The Labor Review du lieu suivant : Leavenworth, Kansas • 1

1 State Historical Society THE LABOR REVIEW OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ALL COAL MINER'S UNIONS OF LEAVEN WORTH. GOMPERS TO BE IN CITY NEXT MONTH. KANSAS Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, agreed with Representative Borland of Kansas City, to speak at a dinner of the Knife and Fork Club in Kansas City early in February. Freeling Tufts, secretary of the club, had wired to Mr. Borland askling to secure Gompers for a dinner in January.

Mr. Gompers said he would be too busy this month, but will go West in February and can fill an engagement for Kansas City on that trip. ABOUT FRED COGSWELL. All the old time prints of this locality will recollect Fred Cogswell. The following chatty article in reference to him is taken from the Washington, D.

Trades Unionist, Sam De Nedrey's paper: Frederick A. Cogswell is the presiding genius at our rule cases, and a more capable and accommodating person is scarcely ever met. He was born in 1847 in the then independent city of Georgetown. He commenced to learn his trade in 1867 with John W. Forney, and served there two years, when he joined the union as apprentice member in 1869.

He then went West for his health, eventually landing at the frontier town of Leavenworth, where he was a member during some very strenuous days to the union. Returning to Washington about 1875 he participated in a strike here. There were two unions here at that time, he says, one down town and one for the G. P. O.

After making another trip West, where he conducted a job office and later traveled for some large printing houses, he was appointed to the office about 1881 through John J. Ingalls. His recreation outside of office hours is the culture of flowers and fruit. AGAINST ARBITRARY INJUNCTIONS. There is in President Taft's message a recommendation which will be read with satisfaction by organized labor.

This is a recommendation designed to prevent undue interference with personal freedom by means of court injunctions. Doubtless he was prompted by the unjust and arbitrary attempt to muzzle Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison, of the A. F. of L.

executive, by an injunction restraining them from discussing the facts and circumstances relating to the Federation's fight against a powerful manufacturing corporation. Here is the President's recommendation: "The enactment of a statute forbidding hereafter the issuing of any injunction, whether temporary or permanent, by any federal court, without previous notice and a reasonable op-, portunity to be hard on behalf of the parties to be enjoined; unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that the delay necessary to give such notice and hearing would result in irreparable injury to the complainant, and unless also the court shall from the evidence make a written finding, which shall be spread upon the court minutes, that immediate and irreparable injury is likely to ensue to the complainant, and shall define the injury, state why it is irreparable, and shall also indorse on the order issued the date and the hour of the issuance of the order." The President recommends also that an injunction issued without notice shall expire after seven days unless renewed after due notice and opportunity to all parties to be heard. While the recommendation does not go as far as the labor leaders have demanded (they want all contempt of court cases to be tried by jury), it probably goes as far as it is safe to go. If the President's suggestions are enacted into law, it would be impossible in future to use the courts as an instrument for terrorizing people into silence for an indefinite period. Hamilton Herald.

A year's truce was declared by the A. F. of L. convention, at Toronto on November 18, in the dispute between the brewery workers, firemen, teamsters and engineers. JANUARY 8, 1910.

that they would suspend business rather than pay it. They have already laid off almost their entire working force and are refusing all work offered. New Seth Low, president of the National Civic Federation has appointed three special committees following the dominant idea expressed at the last annual meeting to devise means to prevent industrial accidents and to show that present antiquated employers' liability laws must give way to a system of compensation. Boston. -The railroad machinists employed by the N.

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last week announced that it had decided upon a wage increase request of that road. Like the new scale for the B. M. system, adopted two weeks ago, it has been forwarded to the international office for approval before being submitted to the management of the road. AN ELECTRIC CAR ACCIDENT.

A stove in the vestibule of southbound car No. 22, exploded at 11:20 o'clock Thursday night, a short distance south of Lansing and blew the motorman, M. H. Ready, through the vestibule door, killing him instantly. The cause of the explosion is not known.

MUST HAVE DISCIPLINE. President James O'Connell, of the International Association of Machinists, occasioned enthusiasm at the A. F. of L. convention when he declared that conditions confronting labor were such that it was necessary for the A.

F. of L. to take rigorous and summary action to wipe out dissensions. "If the various unions can't 'see what is good for them and the labor cause," declared Tom Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, "we will point out to them in no unmistakable way." The utterances of these two well known trades unionists are particularly pertinent to the situation in this city at the present time. WAGES OF BALTIMORE BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS TO BE RAISED.

The book and job printers of Baltimore are to get an increase in wages, beginning with January 1910. An agreement entered into this week by a committee representing Baltimore Typographical Union, No. 12, with the proprietors of union book and job printing offices provides that the wages of foremen shall be not less than $21 a week, and of journeymen not less than $17 a week for hand work from January 1910, until December 31, 1910, and from January 1, 1911, until January 1916, the rate for hand work shall be not less than $18 a week. Machine operators are to get not less than $21 a week for the first year of the agreement and $22.50 thereafter. These are minimum rates.

Many members of the union are now getting much higher wages than are stipulated in the scale. Some changes have also been made in the apprenticeship regulations. NATIONAL PAINTERS ELECT NEW OFFICERS. The Tenth Biennial Convention held in Cincinnati was a most harmonious gathering, 534 delegates being seated. The election of officers resulted in the removal of many of the old officials and young blood installed in their stead.

The result was as follows: Former Vice- President Hedrich was chosen to succeed President Balhorn who has held that office for years. First -John Finan, of Chicago. Second Vice-President-M. Kelley, of Philadelphia. Third Vice-President-Joseph Healy, of Cincinnati.

Fourth Vice-President-D. L. Munt, of Spokane, Washington. Fifth Vice-President Clarence E. Swich, of Memphis, Tenn.

Sixth Vice- President-A. E. Scott, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. No. 32 Kansas City Has a Candidate.

Jos. A. Cable, secetary-treasurer of the Cooper's International Union and one of the ablest, most conservative men in the labor movement, will be a candidate for labor commissioner of Kansas, if his Kansas City friends have their say in the matter. And we fail to see how Mr. Cable can turn down the proposition.

While it is rather early to put a candidate in the field, since the election will not take place until February, 1911, Kansas City does not propose to miss an opportunity and places Mr. Cable in the field that all may know in plenty of time that we want the office and that our candidate is a competent, worthy one. Mr. Cable has been a resident of this city for sixteen years, and has held the responsible position of secretary-treasurer of the Coopers' International Union for twelve years, a position he has filled to the satisfaction of all and credit to himself. Mr.

Cable needs no introduction to our many readers and is well known to almost every union man in Kansas. His candidacy will undoubtedly be well received throughout the state and it is the opinion of some of the best posted men in the state that Mr. Cable will be elected without very serious opposition. Labor Commissioner Johnson announced not rious to the last election that he own rwot be a candidate for re-election, Ire and the she, the field open for Mr. Cable, published loch la ionably the best qualified Thou reason, 4 ugehe office.

puli a are riven 1 work in the ict. McDonald places the cotor. ramhoy the ease in wages Wiley callen the hearty is certaire locomoti of every loyal yer in frovaches other car cons places Mr. Cable in the cuneels "Kansas City will make every 3 of cott 10 land its man, knowing him to sa' competent, worthy and ably fitted for the office and that he will be a credit to organized labor in Kansas. Success to Jas.

A. Cable and Kansas City Labor Record. Mr. Cable is a good man and we do not blame his friends for advocating his candidacy, but we wish to say right here, that Leavenworth will have a candidate, and we believe the winning one, for the position of State Labor Commissioner in 1911. Leavenworth believes she is in justice entitled to the position.

TRADES COUNCIL HEADQUARTERS REMOVED. The Trades and Labor Council has moved its headquarters to 315 Delaware street, the Boyd Building, over Harmon Printing Office. PAINTERS ELECT OFFICERS. At their meeting Friday night of last week the painters elected the following officers: President Hill. Vice-President-Jas.

Reynolds. Recording Secretary--Walter Eggleston. Financial Secretary--M. C. Duffin.

Conductor-Wm. Swift. Warden-Jos. Olund. Delegates to Trades Council--Walter Eggleston, Peter Bishop and J.

Dalley. ORGANIZER FOR THE BARBERS HERE. J. C. Shanessy of St.

Louis, general organizer for the Journeymen Barbers' International Union, was here Thursday. He came here where he made an official visit and spent the afternoon in comwith A. H. Hoefner, secretary of pany the local barbers' union, visiting the Fort and Soldiers' Home. The Barbers Union No.

87 gave a smoker for Shanin the Eagles' Hall. Shanessy and essy several members of the local union gave short talks and afteward the union presented a stein to him. Mr. Shanessy the guest of A. E.

Hoefner while was in the city. He left this morning. Labor News Every where. grocery clerks have undertaken a campaign for organization. Members of the Cigarmakers' International union are voting for seventh vice-president.

The Machinists Union of Jackson, added one hundred new members to its list of membership last week. Cleveland, American Steel Wire Company will immediately erect a $1,250,000 blast furnace in this city, according to announcement. C. W. Bastian, secretary of the Printers Union, at York, was in the city this week.

He will be a candidate for agent of the Printers Home at the May election. Gary, Ind. -The Pittsburg Bolt Screw Company will begin immediate; construction of a large plant here. The new plant is expected to employ 1,500 men. Accidents in coal mines of the United States during the last calendar year resulted in the death of 3,125 men and injury to 3,316 more, according to statistics just made public by the geological survey.

Pittsburg, returns received here from various parts of the country it is apparent that Thomas L. Lewis has been re-elected president of the United Workers of America. Advices have reached Washington that Treasurer John B. Lennon, of the American Federation of Labor, has been defeated by Mr. Brais for secretarytreasurer of the Journeymen Tailors' International Union, a position held by Bro.

Lennon for more than twenty years. More than five hundred members of the International Typographical Union in receipt of the pension of are now $16 per month paid by the organization to all members who have reached the of sixty and furnishing proof of age twenty years continuous membership. Toronto, resolution introduced by the Leather Workers on Horse Goods at the American Federation of Labor convention has given due notice the saddlery industries that the or- to I ganization throughout the United States and Canada intends to make a fight for the eight-hour day during the ensuing year. Bradstreet's index is authority for the statement that food costs mare to-day than ever. On November the commodity prices reached the highest nothe.

It now costs to live more than twice what it did thirteen years ago. What wage earner can show that his wage scale has doubled in that Clarion. Minneapolis, Minn. Minneapolis Typographical union is considering a new constitution and by-laws, a most important feature of which is the establishment of a loan fund for needy members. This is being established to circumvent the loan sharks who have preyed on workingmen in that city.

The conductors and trainmen of the Eastern railroads have decided to demand a uniform schedule and wage increase of about 12 per cent. The moveinvolves 125,000 men, and includes ment railroad east of the Illinois Cenevery tral's main southern line, and north of the Chespeake and Ohio Railroad. William Randolph Hearst's paper, the Los Angeles Examiner, appeared rein abbreviated form because of a cently strike in the composing room. Thirtyfive printers walked out as the result of a grievance they attributed to a new foreman. The foreman, Fennessy, is declared to have discharged men without cause.

The union job printers of Seattle, on December 8, presented their employers a new scale calling for a reduction of hours from eight to and a half and an increase of wages! from $24 to $28 a week. The employers rejected the scale, and announced LABOR REVIEWLETS JUST JOLLY JINGLES. Much truth in verse doth oft appear, Likewise instead doth catch our ear. A little widow, now and then, Will land the most discret of men. "Money talks" sing many lays, But no one knows just what it says.

Its vain remarks to learn I try, And I think it only says good-by. If Shakespeare wrote today He'd doubless rue The sums he'd pay For postage due. Whenever I break a dollar bill, My wonderment increases. At this sad fact, try how I will, I cannot save the pieces. The thunderstorm may sour milk, But rainy days will rust the hose, Unless, as everybody knows, They're silk.

In summer preachers vanish To where the sun doth tan them brown, To the mountains and the seashore, Only Satan stays in town. A woman's as old as she looks, This saying we don't doubt. As old as she looks--that is, Before dressing to go out. The cobwebs hang across the door, The dust lies deep upon the floor. The clerks all sleep-now are you wise, The store that doesn't advertise.

Fame is an empty, ballon dream To some folks life's most envied But not to me, far be it so. I'd rather have a bunch of dough. How about the peach crop? Cheer up, the coldest weather is yet to come. Jule Neubauer, who has been down south, has returned. Ice cutting has been resumed at Bean and Sugar Lakes.

McCown Hunt has been reappointed county assessor. George Bynan has been released on $10,000 bail. The Gilman family of Leavenworth county are sure prize corn growers. The cold weather has caused all railroad trains to be late this week. Ed.

Evanson, who has been working on the Times, has returned to Minneapolis, Minn. The primaries for state and county office nominations will be held August 2nd. Get ready, boys. Work on the Orpheum is progressing rapidly. It is expected to be ready for occupancy about March Ist.

The themometer stood at 13 below zero Thursday morning. The cold snap hangs on to beat the band. Mrs. Maria Rice, widow of the late J. S.

Rice, aged 80 years, died last Thursday of pneumonia. The loss to the Missouri Valey Bridge Works by the accident at St. Louis, will not amount to more than $15,000. John T. Jones, an old citizen of Leavenworth, died Tuesday of old age.

The interment took place Wednesday in Mt. Muncie. It i is expected that a contract will be closed between the government and the Electric Line to carry the mail between Leavenworth and Lansing. Who knows where Curtis Goodman of this city is? His wife has been looking for him in Kansas City. He disappeared November 27th.

James Mulvannon, who formerly lived here, died in Atchison Wednesday night of heart disease. He is survived by three brothers, who reside in Prescott, and one sister, Mrs. Mohan of Atchison. Fred Vanderschmidt carried off the bulk of the prizes at the Omaha Poultry and Pet Stock Show with his Buff Rocks. Game and Fish Warden Dyche warns people against spearing fish through the ice in Kansas streams.

Hs is also going to get out a book on how to cook 'em. Good enough. Congressman Anthony is going to have an amendment to the Rivers and Harbor Bill to have the Kaw river surveyed from its mouth to Topeka, to see if it is navigable. Jas. Roach, a well known tailor employed at Miller Schuelle's, while leaving the shop Friday night of last week, slipped on the ice and broke both bones of the right leg below the knee.

ra m' Up. letting ing ould war the Assistant Attorney General Shukers, came down from Topeka one day this week, for the purpose, it is said, of investigating the violations of the pure food law. It is to be hoped he will make an example of the evil-doers. Jesse M. Worley, father of the assistant editor of the Leavenworth Times, died Thursday morning from an attack of grippe.

The body will be taken to the former home in Illinois for interment. John Biringer, gun and locksmith, corner 6th and Shawnee streets, does all kinds of repairing, such as bicycles, guns, etc. He also carries an up-todate line of sporting goods, finishing DEATH OF PHILIP CRAVEN. "Leavenworth, L.I Kansas. Philip Craven, one of Leavenworth's old settlers, died Thursday of pneumonia.

Mr. Craven was born in Ireland in 1837, but had lived most of his life Thomas, and two Rapp and Miss Kate Craven. Dr. Sager, Fifth and Shawnee streets, is prepared to treat any and all cases of defective vision and diseases of the eye. Dr.

Sager has had many years of experience in treatment of the eye and this in conjunction with his college education in that branch, has made him one of the most competent men in his profession in the west, as thousands can testify. LOYAL TO CALIFORNIA. California should be proud of Jack London, one of its native sons, who has brought fame to his state. Unlike many other writers, Jack London is loyal to his native state, and instead of going to New York or London when he has become famous, he prefers California as a home to any other part of the few people 'have seen more of the world than Jack London. He has recently returned from a two years' cruise in the "Snark," during which time he visited many almost unvisited islands in the South Seas.

He has written a wonderfully vivid and interesting account of this cruise, which will appear during the coming year in "The Pacific Monthly," published at Portland, Oregon. His first story appears in the December, 1909, issue. Each Story is distinct in iteslf, yet each one treats of some incident of his cruise. Cut this notice out, and send it with $1 to "The Pacific Monthly," and you will receive this beautifully illustrated magazine until September, 1910, and the December number, just issued, cantaining Jack London's first story, will be sent to you free. Address, "The Pacific Monthly," Portland, Oregon.

"Society can have no respect for the intelligence of workingmen who take no interest in the organization of labor. In proportion to their weakness in the spirit of unionism they lose the confidence and support of the public. It is the spirit of the times. It should not require argument to so convince wage earners. To maintain strong organization in the true spirit of unionism is the only way for labor to be prepared for a a recent address of Judge Alfred J.

Murphy, Detroit, Mich..