A HUNDRED PER CENT.

Nothing Small About Raleigh.

To awaken interest in the union in the minds of the non-union painters, Local Union No. 9, of Raleigh, N. C., recently gave an open smoker. Brother N. S. Newcomb, as master of ceremonies, introduced the speakers, the Hon. E. R. Pace, Chairman of the Grievance Committee on the First Division of the Seaboard Air Line, Mr. J. C. Council, Assistant Postmaster of Raleigh, and other local union leaders. After the speeches refreshments were served and when everybody was contented and beaming with good nature, the members went after scalps. Five applications and several promises were secured. Local Union No. 9, is going to do good work this year and hopes to have a hundred per cent organization in the near future. The engineering committee were Brothers Davis, Glenn, Scarborough, Newcomb, Carden and Levy.

An Annual Affair.

West Virginia has rather a hard name in labor circles. The coal operators and railroads have resorted to every meanslawful and lawless-to prevent the spread of unionism. This has reacted and pro

duced a vigorous fighting spirit among the union men of the mountain state. Aside from their ability to fight, the members of Local Union No. 617, of Fairmount, have other qualities. Each year they give a banquet and the bill of fare of this year's event is so long that there would hardly be room for it all on this page. Needless to say, full justice was done to every item.

Local Union No. 363 Comes Again. Just a little more good news. We have won the shop run by "the Price estate," one of the largest in Champaign and Urbana. We have been ten long years doing it but there's no give up in Local Union No. 363. Prospects were never brighter. L. U. 363, Champaign and Urbana.

F. L. TEMPLETON, R. S.

Persistence Wins Out.

By hard work and presistent effort, Local Union No. 171 has at last succeeded in unionizing the Modern Woodmen Home at Colorado Springs. Every non-union painter on the job has made application for membership. Dr. Ruthlidge, the superintendent, is a good friend to organized labor and does not hesitate to let every man on the job know it. The foreman at the Home is a life long union man; for twenty-six years he had charge of the railroad shops at Mattoon, Ill., and left to go west when the strike of the shopmen took place; everything looks favorable for organized labor on this great institution. L. U. 171, Colorado Springs, Colo. A. E. LOWER, R. S.

How's This for Beginners. Local Union No. 148, of Peekskill, N. Y., has signed the first agreement between the journeymen and the employing painters of that city. It is a double header, provides for an increase in wages from 371⁄2 cents to 41 cents an hour and a reduction from 48 to 44 in the weekly hours of labor. This is not all; the agreement will bring about 20 new members into the local.

From the Hub.

The battle for a wage of 50 cents an hour for painters and 55 cents an hour for decorators and for the 44 hour week for Greater Boston, is practically won. The East Boston employers conceded the demands at the outset and three-fourths of those of Boston and Brookline are also paying the new scale. The fight is being pressed vigorously and the prospect is that the remaining employers will surrender in a few days.

Addition and Subtraction.

Local Union No. 467 has had some pleasant practice in arithmetic this spring. Its members have gained an addition to their wages and have reduced their hours. The new scale provides for 40 cents an hour and the eight hour day. The new order of things began on April 1st.

L. U. 467, Kankakee, Ill.

Winner of the Books.

In the raffle for books and book case, held by Local Union No. 250, of White Plains, in aid of a deserving member, brother McMaster held the lucky number. He returned the books.

SARANAC GLOVE COMPANY FIGHTS

ORGANIZED LABOR.

The men employed by the Saranac Glove Company of Littleton, N. H., organized a Union in 1910. Although no demands were made the officers were at once discharged. One man had worked for the Company twenty-five years, one twenty years, one fifteen years, one fourteen and so on.

The Saranac Glove Company is engaged in the manufacture of working men's gloves. They depend upon and want the trade of organized workmen but they will not employ organized labor. They sell their gloves under the name of Parker Brothers and to the jobber (middle man) and the large mail order houses under the name of the Saranac Glove Company.

The American Federation of Labor made an effort to effect a settlement for our organization. Mr. George M. Glazier, President of the Saranac Company told their representative that their Board of Directors would permit no union man in their factory, that they would not permit or tolerate a union in their plant, that such is their attitude now and such will be their attitude in the future.

We believe that when organized labor is acquainted with the facts its members will say they want the gloves they wear made by organized labor and they intend to buy only such gloves.

Remember the union label is the only guarantee that gloves are union made.

TWENTY-SECOND BIENNIAL SESSION

of the Northwest Painters Conference, Held in Everett, Wash., March 4 and 5, 1912. The meeting was called to order by President Frank C. Lowe, delegates attended from Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.

The following officers were elected for one year, William Stephens, Local 801, Bremerton, Wash., President; E. Staples, Local 138, Vancouver, B. C., Vice President; Samuel W. Kohler, Local 300, Seattle, Wash., Secretary-Treasurer; F. C. Clark, Local 64, Tacoma, Wash., Trustee; Louis Rank, Local 435, Seattle, Wash., Trustee; E. R. Lucas, Local 419, Yakima, Wash., Trustee.

Brother Bert Bigelow, of Local No. 10, Portland, retiring Secretary-Treasurer, was given a vote of thanks and confidence.

Reports of delegates show the smaller locals in a healthy condition. Astoria and Aberdeen, the double A's of the conference,

report the atmosphere (both cities being on sea level) too heavy for the scab germ to thrive.. The larger unions report conditions not so good, mainly on account of the degeneracy of the different Building Trades Councils. Jurisdictional fights have created so much ill feeling that it is hard to accomplish much until the get together movement makes greater headway.

A union boss of Seattle, has put the open shop bosses of Vancouver, B. C. on the run by taking three large jobs. The unfair bosses can not understand how he can pay union wages and still get the best work. This may be the means of making the bosses get together.

Through the good work done by the conference the Navy Yard at Bremerton, kept the members of Local No. 801 at work and let out twenty-three helpers-formerly the helpers stayed and the union men went.

The matter of a home for the aged and infirm brothers come up for discussion. No definite action was taken but the membership of the Northwest are advised to see that it is intelligently discussed and plans formulated and ways and means devised to carry out this humane and brotherly project.

The conference invites correspondence on matters of interest to the Brotherhood. If you have anything good in your locality don't keep it buried, let it loose and we will be pleased to try it.

The next meeting will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia.

SAMUEL W. KOHLER, Sec'y-Treas.

PROGRESS ON THE SEABOARD. The conference between the federated crafts and management of the Seaboard Air Line railway, have been concluded and an amicable settlement reached. A one cent an hour increase was granted to the machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths and painters and one-half cent an hour increase for sheet metal workers. This increase affects the employes at Savannah, Americus, Jacksonville, Fernandina, Waldo, Tallahassee, River Junction and Tampa. Employes who have been in the service for five years were also granted a division pass, for ten years' service a system pass, and fifteen years a family pass. In addition, any employee in the service one year can get a pass over foreign lines twice annually for himself or family. The men secured everything contended for.

The Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Trades and Labor Council reports that the Employers' Association is advertising broadcast "the great prosperity and high wages" that the working class of that city enjoy. The fact is that Poughkeepsie has one of the lowest average wage scales in the state.

The DeLaval Separator Works employ 300 men, each of whom, for a full week's work, receives $9.18. The F. I. A. T. Automobile Works and the Adriance, Platt Company pay the same miserly pittance and employ as many men. Skilled mechanics do not average thirty cents an hour and the Association can make good its promise of a job to every man as no workman, regardless of ability, is employed more than a few weeks. The one automobile factory has been doing business for less than two years and in that time two thousand men have come and gone.

Hundreds of men are walking the streets and yet every train that comes into the city brings some poor fellow lured by these glowing advertisements of the starvation-wage paying Employers' Association. A perfect black list is maintained so that no man can better his position by leaving one shop to seek work in another.

(This statement of conditions is signed by the officers of every trade union in Poughkeepsie. It is published together with that of local union 19, San Francisco, as representative of the tenor of many letters from widely separated sections of the country. These all serve as a warning against giving credit to the cunningly worded advertisements enticing men to leave home and seek work in distant cities, usually to meet bitter disappointment. To publish all the communications would be monotonous and defeat their object. A good rule to follow is to stay away from any place boomed by the newspapers or which advertises its advantages. The owners of newspapers and those who buy space in them expect to reap dollars for every cent spent. They are not looking for chances to help the

man out of a job but are hoping to make money out of him and his needs.)

San Francisco.

To all Local Unions of the Brotherhood, Greeting:

That San Francisco is to have the Panama Exposition in 1915, has, three years before the opening, flooded that city with mechanics.

L. U. 19 states these plain truths to all Brotherhood men who contemplate coming to the coast. The B. T. C. conservatively estimates that there are 12000 unemployed building trades mechanics in the city. The Central Labor Council estimates there are from 40,000 to 50,000 unemployed men at present in this vicinity. These councils have joined in a monster parade of unemployed to protest against the unscrupulous and unwarranted advertisements of those interested in cheap labor.

Not a spade of earth nas as yet been turned on the fair and the B. T. Council has inside information that no work will be done for eight months. There are at present 2000 carpenters' tool chests lying in the Wells-Fargo Express office. One day within the past week 864 tool chests were unloaded at the S. P. R. R. depot. Within 30 days from the date the location of the fair was decided 30,000 written applications for work were made. Today the exposition company has applications from 8,000 Greeks and other natives of southern Europe. For the love of humanity, brothers, heed this warning!

F. S. LUCE
A. J. PEAK
H. L. BROWN
A. J. BARRETT
W. A. JENKINS
Committee.

(Letters of like purport have been sent out by the central bodies of Houston, Tex., Oklahoma City, Portland, Vancouver, B. C., and Medford, Ore.)

AN EXPRESSION OF CONFIDENCE.

At the regular meeting of Local Union No. 194, Chicago, March 26, the following resolutions were adopted:

Whereas, Clarence L. Darrow, chief of counsel for the defence in the trial of the McNamara brothers, in Los Angeles, California, has since their trial and conviction been indicted on the charge of jury bribing in that case, and

Whereas, we believe that Mr. Darrow's manly, honest and fearless character, professional knowledge and experience would prevent his using false testimony or attempting to bribe a jury, and

Whereas, we believe that when the indictment against him has been honestly and fairly sifted and judged it will be found that he is innocent, therefore, be it

Resolved, that we the members of Local Union No. 194, of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, extend to Mr. Clarence L. Darrow our individual and collective sympathy and moral support, firmly believing the truth of his statement to the press declaring himself innocent of jury bribing and feeling confident of his ability to clear himself of the charge. And be it further

Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to Mr. Clarence L. Darrow, to the Painters' Journal and to the labor press. C. M. MADSEN, Sec'y.

UNFAIR WALL PAPER.

In October, 1911, the National Print Cutters' Association of America (the men who make the rolls from which the goods are printed) made an effort to organize the mill of T. J. Thomas Co., of Newark, Delaware. Ten out of twelve men employed joined the union, at which Mr. Thomas became enraged and discharged them, filling their places with colored help. We have supported these men ever since. In trying to induce Thomas to agree to union terms we earnestly appeal to the paperhangers of America to aid us by refusing to hang any but union made goods, which are easily recognized, as all union made goods bear on the margin the names of the firms making them or the union label of the Machine Printers and Color Mixers' Union. Wall papers not bearing those marks are not union made. Thomas is shipping his unfair goods to the following places: Brooklyn, Buffalo, Utica, Harrisburg, Pittsburg, Attoona, Lancaster, Reading, Braddock, Boston, Salem, Lowell, Cleveland, Providence, Louisville, Wheeling, St. Louis, Norfolk, Perryville, Chicago and New Brunswick, N. J. If the paperhangers will give us their support for a short while we will win this fight in quick time. We earnestly hope we do not appeal in vain. Fraternally yours. Print Cutters' Association of America. RICHARD H. SCHELLER,

National Secretary.