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Official Journal of the National Brotherhood Electrical.Workers of America •
VOL. S, No. !O.
The Pau;.American Exposi=
tion.
By Jvim Dennis.
It is pi obable tll>lt en~r)' reeder of the
:mectric.ai Worker is aware that a grand
Pan-American Exposition is to be held in
the city of Bdfalo ill the year 1901, and
-that. pt eJ.'aH~tiOI1S are IIOW making with the
determination that it shall be th" mo~t
l1(,tuble exposition in which the entire
Wc.,tern Hehlisphere is interested that has
.:v ..! lJeel\ heJd.
A! f..::H;ight it w0ulJ seem to be 'i little
early to forecast this Expusitioli, .and
especially to consider it in reierence to its
rd:niol\ to the electrical iudustry, with
which we are especially concerned. It
must be rp'"\fP'11be.cf,d, however, 't.hat no
great and comprehensive exposition can
b~ cre~~ed in a year, ·'and this is especially
true wh~n the art of electricity is to form
sud;. an impvrtan1'f?ctor, Two years will
b~ 'little eunugh, e'''en. with the energetic
board of managers ,to which has been
.assigned the work, to prepare for a fair 011
the gigallti.c scale which has been laid out.
. A. good man)" int~resting things mig!l!..
be written reganHng the preparations for
. tllt! great fair, for which the energetic peo-
;,l~ cf th(; BLvll Ci:i' arl!. ahc:dy arrang-
ing. In oae respect it will be unique, as
·thE". great cm;ntries which lie to the south
of us have heen given to lInJt'rstaud i)lainly
tl:at the' Pan-All1cricun Exposi~ion ·.dE be
:"l~ch in {;E~t as well as i'l.l1aJil.'~ ; that the
b\.e~ests of the Celltral an,l S0uth Ameri-
can l~,)untries IIfe,for ollce,to i .. e cOllserved,
and that they are to be part alll'\ parcel of
tlH! fair, and ~"lot liH:rc adjui~(~!5 ill the ",:ay
of a I,rid way Plai"ance, nor iii illsignificant
allne~.cs.· It is, b;.we,-er, wit.h the Expv:;i-
lion in it" ~i..".;lric~l phases, and the g;gm:-
ROCHESTER, N.V., MAY, 1899.
tic preparations. wllich must be made, if
Buffa!o is to make good its claim to be
'!cnown as the "Electrical'City_" \Vhile
the programme of the m3.nagers regarding
the electrical features of the Exposition
ha~ not been perfected, it is known, in a
general ,...ay, that the highest adv,ance of
the ~.~t 011 all lin-=:; ·sill be demonstrated_
Perhaps the most si,y,liificant 'indication of
this illtention is found ill the evidences of
acth-ity at Niagara Falls, from whence, of
course, the greater part of the energy will
be tnmsmiltcd for all the pnrposes of the
Exhibition. There is, no mistakiug the
meaning of the large influx of capital rep-
lesenting electrical industries which is set:
ling toward Buffalo alid Niagara Falls;
neither is there any-t)ct:t1~!oll for' disguising
the fact that it finds it;: warrant in the im- .
?0rta,'::>" wbich electricity will p..ssume in
IIlaking the Exposition <'. succ",s~_ T.he
transmission of power from Niag~~r.:l Falls
to Buffalo in the form of electricity' under
high voltaglO, aGel its adllptibility to econ-
omical use in that city, both in altcrnating
form and after transfonuatioll into coritin~
uous current, and in a comtl1crcial way, is
110 longer a matter of experiment. It has
res'J1ved itself. into a question of the
amount of power available at the F3lls, the
applianceS for generating it in the form of
dt:ctdc~~y, ailu copper for In:.nsll.ission.
It seems to be conceded that sufficient
power can be obtail1~d, and the n:maining-
two factors reduce themselves 1.0 the ques-
tion of capital; and this sort ,)f energy is
turning towards ~uffalo ar.d 'r{iagara Falls
in enormolls volume.
It may fairly be taken for granted, there-
fore, that the Pan-A merican Exposition.
will not be lucking ill that which is essen-
tial to the su('ct>~~ ~jf its electric'al features.
UpOIl which so ilm~h stress is alrea.l)" 11rop-
erly laid. hldet....;,. i~ does not requir~ that
.=
SINGLE CoprES, 10 C~NTSa
P~R VEAR.'IN AOVANCB
!I.oo
one be a prophet or the sOI.l·of a· propaet
to forseethat·the enormous 'resource~ of
Niagara Falls will be taxed to furnish an
adequate amount of cnerl:,'), _,
As has been said i1 is too clllly t<.l fairly
estimate the electrical necessities of the
Pan-American Exposition, and th ... · indus-'
tries which will be Iieces,;arily connected
with it, for it must not be forgotten that
an exposition of the character 01 the on;!
planned for Ruffalo stiUlulates luany ill-
dustries which must, from the·very nat.1re
of the I::ase, depend upon electricity, in
some form, for their cni:rgy. ·It is light
here,·it seems to me, that the:. interest 6f
practical electricia'ns iti the Pan-American·
Exposition centers. I !IIay possibly over
estimate the importance of electricity in
connection with the great fair, and in its
preparation, bui; I nw noi: at prescut =n-
vinced that my estimate is exce::sive_ '.
Take for instance the' item of electric
railwa):s alone_ It must not bef(,r~otten
that the great SOltth country is yet, to a
great extent, to be provided with this
modern means of mpid transit. It is liot.
to be, imagined that visitors. from Central
. and South American cities will . be allowed, .
to visit the ExpoSition without witnessing
the most recent advance in the art .
Already additional electric lines have been
proJected. between Buffalo and Niagara
Falls not only, but to other. points of in-
tere:;t, ana t!tc,'e is no room to doubt that
the art, as it lIlay be advanced in the year
after next, will be fully exemplified. Indi-
cations are not lacking that, before the
Exposition of 1901 opens its gates, the use
of the polyphase alternating current will
have wrought a revolution. in street rail-
way practice.
Indeed, it wO)lid seem to be the part of
ordinary busines,,· prudence arid eHterprise
to gin:. t<.o the dec.deal industry its full
 meed of im~rtance, n~t only in the pr~p­ P. S.-A queStion?' ,': . _' ,>" ."
, aratioDs for the Pan-American Exposition, , •What is the ,_
advantage
•
olfliriniiig
.. ~:"~·";'.~!"'.~·/·Jh~~
'3 ,flat'
but in the I:'lrii.i.~1f.' _ . wire for gro~dW'I'f~"e~.1:~g,litD~ng;~n:~~rs _
Wh~n we stop a moment to consider thE: in preferen~~fQ a ro~d,on~r',',' :=_,~'"' ..
op~.Bities, which will be affor~ the Ec:!itor' , , youFS.J'espeGtftl'lly, ' : , ; ,,"
Pail~ftmerlCan Exposition for 'the utiliza- ; Ip, reg'}r4 ' question, ,' OWEN' NfcEWjfN,~;"
tio* «the electric~ent, one may fairfy .~ Where does engine '''" ~£l;~;b..t~.':::'~,
stand aghast. OWing to the almost unliui~ tra,~~! thefq~er"tbe cylin- .' . . '>:. »" ': '."F":" !vl .,;. :_;,;.;.
itedsuppfj' 0L~n~rgf~\dticb,.tk~ catar/!.c,t deiorttiwat~,sf.th'e'brailk-Pll'l", It travels This is ~ problem w:e'~w()I!IJtl~~.~~m~J?f
of 'Niagaraa~~ abRiida~t caPJ.tal will p1ace l:b;e' ;S~Wf ;to~ai~ ~th.er.: b~t't~av~ls faro.' the Qrothellsto answ~r. ,~T~,«t;!ltIl'~1i,tl~!:,IS,
at itsdis~l;it,j~ not to belmQ:giiled:.that" ,the(-~br 'tasieJ-l:b.tl' rtie,:J.i;rst; aOQ;,last, quarter can'you test a 100 H. p.gen,er!ltor;:Dyj;the"
thejD,auagers of ~e E;po§i.~on;will:omit, th~nQn, th"e ot:.b~r;:,twci,:,~,·w;li1 :I)e -'seen by use of a ten·horse eagine alil~ (,ne:'lntn~,rc:?
any 01Jpo$nltiesf. EI~tifcity is just now ,t~eacco!ppan'yili~g\'(4ra'fing~ \iA: to:D, full horse motor. Uso, how. and if n<it;:~Qy7 ' '
adva~ctti~rstriile'S-wtii~:no man 'may" i-li~_,i.,,'( ~ : : " , 'r"" I also wish to submit' the:fofIo~~g- 3,;"a
measure. ,~\Vliat aj}yancemen~the'c6ming solutio!,! to the seven cable questioii- asked
, .....
two,~eats Win'witli~s, n~ne'~n tell. Cet- last month: ' . ,:, '
taitl-,ii':is, how~ver, that the fopportunity is First ground' number I and 'ta'g ~i~e on
offi!r,~ fOl''te~ploiting these Q:dvancements, each side. then go over bri4ge'anrl l'i~l(it
wheru~, they ,be' On the lines of purely up and tag. Then short cir~1f;;6l); a'n!l '
commerdiii endeavor or in the demonstra-, two and ground three; go to the ~ast'"sid~
non of the' tn06t recent scientifit: rev ..la- and test two lor shert circuit wilh D,umb;er ~
tiOns. , one, and test for number three ~itJi-ir9P~d
Wireless ~telegi-aphy, the Roentgen en- strQk~; A,td .B,b~lf stroke; ,A to C travel and tag same. Now short cii-~ui t 61i~ and
ergy, reCent- dis~overies' and applications 'Of first q!,1arter, Gto Dtravel of 2d quarter, four, two and five, three a'nd·~§i'i:--~Iiid'
on therapeutic lines, and the many appliCa- and 110 Oil. Eto§ f~rst,qt1arter, F to G 2d, '
tions of the electric fluid which might, for G,to H 3d, 'U to ~Ath, or vice :versa.
" , " ,,-, Respectfully.
~;:~~~d:,ur%~e:~:;j;:1~1~~?ift~t:th::r
want of 'a better expresSion, be called out and tag and return to ~astside, makin-gthe
of the common, will doubtless find a prom- i- ,: .r !=... C. ELY, car fare twenty cents. '
inen,t exemplification for the first time at I..oql. No. 40. M. P. S.
.", ..
any general Exposition'. ,This is partially - ,
"~,a;.

because the Buffalo Fair will:be the first Siou,x City. la., May I, 1899. Editor Electrical \Vorker : -'h '" '", ..

apositionwhere full opportunity,will be Editor Electrical Worker~

How should a splice connecting:)wo
offered,-but principally' because the time In repl); to Br:o. Ed. M,f-C:~rthy's ques-
ends of a million circular~mill, st~anded
tion of March 22,; ,the 'ans~x.er ~ both ways,
is ripe. wire cable be mad~tobe used:6,~o~tsid~,
In this brief and' necessanly general but he \Vants to ,know mOre th,an that, so 1 pole line construction as a ligliting or
article, I, have not undertaken to cover will, trY'~pd: ~ke itpl4in, When the power feeder? , ,
fully any of the electrical features of what crank has made o~~-quarter, :turn and the How should same be made for inside
all anticipate' will be the greatest of Amer- centerof thli!,crankpin i~pltimb with the work where there is practically no strain
ican, if not, indeed,.,the greatest of world center pfthe ~ri1I)k .shaft, you ,will find that on the joint? '
Ex-positions. It has been my motive to ' the, crosl'-heafl,h~s ,P1lsseq., ,01'. ~as not re- ,What method of soldering and what kind
call the attention of 'the practical, readers turne!i,to ,th,e cel1ter gf itsstTl?ke (measur- of a soldering flux WQuid you recommend?
of the Electri-cal Worker to what seems to ing, from the cy.1inder end)., ,,so the first , " "p:'C.!.,~SW
me to be an important event in their lives. quart~r tp-d!~st ,~uart~r "revQl,ution of the
In fact, I know of no class of skiiled arti- crCink. sfitl..'t ,t.h~ crQ~SAe~d _travels the (Cro~ded" out ,- of A'prii'lssue.>,
Zans or professional people to whom the fastest, >l'itartillg Jr"'m'>~4e"cyHJ;l(i'er en<~. " ',. ", ,.'

forthcoming Exposition appeals so That makes ,# botbwa,ys, Jioping that ,No Free Samples. ,,', "
strongly or to whom it'affords ,greater op- this, will answ!ef,.' I. a,m, ;in .,favor of the Pumpville, Kan., ApriJ:J4', '1899.
portunities. ' quest~9n_:box ;·.itis just w,hat ~'e want.
Office'o~the: Nr~~T.eso 'l' '
As tlie, two years of preparation pass, , ,F;raterria~ly Yours", Hot Air ,Cbmatlng:~O. S
, and as' the great Exhibition' ,reaches its -i'\LB.,t.:R:r,~HQRTLY, The H. A. C. Co. has decided 'after 'a'
full fruition, it will he a,constant source ,,' ' , l-pca} No. 47. lengthy meeting of officers-and stock'hold~
of -interest and enlightenment to every ',--'- ers' not to distribute'any free samples ,of
l>~ctical worker, as well as to those whose Buffalo, Apr.il 25, 1899. air. While we are' willing to:' h.i-ve "our
!nterest lies chiefly in the, technical Editor Electrical Worker: books and system closely 'invelitigated''a.ria:'
fecituresof the art. In'answer to Bro. Sutton's question : we invite all our friends to" ',cOD'lth and
On reaching end of; cabie face the end breathe all the air they can get 'in their'
P'IU~NDS OP' J.,A.:30R.
2 nd start' at marked' wire to the right; then lungs, we are notgoiiig to'3tarta tr'ee dis- N

go to the other elid uf cable and facing end tributing depot for a,r~" " ',';" -, .
.r It is with pleasure that w~ receive the of cable'~eginat marked ....'ire and go to We have air to sell andiliT"t6"bre~i:b~
contract of Cleveland & Whitehill Co.; of the left ; the same wii'eat left of marked and one of our money 'ma'khs '~ill';be 'a
N-ewburgh,N. Y., for'term of advertising wire will be' the same, as the right hand Humo Air Meter. In time'we'wm;have
of. tbeir U Keystone·' Over-halls and Pants; wire at the other end pftabU:'or vice-versa. ' the pleasure of ,seeing eve1:y'one- over 'the
an'd'ate'requested by 'them to tliank ,the - H"you wa'ntto 'test ''your:dtbie connect age of 12 with an air meter wnich"wllJ
members of our Organization and all Union one 'end a:ltogetllei: and -test from the accurately give the number of feet of air
men for their liberal patronage,in the past, opposite end'.' ,It is net nec'e'ss:try to tag used by each person,and' we, in~end to:
which has insured ,a continuance of their your'wires if one understands' a cable. charge so mucbayear ,for, ~ machines;'
a
adv~rtjsing. Tb,s isstt'ictly ynion bouse Tner.eiore"it .... iH onlyne 'two tri,!-'S over ,he Every machine is warranted, to sc;pa,rate:
with a record of nineteen years in business , bridg'e~ one over'and one back; which will the air from all microbes. bact~~i~ a~dJoul
without a strike:' be 10 cents. germs, thereby giving the wearer perfectly

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pure oxygen and hydrogen. One could
put on a Humo-Air Meter and walk
through the embalming meat establish-
. ment of Armour & Co. and come out and
say" never touched me." They could also
pass throngh the halls of our rotten poli-
ticians and the reeking, filthy slums of
Chicago's political dives and come out
purer than the angels we read about.
With one of our celebrated purifiers on I
helieve we could sit in the hillis of Congress
and the house of American Lords (Senate)
and depart purer than the beaptiful snow.
I am sorry to say. to .. Practical" that we
never, no never, could ·send a free sample
o( air"
You tell your (riend who has the $16.00
to send it on,-the stenographer just told
me we nee,Jed some post,!ge stamps and
ink. VI'e do not intend to do anything
with' the foreign trade this Summer, as we
belive that the horne market we!! worked
will be ;;:11 that is possible for us to cover.
Our expc~t, Mr. Nicko-Teso has plans and
!':pecincations for a car to run by liquid air
and controlled by dried water. He expects
to make a trial trip to Mars in the next 60
days. Should the car prove a success, and'
there is hardly a chance in these days of
great men for failure, the fact will be duly
published in our daily paper. The $100,000
block of stock will be shipped by (reight to
Practical, Lima, Ohio. T.he carpenter is
now boxing it up. Charges to be collectcrl
at both ends.
Yours truly,
J. L. SQUERGUHM,
Secretary.
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AN ACKNOWl'.EDGMENT.
Cleveland, 0., April 18, 18c)9.
Editor Electrical "Worker:
If you can spare the space will you pub-
lish the following lines &c., in your May
issue.
RETALIATION.
The \Vorker got here yesterday, and as r
rearl its pages through,
I saw a rderence to my sickness, a pen-
picture Uncle drew.
Yes, I've spent months under cover, for
what purpose I don't know,
While some hours are filled with sadness,
others with bright moments glow.
Wlien I'm feeling blue, despondent, then
Olir Aunt anu Unde comes,
Then at once my thoughts are lifted from
mind's lo\\' and gruesome slums;
I.Not by the contents of the basket Auntie
slips in the back way),
But the bright face of our Uncle and the
pleasant things he'd say.
If he's quaint, 'tis all the better, every word
.. comes from his Ire-art;
Ali he says is to encourage me ·to better
p:ay my part,
.. :
THE ELECTRI~SL WORKER
And his !}Ieas..lnt .~ Ay there sonr;y, aiIi't'
you cEJmin'- dt)Yhl't'lJ \~ork," -
Goin' to lay" tfi~re all the. summer, surely
you ain't 'goin to shirk,"
Brings a smile in spite. of fever, makes me
glad in spite of pain, .
Whiie he 'talks, he does not murmur, none
will hear our Tom complain.
Life is sunshine while he's present, with
his wit he does beguile,
Time flies past and you are feeling, how he
loves the rank and file.
Had this world a few more Uncles, and
such wives as ours has got,
Brighter would be beds of sickness, hap-
pier be each brother's lot; . to establish a: six-day week for' their em-
Then all jealousy and iJatred, petty strife
in life be gone, . lower grades to a living wage. In addition
And the day of love and gladness open
with a sunny morn.
! shott:d iike to avail myself of this op-
portunity to thank Local 38 and each mem-
ber thereof individually for all they have
done for me and mine during my sickness.
I will not try to enumerate, but please
accept my sincerest thanks for all the
many favors hestowed upon me'by you.
Your Brother,
FRED E. WARD,
Local 38.
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THE FRIENDS OF MUNICIPAl'. OWN-
ERSHIP.
As a result of municipal ownership some
cities of Europe have no taxes to pay as
t1wy receive enough from public fran-
chises to meet all the expenses of govern-
ment.
The Glasgow Weekly Mail of April 15th.
has the foll(Jwin~ on the growth uf muni-
cipalization in Great Britain, which ,,'ill be'
an object lesson upon the advantage of
municipal ownership.
How mw::h have the ratepayers saved by
municipalization of water supply? Sir
James Bell answered this question in 1896.
Up to 1\lay of that year they had saved in
the domestic watp.r rate alone, $3,250,000;
in meter charges, $2,000,000; in trade
charges, $600,000, making a good 56,500,000
in money, putting it roundly, which has
he en left in the pockets of the rate-payers
and trade consumers by the reductions of
rates and charges effected in the course of
forty years of corporation management.
The three years' additiunal savings since
18¢ must bring up the total amount to
$7,500,000. But the savings that can be
reckoned in money are trivial compared
witlI the sanitary and social benefits that
Glasgow has derived frOlll the Loch Katrine
supply.' . to his relatives and to our official journal
The gas department can show results
scarce! y less satisfactorv, \Ve ha \'e now
had thirty years' experi~nce or" municipal
manage,mnt of the gas supply and while
the price has been reduced by more than
3
a
half, we have system which for general
efficiency and the pains taken to meet the
wants and convenience of consumers co~ld
hardly be excelled. What the Tramway
Department have done in improving' the
tramcar service and reducing fares is mat-
ter of common knowledge. \Ve can only'
conjecture what the citizens have saved by
the municipalization of these three depart-
ments' alone. Fifteen million dollars would
hardly be an extravagant gU(;SS.
The \Varwick News, speaking upon the
advantages of municipal ownership, says
that out of a profit of $70,000 on its invest-
ment in the South London streetcar sys-
tem, the London C'ounty Council is going
ployes, as well as raise the wages of the
fares have been reduced nearlv one-half,
the passengers having only a f~re of one
cent .an-i. extra services have been put on.
At a meeting of the Dover corporation, it
was st'lted that the result c! the year's
working of the municipal electric' street
cars was a sum of S45,oootaken in one-cent
fares. A profit of O\'er $10,000. has been
made which goes towards the relief of the
rates.
Surely such results of municipal owner-
ship will bring about a change in this city.
and other cities so that the people may
derive all the benefit possible from muni-
cipal economies now gobbled up by cor-
purate bodies, who claim to be the bene-
factors rather than "the beneficiaries of the
municipalities.
••Re~olutions adopted' on the death of
Perry Johnson, by Local Union No. 45, ~.
B_ E . .\':'; ;tt Buffa!c, N. Y.
\Vhereas, Our union has sustained a sad
loss in the death of our beloved Bro. Perry
Johnson.
Resolved, That we, as a bwtherly or-
ganization, pay tribute to his· memory in
these lines, as a character worthy of confi-
dence, honor and justice, and that death
was met as life had been lived.
Resolved, That as a .union we most
humbly bow submissive to the will. of an
A !Jwise Gon,
Resol ved, That we drape our charter
fur the peti6duf thirty days, as a token of
respect; and be it further
Resolved, That we spread a copy of
these resolutions on the minute book of
Local ~ o. 45, and that a copy be forwarded
for publication.
JAMES BRonERICK,
T~ J. McDOUGALl.,
L. H. BANGERT,
Committee.
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451 W. Constress St , Chicago, 111.
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731 Powers Bldg., Rochester, N. Y.
Grand .Treasurer-.P. H. Wissinger,
741 W, Fayette 5t,·, Baltimore, Md.
Finn Vice'President-Theodore Gould,
u Wareham St., Boston, Mass.
_ Second Vice-President-C. H. Adams,
290I Summit. St., Kansas City, Mo.
Third Vice-President-Thomas Forbes,
1104 Thirteenth St., Detroit, Mich.
Fourth Vice·President-S. M. Keeble,
2233 Park Ave., St. !.ouis, Mo.
Filth Vice-President-R. P. Gale,
121-0 A Broadway, San FranciSCO, Cal.
Subscription $1.00 per year, in advance.
.AS The Electrical Worker reaches the men who do
the work and recommend or order the material,
its val ue as an advertising medium can be readily
appreciated. . badly, and if 1 h3.d enough woney to stock
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY,
W. N. Gates, Special Advertising Agent,
29 Euclid Avenue; Cleveland, O.
......... N8 ....... T . . . OOM • • T ....
:N. B.~. W.
. After working under adverse circum·
stances for seven years theN. B. E. W.
can at last see a ray of sunshine and hope;
can see the possibility of making itself
one of the grea~est labor organizations of
the day. The· time is now, ri pe for every
member to put his shoulder to the wheel
and work unceasingly for the good of all
concerned, dropping all petty differences,
all thought of malice. Keep in mind the
good and welfare of our craft. It is not a
question of who is or who will be its head,
, Frl!,ternaliy, .
,
'. foX' ~with9"1t the support of- the. memb€rs"
the heads can accomplish nothing. With
an earnest effort on the part of each mem-
ber of this Brotherhood the next Conven-
tion should be the record-breaker. In the
few months we have left us show our man·.
hood, our unionism, by doing all we can.
If mistakes bave .heen made in the past,
let us profit by them. If officers have been
tried ·and found wanting, in . a: few months
chal~ges i:an be made; to Ute 'satisfa:ction
of all. A man who has the welfare of this
Brotherhood at heart. must have higller
a{ms andmoi.ives than catering to any oue
for office. -'" man ",:ill) has tbe int(~r:ests of
the Bl'0th~rhood at h~a!t w0rks for the
good of all, and ilO~ a ce:-taill few; deals
O!l the or-roll ground:; that thecollc:ern of
ODe is the coucern,of all. lfwe will take
this for our motto' we must win. Let us
drop petty j~alous:es arid bkkerings and
get together. While this Brotherhood has
made rapid strides. ill the past two years
financially and' numerically, there is still
a great wor-k to do, aud it will take indi-
vidual efforts to accomplish the desired
eud. If you know some good tellow who
has allowed himself to becomp. ·suspended
through some triYlal thing. go to him and
trv and convince him he ha;; made an error.
R~,member, a litqe wotd in kindness spo-
ken, a motion ()r tear, has often healed the
heart that's broken and madc a Jrif'nd sin-
cere. Get ail the lIew members you call',
and let the year of '99 be tb~ banner year
cf this Brotherhood. . mo·~tl.i;s Worker with much iIll erest, es-
~Work 'I::)l' its best illterest at all tiDIes,
anu if YOllbear this fellow or- that olle is
talking behind your b:;'ck _and saying you
are tryillg to be the whol'" thing, take con-
solation:-iD- the Uwught', it's the roaring
lion that faces the cur thai sna~$ at your
heels. Pay no attenti':>n to idi'e rumors,
fer· while t4cy are ripping you they are
letting up on some other 'pOOl' fellow, and
you are accomplishing a go'Cd. unexpect-
1899. edly. In time you will becoDle hardened
in the movement, get used to it; in fact,
like to have some fellow tell you so·and-so
said so-and-so. Yotll'ealize you are before
the people. Don't e,__ pect evCTy OI:e to be
yonI' friend; this is iml'os5ible. In order
to have friends you IIlust have enemies.
Never let frielldship interfere with busi-
ness. A lo~l, to be a ·snccess, ·must be
run on husiness principles. 1\,ow, let us
get imbued with ·busines5, do all we can
for the orga!1izatioll, alld we ':uu· say all is
well 'thaI eilds well.
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ROB~RT WRIGHT BOX.
Previously acknow!ed?;,ed. . ~42·05
Local NO.4· . . · 25. 25
Local No: 72 . 2.50
Local NO.5 . . 4·52
Local No. 38 . 15.00
T Gt;.! . . $89..32
After nlill1l':rOUS apP7a!:;··· die above
amount has been realileG, which is not
enough to start Bm. \\'right in husiness:
Let us try and raise <\t I.:ast 250 dollars.
\Ve are sure there is not a man in the
BrotherllOod but what can .. fford a small
su~n for ,hi;; purpose. Rememher dimes·
make dollars; and doll<\r;; will make sun-
shine in Robert V.'righ"s homf:. It is hard
enough t,) b'! a helpless cripr-!e, hll~ when
a man has to see and realize tbii.' the wife
"nri Ettie ('ileS arc: in ,i(;eJ, it makes mat-
ter" Wf)rse. ~ow it b 1.1p ta thousands of
strong able bodied men to raise a few;
dollars. How slow it comes in. "Remem~
ber the old adage, "We are all' bo·rn but
not buried." We can none of us tell.what
may fall to us. Bro. Wright needs money,
needs it badly. We ha\'e held the money
back with the expectation of getting·enough
to start bim in business. ~~ow Brothers,
in the name of suffering humanity, I'emem-
beryour obligation to help It needybrolher
and send on your mite and help this fund.
Now that tbe sunshhw has come again,
let's make Bro. Wright fee! asthouga life
W<iS wor~h living, and, although helpless;
he: is not forgotten, that we are his· brothers
and t.rue friends.
From .. Old Crip."
. RiLton, New Mex., May 5, 1899.
Edi(oT Electrical Worker:
.Ali4eugi1) am in bed, I will t.ry 1.0 write
a fi~(: ,voTds to our journal. I read last
peci;'ll;; ," U~)cle Tom's" letter ill which
he set;; foIth It plan to have the B; be1p
me, fQ"·'vhich he bas my everlasting grat-
itude .. 'I '~'r"\ only sorry thl'.t I cannot find
the pro:p-er:~'ords in which to express my
gratitude t~jlim and to ll!:o. W. A. Breese
and others,vho have been trying to help
me. ·1 .,c~·t:!injy !leed some money very
my stand and O:1ce get start,ec\, I feeisure
I could get along all right.~" I do!?-'t know
how I am to make it if l' (',on't get s~me
money b~oie, !png, but of course I w'ill do
the besitJtj!.{a helpless man can do, which,
of cour;;t{is~:t much. I receh'ed $1.50
a few d~}'s.i~gQdrom Local 42, to pay for
six of my.books, which I sent them last
year, aud,ioT, which I am very thankful.
I also received $5.:00 from Mr. W. C. Stew-
art, the city ~lectrician at St. Joseph, Mo.,
and althougl~)e has never met me, he had
read i~ the \Voi'ker of my terrible condi-
tion and his h¢art was in sympathy with
me. 1 spent: the $5.00 for flour,etc.
LOCi'll No;' I voted $5.00 toward buying me
a rolling chair, and Bro. Phil. Fish is.
going to raise the balance to buy the chair.
I will be so happy if I get the cbair, Jor
then my wife· will not have to lift me
about so much. \Vell, brotbers, I am so
weak to-day I will close by wishing you
health and happiness.
ROBERT G. WRIGHT.
Men Who Scabbed Xn St. I,ouis During No_
3'S Strike.
lIfISSO{TRI-EDISON.
*In(o. McGann. *Frank Kelly,
*1,. Baldwin, *Dick Ha;;'is,
~·Chas. Addleman, *Harry Murphy.
*Joe Edwards, *Frank l\Iaher,
*Joe Abel', *\Valter.Baldwin,
Geo.l\icLa.ughlin. Harry Swarthing,
Fred Scbant::, Tom \Vaits,
Jack McCune, Jim Carr,
 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 5
Bill Kelly, Tony Burkle, stuuy of-Jefferson, which the \Vorld's Fait iul brother, 1'hos. Averick, who died sud-
Lee Cassavallt, Frank Burns, movemellt. has . stimulated, will do much denly irom heart disease just as he' was re-
Frank Widoe, Tim Murphy, to brin!! the American people to their turning home from. a hard day's \vork.
Jas. Murphy, Chas.· Pipes, senses and counteract the imperialistic Poor Tom; he always had a smile and a .
Rube Smith, Del. Scott. craze, which at present threatens to throw good word for all. Even in death he still
BI£I.I. TEJ.EPHONE. the Declaration of Independence, the retained the same pleru;ant smile, as though
Chas. Phillips, Bill O'Dell, Constitntion and the Monroe Doctrine into he still1ived. Every member of the local
Geo. Johnsol1 (scabby) Noah Maclamore, the waste hasket. escorted the corpse to the train, where it
Frank Gocus, L. Hull, Our business agent l'epo!'ts all members was sent home to his grief-stricken par-
"'Mike Cunningham, Jim Breen, working. Two helpers passed examina- ents. To them we extend .our beartfelt
*Chas. Johnson, Fred Obermiller, tion last Tuesday and will he admitted to sympathy. The papers gave NO.4 great
Frank Haverstraw, Bill Gillin, membership at our next meeting. This is praise for the good work they have done.
Jack Carson, Andy Gamble, a move in the right direction. Last year I will drop this sad subject and turn to
Ed. Warentine, A1. Hajslip, the union turned down the applications of news of a different nature. To begin with,
Bill Ogle, John Simons, three aspiring wire-pullers and returned brothers throughout the country, have you
J!lo: ,(Jhldy)lIamble John Eiker, $i5. TIllS had a demoralizing effect on got any reformed drunkards laying around
Jno.(Heckery)Darrah,'VIIl. Irigstrom, future Edisons, and certainly the union loose in your cities. 'Ve -had one but am
Henry Casey, *Dick Lewis, gained nothing by it. When an appren- pleased to say we got ri<i of him. This
Wm. Taben, Perry Manion, tice or helper has served his time and is man has traveled all over the country as a
n. S. l\kCloskey, J110. Dare, competent to do journeyman's work he labor agitator. At one time lle was re-
W • .Da\"iSOll; . D. Davison, should be taken into the union, otherwise' cording secretary but resigned his office,
'V. C. lIry (better F. Bnrmeister, he will be doing journeyman's work at and from that day he never sho\ved his
known su ;:>.ubt:) . J. ?,,,,,,ers, less than journeymau's wages, alld thE face in our hall until we under!ook to call.
J. Davison, C. Fuller, ullioll will find it hard to stop him. him down for misstatements which he was
'V. Cleelancl. Chas. Reynolds, No.1 recently had a brush with the El- making Ol~ the streels about 'our local.
W. Batterton, J. Hall. evator Constructors' union. The elevator Finally he wanted to square himself by
KINI.OCH 'I·EI.. CO. men claimed the right to do all work in trying to start a pic1lic for the local, but
B. Albaugh, . Frank Lewin, the hatchway. This No. I would not con- the boys would not stand it. "'e preferred
Ed. Holman, Adolph Meyer, cedf', as under our constitution we claim charges against him and he was found
Frank 'furner, A. Dock, jurisdiction over all electrical work. The guilty and dropped from lhe rol1 of mem-
Henry Hisserich, Ernest Dentl!<;on, matter was referred to the executive board bership. We also appointed a committee
William Stewart. of the. Building Trades' Council. The to wait on the superintendent of 'the
An asterick (*) before a name inolicates executive board, after hearing both sides, People's Telephone to see what hewou.ld
thai the scab was a member of the union. dedded every point in favor of the electri- do in regard to discharging his horse and
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .... ..
.: : :": : : : :...: : : : :-:":-: : :-:-: : :-:...:....: :~:. cal workers. The elevator men claimed
tlJat jnNew York, Chiccgo, Boston and
wago" off of the job, which was done.
Now he has a horse and wagon on his
~: OUR LOCALSe :!: other large cities they always' did this hands, such as a backslider of a union, man
.:..:..:..; ,..:..:..:..:..,...:..:,":..:..:..:..:..;..:..:..:..:..:..:..:,..:..;.
...
y y work, and that NO.1 was the first electri- deserves. I think, brothers, there are a
cal uniol1 that eve)' objected. About a few more needs fixing. The first time I
~oca1 Union No. x, month ago the carpenters claimed 'the get a chance I will write' them up in fille
St. Louis, :!\Io., May 7, 1899. right to put up moulding. We kllocked shape.
Editor Electrical Worker: them out in the first round. 'At the last ' .... e have had a very busy winter and will
Ninety-six years ago Thomas Jefferson national convention of carpenters they continue so for some time. The People's
made a little real estate deal. tho! 111111- adopted a resolution claiming moulding Telephone Co. are doing all kinds of work;
dredth anniversary 01 which will be cele- work. Some time .previous to this we this is a new company. The Cumberland
brated by a World's Fair in St. I,ouis in had a setto with the gas fitters a.bout iron has 'a large amount of work, also the
1903. 0 Tempora! 0 Mores! Rill Mc- armored conduit work, and came out an Drainage has started to set poles. The
Kinley has paid $5,000,000 morl! for the easy winner. "'ho next? No I. -won in Merchants Electric Light are building new
privilcge of a scrap on the opposite side of these as in a number of other cases be- conduits, and a new railroad to West End,
the globe than Tom Jefferson paid for cause she is olle of the strongest and best the Carrol ton Ry., are goin.g to rebuild
more than one-third of the entire United organized uuions in the B. T. C., and has their entire system with new poles, wire
States. No wonder the proposition, fath- a high wage scale. It has taken No. I and heavier feeders. The Postal. and \V.
ered by the Building Trades' COllncil of nine years to reach her present standard. U., in fact everything in the city is head
St. Louis, to celebrate t.he centennery of Rome was not built in a day. A union over heels in work, and where they are
the Louisiana purchase by a World's Fair may grow large in membership in a short going to get the men to do the work I
that will eclipse anything yet held, has time. but it takes years to make it a union can't tell. There were over 400 linemen
arollsed an ·ent.husiaSm never before of veterans, prepared to meet any emer- here this winter and I don't think there
dreamf'.o. of in th;'! ·fair bu,>iness. .The citi- gency that may arise. We say this for are over ~5 or 40 to do the VlClrk ht:::!.
zens of St. Louis have already subscribed the benefit of new unions, as the members Vl!ry good chance for $3 per day and a
$5,000,000, the greater part of which is are apt to get discouraged if they do not good local too.
made up of small subscriptions. The city of accomplish much at the start. WeIl, we are hoping to get t.hat thief
st. Louis wiIl give five million dollars and ELECTRON. Andrews, and if we do you 'wi11 see him
the state of Missouri fh'e million dollars. ------- wilh the stripes on his back, haildling one
Cmrgress will also be asked to make a lib- ~ocsl Union NO.4. of those one-wheel push carts Oil the levee
eral appropriation. The labor union£ ~f New Orleans, May 4, 1899. with a gang of niggers. His offtce adclress
St. Louis have all taken an active part Editor Electrical Worker: will be CeIl No. 16, Raton. Rouge, Louisi-
i~ the preliminary work of the fair, and It is with pleasure I write the Brother- ana slate prison;
ha,'c sllbscribcd liberally. The members hood, but with sadness combihed. Local 'Ve have had a few accidents with live.
of No. ( han! so far suh~.cribed :'500. 'rne NO.4 mourns the loss of a good and faith- wires, but no one seriously injured.
 6 THE ELECTRICAL \Vt)RKER
I will close my letter by giving the boys
a pointer, by saying that you must have
an up-to-date card or. you don't catch on
here.
Yours frateinaHy,
F. D.,
Press Secretary.
I,ocal Union NO.5.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 9,1899.
Editor Electrical Worker:
A committee from NO.5 started with our
agreement and ha\'e made very good pro-
gress ; there seems to be onl}; a few of the
electriCal contr~ctors whoiIave not arrived
at the point where they can see the use of
an agreement, but it means this that the
sooner' they -get in line the better for them,
because they will get better prices for
their contracts and by hiring good men
will have larger profits in the end, and this
will e~entually drive the small men out of
business and stop the journeymen and the
helper from taking contracts at prices
which have always fostered an - inferior
class of work, from the fact that they did
not know the prices of material or the time
required for a_ gil'en job.
Bro. Hass has charge of the Solomon P.
Ruben building remodeling, which will
caB for considerable time, labor and ma-
terial.
We have moved_ to better quarters, at
No. 432 Wood St. The rooms are newly
fitted with carpet, electric lights, and ice
water (that's strong enough). The room is
a poem in itself and we give an- ir.vitation
to all brothers who have not been to meet-
ings for some time, no matter what the
reason, to come and inspect same, for we
know they will be more than pleased with
them.
We are glad to announce Brother Albert
Eldridge has almost recovered from a sick
spell of eight consecutive weeks and will
soon be around a".Iong us again.
As our trouble gang has not reported at
headquarters I am unable to say very much
but I went along the path where they had
-been and it looked as though there had
"suthin' dropped," so we're waiting till
they call us up for a clear-line, 0; K.,
signed agreement with all -contractors in
the city, and there is no doubt of getting
the ones who amount to anything, as it is
as much to their interest as it is to ours.
A::; I. am late with my letter I will not make
any more maHer t-o be good for the waste
oasket.
Yours fraternally,
J. H. STOUFFER,
Press Secretary.
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LocalUnion NO·7.
Springfield, Mass., May 8, 1899.
Editor Electrical _\Vorker:
The Press Secretary of No. 7 has just
woke up, but while he was_ asleep NO.7
has been very much _awake, and has been
adding new lights to its clrcuit,_ SD tha_t now All in all we had a most enjoyable tiriJe-
we han: a ... ery goou luad, ail up to ,-,and Ie _ and came away feeling that -o-l1rHa-rt.fom'
power. 'vVe have had to cast out <l few brothers were hale, hearty, fellows, wflli'
burned out lamps but! s_nppose all locals met. .:,:. .~;~
have Jhi:; same trouble. - Bro. Mat Farrell is very anxious tocrO$S-
The e.~~_ctric current, tPi\f ,mighty unseen bats on the ball field with Local No. 37 '
power, has.in the P!!S,t month claiIlleri. an- and I want to warn No. 37 to look out for-
other human life in Ollr city, when it de- Farrell's ball team. Mat is pllttiGg'_ his
prived Eugene HastIngs of his liie April men through a course of training, and in- a
27th. Hastir,gs_was a nOli union wireman, few weeks will have a strong team; 'RalpH'
in_the employ of the United Electric Light Sanborn is up early and late practising ,the
Co., and met his..~ieath while making some cun·es. He has mastered the raise and
repairs on a transformer in the ba·sem{;nt of drop and when last heard from was wrest-
_1\1r. B. C. Surprises' barber shop OIl State ling with the inshoot. Joe Stanford will no
St. Just. bow he received the fatal, shock doubt put on the chest protector and stop
no one knows, as h~ was alone at the time what few balls if any go by the batters, and
and when found was past assistance, This to see President Crowley's little fat.friend t
and similar accidents should impress on runni1')g bases, and tosee Bro_ Lynch at tIle
the people that. the occupatj(m d an bat, why he admits himself that he coulon't
electrical worker isor.e of dangel', alld an hit a string of sausages with an oar. Now
occupation fcir which the wages paid do I will have the manager after me if I give
not compensate lor tht: risk,i-.\!n by the away the weak points oihis team, so Iliad
worker. He lIa" no ch~nce to save himself, better keep quiet till after the first game;
no chance to reverse his engine an9 jump, then \ve \\ ill ha\'e to write it up and givea-
no chance to cat.ch hold of a. floating spar. few half tone pktures of the players.
But as from a foe- in.thed-ark he is stricken Hoping this communication reaches you in
down without a momelH's warning, and all time for this month's publication, I remain
this for a small pittance. How can the Fraternally yours,
worker better hiS lot in life -: Very easily . "THE JUDGE,"
if he ,would only open his eyes. By'Uiiion- Press Secretary. _
ism, and by Unionism only can he better -------
J..ocal Union No.8.
himself. This means a better clag., of
workmen; it take~ an iuteliigent and Toledo, 0., Aprii 25, 1899.
capable man to do good, safe work. Nine Editor Electrical Worker:
tenths of our fires arc callsed from defec- As our last press secretary flew the coop
tive electric _wiring and many fatal <lcci- I will tell as best I can what is going on in
dents are caused by cheap labor. _ Because Toledo. \Ve are still on a-strike, that is to
a man can tie up a clothes line or put up a say, about half of the shops. \Ve'have-at
wire fence is nO reasol) that he Call put up present four union shops and work is 'slack
wires which carry death under their insu- now. \Ve have been pretty_ hungry be- .
lation. He can_ do it, 110 doubt, after a cause the snow has been scarce, but the
fashion, bl!t iii case of ,fatal accidents due grass begins to look go,od, so I think we
to imperfect workmansbip h-e should be will h<l ve to eat grass till the trouble is set-
held for manslaughter. A better_ class of tled. You -know, boys, that we ,have -had
workmen means a better <lnd safer class of hard luck. You see, the first thing we did
work, for which a fair day's wages shpuld was to violate the Constitlltion by not giv-
be paid. This is one object of Unionism. ing two weeks' notice to the Executive
Local No. 47 will hold meetings every Board. so we get no dough from headquar-
two weeks du~ing the summer instead of ters. Now, brothers, remember this, when
weekly. Meetings the firs~ and last \Ved- trouble arises, don't get hasty; it don't pay.
nesday of the month. Last Friday night a The boys'\rho were out of work ·gave a-
large delegation from Local Nc.. 7 availed dance the 18th of this month and went in
themsel vt"s of the invitation to visit Local - the hole about $20 or S30.
No. 37 of Hartford. We left on the 6:33 - One thing I want to call your attention
train for the Nutmeg state and were met at to is the fact that through this trouble every
the Hartford station Ly members of No. member has been loyal. Not one member
37, a[HI t:S'::vl~cJ LO l(.cir il<llI, wht:re ~ome has weakened, and it is a cas~' -'\vhere--iri --
0'£ tht: boys met oldcornr;::des whom they one shop it is -brother against brother, and
pulled wires v.~ith in years gone by and re- - in another it is father against son.
newed old acquaintances _3nel -fom'_ed a The Building Trades Council has finally
great many new ones. No. 37 inStalled adopted the card system and is going -to
some new lights in its ciI:cuit and, ~t the make a move this year.
im'itation of Prr!sident Crowley, the officers Say, boys, what do you think! our most-
of Local No. 7 performed the initiating popular summer resort, namely, the Casi-
ceremony. After short speeches by bruth- no, is on the hog. The general manager
ers of \)oth Locals we adjourned-tu partake of the Toledo Traction, Mr. MacLean, has'
of ,', collation sen-ed by Local No. 37. The put ? lot of the- cheap hayseed street-car
evenin~ was very pleasantly spent -with -, conclllctors to work at the painters' trade
songs, rc::itations; jig and clo&, dancing. down on the Casino. Ain't it a shame?-
 May] THE ELECTRICAL WORKER 7
\Vell, we still have the consolation that a cal \Vorker, th"" official organ of our nohle Yes, it happened in this way. Ely and
boycott on amusements in this town works , I)rder. Mack both got married several .months
well. We ran a roof-garden out of busi- H. T. SULLIVAN, ago, and they are now listening to the mid-
ness, and also a wonrlerland. So, boys, if C. A. SA YLRS, night squall. Yes, both girls. Miss Pike
you comt: to Toledo this summer, buy your F. C. FORNSTINE, 8 1-2 and Miss McCarthy 8. The boys
beer down town and beware of the Lake Committee. ha\'e onr hearty congratulations and best
Erie Park Casino. The electrica,l business is good, both in- wishes. If you were to see eitlier of the
Boys, one thing more before I close: side and outside wiremen are in demand. boys when they come to .work you could
Save your money. Did you ever stop to Brothers, if you are ont of work or want a tell that tbere was a baby in the house.
think you may be in a strike some day. change we can place both wiremen and They look sleepy.
tell you, I am speaking from experience. linemen. \Ve could help se\'eral of No. 'No one on the sick list at present. No.
I did not stop to think, and now regret it. S's members if they \vere here. It seems 10 is flourishing and hustling, and we may'
ED F. MILLER, Se<;:. that the deal is over and we will try to get have a few more contracts signed in the
1 a few of the good. cards ourselves. \Ve near future. Several firms are ready to
Local Union No. :10. have just secured quit'! a large contract of sign them as soon as they are presented.
'Jndiiml'.poli~,Illd., May 4, 1899. inside wiring for a strictly union firm in Hoping this letter may find a place in
tbis city. But our letter and the answer our paper, and that we may hear frO'm
Editor Electrical Worker:
to it will tell the story Letter than I can. many otbers, I am for union forever.
Since the last, letter was written from
I will give both and show the brothers how E. E. BAUMAN, R. S.,
No. 10 dealh has cOllie to claim Bro. Har-
we do business:
rison Pike, one of our faithful and beloved
Indianapolis Brg. Co., City. Greater New York J..ocal No. u.
members. Bro. Pike was 1I0t sick long,
Dear Sirs: It having come to our notice Brooklyn, N. y.,May8, ]899.
but IJe suffered intensely until' death
that you are abol't to let a contr;;..;t k:r'the
ciaiUled him. V,e alliamcii' tho;; loss of Editor Eiectrical \Vorker:
rewiring of your breweries, we desire
Bro. Pike. The wife who was true and When, through the courtesy of this
to present for your consideration the fol-
untiring in her efforts to ward off the local, it was designated I should assume
lo\\·ing electrical firms as being the' only
cruel hand of death, has lost a true and the duties of press secretary, I acquiesced
firms in the city employing union labor
faithful companion, the company a faith- with pleasu;e, imagining the honors at-
exclusively: The E. C. Hartung Co.,
ful and efficient foreman, and No. 10 has tached would exceed work invoh·ed. This
room 5 Cyclorama Bldg., E. F. Martin &
lost one of her most valuable members, illlpression has been rudely dispelled by
Co., 140 Georgia St.
one who was union and true as steel. No. the slings and slurs of criticislll aiD1ed (I
Knowing that your firm has heretofore
10 extend!' to the widow their deepest won't say nnj~lst~y) at the"incumbent; but
employed union labor exclusively, we hope
sympathy and the assurance thatin our wht:n such attacks are made to tlIroltle the
that you will favor one of the above men-
iocal she has 'a iri~nd that will not fail power of the press and the attempt to es-
tioned firms with your cont'ract.
her. tabli"h a system of censorship, I am C011l-
Yery respectfully,
IN :lll::l\IORIA:lI.
E. C. McCARTHY, R. S., pelled to show my total disapproval of an
\Vhereas, After a painful illness patiently Local Union No. ro, N. B. E. \\'. of A. encrcmclullent upon the rights of a free-
borne by our beloyed Bro. Harrison Pike, born American ;:itizen and a - National
his sufferings were suspended by expira- Mr. E. C. McCarthy, Sec .. Brotl!erhood pre,'s secret;,.>')' by aunouncing
tion, returning to his Creator whose divine Local Union :-.ro. ro, unt.} the Electrical Brotherhood, also unto
wisdom in remo\'ing him from our midst N. B. E. W. of _~., city. tile world, the glad tidings of the ignomin-
we sincerely acknowledge; and Dear sir: Respectiug your favor of the . i011S rout of the Clarendon Hall Filipinos
\Vhereas, This body loses a valuable 24th inst. we would say that we will award (otherwise known to the electrical frater-
-ti'leluber; 'and his' faithful companion a true the contract for tbe rewiring of the nity as Scab Union NO.3) by the splendid
and generous husbal1d, be it further Schmidt Brewery to E. F. Martin & Co., and systematic methods employed by the
ResolY,ed by Loca.l, Union No. 10, N. B. although their bid for the worK is. some- , brother acting as our counsel and his ad-
E. W. of A., that this body extend to-his what higher than those of their compet- visors. The afore-mentioned counsel, who
sorrowing widow its earnest sympathy and itors. In asking for bids we stipulated is of a modest and retiring disposition, de-
condolence, praying that she may find that none but union labor was to be em- sired that his name be- withheld from pub- ,
consolation ill this, her saddest hour of ployed, and certainly will insist that this lication, so I \dll only mention that this
life, frolll the inspirations perpetuated by clause be carried out. It is hardly necessary valued brother has brought us through the
his memory. Cherishing the thought that to state that we have always been friends crucial test instituted by the state commit-
his noble deeds 01\ earth, his good traits of union labor. The fact is too well known tee of the F. of 14 • scathless.
and excellent attainments ha·;e fitted him among union men and needs no special The conquering of such a libelous and
for a more peaceful life in the future advertising. unscrupulous gang as controlled the opera-
world where "crosses" and "troubles," so Yours truly,
tions oi this NO.3, is hailed with pleasure'
cOllspicuou"ly iw.oh·ed in his daily ,'cell- INDIANAPOLIS BRG. CO. , !:Jy ~ number of their old, m'2'!1bcrs whO' '
tion, ,,;ill be ~substituted with a life of un- JOHN SCHNEIPER, S!lPt.,
have been fully aware of the swindling
broke.. happin<:ss and'his endless pathway Our circuit is being constantly strength- !:chemes evolved by those in power,and
be strewn with flowers imlllortai. Be it ened by adding new lights. Our $10 ini- agree with us that their disruption was a
further tiation doesn 't s~em to stop them. Several God-send allda great victory for the purity
Resolved, The charter of tbis Local are waiting to find out what we do to 'em of unionism. The fact of that body being
Union be draped ill mourning for a period up there. The neceRsary is' already de- in the hands of a set of scoundrels is one
of thirty days as a slight token of esteem posited for four more who are expected of the causes leading to the existence of
and respect in wllich our departed brother from Richmond, since Bro. Moss got ac- Local No. 12 to-day; some who could not
was held by its entire membership, and quainted last Monday night. \Ve baven't endorse the glaring rottenness extant
that a copy of these resolutions be officially our contract with the Central Union yet, sought purity 'under our standard and a
presented' t~ the widow of the deceased, but we are assured that we will get it, and llUmber of their old members aTe affiliating'
3,IId caused to be published in the Electri- get. a good one. witb us day after <IllY.
 8 THE ELECTRICAL WORKER

Our grand secreta.ry, Bro. Sherman, paid
us another pleasant'visit and through his
,instructive teachings we have gained
unity and strength.
A, number' of the brothers of this local
are employees of the Navy Yard and last
week they were 'partly paid for' the over-
time they were obliged to expend in equip-
ping the vessels for the late unpleasantness
with Spain. I used the word" partly" in
announcing this fact for this reason, and I
or tJm,:~ of YOu had sore spots abuut the
settlement. I hope, tl1ey have healed.
Iu c0!ll1ection 'with the strike I wish to
commend the work of the committee in
charge of the trouhie. They did every-
tiling that hmnan ingenuity ,eouid ue,,-ise
to get >'S iavorable terms as pos;;ible. That
was wtat they we:;-e there ior. -and, they
did l,leil" duty well, ably assisted by Bro.
Slicrman, who was sent f,)r to n;d'in bring-
ing about a set'.lement. Bro:' Sherman is
In closiug I want to 'say' tWit- I .~e---a::
deathless faith that the arm of or,gauUM
labor is the ann that will uphoJd t-me ~nj:
ner of the free. Unions may . have ,their'
faults, but they have a bundnid virtues to'
counteract them. I say 31trlle t1ll'ion mart-
is fighting for the best principle- known. '
Greater men than he may bave1iV'ed and'
died and been forgotten, but a 'whiter soul-
ne'er struggled toward the light; a nGul'er'
heart ne'er beat. ' 'y

,think I will be upheld in my controversy,
for I contend that this g~vernment should
pay unto all its craftsmen' the same money'
which is allowed for the same services out-
side ,of its departments, which they
have not done, for all they allowed was
time Bt;1d a; nalf, while outside of the
government's employ double-time is the
schedule. Why tlii!!gov,erment should ex-
pect artisans to work for it at a lower
figure' th~n' is obtainable elsewhere is a
mystery to me. That branch of our gov-
ernment which is responsible for what I
have asserted should, I think, be gently
reminded that it is mainly through the
workingman that they hold positions, thus
permitting them to dictate to labor their
remuneration, and that workingmen are
gradually being taught the fact that they
are the bone and sinew of this government.
The representatives of this government
should be the cham pions for the welfare of
the' workingman rather than otherwise.
Fraternally,
JOHN DEAN, Jr.,
Press Secretary.
~oca1 '(huon No. r,7.
Detroit, Mich, }\fay 8, 1899.
Editor Electrical ,Worker:
In order to have this letter reach Roch-
ester in time for publication I will have to
make it short. No. 17 has !1 record of
a host in himself hl such matters, for he
has hcen in thelauor movemell,t for years,
and is fully competent to tell. v.hen the
best- terDlS possible uuner certain condi-
tions hll,\'e been reached. His quick; clear
disce.rnment of a situation makes him a
valuable mati to have Oil ttle scelle in time
of trouble.
Brothel'S, now that I am on ~he ' subject
of stJ;ikes I want to say that during a strike
is the time you timl out who are the true
unicn men aOld who are th~ offscourings.
\Vhell we sent teleg1'P-lIis to Menominee
and other --places whcre the boys were·
working that tl:c, strike was OJJ, it would
bavt, dont> you ,good to see them come in.
Gooil bless their loyal union hearts, they
h~ve :nade us -Foud of them_ , we will keep our eyes open for :·him.
St. I~ouis is·doing {t good thillg in pub-
lishing a bJack-1is~(..r tl~e measly I'Ul'!~ who
scabhed during their strike, and probably
we will do tl1e same iu .1lext month's
\Vol'ker, but I ,,-ill say that tile list will be
very small. The number can be counted
011 one hand ,of thost! who wt!nt square
back 011 the obHgatiom: they t.ook. These
few bad vcry little pripci'p1e to hegin with,
and speedily swallo';."ed t1'a~ little when
the boss asked tbem to scab it. These
same few scabs willprobai->l)' see this let-
ter auo will know precisely \\·ho I am
allllding to, aud will feel !'-ore and reyenge-
ful, but I just waut to say t(I tl.!em that I
The hour is getting late and I will 'close',
hoping that the let(er from Detroit next
month will contain goodnews. _
DAN E. ELLSWORTH,
~oca1 Union No. i8.
Kansas City,Mo., :May '4, 1899:
Editor Electrical Worker: - "
No.2, where art thon? I fook"in 'l"a-iri'
for your letters. ,Come now, 'C: H. A:,-1-
know you can write a few lineS, so'let us
hear from you. ' -.
So NO.4 had an abscotidel', Edwa-rd:
Andrews by name. Well we' wOlHd ~iketo·
see hiDl strike this town.' MJaybe \ve"
would not put the can't to'lrim, welF'r
guess. Inst give ns his descri'ptlonj'llU'd
Brothers, I cannot find words tei express'
myself about a Dian who would ':take' 'his'
fellow workmen's Dlonev. He is woise,
than a scab a thousand ti~es. ' Yoti'worJ1(l;
expect anything from a scab. but a man-
who would go into a union ,for no other
purpose but to rob the Dlembers of their
hard-earned money is the worst ,Idnd ot-a"
scamp. Oh that I had the power 'to' put,
into print just what I think of that kind of;
beast. I will tell you just what' I would,
like to do with him. I would place him'
on the rails of an electric road, thel1"Cut'i:n--
the ti'Olley 'wire, then take a pair of rubber
gloves so I could handle the wire and -draw

I , never having missed a month in over seven

years in having a letter in the 'Vorker, to
let others know of conclitions here, and to
cheer them on in their noble work in their
own cities, so I hope this letter will reach
its destination in time.
I am sorry this communication has to be
sent before we know what the outcome
will be in _the agreement we want signed
by the Detroit Tel. ,Co. We have had one
with this company for two years, so we
eXFect that everything will be ,aU lovely
to repolt in next month's jOUTI!!ll. 'Ve"
sincerely hope so. '
In the strike just settled here with the
Bell Telephone Company it was a compro-
mise, both sides yielding a point. The
men struck for eight hours a day with the
wages to remain the same. The comPJIny
offered a raise of wages all along the line
if the men -would work, ten hours a day.
This proposition was accepted and the
strike d~cJ.ared off. Some of the boys had
the spring fever and needed that week's
rest anyhow. Now, boys, there were t,,·o
don't give two whoop;; in hades how they
feel about
later 011.
it: They will get",wOl:se yet
'
the wire across his dirty-looking' 'mtrg.
Oh, I would fix him good and plenty.
Hanging would not be in it with me, if I
No. 17 is g~owil1g steadily and i:; getting had my way. Now don't think for one
both inside and outside men. \"'-e have moment that I am not humane because I
had but one 1l1:l11 sick for q't;te a while. talk this way. A man that ",'QuId rob his
Bro. Jack Atkinson had a'short siegc, but co-workers you could not devise'a suitable'
is out again. The union men are all work- death for. Wen, I have said elJough on'
ing and e"erything .is 10\ ely 'w;:! the goose that subject.
bangs high. . Now about bonding your -financial 'sec-reo.
Detroit is to haVE" municipal ownerShip tary and treasnrer. It ought to be done in'
vi :::;-:'r~~~ car:~. thrv!.16L t!·:~ <.;:I',:,:~:. vf Gov. every local; and, just as Bro.· SlIemran
Ph;gre~, and orgalliz.cd labor in backing says, no honest man 'l'lill object toa 'bond.
ruiu. Micbig'ln has tee best governor that He ought, to feel proud of his ability to'
God ever let a state have. He is 02 true furnish a boud. A man who could not
mall of the rople. Ii there were more furnis)1 a bond should not accept a position-·
like him in power tht:st! U!l1led States of that kind. I for one would not; 1I0r
would be really governed as the founders any other man who had the welfare ·of his'
meant them'tn be, by the people, and for union at heart. So let us see that OUT 'offi-'
the people. 'That is the very essence of . cers do their duty.
what orgalJi£(~d labor is fighting for, and I see that No.8 is havillg'some,fr-ouble·
will continue l<J fight for lmtil justice pre- in'regard to her wage schedule, We have
vails for the,'.·orkingman; until he rc-- the same trouble here in K. C. ' We sub- .
ce;ves II hrgt;-r ~hare of what is produced mitted a wage schedule to the 'CoI:1tractors
hy his bra::1 anq. brawn. and offered to meet them to dis~uss it, lJut
 May].
-only one offered to meet us, and tbat one
was Mr. J. W. Mason. The .otber three
made excuses one after the other. One of
tbe contJactors said that 25c. an bour was
.enougb for any man to live >on, but 3OC.
was too mucb, and be would be damnea if
.he would pay it. This same man also
said that we only had about three men ia
.Qur local who were worth 25c. an hour.
I will tell you how much he knows about
electric work. I have been out on some
of his jobs, and this is what I found: On
a sixteen point anllunciator, I found five
grounds, two on water pipes; one on a gas
pipe,·andtwo on steam pipes. He had his
wires in all kinds of ways, crossed, laying
loose 011 pipes, two wires under one staple,
and >nearly every way you could. think of
but the right way. This is the man who
hires the ISC. men, I spoke about last
month. 1 was very well pleased with Bro.
O'Toole's letter in last month's V.'orker,
in regard to Carter H. H<trrison, Jr., mayor
of Chicago, and '''layor Jones of Toledo,
Ohio. Oh, that we had more like those
two, at the head of our cities. Wbat a
ble5siug it would be to the downtrodut:n
laboring man! Bnt it is just as C. S. R.,
of Loc.al. No. 65, says in last 1110uth's
\Vorker, as long as we let men like Mark
Hanna and his kind rule us, we cannot ex-
pect to have our just dues. \Vhen the
laboring mall rIses up ill bis might all over
this COUll try and goes to the polls with the
determination to vote for the men who are
the friends. of organized labor, theu and
ou1y then can he get his just dues. Now,
brothers, one and all, think over this, and
see if lam not right. The country is fu11
of the right kind of men who will stand
by the laboring man. Seek them out,
just the same as if you were agoing to
look up trouble un YOUl· lines. I! you will
seek diligently yOll wiiI find the right one,
then go and yote for him to the last man.
So No. 27 is back. in the Worker again,
well that's good. May Mispah keep up
his end of the liue is my heartfelt wish.
I see that Local No. 35 has some trouble
with the Jo:ngineers' Union of Boston, in
regards to who should run dynamos. I
would like to ask the engineers· who rull
dynamos, if a dyn8mo burns out, do they
rewind them, or do they get all electrician?
Ninety-.~ine out of a hundred send for atl
armature winder, and what is an armature
winder, but all electrician. So if they
sClid for an electrician to do that work why
lia5ll't an electrical worker got more right
to run a dynamo than they haye. iNe
have got a lot of that kind of engineers
. here in Kansas city. Oh, how they would
howl if an electrician· would go and take
all engine to rUll. 'there are lots of us
who could do it if we .wanted to, and don't
yOI\ forget it, either. Well, I hope that
~o. 3S will Will out au it, for it is no marc
than jnst.
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
I am going to see if· 1 cannot raise $10
here .for Bro. \VrighL . Since I have read
Uncle 'rom's letter I have ueen ashamed
of myself, and I am not afraid to say so
either. . He resig~ed and left the ~ity. He has
\Vork here at present is very scarce, but
we expect it will pick u·p as soon as warm
weather sets in.
\Vell, good bye, I have a lot more to say,
but I am afraid the editor will blow the
fuse, so I will have to trip the circuit.
breaker to save myself, so good bye.
HARVEY BURNETT,
Press Secreta..·y.
~ocal Union No. 22.
Omaha, Neb., April 17, 1899.
Editor Electrical \Vorker:
The following resolutions were adopted
by this union on the death of Bro. F. H.
Roche:
Whereas. It has pleased Al:nighty God
in His Infinite wisdom to call from our
midst our esteemed Bro. F. H. Roche, a
member of our union and worker at our
trade, and
\Vhereas, \Ve mourn the loss of one
who, while in life, we held dear as a broth-
er and as a friend, and while we can never-
more grasp his hand and meet his pleasant
smile in this life, we can submit to Him
who has called our brother's spirit to the
life beyond the grave; therefore be it
Resolved, That we extend to the be-
reaved mother and family our heartfelt
sympathy in this t!ldr &ad and unredeem-
able loss, and whiif:' we can not again !p'"e~
the loved ones in thi,s life, we can but point
them to a Saviour who said, "I go to pre-
pare a place for you, that where I am there
ve may be also;" and,
. Res~lved, That a copy of these resolu-
tillns be suitably engrossed and sent to the
family of our deceased brother, and that a
copy be spread upon our minutes, and a
copy sent to our official journal for publi-
cation; also th"t a copy be sent to the daily
press in Omaha for pnblication.
He, our brother, is now at rest,
From pain and sorrow he is free;
And may he be, by the Creator,
Bless<:d for all e.ternity.
Fraternally submitted,
\V. H. \VlIEELER,
H. G. RIEPE.
From Old Kaintuck No. 25.
Loui!,yille, Ky., April 25, 1899.
Editor Electrical \Vorker:
As they appointed me as press secretary,
I thought it my place to write a few lines
to let the brothers know we are still living,
if there are only a few of us.
There is not much work here now. The
Buckingbam Theater is about ready to be
rewired again, and the \\'allens Bros. say
nobody but IInion men can work on it.
\\'e only have a few such people ill Louis-
9
ville .. and we don't forget tbem when we
get a chance to do them a good turn.
I am sorry to say that we lost a good.
(officer in T. C. \\"etmore, our treasurer.
gone to Canada, but, brothers, he Jeft the
city as a gentleman. Everything was
straight. We are meeting the first and
third Thursday ill each month now.
\Ve are going to have a smoker next
month. I think the boys will smoke up.
If any old Louisville members hoid mem-
bership in other locals, I wish they would
write to us, as we like to hear frotll them
if they are union men. I will close this
time. Yours,
JOHN C. l,)ElBEL,
418 15th St., Louisville, Ky.,
Press Secretary.
~oca1 Union No. 30.
Cincinnati, 0., 1\1ay .'i, 1898.
Hilltor Electrical Worker:
I will have to wake up, smoke up or
blow up, or I won't be able to· keep ·up·
with tht: rest of the brothers of Local No.
30, for they are out and working fnll time.
There are one or two candidat,,·s riding our
goat every meeting. Ilruthers and read-
em, I must say this is good work for the
hustling brothers of I,ocal No. 30.
It might look unreasonable to some
brothers of different locals that Local" No.
30 is llOt larger and don't have more ca11-'
didates to ride our Mr> William Goat ac-
cording to the size and popUlation of Cin-
cinnati. \Ve have too many hOlIle guards
here, and to stat.e further the men that
have fnll swing are home gtla.:ds. They
wouldn't give a journeyman lineman a
job for fear he would swing in for first
place, and in case it wonld turn ouf that
way it would mean turn backward toward
the old r"me. Our straw at presen~ iLn't
heavy· enough to break the camel's back,
so the best thing to do is to get the best
of the raw material so that we may be able
to develup that liille straw into one that
may some day be large enough to DOW it
up in the middle, and when they are off
their foundation and are grabbing for a
hold all the sky-hook· then is the time to·
bring a brand line into play and han I it
back out of reach for the medicine they
have been giving us.
'VorL in and around Cillci1l!:ati is· Hot·
very plentiful at present, but we have a
fair prospect for the summer. All the
brothers are working anrl enjoying life as
far as their means will allow them. Bro.
T. SVellisy dl""Opped in on us Rnd attended
se"era} of our meetings. Bro. Spellisy
has been a faithful worker for Local Xo.
30 and the order in general. lirothers of
Local 30 wish him success wherever he
lllay go.
Tht:re were two linemen killed here (I
should have said electricians) within the
past two months, and as they wouldn't
 10
ride the goat that does the bucking fOT
Local No. 30 it releases all claims from
the Brotherhood. . rent. At the 'present time weare in the
Brothers, .what do you think of these
grand tl).ings that.sre .forming under the
laws of New Jersey that are called tmsts?
I 'will say and will acknowledge that they
are a good thing for those that are in them,
but h·-l for those that are not. Let them
go, they will bring the sense of a good
many people' around all right, and when
they find out that the' working class will
go to the polls and vote~for a tmst that
will be only for the country and will be
run'by the people of the Uniled States
and ~ot by the cut throats and boodlers.
Come again, Uncle Tom.
Visiting br-others are cordially invited.
Excuse mistakes for I have just awak-
ened the P. S.
WHISKERSNOl\:10RE.
Local Union No. 37,
April 25th, 1899.
Editor·Electrical Worker:
This month 1 would like to make a few
remarks on the subject of trades unions as
concerns the electrical workers and inci-
deDtally to revi.ew what we are and what
we are doing and have done. The electri-
cal industry stands to-day as the most
prominent of any of the trades. if we may
be allowed to call it a trade. At present
it seems to me to be more an occupation of
chance. It has no defined rules for con-
trolling the supply of electrical workers as
the majority of the trades have and is en-
tirely lacking for a definition as to what
constitutes an electrical worker. A man
gets a job as a helper to wire a building,
or a job wiping and oiling machines at a
station, and in the course of a year or so
the compilerll of the city directory come
around and he goes on record as an elec-
triciilU. Yes; that's the name. He does
Bot know nluch, bui if he is willing to
work for small pay he is retained in the
place where he started and in .time is able
to answer in some position where a man of
skill and learning should be. If he is not
satisfied to work any length of time for
small wages he leaves that place and goes
off through the country working where he
can or when the demand is greater th<in
the supply of good men, and in the course
of time he becomes a good mechanic.
That is what constitutes a greater part of
the electrical workers of to-day. Now
. how long is this gomg to last? How
much louger are we going to wait before
we. the persons most interested, are going
10 define what an electrical worker must
be. North, south. east or west you will
find evidence of the use of electrical ap-
pliances of. some description. Many are
the comforts and conveniences it offers to
us. . Many thousands does it furnish with
a means of procuring a living in this big
~ountry of ours. Every person in the
THE ELECTRICAL \VORK~ER
United States to-da:;- appreciatt>s, to some
extent at least. the .wond"''r-working cur-
zenith of the demand for electrical pro-
dac;.s.
We are delighted with the prospects. but
are ',ve going to ta}r.e arlvant..ge filf this
golden cpportullity t.) advance ou.r craft to
the position to which it .. houll'i'be among
the trades ')r are· we .going to . lapse into a
kind of comatose state of satisfaction with
the condition of things? Now is the time
to 1>e up aud doing samerhilJg. Let us
educate ~ach other in what to do :md how
to do it. Let us mak~ rules for ot:.rselves
an41ive up to them •.. W'e h.a'''~. the rules
but we are not livi!1g within their hounds.
If each ami everyjJFother ill the N. n. E.
'V. would read the .collstitl;tioll he would
know that he is not li'i!1g up to it. Why
can't we live up to tLe 'laws as hdd down
by the founders of t~is Order? They are
all rlgl1t. I'n~ f;ure. .The! rouble is we are
boni ,with a spirit ot unre~t alld di!'satis-
. faction with the order of tbings:lnd. in-
stead of following the simple rules laid
down for our: guida.nee. we must perforce
go Off a1 a tangellt 10ol:.ing for some
quicker method f~r' obtaining our. desires.
As tms is the case; I can see <10 remedy
but to use some very iorcil?l~ argument in
onr" locals to r.ompel.the I;temhers to live
up to the"law. 'Every l;1UJl' kncws when
he jOillS a uuipn wh:: he does it. I~ is to
advance his interests. but he ~Qoks to some-
one else to do tllc :ldl'alJcillg, while he
stands behind to criticize his lell.ticrs. Now
the sooner he isedllcateu' ami weaned
from that kind of .'business the sooner
trad(".5 ullions will be masters of the situa-
tion. and it has g(,t to" commence now in
the ;-allks of the electri~aI workers. What
are 1Ve to-day? Sixty odd locals agJ!.inst a
possibll! six hundred or more. C~ll those
sb:ty od4 10;:a1s rise up aud in a we.e small
voice demand .better wag~s, shorter hours
and better government? V\'e mlgl1 t' de-
mauu it, bu~ we would he a good deal like
a Xewfoundlalld dog tteeing a squirrel.
'Ve would lie barking up the wrong tree
and the general pubHc wonld fail to under-
stand ns.
Let us stop for a moment and consider
what tile possib:!ii.ies are in the way of
unorganized la')o,. Let us take one state
£'"
a;:Cl !o::,k. j~:~i it .:..nJ. "";,.h:lt th~i·e is
there in the shape of rHW material. Cnn-
ne.:-t.icnt·is not a very large state lIud will·
do very wen for an. eTam.21e. I.d ns find
out. how wany cities the:-e arc that could
su·ppor1.a !ocd of f:-cm fifty to seventy-five
1l1embers. \Vell. the!e' is New Haven,
next Bridgeport. Waterbury, New London,
~tamford and Meriden, and perhaps some
others. Now say there are on ao average
five cities in every state in the Union. and
there are more I know. how does GIlT' sixty
00.0 locals compare with this vast amount
of unorgauized labor? Now comes the
qnestion, are we doingoJlr best to get
these places organized? Are.we- e.\I,~ d.o-
ing our best to get all the Il13terilYdn
places where we are organized? I ~<?p!.t.
think so. I don't mean the officer.s,. 'thelY..
as~a rule are the men who. JZeall~t.ake,a.
keea interest in things. This is sho:w.u by
their being officers, but to ·every. brether. I
address this. are you doing y.o.ur, best ~o
help out in this work which is to be dot:l~
in your interest? .'.
You mnst wake up. Others hav.e b.een
leaders long enough. It is your turn' now._
so get together and start out with the.de7.
termination to bring in every man you ~o
come in contact with. and the results will .
surprise you. The ma1erial is ·/!-t. hand,.
brighten it up with good arguments, good,
examples and a strict adherence to busi-
ness and business principles. \\o'e ~re.e!\­
tablished now on a firm .found.ation. Jet us.
build up a handsome and a lasi.ingstruc~
ture-one worthy to be called and called
truly-the N. B. E. W. of A.
On Wednesday evening. Mar. IS. a num~
ber of the men;J bel'S of thirty-seven accep~ed .
an invitation from number se.... en. -".of
Springfield, and. after a lengthy meeting;
in their hall in the Barnes Block •. we ad-
journed to a hotel. where we found .a
bounteous repast, which received lots of
attention from the visiting brothers •.as
many of them were compelled te ,leave
home without su pper. During the evening .
we were delightfully entertained with·
music,.songs and recitations. and late(in
the evening we were escorted to'the Cen-
tral Station and shown everything of inter-
est there. The time was passed .very
'pleasantly and we left on the 2 a. m. ,~rain
well pleased with our reception. ~y, the
brothers of NO.7. for which we offer",them
a hearty vote of tlmnks aod an earnest·in~
vitation to pay us a return visit in. the near
future. While coming down on the· train
some of the brothers came in contact with
a fioater who seemed to think tra4es
uni.ons were a thing of the past. J'he
brothers were tired but that fellow got
such a sermon on trades unions that ·he
will never forget it and if any of the locals
meet a fellow who is overly anxious to be-
come a member they can rest assured it is
that same floater,
M. P. SULLIVAN,
Press .Secr,et!lry".
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Local Union No. 38.
Cleveland. May 4. 1899.
Hello. Neph:
How's things hanging on the fence along
down the Genesee? Must be about through
corn-planting by this time. I should.think.
We bave the garden sass all planted 'cept
the cabbage and turnip plants. Since the.
frost nipped our plants that cold 'spri~g
(1819 I think it was) we have been·a bit.
earefnl about planting so early. '1: see·.
Dick Ross and Andy Herron t'other night
 May] .
and they say they planted taters more than
a week ago. Geo. Gleason and Cy Gech-
ier have rented Sam Harrises' old sheep
pasture and are going to sow the north
baH to oats (not wild oats) and the bal-
ance to cucumbers. Prices seem to be
keeping 'up prelty well. Fred Toye ane.
Al Sheffield sold their hay for $7.00 a load.
Mack 'Wilson bought it for a circus that's
been wintering over on Long street. Har-
ry Bates bas sold his shoats to Hovis &
Slater; he sold ·them on foot, catch as catch.
can. They are going to drivie the shoals
to Cuba to feed the boys in blue. A. Dun-
ton has traded. his old ma pig alld six infant
pigs for' Chris Miuches' lop-horned slt:er
aud ten gallons of cidcr. This is about all
the news I can think of just now.
This is the time of year when a feller
pines for freedom and the country wild
flowers, ham and eggs, houey, maple sugar,
,Pancakes, frogs' legs, horse-radish and fish.
I tell'You, my bay, I long for the farm. I
well remember the days 1 spent on the
farm, when, in the flush of my young man-
hood, 1 'have stood for hours and spit to-.
bacco jiliee into lhe pigs' eyes to see tbem
plow their 'noses into the ground, wipe
their faces off with their wrists, and wink
for more. 1 think of the days when I used
to hoe corn t.o earn money to buy a hoe to
hoe more corn.. Now just imagine the joy
and comforl to be had in sitting down bc-
side a loving aud attectionate mother cow
(1 would not advise sitting down beside a
cow that had not been a mother), while
resting your face in her warm flank as YOIl
extract the rich, warm fluid from the ud-
der in fly time, be fanned on the cheek by
a long,fringy attachment known to sci-
ence as a tail. I have told these things to
your aupt, but she thinks 1 know about as
much ubout far!ping as I do about some
otuer things I might mention. Just be-
cause I had a little .trouble over at one of
our neighbor's sh~ thinks I don't amount
to much. I guess I never told you of my
fracas over at ~lrs. l\IcRafferty's. \Vell,
fo,' fear SOUle one will prevaricate ill regard
to the malter, I guess I will tell you all
about it. Mrs. McRafferty is a widow.
She occupies a small villa in the neighbor-
hood of your nncle's' brown stone front on
the boulevard. Mrs. l\lcRafferty is our
friend as well as onr neighbor. She is also
the owner and pc:.s5essor of two horned cat-
tle and a daughter with two calves. One
of her catt1~ is a cow;' I understand the
other is not. Mrs. McRafferty manufac-
tures nice, rich yellow butter, from nice,
rich milk. She often calls at our house,
does 1\1rs. 1\IcRafferty, to spend a few mo-
ments in friendly gossip, and at snch times
tells us all about her nice, sweet milk, and
butter and cream, and, buttermilk, etc.,
aU of which makes us feel under deep ob-
ligation to our neighbor. Mrs. l\1cRaffer- .
ty'8 daughler is perfectly lovely; this also
makes me feel under obligalion to her
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
ladyship. ~Irs. McRafferty (abouttrurty
summers ago) named her daughter.'\nge-
lina: a very pretty name, I think. Ange-
lina is a modiste; the sign over her place of
business reads thus: "M adenioiselle'de An-
gelina McRafferty, IVlodiste." \Vell, a
mooa or tVit' ago, along in the cold \"eath-
er, :'tlrs. l\IcRafferty, the elder, fell off the
hay-loft and broke her leg. I can't quite
understand how she could break such a leg
as it looked to me when I saw it (of course
I did stand and'look at it two or three
hours), as though it would tax an 8co K.
\V. generator coupled to a 900 H. P. steam
engine to do the job; but break it she did,
and as a result she was unable to care for
her family of cattle, inchiding two c'alves, .
which I am informed are the property of
mademoiselle, the modiste. \\'ell, one eve-
ning, after our evening meal had been put
oUl of sight, and as 1 !'at reading and dis-
cussing with 'your aunt Paul's Epistle to
the Romans, who should push the ·electric
button but someone ff"Om the outside, and
shortly the maid sen.·ant brought in the
card of mademoiselle lhe modiste. After
all exchange of greetings, mademoiselle
inforDled ns that ber maDlma was sorely
disheartened on account of not being able
to milk the cows, and as she, mademoi-
selle, was wholly unused to that· kind of
business, would your uncle be kind enough
to assist her. He could lla.e his choice,
1101d the critter by the horns, while mad-
emoiselle endeavored' to milk, 'or vice ver-
sa. She said she was naturally tilllid and
afraid of cows. I told her I was just the
boy that would be only too glad to help
her do the job; in fa~t, I could do it alone
and not half try; that she, poor thing, was
110t to blame for being afraid of cows, and
that the cow ougl!t not. to be blamed for
being afraid of her.
So, after adjusting my necktie and plug
hat, we meandered forth. Before proceed-
ing to the cow domicile, mademoiselle
said I should go up stairs, see mamma and
receive instructions. I did so, and although
mamma appeared to be in sore distress,
she nevertheless seemed pleased to see me,
and while mademoiselle was hunting the
milk pails and comhing her hair, Mrs. Mc-
Rafferty gave me a bit of her history. She
has a fine lineage, has Mrs. l\IcRafferty. I
do 110t recall the pedigree on the maternal
~ide of the honse,but t.he pater familia's
side of it runs something like this: Her
fat.her was Mr. Patrick Donahue; he in t.urn
was sired by Michie, he by Thos. l\'iurphy,
by John Kavanaugh, by Jim Kelly, by
\Vm. Farley, by Tim Henlcy, by John l\1c-
Duff, by Dan Galore, by Dfck Sheridan,
by \Villialll Pitt, by St. Patrick, by the
Duke of Cork, by WD!. lhe Conqueror, by
Billy the Tough, by Capt. Kidd, by Rob-
inson Crusoe, by Christopher Columbus, by
l\iichte Aligelo, by Ferdinaud aild Isabella,
by Ceasar Augustus, by Saul of Tarsus.
Now, it's possible that I may have Ina.de a
II
mistake or two, but don't think I am far
oat of the way.
Mrs. McRafferty felt very niuch obliged
to me for coming over; said I was very
k.ind, an.l if I only would help her Ange-
lina do the chores, feed the cows and 'Iook
after Angelina's cah'es, she would be un-
der great obligations to me. I replied
th:!t I would comply with her wishes; not
ol11y wonld I give particular attention to.
the live stock, but would pay the strictest
kind of a~tention to mademoiselle's cah'es.
This caused mademoiselle to blush and
mutter something about an old woman
talking too much. But ~s she is I~ot a p'er~
son to lay up a grudge when one is trying
to assist her, the matter was soon adjusted
by Mrs. McRafferty's explait l ll1g that the
twa calves referred to were the children of
one of her cows and were the sole property
of Mademoisellc de Angelina, the modiste.
Having provided for the two cah'es and
the two cows (one of which is 110 cow at
all; don't forget that) I remarked to marl-
emciselle that the time had come to COlll-
mcnce operations, and if she would sit
down beside 'me where I could gaze into.
. her limpid blue .orbs of yision. I· would
proceed to exlract Ule rich white milk
from the patient cow. She said she would
be pleased to do so, and IlS !'he bad for
some time desired to disc\1sS Browning
with me, !'he thought the present occasion
all opportunity not to be lo!;t. I asked her
if it made any .difference wllich cow I
milked first. She said so fal' as she \\'as
concerned it did not; and as the mabog-
any-colored beast !'eemed to take the most
interest in me, I concluded she was the one
to tackle. So, while mademoiselle sat on
a bundle of cornstalks I seized the milk
pail aud one-legged milking stool.. Then
assuming an attitude calculated to com-
maneI the respect of any we1.l-regulated
cow, in a clear, loud voict, I commanded
her to So. She sl~ellled to So ·all right.
then I gave her O:'ders to hist. and she
histed. I don't remember of seeing a cow
hist higher. She must have histed away
up in G. She hi~ted 'onto both of my pet
corns at once, onto my knees, my breast
bone, gave me an upper cut, and lambast-
ed me on the lower haH of my spinal col-
umn: She bellowed, tore up the straw,
caught me around the neck with a swing
I)f her tail, '1nd with her two hind elbows
for drumsticks and my righteous abdomen
for ~. d'-lim, she pounded out ~hat good old
tune, "We won't go home till morning,"
and finally, no doubt thinking she had me
at a dis ad Yantage, she began to gallop all
O\'er me just :the same as if I was some-
body's quarter-section or a government
reservation. As soon' as I could excuse
myself I began to look for mademoiselle,
whom I fonnd perched upon the hay mow.
I asked her if she was much hurt. She
said she was uninjured. I asked her if she
had turned in the alarm and if the fire de-
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partment would soon be here. She said potato crop failed they starved by the thou- man who is competing formy·j~b. (d'o,n"t
she saw no cause for troubling the fire de- sands? Say, look here, young feller; what is
know who he is, but hiS name legicin; he
partment. I inquired if any part of the do you take me for; a walking encyclope- stands ready at the shop door, and -is IV.ait-
building had falltm down. She replied that cia, or a Professor of Anciei:l History? ing and willing to do the same work th4t I.
the structure remained intact. I then asked M¥- dear brother, I am b0und·:.to confess am doing, and for lesS money. ' He;~ ~pin~
her if she would mind taking the curry- that I \Viii be hanged if I kti"o\\'. All this peting for my job, he is competh-igjQi-·YOlU· ..
cOlp.b and removing some of the straw, . happened so Icing before I graced th~ earth job, and I know, and he knows, t,bat'the
bran·mash and chewed' hay that had col- ~,ith niY presence that y0lJ ",HI have to ask first false step upon my parf will >gIV~ li"iin
lected in my hair during the fracas. She nle something ea'sy. I am bound to con- the job. Then it will be my turn tP,com:
said she would be glad to assist me, and fess that I have never laiir awake o'nights pete for some one else's job,and at le'ss
offered me tlJe use of her apron to wipe or lost any time' days trying to figure out wa·ges. And so it goes around' the ..vo·rld
the perspiration and OthC\T refuse from my or w.>rrying O\'er troubles that occurred two and back again.' . " .
brow. I also asked her jf" I had better give or three hundred :years a~o. Life is too Suppose I were to start in busin~'~s:lo­
the COW a thrashing. She said that i~ view shott to worry over ',vhat happened ages day. The man across the stree~ or aip~nd'
o.f\v}rfit had' iust ha.ppened," she thought I agu. If there mtlstbe any worrying done, the corner begins to (;ompete with me.;·and
had better not. ... told her I was not an- I propose to bring it right dc",;Ii to date. I with him. He begins to "seH cbeaper·
gry, but determined. She said I looked it. Therefore ! will not undertake to swear than.l, to draw custom. Then, in orrlerto
.. Go," said I, .. at once, and say to your positi\'e' as to what the trouhle was in India, .get trade, I must undercut him. \\T~'inusi
mamma for me, that unless she wants an- Jre-tanrl, China. Jap'an or the Klondike, but both buy at the very lowest possible price
other broken leg in the family, or a case of glil11'p:;es o[rhe, past oi.nd shado...s q{ the at the wholesale house, and the wholes(lle
embalmed beef on her bands, she had bet- .suffering end.':'red by these poor peop'le oc- people, in order to sell us good,s cheap,'
ter come out and settle' matters in the cow casionally flit cicross my path, anq to-day, must buy at the very lowest. possible' pri·ce
department at once, leg or no leg. Mad· as I look b<l<:k at the condition you repre- of the manufacturer, and he in turn must
emOiselle said she 'would go if I would sent these peo.ple ~o be in, I c.mc1ude the manufacture at the lowest' possibie cost.
promise' not to kill . the cow while she was . foillm;ing: That "the people of Ireland in And in order to do this he m'ust b~v' his
away. I assured her that the critter would the .18th century weilt in rag:s because they labor at the 16west prke possible; and "as'
be safe, until she returned. She went, and could not ,get· anything else' to wear; that labor is willing to compete (because it has
while she was absent I tried to reason with they starved. when' the' potatO crop failed to), and is obliged to compete for' a: chance
the cuss of a cow. I frankly told her that because they could 'get nothing tci'eat. An to work, he, the manufacturer, is able' to
I was not easily vallquished in a square Irishman could n'ot live on wind; he must hire very cheap. This reduction fn'the
tight. I had been very lenient and had put have his potatoes, just' af'; a,-Deitcher must price of labor compels the workingman' to
up with a great (leal from her on account ha ve his sourkraut, So wh~n the potatoes deprive himself and family of everything'
of her sex; that I could have pulverized faileti, he 'failed likewise; and w!!at is true but the bare necessities of life. And so,
her, 'but did not want to appear rude. J of ould Ireiand is true of fndiaandCuba. with no money with which to pay, he 'Cil~:
explainerl to her that I ineant, no harm, I look in my' dictlon:iry <lnd i find that the not trade to any great extent, and if' he
and was willing to apologi7.e if 1 had in any word competitioh, as defined ,by \Vebster, does, I, in order to hold the sma1l ariiount
way insulted her. But before I could do means tht; act of seeking or endeavoring of trade he is able to gh'e me, must redu~e
so ruademoiselle hove in sight. Then, as- to gain what another iJ; endea"or:ng to gain the price of the goods I sell him imtil there
suming an air of dignity, I inquired of her at the same time; rivalry and strife for the is little or no profit in the business, and tbe
ladyship, "What news do you bring from sarne object; also strife for superiority. result is, I am soon forced to the wall; and
the commanding general?" Then, casting Now, if it is t:-ue, as my'i&phew says it is, unless I am able to form a trust, I am a
those heaven-lit orbs of vision right down that ever}: foot of i"and in Ireland is owned dead duck in the world of commt'rce. ..
upon the ..straw-carpeted floor of that cow by landlords, it ·must foHow that the only So you see, my boy, that this endless
boudoir, q!loth Mademoiselle de Angelina way for an Irish. peasant to obtain the use chain of competition is bowing the necks
McRafferty, the modiste, while her cheeks of the land was by paying rent for the of the -many millions in America ben'eath
crimsoned u'ntil they were the color of a same, and as there more Irish than land, it the yoke of a comparative few' masterS:
little boy's afternoon who has disobeyed follows that the I;md!ord is able and does Talk about the protective tariff being'the
his mother, .. Mamma says you are to milk put the rent up to the very highest point cause of all our troubles; why, for \vhat"
the udder cow, because this one is a-er- that a tenant will pay, or caTi pay, and live. purpose was this law passed, Wnot torro"
a-of a different .gender." He does this becauiSe he weI! 'kn(,\~s he C<ln tect the manufacturer from theconlpeti-
My nephew, C. S. R., of No. 65, rears get his price ;., lie knows that if John Doe tion of the cheap labor of Europe? If there
himself up on his .hind legs and says the \\'ou't pay, Richatd Roe wHl;' he knows was no competition there would·be no need
old man claims that all our local ills are they wHI COlllpete, or.e with the' other; for of a protective tariff.
caused by competition. He begs to differ the l)ril"ilege of worki!lg the land. Know· There are many unjust laws, I admit.
·1 with' me; says we never have had free com- ing this, he is able 'to e...::act «bout three- Far more of our laws, as they are now twist~
petition, and then explains what he means fourths or uine·tenths oi what the land will ed, are unjust than are just; but what' are' .
by free competition. He wants me to produce, thu:, leaving·the poor Iri~hman in . you going to do about it? . That's" \\'hat I
point out one instance in this or any other the hole. It there was more jand and less am asking you. Are you going to keep on
country where there was free competition. Irishmen there wl)uld be less cumpetition; voting in the future,. as in the past,in the
l
Was it competition, he yells, that bowed or better still, i! the'go'·emment owned the interest of capital and agains-t labor? Yes;
the necks of the millions of India beneath land there wO'Jill be less' competition, and my dear nephew, I repeat now, as I dio
the yokes of many masters? 'Vas it com- there'fore less rent. So I conclude: that before, the competitive system now in
petition that robbed them of all but a scant com'petitioD ·had mure or less to do with vogue in this country will (unless it. is
living in years of plenty, and when crops the troubles of Ii'eland; and what is true stopped) put both you and I in the hole
failed they died by the thousands? Was of the otd sod is truc of India and Cuba. sooner or later, and don't you forget it.
, it' competition that caused the Irish peas~ But as I Slid in the beginning, ! "m not· In the e<lrlier days of thecompetifive
. antry, in the 18th century, to go in rags? w'crrying over what happencd 2: century or s:y~-em nearly all commodities were'pr6:'
Was it competition, he howls, that robbed two ago. -..V1-.a1's worrying me now, and duced by individuais oWhing th'eir tools
them during this century; that when the the man that w'orries me the most, is the and performing their own' lahor. With
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 May)
new mechanical discoveries and appliances
the factory system became an established
factor and the erstwhile journeyman b~­
came either a factory worker or a factory
stockholder, according to his means. As
this system spread and the demand for
commodities increased, the number of fac-
tories and distribut ing agencies corresponJ-
ingly increased, until a point was reached
where there was liltle profit in 'any conl-
modity. Then some factories pooled th<:ir'
interest and became corporations; hy this
meaDS they were enabled to dtspense with
much waste in production and labor pow-
(;r, and consequently undersell the smaller
companies. For preservation, corpora-
tions merged themselves into greater C01-
porations, each consolidation enabling
them to do away with a great deal of SUi-
plus labor and concentrate their mechani-
cal forces more compactly and increase
their profits in "arious ways without in-
creasing the cost of commodities manufac-
tured. But the gre;o.t profits of these cor-
porations invited a field for investment,
and consequently competitive corporatiuns
rose up, and then the process of extermi-
nation or absorption began again, resulting
i,1 the organization of the trusts. \Ve lind
that in itself the trust form secured a max·
imum product with a minimum expendi-
ture of energy through the subdivision and
fompact organization of labor. In that
particular alone the trust form of produc-
tion is beneficial. I n that particular also
the trust is a development of production,
!lot an incident; and if you were to smash
the trusts, admitting that you could smash
them, you would have in a few years the
l:'ilme d.evelopment repeated. You don't
want to smash the trust. You want to keep
it intact and mi'l,ke it a medium of produc-
tion for use, instead of profit-operated by
all the people. In this way the trust, like
that other instrument oC misery to the work-
ingmau, the machine, would be a blessing.
Let the' pe0ple cwn all means of pro-
duCtion, distribution and transportation;
substitute co· operation for competition:
give us the direct ballot; return the land'
to its rightful heritage; ana then, Bro. C.
S. R., you and I can go fishing without fear
of losing our jobs.
Say, Harvey of 18, rlon't you suppose I
know the size of my nephews? . Why, my
l:loy, I c::n tel! )'f)U !.he length, hr",adtl->,
height and weight, shape and looks of all
:.he boys.. No, we ha':e no Is,cent experts
ill Cleveland just no\\'. Sometimes we
have them in the fall and winter, hut ev<;,ry
spring we round them up and take them
down to the lake and put them under the
ice. Then along in July, when off Edge-
wood Park, some fair bather gets the trail
,)f her bathing-skirt caught on the collar-
lJUtton of the aforesaid J s-center, and hauls
hi~n' upon the beach,' the 'coroner calls
around, sits on him :l.nd pronmlOces him 'l.
scab too scabhy to recognize.
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
I am in receipt of the prospectus for the
" Practical Electrician." I understand Uro.
Breese, whose address is 260 Connecticut
street, Buffalo, has charge of the magazine
and its managment. It wi II be issued month-
iy, and in view of the Pan-American Ex-
position to he held in Buffalo, I am per-
suaded it will be well worth the reading,
and would advise the boys to take a peep
at it.
The boys of No. 38 held another smoker
on the 19th; lots of fun and 16 applications
is the result. By the way, we have a man-
dolin club, abcut the best in the city. It is
known as "Uncle Tom's Mandolin Club,"
and yOllr uncle feels quite large when he
thinks that the crack music dub of the city
bears his name. I also wish·to make men-
tion of the fact that we have a member
whom we are willing to back in a boxing
match with anyone, not barring Fitz Sim-
mons. If there is any man in the Brother~
hood who wants his nose lengthened out,
sh(lrtened up, or spreau all over his face;
if he wants the color of his eyes changed
from' blue to black, or vice versa; if he
wants his anatomy changed from a biped
to a quadruped, let him address Mr. Thos.
\Varren, care of your Uncle Tom. Anoth-
er thing I would like to state rigHt here
and now, and that is, if that individual who
signs himself .. Ann Archigt," from Cleve-
land, will come out into the open and make
himself known, me and Tom \Varren will
giVE! his family an opportunity to hang
crape on the door, and his friends a. chance
to 'buy flowers.
The weather has heen so hot up here for
a few days that one' of our neighbor'S
daughter's got son struck. \Vhile out in
the woods gathering wilrl f1ol\'ers I found a
large number of grasshoppers and frogs
that had been baked alive, the heat was so
great. A. person h;w i r;g;1 few crac~~ers in
his pocket could ha"e made a very fair
lunch. A farmer whom I met in the woods
told me it had been so hot o~er-~~iiere~he
lived that a number of his hens had laid
hard boiled eggs, and that the steam gen-
erated in his well until it blew a chain
pump between 134 and 135 feet up into the
air. As I was returning home I met a cler-
gyman who had heen rlown in the country
holding sen'ice in a school hc.usc. He said
while he was prt:!aching it became so hot
that ~eveT<ll of the hr<>ther~ and some d
the sisters-but shaw, what's the use of me
. telling you what happc:n<.d. ~or:e' of you
will belie,'e me, and in an unguarded mo-
ment some one will cal! m~ a liar; and as
I am not accountable f(lr what happens
when a man says that, I guess i better quit.
From your
UNCLE TOl\L
P. S.-~I do not believe I had better say
ar..ything. about your stopping off here while
on your. way home from Detroi~. I don't
think I hac! he~ter S3Y a word about your.
leading the old man away from his indus-
trial pursuits to the more warlike scenes in
the ball park, 'where we both became so
excited .. hat we tried to carry off the dia-
mund. I won't tell how I took you down
to the boat and put you to bed and left you
to awake in Buffalo; how a delegation from
No. 38 called to see you and waited for you
to come aboard until 3}~ seconds before"
the boat pulled out, and all the while you
were in your stateroom in bed snoring hard-
er and louder than the engine ip the hcld
of the sLip. No, the less there is said about
some things, the hetter.
Your UNCLE TOM.
Itocat'Union No. 40.
St. Jcseph, 1\10., May I, 1899.
Editor Eler.trical Worker;
No. 40 is enjoying an era of prosperity
tllltt norte of our old working metiJbers
ever. antidpated. Ail the old members are
~Otl1;'lg hac.k a!~d we arc takiilg' in new
ones in batches of two and three. Ex-Bro.
Sam Smith came up and squared himself
last Thursday night, aud we are expecting
se'"eral ol:hers to do so at once.
The trimmcrs of the City Elec. Light
plant get an a<h-ance of $5 per month,
makillg$tio, which well repays them for
the terrible winter they have just gone
throngh. They al'e uuder many obliga~
tions to the city electrician, Mr. \Valter .
C. Stewart, and otlly hope they will some
day have an opportunity to repay him for
the many favors extended. I uuderstand
!'everal of the inside men are to gct au
adv>'.nce also.' I hear to-day that one of
the other companies is to raise their men
to $60.
Owing to our increasing business No. 40
has heen obliged to appoint an assistant
press secretary.
The Central I,abor Council of the Amer-
ican Fe<ler'l.tion 'If Lauor of St. Joseph,
of which No. -40 is a ruember, has at-
tempted to start a paper of its own. Em.
Motter will probably be one of its editors.
\Ye now have J ,000 subscriptions to start
with, and can see nothing but succeSl>
ahead of us.
The Central Labor Council held an open
meeting last Friday night, which was well
attended, and we hope did some. good_
\Ve had good uuion music, nice singing
and some very good speeches, and espe-
cially from Bro. Motter.
\Ve are looking for a new hall and hope
to get located ID the new Odd Fellows'
building, which is the finest building for
meetings in the state: .
Two new companies are here trying to
get franchises. The Railway Co. also asks
. for· a new line to the northeast part ur
town. Hope they will get them.
Our soJdiE!r boys have all returned R'!d
gone to w~rk, Bro. Dunn at his old place
with the Railway Co. Earl Stewart is
with the Citi;.cns' Tel. Co. Ex-Bro. Jim-
mie Cain is !itill soldiering (?), but lie has

lost his stripes. He did not wear them
where Ule other brothers did.
In the last Worker Bro. Motter roasted
~veral of the boys for not attending meet-
ings. I think it a good. tbing and am
going to follow it up. If the brothers
. -dorl't like it let them come to lodge .and
elect sOme one else.
Bros. Bastian and Dorsel, our two secre-
taries, are absent of late a great deal
and with very poor excuses; yet they can
atte1'ld other'lodges regul.arly. I suppose
we will have to move fo their 'homes so
we can get our books, papers, seals, etc.
Bro. Melvi'n is probably excusable. The
other day I saw a piece of paper drop'from
his pocket, and on picking it up it read:
.. The wife who can persuade her husband
that a necktie does not become him can
do anything with him." As Bro'. Melvin
does not wear. a necktie I suppose that is
his excuse. .-\t the last meeting of our
union a resolution was passed authorizing
me to write the following ex~brothers up
in the Worker: Sem~ time ago tbe Rail-
way Co. missed a great deal of copper.
They went to the pawn shops, where they
found several hundred pounds of from No.
10 to 00. A little im?estigatioll followed,
and ex-Bros. Arch"Holman and Jake M.
Slaybaugh, with a bobo llamed Harry
Crouse, were arrested and pleaded guilty,
getting fOllr months -ill jail. Since then
the company find. they have been robbed
of more than they first thought, and the
boys may find other cbarges awaiting them
when they get ouf. This nia'n Holman is
from·St. Louis and was a member of our
order there, but refused to join No. 40,
probably because he could get work here
without joining.. Right here is a question
that I have had asked me more than once:
.. Why is it tbat a union foreman will keep
sucb men .as those when there are good
union men walk.ilig the strrets doing notb-
ing?" The trouble with Slaybaugb is that
he thinks more of bEl(ne tban he does of
unions. This wire was taken down in the
day time and Holman was the foreman.
Some of his men refused to assist him, and
it is well they did. It should be a lesson
.to the companies to remove tbe deaq
.loops, but what we need is an electric
inspector and a law governing overbead
wire and compelling companies to take
down dead wires. Some day (mr people
win realize 'the position they are in, and
fhen there will be a change.
Hoping you will exCuse this long letter,
i remain,
W.T. WISE,
Asst. Press ·Secretary.
Local Union No. 4x.
Buffaio, May 9. 1899.
Editor Electrical Worker:
I will ask the Brothers throughout this
section of tbis country to please steer clear
of Buffalo at present-members of Local
THE ELECTRICAL \'YORKER
~ I are Ollt m) a strike for $J.oo pCI' day and
9 hours. Th;ngs lit the present time are
looking quite favorable fr,r a' wir.ner, in
thi~ vtar: I do not heiieve the' contractors
oi fhis city will be able to gei goOd. men
cnought; ~~arry ~n fr.-eli- i,o,~ at 'the small
wages which they'6ffer, ;;2:25 per day. The
cry seems 'to be that if they make the rate
oi wages ~3,oo per:day'theyar~ cornpelled
to pay what they cali pCoOr ~1'ien and the
bUllls the" same rafe. -Local 4'(' does not
agree with them, f.jr we belip.)'e we have
strictly fi,st·dass me!! eriougJ... in Buffalo to
do all the work lheycan get, and if we
have not first dass men enough, IVlrbelieve
the N. B. E,-W·. can furnish them all they
want if they will pay the wa!t"s.
'We bad a call from our' G. 'S. last week
and he maclea few "!ery appr0ptiate re-
rnarj(s for the occasion. If the :members
of <wr local will be sun: they h~·ve no
<,racked wooden legs unde'" thea" or any-
thir.g in the way of legs that are Ivea!,;, and
i'emcrnher the ad\·ice of the G, S., ! can see
the finish of the contractors on Pan-Ameri-
can' work.
Just a word to the Brotht~r!;. within a
hundn~d mile~ of Buff"lo.· Don't'let anyone
misinform you regarding: the great amount
of. work being done on the Pitf'-American
Exposit;nn gmunus. There are no such
grounds; the sight 1las not heen' selected
yet, and itJhe contrvversy keeps up, there
won't be any place s~lected this-year. Just
as soon as things get into all)' ~ind of-shape
! shall endeavor to infor(,1 :Brrothers bow
mw:·h work there is :'"9 what they t,ay.
Hurrah' for Detroit! 'Loc;,j 1'7 seems to
be made up of the p;opel" materia!" Hope
to see a report of their suq:ess'in this May
issue. .. ...
I wonder "w'here the Pr~s~. secretary of
Local 44 has gone. COllle fu,rvey, get a
move ·on. Don't let'all the rest of the
Br9therhood get ahead of you. Yau ought
to be tickled to death,to thinl<;)·ou. fellows
an: drawing so much ]l1cney. ·J~.Iess the
$::.25 went quite as eas-y.. a!d'hough' it had
been $:!.oo. ~. ..;.
You can kir.c1lv thank···£rother 'F'rank
M.tFarlanc fur hi~ e!I.)rts'to bf(ng about the
raise.
There arc numerous things 1. <-ould write
about to-night, as I have in mind all the
b~ys, Uncle Tom, H, Adams, Theo, Gould,
I'. 1-:. "tll:;:;z;;:ger. F~:~~sJ ~1C!'-;~r:-e·, Ecoff,
and a, host c! others, but I ha.\·e heen mov-
ing my place nf' f<:sicier,ce, and you know
what that means: if you don't why ask
Tom Wheeler of 33.
Fraternally YOllrs,
Wi\L'A, BREESE,
Press Sec.
J~ocal Union No_ 44.
Rochester, ~~. Y., May 9. ISqq.
Editor Electrical ;\Vo,k~!':
.I think you hal·e nOl i.t>ard frnm me in
rWG months, bu,t .eve;:ything in l{ochester
is going along ·fine. T'he . in'side; 'Wifemdl'
of 44 have just finished having aO'·3gt-eeo.:
ment signed with the contractors: The';
questions have been discussed,in: 'pretty
warm terms for the last five' or- six' weeks
in regard to trade rides 'and'wage:scal'e', :
and up to the present writing '~\ferytIlirig
has been settled to thesatisfacti6n 'of':both"
parties, and we sincerely hopewitr remain'
so for some time.
During the past month we ha've lost one'
of our members, Brother John: Maati'en';
who died at St. Mary's Hospital 'on~4..prit ..
11th. He had been ill for some tn-he, 'Put
had only been at the hospital a'few d.flys.'
He was given every possible atten'tiorr1:iut
passed away on the date mentioned; 'Hts
remains were taken to Canada for' inter,;
ment by his brother.
Yours truly;
H."N. S.··
.. ' j .- ~
Local Union No. 45.•
Buffalo, N. Y., May 2,1899."
Editor Electrical Worker:
I again appear with a few reltiarks. to
·inform the JOllrnal of the·welfare·of·;No.
45, and it is with pleasure I state that' th~ -
boys heartily greet the dawn of spri~g,
which in our locality was rather late; and,
they now ca!\t off their Klondike coats and
heavy mittens, and in their shirtsleeves
scale the lofty poles, and witb light hearts
listeu witb pleasure to tbe shrill noteS of
robin red breast, which sounds more dis-
tinctly to the ear from the top of a si;'ty-
five than in the bustling street·bl!low. The
humming of the frost-contracted· wires has
ceased and the trees are beginning to
array in summer apparel. Of course, it
will be a little more difficult to sight OUl"'
wires through the foliage of those,lofty·
trees, whose only am.biEon seems to be
to keep their heads above the wires, but
we will forego all that in preference to coid
fingers aud the biting blasts of· winter;
But, as I intended to confine myself to''8
few remarks re.garding the way, No.'· 4S
transacts business, I will commence at ol'lCe
for fear of presuming too much upon YOllr
valuable space .
Now the most important feature of all
movements is ·the selection of good officers,
or leaders, because without such any cause,
no matter how good, is liable to fall by the
wayside. And with a selection such ..as.
No. 45 'bas made our cause is sure to spread;
just as sure as the light of day spreads
before the advancing sun. 'So; therefore,
as Press S~cretary, i feel obliged to COll-
fer a compliment upon our president for·
his strict attention to business. Tbe able,
diplomatic and statesmanlike manner in
which President Devlin conducts affairs is
truly wonderful, and his rulings 'on many
teclmical questions will, I. believe, ' be
handed down to posterity imd quoterl as
authority by future generations .of tIle
Brotherhood. Moreover it is very pleasant
 May] ,
to listen to our karned presinent address
the house 011 any important question, The
walls of no hall of congress ever echoed
a clearer or more oratorical voice than that
of President Devhn, and he punctuates his
remarks with ligilt and witty episodp.s,
which, however, give way when the hot
!lowing tide of sweepi1!g eloCJuence swings
along in irresistible How. It must be borne
.in mind that our worthy president's tillle
is not consumed in atidressing the empty.
dIRirs or a few sleepy members. But, all
I he other hand, he is speaking; to an intel-
ligent assembly of parliamentarians, 'who
are at all times ready to detect flaws or
':lTor:; in his rulings. nut his sound aHd
logical judgment prevents him from com-
ing in conflict even with the most learned
lIlembers. I could comment upon the
eble abilities of onr whole staff of officer!;
in like manner, bllt lest ~ should overstep
the bounds of propriety I willconcJude, as
I have yet the sad announcement to make
that the grim angel of death has wielded
the sceptre with remorseless hand among
out brothers, and has taken from our midst
our beloved brother, Perry Johnston, who,
after a short illness, passed away on the
13th of April. I am glad to say that Local
45, after contributing largely to the floral
decorations, turned out almost in full force
and escorted the remains to their last rest-
ing place.
Sincerely and fraternally yours;
J. J. CASEY.
I,ocal Union No. 46.
Lowell, M<1ss., 1\1ay 5th, 1899.
Editor Electrical Worker:
As No. 46 has not been heard from for
some time I will try and let the boys know
what Yie are doing. \Vork has got some-
wh.tt plenty the last few weeks. E\'cry
one in town is working at -present. Our
inspector of wires took his office May first
and we expect to see him make lots of
changes before long. The same day all
the bar-rooms c!osen and e\'erybody is
singing" How dry I am." This is becaust;.
Lowell voted "0 license last fall. February
1st the Lowell EI';ctric Light Co. changed
hands.to Boston parties; the head of the
firm now is Stone S. \Vebster. It is also
said that this company owns several plants,
including the following places: New Or-
leans,La., Atlant<l, (~~ .. and Seattle, Wash.
On March 1st our new manager came and
from the pruceedings to d<lte. it look.!; as
though the electric plant here will put in
a system before long. Fh'e years ago
Lowell had the hest plant in this state,
. but bad management and the many new
devices of electricity has reduced it. ~. lany
members of No. 46 are also in favor of
making the Bnltberhood .International.
13m. Harding has taken .o\'er the business
of our prE'sent in!<per.tor of wires. This
goes to show that we have none but good
meu in our Local and no card, no work, is
THE ELECTRICAL \iVORKER
thc motto of Bro. Harding. Since our last
letter Bro. P. Rcdden got a bad fall. He
was on top of a stageing on a snow plow
which the Lowell and :-~ashua Stn:et R. R.
were using- [0. a tower wagon. The tower
c;:.ught the stagdng :md pul1.ed ·it off,
thrGwing Bro. Redden, wilo struck on his
back in the cupola. It will he a long time
before he wiil string wires a~ain, although
he is able to be out with the aid uf a cane.
It was the same old stm)' with Bro, Redden.
He happl:ned to be in arrears at the time.
I will close for this time, hoping to hear
from many Locals this month.
MEMBER No. 46.
I,ocal Union No. 46.
Lowell Mass" Mav 8, 1899
Editor Electrical Worker: ..
\Vell, No. 46 has missed fire a couple of
times now, so I am going to send a contri-
hution to the \Vorker myself this month.
with the double purpose of giving you
to understand that we are not all dead
(drunk) nor sleeping, and of having the
satisfaction of seeing myself in print, which
same object is (next to having our picture
printed in our local papers), the greatest
ambition of all young Americans. I won-
der why we haven't heard anything from
our new P. S. (this don't mean post script")
because he is too long for that, in fact he
is a whole column. They say that the
reason he don't write is because he can't
get the right kind of ink, now that Lowell
is a no license town; he alwllYs uses two
kinds of it, one kind to dip his pen in and
the other kind liable to dip him in the pen-
in-tentiary. Now this'is not meant for a
libel on him as all the boys here will know,
for he is (I .believe), some relation to
Francis Murphy, t!le temperance lecturer.
But all joking aside, I don't see why he
can't write as he is all ".right" every other
way, but I suppose it is his affliction to be
so quiet, no one ever hears a word out of
him.
I hope the Grand Secretary will instruct
all Electrical \Vorkers to keep away from
Lowell this summer, as it is a poor place
for the average .. Pole Sticker," .. Trim·
mer," or .. Inside l\Ian," because you can't
get a thing boys, not a thing, everything is
closed up tighter than a drum. There is
nuthing left for us to do except drink one
per cent. or go to Lawren('e for our" thirst
quencher," and if any of you were ever in
,~;) wrenre you know· what that r'neans.
Say! boys, on the dead (man), that town is
the last place on the map.
Now Bro. G. So, I think you ought to get
after the boys in this p,"per e';'ery month,
about attending meeting:. paying dues,
getting in new :n~\libers, :?te. Tell" Unde
Torr." to give them a good red hot lctter.
His last one in behalf of old Crip was a
dandy and if it is possible for N~, 46 to do
anything, she is going to do it, and th'lt
goes too, see ! .
15
As to general news I don't think there is
any in Lowell worth teJling, only that the
Electrk Light Co. has moved into their
new office, and it is all right, with the front
illuminated with arc and incandescent
lamps until midnight.
Say! I most forgot, one of (lur members
is in ch:;.rge of one of the largest shops in
the city, and his head hasn't swelled a
mite, like some" others" I could mention,
and our boy hasn't gone back on the union
either. He is paying union wages and
hiring union help too. So when you meet
him, boys, grip his hand in the good old
way and tei) him how you appreciate his
stand in the matter.
I mus: not take up too much space, but
I warrt tu speak of just one more matter,
and that is why is the G. S. so stingy with
the copies of the \Vorker? we never get
half en()~lgh to go round. Maybe it is the
rule to senrl only as many as there are
members in good standing, as shown by
the per capita tax returns, but although
that looks right, yet how about those mem-
bers who are a month or hvoin arrears,
owing to unavoidable circumstances? but
who are as good as gold when money is
commg in right. Are they never tuhave a
paper?
Brace up G. S. and send us enough and
leave it to our secretary tn decide who is to
go without in our own Local union as un-
deserving.
4-II-44·
I,ocal Union No. 49. .>
Chicago, II!., ~lay ;, 1899.
Editor Electric Worker:
Few a\'ocations present a duty more
dangerous ll.nd hazardous than the position
of an electric arc light trimmer, In this
position one must work io rain and sun-
shine, in t!\f' rr.ust bitter cold and in the
most extrcmi! heat. You are compelled to
climb poles 60 feet high on the ·top of
which is the arc lamp. \\'hile working
there is likelyhond of one coming in con-
tact with a current from the battery and if
not expecting it. a ~lIdden shock strikes
you which causes you to loosen your hold,
your muscles contract and you fall to the
gTClund. The trolley pole is more danger-
ous than any other arc light support, and
during a heavy storm we are otten com-
reBed to miss a pole whirh supports m()re·
than olle working conductor. The great
trouble in t~i5t case is that the iU'5'lhtion on
the span wires is defective and the current
escapes thro\lgh flaws. From the working
conductor to the trolley poles is a dan-
gerous 'storm center: When a trimmer
patrols his circuit and discovers a lamp
not burning, he must put it in order when
h\'C thousand or more volts are on, and If
by ~i~hap he receh'e a large flow of the
current he gets an easy introduction into
the next world.
Contracts have been let for 50 miles of

wire to be pla'ced underground and to erect
. 500 arc lamps. on the north side of our city.
Members of Local No. 49 are taking an
active interest in the matters referred to
by Uncle Tom's letter. Bro. Wright has
our heartfelt sympathy and we are prepar-
ing financiali y to show it. Bro. Conley left
for New Orleans on a sad mission to attend
the funeral of a relative. He has our
deepest sympathy in his bereavement.
. HENRY W. MARTIN,
Press Secretary.
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!,oeal Union No.
.... ~'~.. .
sa: . was not t~ue Al!d.t.11e per:;r)\/ who ga~'e them
Newark, N. J., May 6, 1Sc)9.
Editor Electrical Worker:
Well, brothers, No. 52 is progressing at
present as it has in the past, splendidly.
Our membership consists at present of
ahout one hundred and eighty-five mem-
bers, andlIJore applications are coming in.
Weare getting a line on the wiremen and,
they ar.e coming as fast as can be expected.
NO.3, of New York, (not Nat'l Brother-
hood men) protested against our delegates
being seated by the Building Trades Coun-
cil, but the conncil did not believe in let-
ting NO.3 of New Y.ork city come to Jer-
sey and try to hold it down the same as
they are trying to do in the city of New
York at the present time, and charge such
an enormous initiation fee, which is within
the means of but a few men in our line of
business. \""e hope in the near future to
see No. 3 affiliated with the National
Brotherhood, where in justice to all they
should be.
We have had a little trouble on our
hands since the beginning of April. The
men employed by the North Jersey Trac-.
tion Co., formerly. the COl,lsolidated Trac-
tion Company, went out on strike on ac-
count of a severe cut in their wages. The
men were out about a week, when a settle-
ment satisfactory tii both sides was agreed
upon, the men all getting an increase of
twenty-five cents per day, and no piece
work. All of the men are members of our
local, but am sorry to state one of our
brothers went to work and, with the aid of
his brother, scabbed the job. His name is
I Jack .Campbell()lnion man) and his
brother is Bill Campbell, otherwise known
.1 as saphead, the scab.
The settlelnent w:as made. through tl,1e
efforts of a committee consisting of dele-
gates from the Building' Trades~ Essex
Trades, and members· of local employed
by the company.
\Vell, one trouble never comes alone.'
We decided to hold a special meeting and
send a committee to the Crocker-Wheeler
Co., as they bad made a simtlar cut on
their employees in the winding room some
months ago. The cut was so severe in
some cases a man could not get his regular
wages at the end of the week.
The morning after the meeting, when
the employees went to the shop to work a
TH E ELECTRICAL WORKER
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notice was on the £1"Ont door stating work
in the -.\·iI!dlllg roc.tnf had. be~n suspended
till r~lrther notice; in o;'hcr ":;(lfds there
was a l\.lckot~t. The r"ason Hie offidals
gave for said action wes they haq heard
from some persoll not fit 'to live .on the
f.1.ce of tt~ e.ort'h t)lat thf: winders were
going to strike the nCl:t mVl'Ding. A
committe.e frpm the SilOP' and ti1(! councils
wai.ted 011 the officill.is of the firm and con-
tradicted the report of the '1>eI"5on and
furthcrmm'e, .were ,,-illing i.o produce the
minut~s o~ the meeting l~ pro.. that suche
the inf()l'·I.'latj,()U ",,~s R COUfOllll;:lPd. liar and
a pest or plague to mankind ..... :rl~e wind-
ers and help(,rs we,e Ollt sb: days, when a
settlement waf; lD!!de ~lisfactory to both
sides, the .fir~ agref:'ing top>;.),. first-class
winders the minimum rate of Lwcnty cents
per flour and llelr,ers fifteen cents per
hQl.u. . also in colored lights. But perhaps" the
\\-ith best.wishes.tc. ail hrothers.
. . FntterllaI1y yours,
'., W. J. L.,
Press Sec.
~ca.l Union tro. 56.
Erie. Pa., May, ISw.
Editor Electt'ical ~.\·orker"·:
A few words from 56 will help. you a lit-
tleabotlt fiiliug up the \Vorker, so I will
send you my words by ireight, as ~y learn·
ing does not allow me to express myself.
Everything is going on very quiet in Erie
at present, 'and all brothers .are working,
and there are some cnmpani~s looking for
men ~nd they are wilijng to pay two doi-
lars for ten hours' work_
No. 56 gave a ball and an electrical dis-
play Oil May . .1st, and it was the whole
thing; but No: 56 does not wish to claim all
the' credit and honors, as it was through
the brothers of No. 38, of Cle\'eland, 0.,
that we got -the most of :·thl' necessary
equipments, and' ,we had a committee of
three to decorate the hall \vhich could not
be beat, viz.: Bros ..Pudenz, Disbrow and
Eighmy. ~ro. Eighmy left his work and
went tv Cleveland at his OWl) expense to
procure the necessary lamps i:ad other ar-
tides which .'fic could not have gotten up
in our small"locill, 'and w\lich the brothers
of' 38 'werl! ready to lend and help us to
get. Bro. Eighmy. :;ay~ if you want to have
a good time and meet 60ml': good brothers,
just go to Cleveland and call on your Un-
cle Tom, ahJ he wiH lell you where all the
good brothers are.
Ob, yes, l was telling you about our
dance. It wasn'l quite t!le whole =hing, as
the stornl kept the crowd away; so we are
kecl'ing our electriczl diS!,iay all up in the
bal! br ;";ay 8, arid \·.'",·ex?e~r ,.!i this town
and part of Swantown tu be ther'?,
That's all (or speed, so \ will send a
clippmg frun: the Erie.. !IWf:li:lg paper,
which tells an ab0!H ill", grand ball..
FI i\t:ert.aliy yours,
1._ E. C.
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MUSIC BY WIRE
WAS THJi; NO'-EL FEATURE OF' ~HE
ELECTRICAL WORKERS' BA·LL.·'
Local No. S(i, National Brothe'rhoOO of
Electrical Workers of America, e'Dte'rtained
about two hundred friends and invite'd
guests at a grand ball and reception ·at
Maennerchor Hall last night. The party
was one of the best given in Erit; duriIl·g
the season, and was especially enjoyabl.e
on account of its many ·novel fea.tures. :·Of
cuurse, it is to be expected that ~le6tii~
cian~ will spring some new wonder~f tl~ei}
art on sqch an occasion, but last night's
expectations were surpassed. Tile hall
was brilliantly iHuminated from a,bove'by
s·trings of many-colored electric' "lights:
Over the stage blazed a great AmeriCa'n
flag made of colored lights. whi1~ on the'
face of the bakony at the oppusite end ·m
the haH appeared the retters .. N. B. E. WY
most unique feature of the evening w'asthe
.. music by wire." In the balcony was·
placed a large contrivance (such as'only
electricians understand) which reproduCed
as c1earty, distinctly and with as muc'h vol-
ume as the .. real thing," the very best mu-
sic of Koehler's full orchestra, which ~\"as
playing away for dear life in the Metropol-
itan Hotel across the street. The appara-
tus was furnished by the M.utual Tele-
phone Co. And to this unusual ffi\lsic the
merry dancers kept time under' the rays 6f
a calcium light, also o.perated from the bill-
cony, which with its brilliant colorings arid
magnificent effects produced a scene of
beauty rarely if ever witnessed even' iIi a
modern ball room. . ','
As an electrical display the affair <;om~
pared very favorably. with nature's own
handiwork as shown in the flashing light-
nings of last night's sterm. The c9mmit-
tees were as follows: Arrangemc::nts~L.
Carson, P. Jacobs, A. Hicks, J. Mulhern, J.
c. St. Clair. Floor Committee-J.W. bis~
brow, H. N. Pudenz, J. P. Han'lon, C:'A:
Eighmy. F. Carver. .
~ocal Union No. 66.
Houston, Tex., M:llY.5. 1899.
Editor Electrical Worker:
No. 66 has got a kick coming. ~ot. a.
member received the Worker la!\t month.
What was the trouble?
We had afire in Uni~n LaborHel! tl:.e .
first of April, and No. 66 lost everything
they had in the hall except our seal; about
$75 worth. We are -getting along well
just the same. Plenty of ","ork .and 'new
members coming in all the time. I't~"il'
you, we are beginning to. show all linemen
the benefits of jo.ining the ullion. The
Light Company got baulky last m.ol~th·and
said they would 1I0t pay as much wages as .
the rest of the companies \V.ere paying,.
but the union took the matter up aiid soo.n
brought them to tenus.
Bro. J. M. Stevens has returoeu to. Hm:s-
 May]'
ton as assistant circuit manager for tIlt:
Telephone Company. We a~e all glad for
two reasons; glad to see h1m promoted
and glad to have him back in town, for he
iS,oue of our best lluion men. 'Here's good
luck t~ you, old hoy. . Our local is progressing fin(>. We h~,,"e
There are some workmen here eatmg at
5cab restaurants and Chinese restaurants
and patronizing other scab concerns.
Shrune on you, boys, do you expect to reap
all the benefits of unionism and give noth-
ing in return? Olt, by the way, isn't it
about time you inside men wake up and
make a few connections. Your circuit
will be entirely out of ot'der pretty soon
and you will be ill the dark. Just note
the bright halo around the outside men,
especially ahout pay day, and go thou aud
do likewise. If we would only all act to-
gether we could just as well have a just
share of the wealth we create as to be toil-
ing ·for the pittance th'lt a rart -:>f ol'.r
trade is forcing the corporations and con-
tractors to pay to the other part, who set
back and enjoy what we do for them, and
refuse to do anything for themselves or to
help us to do for them. And such things
are ·called men:
R. R. TRIPP,
Press Sec.
~ocal Union No. 67.
'" Quincy, III., May 5, 1899.
Editor Eiect.rical Worker:
As \ve have not had a letter in the Work-
, er for a couple of months 1 wiI! try to ha ve
a few lines ihis time.
Very near all of the linemen are busy,
as the Telephone Co. and Electric Light
Co. are rebuilding their lines, and there
wiII be work here all summer for them.
The majority,of the inside wiremen are
idle and have not much prospect of any
work this summer.
E,,-erything is going smoothly here and
we expect to get some of the old men back
into the union at our next meeting.
Yours respectfully,
J.M.R.,
Press Secretary.
Local Union No. 68.
Denver, Col., Apr. 24, 18c)9.
Editor Electrical Worker:
As the will of Almighty God has re-
moved Bro. Ioe Griffi!1 from our 'midst, be
it resolved, That we, as members of Local
68; N. B. E. 'V., of Denver, do lll~reby ~x­
tend our heartfelt sympathy to his rela-
tives and friends, in having lost a true and.
loving brother. Be it further
Resolved; That· a copy of .these resolu-
tions be spread upon Ollr minutes and also
puhlinhed ill the official org~u of the
National Brolherhood of Electncal Work-
,ers.
LocaJ 68, ~. 'n. E. 'V., of Denver,
F. A. WARNER,
Rec. Sec.
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I,.ocal Union No. 72. think aay other matter, more important.
. Flatonia; Tex., 'Mfly 7, 1899. Wr::. are "degenerate sons of tbose who
fought to give us political liberty if we en-
Editor Elt:ctrical W (lrker:
slave ourselves while we have the power of
Dear lirothers, I am pretty late tliis
ballot to correct social injustice.
month, bUt will try t.p' get in 3. fC71 l;nes.
I have a· conviction on this question, and
though it was of slow growth, it'is possi-
taken in ahout a d07cn members in the
ble I a111 at error; if so; I wanl tc;> 'be set
last month and have about thl1t many more
right. The way to do that .is to sho,,: me
to' come in. There were so many coming
where In)" reasoning is at fault. All thmk-
in and so much business that we had to
ing persons agree something ~s ?~dly .out
chauge our meeting nights to every Satur-
of joint, rind civilization of thlS Kllld 15 a
day night I think we will have a bet.ter
iailnre for those who produce the wealth.
attendance in the future: \Ve added a slck
There is a right order, or natural law,
benefit fund to our local last meeting, we
for man ill this civilized. state, and until
thought maybe it would have some effect
we discover and conform' to it, our effort to
on the attendance.
right present inequ~lities will' avail us
At the last regular meeting Nick Buhler
nothing. All of our craft have II co~m?~
was expelled from our local. The charges
understanding of the law of a metalhc C1r-
against him we!"e appropriating one of the
cuit, and agree, if it is'l)pen, the only'cor-'
bov'sltools and auother one's coat and vest.
H; came to \Vaco in February on the hog.
rectiotl is to close it. 'Ve might pass reso-
lutions and make laws that a larger gauge
Iptlt him to work and paid him iu~; time,
conduClr)T was necessary, or a stronger
although he was sick a great deal. He
battery ·.~as needed, but in so doi~lg we ,
then went to the Springs, and the boys
have not n:medied the trol1ble; we must
held him up. .As soon as he came back
conform to th'! Jlaturr.1 Jaw by dosing the
he commenced to borrow money from the
circuit. 'Ye know this by en:rY-ilay expe-
boys, any amount he could get, and final1_y
rience. Hut we must almost entirely de-' '
.wound up by jumpiug the to\\'11 and IllS
pend on reasoning to knew what is the
board bill. Now, if allY of the brothers
natural order of wan ill a chilized state, as
know anything of him and can give him a
with but two c,xceptiollS (N·;:~· Zealand and
boost with your foot, I w0111d he glad to
New South Wales) it is ig1wre<l ill the
hear that you did, for that is the kind we
principles of government, anti th~y have
dou't want. There are also two others
but parti:,l1y conformed to it. TIllt with
you want to look out for, one is a DIan
results that substantiate those who advo-
named Flemming from No. 66; he bor-
cate it,. we will agree when we recognize
rowed a kit of -tools, worked a week and
this natural order as we' do the la"f\- of
skipped out. The other is Sam Flores, of
physics. .
72, but now in Dallas.. He was suspended
Abstractly we say all have an equal right
some months back for appropriating funds
to the use of the earth, and labor expended
of the local amounting to $6. So, 69, look
upon it gh-es title to the product; but our
out for him.
system 'of governmel1f fl,enies this right,
. Everything is lo,-elyin this country now.
its denial is in giving sanction to so-called
The Telephone Company is paying $2.25
prop",rty rights -that will not bear the sa~e
for lin\!mell all ove,' the state, and there
logic Qf ownership. The landlord's gam
is plenty of work for all good men. The
is the lnborer;s ioss. To 'illustrate:
S. W. and the Independent Telephone
The city of D--' is sitllate on a large
base ball teams had a match game last
lake and in winter its inhahitants cut ice
Sunday. The S. \V's were too many for
on i; and store for summer use. No one
the Independents. Score, 15 to 10.
owns the lake, and the iCe they 'Cut is all
I will have to say good bye to the' boys,
theirs. In the same latitude is the inland
as the company has transferred me from
city of 1,--. There are a few small Ja~es.
\Vaco to Flatonia, but I want to see some-
in the vicinitv but are owned by two of 1tS
citizens. Th~:ice freezes in the same man-
thing from 72 every month.
E. P. McBROOM. ner as in the big lake by D--, but as the'
pel)p!p then' recognize the right of owner-
(Crowded out of April issue.)
ship in lakes, they lJlust get permission to
Our Sodal Stat.t~s. cut ice f.ui11 them. The permission is
St. Louis, March 30, r899. given on the terms-for every three cakes
Editor Electrical Worker: cut, one shall be given to the owner; and
March edition i5 eddence we are inter- as all are tre~ted on the same terms, and
ested in'the social questi('ln, and that our the people h2.ve become acc\1stome~ t~
vision extends further than merely making giving some ,of the ice they cut ever smce
better terms with our bosses. I heartily L-- was a small tOW]'I, tlley do not feel
agree, all press secrctnries should give an injn;;tice. Of eourse they will get u.lj
space in their letters to this question. If earlier and work harder, as the city grows,
they have tlO com-ictions on it, it is high as there will be a greater deman.} for i('c,
tim~ they take some int.erest. I do not for then they will share even witll the
undcrsta;ld how they can be indifferent, or lakelonl and have four cakes to cut instead

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of thtee; ice wilrbe Scarce and out ofreach
of the poor, a great many will suffer and
die for the want of it, all because there
was no more ice.?, No; there,.was plenty
uncut: Why' tlien this scarcity, this ice
famine 1, D-- has not bad an ice famine
since the winter was too warm to freeze it.
Some will say the poor of L - were too
lazy; others, tbat they were intemperate;
while they themselves would attribute their
lack of ability to satisfy their ice wants to
capitalism-as they do n.ot recognize the
difference between the "o~ership of things
produced by labor (tools to take it out ~nd
buildbigs t() store it in) and a natural ele-
ment· (the lake). But why L - - is poor
in ice when nature furnis'bes abundance is
like· ourselves; they secure to' some own-
ership in a natural element-that is, a right
to exact a price for something that was
created for all. ' .
It requires no ima,ginath-e power'to ap-
ply the above illustration to our industrial
problem. The earth i» the source of all
wealth, as those lakes at L - are the
source of all the ict:;; and the same' cause
will produce like effect in either case.
Now, all can not use land, in common in
the same way as sUllshine and. air, as there
is a great difference ia advantag'e-value of
location; nnd all can not occupy the sallle
place. But \VC can secure to each human
equal rights, tho' they occupy or own loca-
tions of different value-as naught is to a
million, and that is, for each to pay annually
a
into common treasure the value of their
location. There can be· no injustice in
this. If all have an ,equal right to life-
equal right to life is not possible on any
other basis.
The industrial world has an open circuit;
let us close it, then repair the minor
trouble.
Yours for justice and real prosperity,
E. H. BOECK.
FIR~S CAUS~D BY.~:r.~CTRXCXTY.
'I'here is a deal of interest just now in
every city and large town where electricity
is utilized to any great extent for light and
power, in the matter of fires caused by
defective workmanship. At no time has
the subject so fully occupied the minds of
fire insurance underwriters, and it is being
brought home pretty closely to the men
wh!;) pay the premiums.
In the earlier'stages of the aIt too little
attention was paid to dangers which are
now known to be immincnt. In the hurry
of instal1iug plants a good many important
things were either unknown, or if known,
~ere ignored'.
Most of us remember the crude and in-
efficient \vire insulation ,,~hich " went" in
the early history_ of ,electric lighting.
'\'ire which would not now be used to
cOII,e-y -n,re alarlP si,gnah, was in nlany in-
stances connected into an c1ec'tric. light
se£vice; and it always managed to find its
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lIn/OD, 01 COUI'tlt!. 19 yea1'Sl /a bUS/Den, Bnd Dever had B strike-that'. our Jsbor record.
If YOJ,r d..,&'/e,. dOrJ'tkeep Keystone Iloods, lJend ItJ bls name.
CLEVELAND & WHITEHILL CO., Newburgh,N~ Y.,
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way into til., line at the point where the
danger of forming a'destructive arc was the
most imminent. The natural result was
nlany large -fttes, wLich were more often
th:!ll otherwise charg"d either toincendi-
arism, or that other very indefinite cause,
spontaneous combustion. We lIOW know
that the occasions wlu.re ,~pontaneous com-
bustion causes a' c"1)f.agration are ex-
tTemely rare, outside of certain well
defined conditioris, such a!'l thc! heating of
cotton ill the hold -of a vp.ssel P lid careless
placing ,of soiled waste.
As a matter .of fact, a series of experi-
ments was coadri"cted' a few:, years ago for
the purpose of producing fire under all
conceivable conditions, preced,-,nt to spon-
taneous combustion, and al;;o to ignite
woodwork by means of superheated steam.
The experiments weTC prollou!lced fail-
ures.
It was found, howe'.-er, that defective
insulation of electric light 'md power
currents was ? prpgnant Cf1tF,e of fire.
Indeed, if the losses from this cau ... e alone
could be tabulated, the aggregate would
doubtle,;s be ,;taggenng.
Tllat there has been a IIvtahle clJRnge in
this regard is now appareut to all who
hav.e taken !)ain~ to ill.. e~tigate the ~\lbject.
'V1-..ile it is tru", that t:-.ucb of the ; III prove-
J1lent, on these, Jines is ,Iue to newer and
be~ter wire, cc-;ering amI lllodel"n mt:thods
of wiring' canllO~, be gainsaill. At the same
ti!:!.c it. is llnquestionao~y tnlc that nllle}l
of tht: hf:t~ermel1t i.5 .Iuc to i,.;..::reas"d skill
aJld.:onsciel!ti('lls work nn the part of the
wo.'kers, to whom theHctual il!~lall:ljjoll is
ell tnlsted,
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If a wireman is ignorant,: careiess or in-
different to consequences, it is of very
little avail that a given scheme of wiriug
has been laid out with the most eIa.borate
care, and according to the 1110St ,approv~<I:
methods. One of the most desiti-ti!itiv~"
electrically' caused fires ~~ recent:yea:~s,'
originated in a buiiding, i~l whicht!te
initial wiring was as absolutely perfect;.·:is
late improvements and good workm:au"ship'
could make it. In the rush of holiday
displays a show window-filled with in-,
flammable fabrics,-was temporarily wired,
The work was done ill a hurry, and very
little attention seems 'to have been given
to it.
It was the old story of the weakest liuk
in a chain. When the cross came, all of
the system's perfection.of insulation and
care in installing the wire scheme of the
building, and the rigid inl?pectio.,~,by the
fire underwriters, availed nothing: An arc
formed in an insignificant bit of ullwqrk~ ,
manlike construction, and over $600,000
worth of property ,vent up in s~okc. ' '_"
In view of this ar.d other !nstalfce!;,.
parallel in e\·erything bu't the amount of '
pecuniary loss, it would seem that,any wife
installation which is worth making, is
worth making well. In the instance jllst
givelJ, if the same care bestowed upon the
general wiring scheme had been ,continued
in the temporary work in the display win-
dow, a.disaster would have be.en averted.
It goes without saying that all this is
C0l11111ouplaee; that everybody should
kllow better than to take slop work un :l
proper joh of wiring. That is true. Yet
if the reports of the National Boanl of
 May] THE ELECTRICAL WORKER
Underwriters ort fires caused by electricity
are scanned even superficially, it will be
found that all astonishing number of fires
are caused by temporary wire construction,
15N'T ·IT FOLLY
in which the insulation is sO bad that it
renders all of the work which has been to bu:y' that Wl1ich Dla:y be
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adulterated
well done of no avail.
It is au unfortunate fact that many wire-
men look upon the inspection by the fire WHEN YOU CAN GET
underwriters as a sort of grievance j tbat
it is unnecessarily strict and burdensome;

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and the inspectors are'regarded as a nuis-
ance. Not that it is intended to scamp
work, but the presence of these inquisitive,

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watchful, and sometimes very persistent
officials is taken in a manner as a reflec-
tion npon the workman.
1 fancy that this is not the spirit which
impires the underwriters or their ~gents.
Certain it is that, ill the cities where this WHI5KEY
inspection has been the most vigorons, and
where scarcely a joint could be tapped
without coming under the notice of in-
for 'the sanle price, 811d with it '. the.
spectors, there fewer fires traceable to
electricity have occurred, and there, gener-
ally speaking, the most moderate rates of
premium prevail.
United States Government Stamp of Purity.
And now, after all has been said, it re-

$15. 95 OttlYONE DOLLAR DOWN

duces itself to the conscientious work done
by the men who actually do the wiring.
Such being the case, the reduction in the CuHhi.lUI. out a.nd send to u. ,,·tth tl/JO and we
will •• "dyou this HIOH GRADE 1899 'MODEL
nu~ber of fires caused by electricity is a
'.... ...,. $50a'l?.E '{,~C.\1r.e1s. ~15.l~
matter of congratulation to electrical .~ .".. SUbJe:!fneefta~~:!~~~·pr~:';
workers; and in a good many cities they ollice and tryou lind it •.
renulDt" 1899 mod •• IUGH
are worthy of the commendation they re-
ceived from the underwriters.
GRWK '.O.OU VICUNA,
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eyer .aw or beard 01 Androe
are KlldnCH it I. w .. rdl
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Pays highest commission on clubs of six or more. . 1U11 WIH'r.1 &~nrtlted.,. by
, otber houaN up to ,tS.CO,
Postal brings SAMPLE COPY or estimates on . pay your expr~5S agent .
the balance. $14.95'

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and e:lr.ress cb&rges.
THE VICUNA
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tised as a premium with a bicycle as a regular $3.50 Acetylene Gas Lamp, but we do. not
guarantee or recommend it.

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. J limited time, which you \. ,
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lug us. If Interested In \ '
· , -- eledrlclty send for free sample .~. "
Rochester Gas and Electric Co.
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When you see th!> sample you'll want
It every weck. '" e can 1111 orders /'~
/j 62-'10 Mumford Street.
· --. fOI ailY e:e<:trical il~k J;lUb-/ '1'
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Directory of Unions.
Secretaries wil'l please furnish the ne::-essary in-
fOf'lD.atron to make,' tkis dir~to,.y complete. Note
tbat tbe time aud plac<o ofmeet;ng, the name of the
President, the names and address",;; of the R«ord-
ing and Ilinancial Secretaries are required.
Ne. x, St. 14ouis, Mo.-,Meets e"ery Monday at
60.4 Market st. Pres.• C. W. Campbell. 362f.Califor-
nia av.; R. S. PauL Ettinger, 1525 N, i2th ~t.; F. Soo
,I'. C. Fish, 1927 N. 15tk st.
No. lI, Kansas City, Mo.~Pres., J. I., COc\1!'l',n,
216 West loth st" K. C., Mo.;~. S., £. P. Myrick,
1246 Penn st., K. C., l\{o.; F'; 5., .r.
J. Saxe, 1501
Pelll! st., K. C., Mo.
No. ,;J, St. ,14outs, M,o,-Meeta every Thursday
at (oO'l Markef ~t. l're,;:';' W. 1\1. Mr.(",oy, 16 fl. I,th
st.; R; 5., J. O'Brien, lOll N, Leffingwell av.; F. 5.,
Frauk ,P,erpont, 33"3 Manchester avo , Ut;. 38, C1c"'etand, O.-Meets
NO.4, New Orleans, l,a.-Meets 1St and 3d
Tuesdays at Caroudelet and Perdido sts. Pres. "C.
D. Hatl,928 Common st.; F. 5., Go:orge E, Wells,
724 Camp st; R. S., Cbas. Elmore, '326 South
Rampart sl.
No. .I, Pittsburg, PIi.-Meets e"ery Friday
ni.ght iu Schmeru~ Bldg.! eOT. '\\'aterand l\'Iarket sts.
Pres .• H. H. Haas. Oak Station P.O .• PiUsburgb;
R. 5., Frank Lunl!ey, ';0' Robin~n st" Alle!'heny
City; F. S. P. ,G. Randolph, 80S Walnut st., Station
D, Wilk.ens-burg, Pa.
r"o. 6, Salt FranciSCO, Cal.-Meels 2d and 4th
Wedu,,~days lit Foresters' Hall. 20 Eddy st. Pres.,
.1. J.
l~i\merOll, 283 CleUleutina st ; R S I A. A. "J'hit_
fi~:d, 63~ Natoma ot.; F. S .• R. P. qale, '210 Broad-
way st.
Nc. 7, Spring-field, Ma'ss. - Meets e"ery
We'lnL'Suay at room 14 Barnes Blk. Pres., G. T.
:M e.G i.!·ltray, 3" lies$e Pl.; R. G., T. J. Lynch:
Ch;cope'! Falls, Mass.; P. S., M. Farrell,59 Broaa
st. '
, ~o.' 8,. Toledo, ,O.-Meets every Monday at
Fn.<,ndsh,p HvJI Pres .. C, W. SCh!1I1Slen, 1&!60n-
tnn" st; R. S., J. J. Duck, 701 South st.; P. S.,
F. M. Oen"bechler, 7J3 Colburn st,
No. 9, Chi<:ag'':;, Ill.-Meets everv Saturday at
'S3 \'iadisoll £l.t HuH. 6. Pres., H. Cuileu, S3 Aber-
d,,(;u >'.;. R. S .. ] ...;, Poling, 92,1 W. S3rd st.; F.
S., 1. Dr:sooll, ';7 ]l'uI1er- sl.
No. xo, I:ttiianapoUs, Ind.-Meets every Mon-
day at Mozart tia1i.,.W S. Del. 51, Pres., John Berry,
care ,b!lq"". Fire Dept.; R. S , Geo. R. Beecher. 813
N. Senate av.; f. S" C. J. Lalllrdon, 801 West
Pratt st. ..
No. X'I. Greater New York-Pres., W. W.
'Vat"sf)i:,u, 9 N;,:.s~au st., Brooklyn; R. S., Chas. L.
Rogers, j3-!~ K..·scl!isko st., Brooklyn; F. 5., F. G.
Ortt. 334 Fust s.t., !in,'oklyn.
.No. 'S.'1. Detr(oit, !:Uch.-Meets every Tuesday
night at NO.9 C..:u.:!!qac sq. Pre5" R. Scanlan, 90
Port~r st.; R. S., H. Ii.. Browu. So Cl1e5ter av.; F. S.
T, Forbes, 1104 l:,th Sl.
No. :r8, Ka:t ..as CJty, r.ro.-Meets ""ery Friday
night, Labor hdc:.r;" " ! j walnut st. Pres .• H.
~Qt~!"(\U3._9::i5 Os~g:~ e. ...·c., K. C., Kall.; R. S., F. J.
1:i-clia'1el. tH2 W~}l si., K. C., ~!c.: P. S., C. F.
Droli'!ni.i:~:. 6!3 Dl"IRi\ll;.re st., K. C., Mo.
No. :r9, .l.t<,hi!iC.ll, Xan.-Fles., F. J. Roth,906
N. Tenth st.; r.. S., g, G. Wicke.. ba",: F. 5., R. E •
• ~aston, G...'"lQ C"nil st.
No. 2:'<;, Omaha, Neb.-Me~,s "very Wednes-
day ",t L<ibor 1'ellljl\e, J7th & Dou!;'j,," <ts, Pres .•
w. P. l.,e"!dom: 2020 Grave ~t,; R. ::'" J. F. Simp£·)u,
35I? W. FArnum s~.; F. S .. M. J. Currau, 6'7 S.
16th ~t. . . . day~..Preti" p, J~rohs, :E. East '7th st.: ~R, S" T•• E.
Nn. ?oJ, R't. ??t'4'.1, "'~~!""r•• ·-l-'~f!~ .. T. l~, Rr-:Ad.-
bouse, \;;0 Shf_~bur!1e av.; R. ~'" u'. 'B."Tubbeshig,
497 Ma:ctllJ st.; }t., ~., A. Ii, Gilrr'.!tt, '75 RtchllJO.cd st.
No. 24, ::l!i<1"ea!,olis, Mi.'1t!, - Pres., O. R.
Shol'lall; R. R" W. !, l1eywood, '0 E. ,l6lh st.; F. 5 ..
P. II. C. Wood, 2n'
'fremont :l~. S.
No. :0-5, T.ouisville, Xy.-"!edS fi:stll,nd third
Thllrsdays of each '!l(.J:Jlh. ?r:;:s., Jame!; Adell
Co!umhia Bldg.·, 4th aud AIahl ~ts.; 11. S ...~, ,U:
V~u~rablrl 40:; ~.Il. :d.~r.kl::t !it.; A. ?. r,,~,;("".,o'ligRle
MIller, <,are Un"", Hail. 5iO 5th st. ' No. lir, J"os Angeles,Cal.-Pres., P. llllc!JaoD'.,
No. 26, Wi\sili •.lr{~(;n_ l.:. e.--?.f~'!ts ",~ry Sat.
u:-(iay at 628 !~.Jisi3.it3 :itov. Pl-es.! Jehn Hoffecker,
Jc;roi N. Car~1tu:~ ;,. .... S. 1:: : :-<. S .• ]. C... O'Connell, 930
ft. . .it., N. W.: 1-. S., G ...".... ~!r.lo!1e, 4" ! .... iit., N. W.
No. 27, :i3a!Uu:o(c, ~'. D.-~I~f",tq ev~ry Mon y
d!\yat H;;lO ~~.:. ,F.ayeUe a;;:,1 Park. &-;'"S. Pres.,' W.W.
Wel.h, '4.0A,;;qmth s(,; I;. 8. W ..... P. Kellr.40SE.
Lanv,lest.; F.S,. F. a j{;lsseU, i4C~ Aisqultb st.
,.
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,THE ELECTRICAL WORKER ·£May
No. 31), Cit.tcln!1aU, O,-Meets t,rt and 3d Mon· No. 611, ~u"e, Mont.:-Meets ~;,~~ jth
days at 136 E. Court st. rr,es.,- ~VW. \Viltiams.
137'; liroad'ovay; R. S .• Wrn, PriCe, ';<'40 Celestial st.,
Wf:(~uesdays In GoO'd Templars" Hall .. 'P..!'es;; Jas.
DaVidson, ,H9 Owsley,,Qlk: R. S., W ..C; 'Medhin'St,
Mt. AlIbllrne City; F. S., C'co. RHftldebral!d, 403 E. P. O. Box e.t5; F. 5:, E. M. DeMers, P. O.~o" ~o._,
lTd st., Cioci:!oa.ti Ohio. .
No. 66, Eo~Rton, 'l'e",.-Meets 1St aud 3d Mon-
No. 3~, &'uaco,nda, Mcnt.~Pres .. 'Ihos, Dwyer, days. Pr<:", Gen. O. WOod, 1203:' Capi,tal.av'.; lCs'.,
care P;ke'l"r,jg!i:t-Co,; F.'. S.,J.;F.,R,t:<:<l~; F.S., W. P. Jv.tnso',!", I:el<;phone O~ce; F. S .•,;.W; P.
Chas. aJ;:D.>na;d, Ca~lI, MonL ' Caywood, 141;, ...faokhu avo
'No. 32, ;;:"imn, O.-i'l'e"., O. G. Sllyd"r, 81l High No. 6" Qllincy, 111.-Meetnd and4InWed;'#
s.t.~..;
R. ,S • \V •. C. !:!~l1J!t:s, 110 HUDiscc B\1t;. : Lima, days at Trades Asseml>ly Hall, S. 5th st." 1'Iles;,'J.
OhiO, f. S •.-,'-Vm. R"Kral!s, 213 E. Way"" .t. H. Nessler, 525 Maiden Lane st.; J. JIJ. Redi!tona,
825 Jersey st.; F. 5., C. H. MeNemee, 511 S.7th st;
::0,'35, Boston, :r.Ias6~-Meet$ f:'1ery " ..Fe-dues·
No. 68, Denver, Col•..,.,1.leets,l\{eD,day nights
day at 49 Benllett st. Pres I T. R. Meit·iHt. 21
Moul,ton st. Cl:arlesbr.n, ~~ass.: R.,5" J . .e, Jeffers; at 1731 Arapho st., Club 1!14g.; Pres., F. Fleeg~r,
27 ~I~$f.n st.; 1;'. S., \V. c .. ~roodward. IoChlJrch st. lQ31 Penn av.; R. S.; F·. A Vlanret", 1110 Latimer'st.;
F. S., c. W. Arms,trong, 634 30th,!lV.
N-ci;; 30, Sacrament~, Cal'-":e(,~ ,,;.t and 3d
Tllesda,'~ at l"or~~tf:rsl 1Ia.!!. .?;·~S. Cbas. M. Dur- NC!. 69, Dallas, 'l'ex.-Meets -every I'uesday
kee;'6'4 G .e.; R. 5., WilliaD' f. I\I"~le1"52'1~ K st.; eveulng at Labor Hall. Pres., P. F. Barnes, 147
F. S;,;,P. O. Hutton, 1M7'M. st, , , Akarkst.; R. S.,C. E. BOSton,438 M{li:n'st.;F, S.,
1i6:';in, Hartierd, C0a1l.'--Meets,.h;'ryWednes-
C. T. Wheeler, 438 Main st. ' ,
c1:!.y'"@.~.:. ~'i::.. jn S~. ~~_eS.., '~. H. c:r~~ley, =3 Spring 'No. 70, SprU;gfield, IU.-Meets 1St' and 3d
Thursdays. Ca,rpenters' Hall, S. 4th 51. Pres., F'red
~~':'~' S'J ~~, 1', ~,JlU".iIt" 'n'Asyll1m .t.; F. S., J. J. MiJler, S\'&ley'Ho(~l; R. 5" Cuas. Danilson,_lull ~ .
.l r .... ,.,{. j ..• .I,. t:'lUp ... c ::;&.. ._
Jackson st.: F. S., S. ?!tillips, e12 N. ,:!d'st.
,-very 'Wednes- No. 7x, Galv"st.)IJ. T.,e:z:.--lft"ets 2d and 40th
day &llgl,a at 3.,)o·Ontaric- st. Pr.::s., Gf;,Q"rt~ Gleason,
I121,3~, Clair,st,; R. S" R. i\1. Ru~s. 59 COlgate st.; F. Thursds\·s, Cook ...: :I!:d \"'..-aHcT.:.' Hall,- 23d st ,·be-
S., ~ .. .H.e.rrCJn;' 4 V/nliace st. tween Market ana. )'It..('l~a!1';~. Pr.:s, j. F. Payne,
152822d st.; .R.Soo D. L. r;ol,'e. 33"" R, ~ st,; F. 5.,
No~ 40, St, Joseph, Mo.-Meets ..very Thurs- W. F. CUD.DIUg, 21:i:Z .;~ve. 1'. rz. . .
day nIght at Brc:l;aw lia!1. 8th ~nd ; .. OC·~5t :tIS. Pres.,
~r~!l~ P. St. Ciair"" R'y Cu.; R. S., \\··lll. T. -Dorse!, No. 72:, Waco, Te:o:.-,,';reets 2d lind 4th Wednes-
R'y'Co.;F.. S" F C.-Scblleid"r, City }';lec.:;\L. Co.' ' days at Labor noOn. Pre,.,). E;. Capk :,"S
N. 7th
st.; R. S., W. D. Ultrollj. IWI Herring av.; II, oS:;
Jos~pb U,d",,". ;'2& S. 6ti> ~t,
NO.4:, Euffalo, N. Y.-Meets every Wednesday
at Coune:.) }ia.~!. Pres. Jas. A. Burgt!~, 559·Frvst av.; No. '13, Spokane, WIl~;I,,--:\~eets 1St and ,3d"
R. S.; G.(;o. W. Bas~" r6q.Vermont,st.; .,.... S., H. M. 1Vednesdays in K.of P. 'Hail; tS16 g;,.er.loJirl-=: av. PreS.,
Scott, 363 N,'Mor.gau st." ,., --, , , .. ;" Eli i:ler.sley, 21t; J:(i\"er,·;ide av.: R. S., L, Van lowe·
No. 4~, Utica, N. V.-Pr.es" W, T.,Carter, 68 gen, 919 Ash !It.; F. S., D. ~ ..U:~nl"r, J723 Fifth avo
Neilson ~L; H.. S., G. 0: Caner, .26 E1m st.: F. S., F.
No. 74, Winona, Hwn.-Pres., H. B. KI~;n
DanaheT 210 Bl!tTldina st.
I
- 510 Olms.ead s! ; l'.. S., P. Frowm. 511.,Olmstearl
No. 43, S~Iacuse. N. Y •..".:.IeE-.ts I:;t, and 3d st.; F. S,. Jus',,!," Tr ..ut:1er, 620 E. 3rtl st. ,
Tuesdays at McCarthy's: Hall, ;\iarkel 5t:, 0PI>. City
Hali.- J:-~e:i .• A.., DouQ",.an, 31C! N;agar3: s,t.; j{. 5., F. No. ns,
G':'IU1,<'I Fcapit',s, Mich.-Meets 1st '~n"
N. Stiles. 734' E, R., R,;' S'.;' 1'. S., Wm. H. Gough, 108 3d SUIHlays. Pr~s •• j('5 !'-;:.!\,."1:13.l!. 15 Ken:u~d:,- ;"~.'
Hawthoruc st. ' . ,. .': . , R S.,.C. M. Dun, 19~ £h..:;c.!·,Jt: l:St.; F. $.1 C. :E. ~·o~!;
13' WIDter ~t. '
No. 44, Rocheste~.,N;"Y;-lIfeet8 2d and 4tb
Wedilesda~~ lit OchJ',i'dlow,S' Hall,; State, st. Pres., No. 76, Tacoma. V(nsh,-Pr~., Jl'V!!1 ~!!C.
1I36 D sL; R. S., W. J. IN"", 113 loth st.: F. 5., Ja.~,
J. P. Wolft;'9 Cedar st.: ,&'"f,"'''',A., r... Den,niston,
Lj }~aldwin st.; F, S.;F,·edMartin" 50 Champlain st. Murray. IlI8 D st.
No. 77. Se&ttle. We.s.b..-Pres., J.;. !'tip..itIaud.
No. 45, E-.:.1l:alo, 1\1'. :Y.,.-Meelslst aud 3d Sat- 2~I Pont'us a".; R. 5., S. Curktek; F. ~" J. J. Jen-
urcle) 5 at Couuo;:i1 ,Hall. Prcs.,."P. Devlin, 'ill Vir- kIDS, 1319 14th 8\'. "
ginia st.'; R. 5., J. Dlngl>aum; F. S'i M. E, Stable, No. 78, Chicago, 111.-1're9" W.]. ?trceoro.nick,
46 Kail st. " , ' "
72014 51, Lawrenc<o ave.: F. S,. Georg< H. F-,It.z, &5l
No. 46, 14owe~l, Mass~~~1i!;ets ~"er)' Thursday W. Adams st.; R. S., ,,"', T. ,'c!luer, 14~ uhiQ st.
at 202 !\lerrinlR~k st.. , :\O"'f!oor, :-oom 5 Pr~s., Her-
b~d L. \\t·~,it:lt!y, 6 ~.uffer.~,!:.; R. S.,. )~s. lSarT'et~,
Fi.stst.; F',S.,Ji.'F. Ha,J<itng, 58 E. PUle st.
I, No. 80, Norfolk, Va.~-PTe.;., C. '''.. r·:r.:t,;dh~ ....~~.
28 Falk'lal~d st., ~ior(olk, Va.: fl. S. Hi~!... ~H.' 1-,.
"
Marsball av., Norfolk, Va.
No. 47 Siou.xCit;i-; J.a..~F. S., O. P. Beebe, 20'
4th st., siou~ City; Ja. .. .:
No. 48, Milwal1kee'i',Wis. -Pres" F. G. Ray-
mond, 600 Island Ii" ; R., S.,-1II. J. Quirk, 2;18 Clay-
bourne st.; 'F. 5.",0.: c. ~arsterer, 916 Richard st.
No. 49, Chl'<:ago',' ni:.~Meets e~ery, S~co';d and
Fourth Tuesday at JungsHaU 1~6:~, Bandolpb st .
Pres., ,F. J. 'Struble, 40 W. DIVfSI!)ll' st.; R S.,
Walte,< J. Demps,ey, 153 1·~roop·bt.; F. 5" Cbas.
Fowlel, 219 ~~:, Congress st. '
No. '52, Newark, N. '.I.-Pres .. J. H., T'homas,
345 '~. 5:;th st .• N. )," ..city; R. 5" W. S. Hanington,
24 WIllow st .. Blvo1!lbeJdN, J,: F. 5., Pod. Blakelock,
7 Liudeu st., Newark. N. J.
No, 53, Harrisburg ', PIi.-Pres., C. A. Swager,
IIs~,Market st.;,RrS'i,:,iIs. Emminger,
And,;~~n,~6 Snmmitt st;
st.; F. S., C.
1 2; N. 15th
~@@!I{I@;~~
No •. s:;; Des ¥~itJ~.,;Xa.-M"~iS every Thurs- BREWING
day n.ght "LTrades'AsSembly Hall. Pres., 1. Fitz-
g".ra~d, J924'·S·in:e.r st ; R. S'I C. C. rord, iI5,S~ott st.;
F. s-. M •..O. Trac~Yf'2::2 RnC::OD st. .
No. 56. Erie," Pi.l.-l'tIeeLs IS~ ~.:~d ~d ~7ecine:s·
CRr~~~ 30: Frr.~!~~" st.. : F. :-:. y. F. ~t. r:'.1:'1"". jtt
French !It.
No. 51, Sr.h L"k!, City, Utab-Prcsoo j. R:
Bl&ir. '258 S. ~:J(t Fast st,; It. S., J. Hr.ogson, {;tah
Power Hou5e; 1', S., A. W, S~tt, V.. I!'ey nC:Jse.
No. 60, San A:>touio, Tex.-Mf:d~ "t ""d 3d
Saturdays £t S p. to". in Paintt:rs' Hall, T31 Soldl1<!
sl P::o:!s., '!\t~rtiu l\'dg;ht! 114 Romella st.: R. S., A.
c:. Lentm. it6 t'~brr.ska st.: P. S., Chas. ~. l\1cNe-
ma:-I 5J" AV. D, .
357 N. !\f~itl SL; 1<.. ,;'. W.A, W<>Odi.,Ilc;x8.!Statiou
B; F. S., S. L. JiJ'O~, 441.Co!yton st.
No. 6~, TT.oy. N. Y.~-F. S .• !i:!. 1. Keyes. No. ~
Sl.ort 7tn st. '
'No~ ''';3, '?TatteD, Pa.-!'.Ie~:§ '1st 3nd .3d "l"M!le;;:;·
days at V. O. H. ~Ia!I, cor. 2,1 Rud I.iberty sts. Pr~" ..
P. ,,""'. :r. es5t'r r.n:erty st.; R. S., R. Y. Edt::., Re"erc!
l
Hiluse; j.... S. !~. U. ,Sp~uceT~ Rl)gerr- DU~,,!