NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering DURING the past week Congress has given signs of activity. To protect the public interests in Alaska, valued at $900,006,000 by Guggenheim experts, Senator Bever-idge has...
...A Victory for Women While the ten-hour law for women is still under consideration in the supreme court of Illinois, women workers elsewhere have gained a notable victory—a gain for all industrial workers...
...When it was thought that this had been sufficiently accomplished to prevent the success of another strike, the company began to discharge union employees without giving reason, for the purpose of forcing a strike, the settlement of which to be so arranged as to lessen the power of the union...
...The shirtwaist trade is one of the "seasonal occupations," necessitating the laying off of large numbers of workers for a great part of the year...
...The wrappers on your Magasine give the date your first rear expired...
...Progressives of the Senate, notably Senators Cummins and Clapp, are prepared to fight the provisions of the bill which authorize a special commerce court, place the enforcement and defense of the interstate commerce commission's orders under the control of the department of justice...
...Because Congress has refused to appropriate more than $7,000 a year salary for each of the five customs court judges, President Taft has withdrawn his nominations for the positions...
...This leaves only two important countries, France and Canada, to be considered in the application of the minimum rates...
...Postmaster Hitchcock gave out a statement on February 27, reasserting that the annual loss to the postal department on the transmission of magazines was $64,000,000...
...The strike will go into effect on March 5, unless arbitration can be brought about...
...Hitchcock Strikes Back The postal service is still in the lime light...
...The people have the right to expect during this administration a beginning in the work of putting our flag back on the high seas from which foreign governments have driven it by the use of the methods alien shipping interests and influences are insisting we should not now use in self defense...
...It is stated that the traction company, when it was forced to yield to its employees after a long strike last summer, made plans to lessen the power of the union...
...It seems probable that the post office department will work under a director of the posts, a man appointed for a long term of office, not dependent upon political exigencies for his position, and paid a salary sufficient to retain a man of ability in this post...
...The strike was the result of a revolt against the conditions under which the girls worked...
...He claims that that loss alone was responsible for the maintenance of the two-cent rate on letters, which otherwise would be carried at one cent...
...The House committee which has been considering the advisability of raising the postal rate on magazines, now proposes to investigate the question of reorganizing the postal department on a thorough business basis...
...The fight in Kansas, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and in practically all states for that matter, in the November congressional elections, will center principally on the issue of Cannonism...
...The employers have been forced to yield...
...Kitchin seemed to be of the opinion that this "sacrifice" was a selfish one...
...The nomination is equivalent to electron...
...On February 25 the company declined to arbitrate its differences with the strikers...
...Former Governor Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, a member of the national Republican committee, sent out a letter to his fellow members on the 11th, urging them to bring pressure to bear upon Senators and Congressmen to support the Humphrey bill...
...Leroy Percy of Greenville, was nominated for U. S. Senator from Mississippi on February 22, after 58 ballots had been taken in a Democratic caucus of the legislature...
...vacancy temporarily, closed his two "months' service in the Senate on February 24 with a speech in which he pleaded for a closer brotherhood in the nation and deplored Senator Hey-burn's waving of the "bloody shirt...
...Herrick, "is so broadly national, so vital in its bearing upon the future of the commerce of our whole country in great markets where our flag is now unknown, that it is appealing to democrats as well as to republicans...
...TO SUBSCRIBERS...
...This is the better reason why the representatives of our own party should carry out the pledge of our party...
...The strike was called on February 19 by Clarence O. Pratt, the national organizer of the strikers' union...
...Newspapers report that hundreds of persons have been arrested, several killed, and many injured by the police, who have used their revolvers freely, and that the destruction of property— street cars—has been costly...
...Under the leadership of members of the Women's Trade Union League, and officers of their unions, the girls gave an exhibition of united effort seldom before evidenced in great industrial conflicts, and while a few of the strikers returned to work before a settlement was affected for the whole body, the great majority held out until the demands were granted...
...On November 23 the greatest strike of women that has ever occurred in America was called in New York City and spread rapidly to Philadelphia and other cities in the East...
...The high-handed manner in which the bill was jammed through the House committee shocked the country...
...Hours of labor were long and the conditions of work in general were bad...
...the provision which it is claimed legalizes mergers of competing lines, and the provision dealing with the issue of stocks and bonds...
...Have you paid your renewal sub-scription yet for January and February...
...Marca renewals are now due also...
...Street car service is practically at a standstill, although the traction company has imported thousands of strike breakers and has guaranteed to them permanent employment and a pension for life if disabled during the course of the strike...
...To protect the public interests in Alaska, valued at $900,006,000 by Guggenheim experts, Senator Bever-idge has introduced two bills, te withdraw all coal lands in the territory from entry and to prohibit the government from permanently disposing of mineral rights, in the future.—The administration railroad bill was reported to the Senate on February 25...
...The strike still continues and the situation at the time this is written indicates that there is a possibility of a far-reaching conflict between labor and capital in "the city of brotherly love...
...The wages paid by employers were in many cases as low as $3 a week— a partial explanation for "white slavery," at least...
...The campaign fund publicity bill is languishing in committee, and seems destined to stay there permanently, or at least during this session...
...The successful outcome of the strike of the girl shirtwaist makers in New York, Philadelphia, and throughout the New England states is an encouraging incident in the fight for better conditions of labor throughout the country...
...Send In your renewals, and take advantage of the dabbing offer in this week's Magazine...
...the girls have won, and are back at work again, their position strengthened by the outcome...
...Women students at some of the larger colleges and universities of the country pledged themselves to buy no goods without the union label and financial assistance from the general public was readily given...
...Representative Kitchin of North Carolina made a lengthy speech on February 25, in which he held up to ridicule the standpatters in the House who have always supported Cannon but who now say that they cannot vote for him again on account of his "advanced age...
...The Humphrey bill providing for a ship subsidy, seems doomed, but several other measures providing for a ship subsidy have been introduced in the House, one a Democratic measure.— The postal savings bank bill will go to a vote in the Senate on March 3. Senator Bailey in a speech on the 24th questioned the constitutionality of the measure.— Amendments to the employer's liability law for the purpose of expediting the trial of an action brought under the provisions of the measure, and extending the right to sue to heirs of a dead employee, have been favorably considered by the judiciary committee of the House and will probably pass...
...The bullying, and in many cases unwarranted and illegal acts, of the police of New York and Philadelphia to "protect" the employers and strike breakers aroused strong public sympathy for the strikers...
...A Serious Strike A great strike in Philadelphia, affecting the transportation system of that city was noted in this department last week...
...The various ship subsidy bills are likewise making little progress...
...The Moon bill relating to the issuance of court injunctions has been formally approved by the President as a fulfillment of the Republican platform pledge...
...He read a list of men on "the roll of honor," placed there because they were willing to sacrifice "Uncle Joe" for "the good of the Party...
...President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, claims that the bill instead of protecting labor in its disputes with capital, by giving specific authority for the use of the injunction works harm to organized labor...
...Indications are that the interests which would be the chief beneficiaries of a ship subsidy are bending every energy to have the Humphrey bill passed at this session...
...In addition to the 6,000 regular and special police, the state militia has been called upon to protect the company's interests, and the situation on the 26th was tense...
...BUSINESS MANAGER...
...The Humphrey bill," says Mr...
...Shipping Trust Active The shipping trust, it appears, is overlooking no means to secure the passage of the Humphrey ship-subsidy bill...
...Et tu Brute...
...He defended the department's figures, which have been attacked by the publishers and their representatives as inaccurate and misleading...
...News Notes In Philadelphia, the government is seeking to break up the anthracite coal and railroad combine, which is charged with conspiracy to restrain trade in violation of the anti-trust law.—In New York indictments have been returned against the members of the so-called "milk trust...
...A general strike involving at least 125,000 union men was adopted as a means to aid the striking car men, by the Central Labor Union at a meeting on February 27...
...General James Gordon, who filled the...
...This appeal follows close upon the heels of the favorable committee report upon the bill...
...The strike has been accompanied by violence...
...On February 21, President Taft ordered that 17 foreign nations with a total commerce with the United States of $60,000,000 be given the minimum rates of our tariff law...
...The strike order issued on the 19th instructs the men not to return to work until the company has signed an agreement guaranteeing 25 cents an hour and protecting union men from discrimination...
Vol. 2 • March 1910 • No. 9
