w ey 0 des moines la ia various matters of importance are expected to come up at the sixteenth biennial convention ot of the united brotherhood of carpenters and joiners of america in this city next september and among them is a proposition to have the conventions of the organization every four years instead of every two years another matter that Is expected to come up la is in relation to the beneficiary feature of f the united brotherhood as it Is pointed out that in some states there has been legislation that is able to this feature of the tion if the feature is classed as eithel of an insurance or fraternal nature another proposition expected Is irr re lation to the establishment of an old age pension something like that fished by the international typographical union and another matter that it Is expected will be brought up at the convention is in relation PC to conditions of apprenticeship at present the international laws of the united brotherhood outline the quail ficat fleat lons ions necessary tor for an apprentice to become a journeyman carpenter or joiner but do not go into detail in regard to an apprenticeship system the details being left to the varlo vario is district bodies new I 1 ork fifty thousand gar ment mend and cloak makers of which 8 were women walked out at the call of the international ladles ladies garment workers union which demands an eight hour day an increase in wages and guarantee that contractors shall stand behind subcontractors for wage payments the 11 factories her employ hands of which ap proximately halt half are organized the strikers hope to draw many of the nonunion non union workers out by a appeal A circular issued by the union read in part avoid ments merits and enter into discussion with no one give no opportunity for inter ested parties to make disturbances which may lead to a breach of ohp th law and to arrests show the world you know both your duties and your rights and are law abiding citizens toledo O 0 strikes and lockouts are expensive things thing to the flint glass workers union according to the report of t the auditing committee made to the delegates at the annual convention of the organization du ring the past year the union spent for relief due to strikes and lockouts the sum of 78 11 the lockout at the macbeth evans plants one of which is located at toledo and which start ed in august 1904 has cost the or 47 so far little work Is being done by the delegates in convention boston in connection with the gen eral oral strike of the cloak makers of new now lork ork city authorized by the inter national ladles ladies garment workers un on convention held here recently the locals throughout the country have received orders to hold mass meetings at which each local Is to de cide and notify the international boffl cers as to what support trade and financial each can and will give the cloak makers when that strike Is call ed it will probably not be until early in july although several thousand of the workers are now out bloomfield N J every one of the employees at the plant of th tb Nevin church press company has been examined for life insurance the amo ints range from to 1000 1 and the premiums are to be paid by the company it if the employee Is with the concern at the time of bib u death the amount called tor for in the policy will be turned over to the tarn fain ily fly of the insured in the event of any employee being discharged the policy will be turned aver to him to continue paying the premium it if he so desires norfolk va all workmen in the federation of trades of the seaboard air line rail v nay ay system are to re leive lelve a wage increase of 3 cents au I 1 lour our this anno in cement was made by H M fallen fallon of savannah ga chairman ofa of a general committee from the federation which has been in con terence ference with operating officials of the seaboard at portsmouth va since july 1 in the matter of a wage scale adjustment new york one thousand six hun died laborers and sugar mixers era em aloyed at the plant of the american bi bt gar refining campal y in williams burg went on a strike becal becat se three of their number were mere discharged new york the constitutionality of the law requiring railroad corpora eions to pay their employees semi monthly has been upheld by the new lork state court ol 01 appeals youngstown 0 the western bar iron association has offered to the amalgamated association of iron steel and tin workers to pay the sons of vulcan scale of wages of 1909 chis Is 12 cents advance over the scale paid the amalgamated men last year the independent mill owners of the Vv western estern bar iron association hae hane announced that they will start their mills pending the settlement of the 1910 s scale c ale and will pay the 1909 scalp scale under the continuous agreement until the scale is signed this does not apply to the republic iron and steel kompany however new york A prell preliminary injunction restraining the brotherhood ol 01 carpenters and amalgamated society of carpenters Carpen teis from interfering with the interior work on the cathedral ol 01 st john the divine has been made permanent by the united states cir cult court judge ward wards s decision ad mits the right of workmen to strike but says the right to combine for the purpose of calling out the work mork men of other employers who have no grievances or to threaten owners builders and architects that their con tracts will be held up if they or any of their sub subcontractors contractors use the coin nants trim Is quite another affair to take the converse of the proposal tion will the defendants admit that employers may combine to prevent any employer from using union la bora may the employers aggee not tc to sell to or contract with any one wh deals with an employer who oses union labor either of these proposal afons Is destructive of the right ol 01 free men to labor for or to employ the labor of any one the laborer or 01 employer wishes new york the leading cloak and skirt makers in this city the center of the clothing trade of the country were unanimous in agreeing that the point at issue between them and theft 75 striking employees was not one of wages and hours but of recognition of the union the employers declare as one man that they will never accept the closed shop what especially irks the employers in the demands presented Is a clause providing for union foremen these will have pom po er ahey ey fear to override the crit cismas and orders of the company foremen the union says it only mants ants to provide places for its owe own members the employers say it seek to dictate the whole conduct of the business new haven conn the largest raise in wages ever granted volun harily by the new haven railroad was announced anno meed when it was stated thai that 6 non union employees of the corn coin pany would r receive an increase of C per cent they had not requested the company for a raise but the directors noted it because they had recently signed a new payroll granting an in crease of similar proportions to th union employees of the railroad the raise will cost the road an dually it includes employees of all grades from the car knockers to the clerks in the sleeping car and dining service binghamton X Y legal re presen natives of the erie and lackawanna railroads appeared before justice gladding in the supreme court and pleaded guilty to the indictments charging violations of section 11 of the state labor law which require the semimonthly payment of railroad employees during 1909 twelve in were found against the two roads six against each covering al at lebed violations of the law in sh sil months of that year ear justice glad ding imposed fines of on each in or against each road pittsburg pa the wage confer ence once between committees of 13 inde pendent tin plate mills and the amal association was closed with the refusal of the manufacturers tc to grant the 10 per cent increased asked by the men the men ultimately agreed to return to work for the same wages they received last year which Is 2 per cent lower than the corpora tion mills pay the number of men affected by the agreement Is placed at worcester mass representative james H mellen of this city who died the other day was the stat state head of the kniga ts of labor in its most mos pom powerful erful days and was at all time active in behalf of the interests ol 01 the working men and women of the state this year he was untiring la in his efforts to secure the adoption at 01 the homestead lom estead bill which he main bained would be of the greatest value to the wage earner in getting back to the soil and the owne nhip of a homo home duquoin III announcement wa made that the hanaford coal corn coin pany which owns a large mine at hanaford east of this city has signed the new scale demanded by the min ers and will resume operations at once the hanaford Hana tord mine is the first of the franklin county field to accept the scale paris parts france the french govern ment has decided that it will be im possible to apply the work workmen mens s oll age pension law which will cost the treasury more than 25 an dually until the last quarter of 1911 cedar rapids la ia the formulation of a plan to prevent all local labor troubles was announced here labor leaders lenders and representatives of the employers association have agreed to submit all labor disputes to a board of arh arb employees will con dinue to work pending the decision ot of the arbitration board whose rulings will be final london canada final rinal settlement was arranged between the striking cigar makers and manufacturers and all men out returned at once A corn coin promise satisfactory to all was effected