NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering C ONGRESS assembled last Monday in Washington for the regular short session which will end March 4. Since the Sixty-second Congress is already organized and ready for...
...Death is thus the means of adding one more to the Republicans in the Senate at the expense of the Democratic party...
...The matter of leasing convicts has been placed in the hands of the board of charities and corrections, of which the Governor is an ex-officio member...
...and Mrs...
...Spare the weary shop girl, Don't be asking "HOW...
...Dr...
...Thomas G. Platt of Massachusetts, $20,000...
...Salaries of employees, $51,955...
...It will be announced definitely at a later time whether or not the proposal of Mr...
...He used to be a chum of mine in the army of the Potomac...
...A Striking Similarity.—"The celebrated pianiste," Miss Sharpe, had concluded her recital...
...The arbitration board as appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the United States Commissioner of Labor, and the Presiding Judge of the United States Commerce Court, consisted of Oscar S. Straus, of New York, Charles R. Van Hise, of Madison, Wisconsin, Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews, Frederick N. Judson, of Saint Louis, and Otto M. Eidlitz, former president of the Building Trades association of New York City...
...Lippincott's...
...The contractors, according to the opinion, are also relieved from the application of the eight-hour law to work done in the preparation of raw material which is not specifically known to be intended for government work...
...Office supplies, $10,696...
...The report of the board was signed by Mr...
...George W. Perkins gave the national Progressive committee $130,000 and the state committee $10,000, while Frank...
...Paid to Progressive state committees in thirty-eight states, $273,257...
...Bell System Pensions Employees Newspapers report that $10,000,000 have been set aside by the Bell system, embracing the Bell Telephone Company and associated companies, for pensions, sick benefits and life insurance for the 175,000 employees and their families...
...For several years there has been considerable agitation on the subject of changing inauguration day from March 4 to a date in April, because it has been the rule to have dismal weather in Washington the first week in March...
...With reference to the standardization of wages asked for by the engineers, the decision says: "The board feel that at the present time they have gone as far toward establishing a uniformity of pay as is practicable by introducing a minimum wage for each class of service...
...The board of charities and corrections, in making its report, made the following recommendation: "If it is contended that some of our convicts cannot be controlled on farms or on the roads, we reply that if, after experiment, it is found that some of these men cannot be safely or successfully employed as above suggested, they can be put to work inside the walls of the prison in the manufacture of clothing and other material used by our state institutions, and thus be made profitable without being brought into competition with honest labor...
...Officers of the American Federation of Labor say that in all probability it will not...
...Appropriation bills running into the neighborhood of forty million dollars will come before the Senate and the House...
...Bills will be introduced in both brunches covering the important subjects of the trusts and banking reform and hearings will continue on many of the legislative proposals brought up in the last session...
...Whether the interpretation of this law will work out to the satisfaction of both employer and employee remains to be seen...
...He was a drummer...
...Railroad transportation and expenses of speakers, $79,630...
...A. Munsey contributed $101,250 to the national committee and $10,000 to the state committee...
...Here's the answer ready, Do your shopping NOW...
...However, out of respect for Members who died during the recess, Congress adjourned for a day...
...Under the terms of the new pension plan, employees sixty or more years of age, who have been twenty or more years in the service, may retire on pensions, and those who are fifty-five or more years old and have been in the service twenty-five years or more, may be retired at the option of the company...
...With reference to electric service, one point on which the railroads laid much stress in the hearings before the board, the decision says "since the use of electric locomotives or multiple unit trains upon steam railways is in so early a stage of development, and there is as yet no approximation to stable conditions, but a wide variation in existing practices, the board found themselves unable, from the evidence before them, to make any uniform rules regulating rates of pay and conditions of service for engineers or motormen employed on such trains...
...The engineers had asked for $4.40 and $4.60 (according to the size of the engines) in passenger service, and for as high as $5.75 for freight service...
...Peter J. Hansknecht of Pennsylvania, $12,500...
...The railroads were represented on this Board by Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the engineers by P. H. Morrissey, former grand master of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...Rochester observed Colonel Grayson wiping his eyes...
...Crowds are fearful, later, Clerks are nearly dead, Overworked and driven, Body, hand and head...
...NEWS NOTES —Senator Isidor Raynor of Maryland died last week after suffering from an attack of neuritis...
...In the last session an attempt was made by the Republican old guard to elect Senator Gal-linger to this position, but the progressive Republicans refused to join in the elevation of Gallinger to this position...
...President Taft has announced to his friends that he is not to be regarded or publicly referred to in political speeches by Republicans as a possible candidate of the party in 1916...
...The plan for distributing the pension is based on length of service, as stated, and the amount of pay received...
...the balance was spent for small expense accounts...
...Anna Howard Shaw was reelected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at Philadelphia last week...
...And when the records were searched further it was found that prices were put up to consumers in other sections where competitors already had succumbed to this "divine plan" and farmers had to buy harvesting machinery from the International or go without and cut their grain by hand...
...For the sake of comfort, Carry out this vow: "Time for Christmas shopping...
...A. Hecksher and Alexander Smith Cochran, each $25,000...
...Everything is chaos...
...A feature of the "divine plan" for monopolizing the harvester machinery business of the world it appears consisted in selling machinery below cost in certain sections of the country to drive out troublesome competitors...
...Put it off no longer...
...New Eight-hour Law Interpreted Attorney General Wickersham recently submitted his opinion to the Navy Department relative to the operation of the new eight-hour law...
...It has been the policy of the state to lease convicts to private contractors for manufacturing purposes...
...In concluding, the report says: "Finally, it is the belief of the board that in the last analysis, the only solution—unless we are to rely solely upon the restraining power of public opinion,—is to qualify the principle of free contract in the railroad service...
...The Senate faced one problem of organization, that of the selection of a president pro tempore...
...Wilson will be carried out...
...A strike in the Army or Navy is mutiny, and universally punished as such...
...W. E. Roosevelt, $50,000...
...and this it is believed can best be done through an interstate wage commission...
...Other large contributors to the national committee were: Douglas Robinson, $51,250...
...However, if the principle be accepted that there are certain classes of service thus affected with a public interest and men who enter them are not free con-certedly to quit the service, then these men must be guarded in the matter of wages and conditions by public protection...
...It is believed that if the plan of wage commissions were adopted it is probable that railway employees would not have a just ground for a strike," says the report, "and this fact combined with the power of the law and public opinion would render a strike extremely unlikely, in the future...
...The girl's playing," he told the lady, "reminded me so much of the playing of her father...
...Rochester, with a conventional show of interest...
...Bull Moose Accounts for $668,869 Contributions totaling $668,869 to promote the candidacy of Colonel Roosevelt for the presidency were received by the national committee of the new party according to a certificate filed with the Secretary of State of New York last week...
...That the board considered the general labor proposition presented by the engineers' case of far more importance than the amount of money involved, is indicated by their statement that "the amount of money involved while it is very large, is far less important in the eyes of the board than the public interests...
...Thirty thousand Virginians protested against the continuation of the present convict contract system...
...He declares, however, that he intends to do all in his power to help strengthen the party...
...G. G. Vanderbilt, George Moore, Antoinette Eno Wood, William P. Eno, of New York, and Alfred L. Baker of Illinois, $5,000 each...
...Should Illinois and Tennessee send Republicans, the Senate would be tied, 48 to 48...
...Inaugural May Be Postponed President-Elect Woodrow Wilson announced last week that he would agree to being sworn in as President of the United States without public ceremonies on March 4 in order that the customary inaugural celebration might be held later at a time when weather conditions would be more favorable...
...Further light was thrown upon the operations of the Harvester Trust in the government's inquiry in Chicago last week...
...The board fixed a minimum wage in passenger service of $4.25 per day, and $4.75 for through freight service...
...In awarding a minimum through a freight rate of $4.75 per day a rate is established that measurably approaches the current minima on roads now paying the better rates...
...George F. Porter of Illinois, $11,500...
...He wasn't" replied the Colonel...
...His opinion is to the effect that laborers and mechanics employed on government work, in private ship yards, and by other contractors, are not prohibited by the amendment to the naval appropriation bill adopted by the last Congress from working additional hours upon other than government work in the same establishment after the performance of eight hours of work on government contracts...
...Prison Contract Labor Assailed A voluminous petition against prison contract labor in Virginia has been presented to the Governor by the State Federation of Labor...
...The expenses of the committee were $641,780...
...Oh, indeed...
...With the results in Illinois and Tennessee in doubt, the Democrats will have 48 votes and the Republicans 45 in the special session...
...Jane Addams was elected first vice-president and Susan W. Fitzgerald of Boston was chosen as recording secretary...
...The Senate took up immediately the impeachment trial of Judge Archbald of the Commerce Court...
...Everything is a row...
...As far as the public is concerned, by far the most important feature of the board's decision is a recommendation for "the creation of national and state wage commissions or labor commissions, which should exercise functions regarding labor, engaged at work in public utilities, analogous to these now exercised with regard to capital by the public service commissions already in existence...
...Willard with an explanatory statement...
...The practical effect of the decision on these two important features of the engineers' demands is that as a general rule the poorer paid of the engineers are brought up, while those receiving the higher wages will not be affected to any appreciable extent...
...Advertising, $5,518...
...Senator Borah of Idaho announced last week his purpose to ask for immediate and final action on the bill for a new department of labor as soon as Congress begins work...
...This sum does not include large contributions and expenditures made outside the national committee in various states in behalf of Roosevelt and his new party—such as the $144,000 given by Flinn in the Pennsylvania campaign...
...Since the death of Vice-President Sherman, the matter of electing a president pro tempore on the Republican side has become pressing...
...Predictions are freely made that little will be accomplished by way of legislation at this session...
...of his annual pay for the last ten years preceding retirement, no pension to be less than $20 per month...
...Sickness and accident disabilities are provided for employees and in case of death resulting from accident in the service, insurance amounting to three years' salary will be paid, the maximum, however to be $5,000...
...His successor will be elected by the Maryland legislature which meets in 1914...
...cooed Mrs...
...The legislature of Virginia created a board of charities and corrections in the belief that their investigations and recommendations would be profitable to the state...
...Rent, $8,406...
...The pension age of females is five years younger...
...Printing, $124,886...
...Telegrams and telephones, $18,383...
...I will do it NOW...
...The New York state committee of the Progressive party certified that it received $210,363, of which $88,550 was contributed by the national committee...
...Final returns from all counties, three of which had not been checked over by the secretary of state, on November 27 make it certain that the electoral vote of California will be divided between Roosevelt and Wilson...
...A man thirty years in the service is promised 30 per cent...
...For the sake of kindness To the folk who work, For the sake of mercy To each harried clerk...
...Morrissey filed a dissenting opinion...
...Willard Straight and Francis W. Bird, each $10,-000...
...The expenses of the committee were divided as follows: Christmas Shopping by Berton Braley Buying things for Christmas...
...For the love of Heaven Do your shopping NOW...
...E. H. Hooker of New York, $12,500...
...Jackson will sit during the coming short session and during the special session to be called by President Wilson next spring...
...As the resultant applause was terminating, Mrs...
...Engineers Get Minimum Wage Declaring that a case has not been made for an advance all along the line in the compensation of locomotive engineers, the board of arbitration before which the railroads and engineers presented their cases in July, has handed down their decision...
...The deadlock thus resulting was not broken...
...Do it right away...
...In an explanation of its decision, the board said, "In fixing the minimum wage in passenger service at $4.25 per day in the Eastern district, a higher minimum rate is established than that which now exists on all but a few of the roads...
...President-Elect Wilson has endorsed the plan and it is believed that the measure is assured of passage at the present session...
...The old gentleman noticed her look, and, thinking it one of inquiry, began to explain the cause of his sadness...
...Postage and express, $25,158...
...Start the job TO-DAY...
...I never knew that her father was a piano-player...
...Robert Bacon, $29,-500...
...News Worth Remembering C ONGRESS assembled last Monday in Washington for the regular short session which will end March 4. Since the Sixty-second Congress is already organized and ready for business there was little delay in getting to work upon the congressional calendar...
...Governor Goldsbor-ough appointed to succeed him William P. Jackson, Republican national committeeman for Maryland...
...The fact that the Fore River Ship Building Company, of Quincy, Massachusetts, formerly a nine-hour establishment, went to the eight-hour day in every department, indicates that where government work is being performed by private contract a strict observance of the eight-hour law will be of as much benefit to the employers as to the employees, and will eliminate useless friction...
Vol. 4 • December 1912 • No. 49
