RATION OFFICIAL בריאת חנית POLITICAL DECLARATIONS OF THE A. F. OF L. AT DENVER, COL. 1. Compulsory education. 2. Direct legislation, through the initiative and the referendum. 3. A legal work day of not more than eight hours. 4. Sanitary inspection of workshop, mine and home. 5. Liability of employers for injury to health, body or life. 6. The abolition of contract system in all public work. 7. The abolition of the sweating system. 8. The municipal ownership of street cars, water works and gas and electric plants for public distribution of light, heat and power. 9. The nationalization of telegraphs, telephones, railroads and mines. io. The abolition of the monopoly system of land holding, and substituting therefor a title of occupancy and use only. II. Repeal all conspiracy and penal laws, affecting seamen and other workmen, incorporated in the federal and State laws of the United States. 12. The abolition of the monopoly privilege of issuing money and substituting therefor a system of direct issuance to and by the people. Our Fair List. Secretaries will confer a favor by sending in additional names. STOVES AND HOLLOWWARE. By Martin Fox, President of Iron Molders Union of N, A. Michigan - Detroit-Michigan Stove Works, Detroit Stove Works, Peninsular Stove Works, Art Stove Co. Illinois-Chicago-Cribben & Sexton, Home Foundry Co. Quincy-Bonnet & Nance Stove Co., Gem City Stove Co., Channon-Emery Stove Co., Comstock-Castle Stove Co., Excelsior Stove Co., White Ths. Stove Co. Peoria - CulterProctor Stove Co. Joliet-Joliet Stove Works. Indiana-Southern Stove Works, Evansville. Kentucky-Fisher-Leaf Co., Louisville. New York-Troy-Burdett-Smith & Co., Bussey-McLeod Co., Rhode Island-Spicer & Peckham, Providence. Overalls, jackets, pants, etc.-Sweet, Orr & Co., New York, Newburgh, N. Y., and Chicago, Ill. Hamilton, Carhart & Co., Detroit, Mich. H. S. Peters, (brotherhood overalls), Dover, N. J. TOBACCO. By E. Lewis Evans, Sec'y of Tobacco Workers National Union. St. Louis, Mo.-Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co., Drummond Tobacco Co., Christian Peper, Jas. G. Butler Tobacco Co., Brown Tobacco Co. Wheeling, W. Va.-Bloch Bros. Tobacco Co. Louisville, Ky.- Hall & Williams Tobacco Co.; Harry Weissinger Tobacco Co. BREWERS. By Chas. F. Bechtold, Sec'y of United Brewery Workmen. St. Louis, Mo.-Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wis.-Valt. Blatz Brewing Co., Pabst Brewing Co., Schlitz Brewing Co. Cincinnati, O.-Christian-Moerlein Brewing Co., John Hauk Brewing Co., Windisch & Muehlhauser Brewing Co. ELASTIC GORING. By Thomas Pollard, Secretary of Elastic Goring Weavers Amalgamated Association of the United States. Bridgeport Elastic Web Co., Hub Gore Co., East Hampton Elastic Web Co., J. H. Buckley & Son, Boston Gore and Web Co.. A. C. Woodward's Abington Mills, Glendale Elastic Fabric Company, HORSE NAILS. By David A. Wilcox, Secretary of Horse Nail Workers Protective and Benevolent Union No. 6170. Capewell Horse Nail Co., Hartford, Conn. TABLE KNIFE GRINDERS. Lamson & Goodnow; Northampton Cutlery Co.; E. E. Wood & Son; Upson & Hart; Landers, Frary & Clark; R. Wallace & Sons; Meriden Cutlery Co; Derby Silver Plate Co.; Imperial Cutlery Co.; Clemont Manufacturing Co. FURNITURE. By Chas. F. Gebelin, Sec'y International Furniture Workers Union Quincy, Ill.-Excelsior Show Case and Cabinet Works; Quincy Show Case Works; H. A. Vandenboorn Chair Factory. Springfield, Mass.-G. A. Schastey Co. We Don't Patronize. Union workingmen and workingwomen and sympathizers with labor have refused to purchase articles produced by the following firms. Labor papers please copy: IMPERIAL MILL CO., DULUTH, MINN. W. L. KIDDER & SON MILLING CO., TERRE HAUTE, IND. JOS. BIEFIELD and SIEGEL & BROS., CLOTHIERS, CHICAGO, ILL. J. W. LOSSE TAILORING CO., ST. LOUIS. S. OTTENBERG & BROS.' CIGARS. GEO. EHRET'S LAGER BEER. JACKSON BREWERY, LAGER BEER. STUDEBAKER BROS. MAN'F'G CO'S CARRIAGES AND WAGONS. ST. LOUIS BREWERS' ASSOCIATION, LAGER BEER. AMERICAN BISCUIT CO'S BISCUITS. YOCUM BROS., CIGARS, READING, PA. BOSTON PILOT, BOSTON REPUBLIC. HOPEDALE MFG. CO., HOPEDALE, MASS. A. F. SMITH, SHOES, LYNN, MASS. UNITED STATES BAKING CO. WERNER PRINTING CO., AKRON, O. DAUBE, COHEN & CO., CLOTHING, CHICAGO. MESKER BROS., ST. LOUIS. CLEMENT, BANE & CO., CLOTHIERS, CHICAGO. HACKETT, CARHART & CO., CLOTHIERS, NEW YORK, Removal of Boycott. EAST HAMPTON, MASS., Sept. 11, 1895. To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that the differences heretofore existing between the Glendale Elastic Fabric Co., of East Hampton, Mass., and the Elastic Goring Weavers Amalgamated Association of the United States of America have been amicably settled. We, therefore, recommend the goring of said company to all trade unionists and members of labor organizations in general. Per order of Executive Committee of the Elastic Goring Weavers Amalgamated Association, Signed: W. H. ASHLEY, General President. THOMAS POLLARD, General Secretary. In accordance with the above, the boycott on the Glendale Elastic Fabric Co., is hereby removed. Per order of Executive Council, JOHN MCBRIDE, President. CHICAGO LABOR NOTES. THE Illinois State Federation of Labor meets at Peoria on October 8. E. A. MEAGHER, of Carpenters No. 10, has been re-appointed a city building inspector. THE Laundry Drivers Protective Union is one of the last additions to the ranks of organized labor. CLOAK AND SUIT CUTTERS UNION No. 62, United Garment Workers of America, has been reorganized. GEO. A. SHILLING and C. G. Stivers, of this city, have been reappointed on the State Board of Labor Statistics. T. J. ELDERKIN, vice-president of the A. F. of L., has been elected president of the Chicago Trade and Labor Assembly. A NUMBER of Chicago labor leaders sent a cablegram to Delegates Gompers and McGuire, Labor Day, by way of remembrance. THE Calumet Iron and Steel Co. has resumed operations, after three years' idleness. About two hundred men employed. are PROGRESSIVE Lodge No. 126, International Association of Machinists, is about to start a system of co-operative buying for its members. HORNSTEIN BROS., Palm, Knott & Co., and Slason Thompson, are among the printers who have succumbed to the sheriff during the past month. THE W. B. Conkey Co. has renewed the agreement made with Typographical Union No. 16, at the time the fight was made on the World's Fair catalogue. JAS. F. EDWARDS, of this city, was elected secretary of the National Association of Stationary Engineers at the fourteenth annual session held at St. Paul, Minn. THE Women's Central Council elected the following officers for the ensuing term: President, Mrs. Alzina Stevens; vicepresident, Miss Fannie Martell; secretary, Miss Fannie Jones; financial secretary, Miss Mary Hallstern; treasurer, Miss Mamie Hogan; trustees, Mrs. India Maas, Miss Maggie Gibbs and Mrs. Washington. TYPOGRAPHIA is waging a successful boycott against the "Freie Presse," 66 46 Daheim," Republikauer," and the patent inside house of John Simon & Son. HEREAFTER members of the Journeymen Plumbers Protective Association will have to pay a fine of fifty cents for failure to attend at least one meeting in a month. J. W. LA VINE and M. V. Britzins were elected business agents at a joint meeting of the cigarmakers' unions of this city. N. F. Lentz was elected label secretary. JUDGE BRENTANO has granted a perpetual injunction against the United Garment Workers, who are successfully prosecuting a boycott against Clement, Bane & Co., clothing manufac turers. L. M. HART, president of the Theatrical Stage Employes, is now numbered among the has-beens. A charming young lady from the Arctic side of Chicago is now the sharer of his joys and sorrows. C. C. RUSSELL, president of the Russell Piano Co., where a strike has been in progress for a month past, has been held to the federal grand jury for importing workmen contrary to the contract labor law. BETWEEN five and six hundred garment workers employed by F. Siegel & Bros., at 230 South Market street, are out on a strike, on account of a refusal by the firm to grant a raise of five cents a garment to machine sewers. A UNION label league has been organized, composed of delegates from the unions having a label. The officers are: President, J. W. LaVine, cigarmaker; vice-president, August Nuber, baker; secretary-treasurer, P. W. Naughton, clothing cutter. THE Musicians' Union has under consideration an ordinance, which will be presented to the city council, asking that a stated sum be set aside to provide courses of concerts in the various parks. Only union musicians of American birth and voters in Chicago are to be allowed to contribute talent. THE reed and rattan workers of the city have begun a campaign to increase their wages to somewhere near those paid to skilled workmen in other trades. So far but one strike has occurred, the Kinley Manufacturing Company having refused to even talk over the grievance with a committee from the union. THE Chicago Board of Education has offered $25,000 for the manuscript for a new set of text books, and the Werner Company, through its Chicago agents, will make a bid and submit manuscripts, while a committee from the Chicago Trade and Labor Assembly will camp in the board rooms until the Werner manuscripts are rejected. THE Bill Posters and Billers Union of Chicago has secured a charter from the A. F. of L. The following officers were elected: President, Wm. Davis; vice-president, Jas. Sinclair; secretary, T. F. Humble; financial secretary, R. Hunt; treasurer, J. B. Wiles; sergeant-at-arms, J. R. Sigerson; trustees, Otto Kastner, F. Miles, F. Benzli. THE Central Labor Union (German) elected the following officers for the next six months: Corresponding secretary, Fred Kiel; recording secretary, Anton Chonarzewski; financial secretary, Fred E. Dresler; treasurer, T. Cary; sergeant-at-arms, C. Damaschke; trustees, Fred Benthien, August Nuber and Adam Belz. A chairman is elected at each meeting. THE Phoenix Federal Labor Union has elected officers for the ensuing term of six months as follows: President, John J. McGrath; vice-president, Lee M. Hart; recording secretary, William Jones; financial secretary, Edward W. Parlee; treasurer, Arthur R. Healy; warden, William I. Howard; trustees, Frank M. S. Brazelton and Frank C. Hollister; delegates to Trade and Labor Assembly, P. J. Maas, John J. Ryan and Jas. J. Linehan; delegate to the American Federation of Labor, P. J. Maas; delegate to State Federation of Labor, W. M, Groves. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. THE clerks have organized in several cities since their recent convention in St. Louis. CYRUS F. WILLARD & Co., 27 State street, Boston, will register union labels in the several states and elsewhere. "MUTUAL BANKING" will be issued by N. O. McClees, 1447 Curtis street, Denver, Col., on November 1. Price, 10 cents. NAILMAKERS UNION, No. 6571, Cleveland, O., emerged victorious from a contest for an increase of wages, lasting eleven weeks. ANCHOR federal labor union, of Kansas City, Kan., has found it necessary to secure the opera house of that city to hold its public educational meetings. THE garment workers are endeavoring to equalize the scales of prices in the twelve great clothing centers of the country. So far they have won grand victories in New York, Brooklyn, Newark, Baltimore and Boston. Two members of Federal Labor Union 6423, Kansas City, Kan., it is alleged, were discharged for parading on labor day, notwithstanding they had secured leave of absence. A boycott has been declared by the local unions interested, and the matter is now under consideration by the executive council of the A. F. of L. THE new list of organizations affiliated with the A. F. of L., with the addresses of secretaries, is just out. Copies have been mailed to all unions and organizers, and an extra supply to international and central bodies, who are expected to distribute them among their local unions. It is gratifying to state that in spite of the depression the list has continually grown and is now larger than ever. WITHIN the last few weeks Fort Smith Typographical Union emerged successfully from a struggle lasting one week. Little Rock and Port Huron unions experienced similar satisfaction after strikes of short duration, as also did Duluth Scandinavian union in its trouble with the Svenska Tribune. New York German union won a victory in a job office, and the Hoboken Abend Post was "let alone" so effectively that it now lies peacefully in the journalistic graveyard. The same fate befell the Augusta News, the management of which thought it advisable to antagonize the International Typographical Union. In Brooklyn prompt action not only secured a satisfactory settlement of a controversy between employer and employe, but ultimately made the office a card one throughout. Our Hebraic brethren, in addition to enforcing their scale in a job office, won a signal victory over the Hebrew Gazette and News Company, which for nearly eight weeks refused to agree to a machine scale. In addition to these a settlement was effected in a large Chicago office, several slight increases have been obtained, and the way cleared for others. Victories have also been gained in Ogden, Utah; Hamilton, O.; Seattle, Wash.; Lincoln, Neb., and Galesburg, Ill. THE report by the chief labor correspondent to the Board of Trade on the trade unions in 1893 is the seventh of the series, and contains particulars with regard to a much larger number of such societies than were included in any of the previous reports. Full particulars have been received from 687 unions, compared with 599 in the previous year, and, in addition, partial information has been obtained with regard to 118 other unions. It is believed that the vast majority of persons belonging to trade unions in the United Kingdom are included in the returns dealt with, and that the present report forms, therefore, the most complete record of the transactions of this class of organization hitherto compiled. The original unwillingness of some of the unions to supply information as to their operations has now almost entirely disappeared, and in its place there is the greatest readiness to supply details. Taking the figures for the unions from which accounts have been received, it is shown that the membership at the end of 1893, for 677 unions only, was 1,270,789. The total funds in hand at the beginning of the year were 1,902,397; the total income for the year was 1,996,971; the total expenditure for the year, 2,246,515, and the total funds in hand at the end of the year, 1,653,068. The excess of expenditure over income was thus £249,544. The year 1893 was a bad year for certain of the organizations. The diminution in the amount of their funds was largely due to bad trade, causing a largely increased outlay on unemployed benefits, and to the large number of industrial disputes, causing a considerably enlarged expenditure on dispute benefit. The chief increase under the latter head was due to the prolonged dispute in the coal trade, while as to the former nearly every branch of industry suffered to some extent, though the engineering and shipbuilding trades were most severely affected. The aggregate outlay under the head of dispute benefit was £733,045, paid by 331 unions. The special friendly benefit most generally paid by the unions is funeral benefit, which was paid by 387 unions to the amount of £94,192; unemployed benefit was paid by 378 unions to the extent of £512,929; sick benefit required 238,739 from 238 unions, and accident benefit £26,074 from 99 unions. Superannuation is paid by only 89 unions, but these have as members one-third of the total number of members of all the unious. The amount paid under this head in 1893 was 117,339. A comparison of the figures of 534 unions for 1893 with those for 1892 shows a decrease of 29,010 in the membership, an increase of 148,201 in the total income, an increase of £436,177 in the annual expenditure, and a decrease of 264,271 in the total funds at the end of the year. The unions which suffered most heavily from the falling away of members were the unions of unskilled labor. The report continues: "The apparent discrepancy of an increasing income with a falling membership may be explained by the fact that in the class of unions to which the loss of members is chiefly due the contributions are the lowest, while in the organizations of the skilled trades in which contributions are highest there has been an increase of membership. It is also to be noted that in many unions, when the funds begin to fall below a certain limit, the contributions of the members are increased in proportion, so that in bad years the total income of the unions is often greater than in good years. It is also to be remembered that, owing to the long duration of extensive labor disputes in 1893 and the large numbers of men engaged in them, great sums of money were in special ways contributed to certain unions for their support, and this tends further to increase the gross income of the year."-London Times. LIST of firms represented in the "Rochester Clothiers' Exchange," who have made war on the United Garment Workers of America, and are determined to force into submission the clothing workers of Rochester: THERE is published in Newark, N. J., by Eltweed Pomeroy, the secretary of the Direct Legislation League of New Jersey, assisted by J. W. Sullivan, member of the Typographical Union, and our national lecturer, a little quarterly called The Direct Legislation Record. As its name implies, it is devoted solely to the furtherance of direct legislation, Each number contains some law drawn for this purpose, the news of the movement, and papers on its philosophy, scope and meaning, many of them by trade union officers. This paper is a union paper and is devoted solely to a cause which, until last year, was the only political plank endorsed by the Federation. The Denver convention urged all members of the Federation to further direct legislation in every way. We want our readers to know about this, and have accordingly made a clubbing rate with the Record. Its regular subscription price is 25 cents a year, or clubs of ten for $2. It is well worth the money. But we have made arrangements by which THE FEDERATIONIST and The Direct Legislation Record may both be had for 65 cents. When renewing your subscription or sending in a new one, send us 65 cents instead of 50 cents, and you will get the Record as well as THE FEDERATIONIST. 30. Singer Manufacturing Co., adv Miners prot. 6395, tax, july. Financial Statement. 28. United diamond workers 6476, tax, j, a 5 50 29. Prudential Insurance Co., adv. 25 00 Womens federal labor 2703, tax, a, m, I 98 Blast furnace workers 6565, sup Packers and nailers 6162, tax, j, j, a Laborers prot. 6548, tax, a, s.. RECEIPTS. 6 00 I. 2. $3,102 85 August. Cash on hand. Hod carriers 5385, sup Firemens prot. asso. 6130, tax, march Musicians union 5579, tax, a, m, j Reed, rattan and willow workers 6454, tax, june. 3. Polish laborers alliance 6493, tax, j, j Bro. of painters and decorators, tax, july Silver burnishers prot. 6234, sup. Federal labor 6400, tax, july Reed, rattan and willow workers 6553, sup 5. Superior musical 6462, tax, july, 9c; sup., 50c Anchor federal labor, sup. Axe and edge tool workers 6507, sup. Hod carriers 6550, sup 6. Columbia river fishermens prot 6321, tax, a, m, j, j Freight handlers 6498, sup. Blast furnace workers 6556, sup 7. Hod carriers 6557, sup Working girls federal labor 6121, j, a Brickmakers 5619, tax, j, a, s. Lumber inspectors and tallymen 5525, tax, j, a, s Amal. asso. of marine water tenders, oilers and firemen, tax, j, j 31. Copies of FEDERATIONIST American diamond verstellers 6566, sup Reed, rattan and willow workers 6553, sup Federal labor 6558, sup. 10 00 Delegate to British Trade Union Congress, Cardiff, 250 00 250 00 75 2 00 29 106 14 80 50 250 00 5 00 50 755 Federal labor 6469, tax, a, m, j, j, 50c; sup., 75 I 25 10. Cigarmakers international, tax, feb 69 28 12. Federal labor 5345, tax, m, a, m, 60c; sup., $1 I 60 Expressage, American Express Co, Indianapolis. Telegrams, Western Union, Indianapolis. Organizing expenses, J. F. O'Sullivan, Boston I 60 So Kilnmen, dippers and saggermakers 6528, tax, aug. $2; sup., $1 Federal labor 5761, tax, d, j, f, m, a, m, j, 50c; sup., 50c 13. Screwmakers prot. 6256, tax, july 27. 3.00 Hotel and restaurant employes national alliance, tax, j, j Kahn, Schoenbrum & Co., adv 75 00 Brotherhood of stationary engineers 6526, tax, july 15. United bro. of carpenters and joiners, tax, j, j Firemens protective 6130, sup 10 00 5 00 15 100 00 2 50 2.30 17. Printing and binding 100 day books, M. E. Paddock Printing Co Seals, Geo. J. Mayer & Co., Indianapolis 400 one cent stamped envelopes, postoffice 30. Literary assist. on FEDERATIONIST, J. W. Sullivan Janitor's salary, August, John Goddie, Indianapolis Five weeks' salary, L. M. Spalding, stenographer One month's salary, July, Aug. McCraith. One month's salary, July, John McBride Expenses to Cincinnati, John McBride Stamps received and used Total. RECAPITULATION. Cash on hand August 1 Receipts for August. Total. Expenses. Balance I 25 5 00 36 10 00 I So 175 I 13 Get Your Label Registered. To the Editor of the Federationist: Laws have recently been enacted in the different States which must be of interest to all labor organizations of national or international character, as they mean the much needed protection to the union labels, stamps or trade marks of such organizations. We have gone into the business of registering such labels, and are making it a specialty; consequently are in a position to give prompt and efficient service at moderate cost. There are twenty-four States having label laws, ranging from Minnesota to Georgia, and from Maine to Colorado, and in each an application for registration is necessary, under varying conditions, together with certificate and oath. We make out all these applications and file them in every one of the twenty-four States, and attend to all legal matters connected therewith, at a moderate charge, and will be pleased to correspond and answer inquiries. The Capewell Horse Nail Co. adv 50 00 Federal labor 6423, sup. Federal labor 5759, tax, m, a, m, j, j 3.45 Filers 6483, tax, f, m, a, m, j, j, a . 7 47 Horse nail workers 6170, sup. 5 00 Federal labor 6560, sup |