Carpenter . ^? W. 0. has defrauded his employers andbrother members of various sums. Bewareof him. _^_ Successful Trade Movement. Pittsburg, Pa.—In the latter part of Octo-ber the members affiliated with the ofthis city voted on and adopted a rule mak-ing Saturday a half holiday. Our efforts inthis direction have been crowned with suc-cess; we have now the half holiday prettywell in force all over our district, especiallyon all the work of the larger contractors, andit has not been necessary to call a strike onany job. Pittsburg can now be added to thelist of districts working f
Carpenter . ^? W. 0. has defrauded his employers andbrother members of various sums. Bewareof him. _^_ Successful Trade Movement. Pittsburg, Pa.—In the latter part of Octo-ber the members affiliated with the ofthis city voted on and adopted a rule mak-ing Saturday a half holiday. Our efforts inthis direction have been crowned with suc-cess; we have now the half holiday prettywell in force all over our district, especiallyon all the work of the larger contractors, andit has not been necessary to call a strike onany job. Pittsburg can now be added to thelist of districts working forty-four hours perweek. We are now in better shape than wehave been at any time since our strike in1906 for 50 cents per The Tool Box of Today. (By Dwight L. Stoddard.)The tool box of today is made to meetthe demands of the times and is an entire-ly different box from the one of days goneby. I have at the present time not onlymy big chest that was just the thing whenI began my trade, but I also have my fath-ers chest that was practically the same kindof a box and was made some sixty years boxes as good as they were for yearsand years, are entirely too large for thepresent day and age. For a time, after thebig box was too unhandy for the carpenterto carry the few tools that he needed for dangerous as well as annoying thing for thepeople on the street ear. In fact boxes withthis arrangement became so objectionablethat many of the street car companies re-fused to carry them. To overcome all thesedifiSculties and meet the demands of thetimes, the suit case box came into generaluse and is now recognized as the tool boxof today. While there is no end to thestyles of suit case boxes, many of them are
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