Muncie, IND.; News of Local 23, Hemingray baseball team in first place

MUNCIE, IND.

By Harvey Hickman.

By the time you get this some of the members of Local No. 23 will be on their vacation as the firm contemplates shutting down No. 2 tank for four weeks. After all repairs are made on same it will be started, when No. 4 tank will go down about August 1st for repairs, but at that no one will lose more than two weeks' time if they want to work, as we are short of help. No. 1 tank, which has the automatic machine, with a few hand shops, is not expected to shut down soon as more hand shops will be put on while No. 2 and No. 4 tank's are down.

Bro. Cyrus Herron, who took a job managing at the Hemingray plant last fall, resigned recently on account of not having any time for himself. I understand he was either going to move his trunk to the factory and make it his home or quit, so he quit.

Bros. Ben Smith, Charley Knuth and Earl Brown have managing jobs also and all are making good.

The Carmichael brothers, with Cyrus Herron, are getting ready to take their annual fishing trip up in the wilds of Michigan.

One of our brothers, A. H. Barth, lost his mother, who was ill for about seventeen weeks. Bro. Barth has the sympathy of the entire membership of Local No. 23.

Just a few lines about our ball team. Out of twelve teams in the Saturday Afternoon Base Ball League the Hemingray team is the only one that represents organized labor, and they are surely showing the other teams what organization can do. In one of the best games played here this season, the Hemingray and Glasscock teams were tied for the first place a few weeks ago. They went into the field both desiring to win and beat the league. The Glassdock team had the game in their bag and ready to go home at the last of the eighth inning, then a rally by the insulator workers in the ninth, scoring three runs, defeated the Glasscock bunch 7 to 6, and knocked them out of their perfect percentage. We have won eight straight games and lost none.

Bro. Gunner Bergwall of Minneapolis said if every working man would know his duty when going to the polls we would have no trouble in getting our candidate in office. I will have to agree with him. They are the same in politics as on the union label. They don't patronize what they represent. On election day they go to the polls and vote the old Democratic and Republican ticket just because pa did. They don't realize that times have changed since pa was a boy. When pa was a boy he could get a pound of sugar for 4 or 5 cents, whereas now we pay from 30 cents up and everything else proportionately. There is only one way out and that is to vote for men favorably inclined to organized labor.