the birth of their imprudent ot Con Poehner to ad umon, aim they desire to express their appreciation of the untiring vacate machinery curtail the work and wages of his ow efforts of Brother J. B. Hammer Instructions to Correspondents.

All communications must be written on one side of the paper only. To insure publication communications should be in hand not later thnn the 15th of the month. craft and to acknowledge that who founded their local. Brother Hammer has recently com is opposed to machinery that tailed, they will not shut down but will discontinue the use of the objectionable machines and more coopers will find employment and they cannot compete with hand shops in other localities. In conclusion I will say that in missioned as organizer for Buffalo detrimental to our interests, but that the laboring classes have and vicinity, and he is forwarding committee when said committee went to their office nearly a year ago to get an agreement on prices for finishing off their trussed packages that they would have to gone on record advocating the use the ideas ot unionism to every point within his reach.

The mem market the product of thfeir machines those who own apd operate them today would not care if every working man tin America was thrown upon tjhe streets penniless without aiiy chance of earning a living. We offer as proof of this proposition that the more workingmen a machine displaces, the more eager manufacturers are to adopt it greater value is placed upon jit. The manner in which machiries are operated has caused thousands of our fellow workmen to sacrifice the necessities of life, and aside from suffering and miser 'it thereof. I think he is mistaken every instance where coopers were involved in trouble and machines The laboring classes have been bers of No. 98 desire to tender him Fsiss or The Kansas City Tribune, iu Minnesota Kansas City, Kan.

get them as low as they had been were in use the cooners were de. compelled to operate them by the through the Journal their thanks making them as they had to com powerful manufacturers and com feated, and in a majority of cases and approval, and to congratulate1 him upon the success of his efforts. bines in order to maintain their coopers have won every point con existence. It is also an established pete with such cities as Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and other places where there were good, strong unions, and nothing but union tended tor when involved in trouble with hand shops. I think the fact that machines in some in Strike in Kansas City.

ciustnes are useiul and that none On the 18th day of February, are so detrimental as coopers time is ripe for coopers to consider the right and the wrong side of their craft. Many labor leaders 1897, a contract was entered into made goods went. Now, brothers, who fs going to be thrown out of C. I. OFFICERS.

GEO. BOXLE, President. 3408 8. Halstead Chicago, 111. CHAS.

J. FISHER, 1st Vlce-Pres. 23 W. 7th St. Paul, Minn.

FRANK THOMPSON, i Vice-Pres. 105 Gaorgla Memphis, Teim. FREDERICK KREBKLE, 3rd Vlce-Pres. 1 Hunt Detroit, Mich. JAMES A.

CABLE, Secretary -Treasurer. SIT Shawnee Ave. Kansas City, Kas. JOHN I.AWI.EB, Sergrent-at-Arnis. Clncinattl, Ohio, between Coopers' Union No.

18 machines are to our craft. I have no obiections to machines for Cini employment, a few coopers in causes stagnation of business. Fjpr instance, if the people cannot obtain the means with which to pur and the Wave Motion Churn Co. cinnati machine shops, or all the making heading because they save are averse to bringing politics into their union under the mistaken and erroneous idea that it will chase things which, they a great deal of valuable timber The said churu company having very little capital, arrangements were made whereby stock could be manufacturers cannot sell them disrupt them and injure their Also I have no objections to the stave buckor or equalizer, and effectiveness. Such arguments are the produat of their factories, hence the stagnation.

If enough therefore it becomes our duty to FEBRUARY, 1898. of the machinery now operated in point out the objectionable ma too weak and too silly to need refutation and ought not for a moment to stand in the way of the much needed reforms. It is the United btates would be dis coopers oi otner cities mere are not enough beer coopers left in that city to fill the berths that are vacant in that company's shop. Even the brother that wrote that letter in the January Journal quit there and went to a hand job. Now since this new law went into effect I understand that the members of Nos.

59 and 86 made a contract with the aforesaid firm to chines in our trade, and not to continued as to give employment stamp the product of such ma chines, and it is the duty of or with the ballot, and the ballot to all the unemployed, factories would be running full time and ganized labor to uphold us in this "Help one another," tha snow flakes said. As they huddled down in their fleecy bed "One of us here would not be felt, One of us here would quickly melt. But I'll help you, and you help me, And then what a big white drift we'll see." Lettio 0. Stuai t. alone, that we can hope to free ourselves from the chains of over production and stagnation as much so as it is our duty to up procured from J.

D. Holingshead, also a contract was secured to furnish the Swift Packing Co. all barrels used by them for a term of one year. To enable the said churn company to carry on business and to carry out their contract with Swift Company, it was agreed between them and Coopers' Union No. 18 that the coopers should allow them to retain 20 per cent, of their earnings until the sum of $25 had been deposited by each cooper to be held bythe company would be things of the past.

industrial slavery under which we now live. Machinery, to a very great noui tnem and ngnt that which is detrimental to their interests. No union has any right to point out make some ale barrels for Toledo, Ohio, and they made them too. I extent is operated to the detri Organization. Men unite together for the at ment of its owners as well as the what machines we must uphold we must know that best ourselves people inasmuch as it curtails the demand for its own product, even Union cigar makers do not label though it yields its owner a profit when in operation.

All of the Brother Fred C. Simon, of Minneapolis, has entered into a state of matrimonial wedlock for life or during good behavior. Are you keeping pace with ti times? Does your local show mi increase of membership over lant report? If not, get your should. to the wheel. tainment of some object, that object is realized in proportion to their united activity.

"In union there is strength" is an aphorism. Every day witnesses the formation of societies, formulated for the cigars made in whole or in part by machinery and no organized body has ever raised a voice against people should be given permanent their antagonism of machinery asked one of the brothers why they did it, and he said "Well what shall we do, let the work go?" Now this was not riflht, and it should be righted. This firm has since received an order for ale barrels on the strength of being advertised as a union shop, and they thought they would fool but old No. 7, of Troy, N. had its eyes open and called them to time when they sent a car load of ale barrels there which were made at the factory and did not until tne tulhliment ot their contract with Swift Company, provided, however, that said churn company should give the coopers good and sufficient security for but to the contrary they are and accomplishment of ends that will succor the worker and standardize his condition when those ends are employment and what they cannot do to supply the demand should be given to machinery.

Discontinuing the use of such machines as are used in our trade, which after subtracting the enormous amount of material destroyed in making a barrel, have been upheld by trades and labor organizations everywhere, and today there is a greater demand for their label than that of any other organization. There secured. The protection guaranteed by organization is the incentive to the worker to hold firm his allegiance after having received are many cooper shops where they Brother Eli Lutes, of Kansas City, recently received notice if the death of a child of his brother, Albert Lutes, who is a member of No. 1, of Chicago, 111. The charter and books of No.

RO Estill Snririss. are now have the stamps on them, and I employ more coopers than they costs tne owner iuiiv as much rs their money, and that if a cooper should secure another and bettor job, (not in any of the machine shops) by giving said churn company due notice he was to be given all of his money. The coopers performed their part of the contract faithfully until about the 1st day of July, when it was found that the said churn company had absolutely to make it by hand. In our trade think they have played this game can joint staves and turn heading substantial benefits because it is nothing but natural for humanity to cleve to that issue whish being in other places. This same firm for, and they keep them constantly machines are given full time, aifa has a superintendent, A.

i. ox i waiting tor a set of staves pur promulgated is tried and found true by name, at their hand shop, as it posely to make them hungry for a in the hands of the General Secretary-Treasurer. All members Ihe already accomplished re- what they cannot do to supply the demand is given to the cooper. We are opposed to machinery as it is now operated because it is ults of our international union is canoa, wno is cuikbi- cvbi no and always promising tnem nf oov lnp.nl wishino; a transfer was never in the history ot our tailed to furnish there was one. All he knows full time next week, and at the ftbt COnperingjll bame time the coopers are not card gOTieravMui' a- favor trade more generally recognized investigation it was found thatl quarters.

than at the present time because they could not give the desired machinery under public management, and would lend our skill to drive the poor coopers from morn- allowed to joint them, and for ingto night. At first they got this reason the wheel jointer him to drive them at $2 per day should not be allowed. Where we have for our object the same security. The men then having its advancement were it oneratrd spirations as other organized considerable money on deposit firms buy jointed stock it is not so for the good of the people, and in and he got about $4 worth of work workers, and in expounding them Ye members of the C. I.

if you would have others patronize the product of your labor, don't fail to call for the label when seek first to convince and then such a way that those who are out ot tnem. lie is more oi a bad they cannot keep men on being disolaced would receive subiect for a lunatic asylum than promises as they do in machine to accomplish. This is conclu- to be about coopers as bad as they some benefits. shops. When they want a lay off ivcly proven by our continual addition to our now long list of making purchases consult the label gallery in the Journal.

No excuse now. Other craft papers have been advertising our label it was decided that should they demand their money it would probably destroy the future existence of the shop, and the barrels being made by hand would probably be made in the future by the machine shops, so it was decided to make the amount of deposit $15 instead of $25 and re- ocal unions. None of us can be too sanguine are. He tried to compel tnem to go to a certain saloon where they have a scab bar tender, handle scab cigars and scab bread, recently. Also he discharged Summing the whole thing up we are not opposed to machinery, but to the motives which prompt the use of it, and iu order to reach the motives it is necessary for us to attack the machines as our complete triumph over the for years, and we thought it high time to reciprocate.

for a few days they say some machine is out of order, and that settles it. I also think, and many of you will agree with me, that when prime, timber is exhausted many coopers' machines will be done away with and will be of no use, and coopers will triumph hesitancy of those who doubt our Slack barrel stamps with cush- lease said churn company from a brother tor going across me street to patronize a poor they are now used. doctrine or seek to stigmatize our motives. There is and must be union iu our every action. I do not mean that action should be cooper boss that run a saloon and ion under them can be secured at giving a bond.

Things ran along headquarters at twenty cents each, smoothly until some time in Oe-The cushion underneath the Btamp tober, when Joseph Lambert and a little shop, but fortunately this once more, and the time is not far More Brewers in the Combine. Scrlpps-McRao Telegram. Cleveland.O., Feb. 7. A deal has them very pliable and a Ohas.

(Jots, secured better in sympathy with those who seek to deprave the honest motives, or distant when oak timber will be very scarce. good impression can be made easy positions and demanded their was refused. Not been completed whereby every on a roush stare. Also the signii- money Every new invention should make the struggle for life easier, same man gave the brother a jod. I don't see how in the world Nos.

56 and 80 or any other union will be benefitted by having Article Section 17 stricken out- of the constitution. We, the members of local union No. 12, at our being desiroas of causing trouble but it does not under the present ture has been changed and the stamps being made now are far superior to the first ones. brewery in tJincinnati passes into the hands of an eastern syndicate. The money consideration is The local companies retain $10,000,000 in stock of the in the only hand shop in Kansas City the men decided to let the matter drop for the time being.

Things ran along all right then capitalistic system. Every improvement in the process of wealth production means more miser)' and more suffering for the masses The strike at Green Bay is won. Mr. Margentine, one of regular meeting, voted unanimously to have it remain in the constitution as it now reads, as it the ambitious activity of members who have the spirit of trade unionism at heart. We should discountenance such perverse criticisms with the same hand that we uphold the laws of our union.

All victories have been won by united action. To be sure the union wage-earner has oftimes suffered defeat, but where is it not so? There never was any attainment achieved that was won by capitulation that until January 1st when said churn the bosses, signed the scale and the company threw up their contract two men employed by him went with Swift paid some of the of working people makes the poor poorer and the rich richer. By publishing such as the resolutions iu the January issue of the Journal from Cincinnati the author has not the union principle is one of the grandest documents that ever stood in print for the C. I. U.

Look at the victories we have won. What did Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago and Evansville do. We Is it Good? Well, Yes. By Anton Herman, Local No. 12.

Poor old i ncinnati as i ts nerve to hold its charter under the C. I. U. when the worthy president of men their money, refusing at the same time to pay others. Joseph Lambert being one of the men who was refused his money, broaght back to work.

Before going on a strike the men were getting for i barrels, 85c; i barrels, 50c; barrels, 65c. They struck for I barrels, 45c barrels, 00c barrels, 80c all rough stock. The man employed by Mr. Chaber is at heart but for some reason seeks could ever give the satisfaction don't know how to run the ma that Article 5. Sec iNo.

8lJ writes the C. I. tion 17 of the local constitution chines, but we know how to make to create a discord in harm than cood to packages and run our union sue- It would be more advisable for will do mora suit before Judge Fischer for the same and in the meantime the men working for said churn company decided to go on strike until such time as every cooper was paid and if not chanmd it cessfullv. Now, brothers, some of any local affiliated with the C. the C.

I. before publishing any protest will be one of the "has beens." It may be as far as Cincinnati is against the prove you may asK wny i write uns way. The reason is, because I worked iu Cincinnati for this his money, and at the same time that a hard fought battle could give. So it is that in the advocacy of our belief we sometimes meet with reverses that does not deter us from our original determination. Every cooper of our union should joyously acclaim the power and protection that is given to us by affiliation and vie with each other in trying to attach to us all coopers of our country.

still out as he refuses to pay the price. A cooper by the name of Geo. Gramlich was initiated into No. 98, of Syracuse, N. and afterwards tried to play general man something better for adoption to demand a raise of two and one concerned, but there are other cities in this big United States be first, and not to censure or ridicule firm, and foreman about four weeks last February, and I was in the proceedings of the convention sides her, and if the beer workers half cents for making wooden bound tierces.

After the men had been out nearly a week the said can't work from the roueh. thev that city for about five weeks, re- of the C. I. U. The delegates to are going to be thrown out of em- cently, and I made it my business ployment.

How many will the to look into the matter, and what machines nut out if we let. them I saw and heard was not of the the Cincinnati convention knew very well what the paramount evil was with their trade, therefore churn company agreed to pay all men their money except Joseph Lambert whose case was then Complete control of our trade will go, and what is the use of letting best, you will hear from me later, those laws were constituted. From never be ours until every cooper is a member of the C. 1. U.

This pending in the courts, the said churn company refusing to pay them go when thre are plentv oft Yours for the success of the C. my judgment the representatives ager of the whole shooting match, and wanted to force them to take his brother into the union, who was not a fit subject to bo-oome a member of a first-clafs union such as they have in Syracuse. So Mr. Gramlich was given back his initiation fee and told that he was not giving satisfaction as a member thereof. the costs of the suit, it was agreed can never be consummated by inactivity or laggardness.

We cannot ask or depend on others to to let Hie court settle it, which of that convention were the very best that could have been selected from the locals all over the coun-. try and every amendment was places to stop them; and they will 1. U. be stopped if the C. I.

U. contin- Trust Brings Idleness, ups its fight the way we have i i i i if Scrlpps-McRae Telegram. started. I don't think there is one rt organize the coopers of America, -The the court did by rendering a judgement in favor of Lambert, taxing said churn company with all the costs. After being shown their they have their own objects to at- thoroughly discussed before being adopted.

If all the coopers leave place where wo have a beer work- lrs union of the C. I. U. that the "PP1" lTlLotJ. must depend on our were brewery bosses do not recognize books, the men were convinced Until own individual efforts.

This responsibility we cannot appreciate the work to the officers of theC. I. U. progress will be slow, but if all laid off indefinitely today. that'they could not pay any more the union except in Cincinnati, and they could have accomplished the Cleveland Rolling Mill Co.

tor making the tierces, and have went into the hands of the trust Why don you pay per capita tax on your full membership? Some locals doctor their quarterly report so as to cheat the general office out of that which is due it, ajnd they howl the loudest became the Journal is a cheap affair, and because you are furnished with cheap supplies. Remember that too fully, for the very life of our union depends on the zealous cooperation of every member to enlarge its membership and adver-. tise its existence. By so doing we gone back to work. Kansas Kooper for Kongress.

something, but they have been spending too much of their time fightingamong themselves and the factions they have made by it. all of its mills were full blast. The hoop mill had run steady for several years. About a eek ago fifty employes of the mill were notified that their the rank and file would perform their duty our objects would soon be consummated. Hard work has killed the energy and talent of many of our members.

They can not study the ideas of elevation. Where machinery was adopted the hard work of the cooper was not relieved but it became much harder Hon. Joseph A. Butler, president can produce results not inferior to The very idea I No. 59 did not of the irades Assembly of Kansas even have a constitution of the C.

the best that can anywhere be ob Lit', Kansas, is a kooper that kan tained through organization and services were no longer needed. The mill was then run half time I. U. last year and their by-laws not be soft-soaped and for that were not iu acord with the con we give you the best we can for the money we get. Pay up all you owe promptly and receive the same treatment from headquarters.

Write something for the classify our union as all that is worthy and of good report. till Tuesday, when the entire de stitution and their stamps are not partment was shut down, it is Being consolidated into one legal; they had them made them for he must work like a machine to earn a few dollars, which is a great deal harder than working from the rough entirely. This can1 union with all tne strength ot selves and they are all of the same number. reason would make a good repre sentative in kongress. His many friends throughout this nd of the state are urging him to accept the democratic nomination.

Brother Butler is a union man that kan not be bought by any korporation. He also has many friends among circled brotherhood we can, in one Now who is going to be injured said the trust is regulating the output iu order to use up the surplus stock. Harkl the watchword now It sounding. Overall the land; See 1 the crushed are slowly rising. Oh, the sight la grand 1 Journal and get a good paper.

The manner in which Local Union No. 89, of Boston, fought to uphold the apprentice law of the C. I. U. against the by Article 5, Section 17? I think grand galaxy of concentrated action force our enemies to tee and feel that our efforts are combined, and our interests are uni be proven by all coopers who have had the experience.

And they had no time to think where they were drifting when the machines grew over their heads. Some think it there were not more than a dozen the populists and free silver repub- coopen employed on the class of work referred to. But it did dam- versal. Andrew (J. Hughes.

cowardly foreman at the Roxberry I licana H. 8. Gene Tea Lake-1.