President Forrester and associate officers of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers and Express and Station Employes have signed an agreement with Director General of Railroads Hines which gives complete recognition to that organization and establishes working conditions that were impossible to secure a few years ago.

Government officers advise us to buy less and to produce more. If we are to buy less, why not quit buying the products of unfair industry altogether? In these times of short supplies of goods, the purchase of union labeled goods exclusively would be keenly felt by retailers and by manufacturers of the unfair type. In these times of excitement and confusion, let us not lose sight of the tried and true union label.

At a wage hearing before the Senate Postal Committee, President Brown, of the National Rural Mail Carriers' Assoclation, said these carriers are resigning from the Government service at the rate of 50 a day.

The rural carriers recently affiliated with the A. F. of L., much to the surprise of some Senators, who seemed to think that the recent anti-trade union hysteria in the Senate has affected Government employes.

In a speech at New York City before business men, Charles M. Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, acknowledged that "we have been great autocrats with reference to labor."

"Labor," he said, "has not had a fair share in the prosperity of the country, and we must remember that a man is a man as long as he does his duty."

This statement will be of interest to employes of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

The House Committee on Immigration has tabled Congressman Hudspeth's plan to permit the temporary admission of Mexican farm laborers in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Sugar beet growers

claim there is a shortage of labor in these states and the immigration laws should be set aside.

The committee also opposed the removal of the head tax and the literacy test, so far as they apply to Mexico, Canada, Porto Rico and West Indian countries.

The Bureau of War Risk Insurance asks the public to assist it in denying statements that the Government's insurance for war veterans is only temporary.

"Government life insurance for veterans of the great war is a permanent proposition," said the director of the bureau. "Misleading statements have been made to the effect that Government insurance will cease at the end of five years after the war, or that it will be turned over to private companies. Such statements are absolutely false and without foundation."

Congressman Blanton is in distress. He is a mighty busy man, with his attacks on President Gompers and the A. F. of L., interspersed with defenses of Postmaster General Burleson. He says he is one of the few men in his party who have defended the postmaster general.

But virtue is not always rewarded, for the postmaster general states that the postal service in Mr. Blanton's district is excellent and that there is no difficulty in filling vacancies.

This is too much for even Br. Blanton, who cries: "I can defend him no longer."

At a meeting of Oklahoma trade union representatives, called by President Fenton, of the State Federation of Labor, it was decided to meet the activity of antiunion employers by starting a campaign of organization and education among the wage earners of Oklahoma.

The anti-unionists are attempting to hide their antagonism under the shoddy, time-worn "open shop" cloak, and insist on using that term, instead of courageously declaring that they are opposed to trade unionism and want the sole right to set wages and working conditions.

Taken collectively, the trade union weekly wage scales in this country advanced 30 per cent from May 15, 1913, to May 15, 1918, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In July, 1918, the bureau reported that during the five-year period, May, 1913, to May, 1918, the price of food as a whole advanced 63 per cent.

The Government, thus shows that wages advanced 30 per cent and food costs advanced 63 per cent during the same five-year period.

These statements indicate how correct is the claim that "high labor costs" is responsible for present high prices.

Francis F. Kane, United States attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania, has resigned. In his letter to Attorney General Palmer, he protests against proposed sedition bills. He says he could not conscientiously take part in the enforcement of such a law. Mr. Kane also says:

"Munition manufacturers and many other persons made rich by the war are seeking to dodge the payment of their taxes. The enforcement of the law against them is of prime importance. There are also fraudulent contractors who during the war have grown rich, and there are, as you know, corrupt Governernment agents using their offices for illicit gain. The punishment of these people is infinitely more important than the pursuit of the 'radicals.'"

If Miss Helen Taft continues her strike talk, she may run afoul of one of her father's labor injunctions.

In discussing the low wage of teachers she said she was not wholly serious last fall when she suggeted that professors form a union and strike, "but," she continued, "had I measured my words more carefully I would have said that it would

be better for the college professors to unite to demand higher pay, and even perhaps to strike as a body, rather than that they should strike individually by leaving the profession."

At hearings before the President's miners' wage commission officers of the United Mine Workers presented statistics obtained from the Treasury Department and financial reports showing that in 1917 there were 335 mining companies that made 15 per cent on their capital stock, 311 made 20 per cent, 295 made 25 per cent, 270 made 30 per cent, 232 made 40 per cent or more, 197, 50 per cent or more; 105, 100 per cent or more, and eight companies made over 1,000 per cent.

Regardless of all increases, it was stated, mine labor is receiving today fewer cents out of every dollar paid to operators for coal than in 1913 and 1914.

A tenant cannot be ousted when it is impossible to find other premises and when he refuses to pay additional rent, is the ruling of Justice Strahl in the Sixth Municipal Court of Brooklyn. The landlord brought nonpayment proceedings be cause the tenant refused to pay the increased rental which was demanded during the month. The tenant refused to pay this increased rental and remained in the premises after the first of the month because he could not find an apartment.

The court held that, since the tenant could not move because he could not find any premises elsewhere, his holding over was unavoidable, could not have been provided against by him, and did not grow out of any default or wrongful act on his part, but was due to the serious housing shortage prevalent in this city since the country entered the war.

The following births have been reported since the last issue of THE TELEG RAPHER:

To Bro. and Mrs. R. E. Kemp, Jr., of Live Oak, Fla., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. W. J. Henderson, of Manor, Ga., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. Ferman Harding, of Hessville, Ind., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. George Thomas Murray, of Ft. Worth, Tex., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. A. Turner, of Cambridge, Mass., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. O. S. Brown, of Hull Junction, Minn., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. J. L. McCarty, of Meadowlands, Minn., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. O. Merklin, of Index, Wash., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. J. R. Cook, of Inman, Neb., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. J. E. Hougland, of Scottsburg, Ind., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. P. E. Prather, of Jonesville, Ind., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. R. L. Lloyd, of Hobart, Ind., a boy.

To Bro. and Sister Leo Thiel, of Roundup, Mont., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. Day Reynolds, of Rathdrum, Ida., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. A. E. Friberg, of Emmons, Ia., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. E. F. Mann, of Waverly, N. Y., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. O. H. Underwood, of Elgin, N. D., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. R. G. Penberth, of Weissport, Pa., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. D. M. Hemmesch, of Sioux Lookout, Ont., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. J. D. McDonald, of Redditt, Ont., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. S. M. Johnston, of Sioux Lookout, Ont., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. R. H. Hemmesch, of Page, N. D., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. W. A. Eiden, of Brantford, N. D., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. E. L. Lason, of Breckenridge, Minn., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. C. O. Beery, of Melrose, Minn., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. E. L. Smith, of Huff, N. D., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. A. H. Eppler, of Elizabethtown, Pa., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. L. C. Turner, of Iatan, Mo., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. J. C. Rulon, of Lexinton, Ky., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. P. E. Sims, of Woodsfield, Ohio, a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. T. J. Dolan, of Pottsville, Pa., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. Jas. Beldon, of Richmond, Ky., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. Wm. E. Krautwurst, of Charlotte, N. Y., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. E. C. Harrison, of Venturia, N. D., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. Perry Stewart, of Meigs, Ga., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. A. B. Abernathy, of Granite Falls, Minn., a boy.

To Bro. and Sister H. P. Jarvis, of Montevideo, Minn., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. W. L. Phipps, of Bunch, Okla., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. J. J. Dennison, of Bay City, Mich., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. W. E. Cross, of Parksdale, Colo., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. J. F. Pool, of Laurel, Miss., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. W. B. Partridge, of Newton, Miss., a girl.

To Bro. and Mrs. M. B. Pitzer, of Van Horn, Tex., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. R. W. Gordon, of West Hoboken, N. J., a boy.

To Bro. and Mrs. R. E. Haynes, of Lynndyl, Utah, a girl.

The following marriages have been reported since the last issue of THE TELEG RAPHER:

At Alexandria, Minn., Bro. Erick Keck, of Div. 70, to Miss Anna Steen.

At Roundup, Mont., Bro. C. A. Spurling, of Div. 23, to Miss Anna Waters.

At Plains, Mont., Bro. M. E. Schroder, of Div. 54, to Miss Mabel Burton.

At Pontiac, Ill., Bro. L. F. Hertenstein, of Div. 168, to Miss Pearl Engelsen.

At Emporia, Kan., Bro. T. C. Dawson to Sister Nettie Hightower, both of Div. 61.

At Kansas City, Mo., Bro. W. K. Smith, of Div. 61, to Miss Mary Nelson.

At Minneapolis, Minn., Bro. C. D. Tillema, of Div. 76, to Miss Mabel Stellwagen.

At Roblin, Man., Bro. Roy Elmer Henry, of Div. 43, to Miss Lorna Porteous.

At Strongs, Mich., Bro. R. A. Tobin, to Sister Lucetta Wadd, both of Div. 116. At Ottawa, Kan., Bro. J. C. Littrell, of Div. 61, to Miss Ruth Moore.

At Atchison, Kan., Bro. O. P. Stark, of Div. 61, to Miss Ruth Stevens.

At Luverne, N. D., Sister Grace Wilson, of Div. 70, to Mr. W. B. Jensen.

At St. Annede Bellevue, Que., Bro. Geo. Giroux, of Div. 7, to Miss Cecile Lalonde.

At Traynor, Sask., Bro. Arthur Ernest Baldwin, of Div. 7, to Miss Helen Jayne Kirkland.

At Hamburg, Ia., Bro. T. T. Bellus, of Div. 130, to Miss Bessie Garst.

At Sylvester, Ga., Bro. M. L. Kelley, of Div. 15, to Miss Julia Nelson.

At Federalsburg, Md., Bro. C. Davis, of Div. 17, to Miss Sarah Merrick.

At Capreol, Ont., Bro. H. T. Lamar, of Div. 11, to Miss Mabel Burton.

At Ironwood, Mich., Bro. D. V. Cronen, of Div. 53, to Sister E. M. Ahearn, of Div. 76.

At Tinsman, Ark., Bro. W. R. Brett, of Div. 126, to Miss Mabel Echoff.

Bro. C. R. Brown, of Div. 126, to Miss Edith Hebert.

THE TELEGRAPHER extends congratulations to the happy couples.

The following deaths have been re ported since the last issue of THE TELEG RAPHER:

Wife of Bro. W. H. Phillips, Jr., of Div. 51.

Bro. C. E. Dickinson, of Div. 8. Mother of Bro. M. A. Smith, of Div. 8. Bro. Oscar W. Donahoe, of Div. 49. Bro. M. C. Weaver, of Div. 62. Bro. H. C. Garner, of Div. 62. Father of Bros. Hal, Roy and Fred Belyea, all of Div. 11.

Son of Bro. N. R. Miller, of Div. 127. Infant daughter of Bro. J. L. McCarty, of Div. 127.