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Title: Carpenter
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Subjects: Carpenters -- Labor unions -- Periodicals McGuire, P. J. (Peter James), 1852-1906 Duffy, Frank, 1861-1965
Publisher: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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sent up the wages from 18 and20 cents an hour in the last twenty years,to 45 cents an hour, which the carpentersof Buffalo will get on May 1 next. Brother McFarlane referred to the in-crease from 40 cents an hour, granted bythe contractors last month, effective onMay 1, 1910. After the Electric City quartet hadsung several selections, Secretary Sayles,who was there in the absence of MayorFuhrmann, welcomed the visitors to thecity. The Mayor told me, he said, thathe was sorry he could not be with youtonight. He asked me to give you his bestwishes, because he said he knew you werehis friends. I am indeed glad to be here,to be among men who earn their bread bythe sweat of their brow and among thebest people in the Queen City. I havegreat respect for the carpentry trade, forI remember that the great Nazarene wasa carpenter, as was His father beforeHim. General President Huber, the next speak-er, was enthusiastically received. Aftersaying that he had attended scores of din- 32 Carpennteir
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33 The Carpenter ners, Brother Huber said he. had never wit-nessed such a gathering. Brothers, he went on, do you real-ize that it is nearly three decades ago sincethe United Brotherhood was formed? Wewill celebrate our twenty-ninth birthdayon August 12, 1910, and looking back intothe past, it seems like a dream, or, if youplease, a nightmare, when we consider theconditions under which we labored in thoseearly days. Many of us who were thenin the springtide of our lives are now pass-ing toward the evening shade; many onwhose heads the hair was thick with theresplendent glory of young manhood arenow covered with a frost that never melts;silvered, we may say, for the cause inwhich we have all served our apprentice-ship and come out seared, scarred and sea-soned veterans, fighting for the uplifting,the upbuilding and the elevating of thephysical, moral and intellectual advance-ment of the men of our craft. Brother Huber held that three princi-ples were responsible for the success of hiso

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