GENERAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS-Continued. Horse Shoers of United States and Canada, International Union of Journeymen. Hubert S. Hotel and Restaurant Employés' International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of America, Jere L. Sullivan, Commercial Tribune Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, Amalgamated Association of. M. F. Tighe, House Building, Smithfield and Water Streets, Pittsburgh, Pa. Lace Operatives of America. The Chartered Society of Amalgamated. David L. Gould, 545 West Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Lathers, International Union of Wood, Wire and Metal. Ralph V. Brandt, 401 Superior Building, Laundry Workers' International Union. H. L. Morrison, Box 11, Station 1, Troy, N. Y. Lithographers' International Protective and Beneficial Association of the United States and Canada. Longshoremen's Association, International. John J, Joyce, 702 Brisbane Building, Buffalo, N.Y. Machinists, International Association of. George Preston, 908 G Street N. W., Washington, D. C. Metal Workers' International Alliance, Amalgamated Sheet. John E. Bray, 407 Nelson Building, Mine Workers of America, United. William Green. State Life Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Moulders' Union of North America, International. Victor Kleiber, 530 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, Brotherhood of. J. C. Skemp, Drawer 99, Lafayette, Ind. Paper-Makers, International Brotherhood of. J. T. Carey, 127 North Pearl Street, Albany, N. Y. Pattern-Makers' League of North America. James Wilson, Second National Bank Building, Niuth and Main Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. Pavers, Rammermen, Flag Layers, Bridge and Stone Curb Setters, International Union of. Edward Paving Cutters Union of the United States of America and Canada. Carl Bergstrom, Lock Box 27, Photo-Engravers' Union of North America, International, Piano and Organ Workers' Union of America, International. Charles Dold, 1037 Altgeld Street, Plasterers' International Association of the United States and Canada, Operative. T. A. Scully, 442 East Second Street, Middletown, Ohio. Plate Printers' Union of North America, International Steel and Copper. Charles T. Smith, Washington Loan & Trust Co. Building, Washington, D. C. Plumbers and Steam Fitters of United States and Canada, United Association of. Thomas E. Burke, 411 Bush Temple of Music, Chicago, I Post-Office Clerks, National Federation of. ington, D. C. Potters, National Brotherhood of Operative. Thomas F. Flaherty, 1419 Clifton St. N. W., WashJohn T. Wood, Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio. Powder and High Explosive Workers of America, United. Ira Sharpnack, Columbus, Kan. Print Cutters Association of America, National. Richard H. Scheller, 229 Hancock Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. Printing Press men's Union, International. Joseph C. Orr, Rogersville, Tenn, Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers of the United States and Canada, International Brotherhood of. John H. Malin, P. O. Drawer K, Fort Edward, N. Y. Quarry workers' International Union of North America. Fred. W. Suitor, Scampini Building, Barre, Vt. Railroad Telegraphers. Order of. L. W. Quick, Star Building, St. Louis, Mo. Railway Carmen of America, Brotherhood of. E. William Weeks, 507 Hall Building. Kansas City, Mo. Railway Postal Clerks, Brotherhood of. Urban A. Walter, Box 1302, Denver, Col. Slate Workers, American Brotherhood of. Philip Jago, Pen Argyle, Pa. Spinners' International Union. Urban Fleming, 188 Lyman Street, Holyoke, Mass. Stage Employés' International Alliance, Theatrical. Lee M. Hart, 1547 Broadway, New York City. Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union of North America, International. Room 29, Globe Building, Boston, Mass. Stonecutters' Association of North America, Journeymen. Walter W. Drayer, Central Life Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Stove Mounters' International Union, Frank Grimshaw, 1210 Jefferson Avenue E., Detroit, Mich. GENERAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS-Continued. Switchmen's Union of North America, M. R. Welch, 326 Brisbane Building, Buffalo, N. Y. Textile Workers of America, United. Albert Hibbert, Box 742, Fall River, Mass. Thomas Tile Layers' and Helpers' International Union, Ceramic, Mosaic, and Encaustic. James P. Reynolds, 19 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. Timberworkers, International Union of. William H. Reid, Maynard Building, Seattle, Wash. Travellers' Goods and Leather Novelty Workers' International Union of America. Murt Malone, Typographical Union, International. J. W. Hays, Newton Claypool Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Weavers' Amalgamated Association, Elastic Goring. Alfred Haughton, 50 Cherry St., Brockton, Mass. Weavers' Protective Association, American Wire. E. E. Desmond, 468 Grove St., Brooklyn, N. Y. White Rats Actors' Union of America. W. J. Cooke, 227 West 46th Street, New York City. NATIONAL UNIONS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. Bricklayers and Masons' International. William Dobson, University Park Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief Engineer, Cleveland, Ohio; W. B. Prenter, General Secretary, Cleveland, Ohio. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Building, Peoria, Ill. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. A. H. Hawley, General Secretary, Jefferson A. E. King, General Secretary-Treasurer, American Trust Order of Railway Conductors of America. A. B. Garretson, President, Cedar Rapids Savings Bank Building, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; C. E. Whitney, General Secretary. KNIGHTS OF LABOR. General Executive Board: General Master Workman, John W. Hayes, Washington, D. C., Chairman; General Worthy Foreman, William A. Denison, Rochester, N. Y.; General Secretary-Treas urer, I. D. Chamberlain, Washington, D. C.; Assistant General Secretary-Treasurer, Bennett M. Jayne, Philadelphia, Pa.; John C. Patterson, Brooklyn, N. Y.; F. W. Bonehill, Rochester, N. Y. TRADE UNION STATISTICS OF THE WORLD. THE following table shows the membership of Trade Unions in the 12 principal trade union countries, according to returns received through various sources for the year ending January 1, 1912. The figures in parentheses indicate the relative order of the membership and percentage figures to the remaining figures under those headings in each column. The figures for the United States include those for Canada, where trade unionists are estimated to number 150,000. POPULATION ENCACED IN INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS. THE following table gives the percentages of total occupied population for the principal groups in the eight leading industrial countries: A distinct classification adopted by United States Census Burean based on 1910 Census is as follows: All occupations, 38.167,336 (consisting of 30,091,564 males and 8,075,772 females) with per cent, in parentheses showing distribution of total. Agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry, 12,659,203 (33.2); extraction of minerals, 964,824 (2.5); manufacturing and mechanical industries, 10,658,881 (27.9); transportation, 2,637,671 (6.9); trade, 3,614 670 (9.5); public service (not elsewhere classified), 459,291 (1.2); professional service, 1,663,569 (4.4); domestic and personal service, 3,772,174 (9.9); clerical Occupations, 1,737,053 (4. 6), INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD. (A distinct organization from that given below bearing same name.), HEADQUARTERS, 164 West Washington St., Chicago, Ill. Vincent St. John, General SecretaryTreasurer; Wm. D. Haywood, Assistant Secretary and General Organizer. Executive BoardJ. W. Kelly, Clarence Edwards, F. H. Little, Ewald Koettgen, John M. Foss, PREAMBLE-The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. We find that the centring of the management of industries Into fewer and fewer hands makes the trades unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class. The trades unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trades unions ald the employing class to mislead the workers into the bellef that the working class have interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the Interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, If necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an Injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," we must Inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing Industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old. The organization differs from syndicalism in that great stress is laid upon having a form of organization to correspond, cell for cell, tissue for tissue, with capitalist industry itself, and also because it seeks to build a new union on revolutionary lines rather than to attempt to change the present reactionary and out-of-date craft unions. The organization claims to have blended the practical features of socialism, anarchism, and syndicalism, and yet it is distinct from all three. The I. W. W. is composed of 300 local unions, 3 national industrial unions (textile, lumber and marine transport workers), having a total membership of 70,000, five national administrations-Hawalian, Australian, New Zealand, Great Britain and South African.. Excerpts from Constitution and By-Laws follow: The Industrial Workers of the World shall be composed of actual wage-workers brought together In an organization embodying thirteen national industrial departments, national Industrial unions, local Industrial unions, local recruiting unions, Industrial councils, and individual members. The annual convention of the Industrial Workers of the World shall be held on the third Monday of September each year at such place as may be determined by previous convention. Members-at-large shall pay an Initiation fee of $2.00 and $1.00 per month dues and assessments. No working man or woman shall be excluded from membership in local unions because of creed or color. That to the end of promoting industrial unity and of securing necessary discipline within the organization, the Industrial Workers of the World refuse all alliances, direct or indirect, with existing political parties or anti-political sects. INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD. (A distinct organization from that given above bearing same name.) HEADQUARTERS, Detroit, Mich. General Secretary-Treasurer, H. Richter, Detroit; Assistant Secretary, S. G. Bargery, Detroit; General Organizer, Adolf S. Carm, Chicago, Ill. PREAMBLE-The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until all the tollers come together on the political, as well as on the industrial field, and take and hold that which they produce by their labor through an economic organization of the working class, without amitation with any political party. The rapid gathering of wealth and the centring of the management of Industries into fewer and fewer hands make the trades unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class, because the trades unions foster a state of things which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. The trades unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the bellef that the working class have interests in common with their employers. Excerpts from Constitution and By-Laws follow: The Industrial Workers of the World shall be composed of actual wage-workers brought together In an organization embodying thirteen national Industrial departments, national Industrial unions, local industrial unions, local recruiting unions, industrial councils and individual members. A national Industrial union shall be comprised of the local Industrial unions of the various localities in America in a given industry. The industrial departments shall consist of not less than ten local unions, aggregating a membership of not less than ten thousand members. The industrial departments shall be sub-divided in Industrial unions of closely kindred Industries in the appropriate organizations for representation In the departmental administration. The departments included are: Department of Mining Industry; Transportation Industry; Metal and Machinery Industry; Glass and Pottery Industry: Food-Stuffs Industry: Brewery, Wine and Distillery Industry; Floricultural, Stock and General Farming Industries; Building Industry: Textile Industries; Leather Industries; Wood Working Industries; Public Service Industries; Miscellaneous Manufacturing. The annual convention shall be held on the third Monday In September of each year at such place as may be determined by previous convention. Individual members may be admitted to membership-at-large in the organization on payment of 50 cents initiation fee and 25 cents per month dues, together with assessments. None but actual wage-workers shall be members of the Industrial Workers of the World. No member of the Industrial Workers of the World shall be an officer in a pure and simple trade union. No member of one industrial or trade organization in the Industrial Workers of the World can at the same time hold a card in another Industrial or trade organization of this body. No workingman or working woman shall be excluded from membership because of creed or color. COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. (WASHINGTON, D. C.-Field Headquarters, Chicago, Ill.) ACT of Congress approved August 23, 1912: Sec. 4. That the commission shall Inquire into the general condition of labor in the principal Industries of the United States, including agriculture, and especially in those which are carried on in corporate forms; into existing relations between employers and employés; into the effect of industrial conditions on public welfare and into the rights and powers of the community to deal therewith; into the conditions of sanitation and safety of employés and the provisions for protecting the life, limb and health of the employés; Into the growth of associations of employers and of wageearners and the effect of such associations upon the relations between employers and employés; Into the extent and results of methods of collective bargaining; into any methods which have been tried in any State or in foreign countries for maintaining mutually satisfactory relations between employés and employers; Into methods for avoiding or adjusting labor disputes through peaceful and concillatory medlation and negotiations; into the scope, methods and resources of existing bureaus of labor and into possible ways of increasing their usefulness; into the question of smuggling or other illegal entry of Asiatics into the United States or its insular possessions, and of the methods by which such Asiatics have gained and are gaining such admission, and shall report to Congress as speedily as possible with such recommendation as sald commission may think proper to prevent such smuggling and Illegal entry. The commission shall seek to discover the underlying causes of dissatisfaction in the industrial situation and report its conclusions thereon. Frank P. Walsh, Chairman, Kansas City, Mo.; Prof. John R. Commons of Madison, Wis.; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, New York City; Harris Weinstock, Sacramento, Cal.; S. Thruston Ballard, Louisville, Ky.; John B. Lennon, Bloomington, Ill.; James O'Connell, Washington, D. C., and Austin B. Garretson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. One vacancy when ALMANAC was printed, Secretary, Lewis K. Brown. In 1914 the commission held hearings covering the subjects enumerated, in the following cities: Washington, D. C., April: General Industrial Boston, Mass., July: The Smuggling of Conditions, Collective Bargaining, etc., etc. Asiatics Into the United States. Chicago, Ill., July: Industrial Conditions and Relations in Chicago. New York City, May and June: Employment Offices and Unemployment; the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, and the Industrial Workers of the World; State Medlation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes; the Building Trades of New York City; Industrial Education, Apprenticeship and the Administration of Child Labor laws; the Men's Garment Trade of New York City; the Dock Workers of New York City; the Department Stores of New York City. Paterson, N. J., June: Industrial Conditions and Relations in Paterson. Philadelphia, Pa., June: General Industrial Conditions and Relations; the Co-operative Plan of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.; the Metal Trades of Philadelphia; the Women's Garment Industry: Industrial Education and Vocational Training: the Glass and Pottery Industries. Lead, S. Dak., August: Butte, Mont., August: Industrial Conditions CHILDREN'S BUREAU. CHIEF of Bureau, Miss Julia C. Lathrop ($5,000): Lewis Mertam, Assistant Chlef ($2,400). The Children's Bureau was created by an act of April 9, 1912, to Investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child-life among all classes of our people, and especially to investigate the questions of Infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, Juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseased chlidren, employment and legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories. The staff for the first two fiscal years of the bureau's existence (to June 30, 1914) consisted of Afteen persons, and a yearly appropriation of $25,640. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1914, an appropriation of $164,640 was made by Congress, providing for a staff of seventy-six persons. With the new staff and appropriation the organization of the bureau falls into certain divisions, as an industrial division, a social service division, a division on sanitation, a statistical division, and a division of exhibits. The bureau has issued the following publications; First Annual Report of the Chief, Children's Bureau, 1913. 20 pp., 1914. Second Annual Report, 1914. Infant Mortality, Series No. 1, Baby-Saving Campaigns: A preliminary report on what American cities are doing to prevent infant mortality. 93 pp., 4th ed., 1913. To be followed by reports of results of investigations in typical localities through the United States. Series No. 2, New Zealand Society for Health of Women and Children: An example of methods of baby-saving work in small towns and rural communities. 19 pp., 1914. Series No. 3, Infant Mortality in Johnstown, Pa.: Results of a field study into the social causes of infant mortality based on births in the calendar year 1911. 1914. Care of Children, Series No. 1, Prenatal Care: Designed for the use of the expectant mother. 41 pp., 3d ed., 1913. Series No. 2, Infant Care: Covering the care of the child through the second year. 1914. Handbook of Federal Statistics, Part I.: Number of children in the United States, with their sex, age, race, nativity, parentage, and geographic distribution. 106 pp., 2d ed., 1913. Dependent Children, Series No. 1, Laws Relating to Mothers' Pensions in the United States, Denmark and New Zealand. 1914. Industrial Series, No. 1, Child Labor Legislation in the United States. 1914. Industrial Series, No. 2, Administration of Child Labor laws: Part 1-Administration of Employment Certificate law in Connecticut. Part 2Administration of the Employment and Education Certificate Law in Massachusetts. Part 3-Administration of the Employment Certificate law in New York. Part 4-Administration of the Employment Certificate law in Maryland. 1914. Birth Registration, An Aid in Preserving the Lives and Rights of Children: Showing need for more emclent system of birth registration in the United States and giving examples of various methods now being followed to secure better results in registration. These publications may be. obtained, free of charge, by writing to the Chief of the Children's Bureau, Washington, D. C. THE NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION. OFFICE, 1 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK. AN organization of prominent representatives of capital, labor, and the general public formed as the direct outgrowth of conventions held in Chicago and New York in 1900-1901. Its purpose is to organize the best brains of the nation in an educational movement seeking the solution of some of the great problems related to social and industrial progress; to provide for study and discussion of questions of national Import: to aid thus in the crystallization of the most enlightened public opinion: and when desirable, to promote legislation in accordance therewith. At the present time the work of the federation is carried on through the following agencies: (1) The Industrial Conciliation Department dealing entirely with strikes, lockouts and trade agreements. Its membership includes representatives of the general public and the leading organizations of employers and wage-earners. The services of this department have been enlisted in more than five hundred cases involving every phase of Industrial controversy. (2) The Industrial Economics Department, organized to promote discussion of practical economic and social problems. It is now making a survey of the changes in the social, industrial, and economic conditions in this country in the last thirty years. (3) Welfare Department, composed of employers of labor in stores, factories, mines and on railroads, and officials who have to do with the working conditions of public employés, Chairmen of boards of health, heads of departments of public safety, leading physicians connected with public hospitals, heads of charity boards and others. It is devoted to securing improvements in the working and living conditions of the employé by the employer. (4) The Woman's Department, composed largely of women who are themselves stockholders or who through family relationships are financially interested in industrial organizations. The object of this department is to use its influence in securing needed improvements in the working and living conditions of women and men wage-earners in the various industries and governmental Institutions, and to co-operate, when practicable, in the general work of the federation. To (5) The Department on Compensation for Industrial Accidents and Their Prevention, composed of employers, representative labor men, attorneys, insurance experts, economists, State officials, members of State compensation commissions, and others concerned. Its object is: advocate the amendment of State laws on employers' llability with a view to securing uniform provisions looking toward compensation for Industrial accidents, and to look into means of preventing accidents in commercial and manufacturing enterprises. Joint Commission to Study Operation State Laws: Cyrus W. Phillips, J. Walter Lord, John Mitchell, James Duncan, Louis B. Schram, Otto M. Eidlitz. (6) Social Insurance Department: To investigate the need for uniformity of State legislation governing insurance plans relating to sickness, death benefits for widows and orphans, old-age pensions or unemployment. Committee on Preliminary Inquiry: J. W. Sullivan, Chairman, representing wage-earners: Arthur Williams, representing employers; P. Tecumseh Sherman, atsocial insurance specialist. torney; Department on Regulation of Combinations and Trusts: Working for co-ordination of Federal and State laws and unification of the latter. (8) Department on Regulation of Interstate and Municipal Utilities: Ias published "Commission Regulation of Public Utilities," a compilation and analysis of laws of forty-three States and of the Federal Government for the regulation by central commissions of railroads and other public utilities. Is drafting a model bill for uniform State legislation on the subject. (9) The Pure Food and Drugs Department is composed of representatives of State food and dairy departments, public health associations and organizations of physicians, farmers, labor, and food and drug manufacturers, as well as large Individual employers of labor. Its object is to promote uniform legislation on this subject among the States, work for effective co-operation between State and Federal Governments, stimulate the public to demand a better enforcement of existing laws and to make evident to employers how their employés too frequently are defrauded in both quality and measurement. OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. President, Seth Low: Vice-Presidents, Samuel Gompers, Benjamin I. Wheeler: Treasurer, Isaac N. Seligman; Chairman Executive Council, Ralph M. Easley, Chairman Welfare Depart ment, William R. Willcox; Chairman Department on Reform in Legal Procedure, Alton B. Parker: Chairman Industrial Economics Department, John Hays Hammond: Chairman Department Compensation Industrial Accidents, August Belmont: Chairman Department Interstate and Municipal Utilities, Emerson McMillin; Chairman Social Insurance Department, George W. Perkins; Chairman Department on Regulation of Industrial Corporations, Seth Low: Chairman Food and Drugs Department, Vincent Astor; Chairman Department on Industrial Mediation Law, W. D. Baldwin: Chairman Woman's Department, Miss Maude Wetmore; Chairman Taxation Department, E. R. A. Seligman; D. L. Cease, Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ON THE PART OF THE PUBLIC: William H. Taft (President American Bar Association), New Haven, Ct.: Franklin MacVeagh (former Secretary of the Treasury), Washington, D. C.; Elihu Root (United States Senator), New York City; Andrew Carnegie (Philanthropist), New York City: Nicholas Murray Butler (President Columbia University), New York City; James Speyer (Speyer & Co.), New York City: Francis Lynde Stetson (Attorney), New York City: Robert M. Thompson (Chairman Executive Committee, Navy League), Washington, D. C.; Vincent Astor (Capitalist), New York City: Walter George Smith (former President Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws), Philadelphia, Pa.; Albert Shaw (Editor Review of Reviews), New York City: V. Everit Macy (Philanthropist). New York City; Theodore Marburg (Political Economist), Baltimore, Md.: Jeremiah W. Jenks (Professor of Government, New York University), New York City; Talcott Williams (Director of the School of Journalism, Columbia University), New York City. ON THE PART OF EMPLOYERS: William D. Baldwin (President Otis Elevator Co.). New York City: William C. Brown (former President New York Central lines), New York City: George B. Cortelyou (President Consolidated Gas Co.). New York City: Otto M. Eldlitz (Building Trades Employers' Association), New York City: Adolph Lewisohn (International Smelting and Refining Co.), New York City: Samuel Mather (Pickands, Mather & Co.). Cleveland, Ohio: Ogden L. Mills (Director International Paper Co.), New York City: George M. Reynolds (President Continental and Commercial National Bank), Chicago, Ill; Herman Ridder (President New York Staats-Zeitung Corporation), New York City: J. G. Schmidlapp (Banker), Cincinnati, Ohio: Louis B. Schram (Chairman Labor Committee, United States Brewers' Association). New York City: Frank Trumbull (Chairman Board of Directors, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway), New York City: Theodore N. Vall (President American Telephone and Telegraph Co.), New York City: Harris Weinstock (Weinstock-Nichols Company). San Francisco, Cal. |