Show 1 wor of labor L ador 0 r news from all parts of f the world of general al interest to the worker ml r mays may s landing N J three hun bull dred employed emp loyes of the cotton mill the water power company at this place are idle as the result of a strike of 30 doffers and sweepers who demand a general wage scale in their department of one dollar a day the mill Is one of the oldest in south jer sey and this Is the first time it has had to close on account of a strike the high price of raw cotton says superintendent charles kears mat males es it impossible to pay the employed emp loyes more without operating at a loss or closing permanently the trouble glows out of the fact that ch ell idren can no longer do the work of doffing several years ago before the present I 1 child labor laws were in force the ma chines were tended to by children f the work lasts only about four ho irs a day the average wages pil pit I 1 to coffers and sweepers was five dollars a week most of the cotton mills in this part of the state have haie closed down dorn dt diring rang the last year the own ers say the profit is so small that it does not pay to operate them the mill here is one of the largest in op aeration in lit new jersey berlin germany the cabinet ma kers movement in germany las I 1 as been practically settled as an arr agreement has been reached between the masters and the men s organizations the re gulfs suits are now being voted upon locally by way of indorsement endorsement Indor the results are satisfactory in so far as the mea men have been able to gain concessions though not very important ones and have lost nothing for berlin th hours remain at fifty one a week an increase of 5 per cent will come into forre force on october I 1 for leipsic dres den frankfort hamburg and pi probably munich the hours remain at a fifty tr two 0 increase 1 cent an hour dusseldorf Dussel dort flanoi hanover er Il hamburg amburg kiel cologne get a reduction from efty four to fifty three hours and corresponding in creases the new agreements are to run for three years ears washington the number of chi nese and japanese Japa engaged in the building industries in 1900 in the unit d states an I 1 hawaii was 1867 1 according to an article by A E secretary of the asiatic exclusion leabu in the current issue of the bricklayer mason and plasterer lie ile explains that the figures given were compiled from the report of the 1900 census in I 1 that wt wl lie ile we cannot go behind them we are convinced through reports emal emanating lating from treas ury department officials that a large number of mongolians both chinese and japanese Ta succeeded in evading the enumerators toronto canada the sheet metal vorheis union Is busy organizing its men in the city the agreement rith the employers will expire shortly and the union is anxious to be in a post tion to force some improvements in a new agreement should the bosses hesi best tate to do so the men will ask for an increase from 32 cents to 40 cents an hour it is estimated that there arb about four hundred sheet metal V A workers in the city and about 60 per cent are organized bradford eng the strike of brad ford wool combers came to an end re bently an agreement being signed be tween the masters and the men the chief points of the agreement are that a t joint board is to be framed to deal with wage questions and other dis an advance of 12 cents a week to all receiving less than 3 75 a weel eel and 25 cents to all receiving 3 75 a R seek eek and over two stops of half in hour each for night workers brockton mass the high cost of living has moved the union workmen lof of this city to establish a operative cooperative store where the necessaries of life may be purchased at the lowest pos elble sible prices the movement is sup ported by president john F tobin and officers of the boot and shoe work ers international union and practical ly IY every other labor organization new york trainmen and con doctors of the lake shore michigan southern railroad and the michigan central railroad havo have been granted wage increases identical R with ith the baltimore ohio award by the ar I 1 Inba tors P II 11 morrissey and I 1 E G clark the announcement was made by A B garretson president of the I 1 railway condi san francisco the present build I 1 ing trades council was ras organized in I 1 1896 six unions and a dembei ship of less than one thousand the present membership is above abone the thirty thousand mark washington it Is reported that the union label section of the A F of L not yet a year old has a member ship of mount vernon vernon ill bell zoller new oner owners of the leiter mines es at zeigler are preparing to search for the eight men who wert we killed w a year ear ago in a gas explosion more than lives have been lost in this mine by gas explosions and leiter miter is eald said to have lost 2 in his at tempt to operate it the mine will be operated by union labor in the future vincennes ind street cars were put in operation may 14 after a shut down since may 8 the company grant an increase Inci ease of one cent an I 1 tour our b t the 12 hour ay will cm in I 1 franklin N H A statement of the international paper company regard ing the paper makers maker p strike says that the niagara falls ticonderoga fort edward and woods falls plants plant all in nev ne v york state are now running full force the va canches created I 1 y the strike having been filled the piercefield N Y mill Is running under the same con editions as existed before the strike tl TI e alcus falls IN N Y plant Is run ning full with the excel ex certion tion of one n achane and at corinth N Y tha the pulp mills are running full and six of the te nine paper machines are in 01 era tion the statement declares thit that as soon as the village authorities of corinth establish 1 I 7 w and or der tl e company s employed emp loyes will take up residence outside the plant an I 1 all machines will be put in operation new york monthly returns from representative rei tride trade unions fr it new york in which ninety thousand or nearly one fourth of the organized wage earners in the state show that at the end of the year the of 0 idleness ras as 20 6 as compared with 28 0 at the close of 1408 1908 and 3 7 at the end of 1907 returns as to earnings of organized wige borkel in the third quarter of 1409 from all unions in the state show an average of for men reporting in the corresponding months of 1908 the average earning fo men re porting was only 07 new now york walter chuck secre tary of the manufacturers of union made garments association an bounced that he had learned that favorable action would be tal en ell by the congressional subcommittee on labor relative to legislation which he said would practically overthrow what is termed the prison labor trust chis combination it is said holds th the labor of two tro illinois penal alo s bawde that furnished by b pris ons 0 of 13 other states paris france I 1 ranee if the french chani chain ber of deputies accepts modification i in the workmen mork mens s pension bill lust just passed in the senate by a vote of to 3 practically all the workers oi of france will be able to draw pensions from the state treasury after they have peace d the mage ge f sixty five year or ha have e spent thirty years in toil state employed emp loyes now are guaran teed pensions as ire railroad rail load em aloyes miners and seamen lansing mich by unanimous de c slon sion of the boar I 1 of arbitration in the wage age controversy between the michigan unite 1 railways and its ern aloyes the motormen and conductors are granted an increase in wages of one cent an hour E amplo es who have been in tl e service tor for more than tl ree 3 ears will receive a raise of 1 cents an hour san antonio tex the garment workers of texas are endeavoring tc to have the texas state federation ol 01 labor indorse a proposition to have the legislature pass a law requiring all prison made garments intended for the general market labeled as being made by convict labor los langsieb eb cal there are now ninety two 0 labor unions in los an geles all housed in the seven story labor temple recently dedicated tn in 1887 there were only two to labor or in that city the typo graphical and carpenters san antonio tex the state fed oration of labor has hag decided by a large majority vote that hereafter heie after al officers of the federation aie to be elected by secret ballot and in that vay eliminate politics from that body bod montreal canada the montreal trades and labor council desires tc to have hav e all emi agencies in thai that territory abolished and haap have one gen eral office established under the con arol of the government rome italy A short strike of tram waymen took place in this city re rl bently the strike was ended by tl compain y granting a small concession concessi oll and reinstating the men that had beel suspended denver colo the school leachet of the state of colorado with a mei men barship of even thousand have de aided to apply for addiss on to th american federation of labor fort worth tex the new fort worth labor temple will be the hea heal 1 quarters of all the local unions hav ing an aggregate membership of 6 boston another attempt Is be ng maae made to unionize the I 1 ouse maids of boston and vicinity and it ft Is said the movement no ilo is meeting with success baslington wasi Was ington lington the average wages an ho he ir of the working clashes in bel giura glum are little more than halt half those of the same classes in england topeka kan governor stubbs has indorsed the cause of the striking mine workers in a letter to J R crowe of kansas city representing the mine owners the governor says it is his opinion that the demand made by the workers tor for an increase of 5 50 per cent Is 1 justified on account of the large increase in the cost of living cincinnati the order of railway conductors and the brotherhood of railway trainmen employed on the baltimore ohio so ith western have agreed to a wage scale ath with the management ol 01 0 the road aa aj le |