Show labor notes the lockout of abo building trades which has been on in pittsburg for seventeen weeks was recently and all workmen arc privileged to return to work tso settlement came with an agreement between the committee or master plumbers and the journeymen in which the latter were worsted the agreement sighted Is for an eight hour work day all scales to terminate on dec 31 all troubles to bo settled by arbitration and employers privileged to employ nonunion non union men since tho plumbers strike was inaugurated tho men hare lost in wages and the builders considerably more than a million dollars in delayed and cancelled contracts unless there Is a on the part of tho master teamsters association 0 boston city from their refusal to grant any of tho demands made by team drivers union no 35 there Is every probability that the mem bers of the latter organization will bo ordered to strike this week thousands of cok ovens now idle will bo placed in operation by the II 11 C falck company in tho cannells connells vallo region during the next few weeks to supply fuel for the blast furnaces have tho immediate effect at re employing thousands of railroad hands and ore miners summed up the coke steel and iron plant resumption of lato and to take place moans the return to work of an aggregate of about men in pennsylvania and tho great lake territory strikes have been ordered by the amalgamated association of iron and steel workers in the sheet mills at zanesville ohio and parkersburg W va according to evan I 1 second vice president of the marine engineers beneficial association the association has decided to adopt last years wage scale to be o for 1904 A few minor differences will be arbitrated samuel gompers baa been directed by the executive council of the feder atlon to investigate industrial conditions in porto rico and start local trades unions there he will sail tor porto rico february A general cut of 10 per cent in tho wages of the employed emp loyes of the national company made january 1 Is followed by rumors that the plants of the company better known aa the Tru to be shut down lack of orders is given as the reason for the present conditions and that Is alleged to be due to the unsettled conditions of tho building trades in new york city one hundred chicago shops controlled by the carriage and wagon manufacturers association were closed on monday and men belonging to the carriage wagon workers union will be locked out of the 1000 machin employed ion the entire santa fo railroad system held a conference recently with third vice president lien drucks the machinists asked for bet ter conditions of employment and a signed agreement the question of an increase in wages was not considered A circular as been sent out from headquarters ot the united brotherhood of carpenters to every local in the united states recommending that a referendum vote be taken on the question of withdrawing from tho american federation of labor and proceeding as an independent organization in ibe future this is the result af pf the action taken by the of labor in awarding the amalgamated woodworkers Wood workers exclusive jurisdiction over the mill and shop men of the woodworking craft the average number of laborers employed dally atall docks and principal wharves in london england during the four aweeka ended november 28 was an increase of 71 per cent the recent convention of glass work ers at mount jewett pa called to decide on a proposed reduction in wages ended with an agreement to feard by the philadelphia scale nearly delegates were present at the session including representatives from pennsylvania west virginia indiana fand kansas the men will quit work rather than accept a reduction at a recent meeting of more than twenty coal operators on new river W va employing in tho aggregate miners it was unanimously voted not to reduce the wages of miners this year the express company will wage war on the unions and will notify all employed emp loyes that 0 o join a union will be considered as notice of resignation from the service of the company eight hundred trenton N J rub her workers are on strike tomorrow for a 10 per cent increase la wages and for the adoption by manufacturers of the union label this strike will render idle every rubber mill in the city except those at which hard rubber goods are manufactured the american district of amalgamated carpenters and joiners of great britain la unable to deposit the required by an award made by adolph cr ex president of the cigar makers international union who waa selected to arbitrate an war between the american district of the amalgamated and the united brotherhood of carpenters and joiners ot america the bricklayer atal have elected the following nit lonal officers president J bobea new york first alm ardent thomas mend diw P M J casty third vice president gy boston fourth ace thos imad toronto allam dobern mortn ada taurer mur ersy albany editor franke moffett new york SW hab been decided floon lor tho of IMS the matter of with the A F of L baa awa referred to the unions tor a referendum vote orders haVe loeri issued to start the sharon pa tra irod ire nail mill of the eel corpora lion on douW tur next monday the plant has been working single turn this means putting on lm additional bands i efto executive board of the united brotherhood 0 carpenters and joiners lias reported favorably on the proposal to affiliate with the structural trades alliance last year the union label of tha garment workers was placed on over garments t f because the association algue d a union shop agreement with tato livery drivers union it has been expel ledl by the chicago employers association t |