Carpenter . s simple when once under-stood. To a stranger it may seem compli-cated. All we ask, is that when you landon American soil you immediately join ourorganization, become acquainted with itslaws and live up to them. If you will dothis you will find the United Brotherhood ofCarpenters and Joiners of America one ofthe best labor organizations on the face ofthe earth. Nh «^ ^1 * ^ THE TROUBLES (By D. LHE subject I have chosenwould make volumesand then the storywould not be half do I propose atthis time to tell atgreat length how thepoor, underpaid carpen-ter has to stand for allt
Carpenter . s simple when once under-stood. To a stranger it may seem compli-cated. All we ask, is that when you landon American soil you immediately join ourorganization, become acquainted with itslaws and live up to them. If you will dothis you will find the United Brotherhood ofCarpenters and Joiners of America one ofthe best labor organizations on the face ofthe earth. Nh «^ ^1 * ^ THE TROUBLES (By D. LHE subject I have chosenwould make volumesand then the storywould not be half do I propose atthis time to tell atgreat length how thepoor, underpaid carpen-ter has to stand for allthe trouble for thedigging of the foundation to the top-ping out of the flue; if any oneanywhere does any of the work wrong,if the whole building is not com-pleted in every way satisfactory, the poorcarpenter has to take his full share if notall the blame, even if the fault lay en-tirely in work of entirely a different the bricklayers walls are not level orthe arches are not right it is the fault of. OF A CARPENTER. Stoddard.)the carpenter, who in many instances isnot paid but little, if any more than halfwhat the bricklayer receives for his ser-vices. If the water stands in the guttersit is very seldom indeed that the tinker ofa tinner is blamed, no, but the carpenterhas to stand it all, and so we might go onnil along the line. It is a gross injustice that we are heldresponsible for the mistakes of the differ-ent trades we work with on the job thatwe have to stand for, but we are oftenblamed for many things that are done, ornot done as you may be pleased to call it,even when many miles away, and this isbeing done in many ways. In substantiation I will give just one illustration. A short time ago I was called upon to do some work for a business man who is pretty smart, he ordered all his own 8 Tlhia Carpaoter material, and had me do the carpenterwork. In ordering the front double doorsfor his business block he did not specifyto the mill man just the kind or style hewan
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