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30...PE0RIA well after the interests of its hundred and some odd members, all of whom are working, with the exception of three or four. The Barbers' Union, No. 44, represents all of the first-class journeymen barbers in the city. The card of the union is displayed in almost every shop into which you may go. The Bricklayers' Union, No. 3, is composed of every competent brick mason in the city, and is a strictly business concern and the promptness with which the large number of its members attend every meeting attest its life and energy. The Retail Clerks' Associatisn, of Peoria, is composed of a very large number of clerks, both ladies and gentlemen, and j-ou may find them, by asking for their quarterly card, at almost any retail store in the city. The Musicians' Union, A. F. of L., was organized about a year ago and has grown 1o be one of the liveliest unions in the city. The Knights of Ivabor, Assembly No. 7662, meets in Trades Assembly Hall, and takes in men of all crafts and callings. The Painters' Union was organized less than a year ago and is at this day a ver^' strong body. The Holders' Union, No. 178 is one of the oldest local unions and has a large membership. The rest of the unions in the city are doing equally well and are as follows: Hod Carriers' Union; Pressmen's Union; Stone Cutters' Union; National League of Musicians; Press Feeders' Union; Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders' Union, No. 60; Carpenters and Joiners' Union, Na. 245; Coopers' Association of Peoria; Electrical Workers (Brotherhood); Engireers' (Loco.) B. of L. E., Union No. 92; Engi- neers' (Loco.) B. of L- E., Union No. 417; Engineers' (Stationary); Firemen (Brotherhood of Loco.) Unicn No. 48; Horse Shoers' (Journeymen) Union, No. 54; Machinist,' International .\ss'n, No. 227; Mine Workers' Union, of BartonviUe; Plasterers' International Union, No. 12, Plumbers' Association of Peoria; Railway Telegraphers; Trainmen (Brotherhood of RdilA^ay), No. 27. Besides this collection of local unions in Peoria, which we are free to say cannot be equalled outside of Chicago in the state, there are a large nuuiber of state and international organizations with headquarters located here. The headquarters of the Illinois State Federation of Labor is located in Peoria, Walter S. Bush, secretar3' and treasurer. The federation represents some 800 local unions and an estimated membership of 145,000. The headquarters of the Illinois Typographical Union, John A, Onyun, secretary and treasurer, is also located in Peoria. RAILWAY ORGANIZATIONS IN PEORIA. The movement set on foot some two years ago, to bring in close association the railway trades unions of the country, has alreadj' resulted in the location of the general offices of three of the leading organizations in the city of Peoria, with favorable prospects of another in October of the present year, and j-et another the following May. The advantage of a concentration of interests of such organizations, their interests being so nearly identical, needs no demon-
PEORIA. .31 stration, and, as to an advaniag-e to the city in which they may be located, Peoria has already felt a great impetus in the publishing- business, and the postoftice authorities can vouch for an increased income for " Uncle Sam" at this point. The combined circulations of the official publications of the three organizations already located in Peoria exceed b(),00(i per month, and there are perhaps more than one hundred persons employed in publishing these journals, with a wage list running up to several thousand dollars each month. In the general offices of the three organizations there are about thirty-five officers and clerks, who, with their families, have created no small addition to our pop- ulation, and that portion of their salaries expended for living expenses of course is appreciated by our merchants and owners of rent property. All told, their presence has added considerably to the volume of business. A few words concerning the work of these organizations will not be amiss. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, the first to locate in Peoria, has a membership of over 22,000, which members are now carrying $33,000,000 in life insurance in the Beneficiary Department of the organization. There has been paid in death and disability claims during the past fifteen years, S3, 835, 000. Of this amount, 5315,000 has been paid during the past twelve months. This organization has 506 local lodges in the United States, Canada and Mex- ico. Mr. W. S. Carter is the editor of the magazine and has succeeJed in inaking it one of the leading periodicals of the country. The Order of Railroad Telegraphers were second to locate in Peoria. This organization has a membership of S14,0()0 telegraphers engaged in railway service in the TTnited States, Canada and Mexico, and was organized in 1886. Since then it has secured arti- cles of agreement with many of the railway companies of the country which has resulted in an increase in wages paid to telegraphers and station agents of at least 5500,000 per annum. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has recently established its headquarters in this city, having removed from Galesburg, 111., last December. This organization has a membership of over 21,000, composed of railway employes engaged in train and yard service. Their Beneficiary features are similar to those of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and the trainmen have paid in death and disability claims during the past eleven years S3, 423, 000, and during the last fiscal year there was paid S401,465, in death and disability claims. There are 518 local lodges of this organization located on the railway lines of the United States, Canada and Mexico. From the above it will be seen thBt the banks of Peoria have realized an increase of business in handling the funds of these or- g-anizations, and when others are located here, Peoria will be justly celebrated as the " Railway Employes City." Peoria, taken as a whole, is well organized and a good place for the location of labor headquarters. The local unions are active in their own interests and believe that a man's pay should depend on his life necessities and nat upon the business capacity of the emploj'er. They are well organized, and with the displacement of the countless thousand.s all over the country by improved machinery, it is well that they are. Prosperous, organized Peoria—Labor O mina Vincit.
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