business. It is true that a great many women work for a living; but this world is wide, and there is no reason why members of either sex should have to scab for a liv. ing. When people "scab" they lose friendship as well as social rank, and carry the name of scab to their grave.

If we will all get together and work real hard it will be but a short time until we are able to make another request for improved conditions of service which all laboring people are working for. So let's get together. With best wishes to the Brotherhood, Fraternally,

ATTACHED MEMBER.

MONROE NO. 95.

Editor Journal: Not having noted an article from any of the brothers of Local No. 95, I thought I would let the sister lodges know that we are still doing business at our old stand on the second and fourth Saturday nights in each month, and are gradually increasing our membership. We have increased our membership by initiation three, and have, I believe, six or seven applications that are being "weighed in the balance."

We have had some trouble in attendance for the last two meetings previous to our last regular meeting, but I am pleased to note the increasing interest at our last meeting, at which there were several talks by various members on attendance, under the head of "Good of the Order." all of which were demonstrative of the imperative necessity of regular and full attendance.

I am very sorry to note the first article printed in the May issue of the journal under the caption "Railway Clerks, Be Warned!" and made mention of it at our last meeting. I think if every Brotherhood man would dread this article he would put his shoulder harder to the wheel than ever and try to strengthen the Brotherhood of which we all claim to be so proud.

It has come to pass that we cannot expect railroad officials to do us justice, but we must force them to do so through our organization, and I hope that before December 31, 1907. we will be able to number our membership double what it now is.

I am pleased to note the rapid growth of the order, and sincerely hope the boys will all pull to one end, namely, the upbuilding of our noble Brotherhood.

CARD NO. 9.

MONROE, LA., NO. 95. Editor Journal: By request of officers and membership of Monroe Local No. 95 at our last regular meeting, held May 25, I beg to submit the following for publication in the June issue of the journal:

"Be It Resolved, That we, the members of Monroe Lodge No. 95, B. of R. C., tender our heartfelt sympathies to the friends and relatives of our late past president, Brother J. F. Mire, who passed to his eternal abode on May 1, about 11:35 a. m.; and

"Be It Resolved. That we, the members of

Monroe Local No. 95, B. of R. C., tender our sympathies to Brother R. W. McClure and wife in the loss of their baby, Matthew, on April 30."

CARD NO. 9.

FALL RIVER LOCAL NO. 97.

By the time this article appears in the "Clerk" our first annual clambake will be a thing of the past. We have made preparations to feed over a hundred, and expect to have the time of our lives.

Our meetings continue to be largely and enthusiastically attended, the wideawake entertainment committee usually furnishing some diversion for an hour or so after the business is concluded. "Cap" Bushell's degree team is spending all their spare time rehearsing, for there are several husky candidates to be "put through college" on July 8. Some of them are from Newport, R. I. In a short time that station will be solid B. R. C.

Fall River is booming for fair, and after last week's uproarious "Merchants' Carnival" she will boom still more

Steamer "Massachusetts," the big new Fall River Line freighter, came into service early in June and broke all records on her first trip east. She is universally acknowledged to be the queen of Long Island Sound.

Since the new Fall River Line schedule went into effect the dock force has to report at 3:30 a. m. Quitting at 8 p. m., with three hours' lay-off at noon, makes a pretty long day.

"OSCAR FROM THE OFFICE."

A WORD TO THE WISE.

If you want a man to do the work, Who will do his best to please, Get a Brotherhood Clerk,

For correct work is his disease.

He knows his work from A to Z,

And can hold his own with anyone, For in a railway office he likes to be, And at night you can bet his work is done.

So all of you non-union men,

Who wish to gain success,

To the B. R. C. your application send,
Or in this world you are only a "mess."

The time has come for us to do our do, And fight the trusts both night and day. Like brothers together stand true blue, And make them give us better pay.

And you, Brotherhood Clerk,

Never let any one to you say, You are a "mess" in your work, And not worth your monthly pay.

Now don't mix up with the scabs,

For in trouble you will always be, Stand aloof from all non-union slabs, And associate with the B. of R. C.'s.

-O. M. WILLIAMS, Houston, Tex., Local 28.

HOW TO ESTABLISH AN AUXILIARY TO

THE B. OF R. C.

First-Eligibility: Any white woman above the age of seventeen (17) years, of good moral character, who is the wife, mother, married or unmarried sister or daughter of a member in good standing in the B. of R. C. is eligible to membership in the Ladies' Auxiliary to the B. of R. C.

Second-Charter Application: It is necessary to have ten names on charter application, as charter cannot be granted to less than ten persons.

Third-Charter Fee: The charter fee is $5.00 and must at all times accompany charter application, also a 25 cent initiation fee must be remitted for each applicant to membership and accompany charter fee and charter application.

Fourth-Initiation Fee: Initiation fee to be 50 cents per member, 25 cents of this to be sent to the Grand Lodge and the other half to be placed in the local lodge treasury.

Fifth-Grand Dues: The Grand Lodge dues are 5 cents a month and are to be paid in advance. Grand dues must be in the hands of Grand Secretary and Treasurer on or before the 10th of each month, with monthly report.

Sixth-Correspondence: All correspondence pertaining to organizing, interpretation of the rules and by-laws of this organization, also regarding all special dispensations, to be addressed to Grand President.

All monies, checks, drafts and express money orders remitted for charter and initiation fees, supplies, Grand dues, etc., to be made out and sent to Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the Ladies' Auxiliary to B. of R. C.

Addresses of the presiding Grand Lodge officers may at all times be found in current copies of the Railway Clerk.

Seventh: Our Aim and Object: To unite the families of the Brotherhood of Railway

Clerks, to promote their welfare socially, morally and intellectually, and to encourage them in all things pertaining to the good of the Brotherhood, this Auxiliary has been organized.

Convinced that it is for the good of the Brotherhood in general and our own welfare that a mutual good feeling should at all times exist between both organizations, it shall be our constant aim and endeavor to create and maintain the same.

JOSEPHINE S. FISHER,
Grand President.

PERFECT ORGANIZATION.

Many have dreamed of it, and vast numbers have bent all their energies to that end, and still organization is in it's infancy altho the last fifty years have done much to educate the masses toward that end and even if our years are too short to enable us to leave perfect organization prevailing we will at least have the sweet knowledge that we have done much toward laying a solid foundation for the perfect organization of the employed.

Every day new forces are put into play which, to reasoning man and conservative thinker, plainly show that organization is a necessity, and enough men and women join the different organizations every day to accomplish their purpose if they would only work in harmony and be bright enough to realize that in joining an organization they are doing themselves a good turn and making an investment which, if handled wisely and judiciously, would in a very short time bring returns a thousand fold, but instead so many join for the sake of getting into arguments and heated controversies over small and minor matters and soon justly earn the name of "agitator" and more often "traitor" would fit them better, it is this element and spirit in the lodge

room which retards the growth toward per fect organization, these agitators will wave the stick of secession over the heads of their Grand Lodge Officer because his or her views do not happen to coincide with theirs. They think nothing at all of disrupting a whole lodge for they do not hesitate an instant between employing fair means or foul to gain their point, their motto is "If you cannot beat them, join them," for you will always find them on the opposing side, and in some cases it is only a matter of a very short time to bring about this change of heart.

This article is not written with the intention of being personal, but knowing, from experience, that no organization is free from this disturbing element it is more in the form of a warning and an appeal to the many good earnest and hard working members belonging to the different Brotherhoods and Auxiliaries, to turn a deaf ear to these agitators' plaints and complaints and only keep their own obligation honorably, and the ultimate end in view at all times.

Organization is found in its most perfect form in the home, when the members of a family cease to work for one anothers' interest, when deceit and intrigue enter into the individual dealings, one with the other, the name home ceases to be applicable. So it is with Brotherhoods, why the very name implies brotherly love. Your brother's interest is your own, his advancement is yours, his loss is yours. So work in harmony, each for the other's good and if your reasoning and good example do not win the agitator from his blind folly, cease to be shackled by him or her and rid your lodge of that element for thereby only is it possible to insure your growth toward perfect organization.

TO WATCH AND SEIZE OPPORTUNITY. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

A man past middle age descended from an incoming train in a narrow passage leading to a large depot. He had occupied a rear car, and over one hundred people were in front of him when he reached the passage. Only two persons could walk abreast, and the high railing on one side and the train on the other made it necessary to keep to the narrow exit.

The man had important engagements awaiting him. He was well bred, a gentle

man and considered the little courtesies of life.

Yet without violating one of these he reached the depot and the trolley car first of all those hundred people.

He watched his chances and availed himself of them.

A woman in the line at his left dropped her parcel and stooped to recover it. Не slipped in front of her without delaying any one in either line of march.

A man on the right paused to shift his baggage from the right hand to the left, and this made another opening. Still another stopped the whole procession to question a train official leaning from a car window, but instead of stopping with the procession our traveler pushed ahead and found a clear space which soon enabled him to reach the trolley car two or three moments in advance of the first man who had descended from the train. He had moved rapidly, quietly, decently and without once inconveniencing a fellow traveler.

No doubt scores of passengers from the rear cars explained their tardy arrival at home and places of business as due to the procession in front of them.

This same man had begun life in the rear car. He had been a poor child on a Western prairie, without influence and with meagre opportunities for education.

Yet by this inborn trait, this determination to watch his opportunities and push ahead, he obtained an education and a desirable position in life before middle age-obtained it through his own efforts.

Many of his old comrades are living in the same meagre environment of early youth, believing they were hindered by fate from attaining success.

They regard the good fortune of their old acquaintance as a stroke of luck.

"He was born to be lucky," they will tell you. "Things naturally went his way."

But they went his way merely because he watched his chance and slipped ahead when the opening came.

These chances come to every one of us along the highways of life. If we are not on the lookout the line closes up before we see the open space.

Every day I live I perceive more and more clearly how the real success of life comes from within and not from without.

An intense, unswerving, fixed purpose dominates all conditions. This mind which

All correspondence relating to new work, gaining new members, organizing, etc., should be addressed to the Grand President.

All correspondence relating to accounts and supplies, also all checks, money orders, express orders, and all currency, should be sent to the Grand Secretary-Treasurer, as the Grand President has no right or authority to receive money belonging to the organization, and it only causes confusion, an extra lot of bookkeeping and additional expense when money is sent to the Grand President.

JOSEPHINE S. FISHER,
Grand President.

Organized labor is necessary to man, it is necessary to peace and the prosperity of the country. Labor is merchandise that will not keep. In its individual capacity it is helpless and must take what it can get. It cannot go to another market, for when it leaves home the wife and children are in need. Individual labor is subject to the laws of supply and demand, because it can't wait. In its united capacity it is strongnot strong in wrong, because labor has no desire to do wrong to capital or to conditions. It has too much brains.-Governor Frazier, of Tennessee.