Show GOOD FOR THE UNIONS Two recent cases In labor circles show conspicuous fairness in those In charge of labor unions In Chicago the meat packers asked the luggers to make arrangements ar-rangements whereby the shipment of meats would not be interrupted oh Labor La-bor day explaining that their business would not admit of having the meat kept over from Saturday to Tuesday The cattle butchers conceded the rightfulness right-fulness of the request but tho huggers refused And now the I executive board oC the Amalgamated MeatCutters and Butchers unions has expelled 1COO lug gem for their refusal on the ground that this exposed the packcis to needless need-less loss was In disobedience of the officers of their organization and Jeopardized Jeop-ardized itt welfare The perfectly Just ground was taken that the Interests of the employed and of the employer are Identical and that these could not be disregarded This case Is fairly summarized In the Chicago News In which we find also an account oC a much more striking case It will be remembered that on Labor day In spite of the remonstrances of the most of the labor unions in New York and in defiance or the Indignant protests pro-tests of others Samuel Parks who as a walking delegate had been convicted of extortion and blackmail was put at the head of the procession he being first released on bail from the State prison nt Sing Sing This was the work of the liousosmiths and Brldgemens union which had continued him as its business agent at a salary of SIS a week even while he was In jail This putting Parks In such a conspicuous position seems to have drawn matters to a head It outraged public sentiment and served to put thin union in the position not ono on-o standing by a convicted criminal but of defiantly going out of their way to do him honor It brought the question ques-tion to a focus The great building trades strike Is practically settled except ex-cept for the opposition of this union which seems so completely under tho control of Parks The case of their contumacy came before President Buchanan Bu-chanan of the International I Association of Bridge and Structural lion Workers and he expelled from the association not only Park but the fifteen hundred members of the union which stood so defiantly by him And thus the great strike is fully settled I and the unions are purged of those who were found guilty of calling strikes and refusing arbitration arbi-tration in violation of their contract with their employers And both cases will have a powerful tendency to raise fair labor unions in the estimation of the public |