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Accepting Traveling Cards ...... 452 Correspondence ...... 456·462 Cost of Electricity May Be Reduced ...... 451·452 Detective Burns Unmasked ...... 435·439 Directory ...... 474·480 Editorial ...... " ..... '.' ...... 447·448 England's National Insurance Act ...... 442·443 Executive Officers 445 Federation Labor News ...... 453-455 Lessons in ElectricitY ...... 469-473 Local Receipts 463 Memoriam ... 466 Missing Receipts, Receipts, Etc...... 464 New Eight-Hour Law ...... 443-444 Obituary ...... 467 Our Label ...... 446 Poems ...... :... 465 Reports of Officers ...... 450-451 The Seceder's Appeal ...... 449 Trade Unionism in England ...... 439-441

Trade Notes ...... -< ••••••••• 469-473 Wireless Night and Day ...... :.... 444 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS s.c-I Claa priYileae app!i.,d for at the Pool Office at SpriDpeid, IlIiDois, UDder Ad of J...... 26th, 1906

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DETECTIVE BURNS UNMASKED

By SAMUEL GOMPERS

"Private detectives, 90 per cent of them, pardon was based upon an official report as a class, ar€! the worst lot of ~rooks B;nd made to him by United States Attorney­ blackmailing scoundrels that live outsl~e General Wickersham, the following letter of prisons.," This charge has been reit­ was a.ddressed to the President of the erated and emphasized on any, and ~ll United States: occasions when a sensational opportumty " Washington, D. C., June 10, 1912 was at hand, or could be created, by the Dear Sir: I have read with unusual most conspicious, if not the m~st. notor­ interest the press reports of the pardon­ ious detective of the day, Wllham J. ing of Mr. Jones in the land cases. I Burns. In view of events of t~e recent would esteem it a very great favor if you past, the charge' demands conslderat~on. would have sent to me a copy of the It appears that Burns' p~rsonal practices report in the case upon which you issued and "inside" informatlon have had much the pardon. influence in his reaching his conclusion "Thanking YOu 'in advance for your and making his charge. It is said by courtesy, I remain, scientists that in some cases in the ego "Very respectfully yours, of great wrongdoers or criminals they Samuel GomperS, President, wlll describe their own guilt by ascribing American Federation of Labor. it to others; that many a crook ha.s been "Hon. Wm. H. Taft, brought to justice by just this species of "President of the United States, ego mania. "White House, Washington, D.C." It is in view of recent revelations that To which the follOlWing reply was re­ the bombaStic and flatulent mouthings of ceived: Detective Burns can be understood that "The White House, Washlngton. he always did and will, to use his own . June 11, 1912. language, "get the man I am after." In "My Dear Mr. Gompers: I have yours what follows no connection exists in re­ of June 10th. I have great plelUlure in gard to any labor case, but it discloses sending yOU a copy of the full report in the trend of mind and the method of De­ the case. Sincerely yours, tective Burns and his own characteriza­ "WIn. H. Taft. tion of private detectives, of which he is "Mr. Samuel Gompers, so notorious an example. "801 G Street, N. W., It will be remembered that a few years "WashIngton, D. C." ago' there was considerable discussion as The report, which the President re~eiv­ to the system of land grabbing and land ed fl'om Attorney-General Wickersham frauds in the far west. That there was which accompanied the President's letter, considerable basis that the land of the disclOSing the indisputable evidence of people and of the Government was being Detective Burns' criminally crooked meth­ unlawfully and fraudillently stolen, there ods to bring about a conviction of Mr. can be no question. That some men Jones, follows: charged were guilty there is no doubt, Washington, D. C., May 10, 1912. but that men wholly innocent were con­ "In the Matter of the Application for Par­ victed by the Burns' methods employed don of Willard N. Jones. Is now fully and officially established. "The President. When the newspapers of the country, "Sir: On March I, 1911, you commuted a few da~s ago, pubUsh&d the fact that the sentences of Willard N. Jones in ef· the, President had pardoned Willard N. feet to four months' impnsonment in the Jones, of Portland, Oregon, and that the county jail and to pay a fine of $12,'000. 436 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

On March 16th you received a telegram the papers which should mOdify the con­ from H. H. Schwartz, formerly Chief of clus'ions shown in Mr. Heney's report Field Service of the General Land OfflC'e, This the Pardon Attorney attempted t~ charging irregularities in the filling of do. On August 26, 1911, he informed me the jury box from which grand jurors anj that he had practically completed the and petit jurors were drawn in the Jones preparation of his report, and althOUgh cases, and also in the trial of the casClS. be bad reached a fairly satisfactory con­ and pursuant thereto you directed a fur­ clUSion, tbere were matters which he­ ther investigation to be made and that could not settle with absolute certain tv the execution of the pena.lty be deferred from the papers before him and said that until the investigation be compl~ted. he thought it desirable the Department Shortly thereafter additional papers were should have at least some statement from filed to sustain the charge, and a report 1\1:r. Burns; that he had in my absence was received from United States Attorn­ caused a telegram to be sent to Mr. Burns ey McCourt with which he transmitted inquIring how he obtained posseSSion of additional papers formerly belonging to the list of names which were in the pos­ Willia.m J. Burns, detective, which were session of Captain Sladen and Jury ('om­ found in the United States Attorney's missioner Bush prior to the filling of the office. All of these were sent to you jury box, to which Mr. Burns replied thaI. April 24, 1911, with a statement that T there was no truth whatever in the state­ thought enough fa.cts were submitted to ments that Captain Sladen or the .Jury throw a very decided doubt upon the faiT­ CommissiOiller bad furnished him with art­ ness and impartiality in the method of vance lists of prospective jurors, and ~tat­ selecting the jury and that in my opinion ing that he would look up data and turn. it would not be just to allow a man to be ish the .Department with a complete re­ sent to prison as the result of a trial be­ port of his connection with the matter, fore a jury procured in the manner in which was entirely straight and honor· which it was shown by the papers the able; that he expected to be in Washing. jury which Jones was tried was selected. ton withIn a short time and would then I stated further that the papers also tl'nd­ make iii report, and answer interrogator. ed strongly to sh9w an atmosphere sur­ ies by anyone interested. Thereupon rounding the whole prosecution WhiCh I directed the Pardon Attorney to delay was ha.rdly consonant with the impartial _ the completion of the report until he h~d administration of justice. I referred how­ &een Mr. Burns. Mr. Burns, however, did ever, to the fact that the papers had not not make his report, or come to the De­ been submitted to Mr. Francis J. Heney, partment for months afterward, although the attorney who conducted the prosecu­ repeatedly communicated with about th(> tion and who was a.t that time in Cal­ matter. ifornia, and recommended in view of the "The pa,pers received up to this time delay which would result from securing and reviewed by the Pardon Attorlltly in a statement from Mr. Heney, that the sen­ connection with Mr. Heney's lengthy re­ tence be commuted so as to relieve the port were so voluminous that the Pardon defendant from a.ctual imprisonment, or Attorney's brief had reached nearly if you desired Mr. Heney's statement be­ eIghty pages. He delayed the completilln fore a.cting, that the papers be transmitt­ of his report styled 'Supplemental Report" ed to him for an expression of his opinion until October 10, and then closed it with concerning the points of criticism. On a statement that he did not think any April 28, 1911, y()l\l replied saying that fair or proper conclusion could be arrived you believed the execution of the sentdnce at until the Department had received a should be withheld until the papers had complete statement from Mr. Burns. and been submitted to Mr. Heney for com­ that it mIght be necessary to receive ment and answer. statements from others connected with "Mr. Heney's report, a lengthy docu­ the prosecution; and in view of the size ment covering seventy-seven pages, dated to which his report had grown he th,)llght May 23, 1911, was received by the De­ it would be well to make the result of partment June 28, 1911. Mr. Heney dis­ his further investigations the subject of claims any knowledge of the matters another communication. 'I'hIs he has "one . charged, offers expla.nations and conjeC'­ styling it 'Second Supplemental report: tures regarding the aleged irregularities, It is well that he has done so and that and expresses the firm conViction th",t the he bas delayed bis report until this time, charges are baseless. I read the state­ as tbe Department is now in receipt of Dlent and referred 'it to the Pardon such further information in documentary Attorney directing him to look over the form that there "is little left to conjectur(> report carefully. and also the papers and as to what a.ctually transpired regarding documents which had been received ~iuce the filling of the jury box and the correct­ your prior a.ction on the case, and re­ ness of the charges made by petitIoner quested him to inform me whether or and his friends. Fortunately this evi· not in his opinion there was anything in dence is of such a character that it will THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 437

ecessaTY for yOU to follow very Populist. If so, convictor. Good rellable not ~l n the line of reasoning, oonjectuI'e. man.' 'Convictor. Democrat. Hates Her­ care u Y arison of documents and reports man.' 'Hide-bound Democrat. Not apt and .c0r;tP which otherwise would have to see any good in a republican.' WOUld receIve , ired in order to reach, I think, be apt to be for oonviction.' 'He is apt been requ hly satisfacto,ry and convincing to wish MitchelI hung. Think he would be ~ thor~U!pat;. actually transpired. a fair juror.' 'WOUld be very likely to con­ ldea 0. I·.t necessary to review the of­ vict any Republican politician.' 'Convict­ "Nor lS 1 f which Jones was convicted, for or.' 'Would oonvict Christ.' 'Convict fences 0 that if the charges made by Christ. Populist.' ConVict anyone. De­ the reas~nue it matters little what the of­ mocrat.' Burns favorite way of describ­ him are ;. he should not be required to ing an unsatisfactory juror was to deSig­ fence wa , of imprisonment or be other­ nate him as a 's--n of a b--h,' and serve a d The facts relating to the . e pUlllSd~Yl 1e . lists are checked as'S·. B.' 'So B.' etc. At­ WIS . t' n are however, fully set forth tached to the Polk County list found convlC flormer ~eport, which is sent here­ among Burns' papers is a slip bearing in my 0 the follOwing endorsement: 'Pat McArthur wi,~~t is charged by the defendant and Checked all on Polk County list who were . friends· that William J. Burns, who good; Checked on said list for s--s hlS investigating jurors for Mr. Fr~ncis of b---s.' wasHeney, as stated by the latter III a "The Department also has Burns' orig­ J'mmunicatiOn to me dated August 23, inal statements of adversely reported fsll sent his agents throughout the sev- names, some in his own handwriting, I'countie.s from which names of jur?rs others typewritten. EvideniJy Burns, or ~r~ been taken for the purpose of filhng some one for him, had gone over the re­ t:e jury box, and had these pro~sed jur- ports received and picked (}tit the bad investigated prior to the tIme the reports and had them typewrItten. This ~~~ was filled. It is claimed that these was done county by county, with the ex­ agents reported to Burns, and that he was. ception of Multnomah County, concern­ able in some way to cOntrol, and did con­ ing· which reports are meager, and in t I the selection of names that went practicalIy every instance .all of the i~~~ the jury box; that in this way the names on these lists were left out, and 'ury box was filled with names of persons ocasionally were the only names left out ~redisposed to convict, to-wit, Democrats, from a particular county unless the name Populists, Socialists, and Republlcan~ be­ bore a circular check, which indicated longing to what 'Is known as the SImon that although the name appeared upon faction, who were antagonistic to the so­ the list yet for some reason the proposed called Mitchell faction of the Republican juror would be satisfactory. The conclus­ party, tQ which Jones and the persons ion 'is obvious. It would haye been a re­ prosecuted belonged, and that none of the markable coincidence for the jury com­ persons objectionable to Burns were se­ missioners to have selected for rejection lected. It is also claimed that offences even from one county only the names against the public land laws were of such which were reported upon adversely and common occurrence by reason of the lax which had been collected and typewritten methods employed by the Government as above stated, but when the' situation oflicials, or even by theIr acquiesence, that obtains with substantial uniformity very many people in that section of the throughout aII of the counties save one, country had made themselves liable to it is impossible to reach any other con­ conviction and punishment under a strict clusion than that Burns in some way, interpretation of the law; and that the either with or without the actual knowl­ prosecution, through intimidation by edge of the jury commissioners, caused threats of indictment and conviction, com­ the selections to be made in conformity peIIed witnesses both before the grand with his wishes. In view of the high re­ jury and petit juries to testify falsely, gard in which Captain Sladen and the and that witnesses did testify falsely 'in Jury Commissioner were held and the the Jones and other cases. These charges positive statements made regarding the have been substantially proven, particu­ probity of these men, I am disposed to larly those relating to the irregularities regard it as improbable that they really in the filling of the jury box. understood the nature or the extent of "The Department has in its possession what was being done, but there is abun­ the original reports of Burns' agents to dance of evidence, in my judgment, to him and those assisting him regarding show that the work was probably d-one the names of proposed jurors, which re­ by Burns acting in coIIusion wit.h Marsh ports were made prior to the filling of who was Deputy Clerk at the time. It box. Some of the comments upon these is noticeable that the positive statements names were as follows: 'Convictor from of denial are chiefly in ·the nature of an the word go.' 'Socialist.' 'Anti-Mitchell.' assertion that neither Captain Sladen nOl 'Convictor from the word go; just read the Jury Commissioner could have been the indictment. Populist.' 'Think he is a implicated in the affair. Even Burns in 438 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER his first telegram does not reply directly, s--s of b---s, at least I think we did, but says that there is no truth in the and we will "get" Wllliamson this time statements that Captain Sladen or Bush and by G--d we will get the whOI~ furnished lWm with the Information; and d--d crowd. Old Sladen kicked like Mr. March's emphatic statements have h--l because my men WInked the lists been largely of a simU'iar nature. Indeed over before they went to the jury commis­ some of the information which Mr. Burns ioners, but it didn't do the old i!-n secured, and secured so promptly, it would of a. b-h any good, and the corrected seem could not have been obtained in any lists went in anyhow.' other way. "Mr. McArthur, it is to be remembered, "It is impracticable to goo into all the was one of Burns' agents and furnished details of the carro berating (lvidence on many of the reports which are on file in this poInt, but if there were any doubt the Department. He claims, however, regarding Burns' connection with the af­ that he did so with great reluctance and fair and what he actually accomplished under duress, and after much persuasion. it would seem to be set at rest by bis He does not state the nature of the own telegram in cipher to Mr. W. Scott duress, but I am informed is willing .to Smith, then Secretary to Han. E. A. Hitch­ do so if yOU insist. cock, the then Secretary of the Interior, "There are also on file affidavits of per­ on August 19, 1909, the very date the jury sons who claim that they were induced box was filled and on which the grand through intimidation and threats to testi­ jury was drawn. The Department has fy falsely in the Jones case. Such repre­ this original telegram. It reads as fol­ sentations in the absence of other cor· lows: roborating evidence would not be entitled to very great weight, but when it is con­ " 'Jury commissioners cleaned out old sidered how emphatic have been Mr. box from wh1ch trial jurors We"fe selected Burns' denials and his statements that and put in 600 names, every one 01 which the whole thing is a tissue of falsehoods was investigated before they were placed from beginning to end, it is apparent, not­ in the box. . This confidential.' withstanding these denials, that the prose­ "In addition to this an affiaavit was cution very probably resorted to intimida­ received on the 12th instant from C. N. tion of witnesses also. McArthur, who was one of Burns' agents "In line with these practices it is fur­ in the field and afterwards Speaker of ther shown that one of the defendants, the House of Representatives of Oregon. with Jones, a man named Sorensen, while Mr. McArthur makes a complete disclosurE' he was" presumptively being tried by the of the whole situation which leaves no Government, was in the active employ­ posgible ground for doubt. Among other ment of Burns, and received compensa­ things he states that on or .about July 25 tion from the Government under the name 1905 (the jury box was "filled August 17: of George Edwards. In this way Burns 1905), Burns telephoned to him that he kept tab on Jones and the latter relying wished to see him in the District Attor­ upon Sorensen because he was a fellow ney's office, and while there, and in the defendant accepted as jurors persons to presence of Francis J. Heney, Burns hand­ whom he would otherwise have objected. ed him a typewritten list" and said, as "I need not go further in a recital of nearly as Mr. McArthur can remember: the high-handed outra"geous conduct on 'Here, Mac, is a list of prospective jurors the part of officers of the prosecution in fro·m several counties. Take it, weed out these cases. The Government can not the s--s of b-s who will not vote properly countenance, nor is it expedient for conviction, and return it to me as in these times of attacks upon courts and soon as possible, for we are going to the judicial system of the United States, make up a new jury box, and we want for it to lend its approval to any such to be sure that no man's name goes into procedure. In the light of the facts as the box unless we know that he will con­ they appear from the documents and reo vict, fOT by G-d we are going to "get" ports before the Department, it. does not Williamson this time, you can bet your seem to me that any person convicted of sweet life, and we will send this whole land frauds by a jury drawn from the d--d outfit" to jail where they belong. box referred to had a fair and impartial We are g-olng to "stack the cards" on them trial. For this reason I feel it my duty this time. Mr. McArthur states that he be­ to advise you that in my judgment Wil­ came indignant and told Burns that such lard N. Jones should receive a full and methods as he proposed were altogether unconditional pardon. In this connection improper and that no self-respeetlng man I should say that Mr. Burns has been could be a party to them, and Burns re­ given the fullest opportunity to make a plied: 'Any methods are justifiable in statement. The Pardon Attorney went dealing with these s--s of b--s.. He to New York and interviewed him by states further that on or about September appointment, but could not obtain a state­ I, 1905, he met Burns, and the latter said ment from him, though he informed Mr. to him: 'Well Mac, we weeded out the Burns that he had with him all of the · THE ELECTRICAL vVORKER 439

hat had been filed, and would Franklin P. Mays, although my Impression documents t hoW him everyone and re­ is that the man is really v.ery guilty and be glad to s comment he had to make. deserving of punishment. ceive what Neuhausen,~Bums' right-hand "Respectfully, Tholll:as~. investigation, and also close­ Geo. W. Wickersham,­ man In t t:d with Mr. Heney in the pros­ Attorney-General of the United States." ly connec f the cases, has been given an Thus is fully established the fact, in ecutlon ~ to make a statement, the Burns' own handwriting, that he has opportuntitorney, informi~g him of the proven himself to stand as the worst Pardon f the representatIOns made and type of private detectives which he so nature 0 nts filed and indicating the illuminatingly describes. In all modem the do~ume to which the documents un­ history, there is no more glaring case of conclusl~nsnd unexplained must lead. No a deliberate, malicious purpose to convict answere : en received. Such statements a man by suborning witnesses, by false reply has een secured are of an evasive testimony and jury packing, than is made as have b~r are directly contrary to the officially clear in this case. The Presi­ Characte~ary' evidence before the Depart­ dent had no alternative. He uncondition­ docume~ven Judge Gilbert has submitt~d ally pardoned Mr. Jones, relieving him of men~xplanation of his former emphatIc payment of fines and of jail sentences. an t ment denying that the charges made The President's statement accompany­ ~~I~ be true. The course of the Execu- ing the pardon, though not made public. ver seems to me to be clear, is understood to be a scathing arraign­ tive,'howe th and that is, he can. not countenan~e e ment of Detective Burns and others im­ th ds employed In the prosecution of plicated with him. Through the statute ~e 0 cases· by requiring an enforcement of limitations Burns will escape prosecu­ t f e~~e sentence imposed in the Jones tion and punishment, yet he stands con­ victed, in the limelight which he sought case,o . and I think also and for the samed ! reason a pardon should be grante to and made.

TRADE UNIONISM IN ENGLAND

E%ciusiue Correspondence of American Federationist

The last week in May found the Lon­ of work are perhaps rather better at the don transport workers' strike in full ope­ docks, so far as pay is concerned, than ration and business almost entirely sus­ elsewhere in the mercantile community, pended in the great London docks. A but it is there- that they have most fre­ year ago the previous transport workers' quently been used as blacklegs In cases strike in Lonlj.on was a great success. of dockers and other ship workers strik­ Dockers. carters, and other men asso­ ing. The dockers, lightermen, stevedores, ciated with the work of loading and un­ tug-boat men, enginemen, and the rest loading ships and conveying importerl. also found their unions enormously produce away from the docks, secured strengthened numerically and financially increases in wages, shortened hours, and as a result of last year's strikes. better conditions in most cases. As a With these victories behind them the result of that previous strike, which in men have not been inclined to rest upon the end became national, all the unions their oars, and it has taken their canvassing for men engaged at and about union leaders all their time until now to the docks secured tremendous increases prevent further outbreaks. Last year In membership and large strides were unionism came out as a fighting force of taken towards complete organization of a greater strength than ever before all those workers. Even that most diffi­ known in the United Kingdom, and now cult section of men known as shipping has come a further test of its strength. clerks organized and almost 2,000 of them The capitalist press here would have us joined the National Union of Clerks, rais­ believe in the present strike that trade Ing the union membership from 3,000 to unionists have broken agreements, have over 5,000. This Is mentioned because made war upon the people of London anything which brings trade unionism to through the holding up of the food sup­ the class of men engaged in bookkeeping lilies, and have" entered upon the fight has done a very wonderful thing so far with a most puerile pretext. That is all as this country is concerned. Next to rubbish. It is true that the spark that the retail clerks they have been the hard­ has "set the forest on fire" Is a small est section of any section of workers to one, but the inflammabillty of the ma­ unionize and these men, poorly paid as terials has been increased excessively by they. are, suffer from "respectability" in the masters' earlier actions. And it Its most snobbish form. TheIr conditions wanted very little to set things ablaze. ... ~

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That very llttle from the point of view broken this agreement since. Prior to of the general publlc, however, means a last summer London carmen worked 80 great deal for the trade unionist. 90 and 100 hours per week. ' The Thames""lightermen and watermen, The position with regard to the London who are the workers on the lighters or llghtermen is not clear at the moment open barges used in loading and unload­ The Amalagamated Society of Railway ing ships in the river, are almost entirely Servants, which controls them, does not a union class. An ex-foreman lighterman desire at the moment to enter into a of 61 years of age had been put down fight. Twenty thousand carmen are mem­ by his employers, owing to his age, to be bers of that union and it is difficult to merely a watchman. The men claim see how they can be isolated. from the that lightermen's watchmen should hold dispute. The strike has been well or­ union tickets. The ex-foreman declared ganzed and permits are being issued by that he was still a member of the fore­ the strike leaders, Ben Tillett and Harry men's society which is not regarded by Gosling, allowing hospital and certain the lightermen as a union at all and he other necessities to be moved from the refused to take out a lighterman's card. docks. All other merchandise is blocked. This refusal, in the end, led to a strike of Some stuff is being got out under POlice" the other lightermen working for the protection, the loading and driving being same employer which in turn was met by done by outsiders especially engaged for a series of dismissals by the employer. the work and by the employers' them­ That is all. Thereupon the whole of the selves. Twelve hundred police were lightermen to the number of between drafted into the dock area on May 27 7,000 and 8,000 struck. and regiments of troops are being held in Attempts to divert the work to other readiness at Aldershot for fUrther classes of dock laborers was met with "strike-breakers'" protection if neces­ wholesale refusals to handle the diverted sary. traffic and to more dismissals and then At the moment of writing the strike is to a meeting of the Transport Workers' spreading into areas hitherto untOUChed Federation, with which the whole of the and may be extended over the whole dock unions are afflHatedo On May 24 a country ll!ll~ss a speedy settlement is strike of the whole of the Lond2n trans­ brought about. The solidarity and willin~­ port workers was ordered, and "'ithin a ness of the workers has been exempli­ few days over 100,000 were out, including fied in a striking manner and substantial a large number of carmen, as we style gains both in better conditions and in' the men who drive the goods wagons further increased union memberships (freight.) should be the l'esult. Just as was the case last year, all the At Whitsun side numerous labor 'con­ unions must stand or fall together, and ventions are always held. This year one no section of men wlJl return to work of the most important has been a con­ until all have secured their demands, ference of delegates of the Amalgamated which are scheduled as follows: Society of Engineers, who, it should be The day pay for dockers, lightmen, noted, are not the men who drive locomo­ stevedores, and all ship workers to be tives but the men engaged in making raised from the present rate to a uniform the machines here. The Amalgamated' rate of 20 cents per hour. Overtime rate Society of Engineers has over 100,000 to be 28 cents per hour. members who were represented by about· Day conditions of working to be from forty delegates at the convention, which 7 a. m. till 5 p. m., instead of from 7 opened in Manchester on May 27. The a. m. to 6 p. m. Overtime rates to com­ business, which is expected to last for mence at 5 p. m. and to run on till 7 about six weeks, will, it is understood, a. m. include a decision whether the organiza­ Double time for all work done on Sun­ tion shall continue its present methods or days and on statutory holldays. adopt a more mil1tant policy. The mem­ Double time to be paid for work which bers have forced the meeting for this has to be done during meal times. year against the advice of the executive No man after. being called on, to be council, who would have waited until the paid off with less than' four hours day Insurance Act had been put into opera­ or night. All men working after 12 mid­ tion. The membership, too, it is proposed night to receive a full night's pay. to make of wider application. Other reso­ All transport workers to be taken on lutions are concerned with Parllamentary outside the docks. representation and the abolition of the Full recognition by the employers of working agreement with the Engineering the Transport Workers' Federation and Employers' Federation. the federation card. The National Union of Clerks referred For carmen a reduction of the hours of to above, also opened its convention on work to 60 per week was demanded. Last May 27, one of the first successful resolu­ year the hours were reduced to 72 per tions being that the executive councll be week, although many employers have instructed to take steps to "disaffiliate" ~ THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 441

th parliamentary Labor Party in originally, probably half are back at work from e of Commons in view of its re­ now with their demands granted. H'P House II'cy 'J'hn Labor Party, the The Daily Herald, the first and only ~'lnn"rv no 1 I d daily newspaper ever established in this P f the resolut tin dec are , was a move~ 0 wing of the Liberal Party. country, is already proving of value to react;~~a~[erks, employed in the g~ocery the trade union movement. It stands for ~e have also held their conventIOn, at direct trade union action and whilst an­ tra. e, the average wage of $6 to $8 per nouncing that it is prepared to support whIch id to such retail clerks was de­ political action by an independent labor week P: and the executive council was party in the House of Commons, it can ~ounc~ted to take the necessary steps to not set that that party has done much Instru minimum wage in the grocery, in the last six years; whilst on the other secu;e. a oil and color, and allied trades. hand, strikes and direct negotiations on provlsJOnt'wo examples of a stronger fight- the part of the workers have secured . These f rng in a class of men very h ar d within the last twelve months incredible mg e:n~ze'sho'uld be noted as an instance benefits. To take one case alone, sailors ~~ O[;e way the union spirit is d~velop­ and firemen on ships for the last twelve . in unexpected quarters and It can months have been enjoying an increase Ing Iy be said that trade unionism in this in their monthly wages of from $2.50 to f sacountry e was never before so vlrl. '1 e as I't $6. Multiplying these individual raises by 80,000 monthly, gives a tremendous total is now. . . f th I The coming 1OtO operation 0 e n- advance. Dockers in the same way have rance Act* is not regarded on the whole been getting 2 to 4 cents an hour more ~ :~ an unmixed blessing by hour t~ade all the time as well. nionsists although most of t e umons Another labor daily is promised for the ~re becoming approved societies . under fall. This will be published in Manches­ the act and will take charge of theIr own ter and will be definitely an official organ mbmbers' dnes and benefits uuder the ad. of the Labor Party in Parliament, having There are some critics of the new meas-' Ramsay Macdonold as its chief guide. It ure who see in it a Li?eral ~overnme~t will stand, therefore, in the main for po­ scheme to dish the umons, tie up theIr litical action' on the part of the workers, funds, and render them financially much rather than as an organ of trade union­ weaker for fighting strikes and lockouts. ism. The matter is too large to be dealt with A very typical expression of Parlia­ at all in detail here but the above view mentary Labor Party opinion on the mod­ should be noted. Legislative enactments ern labor unrest is given in an article by coming from the Liberal Government in Philip Snowden, a member of the Labor the House of Commons are rarely of Party in Parliament:, in the Daily Mail. much benefit to British workers, the La­ of May 24. There he said: "The fu­ bor Exchange Act being the last great tility of the strike as a means of realizing case. the higher aims of labor has not yet British coal miners are profoundly dis­ been brought home to all the working contented in most districts with the way classes by the recent strikes. We shall the Minimum Wage Act is working out. probably have a continuation of strikes They were led to believe by the Govern­ for some time longer. But .the miners' ment when the last strike was called off, strike should have convinced every work- . that whatever awards were made by the man· that there is reserve power in the various boa~s set up under the act, no community which makes it absolute folly miner would be asked to work for less to think that a general strike can ever than $1.25 per day. Many of the awards take the place of political action." Your are below this figure. A special conven­ correspondent makes no comment on tion of representatives of the Miners' this, but simply gives it as an indication Federation of Great Britain was held of Parliamentary Labor Party sentiment in London on May 21, at whleh a strong ~nd of what will be the tone of the second protest was made and the executive com­ dally labor paper. In the face of the mittee of the federation was directed to enormous gains of the last twelve months ask for a special and immediate inter­ from strikes, the statement certainly view with the Government. seems remarkable. The strike of London- tailors is now well on its way to settlement. Of the *For the features of the Insurance Act 50,000 men and women that came out read the article by Mr. Dowd. 442 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER ENGLAND'S NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT By W1LUS BRUCE DOWD A recent request by mail to Hon. Lloyd The act provides for medical benefit George, Chancellor of the Exchequer of sanatorium benefit, sickness benefit, and England, for a copy of the National In­ maternity benefit. These benefits cover surance Act, lately adopted by Parlia­ practically the whole range of human in­ ment, brought a courteous reply from his­ firmities, including the cure of tuber-. secretary and the desired statute under culosis and other dread diseases, "the separate cover. It is a large act cover­ payment of the whole or any part of the ing 122 pages. Its title is as follows: cost of dental treatment." "An j\.ct to provide for Insurance against Notwithstanding anything in the act, Loss of Health and for the Prevention insured persons shall not be entitled: and Cure of Sickness and for Insurance (a) To medical benefit during the first against· Unemployment, and for purposes six months after the commencement of incidental thereto." The main purpose this act; incident thereto is to provide benefits for (b) To sickness benefit until twenty-six • workers in old age. weeks have elapsed and at least twenty- • This act was passed under protest of six weekly contributions have been paid tho labor organizations of England. It by, or in respect of, the insured; applies to the laboring classes, whether (c) To disablement benefit until 104 they are British subjects or not. The weeks have elapsed and 104 weekly con­ burden of insurance falls more heavily on tributions have been paid for; the males than on the females, but the (d) To maternity benefit unless twenty­ benefits are proportionately higher for six weeks have elapsed since the entry men than for women. For illustration: into insurance, or fifty-two weeks, in the Paragraph three, under the caption of case of a voluntary contributor, or tWEln­ Contributions says, in general, that the ty-six or fifty-two weekly contributions funds for providing the benefits conferred have been paid according to the condi­ by the act shall be derived as to seven­ tions. ninths (or, in the caee of womenj three­ There are numerous provisions for les­ fourths) thereof from the contributions sening the benefits to persons who are in made by, or in respect of, the insurers arrears, or, by accident or otherwise, are themselves, or their employers; and as to in position to receive benefits, irrespective the remainder, by Parliament. This looks of the provisions of the act. It is also favorable to the women, but another provided that where parties entitled to in­ part of the act, in which the money bene­ surance are inmates of workhouse, hospI­ fits are provided; tells a different story. tals, asylums, convalescent homes or in­ Looking at the schedule for benefits firmaries supported by the public, the under the head of health insurance we funds accruing under tl~e act may be used find that men are to have lOs a week for the support and maintenance of those for twenty-six weeks; but women only dependent on the insured. 7s. 6d. for the same time. Yet the dis­ It is not proposed that the Government ablement benefit is the same for men and shall directly insure, but that approved so­ women, to-wit, 5s. a week. In the case cieties shall be formed under the super.­ of unmarried minors, the sickness benefit vision of the Insurance Commissioners is for males 6s. a week during the first for the purpose of making t;4le provisions thirteen weeks, and 5s. a week for the of the act effectual. No society shall re­ second thirteen weeks. For females the ceive the approval of the Insurance Com­ rate is 5s. a week for the first thirteen missioners unless it satisfies the follow­ weeks, and 4s. a week for the second ing conditions: thirteen weeks. Here the disablement (1) It mU51t not be a society carried on benefit is for females only: and the rate for profit. . is 4s. a week. (2) Its constitution must provide to tjle This ac·t has been drawn with such mi­ satisfaction of the Insurance Commission­ nute . care to economic conditions that ers for its affairs being subject to the the rates have been made lower in Ire­ absolute control of its members. land than. they are in England, which il­ (3) If the society has honorary mem­ lustrates, of course, the difference in the bers, its constitution must provide for standard of living in the two countries. excluding such honorary members from The wonder is to American eyes, how­ the right to vote in their capacity of mem­ ever, what substantial benefit can be de­ bers of the society on all questions under: rived by anybody from the receipt of a this act. few shillings per week whether in health It is not necessary for the approved so­ or in sickness. Of course, the answer is, 'cieties to be incorporated, but they may that a penny will buy as much in one be incorporated. .country as a pound in another. Money is It is further provided that each ap­ worth only what it will buy. proved society sha:ll give security satisfac- '· . THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 443 .' Insurance Commissioners to the employer must pay at the same rate tory to the'nst fraud or mismanagement for every week that the workingman is . provide agal f the society in respect to so employed. Now, the insured trades for r bY officers °in to it. the purposes of the act are in brief as funds belOng gmade for the transfer of follows: is provision from one society to another, 1. Building. membershiP tends even to the English 2. Construction of works. and this eX 3. Shipbuilding. colonies. . further provided that any 4. Mechanical engineers. And it ~~ch may accrue in any of the 5. Iron foundry. surplus w h 11 be applied toward the re- 6. Construction of vehicles. societies : t~e expenses or the lessening 7. Saw milling. duction 0 s to be made against the The benefit under the unemployed of tt?e ~~:~~:d. . I schedules is roundly 7s. a week, not ex­ par Ie s noW to provisions for specla ceeding fifteen weeks in any year unless We com; insured persons. The first otherwise expressly prOVided. classes ~ noticed is that a woman, who The two most noteworthy features of thln~ to w~ile insured, is suspended from this act are: It follows the example of marries fits of the act until the death of Germany in compelling wage-earners to the bent nd . It is provided, however, provide against uncleanliness, sickness the hU: a ~ woman has been employed and dependence, and it discloses the that w ~~~riage and continues to be em- power of the British government to use befor~ fter marriage, she shall not be public funds for private benefit, which is ploye dad so long as she continues to be a thing that could not possibly happen suspen e In other words, the act as- under the Constitution of the United emplOyetdh'at the husband will take care States. When Parliament proposes to put sumes of his wife. . . aside certain sums of money to insure N twithstanding these prOVISions, a working people against accidents and °i d woman being a member of an sickness and want in old age, we are marrproved e society, ' If . suspende d f rom the obliged to take note that this is a power aPdinary benefits may, within one month which our Government can not exercise. O;ter such suspension, become a ~oluntary The question is, however, have we the ~ontributor subject to the follOWing modi- advantage over England in this respect, flcations: .' I or have England and Germany and other (a) The rate of contributIOns payab e countries, which have adopted this Bort by her shall be 3d. a week; of legislation, the adVantage over us? (b) The benefits to which she shall Hardly anybody will say that our State be entitled shall be (1) medical benefit, and National Governments are immacu­ and (2) sickness benefit and disablement late. It is open to argument whether they benefit, at the rate of 3s. per week. ought not to be changed so as to give There is an interesting schedule of ad- the people the power to insure them­ ditional benefits attached to this act. For selves against the burden of improvi­ instance, medical treatment and attend- dence and disease and the natural de­ ance are provided for persons dependent ~endence which comes with old age. upon the labor of. a .member. ,!,here .is a provision for bUIlding or leaSing SUlt- NEW EIGHT-HOUR ·LAW. able places for convalescent homes. Also for the payment of pensions or superan­ Be it enated by the Senate and House nuation allowances, whether by way of of Representatives of the United States the provisions of the act of Parliament of of Ameria in Congress assembled, That' 1908, known as Old Age Pensions Act, or every contract hereafter made to which otherwise; also payments to members not the United States, any Territory, or the allowed to attend work on account of in- District of Columbia is a party, and ~~~ . every such contract made for or on behalf It will be interesting now to notice, of the United States, or any Territory, or briefly, the cost of this insurance. There said District, which may require or in­ are two general rates for the employed volve the employment of laborers or me­ and unemployed. The' employed rate in cha~ics shall contain a provision that no the case of men is 7d. a week, in the case laborer or mechanic doing any part of of women, 6d. a week. This is to be made the work contemplated by the contract, in up as follows: The employer is to pay the employ of the contractor or any sub­ 3d. a week; the employed, if a man, 4d. contractor contracting for any part of a week, and if a woman, 3d. a week. said work contemplated, shall be required These figures do not apply, but a less rate or permitted to work more than eight is charged if the insured is a person un­ hours in anyone calendar day upon such der twenty-one years of age and Ws or work; and every such contract shall stipu­ her income does not exceed 2s. and 6d. a late a penalty for .each violation of such working day. The employed rate is 21f2d. provision in such contract of five dollars for workingmen in an insured trade, and for each laborer or mechanic for every 444 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER calendar day in which he shall be re­ on behalf of the United States. or any of quired or permitted to labor more than the Territories or the District of ColuIn_ eight hours upon said work; and any bia. be performed in accordance with the officer or person designated as inspec­ terms and provisions of Section One of tor of the work to be performed under any this Act. The President. by Executive such contract. or to aid in inforcing order. may waive the proviSions and the fulfillment thereof. shall upon ob­ stipulations in this Act as to any specific servation or investigation. forthwith contract or contracts during time of War report to the proper officer of the or a time when war is imminent. and until United states. or of any Territory. January first, nineteen hundred and fif­ or of the District of Columbia. all teen, as to any contract or contracts en. violations of the provisions of this aGt tered Into in connection with the construc­ directed to be made in every such con­ tion of the Isthmian Canal. No penalties tract. together with the name of each shall be imposed for any violation of such laborer or mechanic who has been re­ provision in such contract due to any ex­ quired or permitted to labor in violation traordinary events or conditions of manu­ of -such stipulation and the day of such facture. or to any emergency caused by violation. and the amount of the penalties flre. famine. or flood, by danger to life imposed according to the stipulation in or to property, or by other extraordinary such contract shall be directed to be with­ event or condition on account of which held for the use and benefit of the United the President shall subsequently declare States. the District of Columbia. or the the violation to have been excusable. Territory contracting by the officer or Nothing in this Act shall be construed to person whose duty it shall be to approve repeal or modify the Act entitled "An the payment of the moneys due under Act relating to the limitation of the hours such contract. whether the violation of of daily service of laborers and mechanics the provisions of such contract is by the employed upon the public works of the contractor or any subcontractor. Any con­ United States and of the District of Co­ tractor' or subcontractor aggrieved by the lumbia" being chapter three hundred and withholding of any penalty as hereinbe­ fifty-two of_ the laws of the Fifty-second fore provided shall have the right within Congress. approved August first. eighteen six months thereafter to appeal to the hundred and ninety-t.wo, as modif!.ed by head of the department making the con­ the Acts of Congress approved February tract on behalf of the United States or twenty-seventh nineteen hundred and the Territory. and in the case of a con­ six. and June lhirtieth, nineteen hundred tract made by the District of Columbia to and six. or apply to contracts which have the Commissioners thereof. who shall been or may be entered into under the have power to review the action impos­ provisions of appropriation Acts approved ing the penalty. and in all such appeals prior to the passage of this Act. from such final order whereby a con­ Sec. 3. That this Act shall become ef­ tractor or subcontractor may be aggrieved fective and be in force on and after Jan­ by the imposition of the penalty hereinbe­ uary first. nineteen hundred and thirteen. fore provided such contractor or subcon­ Passed the House of Representatives tractor may within six months after de­ December 14. 1911. cision by such head of a department oye the Commissioners of the District of Co­ Passed the Senate with amendments lumbia file a claim in the Court of Claims. May 31. 1912. which shall have jurisdiction to hear and Passed the House of Representatives as decide the matter in like manner as in amended by the Senate June 5. 1.912. other cases before said court. Approved and signed by the President Sec. 2. That nothing in this Act shall June 19. 1912. apply to contracts for transportation by land or water. or for the transmission of intelligence. or for the purchase of sup­ WIRELESS· NIGHT AND DAY. plies by the Government. whether manu­ factured to conform to particular speci­ fications or not. or for such materials or Washington. D. C.-A 24-hour a day articles as may usually be bought in open vigil at wireless instruments will be reo market. except armor and armor plate. quired after July 1 on every kind of craft whether made to conform to particular leaving an American port and carrying specifications or-not, or to the construction 100 persons. if the Hitchcock bill; passed or' repair of levees or revetments neces­ by ,the senate today. is agreed to by the sary for protection against floods or over­ house. flows on the navigable water of the United The bill specifies that each vessel must States: Provided, That all classes of have two operators, one of whom must work which have been, are now. or may be always on duty, and the wireless must hereafter be performed by the Govern­ be capable of sending messages 100 ment shall. when done by contract, by miles and receiving them from a like individuals, firms or corporations for or distance. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 445

Editor Electrical Worker: Official '/ournal of the This. is notice to the I. 0.; that this INTERNATIONAL local will take advantage of Article No. 14, Section No. 8 of the I. B. E. W. con­ stitution, owing to 5trike at the Watson BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS Flagg Co. shop in this city. Published Monthly. Fraternally yours, Local 102, I. B. E. W., J McNultv. Supervising Editor. R. Sigler, Secreta·ry. F. ·CHAS. P. FORD. Editor. Pierik Bldg.. Springfield. 111. WELCOME TO OUR FOLD.

Executive Officers The following local unions have recent­ F. J. McNulty ly established themselves with our Bro­ International' President therhood. We sincerely welcome them to Pierik Bldg., Springfield, Ill. our fold and solicit their co-operation in Chas. P. Ford International Secretary our efforts to reunite the Electrical Work­ Pierik Bldg., Springfield, Ill. ers of the country and to help us make our Brotherhood bigger, greater and more International Treasurer W. A. Hogan powerful than ever before: 50 East 59th St., New York City. 5-Pittsburg, Pa. International Vice· President . G. M. BUiJ1iazet S-Toledo, Ohio. / 323 W. 12th St., New York, N. Y. 22-0maha, Neb . International Vice· President - James P. Noonan . 38-Cleveland, Oh io. 50-Belleville, Ill. Pierik Bldg., Springfield, Ill. 56-Erie, Pa. International Vice-President L. C. Gra•• er 60-San Antonio, Texas 2158 Hilrh St., Oakland, Cal. 64-Youngstown, Ohio 66-Houston, Texas. 69-Dallas, Texas . .- I nternatlonal Executive Board 72-Waco, Texas. 78-Atlanta, Ga. First District G. W. Whitford 82-Pittsfield, Mass. 566 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. 96-Philadelphia, Pa. Second District F. L.· Kelley 100-Fresno, Calif. 211 M St., Boston, Mas•. 1,04-Bosto'll, Mass., sub local. 110-St. Paul, Minn. Third District M. P. Gordo" 115-Cleveland, Ohio. Union Labor Temple, Pittsburg, Pa. 116-Ft. W:orth, 'Texas. 119-Rochester, N. Y. Fourth District F. E. Dolan 121-Augusta, Ga. 100 Main St., Wheelinlr, W. Va. 133-Middletown, N. Y. Fifth District Harvey W. Raven 142-Boston, Mass. 7956 Constance Ave., Chicago, Ill. 146-Decatur, III 152~Hillsboro, m. Sixth District Frank Swor I68-Kankakee, Ill. 517 'Hemphill ·St., Ft. Worth, Te,.. I75-Chattanooga, Tenn. Seventh District H. M. Scott I77-Jacksonville, Fla. 573 N. 51. Louis St .• Los Angeles, Cal. 246-Stuhenville, Ohio 249-St. Catherine, Ont., Canada. ~11 319-Pittsburg, Pa. 335-Ft. Worth, Texa!;. Editor of The Worker: 336-Dayton, Ohio. June 11. 1912 444-Carlinville, ·Ill. Kindly publish the following in the next 474-Memphis, Tenn. edition of the worker. 494-MHwaukee, WIs. Would Alexander Russell an electrician 639-Port Arthur, Texas. age twenty-seven, formerly of Edinburgh. 669-Salina, Kan. Scotland, who has been in this country 715-Jefferson City, Mo. two or three years, communicate with his 716-Houston, Texas. father Thomas Russell, 1301 Madison St., 717-Boston, Mass. Gary, Indiana, or with Brother J. W. 718-Pa~ah, Ky. Wagner, 685 washington St., Gary, Ind., 719-Manchester, N. H. and oblige, 720-Moberly, Mo Thos. Beggs 721-Sherman, Texas. Rec. Sec. L. U. No. 697 722-New Haven, Conn. 446 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

TRAVELING CARDS. NOTICE.

Any member gOing to work in the Any local union or member that does jurisdiction of another local union must not "receive prompt replies to their com­ take with them his traveling card and munications from our International of­ deposit same in the local union in whose fice, or who does not receive the Worker jurisdiction he is going to work, before regularly, when they have subscribed for starting the job. This is a duty that all same, nor who does not receive supplies" members should perform, as it is very that they have ordered, will favor us by discouraging indeed to a local union notifying thp. International Presldeqt's which may be struggling along to exist, oftice at once. to have members from other local unions go to work in their jurisdiction in viola­ tion of our laws. The constitution ex­ cepts no class of members in this respect. Every member is in duty bound to live up to it strictly.

LOCALS IN DIFFICULTY. OUR LABEL. Local Unions in recognized difticulty, The above is a fac simile of our label are not required to accept traveling It was designed for me on switch boards; cards, during said difticulty, or for ninety panel boards and other electrical appara.~ days after such difficulty is settled. Des­ tus. It is a metal label and is attached to pite this law we find many of our mem­ the apparatus by means of two small ma­ bers taking traveling cards into a local chine screws. It is a metal label and 1s that is in difficulty and raise a great deal numbered and each local union is com­ of noise when their cards are not ac­ pelled to furnish the I. O. with a record cepted. Every difficulty is published in as to where each label is used so that we the worker, and the members, especially can immediately tell by refering thereto, those desiring to travel, should keep in the name of the employer that received touch with the cities that are involved it. This is a protection against fraud be­ in difficulty. If they do this, there will ing practised in its use. be no chance of their being disappointed in depositing their traveling card, as they The label has been endorsed by the naturally will steer clear of local unions Building Trades department, A. F. ofL. that are in trouble. . We are going to have it made in sticker form for use on electrical fixtures" switches, sockets, small motors of every TRAVELING ME'MBERS VOTING. description conduct in fact all electrical apparatus and supplies that our members make, "install, and maintain. Any traveling member admitted to a Local Union is not entitled to vote on They will be supplied to our local un­ questions of agreements, trouble or ions at cost. wages until he has been six months a No employer Can have the privileil;.e member of the local union. This law was of placing our label on his product ufl­ put in our constitution for the protection less he has signed a working agreement of the home members of a local union, with our Brotherhood covering wages and so that traveling members could not working conditions. Our members should vote them intodifticulty and then take a get busy and boost it at every opportun­ traveling card and' leave them to fight ity. out the battle themselves. Some mem­ bers do not believe this is a good law, but we are of the. opinion that it is very BUILDING TRADES DEPARTMENT. . ~ good and filled a long-felt want. Of course we know there are many members who travel that would not be guilty of Washington-Since the re-affiliation ot trying to involve a local union in trouble, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters to and such men may feel that the law is a the BuUding Trades Department, A. F. ' hardship, but there are a great many that of L., there has been considerable activ­ develope the fighting spirit, while travel­ ity in the issuance of charters by the ing that are ready to go to the bat at department. During the past week the the drop of the hat on the least preten­ following charters have been issued. sion; in fact, their hat is always in the State Building Trades Council of Indiana ring, and it is those men that the law and charters issued for local councils at was aimed at. All local unions should Fargo, N. D., Jacksonville, Ill., Jeffer­ stric.tly E)nforce it. son City, Mo., and Kankakee, Ill. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 447 ~][·.EDITORIAL I~ B,. F. J. McNULTY Brother Charles P. Ford, of Local Union No. 247, OUR NEW INTERNATIONAL of Schenectady, New York, has been selected Inter­ national Secretary of our Brotherhood to fill the un­ SECRETARY. expired term of Brother P. W. Collins, resigned A he is well known throughout our jurisdiction as a tried and true d s ionist ever ready to render his every effort to advance the interests • trfa he uBnrothe;hood and those he represented, an introduction to our mem- o t e .. " bership is unnecessary. . He joined our Brotherhood when the Schenectady works of the General Electric Company was <;Jrganized a~d i.mmediate!y became ~ctive in the affairs of our· Local l!mons, and ~Istnct Council of. that city.. He has represented Loc·al UnIOn No. 247 In the Sa~t Lake City, LOUlsvllle, Ky., Ch'cago Ill. and Rochester, N. Y., conventIOns of our Brotherhood. He h ; bee~ for' a number of years chairman of the Grievance Committee of ~r Schenectady N. Y., District Council. o He is respec'ted by all that has .had d.ealings with him for his honesty of purpose fair-mindedness, and mtegnty, he has been steadfast and loyal to th~ cause of the Brotherhood and spurned an offer <;>f b.ribe~y ~y representatives of those opposed to ltS, to desert our orgamzatIOn In Its time of trouble. He is fully capable and qualified to fill the office of International Sec­ retary and it is the duty of all officers and members to assist him in the discharge of his official duties. He assumes the duties of his office on July 15th. THE MAN THAT If you are honest in your purpose, you need MAKES MISTAKES. not fear or care what may be said about you. Try and do something today that is better than what you did yesterday, and keep on trying to do things each. day. So long as your purpose is honest and right, the worst you can do is to make mistakes, to make a mistake is no crime and you need not feel' ashamed when you make one. The greatest men that ever lived, made mistakes. The largest contributors to the history of our country, made mistakes. It is our duty to keep on trying to do things, and never mind our mistakes, they are mere incidents we will have to contend with so long as we play our part honestly 'in the great drama of life. A man could do a thousand things correctly that are for the general good and never hear a word of praise about them, but just as soon as he makes a mistake it spreads like wildfire. The class of men who criticize your mistakes, never say a word about the many good things you may ~o, and they nev~.r try to do anything themselves worth doing, and that IS where they make a mistake far greater than all the mistakes you may have made put together. . To get results, we must put forth effort, the more effort we put forth, . th.e greater will ~e the results, and the amount of good resulting therefrom, Will cause the mistakes you make sink into oblivion, and you will be suc­ cessful and raise y<;>t~r~elf in the estimation of your fellow workers, while th.e drones that cnt!clze you will be forgotten, and drift on the sea of faIlure. 448 THE ELECTRICAL \\rORKER

THE In every Local Union you will find some members INCOMPETENT. that are always complaining because they cannot pro- cure steady employment. Invariably those members have themselves to blame. As a rule they are not up-to-date mechanics and make no effort to make themselves proficient. They are satisfied to run along in the rut they are in, living from· hand to mouth, d~yin and day out, and the only time they can secure employment is when all the competent mechanics are employed-such employment only tlasting until the employer can find proficient mechanics. When they are laid off they usually raise the cry that they are blacklisted on account of their activity in the affairs of their local union, and find fault with the loc·al officers, business agent and the organization in general. If such men would seek employment at work they c'an successlully do, they would be better off, those dependent on them would be better off, and our Brotherhood would be better off. . Our Brotherhood can and will protect any members that may be dis­ criminated against or blacklisted on account of their trade union activities, but it cannot nor should not. and we hope never will undertake to fight the unjust cause of the incompetent mechanics.

OUR PRESS 'vVe have repeatedly requested the Local Press Secre­ SECRETARIES. taries to send us a monthly news letter, but our re­ quests have been ignored. 'vVe cannot do any more as our powers are not mandatory in the premises. If those that criticize our W brker would insist that the Press Secre­ tary of their respective locals send us a news letter monthly, instead of pounding the editor at eyery opportunity they would no doubt get the desired results. It stands to reason we cannot publish local union news letters if we do not receive them, therefore crticizing the editor on that score is unfai~. See to it that such letters are sent to our office not later than the tenth day of each month and they will be published so long as they are not on political religious or personal questions.

Be loyal to your Union, pay your dues regularly, do an honest day's work for your employer, then you can call yourself a trades unionist with­ out fear of contradiction.

Place yourself in the hosses' position and ask yourself h011estiv what. you would do under the ,circumstances, before vou arrive at the con­ clusion to condemn him.

l\lost of the 'knocks we receive about our official publication are from llon-subscrihers.

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Nobody loves a knocker. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 449 THE SECEDER'S APPEAL By F. J. McNULTY , The appeal of the. seceders from Judge has made them look like a "dirty deuce . I' 'decision WIl! not be heard until in a deck" every time he has met them Phil fIPS II term of the cour t ,owmg . t 0 th' e in a meeting hall. It is unnecessary for the :hat the seceders did not supply the us to defend him against their scurrillous. fact t with the transcript of the evidence attacks, for such attacks hurt no one, cour .tted in the case. Had they done only themselves. 4 ,su~ml appeal would have been heard Did we desire to place ourselves in the thiS, d~he sed of before the Circuit court same category with the secession lead· and dlsf~r the summer. If ever there ers, we could easily do so, for printers' c~ose n unmitigated falsifier, the ed.itor ink is very cheap. But rather than carry \\as h ascandalizer is one, and stands m a the reputation that these ingrates to the of t eby himself for misrepresenting facts organized electrical workers of the coun­ cla;s h w long those that are following try have, we would not hesitate to do the a!1 ~ll tolerate it we are at a loss to Rip Van Winkle act, go up to the Cats­ him w He states in the May issue of the' kill mountains, and sleep there for knoW. 'zer that our Sl'd e hidas appea e twenty years, if that were possible, so scan.dall . f II the case, trymg to make hiS. 0 ow~r~ that when we woke up, we- could not be beIleve that they were the Victors, m­ recognized by even our own family. stead of our brotherhoo.d .. It. ~ould be All the world loves a fighter who is very nice indeed for thiS l.ndlvl.dUll;l a~d clean and open and above board, with those that are c.onnected ~Ith him m hiS his attacks, and the harder he fights the dirty and villifymg campaign, were we to more friends he makes and the greater alloW them to appeal the case and let is he respected, but the individuals that them get away with a thirteen thousand pass a man daily on the street and then five hundred dollars t!Iat they secured hides himself behind locked doors and through misrepresentatIOn and fraud, and resorts to untruthful, villifying, scandal­ if forgery was not committe~ in tha~ ous writings, is despised by all and has transaction we are very poor Judges of no more manhood in his makeup than what forgery is. We have not undertaken the hound dog we read so much of in the to criticise the court, for we are broad· press of today. We know that they minded enough to know that Judge Phil­ dare not meet us as men in the public lips rendered his decision as he believed highway and open their mouths in dis­ right, and as his conscience dictated,. but respect to us. This demonstrates their when the seceders appealed, we deCided lack of manhood, principle and honor. to carry up to the Circuit court the ,ques­ They have had four years to make good tion of the thirteen thousand five hun­ on a single accusation they have made, dred d'Qllars, and we miss our guess badly and have failed in every particular. Their if the responsibility for that money is own and those that believed them at the not placed on the shoulders of those that beginning have decided that they are received it. Its a dead sure guess that foreflushers of the first water; that is the bank is not going to stand the loss demonstrated by the number of deser­ should the Circuit court decide that part tions that is occurring' in their ranks in our favor, and those that received it daily. Of course they are in the busi· naturally will be compelled to make it ness for all that they can get out of it. good. and will continue to remain in it so long We have kept our Worker free from as the electrical workers will dig down dirt in the past, and intend to carry out in their jeans and contribute to them, that policy in the future, ,and we are but if they or those who are following pleased to state that it is looked upon them think for a moment that they are with favor wherever it is sent, while .the going to ever "get our brotherhood to scandalizer finds its way to the waste­ compromise" the principle involved with basket. We will not undertake to an­ them, they are greatly mistaken. We swer the scurrilous attacks the May have fought the battle for principle for scandalizer made, upon' our past Inter­ four long years, and we will continue to national Secretah, Peter W. Collins, fight it until the finish, and all the villi­ who is now working in another field, fying and scurrillous literature and scan­ which has caused the "leaders of the se­ dalizers that their combined efforts can cession movement to sit up and take no· circulate is not going to 'influence our tice, as his new business- will carry him brotherhood from fighting the issues to to various parts of the country, where the bitter end. We intend to pay no more he will be in a position to show them up attention to them in our Worker; will as the unprincipled, villifying individuals allow them to rave on, until the noose they are. Our Brother Collins is well that they have put around their own able to cope with them successfully, and necks shuts off their wind. 450 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

Reports of Officers • • ~ ••• and Organizers • •• ~ Oakland, Calif., July 15, 1912. The foregoing statement is probably Editor Electrical Worker, best evidenced by the return of many 10: Springfield, Ill. cals to the brotherhood since the facts Dear Sir and Bro.: bearing UPO'n O'ur InternatiO'nal contrO'­ The Building Trades in Los Angeles versy were eXPO'sed in the Cleveland trial are at the present time involved in a and an unquestionably fair and honest de­ dHliculty with the Building Trades' em­ clsiO'n was rendered in favO'r O'f the plO'yers fO'r recO'gnitiO'n O'f the respec­ brotherhO'O'd. tive organization, and we take this means Where the facts can be laid before the ()f notifying O'ur members, thrO'ughout the rank and file O'f tile secession movement cO'untry, nO't to' pay any attentiO'n to' the they are quick to see where the oogus St. alluring advertisements, that are beIng Louis convention in '08 was the cause of printed in various papers all O'ver the the division and many are free to aknowl­ country, requesting mechanics to come to' edge that a very grave and serious mis- Los Angeles, as there are 60 per cent of take was made. . the Building Trades' mechanics idle at On several occasions, we have been the present time, so you see that there is denied the floor at 18's meetings, largely little chance fO'r an O'utsider-they can if not entirely, through the efforts of one only be as strike breakers. Oliver Meyers to' keep us O'ut. He feels The conditions of the Building Trades' the ground slipping and he well knows in Los Angeles have been de!llO'rable for what it means if we get the opportunity a iO'ng time, and the trades have deter­ to give the members the facts. mined to make a united effort to better At a recent meeting I was informed by them, soliCiting the co-operation of O'ur a committee of 18 that I could not have fellow trade unionists all over the conn­ the floor, but that they WO'uid hold a spe­ try. cial meeting any time I would set and If Y01'1 know any mechanics that are Loth sides could then be fully heard; that contemplating coming to Los Angeles at they would want forty·eight. liours' notice the present time, advise them not to' in which to notify their members. cO'me until such times as the difficulty is I set earnestly to wO'rk to' get represen­ settled and conditiO'ns become normal. tatives of our side and early the morn­ Employers are sending pamphlets all ing of the 8th I notified the representa­ over calling attentiO'n to' the OPPO'rtunlties tives of 18 of my desire to meet them that are available for mechanics of all on the following Tuesday, Wednesday or callings in Los Angeles, that even in nor­ Thursday nights. mal times the demand is nO't equal to' the These dates were well within the time supply, with the result that our condi­ speCified in which the members might be tions are poor and wages low. Do nm notified, but this is the third day, Wed­ pay any attention to the stO'ries you may nesday, and nO' date has been given me. hear that it is the intention of the trades There seems to be a wonderful bad in­ of all mechanics in sO'uthern California fiuence at work upon the members of 18 to' keep outsiders away frO'm there as It serving well this purpose of keeping them is absolutely false, as they are always astray, alone and in the dark. willing and ready to' extend th'e hand of Fraternally yours, good fellowship and friendship to their E. G. Smith, I. O. fellow trade uniO'nists, who may come there, but we imp10re all to assist us at Editor Electrical Worker: this time by remaining away until our It is significant to note the number of troubles are adjudicated. locals that have grown tired of the Bun­ Fraternally, combe handed out by the secession lead­ L. C. Grasser. ers and have joined the real brotherhood, even Mr. Reid's plea about being in .debt and urging that they all stick until It Detroit, Mich., July 10, 1912. was paid did not stop them from coming Editor Electrical Worker: where they can get some protection and . Light is surely and unmistakably break­ can rely on the promises made them ing upon the mysterious, treacherous and They are beginning to wonder how Mr. well-defined plans of those bent upon the Reid got in debt if he had anywhere from the complete wrecking of our brotherhO'od '80 to 90 per cent of the brotherhood he four years ago. claimed they had paying per· capita tax THE ELECTRICAL, WORKER 451

they figure and rightly so bershlp when their appeal is decided to h~s offic~ two things must be true against them; (2nd), what excuse is left that one 0 Is a very bad business pol­ . for· them to make to hold their followers. either thereursued by Mr. Reid and his J. P_ Noonan. ICY being p r that Mr Reid simply lied coJleagues, 10 I·med anything Jlke 80 per COST OF ELECTRICITY MAY BE RE­ he ca. t wh en h Electrical W'tOrkers paYing 0 DUCED. cent of t e his otHce. no convention expenses paid, By Jonathan Winfield. They se~enefit fund accumulated, ~nd Growing interest is manifested in the no d~ath bt and they now are asking, utilization of water power as a means still III de b~come of the money that the of obtaining cheap electricity In the "What has t you claimed paid In? Did United States. According to information 80 per cen the truth when you claimed compiled by the department of commerce yoU teIl US? and labor, electricity generated by pri­ 80 per cent.mise made to us by yourself vate concerns in the United States is 50 What pro d? ·d has ever been fulfille . per cent higher than the cost of the same Mrw~::e' are the affiliations you promised material abroad. It is also stated that ? Where is the support, you said we the manufacture of eLectricity in the us. ld receive? Where is the victory in United States has not followed the wou t5 you said would be ours when cheapest manner of providing electricity. the cour , ? From a document procured from the e suits were finally tried. th Wh did you not comply with the United States senate the information is . h Y of the convention and hasten a contained that nearly all foreign coun­ WIS es . f tt· 11 tries developed water power as a means of the suits Instead 0 ge Ing a I 1 of producing electricity to a marked de­ thetr a delay possl bl e.? Why did you not attempt to bring gree of perfection. In France, Germany, bo t an amalgamation as soon as the Austria, England and other foreign coun­ ~ec~ion was rendered instead of spending tries private concerns are giving grants our time and money in a hopeless ap- of franchises under government control and regulation producing electriCity at a peal? . th t d If you have deceived Us In e pas an minimum cost. made false promises to us to keep us Water power developments In this with you, cim we rely on anything you country are of two classes. Those con­ may teIl us In the future? trolled and operated by the state and Is the appeal a bonefide one that you those controlled and operated by private hope to win, or is it only another means interests. Of the power increase for the of gaining time for yourself and collea­ year 70,000 horsepower was madfl avail­ gues In otHce? able by plants privately owned and Is It your wisdom or your honesty that 10,000 by the Trollhattan plant, owned has been at fault In forming this split by the state. in the organization and you find yourself The private activities of Sweden, unable to get a decision or support any­ which holds the European record for where?" water power with an aggregate of One of two things are true. Either Mr. .640,000 horsepower, found their field Reid and his colleagues were honest in chiefly in ·Southern and Central Sweden. their Intent when they formed, the dual The height of the falls . utilized varied organization and their judgment was of from 7 feet to 243 feet, but they were as the very poorest kind, or, they were wise a rule less than 49.21 feet in height. So . enough and their judgment good, but far as is known, the dams were in all were actuated by sordid motives of a cases built by Swedish firms and ·the ma­ mercenary character. chinery furnished by Swedish manufac­ Those questions have been asked by a turers. large number of locals and as no satis­ Of the new Swedish plants completed factory answer was found for them, they during the year the largest is that at (the locals) atHliated themselves with Mackfjard, utilizing the waterfall· known the original brotherhood.' as Stopforsana and developing 20,000 More than forty locals have joIned us horsepower from a fall of 75 feet. The since last March' and at the rate they are power is used for iron works and the in' coming over there wlU be few locals left. stallation is owned by Vasterdalafvens to Mr Reid and his followers when his Kraft Aktiebolag. The next largest is hopeless appeal finaIly is heard in Octo­ that at Forshult, developing 10,500 horse­ ber. power from a fall of 43 feet. This power Mr. Reid pleaded "unpreparedness" and is used for iron works and the plant is got more time from the courts or the owned by Uddeholms Aktiebolag of Udde­ entire matter of appeal would have been holm, Sweden. settled in May. Guessing contest now open: (lst.) Sweden's Rebuilt Plants. What will Reid & Co. promise their mem- Of the rebuilt Swedish plants the larg- _... --_ .. 452 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER est is the municipal plant at Skelleftea, chinery, thrashing machines, etc., and it located at Finforsen, and developing 5,650 is proposed now to utilize the consump­ horsepower from a fall of 66 feet. The tion throughout the 24 hours in cities by second is that at Domnarfvet, developing selling power at very low rates during the 4,700 horsepower from a fall of 20 feet hours when the load is >low, so that it and furnishing power to the iron works may be introduced into the household at Stora Kopparderk Akliebolag, by which for heating and cooking, and other do­ it is owned. This concern is installing mestic purposes for which under ordi­ an electrical blast furnace for the pro­ nary rates it is too expensive for general duction of pig iron in addition to its other use. The transmission of power from large activities. The third in size is the Trollhattan to Copenhagen has been pro­ property of Sydsvenska Kraft Akliebolag, posed and is still under consideration. and is located at Ofre Knard. The power It is pointed out that Sweden is one· amounting to 3,000 horsepower is pro­ of the few countries in Europe that has duced from a fall of 32 feet and is sold just awakened to the great possibility of for general distribution. her natural resources in this respect and Incomplete private plants both new and that consequently the rapid growth of those undergoing extensive repairs and her industries, created through the influ­ reconstruction, represented at the close ence of her water power, has been the of the year a total of about 25,000 horse­ most remarkable in the world. power as compared with over 67,000 Private Ownership a Barrier. horsepower under way at the close of 1910. Practically. all of this is represent­ The United States, it is pOinted out, has ed by, two new installations, one to de­ just begun to awaken to the possibilities velop 17,000 horsepower and the other of her water power, particularly 'in the 4,600. The largest is at Ljunafors and is West. Here, according to information owned by Stockholms Superfostfabriks received through senatorial investigation, Aktiebolag of Stockholm, manufacturers water power sites have been gobbled up of superphosphates and other fertilizers. by land speculators and very little im· The fall is 128 feet. The power is to be provement has started in comparison to used in the manufacture of calcium the great number of sites held by pri· cyanide. vate owners. This, it is claimed, has retarded the natural development of the The uses to which the power was put West, making both electricity and irriga· both by private and state power plants tion a very costly commodity. were Municipal, 13 plants; iron work, 12; mechanical wood pulp mills, 8; pa­ Suggestions, however, have been made per mills, 7; textile mills, 5; and chem­ to the senate committee that has under­ ical works, 1. The government work taken a thorough study of the situation completed at the end of the year con­ and in the near future it is expected the sisted of the addition of 10,000 horse­ United States will not only lead the va­ power at the already existing plant at rious countries in the world in horse­ power generated, but in the number of Trollhattan. individual plants in operation.-Southern The total possible horsepower to 11e Electrician. ' found in the streams of Sweden in such shape that it might be utilized is vari­ ously estimated at from two millions to ACCEPTING TRAVELING CARDS. nine millions, and it probably approxi­ mates four millions. The unfortunate feature is that so large a proportion of Any member who has been in continu­ this undeveloped, natural wealth is lo­ ous good standing for five years in the cated in the north and in parts of the brotherhood, can transfer his member­ co'untry where it is difficult to utilize it ship from one local to another, even to advantage. With the improvement in though it be to a local of a different transmission methods, however, this ob­ branch of our trade, without any charge stacle may in time become less im­ as to difference of. initiation fee. If a portant. member transfers to a local of another branch of our· trade, he is required to Its 'Many Uses. take a practical examination, but no fees In addition .to .Us general uses for shall be charged him whatsoever. If a operating machinery and street cars and member transfers from one local union for lighting, electricity is used in Sweden to another of the same branch of our in rolling mills, mine hoists, mine drills, trade, and has been five years in con­ magnetic ore separators, the electro­ tinuous membership, he cannot be chemical industries and the smelting of charged the difference in initiation fee. steel. Lately it has been used for the These laws should be adhered to by all reduction of ore to pig iron. The large local unions, and no member entitled to quantities available have led to its use transfer should be kept out for a single for the operation of agricultural ma- day when he has complied with the law. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 453

American Federation • •••• of Labor News • ••

DEPARTMEN~ LABOR BILL. sub-constractors, on this naval appropri­ ation bill, and which is a salient feature W shington-On wednesday, July 10, o the eight-hour law that goes into effect .a man Wilson of the House Labor in 1913. An amendment was finallY' Chalr'ttee called up for discUE'sion the adopted that carries the eight-hour law comm~ment of Labor bill, which had been into effect immediately on all contracts Depa~ d out of the Labor committee provided for in the naval apropriation repor e 'me ago the committee unani· bill. The amendment follows: "That some tI '. 't AI. the provisions of the act of congress en· mously reco~mendm~ that 1 dPas~. d t t the entire seSSIOn was evo e 0 titled 'an act limiting the hours of daily ~~s consideration of the bill, and numer· service of laborers and mechanics em· ndments were submitted and ac· ployed upon work done for the United ous a.me h h d ted bY Chairman Wilson, w 0 a States, or for any territory, or for the chep ge of the bill during the debate. The District of Columbia, and for other pur· cbiJI ar provides, as Its. name Imp . rles, f or a poses,' approved June 19, 1912, shall be department of labor, with a secretary at In force as to all contracts made under its head who shalJ be a m~mber of the this act frOm and after its passage." president's cabinet, power bemg conferred this official to use the good offices of COMPENSATION ACT LAUDED. ~~e department in . i~d?strial disputes. Mediation and conciliatIOn betwee~ ~m. Seattle, wash.-Eight months' admin­ ployer and employe is one of the dlstInc· istration of the workmen's compensation tlve features of the measure. It is ex· act adopted by the last state legislature pected that a vote will be had on the nex.t has been completed. The total number or calendar Wednesday, July 17. No OPPOSI­ firms listed and assessed is 5,200; em­ tion to the biII has thus far been had, ployes listed and protected, 125,000. and it will likely pass the house by an There has been paid into the fund from unanimous vote. assessments, $640,951.30. The number of ------claims allowed totals 4,525, while to meet EIGHT.HOUR CLAUSE STICKS. these claims $216,435.21 has been expend­ ed. The expense of administration is 11 Washington-During the consideration per cent, but will undoubtedly be reduc­ of the naval appropriation bill in the ed, as the initial cost of inaugurating the house the Hughes eight-hour bill was in· act will not have to be met again. The serted as an amendment for the reason expense incurred in administrating the that while the house had passed the eight· law does not come from the fund paid 'in hour bill the senate had not yet taken by the employers, but is taken from the action. In order that the senate might general fund of the state derived from be compelled to act upon this legislation general taxation. it was incorporated in the naval appro­ ------priation bill as an amendment. The LABOR SUNDAY. senate finally concurred in, with sUght amendments, with· the Hughes eight-hour Washington-Labor Sunday was first bill, and it has been signed hy the presi­ instituted by the Presbyterian Bureau of dent. However, the Hughes eight·hour Social service seven years ago, the Rev. bill does not become effective until Janu­ Charles Stelzle being the originating fac­ ary I, 1913. In the consideration or the tor. This bureau has been merged into naval appropriation bill In the senate an the Federal Council commiRsion on the effort was ~ade to eliminate the eight­ Church and Social service. The Ameri­ bour amendment on the plea that the can Federation of Labor has given its eight-hour day was already established endorsement to the observance of Labor by law. It was cOritended by the friends Sunday. This year the Federal Council of the eight-hour amendment that its ef­ commission· is making a systematic effort fect was to make the eight-hour provI­ to have Labor Sunday generally observed sion effective, so far as naval construc­ in all churches throughout the country, tion was concerned immediately, and that alid is sending out litera.ture, explanatory if it was stricken out contracts could be in character, and urging pa.stors tofea­ entered into prior to January I, 1913, ture this day. Sugestions are offered as which would not extend the provisions of to the methods to be employed in secur· the eight-hour law to contractors and ing a good attendance of unIon men and 454 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER women, as well as'the unorganized. It is eight-hour clause can sustain their posl. also further suggested that In all labor tion before the conference committee Is Sunday sermons the subject be "One a matter ot conjecture, for undoubtedl¥ Day's RAest In Seven For All Workers," it is pOSSible to procure immense quan­ with an offer to supply appropriate lit· tities of coal that is mined by laborers terature on this theme. Charles S. Mac· employed eight hours per day. Farland, Secretary of the commIssion, 1611 Clarondon 'building, 215 Fourth ave· DEFECTIVE RAILS CAUSE WRECK. nue, New York, can be communicated with If any further Information Is de· Washington.-Experts connected witb sired. Labor Sunday falls on September the Interstate Commerce commission have 1 this year. for many months been conducting an In­ vestigation for the purpose of securing , MERITORIOUS AND UNIONLIKE. data relative to defective railroad rails, From Information gathered It is shown Portland, Ore.-No greater tribute can that during November and December, be paid to the organized labor movement ]911, and January, 1912, there were 2,760 than to recount its meritorious and self· accidents attributable to rail failures, sacrificIng deeds. In this city only reo and of this number 936 occurred as the centlv an incident occurred that shows result of defective ralls. The defects in not ~nlY fidelity to principle, but plainly the raUs are due to the process of manu­ emphasizes the altruistic spirit pervad­ facture, and H. W. Belnap, chief inspec· Ing the membership of our unions. Sev· tor of safety appliances of the Interstate eral years ago Mrs.' Eva Shaffer was left Commerce commission, states that "pres· a widow with five chUdren to support. ent specifications and tests of rails, in so She was without means, and was com· far as the detection of longitudinal seams pelled to exercise the most rigid economy Is concerned appear to be Inadequate. H to support her children and keep them would seem to be time that some definite In school. With commendable persistence action be taken toward eliminating this she struggled on, but, as misfortune sel· source of danger and securing structur­ dom confines its operations to any pre· ally sound raUs." scribed area, the braVe woman was mat with further reverses. Her little home PAPER MAKERS' STRIKE. was destroyed by fire, thus making her struggle doubly hard. But the QQod WRshlngton.-After several conference Samarltan did not fail to put in an ap­ held between the representatives of the pearance this time. The carpenters' lo­ International Brotherhood of Paper cal union took immediate action and se­ Makers and the management of a num­ cured donations of lumber from the lum­ ber of paper mllls In Kalamazoo, Mich., ber yards and a number of union car­ In which the paper makers sought to se­ penters volunteered to rebuild the little cure the eight-hour day, the manufac­ home, which has been completed, and, turers refused to concede and a strike without cost to the unfortunate widow. Is in progress. The mllls 'affectE'd are the It is deeds of this character that make· Kalamazoo Paper company, Bryant Pa­ for the imperishability of the unions of per company, King Paper· company and labor. the Monarch Paper company. About 500 men are directly affected, but It means KNOCKS OUT 8-HOUR CLAUSE. the closing down of the mills, involving some 2,800 employes. A large number of' Washington.-Whlle the naval appro­ paper mllls have been operating under priation bill was under consideration in the eight-hour day for a long time, and the senate on July 5 Senator Perkins of within the past few months a large num­ CalifornIa submitted an amendment to ber ot mllls In the east have challged to' strike out the provision, "that the coal the three-tour or eight-hour work day. sball be mined by labor that Is employed As a competitive proposition It is dif­ at not exceeding eight hours per day," ficult to see why the Kalamazoo mills which was inserted and passed by the cannot also go to the eight-hour day. house. This refers to coal purchased hy The contest will be vigorously prosecuted the government to operate its vessels. by the paper makers. The senate concurred In the amendment of Senator Perkins 'and the provision was JOIN REGULAR ORGANIZATION. struck out. It was asserted by Senators Perkins and Lodge that it would be im­ Washington.-The Industrial Weekly. possIble for the navy department to get publlshed at Syracuse. N, Y., prints this "eight-hour" coal for a considerable item: "The Syracuse local of ElectrirsJ length of time. Another objection was Workers, whIch when the split between that coal was mined and paid for by the President McNulty and Vice President to~. The blll now goes to a conference Reid came, were with the Reid faction committee. Whether the opponents of the and thereby outlawed. themselves with ·'1- -' THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 455 .: ral labor movement (because the ing the year about 100,000 will be the r~ the gen~ L forbid the recognition of the total. The following is a partial list ot A. F. :'actl~n), has retu~ed to the fold foreign immigrants admitted during Reid b its decision at Its last meeting April: Southern Italians, 18,613; Polish, again ~e old McNulty charter. This is 10,160; German, 7.238; Irish. 5,604; Eng­ to use It asing to the local labor men. lish, 5,128; Greek. 5.047; RuSSian, 4,604; • very p e felt quite disposed to fight Scandinavian. 3,873; Crotian and Sloven­ who ne~e~OYS of No 43. believing that Jan, 3.711; Northern Italians, 3,599; He­ the 10Cathey would again become regular. brew, 2.997. The rema~ning number of in tlm~h local atmosphere In labor's Immigrants comprise 28 different nation­ ThuS :as been somewhat clarified. for alitles. The total Immigration for the realms! nothing so damaging to the lab- month of April is 99.839. During this there Sentm as those internal dissen- period there were 1.964 aliens debarred. or m?ve Of this number 985 were debarred be- slons. cause of a likelihood of their becoming a W hington.-The telegraphic news public charge. and 215 were deba:rred as ~s from Los Angeles reporting in- contract laborers. During this same per­ commg In the Darrow trial, indicates iod also emigrant aliens departed from sta~c~~e legal department of the govern- this country to the number of 18,088. tha t nd the attorneys prosecuting lIfr. menro! are stUI in search of some "pin NEW LABOR TEMPLE. ~::.. upon which to dra.w President Gom- into the controversy. Every oppor­ San Francisco--Architects have com­ per~t has been afforded the attorney pletedplans for the new labor temple to tUnl y I and all his assistants to secure genera d . h d be erected at a cost of about $100.000 at nformation at the Fe eratlOn ea qUaI- 16th and Capp Streets and construction I and elsewhere. and notwithstanding ~n .. I work will shortly be commenced. The th fact that the department has open Y new labor temple will be a five story, ex~nerated the officials of ~he American fire proof building fitted up with all mod· Federation of Labor. there IS still an ef­ ern improvements and will atrord ample fort being made to connect them with accommodations for all unions affiliated some circumstance which might be to the San Francisco Labor Council. twisted Into a semblance of connection with an unlawful act. The Federation COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPHERS. welcomes all the probes the department desires to Institute and when It gets Washington-At the recent internation­ through It will have the satisfaction of al convention of the Commercial Tele­ knowing that no official of the American Federation of Labor had any knowledgf' graphers' Union of America, action was of any wrongful act having been commit­ taken looking toward the inauguration ted by anyone In the famous dynamiting of a vigorous campaign of organization among the commercial telegraphers. cases. Another important matter acted upon was the action taken to co-operate with GRANTED HALF HOLIDAY. the International' BrotherhOOd of Elec­ trical Workers with a view to organiz­ . Wheeling. W. Va.-The Electrclal ing the telephone operators. In the elect­ Workers of this city have been granted ion of officers S. J. Konenkamp of Pitts­ the Saturday half holiday voluntarily by burgh was re-elected president; John A. their employers. There has been no Holmes of Winnipeg, vice-preSident; and change In the wage rate, the men re­ Wesley Russell of Chicago re-elected sec­ ceiving the same wage for 44 hours, as retary-treasurer. formerly for 48 hours per week. RIGHT OF· UNION SUSTAINED. IMMIGRATION STATISTICS. Washington-The Bureau of Immigra­ St. Louis-A case involving the right tion and Naturalization. .operating un­ of unions to execute their law was taken der the Department of Commerce and to the courts in Tacoma, Wash., recently. Labor. has just issued 'its April immi­ A member of the local union of Ameri­ gration bulletin. As noted in the Week­ can Federation of Musicians began legal ly News Letter, in commenting on the proceedings to compel his reinstatement March bulletin, the Southern Italians in the local union without a correspond­ headed the IIst numerically. The April ing compliance with laws in force in the bulletin gives the Southern Italians a local union. The court before which the still greater lead in numbers, and 'It would case was brought dismissed the petition, appear fr()m the number. of Southern thus sustaining the local union in its posi­ Italians coming to this country that tion of insisting in the enforcement of its laws.. h::","'",th" em. ,atl... k.pt up due· 456 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

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Editor Electrical Worker: the members of this local, to a man We note that the secession leaders deeply appreciate the many kindnesse~ are boasting of their Chicago Local (?) and acts of encouragement extended to­ No 376 and their receipts from it. ward us by our sister locals of this City They apparently held up their receipts especially Locals No. 134 and NO.9' so as to publish them in a lump sum whose officers and members were alway~ trying to show that they had a foothold "on the job" ,when needed. in Chicago. The seceding Local No. 376, is now' If they are sharing in the profits of the but a recollection, and not even a fOnd Auxiliary Detective, Agency they are one at that. The atmosphere-distribut_ welcome to all they can get after ~ulli­ ing "business manager" of that misguided van, Carmody & Co. get. theirs. organization still claims to have a mo­ The facts in the case are that after nopoly of all the electrical work being Carmody, Finneran & Co. were repudi­ done in the Chicago district; but, so far ated by our convention in Rochester they I have not noticed any very great exodus joined forces with one Harry Sullivan, of union electrical workers on that ac. who was, expelled from Local No. 134 count. In fact, with the, exception of one for alleged connection with Hostile Labor fairly big job, the wiring of the muskrat Detective Agency. And they offered to mounds in the marshes of the Calumet make Local No. 376 a prOfitable thing to region-I don't think he has much on the employers and to break up Local No. hand at the present time. 134 with it as well as to give Reid­ With best wishes, I beg to remain, Murphy & Co. the foothold they were Yours fraternally, seeking in Chicago. Phiiip J. McGinn. The combination (a good one for its Local No. 713. purpose) finally convinced Nichols, the business agent of No. 376 that it would ST. LOUIS, SITUATION CLEARE.o' UP. be a grand thing for them in a financial way to offer the unfair employers of After more than three years of battle Chicago a certain brand of union man at in the birthplace of the Brotherhood, the his own price and under his own condi­ folly of secession is recognized and the tions. They are very few and far be­ membership of Local No. 1 are once tween in Chicago. You cannot find them more united. with a microscope and we will keep The struggle for supremacy in 8t. them that way. A. L. B. Louis, Mo., between the Locals No. 1 will long be remembered by the membership Editor Electrical Worker: there, and will no doubt serve as a guide I think a few lines from Local No. 713, post in the future to warn all against dts~ the infant organization of the I. B. E_ W. regarding the laws and taking for grant­ in Chicago, would not be amiss at thil! ed statements made by those who wish time, especially as the "infant," has to make' trouble. shown by its wonderful growth and de­ The trouble between the affiliated Elec­ velopment that it intends from now on trical Workers and the unaffiliated was to be classed with the grown-ups. remarkable for one thing at least, while The circumstances surrounding the the fight was a strenous one, there was birth of No. 713 were such that it was an absence of personal bitterness that highly essential 'that the infant be bless­ was gratifying. Except in a few instances ed with a rugged constitution, and that the men, while fighting each for his side, such was the case has been amply dem­ remained personally friendly. onstrated by the fact that this local, Some time ago the proposition made scarcely seven months old, and having to all local unions by our Executive been engaged in a fight from the very Board was taken up by them and dis· moment of its birth, now finds itself in cussed at length but the peculiar con· a pOSition to hold its own against any ditions existing there made the most of and all comers. their membership want added assurance. When Local 713 was installed in Chi­ Finally committees from both local un­ cago last November a great many of the ions got together and discussed the situa' "wise, ones" wished us well, but it was tion thoroughly with the result that a easy to be seen that they were pessi­ proposition was submitted to the opposi­ mistic as to our ability to survive the tion by our local union embodying all storm. Right here 'I wish to state that of the things they requested, and the ful- THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 457

Ilment of the conditions was guaran­ Workers' card to work at wiring in St. fu d by international office under seal Louis. With a reunited local and a good tee eof by the wn·t er. building year to look forward to St. Louis th~he communication to local is as fol- will soon resume her place on the union map as a strictly up-to-date union town lows: Springfield, Ill., June 18, 1912. and the experience of this fight will be C mmittee Local Union No. I, Mr. of inestimable value to the membership °Thomas Callahan, Chairman, St. Louis, in the future. It is to the everlasting credit of the Mo. Gentlemen: members of old Local No. 1 that the In connection with the enclosed prop- great majority of them believed in mak­ .tion adopted, by the Executive Board ing a clean fight. And proved it early ~:\ession April 11, 1912, I beg to ad~ ~he in the secession trouble by refusing to following as agreed upon by the Jomt furnish men when called upon to do so mmittee that all members shall be ac­ by some of the secession leaders to take COedited with membership from the time the places of our men on strike in Gary, c~ initiation in the brotherhood, provided Ind. ~ha,t standing in the .brotherhood has It will long be remembered by all con­ been continuouS; or, wlth the full time cerned that they voted to send a letter of continuoUS membership; and shall be of censure to the man who asked them -eligible to election ~s delegate to any In­ to send the men to act as strikebreakers. ternational con:,entlOn that ma>: b~ held A clean fight leaves no rancor in the during his contmued members~lp 10 the breasts of true men, and all the old boys local unions, and shall be entltled to a in St. Louis will again be found fighting seat in convention if elected as delegate. shoulder to shoulder to get and keep That the local shall assume 'legitimate conditions. And showing the younger debts incurred by Local No. I, same to element the way to success. be liquidated at the earliest time possi­ J, P. Noonan. ble. That in cases where memberc;, or former members, owe just debts to the Memphis, Tenn., July 6, 1912. local union such debts are to be collected Just a few lines to let the Brotherhood in the manner that is deemed best by in general know that we have a' local the local union. That all members shblt in Memphis. Up to the first of May, 1912, be pl9~ed in good standing and entitled when we voted to affiliate with the Mc­ to benefits immediately upon payment of Nulty-Collins faction of Electrical Work­ sufficient dues, to place the card'now held ers, it is useless to state any happenings by them in good standing, this to include in Memphis, as they were not worth current month's dues. mention, ~s all the boys had lost all in­ With the understanding that this has terest in the local, and things looked very been the agreement reached by commit- bad. But in the la,tter part of April we 'tee and that such terms are acceptable changed our affiliations and put a busi­ to the committees appointed, and hoping ness agent in the field, with an open it will be the means of bringing about charter for sixty days with the result unity in the Electrical craft in your city, we organized 58 new members in that I am endorsing same for International time besides signing up 13 electrical con­ Brotherhood as a guaranty of the ful­ tractors who agreed not to use any­ fillment of conditions mentioned herein. thing but union men. We will have a Yours fraternally, membership of 98 members when the bal­ Jas. P. Noonan, ance of these men who have appli­ International Vice-President. cations in before the union become mem­ All will agree that every assurance bers and we expect to initiate them all (,If fair play was given by our local there on July 11-12. We have had the follow­ and a sincere desire manifest to heal the ing list published of electrical contrac­ breach. tors who are fair and we have instructed Yet a few of the members prominent our business agent to take said list be­ In the secession movement by misrepre­ fore the managers of every business senting the fact and knowingly miscon­ house in Memphis, asking them to give struing the proposition had· th,e local vote their work to fair contractors. And we to refuse to get together even though expect good results from this list. all of the things their committee re­ NOTICE. quested were offered. This subtle under­ ground influence did not last, however, The following Electrical Contractors and since that time all but a few of Work Ncthing but Union Men and their members have enrolled in our local. Should Receive Your Patronage. Our local has now a strictly union shop Lytle Electric Co., Monroe and Second agreement Signed up with all but one St. Phone Main 2234. contractor In the city, the' Contractors' McCrory Electric Co., 2807 Madison Association signing up as a body. It is Ave. ,Memphis Phone 6151, Cumbo Hem. l " ~ecessary to carry a recognized Electrical 972. 458 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

Southern Heating Co., 239 J ellerson it seems a long ways because everything St. Memphis Phone 570, Cumb, Main here is so different, of course things 011 1631. farther southwest are better, but I Want H. G. Ford Elec. Contractor, 1184 Azalia. to tell you of conditions here in New Phone, Walnut 374. Mexico as it may save some of yOU who Blull City Electric Co., 28 S. Second might ever think of coming down this St. Both Phones 1125. way. Electric Novelty Co., 125 Monroe Ave. There is nothing doing here or in Both Phones 1053. Oklahoma in the labor line. Oklahoma is Wagner·Wolfe Electric Co., III Adams. so dead that I don't believe they will ever Both Phones 1807. come out of it again. There are very few A. J. Hild Elec. Contractor, 878 Looney. towns that there is anything at all stir­ Memphis Phone 2784. ring in. J. C. Nichel, 221 Poplar Ave. Cumbo But I want to tell you of the country. Phone Main 802, Night 3341-A. We made a jump from Oklahoma City to Gray Bros., Electric Contractors, 28 S. Roswell, N. M., which is 485 miles. I Second. Both Phones 1455. was in Oklahoma two weeks in four of Lew Tisdale Co., 14 North Third St. the best towns of the state, and even the Electric Fixtures only. Both Phones best does not amount to much at present. 1291. They have had too much of a boom and J. A. Bailey & Co., 70 South Second. now they have to stop and let the rest Electric Fixtures only. Both Phones 493. of the world catch up with them. It was J. Oliver Electric Co., 244 S. Front raining and hailing about all of the two St. Phone Main 3356. weeks and the railroad's were washed out If any other contractor claims to you everywhere. I le·ft Oklahoma City on that he is using Union Men call up the Sunday morning on my way to Roswell; business agent of Electrical . Workers' our railroad fare for 485 miles one way Union at Italian Hall. was $15.85. Can you imagine such a Phone Memphis 1293 and find out if hold-up? same is true .. Hours, 12:00 noon, to 1:00 After we left Oklahoma City, the p. m. country seemed pretty, good except that We are also making a great ellort to everything had been drowned out, when. organize a BuHding Trades Council' in we got ou-t some 100-mile the country be­ Memphis and I think in the near future came very fiat except for a little gulley we will have a good Building Trades now and then, we were in I the cattle C

rees and completely covered there seemed to be a straight Une be­ around the !ept for about 18 inches or 2 tween the two Inches. es Then I began to see what caused the the tre extop sticking out of the sand, feet of t h eimagine raising anything in difference. I could see Irrigation ditches can. yoU ? Every 15 or 20 miles I all around everywhere fed from artistian such a plac~e poor fellow working In a wells. These wells are about 800 feet would see so of plowed ground, trying to deep and cost from $2,QOO.00 to $4,000.00 little patch · to live on through the each, so a fellow with a limited amount th ng raise som~ Ito be covered with sand as of money hasn't got mUCh of a chance winter, onhY weather gets hot and the even at that. soon as ~ e to bloW. All along the track ·Well we were In Roswell in a few min­ wind beg illS laims which had been filed utes and when we arrived 'It was rain­ there we~~ c the people had tried to live Ing. A friend met me at the station and on and a fer awhile they would pick up In the conversation which followed he 011 the~ o~nd leave the place to keep told me that It was the first drop of rain everythlllg. g because they could not ex­ that had fell in RoswelI since last Au­ from starVlll gust. It is cold and damp today, the 1st. t the only thing that I saw after cold is caused on account of the high al­ Abou I to New Mexico that looked con­ titude. There are a lot of pretty things to we g~t nas Jack rabbits and believe me look at around here, but tha.t is about tente a;e plenty of them. I counted 14 all that they are good for. the~~ 2 or 3 inches and the Lord only Roswell is a pretty, good, little town, wit n how many there were in the im­ but my advice to anyone is to stay away kn~f:te vicinity which I didn't s.ee, about from this country. One acre of good old· me Iy thing that was growmg was Illinois soil is worth more than the 320 ~~~:nklnd of a weed which they called acres which you get down here for $16.00. Just think of 'it, boys. A big farm for Bear grass. only $16.00, but what gOOd would a farm Pretty soon we came to a rocky coun­ do a dead man. . A fellow wouldn't have try and I saW ~s many as ten or fourteen to take it with him to burn it up either dead cows lYlllg around on the rock because the sun is hot enough here In within as many mUes. summer to do that. . This land they call jip land and t~ey Well, I could tell you a lot more bad make cement out of it. We stopped at a things, a few good ones, but I guess I' place where they make· acme cement. had better not because, I will have to Pretty soon we came to a river, which send this by express if I make it much they call the Pecos river, the banks are longer and the Lord knows it costs some about 2 mUes apart, but the stream was money for express from this place back only about 20 feet wide and seemed to be to old mother earth. about 3 Inches deep,the water in this river We start back north Thursday morning was also red. This was the only stream and I will be glad of it I advise all my which I saw between Amarillo and Ros­ friends, yes and my enemies as well to well, 212 miles, there didn't seem to be a stay away from New Mexico If they thIng growing anywhere all the way ex­ want to prosper. I am telling the truth cept a few bunches of grass and some because I am not boosting this country dope that they call soap weed. Soap weed and am not interested in it either one [s gathered and they manufacture scrub way or the other, but I am interested In brushes and that kind of things from it. some of my friends, which may read this Some people say that this land 'Is all letter. rIght [f they had water, but they .have With best wishes to all, I remain . to go down 300 feet to get water and Yours, [t [s almost Impossible to pump the E. A. Martin, water that distance. Local No. 427. Th[s land can be filed on and a man can get 320 acr&s for $16:00, but one has to live on it three or five years before Buffalo, N. Y., July 15, 1912. ,. they get a deed to it, and that Is a long Editor Electrical Worker: time to go without eat or drink, and then We regret to inform you of the death another thing there ·Is nothing to burn to of Brother Elmer 1)()ster of Local Union keep one warm 'In winter. No. 41. After we crossed this river, we ran Brother Doster was just budding Into down the valIey some 10 or 12. miles and manhood, and met an unexpected death, all of a sudden everything began to· on Sunday, June 23d, in the collapse of change. It lookeci just I1ke one was hold­ the dock at Eagle Park, on Grand Island. [ng two pictures, one in each hand, one He was beloved by all that knew him of a prosperous lI11nois farm and the and was a credit to the membership of other of a Lord forsaken· place where no Local Union No. 41, who marched in a one lives and the dogs bark at strangers. body from its headquarters to the family First looking at one and then the other, residence, and from there to the German 460 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

Evangelical Bethlehem church, where the Trusting for a speedy settlement preacher gave a very impressive sermon factional difficulties and boosting for tht in German and EngliSh, over his re­ 1. B. E. W. and Organized Labor, I C108 e mains. remaining e, Brother Elmer Doster was one of the B. S. Lindsey, . thirty-.seven victims that met death in Press Secretary Local 68. that horrible disaster. Resolutions of sympathy and condol­ St. Louis is coming round to the old ance to the bereaved family, were passed conditions. The Brotherhood is bein by Local Union No. 41 and the charter more and more sought after. The Brothe; was ordered draped in mourning for hood that thought they were right, have thirty days. now been convinced that deception, has Yours fraternally, been practised by the leaders of the fac. William Kershaw, tion. Who for their individual interest Local Union No. 41, Buffalo, N. Y. would destroy the very best BrotherhoOd in existence. Anyone who Visited NO.1 Denver, Colo., July 8, 1912. four years ago, were to happen this Way Editor Electrical W~rker: now, would see many of the old familiar Dear Sir and Bro.: faces. and find that men can acknowl. Just a few lines from Denver to let edge their mistakes, and still not depre. the brotherhood at large know how things ciate their standing, as men. It is a are around, and with 68. In the first pleasure for the old derllicts like mYself place work is very slack for the insIde to pass round the hall and see those most boys, there is not one building here in interested who were led astray, but are any stage of construction over three now proof against any repetition of sim. stories high. Denver is absolutely dead, ilar acts. There is every prospect of old and it looks like the country for all of us aiIiance, and I am safe to almost defv this summer and the desert for some of anyone to attempt to create discord. us, all winter for me. In the present The by-laws are being changed, and any state, no one can profit by coming here. beneficial idea, that is mentioned, is dis. 68 has an agreement with about .25 or cussed without prejudice. 30 of the local contractors, and ~ye are :Work here is normal. While the bro. working under that now, the scale from thers are not suffering, there is just Sept. the_ first will be $4.50 per day, for about enough to keep them from runnin~ one year, that leaves only one firm and a in debt. It is to be hoped that matters few "Curbers" who the Reed and Mur­ will improve. The general cry in St. phy boys of 315 can work for. Louis among labor unions is for a grand Of course everyone knows Denver is parade Sept. 2, 1912, Labor Day, and the strong McNulty & Collins, and always prospects are good for a rouser. Bro. have the interest of the members of the Frank Lockman of No. 134 of Chicago 1. B. E. W. at heart, and we certainly do was a visitor recently, but made his stay hope that when they have their conven­ too short. The ninety-day clause is still tion here soon, that they will vote to in force, but No. 1 is not arbitrary. If "come home to their bacon" for it is only a brother comes' here by mistake they by united organization and effort that we don't throw him down, but they are as a body can gain and hold, in the field warning all, that they come at their peril. of Organized Labor, not only here in The weather has been fiercely hot, but nenver but everywhere. none of our members have been seriously At· the installation of officers the other effected as yet. The officers elected for night the following officers officiated: the ensuing term are Bro. J. M. Thomp· C. J. WUliamson, president and B. A.; C. 11on, president; James B. Price, vice presi­ B. Noxon, vice president: C. F. Oliver, dent; A .. Schading, recording secretary: finandal secretary; C. A. Bristow, record.' W. B. Smith, financial secretary; H. E. ing seCl:etary., Kavanaugh, business agent. The execu· 68 still keeps its live B. A. in the. field, tive boa.rd are J. J. Manson, president: who does his work well and covers the W. D. McSorley, secretary; R. J. Snep­ field thoroughly initiating one or two herd (Old Shep), Thos. F. Smith, Her· most every meeti'ng night. However. the man Oster, D. J. Hanley, Robert Miller. old bunch remains in town just the same. The trustees are Bros. A. M. Bradford. Karns is going' to the coast. Swaggert Frank E. Culi and Louis Heinner. & Doss are still here. Matt Hall has re­ turned. Daoke was reinitiated, but now The retiring trustees are Bros. Henry has taken up mining, and McClusky 'is Steineke, William Kelier and George E. now experimenting'. and Oliver is no'V city White. inspector. Well Bro.'s that's 'lbout all If any old timer will look over the for now. I'll try and keep in the Worker abnv" names they will find some of the' every month. and . shoulrl thing'S pkk up old ones and some new blood in the will let :vou all know. I'm hoping it does chairs. I almost forgot Bro. A. L. Loe­ inspite of the prospectus. pker. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 461

," rer Bro. James McGinn, left thenticated cases of successful efforts The treasu 'term expired. Wherever, along these lines, and the writer believes here. before h1t S him right for he is a that every man in the Brotherhood s trea he goe 'fellow. .' should have a copy and understand the dandY, good right with me, I may visit method. In answer to many who say, if things glocals and hope to find things "0, tell that to the linemen, us inside soIDe of the 0'moothly as m. N o. 1 . men don't run against it" let me say that running as S r efforts for the ladies, and the daily press records many cases of Keep up Yf:Cal can't settle on a pres i­ fatal shocks sustained from supposedly if any sub me as I am out of office, low tension wires, inside buildings, and a dent, send fO~ob ~f that kind is on tap, wireman or some one else may get the when a J and t·ble same thing when he is working on such I am suscef I ishes for the Brotherhood lines or he or any member may see a per· With bes a7 your command. son in such a condition that the method and alwIayS vours fraternally, might be effective as either in a case am . Baldy. of gas asphyxiation or apparent drowning the method can be used. We realize that . Electricai Worker. in all cases the services of a doctol EditorDear s·Ir and Bro ...- should be obtained as soon as possible, been some time since Local 666 but many times the precious minutes It ha~ a letter in the Worker, but we that intervene before his arrival, if used has h~ll doing business at the same old to appiy this method may mean life In. are Stl and doing good business too.) stead of death. And to each of us life stana, its about $7,000;000 in buildings is our most precious possession and each Th.ere in this Burg now and that gOing up of us owe a duty to our fellow man to ns some work for us. prepare ourselves so that If our oppor· IDea U 666 is in a fiOUflS. h·mg con d·t·I lon, tunity comes to try to save a, life we Will 1..· ·ring where it is, and we intend know just what to do and how to do conSI d e . thO f 'it ake a lifetIme mg 0 . it. We have read these new rules over to:e will welcome a few good men just and demonstrated them before Local No. but we want nothing but good union 98 and much interest was manifested and noW,IDen, not merely card men, but good the fact was brought out that several union men. members had been present when the nec· With best wishes for the s~ccess of essity had arisen to use such method, but our Brotherhood, I beg to remam they were not posted Or they had let yours fraternally, others who were, take care of the injured G. M. Miller. person. My idea is this; that you as G. P. should take steps to furnish a copy Philadelphia, Pa., July 11, 1912. of these rules to every member of every F, J. McNulty, G. P. I. B. E. W. local. This may entail a. small cost, but, Dear Sir and Bro.: if one life were saved by it in the course I wish to call to your attention the of the year it would be well worth the fact that on June 1, 1912 the "Electrical price. In money, if one member who was World" published a supplement entitled entitled to death benefit were brought "Resuscitation From Electric Shock" back from death door the amount that which is issued and copyrighted by the might have been paid out would more National Electric Light association, and than cover the entire cost. that "permission to reprint will be grant­ The reasons which inspired the bring­ ed on application." ing out of these revised rules and the I feel that this is a matter that every former ones mayor may not have been member of our brotherhood is or should entirely mercenary but, however, that be vitally interested in. may be we may rest assured that they are Many years ago when a different set as nearly correct as human science can of rules were printed. by tne same journal make them and we may safely use them I placed the matter before Local No. 31 from the humanitarian standpoint. We of Duluth and that local had sevE'ral hun­ appreciate the fact that in a few places dred copies printed and the writer per­ now there is available a new machine sonally distributed them to' members­ callen the "Pulmotor" which has been also police and fire departments in sev­ wonderfully successful in the resuscita­ eral cities in that vicinity and always tion of persons needing it, but there are giving a demonstration of the method. few of these and the factor of time in Afterwards we did the same way in sev· eral other lllcals. I also sent these in for getting the machine will always leave the publication in our Worker several times. opportunity for the person who knows With the result that hundreds of men at how to use the first aid method. least were prepared should the occasion I respectfully request that you will arise, to try to save a Ufe when other­ wise it might be lost for lack of such give this matter your attention and be­ knowledge, There are many well au- lieve . in so doing we will show that the 462 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

word, "Brotherhood," has 'a rea:! mean- of being either ignorant or filled. with : ing for us. Respectfully, fish ness of the narrow type that hopesBel •. ; Cllfford L. Higgins, secure some temporary trivial advanta~ ~ 1901 Ettlng St., PhiladelphIa, Pa. for a select few at the expense of tfe l many. e NOTE. . 1 The above interesting letter is appre­ The desire to hold office is perhaps th ! m~st common cause of factions amon e j ciated by the editor who will endeavor umons, but it is not a good reason. g. to get permission from the Electrical ..World to publish "Resuscitation From The labor cause is of vastly more' Electric Shocks" in the August "issue of portance than any individuals in it, ;:; the Worker: when any alleged labor man advocat ------division of the forces of· labor it is pret~S Editor Electrical Worker-: clear that such a man holds his OPinion' Enclosed find a circular letter which and selfish interests as of more itnpo S we have sent out over the diRtrlct ot tance than the cause and that he is u r· Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Da­ worthy of support. n· kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, which I Such differences of opinion as may elt wish you would publish in the Worker. ist between members of labor unions a; With best wishes, I am to correct union laws or pOlicy shOUld Fraternally yours, always be -settled within the union and C. E. Dohn, never be made a pretext for factionalistn Financial Secretary L. U. No ..22. W~en differing opinions are discuss: ed WIthin the union the dicusslon is edu. NEW RAILROAD LINE TO MEXICO. cational and beneficial because the- con. stant grinding of one intellect against an. Del Rio, TeX.-The contract has been other is broadening in 'its effect, serves i let for the construction of the Allende­ to put the adherents on each side on their Los Vacas extension of the National lines mettle and very probably wlll result in of Mexico, for the purpose of connecting correct action. with the Orient at Del Rio, a distance But if the union splits, each faction be. of eighty miles. This will give San An­ ing composed of men who think alikA " gelo a new line into Mexico. deprives both factions of the educa-ti~~~i effect which can only come through de­ FOX •MONUMENT DEDICATED_ bate. Thus there is. lost· not only the unity essential to success, but also the Cncinnati.,....on July 5th the mon·l".,en! broad educational infiuence of diSCUSsion erected to the memory of Martin Fox wali based upon divergent opinions. . unvieled at Calvary Cemetery. Martin Imagine that members of a union seek Fox was one of the brilliant figures in to make some change in union rules or the organized labOlr movement. and as laws and when defeated they secede. They president of the International Iron Mold­ were very sure they were right, but Wilen ers' Union, he achieved a reputation fo~ they seceded they took all the adherents integr'ty and ability second to none. The of theIr pet reform out of the union and ceremonies consisted of addresses by Pres­ lE'ft the union to the unreformed. Now ident Gompers and Secretary Morrison, assuming they were really right, if the; of the American Federation of Labor; had stayed in thp tinion they would surely Joseph Valentine, president of the Inter· prevail in the end. Thus secession or faC. national Iron Moulders' Union, and John tionalism not only tends to render the P. Frye, editor of the Iron Moulders' union weak, but to deprive it of the bene­ Journal, together with numerous other fits of suggestions of reform, some of well known trade unionists. which might be valuable and might finally be adopted. . EV{L OF FACTIONS. And labor needs unity now more than ever before, in spite of the progress that. Of course every faction seeks to keep hlu; been made, because our opponents are in stock a shop worn set of alleged ex­ becoming better organized and because cuses for its faUure to get in line with the.pay envelone is not keeping pace with the big family of unions, but none of them the increased cost of living. will stand analysis, because no logical The old saying that .. there is a time reason can be given to justify any split for everything" does not apply to splits in labor's ranks. in the forces of labor because there is no Quarrels over personal opinions or am­ time appropriate for labor to split. bitions are personal affairs and should Bear and forbear iIi the discussion of not affect the attitude of the workers tow­ your differences, but preserve unity. ard the labor movement, nor should they Say to yourself, to nonuionists and to prevent the workers from fully realiz;ing independent factionalists that labor has the value and the necessity of unity. no time to spend in factional dIscussions The moment a group of workers an­ excent to unite the factions that have al· nounce their independence of the general ready been created and that the time to . labor movement they COllvict themselves unite is now.-Amalgamated Journal. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 463

306 ...... 52603 52606 328 ...... 51504 51521 , oeAL Union Offic!al 349 ...... 94369 943'18 Receipts up to cmd rn­ 358 ...... 26396 26400 .L 358 ...... 41251 41264 luding the 10th of the 369 ...... 164613 1646"60 ~urrent month II pJ II 377 ...... 120961 120980 396 ...... 161601 161663 40.2 ...... 29827 29831 -- 404 ...... 140536 140610 Members' receipts received from Local 419 ...... 198682 198750 Unions from June 11 to July 10: 419 ...... 178501 178561 427 ...... 23997 24032 L. U. From To 430 ...... 32023 32041 1 ...... 73721 74012 444 ...... 40521 40539 5 .:: ...... 185328 185538 481 ...... 84486 8463~ 6' ...... , .... " ..... 70663 7085"( 494 ...... 49693 49751 9 ...... 143111 143250 501 ...... 126449 126576 9 ...... 197301 197590 503 ...... 54867 54898 12 ...... 217607 217619 527 ...... 35330 35333 20 ...... 97678 977-20 528 ...... 130804 130819 23 ...... 124060 124127 534 ...... 6998 7351 24 ...... 36751 36771 536 ...... 120301 120349 34 ...... 135881 135900 541 ...... 98362 98374 38 ...... 87299 87576 565 ...... 159411 159560 41 ...... 182335 182456 565 (Sub) ...... 75814 75818 49 ...... 94954 95024 581 ...... 46521 46549 52 ...... 87741 88854 591 ...... 31117 31155 61 ...... 85709 85830 595 ...... 29555 29638 64 ...... -. .. . 1860(}1 186036 (;14 ... '...... : ..... , 40297 40305 68 ...... : .... 51142 51201 617 ...... 118564 118568 69 ...... !>2307 62344 625 ...... 4Ul61 41265 78 ...... ".... 151501 151546 631 ...... 41451 41473 85 ...... 68511 68693 643 ...... 42153- 42161 86 ...... 52163 52260 644 ...... 28171 28218 96, .... · .. , ., " ...... 179548 179897 645 ...... 78071 78150 98 ...... 81167 81271 664 ...... 5962 5975 100 ...... 89275 89299 666 ...... 28998 29047 102 ...... 174872 174927 667 ...... 53823 53828 103 ...... 206679 206930 675 ...... 83307 83324 104 ...... 81973 82118 680 ...... 84850 84863 104 Sub ...... 77251 77640 682 ...... 69865 69883 115 ...... 143282 143348 695 ...... 22089 22108 116 ...... ,...... 36042 36113 696 ...... : .... 129155 117 ...... 209403 2094i9 696 ...... 129159 129223 119 ...... 166501 166516 697 ...... 13135-2 131362 124 ...... 52776 52896 699 ...... 117079 117083 135 ...... 208501 208514 701 ...... : ...... 115551 115559 136 ...... 19961 702 ...... 106056 106069 136 ...... _ .... " 19968 20009 703 ...... 105166 105179 141 ...... 145601 146ti43 707 ...... 1U~052 109096 142 ...... 177751 177974 708 ...... 100558 106599 146 ...... 177001 177026 709 ...... 189927 '189943 149 ...... •..... 93299 933.26 713 ...... 76851 76890 164 ...... 25531 25594 714 ...... 73231 73320 r 164 ...... ',' " 25595 25566 715 ...... 175!>57 175572 177 ...... 93751 93836 716 ...... 174010 174097 184 ...... 18543 18560 717 ...... 60751 60814 190 ...... 78904 78926 718 ...... 79561 79570 233 ...... ;... 19489 19527 722 ...... 150001 150027 238 ...... 139565 139573 247 ...... 35498 35829 A CORRECTION. 254 ...... 216628 216675 259 ...... 50361 50385 9 ... , ...... 116901 117000 267 ...... 83084 83]31 9 ...... 1425(}1 14.2660 268 ...... 22673 22687 270 ...... Z2854 22874 Above receipts were received at 1. O. 277 ...... 23230 23233 March 30, 1912, but were inadvertently 305 ...... 95793 95797 omitted from April Worker. 464 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

MISSING RECEIPTS. PRICE LIST OF' SUPPLIES.

L. U: No. 23-Nos. 124111, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. Charter Fee, for each member ..... U O~ L. U. No. 34-Nos. 135891, 92, 96, 97, Seal ...... 3 50 98, 99. Rolled Gold Charms...... 2 O~ Solid Gold Emblematic Buttons, L. U. No. 115-Nos. 143344, 45. each ...... 1 O~ L. U. No. Hi-No. 209418. Heavy Rolled Gold Emblematic But- L. U. No. 119-Nos. 166512 13, 14, 15. tons, each ...... 50 L. U. No. 140-Nos. 31707, 12, 13, 14, 16, Solid Gold Cuff Buttons, per pair.. 2 00 18, 20, 24, 25, 29, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, Rolled Gold Cuff Buttons, per pair 1 50 45, 48 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, Constitutions, per 100 ...... 5 00 Membership Cards, per 100 ...... 1 00 60. Traveling Cards, per dozen...... 50 L. U. No. 146-Nos. 177018, 21, 22, 23, Withdrawal Cards, with TranSfer 24, 25. Cards, per dozen ...... 50 L. U. No. 190-Nos. 78903, 78913. Application Blanks, per 100...... 50 L. U. No. 233-Nos. 19523, 24, 25. Extra Rituals, ea.ch...... 25- L. U. No. 268-No. 22672. Working Cards, per 100...... 50 Officials Letter Paper, per 100..... 50 L. U. No. 369~No. 164622. Official Envelops, per 100...... 50 U. L. No. 536-No. 120345. Official Notice of Arrears, per 100.. 50 L. U; No. 501-Nos. 126564 to 126574 Set of Books, including Receipts, Inc. Warrants, etc...... 5 00 L. U. No. 696-No. 129221. Receipt Book, (300 receipts)...... 1 00 Receipt BOOk,. (500 receipts) ...... 2 00 L. U. No. 699-No. 117077, 78. Receipt Book, (750 receipts) ...... 3 00 L. U. No. 715-Nos. 175569,71. Electrical Worker Subscription, per L. U. No. 104 (Sub.)-Nos. 77316, 74, year ...... 25- 77512, 33, 87, 77623. Treasurer's Account Book...... 50

~------Treasurer's Receipt Book...... 25- RECEIPTS LOST EN ROUTE. Warrant Book for R. S...... 25- Financial Secretary's Ledger, 200 L. U. From To pages ...... ~ .. 1 5.0 494 ..... c •••••••••••••••• 49624 49692 Financial Secretary's Ledger, 400 Copy of these receipts has been received pages ...... 2 50 ill I. O. Minute Book for R. S...... 75- Day Book ...... 5() To the officers and members of local union Roll Call Book ...... - 50 affiliated with District Council No.6 of Obligation Cards, Double, per doz.. . 25 the Second District: Permit Cards, per 100 ...... 50 Greeting: At the last regular meeting Full-sized Pencil carbon for Receipt Wednesday evening, June 26, 1:112, Local Books, per sheet ...... 05- Union No 22 voted unanimously to again ;Metal Union Labels, per 100 ...... 2 00 affiliate with the McNulty organization the only legal authorized body of Elec­ trical Workers, recognized by the Ameri­ can Federation of Labor. W'e believe that Note-The. above articles wlll be sup.. this is the only way in which we can plied only when the requisite amount again be united into one brotherhood and of cash accompanies the order, other­ be in accord with Judge Philip's recent wise the order will not be recognized. court ruling. Before we voted to again All supplies sent by us have postage or affiliate with the McNulty organization we express charges prepaid. considered the proposition of the assess­ Address, Chas. P. Ford, I. S. ment proposed by the Reid-Mur­ phy organization and concluded it only a means of further financing a cause al­ WINNIPEG-GULF BONDS SOLD. ready lost. We ask our brother locals to consider this proposition seriously and again affiliate with the McNulty organiia­ Salina, Kan.-A cablegram received by tion the only recognized body of Elec­ H. Leone Miller, president of the pro­ trical Workers by the American Federa­ posed Salina, Winnipeg and Gulf railway. tion of Labor. states that the contract for the sale of Local Union' No ..22, Omaha,' Neb. $13,000,000 bonds for the road has been J. M. Gibb, closed in Paris, and that the money will J. P. ""rown, be available at once. It is stated that C. E. Donn, construction will begin this month 01" (Seal Attached.) Committee. early in June. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 465

WHO KILLED THE BRANCH? THE DICTAGRAPH. BY Minna Irving. "It's meeting night," said Ed, Brown, not have a quiet' game "But don't believe I'll go down; We d are the sly' I'm tired and it's pretty cold tonight, Of poker on ' . I ot kiss a pretty glr And everything will go all right d n I" We , are not a sou IS mg h', If I'm not there." So he sat and read " hen ot talk about our friends, The paper awhile, then went to bed; We dare n h o tell a joke, or laug , Having stayed at home from the meet­ r .t maY be lurking near- ing. Because 1 . h The tattling dlctagrap . "It's meeting night," said Johnnie Gray; N larks behind the teacher's back "But I guess I had better stay away; °Nor mischief in the. school, I don't like the way the young folks take N r gossip at the sewlllg club, Things in their hands and try to make ~here gossip is the rule. The 'Good of the Branch' all joke and fun, For any place though it may be I think something sensible ought to be Not big enough by half, done," l' . hide a mouse, may yet 'conceal And he stayed at home from the meet­ °The truthful dictagraph. ing.

When ni{!ht lets fan its starry vell, Thus one and another made excuse, And we retire to bed, And said as long as they paid their dues No more beneath it do we search And assessments promptly, they couldn't For burglars grim and dread, see But in a fuller measure yet What the differen.ce was if they should be The cup of fear we quaff; Away from the room on meeting night, We look behind the picture frames And argued to prove that they were right To find a dictagraph. In staying at home from the meeting.

I'd like to speak my mind about And the earnest officers of the Branch The man who first, conceived And the faithful who didn't dodge This conscience in a' collar box, Around their duties and tried to shirk, This Spy that has me peeved. But did their own and others' work, I'd like to meet him in the dark Grew discouraged, and at last in dismay, And have an oaken staff. Headquarters took the charter away I'd like-but hush i it may be near, Because-all stayed at home from the The tell-tale dictagraph. meeting. -Selected.

THE SQUARE DEAL, HISTORY,

If I boost your union label You should do as much for mine; "Past is past." But, no; it is not past. This is simply reciprocity, In us, in us, it quickens, wanes, aspires. A never-failing sign ' And on our hearts the unknown dead That the spirit of true brotherhood have cast Among the ranks supreme; The hunger and the thirst of their de­ To promote the union label sires. All the time should be our theme. Unknown the pangs, the peace we too In the field of union labor prepare! This should be our Golden Rule; What shakes this bosom shall reverbe· Work and strive to win diplomas rate In the union-label school; Through ages unconceived, but in dark Always do unto each other , lair As you'd wish to be done by; The' unguessed, unhoped, un dreaded is­ Have the label of your brother sues wait. Union man on what you buy. Our pregnant acts are all ilnprophesied. Act together as a unit, \Ve dream sublime conclusions, destine, In this most important move; plan, The results will be astonishing. Build and unbuild, yet turn no jot aside' Raise yourself from out the groove The something infinite that moves in Of inaction; for, remember, man. On one point you should agree-­ We write "The end" where fate has If I demand your label, scarce begun, You should do as much for me. Anrl no man kno,ws the thing that he has homas H. West, in Kansas City La- done. bor Herald. -Oxford and Cambridge Review.

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I (I] IIN MEMORIAM I [j] ]

Milwaukee, Wis., June 21, 1912 .. Schenectady, N. Y., June 24, 1912. E. Muenzburg. Resolutions of Respect te· the 'Memory of Robert C. Schermerhorn. Whereas., It has been the will of the Whereas, Local Union No. 247, I. B. Almighty God to call from our ranks, our E. W., has by the death of Robert C. late and beloved brother, Edward Muenz­ Schermerhorn lost a charter member who burg, and one who bas been tried and was always active and loyal, a man of found true to the cause of unionism and education and more than ordinary abil· ity,-one who was quiet and unobtruSive, who will be missed from our raul;:s for yet ever ready to do his part in the work all time; and of the organization,-and who had a long Whereas, We, the members of Local and untarnished record of service in the responsible position of financiai secretary ~10. 494, dee~lY feei our loss of our late of the Local; brother and comrade; therefore, be it Whereas, he was not only a capable Resolved, That the sympathy of Local and trusted workman, but highly estee~· ed also as a friend and counselor; there­ No. 494, I. B. .E- W. be extended to his fore, be it wife and relatives in this hour of sorrow Resolved, That the undersigned com­ and bereavement, and be it further mittee do hereby, in behalf of the Local, express our sincere respect and affec· Resolved, That a copy of these resolu­ tion for our departed brother, and our tions be spread on .our minutes, and a profound sorrow and sense of loss in this copy be forwarded to his wife, also a copy affliction; and forwarded to our Grand Office for publi­ Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt cation in the next Worker. And be it brotherly sympathy te his bereaved wife and other relatives; and further Resolved; That as already ordered by R,iesolved, That our charter be draped the Local, our .charter be draped in in mourning for a period of 30 days. mourning for thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon our P. A. Schroeder, minutes, a copy presented to Mrs. Schermerhorn, and another copy forward· F. R. Fahey, ed to The Electrical Worker for publica· W. Wilke, tion. J. W. Daley, (Signed) J. A. McCarthy, W. B. Stairs, W. T. Gute, R. A. Jones, C. L. Hand, Committee. Committee. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 467

~] OBITUARY

J. T. Creamer, L. U. No.9, Chicago, Ill. C. G. Muenzburg, L. U. No. 494, Mlnn"e­ apolis, Minn. J. F. Hurney, L. U. No. 340, Sacramento, Cal. R.- C. Schermerhorn, L. U. 247, Schenec­ tady, N. Y. C. ·Rathche, L. U. 534, New York, N. Y. H. Brown, L. U. No. 247, Schenectady, N. Y. J. B. Sherburn, L. U. No. 534, New York, N. Y. Herbert Crites, L. U. No. 134, Chicago, Ill. H. D. Blohm, L. U. No. 534, New York, N. Y. . Geo. Ramsden, L. U. No.6, San Francis­ co, Cal.

~_._. _____0 __ ---1 -t68 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER lfiill Trade Notes STATE CONTROL OF WIRES FA- BUILDING AT KINGSVILLE. VORED. . The placing of the telegraph and tele­ The St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico phone companies under state control Railroad is preparing to expend $600,000 was one of the measures urged by J. W. on the construction of new buildings at Hunt, of 'Wichita Falls, president of the Kingsville. Texas Grain Dealers' Association, in his report to the association in annual con­ COTTON BELT TO EXTEND. vention in May. In his address, President Hunt referred Dallas, Texas.-It is reported here that to the unusually high price of grain and the Cotton Belt is planning to extend its grain products, explaining that the lines from Waco to Galveston, in prepara­ drouth of last year was responsible, and tion for Panama canal business. It is re­ that many bushels of grain had been ported that $10,000,000 will be spent on shipped into the state, the effect of which this extension. was most disastrous to the farmer. This year's crop, he said, would be large, if present prospects counted for WONDERFUL WIRELESS INVENTION. anything. He said that the indications The London Daily Chronicle's - Milan were that Texas would produce at least correspondent telegraphs: ":surprlsmg 15,000,000 bushels of wheat, 50,000,000 results are being obtained between here bushels of oats, and that the outlook for and Turin, ninety-two miles distant, by hay indicated a large crop of high class means of tije invention of a Turinese product. youth, Francesco de Bernocchi, called The speaker referred to the fact that the wireless iconograph. The apparatus the 'railroad freight rates of the state is far in advance of anything of the kind were controlled by the railroad commis­ yet recorded. It transmits, besides 01'-­ sion', and urged that the members con­ dinary messages, autographs, shorthand tinue their endeavor to place the tele­ and all sorts of designs and cryptograms, graph and telephone companies under exact reproduction of synchronic periods control of the state in some manner. of electric wa ve~ in correspondence He also paid his respects to the legal with synchronic periods of helicoidal procedure of the state, saying that he movements. did not believe in the use of so much "So simple is the arrangement that time and red tape. He expressed the the transmitter and receiver of this in­ hope that the next legislature would be strument may be applied with ease to composed of men who would not pass any ordinary wireless telegraphy plant. laws "for political purposes only." "General Spingart, minister of war, is NO NAVAL WIRELESS. so impressed by the enormous advant- . ages of the wireless iconograph for im­ An ambitious scheme for a govern­ parting orders and conveying sketches in ment naval wireless system to encircle time of war with the utmost secrecy, the globe was blocked when an appro­ that immediate arrangements are being priation of $1,000,000 for its construction made to secure for Italy the exclusive was stricken from the naval appropria­ possession of the patent." tion bill recently by the House. Chairman Fitzgerald, of the appropria­ SAYS ROAD IS FINANCED. tion committee, objected, and charged the secretary of the navy and the secre­ tary of the treasury with "contempt of H. Leene Miller, Salina, Kan., preSi­ the law" for endeavoring to "sneak it" dent of the recently incorporated Win­ into the bill. He declared that neither nipeg, Salina and Gulf Railway Com­ official had included it in the estimates pany, states that he has disposed of of the department for the year's expen­ $30,000,000 of bonds to London and Paris ditures. financiers, which completes all the neces­ The scheme contemplated the estab­ sary financing for the portion of the road lishment of the stations on th~ Pacific between Oklahoma City and Salina, the coast, the Panama Canal Zone, Hawaii, preliminary surveys of which have al­ Samoa, Guam and the Philippines. ready been made. . ,. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 469 Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism

_conduction and Distribu- sistance to the flow of electricity through IV t.ESSON.tion of Electricity.. . them. There is indeed, no substance so nduction.-Toward the c!ose of good a conductor as to be devoid of re­ 27. Co we explained how certam bod- sistance. There is no substance of so LesSon lh' the metals conduct elec- high a resistance as not to conduct a . sue as ' le~, . while others are non-conductors little. Even silver, which conducts best tflC~ty, I tors This discovery is due to of all known substances, resists the flow or l~s~aGra;' who in 1729, found that a of electricity to a small extent; and, on stei ~nserted' into' the end of a rubbed the other hand, such a non-conducting cor , t be and even a rod of wood stuck substance as glass, though its resistance glass u , f t 'nto the cork, possessed the pow~r.o a- is many million times greater than any ~racting light bodies. He found, sImIlarly, metal, does allow a very small quantity h t metalliC wire and pack-thread con­ of electricity to pass through it. In the ~u~ted electricitY, while silk, did not. following list, the substances named are We may repeat these experiments. by placed in order, each conducting better taking (as in Fig. 17) a glass rod, fitted than those lower down on the list. with a cork and a piece of wood. If a Good Conductors. - bullet or a brass knob be hung to ~he Silver . . end of this by a linen thread or a WIr~, Copper .. ·t is found that when the glass tube IS Other metals ~ubbed the bullet acquires the property Charcoal .. of attracting light bodies. If a dry. s~lk Water. _ . thread is used, however, no electrICIty Partial-Conductors. will flow down to the bullet. The body .. Gray even succeeded in transmitting a Cotton ... charge of electricity through a hempen DryWood .. thread over 700 feet long, suspended on Marble .. , silken loops. A little later Du Fay suc­ Paper . ceeded in sending electricity to no less Non-Conductors or a distance than 1256 feet through a mois­ Insulators. tened thread, thus proving the conducting Oils .... power of moisture. From that time the Porcelain. classification of bodies into conductors Wool .... and insulators has been observed. Silk _ . . . Resin ... Guttapercha Shellac Ebonite Paraffin Glass . Dryair ...... A simple way of observing experiment­ ally whether a body is a conductor or not, is to take a charged gold-leaf elec­ troscope, and, holding the substance to be examined in the hand, touch the knob of the electroscope with it If the

Fig " substance is a conductor the electricity will flow away through it and through This distinction cannot, however, be the body to the earth, and the electro­ entirely maintained, as a large class of scope will be discharged. Through good substances occupy an intermediate conductors the rapidity of the flow is so ground as partial conductors. For exam­ great that the discharge is practically in­ ple, dry wood is a bad conductor and stantaneous. Further information on this also a bad insulator.; it is a good enough question is given in Lesson XXIII. conductor to conduot away the high­ 28. Distribution of Electricity on potential electricity obtained by friction; Bodies.-If electricity is produced at one but it is a bad conductor for the relatively part of a non-conducting body, it remains low-potential electricity of small voltaic at that point and does, not flow over the batteries. Substances that are very bad surface, or at most flows over it exces­ c?nduct?rs are said to offer a' great re- sively slowly. Thus if a glass tube is 470 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER rubbed at one end, only that one end is be then removed, and the sample thuB electrified. If a warm cake of resin be obtained may be examined with a Gold· rubbed at one part with a piece of cloth, Leaf Electroscope in the ordinary way. only the portion rubbed will attract light For some purposes a metallic bead, fast· bodies. The case' is, however, wholly dif­ ened to the end of a glass rod, is more ferent when a charge of electricity is im­ convenient than a fiat disc. If such a parted to any part of a conducting body proof-plane be applied to the outside of placed on an insulating support, for it our electrified hollow ball, and then instantly distributes itself all over the touched on ~he knob of an electroscope, surface, though in general not uniformly the gold leaves -will diverge, showing the over all points of the surface. presence of a charge. But if the proof· 29. The Charge resides on the sur­ plane be carefully inserted through the face.-A charge of electricity resides only opening, and touched against the inside on the surface of conducting bodies. of the globe and then withdrawn, it will This is proved by the fact that it is found be found that the inside is destitute of to be immaterial to the distribution what electricity. An electrified pewter mug the interior of a conductor is made of; will show a similar result, and so will it may be soUd metal, or hollow, or even a cylinder of gauze wire. even consist of wood covered with tin­ 30. Blot's Experiment.-Biot proved fol1 or gil~, but, if the shape be the same, the same fact in another way. A copper the charge will distribute itself precisely ball was electrified and inSUlated. Two in the same manner over the surface. holI.ow hemispheres of copper, of a larger There are also several ways of proving size, and furnished with glass handles, by direct experiment this very important were then placed wgether outside dt fact. Let a hollow metal ball, having an (Fig. 19). So long as they did not come aperture at the top, be taken (as in Fig. into contact the charge remained on the 18), and set upon an insulating stem, and charged by sending into it a few sparks from an electrophorus. The absence of any charge in the interior may be shown as follows: -In order to observe the na­ ture of the eiectricity of a charged body, it is convenien"t to have some means of removing a small quantity of the charge as a sample for examInation. To obtain such a sample a little instrument known as a proof-plane is employed. It consists of a little disc of sheet copper or of gilt" paper fixed at the end of a small glass rod. If this disc is laid on the surface of an electrified body at any pOint, part of the electricity fiows into it, and it may

F~g·~9. inner sphere; - but if the outer shell touched the inner sphere for but an in­ stant, the whole of the electricity passed to the exterior; and when the hemi­ I?pheres were separated and removed the inner globe was found to be completely discharged. 31. Further Explanation.-Doubtless the explanation of this behaviour of elec· tricity is to be found in the property prevo iously noticed as possessed by either kind of electricity, namely, that of re­ pelling itself; hence it retreats as far as can be from the center and remains upon the surface. An important propo­ sition concerning the absence of electric force within a closed conductor _is proved in Lesson XX., meanwhile it must be noted that the proofs, so far, are directed to demonstrate the absence of a free charge of electricity in the interior of hollow conductors. Many other ex-

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been devised in proof. into a hollow conductor connected by a periments bave sbowed tbat a pair of wire to a gold-leaf electroscope (Fig. 21), Tbus, Terq~er:g inside a wire cage could and watched the effect. A pewter ice­ gold leaves u to diverge wben tbe cage pail being convenient for his purpose, not oe ma~eed Faraday constructed a this experiment ~s continually referred was electrlfi f' Unen.gauzl'l, supported as to by this name, though any other hollow conical bag 0 conductor-a tin canister or a silver mug, placed on a glass support-would of course answer equally well. The fol­ lowing effects are observed:-Suppose the ball to have a + charge: as it is lowered into the hollow conductor the gold leaves begin to diverge, for the presence of the charge acts inductively, and attracts a - charge into the inter­ ior and repels a + charge to the exterior. The gold leaves diverge.more and more until the ball is right within the hollow conductor, after which no greater di­ vergence is obtained. On letting the ball Fi 20 upon an insulating stand, and touch the inside the gold leaves still re­ In w:icb'silk strings were attacbed, by main diverging as before, and if now the to . It could be turned inside out. It b b ball is pulled out it is found to have lost wa~c cbarged, and tbe charge was shown all its electricity. The fact that the gold ; tbe proof-plane and electroscope to b.e ieaves diverge no wider after the ball Y tbe outside of the bag. On turning It touched than they did just before, proves f:side out the electricity was once ~?re that when the charged ball is right in­ found outside. Faraday's most strIklllg side the hollow conductor the induced experiment was made with a hollow ('.harges are each of them precisely equal cube, measuring 12 .feet .eac~ '!ay, built in amount to its own charge, and the in- of wood, covered WIth tinfOIl, llls?lated,. and charged with a powerful machllle, so tbat large sparks and brushes were dart­ ing olI from every part of its outer Su!­ face. Into this cube Faraday took hIS most delicate electroscopes: but on.ce within he failed to detect the least In· fluence upon them. 32. Appllcations.-Advantage is taken of this in the construction of delicate electrometers and other instruments, which can be elIectually screened from + the influence of electrified bodies by en­ closing them in a thin metal cover, closed + all round, except where apertures must be made for purposes of observation. It has also been proposed by the late Prof. Clerk Maxwell to protect buildings from lightning by covering them on the ex­ terior with a network of wires. 33, Apparent Exceptions.-There are two apparent exceptions to the law that electricity resides only on the outside of Fig. 2%. conductors. (1) If there are electrified insulated bodies actually placed inside terior negative charge exactly neutralises the hollow conductor, the presence of the charge on the ball at the moment these electrified bodies acts inductively when they touch, leaving the equal ex­ and attracts the opposite kind of elec­ terior r.harge unchanged. An electric tricity to the inner side of the hollow cage, such as this ice'pail, when connect­ conductor. (2) When electricity flows ed with an electroscope or electrometer, in a current, it flows through the sub­ affords an excellent means of examining stance of the conductor. The law is the charge on a body small enough to limited therefore to electricity at rest,­ be hung inside it. For without using up that is, to statical charges. any of the charge of the body (which 34. Faraday's "Ice-pail" Experiment.- we are obliged to do when applying the One experiment of Faraday deserves no· method of the proof-plane) we can exam­ , . tlce, as showing the part played by in­ ine the induced charge repelled to the L :~ftlon in these phenomena. He grad­ outside of the cage, which is equal in L~ ... low.ered a charged metallic ball amount and of the same sign. 472 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

35. Distribution of. Charge.-A charge lected electricity may be so great as to of electricity is not usually distributed electrify the neighboring particles of air unlformly over the surfaces of bodies. which then are repelled, thus producl~ Experiment shows that there is more a continual loss of charge. For thla­ electricity on the edges and corners of reason points and sharp edges are al. bodies than upon their flatter parts. This ways avoided on electrical apparatus ex" distribution can be deduced from the cept w.here n is specially desired t~ set theory laid down in Lesson xx., but up a dIscharge. meantime we will give some of the chief (d) Flat Disc.-The density of a cases as they can be shown to exist. charge upon a flat disc is greater, as we The termElectric Density is used to signi­ should expect, at the edges than on the fy the amount of electricity at any point fiat surfaces; but over the flat surfaces of :l surface; the electric density at a the distribution is fairly uniform. point is the number of units of electricity These various facts are ascertained by per units of area (i. e., per square inch, applying a small proof-plane successively or per square centimetre), the distribu­ at various points of the electrified bodies tion being supposed uniform over this and examining the amount taken up by small surface. the proof-plane by means of an electro­ (a) Sphere.-The distribution of a scope or electrometer. Coulomb, who In­ charge over an insulated sphere of con­ vestigated mathematically as well as ex­ ducting material is uniform, provided the perimentally many of the important cases of distribution, employed the torsion bal­ ance to verify his calculations. He in­ vestigated thus the case of the ellipsoid. of revolution, and found the densities ot the charges at the extremities of the­ axis to be proportional to the lengths of those axes. He also showed that the density of the charge at any other point of the surface of the ellipSOid was pro-· portional to the length of the perpendic_ ular drawn from the centre to the tan­ Fig. 22. gent ·at that pOint. Riess also investi­ sphere is remote from the presence of gated several interesting cases of dis­ all other conductors and all other elec­ tribution. He found the density at the trified bodies; or, in other words, the middle of the·· edges of a cube to be­ density is uniform ail over it. This is nearly two and a half times as great as symbolised by the dotted line round the the density at the middle of a face; sphere in Fig. 22, a, which is at an equal while the density at a corner of the cube· distance from the sphere all round, sug-· was more than four times as great. gesting an equal thickness of electricity 36. Redistribution of Charge.-If any at every point of the surface. It must be portion of the· charge of an insulated remembered that the charge is not really conductor be removed, the remainder of of any perceptible thickness at all; it re­ the charge will immediately redistribute­ sides on or at the surface, but cannot be itself over the surface in the same man­ said to form a stratum upon it. ner as the original charge, provided it be- . (b) Cylinder with Rounded Ends.-Upon also isolated, i. e., that no other· con­ an elongated conductor, such as is fre­ ductors or charged bodies be near to per- • quently employed in electrical apparatus, turb the distribution by complicated ef- . the density is greatest at the ends where fects of induction. the curvature of the surface is the great- If a conductor be charged with any est. . qiIantity of electricity, and another con­ (c) Two Spheres in Contact.-If two ductor of the same size and shape (but spheres in contact with each other are uncharged) be brought into contact with insulated and charged, it is found that it for an instant and then separated, it will . the density is greatest at the parts· be found that the charge has divided farthest from the point of contact, and itself equally between them. In the same least in the crevice between them. If way a charge may be divided equally the spheres are of unequal sizes the into three or more parts by being dis­ density is greater on the smaller sphere, tributed simultaneously over three or which has the surface more curved. On more equal and similiar conductors an egg-shaped or pear-shaped conductor brought ,uto contact. the density is greatest at the small end. If two equal· metal balls, suspended by On a cone the density is greatest at the silk strings, charged with unequal quan­ a.pex; and· if the cone te~minate in a tities of electricity, are brought for an sharp point the density there is very instant into contact and then separated. much greater than at any other point. At it will be found that the charge has re­ a po[nt; indeed, the density of the col- distributed itself fairly, half the sum of THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 473

split in the Electrical WOrkers union, the . charges being now the charge of last breach was healed last night when the hV~his waY 'even be extended to the the outside local of' the Electrical Work­ each. f charges of opposite signs. Thus, ers of the Reid-Murphy faction met and case 0 twO siwilar conductors to be decided to unite with the Collins-Mc­ suP~o~:ed one with a positive charge of elec ~~ ~d the other with 3 units of Nulty faction. 5 un. s ~harge when these are wade to The inside local united several days negatlvend sep~rated, each will have a ago, and all the workmen are now In tou~: : charge of 1 unit; for the alge­ harmony and will be seated in the Build­ pos~ IV w of + 5 and - 3 is + 2, which, ing Trades council as one local. bralC dSUbetween the two equal conduc­ The Houston locals are the first large share tors, leaves + 1 for each. locals in the United States to get togeth­ 37 capacity d Conductors.-If the er since the big split occurred four years due tors be unequal in size, or unlike ago. Houston has one of the large locals f:~orm, the shar~s taken by each in this 'in this district and the action of the edistribution wIll not be equal, but Houston local will doubtless be the ~i1l be proportional to the electric starting of a movement that will extend capacities of the. co.nductors. The defi~i­ all over this district and even to other tion of capacity 10 Its relation to electnc parts of the United States. This district quantities is given in Lesson XX., Art. IS composed of Texas, Oklahoma and 246 We way, however, make the ra­ Arkansas. ma~k, that two insulated condu~tors ?f The local here is sending out circulars the same form, but of different SIzes, dIf­ to .other locals giving their reasons for fer in their electrical capacity; for the unIting and urging all other locals to larger one must have ll: l~rger amount of throwaway their fancied differences and electricitY imparted to It 10 order to elec­ get together for the good of the broth­ trify its sudace to the same degree. The erhood. term potential is employed in this con­ The differences that have existed be­ nection" in the following way:-A given tween the Electrical Workers have great­ quantity of electricity will electrify an ly hampered the growth of that union' isolated body up to a certain "potential" and .tJ.as been a source of continued an­ (or power of doing electric work) de­ noyance to an other trade unions. The pending on its capacity. A large different factions from the Electrical quantity of electricity. imparted to a Work~rs have always had a fight before conductor of small capacity will electri­ BuUdmg Trades councils for seats in the fy it up to a very high potential; just as councll and the result has been very a large quantity of water poured into a demoralizing to the cause of union labor vessel of narrow capacity will raise the everywhere. lIurface of the water to a high level in the vessel. The exact definition of Po­ As a result of the fight conflicting tential, in terms of energy spent against wage scales have often been adopted and the electrical forces, is given in the Les­ great hardship has resulted to many son on Electrostatics (Art. '237). electrical workers. It will be found convenient to refer to a positively electrified body as one elec­ BOOST A BIT! trified to a positive or high potential; while a negatively electrified body may be looked upon as one electrified to a Here, you discontented knocker, low or negative potential. And just as we Growlin' 'bout the country's ills take the level of the sea as a zero level Chloroform yer dismal talker, ' and measure the heights of mountain~ Take a course 0' liver pills. above it, and the depths of mines below Stop yer durn kl-o-tee howlin'! It, using the sea level as a ·convenient Chaw some sand an' git some grit Don't sit in the dumps a-growlin', ' ~int of reference for differences of lev­ el, so we take the potential of the earth's Jump the roost surface (for the surface of the earth is An' boost A bit! always e~ectrified to a certain degree) as zero potential, and use it as a con­ venient point of reference from which to Fall in while the band's a-playin', measure differences of electric potential. Ketch the step and march along; 'Stead 0' pessimistic brayin', Jine the halleluyer song! ELECTRICAL WORKERS HERE HAVE Drop yer hammer-do some rootin'­ BURIED THE HATCHET. Grab a horn, you cuss, an' split Every echo with yer tootin'! (Houston Press.) Jump the roost . All the Electrical Workers of Houston An' boost L ~re now unit~d. After a strife that has A bit! ~~t:~ four years, caused by the national -Exchange. 474 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER II Local Union Directory [~]

This Directory is compiled from the quarterly enue South and Fifth street. President, Harry reports furnished by local secretaries. If your Burton, 2933 42d avenue, south; Finan. local is not properly classified, it is because no cial Secretary, Andy Peterson, 100 Erie street, report, or an imperfect one, has been furnished. sOl"~heast; Recording Secretary, E. O. Smith, 3029 Local secretaries should promptly report any 43d avenue, south; Trcasurer~A. M. Aune, 4210 changes. 32d avenue, south. Locals are composed of branches of the trade, (a) No. 34, Peoria, I1l.-:lIeets hrst and third as per the following signs: Tuesday of each month at 123 S. Adams St. Ca) Mixed. (e) Cranemen. President, Geo. M. Akers, 1803 Lincoln Ave.' Cb) Linemen. Cf) Cable Splicers. Vice President, J. H. Holligan, 1802 Millma~ Cc) Inside. (g) Switch·board Men. St.; Financial Secretary, W. E. Priddy, 1409 (d) Trimmers. (h) Shopmen. .Missouri Ave.; Recording Secretary, W. W. Ci) Fixture Hangers. Wade, 205 Knoxville Ave.; Treasurer, Benj. Priddy, 208 S. Jefferson St. Cc) No.1, St. Louis, Mo.-Meets every Fri· (c) No. 38, Cleveland, Ohio.-Meets every day at 8 o'clock p. m. at 2801 Franklin Ave. Wednesday evening in Moose Hall, Superior President, J. M. Thompson, 6440 Maple Ave.; Ave. President, R. C. !;,caife, 850 E. 105th St.; Vice President, Jas. B. Price, 3316 Laclede Ave.; Vice President, W. J. Kavanaugh, 2070 W. 59th Financial Secretary, W. B. Smith, 4339 !taska St.; Financial Secretary, J. Hiltcheittel, 700 E. Ave.; Recording Secretary, A. Schading, 3332 99th St.; Recording Secretary, J. W. Hart, 502 Ohio Ave.; Treasurer, A. H. Loepker, 2608 St. Superior Bldg., Superior Ave.; Treasurer, A. D. Louis Ave. Shiland, 10809 Tacoma Ave. Cc) No.5, Pittsburg, Pa.~Meets every Thurs· (c) No. 41, Buffalo, N. Y.-Meets TlIesdy day night at Union Labor Temple, Washington night at 270 Broadway street. President, J. . and Webster ave. President, J. R. Williams, Morgan, 195 Marimack St.; Vice President, J. . 1307 Ivanhoe street; Vice-President, Chas. Gib­ Pellegrini, 328 Pine St.; Financial Secretary, G. son, Union Labor Temple; Financial Secretary, C. King, 179 Waverly St.; Recording Secretary, H. McDougal, 178 Ridenow avenue, West, Pitts· E. C. Fink, 19 Josie Place. burg, Pa.; Recording Secretary, W. A. Hill· Cd) No. 49, Chicago, Ill.-Meets first and grove, Union Labor Temple; Treasurer, Ju. E. third Tuesday each month at 63 West Randolph Brown, 3459 Ward street. street, Chicago, Ill. President, Wm. F. Trader, Cc) No.6, San Francisco, Calif.-Meets Build· 1930 North 44th Court; Vice President, Daniel ing Tr2.d~! Temn!et 200 Gue ••~.v street. Prest· Cahill, ns East Chestnut Sireet; Financiai See. dent, Geo. M. Fisk, 2417 Folsom street; Vice retary, Conrad Cornell, 3543 North 64th Court; President, R. G. Alexander, 3940 Arm}' street; Recording Secretary, Charles Kimmer, 1222 0;. Financial Secretary, P. A. Clifford, 80 Sycamore versy Parkway; Treasurer, Geo. Fahey, 2108 street; Recording Secretary, E. McKenZIe, 1415 Jackson Place. 48th avenue; Treasurer, W. H. Urney, 469 14th No. 50, Belleville, Ill.-Financial Secreta..,.-· street. L. Atwood, 116 West Main street. No. '8, Toledo, Ohio-Financial Secretary, G. Strub, 3118 Cambridge Ave. No. 52, Newark, New Jersey.-Meets eve..,. second and fourth Fridays of each month at 85 Cb) No.9, Chicago, Ill.-Meets Friday night Market street. President, Arthur Thomas, 43 at Musicians' Hall, 175 Washington street. Presi· Portland Place,' Montclair, N. J.; Financial dent, James Slattery, 2431 Monroe street; Finan· "iecretary, Edmund Beatty, 304 South 9th street, cial Secretary, J. W. Yount, 234 N. Clark street; Newark, N. J.; Recording Secretary, H. P. Recording Secr~tary, A. M. Parish, 2516 Monroe O'Hagan, 16 West End avenue, Newark. N. J.;. street; Treasurer, James Sharp, 153 S. Western avenue. Treasurer. Fred Rosseter. 27 Florence avenue, (a) No. 12, Pueblo, Colo.-President, W. Nel· Irvington, N. J. "on, Box 70; Vice· President, T. C. Burford, No. 60, San Antonio, Texas-Recording Secre· Box 70; Financial Secretary, L. C. Klinger, tary, C. F. Kaiser, 1025 V(. Salinas St. Box 70; Recording Secretary, R. O. O.born, (a) No. 61, Los Angeles, Cal.-Meets every Box 70; Treasurer, J. F. Campbell, Box 70. Tuesday night in Labor Temple, Hall 70S, 538 No. 20, New York, N. Y.-Meets every Mon· :lIaple Ave. President, J. R. Jackson, 308 East day night at 8 p. m., at 200 East 45th street. Edgeware road, Los Angeles, Cal.; Vice Presi· President, T. E. McCoy, 163 India street, Brook· dent, T. E. Lackyard, 2710 Winter St., Los Iyn; Financial Secreta"'" W. G. Thordsen, 605 Angeles, Cal.; Financial Secretary, L. E. M ul· East 138th street, New York City; Recording lins, 406 E. 42th St., Los Angeles, Cal.;· Re· Secretary, P. L. Reeves, 411 Chauncey street, o cording Secretary, 1264 W. Vernon Ave., Los Brooklyn; Treasurer, J. C. Fischer, 2322 Til· Angeles, Cal.; Treasurer, W. J. Moore, 2715 den avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn. Michigan Ave., Los Angeles. Cc) No. 22, Omaha, Nebr.-Meets Wednesday No. 64, YOlln!{stown, Ohio.-Prcsident, H. M.· (not holdinlt meetings at present) at Labor Vetter 200 West Myrtle avenue; Financial Sec' Temple, 1312 Douglas street. President, W. S. retary: L. Higley, R. R. No.1, Girard, Ohio; Donaldson, General Delivery, Lincoln, Nebr.; Recording Secretary, Earl Bergman, 523 Cro.. Vice President, Henry Miller, 2821 North 24th man avenue. street; Financial Secretary, J. Gibb, 524 South No. 66, Houston, Tex.-Financial Secr,etary, 41st street: Recording Secretary, Oscar Wm. A. V. Potter, 1210 Smith St. Peterson, 2501 South 20th avenue; Treasurer, Cc) No. 68, Denver, Colo.-:\Ieets every Mon· Geo. Otenburger, 927 South 24th street. day at 8 p. m. in Room 40, 1627 Lawrence St. Ca) No. 23, St. Paul, Minn.-Meets first and President, C. J. Williamson, Box 188, Englewood; third Monday at .Federation Hall, Third and Vice President, C. B. Noxon, 4902 W. 34th Wabasha Sts. PreSIdent, S. W. Bush, 302 Charles Ave.; Financial Secretary, C. F . .oliver, 3012 St.; Vice President, C. S. Drake, 94 W. Cook :lIarion St.; Recording Secretary, C. A. Bristow, St.; Financial Secretary, R. W. Holmes, 377 749 S. Charleson St.. ; Treasurer, R. H. Hamel. Aurora Ave.; Recording Secretary, Wm. F. No. 69, Dallas, Tex.-President, W. P. NJ.. Schoeneman, III Goff Ave., W. St. Paul; Treas· derson, 1509 llryan street; Financial Secreta..,., urer, Nelson Conoryer, 116 W. Cook St. Oscar Schon, 1508 Annex avenue; Recording Sec­ Cb) No. 24, Minneapolis, Minn.-Meets second retary, R. Luh, Box 292; Treasurer, L. B. Ir· and fourth· Tuesdays at Richmond Hall, 3rd ay· win, Gen. Del. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 475

78 Atlanta, Ga.-Meets Thu.rsday at (a) No. 108, Tampa, Fla.-Meets Friday night (c) N,o. w'gwam Central Ave. PresIdent, C. In EngineH: J K;aerner, 510 Fourtb avenue, Pon.­ Prospect street, Cleveland, Ohio. :~~th, 'Va:; Treasurer, R. A. Smith, Annistead (c) No. 116, Ft. Worth, Texas-Meets Wed· Bridge Road, Norfolk, Va. nesday night at Labor Temple, Throckmorton .No. 82, Pittsfield, ~lass.-Meets every Satur- St. President, J. A. Cone, care Metropolitan day afternoon. . Hotel; Vice President, B. C. Kettig, 2506 Azle (h) No. 85, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets .third St.; Financial Secretary, H. S. Broiles, 1901 Friday in month at 240 State street. Presld~nt, Sixth Ave., North Ft. Worth; Recording Secre· W. A. Weilgauer ~30. N. Ferry street; V,ce­ tary, A. W. Pierce, 1207 S. Travis St. President, W. B. WlIkle, Bellevue, Schenectady: (a) No. 117, Elgin, Ill.-Meets first and third Financial Secretary, C. V. Platto, 130 Front Thursday nights in Trades Council Hall, 168 street; Recording Secretary, F. Schunick, 43 Chicago street. President, L. B. Corson, 565 Robinson street, Schenectady; Treasurer, A. J. Walnut avenue; Vice·President, G. E. Powell, Lonusbury, 1020 De\arnont avenue, SCbenectadf' I1Iinois Park, R. R. No.3; Financial Secretary, (c) No. 86, Rochester, N. Y.-President, . W. A. Stevenson, 721 Center street; Recording Keefe 3 Martin street; Financial Secretary, • Secretary, G. W. Hilton, 252 Orange street; H Walls, 19 Howell avenue; Recording Secre· Treasurer, A. B. Adams, 273 S, Channing street. tan., M. Farren, 659 North street; Treasurer, (h) No. 119, Rochester, N. Y.-Meet every B. Pitt, 125 Bloss street. other Wednesday at 95 Main street. President, (a) No. 96, Worcester, Mass.-Meets second J. Rife, 40 Weldon street; Vice· President, D. E. and fourth Mondays at 419 Main street in Elec­ Drew, 139 Tremont street; Financial Secretary, trical Workers' Han. E. B. 1st and 3rd. T. Douglas, 41 Council street; Recording Secre' " President, George H. Miller, P. O. Box tary, F. Chesterloo, 236 Childs street; Treasurer. 485 Worcester, Mass.; 1st Vice· President, A. F. F. Douglas, 41 Council. White ·155 Lincoln street; 2d Vice. President, No. 121, Augusta, Ga.-Financial Secretary, C. Georg~ Evans, 4 Grafton street place; Financial A. Howell, 311 East Boundry Ave. Secretary, Harrie S. Goodwin, 93 Cutler street; (c) No. 124, Kansas City, Mo.-Meets Tues­ Recording Secretary, Thomas L. Carney, 4 Me· day night in Labor Temple, 1402' Woodland Connick court; Treasurer t Samuel A. Strout, avenue. President, A. J. WlDnie, 3420 Thompson 419 Main street. avenue; Financial Secretary, C. F. Drollinger, (c) No. 98, Philadelphia, Pa.-Meets Tues· Labor Temple, 1402 Woodland avenue; Recordin" day in Lewer's Han, 9th street and Spring Gar· Secretary,E. B. Peelle, 1315 Bales avenue; den. President, James B. Sturgeon, 229 S. Itban Treasurer, R. B. Smith, 4440 Fairmont street. street; Vice· President, Geo. Daniels; Financial No. 133, Middletown, N. Y.-Financial Secre· Secretary, John T. Burrows, 2822 Mercer street; tary, Arthur Loder, 84 California avenue. Recording Secretary, Arthur Laird, 2507 W. Cor. No. 133, Middletown, N. Y.-Financial Secre· ~. less street; Treasurer, Frank P. Turner, 2345 S. tary, Arthur Loder, 84 California Ave. Carlisle street. (c) No. 134, Chicago, I11.-Meets Thursday No. 100, Fresno, Cal.-President, T. C. night at 500 South State street. President, Vickers, box 309; Vice· President, F. S. Thomas, Dan F. Cleary, 500 South State street; Vice­ box 309; Financial Secretary, Geo. Glass, box President, Marshal Paulsen, 500 South State 309; Recording Secretary, B. Greenwood, box street; Financial Secretary, R. A. Shields, 500 309; Treasurer. H. Courtright, box 309. South State street; Recording Secretary, G. A. ,- (c) No. 102, Paterson, New Jersey-Meets Johnson, 500 South State street; Treasurer, A. every Thursday night in Labor. Institute build· A. Hall, 500 South State street. ing, 359 Van· Houten street. President, John (a) No. 135, LaCrosse, Wis.-Meets first and M. Webster, 785 East 18th street; Vice.Presi. third Tuesday nights in Egal Hall at 417 Jay dent, John E. O'Connor, 626 East 23d street; street. PreSIdent, Theo E. Strauss, 526 N ortb Financial ?ecretary, AI~a Bennett, _552 Lexington 9th street; Vice· President, F. Wiggert, 613 North avenue, Chfton; Recording Secretary, Robert Sig. 9th street; Financial Secretary, A. G. Buchman, ler, 1.15 Fair Hree~; Williain 1H. Cross. 162 1020 Jackson street; Recording Secretary, Aug. LakeView avenue, Cri'ton. ,- Freenark. 1247 LaCrosse street; Treasurer, H. (c) No. 103, Boston, Mass.-Meets Wednes. Seiler, 227 Winnebago street. day nights at Wells' Memorial at 987 ---Wash. (c) No. 136, Binningham, Ala.-Meets every ington street. President, J as. Nichols lOver. Friday night over Stag saloon, 2007 Y. 3 rd avo look avenue, Revere; Vice· President, J. 'M. Ralph enue. President. W. C. Slaughter, box 205, Hotel Waterston, Bullfinch street;· Financial Birmingham, Ala.; Vice·President, J. G. Card· Secretary, F. L. Kelly, 211 M street South well, box 205 Binningham, Ala.; Financial Sec. Bost?n; Recording Secretary, E. L. D~nnis, 65 retary, A. J. Taunton, 8341 Underwood avenue, Wel1lngton Road, Dorchester; Treasurer, Theo East Lake; Recording Secretary, F. C. Powell Gould, 17 Wigglesworth street, Rox. box 205, Birmingham, Ala.; Treasurer, A. H: (b) No. 104, Boston, Mass.-Meets Wednes­ Hunt, box 2115 Binningham, Ala. day at 987 Washington street, Boston. Presi­ (a) No. 140, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets first dent, M. Birmingham, 2 Wighton street, Bright. and third Wednesday at 8 p. m. at I. B. E. W. on; Vice·President, B. M. Dionne, 307 Webster Han, 246 State St. President, John Boldman; avenue, Cambridge; Financial Secretary. J. M. Vice President, George Greaton; Financial Secre­ [ofcEwan, 985 Washington street: Record. tary, Grove Armin, 328 Germania Ave.; Re­ Ing Secretary Wm. Warren, 991 Watertown cording Secretary, Jas. Rourke, Box 522; Treas· Itreet, West Newton; Treasurer, W. D. Hub. urer, Wm. Campbel1. i bard, 19 Temple street, Boston. (c) No. 141, Wheeling. W. Va.-Meets Fri. Sub. 104, Boston, Mass.-President, Annie E, day .night at Waldorf Building, Market street. M.alloy, 10.1 Cooper street, E. Boston, Mass.; PreSident, W. B. Brooks, Bellaire, Ohio; Vice. V,ce PresIdent, Mary Meagher, 42 Highland President, A. L. Sarver, North Market atreet, ~ve., Hyde Park, Mass.; Financial Secretary, Wheeling, W. Va.; Financial Secretary, Wm. G. . el.n~ Godain, 122 Wrentham St., Dorchester, Lynn, 103 N. Huron Itreet, Wheeling, W. Va.; , Ma~s., Recording Se~retary, Mary Maloney, 8 Recording Secretary, L. E. Feldman, Martin's :. WMatte St., Roxbury, Mass.; Treasurer, Annie Ferry, Ohio; Treasurer, H. E. Kraeuter, Indi. : oran, 12 Rossmore Rd., Jamaica Plains, Mass. ana avenue, Wheeling,W. Va. l '. - 476 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

No. 142, Boston, Mass.-Financial Secretary, and third Tues~ay nights at ~. L. U. Hall, Pat A. Henins, 117 N. Brookline avenue. ton Ave. PresIdent,). C. G~les, 12 Church St· (c) No. 146, Decatur, Il1.-President, J. C. AshevIlle, N. C.; VIce PresIdent, C. M W·, Adams, 523 E. Seafland Ave.; Vice President, ren, 12 Church St., Asheville, N. c.; Ffnanct~i A. F. Bleakeney, 1908 N. Edward; Financial Sec· S:cretary, C. R.. Cook, 57 Church St., Asheville, retary, Wm. H. Keck, 728 E. Wood; Recording ~. C.; Recordtng. Secretary, W. J. Atwell, 12 Secretary, C. W. Brooks, 112 Colombia Dldg.; Church St., AshevIlle, N. c.; Treasurer, R E Treasurer, H. Alban, 432 E. Main. Mathews, 34 Ashela.nd Ave:, Ashe~ille, N: c" (a) No. 149, Aurora, I1l.-Meets second and No. 246, Steube,:,vllle, C?hlo-Presldent, D. c· fourth Tuesdar in Trades Assembly Hall, on the Hartford, SteubenvIlle. OhIo. . Island. PresIdent, Norbert Berve, 283 Wood· (h) No. 247, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets first Jawn avenue; Vice-President, C. Townsend. 69 and third Thursday night of each month at 246 S. Lincoln avenue; Financial Secretary, J. L. State street. President, M. J. Schuller, 474 Quirin, 508 Ogden avenue; Recording Secretary, Hulett street, Schenectady, N. Y.; Vice Presi. R. J. Gilmore, 470 Main street: Treasurer, Nick dent, A. Tanguay, 135 3d street, Scotia, N. Y.. Wilmis, 510 Claim street. Financial Secretary, Jas. H. Cameron, 7 Stat~ ,,"0. 152, Hillshoro, Ill.-President, F. W, .treet; Recording Secretary, Robert A. Jones Robertson; Vice President. 1\1. V. Greene; Finan­ 1 Morrison Place, P. O. box 696: Treasurer, C: cial Secretary, E. Clow; Recording Secretary, R. L. Hand, 35 Turner avenue. E. Suits: Treasurer, C. A. Forehand. (h) No. 247, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets first (c) No. -164, Jersey City, N. J.-Meets Fri· and third Thursdays of each month at 246 State day ni![ht at 464 Hoboken avenue. President St. President, M. J. Schultes, 474 Hulett St. E. N. Fraleigh, 27 Virginia avenue, J. C.: Vice: Schenectady, N. Y.; Vice President, A. Sager, 40j President, H. Feibel, 522 Blum street Union Summit Ave., Schenectady, N. Y.; Financial Sec. Hill; Financial Secretary, M. Driscoll, 521 J er· retary, Jas. H. Cameron, 7 State St.; Recording sey Ave., J. C.: Recording Secretary, Ceo. Secretary, R. A. Jones, Box 696: Treasurer, C. Knoop, 151 Hopkins avenue, J. C.: Treasurer. E L. Hand, 35 Turner Ave. Cook, 7A Palisade avenue, West Hoboken. . No. 168. Kankakee, Ill.-President, Frank (c) No. 254, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets Schulze, 96 West Court St.; Vice President, fourth Tuesday night in each month at Elec. George Francourse, 11 0 Myrtle Ave.; John Beir· trical Workers' Hall, 247 State street. President man, 204 River St.: Recording Secretary, W. C. G. Smith, 710 Hamilton street: Vice Presiden~ I. Heuck, 524 Hamilton street; Financial Sec>­ E,'tgIFn~h' A~!~ Rosewood Ave.; Henry Menitz, retary, Robt. J. Lyons, 913 Lincoln avenue: Re· ~a) l'fo. 1!7, Jacksonville, Fla.-Meets every cording Secretary, M. T. Northup, 611 South Friday mght In Labor Temple, Bay and Liberty aven,.e: Treasurer, E. Seeley, 1507 Albany street. St.s. President, Wm. Norton, W. Union St.; (a) No. 255, Ashland, Wis.-Meets second V!ce ~resldent, W. E. Latta, 421 Main St.; Wednesday of every month at Pabst Hall, 2nrl Ftnanclal Secretary, S. B. Kitchen, lOll East street W. President, W. E. Mitchell, 510 Ashley St.; Recording Secretary, J. L. Beverly, Prentice avenue, East; Vice·President, LOld 18 E. Adams St.: Treasurer, D. C. Maxwell, 421 Hinchlof, 613 Prentice avenue, East: FinancIal Main St. S~c1"ewy; Paul H:!lba, Jr., 602 Prentice ayenu~, (a) No. i84, Galesburg, Ill.-Meets first and East: RecordiI\g Secretary, S. J. Talaska, R. F. third Mondays of each month at Old Elks' Hall D. No.1: Treasurer, Paul Hoba. Jr.• 602 Pren· 118 Main St. President, R. O. Farmer, 162 N: tice avenue. East. Chambers; Vice President, H. B. Armes, 110 (c) No. 259, Beverly, Mass.-Meets second Garfield; Financial Secretary. G. E. Springer, 273 and fourth Wednesday nights at Webber Blk., Garfield Ave.; Recording Secretary, C. L. Mc· Cabot street. President, Ralph Porter, Lowett Cullock, 62 W. Losey St.: Treasurer, W. C. Gor· street, Beverly, Mass.; Vice President, Eugene don, 247 E. Ferris. Dawson Cabot street, Beverly, M3IIs.; Financial . ~ Ca) No. 187, Oshkosh, Wis.-Meets first and SecretaD-, Jas. A. Robinson, 73 Highland avenue 1 third Tuesday at Trades & Lahor Hall, Main Salem, Mass.; Recording Secretary, Charles M~· street. President, Ray Evanson, 17 Oxford street: Queeney, Wenham, Mass.; Treasurer, \\'illiam Vice-President, Emil Prong, 58 Car street; Fi· McQueeney, Wenham, Mass. nancial Secretary, Patrick Joy, 56 Wis avenue; No. 262, Plainfield, N. J.-Financial Secretary, Recording Secretary, Hugh Grey, 434 Bowen Chas. Ryder, 905 South 2d street. street: Treasurer, Frank Meyers, 39 School (e) No. 267, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets first. street. and third Saturday nights of each month at 246 ' (a) No. 189, Quincy, Mass.-Meets Iirst Mon­ State street, Schenectadl'o N. Y. President, B. day in every month at Johnson Bldg., room 24, Cawley, 87 Eleventh street, Schenectady, N. Y.: Hancock street. President, Ch.as. W. Hanscom, Vice-'President, W. J. Lindsey, 104 Broadway st., 124 Upland Road, Quincy, Mass.: Vice Presi­ Schenectady, N. Y.; Financial Secretary, R. W. dent, William VonCollen, Billings Road Quincy, Hughes, 51 Perry street, Schenectady, N. Y.; Mass.: Financial Secretary, Frank Lints, 19. Recording Secretary, H. E. Opdyeke, 611 Lenox Washington street: Recording Secreta.,; Theo­ Road, Schenectady, N. Y.; Treasurer, Herbert dore S. Andrews, 153 Whitwell street, Quincy, DeGroat, 401 Francis avenue, Schenectady, N. Y. Mass.: Treasurer, John E. Lynch, 40 Upland (c) No. 268, Newport, R. I.-Meets first and Road, Quincy Mass. third Thursday nights of each month at Thames (h) No. 190, Newark, N. J.-Meets first and street. President, W. Powers, II Kilburn third Thursdays of the month at Grodel Bldg. Court: Financial Secretary, G. B. Reynolds, 280 Plane street. President, Thomas Portch, 62 32 West Newport avenue: Recording Secretary, Hamburg Place: Vice· President, Herman Grat, F. C. Gumet!. 70 3d street: Treasurer. E. W. 322 14th avenue: Financial Secretary, F. A. Gladding. 2 Coddington street. Conery, 13 Monmouth street; Recording Secre­ (h) No. 270, New York, N. Y.-Meets first tary, Wm. Varley, 261 Clifton avenue: Treas­ and third Tuesday at Beethoven Hall, 210 East urer, M. C. Wright, 1011 Broad street. 5th street. President, C. Paulson, 107 'Stuben (c) No. 212, Cincinnati, O.-Meets every street, Brooklyn, N. Y.: Vice· President, J. Wednesday night at 1313 Vine street. Presi. Hoffman. 1018 East 156th street, New York dent, John McFadden, 1313 Vine street: Vice City: Financial Secretary, F. Man, 999 Free· President, Harry Richter, 1313 Vine street; man street, Bronx, New York City; Recording Financial Secretary, Arthur Liebemood, 14 Secretary, R. Goetchins, SO. 11th street, Brook· Mitchell Place: Recording Secretary, Ernst Si. Iyn, N. Y.; Treasurer, C. Greene. 40 Wash· monton, 1313 Vine street: Treasurer, AI. Behr­ ington street. New Rochelle. N. Y. man, 1313 Vine street. (a) No. 277. Kingston. N. Y.-Meets second (a) No. 233, Colorado Springs, Colo.-Meets and fourth Thursday; at No. 10 Grand streel. Thursday night at A. O. H. hall, South Tejon President, Jas. Morris, 14. Downs street: Fi· street. President, Frank Manley, 130 East riancial Secretary, H. H. Buckbee, 10 Grand Huerfano; Vice President, Mr. Craighead, 322 street; Recording Secretary, Roswell Coles, 76 East St. Vrain: Financial Secretary, D. J. EI· Maiden Lane, Treasurer, Asa Budington, 31 kins, 518 North Spruce street; Recording Sec­ Prince street. retary, T.· P. Hendrickson, 323 South Cascade. , (a) No. Z82, Chicago, I11.-Meets second and Treasurer, J. W. Smith, care Elks club. Fourth Monday nights at 4351 South Halsted (c) No. 238, Ashevi11e, N. C.-Meets first street. President, 0, J~. __ Lutman...3U8.J.qdiana J THE ELECTRICA!-- WORKER 477

Busam, Fontaine Ferry Park; Financial Secre· . PrCllident, V. C. Vance, 6632 .Ste­ (a) No. 361, Tonopah, Nev.-Meets second and avenue; V.ce. Financial Sec~etary, R. E. D.eb!. wart avenue, t. Recordine Secretary, W. J. tary, Ernest L. Baxter, 2919 Montgomery avo 350 West 63d sM":UJ. Loomas street; Treasurer, en~e; Recording Secretary, G. E. Blakely, 2106 O'Leary, 5532 6632 Stewart avenue. Wdson street; Treasurer, H. F. Kerweese, 200 II. C. Vance:i Minneapolis, Minn.-Meets second Eaat Gray. (c) No. 29 Monday at No. 16 5tb street So. No. 377, Lynn, Mass.-Meets second and and fourth A Gansmoe, 2426, 4th avenue, fourth Monday nights at 76 Monroe street. Pres. president, IIpresi'dent, J. B. Lein, 202 North 7th ident, David Duval, 54 Hamilton avenue; Vice south; V •.ce· 'al Secretary, E. M. Stanchfield, PreSIdent, E. P. Dow, 281 Boston street· Finan. street; F.nanc\ south. Recording Secretary, F. cial Se.cretary, R. E. Roberts, 15 Abo~ Place: 419 10th s~30e 22d av~u", North; Treasurer, .E. Recordmg Secretary, John B. Pettipass, 15 Friend E. MIJler, b h 4133 Blaisdel1 av~ue, M.n. Street Place; Treasurer, Ralph Melzard, Swamps. e. Quacke~ US , cott, Mass. neapolis, M'Ft Wayne, Ind.-Financial Secret~ry, (i) No. 381, Chicago, I11.-Meets second and No. 305, Id . 437 Greenlawn avenue; Recordmg fourth Wednesday of each month at 10 South J. E. Arn0r,{' Braun 212 W. 4th sfreet. Clark street. President, Frank Malley 1655 Secretar~, 306 Albuquerque, N. Mexico-Meets Millard avenue; Vicc·President, Theo. Bedgood, (a) NOd f ':rth Friday nights at !16Y. West 1416 West A.vers avenue: Financial Secretary, second an 0 President T. O. Drummond, Walter. F. FItzgerald, 1144 West 15th street; Central ~vAune~. Financial Secretary, Earl Gray, Recordmg' Secrdary, C. M. HalJ. 1941 Cornelia 310 SoutJliarn's a~enue; Recording Secretary, Dan ave?ue; . Treasurer, \Vm. Rombach. 200 North lOIS fo's South Broadway; Treasurer, J. Sena, Cahfornla avenue. Dry, h First street. (c) No. 384, Muskogee, Okla.-Meets every 523. SoW 319 pittsburg, Penn.-Meets first Tuesday night a~ room 201·2 Scales Bldg., South (.) h' dO'Thur;day niehts at 411 Wood street, 2d street. PreSIdent, G. S. Felt, 2005 Denison' an.d t If Pa President, Geo. E. Wheeler, No. Vice President, I. B. Brown, 444 North Chern: Plttsb~f~nd ;treet; Vice·President, C. C. Freed· kee; Financial Secretary, W. O. Pitchford Surety 10 Fr 4!1 Wood street; Financial Secretary, J. Bldg.: Recording Secretary, W. L. McClu~e, 1205 man nley 303 Lily avenue; Recordine Secre· Dorchester: Treasurer, Clifford Anderson City F. Ma J: Siomer, 225 .Lothrop street; Treas· Hill ' tary, J:J F: Manley 303 LIly avenue. (a) No. 388, Palestine, Tex.-Meets first Sat· urer. . N;" 328, 'Oswel{o, N. Y.-Meets first urday night of each month over Royal National ~a) third l'riday nights at Labor Hal1, Bank, Spring street. President, O. T. Adams, 'tV t First street. President, J no. S. Joyce, 26 514 Casonica street: Financial Secretary, J. T. We:t 3d street; Vice·President, E. C. Bough, 40 Brown, 15 Queen street; Recording Secretary, ~t Albany; Financial Secretary, Fra~ y/. C. M. Parkhill, Louisana street: Treasurer, C. G lIagher 79 East Eighth street; Recordmg Sec· F. Pittman, General Delivery. ~ry Fred Manner, 22 Varick street; Treas· (f) No. 396, Boston, Mass.-Meets first and re 'Tho .. lloulihan, East Bridge street. third Wednesdays at 8 p. m. at 987 Washington urN~. 336, Dayton, Ohio.-Meets every Mondar St. President, A. J. McCarron, 70 Wenham St., at Machinist lIal1. 38 East 3rd street. ~re." Forest Hills; Vice President, James Cooper, dent, Paul F. S~lts, Germant!,w.n and Chfton Medford; Fnian.cial ·Sec,retary, J~. E. Fitz. avenue; Vice·Preslde.nt, Ray SmIth, 101 ~ar· gerald, 56 Freeport St., Dorchester; Recording bine avenue; Financ.al Secr~tary, H. J. Tohlas, Secretary, Geo. M. Loen, 88 W. Con tan St., 22 Bradford street; Recordmg Secretary, Dean Boston; Treasurer, Walter R. Sawyer, 50 Green· F. Bowslar. 405 South Main street; Treasurer, wood St., Dorchester. II J Tobias. 22 Bradford street. (a) No. 402, Port Chester, N. Y.-Meets sec· '(c)' No. 340, Sacramento, Cal.-Meds sec· ond and fourth Wednesday nights at Remsen ond and fourth Friday nights at Labor Temple, Bldg., 111 Adee street. President, Vincent Dey­ 8th and I streets. President, 1-. M. Clausen, ~r, 15 Oak Ridge street, Greenwich, Conn.; 1421 25th street; Vice-President, E. G. Hearst, Financial Secretary, ThOl. Monahan, general de· 1530 I street; Financial Secretary, E. N. Fish, livery; Recording Secretary, Henry M. Ritch, 1416 12th street; Recording Secretary, R. H. Sherwood Place, Greenwich, Conn. Hunter, Bismarck Hotel; Treasurer, 1-. T. (i) No. 404, San Francisco, Cal.-Meets second Weber, 2724 J street. and fourth Monday nights at Building Trades (a) No. 349, Miami, Fla.-First and Temple, 14th and Guerrero. President, C. H. third Tuesday nights at Central Union HaJl, 8th McConaughy, 145 Jersey street; Vice· President, and Ave. D. Presi!ient, E .. W. Quillen,.. care J. W. McGrath, 414 Waller street; Financial General Delivery; V,ce PreSIdent, Roy Wdhams, Secretary, H. F. Zecher. 1908 Essex street, 400 Ave. D; Financial Secretary, W. ~. Akll, BeTkley; Recording Secretary, J. P. Boyd, 115 A. box 734' Recording Secretary, W. M. Fnsh, care Duboce avenue; -Treasurer, H. - Gardiner, 1232 General 'Delivery; Treasurer, W. M. Frish, care 33d avenue, Oakland, Cal. General Delivery. (i) No. 419, New York, N. Y.-Meets first (g) No. 355, Ft. Worth, Texas-Meeta Sundays and third Friday in Comerford Hall, 301 8th at 10 a. m. in Labor Temple. President, W. S. Ave. President, J. P. Willets, 264 York St., Turnpaugh, Healy Theatre; Vice President, D. Tersey City, N. J.; Vice Presid!,nt, Geo. Graf, B. Dodd, Phillips Theatre; Financial Secretary, 55 Blucker St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Financial Sec· ,:.' J os. H. M. SmIth, 203 y. Main street, Room 6; retary, J. Keating, 234 9th Ave'., New York City; Recording Secretary, Ernest Royer, 214. W. Bluff Recording Secretary, J. W. Smith, 1340 St. Marks' street; Treasurer, S. A. Austin, Venice Theatre. Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Treasurer, H. F. Cook, (a) No. 358, Perth Amboy, N. J.-Meets· Z17 Willis Ave., Boro. Bronx, New York City. second and fourth Fridays at Union Hall. 146 (c) No. 427, Springfield, I11.-Meeta second Smith street. President, Norris M. Terwilliger, and fourth Fridays at 1 06 ~ S. 6th street. Presi· 86 Bayard street, New Brunswick, N. J.; Vice· dent, A. L. Scott, 710 S~ Sprine street; Vice· President, Thos. Toolin, 212 Madison avenue; PrCllident, J. L. Gleason, 830 S. Douglas ave· Financ.ial Secretary, Edward Moran, Avenel, N. nue; Financial Secretary, Chas. A. Meador, 839 J.; Recording Secretary, Rudolph L. Schuck, S. W. Grand avenue; Recording Secretary, 558 Amboy avenue; Treasurer, John K. Flomer· Homer Herrin; Treasurer, T. C. Bishop, 107 W. lelt, 50 Hazlewood avenue, Rahway, N. J. Monroe street. lourth Fridays at Musicians' Hall, St. Patrick's (a) No. 430, Racine, Wis.-Meets second and street. President, M. M. Buckley, Box 293; Vice fourth Wednesdays in Hall Building, Main and President, G. H. White, Box 1012; Financial Sec· 4th streets. President, George A. Baldwin, 630 retary, M. S. Evans, Box 1012; Recording Secre· Mead street; Vice· President, Ed Schenkenberg, tary, Walter Ross, Box 908; Treasurer, G. H. 1239 Superior street; Financial Secretary, R. M. White, Box 1012. Hogbin, 623 Lake avenue; Recording Secretary, ~C) No. 369, Louisville, Ky.-Meets every O. F. Rush, 1539 Quincy ave"ue; Treasurer, FrIday night at Germania HalJ, f07 West Jef· Nels J. Rasmussen, 2823 16th street. ferson street. President, Harry A. Sigmier, No. 442. Schenectady, N. Y.-President, Jas. 1733 Frankfort avenue: Vice President, Wm. J. McCormack, 131 South Church street; Vice· 478 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

President, ChaB. Kaveney, 743 Nott street; Avenue 0: Treasurer, Chris Olsen, 1527 A Financial Secretary, K. Bruiniers, 809 Lincoln nue C. Ye- avenue; Recording Secretary, John Wickham, (a) No. 528, Milwaukee, Wis.-Meets sec 129 Prospect street: Treasurer, Frank More· and fourth Friday nights each month at 318 S;>.nd house, R. F. D. No.7, Aplano. street, (third Boor) Milwaukee, Wis. Presid te (a) No. 444, Carlinville, I11.-Meets first Paul H. Behne, 668 37th street, Milwaukee W"!lt, and third Tuesday at Federation Hall, South V.ice.P~esident, Guy Phelps, 1310 Holton Itrel&: side square. President, J. K. Towey, Carlin· Flnanc.al Secretary, James Hagerman 619 Li et, ville, III.: Vice· President, W. E. Bown, Carlin· street. Milwaukee, Wis.; Recording' Seeretanua ville, III.; Finane';al S.-cretary, H. Bowyer, Car­ Ar.nold Radtke, 851 67th avenue, West A1[7' linville, III.; Recording Secretary, Chas. Fraser, W.s. IS, Carlinville. III.; Treasurer. Robt. Percy, Car· (c) No. 534, New York, N. Y.-Meets eve linville. Ill. Thursday at Labor Temple, 247 E. 84th sry (a) No. 470, Haverhill, Mass.-Meets second President, 'Chas. Reed, 50 East 59th St. V. t. and f9urth Mondays at present, in Federation President, Jos. Lawler, 50 E. 59th St.; Fi~ancici' Hall, 2 Gilman place. President, Wm. Bradley. Secretary, W. A. Hogan, 50 E. 59th St. Ra 72 Merrimack street; Vice· President, F. L. Avilla cording Secretary, G. W. Whitford, 50 i.' 59th 119 Webster street: Financial Secretary, R. A. St.; Treasurer. Eugene Roth, 50 E. 59th St Heath, 44 Enman street; Recording Secretary, (c) No. 536). Schenecta~y, N. Y.-Meets first A. C. Crowell, 278 Main street; Treasurer, L. W. and second :::.aturday n.ghts at 246 Stat Leavitt, 6 Peabody street. street. President, William Blanchard 10 No. 471, Millencocket, Me.-Financial Secre· Odell street; Vice President, A. Breck 222 tary, W. J. Boddy, Millinocket, Me. Van Vranking avenue; Financial Secretary' T (a) No. 474, Memphis, Tenn.-Meets Thurs· Rourke, 359 Carrie street, Schenectady, N: Y : day every week at Italian Hall, South Second Recording Secretary, J. Reichtmyer, R. F. D. 6: St. President, Tate Dawkins, 682 Cox Ave.; Alban)" Road, Schenectady, N. Y.: Treasurer Vice President, W. H. Smith, 2053 Union Ave.; L. McIntash, 340 Carrie street. ' Financial Secretary, J. C. S. Lowery, 545 Edge· (i) No. 541, Minneapolis, Minn.-Meets see. wood Ave.; Recording Secretary, R. W. Daw· ond and fourth Tuesdays in each month in Fede­ kins, 812 Vance Ave.; Treasurer, J. E. S. Low· ration Hall, 104 Washington avenue, south ery, 545 Edgewood Ave. President, H. H. 'Skeldon, 4808 28th avenue; (c) No. 481, Indianapolis, Ind.-Meets each south; Vice· President, Tom ~yan, care M. J Wednesday night at 31 Old Board Trade, Ken· O'Neil; Financial Secretary. If. O. Koester, 4504 tucky and Maryland streets. President, W. L. 30th avenue, south; Recording Secretary, Grover Webster, 25 Old Board of Trade; Vice· President, Coyne, 928 Henepin avenue; Treasurer, H. E. Chas. Lutz, 25 Old Board of Trade: Financial Gable, 3416 Stevens avenue, south. Secretary, H. E. Courtot, 25 Old Board of Trade (0 No. 565, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets sec. Bldg.: Recording Secretary, Ernest Nessler, ond Monday of each month at Donahue Bldg. On Room 25 Old Board of Trade Bldg.; Treasurer, State St. President, William Sheffel, 211 H~rri. R. N. Harvey, 25 Old Board of Trade Bldg. son Ave.; Vice President, Fred Specken, 540. (c) No. 494, Milwaukee, Wis.-Meets every Schenectady St.; Financial Secretary, Edwin H. Thursday at J ung's Hall, 3rd and Sherman Sts. !eester•. 91,9 Campbel! i\ve.; Rec~rding Secretary, President .. W. T. Gute, 1072 6th St.; Vice Presi· edward Hayes, 1U ~'uller St.; 'lreasurer, W. P dent, W. Wilke, 715 41st St.; Financial Secre· Mooney, 5 Third St. . tary, J. McCarthy, 619 Otjen St.; Recording Sec· (h) No. Sub.·565, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets retary, P. A. Schroeder, 1140 N. Pierce St.; every second Monday at 246 State street. Sche. rreasurer, H. Faber, 1015 33rd St. nectady. President, Mae Smith, 917 Lincoln aven. (a) No. SOl, Yonkers, N. Y.-Meets first ue, Schenectady: Vice President, Josephine Weld. and third Friday of each month. executive hoard on, 35 Villa Road, Schenectady; Financial Secre. every Thursday at Wiggins Hall, North Broad­ tary, Alice M. Wright, 717 Vale street, Schenec. way. President, William Parslow, Oi't street. tady; Treasurer, W. P. Mooney. No. 5 3rd Yonkers; Vice-President, Wm. Nolan, Carlisle strut. Schenectady. Place. Yonkers; Financial Secretary, F. F. (c) No. 581, Morristown, N. J.-Meets first· Crowley, 222 Buena Vista avenue, Yonkers; and third Monday of each month at Bell Build· Recording Secretary, John E. Hillman, 136 ing, Park Place. President, Joseph V. Collins, 127 Mor~ngside avenue, Yonkers; Treasurer, C. F. Washington street; Vice' President, Edward McInerney, 129 Yonkers avenue, Yonkers. Wrill'ht, 13 Phoenix avenue; Financial Secretary, , (i) No. 503, Boston, Mass.-Meets second J. H. Watson, Glenbrook Place, Morris Plains, N. and fourth Mondays of month in Wells' Me. J.; Recording Secretary, Clarence Smith, 4 Cherry morial Building,_ 9117 Washinltton street. Presi· street; Treasurer, J. H.' Watson, Morris Plains; dent, Francis Heedy, 5 Manon street, Charles· N. J. town: Vice· President, L. Fell, 40 Central avenue, (a) No. 588, Lowell, Mass.-Meets first and Everett, Mass.; Financial Secretary, Frank Fell, third Fridays of the month at Carpenters' HaIJ, 771 Somerville avenue, Somerville; Recording near Merrimac St. President, Chester McDon· Secretary, Karle Miethke, Beacon Chambers, Bos· old, 294 High St.; Vice President, James Myolt, ton; Treasurer, Jas. Harrigan, 612 Columbus 74 Ludlam St.; Financial Secretary, Hector avenue, Boston. Parthanias, 91 Aiken St.; Recording Secretary, No. 506, Chicago Heights, III.-Meets first and Fred Roby, 59 'Ware St.; Treasurer, Henry third Monday nights at. Trades and Labor Hall, Quimby, 52 Willow St. Chicago Road. President, Walter Nibl"ck. Vin· (c) No. 591, Stockton, Cal.-Meets Monday cennes avenue; Vice-President. Sam Patterson night in B. T. C. Hall, 19 N. Hunter street. East 23rd street; Financial Secretary, Thos. F: President, L. E. Hale, 545 W. Park street; Vice· Ryan, 48 West 21st street; Recording Secretary, President, C. J. Franke, 1209 E. Oak street; Otto Koehler, Euclid avenue: Treasllrer, Frank Financial Secretary, W. R Gregory, 1017 S. Martin, . Centre avenue. . Sutter; Recording Secretary, E. C. Thomas, 1337 (c) . No. 526, Santa Cruz, Cal.-Meets first E. Lindsay street; Treasurer, W. R. Gregory. and th.rd Wednesday of each month in Painters' (i) No. 592, Kansas City, Mo.-Meets Thurs· Union Han, 543/, Pacific avenue. President, H. day nights at Labor Temple, 1402 Woodland W ..Clark, Santa Cruz, Cal., Box 154; Vice. street. President, O. D. Buell, 3410 East 14th Pres.dent, C,. A. Hunt, Santa Cruz, 118 Rigg street; Financial Secretary, Hugh S. O'Neill, street; Flnanc.al Secretary, A. B. Kearney, Santa 2538 Summitt avenue: Recording Secretary, Cruz, 72 Plymouth street; Recording Secretary August J. Pfetzing, Labor Temple, 1402 Wood· F. L. Fitch, Santa Cruz, 236 Broadway; Treas: land street; Treasurer, Hugh S. O'Neill, 2538 urer, A. B. Kearney, 72 Plymouth street. Summit. (a) N Q• 527, Galveston, Tex.-Meets second (c) No. 595, Oakland, Cal.-Meets Wednesday and. fourth Friday nights each month, Cooks and night at 305 14th street. President, Frank O. Wa.ters Hall, 311!4 23d street. President H Lee,. 925 75th av~nue, Fitchburg, Calif.; Vice. J. Aymes, Roberts Fiats, 22d and Church str~ets: Pres.der.~, C. ~ T,,?sle~ 3408 Davis .treet, Fruit. Vice· President, John L. Hermann, 1512 20th vale, Ca!.f.; FIDanc.al :::.ecretary, Geo. E. Manes, street; Financial Secretary, G. A. Collier 1414 1606 Bndge avenue, Fruitvale, Calif.; Recording 16th street; Recording Secretary, J. F. Ta~, 3628 Secretary, W. J. Parr, 3416 Davis street, Fruit. THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

Droad St. President, W. R. Wright, 801 N. ' Treaau , A. 1.. Schaller, IS2 Shafter aUf. rer Ave. and Brookland Park: Vice President; H. vale. C , d caUf. Stone, 2126 Chaffin St.; Financial Secretary·, avenue, Oal<~ 'San Rafael, Calif.-Meets first J. (al NC? cb Dlonth in Building Trades Hall, G. M. Miller, 2311Y, M St.; Recording Secre· Tuesday In President. C. E. Kettlewell, 231 D tary, H. E. Bullington, 903 Haynes Ave. Brook· B street.. President, E. KappenDlan, 4th and C land Park: Treasurer, L. R. Warimer 723 N. street; V!ce- cial Secretary, H. E. SDlith, 233 D 26th St. ' No. 667, Pittston, Pa.-Meets first and third street: :lDanding Secretary, H. E. Jorgensen, 237 Itreet; e~:easurer, H. E. Smith. Mon~ay in Saint ~Iyous Hall on Main street. D street; 617 San Mateo Cali f.-Meets first ~resldent, Frank MIller, 89 Searle street: Finan· (c) . ~oTuesd~y in month ~t B. L. C. Hall,. B clal Secretar~, Edward G. Ruane, 25 Tedrick and thtr. t Paul Ferrea, San Mateo, Cab f.; Ro!,d; Recordmg Secretary, James C. Brady, Port S~. ~res!~e~t' A. S. Moore; Financial Secretary, Gnffith, Pa.; Treasurer, Patrick Hurley, Pine V,ce ~'t e '134 North CSt.; Recording Secre· street. H. F. :C~gee, H Morrison, 116 Griffith Ave.; .(a) No. 668, LaFayette. Ind.-Meets first and tary, as ' H Morrison, 116 Griffith Ave. third Monda,.. at 8 p. m. in Labor Temple Chas Treasuc io Sh~boyg,.n, Wis.-Meets fi!,st and corner Columbia and 5th streets. President, Wm: .Nd· Wed~esday6 of each month at UnIOn Hall, C. Randolph. 411 Brown street: Financial Secre• thlt enue President, Harry Pepper, 923 tary, J. H. Glenn. 1107. N. 9th atreet: Recording ~~~r ~~urth' street: F!nancial Secretary, L. Secretary. R. I. H;:mtlton, 1107 Main street· V der Bloemen, 734 NIagara avenue: Record· Treasurer, J. It. Glenn, 1107 N. 9th street. ' . an Secretary Thomas McDonald., 821 Oakland (a) . No. 675, Eljzabeth, N. I.-Meets first Vic":President, H. V. Cooper, 1636 and third Tuesday. In Bucher's flail Fifth and :::'~nue; E. J er~ey streets. Presid~nt, Arthur M. Cannon, North 11th street. . () No 625 Halifax, N.S., Canada.-Meets 541 Ehzabeth avenue: FInancial Sec<'etary, John Ha~man, 400 .S. Broadway; Recording Secretary, eve~y third Wednesda,Y of each month a~ No. 71 DanIel A. Clair, 525 Franklin street· Treasurer A ricola street; PreSIdent, W. F. SprulD, No. Frederic T. Colten, 814 E. J ersey str~et. ,. ufs Edward street: Vice'l':resid~nt, J. Meagher, N 146 Argyle street; FlOanclal Secretary, F. (a) No. 677, Gatun, C. Z.. Rde Panama.­ DO. pierce, No. 4 Hollis street: Secretary·Treas· Meets second Sunday at 3 p. m. and fourth Wednesday at 8 p. m. at I. C. C. Lodge Hall. ;er H C Low. No. 2 Pleasant avenue. u 631 'New Burgh, N. Y.-Meets first Fri· Gatun. President, Wm. S. MItch" box 8' N~ ':ice.President. J. W. Smith, box 8'; Financiai day ~f ..~h month at Central Labor Hall, Sec· ~cretary, A. E. Thonet, box 57; Recording Sec· ond and Water street. Presi~ent, Ch.arles Olson, retary, Chas. J: MacNelley, box· 8; Treasurer, 270 North Water street: Vlce·Presldent, Roy Arthur Woolnough. Westervelt City Terrace. New Burgh, N. Y.; (c) No. 679, Philadelphia, Pa.-Meets each Financial 'Secretary, Edward F. McDonald, .59 William street, New Burgh, N. Y.; RecordlDg Friday night at Labor Lyceum, 6th and Brown Secretary, Lenard Herrman, 312 Broadway, New streets. President, Gilbert Lerpace. 2244 Ban•. Burgh N. Y.: Treasurer, Edward F. McDonald, coft street, Philadelphia. Pa.; Vice·President, S9 \y'lliam street, New Burgh, N. Y. Howard Hoffman, Berlin, N. T.; Financial Sec· (c) No. 643, Springfield, Mass.-Meets every' retary, William Zeeh, Philadelphia, Pa., 945 North second and fourth Monday of each month at American street: Recording Secretary, Chas. C. L. U. Hall, Sanford street. President. John Miller, 130 West Ontario street; Treasurer, WiI· Risley, 610 Armory street, Springfield, Mass.; liam Reber, 1210 Harold street, Philadelphia, Pa. Vice.President, Henry Campbell, 141 Maple No. 680, Fon du Lac, Wis.-President. Chas. Itreet Holyoke, Mass.; Financial Secretary, Hilderbrand, Y. M. C. A .• Rm. 312; Vice-Pre.· Geo. 'J. Lusk, 477 Bay street, Springfield, Mass.; ident, Burt Baker. 224 East Cotton street; Fi· Recording Secretary. Joseph Lawless, 52 Vin · nancial Secretary, W. S. Rowley. 151 Forest ton street, Springfield, Mass.; Treasurer, Arthur avenue; Recording ·Secretary. Frank Erickson. Stroebele, 54 Orleans street, Springfield, Mass. 151 Forest qvenue; Treasurer. John O·Brien. No. 644, Schenectady, N. Y.-Meets second 96 Harrison Place. and fourth Fridays at I. B. E. W. Hall .. State (b) No. 681, Scotts Bluff, Neb.-Meets last Itreet. President, E. J. Anderson, 127 James Saturday in month at Srivet House, White street, Scotja, Schenectady Co. Vice·President, street. President. W. W. Phillips, Gering. Neb.; Wm. Alligeir, 29 y, Moyston street; Financial Vice· President, Guy Bame, Mitchell; Financial Secretary, George M. SImpson, Jay street and Secretary, Walter Ford. Scotts Bluff. Neb.; Sacandayo road, Scotia, Schenectady Co.; Re· Treasurer, C. J. Gokery, Scott. Bluff, Neb. cording Secretary, E. A. Jandro, 503 Craig street; No. 682, New York. New York.-Meets second Treasurer, Chas. Bachem, 550 S. Center street. and fourth Friday of month at No. 12 St. No. 645, Schenectady, N. Y.-President, J. F. Marks Place. President. Jesse S. Morse. 2330 Lenihan, 403 Paige street; Financial Secretary, 7th avenue, :New York City; Vice·President, Geo. W. O. Malley, 160 Crane street; Recording Sec· B. Hansler, 35 Prospect street, Jamaica. L. I.; retary, W. O. Malley, 160 Crane street. Financial Secretary. Samuel F. Ardel. 1319 Hoe (c) No. 648, Hamilton, Ohio.-Meets every avenue, New York City; Recording Secretary, other Tuesday at Painters' Hall, Second and E. M. Thompson, 1349 East 37th street, Brook· Court streets. President, Frank Venable, 921 Ivn. N. Y.; Treasurer, Wm. P. fi:eeler, 500 W. North Third street: Vice· President, Alben i79th street, New Yark City. Murphy, 639 Caldwell; Financial Secretary, No. 683. Pekin. I11.-Financial Secretary, J. Roy Schroder, 547 Central avenue: Recording Altman. 1309 Willow street: Recording Secre· Secretary, R. C. Gardner, Atlas Hotel; Treas­ tary, Geo. Risinger. 1226 South 3rd str.eet. urer. A. P. Howard. S04 South Ninth street. (a) No. 685, Roslyn. Wash.-Meets Wednesday (e) No. 659, Dunkirk, N. Y.-Meets first nights at N. W. I. Bldg., Penn. avenue. Pres­ and third Sunday at 3 p. m. at Heyl Block, idt·nt. James Manville, Clc Elum. Wash.; Vice· Central avenue. President. A. T. Johnson 311 President. Wm. Crooks, Cle Elum, Wash.; Finan· Leopard street; Vice· President, Ernest Lavon. cial Secretary, Percy Wright, box 249; doski, 46 Jenet street; Financial Secretary, F. Recording Secretary. James Reese. Roslyn, T. Karrow. 184 West Main street, Fredonia, N. Wash.; Treasurer, J. A. Cailier, Roslyn, Wash. Y.; Recording Secretary, Chas. Costantino. 56 E. Fifth street; Treasurer, Wm. Adamzak ·91 (c) No. 692, Oklahoma City, Okla.-Meets l.ake street. ' every Thursday night at State National Bank (a) No. 664, Brooklyn, N. Y.-Meets first Bldg. President. F. R. Pope, 423 West Eighth and. third Thursdays, 315 Washington street. street: Vice President, J. E. Moore, 617 South P~eslde.nt, Julius Schiller, 467 Sterling place; Walker; Financial Secretary, F. E. Voorhies, FinanCIal Secretary, Robt. Lavender, 165 Concord room 222, State National Bank Bldg.. ; Record· street: Recording Secretary, Jas. L. Bradley. 43 ing Secretary, J. M. Becker, 532 West Third King:ston ave!'ue: Treasurer, Wm. H. Jarvis, 157 street: Treasurer. R. De Shaffon, 331 West MODltor street. Frisco. street. ~. \ ot~~; No. 666, Richmond, Va.-Meets every No. 694. Youngstown, Ohio.-Meets first and ~~vedneSday night at Spark's Hall, 712 E. third Tuesday nights of each month at Atty'. .. 480 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

Ha!1, North Phelp street. President, W. R. (a) No. no, Northampton, Mass.-Meets firat Pounders, Hubbard, 0.: Vice President, C. J. and third Tuesdays of each month at Band Hall. Knittle, 330 Ayers street: Financial Secretary, Pleasant street. President, Alfred J. Asher, 5 F. Korth, liS Berlin street: Recording Secre- Eastern avenue: Vice-President, Edward Fredette. tary, J. B. Warhis, 280 East Federal street: 9 Hampton avenue: FinanCIal Secretan" Charles Treasurer, W. W. Bryn, 72 Montgomery avenue. Marsha!1, Jr., 21 College'Lane: Recording Secre- (c) No. 695, St. Joe, Mo.-Meets Tuesday tary, Edward O'Neil, 24 Armory street: Tress- night at K. P. Hall, 7th and Edmond. President, uter, Joh" Burke, Fruit street. H. A. Bain. 1606 Pacific: Vice President, Earle. (h) No. 713, Chicago, Il1.-Meets first and G. Long, 1633j/, Frederick Ave; Financial Sec· third Wednesdays. at 229 W. Washington street. retary, Wm. Wagner, 2107 Penn St.: Recording President, J. A. Jackson, 3226 Calumet avenue: Secretary, A. L. Utz, 712 Locust St.; Treasurer, Vice· President, August Prassel, 655 Aldine ave- W. Valentine. 1334 S. 15th St. nue; Fin~cial ,secretary, Sam Hohman, 134 (c) No. 696, Albany, N. Y.-Meets second North S3rd avenue: Recording Secretary, P. T. and fourth Tuesdays in the Beaver block, S. Peterson, 923 N. Mozart street: Treasurer, Wm. , Pearl St. President, P. H. Mohr, 6 Ditson Place: H. Dettman, 1803 N. Fairfield avenue. Vice President, J. B. Marsh, 337 Washington St.; (a) No. 714, Boston, Mass.-Meets first ano Financial Secretary, J. Dowling, 70 Bradford St.; third Tuesdays at 66 Main street, Charleston. Recording Secretary,T. J. Luddy, Cohoes, N. Y.; President, Donald M. Hastings, 441 Ferry street, Treasurer, J. J. Dowling, 121 N. Boulevard. Everett, Mass.; Vice· President, Willard L. Poole, (c) No. 697, Gary, Ind.-Meets every Thurs· 20 Leyden street, Medford, Mass.; Financial Sec- day night at Gary Hotel, Broodway street. Pr~s· retary, James A. Ago, 3 Nahant avenue, Revere: ident, R. O. Stiles, DOx 347, Gary, Ind.; VIce Recording Secretary, Alexander A. Valois, 13) President, W. F. Granger, 443 Logan street, Kimball avenue, Revere; Treasurer, John A. Hammond Ind.; Financial Secretary, H. G. Fisher, 17 Union Park street, Boston. Wesbecbe;, 1720 Washington street, Gary, lnd.: (a) No. 715, Jefferson, Mo.-Meets firs! Recording Secretary, Thos. Beggs, 483 State and third Thursday in each month at Union Hall street, Hammond, Ind.; Treasurer, E. L. Dale, Court House, corner High and Monroe Sts. Presi. 820 Monroe, Gary, Ind. dent, Chas. Nordman, 112 Jefferson St.: Vice (a) No. 699, Gloucester, Mass.-Meets every President, John W. Stokes, 117 E. High St.; first and third Tuesdays at Teamsters' Hall, Financial Secretary, Paul E. Kieselbach, 809 S. Main street. President, Warren S. Mitchell, Madison St.; Recording Secretary, Paul E. School street engine house; Vice-President, Ro- Kieselbach, 809 S. Madison St.; Treasurer, John · W. Case, 110 E. Miller St. d~rick P. Frazer, New England Te.I C0., Mam No. 716, Houston, Texas-Meets Thursday at street: Financial Secretary, Eugene R. Lord, 1111 j/, Congress street. President, E. A. Shoults, 381 Washington street: Recording Secretary, 1211 Texas avenue; Vice President, E. H. Davis, Sylvester D. Deering, 18 Washington street: 706 R h F' . I S J A K' bl Treasurer, John Follensbee, 6 Foster street. us; Inanela ecretary, . . Ie er, 'ttsburg, Kan.-Meets every Tues- 415 Benz ""Bld!(.: Recording Secretary, S. E. No. 700, PI Slocum, 82u Rice street. day night at Labor Headquarters, North Broad- (h) No. 717, Boston, Mass.-Meets first and way. Pres:dent.. L. F. W~1ther. care Belt Eletl- third Tu.esdar of each !!!Qnth at Well's Memorial tric Co.: Vice-President, C. A. Wiles, 1704 North Ha!1. Presiaent, A. M. McGinley, 89 Alexander E.lm· Financial Secretary, H. H. Borden. 1408 St., Dorchester, Mass.; Vice President, E. H. North Smelter; Recording Secretary, Rex Jackman, 25 Goldwait St., Lynn, Mass.; Financial Bell. care Be!1 Electric Co. Secretary, P. J. McWilliams, 199 Blue Hill (a) No. 701, Wheaton, l1!.-Financial Sec- Ave., Dorchester, Mass.: Recording Secretary, retary, M. J. Burckal, Wheaton, Ill. P. F. Grout, 10 Dromey St., Dorchester, Mass.; No. 702, Herrin, Il1.-Meets every Sunday at Treasurer, A. J. Davis, Jr., 18 Fifield St. Dor· Bart Clumbs, Washington St. President, Lawrence chester, Mass. Hundley, Herrin, Ill.; Vice·President, Erby (b) No. 718, Paducah, Ky.-Meets first and Mann, Herrin, Ill.; Financial Secretary, T. D. third Monday nights in Central Labor Hall, 3d Springs, Herrin, Ill.; Recording Secretary, Ran· Broadway. President, W. G. Cochran, 61S san Little, Hoerrin. Ill.; Treasurer, George Bul· Tennessee St.; Vice President, George Grim, lard, Herrin. Ill. 718 South Eleventh St.; Financial Secretary, (a) No. 703, Edwardsville, Ill.-Meets sec· George Brown, 441 South Sixth St.; Recording ond and fourth Wednesdays of each month at Secretary, Carl Elmendorf. 429 South Third St.: Hauser's Hall. 2nd and Purcell streets. Presi· Treasurer, George B. Brown, 441 South Sixth St. dent, W. H. Brennan, 221 St. Andrews street, (c) No. 719, Manchester, N. H.-Meets first Edwardsville, Ill.: Vice-President, G. L. Fisher, and third Friday of every month at Elm and Granite City, Ill., care Madison County L. & Amherst streets. President, Wm. P. Michi, 7S P. Co.; Financial Secretary, C. H. Hotz, Postal Boynton street: Vice President, Forest Evans, Tel. Co.. Leland Hotel, Edwardsville, Ill.; Re· 836 Beech street: Financial Secretary, Rudolph cording Secretary, E. G. Werner. MadisoIJ Scheer, 161 Douglas street: Recording Secretary, County L. & P. Co., E.dwardsville, Ill.; Trea.- Walter Sims, 432 Lincoln street; Treasurer, urer, Wm. Duel, Madison County L. & P. Co., Albert Miville, 325 Central street. Edwardsville, 111. No. 720, Moberly. Mo.-President, G. F. Lit- tle, 409 Reed street; Vice· President, Harve B. No. 706, International Falls, Minn.-Financial P;\cher, 841' West Coates street; Financial See- Secretary, Geo. Chartres, General Delivery. retary, Given Victor, 109 Williams street: Re- .(a) No. 707, Holyoke, Mass.-Meets second cording Secretary, Harry Soloman, 641 North and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 205 High Ault street; Treasurer, J. F. Walker, 109 Wil. street. President, Chas. E. Hunter, Yeorg's Inn; Iiams street. Vice-President, Frank O'Brien, 4 Newton street; (c) No. 721. Sherman, Texas.-Meets first Financial Secretary, F. E. Corward, 94 Sycamore and third Monday nights at 121 j/, South Travis street; Recording Secretary, Ralph E. Denver, 141 street. President. C. F. Smith, 223 East Jones Nonotuck street; Treasurer, Herbert E. Bolter, street: Vice·President, E. B. Turner, 609 South 25 Washington avenue. Walnut; Financial Secretary, W. L. Thomas, No. 708, Brainerd, Minn.-Meets second Thurs. IllS South Montgomery street or box 17: Re- day at Theviot's Hall. S. 8th St. President, H. cording Secr