and other locals, learning of it, are tempted, in self-defense, to adopt like methods.

Purity of elections must be had; organization politics must be kept clean. If corrupt practices go unwhipped, if the unscrupulous and unprincipled are permitted to thwart the will of the membership by the falsification of returns, respect for the Brotherhood will be weakened and confidence destroyed. Before another referendum election is held, the laws should be amended so that a repetition of these deplorable, disreputable and dangerous practices shall be impossible.

The proposed amendments to the constitution providing a larger Defense Fund failed to receive enough endorsements to secure their submission to the membership. This leaves us where we were.

The experience of the past year has shown that something must be done. Never before were there so many protracted, bitter and costly struggles. At Grand Rapids, 1400 men went out and the greater part of them had to be provided for during a three months' strike. We were not prepared for such an emergency but, if we intend to follow our work into the finishing shop of the factory we must expect other experiences of a like nature. We have unionized a number of large trim and furniture factories in the past year and, as this is written, our members formerly employed by the Brunswick-Balke-Collander Company at its Long Island City, N. Y., factory strike for union hours, wages and conditions.

are on

The strike on the Illinois Central Railroad has brought us face to face with the same problem in a different form. Many of the trades with which we are affiliated in the System Federations pay fixed weekly benefits. We have been able only to make occasional and inadequate donations. Our members have maintained a solid front, none have deserted but, had they been less loyal, our inability to give them assistance equal to that received by their fellow strikers of other trades might have led to their returning to work to the discredit of the Brotherhood and the loss of the strike.

At Tampa, Fla., and at Dubuque, Ia., friendly employers have been forced to lock-out our members because of the pressure exercised by citizens' alliances and the banks. They were ordered to run open shops, and told they would be put out of business if they refused. As self-preservation is the first law of nature, they made war upon the unions.

Employers grant those things that we are strong enough to take-and no more. They enter into agreements when they believe it pays better than to fight.

When compelled to fight we must win. A lost fight is a costly experience; it may mean the work of years undone, the spirit of the local broken, the confidence of the members destroyed, sometimes the disbanding of the union.

We must face the ever-changing conditions squarely and, recognizing our limitations, after careful deliberation so revise our methods as to be able to take care of each occasion as it offers. We should move cautiously-but we should move.

Have you written your representative in the House and your United States Senators, urging them to vote for legislation in your interest.

The members of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association send thousands of telegrams to Washington whenever a bill affecting their interests is before the House or the Senate.

We want:

(1) The Wilson Bill, to end the gross abuse of the injunction process. The right to strike must be maintained, stripped of it the trade union is without force and purpose. Prejudiced or corrupt courts arrogantly spit upon the Constitution, rob us of the right to speak and print the truth, to use the public highways, even forbid us to give food to the hungry children of striking fellow-workers. Judicial tyranny must end.

(2) The Wilson Bill for the amendment of the Sherman Law; that the legality of the strike and the boycott may be established beyond question.

(3) The Berger Old Age Pension Law; that the shadow of the poor house may be lifted from our lives and the day's work lightened by the assurance that though wages be inadequate, though ill health and misfortune come, we may be assured of a modest independence when our working days are at an end.

(4) The Esch Bill; to prohibit the use of poisonous phosphorus and end the needless sacrifice of health and life in the match industry.

(5) The Dodd's Bill; to give labor journals right to sell advertising space and to the postage rates fixed for second-class matter-equal rights with magazines published for profit.

Our representatives are waiting to hear from us. This is election year and we can send them back to Washington or keep

Lawrence is the home of the American Woolen Company-the Wool Trust. Last year the president of the Company, a plausible Portuguese-American-Mr. "Wood”. spent thousands, many thousands, of dollars in display advertisements in the leading magazines, picturing the largest factory building under one roof in the world-a quarter of a mile long and six stories high-in Lawrence. Mr. Wood told of the army of American workers earning good wages who would lose their jobs if the tariff on woolen goods (Schedule K) was reduced.

Mr. Wood writes good advertising copy. Here are the facts:

Nine out of ten of the strikers are Syrians, Armenians, Turks, Greeks, Lithuanians, Letts, Italians, Hebrews, Belgians, French Canadians, Poles or Germans. Those from Asia Minor and Southeastern and Southern Europe were imported, their fares advanced through fellow-countrymen who keep boarding houses in Lawrence and who collect their wages until the debt is paid. These are the American workmen who enjoy the princely wages paid in this subsidized industry.

American people pay for clothing that is half cotton twice as much as Europeans pay for all wool. As long as the Trust is allowed to play both ends, to rob its employes of the greater part of their earnings and to charge two prices for inferior goods, Mr. Wood and the other captains in the textile industries will continue to own yachts and live in palThe stupendous factory referred to above was paid for in two years during which the Trust continued to pay dividends of twenty per cent.

aces.

Great is the Republican Party! Great is the protection which the tariff gives to the wages of American workmen.

"The merciless speeding up of the convicts in the State Prison of Connecticut and in several of the county jails has aroused a storm of indignation and horror. Two contracting corporations-the Ford Johnson Co. and the Reliance Mfg. Co., manufacturing chairs and shirts, respectively-have forced the prison officials to resort to physical punishment in order to get the maximum output. Said a prominent social worker: "The physical punishment of the convict by the contractor who has leased him for industrial purposes, is a disgrace to the community which tolerates its continuance, yet the citizens of Connecticut stand meekly by and let a political boss remark: "Well, what in h-1 are you going to do about it?" The contract system is discredited universally, but in no other state in the Union has it sunk to as low an ebb as in Connecticut, the home of old Yale University."

The governor of Connecticut is Judge Simeon Baldwin, who shares Taft's veneration for courts as the ante-chambers of Heaven. This was made evident in his wordy war with Roosevelt when that worthy administered deserved rebukes to the Court of Appeals of New York state for its ruling against the constitutionality of the Workmen's Compensation Act and to the Federal Supreme Court for its ruling against the constitutionality of the New York law limiting the working hours of bakers to ten in each twenty-four. Judge Baldwin was highly incensed at the presumption of the rough-rider and made dire threats, but friends intervened and the thing was dropped. The judge endeared himself to the working people of Connecticut by saying that there are too many lace curtains at the windows, too many rooms with carpet on the floors, and too many pianos in their homes.

It would be unreasonable to expect so high and mighty a gentleman-and a judge mind you to inquire into complaints of the inhuman treatment of convicts-poor devils at the mercy of every grafter holding a political job-especially when it might affect the profits of wealthy concerns which no doubt do their part when campaign funds are needed.

There is so much official matter that the correspondence page is omitted from this number. Letters held over will be published next month.

Brother C. C. Cameron, of Local Union No. 109, Omaha, Neb.

Brother W. E. Murray, of Local Union No.

109, Omaha, Neb.

Brother George Frier, of Local Union No.

291, Mamaroneck, N. Y.

Brother John Grise, of Local Union No. 257,
Springfield, Mass.

Brother E. A. Harrington, of Local Union
No. 257, Springfield, Mass.
Brother George E. Potter, of Local Union
No. 192, Stamford, Conn.
Brother Frank Anderson, of Local Union
No. 190, Bridgeport, Conn.

Brother Chas. J. Beyer, of Local Union No. 953, Baltimore, Md.

Brother Thomas McConnell, of Local Union
No. 150, Rochester, N. Y.
Brother John M. Hudson, of Local Union
No. 501, Fishkill on Hudson, N. Y.
Brother John J. Gilgenboch, of Local Union
No. 222, Milwaukee, Wis.

Brother John J. Garbutt, of Local Union No.

848, New York, N. Y.

Brother Wm. Woltman, of Local Union No. 184, Chicago, Ill.

Brother Jacob Knapp, of Local Union No. 78, Hoboken, N. J.

Brother Samuel Baisley, of Local Union No.

892, New York City, N. Y.

Brother Wm. H. Murphy, of Local Union
No. 892, New York City, N. Y.
Brother Wm. J. Stoughton, of Local Union
No. 30, Savannah, Ga.

Brother H. F. Green, of Local Union No. 72,
Pittsburg, Pa.

Brother Chas. Burrows, of Local Union No. 72, Pittsburg, Pa.

Brother David Benjamin, of Local Union No. 78, Hoboken, N. J.

Brother William Monroe, of Local Union No. 265, Chicago, Ill.

Brother L. S. Rogers, of Local Union No. 500, Paducah, Ky.

Brother John W. Cross, of Local Union No. 497, Port Chester, N. Y.

Brother William Maier, of Local Union No. 499, New York City, N. Y. Brother Fred Semelman, of Local Union No. 396, Chicago, Ill.

Brother Wm. F. McGregor, of Local Union No. 218, Scranton, Pa.

Brother Carl Senft, of Local Union No. 275,
Chicago, Ill.

Brother J. M. McFarland, of Local Union
No. 19, San Francisco, Cal.
Brother James Walsh, of Local Union No.
147, Chicago, Ill.

Brother Charles Mabrey, of Local Union No. 656, Moberly, Mo.

Brother John Oridge, of Local Union No. 59, Elizabeth, N, J.

Brother James Kelley, of Local Union No. 59, Elizabeth, N. J.

Brother Harry Smith, of Local Union No. 147, Chicago, Ill.

Brother W. T. Murrish, of Local Union No. 274, Stockton, Cal.

Brother John F. Williams, of Local Union No. 50, Cincinnati, O.

Brother Dan P. Martin, of Local Union No.

115, St. Louis, Mo.

Brother Peter English, of Local Union No. 613, Burlington, Vt.

Brother Joseph Baker, of Local Union No. 4, Kansas City, Mo.

Brother Fred Borck, of Local Union No. 180, Oak Park, Ill.

Brother Roger W. Rogers, of Local Union No. 50, Cincinnati, O.

Brother Frederick L. Perkins, of Local Union No. 575, Winsted, Conn. Brother Alex Hanson, of Local Union No. 679, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brother James Weldon, of Local Union No. 345, Philadelphia, Pa.

Brother H. B. Wybrands, of Local Union No. 401, Hot Springs, Ark.

Brother Geo. A. Shelley, of Local Union No. 460, Hammond, Ind.

Brother T. C. Morris, of Local Union No. 567, Reno, Nev.

Brother J. L. Wingate, of Local Union No. 549, Erie, Pa.

Brother Richard Dulleck, of Local Union No. 275, Chicago, Ill.

Brother J. E. Gibbs, of Local Union No. 111, Lynn, Mass.

Brother August Berger, of Local Union No. 892, New York City, N. Y. Brother Ed. M. Brohan, of Local Union No. 341, St. Louis, Mo.

KEY

FINISH

Brother Chas. G. Smith, of Local Union No. 169, Jersey City, N. J.

Brother Joseph Noonan, of Local Union No. 391, Boston, Mass.

Brother Frank M. Spiller, of Local Union
No. 19, San Francisco, Cal.
Brother Thomas Ververka, of Local Union
No. 273, Chicago, Ill.

Brother Michael McMahon, of Local Union
No. 147, Chicago, Ill.

Brother Richard Chester, of Local Union No. 54, Evanston, Ill.

Brother John Russ, of Local Union No. 118, Louisville, Ky.

Brother C. V. Bergreen, of Local Union No. 79, Denver, Colo.

Brother G. Harris, of Local Union No. 184, Chicago, Ill.

Brother John Lavigue, of Local Union No. 613, Burlington, Vt.

Brother J. Frisbie, of Local Union No. 184, Chicago, Ill.

Brother E. G. Baer, of Local Union No. 282, Pittsburg, Pa.

Brother J. P. Mootz, of Local Union No. 147, Chicago, Ill.

Brother Chas. Lindelof, of Local Union No.

1006, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brother John Lee, of Local Union No. 848, New York, N. Y.

Brother E. E. Clark, of Local Union No. 49, Memphis, Tenn.

Brother Oliver Lacrose, of Local Union No. 48, Worcester, Mass.

Brother Martin S. Hartman, of Local Union
No. 4, Kansas City, Mo.
Brother Alfred F. DeSachy, of Local Union
No. 507, San Jose, Cal.
Brother Wm. Herman, of Local Union No.
194, Chicago, Ill.

Brother T. G. Lucas, of Local Union No. 467, Kankakee, Ill.

Brother Ed. Lever, of Local Union No. 927, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brother Joe Lugowski, of Local Union No. 455, Chicago, Ill.

BROOKLYN

Brother August Hoherst, of Local Union No. 112, Buffalo, N. Y.

Brother August Bush, of Local Union No. 66, Quincy, Ill.

Brother Elmer Rosengren, of Local Union
No. 254, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Brother Julius Hupe, of Local Union No.
539, Waukegan, Ill.

Brother Ernest Grubie, of Local Union No. 497, Port Chester, N. Y.

Brother I. A. McCaslin, of Local Union No. 127, Alameda Co., Oakland, Cal.

Brother Harry Paterson, of Local Union No. 585, Galveston, Texas.

Brother Martin P. Hand, of Local Union No. 59, Elizabeth, N. J.

Brother James D. Gleason, of Local Union No. 48, Worcester, Mass.

Brother Thomas Flanigan, of Local Union No. 451, Attleboro, Mass.

Brother P. W. Meldon, of Local Union No. 19, San Francisco, Cal.

Brother Chas. O. McVey, of Local Union No. 11, Boston, Mass.

Brother John Stefan, of Local Union No. 668, Vancouver, Wash.

Brother C. F. Kunow, of Local Union No. 31, Syracuse, N. Y.

Brother Ole Evans, of Local Union No. 194, Chicago, Ill.

Brother W. J. McCoy, of Local Union No. 296, Brockton, Mass.

Brother B. F. Sherman, of Local Union No. 508, Sharon, Pa.

Brother Marshall E. Miller, of Local Union No. 178, Ithaca, N. Y.

Brother James J. Hall, of Local Union No. 341, St. Louis, Mo.

Brother Wm. F. Biglow, of Local Union No. 11, Boston, Mass.

Brother Cornelius J. Conway, of Local Union No. 101, Chicago, Ill.

Brother Frank Wyburg, of Local Union, No. 130, Houston, Texas.

Brother A. G. Brown, of Local Union No. 318, Ft. Worth, Texas.

NOTICES.

Bro. Fred D. Henchel, President of L. U. No. 1053, Washington, D. C., writes the General Office as follows:

"In perusing our valuable and welcome Journal of the current issue, my attention is directed to a notice on page No. 36, 'Defaulting Officers,' concerning Bro. Fred Henschel, of Local 702, Kansas City, Mo. I would ask you to have inserted in February issue of Journal such notice as you deem needful to inform my many friends and acquaintances in the Brotherhood that I am not the Brother referred to in this notice. I have traveled considerable, following my occupation and I'm better known as 'Fred Henchel.' Misleading and bad bad news travels fast. I will thank you in advance to make this clear. It has a humorous side which does not appeal to me. Respectfully and fraternally,

Fred D. Henchel, President, Local No. 1053, Washington, D. C.

The Rec. Sec. of L. U. No. 363, Champaign and Urbana, Ill., reports that it was an error to report in the "Fined and Expelled" column, Bros. Fred Wardlow and Merle Meeklin. Said brothers were fined and suspended.

FINED.

Bro. Barney Cohen, of L. U. No. 147, Chicago, Ills.

EXPELLED.

Bro. Basil N. Freil, of L. U. No. 420, Washington, D. C.

FINED AND EXPELLED. Bro. J. Evens, of L. U. No. 571, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Bro. Frank May, of. L. U. No. 118, Louisville, Ky.

ERROR IN FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

L. U. 772 was credited in January financial statement with payment of $7.80 tax in November. This payment was made by L. U. 773. The printer's error was overlooked in reading proof. Both locals have been notified of the mistake.

CORRECTION.

The name of Bro. A. C. Myers, of L. U. 424, Little Rock, Ark., by error was included among those of deceased members in the January "In Memoriam" page. The deceased member is Bro. M. R. Myers of the same local union.

THE ELECTION RETURNS.

Tabulated Report in Preparation.

The copy of the full report of the Election Board is in the printer's hands. It will be set in tabulated form to show the vote reported by each local union and received by each candidate. The returns in the elections of general officers, of delegates to A. F. of L. conventions and of delegates to Building Trades Department conventions will be printed on separate sheets; the sheets reporting the returns in the elections of delegates being sub-divided and numbered so as to be easily referred to.

Copies of the reports will be sent to each local union and to each candidate. The copies sent to the secretaries of the locals should be posted in the meeting hall, for reference by members. Each local union should see that its vote was accurately reported and is properly credited. If any omissions or errors are found, Headquarters should be notified so that correction may be made.

THE PRIZE WINNER.

In the raffle of a watch and fob given by L. U. No. 200, Ottawa, Ont., the lucky number (7941) was held by Bro. Sinclair of L. U. 114, Kingston, Ont.

TO FINANCIAL SECRETARIES.

Do Not Mutilate Membership Books.

Some secretaries remove the covers from membership books when sending them for examination in claims for benefits. This practice should be discontinued, the leaves fall apart and as in many instances the year is not entered upon them it is impossible to tell to what year payments apply. The books should be forwarded intact as received from the relatives of the deceased member.

WATCH YOUR BENEFITS.

Local Unions in Arrears.

Any L. U. becoming two months in arrears for per capita tax to the General Office shall at once be notified by the G. S.-T., and failing to settle all arrearages in fifteen days from date of such notice its members shall not be entitled to benefits nor shall they be again entitled to benefits until three months after all arrearages are paid. Section 24 of the Constitution.

Unions two months in arrears on closing monthly accounts January 31, 1912.

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